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安妮·卡森 2023 年坐在她位于雷克雅未克的家中屋外。卡森女士曾获得多项其他国际荣誉，包括兰南文学奖（诗歌类）和 T. S. 艾略特奖。KJARTAN THORBJOERNSSON / GOLLI / REUTERS

受人敬仰的诗人兼古典学者安妮·卡森获诺贝尔奖

这位 76 岁的多伦多本土人士成为第三位获得该文学奖的加拿大出生者，瑞典学院称赞其“大胆且富有创造力的作品集”

布拉德·惠勒

加拿大的安妮·卡森获得了诺贝尔文学奖，奖金为 1200 万 瑞典克朗，约合 $1.7 百万加元。该公告于周四在斯德哥尔摩发布。

这位 76 岁的现代主义诗人、翻译家、古典学学者兼加拿大勋章成员因“其大胆且富有创造力的作品集，在与古典传统的俏皮对话中，为当代文学创造了新形式”而获得认可。

她是第三位获得该奖项的加拿大人，该奖项授予在文学领域做出杰出职业贡献的在世作家。

瑞典学院在的一份声明中表示：“安妮·卡森在她的整个职业生涯中，将诗歌创作与翻译工作以及在多所大学的教学相结合。她几乎所有的文学创作都集中在语言学家对词汇的痴迷与诗人对新意义的渴望之间的交汇点上。她本人将词源学视为其所有工作的起点。”

这位出生于多伦多的作家此前已获得高度的国际认可，曾获得兰南文学奖（诗歌类）、T. S. 艾略特奖、古根海姆奖学金、阿斯图里亚斯公主文学奖以及笔会 / 纳博科夫国际文学成就奖。

在接到获奖通知后，卡森女士在电话中告诉瑞典学院，她目前在冰岛“听风”，她对此感到十分惊讶但非常开心。

当《全球邮报》请求她对获得这一久负盛名的奖项做出回应时，她通过电子邮件回了一个全大写的单词：“YIKES !!”

在她最著名的作品中，包括 1998 年的《红色自传》，这部作品既是小说也是诗歌，同时既是对古希腊神话的一次非传统重构，又是一个设定在当代的完全原创的成长故事。 卡森，A8

渥太华加快石油管道建设的举措遭遇首次法律挑战

艾玛·格雷尼 (EMMA GRANEY) 能源记者 卡尔加里

一个阿尔伯塔省的第一民族正就政府将计划中的太平洋链路石油管道（Pacific Link oil pipeline）指定为国家利益优先项目的决定将渥太华起诉至法院，这是针对联邦政府推动加快该项目进程的首次法律挑战。

冷湖第一民族（Cold Lake First Nations）于周四提交的司法复核申请，其核心在于该社区对管道缺乏磋商的担忧。该管道计划每天将100万桶石油从阿尔伯塔省的布鲁德海姆（Bruderheim）运往不列颠哥伦比亚省的罗伯茨银行（Roberts Bank）。该申请的另一个焦点是计划在油砂区开展的一项大规模碳捕集项目。

总理马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）多次将该管道的批准与名为 Pathways 的碳捕集项目挂钩。该项目将包括一条400公里的管道，用于将油砂设施中捕集的碳输送到阿尔伯塔省冷湖附近的一个地下枢纽。

冷湖第一民族位于阿尔伯塔省北部的油砂开发区中心。酋长凯尔西·杰科（Kelsey Jacko）在的一份声明中表示，虽然该社区支持负责任的资源开发，但希望确保相关活动是“在进行有意义的磋商，并就该地区项目的长期影响获得明确答复的情况下正确实施的”。

来自冷湖的法律挑战是针对太平洋链路管道的首次挑战。该管道将使阿尔伯塔省的石油能够进入更多国际市场并获得更高价格。

上周，太平洋链路成为了首个根据联邦《建设加拿大法》（Building Canada Act）被指定为国家优先项目的重大项目。这项新立法是卡尼先生经济议程中的核心元素。

该管道也是阿尔伯塔省政府的优先事项，该省政府将其视为在本月省分离公投前与渥太华合作的典范。

该法案为监管审批提供了加速通道，但遭到原住民团体的批评，他们担心更快的审批流程可能会践踏他们的条约权利。 管道，A6

中国将其沙漠鱼类养殖场吹捧为一项独创成就。事实则更为复杂

伊恩·乌尔比纳 (IAN URBINA)

中国的新疆地区位于该国极西北边陲，是一片环境极其严酷的土地。这里由山脉和广袤的沙漠定义——该地区也被称为新疆维吾尔自治区——占据了中国陆地面积的六分之一。

在新疆的西南边境，矗立着海拔 8,611 米的 K2 山（乔戈里峰），它是世界第二高峰。近六分之一的登山者在尝试登顶 K2 时丧生，这使得攀登 K2 的危险程度远高于攀登珠穆朗玛峰。

K2 山所在的喀喇昆仑山脉，仅是与新疆接壤、横穿或环绕新疆的四大主要山脉之一。这些山脉虽然景色壮丽，但却导致新疆大部分地区极度缺水。在该地区 160 万 平方公里的土地上，每年降雨量仅约 15 厘米。

结果就是，新疆的大片区域被中国最大的沙漠——塔克拉玛干沙漠所占据。塔克拉玛干沙漠常有巨大的沙尘暴，其不断移动的沙丘高度可超过 200 米，因此被赋予了多种阴森的名字，包括“遗弃之地”和“死亡之海”。

令人惊讶的是，中国找到了将鱼类引入这个不毛之地的办法。从 20 世纪 60 年代至今，中国在新疆建立了大约 1,000 个鱼类养殖场，每年生产约 180,000 吨海鲜，包括三文鱼、小龙虾、鲈鱼、鲤鱼、螃蟹和虾。

在中国，鱼类养殖被描绘成国家自豪感的来源，并得到了政府支持的媒体的助力，这些媒体强调在如此恶劣的环境中进行水产养殖所需的工程壮举。中国媒体将其称为“蓝色奇迹”，称其为地球上最内陆地区之一的海洋经济。

但这个项目伴随着巨大的风险和矛盾——污染山区的河流和湖泊，在鱼类体内注入抗生素和其他对食用者有害的化学物质，用贴错标签的海鲜误导消费者，并在其他国家的水域引发大规模过度捕捞，以制造给新疆养殖的肉食性鱼类食用的饲料颗粒。

中国推动内陆水产养殖的同时，也处于新疆严酷的国家镇压背景之下，包括对数百万人的强制迁移、拘留和监视，以及对大片土地的征用。

总部位于华盛顿的新闻机构“法外海洋项目”（The Outlaw Ocean Project）将这些养殖场绘制在地图上，作为一项全面调查的一部分，该调查显示有多少海鲜在违反《维吾尔强迫劳动预防法》（UFLPA）的情况下进入美国，包括进入政府设施。

美国禁止所有“全部或部分”由新疆工人或该地区少数民族生产的商品，因为推定这些商品是由国家支持的强迫劳动制造的。

在美国法律的语境下，朝鲜和新疆工人被先验地认定为强迫劳动者，因为他们经历了不同程度的国家镇压，以及政府对待该类人群的普遍方式。美国政府将中国在新疆的行为描述为一种种族灭绝。

加拿大法律虽未具体点名中国，但禁止进口与任何形式的强迫劳动相关的产品。

中国，A9

法院

加洛韦的指控者威胁要起诉英属哥伦比亚大学（UBC）高达 $3-million，诽谤审判获悉 ■ A6

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弗雷德里克·亚历克西 (FREDERICK ALEXCEE)，WIKSAMNEN，加拿大，福特辛普森 (FORT SIMPSON)。1900, 油彩、石墨、墨水和水彩，棉布，53.4 × 133.2 CM。加拿大国家美术馆，渥太华。2009. 购入。照片：NGC

在十月份，我们重点展示来自加拿大国家美术馆的作品，该馆是世界上最受尊敬的艺术机构之一。这家总部位于渥太华的美术馆成立于 1880, 一个多世纪以来在加拿大文化中发挥了关键作用。NGC致力于开发、保护和展示 90,000 余件作品，代表了最全面的原住民和加拿大艺术收藏之一，涵盖 14 世纪至 21 世纪的主要作品，以及广泛的图书馆和档案馆藏。https: / www.gallery.ca

弗雷德里克·亚历克西（Frederick Alexcee）——其齐姆希安名 (Tsimshian name) 为 Wiksamnen ——在西北海岸原住民国家经历深刻变革的时期创作了绘画和雕塑。亚历克西先生在此描绘的 Lax Kw'alaams 景象展现了该地在 1850 年代至 1870 年代鼎盛时期的样子，这很可能是基于他自己的童年记忆以及长辈们的记忆。亚历克西的创新实践以延续与变革为特点，或许其更大的初衷是为了记录。

玛莎·莱德曼 (MARSHA LEDERMAN)

观点

如果说加拿大学术界有一个定义性的混乱局面，那么盖洛韦 (Galloway) 案就是其中之一 ■ A13

专栏作家

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洛林·埃舍尔 (Lorraine Escher) 分享她珍贵的家庭词典如何成为了她的慰藉 ■ A16

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Arkells 乐队出售 TDSB 帽子以支持学校营养计划

戴夫·麦金 (DAVE McGINN) 教育记者

Arkells 乐队主唱马克斯·克曼 (Max Kerman) 与该摇滚乐队的周边设计师合作，制作了一款具有复古风格的帽子，上面印有多伦多教育局 (Toronto District School Board) 的苹果标志。

加拿大摇滚乐队 Arkells 的主唱马克斯·克曼热爱复古时尚，并且热爱——非常热爱——公共教育。

他的母亲曾是多伦多的一名特殊教育教师。在回顾高中时代时，他表示在哈博德学院 (Harbord Collegiate Institute) 的时光帮助塑造了今天的他。

在他看来，公立学校是伟大的民主机构之一，值得更多的支持与推广。几年前，克曼先生与乐队的周边设计师合作，制作了一款具有复古风格的帽子，上面印有多伦多教育局的苹果标志。

从那时起，他就经常佩戴这顶帽子。它引发了与许多人的对话，其中许多人甚至不知道他身在乐队之中。

“他们看到帽子就想聊聊自己的学校，想聊聊自己的教育，”克曼先生说。“教师们觉得通过它得到了认可，他们非常欣赏，所以我认为可以将其更广泛地投入销售。”

本周，在教育局的许可下，该乐队开始在网上预售两款版本的帽子，每顶售价 $40。一款是绿色绳帽，正面有一根细装饰绳；另一款是灰色软帽。

销售所得将用于支持多伦多学生成功基金会 (Toronto Foundation for Student Success) 的营养计划。

到目前为止，这些帽子已经得到了加拿大独立摇滚界知名人士的高度认可。Blue Rodeo 乐队的吉姆·库迪 (Jim Cuddy) 曾被看到佩戴过一顶。前 Barenaked Ladies 成员史蒂文·佩奇 (Steven Page) 也是如此。

因《希特溪》(Schitt's Creek) 而闻名的丹·列维 (Dan Levy) 已经联系该乐队，表示他很想买一顶。

39, 岁的克曼先生表示，这款帽子的最初灵感来自他的母亲，她曾在多伦多哈博德村 (Harbord Village) 地区的中央技术学校 (Central Technical School) 任教，那里离他就读的高中很近。

多亏了母亲，克曼先生意识到公共教育是一个伟大的平等化工具。

“我一直在思考孩子成长过程中运气所带来的随机性，以及一个优秀的公立学校系统能有多么神奇，”他说。“无论你的父母是谁，无论你住在哪个邮政编码区，或者无论你父母从事什么工作，每个孩子都能走进同一扇门，共同度过时光。”

克曼先生表示，这顶帽子是对所有在公立学校工作的人，尤其是教师们的致敬。

其吸引力的一部分在于，与哈佛大学的卫衣或法拉利的帽子不同，它所代表的品牌——公立学校这一理念本身——正是排他性的反面。

销售所得将用于支持多伦多学生成功基金会（Toronto Foundation for Student Success）的营养计划。

“考虑到目前存在如此严重的社会孤立，考虑到算法驱动的社交媒体频道给我们带来了如此多的分歧……哪里才是我们可以将彼此仅仅视为人类而相视的地方？”他说。“那就是公立学校。”

选择支持学生营养计划，是克曼先生通过他在多伦多就读高中的侄女和侄子得知而决定的。他们告诉他，学校里有一个所有学生都可以参与的健康早餐计划。

“我想，是的，这是一个很好的方向，因为孩子们如果想在学校度过美好的一天，就必须吃饱，”他说。

多伦多学生成功基金会支持着近 1,000 个学校营养计划，在每个上学日为学生提供 284,000 份健康餐食。

根据加拿大统计局的数据，在全国范围内，近三分之一 18 岁以下的儿童——即 240 万 名孩子——生活在粮食保障不足的家庭中。

克曼先生表示，这些帽子不仅是为了支持一项公益事业而对公立学校的庆祝，它们还提醒人们，公立教育的基石在于照顾每个人的责任。

“我们需要互相照看。当然，有些学校位于较为富裕的社区，但我们将利用我们的资源来支持那些资源匮乏的学校，或者那些家长需要打三份工、没有可支配收入来支持学校筹款活动的学校，”他说。

“这应该是我们的职责，对吧？我们需要时刻为彼此服务。”

部长：渥太华正与第一民族讨论机场私人投资

资助第二梯队的枢纽机场。

顾问们认为，在加拿大四个将进入渥太华私有化进程的机场中，温哥华国际机场是优先考虑的对象，因为他们预计该机场将吸引第一民族的投资。JENNIFER GAUTHIER / 路透社

麦金农指出，尚未决定哪个地点将首先进入该进程

比尔·库里 渥太华 安德鲁·威利斯 多伦多 埃里克·阿特金斯 多伦多

交通部长史蒂文·麦金农（Steven MacKinnon）周四表示，在为加拿大四大机场寻求新私人投资者的过程中，渥太华正与第一民族就合作伙伴关系进行谈判。

不过他表示，尚未决定哪个机场将首先进入该进程。

《全球邮报》周三援引消息人士报道称，为渥太华提供建议的银行家和律师已决定，温哥华国际机场应成为四个机场中首个进入渥太华私有化进程的机场。此外，渥太华的顾问正向不列颠哥伦比亚省的原住民团体提供成为少数股东的机会。

顾问们将温哥华机场（即 YVR）视为优先项，因为他们预计它能吸引第一民族的投资。

《全球邮报》的报道称，根据四名消息人士的说法，政府的机场计划尚处于早期阶段，投资的时机和结构可能会发生变化。

由于消息人士不被允许代表其雇主发言，《全球邮报》未透露其姓名。

《全球邮报》报道称，正在听取温哥华机场股权推介的原住民投资者包括马斯奎姆第一民族（Musqueam First Nation）。该机场位于马斯奎姆未割让的领土上。

周四在渥太华举行的一次国际航空运输协会集会上，麦金农先生在演讲中告诉行业代表，政府正在征求他们关于推进该计划最佳方式的建议。

在演讲后接受记者采访时，麦金农先生并未否认作为广泛磋商的一部分，已与马斯奎姆第一民族进行了会谈。

“正如你们可以想象的，无论是重大项目、广泛的种族和解，还是这项倡议，确实已经进行了充分的讨论。我们与相关的第一民族保持着持续的沟通，”他说道。

麦金农先生表示，渥太华在技术专业知识方面依赖顾问，但警告称，关于哪个机场将首先进入该进程的讨论纯属猜测。

“这些是规模巨大且复杂的交易，需要专业知识，”他说道。“因此，这涉及许多参与人员，以及许多进行猜测的人，但我想要明确的是，目前尚未做出任何决定。”

总理马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）上个月在多伦多举行的一次投资峰会上首次宣布了该机场计划。

当时，政府表示，该计划将由渥太华保留底层土地和资产的所有权，但通过长期协议寻求私人投资，从而为机场的运营和增长引入新的资金和专业知识。

在演讲中，麦金农先生将该计划描述为一次旨在“解锁”加拿大机场新投资的尝试。

该部长此前曾表示，通过该进程筹集的部分资金将重新定向用于支持加拿大较小的区域性机场的改进。

“我们正在寻找关于创新、关于承担风险以及在我们的许多机场资产方面发挥创业精神的想法，”他在周四的演讲中说道。

“因此，除了已确定的四个设施外，我们希望听到你们所有人的建议——航空公司、机场以及系统中的所有参与者——关于我们如何让系统更实惠、运行更流畅，并更好地照顾那些将旅程托付给我们的乘客，”他说道。

在周四于渥太华举行的会议上，一些加拿大小型机场的经营高管敦促联邦政府在制定四大枢纽机场的计划时不要操之过急。他们表示，希望确保渥太华选择正确的模式，而不仅仅是为机场、旅客和航空公司创建一个成本更高、且运行糟糕的收费机构。

自20世纪90年代以来，加拿大26个最大机场中除三个以外，其余均由依赖用户费并向联邦政府支付租金的非营利公司运营。长期以来，这些机场一直敦促渥太华将租金——2025年总额超过$500-million——重新投资于机场系统。

哈利法克斯国际机场管理局首席执行官乔伊斯·卡特（Joyce Carter）同意所有机场的模式确实需要审查和改变。卡特女士表示：“但我们必须缓慢且谨慎地进行。”

根据其年度报告，该机场运营商在2025年支付了$12-million的联邦租金，并实现了$19.4-million的利润。

“对于像我这样规模的机场来说，支付目前的租金确实是难以承受的，这确实限制了我们在社区中能够开展的开发工作，”卡特女士说。

“因此，作为此次计划的一部分，重新审视该模式以使其更加公平合理，将是一个良好的结果。”

代表100多个机场的加拿大机场委员会（Canadian Airports Council）首席执行官莫内特·帕舍（Monette Pasher）表示，关于国家最大机场运行方式的“巨大变革”存在许多疑问，包括政府的目标。她质疑，私有化是为了获取利润，还是为了提高旅客的负担能力。

她表示，目前的关键在于机场行业能否增长，以满足预计在未来20年内将翻倍的航空旅行需求。帕舍女士说：“我们真的不知道他们将选择什么样的特许经营模式，而且这类模式有很多。”

“根据我们的经验，其中有一些是非常好的。我们认为我们就是一个不错的例子，其他很多也是不错的，但也有很多很糟糕。”

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现年87岁的前Postmedia主席、长期以来著名的进步保守党人士保罗·戈弗雷（Paul Godfrey）指控安大略省省长道格·福特（Doug Ford）的办公室试图将一项政府合同的潜在延期作为“政治筹码”，而该合同涉及由戈弗雷先生儿子经营的一家公司。

在这一被省长办公室和Postmedia双方否认的指控中，曾于1973年至1984年担任多伦多都会区（Metro Toronto）主席、后任多伦多蓝鸟队（Toronto Blue Jays）首席执行官的戈弗雷先生表示，在去年的省突击选举之前，他感到压力，被要求请求其前任报业连锁集团刊登一篇由省长撰写的评论文章。

这一指控是涉及省政府与Keel Digital Solutions Corp.之间一场错综复杂且涉及数百万加元法律战的最新篇章。Keel Digital Solutions Corp.是一家技术公司，目前正接受安大略省警察局（OPP）的调查并已被接管。其主席是戈弗雷先生的儿子罗布·戈弗雷（Rob Godfrey）。

Keel Digital Solutions Corp.及其运营在线心理健康咨询门户的子公司Get A-Head Inc.，在过去五年中从省高等教育与大学部、卫生部以及技能发展基金（该基金负责发放工人培训计划资金，并在去年引发了政治风暴）共获得了$40-million的政府款项。

在本周公布的一份宣誓声明中，年长的戈弗雷先生指称，2025年1月，他的儿子告诉他，刚刚与时任福特省长幕僚长的帕特里克·萨克维尔（Patrick Sackville）交谈过。声明称，萨克维尔先生已同意帮助加快一项提案的审批，该提案旨在将Keel与高等教育与大学部的合同改为三年期，而非每年续约一次。

但声明指称，

萨克维尔先生随后补充说，他需要一个“人情”——即在Postmedia所有的安大略省报纸上刊登一封省长的信函，为该省即将提前宣布选举的行为提供正当理由。戈弗雷先生在Postmedia的领导任期已于2022年结束，尽管他表示对这一请求感到“不安”，但仍将其提交给了该媒体公司的高层。

“我的整个职业生涯都在政治圈内或周边，”他的声明写道。“我明白省长办公室的这一要求意味着什么。这是利用对一家小公司的政治筹码和权力，来榨取Keel根本无法提供的一种利益。”

在福特省长的发言人汉娜·詹森（Hannah Jensen）提供的一份声明中，省长办公室表示，戈弗雷先生的“指控完全不属实，且与现实完全脱节”。

在周四发送给媒体的一份声明中，戈弗雷先生重复了上述指控，并称省长办公室的回应“令人发笑”。在他的助手发送的一封电子邮件中，对方拒绝安排他接受采访。

萨克维尔先生周四告诉《全球邮报》，“该指控完全是虚假的”。

Postmedia在的一份声明中表示，是省长办公室就评论文章事宜联系了公司现任首席执行官，该请求随后被转交给编辑团队考虑，并由编辑团队决定刊登。

“省长或任何政治人物在我们的编辑页分享观点，永远不需要任何商业考量，”Postmedia的声明写道。“我们对戈弗雷先生所述的背景事件并不知情。”

该报业集团还指出，它还刊登了多位其他政治人物的评论文章，其中包括邦妮·克伦比（Bonnie Crombie）的文章，她当时是安大略省自由党领袖，也是福特先生在 2025 年竞选中的对手；该文在福特先生的文章发表三天后刊出。

处于争议中心的 Keel Digital 公司目前在财务上陷入困境，此前该公司与省政府就 Get A-Head 所收到的纳税人资金如何核算问题展开了激烈争论。本周，法院同意了贷款方国家银行（National Bank）的请求，因 $4.5-million 的未偿债务将该公司置于接管状态。

去年，安大略省将 Get A-Head 的法证审计报告移交给安大略省警察局，促使警方展开调查。今年年初，省政府将该公司及其高管起诉至法院，指控其“欺诈性虚假陈述”并要求偿还 $25.7-million。被告否认有任何不当行为并提起反诉，要求 $100-million 的损害赔偿。解决法律争端的谈判尚未达成协议。相关指控尚未经过法院审理。

Keel Digital 此前指责政府将该公司当作“替罪羊”，以转移人们对技能发展基金（Skills Development Fund）资金流向与进步保守党有关组织这一政治争议的注意力。

在周四接受《全球邮报》采访时，罗布·戈弗里（Rob Godfrey）表示，他向萨克维尔先生提出的请求是促使财政委员会加快批准其公司服务的一项为期三年的协议，而不是为了赢得合同本身。他说这并不是一个“过分的要求”。

他表示，萨克维尔先生随后“转移了话题”并请求一个“帮衬”。虽然他没有将评论文章与合同明确联系起来，但戈弗里先生表示这是他的理解：“那是一次友好的对话。当时被描述为友好的。但事情就是这样运作的。”

渥太华解密美国中央情报局在安置纳粹战犯中所扮演角色的细节

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政府已解密一份关于安置纳粹战犯报告的部分内容，揭露了包括涉嫌与第三帝国合作的人员在内的数十人，在第二次世界大战后如何通过一项美国中央情报局（CIA）的秘密计划获得帮助进入加拿大的新细节。

新解密的信息进一步阐明了美国情报机构在促进纳粹合作者在加拿大定居方面所发挥的作用，在某些情况下，这些机构还提供了虚假的身份证明。该报告中被保密数十年的章节还揭露了关于在美方秘密帮助下进入该国人数的新细节。

联邦政府周四解密了由历史学家阿尔蒂·罗达尔（Alti Rodal）为1985-86年加拿大战犯调查委员会撰写的一份已有40年历史的报告的更多内容，该委员会由前魁北克法官朱尔斯·德舍内（Jules Deschênes）领导。该委员会调查了关于加拿大已成为纳粹战犯避风港的指控。

上个月，一名联邦法院法官命令渥太华公布罗达尔报告的脱密部分。加拿大身份部长马克·米勒（Marc Miller）决定不对法院的裁决提出上诉，该裁决是在犹太组织 B'Nai Brith 发起法律行动后做出的。

罗达尔女士报告的大部分内容此前已公开，更多解密细节于2024年发布。

报告发现，曾向美国提供帮助（包括提供信息）的纳粹合作者，在进入加拿大时得到了美国陆军欧洲司令部（USAREUR）研究与安置部门的协助。

罗达尔报告称，当时的 USAREUR 是美国中央情报局（CIA）及其他类似美国机构的掩护组织。美国陆军该组织承认，其部分情报员有犯罪记录，其中包括一些涉及道德败坏（moral turpitude）的案件——纳粹合作者就被列入这一类别。

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根据新脱密的文本，皇家骑警（RCMP）在1954年向渥太华报告，“大约40人于1953年由 USAREUR 推荐申请进入加拿大”。

另一段脱密内容称，美国情报人员“很可能协助了具有战犯背景的人员移民加拿大”。

报告的一段解密内容指出：“他们有能力为这些人提供虚假证明，并在加拿大签证控制官员进行常规检查时报告称，这些潜在移民没有任何不利记录。”

另一段新脱密的内容显示，皇家骑警通过拒绝部分由美国秘密计划担保的申请人，抵制了数十名涉嫌战犯人员进入加拿大。

一份由时任皇家骑警专员写给前加拿大国务次长的1954年备忘录中，提到了已有35人在 USAREUR 的协助下进入加拿大。备忘录补充称，另有“52名由 USAREUR 担保或推荐但被皇家骑警拒绝的申请人名单，主要原因是安全问题”。

报告的另一段解密内容表明，皇家骑警并不清楚在美方帮助下在加拿大定居的涉嫌战犯的确切人数：“皇家骑警在1954年深信，通过 USAREUR 安排的虚假证明进入加拿大移民渠道的人数，比实际检测到的数量要多。”

加州大学洛杉矶分校的历史学教授贾里德·麦克布赖德（Jared McBride）在法庭听证会上提供了证人证词，他表示，这些解密信息“比此前预期的更具揭露性”。

“众所周知，美国情报部门寻求将那些为他们提供过服务的叛逃者和流离失所者重新安置——不仅是在战后的美国，还包括其他国家。但远不为人所知的是，正如加拿大官员所描述并在罗达尔（Rodal）的这份报告中所总结的那样，美国情报部门试图通过为这些人伪造传记来故意欺骗其盟友。”

在要求上个月对这份618页报告的更多部分取消遮盖时，西蒙·福瑟吉尔（Simon Fothergill）法官表示，他考虑到了“历史记录的重要性”以及“时间的流逝”。

目前，该报告《加拿大的纳粹战犯：从20世纪40年代至今的历史与政策背景》（Nazi War Criminals in Canada: The Historical and Policy Setting from the 1940s to the Present）中仅剩下一处遮盖部分。而德申委员会（Deschênes Commission）报告的第二部分（其中包含一份涉嫌战犯的名单）从未公布。

加拿大 B'Nai Brith 组织的首席执行官西蒙·沃利（Simon Wolle）称，罗达尔报告中几乎所有秘密段落的公布是一个“历史性的结果”。

“我们很高兴这些信息能够提供给历史学家、大屠杀幸存者及其后裔以及公众。为犹太人寻求正义、让加拿大人从过去中汲取教训，以及在加拿大追求真相和问责的时间终于到来了。”

罗达尔女士告诉《全球邮报》，德申大法官在1986年时就打算让她的报告公开并可供查阅。

她在周四的一份声明中表示：“我的希望是，围绕我报告的这段曲折经历能让人们在面对过去的重要方面时更加透明，增强保存历史记录并使其可查阅的责任感，特别是与大屠杀相关的记录。”

加拿大犹太议会（Canadian Jewish Congress）前首席执行官伯尼·法伯（Bernie Farber）数十年来一直敦促渥太华开放关于纳粹战犯的档案，他表示，历届政府都找到了掩盖这段历史的理由，但“随着这次公布，过去终于追上了现在”。

他补充道：“阿尔蒂·罗达尔为德申委员会撰写的报告研究了纳粹战犯是如何进入加拿大并在那里平静生活数十年的。它揭露了加拿大官员在20世纪40年代末和50年代在判断力上的严重失误。”

在2023年乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基访问期间，一名曾在纳粹领导的乌克兰党卫军（SS）师服役的98岁老人亚罗斯拉夫·胡卡（Yaroslav Hunka）在众议院获得起立鼓掌，此后联邦政府面临重新开放该委员会此前机密内容的压力。

瑞典隆德大学研究加拿大纳粹战犯的历史学家佩尔·安德斯·鲁德林（Per Anders Rudling）表示，政府现在应该公布所有来到加拿大的涉嫌纳粹战犯的完整名单。

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史蒂文·加洛韦（右）及其妻子凯蒂·瓦格纳周二在温哥华进行诽谤诉讼期间，趁午休时间离开不列颠哥伦比亚省最高法院。DARRYL DYCK / 加拿大新闻社

作者证词提及大学助学金以及可能针对学校的诉讼

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一名曾指控畅销小说家、时任教授史蒂文·加洛韦（Steven Galloway）性侵的前创意写作专业学生，威胁要起诉不列颠哥伦比亚大学（UBC），索赔高达 $3-million，声称学校存在过失及其他违规行为。

不列颠哥伦比亚省最高法院周四获悉，该大学在该女性毕业后已向其提供了一笔价值 $30,000, 的助学金；加洛韦周四作证称，该女性没有资格获得这笔钱。

加洛韦曾任该校创意写作项目的负责人，他针对近二十名被告提起了一起诽谤案。他声称，对方指控他性侵和骚扰该女性，这毁了他的名誉，让他失去了工作，并摧毁了他的个人生活。目前只有该女性和其他三人在接受审判，其余人员已与加洛韦达成和解。

法庭听取了关于 April 7, 2016, 一封电子邮件的内容，该邮件由该女性当时的律师乔安娜·比伦鲍姆（Joanna Birenbaum）发给UBC负责公平与包容的副校长萨拉-简·芬莱（Sara-Jane Finlay）。在信中，比伦鲍姆女士感谢学校“非常迅速地转移资金”，加洛韦表示他在 2017 年才得知这笔资金金额为 $30,000.

这笔款项是在他因被解雇而与学校进行仲裁期间首次被披露的。

加洛韦告诉法庭，他认为该女性（他的前情人）没有资格获得这笔钱，因为她已经毕业。

在接受其律师丹尼尔·伯内特（Daniel Burnett）的询问时，他表示：“没有任何学术理由给予这笔款项。”

法庭还获悉，later in 2016, 大约在12月中旬，UBC的首席法律顾问休伯特·赖（Hubert Lai）参与了一次关于该女性起诉学校的起诉书草案的电子邮件讨论，该女性计划以过失、违约等理由起诉学校，索赔高达 $3-million。

周四在法庭上并未披露其诉讼威胁的最终结果。

由于身份受出版禁令保护，该女性被称为 A.B.。她的律师阿登·贝多斯（Arden Beddoes）对加洛韦关于UBC内部电子邮件的证词提出异议，因为他认为这要求加洛韦进行推测。

在谈到UBC内部沟通的证物时，贝多斯先生说：“文件本身就说明了问题。”

但法官允许伯内特先生继续讨论 A.B. 的经济补偿问题，因为——如果他的当事人获得损害赔偿——这可能指向她的恶意行为。

加洛韦先生告诉法庭，他认为该女性（他的前任情人）没有资格获得这笔资金，因为她已经毕业。

“A.B. 本人或代表其进行的、旨在从英属哥伦比亚大学（UBC）获取资金的沟通，正是源于构成诽谤的同一行为，”他说。

A.B. 没有出庭作证。在审判开始时，贝多斯先生告诉法庭，她撤回了关于“真实性”和“公正评论”的辩护——但并未承认她散布了关于其前任伴侣的谎言。贝多斯先生表示，由于此次 ordeal（折磨 / 考验）带来的压力，她在近几个月内曾两次尝试自杀。

在该女性的指控于 2015 年浮出水面后，加洛韦先生因违反信任而被暂停职务，随后被解雇，失去了 UBC 创意写作项目的负责人职位，且未获得遣散费。该事件的消息引发了一场网络风暴，焦点在于这位加拿大文学界名流获得正当程序的权利与其被指控受害者的权利之间的冲突。

一名由大学聘请以调查该投诉的退休法官发现，根据概率平衡原则（balance of probabilities），无法确定他实施了性侵犯或袭击。

加洛韦先生从未被指控犯罪。

周四早些时候，伯内特先生询问其当事人关于其 2008 年国际畅销书《萨拉热窝的大提琴手》（The Cellist of Sarajevo）所获得的总计高达 $1.5-million 的版税情况。

法庭获悉，该书曾被选定进行电影改编，但最终未能实现。

加洛韦先生作证称，在指控出现并摧毁了他作为作者继续创作或被邀请担任付费公众演讲者的能力之前，他曾签署了一份关于一名腹语侦探的三本新书的出版合同。

他说，此后他的图书版税收入已“暴跌”至每年“最多”约 $5,000 至 $10,000，且没有收到任何演讲邀请。

加洛韦先生还作证称，那些签署信函批评大学处理针对他的不当行为案件方式的人，受到了“极其伤人”的评论，并在社交和职业方面遭受了损失。

这封名为“UBC Accountable”的信函于 2016 年 11 月发布，签署者包括玛格丽特·阿特伍德在内的文学界人士，但加洛韦先生表示，在经历了一波激烈的网络批评后，许多人删除了自己的名字。

他说，有人失去了工作，友谊被毁，一名签署者曾流泪给他打电话，说她的女儿再也不会和她说话了。

他说，许多朋友，甚至是那些相信他清白的人，也不再与他交谈，因为与他产生关联将是“职业自杀”。

加洛韦先生表示，在赢得大学的仲裁裁决后，他曾“短暂地希望”社交媒体上的风暴会平息，但相关帖子仍在继续。

他并未通过仲裁恢复原职。

“即便年薪一百万美元，我也不会回到那个地方，”加洛韦先生说。

加洛韦先生将于周五开始接受四名被告律师的交叉质询。

（本文包含加拿大新闻社 The Canadian Press 的报道）

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预计该项目的价格标签在 $35.2-billion 和 $43.7-billion 之间。

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他说，虽然法律行动“并未关闭与加拿大合作的大门”，但“现在在法庭之外采取第一步的责任落在加拿大身上”。

在司法审查申请中，冷湖第一民族的律师表示，该认定违反了加拿大法律，且与王室的荣誉不符。

申请书称：“增加油砂产量将对冷湖第一民族成员维持《第 6 号条约》所承诺的 Luechogh Tue Denesuline 生活方式产生重大不利影响。”

“加拿大没有做出任何努力去理解或减轻油砂开发对冷湖第一民族 Luechogh Tue Denesuline 条约权利所造成的巨大累积影响。”

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“在如今的几乎任何项目中，我们都能看到有人决定对其提出挑战。至于他们是否会成功，则是完全不同的问题，”霍奇森先生上周表示。

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在初步宣布后的几个小时，卡森女士再次与瑞典学院交谈。这位诗人从她位于雷克雅未克的家中通过电话表示：“我正吃着饼干喝着茶。我注意到地板需要清扫，于是我跳起来把它扫了。”

这位诗人和她的丈夫目前正在思考如何使用奖金。“我有一个需要房子的朋友，”她说，“我们总是向‘无国界医生’捐赠很多。”

这位前古典学教授被问及古典学为何具有相关性。她表示它们并不具有相关性：“我不认为我对‘相关性’感兴趣。我感兴趣的是我们对它们具有相关性。”

自 1901 年以来，该奖项已 119 次授予 123 位获奖者。卡森女士是第 19 位女性获奖者。在这些卓越的获奖者中包括鲁德亚德·基普林、珍珠벅、温斯顿·丘吉尔、加布里埃尔

加西亚·马尔克斯、让-保罗·萨特、托妮·莫里森、若泽·萨拉马戈、约翰·斯坦贝克、哈罗德·品特、欧内斯特·海明威，以及因“在伟大的美国歌曲传统中创造了新的诗意表达”而获奖的鲍勃·迪伦。

在2016年获奖后，这位标志性的词曲作者在公开评论前等待了数日。他最终没有参加在斯德哥尔摩举行的诺贝尔奖颁奖典礼，而是选择在当地与瑞典学院举行了一场私人仪式。

卡森女士同样不喜公开露面。正如《全球邮报》在2000年的一篇人物简介中所述，她不喜欢谈论自己，且为人如此孤僻，以至于在接受采访时不允许摄影师在场。

在那之前，尽管在国际上享有盛誉，但卡森女士尚未获得过加拿大国内的主要文学奖项。（最终，在2001年，她凭借《业余时间》（Men in the Off Hours）获得了首届格里芬诗歌奖。她在2014年再次获得格里芬奖，并于2020年凭借《特洛伊的诺玛·简·贝克》（Norma Jeane Baker of Troy）获得总督文学奖英语诗歌奖。）

在2000年被问及为何在自己国家没有像在美国那样获得如此热烈的追捧时，卡森女士嗤之以鼻地表示：“这是加拿大人的典型特征。你必须在国外获奖，他们才会认可你。”

格里芬诗歌奖创始人斯科特·格里芬表示，卡森女士的获奖将诗歌的地位提升到了其“作为文学精髓的应有位置”，而卡森女士正是实现这一目标的完美作家。

“诗歌是用极少的文字来传达宏大主题的工艺。这是一种真正的艺术形式，对大多数人，甚至是对优秀的诗人来说，都很难做到。安妮就是这种天赋的典型代表，几乎达到了极致。”

卡森女士患有帕金森病，这严重影响了她的笔迹，进而阻碍了她的创作过程。“很难描述或解释字迹糟糕所带来的羞耻感，”她在2024年为《伦敦书评》撰写的一篇随笔中写道。

去年，她参与了多伦多艺术摇滚乐队Rheostatics的专辑《五大湖组曲》（The Great Lakes Suite）。她为该项目朗诵了其1995年出版的著作《清水》（Plainwater）中的诗篇。

诺贝尔奖根据瑞典炸药发明家阿尔弗雷德·诺贝尔的遗嘱设立，自1901年起授予在文学、科学和和平领域取得成就的人士。

匈牙利作家拉斯洛·克拉斯纳霍凯因其“在启示录般的恐怖之中，再次肯定了艺术力量的、令人信服且具有远见的全部作品”而获得去年的诺贝尔文学奖。他在2015年获得了国际布克奖。

挪威诺贝尔委员会将于本周五在奥斯陆公布今年的诺贝尔和平奖得主。总理马克·卡尼被认为是这一被视为全球最高荣誉奖项的竞争者之一。

五角大楼称，富特胡德枪击案凶手的军事执行将被公开并进行直播

华盛顿 五角大楼官员周四表示，一名在2009年富特胡德枪击案中被定罪的陆军军官将被公开执行死刑。这种做法在美国已于近一个世纪前终止，目前最常见于伊朗、朝鲜以及阿富汗塔利班领导的政府等少数国家。

五角大楼在一份声明中表示，定于12月3日进行的军事执行还将通过直播播出。此类广播几乎没有先例，发布执行死刑的视频通常与伊斯兰国等极端武装组织相关联。

这一公告增加了围绕尼达尔·马利克·哈桑少校计划执行死刑的关注度。哈桑在将个人手枪带入德克萨斯州富特胡德基地后，杀害了13人，并导致32人受伤。这次大屠杀是美国军事基地最严重的枪击事件，给美国军队带来了巨大的冲击。

目前只有少数国家举行公开执行死刑。人权组织国际特赦组织曾指出，在伊朗和沙特阿拉伯，一些公开执行死刑的场景被旁观者拍摄了下来。

在接受保守派媒体 Real America's Voice 的采访时，国防部长皮特·海格塞斯（Pete Hegseth）周四在“亚伯拉罕·林肯”号航空母舰上表示，此次处决将公开进行并可供观看，“因为人们需要明白，这类行为会带来严重的后果。”五角大楼随后在一份声明中确认，处决过程将进行直播。

