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The transatlantic friendship
that has seen Europe and
the United States forge alliances
on everything from defence and
culture to trade and climate
change since the Second World
War seems to be unravelling.
German Chancellor Angela Mer-
kel said as much on Sunday,
after the particularly divisive
Group of Seven meeting in
Taormina, Italy.
Speaking at a political rally in
a Munich beer tent – she is
going into her fourth election –
Ms. Merkel did not mention
Donald Trump by name, but it
was obvious the U.S. President
had triggered her comments
about an emerging U.S.-Europe
rift. “The times in which we can
fully count on others are some-
what over, as I have experi-
enced in the past few days,” she
said. “We Europeans must really
take destiny into our own
hands.”
Brexit – Britain’s exodus from
the European Union – was also
on her mind. “Of course, we
need to have friendly relations
with the U.S. and with the U.K.,
and with other neighbours, in-
cluding Russia,” she said, but
added that “we have to fight for
our own future ourselves.”
Reguly, Page 4
ANALYSIS
Europe-U.S. rift
develops after
a tense,
Trump-filled
G7 summit
................................................................
Priya had 40 egg donor profiles
to choose from. From her
phone in Mississauga, Ont., the
46-year-old scrutinized their
head shots, imagining her own
future child with their features:
Donor 13’s narrow nose, or Donor
26’s large eyes. Earlier in her
exhausting search for an egg
donor, she’d only paid attention
to colouring, but all these women
had glossy black hair and mocha
skin that matched her own, so
she could be pickier now.
A few months after making her
selection, Priya (not her real
name) bought a ticket to India.
She booked time off and, without
telling even her closest friends at
work the real reason for her trip,
she flew 11,000 kilometres to Del-
hi to have a stranger’s fertilized
eggs implanted in her uterus.
Thousands of other Canadians
who are infertile or have same-
sex partners have taken similarly
radical measures. Unlike in the
United States, where would-be
parents can buy eggs from a local
egg donor, in Canada, women
cannot legally sell their eggs. In-
tended parents here must either
find an altruistic donor – typi-
cally, someone they know, al-
though some clinics keep rosters
of volunteers – or look beyond
our borders, if they are willing to
pay. This process would be diffi-
cult enough without the added
challenges of ensuring the eggs
are from a donor who is a racial
match.
Under these circumstances,
most East and South Asians often
do have to purchase eggs from
markets outside Canada, a pro-
cess that can cost upwards of
$20,000, including medical and
travel expenses.
Eggs, Page 14
Egg donor laws force Canadians
seeking racial match to extremes
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DAKSHANA BASCARAMURTY
................................................................
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is
hopeful Pope Francis will heed a
personal call to make a formal
apology to aboriginal survivors of
sexual and physical abuse at
Catholic-run residential schools
during a private audience with
his holiness at the Vatican on
Monday.
Mr. Trudeau will use the one-
on-one meeting in the Apostolic
Palace to request a papal apology
and an “open invitation” for the
pontiff to visit Canada to address
victims of the residential school
system.
“The Prime Minister is using
this opportunity to talk to the
Pope about Indigenous issues
and reconciliation and one of the
things aboriginal communities
want is an apology,” a govern-
ment official said.
Canadian and Vatican officials
have been working behind the
scenes to arrange the meeting,
which officials say is an opportu-
nity for Pope Francis to make
amends for a dark chapter in the
Catholic Church’s attempt to
“Christianize” Canada’s First
Nations, Inuit and Métis people.
In 2015, former prime minister
Stephen Harper met for 10 min-
utes with Pope Frances at the
Vatican and drew his attention to
the troubling findings of the
Truth and Reconciliation Com-
mission, but he stopped short of
inviting him to Canada to apolo-
gize.
Instead, Mr. Harper referred to
a letter sent by his Indigenous
affairs minister that simply not-
ified the Vatican that the com-
mission had spoken to thousands
of residential students and docu-
mented their experiences.
The Truth and Reconciliation
Commission issued 94 recom-
mendations, which Mr. Trudeau
promised to implement as Liber-
al leader. A key recommendation
was a call for a papal apology to
residential school survivors, say-
ing the church-run system
sought to remove Indigenous cul-
ture, identity and language in
what it deplored as “cultural gen-
ocide.”
Apology, Page 3
PM seeks papal apology for residential schools
Trudeau to use one-on-one meeting at Vatican to ask Pope Francis to address Indigenous survivors of Catholic-run institutions
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Complaints mount against
Trans Mountain plan
Kinder Morgan is facing hun-
dreds of fresh objections as it
plots its route for the $7.4-billion
pipeline expansion.
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For Muslims, the holiest month of the year begins
Many of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims marked the start of Ramadan this weekend, a period
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Before new Conservative Leader
Andrew Scheer moves into Stor-
noway, the elegant Ottawa resi-
dence of the head of the Official
Opposition, a few things have to
change.
For one, Mr. Scheer recom-
mends the National Capital Com-
mission – which manages the
government-owned property –
have it kid-proofed for his
expanded brood.
“We told the NCC to take any-
thing of value and either put it
very high up or in storage for a
couple of years,” said Mr. Scheer,
whose five children range in age
from 11
⁄2 to 12 years old. “I hope
they have Scotchgard in the car-
pets.”
It’s the first indication of the
new reality for the Conservative
Party – and for Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau, too.
Young, family oriented and
friendly, Mr. Scheer was the sur-
prise winner in his party’s leader-
ship event on the weekend,
beating out front-runner Maxime
Bernier in 13 rounds by a margin
of 51 per cent to 49 per cent.
In the end, the well-liked 38-
year-old was seen as the best
choice to unite the party in all its
factions – especially social Con-
servatives, who helped propel
him to power.
Now, Mr. Trudeau, who is 45
with three kids, is facing his first
permanent foe in the run-up to
the 2019 election.
“I think he’s a perfect foil to
Justin Trudeau. He’s young, yet
experienced. He has a great, pos-
itive image. Photogenic. Yet also
has a lot of substance,” Conser-
vative Senator Denise Batters
said.
Scheer, Page 6
Scheer ready for ‘huge job’
of selling Tories – and himself
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LAURA STONE
DANIEL LEBLANC TORONTO
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EUROPEAN BUREAU CHIEF
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Halt to LNG project dims
Canada’s export hopes
Malaysia’s Petronas has cancelled
plans for an $11.4-billion liquefied
natural gas terminal on the B.C. coast,
dealing a major blow to Canada’s
hopes of becoming a global LNG
supplier. The move to scrap the Pa-
cific NorthWest LNG plant, which
had been slated for Lelu Island near
Prince Rupert, comes after five years
of study and debate among politi-
cians, environmentalists and First
Nations. During the period, LNG pric-
es fell sharply as other countries such
as Australia and the United States
started up multibillion-dollar facili-
ties and demand weakened.
