起用与中国有 商业联系的前部长 担任特使
罗伯特·法伊夫 (ROBERT FIFE) 史蒂文·蔡斯 (STEVEN CHASE) 渥太华
据三名消息人士透露，加拿大中国商业理事会游说团体副主席、前自由党内阁部长马丁·科申正被考虑担任渥太华 (加拿大政府) 的驻华特使，因为两国正致力于修复破裂的外交和经济关系。
科申先生曾在让-克雷蒂安政府中担任司法部长，在与中国建立密切商业联系方面拥有悠久历史。
总理马克·卡尼在寻求使贸易多样化以摆脱对美国的依赖之際，正致力于与北京建立一种有利于商业的关系。他已计划在未来十年内将全球非美出口额翻倍。
消息人士称，其他被考虑的高知名度人选包括加拿大奥林匹克委员会首席执行官大卫·舒梅克、前纽芬兰与拉布拉多省省长布赖恩·托宾以及前不列颠哥伦比亚省省长克里斯蒂·克拉克。
在加入加拿大奥林匹克委员会之前，舒梅克先生曾在 NBA 中国区担任 7 年首席执行官。
舒梅克先生、托宾先生和克拉克女士没有立即回应置评请求。
其中一名消息人士表示，蒙特利尔银行金融集团副主席托宾先生已告知政府，在他目前的人生阶段，他对该职位不感兴趣。
特使，A15
以初步协议结束， 但旅客仍陷入 混乱
奥利维亚·格兰迪 (OLIVIA GRANDY) 马修·弗兰克 (MATTHEW FRANK)
西捷航空在周一早晨与代表其 4,400 名乘务员的工会达成初步协议后警告乘客，其航班计划需要数日时间才能恢复正常。
加拿大公共雇员联合会在一份新闻稿中表示，该初步协议将提交给乘务员进行批准投票。与此同时，他们在经历了大约 1 天的罢工后将返回工作岗位。
但该航空公司提醒，旅客在未来几天仍需保持耐心。
“在我们恢复飞行并重新部署飞机和机组人员的过程中，部分航班可能仍会受到影响，”西捷航空在一次旅行公告中表示，并补充说乘客应继续检查航班状态并关注电子邮件和短信通知。
根据航空数据分析公司 Cirium 的数据，该初步协议结束了乘务员的劳工行动，此前该行动导致自周六早晨起有超过 920 班航班被取消，并在繁忙的夏季旅游季节导致数千人滞留。
工会认为，乘务员在飞机起飞前和落地后所从事的工作未能获得公正的报酬。
协议细节尚未立即公布。但加拿大公共雇员联合会 8125 分会主席阿莉亚·侯赛因 (Alia Hussain) 暗示，该协议解决了关于无薪工作的问题。
西捷航空，A15
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持续高温席卷整个大陆，火灾横扫希腊和法国，而英格兰和威尔士记录了有史以来最干燥的 7 月 A4
周一，消防员在希腊西阿提卡地区与大火搏斗。雅典周边地区在未来几天仍处于高风险状态，气温预计将进一步上升。LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / 路透社
引发对全球优先事项的担忧
杰弗里·约克 (GEOFFREY YORK) 非洲分局局长 约翰内斯堡
渥太华 (加拿大政府) 决定削减其向联合国任务派遣的部队人数，此举引发了人们的担忧，认为这些削减将削弱加拿大新的非洲战略，并危及其长期以来的维和传统。
国家国防部表示，到明年年中，加拿大将从刚果、南苏丹、科索沃和塞浦路斯的联合国任务中撤出维和人员，并大幅减少其在西奈半岛多国任务中的作用。
即使在撤军之前，加拿大的部队贡献在联合国维和任务中仅排名第 65 位，部署人员少于 30 人——这是其有史以来贡献的最少人数。
据多伦多加拿大军队学院的维和专家、国防研究教授沃尔特·多恩 (Walter Dorn) 称，在最新的计划削减之后，其排名将下降至第 100 位左右。
“这一决定扼杀了一个长期且令加拿大自豪的维和传统，”多恩教授说。他回想起前总理莱斯特·皮尔逊因在苏伊士危机期间帮助创建首支联合国维和部队，于 1957 年获得了加拿大的首个诺贝尔和平奖。
他告诉《环球邮报》：“在联合国需要更多支持的时候，加拿大却在减少支持。我们似乎忘记了两次世界大战带来的教训，那些教训告诉我们，安全必须在全球范围内思考，且国际组织需要得到有力的支持。”
国家国防部在公告中表示，削减对联合国的贡献将使加拿大能够更好地将其资源与更高优先级的领域相对齐，包括欧洲-大西洋和印太地区。
国防部长大卫·麦金蒂在上个月的一份声明中表示：“此次重新平衡将有助于维持我们的承诺并加强准备状态，使加拿大能够继续与盟友及合作伙伴共同做出有效贡献。”
该部门表示，由于计划中的撤军和削减，约 50 到 60 名武装部队成员将被重新分配。
维和人员，A15
卷首 勇敢的面孔 一名阿尔伯塔省志愿者的彩绘放疗面具为儿童癌症患者及其家属带来了安慰 A8
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政治 政府在对其范围仍存疑问的情况下 启动外国影响力登记制度 A3
科学 经过漫长的等待， 加拿大空间局的 约书亚·库特里克 (Joshua Kutryk) 终于准备好起飞 A5
商业报告 2026 年上半年， 私募股权和风险资本交易 数量减少，但规模扩大 B1
杰夫·沃尔 (JEFF WALL)，《逮捕》(THE ARREST)，1989, 光箱透明胶片，3 件中的第 2 版，136.05 × 163.04 × 28.26 厘米， 奥丹艺术博物馆藏。由奥丹基金会资金购买。1996-98 ACCUSOFT INC.
奥丹艺术博物馆位于不列颠哥伦比亚省的惠斯::{tler}，是由迈克尔·奥丹 (Michael Audain) 和唐泽佳子 (Yoshiko Karasawa) 的慈善捐赠而创立。作为加拿大较新的博物馆之一，它于 2016. 年向公众开放。该博物馆的永久馆藏拥有 300 逾件代表不列颠哥伦比亚省艺术水平的作品。全年的特别展览则展出具有国家及国际影响力的艺术家作品。www.audainartmuseum.com
在过去的 50 年里，杰夫·沃尔赢得了国际关注，他继续在基于摄影的艺术中探索令人赞叹的创意可能性。这部作品代表了他专注于利用安装在光箱中的透明胶片来创作类似剧照图像的时期。这类单帧叙事也凸显了温哥华电影业的影响。演员们（两人身穿警服）在制服一名被认为地是罪犯且身穿牛仔裤的人物，他们正在检查其口袋中是否有违禁品或其他非法活动的证据。
RICK DOMAN
观点
观点
我们的长期目标应该是 增加森林覆盖率 以实现更健康的森林 A11
周一的一篇关于加拿大航空旅行业劳动力中断的商业评论文章将盖里·施瓦茨 (Gerry Schwartz) 描述为西捷航空的所有者。该航空公司的多数股权由 Onex 集团持有。创办了 Onex 的施瓦茨先生是董事长，且截至今年 5 月，持有该公司 10.6% 的普通股。
《环球邮报》致力于维持最高的伦理、法律和编辑标准。 桑德拉·E·马丁 (SANDRA E. MARTIN)，标准编辑，standardseditor@globeandmail.com
将其国名改为瑙埃罗 (Naoero)
夏洛特·格雷厄姆-麦克莱 (CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY) 惠灵顿
太平洋岛国瑙鲁已将其国名改为瑙埃罗共和国 (Republic of Naoero)，该国总统表示，此次更名是为了与国家语言的拼写和发音保持一致。
该国的国际代码将从 NRU 变更为 NRO，其国民将被称为 dei-Naoero 而非 Nauruan。
在国外，该国通常被读作 Now-roo，而新国名的读法为 Now-ero。
周四发布在政府 Facebook 账号上的一份声明称，此举将使这个遥远的南太平洋岛国回归其传统名称。根据政府早前的一份声明，该国在国际上被称为 Nauru 仅仅是因为其当地名称对外国人来说难以发音，这是一种权宜之计，而非基于选择。
“此次拟议的变更旨在更忠实地尊重我们国家的遗产、语言和身份，”总统大卫·阿登 (David Adeang) 在 1 月份向议会提出此议案时表示。拟议的宪法修正案已在所需的两轮投票中获得立法者认可，但目前尚不清楚该文件是否已正式修订。
瑙鲁拥有 12,000 名居民，人口规模为世界第三小，仅次于图瓦卢和梵蒂冈。这个微小的珊瑚石灰岩环礁曾被德国殖民，后来由澳大利亚管理，直到 1968 年成为独立共和国。
该国曾经历动荡，20 世纪 70 年代磷酸盐开采为岛上创造了巨额财富，但随后该产业崩溃，导致瑙鲁在 20 世纪 90 年代陷入经济崩溃的边缘。
如今，由于气候变化导致海平面上升，该国成为全球受威胁最严重的国家之一，这促使政府通过一项付费公民计划寻求海外投资，旨在为将人员和基础设施从侵蚀的海洋边转移到安全地带筹集资金。
阿登先生在最新的公告中表示，更名标志着“民族自豪感的重新觉醒”。当他的政府在 5 月份最后一次就此举投票时，总统宣布将举行全民公投以予以确认。
政府在上周的声明中表示，经过“广泛讨论”，立法者决定无需进行公众投票。
声明称：“虽然全民公投旨在决定人民的意愿，但 Naoero 这个名字从未消失，而是一直在等待被完全接纳。”
这一名称“已经是人民的身份认同，也出现在国徽上，且”
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丹妮尔·帕拉迪斯 (DANIELLE PARADIS)
杰森·肯尼 (Jason Kenney) 在试图阻止分离主义者的过程中，对其崛起仍应承担部分责任 A11
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瑙埃罗共和国总统大卫·阿登 2024 年在中国海南省出席博鳌亚洲论坛时发表讲话。TIAN MacLEOD JI / AP
人称
对于凯莉·杨来说，在预见性悲痛的浪潮中，爱依然能找到浮现的方式 A13
在社区中被提及；且重要的是，这得到了宪法的允许，”文中补充道。 此次举动使该国成为最新一个通过更名来标志着摆脱殖民过去的国家。非洲小王国 埃斯瓦蒂尼（Eswatini）在 2018 年将其名称从斯威士兰恢复为历史名称。 其他国家也曾寻求通过更名进行某种形式的“品牌重塑”，就像土耳其在 2022 年请求 联合国 开始将该国称为 Türkiye（其国内长期使用的名称）那样。 瑙鲁的决定将促使其国家飞机和船只重新命名。政府声明称，目前已在寻求让其他国家和国际机构认可这一变更。 联合国 网站已使用该国的新名称记录，并指出政府已在六月请求更名。澳大利亚和新西兰的外交部，以及美国和中国在该地区的使馆，在其网站上也将该国标注为 Naoero。
外国影响事务专员安东·博格曼（Anton Boegman）告诉《全球邮报》，该登记制度在设计上较为广泛，旨在最大限度地降低人们试图利用漏洞的风险。JUSTIN TANG / THE CANADIAN PRESS 关于谁需在新的外国影响登记制度中注册仍存在不确定性
在一次采访中，外国影响事务专员安东·博格曼告诉《全球邮报》，这样是为了最大限度地降低人们试图利用漏洞的风险。他将于周二正式就任。他表示：“这是一项透明度要求，实际上并不是对任何形式的合法参与公民话语、政治或政府事务的限制。”该制度设有豁免条款；经认证的外交官无需登记，在职责范围内活动的国内政府官员也无需登记。目前，代表外国委托人与原住民社区接触的工作人员无需登记；该部分内容将在稍后实施。博格曼先生表示，将逐步制定针对特定行业的指南，并在实施过程中进行微调。他的办公室还将接触潜在的登记人，帮助他们了解其义务。
截至周二，工作内容已符合登记要求的人员有 60 天的时间进行登记。任何新协议必须在 14 天内登记。登记人必须提供的数据包括出生日期和商业登记号等身份信息，以及关于外国委托人的详细信息和协议具体内容，例如正在影响哪些政府进程、具体的影响活动以及提供的任何利益或补偿。未能登记者可能面临高达 $1 百万的罚款或刑事起诉。自由党政府今年早些时候作为建立登记制度监管流程的一部分而发布的一项分析显示，将有 872 人和 1,550 家企业需要登记，这一估算是基于澳大利亚其登记制度的经验。博格曼先生表示，被登记不应被视为负面之举。 “我认为，希望加拿大人能理解，登记制度最终将加强我们的保护机制；它将强化我们现有的民主进程和机构，并帮助他们更好地了解何时在代表外国委托人开展活动。” 自由党政府在媒体报道外国干预加拿大国内政治引发影响后，于 2023 年提出了《外国影响透明度与问责法》。
STEPHANIE LEVITZ 高级记者 渥太华
一个旨在进一步揭露加拿大境内由国家支持的外国影响活动的长期期待的登记制度于周二启动，但关于谁必须注册仍存在不确定性。记者、包括律师和会计师在内的专业服务提供者，以及像总理马克·卡尼正在争取在加投资的主权财富基金等实体，都属于活动可能需要记录的范围。该新系统是自由党政府对国家支持的干预选举及加拿大其他民主进程之担忧所采取的广泛应对措施的一部分，这些担忧在 2024 年的霍格（Hogue）调查中达到顶峰。登记制度的支持者表示，这将确保代表外国政府工作的人员具备透明度和问责制，并保护可能成为目标的社区。但法律界和民权组织则表示，由该制度创建的...
“自由党”的定义过于宽泛。他们正敦促独立的加拿大外国影响力专员办公室迅速澄清触发注册需求的情况，以免该程序的意图被削弱。截至周二，必须注册的人员定义包含三个标准：与外国主体有协议；该协议的目标是影响加拿大的政治或政府进程；且该协议涉及具体的活动。被定义为外国主体的包括国家、国家或外国权力的团体或组织，以及由国家拥有或控制的经济实体——这一定义将涵盖主权财富基金以及像北约或联合国这样的多边组织。影响力活动被定义为与公职人员（包括但不限于民选官员）或公众进行沟通。加拿大外国影响力专员办公室的网站称，影响力活动还可能包括发布的或直播的媒体采访，这意味着发布与外国官员采访内容的记者将不得不进行注册。该登记制度在设计上较为宽泛，以最大限度地——
消息人士称，在世界杯出售方案崩溃后，因凡蒂诺寻求特朗普的支持
据《纽约邮报》周一援引知情人士消息称，国际足联（FIFA）主席詹尼·因凡蒂诺在放弃出售世界杯商业权益股份的计划而面临日益增加的批评之际，寻求特朗普政府的支持。
《邮报》报道称，自该提案于周五崩溃以来，因凡蒂诺多次尝试通过电话联系美国总统唐纳德·特朗普但均未成功，且这位国际足联主席在铺天盖地的负面媒体报道中感到“孤立”。国际足联未立即发表评论。
针对因凡蒂诺试图将世界足球管理机构的商业资产剥离至一个由私人投资者支持的新实体的失败计划，批评声进一步升级。
国际足联原本计划通过出售一个监督包括世界杯在内的赛事的新实体的约 20 per cent 股份，从私人投资者处获取高达 US$4.2-billion 资金，但由于利益相关者的强烈抵制，该计划于周五被迫终止。
随着该想法被放弃，注意力现在转向了对因凡蒂诺潜在的影响，在这一举措失败后，他竞选 2027 到 2031 年国际足联主席连任的请求面临更严格的审查。
该法案（除其他事项外，设立了登记制度及博格曼先生的职位）于 2024. 年正式成为法律。此后，反对党议员和海外侨民团体批评政府延迟建立登记制度，称这使人们处于风险之中。然而，一些团体认为，目前公布的登记制度做得还不够。例如，它没有反映出公职人员的家属也可能成为外国干预或恐吓的目标。在今年早些时候提交给政府的一份简报中，加拿大外国影响力透明度登记联盟和人权行动小组表示担心，注册可能会赋予某些强制性活动以合法性。另一些人则认为，该计划的开放性质可能会损害其目标。加拿大公民自由协会的塔米尔·以色列表示，存在一种风险，即
加拿大组织将因为确定注册门槛过于复杂，且不愿承担罚款或处罚的风险，而对与全球合作伙伴的接触望而却步。他补充说，记者可能被要求注册，这引发了他们是否会因此因其工作而受到调查的问题。他表示，其他设有外国影响力登记制度的国家有更明确的指导方向，而加拿大错过了一个重要的机会。“我们剩下的是一个不清晰的监管体制，其潜在的执行范围可能会远远超出其合理的参数，”他说道。
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP 律师事务所的合伙人亚历克西斯·莱文（Alexis Levine）表示，该法案和登记制度的目的是阻止外国国家直接或通过其控制的经济实体进行干预，这一点很重要。但他说，目前的登记结构涵盖了广泛的合法国内经济活动，例如许可和许可证。
“我还认为，最初将很难去伪存真，因为最初的注册数量过多，将难以将真正的外国影响力企图与常规经济活动区分开来，”他说。“令人好奇的是专员将如何管理这一点，以确保法案的目的不被预防性申报和合规操作所淹没。”
肯·斯威特 纽约
在周末提交的一份法院文件中，第一资本（Capital One）披露，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普持有的银行账户在 2021 年被关闭，原因是该行标记了具有洗钱特征的财务活动。该法院文件与特朗普的一家金融控股公司在他第二次就职后不久对第一资本提起的一项诉讼相关。特朗普指控，第一资本在 1 月 6 日美国国会大厦遭袭击后，出于政治原因非法关闭了他的账户。第一资本则要求撤销该诉讼。
“此次关闭是第一资本的 AML 团队根据银行政策和监管指南，经过数月的分析和仔细审查后的结果，”该行在法院文件中表示。“AML”一词是反洗钱（anti-money laundering）的缩写。
特朗普起诉了第一资本以及摩根大通（JPMorgan Chase），指控他们在其 2021. 年离任后对其进行“去银行化”（debanking）。所谓“去银行化”，是指银行认为客户会对银行产生财务、法律或声誉风险而关闭客户账户。两家银行均否认其出于政治原因终止与总统、其儿子及其他相关企业的关系。针对摩根大通的诉讼寻求 US$5-billion 的损害赔偿。
摩根大通表示，其不会出于政治原因关闭账户，但会关闭“无论是否有正当理由”的账户，以及那些产生“法律或监管风险”的账户。在原诉讼沉寂数月后，总统的律师在 7 月提交了一份修订后的诉讼，指控该行出于政治原因对其进行去银行化。该行表示，新指控毫无根据，称该投诉依赖于“基于精心挑选的引文的新理论”。
特朗普的法律团队在周一驳回了这一主张，但并未对银行的内部调查结果做出回应。“第一资本以及其他大银行出于极其明显的政治原因，对特朗普总统、其家人及其企业进行了去银行化，”特朗普法律团队的一位发言人表示。“特朗普总统强有力的诉讼将第一资本对其可耻行为负责，我们期待此案能达成公正且妥当的结论。”
保守派长期以来一直指称，银行对他们及其政治盟友进行去银行化。在“扼杀点行动”（Operation Choke Point）之后，这种指控变得更加激烈。该行动是奥巴马政府时期的一项倡议，当时监管机构向银行施压，要求其切断对枪支行业、烟草业和发薪日贷款机构等行业的金融服务。加密货币行业指称其在拜登政府期间也是去银行化的受害者。
特朗普在 2025, 年 8 月签署了一项名为《确保所有美国人享有公平银行服务》的行政命令，指示联邦银行监管机构停止审查银行的业务往来对象。作为对涉嫌去银行化调查的一部分，特朗普政府还传唤了最大几家银行的记录。
在账户被关闭前，特朗普在第一资本拥有 300 多个银行账户。这些银行账户涉及各种特朗普品牌的业务，范围从高尔夫球场到酿酒厂。在账户被关闭前，特朗普使用第一资本银行服务已超过十年。
在法院文件中，第一资本表示，其在 2021 年关闭特朗普账户时没有理由发表政治声明，此举完全是因为该行反洗钱专家标记了账户中的活动。
“第一资本从未公开终止决定，也未公开导致关闭的机密内部流程，并且允许原告在数月内（并授予了多次延期）寻找新的银行服务，而他们也确实找到了，”该行表示。
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从作者的小屋可以看到邻居的水上飞机。根据安大略省自然资源部的说法，千湖区（Lac des Mille Lacs）的山火“尚未得到控制”。ERIC REGULY / THE GLOBE AND MAIL
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在我的一生中，从未如此强烈地祈求降雨。我们这些在西北安大略地区拥有度假小屋的人们正极度渴望降雨，因为山火——根据省自然资源部的说法，其中大多数“尚未得到控制”——正在吞噬我们纯净湖泊周围大片壮丽的荒野。被自然资源部命名为“Fort Francis 14”的火灾，正燃烧在我们巨大的千湖（Lac des Mille Lacs）北部和西部的广阔区域，覆盖面积近 52,000 公顷，并且已经吞噬了至少三家钓鱼度假村和数十座小屋（在当地俚语中被称为“营地”）。就我们所知——进入我们湖区的通道自 7 月中旬起就已关闭——在我们所在的 Pine Point 段（这条狭窄的南北半岛将湖泊一分为二）大约 20 座小屋仍然完好无损。但还能维持多久？只要北面刮起一阵强风，且不下雨，这些房产就可能面临毁灭。
自然资源部每日更新的地图显示，火线距离道路四或五公里之遥。电线在几周前就已熔断。有一件事我非常确定：如果我已故的父亲鲍勃·雷古利（Bob Reguly）在小屋里，他一定会无视疏散命令。不仅因为他亲手建造并热爱这座小屋，会用尽最后一丝力气去守护它，还因为他懂得如何灭火。在 20 世纪 50 年代中期的大学期间，他的夏天是与萨斯喀彻温省的烟跳伞员（Saskatchewan Smoke Jumpers）一起度过的，他们从 Norseman 水上飞机跳伞进入火区，然后与一群坚韧的队友一起步行走到最近的河流或湖泊，在那里等待接应。那是加拿大最危险的工作之一。坦白说，我们的小屋和一些邻居的房子几乎没有多少物质价值。它们大多是简单的木质建筑，按南安大略省的标准来看简直就是棚屋。我们小屋的真正价值在于那些回忆，以及在数十年间，我们用简单的工具和赤手空拳从加拿大地盾（Canadian Shield）中开辟出这些空间所创造的美好时光。这份充满爱的劳动将我们的家人和度假小屋的朋友们联系在一起，而且在我们的情况下，它是我们奔波生活中唯一不变的定数（我曾在四个国家的十二座城市生活过）。千湖位于桑德贝（Thunder Bay）以西约 100 公里处。从 19 世纪初开始，这里就处于皮草贸易路线上。1870, 在梅蒂斯领袖路易·里尔（Louis Riel）领导的红河起义期间，加拿大政府派遣了沃尔斯利远征队（Wolseley Expedition），旨在加强联邦在加里堡（Fort Garry）红河定居点的权威。加内特·沃尔斯利（Garnet Wolseley）上校及其一千多名士兵在前往曼尼托巴省的途中经过了我们所在的区域。其中一些士兵在
作者在 2024 年为他位于西北安大略省千湖区的家庭小屋的桑拿房刷漆。
湖边遥远的南端有一块巨石。父亲出生在桑德贝（Thunder Bay），那时那里还是福特威廉（Fort William）和波特亚瑟（Port Arthur）两座双子城。他在 1930 年代后期年少时曾在湖中捕鱼，对其美景与粗犷之气赞叹不已。1968 年，政府售出该湖部分土地。父亲和我从当时居住的华盛顿特区，乘坐一架维克斯-维斯康特（Vickers Viscount）螺旋桨飞机飞往桑德贝。他在松点半岛（Pine Point peninsula）东侧唯一的沙滩上买下了一英亩土地。价格：$400。我记得坐在海滩上看着潜鸟和老鹰，觉得自己身在天堂。当时，湖上只有一座小屋。随后便开始了工作。我的父亲买不起电锯，在我的母亲艾达（Ada）刮铲、打磨、刷漆、种花园和做饭时，他用手锯清理了大部分土地。一座雪松木板小屋拔地而起，后来又建了谷仓和桑拿房。
当我们进入青少年时期，我的两个妹妹苏珊（Susan）和贝基（Becky）以及我也被强行征召参与劳作。我的工作靴是（而且现在依然是）我父亲在越南战争期间穿的作战靴，他在 1967 年代表《多伦多星报》（Toronto Star）报道过那场战争。在最初的 15 年左右时间里，我们没有电，生活随白昼的律动而动——黎明起床，黄昏就寝，在油灯的照耀下阅读直至入睡。路边的一家钓鱼狩猎小屋提供冰屋，我们在那里购买用锯末绝缘包裹的冰块。晚餐经常是新鲜捕获的白斑狗鱼（pickerel），美国人称之为 walleye。我们划着独木舟，从小溪和沼泽边采集接骨木芽（fiddleheads），并戴着面罩和脚蹼在湖边浅水区采集淡水蚌。几个小伙子有小型本田越野摩托车，我们会沿着一条旧伐木路去参观 20 世纪 40 年代战俘营的遗址。
和我们一样，邻居们都没有钱，所有东西都是出于对房产和湖泊的热爱而亲手建造的。每个人都互相帮助，在一项工作圆满完成后，我们经常用一个下午的水上滑雪来庆祝，随后是海滩篝火和炸鱼宴。这里的人物群像十分有趣。我们的邻居、公交车司机伦（Len）教会了他的狗在听到他及其客人们弹奏吉他时发出约德尔唱法（yodel）的叫声。来自堪萨斯的女性伊芙琳（Evelyn）嫁给了一个墨西哥人，她和她的母亲 Mama Viva 经常给我们讲述她们在德克萨斯州的青春故事，抽烟喝酒很多——伊芙琳经常叼着烟玩水上滑雪——并且像扔玩具一样到处乱放枪支。（我曾意外地开了一把放在厨房台面上的 .22 口径步枪，子弹直接击中了屋顶横梁。）罗德尼（Rodney）年轻时是湖上的钓鱼向导，他会带我乘船参观被废弃的伐木营地，那里有庞大且生锈的蒸汽发动机。
我们始终意识到，山火可能会摧毁我们辛苦创造的一切。大约 35 年前的一个夏天，火势一度近在咫尺。每一个成年男子，包括我在内，都拿起了铲子和手动水泵。当火焰蔓延到距离我们房产仅一公里时，那些没有参与灭火的度假屋主将贵重物品装入船中，并将其锚定在离岸海域。就在我们快要绝望之时，一架橙红相间的 Canadair CL-215 水上灭火机在两台 18 缸发动机的轰鸣声中突然出现，进行了三四次投水，最终消除了火灾威胁。当飞机在头顶轰鸣而过时，我欢呼起来，几秒钟后就被一面水墙击中。目前还没有关于 Canadair 尝试扑救我们这个湖上火灾的报告；保护该地区的城镇、村庄和原住民保留地免受数十场山火影响才是优先事项，而非几座度假小屋。这就是为什么我们都在祈祷下雨。我们恐惧看到这个带来如此多冒险、幸福和自由的源泉付之一炬。我希望我那身为烟跳伞员（smokejumper）的父亲能依然在世，守护他留给家人的这份礼物。
DEREK GATOPOULOS SYLVIE CORBET 雅典
周一，一个打破纪录的炎热干燥夏季继续笼罩欧洲。在希腊，灭火飞机正飞越一场特大山火上空投水；在法国，消防员正努力稳定普罗旺斯的一场大火；而英国大部分地区记录到了近两个世纪以来最干燥的七月。
在雅典以西，山火在两架直升机相撞导致两名机组人员死亡的一天后，突破了封锁线。周日的这次碰撞造成一名希腊人和一名丹麦人死亡，另有两人住院。这四人均来自受希腊消防局租用的私人运营商。
在法国，波尔多地区周围的消防员正严密防范一个面积是巴黎四倍的过火区域内可能再次复燃。英国气象局周一表示，根据初步统计数据，长期的热浪和降雨不足导致英格兰和威尔士经历了近 200 年记录以来最干燥的七月。气象局称，整个威尔士和英格兰的一半以上地区已正式进入干旱状态。在经历了五月和六月的热浪之后，此次干旱期伴随着英国大部分地区的酷暑。威尔士创下了七月平均气温最高的历史记录，而英格兰和英国整体则记录到了历史第二高温的七月。
周一晚些时候，强风再次席卷希腊南部，将火焰推向山区的住宅群，摧毁了农场和财产，并导致一条公路关闭。希腊首都周边地区在本周内仍处于高风险状态，气温预计将进一步上升。在海滨度假胜地波多格尔梅诺（Porto Germeno）及首都以西的其他地区，已有 1,000 多人被疏散——其中 250 多人是通过船只从该地区海滩上救出的。
“这是一场令我们非常困扰的棘手火灾，”消防局发言人 Yiannis Artopios 表示，并补充说周一共有 12 架投水飞机和 11 架直升机在该地区运行。此次火灾被归咎于一个风力发电场故障的电力线，两名承包商因涉嫌过失纵火被捕。
尽管监测方法有所改善，且欧盟成员国之间的合作有所扩大，但随着热浪期间的温度持续时间增长，希腊及欧洲地中海沿岸的其他国家每年夏天仍遭受毁灭性的山火袭击。根据欧盟哥白尼气候服务局的数据，欧洲是地球上变暖最快的大陆，自 20 世纪 80 年代以来，其升温速度是全球平均水平的两倍多。气温升高和长期干旱导致植被更加干燥且易燃，使得火势蔓延更快且燃烧更剧烈。
周一，在法国一场特大山火被有效控制后，数千名疏散人员被允许返回家中或度假住所。官员表示，此次共有 224,000 多人逃离，是该国在非战争时期最大规模的平民疏散行动。这场山火烧毁了约 420 平方公里的土地，成为法国历史上规模最大的山火。
美联社 (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
周一，在雅典以西、普萨萨（Psatha）附近的基瑟罗纳斯山（Mount Kitheronas）的一场山火中，一架 Erickson 消防直升机正在进行战略性投水。 LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / 路透社
BC省奥肯那根湖周边山火在强风助燃下导致更多人员疏散
不列颠哥伦比亚省 弗农。阿特琳·贝克（Atlyn Becker）记得周六当她的卡车向北缓慢驶向安全地带时，周围的山丘闪烁着橙色光芒，当时不列颠哥伦比亚省的奥卡那根湖（Okanagan Lake）周边正发生火灾。随着强风将火焰推向干旱的土地，她和她的家人在周末匆忙收拾行囊，成为了数千名逃离家园的人员之一。她估计当时有大约 200 辆车与她一起在路上缓慢行驶。“你能感受到火的炙热，能听到树木被烧焦的噼啪声。大火异常猛烈，”她在周一安全抵达基洛那（Kelowna）后说道。贝克女士表示，她透过卡车窗户看到消防员用电锯砍断倒下的树木，以便人们能够通过。“（火）一直烧到了路边，一直延伸到山坡上，这真的很恐怖，因为你不知道是否会有树木砸在自己身上，”她说。由于奥卡那根湖周边地区发生的火灾，过去几天内已发布了多项疏散令及预警。中奥卡那根应急管理部门表示，由于奎尔皮图克溪（Quilpituk Creek）山火，其管辖范围内的 2,200 处以上物业已被疏散。在湖的更上游，北奥卡那根区域区政府周日因布拉德利溪（Bradley Creek）山火扩大了疏散令及预警范围。随着高达 115 公里的时速的阵风助长火势，许多居民在周末匆忙逃离，大火一直烧到水线，摧毁了房屋。在两侧燃烧的火势导致包括奥卡那根印第安带（Okanagan Indian Band）保留地在内的其他社区疏散之前，贝克女士和她的家人选择在正式收到指令前就离开他们的西岸庄园（Westshore Estates）社区。她说，她看到飞机和地面人员尽力灭火，但周六的强风实在太猛烈了。加拿大新闻社
来自阿尔伯塔省 Fort Saskatchewan 的 Joshua Kutryk 正在准备在国际空间站执行为期六个月的任务。
IVAN SEMENIUK 科学记者
今年第二次，一名加拿大宇航员即将前往太空。四个月前，Jeremy Hansen 及其美国队友在短短九天多时间内绕月飞行并返回，吸引了全世界的关注。
现在，来自阿尔伯塔省 Fort Saskatchewan 的 44 岁原住民 Joshua Kutryk 正成为关注焦点，他正准备在国际空间站执行为期六个月的任务。
他将与美国宇航员 Jessica Watkins、Luke Delaney 以及俄罗斯宇航员 Sergey Teteryatnikov 一同前往国际空间站 (ISS)。该四人小组计划最早于 9 月 12 日从佛罗里达州的肯尼迪航天中心发射升空。
这次任务标志着 Kutryk 上校首次进入轨道，也是一名加拿大人在超过七年时间以来首次执行长期空间任务。
在轨道实验室期间，Kutryk 上校将开展涵盖多种主题的科学实验，包括利用干细胞衍生的一个人类组织进行疾病建模、血流障碍以及太空作物生产。
Kutryk 上校曾是加拿大皇家空军的测试飞行员和教官，于 2017 年被加拿大空间局选为宇航员。虽然他前往发射场的旅程不像荷马的《奥德赛》那样漫长，但其中至少包含了一次计划外的绕道。
在轨道实验室期间，Kutryk 上校将开展涵盖多种主题的科学实验，包括利用干细胞衍生的一个人类组织进行疾病建模、血流障碍以及太空作物生产。
加拿大空间局任务专家 Joshua Kutryk 周一在约翰逊航天中心举行的 SpaceX Crew-13 新闻发布会上回答问题。ANNIE MULLIGAN / THE GLOBE AND MAIL
2023 年，Kutryk 上校被选中乘坐波音 Starliner 飞船前往空间站。但次年，该航天器在首次载人测试飞行中出现问题，导致两名美国宇航员原计划八天的任务变成了计划外在空间站停留九个月。
这使得 Kutryk 上校的航程处于停滞状态。但 4 月，美国国家航空航天局 (NASA) 宣布，他及其队友将乘坐 SpaceX Dragon 胶囊舱前往空间站。（对于 Kutryk 上校及其妻子 Heather 来说，飞行的时机意味着他将在第三个孩子出生期间身处太空。）
近期，Kutryk 上校在接受《环球邮报》采访时，谈到了他希望在这次旅行中实现的目标。
与 SpaceX 共同训练感觉如何，特别是在发射时间表如此紧迫的情况下？
在某些方面，这与以往的任务是完全不同的模式。加拿大空间局的宇航员此前乘坐俄罗斯的联盟号 (Soyuz) 航天器，在那之前则是航天飞机。这一次，在涉及发射载具时，我们不再在 NASA 接受那么多训练，而是全部在加州霍桑的 SpaceX 进行。但与此同时，他们处理如何将人类发射到外层空间并回收这一复杂问题的方法，与我们之前所见的情况类似。
因为您最初是为波音 Starliner 飞行接受训练，您是否觉得自己获得了一层额外的专业知识？
我就是这么看的。我是极少数接受过该载具飞行训练的宇航员之一，也是唯一一名来自加拿大的宇航员。我得以参与该载具的驾驶。在首次载人发射中，我担任飞行控制器。在某种程度上，我觉得这次任务几乎让我经历了两次太空飞行。
您是第四位在空间站执行长期任务的加拿大人。您将如何度过这段时间？
这六个月的行程安排得非常紧凑。从最宽泛的意义上来说，我们的重心在两件事上。第一是维持空间站的正常运行。这可能意味着修复一块计算机电路板，也可能意味着穿上太空服出舱去更换一个泵模块。你必须能够胜任所有这些工作。第二部分是科学研究。空间站是一个我们可以进行在地球上无法完成的复杂科学研究的地方。其中一些科学研究与太空飞行有关，以及为了实现下一步目标——前往月球——我们需要做的工作。但很多科学研究与地球上的问题相关，包括衰老和疾病。我的大部分时间将花在这些研究上，为来自世界各地（其中许多来自加拿大）的研究人员进行实验。
在个人生活方面，你已婚且有两个年幼的孩子。你和你的妻子海瑟（Heather）在你身在太空期间预计将迎来第三个孩子。你们是如何为此做准备的？
我们对此感到极其兴奋，心情非常好。在技术层面，空间站现在有大量的基础设施来让我们保持联系，所以我几乎随时都可以打电话或使用 FaceTime，我们能够做到这一点。当然，糟糕的一面是我不在身边，这是我们将不得不面对的一个挑战。但我们会克服的。 我们在当地和加拿大都拥有庞大的支持网络，我们毫不怀疑自己能够应对。从事这样的工作，你永远无法准确预测某事何时会发生，或者何时发射。这份工作有很多好处，但也有一些挑战，这就是其中之一。
从加拿大的角度来看，这次任务的重要性体现在哪里？
我认为，从务实角度来看，这是一次为了实现未来外层空间步骤而至关重要的任务。我们现在执行的空间站任务本身就相当复杂，但它们都被设计成构建模块，为我们在阿尔忒弥斯（Artemis）计划中将在更极端水平上执行的任务奠定基础。空间站是一个技术测试平台，这些技术将被用于下一次飞跃，因为我们正致力于在月球表面实现人类的持续驻留。 在六个月的时间里，将有一名加拿大人在轨道上，每 90 分钟从头顶飞过一次。这是一个非常生动的标志——简直就是太空中的一座灯塔，向加拿大人展示了我们作为一个国家能做到什么。
杰里米·汉森（Jeremy Hansen）在阿尔忒弥斯 2 号（Artemis II）上的飞行充分展现了加拿大作为合作伙伴的角色。你认为目前加拿大人对太空计划的兴趣程度如何？
我的感觉是，对人类太空探索的兴趣，以及对我们能做些什么来支持地球生命的兴趣——所有这些兴趣都因为阿尔忒弥斯 2 号而大幅加速。它展示了如果我们一起尝试执行这些真正困难的任务，未来会是什么样子。人们被激励去乐观地看待未来，去梦想我们作为一个物种能做到什么。我们正处于这股对太空日益增加的兴奋浪潮之中，我们希望这种趋势能够持续，因为这很重要，尤其是对加拿大而言。
本访谈经编辑并精简。
特朗普关于 谈判的说法
矛盾的陈述表明 近期内通过外交手段解决战争的 前景渺茫
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美国总统唐纳德·特朗普周一表示，与伊朗的谈判正在进行中，并警告称这是德黑兰签署一项良好协议以结束这场已持续五个月战争的“最后机会”，但伊朗否认正在进行或计划进行任何谈判。这些矛盾的陈述表明，近期内通过外交手段解决战争的前景渺茫。
当被问及谈判状态时，特朗普先生在椭圆形办公室的一场活动中告诉记者：“谈判现在正在进行。”他表示，各方是在伊朗、沙特阿拉伯、阿拉伯联合酋长国和卡塔尔等国的请求下进行对话的。“这是他们（伊朗）签署一份良好文件的最后机会，”他说。
特朗普先生的这些言论是在他本周末决定取消此前授权对伊朗采取的所谓“大规模攻击”之后发表的，他称将举行谈判。这重复了他之前的模式，即誓言要进行重大打击，随后又将其取消。
周一早些时候，伊朗外交部发言人埃斯马伊尔·巴盖伊表示，目前没有与美国进行任何谈判，也没有安排任何会议。他说，伊朗在未来几天内没有接待外国代表团或派遣谈判代表出国的计划。巴盖伊先生补充说，除了目前在伊拉克进行宗教朝圣的外交部长阿巴斯·阿拉格齐外，所有伊朗谈判代表目前都在国内。他说，唯一在进行的谈判是与阿曼关于霍尔木兹海峡管理的讨论。
一名伊朗高级消息人士也告诉路透社，没有计划进行谈判，且阿拉格齐先生至少在周末之前都无法参加。
海湾地区官员和分析师表示，伊朗正押注于通过将中东的贸易路线、航运通道和能源基础设施转化为压力点，从而使对抗成本稳步上升，以此在持久战中胜过华盛顿，希望说服美国及其盟友：遏制这场危机比满足伊朗在霍尔木兹海峡方面的要求代价更高。
“他们的巨大优势在于他们能够伤害地区国家和全球经济，”华盛顿研究所的迈克尔·奈茨表示。
在周一晚些时候发布的一条 Truth Social 帖子中，特朗普先生称伊朗领导层“极其狡诈”，称他们已要求会面，并且在“不久的将来”计划进行更多谈判。他还重复了他的断言，即美国海军完全控制着霍尔木兹海峡，在冲突发生前，全球五分之一的石油和液化天然气通过该海峡运输。
“‘美国的钢铁之墙！’除非我们允许，否则没有任何东西能进入伊朗；除非达成协议或完全投降，否则没有任何东西能够通过，”他写道。
周一的进展似乎符合一种自特朗普先生五个多月前与以色列共同发起“史诗之怒行动”（Operation Epic Fury）以来出现的模式。在好几次机会中，特朗普先生威胁要采取军事行动，但随后又以外交接触为由退让。
然而，自旨在结束冲突的一份六月谅解备忘录在七月初崩溃以来，伊朗一直公开拒绝与华盛顿进行谈判。特朗普先生尚未实现他在战争之初设定的目标：拆除伊朗的核计划，遏制其攻击地区对手的能力，并为伊朗人推翻其神职统治者创造条件。
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伊利亚·诺维科夫（ILLIA NOVIKOV）基辅报道
地区负责人伊万·费多罗夫（Ivan Fedorov）周一表示，俄罗斯飞机在 90 分钟内向乌克兰南部城市扎波罗热（Zaporizhzhia）的住宅区投掷了 8 枚威力巨大的滑翔炸弹，造成 1 人死亡，数十人受伤。
与此同时，俄罗斯克拉斯诺达尔地区黑海沿岸小镇阿尔希波-奥西波夫卡（Arkhipo-Osipovka）有 6 人被乌克兰无人机碎片杀害。该地区州长韦尼亚明·孔德拉季耶夫（Veniamin Kondratyev）表示，另有 40 人受伤。
克里米亚半岛由俄罗斯任命的负责人谢尔盖·阿克谢诺夫（Sergei Aksyonov）表示，在乌克兰对被非法吞并的克里米亚发起的夜间袭击中，另有 3 人死亡，2 人受伤。他未提供具体细节。
双方的说法均无法得到独立核实。
总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基（Volodymyr Zelensky）周一表示，乌克兰在战争期间研发的创新远程无人机技术，已使其能够与 9 个国家签署军事合作协议。
他表示，根据这些协议，乌克兰为其国防工业获得长期资金，而合作伙伴国家则获得新的国防能力；他还补充说，目前正与另外 15 个国家进行协议谈判。
泽连斯基在向乌克兰外交官发表的演讲中表示，乌克兰正利用其远程打击无人机攻击俄罗斯深处的目标，旨在迫使俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京（Vladimir Putin）寻求和平解决方案。
周日，在乌克兰扎波罗热，警察医护人员从一栋被俄罗斯空袭击中的公寓楼中救出一名受伤居民。路透社
“我们将努力在今年秋天实现这一目标，”他说道。
他表示，乌克兰希望各国对莫斯科采取更严厉的国际制裁，但现有的制裁也需要加强，以防止俄罗斯公司利用漏洞。
泽连斯基还宣布，他任命鲁斯滕·乌梅罗夫（Rustem Umerov）为对外情报局局长，后者曾参与美国旨在停止战争的外交努力。
自四年前入侵邻国以来，俄罗斯一直使用滑翔炸弹攻击乌克兰城镇和城市。
代理司法部长托德·布兰奇（Todd Blanche） 7 月在华盛顿国会山出席参议院司法委员会听证会。马克·希费尔贝因（MARK SCHIEFELBEIN） / 美联社
布兰奇的司法部长提名
丹·罗森茨韦格-齐夫 (DAN ROSENZWEIG-ZIFF)
两名关键的共和党参议员周一表示，他们将支持托德·布兰奇 (Todd Blanche) 的美国司法部长提名。在达成一项协议并撤销一个被广泛批评为唐纳德·特朗普总统支持者“秘密基金”的“反武器化”方案后，这为他的确认铺平了道路。
来自德克萨斯州的参议员约翰·科宁 (John Cornyn) 和来自北卡罗来纳州的参议员汤姆·蒂利斯 (Thom Tillis) 此前一直阻挠布兰奇先生的提名，因为他们要求获得书面确认，证明司法部将不会推进这项 $1.8 基金。布兰奇先生曾是特朗普先生的私人律师，现任代理司法部长，他在周日于社交媒体上发布声明称该基金已被撤销。
“我们想对布兰奇先生及其工作人员在这一问题上与我们合作表示感谢，我们期待很快投票将他的提名从参议院司法委员会推进，”科宁先生和蒂利斯先生在联合声明中表示。
他们的支持可能使委员会能够在周二推进布兰奇先生的提名。除非民主党同意提前投票，否则参议院全院的投票最早可能在周六进行。
这项协议似乎解决了由这两位立法者领导的、国会中针对特朗普先生最受瞩目的共和党挑战之一。蒂利斯先生将于一月退休，而科宁先生在特朗普先生在各自州背书其他参议院候选人后，在共和党初选中失去了提名。
该基金是作为一项法律和解协议的一部分而创建的，旨在解决特朗普先生对他自己的政府提起的一项 $10 诉讼，他指控美国国税局 (IRS) 误处理了他的税务记录。
支持者称，该基金旨在补偿他们认为受到联邦政府不公正针对的个人。包括蒂利斯先生和科宁先生在内的批评者则表示，这可能会将纳税人的资金导向特朗普先生的盟友，包括那些在 6, 2021, 国会山骚乱期间袭击警察的人。特朗普先生周一表示，他已知晓两名共和党参议员称他们将投票推进布兰奇先生的提名。“我知道已经签署了同意书，但……我不知道他们达成了什么协议，”特朗普先生告诉记者。“我认为托德·布兰奇同意重新确认他已经说过的话，而他所说的话是没有问题的。”
共和党参议员还反对一项相关的指令，该指令禁止国税局审计特朗普先生及其亲属和公司在 5 月 18. 之前提交的任何历史纳税申报表。他们表示，他们希望
来自德克萨斯州的参议员约翰·科宁 (John Cornyn) 和来自北卡罗来纳州的参议员汤姆·蒂利斯 (Thom Tillis) 此前一直阻挠布兰奇先生的提名，因为他们要求获得书面确认，证明司法部将不会推进这项 $1.8 基金。
这些苏联时代的炸弹经过改装，配备了制导系统，可携带高达 3,000 公斤的炸药，能留下巨大的弹坑。乌克兰没有有效的应对措施。
费多罗夫先生表示，周日晚上的扎波罗热袭击造成一名 71 岁妇女死亡，31 人受伤，其中包括一名 16 岁女孩，滑翔炸弹损坏了该市四个区的 22 栋公寓楼。
虽然莫斯科的军队已经占领了扎波罗热核电站并控制了该地区的其他部分，但与其同名的首府城市仍由乌克兰控制。
这是四个地区之一，与顿内茨克、赫尔松……
以及卢甘斯克，俄罗斯在 2022 年 9 月非法兼并了这些地区，尽管其军队并未完全控制那里。
平民区域的其他大规模损害是由俄罗斯弹道导弹造成的。周日晚些时候，泽连斯基先生再次紧急恳请各国向乌克兰派遣更多美国制造的爱国者防空系统。
只有爱国者拦截弹能够可靠地拦截弹道导弹，但由于伊朗战争，这些拦截弹供应短缺。
“美国知道我们需要什么。欧洲知道我们需要什么。反弹道导弹必须用来保护人们，而不是存放在仓库里，”泽连斯基先生在社交媒体上表示。
美国总统唐纳德·特朗普上周似乎在撤回他之前关于允许乌克兰自行制造爱国者导弹的承诺。他周五表示，尚未做出最终决定。
泽连斯基先生向特朗普先生提出了一个替代方案，即由埃隆·马斯克允许乌克兰使用星链（Starlink）卫星来定位俄罗斯境内的弹道导弹发射点。
官员们尚未公开表示是否在考虑这一方案。
据乌克兰空军称，从周日到周一的夜间，俄罗斯使用 181 架远程打击无人机袭击了乌克兰。该部门表示，防空系统干扰并拦截了 163 架无人机，但仍有 14 架在 13 个地点造成了破坏。
俄罗斯国防部表示，其部队袭击了四艘运载货物的散货船……
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……以缩小适用对象和方式的澄清，以确保特朗普先生不会永远获得广泛的免税豁免权。
布兰奇先生照办了，明确指出该豁免仅适用于特朗普先生、其儿子以及家族企业，且他们未来的纳税申报单仍可接受调查。
“部门在一份具有约束力的书面命令中承认，审计结算仅限于原告，范围不延伸至诉讼被告、美国国税局（IRS）和财政部之外，这解决了我们的多位共和党同事共同担心的细节，”蒂利斯先生和科宁先生表示。
布兰奇先生的命令指出，该税务命令“根据其条款仅追溯适用”。布兰奇先生命令的批评者表示，特朗普先生过去纳税申报单的豁免权仍可能为这位总统节省数百万美元，且结算协议的修改需要包括特朗普先生个人律师在内的双方批准。特朗普先生的个人律师未签署该命令，且未对该决定发表公开评论。
“他们并没有撤回那些试图给予总统及其家人和关联公司未经授权的税务审计豁免权的尝试，”非党派机构税务法律中心（Tax Law Center）政策总监布兰登·德博特在一份声明中表示。“他们也没有采取任何新措施来阻止总统尝试取回资金，正如他本周末威胁的那样。”
布兰奇先生自 4 月特朗普先生解雇帕姆·邦迪以来一直担任代理司法部长。
乌克兰武装部队，包括三架在黑海海域和一架在米科拉伊夫港的无人机，但未提供进一步信息。
乌克兰无人机还袭击了俄罗斯最大的在线购物公司 Wildberries 的另一个主要仓库。此次袭击是该行动的一部分，该行动已打击了该零售商十几个配送中心，并严重干扰了其业务。
该公司周一表示，在最新一次袭击中，位于莫斯科东部弗拉基米尔地区的一座 Wildberries 仓库起火。弗拉基米尔州州长亚历山大·阿夫杰耶夫表示，有三人受伤。
泽连斯基先生表示，乌克兰无人机还袭击了俄罗斯西南部的萨拉托夫炼油厂。自去年以来，基辅多次针对该炼油厂及其他许多炼油厂，试图切断俄罗斯军队的燃料供应，并剥夺莫斯科通过石油出口获得的收入。
泽连斯基先生表示，萨拉托夫附近的恩格尔斯军用空军基地（俄罗斯具备核打击能力的战略轰炸机的主要基地）以及俄罗斯境内的其他地点，包括俄罗斯卡卢加地区 Lyudinovskaya 炼油厂的燃料储罐，均成为了目标。
俄罗斯国防部周一报告称，其防空系统在夜间拦截了 131 架在俄罗斯多个地区以及克里米亚和黑海上的乌克兰无人机。
这场危机引发了欧洲内部关于边境政策的外交紧张局势
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周一，数百名移民在西班牙北非飞地休达（Ceuta）的一个海滩上建立营地。上周发生大规模冲击边境事件后，当地政府仍在努力应对仍留在这一微小领地内的数千名移民。
西班牙估计，在过去四天中，约有 69,500 名移民返回摩洛哥，这一数字超过了最初预计周四抵达休达的约 50,000 人的规模。边境西班牙方面的官方死亡人数为 72 人，摩洛哥方面死亡 11 人。
许多人表示，由于商店关闭导致他们失去食物来源，且遭遇了当地人的敌视，同时无法前往西班牙本土，因此选择离开。
休达以及西班牙另一个北非飞地梅利利亚（Melilla）位于摩洛哥的地中海沿岸，周期性地面临寻求进入欧洲的移民尝试越境。
路透社的视频显示，数十名移民（其中大多数来自撒哈拉以南非洲）躺在埃尔特兰波林（El Trampolin）海滩的沙滩上。许多人用毛巾包裹身体以抵御寒风，而军队和警用车辆在他们身后的道路上巡逻。
休达领导人胡安·赫苏斯·维瓦斯（Juan Jesus Vivas）告诉广播公司 Telecinco，仍有 3,000 至 5,000 名移民留在该飞地，并补充称，当地的两个移民接收中心——一个面向成年人，另一个面向未成年人——已经“崩溃”。
当地官员阿尔贝托·盖坦（Alberto Gaitan）表示，该市正在处理 862 名移民未成年人，这些人享有防止被遣返的特殊法律保护。
这场危机加剧了整个地区的反移民言论
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在日本地震袭击的西南熊本县，当地居民在酷热的煎熬下，将大量碎片堆放在路边等待清理。
在严重受灾地区，高温和用水短缺增加了挑战。周二，日本南部九州岛的熊本县遭遇 7.1 级地震，首相高市早苗在震后首次简短视察了该地区。
县政府官员周一表示，地震期间共有 38 人死亡，其中包括一名在炎热天气下在车内避难时显然死于中暑的人，以及另一名死因仍在调查中的人员。
丹麦因特朗普威胁及乌克兰战争 开始延长兵役期
周一，约 1,600 名丹麦军方新兵开始了该国新的延长兵役期，进入为期 11 个月的服役期。由于北极安全压力和乌克兰战争的推动，丹麦正在加速国防建设。
丹麦在 2024 年表示，将延长征兵范围，首次将女性纳入其中，并将标准服役时间从 4 个月增加到 11 个月；同时，年度征兵人数将从 5,000 人增加到 2033 年的 7,500 人。
新一批新兵入伍之际，丹麦准备在本月晚些时候首次向格陵兰岛部署征兵人员，一个由 100 多名士兵组成的连队将服役一个月，接管职业军队的作战任务。
由于美国总统唐纳德·特朗普多次以国家安全为由寻求兼并这个丹麦半自治领土，此次部署具有额外的政治分量，而格陵兰和丹麦政府均坚决拒绝了这一要求。 路透社
周一，在西班牙休塔，移民在排队领取红十字会提供的食物和饮料，此前大批移民通过陆路和海路从摩洛哥进入西班牙领土。PEDRO NUNES / 路透社
欧洲并引发了欧盟内部关于边界政策的外交紧张局势，西班牙指责部分合作伙伴的反应毫无帮助且具有极化倾向。
外交部长何塞·曼努埃尔·阿尔巴雷斯（Jose Manuel Albares）周一表示，西班牙此前在移民危机期间支持过其他欧盟国家，现在期待获得对等支持。
该组织已召集内政部长于周二举行紧急视频会议，讨论此次危机。
阿尔巴雷斯先生严厉批评了意大利政府，指责其协助放大了虚假信息。他表示，摩洛哥已立即提供警方支持，且未附加任何条件。
居民们将成堆的碎片、破碎的家具和损坏的电器放在室外等待回收，而位于宇城市和日川 towns 的临时住房建设已经开始。一些酒店和旅馆正为撤离人员提供房间。
该地区正遭受酷暑折磨，引发了对中暑相关疾病的担忧，超过 46,000 户家庭仍然缺水，许多家庭还面临燃料短缺。日本气象厅预测，周一气温将升至 40 C 左右。
超过 8,500 人仍留在拥挤的应急避难所中，例如改建的社区中心、学校体育馆和教室，其中许多地方没有空调。其他人则睡在市政厅停车场和公园的汽车里，或睡在自家屋外。
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军政府表示，缅甸被拘的前领导人昂山素季周一在首都与红十字国际委员会（ICRC）的代表会面。对于这位自 2021 年军方夺权以来一直被隔离在公众视野之外的诺贝尔奖得主来说，这是极少数与外界接触的机会。
随公告发布的两张照片显示，素季女士与红十字国际委员会驻缅甸代表阿诺德·德·巴克（Arnaud de Baecque）握手，并在一个铺有木墙板的房间内与其会面。
发布照片的总统新闻信息局表示，会面于周一上午举行，但未透露会面地点，也未提供讨论内容的细节。
红十字国际委员会在周一的一份声明中证实，其一名代表根据访问被剥夺自由者的标准和程序地探访了素季女士，并与她进行了私人交谈，但未披露讨论详情。
该组织表示，将继续与所有相关方接触，以维持并扩大其进入缅甸拘留场所的权限。
另外两张照片显示，素季女士正在切一个写有“苏姨生日快乐”字样的粉色生日蛋糕，这表明照片可能是在 6 月份庆祝她 81 岁生日期间拍摄的。
在照片中，素季女士显得很放松且面带微笑。她没有表现出明显的健康不佳迹象，不过无法仅凭图像独立评估其身体状况。
此次消息公布之际，包括缅甸在东盟（ASEAN）内的其他成员国在内的多国呼吁，将其接触或接触素季女士作为解决该国政治危机努力的一部分。
她住在伦敦的小儿子金·阿里斯（Kim Aris）以及缅甸民主活动人士一直在发起一项名为“要求证明母亲平安”的在线活动。
在发送给美联社（AP）的一份声明中，阿里斯先生对报道的红十字国际委员会访问表示欢迎，称这可能是五年多来关于他母亲的首个积极进展。
“这可能是第一步，但绝不能是最后一步，”阿里斯先生说。他感谢各国政府、国际社会和支持者与他的家人站在一起，并支持他寻求母亲平安证明的活动，同时强调
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其合作，使得大多数跨境人员得以快速返回。
但休达（Ceuta）的维瓦斯（Vivas）先生对拉巴特（Rabat）持批评态度，称休达内部普遍认为摩洛哥允许——如果不是策划的话——了这次危机。
“摩洛哥向我们证明了它不可信。除了采取一切必要手段确保其无法再次如此，我们别无选择，”维瓦斯先生告诉《国家报》（El Pais）。
摩洛哥内政部周日将此次激增归咎于社交媒体上的误导信息、人口贩卖网络，以及对西班牙法院一项禁止立即遣返在海上截获移民裁决的误读。
专家长期以来一直警告，避难所供应不足会导致拥挤，且对于灾后被迫离家的民众来说，缺乏卫生设施和隐私。
高市（Takaichi）女士周一乘坐军用直升机飞越受灾地区，并参观了该地区设备最好的一个避难所，那里设有纸板床、隔断和空调，这引发了社交媒体上的批评，称她的访问扭曲了现实。
熊本县知事木村 Takashi Kimura 在与高市女士会面时强调，“异常高温”一直在打击居民本就艰辛的生活。他寻求政府进一步支持以改善避难中心的居住条件，称其中许多中心缺乏清洁饮用水和医疗护理。
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这与马德里的官方观点一致。
据《国家报》（El Pais）和 Cadena SER 电台援引熟悉此事的消息人士报道，西班牙情报部门得出结论，认为摩洛哥并未策划这次大规模跨境行动，但对此采取了默许态度。报道称，摩洛哥的边境管制在 7 月期间逐渐放宽，且据称在摩洛哥“王座日”假期期间，当人群涌向 Tarajal 过境点时，管制被取消了。
摩洛哥内政部未立即回应置评请求。在该部周日的声明中，称摩洛哥“致力于加强国际合作与协调，以打击非法移民和人口贩运”。
西班牙内政部长费尔南多·格兰德-马拉斯卡（Fernando Grande-Marlaska）周六告诉记者，受国防部控制的对外情报机构 CNI 并没有向他发出关于即将出现激增的警告。《国家报》周一表示，这已导致两个部门之间出现紧张关系。
国防部长玛格丽塔·罗夫莱斯（Margarita Robles）拒绝透露 CNI 是否事先掌握了大规模跨境的情报，并补充说该机构的工作是秘密的，同时称赞了西班牙安全部门人员“卓越”的工作。
“针对省长的请求，我们将迅速研究政府能为受灾地区和受影响民众做些什么，并采取积极行动，”高市女士（Ms. Takaichi）表示。
与此同时，一家在坍塌购物中心内拥有综合商店的公司承认，它指示了两名在随后爆炸中丧生的员工返回建筑内将销售所得资金放入保险柜。
Habita 是当地一家综合商店运营商，在鹿嶋市（Kashima）坍塌的永旺购物中心（Aeon Mall）内设有店铺。该公司两名高管周日出席了其中一名受害者—— 22 岁的大竹久留美（Kurumi Otake）的追思会，并就其死亡向其父母道歉。
公司销售经理用濑刚志（Goji Yuse）承认，公司指示两人在可能的情况下将销售所得资金放入保险柜。
“我希望有人能拦住她，”大竹的母亲含泪对他们说，“我的女儿再也回不来了。”
购物中心运营商表示，其认为爆炸是由燃气泄漏引起的，且发生在地震后约 3,000 名购物者被疏散到停车场之后，但仍有部分员工留在内部。救援人员在购物中心内救出了五人并寻获七具尸体。
当局表示，此次地震导致熊本县全境 114 人受伤。
据熊本县称，约 700 栋房屋被毁，超过 11,300 栋建筑受损。
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他表示，尚未收到关于她情况的独立确认。他希望此次访问能促成家属直接接触，并使其与所有政治犯最终获得释放。
苏奇（Ms. Suu Kyi）女士于 2021 年 2 月 1 日被拘留，当时军方从其选出的政府手中夺取权力。自那时起，她就未在公开场合出现。最后一张发布的官方照片是在 4 月，当时她被从监狱转移至软禁状态，且作为佛教节日特赦的一部分，她的刑期有所减轻。
该国军方领导人在 2021 年夺权以来一直面临制裁和广泛的国际孤立，目前试图通过举行 2025 年选举以及加强与地区邻国的接触来塑造回归正轨的形象。
然而，批评者认为，向一个名义上由前将军和前军政府留任官员组成的选举政府过渡，基本没能改变军方对权力的掌控。
反对派国民团结政府（National Unity Government）发言人内 封 莱特（Nay Phone Latt）表示，国际红十字会（ICRC）与苏奇女士的会面不应被视为解决人权或民主问题的真实举措。
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玛丽林·基村（Marilyn Kimura）于7月下旬出现在埃德蒙顿十字癌症研究所（Cross Cancer Institute）一个制造辐射防护面罩的实验室里。她在研究所很早就开始工作，日复一日地坚持完成整个班次，直到项目结束。MEGAN ALBU / THE GLOBE AND MAIL
变为艺术品的志愿者
通过将这些坚硬的热塑性塑料外壳 重新构思为色彩缤纷的面饰， 玛丽林·木村 (Marilyn Kimura) 为那些 原本可能令人恐惧的经历 带来了慰藉
ALANNA SMITH 医疗记者
字里行间的关怀
“字里行间的关怀”是一个夏季系列报道， 旨在向您介绍医疗保健领域中的志愿者们， 他们在一个可能令人感到孤立和恐惧的系统中 填补空白并提供同情心。
在五岁癌症患者 Karter Bourgeault 开始治疗之前，埃德蒙顿的 十字癌症研究所 (Cross Cancer Institute) 的一名志愿者 花费数小时在他的放射治疗面罩上绘画， 将其塑造成油球队员康诺·麦克戴维 (Connor McDavid) 的样子， 在看起来像头盔的表面上， 醒目地绘上了蓝色和橙色的 97 号。 这个彩色的面罩被小心地戴在 Karter 的头上， 以帮助他在每次放射治疗期间保持不动。 他的母亲妮可·弗雷泽 (Nicole Fraser) 表示， 戴上一个以偶像为灵感的面罩， 让她儿子的体验变得不再那么可怕。 她开玩笑地称他为 Karter McDavid。 Karter 戴着这个面罩——以及后来一个 以原油球队员泰森·巴里 (Tyson Barrie) 为灵感的面罩—— 经历了两轮放射治疗，总共 41 次， 以对抗弥漫性固有桥脑胶质瘤， 这是一种罕见且侵袭性强的脑肿瘤。 他于 2023, 7月 23, 日去世，年仅六岁。
左下及下方： 五岁癌症患者 Karter Bourgeault 在埃德蒙顿机构中戴着由 木村女士绘制的放射治疗面罩。
但这些根据 Karter 脸部曲线 精心模制的面罩，帮助保留了他的部分记忆。 弗雷泽女士和 Karter 的祖父 现在在各自家中都保留了一个面罩， 在需要慰藉时，用手抚摸塑料外壳。 “我可以触摸我儿子的脸。我可以亲吻我儿子的嘴唇。 当孩子离去时，这对家长来说意义重大，” 弗雷泽女士说道，声音在颤抖。“ 它们的意义超过了人们所意识到的程度。” 72 岁的玛丽林·木村 (Marilyn Kimura) 是负责 将坚硬的热塑性塑料外壳转化为生动面罩的志愿者。 自 2019 年以来，木村女士已为 2 到 16 岁之间的儿童 绘制了 52 个面罩， 为原本可能令人恐惧的经历带来慰藉与欢乐。 儿童患者可以选择任何他们想要的图案， 从超级英雄、运动队和电视角色， 到幻想生物、花朵以及各种动物。 她最喜欢的两个作品之一是《汪汪队立大功》中的 德国牧羊犬 Chase， 以及一件绘制了大量鲜艳蝴蝶的作品。 木村女士描述道，在装饰之前的面罩 看起来很诡异，就像是 “万圣节为了吓唬邻居而戴的东西”。 但凭借明亮色调的颜料， 她能够为患者提供一个独一无二的外壳， 起到分散注意力或提供慰藉的作用。 “我为一个六岁的小女孩做了一个猎豹面罩， 我听说她非常喜欢，甚至不想把它摘下来， 这可能是历史上第一次有人不想摘掉 这种可怕的、僵硬的、不舒服的、令人幽闭恐惧的东西，”她说道。 当孩子们更加放松时，他们的父母也会随之放松， 这使得放射治疗师的工作变得更加轻松。
埃德蒙顿的大多数儿童癌症患者 在斯托勒里儿童医院 (Stollery Children’s Hospital) 接受治疗， 但会被转诊至十字癌症研究所接受放射治疗。 在那里，他们经常遇到的第一个人 是放射治疗师布兰登·阿布奥切 (Brandon Aboughoche)。 他负责治疗准备工作 以及制作任何必要的辅助设备， 包括固定在治疗床上的固定外壳。 这些网状外壳旨在覆盖身体接收放射线的任何部位， 由一种塑料聚合物制成， 浸入水中后会像面条一样变软。 随后，该材料被覆盖在患者的脸上（例如）， 在冷却硬化之前根据其面部特征进行模塑。 阿布奥切先生表示，大多数孩子在初次就诊时 会感到胆怯。
一个令人欣喜的分心时刻，就是当他告诉孩子们，木村女士可以根据他们的要求定制面具时。 “通常，这会让孩子愣一秒钟，然后突然之间，我注意到他们的眼睛亮了起来，真的开始思考这件事。他们脸上通常会露出笑容，”他说，“最受欢迎的图案之一是油人队 (Oilers)。” 其他要求还包括小猪佩奇 (Peppa Pig)、兰博基尼 (Lamborghinis)、电影《冰雪奇缘》中的艾莎 (Elsa)、家养宠物、独角兽——名单没完没了。 木村女士在退休前从事视觉艺术工作，在看到一篇关于类似计划的英国报纸文章后，深受启发，决定将她的艺术天赋贡献给 Cross 诊所。 埃德蒙顿的这家诊所迅速接受了她的帮助，并在 2019, 年，她装饰了她的第一个面具（蜘蛛侠）。木村女士现在成了 Cross 诊所的一位熟面孔，她会在那里
上周，埃德蒙顿的一间治疗室里出现了一个儿科放射治疗面具。木村女士在面具交付时无法与孩子们或他们的父母见面，但这并不困扰她。MEGAN ALBU / THE GLOBE AND MAIL
找一个任何可用的房间开始工作。 “这些作品的周转时间通常非常短。有时可能只有两天。如果运气好，我有大约一周或 10 天的时间，”木村女士说。 在规划好设计后，她的第一步是用亮白色底漆涂抹发黄的外壳，好让每种颜色都更加鲜艳。接下来的部分最困难：将她的设计转移到面具上，并确保图像不会被无数微小的穿孔所扭曲。 随后，木村女士使用非金属丙烯颜料为面具上色，最后勾勒出图像轮廓，使艺术作品跃然其上。 “对我来说，这是一个非常有快感的挑战，因为这与画画完全不同，”她说。 由于面具存储在现场，她每天很早就地在 Cross 诊所开始工作，并全天候驻守，直到项目完成。她甚至把一些工作带回家，搜集材料使面具立体化——例如，她制作了狗耳朵和口鼻；用金属丝支撑、会晃动的纸蝴蝶头带；以及用纸板裁剪出的 Minecraft 爬行者 (creeper) 的矩形头部。 “附件让它看起来更真实，更令人兴奋、更戏剧化或更甜美，”木村女士说。 在面具交付时，她无法与孩子们或他们的父母见面。但这并不困扰木村女士，她只是很高兴知道自己能够带来改变。 “这当然无法与 Cross 诊所工作人员——医生、放射治疗师等人的工作相比。但从某种微小的方面来看，知道这能帮助让整个过程变得轻松一点，这种感觉很好。”
自 2019 年开始志愿者工作以来，木村女士已为孩子们绘制了 52 个面具。MARILYN KIMURA
妮可·弗雷泽 (Nicole Fraser) 周日在思考她六岁的儿子卡特 (Karter) 的情况。她说，佩戴一个以他的偶像康纳·麦克戴维 (Connor McDavid) 为原型的面具，让这次经历对他来说没那么可怕。她开玩笑地称他为“卡特·麦克戴维”。 MEGAN ALBU/ THE GLOBE AND MAIL
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由党派之争 为您呈现
在国际足联（FIFA）世界杯期间，联邦政府花费了 $4 百万投放电视广告以宣传其经济计划。其中一段广告中宏大的旁白称，现在是加拿大“建设得更好、更强”的时刻——这呼应了自由党“强大加拿大”（Canada Strong）竞选纲领中的措辞。
此次宣传并非旨在告知加拿大人他们可以使用的具体服务或计划，而且这些广告之所以获准投放，是因为近期联邦法规的放宽。这等同于用您的税金支付党派宣传。
联邦层面以及部分省份较为宽松的广告规则，正导致大量旨在提升执政党运势的信息泛滥。这是一种危险的权力滥用，如果听之任之，将对民主产生负面影响。
去年，总理 马克·卡尼 的政府调整了广告策略，更加强调爱国主义和经济信息。一项悄然实施的政策变更取消了特鲁多时代对自夸或自我赞美类广告的禁令。虽然当选官员仍不被允许出现在广告中，但如果政治口号被纳入政府计划或倡议中，则现在可以使用。
结果是，联邦政府在超级碗（Super Bowl）和冬季奥运会期间投放的广告，其信息与竞选期间使用的一致。仅在当前财政年度的第一季度，广告拨款就达到了 $1.15 亿。
自由党正在模糊其政党、联邦政府与加拿大国家本身之间的界限，以获取未来的选举优势。这是自由党长期以来傲慢心态的延续，该党将自身的观点等同于加拿大的价值观和爱国主义，这令其他政治派系的爱国加拿大人感到愤怒。
在放宽广告规则方面，联邦自由党效仿了他们在安大略省同行地步。2004 年，时任自由党省长道尔顿·麦金蒂禁止了自我宣传广告，并将审核宣传活动的职责交给审计长；但他的继任者凯瑟琳·温妮放宽了这些规则。2018 年，道格·福特的进步保守党承诺撤销这些变更，但他在担任省长后，反而加大了讨好型广告的力度。
一份 12 月的审计长报告指出，安大略省政府在 2024-25 财政年度在电视、数字化、广播、印刷和户外广告上的支出达到了创纪录的 $1.119 亿。报告指出，政府广告支出通常与省选时间相关联。
审计长表示，诸如“就在这里发生”（It’s Happening Here）等旨在提高安大略省电动汽车供应链知名度的宣传活动，在之前的规则下是不被允许的。报告称：“这些活动不包含有关服务和计划的信息，而似乎旨在改善安大略省民对该省现状的印象，其潜台词是在为执政党做宣传。”
福特政府甚至将选举前一年第三方在政治广告上的支出限制在 $600,000 ；此前的时间范围是六个月。这一举措打击了支持工会的、反对福特先生的团体，但随后在法院被推翻。
政府广告的升级不仅仅是浪费金钱。考虑到执政党可以在无需筹款或遵守竞选资金规则的情况下，向公众密集投放信息，这些广告在选举临近时可能会不公平地倾斜天平。现任者通常知道他们何时可能会宣布选举，因此他们可以在竞选正式开始前就传达其信息。
资金的误用可能会产生重大影响。Democracy Watch 的达夫·科纳彻（Duff Conacher）表示，大多数选举的胜负差距在 5 到 10 个百分点之间。一个能够改变其中一半票数差距的强力广告宣传活动就可能改变结果，从而使执政党依靠纳税人资助的宣传获胜。
安大略省应当恢复之前的广告法律，并且
再次赋予审计长拦截党派广告的权力。在联邦层面，渥太华 (加拿大政府) 应当恢复更严格的规则，并将其正式立法，使其不再是可以通过轻易更改的指导方针。
当选官员需要记住，执政党仅仅是政府的托管人，而非其所有者。
他们被暂时授予了权力；企图
不要指望平台
关于“如何应对‘糟糕但合法’的言论”（7月31日）：社交媒体平台宣称的政策与其实际操作之间的差异显而易见。在过去一年中，我举报了数十篇传播虚假信息、非人性化对待他人并煽动暴力的帖子。其中的措辞和模因是卑劣的仇恨言论，足以让戈培尔感到自豪。事实上，其中一些是循环使用的纳粹宣传资料，在社交网络上自由传播。除了一个案例外，平台在所有情况下都宣布这些仇恨言论“符合社区标准”。显然，他们自己的标准根本毫无作用。
Elaine Bander 蒙特利尔
支持婚前协议
关于“婚前协议悖论”（7月30日）：加拿大已经有一套管理分居的默认法律框架。财产分割、配偶赡养费和监护权都在省级和联邦法律中有所概述。实际上，每对夫妇无论是否签署任何文件，都已经拥有了一份内置的婚前协议。因此，我认为“婚前协议是一种不寻常的保障”这一前提令人费解。它们难道不是法律已经提供的现有合同的一种替代方案吗？不过，值得注意的是，在涉及同居而非婚姻时，法律保护截然不同。
Debra Dolan 温哥华
要抵消婚前协议不浪漫且悲观的感觉，最好的办法是建立一种相反的迷信：认为不签协议结婚是在挑战命运。不过我承认，“婚前协议”这个词本身没什么吸引力，而且产生了一些令人不快的联想。也许，特别是考虑到婚前协议在保护父母财产方面日益增加的作用，现在是时候重新启用那个具有《布里杰顿》风格且令人满意的术语——“婚姻结算”了？
David Arthur 剑桥，安大略省
关于镍的思考
关于“渥太华 (加拿大政府) 批准建设巨大的 Canada Nickel 矿场”（7月31日）：这项投资有意义吗？那是蒂明斯附近一个低品位（尽管规模大）的镍矿床。镍并不短缺。印度尼西亚多年来一直在倾销镍，而且电动汽车（及其所需的锂镍电池）的普及尚未实现。该股票一直表现不佳。资本支出巨大。那么，为什么选择 Canada Nickel，而不是其他任何数量的更好矿山，或结果更好的项目？我想知道这是否与建设该矿山所需的人力资源和就业机会有关，而这可能仅仅是一次巨大的土方工程练习。官僚不应该参与选择哪个矿山（或任何项目）比另一个更有价值。政府应该致力于创造一个让自由企业建设项目的环境，而不是决定哪些项目获得批准。
Derek Jansen 多伦多
改变可以是好事
关于“阿尔伯塔省通过自我参考诊断测试将实现什么？”（7月31日）：我同意阿尔伯塔省省长正在秘密引入一种公私合营体系。主张这并非最佳推进方式是可以接受的，但忽视我们陷入崩溃的纯公共体系的问题同样是错误的。每当有人主张某种公私合营模式（在其他国家显然有效）时，我们总被告知这在加拿大永远行不通，而且我们应该感激现状。然而，争辩说我们拥有世界上最好的医疗保健系统，充其量是虚伪的。虽然秘密变革并不理想，但它可能会启动一场我们似乎不愿开始的对话。
David Harper 伯灵顿，安大略省
乐观先生
关于《在这些充满不确定性的时代，企业仍有充足的乐观空间》（7月31日）：本文指出，联邦政府与各省在支持管道扩建以及开发用于出口的液化天然气基础设施方面具有协同效应。然而，文中并未提及全球能源市场在2031年将处于何种状态，而这才是这些基础设施开发的一个现实（或乐观？）的完工日期。 为何提到2031年？因为国际能源署预计，到那时，全球近一半的电力需求将由可再生能源（太阳能和风能）供应。以吉瓦为单位的公用事业级储能将平滑风能和太阳能资源的间歇性。 这些可再生资源也需要进入我们基础设施规划者的“长期战略思维”之中。确实是“充足的乐观空间”！
克里斯·盖茨 (Chris Gates)，安大略省科堡
够了
关于《不公平的税收》（读者来信，7月31日）：最近的一位写信者支持对出售主要居所征收资本利得税。但房主在数十年间，已经通过支付财产税来支持其社区基础设施，以及除雪和垃圾清理等个人服务。住房税金还用于支持公园、娱乐设施、图书馆和警务工作。 为了维护房屋，每年通常要向服务人员支付数千美元，而这些人反过来又要缴纳自己的所得税。所有这些房屋支出都是用税后资金支付的。 如果将这40年的所有成本合计起来，我认为将远远超过出售房屋所得的资本利得。因此，不，房主在出售其主要居所时不应缴纳资本利得税。
肯·斯托克 (Ken Stock)，安大略省波特霍普
正本清闻
关于《前保守党内阁部长参加多伦多市长竞选》（7月30日）：克里斯·亚历山大 (Chris Alexander) 将他在担任保守党政府联邦移民部长期间，于2015年提出设立“野蛮文化习俗”举报热线的提议描述为一次“错误”。 一个更为严重的错误是他为联邦政府2012年大幅削减难民申请人医疗保健资金的行为辩护。2014年，安大略省卫生部介入，为申请人提供医疗覆盖。亚历山大宣称，这将“迫使安大略省的纳税人及其家人在寻求庇护失败者之后排队就医”。这种情况从未发生。 考虑到多伦多超过一半的居民（包括难民）出生在加拿大境外，我怀疑他是否会受到欢迎而成为市长。
菲利普·贝尔格 (Philip Berger)，多伦多
点球大战
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MICHAEL W. MANULAK
卡尔顿大学诺曼·帕特森国际事务学院副教授，以及即将出版的著作《日内瓦的幽灵：国际联盟不为人知的历史——以及为何它在今天至关重要》的作者
自从他在达沃斯的 1 月演讲以来，总理 马克·卡尼 一直在迅速重新塑造加拿大在世界上的角色，并转型该国的外交政策。7 月，他进一步阐述了自己的愿景，与芬兰总统亚历山大·斯图布在《经济学人》上发表了一篇题为《为临时联盟的世界做准备》的文章。他们认为，世界正变得日益多极化，当国际……
RICK DOMAN
北方碳汇公司 (Boreal Carbon Corporation) 主席
加拿大拥有世界上最大的一批森林。不幸的是，它正日益受到昆虫、疾病、干旱以及气候变暖影响的冲击。这些受损的森林现在含有大量的燃料载荷，导致了规模更大、强度更高的山火，这些火灾可能会蔓延到相邻的健康及混合林，进一步损害加拿大最伟大的自然资产之一。
加拿大的森林面积估计为 369 million 公顷。相比之下，美国拥有约 310 million 公顷的森林面积。
这些特大山火摧毁的不止是我们的树木。它们正向大气中释放海量的储存碳，减少未来的碳汇能力，破坏至关重要的流域，影响野生动物，并产生威胁人类和生态健康的危险烟雾。
一个被忽视的后果是，加拿大森林储存并从大气中移除的碳所产生的经济价值损失——这一价值我们很少将其计算在内。
加拿大森林平均每公顷储存 205 吨碳。在我们的整个森林中，这代表了大约 75.6 billion 吨的储存碳，相当于约 277.2 billion 吨二氧化碳当量 (CO2e)。
虽然这些储存的碳尚未...