陆军表示，对哈桑先生的公开处决将在枪击事件发生地胡德堡由行刑队执行。如果实施，这将是美国现代史上的首次。

2009年11月5日，驻扎在胡德堡的陆军精神科医生哈桑先生将一把私人手枪带入基地区域并开火。

哈桑先生表示，他在 2001年9月11日 之后反恐斗争的高潮时期发动此次袭击，是为了针对他所谓的在阿富汗和伊拉克的非法且不道德的战争而进行圣战。

他在军事法庭审理期间承认了杀人行为，并于 2013年 被判定 45 项预谋谋杀和企图预谋谋杀罪名成立。

在枪击中受伤的哈桑先生目前被关押在堪萨斯州勒文沃思堡的军事死刑囚监狱中。

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喀喇昆仑山脉（K2峰所在地）是横跨中国新疆的四大主要山脉之一。该地区大部分土地是沙漠，但中国已找到一种方法，通过利用模拟海水的地下含水层，将鱼类引入这个环境恶劣的地区。JOE STENSON / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

中国：全球半数以上的海鲜现源自水产养殖

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自 2024 年起，《打击供应链强迫劳动和童工法》这一透明度立法要求特定实体和联邦机构报告其在防止或减少供应链中使用强迫劳动和童工方面所做的努力。

今年 6 月，一项立法被引入，允许外交部长创建一份高风险商品清单，其中包含有理由怀疑是由强迫劳动生产的商品。根据加拿大渔业与海洋贸易数据库，2025 年加拿大从中国进口了价值超过 7.1 亿加元的海鲜。

塔克拉玛干沙漠曾是丝绸之路贸易商难以逾越的障碍，几个世纪后的今天，它依然能挫败所有试图向东穿越它的最大努力。

新疆大学的研究人员表示，新疆只有不到 10% 的地区适合人类居住。那些勉强生存的人大多是游牧牧民，他们及其家人在由山顶冰川供水的少量绿洲周围寻找庇护。从历史上看，新疆的原住民包括突厥语维吾尔族、汉族、哈萨克族、蒙古族和塔吉克族。

长期以来，中国中央当局满足于将新疆视为抵御来自西方外部威胁的遥远且崎岖的战略缓冲地带。然而，在 1949 年革命后不久，国家开始将新疆想象成不仅仅是一个荒野前哨，而是一个宝贵的领土持有地。

从 20 世纪 50 年代开始，中国政府的地质学家在新疆的三个地形盆地（塔里木盆地、准噶尔盆地和图哈盆地）发现了石油和天然气，并开展了一些有史以来最深的钻探计划。新疆成为了所谓的“西气东输”管道的西部锚点，这是一个将天然气输送到上海等城市、距离超过 4,000 公里的宏伟工程。

与此同时，国家对中国最长的塔里木河进行了重新工程设计，试图将该省坚硬干燥的土壤变为可耕地。它在塔里木河的支流上修建了水库；增加了用于控制流量的分水闸，以及将水输送到即将成为新平整农田的渠道。对塔里木河的受控利用有助于启动新疆多种作物的种植，包括大力推进棉花的种植和收获。

在自然资源财富的发现和技术的奇迹之中，始终存在着一个艰巨的人力工程，即如何为国家在新疆的雄心壮志创造劳动力。新疆生产建设兵团将承担这一重塑壮举。

兵团是一个与中国军队有松散联系的准军事兼企业单位，由转业为经济开发者的前士兵组成。他们作为政府代理人被派往新疆，旨在将牧民转变为农民。

根据 2023 年发表在《共产主义与后共产主义研究》杂志上的一项研究，在 2010 年至 2021 年之间，兵团将新疆 38 万公顷以上的土地转换为种植棉花以及发展从水果种植到太阳能电场等各种其他产业。如今，新疆生产了全球约 20% 的棉花供应，并且是番茄、薰衣草和酿酒葡萄等出口作物的关键来源。

但关于该公司在新疆采取强制手段的报道使其在国际上声名狼藉。根据谢菲尔德哈勒姆大学海伦娜·肯尼迪国际司法中心研究人员发布的一份报告，该公司从事的行为包括征收土地；拘禁和监禁；强迫人口迁移；压制性的预防性警务；宗教迫害；社会工程和强迫劳动。

新疆生产建设兵团未回应置评请求。

在过去75年里，新疆发生的各种变革中，没有一项比在新疆养鱼的项目更令人惊叹且出人意料了。

事实证明，在中国最早尝试从新疆开采石油期间，政府钻探团队经常发现地下含水层的证据，包括在塔克拉玛干沙漠下方。研究人员知道，塔克拉玛干沙漠曾经完全处于水下，与地球上的一个海洋相连。沙漠的沙土中散布着古代珊瑚碎片、微小浮游生物、双壳类和腹足类动物。

2003年，政府研究人员绘制了新疆干旱广袤之地下方含水层的地图，并对发现的水进行测试，以确定其压力大小以及含盐量。

起初，测试结果表明，塔克拉玛干及新疆其他地区的地下水简直是个残酷的玩笑——盐分太高无法用于耕种，苦味太重无法被人类饮用。但这个玩笑并没有持续太久。中国科学家最终意识到，新疆的地下水可以通过调整来模拟海水。

养鱼的概念可以追溯到数千年前，其起步非常简陋。风暴会将鱼冲上岸，使它们滞留在池塘和其他小型内陆水体中。人们并没有简单地将它们捕获并食用，而是找到了喂养它们并使其繁殖的方法。

研究人员认为，不晚于公元前475年，中国的养鱼实践就已经发展到足以编写一本关于如何最佳实施该操作的手册。该手册规定了理想的维持水位，并指导如何在不排干池塘的情况下收获鱼类。鲤鱼是中国养殖工作的核心对象。它们繁殖频繁，不同类相食，生长迅速，且味道相当好。

中国并非孤例。古埃及人在尼罗河附近的池塘中养殖罗非鱼。罗马工程师在潮汐泻湖中养殖牡蛎。当然，其吸引力非常直接。鱼类是任何人群饮食中至关重要的蛋白质来源。然而，捕鱼通常是一项季节性业务，其年产量难以预测。而养鱼则可以是全年候的，且可靠且廉价。

如今，广义上的水产养殖已成为一种全球现象。目前全球消费的所有海产品中，有超过一半来自水产养殖而非野生捕捞。在全球范围内，蛤蜊、牡蛎、扇贝和贻贝的养殖推动了大部分爆发式增长——这些是独特的水产养殖奇迹，因为它们不需要饲料且几乎不需要淡水。在2019年的一份报告中，自然保护协会（Nature Conservancy）认为，到2050年，可持续管理的鱼类养殖场应成为人类海产品的主要来源。

大多数雄心勃勃的养鱼项目分为少数几种模式。在亚洲广泛采用的主导系统是淡水池：在挖掘的池盆中放入孵化场培育的幼鱼，每日喂食并进行机械充氧以防止氧气骤降。在全球沿海地区，漂浮网箱将鱼类养在开放水域，依靠洋流分散废物。一些鱼类养殖场则运行完全封闭的循环系统，在仓库内部过滤并重复利用水。

截至2022年，全球水产养殖业是一个规模达3130亿美元的产业，并产生了多样且非凡的效益。在印度，它是主要的就业来源，尤其是对于女性而言。在孟加拉国，养鱼业的扩张有助于降低价格，使贫困家庭能更负担得起海产品。该产业，即使将中国计算在内，A10

中国西部的鱼类养殖场

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中国：养殖鱼类涉嫌强迫劳动及非法使用抗生素

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亚洲最主流的养殖鱼类系统是淡水池：在挖掘出的池盆中投放孵化场培育的幼鱼，每日喂食并进行机械充氧以防止缺氧，例如这张位于中国新疆和天玉见江来水产养殖场的鱼类养殖池网格图。

另一种养殖方法是使用漂浮网箱将鱼类养在开阔水域，依靠水流分散废物，例如这张位于中国新疆天云有机农业公司的三文鱼网箱图。

新疆天云有机农业公司每年销售价值约 $42-million 的海产品，并拥有至少六家企业，包括一个育种中心、一家加工厂、一个冷库设施以及多个三文鱼池，其中部分池塘直径超过 50 米。

将养殖鱼类运往世界各地所产生的碳排放量远低于牛肉或猪肉。

这也推动了技术的进步。除了这些基础模式外，近期扩大业务性质和范围的尝试进一步推动了创新。挪威人在公海建造了巨大的半潜式结构，可容纳 150 万 条三文鱼。中国人建造了“养殖船”，这些巨大的船只出海航行，设有 15 个育种舱，总共可容纳 90,000 立方米的水。在苏格兰，水下机器人被用于对抗海虱（一种寄生在三文鱼身上的寄生虫）。印度尼西亚的小型鱼类养殖场一直在使用智能手机应用程序来管理定时且更具成本效益的喂食计划。

此外还有对鱼类本身的工程改造。在美国，海产品公司 Aqua-Bounty Technologies Inc. 已获得加拿大卫生部和美国食品药品监督管理局的批准，可以养殖克隆三文鱼。

但水产养殖也伴随着诸多弊端。将数百万条鱼聚集在一起会产生海量废物。在浅海沿岸网箱中，固体废物在海底沉积成厚厚的淤泥，使植物和动物窒息。过量的氮和磷会引发藻类暴发，导致野生鱼类死亡，并驱走海滩游客。为了生长得更快、更大而培育的鱼类有时会逃逸，从而威胁到本土物种。

对于该行业的可持续性而言，最令人困扰的或许是关于如何喂养全球养殖鱼类的零和问题。水产养殖本应是解决海洋鱼类资源危急枯竭的方案。根据联合国粮食及农业组织（FAO）的数据，全球超过三分之一的鱼类资源被过度捕捞，且情况每年都在恶化。但养殖鱼类吃的是其他鱼类，而其中许多鱼类正是来自那些同样枯竭的资源。

根据新疆天云有机农业公司发布的一段视频，July 25, 2021, 在新疆北部的一个露天剧场，50 名村民聚集在一起。该公司官员在现场发放现金——每个村庄最高可获得约 $35,000 的等值金额（或每户数百加元）。

天云公司是中国在新疆水产养殖突破的典型代表。该公司拥有至少六家与水产养殖相关的企业，包括一个育种中心、一家加工厂、一个冷库设施以及多个三文鱼池，其中部分池塘直径超过 50 米。它每年销售价值约 $42-million 的海产品，年产鱼类超过 6,000 吨，约占中国国内生产三文鱼的 40%。

但天云公司也是政府的宠儿，因为它据称成功地动员并激励了当地民众。天云创造了就业机会，并邀请工人及其家属以及该地区的其他村民成为这家沙漠海鲜企业的股东。

在村庄集会上发放的现金是最近的一次分红。几年前第一次分红时，当地人还不确定这意味着什么，怀疑这些钱是否真的是给他们的，以及是否可以带回家。四年后，他们对投资回报感到更加习惯。在那个七月的日子里，剧场舞台附近的扬声器播放着音乐，国家电视台在现场记录这一时刻，一名记者气喘吁吁地记录着数钱的喜悦。

中国的沙漠养鱼项目实际上既是创造力的结果，也是出于自我保护的考量。中国既是全球最大的海鲜生产国，也是最大的消费国。

其庞大的渔船队——超过 6,500 艘在世界大洋作业的远洋渔船，以及另外 200,000 艘在中国沿海海域作业的渔船——已成为传奇，并引起国际警觉。（相比之下，美国的远洋船队大约只有 300 艘。）然而，这还不足以满足政府的需求。

战略与国际研究中心（CSIS）和布鲁金斯学会的一份 2024 年报告解释称，水产养殖是北京“增强粮食安全”努力的核心。

因此，在 20 世纪 80 年代和 90 年代，地方政府将滩涂和河口转化为虾池和海洋网箱，建设孵化场、饲料厂和出口基础设施。起初，大多数中国鱼类养殖场集中在东海岸，特别是广东、福建、浙江和山东，那里的避风湾和河口三角洲被迅速转化为水产养殖区。到 2014 年，水产养殖设施已遍布中国 30% 以上的海岸线。

中国在商业上取得了巨大成功，但对其水道造成了巨大的环境破坏。作为回应，北京采取行动重组水产养殖业。官员们呼吁减少过度拥挤的沿海海域的养殖，并将其向内陆扩展。2018 年，当局拆除了大约 300,000 个沿海养殖网箱。2019 年，农业农村部发布了关于“水产养殖绿色发展”的新指南，敦促各省在拥有富盐地下水供应的地区（如新疆）“积极发展”养鱼业。

在文化层面，养鱼被定义为消除官员所描述的“游手好闲”以及动员一个长期被描绘为经济停滞地区“剩余劳动力”的一种方式。农业农村部部长唐仁建在 2021 年发表于该部网站的一篇文章中警告称，如果不重塑农村文化，新疆的混乱局面将持续存在。

北京已经证明，它愿意在新疆使用诱导和强制手段来达成其文化和经济目标。

据人权观察（Human Rights Watch）和外交关系委员会（Council on Foreign Relations）称，自 2014 年以来，该地区的维吾尔族和其他穆斯林群体一直遭受广泛的国家镇压行动，包括大规模拘禁和迁移、大规模土地没收、强迫劳动，以及因使用母语或实践宗教和文化传统而面临的刑事处罚。

据大赦国际（Amnesty International）称，在作为北京执行力量的兵团（XPCC）的支持下，中国政府在 2017 年至 2021 年期间将 100 多万当地人关进新疆的拘留营，迫使他们放弃历史悠久的生计，转而挖掘石油或耕种土地。

根据 XPCC 的一份新闻稿，到 2024 年底，XPCC 利用当地劳动力，在新疆部分或全部经营了至少 50 个鱼类养殖场，总产值相当于 $400-million 更多加元的海产品。

在天云公司总部所在地的新疆北部，最大的民族是哈萨克族，这是一个世代从事游牧业的民族。天云公司与一家政府附属的农村信用社合作，向数百名当地居民提供无息贷款——通常约为 10,000 元人民币（约合 $2,100 加元），允许他们购买一家子公司的股份，该公司通过劳务分包和销售等任务来支持鱼类养殖场。

天云公司邀请该地区的村民成为沙漠海鲜业务的股东，包括在 2021 年的一次活动中，人们在台上获得了相当于 $35,000 的资金。

新疆天云有机农业董事长张修（左）在公司年度利润分配仪式上向村民递交现金托盘，这一做法始于 2017 年。

工人们在天云的一家加工设施中包装海产品。尽管存在强迫劳动和侵犯人权的指控，但中国政府不允许对工厂或养殖场进行不定期检查。

这些家庭共同出资提供了该公司子公司近一半的启动资金。作为回报，每个家庭在数年内收到固定年度款项，随后获得按初始出资比例计算的分红。村民们还获得了操作设备或捕鱼的有偿工作机会。

为了进一步安抚和说服当地人，天云公司和国家媒体开展了一场精心策划的广告宣传活动，拍摄电影吹捧鱼类养殖的益处，并含蓄地警告抵制该省经济转型可能带来的后果。

由国营新华社发布的一段视频中，采访了一名当地男子。根据关于该片的当地新闻报道，他放弃了牧羊人的工作，在附近村庄的一个鱼类养殖场工作。这个三文鱼养殖前哨站是由天云公司和一个国营脱贫项目在 2017 年开设的。新闻报道称，到 2023 年，他的年收入达到 48,000 元（约 $10,000），是此前收入的四倍多。该公司董事长张修表示，天云的目标是到 2025 年创造 10,000 个就业岗位，并产生 30 亿加元 元（约 $635-million）的收入。

在 2020 年的一段电视节目中，这位前牧羊人带领国家记者参观了由天云公司提供的一套公寓，公寓内有光亮的红色地板、大窗户和现代化的厨房。在影片中，他的妻子将他稳定的工作归功于党和政府，并表示这极大地改变了他们的生活。到 2023 年，天云公司已在卡拉斯乡及其周边为员工购买了约一百套住房。

第二部较新的政府电影部分在天云拍摄，名为《希望之地》，风格更为粗犷。澳大利亚墨尔本拉特罗布大学政治与亚洲研究教授詹姆斯·莱博尔德（James Leibold）在一次采访中表示，作为宣传片，《希望之地》为中国现代化内陆地区的计划提供了一种浪漫主义的愿景。

它讲述了一个初创鱼类养殖场及其背后的当地男子的故事。他遭到了邻居的抵制，因为邻居担心鱼类养殖中使用的化学品可能会杀死他们的牛羊。

另一名当地男子企图破坏该鱼类养殖场，随后被逮捕。他被判处一年监禁，但法院出于宽大处理，给予他一个机会：只要在两年的缓刑期内表现良好，即可免于服刑。执法人员与这两名男子围坐在海鲜拼盘前。在其他人的起哄下，第二名男子同意尝试一些三文鱼。

一位长者站起身，将一叠现金拍在桌上，宣布他将投资以拯救他们的家乡。

根据莱博尔（Leibold）的说法，此类宣传总是将中国西部居民——蒙古族、藏族和维吾尔族——描绘成生活在资源丰富土地上的懒散居民，缺乏开发这些资源潜力的能力。

新疆天云有机农业公司在回复评论请求的电子邮件中表示，关于系统性强迫劳动的指控“完全缺乏事实依据”，并将《维吾尔强迫劳动预防法》描述为一个不合理且出于政治动机的框架，违反了公平国际贸易原则。天云公司表示，其严格遵守中国的劳动法和合同法，坚决保护每位员工的合法权益。

该公司表示：“我司从未参与，也绝不会参与任何形式的强迫劳动。相反，我们提供具有竞争力的薪酬、全面的职业健康与安全保障以及职业发展机会。”

减轻地球海洋的压力长期以来被宣传为水产养殖业最大的成就。

但尽管在北京当局在新疆取得了诸多成就，他们尚未解决一个可能是其水产养殖愿景可持续性面临的最大挑战。

根据联合国粮农组织（FAO）的数据，事实证明，喂养养殖鱼类是鱼类养殖中最昂贵的环节，占该行业运营预算的 70%。目前唯一在规模上具有商业可行性的选择仍然是鱼粉：一种由海捕野生鱼类制成的粉末状高蛋白粉。全球捕获的所有鱼类中，有超过五分之一最终变成了鱼粉或其他非人类饲料。

因此，这个困境十分严峻：养殖世界上某些最受欢迎的物种（如三文鱼、虾、海鲈鱼）所需的鱼类数量，远远超过了鱼类养殖场最终产出的数量。在进入市场之前，某些养殖场的三文鱼吃掉的野生捕捞鱼类可能超过其自身体重的六倍。

这在加拿大尤为重要，因为作为该国最受欢迎的海鲜种类之一，养殖三文鱼长期以来被宣传为解决野生捕捞限制的现代方案。然而，新疆沙漠鱼类养殖场所引发的深层问题，与几乎所有地方的三文鱼水产养殖所面临的问题相同：不仅在于鱼类在哪里养殖，而在于喂它们吃什么。将鱼笼移至内陆，将池塘自动化，过滤并循环用水，但计算结果最终仍指向海洋。该行业很大程度上仍然依赖于将野生鱼类转化为饲料。

此外，该行业目标锁定的低廉鱼类，是贫困国家人们的基本生存依赖，也是水下生态系统的依赖。大部分用于鱼粉加工的渔获来自秘鲁、智利、越南和印度。其环境影响巨大：鱼粉工厂的废物污染了洁净的水道；其恶臭笼罩了整个社区。最重要的是，为了满足需求而进行的贪婪竞争还导致全球范围内非法捕捞的激增。

研究人员探索了养殖鱼类的替代蛋白源，但目前还没有一种在规模上可负担得起。因此，根据联合国粮农组织（FAO）的预测，全球鱼粉消费量在 2022 和 2032 之间预计将增长近 10%。

尤其是中国，一直难以面对这样一个事实：将水产养殖作为解决野生鱼类资源枯竭的方案，实际上反而加剧了这场危机。从历史上看，中国的鱼类养殖场依赖于近海海域的饵料鱼。到2016年，中国近海捕捞量中超过30%由这些物种组成。

这种压力被证明是不可持续的。在2020年的一项研究评估的15种鱼类中，有11种处于过度捕捞、枯竭或超出安全生物限值的状态——其中五种是饵料鱼。为了缓解压力，中国在2020年将其近海船队削减了约40,000艘，减少至230,000艘，并越来越多地转向进口鱼粉，尤其是来自秘鲁的鱼粉。根据2023年的一份联合国报告，中国进口了全球40%以上的鱼粉，预计到2032年，这一份额将上升至55%。

全球环保组织海洋保护协会（Oceana）的中国问题专家菲利普·周（Philip Chou）在一次采访中表示：“中国想要粮食自主，但要实现这一目标，它还需要饲料自主。”周先生表示，目前中国两者都没有。

除了可持续性问题，中国还面临着信誉问题。

越来越多的证据表明，其公司经常向不知情的全球公众误导他们投放市场的养殖鱼类种类。被标价并作为三文鱼销售的鱼，实际上是虹鳟鱼。被贴上鳕鱼标签的往往是狭鳕。在网上，中国本土消费者经常揭露这些骗局。

对这种不诚实行为的担忧已超出了口味问题。在2018年接受《中国日报》采访时，中国食品信息中心副主任钟凯针对中国公司将鳟鱼当作三文鱼宣传做出回应。他建议将其彻底煮熟以杀死寄生虫，并表示：“我不建议生吃。”

中国公司寻求海产质量保证机构的帮助，以向公众——包括其本国公民和全球消费者——保证其养殖鱼类是在安全、可持续且没有强迫劳动的情况下生产的。这些组织（其中最著名的是最佳水产养殖规范，即BAP）声称自己是拥有严格标准的独立实体。

但许多研究人员和海洋可持续发展倡导者认为，BAP及类似公司无法或不愿根除真实存在的问题。无论如何，中国政府通常不允许对工厂或养殖场进行不定期检查，并且严格限制记者调查劳工、环境或人权侵害活动的行为。

调查人员发现中国养殖鱼类中含有大量药物的情况日益频繁——其中抗生素含量根据中国食品安全法属于非法，且含有足以产生危险的镇静剂，用于在运输过程中安抚鱼类。

在2024年5月的一封公开信中，70多个环境、动物福利和社区组织指责BAP进行“洗绿”，认为获得认证的养殖场“极少（如果曾经的话）为其运营带来的负面结果承担责任”。

另一个主要的全球认证机构水产养殖管理委员会（ASC）在2024年宣布将退出中国。虽然该机构引用了财务考虑，但《三文鱼商业》（Salmon Business）和《海产来源》（Seafood Source）等行业刊物将这一决定与一项调查联系起来，该调查记录了中国海产品加工厂中广泛使用涉及维吾尔族和朝鲜工人的国家支持的强迫劳动。

根据由“法外海洋项目”（Outlaw Ocean Project）创建的绘制海产品供应链的在线工具“从饵料到餐盘”（Bait-to-Plate），天云公司经常通过中间商将其养殖海产品出口到包括美国和加拿大在内的十几个国家。由于推定这些产品是由国家支持的强迫劳动制造的，这种贸易违反了美国禁止进口由新疆工人或该地区少数民族“全部或部分”生产的商品的禁令。

天云公司的副总经理张玉茹在2024年表示，该公司的三文鱼产品将出口到世界各地。该公司还正在涉足三文鱼胶原蛋白肽饮料和肽片——这些蛋白质补充剂被宣传为可以延缓皮肤和关节的老化。

如今在新疆，围绕该地区养鱼业的成功，一个新兴的旅游业已经兴起。在由新疆赛湖渔业技术开发公司经营的一家鱼场里，实际上有一个该公司称之为养鱼主题公园的场所。这里设有博物馆和一家餐厅，供应花椒白鱼、白鱼刺身和鱼子酱。

中方还为外国记者组织了媒体考察，并积极招募外国美食影响力人士，记录并发布关于在新疆养鱼奇迹的视频和其他证词。

在最受欢迎的前沿影响力人士中，有一名俄罗斯学生制作了一段视频，展示了三文鱼养殖场员工的一天，该视频由一家国家新闻机构发布。一名美国博主的视频则宣传了塔克拉玛干沙漠边缘的绿色发展。这些视频随后被与新疆生产建设兵团（XPCC）相关的媒体机构以及YouTube和Facebook上的官方频道进一步放大。

但政府本身试图用最宏大的措辞来定义这个看似不可能的产业。2025年，一篇由官方媒体发表的文章宣称，在艰苦的西部边陲沙漠和河流中建立的新疆水产养殖温床是“人类智慧与韧性的证明”。

北京将新疆水产养殖的繁荣呈现为技术可以征服地理的证明。但这个在沙漠中养鱼的故事，也是一个关于现代食品系统如何转移其负担的故事：从遥远的海域获取饲料，从弱势群体中获取劳动力，并从那些被要求相信丰饶可以无需牺牲而制造出来的消费者那里获取信任。

本报道是基于由“法外之海项目”（The Outlaw Ocean Project）国际记者团队开展的一项更大规模调查的一部分。

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真正忠于首席行政官的人，既不会建议也不会屈从于专断的措施 —— 朱尼厄斯（Junius）

自由党限制医疗辅助死亡的决定是正确的

联邦自由党政府终于采取了必要步骤，取消了原计划将医疗辅助死亡（MAID）扩展至仅患有精神疾病患者的计划。

多年来，自由党一直在拖延，不断延长允许精神疾病患者获得辅助死亡服务的截止日期。起初，特鲁多领导的自由党假装这仅仅是物流管理问题，称各省需要更多时间来准备其医疗保健系统。

令人欣慰的是，司法部长肖恩·弗雷泽（Sean Fraser）在周三概述渥太华禁止精神疾病辅助死亡的意图时，态度要坦率得多。他指出，精神疾病的医疗保健资源匮乏，而且更尖锐地指出，关于精神疾病是否能被准确诊断为“不可治愈”，目前缺乏共识。

第二点至关重要：根据《刑法》，“不可治愈性”是医疗辅助死亡（MAID）豁免条款的关键支柱之一。必须确定某种医疗状况是不可治愈的，相关人员才有资格申请。

基于这一法律必要性，弗雷泽先生的决定是正确的。这也呼应了众议院和参议院 联合委员会的调查结果，该委员会建议将精神疾病排除在外。

但在另外 2 个方面，自由党做得还不够：未能加强现有系统的护栏，并且提议仓促地将 扩展到允许提前指示（advance directives）。

正如我们此前所主张的，渥太华应当恢复针对“第一类”（Track 1）申请（即自然死亡在合理预见范围内）的强制性 10 天等待期。

设立该延迟期的目的是为了确保没有加拿大人会在不可逆转的事情上做出仓促决定。但渥太华在 2021 年取消了这一护栏。（对于“第二类”申请，即自然死亡不在合理预见范围内，目前仍设有延迟期，即 90 天的评估窗口。）

反对 10 天反思期的人认为，这是不必要的，且仅意味着患者必须多忍受几天的痛苦。

与之相对的考量是，结束生命的决定应该是深思熟虑的，而非仓促而为。加拿大卫生部的数据也表明，取消 10 天反思期可能会产生意想不到的后果，从而触发此类仓促决定。

从 2018, 11 月到 2019, 年底，共有 5,389 例辅助死亡手术和 263 例撤回申请。而在 2024, 年（有数据的最近一年），共有 16,499 例辅助死亡手术和 689 例撤回申请。

与 2018-19. 年相比，在 10 天反思期被取消后，撤回申请的比例有所下降。目前无法确定加拿大人现在为何更不容易撤回 申请。但逻辑以及审慎原则都指向应当恢复反思期。弗雷泽先生在决定不将 扩展至精神疾病时援引了预防原则。同样的原则也应应用于 10 天反思期的情况。

更广泛地说，政府需要明确，《刑法》将被严格执行。个体从业者没有权利逾越政府设定的法律界限。如果他们这样做，应当受到起诉。

政府还将在其计划立法中提议允许提前指示，以应对诸如阿尔茨海默症等退行性疾病最终将剥夺一个人同意 能力的情况。

为什么现在要进行如此大规模的扩展？弗雷泽先生并没有给出真正的答案，但很难不得出这样一个结论：这是一种政治上的平衡行为，旨在通过在另一个领域扩大 的范围，来减轻人们对政府在某一领域限制 举措的批评。

无论动机如何，关于预先指示的条款应当与禁止因精神疾病而实施医疗辅助死亡（MAID）的条款相分离。必须全面考虑此类扩张所带来的影响，并给出令人信服的证明，确保设有保障措施，以避免加拿大老年人被强迫或感到必须同意预先指示这一显而易见的危险。

自由党在撤回一项欠考虑的 MAID 扩张计划方面值得称赞。他们应当确保自己没有在开启另一项类似的扩张。

辛克莱·斯图尔特 (SINCLAIR STEWART) 副编辑 安吉拉·帕切恩扎 (ANGELA PACIENZA) 执行编辑

詹姆斯·凯勒 (JAMES KELLER) 国家编辑 克里斯汀·布鲁索 (CHRISTINE BROUSSEAU) 优先事项管理编辑

安德鲁·桑德斯 (ANDREW SAUNDERS) 总裁兼首席执行官 大卫·沃尔姆斯利 (DAVID WALMSLEY) 总编辑

读者来信

权衡取舍

关于《试图理解市场？我们询问了分析师最佳指标》（商业报告，Oct. 2）：世界及其全球经济正逐渐脱离持续数十年的国际经济效率实验。

这就是“自由贸易”的主题，即各国生产其最擅长且成本最低的产品，然后与世界其他地区交换其所需的其他产品。这样我们所有人都会受益。

但在新的世界秩序中，国际贸易不再安全。因此，为了经济安全而放弃经济效率，这意味着一个国家将尽可能生产其所需的一切，因为它可能无法从其他地方获得。

国际贸易将趋向于那些其他地方需要的东西，如石油、咖啡和其他自然资源。这很遗憾。我们所有人的处境都会变得更糟。

政府、企业甚至个人的投资策略应基于新兴的经济现实，而非对过去的怀旧。 ■ Frank Olenski 布兰特福德，安大略省

新面孔

关于《魁北克党（PQ）重新执政，但下一任总理背后缺乏足够的人民支持》（Oct. 7）：有人认为政府应该削减其计划以适应其得票规模。

然而在英国，基尔·斯塔默（Keir Starmer）获得了压倒性胜利，但在担任首相期间却没能做出多少成绩。

保罗·圣-皮埃尔·普拉蒙东（Paul St-Pierre Plamondon）拥有授权，尽管范围狭窄，但据我所知，宪法中没有任何规定能阻止他至少尝试全面实施其计划。 ■ Paddy Fuller 渥太华

“很难猜测圣-皮埃尔·普拉蒙东先生现在将采取怎样的执政方向。”

我预计马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）会将这一时刻视为一个需要解决、需要征服的个人挑战。他将竭尽全力对保罗·圣-皮埃尔·普拉蒙东施展他的魔力，并设法赢得对方的支持以拯救加拿大。

事实上，在他们的第一次对话后，卡尼先生表示：“这对我们的国家是一个关键时刻，对魁北克也是一个关键时刻。现在不是等待几年后才采取行动的时候。现在是行动的时候。现在是需要大胆尝试的时候。”

■ Sydney Sharpe 西温哥华

通行权

关于《马克·卡尼的政府究竟有多保守？》（观点，Oct. 3）：文中暗示保守党“诱导自由党以更保守的方式执政”。认为马克·卡尼的世界观是由皮埃尔·波利耶夫雷（Pierre Poilievre）领导下的保守党塑造的，这似乎是诡辩。

卡尼先生是由保守派的斯蒂芬·哈珀（Stephen Harper）和大卫·卡梅伦（David Cameron）任命为国家银行行长的。他在私人银行业界大获成功。他绝非保守主义思想的后来者。

至于那些“只有保守党”才能实施的自由派举措，在近期加拿大的联邦历史上，我想不出任何例子。

David Steele 萨斯卡通

关于医疗辅助死亡（MAID）

关于《渥太华将禁止仅患有精神疾病的患者使用医疗辅助死亡》（Oct 8）：我很高兴自由党正在考虑扩大医疗辅助死亡的资格范围。

作为一名80岁的女性，丈夫92岁，周围的朋友处于各种程度的精神和身体衰退状态（包括失智症），在我看来，下一步应该是允许在特定指南下提交书面MAID申请，即使某人已不再能够给出同意。

我的丈夫和我曾尝试起草这样一份文件，结果被一名律师告知在安大略省无法办理。任何处于我们这种境地的人都应该能够办理。

Kathryn Kossow 多伦多

从财政角度来看，我预计任何以及所有医疗辅助死亡范围的扩大都将有助于省政府和联邦政府的预算。

姑息治疗、临终关怀、医院护理、医生的时间等等：所有这些的资金投入都将考虑到数以千计不再需要这些服务的人。以这种方式谈论MAID是不礼貌的，但我们能否否认事实？

Ruth Harper 多伦多

关于“天主教医院早就该世俗化”（10月 6 日）一文：这是一篇提供丰富信息的专栏，尤其是对于阿尔伯塔省的人来说，因为由公共资金资助的 Covenant Health（一个限制医疗辅助死亡服务的天主教组织）正在该省扩张。

此外，阿尔伯塔省的第 18, 号法案——《最后手段终止生命保障法》正等待颁布。该法案将把医疗辅助死亡（MAID）限制在自然死亡在 12 个月内可合理预见的第 1 类患者身上。第 2 类将不复存在。

届时将不允许提前申请或省外转诊。医疗服务提供者将被禁止与患者发起关于 MAID 的讨论。甚至在医疗设施内部，公开展示 MAID 信息的行为也将受到限制。

如果第 18 号法案颁布，阿尔伯塔省的人将承受其他省份加拿大人无需面对的不公平待遇。我想政府是在寄希望于全民公投中的第 9 个问题（关于尽管有联邦立法，但优先执行省法律）能获得公众通过。

抗议不公正立法还来得及。 ■ 玛丽·瓦伦蒂奇（Mary Valentich），卡尔加里

并非如此之快

关于“遗憾的是，我们可能在重复英国高铁的错误”（10月 3 日）一文：这使我对 Alto 项目的疑虑具体化了。

这感觉非常像一个国家虚荣心工程。部分理由似乎是因为其他主要经济体拥有高铁，所以我们也应该拥有。显然，这并非商业案例的一部分，而商业案例应该是至高无上的。

如果我们想增加繁忙的多伦多-魁北克市走廊的客运铁路使用率，建立一条与现有路权平行的客运专用线难道不是更经济吗？这将允许 Via Rail 的列车（或许是更先进的列车）在自己的线路上以更高速度运行，而不会被货运列车阻碍。据推测，它还可以使用现有车站。

这样一个项目可能成本会更低。节省下来的资金可用于改善加拿大其他地区的铁路服务，从而使其成为一个真正的国家项目，因为所有纳税人都将为 Alto 项目买单。

史蒂夫·默特尔（Steve Mertl），温哥华

马特·弗雷纳（MATT FREHNER） 产品与平台执行编辑

尽管高铁将穿过人口稠密的走廊，但该项目有一个明显的劣势，即加拿大整体上是一个人口稀少的国家。这与欧洲成功的同行不同，后者在小得多的区域内拥有大得多的数量人口。

考虑到数百亿加元的成本，如果该项目出现同样巨大的赤字，将会产生问题。当所有加拿大人都要为一项仅使加拿大社区特定群体受益的计划买单时，如何证明这些损失是合理的？尤其是当东部和西部的许多加拿大人已经觉得联邦政府以牺牲他们为代价而偏袒安大略省和魁北克省时。

罗斯·霍林斯黑德（Ross Hollingshead），多伦多

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禁止将精神疾病纳入 MAID 是一个错误

政府拒绝这些加拿大人的请求之计划是懦弱的

让·马莫雷奥 (JEAN MARMOREO)

观点

医学博士，以及与乔安娜·施内勒 (Johanna Schneller) 合著《最后的医生：来自医疗辅助死亡前线的生存启示》(The Last Doctor: Lessons in Living from the Front Lines of Medical Assistance in Dying) 的作者

我坐在病榻前陪伴临终者的次数，比大多数政客在噩梦中能想象到的还要多。

在 2016. 年医疗辅助死亡 (MAID) 合法化后，我是这个国家首批提供该服务的医生之一。10 年多来，我一直帮助人们以这个国家向他们承诺的尊严死去。因此，我可以坚定地说，当渥太华本周表示计划禁止那些唯一潜在状况为精神障碍的人请求辅助死亡时，这并非披着谨慎外衣的审慎，而是在面对个人《宪章》赋予的身体自主权争议时，由政治驱动的懦弱。

6 月 17, 日，医疗辅助死亡特别联合委员会建议议会无限期拒绝为唯一潜在状况为精神疾病的人提供 MAID。这是该委员会第二次开会审查此事。随后，司法部长肖恩·弗雷泽 (Sean Fraser) 重新审查了该建议，并在周三宣布，渥太华很快将无限期禁止精神疾病患者获得 MAID。这场战斗似乎现在已经结束了。

但我想传达的信息是，在对待精神疾病患者的问题上，加拿大人无法承受立法者选择这条道路。

我所指的并非我们近期对困扰数百万加拿大人的许多心理健康问题（如社交焦虑、孤独、目的感和意义感的缺失）所提高的敏感度。我们每个人有时都会承受一点心理疾病。

但这不同。对于 MAID，资格门槛将是经由多位精神科医生评估后诊断出的精神障碍。只有在所有合理的治疗都失败后，才会确认其遭受的是严重且不可缓解的痛苦，这与我们目前对癌症、渐冻症 (ALS) 或终末期心力衰竭的要求完全一致。我经常就患有难治性抑郁症（除身体疾病外）的患者咨询精神科医生，就像我咨询肿瘤科医生关于癌症患者的预后一样。

事实上，用于严格的、基于团队的、跨年度且多方案治疗评估的临床机制已经存在。允许针对 DSM-5 精神障碍提供 MAID，并不需要我们发明或构建任何新东西。但通过禁止它，我们的政府向患有精神疾病的加拿大人传递了一个信号：即在所有其他重病加拿大人都拥有自主权的情况下，他们却不对自己的死亡拥有自主权。

渥太华还在告诉一名患有难治性抑郁症或复杂性 PTSD 的患者，他们的痛苦比另一个人的癌症更不可信。这一切仅仅是因为他们的疾病位于大脑中。任何认为精神疾病的痛苦比癌症的痛苦轻微的人，一定没有经历过在面对孩子或爱人严重抑郁时，陪在家庭成员身边那种无力感。

可以理解，精神病学界对于预测“不可缓解性”这一想法感到不安。也许难治性抑郁症的治愈方法明天就会出现。作为医生，我们始终在希望中实践，而这些复杂病例是对我们的考验。

但不安并不等同于未准备好。

事实上，加拿大 MAID 评估员与提供者协会多年来一直在为成员准备如何处理精神疾病患者的请求，制定了关于评估不可治愈性的详细指南，开发了从业者课程，并为评估员和提供者建立了在线论坛。此外，每个省都有数年时间来建立方案。

渥太华一次又一次地请求更多时间。而本周，曾经合理的谨慎已变成一个代价沉重的借口。

我见过太多患者在病情恶化后，在没有保障、没有支持的情况下，孤独地结束了自己的生命，而他们无法获得那些身体患病者无需犹豫就能获得的、人性化且受法律监督的选择。加拿大人没有关于“失败自杀”的统计数据，但我们应该建立这样的统计。

2015年，最高法院的卡特（Carter）裁决为医疗辅助死亡（MAID）打开了大门。该裁决承认，严重且不可治愈的状况绝不应排除慢性疾病或绝望的心境。但在2021年，联邦政府将精神疾病排除在外，将其作为对那些紧张不安的省份的一种政治妥协；重要的是要记住，这并非一项临床决定，而是一次随风而动的政治投机。