Petronas and its partners have
spent $400-million in preparation at
the site and an average of $2-billion a
year drilling for natural gas on lands
in northeastern B.C. acquired when
Petronas bought Progress Energy
Canada Ltd. for more than $5.5-billion
in 2012. The overall project, including
a pipeline, was expected to eventu-
ally cost $36-billion.
Nonetheless, board chairman Anu-
ar Taib ruled out any chance that the
project would ever be revived. “For us
the Pacific NorthWest LNG venture
has ended,” he told reporters.
LNG exports have long been a hot-
button issue in British Columbia and
doubts have dogged would-be devel-
opers. Former Liberal premier Christy
Clark had held it up as a cornerstone
of the province’s economic future, at
one time promising three operating
plants by 2020.
British Columbia’s new NDP ener-
gy minister Michelle Mungall said her
government respects the company’s
decision and will pivot to encourage
other LNG prospects. The NDP, which
during the spring election campaign
criticized Liberal enthusiasm for the
sector, said it seeks job-creation pros-
pects in LNG as long as it meets envi-
ronmental and other standards.
LNG, A12
Citing market conditions,
Petronas chairman rules
out possibility of reviving
Pacific NorthWest venture
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Canada lags on
biodiversity pledge
The country ranks far behind G7
counterparts and other industrialized
nations in meeting commitments
to protect its lands and fresh waters,
report says, with only three years left
to fulfill UN Convention
Canada is behind the world’s other economic leaders
when it comes to protecting its lands and fresh waters
and is well off pace of meeting the international com-
mitment it made seven years ago to nearly double the
size of its protected regions by 2020, according to a
new national study.
The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society’s
(CPAWS) annual report takes a hard look at how
far Canada has gone toward complying with its ob-
ligations under the United Nations Convention on
Biodiversity, which was signed by the previous Con-
servative government and aims to halt widespread
biodiversity loss. The results suggest this country is
an environmental laggard.
Canada has 20 per cent of the Earth’s forests and
24 per cent of its wetlands, but has done far less than
many other countries when
it comes to putting areas be-
yond the reach of develop-
ment, according to the study
to be released Monday.
Protection of lands and wa-
ters is critical for our survival,
said Éric Hébert-Daly, CPAWS’s
national executive director.
“We’re a part of nature
and, if nature is not protected
around us, things like clean water and clean air and
things we rely on for the survival of the human spe-
cies, as well as every other species on Earth, is under-
mined,” Mr. Hébert-Daly said. “So protected areas are
the linchpin in our survival and the survival of the
planet.”
In 2010, when 9.6 per cent of its lands and fresh wa-
ters were protected, Canada agreed to meet the inter-
national target of protecting 17 per cent of its territory
within a decade.
But, with just three years left to go before that
deadline, the amount of land and water protected has
climbed by just one percentage point, to 10.6 per cent,
the report says.
BIODIVERSITY, A12
10.6%Percentage of lands
and fresh waters
protected in Canada,
the lowest rate
among G7 countries
A health summit will be held this fall
in the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, a col-
lection of remote Northern Ontario
reserves beset by a youth suicide cri-
sis and a perpetual lack of decent
medical care.
Ottawa and the Ontario govern-
ment announced that each will con-
tribute $150,000 to the summit after
federal Health Minister Jane Philpott,
Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins
and Alvin Fiddler, the grand chief of
the Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN),
met on Monday to discuss long-term
plans for a “transformation” of the
health system in NAN communities.
The trio signed a five-page “char-
ter of relationship principles,” that is
intended to eventually give First Na-
tions control over how health care
is delivered in the territory, which is
home to about 45,000 people spread
over 49 communities.
They also agreed on an emergency
action plan for Pikangikum, a fly-in
reserve near the Manitoba border
where four young people, including
a pair of sisters, have taken their own
lives this month.
The plan could see the Department
of National Defence erect tents or oth-
er pop-up facilities to accommodate
the hundreds of people seeking men-
tal-health support in the community
ofabout2,800people,Mr.Fiddlersaid.
“One of the things [front-line
workers] keep saying over and over
again is the need for safe space in the
community for counselling to hap-
pen,” Mr. Fiddler said in an interview
after the meeting. “That’s something
that the federal government is pre-
pared to address through the Depart-
ment of Defence to ensure that they
build space in the community for that
work to happen.”
Dr. Hoskins said Sunday that his
government planned to dispatch an
additional 20 counsellors to Pikangi-
kum at a cost $1.6-million.
SUMMIT, A12
KELLY GRANT
Summit to be held for First Nation suicide crisis
T
wo-and-a-half hours before Sunday’s latest disaster against the Astros, Blue Jays fans
were lined up for blocks waiting to get in. It was Aaron Sanchez bobblehead day.
Though the game was a casual encounter between a very good baseball team and
a pretty bad one, more than 46,000 people showed up – a sell-out. When Houston
began laying an ugly beating on Toronto in the second inning, no one booed. Everybody stuck
around when it truly got out of hand in the sixth. They cheered a ninth-inning Toronto home run
like it actually mattered. Many were still wedged in their seats when it ended. The final score was
19-1. It was one out from being the biggest shutout loss in Jays’ franchise history. SPORTS
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The transatlantic friendship
that has seen Europe and
the United States forge alliances
on everything from defence and
culture to trade and climate
change since the Second World
War seems to be unravelling.
German Chancellor Angela Mer-
kel said as much on Sunday,
after the particularly divisive
Group of Seven meeting in
Taormina, Italy.
Speaking at a political rally in
a Munich beer tent – she is
going into her fourth election –
Ms. Merkel did not mention
Donald Trump by name, but it
was obvious the U.S. President
had triggered her comments
about an emerging U.S.-Europe
rift. “The times in which we can
fully count on others are some-
what over, as I have experi-
enced in the past few days,” she
said. “We Europeans must really
take destiny into our own
hands.”
Brexit – Britain’s exodus from
the European Union – was also
on her mind. “Of course, we
need to have friendly relations
with the U.S. and with the U.K.,
and with other neighbours, in-
cluding Russia,” she said, but
added that “we have to fight for
our own future ourselves.”
Reguly, Page 4
ANALYSIS
Europe-U.S. rift
develops after
a tense,
Trump-filled
G7 summit
................................................................
Priya had 40 egg donor profiles
to choose from. From her
phone in Mississauga, Ont., the
46-year-old scrutinized their
head shots, imagining her own
future child with their features:
Donor 13’s narrow nose, or Donor
26’s large eyes. Earlier in her
exhausting search for an egg
donor, she’d only paid attention
to colouring, but all these women
had glossy black hair and mocha
skin that matched her own, so
she could be pickier now.
A few months after making her
selection, Priya (not her real
name) bought a ticket to India.
She booked time off and, without
telling even her closest friends at
work the real reason for her trip,
she flew 11,000 kilometres to Del-
hi to have a stranger’s fertilized
eggs implanted in her uterus.