丹妮尔·帕拉迪斯 (DANIELLE PARADIS) 埃德蒙顿
驻埃德蒙顿作者、编辑、播客主持人及麦克尤恩大学 (MacEwan University) 副教授
一名男子称，他驾驶一辆蓝色皮卡车行驶遍了阿尔伯塔省全部 87 个选区和每个主要社区，以让他们知道他理解他们。接着，他委任了一个“公平协议” (Fair Deal) 小组，该小组建议创建阿尔伯塔省警察部队，就从宪法中删除均衡支付制度举行全民公投，并探讨退出加拿大养老金计划意味着什么。他起诉联邦政府，试图阻止其改革环境评估的企图。
随后在 2019, 年，他还援引了日益高涨的分离主义情绪和阿尔伯塔省的疏离感，警告称国家统一面临危机。
这个人的名字叫杰森·肯尼 (Jason Kenney)。尽管他早期的工作重点在于强调阿尔伯塔人的不满，但他现在称分离主义的想法是“荒唐的”。他曾与一名分离主义领导人辩论，并且除了在社交媒体和主流媒体上活跃之外，还参与了联邦主义组织“投票留任” (Vote to Stay)。
对于反分离主义者来说，这造成了一个困境。许多人很高兴看到肯尼先生卸任省长，但现在他正在经历一个“形象翻新”；或许分离主义危机让原本不合之st的人成了奇怪的伙伴。
尽管如此，早在 2019, 年，《环球邮报》编辑委员会就警告肯尼先生，与分离主义情绪“暧昧”并非良策。
现在，他的联邦主义资历是否值得信任？
自 20 世纪 80 年代的国家能源计划以来，阿尔伯塔省的分离论据一直很一致：阿尔伯塔人拥有丰富的自然资源，可以依靠石油和天然气繁荣发展，但国家的其他地区将我们视为理所当然，因此我们必须独立行动。
肯尼先生曾利用阿尔伯塔省的政治不满文化。而现在他发现，这种……
国际秩序正在瓦解，包括联合国 (UN) 在内的现有机构已被证明不具备管理这一过渡期的能力。他们写道，对于加拿大和其他中等强国来说，答案是围绕特定问题建立灵活的“多边”联盟。
卡尼先生和斯塔布先生将他们的方法称为“基于价值观的现实主义”，这是一种坚持核心价值（特别是民主和人权），同时承认有必要与不共享这些价值观的政府合作的外交政策学说。
但卡尼先生也在实践这种基于价值观的现实主义。《华尔街日报》在 7 月报道称，他已成为引导欧洲经济和军事方向脱离美国的关键人物。在卡尼先生的领导下，这一学说正成为加拿大外交的组织原则，此前还将进行一次可能会将这种新方法制度化的外交政策审查。
然而，卡尼先生冒着将防御性策略误认为外交战略的风险。加拿大的真正利益不在于建立临时联盟，而在于加强基于规则的秩序核心机制。
7 月拍摄于安大略省西北部的一片森林。据估计，加拿大森林覆盖面积 369 million 公顷，每公顷平均储存 205 吨碳。CHRIS YOUNG / 加拿大新闻社 (THE CANADIAN PRESS)
反映在联邦资产负债表上，按每吨二氧化碳当量 (CO2e) 50 美元 ($50) 的碳价计算，这代表了约 13.9 trillion 美元 ($13.9-trillion) 的碳价值。
在强碳汇年份，加拿大森林在过去吸收了大量 CO2e，1992, 年最高达到 133 million 吨 CO2e；而在重大山火年份，它们则是净排放源。
为了说明，如果每年碳汇为 70 million 吨 CO2e，这将代表约 3.5 billion 美元 ($3.5-billion) 的价值。
这些山火不仅让这些数字在烟雾中化为乌有，加拿大还失去了储存的碳、未来的碳封存能力、健康的森林以及我们最大的可再生资产之一。
多边安排（包括支持乌克兰的志愿国联盟）在主要多边渠道受阻时，可以作为一种有用的临时替代措施。我在担任扩散安全倡议（Proliferation Security Initiative，一项旨在打击大规模杀伤性武器扩散的多国协作）的加拿大代表时亲身经历了这一点。非正式联盟在危机中能迅速行动并提供必要的灵活性。但如果没有永久性的制度机制，随着最初动力的消散，它们往往容易失去方向。非正式机构倾向于依赖更广泛的全球规则体系的健康运行，以为其活动提供法律框架。它们本身无法取代这些规则。
这些临时的战术也不应被误认为是长期战略。在一个国家领土完整和禁止使用武力的基石规则受到威胁的世界里，加拿大的首要利益在于加强核心多边基础设施。这一基础设施中最重要的元素，就是全球抵御侵略的主要壁垒：联合国。
虽然这不计入政府收入，但它展示了在我们的森林中储存和捕捉碳的经济价值，以及森林流失时所面临的风险。加拿大目前还没有允许将联邦土地（Crown land）纳入林业碳项目的协议。政府可以将林地的碳权租赁给用于修复受病虫害和野火影响的森林的人。今天投资于更健康的森林，将为降低野火风险创造巨大机遇，同时为后代带来环境和经济利益。加拿大约 94 的森林由省、联邦和地区政府公开拥有。昆虫、疾病、干旱和
对渥太华 (加拿大政府) ——以及加拿大——的愤怒，他既激励了这种情绪也从中获益，但现在这种情绪的发展方向是他不喜欢的。分裂主义运动有点像肯尼先生的大蓝色卡车：一台强大的机器，但他不知道如何操控它。
正是肯尼先生领导下的联合保守党在 2021, 年引入了《公民倡议法》（Citizen Initiative Act），该法允许阿尔伯塔人将诸如脱离加拿大其他地区之类的主意，转化为由立法机构考虑的请愿书，或提交全民公投的问题。虽然省长丹妮尔·史密斯降低了分裂分子的门槛，但最初的框架是由肯尼先生创建的。
在参与播种分歧多年后，肯尼先生在过去的一年里上演了你可以称之为“雷诺上尉”的戏码：他感到震惊，非常震惊地发现分裂主义在他曾帮助维持的赌坊中大行其道。
要理解我们如何走到这一步，必须回顾到 2016
八十年来，加拿大和其他政府任由联合国的和平与安全角色被削弱。然而，加拿大对于一个有效的联合国所具有的安全利益或许从未如此之大。这并非仅仅是怀旧：历史反复证明，仅靠国家武装和联盟无法保证安全与繁荣。正如我们近期所见，遥远的冲突会扰乱贸易、推高价格、使辩论极化并引发迁徙，而现代技术则增加了战争风险，使其比以往任何时候都更致命。
有效的多边主义并非是对危险世界的“幻想式”回应。如果赋予联合国在捍卫和平与稳定方面采取强力行动的能力，联合国可以成为保护加拿大至关重要的国家利益的强大工具。
政府不应将外交力量分散在不断扩大的多边倡议阵列中，而应集中精力建立一个跨区域联盟，以强化联合国的和平与安全角色。各国政府可以考虑采取非常措施来应对联合国的预算危机，采取步骤保护联合国工作人员的独立性，并提供更高水平的军事支持。
山火并不认可省界。仅在 2023 年，就有超过 17.3 million 公顷的土地被焚毁，而且多年来有超过 1800 万 公顷的土地受到山松甲虫的影响。这些是需要协调国家响应的国家级挑战。
我们拥有解决方案。第一步应该是对所有加拿大森林进行一次全面、最新且详细的普查，以确定受疾病、虫害、干旱和森林砍伐影响的区域，同时评估树种以及在当前和未来的气候条件下如何更好地管理它们。
加拿大拥有数百万公顷不健康的森林，这增加了山火风险。我们应当清理这些受损区域，
当肯尼先生宣布他将离开联邦政坛，并启动其“阿尔伯塔省优先”的竞选时。
他提到需要防止阿尔伯塔省新民主党再次获胜，该党在 2015, 年取得了一次令人惊讶的胜利，结束了进步保守党 44 年的统治。
进步保守党和另一个右翼政党野玫瑰党可能在 2017 年合并成立了如今的联合保守党，但导致保守派运动分裂的分歧依然存在。这个“大帐篷”包括了那些认为阿尔伯塔省应该脱离加拿大的人。
最终，是联合保守党在 COVID-19 疫情期间实施的公共卫生限制在党内制造了裂痕，导致肯尼先生在 2022 年辞职；他被曾经支持他的人们击败了。
从那时起，肯尼先生打造的这个政党变得更加依赖于政治极端分子。最近的民意调查显示，该党多达 55 per cent 的支持者可能是分离主义者。而先生
用于联合国授权的任务。
随着军事能力的增长，加拿大和其他北约成员国可以发起一项《联合国和平与安全多边公约》。签署国将做出政治承诺，通过提供更多的人员、战略运输、后勤、工程和医疗支持，来加强联合国的和平行动和集体安全。北约以外的大国将被邀请加入。
这一计划并未淡化联合国改革的必要性或复杂性。与此同时，各国政府无法实现改革，并不意味着他们可以免除充分利用现有工具的责任。上述提出的许多行动可以在国家层面采取，而无需等待其他政府。这将相当于一个“回归基础”的议程，强化联合国作为抵御侵略和领土征服之屏障的作用。
对这种更新议程的需求十分紧迫。临时联盟可以帮助应对紧迫危机，但一项包括拟议公约在内的加拿大倡议，将是对一个日益危险的世界所作出的具有战略意义且远见卓识的响应。
然后用健康的幼苗进行重新种植。目前，森林覆盖了加拿大约 40% 的土地。我们应该设定一个增加森林覆盖率的长期目标，并认识到健康的森林能够吸收碳、冷却景观、保护流域并支持野生动物。
一项专注于修复受损森林并重新种植的国家修复战略，有潜力在加拿大全境创造数千个就业机会，使林业和原住民社区、伐木承包商、植树工人以及数千名受加拿大林业衰退影响的工人受益。
与此同时，我们需要处理森林中应当移除的病死木材。热电联产设施、木质颗粒厂和可持续航空燃料生产可以帮助将这些受损纤维转化为清洁能源、可再生燃料和经济机遇。
通过在全国范围内为森林碳信用建立价值，加拿大可以成为全球最大的森林碳抵消机会之一，在为修复工作提供资金的同时，为后代扩大加拿大的森林规模。
这不是什么高深的火箭科学，而是森林科学。
加拿大拥有世界上规模最大的森林之一，这是一项具有重大价值的资产。我们不应眼睁睁地看着森林迅速衰退，而应扭转方向，投资于其生长。健康的森林不仅有利于环境，而且有利于就业、投资、经济增长和加拿大的长期繁荣，同时能加强国家的财政状况。
肯尼对他进行了批评——而且是非常激烈的批评。他这样做是对的，但这件事听起来有些微妙且令人怀疑：难道他没有意识到，正是他激发了这场运动吗？
感觉肯尼先生已经走过了很长一段路。今天的肯尼先生与自由党议员科里·霍根 (Corey Hogan) 共同举办支持加拿大的活动，鼓励人们公开反对分裂。他警告说，分离主义运动正从边缘地带向中心转移，并成为一个真实的影响因素。肯尼先生称分离主义是一个在历史上已被证明是错误的观念。
但那些“阴谋论者”并非入侵该省。他们一直就在这里，而肯尼先生担任省长期间的立场帮助了他们的滋长。
肯尼先生曾与分离主义情绪暧昧不清。他在省长的讲坛上发泄对渥太华 (加拿大政府) 的不满，而这些不满现在正激励着这场运动。是的，他现在在谴责他们。但肯尼先生在最初煽风点火这件事上，应当承担一部分责任。
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上个月，欧洲中央银行宣布了重新设计欧元的计划。对于任何认为当今的纸钞——其上印有一系列各种欧洲建筑风格的虚构桥梁——需要更新的人来说，这都是个好消息。
有 1,200 多名设计师申请承担这项任务，其中 10 人进入了最终轮。欧洲央行向设计师提供了经过审核的图像，仅限于两个主题领域：鸟类 / 河流以及欧洲文化。一项将于 9 月结束的在线投票启动了这一进程，10 份入围的设计方案于上周公布。
代表欧洲文化的候选人包括西班牙小说家米格尔·德·塞万特斯、意大利艺术家列奥纳多·达·芬奇、德国作曲家路德维希·凡·贝多芬以及奥地利和平活动家贝尔塔·冯·苏特纳。希腊裔美国歌剧明星玛丽亚·卡拉斯也入围成为五欧元面额纸钞的形象大使——这一披露在网上引发了一些抨击，部分人士认为她的才华不足以胜任。
在 Threads 上，常驻科隆的德裔加拿大摄影师迈克尔·阿代尔对这位女高音表示反对。“把玛丽亚·卡拉斯印在欧洲纸钞上的想法对我来说完全是疯狂的。在古典音乐领域，有远比她更重要的女性 [原文如此] 或人物值得占据这个位置，”他写道，并建议由帕瓦罗蒂取代她，同时链接到她 1962 年表演的威尔第歌剧《唐·卡洛》中的《O don fatale》，称其为“糟糕的演唱”。
卡拉斯的粉丝们随即攻击阿代尔，称他“毫无文化”、“厌女”且“缺乏情感”。
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肖节最初并没有计划在今年上演两个不同版本的《灰姑娘》。
如果您查看该剧团直到 12 月的演出项目，您仍将只看到一部经典故事的制作：由理查德·罗杰斯（Richard Rodgers）和奥斯卡·汉默斯坦（Oscar Hammerstein）作曲的 1957 年音乐剧，定于 11 月 8 日在节日剧院（Festival Theatre）开始预览。
但在 8 月，该艺术节将研习另一部《灰姑娘》，它巧妙地掩盖在暂定标题之下：由普利策奖获奖剧作家布兰登·雅各布斯-詹金斯（Branden Jacobs-Jenkins）专门为肖节创作的《一部新的在制品》（A New Work in Progress）。
“这完全是一个巧合，”肖节艺术总监蒂姆·卡罗尔（Tim Carroll）表示。“我不确定在他开始对这个故事产生兴趣时，是否知道我们要演《灰姑娘》。”
卡罗尔对雅各布斯-詹金斯的青睐对于肖节最忠实的观众来说并不新鲜：该剧团曾在 2017 年和 2022 年分别上演了雅各布斯-詹金斯的《八分之一黑人》（An Octoroon）和《每个人》（Everybody）的加拿大首演。“你在寻找一名剧作家时最看重的基本能力就是写出令人惊叹的诗篇——戏剧就是行动中的诗歌，而布兰登是一位极其出色的诗人，”卡罗尔说。“聆听他的语言所带来的纯粹、感官上的愉悦对我来说绝对是一种震撼。他的写作就像一场梦。”
2014, 在纽约的 Soho Rep 观看了《八分之一黑人》后，卡罗尔接触了雅各布斯-詹金斯，两人立刻就志同道合。两人多年来保持联系，卡罗尔最终向这位剧作家发出邀请。
“我们告诉他，我们可以为他提供一群真正赤诚、开明且才华横溢的演员。
由 Neue Gestaltung GmbH 创建的一项设计提案（由欧洲中央银行提供）在钞票上印有玛丽亚·卡拉斯（Maria Callas）的形象。NEUE GESTALTUNG GMBH / HANDOUT
——关于卡拉斯，我也曾想过对此类愤怒做出回应。艾戴尔（Adair）的观点在我看来既失礼又缺乏事实依据。然而，他的反应——以及那些认同他的人——代表了一个典型的历史重复案例。
卡拉斯并不陌生于公众的审视。她的事业起伏、体重波动，以及受到严密监视的私人生活与职业生涯一直占据着头条。但，抛开这些八卦，我相信歌剧界再也没有比她更具标志性、更时髦或更具影响力的形象了。卡拉斯的存在感渗透在如此之多的当代文化中，从麦当娜 1992 年的《Erotica》音乐视频到碧昂丝 2008 年的专辑《I Am... Sasha Fierce》。她创造了现代名伶的第一个模板——无论是歌剧、流行音乐还是其他形式。
加拿大女高音西蒙娜·奥斯本（Simone Osborne）解释说，卡拉斯是通过同时吸引富有的死忠粉以及更随意的歌剧追随者来实现这一点的。
“人们很容易低估一个画着眼线的女人，但她能够以如此优雅的方式应对她的诋毁者，”奥斯本说。“他们没看到的是这一切之下非凡的自律……玛丽亚·卡拉斯之所以伟大，并不是因为她迷人；她之所以迷人，是因为她伟大。”
我相信歌剧界再也没有比她更具标志性、更时髦或更具影响力的形象了。卡拉斯的存在感渗透在如此之多的当代文化中，从麦当娜 1992 年的《Erotica》音乐视频到碧昂丝 2008 年的专辑《I Am... Sasha Fierce》。
安德鲁·布罗德里克（Andrew Broderick）、安德烈·莫林（André Morin）、大卫·安德鲁·里德（David Andrew Reid）、萨维昂·罗奇（Savion Roach）和索菲亚·沃克（Sophia Walker）在《一部新的在制品》中演出。MICHAEL COOPER
“……可以用来尝试新事物的演员，正是那些已经习惯于尝试过程的演员。”
卡罗尔表示，肖节（Shaw Festival）在杰科布斯-詹金斯最终确定探索方案之前，就已经发布了 2026 年的节目单，其中包括今年冬季的《灰姑娘》。
“这不是秘密，”卡罗尔说，“这是一个实验。我们拥有足够多布兰登的忠实粉丝，足以填满 15 或 16 场演出，且他们明白自己看到的可能是一部完整的剧作，也可能是半成品。我们的观众具有足够的戏剧素养和好奇心——我知道他们会接受其中的任何一种或全部情况。”
《环球邮报》与这位美国作家进行了电话采访。他最近离开了百老汇转演剧目《雨中情》（Purple Rain）的创作团队，但杰科布斯-詹金斯未获授权讨论该项目。此次采访旨在探讨他对肖节《灰姑娘》的见解。
卡拉斯不会是第一个出现在货币上的歌剧明星，但她可以说将是第一个时尚偶像。这位歌手以其独特的衣橱著称，经常穿着米兰高级定制师比基夫人（Madame Biki）、圣罗兰（Yves Saint Laurent）和克里斯汀·迪奥（Christian Dior）的设计。
奥斯本认为，卡拉斯被选中的面额也非常合适。“卡拉斯并非出身名门，她通过全身心投入歌唱艺术而成就自己，这就是为什么她非常适合 5 元面额，”这位表演者说，“她不仅仅打动了百万富翁。卡拉斯能够吸引那些从未进过剧院的人，激励他们省下分分钱，只为了在站席区看她演出。”
加拿大？
我和蒂姆·卡罗尔一起吃了晚餐，我们对古老的戏剧聊得非常兴奋。那是我最喜欢的对话类型。肖节之前演过我的剧作《奥克托伦》（An Octoroon），我来这里观看了，认为那是一次非常出色的制作。我对他们在做的事情非常感兴趣，那是我对加拿大戏剧的第一次真正接触。
我一直梦想改编尤金·奥尼尔（Eugene O’Neill）的几部早期剧作，蒂姆曾让我就此事与他保持联系。在经历了数年的电话沟通和偶尔的线下偶遇后，他邀请我来到加拿大创作一部新剧。我希望能让自己融入一家剧团或一个表演团体，这看起来确实非常合适。
此外，这里的演员们也是最令人惊叹的，这很有帮助。以索菲亚·沃克（Sophia Walker）为例——她简直不可思议。
其他人则将卡拉斯视为坚持不懈的象征。1937 年，这位出生于纽约的歌手随她的希腊母亲移居雅典，并在那里生活在贫困之中。索菲亚·兰姆顿（Sophia Lambton）在《卡拉斯印记：百年传记》（The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography）中记录了卡拉斯生命中的这段时期，探讨了她如何与环境、污名、歌剧机构以及自己的家庭作斗争以获得成功。
“她与母亲以及金钱的关系非常糟糕，”兰姆顿说，“尽管得到了多年的经济支持，她的母亲最终竟然威胁要敲诈她，并称如果不再给她钱，就散布关于她的损害性报道。然而，卡拉斯在接下来的几年里仍然在经济上资助她。”
兰姆顿认为，卡拉斯的历程为我们所有人提供了一个启示。“出现在钞票上的人是那些影响了社会大部分人群的人，而卡拉斯符合这一条件，因为她证明了一位女性艺术家可以成为一个文化机构的主要经济引擎。”
正如艾德尔（Adair）等评论家提醒我们的那样，卡拉斯不寻常的嗓音依然是一个问题。这在她留下的遗产中仍然是一个两极分化的方面。韦恩·科斯滕鲍姆（Wayne Koestenbaum）在其 1993 年出版的著作《女王的喉咙》（The Queen’s Throat）中……
这很奇怪，不是吗？但我有一个可爱的五岁女儿，今年春天，她开始主导自己的睡前阅读。关于童话故事，我们之间进行了一些有趣的讨论：其中一些故事简直太恐怖了！但我感兴趣的是，作为一个文化整体，我们正在如何讨论这些关于性别的古老叙事，以及近年来我们对性别和代词的词汇量与理解发生了如此巨大的转变。在不透露过多细节的情况下，同样相关的一点是，我的演员阵容大部分是以黑人为认同的。
你在演员加入后对剧本进行重大修改而闻名。你是如何与演员协作，既能有利于你的写作过程，又不会引发“兵变”的？
我作为剧作家的训练主要在一个地方完成：茱莉亚学院（the Juilliard School）。该项目让演员获得参与新剧作的经验，而作为作家，作为回报，你可以获得这种极佳的近距离体验，研究演员如何移动、如何工作以及他们的技巧是什么。
当你意识到演员需要被激励才能做出优秀的表演时，你的写作就会变得更容易。在肖剧团（the Shaw），我是在为一群来自各行各业、接受过不同训练的群演写作。其中有些人拥有惊人的喜剧本能，有些人则有非常强大的歌唱嗓音。
在开始之前，我对演员们进行了访谈，询问他们的个人情况，以及他们作为艺术家试图探索什么。一位演员告诉我，她喜欢扮演经历过艰辛的角色——你知道，这很有帮助。我把这些数据像十字谜题的线索一样使用，然后为每个人创造一场可以参与的游戏。我年纪越大，就越觉得写剧本就像是一次游戏设计的练习。
对于你来说，在重新审视这些素材时，最大的惊喜是什么？
（接前文）指出卡拉斯（Callas）的“不悦之声迫使观众重新评估美与怪诞之间的区别”。他引用了 1950 年的一次《艾达》（Aida）演出，在那场演出中，女高音自发地唱出了一个剧本之外的降E（E-flat）——这几乎是人声力量展示的极致——而这让她的合作伙伴库尔特·鲍姆（Kurt Baum）非常恼火。兰姆顿（Lambton）关于卡拉斯的看法与科斯滕鲍姆（Koestenbaum）的理论相呼应。“卡拉斯很难获得机会，因为许多人根本不理解她的声音，”她说，“例如，[米兰歌剧院] 斯卡拉剧院的监督安东尼奥·吉林格利（Antonio Ghiringhelli）觉得她的声音太不寻常了。然而她拒绝改变。一些人最初认为的缺陷，最终成为了她的独创性和影响力的源泉。这种关于‘货币’信息的持续提醒是我所支持的。”正是这种品质启发了柏林设计机构 Neue Gestaltung 的方案。
由皮特·斯坦考夫（Pit Stenkhoff）和埃娃·温德尔（Eva Wendel）创立的这家公司，其设计在卡拉斯的肖像旁边绘制了一组同心圆声波。温德尔说，这是“她的声音被转化为几何图形”，“这是我们系列中唯一一个描绘不可见之物的主题，这感觉是对的：卡拉斯留下的不是一个物体，而是一种声音”。十强入围者中还包括西班牙工作室 Rubio and Del Amo。通过他们的设计，胡利安·加内斯（Julián Garnés）及其团队希望通过赋予她一种更新的存在感，让人们更亲近卡拉斯。加内斯说：“我们改变了视角，抬高了她的下巴，旨在创造一种直接、深邃且能吸引观众的目光。”卡拉斯拒绝让他人决定她的价值，确保她的艺术获得了适当的投入。正如传记作者琳赛·斯彭斯（Lyndsy Spence）在《塑造一名女伶：玛丽亚·卡拉斯的隐藏生活》（Cast a Diva: The Hidden Life of Maria Callas）中所述，卡拉斯迫使歌剧院为了追求壮观而提高标准——以及预算。如果欧元旨在反映共同的欧洲身份，那么卡拉斯提醒我们，最持久的货币是我们为自己创造的那一种。
迪士尼这次搞了个大动作。而且，嘿，得给他们点赞——霍华德·阿什曼是我最崇敬的英雄之一。
但此时此刻真正引起我共鸣的是故事中出现的关于阶级和政治制度的观念。所有这些故事都源于我们历史上的帝国时代——它们全部都是关于国王和女王的。对灰姑娘来说，最美好的结局就是嫁入王室，对吧？与此同时，在美国，我们生活在一个我们走在“不要国王”之日（No Kings days）的时代。
如果你把一点 2026 年的自我带入这些故事，你会觉得：“等一下。我不认为对于任何在贫困中长大的孩子来说，最好的愿望就是嫁入那 1% 的顶层阶级。”这种道德观怎么能算好呢？
你的三部剧作——《格洛丽亚》（Gloria）、《恰当》（Appropriate）和《报应》（The Comeuppance）——在疫情后都曾在多伦多进行了重要演出。你认为你的作品在这个国家能产生如此强烈的反响的原因是什么？
说实话，我完全不知道——直到最近几个月，我才对这里发生的事情有了初步的了解。我曾在班夫中心的剧作家实验室担任驻场，我请那里的每个人告诉我所有事情——这里似乎有一种非常美妙的戏剧经典意识，我想更好地理解这一点。
我的作品能获得如此好的反响，我深感荣幸。我还认为多伦多剧院目前在某种程度上是一个被低估的秘密。每个人都热衷于讲述新故事，而且这里的评论文化似乎相当健康。
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即便癌症在她的体内扩散，她仍然想要游泳。她仍然想要感受到那种失重感，那种从痛苦中解脱的自由，哪怕只有短暂的一刻。
这些悲伤的浪潮带着她的碎片袭来。她烹饪时轻哼泰勒·斯威夫特歌曲的样子。她拥抱我时头发的味道。她贴在交给我的剩菜上的手写便利贴。它们不请自来地冲上岸，让我像收集漂流木一样将它们拾起：美丽、破碎，无法长久地握在手中。
我不知道接下来的几个月会是什么样子。我不知道她还能游泳多少次，或者在最后一波浪潮到来之前，我还会有多少次被忧伤没入水中。
但当那波浪潮到来，当它将她带到我触及不到的地方时，我会继续游泳。我将在那里找到她，在寂静中，在黑暗中，以及在我上方舞动光芒之中。我的每一次划水，每一次呼吸，每一个向比我更宏大的事物投降的瞬间，都将承载着她的爱。因为悲伤如潮汐般起伏。但爱也是如此。我会不断提醒自己——就像她一直对我做的那样——只要我记得放手，让水拥抱着我，这两者都无需将我拖入深渊。
Kelly Young 现居于不列颠哥伦比亚省基隆拿。
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1 “补丁亚当”中的哪个国家？ 5 蛋奶酒中的香料 11 软投球 14 威基基海滩的岛屿 15 “阿拉伯的劳伦斯”主演彼得 16 攀爬藤蔓 17 全知叙述者的视角 19 无领衬衫 20 专业人士投票 21 印第安纳州的篮球员 23 2022, 2024 和 2025 年 AL MVP 亚伦 26 蔬菜去皮器 28 WSW（西西南）的反方向 29 亚军的位置 34 也许是照顾婴儿的人 36 极干 37 俚语中的“非常” 38 在英国，主权的象征 40 使……成为可能 42 阴森的 43 德国汽车制造商 45 “方舟”网络 46 立即 49 纽约市地铁组织 50 最谄媚的 51 倭黑猩猩和红毛猩猩 53 千乘裙格纹 55 “请，___，我还想要一些”（“奥利弗！”） 56 雅各布的双胞胎 57 “教师”和“苹果”，在语法上……以及对 17-、29- 和 46-Across 的提示 64 蓝调歌手詹姆斯
桥牌 作者：STEVE BECKER
西家发牌。 南北家脆弱。
叫牌过程：
西家 3 [S] 北家 Pass 东家 Pass 南家 3 NT 首攻 —— 黑桃 7。
隐喻十字字谜 (CRYPTIC CROSSWORD)
横向 1 更讨喜的通俗读物？奇怪的线条 (13) 8 关于民主党人举措的好故事，没有犹豫 (5) 9 悠闲的英国保守派，首选利物浦口音？ (7) 10 包含专家案例的期刊，与进食有关 (7) 11 房屋的行为方式，人们这么说 (5) 13 航天员，第二个来自地球的人，前往土星 (9) 17 在时间之前完成 —— 显而易见的 (5) 19 神圣的狗 —— 躺在后面，最终放松了？ (7) 20 迟到的，困惑的竞争者 (7) 22 过于感性的导演的原版素材 (5) 23 经理修改后的武器传统 (13)
65 分析，如矿石 66 “行得通” 67 “英国烘焙大赛”共同主持人菲尔丁 68 温和的催促 69 ___ 自己 (设法搞定)
纵向 1 基础床 2 “没门！” 3 金枪鱼的金枪鱼排 4 发覆盖物 5 “是的”的反义词 6 蜂巢州原住民 7 计分板上的蓝鸟 8 年份划分 9 简单地结婚 10 继 Z 世代之后的群体 11 “我完全能感同身受” 12 完成 13 锦标赛豁免权 18 沙龙染发 22 A 级明星 23 西部法外之徒詹姆斯 24 为儿童提供援助的机构 25 从坏变更坏 26 鲁奥宴会菜肴 27 结束了一段关系 30 ENT 中的 “E” 31 创造 32 下巴凹痕 33 简单的课程 35 例如 “低垂吧，甜蜜战车” 39 DC 对手尼古拉 41 日记作者安娜伊斯 44 停顿填充词 47 原始电话线的一部分 48 体重增加
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52 激活，如酵母 53 通常是高中生 54 关于 55 眼睑不适 58 哥伦布市的学校
假设你在所示的叫牌中达到了三无将 (three notrump)，西家打出黑桃，东家出 J，你用 K 赢回。你现在可以计算出 8 个确定的赢墩，而获得第 9 个赢墩的唯一机会在于梅花套路。在没有对方叫牌的情况下，梅花的百分比打法应该是出 A-K，根据“八永，九不”(eight ever, nine never) 的格言，博取 Q 的掉落。但考虑到西家抢先叫出的三黑桃开叫，这几乎肯定基于一个 7 张的套路，那么出梅花 A-K 的胜率就不再占优，因为
数独难度评级：HHIII
操作指令 填写方格，使得每一行九个方格、每一列九个方格以及每一个九宫格（三乘三）包含数字 1 到 9，顺序不限。 每个谜题只有一个解。
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每一行和每一列必须包含数字 1 到 6 且不重复。
59 纳斯达克交易货币 60 顽固地（Bug doggedly） 61 夏威夷乐器（简称） 62 英国对祖母的称呼 63 隐藏在 “fantasy draft” 中的名字
现在西家更有可能在梅花花色中持有单张或空缺。正因如此，你可能会决定在第二轮出梅花给假手的王，计划对东家的后进行逼戏。 不幸的是，这种看似合理的做法在实际情况下会失败，在东家在第二次梅花出牌时亮出空缺后，你会输掉一轮。 此时你可以将其归结为运气不好，但更准确的评估应该是打法不当。 在决定如何处理梅花花色之前，你应该首先尽可能收集所有关于西家持有红桃和方块的信息。你可以通过出方块 A-K-Q 和红桃 A-K 来实现。一种可能性是西家会跟随所有 5 次出牌，从而揭示他最多只有一张梅花。 但在实际的牌局中，西家仅持有两张方块和一张红桃，这意味着他持有三张梅花。那么，只需出梅花 A，然后对西家的后进行标记逼戏，即可最终获得 11 墩。
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“它改进了长期存在的飞行信用额度系统，认可了客舱乘务员所需执行的更多工作，并增加了该项工作的报酬，”她在卡尔加里机场外的记者会上表示。“如果我们不相信这些碎片在组合后，能够成为会员在面对目前环境下会批准的协议，我们就不会向会员提交该协议。”侯赛因女士表示，该工会分会的成员有 30 天的时间来批准该协议。西捷航空首席执行官 Alexis von Hoensbroech 周一为此次中断给客户带来的沮丧情绪表示道歉。“我们的团队正在努力恢复服务，并让我们的宾客尽快前往目的地，在我们恢复正常期间，我们感谢大家的耐心，”他在一份新闻稿中说道。
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《环球邮报》未透露消息来源，因为这些人未获授权讨论大使的任命程序。马丁·科申在接受《环球邮报》采访时未发表评论。
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卡尼先生在寻求与中国改善关系时面临着一个棘手的困境。国内将会有反对深化对华关系的呼声，因为中国的国家主席曾利用贸易来惩罚其他国家。
圣-雅克先生表示，在他看来，考虑到针对联邦选举和民主机构外国干预的公开调查中所确定的对加拿大的威胁，从外交服务体系之外选择驻华大使将是一个错误。该调查由玛丽-乔塞·霍格法官监督，重点关注中国及其他外国参与者，并于 2025 年初发布了最终报告。圣-雅克先生说：“欺骗一名经验丰富的外交官比欺骗一名政治任命者更困难，而且在当地拥有一个能说该语言、了解该文化并理解其思维方式的人至关重要。”
前外交官提名了全球事务部（Global Affairs）的两名人员作为大使的可行选项，因为他们拥有在中国的经验：目前负责印太地区的助理副部长韦尔登·埃普斯（Weldon Epps），以及目前负责国际发展部的副部长辛迪·特莫舒伊森（Cindy Termorshuizen）。他表示两人都会说中文。 他说：“你需要一个客观且能够向权力者直言不讳的人。”而政治任命者则“希望表现得友好，不想引起麻烦。” 他表示，一名职业外交官将“让加拿大人放心：是的，我们愿意与中国开展更多贸易，但我们不会让他们威胁我们的主权和安全。”
战略国务中心（Centre for Strategic Statecraft，一家新成立的加拿大外交政策智库）首席执行官维娜·纳吉布拉（Vina Nadjibulla）表示，由于卡尼先生在管理“显著的经济、安全和价值观分歧”的同时，试图重新调整加拿大与北京的关系，因此下一任驻华大使的人选将产生极其深远的影响。 纳吉布拉女士警告说，不要将这一决定简单地框定为在职业外交官和政治任命者之间做出选择。 她表示，关键在于找到一个既能获得卡尼先生的信任并能与其直接沟通，又具备娴熟的外交技巧、稳健的政治判断力以及对中国深刻理解的人。 “考虑到卡尼在重新调整关系中所投入的个人精力，”
多伦多的医疗保健专业人士卡桑德拉·鲁吉耶罗（Cassandra Ruggiero）原本在坎昆享受一次家庭全包度假，但由于太阳之翼航空（Sunwing）的航班（由西捷航空 WestJet 运营）被取消，她的假期被迫延长。 她意识到其他旅客可能处于更艰难的境地，但她说这并没有减轻她的愤怒，因为她花费数小时在电话或虚拟聊天窗口中沟通，结果却无法从西捷航空那里得到任何答案。 她一家的航班最初在周六被取消。当天晚上，他们被改签到周三的航班。但到了周日，乘务员举行罢工，引发了寻找其他航空公司回家的恐慌。
在非洲的预防工作。但尽管该战略提升了人们对加拿大将该大陆视为优先事项的希望，但卡尔加里大学研究加拿大在非军事角色的政治学家克里斯·罗伯茨（Chris Roberts）表示，“这些希望现在看来是落空的。” 他告诉《环球邮报》：“在国家国防部 (DND) 内部，即便盟友和竞争对手正在扩大其军事和安全存在，且许多冲突仍在持续，非洲依然处于边缘地位。对于像加拿大这样一个依赖贸易和基于规则的国家来说，将该大陆视为边缘地带是战略上的疏忽。” 除了停止在四个联合国 (UN) 维和任务中派遣部队外，国家国防部 (DND) 表示，到今年年底，将把西奈任务的人员从约 40 人减少到约 10 人。从技术上讲，西奈行动是一项多国协作，而非联合国任务。 加拿大还计划继续向乌干达的一个联合国供应中心派遣军机，但在过去一年中，此类航班的部署寥寥无几。 就在 2016 年，联邦政府还承诺要
截至周一早上初步协议公布时，鲁吉罗女士并不确定她的家人是否能在周三前回到多伦多。 “作为一名消费者，感觉就像是被扇了一记耳光，对方在说：‘你自己想办法解决吧，而且你猜怎么着？责任在你，经济负担也在你身上，’”她表示。 “这些都是大公司。我相信他们在亏钱，但那是他们的问题。这并不意味着你可以让你的客户陷入困境。”
（由 Vanmala Subramaniam 和加拿大新闻社报道）
大使必须能够与其直接沟通，并将政府的战略方向转化为有效的外交手段。” 马克·卡尼先生在寻求与中国改善关系时面临着一个棘手的困境。国内会出现反对深化对华关系的呼声，因为中国国家主席曾利用贸易来惩罚其他国家。 北京在近几十年中确实如此操作，目标涵盖了加拿大、澳大利亚、日本、韩国、立陶宛、菲律宾和挪威。 北京还通过公开调查以及由加拿大情报机构指控，涉嫌骚扰海外侨民社区并窃取该国技术。 此后，加拿大实施了重大保障措施，包括扩大针对外国投资的国家安全审查。这些审查集中在 11 个敏感技术领域。渥太华 (加拿大政府) 还禁止联邦研究资金资助与中国军事机构合作的大学。 作为公开调查的结果，政府还为代表外国势力从事“影响力活动”的人员设立了强制登记制度，并赋予加拿大最高情报机构更多打击威胁的权限。 这些变化在很大程度上是由于《环球报》和其他媒体在国家安全机密来源和泄露的秘密文件的支持下，对中国外国干涉和虚假信息活动进行了数月的报道而促成的。
部署额外的 750 名军队和警察以加强全球范围内的联合国 (UN) 维和行动。但除了 2018 至 2019 年期间在马里部署的一个包含 250 人的直升机小分队外，加拿大的贡献一直在稳步下降。 “卡尼领导的自由党人在全球动荡时期放弃了加拿大的维和遗产，”新民主党 (NDP) 外交事务评论员海瑟·麦克弗森表示。 “他们需要解释加拿大的新国防优先级是什么——以及建立和维护和平是否在其中。”
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根据代表该国私人资本行业的组织数据显示，私募股权和风险投资公司在 2026 年上半年的加拿大交易次数有所减少，但单笔交易规模有所增加。
加拿大风险投资与私募股权协会 (CVCA) 发布的两份报告指出，与繁荣的 2025, 年相比，私募股权部门投资的总额有所下降，但与往年相比保持稳定；而风险投资领域投入的总金额则有所上升。
私募股权公司专注于收购需要重组或增长资本的成熟公司，而风险投资人则瞄准具有成长潜力、风险较高的早期初创企业。
CVCA 首席执行官 Benjamin Bergen 表示，巨额交易的兴起并非加拿大特有的趋势，全球范围内也正在发生。
2026, 年上半年，私募股权公司在加拿大通过 252 笔交易投资了 $12.7-billion，与 2025 年上半年 332 笔交易投资的 $31-billion 相比下降了 59%。
然而，Bergen 先生指出，如果与 2023 年和 2024 年的美元总额相比，私募股权活动似乎更为稳定。
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今年以来，加拿大各地已发生 800 场以上的森林火灾，近 400 万公顷土地被焚毁，这一数字高于 10 年平均水平。这是连续创纪录的火灾年份，其中包含过去五年中最严重的两个火灾季。
加拿大并非孤例。过去一周，森林火灾迫使法国和西班牙各地 300,000 多个居民离开家园，并威胁到马德里郊区，向波尔多葡萄酒产区蔓延。
火灾逼近首都城市和世界著名的葡萄园，标志着这一问题不再局限于偏远森林，而 10 年平均数据则显示火势正变得日益剧烈。
除了火灾对自然景观和福祉造成的直接破坏外，思考其气候影响还有另一种方式：一片健康的森林需要数十年时间将空气中的碳吸出并将其锁定在树干、树枝和根部。而一场森林火灾几乎在一夜之间就抵消了这些长期积累的成果，并将所有这些碳释放出来。
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Quoted Tech 联合创始人兼首席执行官 Kevin Jia（该公司生产高端和入门级游戏电脑）表示，他不得不“时刻”向客户解释价格上涨的原因。COLE BURSTON / THE GLOBE AND MAIL
数据中心对内存的需求正在扰乱芯片市场
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当斯蒂芬·杰弗斯（Stephen Jeffers）在去年年底开始寻找组装一台新游戏电脑的组件时，数字存储的价格让他大吃一惊。
“除了内存（RAM），我大部分零件都买齐了，因为我觉得‘内存到处都能买到’，”杰弗斯先生说道。他此前曾组装过两台游戏电脑，这类电脑比普通电脑需要更多内存。历史上，内存一直价格低廉且易于采购。但现在价格上涨之快惊人。
“一旦价格翻倍，我就陷入了恐慌，转而求助于二手市场，”他说道。
他在二手市场上花费 $200 购买了两根 16 GB 的内存条，并在圣诞节前夕“抢购”了一块 2 TB 的固态硬盘，价格为 $150。
他表示，仅在六个月后，同样的组件现在的售价已分别高达约 $600。居住在圣约翰斯（St. John’s）并从事项目管理的杰弗斯先生开玩笑说，他的电脑
而加拿大公司正发挥其作用
SEAN SILCOFF 技术记者
从 AbCellera Biologics Inc. 在 2020 年底上市的那一刻起，首席执行官 Carl Hansen 的目标就是将这家抗体开发商打造成为加拿大首个本土的大制药巨头。但在其纳斯达克市场的爆炸性首秀之后——总部位于温哥华的 AbCellera 曾一度市值达到 US$15.7-billion——股票走势却讲述了一个不同的故事。尽管在开发治疗 COVID-19 患者的药物方面取得了短暂成功，但 AbCellera 的股价随后暴跌，且仅有小幅回升。
Hansen 先生希望这种情况即将改变。AbCellera 将在这一季度发布一项旨在降低绝经期女性潮热频率和严重程度的疗法之有效性数据。公司认为，如果该药物奏效，它可能会成为一款重量级药物，年峰值销售额将超过 US$1-billion-plus。AbCellera 计划很快将其他药物投入临床试验，并已与三家制药巨头达成合作伙伴协议，以开发能让白细胞更有效地对抗疾病的抗体。
“到 2027, 年底，对于任何市值低于 US$20-billion 的公司来说，我们可能拥有最具前景的产品管线，”Hansen 先生在一次关于 AbCellera 的采访中表示，该公司目前的市值 US$1.77-billion。“我们已经拥有了那只名副其实的鹅，现在是产金蛋的时候了。”
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存储已成为“我表现最好的资产之一”。 从手机到游戏设备的消费电子产品正迅速变得更加昂贵，因为驱动人工智能的数据中心产生的巨大需求推高了内存成本。
随机存取存储器（RAM）和固态硬盘（SSD）存储——这两种存储手机、笔记本电脑、台式机和游戏系统的内存——的价格自 2025. 年底以来已翻了两番。Jefferies Equity Research 在 6 月底的一份报告中表示，RAM 价格在今年第三季度将继续上涨 40 到 50 百分比，在第四季度将再上涨 30 到 40 百分比。
加拿大 PC 组装商 Quoted Tech 的联合创始人兼首席执行官 Kevin Jia 将价格上涨称为消费者在购买新设备或尝试自行组装时支付的“AI 税”。Jia 先生的公司生产面向高端和入门级游戏的计算机，以及专业工作站。
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AbCellera 的股市之旅并非个例。在疫情的前两年，生物技术股一路飙升。随后，四年前由通胀引发的利率激增重创了上市的早期药物开发商，并削弱了风险投资人的胃口。唐纳德·特朗普重返白宫，以及任命著名的疫苗怀疑论者 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 为卫生部长，在美国政府削减基础科学和研究支出的背景下，增加了不确定性。
到 2025, 年春季，生物技术股价格依然低迷。首次公开募股（IPO）市场十分冷清。 但在整个行业中，这种低迷局面已经打破。
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美国和日本罕见地采取联合干预，提高了交易员押注日元下跌的风险，但分析人士怀疑，如果没有更紧缩的货币政策，投机者将无法被遏制。
最终的考验将在于日本银行（BOJ）是否会落实更快速的加息，因为与美国的巨大收益率差距仍然是日元走弱的主要驱动因素。
日本在 4 月底和 5 月初花费了 US$70-billion 来支撑日元，但反弹十分短暂，正如 2024 和 2022, 年该国单独干预货币市场时的情况一样。
但通过在 15 年来首次联手干预，东京和华盛顿当局正押注于，统一战线比过去单独干预更能威慑投机者。
周一早盘，日元在亚洲交易中上涨 1 per cent，触及每美元 155.20 的高点，为近三个月以来的最高水平，脱离了 7 月触及的 40 年低点 163.99。
周一，对日本银行政策最敏感的两年期日本政府债券收益率触及 1.54 per cent，为 1995 年 5 月以来的最高水平。
分析人士表示，协调干预引发了空头头寸的挤压（这是近两年来最大规模的一次），并增加了采取后续行动的风险，包括央行更快速地加息。
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由于有报道称阿斯特鲁赠药业（AstraZeneca）正与美国竞争对手百时美施贵宝（Bristol Myers Squibb）进行合并谈判，这将创造一家合并价值近 US$400-billion 的世界最大药企之一，投资者在周一抛售该制药公司股票。
阿斯特鲁赠药业的股价收盘下跌约 9%，为 2020, 年以来最大跌幅。投资者和分析师表示，尽管潜在的成本效益存在，但这家英国最大的药企几乎没有进行转型式收购的需求。百时美施贵宝的股价在早盘交易中下跌不足 1%。
如果交易获得确认，将创造一家按市值计算的世界第四大药企以及按营收计算的最大药企，这可能成为有史以来最大的并购交易之一，将一家欧洲顶尖制药公司与一家美国主要竞争对手相结合。
阿斯特鲁赠药业的一位发言人在周一拒绝发表评论。总部位于新泽西州的百时美施贵宝未回应置评请求。
“阿斯特鲁赠药业在这次传闻中与 BMS 合并的唯一优势似乎是加速其在美国的市场布局和销售，”阿斯特鲁赠药业股东、JM Finn 投资总监 Lucy Coutts 表示。
“总体而言，BMS 的股东将是任何与 AZN 合并的赢家，因此这一消息无疑会受到 AZN 股东的冷淡对待。”
一名知情人士告诉路透社，阿斯特鲁赠药业和百时美施贵宝已经举行了会谈，证实了此前《金融时报》的报道。周五，这两家公司——
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瑞银集团（UBS Group）周一被美国监管机构罚款 US$125-million，原因是违反了《银行保密法》（Bank Secrecy Act），这是美国针对经纪交易商违反美国主要反洗钱法而开出的最大额民事罚款。
美国财政部金融犯罪执法局（FinCEN）表示，瑞银金融服务公司承认因未能实施而故意违反 BSA。
一名女性周一站在一块屏幕前，屏幕上显示了在日本和美国进行协调的日元买入干预后，日元兑美元当前及近期汇率的图表。ISSEI KATO / 路透社
“日本银行的一次意外加息将在很大程度上重塑市场对央行收紧货币政策决心的预期，”汇丰银行（HSBC）首席亚洲经济学家 Fred Neumann 表示。
“美国和日本的联合干预向市场发出了一个强有力的信号……然而，如果没有配套的货币政策调整，联合干预对日元的影响可能是短暂的。”
数据显示，由于伊朗战争导致的油价剧烈波动，以及日本与主要经济体之间巨大的利率差，使得日元变得脆弱，投机者积累的日元净空头头寸价值约 US$12.5-billion。
日本和美国在周一确认，它们上周进行了协调的日元买入干预，此举凸显了对日元贬值的日益不安。
其合并后的市值将接近 4,000 亿美元（US$400-billion），其中阿斯特捷尼卡 (AstraZeneca) 的估值为 2,640 亿美元 (US$264-billion)，百时美施贵迎 (Bristol Myers) 为 1,330 亿美元 (US$133-billion)。
分析师和投资者质疑阿斯特捷尼卡达成交易的逻辑，因为在首席执行官帕斯卡尔·索里奥特 (Pascal Soriot) 执掌的 14 年里，该公司一直是该行业最成功的公司之一。
阿斯特捷尼卡的股东、Union Investment 的投资组合经理马库斯·曼斯 (Markus Manns) 表示，一项交易在“战略或财务上都没有意义”，并且会扰乱一家“拥有完整产品管线且运行良好的公司”。
“如果合并传闻被证实为真，这将相当于制药行业中的‘国际足联 (FIFA) 私有化时刻’，”曼斯先生补充道，他指的是国际足联此前已被放弃的出售世界杯股份计划。“也就是说，这是一个构思拙劣的方案，会让许多市场参与者感到相当困惑。”
阿斯特捷尼卡股东 ATG Healthcare 的投资组合经理卢卡斯·勒乌 (Lukas Leu) 表示，一项交易可以通过成本协同效应提高利润率，并扩大在神经科学和细胞治疗领域的覆盖范围，但他质疑合并后的公司将如何定位竞争药物。
他说：“我并不太喜欢巨额合并，它会扼杀创新和敏捷性，且在短期内会对阿斯特捷尼卡的增长产生摊薄作用。”
对阿斯特捷尼卡而言，一个吸引点可能是进一步扩大其在美国的业务，美国已经是其最大的市场。
阿斯特捷尼卡今年在纽约证券交易所完成了直接上市，而与百时美施贵迎的交易将实际上意味着一家英国公司收购了一家主要的美国制药巨头。
百时美施贵迎的大部分收入来自美国，其在美国拥有最大的商业版图之一。
一名阿斯特捷尼卡前 20 大股东的投资组合经理在要求匿名的条件下表示，虽然“增加美国市场敞口可能有吸引力”，但鉴于“阿斯特捷尼卡管理层一直支持通过研发交付来实现业务的有机增长”，这样的一项交易“将令人惊讶”。
“共识是，与 BMS 相比，阿斯特捷尼卡拥有更强的产品管线，且专利到期压力较小，那么为什么要摊薄这一点并降低增长前景呢？”
自美国总统唐纳德·特朗普 (Donald Trump) 回到白宫以来，阿斯特捷尼卡已在美国制造业投资数百亿美元，并与政府建立了密切关系，因为该公司追求一个宏伟目标：到 2030 年，使其目标 800 亿美元 (US$80-billion) 年收入的一半来自美国市场。
该公司去年的收入约为 590 亿美元 (US$59-billion)。
Shore Capital 的分析师肖恩·康罗伊 (Sean Conroy) 表示，一项交易还可以帮助阿斯特捷尼卡应对 2030 年后面临的专利悬崖，并强化其肿瘤业务，不过他警告说，投资者“通常并不支持这类巨额合并”。
他补充说，百时美施贵迎的 Opdivo 与阿斯特捷尼卡的 Imfinzi 属于同类型的癌症免疫疗法药物，两者之间的重叠可能会引起反垄断审查。
……并维持反洗钱计划，且未能提交可疑活动报告。
周一的结案反映了瑞银 (UBS) 作为惯犯的身份，此前这家瑞士银行未能解决导致其在 2018. 年 12 月被 FinCEN 罚款 1,450 万美元 (US$14.5-million) 的问题。据称，随后的违规行为发生在 2019, 年 1 月至 2023 年 6 月之间。
“历史已经证明，协同干预威力巨大，而且往往是成功的，”伦敦 BBH 的全球市场战略主管埃利亚斯·哈达德 (Elias Haddad) 表示。“趋势最终向干预的正确方向移动确实需要时间。”
历史已经证明，协同干预威力巨大，而且往往是成功的。
—— 埃利亚斯·哈达德 (ELIAS HADDAD) BBH 市场战略主管
这次的关键区别在于，美国财政部长斯科特·贝森特 (Scott Bessent) 已明确表达了对日元疲软的担忧，这增加了日元可持续走强的预期可信度。
瑞银（UBS）的这项和解解决了美国证券交易委员会（SEC）、商品期货交易委员会（CFTC）以及金融业监管局（FINRA）的相关指控。瑞银在的一份声明中表示，公司配合了监管机构的工作，并投入巨资加强其反洗钱计划，以“符合行业领先实践”。路透社
BGIM（富兰克林邓普顿旗下单位）的投资组合经理卡罗尔·莱伊（Carol Lye）表示，这将增强实力。 贝森特先生还表示，美国将在未来几个月考虑增加美联储回购机制的规模，以提供临时美元流动性，称该工具是一个“重要的后备方案”。 莱伊女士表示：“美联储 FIMA 回购机制的扩张，显著增强了日本的干预能力，潜在上可支持多达 30 轮额外的干预，每轮规模约为 5 万亿日元。” 野村证券的分析师表示，日本可能拥有高达 30 万亿日元的资金可用，目标水平至少在 154 日元，以触发动量交易者。“如果此举奏效，可能会加速向 150 移动，”他们在给客户的一份由路透社审阅的报告中写道。 一些分析师仍然对长期持久性持怀疑态度
Max 7 获批，美国飞机制造商取得重大胜利
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美国联邦航空管理局（FAA）周一给予了波音公司（Boeing Co.） 737 Max 7 长期期待的批准。对于这家美国飞机制造商而言，这是一个里程碑，因为其多年来一直等待销售这款最畅销机型的最小版本。自 2018 和 2019 年发生两起致命的 Max 8 坠机事故以来，波音面临着更严格的认证程序；此外，在 2024 年 1 月一架近乎全新的阿拉斯加航空 Max 9 发生空中客舱面板脱落事故后，该公司的生产和质量体系也受到了审查。在路透社首次报道 Max 7 获得认证的消息后，波音的股价上涨了约 1.2%，全天上涨 6.7%。FAA 在经过近十年的审查后，要求波音进行关键改进，并落实国家交通安全委员会的建议，包括更新飞行控制软件、飞行员警报系统以及重新设计的发动机防冰系统。这款喷气客机的认证比原计划延迟了数年。波音曾一度表示，预计该飞机会在 2022 年底前获得批准。波音周一表示，目前正在准备支持首次交付。Max 7 提供 135 到 160 个座位，同时比其他 Max 机型提供约 10% 的额外航程潜力。波音 737 Max 7 于 2018 年开始测试。波音与 737 Max 7 的启动客户西南航空（Southwest Airlines）正准备交付首架飞机。西南航空表示，对此次批准感到满意，并期待该飞机在未来几个月内投入服务。西南航空目前的航班计划直至 2027 年 3 月，其中尚未包含 Max 7。FAA 副局长 Chris Rocheleau 上月告诉路透社，他认为较大机型的 Max 10 的批准将紧随 Max 7 之后。
波音商业飞机负责人 Stephanie Pope 在周一给员工的备忘录中表示，公司汲取了“重要的教训，我们已经将这些教训应用于 737-10，并在我们完成 737 MAX 飞机系列以及随后的 777X 计划时加速我们的工作。” 根据航空数据分析公司 Cirium 的数据，波音已经制造了约 30 架 Max 7 和 9 架 Max 10，目前正等待交付。Max 10 至少占目前未交付 Max 订单的 28%。FAA 局长 Bryan Bedford 在 7 月告诉路透社，该机构与波音在认证新飞机方面的工作已经改善。2022 年，波音面临国会设定的期限，要求在新的驾驶舱警报安全标准生效前，获得 Max 两种变体型号的认证。国会最终同意豁免该要求。FAA 在 12 月表示，Max 10 将配备增强的飞行员警报系统，其中将包含一种关闭失速警告和超速警报的方法。去年 10 月，FAA 批准波音将 737 Max 的产量提高到每月 42 架，结束了自 2024 年 1 月阿拉斯加航空事故后实施的每月 38 架上限。随后该机构在 3 月允许波音将产量提升至每月 47 架。上个月，FAA 表示，在广泛审查显示该公司已证明具有“一致的生产质量”后，将允许波音为所有 737 Max 和 787 飞机颁发适航证书。
除非政策制定者采取后续行动，否则日元将出现由干预主导的飙升，而该货币的部分疲软通常被归因于日本银行（BOJ）在加息方面采取的谨慎态度。
周五，日本央行首次警告称，潜在通胀可能会超过其目标，并表示未来的政策讨论将集中在价格上涨风险上，这预示着最快在 9 月就可能加息。
日本银行的这一决定是在日本周四在纽约市场进行日元买入、美元卖出的市场干预之后做出的。
汇丰银行（HSBC）货币策略师 Joey Chew 和 Paul Mackel 在一份报告中表示：“除非我们看到日本银行更快地加息，且政府在日元问题上采取更明确的立场，并削减其财政扩张的雄心，否则我们对于美元 / 日元将呈下降趋势仍缺乏信心。”
对于看空者而言，协同干预并未从根本上改变日元的前景，而只是推迟了对其低点的另一次测试。
法国巴黎银行（BNP Paribas）新兴市场亚洲利率和外汇策略师 Chandresh Jain 表示，日元的反弹为通过期权建立美元 / 日元多头头寸提供了机会，押注日元在短期内将走弱。
“基本上，我们的观点应该是持有美元 / 日元多头，但认为其上限在 163.5，”他说道。
谈到最近几轮干预时，Jain 先生表示：“此前，这关乎美元走势的速度。而这一次感觉更多是关于一个数值，而不是速度。”
“我们已经多次看到在 160 附近进行干预，而现在是在 164 左右——所以看来这些数值让他们感到不安，而不仅仅是像历史上那样关注速度。”
全球早期生命科学领域的健康状况达到了前所未有的程度。作为行业基准的 State Street SPDR S&P 生物技术交易所交易基金（即 XBI）在过去一年中价值上涨了 70%，并于近期突破了疫情期间的高点。并购活动大幅增加，创纪录的大型交易数量随之而来，2026 年有望成为自 2021 年以来生物技术 IPO 最成功的一年。其中包括美国药物开发商 Kailera Therapeutics 和 Parabillis Medicines 在今年春季连续创纪录的发行。所有这些退出机制都为投资者带来了资本回报，对于多年来难以筹集资金的开发商来说，这是个好消息。
“无论以何种身份参与生物技术生态系统，现在都是一个绝佳的时期，”纽约 Centerview Partners（一家领先的生命科学并购顾问公司）投资银行共同总裁 Eric Tokat 在今年 4 月于多伦多举行的 Bloom Burton & Co. 医疗保健投资者会议上对与会者说道。他补充道，目前的活跃程度和兴奋感是他所见过的最高水平。
生物技术的复兴是一个全球性故事，而加拿大也参与其中。该国极少像现在这样，拥有如此多处于成功边缘的、充满前景的顶尖医学科学公司。
“公司的质量比我们以往见过的都要好，”多伦多生命科学金融投资机构 Lumira Ventures 的合伙人 Nikhil Thatte 表示。
时机再好不过。一个多世纪以来，加拿大研究人员取得了具有变革意义的医学发现，包括胰岛素、干细胞、GLP-1 激素的作用机制，以及抗逆转录病毒药物 3TC（这是将 HIV 转化为可控慢性病的 AIDS 鸡尾酒疗法的 1 个关键组成部分）。然而，随之而来的大多数经济利益都流向了其他地方。
现在，加拿大全国范围内重新产生了一种决心，即利用我们本土的资源（包括脑力）来增强我们的经济主权。但生命科学领域以高风险著称，加拿大的机构投资者（包括其最大的养老基金）在很大程度上仍然持观望态度。相比之下，外国制药巨头资金充裕，且热衷于收购该领域有前景的开发商。近年来，他们已经收购了许多加拿大领先的生物技术公司。
面对敲门而入的大药企和反应冷淡的本土投资者，我们的国内产业能否避免被掏空，并最终产生具有全球影响力的生命科学巨头？
并购活动正在升温
全球生物技术的复兴是由几个因素驱动的。对减肥药物的兴趣引发了活跃度。许多开发商正利用人工智能来发现和开发新药。投资者一直从“七巨头”科技巨头转向其他领域，包括生命科学。中国正成为具有前景的分子（包括其他疗法的近乎仿制品）的主要来源。
但主要的驱动因素是大量资本向该领域释放，这是其内在周期性的结果。大型制药公司正在收购生物技术公司——因为它们不得不这样做。
每款重磅药物都伴随着一个倒计时时钟。新药专利从授予之日起有效期为 20 年，但其中包含多年的临床试验和监管审查。到药物上市时，在低价仿制药出现之前，其排他期通常仅剩十年或更短。
制药业周期性地接近“专利悬崖”，即一组重磅药物同时接近排他期的终点。这种情况现在正在发生。
世界上一些最受欢迎的药物将在未来几年失去专利保护，其中包括 Keytruda，这款癌症治疗药物在 2025 年为默克公司（Merck & Co.）创造了 US$31.7-billion 的销售额，几乎占其全球总收入的一半。默克的 HPV 疫苗 Gardasil 9（去年与其姐妹产品 Gardasil 共同创造了 US$5.23-billion 的销售额）也将于 2028 年失去保护。
辉瑞（Pfizer）面临两次重大的排他性损失：明年是肿瘤药 Ibrance（2025 年销售额：US$4.1-billion），以及与百时美施贵宝（Bristol Myers Squib Co., BMS）共同销售的血液稀释剂 Eliquis。Eliquis 去年为两家公司共创造了 US$22-billion 的收入。BMS 的抗癌抗体 Opdivo 同样将于 2028 年失去排他性，该药物在去年 US$48.2-billion 的收入中占比超过 20%。“几乎每家大型制药公司都有专利悬崖，”纽约 Needham & Co. 的分析师 Serge Belanger 说道。
随着专利保护消失，这些收入随之崩塌。以 BMS 的血液病药物 Revlimid 为例：它在 2021 年为 BMS 创造了 US$12-billion 的收入。随后仿制药进入市场。到 2025 年，该收入已缩减至 US$2.95-billiion。与去年同期相比，Revlimid 的收入在 2026 年上半年进一步下降了 56%。
“全球行业的重大助力是制药公司对创新重磅产品的无法满足的需求，以及相关的并购活动，”多伦多生命科学投资银行 Bloom Burton & Co. 的首席执行官 Brian Bloom 表示。“这种情况并不总是像现在这么紧迫，”他说道，因为有如此多正走向悬崖的重磅药物。
制药商确实有新疗法在候选中。FDA 最近批准了默克的降低胆固醇药物 Lipfendra。分析师预计其年峰值销售额将超过 US$5-billion。但这不足以弥补默克预计在 Keytruda 上失去的收入。根据 Tokat 先生的估计，到 2032 年，大型制药公司将有 US$180-billion 的年收入面临失去专利排他性的风险。而且，它们不仅希望替代收入，还希望增加总营收。“它们需要大量的新收入，而大量的新收入意味着大量的新产品，”他说。“它们自身的生产力不足以独立完成替代。”
因此出现了购物热潮——这可能还包括制药巨头阿斯特捷那（AstraZeneca Plc）与 BMS 之间的一次巨额合并，后者
《金融时报》周日报道称，它们正寻求结合。法律事务所 Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo 的生命科学合伙人兼共同主席 Cheryl Reicin 表示：“那些大型制药公司就在那里，他们需要收购，需要达成许可协议，他们需要多次尝试以寻求突破。”
在多伦多。 今年，财力雄厚的制药公司收购了创纪录的 11 家估值在 50 亿美元或以上的公司。根据某些行业估计，他们拥有 5000 亿美元的交易财务能力。全球市值最高的制药公司礼来 (Eli Lilly) 一直是最活跃的买家之一。此外，像 Biogen 和 Jazz Pharmaceuticals 这样中型规模的制药公司也在寻找交易机会，竞争激烈。选择范围是全球性的，其中也包括加拿大的生物技术公司。可供选择的机会很多。
加拿大生物技术的重大 12 个月
加拿大的医学科学领域经历了记忆中最强劲的 12 个月之一。根据 Bloom Burton 的数据，上市公司在公开市场筹集了 24 亿加元——这还不包括通用药物制造商 Apotex Health Corp. 在 6 月 IPO 中出售的 15 亿加元股票。Satellos Bioscience Inc.、NervGen Pharma Corp. 和 Cybin Inc. 均从加拿大交易所交叉上市至纳斯达克。
总部位于蒙特利尔的肺高压药物开发商 35Pharma Inc. 今年被 GSK plc 以 9.5 亿美元（13 亿加元）收购，这是近期一系列 10 位数规模加拿大生物技术收购案中的最新一项，为早期投资者带来了丰厚回报。
Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc. 是来自不列颠哥伦比亚省（B.C.）低陆平原（Lower Mainland）的众多极具前景的生物技术公司之一。在报告其癫痫治疗药物在人体临床试验中显著减少发作活动后，该公司在 3 月通过发行股票筹集了 10 亿加元。这家在纳斯达克上市的公司估值约为 60 亿美元，今年正向美国食品药品监督管理局（FDA）申请将该药推向市场，并进行临床试验以显示其是否也能治疗情绪障碍和疼痛。尽管一些行业观察人士认为 Xenon 是一个收购目标，但首席执行官 Ian Mortimer 表示：“一段时间以来，我们一直坚持希望建立一家完全综合性的公司。”
私营公司 Kardium Inc. 生产一种治疗心房颤动（一种常见心脏问题）的设备，计划最早在 2027 年上市，此前这家位于 B.C. 省本拿比（Burnaby）的公司于去年获得了 FDA 的产品上市批准。同样来自温哥华的 Zymeworks Inc. 也经历了一个大年。去年秋天，其主导药物（由 Jazz 和 BeOne Medicines Ltd. 在全球范围内商业化）在人体试验中被证明能有效阻止消化系统癌症的扩散。Zymeworks 计划利用合伙药物带来的资金购买其他开发者的特许权使用费流，首先是 6 月份以 9.29 亿美元收购 Theravance Biopharma Inc.。此外，在 B.C. 省注册的 Definium Therapeutics（原 Mind Medicine (MindMed) Inc.）最近公布了一款基于 LSD 的抑郁症药物在人体后期临床试验中取得的积极结果。Definium 的股价飙升，并在 6 月从投资者那里筹集了超过 8 亿美元。几家加拿大公司利用人工智能获益：温哥华的 Variational AI 签署了