我见证过数百次体面的死亡，这足以让我明白，在经过谨慎且严格的评估后，根据患者请求实施的死亡并非伤害之举，而是仁慈之举。

因此，我请求卡尼政府信任那些花费十年时间建立这些保障措施的医生，以接纳仅因精神障碍而提出的医疗辅助死亡（MAID）请求。

如果他们能在这一点上拿出勇气，他们将给予那些承受着持久且难以忍受的精神痛苦的加拿大人他们应得且有权拥有的东西：一次体面的死亡。

阿尔伯塔省分离主义者最大的劣势在于其领导层

今年1月，阿尔伯塔繁荣项目（Alberta Prosperity Project）的杰弗里·拉斯（Jeffrey Rath）在阿尔伯塔省埃克维尔（Eckville）的一次分离请愿推介活动上发表讲话。AHMED ZAKOT / THE GLOBE AND MAIL

加里·梅森（GARY MASON）

观点

当关于阿尔伯塔省即将举行的分离全民公投的历史被记录下来时，其必然的失败将被牢牢地归咎于最初煽动此举的人——即分离主义领导者本身。

没有任何一个团体比那些领导此次运动并使其成为国家笑柄的无能之辈更能损害其事业。除此之外，他们几乎肯定通过某些行为激怒了许多阿尔伯塔省居民。

即便是在其领导统一保守党（United Conservative Party）之初就几乎一直与分离主义者暧昧不清的省长丹妮尔·史密斯（Danielle Smith），最近也鼓起勇气对他们进行了嘲讽和奚落。

我们当然是指上周末《全球邮报》的一篇爆炸性报道，该报道详细披露了包括阿尔伯塔繁荣项目的杰弗里·拉斯在内的分离主义领导人与美国政府代表在华盛顿举行的会谈。分离主义领导人今年早些时候还在卡尔加里与共和党特工会面。

根据报道，双方讨论了独立后的阿尔伯塔省是否能够将加元与美元按一比一的汇率兑换（这将立即为阿尔伯塔省居民带来 40% 的额外收益）。据称，阿尔伯塔分离主义者作为回报提供了什么？哦，仅仅是阿尔伯塔省石油特许权使用费的一部分、贵金属的获取权，以及允许美国人穿越该省建设通往阿拉斯加铁路的通行权，等等。

就这些小东西。

该报道还包含了参与其中的一名阿尔伯塔省人士的实名评论。

这篇文章很快被拉斯先生等人谴责为虚构。但很少有人相信他。虽然史密斯女士最初对此保持沉默（除了她的办公室发布的一份平淡声明，称省长与据称参与其中的人员没有关联且反对分离），但她在本周晚些时候最终在面对记者时公开谈到了此事。

用她的标准来看，这些话绝对可以被定性为批评，她称分离主义团体的行为“荒谬”。

“……我认为任何人提供一些不属于他们有权提供的东西，这简直是不可理喻，”省长告诉记者。“这是一个由阿尔伯塔省居民做出的决定，我不认为阿尔伯塔省居民会支持它。”

你觉得呢？这简直是分离主义者给自己踢进的最严重的一个乌龙球。这些人讨论的是出让只有阿尔伯塔省居民才有权谈判的东西——而不是像拉斯先生这样未经选举的出卖者。现在，省内（及省外）的人们对这场荒诞运动背后的这类人有了更清晰的认识。

然而，拉斯先生仍然被当作一个具有公信力的人对待。

拉斯先生在2月接受了CTV记者瓦西·卡佩洛斯（Vassy Kapelos）的采访，后者询问他是否理解为什么有些人会对与美国官员的会面感到愤怒。

拉斯先生随即陷入了预料之中的不合逻辑且古怪的论调。他抱怨自己无法就建设通往太平洋管道的需求与渥太华方面会面。我想这可能是因为他是一个公开的分离主义者，而联邦政府是与选出的政府打交道，而不是与未经选举的跳梁小丑打交道。

他说安大略省的人对阿尔伯塔省分离的想法感到愤怒，是因为“他们一生中第一次必须支付自己的账单，并支付我们已经支付了多年的海洋省份的账单”。他暗示“共产主义的渥太华”正在利用“共产主义的中国”来对抗阿尔伯塔省。这可真是个绝妙的阴谋论。

拉特先生吹嘘自己的学历（伦敦政治经济学院），并表示那些与美国官员会面的人是在“代表我们的阿尔伯塔省同胞进行尽职调查”。

“我们是专业的人士，”他坚持道。

本周有报道称，两家美国诉讼基金公司指控拉特先生及其律师事务所提供了“虚假、不准确且具有误导性”的陈述，以便在事务所被解雇并被替换后，仍能继续接收数百万加元的资金，用于协助承保两起针对联邦政府的第一民族诉讼。

原告正向拉特先生及其公司 RathPC 索赔 $1.1256 亿加元。

上述指控均未在法庭上得到证实。

与此同时，斯特金湖克里族国家（Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation）和塔克里第一民族（Tallcree First Nation）正分别起诉拉特先生，涉及他监管的结算信托基金中被指在未经同意的情况下提取的数百万加元。

这些指控同样尚未在法庭上得到证实。

我深信，在这次全民公投化为灰烬之后，阿尔伯塔省的分离主义领导人们会坚持认为他们仍有机会在未来再次战斗。我的建议是：他们应该组建自己的分离主义政党并参加选举。

与此同时，他们应当停止与美国政府官员就阿尔伯塔省的未来进行任何会谈。下一次，这可能会给他们带来更为严重的后果。

史蒂文·加洛韦审判案揭示了“快评”如何将人们的生活付之一炬

玛莎·莱德曼 (MARSHA LEDERMAN)

观点

2015年，推特（Twitter）在某些圈子中仍是在线讨论的首选平台，当时埃隆·马斯克以及如今盛行的网络喷子和机器人尚未将其驱逐。那年11月，畅销小说家史蒂文·加洛韦（Steven Galloway）突然且神秘地被暂停担任英属哥伦比亚大学（UBC）创意写作项目的负责人。该校在给学生的备忘录中披露，这是由于“严重的指控”。随后，猜测不仅在学术界和文学界蔓延，在网上更是如此。本周，卑诗省法院获悉，在短短几天内，就有推文在提及强奸的同时将加洛韦先生的名字作为标签。

加洛韦先生提起了一场诽谤诉讼，目前的被告已减至四人，其中包括公开被称为 A.B. 的一名指控其性侵的女性。他本周作证称，在关系友好地结束之前（或者他认为如此），他与该女性维持了大约两年的婚外关系，且对方对此持有“热情的、持续的同意”。

大多数被告已经达成和解，因此已经产生了未公开的法律后果。

但本周法庭听到了其他后果：来自加拿大文学界人士和普通观察者的“快评”不仅出现在相关人员的收件箱和推特动态中，还深入到他们的家庭和生活中，产生了严重的后果。

法庭听闻，加洛韦先生无法进食或入睡，频繁呕吐，出现严重的恐慌发作，蜷缩成胎儿姿势发抖，哭泣，无法参与家庭生活；在圣诞节那天，他蜷缩在毯子下，无法真正地存在于一个将他视为强奸犯的世界中。这个男人不仅失去了担任 UBC 创意写作项目负责人的工作和获利丰厚的国际写作事业，还失去了他的社区和许多朋友。

他的孩子们当时正处于学龄期，他们不得不面对父亲缺席其活动的情况，以及担心因共享同一个姓氏而成为攻击目标的恐惧。他与现任妻子凯蒂·瓦格纳（Katie Wagner）及其两个孩子组建家庭的喜悦，在几个月后变成了地狱景象，因为他当时已无法正常生活。

瓦格纳女士成了照顾者，照看加洛韦先生，监督他的药物使用，试图阻止他阅读网上所有可怕的内容。她醒来发现他不在床上，然后在他其他地方找到他，当时他正考虑自杀。

法庭还听到了对 2016 年要求大学履行正当程序的“UBC 问责”（UBC Accountable）公开信的激烈反弹。许多加拿大作家在信上签名。但这封信并没有减轻轰炸，反而引发了加洛韦先生所描述的针对签名者的“谩骂与仇恨的海啸”。加洛韦先生作证称：“他们失去了工作，被一些地方取消了邀请。”玛格丽特·阿特伍德（Margaret Atwood）被指为强奸辩护者。他回忆起作家米里亚姆·托斯（Miriam Toews）在电话中带着哭腔对他说道：“史蒂夫，我必须撤回签名，否则我的女儿再也不会跟我说话了。”

仇恨袭击了所有各方。在 A.B. 申请匿名权的申请书中，她透露在这次丑陋混乱的过程中，当她一度被公开身份时，她的收件箱被残酷的信息填满。法庭获悉，她今年曾两次尝试自杀。周三，另一名被告格林尼斯·基希迈尔（Glynnis Kirchmeier）描述了她在前一天晚上收到的一条卑劣信息。

人们在键盘的匿名掩护下，可以表现得如此勇敢地恶毒。

在审判的第一天，尼娜·夏尔马（Neena Sharma）法官重复了一句在新闻编辑室经常听到的话：“不要看评论。”她是在谈到 A.B. 时，建议她避免阅读评论以尽量减少对自己造成的伤害。

我想更进一步：我们所有人重新考虑是否发表评论，将是明智之举。

多年来，许多人认定加洛韦先生不配获得同情、隐私或在证明有罪前被视为无罪的待遇。同样，他诉讼案中的现任及前任被告，以及双方的支持者，也被认为不配拥有尊严。即便在现在，网络上的谩骂依然在继续。

如果说加拿大学术界曾有一个具有定义性的混乱事件，那么加洛韦案正是如此。它导致了一场职业生涯的终结，引发了广泛的网络围攻，并永远改变了人们的生活。你可以在法庭上看到其中一些人——真实的人。尤其是加洛韦先生，他穿着一件松松垮垮的西装，早已失去了昔日加拿大文学名人的风采；在作证称针对他的强奸指控完全是虚构时，他试图喝水的手在颤抖。这种虚构并非他曾经创作的那种——正如他在证人席上崩溃前告诉法庭的那样，他已经无法再进行创作了。而正是这种虚构，终结了他的那种生活。

道格·桑德斯（DOUG SAUNDERS）将会回归

不要接受这部电影的好友请求

在《社交清算》（The Social Reckoning）中，杰里米·斯特朗（Jeremy Strong）饰演马克·扎克伯格，其角色设定像是一个本杰明·巴顿式的人物——一个被困在成年男人身体里的巨婴。

索金在《社交网络》之后的这部续作如此拙劣，以至于它能让最激烈的 Facebook 厌恶者也变成其信徒。

巴里·赫兹（BARRY HERTZ）评论

编剧兼导演：亚伦·索金（Aaron Sorkin） 主演：麦基·麦迪逊（Mikey Madison）、杰里米·艾伦·怀特（Jeremy Allen White）和杰里米·斯特朗（Jeremy Strong）

讨厌 Facebook 并不 particularly 困难。

事实上，不需要像温克莱沃斯（Winklevoss）那样的哈佛学者也能论证：马克·扎克伯格的社交媒体巨兽可能是 21 世纪最灾难性的发明，一个晚期资本主义的成瘾容器，以人类最糟糕的本能为食并将其放大。由于该公司与加拿大政府之间像霸凌者一样僵持不下，导致我甚至无法在 上分享这篇影评，这对其形象毫无帮助。但实际上，你根本不需要寻找抵制该服务的理由。使用 的体验本身就是反对 的证据。

所有这些都使得编剧兼导演亚伦·索金的新电影《社交清算》成为一部令人震惊的电影作品。在短短 112 分钟的时间里，索金这部追踪扎克伯格在 2020 年代初期企业渎职行为的纪实剧，将使最坚定的 厌恶者也变成一个忠实的 信徒——因为这部电影简直是如此地、令人难以置信地、卑劣地糟糕。

要理解原因——要充分理解一个人如何能拍出一部如此拙劣、以至于让你开始支持大科技公司的电影——你首先需要知道，《社交清算》尽管在所有伪装和营销材料中都如此宣称，但它并不是《社交网络》真正的续集。2010 年的那部电影在导演大卫·芬奇（David Fincher）及其顶尖演员阵容的操刀下，成为了过去四分之一个世纪以来最伟大的电影之一；它拍摄精美，技术创新，表演出色，且层次丰富，雄心勃勃地审视了我们的文化如何坠入社交媒体地狱。《社交清算》可能在编剧上共享了索金，在表面主题上共享了 ，但将这两部电影进行比较，就像是在比较苹果（水果）和苹果（公司）。一个是巨大的世界征服者，另一个则是一篮子缓慢腐烂的水果。

新电影的问题始于，且很大程度上止于索金，他这次决定亲自导演自己的剧本，而不是聘请一个懂行的人。这部电影的拍摄方式像是一部极其懒散的直接面向流媒体的电影——全部采用简单的摄像机设置、过曝的灯光，以及让人想起高中非法排演的《少数几个好男人》（A Few Good Men）的调度——这家伙甚至无法拍好一个简单的“边走边谈”场景，而这本应是从《白宫风云》到《点球成金》所有索金作品的标志性风格。由于这种美学上的无能，即使是索金最犀利的台词（片中寥寥无几）也显得迟钝且平淡。

一旦电影展开其叙事，这就成了一个特别严重的问题，因为它的叙事像《社交网络》那样紧凑且扣人心弦的反面：松散且乏味。这主要是一部新闻惊悚片，大部分情节围绕着一对现实生活中的反 英雄展开：华尔街日报记者杰夫·霍维茨（Jeff Horwitz，由杰里米·艾伦·怀特饰演）和数据工程师弗朗西斯·豪根（Frances Haugen，由麦基·麦迪逊饰演）。豪根对 从一个相对良性的社区平台演变为一个向互联网倾泻仇恨和欺骗的在线消防栓感到幻灭，于是她成为了彻底的举报人，帮助霍维茨报道了一系列威胁到扎克伯格帝国的猛烈调查。

但尽管索金认为自己正在创作一部足以媲美《总统所有男人》或《遇见约翰·多》（Meet John Doe）的作品——甚至在某个时刻让角色们点名提到伍德沃德和伯恩斯坦，随后又回顾了弗兰克·卡普拉经典作品的亮点——但这位电影制作人实际上 conjuring 出来的，却是一场令人难以忍受的、充满自以为是气息的“蓝色州”婴儿潮一代的幻想曲。索金简直就像是在积极测试观众对自命不凡的教条主义的容忍度。

例如，电影后期突然转向 Jan. 6, 2021, 的美国国会大厦袭击事件，其构思之令人翻白眼，执行之拙劣，以至于你开始质疑索金究竟站在政治光谱的哪一边。这种陈腐的废话才是威胁美国民主结构的根源，至于那些戴着 MAGA 帽子的家伙就不用提了。

不幸的是，索金感官中那种纯粹的令人难以忍受，也延伸到了他声称要支持的现实人物身上。霍维茨与豪根之间平淡得令人发指的关系——两人被分别赋予了且仅一项性格特征（他是卢德分子，她是书呆子），并被强迫就“用户参与度”和“有意义的社交互动”等如此“精彩”的话题发表长篇独白——这让人很难相信，这些角色竟然出自同一个大脑，而那个大脑曾赋予《社交网络》中的反叛者和煽动者如此鲜活且尖锐的生命力。片中有一场在酒吧约会的戏，是对芬奇电影开篇酒吧争吵戏极其露骨且粗糙的模仿，以至于 2010 年时期的索金应该考虑起诉现在的索金。

与此同时，无论是霍维茨还是豪根，都没有从一个像在梦游般的怀特或一个令人心烦地局促不安的麦迪逊身上获得任何助力，后者在如今这个时点应该紧紧握住她凭借《阿诺拉》（Anora）获得的奥斯卡奖杯。

然而，比索金对 2020 年代新闻编辑室人员那种浮夸的想象（这种想象甚至比《新闻编辑室》更令人尴尬且脱节）更糟糕的，是他对扎克伯格采取的新方法——虽然是新的，但远未进化。索金用杰里米·斯特朗替换了杰西·艾森伯格，他更新后的扎克伯格被构思成一个像本杰明·巴顿一样的人物，一个被困在“儿童身躯”里的“男人孩子”。或者，这可能更接近马丁·肖特在《克利福德》（Clifford）中刻意表现出的那种令人厌恶的、发育停滞的角色。

无论如何，斯特朗将全部自我投入到这个角色中，但依然不够。这位演员（在之前与该导演合作《莫莉的游戏》和《芝加哥 7 号审判》后，一定患上了某种“索金综合征”）根本无法克服他被分配到的那些伪聪明对话和毫无生气的导演指令。

当一段自鸣得意且长得离谱的文字尾声在片尾字幕前填满屏幕时——此时作曲家亚历山大·德普拉的配乐已完全陷入自我讽刺，与特伦特·雷兹诺和阿提库斯·罗斯在芬奇电影中那穿透力极强的作品相比，简直令人沮丧——这部电影在无意中唤起并随后颠覆了索金最精彩的一句台词：如果亚伦·索金发明了《社交网络》，他一定会发明《社交网络》。

《社交清算》（The Social Reckoning）于周五在电影院上映。

父亲最懂，而且不止于此

巴里·赫兹 (BARRY HERTZ)

《你的母亲 你的母亲》(Your Mother Your Mother) 分级 14A；112 分钟

编剧并导演：巴萨姆·塔里克 (Bassam Tariq) 主演：马赫沙拉·阿里 (Mahershala Ali)、赵允济 (John Cho) 和 詹卡洛·埃斯波西托 (Giancarlo Esposito)

影评人推荐

巴萨姆·塔里克这部狂野且充满活力的动作剧情新片，在开篇的前几分钟就简洁地解释了电影起初令人困惑、甚至可能因重复而令人厌烦的标题。随着片头字幕滚动，一个看不见的声音讲述了一段伊斯兰教的圣训（hadith），或教诲：一名男子向先知穆罕默德寻求建议，问道：“谁最应该受到良好的对待？”答案是：“你的母亲。”但之后是谁，先知？“你的母亲。”是的，但即便在她之后呢？你懂我的意思。

然而，在塔里克的世界里，正是由于一个“母亲”的深刻缺失，推动了故事的发展。在休斯顿的郊区，一个虔诚的宗教家庭男人拉蒂夫（马赫沙拉·阿里 饰）刚刚失去了因癌症去世的妻子，他不得不独自抚养三个年幼的孩子，其中包括一个拒绝接受除其亡母乳汁以外任何食物的男婴。

对于一部规模可观的家庭剧来说，这种高压的焦虑感或许已经足够，但塔里克的野心更大且更复杂。拉蒂夫不仅是一个将附近的清真寺视为第二个家的虔诚父亲，还是一个在进行正义复仇之旅的合同杀手，专门除掉那些他认为在让世界变得更糟的人。

因此，当拉蒂夫在德克萨斯州毫无灵魂的带状购物中心之间疯狂开车寻找母乳以满足孩子日益增长的饥饿感时，他还必须平衡自己承担的几项生存债务。其中包括他向犯罪同伙（包括由莱斯·纳克利饰演的腐败商人迈克）做出的财务承诺；他向当地伊玛目阿卜杜勒（詹卡洛·埃斯波西托 饰）承诺彻底退出雇佣谋杀游戏；以及因为试图刺杀一名名为尹牧师（赵允济 饰）的枪迷而失败所带来的致命危险，而这位尹牧师正在组建自己的原教旨主义基督教教派。

这一切听起来可能像是一口难以吞咽的荒诞之物，但塔里克将所有这些迥异的元素平衡成了一场宏大且独特的银幕盛宴。每当出现安静且动人的反思时刻——包括拉蒂夫与他的青春期女儿法蒂哈（由单名演员 Adia 饰演的突破性角色）之间几次激烈的冲突——紧接着就是残酷且令人心惊胆战的枪战和剑斗，这些戏份发生在坚信唯有自己才站在上帝正确一边的敌对派系之间。

虽然部分动作序列的风格和实质高于其他部分——最精彩的时刻似乎借鉴了最初为塔里克和阿里计划但后来被放弃的漫威《刀锋》(Blade) 系列重启版所设计的打斗编排——但暴力行为始终由一种“管它呢”的惊奇感所驱动。简单来说：这部电影中的一些情节和意象——从“清真色情”的概念，到将真空密封袋装母乳作为违禁品的想法，再到赵允济用某种古怪的技巧来塑造一个真正疯癫的反派——此前从未在银幕上出现过。

马赫沙拉·阿里（居中）在几乎每一帧画面中都饰演拉蒂夫，一个在休斯顿变成合同杀手的虔诚父亲。

诚然，塔里克创造了一个大量借鉴武士文化（尤其是《独眼龙与雏鸟》）、《疾速追杀》系列，以及每个北美郊区居民在必须长途驾驶去完成最微小任务时所面临的普遍恐惧的世界。但这位电影制作人将所有影响和想法混合在一起，变成了一些令人愉悦、不可预测且动人的东西。

尽管如此，塔里克最明智的做法或许是将全部心血寄托在男主角阿里（Ali）的肩上。这位奥斯卡获奖演员几乎占据了电影的每一个画面——尽管这个事实令人震惊，但他此前从未真正有机会担纲电影主演——他从一开始就稳固了角色复杂的层次感。这个角色要求演员在极少的话语中传达极丰富的情感，而阿里以其银幕英雄所需的活力与生命力，完美地完成了这次表演。

最终，电影回到了开篇的那段圣训：先知穆罕默德被第四次，也是最后一次问到，在母亲之后，谁最应该获得最好的对待。答案？当然是“你的父亲”。

《你的母亲，你的母亲，你的母亲》（Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother）于周五在多伦多上映，并将于10月16日在全国范围内扩大发行。

一个清新且动人的特里·福克斯肖像，让神话重回人性

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《奔跑吧，特里》(Run Terry Run) 分级：不适用；109 分钟

导演：肖恩·梅纳德 (Sean Menard)

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《奔跑吧，特里》将“以演代说”的格言发挥到了极致，成功地使特里·福克斯人性化——这并非易事，因为他已被过度神话，以至于成为了加拿大 5 加元纸币上的新面孔。

这部完全以现在时展开的纪录片由导演肖恩·梅纳德执导，它唤回了 1980 年代的加拿大风情，并紧紧跟随福克斯，记录他如何应对恶化的健康状况以及日益增加的关注度，并在实时意识到“希望马拉松”必须在没有他的情况下继续进行时，经历心智的成熟。凭借从未公开过的影像资料以及对不脱离档案素材的绝对坚持，这部影片成功地为这个家喻户晓的故事注入了新的活力，这种活力完全值得在电影院大银幕上放映。

福克斯与弟弟争吵，与最好的朋友打闹，在与一名 10 岁的癌症幸存者游泳时大笑，并在试图面对日益庞大的人群时不情愿地崩溃。

这部电影具备了奥斯卡非虚构类奖项入围的所有标志。考虑到梅纳德对电影的热爱，以及编剧表达出的希望在下一部作品中打破其纪录片创作惯例的愿望，《奔跑吧，特里》既是一部动人的加拿大历史片段，也是其导演的一次出击——他希望在加拿大独立电影创作者的新浪潮中，紧随马特·约翰逊 (Matt Johnson) 之后占据一席之地。

在成长过程中，梅纳德是一个易受影响的青少年，曾在电影院工作，你可以感受到他正透过年轻观众好奇的目光来审视他的主题。这部影片有趣、深刻且清新得令人喜爱，《奔跑吧，特里》是一次令观众满意的、成功的重塑，它以唯一有价值的方式为特里·福克斯的传奇增色：它将这位加拿大传奇人物展现为一个拥有真实情感和真实痛苦的真实人类。

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在海上，我们一家人创造了自己的词汇

第一人称

洛林·埃舍（Lorraine Escher）写道，即使是一位世界著名的语言学家也被我们家的词典所打动

自2015年起，我一直与丈夫里克（Rick）以及我们的四个孩子一起环球航行。在这段时间里，我们发展出了一些自己的词汇。我编写了一本家庭词典，记录了我们在海上使用的100多个独特的词汇和短语。例如，在对受伤的人说话时，我们可能会使用“hobbleton”作为一个亲昵的称呼。我们使用“engine clothing”（发动机服装）这个词来描述在船上从事脏活时穿的衣服。

最近，我的词典成了一种慰藉。我翻阅它的方式就像有些人翻阅旧相册一样。经过多年的家庭教育，我的长女贝蒂（Betty）已被安大略省的一所大学录取。她即将离开我们的船去开始她的第一学年。我们将继续在没有她的情况下从马来西亚开始环球航行。

今日数独答案

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世界天气预报

最近，我为“bathroom tourism”（浴室旅游）和“Magic Porridge Pot mom”（神奇粥锅妈妈）添加了定义，心中感到一种喜悦与失落交织的奇妙感觉。这本词典保存了家庭的回忆，包括孩子们年幼时的那些记忆。

在寻找其他家庭词典时，我偶然发现了《Kitchen Table Lingo》（餐桌俚语）这本书。书中汇集了公众提交的词汇，如“bogwurple”，以及一些知名作家和广播员的贡献。英国语言学家大卫·克里斯托尔（David Crystal）撰写了后记。

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全国天气预报

我很高兴地发现，我与那些令我肃然起敬的专业人士有着共同的兴趣。在我还没来得及输入“你在想什么？”之前，我就找到了大卫·克里斯托尔的网站，点击“联系方式”并填写了一份在线表格。

在接下来的15个小时里，我独自坐着，心中想着我已经就我们的家庭词典联系了一位世界著名的语言学家。

当里克在跟我讨论我们的造水机时，我的手机收到了一条通知。克里斯托尔的名字闪现了一下。“噢！”我说，然后关掉了手机。

里克没有停顿，继续说道：“我们需要的是一个快速安装的软管接头，能让大管子连接到小管子上。”我们一致认为，这似乎就是水管工程的精髓：从小到大，从大到小。然后，在里克做笔记时，我打开了电子邮件。

“噢，里克！大卫·克里斯托尔给我写信了。”

里克抬起头。“谁？”

“他是一位著名的英国语言学家。他写了100多本书，并获得了大英帝国勋章。我给他发了一封关于我们家庭词典的信。”

“他怎么说？”

我大声读了他的便条：“非常感谢你发送这个，洛林。这是一个非常有意义的项目，我希望有更多家庭能做这样的事情。”

我再次阅读这些文字。

克里斯托 2002 年出版的著作《莎士比亚的词汇：词汇表与语言指南》（Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion）的封面印有演员肯尼斯·布拉纳的一段评价：“详尽、全面、迷人。”

我想象着类似的认可出现在我们的家庭词典上：“一个非常有意义的项目——大卫·克里斯托。”

当然，我必须回复。如果不回复就太失礼了。但该说什么呢？

在他的电子邮件中，他提到了他最近的一本书。意识到这是一个切入点，我写道：

克里斯托教授您好，

……在我们的环球航行期间，有几次我觉得自己就像一个不自觉的维多利亚时代好奇心探索者。我在一篇关于瓦努阿图陆地跳水的博客文章中触及了这种感觉……

检查语法。发送。

第二天早餐时，我刚坐下就看到了他的回复。

“他又写信来了！”我兴奋地说。里克搅拌着他的酸奶碗。贝蒂比平时起得早，走进驾驶舱来分享这份兴奋。

我深吸一口气。“谢谢，我以前没听说过陆地跳水。太非凡了！而且写得非常好。”

“写得非常好”这几个字似乎在页面上闪闪发光。

“不过这并不完全等同于‘令人惊叹，出色的作品’，”我说，感到一丝失望。 “不，妈，这已经很棒了。”

“你应该问问他是否同意你将他的评论放在你的博客上，”里克一边说着，一边刮掉碗里最后的酸奶。

这一次，我真的觉得自己在挑战运气。我是在给一个写过好几本关于英语语法书籍的人写信。在发送另一封便条之前，每一个词都经过了深思熟虑。

然后，我等待着。早餐变成了午餐。

我试图告诉自己这并不重要。虽然能获得在他博客上使用其引语的正式许可会很好，但这并不是真正必要的。真的。

然后，他又写信来了：

“当然可以。没问题。”

有一天，我的孩子们会回顾我们的家庭词典。他们可能会在重新审视像“nimbleton”和“wavers”这样的家庭术语时相视而笑。也许贝蒂在加拿大的学校里会两手叉腰，然后想起她有时如何“展开她的宾果之翼”（put out her bingo wings）来在锚地占据空间。

洛林·埃舍尔（Lorraine Escher）居住在渥太华，目前正驾驶帆船环绕马来西亚航行。

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通用填字游戏 2026年秋季 无主题周，第5号谜题 作者：KAREEM AYAS

1 “一切都好吗？” 11 4,840 平方码 15 没有主要发言人的活动？ 16 关注自己事务的地方 17 绝非人造的 18 Shell（壳牌）的竞争对手 19 分离 ____ 汤 20 “好朋友”眼中的《老友记》中的安妮斯顿 21 ____ 焦油坑 23 表格的第一部分 25 沙哑地说话 27 机械齿 28 比如，熏牛肉 31 ____ Schwarz（玩具品牌） 32 怪诞的生物 34 流泪 35 烘焙食品的闪光典范？ 38 圆弧段 39 Iams（艾美）的替代品 40 无汽油汽车（简称） 41 “嗯哼，确实如此” 43 “忘记了 __”（2000年说唱热门歌曲） 44 曾被命名为费城的约旦城市 45 启发了英国“斑马线”术语的动物 48 部分高中毕业生的障碍 51 可能 52 维基百科 URL 的结尾 55 水龙头发出的恼人声音 56 溅水的艺术形式？ 59 泰山荡秋千时抓的东西 60 “现在不行”

桥牌 作者：STEVE BECKER 2026年10月9日，星期五

在重大赛事中偶尔会发生有趣的事。例如，几年前一对代表国家首次参加年度世界锦标赛的波兰年轻组合，达成了一个可怕的大满贯合约。

在首攻出牌且明手出现后，庄家意识到他的搭档高估了自己的点数。庄家看着明手说：“那个明手

61 Snoop ____ 62 头脑游戏？

向下 1 “现在！” 2 使恼怒 3 “____ 魔法” (2004年电影) 4 渴望 5 完全不受约束的 6 状态 7 非语言的认可 8 划船工具 9 被压扁的圆 10 拳击巨星 Oscar ____ Hoya 11 导师的静修地 12 可能是存放高达干酪的洞穴 13 “我唯一感到疲倦的，是厌倦了屈服”的讲述者 14 迷你专辑 22 食物保存液 23 仅值一颗星的 24 商业电池？ 26 用热敷处理的肿块 27 比如，在内陆地区度假？ 29 天赋 30 女演员 Minnelli 31 能发射火球（即使在水下关卡）的强化版任天堂角色 32 食物（非正式说法） 33 史瑞克或菲奥娜 35 诗人 Angelou 36 发表你的见解 37 《朱诺》演员 Michael 42 巴拿马的位置？ 43 地板除尘器

53 _ grrrl（90年代女性主义朋克运动） 54 _ about（漫无目的地旅行） 55 套装单元 57 元素周期表中的 Sn 58 忧郁的音乐流派

是对波兰的侮辱！”

如果你在以下布局中扮演西家，当你因为搭档在你在开叫 2NT 后的过度乐观而达成 6 spades（黑桃 6）时，你可能会有类似的感觉。然而，他们不允许你更改合约，所以问题是，在北家领出俱乐部 10 之后，你会如何操作？（假设缺失的主牌分布为 3-1 或 2-2）。

西家 ♠ K Q 10 9 ♥ A K 3 ♦ A 10 2 ♣ A 3 2

东家 ♠ AJ 8 7 6 ♥ 7 6 ♦ Q 5 ♣ J 6 5 4

达成大满贯的唯一真实机会是发现南家持有俱乐部 K-Q 双张以及方块 K。因此，你从明手领出一张低位俱乐部，幸运的是，南家出了 Q。

接下来你收回三轮主牌（南家持有其中三张），然后继续出 A-K 和另一张红心，在明手处吃掉。现在你出俱乐部 5，被南家用 K 吃掉。你希望南家回传一张非 K 的方块，这将为你赢得大满贯，但他聪明地回传了一张红心。

在从手牌中弃掉一张方块并用明手最后一张主牌吃掉红心后，你回传方块 Q，被 K 和 A 覆盖。奇迹般地，如果北家持有方块 J，你现在就处于达成合约的边缘。你希望他起手持有类似这样的手牌：

♠5 ♥Q1082 ♦J843 ♣10987

如果这就是他拿到的牌，那么当你在这个位置再次打出黑桃Q时，他就彻底没戏了：

无论北家在黑桃Q时弃掉什么牌，你都能完成合同。当然，你一定要记得祝贺你的搭档，因为他能为这样一个糟糕的抢双（slam）定约，简直是天才！

©2026 King Features Syndicate Inc.

隐喻填字游戏

© News Licensing / Times Media Limited

横向 7 Release rhino initially seen in charge (4) 8 Transport Rainier left at sea (8) 9 Measure a horse (6) 10 Devil possessing Republican ally (6) 11 Cadaver gory — look away (4) 12 Fifty savages wrecked Nevadan city (3,5) 15 Fit as a fiddle all right (4,4) 17 Greyhound say devours 500 sprouts (4) 18 Man tripped — that hurt! (6) 21 Modern rescue vessel in Notts town (6) 22 Judge keeping back nose ring (8) 23 Paradise inside walled enclosure (4)

纵向 1 Girl morris dancing in games lesson (8) 2 Attractive woman and boyfriend temporarily on vacation (6) 3 Be outside a noiseless prison (8) 4 Good fliers from UK in Zeppelin? (4) 5 Grin about one figure of speech (6) 6 Pulse started where heart fails? (4) 13 What could suppress incriminating report? (8) 14 Writer unfortunately ensnared (8) 16 Colour likely to run (6) 17 One delivering over in Derby (6) 19 Looks East? Absolutely (4) 20 Musical duo with terrible acting (4)

数独难度评级：★★★★★ 说明 填充网格，使每一行九格、每一列九格以及每个九格区域（三乘三）都包含 1 到 9 的数字，顺序不限。每个谜题只有一个解。

KENKEN 数独

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说明

1. 每行和每列必须包含 1 到 6 的数字，且不得重复。

2. 粗线框（称为“笼子”）内的数字必须使用给定的运算（顺序不限）组合，以得出左上角的目标数字。

3. 赠分项：在单格笼子中填入左上角的数字。

今日数独和 Kenken 的答案可在 A 版的“生活与艺术”内容区找到。填字游戏答案将随明天的谜题一同发布。

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商业报告*

渥太华 / 魁北克版

S&P / TSX 35,145.38 +103.52

道琼斯指数 51,231.64 +51.77

标准普尔 500 指数 7,765.36 -36.41

纳斯达克指数 27,193.34 -345.35

加元 70.22 / 1.4240 +0.08 / -0.0017

黄金 (盎司) US\$4,157.00 +16.30

原油 (WTI) US\$91.49 +3.21

加拿大国债 (10年期) 3.93% -0.02

皇家银行子公司将投票反对 H&R REIT 的收购案

TIM KILADZE

H&R 房地产投资信托基金（H&R REIT）最大的单位持有者之一——皇家银行全球资产管理公司（RBC Global Asset Management），将投票反对另一家 REIT 对 H&R 的拟议收购，这为日益高涨的反对该交易的声浪增加了一个重量级声音。

该银行目前持有 930 万 份 H&R 单位，周四表示将投票反对 GO 住宅房地产投资信托基金（GO Residential Real Estate Investment Trust）的收购。该银行拒绝详细阐述其理由。

就在前一天，总部位于波士顿的 Mill Pond Capital 也公开反对该交易。Mill Pond 实益持有 220 万 份 H&R 单位。

H&R 在 8 月同意了一项复杂的交易，其最终结果是由 Residential 进行收购。但该交易还涉及一个由其他买家组成的财团，其中包括黑石房地产（Blackstone Real Estate）、Crestpoint Real Estate Investments Ltd. 以及由 H&R 创始人 Tom Hofstedter 亲属控制的公司 CRAL。

自 8 月中旬宣布该交易以来，H&R 和 的单位在多伦多证券交易所均出现贬值，其中 H&R 下跌 12 per cent， 下跌 20 per cent。同期，S&P / TSX Capped REIT 指数下跌 7 per cent。

H&R, B8

尽管出台新立法，国防公司仍对采购速度感到担忧

PIPPA NORMAN 创新记者 哈利法克斯

行业成员表示，将渥太华的国防投资局（Defence Investment Agency）转型为一家 Crown corporation 的新立法是一个积极的步骤，但在该机构寻求新商业模式之际，对采购进度缓慢的担忧依然存在。

周三下午，哈利法克斯会议中心内的一个宴会厅座无虚席。最近调任至 DIA 的政策与工业助理副部长 Wendy Hadwen 上台讲述其机构取得的进展，并回答利益相关者的提问。

“我们没有时间了，”她在开场白中说道。“情况非常紧急，加拿大现在必须迅速成为这样一个国家：能够将其工业优势与作战需求相结合，使其与国防需求信号保持一致，并走向世界，竞争并获胜。”

联邦政府启动其国防采购部门已近一年。该部门致力于简化涉及多个部门的采购流程，而该流程长期以来因进度迟缓以及中小企业难以进入而受到批评。

国防, B8

公司

加拿大航空 ....B11 Chipotle ....B5 General Fusion Group ....B3 星巴克 ....B5 森科能源公司（Suncor） ....B11

制造业

权力博弈 (POWER PLAY)

General Fusion 表示，在构建商业规模反应堆的道路上，该公司已达成一个新的技术里程碑 ■ B3

总部位于不列颠哥伦比亚省的 General Fusion 首席执行官 Greg Twinney 表示，该公司已将等离子体压缩至发生核聚变反应所需的高压和高温状态。JENNIFER GAUTHIER / 全球邮报

倡导公司治理的传奇商人斯蒂芬·贾里斯洛夫斯基逝世，享年 101 岁

安德鲁·威利斯 (ANDREW WILLIS) 詹姆森·伯科 (JAMESON BERKOW) 尼古拉斯·范·普拉特 (NICOLAS VAN PRAET)

亿万富翁投资者、公司治理的倡导者及前间谍斯蒂芬·贾里斯洛夫斯基 (Stephen Jarislowsky) 逝世，享年 101 岁。

贾里斯洛夫斯基先生在 20 世纪 50 年代移居蒙特利尔后，共同创立了后来成为该国最大资产管理公司之一的 Jarislowsky Fraser Ltd.。

他作为股东权利的先驱倡导者而闻名，在这一概念流行之前，他就通过与首席执行官、家族企业和董事会进行公开斗争来践行这一理念。在职业生涯后期，他成为一名慈善家，支持大学对民主的研究，并建立了该国最优秀的私人艺术收藏之一。

在 20 世纪 70 和 80 年代，贾里斯洛夫斯基先生反对由加拿大企业权势集团支持的交易，包括 Canadian Tire 背后的比尔斯 (Billes) 家族、蒙特利尔的布朗夫曼 (Bronfman) 家族、企业掠夺者康拉德·布莱克 (Conrad Black) 以及汽车零部件大亨弗兰克·斯特罗纳克 (Frank Stronach)。

周四，媒体公司 Hollinger Inc. 的前董事长兼首席执行官布莱克先生向他曾经的对手表达了敬意。

“他是一位逃离欧洲大屠杀的德裔犹太难民，曾为美国海军破译日军密码，最终成为加拿大基金管理人的泰斗。他脾气古怪、洞察力强且坚韧不拔，但始终是一位忠诚且热情的朋友，”布莱克先生在电子邮件中写道。