Thousands of other Canadians
who are infertile or have same-
sex partners have taken similarly
radical measures. Unlike in the
United States, where would-be
parents can buy eggs from a local
egg donor, in Canada, women
cannot legally sell their eggs. In-
tended parents here must either
find an altruistic donor – typi-
cally, someone they know, al-
though some clinics keep rosters
of volunteers – or look beyond
our borders, if they are willing to
pay. This process would be diffi-
cult enough without the added
challenges of ensuring the eggs
are from a donor who is a racial
match.
Under these circumstances,
most East and South Asians often
do have to purchase eggs from
markets outside Canada, a pro-
cess that can cost upwards of
$20,000, including medical and
travel expenses.
Eggs, Page 14
Egg donor laws force Canadians
seeking racial match to extremes
.....................................................................................................................................
DAKSHANA BASCARAMURTY
................................................................
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is
hopeful Pope Francis will heed a
personal call to make a formal
apology to aboriginal survivors of
sexual and physical abuse at
Catholic-run residential schools
during a private audience with
his holiness at the Vatican on
Monday.
Mr. Trudeau will use the one-
on-one meeting in the Apostolic
Palace to request a papal apology
and an “open invitation” for the
pontiff to visit Canada to address
victims of the residential school
system.
“The Prime Minister is using
this opportunity to talk to the
Pope about Indigenous issues
and reconciliation and one of the
things aboriginal communities
want is an apology,” a govern-
ment official said.
Canadian and Vatican officials
have been working behind the
scenes to arrange the meeting,
which officials say is an opportu-
nity for Pope Francis to make
amends for a dark chapter in the
Catholic Church’s attempt to
“Christianize” Canada’s First
Nations, Inuit and Métis people.
In 2015, former prime minister
Stephen Harper met for 10 min-
utes with Pope Frances at the
Vatican and drew his attention to
the troubling findings of the
Truth and Reconciliation Com-
mission, but he stopped short of
inviting him to Canada to apolo-
gize.
Instead, Mr. Harper referred to
a letter sent by his Indigenous
affairs minister that simply not-
ified the Vatican that the com-
mission had spoken to thousands
of residential students and docu-
mented their experiences.
The Truth and Reconciliation
Commission issued 94 recom-
mendations, which Mr. Trudeau
promised to implement as Liber-
al leader. A key recommendation
was a call for a papal apology to
residential school survivors, say-
ing the church-run system
sought to remove Indigenous cul-
ture, identity and language in
what it deplored as “cultural gen-
ocide.”
Apology, Page 3
PM seeks papal apology for residential schools
Trudeau to use one-on-one meeting at Vatican to ask Pope Francis to address Indigenous survivors of Catholic-run institutions
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Many of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims marked the start of Ramadan this weekend, a period
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Before new Conservative Leader
Andrew Scheer moves into Stor-
noway, the elegant Ottawa resi-
dence of the head of the Official
Opposition, a few things have to
change.
For one, Mr. Scheer recom-
mends the National Capital Com-
mission – which manages the
government-owned property –
have it kid-proofed for his
expanded brood.
“We told the NCC to take any-
thing of value and either put it
very high up or in storage for a
couple of years,” said Mr. Scheer,
whose five children range in age
from 11
⁄2 to 12 years old. “I hope
they have Scotchgard in the car-
pets.”
It’s the first indication of the
new reality for the Conservative
Party – and for Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau, too.
Young, family oriented and
friendly, Mr. Scheer was the sur-
prise winner in his party’s leader-
ship event on the weekend,
beating out front-runner Maxime
Bernier in 13 rounds by a margin
of 51 per cent to 49 per cent.
In the end, the well-liked 38-
year-old was seen as the best
choice to unite the party in all its
factions – especially social Con-
servatives, who helped propel
him to power.
Now, Mr. Trudeau, who is 45
with three kids, is facing his first
permanent foe in the run-up to
the 2019 election.
“I think he’s a perfect foil to
Justin Trudeau. He’s young, yet
experienced. He has a great, pos-
itive image. Photogenic. Yet also
has a lot of substance,” Conser-
vative Senator Denise Batters
said.
Scheer, Page 6
Scheer ready for ‘huge job’
of selling Tories – and himself
.....................................................................................................................................
LAURA STONE
DANIEL LEBLANC TORONTO
................................................................
ERIC REGULY
EUROPEAN BUREAU CHIEF
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Halt to LNG project dims
Canada’s export hopes
Malaysia’s Petronas has cancelled
plans for an $11.4-billion liquefied
natural gas terminal on the B.C. coast,
dealing a major blow to Canada’s
hopes of becoming a global LNG
supplier. The move to scrap the Pa-
cific NorthWest LNG plant, which
had been slated for Lelu Island near
Prince Rupert, comes after five years
of study and debate among politi-
cians, environmentalists and First
Nations. During the period, LNG pric-
es fell sharply as other countries such
as Australia and the United States
started up multibillion-dollar facili-
ties and demand weakened.
Petronas and its partners have
spent $400-million in preparation at
the site and an average of $2-billion a
year drilling for natural gas on lands
in northeastern B.C. acquired when
Petronas bought Progress Energy
Canada Ltd. for more than $5.5-billion
in 2012. The overall project, including
a pipeline, was expected to eventu-
ally cost $36-billion.
Nonetheless, board chairman Anu-
ar Taib ruled out any chance that the
project would ever be revived. “For us
the Pacific NorthWest LNG venture
has ended,” he told reporters.
LNG exports have long been a hot-
button issue in British Columbia and
doubts have dogged would-be devel-
opers. Former Liberal premier Christy
Clark had held it up as a cornerstone
of the province’s economic future, at
one time promising three operating
plants by 2020.
British Columbia’s new NDP ener-
gy minister Michelle Mungall said her
government respects the company’s
decision and will pivot to encourage
other LNG prospects. The NDP, which
during the spring election campaign
criticized Liberal enthusiasm for the
sector, said it seeks job-creation pros-
pects in LNG as long as it meets envi-
ronmental and other standards.
LNG, A12
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Petronas chairman rules
out possibility of reviving
Pacific NorthWest venture
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WEATHER, PUZZLES, BRIDGE ......... A17
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Canada lags on
biodiversity pledge
The country ranks far behind G7
counterparts and other industrialized
nations in meeting commitments
to protect its lands and fresh waters,
report says, with only three years left
to fulfill UN Convention
Canada is behind the world’s other economic leaders
when it comes to protecting its lands and fresh waters
and is well off pace of meeting the international com-
mitment it made seven years ago to nearly double the
size of its protected regions by 2020, according to a
new national study.
The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society’s
(CPAWS) annual report takes a hard look at how
far Canada has gone toward complying with its ob-
ligations under the United Nations Convention on
Biodiversity, which was signed by the previous Con-
servative government and aims to halt widespread
biodiversity loss. The results suggest this country is
an environmental laggard.
Canada has 20 per cent of the Earth’s forests and
24 per cent of its wetlands, but has done far less than
many other countries when
it comes to putting areas be-
yond the reach of develop-
ment, according to the study
to be released Monday.