去年秋天与默克（Merck）达成的一项药物研发协议价值高达 $349。总部位于蒙特利尔的 Congruence Therapeutics 正在利用 AI 来发现由于蛋白质折叠错误而导致疾病的基因突变，旨在针对肥胖症和帕金森病开发治疗方案，该公司已筹集了近 US$140 的风险资本。Congruence 由 Clarissa Desjardins 领导，她是几位在加拿大创建生物技术公司的重复创业者之一。总部位于多伦多的 Biossil 已从包括彼得·蒂尔（Peter Thiel）的 Founders Fund 和 OpenAI 在内的投资者那里筹集了数千万美元。该公司利用 AI 在失败的后期候选药物废弃堆中搜寻，寻找那些可以被复活并成为成功疗法的药物。Biossil 已经购买或获得授权了 11 个分子。并非每家加拿大生物技术公司都经历了一个绝佳的年份。总部位于魁北克的 enGene Therapeutics Inc. 的股价在 5 月份暴跌，此前该公司报告其膀胱癌疗法的临床试验反应率下降。温哥华的放射制药开发商 Abdera Therapeutics 在产生令人失望的临床结果后关闭了公司。其他几家颇具前景的加拿大生命科学公司正处于商业化的不同阶段。位于英属哥伦比亚大学校园内的 Acuitas Therapeutics 开发了关键的脂质纳米颗粒技术，帮助有效递送辉瑞-BioNTech 的 COVID-19 疫苗。这家私立公司目前的重点是开发针对白细胞的靶向疗法，以对抗癌症和自身免疫性疾病。温哥华的 Aspect Biosystems 能够 3-D 打印可替代器官功能的活体组织植入物，该公司在 1 月份扩展了与丹麦巨头诺和诺德（Novo Nordisk）的一项数十亿美元的合作伙伴关系，以开发糖尿病治疗药物。同样位于温哥华的 NervGen 正在开发一种可注射肽，希望能够帮助修复脊髓损伤患者的神经损伤。而 Specific Biologics（西安大略大学的衍生公司）拥有业内最先进的基因编辑平台之一。该公司正在寻求一种用于治疗肌萎缩性侧索硬化症（渐冻症 / 卢格病）的疾病修饰疗法。这是一个令人印象深刻的名单——但还不足以让占 GDP, 约 2 per cent 的生命科学行业成为加拿大经济的重大贡献者。至少目前还不是。
即将公布的结果可能会助力其他加拿大生物技术公司
八岁的查理患有一种名为杜申肌肉营养不良症（Duchenne muscular dystrophy）的可怕疾病。弗兰克·格里森（Frank Gleeson）在 4 月份的 Bloom Burton 医疗保健会议演示期间，展示了这名男孩的照片时如此说道。到 12 岁时，查理将失去行走能力。到 20 岁时，他将无法独立呼吸。“他的生命将不会很长，”格里森先生用庄重的语气说道。但这位总部位于多伦多的 Satellos Bioscience 的首席执行官告诉与会者，他的公司距离“产生有意义的临床数据，以及能够申请批准用于治疗这种毁灭性疾病的药物，仅剩几个月的时间”。Satellos 是几家计划在今年交付关键临床结果的加拿大药物开发商之一，如果成功，可能会带来改变生活的疗法——并使其股价飙升。Satellos 开发了一种每日服用一次的药丸，该药基于联合创始人 Michael Rudnicki 博士的一项再生研究。
医学高级科学家，且与渥太华医院研究学院有合作，该药物可能会停止并逆转这种导致肌肉流失的致命疾病的影响。Satellos 认为其药物能够再生因遗传缺陷而流失的肌肉组织，动物研究已经证实了这一点。该药物在人体中已被证明是安全的，一项涉及 51 名儿童的研究的疗效数据预计将于 2026 年晚些时候公布。“到目前为止，我们所看到的结果表明，这种药物可能会对患此病的人们的生活产生深远影响，因为它能让他们更充分地生活，”格利森先生表示。欧本海默公司 (Oppenheimer & Co.) 分析师 Kostas Biliouris 在今年早些时候的一份报告中表示，积极的数据可能会推动 Satellos 的股价上涨 300% 至 500%。Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals Inc. 同样准备迎来一项具有转型意义的读取结果。这家温哥华公司开发了一种沙粒大小的球形药物递送技术。
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其聚合物外壳包裹着药物，在设备分解为酒精和水之前，药物会在数月内缓慢、稳定地释放。这项技术的承诺是，能在持续期间向局部区域提供安全、有效水平的药物。Eupraxia 最初为其骨关节炎开发了治疗方案，但随后意识到这项技术适用于另一个患者群体更大且需求更紧迫的医疗目的：治疗嗜酸性食管炎 (EOE)，这是一种导致吞咽疼痛的食管疾病。目前的标准治疗方案是每天服用两次药物，但患者在服药后数小时内无法进食或饮水，且经常引起口腔真菌感染。大多数患者无法遵守治疗方案。相反，Eupraxia 的扩散器可以在内窥镜检查期间植入，并逐渐释放相同的类固醇，且没有副作用。在 2023 年初，Eupraxia 将其临床重点转向了 EOE，随后从多伦多证券交易所交叉上市至纳斯达克。该公司在过去一年中筹集了近 $200-百万。早期数据令人鼓舞，公司计划在 2026 年底前提供关键的疗效数据。
或许最受关注的是 AbCellera，它在六年前成为了全球生物技术之星。该公司利用其多功能药物研发平台，通过从一名康复患者身上分离出抗体，为因 COVID-19 病毒而住院的人开发了一种治疗方法。合作伙伴礼来公司 (Eli Lilly & Co.) 获得了将该药推向市场的紧急授权，AbCellera 获得了近 US$1-十亿的特许权使用费。但收入迅速下降，股价也随之下跌。AbCellera 专注于为他人研发而大量生产抗体的模式并未令投资者兴奋。因此在 2023 年，AbCellera 在很大程度上将重心转向了自行开发药物，专注于可以通过差异化治疗来解决未满足需求的既有领域，同时在研发上的投入相对较少。
对于其首款药物，AbCellera 专注于开发一种针对绝经期女性潮热的非激素疗法。来自安斯泰来 (Astellas) 和拜耳 (Bayer) 的两种药物近期已上市；预计两者每款的峰值销售额都将达到 US$1-十亿或更多。但这些药物需要每日服用，且具有潜在副作用，包括肝毒性。AbCellera 的产品是一种可注射抗体，不在肝脏中代谢，也没有同样的毒性问题。而且它是每月给药一次。公司行动迅速。它在 5 月报告了人体安全性试验中未出现不良事件，并预计在 9 月 30 日前提供一项包含 80 名患者、完全在加拿大进行的临床研究的首批疗效结果；首席执行官 Hansen 先生表示，一次成功的读出“将支持快速进入后期开发阶段”。
AbCellera 不希望被视为一家准备被收购的单分子公司，就像许多其他生物技术公司那样。Hansen 先生在 AbCellera 的 2025 年年报中写道，其愿景“是建立一家能够为全球患者重复发现、开发并商业化突破性药物的全球生物技术公司”。为此，它计划在 2027 年前至少有另外三个分子进入临床开发阶段。“我们一直说，我们正努力建立一家真正有影响力的全球生物技术公司，”Hansen 先生说。Cantor Fitzgerald 分析师 Steve Seedhouse 在 5 月的一份报告中表示，AbCellera “可能会成为加拿大的 Genentech”，指的是 50 年前开启生物技术革命的美国传奇公司。它只需要这款绝经药获得成功，“股价就能走强”。
投资回报强劲， 但加拿大投资者 在哪里？
加拿大仅有少数几家专注于生命科学的风险投资公司。但它们的投资回报率已经超过了其他专注于创新领域的同行。
根据加拿大风险资本与私募股权协会的数据，在过去五年中，加拿大风险资本支持的企业在顶尖 10 次退出事件中，有 5 次发生在生命科学领域。该领域占风险资本支持退出事件总数的 15%，而退出价值的 53% 则由该领域贡献。
加拿大的十亿美元级生物技术退出事件 收购在加拿大成立或总部位于加拿大的公司，成交价为 $1-billion+ (US$700-million)
公司 / 买家 / 交易价值（十亿美元） / 疾病领域 / 年份 :--- Chinook Therapeutics / 诺华 (Novartis) / $3.20 / 罕见肾脏疾病 / 2023 Fusion Pharmaceuticals / 阿斯特捷利康 (AstraZeneca) / $2.40 / 癌症 / 2024 Trillium Therapeutics / 辉瑞 (Pfizer) / $2.26 / 癌症 / 2021 Bellus Health / GSK / $2.00 / 慢性咳嗽 / 2023 Sierra Oncology / GSK / $1.90 / 骨髓癌 / 2022 Baylis Medical (心脏科部门) / 波士顿科学 (Boston Scientific) / $1.75 / 心脏手术 / 2021 Point Biopharma Global / 礼来 (Eli Lilly) / $1.40 / 癌症 / 2023 Clementia Pharmaceuticals / Ipsen / $1.30 / 罕见骨骼疾病 / 2019 Inversago Pharma / 诺和诺德 (Novo Nordisk) / $1.10 / 肥胖症 / 2023 BlueRock Therapeutics / 拜耳 (Bayer) / $1.00 / 多种 / 2019 35Pharma / GSK / $0.95 / 心肺疾病 / 2026 BioVectra / 安捷伦科技有限公司 (Agilent Technologies) / $0.93 / 2024
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2025 年加拿大风险投资基金按领域划分的平均内部回报率 10 年平均值
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（退出并不保证相关药物的成功；自 2019 年以来，四家以 10 位数价格出售的加拿大公司的治疗方案在随后的临床试验中失败了。）根据加拿大商业发展银行 (BDC) 的年度风投调查，生物技术风投在截至 2026, 的 10 年间产生了 19.9% 的平均内部回报率，比投资于信息与通信技术领域的同行高出 5 个百分点，几乎是清洁技术领域回报率的两倍。
但分享这份好运的投资者绝大多数是外国投资者。仅有少数加拿大机构资助加拿大生物技术风险资本。大多数位于魁北克省：由工会赞助的 Fonds de solidarité FTQ；魁北克存款与投资局 (Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec)；BDC；Fondaction；以及基金管理公司 Teralys Capital。投资生物技术需要专业知识（许多基金经理拥有博士或医学博士学位）、耐心以及对大型制药公司 (BigPharma) 兴趣所在的高效把握；此地的机构很少进行此类投资。
与此同时，数十家美国和欧洲投资者收获了加拿大该领域的大部分收益，其中包括全球顶尖的生命科学投资者 OrbiMed 和 RA Capital。
Kardium 在加拿大难以筹集资金以开发其独特的心脏病技术。其导管通过患者的股静脉穿入心脏，并展开成一个直径仅三厘米的像迪斯科球一样的球体。它能精准定位异常电信号的源头并清除问题细胞。该设备产生的临床结果优于竞争对手。但 Kardium 在寻找愿意投资近 $500-million 的领先外国金融机构时毫不费力，包括富达投资 (Fidelity)、T. Rowe Price Associates 和卡塔尔主权财富基金。
“如果我们想让加拿大公司继续成长，我们需要找到一种融资渠道，这样它们才不会最终搬到美国或被出售，”Kardium 首席执行官 Kevin Chaplin 表示。缺乏支持加拿大医疗开发者的本土资本是一个长期存在的问题。“每个知道……
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“这个领域知道自己一直以来多么高效，却资金不足，”多伦多 Lumira Ventures 执行主席 Peter van der Velden 表示，尽管回报丰厚。不过，近期出现了一些积极迹象。新的资本提供者已承诺为本土医疗初创企业提供资金，包括麦克马斯特大学（McMaster University）和多伦多大学，以及特里·福克斯基金会（Terry Fox Foundation）、加拿大癌症协会以及多伦多亿万富翁韦斯顿（Weston）家族。自疫情以来，联邦政府和部分省份已启动生命科学和生物制造战略。“在目睹加拿大创新在其他地方创造价值多年后，我们正见证资本、政策和雄心的统一，这终于使加拿大能够成为全球生命科学的领导者，”加拿大皇家银行医疗保健投资银行董事总经理 Anne Woods 说道。
但加拿大的养老基金在本土生物技术风险投资领域基本上处于缺席状态。保罗·麦克拉克伦（Paul McCracken）表示，该国最大的生命科学投资者之一是加拿大养老金计划投资委员会（CPP Investments），它被那些与其他行业不相关且“非常有吸引力”的回报所吸引。然而，加拿大最大的机构投资者绝大多数投资在除加拿大生命科学之外的所有领域；目前在此仅有一项投资：人工智能药物开发商 Deep Genomics。麦克拉克伦先生表示，CPP 的战略是支持并与该领域一些顶级的全球金融机构共同投资，包括贝恩资本（Bain Capital）、ARCH Venture Partners 和 General Atlantic。而且它开出的支票金额巨大：CPP 的成长股权团队计划向融资 US$750-million 或以上的生命科学基金投资 US$75-million，并向单个公司投资 US$50-million。
加拿大的生物技术风投基金（包括 Lumira、Genesys Capital、CTI Life Sciences Fund、Relentless Venture Fund、BDC 分拆出的 Amplitude Ventures，以及今年启动的一项新的 BDC 内部基金）规模最高也不到 US$250-million。对于 CPP US$793-billion 的基金规模来说，这实在太小，无法产生实质性影响。“鉴于我们的资本规模，在加拿大还没有出现能让我们成为合作伙伴的匹配项，”麦克拉克伦先生说道。他补充说，CPP 正“积极参与加拿大生命科学生态系统”，并会考虑投资规模合适且“能够满足我们关于业绩、规模和合作伙伴关系标准”的机会。
van der Velden 先生认为，CPP 正错失在本土分享丰厚回报并支持当地经济的机会。“CPP 在美国进行这些交易而不考虑加拿大，这简直令人失望。如果我们的养老金计划能在该领域赚钱——证据就是美国的养老金计划可以——那么为什么他们不这么做？为什么他们不想为加拿大人创造就业机会？为什么他们不想打造下一个具有全球竞争力的公司？我不明白为什么不想让这一切实现。”
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学校如何创造灵活的 多功能空间
BARBARA BALFOUR
在任何一个普通的下午，学生们在落地窗旁的躺椅上休息，教职员工在共享社交空间里喝咖啡小聚，而同学们则将家具重新排列成临时学习组，随后消失在安静的角落准备考试。
就在几年前，这一切还不存在。
阿尔伯塔大学这座拥有百年历史的牙科与药学大楼大部分时间处于闲置状态。
如今，它已被改造为 University Commons，这是一个 405,000 平方英尺的校园中心，其内部涵盖了从注册办公室和执行领导层办公室到教室、协作工作区以及由学生设计的健康室等所有设施。
该项目不仅是一次建筑上的翻新，更反映了加拿大各大学校园正在发生的一场更广泛的转变，即各机构正在重新思考如何利用现有房地产。专家表示，这些变化是财务压力、学生预期改变以及疫情持续影响的结果。
大学不再将建筑物仅用于单一的学院或部门，而是将学生服务、教室、协作工作区、健康室、活动空间和非正式聚集区整合在同一屋檐下。目标是什么？是为了创造这样的校园，让学生投入更多时间在学习、社交和构建社区上，而不仅仅是听课。
“这反映了围绕构建面向未来的城市和社区而展开的更广泛的发展趋势，”Colliers 加拿大研究总监 Susan Thompson 表示。“现在的许多规划都集中在如何创建能够满足更广泛需求的更完整社区，而不是让所有事情都被分割在孤立的部门中。”
多功能校园建筑
大学越来越多地将校园空间视为一个生态系统，学生在这里学习、社交、建立人脉、获取服务并建立专业关系。Thompson 女士举了卡尔加里大学的例子，该校通过一项为期二十年的总体规划，将利用不足的校园土地转变为一个现代城市社区，包含住房、零售、办公室、餐厅和公园。这个受欢迎的混合用途社区已成为吸引学生、年轻专业人士和公众的主要亮点。该校还将触角延伸至市中心空置的办公楼，在帮助振兴城市核心区域的同时，让学生能够更接近未来的雇主。与此同时，在英属哥伦比亚大学，规划者正在探索大学自有土地如何容纳创业孵化器和创新中心，从而将研究人员与企业家和投资者联系起来，使学术研究更容易转化为成功的商业项目。
虽然这些举措侧重于经济发展，但它们源于校园规划中相同的广泛转变：最大限度地利用现有资产，以更好地服务于学生、研究人员和周边社区。阿尔伯塔大学的最新项目通过“适应性再利用”体现了同样的理念。大学选择保留原牙科与药学大楼的大部分历史结构，并增加扩建部分，使其总高度达到七层。大学希望这座焕发活力的建筑能成为其北校区的象征性正门。
“这次改造反映了我们在准备增长的同时，管理空间的长期方法，”该大学运营副总裁 Todd Gilchrist 表示。“University Commons 并没有创造一个单一用途的设施，而是为一系列学术和行政活动提供了灵活的空间，有助于减轻校园内其他建筑的压力。”
埃德蒙顿的新大学公共中心 (University Commons) 正在将阿尔伯塔大学拥有百年历史的牙科与药学学院大楼，改造为一个 405-000 平方英尺的学习、行政和校园生活中心。阿尔伯塔大学
大学公共中心大楼的特点是 裸露的砖墙、修复后的 木制天花板以及 精心保留的历史细节， 这些元素与现代 玻璃建筑、 梅蒂斯艺术家 Christi Belcourt 的艺术作品 以及受自然启发 的设计元素相得益彰。 ADRIEN WILLIAMS
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“……同时更好地利用现有基础设施。” 这一方案还支持该大学的长期战略规划，预计学生人数将从目前的 48,000 人增长到 2033 年的 60,000 人。 该大学并未持续扩大占地面积，而是投入巨资翻新现有建筑，使其能够随着学术需求的改变而演进。
打破校园传统
Zeidler Architecture 合伙人兼 University Commons 首席设计师 James Brown 表示，该建筑刻意避免与单一学院挂钩——这与传统的大学模式不同，传统模式通常将建筑与具体部门紧密联系在一起。 “大学确实希望这座建筑能开辟一个新方向，”Brown 先生说。“它的定义基于大学更加开放和包容的目标。” 这种理念影响了从平面图到家具的所有细节。 会议空间——包括一个
屋顶露台——可由整个大学社区预约，而非仅预留给各学部。办公室和教室采用相同的模块化尺寸设计，使各部门能够根据需要扩充或缩减，而无需进行昂贵的翻修。此外，大型公共区域配备了可移动座椅，帮助学生根据自身需求塑造空间。该项目反映了疫情以来学生期望发生的剧烈变化。
“我们在设计这座建筑时，没有人知道后疫情时代的校园会是什么样子，”布朗先生说。“人们已经习惯了居家办公，于是问题变成了：‘你如何给他们一个回来的理由？’”
他说，答案并非简单地增加教室。
“我们一直听到的一种反馈是，学生总觉得自己在校园里像个客人们，”布朗先生说。“教职员工告诉我们：‘我想感觉像是走进自己的客厅。’因此，我们专注于创造让人们感觉不那么像机构、而更像家的空间。”
这些反馈促成了设有柔软座椅和小厨房的非正式员工休息室、一个旨在进行反思和关注情感健康的宁静室、一间安静的自习室、屋顶聚集空间以及充满自然光且氛围亲切的社交中心。行政办公室在设计上也特意旨在鼓励非正式对话，而非强化等级制度。
在整座建筑中，裸露的砖墙、修复后的木质天花板和精心保留的历史细节，与当代玻璃建筑、梅蒂斯艺术家克里斯蒂·贝尔库尔 (Christi Belcourt) 的艺术作品以及受自然启发的设计元素并存，柔化了开阔的内部空间。
活力校园空间如何影响学生留存率
除了美学因素，汤普森女士认为，这类空间对于大学吸引和留住学生正变得日益重要。
她说，如今的学生需要安静的学习场所，但他们也期待协作环境、技术支持的工作空间、建立网络的机会，以及能够支持其学术和个人生活的场所。
“如果你最近去过图书馆，会发现它与我们许多人成长时接触的图书馆截然不同，”她说。“学生需要教育空间、社交空间以及与潜在雇主建立联系的机会。”
这些优先事项正在改变大学对校园每一平方英尺空间的思考方式。布朗先生认为，最大的转变在于认识到，最有意义的对话往往发生在非正式的聚集空间，而非专门设计的学术区域。
五年后，吉尔克里斯特先生希望参观者在走过大学公共区 (University Commons) 时，看到的不仅仅是另一栋学术楼。相反，他们会发现跨学科交流的研究人员、参加活动的社区成员，以及回到大学经历起点地点的校友。
“我希望他们能立刻感受到大学公共区的设计初衷，”他说。“一个大学社区的十字路口，充满活力、思想与连接。”
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• 该组合总面积 655,466 平方英尺，占地 66.68 英亩，出租率 94.3%，加权平均租赁期限 (WALT) 为 4.8 年。
• 拥有强大的 57 家租户名单，其中国家级信誉租户占组合总出租总租赁面积 (GLA) 的 83.2%。
• 所有六处物业均被视为“日常需求零售店”，是周边社区居民频繁前往的目的地。
• 每处物业均由信誉良好的 Sobeys 杂货店作为锚点，其中部分资产可通过现有空置情况提供短期租赁上涨空间。
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《环球与邮报》特约专栏作家、 监管合规顾问及加拿大银行史学家
如果说某些加拿大银行家在“辛勤劳作”（toil），正如上周一《环球与邮报》中所暗示的那样，这肯定会让那些了解这个词具体含义——即在长时间内从事艰苦任务——的人感到惊讶。在漫长的历史中，这个国家的银行家们总能找到利用新技术来减轻日常琐碎劳作的方法。
他们取得了巨大的成功。如今，他们正在投资人工智能，以消除过去计算创新所遗留下最后的文职和单调岗位。不仅如此，他们还希望将人工智能推向价值链顶端，供最高技能的人员使用，而由此产生的新效率引发了人们对裁员的担忧。分析师、审计师、投资组合经理和合规官都在心惊胆战。
通过节省人员成本来推销方案，长期以来一直是一种有效的销售手段
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而且影响不止于此：那些被烧黑的枯树在腐烂或成为下次火灾的燃料时，仍会在数年间持续泄漏碳，使我们面临更多风险。这是一个致命的反馈循环。此外，本月发表在《地球物理研究快报》（Geophysical Research Letters）杂志上的一项研究发现，大约四分之三的山火碳排放不仅来自燃烧的树木，还来自森林土壤中储存的碳。森林管理对于我们控制火势蔓延至关重要，但山火的“碳炸弹”是一个更深层的问题，需要更广泛的解决方案集，而碳移除技术应该是领先的竞争方案之一。碳移除与油砂设施（如 Pathways 项目）或水泥厂的碳捕集、利用和封存 (CCUS) 不同；它是一个将大气中已有的碳重新提取出来的独立过程，而不仅仅是在产生时将其捕集，因此这需要一个能够催化其发展的政策环境。碳移除不能替代减排，也不是解决每个环节问题的正确工具，但它需要在我们的经济和气候工具集中扮演更重要的角色。一些碳移除公司将没有其他用途的被火烧死的树木（这些树木原本会分解或成为下次火灾的燃料）收集起来，埋在经过工程设计的低氧场所，使其碳在其中封存一个世纪或更长时间。这为重新造林提供了必要的资金，并将火灾后的残局转化为一个商业项目。这为刚经历火灾的社区林业工作人员创造了就业，且将埋在地下中的碳转化为可销售的碳信用额。此类项目仅在锯木厂已关闭或距离太远的社区中才具有经济可行性，并且它们可以成为失业率较高地区的经济驱动力。不列颠哥伦比亚省森林工业委员会报告称，自 2023 年以来，该省已有 21 家工厂关闭，魁北克省关闭的更多，因此这项工作是必要的。其他加拿大产业也有类似的方案。在魁北克省，有一个项目正在研究数十年前的矿山尾矿如何成为世界上最大的碳矿化（一种将二氧化碳转化为固体岩石的过程）机会之一。同样，总部位于新斯科舍省的 CarbonRun 公司正在通过添加石灰石粉来帮助河流去酸并恢复生态，同时降低并储存二氧化碳。这些技术并非万灵药，无法独立解决山火问题。但它们都遵循同一个逻辑，即我们可以
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将创新推向谨慎的银行家。而一次又一次，结果是通过提高生产力来降低劳动力成本，而不是削减人员。没有理由认为人工智能 (AI) 的采用会有实质性的不同。 在加拿大生产力危机的背景下，银行成为采用 AI 最快的群体之一，这一点值得称赞。《环球邮报》发现，“超过 30 per cent 的金融和保险公司正在使用 AI，而住宿和餐饮服务业仅有 1.5 per cent 的企业在使用。” 加拿大银行家通常是最早采用打字机、用复写纸复制文档以及使用文件夹的人。这些 19 世纪的技术是现代商业管理的手段。它们取代了一种不可靠的、基于口头传达且结果极其不稳定的方法，取而代之的是，正如乔安·耶茨 (JoAnne Yates) 在她的书《通过沟通进行控制》(Control through Communication) 中所描述的，“在管理中有效地使用系统化沟通”。 高效地“生产、复制和存储文档”的能力是该技术的关键衍生品。 这项技术与其说是为了省钱，不如说是为了更好地赚钱。例如，新斯科舍银行（即今天的加拿大丰业银行 Scotiabank）是 1900 年代初期最早在分支机构实施客户档案制度的银行之一。 这通过允许...支持了该银行的全国扩张计划。
在加拿大生产力危机的背景下，银行成为最快采用人工智能的行业之一，这一点值得称赞。《环球邮报》发现，“超过 30% 的金融和保险公司正在使用人工智能，而住宿和餐饮服务业中的企业仅有 1.5%”。
（图片说明）：7月，在安大略省桑德贝，Dryden 35 山火后，烟雾从阴燃的森林地表升起。这是一系列山火的一部分，迫使许多人逃离家园。总理 马克·卡尼 表示，他希望加拿大在气候方面具有竞争力；为了实现这一议程，他的政府必须从宣布计划转向采取行动。COLE BURSTON / THE GLOBE AND MAIL
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将传统的工业成本转化为经济驱动力和气候解决方案。马克·卡尼 政府的气候竞争力议程和碳去除采购计划是这一努力中良好的第一步。但该议程和计划的初步启动在现阶段仅是框架和开端，缺乏足够的细节。加拿大能够——且必须——通过进一步的气候创新和政策来建立经济优势并加速增长。为了催化该产业及这些创新解决方案，还需要做更多工作。
在这个贸易多样化的新时代，碳去除也可以开拓一个尚未利用的出口市场。欧盟处于领先地位，且其碳边境调节机制在今年全面生效，我们认为加拿大的低碳生产商可以从中获益。日本和韩国正在寻求可靠的碳去除解决方案，以履行他们在国内无法完全实现的承诺。随着加拿大努力在未来十年内将其非美国出口额翻一番，碳去除信用额度是一种高价值的出口产品，无需管道或港口即可触达这些买家。
总理 马克·卡尼 表示，他希望加拿大在气候方面具有竞争力；为了实现这一议程，他的政府必须从宣布计划转向采取行动。我们认为，实现这一目标的关键路径是设计相关计划和资助
将银行分行经理调至新地点，同时尽可能减少对客户服务的干扰。新任分行经理可以立即接手之前的经理中断的客户服务。
我们银行在早期采用的最重要技术之一是机械会计——即很快被地称为“加法机”的设备。它在 19 世纪末，特别是 20 世纪初开始进入商业应用，当时人们更迅速地接纳新技术。像 Burroughs 这样的加法机确实减轻了银行职员每晚手动平衡账簿和心算带来的劳苦。加法机实质性地改变了加拿大的银行业，并通过机器生成的审计线索支持了现代会计方法的兴起。
一个多世纪前接纳机械技术所积累的经验培养了一种早接新技术的文化，使得后来更容易跳转到更为复杂的首批银行计算技术的实施中。
蒙特利尔银行前总裁兼首席执行官 Tony Comper 在 1967 到 2007 期间，在向 BMO 引入新技术方面发挥了关键作用。他在其著作《个人账户》(Personal Account) 中解释了这些挑战，讲述了在 1970 年代创建实时在线计算机网络和数据库的故事，该网络旨在……
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那些能够抓住眼前的机遇，将碳移除技术整合到国家关键产业中的模式。
我们所举的例子前景广阔，且能帮助这个国家在“气候竞争力”方面占据优势，但要规模化这些创新，需要为示范项目提供更多资金。这还应与更强的早期采用者激励措施和资金机制相结合，包括能够激励投资并帮助降低决策风险的公私合营匹配计划。
这些项目将有助于加速证明给我们的高排放企业看：一种新的工作方式是值得冒险的，而且我们已经建立了加拿大本土的技术和能够解决问题并推动经济增长的公司。
每一个接踵而至的火灾季都具有毁灭性且造成巨大损失，但这同时也提供了一个机会，让我们重新思考在这个新气候环境下如何前行，并为适应和修复提供资金。作为一个物种，我们通过创新、协作以及适应不断变化的环境压力而成功，现在我们有机会在这个新兴市场中占据领导地位。
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康珀先生回忆道，当时的软件漏洞很多，他一直处于担心系统完全崩溃的焦虑之中，这促使他总是寻求备份方案。
然而，实时银行服务带来了极大的服务提升。同一时期自动银行机（ABM）的采用也是如此。在 ABM 变得具有成本效益之前，经历了 15 年的时间。而且，为了让客户习惯这种技术，也投入了巨大的努力。
当互联网兴起时，ABM 为在线银行打开了大门。每家加拿大银行都建立了网站，并研究如何让客户在线访问从储蓄账户到股票和期权交易的所有业务。
通过这些创新，银行就业随技术促成的变革而演进。人工智能（AI）也是如此。加拿大银行在 5 月报告称，没有证据表明 AI 导致了该国范围内的广泛失业。
加拿大帝国商业银行（CIBC）首席技术与信息官理查德·贾丁（Richard Jardim）告诉《环球邮报》，随着 AI 的使用，“我们看到不同的角色在发生变化，我们要么调动人员，要么让他们调整工作类型。”
在另一个时代，贾丁先生也可以很轻易地对银行采用打字机、加法计算机和 ABM 说出同样的话。
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加拿大的航空航天领先地位建立在核心要素之上，包括熟练的劳动力、世界级的研究机构、强大的供应商基础以及卓越的航空航天历史。然而，如何才能最好地利用这些优势，以应对加速的技术进步和不断演变的运行需求？对于加拿大空中客车直升机公司 (Airbus Helicopters in Canada) 总裁 Dwayne Charette 而言，“成功将取决于对国内工业能力、创新和战略伙伴关系的持续、长期投资。”他建议，“今天在人员、基础设施和技术方面做出正确的投资，将使加拿大不仅能够适应未来的安全和运行挑战，而且能够积极地帮助定义全球航空航天的未来。”
Mr. Charette 解释说，确保该行业的未来竞争力不仅仅是采用最新技术，“而在于能够随着技术和运行需求的演进而不断适应。” “这要求我们跳出单一平台的限制，专注于新能力如何通过整合来提高安全性、准备就绪状态和任务效能。”
虽然自主化、人工智能和数字连接方面的进步正在改变飞机的设计和运行方式，但这些技术的真正价值在于它们能增强整体运行能力。例如，在一个集成生态系统中，有人驾驶飞机、无人机系统 (UAS) 和自主技术能够无缝协作，以扩大覆盖范围，提高情境感知能力并确保机组人员更加安全。
他说：“自主化和‘有人-无人协同’技术的进步可以在最近于加拿大市场亮相的空中客车 U030 Flexrotor 中得到实践验证。” “Flexrotor 展示了长航时自主平台如何处理持久的情报、监视和侦察 (ISR) 任务，在不让机组人员处于高风险环境的情况下，为操作员提供更好的实时信息。”
Mr. Charette 表示，配合空中客车的 HTeaming 等技术，飞行员可以在飞行过程中直接从驾驶舱控制 UAS 资产，在专注于主要任务的同时利用它们进行前向观察。他认为，这种集成能力对于满足加拿大的国防和安全需求至关重要。
他指出：“我们的地理环境带来了独特且苛刻的运行现实，从监测世界上最长的海岸线和广阔的北极领土，到应对严重的野火季节，支持偏远社区以及保护关键基础设施。” “我们的重点是将这些成熟的能力提供给加拿大操作员，同时与国内合作伙伴共同努力，建立支持这些能力的本地工程和维护专业知识，以实现长期支持。”
Mr. Charette 建议，为了建立、支持和演进关键的航空航天能力，技术投资必须与对人员、数字基础设施、具有韧性的供应链以及强大的工业伙伴关系的坚定承诺相结合。
“在空中客车，我们亲身体会到了投资加拿大能力的价值。自 1984 年设立首个设施以来……”
由于空中客车直升机产品组合具有独特的通用性，其许多直升机在民用、准公共和国防任务中具有双重用途（左）。技术进步有助于增强整体运行能力，使有人驾驶飞机、无人机系统和自主技术（右）能够无缝协作。由供应商提供。
当应急响应人员更快地到达现场，或者消防队在活跃的野火中获得更好的实时情报时，航空航天创新才真正产生了影响。
Dwayne Charette 加拿大空中客车直升机公司总裁
在安大略省的 Fort Erie，我们已经扩展到全国 10 个站点的 5,300 多名员工，这使得加拿大成为我们在欧洲以外最大的运营足迹。”
其影响十分显著：通过与强大的当地供应商和研究人员网络合作，仅在 2023 到 2025 年之间，空中客车就为加拿大的 GDP 创造了 $8.4-billion，并支持了近 20,000 个就业岗位。
除了工业足迹，空中客车直升机公司还支持全国 230 多个运营商运行 830 多架飞机，其中包括加拿大 85 per cent 的空中执法机队以及关键的公共安全运营商，如皇家骑警（RCMP）、安大略省省警和 STARS 航空救护车。
“加拿大不仅仅是空中客车的一个市场——它是一个长期的工业合作伙伴，”他说道。“我们看到了通过提供先进的无人机能力、支持诸如未来飞行员培训 [FAcT] 计划等国家计划，并与政府、工业界和学术界共同定位以支持即将到来的旋翼机队现代化机会，从而扩大我们国内影响力的重大机遇，以塑造下一代航空航天创新。”
对于沙雷特（Mr. Charette）先生来说，衡量创新的真正标准在于“它如何在地面上产生有意义的结果。当应急响应人员更快地抵达现场，或者消防团队在活跃的野火中获得更好的实时情报时，这才是航空航天创新真正发挥作用的地方。”
由于空中客车直升机产品组合具有独特的通用性，“我们的许多直升机在民用、准公共和国防任务中具有双用途应用，”他解释道。“这意味着为复杂战术行动开发的技术可以直接加强地面的公共安全，使搜救人员、第一响应者和空中执法人员能够更有效地保护加拿大社区和关键基础设施。”
该组织在可持续发展方面也采用了相同的前瞻性方法，目前制造的每架空中客车直升机都经过认证，可使用高达 50 per cent 的可持续航空燃料（SAF）混合燃料飞行。沙雷特先生表示，此外，由空中客车支持的最新研究表明，开发国内 SAF 供应在未来几年可为加拿大 GDP 贡献高达 $32-billion。
“降低排放和保持飞机的任务就绪状态并非相互竞争的目标——它们相辅相成，以支持更安全、更可持续、更具韧性的社区。”
开启此类机遇并推动势头需要整个行业强有力的战略协作。“空中客车最近与 CAE、L3Harris Technologies 以及普惠加拿大（Pratt & Whitney Canada）签署了战略合作伙伴协议，证明了当加拿大领先的航空航天公司围绕共同目标达成一致时可以实现什么，”他说道。“最终，成功将由加拿大航空航天生态系统的集体力量，以及我们对在未来数十年构建具有韧性的加拿大能力的共同承诺来定义。”
美国上月对 59 个国家 及欧盟征收 两位数关税
保罗·怀斯曼 (PAUL WISEMAN) 梅·安德森 (MAE ANDERSON)
美国 25 个州周一对特朗普政府提起诉讼，针对其最新的关税政策，称其是为取代最高法院在 2 月份判定违宪的进口税而找的借口。
美国上月对 59 个国家和欧盟征收了两位数关税，指控这些国家在打击强迫劳动生产的进口商品方面做得不够。这些新关税在唐纳德·特朗普总统在最高法院败诉后所采取的临时关税到期之时立即生效。
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哈佛商学院教授威利·席 (Willy Shih) 表示，AI 数据中心使用的内存类型比台式机或游戏机中的内存要强大得多。但三大内存芯片制造商——美光科技 (Micron Technology)、SK 海力士 (SK Hynix) 和三星电子 (Samsung Electronics)——一直在将更多产能分配给这些企业客户。这导致消费电子设备的传统 RAM 和闪存制造空间寥寥无几。美光公司在 6 月底报告了 US$41.46-billion 的季度营收创纪录水平，并于去年 12 月完全关闭了其消费级品牌。
科技制造商目前正将更高的成本转嫁给消费者。苹果公司在 6 月下旬全面上调了价格：一款预算级 Neo 笔记本电脑目前的零售价为 US$699,，高于之前的 US$599；MacBook Air 售价 US$1,299,，高于之前的 US$1,099；iPad Air 为 US$749,，高于之前的 US$599.。
苹果公司在一份声明中表示：“消费电子行业正面临前所未有的挑战”，并补充说，AI 数据中心的快速扩张造成了内存和存储需求的“异常”激增。“我们从未见过组件价格如此之快地如此大幅度上涨。”
戴尔 (Dell)、微软 (Microsoft)、摩托罗拉 (Motorola)、索尼 (Sony)、任天堂 (Nintendo) 以及智能戒指制造商 Oura 也调高了其产品的价格。
“作为一家制造计算机的公司，我们必须随时向人们解释发生了什么，”贾先生 (Mr. Jia) 说道。Quoted Tech 也不得不提高价格。“我们希望计算尽可能地负担得起。不幸的是，我们必须覆盖供应成本。我们不能承担 $400 到 $500 的内存损失，没有公司能承担。”
席教授表示，相对于过去 50 年的电子产品发展，此次价格飙升“极不寻常”。“我们一直处于这样的趋势：每年在同样的价格下，你能获得更高的性能和更大的内存，”他说道。“真正令人惊叹的是看到零售价格像这样翻了四倍。”
全球研究机构 Counterpoint Research 的分析师估计，价格上涨将导致 2026, 年智能手机出货量下降 2.1 per cent，而 IDC 技术情报分析师预测个人电脑市场将下降 11.3-per-cent。
内存成本也影响到了自行组装或升级电脑的加拿大人。对于想要运行高性能视频游戏的人来说，使用自行选择的组件从零开始组装电脑已经……
2023年上半年投资额为 $5.6-billion，2024年上半年则为 $8.6-billion。CVCA的报告指出，市场已整合为数量更少、规模更大的融资。
今年上半年，四家公司的私有化——Dentalcorp Holdings Ltd.、Information Services Corp.、ECN Capital 和 Blackline Safety Corp.——占总投入资本的 57%。这延续了多伦多证券交易所上市公司的趋势，即被私募股权投资者收购并私有化。
“少数几个超大规模的私有化案例塑造了上半年的局面，全球资本和国内资本均大规模投入加拿大公司，”贝根先生在新闻稿中表示。
加拿大最大药厂 Apotex Health Corp. 在 6 月的首次公开募股（IPO）是私募股权公司最显著的一次出售。该公司由总部位于纽约的 SK Capital Partners 支持，启动了加拿大最大规模的——
法庭，政府正再次试图通过新一轮关税，非法提高家庭和企业的税收，”纽约州总检察长莱蒂西亚·詹姆斯表示。
周一宣布参与这项诉讼的除纽约州外，还包括亚利桑那州、加利福尼亚州、科罗拉多州、康涅狄格州、特拉华州、夏威夷州、伊利诺伊州、肯塔基州、马萨诸塞州、马里兰州、缅因州、密歇根州、明尼苏达州、内华达州、新泽西州、新墨西哥州、北卡罗来纳州、俄勒冈州、宾夕法尼亚州、罗德岛州、弗吉尼亚州、佛蒙特州、华盛顿州和威斯康星州。
特朗普先生认为高关税将振兴美国制造业，他去年推翻了数十年以来支持低关税和贸易自由化的美国政策。通过援引 1977 年的《国际紧急经济权力法》（IEEPA），他对几乎所有国家的进口商品征收两位数关税，称美国的贸易逆差已构成国家紧急状态。
（图片说明：斯蒂芬·温在多伦多定制电脑制造商 Quoted Tech 的仓库中安装电脑组件。专家表示，内存成本的上涨影响了自行组装或升级电脑的加拿大人。摄影：COLE BURSTON / THE GLOBE AND MAIL）
历史上，自行组装比购买预装电竞电脑更便宜且更好。
“这是一个性价比的问题，” 33, 岁的万西·科鲁鲁（Vamsi Kolluru）说道，他是一名居住在多伦多并在科学领域工作的资深玩家。
“我以前用过预装电脑，但它们总是缺乏某些东西；规格不是最好的，而且自己组装更便宜。”
科鲁鲁先生曾组装过两台电脑，他估计过去每次组装相对于预装电竞设备的售价能省下几百美元。
但现在不再如此。科鲁鲁先生原计划今年升级他的 PC，以跟上当前世代的游戏。然而，内存（RAM）和固态硬盘（SSD）令人瞠目的成本使他重新考虑。
他在 2022 年最后一次升级时，32 GB 内存的成本是 $150；而现在的零售价约为 $370。他说，如果升级到最新类型的内存，他将面临 $500 的支出。
芯片制造商正寻求增加产能，但施先生表示，新工厂大约需要两年时间才能投入市场。
除了电脑，杰弗斯先生一直在构建自己的个人照片、视频和文件存储空间，而不是向公司支付费用，例如——
但最高法院裁定，《国际紧急经济权力法》（IEEPA）并未授权征收关税。该裁决迫使政府向已支付关税的进口商退款。为了弥补损失的收入，特朗普先生转向了临时性的 10 ％ 全球关税。但这些关税已于 7 月 24 日午夜到期。
现在，他正在利用《1974 年贸易法》第 301 条规定的更持久的关税措施，该条款允许总统对被发现从事不公平贸易行为的国家征收进口税和其他制裁。
政府援引第 301 条来征收强迫劳动关税，税率在 10 ％ 到 12.5 ％ 之间，影响了提供 99 ％ 美国进口商品的国家。
“美国正在行使其法定权力，以消除给美国商业带来负担的不合理行为、政策和实践，”白宫发言人库什·德赛（Kush Desai）表示，“外国国家未能禁止并有效执行禁止进口强迫劳动生产的商品的规定，是不合理的，且给包括美国工人在内的美国商业带来了负担，必须予以解决。自总统第一任期以来，第 301 条关税已被证明是一个在法律上持久的工具，现在依然如此。”
各州发起的诉讼是在 7 月份由小型企业向国际贸易法院提起另外两起诉讼之后提出的，这些企业同样挑战 301 关税。
这两起诉讼均主张，政府未能按照第 301 条的要求，充分建立针对每个具体经济体的案情，或详细说明这些关税将如何消除其所征收的特定行为。
纽约法学院国际法中心共同主任、法学教授巴里·阿普尔顿（Barry Appleton）表示，这些挑战源于 301 关税……
Quoted Tech 首席执行官 Kevin Jia 在其多伦多公司的仓库中拿着内存条。
每月向 Google 或 Microsoft 支付云存储费用。在这个存储项目中，他同样面临着更高的内存价格，并表示他日益担心控制权正从消费者手中“溜走”。
杰弗斯（Jeffers）先生是一位终身实物收藏家，他的地下室里依然藏着童年时代的电子游戏，他表示，价格上涨可能会促使目前一个逐渐形成趋势，即消费者不再真正拥有其实体设备，而必须从科技公司租赁存储空间或电子产品本身。
……五年内进行外国 IPO。
加拿大风险投资公司在今年上半年投资了 $2.7-billion，比去年同期增长了 17 ％。
然而，交易总数下降了约 9 ％，至 250 笔。
加拿大风险资本协会（CVCA）表示，这是自 2021 年以来，风险投资在今年上半年首次比前一年同期增长。
“2021, 年有海量资金流入，这在一定程度上扭曲了风险投资，以及在某种程度上扭曲了 [私募股权投资]，”博根（Bergen）先生在一次采访中说。
“我们的数据试图表明的是，我们实际上已经回到了 2021 年那个年份之外的某种正常水平。”
今年上半年规模最大的早期交易是总部位于安大略省的 Dominion Dynamics 筹集的 $139-million 融资轮。该交易也是一家加拿大国防初创公司历史上规模最大的 A 轮早期风险资本融资。
与此同时，外国投资者……
这是政府第三次尝试根据不同法规征收类似的全球关税，而这些法规“近乎复制粘贴”的性质可能会在法庭辩护中带来挑战。 然而，他表示，虽然政府此前实施关税所依据的法规是新颖的，且此前未被用于该目的，但第 301 条款此前已被使用过。 在特朗普先生的第一任期内， he cited Section 301 to impose tariffs on Chinese imports, which survived legal challenges. (Corrected: 在特朗普先生的第一任期内，他引用第 301 条款对中国进口商品征收关税，该措施在法律挑战中得以维持。) “几十年来，历任总统一直使用这一条款，且国会为其建立了真正的护栏：调查、磋商以及公开记录，”Appleton 教授说。“政府的辩护理由不会是‘我没有权力这样做’，而会是‘我遵守了国会划定的界限’。这将是一场真正的较量，而非形式之争，也将是决定本案结果的关键。”
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“我们正在失去对那些我们投入资金之物的控制，”他说。“当你看到价格上涨时，很难直观地感受到这一点，但归根结底，随着这些事物的整合，持有资产的准入门槛正在提高，这令人担忧。”
在今年前六个月的后期风险投资（VC）交易中占据了重要地位。外国投资者参与了 56% 的融资交易，高于一年前的 30%，因为加拿大一直日益尝试吸引其国境外的资本。 “考虑到目前发生的所有地缘政治和技术变革，我们看到加拿大在稳住阵脚，加拿大在尝试争取全球范围内更多的财富、繁荣和主权方面存在着巨大的机会，”Bergen 先生说。
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分析师表示，尽管加拿大制药商 Apotex Health Corp. 面临美国新关税威胁的潜在影响，但该股票仍处于良好的增长态势。
周五，这家总部位于多伦多的 Apotex 每股交易价格约为 $37 —— 比其 $28 的首次交易价格高出 30% 以上。
在华盛顿计划对进口通用药物征收关税导致股价下跌后，该股于上周末反弹。
这家制药商于 6 月 10 日首次上市，是加拿大历史上规模最大的生命科学和制药业首次公开募股，Apotex 筹集了 $1.3-billion。这也是多伦多证券交易所五年来规模最大的上市案例。
国民银行分析师 Nathan Po 在一次采访中表示，与其他在多伦多证券交易所上市的加拿大医疗保健公司相比——例如 2017 年的 Jamieson Wellness、2021 年的 DRI Healthcare 和 DentalCorp，以及 2022 年的 Bausch + Lomb Corp. ——Apotex 的股价表现一直非常“脱颖而出”。
7 月 21 日，美国政府宣布计划从 2028 年 8 月 1 日起对通用药物征收 100% 的关税，且该税率将在次年升至 200%。
在该公告发布后的次日，由于投资者采取了，Apotex 的股价大跌 8%。
其背后的担忧并非如此
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“缺失的中层”倡议 (Missing Middle Initiative) 创始董事及“缺失的中层”播客共同主持人。
加拿大最具争议的科技巨头、Shopify 联合创始人 Tobi Lütke 最近在 X 上引起了轰动，他建议退休人员应该像未成年人一样被排除在投票之外，因为他们不再与经济有利益相关。他说，投票权应该仅限于那些“对未来有利益关系”的人。与绝大多数 X 用户一样，我认为剥夺退休人员投票权的想法是极不可接受的。然而，加拿大人应该担心的是，人口和社会趋势正在通过创造一个更关心自身银行账户而非国家整体繁荣的选民群体，从而使我们的政治变得更糟。
无论年龄大小，选民都关心经济，但并非所有的经济问题都一样。在投票行为方面，经济问题可以分为两类。第一类是“钱包问题”，这直接影响选民的财务状况，从杂货价格上涨到 HST 退税支票的金额。第二类经济关注点是社会科学家所谓的“社会趋向性” (sociotropic) 问题。这些问题与选民个人财务状况的联系较不直接，而是涉及整个国家的经济健康状况，从 GDP 增长到失业率。
每个投票的人都有不同的投票理由，但社会趋向性的关注点往往占据主导地位。根据 2024 年一项对全球 100 项同行评审研究的回顾，政府在国家经济指标上的表现往往是决定现任者能否连任的最强指标之一。简单来说，当 GDP 增长率高且失业率低时，现任者更有可能当选。这种投票行为并不一定表明选民无私地将国家的经济利益置于个人利益之上，而是在历史上，大多数选民意识到更强劲的经济如何间接使他们的家庭受益。
Apotex 填补了加拿大约五分之一的仿制药需求，使其成为该国最大的仿制药企业。 SAMMY KOGAN / THE GLOBE AND MAIL
（此处文本片段：关于征费如何可能威胁该公司雄心勃勃的增长目标的库存。） 国家银行维持对该公司的“跑赢大盘”评级，目标价为每股 $43，尽管 Po 先生表示关税的不确定性可能会导致短期业绩波动。 分析师希望该公司在 8 月 12 日的财报电话会议（公布其第一财季结果）中提供更多明确信息。 在 2026 财年，Apotex 实现了 $3.74 亿的营收，其中 45 per cent 的销售额来自加拿大，46 per cent 来自美国，其余来自国际市场。 在美国关税预计生效前还有两年时间，加拿大或大型制药公司仍有时间……
Shopify 联合创始人兼首席执行官 Tobi Lütke 建议不应允许退休人员投票。 FRED LUM / THE GLOBE AND MAIL
人口老龄化改变了这些动态。牛津大学 Tim Vlandas 2026 年的一项研究发现，老年选民在投票时不再将经济增长视为优先事项。他们不太可能惩罚经济记录不佳的政府，不太可能投票给强调长期投资的政党和政府，而更倾向于奖励增加财政支持（尤其是针对老年人）的政府。
不出所料，随着人口中老年人的比例增加，一个国家的政治格局也会发生变化，经济增长的重要性随之降低。社会向心型选民（Sociotropic voters）转变为个人利益导向型选民（pocketbook ones）。
然而，不再优先考虑经济增长并非老年人的专利。当劳动年龄的选民开始认为（无论正确与否）他们被排除在经济增长的获益之外时，他们也会对促增长政策变得冷漠，甚至在某些情况下产生敌意。
我们在英国脱欧中亲眼看到了这种影响。在投票后的第二天，我浏览了大量的 BBC 新闻，试图理解英国选民的动机。一名记者询问在一个经济窘迫社区的两名劳动年龄的“离开”派选民，考虑到市场的负面反应，他们是否担心这次投票会进一步损害经济。他们只是笑了笑，说目前体制中唯一获益的是少数精英，而他们希望看到这些人损失更多钱。
越来越多的研究表明，在发达经济体中，当社区感到自己在经济上被遗弃时，他们会变得更加民粹主义，并且更倾向于针对社会和个人利益问题投票，而非经济增长问题。一个国家的政治重心随之转移，导致民粹主义政府的崛起。
这些国家相对于其他国家在经济上落后，这可能会创造一个危险的反馈循环，因为更大比例的人口会认为，能够让他们获益的经济增长是不可能的。
加拿大政府应当关注那些促使我们不再关心经济增长的更广泛趋势。他们应该担心，这些转变会导致选民群体更关心保护现有资产（如房屋）的价值，而不是构建新资产。他们应该担心我们的国家将失去年轻人才，因为年轻人不再将加拿大视为一个奋斗之地，而是一个榨取其价值且回报甚微的地方。
这些担忧是现实的，但政府可以在不剥夺任何人投票权的情况下解决这些问题。联邦政府可以修改移民计划，倾向于引入更年轻的经济类新移民，减少祖父母辈的移民。政府可以降低投票年龄，或通过父母代理投票（父母可以代表孩子投票）将所有年龄段的加拿大人纳入选举体系。
最重要的是，他们可以出台有利于中产阶级的经济政策，以确保增长的收益不会主要流向那 1% 的人群。
Lütke 先生建议老年人应该失去投票权，这是错误的；但他担心选民中认为增长毫无益处的人比例在扩大，这一点是对的。
与美国政府协商个别协议。在此期间，不确定性可能会抑制该行业的前景。
“最终，我们认为美国政府会撤回关税税率，或为这些通用药生产商提供某种规避手段，”Po 先生说。
在关税宣布后，TD Cowen 分析师 Michael Nedelcovych 在一份报告中表示：“我们目前认为这则消息尚未构成严重的担忧理由。”
Po 先生表示，除贸易政策外，该行业的其他风险还包括通用药监管环境的转变（到目前为止一直是有利的），以及通用药价格的下跌——后者在美国更为紧迫，因为那里竞争激烈且定价权较低。
治理。 在仿制药成为特朗普先生贸易保护主义议程的最新目标之前，几位分析师对 Apotex 持乐观态度，其理由至今依然成立。 Apotex 由已故的巴里·舍曼于 1974 年创立，供应了加拿大约五分之一的仿制药，使其成为该国最大的仿制药企业。该制造商的网站称，它是美国前五大仿制药制造商之一。 该公司拥有一个庞大的全球产品线，涵盖 800 种药品和消费者健康产品，包括仿制药片、外用药、生物类似药、液体药和吸入剂，且没有单一产品在其销售组合中占据主导地位。 尽管传统的仿制药目前占 51 per cent
允许用户通过抵押贷款 赚取积分
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Aeroplan 的会员现在将能够通过与加拿大支付公司 Chexy 的新计划，在支付抵押贷款时赚取积分。周二宣布的这项与加拿大航空奖励计划的合作伙伴关系，将为加拿大人在最大的一项家庭支出中赚取积分提供少数可行途径之一，Chexy 表示。Chexy 成立于 2023 年，当时该公司开始允许加拿大人通过使用信用卡支付租金来赚取奖励积分。此后，该服务已扩展到允许使用信用卡支付水电费和其他家庭支出（包括房产税）。其他公司如 Tenant-Pay 和 Casa 也提供类似的各种收费服务。由于抵押贷款无法使用信用卡支付，Chexy 用户将能够通过其银行账户进行支付。该公司对抵押贷款支付收取 1.75% 的费用，用户每消费 1 美元可赚取 1 个 Aeroplan 积分。
“这是我们的客户一直以来最希望能实现的功能之一，”Chexy 的联合创始人兼首席执行官 Liza Akhvledziani Carew 说道。“它本质上模拟了使用 Aeroplan 信用卡而无需使用信贷的情况。”Akhvledziani Carew 女士表示，她的公司目前服务于 200,000 个账户，处理的支付金额超过 20 亿美元。
moneywehave.com 的个人理财与旅行专家、Globe 的常驻撰稿人 Barry Choi 表示，消费者必须考虑此类支付服务的费用是否值得。Choi 先生此前曾表示，大多数 Aeroplan 的经济舱机票预订每分回报为 1.5 美分，而商务舱座位通常可按每分约 2 美分兑换。如果兑换航班的回报率低于每分 1.75 美分，消费者使用 Chexy 的服务可能会亏钱。
Choi 先生表示，有些交易可以让消费者以更好的兑换率预订航班，但这些航班可能是非高峰时段、最后一刻特惠或合作伙伴航空公司的稀有航线。“这是一个简单的数学问题：如果你支付的费用高于你赚取的积分价值，那就完全不值得，”Choi 先生说。
Akhvledzani Carew 女士表示，最高的回报率将体现在昂贵的长途航班上，而通过抵押贷款快速积累积分的能力将帮助消费者积累足够的积分来兑换那些他们原本可能无法兑换的航班。她补充说，有用户报告称，由于使用 Chexy 积累的积分，他们第一次地实现了商务舱飞行。
抵押贷款支付还将让用户每花费 $4 赚取 1 个用于提升常旅客等级的积分，从而可以解锁休息室进入权和座位升级等权益。Chexy 和 Aeroplan 去年 4 月宣布了合作伙伴关系，加入了包括 Uber Technologies Inc. 和 Starbucks Corp. 在内的一系列与该奖励计划达成积分协议的零售商之列。在 Chexy 的抵押贷款支付服务出现之前，通过抵押贷款赚取积分的唯一方式之一是通过 RBC 等银行提供的奖金，这些银行在签署抵押贷款合同时提供 Avion 积分。Akhvledziani Carew 女士表示，Chexy 用户无需更换抵押贷款提供商或银行即可赚取积分。
Apotex 营收的占比——低于 2023 年的 59%——该公司预计到 2031 年这一比例将进一步下降至 33%，因为其将日益专注于较新且增长更快的治疗产品。
Po 先生表示，这与该领域的一些其他公司形成对比。 “我们在公开市场看到，一些其他制药公司高度集中在仅几个产品上。当这些产品未能达到预期时，我们会看到它们的股价遭到惩罚。”
在印度一家生产设施出现问题导致竞争对手 Dr. Reddy 和 Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd. 至少在 10 月下旬之前无法供货后，Apotex 最近也成为了唯一能为加拿大人提供 generic Ozempic（或 semaglutide）的制造商。
“Apotex 是少数拥有渠道且有能力服务加拿大市场的公司之一，这在短期内绝对会对他们有利，”Po 先生说。
基于纳入指数的要求，并假设流动性保持在足够高的水平，丰业银行（Scotiabank）分析师估计，Apotex 最早可能在 8 月 5 日被纳入 Solactive Canada Broad Market Cap 指数。
此外，丰业银行分析师在最近的一份报告中表示，该公司可能在今年晚些时候获得进入 MSCI Canada Small Caps 和 FTSE Canada Small Caps 的资格。
“总体而言，来自指数基金的持续预期买盘压力应有助于在未来几个月内提升价格表现，”丰业银行分析师 Jean-Michael Gauthier 在 7 月 15 日的报告中写道。
本文由 Chris Hannay、Tim Kiladze 和 Sean Silcoff 共同报道
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法院裁定，一名遗嘱执行人因管理其母亲遗产不善而需承担损害赔偿责任，且无权获得报酬；在该执行人被任命 19 年后，遗产处理仍未完成。在判决中，安大略省高等法院发现，该执行人未能保持良好记录，将其个人资金与遗产资金混用，并且无法或不愿向法院提供有关遗产资产或交易的信息，导致无法对遗产管理进行正确的会计审计。
RBC财富管理公司遗产律师兼高净值规划服务高级经理 Demetre Vasilounis 表示，遗嘱执行人（在安大略省被称为遗产信托人）并不总是意识到他们具有为受益人最佳利益而行动的信托义务。他说：“担任信托的受托人并不意味着你可以随心所欲。”
在 6 月发布的 Flowers v Flowers 裁决中，涉及一名于 2007, 5 月去世的寡妇的遗产，她留下了四个孩子。在遗嘱中，她指定女儿为遗产的唯一执行人，并将四个孩子指定为平等的受益人。当女儿在 2007 年申请遗嘱认证时，她表示其母亲的遗产包括价值 $300,000 的房地产和 $113,000 的个人财产。执行人的兄弟姐妹当时并未对该申请提出异议。
2023, 年，执行人的其中一名哥哥向法院申请，强制其妹妹提交与遗产管理相关的财务记录，以便法院审查并批准（这一过程被称为“账目核准”）。次年，她向法院申请核准账目，但由于无法保证账目完整，她未能提供用于核实的宣誓书。相反，她仅提供了一份关于其遗产管理情况的描述。
2025 年，为了响应执行人哥哥提出的动议，安大略省高等法院的一名法官下令，要求执行人的律师将 $272,500 的遗产资金信托转移至一名法院任命的受托人处，直至遗产诉讼结束。核准账目的申请于今年 5 月提交至另一位高等法院法官面前。
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多伦多大学获奖金融学教授， Richardson Wealth 高级投资 与财富顾问
每当市场经历快速且剧烈的增长期，关于泡沫的讨论通常随之而来。投资者在历史上经历过足够多次此类事件，使其成为一个合理的担忧。由于过去几年我们从 AI 繁荣带来的市场高增长中获益，关于市场泡沫的对话在利益相关者中已变得十分普遍。
英伟达（Nvidia）的市值已达到 US$5-trillion，SpaceX 的交易价格接近营收的 100 倍。人们将此次繁荣与四分之一世纪前“互联网”繁荣及崩盘期间科技市场的增长进行了比较。
尽管这两次事件具有一些共同的投机特征，但两者的底层经济逻辑存在差异。1990 年代后期的互联网泡沫是由一组独特的因素驱动并刺激增长的。互联网的黎明产生了一项新技术，并伴随着来自行业和媒体的大量炒作。
当时的狂热导致公司估值飙升至与营收脱节的水平。由于处于低成本融资环境，这些公司的价格继续上涨，因为风险投资公司在追逐任何名称中带有“dot-com”的公司。
然而，估值与营收之间的不匹配，加上未经证明的商业模式，最终导致了财务修正。纳斯达克综合指数最终从 2000, 3 月的顶峰到 2002 10 月的底部下跌了 78 百分比。
相比之下，我们目前经历的人工智能繁荣是由 GPU 等硬件开发以及相关的计算能力突破所驱动的。AI 公司的目标市场是企业在云服务、自动化和其他生产力提升领域采用其技术。
由于这项技术的性质，资本投资正由一组集中的参与者（如芯片公司）进行。
执行人的兄弟在证词中辩称，遗产规模比执行人所暗示的要大，执行人应对其无法交代清楚的资金支付赔偿金，并且一旦遗产的税务责任确定，她应提供针对任何未缴税款的补偿。
审理该申请的法官认为，执行人对其母亲去世时遗产价值的估算不可靠，因为没有支撑证据。执行人也没有保留收到或支出遗产资金的记录。
例如，执行人通过一项主要由卖方回购抵押贷款资助的私人交易，以 $75,000 的价格出售了一块属于遗产的土地。然而，她无法提供遗产收到抵押贷款还款的证明。
执行人还承认从遗产中借款 $185,000，用于支付另一项家庭法案件的法律费用。她告诉法院她已偿还贷款，但提供的支持文件很少。
尽管部分财产已分配，但遗产仍持有海外的一块土地和四家公司的股份，其中一家是 2009. 年破产的北电网络公司（Nortel Networks Corp.）。执行人称土地和股份的价值微不足道。
法官拒绝通过账目审核。
在确定损害赔偿金时，法官依靠现有的任何记录或证据，估计遗产中的流动资产价值应为 $279,300。
由于执行人承认的“自我交易”（例如借用遗产资金），法官认定执行人欠遗产 $6,800 的赔偿金。
赔偿金额较低这一事实，“绝非是对[执行人]行为或操守的证明”，该...