“所有认识他的人都将铭记并怀念他的才智与独创性，”他补充道，“他是独一无二的。” 贾里斯洛夫斯基，B8

讣告 投资大师曾是商业道德实践的斗士 ■ B17

转向短期抵押贷款使房主在利率上涨和油价冲击面前更脆弱

萨尔曼·法鲁基 (SALMAAN FAROOQUI)

选择长期固定利率抵押贷款的房主人数处于历史低点。经济学家表示，依赖更便宜但稳定性较低的产品，可能会使住房市场更容易受到货币政策变化以及外部力量（如伊朗战争引发的油价冲击）的影响。

根据加拿大国家银行 (National Bank) 的一项数据分析，今年夏天仅有 8.8% 的加拿大人签署了期限为五年或更长时间的固定利率抵押贷款。这与疫情前 era, 相比发生了重大变化，当时近 50% 的房主签署的是长期固定利率抵押贷款。

该研究的作者、国家银行高级经济学家达伦·金 (Daren King) 表示，近期债券收益率（贷款机构据此设定抵押贷款利率）的飙升以及相应的长期固定抵押贷款利率的上涨，意味着在未来几个月里，选择此类产品的消费者将进一步减少。金先生报告中的数据反映了截至 2026 年 7 月的趋势。

金先生表示，如果房主对利率的敏感度日益增加，住房市场可能会比预期更加低迷，尤其是考虑到加拿大银行预计将在未来几个月提高利率，且债券收益率继续飙升至接近两年来的高点，从而推高借贷成本。

“在 8 月和 9 月，住房市场的复苏停止了，”金先生说。“起初，这是由美国贸易冲突带来的不确定性引起的，但现在更多是利率上升的影响。”

长期固定利率借款的减少在 2022, 左右加速，当时选择此类抵押贷款的消费者不足 20%。在所有抵押贷款利率都处于高位之时，他们转而选择短期固定利率，赌借贷成本会迅速下降。在该趋势的顶峰（2023 年中期），超过 80% 的购房者选择了五年以下的固定期限。 抵押贷款，B11

丽塔·特里丘尔 (RITA TRICHUR) 阿尔伯塔省使用 AI 起草威士忌法律，证明了其对政府的潜力 B4

克里斯·博林 (CHRIS BOLIN)/ 全球邮报

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加拿大、美国及其盟友承诺打击电动汽车、电池、太阳能电池板的补贴性过剩生产 ■ B5

股票 自动赎回 ETF 已进入加拿大。 以下是投资者需要了解的内容 ■ B10

观点 凯瑟尔·凯利 (Cathal Kelly) 写道：视频回放正确判定了扬基队的出局，但却剥夺了我们见证那一时刻的机会 ■ B13

棒球 MLB 在集体谈判协议谈判中向球员提供缩短赛季的方案 ■ B13

食品通胀为月度数据的季度平均值。2026 年第三季度为 7 月和 8 月的平均值。全球邮报，来源：加拿大统计局

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食品通胀近期较为温和。但这可能无法持久

近几个月，加拿大的食品通胀出奇地低迷，尽管在超市货架前人们往往没有这种感觉。但即便消费者感受到的食品价格上涨速度在放缓，生产这些食品的农民却面临着不断攀升的成本，这可能会使这种缓解局面告终。

根据加拿大统计局的数据，反映农场经营者运行业务所需各项价格的总农场投入成本，在第二季度比去年同期飙升了 11% 以上。在过去的 25 年中，农场成本年度增长速度如此之快的情况仅出现过两次：一次是在 2008, 年底，当时经通胀调整后的油价达到了历史最高水平；另一次是在 2022, 年初，俄罗斯入侵乌克兰以及全球供应链崩溃导致大宗商品价格激增。

不出所料，推动此次激增的两大主要成本是农机燃料成本（主要指柴油）和化肥价格，这两者都反映了美国总统唐纳德·特朗普与伊朗战争带来的后果。

农业投入成本可能会出现大幅波动，但从长远来看，它们往往预示着食品价格通胀的加速。然而，目前这种联系较为微弱。

在 8 月（加拿大统计局发布消费者价格数据的最后一个月份），年度食品通胀率放缓至 2.8%，这是连续第三个月出现放缓，也是自 2024 年初以来最慢的增速。

加拿大统计局的农业投入数据仅涵盖至今年第二季度，因此它们代表的是几个月前的农业成本快照。但其轨迹显然在走高，且随着柴油价格接近历史最高水平，农民所承受的压力，以及随之而来的食品价格压力，正在不断增加。JASON KIRBY

McCarthy Tétrault 将在智利开设办事处

加拿大律师事务所通过在圣地亚哥设立专注于矿业和能源部门的办事处，扩大其在拉丁美洲的业务

詹姆森·伯科（JAMESON BERKOW） 资本市场记者

McCarthy Tétrault LLP 正在通过在智利开设实体办事处来扩大其拉丁美洲业务，并表示它是唯一一家在该地区设有实地机构的加拿大大型律师事务所。

该律所在圣地亚哥找到了大约 3,000 平方英尺的空间，已为该地点聘请了一名办公室经理，并计划在两个月内搬入。在过去四年中一直为 McCarthy Tétrault 在圣地亚哥工作的肖恩·多伊尔（Shawn Doyle）被任命为新办事处的管理合伙人。

“对我来说，强调这不仅仅是一个智利办事处非常重要，”多伊尔先生在一次采访中表示，当时他正在哥本哈根参加国际律师协会（International Bar Association）的年会。

“它将设在圣地亚哥，那是我居住的地方，它必须设在某个地方，但这是一个覆盖整个拉丁美洲的业务。”

多伊尔先生表示，矿业将是新办事处的主要关注领域，因为几家加拿大矿业公司在整个地区都有业务。他担任世界矿业律师协会（World Association of Mining Lawyers）的咨询委员会成员，此前曾担任波兰铜银矿业公司 KGHM Polska Miedz SA 的智利国家经理，任期三年。

该律所在圣地亚哥找到了大约 3,000 平方英尺的空间，已为该地点聘请了一名办公室经理，并计划在两个月内搬入。

其他几家加拿大律师事务所也拥有长期建立的拉丁美洲业务，但通常是从加拿大境内运营。

“这是他们矿业业务的一部分，也是他们能源业务的一部分，”多伊尔先生说。“我认为没有其他律所像我们在过去几年中那样，将该地区作为一个整体，采取如此有条理、全面且具有战略性的方法。”

他表示，开设一个除他之外还能容纳“数名”其他加拿大律师的办事处，“是对我们战略重点以及对该地区承诺的再次确认”。

“你可以从加拿大完成我们所做的一部分工作，但有些工作我们可以做得更好，能给客户提供更多帮助，因为我们在字面意义和比喻意义上都精通当地语言，”多伊尔先生说。“我们了解正在发生的事情。我们离行动现场更近。这通常可以转化为为我们的客户提供更好、更具情境意识的建议。”

加拿大与拉丁美洲及加勒比地区的贸易在过去几年中稳步增长。根据加拿大全球事务部的数据，加拿大与该地区的贸易总额增长了超过三分之一，从 2018 年的大约 $70-billion 增长到 2024 年的约 $95-billion。

加拿大全球事务部的数据显示，2024, 该地区约占加拿大所有海外直接投资的 20%，即约 $475-billion。

“当今的主题是加拿大经济关系的多元化，尽管关注点通常在欧洲和亚洲，”多伊尔先生说。“那些地方很重要，但拉丁美洲近在咫尺，同样重要。”

议会预算办公室（PBO）估计，联邦政府暂停征收汽油税将使最高收入五分位组的家庭平均节省 $468, 而最低五分位组的家庭仅节省 $132。KEITO NEWMAN / 加拿大新闻社

PBO发现：渥太华的燃油税减免将使高收入家庭获益更多

克雷格·洛德 渥太华

议会预算专员在最新报告中表示，渥太华的燃油税暂停措施为收入最高的家庭提供了更大的加油站减免，这主要是因为他们购买的燃料更多。

联邦政府于4月暂时暂停了对汽油、柴油和航空燃料征收的联邦消费税。此次暂停原定于9月7日结束，但政府上个月宣布将该暂停期限延长至2027年。

从2月1日起将重新适用一半的税率，并于4月1日恢复全额税率。议会预算专员安妮特·瑞安（Annette Ryan）在周四的一份新报告中表示，在约一年的实施期间，此次总体的税收暂停将为平均每个家庭节省$276。

但对于处于较高税档的家庭来说，这些节省额度会增加。PBO估计，收入最高五分位组的家庭预计平均可节省$468，而收入最低五分位组的家庭仅能获得$132的救济。

燃料成本通常在低收入家庭的总预算中占比较大，但收入较高的家庭通常在加油站的支出也更多。

自由党暂停征收燃料消费税，是为了让加拿大人在由伊朗战争引发的全球能源冲击中获得救济。

联邦政府于4月暂时暂停了对汽油、柴油和航空燃料征收的联邦消费税。

政府尚未提供该计划每户家庭节省税款的预估值。渥太华方面表示，此次暂停每升汽油约减免10美分，每升柴油约减免4美分。

财政部长弗朗索瓦-菲利普·香槟（François-Philippe Champagne）的发言人约翰·弗拉戈斯（John Fragos）表示，燃油税暂停是一项普惠措施，根据所有加拿大人的驾驶里程平等适用。

他指出，自由党的另一项主要负担能力计划——加拿大杂货与必需品补贴（Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit）是经过收入测试的，通过直接支付比例地使低收入家庭获益。

弗拉戈斯先生还表示，柴油成本的减轻可以通过加拿大的供应链传递。他认为，每升燃料的这些节省可以降低企业的成本，从而降低消费者在商店货架上看到的最终价格。

PBO指出，其预估假设税收减免带来的总节省由生产商传递，但如果公司保留这些节省，该预测可能会受到影响。预算办公室预计，燃油税暂停的总成本将为$4.9-billion，略低于联邦政府预估的$5.3-billion。

联邦保守党本周试图通过一项动议，以延长税收减免并削减与柴油生产相关的其他费用，但该提案在周三被众议院的其他政党投票否决。

加拿大新闻社

监管机构称：先进人工智能增加了银行的网络安全风险

STEFANIE MAROTTA 银行记者

加拿大的银行监管机构警告称，人工智能的快速发展正在放大该国金融系统的网络安全和技术主权风险。

金融机构监管局（OSFI）在其关于银行部门面临的最大威胁的秋季更新报告中强调了人工智能风险。该监管机构表示，自今年4月公布年度风险展望以来，人工智能的发展速度已“显著加快”。

OSFI表示，前沿模型的变革速度是“前所未有”的，且从发现漏洞到该漏洞可能被利用之间的时间已缩短，从而减少了金融机构识别风险并予以解决的时间。

“在人工智能能力不断提升的时代，韧性是一种竞争优势，”OSFI监管局局长彼得·劳特利奇（Peter Routledge）在周四随秋季更新发布的声明中表示。“能够负责任地利用人工智能，同时管理网络、技术和第三方风险的金融机构，将能够在复杂环境中占据优势。”

周三，劳特利奇先生在面对一群金融机构风险专业人士时表示，由于人工智能代理以及Anthropic强大的Claude Mythos模型带来的威胁正在升级，增加了该国银行的风险，监管机构计划实施一套人工智能“安全准则”。

他表示，虽然该计划仍处于早期阶段，但指南可能由广泛的高层标准组成，旨在为金融系统提供基础水平的安全与保护，同时建立一个“宽广的创新周界”。

加拿大银行一直在越来越多地开展人工智能研究，并实施旨在提高生产力和创造收入的工具。周二，人工智能基准测试平台Evident在一份关于人工智能采用情况的50家全球金融机构名单中，将加拿大的五大银行全部列入前30名。

但OSFI在秋季更新中指出，人工智能的进步也增加了网络攻击的速度和复杂程度，这可能导致看似微小的弱点被利用，从而发起高影响力的攻击。

该监管机构表示：“前沿人工智能模型能够定位并利用更多漏洞，使对手能够在系统、应用程序和第三方生态系统中发起协调的大规模攻击。”

根据秋季更新报告，加拿大的技术主权风险也在上升。前沿模型的开发由少数供应商主导，且许多供应商集中在加拿大境外。

OSFI表示，包括外国市场的技术限制和政策行动在内的地缘政治紧张局势升级，可能会影响加拿大机构获取技术和服务。

OSFI近期一直在加强对人工智能的监督。2023年，该监管机构与全球风险研究所（Global Risk Institute）发布了一份关于人工智能对金融服务机构影响的报告。OSFI此前在其年度风险展望中也将人工智能列为关键威胁。

今年早些时候，该监管机构发布了两份关于生成式人工智能、代理式人工智能以及前沿人工智能的技术风险公告，并列出了加强应对漏洞韧性的方法。

General Fusion 达成等离子体里程碑

General Fusion 集团周四表示，该公司已将氢等离子体压缩至电子能量超过 1 千电子伏特（1 keV），相当于超过 1200 万 摄氏度。JENNIFER GAUTHIER / THE GLOBE AND MAIL

这家卑诗省公司表示，最新测试标志着在构建商业规模反应堆方面取得了进展

IVAN SEMENIUK 科学记者

加拿大在新兴聚变能源领域的主要竞争者 General Fusion Group Ltd. 声称，在构建商业规模反应堆的道路上达成了一个新里程碑。

周四，这家位于卑诗省里士满的公司宣布，它已成功将氢等离子体压缩至等离子体中电子能量超过 1 千电子伏特（1 keV）的程度——这一阈值大致相当于略高于 1200 万 摄氏度的温度。

该结果证明了在将等离子体压缩至聚变反应所需极高压力和温度的同时，能够维持其稳定性的能力。这代表了该公司在探索其名为“磁化靶聚变”的独特方法时，试图实现的一系列目标中的第一个。

该公司首席执行官 Greg Twinney 表示：“这是向商业化迈出的一步，旨在通过聚变能源提供可靠的商业清洁电力。”

他补充说，这一成就使公司向下一个目标迈进，即达到高 10 倍的能量，并最终在 2035 年前运行一座示范电站。

General Fusion 成立于 2002, 年，在 7 月与一家特殊目的收购公司合并后成为一家上市公司，更名为 General Fusion Group Ltd.，目前市值约为 $500-million。

General Fusion 的股价周四飙升，在纳斯达克股票交易所收盘上涨超过 14%，至 $8.71。

Twinney 先生表示，在此过程中筹集的资金将“支持我们完成接下来的几个里程碑”。

聚变是一种科学家长期希望用于发电的核反应。它通过结合轻元素的原子核（通常是氢的不同形式）来释放能量。

相比之下，裂变（传统核反应堆内部运行的过程）涉及分解像铀这样的重原子核。

如果聚变能够成功实现，它将带来诸多优势，包括每单位燃料所能提供的能量远高于裂变。

关键挑战在于，燃料必须在达到产生能量超过维持过程所需能量的临界点之前被加热到极高温度。净能量增益的点被称为 Q 大于 1。

General Fusion 是全球几家测试聚变商业化方法的公司之一。其方法涉及压缩一个内部含有氢的锂金属壳，以驱动氢达到聚变条件。

自 2023, 年以来，该公司一直在开发 LM26，这是一台旨在测试该方法的机器，该公司已利用它分阶段实现了强度不断增加的压缩。

Twinney 先生表示，General Fusion 在过去三个月内达成了 1 keV 的里程碑。该公司已公布其结果，并提交了两篇技术论文以供同行评审。

为了对其 1 keV 的测量结果获得独立确认，该公司与英国原子能管理局合作。该管理局在测量等离子体方面拥有数十年的专业知识，这些知识是在运行联合欧洲环形装置（Joint European Torus）的过程中积累的，后者是位于牛津郡的一个聚变实验装置，运行至 2023 年。

该管理局与 General Fusion 共同构建了一个基于激光的系统，通过一种被称为汤姆逊散射（Thomson scattering）的效应来测量等离子体中的电子能量，这是该行业的金标准。

虽然该测量结果与等离子体中的电子相关，而非参与聚变的氢原子核，但 General Fusion 的首席战略官梅根·威尔逊（Megan Wilson）表示，根据等离子体释放的中子测量结果及其他指标，这些原子核同样显示出“显著的加热”现象。

该公司在实现商业能源生产之前仍有许多障碍需要克服。一旦使用 LM26 达到预期的等离子体能量，该公司计划将等离子体周围的衬层从固体改为液态金属，随后可将其部署在反应堆内部，通过重复循环而非单次触发来压缩等离子体。由此产生的能量脉冲将被用于发电厂。

该公司的方法在几毫秒内压缩等离子体，而非某些其他方法所需的纳秒级极短时间尺度。威尔逊女士表示，这意味着“该过程所需的功率更低，复杂程度更低，且最终成本更低”。

在与 General Fusion 发表的联合声明中，领先的聚变专家兼英国该机构新任首席执行官丹尼斯·怀特（Dennis Whyte）表示，1 keV 的里程碑“反映了 General Fusion 以及私营部门中采用多种不同聚变方法的其他公司所取得的切实进展”。

总部位于美国的聚变工业协会（Fusion Industry Association）在其最新的行业调查中列出了全球 56 家聚变公司，估计总资金达 US$14.2-billion。

公司称前 Infoway 首席执行官被解雇部分原因是委员会证词

克里斯·汉奈 (CHRIS HANNAY)

加拿大健康信息高速公路 (Canada Health Infoway) 在一份新的法律文件中辩称，其前首席执行官被解雇的部分原因是他在议会委员会的证词对这家由联邦政府资助的机构的公众形象产生了负面影响。

长期担任首席执行官的迈克尔·格林 (Michael Green) 于 4 月 29 日被解雇。就在几天前，他曾在众议院健康委员会作证，回答国会议员关于 PrescribeIT 失败的问题。PrescribeIT 是一个近 $300-million 的联邦项目，旨在推动医生以电子方式发送处方。

正如《全球邮报》此前报道，在 董事会决定于 5 月 29 日取消该服务时，通过该服务的处方比例不足 5%。

格林先生于 7 月 30 日提起了一项非法解雇诉讼，指称自己成了该项目失败的替罪羊。他主张自己应获得超过 $3-million 的损害赔偿。

在 10 月 1 日提交的辩护陈述中， 辩称格林先生“是被基于正当理由且在无过错的情况下终止聘用的”。

表示，其董事会在过去几年中给格林先生的绩效评级为“超出预期”和“蓬勃发展”，但由于对其绩效的担忧，将其 2025-26 财年的评级下调为“达标”，其中“包括未能为 PrescribeIT 建立可持续的资金模式”。

在辩护陈述中表示，格林先生在议会委员会的出席“未达到董事会对首席执行官的预期，并对 的公众声誉及其与利益相关者的关系产生了负面影响”。

陈述中称，国会议员“对原告的回答表示不满，包括关于 PrescribeIT 的资金和成本、采用率、高管薪酬，以及 PrescribeIT 从现有模式向开放标准模式转型的理由等问题”。

在陈述中表示，董事会此前已经在考虑为该机构在 PrescribeIT 之后的未来寻找具备不同技能的新领导层，并补充说，在委员会的作证“证实”了这些担忧。

表示，它提供了符合格林先生合同的离职补偿方案，其中包括一年的基本工资和福利，以及部分奖金、注册退休储蓄计划 (RRSP) 缴款和汽车津贴。

在被解雇之前，格林先生的年度总薪酬接近 $900,000，他自 2014 年起担任首席执行官。

尽管 PrescribeIT 在 5 月份已在全国大部分地区停止运行，但魁北克省在夏季宣布，将在该省继续运行该项目的一个版本，为期四年。该魁北克平台最初是一个涉及 14 家药店的试点项目，本周已扩展至 134 个站点。

6 月，卫生部长马乔里·米歇尔 (Marjorie Michel) 的办公室表示，将暂停对 的资金支持，并要求对该机构进行第三方审计和战略审查。周二，米歇尔女士在众议院表示，在审查结果出炉之前， 在本财年仍未收到任何联邦资金。

曾质询过格林先生的保守党议员丹·马齐尔 (Dan Mazier) 表示，应该停止对 的资助，并指出加拿大卫生部在该机构的董事会中占有一个席位。

他说：“多年来，由卫生部长下属官员担任成员的 董事会将其绩效评为‘超出预期’和‘蓬勃发展’，而 $300-million 却浪费在一个没人使用的项目上。”

本文由 Tu Thanh Ha 共同报道

Corus完成资本重组，重组后任命新董事会

艾琳·加莱亚 (IRENE GALEA)

Corus Entertainment Inc. 已完成其资本重组计划并任命了新董事会。新董事会将致力于加强这家陷入困境的媒体公司的资产负债表，以应对收入下降和广告需求疲软的问题。

董事会面临的挑战是如何扭转一家经历了多轮裁员、且在传统广播行业普遍承压环境下运营的公司。与此同时，Corus一直被迫与流媒体巨头竞争观众的注意力。

该公司去年与债权人达成协议，以便在应对沉重债务负担和流动性限制的同时维持运营。

此次重组已于9月获得电信监管机构批准。部分贷款机构将约 $500-million 的债务兑换为新母公司 Corus Entertainment Holdings Inc. 99% 的所有权权益，该公司将管理 Corus 旗下的 40 个电视台和 36 个广播电台。

新董事会将由 Maryann Turcke、Erin O'Toole、Stuart Garvie、Jeremy Walker 以及 Corus 首席执行官兼临时首席财务官 John Gossling 组成。

Turcke 女士被任命为董事会主席。这位媒体高管近期曾担任美国国家橄榄球联盟 (NFL) 的首席运营官，此前曾任 Bell Media 总裁。她还是包括加拿大皇家银行在内的多家公司的董事会成员。

“我们希望建立一个具有韧性且能面向未来增长的企业，”Turcke 女士在声明中表示。“我们的首要任务是通过提供加拿大人信任的新闻和加拿大人喜爱的娱乐节目，继续加强 Corus 在加拿大的领导地位。”

O'Toole 先生是企业情报与风险管理公司 ADIT North America 的总裁兼董事总经理，他将领导人力资源与治理委员会。O'Toole 先生曾在议会任职十余年，曾担任内阁部长，随后担任保守党官方反对党领袖。

“Corus 不仅在媒体行业中发挥着至关重要的作用，而且在加拿大文化和民主的结构中也具有重要意义，”O'Toole 先生在声明中表示。

他补充说，渥太华应当努力调整其监管框架以确保加拿大的主权，因为其广播公司正与“意图制定全球数字经济规则的美国主导平台”展开竞争。

Garvie 先生将担任运营委员会主席。Garvie 先生在媒体和广告行业担任过一系列高管职务，包括担任 Bell Media Sales 总裁，以及媒体购买机构 WPP Media Canada 的前首席执行官。

Walker 先生曾任 TD Securities 通信、电信和媒体部门的副主席兼全球主管，他将担任公司的审计委员会主席。

Gossling 先生在声明中表示，经过调整的资本结构将使 Corus 处于“新机遇和未来增长”的有利位置。

Corus 报告称，在截至 5 月 31 日的第三季度，其收入较去年同期下降了 16%。其综合利润率从去年的 21% 下降至 12%。公司公布的可归属于股东的亏损为 $32.5-million，而去年同期亏损为 $7-million。

然而，其自由现金流为 $6-million，高于 2025 年的 $32.5-million 亏损。

Corus 在 7 月份裁减了数十个媒体岗位，特别是在加拿大西部，因为该公司采取措施将其部分 Global News 电视台的运营集中化，并在 8 月份确认了进一步的裁员。

Corus 在新闻稿中表示，预计其现有的 B 类无投票权股票将在 10 月 9 日交易收盘时从多伦多证券交易所除名。控股公司的新普通股和可变投票权股将于 10 月 13 日市场开盘时开始交易，股票代码为“CORS”。

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阿尔伯塔省使用人工智能引发法律界关注

今年早些时候，阿尔伯塔蒸馏公司（Alberta Distillers）推出了 Northern Keep，这是一款由加拿大种植的黑麦和小麦生产的高端伏特加。《阿尔伯塔威士忌法》（Alberta Whisky Act）制定了新的标签标准，旨在提升这个西部省份蒸馏酒的品牌影响力。

在利用人工智能起草《威士忌法》的过程中，该省对这项技术的运用证明了其潜力。

丽塔·特里丘尔（RITA TRICHUR）

观点

阿尔伯塔省省长丹妮尔·史密斯（Danielle Smith）政府在利用人工智能制定新立法方面采取了一种大胆的方式。

该政府利用少量人工智能起草了具有里程碑意义的《阿尔伯塔威士忌法》，该法制定了新的标签标准，以提升这个西部省份蒸馏酒的品牌影响力。其目的是赋予该产品一种类似于肯塔基波本威士忌地位的区域认同感。

但营销策略并非这个故事中最强有力的部分。阿尔伯塔省对人工智能的先驱性应用被认为标志着加拿大任何司法管辖区首次将该技术用于立法目的。因此，不难理解为什么该国的法律界认为这很精妙。

法律事务所 Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP 近几周发布了两份关于此问题的报告，引发了关于政府在制定立法时使用人工智能所带来的机遇与风险的更广泛讨论。

Fasken 的“精炼法律”（Distilled Law）系列报告的第一部分认为，阿尔伯塔省的开拓性举措引起了远超食品和饮料行业的关注，激发了政策制定者、技术爱好者、知识产权律师以及其他对政府使用人工智能案例感兴趣的法律专家的兴趣。

“《威士忌法》凸显了一个更广泛的问题：人工智能在立法发展中应该扮演什么样的角色？”Fasken 该系列于 9 月 15 日发布的第二部分报告中指出。

阿尔伯塔服务与减少繁文缛节部部长戴尔·纳利（Dale Nally）表示，政府在立法的初步起草阶段使用了人工智能，称这是该省迈出的“第一步良好尝试”。

“我们一直强调，我们不会让人工智能独立编写立法，而只是让它在房间后方就座。我们表示，每一步都会有人监督，”纳利先生在今年早些时候告诉记者。

“因此，我们使用人工智能来分析数据，并真正构建出我们可以据此开展工作的基础模块。对此我们感到满意。”

阿尔伯塔省政府在对人工智能的创新应用方面确实开辟了新领域。即便如此，纳利先生似乎对该技术的潜在陷阱有着清醒的认识。

“我们并不真的预见到一个由人工智能独立编写所有立法的世界，”他说。“但我们确实预见到人工智能可以成为编写立法的工具之一。”

这是人们能从阿尔伯塔省尝试人工智能辅助立法中获得的最重要的启示：真实的人类从未放弃其监督责任。

Fasken 的分析恰如其分地强调了“人工智能辅助立法起草的局限性”，即便该技术可以处理繁琐且耗时的任务，例如综合大量信息和标记事实错误。

报告强调，起草立法还需要关于政府政策目标以及对公民产生的任何现实后果的“背景知识和判断力”。

“还存在偏见风险：因为人工智能系统反映了其训练数据，它们可能会引入不符合立法倡议具体条件，或倾向于此类数据中所反映的特定方法的假设或优先级，”Fasken 的第二份报告指出。

“基于这些原因，人类的监督仍然至关重要。立法顾问和政策制定者必须能够审查并评估 AI 辅助立法起草的所有方面。”

换句话说，政府官员和官僚在利用 AI 起草法律时，不能像自动机一样机械操作。人类的洞察力提供了必要的、冷静的二次思考。

尽管如此，阿尔伯塔省的尝试是具有前景的，因为它指向了政府更实际的 应用，而政府向来以生产力迟缓著称。

根据经济合作与发展组织（OECD）的一份 2025 年报告，阿尔伯塔省还使用了一套启用 的山火预测系统，该系统利用历史火灾、天气和生态数据。

同一项 OECD 研究发现，政府主要将 用于改善其“内部运作”和“公共服务交付”。立法者很少将其用于政策制定目的。

在起草法律文本方面，OECD 指出，“ 系统可以通过使用模板和现有法律来生成初步草案”。

其报告称：“这一过程有助于在节省时间和资源的同时，确保符合标准。此外， 可以将新草案与现行法律进行交叉引用，识别潜在冲突并最大限度地减少人为错误。”

因此，政府面临的挑战是在不错过技术益处的情况下，减轻该技术带来的风险。

阿尔伯塔省利用 起草其威士忌法律，证明了该技术不断演进的潜力。但政府必须在谨慎的基调下使用它，否则将面临陷入困境的风险。

马克·卡尼已开始整治移民问题，他需要坚持下去

托尼·凯勒 (TONY KELLER)

观点

卡尼政府在过去一年半的时间里一直在全力扭转方向，试图摆脱特鲁多政府一些最严重的航向错误。

前任政府在其中一个大问题上犯了严重错误，而现任政府表示希望规划一条不同路线，这个问题就是移民。

马克·卡尼总理在该问题上的关键词是“控制”。每当谈到移民时，这是他首先想到的词。在回答《纽约时报》关于移民的一个问题时，他使用了七次这个词。

这并不意味着关闭边境或停止所有入境。而是在贾斯廷·特鲁多创纪录的激增之后，适度降低移民水平，并让公众感觉到政府重新掌控了谁能来到加拿大以及谁能留下。

马克·卡尼总理在该问题上的关键词是“控制”。每当谈到移民时，这是他首先想到的词。在回答《纽约时报》关于移民的一个问题时，他使用了七次这个词。

随着自2024年以来学生入境人数大幅下降，以及难民申请积压量在多年来首次下降，卡尼团队可以声称在移民问题上取得了进展。

然而，正如我本周早些时候所写，仍有相当多的方向修正工作要做。

卡尼政府还需要做些什么？

让我们回顾一下现状以及我们是如何走到这一步的

在前任政府领导下，无论雇主和教育机构是优秀、一般还是糟糕，都被提供了无限数量的临时工作签证和学生许可。这导致招聘人员在发展中国家四处搜寻，以几个学期的学习和在名不见经传的“速成”学院支付低廉学费为代价，出售获得加拿大公民身份的希望。

在2022年和2024年之间，加拿大新居民人数年均达到100万——这是20世纪90年代、2000年代或2010年代初水平的四倍。到2024年，加拿大的合法临时居民人口增长至300万。

这是一次前所未有且未经计划的移民激增，其驱动力是一个标榜自己进步的政府，但其行为却仿佛加拿大的主要经济问题是缺乏愿意以最低工资或更低薪资工作的人。

特鲁多政府在最后一年开始退缩，卡尼政府则延续了这一做法。学生签证的数量已被限制在远低于两年前高峰的水平。在2024年夏天曾超过100万的在加外国学生人数，现在已下降至590,000。

然而，如此多的人持有临时签证入境所带来的后遗症依然存在。

根据联邦移民局的数据，自2023.年1月以来，持签证学生人数减少了404,000。但持有工作签证的人数（主要是之前的签证学生）增加了327,000。过去四年中，加拿大的寻求庇护申请人数也增长了三倍多，达到530,000。

结果，合法临时居民人口——卡尼政府希望将其降低至总人口的5%，即约210 万——在过去两年中几乎没有变动。在2024年底达到300万的峰值后，加拿大统计局估计目前为280 万。

尽管加拿大将很大一部分永久移民名额分配给了临时居民，情况依然如此。

此外，作为后遗症的一部分，加拿大统计局表示，其之前的人口数据（假设签证到期的人立即离开）是不准确的。

现在，它拥有关于谁离开、谁获得另一张签证并留下的更好信息。（它仍在研究如何衡量有多少人是在没有合法许可的情况下留在加拿大的。）

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由于离开的临时居民减少，此前被广泛报道的 2025 年加拿大人口下降情况实际上并未发生。

在接下来的几周内，渥太华将公布其年度移民计划，其中包括未来几年的临时和永久移民人数目标。

加拿大移民政策的主要目标应该是造福加拿大。移民可以造福加拿大，我们应该大声且清晰地表达这一点。但我们也需要承认，前任政府在移民选择上带来的负面影响多于正面影响，尤其是激化了我们的政治矛盾。

加拿大移民计划的一部分将始终是欢迎海外难民。另一部分将始终是家庭团聚。但加拿大的主要重点一直是独立经济移民。在特鲁多政府之前，政策日益强调那些凭借教育、技能和经验在加拿大打分系统中获得高分的移民。

通过经济渠道进入的约三分之二的移民，应当像选拔大学申请者那样被挑选。历史上，加拿大在这方面做得相当出色。

我们需要回归这种方法，并进一步加强。

自由党和保守党还需要屏蔽极左和极右翼最激进的声音。忽略那些完全从身份政治视角看待移民问题的边缘少数群体。

相反，应当务实且理性。为处于中左翼和中右翼的绝大多数沉默的加拿大人制定政策，他们只想知道我们的边境是有意义的，移民是经过仔细挑选的，且移民可以是一条造福移民和加拿大人的双向街道。

移民在加拿大如此长的时间里没有引起争议，是因为之前的政府天生理解这种契约，并追求一种共同的、非党派的移民政策。我们需要回归到那种状态。

如何实现？

继续减少临时移民：临时移民渠道曾经规模很小，但在特鲁多政府时期爆发式增长。这些渠道被视为获得永久移民的后门，供那些原本分数不足以获得永久移民许可的人使用。

这些路径需要被缩减，其中一些需要被取消。卡尼政府承诺到明年将临时居民人数降低至全国人口的 5%，但进度严重滞后。无论如何，这个目标定得太高了。

C.D. Howe 研究所的移民专家组建议将目标定为 3%。我同意。此外，未来绝大多数的临时居民应该是高质量的签证学生，或持有研究生工作许可的前学生。

终止低薪临时外国工人计划：给加拿大企业提供临时聘请海外航空工程师的灵活性是有意义的。但发放低薪工作的临时签证则毫无意义。加拿大在一些高薪领域缺乏受过教育和拥有技能的人才，但并不存在普遍的劳动力短缺，也不缺乏非技术工人。

年薪低于 $100,000 的工作不应再提供临时工作签证，唯一的例外是长期存在的季节性农业工人计划。减少初级职位的可用人力池，应当使收入阶层底端的工资感受到一定的上涨压力。这将是一件好事。

将学生签证集中在最优秀的人才身上：有限的学生签证名额应分配给最高质量的机构和项目，录取最合格的学生，并收取最高的国际学费。

在特鲁多时代，情况恰恰相反。各省——以安大略省为首——利用不受限制的学生签证数量，鼓励那些最弱且学费最低的机构（主要是公立和私立学院）进行敛财。当时被出售的是进入加拿大的入场券，而非教育。

我们的顶尖公立大学，其国际本科生学费在 $50,000 及以上，部分硕士项目的费用甚至更高，应该获得几乎所有的签证。私立学院不应获得任何签证。公立学院应获得极少数量的签证。

稳定的永久移民：从 20 世纪 90 年代初直到特鲁多政府之前，无论是在自由党还是保守党执政期间，加拿大的移民率都相对稳定。这有助于让移民问题像运行良好的管道一样，变得乏味且不被察觉。

让我们将移民率设定为人口的 0.7%，这大约是 300,000 名新移民。年复一年地将该比率维持在这一水平，且不设期限。

0.7% 的移民率将与特鲁多政府之前的四分之一个世纪的情况持平。这远低于加拿大在 2022 到 2024 年间达到的水平，也略低于卡尼政府设定的目标数字。但按照国际标准，这仍然高于平均水平。

正如我在关于移民的书中详细阐述的那样，在唐纳德·特朗普总统首次当选前的几十年里，美国的合法移民水平大约在 0.3% 左右。

与其他关键文件一样，卡尼政府已经开始在移民问题上转向。与这些其他问题一样，仍需要进一步的转向。

加拿大及其盟友针对工厂产能过剩采取行动

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联合承诺警告电动汽车、电池和太阳能电池板的产能过剩损害国内产业

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加拿大、美国、欧盟以及十几个盟友在周三的一份联合声明中承诺，将共同应对电动汽车、电池和太阳能电池板的全球产能过剩问题，华盛顿将这一问题归咎于中国。

共有 14 个国家（均为二十国集团成员）以及欧盟签署了这份公报。公报警告称，由“政府政策或干预所创建、维持或促成的”工厂产能过剩，正给签署国的国内产业带来日益严重的损害。

然而值得注意的是，包括中国、巴西、印度尼西亚、俄罗斯、沙特阿拉伯和南非在内的 G20 成员并未签署该声明。

该声明并未点名任何被认为对补贴工厂或过度生产商品以充斥全球市场负有责任的国家。

但它指出了受影响的行业：电动汽车、电池、太阳能电池板、化学品和部分半导体。

联合声明称：“我们担心，如果缺乏及时有效的行动，这些部门的结构性产能过剩和生产将使我们的国内产业瘫痪，取代本地生产，摧毁就业机会，削弱我们的经济，阻碍发展和工业化进程，并最终降低我们人民的生活水平。”

美国将重点放在打击工厂产能过剩的措施上（并将北京视为主要罪魁祸首），这可能会在总理马克·卡尼试图推进与习近平主席关于允许中国在加拿大经济中发挥更大作用的谈判时，使其束手束脚。

对于卡尼先生来说，挑战在于，考虑到美国在当前美加贸易争端中的要求，如何向中国提供更多准入机会。在目前处于暂停状态的贸易谈判中，美国政府一直试图向加拿大施压，要求其将关税与美国针对中国征收的高额税率保持一致。

美国贸易代表杰米森·格里尔（Jamieson Greer）在周四特别指出，加拿大同意了该公报。

“他们签署了我们关于产能过剩的这份声明，他们知道这也是一个问题，”格里尔先生告诉 CNBC。

他表示，美国及其盟友“已同意协调行动”。

卡尼先生预计将于下个月在由北京主办的亚太经合组织（APEC）峰会期间，在中国深圳会见习近平先生。两国领导人将评估迄今为止在促进贸易和投资方面取得的进展。

格里尔先生告诉 CNBC，美国的关注点是中国工厂的产能过剩，但也包括越南和其他亚洲经济体，他表示这些国家补贴生产并非为了满足其公民的需求，而是为了占领外国市场。

他说：“这使得美国工人，或者欧盟、日本或任何其他地方的工人根本无法取得进步。”

格里尔先生指出，欧盟贸易专员马罗斯·谢夫乔维奇（Maros Sefcovic）周四表示，他访问北京的目标之一是试图“重新平衡欧盟与中国之间不可持续的贸易逆差”。

中国政府否认了其通过产能过剩和出口来主导外国市场的指控。

正是对工厂产能过剩的担忧，导致加拿大在 2024 年加入美国，对中国制造的电动汽车征收 100% 的关税。

卡尼先生在今年早些时候与北京改善关系期间，在这一问题上与华盛顿分道扬镳，允许部分中国制造的电动汽车以大幅降低的关税进入加拿大。49,000 辆的配额将在未来几年内逐年增加。

周三的声明由阿根廷、澳大利亚、加拿大、欧盟、法国、德国、印度、意大利、日本、韩国、墨西哥、波兰、土耳其、英国和美国共同签署。

据报道星巴克曾考虑收购 Chipotle

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据《金融时报》周四报道，星巴克公司（Starbucks Corp.）曾探讨收购 Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. 的可能性。此举将使首席执行官布赖恩·尼科尔（Brian Niccol）与其在两年前加入这家咖啡巨头之前所领导的卷饼连锁店重新结合。

此次潜在交易发生之际，餐饮连锁店正与因通货膨胀而疲惫的消费者的不确定需求以及不断上升的运营成本作斗争，这促使各公司在面临提高盈利能力压力的同时，寻找新的增长途径。据《金融时报》援引知情人士的话报道，星巴克近几个月来一直与顾问合作，就收购 的提案进行研究。

星巴克和 没有立即回应路透社的置评请求。 的市值接近 US$39-billion，其股价周四上涨约 6 per cent，而星巴克的股价则下跌约 3 per cent。根据 LSEG 的数据，星巴克的市值约为 US$107-billion。

分析师表示，任何收购对于仍在大规模投资转型努力的星巴克来说，都可能是一项成本高昂的任务。

eToro 全球市场战略师 Lale Akoner 表示：“一项交易可能需要大量借贷或发行股票。如果没有令人信服的财务理由，投资者可能会将此次交易视为一项昂贵的干扰。”