Protection of lands and wa-
ters is critical for our survival,
said Éric Hébert-Daly, CPAWS’s
national executive director.
“We’re a part of nature
and, if nature is not protected
around us, things like clean water and clean air and
things we rely on for the survival of the human spe-
cies, as well as every other species on Earth, is under-
mined,” Mr. Hébert-Daly said. “So protected areas are
the linchpin in our survival and the survival of the
planet.”
In 2010, when 9.6 per cent of its lands and fresh wa-
ters were protected, Canada agreed to meet the inter-
national target of protecting 17 per cent of its territory
within a decade.
But, with just three years left to go before that
deadline, the amount of land and water protected has
climbed by just one percentage point, to 10.6 per cent,
the report says.
BIODIVERSITY, A12
10.6%Percentage of lands
and fresh waters
protected in Canada,
the lowest rate
among G7 countries
A health summit will be held this fall
in the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, a col-
lection of remote Northern Ontario
reserves beset by a youth suicide cri-
sis and a perpetual lack of decent
medical care.
Ottawa and the Ontario govern-
ment announced that each will con-
tribute $150,000 to the summit after
federal Health Minister Jane Philpott,
Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins
and Alvin Fiddler, the grand chief of
the Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN),
met on Monday to discuss long-term
plans for a “transformation” of the
health system in NAN communities.
The trio signed a five-page “char-
ter of relationship principles,” that is
intended to eventually give First Na-
tions control over how health care
is delivered in the territory, which is
home to about 45,000 people spread
over 49 communities.
They also agreed on an emergency
action plan for Pikangikum, a fly-in
reserve near the Manitoba border
where four young people, including
a pair of sisters, have taken their own
lives this month.
The plan could see the Department
of National Defence erect tents or oth-
er pop-up facilities to accommodate
the hundreds of people seeking men-
tal-health support in the community
ofabout2,800people,Mr.Fiddlersaid.
“One of the things [front-line
workers] keep saying over and over
again is the need for safe space in the
community for counselling to hap-
pen,” Mr. Fiddler said in an interview
after the meeting. “That’s something
that the federal government is pre-
pared to address through the Depart-
ment of Defence to ensure that they
build space in the community for that
work to happen.”
Dr. Hoskins said Sunday that his
government planned to dispatch an
additional 20 counsellors to Pikangi-
kum at a cost $1.6-million.
SUMMIT, A12
KELLY GRANT
Summit to be held for First Nation suicide crisis
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wo-and-a-half hours before Sunday’s latest disaster against the Astros, Blue Jays fans
were lined up for blocks waiting to get in. It was Aaron Sanchez bobblehead day.
Though the game was a casual encounter between a very good baseball team and
a pretty bad one, more than 46,000 people showed up – a sell-out. When Houston
began laying an ugly beating on Toronto in the second inning, no one booed. Everybody stuck
around when it truly got out of hand in the sixth. They cheered a ninth-inning Toronto home run
like it actually mattered. Many were still wedged in their seats when it ended. The final score was
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The transatlantic friendship
that has seen Europe and
the United States forge alliances
on everything from defence and
culture to trade and climate
change since the Second World
War seems to be unravelling.
German Chancellor Angela Mer-
kel said as much on Sunday,
after the particularly divisive
Group of Seven meeting in
Taormina, Italy.
Speaking at a political rally in
a Munich beer tent – she is
going into her fourth election –
Ms. Merkel did not mention
Donald Trump by name, but it
was obvious the U.S. President
had triggered her comments
about an emerging U.S.-Europe
rift. “The times in which we can
fully count on others are some-
what over, as I have experi-
enced in the past few days,” she
said. “We Europeans must really
take destiny into our own
hands.”
Brexit – Britain’s exodus from
the European Union – was also
on her mind. “Of course, we
need to have friendly relations
with the U.S. and with the U.K.,
and with other neighbours, in-
cluding Russia,” she said, but
added that “we have to fight for
our own future ourselves.”
Reguly, Page 4
ANALYSIS
Europe-U.S. rift
develops after
a tense,
Trump-filled
G7 summit
................................................................
Priya had 40 egg donor profiles
to choose from. From her
phone in Mississauga, Ont., the
46-year-old scrutinized their
head shots, imagining her own
future child with their features:
Donor 13’s narrow nose, or Donor
26’s large eyes. Earlier in her
exhausting search for an egg
donor, she’d only paid attention
to colouring, but all these women
had glossy black hair and mocha
skin that matched her own, so
she could be pickier now.
A few months after making her
selection, Priya (not her real
name) bought a ticket to India.
She booked time off and, without
telling even her closest friends at
work the real reason for her trip,
she flew 11,000 kilometres to Del-
hi to have a stranger’s fertilized
eggs implanted in her uterus.
Thousands of other Canadians
who are infertile or have same-
sex partners have taken similarly
radical measures. Unlike in the
United States, where would-be
parents can buy eggs from a local
egg donor, in Canada, women
cannot legally sell their eggs. In-
tended parents here must either
find an altruistic donor – typi-
cally, someone they know, al-
though some clinics keep rosters
of volunteers – or look beyond
our borders, if they are willing to
pay. This process would be diffi-
cult enough without the added
challenges of ensuring the eggs
are from a donor who is a racial
match.
Under these circumstances,
most East and South Asians often
do have to purchase eggs from
markets outside Canada, a pro-
cess that can cost upwards of
$20,000, including medical and
travel expenses.
Eggs, Page 14
Egg donor laws force Canadians
seeking racial match to extremes
.....................................................................................................................................
DAKSHANA BASCARAMURTY
................................................................
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is
hopeful Pope Francis will heed a
personal call to make a formal
apology to aboriginal survivors of
sexual and physical abuse at
Catholic-run residential schools
during a private audience with
his holiness at the Vatican on
Monday.
Mr. Trudeau will use the one-
on-one meeting in the Apostolic
Palace to request a papal apology
and an “open invitation” for the
pontiff to visit Canada to address
victims of the residential school
system.
“The Prime Minister is using
this opportunity to talk to the
Pope about Indigenous issues
and reconciliation and one of the
things aboriginal communities
want is an apology,” a govern-
ment official said.
Canadian and Vatican officials
have been working behind the
scenes to arrange the meeting,
which officials say is an opportu-
nity for Pope Francis to make
amends for a dark chapter in the
Catholic Church’s attempt to
“Christianize” Canada’s First
Nations, Inuit and Métis people.
In 2015, former prime minister
Stephen Harper met for 10 min-
utes with Pope Frances at the
Vatican and drew his attention to
the troubling findings of the
Truth and Reconciliation Com-
mission, but he stopped short of
inviting him to Canada to apolo-
gize.
Instead, Mr. Harper referred to
a letter sent by his Indigenous
affairs minister that simply not-
ified the Vatican that the com-
mission had spoken to thousands
of residential students and docu-
mented their experiences.