法官表示：“这反映出提交给我的主张缺乏证据，而在一定程度上，这源于［执行人］自身的披露缺陷。”
然而，法官拒绝要求执行人为与遗产相关的任何未缴税款支付赔偿金，理由是缺乏相关的法律授权。
最后，法官认定执行人没有资格获得报酬，尽管她采取了一些步骤来管理遗产，部分原因是她不愿或无法披露有关遗产资产或交易的信息。
“正是由于［执行人］糟糕的记录保存和缺乏配合，才导致了此次申请的必要性，”法官说。
明智地选择执行人
遗产顾问表示，法院的这项裁决提醒客户应当谨慎选择执行人，而不要默认指定一名子女。
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP 的遗产律师 Mohena Singh 表示，根据遗产的规模和复杂程度，客户可以考虑指定公司受托人、专业顾问，甚至是信任的朋友担任执行人。
“这可以是一个务实的人，能够理解如何管理不同的资产，并与不同的人进行沟通，无论对方是顾问还是受益人，”她说道。
Vasilounis 先生表示，他观察到一种趋势，即客户倾向于任命专业执行人而非家庭成员，这既是为了减轻子女承担此项工作的压力，也是为了最大限度地减少多年后出现家庭矛盾的可能性。
“许多客户有过管理父母或其他人的遗产的经验，在某些情况下［他们会说］：‘我不想把这个负担丢给我的孩子们，’”他说道。
制造商和人工智能实验室。此外，这些参与者在此期间经历了真实的收入增长。虽然领先的公司已实现盈利，但其估值增长速度仍远高于整体市场。
尽管互联网繁荣与人工智能繁荣的性质可能有所不同，但两者具有某些相似之处。在这两个增长时期，风险投资和私募股权公司都追逐这些行业的投资。其中一个驱动因素是这两种技术在引入和早期增长阶段所收到的媒体和分析师的炒作。
在互联网 era，现有公司的估值如果在其名称中加入“.com”，字面上就会增加。而今天，每位在业绩电话会议上发言的首席执行官都会提到人工智能以及它是如何
周一，美国股市在油价下跌缓解了华尔街对通胀可能进一步恶化的担忧后，反弹至历史高点边缘。标准普尔 500 指数上涨 1.5%，仅比今夏早些时候创下的纪录低 0.1%。在此之前，股市经历了一个疯狂的 7 月，由于与伊朗的战争导致油价飙升，市场剧烈波动，最终该月收盘价几乎与月初持平。衡量美国股市较窄范围的道琼斯工业平均指数上涨 693 点，或 1.3%，达到历史最高点，而纳斯达克综合指数则跃升 2.1%。由于布伦特原油每桶价格下跌 4.7% 至 $83.77，股市获得支撑。此前，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在周末表示，在地区盟友的敦促下，他决定暂时不对伊朗采取新的打击行动。
由于对美伊战争何时能让油轮再次自由离开波斯湾向全球客户交付原油的担忧起伏不定，布伦特原油价格上月在 $72 和 $102 之间剧烈波动。特朗普先生最近的妥协有助于缓解对全球原油供应的担忧，债市中的国债收益率也相应下跌。10 年期国债收益率从周五晚间的 4.75% 降至 4.68%。尽管如此，该收益率仍远高于美伊战争之前的 3.97% 水平。周一油价的下跌助力航空公司及其他燃料成本高昂的公司领涨市场。联合航空（United Airlines）上涨 5.8%，美国航空（American Airlines）上涨 5%。挪威邮轮控股（Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings）上涨 6.6%。在美国监管机构认证其 737 Max-7 飞机并允许其投入商业服务后，波音公司跳涨 8%。泰森食品（Tyson Foods）在报告春季利润略高于分析师预期后上涨 2.8%。这家肉类公司加入了一份名单，该名单上的美国大公司春季利润均高于分析师预期，且名单正在延长。这对华尔街至关重要，因为长期来看，股价往往随公司盈利的路径而变动，而此前人们担心美国股价可能已普遍过高。根据 FactSet 的数据，标准普尔 500 指数中的公司春季每股收益预计将比一年前高出 47%，且该指数中超过一半的公司已经公布了财报。如果事实确实如此，这将是自 2021, 春季经济从新冠疫情中强力复苏以来最强劲的增长。
然而，电脑芯片公司的股票波动仍让华尔街心不安。由于担忧人工智能热潮带来的收入激增是否具有可持续性，这些股票数周以来一直上下波动。如果 AI 最终产生的利润和生产力低于预期，科技巨头可能会削减在数据中心上的巨额支出，而这些支出此前曾帮助芯片股攀升至惊人高度。总而言之，标准普尔 500 指数上涨 110.78 点至 7,600.50，仅略低于其历史收盘最高点 7,609.78。道琼斯工业平均指数上涨 693.38 点至 53,178.41，纳斯达克综合指数上涨 540.04 点至 25,913.90。标准普尔 / 多伦多证券交易所综合指数周一因法定假期休市。AI 股票的疯狂波动在韩国最为剧烈，韩国综合股价指数 (Kospi) 由两家科技巨头——三星电子 (Samsung Electronics) 和 SK 海力士 (SK Hynix) 主导。首尔的 Kospi 指数下跌 5.1%。
周一，继周五飙升 17.9%（创下历史最佳单日涨幅）之后。在邻国日本，东京日经 225 指数下跌 0.9%，此前美国和日本确认双方已共同采取行动，以支撑日元兑美元的汇率。日元走强将有助于限制日本的通货膨胀，但同时也可能损害日本的出口商。
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他们的公司已经做好了利用行业增长机会的准备。关于新技术能为世界带来什么的传闻式预期，被用作估值增长的基础，而投资者则试图在这些行业处于起步阶段时就入场。
从投资者的角度来看，两次繁荣都导致了资金向当时少数几家大公司的集中。在互联网繁荣时期，这些公司包括思科 (Cisco)、AOL 和雅虎 (Yahoo)；而在人工智能 (AI) 繁荣期间受益的知名上市公司则包括英伟达 (Nvidia)、微软 (Microsoft) 和苹果 (Apple)。
然而，这两个时期之间也存在一些显著差异。最重要的一点可以说是在 AI 繁荣中的主要参与者正在创造数十亿美元的收入和利润，而大多数互联网公司则是亏损的，且许多公司根本没有收入。
另一个关键区别是，基于互联网的公司通过创建向个人消费者提供产品和服务的网站，瞄准的是零售市场。但 AI 繁荣的一大部分则集中在企业消费者身上，这由 GPU 驱动的计算和企业软件的增长所推动。
从投资者的角度来看，另一个不同点在于目标公司的规模。互联网繁荣时期出现了数以千计的亏损初创公司，因此投资者倾向于押注其中一家（或几家），希望挑选出长期赢家。一个著名的例子是 2000 年超级碗期间，有 19 家早期互联网公司投放了昂贵的广告，希望能获得全国性的曝光。AI 繁荣则恰恰相反，因为投资者选择关注的是少数几家盈利公司。
人们常说“历史不会重复，但会押韵”，这句话适用于今天：金融市场的繁荣和泡沫可能具有相似之处，但绝不会完全相同。
那么，我们可以得出结论，我们目前经历的 AI 增长会导致与互联网公司类似的崩溃吗？可能不会，因为差异非常显著。
然而，这并不意味着 AI 行业可以避免价格回调。目前 AI 公司的估值是建立在尚未证实的乐观情绪之上的，可能无法持续。投资者正在将历史上需要数十年才能实现的生产力即时收益计入价格中。
历史表明，股票估值最终总会回归到现实水平，AI 也不例外。
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几乎从赛季开始起就很明显，这支多伦多蓝鸟队已经不再是去年那支闯入世界大赛的球队了。
大多数球员没变，但球队的状态却完全不同。
去年 10 月观看他们时感受到的任何魔力都已消失，取而代之的是霉运和从未被解释的无能。
在几天前接受《多伦多星报》采访时，先发投手凯文·高斯曼将这种感觉具体化了——“我们再也没有像去年那样紧密地团结在一起。”
在一些球队中，这种极端的坦诚会成为改变的动力。但在一个将输球当作目标的球队中，这成了开始大清洗的信号。高斯曼成为第一个被抛弃的人，这可能只是巧合，但感觉并非如此。
因此，当许多球队在周一的交易截止日要么放弃今年，要么全力以赴时，蓝鸟队在做另一件事——清除那支距离冠军仅差两出局数的阵容。
在对阵道奇队的第 2 场和第 6 场比赛中先发的高斯曼去了芝加哥。
把守中外的道尔顿·瓦肖前往休斯顿。他不需要走太远——就在走廊对面。周一晚上，他就出现在太空人队对阵蓝鸟队的名单中。
在东部时间下午 6 点截止日期前不久，多伦多处理掉了第 7 场崩盘的主要祸首杰夫·霍夫曼。
这是一次清理，但不是抛售。新加入的人员包括洛杉矶天使队的先发投手何塞·索里亚诺，这是一件高质量的资产。索里亚诺让蓝鸟队失去了一名顶尖新秀。他是高斯曼的替代者，但价格更便宜，且在未来 2 年内受球队控制。
安大略省伦敦市的凯拉·克罗斯在周一于多伦多举行的国家银行公开赛首轮比赛中，尝试接击英国选手凯蒂·波尔特的球。21 岁的克罗斯以 7-6 (3), 7-5 击败波尔特，取得了她职业生涯在 WTA 的首胜。
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那么，蓝鸟队现在处于什么位置？
“我们将重点转向继续赢球并在今年保持竞争力，使我们在 '27 赛季及以后变得更好，”蓝鸟队总经理罗斯·艾特金斯在截止日期过后表示。
人们不禁想知道，在此之前他们的重点转向了哪里？
这很明显是为了拆解在春训中出现的、那个失效的去年版本球队。
这就是人类化学实验的问题所在。
在将成分混合在一起之前，你无法知道它们是否会爆炸。
显然，在冬季，蓝鸟队的实验室里出了问题。
很难定义失去的东西叫什么——一种同步感？
即使在拥有它的时候，球队也很难定义它。人们记得最清楚的是欧尼·克莱门特尝试给出的定义——“友谊的力量”。
当它突然消失时，他们绝对无法解释，主要是因为没人尝试解释。
在高斯曼发表言论之前，整个 2026 年的官方口径一直是：事情随时都会开始步入正轨。
也许简单到只要让博·比谢特离开就好。也许是因为所有的新加入者。也许是因为在面对一支看起来像是有史以来最伟大的球队之一、如此接近胜利却最终搞砸后的情绪低落。也许是综合因素，或者是其他未讨论的因素。但确实有某种原因。
一支曾埋葬洋基队、通过消耗战击败水手队、并与道奇队对垒直到被 TKO 的球队，不可能在冬天就无缘无故地变成了南瓜。或者至少，不会无故变成南瓜。
蓝鸟队花了近六个月的时间才接受这一点，并采取逻辑上的下一步——继续改变，直到（希望地）变回原来的样子。
CHRIS YOUNG / 加拿大新闻社
乌克兰选手奥列克桑德拉·奥利尼科娃在周一于多伦多举行的国家银行公开赛首轮比赛中，向捷克选手卡罗琳娜·普利斯科娃发球。CHRIS YOUNG / 加拿大新闻社
RACHEL BRADY
在周一于国家银行公开赛（National Bank Open）首秀之前的几天里，Oleksandra Oliynykova 受邀在多伦多与一些乌裔加拿大人交流，探讨她如何在代表一个遭受攻击的国家的同时，在职业网球选手的生活中应对挑战。
这位来自基辅、现年 25 岁的 WTA 球员是网球界最敢于发声的乌克兰人之一，她利用每一次机会通过自己的平台，确保世界不会忘记俄罗斯对乌克兰的入侵。她希望人们能够超越表达同情，采取有意义的行动。
“如此之多的攻击，使用了各种类型的武器，我们这样生活了四年多，战争一天也没有停止过，”Oliynykova 在接受《环球邮报》采访时说道。当时，100 多人正挤进加拿大乌克兰国家联合会（Ukrainian National Federation of Canada）多伦多分会的房间，等待聆听她的演说。
“我住在乌克兰，我希望我的未来在乌克兰，我的生活直接受到战争的影响。”
这位世界排名第 44 位的选手在巡回赛中孤军奋战。这很孤独。没有教练，没有家人陪同旅行。她的父亲和男友都在乌克兰武装部队中，积极地保卫国家。
Oliynykova 利用社交媒体为她父亲所在的军事单位筹集资金。在被问到巡回赛中的友谊时，她觉得很多人并不理解她。
基辅依然是她的家，但她有时好几个月无法回去。由于没有飞往乌克兰的商业航班，她必须先飞往华沙或布达佩斯，然后乘坐漫长的火车或巴士完成余下的旅程，这耗费了她两天的时间，期间她无法训练，也无法赶赴下一个网球赛事。
她说，她今年因违反 WTA 的行为准则而被罚款。
她点名批评了特定的俄罗斯和白俄罗斯网球选手——谴责那些参加了由 Gazprom 赞助的圣彼得堡表演赛的球员，而 Gazprom 这家公司与俄罗斯的战争有着财务联系。她指控一些球员展示俄罗斯军事符号或支持支持战争的政治人物。她质疑为什么这些球员没有受到制裁。
“由博彩公司赞助的赛事，职业网球选手是被禁止参加的；但参加一个由战争罪行主要赞助商之一所赞助的赛事，却是可以的？”Oliynykova 本周表示，“这太荒谬了。”
在今年的澳网赛，Oliynykova 首次进入大满贯正赛期间成为新闻焦点，她在新闻发布会上穿着一件 T 恤，上面写着：“我需要你们的帮助来保护乌克兰的妇女和儿童，但我不能在这里讨论这件事。”
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从去年的 4-13 赛季中学习， 该赛季导致了组织 剧变
sTEPHEN WHYNO 西弗吉尼亚州，白硫泉
在上周参加了约翰·哈博（John Harbaugh）在纽约巨人队（New York Giants）的首次训练营练习后，贾克逊·达特（Jaxson Dart）并不想对这位资深教练的举止下太早的定论，他预计这会随着时间而演变。
这位第二年球员在过去几个月中学到的一件事是哈博的心态。
“显然，他只想赢，”达特说。“他胸中有一股不服输的劲头。”
达特也是如此，他将其归结于自己的新秀年表现不佳。巨人队在他前 12 场 NFL 首发赛中输掉了 8 场，最终战绩 4-13。在经历了一个赛季的组织剧变后，他决心避免再次出现失败的表现。
这个过程从训练营开始，这一次达特成为了橄榄球最重要位置上无可争议的先发球员，这与一年前在罗素·威尔逊（Russell Wilson）甚至有时在詹米斯·温斯顿（Jameis Winston）之后担任第二和第三梯队接球的状态大不相同。23 岁，他依然年轻且缺乏经验——并且他正正视这些事实。
“还有很多是我需要学习的，”达特说。“我试图让周围的一切保持简单：从我关注的事情，到我的日常[练习]和学习习惯。”
这只是我在尝试继续
MLB
美国联盟 国家联盟
东区 胜 负 胜率 落后 坦帕湾 65 46 .586 — 纽约 63 49 .563 2 1 / 2 波士顿 60 51 .541 5 巴尔的摩 54 58 .482 11 1 / 2 多伦多 52 60 .464 13 1 / 2 中区 芝加哥 59 52 .532 — 克利夫兰 57 56 .504 3 明尼苏达 56 57 .496 4 底特律 54 58 .482 5 1 / 2 堪萨斯城 46 67 .407 14 西区 休斯顿 55 .513 德克萨斯 55 .491 2 1 / 2 西雅图 .487 3 奥克兰 45 67 .402 12 1 / 2 洛杉矶 43 69 .384 14 1 / 2
东区
周一 多伦多 对 休斯顿
周日 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, 奥克兰 0
周二 所有时间均为东部时间 洛杉矶天使 (Detmers 3-7) 对 巴尔的摩 (待定), 下午 6:35 芝加哥白袜 (Martin 9-5) 对 波士顿 (Sandoval 0-0), 下午 7:10 明尼苏达 (Ryan 6-7) 对 堪萨斯城 (Dobnak 1-0), 下午 7:40 多伦多 (Yesavage 5-5) 对 休斯顿 (Wes- neski 1-0), 下午 8:10 底特律 (Mize 4-6) 对 西雅图 (Hancock 6- 5), 下午 9:40
跨联盟
周一 圣路易斯 对 纽约洋基 旧金山 对 德克萨斯 坦帕湾 对 科罗拉多
周日 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 8, 洛杉矶道奇 4
周二 所有时间均为东部时间 奥克兰 (Ginn 8-6) 对 辛辛那提 (Singer 5-10), 下午 6:40 纽约大都会 (Manaea 2-5) 对 克利夫兰 (Cantillo 8-6), 下午 6:40 圣路易斯 (待定) 对 纽约洋基 (Weathers 4-7), 下午 7:05 旧金山 (Ray 10-6) 对 德克萨斯 (Gore 6-9), 下午 8:05 坦帕湾 (待定) 对 科罗拉多 (Hughes 0- 3), 下午 8:40
CORNERED
OFF THE MARK
SPEED BUMP
BIZARRO
纽约巨人队 四分卫贾克逊·达特 周三在西弗吉尼亚州 白硫泉的球队训练营中 进行传球 CHRIS CARLSON/ 美联社
美联社
胜 负 胜率 落后 亚特兰大 45 .598 费城 59 53 .527 8 迈阿密 .513 9 1 / 2 华盛顿 .487 12 1 / 2 纽约 47 66 .416 20 1 / 2 中区 密尔沃基 69 42 .622 芝加哥 63 49 .563 6 1 / 2 匹兹堡 .496 14 圣路易斯 .491 14 1 / 2 辛辛那提 53 .477 16 西区 洛杉矶 43 .616 亚利桑那 .527 10 圣地亚哥 .518 11 旧金山 47 65 .420 22 科罗拉多 .402 24
华盛顿 对 费城 匹兹堡 对 密尔沃基 洛杉矶道奇 对 芝加哥小熊 圣地亚哥 对 亚利桑那
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 圣地亚哥 5, 旧金山 4
周二 所有时间均为东部时间 华盛顿 (Littell 7-8) 客场对阵 费城 (Luzardo 9-5)，下午 6:40 迈阿密 (待定) 客场对阵 亚特兰大 (Sale 12-6)，下午 7:15 匹兹堡 (Jones 2-2) 客场对阵 密尔沃基 (Henderson 5-1)，下午 7:40 洛杉矶道奇 (Skubal 7-5) 客场对阵 芝加哥小熊 (Assad 6-1)，下午 8:05 圣迭戈 (待定) 客场对阵 亚利桑那 (Rodriguez 10-3)，下午 9:40
CEBL 东部联盟
东部联盟
球队 / 场数 (GP) / 胜 (W) / 负 (L) / 胜率 (Pct) / 落后场数 (GB) :--- y-斯卡伯勒 / 24 / 20 / 4 / .833 / — x-布兰普顿 / 24 / 11 / 13 / .458 / 9 x-渥太华 / 24 / 10 / 14 / .417 / 10 x-尼亚加拉 / 24 / 10 / 14 / .417 / 10 蒙特利尔 / 24 / 10 / 14 / .417 / 10
西部联盟
西部联盟
球队 / 场数 (GP) / 胜 (W) / 负 (L) / 胜率 (Pct) / 落后场数 (GB) :--- y-温哥华 / 24 / 15 / 9 / .625 / — x-温尼伯 / 24 / 14 / 10 / .583 / 1 x-萨斯卡通 / 24 / 13 / 11 / .542 / 2 x-埃德蒙顿 / 24 / 9 / 15 / .375 / 6 卡尔加里 / 24 / 8 / 16 / .333 / 7
x — 已锁定季后赛席位；y — 组冠军
周一 萨斯卡通 96 卡尔加里 80 斯卡伯勒 91 布兰普顿 77
常规赛结束
周日 温哥华 114 温尼伯 90 渥太华 96 埃德蒙顿 89
“……因为我看到了去年艰难赛季的情况，所以我想成长。这对我的职业生涯来说是崭新的，我想确保这种情况不再发生。” 对于达特 (Dart) 来说，同样崭新的是新任进攻协调员马特·纳吉 (Matt Nagy)、四分卫教练布赖恩·卡拉汉 (Brian Callahan) 以及一大批新的接球手。 随着纳吉的到来，一套与迈克·卡夫卡 (Mike Kafka) 去年担任该职以及在布赖恩·达博尔 (Brian Daboll) 被解雇后接任临时教练时运行的系统不同的体系随之而来。在达特职业生涯早期发生的如此巨大的变化提供了另一个挑战，尽管总经理乔·肖恩 (Joe Schoen) 指出，芝加哥的卡莱布·威廉姆斯 (Caleb Williams) 和新英格兰的德雷克·梅伊 (Drake Maye) 都顺利应对了这种情况。 缺乏连续性使得人们很难衡量预期——
MLS
球队 / 场数 (GP) / 胜 (W) / 负 (L) / 平 (T) / 进球 (GF) / 失球 (GA) / 积分 (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 / 9 / 5 / 3 / 28 / 21 / 30 芝加哥 / 17 / 9 / 6 / 2 / 32 / 23 / 29 纽约城 FC / 18 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 31 / 24 / 26 辛辛那提 / 18 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 45 / 44 / 26 夏洛特 / 18 / 7 / 4 / 29 / 27 / 25 纽约红牛 / 18 / 7 / 4 / 29 / 39 / 25 华盛顿 / 18 / 5 / 8 / 26 / 29 / 23 奥兰多 / 18 / 6 / 10 / 2 / 30 / 47 / 20 哥伦布 / 18 / 5 / 8 / 5 / 26 / 28 / 20 多伦多 / 18 / 3 / 7 / 8 / 24 / 32 / 17 费城 / 18 / 4 / 10 / 4 / 25 / 33 / 16 蒙特利尔 / 18 / 4 / 10 / 4 / 24 / 35 / 16 亚特兰大 / 18 / 3 / 12 / 3 / 19 / 33 / 12
球队 / 场数 (GP) / 胜 (W) / 负 (L) / 平 (T) / 进球 (GF) / 失球 (GA) / 积分 (Pt) 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 / 17 / 9 / 6 / 2 / 25 / 24 / 29 盐湖城 / 17 / 8 / 6 / 3 / 29 / 25 / 27 达拉斯 / 18 / 7 / 5 / 6 / 32 / 25 / 27 圣路易斯 / 18 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 24 / 26 西雅图 / 17 / 7 / 3 / 20 / 22 / 24 波特兰 / 18 / 7 / 8 / 3 / 33 / 24 明尼苏达 / 18 / 6 / 20 / 25 / 24 科罗拉多 / 18 / 7 / 10 / 1 / 27 / 25 / 22 洛杉矶银河 / 19 / 5 / 7 / 24 / 29 / 22 圣迭戈 / 18 / 5 / 7 / 6 / 32 / 29 / 21 奥斯汀 / 18 / 4 / 9 / 5 / 22 / 36 / 17 堪萨斯城 / 18 / 4 / 12 / 2 / 18 / 46 / 14
周六 所有时间均为东部时间 休斯顿 客场对阵 新英格兰，下午 4:30
NSL
渥太华 / 14 / 10 / 2 / 32 / 17 / 32 蒙特利尔 / 14 / 8 / 3 / 28 / 16 / 27 多伦多 / 14 / 7 / 4 / 3 / 24 / 13 / 24 哈利法克斯 / 14 / 5 / 6 / 3 / 17 / 14 / 18 温哥华 / 14 / 5 / 8 / 1 / 23 / 34 / 16 卡尔加里 / 14 / 0 / 12 / 2 / 9 / 39 / 2
注：胜得三分，平得一分。
周一 渥太华 2 哈利法克斯 2
CFL
球队 / 场数 (GP) / 胜 (W) / 负 (L) / 得分 (PF) / 失分 (PA) / 积分 (Pt) 蒙特利尔 / 8 / 7 / 1 / 273 / 217 / 14 多伦多 / 7 / 3 / 4 / 220 / 219 / 6 汉密尔顿 / 8 / 3 / 5 / 187 / 234 / 6 渥太华 / 7 / 0 / 7 / 166 / 247 / 0
西部赛区 球队 / 场数 (GP) / 胜 (W) / 负 (L) / 得分 (PF) / 失分 (PA) / 积分 (Pt) 埃德蒙顿 / 8 / 6 / 2 / 229 / 200 / 12 萨斯喀彻温 / 7 / 5 / 2 / 232 / 195 / 10 卡尔加里 / 8 / 4 / 322 / 264 / 8 温尼伯 / 8 / 4 / 204 / 243 / 8 卑诗省 / 7 / 2 / 5 / 187 / 201 / 4
第 10 周 轮空：温尼伯
周四 卡尔加里 客场对阵 多伦多，下午 7:30
周五，8 月 7 日 渥太华 客场对阵 萨斯喀彻温，晚上 9 点
……尽管无论谁来调度进攻，都对达特寄予厚望。 “只需在去年的基础上继续构建，”肖恩说。“他在整个去年都保持着高水平的发挥，所以，[我们希望]能看到他继续攀升。非常优秀的教练团队，非常好的计划，体系已经就绪，我们对他第二年的表现感到兴奋。” 作为一名新秀，达特的传球完成率为 63.7%，传球码数 2,272 码，15 次达阵，5 次被截击。他还通过跑球获得 487 码和 9 次达阵，期间也遭受了几次沉重打击——其中一次导致他脑震荡并缺席了两场比赛。 在被问及对自己的期望时，达特回答说要每天成长，这包括像许多机动型四分卫那样做出更好的风险收益决策。
WNBA
W L Pct GB 亚特兰大 18 10 .643 — 印第安那 19 11 .633 — 华盛顿 16 12 .571 2 纽约 18 13 .581 11 / 2 芝加哥 11 .379 71 / 2 多伦多 10 19 .345 81 / 2 康涅狄格 7 23 .233 12
W L Pct GB 明尼苏达 25 6 .806 拉斯维加斯 20 9 .690 4 金州 20 9 .690 4 达拉斯 .633 51 / 2 洛杉矶 17 .393 121 / 2 菲尼克斯 .367 131 / 2 波特兰 .367 131 / 2 西雅图 6 26 .188 191 / 2 周一 纽约 95, 西雅图 83 拉斯维加斯 客场 亚特兰大 菲尼克斯 客场 芝加哥
周日 明尼苏达 108, 印第安那 100 洛杉矶 106, 波特兰 101 达拉斯 83, 康涅狄格 63 金州 96, 多伦多 79
周二 所有时间均为东部时间 多伦多 客场 金州, 晚上 10 点
CPL
GP W L T GF GA Pt 汉密尔顿 14 11 1 2 23 8 35 卡尔加里 15 10 2 3 30 8 33 温哥华 15 7 24 16 23 渥太华 15 6 3 23 28 21 魁北克 14 5 7 21 26 17 哈利法克斯 16 4 5 20 24 17 多伦多 13 3 15 30 13 维多利亚 14 0 11 3 16 32 周日 汉密尔顿 0 哈利法克斯 0
周五 — 所有时间均为东部时间 温哥华 客场 汉密尔顿, 晚上 7 点
周六, 8 月 8 日 哈利法克斯 客场 渥太华, 下午 1 点 多伦多 客场 维多利亚, 下午 5 点 卡尔加里 客场 魁北克, 晚上 8 点
2026 加拿大女子 俱乐部锦标赛
四分之一决赛 （单淘汰制） 周一 渥太华快速 (NSL) 3 哈利法克斯潮汐 (NSL) 2 (加时赛)
女子非洲国家杯
小组赛 肯尼亚 0 阿尔及利亚 2 塞内加尔 0 摩洛哥 0
ATP 巡回赛
国家银行公开赛
国家银行公开赛
在蒙特利尔 奖金: $9,415,725 场地: 室外硬地 男子 单打 — 128 强赛 James Duckworth, 澳大利亚, 胜 Christopher O’Connell, 澳大利亚, 6-3, 6-1。 Vit Kopriva, 捷克, 胜 AlexiS Galar- neau, 魁北克省拉瓦尔, 6-4, 6-4。 Mariano Navone, 阿根廷, 胜 Matteo Berrettini, 意大利, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-3。 Nicolas Mejia, 哥伦比亚, 胜 Martin Landaluce, 西班牙, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3。 Titouan Droguet, 法国, 胜 Luca Van Assche, 法国, 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (7)。
MUBADALA CITI DC 公开赛
在美国华盛顿特区 奖金: $2,488,125 场地: 室外硬地 男子 单打 — 决赛 Taylor Fritz (3), 美国, 胜 Rafael Jodar, 西班牙, 7-6 (2), 6-4。
WTA 巡回赛
在多伦多 奖金: $7,433,076 女子 单打 — 128 强赛 Alina Korneeva, 俄罗斯, 胜 Polina Kudermetova, 俄罗斯, 6-0, 3-0, 对方弃赛。 Karolina Pliskova, 捷克, 胜 Oleksandra Oliynykova, 乌克兰, 6-4, 6- 4。 Anna Bondar, 匈牙利, 胜 Anhelina Kalinina, 乌克兰, 6-4, 7-5。 Talia Gibson, 澳大利亚, 胜 Elisabetta Cocciaretto, 意大利, 6-2, 3-2, 对方弃赛。 Kayla Day, 美国, 胜 Diane Parry, 法国, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5。 McCartney Kessler, 美国, 胜 Cadence Brace, 多伦多, 6-3, 6-3。 Kayla CroSS, 安大略省伦敦, 胜 Katie Boulter, 英国, 7-6 (3), 7-5。 Rebecca Sramkova, 斯洛伐克, 胜 Anna Blinkova, 俄罗斯, 6-3, 6-3。 Zhang Shuai, 中国, 胜 Yulia Putintseva, 哈萨克斯坦, 6-4, 6-1。 Elena-Gabriela Ruse, 罗马尼亚, 胜 Peyton Stearns, 美国, 6-0, 7-5。 Lanlana Tararudee, 泰国, 胜 Emerson Jones, 澳大利亚, 7-6 (2), 6-2。 Nikola Bartunkova, 捷克, 胜 Bianca AndreeScu, 安大略省密西沙加, 7-5, 6-4。 Liudmila Samsonova, 俄罗斯, 胜 Janice Tjen, 印度尼西亚, 7-6 (9), 7-5。 Magda Linette, 波兰, 胜 Carol Zhao, 加拿大, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4。 Alycia Parks, 美国, 胜 Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva, 安道尔, 6-4, 6-4。 Taylor Townsend, 美国, 胜 Tereza Valentova, 捷克, 6-4, 7-5。
在过程中摸索并弄清楚（或者没弄清楚）。 在 Nagy 执教的情况下，这意味着将有更多的传球在中心点进行，而不是采用散弹枪阵型（shotgun formation）。这一调整正在进行中。 “这是我们在休赛期真正推动并进行了大量重复练习的事情，”Dart 说道。“在机械动作上有一些不同之处。最重要的一点可能是口袋区（pocket）内脚法地标的一点变化。[但] 我觉得我们目前所处的轨道非常好，我也感到很自在。” 这种自在感正随着 Odell Beckham Jr.、Calvin Austin、Darnell Mooney 和 JuJu Smith-Schuster 等新外接手的加入而缓慢建立。对于 Malik Nabers 来说，同样需要一个熟悉过程，他在 9 月 28 日 Dart 首次首发后的不到半场时间里，因右膝 ACL（前交叉韧带）撕裂而受伤。 Dart 表示，在过去的几个月里，他和 Nabers 进行了很多交谈并观看了大量视频，他希望这将有助于在纽约队的 1 号接球手完全康复后，两人能迅速在场上建立强大的默契。 作为球队的门面，以及担任四分卫（QB）所带来的领导责任，使得 Dart 必须与名单上的所有队友互动。他的教练对他在这方面目前的表现感到满意。 “他是个很有魅力的人，但他渴望赢球，并且期望其他每个人也同样渴望赢球，”Harbaugh 说道。“我们有一群能够积极响应的球员，同时也有许多想法一致的球员，所以我认为他与球员们的关系很好。”
2026 HLINKA-GRETZKY 杯
预赛
在埃德蒙顿 周一 芬兰 5 德国 2 美国 6 捷克 4 瑞士 vs. 加拿大 斯洛伐克 vs. 瑞典
周二 所有时间均为东部时间 德国 vs. 捷克，3 p.m. 瑞典 vs. 瑞士，5 p.m. 加拿大 vs. 斯洛伐克，7 p.m. 芬兰 vs. 美国，9 p.m.
周三 瑞士 vs. 斯洛伐克，3 p.m. 捷克 vs. 芬兰，5 p.m. 瑞典 vs. 加拿大，7 p.m. 美国 vs. 德国，9 p.m. 预赛结束
PGA 巡回赛
联邦快递杯排名
截至 8 月 2 日 积分 奖金 1. Scottie Scheffler 4,123 $16,911,275 2. Matt Fitzpatrick 3,329 $13,749,496 3. Cameron Young 3,157 $14,197,952 4. Wyndham Clark 2,255 $9,876,186 5. Chris Gotterup 2,254 $7,755,219 6. Collin Morikawa 2,229 $8,554,512 7. Si Woo Kim 2,201 $7,450,944 8. Sam Burns 2,078 $7,583,540 9. Tommy Fleetwood 2,046 $6,402,605 10. Ludvig Åberg 1,929 $6,253,271 11. Xander Schauffele 1,780 $6,693,225 12. Rory McIlroy 1,738 $8,465,006 13. Jacob Bridgeman 1,727 $7,551,365 14. Akshay Bhatia 1,723 $7,473,999 15. Russell Henley 1,706 $5,892,835 16. Ryan Gerard 1,496 $5,825,898 17. Min Woo Lee 1,470 $5,647,652 18. Kristoffer Reitan 1,464 $6,183,339 19. Alex Fitzpatrick 1,403 $4,528,684 20. J.J. Spaun 1,387 $4,775,708
电视节目 周二（所有时间均为东部时间）
棒球 MLB：多伦多 vs. 休斯顿，SN Ontario, East, West, Pacific, 8 p.m.
篮球 WNBA：多伦多 vs. 金州，TSN 1, 4, 5, 10 p.m.
冰球 Hlinka Gretzky 杯： 德国 vs. 捷克，TSN 4, 3 p.m. TSN4 加拿大 vs. 斯洛伐克，TSN 1, 4, 7 p.m.
网球 WTA / ATP 巡回赛：国家银行公开赛，SN 1, 12:30 p.m. SN360, 7 p.m.
结果截至周一， 8 月 3 日，9:30 P.M.
D
加拿大的凯拉·克罗斯 在击败英国选手凯蒂·博尔特后 获得其首场WTA胜利
JOSHUA CLIPPERTON
比安卡·安德里斯库再次在她的主场赛事中早早出局。
这位来自附近密西沙加的选手在周一国家银行公开赛的首轮单打比赛中，以 5-7, 4-6 负于捷克选手尼古拉·巴图科娃。
安德里斯库曾在 2019 年这一年度网球盛会的同一座中心球场上结束了加拿大半个世纪的冠军荒。在第一盘中，她曾在领先 5-2 时拥有三个盘点机会，但随后几次失误给对方留下了机会。
这位世界排名第 174 位的 26 岁选手在 5-4 领先时拥有第四个盘点机会，但巴图科娃再次奋起反击。
随后，这位WTA排名第 42 位的选手在第二盘 5-4 领先时破掉了状态下滑的安德里斯库之发，在 1 小时 53 分钟内赢得了比赛。
安德里斯库在赢得 NBO 冠军后夺得美国公开赛冠军，成为首位赢得大满贯的加拿大选手。她在 2024 年的多伦多站同样在首轮出局，并在去年蒙特利尔站首轮获胜后因伤退出。
不过，当天早些时候在 Sobeys 体育场，加拿大球迷有理由欢呼，凯拉·克罗斯以 7-6 (3), 7-5 的比分爆冷击败英国选手凯蒂·博尔特，晋级并取得了职业生涯首场 WTA 胜利。
“绝对处于震惊之中，”这位来自安大略省伦敦的选手说道，她将在多伦多与安德里斯库搭档双打。“仍然感觉不真实。”
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沙波瓦洛夫坚称他的网球技术没有问题。相反，是他的身体状况一直在拖后腿。
“这是非常棘手的一年，因为我在球场上的感觉很好，”沙波瓦洛夫周一在蒙特利尔表示。“我在训练中的感觉很好，但身体状况一直很吃力。对我身体而言，这是极具挑战性的一年。”
“一年中的很多周里，我都试图尽全力坚持比赛，尽管我知道带伤比赛并非理想状态。我一直在尝试强行突破。”
尽管面临伤病困扰，这位来自安大略省里士满山的 27 岁选手仍抵达蒙特利尔参加
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来自 B11 对于现代棒球队来说，这类问题在于现在没有任何方法可以将其量化。人们推测蓝鸟队的季前电子表格显示他们将赢得美东联盟冠军。否则，为什么要投入这么多爱德华·罗杰斯（Edward Rogers）并非辛苦赚来的钱？随后，复杂的人际关系闯入了计算之中。现在，我们已经脱离了预测模型，进入了纯粹的“巫术”领域。用索里亚诺（Soriano）换高斯曼（Gausman），再减去霍夫曼（Hoffman）和瓦肖（Varsho），是否等于一个记得球得往空中击打的弗拉基米尔·格雷罗二世（Vladimir Guerrero Jr.）？向上击球，而不是击向地面。击向围栏。在最理想的情况下，稍微超出那个点。在年底清理掉麦克斯·舍尔泽（Max Scherzer）、乔治·春格（George Springer）和谢恩·比伯（Shane Bieber），是否能让像迪伦·西斯（Dylan Cease）和冈本和真（Kazuma Okamoto）这样成功的新人接管更衣室？如果真是这样，这是否是一件好事？我相信蓝鸟队有很多想法，
但我怀疑他们是否真的心中有数。他们唯一能知道的是，曾有一个时间点，更衣室的氛围能转化为胜利，而现在它只带来了反射性的耸肩。与多伦多近期许多球队不同，问题不在于天赋。如果留队球员能发挥出 2025 年的平均水平，再加上西斯、冈本和泰勒·罗杰斯（Tyler Rogers），这本该是一个伟大的年份。即便有伤病的永久借口，实际情况也远未达到那个水平。所以现在蓝鸟队只有一个选择——等待。他们必须看看改变是否真的像度假一样有效。在一种可能的世界里，情况会迅速好转，他们将冲向外卡赛。在另一种可能中，情况维持原样，他们只能将这一年视为一次失效的尝试。鉴于棒球劳动力市场的波动性，他们可能会继续等待几年，直到能发现“崭新的”蓝鸟队是否与“旧的”蓝鸟队有任何相似之处。
到那时，那支蓝鸟队还能被说成是 2025 年 10 月让全国感到惊讶和欣喜的那支球队吗？如果不是，那么这支——在周一被扔进回收桶的——球队，是否将代表多伦多棒球史上最短暂且最令人难忘的“时代”？
来自密西沙加的比安卡·安德里斯库（Bianca Andreescu）在周一于多伦多举行的国家银行公开赛首轮比赛中，向捷克选手尼古拉·巴图科娃（Nikola Bartunkova）回击。在首盘安德里斯库浪费了 5-2 的领先优势后，巴图科娃以 7-5, 6-4 获胜。CHRIS YOUNG / 加拿大新闻社
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这名 21 岁的选手仅参加了她的第三场巡回赛，并作为外卡选手进入了这项奖金为 $7.4 million 的赛事，她的下一个对手是来自美国的 28 号种子安·李（Ann Li）。
在周日的一部分赛程因雨推迟后，共有 5 名加拿大选手准备在位于城市北缘、风很大的约克大学校园赛场上亮相。
来自美国的麦卡特尼·凯斯勒（McCartney Kessler）以 6-3, 6-3 轻松击败了来自安大略省奥克维尔的凯登斯·布雷斯（Cadence Brace）。
来自安大略省里奇蒙山的赵嘉怡（Carol Zhao）计划在本赛季后退役，这是她的 15 次出赛。
在参加国家银行公开赛之前，他在周六刚参加了墨西哥洛斯卡波斯（Los Cabos）的一项 ATP 250 硬地赛事的决赛。
这位加拿大选手在决赛中被法国选手亚瑟·格亚（Arthur Gea）直落两盘击败前，连续赢得了 4 场比赛。
沙波瓦洛夫（Shapovalov）距离卫冕他 2025 年赢得的洛斯卡波斯冠军仅差一场胜利。
“在洛斯卡波斯确实度过了伟大的一周，”沙波瓦洛夫说。“我在最后阶段有点体力不支。在伤愈复出后，我打了很多场精彩的比赛。这绝非易事。对于这样一个星期，我对自己能要求的确实已经到极限了。”
沙波瓦洛夫在令人沮丧的 2026 赛季中，累计战绩为 13-15。
在女王俱乐部锦标赛（Queen’s Club Championships）草地赛期间肋骨骨折后，沙波-
在该赛事的亮相中， 面对波兰选手 Magda Linette 时开局强劲，但最终以 6-4, 1-6, 4-6 告负。 “我非常感激，”排名第 620 位的赵（Zhao）说道，她给了世界排名第 68 位的选手一个艰苦的挑战。“这一切真的感觉就像眨眼之间。” 土耳其排名第 52 位的 Zeynep Sonmez 在晚间场次中以 7-5, 6-4 的比分击败了排名第 339 位的温哥华选手 Rebecca Marino。 在主场网球观众的激励下，Cross 在第一盘化解了 4 个盘点，随后在第二盘 5-5 平时击败了世界排名第 69 位的 Boulter。
valov 因肩部受伤在 6 月 29 日对阵 Pablo Carreno Busta 的温网首轮比赛中退赛。直到洛斯卡沃斯赛之前，他都没有再次参赛。 “这个赛季我一直在与许多伤病作斗争，几乎是从迈阿密赛之后开始的，”他说。“在身体状态上，这对我来说是非常艰难的一年，所以能重新回到球场我很高兴。” 他对上周在墨西哥参加的比赛预期较低。 “对我来说这是非常精彩的一周，”他说。“目标是尽可能多地参加比赛。我尝试找回自己的状态并重新回到球场。我实现了所有这些目标，所以这绝对是我很棒的一周。” 然而，这次深入的晋级是有代价的。 Shapovalov 在周一清晨抵达蒙特利尔时，感受到了高强度比赛带来的影响
她是那些拒绝与俄罗斯或白俄罗斯对手握手的乌克兰球员之一。
“她并不害怕发声，并捍卫对她而言至关重要的价值观，”来自乌克兰世界代表大会（Ukrainian World Congress）的志愿者 Maksym Stolyarevskyy 表示，他在上周四协助在多伦多举办了此次演讲活动。
“你的同胞在被杀害，这种侵略行径令人发指，战争必须停止，而你正在为此采取行动。你不害怕让自己的职业生涯面临风险，不害怕让自己在媒体或某些品牌面前失去吸引力——我尊重这样的人。”
Oliynykova 对像乌克兰世界排名第 9 的 Elina Svitolina 等球员为乌克兰所做的筹款工作表示赞赏。她希望乌克兰球员能够聚在一起更频繁地交流。如此激进的发声让她在个人层面承受了压力，而她之前并未意识到这会如此孤独。
在周一于多伦多进行的第一轮比赛中，一小群但声势浩大的乌克兰球迷挥舞着蓝色和亮黄色的旗帜为 Oliynykova 加油。她最终以 6-4, 6-4 负于前世界第一（现排名第 66）的 Karolina Pliskova。
在用发球局锁定胜局，在不到两小时内赢得一场令人难忘的胜利之前。
“我昨晚收到一条短信，问我想不想在中心球场比赛，”Cross 说道，“显然我立刻就回答了‘想’。进入比赛的计划是尝试打出自己的风格，尝试进攻。”
“就活在当下，并在场上享受快乐。”
Cross 在 2025 年从 NBO 的第一轮中出局，她在约 12 个月前排名 262 位，本次参赛时排名 172 位。
“赛后我查看了手机，”她说，“我想我收到了”
这一周在墨西哥缓慢的硬地赛场上，有几场比赛都是在深夜才结束。
IGA 体育场反复出现的降雨，也威胁到他在周二对阵美国选手 Zachary Svajda 的首轮比赛前的准备工作。
“这很困难，”Shapovalov 说道，“并不容易。这是巡回赛生活的一部分。任何时候，只要你在赛事中走得很远，可能都会危及你对下一站赛事的准备。你只能接受现实。”
Shapovalov 在洛斯卡沃斯（Los Cabos）获得亚军，使其 ATP 排名上升 25 位，达到第 43 位。他说，提高排名次于恢复全面健康。
“现在的首要任务是保持健康，打出高质量的网球，并在参加的比赛中找回我的状态，”他说，“显然，我的排名不应该是”
Oliynykova 现在将前往参加辛辛那提公开赛，在职业生活与现实的斗争中前行，但依然热爱这项她在乌克兰 5 岁时就接触的运动——那是她父亲为这个需要通过某种方式释放精力的活泼女孩想出的主意。在她 16 岁时，父亲开始指导她，直到 2024 年父亲参军。尽管如此，他依然在远方指导她，并在可能的情况下通过网络观看她的比赛。她在 2025 年 7 月首次闯入前 200 名，并在今年飙升至职业生涯最高排名第 44 位。
尽管对周一对阵 Pliskova 强力发球时的一些亮点表现感到满意，但 Oliynykova 离开多伦多时的心情复杂。与乌克兰裔加拿大人会面让她获益匪浅，她曾尝试将一些门票拍卖给其中一些人，让他们作为嘉宾参加 NB Open，所得款项将捐给同一个武装部队单位，但她的拍卖活动在周末不得不被取消。
WTA 巡回赛规则规定，球员嘉宾凭证不可转让，且不得出售、拍卖或用作奖品或赠品。因此，她不得不撤下拍卖。
协助她进行拍卖的多伦多团体迅速将相关内容从网上撤下，并通知了所有感兴趣的竞标者，尽管当时还没有人
“就像收到一百条通知……有点不知所措。” 来自多伦多的凯瑟琳·塞博夫（Katherine Sebov）在周日以 6-3, 6-4 击败了日本资格赛选手伊藤葵（Aoi Ito）晋级。 来自魁北克省拉瓦尔的莱拉·费尔南德斯（Leylah Fernandez）——该女单赛事中唯一一名种子选手，排名第 30 ——将于周三进行首场比赛。 来自安大略省伯灵顿的维多利亚·姆博科（Victoria Mboko）去年夏天在 18 岁时夺得了 NBO 冠军，目前巡回赛排名第 12，但因膝伤缺席今年的比赛。
它现在所处的位置。 “我可以击败优秀的选手。我有这个水平。这只是体育运动的一部分。如今有这么多球员在与伤病作斗争。这是一个极其艰苦的赛季。” 蒙特利尔的赛事对沙波瓦洛夫（Shapovalov）来说一直充满挑战。自 2017 年取得突破性地进入半决赛以来，他在蒙特利尔仅获得过一次胜利，在 2019 年第二轮出局，并在 2022 年和 2024 年均在第一轮被淘汰。 尽管如此，回到这座让他的职业生涯首次引起加拿大网球迷关注的城市，对他来说依然具有深远的意义。 “每次回到加拿大，特别是蒙特利尔，对我来说意义重大。因为在那里我经历了在巡回赛中的第一次真正意义上的高光时刻，我的第一次冲刺，”沙波瓦洛夫说道。
还没有支付任何费用。 “这再次表明，在这个组织中，每个人都只是试图对战争闭上眼睛，”她说。 WTA 表示，其在谴责俄罗斯入侵乌克兰方面始终立场明确，并且自冲突开始以来一直支持其乌克兰球员。球员被允许支持对他们有意义的事业，但这些行动必须在巡回赛和赛事的规则之内进行。 “我觉得每个人都像是在假装什么都没有发生，就像没有战争，一切都很好，”奥利尼科娃（Oliynykova）说。“他们想塑造一种画面，就像我们只是在打网球的女孩，一切都很开心，一切都很美好，而战争就像在遥远的某个地方。” WTA 巡回赛中有大量的乌克兰、俄罗斯和白俄罗斯球员——且事实上他们几乎在每场赛事中都可能在赛场上相遇——这意味着网球比几乎任何其他全球运动都更深地感受到了这场冲突的影响。 “有些球员现在已经厌倦了谈论这件事。但我没有，”奥利尼科娃说。“对我来说，这是我每天都在面对的生活。”
在 MLB 交易截止日前的繁忙收尾阶段
球队失去了许多在 上赛季世界系列赛 第 7 场比赛中出场的 关键成员
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在美职棒大联盟（MLB）东部时间下午 6 点交易截止日期结束前的周一，多伦多蓝鸟队既扮演了买家也扮演了卖家的角色。
在这个繁忙的一天里，人员流动频繁：他们将中外野手 Daulton Varsho 交易至休斯敦，并将救援投手 Jeff Hoffman 移至明尼苏达。同时，他们从洛杉矶天使队签得了一名优质先发投手 José Soriano，以及另一名来自休斯敦的强力投球手 Spencer Arrighetti。
就 Varsho 而言，他只需直接更换更衣室即可，因为蓝鸟队当时已在当地准备与太空人队进行三场系列赛的第一场比赛。他已被列入周一晚上的出场名单。
球队总经理 Ross Atkins 在截止日期过后向媒体发表了讲话。他表示，在去年打入世界系列赛之后，球队现在陷入困境，对此他感到失望。
“我们在赛季开始时抱有很大的希望，”Atkins 在一次视频电话中说道，“我们仍然相信这支队伍将保持竞争力。我们不得不告别一些我们曾经且依然欣赏的球员。”
“最终，天赋将决定一切。”
多伦多蓝鸟队目前在美联东区排名垫底，仍处于美联外卡季后赛竞争的边缘。
不过，其中也有令人意外的地方。George Springer 依然留在蓝鸟队的名单中。他 36 岁，正处于职业生涯的暮年。
整个联盟在这一天都非常忙碌。最大的一笔重磅交易是波士顿红袜队用四名球员交换了巴尔的摩的捕手 Adley Rutschman，后者是一位三届全明星球员。
多伦多用三名潜力新秀将其交易至洛杉矶以换回 Soriano，他 27 岁，球速可达 97 英里 / 小时。他在排名垫底的天使队效力期间，战绩为 9 胜 6 负，防御率为 3.29。
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在棒球交易截止日之前的周一，波士顿红袜队和费城费城人队采取了大动作。红袜队在费城人队签下三届打击冠军路易斯·阿拉埃兹（Luis Arraez）几个小时后，加入了三届全明星捕手阿德利·鲁特舒曼（Adley Rutschman）。
这两次激进的举措是繁忙交易日的一部分，在周一东部时间下午6点的截止日期之前的几个小时里，发生了数十起交易。同样在周一，休斯顿太空人队从多伦多引进资深外野手道尔顿·瓦肖（Daulton Varsho），以交换右投手斯宾塞·阿里盖蒂（Spencer Arrighetti）；而芝加哥小熊队则从纽约大都会队得到了投手克莱·霍姆斯（Clay Holmes）。
洛杉矶道奇队在周日将两届赛扬奖得主塔里克·斯库巴尔（Tarik Skubal）加入其豪华阵容后，在截止日当天醒来时就已经看起来像是最大的赢家。道奇队正在追求连续第三个世界大赛冠军。
鲁特舒曼为红袜队带来年轻捕手之星
鲁特舒曼是 2019 年来自俄勒冈州立大学的状元秀，在巴尔的摩金莺队度过了五个高质量赛季，在很大程度上不负高期望。
一名了解交易细节的人士告诉美联社，他现在转会到了红袜队。由于交易尚未正式公布，该人士在匿名条件下发表评论。
波士顿本赛季开局缓慢，但在7月份凭借创队纪录的 15 连胜重振了季后赛希望。28 岁的鲁特舒曼——在 2027 年之前仍处于球队掌控期（还有 1 个赛季）——在打击端迎来反弹赛季，OPS 为 .762，这帮助他赢得了第三次全明星提名。鲁特舒曼目前因左手腕炎症处于伤病名单中。今年他还经历过一次脚踝受伤和一次脑震荡。
在被多伦多交易到休斯顿后，道尔顿·瓦肖只需更换更衣室，因为蓝鸟队已经在城中准备与太空人队进行三场系列赛的第一场比赛。MARK BLINCH / GETTY IMAGES
瓦肖在交易后代表太空人队对阵蓝鸟队首秀
周一早些时候，在对阵休斯顿太空人队的系列赛开始前，道尔顿·瓦肖正在客队打击笼中挥棒，随后他被叫到多伦多队主教练约翰·施耐德（John Schneider）的办公室里。
就在那时，瓦肖得知自己已经成为新球队的一员，而且他将经历一次极其短暂的旅程来加入该球队。
在交易截止日前，排名第一的太空人队从蓝鸟队获得了这位中外野手，交换筹码是先发投手斯宾塞·阿里盖蒂。几个小时后，瓦肖在主队打击笼中挥棒，完成了赛前准备。
“从那个打击笼换到这个打击笼，感觉确实很奇怪，”瓦肖摇着头说。
美联西区领头羊没有浪费……
阿拉埃兹为费城带来精英级接触击球手
阿拉埃兹来自旧金山巨人队，预计他将为费城人队的强击手布莱斯·哈珀（Bryce Harper）和凯尔·施瓦伯（Kyle Schwarber）创造打点机会。
阿拉埃兹在春训早些时候与旧金山签署了一份 1200 万美元、为期一年的合同，在复苏的赛季中打出了全国联盟（NL）最高的 .324 打击率。这位 29 岁的球员拥有自 2023 年以来最高的打击率，而且在二垒的防守表现有所提升，此前对其防守能力的质疑曾影响到他在自由市场上的价值。
截至周一，施瓦伯以 33 支本垒球排名大联盟第二，但以 63 次打点排名第 31 位；而哈珀则贡献了 66 次打点。该球队 .304 的上垒率是大联盟中第二低的。
费城人队还在交易两名小联盟球员的交易中从巨人队接回了救援投手卡莱布·基利安（Caleb Kilian），并与大都会队就左投救援投手布鲁克斯·雷利（Brooks Raley）达成了一项单独交易。
前赛扬奖得主罗比·雷（Robbie Ray）加盟教士队
圣迭戈教子队在周一通过交易两名新秀，从巨人队那里得到了资深左投手罗比·雷。
教子队在最近九场比赛中赢下了八场，距离最后一个外卡季后赛名额仅差一场球。在起伏不定的赛季中，这次最新的冲刺显然促使总经理 A.J. Preller 再次交易掉其严重枯竭的农场系统中的一部分，以寻求另一个立即夺冠的机会。
圣迭戈交出了右投手米格尔·门德斯和 17 岁的游击手乔尼尔·赫尔南德斯，以换取 34 岁的雷。雷曾获得过赛扬奖，将在今年冬天成为非限制性自由球员。教子队在这次交易中还获得了一笔现金。
雷本赛季 10-6，防御率 3.08，并在 1222⁄3 局中完成了 107 次三振，这是他在旧金山队的第三个赛季。
道奇队继续增员
据一名熟悉该交易的人向美联社透露，道奇队从堪萨斯城皇家队那里引进了 2025 年全明星左投手克里斯·布比克，以换取小联盟右投手卡洛斯·杜兰。由于交易尚未公布，该人士要求匿名。
布比克目前因肩部和肘部问题在 60 天伤员名单中，但皇家队预计他将在 8 月下旬回归，这将使他有机会在季后赛期间为洛杉矶队担任牛棚投手。他上赛季是全明星成员，本赛季在九次先发中 3-2，防御率 4.11。杜兰在道奇队的俄克拉荷马城 3A 分支机构中 3-2，防御率 3.38。
洛杉矶队还连续第二年通过交易获得了备份接球手本·罗特维特。这一次，道奇队从大都会队那里得到了罗特维特，以换取右投手切斯·麦克德莫特。28 岁的罗特维特本赛季尚未在大联盟比赛，且不在大都会队的 40 人名单中。
瓦肖助力太空城
30 岁的瓦肖在蓝鸟队的 99 场比赛中 OPS 为 .682，进攻赛季表现令人失望，但他获得了 2024 年的金手套奖，并且仍然是一名出色的防守者。
休斯顿队在周一比赛前的战绩为 58-55，位居美联西区第一。在周末横扫游骑兵队的三场比赛后，太空城队自 4 月以来首次夺得分区领先地位。
蓝鸟队得到了阿瑞盖蒂，他本赛季在 17 次先发中 7-5，防御率 4.60。
没有时间让瓦肖留在阵容之外。休斯顿经理乔·埃斯帕达在周一晚上面对其前东家时，安排他担任第四棒。
“这个休息室太棒了，”瓦肖在谈到太空城队时说，“他们是非常非常棒的人，他们很兴奋。所以对我来说最棒的部分是，我加入了一支非常期待我加入的球队，而我也很兴奋能成为其中的一员。”
瓦肖是 2024 年金手套奖得主，为太空城队的外野提供了巨大的助力。太空城队在上周末三场比赛横扫德州游骑兵队后，自 4 月初以来首次夺得分区领先。
“（瓦肖）填补了我们这里长期以来存在的一个空缺，”埃斯帕达说，“他给我们的进攻带来了不同的动态，能够真正地在中外野防守，且是左手击球。”
“这家伙不久前还在世界大赛中，所以他知道需要付出什么。”
在本赛季的 99 场比赛中，瓦肖的击球率为 .243，有 7 次本垒打和 26 次打点。上赛季他在蓝鸟队的 71 场大联盟比赛中击出了 20 次本垒打，而蓝鸟队在 2025 年赢得美国联盟冠军后，目前在美联东区排名垫底。
瓦肖在谈到在蓝鸟队的时光时变得激动，并补充说，在经历了去年的惊人冲刺后，本赛季未能重回正轨令人失望。
自 2020 年首秀以来，瓦肖在亚利桑那队和多伦多队的 747 场比赛中，生涯击球率为 .229，有 106 次本垒打和 321 次打点。他可以在今年秋天成为自由球员。
美联社
这是两年 2200 万美元合约的第一年。他曾是垫底的大都会队本赛季少数几个亮点之一，在 42 次出场中 2-1，防御率 1.84，并获得一次救援成功。大都会队得到了小联盟内野手萨米·斯塔夫拉。
小熊队用两名小联盟球员从迈阿密队换来了左投手 Braxton Garrett。Garrett 曾在选秀中排名第七位，他将在周三满 29 岁，在此之后他将处于球队控制之下两更多个赛季。他在 2024 赛季中期遭遇了尺侧副韧带 (UCL) 断裂。此后他仅在 5 月中旬进行了两次大联盟首发，当时他在 4.16 个局中失 7 分，同时三振 5 人。此后他一直处于 3A 级别。自 2020 年在迈阿密马林鱼队大联盟首秀以来，他在 67 场比赛中取得了 16-20 的成绩，防御率 (ERA.) 为 4.16。小熊队还从洛杉矶天使队签下了右投手 Ryan Zeferjahn，以交换小联盟捕手 Moisés Ballesteros 和小联盟右投手 Mason McGwire（前大联盟强击手 Mark McGwire 之子）。
西雅图水手队从金莺队获得了外野手 Taylor Ward，以交换小联盟右投手 Alex Hoppe、Brock Moore 和 Harrison Kreiling。32 岁的 Ward 在 111 场比赛中打率 .246，有 7 支本垒打和 30 次打点。他的加入增加了西雅图的外野深度，并可能使即将成为自由球员的全明星外野手 Randy Arozarena 变得可有可无。
蓝鸟队旨在增强 2027 年的先发轮值，通过用 3 名潜力球员从天使队获得了右投手 José Soriano。这位 27 岁的球员目前 9-6，防御率为 3.29，在四个大联盟赛季中的总防御率为 3.72。他处于球队控制之下直至 2028 年。内野手 Arjun Nimmala（2023 年首轮秀）是前往洛杉矶的小联盟球员中的核心，此外还包括外野手 Eddie Micheletti Jr. 和右投手 Angel Rivero。
与他交换的球员包括游击手 Arjun Nimmala，球队在 2023 年选秀的第一轮以第 20 顺位选中了他。Soriano 将与被评为 7 月美国联盟最佳投手的 Dylan Cease 以及 Trey Yesavage 一起在先发轮值中占据核心位置。Soriano 签署了一年期合同，并有 2 年的仲裁年限。早前，蓝鸟队还从德克萨斯游骑兵队签下了内野手 Josh Smith 和小联盟先发 Josh Stephan，作为一项交易的一部分，左投救火队员 Adam Macko 则前往对方球队。Smith 主要被用作替补球员，并在 2024 年获得了美国联盟实用球员银色击球手奖 (Silver Slugger Award)。那个赛季他打率 .258，有 30 次双ضرب，13 支本垒打和 62 次打点。周日，球队将深受喜爱的投手 Kevin Gausman 交易至芝加哥小熊队，以换取小联盟外野手 Brett Bateman 和内野手 Ty Southisene。Gausman 的合同将在 2026 赛季末到期，预计他将在周四于瑞格利球场 (Wrigley Field) 对阵多伦多队时为芝加哥队进行首次先发。蓝鸟队周日还从小熊队签下了 34 岁的投手 Jameson Taillon，支付的是现金或未来考量。Taillon 在匹兹堡海盗队、纽约洋基队和芝加哥队度过了 10 个大联盟赛季。他职业生涯中曾两次获得 14 胜，但今年在 15 场先发中表现挣扎，防御率为 5.92。多伦多队经理 John Schneider 周日在谈到 Taillon 时表示：“我关注过他的整个职业生涯，他比今年表现出的水平要好。”Taillon 出生在佛罗里达州，父母是加拿大人，并在今年春季的世界棒球经典赛中为加拿大队出战。Hoffman 在 2025, 年有 33 次救援成功，但本赛季失去了终结者位置，由 Louis Varland 接替。交易宣布时，Hoffman 在更衣室里拥抱了多伦多队的队友。作为交换，蓝鸟队获得了投手 Dasan Hill 和 John Klein，以及小联盟内野手兼外野手 Dameury Pena。蓝鸟队还将获得部分国际奖金池现金。
获得了小联盟捕手 Jacob Cozart。27 岁的 Adell 本赛季有 16 支本垒打和 62 次打点，而一年前他打出了职业生涯最佳的 37 支本垒打和 98 次打点。Adell 在 2017 年业余选秀中被选为总第 10 顺位，此后整个职业生涯都在天使队度过。
坦帕湾光芒队在与马林鱼队的交易中获得了捕手 Liam Hicks，而迈阿密队则获得了前景球员右投手 Jacob Kisting、游击手 Adrian Santana 和内野手 Brayden Taylor。Hicks，27 岁，正处于他的第二个大联盟赛季，打击率为 .282，拥有 14 支本垒打和 62 次打点。他在接下来的四个赛季中处于球队控制期。
芝加哥白袜队从科罗拉多落基山队获得外野手 Brenton Doyle，代价是两名前景球员。Doyle 最近因斜肌挫伤从伤病名单中恢复，目前的打击率为 .214，有 1 支本垒打和 9 次盗垒。他凭借在中外野的表现两次获得金手套奖。落基山队获得了右投手 Mason Adams 和内野手 Carlos Vielma。
多伦多队从德州队获得了多用球员 Josh Smith 和小联盟右投手 Josh Stephan，以交换新秀左投手 Adam Macko。Smith 在 2024 年作为多用球员获得了白金手套奖 (Silver Slugger)，此前效力于 3A 球队 Round Rock。他进入本赛季时有机会成为游骑兵队的日常二垒手，但在 45 场比赛中打击率为 .213，并因伤病和一次病毒性脑膜炎缺席了 37 场比赛。
亚特兰大勇士队从天使队获得了资深左投手救援手 Brent Suter，以交换小联盟内野手 Nacho Alvarez Jr.。36 岁的 Suter 为这支国联东区领头羊提供了牛棚深度。他在洛杉矶队的 41 场出赛中，记录为 1 胜 2 败，防御率为 4.12，投球局数为 63 1 / 3 局。勇士队还将外野手 Eli White交易至红袜队，获得了右投手 Tyler Uberstine，并将备份捕手 Joey Bart 交易至白袜队以换取右投手 Duncan Davitt。
菲律宾选手亚历山德拉·埃拉在周一于华盛顿举行的 DC 公开赛女子单打决赛中击败杰西卡·佩古拉后，手持冠军奖杯庆祝。SCOTT TAETSCH / GETTY IMAGES 埃拉在 DC 公开赛中逆转击败佩古拉，夺得首个 WTA 单打冠军
乔丹·芬德里奇 华盛顿
亚历山德拉·埃拉（Alexandra Eala）在华盛顿公开赛（DC Open）的突破之周比任何人预期的都要长了一天。当比赛结束时，她本周早些时候穿着的耐克 T 恤上所写的菲律宾语表达已成为现实。
“一旦成长，便无可阻挡。”
由于大雨，女单决赛被拖延至两天。周一，埃拉以 4-6, 6-4, 6-0 逆转击败杰西卡·佩古拉（Jessica Pegula），夺得她职业生涯首个 WTA 巡回赛单打冠军。
这次胜利使 21 岁的埃拉成为首位在巡回赛中夺得单打冠军的菲律宾女性，完成了与佩古拉相同的职业生涯定义性突破——佩古拉曾在 2019 年在华盛顿赛中夺得她的首个 WTA 巡回赛冠军。
“在这一周开始时，我绝对想不到我会拿到这个奖杯，”埃拉说。“赢得一项 500 [级别赛事] 简直太疯狂了。对我来说这是一个不可思议的里程碑。”
在周一晚些时候举行的男单决赛中，3 号种子泰勒·弗里兹（Taylor Fritz）以 7-6 (2), 6-4 击败拉斐尔·约达尔（Rafael Jodar）。弗里兹在第二盘初段两次破发这位西班牙选手的发球局，并在错失前四个冠军点后，最终把握住第五个冠军点。
在赢得职业生涯第 11 个冠军后，弗里兹在球场上躺了片刻，随后翻了个白眼站起身来，终于结束比赛的宽慰感油然而生。
埃拉在带着国家的希望来到体育场球场时，已成为本次赛事的焦点。周日被雨中断的比赛期间，看台上装饰着菲律宾国旗，且在周一恢复比赛时，下层看台依然座无虚席。为埃拉呐喊的声音经常盖过为在主场作战的顶尖美国选手的助威声。
“面对这样的观众打球并不愉快，但我确实很欣赏这种非常有趣的氛围，”佩古拉在评价观众时说道。“我认为这很神奇。”
在她的硬地赛首秀中，这位冉冉上升的之星不仅达到了她的首个 WTA 巡回赛决赛，还改变了整个赛事的氛围，为这一周画上了圆满的句号。
波加查回归西班牙巡回赛，追求罕见的双冠及难以企及的三冠
环法冠军塔代伊·波加查（Tadej Pogacar）在缺席 7 年后将重返西班牙巡回赛（Spanish Vuelta），以追求三大赛（Grand Tours）的帽子戏法冠军。
这位斯洛文尼亚骑手所属的阿联酋航空-XRG 车队（UAE Team Emirates-XRG）周一公布了这场为期三周赛事的参赛名单，确认波加查将在上个月夺得创纪录的第五座环法冠军后参赛。
“2019 年是我第一次参加三大赛，那是一次极好的体验，”波加查说。“西班牙是我热爱访问和参赛的国家，我认为现在是回归的正确时机。”
枫叶队聘请奥布莱恩监管运动表现
多伦多枫叶队已任命安迪·奥布莱恩（Andy O’Brien）为球队运动表现副总裁。
奥布莱恩将负责监督这家 NHL 俱乐部的力量与体能、运动科学与营养、伤病康复以及心理表现。
这位来自夏洛特敦的 48 岁人士曾是悉尼·库斯比（Sidney Crosby）的私人教练，并在 2015 年至 2021 年期间担任匹兹堡企鹅队的运动科学与表现总监。
自 2021 年起，奥布莱恩一直担任佛罗里达美洲豹队的高性能顾问。他与 NHL 球队的合作经验始于 2005 年在美洲豹队担任了 4 年的力量与体能教练。
在美洲豹队和企鹅队任职期间，奥布莱恩曾与 4 支赢得斯坦利杯的冠军球队（2016, 2017, 2024, 2025）共事。
“安迪作为一名创新者的记录……”
波加查（Pogacar）与比利时的埃迪·默克斯（Eddy Merckx）、西班牙的米格尔·印杜拉因（Miguel Indurain）以及法国的雅克·安奎蒂尔（Jacques Anquetil）和贝尔纳·希诺（Bernard Hinault）一样，成为了仅有的五名拥有五座环法赛冠军头衔的骑手。然而，与希诺、安奎蒂尔、默克斯和约纳斯·温格高（Jonas Vingegaard）等男骑手不同，波加查尚未赢得西班牙环赛，以实现大满贯三连冠。
波加查在 2024 年以巨大优势赢得了环意赛，目前他也在争取成为继安奎蒂尔、希诺和克里斯·弗鲁姆（Chris Froome）之后，第四位在同一年赢得西班牙环赛和环法赛的男骑手。
第 81 届西班牙环赛将于 8 月 22 日在波加查居住的摩纳哥以个人计时赛拉开帷幕，随后经过法国和安道尔进入西班牙。比赛将于 9 月 13 日在格拉纳达结束，总赛程近 3,300 公里。
27 岁的波加查在上次且也是迄今为止唯一一次参加西班牙环赛时获得第三名，期间赢得了三个赛段。
“加入波加查的将有若奥·阿尔梅达（Joao Almeida）、杰伊· Vine（Jay Vine）、帕维尔·西瓦科夫（Pavel Sivakov）、帕布洛·托雷斯（Pablo Torres）、凯文·维尔马克（Kevin Vermaerke）、多门·诺瓦克（Domen Novak）和伊沃·奥利维拉（Ivo Oliveira），”阿联酋航空队-XRG（UAE Team Emirates-XRG）表示。
美联社（THE ASSOCIATED PRESS）
“作为一名导师和获胜者，再加上他的价值观、哲学和愿景，与我们在多伦多所构建的目标完全一致，”枫叶队总经理约翰·查伊卡（John Chayka）周一在一份声明中表示。
“在组织的各个层级，提供一切可能的资源来帮助我们的球员发挥最佳水平是最高优先级。我们的所有权团体已展现出坚定不移的承诺，致力于投资于球员护理、球员体验以及帮助球员每天取得成功的所需资源。我们将继续投资于每一个机会，以最大限度地提高每位球员的发展和表现。”
枫叶队上赛季战绩为 32-36-14， 10 年来首次未能进入季后赛。
自查伊卡在 5 月被聘请接替被解雇的总经理布拉德·特雷利文（Brad Treliving）以来，他已经对多个部门进行了重组。
枫叶队明星前锋奥斯顿·马修斯（Auston Matthews）因膝盖韧带撕裂错过了常规赛最后 15 场比赛，而守门员安东尼·斯托拉兹（Anthony Stolarz）在赛季中因伤缺阵 36 场。
周一加入奥布莱恩（O’Brien）团队的人员包括：健康与性能整合总监克雷格·斯劳恩怀特（Craig Slaunwhite）博士、力量与体能教练杰森·马丁（Jason Martin）、助理力量与体能教练乔什·克劳斯（Josh Crouse）以及人体性能顾问乔丹·夏洛（Jordan Shallow）博士。
“从我与约翰及领导层的第一次讨论开始，就很明显这个组织致力于提供行业领先的球员护理，并尽可能地支持每位运动员，”奥布莱恩在声明中说。
“我很感激能有机会向如此优秀的团队学习并协作，在朝着最终目标迈进的过程中服务我们的球员。”
加拿大新闻社（THE CANADIAN PRESS）
为美网公开赛进行球场适应。
两人在第一盘中段互破发球局，佩古拉（Pegula）在 4-4 时再次破发，并以 40-0 赢得该盘。在第二盘的前三局中，球员们均保发，随后周日下午因大雨暂停比赛，此时埃拉（Eala）以 2-1 领先。
当他们周一返回赛场时，势头掌握在埃拉手中。
她强势反击拿下第二盘，随后横扫第三盘。埃拉最终赢下了比赛的最后八局，锁定冠军，并在过程中击败了该赛事的全部三位头号种子。
埃拉双手掩面瘫坐在球场上，情绪激动。她眼中噙满泪水，随后起身在网前拥抱佩古拉，发出一声胜利的呐喊。
“我太紧张了，简直像断片了一样，”埃拉说。“所有的事情就这样涌向我。”
随后，埃拉收到了前八量级拳击冠军曼尼·帕奎奥（Manny Pacquiao）的祝贺，他在社交媒体上写道，她的反击展现了“菲律宾人的心”，并称她为“我们的新冠军”。
PATRICIA BROOKE REID
PAtriciA Brooke Reid（原姓 Bell）于 2026年 8月 1日 在东本 (Eastbourne) 去世，当时她正坐在露台上吃晚餐并欣赏日落。她近期失去了挚爱之夫 Jon Berry，因此她近期的旅程充满挑战。她于 1947年 3月 9日 出生在多伦多，父母是 LiliAn StrAtheArn（原姓 HAy）和 NormAn Brooke Bell。母亲从出生起直到生命终点都美极了。她在 Bishop StrAchAn 学校度过了一段积极参与体育活动的时光，随后在 Western University 经历了中断的学术生涯，最终在照顾两个孩子的同时，获得了多伦多大学的心理学学士学位。在 Johnston & DAniel 短暂工作后，由于又多了一个女儿，她在三十多岁成为单亲家长时进入了 NAtionAl Trust 的企业界。母亲真是太出色了！她的职业生涯在 StAte Street FinAnciAl 担任执行副总裁时达到顶峰——被公认为该行业最优秀的业务发展负责人之一。Trish 退休后移居科林伍德 (Collingwood)，经常旅行并在 KilbeAr 露营，她和 Jon 尽情享受生活，通过举办“奶奶和爷爷夏令营” (CAmp GrAm And PAps) 鼓励所有的孙辈捕捉快乐。母亲一方面如此叛逆，但有时又坚守那些古怪的传统，以延续那种贵族般的神秘感，并为几代人创造绝佳的共同回忆。母亲一直坚持认为她的三个孩子都成长得非常完美，为了认可她的努力，我们同意这一点！
Trish 热爱水域——无论是科林伍德、KilbeAr、巴巴多斯 (Barbados)、萨尼贝尔 (Sanibel)、西穆科湖 (LAke Simcoe) 还是 TAnAmAkoon，水边的景象和声音都令她着迷。她对美的洞察力极其敏锐，眼光精到。对于海军蓝、黑色或象牙白的色调，她有决定性的看法，而且在谈到住宅建筑时，她绝对不吝发表意见。她每次在海滩散步结束时，总会带回一件天然的完美小物件——一枚贝壳、一颗鹅卵石或一块海玻璃。
缅怀她的人有 Brooke Hunter (Andrew Spence), Scott Hunter, Jennifer Reid (Greg Ross)；以及孙辈 LukAs Hunter, Devon, Ben, KAte, Allyson Kulchyski, Ailish 和 Aubrey GAynor。
将举行私人家庭仪式。如果你愿意，Trish 会说，以她的名义向 Bishop StrAchAn 学校基金会或 Sunnybrook 医院捐款将是很不错的事。
MARILYN JUNE BRITT (原姓 DUPUIS) 1938年 6月 4日 2026年 8月 2日
我们沉痛地宣布 MArilyn June Britt 于 2026年 8月 2日 星期日 在 伯灵顿 (Burlington) 去世， 家人在旁陪伴。 与她相伴 28 年的 挚爱已故丈夫 Roderick 重聚。 CAmeron (ShevAun) 挚爱的母亲。 已故的 PAtrick, KAtie, SArAh 和 MichAel 敬爱的祖母。 GAyle (已故 Tom) 和 KAthy 亲爱的姐妹。MArilyn 的父母 RAymond 和 Alice 先于她去世；她的兄弟 Don (已故 Audrey), AllAn (已故 AnitA) 和 LArry (已故 Ann) 以及她的姐夫 / 妹夫 Bill (已故 Isobel) 先于她去世。许多侄子和侄女也深爱着她。
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Vincent Pastore 是一位擅长饰演意裔美国硬汉的角色演员，最著名的是在经典 HBO 系列剧《黑道家族》(The Sopranos) 中饰演从基层士兵转为 FBI 密探的 Salvatore Bonpensiero，朋友们称他为“大屁股”(Big Pussy)。他已在纽约市家中去世，享年 80 岁。他的经纪人 Robert Attermann 表示，Pastore 先生的遗体于周六被朋友发现。Pastore 先生身材高大强壮，在出演 1999. 年首播的《黑道家族》中重要角色之前，他曾是一名夜总会老板，在电视和电影中饰演黑帮打手、头目等角色，积累了丰富的演艺经验。他的角色被称为“大屁股”——并非出于任何低俗原因，而是因为他在犯罪生涯之初是一名入室盗窃者（cat burglar）。他的朋友们加上“大”字是为了将他与另一个角色 Gennaro Malanga（被称为“小屁股” Little Pussy）区分开来。在《黑道家族》宏大的世界观中，“大屁股”表面上忠诚且在很大程度上令人同情，但同时也是 FBI 的长期密探。他对老板 Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) 的忠诚与他对执法部门的联系之间的紧张关系，构成了这部热门剧集前两季的核心剧情线之一。Pastore 先生因给该角色注入的细腻情感而赢得了评论界的赞赏；Bonpensiero 这是一个有缺陷、充满矛盾且讨人喜欢的角色，被卷入部分无法掌控的境地，而这最终决定了他的命运。他在剧集早期的突然失踪在第一季结尾造成了悬念，让数百万观众追问：“大屁股在哪里？”而他在第二季结尾于船上被 Tony、Paulie Gualtieri (Tony Sirico) 和 Silvio Dante (Steven Van Zandt) 处决，虽然在情理之中但依然令人震惊，这成为了该剧六季中最令人难忘的场景之一。“我认为‘大屁股’是一个内心宽广的人，这就是我对这个角色的演绎选择，”Pastore 先生在接受 Edge 杂志采访时说道。
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Mildred Pitts Walter 是一位洛杉矶的学校教师，她在经历了“吉姆·克劳法”时期的美国南部环境下长大。她创作了多部专注于黑人角色并获奖的儿童书籍，填补了她学生阅读材料的空白。她于 5 月 19 日在加利福尼亚州红木城去世，享年 103 岁。她的孙子 Nizam Walter 确认了她在一家辅助生活设施中去世的消息。
在 20 世纪 50 年代和 60 年代，作为洛杉矶中南部地区的一名幼儿园教师，由于她的学生大多和她一样是黑人，Walter 女士一直在寻找能让他们产生认同感的黑人角色书籍。她回忆道，当时极少数这样的书籍之一是由白人作家 Ezra Jack Keats 创作的 1962 年获奖绘本《雪之日》(The Snowy Day)，该书描写了一个黑人小男孩在雪后探索社区的故事。
她了解到，在林登·B·约翰逊总统领导下的联邦政府曾在 1968 年拨款鼓励出版商为学生创作更多书籍。
演员 Vincent Pastore 参加了 2023, 5 月在纽约举行的电视历史最伟大拍卖会。在出演《黑道家族》(The Sopranos) 之后，Pastore 先生出演了几档真人秀节目，包括《名人家庭竞猜》(Celebrity Family Feud) 和《舞动奇迹》(Dancing With the Stars)。DANIEL ZUCHNIK / GETTY IMAGES FOR HERITAGE AUCTIONS
Pastore 先生较晚才进入演艺界，在此之前，他担任了 20 多年夜总会保镖和豪华轿车司机，最终成为纽约州新罗舍尔一家俱乐部的经理兼所有者。他的常客中包括演员 Matt 和 Kevin Dillon，他们在他担任司机期间就认识他。他们被他的魅力所吸引，说服他参加表演课程，并试演纽约地区剧院的一些小角色。
他晋升迅速，在电视剧和独立电影中获得角色，并在《好家伙》(Goodfellas, 1990) 和《卡利托之路》(Carlito’s Way, 1993) 中饰演小角色，这两部电影都关于黑帮生活且背景设定在纽约市。他的第一个重要角色是在电影《杰基男孩》(The Jerky Boys, 1995) 中，饰演由 Alan Arkin 扮演的黑帮头目的心腹。随后他又饰演了更多黑帮主题的角色，包括电影《曼哈顿之夜》(Night Falls on Manhattan, 1996)、《戈蒂》(Gotti, 1996) 和《米奇蓝眼睛》(Mickey Blue Eyes)
Walter 女士最终挑战了一家当地出版公司 Ward Ritchie Press 的一名高管，要求其填补这一需求。
“‘那么，你自己写吧，’他回答道，”她在自传《内心如此强大：追求选择、勇气与改变的生活》(Something Inside So Strong: Life in Pursuit of Choice, Courage and Change, 2019) 中写道。“我觉得他在推卸责任，并直接告诉了他。但他坚持这样要求。我勉强同意了。”
在接下来的三十年里，她创作了 20 多本书籍。儿童书籍作家和插画家协会（Walter 女士也是该协会的共同创始人之一）的创始人 Lin Oliver 在她去世后的悼词中写道，这些作品“改变了儿童文学的进程”。
在她的第一本书《瓦茨的莉莉：生日发现》(Lillie of Watts: A Birthday Discovery, 1969, 由 Leonora E. Prince 绘图) 中，Walter 女士讲述了一个住在洛杉矶瓦茨社区的害羞女孩的故事——时间是在当地发生骚乱四年后——她在 11 岁生日那天寻找一只丢失的猫。
在续集《瓦茨的莉莉跨出巨大一步》(Lillie of Watts Takes a Giant Step, 1971, 由 Bonnie Helene Johnson 绘图) 中，莉莉在马尔科姆·X (Malcolm X) 身上发现了一位英雄，并产生了一种全新的自我-
(1999)，其中许多作品让他与一些后来出现在《黑道家族》（The Sopranos）演员表中的意裔美国演员共同演出。
“对我来说，扮演硬汉比扮演好人更容易，”帕斯托先生在 2000 年告诉《纽约每日新闻》。 “我在一个艰苦的社区长大。我没学过古典文学。我是一个街头演员，我的很多训练都是在片场完成的。”
文森特·多米尼克·帕斯托（Vincent Dominic Pastore）于 1946 年 7 月 14 日出生于纽约，并在威斯特彻斯特郡的郊区新罗谢尔长大。他的父亲约翰·帕斯托（John Pastore）是一名学校管理员，他的母亲娜塔莉·帕斯托（Natalie (Santadonato) Pastore）负责操持家务。
“我在一个纯粹的意裔美国人家中长大，”他告诉 Edge 杂志。“传统。我们住在新罗谢尔的一个意大利社区。我仍然能闻到披萨的味道！每个周五晚上都在男孩俱乐部里溜冰。美好的回忆。我们见过博彩业者和高利贷者。”
他在越南战争期间加入了海军，随后在佩斯大学学习戏剧。
在《黑道家族》中——他在 2000 年被写死后，又以零星的客串身份出现——他出演了几档真人秀节目，包括《名人实习生》、《名人家庭争霸赛》和《舞会明星》。
他推出了自己的品牌面酱，并在百老汇音乐剧《百老汇之弹》（Bullets Over Broadway）中饰演一个角色，这是伍迪·艾伦 2014 年将其 1994 年电影改编的舞台剧。
他与南希·伯克（Nancy Berke）的婚姻以离婚告终。他留下了女儿蕾妮·帕斯托（Renee Pastore）、一个孙女、妹妹莎莉·莫洛伊（Sally Molloy）和弟弟小约翰·帕斯托（John Pastore Jr.）。
2005 年，帕斯托先生被指控袭击其未婚妻丽莎·雷吉娜（Lisa Regina）。他达成了一项协议。
MILDRED PITTS WALTER
教师，作家，103 岁
价值。
沃尔特女士利用生动地童年记忆写下了《泰的一人乐队》（Ty’s One-Man Band，1980 年，由玛格特·托姆斯插图），讲述了一个男孩遇到一名流浪残疾人的故事，后者用洗涤板、汤匙、水桶和梳子演奏音乐给他人带来快乐。
《柯克斯评论》（Kirkus Reviews）指出，她在书中的文字“充满了节奏感：独腿男人的行走声、货运火车的经过声、敲击手指的声音和跺脚的声音”。1983 年，歌手卢·劳尔斯（Lou Rawls）在 PBS 系列节目《彩虹阅读》（Reading Rainbow）的一集中朗读了这个故事。
沃尔特女士 1986 年出版的图书《贾斯汀和世界上最棒的饼干》（Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World，由凯瑟琳·斯托克插图），讲述了一个男孩与祖父的关系，该书获得了美国图书馆协会的科雷塔·斯科特·金奖（Coretta Scott King Award）。
沃尔特女士凭借《因为我们是》（Because We Are，1983 年）、《麻烦之子》（Trouble’s Child，1985 年）以及一部关于该州种族正义斗争的非虚构作品《密西西比挑战》（Mississippi Challenge，1992 年）入围该奖项决赛。
与沃尔特女士合作插图四本书的帕特·卡明斯（Pat Cummings）在……
包括《我的妈妈需要我》（My Mama Needs Me，1983 年），讲述一个男孩帮照顾妹妹的故事。卡明斯赞赏她激励儿童阅读并了解自身历史的热情。
“她坚定地认为社会仍然深受普遍种族主义的困扰，”卡明斯先生在电子邮件中写道，“但她的故事从来没有过于沉重，也没有试图向孩子们说教。”
米尔德里德·皮茨（Mildred Pitts）于 1922 年 9 月 9 日出生在路易斯安那州斯威特维尔的一个伐木营地。她的父亲保罗·皮茨（Paul Pitts）是一名流动锯木厂工人，她的母亲玛丽·皮茨（Mary (Ward) Pitts）是一名美容师和助产士。
在她的回忆录中，沃尔特女士回忆起在实行种族隔离的路易斯安那州成长过程中所经历的痛苦与屈辱：醉酒的白人会在深夜敲她家的门，而且她在买鞋时不知道是否合脚，因为白人店主拒绝让黑人儿童试穿。镇上唯一的图书馆禁止黑人居民进入。
1940 年高中毕业后，她就读于路易斯安那州巴吞鲁格的南方大学，主修……
一项认罪协议，他在协议中承认企图袭击罪，以换取 10 天的社区服务。
尽管他的公众形象在提升，帕斯托雷先生仍与他位于布朗克斯和威斯特彻斯特的旧意裔美国人社区保持联系。他经常在佩勒姆湾的一家社交俱乐部出没，在他加入《黑道家族》后，店主在那里挂了他的照片。
当他的角色被揭露为政府线人时，他在 2000 年告诉《纽约时报》，他们把照片摘了下来。
“对于那帮人来说，我在电视上只是在演戏并不重要，”他说，“叛徒就是叛徒。”
但在“大胖子”普西（Big Pussy）死后，照片又被挂回去了。
“我被原谅了，”他说，“至少，我的照片重新回到了墙上。”
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英语。由于资金短缺，她有时会连续几天挨饿。她休学一年在华盛顿州的温哥华的一家造船厂工作，以赚取足够的钱完成大学学业，并于 1944 年毕业。
获得学士学位后，她搬到了洛杉矶。在申请教师岗位被拒后，她被一家洗衣店雇为销售员，随后成为洛杉矶统一学区的职员。
1947 年，她嫁给了厄尔·沃尔特（Earl Walter），一名社会工作者，后来成为了种族平等大会（CORE）洛杉矶分会的主席。
她也积极参与 CORE 的活动，她与丈夫共同组成了一支由不同种族成员组成的 CORE 团队，旨在测试对《昂鲁民权法》（Unruh Civil Rights Act）的执行情况。该法案由加利福尼亚州立法机构于 1959 年颁布，旨在禁止包括酒店和汽车旅馆在内的企业进行种族歧视。
厄尔·沃尔特于 1965 年去世。除了她的孙子外，沃尔特还留下了一个儿子克雷格（Craig）、一个孙女和四个曾孙。
ex-minister with business ties to China for envoy role
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Martin Cauchon, a vice-chair of the Canada China Business Coun- cil lobby group and former Liber- al cabinet minister, is under con- sideration tobeOttawa’s envoyto China as both countries work to mend fractured diplomatic and economic ties, three sources say. Mr. Cauchon, a justice minister in Jean Chrétien’s government, has a long history of developing close business ties with China. Prime Minister Mark Carney is seeking a business-friendly rela- tionship with Beijing as he looks to diversify trade away from the United States. He has set out to double non-U.S. exports globally over the next decade. The sources say other high- profile names that have been un- der consideration include Cana- dian Olympic Committee chief executive officer David Shoemak- er, former Newfoundland and La- brador premier Brian Tobin and former B.C. premier Christy Clark. Before joining the COC, Mr. Shoe- maker spent seven years as CEO of NBA China. Mr. Shoemaker, Mr. Tobin and Ms. Clark did not immediately re- spond to requests for comment. One of the sources said Mr. Tobin, vice-chair of BMO Financial Group, informed the government that he is not interested in the posting at this stage in his life.