星巴克正处于尼科尔先生领导的转型之中，他将通过投资人员配置和门店改进来优先提高客户满意度，旨在缩短等待时间并恢复曾帮助该连锁店成为全球品牌的咖啡馆氛围。

自 2024, 年 9 月加入该公司以来，星巴克已承诺投入至少 US$500-million 用于劳动力投资，作为其重组计划的一部分，这增加了盈利压力。

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加拿大具备在生命科学领域领先的实力。现在，它能实现吗？

布里斯托-迈尔斯 Squibb 加拿大公司新任总经理表示，每一次延迟都意味着一名患者在等待一种已经存在的治疗方案。

领导地位取决于一个能够鼓励公司将临床试验和新疗法引入此地的准入环境。

当马西米利亚诺·马格内利（Massimiliano Magnelli）于 8 月抵达加拿大，正式就任布里斯托-迈尔斯 Squibb (BMS) 加拿大公司总经理时，他带来了在国际市场积累的二十多年生命科学经验。他说，他在加拿大发现的是一个充满希望，但在兑现患者应得的成果方面仍有不足的体系。

“加拿大拥有在生命科学领域领先所需的一切，”马格内利先生说。“我们致力于成为一个战略性和值得信赖的合作伙伴，以确保我们的体系能够为患者兑现这一承诺。”

这并非一次常规的自我介绍。用马格内利先生的话说，这是基于他就任以来观察到的情况而发出的行动号召。

实力与结构性差距的碰撞 加拿大的优势是真实存在的。世界级的研究机构、顶尖的临床人才和强大的科学基础，使该国成为了制药投资的磁石。马格内利先生指出，加拿大的临床试验生态系统是一项国家优势，能够支持患者、研究人员以及高技能就业岗位。但这种领导地位取决于一个能够鼓励公司将临床试验和新疗法引入此地的准入环境。

而这正是差距依然存在的地方。尽管获得了加拿大卫生部的批准，但越来越多的药物无法触达患者。事实上，只有 21 per cent 的新药能通过加拿大的公共计划提供。对于那些能够提供的药物，加拿大人在批准后平均需要等待两年——这是 G7 国家中最长的等待时间。

对于患有严重或复杂疾病的人来说，这些延迟可能会对其健康结果和生活质量产生实质性的影响。

马格内利先生认为当前是一个罕见的机会。他说，今年 7 月，联邦政府的医药与生命科学部门工作组提出了一系列建议，政府、行业和患者团体对此基本达成一致，现在是将建议转化为实施的时候了。

优先事项包括：现代化健康技术评估和泛加拿大药物联盟 (pCPA) 的方法，以反映治疗方案在临床、患者和社会层面的完整价值；缩短患者获得药物的时间；改革加拿大药物管理局 (CDA-AMC)；以及增加联邦对创新药物的投资。

安大略省的 FAST 计划证明其可行性

马格内利先生将安大略省的特定治疗加速资助 (FAST) 计划作为证据，证明更快的准入与系统的可持续性并非互不兼容。这项试点计划旨在加速选定癌症药物的准入，帮助资助的治疗方案在获得公共报销的速度上比类似的优先药物快约 60 per cent。事实上，在有数据可查的情况下，其他省份的列入名单时间比安大略省长达四个月，平均延迟三个月。

“它为其他司法管辖区提供了一个模型，并表明一个灵活的、以患者为中心的报销体系是可以实现的，”马格内利先生说。他谨慎地将 FAST 定义为一个证明点而非完整解决方案，并鼓励其他省份和地区考虑扩大类似方法的规模。

依托加拿大的优势 BMS 加拿大每年在研发方面投资近 \$45-million，与全国各地的机构合作，助力在大型制药公司中建立加拿大最大的临床试验网络之一。

到2025年底，该公司在多个治疗领域拥有100项活跃试验，涉及近300个站点的约1,000名患者，在加拿大活跃试验数量最多的制药公司中排名前五。BMS全球优先临床试验中，近70%在加拿大开展。

“全球总部在决定将下一个临床研究项目引入何处时，会越来越多地评估一个国家的准入环境，”

马格内利先生表示。“加拿大的研究环境使其能够很好地满足这一标准，但前提是必须优先考虑对创新药物的投资[以及]及时的准入。”

加拿大的制药行业在全球排名第九，占全球销售额的2%。它支撑着近150,000个高技能就业岗位，为经济贡献了$25-billion，并在研究与开发方面投资了$3.5-billion。加拿大卫生部、CDA-AMC与国家健康与社会服务卓越研究所（INESSS）之间的协同审查，已在两年内将从监管批准到报销建议的时间缩短了80%以上，这证明了协调行动能产生结果。

“正如[行业协会]加拿大创新药物协会（Innovative Medicines Canada）所指出的，像英国这样的同行国家正致力于在十年内将新药支出增加一倍，”马格内利先生说。“加拿大需要匹配这一雄心以保持竞争力。”

共同弥合差距 马格内利先生向政策制定者传达的信息很直接：这是一个采取大胆、协调行动的关键时刻，而非渐进式调整。这意味着要增加联邦对创新药物的投资，在每个省和地区扩大加速准入路径，并在政策谈判中优先考虑生命科学，使加拿大的知识产权与全球标准接轨。

他指出，每一次延迟，都意味着一名患者在等待一种已经存在的治疗方法。

“我们没有在场边等待，”马格内利先生说。“BMS加拿大准备好成为解决方案的一部分，与行业、政府和患者群体合作，构建一个具有韧性且有竞争力的生命科学部门。”

他补充道：“加拿大可以在这个领域引领全球。但领导力要求投资、准入和监管体系必须以创新的速度演进，且现在就必须开始。”

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2026年10月9日，星期五

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新兴 AI 技术如何助力提升企业房地产专业人员的工作效率

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工作性质的改变正在驱动对员工工作空间产生新需求。这是改变企业房地产（CRE）专业人员运营环境的因素之一，这些专业人员负责提供并维护办公大楼及其他与工作相关的物业。

企业房地产行业还面临着优化成本节约、开发更佳规划流程以及满足可持续且高效运营需求的挑战。随着任务日益复杂，该行业正在探索人工智能（AI）等新兴技术如何提供新颖的解决方案。

在这个新 era, CoreNet Global 加拿大分会（CGCC）正引领关于 AI 实际且负责任应用的行业对话，以帮助企业房地产社区应对转型。

“企业房地产正在经历一次根本性的重置，传统的 CRE 工具无法跟上任务变化的步伐，”CGCC 主席 Lisa Henderson 表示。“组织在询问：‘我们如何为今天重新设计空间？人们实际上是如何工作的？我们如何理解我们正在收集的数据？’”

CoreNet Global 加拿大分会的使命是通过提供有影响力的专业发展、扩大行业联系、分享新兴实践以及认可卓越表现与交付，为加拿大企业房地产从业专业人员赋能。

“随着行业为未来做准备，我们的成员正在寻求关于新 AI 和其他房地产科技（proptech）工具价值的见解，”Henderson 女士说道。“这些挑战影响着所有 CRE 利益相关者，没有人希望孤立地解决这些问题。而 CoreNet 非常适合促进同行之间的讨论，让组织在相互学习的同时，也能接触到思想领袖。”

CGCC 的成员涵盖了企业房地产的所有利益相关者：占用者、服务提供商、高管、从业者和新兴专业人士。

它不仅连接了全加拿大的 CRE 社区，还通过 CoreNet Global 遍布 50 个国家、超过 10,000 名成员的网络与全球社区相连。了解国际解决方案的一个关键机会是通过一年一度的 CoreNet Global 北美峰会，今年将于 10 月 26–28 日在芝加哥举行。

Henderson 女士表示，这些国际对话尤为宝贵。“技术超越国界。人工智能正在整个行业被迅速采用，对于加拿大领导者来说，了解全球范围内的采用情况并能够

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企业房地产正在经历一次根本性的重置，传统的 CRE 工具无法跟上任务变化的步伐。组织在询问：‘我们如何为今天重新设计空间？人们实际上是如何工作的？我们如何理解我们正在收集的数据？’

Lisa Henderson CoreNet Global 加拿大分会主席

实施适合加拿大环境的变革。”

应对不断变化的优先事项的潜在 AI 解决方案

虽然 AI 技术的采用仍处于早期阶段，但商业房地产（CRE）的领导者们正在多个领域开展试点并测试实际应用案例。

“其中一项优先事项是确定 AI 工具如何驱动更好的平面图设计和高效的空间利用，以满足用户对不同类型工作空间的需求，”TD 银行设施与房地产服务加拿大总监、CGCC 领导委员会董事约翰·德贝内迪克蒂斯（John DeBenedictis）表示。

更多组织仍采用混合结构，将现场办公、远程办公或多个未指定办公地点相结合。当远程员工来到办公室时，他们通常需要的是能与同事或客户聚集的地方，而不是另一个用于埋头工作的办公桌。

德贝内迪克蒂斯先生表示，随着组织雇佣更多 AI 和其他技术专家，员工的角色也在发生变化。“这些技术专家使用不同的工具，其工作模式可能也不同，因此传统的办公桌设置可能并不适用于所有人。组织希望将更多互动式工作空间、与其他区域同事更先进的视频交互以及聚集空间相结合，这改变了房东和最终用户思考空间利用及整体配套设施的动态。”

决策者们正在考虑 AI 和预测分析如何帮助他们更高效、更可持续地运行建筑运营；更好地预测未来的资本资产更换需求；以及获得更准确的成本预测。他们还在寻求新方法来提高自身员工的生产力，并帮助物业用户通过生产力的提升更好地服务其客户。

一个前景广阔的简单运营领域是预测性建筑维护。

“想想你的家，你每个季度都会更换暖气炉过滤器，因为这是建议的做法，尽管你的过滤器可能仍在正常工作，”德贝内迪克蒂斯先生说。

“在商业房地产领域，我们将在银行大楼中试点更先进的远程技术应用，因此我们将获得信号，或随着时间的推移利用机器学习来预测何时需要更换像 HVAC（暖通空调）过滤器这样的部件，”他说。“这样可以通过减少不必要的设备更换来降低运营成本，避免服务车辆的出车，提高设备效率，同时减少非计划性故障对空气质量和建筑服务的影响。”

为未来而建

“帮助商业房地产社区理解并使用新技术，符合 CGCC 通过教育、开发以及接触塑造行业的关键工具来提升专业水平的使命，”亨德森女士说。“我们的目标是推进行业卓越，使利益相关者能够在未来的行业中繁荣发展，届时的角色和需求将与今天截然不同。变革正迅速到来，我们不想仅仅是对其做出反应，我们希望帮助引领变革。”

该社区的另一个目标是确保拥有正确的组织结构，以支持通过技术进行协作，并确保员工有能力优化新工具。“人力资本是商业房地产部门的一个重要发展领域，”德贝内迪克蒂斯先生说。“随着我们角色的演变和新 AI 工具的出现，我们需要评估团队的技能组合，并确保为新 era 增强这些能力。”

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阻碍您房地产战略的运营模式问题

作者：CASSIA SOOKHOO（JLL咨询总监）与 DANIEL ROONEY（JLL咨询董事总经理）

投资组合优化已连续三年成为企业房地产的首要目标，在JLL 2026年的基准数据中，71%的受访者提到了这一点。

权利，因此结果需要数周而非数季度才能显现。

团队结构仍基于昨日的指令

JLL的研究显示，50%的占用者缺乏足够的数字化和AI人才，70%的人没有针对AI的变革管理框架。这严重损害了像投资组合战略这样依赖数据的职能。

最严重的影响在于，如果没有能够解读数据的人员以及能够据此采取行动的变革框架，就无法进行结合了利用率、预订情况和业务驱动数据的每月情景规划。

数据并非为驱动行动而构建

在JLL 2026年的调查结果中，空间数据的准确性是第二高优先级，报告质量紧随其后。这已经取代了前几年的成本削减优先级。领导者无法优化他们看不见或无法快速采取行动的对象。即使是资源充足的团队，如果没有他们信任的数据，也无法将战略转化为快速决策。

其回报是巨大的。将敏捷治理与具备AI能力的专业人才及可信数据相结合的组织，能够持续执行，而不是每年对投资组合需求做出一次反应。缩小54

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将敏捷治理与具备AI能力的专业人才及可信数据相结合的组织，能够持续执行，而不是每年对投资组合需求做出一次反应。缩小54%的利用率与79%的目标之间的差距，需要的不仅仅是更好的房地产战略，还需要一个旨在交付结果的运营模式。

%的利用率与79%的目标之间的差距，需要的不仅仅是更好的房地产战略，还需要一个旨在交付结果的运营模式。

JLL 2026年调查结果呈现出的模式很明确：转型必须是持续的，而不是一次性的举措。持续转型首先是一种组织能力，其次才是房地产的结果。房地产战略的成败取决于执行它的治理机制，以及其背后的一个人员和数据。

在您为下一次投资组合变动投入资金之前，请退一步思考：“我们是否拥有正确的运营模式，能将战略转化为执行，并为空间使用者提供无缝的变革体验？”

如果答案不明确，请评估并调整支持投资组合的运营模式，使其与业务的未来方向保持一致。

重返办公室的指令进一步强化了这一关注点。多年来，成本削减一直主导着高管的对话，然而全球办公室的利用率仍停留在54%，而目标则是79%。这25个百分点的差距在经历了无数次投资组合审查和整合后依然存在。显然，仅靠战略无法弥补这一差距。

这种差距之所以持续存在，是因为大多数组织将利用率不足视为规模问题。在纸面上看确实如此，但事实并非如此。根本原因在于运营模式。治理速度缓慢，人才和变革管理框架尚未为人工智能（AI）做好准备。空间数据同样无法使用。在领导者修复投资组合背后的运营模式之前，利用率差距将继续影响资产负债表。

三个运营模式方面的差距解释了为什么如此多的房地产战略仍然停滞不前。

治理速度慢于业务速度

传统的房地产治理依赖于年度租赁周期和僵化的审批时间表。当业务部门需要在季度内增加或减少人员编制时，这种模式就会失效。治理必须能够吸收这些波动。财务、房地产和业务领导者需要共同的决策触发机制和清晰的决策

一个旨在交付的运营模型将敏捷治理与可信数据相结合，为企业房地产决策者提供工具，以便在办公空间需求波动之前采取行动。JLL 咨询

您的房地产能否为您的业务提供更多助力？

JLL 的实时数据和 AI 驱动的分析为您提供所需的洞察，让您的房地产发挥更大效用。

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H&R：若交易获批，单位持有人将获得现金与 GO 单位的组合

来自 B1

Mill Pond 在周三致 H&R 首席独立董事信托人 Stephen Gross 的信中，就该交易提出了几项投资者担忧。其中包括对向 Hofstedter 先生部分出售资产的困惑，以及担心其交易获得优惠待遇。

此次收购涉及：GO 收购 H&R 在美国太阳带三个州及纽约大都市区的住宅物业及其他资产；Blackstone、Crestpoint 和 PSP Investments 各自收购 H&R 的部分加拿大工业物业；以及 CRAL 收购 H&R 剩余的“非核心资产”。

若交易获批，H&R 的单位持有人将收到现金和 单位的组合。然而，作为 H&R 最大单位持有人之一的 Hofstedter 先生，其支付形式有所不同，他的单位将被注销，这意味着他并未将其股权滚动至 。

Mill Pond 在信中写道：“没有其他单位持有人获得这种形式的对价。”

的参与也引起了不满。由于在新增债务方面存在财务限制， 只能支付一定数额的现金，因此必须发行部分 单位作为支付形式。

一些不喜欢该交易的现有 单位持有人通过出售单位来做出回应，因为这相当于某种形式的反向收购。如果收购完成，H&R 的单位持有人将拥有合并后公司约三分之二的股份。该交易还增加了对美国太阳带的风险敞口；目前， 主要拥有纽约的豪华多户住宅物业。

Residential 于 2025 年在多伦多证券交易所（TSX）上市，每单位价格为 US\$15 ——其 IPO 以美元定价——目前其单位交易价格为每份 US\$7.78。

在周四提交给监管机构的收购通函中，H&R 的独立董事信托人通过说明来证明该交易的合理性，称在两年时间里，他们测试了所有可行的替代方案——包括独立重新定位、工业资产出售、住宅资产分拆，以及涉及约 18 家潜在交易对手的正式市场核查。

“最终，没有出现其他无条件的整体报价，”他们写道，指的是这个为 H&R 所有资产寻找买家的财团交易。“在独立信托人的看来，此次交易是目前最佳的结果：H&R REIT 单位持有人将获得即时现金，并能以税收高效的方式滚动进入一个规模化的、专注于多户住宅的房地产投资信托基金，在交易完成时，H&R REIT 单位持有人将持有 流通单位的多数份额，并且有可能参与到价值发现中，随着合并后的平台向其同行重新估值，这可能会产生重大意义。”

H&R 在多伦多证券交易所交易已有数十年，以一家拥有零售、办公、工业和多户住宅物业的多元化房地产公司而闻名。

由于投资者不再青睐其资产组合，该 在过去五年中进行了重新定位。其资产出售包括将 27 个封闭式购物中心分拆到新创建的 Primaris 中，以及出售部分主要办公资产，如卡尔加里的 Bow Tower 和密西沙加的一个 Bell Canada 办公园区。

2025, 该公司收到了多种形式的部分收购报价，但董事信托会决定不达成交易。收购谈判于 2026, 3 月重启，并于 8 月以这项多方交易告终。

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国防：机构表示在新王室结构下不会以营利为目的运营

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自那时起，该机构宣布了数项在其监督下加速推进的项目，其中一些项目在机构成立前已在进行中，随后移交给了国防投资局（DIA）。但由于其可授予合同的最低金额为 $100-million，导致小型公司无法直接受益，因此其工作尚未在整个加拿大国防工业中产生广泛影响。

这一切可能即将改变。周二提交至众议院的立法建议将该机构转变为一家王室公司（Crown corporation），与加拿大商业发展银行和加拿大广播公司（CBC）等机构类似。这将使 DIA 与典型的政府部门截然不同，使其能够像企业一样更自由地运作。首席执行官道格·古兹曼（Doug Guzman）表示，这将有助于该机构更快地采购军事物资。

此举将带来一系列变化，包括更接近私营部门的招聘流程，以及不同的治理结构（如董事会）。

哈德温（Hadwen）女士在周三的一次采访中表示，所有王室公司都会产生资源，重新定位后的 DIA 也不例外。新立法的一部分将允许该机构为了国防目的进行投资——这是它目前作为加拿大公共服务与采购部下属机构时无法做到的。

哈德温女士表示，该机构的投资授权可能会产生一些回报，但这些回报的去向或使用方式，DIA 将需要与财政部长协商。

机构发言人 Le Nguyen 在一份声明中表示，在新结构下，该机构不会作为一家营利企业运营。不过，她补充说，“它将拥有工具，在单纯购买设备之外发挥更大的商业作用。”

总体而言，该机构将继续“主要通过议会批准的政府拨款”获得资金，她说道。

5 月在渥太华举行的加拿大国防与安全工业协会年度贸易展上展出的装甲车。周二提交至众议院的立法建议拟将渥太华的国防投资局转变为一家王室公司。 JUSTIN TANG/ 加拿大新闻社（THE CANADIAN PRESS）

立法规定，DIA 的部分新权力将通过一种名为“综合收入基金”的机制来实现。通过该基金，该公司将能够进行贷款和预付款项。财政部长也可以利用该基金向公司本身提供贷款。然而，在任何时间，用于任何此类用途的基金支出金额不得超过 $1-billion。

在人员配置方面，新立法明确规定，任何目前在职的机构员工其身份将不会因该法案的通过而受到影响。哈德温女士表示，这包括他们的养老金。

总部位于密西沙加的科技公司 Remote Robotic Systems Inc. 的首席执行官凯文·托德雷尔（Kevin Toderel）表示，他很高兴看到 DIA 成为一家王室公司，从而独立于其他政府部门，并具有更多营利动机。

在谈到加拿大的国防采购方式时，他表示：“让他们能够自由地做需要做的事情将产生巨大影响。”

然而，他表示在此之前，他仍然渴望采购进程能加快，并希望该机构能尽快进入其最终形态。

在立法提交后的第二天，Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions Inc. 的首席执行官乔什·奥格登（Josh Ogden）告诉《全球邮报》，关于该机构如果成为王室公司将如何运作，以及这对作为一家销售无人机及其组件的加拿大国防公司经营者而言会产生什么影响，他仍有几个疑问。

这些担忧包括谁将进入董事会，以及他们将如何平衡专业知识与利益冲突。他表示，和许多人一样，他在思考：“如何盈利以及如何实现可持续发展？”这项立法是过去几个月里旨在影响该机构的一系列拟议变更中的最新一项。

今年5月，一项旨在执行2025年联邦预算中某些条款的立法被提交，其中包含几个关于国防创新局（DIA）及其脱离公共服务与采购部（PSPC）管辖的章节。随后在9月，《全球邮报》报道称古兹曼先生计划辞职。两周后，古兹曼先生向员工发送了一封电子邮件，表示他打算留任。

虽然这一连串的新闻报道对该机构的日常运作整体影响不大，但业内许多人仍在质疑未来将如何发展，以及他们究竟何时能切实期待国防创新局履行其职责，使所有加拿大的国防采购都能以“相关速度”推进。

贾里斯洛夫斯基：同事们缅怀这位慷慨的商人

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在资金管理同行们的默默支持下，贾里斯洛夫斯基先生经常且成功地促使试图在加拿大进行收购的外国公司提高其报价。

“史蒂夫是一位文艺复兴式的人物，他的知识范围和专业能力极其出色，”前总督大卫·约翰斯顿（David Johnston）表示，他是贾里斯洛夫斯基先生的长期好友，也是贾里斯洛夫斯基基金会咨询委员会的成员。

“很少有人像斯蒂芬那样，在致力于为所有人创造一个更好的加拿大方面产生如此深远的影响。”

2002年，贾里斯洛夫斯基先生共同创立了加拿大良好治理联盟（Canadian Coalition for Good Governance），这是一个具有影响力的游说团体。该联盟的首席执行官凯瑟琳·麦考尔（Catherine McCall）称贾里斯洛夫斯基先生为“一位卓越的人，我们这些如今从事公司治理的人都渴望效仿他的影响力”。

斯蒂芬·贾里斯洛夫斯基于1925年出生在柏林。他的父亲是一位工业家和投资银行家，母亲是一名律师，两人均为犹太人。当斯蒂芬4岁时，他的父亲死于猩红热，他与兄弟姐妹被送到阿姆斯特丹的亲戚家居住，随后又搬到了巴黎。

1941年，该家庭离开法国前往美国。在康奈尔大学获得机械工程学位毕业后，贾里斯洛夫斯基先生被征召入美国陆军，并在亚洲担任情报官员。

第二次世界大战后，贾里斯洛夫斯基先生就读于哈佛商学院。随后，他在加拿大铝业有限公司（Alcan Aluminum Ltd.）就职并搬到蒙特利尔。20世纪50年代，他与股票经纪人斯科特·弗雷泽（Scott Fraser）合作成立了一家为投资者提供公司研究服务的公司。该服务随后演变为资金管理公司 Jarislowsky Fraser。

加拿大新斯科舍银行（Bank of Nova Scotia）于2018年以$950-million收购了 Jarislowsky Fraser。

Sionna Investment Managers 的创始人兼共同首席投资官金·香农（Kim Shannon）曾在加拿大良好治理联盟（CCGG）董事会任职近20年，她表示贾里斯洛夫斯基先生“以精打细算而闻名”。

“他的办公室就在一家加拿大大型经纪公司对面，他没有支付自己的实时新闻馈送费用，而是会走到经纪人的办公室，在报纸馈送机吐出打印内容时阅读，”香农女士说道。

Fiera Capital 的首席执行官马克西姆·梅纳德（Maxime Ménard）曾在 Jarislowsky Fraser 工作了二十年，并与贾里斯洛夫斯基先生个人相识25年。

TD银行副主席弗兰克·麦肯纳（Frank McKenna）称贾里斯洛夫斯基先生是“我见过的最迷人的加拿大人之一”。

“他有一种让你思考得更深、目标定得更高的方式，而且他拥有无可挑剔的幽默感，”梅纳德先生说。“他慷慨地贡献自己的时间和智慧，并且对他所信任的人寄予厚望。”

贾里斯洛夫斯基先生在整个职业生涯中一直持有其资产管理公司的控股权。一些资深员工离开贾里斯洛夫斯基-弗雷泽公司（Jarislowsky Fraser）去创建竞争平台，是因为他们无法分享公司的所有权。弗雷泽先生在公司成立20年后离开了。

2022, 贾里斯洛夫斯基先生的家族基金会捐赠了$10-million，用于在全国五所侧重文理教育的大学聘请教授，设立“信任与政治领导力讲席”。这笔资金分别拨给了阿卡迪亚大学（Acadia University）、魁北克大学特鲁瓦里维耶分校（University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières）、特伦特大学（Trent ）、莱斯布里奇大学（ of Lethbridge）和温哥华岛大学（Vancouver Island ）。

“我们有培养医生、工程师和律师的学校。为什么没有为有志于从政的人或公务员设立的学位？”贾里斯洛夫斯基先生在当时的一次采访中说道。贾里斯洛夫斯基基金会是该国最大的基金会之一，截至去年年底，其资产为$386-million。

多伦多-多米尼언银行（Toronto-Dominion Bank）副主席弗兰克·麦肯纳称贾里斯洛夫斯基先生是“我见过的最迷人的加拿大人之一”。

“他在商业上的成功是传奇性的，但他的慈善事业也应当如此，”曾任新不伦瑞克省省长并在贾里斯洛夫斯基基金会董事会任职的麦肯纳先生表示。“他热衷于民主的研究与推广，因为他在生命的大部分时间里都见证了民主的反面。”

蒙特利尔商人、Knight Therapeutics创始人乔纳森·古德曼（Jonathan Goodman）曾是贾里斯洛夫斯基先生的邻居，并在其晚年经常拜访他。他表示，贾里斯洛夫斯基先生似乎从未被年龄所困扰，“表现得就像20岁一样”。

两人在COVID-19疫情期间共同创办了一个读书会。“我不记得我们读过的最后五本书了。但斯蒂芬能记得最后30本，”古德曼先生说。

丹尼斯·杜兰德（Denis Durand）在贾里斯洛夫斯基先生的资金管理公司工作了29年。他回忆起一位并不在意员工背景的老板——办公场所里聚集着来自世界各地、说着不同语言的人——但对员工的要求却非常严格。

杜兰德先生说，在职业生涯后期，贾里斯洛夫斯基先生经常在夏天陪妻子前往温哥华岛，但不久后就会返回蒙特利尔。“我们会笑，因为，你知道，他会在那里待两周，然后就回来。……他会说，‘我要回办公室了，那里更有趣。’”

本文由詹姆斯·布拉德肖（James Bradshaw）报道

加拿大权衡在中国主导的银行中的角色

香槟表示，在中断三年多后，审查仍在继续

STEVEN CHASE 高级议会记者

在渥太华因与北京发生高调外交破裂而暂停参与三年多后，联邦政府仍在斟酌是否重新激活其在由中国主导的亚洲基础设施投资银行（AIIB）中的成员资格。

尽管总理马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）努力重启与北京的关系，但加拿大在该银行被冻结的成员资格——这是两国关系陷入深度冰封期间与中国最显著的决裂举措之一——仍未得到解决。

2023年6月，时任副总理克里斯蒂亚·弗里兰（Chrystia Freeland）以财政部长身份宣布停止加拿大与该银行的接触。该银行为亚洲数十亿加元的基础设施开发提供资金，同时也为世界其他地区提供融资。

财政部长弗朗索瓦-菲利普·香槟（François-Philippe Champagne）的办公室表示，在近 $3^{1 / 2}$ 年后，审查仍在继续，加拿大在该银行的活动依然处于暂停状态。

“我们还没有解冻，”香槟先生的新闻秘书约翰·弗拉戈斯（John Fragos）表示，“审查正在进行中。我们将在适当的时候提供最新进展。”

做出暂停决定是在该亚洲银行的加拿大通讯主管辞职，并公开指责该多边开发机构是北京的代理人之后。鲍勃·皮克德（Bob Pickard）建议渥太华退出该银行，声称该银行被中国共产党的成员“主导”，是北京用来扩大其全球影响力的工具。

弗里兰女士在停止所有由加拿大政府主导的银行活动，并宣布对“提出的指控以及加拿大参与亚投行的情况”进行审查时，引用了皮克德先生的话，称他“对该银行表达了严重的担忧”。

前加拿大驻华大使盖伊·圣-雅克（Guy Saint-Jacques）表示，渥太华应该确定加拿大公司是否从亚投行中获得了足够的业务。

“该银行管理良好，显然中国方面已努力真正采用国际标准。但主要问题是：我们是否从中获益？”

加拿大全球事务部（Global Affairs Canada）中国司前副司长杰夫·马洪（Jeff Mahon）表示，他将关注卡尼先生与中国国家主席习近平在 11 月 18-19 日亚太经济合作组织（APEC）峰会上的预期会晤或其他双边活动，以期待相关公告。

“加拿大做出恢复参与的决定将给中国一个胜利，”马洪先生说道，并补充说渥太华会希望将这一决定作为北京采取对等措施的一部分。

在美国前总统巴拉克·奥巴马（Barack Obama）领导下，美国曾游说盟友不要加入该银行，但包括英国在内的许多国家还是加入了。日本和美国不是成员国。

渥太华于 2018 年正式加入亚投行——承诺出资 US\$995-million 以持有 1% 的股份——是除比利时和爱尔兰之外最早加入该行的西方国家之一。

此后，该银行已增长至 100 多个成员，德国、韩国和澳大利亚均进行了重大投资，各自持股 3% 至 5% 之间。中国目前仍是最大的股东，控制着超过四分之一的所有投票权。

渥太华至少在私下里承认了关于该银行的一些批评。

在加拿大全球事务部准备的一份 2019 年简报书中（该文件随后由众议院委员会公布），该机构将亚投行与中国国家主席标志性的“一带一路”倡议归为一类——并称两者旨在利用中国的“经济实力来获得地区影响力，并在全球推广其治理模式”。

报告称：石油行业利润远超支出——但目前仅限于此

劳伦·克鲁格（LAUREN KRUGEL） 卡尔加里

2020年，阿尔伯塔省奥尔兹（Olds）附近抽油机将石油从地下抽出。加拿大统计局的数据显示，高油价为加拿大的石油生产商带来了意外之财，该行业成为第二季度非金融业利润的最大贡献者。JEFF McINTOSH / 加拿大新闻社

德勤加拿大（Deloitte Canada）的一份新报告称，加拿大石油生产商的营业利润在今年第一季度和第二季度之间激增了68%，但资本支出并没有跟上同样的步伐。

该咨询公司指出，由于中东战争，原油价格在近几个月经历了“相当大的波动”，仅在7月和8月，国际轻质原油基准布伦特（Brent）的价格就在每桶68加元至105加元之间波动。

加拿大统计局的数据显示，高油价为加拿大的石油生产商带来了意外之财，该行业成为第二季度非金融业利润的最大贡献者。

与此同时，来自加拿大统计局（Statscan）的独立资本支出数据显示，近期仅有小幅变动，第二季度比第一季度增长约7%，达到110亿加元。德勤引用贝克休斯（Baker Hughes）的钻机数量数据称，第二季度加拿大的钻井量比去年同期增长了17%。

德勤在周四发布的报告中表示：“很明显，生产商正优先考虑在具有高效、短周期经济效益的油气田（如Montney、Duvernay和Clearwater）开展钻井计划，而非追求长周期、资本密集型项目。生产商认为当前的价格环境是暂时的或不确定的，而非根植于根本性的供需转变。”

德勤预测，美国油田生产的轻质原油基准——西德克萨斯中质原油（WTI）的价格在2027年平均将为每桶76.50加元，低于预计的2026年平均价90加元。

德勤加拿大石油、天然气和化学品业务负责人安德鲁·博特里尔（Andrew Botterill）表示，在过去的五到八年里，公司一直面临来自投资者的压力，要求控制支出和债务。COVID-19疫情及其随之而来的价格崩盘，在石油行业刚从2014-15年的低谷中恢复时，对其财务造成了沉重打击。

但博特里尔先生表示，现在该行业有一种“我们可以做得更多”的感觉。一条日输量一百万桶的新出口管道已被提议建设至不列颠哥伦比亚省海岸，且总理马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）政府已采取行动简化监管流程，撤销特鲁多时代的环保政策，并扩大投资税收优惠。

博特里尔先生说：“我们可能会看到来自加拿大的显著增长。”

“我认为在未来一年我们将看到，公司将开始思考：‘我们将在哪里下注？我们将在哪里开始为中长期进行更大规模的资本支出？’”

本周早些时候，油砂巨头科诺哈斯能源公司（Cenovus Energy Inc.）宣布达成协议，以57亿加元收购规模较小的同行阿萨巴斯卡石油公司（Athabasca Oil Corp.）。与此同时，另一家能源巨头森科能源公司（Suncor Energy Inc.）表示，由于专注于其核心油砂业务，已达成协议将其在加拿大大西洋地区的部分离岸资产以12亿加元出售。

博特里尔先生表示，这些交易是那些寻求长期增长的公司所采取的“准备步骤”。

德勤（Deloitte）预测，西德克萨斯中质原油（WTI）价格在2027年的平均价格将为每桶$76.50，低于预计的2026年平均价格$90.

“我们更有可能在哪些方面投入资本，让我们确保投资组合朝着那个方向发展。”

在天然气方面，德勤的报告称，尽管位于不列颠哥伦比亚省基蒂马特（Kitimat, B.C.）的LNG Canada终端已于2025年中期启动并增加了出口量，但今年以来阿尔伯塔省的天然气价格平均低于$2 / 千立方英尺，处于低迷状态。

第二季度的平均产量为每天200 亿加元立方英尺，比2025年同期高出约5%。由于追求价值更高的天然气凝析液（如丙烷，这些液体与干天然气一同从地下产出），各公司继续扩大生产。

博特里尔（Mr. Botterill）先生表示，在通常是阿尔伯塔省天然气一年中最疲软的8月和9月，价格并未出现像往常那样剧烈的下跌，而是保持相对稳定。

“这向你表明，加拿大的天然气需求正在增长。通过西海岸出口的能力正在产生影响，”他说道。

“与比如说一年前相比，我们在天然气市场上的结构性状况要稳健得多。”

德勤预计，阿尔伯塔省的天然气价格今年平均为$1.75 / 千立方英尺，明年将攀升至$2.15，并在2029年后远高于$3。

该报告还触及了油田对人工智能的采用情况，德勤在2月份发布的另一项研究中对此进行了详细阐述。

报告称，72%的能源、资源和工业公司在某种程度上使用了通过机器和控制系统实现的“物理”AI。

然而，许多公司在从试点项目升级到企业级应用方面面临困难，仅有16%的公司报告广泛使用了AI。

“石油和天然气公司习惯于资本密集型投资，油砂地就是进行大额投注的典型例子。简单来说：这是一个不惧风险的行业，”报告称。“但如果要与指定用于核心运营开发、扩张和优化项目的资本竞争，AI应用场景的价值主张需要得到充分开发。”

加拿大新闻社（THE CANADIAN PRESS）

副部长称，新成立的金融犯罪机构将把加密货币追踪列为优先事项

亚历山德拉·波萨兹基 (ALEXANDRA POSADZKI) 金融与网络犯罪记者

拟议成立的执法机构——加拿大新金融犯罪机构的副部长罗布·斯图尔特 (Rob Stewart) 表示，在打击非法金融的战争中，追踪数字货币线索将是该机构的优先事项。

斯图尔特先生承担着启动这一承诺已久的计划的任务，他花费了数月时间与包括执法机构、私营部门专家以及国际合作伙伴在内的利益相关者进行沟通。

斯图尔特先生表示，金融犯罪机构 (FCA) 最早可能在明年启动，具体取决于建立该机构的 Bill C-29 法案何时通过。该法案于春季提出，目前正由议会委员会的国会议员审议，旨在更有效地打击金融犯罪。

在为新机构招聘人员时，他将寻找的技能之一是分析加密货币交易的能力，以应对有组织犯罪集团日益利用虚拟货币进行跨境资金转移的情况。

“加密货币在犯罪所得转移中占据的比例不断增加，特别是在涉及有组织犯罪的更高级别金融犯罪中，”斯图尔特先生在周四于多伦多举行的 ACAMS 会议采访中表示。（ACAMS 是一个致力于打击金融犯罪的全球组织。）

他解释说，犯罪分子正在“整合现金，将其转换为加密货币，转移到另一个司法管辖区，然后将其洗回系统”。

金融行动特别工作组 (Financial Action Task Force) 指出，加拿大在起诉复杂洗钱案件、没收犯罪所得以及监管虚拟货币交易所等高风险业务方面的能力存在弱点。即便如此，在上述全球金融监管机构上周发布的审查报告中，加拿大的整体金融犯罪监管体制仍获得了及格分数。

据斯图尔特先生介绍，金融犯罪机构 (FCA) 的员工人数预计在 230 到 250 人之间，其中大部分为文职人员，将分为两类：治安官和机构普通官员。预计皇家骑警 (RCMP) 将临时提供 150 名工作人员以帮助该机构启动，并将聘请一名专员来监督运营。

斯图尔特先生表示，寻找在法务会计、数字取证和区块链分析等领域拥有专业技能的员工，对于该机构的成功至关重要。

他强调，未经注册的货币服务业务（如加密货币交易所）是需要加强执法的一个领域。斯图尔特先生说，其中一些机构公然藐视法律，在窗户上挂着写有“无需 KYC”的标牌。（KYC 即“了解你的客户”，是指金融机构和其他受监管企业必须确认客户身份的要求。）

像 Tether 这样挂钩于美元等更稳定资产的稳定币，也引起了斯图尔特先生的关注，他称这些货币“几乎是为犯罪量身定制的”。

与价值剧烈波动的加密货币不同，Tether 的价值相对稳定，使其更适合支付。反洗钱专家和执法官员表示，这种稳定性结合快速跨境转移资金的能力，使其对犯罪分子具有吸引力。

被指控为墨西哥锡那罗亚 (Sinaloa) 贩毒集团贩运毒品的加拿大奥运单板滑雪运动员瑞安·韦丁 (Ryan Wedding)，据称使用了复杂的 Tether 网络来洗钱。

在今年 3 月获得御准的《加拿大稳定币法案》通过后，加拿大最大的几家银行正在尝试代币化存款。

渥太华还引入了禁止加密货币自动取款机 (ATM) 的立法，斯图尔特先生将其描述为“街头诈骗者的首选工具”。

尽管近期做出了努力，但斯图尔特先生表示，在打击金融犯罪方面仍有大量工作要做，包括加强实体之间信息的共享。

“我们正与金融犯罪分子作战，我们需要做得更好，政府也正致力于此。”

GIC利率上升可能是不锁定利率的原因

通常情况下，五年期GIC利率的上升会让决定变得简单：在利率再次下跌前将其锁定

JIMMY NGUYEN

WOWA.ca（一家加拿大个人理财平台）的作者兼内容开发人员

加拿大储蓄者终于再次有了4%的GIC可以选择。最高五年期GIC利率已攀升至4.50%，而最佳三年期GIC利率为4.40%，最佳一年期利率为4.00%。

甚至储蓄账户也变得更具竞争力，WealthOne提供的加拿大最高标准储蓄账户利率为3.00%，宏利金融（Manulife）针对新存款在两年内也提供3.00%的利率。