The Truth and Reconciliation
Commission issued 94 recom-
mendations, which Mr. Trudeau
promised to implement as Liber-
al leader. A key recommendation
was a call for a papal apology to
residential school survivors, say-
ing the church-run system
sought to remove Indigenous cul-
ture, identity and language in
what it deplored as “cultural gen-
ocide.”
Apology, Page 3
PM seeks papal apology for residential schools
Trudeau to use one-on-one meeting at Vatican to ask Pope Francis to address Indigenous survivors of Catholic-run institutions
.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
ROBERT FIFE
OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF
ROME
................................................................
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Complaints mount against
Trans Mountain plan
Kinder Morgan is facing hun-
dreds of fresh objections as it
plots its route for the $7.4-billion
pipeline expansion.
Report on Business
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Sato wins Indy 500
Takuma Sato has won the
Indianapolis 500, giving car
owner Michael Andretti another
Indy win.
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For Muslims, the holiest month of the year begins
Many of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims marked the start of Ramadan this weekend, a period
of fasting and religous devotion that encourages reflection and compassion for those less fortunate
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A man prays prior to breaking fast on the first day of Ramadan at a camp for the displaced in Iraq. KARIM SAHIB/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Before new Conservative Leader
Andrew Scheer moves into Stor-
noway, the elegant Ottawa resi-
dence of the head of the Official
Opposition, a few things have to
change.
For one, Mr. Scheer recom-
mends the National Capital Com-
mission – which manages the
government-owned property –
have it kid-proofed for his
expanded brood.
“We told the NCC to take any-
thing of value and either put it
very high up or in storage for a
couple of years,” said Mr. Scheer,
whose five children range in age
from 11
⁄2 to 12 years old. “I hope
they have Scotchgard in the car-
pets.”
It’s the first indication of the
new reality for the Conservative
Party – and for Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau, too.
Young, family oriented and
friendly, Mr. Scheer was the sur-
prise winner in his party’s leader-
ship event on the weekend,
beating out front-runner Maxime
Bernier in 13 rounds by a margin
of 51 per cent to 49 per cent.
In the end, the well-liked 38-
year-old was seen as the best
choice to unite the party in all its
factions – especially social Con-
servatives, who helped propel
him to power.
Now, Mr. Trudeau, who is 45
with three kids, is facing his first
permanent foe in the run-up to
the 2019 election.
“I think he’s a perfect foil to
Justin Trudeau. He’s young, yet
experienced. He has a great, pos-
itive image. Photogenic. Yet also
has a lot of substance,” Conser-
vative Senator Denise Batters
said.
Scheer, Page 6
Scheer ready for ‘huge job’
of selling Tories – and himself
.....................................................................................................................................
LAURA STONE
DANIEL LEBLANC TORONTO
................................................................
ERIC REGULY
EUROPEAN BUREAU CHIEF
TAORMINA, ITALY
................................................................
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Halt to LNG project dims
Canada’s export hopes
Malaysia’s Petronas has cancelled
plans for an $11.4-billion liquefied
natural gas terminal on the B.C. coast,
dealing a major blow to Canada’s
hopes of becoming a global LNG
supplier. The move to scrap the Pa-
cific NorthWest LNG plant, which
had been slated for Lelu Island near
Prince Rupert, comes after five years
of study and debate among politi-
cians, environmentalists and First
Nations. During the period, LNG pric-
es fell sharply as other countries such
as Australia and the United States
started up multibillion-dollar facili-
ties and demand weakened.
Petronas and its partners have
spent $400-million in preparation at
the site and an average of $2-billion a
year drilling for natural gas on lands
in northeastern B.C. acquired when
Petronas bought Progress Energy
Canada Ltd. for more than $5.5-billion
in 2012. The overall project, including
a pipeline, was expected to eventu-
ally cost $36-billion.
Nonetheless, board chairman Anu-
ar Taib ruled out any chance that the
project would ever be revived. “For us
the Pacific NorthWest LNG venture
has ended,” he told reporters.
LNG exports have long been a hot-
button issue in British Columbia and
doubts have dogged would-be devel-
opers. Former Liberal premier Christy
Clark had held it up as a cornerstone
of the province’s economic future, at
one time promising three operating
plants by 2020.
British Columbia’s new NDP ener-
gy minister Michelle Mungall said her
government respects the company’s
decision and will pivot to encourage
other LNG prospects. The NDP, which
during the spring election campaign
criticized Liberal enthusiasm for the
sector, said it seeks job-creation pros-
pects in LNG as long as it meets envi-
ronmental and other standards.
LNG, A12
Citing market conditions,
Petronas chairman rules
out possibility of reviving
Pacific NorthWest venture
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in B.C. Interior as large
wildfires grow THE BIG READ, A8-9
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THE BIG READ ....................... A8-9
EDITORIAL & LETTERS................. A11
DETOUR: TRAVEL ..................... A13
THE ESSAY ............................ A15
WEATHER, PUZZLES, BRIDGE ......... A17
U.S. POLITICS ......................... A3-4
KEYSTONE XL ........................... A6
OPIOD CRISIS ............................ A7
B.C. WILDFIRES ......................... A8-9
HEALTH................................. A18
TOPICS SECTION A
STREETWISE ........................... B2
NAFTA:OPINION.......................... B3
PROPERTY REPORT ...................... B6
AGATE ................................. B17
GLOBE SPORTS ......................... B11
OBITUARIES ............................ B16
SECTION B
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Canada lags on
biodiversity pledge
The country ranks far behind G7
counterparts and other industrialized
nations in meeting commitments
to protect its lands and fresh waters,
report says, with only three years left
to fulfill UN Convention
Canada is behind the world’s other economic leaders
when it comes to protecting its lands and fresh waters
and is well off pace of meeting the international com-
mitment it made seven years ago to nearly double the
size of its protected regions by 2020, according to a
new national study.
The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society’s
(CPAWS) annual report takes a hard look at how
far Canada has gone toward complying with its ob-
ligations under the United Nations Convention on
Biodiversity, which was signed by the previous Con-
servative government and aims to halt widespread
biodiversity loss. The results suggest this country is
an environmental laggard.
Canada has 20 per cent of the Earth’s forests and
24 per cent of its wetlands, but has done far less than
many other countries when
it comes to putting areas be-
yond the reach of develop-
ment, according to the study
to be released Monday.
Protection of lands and wa-
ters is critical for our survival,
said Éric Hébert-Daly, CPAWS’s
national executive director.
“We’re a part of nature
and, if nature is not protected
around us, things like clean water and clean air and
things we rely on for the survival of the human spe-
cies, as well as every other species on Earth, is under-
mined,” Mr. Hébert-Daly said. “So protected areas are
the linchpin in our survival and the survival of the
planet.”
In 2010, when 9.6 per cent of its lands and fresh wa-
ters were protected, Canada agreed to meet the inter-
national target of protecting 17 per cent of its territory
within a decade.