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ends with tentative deal, but travellers still scrambling
OLIVIA GRANDY MATTHEW FRANK
WestJet is warning passengers it will take several days for its flight schedule to normalize after reaching a tentative deal early Monday morning with the union representing its 4,400 flight at- tendants. The Canadian Union of Public Employees said in a news release that the tentative agreement will be presented to the flight attend- ants for a ratification vote. In the meantime, they will return to work after a roughly one-day- long strike. But the airline cautioned that travellers would still need to be patient over the coming days. “As we resume flying and repo- sitioning our aircraft and crews, some flights may continue to be disrupted,”WestJetsaidinatravel advisory, adding that passengers should continue to check flight statuses and monitor e-mail and text notifications. The tentative deal ends the la- bour action by flight attendants, which had led to more than 920 cancelled flights since early Sat- urday morning, according to aviation analytics company Ciri- um, and left thousands stranded during the busy summer travel season. The union argued that the flight attendants are not fairly compensated for the work they perform before a plane departs and after it lands. Details of the deal were not im- mediately available. But Alia Hus- sain, president of CUPE Local 8125, did suggest it addresses con- cerns about unpaid work.
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Firefighters battle a blaze in West Attica, Greece, on Monday. Areas surrounding Athens remain at high risk in the coming days, with temperatures set to rise further. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/REUTERS
raise concern about global priorities
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Ottawa’s decision to slash its troop contri- butiontoUnitedNationsmissionsisspark- ing concern that the cuts will undermine Canada’s new Africa strategy and jeopar- dize its long-standing peacekeeping tradi- tions. By the middle of next year, the Depart- mentofNationalDefencesays,Canadawill withdraw its peacekeepers from UN mis- sions in Congo, South Sudan, Kosovo and Cyprus and sharply reduce its role in a multinational mission in the Sinai. Even before the withdrawal, Canada’s troop contribution ranked only 65th in UN
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peacekeeping missions, with fewer than 30 personnel deployed − the smallest num- ber it has ever contributed. After the latest planned cuts, it will rank about 100th, according to Walter Dorn, a peacekeeping expert and defence studies professor at Canadian Forces College in To- ronto. “The decision kills a long and proud tra- dition of Canadian peacekeeping,” said Prof. Dorn, who recalled that former prime minister Lester Pearson won Canada’s first Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for helping create the first UN peacekeeping force during the Suez Crisis. “At a time when the United Nations needsmoresupport,Canadaisreducingit,” he told The Globe and Mail. “We seem to have unlearned the lessons of two world
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wars that taught us how security must be thought of globally and international orga- nizationsneedtobevigorouslysupported.” In its announcement, DND said the cut toitsUNcontributionswillallowCanadato betteralignitsresourceswithhigher-prior- ity areas, including the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific regions. “This rebalancing will help sustain our commitments and strengthen readiness, enabling Canada to continue to contribute effectively alongside allies and partners,” Defence Minister David McGuinty said in a statement last month. About 50 to 60 members of the Armed Forces will be reassigned as a result of the planned withdrawals and reductions, the department said.
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SCIENCE After a long wait, the Canadian Space Agency’s Joshua Kutryk is finally set for liftoff A5
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JEFF WALL, THE ARREST, 1989, TRANSPARENCY IN LIGHTBOX, ED. 2 OF 3, 136.05 × 163.04 × 28.26 CM., AUDAIN ART MUSEUM COLLECTION. PURCHASED WITH FUNDS FROM THE AUDAIN FOUNDATION. 1996-98 ACCUSOFT INC.
Located in Whistler, B.C., the Audain Art Museum was founded through a philanthropic gift fromMichaelAudainandYoshikoKarasawa.OneofCanada’snewermuseums,itopenedtothe public in 2016. The museum’s Permanent Collection features more than 300 works representing the art of British Columbia. Special exhibitions throughout the year feature artists of national and international significance. www.audainartmuseum.com
Jeff Wall has gained an international following over the past 50 years, and he continues to explore an impressive range of creative possibilities in photo-based art. This work represents a period when he focused on producing tableau-like images using transpar- enciesmountedinlightboxes.Suchsingle-framenarrativesalsounderscoretheinfluen- ce of Vancouver’s film industry. The actors, two dressed as police officers, dominate a third figure – a supposed criminal clad in denim – as they check his pockets for contra- band or other evidence of unlawful activity.
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A Monday business commentary article about labour disruption in Canada’s air travel sector characterized Gerry Schwartz as an owner of WestJet. The airline is majority owned by Onex Corp. Mr. Schwartz, who founded Onex, is the chairman and, as of May this year, owned 10.6 per cent of the company’s ordinary shares.
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changes its name to Naoero
CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY WELLINGTON
The Pacific Island country of Nauru has changed its name to the Republic of Naoero, its Presi- dent said, matching the spelling and pronunciation in the nation- al language. The country’s international code will change from NRU to NRO, and its people will be known as dei-Naoero instead of Nauruan. Commonly known abroad by the pronunciation of Now-roo, the new name is spoken as Now-ero. The move would return the re- mote South Pacific island nation to its traditional name, a state- ment posted Thursday to the government’s Facebook account said. The country became known internationally as Nauru only be- cause its local name was difficult for foreigners to pronounce and was a matter of convenience rather than one of choice, ac- cording to an earlier government statement. “This proposed change seeks to more faithfully honour our na- tion’s heritage, our language and our identity,” President David Adeang said when he proposed the move to Parliament in Janu- ary. The suggested constitutional amendment has been endorsed by lawmakers in the requisite two rounds of voting, though it wasn’t immediately clear if the document had been formally amended. With 12,000 residents, Nauru is the world’s third-smallest country by population size, after Tuvalu and Vatican City. The tiny coral limestone atoll was colo- nized by Germany and later ad- ministered by Australia before becoming an independent re- public in 1968. It has faced tumultuous cir- cumstances, with phosphate mining creating huge wealth on the island in the 1970s before the
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Republic of Naoero President David Adeang speaks at the Boao Forum of Asia, in China's Hainan province, in 2024. TIAN MacLEOD JI/AP
industry collapsed, bringing Nauru to the brink of economic ruin in the 1990s. Now, the country is among the world’s most at risk from rising seas owing to climate change, prompting the government to seek overseas investment through a paid citizenship pro- gram intended to fund the move- ment of people and infrastruc- ture away from the encroaching ocean. The name change indicated “the beginning of renewed na- tional pride,” Mr. Adeang said in his latest announcement. When his government last voted for the move in May, the President an- nounced a referendum to con- firm it. The government said in last week’s statement that after “ex- tensive discussions,” lawmakers had decided a public vote wasn’t needed. “While a referendum is in- tended to determine the will of the people, the name Naoero has never been lost, but rather wait- ing to be fully embraced,” the statement said. The designation “is already the identity of the people, is on the national coat of arms, and
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spoken in the community; and importantly is allowed by the Constitution,” it added. The move makes the country the latest to signal a shift away from a colonial past by changing its name. The tiny African king- dom of Eswatini reverted to its historic name from Swaziland in 2018. Other countries have sought the switch as a sort of re- brand, as Turkey did when Anka- ra asked the United Nations in 2022 to begin calling the country Türkiye, which it had long gone by at home. Nauru’s decision will prompt the renaming of its national air- craft and ships. The government was already seeking to have oth- er countries and international in- stitutions recognize the shift, its statement said. The website of the United Na- tions records the country by its new name, noting the govern- ment had requested it be changed in June. Australia and New Zealand’s foreign ministries, as well as the U.S. and Chinese embassies in the region, also des- ignate the country as Naoero on their websites.
Foreign Influence Commissioner Anton Boegman told The Globe and Mail that the registry is broad by design to minimize the risk that people will try to exploit loopholes. JUSTIN TANG/THE CANADIAN PRESS Uncertainty over who enrolls in new foreign-influence registry
mize the risk that people will try to exploit loopholes, Foreign Influence Commission- erAntonBoegmantoldTheGlobeandMail in an interview. He officially assumes his role on Tuesday. “It’s a transparency requirement and re- ally not a restriction on any kind of lawful participation in civil discourse or in politi- cal or government matters,” he said. There are carve-outs; accredited diplo- mats don’t have to register, nor do domes- tic government officials acting within their mandates. For now, those whose work involves en- gagement with Indigenous communities on behalf of foreign principals do not have to register; that element will be imple- mented later. Mr. Boegman said sector-specific guide- lines will be developed over time, and tweaks are possible as implementation rollsout.Hisofficewillalsoreachouttopo- tential registrants to help them under- stand their obligations. AsofTuesday,thosewhoseworkalready falls under the registry’s requirements have 60 days to register. Any new arrange- ments must be registered within 14 days. The data registrants must provide in- clude identifying information such as dates of birth and business numbers, as well as details about the foreign principal and the specifics of the arrangement, such as what governmental processes are being influenced, the influence activities them- selves, and any benefits or compensation being provided. Those who fail to register could face fines of up to $1-million or criminal prose- cution. An analysis published by the Liberal government earlier this year as part of the regulatory process to set up the registry said 872 people and 1,550 businesses would be required to register, an estimate based on Australia’s experience with its registry. Mr. Boegman said that being registered shouldn’t be perceived as negative. “I think hopefully Canadians are going to understand that the registry ultimately is going to strengthen the protections that we have; it’s going to strengthen the demo- cratic processes and institutions that we have and just help them better understand when activities are taking place on behalf of foreign principals.” The Liberal government tabled the For- eign Influence Transparency and Account- ability Act in 2023 amid fallout from media coverage of foreign interference in Cana- dian domestic politics.
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A long-awaited registry intended to shed more light on state-backed foreign-influ- enceactivitiesinCanadalaunchesTuesday with uncertainty lingering over who will have to sign up. Journalists, professional service provid- ersincludinglawyersandaccountants,and entities such as the sovereign wealth funds that Prime Minister Mark Carney is court- ing for investment in Canada are among those whose activities may have to be logged. The new system is part of the Liberal government’s broad response to concerns raised about state-backed meddling in elections and other democratic processes in Canada, which culminated in the 2024 Hogue Inquiry. Advocates for a registry say it will ensure transparencyandaccountabilityfrompeo- ple working on behalf of foreign govern- ments and protect communities who could be targets. Butthelegalcommunityandcivil-rights organizations say the system created by the Liberals is too broad. They are urging the independent Office of the Foreign In- fluence Commissioner of Canada to swiftly clarifywhattriggerstheneedtoregisterbe- fore the intent of process is lost. The definition of who must register as of Tuesday includes three criteria: they have an arrangement with a foreign principal; the goal of the arrangement is to influence a political or governmental process in Can- ada;andthearrangementinvolvesspecific influence activities. Amongthosedefinedasaforeignprinci- pal are states, a group or organization of states or foreign powers, or economic enti- ties owned or controlled by states – a defi- nition that would encompass sovereign wealth funds and multilateral organiza- tions such as NATO or the United Nations. Influence activities are defined as com- municatingwithapublicofficeholder–in- cluding, but not limited to, elected officials – or with the public. TheOfficeoftheForeignInfluenceCom- missioner of Canada’s website says that in- fluence activities could also include pub- lished or streamed media interviews, which would mean journalists who pub- lish interviews with foreign officials would have to register. The registry is broad by design to mini-
INFANTINO SOUGHT TRUMP BACKING AFTER WORLD CUP SELL-OFF PROPOSAL COLLAPSED, ACCORDING TO SOURCES
FIFA President Gianni Infantino sought support from the Trump administration amid mounting criticism after his aban- doned plan to sell a stake in World Cup commercial rights, the New York Post said on Monday, citing sources familiar with the matter. The Post reported that Mr. Infantino had repeatedly tried and failed to reach U.S. President Donald Trump by phone since the proposal collapsed on Friday, and that the FIFA chief felt “isolated” by an avalanche of negative media coverage. FIFA had no immediate comment. Criticism has intensified over Mr. Infantino’s failed plan to spin off the world soccer governing body’s commer- cial assets into a new entity backed by private investors. FIFA’s plan to unlock up to US$4.2- billion from private investors by selling a roughly 20 per cent stake in a new entity overseeing competitions including the World Cup ended in retreat on Friday after fierce resistance from stakeholders. With the idea abandoned, attention has now turned to the potential repercus- sions for Mr. Infantino, whose bid for another term as FIFA president from 2027 to 2031 faces increased scrutiny following the failed initiative.
The bill, which among other things cre- ated the registry and Mr. Boegman’s posi- tion, became law in 2024. Opposition MPs and diaspora groups have since criticized the government for delaying the establishment of the registry, saying people were being put at risk. Some groups, however, have argued the registry as it was unveiled doesn’t go far enough.Itdoesn’treflect,forexample,that public office holders’ families can be tar- gets of foreign interference or intimida- tion. Inabrieftogovernmentearlierthisyear, the Canadian Coalition for a Foreign Influ- ence Transparency Registry and the Hu- man Rights Action Group expressed con- cern that registering could confer legitima- cy on some coercive activities. Stillotherssaytheopen-endednatureof the program could undermine its goal. Tamir Israel of the Canadian Civil Liber- ties Association said there is a risk that Canadianorganizationswillshyawayfrom engagement with global partners because determining thresholds for registration is too complicated, and they don’t want to risk fines or punishment. That journalists could be required to register raises questions about whether in turn they could be investigated for their work, he added. Other countries with foreign-influence registries have more explicit direction at- tached, he said, and Canada missed an im- portant opportunity. “We’re left with a regulatory regime that isunclearandcouldpotentiallygovery,ve- ry far in excess of what its legitimate pa- rameters are,” he said. Alexis Levine, a partner with the firm Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, said the pur- pose of the act and the registry is to stop foreign states from interfering either di- rectly or through economic entities they control, and that is important. But the registry as structured captures a broad range of legitimate domestic eco- nomic activity, he said, such as licensing and permits. “I also think that will make it difficult initially to separate the wheat from the chaff because there will be so many initial registrations that it will be hard to identify true attempts at foreign influence from routine economic activity,” he said. “It will be interesting to see how the commissioner manages that so as to make sure that the purpose of the act doesn’t get drowned out in precautionary filings and compliance.”
accounts closed owing to money laundering concerns: filing
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Bank accounts held by U.S. Presi- dent Donald Trump were closed by Capital One in 2021 after it flagged financial activity that had characteristics of money launder- ing, the bank disclosed in a court filing over the weekend. The court filing is tied to a law- suit filed against Capital One by oneofMr.Trump’sfinancialhold- ing companies shortly after he was sworn into office a second time. Mr. Trump alleges that Cap- ital One illegally closed his ac- counts for political reasons, after the Jan. 6 attacks on the U.S. Capi- tol. Capital One wants the lawsuit dismissed. “Theclosuresweretheresultof months of analysis and a careful review by Capital One’s AML team in accordance with bank policies and regulatory guid- ance,” the bank said in the court filing. The term “AML” is an ab- breviation for anti-money laun- dering. Mr. Trump has sued Capital One, as well as JPMorgan Chase, for allegedly debanking him after he left office in 2021. Debanking occurs when banks shut down customer accounts because they believe they pose financial, legal or reputational risks to the banks. Both banks have denied they severed their relationships with the President, his sons and other related businesses for political reasons. The lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase is seeking dam- ages of US$5-billion. JPMorgan hassaiditdoesnotcloseaccounts for political reasons, but closes accounts “with or without cause” and also accounts that create “legal or regulatory risk.” In July, after the original law- suithadlaiddormantformonths, lawyers for the President filed an amended lawsuit that alleged the bank debanked him for political reasons. The bank says the new allegations are without merit, saying the complaint rests on “new theories are based on cher- ry-picked quotations.” Mr. Trump’s legal team dismis- sed that claim Monday, but did not address the internal findings by the bank. “Capital One, along with other major banks, de-banked Presi- dent Trump, his family, and his businesses for blatantly political reasons,” a spokesperson for Mr. Trump’s legal team said. “Presi- dent Trump’s powerful lawsuit holdsCapitalOneaccountablefor its disgraceful conduct, and we look forward to seeing this matter through to a just and proper con- clusion.” Conservatives have long al- leged that banks debank them and their political allies. The alle- gations became louder after Operation Choke Point, an initia- tive during the Obama adminis- tration when regulators pressed banks to cut off financial services to the firearm industry, tobacco and payday lenders, among oth- ers. The cryptocurrency industry alleged it was also a victim of debanking during the Biden ad- ministration. Mr. Trump signed an executive order in August, 2025, titled Guar- anteeing Fair Banking for All Americans directing federal bank regulators to terminate examin- ations of banks over who they were doing business with. The Trump administration has also subpoenaed records of the big- gest banks as part of an investiga- tion into alleged debanking. Mr. Trump had more than 300 bank accounts with Capital One before they were closed. The bank accounts were for a variety of Trump-brandedbusinesses,rang- ing from a golf course to a winery. Mr. Trump had banked with Cap- ital One for more than a decade before the accounts were closed. In the court filing, Capital One said it had no reason to make a political statement with the clos- ing of Mr. Trump’s accounts in 2021 and the move had every- thing to do with activity in the accounts being flagged by anti- money-laundering experts with the bank. “Capital One never publicized the termination decision nor its confidential internal process giv- ing rise to the closure, and it per- mitted Plaintiffs several months (and granted several extensions) to find new banking services, which they did,” the bank said.
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The author’s neighbours’ float plane is seen from his cottage. Wildfires in Lac des Mille Lacs are ‘not under control’ according to Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources. ERIC REGULYERIC REGULY/THE GLOBE AND MAIL Memories of a cottage that may go up in smoke
Our little slice of heaven may become just that, memories, if wildfires in the Northwestern Ontario region are not brought under control
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ever in my life have I prayed harder for rain. We cottagers in North- western Ontario are desperate for rain as wildfires − most of them “not under control,” according to the province’s Ministry of Natu- ral Resources − consume vast tracts of the gorgeous wilderness around our pristine lakes. “Fort Francis 14,” the MNR- designated name for the fire burning on the northern and western expanses of our enor- mous lake, Lac des Mille Lacs, covers almost 52,000 hectares and has already consumed at least three fishing resorts and dozens of cottages, known as “camps” in local argot. As far as we know – the access roads to our lake have been closed since mid-July – the 20 or so cottages on our stretch of Pine Point, the narrow north-south peninsula that bisects the lake, are still in- tact. But for how much longer? One strong wind from the north – and no rain – could doom the proper- ties. The MNR maps updated dai- ly put the fire line four or five kilometres up the road. The pow- er lines melted down weeks ago. One thing I know for sure is this: Were he at the cottage, my late father, Bob Reguly, would have ignored the evacuation or- ders. Not just because he built and loved the cottage and would have protected it with his last watt of energy, but because he knew how to fight fires. During his university years in the mid-1950s, he spent his sum- mers with the Saskatchewan Smoke Jumpers, parachuting in- to fire zones from Norseman float planes and walking out with his team of hard men to the near- est river or lake, where they would be picked up. It was one of the most dangerous jobs in Cana- da. To be honest, our cottage and some of our neighbours’ places have little material value. They are mostly simple wooden build- ings that would be considered shacks by the standards of Southern Ontario. The true value of our cottages lives in the me- mories and good times they pro- duced during the decades we carved them out of the Canadian Shield with simple tools and our bare hands. The labour of love united our family and cottage friends and, in our case, was the one constant in our peripatetic lives (I have lived in a dozen ci- ties in four countries). Lac des Mille Lacs lies about 100 kilometres west of Thunder Bay. From the early 1800s, it was on the fur-trade route. In 1870, during the Red River Rebellion led by Métis leader Louis Riel, the Canadian government sent the Wolseley Expedition to assert federal authority at the Red River Settlement at Fort Garry. Colonel Garnet Wolseley’s thousand or so men passed through our area on the way to Manitoba. Some of the men carved their names on a
The author paints the sauna house at his family’s cottage on Lac des Mille Lacs in Northwestern Ontario in 2024.
boulder on the remote south end of the lake. Dad was born in Thunder Bay when it was the twin cities of Fort William and Port Arthur, fished on the lake when he was a youngster, in the late 1930s, and marvelled at its beauty and rug- gedness. In 1968, the Crown sold off some of the lake’s land. Dad and I flew from Washington, D.C., where we were living, to Thunder Bay in a Vickers Viscount prop plane. He bought a one-acre plot on the sole sandy beach on the eastern side of Pine Point penin- sula. The price: $400. I remember sitting on the beach watching the loons and ea- gles and thinking I was in heav- en. At the time, there was only one cottage on the lake. Then to work. My father could not afford a chainsaw and clear- ed much of the land with a buck- saw while my mother, Ada, scraped, sanded, painted, plant- ed a garden and cooked. A cedar- plank cottage went up, later a barn and a sauna. As we entered our teen years, my two younger sisters, Susan and Becky, and I were press-ganged into action. My work boots were (and still are) the combat boots my father wore in the Vietnam War, which he covered in 1967 for the Toron- to Star. We had no electricity for the first 15 years or so and moved with the rhythms of the day – up at dawn, in bed by dusk and reading ourselves to sleep by oil lamp. The fishing and hunting lodge down the road kept an ice hut, where we bought chunks of ice insulated by sawdust. Dinner was often freshly caught pickerel, which the Americans called wal- leye. From our canoes, we collect- ed fiddleheads from the sides of creeks and swamps and, wearing masks and flippers, freshwater clams from the lake shallows. A few of the lads had small Honda trail bikes, and we would visit the remains of a 1940s prisoner-of- war camp along an old logging road. Like us, none of the neigh- bours were rich and everything was built by hand for the love of the property and the lake. Every-
one helped everyone else, and we would often celebrate a job well done with an afternoon of water skiing, followed by a beach bonfire and fish fry. The cast of characters was amusing. Len, our bus driver neighbour, taught his dog to yo- del when he and his guests played the guitar. Evelyn, a Kan- sas woman who married a Mex- ican, and her mother, Mama Vi- va, regaled us with stories of their youth in Texas, smoked and drank a lot – Evelyn routinely wa- ter-skied with a cigarette in her mouth − and left guns lying around like toys. (I once acciden- tally fired a .22-calibre rifle that was lying on the kitchen counter, sending a bullet into the roof beams.) Rodney, who was a fish- ing guide on the lake when he was young, would take me by boat to visit abandoned logging camps, with their hulking, rust- ing steam engines. We were always aware that wildfires could destroy our hard- won creations. One summer, about 35 years ago, they came dangerously close. Every able- bodied man, me included, grabbed a shovel and manual water pumps. When the flames reached a kilometre from our properties, the cottagers who were not fighting the fires loaded valuable items into their boats, which were to be anchored off- shore. Just as we were about to give up hope, an orange-and-red Can- adair CL-215 water bomber, its twin 18-cylinder engines roaring, came out of nowhere and did three or four drops, ending the fire threat. I cheered as the plane thundered overhead, seconds be- fore getting hit by a wall of water. There have been no reports of Canadairs trying to drown the fires on our lake; protecting the towns, villages and Indigenous reserves from the region’s doz- ens of wildfires is the priority, not a few cottages. That’s why we are all praying for rain. We dread seeing the source of so much adventure, happiness and freedom go up in smoke. I wish my smokejumper father were around to protect his gift to his family.
Greece as Europe sees hot, dry summer
DEREK GATOPOULOS SYLVIE CORBET ATHENS
A record-breaking hot and dry summer tightened its grip on Europe on Monday, as water-dropping planes swooped over a major wildfire in Greece, firefighters in France sought to stabilizeablazeinProvence,andmuchofBritainrecordedits driest July in nearly two centuries. Wildfires west of Athens jumped containment lines a day after a mid-air collision between two helicopters killed two crew members. A Greek and a Danish national died, and two others were hospitalized after the collision on Sunday. All four were private operators chartered by the Greek fire- fighting service. In France, firefighters in the region around Bordeaux guarded against potential flare-ups inside a still-burning scar four times the size of Paris. A prolonged heat wave and lack of rainfall led to the driest July in England and Wales in nearly 200 years of recordkeep- ing, according to provisional statistics, Britain’s weather ser- vice said Monday. All of Wales and more than half of England are officially in drought, the Met Office said. The dry spell was accompanied by sweltering temperatures across much of the United King- dom, after heat waves in May and June. Wales tied its record for the warmest mean temperature for July, while England and the U.K. recorded their second- warmest July. Strong winds returned to southern Greece late on Monday, pushing flames into mountain home clusters, destroying farms and property and closing a highway. Areas surrounding the Greek capital remain at high risk through the week, with temperatures set to rise further. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated from around the sea- side resort of Porto Germeno and other areas west of the cap- ital – including more than 250 rescued by boats from beaches in the area. “This is a difficult fire that has troubled us,” Fire Service spokesman Yiannis Artopios said, adding that 12 water-drop- ping planes and 11 helicopters were operating in the area Monday. The blaze was blamed on a faulty power line from a wind farm and led to the arrests of two contractors on charges of negligent arson. Despite improved detection methods and expanded co- operation among European Union members, Greece and other countries along Europe’s Mediterranean coast suffer devastating wildfires every summer as spells of heat-wave temperatures grow longer. Europe is Earth’s fastest-warming continent, heating at morethantwicetheglobalaveragesincethe1980s,according to the European Union’s Copernicus climate service. Rising temperatures and prolonged drought leave vegetation drier and more combustible, allowing fires to spread faster and burn more intensely. Thousands of evacuees were allowed to return home or to their holiday accommodations in France on Monday after a massive wildfire remained contained. More than 224,000 people had fled in what officials said was the country’s large- st civilian evacuation outside wartime. The wildfire burned about 420 square kilometres, making it France’s largest wildfire on record.
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An Erickson firefighting helicopter makes strategic water drops as a wildfire burns in Mount Kitheronas, near Psatha, west of Athens, on Monday. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/REUTERS
B.C. WILDFIRES AROUND OKANAGAN LAKE FORCE MORE EVACUATIONS AS WIND GUSTS FAN FLAMES
VERNON, B.C. Atlyn Becker remembers the hills glowing orange around her on Saturday as her truck edged north to safety from fires burning around British Columbia’s Okana- gan Lake. She and her family were among thousands who fled their homes over the weekend with whatever they could pack, as high winds pushed flames over drought-parched land. She estimates there were about 200 vehicles moving slowly down the road with her. “You could feel the heat of the fire. You could hear the crackling of the trees. The fire was just raging,” she said Monday, after safely arriving in Kelowna. Ms. Becker said she watched through the window of her truck as firefighters cut apart fallen trees with chainsaws so that people could drive through. “[Fire] was right down to the road, all the way up the side of the mountain, and it was actually terrifying because you don’t know if a tree is going to fall on you,” she said. Multiple evacuation orders and alerts have been issued over the last several days because of fires burning in areas around Okanagan Lake. Central Okanagan Emergency Management said more than 2,200 properties under its jurisdiction have been evacuated due to the Quilpituk Creek wildfire. Further up the lake, the Regional District of North Oka- nagan expanded evacuation orders and alerts on Sunday because of the Bradley Creek wildfire. Many residents rushed to escape over the weekend as winds gusting up to 115 kilometres an hour fanned the fire, destroying homes as it burned to the water line. Ms. Becker and her family chose to leave their Westshore Estates neighbourhood before they were officially ordered out as the fires burning on either side of them led to the evacuation of other communities, including the Okanagan Indian Band reserve land. She said she watched planes and crews on the ground do the best they could to fight the flames, but the heavy winds on Saturday were too much. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Joshua Kutryk from Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., is preparing for a six-month stint on the International Space Station
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or the second time this year, a Canadian astronaut is heading to space. It’s been four months since Jer- emy Hansen and his U.S. crew- mates captured the world’s atten- tion when they rocketed around the moon and back in just over nine days. Now, Joshua Kutryk, a 44-year- old native of Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., is stepping into the spot- light as he prepares for a six- month stint on the International Space Station. He is heading to the ISS along- side U.S. astronauts Jessica Wat- kins and Luke Delaney and Rus- sian cosmonaut Sergey Teteryat- nikov. The quartet is scheduled to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida as early as Sept. 12. The assignment marks the first trip to orbit for Colonel Kutryk and the first long-duration space mission for a Canadian in more than seven years. During his time aboard the orbiting laboratory, Col. Kutryk will conduct science experiments on topics as diverse as disease modelling using stem-cell-de- rived human tissue, blood flow disorders and crop production in space. A former test pilot and instruc- tor with the Royal Canadian Air Force, Col. Kutryk was selected to be an astronaut by the Canadian Space Agency in 2017. While his journey to the launch pad has not been quite as long as Homer’s Odyssey, it has included at least one unplanned detour.
During his time aboard the orbiting laboratory, Col. Kutryk will conduct science experiments on topics as diverse as disease modelling using stem-cell-derived human tissue, blood flow disorders and crop production in space.
Canadian Space Agency mission specialist Joshua Kutryk answers a question during a SpaceX Crew-13 news conference at Johnson Space Center on Monday. ANNIE MULLIGAN/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
In 2023, Col. Kutryk was cho- sen for a future flight to the sta- tion on a Boeing Starliner. But the next year, problems with that spacecraft during its first crewed test flight turned a planned eight- day mission for two U.S. astronauts into an unplanned nine-month stay on the station. That put Col. Kutryk’s ride on hold. But in April, NASA an- nounced he and his crewmates would be travelling to the station aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule. (For Col. Kutryk and his wife Heather, the timing of the flight means that he is on track to be in space during the birth of their third child.) Recently, Col. Kutryk spoke with The Globe and Mail about what he hopes to achieve on the trip.
What has it been like to train with SpaceX, particularly on such a short timeline to launch?
It is a very different paradigm in some ways from missions gone by. Canadian Space Agency astro- nauts previously flew on Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft, and before that, the space shuttle. This time we don’t train so much at NASA
when it comes to the launch vehicle. We do all that training at SpaceX in Hawthorne, Calif. But at the same time, their approach to this complicated problem of how you launch and recover humans from outer space is simi- lar to what we might have seen previously.
Because you first trained for a flight with the Boeing Starliner, do you feel you gained an extra layer of expertise?
That’s how I look at it. I’m one of only a few astronauts, and the only one from Canada, trained to fly that vehicle. I got to
participate in the piloting of that vehicle. I was a flight controller for the first crewed launch. I feel, in some ways, that I’ve almost gotten two space flights out of this mission.
Yours is only the fourth long- duration mission for a Canadian on the space station. How will you spend your time?
The six months are highly pro- grammed. In the broadest sense, our focus is on two main things. The first is to keep the space sta- tion in running order. That could mean fixing a computer circuit board. That could mean putting a space suit on and going outside to replace a pump module. You have to be able to do all of that. The second part is the science. The space station is a place where we can do complicated science that we’re unable to do on Earth. Some of that science is related to spaceflight and what we have to do to be able to take our next steps, which involves going to the moon. But a lot of the science re- lates to problems here on Earth, including aging and disease. A majority of my time will be spent on that, performing experiments for researchers from around the world, many from Canada.
On the personal side, you’re mar- ried, with two young children. You and your wife, Heather, are expect- ing your third child while you’re in space. How are you preparing for that?
We’re extremely excited for it, and we feel really good about it. On the technical side, the space station has a lot of infrastructure now to keep us connected, so I can call or FaceTime pretty much any time and we’ll be able to do that. Of course, the bad side is that I won’t be here, and that’s a challenge we’re going to have to deal with. But we will. We’re surrounded by an enor- mous support network here and in Canada, and we have no doubt that we’ll be able to manage. With
a job like this, you can’t ever pre- dict exactly when something’s going to happen or when you’re going to launch. There’s a lot of good things about being in this job, but there are some challeng- es, and that’s one of them.
What is important about this mission from a Canadian perspec- tive?
I think, pragmatically, this is an important mission to enable future steps in outer space. The space station missions that we’re doing now are quite complex in their own right, but they’re all de- signed to be building blocks for what we’re going to have to do at an even more extreme level with the Artemis program. The space station is a test bed for technol- ogies that will be used in the next leap, as we work toward a sus- tained human presence on the surface of the moon. For six months we’ll have a Canadian in orbit passing over- head every 90 minutes. It’s a very vivid sign – a beacon in space, lit- erally, that shows Canadians what we can do as a country.
Jeremy Hansen’s flight on Artemis II put Canada’s role as a partner in full view. What’s your sense of Canadians’ interest level in the space program at this point?
My sense is that interest in human space exploration, inter- est in what we can do to support life here on Earth – interest in all of that has been dramatically ac- celerated because of Artemis II. It shows what the future can look like if we go out and try to do some of these really difficult mis- sions together. People were in- spired to look at the future optimistically, to dream about what we can do as a species. We’re riding that wave of increased ex- citement for space, and we hope it continues because it’s impor- tant, especially for Canada.
This interview has been edited and condensed.
Trump claims of talks
Contradictory statements suggest there is little prospect for a diplomatic resolution to the war anytime soon
NANDITA BOSE ELWELY ELWELLY PARISA HAFEZI
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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that talks with Iran were under way, warning that it was a “last chance” for Tehran to sign a good deal to end the five-month-old war, but Iran denied that any negotiations were being held or planned. The contradictory statements suggest there is little pros- pect for a diplomatic resolution to the war any time soon. “They are going on right now,” Mr. Trump told reporters at an Oval Office event when asked about the state of negotia- tions, saying the sides were talking at the request of Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, among others. “This is a last chance for them (Iran) to sign a good docu- ment,” he said. Mr. Trump’s comments followed his decision this week- end to call off what he said would be “massive attacks” he had authorized on Iran, saying talks were to be held, repeat- ing a pattern in which he has vowed major strikes only to cancel them. Earlier on Monday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said no negotiations with the United States were taking place and no meetings were scheduled. Iran had no plans to host foreign delegations or send negotiators abroad in the coming days, he said. Mr. Baghaei added that all Iranian negotiators were cur- rently in the country, apart from Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who was on a religious pilgrimage in Iraq. The only talks under way, he said, were discussions with Oman over management of the Strait of Hormuz. A senior Iranian source also told Reuters that no talks were planned and that Mr. Araghchi would be unavailable at least until the end of the week. Gulf officials and analysts say Iran is betting it can outlast Washington by turning the Middle East’s trade routes, ship- ping lanes and energy infrastructure into pressure points that steadily raise the cost of confrontation, hoping to con- vince the United States and its allies that containing the crisis is more costly than accommodating Iran’s demands over the Strait of Hormuz. “Their big advantage is that they can hurt the regional states and the global economy,” said Michael Knights of the Washington Institute. In a post on Truth Social later on Monday, Mr. Trump called Iran’s leadership “unbelievably duplicitous,” saying they had asked for a meeting and more talks were scheduled for the “immediate future.” He also repeated his assertion that the U.S. Navy had total control over the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas flowed before the conflict. “‘The United States Wall of Steel!’ Nothing gets through to Iran, unless we want it to, and nothing will get through, un- less a Deal, or Total Surrender, is accomplished,” he wrote. Monday’s developments appeared to fit a pattern that has emerged since Mr. Trump launched “Operation Epic Fury” alongside Israel more than five months ago. On several occa- sions, Mr. Trump has threatened military action only to later cite diplomatic contacts as a reason for stepping back. Iran, however, has publicly rejected negotiations with Washington since a June memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the conflict collapsed in early July. Mr. Trump has yet to achieve the objectives he set out at the outset of the war: dismantling Iran’s nuclear program, curbing its ability to attack regional rivals and creating condi- tions for Iranians to overthrow their clerical rulers.
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ILLIA NOVIKOV KYIV
Russian planes dropped eight powerful glide bombs in a span of 90 minutes on residential dis- tricts of the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing one person and wounding dozens of others, regional chief Ivan Fedo- rov said Monday. Meanwhile, six people were killed by Ukrainian drone debris in Arkhipo-Osipovka, a small town on Russia’s Black Sea coast in the Krasnodar region, regional governor Veniamin Kondratyev said, adding that 40 others were wounded. Three other people were killed and two were wounded in Uk- raine’s overnight attack on the illegally annexed Crimea, said the peninsula’s Russian-installed head, Sergei Aksyonov. He gave no details. Neither side’s claims could be independently verified. Ukraine’s innovative long- range drone technology devel- oped during the war has enabled Kyiv to sign military co-oper- ation agreements with nine countries, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday. Under the deals, Ukraine re- ceives long-term funding for its defence industry while partner countries get new defence capa- bilities, he said, adding that agreements with 15 other coun- tries are being negotiated. Ukraine is using its long-range strike drones to hit targets deep inside Russia in an effort to push Russian President Vladimir Putin into seeking a peace settlement,
Police paramedics evacuate a wounded resident from an apartment building hit by a Russian air strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Sunday. REUTERS
Mr. Zelensky said in a speech to Ukrainian diplomats. “We will work very hard to make that happen this fall,” he said. Ukraine wants countries to adopt heavier international sanctions on Moscow, but exist- ing sanctions also need tighten- ing to prevent Russian compa- nies from exploiting loopholes, he said. Mr. Zelensky also announced he is appointing Rustem Ume- rov, who has been involved in U.S. diplomatic efforts to stop the war, as head of the Foreign Intelligence Service. Russia has used glide bombs against Ukrainian towns and ci- ties since it invaded its neigh- bour more than four years ago.
Acting Attorney-General Todd Blanche appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington in July. MARK SCHIEFELBEIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Blanche’s attorney-general nomination
DAN ROSENZWEIG-ZIFF
Two key Republican senators said on Monday they would support Todd Blanche’s nomination for U.S. Attorney-General, paving the way for his confirmation after re- aching a deal that would rescind an “anti-weaponization” package widely criticized as a slush fund for supporters of President Do- nald Trump. Senators John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina had held up Mr. Blanche’s nomi- nation as they sought written confirmation that the Justice De- partment would not move for- ward with the US$1.8-billion fund. Mr. Blanche, a former per- sonal lawyer for Mr. Trump now serving as acting Attorney-Gener- al, posted a statement on social media on Sunday saying the fund had been rescinded. “We want to express our grat- itude to Mr. Blanche and his staff for working with us on this, and we look forward to voting to ad- vance his nomination out of the Senate Judiciary Committee soon,” Mr. Cornyn and Mr. Tillis said in a joint statement. Their support likely enables the committee to advance Mr. Blanche’s nomination on Tues- day. A vote by the full Senate could come as early as Saturday, unless Democrats agree to an ear- lier vote. The agreement appears to re- solve one of the highest-profile Republican challenges to Mr. Trump in Congress, led by the two lawmakers. Mr. Tillis is retir- ing in January and Mr. Cornyn lost his primary for the Republi- can nomination after Mr. Trump endorsed other Senate candi- dates in each of their states. The fund was created as part of
Senators John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina had held up Mr. Blanche’s nomination as they sought written confirmation that the Justice Department would not move forward with the US$1.8-billion fund.
The Soviet-era bombs are retro- fitted with guidance systems and can carry up to 3,000 kilograms of explosives, leaving huge cra- ters. Ukraine has no effective countermeasures. The Sunday evening on- slaught on Zaporizhzhia killed a 71-year-old woman and wound- ed 31 people, including a 16-year- old girl, as the glide bombs dam- aged 22 apartment buildings in four districts of the city, Mr. Fe- dorov said. While Moscow’s forces have captured the Zaporizhzhia Nu- clear Power Plant and hold other parts of the region, its capital city of the same name remains in Uk- rainian hands. It is one of the four regions, along with Donetsk, Kherson
a legal settlement to resolve a US$10-billion lawsuit Mr. Trump filed against his own govern- ment, alleging that the Internal Revenue Service had mishandled his tax records.
Supporters say the fund was intended to compensate individ- uals they argue were unfairly tar- geted by the federal government. Critics, including Mr. Tillis and Mr. Cornyn, said it could direct taxpayer money to Mr. Trump al- lies, including those who assault- ed police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Mr. Trump said Monday he was aware that the two Republican senators said they will vote to advance Mr. Blanche’s nomination. “I under- stand there’s been a sign-off, but … I don’t know what they agreed,” Mr. Trump told report- ers. “I think Todd Blanche agreed to reconfirm things that he’s al- ready said, and what he said was okay.” The Republican senators had also objected to a related order that barred the IRS from auditing past tax returns for Mr. Trump, his relatives and his companies for any tax returns filed before May 18. They said they wanted
and Luhansk, that Russia illegal- ly annexed in September 2022 even though its forces do not completely control them. Other large-scale damage of civilian areas has resulted from Russian ballistic missiles, and late Sunday, Mr. Zelensky made another urgent plea for coun- tries to send Ukraine more U.S.- made Patriot air defence sys- tems. Only Patriot interceptors can reliably stop ballistic missiles, but they are in short supply due to the Iran war. “The United States knows what we need. Europe knows what we need. Anti-ballistic mis- siles must protect people – not sit in stockpiles,” Mr. Zelensky said on social media. U.S. President Donald Trump last week appeared to back off from his earlier commitment to give Ukraine a licence to make Patriots itself. He said Friday that he hasn’t made a final decision. Mr. Zelensky has suggested an alternative to Mr. Trump where- by Elon Musk allows Ukraine to use Starlink satellites to target ballistic missile launch sites in- side Russia. Officials haven’t publicly said whether that is be- ing considered. Russia attacked Ukraine with 181 long-range strike drones overnight from Sunday to Mon- day, according to the Ukrainian air force. It said air defences jammed and intercepted 163 drones, but 14 caused damage at 13 locations. The Russian Defence Ministry said its forces struck four bulk carriers carrying cargo for the
clarifications to narrow to whom and how it applied to ensure that Mr. Trump did not receive blan- ket tax immunity forever. Mr. Blanche obliged, specify- ing that it only applies to Mr. Trump, his sons and the family business, and that their future tax returns could still be investi- gated. “The Department has ac- knowledged in a binding written order that the audit settlement is limited to the plaintiffs and the scope does not extend beyond the defendants in the lawsuit, the IRS and the Treasury, addressing concerns that multiple of our Re- publican colleagues share,” Mr. Tillis and Mr. Cornyn said. Mr. Blanche’s order stated that the tax order “applied by its terms only retroactively.” Critics of the Mr. Blanche order said im- munity for Mr. Trump’s past tax returns could still save the presi- dent millions, and that the settle- ment agreement requires the ap- proval of both sides, including Mr. Trump’s personal lawyers, to change it. Mr. Trump’s personal lawyers did not sign the order and have not publicly comment- ed on the decision. “They don’t pull back on the ongoing attempts to give the President, his family, and his affil- iates unauthorized immunity from tax audits,” Brandon DeBot, policy director at the non-parti- san Tax Law Center, said in a statement. “They don’t do any- thing new to stop the President from trying to bring back the fund, as he threatened to this weekend.” Mr. Blanche has served as act- ing Attorney-General since April, when Mr. Trump fired Pam Bon- di.
Ukrainian armed forces, includ- ing three in waters of the Black Sea and one in the port of Myko- laiv, but provided no further in- formation. Ukrainian drones also struck another major warehouse be- longing to Wildberries, Russia’s biggest online shopping compa- ny. The strike was part of a cam- paign that has hit more than a dozen of the retailer’s distribu- tion hubs and severely disrupted its business. A Wildberries warehouse in the Vladimir region east of Mos- cow caught fire in the latest at- tack, the company said Monday. Three people were injured, Vla- dimir Gov. Alexander Avdeyev said. Ukrainian drones also struck the Saratov oil refinery in south- western Russia, Mr. Zelensky said. Kyiv has repeatedly target- ed that refinery, and many oth- ers, since last year as it tries to choke fuel supplies to the Rus- sian army and deny Moscow in- come from oil exports. Mr. Zelensky said the Engels military air base near Saratov, the main base for Russian nucle- ar-capable strategic bombers, and other places inside Russia, including fuel storage tanks at the Lyudinovskaya oil depot in Russia’s Kaluga region, were tar- geted. The Russian Defence Ministry on Monday reported that its air defences overnight intercepted 131 Ukrainian drones over a number of Russian regions, as well as Crimea and the Black Sea.
The crisis has sparked diplomatic tensions within Europe over border policy
LEONARDO BENASSATTO DAVID LATONA
Hundreds of migrants set up camp on a beach in Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta on Mon- day as local authorities struggled to cope with the thousands still in the tiny territory after a mas- sive border rush last week. Spain estimates that about 69,500 migrants have returned to Morocco over the past four days, exceeding initial estimates of around 50,000 arrivals in Ceuta on Thursday. The official death toll on the Spanish side of the border stands at 72, with 11 deaths on the Moroccan side. Many said they left as shop clo- sures had left them without food, they encountered hostility from locals and they were unable to travel on to the Spanish main- land. Ceuta and Spain’s other North African enclave, Melilla, sit on Morocco’s Mediterranean coast and periodically face attempted crossings by migrants seeking to reach Europe. Reuters video showed scores of migrants, most of them from sub-Saharan Africa, lying on the sand of El Trampolin beach. Many were wrapped in towels to shield from the wind, while army and police vehicles patrolled the road behind them. Ceuta’s leader Juan Jesus Vivas told broadcaster Telecinco be- tween 3,000 and 5,000 migrants remained in the enclave, adding that its two migrant reception centres – one for adults and an- other for minors – had “col- lapsed.” Local official Alberto Gaitan said the city was processing 862 migrant minors, who have spe- cial legal protections from depor- tation. The crisis has fuelled anti-im- migration rhetoric throughout
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MARI YAMAGUCHI TOKYO
Residents in Japan’s quake-hit southwestern prefecture of Ku- mamoto put out heaps of debris for collection as the region baked under intense heat. The heat and a lack of water supplies have added to the chal- lenges in the severely damaged areas where Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi briefly visited for the first time since a magnitude 7.1 quake hit Kumamoto Prefecture on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu on Tuesday. Thirty-eight people died dur- ing the quake, including one who died of apparent heat stroke while taking shelter in a car in hot weather and one other whose cause of death is still being inves- tigated, prefectural officials said Monday.
DENMARK BEGINS EXTENDED MILITARY CONSCRIPTION DRIVEN BY TRUMP THREATS AND UKRAINE WAR
Around 1,600 Danish military recruits on Monday began the country’s new extended con- scription, embarking on an 11-month service period as Denmark accelerates its defence build-up driven by Arctic secu- rity pressures and the war in Ukraine. Denmark said in 2024 it would extend conscription to include women for the first time and increase standard service time to 11 months from four, while the number of conscripts is set to increase to 7,500 annually by 2033 from 5,000. The new intake arrives as Denmark prepares to deploy conscripts to Greenland for the first time later this month, with a company of more than 100 soldiers set to serve for one month taking over operational tasks from professional troops. The deployment carries added political weight as U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly sought to annex the semi-autonomous Danish terri- tory, citing national security, a demand firmly rejected by the governments of Greenland and Denmark. REUTERS
Migrants wait in line to receive food and beverage from the Red Cross, following mass crossings of migrants on foot and by sea from Morocco into Spanish territory, in Ceuta, Spain, Monday. PEDRO NUNES/REUTERS
Europe and sparked diplomatic tensions within the European Union over border policy, with Spain accusing some partners of an unhelpful and polarizing re- sponse. Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said on Monday that Spain had previously supported other EU countries during migra- tion crises and now expected re- ciprocal backing. The bloc has called an emer- gency video conference meeting of interior ministers to discuss the crisis on Tuesday. Mr. Albares sharply criticized Italy’s government, accusing it of helping amplify misinformation. He said Morocco had immedi- ately offered police support and had not attached conditions to
Residents put out heaps of de- bris, broken furniture and dam- aged appliances for collection, while in the towns of Uki and Hi- kawa, construction of temporary housing began. Some hotels and inns are offering their rooms for evacuees. More than 46,000 households remained without water and many also faced fuel shortages as the region suffers sweltering heat, stoking fears of heat-related ill- ness. Japan Meteorological Agen- cy predicted that temperatures would rise close to 40 C Monday. More than 8,500 people re- main at crowded emergency shel- ters, such as converted communi- ty centres, school gyms and class- rooms, many of which lack air- conditioning. Others are sleeping in cars at town hall parking lots and parks, or outside of their homes.
meets with Red Cross after concerns for her well-being
Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with the Inter- national Committee of the Red Cross’ representative in the capital on Mon- day, the military-backed government said, a rare moment of contact with the outside world for the Nobel lau- reate who has been held out of public view since the military seized power in 2021. Two photographs published with the announcement showed Ms. Suu Kyi shaking hands with Arnaud de Baecque, the ICRC’s representative to Myanmar, and meeting with him in a wood-panelled room. The Presidential Press and Informa- tion Bureau, which released the pho- tographs, said the meeting was held Monday morning but did not disclose the location of the meeting or provide details about what was discussed. The ICRC confirmed in a statement on Monday that one of its delegates visited Ms. Suu Kyi under its standards and procedures for visiting people de- prived of liberty, and spoke with her in private, but it did not disclose details of the discussion. The organization said it continues to engage with all relevant actors to maintain and expand its access to plac- es of detention in Myanmar.
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its co-operation, allowing for the rapid return of most of those who crossed. But Ceuta’s Mr. Vivas was crit- ical of Rabat, saying there was a widespread perception within Ceuta that it had allowed – if not orchestrated – the crisis. “Morocco has shown us that it isn’t reliable. There’s no alterna- tive but to put in place whatever means are necessary to ensure it cannot do this again,” Mr. Vivas told newspaper El Pais. Morocco’s Interior Ministry on Sunday blamed the surge on mis- information on social media, hu- man trafficking networks and misinterpretation of a Spanish court ruling banning immediate returns of migrants intercepted at sea.
Experts have long warned that inadequate shelter provision leads to crowded conditions and a lack of sanitation and privacy for people forced to leave their homes following disasters. Ms. Takaichi on Monday flew over the affected areas from an army helicopter and visited one of the area’s best-equipped shel- ters, with cardboard beds, parti- tions and air-conditioning, trig- gering criticisms on social media that her visit distorted reality. Kumamoto Gov. Takashi Kim- ura, in his meeting with Ms. Ta- kaichi, stressed the “abnormal heat” has been pounding on the already difficult lives of the resi- dents. He sought further govern- ment support to improve the liv- ing conditions at evacuation cen- tres, saying many of them lack clean water and medical care. “While taking into considera-
Two other photographs showed Ms. Suu Kyi cutting a pink birthday cake bearing the inscription, “Happy Birth- day Aunty Suu,” suggesting they may have been taken during a celebration for her 81st birthday in June. In the photos, Ms. Suu Kyi appeared relaxed and was smiling. She did not show any obvious signs of ill health, although her physical condition could not be independently assessed from the images. The release came as calls are grow- ing from other countries, including Myanmar’s fellow members of the As- sociation of Southeast Asian Nations, for access to or engagement with Ms. Suu Kyi as part of efforts to resolve the country’s political crisis. Kim Aris, her younger son living in London, and Myanmar democracy ac- tivists has been waging an online cam- paign named to demand evidence his mother is alive and well. In a statement sent to the AP, Mr. Aris welcomed the reported ICRC visit, saying it could mark the first positive development concerning his mother in more than five years. “This may be a first step, but it must not be the last,” Mr. Aris said. He thanked governments, the inter- national community and supporters for standing with his family and back- ing his campaign to seek proof of his mother’s well-being, while stressing
That was in line with Madrid’s official view. According to reports by El Pais and Cadena SER radio, citing offi- cials familiar with the matter, Spanish intelligence services have concluded that Morocco did not plan the mass crossing, but allowed it to happen. Moroccan border controls were gradually relaxed during Ju- ly and were allegedly removed as crowds surged toward the Tarajal crossing during Morocco’s Throne Day holiday, the reports said. Morocco’s Interior Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In its Sunday statement, it said Morocco is “committed to streng- thening international co-oper-
tion the governor’s requests, we will quickly examine what the government can do for the disas- ter-hit region and affected people and move pro-actively,” Ms. Ta- kaichi said. Meanwhile, a company that owned a general store in a col- lapsed shopping mall acknowl- edged that it had instructed two employees who were killed in a later explosion to return to the building to put sales proceeds in- to a safe. Two executives of Habita, a lo- cal general store operator that had a shop inside the collapsed Aeon Mall in the town of Kashi- ma, attended the wake Sunday of one of the two victims, 22-year- old Kurumi Otake, and apol- ogized to her parents for the death. Company sales manager Goji Yuse acknowledged that the com-
ation and co-ordination in com- batting irregular migration and human trafficking.” Spain’s Interior Minister Fer- nando Grande-Marlaska told re- porters on Saturday the foreign intelligence agency CNI, con- trolled by the Defence Ministry, did not warn him of an imminent surge. El Pais said on Monday that had caused tensions be- tween the two ministries. Defence Minister Margarita Robles declined to say whether the CNI had any prior intelli- gence of the mass crossing, add- ing its work was secret and prais- ing the “exceptional” work of Spanish security services person- nel.
pany instructed the two to put sales proceeds into the safe if it was possible. “I wish someone had stopped her,” Otake’s tearful mother told them. “My daughter is not com- ing back.” The mall’s operator said it be- lieves the explosion was due to a gas leak and occurred after about 3,000 shoppers had been evac- uated to a parking lot following the quake, but some employees remained inside. Rescuers reco- vered five people and the bodies of seven others from the mall. The earthquake has left 114 people injured across Kumamo- to, authorities said. Some 700 homes were de- stroyed, and more than 11,300 buildings were damaged, accord- ing to Kumamoto prefecture.
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that he had not yet received independ- ent confirmation of her condition. He said he hoped the visit would lead to direct family contact and her eventual release together with all polit- ical prisoners. Ms. Suu Kyi was detained Feb. 1, 2021, when the army seized power from her elected government. She has not been seen publicly since then, and the last official photo of her released was in April, when she was moved from prison to house arrest and her sentence was reduced as part of a pris- oner amnesty for a Buddhist holiday. The country’s military leaders, who have faced sanctions and widespread international isolation since seizing power in 2021, have sought to project a return to normalcy by holding a 2025 election and increased engagement with regional neighbours. However, critics say the transition to a nominally elected government large- ly composed of former generals and holdovers from the previous military- led government has done little to change the military’s grip on power. Nay Phone Latt, a spokesperson for the opposition National Unity Govern- ment, said the ICRC’s meeting with Ms. Suu Kyi shouldn’t be taken as a real move to address human rights or de- mocracy issues.