通常情况下，五年期GIC利率的上升会让决定变得简单：在利率再次下跌前将其锁定。

但如果利率仍在上升呢？

目前加拿大银行的政策利率为2.25%，WOWA最新的基于市场的利率预测显示，该利率将在2027年初左右升至2.50%，年中升至3.25%，2027年底升至3.50%，随后在2028年达到3.75%。

这给储蓄者带来了一个问题。锁定长期GIC可以保护你免受利率下跌的影响，但它也会让你在GIC利率上升时无法从中获益。

等待更高利率仍是一种博弈

加拿大银行利率的提高并不自动意味着五年期GIC会以相同的幅度上升。

隔夜利率对短期利率的影响最强。长期GIC和固定抵押贷款利率则更严重地依赖于对未来政策利率的预期以及加拿大政府债券的收益率。如果投资者已经预期加拿大银行的利率决定将导致加息，那么部分涨幅可能已经反映在今天的GIC利率中了。

这解释了为什么GIC利率已经出现了剧烈波动。自7月下旬以来，最佳一年期和两年期GIC利率上升了35个基点，三年期利率上升了50个基点，五年期利率上升了40个基点。

储蓄者现在面临不同的利率风险

这产生了锁定风险：今天购买五年期GIC，如果利率继续上升，你可能会被困在较低的利率上。降低这种风险的一种方法是将储蓄分配到多个不同期限的GIC中。

如果利率如市场目前预期那样上升，短期GIC会更早到期，并有可能以更高的利率重新投资。如果今天的预测证明是错误的，且利率下跌或涨幅有限，那么三年期和五年期的部分已经锁定了今天相对较高的利率。

不要忽视储蓄账户

对于可能很快需要使用的资金，通过高息储蓄账户获得的流动性仍然比通过GIC榨取每一个基点更为重要。

目前最佳的标准储蓄利率是由WealthOne提供的3.00%。促销储蓄优惠最高可达5.00%，尽管BMO提供的最高促销利率仅持续四个月，随后将降至0.45%。

利率数据由WOWA.ca提供，该平台收集、汇总并免费传播来自50多家加拿大金融机构的抵押贷款利率、储蓄账户和GIC利率数据。

最高 GIC 和储蓄账户利率表

产品< / td><>最高利率< / ><>提供方< / ><>次高利率< / ><>提供方< / >< / tr><><>储蓄账户 - 标准利率< / ><>3.00% 并列< / ><>WealthOne (HISA 和 RRSP HISA), Manulife< / ><>2.85%< / ><>Saven< / >< / ><><>储蓄账户 - 促销利率*< / ><>5.00%< / ><>BMO (4 个月，随后降至 0.45%)< / ><>4.60% 并列< / ><>Simplii Financial (5 个月，随后降至 0.30%), RBC (3 个月，随后降至 0.55%), CIBC (3 个月，随后降至 0.30%)< / >< / ><><>一年期 GIC< / ><>4.00%< / ><>Haventree Bank< / ><>3.85% 并列< / ><>Maxa, Hubert, Outlook< / >< / ><><>两年期 GIC< / ><>4.25% 并列< / ><>WealthOne, Oaken< / ><>4.20%< / ><>Haventree Bank< / >< / ><><>三年期 GIC< / ><>4.40%< / ><>WealthOne< / ><>4.30% 并列< / ><>Haventree Bank, Oaken< / >< / ><><>五年期 GIC< / ><>4.50% 并列< / ><>WealthOne, Oaken< / ><>4.45%< / ><>Haventree Bank< / >< / table>

*短期促销利率仅在有限时间内适用，之后利率通常会大幅下降。

利率为截至 Oct. 7, 2026, 的年利率，且随时可能变动。可用性可能取决于账户类型、存款金额、省份及资格要求。所列机构均受联邦或省级保险保障，保障限额因管辖区而异。WealthONE 的非注册储蓄分级利率为：$10,000 以下 2.60， $10,000, 2.75 至 $25,000，以及 $25,000 或以上 3.00。

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自动赎回 ETF 已进入加拿大。以下是您需要了解的内容

特里·凯恩 (TERRY CAIN)

自动赎回交易所交易基金（Autocallable ETFs）是美国最热门的新产品创新之一。随着它们进入加拿大，顾问们可能会询问这些 ETF 是否适用于客户的投资组合。

多伦多道明证券公司（ Securities Inc.） 销售与策略总监杨凯西（Casey Yang）表示，自动赎回 是美国增长最快的 细分市场之一，因为它们满足了投资者的特定需求：高收益且具有一定的下行保护。

自去年首批产品推出以来，美国自动赎回 市场的资产管理规模已增长至超过 US$5-billion。

杨女士表示：“这种增长是由对传统固定收益和备兑看涨期权 之外的收益替代方案的需求所驱动的。”

自动赎回 ETF 的运作原理

TD Securities Inc. 在 9 月发布的一份报告中将自动赎回 ETF 描述为一种“市场挂钩投资，旨在提供定期票息支付，并在到期时（或在票据被赎回时提前）返还本金，前提是底层参考指数 [...] 保持在预设的下行阈值之上”。

报告补充道：“一种有效的思考方式是将其视为一种类债券投资，其中收入流和本金保护都与股票市场的表现挂钩，而非传统的利率。”

自动赎回 提供了比传统固定收益证券更高的月收入潜力，但这种潜力伴随着一定的股票市场风险。

只要参考指数保持在预设的下行障碍水平之上，票息支付通常会持续进行。

TD Securities 的报告称，本金通常在到期时全额返还，除非指数最终低于该障碍水平，“届时投资者可能会面临资本损失”。

杨女士表示， 的包装形式具有吸引力，因为它为投资者提供了每日流动性和更便捷的准入渠道。

为此，加拿大发行商目前正将结构化收入策略引入国内 市场。Purpose Investments Inc. 在 8 月推出了 Purpose Structured Equity Yield Fund，率先引领了这一趋势，该基金提供基于广泛市场指数的结构化收入策略。

BMO Global Asset Management 在 9 月紧随其后，推出了 BMO Strategic Autocallable Income US Large Cap 。这是加拿大首只专门的自动赎回 ，它将该结构应用于美国大盘股组合，而非广泛指数。

GAM 的 及替代投资主管 Sara Petrcich 表示，自动赎回票据已变得日益流行，但投资者往往难以接触到。

加拿大发行商目前正将结构化收入策略引入国内 市场。Purpose Investments Inc. 在 8 月率先推出了相关产品。

Petrcich 女士于 2023 年接管了 GAM 的 业务（当时该业务与合成资产管理业务合并），她表示 创建该 是为了让这一投资策略更易于获取。

Petrcich 女士表示，新的 自动赎回 的关键优势之一是，其回报并不完全依赖于股市的强劲增长。

只要不突破某些阈值，即使底层股票价格持平或出现适度下跌，投资者仍可能继续获得收入。

该策略还通过投资于一系列领先的美国公司和行业来实现多元化，从而减少对任何单一股票表现的依赖。

杨女士表示， 的新 与现有自动赎回基金的不同之处在于，它定位在美国市场的两大阵营之间。

具体而言，一端是基于广泛市场指数的多元化自动赎回 ，另一端则是集中于单只股票的自动赎回 ，后者可以产生大幅更高的分配金，但风险也大得多。

她表示，许多基于广泛指数的美国自动赎回 产生的收益率大约在 8% 到 18% 之间，而一些单只股票自动赎回 的分配金甚至更高。

杨女士表示， 的 “试图通过将多只股票的多元化与个股波动带来的更高收入潜力相结合，来寻求一个折中方案”。

这些 ETF 适合谁？

杨女士表示，自动赎回型 ETF 最适合那些愿意牺牲部分上涨潜力，以换取更高现金流和一定下行保护的收益导向型投资者。

“它们可能会吸引退休人员、关注收益的投资者，以及那些在寻找备兑看涨期权（covered-call）策略替代方案的人，”她说。“这些产品通常更应被视为战略性收益持有资产，而非短期交易工具。”

至于风险和下行压力，杨女士指出，这种保护是有条件的：如果底层参考股票或指数跌破保护屏障，投资者可能会面临重大损失。

另一个风险是上涨空间受限。如果市场大幅上涨，自动赎回功能可能会触发提前赎回，这意味着投资者可能无法获得传统股票投资所能带来的同等收益。

杨女士还表示，需要考虑其复杂性。

“这些产品比传统的股票、债券或备兑看涨期权 ETF 更复杂，因此投资者需要了解票息屏障、自动赎回触发点和保护屏障是如何相互作用的，”她说。

鉴于自动赎回型 ETF 在美国被广泛采用，她表示，如果加拿大关注收益的投资者对此产生浓厚兴趣，将不足为奇。

欧洲困境为美元多头提供继续发力的新理由

劳拉·马修斯 (LAURA MATTHEWS)

萨基布·伊克巴尔·艾哈迈德 (SAQIB IQBAL AHMED) 纽约报道

今年秋季，美元汇率飙升至 18 个月高点，最新的涨势由大西洋彼岸的不确定性驱动，这使得部分投资者更加大胆地押注美元将进一步升值。

分析师表示，美元继续受益于处于高位且可能进一步上升的美国利率、具有韧性的经济增长以及持续的通胀风险。然而，欧洲面临的挑战——重点在于法国的巨额赤字，以及压力可能波及意大利及整个欧盟成员国的前景——正成为未来几个月美元走势的潜在驱动因素。

美元兑欧元今年已升值约 5%，这有助于推高美元指数（该指数衡量美元兑六种主要货币的强度，其中欧元是其最大组成部分）。

Mesirow Currency Management 高级投资策略师筱原宇 (Uto Shinohara) 表示：“欧元持续承压，限制了美元的主要替代方案之一。”

法国与德国 10 年期债券收益率的利差在上周创下数十年来的最大单周涨幅，而意大利与德国的收益率差距则出现了新冠疫情以来最剧烈的单周增长。欧元兑美元最新下跌 0.67%，报 1.1183。

多伦多 Corpay 首席市场策略师卡尔·沙莫塔 (Karl Schamotta) 表示：“人们非常关注那些因政治功能失调而导致财政轨迹无法回归可持续水平的国家。”

一个令人担忧的问题是，欧元已不再能从欧洲央行（ECB）的鹰派信号中获得太多支撑。

欧洲央行在 9 月将利率提高了 25 个基点，这是该央行今年第二次采取行动以遏制由能源驱动的通胀上升，但在该决定出台后，由于市场担心未来加息对经济的影响，欧元反而下跌。

通常情况下，欧洲收益率的提高会支撑欧元，但此次反应平淡表明，投资者正日益关注增长和财政风险。能源价格上涨可能会增加进一步的压力。

宏观研究与策略公司 Macro Hive 的研究员本杰明·福特 (Benjamin Ford) 表示：“从结构上看，欧洲是一个主要的能源进口国，且比美国更依赖制造业。影响很明显：高能源价格将拖累该地区。”

福特先生预计欧元将在一个月内跌至 $1.10，比当前水平低近 2%。

福特先生表示：“美国在中期逻辑上似乎更强，而欧洲则容易受到冲击的影响。”

投资者还在权衡，欧洲央行能否在不给已经显现压力迹象的经济造成更大损害的情况下，继续对抗通胀。欧元区 9 月的通胀涨幅超出预期，且由于能源成本飙升，未来几个月可能会进一步增加，这使得欧洲央行面临加息压力。

纽约花旗银行 G10 外汇策略主管丹·托本 (Dan Tobon) 表示：“欧元走势的不对称性明显向 downside（下行）倾斜。而最容易导致这种情况的原因，可能是欧洲央行在市场已无法承受的情况下过度紧缩，从而导致政策失误。”

衡量期权交易员为对冲欧元损失而非获利而支付更多费用的一个月期欧元风险逆转指标（risk reversals）在周五处于 3 月以来最看跌的状态，而三个月期指标则触及 2024 年 6 月以来的最低水平。

美联储政策制定者已发出信号，称通胀风险依然高企，这有助于将国债收益率维持在多年高位。

筱原先生表示：“收益率继续攀升，美国利率相对于大多数发达市场具有绝对的利差优势。”

联邦基金期货显示，到 12 月为止，至少还有一次 25 个基点加息的可能性约为 84%。

虽然很少有策略师预测加元将从当前水平大幅飙升，但他们表示，美国经济增长的韧性、高企的收益率以及欧洲特有的风险，这些因素的结合继续使天平向加元倾斜。

“就目前而言，这种倾斜对欧洲来说非常不利，”花旗银行的托邦（Tobon）先生表示。

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抵押贷款：浮动利率自带风险

长期固定利率不再受青睐 随着消费者选择短期和浮动利率，长期固定抵押贷款持有者的比例降至有记录以来的最低水平

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抵押贷款利率

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短期抵押贷款的优势已大大降低。安大略省的抵押贷款经纪人 Victor Tran 表示，目前 3 年期固定利率仅比 5 年期固定利率低 0.1 个百分点。

这也是浮动利率在 2026, 回升的部分原因，签署浮动利率的消费者比例已超过 40%，而 2024. 这一比例还不足 10%。目前，浮动利率也比固定利率低近一个百分点。

但浮动利率自带风险。金融市场已将加拿大银行在 2027, 中期前加息 4 次的可能性计入定价，这将使浮动利率上升至 4% 的中段区间，这一水平与目前的 5 年期固定利率相当。

Desjardins 的高级经济学家 Kari Norman 表示，伊朗战争引发的油价冲击以及美国贸易战对加拿大经济的影响，就是浮动或短期抵押贷款持有者承担更直接风险的例子。

“谁能想到今年会出现油价冲击。一年前我们无法预料到这一点，”Norman 女士说。

她表示，签署 5 年期固定利率的人在抵押贷款期限内，其家庭收入可能会增加，从而能更好地吸收类似的利率上涨。

从长期来看，Tran 先生预测 5 年期固定利率将会回归。他的更多客户已经在选择长期利率。

“许多面临续约的人都在寻求稳定性，”Tran 先生说。

然而，在 2026. 剩余时间内，5 年期利率的定价将面临上涨压力。King 先生指出，由于贷款机构在疫情后住房繁荣 5 年后的一个大规模续约群体中竞争激烈，这些利率与债券收益率相比一直处于异常低位。一旦这种竞争减弱且较为缓慢的冬季时节开始，即使债券收益率保持平稳，贷款机构也可能会提高利率。

King 先生表示，除非伊朗战争等地缘政治压力缓解，否则住房市场在 2027 将继续处于疲软状态。

油价上涨后股市涨跌互现

周四，由于油价上涨且股指涨跌互现，一些剧烈的反转导致金融市场波动不定。

标准普尔500指数在创下历史新高后，连续第二个交易日下跌0.5%。道琼斯工业平均指数上涨51点，即0.1%；纳斯达克综合指数下跌1.3%，其中科技股受创尤为严重。多伦多证券交易所综合指数（S&P / TSX Composite Index）收盘上涨103.52点，即0.30%，报35.145.38，此前在周三曾下跌1.7%，触及7月20日以来的最低收盘水平。

由于布伦特原油每桶价格上涨4.1%至104.28加元，美国股市承压。由于不确定与伊朗的战争何时才能让全球能源业恢复正常，过去一个月油价在96加元至近110加元之间剧烈波动。

布伦特原油价格在早盘一度接近106加元，随后美国总统唐纳德·特朗普表示与伊朗正在进行“富有成效的讨论”，且美国军队在11月即将到来的美国大选前不会对其发动攻击，导致油价转向。这使得布伦特原油价格一度短暂向103加元回落，但最终再次回升。

债券市场出现了更为剧烈的波动，全球债券收益率正跳升至多年甚至数十年来的最高水平，这威胁到经济增长速度。

10年期美国国债收益率最初随油价上涨，从周三晚间的5.28%升至周四早晨的5.35%。但随后它一路回落至5.23%。

在美政府宣布以低于5.62%的高收益率在一次拍卖中出售了220亿加元的30年期国债后，收益率出现下跌。这帮助将30年期国债收益率从早晨的5.73%降低至5.6%，这对债券市场来说是一个显著的波动。

前一天，10年期国债的拍卖也帮助降低了收益率。强劲的需求表明，尽管由于对高通胀、巨额政府债务负担及其他因素的担忧，国债价格在今年大幅下跌，但投资者仍愿意购买美国政府债务。

富国银行投资研究所（Wells Fargo Investment Institute）全球投资策略分析师托尼·米亚诺（Tony Miano）表示：“较高的美国国债收益率开始产生自身的吸引力，买家在合适的价格出现。”

就加拿大而言，周四晚间的债券收益率与周三水平相比相对没有变化。

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这些加拿大股票具有财务实力

估值具有吸引力且基本面良好的股票

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我们的筛选标准是什么？

寻找那些将具有吸引力的估值与财务实力及稳健的底层基本面相结合的加拿大股票。

加拿大出生的投资者大卫·德雷曼（David Dreman）是温尼伯人，也是《逆向投资策略：心理优势》（Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Psychological Edge）一书的作者，他以购买基本面良好且估值相对较低的公司而闻名。他认为，投资者往往对不受欢迎的股票过于悲观，而对高估值的公司过于乐观。

他的方法核心在于购买市盈率（P / E ratio）较低的股票，因为这些股票的预期可能已经较低，如果情况改善，则有超额表现的空间。我们的筛选采用了这种价值导向的理念，同时加入了我们自己的质量过滤器，包括 Trading Central 的 TC 量化基本面评级（TC Quantamental Rating）。

筛选标准

利用 Trading Central 的策略构建器（Strategy Builder），我们首先关注涵盖所有主要行业的加拿大公司，并设定最低市值 $1-billion，以集中于规模更大、更成熟的企业。

为了强调价值，我们要求滚动市盈率在 17 或以下，重点关注交易价格低于加拿大整体市场的公司。作为对比，多伦多证券交易所综合指数（S&P / TSX Composite Index）目前的市盈率为 18.59。

我们还应用了 Trading Central 的量化基本面（Quantamental）框架，这是一个结合了估值、增长、质量、动量和收益的系统性 20 因子模型，要求评分在 100 分中至少达到 50 分。

同样的专利框架支撑着 Solactive TC Quant CA 50 指数，而 Trading Central Quant Canada 50 Equity Index ETF 则追踪该指数，为投资者提供对得分最高的 50 家加拿大公司的系统性风险敞口。

为了倾向于杠杆率更可控的公司，我们将债务权益比限制在 1 以内。

我们要求股息收益率在 2% 至 5% 之间。最低限额增加了收益组成部分，而上限则有助于减少对收益率异常高之股票的敞口，因为过高的收益率可能反映出更大的业务风险或股价波动。

我们还列出了 52 周以及年初至今的价格表现以供参考。

关于 TRADING CENTRAL 的更多信息

Trading Central 是面向零售在线经纪商和机构的金融市场研究与投资分析领域的全球领导者。其产品套件基于涵盖股票、交易所交易基金（ETF）、指数、外汇、期权和商品的技术与基本面研究，提供可操作的交易方案。我们的股票筛选器——策略构建器（Strategy Builder），可通过加拿大及全球领先的零售经纪商使用。

我们的发现

位列榜首的是森科能源公司（Suncor Energy Inc.），其 TC 量化基本面评级（TC Quantamental Rating）为 63。该股的交易价格为滚动市盈率的 12.99 倍，股息率提供 2.47%。森科能源还展现了相当强的价格强势，年初至今上涨 55.3%，过去 52 周上涨 70.6%。

加拿大自然资源公司（CNRL）是我们名单中市值最高的公司，达 $139.77-billion。这家油气生产商的交易价格为滚动市盈率的 12.06 倍，股息率为 3.69%，且债务权益比相对较低，为 0.37。其股价年初至今上涨 43.9%，过去一年上涨 48.8%。

在非油气类公司中，Algoma Central Corp. 脱颖而出。这家五大湖及远洋航运公司的市盈率在我们的名单中最低，仅为 6.24, 股息率为 4.71%，而其股价年初至今上涨 38.7%，过去一年上涨 51.3%。随着收益增加，该公司近期宣布发放每股 $1 的特别股息，并将常规季度股息提高了 48%，至每股 31 分钱。

Trading Central Strategy Builder 提供了回测功能，用于评估投资策略在历史上的表现。使用五年历史周期并进行季度再平衡，上述筛选方案产生的年化回报率为 17%，而同期 S&P / TSX 综合指数的年化回报率为 12%。

此处提供的投资想法仅供参考。它们不构成 Trading Central 关于投资金融工具的建议或推荐。投资者在投资前应进行进一步研究。

股票观察 DAVID LEEDER

LINAMAR (LNR-TSX) 收盘价 $94.52, 下跌 $2.19

TD Cowen 分析师 Brian Morrison 预计加拿大汽车零部件供应商的第三季度业绩将符合预期，预测 2026 年的指引将维持不变，且将伴随“较弱的同比生产背景、来自效率 / AI / 改善的合同经济效益的利润率提升，以及支持活跃 NCIBs 的强劲自由现金流（FCF）”。 目标价：他将 Linamar Corp. 的目标价从 $123 下调至 $120，维持“买入”评级。华尔街的共识目标价为 $112.40。

VERSAMET ROYALTIES (VMET-TSX) 收盘价 $12.19, 上涨 6¢

TD Cowen 分析师 Derick Ma 开始覆盖总部位于温哥华的 Versamet Royalties Corp.，给予“买入”评级，预计该公司将实现“高水平的短期有机增长，这将推动未来 5 年 EBITDA 和交易能力的显著提升”。

目标价：Ma 先生设定了每股 $21 的目标价，基于周三的收盘价，这意味着 73% 的总回报。共识目标价为 $19.12。

EXCHANGE INCOME (EIF-TSX) 收盘价 $116.70, 下跌 32¢

国家银行金融（National Bank Financial）分析师 Cameron Doerksen 表示，Exchange Income Corp. 前方有“充足的利好因素”，他强调关键的航空终端市场“依然积极”。“作为进入加拿大北部及其他偏远地区最大的航空服务提供商，EIC 处于理想位置，能够从加拿大在北部国防及其他基础设施方面的投资中获得增长。”

目标价：Doerksen 先生重申了“跑赢大盘”评级和 $145 的目标价。共识目标价为 $148.82。

AIR CANADA (AC-TSX) 收盘价 $24.05, 下跌 95¢

Canaccord Genuity分析师Mark Neville下调了对加拿大航空（Air Canada）第三季度的预测。“虽然油价已远低于战争开始以来的高点，但由于全球炼油能力的中断导致裂解价差大幅上升，航空燃油价格已回升至高点附近。”目标价：Neville先生将其目标价从$33下调至$29，维持“持有”评级。共识预期为$36.38。

MTY食品集团 (MTY-TSX) 收盘价 $30.25，下跌 53¢

TD Cowen分析师Cheryl Zhang认为，第三季度对MTY Food Group Inc.来说将是“另一个具有挑战性”的时期，并强调“消费者支出压力、成本通胀以及高频促销现象依然存在”。她表示：“近期宣布的公司门店关闭可能会在带来长期收益之前，对短期业绩产生不利影响。”

目标价：她对MTY的股票维持“持有”评级和$38的目标价。共识预期为$41.17。

ETF股票 $1 或以上

TSX 成交量 $1 或以上股票前20名

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TSX 涨幅榜 TSX 跌幅榜 股价 $1 或以上的 20 大股票

<><>< / ><>收盘价< / ><>净涨跌< / ><>涨跌幅%< / ><>成交量 (千股)< / ><>年初至今涨跌幅%< / >< / ><><>FTG FIRAN TECHNOL< / ><>32.00< / ><>6.59< / ><>25.93< / ><>406< / ><>177.06< / >< / ><><>PRN PROFOUND MEDI< / ><>9.84< / ><>1.68< / ><>20.59< / ><>64< / ><>-8.64< / >< / ><><>RCH RICHELIEU HAR< / ><>38.63< / ><>3.95< / ><>11.39< / ><>267< / ><>-2.35< / >< / ><><>TVA-B TVA GROUP I< / ><>2.49< / ><>0.24< / ><>10.67< / ><>14< / ><>369.81< / >< / ><><>THNC THINKIFIC LA< / ><>2.05< / ><>0.19< / ><>10.22< / ><>93< / ><>5.67< / >< / ><><>SOXD MEGASHORT -3< / ><>11.62< / ><>1.06< / ><>10.04< / ><>119< / ><>-94.35< / >< / ><><>MCB MCCOY GLOBAL< / ><>2.65< / ><>0.23< / ><>9.50< / ><>230< / ><>-9.86< / >< / ><><>GAU GALIANO GOLD< / ><>3.00< / ><>0.23< / ><>8.30< / ><>500< / ><>-14.04< / >< / ><><>CSCI COSCIENS BIO< / ><>9.89< / ><>0.71< / ><>7.73< / ><>< / ><>16.08< / >< / ><><>ALC ALGOMA CENTRA< / ><>28.32< / ><>1.99< / ><>7.56< / ><>18< / ><>49.84< / >< / ><><>GO-U GO RESIDENTI< / ><>7.78< / ><>0.53< / ><>7.31< / ><>274< / ><>-33.62< / >< / ><><>YGR YANGARRA RESO< / ><>1.63< / ><>0.10< / ><>6.54< / ><>283< / ><>55.24< / >< / ><><>COID SAVVYSHORT -< / ><>4.41< / ><>0.26< / ><>6.27< / ><>2< / ><>-71.10< / >< / ><><>CNQU SAVVYLONG 2X< / ><>49.09< / ><>2.77< / ><>5.98< / ><>3< / ><>100.37< / >< / ><><>CHLT CUSTOM HEALT< / ><>7.68< / ><>0.43< / ><>5.93< / ><>6< / ><>-23.20< / >< / ><><>CMGS CHIPOTLE CDR< / ><>12.56< / ><>0.69< / ><>5.81< / ><>96< / ><>-14.27< / >< / ><><>ZYNS PHILIP [...OMITTED...]

MORRI< / td> 27.60< / ><>1.51< / ><>5.79< / ><>1< / ><>22.72< / >< / tr> <>XMF-A M SPLIT COR< / ><>1.65< / ><>0.09< / ><>5.77< / ><>< / ><>89.66< / >< / ><><>NRGU BETAPRO SP T< / ><>71.00< / ><>3.86< / ><>5.75< / ><>108< / ><>117.52< / >< / ><><>EDT SPECTRAL MEDI< / ><>1.14< / ><>0.06< / ><>5.56< / ><>44< / ><>-20.83< / >< / table>

<><>< / ><>收盘价< / ><>净变化< / ><>% 变化< / ><>成交量 (千股)< / ><>年初至今 % 变化< / >< / ><><>TGO TERAGO INC.< / ><>1.32< / ><>-0.18< / ><>-12.00< / ><>< / ><>103.08< / >< / ><><>HUT HUT 8 CORP< / ><>113.06< / ><>-14.36< / ><>-11.27< / ><>997< / ><>79.12< / >< / ><><>SOXU MEGALONG 3X< / ><>44.16< / ><>-5.19< / ><>-10.52< / ><>61< / ><>233.41< / >< / ><><>SOLA-U EVOLVE SOL< / ><>7.89< / ><>-0.86< / ><>-9.83< / ><>< / ><>-15.34< / >< / ><><>ELVA ELECTROVAYA< / ><>8.22< / ><>-0.87< / ><>-9.57< / ><>201< / ><>-24.17< / >< / ><><>MUU SAVVYLONG 2X< / ><>17.22< / ><>-1.77< / ><>-9.32< / ><>355< / ><>-23.47< / >< / ><><>AMDU SAVVYLONG 2X< / ><>26.51< / ><>-2.72< / ><>-9.31< / ><>9< / ><>22.73< / >< / ><><>TI TITAN MINING

C< / ><>3.01< / ><>-0.29< / ><>-8.79< / ><>96< / ><>-21.82< / >< / ><><>XNDU XANADU QUANT< / ><>5.86< / ><>-0.55< / ><>-8.58< / ><>1082< / ><>-63.44< / >< / ><><>NEO NEO PERFORMAN< / ><>27.91< / ><>-2.58< / ><>-8.46< / ><>291< / ><>79.37< / >< / ><><>LETH EVOLVE LEVER< / ><>22.63< / ><>-2.08< / ><>-8.42< / ><>< / ><>-24.06< / >< / ><><>ORBU SAVVYLONG 2X< / ><>11.28< / ><>-1.03< / ><>-8.37< / ><>6< / ><>-40.32< / >< / ><><>KITS KITS EYECARE< / ><>16.10< / ><>-1.40< / ><>-8.00< / ><>122< / ><>-12.17< / >< / ><><>DML DENISON MINES< / ><>3.37< / ><>-0.29< / ><>-7.92< / ><>7608< / ><>-7.42< / >< / ><><>CRWV COREWEAVE CD< / ><>15.38< / ><>-1.29< / ><>-7.74< / ><>467< / ><>-37.12< / >< / ><><>ETHY-U PURPOSE

ET< / ><>1.57< / ><>-0.13< / ><>-7.65< / ><>8< / ><>-41.85< / >< / ><><>SOLL-U PURPOSE SO< / ><>8.45< / ><>-0.66< / ><>-7.24< / ><>< / ><>-14.13< / >< / ><><>SOLQ-U 3IQ SOLANA< / ><>8.80< / ><>-0.68< / ><>-7.17< / ><>4< / ><>-11.56< / >< / ><><>HIVE HIVE DIGITAL< / ><>3.65< / ><>-0.28< / ><>-7.12< / ><>3571< / ><>3.11< / >< / ><><>URE UR-ENERGY INC< / ><>1.45< / ><>-0.11< / ><>-7.05< / ><>269< / ><>-22.87< / >< / table>

S&P / TSX 综合指数股票

<><>< / ><>收盘价< / ><>净变化< / ><>% 变化< / ><>成交量 (千股)< / ><>年初至今 % 变化< / >< / ><><>VNP 5N PLUS INC.< / ><>30.25< / ><>-1.32< / ><>-4.18< / ><>433< / ><>70.71< / >< / ><><>ABRA ABRASILVER R< / ><>11.57< / ><>0.10< / ><>0.87< / ><>441< / ><>8.33< / >< / ><><>AAV ADVANTAGE ENE< / ><>10.51< / ><>0.20< / ><>1.94< / ><>834< / ><>-10.48< / >< / ><><>ARE AECON GROUP I< / ><>52.30< / ><>-1.81< / ><>-3.35< / ><>393< / ><>67.20< / >< / ><><>AEM AGNICO EAGLE< / ><>261.47< / ><>4.26< / ><>1.66< / ><>821< / ><>12.33< / >< / ><><>AC AIR CANADA< / ><>24.05< / ><>-0.95< / ><>-3.80< / ><>3004< / ><>24.68< / >< / ><><>AGI ALAMOS GOLD I< / ><>45.83< / ><>0.89< / ><>1.98< / ><>528< / ><>-13.53< / >< / ><><>AQN ALGONQUIN

POW< / td> 7.22< / ><>-0.01< / ><>-0.14< / ><>4248< / ><>-14.45< / >< / tr> <>ATD ALIMENTATION< / ><>77.87< / ><>0.76< / ><>0.99< / ><>903< / ><>3.88< / >< / ><><>AAUC ALLIED GOLD< / ><>27.93< / ><>0.00< / ><>504< / ><>-11.19< / >< / ><><>AP-UN ALLIED PROP< / ><>6.03< / ><>-0.07< / ><>-1.15< / ><>1426< / ><>-54.90< / >< / ><><>ALA ALTAGAS LTD.< / ><>55.05< / ><>0.65< / ><>1.19< / ><>659< / ><>31.54< / >< / ><><>ALS ALTIUS MINERA< / ><>63.18< / ><>-1.79< / ><>-2.76< / ><>94< / ><>54.70< / >< / ><><>AIF ALTUS GROUP L< / ><>45.77< / ><>0.87< / ><>1.94< / ><>63< / ><>-19.29< / >< / ><><>USA AMERICAS GOLD< / ><>6.02< / ><>0.08< / ><>1.35< / ><>954< / ><>-14.49< / >< / ><><>ARIS ARIS

MINING< / ><>23.86< / ><>-0.42< / ><>-1.73< / ><>1108< / ><>7.19< / >< / ><><>ATZ ARITZIA INC< / ><>121.89< / ><>-1.39< / ><>-1.13< / ><>639< / ><>3.87< / >< / ><><>ACO-X ATCO LTD. C< / ><>79.54< / ><>-2.37< / ><>-2.89< / ><>1011< / ><>41.08< / >< / ><><>ATH ATHABasca OIL< / ><>12.31< / ><>0.04< / ><>0.33< / ><>9169< / ><>75.11< / >< / ><><>ATRL ATKINSREALIS< / ><>86.66< / ><>1.28< / ><>1.50< / ><>718< / ><>-2.19< / >< / ><><>ATS ATS CORPORATI< / ><>25.15< / ><>-0.22< / ><>-0.87< / ><>366< / ><>-33.48< / >< / ><><>ASM AVINO SILVER< / ><>7.74< / ><>0.12< / ><>1.57< / ><>540< / ><>-9.37< / >< / ><><>AYA AYA GOLD AND< / ><>37.34< / ><>0.02< / ><>0.05< / ><>686< / ><>90.12< / >< / ><><>BTO B2GOLD

CORP.< / ><>7.29< / ><>0.17< / ><>2.39< / ><>3166< / ><>17.96< / >< / ><><>BCE BCE INC.< / ><>28.35< / ><>0.16< / ><>0.57< / ><>5667< / ><>-13.41< / >< / ><><>BDGI BADGER INFRA< / ><>91.50< / ><>-1.65< / ><>-1.77< / ><>79< / ><>25.12< / >< / ><><>BMO BANK OF MONTR< / ><>228.42< / ><>-2.30< / ><>-1.00< / ><>3818< / ><>28.15< / >< / ><><>BNS BANK OF NOVA< / ><>124.43< / ><>0.14< / ><>0.11< / ><>9575< / ><>22.92< / >< / ><><>ABX BARRICK MININ< / ><>56.86< / ><>1.02< / ><>1.83< / ><>4385< / ><>-4.90< / >< / ><><>BHC BAUSCH HEALTH< / ><>8.60< / ><>-0.19< / ><>-2.16< / ><>329< / ><>-9.76< / >< / ><><>BTE BAYTEX ENERGY< / ><>6.77< / ><>0.23< / ><>3.52< / ><>4639< / ><>52.48< / >< / ><><>BIR BIRCHCLIFF

EN< / ><>6.70< / ><>0.09< / ><>1.36< / ><>1279< / ><>-10.31< / >< / ><><>BDT BIRD CONSTRUC< / ><>80.39< / ><>-1.78< / ><>-2.17< / ><>272< / ><>181.87< / >< / ><><>BB BLACKBERRY LIM< / ><>12.27< / ><>-0.24< / ><>-1.92< / ><>3407< / ><>136.87< / >< / ><><>BEI-UN BOARDWALK< / ><>60.66< / ><>0.28< / ><>0.46< / ><>95< / ><>-5.92< / >< / ><><>BBD-B BOMBARDIER< / ><>294.23< / ><>-5.37< / ><>-1.79< / ><>197< / ><>26.01< / >< / ><><>BYD BOYD GROUP SE< / ><>111.27< / ><>1.57< / ><>1.43< / ><>115< / ><>-49.11< / >< / ><><>BAM BROOKFIELD AS< / ><>64.21< / ><>0.70< / ><>1.10< / ><>1431< / ><>-10.70< / >< / ><><>BBUC BROOKFIELD B< / ><>37.26< / ><>0.23< / ><>0.62< / ><>62< / ><>-24.04< / >< / ><><>BN BROOKFIELD

COR< / td><>52.27< / ><>-0.44< / ><>-0.83< / ><>3856< / ><>-17.06< / >< / tr> <>BIP-UN BROOKFIELD< / ><>52.47< / ><>-0.97< / ><>-1.82< / ><>658< / ><>9.98< / >< / ><><>BEP-UN BROOKFIELD< / ><>41.63< / ><>-0.41< / ><>-0.98< / ><>512< / ><>12.24< / >< / ><><>DOO BRP INC< / ><>77.36< / ><>-1.96< / ><>-2.47< / ><>311< / ><>-20.29< / >< / ><><>CAR-UN CDN APARTM< / ><>31.36< / ><>0.29< / ><>0.93< / ><>487< / ><>-14.94< / >< / ><><>CNQ CDN NATURAL R< / ><>69.84< / ><>2.04< / ><>3.01< / ><>14698< / ><>50.23< / >< / ><><>GIB-A CGI INC< / ><>98.98< / ><>0.69< / ><>0.70< / ><>485< / ><>-21.93< / >< / ><><>CRT-UN CT REAL ES< / ><>17.00< / ><>-0.01< / ><>-0.06< / ><>197< / ><>4.49< / >< / ><><>CAE CAE

INC< / ><>32.93< / ><>-0.08< / ><>-0.24< / ><>820< / ><>-21.11< / >< / ><><>CCO CAMECO CORP< / ><>123.93< / ><>-3.03< / ><>-2.39< / ><>1098< / ><>-1.39< / >< / ><><>CM CANADIAN IMPER< / ><>153.68< / ><>-0.89< / ><>-0.58< / ><>2170< / ><>23.51< / >< / ><><>CNR CANADIAN NATI< / ><>166.23< / ><>1.24< / ><>0.75< / ><>1118< / ><>22.45< / >< / ><><>CP CANADIAN PACIF< / ><>120.00< / ><>0.82< / ><>0.69< / ><>1072< / ><>18.75< / >< / ><><>CTC-A CANADIAN TI< / ><>190.82< / ><>0.71< / ><>0.37< / ><>128< / ><>9.70< / >< / ><><>CU CANADIAN UTILI< / ><>49.40< / ><>-0.45< / ><>-0.90< / ><>1171< / ><>15.61< / >< / ><><>CPX CAPITAL POWER< / ><>64.04< / ><>-0.25< / ><>-0.39< / ><>525< / ><>9.38< / >< / ><><>CS CAPSTONE

COPPE< / ><>13.58< / ><>-0.34< / ><>-2.44< / ><>3855< / ><>-1.45< / >< / ><><>CJT CARGOJET INC.< / ><>87.61< / ><>1.35< / ><>1.57< / ><>52< / ><>4.37< / >< / ><><>CCL-B CCL INDUSTR< / ><>94.04< / ><>0.79< / ><>0.85< / ><>340< / ><>8.47< / >< / ><><>CLS CELESTICA INC< / ><>506.58< / ><>-23.43< / ><>-4.42< / ><>397< / ><>24.77< / >< / ><><>CVE CENOVUS ENERG< / ><>44.77< / ><>1.10< / ><>2.52< / ><>7704< / ><>92.81< / >< / ><><>CG CENTERRA GOLD< / ><>31.05< / ><>0.91< / ><>3.02< / ><>556< / ><>57.14< / >< / table>

<><>< / ><>收盘价< / ><>净变化< / ><>百分比变化< / ><>成交量 (千股)< / ><>年初至今百分比变化< / >< / ><><>CEU CES ENERGY SO< / ><>18.67< / ><>0.62< / ><>3.43< / ><>386< / ><>52.16< / >< / ><><>CSH-UN CHARTWELL< / ><>19.45< / ><>0.01< / ><>0.05< / ><>553< / ><>-3.23< / >< / ><><>CHP-UN CHOICE PRO< / ><>14.70< / ><>0.05< / ><>0.34< / ><>627< / ><>-0.74< / >< / ><><>CCA COGECO COMMUN< / ><>52.43< / ><>-0.07< / ><>-0.13< / ><>368< / ><>-21.12< / >< / ><><>CIGI COLLIERS INT< / ><>122.77< / ><>0.33< / ><>0.27< / ><>132< / ><>-39.14< / >< / ><><>CSU CONSTELLATION< / ><>2912.00< / ><>10.02< / ><>0.35< / ><>50< / ><>-11.79< / >< / ><><>CRR-UN CROMBIE RE< / ><>15.68< / ><>0.05< / ><>0.32< / ><>117< / ><>2.69< / >< / ><><>CURA CURALEAF