But, with just three years left to go before that
deadline, the amount of land and water protected has
climbed by just one percentage point, to 10.6 per cent,
the report says.
BIODIVERSITY, A12
10.6%Percentage of lands
and fresh waters
protected in Canada,
the lowest rate
among G7 countries
A health summit will be held this fall
in the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, a col-
lection of remote Northern Ontario
reserves beset by a youth suicide cri-
sis and a perpetual lack of decent
medical care.
Ottawa and the Ontario govern-
ment announced that each will con-
tribute $150,000 to the summit after
federal Health Minister Jane Philpott,
Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins
and Alvin Fiddler, the grand chief of
the Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN),
met on Monday to discuss long-term
plans for a “transformation” of the
health system in NAN communities.
The trio signed a five-page “char-
ter of relationship principles,” that is
intended to eventually give First Na-
tions control over how health care
is delivered in the territory, which is
home to about 45,000 people spread
over 49 communities.
They also agreed on an emergency
action plan for Pikangikum, a fly-in
reserve near the Manitoba border
where four young people, including
a pair of sisters, have taken their own
lives this month.
The plan could see the Department
of National Defence erect tents or oth-
er pop-up facilities to accommodate
the hundreds of people seeking men-
tal-health support in the community
ofabout2,800people,Mr.Fiddlersaid.
“One of the things [front-line
workers] keep saying over and over
again is the need for safe space in the
community for counselling to hap-
pen,” Mr. Fiddler said in an interview
after the meeting. “That’s something
that the federal government is pre-
pared to address through the Depart-
ment of Defence to ensure that they
build space in the community for that
work to happen.”
Dr. Hoskins said Sunday that his
government planned to dispatch an
additional 20 counsellors to Pikangi-
kum at a cost $1.6-million.
SUMMIT, A12
KELLY GRANT
Summit to be held for First Nation suicide crisis
T
wo-and-a-half hours before Sunday’s latest disaster against the Astros, Blue Jays fans
were lined up for blocks waiting to get in. It was Aaron Sanchez bobblehead day.
Though the game was a casual encounter between a very good baseball team and
a pretty bad one, more than 46,000 people showed up – a sell-out. When Houston
began laying an ugly beating on Toronto in the second inning, no one booed. Everybody stuck
around when it truly got out of hand in the sixth. They cheered a ninth-inning Toronto home run
like it actually mattered. Many were still wedged in their seats when it ended. The final score was
19-1. It was one out from being the biggest shutout loss in Jays’ franchise history. SPORTS
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The company that owns the
Weather Network is getting into
a new type of forecasting: using
data about who is looking at its
media properties – and what
they’ve been up to online – to
help advertisers predict the best
way to reach potential custom-
ers.
Oakville-based Pelmorex Corp.
on Tuesday said it had pur-
chased Toronto-based Addictive
Mobility, a “mobile-first” data-
management and automated
media-buying platform touted as
the largest company of its kind
in Canada, with 50 employees.
Terms were not disclosed.
Pelmorex president and CEO
Sam Sebastian – formerly head
of Google’s Canadian operations
– said Addictive is “not a mas-
sive acquisition” in terms of the
price. But he added “it is an in-
credibly strategic one” as Addic-
tive’s platform will allow
Pelmorex’s online weather-infor-
mation channels and websites,
including Eltiempo in Spain and
MétéoMedia for French-speaking
Canadians, to more effectively
manage digital advertising ef-
forts online and collect data to
better inform campaigns by its
advertisers.
Addictive, launched in 2010
when mobile advertising was in
its infancy, uses a mobile-data-
management software platform
called Constellation that can
track behavioural patterns asso-
ciated with particular smart-
phones to identify, track and
build mobile audiences for
advertisers, according to its web-
site. Using machine-learning arti-
ficial-intelligence algorithms, its
software can analyze how smart-
phone users interact with digital
advertisements, assess their
mobile Web behaviour and track
what locations they visit
throughout the day. “This, in
combination with device ID
data, enables us to reach the
right person, at the right place,
with the right message,” Addic-
tive says on its website. The
company was recently ranked as
one of the fastest-growing firms
in Canada, and earlier this year
it hired La Presse’s former man-
aging director of operations and
production, Shannan LaMorre,
to serve as its vice-president of
operations.
The Big Brother-like precision
targeting effectiveness of mobile
advertising may still be a shock
to many consumers, but is fa-
miliar to Internet giants such as
Google and Facebook, which
now dominate online advertis-
ing. “I understand how Google
and Facebook were the only
game in town,” Mr. Sebastian
said, citing his own experience
at Google. “I just don’t think
that’s healthy over time. …We
have a good opportunity to be
the next best local alternative
for [online and mobile] advertis-
ing.”
Over its 28 years, Pelmorex has
transformed from a pay-TV pro-
vider of weather information to
an increasingly online business,
generating upward of 70 per
cent of its $100-million-plus in
revenue from Web and mobile
platforms. The company, which
has started using its troves of
weather data to help advertisers
craft and launch time-sensitive
campaigns, expects the share of
its mobile business to climb fur-
ther with the broad adoption of
artificial-intelligence-enabled
voice-based searches.
With its online shift, the com-
pany has started defining itself
as the next most relevant adver-
tising platform for advertisers
after Facebook and Google, given
the high traffic it gets in its core
markets of Canada and Spain
from people looking for the lat-
est weather information. Accord-
ing to comScore, Pelmorex’s
mobile apps were the fourth
most visited in Canada in
August by Canadians aged 25 to
54, trailing only Google, Face-
book and Apple.
Pelmorex also has operations
in India and Britain and has
been eyeing further global
expansion opportunities.
Weather Network owner buys tech startup
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SEAN SILCOFF OTTAWA
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Creative Destruction
Lab takes a bite
out of Big Apple
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The Creative Destruction Lab is
opening its first program outside
Canada in partnership with New
York University’s Stern School of
Business.
The New York program, an off-
shoot of the acclaimed tech start-
up assistance program based at
University of Toronto’s Rotman
School of Management, will
begin next September, admitting
25 ventures for its first nine-
month program.
“Our model for developing
massively scalable science-based
ventures has proved successful in
Canada … and we anticipate it
will be similarly successful for
our partners at NYU,” said CDL
founder Ajay Agrawal, an entre-
preneurship professor at Rotman.
CDL has been on an expansion
tear this year, opening satellite
programs in Vancouver, Calgary,
Montreal and Halifax in partner-
ship with business schools in
each centre. It has also launched
a University of Toronto-based off-
shoot focused on creating firms
that specialize in artificial intel-
ligence “machine learning,” using
powerful Canadian-made quan-
tum computers.
CDL differs from incubators
and accelerator programs that
typically offer home and mentor-
ing to startups in exchange for
equity. Companies that have
gone through the CDL, including
Waterloo’s Thalmic Labs, San
Francisco-based Atomwise and
Toronto’s Deep Genomics, have
been valued in subsequent
financings from venture investors
at more than $1-billion in total.