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Marilyn Kimura, seen inside a lab where radiation masks are made at the Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton in late July, starts her day early at the Cross and stays for a full shift, day after day, until the project is complete. MEGAN ALBU/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
children’s radiation masks into works of art
Reimagining these rigid thermoplastic shells as colourful facewear, Marilyn Kimura brings comfort to what can otherwise be a frightening experience
ALANNA SMITH HEALTH REPORTER
CARE BETWEEN THE LINES
Care Between the Lines is a summer series, which will introduce you to volunteers in health care who fill gaps and provide compas- sion in a system that can be isolating and scary.
efore five-year-old cancer patient Karter Bourgeault began treat- ment, a volunteer at Edmonton’s Cross Cancer Institute spent hours painting his radiotherapy mask to model Oilers player Connor McDavid, with a bright blue and orange 97 emblazoned on what looked like a helmet. The colourful mask was carefully placed over Karter’s head to help him stay still for each radiation session. His mom, Nicole Fraser, said wearing a mask inspired by his idol made the experience less scary for her son. She jokingly called him Karter McDa- vid. Karter wore this mask – and, later, one inspired by former Oilers defenceman Ty- son Barrie – to two rounds of radiation, to- talling 41 sessions, in his fight against dif- fuse intrinsic pontine glioma, a rare and aggressive brain tumour. He died on July 23, 2023, at six years old.
Bottom left and below: Five-year-old cancer patient Karter Bourgeault wears a radiation mask painted by Ms. Kimura at the Edmonton facility.
But those masks, which were carefully moulded to the curves of Karter’s face, have helped preserve a part of him. Ms. Fraser and Karter’s grandad now keep one mask at each of their homes, running their hands along the plastic shell in times of needed comfort. “I can touch my son’s face. I can kiss my son’s lips. And that’s a huge thing when your children are gone,” Ms. Fraser said, her voice shaking. “They mean more than people realize.” Marilyn Kimura, 72, is the volunteer re- sponsible for transforming the rigid ther- moplastic shells into animated masks. Since 2019, Ms. Kimura has painted 52 masks for children between the ages of 2 and 16, bringing comfort and joy to what can otherwise be a scary experience. Pediatric patients can choose any de- sign they want, from superheroes, sports teams and television characters to fantasy creatures, flowers and all sorts of animals. Two of her favourites have been Chase, a German Shepherd from Paw Patrol, and a piece that featured tons of vibrant butter- flies. Ms. Kimura described the masks, prior to decoration, as creepy, like something you “may wear at Halloween to scare the neighbours.” But with a palette of bright paints, she is able to provide patients with a one-of-a-kind shell that serves as a dis- traction or comfort. “I made a cheetah mask for a little six- year-old girl, and I heard that she liked it so much she didn’t want to take it off, which was probably the first time in history that anyone has not wanted to take off one of these horrible, stiff, uncomfortable, claus- trophobic things,” she said. When children are more relaxed, so are their parents, which makes the job of radi- ation therapists easier.
Most pediatric cancer patients in Edmon- ton are treated at the Stollery Children’s Hospital but are referred to the Cross to re- ceive radiation therapy. There, the first person they’ll often meet is radiation therapist Brandon Abough- oche. He’s responsible for treatment prep- aration and making any needed accesso- ries, including immobilization shells that attach to the table. These mesh shells, designed to cover any part of the body receiving radiation, are made of a plastic polymer that softens like pasta when submerged in water. The material is then draped over a patient’s face, for example, and moulds to their fea- tures before cooling and hardening. Mr. Aboughoche said most children feel intimidated at the initial appointment.
One welcome distraction is when he tells them about how Ms. Kimura can custom- ize their mask however they want. “Usually, it stops them for a second, and all of a sudden, I notice that their eyes light up and they really start thinking about it. They usually get a smile on their face,” he said. “A big fan favourite is Oilers.” Other requests have been for Peppa Pig, Lamborghinis, Elsa from the movie Frozen, family pets, unicorns – and the list goes on and on. Ms. Kimura, whose career was in visual arts before retiring, was inspired to lend her artistic talents to the Cross after being sent a British newspaper article about a similar program. The Edmonton clinic was quick to ac- cept her help and, in 2019, she decorated her first mask (Spider-Man). Ms. Kimura is now a familiar face at the Cross, where she
A pediatric radiation mask is seen in a treatment room in Edmonton last week. Ms. Kimura doesn’t get to meet the children or their parents when the masks are handed over, but that doesn’t bother her. MEGAN ALBU/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
tucks into whatever room is available. “There’s usually a very short turn- around time to do these. Sometimes it can be as short as two days. If I’m lucky, I have about a week or 10 days,” Ms. Kimura said. After mapping out a design, her first step is to coat the yellowish shell with a bright white primer so that every colour pops. Then comes the difficult part: trans- ferring her design onto the mask, making sure the image is not distorted by the countless tiny perforations. Ms. Kimura then colours the mask with non-metallic acrylic paint before outlining the image so the artwork pops. “It’s a very pleasurable challenge for me because this is nothing like painting a pic- ture,” she said. Because the masks are stored on-site, she starts her day early at the Cross and stays for a full shift, day after day, until the
Nicole Fraser reflects on her six-year-old son Karter on Sunday. She says wearing a mask inspired by his idol, Connor McDavid, made the experience less scary for him. She jokingly called him Karter McDavid. MEGAN ALBU/ THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Since beginning her volunteer work in 2019, Ms. Kimura has painted 52 masks for children. MARILYN KIMURA
project is complete. She even brings some work home, scrounging together materials to make the masks three-dimensional – for example, she has crafted dog ears and a snout; a headband with paper butterflies that bobble on metal wires; and a card- board cut-out to replicate the rectangular head of a Minecraft creeper. “The attachments make it look real, make it look exciting or dramatic or sweet,” Ms. Kimura said. She doesn’t get to meet the children or their parents when the masks are handed over. But this doesn’t bother Ms. Kimura, who is just happy to know she is making a difference. “It certainly can’t compare to the work of the staff at the Cross – the doctors, the radiotherapists and so forth. But in a small way, knowing that it is helping to make the process a little easier, that’s a nice feeling.”
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uring the FIFA World Cup, the federal government
spent $4-million to run TV ads to promote its eco-
nomic programs. The majestic voiceover in one ad
says this is Canada’s moment to “build better, stronger” –
echoing language in the Liberal party’s Canada Strong elec-
tion platform.
The campaign isn’t meant to inform Canadians about a
specific service or program they can access, and the ads are
only permitted due to a recent loosening of federal rules. It
amountstopartisanmessaging,paidforwithyourtaxdollars.
Weaker advertising rules at the federal level and in some
provinces are leading to a flood of messaging meant to boost
thefortunesofrulingparties.It’sadangerousabuseofpower,
and if left unchecked, it will have a negative impact on de-
mocracy.
Last year, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government shift-
ed its advertising to put more emphasis on patriotic and eco-
nomic messaging. A quiet policy change eliminated the Tru-
deau-era prohibition on ads that were self-congratulating or
self-praising. Elected officials still aren’t allowed to appear in
ads, but political slogans can now be used if they are incorpo-
rated into government programs or initiatives.
Asaresult,thefederalgovernmenthasbeenrunningadsin
the Super Bowl and Winter Olympics with similar messaging
to what was used on the campaign trail. The advertising allo-
cation for the first quarter of the current fiscal year alone was
$115-million.
The Liberals are blurring the lines between their party, the
federal government, and Canada itself to gain a future electo-
ral advantage. It’s a continuation of the long running hubris
of the Liberal Party, which has equated the party’s views with
Canadian values and patriotism, something that rankles pa-
triotic Canadians of other political stripes.
In weakening advertising rules, the federal Liberals fol-
lowed in the footsteps of their Ontario counterparts. In 2004,
then Liberal premier Dalton McGuinty banned self-promo-
tional ads and gave the auditor-general responsibility for ap-
proving campaigns, but his successor, Kathleen Wynne, wa-
tereddowntherules.In2018,DougFord’sProgressiveConser-
vatives promised to reverse the changes, but as Premier, he
has ramped up flattering advertising.
A December auditor-general report said the Ontario gov-
ernment spent a record $111.9-million on TV, digital, radio,
print and outdoor advertising in the 2024-25 fiscal year.
Spending on government advertising generally correlates
with provincial elections, the report notes.
The auditor-general said campaigns such as “It’s Happen-
ingHere,”whichraisedawarenessofOntario’selectricvehicle
supply chain, wouldn’t have been allowed under previous
rules. “They did not include information about services and
programs, but rather appeared designed to improve Ontar-
ians’impressionofthecurrentstateofOntario,thesubtextof
which promotes the governing party,” the report said.
TheFordgovernmentalsowentasfarascappingthird-par-
ty spending on political ads to $600,000 in the year before an
election campaign; the previous time period was six months.
The move, which was a blow to union-backed groups oppos-
ing Mr. Ford, was overturned in court.
The escalation of government advertising is not just a
waste of money. These ads can unfairly tip the scales in the
run-up to an election, given the party in power can blitz the
public with messages without fundraising or following cam-
paign finance rules. Often incumbents have an idea when
theymightcallanelection,sotheycangettheirmessagesout
ahead of the race.
The misuse of funds can have a big impact. Most elections
aredecidedby5to10percentagepoints,saysDuffConacherof
Democracy Watch. A compelling ad campaign that shifts half
of that vote margin can change the result, allowing the party
in power to win based on taxpayer-funded propaganda.
Ontario should revert to its previous advertising laws, and
give the auditor-general the power once again to block parti-
san ads. Federally, Ottawa should bring back tougher rules
and formalize them into law, so they aren’t just guidelines
that can be easily changed.
Elected officials need to remember that the party in power
is merely the custodian of the government, not its owner.
They’ve been entrusted with power temporarily; attempts to
DON’T COUNT ON PLATFORMS
Re “How to address ‘awful but lawful’ speech” (July 31): The dis- crepancy between a social media platform’sstatedpolicyanditsac- tual practice is easy to spot. During the last year I have re- ported dozens of posts that dis- seminate false information, de- humanize people and incite vio- lence. The words and memes were vile hate speech of which Goebbelswouldhavebeenproud. Indeed, some of them were recy- cled Nazi propaganda, circulating freely on the socials. Inallbutoneinstance,theplat- form declared that the hate speech “met community stan- dards.” Their own standards ap- parently have no status.
Elaine Bander Montreal
PRO PRENUP
Re “The prenup paradox” (July 30): Canada already has a default legalframeworkthatgovernssep- aration. Division of property, spousal support and custody are all outlined in provincial and fed- eral law. In effect, every married couple already has a built-in pre- nup, whether they sign anything or not. So I’m puzzled by the premise that prenups are an unusual safe- guard.Aren’ttheysimplyanalter- native to the existing contract the law already provides? However, it is worth noting that legal protec- tionsdiffersharplywhenitcomes toco-habitation,ratherthanmar- riage.
Debra Dolan Vancouver
The best way to counteract the feeling that prenups are unro- mantic and pessimistic is with a countervailingsuperstitionthatit tempts fate to marry without one. Iacknowledgetheworditselfis unattractive, though, and has picked up some unpleasant asso- ciations.Perhaps,especiallygiven prenups’ increasing role in pro- tectingparentalproperty,it’stime to bring back the satisfyingly Bridgerton-y term “marriage set- tlement”?
David Arthur Cambridge, Ont.
NICKEL FOR YOUR THOUGHTS
Re “Ottawa approves construc- tion of massive Canada Nickel mine” (July 31): Does this invest- ment make any sense? It is a low grade (albeit large) nickel deposit near Timmins. Nickel is not in short supply. Indonesia has been dumping nickel for years and the take up on electric cars (and the lithium nickel batteries they re- quire) has not taken place. The stock has been a dud. The cap ex is enormous. So why Cana- da Nickel and not any number of other better mines or better pro- jects with better outcomes? I wonder whether it has to do with themanpowerandjobsneededto
create this mine, which may be just a giant earth-moving exer- cise. Bureaucrats should not be in the business of choosing which mine (or indeed any project) has merit over another. The govern- ment should be in the business of creating the environment for free enterprise to build projects and not in the business of which ones get the nod.
Derek Jansen Toronto
CHANGE CAN BE GOOD
Re “What will Alberta achieve with self-referring diagnostic tests?” (July 31): I agree that the Alberta Premier is introducing a privatepublicsystembystealth.It is acceptable to argue that this isn’t the best way to proceed, but ignoring the problems of our fail- ing public-only system is also wrong. Every time the argument is madeforsomeformofpublic-pri- vate model – apparently effective in other countries – we are told that it would never work in Cana- da and we should be thankful for what we have. Arguing we have the best health care system in the world is disingenuous at best, however. Changebystealthisn’tideal,butit may initiate the conversation we seem to be unwilling to even be- gin.
David Harper Burlington, Ont.
MR. BRIGHTSIDE
Re “In these times of uncertainty, there is bright side aplenty for businesses” (July 31): This article notes the synergies between the federalgovernmentandtheprov- inces in supporting pipeline ex- pansions and the development of liquefied natural gas infrastruc- ture for export. However, there’s no reference about where the world energy markets will be in 2031,arealistic(optimistic?)com- pletion date for these infrastruc- ture developments. Why mention 2031? Because the International Energy Agency expectsthatbythennearlyhalfof global electricity demand will be supplied from renewable energy (solar and wind). Utility-scale storage, measured in gigawatts, will smooth out the intermittent nature of our wind and solar re- sources. These renewable resources al- so need to have a place in the “longer-term, strategic mindset” of our infrastructure planners. “Bright side aplenty” indeed!
Chris Gates Cobourg, Ont
THAT’S ENOUGH
Re “Unfair taxes” (Letters, July 31): A recent letter-writer sup- ports a capital gains tax on the sale of one’s primary residence. But homeowners, over decades,
alreadypaypropertytaxestosup- port their community infrastruc- ture, as well as personal services such as snow removal and gar- bage pickup. Home tax dollars al- sogotosupportparks,recreation, libraries and policing. To support the home, several thousands of dollars are often paid out annually to service peo- ple, who in turn pay their own in- come tax. All of these home ex- pensesarepaidwithafter-taxdol- lars. If one tallied up all these costs over 40 years, I think it would more than surpass the capital gain on the sale of the home. So, no, homeowners should not pay capital gains on the sale of their primary residence.
Ken Stock Port Hope, Ont.
FOR THE RECORD
Re “Former Conservative cabinet minister enters Toronto’s may- oral race” (July 30): Chris Alexan- der describes the 2015 proposal to establish a “barbaric cultural practices” tip line when he was the Conservative government’s federal immigration minister as a “mistake.” A far more serious mistake was his defence of the federal govern- ment’s 2012 drastic cuts to health care for refugee claimants. In 2014, the Ontario Ministry of Health stepped in to provide health coverage for claimants. Alexander pronounced this would “force Ontario taxpayers and their families to line up for care behind failed asylum seek- ers.” That never happened. Given that more than half of Toronto residents, including refu- gees, have been born outside of Canada, I doubt that he would be welcome as mayor.
Philip Berger Toronto
PENALTY KICKS
Re “FIFA’s Infantino sets deadline for members to accept Kushner- backed World Cup investor plan” (Sports, July 30): I see Gianni In- fantino must have discussed more than just red-card reversals inhischatswithPresidentDonald Trump. Too bad Infantino didn’t take Trump’s marketing advice. The President does have a flair for naming things, and I am sure Trump was pushing for this in- vestmentopportunitytocoincide with renaming soccer “the Big Beautiful Game.” (It’s a “can’t miss”opportunity!)Soundslikea big beautiful tax bill.
Patrick Stewart Toronto
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In the new world order, ‘plurilateral’ groups still need to be backed by a UN performing its peace and security role
MICHAEL W. MANULAK
Associate professor at Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and author of the forthcoming book The Ghost in Geneva: The Untold History of the League of Nations – And Why it Matters Now
incehisJanuaryspeechinDa- vos, Prime Minister Mark Carney has been rapidly re- casting Canada’s role in the world and transforming this country’s foreignpolicy.InJuly,heelaborat- ed on his vision, publishing an ar- ticleinTheEconomistwithFinnish President Alexander Stubb titled PrepareforaWorldofAdHocCoa- litions. They argued that the world is becoming increasingly multipolar, and that “wishful” multilateralism is no longer an ef- fective response when the inter-
RICK DOMAN
Chairman of the Boreal Carbon Corporation
anada is blessed with some of the largest forests in the world. Unfortunately, it is being increasingly affected by insects, disease, drought and the effects of a warming climate. These damaged forests now con- tain significant fuel loads that contribute to large, more intense wildfires, which can spread into adjacent healthy and mixed for- ests, further degrading one of Canada’s greatest natural assets. Canada’s forest area is estimat- ed to be 369 million hectares. By comparison,theUnitedStateshas approximately 310 million hec- tares of forest area. These major wildfires are destroying more than our trees. They are releasing massive amountsofstoredcarbonintothe atmosphere, reducing future car- bon sequestration, damaging vital watersheds, affecting wild- life and creating hazardous smoke that threatens human and ecological health. An overlooked consequence is the loss of the economic value derivedfromthecarbonCanada’s forests store and remove from the atmosphere – a value we rarely account for. Canadian forests store an aver- age of 205 tonnes of carbon per hectare. Across our forests, this represents approximately 75.6 billion tonnes of carbon stored, which is equivalent to approxi- mately 277.2 billion tonnes of car- bon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). While this stored carbon is not
DANIELLE PARADIS EDMONTON
Edmonton-based writer, editor, podcaster and associate professor at MacEwan University
man says he drove a blue pickup truck through all 87 ridings and every major community in Alberta to let them know he understands them. Next, he commissioned a Fair Deal panel, which suggested creating an Alberta police force, holding a referendum on remov- ing equalization from the Constitution, and exploring what it would mean to withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan. He sued the federal government to try to block its attempts to overhaul environmental assessments. Then, in 2019, he also invoked ris- ing separatist sentiments and Alberta’s sense of alienation, warning of a national unity crisis. The man’s name is Jason Ken- ney and despite his earlier work that focused on highlighting Al-
national order is unravelling and existing institutions, including the United Nations, are proving ill-equippedtomanagethetransi- tion. The answer for Canada and other middle powers, they wrote, is to build flexible, “plurilateral” coalitions around specific issues. Mr. Carney and Mr. Stubb label their approach “values-based re- alism,” a foreign-policy doctrine that stands by core values, espe- cially democracy and human rights, while recognizing the ne- cessity of collaborating with gov- ernments that don’t share those values. But Mr. Carney is also acting on this values-based realism. As the Wall Street Journal reported in Ju- ly, he has emerged as a central player in redirecting the econom- ic and military orientation of Eu- rope away from the United States. Under Mr. Carney, the doctrine is becominganorganizingprinciple for Canadian diplomacy, ahead of a foreign policy review that could codify this new approach. Yet Mr. Carney risks mistaking defensive tactics for diplomatic strategy.Canada’srealinterestlies less in building ad hoc coalitions than in reinforcing the core insti- tutions at the heart of the rules- based order.
A forest in Northwestern Ontario is seen in July. Canadian forests, estimated to cover 369 million hectares, store an average of 205 tonnes of carbon per hectare. CHRIS YOUNG/THE CANADIAN PRESS
reflected on the federal balance sheet, at a carbon price of $50 a tonne of CO2e, this represents approximately $13.9-trillion in carbon value. In strong sink years, Canadian forests in the past absorbed vast amounts CO2e, reaching as high as 133 million tonnes of CO2e in 1992, while during major wildfire years they are a net source of emissions. For illustrative purposes, tak- ing an annual carbon sink of 70 million tonnes of CO2e, that would represent a value of approximately $3.5-billion. These wildfires not only make thesefiguresgoupinsmoke,Can- ada also loses stored carbon, future carbon sequestration, healthy forests and one of our largest renewable assets.
bertans’ grievances, he now calls the idea of separatism “bananas.” He’s debated a separatist leader, and he’s involved with the feder- alist organization Vote to Stay, in additiontohisactivesocialmedia and mainstream media presence. For the anti-separatist, this cre- ates a dilemma. Many were happy to see Mr. Kenney out as premier, but he’s now undergoing a glow- up; perhaps the separatist crisis makes for strange bedfellows. Still, back in 2019, The Globe and Mail editorial board warned Mr. Kenney that playing footsie withseparatistsentimentwasnot a good idea. Now, can his federalist creden- tials be trusted? Theargumentforseparationin Alberta has been consistent since the national energy program in the 1980s: Albertans are blessed with rich natural resources and could be prosperous from our oil and gas, but the rest of the coun- try takes us for granted, and we must strike out on our own. Mr. Kenney once leveraged Alberta’scultureofpoliticalgriev- ance. He’s now found that the
Plurilateral arrangements, in- cluding the coalition of the will- ing to support Ukraine, can be a useful stopgap measure when the principal multilateral channels areblocked.Isawthisfirsthandas a Canadian representative within the Proliferation Security Initia- tive, a multinational effort to combat the spread of weapons of mass destruction. Informal coali- tions can move swiftly in a crisis and provide needed flexibility. But without permanent insti- tutional machinery, they are pronetodriftastheoriginalimpe- tus dissipates. Informal institu- tions tend to rely on the health of thewiderglobalsystemofrulesto provide a legal framework for their activities. They cannot themselves stand in for those rules. These ad hoc tactics must also not be mistaken for long-term strategy.Inaworldwherethebed- rock rules around respect for the territorial integrity of states and the prohibition against the use of force are threatened, Canada’s paramount interest lies in rein- forcing core multilateral infras- tructure. The most important ele- ment of this infrastructure is the world’s chief bulwark against ag- gression: The United Nations.
While this does not count as governmentrevenue,itshowsthe economic value of storing and capturing carbon in our forests, and what is at risk when forests are lost. Canada does not current- ly have a protocol to allow Crown landtobeputintoforestrycarbon projects. Governments could lease the carbon rights on the forestlandtorestorediseasedand wildfire-affected forests. Investing in healthier forests today will open up tremendous opportunities to reduce wildfire risk, while delivering environ- mentalandeconomicbenefitsfor future generations. Approximately 94 per cent of Canada’sforestsarepubliclyown- ed by provincial, federal and terri- torial governments. Insects, disease, drought and
anger toward Ottawa – and Cana- da – he both inspired and benefit- ed from has taken a turn that he doesn’t like. The separatist move- ment is a bit like Mr. Kenney’s big blue truck: a powerful machine, but he didn’t know how to handle it. It was the United Conservative Party under Mr. Kenney that brought in the Citizen Initiative Act in 2021, which allows Alber- tans to take an idea such as sepa- rating from the rest of Canada, and turn it into a petition to be considered by the legislature or a question to be put to a referen- dum. While Premier Danielle Smith lowered the threshold for the separatists, it was Mr. Kenney who created the original frame- work. After years of participating in sowing dissent, Mr. Kenney has spent the past year performing what you might call the Captain Renault move: He is shocked, shocked to find separatism flour- ishing in the gambling house he helped sustain. To understand how we got here, we must look back to 2016
After eight decades, Canada and other governments have al- lowedtheUN’speaceandsecurity role to erode. Yet Canada’s securi- ty interest in an effective UN has perhaps never been greater. This is not mere nostalgia: History has shown repeatedly that national armaments and alliances alone offer no guarantee of security and prosperity. As we have seen re- cently, faraway conflicts disrupt trade, spike prices, polarize de- bates and trigger migration, while moderntechnologiesriskmaking war deadlier than ever. Effective multilateralism is not a “wishful” response to a danger- ousworld.Ifendowedwiththeca- pacity for forceful action in de- fense of peace and stability, the UN can be a potent tool for pro- tecting Canada’s vital national in- terests. Rather than dispersing diplo- matic effort among an expanding array of plurilateral initiatives, the government should focus on building a cross-regional coali- tion to reinforce the UN’s peace and security role. Governments could consider extraordinary measures to meet the UN’s bud- getary crisis, take steps to protect theindependenceofUNstaff,and offer heightened military support
wildfiresdonotrecognizeprovin- cial boundaries. In 2023 alone, more than 17.3 million hectares burned, and over the years more than 18 million hectares have been affected by the mountain pine beetle. These are national challenges that require a co-ordi- nated national response. We have solutions. The first step should be to conduct a full, up-to-date, detailed inventory of all Canadian forests to identify areas affected by disease, insect infestations, drought and defor- estation, while assessing tree spe- cies and how they can be better managed under today’s and future climate conditions. Canada has millions of hec- tares of unhealthy forests that increase wildfire risk. We should be clearing these damaged areas,
when Mr. Kenney announced he was leaving federal politics and launched his bid to “put Alberta first.” He cited the need to prevent another Alberta New Democratic Party win, which had managed a surprising victory in 2015, ending 44 years of rule by the Progressive Conservatives. The PCs and the Wildrose, another right-wing party, may have merged in 2017 to create today’s United Conservative Par- ty, but the differences that caused a split in the conservative move- ment remain. The big tent includ- ed those who think Alberta should leave Canada. Ultimately, it was the UCP’s public-health restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic that created a rift in the party that led to Mr. Kenney’s resignation in 2022; he was undone by the peo- ple who once supported him. Since then, the party Mr. Ken- ney forged has become further beholden to political extremists. Recent polling shows as many as 55 per cent of the party’s support- ers may be separatists. And Mr.
for UN-authorized missions. With growing military capaci- ty, Canada and other NATO mem- bers could sponsor a Multilateral CompactforUNPeaceandSecuri- ty. Signatories would make a po- litical commitment to strengthen UN peace operations and collec- tive security by offering increased personnel, strategic transport, lo- gistics, engineering and medical support. Large states outside NA- TO would be invited to join. This plan does not downplay the need for, or complexity of, UN reform. At the same time, the in- ability of governments to achieve it does not absolve them of the re- sponsibility to make the most of the tools available to them. Many of the actions proposed above could be taken nationally, with- out waiting on other govern- ments. It would amount to a “back-to-basics”agenda,reinforc- ing the UN’s role as a barrier against aggression and territorial conquest. Theneedforthistypeofrenew- ed agenda is urgent. Ad hoc coali- tions can help to navigate an im- mediate crisis, but a Canadian ini- tiative, including the proposed Compact, would constitute a stra- tegic and far-sighted response to an increasingly dangerous world.
then replanting them with healthy seedlings. Currently, for- ests cover about 40 per cent of Canada. We should have a long- term goal of increasing forest cov- er, recognizing that healthy for- ests absorb carbon, cool the land- scape, protect watersheds and support wildlife. A national restoration strategy focused on restoring damaged forests and replanting them has the potential to create thousands of jobs across Canada, benefiting forestry and Indigenous commu- nities, logging contractors, tree planters and the thousands of workers affected by the decline of Canada’s forest industry. At the same time, we need to deal with the diseased and dead wood that should be removed from our forests. Cogeneration facilities, wood pellet plants and sustainable aviation fuel produc- tion can help convert this dam- aged fibre into clean energy, renewable fuels and economic opportunity. Canada could become one of the world’s largest forest carbon offset opportunities by establish- ing a value across the country for forest carbon credits, helping financerestorationwhileexpand- ing Canada’s forests for future generations. This is not rocket science, it is forest science. Canada has one of the largest forests in the world, an asset with a significant value. Rather than watching our forests decline rap- idly,weshouldreversecourseand invest in growing them. Healthy forests are not only good for the environment – they are good for jobs, investment, economic growth, and Canada’s long-term prosperity, while strengthening the country’s fiscal position.
Kenney has criticized them – heavily. He’s right to do so, but it has a faint, suspicious ring: Does he not realize his role in inspiring this very movement? ItfeelslikeMr.Kenneyhastrav- elled a long way. The Mr. Kenney of today holds pro-Canada events alongside Liberal MP Corey Hogan, encouraging people to speak out against separation. He warns that the separatist move- ment is moving from the fringe and is becoming a real factor. Mr. Kenney calls separatism a histor- ically discredited concept. But the foil hat brigade didn’t invade the province. They have always been here, and Mr. Ken- ney’s stances as premier helped nurture them. Mr. Kenney played footsie with separatist sentiment. He gave vent to anti-Ottawa grievances from the premier’s pulpit that now animate the movement. Yes, he’s now condemning them. But Mr. Kenney deserves some of the blame for fanning the flames in the first place.
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It would be a glamorous, fitting refresher for the opera singer to grace the banknote
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ast month, the European Central Bank announced plans to redesign the euro. It came as welcome news to anyone who feels that today’s banknotes – featuring a series of fictionalized bridges in various European architectural styles – are in need of a refresh. More than 1,200 designers ap- plied to take on the task, with 10 making it to the final round. The ECB provided designers with vet- tedimagerylimitedtotwosubject areas: birds/rivers and European culture. An online vote – which ends in September – kicks off the process, with the 10 shortlisted design proposals released last week. Candidates to represent Eu- ropean culture include Spanish novelistMigueldeCervantes,Ital- ian artist Leonardo da Vinci, Ger- man composer Ludwig van BeethovenandAustrianpeaceac- tivist Bertha von Suttner. Maria Callas, the Greek-American opera star, is also shortlisted to be the faceofthefive-eurobill–arevela- tion that received some flack on- line from those who felt she was not sufficiently talented. OnThreads,German-Canadian photographerMichaelAdair,who is based in Cologne, objected to the soprano. “The idea of putting Maria Callas on a European bank note is totally insane to me. There are far more important woman [sic] or people in classical music that deserve a place over her,” he wrote, suggesting that she be re- placed by Pavarotti and linking to her 1962 performance of O don fa- tale from Verdi’s Don Carlo, calling it “terrible singing.” CallasfansdescendedonAdair, calling him “cultureless” and a “woman-hater” who “lacks emo- tion.” As a longtime listener and fan
he Shaw Festival didn’t plan to stage two separate versions of Cinderella this year. If you peruse the company’s offerings through December, you’ll still see only one produc- tion of the classic tale: the 1957 musical composed by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, set to begin previews at the Fes- tival Theatre on Nov. 8. But in August, the festival will workshop another Cinderella, cle- verly masqueraded by its tempo- rary title: A New Work in Progress, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jen- kins specifically for the Shaw Fes- tival. “This came about entirely by accident,” said Shaw artistic di- rector Tim Carroll. “I’m not even sure he knew we were doing Cin- derella when he started to get in- terested in working with that sto- ry.” Carroll’s affinity for Jacobs- Jenkins won’t be news to the Shaw Festival’s most dedicated audiences: The company staged the Canadian premieres of Ja- cobs-Jenkins’s An Octoroon in 2017 and Everybody in 2022. “The fundamental ability you’re look- ing for in a playwright is to write incredible poetry – theatre is po- etry in action, and Branden is an amazing poet,” Carroll said. “The simple, sensual pleasure of listen- ing to his language is an absolute thrill for me. He writes like a dream.” In 2014, after seeing An Octo- roon at Soho Rep in New York, Carroll approached Jacobs-Jen- kins, and they hit it off instantly. The duo stayed in touch over the years, and Carroll eventually made an offer to the playwright. “We said we could give him a group of really open-hearted, open-minded and talented actors
A design proposal created by Neue Gestaltung GmbH, provided by the European Central Bank features Maria Callas on a banknote. NEUE GESTALTUNG GMBH/HANDOUT
ofCallas,Iwasalsotemptedtoen- gage with the rage. Adair’s take struck me as ill-mannered and ill- informed. Yet his reaction – and those who agreed with him – rep- resents a classic case of history re- peating itself. Callaswasnostrangertopublic scrutiny. Her career highs and lows, weight fluctuations and heavily scrutinized private and professionallifedominatedhead- lines. But, pushing aside the gos- sip, I believe there’s never been a more iconic, stylish or prevailing figure in opera. Callas’s presence is felt in so much contemporary culture, from Madonna’s 1992 Erotica music videos to Beyoncé’s 2008 album I Am... Sasha Fierce. She created the first template of the modern diva – opera, pop or otherwise. Canadian soprano Simone Os- borne explained that Callas did this by appealing to both affluent, hardcore fans as well as more ca- sual opera followers. “It’s easy to underestimate someone in eyeliner, but she was able to deal with her detractors with such polish,” Osborne said. “What they don’t see is the ex- traordinary discipline under- neath it all ... Maria Callas wasn’t greatbecauseshewasglamorous; she was glamorous because she was great.”
I believe there’s never been a more iconic, stylish or prevailing figure in opera. Callas’s presence is felt in so much contemporary culture, from Madonna’s 1992 Erotica music videos to Beyoncé’s 2008 album I Am... Sasha Fierce.
Andrew Broderick, André Morin, David Andrew Reid, Savion Roach and Sophia Walker perform in A New Work in Progress. MICHAEL COOPER
to try things out on, actors who already embrace a process that requires trying things out.” Carroll said the Shaw Festival released its 2026 programming, including this winter’s Cinderella, long before Jacobs-Jenkins had landed on a final idea to explore. “It’s not a secret,” said Carroll. “It’s an experiment. We have enough hardcore fans of Bran- den’s to pack out 15 or 16 per- formances, with the understand- ing that they may see a complete show or something that’s half- finished. Our audience is suffi- ciently theatrically literate and curious – I know they’ll be up for any or all of that.” The Globe and Mail sat down for a phone interview with the American writer – recently re- moved from the team behind the Broadway transfer of Purple Rain, which Jacobs-Jenkins was not au- thorized to discuss – to talk about his take on Cinderella at Shaw.
Callas wouldn’t be the first op- erastartoappearoncurrency,but she would arguably be the first style icon. The singer was known for her distinctive wardrobe, fre- quently wearing designs by Mila- nese couturier Madame Biki, Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior.
Osborne thinks that the bill Callasisupforisalsofitting.“Call- as didn’t come from great means and built herself up by dedicating herself to the art of singing, which is why she’s perfect for the de- nomination of five,” the perform- er said. “She didn’t just move mil- lionaires. Callas was able to hook people who had never been to a theatre and inspire them to scrounge their pennies just to see her in the standing room.”
Canada?
I had dinner with Tim Carroll, and we geeked out about old plays. That’s my favourite kind of conversation to have. The Shaw Festival had done my play An Oc- toroon, and I came up and saw it, and thought it was a very good production. I was so interested in what they were doing, and that was my first real taste of Cana- dian theatre. I had had this dream of adapt- ing a few of Eugene O’Neill’s early plays, and Tim had asked me to stay in touch about that. After a few years of phone calls and run- ning into each other in person, he invited me to come up and make a new play in Canada. I was in- terested in embedding myself in- to a repertory company, an en- semble, and it just seemed like a really good fit. It helps, too, that these are some of the most amazing actors. Take Sophia Walker, for instance – she’s incredible.
Others are drawn to Callas as a symbol of perseverance. In 1937, the New York-born singer moved to Athens with her Greek mother, whereshelivedinpoverty.Sophia Lambtonchroniclesthisperiodof Callas’slifeinTheCallasImprint:A Centennial Biography, which ex- plores how she battled circum- stances and stigma, opera institu- tions and her own family to achieve success. “Her relationship with her mother and money was deeply troubled,”Lambtonsaid.“Despite years of financial support, her mother eventually threatened to blackmail her and spread damag- ingstoriesaboutherifshewasnot given more. Yet Callas continued supporting her financially for years.” Lambton believes that Callas’s journey represents a lesson for us all. “People who appear on bank- notes are people who impacted a large proportion of society, and Callas fits the bill because she demonstrated that a female artist could become the primary eco- nomicengineofaculturalinstitu- tion.” As critics such as Adair remind us,thereisthequestionofCallas’s unconventional voice. It remains a polarizing aspect of her legacy. In his 1993 book, The Queen’s Throat, Wayne Koestenbaum
ous, isn’t it? But I have a lovely five-year-old daughter, and this past spring, she’s really been tak- ing control of her bedtime read- ing. We’ve had this funny back- and-forth about fairy tales: Some of these stories are horrific! But I’m interested in the conversa- tions we’re having as a culture about these old narratives of gen- der, and how our vocabulary and understanding of gender and pronouns has shifted so tremen- dously in recent years. Without revealing too much, it’s relevant, as well, that the ma- jority of my cast are Black-identi- fying.
You have a reputation for making significant changes to your plays once actors have been added to the mix. How do you work with actors in a way that’s conducive to your writing process without provoking a mutiny?
My training as a playwright really happened in one place: the Juil- liard School. That program gives actors experience with working with new plays, but in exchange, as a writer, you get this amazing, up-close experience where you can study how an actor moves, how they work, what their tech- nique is. Your writing becomes easier when you understand that an ac- tor needs to be inspired to do good work. At the Shaw, I’m writ- ing for an ensemble who comes from all different walks of life, with different kinds of training. Some of them have incredible co- medic instincts. Some have very strong singing voices. Before we even started, I inter- viewed the actors, asking about themselves, and what they’re try- ing to figure out as artists. One ac- tor told me she loves playing characters who have been through something hard – that’s helpful, you know? I use that data like clues in a crossword puzzle, and then create this game for ev- eryone to play. The older I get, the more I feel like playwriting is an
noted that Callas’s “unattractive sounds forced audiences to re- evaluate the difference between the beautiful and the grotesque.” He cited a 1950 performance of Ai- da in which the soprano sponta- neously belted out an off-the- books E-flat – as close to a vocal power play as you can get – much to the chagrin of her co-star Kurt Baum. Lambton’s ideas about Callas mirror Koestenbaum’s theory. “Callas struggled to get opportu- nities because many people sim- plydidnotunderstandhervoice,” she said. “For example, the super- intendent of [Milan opera house] La Scala, Antonio Ghiringhelli, found it too unusual. Yet she re- fused to change. What some ini- tially viewed as a flaw ultimately becamethesourceofheroriginal- ity and influence. A constant re- minderofthismessageoncurren- cy is something I’d get behind.” It’s the same quality that in- spired Berlin design agency Neue Gestaltung’s proposal. Founded by Pit Stenkhoff and Eva Wendel, the firm’s design features a set of concentric sound waves beside Callas’s portrait. It’s “her voice translated into geometry,” Wen- del said. “It’s the only motif in our series that depicts something in- visible, which felt right: What re- mains of Callas is not an object, it is a sound.” Also among the ten finalists is Spanish studio Rubio and Del Amo. With their design, Julián Garnés and his team wanted to draw people closer to Callas by giving her a renewed sense of presence. “We changed the point of view, raisedherchin,andaimedforadi- rect, profound gaze that would appealtotheviewer,”saidGarnés. Callas refused to let others de- termine her worth, ensuring that her art received proper invest- ment. As biographer Lyndsy Spence recounts in Cast a Diva: The Hidden Life of Maria Callas, Callas pushed opera houses to raise their standards – and bud- gets, for the sake of spectacle. If the euro is meant to reflect a shared European identity, Callas reminds us that the most endur- ing currency is the one we create for ourselves.
exercise in game design.
What’s been the biggest surprise, for you, in terms of revisiting this source material?
Disney’s done a doozy on us. And, hey, kudos to them – Howard Ashman is one of my greatest he- roes. But what’s really ringing for me at this moment are these ideas of class, and the political system, that show up in the story. All of these stories come from im- perial moments in our history – they’re all about kings and queens. The best thing that hap- pens to Cinderella is that she marries into royalty, right? Mean- while, in the U.S., we live in an era where we’re marching in No Kings days. If you bring a little of your 2026 self into these stories, you go, ‘Wait a minute. I don’t think the best thing I want for any child growing up in poverty is to marry into the 1 per cent.’ How is that moral any good?
Three of your plays – Gloria, Appropriate and The Comeuppance – have received significant Toronto stagings since the pandemic. Why do you think your work lands so strongly in this country?
Truly, I have no idea – it’s only in the last few months I’ve become pseudo-literate in what’s going on. I was a resident at the Banff Centre’s Playwrights Lab, and I asked everyone there to tell me everything – it feels like there’s such a beautiful sense of the dra- matic canon up here, and I want to understand that better. I’m very honoured that my work has been received so well. I also think Toronto theatre is a lit- tle bit of a best-kept secret right now. Everybody’s interested in telling new stories, and it seems like there’s a pretty healthy crit- ical culture here.
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someone tighter when you know your arms will never be strong enough to keep them here, Kelly Young writes
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hey say grief comes in waves. I used to think that meant grief was something manageable. Predict- able, even. Something that would come and go in tidy sets, with enough space to catch my breath in between. When my mom was first diagnosed with cancer, the waves were there but far off. I could see them gathering on the horizon, darkening the water, but I still believed I might find a way to stand firm. We had a plan, after all – treatment options, consults, the quiet hope that this tumour, strange and un- welcome as it was, could be cut out or shrunk down. Something we could handle. Then came the scans. One after another, each one taking a little more air from the room. Inoperable. The word landed like a stone in my chest. And then, a week before her 62nd birthday, the tide shifted entirely: metastasis to her bones. Six months or less. Now, the waves are crashing. There is no rhythm to them. No pause to breathe. One
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even as cancer spreads through her body, she still wants to swim. She still wants to feel that weightlessness, that freedom from pain, if only for a short time. These waves of grief carry pieces of her. The way she hums Taylor Swift when she cooks. The smell of her hair when she hugs me. The handwritten sticky notes she tucks on leftovers she sends home with me. They wash ashore uninvited, leaving me to gather them up like driftwood: beautiful, broken, impossible to hold for long. I don’t know what the coming months will look like. I don’t know how many more swims she will get or how many times I will find myself pulled under by sorrow before the final wave arrives. But when that wave comes, when it takes her beyond my reach, I will keep swimming. I will find her there, in the quiet and the dark and the light dancing above me. I will carry her love in every stroke, every breath, every moment of surrender to something bigger than myself. Because grief comes in waves. But so does love. I will keep reminding myself – just like she always has – that neither one has to pull me under, if I just remember to let go and let the water hold me.
Kelly Young lives in Kelowna, B.C.
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West dealer. North-South vulnerable.
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West North East South 3 [S] Pass Pass 3 NT Opening Lead – seven of spades.
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Assume you’ve reached three notrump on the bidding shown and West leads a spade to East’s jack, which you win with the king. You can now count eight sure tricks, and your only chance for a ninth lies in the club suit. Without any opposing bidding, the percentage play in clubs would be to cash the A-K, play- ing for the queen to fall in ac- cordance with the adage “eight ever, nine never.” But consider- ing West’s preemptive three- spade opening, which almost surely is based on a seven-card suit, the odds no longer favour cashing the A-K of clubs, since
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West is now much more likely to have started with a singleton or void in clubs. Because of this, you might decide to lead a club to dummy’s king at trick two, planning to finesse against East for the queen. Unfortunately, this seem- ingly rational approach would fail in the actual case, and you would go down one after East showed out on the second club. You could then claim bad luck, but a more accurate assessment would be bad play. Before committing yourself as to how to tackle the club suit, you should first gather all
the information you can about West’s holdings in hearts and diamonds. You can do this by cashing the A-K-Q of diamonds and A-K of hearts. One possibil- ity is that West will follow to all five leads, revealing that he has at most one club. But in the actual deal, West turns up with just two diamonds and one heart, leaving him with three clubs. It is then a simple matter to cash the club ace and take the marked finesse against West’s queen to finish with 11 tricks.
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“It improves on the long-stand- ing flight credit system by recog- nizing more of the work that ca- bin crew are required to perform and increasing the compensa- tion for that work,” she told re- porters outside the airport in Calgary. “We wouldn’t bring a deal to our membership if we didn’t be- lieve the puzzle pieces, in the way that they would come to- gether, would be something they would ratify based on the cir- cumstances we were facing,” The members of the union lo- cal have 30 days to ratify the agreement, Ms. Hussain said. WestJet chief executive officer Alexis von Hoensbroech apol- ogized on Monday for the frus- tration the disruption caused customers. “Our teams are working hard to restore service and get our guests on their way to their des- tinations as quickly as possible and we appreciate everyone’s pa- tience as we get back to normal,” he said in a news release. Many travellers’ journeys did not go smoothly in the hours af- ter the tentative deal was an- nounced. At Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, crowds of passengers swarmed WestJet em- ployees and pleaded for help re- solving travel plans in shambles because of cancelled flights. As the staffers answered ques- tions, people shook their heads, waved their hands in frustration and walked away. While many WestJet flights were shown can- celled on the airport’s departure screens, two flights took off after 1:30 p.m. on Monday. One prospective traveller, Jes- sica Slater-Hamilton, who drove nearly three hours with her two children and husband to the air- port from the hamlet of Tara, Ont., was looking forward to watching her son play his first national softball tournament in Surrey, B.C. She was hopeful that her 5 a.m. flight on Monday would be rescheduled after she learned of a tentative deal. When she ar- rived at the airport, Ms. Slater-
The Prime Minister’s Office would only say in a statement to The Globe and Mail that “diplo- matic appointments are made through a rigorous, well-estab- lished process” and candidates are assessed to “ensure Canada is represented by exceptional lead- ers around the world.” The sources told The Globe that Mr. Cauchon wants the job and is considered one of the leading candidates, particularly because of his extensive business ties to China. As vice-chair of the Canada China Business Council, he has developed relationships with leading figures in China. The Globe is not naming the sources, who were not autho- rized to discuss the ambassado- rial appointment process. Mr. Cauchon had no comment when reached by The Globe. Mr. Cauchon was spotted in late July having lunch in Ottawa with Jennifer May, the former ambassador to China, who is now foreign and defence policy adviser to the Prime Minister. Ms. May, a career diplomat, was the first woman to serve as Canada’s ambassador to China, one of the country’s most important diplo- matic missions after Washington. The government is expected to name a new ambassador to China in the coming weeks. Media in China and Hong Kong have said that President Xi Jinp- ing might visit Ottawa in Sep- tember, alongside a planned trip to Washington for a high-level summit with U.S. President Do- nald Trump. It would be the first time a Chinese head of state has visited Canada in about 16 years.
While the numbers are small, the move is symbolically significant after decades of strong Canadian support for peacekeeping. In UN missions such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where Canada has fewer than a dozen troops, it traditionally punches above its weight by providing senior officers and top logistical specialists − including the mis- sion’s deputy commander for most of the past 20 years. In late 2023, for example, Can- adian peacekeepers played a key
Passengers wait for news about their flights, after flight attendants at WestJet went on strike when they failed to reach a deal with the country's second-largest carrier, at Vancouver International Airport on Sunday. CHRIS HELGREN/REUTERS
If the Prime Minister selects someone other than a career dip- lomat as his next envoy to Beij- ing, it will be a return to a prac- tice employed by former prime minister Justin Trudeau. He appointed former Liberal cabinet minister John McCallum as his first ambassador, only to fire him when Mr. McCallum publicly argued that the U.S. extradition request for Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou was seriously flawed. Ms. Meng’s arrest in Vancouver in December, 2018, led to China detaining two Canadians on trumped-up espionage charges and imposing sanctions on Can- adian agriculture products. All three were released as part of a U.S.-China deal in 2021. Dominic Barton, who succeed- ed Mr. McCallum in September, 2019, also came from outside the foreign service. He was formerly the global managing partner of McKinsey & Company, a business consultancy. In January, Mr. Carney trav- elled to Beijing to forge what he called a new strategic partner- ship with China. As part of the deal, Mr. Carney agreed to im- port up to 49,000 Chinese elec- tric vehicles in 2026, a number that will rise annually over five years, in exchange for Beijing re- ducing punishing tariffs on Can- adian canola, seafood and peas. In May, Wang Yi visited Otta- wa, marking the first visit to Can- ada by a Chinese foreign minister in a decade. Guy Saint-Jacques, a retired career diplomat who once served as Canada’s ambassador to China, said he has been told that Beijing has requested Mr.
role in planning the defence of Goma, a city in eastern Congo that was eventually captured by the M23 rebel militia. Congo is currently struggling with several armed insurgencies and a fast-spreading Ebola out- break. “By pulling out of the mis- sion, Canada will weaken the force at a time of continued con- flict, when the UN is much need- ed to save lives and alleviate suf- fering,” Prof. Dorn said. In the new Africa Strategy it unveiled last year, Ottawa prom- ised to boost its support for peace operations and conflict
Hamilton said WestJet employ- ees referred her to the airline’s help phone number, or its web- site. She waited five hours on hold with no answer or help. Ms. Slat- er-Hamilton said the situation is stressful because her family saved for more than a year for the flight and can’t afford to book with a different airline. “I understand the idea of bar- gaining, but it’s not the big cor- porations that are hurting. It’s little people like us that have been saving for this for a really long time,” she said, wiping away tears. Ms. Slater-Hamilton was look- ing to send her son and daughter alone on a flight if it meant he could play in the tournament.
Carney appoint a politically con- nected envoy rather than a for- eign-service officer, on the grounds that the Chinese want to be accorded the same high-pow- ered representation that Ottawa dispatched to the United States. Mr. Carney’s envoy to Wash- ington, Mark Wiseman, is a close friend of the Prime Minister and, as a financier, has good business connections in the United States.
Mr. Carney faces a tricky dilemma as he seeks rapprochement with China. There will be domestic voices raised against deeper ties with China because its President has used trade to punish countries.
Mr. Saint-Jacques said that, in his opinion, it would be a mis- take to select an ambassador from outside the foreign service for China, given the threats to Canada identified in the public inquiry into foreign interference in federal elections and demo- cratic institutions. The inquiry, overseen by Justice Marie-Josée Hogue, focused on China and other foreign actors. It issued a final report early in 2025. “It’s more difficult to fool an experienced diplomat than a po- litical appointee, and it’s impor- tant to have someone there who speaks the language, under- stands the culture, understands the mentality,” Mr. Saint-Jacques said.
prevention efforts in Africa. But while the strategy raised hopes that Canada would see the conti- nent as a priority, “those hopes now look misplaced,” said Chris Roberts, a University of Calgary political scientist who has stud- ied Canada’s military role in Afri- ca. “Within DND, Africa remains peripheral even as allies and rivals expand their military and security presence and many con- flicts continue unabated,” he told The Globe. “For a trading and rules-based country like Canada, treating the continent as periph-
Cassandra Ruggiero, a Toronto business health care profession- al, had an all-inclusive Cancun family vacation involuntarily ex- tended because of a cancelled Sunwing flight (operated by WestJet). She was aware that other trav- ellers had found themselves in more challenging situations, but she said that didn’t ease the ex- asperation triggered by spending hours on the phone or on a vir- tual chat to end up with no an- swers from WestJet. Her family’s flight was initially cancelled on Saturday. That eve- ning, they were rebooked on a flight for Wednesday. But by Sun- day, the flight attendants were on strike, sparking a panic to find a way home on another air-
The former diplomat named two people at Global Affairs – Weldon Epps, currently an assist- ant deputy minister responsible for the Indo-Pacific region, and Cindy Termorshuizen, currently deputy minister of international development – as viable options for ambassador because of their experience in China. He said they both speak Chinese. “You need someone who is objective and able to speak truth to power,” he said. Political ap- pointees “want to be nice and they don’t want to ruffle feath- ers.” He said a career diplomat would “reassure Canadians that, yes, we are willing to do more business with China, but we won’t let them threaten our sov- ereignty and security.” Vina Nadjibulla, CEO of the Centre for Strategic Statecraft, a new Canadian foreign policy think tank, said the selection of the next ambassador to China will be extremely consequential as Mr. Carney seeks to recalibrate Canada’s relationship with Beij- ing while managing “significant economic, security and values- based differences.” Ms. Nadjibulla cautioned against framing the decision simply as a choice between a career diplomat and a political appointee. She said what matters is find- ing someone who has the confi- dence and ear of Mr. Carney, as well as deft diplomatic skills, sound political judgment and a sophisticated understanding of China. “Given how personally in- volved Carney has been in reca- librating the relationship, the
eral is strategic negligence.” In addition to the shutdown of Canada’s troop contribution in four UN peacekeeping missions, DND said it will reduce its per- sonnel in the Sinai mission from about 40 to about 10 by the end of this year. The Sinai operation is technically a multinational effort, rather than a UN mission. Canada also plans to keep sending military aircraft to a UN supply hub in Uganda, but it has deployed few such flights over the past year. As recently as 2016, the federal government was promising to
line. As of Monday morning, when the tentative deal was an- nounced, Ms. Ruggiero was not certain whether her family would be back in Toronto by Wednesday. “It just feels like we’re being slapped in the face as a customer to say, ‘Figure it out yourself, and guess what? The onus is on you. The financial burden is on you,’” she said. “These are big corporations. I’m sure they’re losing money, but that’s on them. It doesn’t mean you get to leave your cus- tomers stranded.”
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ambassador must be able to communicate directly with him and translate the government’s strategic direction into effective diplomacy.” Mr. Carney faces a tricky dilemma as he seeks rapproche- ment with China. There will be domestic voices raised against deeper ties with China because its President has used trade to punish countries. Beijing has done so in recent decades, with targets ranging from Canada, Australia and Japan to South Korea, Lithuania, the Philippines and Norway. Beijing has also been accused, through the public inquiry and by Canada’s spy agency, of harassing diaspora communities and stealing this country’s tech- nology. Canada has since put in place significant safeguards, including expanded national-security re- views for foreign investments. The reviews focus on 11 sensitive technology sectors. Ottawa also banned federal research funding for universities co-operating with Chinese military institu- tions. As a result of the public inqui- ry, the government also set up a mandatory registry for people undertaking “influence activity” on behalf of foreign powers and gave Canada’s top spy agency more authority to combat threats. The changes were largely a result of months of reporting by The Globe and other media on Chinese foreign interference and disinformation campaigns, drawing on confidential nation- al-security sources and leaked secret documents.
deploy an additional 750 troops and police officers to reinforce UN peacekeeping missions worldwide. But aside from a brief deployment of 250 personnel in a helicopter unit in Mali from 2018 to 2019, the Canadian contribu- tion has steadily dwindled. “The Carney Liberals are aban- doning Canada’s peacekeeping legacy at a time of global instabil- ity,” NDP foreign affairs critic Heather McPherson said. “They need to explain what Canada’s new defence priorities are − and whether building and keeping peace is among them.”
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Privateequityandventurecapital firms did fewer but bigger deals in Canada in the first half of 2026, according to the group represent- ing the country’s private capital industry. The total value of investments made by the private equity sector fell compared with a booming 2025, but held steady compared with prior years, while the total dollars deployed in the venture capital space rose, said two re- ports from the Canadian Venture Capital (CVCA) and Private Equi- ty Association. Private equity firms focus on acquiring established companies that need restructuring or growth capital, while venture capital in- vestors target higher-risk, early- stage startups with the potential to grow. CVCA chief executive officer Benjamin Bergen said the rise of the megadeal is not a trend that’s unique to Canada. It is also hap- pening globally, he said. In the first half of 2026, private equity firms invested $12.7-bil- lion across 252 deals in Canada, a 59-per-cent drop from the $31-bil- lion invested across 332 deals in the first half of 2025. However, Mr. Bergen pointed out that private equity activity appears steadier when compared with 2023 and 2024 dollar totals.
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here have been more than 800 wildfires across Canada so far this year and nearly four million hectares of land has been burned, which is above the 10-year average. It’s the latest run of record-setting fire years and it includestwooftheworstseasons, which occurred in the past five years. And Canada isn’t alone. This past week, wildfires have forced more than 300,000 people from their homes across France and Spain,andthey’rethreateningthe outskirts of Madrid and creeping toward Bordeaux’s wine country. Fires closing in on capital cities andworld-famousvineyardsarea sign this problem is no longer staying confined to remote for- ests, while the 10-year averages show the blazes are getting in- creasingly more intense. In addition to the fires’ imme- diate damage to our natural land- scapes and well-being, there’s an- other way to think about their cli- mate implications: A healthy for- estspendsdecadespullingcarbon out of the air and locking it away intreetrunks,branchesandroots. A wildfire undoes that long-term work almost overnight, and re- leases all of that carbon.
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hen Stephen Jeffers started looking for the components to build a new gaming computer at the end of last year, the cost of digital storage gave him sticker shock. “I had most of the parts except for RAM because I was like, ‘I could get that anywhere,’ ” said Mr. Jeffers, who has previously built two gaming computers, which require more mem- ory than normal computers. Memory has his- torically been low cost and easy to source. But the price was climbing fast. “Once it doubled, I hit the panic button and went to the secondary market,” he said. He paid $200 for two 16-gigabyte sticks of RAM on the secondary market and $150 for a two-terabytesolid-statedrivethathe“swooped in” and got on sale around Christmas. Just six months later, the same components are now selling for about $600 each, he said. Mr. Jeffers, who lives in St. John’s and works in pro- ject management, joked that his computer
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rom the moment AbCellera Biolog- ics Inc. went public in late 2020, chief executive Carl Hansen’s goal was to build the antibody developer into Canada’s first homegrown Big Phar- ma giant. But since its explosive Nasdaq debut – Vancouver-based AbCellera was briefly worth US$15.7-billion – the ticker has told a different story. Despite fleeting success with a drug developed to treat CO- VID-19 patients, AbCellera’s stock crashed and has only marginally recovered. Mr. Hansen hopes that’s about to change. AbCellera this quarter is set to re- lease efficacy data for a treatment it devel-
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storage has become “one of my best-perform- ing assets.” Consumer electronics from cellphones to gaming devices are rapidly becoming more expensive as massive demand from the data centres that power artificial intelligence drives up the cost of memory. The price of random access memory, or RAM, and solid state drive storage – two types of memory that store data on cellphones, lap- top and desktop computers, and gaming sys- tems – has quadrupled since late 2025. A late June report from Jefferies Equity Research said RAM prices will continue to increase between 40 and 50 per cent in the third quarter of this year, and another 30 to 40 per cent in the fourth quarter. Kevin Jia, co-founder and chief executive of- ficer of Quoted Tech, a Canadian PC builder, called the price hikes an “AI tax” on consumers buying a new device or looking to build their own. Mr. Jia’s company makes computers for high-end and entry-level gaming, as well as professional workstations.
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oped to reduce the frequency and severity of hot flashes experienced by women dur- ing menopause. If it works, the drug could be a blockbuster, generating US$1-billion- plus in peak annual sales, the company believes. AbCellera plans to take other drugs into clinical trials soon, and has struck partnership deals with three phar- ma giants to develop antibodies that make white blood cells more effective at fighting disease. “By the end of 2027, we could have the best-looking pipeline for any company be- low US$20-billion in market capitaliza- tion,” Mr. Hansen said in an interview about AbCellera, which is worth US$1.77- billion. “We have the proverbial goose in place. Now it is time for some golden eggs.”
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AbCellera’s stock market journey is not unique. Biotech stocks soared during the first two years of the pandemic. Then, the inflation-fuelled spike in interest rates four years ago socked publicly listed early- stage drug developers and dulled the ap- petites of venture capitalists. The return of Donald Trump to the White House and the appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a well-known vaccine skeptic, as Health Secretary cast uncertainty as the U.S. gov- ernment cut basic science and research spending. By spring 2025, biotech share prices re- mained depressed. The initial public offer- ing market was quiet. But across the industry, that fever has broken.
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rare joint U.S.-Japan inter- vention has raised the stakes on traders betting against the yen, but analysts are doubtful speculators will be kept at bay without tighter monetary policy. The ultimate test will be whether the Bank of Japan (BOJ) follows through with faster inter- est-rate increases, as the wide yield gap with the United States remains the main driver of yen weakness. Japan spent US$70-billion in late April and early May to prop up the yen, but the rebound was brief as was the case in 2024 and 2022, when the country inter- vened in the currency market alone. But by joining forces to inter- vene for the first time in 15 years, the authorities in Tokyo and Washington are wagering that a united front will do more to deter speculators than solo interven- tion has in the past. The yen rose 1 per cent in early Asian trade on Monday to a high of 155.20 per dollar, its strongest in about three months, moving away from the 40-year low of 163.99 it hit in July. The two-year Japanese govern- ment bond yield, the one most sensitive to BOJ policy, hit 1.54 per cent, its highest since May, 1995, on Monday. Analysts said the co-ordinated intervention triggered a squeeze in short positions – the largest in nearly two years – and increased the risk of follow-up action, including faster rate hikes from the central bank.
of $400-billion Bristol Myers deal
MAGGIE FICK LONDON
AstraZeneca investors punished the pharmaceutical firm on Monday over reports of merger talks with U.S. rival Bristol Myers Squibb that could make one of the world’s biggest drugmakers with a combined value of nearly US$400-billion. Shares in AstraZeneca closed down some 9 per cent, the big- gest drop since 2020, as investors and analysts said Britain’s big- gest drugmaker had little need for a transformative acquisition despite potential cost benefits. Bristol Myers shares slipped less than 1 per cent in early trading. A deal, if confirmed, would create the world’s fourth-largest drugmaker by market value and the largest by revenue, in poten- tially one of the biggest M&A deals ever, combining a top European pharmaceutical firm with a major U.S. rival. An AstraZeneca spokesperson declined to comment on Mon- day. Bristol Myers, which is head- quartered in New Jersey, did not respond to a request for com- ment. “The only advantage for Astra- Zeneca in this rumoured combi- nation with BMS seems to be to accelerate its U.S. footprint and sales,” said Lucy Coutts, invest- ment director at JM Finn, an AstraZeneca shareholder. “On balance, BMS sharehol- ders would be the winners of any combination with AZN and so this news will undoubtedly be received coolly by AZN sharehol- ders.” A person familiar with the matter told Reuters that AstraZe- neca and Bristol had held talks, confirming an earlier Financial Times report. On Friday, the two
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UBS FINED $125-MILLION BY U.S. REGULATORS FOR MONEY-LAUNDERING VIOLATIONS
UBS Group was fined US$125- million by U.S. regulators on Monday for violating the Bank Secrecy Act, the largest civil fine ever against a broker-dealer for violating the main U.S. anti- money-laundering law. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) said UBS Financial Services admitted to willfully violating the BSA by failing to implement
A woman stands in front of a screen Monday that displays graphs showing the current and recent exchange rates for the yen against the U.S. dollar after Japan and the United States conducted a co-ordinated yen-buying intervention. ISSEI KATO/REUTERS
“A surprise hike by the Bank of Japan would go a long way to reset expectations around the central bank’s determination to tighten monetary policy,” said Fred Neumann, chief Asia econo- mist at HSBC. “Joint intervention by the U.S. and Japan is a powerful signal to markets … however, without complementary monetary policy adjustments, the impact on the yen from joint intervention is likely to be short-lived.” The wild swings in oil prices due to the Iran war and a wide interest rate difference between Japan and major economies have left the yen vulnerable, with speculators amassing net short position on the yen worth about US$12.5-billion, data showed. Japan and the U.S. confirmed on Monday they conducted co- ordinated yen-buying interven- tion last week, a move that underscores the growing unease over the yen’s declines.
had a combined market capital- ization of nearly US$400-billion, with AstraZeneca valued at US$264-billion and Bristol Myers at US$133-billion. Analysts and investors ques- tioned the logic of a deal for As- traZeneca, which has been one of the most successful compa- nies in the sector under CEO Pas- cal Soriot’s 14 years at the helm. Markus Manns, portfolio man- ager at Union Investment, an AstraZeneca shareholder, said a deal “does not make strategic or financial sense” and that it would disrupt a “well-run com- pany with a full pipeline.” “If the merger rumours prove to be true, this would represent the pharmaceutical industry’s equivalent of the FIFA privatiza- tion moment,” added Mr. Manns, referring to FIFA’s now aban- doned plans to sell off a World Cup stake. “[That is to say a] poorly conceived proposal that would be met with considerable bewilderment by many market participants.” Lukas Leu, portfolio manager at AstraZeneca shareholder ATG Healthcare, said a deal could boost margins through cost syn- ergies and expand reach in neu- roscience and cell therapy, but questioned how a combined firm would position competing drugs. “I am not a big fan of mega- mergers, it kills innovation and agility, and would be growth-dil- utive for AstraZeneca in the near term,” he said. One attraction for AstraZene- ca could be further expanding its presence in the United States, already its biggest market. AstraZeneca this year com- pleted a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange, and a Bris- tol Myers deal would effectively
and maintain an anti-money- laundering program and by failing to file suspicious activity reports. Monday’s settlement reflected UBS’s status as a repeat offender, after the Swiss bank failed to address problems that led to a US$14.5-million fine by FinCEN in December, 2018. The alleged subsequent violations occurred between January, 2019, and June, 2023.
“History is quite clear, co-ordi- nated intervention packs a punch, and it tends to be success- ful,” said Elias Haddad, global head of markets strategy at BBH in London. “It does take time for the trend to ultimately move in the right direction of the inter- vention.”
History is quite clear, co-ordinated intervention packs a punch, and it tends to be successful.
ELIAS HADDAD BBH HEAD OF MARKETS STRATEGY
The key difference this time is U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been explicit about concerns regarding yen weak- ness, lending greater credibility to the prospect of sustainable yen
mean a British company buying a major U.S. pharmaceutical champion. Bristol Myers derives the majority of its revenue from the U.S., where it has one of the largest commercial footprints. A portfolio manager at a top-20 AstraZeneca shareholder, who commented on condition of anonymity, said that while “there may be an appeal to increasing U.S. exposure,” such a deal “would be a surprise given Astra management has consis- tently backed the business to grow organically through R&D delivery.” “Consensus is that Astra has a stronger pipeline and less patent expiry pressure than BMS, so why dilute that and reduce the growth outlook?” Since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to office, Astra- Zeneca has invested tens of bil- lions of dollars in U.S. manufac- turing and cultivated close ties with the administration as the company pursues an ambitious goal of generating half of its tar- geted US$80-billion in annual revenue by 2030 from the U.S. market. It generated about US$59-bil- lion in revenue last year. Sean Conroy, an analyst at Shore Capital, said a deal could also help AstraZeneca address the patent cliff it faces after 2030 and strengthen its oncology business, although he cautioned that investors were “not often fans of megamergers of this ilk.” He added that overlap be- tween Bristol Myers’ Opdivo and AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi, which are the same type of cancer immu- notherapy drugs, could attract antitrust scrutiny.
UBS’s settlement resolved related accusations by the Secu- rities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. In a statement, UBS said it co-operated with regulators and has made significant invest- ments to strengthen its anti- money-laundering program “in line with leading industry prac- tices.” REUTERS
strength, said Carol Lye, portfolio manager at BGIM, a unit of Fran- klin Templeton. Mr. Bessent also said the Unit- ed States would consider increas- ing in coming months the size of the Federal Reserve’s repurchase facility providing temporary dol- lar liquidity, calling the tool an “important backstop”. “The expansion of the Federal Reserve’s FIMA repo facility pro- vides Japan with significantly greater intervention capacity, potentially supporting up to 30 additional rounds of interven- tion at approximately five trillion yen per round,” Ms. Lye said. Mr. Nomura said Japan may have ammo to spend as much as 30 trillion yen, targeting levels of at least 154 yen to trigger momen- tum traders. “If this works, could accelerate the move to 150,” they said in a note to clients and reviewed by Reuters. Some analysts remain skepti- cal of the long-term durability of
Max 7 in major win for American planemaker
DAVID SHEPARDSON WASHINGTON DAN CATCHPOLE SEATTLE
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration gave long-awaited approval on Monday to Boeing Co.’s 737 Max 7, a milestone for the American planemaker that has waited years to sell the smallest version of its best-selling airplane. Boeing has faced a more stringent certification process since two fatal Max 8 crashes in 2018 and 2019, as well as scrutiny of the company’s production and quality systems after a January, 2024, mid-air cabin panel blowout on a nearly new Alaska Airlines Max 9. Boeing’s share price rose about 1.2 per cent after Reuters first reported the news of the Max 7 certification, and was up 6.7 per cent for the day. The FAA, after almost a decade of review, required Boe- ing to incorporate key improvements and address recom- mendations from the National Transportation Safety Board, including updates to the flight-control software, flight crew alerting system, and a redesigned engine anti-ice system. The jetliner’s certification was years behind schedule. At one point, Boeing had said it expected the plane to be approved before the end of 2022. Boeing said on Monday that preparations are under way to support first deliveries. The Max 7 offers 135 to 160 seats while providing about 10 per cent more range potential than other Max planes. The Boeing 737 Max 7 began testing in 2018. Boeing and Southwest Airlines, the 737 Max 7 launch customer, are preparing for delivery of the first airplane. Southwest Airlines said it is pleased with the approval and looks forward to the plane entering service in the com- ing months. Southwest does not have the Max 7 on its current schedule, which is through March, 2027. FAA deputy administrator Chris Rocheleau told Reuters last month that he thought approval of the larger Max 10 would be “right behind” the Max 7. Stephanie Pope, Boeing’s head of commercial airplanes, told employees in a memo on Monday that the company learned “important lessons that we are already applying to the 737-10 and that are accelerating our work as we com- plete the 737 MAX airplane family and then the 777X pro- grams.” Boeing already has built about 30 Max 7s and nine Max 10s, which are awaiting delivery, according to aviation ana- lytics firm Cirium. The Max 10 accounts for at least 28 per cent of outstanding Max orders. FAA administrator Bryan Bedford told Reuters in July that the agency and Boeing have improved work on certify- ing new planes. Boeing in 2022 faced a deadline set by Congress to win certification of the two variants of the Max before a new safety standard on cockpit alerts was to take effect. Con- gress ultimately agreed to waive that requirement. The FAA said in December the Max 10 would have an enhanced flight crew alerting system, which will include a way to shut off stall warning and overspeed alerts. The FAA last October gave Boeing approval to raise its 737 Max production to 42 planes a month, ending a 38- plane cap in place since January, 2024, after the Alaska incident. The agency in March then allowed Boeing to hike production to 47 planes a month. Last month, the FAA said it would let Boeing issue air- worthiness certificates for all 737 Max and 787 airplanes after an extensive review showed that the company had demonstrated “consistent production quality.”
an intervention-led surge in the yen unless there is followup from policy makers, with some of the currency’s weakness often attri- buted to the BOJ’s cautious approach to raising rates. On Friday, the Japanese central bank warned for the first time that underlying inflation could exceed its target and said future policy discussions would focus on upside price risks, signalling the chance of a rate hike as soon as September. The BOJ’s decision came after Japan conducted yen-buying, dollar-selling market interven- tion in New York markets on Thursday. “Unless we see much faster BOJ rate hikes, and the govern- ment taking a clearer stand on the JPY as well as dialling back its ambition for fiscal expansion, we still lack confidence in projecting a downtrend for dollar/yen,” HSBC currency strategists Joey Chew and Paul Mackel said in a note. For bears, co-ordinated inter- vention has not fundamentally altered the yen’s outlook but on- ly delayed another test of its lows. Chandresh Jain, EM Asia rates and FX strategist at BNP Paribas, said the yen’s bounce provided an opening to initiate a long dol- lar/yen position through op- tions, betting the yen will weaken in the near term. “Basically, we are saying that we should be long dollar/yen, but thinking that it will cap at 163.5,” he said. “Previously, it was about the velocity of the dollar move. This time it feels like more of a num- ber rather than the velocity,” Mr. Jain said of the latest bouts of intervention. “We have seen multiple times intervention around 160, and then now at 164-ish – so seems like these numbers are getting uncomfortable for them, rather than just the pace which used to be the case historically.”