HOL< / ><>13.50< / ><>-0.56< / ><>-3.98< / ><>448< / ><>31.96< / >< / ><><>DFY DEFINITY FINA< / ><>67.23< / ><>0.96< / ><>1.45< / ><>325< / ><>-11.46< / >< / ><><>DML DENISON MINES< / ><>3.37< / ><>-0.29< / ><>-7.92< / ><>7608< / ><>-7.42< / >< / ><><>DSG DESCARTES SYS< / ><>115.46< / ><>1.39< / ><>1.22< / ><>279< / ><>-4.11< / >< / ><><>DSV DISCOVERY MIN< / ><>11.48< / ><>0.07< / ><>0.61< / ><>2710< / ><>36.99< / >< / ><><>DOL DOLLARAMA INC< / ><>188.74< / ><>3.37< / ><>1.82< / ><>753< / ><>-7.99< / >< / ><><>DPM DPM METALS IN< / ><>54.28< / ><>2.28< / ><>4.38< / ><>1522< / ><>27.96< / >< / ><><>DIR-UN DREAM INDU< / ><>12.64< / ><>-0.07< / ><>-0.55< / ><>632< / ><>0.48< / >< / ><><>EQB EQB

INC< / td> 118.87< / ><>0.05< / ><>0.04< / ><>54< / ><>14.42< / >< / tr> <>ELD ELDORADO GOLD< / ><>52.43< / ><>0.15< / ><>0.29< / ><>485< / ><>6.28< / >< / ><><>EFN ELEMENT FLEET< / ><>21.43< / ><>-0.22< / ><>-1.02< / ><>1643< / ><>-40.55< / >< / ><><>EMA EMERA INCORPO< / ><>65.25< / ><>-0.11< / ><>-0.17< / ><>4132< / ><>-3.53< / >< / ><><>EMP-A EMPIRE COMP< / ><>49.31< / ><>0.44< / ><>0.90< / ><>659< / ><>3.33< / >< / ><><>ENB ENBRIDGE INC< / ><>66.14< / ><>0.71< / ><>1.09< / ><>4719< / ><>0.70< / >< / ><><>EDR ENDEAVOUR SIL< / ><>12.16< / ><>0.30< / ><>2.53< / ><>1215< / ><>-5.81< / >< / ><><>EFX ENERFLEX LTD< / ><>34.07< / ><>0.25< / ><>0.74< / ><>639< / ><>61.01< / >< / ><><>EFR ENERGY

FUELS< / ><>14.12< / ><>-0.53< / ><>-3.62< / ><>1298< / ><>-28.97< / >< / ><><>EQX EQUINOX GOLD< / ><>15.78< / ><>0.20< / ><>1.28< / ><>2393< / ><>-18.20< / >< / ><><>ERO ERO COPPER CO< / ><>51.14< / ><>-1.24< / ><>-2.37< / ><>414< / ><>31.70< / >< / ><><>EIF EXCHANGE INCO< / ><>116.70< / ><>-0.32< / ><>-0.27< / ><>200< / ><>42.39< / >< / ><><>EXE EXTENDICARE I< / ><>27.20< / ><>-0.59< / ><>-2.12< / ><>606< / ><>27.40< / >< / ><><>FFH FAIRFAX FINAN< / ><>2223.45< / ><>23.53< / ><>1.07< / ><>91< / ><>-15.00< / >< / ><><>FTT FINNING INTL< / ><>105.41< / ><>-1.26< / ><>-1.18< / ><>505< / ><>41.74< / >< / ><><>FCR-UN FIRST CAPI< / ><>23.03< / ><>0.07< / ><>0.30< / ><>225< / ><>21.85< / >< / ><><>AG FIRST

MAJESTIC< / ><>24.14< / ><>0.39< / ><>1.64< / ><>2462< / ><>5.41< / >< / ><><>FM FIRST QUANTUM< / ><>37.88< / ><>-0.64< / ><>-1.66< / ><>2652< / ><>2.93< / >< / ><><>FSV FIRSTSERVICE< / ><>182.28< / ><>1.33< / ><>0.74< / ><>64< / ><>-14.60< / >< / ><><>FTS FORTIS INC< / ><>75.92< / ><>0.26< / ><>0.34< / ><>1462< / ><>6.39< / >< / ><><>FVI FORTUNA MININ< / ><>15.10< / ><>0.66< / ><>4.57< / ><>1117< / ><>12.27< / >< / ><><>FNV FRANCO-NEVADA< / ><>342.05< / ><>2.92< / ><>0.86< / ><>403< / ><>20.22< / >< / ><><>FRU FREEHOLD ROYA< / ><>16.86< / ><>0.28< / ><>1.69< / ><>708< / ><>10.99< / >< / ><><>GMIN G MINING VEN< / ><>47.78< / ><>-0.54< / ><>-1.12< / ><>782< / ><>15.16< / >< / ><><>GFL GFL

ENVIRONME< / ><>60.17< / ><>0.22< / ><>0.37< / ><>637< / ><>2.05< / >< / ><><>GEI GIBSON ENERGY< / ><>32.16< / ><>0.71< / ><>2.26< / ><>616< / ><>28.03< / >< / ><><>GIL GILDAN ACTIVE< / ><>59.49< / ><>0.68< / ><>1.16< / ><>804< / ><>-30.66< / >< / ><><>GRT-UN GRANITE RE< / ><>83.42< / ><>0.41< / ><>0.49< / ><>69< / ><>2.09< / >< / ><><>GWO GREAT-WEST LI< / ><>87.55< / ><>-0.01< / ><>680< / ><>29.34< / >< / ><><>HPS-A HAMMOND POW< / ><>287.14< / ><>-6.14< / ><>-2.09< / ><>57< / ><>80.05< / >< / ><><>HWX HEADWATER EXP< / ><>13.88< / ><>0.36< / ><>2.66< / ><>307< / ><>48.13< / >< / ><><>HR-UN HR REAL EST< / ><>9.60< / ><>0.34< / ><>3.67< / ><>1236< / ><>-6.16< / >< / ><><>HBM HUDBAY

MINERA< / td> 36.09< / ><>-0.78< / ><>-2.12< / ><>1441< / ><>32.44< / >< / tr> <>H HYDRO ONE LIMIT< / ><>50.89< / ><>0.06< / ><>0.12< / ><>1864< / ><>-6.86< / >< / ><><>IAU I 80 GOLD COR< / ><>2.20< / ><>0.08< / ><>3.77< / ><>1127< / ><>8.91< / >< / ><><>IAG IA FINANCIAL< / ><>201.21< / ><>-0.78< / ><>-0.39< / ><>269< / ><>13.15< / >< / ><><>IMG IAMGOLD CORP< / ><>26.20< / ><>0.47< / ><>1.83< / ><>1090< / ><>15.67< / >< / ><><>IGM IGM FINANCIAL< / ><>80.08< / ><>-1.95< / ><>-2.38< / ><>655< / ><>29.56< / >< / ><><>IMO IMPERIAL OIL< / ><>174.74< / ><>4.36< / ><>2.56< / ><>1077< / ><>47.36< / >< / ><><>IFC INCTACT FINANC< / ><>242.41< / ><>3.69< / ><>1.55< / ><>506< / ><>-15.16< / >< / ><><>IPCO

INTERNATIONA< / ><>36.57< / ><>1.70< / ><>4.88< / ><>136< / ><>47.28< / >< / ><><>IVN IVANHOE MINES< / ><>11.16< / ><>-0.45< / ><>-3.88< / ><>3916< / ><>-28.51< / >< / table>

<><>< / ><>收盘价< / ><>净变化< / ><>百分比变化< / ><>成交量 (千股)< / ><>年初至今百分比变化< / >< / ><><>BANK EVOLVE CDN B< / ><>10.70< / ><>-0.05< / ><>-0.47< / ><>526< / ><>10.42< / >< / ><><>DLR-U GLOBAL X US< / ><>10.10< / ><>0.00< / ><>1223< / ><>-0.39< / >< / ><><>DLR GLOBAL X US D< / ><>14.35< / ><>-0.05< / ><>-0.35< / ><>1395< / ><>3.09< / >< / ><><>GDXD BETAPRO CDN< / ><>8.72< / ><>-0.25< / ><>-2.79< / ><>364< / ><>-46.63< / >< / ><><>HHIS HARVEST DIVE< / ><>11.81< / ><>-0.16< / ><>-1.34< / ><>1221< / ><>-3.43< / >< / ><><>HND BETAPRO NAT G< / ><>21.25< / ><>0.71< / ><>3.46< / ><>934< / ><>-43.56< / >< / ><><>HNU BETAPRO NAT G< / ><>8.78< / ><>-0.30< / ><>-3.30< / ><>3447< / ><>-46.13< / >< / ><><>HOD BETAPRO

CRUDE< / ><>16.89< / ><>-0.94< / ><>-5.27< / ><>2452< / ><>-88.33< / >< / ><><>HOU BETAPRO CRUDE< / ><>25.82< / ><>1.23< / ><>5.00< / ><>1589< / ><>194.41< / >< / ><><>MSTE HARVEST STRA< / ><>2.69< / ><>-0.04< / ><>-1.47< / ><>952< / ><>-37.44< / >< / ><><>QQU BETAPRO NASDA< / ><>40.92< / ><>-1.17< / ><>-2.78< / ><>616< / ><>35.86< / >< / ><><>RING GLOBAL X EQL< / ><>14.26< / ><>0.10< / ><>0.71< / ><>1115< / ><>-22.16< / >< / table>

<><>< / ><>收盘价< / ><>净变化< / ><>百分比变化< / ><>成交量 (千股)< / ><>年初至今百分比变化< / >< / ><><>SLVU BETAPRO SILV< / ><>14.22< / ><>-0.22< / ><>-1.52< / ><>427< / ><>-60.54< / >< / ><><>SQQQ BETAPRO -3X< / ><>6.59< / ><>0.27< / ><>4.27< / ><>655< / ><>-49.85< / >< / ><><>TQQQ BETAPRO 3X N< / ><>40.54< / ><>-1.71< / ><>-4.05< / ><>475< / ><>48.06< / >< / ><><>VEQT VANGUARD ALL< / ><>62.24< / ><>-0.32< / ><>-0.51< / ><>665< / ><>15.88< / >< / ><><>XEG ISHARES SP TS< / ><>29.07< / ><>0.79< / ><>2.79< / ><>2667< / ><>51.25< / >< / ><><>XEQT ISHARES CORE< / ><>45.65< / ><>-0.26< / ><>-0.57< / ><>1089< / ><>14.44< / >< / ><><>XIC ISHARES CORE< / ><>56.09< / ><>0.17< / ><>0.30< / ><>506< / ><>10.96< / >< / ><><>XIU ISHARES SP

TS< / ><>52.33< / ><>0.14< / ><>0.27< / ><>4338< / ><>11.36< / >< / ><><>XQQ ISHARES NASDA< / ><>74.60< / ><>-1.05< / ><>-1.39< / ><>388< / ><>19.76< / >< / ><><>XUT ISHARES SP TS< / ><>34.43< / ><>-0.10< / ><>-0.29< / ><>763< / ><>7.90< / >< / ><><>ZAG BMO AGGREGATE< / ><>13.38< / ><>0.02< / ><>0.15< / ><>445< / ><>-2.90< / >< / ><><>ZEB BMO EQUAL WEI< / ><>71.04< / ><>-0.45< / ><>-0.63< / ><>1630< / ><>21.85< / >< / table>

< / td><>价格< / ><>净涨跌< / >< / tr><><>黄金< / ><>4157.00< / ><>16.30< / ><>瘦肉猪< / ><>75.82< / ><>-1.10< / ><>玉米< / ><>500.25< / ><>-1.75< / >< / ><><>白银< / ><>59.42< / ><>-0.87< / ><>咖啡< / ><>289.05< / ><>-3.65< / ><>大豆< / ><>1287.50< / ><>-10.00< / >< / ><><>天然气< / ><>3.17< / ><>-0.04< / ><>铝< / ><>3153.75< / ><>-60.50< / ><>油菜籽< / ><>815.90< / ><>5.60< / >< / ><><>原油 WTI< / ><>91.49< / ><>3.21< / ><>香港期货镍 CNH< / ><>104330.0< / ><>270.00< / ><>标准普尔 500 商品服务< / ><>589.95< / ><>3.65< / >< / ><><>原油布伦特< / ><>100.20< / ><>-0.38< / ><>小麦< / ><>683.25< / ><>-3.25< / ><>饲料小麦< / ><>216.50< / ><>-1.75< / >< / ><><>高纯度铜< / ><>6.57< / ><>-0.08< / ><>实物木材< / ><>518.50< / ><>1.00< / ><>比特币期货< / ><>82035.0< / ><>-1585.00< / >< / table>

黄金、白银（美元 / 盎司），天然气（美元 / 百万英热单位），原油（ / 桶），铜（ / 磅），咖啡（ / 磅），铝（ / 吨），香港期货镍（人民币 / 吨），油菜籽和大麦（加元 / 吨），饲料小麦（英镑 / 吨）

道琼斯工业平均指数 过去 12 个月

TSX 52 周最高价 股价 $1 或以上

标准普尔全球 100 指数 过去 12 个月

<><>< / ><>收盘价< / ><>净涨跌< / ><>% 涨跌< / ><>成交量 (千股)< / ><>年初至今 % 涨跌< / >< / ><><>GUD KNIGHT THERAP< / ><>10.73< / ><>0.02< / ><>0.19< / ><>49< / ><>77.36< / >< / ><><>SOIL SATURN OIL A< / ><>7.65< / ><>0.15< / ><>2.00< / ><>822< / ><>214.81< / >< / ><><>PLTU SAVVYLONG 2X< / ><>38.89< / ><>1.29< / ><>3.43< / ><>7< / ><>63.54< / >< / ><><>SU 森科能源公司（Suncor）< / ><>100.89< / ><>3.63< / ><>3.73< / ><>5022< / ><>65.61< / >< / ><><>VLE VALEURA ENERG< / ><>16.40< / ><>0.38< / ><>2.37< / ><>495< / ><>100.49< / >< / ><><>WFC WALL FINANCIA< / ><>23.74< / ><>0.89< / ><>3.89< / ><>< / ><>50.73< / >< / table>

<><>< / ><>收盘价< / ><>净涨跌< / ><>% 涨跌< / ><>成交量 (千股)< / ><>年初至今 % 涨跌< / >< / ><><>ABBV ABBVIE CDR (< / ><>37.74< / ><>0.04< / ><>0.11< / ><>1< / ><>16.48< / >< / ><><>ALC ALGOMA CENTRA< / ><>28.32< / ><>1.99< / ><>7.56< / ><>18< / ><>49.84< / >< / ><><>ANET ARISTA NETWO< / ><>37.57< / ><>-1.03< / ><>-2.67< / ><>32< / ><>57.13< / >< / ><><>BCE-PR-K BCE INC< / ><>22.88< / ><>0.07< / ><>0.31< / ><>14< / ><>14.40< / >< / ><><>CVVY CAVVY ENERGY< / ><>2.40< / ><>0.05< / ><>2.13< / ><>851< / ><>163.74< / >< / ><><>FTG FIRAN TECHNOL< / ><>32.00< / ><>6.59< / ><>25.93< / ><>406< / ><>177.06< / >< / ><><>HWO HIGH ARCTIC E< / ><>1.10< / ><>-0.07< / ><>-5.98< / ><>8< / ><>30.95< / >< / table>

TSX 52 周最低价 股价 $1 或以上

MIN< / td> 5.31< / ><>-0.04< / ><>-0.75< / ><>253< / ><>-25.00< / >< / tr> <>CIA CHAMPION IRON< / ><>2.84< / ><>-0.06< / ><>-2.07< / ><>253< / ><>-48.27< / >< / ><><>ENS-PR-A E SPLIT< / ><>10.53< / ><>-0.03< / ><>-0.28< / ><>3< / ><>-6.65< / >< / ><><>EFN ELEMENT FLEET< / ><>21.43< / ><>-0.22< / ><>-1.02< / ><>1643< / ><>-40.55< / >< / ><><>EMA EMERA INCORPO< / ><>65.25< / ><>-0.11< / ><>-0.17< / ><>4132< / ><>-3.53< / >< / ><><>EFR ENERGY FUELS< / ><>14.12< / ><>-0.53< / ><>-3.62< / ><>1298< / ><>-28.97< / >< / ><><>FC FIRM CAPITAL M< / ><>10.84< / ><>0.21< / ><>1.98< / ><>70< / ><>-7.51< / >< / ><><>ASME HARVEST ASML< / ><>12.18< / ><>-0.15< / ><>-1.22< / ><>1< / ><>-2.17< / >< / ><><>INTE HARVEST

INTE< / ><>10.98< / ><>-0.81< / ><>-6.87< / ><>6< / ><>-12.58< / >< / ><><>HSTR HELIOSTAR ME< / ><>2.31< / ><>-0.01< / ><>-0.43< / ><>614< / ><>< / >< / ><><>LIF LABRADOR IRON< / ><>22.06< / ><>-0.24< / ><>-1.08< / ><>367< / ><>-26.15< / >< / ><><>LAC LITHIUM AMERI< / ><>3.34< / ><>-0.09< / ><>-2.62< / ><>1945< / ><>-44.05< / >< / ><><>LULU LULULEMON CD< / ><>4.01< / ><>0.05< / ><>1.26< / ><>658< / ><>-56.13< / >< / table>

<><>< / ><>收盘价< / ><>净变化< / ><>百分比变化< / ><>成交量 (千股)< / ><>年初至今百分比变化< / >< / ><><>MGEg MACKENZIE GL< / ><>19.98< / ><>-0.14< / ><>-0.70< / ><>7< / ><>-0.15< / >< / ><><>MMEA MACKENZIE MO< / ><>19.82< / ><>-0.41< / ><>-2.03< / ><>5< / ><>-1.00< / >< / ><><>MKP MCAN MORTGAGE< / ><>20.53< / ><>0.29< / ><>1.43< / ><>50< / ><>-8.47< / >< / ><><>BENZ MERCEDES-BEN< / ><>16.62< / ><>-0.02< / ><>-0.12< / ><>< / ><>-33.15< / >< / ><><>MGFI MIDDLEFIELD< / ><>10.01< / ><>-0.18< / ><>-1.77< / ><>4< / ><>-0.10< / >< / ><><>MRG-UN MORGUARD N< / ><>14.45< / ><>-0.01< / ><>-0.07< / ><>29< / ><>-16.81< / >< / ><><>MTY MTY FOOD GROU< / ><>30.25< / ><>-0.53< / ><>-1.72< / ><>141< / ><>-20.65< / >< / ><><>NFGC NEW FOUND

GO< / ><>2.19< / ><>0.02< / ><>0.92< / ><>297< / ><>-15.77< / >< / ><><>NRR-UN NORTHVIEW< / ><>13.92< / ><>-0.18< / ><>-1.28< / ><>2< / ><>-13.81< / >< / ><><>PVS-PR-M PARTNERS< / ><>24.95< / ><>-0.06< / ><>-0.24< / ><>23< / ><>-3.41< / >< / ><><>PVS-PR-U PARTNERS< / ><>24.80< / ><>-0.10< / ><>-0.40< / ><>1< / ><>-1.78< / >< / ><><>PZA PIZZA PIZZA R< / ><>10.32< / ><>0.12< / ><>1.18< / ><>142< / ><>-33.89< / >< / ><><>RS REAL ESTATE SP< / ><>8.37< / ><>-0.11< / ><>-1.30< / ><>59< / ><>-8.22< / >< / ><><>SHPD SAVVYSHORT -< / ><>4.55< / ><>0.14< / ><>3.17< / ><>33< / ><>-62.61< / >< / ><><>SRV-UN SIR ROYALT< / ><>13.54< / ><>-0.61< / ><>-4.31< / ><>7< / ><>-7.07< / >< / ><><>TLRY TILRAY

BRAND< / ><>5.10< / ><>-0.22< / ><>-4.14< / ><>1507< / ><>-58.90< / >< / ><><>TF TIMBERCREEK FI< / ><>5.20< / ><>0.09< / ><>1.76< / ><>443< / ><>-23.98< / >< / ><><>TNT-UN TRUE NORTH< / ><>7.48< / ><>-0.04< / ><>-0.53< / ><>56< / ><>-15.58< / >< / ><><>WDC WESTERN DIGIT< / ><>23.92< / ><>-0.69< / ><>-2.80< / ><>131< / ><>-15.15< / >< / ><><>XNDU XANADU QUANT< / ><>5.86< / ><>-0.55< / ><>-8.58< / ><>1082< / ><>-63.44< / >< / table>

多伦多证券交易所综合指数

来源：BARCHART

2026年10月8日

	收盘价	净变化	% 变化	成交量 (千股)	年初至今 % 变化
JWEL JAMIESON WEL	45.45	0.00	0.00	190	35.07
KNT K92 MINING IN	27.75	-0.05	-0.18	884	22.30
KEL KELT EXPLORAT	10.99	0.17	1.57	519	43.29
KEY KEYERA CORP	54.05	1.73	3.31	1667	22.84
KMP-UN KILLAM APA	17.00	-0.16	-0.93	592	3.66
KXS KINAXIS INC	178.40	2.66	1.51	45	3.07
K KINROSS GOLD CO	33.20	0.16	0.48	3272	-14.12
LIF LABRADOR IRON	22.06	-0.24	-1.08	367	-26.15
LB LAURENTIAN BAN	40.38	0.00	0.00	66	0.20
LSPD LIGHTSPEED C	14.79	0.19	1.30	367	-10.69
LNR LINAMAR CORP	94.52	-2.19	-2.26	268	13.93
LAC LITHIUM AMERI	3.34	-0.09	-2.62	1945	-44.05
L LOBLAW CO	62.68	0.46	0.74	1321	1.02
LUG LUNDIN GOLD I	86.71	1.70	2.00	603	-23.95
LUN LUNDIN MINING	33.55	-0.38	-1.12	1291	13.73
MG MAGNA INTERNAT	90.82	-1.80	-1.94	732	24.12
MFC MANULIFE FIN	59.89	0.38	0.64	4519	20.16
MFI MAPLE LEAF FO	25.00	0.50	2.04	277	0.28
MDA MDA SPACE LTD	38.81	-2.53	-6.12	1585	45.68
MX METHANEX CORP	88.24	1.96	2.27	287	62.09
MRU METRO INC	90.72	1.21	1.35	306	-8.17
MAU MONTAGE GOLD	16.99	-0.32	-1.85	389	71.96
MTL MULLEN GROUP	27.39	0.67	2.51	273	74.02
NA NATIONAL BANK	195.40	-3.30	-1.66	1570	13.20
NXE NEXGEN ENERGY	12.33	-0.48	-3.75	3815	-2.38
NFI NFI GROUP INC	25.41	0.30	1.19	295	63.72
NGEX NGEX MINERAL	23.16	-0.57	-2.40	166	-9.53
NPI NORTHLAND POW	22.15	0.09	0.41	1470	24.09
NG NOVAGOLD RES I	8.89	-0.17	-1.88	1065	-30.55
NTR NUTRIEN LTD	99.52	-0.31	-0.31	1022	17.47
OR OR ROYALTIES I	48.55	0.23	0.48	282	-0.14
OGC OCEANAGOLD

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加拿大债券 货币 外汇交叉汇率

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加元 \$0.7030 -0.0137 (-1.9115%) 快速年度。截至下午 4.47。

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数据由 BARCHART 提供，除非另有说明 2026年10月8日 \$0.7030

体育

守护者队 VS. 白袜队

短期训练营对冰球的影响微乎其微 ■ B14

在凯西·斯托尼的带领下，加拿大磨砺出无畏且敢于冒险的足球风格 ■ B15

在滑垒中

周四美国职棒大联盟分区系列赛（ALDS）第 4 场比赛的第一局中，芝加哥白袜队游击手科尔森·蒙哥马利在迫使克利夫兰守护者队外野手史蒂文·宽出局后将球传向一垒。欲了解比赛详情，请访问 ■ GLOBESPORTS.COM

南·胡 / 美联社

洋基队的疑似本垒打渴望人为触碰

观点

截至本文撰写时，整个曼哈顿岛尚未对那个在周三晚上可能（也可能没有）导致洋基队赛季结束的球迷发起围攻。

这在一定程度上得益于他尚未被公开确认身份，尽管这迟早会发生。当那一刻到来时，暂时搬到纯粹的大都会队领地或许是个好主意，并在那里找一个能给你换颗新头的整形外科医生。

那个家伙能拿到直接位于左外野墙上方的座位，一定感到多么欣喜。看到安东尼·沃尔佩的飞球直接向他飞来，他又会多么惊讶。伸手越过围墙几英寸以抓取一个历史性的奖杯，又是多么自然。他与热爱洋基队的朋友们一起庆祝沃尔佩扳平比分的本垒打时，看起来又是多么狂喜。

随后，当情况变得明朗，那个本垒打需要接受比通常形式更深入的视频回放审查时，他一定感到多么矛盾。当审查时间延长到感觉像过了几个小时时，他又感到多么心惊。当宣布该本垒打因球迷干扰而被撤销时，他又感到多么凄凉。当他被警察押出体育场时，那种感觉就像是直接奔向巴士站，买一张去任何地方的任意巴士票一样。

应该有人为此写本书——就写那半小时。唐·德里罗快 90, 岁了，但我相信他还能写出一本好书。

诚然，如果没有我们这位依然匿名的反英雄，那球不会成为本垒打。球当时是直向下飞的，显然在距离围墙顶部几英寸的地方落下。考虑到这一点，这家伙不是史蒂夫·巴特曼。他不需要为让数百万邻居感到极度尴尬而承担个人责任。

然而，这并不意味着球不会击中上述围墙的顶部，并从坦帕湾队左外野手维克多·梅萨二世身边弹开，后者当时正全力跳起在球下方。如果弹跳方向正确，那一球完全具备成为内场本垒打的所有条件。

在一种可能的世界里，洋基队赢得了一场足以让人在多年后回忆“你看到那一幕时在哪里”的比赛。而现在的纽约生活在另一种可能的世界里。

结果有两点。第一，洋基队以这种方式输球——哈哈。

第二，视频回放确保了对这次比赛进行了公正且正确的二次思考——真是令人失望。

这就是为什么视频回放行不通——因为它太有效了。它消除了命运的干预。它剥夺了我们的神话。 ■

坦帕湾光芒队左外野手维克多·梅萨二世在周三的 ALDS 第 3 场比赛中，试图接住纽约洋基队内野手安东尼·沃尔佩击出的球。裁判在审查该回合后，推翻了原本将成为扳平比分本垒打的判定，裁定为球迷干扰，并给沃尔佩记为二垒安打。岩村由纪 / 美联社

MLB提议将常规赛缩减至154场，将周一设为常规休息日

罗纳德·布鲁姆 纽约报道

美国职业棒球大联盟（MLB）在周四的集体谈判期间向球员提交的一项计划中提议，从2029年起将常规赛从162场缩减至154场，并将分区系列赛（Division Series）扩大为七场四胜制。

球队老板还提议在目前的季后赛赛制中增加九个休息日，将季后赛总时长延长至最多42天，此举旨在让顶尖先发投手有更多出场机会。

MLB将允许季后赛前两轮中种子排名较高的球队从明年起选择其对手；且从2029年起，除最多两场全国直播比赛外，绝大多数球队的常规赛周一将成为休息日。

缩减常规赛场次将减少球员创造赛季记录和职业生涯记录的机会。

MLB发言人格伦·卡普林（Glen Caplin）在的一份声明中表示：“回归154场赛制将使我们能够引入每周一次的休息日，这有利于球员健康，同时也能创造一个新的全国直播窗口，以展示我们最令人兴奋的球队和球员。”

球员协会表示将审查该计划并在谈判桌上做出回应。

棒球运动的五年期劳工合同将于12月1日到期，预计管理层将对球员采取锁定（lock out）措施，这场冲突可能会延迟或取消2027赛季。MLB提议设立薪资上限，以及对合同金额和期限进行限制，而工会已誓言绝不接受薪资上限。

工会在一份声明中表示：“不幸的是，联盟再次明确，其所有提议都以球员同意薪资上限为前提，而该制度将削弱球员的权利和薪酬，同时还包含其他不利于球员的提议。”

目前MLB的常规赛在187天内安排162场比赛，而新赛制在大多数年份将在180天内进行154场比赛。

MLB将把外卡系列赛（wild card series）维持在三场两胜制，并在种子排名较高球队的主场进行，同时在第1场和第2场之间增加一个休息日，并错开系列赛的开始时间。前三天每天仅安排两场比赛，而非目前每天最多四场的赛制。

3号种子可以在常规赛结束后选择在外卡系列赛中主场对阵5号还是6号种子，而1号种子可以选择在分区系列赛中对阵哪支外卡胜出球队。每组七场四胜制的系列赛将从9天延长至11天，除了第3场和第6场之前的旅行日外，还将在第5场和第7场之前增加休息日。由于部分球队在下午时段难以填满体育场，MLB将停止在下午安排季后赛早期轮次的比赛。

管理层在2022年的谈判中曾提出过“选择对手”的方案，作为一项球员未同意的14支球队季后赛计划的一部分。

卡普林表示：“更短的常规赛将使我们能够为球迷打造更好的十月——减少工作日的下午场比赛，延长分区系列赛，并提供更多机会在最高舞台上观看顶尖投手的表现。” ■

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x — 已锁定季后赛资格。 y — 已锁定分区冠军。 西部联盟

NHL训练营缩短对赛季初冰球比赛影响极小，但比赛依然混乱

在周六于埃德蒙顿罗杰斯广场举行的比赛中，埃德蒙顿油人队右翼瓦西里·波德科尔津（Vasily Podkolzin，中）在攻破西雅图海妖队门将菲利普·格鲁鲍尔（Philipp Grubauer）的大门后庆祝。WALTER TYCHNOWICZ / IMAGN IMAGES

教练们正努力研究如何在季前赛时间减少的情况下向球队传授战术体系

STEPHEN WHYNO

NHL历史上最早的一次全联盟开赛，其前三天交出的比分简直像是回到了20世纪80年代。

埃德蒙顿队和温哥华队的比赛比分为6-5和9-7。匹兹堡队以7-0大胜费城队。科罗拉多队以8-4击败洛杉矶队。

“进球数很多，这说明比赛打得依然比较松散，”纽约岛人队教练彼得·德博尔（Peter DeBoer）周四表示。

比赛表现混乱，门将拦截球的效率低于上赛季。

但在训练营缩短且表演赛减少之后，前100场左右的比赛已经结束，目前几乎没有证据表明，与以往那些同样存在基本功缺陷且偶尔出现大比分溃败的开局相比，今年的情况发生了剧烈变化。

“我认为过去100年一直如此，所以我并不期待今年会有什么不同，”犹他队教练安德烈·图里尼（Andre Tourigny）说道。

数据揭示的首周及之后情况

在前 110 场比赛中共出现了 344 个进球——其中油人队后卫埃文·布查德（Evan Bouchard）以 6 球领先。游骑兵队门将伊戈尔·舍斯特金（Igor Shesterkin）甚至通过一次射门进入空门地得分。

这意味着场均进球数为 6.26，比去年首 112 场比赛的 6.1 略有上升。强力进攻（Power plays）的成功率为 20.9%，而去年同期为 19.8%，其中由图里尼（Tourigny）执教的猛犸象队以 61.5% 的成功率领先。

“也许练习特种作战（special teams）的时间减少了，”犹他队的迪兰·根瑟（Dylan Guenther）说道，他以 6 个强力进攻得分领跑联盟。

“我们在训练营期间对此非常重视，因为我们进行了大量的特种作战训练，所以现在看到一部分成效是很不错的。”

目前的平均扑救率为 .890。上赛季门将的综合扑救率为 .896，是 NHL 自 1994 年以来的最低水平，而对于这些戴面具的冰球运动员来说，情况并没有变得更容易。

失误次数也相近，每场比赛超过 16 次，且出现了大量多打少进攻（odd-man rushes）。

“球队们能够得分，因为球员的技术太出色了，”新泽西队后卫布伦登·迪伦（Brenden Dillon）表示。“球队的技术如此之高，所以在防守端，只要有一个球杆位置不对，或者一个人站位失误，对方就会让你付出代价。”

缩短训练营带来的变化

魔鬼队教练谢尔顿·基夫（Sheldon Keefe）表示，每年秋天关于如何最大限度利用训练营的讨论都是年度议题，这导致在常规赛初期会有大量的教学工作。

“我们是把所有东西都铺开然后逐步引入，但这样你可能什么都学不好？”基夫说。“还是每次只推出几项内容，尝试真正掌握它们，然后在此基础上逐步扩展？在缩短的训练营中，你必须更加如此。你得优先确定几个重点关注领域，然后在进行过程中不断扩展。”

在夏季滑冰已成常态的今天，球员的体能不再是问题。至于季前赛场次的减少是否导致了伤病增加，可能还需要几周时间才能确定。

不过，分差巨大的比赛中，被反超的情况在增加。已有 22 场比赛的分差在三个或更多进球，这比平时略多。

“大家在很早的时候就进入了状态，”岛民队队长博·霍瓦特（Bo Horvat）说。“偶尔会有几场比赛显得有些混乱。但我认为显然比赛水平会提升，随着赛季的进行，表现会变得更加干练。”

队友凯尔·帕尔米耶（Kyle Palmieri）表示，岛民队讨论过如何利用联盟中一些混乱的情况，希望在秋季保持更强的纪律性能够带来回报。迪伦明白，教练们可能希望再多一两周时间来解决一些问题，但并没有多少人渴望回到过去的方式。

“训练营缩短很不错，”根瑟说。“我不会对此抱怨。”

那么这倒是件好事，因为这就是 NHL 的新常态。作为其中的一部分，每个人似乎都承认这就是赛季初秋季冰球的特点——距离春季的季后赛争夺以及追逐斯坦利杯时那种封锁、紧逼的高强度竞争还很遥远。

“我认为每个人都有很多需要清理和改进的地方，”图里尼说。“在目前这个阶段，我认为没有哪支球队在任何方面是完美无缺的。”

美联社（THE ASSOCIATED PRESS）

NHL

东部联盟 大西洋赛区

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周四

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周三

华盛顿 5 匹兹堡 3 温尼伯 3 科罗拉多 2 埃德蒙顿 5 安纳海姆 2 周五

周五

所有时间均为东部时间

纽约游骑兵 对阵 华盛顿，晚上 7 点 匹兹堡 对阵 哥伦布，晚上 7 点 西雅图 对阵 底特律，晚上 7 点 安纳海姆 对阵 温尼伯，晚上 8 点 周六比赛 费城 对阵 波士顿，下午 1 点 温哥华 对阵 新泽西，下午 3:30 埃德蒙顿 对阵 圣何塞，下午 4 点 明尼苏达 对阵 佛罗里达，晚上 6 点 卡罗来纳 对阵 芝加哥，晚上 7 点 哥伦布 对阵 圣路易斯，晚上 7 点 达拉斯 对阵 匹兹堡，晚上 7 点 底特律 对阵 蒙特利尔，晚上 7 点 纳什维尔 对阵 渥太华，晚上 7 点 多伦多 对阵 科罗拉多，晚上 7 点 犹他 对阵 布法罗，晚上 7 点 坦帕湾 对阵 纽约岛人，晚上 7:30 安纳海姆 对阵 卡尔加里，晚上 10 点 洛杉矶 对阵 拉斯维加斯，晚上 10 点

美国联盟 NFL

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WNBA 季后赛 半决赛

轮空：堪萨斯城，卡罗来纳

周四

坦帕湾 对阵 达拉斯

周日

费城 对阵 杰克逊维尔（在英国伦敦）。上午 9:30

英国），上午 9:30

芝加哥 对阵 格林贝，下午 1 点 辛辛那提 对阵 迈阿密，下午 1 点 克利夫兰 对阵 纽约喷气机，下午 1 点 休斯顿 对阵 田纳西，下午 1 点 印第安纳波利斯 对阵 匹兹堡，下午 1 点 拉斯维加斯 对阵 新英格兰，下午 1 点 明尼苏达 对阵 新奥尔良，下午 1 点 纽约巨人 对阵 华盛顿，下午 1 点 丹佛 对阵 洛杉矶闪电，下午 4:05 底特律 对阵 亚利桑那，下午 4:25 旧金山 对阵 西雅图，下午 4:25 巴尔的摩 对阵 亚特兰大，晚上 8:20

[...OMITTED...]