Instead, cohorts of 25 compan-
ies start the CDL program by
meeting with accomplished
entrepreneurs and investors who
assign each firm three objectives
that they must meet within eight
weeks.
If startups don’t meet their
objectives or fail to convince
mentors that they can scale into
giants, they are voted out. If they
make it, they get three more
objectives. Fewer than half finish.
Those that do, often raise funds
from the mentors – and from Sil-
icon Valley investors who attend
CDL sessions.
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Sean Silcoff
Honeywell International Inc. said
on Tuesday it will pare its focus to
four business lines, including
aerospace, and spin off two busi-
nesses with $7.5-billion (U.S.) in
revenue to help fund acquisitions.
The reorganization, which
reduces revenue by about 18 per
cent, will simplify Honeywell’s
broad portfolio, boost growth and
give shareholders a tax-free bene-
fit from the new companies,
Honeywell chief executive officer
Darius Adamczyk said on a con-
ference call on Tuesday.
It also gives the diversified man-
ufacturer scope to change its re-
maining portfolio along the lines
sought by hedge fund Third Point
Capital, which agitated for a spin-
off of aerospace. Third Point said
on Tuesday it was pleased with
the changes and backed Mr.
Adamczyk’s leadership, though it
wants him to keep improving the
portfolio. Mr. Adamczyk hinted at
more to come, saying the two
new businesses “can grow at an
accelerated rate.”
The remaining businesses – aer-
ospace, commercial building
products, performance materials
and safety products – are candi-
dates for more acquisitions, he
added.
“I’m very excited about M&A in
all four of our businesses. And I
think these two spins … give me a
lot of different levers to invest our
M&A dollars.”
Analysts praised the moves, but
said Honeywell had more changes
to make and warned that aero-
space, with products ranging
from jet engines to airplane WiFi
systems, may need to merge to
gain the size to compete with
larger rivals.
A spin-off or merger with Gen-
eral Electric Co.’s aerospace unit
would make Honeywell a stron-
ger competitor to United Technol-
ogies and a “more powerful
supplier to Boeing Co. and Airbus
[Group] SE,” Scott Davis, analyst
at Melius Research, wrote in a
note. “That’s a deal worth think-
ing about.”
Mr. Adamczyk played down
such speculation in a later inter-
view with Reuters. “The way we
compete in aerospace is not
through scale,” he said. “We are
going to compete through tech-
nology differentiation.”
Although his comments point-
ed away from a big deal, Honey-
well sought to gain size last year
with a $90.7-billion bid for United
Technologies Corp. under prior
CEO David Cote. Industry experts
say Honeywell’s poor record on
aerospace parts quality and deliv-
ery could hamper its ability to
win new orders.
Honeywell shares ended the day
down 0.2 per cent in New York
trading, after falling 2.3 per cent
initially.
Mr. Adamczyk, like his peers at
other industrial conglomerates,
has been under pressure to reor-
der a portfolio of disparate busi-
nesses that includes automotive
turbo chargers, burglar alarms
and Xtratuf boots popular in
Alaska’s fishing industry.
Third Point had argued since
April that a spin-off of aerospace,
which accounted for about 38 per
cent of revenue in 2016, could
generate $20-billion in sharehold-
er value.
But Mr. Adamczyk took a differ-
ent route, splitting off the home
and ADI global distribution busi-
nesses, wholesale distributors of
security, fire and environmental
systems for homes and commer-
cial buildings, into a public com-
pany that will absorb some of
$554-million in environmental
liabilities.
Honeywell will also spin off a
transportation business that
makes automotive turbo chargers
into a second company that will
absorb some of $1.54-billion in old
asbestos liabilities. The amounts
will be determined later, Mr.
Adamczyk said.
The auto-parts move follows
other companies, including auto
supplier Delphi Automotive PLC,
that are shedding technology tied
to the internal combustion
engine as regulators around the
world crack down on emissions
and talk of mandating a switch to
battery-electric vehicles over the
next two decades.
With about $16-billion in debt,
or 2.5 times operating earnings,
Honeywell has limited scope for
additional borrowing, Dave Berge,
an analyst at Moody’s Investors
Service, said.
Honeywell expects to receive
about $3-billion in dividends
from the spin-offs, adding to its
nearly $10-billion in cash.
That “positions the company to
do meaningful acquisitions,” said
Harsh Acharya, analyst at Dia-
mond Hill Capital Management
Inc. in Ohio.
The spin-offs are not due to
close until the end of 2018, giving
time to work out details – and, as
Mr. Adamczyk noted, to consider
other offers.
“We are leaning towards the
spin route,” he told Reuters. “But
if we get compelling offers, we
would of course consider them.”
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Reuters
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Honeywell (HON)
Close: $143.31 (U.S.), down 29¢
Honeywell to spin off two units, keep aerospace
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ALWYN SCOTT
ARUNIMA BANERJEE NEW YORK
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An aircraft engine is tested at Honeywell Aerospace in Phoenix in 2016. Honeywell announced on Tuesday that it
will focus on four business lines, including aerospace. REUTERS
Pfizer Inc. said on Tuesday it
was considering the sale or spin-
off of its consumer health-care
business, shaking up the indus-
try and potentially putting a
headache pill to lip balm opera-
tion worth some $15-billion
(U.S.) up for grabs.
The move comes as Germany’s
Merck KGaA is also looking to
divest its non-prescription prod-
ucts, including brands such as
Seven Seas vitamins, which
could be worth around $4.5-bill-
ion.
As aging populations and
health-conscious consumers
drive demand for self-medica-
tion, the fragmented consumer-
health sector has proved a fer-
tile ground for deal-making in
recent years.
Although consumer remedies
sold over the counter have low-
er margins than prescription
drugs, they are typically very
long-lasting brands with loyal
customers.
Pfizer’s consumer health-care
business, whose brands include
painkiller Advil and lip balm
Chapstick, had revenue of about
$3.4-billion in 2016.
Industry experts said it could
fetch some four times sales,
implying a potential value of
just less than $14-billion, al-
though two health-care sector
bankers said Pfizer was aiming
for at least $15-billion.
People familiar with the mat-
ter said Swiss food giant Nestlé
could be among those interest-
ed, along with existing manufac-
turers of over-the-counter (OTC)
treatments and private equity
firms.
Pfizer, whose shares were little
changed on Tuesday, said it
would decide on the future of
its consumer unit during 2018.
Reuters first reported last
November that a divestment of
the business was under consid-
eration.
Established consumer-health
companies that may be interest-
ed in the Pfizer assets include
Reckitt Benckiser, Procter &
Gamble, GlaxoSmithKline, John-
son & Johnson and Abbott.
They could be joined by Nes-
tlé, which is exploring the boun-
daries between food and health
care.
Nestlé’s new chief executive,
Mark Schneider, told investors
last month it would keep identi-
fying new opportunities and
that 10 per cent of group sales
could be ripe for portfolio
adjustment.