The global early-stage life sci- encessectorisashealthyasit’sev- er been. The State Street SPDR S&P Biotech exchange-traded fund, or XBI – a sector benchmark –hasappreciatedby70percentin value in the past year, and recent- ly topped its pandemic-level highs. Mergers and acquisitions are up sharply, marked by a record number of large deals, and 2026 is on track to be the best year for biotech IPOs since 2021. That in- cludes back-to-back record-set- ting issues by U.S. drug develop- ers Kailera Therapeutics and Par- abilis Medicines this spring. All those exits have returned capital to financiers, welcome news to developers that struggled to raise money for years. “It’s an amazing time to be in the biotech ecosystem in any ca- pacity,” Eric Tokat, co-president of investment banking with New York’s Centerview Partners, a leading life sciences M&A adviso- ry firm, told attendees at the Bloom Burton & Co. health care investor conference in Toronto in April. The level of activity and ex- citement, he added, was the high- est he’s seen. The biotech revival is a global story, and Canada is playing its part. The country has rarely had as many promising, cutting-edge medical sciences companies poised at the edge of success as it does now. “The quality of companies is better than we’ve ever seen,” said Nikhil Thatte, a partner with To- ronto-based life sciences finan- cier Lumira Ventures. The timing couldn’t be better. Canadian researchers have made transformational medical discov- eries for more than a century, including insulin, stem cells, how the GLP-1 hormone works, and antiretroviral drug 3TC, a key part of the AIDS cocktail that trans- formed HIV into a manageable chronic condition. However, most of the ensuing economic benefits accrued elsewhere. There’s now a renewed deter- mination across Canada to capi- talize on our homegrown re- sources – including brainpower – to bolster our economic sover- eignty. But the life sciences sector is notoriously risky, and Canada’s institutional investors, including its largest pension funds, largely remain on the sidelines. Foreign pharma giants, in contrast, are flush and keen to acquire promising developers in the space. They’ve already taken out many of Canada’s leading bio- technology companies in recent years. With Big Pharmas at the door- step and indifferent investors at home, can our domestic sector avoid getting hollowed out and fi- nally produce globally relevant life sciences giants?
M&A IS PICKING UP
Theglobalbiotechrevivalisbeing driven by a few factors. Interest in weight loss drugs has sparked ac- tivity. Many developers are using artificial intelligence to discover and develop new drugs. Investors have been cycling out of the Mag- nificent Seven tech giants and in- to other sectors, including life sci- ences. China is emerging as a ma- jor source of promising mole- cules – including near-knock-offs of other treatments. But the main driver has been an unleashing of significant cap- ital into the sector, a function of its built-in cyclicality. Big Phar- mas are buying biotechs – because they have to. Every blockbuster drug comes with a countdown clock. New drug patents last 20 years from the time they’re granted, but that includes years of trials and regu- latory reviews. By the time a drug gets to market, it typically has a decade or less of exclusivity before lower-priced generic copy- cats emerge. The drug industry periodically approaches a “patent cliff,” when a group of blockbusters approach the end of their exclusivity at once. That’s happening now. Some of the world’s most pop- ular drugs are coming off patent protection in the next few years, including Keytruda, a cancer treatment that generated US$31.7-billion in sales for Merck & Co. in 2025, nearly half of its to- tal global revenue. Merck’s HPV vaccineGardasil9,whichgenerat- ed US$5.23-billion in sales last yearincombinationwithitssister Gardasil, is also set to lose protec- tion in 2028. Pfizer faces two big exclusivity losses: oncology drug Ibrance next year (2025 sales: US$4.1-bil- lion) and blood thinner Eliquis, which it jointly sells with Bristol Myers Squib Co. (BMS). Eliquis
Staff work in a clean lab in Burnaby, B.C., where Kardium makes a medical device that treats atrial fibrillation. There’s now a renewed determination across Canada to capitalize on homegrown resources – including brainpower – to bolster economic sovereignty. JIMMY JEONG/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Kardium CEO Kevin Chaplin holds a Globe Pulsed Field System, a medical device that treats atrial fibrillation. JIMMY JEONG/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
generated US$22-billion com- bined for the two companies last year. BMS is also set to lose exclu- sivityin2028forOpdivo,acancer- fighting antibody that accounted for more than 20 per cent of its US$48.2-billion revenue in last year. “Almost every large pharma has a patent cliff,” said Serge Belanger, an analyst with Need- ham & Co. in New York. As patent protection vanishes, thoserevenuescollapse.Consider BMS’s hematology drug Revli- mid: It generated US$12-billion in revenue for BMS in 2021. Then ge- nerics entered the market. By 2025, that revenue had shrunk to US$2.95-billiion. Revlimid reve- nuesfellbyafurther56percentin the first half of 2026 compared to the same period last year. “The major tailwind in the global sector is the insatiable need for innovative blockbuster products by pharma and related M&A activity,” said Brian Bloom, chief executive of Toronto life sci- ences investment bank Bloom Burton & Co. “It isn’t always as acute as it is right now,” he said, with so many cliff-bound block- busters. Drugmakers do have new treatments in the wings. The FDA recently approved Lipfendra, a Merck treatment for lowering cholesterol. Analysts expect peak annual sales of US$5-billion-plus. But that’s not enough to replace Merck’s anticipated de- clines from Keytruda. By Mr. Tokat’s estimate, Big Pharmas have US$180-billion in annual revenue exposed to loss of patent exclusivity through 2032. And they don’t just want to replace revenues but grow the topline, as well. “They need a lot of new reve- nues, and a lot of new revenues means a lot of new products,” he said. “Their productivity isn’t suf- ficientenoughtoreplacethoseon their own.” Hence the shopping spree – which could also include a mega- merger between pharma giants AstraZeneca Plc and BMS, which areintalkstocombine,theFinan- cial Times reported Sunday. “The Big Pharmas are out there, they need to buy, they need to do li- censing deals, they need a lot of shots on goal,” said Cheryl Reicin, a partner and co-chair of life sci- ences with law firm Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo
PC in Toronto. This year, deep-pocketed pharmas have bought a record 11 companies valued at US$5-billion or more. By some industry estimates, they have US$500- billion of financial capacity for deals. Eli Lilly, the world’s most valuable pharma company, has been among the busiest buyers. There’s competition as medium-size pharmas like Bio- gen and Jazz Pharmaceuticals hunt for deals. Themenuisglobal,andthatin- cludesCanadianbiotechs.There’s much to choose from.
A BIG 12 MONTHS FOR CANADIAN BIOTECH
Canada’s medical sciences sector has had one of the strongest 12- month stretches in memory. List- ed companies have raised $2.4- billion on public markets accord- ing to Bloom Burton – and that excludes the $1.5-billion of stock sold by generic drugmaker Apo- tex Health Corp. in its June IPO. Satellos Bioscience Inc., NervGen Pharma Corp. and Cybin Inc. all cross-listed to Nasdaq from Cana- dian exchanges. Montreal-based pulmonary hypertension drug developer 35Pharma Inc. was sold this year to GSK plc for US$950-million ($1.3-billion), the latest in a string of 10-figure Canadian biotech buyouts that have delivered strong returns to early-stage fin- anciers. Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc., one of many promising biotechs from B.C.’s Lower Mainland, raised $1-billion from a stock is- sue in March after reporting its epilepsy treatment significantly reduced seizure activity in hu- man trials. The Nasdaq-listed company, valued at about US$6-billion, is applying this year to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to take its drug to market, and running trials to show whether it can also treat mood disorders and pain. While some industry observers consider Xenon a takeover candidate,“we’vebeenconsistent for some time that we want to buildafullyintegratedcompany,” saidchiefexecutiveIanMortimer. Privately held Kardium Inc., which makes a device for treating atrial fibrillation, a common heart problem, plans to go public
asearlyas2027,aftertheBurnaby, B.C., company got FDA approval last year to market its product. Zymeworks Inc., also from Vancouver, has had a big year. Last fall its lead drug, which is being commercialized globally by Jazz and BeOne Medicines Ltd., proved in human trials to be ef- fective at stopping the spread of a digestive system cancer. Zymeworks plans to use the cash from its partnered drugs to buy streams of royalties from other developers, starting with the US$929-million purchase in June of Theravance Biopharma Inc. And B.C.-incorporated Defini- um Therapeutics (formerly Mind Medicine (MindMed) Inc.), re- cently unveiled positive late- stage human trial results for an LSD-based drug for depression. Definium’s stock price has soared anditraisedUS$800-million-plus from investors in June. Several Canadian companies have capitalized from using AI: Vancouver’s Variational AI signed a drug discovery deal with Merck last fall worth up to $349-million. Montreal-based Congruence TherapeuticsisusingAItodiscov- er genetic mutations owing to protein misfolding that cause dis- eases, targeting treatments for obesity and Parkinson’s disease, andhasraisednearlyUS$140-mil- lion in venture capital. Congru- ence is led by Clarissa Desjardins, one of several repeat Canadian founders building biotechs. Toronto-based Biossil has raisedtensofmillionsfrominves- tors, including Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and OpenAI. It uses AI to scavenge through the discard pile of failed late-stage drug candidates, searching for ones that could be revived as suc- cessful therapies. Biossil has al- ready bought or licensed 11 mole- cules. Not every Canadian biotech has had a great year. Shares of Quebec-based enGene Ther- apeutics Inc. cratered in May after it reported a drop in response rates during a trial of its bladder cancer therapy. Vancouver radio- pharmaceutical developer Abde- ra Therapeutics shut down after generating disappointing clinical results. Several other promising Cana- dian life sciences companies are at various stages of commerciali- zation. Acuitas Therapeutics, based on the University of British
Columbiacampus,developedkey lipid nanoparticle technology that helped effectively deliver the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vac- cine. The private company’s focus now is developing targeted ther- apies to white blood cells to fight cancer and autoimmune diseas- es. Vancouver’s Aspect Biosys- tems, which 3-D prints live tissue implants that can replace organ functions, expanded a multibil- lion-dollar partnership with Danish giant Novo Nordisk in January to develop diabetes treat- ments. NervGen, also in Vancouver, is developing an injectable peptide it hopes can help repair nerve damage in people with spinal cord injuries. And Specific Biologics, a Western University spinout, has one of the most advanced gene-editing platforms in the industry. It’s pursuing a dis- ease-modifying therapy for Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, (Lou Gehrig’s disease). It’s an impressive list – but not enough to make life sciences, which accounts for about 2 per cent of GDP, a meaningful con- tributor to Canada’s economy. Yet.
UPCOMING RESULTS COULD BOOST OTHER CANADIAN BIOTECHS
Eight-year-old Charlie has a terri- ble disease called Duchenne mus- cular dystrophy, Frank Gleeson said as he showed a picture of the boy during a presentation at April’s Bloom Burton health care conference.By12,Charliewilllose his ability to walk. By his 20s, he won’t be able to breathe on his own. “He will not have a very long life,” Mr. Gleeson said in a solemn voice. But, the CEO of Toronto-based Satellos Bioscience told attendees his company is just “months away from meaningful clinical data, and from being in a position to pursue approval for a drug to treat this devastating disease.” Satellos is one of several Canadian drug developers set to deliver pivotal clinical results this year that, if successful, could deliver life-changing therapies – and send their stocks soaring. Satellos has developed a daily pill,basedonresearchbyco-foun- der Dr. Michael Rudnicki, a regenerative medicine senior scientistwiththeOttawaHospital Research Institute, that maystop and reverse the effects of the fatal disease, which causes muscle loss. Satellos believes its drug can regenerate muscle tissue lost owing to a genetic defect, which animal studies have borne out. Thedrughasprovensafeinhu- mans, and efficacy data from a study of 51 children is expected later in 2026. “So far, what we’ve seen indi- cates that this drug could have a profound effect on the lives of people living with this disease in that it could allow them to live their lives more fully,” said Mr. Gleeson. Oppenheimer & Co. analyst Kostas Biliouris said in a report early this year that positive data could drive a 300-per-cent to 500- per-cent upward move in Satel- los’s stock price. Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals Inc. is also poised for a transformative readout. The Vancouver compa- ny has developed a balloon-like drug delivery technology the size of a grain of sand.
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Its polymer shell encases a drug that is slowly, steadily re- leased for months before the de- vice disintegrates into alcohol and water. The promise is that the tech- nology will deliver safe, effective levels of drugs to localized areas over sustained periods. Eupraxia initially developed its treatment for osteoarthritis, but later realized the technology was suited to another medical pur- pose with a larger patient base and a more critical need: treating eosinophilic esophagitis (EOE), anafflictionintheesophagusthat makes it painful to swallow. The current standard of care is a drug taken twice daily, but patients can’t eat or drink for hours after- ward, and it often causes a fungal infection in the mouth. Most pa- tients don’t follow the treatment regimen. Eupraxia’s diffusers can in- stead be implanted during endos- copy appointments and release the same steroid gradually with- out the side effects. In early 2023, Eupraxia switched its clinical focus to EOE, then cross-listed from the Toron- to Stock Exchange to Nasdaq. It raised nearly $200-million in the past year. Early data has been promising, and the company is set to deliver key efficacy data by the end of 2026. Perhaps the biggest spotlight is on AbCellera, which became a globalbiotech starsix yearsago.It developed a treatment for people hospitalized with the COVID-19 virus after isolating an antibody from a recovered patient using its multifaceted drug discovery plat- form. Partner Eli Lilly & Co. se- cured emergency authorization totakethedrugtomarketandAb- Cellera got nearly US$1-billion in royalties. But revenues tailed off quickly. So did its stock price. AbCellera’s focus on churning out antibodies for others to develop didn’t excite investors. So in 2023, AbCellera largely shifted its focus to devel- oping its own drugs, focusing on established areas where it could address an unmet need with a dif- ferentiated treatment, while spending relatively little on re- search and development. For its first drug, AbCellera honed in on developing a non- hormone therapy for hot flashes in women during menopause. Two drugs, from Astellas and Bayer, have hit the market recent- ly; both are predicted to generate peak sales of US$1-billion or more each. But they need to be taken daily and have potential side ef- fects, including liver toxicity. AbCellera’s product is an injec- table antibody that doesn’t me- tabolize in the liver or have the same toxicity issues. And it’s ad- ministered monthly. The company moved quickly. It reported no adverse events from its human safety trial in May and expects to deliver its first effi- cacy results from an 80-patient study that is being conducted en- tirely in Canada by Sept 30; a suc- cessful readout “would support moving quickly to late-stage de- velopment,” said Mr. Hansen, the CEO. AbCellera doesn’t want to be seen as a one-molecule company primed for a takeover, as many other biotechs are. Its vision, Mr. Hansen wrote in AbCellera’s 2025 annual report, “is to build a global biotech company that can repeatedly discover, develop and commercialize breakthrough medicines for patients world- wide.” To that end, it has at least three more molecules lined up for clin- ical development by 2027. “We’ve always said we are trying to build a global biotechnology company that actually matters,” said Mr. Hansen. AbCellera “may turn out to be Canada’s Genentech,” Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Steve Seed- house said in a May report, refer- ring to the legendary U.S. compa- ny that kicked off the biotech rev- olution 50 years ago. It only needs the menopause drug to succeed “for the stock to work.”
INVESTMENT RETURNS ARE STRONG, BUT WHERE ARE CANADIAN INVESTORS?
Canada only has a handful of ven- ture capital firms focusing on life sciences. But their returns have outclassed their peers in other in- novation-focused sectors. According to the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equi- ty Association, five of the top 10 exitsinthepastfiveyearsofCana- dian venture capital-backed com- panies have been in life sciences. The sector accounted for 15 per cent of venture-backed exits – and 53 per cent of exit value.
Canada's billion-dollar biotech exits Takeovers of companies founded or based in Canada that sold for $1-billion+ (US$700-million)
COMPANY BUYER DEAL VALUE (BILLION USD) DISEASE AREA YEAR
Chinook Therapeutics Novartis $3.20 Rare kidney diease 2023
Fusion Pharmaceuticals AstraZeneca $2.40 Cancer 2024
Trillium Therapeutics Pfizer $2.26 Cancer 2021
Bellus Health GSK $2.00 Chronic cough 2023
Sierra Oncology GSK $1.90 Bone marrow cancer 2022
Baylis Medical (cardiology unit) Boston Scientific $1.75 Heart procedures 2021
Point Biopharma Global Eli Lilly $1.40 Cancer 2023
Clementia Pharmaceuticals Ipsen $1.30 Rare bone disorders 2019
Inversago Pharma Novo Nordisk $1.10 Obesity 2023
BlueRock Therapeutics Bayer $1.00 Multiple 2019
35Pharma GSK $0.95 Cardiopulmonary disease 2026
BioVectra Agilent Technologies $0.93
State Street SPDR S&P Biotech ETF price In U.S. dollars; ticker is XBI on NYSE
$180
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Average internal returns for Canadian venture capital funds by sector for 2025 10-year average
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A RX1 bioprinter makes a 3D tissue patch at Aspect Biosystems, in Vancouver. DARRYL DYCK/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
14.9% 14.9%
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(Anexitdoesn’tguaranteesuc- cess of the underlying drug; treat- ments from four Canadian com- panies that sold for 10 figures since 2019 failed later trials.) Biotech VCs generated average internal returns of 19.9 per cent over 10 years through 2026, or five percentage points higher than theirpeerswhoinvestedinthein- formation and communications technology space, and nearly double those in clean tech, ac- cording to the Business Develop- ment Bank of Canada’s annual VC survey. But the investors sharing in thatgoodfortuneareoverwhelm- ingly foreign. There are just a handful of Canadian institutional funders of Canadian biotech ven- ture capital. Most are in Quebec: Fonds de solidarité FTQ, the la- bour-sponsored fund; the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Qué- bec; BDC; Fondaction; and fund manager Teralys Capital. Investing in biotech requires technical knowledge (many fund managers have PhDs or MD de- grees), patience and a good read ofwhatBigPharmafindsinterest- ing; few institutions here have made that investment. Meanwhile, dozens of Ameri- can and European investors have reaped most of the gains from the Canadian sector, including top global life sciences investors Or- biMed and RA Capital. Kardium struggled to raise money in Canada to develop its distinctive heart disease technol- ogy. Its catheter is threaded up a patient’s femoral vein into the heart and expanded into a disco- ball-like globe just three centim- eters in diameter. It pinpoints where erratic electrical signals originate and zaps the problem cells. The device has generated better clinical results than its ri- vals. But Kardium had no trouble finding leading foreign financiers willing to invest nearly $500-mil- lion, including Fidelity, T. Rowe Price Associates and Qatar’s sov- ereign wealth fund. “If we want to keep growing Canadian companies, we need to figure out a source of financing so they don’t end up moving to the U.S. or selling,” said Kardium CEO Kevin Chaplin. The absence of Canadian capi- tal to back Canadian medical de- velopershasbeenalong-standing complaint.“Everyonewhoknows
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the space knows how productive and underfunded it has been” de- spite the solid returns, said Peter van der Velden, executive chair of Toronto’s Lumira Ventures. There have been some promis- ing signs recently. New capital providers have committed to fi- nance homegrown medical star- tups, including McMaster Univer- sity and University of Toronto, as well as Terry Fox Foundation and Canadian Cancer Society and To- ronto’s billionaire Weston family. The federal government and some provinces have launched life sciences and biomanufactur- ing strategies since the pandemic. “After years of watching Cana- dian innovation create value else- where, we’re witnessing an align- ment of capital, policy and ambi- tion that finally positions Canada as a global life science leader,” said Anne Woods, managing di- rector of health care investment banking at Royal Bank of Canada. But Canada’s pension funds are largely absent from the do- mestic biotech venture capital scene. One of the biggest life sciences investors in the country is the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board,whichisdrawntothe“very attractive” returns that are uncor- related to other sectors, said Paul McCracken, managing director with CPP Investments. However, Canada’s largest in- stitutionalinvestorisoverwhelm- ingly invested everywhere but Canadian life sciences; it only has one current investment here: AI drug developer Deep Genomics. Mr. McCracken said that CPP’s strategy is to back and co-invest alongside some of the top global financiers in the space, including Bain Capital, ARCH Venture Part- ners and General Atlantic. And it writes big cheques: CPP’s growth equity team looks to invest US$75-million into life sciences funds that raise US$750-million or more, and US$50-million into individual companies. Canada’s biotech VC funds, which include Lumira, Genesys Capital, CTI Life Sciences Fund, RelentlessVentureFund,BDCspi- nout Amplitude Ventures, plus a new in-house BDC fund launched this year, top out at less than US$250-million in size. That is just too small to make a meaning- ful difference to CPP’s US$793-bil- lion fund size. “Given the scale of our capital, there has not yet been a match for us to become partners” in Cana- da, said Mr. McCracken. He adds that CPP is “actively engaged in the Canadian life sciences ecosys- tem” and would consider invest- ing in the right-sized opportuni- ties “that could meet our criteria of performance, scale and part- nership.” Mr. van der Velden argues CPP is missing out on the chance to share in solid returns at home – and support the local economy. “The fact that CPP is doing these deals in the U.S. without thinking about Canada is just dis- appointing. If our pension plans can make money in this space – and the evidence is that U.S. pen- sion plans can – then why wouldn’t they? Why wouldn’t they want to create jobs for Cana- dians?Whywouldn’ttheywantto build the next globally competi- tivecompanies?Idon’tknowwhy you wouldn’t want to make that happen.”
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how schools are creating flexible, multifunctional spaces
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n any given afternoon, students settle into lounge chairs beside floor- to-ceiling windows, faculty mem- bers gather over coffee in shared social spaces, and classmates re- arrange furniture into impromp- tu study pods before disappear- ing into quiet corners to prepare for exams. Just a few years ago, none of this existed. The century-old Dentistry and Pharmacy building at the University of Alberta sat largely dormant. Today, it has been transformed into University Commons, a 405,000-square-foot campus hub that houses everything from of- fices of the registrar and execu- tive leadership to classrooms, collaborative workspaces and wellness rooms designed by stu- dents. More than an architectural makeover, the project reflects a broader shift taking place on uni- versity campuses across Canada, where institutions are rethinking how they use existing real estate. Experts say these changes are the result of financial pressures, changing student expectations and the lingering effects of the pandemic. Instead of dedicating buildings to a single faculty or department, universities are now combining student services, classrooms, col- laborative workspaces, wellness rooms, event spaces and infor- mal gathering areas under one roof. The goal? To create campus- es where students spend more time learning, networking and building community, rather than simply attending lectures. “This speaks to broader trends in development that revolve around building cities and com- munities for the future,” says Susan Thompson, director of re- search for Canada at Colliers. “A lot of planning is now centred around how we can create more complete communities that serve a broader range of needs, rather than having everything segmented in silos.”
THE MULTIFUNCTIONAL CAMPUS BUILDING
Universities are increasingly treating campus spaces as eco- systems where students learn, socialize, network, access servic- es and build professional rela- tionships. Ms. Thompson points to the example of the University of Cal- gary, where a two-decade master plan transformed underused campus land into a modern urban community that features housing, retail, offices, restau- rants and parks. The popular mixed-use neighbourhood has become a major draw for stu- dents, young professionals and members of the public. The institution has also ex- panded into vacant downtown office buildings, helping to revi- talize the city core while bringing students closer to future employ- ers. Meanwhile, at the University of British Columbia, planners are exploring how university-owned lands can house startup incuba- tors and innovation hubs that connect researchers with entre- preneurs and investors, making it easier to transform academic re- search into successful businesses. While those initiatives focus on economic development, they stem from the same broader shift in campus planning: maximizing existing assets to better serve stu- dents, researchers and surround- ing communities. The University of Alberta’s newest project reflects this same philosophy through adaptive reuse. Instead of demolishing the for- mer Dentistry and Pharmacy building, the university chose to preserve much of the historic structure and to integrate an addition so it would reach a total of seven storeys. The university hopes the revitalized structure will become the symbolic front door to its North Campus. “The transformation reflects our long-term approach to managing our spaces while pre- paring for growth,” says Todd Gil- christ, the university’s vice-presi- dent of operations. “Rather than creating a single-purpose facility, University Commons provides flexible space for a range of aca- demic and administrative activ- ities, helping reduce pressure on other buildings across campus
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while making better use of exist- ing infrastructure.” The approach also supports the university’s long-term strate- gic plan, which anticipates enrol- ment growing from the current 48,000 students to 60,000 by 2033. Instead of continually expanding its footprint, the uni- versity is investing heavily in renewing existing buildings that can evolve alongside changing academic needs.
BREAKING FROM CAMPUS TRADITION
James Brown, partner at Zeidler Architecture and lead designer for University Commons, says the building deliberately avoids be- ing associated with a single facul- ty – a departure from the tradi- tional university model that of- ten closely ties buildings to individual departments. “The university really wanted this building to take on a new direction,” Mr. Brown says. “It was defined by the university’s goals of being more open and inclusive.” That ethos influenced every- thing from the floor plan to the furniture. Meeting spaces – including a
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rooftop terrace – are available for booking among the entire uni- versity community, rather than reserved for individual faculties. Offices and classrooms were designed with identical modular dimensions, allowing depart- ments to expand or contract as needed without costly renova- tions. Additionally, large commu- nal areas feature movable seat- ing, helping students to shape spaces around their own needs. The project reflects how dra- matically student expectations have changed since the pandem- ic. “When we were designing this building, nobody knew what post-COVID campuses were going to look like,” Mr. Brown says. “People had gotten used to working from home, and the question became, ‘How do you give them a reason to come back?’ ” The answer, he says, wasn’t simply more classrooms. “One of the comments we kept hearing was that students always felt like guests on campus,” Mr. Brown says. “Faculty told us, ‘I want to feel like I’m walking into my living room.’ So we focused on creating spaces that felt less institutional and more like home.” That feedback inspired infor- mal staff lounges with soft seat- ing and kitchenettes, a calming room designed for reflection and emotional well-being, a quiet study room, rooftop gathering spaces and welcoming social hubs filled with natural light. Executive offices were also inten- tionally designed to encourage informal conversation rather than reinforce hierarchy. Throughout the building, ex- posed brick, restored timber ceil- ings and carefully preserved his- toric details sit alongside con- temporary glass architecture, art- work by Métis artist Christi Belcourt and nature-inspired
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HOW VIBRANT CAMPUS SPACES AFFECT STUDENT RETENTION
Beyond aesthetics, Ms. Thomp- son believes these kinds of spaces are becoming increasingly im- portant for universities to attract and retain students. Today’s students need quiet places to study, she says, but they also expect collaborative envi- ronments, technology-enabled workspaces, networking oppor- tunities, and places that support their academic and personal lives. “If you’ve been to a library recently, it looks very different from the libraries many of us grew up with,” she says. “Stu- dents need educational spaces, social spaces and opportunities to connect with potential em- ployers.” Those priorities are changing how universities think about every square foot of campus. Mr. Brown argues the biggest shift is recognizing that informal gather- ing spaces, rather than purpose- built, academic areas, are often where the most meaningful con- versations take place. Five years from now, Mr. Gil- christ hopes visitors walking through University Commons won’t simply see another aca- demic building. Instead, they’ll find researchers connecting across disciplines, community members attending events and alumni returning to the place where their university experi- ence began. “I hope they’ll immediately feel what University Commons was designed to be,” he says. “A crossroads for our university community, alive with activity, ideas and connection.”
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Watershed tech is latest in list banks have used to increase productivity without cutting staff
Contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail, a regulatory compliance consultant and a Canadian banking historian
hat some Canadian bankers “toil,” as suggested in The Globe and Mail last Mon- day, surely surprises those who know the word’s tangible mean- ing – to perform laborious tasks over a long period. For much of their history, this country’s bank- ers found ways to wring toil out of their daily grind using new tech- nologies. They have had much success. Today they are investing in artifi- cial intelligence to eliminate the last clerical and monotonous roles that past computing inno- vations left standing. More than that, they want to drive AI up the valuechainforthehighest-skilled to use, where new efficiencies generate fears about head count cuts. Analysts, auditors, portfolio managers and compliance offi- cers are all looking over their shoulders. Pitches to save on staff have long been an effective way to sell
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And it doesn’t stop there: The blackened, dead trees keep leak- ing carbon for years as they rot or fuel the next blaze and expose us to more risk. It’s a deadly feed- back loop. Further, a study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters this month found that roughly three-quarters of wildfire carbon emissions come not just from burning trees, but from car- bon stored in the forest’s soil. For- est management is critical to how we manage the spread of fire, but wildfire’scarbonbombisadeeper problem requiring a wider solu- tion-set, and one of the leading contenders should be carbon re- moval technologies. Carbon removal is distinct from carbon capture, utilization andstorage(CCUS)atanoilsands facility – such as the Pathways project – or a cement plant; it’s a distinct process that pulls carbon already in the atmosphere back out, rather than just capturing it asit’sproduced,andthisdeserves a policy environment to catalyze it. Carbon removal isn’t a substi- tute for cutting emissions, and it isn’ttherighttoolforeverypartof theproblem,butitneedstoplaya bigger part in our economic and climate tool set. Some carbon-re- moval companies take fire-killed trees that have no other use, which would otherwise decom- poseorfuelthenextfire,andbury it in engineered, low-oxygen sites where its carbon stays locked away for a century or more. This provides needed funding for the reforestation, and it turns a fire’s aftermath into a commercial pro- ject. It’s work for forestry crews in the communities the fire just went through, and a saleable car- bon credit for the carbon buried in the ground. Projectsliketheseareonlyeco- nomical in communities where lumber mills have closed or are toofaraway,andtheycanbecome economic drivers in regions with higher unemployment. The BC Council of Forest Industries re- ports that 21 mills in the province have closed since 2023, and more in Quebec, so this work is needed. Other Canadian industries have versions of the same idea. In Quebec, there’s a project that’s studying how decades-old mine tailings could become one of the largest carbon mineraliza- tion opportunities (a process that turns carbon dioxide into solid rock) in the world. Similarly, Car- bonRun, a Nova Scotia-based company, is restoring rivers by adding limestone powder to help deacidify them, while drawing down and storing carbon dioxide. These technologies aren’t a panacea and they won’t solve wildfiresontheirown.Buttheyall share the same logic that we can
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innovation to cautious bankers. And time and again, the outcome has reduced labour costs by in- creasing productivity, as opposed to reducing staff. There is little reasontheadoptionofAIwillma- terially differ. That banks are among the fas- test to adopt AI is, in the context of Canada’s productivity crisis, worth commending. The Globe and Mail found that “more than 30 per cent of finance and insur- ancefirmsareusingAI,compared with just 1.5 per cent of businesses in accommodation and food ser- vices.” Canadian bankers were often the first to adopt typewriters, car- bon paper to copy documents and the use of files. These 19th- century technologies were the means to modern business man- agement. They replaced an unre- liable oral-based approach that generated wildly uneven results with,asJoAnneYatesdescribedin her book Control through Commu- nication, “the effective use of sys- tematic communication in man- agement.” The capacity to efficiently “produce, reproduce and store documents” was the critical off- shoot of this technology. Rather than simply saving money, this technology better served making it. The Bank of No- va Scotia (Scotiabank today), for instance, was one of the first banks to implement customer files in branches in the early 1900s. This supported the bank’s na- tional expansion plan by allow-
That banks are among the fastest to adopt AI is, in the context of Canada’s productivity crisis, worth commending. The Globe and Mail found that ‘more than 30 per cent of finance and insurance firms are using AI, compared with just 1.5 per cent of businesses in accommodation and food services.’
Smoke rises from a smouldering forest floor after the Dryden 35 Wildfire, part of a series of wildfires that have forced many to flee their homes, in Thunder Bay, Ont., in July. Prime Minister Mark Carney has said that he wants Canada to be climate competitive, and to deliver on that agenda, his government has to move from announcements to action. COLE BURSTON/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
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turn legacy industrial costs into economic drivers and climate so- lutions.TheCarneygovernment’s climate-competitiveness agenda and carbon removal procure- ment program are good first steps in this effort. But the agenda and initial launch of the program are only frameworks and opening salvos without enough detail at this early stage. Canada can – and must–buildeconomicadvantage and accelerate growth through further climate innovation and policy. Much more needs to be done to catalyze the industry and these innovative solutions. In this new era of trade diversi- fication, there’s also an untapped export market that carbon re- moval can tap into. The European Union has a leading position and
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their carbon border levy took full effect this year, and we believe that low-carbon Canadian pro- ducers can stand to gain from it. Japan and South Korea are seek- ing credible carbon removal solu- tions to meet commitments they can’tfullymeetathome.AsCana- da works to double its non-U.S. exports over the next decade, car- bon removal credits are a high- value export needing neither pipelines nor ports to reach these buyers. Prime Minister Mark Carney has said that he wants Canada to beclimatecompetitive,andtode- liver on that agenda his govern- ment has to move from announ- cementstoaction.Webelievethat a key pathway to doing that is by designing programs and funding
ing it to move bank branch man- agers to new locations with as lit- tle disruption to customer service as possible. A new branch manag- er could immediately pick up ser- vicing a client where the previous manager left off. One of the most important technologies adopted by our banks in their early days was me- chanical accounting – what was soon called the adding machine. It entered business use in the late 19thand,especially,theearly20th centuries when new technologies were more rapidly embraced. Adding machines such as the Burroughs really did offer relief to bank clerks from the toil of ba- lancing ledgers by hand every night and doing the math in their heads.Theaddingmachinemate- rially changed banking in Canada and supported the rise of modern accounting methods through the audit trail the machines generat- ed. Lessons learned from embrac- ing mechanical technologies a century or more ago nurtured a culture of early adoption, making it easier to jump into the more complex implementation of the first banking computing technol- ogies. Tony Comper, former presi- dentandchiefexecutiveofficerof the Bank of Montreal, played a critical role in introducing new tech into BMO from 1967 to 2007. He explains the challenges in his book, Personal Account, where hetellsthestoryofcreatingareal- time, online computer network and database in the 1970s that up-
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models that seize the opportuni- ties already in front of us to inte- grate carbon removal into the country’s critical industries. The examples that we’ve illus- trated are promising and they could help this country be “cli- mate competitive,” but scaling these innovations requires more funding for demonstration pro- jects. This should also be paired with greater early adopter incen- tives and funding mechanisms, including public-private match- ing programs that incentivize in- vestment and help de-risk deci- sion-making. These projects would help ac- celerate the process of proving to ourheavyemittersthatanewway of working is worth the risk, and that we have built-in Canadian
dated customer accounts instant- ly. Mr. Comper recalls that the software was buggy and he en- dured constant anxiety about it failing completely, which drove him to always seek a backup plan. Yet, real-time banking deliver- ed immensely better service. So too did the adoption of Automat- ic Banking Machines in the same period. Fifteen years passed be- fore ABMs were cost-effective. It also required tremendous effort to help customers become com- fortable with the technology. ABMs helped open the door to online banking when the internet took off. Every Canadian bank built websites and figured out how to offer customers access to everything from savings accounts to trading stocks and options on- line. Through these innovations, bank employment has evolved with the changes technology fa- cilitates. The same is true with AI. The Bank of Canada reported in May that there is no evidence that AI has led to widespread job loss- es in the country. CIBC’s chief technology and in- formationofficer,RichardJardim, told The Globe and Mail that with the use of AI, “there are different roles we see changing, where we either move people around, or we have them adjust the type of work they do.” In another time, Mr. Jardim could easily have said the same about the bank adopting type- writers, adding machines and ABMs.
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tech and companies that can solve problems and grow the economy. Every successive fire season is devastating and leaves behind so much loss, but there is an oppor- tunity to rethink how we move forward in this new climate and fund adaptation as well as resto- ration. We’ve succeeded as a spe- cies by being innovative, collabo- rative and adapting to shifting en- vironmental pressures, and there’s an opportunity to lead in this emerging market.
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and partnerships equals stronger domestic capacity
anada’s aerospace leadership is built on core ingredients that include a skilled workforce, world-class research institutions, a strong supplier base and a rich his- tory of aerospace excellence. Yet how can such strengths best be leveraged to navigate accelerat- ing technological advances and evolving operational demand? For Dwayne Charette, president of Air- bus Helicopters in Canada, “success will depend on sustained, long-term investment in domestic industrial capability, innovation and strategic partnerships. “Making the right investments today – in people, infrastructure and technology – will allow Canada to not simply adapt to future security and operational challenges but to ac- tively help define the future of global aerospace,” he proposes. Future-proofing the sector isn’t just about adopting the latest technology, “it is about being able to continuously adapt as technolo- gies and operational needs evolve,” Mr. Charette explains. “This requires looking beyond individual platforms and focusing on how new capa- bilities integrate to improve safety, readiness and mission effectiveness.” While advancements in autonomy, artificial intelligence and digital connectivity are transforming how aircraft are designed and operated, the real value of these technologies comes when they strengthen overall operational capability, for example, in an integrated ecosystem where crewed aircraft, uncrewed aerial sys- tems (UAS) and autonomous tech- nologies work seamlessly together to extend reach, improve situational awareness and keep crews safer. “Advances in autonomy and crewed-uncrewed teaming can be seen in practice in the Airbus U030 Flexrotor that recently made its Canadian market debut,” he says. “The Flexrotor shows how long- endurance autonomous platforms can handle persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions, giving operators better
Due to the unique versatility of the Airbus Helicopters portfolio, many of its helicopters have dual-use applications across civil, parapublic and defence missions (left). Technology advancements help strengthen overall operational capability, where crewed aircraft, uncrewed aerial systems and autonomous technology (right) can work together seamlessly. SUPPLIED
When an emergency responder arrives on scene faster or a firefighting team gets better real- time intelligence on an active wildfire, that is where aerospace innovation actually makes a difference.
Dwayne Charette President, Airbus Helicopters in Canada
real-time information without putting crews in high-risk situations.” Paired with systems like Airbus’s HTeaming technology, aircrews can control UAS assets directly from the
cockpit in flight, leveraging them for forward observation while staying focused on their primary mission, says Mr. Charette, who suggests that such integrated capabilities are criti- cal for addressing Canada’s defence and security needs. “Our geography brings unique and demanding operational realities, from monitoring the world’s longest coastline and vast Arctic territories to fighting severe wildfire seasons, supporting remote communities and protecting critical infrastructure,” he notes. “Our focus is on bringing these proven capabilities to Canadian operators while working alongside domestic partners to build the local engineering and sustainment expertise needed to support them long term.” To build, support and evolve criti- cal aerospace capabilities, technical investments have to be paired with a steady commitment to people, digital infrastructure, resilient sup- ply chains and strong industrial partnerships, suggests Mr. Charette. “At Airbus, we’ve seen the value of investing in Canadian capability first-hand. Since establishing our presence in 1984 with a single facility
in Fort Erie, Ont., we have expanded to over 5,300 employees across 10 sites nationwide, making Canada our largest operational footprint outside of Europe.” The impact is significant: working alongside a robust network of local suppliers and researchers, Airbus generated $8.4-billion in Canadian GDP and supported nearly 20,000 jobs between 2023 and 2025 alone. Beyond the industrial footprint, Airbus Helicopters supports more than 230 operators flying over 830 aircraft across the country, including 85 per cent of Canada’s airborne law enforcement fleet and essential pub- lic safety operators, like the RCMP, Ontario Provincial Police and STARS air ambulance. “Canada isn’t simply a market for Airbus – it is a long-term industrial partner,” he says. “We see significant opportunity to expand our domestic presence by delivering advanced uncrewed capabilities, supporting national initiatives like the Future Aircrew Training [FAcT] program, and positioning ourselves to support upcoming rotary wing fleet mod- ernization opportunities alongside governments, industry and academia
to shape the next generation of aerospace innovation.” The true measure of innovation, for Mr. Charette, is in “how it delivers meaningful outcomes on the ground. When an emergency responder ar- rives on scene faster or a firefighting team gets better real-time intel- ligence on an active wildfire, that is where aerospace innovation actually makes a difference.” Due to the unique versatility of the Airbus Helicopters portfolio, “many of our helicopters have dual-use applications across civil, parapublic and defence missions,” he explains. “This means technologies developed for complex tactical operations can directly strengthen public safety on the ground, enabling search and rescue crews, first responders and airborne law enforcement to protect Canadian communities and critical infrastructure more effectively.” The organization applies the same forward-looking approach to sustain- ability, where every Airbus helicopter built today is certified to fly on up to a 50 per cent sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) blend. What’s more, recent research supported by Airbus shows that developing a domestic SAF supply could contribute up to $32-billion to Canada’s GDP over the coming years, says Mr. Charette. “Lowering emissions and keeping aircraft mission-ready aren’t compet- ing goals – they go hand in hand to support safer, more sustainable and more resilient communities.” Unlocking such opportunities and driving momentum requires strong and strategic collaboration across the sector. “Airbus recently signed strategic partnership agreements with CAE, L3Harris Technologies, and Pratt & Whitney Canada, demonstrat- ing what is possible when Canada’s leading aerospace companies align around shared goals,” he says. “Ultimately, success will be defined by the collective strength of Canada’s aerospace ecosystem and our shared commitment to building resilient Canadian capability for decades to come.”
U.S. last month imposed double-digit duties on 59 countries and European Union
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Twenty-five U.S. states sued the Trump administration Monday over its latest tariffs, calling them apretextforreplacingimporttax- es the Supreme Court struck down in February . The United States last month imposed double-digit tariffs on 59 countries and the European Union, charging that they had not done enough to crack down on imports produced by forced la- bour. The new tariffs took effect justastheclockranoutontempo- rary tariffs President Donald Trump had turned to after the Su- preme Court defeat. “After losing at the Supreme
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AI data centres use types of memory that are far more pow- erful than what goes into a desk- top computer or a game console. But the big three memory chip makers – Micron Technology, SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics – have been allocating more of their capacity toward those en- terprise clients, said Willy Shih, a professor at the Harvard Busi- ness School. That’s leaving little room for traditional RAM and flash memory manufacturing for consumer devices. Micron, which reported record quarterly revenue of US$41.46- billion at the end of June, closed its consumer brand entirely in December last year. Technology makers are now passing the higher costs onto consumers. Apple raised its pric- es across the board in late June: a budget Neo laptop now retails for US$699, up from US$599; a MacBook Air goes for US$1,299, up from US$1,099; and an iPad Air is US$749, up from US$599. “The consumer electronics in- dustry is facing an unpreceden- ted challenge,” Apple said in a statement, adding that the rapid expansion of AI data centres had created an “extraordinary” surge in the demand for memory and storage. “We have never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly.” Dell, Microsoft, Motorola, So- ny, Nintendo and smart ring- maker Oura have also hiked pric- es on their products. “As a company that builds computers, we have to explain to people what’s happening all the time,” said Mr. Jia. Quoted Tech has also had to raise prices. “We want computing to be as affor- dable as possible. Unfortunately, we have to cover the costs of our supply. We can’t eat $400 to $500 of memory. No company can.” Mr. Shih said the price spike is “highly unusual” relative to the past 50 years of electronics de- velopment. “We have been on this trend of every year, you get more performance and more memory for the same price,” he said. “What’s really quite ex- traordinary is seeing retail prices like this increase by a factor of four.” Analysts at Counterpoint Re- search, a global firm, estimated the price hikes will depress smartphone shipments by 2.1 per cent in 2026, and IDC tech intelli- gence analysts forecasted an 11.3- per-cent decline in the personal computer market. Memory costs have also hit Canadians who build or upgrade their own computers. For people looking to run powerful video games, building a computer from scratch with the compo- nents of their choosing has his-
The first half of 2023 saw $5.6- billion invested, and the first half of 2024 saw $8.6-billion. The market consolidated into fewer, larger financings, CVCA’s report noted. During the first half of this year, the privatization of four companies – Dentalcorp Hold- ings Ltd., Information Services Corp., ECN Capital and Blackline Safety Corp. – made up 57 per cent of total capital deployed. That continues a trend of publi- cly traded companies on the To-
Court, the administration is once again trying to illegally raise taxes on families and businesses with a new round of tariffs,” said New York Attorney General Letitia James. JoiningNewYorkinthelawsuit announced Monday are Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecti- cut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mary- land, Maine, Michigan, Minneso- ta, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mex- ico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vir- ginia, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin. Mr. Trump, who argues that high tariffs will revive American manufacturing, last year over- turned decades of U.S. policy that favoured lower tariffs and ever- freer trade. Invoking the 1977 In- ternational Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA, he imposed double-digit tariffs on imports fromalmosteverycountry,saying America’s trade deficit amounted to a national emergency.
Steven Wen installs components in a computer at the warehouse of Quoted Tech, a custom computer builder in Toronto. Memory costs have hit Canadians who build or upgrade their own computers, experts say. PHOTOS BY COLE BURSTON/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
torically been less expensive and better than buying a pre-built gaming computer. “It’s a price to performance thing,” said Vamsi Kolluru, 33, an avid gamer who lives in Toronto and works in science. “I’ve had pre-built computers before and they’re always lack- ing; they don’t have the best specs and it’s cheaper to build it yourself.” Mr. Kolluru, who has built two computers, estimates in the past he’s saved a couple hundred dol- lars each time relative to the price of a pre-built gaming rig. But not any more. Mr. Kolluru was planning to upgrade his PC this year to keep up with the cur- rent generation of games. The eye-popping cost of RAM and SSD has caused him to reconsid- er. When he last upgraded in 2022 the cost of 32 gigabytes of RAM was $150; now it’s retailing for about $370. If he upgraded to the newest type of RAM, he said he’d be looking at a $500 spend. Chip makers are looking to add more capacity, but Mr. Shih said that new factories take about two years to come to mar- ket. In addition to his computer, Mr. Jeffers has been building his own storage space for personal photos, videos and files, rather than paying companies such as
ronto Stock Exchange being bought by private equity inves- tors and taken private. “A few very large take-privates shaped the half, with global and domestic capital both deploying into Canadian companies at scale,” Mr. Bergen said in a press release. The initial public offering of Canada’s biggest drug manufac- turer, Apotex Health Corp., in June was the most notable sale by a private equity firm. The company, which was backed by New York-based SK Capital Part- ners, launched the largest Cana-
But the Supreme Court ruled that IEEPA did not authorize tar- iffs. The decision forced the ad- ministration to send refunds to importers who’d paid the tariffs. Eager to make up the lost reve- nue, Mr. Trump turned to tempo- rary10-per-centworldwidetariffs. But they expired at midnight July 24. Nowhe’stappingmoredurable tariffs under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, which permits the President to impose import taxes and other sanctions against countries found to engage in un- fair trade practices. The administration invoked Section 301 to impose the forced- labour tariffs, which range from 10 per cent to 12.5 per cent and hit countriesthatprovide99percent of American imports. “The United States is using its lawful authority to obtain the elimination of unreasonable acts, policies, and practices that bur- denU.S.commerce,”WhiteHouse spokesman Kush Desai said. “A
Kevin Jia, chief executive officer of Quoted Tech, holds sticks of RAM in the warehouse of his Toronto business.
Google or Microsoft monthly for cloud storage. He’s faced higher prices for the memory for this storage project, too, and said he’s growing concerned that control is “slipping away” from consum- ers. Mr. Jeffers, a lifelong physical collector who still has video
dian IPO in five years. Canadian venture capital firms invested $2.7-billion during the first half of the year, up by 17 per cent from the same period last year. However, the total number of deals fell by roughly 9 per cent to a total of 250. The CVCA said it was the first time since 2021 that venture cap- ital investments climbed in the first half of the year compared to same period in the prior year. “There was a tremendous amount of capital that flowed in 2021, and it kind of distorted ven- ture capital and, to some extent,
foreign country’s failure to im- poseandeffectivelyenforceapro- hibition on the importation of goods produced with forced la- bour is unreasonable and bur- dens U.S. commerce, including American workers, and must be addressed.Section301tariffshave proven to be a legally durable tool since the President’s first term, and they remain so now.” The states’ lawsuit follows two other lawsuits filed in The Court of International Trade in July by small businesses that also chal- lenged the 301 tariffs. Both of those lawsuits argue that the government didn’t ade- quately establish its case against each specific economy or spell how the tariffs will eliminate the specified practice they are being levied for, as required by Section 301. Barry Appleton, a law profes- sor and co-director of New York Law School’s Center for Interna- tional Law, said the challenges stemfromthefactthatthe301tar-
games from his childhood tucked away in his basement, said that higher prices could contribute to what’s been so far a gradual transition toward con- sumers not truly owning their physical devices, and having to rent storage or electronics them- selves from tech companies.
[private equity],” Mr. Bergen said in an interview. “What our data is trying to show, is that we’ve actually re- turned to sort of normal levels that are outside of that 2021 year.” The largest early-stage trans- action in the first half of this year was the $139-million financing round raised by Ontario-based Dominion Dynamics. The deal also marked the largest Series A early-stage venture capital fi- nancing ever by a Canadian de- fence startup. Meanwhile, foreign investors
iffsarethethirdtimetheadminis- trationhastriedtoimposesimilar worldwide tariffs under different statutes, and their “nearly copy- pasted” nature could pose a chal- lenge to defend in court. However,hesaidwhilethestat- utes that the administration im- plementedtariffsunderprevious- ly were novelties and hadn’t been used before for that purpose, Sec- tion 301 has been used before. During Mr. Trump’s first term, he cited Section 301 to impose tar- iffs on Chinese imports, which survived legal challenges. “Presidents have used it for decades, and Congress built it with real guardrails: investiga- tion, consultation, a public re- cord,” Prof. Appleton said. “The government’s defence won’t be ‘I had no power to do this.’ It will be, ‘I stayed inside the lines Congress drew.’ That is a real fight, not a for- mality, and it is the one that will decide this case.”
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“We’re losing control of the very things we’re spending mon- ey on,” he said. “It’s hard to vi- sualize when you see prices go- ing up, but at the end of the day the price of admission for asset ownership is increasing as these things get consolidated, and it is concerning.”
had a major presence in later- stage VC deals in the first six months of the year. Foreign in- vestors took part in 56 per cent of the funding deals, up from 30 per cent a year earlier, as Canada has been increasingly trying to attract capital from outside its borders. “Given all of the geopolitical and technology changes that are occurring, we are seeing Canada hold ground, and there is a huge opportunity for Canada to try to seize more wealth, prosperity and sovereignty that exists glob- ally,” Mr. Bergen said.
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s the Canadian drug maker Apotex Health Corp. faces potential impacts from fresh threats of U.S. tariffs, analy- sts say the stock is still well-posi- tioned for growth. On Friday, the Toronto-based Apotex traded around $37 a share – more than 30 per cent higher thanitsdebuttradingpriceof$28. The stock rebounded late last week, after falling in the wake of Washington’s plan to introduce tariffs on generic drug imports. The drug maker’s debut on June 10 was the largest life sci- ences and pharmaceutical initial public offering in Canadian histo- rywithApotexraising$1.3-billion. It’s also the Toronto Stock Exchange’s largest listing in five years. Relative to other Canadian health care companies that have gone public on the TSX – such as Jamieson Wellness in 2017, DRI Healthcare and DentalCorp in 2021, and Bausch + Lomb Corp. in 2022 – Apotex’s stock perform- ance has been a “standout,” National Bank analyst Nathan Po said in an interview. OnJuly21,theUnitedStatesad- ministration announced its plan to impose 100-per-cent tariffs on generic pharmaceuticals starting Aug. 1, 2028, a figure that would rise to 200 per cent the next year. Shares of Apotex plunged 8 per cent the day after the announcement, as investors took
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MIKE MOFFATT
OPINION
Founding director of the Missing Middle Initiative and co-host of the Missing Middle podcast.
anada’s most controversial tech titan, Shopify co-foun- der Tobi Lütke, recently made waves on X when he sug- gested that pensioners should, like the underaged, be excluded from voting, as they no longer have a stake in the economy. Vot- ing, he said, should be limited to those “with a stake in the future.” Like the vast majority of X users, I find the idea of disenfran- chisingretireeshighlyobjectiona- ble. Canadians, however, should be concerned that demographic and social trends are changing ourpoliticsfortheworsebycreat- ing an electorate that worries more about their own bank accounts than the country’s over- all prosperity. Voterscareabouttheeconomy, regardless of their age, but not all economic issues are created equal. In terms of voting beha- viour, economic issues can be divided into two categories. The first is pocketbook issues, which have a direct impact on a voter’s financial well-being, from the rising cost of groceries to the size of HST rebate cheques. The second class of economic concerns are what social scien- tists call “sociotropic.” These are less directly tied to the voter’s financial well-being and instead deal with the economic well- being of the country as a whole, from GDP growth to the unem- ployment rate. Everyonewhocastsaballothas a different reason for voting, but sociotropic concerns often dom- inate. The performance of a gov- ernment on national economic indicators tends to be one of the strongestindicatorsofwhetheror not an incumbent is re-elected, according to a 2024 review of 100 peer-reviewed studies globally. Plainly put, when GDP growth is high and the unemployment rate is low, incumbents are more likelytobeelected.Thisvotingbe- haviour does not necessarily indi- cate that the electorate are self- lessly putting the country’s eco- nomic interests ahead of their own, but rather that historically most voters see how a stronger economy indirectly benefits their families.
Apotex fills about one-fifth of generic drugs in Canada, making it the largest generics player in the country. SAMMY KOGAN/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
stock of how the levies could threaten the company’s ambi- tious growth targets. National Bank maintains an “outperform” rating for the com- pany with a price target of $43 a share, although Mr. Po said the uncertainty of the tariffs could lead to choppy short-term per- formance. Analysts are hoping for more clarity from the company’s Aug. 12earningscall,withitsfiscalfirst- quarter results. In its 2026 fiscal year, Apotex made $374-million with 45 per cent of sales from Canada, 46 per cent from the U.S. and the rest in international markets. With two years until the U.S. tariffs are set to go into effect, there is still time for Canada or large pharmaceutical companies
Tobi Lütke, co-founder and CEO of Shopify, has suggested pensioners should not be allowed to vote. FRED LUM/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
An aging population changes these dynamics. A 2026 study by Oxford University’s Tim Vlandas found that elderly voters deprior- itize economic growth when they vote.Theyarelesslikelytopunish governments with a poor eco- nomic track record, less likely to vote for parties and governments that emphasize long-term invest- ments, and more likely to reward governments that increase finan- cial support, particularly for seniors. Unsurprisingly, as the propor- tion of seniors grows in a popula- tion, a country’s politics changes, and economic growth matters less. Sociotropic voters morph into pocketbook ones. The deprioritization of eco- nomic growth, however, is not exclusive to seniors. When work- ing-age voters begin to believe, rightly or wrongly, that they are excludedfromthebenefitsofeco- nomic growth, they also become indifferent to pro-growth policies –orinsomecaseshostiletothem. We saw this effect firsthand with Brexit. I consumed a great dealofBBCNewsthedayafterthe vote, trying to understand the motivation of British voters. A reporter asked two working- age “Leave” voters in an econom- ically distressed community whether they were concerned that the vote would harm the economy further, given the nega- tive market reaction. They just laughed, and said that the only people who benefit from the cur- rent system were a handful of elites, and that they want to see them lose even more money. A growing body of research showsthatacrossadvancedecon- omies, when communities feel like they have been left behind economically, they become both more populist and more likely to
to negotiate individual deals with the U.S. administration. In the interim, uncertainty could damp- en the industry’s outlook. “Ultimately, we think the U.S. administration walks the tariff rate back or provides some way for these generic producers to cir- cumvent that,” Mr. Po said. After the tariffs were an- nounced TD Cowen analyst Mi- chael Nedelcovych said in a note: “We do not yet believe this news createscauseforseriousconcern.” Apart from trade policy, Mr. Po said other risks to the sector include shifts in the regulatory environment for generics – which have been favourable thus far – and the deflation of generic drug prices – something more pressing in the U.S. where there is intense competition and less pricing
vote on social and pocketbook issues, rather than on economic growth concerns. The politics of a country shifts, leading to the rise of populist governments. Those countries fall behind economically, relative to their counterparts, which can create a dangerous feedback loop, as an even larger share of the popula- tion believes that economic growth that benefits them is pos- sible. Canadian governments should be concerned about wider trends pushing us away from caring about economic growth. They shouldworrythattheseshiftscre- ate an electorate that is more con- cernedaboutprotectingthevalue of existing assets, like homes, than building new ones. That our country will lose its young talent, as they see Canada not as a place to build, but a place that extracts their value and gives little back in return. These concerns are real, but governments can address them without taking away anyone’s right to vote. The federal govern- ment can alter immigration pro- grams to favour bringing in younger, economic-class new- comers and fewer grandparents. Governments can lower the voting age or include Canadians of all ages in our electoral system, through parental proxy voting, where parents can cast ballots on behalf of their children. Most importantly, they can introduce pro-middle-class eco- nomic policies to ensure the ben- efits of growth do not flow pri- marily to the 1 per cent. Mr. Lütke was wrong to suggest that seniors should lose their vot- ing rights, but he was right to wor- ryaboutawideningproportionof the electorate who see no benefit from growth.
governance. Before generic drugs became the latest target on Mr. Trump’s protectionist agenda, several analysts were bullish on Apotex for reasons that still stand. Apotex, which was founded in 1974 by the late Barry Sherman, fills about one-fifth of generic drugs in Canada, making it the largest generics player in the country.Themanufacturer’sweb- site states it is among the top five generic drug makers in the U.S. The company boasts a vast lineupof800pharmaceuticaland consumerhealthproductsglobal- ly including generic pills, topicals, biosimilars, liquids and inhalers, where no single item dominates its sales portfolio. While conventional generic drugs now account for 51 per cent
to earn points on mortgages through Chexy partnership
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eroplan members will now be able to earn points on mortgage payments through a new program with Chexy, a Canadian payments company. The partnership with Air Canada’s rewards program, an- nounced Tuesday, will create one of the few ways that Cana- dians can earn points on one of their biggest household expenses, Chexy said. Chexy launched in 2023, when it started allowing Cana- dians to earn rewards points by using a credit card to pay rent. The service has since expanded to allow for utility and other household payments including property taxes to be made with a credit card. Other companies such as Tenant- Pay and Casa offer similar services with varying fees. Since mortgage payments cannot be made with credit cards, Chexy users will be able to make payments through their bank account. The company charges a 1.75-per-cent fee on mortgage payments, and users will earn one Aeroplan point per dollar spent. “It’s one of the No. 1 features our customers have always asked for,” said Liza Akhvledziani Carew, co-founder and chief executive at Chexy. “It essentially mimics using an Aeroplan credit card with- out using credit.” Ms. Akhvledzani Carew said her company currently ser- vices 200,000 accounts and more than $2-billion in pay- ments processed. Barry Choi, a personal finance and travel expert at mon- eywehave.com and a regular Globe contributor, said that consumers will have to consider whether the fee for this kind of payment service is worth it. In the past, Mr. Choi has said that most economy flight bookings on Aeroplan offer a return of 1.5 cents per point, while business class seats can often be redeemed at around two cents per point. Consumers who redeem flights with a return of less than 1.75 cents per point could stand to lose money by using Chexy’s service. Mr. Choi said there are deals where consumers can book a flight for much better redemption rates, but they may be on flights at odds hours, last-minute offers or rare service on partner airlines. “It’s simple math: If the fees you’re paying cost more than the points you’re earning, it’s just not worth it,” Mr. Choi said. Ms. Akhvledzani Carew said the best rates of return will be on expensive long-haul flights, and the ability to quickly rack up points with mortgage payments will help consum- ers accumulate enough points to redeem flights that they may not have otherwise been able to. She added that users have reported they were able to fly business class for the first time because of the amount of points they accumulated with Chexy. Mortgage payments will also earn users one point per every $4 spent toward frequent flyer status, which can un- lock upgrades such as lounge access and seat upgrades. Chexy and Aeroplan announced their partnership last year in April, adding to a list of retailers including Uber Technologies Inc. and Starbucks Corp. that have points deals with the rewards program. Before Chexy’s mortgage payment service, one of the only ways to earn points from a mortgage was through bonuses from banks such as RBC, which provides Avion points for signing a mortgage. Ms. Akhvledzani Carew said Chexy users will be able to earn points without having to switch their mortgage provid- er or bank.
ofApotexrevenue–downfrom59 per cent in 2023 – the company expects that to drop further to 33 per cent by 2031 as it increasingly focuses on its newer, faster-grow- ing therapeutic offerings. Mr. Po said that contrasts with some other firms in the space. “We’ve seen in the public markets some other pharmaceutical com- panies who have a strong concen- tration in only several products. We’ve seen their share price get punished when those products don’t deliver.” Apotex has also recently emerged as the only maker of genericOzempic–orsemaglutide –forCanadiansafteranissueatan Indian production facility wiped out competitors Dr. Reddy and Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd. until at least late October. “Apotex being one of the few with access and the ability to ser- vice the Canadian market is defi- nitely going to be a positive for them in the short term,” Mr. Po said. Based on index requirements for inclusion, and assuming liq- uidity remains high enough, Sco- tiabank analysts estimate Apotex could be added to the Solactive Canada Broad Market Cap index on Aug. 5 at the earliest. In addition, the Scotiabank analysts said in a recent note that the company could be eligible for entry to the MSCI Canada Small CapsandFTSECanadaSmallCaps later this year. “Overall, the sustained expect- ed buying pressure from indexers should help price performance in the coming months,” Scotiabank analyst Jean-Michael Gauthier wrote in the July 15 note.
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court has ruled that an ex- ecutor is liable for damages and not entitled to receive compensation for mismanaging her mother’s estate, which was still incomplete 19 years after the executor’s appointment. In the decision, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice found the executor failed to keep good records, commingled her funds with those of the estate and couldn’t or wouldn’t provide the court with information about estateassetsortransactions,mak- ing proper accounting of estate administration impossible. Executors – known as estate trustees in Ontario – don’t always appreciate their fiduciary obliga- tion to act in the best interests of the beneficiaries, says Demetre Vasilounis, an estate lawyer and senior manager, high-net-worth planning services at RBC Wealth Management. “Being a trustee of a trust does not give you a licence to do what- ever you want,” he says. Flowers v Flowers, the decision released in June, involves the es- tate of a widow who died in May, 2007, leaving four children. In her will, she named her daughter sole executor of the estate and her four children as equal beneficiaries. When the daughter applied for probate in 2007, she indicated her mother’s estate consisted of $300,000 in real estate and $113,000 in personal property. Theexecutor’ssiblingsdidnotob- ject to the application. In 2023, one of the executor’s brothers applied to court to com- pel his sister to present her finan- cial records related to the estate administrationincourtforreview and approval, known as a “pass- ing of accounts.” The following year, she applied to court to pass her accounts but didn’t provide an affidavit to ver- ify them because she couldn’t say they were complete. Instead, she provided a description of her administration of the estate. In2025,inresponsetoamotion brought by the executor’s broth- er, a judge at the Ontario Superior Court ordered the executor’s law- yers to transfer $272,500 of estate funds in trust to a court-appoint- edtrusteewhiletheestatewasun- der litigation. The application to pass the accounts came before another Superior Court judge this past May.
ANWAR HUSSAIN
OPINION
Award-winning finance professor at the University of Toronto and a senior investment and wealth adviser with Richardson Wealth
henever the market experiences a rapid and dramatic period of growth,thediscussionofabubble usually arises. Investors have experienced them often enough in history to make it a legitimate concern. Since we benefited from high growth in the markets over the past few years because of the AI boom, the dialogue around a market bubble has become com- mon among stakeholders. Nvidia has reached a market capitalization of US$5-trillion, and SpaceX is trading near 100 times revenue. Comparisons are being made between this boom andthegrowthinthetechmarket during the “dot-com” boom and crash that occurred a quarter of a century ago. Although the two events share some speculative characteristics, there are some differences in the underlying economics of the two. The internet bubble of the late 1990s was driven by a set of unique factors that fuelled the growth. The dawn of the internet produced a new technology that was accompanied by a great deal of hype from both the industry and the media. The hysteria at the time caused company valuations to skyrocket to levels out of sync with the reve- nuestheygenerated.Thepricesof these companies continued to grow because of a cheap-funding environment, as venture-capital
The executor’s brother argued in his testimony that the estate had been larger than the executor suggested, that the executor shouldpaydamagesforfundsshe couldn’t account for and that she should provide an indemnity against any unpaid taxes once the estate’staxliabilitieswereknown. The judge hearing the applica- tion found the executor’s esti- mates of the estate’s value at the time her mother died to be unre- liable, as there was no supporting evidence. The executor also hadn’t kept records of estate funds received or disbursed. For example, the executor sold a parcel of land owned by the estate for $75,000 in a private sale funded largely by vendor-take- back mortgages. However, she couldn’t provide proof of the estate receiving mortgage pay- ments. The executor also admitted to borrowing $185,000 from the estatetopayherlegalfeesinasep- arate family law matter. She told the court she had repaid the loan but provided little supporting documentation. Although some property had been distributed, the estate con- tinued to hold a parcel of land overseas and the shares of four corporations, one of which was Nortel Networks Corp., which went bankrupt in 2009. The exec- utorsaidthevalueofthelandand the shares were negligible. The judge declined to pass the accounts. In determining damages, the judge relied on whatever records or evidence did exist to estimate that the value of liquid assets in the estate ought to have been $279,300. Because of the executor’s admitted “self-dealing,” such as the borrowing of estate funds, the judge found the executor owed the estate $6,800 in damages. The fact that the amount of damages was modest was “in no way a vindication of [the execu- tor’s] behaviour or conduct,” the
companies were chasing any company with a “dot-com” in its name. However, the mismatch be- tween valuations and revenue, combined with unproven busi- ness models, eventually resulted in the financial correction. The Nasdaq composite would ulti- mately fall 78 per cent from its peak in March, 2000, to the bot- tom in October, 2002. In contrast, the artificial-intel- ligenceboomweareexperiencing has been driven by hardware developments such as GPUs and related computing power break- throughs.ThetargetmarketforAI companies is enterprise adoption of their technology in areas such as cloud, automation and other productivity improvements. Because of the nature of this technology, capital investment is being made by a concentrated group of players such as chip
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judge said. “It’s a reflection of the lack of proof of a claim that is before me, which flows to some extent from [the executor’s] own disclosure failings.” The judge declined, however, to make the executor pay an indemnity for any unpaid tax associatedwiththeestate,citinga lack of legal authority to do so. Finally, the judge found the executor wasn’t entitled to com- pensation, although she took some steps to administer the estate, in part because of her un- willingness or inability to disclose informationaboutestateassetsor transactions. “It is [the executor’s] poor record keeping and lack of co-op- eration that led to the necessity of this application,” the judge said.
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The court’s decision is a reminder that clients should choose an executor carefully rather than appoint a child by default, estate advisers say. Depending on the size and complexity of an estate, a client might consider naming a corpo- rate trustee, a professional advis- er or even a trusted friend as exec- utor, says Mohena Singh, an es- tate lawyer with Fasken Marti- neau DuMoulin LLP. “It could just be someone who’s pragmatic, who can under- standhowtomanagedifferentas- sets and communicate with dif- ferent people, whether that’s ad- visors or beneficiaries,” she says. Mr. Vasilounis says he’s seen a trend of clients appointing a pro- fessional executor rather than a family member, both to spare children the stress of the job and to minimize the possibility of family acrimony years later. “Alotofclientshavetheexperi- ence of administering their par- ents’orsomeoneelse’sestate,and in some cases [they say], ‘I don’t want to put this on my kids,’ ” he says.
manufacturers and AI labs. Also, these players have experienced real revenue growth over this period. While the leading compa- nies are profitable, their valua- tions have continued to grow at a much higher rate than the broad- er market. Although the nature of the internetandartificial-intelligence booms may differ, both have somesimilarities.Venture-capital and private-equity companies chased investments in these industries during both growth periods.Oneofthedrivingfactors was the media and analyst hype that both technologies received during their introduction and early growth period. During the internet era, valua- tions of existing companies would literally increase if they added “.com” to their name. Today, every CEO doing an earn- ings call will mention AI and how
U.S.-Iran war respite fuel U.S. market to near all-time high
The U.S. stock market rallied to the edge of its all-time high on Monday after easing oil prices helped calm Wall Street’s worries that inflation could get even worse. The S&P 500 jumped 1.5 per cent and is just 0.1 per cent below its record set earlier this summer. It was coming off a frenetic July, where it swung up and down as oil prices shot higher because of the war with Iran, before ultimately ending the month just about where it started. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which measures a nar- rower slice of the U.S. stock market, climbed 693 points, or 1.3 per cent, to an all-time high, while the Nasdaq composite leaped 2.1 per cent. Stocks got a lift as the price for a barrel of Brent crude sank 4.7 per cent to $83.77. It dropped after U.S. President Donald Trump said over the weekend that he decided to hold off on new strikes against Iran at the urging of allies in the region. Brent’s price careened between $72 and $102 last month as worries rose and fell about when the war with Iran would allow oil tankers to freely exit the Persian Gulf again to deliv- er crude to customers worldwide. The latest acquiescence by Mr. Trump helped to ease worries about the global flow of crude, and Treasury yields correspondingly fell in the bond market. The yield on the 10-year Treasury sank to 4.68 per cent from 4.75 per cent late Friday. It, though, remains well above its 3.97 per cent level from before the war with Iran. Monday’s ease in oil prices helped airlines and other com- panies with big fuel bills lead the market. United Airlines flew 5.8 per cent higher, while American Airlines climbed 5 per cent. Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings steamed 6.6 per cent higher. Boeing jumped 8 per cent after U.S. regulators certified its 737 Max-7 planes, clearing them for commercial service. Tyson Foods rose 2.8 per cent after the meat company reported a slightly stronger profit for the spring than analysts expected. It joined a lengthening list of big U.S. companies to deliver a bigger profit for the spring than analysts expected. That’s imperative for Wall Street because stock prices tend to follow the path of corporate earnings over the long term, and wor- ries were rising that U.S. stock prices may have broadly already shot too high. Companies in the S&P 500 are on track to deliver earnings per share for the spring that are 47 per cent higher than a year before, according to FactSet, with more than half of the com- panies in the index having already reported. If that ends up being the case, it would be the strongest growth since the spring of 2021, when the economy was roaring out of the COVID pandemic. Keeping Wall Street unsettled, though, were swings for stocks of companies that make computer chips. They’ve been veering up and down for weeks on worries about whether their surging revenues because of the artificial- intelligence boom are sustainable. If AI ends up producing less profit and productivity than hoped, Big Tech companies could curtail their spending sprees on data centres that have helped chip stocks soar to tremendous heights. All told, the S&P 500 rose 110.78 points to 7,600.50 and fin- ished just shy of its all-time closing high of 7,609.78. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 693.38 to 53,178.41, and the Nasdaq composite rallied 540.04 to 25,913.90. The S&P/TSX Composite Index was closed Monday for for a statutory holiday. The manic swings for AI stocks have been most dramatic in South Korea, where the Kospi index is dominated by just two tech titans, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix . Seoul’s Kospi fell 5.1 per cent Monday, coming off Friday’s 17.9 per cent surge that was its best day in history. In neighbouring Japan, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 fell 0.9 per cent after the United States and Japan confirmed they had moved together to prop up the value of the Japanese yen against the dollar. A stronger yen would help to limit inflation in Japan, but it could also potentially hurt Japan’s exporters.
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their company has positioned themselves to capitalize on growth of the industry. Anecdotal expectations of what the new technologies could provide to the world were used as a basis for growingvaluations,andinvestors were seeking to get on the ground floor of these industries. From the perspective of inves- tors, both booms also resulted in concentration in a few of the larger names of the time. During the internet boom, the names included Cisco, AOL and Yahoo, while prominent public compa- nies benefiting during the AI boom include Nvidia, Microsoft and Apple. However,therearesomesignif- icant differences between the two periods as well. The most mea- ningful is arguably the fact that the major players in the AI boom are generating billions in revenue and profits, while most dot-com
companieswereunprofitableand many had no revenue. Another key distinction that internet-based companies target- edtheretailmarketplacebycreat- ingwebsitesthatofferedproducts and services to individual con- sumers. But a large portion of the AI boom has focused on corpo- rate consumers, driven by the growth of GPU-powered comput- ing and enterprise software. Another difference, from an investor’s perspective, is the pool of target companies. The internet boom featured thousands of un- profitable startups, so investors tended to bet on one (or a few) in hopes of picking a long-term win- ner. This was famously demon- strated when 19 early-stage inter- net companies ran expensive ads during the Super Bowl in 2000 in hopes of gaining national expo- sure. The AI boom is the opposite since there are a small number of profitable companies that inves- tors have chosen to focus on. The common saying “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes” applies today: Market booms and bubbles in the finan- cialmarketsmayhavesimilarities but are never the same. Can we conclude that the AI growth we are experiencing will result in the same crash that internet companies experienced? Probably not, since the differenc- es are significant. However, this doesn’t imply that the AI industry can avoid a price correction. Current valua- tions of AI companies are built on unproven optimism and may not be sustainable. Investors are pric- ing in instant gains from produc- tivity that historically occurs over decades. History has shown that stock valuations always return to realis- tic levels and AI will be no excep- tion.
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sapped from the Jays, Atkins got busy at the deadline
t has been obvious since just about the start of the season that this Toronto Blue Jays team is not the same one that went to the World Series last year. Most of the players were the same, but the team wasn’t any- where close. Whatever magic you felt watching them last Octo- ber was gone, replaced by bad ju- ju and never-explained incom- petence. In an interview with the To- ronto Star a few days ago, starter Kevin Gausman put words to that feeling – “We’re just not nearly as close knit of a group as we were last year.” On some teams, this sort of radical honesty would be the spur for change. On a team that’s losing like that’s the mission, it was the signal to begin the purge. It’s probably a coinci- dence that Gausman was the first one thrown overboard, but it doesn’t feel that way. So while many teams were ei- ther giving up on their year or going for it on trade deadline day Monday, the Jays were doing something else – exorcising the roster that came within two outs of a championship. Gausman, who started Games 2 and 6 against the Dodgers, left for Chicago. Daulton Varsho, who patrolled centre, headed to Houston. He didn’t have far to go – across the hallway. He was in the Astros lineup against the Jays on Monday evening. Shortly before the deadline at 6 p.m. ET, Toronto got rid of the main culprit of the Game 7 col- lapse, Jeff Hoffman. It was a clear-out, but it wasn’t a selloff. Among the incomings were L.A. Angels’ starter José Sor- iano, a high-quality piece. Soria- no cost the Jays one of their top prospects. He’s Gausman, but cheaper and under team control for a couple of years.
Kayla Cross of London, Ont., reaches for a shot from Britain’s Katie Boulter during their first-round match at the National Bank Open in Toronto on Monday. The 21-year-old Cross defeated Boulter 7-6 (3), 7-5 to pick up her first career WTA victory B13 No place like home
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So where does this leave the Jays right now? “We’re turning our focus to continuing to win games and compete this year and to make us better for the ’27 season and beyond that,” Jays GM Ross At- kins said after the deadline passed. One wonders what their focus was turned to before that? This was transparently about dismantling the malfunctioning version of last year’s team that showed up in spring training. That’s the problem with human chemistry experiments. You can’t know if the ingredients will explode until you mix them to- gether. Clearly, something went awry in the Jays’ lab over the winter. It’s hard to even know what to call what was lost – a synchronic- ity? Even when they had it, the team had a hard time defining it. People remember Ernie Clem- ent’s attempt best – “the power of friendship.” They definitely couldn’t ex- plain it when it was suddenly gone, mostly because nobody tried. Until Gausman’s com- ments, the party line throughout 2026 has been that things should start clicking any day now. Maybe it was as simple as let- ting Bo Bichette go. Maybe it’s all the new additions. Maybe it was the emotional letdown of getting so close against what’s starting to look like one of the all-time great teams and then pooching it. Maybe it’s a combo or some other undiscussed factor. But it’s something. A team that buried the Yan- kees, rope-a-doped the Mariners and stood there slugging with the Dodgers until they got TKO’d didn’t just turn into pumpkins over the winter. Or, at least, didn’t turn into pumpkins for no reason. It’s taken the Jays nearly six months to accept that and take the logical next step – continue changing until, hopefully, you change back.
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Ukraine’s Oleksandra Oliynykova serves to Czechia’s Karolina Pliskova during their National Bank Open first-round match in Toronto on Monday. CHRIS YOUNG/THE CANADIAN PRESS
tennis world forget her nation is under attack
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few days before making her debut on court at the National Bank Open on Monday, Oleksandra Oliynykova was invited to speak to some Ukrainian Canadians in Toronto, about how she navi- gates life as a pro tennis player while represent- ing a nation under attack. The 25-year-old WTA player from Kyiv is one of the most outspoken Ukrainians in tennis, using her platform at every chance to make sure the world doesn’t forget Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. She wants people to move beyond expressing sympathy and take meaningful ac- tion. “So many attacks with different type of weapons, we’re living like this for over four years, and the war is not stopping for any single day,” Oliynykova told The Globe in an inter- view while waiting for more than 100 people to pack into a room to hear her speak at the Uk- rainian National Federation of Canada’s Toron- to branch. “I live in Ukraine, I want my future to be in Ukraine, and my life is directly affected by war.” The World No. 44 is solo on tour. It’s lonely. No coach, no family travelling with her. Her fa- ther and her boyfriend are both in Ukraine’s armed forces, actively defending the country. Oliynykova uses social media to raise money for her dad’s military unit. Asked about friend-
ships on Tour, she doesn’t feel understood by many. Kyiv remains home, but she goes months without getting back. There are no commercial flights into Ukraine, so she flies into Warsaw or Budapest, then takes a lengthy train or bus ride the rest of the way, costing her two days in which she can’t practice or get to her next ten- nis tournament. She says she’s been fined this year for vio- lating the WTA’s code of conduct. She has called out specific Russian and Bela- rusian tennis players by name – denouncing those who have participated in an exhibition event in Saint Petersburg sponsored by Gaz- prom, a company with financial links to Rus- sia’s war. She has alleged players have dis- played Russian military symbols or supported politicians who back the war. She’s asked why those players aren’t sanctioned. “Tournaments which are sponsored by betting companies, they are banned for pro tennis players, but participation in a tourna- ment which is sponsored by one of the main sponsors of war crimes, is okay?” Oliynykova said this week. “It’s absurd.” Oliynykova made headlines during her first Grand Slam main draw at the Australian Open this year, by wearing a T-shirt to her news con- ference that read: “I need your help to protect Ukrainian children and women, but I can’t talk about it here.”
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fter taking part in John Harbaugh’s first training camp practice with the New York Giants last week, Jax- son Dart did not want to make too many premature judgments about the veteran coach’s demea- nour, which he expects to evolve with time. One thing the second-year quarterback has picked up over the past several months is Har- baugh’s mentality. “He just wants to, obviously, win,” Dart said. “He’s got a chip on his shoulder.” So does Dart, who chalks it up to his rookie year not going well. The Giants lost eight of his first 12 NFL starts, finished 4-13 and after an off-season of organizational upheaval, he is determined to avoid a repeat losing perform- ance. That process starts in camp, where this time Dart is the undis- puted starter at football’s most important position, a long way from taking second- and third- team snaps behind Russell Wil- son and sometimes even Jameis Winston a year ago. At 23, he’s still young and inexperienced – and leaning into those facts. “There’s a lot that I’ve got to still learn,” Dart said. “I’m trying to keep everything around me simple: From the things that I give my attention to, to my daily [practice and] study habits. That’s just me trying to continue
MLB
AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE
EAST DIVISION W L Pct GB Tampa Bay 65 46 .586 — New York 63 49 .563 21/2 Boston 60 51 .541 5 Baltimore 54 58 .482 111/2 Toronto 52 60 .464 131/2 CENTRAL DIVISION Chicago 59 52 .532 — Cleveland 57 56 .504 3 Minnesota 56 57 .496 4 Detroit 54 58 .482 51/2 Kansas City 46 67 .407 14 WEST DIVISION Houston 58 55 .513 — Texas 55 57 .491 21/2 Seattle 55 58 .487 3 Athletics 45 67 .402 121/2 Los Angeles 43 69 .384 141/2
EAST DIVISION
Monday Toronto at Houston
Sunday Chicago White Sox 9, Tampa Bay 1 Houston 7, Texas 3 Seattle 7, Minnesota 6 Detroit 11, Athletics 0
TueSday All TimeS EaStern L.A. Angels (Detmers 3-7) at Baltimore (TBD), 6:35 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Martin 9-5) at Boston (Sandoval 0-0), 7:10 p.m. Minnesota (Ryan 6-7) at Kansas City (Dobnak 1-0), 7:40 p.m. Toronto (Yesavage 5-5) at Houston (Wes- neski 1-0), 8:10 p.m. Detroit (Mize 4-6) at Seattle (Hancock 6- 5), 9:40 p.m.
INTERLEAGUE
Monday St. Louis at N.Y. Yankees San Francisco at Texas Tampa Bay at Colorado
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 8, L.A. Dodgers 4
TueSday All TimeS EaStern Athletics (Ginn 8-6) at Cincinnati (Singer 5-10), 6:40 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Manaea 2-5) at Cleveland (Cantillo 8-6), 6:40 p.m. St. Louis (TBD) at N.Y. Yankees (Weathers 4-7), 7:05 p.m. San Francisco (Ray 10-6) at Texas (Gore 6-9), 8:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (TBD) at Colorado (Hughes 0- 3), 8:40 p.m.
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New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart makes a pass during his team’s training camp on Wednesday in White sulphur springs, W.V. CHRIS CARLSON/ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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EAST DIVISION W L Pct GB Atlanta 67 45 .598 — Philadelphia 59 53 .527 8 Miami 58 55 .513 91/2 Washington 55 58 .487 121/2 New York 47 66 .416 201/2 CENTRAL DIVISION Milwaukee 69 42 .622 — Chicago 63 49 .563 61/2 Pittsburgh 56 57 .496 14 St. Louis 55 57 .491 141/2 Cincinnati 53 58 .477 16 WEST DIVISION Los Angeles 69 43 .616 — Arizona 59 53 .527 10 San Diego 58 54 .518 11 San Francisco 47 65 .420 22 Colorado 45 67 .402 24
Monday Washington at Philadelphia Pittsburgh at Milwaukee L.A. Dodgers at Chicago Cubs San Diego at Arizona
Sunday Atlanta 4, Washington 2 Miami 2, N.Y. Mets 0 Cincinnati 10, Pittsburgh 2 San Diego 5, San Francisco 4
TueSday All TimeS EaStern Washington (Littell 7-8) at Philadelphia (Luzardo 9-5), 6:40 p.m. Miami (TBD) at Atlanta (Sale 12-6), 7:15 p.m. Pittsburgh (Jones 2-2) at Milwaukee (Henderson 5-1), 7:40 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Skubal 7-5) at Chicago Cubs (Assad 6-1), 8:05 p.m. San Diego (TBD) at Arizona (Rodriguez 10-3), 9:40 p.m.
CEBL EASTERN CONFERENCE
EASTERN CONFERENCE
EASTERN CONFERENCE
GP W L Pct GB y-Scarborough 24 20 4 .833 — x-Brampton 24 11 13 .458 9 x-Ottawa 24 10 14 .417 10 x-Niagara 24 10 14 .417 10 Montreal 24 10 14 .417 10
WESTERN CONFERENCE
WESTERN CONFERENCE
GP W L Pct GB y-Vancouver 24 15 9 .625 — x-Winnipeg 24 14 10 .583 1 x-Saskatoon 24 13 11 .542 2 x-Edmonton 24 9 15 .375 6 Calgary 24 8 16 .333 7 x — clinched playoff berth; y — division Monday Saskatoon 96 Calgary 80 Scarborough 91 Brampton 77
CONCLUSION OF REGULAR SEASON
Sunday Vancouver 114 Winnipeg 90 Ottawa 96 Edmonton 89
to grow because I saw what it was like last year for a tough season. It was new for my career, and I want to make sure that doesn’t happen again.” Also new for Dart are incoming offensive co-ordinator Matt Nagy, QBs coach Brian Callahan and a host of new wide receivers. With Nagy’s arrival comes a system that is different from the one Mike Kafka ran last season while in that job and after taking over as interim coach when Brian Daboll was fired. Such a big change early in Dart’s career pro- vides another challenge, though it’s one general manager Joe Schoen pointed out that Chica- go’s Caleb Williams and New En- gland’s Drake Maye handled smoothly. The lack of continuity makes it difficult to handicap expecta-
MLS
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 9 5 3 28 21 30 Chicago 17 9 6 2 32 23 29 N.Y. City F.C. 18 7 6 5 31 24 26 Cincinnati 18 7 6 5 45 44 26 Charlotte 18 7 7 4 29 27 25 N.Y. Red Bulls 18 7 7 4 29 39 25 D.C. 18 5 5 8 26 29 23 Orlando 18 6 10 2 30 47 20 Columbus 18 5 8 5 26 28 20 Toronto 18 3 7 8 24 32 17 Philadelphia 18 4 10 4 25 33 16 Montreal 18 4 10 4 24 35 16 Atlanta 18 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 17 9 6 2 25 24 29 Salt Lake 17 8 6 3 29 25 27 Dallas 18 7 5 6 32 25 27 St. Louis 18 7 6 5 24 24 26 Seattle 17 7 7 3 20 22 24 Portland 18 7 8 3 33 33 24 Minnesota 18 6 6 6 20 25 24 Colorado 18 7 10 1 27 25 22 L.A. Galaxy 19 5 7 7 24 29 22 San Diego 18 5 7 6 32 29 21 Austin 18 4 9 5 22 36 17 Kansas City 18 4 12 2 18 46 14 Saturday All TimeS EaStern Houston at New England, 4:30 p.m.
NSL
GP W L T GF GA Pt Ottawa 14 10 2 2 32 17 32 Montreal 14 8 3 3 28 16 27 Toronto 14 7 4 3 24 13 24 Halifax 14 5 6 3 17 14 18 Vancouver 14 5 8 1 23 34 16 Calgary 14 0 12 2 9 39 2 Note: Three points awarded for a win, one for a tie. Monday Ottawa 2 Halifax 2
CFL
GP W L PF PA Pt Montreal 8 7 1 273 217 14 Toronto 7 3 4 220 219 6 Hamilton 8 3 5 187 234 6 Ottawa 7 0 7 166 247 0 WEST DIVISION Edmonton 8 6 2 229 200 12 Saskatchewan 7 5 2 232 195 10 Calgary 8 4 4 322 264 8 Winnipeg 8 4 4 204 243 8 BritishColumbia 7 2 5 187 201 4 WEEK 10 Bye: Winnipeg ThurSday All TimeS EaStern Calgary at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 7 Ottawa at Saskatchewan, 9 p.m.
tions, though the Giants have high hopes for Dart regardless of who’s calling the plays. “Just continue to build off of last season,” Schoen said. “He played at a high level throughout last season, so, [we hope to] con- tinue to see him to ascend. Really good staff, really good plan, scheme in place and excited for his Year 2 and how he does.” As a rookie, Dart completed 63.7 per cent of his passes for 2,272 yards, 15 touchdowns and five interceptions. He also ran for 487 yards and nine TDs and took a few big hits along the way – in- cluding one that concussed and sidelined him for two games. Growing every day is how Dart answered a question about what he expects of himself, and that in- cludes better risk-reward deci- sions that a lot of mobile quarter-
WNBA
W L Pct GB Atlanta 18 10 .643 — Indiana 19 11 .633 — Washington 16 12 .571 2 New York 18 13 .581 11/2 Chicago 11 18 .379 71/2 Toronto 10 19 .345 81/2 Connecticut 7 23 .233 12
W L Pct GB Minnesota 25 6 .806 — Las Vegas 20 9 .690 4 Golden State 20 9 .690 4 Dallas 19 11 .633 51/2 Los Angeles 11 17 .393 121/2 Phoenix 11 19 .367 131/2 Portland 11 19 .367 131/2 Seattle 6 26 .188 191/2 Monday New York 95, Seattle 83 Las Vegas at Atlanta Phoenix at Chicago
Sunday Minnesota 108, Indiana 100 Los Angeles 106, Portland 101 Dallas 83, Connecticut 63 Golden State 96, Toronto 79
TueSday All TimeS EaStern Toronto at Golden State, 10 p.m.
CPL
GP W L T GF GA Pt Hamilton 14 11 1 2 23 8 35 Calgary 15 10 2 3 30 8 33 Vancouver 15 7 6 2 24 16 23 Ottawa 15 6 6 3 23 28 21 Quebec 14 5 7 2 21 26 17 Halifax 16 4 7 5 20 24 17 Toronto 13 3 6 4 15 30 13 Victoria 14 0 11 3 16 32 3 Sunday Hamilton 0 Halifax 0
Friday — All TimeS EaStern Vancouver at Hamilton, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 8 Halifax at Ottawa, 1 p.m. Toronto at Victoria, 5 p.m. Calgary at Quebec, 8 p.m.
2026 CANADIAN WOMEN’S CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP
QUARTERFINALS (Single-elimination format) Monday Ottawa Rapid (NSL) 3 Halifax Tides (NSL) 2 (extra time)
WOMEN’S AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS
GROUP STAGE Monday Kenya 0 Algeria 2 Senegal 0 Morocco 0
ATP TOUR
NATIONAL BANK OPEN
NATIONAL BANK OPEN
Monday At Montreal PurSe: $9,415,725 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor MEN’S SINGLES — ROUND OF 128 James Duckworth, Australia, def. Christopher O’Connell, Australia, 6-3, 6-1. Vit Kopriva, Czechia, def. AlexiS Galar- neau, Laval, Que. 6-4, 6-4. Mariano Navone, Argentina, def. Matteo Berrettini, Italy, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-3. Nicolas Mejia, Colombia, def. Martin Landaluce, Spain, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. Titouan Droguet, France, def. Luca Van Assche, France, 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (7).
MUBADALA CITI DC OPEN
Monday At WaShington DC, United StateS PurSe: $2,488,125 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor MEN’S SINGLES — CHAMPIONSHIP Taylor Fritz (3), United States, def. Rafael Jodar, Spain, 7-6 (2), 6-4.
WTA TOUR
Monday At Toronto PurSe: $7,433,076 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor WOMEN’S SINGLES — ROUND OF 128 Alina Korneeva, Russia, def. Polina Kudermetova, Russia, 6-0, 3-0, ret. Karolina Pliskova, Czechia, def. Oleksandra Oliynykova, Ukraine, 6-4, 6- 4. Anna Bondar, Hungary, def. Anhelina Kalinina, Ukraine, 6-4, 7-5. Talia Gibson, Australia, def. Elisabetta Cocciaretto, Italy, 6-2, 3-2, ret. Kayla Day, United States, def. Diane Parry, France, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5. McCartney Kessler, United States, def. Cadence Brace, Toronto, 6-3, 6-3. Kayla CroSS, London, Ont., def. Katie Boulter, Britain, 7-6 (3), 7-5. Rebecca Sramkova, Slovakia, def. Anna Blinkova, Russia, 6-3, 6-3. Zhang Shuai, China, def. Yulia Putintseva, Kazakhstan, 6-4, 6-1. Elena-Gabriela Ruse, Romania, def. Peyton Stearns, United States, 6-0, 7-5. Lanlana Tararudee, Thailand, def. Emerson Jones, Australia, 7-6 (2), 6-2. Nikola Bartunkova, Czechia, def. Bianca AndreeScu, MiSSiSSaugua, Ont. 7-5, 6-4. Liudmila Samsonova, Russia, def. Janice Tjen, Indonesia, 7-6 (9), 7-5. Magda Linette, Poland, def. Carol Zhao, Canada, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4. Alycia Parks, United States, def. Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva, Andorra, 6-4, 6-4. Taylor Townsend, United States, def. Tereza Valentova, Czechia, 6-4, 7-5.
backs figure out (or don’t) along the way. With Nagy in charge, it also means more plays under centre instead of out of a shotgun for- mation. That adjustment is ongo- ing. “It’s been something that we’ve really pushed and really got a ton of reps at this off-season,” Dart said. “There are a few things mechanically that are different. Probably just the biggest thing is a little bit of footwork landmarks in the pocket. [But] I’m feeling re- ally good with the track that we’re on, and I’m feeling comfort- able.” That comfort is slowly building with new wideouts like Odell Beckham Jr., Calvin Austin, Dar- nell Mooney and JuJu Smith- Schuster. A similar familiariza- tion process is also needed with Malik Nabers, who went down with a torn ACL in his right knee less than one full half into Dart’s first start on Sept. 28. Dart said he and Nabers talked and watched a lot of video over the past few months, which he hopes will help the two establish a strong on-field rapport quickly when New York’s No. 1 receiver is fully healthy. Being the face of the franchise and the leadership responsibili- ties that come with playing QB al- so make it incumbent on Dart to interact with teammates every- where on the roster. His coach likes what he has seen so far in that department. “He’s a charismatic guy, but he wants to win and he expects ev- erybody else to want to win,” Har- baugh said. “We’ve got a bunch of guys that respond, but also a bunch of guys that feel the same way, so I just think he’s got a good relationship with the guys.”
2026 HLINKA-GRETZKY CUP
PRELIMINARY ROUND
At Edmonton Monday Finland 5 Germany 2 United States 6 Czechia 4 Switzerland vs. Canada Slovakia vs. Sweden
TueSday All TimeS EaStern Germany vs. Czechia, 3 p.m. Sweden vs. Switzerland, 5 p.m. Canada vs. Slovakia, 7 p.m. Finland vs. United States, 9 p.m.
WedneSday Switzerland vs. Slovakia, 3 p.m. Czechia vs. Finland, 5 p.m. Sweden vs. Canada, 7 p.m. United States vs. Germany, 9 p.m. CONCLUSION OF PRELIMINARY ROUND
PGA TOUR
FEDEX CUP LEADERS
Through Aug. 2 PointS Money 1.Scottie Scheffler 4,123 $16,911,275 2.Matt Fitzpatrick 3,329 $13,749,496 3.Cameron Young 3,157 $14,197,952 4.Wyndham Clark 2,255 $9,876,186 5.Chris Gotterup 2,254 $7,755,219 6.Collin Morikawa 2,229 $8,554,512 7.Si Woo Kim 2,201 $7,450,944 8.Sam Burns 2,078 $7,583,540 9.Tommy Fleetwood2,046 $6,402,605 10.Ludvig Åberg 1,929 $6,253,271 11.Xander Schauffele1,780 $6,693,225 12.Rory McIlroy 1,738 $8,465,006 13.Jacob Bridgeman1,727 $7,551,365 14.Akshay Bhatia 1,723 $7,473,999 15.Russell Henley 1,706 $5,892,835 16.Ryan Gerard 1,496 $5,825,898 17.Min Woo Lee 1,470 $5,647,652 18.Kristoffer Reitan 1,464 $6,183,339 19.Alex Fitzpatrick 1,403 $4,528,684 20.J.J. Spaun 1,387 $4,775,708
TELEVISION TUESDAY(ALLTIMESEASTERN)
BASEBALL MLB: Toronto vs. Houston, SN Ontario, East, West, Pacific, 8 p.m.
BASKETBALL WNBA: Toronto vs. Golden State, TSN 1, 4, 5, 10 p.m.
HOCKEY Hlinka Gretzky Cup: Germany vs. Czechia, TSN 4, 3 p.m. TSN4 Canada vs. Slovakia, TSN 1, 4, 7 p.m.
TENNIS WTA/ATP Tour: National Bank Open,SN 1, 12:30 p.m. SN360, 7 p.m.
RESULTS AS OF MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 9:30 P.M.
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Canadian Kayla Cross picks up her first WTA win, topping Britain’s Katie Boulter
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Bianca Andreescu has once again been bounced early from her home tournament. The product of nearby Missis- sauga fell 7-5, 6-4 to Czechia’s Ni- kola Bartunkova in first-round singles action at the National Bank Open on Monday. Andreescu, who ended Cana- da’s half-century drought on the same centre court at the annual tennis showcase in 2019, had three set-point chances in the first serving up 5-2 before a cou- ple of mistakes opened the door for her opponent. The 26-year-old, ranked No. 174 in the world, had a fourth set- point opportunity leading 5-4 but Bartunkova again battled back. The WTA’s 42nd-ranked player then broke the fading Andreescu up 5-4 in the second set to take the match in one hour 53 min- utes. The first Canadian to win a Grand Slam when she captured the U.S. Open on the heels of her NBO win, Andreescu also lost in the first round in Toronto in 2024 and dropped out of last year’s Montreal tournament due to in- jury following an opening-round victory. Canadian fans had plenty to cheer at Sobeys Stadium earlier in the day, however, when Kayla Cross picked up her first career WTA victory with a 7-6 (3), 7-5 up- set of Britain’s Katie Boulter to advance. “Definitely in shock,” said the London, Ont., native, who will play doubles with Andreescu in Toronto. “Still doesn’t really feel real.”
JORDAN STOOPLER MONTREAL
enis Shapovalov insists there’s nothing wrong with his tennis. It’s his body, rather, that’s been holding him back. “It’s been a tricky year because I have been feeling good on court,” Shapovalov said Monday in Montreal. “I’ve been feeling good in practices, but I’ve been struggling physically. It’s been a very challenging year for my body. “There’s a lot of weeks out of the year that I have been trying to do my best to play through it as best as I can, knowing that it’s not going to be ideal playing injured or playing hurt. I’ve been trying to push through.” Despite his injury struggles, the 27-year-old from Richmond Hill, Ont., arrived in Montreal for
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FROM B11 The problem with this kind of thing for a modern baseball teamisthatthereisnowaytometricizeit.Onepresumesthat the Jays’ preseason spreadsheets had them walking away with the American League East. Why else invest so much of Edward Rogers’s not-so-hard earned money? Then the chaos of human relationships jumped into the calculation. Now we’re getting outside predictive models and into pure voodoo. Does Soriano for Gausman minus Hoffman and Var- sho equal a Vladimir Guerrero Jr. who remembers that you have to hit the ball up in the air? Up, as in not at the ground. Toward the fence. In a best-case scenario, a little bit beyond that point. Does getting rid of Max Scherzer, George Springer and Shane Bieber at year’s end let successful newcomers like Dy- lan Cease and Kazuma Okamoto assume control of the club- house? And if so, is that a good thing? I’m sure the Jays have many ideas, but I doubt they have any clue. All they can know is that there was a point at which the locker-room atmosphere translated to winning, and now it promotes reflexive shoulder shrugging. Unlike so many teams of Toronto’s recent past, the prob- lemisn’ttalent.Iftheholdovershadplayedtotheir2025aver- age, plus Cease, Okamoto and Tyler Rogers, this should have been a great year. Even with the perma-excuse of injuries, it hasn’t been anywhere close. So now the Jays have one option – wait. They’ll have to see if a change really is like a vacation. There’s a world in which things turn around fast, and they make a run to the wild card. There’s another in which things stay the same and they take a mulligan on the year. Given the volatility of baseball’s labour situation, they could continue waiting a couple of years until they can find out if the new new Jays are anything like the old Jays. By that time, could that Jays team be said to be the same one that surprised and delighted the country in October, 2025? And if not, would that squad – the one that got thrown in the recycling on Monday – represent the shortest, most memorable ‘era’ in Toronto’s baseball history?
Bianca Andreescu of Mississauga hits a return to Czechia’s Nikola Bartunkova during their first-round match at the National Bank Open in Toronto on Monday. Bartunkova won 7-5, 6-4 after Andreescu blew a 5-2 lead in the first set. CHRIS YOUNG/THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Competing in just her third tour match and included at the US$7.4-million event as a wild- card entry, the 21-year-old’s next opponent is No. 28 seed Ann Li of the United States. A total of five Canadians were poised to hit the court on York University’s windswept campus on city’s northern edge after a chunk of Sunday’s schedule was delayed by rain. McCartney Kessler of the U.S. cruised to a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Cadence Brace of Oakville, Ont. Carol Zhao of Richmond Hill, Ont., who’s set to retire after this season and was making her 15th
the National Bank Open fresh off Saturday’s final in an ATP 250 hard-court event in Los Cabos, Mexico. The Canadian won four con- secutive matches before losing in straight sets to France’s Arthur Gea in the championship match. Shapovalov fell a win short of de- fending the Los Cabos crown he’d earned in 2025. “It was definitely a great week in Los Cabos,” Shapovalov said. “I ran out a little bit of energy there at the end. I played a lot of great matches coming back from an injury. It’s never easy. I defi- nitely couldn’t have asked for more from myself for a week like that.” Shapovalov has endured a frustrating 2026 season, compil- ing a 13-15 record. After fracturing a rib at the Queen’s Club Championships grass court tournament, Shapo-
appearance at the tournament, started strong against Poland’s Magda Linette, but wound up falling 6-4, 1-6, 4-6. ”I’m very grateful,“ said Zhao, who is ranked 620th and gave the world No. 68 a tough test. ”It real- ly did feel like a blink of an eye.“ No. 52 Zeynep Sonmez of Tur- key topped Vancouver’s Rebecca Marino, who’s ranked 339th, by a 7-5, 6-4 score in the evening ses- sion. Spurred on by a home-soil ten- nis crowd, Cross fought off four set points in the first and then broke Boulter – ranked No. 69 in the world – at 5-5 in the second
valov retired from his opening- round Wimbledon match June 29 against Pablo Carreno Busta be- cause of a shoulder injury. He didn’t play again until Los Cabos. “I’ve been struggling with a lot of injuries this season, pretty much since after Miami,” he said. “It’s been a really tough year for mephysically,soI’mjusthappyto be back on court.” His expectations entering last week’s tournament in Mexico were modest. “It was a tremendous week for me,” he said. “The goal was to try to play as many matches as pos- sible.Itriedtofindmygameagain and just be back on court. I achieved all those things, so defi- nitely a great week for me.” The deep run, however, came at a cost. Shapovalov arrived in Mon- treal early Monday morning feel- ing the effects of a demanding
many people are pretending as if there is no war
She is among the players from Ukraine who do not shake hands with Russian or Belarusian oppo- nents. “She’s not afraid to speak up, and defend the values that matter for her,” said Maksym Stolyarev- skyy, a volunteer with the Ukrai- nian World Congress who helped put on the speaking event in To- ronto this past Thursday. “Your people are getting killed and the act of aggression is hor- rible and the war needs to be stopped, and you’re doing some- thing about it. You’re not afraid to put your career at risk, to put your attractiveness to the media or some brands at risk – I respect a person like that.” Oliynykova commends the fundraising work for Ukraine be- ing done by players like Ukrai- nian world No. 9 Elina Svitolina. She wishes Ukraine’s players would get together to talk more often. Being so vocal has taken a personal toll, and she hadn’t real- ized how lonely this could be. A small but vocal group of Uk- rainian fans waved the blue and bright yellow flags and cheered to Oliynykova in her first-round match Monday in Toronto, a 6-4, 6-4 loss to former World No.1 – now No.66 – Karolina Pliskova.
before serving out to pick up a memorable victory in just under two hours. “I got a text message last night asking if I wanted to be on centre court,” Cross said. “Obviously said ‘yes’ right away. The game plan going in was try to play my game, trying to go for the shots. “Just live in the moment and be happy out there.” Cross, who bowed out of the NBO’s first round in 2025, entered the tournament ranked 172 after sitting at 262 some 12 months ago. “I checked my phone after the match,” she said. “I think I had
week that featured a handful of late-night finishes on the slow Mexican hard courts. Recurring rain at IGA Stadium also threatened to limit his prep- aration ahead of his first-round match Tuesday against American Zachary Svajda. “It’s tough,” said Shapovalov. “It’s not easy. It is part of the tour life.Anytimethatyouaregoingto godeepintournaments,it’sgoing tojeopardize,perhaps,yourprep- aration for the next event. You just have to take it for what it is.” Shapovalov’s runner-up finish in Los Cabos lifted him 25 places in the ATP rankings to No. 43. He said improving his ranking was secondary to regaining full health. “The priority is to be healthy right now, to play good tennis and to find my game in the matches that I am playing,” he said. “Obvi- ously, my ranking shouldn’t be
Oliynykova will head now to play the Cincinnati Open, bat- tling with pro life but still loving the sport she found in Ukraine at 5 – her dad’s idea for an active girl who needed something to burn off energy. He began to coach her when she was 16, until he joined the army in 2024. He still advises her from afar, watching her matches online when he can. She broke into the top 200 for the first time in July, 2025, and has shot up to a career-high ranking of 44 this year. While happy with some good moments against Pliskova’s huge serve on Monday, Oliynykova leaves Toronto with mixed feel- ings. She was enriched by the meetup with Ukrainian-Cana- dians and tried to auction off some passes for some of those people to be her guests at the NB Open with proceeds going to that same armed forces unit, but her auction had to be abandoned over the weekend. The WTA Tour rules state that player guest credentials are non- transferable and may not be sold, auctioned, or used as a prize or giveaway. So she had to take the auction down. The Toronto groups helping her with the auc- tion complied by swiftly taking it offline and informed all interest- ed bidders, although no one had
like a hundred notifications … a little overwhelmed.” Toronto’s Katherine Sebov topped Japanese qualifier Aoi Ito 6-3, 6-4 on Sunday to advance. Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que. – the only seeded Canadian in the women’s tournament at No. 30 – plays her first match Wednesday. Victoria Mboko of Burlington, Ont., who captured last sum- mer’s NBO title at the age of 18 and is ranked No. 12 on tour, is out of this year’s tournament be- cause of a knee injury.
where it is right now. “I can beat good players. I have the level. It’s just part of the sport. You have so many guys nowadays that are struggling with injuries. It’s a gruelling season.” Montreal’s tournament has been challenging for Shapovalov. Since a breakthrough semi-final appearancein2017,he’smanaged just one win in Montreal after a second-round exit in 2019 and first-round defeats in both 2022 and 2024. Still, returning to the city wherehiscareerfirstcapturedthe attention of Canadian tennis fans remained meaningful to him. “It means a lot to me every time I come to Canada and, spe- cifically, to Montreal, where I had my first real kind of moment on tour, my first run,” Shapovalov said.
paid any money yet. “It’s showing again that in this organization, everybody is just trying to close their eyes to the war,” she said. The WTA has stated that it re- mains unequivocal in condemn- ing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and have supported its Ukrainian players since the conflict began. Its players are allowed to support causes meaningful to them, but those efforts must be conducted within Tour and tournament rules. “I feel like everybody kind of just pretends like there is nothing happening, then there is no war, and everything is fine,” said Oliy- nykova. “They want to make the picture that like we’re just girls who are playing tennis and every- thing is fun and everything is nice, and then the war is like somewhere over there.” The large number of Ukrai- nian, Russian and Belarusian players on the WTA Tour – and the fact that they can face each other on court at nearly every event – means tennis feels the im- pact of the conflict more than nearly any other global sport. “Some players are tired to speak about this now. I’m not,” said Oliynykova. “For me, it’s something I’m living with every day.”
in a hectic close to MLB’s trade deadline
Team parted with many key pieces that played in Game 7 of the World Series last season
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The Toronto Blue Jays became both buyers and sellers on Mon- day before Major League Base- ball’s trade deadline ended at 6 p.m. ET. The turnstile clicked both ways on a busy day that saw them deal centre fielder Daulton Varsho to Houston and moved relief pitcher Jeff Hoffman to Minnesota. They also picked up a quality starter in pitcherJoséSorianooftheLosAn- geles Angels and another hard thrower in Spencer Arrighetti from Houston. In Varsho’s case, he simply had to switch clubhouses because the Blue Jays were already in town for the first of three games against the Astros. He was pencilled in to their lineup on Monday night. Ross Atkins, the club’s general manager, addressed the media once the deadline was passed. He said he was disappointed the team is in a difficult position now after reaching the World Series last year. “We had such hope at the be- ginning of the season,” Atkins said on a video call. “We still be- lieve this group will stay compet- itive. We had to move on from players we had an appreciation for and still do. “In the end, talent will trump all.” Toronto, which is last in the American League East Division, remains in the periphery of the AL’s wild card playoff race. There were surprises though. George Springer remained on the BlueJaysroster.Heis36andinthe twilight of his career. It was a busy day around the league. The biggest blockbuster sawtheBostonRedSoxtradefour players for Baltimore catcher Adley Rutschman, a three-time all-star. Torontosentthreeprospectsto Los Angeles for Soriano, who is 27 and throws 97 miles an hour. He had a 9-6 record, with a 3.29 earned run average with the last- place Angels. The players
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The Boston Red Sox and Philadel- phia Phillies took big swings Monday ahead of baseball’s trade deadline, with the Red Sox add- ing three-time all-star catcher Adley Rutschman a few hours af- ter the Phillies picked up three- time batting champion Luis Ar- raez. The pair of aggressive moves was a part of a hectic day of swaps, featuring dozens of deals in the hours leading up to Mon- day’s 6 p.m. ET deadline. Also on Monday, the Houston Astros add- ed veteran outfielder Daulton Varsho from Toronto in exchange for right-hander Spencer Arrigh- etti, and the Chicago Cubs got pitcher Clay Holmes from the New York Mets. The Los Angeles Dodgers woke up already looking like the dead- line’s biggest winners after add- ing two-time Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal to a loaded roster Sunday. The Dodgers are chasing a third straight World Se- ries title.
RUTSCHMAN GIVES RED SOX YOUNG CATCHING STAR
Rutschman was the No. 1 overall pick in 2019 out of Oregon State and has largely lived up to the high expectations with five qual- ity seasons with the Baltimore Orioles. NowhemovestotheRedSox,a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the trade hadn’t been announced. Bostonstartedslowthisseason but revitalized its playoff hopes with a franchise record-tying 15- game winning streak in July. The 28-year-old Rutschman – who is under team control for one more season in 2027 – has had a bounce-back season at the plate with a .762 OPS, which helped him earn his third all-star nod. Rutschman is currently on the injured list with left wrist inflam- mation. He’s also dealt with an
After being traded to Houston by Toronto, Daulton Varsho simply had to switch clubhouses because the Blue Jays were already in town for the first of three games against the Astros. MARK BLINCH/GETTY IMAGES
VARSHO MAKES DEBUT FOR ASTROS AGAINST BLUE JAYS AFTER TRADE
Daulton Varsho was taking swings in the visitors’ batting cage at Daikin Park early Mon- day before the start of a series against the Houston Astros when he was called into Toronto manager John Schneider’s office. It was then that Varsho learned he was on a new team and he’d have an incredibly short trip to join that squad. The first-place Astros acquired the centre fielder from the Blue Jays for starting pitcher Spencer Arrighetti just before the trade deadline. A couple of hours later, Varsho finished his pre- game preparations by taking swings in the home batting cage. “It was definitely weird going from that cage to this cage,” Varsho said, shaking his head. The AL West leaders wasted
ankle injury and a concussion this year.
ARRAEZ GIVES PHILLY AN ELITE CONTACT HITTER
Arraez comes from the San Fran- cisco Giants, and he’ll be expect- ed to create RBI opportunities for Phillies sluggers Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber. Arraez is hitting an NL-best .324 in a resurgent season after signing a US$12-million, one-year deal with San Francisco early in spring training. The 29-year-old has his highest batting average since 2023, and he’s played better defenceatsecondbaseafterques- tions about his glove hindered his market in free agency. Schwarber is second in the ma- jors with 33 home runs entering Monday yet ranks 31st with 63 RBIs, while Harper has driven in 66. The team’s .304 on-base per- centage is the second lowest in the majors. Philly also got reliever Caleb Kilian back from the Giants in the trade for two minor leaguers, and it swung a separate deal for left- handed reliever Brooks Raley with the Mets.
FORMER CY YOUNG WINNER ROBBIE RAY GOES TO PADRES
The San Diego Padres acquired veteran left-hander Robbie Ray from the Giants on Monday in a trade for two prospects. The Padres have won eight of nine to move one game back of the final wild-card playoff posi- tion, and this latest surge in their up-and-down season apparently prompted general manager A.J. Preller to trade yet another chunk of his severely depleted farm sys- tem for another chance to win now. San Diego gave up right-hand- er Miguel Mendez and 17-year-old shortstop Joniel Hernandez for the 34-year-old Ray, a former Cy Young award winner who will be an unrestricted free agent this winter. The Padres also got cash in the deal. Ray is 10-6 with a 3.08 ERA and
no time putting Varsho in the lineup. Houston manager Joe Espada had him batting cleanup against his former team Monday night. “This clubhouse is awesome,” Varsho said of the Astros. “They’re great, great people, they’re excited. So that’s the best part for me is I get to join a team that’s very excited to have me and I’m excited to be a part of it.” Varsho, a gold glove winner in 2024, provides a big boost in the outfield for the Astros, who with a three-game sweep of the Texas Rangers last weekend took over the division lead for the first time since early April. “[Varsho] fits a hole that we’ve had here for a while,” Espada said. “He brings a differ- ent dynamic to our offence, can really play centre field, lefty bat.
107 strikeouts in 1222⁄3 innings this season,histhirdwithSanFrancis- co.
DODGERS KEEP ADDING
The Dodgers added 2025 all-star left-hander Kris Bubic from the Kansas City Royals for minor league right-hander Carlos Du- ran, a person familiar with the deal told the AP. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the trade hadn’t been an- nounced. Bubic is on the 60-day injured list with shoulder and elbow is- sues, but the Royals had expected him to return in late-August, which would put him in line to pitch out of the bullpen for Los Angeles during the playoffs. He was an all-star last season and is 3-2 with a 4.11 ERA in nine starts this season. Duran is 3-2 with a 3.38 ERA for the Dodgers’ Triple-A affiliate in Oklahoma City. Los Angeles also traded for backup catcher Ben Rortvedt for the second year in a row. This time, the Dodgers got Rortvedt from the Mets for right-hander Chayce McDermott. The 28-year- old Rortvedt hasn’t played in the bigleaguesthisseasonandwasn’t on the Mets’ 40-man roster.
VARSHO HELPS ASTROS
The 30-year-old Varsho has had a disappointing offensive season with a .682 OPS over 99 games with the Blue Jays, but he earned a Gold Glove award in 2024 and remains an excellent defender. Houston came into Monday’s games with a 58-55 record, which is good for first place in the AL West. The Astros took over the di- vision lead for the first time since April after a three-game sweep of the Rangers over the weekend. The Blue Jays received Arrigh- etti, who is 7-5 with a 4.60 ERA over 17 starts this season.
This guy was in the World Series not that long ago, so he knows what it takes.” In 99 games this season, Varsho has hit .243 with seven homers and 26 RBIs. He had 20 homers in 71 big league games last season for the Blue Jays, who are last in the AL East after winning the American League pennant in 2025. Varsho became emotional when talking about his time with the Blue Jays and added that it was disappointing they couldn’t get things going this season after last year’s surpris- ing run. Varsho is a .229 career hitter with 106 homers and 321 RBIs in 747 games for Arizona and Toronto since his 2020 debut. He can become a free agent this fall. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
first season of a two-year, US$22- million deal. He had been one of the few bright spots this season for the last-place Mets, going 2-1 with a 1.84 ERA with one save in 42 appearances. The Mets re- ceived minor league infielder Sammy Stafura.
The Cubs got left-hander Braxton Garrett from Miami for two minor leaguers. Garrett – the former seventh overall draft pick who turns 29 on Wednesday and will be under club control for two more seasons after this – suffered a torn UCL midway through the 2024 season. His only two big league starts since then came in mid-May, when he struck out five whileallowingsevenrunsover41⁄3 innings. He has since been at Tri- ple-A. In 67 games for the Miami Marlins since his MLB debut in 2020, he was 16-20 with a 4.16 ERA. The Cubs also added righty Ryan Zeferjahn from the Los An- geles Angels for minor league catcher Moisés Ballesteros and minor league right-handed pitch- er Mason McGwire, the son of for- mer MLB slugger Mark McGwire.
The Seattle Mariners acquired outfielder Taylor Ward from the Orioles in exchange for minor league right-handers Alex Hoppe, Brock Moore and Harrison Kreil- ing. Ward, 32, is hitting .246 with seven home runs and 30 RBIs in 111 games. He adds to Seattle’s outfield depth and could make impending free agent and all-star outfielder Randy Arozarena ex- pendable.
The Blue Jays bolstered their rotation with an eye on 2027 by acquiringright-handerJoséSoria- no from the Angels for three pro- spects. The 27-year-old is 9-6 with a 3.29 ERA and has a 3.72 ERA over four big league seasons. He’s un- der team control through 2028. Infielder Arjun Nimmala, a 2023 first-round pick, headlined the minor leaguers going to Los An- geles, along with outfielder Eddie Micheletti Jr. and right-hander Angel Rivero.
swapped for him included short- stop Arjun Nimmala, whom the team selected with the 20th choice in the first round during the 2023 draft. Soriano will join Dylan Cease, named the American League’s pitcher of the month for July, and Trey Yesavage at the top of the starting rotation. Soriano is on a one-year deal with two more years of arbitration. EarliertheBlueJaysalsopicked up infielder Josh Smith and mi- nor-league starter Josh Stephan from the Texas Rangers as part of adealthatsawleftyrelieverAdam Macko head in the opposite direc- tion.Smithhasbeenusedprimar- ily as a bench player and in 2024 won the AL Silver Slugger Award for utility players. That season he batted .258 with 30 doubles, 13 home runs and 62 runs driven in. On Sunday the club traded be- loved pitcher Kevin Gausman to the Chicago Cubs for minor- league outfielder Brett Bateman and infielder Ty Southisene. Gausman, whose contract ex- pires at the end of the 2026 cam- paign,isexpectedtomakehisfirst start for Chicago against Toronto at Wrigley Field on Thursday. TheBlueJaysalsopickedup34- year-old pitcher Jameson Taillon from the Cubs on Sunday for cash or future considerations. Taillon has spent 10 seasons in the major leagues with the Pitts- burgh Pirates, New York Yankees andChicago.Hehaswon14games twice during his career but has struggledthisyearwitha5.92ERA over 15 starts. “I have seen him over the course of his career,” Toronto manager John Schneider said of Taillon on Sunday. “He has been better than he has shown this year.” Taillon was born in Florida to Canadian parents and pitched for Canada at this spring’s World Baseball Classic. Hoffman, who had 33 saves in 2025, lost his closer role this sea- son to Louis Varland. When the trade was announced, Hoffman huggedTorontoteammatesinthe clubhouse. In exchange, the Blue Jays re- ceived pitchers Dasan Hill and John Klein, and minor league in- fielder-outfielder Dameury Pena. The Jays will also receive some in- ternational bonus pool cash.
ceived minor league catcher Ja- cob Cozart. The 27-year-old Adell has 16 homers and 62 RBIs this season, one year after hitting a ca- reer-best 37 homers with 98 RBIs. Adell has spent his entire career with the Angels after being the 10th overall pick in the 2017 ama- teur draft.
The Tampa Bay Rays added catcher Liam Hicks in a trade with the Marlins while Miami received prospects RHP Jacob Kisting, SS Adrian Santana and INF Brayden Taylor. Hicks, 27, is in his second big league season and batting .282 with 14 homers and 62 RBIs. He’s under team control for the next four seasons.
The Chicago White Sox ac- quired outfielder Brenton Doyle from the Colorado Rockies for a pair of prospects. Doyle, who re- cently came off the injured list duetoabruisedoblique,ishitting .214 with a homer and nine stolen bases. He’s won two Gold Glove awards for his work in centre field. The Rockies received right- hander Mason Adams and infiel- der Carlos Vielma.
Toronto got utility player Josh Smith and minor league right- hander Josh Stephan from Texas for rookie left-hander Adam Macko. Smith, who in 2024 won a Silver Slugger as a utility player, was at Triple-A Round Rock. He went into this season with the chance to be the Rangers’ every- day second baseman, but he hit .213 in 45 games and missed 37 games because of injuries and a bout with viral meningitis.
The Atlanta Braves acquired veteran left-handed reliever Brent Suter from the Angels for minor league infielder Nacho Al- varez Jr. The 36-year-old Suter provides some bullpen depth for the NL East leaders. He was 1-2 with a 4.12 ERA over 631⁄3 innings in 41 appearances for Los Angeles. The Braves also traded outfielder Eli White to the Red Sox, obtained right-hander Tyler Uberstine and traded backup catcher Joey Bart to the White Sox for right-hander Duncan Davitt.
Alexandra Eala of the Philippines celebrates with the championship trophy after defeating Jessica Pegula in the women’s singles final at the DC Open in Washington on Monday. SCOTT TAETSCH/GETTY IMAGES Eala rallies past Pegula at DC Open for first WTA singles title
becomes the first Filipina to win a singles title, after waiting out day-long rain delay
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Alexandra Eala’s breakthrough week at the DC Open lasted one day longer than anyone expect- ed. By the time it ended, the Fil- ipino expression written across the Nike T-shirt she had worn earlier that week had become a reality. “Once it grows, it cannot be stopped.” After the women’s final stretched across two days be- cause of heavy rain, Eala rallied past Jessica Pegula 4-6, 6-4, 6-0 Monday to capture the first WTA Tour singles title of her career. The victory made the 21-year- old Eala the first Filipina to win a singles title on the tour, complet- ing the same career-defining breakthrough that the Washing- ton tournament once gave Pegula when she claimed her first WTA Tour title in 2019. “At the beginning of the week, there’s no way I would have thought that I would be holding
POGACAR RETURNS TO THE SPANISH VUELTA IN PURSUIT OF RARE DOUBLE, ELUSIVE TREBLE
Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar is returning to the Spanish Vuelta after a seven- year absence to pursue a Grand Tours hat trick of titles. The Slovenian rider’s UAE Team Emirates-XRG team an- nounced its lineup for the three-week race on Monday, confirming Pogacar will take part after claiming a record- equalling fifth Tour de France crown last month. “It was my first ever Grand Tour back in 2019 and an amaz- ing experience,” Pogacar said. “Spain is a country I love to visit and race in and I think the time is right to go back.”
MAPLE LEAFS HIRE O’BRIEN TO OVERSEE SPORT PERFORMANCE
The Toronto Maple Leafs have made Andy O’Brien the team’s vice-president of sport perform- ance. O’Brien will oversee the NHL club’s strength and conditioning, sport science and nutrition, injury rehabilitation and mental performance. The 48-year-old from Char- lottetown has been a personal trainer of Sidney Crosby, and was a director of sports science and performance for the Pitts- burgh Penguins from 2015 to 2021. O’Brien has been a high- performance consultant with the Florida Panthers since 2021. His experience working with NHL teams began with the Pan- thers in 2005 when he was strength and conditioning coach for four years. Over his time with the Pan- thers and Penguins, O’Brien worked with four Stanley Cup winning teams (2016, 2017, 2024, 2025). “Andy’s record as an innova-
this trophy,” Eala said. “Winning a 500 [level tournament] is in- sane. It’s an incredible milestone for me.” In the men’s final later Mon- day, third-seeded Taylor Fritz de- feated Rafael Jodar 7-6 (2), 6-4. Fritz broke the Spaniard twice early in the second set and even- tually converted his fifth cham- pionship point after letting four earlier opportunities slip away. Fritz lay on the court for sever- al moments after winning the 11th title of his career, then got to his feet with a roll of his eyes as the relief of finally closing out the match set in. Eala arrived at Stadium Court as the story of the tournament, carrying the hopes of her nation. Philippine flags decorated the stands throughout Sunday’s rain- interrupted session and re- mained visible Monday, with the lower bowl filled for the resump- tion. Chants for Eala routinely outweighed those for the top- ranked American playing on home soil. “It’s not fun to play against, but I do appreciate the really fun atmosphere,” Pegula said of the crowd. “I think it’s amazing.” It capped a week in which the rising star transformed the atmo- sphere around the tournament while reaching her first WTA Tour final in her debut at the hard-
Pogacar joined Belgian Eddy Merckx, Spaniard Miguel In- durain, and Frenchmen Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault as the only riders with five Tour de France titles to their names. Unlike male riders including Hinault, Anquetil, Merckx and Jonas Vingegaard, however, Pogacar has not won the Span- ish Vuelta for a hat trick of Grand Tours wins. Pogacar, who won the Giro d’Italia in 2024 by a big margin, is also bidding to become just the fourth male rider to win the Vuelta and Tour de France in the same year after Anquetil, Hinault and Chris Froome.
tor and winner, coupled with his values, philosophy and vision, are wholly aligned with what we are building here in Toronto,” Maple Leafs general manager John Chayka said Monday in a statement. “Providing every resource possible to help our players perform at their best is the highest priority at every level of the organization. Our ownership group has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to investing in player care, the player experience, and the re- sources required to help our players succeed every day. We will continue to invest in every opportunity to maximize the development and performance of every player.” The Maple Leafs went 32-36-14 last season and finished outside the playoffs for the first time in 10 years. Chayka has overhauled sever- al departments since he was hired in May to replace fired GM Brad Treliving.
court tune-up for the U.S. Open. The two traded breaks midway through the opening set, with Pegula breaking again at 4-4 and serving out the set at love. The players held through the opening three games of the second set be- fore heavy rain suspended play on Sunday afternoon, with Eala up 2-1. When they returned on Mon- day, the momentum belonged to Eala. She stormed back to claim the second set, then swept through the third. Eala ultimately won the final eight games of the match to secure the championship, beat- ing all three of the tournament’s top seeds along the way. Eala dropped to the court with her head in her hands, overcome with emotion. Tears filled her eyes before she rose, embraced Pegula at the net and let out a tri- umphant scream. “I was so nervous, and I kind of just blacked out,” Eala said. “Ev- erything just came rushing to me.” Eala then received congratula- tions from former eight- division boxing champion Manny Pac- quiao, who wrote on social media that her comeback showed the “heart of a Filipino” before calling her “our new champion.”
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The 81st Vuelta starts on Aug. 22 with an individual time trial in Monaco – where Pogacar lives – before making its way through France and Andorra to Spain. It concludes in Granada on Sept. 13 after nearly 3,300 kilometres of racing. The 27-year-old Pogacar won three stages when he finished third on his last and only ap- pearance so far at the Vuelta. “Joining Pogacar are Joao Almeida, Jay Vine, Pavel Siva- kov, Pablo Torres, Kevin Ver- maerke, Domen Novak and Ivo Oliveira,” UAE Team Emirates- XRG said. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Maple Leafs star forward Auston Matthews missed the last 15 games of the regular season with a ligament tear in his knee and goaltender Anthony Stolarz was sidelined 36 games with injury during the season. Joining O’Brien’s staff Monday were director of health and performance integration Dr. Craig Slaunwhite, strength and conditioning coach Jason Martin, assistant strength and condition- ing coach Josh Crouse and hu- man performance consultant Dr. Jordan Shallow. “From my first discussions with John and the leadership group, it was clear that this organization is dedicated to industry-leading player care and supporting the individual ath- lete in every way possible,” O’Brien said in the statement. “I’m grateful for the opportu- nity to learn from and collab- orate with such an exceptional staff as we serve our players en route to our ultimate goal.” THE CANADIAN PRESS
PATRICIA BROOKE REID
PAtriciA Brooke Reid (née Bell) died August 1, 2026, At EAstbourne, After eAting dinner on the verAndAh wAtching the sun go down. She hAd recently lost the love of her life, Jon Berry, so her journey of lAte hAd been chAllenging. Born MArch 9, 1947, in Toronto to LiliAn StrAtheArn (née HAy) And NormAn Brooke Bell, Mum wAs gorgeous from dAy one until the end. A sport-forwArd experience At Bishop StrAchAn School wAs followed by An interrupted AcAdemic experience At Western University, which she cApped off with A BA in Psychology from The University of Toronto with two kids underfoot. A brief sojourn At Johnston & DAniel And Another dAughter hAd her entering the corporAte world At NAtionAl Trust in her mid-thirties As A single pArent. Mum wAs mAgnificent! Her cAreer culminAted in the position of Executive Vice President At StAte Street FinAnciAl — known As one of the best business development producers on the street. Once Trish retired to living in Collingwood, trAvelling lots And often cAmping At KilbeAr, she And Jon relished life, encourAging All of her grAndchildren to seize joy by hosting “CAmp GrAm And PAps.” Mum wAs on the one hAnd such A rebel, yet honoured sometimes eccentric trAditions to continue the wAspy mystique And creAte superb shAred memories for generAtions. Mum AlwAys mAintAined thAt All three of her children turned out perfectly And for the purposes of Acknowledging her efforts, we will Agree!
Trish loved being on the wAter — the sight And sound of it cAptured her, whether in Collingwood, KilbeAr, BArbAdos, SAnibel, on LAke Simcoe or At TAnAmAkoon. Her discernment of beAuty wAs pArticulAr, And her eye finely tuned. She would hAve A definitive view As to A shAde of nAvy, blAck or ivory, And certAinly no shortAge of opinion when it cAme to residentiAl Architecture. She never left A beAch wAlk without A little piece of nAturAl perfection — A shell, pebble or beAch glAss.
CelebrAting her life Are Brooke Hunter (Andrew Spence), Scott Hunter, Jennifer Reid (Greg Ross); And grAndchildren, LukAs Hunter, Devon, Ben, KAte, And Allyson Kulchyski, Ailish And Aubrey GAynor.
A privAte fAmily service will be held. Were you inclined, Trish would sAy thAt donAtions to the Bishop StrAchAn School FoundAtion or Sunnybrook HospitAl in her memory might be nice.
MARILYN JUNE BRITT (née DUPUIS) June 4, 1938 August 2, 2026
We Are sAddened to Announce the pAssing of MArilyn June Britt on SundAy, August 2, 2026, in Burlington, surrounded by her loving fAmily. Reunited with her beloved lAte husbAnd of 28 yeArs, Roderick. Cherished mother of CAmeron (ShevAun). Devoted grAndmother to the lAte PAtrick, KAtie, SArAh And MichAel. DeAr sister of GAyle (lAte Tom) And KAthy. MArilyn wAs predeceAsed by her pArents, RAymond And Alice; her brothers, Don (lAte Audrey), AllAn (lAte AnitA) And LArry (lAte Ann) And her brother- in-lAw, Bill (lAte Isobel). She wAs Also loved by mAny nieces And nephews.
VisitAtion At SMITH’S FUNERAL HOME, 1167 Guelph Line (one stop light north of QEW), BURLINGTON (905-632-3333) on ThursdAy, August 6, 2026, from 4:00-8:00 p.m. A FunerAl Service will be celebrAted At Knox PresbyteriAn Church (461 ElizAbeth Street, Burlington) on FridAy, August 7, 2026, At 11:00 A.m. Interment At Greenwood Cemetery. Reception to follow At SMITH’S FUNERAL HOME, 485 BrAnt Street (one block north of City HAll), BURLINGTON. In lieu of flowers, memoriAl contributions to MArch of Dimes CAnAdA would be sincerely AppreciAted by the fAmily.
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Tall and sturdily built, he was a former nightclub owner who had a substantial career in TV and movies playing mob enforcers and capos before his most memorable role in the critically acclaimed HBO series
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incent Pastore, a character actor who specialized in playing Italian-American tough guys, most notably the foot soldier turned FBI informant Sal- vatore Bonpensiero, known to his friends as Big Pussy, on the classic HBO series The Sopranos, has died at his home in New York City. He was 80. His manager, Robert Atter- mann, said that Mr. Pastore’s body was discovered by friends Saturday. Tall and sturdily built, Mr. Pas- tore was a former nightclub own- er who had a substantial career in TV and movies playing mob en- forcers, capos and the like before being cast in a major role on The Sopranos, which premiered in 1999. His character was known as Big Pussy – not for any obscene reason, but because he had start- ed his career in crime as a cat bur- glar. His friends added “Big” to distinguish him from another character, Gennaro Malanga, known as Little Pussy. Big Pussy, an outwardly loyal and largely sympathetic charac- ter in the expansive world of The Sopranos, was also a long-time in- formant for the FBI. The tension between his allegiance to his boss, Tony Soprano (James Gan- dolfini), and his ties to law en- forcement provided one of the central storylines of the hit show’s first two seasons. Mr. Pastore won critical ap- plause for the nuance he brought to the role; Bonpensiero was flawed, conflicted and likeable, caught in circumstances partly beyond his control that never- theless sealed his fate. His sudden disappearance early in the series yielded a cliff- hanger at the end of the first sea- son, leaving millions of viewers asking, “Where is Big Pussy?” And his inevitable but still shock- ing execution at the hands of To- ny, Paulie Gualtieri (Tony Sirico) and Silvio Dante (Steven Van Zandt) – on a boat at the end of Season 2 – remains one of the most memorable scenes in the show’s six seasons. “I saw Big Pussy as a man with a big heart, and that was my choice of how I played that role,” Mr. Pastore said in an interview with Edge Magazine.
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ildred Pitts Walter, a Los Angeles schoolteacher who grew up in the Jim Crow South and wrote award- winning children’s books focus- ing on Black characters, filling a void in her students’ reading ma- terial, died May 19 in Redwood City, Calif. She was 103. Her death, at an assisted-living facility, was confirmed by her grandson, Nizam Walter. As a kindergarten teacher in the 1950s and ’60s in South Cen- tral Los Angeles, where most of her students were, like her, Black, Ms. Walter searched for books that had Black characters with whom they could identify. The rareone,sherecalled,wastheCal- decott Medal-winning 1962 pic- ture book The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats, a white author, which featured a young Black boy ex- ploringhisneighbourhoodaftera snowfall. Knowing that the federal gov- ernment under president Lyndon B. Johnson had in 1968 allocated funds to encourage publishers to create more books for students
Actor Vincent Pastore attends the Greatest Auction of Television History in May, 2023, in New York. After The Sopranos, Mr. Pastore appeared on several reality TV shows, including Celebrity Family Feud and Dancing With the Stars. DANIEL ZUCHNIK/GETTY IMAGES FOR HERITAGE AUCTIONS
Mr. Pastore came late to acting, after spending more than 20 years as a nightclub bouncer and limo driver, and eventually be- coming a manager and owner of a club in New Rochelle, N.Y. Among his regulars were ac- tors Matt and Kevin Dillon, who knew him from his days as a chauffeur. Impressed by his cha- risma, they persuaded him to take acting classes and audition for small roles in New York-area theater. He climbed quickly, getting parts in TV shows and independ- ent movies, as well as small roles in Goodfellas (1990) and Carlito’s Way (1993), both about mob life and set in the city. His first major role was in the film The Jerky Boys (1995), as the right-hand man of a mob boss played by Alan Arkin. More mob-themed roles fol- lowed, including in the movies Night Falls on Manhattan (1996), Gotti (1996) and Mickey Blue Eyes
like hers, Ms. Walter eventually challenged an executive at a local publishing company, Ward Ritch- ie Press, to fill that need. “‘Well, write them,’ he respon- ded,”shewroteinherautobiogra- phy, Something Inside So Strong: Life in Pursuit of Choice, Courage and Change (2019). “I felt he was passing the buck and told him so. But he insisted. I reluctantly agreed.” Over the next three decades, she wrote more than 20 books that “changed the course of chil- dren’s literature,” Lin Oliver, a founder of the Society of Chil- dren’s Book Writers and Illustra- tors, which Ms. Walter also helped to found, wrote in a tribute after her death. In her first book, Lillie of Watts: A Birthday Discovery (1969, illus- trated by Leonora E. Prince), Ms. Waltertoldthestoryofashygirlin the Watts neighbourhood of Los Angeles – four years after the riots there – who spends her 11th birth- day searching for a lost cat. In the sequel, Lillie of Watts TakesaGiantStep(1971,illustrated by Bonnie Helene Johnson), Lillie discovers a hero in Malcolm X, along with a new feeling of self-
(1999), many of which had him acting alongside some of the Ital- ian-American actors who would later populate the cast of The So- pranos. “It’s easier for me to play a tough guy than it is to play the good guy,” Mr. Pastore told the New York Daily News in 2000. “I grew up in a tough neighbour- hood. I didn’t study the classics. I’m a street actor. A lot of my training was on the set.” Vincent Dominic Pastore was born July 14, 1946, in New York and raised in New Rochelle, a Westchester County suburb. His father, John Pastore, was a school custodian, and his mother, Nata- lie (Santadonato) Pastore, man- aged the home. “I grew up in a pure Italian- American home,” he told Edge. “Tradition. We lived in New Ro- chelle in an Italian neighbour- hood. I can still smell the pizza! Roller skating every Friday night
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worth. Ms. Walter drew on vivid child- hood memories to write Ty’s One- ManBand(1980,withillustrations by Margot Tomes), the story of a boy who meets an itinerant dis- abled man who brings joy to oth- erswiththemusichemakesusing a washboard, spoons, a pail and a comb. Her writing in the book, Kirkus Reviews noted, was “filled with rhythms: the sound of the peg- legged man walking, the freight train passing, drumming fingers and stamping feet.” In 1983, singer Lou Rawls read the story aloud during an episode of the PBS se- ries Reading Rainbow. Ms. Walter’s 1986 book, Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World (with illustrations by Catherine Stock), about a boy’s relationship with his grandfather, won the Co- retta Scott King Award from the American Library Association. Ms. Walter was a finalist for the prize for Because We Are (1983), Trouble’s Child (1985) and Missis- sippi Challenge (1992), a non-fic- tion book about the struggle for racial justice in the state. Pat Cummings, who illustrated four books with Ms. Walter, in-
at the Boys’ Club. Great memo- ries. We saw bookies and loan sharks.” He enlisted in the Navy during the Vietnam War, then studied drama at Pace University. After The Sopranos – on which he was featured in scattered guest appearances after being killed off in 2000 – he appeared on several reality TV shows, in- cluding Celebrity Apprentice, Ce- lebrity Family Feud and Dancing With the Stars. He branded his own pasta sauce and had a role in the Broadway musical Bullets Over Broadway, Woody Allen’s 2014 stage adaptation of his 1994 film. His marriage to Nancy Berke ended in divorce. He leaves his daughter, Renee Pastore; a grand- daughter; his sister, Sally Molloy; and his brother, John Pastore Jr. In 2005, Mr. Pastore was charged with assaulting his fian- cée, Lisa Regina. He reached a
cludingMyMamaNeedsMe(1983), aboutaboywhohelpstakecareof his baby sister, admired her pas- sion for encouraging children to read and to learn about their his- tory. “Sheadamantlybelievedsocie- ty was still plagued by pervasive racism,” Mr. Cummings wrote in an e-mail, “but her stories were never heavy-handed or tried to preach to kids.” Mildred Pitts was born Sept. 9, 1922, at a logging camp in Sweet- ville,La.Herfather,PaulPitts,was a migrant sawmill worker, and her mother, Mary (Ward) Pitts, was a beautician and midwife. In her memoir, Ms. Walter re- calledthepainandhumiliationof growing up in segregated Louisia- na, where drunken white men would knock on her family’s door late at night and she had to buy shoes without knowing if they fit because white store owners re- fused to let Black children try them on. The only library in town was off limits to the Black resi- dents. After graduating from high school in 1940, she enrolled at Southern University, in Baton Rouge, La., where she majored in
plea agreement in which he ad- mitted guilt for attempted assault in exchange for 10 days of com- munity service. Even as his public image grew, Mr. Pastore retained his connec- tion to his old Italian-American community in the Bronx and Westchester. He regularly hung out at a social club in Pelham Bay, where the owners hung his pic- ture after he joined The Sopranos. When his character was re- vealed to be a government in- formant, he told The New York Times in 2000, they took down the photo. “To that crew, it doesn’t matter to them that I was only acting on TV,” he said. “A rat is a rat is a rat.” But after Big Pussy’s death, it went back up. “I’ve been forgiven,” he said. “At least, my picture is back up on the wall.”
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English. Strapped for cash, she would sometimes go hungry for days at a time. She took a year off to work at a shipyard in Vancouv- er, Wash., to earn enough money to finish college, which she did in 1944. After earning her bachelor’s degree,shemovedtoLosAngeles, where she was hired as a salesper- son at a laundry business and then as a clerk for the Los Angeles Unified School District, after be- ing rejected as a teacher. In 1947, she married Earl Wal- ter, a social worker who would be- come the chair of the Los Angeles chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE. She was also active in CORE, and she and her husband were part of an integrated CORE team that tested compliance with the Unruh Civil Rights Act, which the California legislature had enacted in 1959 to ban racial discrimina- tion by businesses, including ho- tels and motels. EarlWalterdiedin1965.Inaddi- tion to her grandson, Walter leav- es a son, Craig; a granddaughter; and four great-grandchildren.
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