A second person familiar with
the matter said Pfizer expected
a “broadening” of buyer interest
to include Nestlé.
Bayer and Sanofi may be less
likely to bid, despite their con-
sumer-health presence, given
they are busy absorbing Mon-
santo and Boehringer Inge-
lheim’s consumer business
respectively.
In explaining the thinking
behind the review, Pfizer chief
executive Ian Read said consum-
er health care was connected
but not integral to its core pre-
scription-drug business.
“Although there is a strong
connection between consumer
health care and elements of our
core biopharmaceutical busi-
nesses, it is also distinct enough
from our core business that
there is potential for its value to
be more fully realized outside
the company,” he said.
Options to be considered in-
clude a full or partial separation
through a spin-off, sale or other
transaction. Pfizer may also ulti-
mately decide to keep the busi-
ness.
The Pfizer business includes
two of the 10 top-selling con-
sumer health-care brands glob-
ally in Advil and the
multivitamin line Centrum. It
also has 10 brands that each
exceeded $100-million in 2016
sales.
A Pfizer exit from the consum-
er health business would be one
of its biggest corporate moves
since abandoning a $160-billion
deal to buy Allergan last year.
It also tried and failed to buy
AstraZeneca in 2014.
Since then, there has been
persistent speculation that Pfizer
is scouting for another major
deal, with a bid for cancer spe-
cialist Bristol-Myers Squibb
widely tipped as an option.
However, the first source said
the consumer health-care review
and the amount of cash it
would raise was “irrelevant” to a
possible takeover of Bristol-
Myers, which has a market value
of $105-billion.
Pfizer has hired Centerview
Partners, Guggenheim Securities
and Morgan Stanley as financial
advisers for the review.
Germany’s Merck KGaA had
hired JPMorgan Chase & Co. to
sell its consumer-health busi-
ness.
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Pfizer (PFE)
Close: $36.40 (U.S.), up 26¢
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40. Opinion
B
y now, most of us have heard about Google's so-called "anti-diver-
sity" manifesto and how James Damore, the engineer who wrote it,
has been fired from his job.
Titled Google's Ideological Echo Chamber, Mr. Damore called out the
current PC culture, saying the gender gap in Google's diversity was not due
to discrimination, but inherent differences in what men and women find
interesting. Danielle Brown, Google's newly appointed vice-president for
diversity, integrity and governance, accused the memo of advancing "in-
correct assumptions about gender," and Mr. Damore confirmed last night
he was fired for "perpetuating gender stereotypes."
Despite how it's been portrayed, the memo was fair and factually ac-
curate. Scientific studies have confirmed sex differences in the brain that
lead to differences in our interests and behaviour.
As mentioned in the memo, gendered interests are predicted by expo-
sure to prenatal testosterone – higher levels are associated with a prefer-
ence for mechanically interesting things and occupations in adulthood.
Lower levels are associated with a preference for people-oriented activities
and occupations. This is why STEM (science, technology, engineering and
mathematics) fields tend to be dominated by men.
We see evidence for this in girls with a genetic condition called con-
genital adrenal hyperplasia, who are exposed to unusually high levels of
testosterone in the womb. When they are born, these girls prefer male-typ-
ical, wheeled toys, such as trucks, even if their parents offer more positive
feedback when they play with female-typical toys, such as dolls. Similarly,
men who are interested in female-typical activities were likely exposed to
lower levels of testosterone.
As well, new research from the field of genetics shows that testosterone
alters the programming of neural stem cells, leading to sex differences in
the brain even before it's finished developing in utero. This further sug-
gests that our interests are influenced strongly by biology, as opposed to
being learned or socially constructed.
Many people, including a former Google employee, have attempted to
refute the memo's points, alleging that they contradict the latest research.
I'd love to know what "research done […] for decades" he's referring to,
because thousands of studies would suggest otherwise.
GOOGLE, V5
T
hank you, James Damore.
Finally, someone has the
guts to speak the truth:
Women are not made for a great
career in a rational industry such
as technology. Our female brains
are just too female. Too emotion-
al, too empathetic, too agreeable,
too focused on people. We are too
focused on our hobbies, instead
of working late at Google offices
to increase our status in a man's
world. Plus: We are so anxious. We
can't handle stress either: That's
why we tend to be hysterical every
so often.
So it is that we need a real man
such as Mr. Damore to put the
world back in order. A 28-year-
old, white, self-proclaimed "clas-
sical liberal" and, until recently,
a software engineer at Google's
search division. His 10-page inter-
nal memo, titled Google's Ideo-
logical Echo Chamber, went viral
last weekend: It's just another
puzzle piece in the accusations
of extreme discrimination of fe-
male employees at Google, if the
continuing lawsuit by the U.S.
Department of Labor is to be be-
lieved. (Accusations that Google
firmly denies.)
According to Mr. Damore, the
lack of women in tech is not a
result of systemic discrimina-
tion, no. It is nature – and caused
by the biological differences be-
tween women and men. If there
are any real victims at all, it's men
like Mr. Damore, according (of
course) to Mr. Damore. He has
been silenced by a monoculture
of "political correctness" that has
taken over Google, the tech indus-
try and the world.
SEXISM, V5
Sorry, Google
guy: ‘Biological’
reasons have
justified sexism
long enough
What
Silicon
Valley
thinks
of women
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New Orleans mayor
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Steve Bannon:
The man behind
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No, the Google manifesto isn’t
sexist or anti-diversity. It’s science
MARGARET
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DEBRA SOH
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till riding the momentum from the
bronze medal she won at the 2016
Games, Masse roared to victory
in the 100-metre backstroke in a
world-record time Tuesday at the
world swimming championships in Buda-
pest, Hungary. In the process she became
Canada's first ever woman world champion
swimmer.
Masse powered to the wall in a time of 58.10
seconds, edging the previous long-course
backstroke record of 58.12 seconds set by
British swimmer Gemma Spofforth at the
2009 world championships in Rome.
"I don't think it's really sunk in yet," Masse
said in a conference call Tuesday. "I touched
the wall and looked back and had to make
sure I was looking at the right name and
the right time. I was just super excited. In
the moment I don't even know what I was
thinking but excitement and joy."
Masse is the first Canadian to hold the
100-metre long-course backstroke record
since Wendy Cook in 1974 and the first Ca-
nadian record holder in any discipline since
Annamay Pierce set the 200-metre long-
course breaststroke record in the semifinals
of the 2009 championships.
While she said she and her coaches have
been fine-tuning her technique — she men-
tioned her starts and turns as key areas of
focus — Masse is quick to credit the 2016
Olympics as a turning point. It was a mas-
sive success for Canada's women's swim
team which won six medals, including four
by Toronto teen Penny Oleksiak, and was
given The Canadian Press Team of the Year
award for 2016.
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team and it really gave us confidence and momentum,
and showed we belong on the international stage’
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