周一

布法罗 对阵 洛杉矶公羊，晚上 8:15

U SPORTS 橄榄球

周五 — 所有时间均为东部时间 多伦多 对阵 麦克马斯特，中午 12 点 周六

渥太华 对阵 约克，下午 1 点

渥太华 对阵 约克，下午 1 点 温莎 对阵 皇后大学，下午 3 点 西安 对阵 卡尔顿，下午 4 点

（五局三胜制 5. 所有时间均为东部时间） 金州 (2) 对阵 拉斯维加斯 (3) （金州目前以 2-0 领先系列赛） 周三 金州 83, 拉斯维加斯 81 周五 金州 对阵 拉斯维加斯，晚上 9:30 周日 x-金州 对阵 拉斯维加斯，待定 亚特兰大 (4) 对阵 纽约 (8) （亚特兰大目前以 2-0 领先系列赛） 周三 亚特兰大 101, 纽约 98 (加时赛) 周五 亚特兰大 对阵 纽约，晚上 7:30 周日 x-亚特兰大 对阵 纽约，下午 2 点 x — 仅在必要时进行比赛 CFL

东区

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y — 锁定分区冠军。 第 19 周 轮空：多伦多 埃德蒙顿 对阵 汉密尔顿，晚上 7 点 渥太华 对阵 不列颠哥伦比亚，晚上 10 点 周六 卡尔加里 对阵 温尼伯，晚上 7 点 周一 萨斯喀彻温 对阵 蒙特利尔，下午 1 点 NRA 季前赛

NBA 季前赛

周四

波士顿 124, 克利夫兰 113 新奥尔良 对阵 迈阿密 费城 对阵 布鲁克林 华盛顿 对阵 纽约 亚特兰大 对阵 圣安东尼奥 萨克拉门托 对阵 洛杉矶湖人

周三

印第安纳 123, 明尼苏达 112 奥兰多 122, 孟菲斯 118 密尔沃基 128, 俄克拉荷马城 126 芝加哥 124, 菲尼克斯 117 波特兰 123, 金州 118 周五 — 所有时间均为东部时间 孟菲斯 对阵 芝加哥，晚上 8 点 在中国马戈

在中国澳门

达拉斯 对阵 休斯顿，上午 8 点

周六

亚特兰大 对阵 印第安纳，晚上 7 点 底特律 对阵 华盛顿，晚上 7 点 明尼苏达 对阵 迈阿密，晚上 8 点 费城 对阵 波士顿，晚上 8 点 萨克拉门托 对阵 金州，晚上 8:30 圣安东尼奥 对阵 菲尼克斯，晚上 10:30 在温哥华

在温哥华

多伦多 vs 洛杉矶快船，下午 6:30

MLS 东部联盟

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周六 — 所有时间均为东部时间 蒙特利尔 在 多伦多，下午 1:00 纽约城 在 芝加哥，下午 2:30 辛辛那提 在 亚特兰大，晚上 7:30 哥伦布 在 奥兰多，晚上 7:30 华盛顿 在 迈阿密，晚上 7:30 达拉斯 在 夏洛特，晚上 7:30 盐湖城 在 费城，晚上 7:30 圣迭戈 在 纽约红牛，晚上 7:30 西雅图 在 新英格兰，晚上 7:30 休斯顿 在 明尼苏达，晚上 8:30 纳什维尔 在 奥斯汀，晚上 8:30 波特兰 在 堪萨斯城，晚上 8:30 圣何塞 在 科罗拉多，晚上 9:30 温哥华 在 洛杉矶 FC，晚上 10:30

CPL

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AHL 周五 — 所有时间均为东部时间 马尼托巴 对阵 格兰德拉皮兹，晚上 7 点 多伦多 对阵 汉密尔顿，晚上 7 点 哈特福德 对阵 普罗维登斯，晚上 7:05 锡拉丘兹 对阵 罗切斯特，晚上 7:05 罗克福德 对阵 艾奥瓦，晚上 8 点 贝克斯菲尔德 对阵 卡尔加里，晚上 9 点 阿博茨福德 对阵 科罗拉多，晚上 9:05 圣迭戈 对阵 科切拉谷，晚上 10 点 图森 对阵 圣何塞，晚上 10 点 金斯顿 7 巴里 4 尼亚加拉 2 渥太华 1 (加时赛) 北湾 4 萨德伯里 3 (加时赛) 周三 弗林特 5 基奇纳 2 周五 — 所有时间均为东部时间 金斯顿 对阵 布兰普顿，晚上 7 点 伊利 对阵 伦敦，晚上 7 点 奥沙瓦 对阵 萨尼亚，晚上 7:05 彼得伯勒 对阵 萨德伯里，晚上 7:05 欧文萨وند 对阵 格ويل夫，晚上 7:07 基奇纳 对阵 苏圣玛丽，晚上 7:07 纽芬兰 6 B-布瓦布里昂 3 维多利亚维尔 5 肖尼根 3 德拉蒙德维尔 对阵 夏洛特顿，晚上 6 点 鲁安-诺兰达 对阵 圣约翰，晚上 6 点 布雷顿角 对阵 希库蒂米，晚上 7 点 贝科莫 对阵 加蒂诺，晚上 7 点 纽芬兰 对阵 里穆斯基，晚上 7 点 布兰维尔-布瓦布里昂 对阵 瓦尔多尔，晚上 7 点

周三

周三 魁北克 2 多伦多 1 汉密尔顿 3 维多利亚 0 周六 — 所有时间均为东部时间 温哥华 在 魁北克，下午 4 点

英超 (EPL)

周六 — 所有时间均为东部时间 阿森纳 vs. 利兹，上午 7:30 阿斯顿维拉 vs. 布伦特福德，上午 10 点 切尔西 . 伯恩茅斯，上午 10 点 伊普斯维奇 . 富勒姆，上午 10 点 桑德兰 . 布莱顿，上午 10 点 曼联 . 热刺，下午 12:30

OHL

周四

QMJHL

周四

哈利法克斯 6 鲁安-诺兰达 2 德拉蒙维尔 4 蒙克顿 3 周三

WHL

周三

布兰登 3 坎卢普斯 1 基洛纳 10 斯威夫特卡伦特 2 莱斯布里奇 5 三城 3 周五 — 所有时间均为东部时间 卡尔加里 在 红鹿，晚上 9 点 阿尔伯特王子 在 雷吉纳，晚上 9 点 穆斯乔 在 萨斯卡通，晚上 9 点 埃德蒙顿 在 麦迪逊哈特，晚上 9 点 斯威夫特卡伦特 在 坎卢普斯，晚上 10 点 温纳奇 在 波特兰，晚上 10 点 布兰登 在 彭蒂克顿，晚上 10:05 温哥华 在 西雅图，晚上 10:05 莱斯布里奇 在 斯波坎，晚上 10:05 埃弗里特 在 三城，晚上 10:05

PGA巡回赛

BAYCURRENT CLASSIC 在日本神奈川

周四第一轮 — 标准杆 71< / td>< / tr><><>Jacob Bridgeman< / ><>31-32—63< / >< / ><><>Jordan L. Smith< / ><>32-32—64< / >< / ><><>Ricky Castillo< / ><>32-33—65< / >< / ><><>Pierceson Coody< / ><>34-31—65< / >< / ><><>Max Homa< / ><>31-34—65< / >< / ><><>Mac Meissner< / ><>30-35—65< / >< / ><><>David Lipsky< / ><>33-33—66< / >< / ><><>Keith Mitchell< / ><>32-34—66< / >< / ><><>Also< / ><>< / >< / table>

MLB季后赛

分区系列赛

（5局3胜制。所有时间均为东部时间）美国联盟

坦帕湾 (1) . 纽约洋基 (4) （坦帕湾以 3-0 赢得系列赛）

坦帕湾 4, 纽约洋基 3

克利夫兰 (2) . 芝加哥白袜 (6) （芝加哥白袜以 2-1 领先系列赛） 周四

克利夫兰 在 芝加哥白袜 周三

克利夫兰 9, 芝加哥白袜 3 周六

x-芝加哥白袜 在 克利夫兰，晚上 8 点

国家联盟

密尔沃基 3, 圣迭戈 1

密尔沃基 5, 圣迭戈 1 洛杉矶道奇 (2) . 亚特兰大 (3) （洛杉矶道奇以 3-1 赢得系列赛） 周三

洛杉矶道奇 4, 亚特兰大 1

电视节目

周五（所有时间均为东部时间）

赛车

F1：新加坡大奖赛，冲刺赛排位赛，TSN 5, 8 a.m.

NASCAR Craftsman卡车系列赛，Eco-save 200, FOX, 5 p.m.

篮球

NBA：休斯顿 . 达拉斯，NBA TV Canada, 8 a.m.

WNBA：亚特兰大 . 纽约，TSN 4, 7:30 p.m.

WNBA：金州 . 拉斯维加斯， 4, 9:30 p.m.

足球

NCAA：佛罗里达州立 . 路易斯维尔， 2, 7 p.m.

CFL：埃德蒙顿 . 汉密尔顿， 1, 3, 7 p.m. NCAA：爱荷华 在 华盛顿，FOX, 9 p.m. CFL：渥太华 . BC， 1, 5, 10 p.m. 高尔夫

DP世界巡回赛：西班牙公开赛，第二轮，Golf Channel, 8 a.m.

PGA冠军赛：Constellation FURYK & FRIENDS，第一轮，Golf Channel, 1 p.m. NB3 加拿大青少年高尔夫西部锦标赛， 4, 5, 2:30 p.m.

PGA Korn Ferry巡回赛冠军赛，第二轮， , 3 p.m.

第二轮， , 3 p.m. PGA：Baycurrent Classic，第三轮， , 11 p.m.

冰球

NHL：安纳海姆 . 温尼伯，SN 1, 8 p.m. 足球

荷甲：PSV . 赫伦芬，SN World, 2 p.m.

女子国际友谊赛：加拿大 . 丹麦， 5, 7 p.m.

. 丹麦， 5, 7 p.m. 网球

网球

WTA：中国公开赛，四分之一决赛， 4, 7 a.m.

ATP：上海大师赛， 3, 12 a.m. (Saturday)

WTA：中国公开赛，半决赛， 4, 3 a.m. (Saturday)

结果截至周四，10月8日，晚上 9:45

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哈兰德呼吁曼城团结

9月13日，埃尔林·哈兰德（中）在对阵死敌曼联的比赛中庆祝为曼城攻入首球。本赛季至今，曼城在各项赛事中保持不败。MICHAEL REGAN / GETTY IMAGES

主教练恩佐·马雷斯卡在俱乐部财务指控被判定有罪后，同样对俱乐部所有者表示“信任”

STEVE DOUGLAS 英国，曼彻斯特

在曼城被判定在英超联赛中存在大规模违反财务规则的行为后，前锋埃尔林·哈兰德在首次公开表态中呼吁曼城的每一个人要“团结一致”。

曼城主教练恩佐·马雷斯卡也首次谈到了这场现代英格兰足球最大的丑闻，他对俱乐部的所有权表示“信任”，并称他的球员们“并不太在意这些喧嚣”。

曼城将于周日对阵利物浦，这是调查小组公布裁决后的首场比赛。裁决称，曼城在2009-18年期间通过人为手段虚增了超过US\$1-billion的收入，以规避当时限制竞争对手俱乐部的财务公平竞争规则。

调查小组判定曼城在英超联赛提出的全部80项严重财务指控中全部有罪，曼城可能会面临严厉制裁——包括被踢出顶级联赛。曼城已对调查结果提出上诉。

在周四发表的一篇天空体育（Sky Sports）采访中，曼城最受瞩目的球员哈兰德表示：“我们必须团结一致，并且要彼此传递爱。所以，是的，团结一致，享受这段旅程并保持微笑。”

当被问及想对前往安菲尔德球场的曼城球迷（球队在那里可能会面临敌对的接待）说什么时，哈兰德说：“我们要团结一致，我们要彼此陪伴，并且保持积极心态。”

“无论生活中发生什么，我们都要保持微笑。所以我们要保持积极，向前看，努力赢得足球比赛，然后尝试享受这种局面和比赛。”

曼城随后发布了一篇对马雷斯卡的内部采访。由于过去三周处于漫长的国际比赛日，国内足球联赛处于停赛状态，这是他首次就此事发表评论。

在谈到曼城的处境时，他说：“坦白说，我个人非常冷静。俱乐部已经表达得非常清楚。我们完全信任俱乐部。我们理解外界的喧嚣，但我们的关注点仅在于我们能控制的事情，而我们能控制的只有足球方面。”

马雷斯卡表示，在曼城接下来的两场比赛（对阵利物浦，以及周三在欧冠中对阵巴黎圣日耳曼）之前，球队内部的氛围“非常棒”。

曼城在本赛季各项赛事中赢得了全部七场比赛，目前在英超联赛中排名榜首。

“球员们只专注于此。他们知道我们能控制的是足球方面——他们完全不担心其他事情，”马雷斯卡说。

“他们了解自己的职业，他们知道外界有喧嚣，但他们并不太在意这些喧嚣。”

马雷斯卡在周五与记者举行赛前新闻发布会时，可能会面临更严厉的质询。

兰帕德及其他主教练就曼城案件发表看法

英超联赛的回归为各竞争球队的主教练提供了首次机会，让他们对震惊了这一全球最受欢迎足球联赛的曼城案件做出反应，该案件可能会对本赛季剩余时间产生重大影响。

周四，他们并未急于做出评判。

“我们都看到新闻了。这显然是大新闻，”科文特里主教练弗兰克·兰帕德说道，他曾在 2014-15 赛季效力于曼城，而该赛季正是被调查的对象之一。

“曼城正在就此事提出上诉，所以我认为我的反应是：在上诉进行期间，你能说什么呢？我并不在事件内部，我完全在外部——我很久以前在曼城踢过球，只踢了一年——所以我们将等待并看看上诉的结果如何。”

伯恩茅斯主教练马尔科·罗斯则倾向于远离此事，他表示：“我是一名足球教练，不是一名政治家”；而纽卡斯尔主教练马蒂亚斯·贾斯莱则表示，作为另一家俱乐部的教练，他“无法做出评判”，且“有相关部门在处理此事”。

同样地，利兹主教练丹尼尔·法尔克表示，有“更有资格的人……能够就此发表看法”。

在伦敦举行的体育领导者会议（Leaders in Sport conference）上，利兹主席帕拉格·马拉特（Paraag Marathe）——该俱乐部美国所有权团体 49ers Enterprises 的总裁——表示，他相信“最公正的结果一定会出炉”。

“在任何体育运动中，你知道，每个人都希望在相同的规则下比赛，”他补充道，但并未提及曼城。

美联社（THE ASSOCIATED PRESS）

加拿大在预选赛前磨炼敢于冒险、无畏的特质

GEMMA KARSTENS-SMITH

加拿大女足主教练表示，在明年夏天的世界杯到来之前，她的球队参加比赛并非为了娱乐。

凯西·斯通尼（Casey Stoney）表示，即将到来的在蒙特利尔和多伦多对阵丹麦的比赛将旨在考验球队的勇气。

“这不是一场表演赛，”她在周四表示。

“这是一场我们旨在表现出色并赢得胜利的比赛。……所以这不是一场友谊赛。这关乎表现，关乎确保我们在过去 16 到 18 个月所建立的基础之上，在面对对手时，如何将我们的表现提升到下一个水平。”

排名第九的加拿大队将于周五在蒙特利尔主场迎战排名第 12 的丹麦队，随后两队将于周一在多伦多再次交锋。

这些比赛开启了加拿大队的一段重要赛程，该队将于 11 月 28 日在中北美及加勒比海足球联合会（CONCACAF）女足锦标赛四分之一决赛中对阵巴拿马。该国希望通过此次赛事获得 2027 年巴西世界杯和 2028 年洛杉矶奥运会的参赛资格。

为了准备这些关键对决，斯通尼的球队需要基于以往的表现并完善其球队特质。

“这支球队一直以来都很难被击败。我们不想失去这一点。这真的非常、非常重要，”教练说道。“但我们现在需要尝试不同的冒险，以便在保持难以被击败的同时，创造更多进球机会。”

虽然加拿大仍在寻求确保 2027 年世界杯的一个席位，但该队同时也在努力跻身国际足联（FIFA）排名前八，以便在赛事抽签中获得更有利的局面。

斯通尼表示，与包括丹麦在内的欧洲顶尖球队交手正是这项工作的一部分。

“这在很大程度上关乎表现，但同时也关乎尝试建立那种获胜的心态。”

加拿大对阵丹麦的战绩为 3 胜 3 平 0 负，但两队自 2017 年以来就未曾交手，当时加拿大在葡萄牙的阿尔加维杯（Algarve Cup）中以 1-0 获胜。

后卫加布里埃尔·卡尔（Gabrielle Carle）表示，客队将在多伦多和蒙特利尔提供严峻的考验。

“丹麦是一支非常优秀的球队，已经获得了 [世界杯] 资格，在包含意大利和瑞典的组别中排名第一，所以真的是一支很强的队伍，”她说。“我认为对我们来说，这是很好的准备。”

斯通尼表示，加拿大需要谨慎对待球权的运用和对转换瞬间的控制，并留意拜仁慕尼黑名将佩妮莱·哈德（Pernille Harder）等进攻威胁。

“他们非常勤奋，组织严密，很难被击破，”她说。“而且他们在反击中具有威胁。我们不要回避他们队中拥有一些世界级球员这一事实。”

她补充道，加拿大人希望在进攻端更具创造力，这意味着要承担更多风险。

“这关乎我们如何打造一支知道自己在状态好时能击败任何对手的球队？无需恐惧，”斯通尼说。“我们想要挑战最强的球队。这就是目标所在。”

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凯利：愤怒是享受体育运动的重要组成部分

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沃尔佩（Volpe）的那记本垒打立刻让人想起另一记——德里克·杰特（Derek Jeter）在 1996 年美国联盟冠军赛（ALCS）第一场比赛中的绝杀球。

情况完全一样——球被高高击起，飞向布朗克斯区的一群外野观众。

在那个案例中，是一个 12 岁的孩子，杰弗里·迈尔（Jeffrey Maier），他伸手越过围墙抓住了球。

相比沃尔佩的那球，杰特 / 迈尔本垒打的摄像机角度更少，但看起来情况更糟。迈尔的胳膊一直伸进场内直到肘部，而且他还戴着棒球手套。就像我们周三晚上那位暂时匿名的朋友一样，迈尔庆祝的方式就像是他自己击中了球，而不是他阻碍了球的飞行。

在沃尔佩的“本垒打”之后，下方的外野手梅萨（Mesa）看起来一脸困惑。而在杰特的本垒打之后（这里不需要用讽刺性的引号），外野手托尼·塔拉斯科（Tony Tarasco）则愤怒到了极点。塔拉斯科绝对确定那是干扰。但在 96 年还没有视频回放，因此没有申诉途径。

洋基队在那年赢得了世界大赛。从那时起，他们开始赢得大量冠军。这些冠军彼此之间大同小异。让那段夺冠历程与其他的不同之处在于杰弗里·迈尔——那个名人小混混，七年级的恐怖分子。

2012 年，《巴尔的摩太阳报》报道了迈尔的故事。其导语是：“巴尔的摩体育史上最被厌恶的孩子已经长大成人了。”这篇文章在某种程度上为“杰弗里·迈尔事件”（维基百科如此称之）画上了句号。

在《太阳报》的文章中，迈尔表现得像一个非常讨人喜欢且有自知之明的人。为了让任何体育故事能够晋升为传奇，这个圆环最终必须闭合。巴尔的摩主要媒体的这篇和解报道便起到了这个作用。

另一个必要条件是——必须吸取一个宝贵的教训。迈尔完成的这个生命周期提醒我们，体育并非真实生活。它们实际上并不重要。为它们而愤怒正是享受它们的一部分。永远记住这一点。杰弗里记住了。

那么从“无名氏事件”中能学到什么？什么也学不到。一旦那个抓球的傻瓜被小报媒体翻底朝天，人们就会忘记这件事发生过。因为这件事并没有“发生”。回放技术杀死了它。

多么糟糕的丑闻浪费。如今有许多丑闻可以选择，但大多数都令人临床性抑郁。我们承担不起浪费那些有趣丑闻的代价。

如果让我担任体育裁判，我做的第一件事就是减少裁判干预。把技术排除在外。让现场的人类裁判来决定。

让她在实时状态下，仅凭一眼决定——当时她正向一个方向移动，而球在人群的掩护下向相反方向飞去。换句话说，让她去猜测。一名普通的职业体育裁判在猜测方面的成功率大概在 60, 70% 左右，这差不多就对了。

然后，让我们在接下来的 10 或 20 年里为此争论不休。这样做唯一的缺点是，洋基队偶尔可能会赢。但在体育运动中，就像在所有事情中一样，为了公共利益必须做出牺牲。

MLB：提案包括在分区竞争对手之间进行四场日夜双赛

来自 B13

“允许最高种子球队在前两轮选择其对手将创造引人入胜的故事线，强化现有的竞争关系并创造新的竞争关系。”

作为该提案的一部分，每支球队将被安排四场日夜双赛，分别对阵每位分区竞争对手。

自 2021 年起，小联盟的赛程已将周一设为休息日。

大联盟俱乐部将在国家法定节假日安排周一比赛，因为这些日子通常能吸引大量观众。在周一比赛的球队将被安排在周四休息。

MLB 表示，球员薪资将不会因比赛场次减少而调整，而奖金条款阈值（例如根据出场次数支付球员的奖金）将根据缩短后的赛程进行调整。

国家联盟和美国联盟在 1904 年采用了 154 场比赛的赛程，当时每个由 8 支球队组成的联盟中，每支球队与所有对手各交手 22 次。

当美国联盟在 1961 年扩军至 10 支球队时，改为了 162 场比赛的赛程，国家联盟在次年效仿。

联赛冠军赛（LCS）始于 1969 年，在 1984, 年之前采用五局三胜制，随后扩大为七局四胜制。

分区系列赛自 1995. 年开始每年使用以来，一直采用五局三胜制。外卡赛始于 2012 年季后赛从 8 支球队扩军至 10 支球队，并在 2022 年季后赛增加至 12 支俱乐部时，变为了三局两胜制的外卡系列赛。

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JOSEPH AGOSTINO

Joseph Agostino 于 2026 年 10 月 7 日在妻子和子女的陪伴下离世。

Joe 出生于 1948 年 6 月 24 日，出生地为意大利卡拉布里亚大区的圣乔治莫盖托（San Giorgio Morgeto）。他在 3 个月大时来到加拿大。尽管在 78 年的人生中，多伦多大部分时间是他的家，但意大利对他而言始终具有特殊意义。

在毕业于西安大略大学法学院后，他首先在私人执业领域，随后在担任 Hydro One 首席法律顾问期间，建立了卓越且成功的职业生涯。但 Joe 最大的成就并非其法律职业，而是他的家庭。

因为热爱社交舞而结识了妻子 Phyllis，她在 45 年多的时间里成为了他终生的伴侣。他们共同迎来了三个孩子：Juliana (Saul)、Christina (Charles) 和 Anthony (Kassandra)。 也是 Angela Devlin (Ed) 挚爱的兄弟，是 Tony 和 Maria D'Agostino 的女婿，以及 Frank D'Agostino 的内兄 / 妹夫。

为自己的孩子们感到非常自豪，但在过去的三年里，是孙女 Chloe 俘获并融化了他的心。她是他的骄傲和喜悦，并将永远成为他的遗产。去年，他有幸在托斯卡纳与她共度了数周。那些日子让他拥有了与心爱的孙女在一起的、他如此渴望的时光。

是一位酷爱阅读的人，也是歌剧爱好者，尤其是普契尼创作的众多作品。他从中获得了极大的乐趣。 对他的草坪也非常讲究，费尽心力地确保其修剪得完美无瑕。他如此细致，甚至连邻居们都会对此议论。

深深重视家庭，珍视传统，并热爱生活。他与 Phyllis 共有的家成为了一个聚集地，家人和朋友们围坐在餐桌旁，享受美食、美酒和欢笑。在夏天，每个人都期待在 的露台上度过温暖的夜晚，品尝他著名的 Aperol Spritz 鸡尾酒。

人们将永远记得 的同情心、务实精神、对生活的欣赏、对家庭的爱以及对正义的坚定信念。许多人将深切地怀念他。

家属将于 2026 年 10 月 10 日（星期六）在位于多伦多 Bloor Street West 2357 号的 Turner & Porter Yorke Chapel 接待亲友，时间为上午 11 点礼拜堂葬礼服务前的一小时。

随后将举行私人葬礼。

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被爱的人无法死去。因为爱即永恒。

艾米莉·狄金森（Emily Dickinson）

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玛丽·洛伊斯·哈里斯 （原姓梅） July 26, 1922 September 30, 2026

怀着巨大的爱与深切的感激之情，我们纪念她漫长而非凡的一生，宣布多伦多的玛丽·洛伊斯·哈里斯于 September 30, 2026, 逝世，享年105岁。

玛丽的丈夫罗伯特·约翰·“杰克”·哈里斯 (1997)；儿子威廉·哈里斯 (1980)；妹妹玛格丽特·鲁迪克 (2019)；哥哥威廉 (2013)；以及弟弟大卫 (1943) 均早于她离世。

玛丽的遗属包括她的女儿海伦（乔迪）；儿子大卫；儿媳佩妮·考德威尔；孙女卡莉·佩塞克（菲利普）和艾玛·哈里斯（马修·布雷顿-霍尼曼）；曾孙艾比盖尔和洛根·佩塞克，以及博和卡拉·霍尼曼；此外还有梅氏、哈里斯氏、鲁迪克氏和克劳福德家族中许多亲爱的侄子和侄女。

玛丽出生于萨斯喀彻温省的阿尔伯特王子市，是海伦·玛丽（厄普）和亚瑟·威廉·梅的女儿。她就读于多伦多大学三一学院，并于 1945 年从蒙特利尔的皇家维多利亚医院毕业成为一名注册护士（RN），随后在蒙特利尔地区的军事医院服务。二战结束之际，玛丽在与母亲乘船横跨大西洋的旅途中遇到了杰克，由此开启了一段美好的伴侣关系。在 1948, 结婚后，她与杰克曾在威尔士短暂生活，随后定居在多伦多的比奇区。玛丽最喜欢的地方是位于乔治亚湾波因特-奥-巴里尔（Pointe au Baril）的度假小屋。

玛丽是三一学院图书馆之友的成员，同时也是多伦多东综合医院（现为迈克尔·加伦医院）一名引以为傲的志愿者，服务时间超过 60 年。

衷心感谢玛丽长期的护理人员简、塞西莉亚和约瑟芬所给予的爱与关怀。

葬礼将于10月14日（星期三）上午 10:30 在位于斯卡堡 Kingston Rd. 1512 的圣尼古拉斯比尔奇克圣公会教堂举行。

如愿，请以向肺脏协会或圣尼古拉斯教堂捐款代替献花。

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伊丽莎白·赫尔布隆纳 (ELIZABETH HELBRONNER) (原姓博伊森 Boysen) 1931年2月28日 – 2026年10月7日

伊丽莎白在短暂的病后，于其多伦多家中安详离世。她的至爱女儿们——卡罗琳（丈夫尼古拉斯·布雷顿）、艾莉森（丈夫布鲁斯·麦克唐纳）和瓦莱丽（丈夫加里·萨莱维奇）；她的六个孙辈——马丁（妻子克洛伊）、大卫（妻子惠特尼）、杰克、佐伊、阿米莉亚和艾伦；以及她的曾孙詹姆斯，将她永远怀念。她的丈夫雅克·“吉姆”·赫尔布隆纳（两人结婚68年）、她的父母查尔斯和艾琳·博伊森，以及她的姑姑莱拉·史蒂文斯早于她离世。

伊丽莎白出生于威斯康星州麦迪逊，在华盛顿特区长大。年轻时，她就读于马德拉学校和瓦萨学院。在日内瓦大学出国学习的大三期间，她遇到了吉姆。他们的恋爱跨越了两大洲，并于1954年年底在华盛顿结婚。同年12月，伊丽莎白和吉姆驾驶一辆绿色雪佛兰敞篷车一同抵达边境，在加拿大开启了漫长而充实的生活。他们的婚姻始于对彼此事业的支持，并在蒙特利尔以及后来的多伦多建立了一个终身好友网络，他们在此抚养了三个女儿。伊丽莎白热爱扮演“熊妈妈”的角色，用爱、真诚的关注和温柔的引导抚育孩子。他们在卡利登滑雪俱乐部度过了难忘的家庭时光，还与伊丽莎白的母亲和姑姑一起，在夏天进行史诗般的公路旅行前往马里兰州的海滩。

她和吉姆教导女儿们要独立、有抱负且体贴，她在平衡妻子和母亲职责的同时，作为一名房地产经纪人拥有极高成就的长期职业生涯，优雅地诠释了这些品质。与他人合作给伊丽莎白带来了巨大的快乐，她的商业头脑、市场直觉和社交技巧使她成为任何有幸聘请她的客户的强大盟友。虽然每笔交易都很重要，但伊丽莎白在协助家人处理房地产事务时获得了最大的职业满足感。

伊丽莎白是一位真正的淑女，优雅、精致且穿着考究。她沉稳且自信，从职业生涯早期——那时职场女性经常面临偏见和不公正——以及随后的岁月里，她始终能冷静地为自己争取权益。她有许多艺术爱好，喜爱芭蕾舞、歌剧和戏剧。她热爱桥牌且技艺精湛。作为一名热爱阅读的人，人们经常能看到她在花园里读一本新书以放松身心。

随着家庭成员的增加，伊丽莎白慷慨地将关注和关怀延伸到每一位新成员身上。她的光芒照耀着每个人，她对家人日常生活的关注从未动摇。她为孙辈们的重要里程碑感到欣喜，并在他们遭遇任何困难时提供同情与支持。她深厚的经验、智慧以及不断更新的当代视角，造就了一种被男女老少广泛寻求且高度重视的睿智。

从抵达多伦多的最初日子起，伊丽莎白就致力于扎根当地。她重视能将人们聚集在一起的传统，她的家总是温暖且热情好客。她以周到和细心主持家庭晚餐、节日聚会、后院派对和邻里社交活动，因为她意识到，有意义的沟通与联系是统一、亲情和社区的驱动力。

伊丽莎白和吉姆骨子里都是自豪的加拿大人，但他们从未失去对不同语言、文化和历史奇迹的好奇心与欣赏。在吉姆职业生涯的后期，他们住在布鲁塞尔，随后在70多岁和80多岁时广泛游历了欧洲、非洲、亚洲和南美洲。他们展现了一种令人钦佩的冒险精神，这种精神至今仍深深植根于他们的女儿和孙辈心中。

在吉姆于 2023 年去世后，伊丽莎白在 The Dunfield 定居，再次展现了她个人标志性的、面对变革和新环境时务实且勇敢的态度。她热情地参与新家中的各项活动，重启了旧友关系并结识了许多新朋友。

人们将记得伊丽莎白是一位坚定且极其独立自强的女性，一位忠诚且有趣的朋友，以及一位善良、迷人且令后辈自豪的家族长辈。她总是让他人感到被赏识和被理解，所有认识她的人都将深深地思念她。

伊丽莎白得到了细致周到的医疗和居家护理，家人对她的长期家庭医生马丁·施瓦茨博士（Dr. Martin Schwartz）和杰奎琳·施瓦茨博士（Dr. Jacqueline Schwartz）、Home Instead 的工作人员、The Dunfield 以及 Temmy Latner 姑息治疗中心的医生和护士表示感谢。

亲友吊唁仪式将于 10 月 13 日星期二下午 4:00 - 7:00 在多伦多 Dunfield 大道 77 号的 The Dunfield 退休公寓举行。家属希望人们不要送花，而是在纪念伊丽莎白的意义上向 Temmy Latner 姑息治疗中心捐款。

希拉·拉希夫 (SHEILA LAHIFFE) October 31, 1945 – October 2, 2026

我们怀着沉痛的心情告知大家，希拉在短暂的患病后，于 October 2, 2026, 在北温哥华的家中平静离世，享年 80 岁，家人陪伴在侧。

希拉是一位尽职的妻子、母亲、祖母、姑姑 / 姨妈、姐妹、倡导者和朋友。她克服了贫困、阅读障碍以及那个时代的文化限制，成为了一名教师、一名创新的企业家、一名园艺大师，并且无论走到哪里都能建立起社区联系。

希拉出生在爱尔兰都柏林，父母是帕特里克·斯图尔特和约瑟芬·斯图尔特。由于她的父亲担任爱尔兰银行经理，全家在爱尔兰西部的多个村庄搬迁生活。她的早年时光在家族故乡梅奥郡的贝尔马莱特度过，随后搬到了戈尔韦郡的巴利加，那里留下了她许多最珍贵的童年回忆。从 9 岁起，她在劳斯郡邓多克的学校寄宿，期间家人搬到了克莱尔郡的米尔顿马尔贝。随后，她获得了都柏林大学的科学学位和教育文凭。在都柏林大学期间，她遇到了她一生的挚爱布莱恩。

希拉和布莱恩于 1968, 在都柏林结婚，不久后有了三个孩子。1973, 这个年轻的家庭前往北美。他们在加拿大偏远的北部地区生活了一年，随后在密歇根州安娜堡生活了 2.5 年；在布莱恩完成牙周病学硕士学位的期间，希拉抚养三个年幼的孩子并操持家务。之后，他们在温哥华定居。在近 30 年的时间里，希拉管理着布莱恩兴旺的牙周病诊所，她的勤奋和敏锐的判断力在诊所获得卓越临床水平和极高声誉的过程中功不可没。

退休后，希拉全身心地投入到社区生活中。她在温哥华 Probus 俱乐部以及英属哥伦比亚大学（UBC）植物园的“花园之友”（FOGs）担任志愿者，并高效地组织了深受喜爱的年度苹果义卖活动，这是该植物园的一项重要筹款活动。她是一位热衷于桥牌的玩家，也是一名出色的厨师，最喜欢的事情就是举办家人和朋友的欢乐聚会。最重要的是，她是利亚姆和埃文心中一位慈爱、富有创造力且永远充满乐趣的祖母。

希拉的遗属包括她的子女玛丽亚、布莱恩（妻子埃琳）和杰拉尔丁（丈夫威利本）；她的孙辈利亚姆和埃文；以及她的兄弟姐妹詹姆斯（妻子莱斯利）、蒂姆和玛丽（丈夫科林）。她的挚爱丈夫布莱恩及其姐妹帕特里夏先于她离世。

她将被深深思念，被深情铭记。

追思会及生命庆典将于10月15日（星期四）下午1:00在位于不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华市Crescent Rd. 6331号的大学中心（University Centre, 6331 Crescent Rd., Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1）举行。请以向加拿大帕金森病协会（Parkinson Canada）捐款代替献花，以纪念希拉。

投资大师曾是企业伦理实践的捍卫者

在打造加拿大最强大的机构资金管理公司之一的过程中，他为股东权利而战，并成为对无能企业领导层直言不讳的批评者

JASON KIRBY

作为一名驻扎在战后日本的美国陆军年轻反情报官员，斯蒂芬·贾里斯洛夫斯基（Stephen Jarislowsky）在追捕黑市商人以及从在日德国人中清除纳粹分子的过程中，磨练了他的调查技巧。

这次外派也让他首次接触到了治理的概念。有一天，他的部队收到传闻，称美国将军道格拉斯·麦克阿瑟（Douglas MacArthur）的妻子试图影响战后重建合同的结果。在追踪这一线索后，贾里斯洛夫斯基先生所在的部队被暂时停职。

根据他 2005 年出版的著作《投资动物园》（The Investment Zoo），多年后，贾里斯洛夫斯基先生在将一家小型证券研究公司发展成为加拿大最强大的机构资金管理公司之一时，深受这些早期经历的影响。

在此过程中，这位 Jarislowsky Fraser Ltd. 的前董事长成为了股东权利的捍卫者，并成为对业绩不佳或无能的企业高管，以及盲目支持这些高管的董事会的尖刻批评者。

据其家人透露，这位投资者、企业家兼慈善家贾里斯洛夫斯基先生于周四在蒙特利尔去世，享年 101, 岁。

在巅峰时期，Jarislowsky Fraser 是机构投资领域的巨头。2007, 年，该公司通过其蒙特利尔总部，为养老基金、基金会、企业和高净值人士管理约 $60-billion 的资产。

在之前的四十年里，贾里斯洛夫斯基先生多次利用其日益增长的影响力，与加拿大企业巨头中的知名人物交锋，包括 Canadian Tire 背后的比尔斯（Billes）家族、蒙特利尔强大的布朗夫曼（Bronfman）家族、前媒体大亨康拉德·布莱克（Conrad Black）以及汽车零部件大亨弗兰克·斯特罗纳克（Frank Stronach）。

尽管每个案例的情况不同，但他始终致力于反对那些他认为操纵且虐待少数股东的交易和协议，用刻薄的语言顽强地与对手作战，这使他赢得了脾气火爆的声誉——同时也使他成为几代商业记者的心仪采访对象。

1986 年，当比尔斯家族试图将其投票类股票出售给 Canadian Tire 经销商，而该交易损害了持有无投票权股票的投资者利益时，他公开嘲讽该交易是“垃圾”且“极其虐待”，并成功说服监管机构和法院予以阻止。同样，他多次与布莱克先生就后者在 Southam Inc. 的管理费，以及后来其试图将 Hollinger Inc. 私有化的行为发生冲突，将这位前好友描述为“霸凌者”，并要求监管机构采取行动。

贾里斯洛夫斯基先生还经常利用自己的影响力抨击其他目标：指责董事会是“管理层的傀儡”；指责监管机构松懈，导致加拿大的白领犯罪变成了“一个相当不错的赌注——几乎和拉斯维加斯的庄家一样稳赢”；以及指责历届政府“将通过大规模买票政策实现自我延续置于长期经济进步之上”。

贾里斯洛夫斯基先生于 9, 1925, 年 9 月出生在柏林，父母均为犹太人且成就斐然。他的父亲是一位工业家和商业银行家，母亲是一名律师。当贾里斯洛夫斯基先生 4, 岁时，他的父亲死于猩红热，他与兄弟姐妹被送往阿姆斯特丹居住在亲戚附近。

这是该家庭将要经历的一系列挑战中的第一次。当纳粹上台后，他父亲建立的企业被没收（随后在1947年被东德共产主义政府国有化）。全家搬到了巴黎，贾里斯洛夫斯基先生在那里学习，并精通法语和英语。但当他的继父帮助难民从被德国占领的法国逃往美国的行为被盖世太保揭发后，全家不得不再次逃亡，于1941年抵达纽约。

在康奈尔大学获得机械工程学位毕业后，贾里斯洛夫斯基先生被征召入美国陆军，并在过程中成为了美国公民。在结束亚洲的驻派回到美国后，他重新投入学习，在芝加哥大学完成了远东研究学位，随后进入哈佛商学院就读，在那里他首次接触到了投资。

哈佛的经历让他曾在加拿大铝业有限公司（Alcan Aluminum Ltd.）工作了一段时间，并前往蒙特利尔。他最终与第一任妻子在蒙特利尔永久定居，两人育有两个儿子。

1955年，作为一项爱好，他开发了一项“实验性”的统计服务，对大约200家加拿大公司的资产负债表、损益表和估值比率进行分析。在与当时的一名初级经纪人斯科特·弗雷泽（Scott Fraser）合作后，Jarislowsky Fraser公司诞生了。该公司先是销售统计评论的订阅服务，随后通过采访公司高管扩展到实地研究。很快，芝加哥、纽约和伦敦的公司开始向这家初创机构寻求投资咨询服务。（弗雷泽先生在大约20年后离开了该公司。）

到了20世纪70年代和80年代，贾里斯洛夫斯基先生经常处于企业争端的中心，因为外国公司试图将其在加拿大的上市子公司私有化，且通常是以投机性的估值进行。在大多数人听说这个词之前，这就是股东积极主义。

贾里斯洛夫斯基先生为投资者客户带来的成功，也为他自己带来了巨额财富，最终使其成为加拿大最大的个人财富之一。尽管他经常出现在各种富豪榜上——福布斯最后估计其净资产为39亿加元——但他与1968年结婚的第二任妻子盖尔（Gail）过着相对简朴的生活。（这对夫妇又育有两个女儿。贾里斯洛夫斯基先生第一段婚姻中的一个儿子在2014年因病去世。）

贾里斯洛夫斯基先生没有拥有游艇或豪华车辆，但他是一位热衷的艺术收藏家，尤其是加拿大艺术家的作品、法国印象派作品和中国玉器。夫妇俩至今仍住在他们1972年购买的西山（Westmount）家中。

尽管如此，他认可财富的价值，他写道：“金钱并不意味着挥霍，但它确实意味着自由。”

与他的投资策略类似，他在慈善捐赠方面也采取了一种深思熟虑的方法。1993年，他成立了贾里斯洛夫斯基基金会，该基金会管理着超过3.86亿加元的资产，每年向医院、大学、自然信托基金、文化机构以及促进民主和培养政治领导力培训的组织捐赠数百万加元。他写道：“慈善应该是有效的，应该实现可衡量的目标，应该由正直的人实施，应该经过充分研究，以便你确信你的捐赠不会落入错误的口袋。你不应该凭感情捐赠，而应在整个过程中坚持对管理情况进行定期审查。”

贾里斯洛夫斯基先生的另一个遗产是提高了加拿大对公司治理重要性的意识。在20世纪80年代，他引导了一个由机构资金管理人组成的非正式网络，这些人共同占据了股市交易的约60%，并利用这种影响力来影响顽固的董事会；而在21世纪初，在Worldcom、Enron和Nortel等公司爆发会计丑闻之际，他将这种方法正式化了。

2002年，他共同创立了加拿大良好治理联盟（Canadian Coalition for Good Governance），该联盟由强大的机构投资者组成，旨在推动加强对上市公司的董事会监督；2005年，他协助成立了私立与公共组织治理研究所（Institute for Governance of Private and Public Organizations），这是一个研究并建议改进治理方式的智库。

2008年，贾里斯洛夫斯基先生被授予加拿大勋章（Order of Canada）同伴级勋衔，官方表彰词强调了他对股东权利的倡导；他还获得了20所加拿大大学的荣誉学位。

但贾里斯洛夫斯基先生及其公司也遭遇过挫折。1990年代后期，当互联网泡沫狂热占据投资者的心理，而价值和基本面等传统概念不再受欢迎时，他面临着客户的接连投诉，他们对他将资金投入的“旧经济”股票所产生的滞后回报感到不满。他的回应是：“那么如果你愿意，就拿走你的钱去赌博吧，”他在向本报记者解释他对科技股的深度怀疑时说道，“技术仅仅是关于沟通的新方式，仅此而已。人们依然要吃饭，依然要开车，依然要交媾。有什么新鲜的？”

他的执拗最终得到了回报。到2001年，在互联网股票狂热以惨烈方式崩溃后，局面发生了转变，投资者开始追求分红股的安全性和纪律严明的投资组合管理。

然而，其他不利因素正在积聚。低成本被动投资产品的出现，以及加拿大大银行和对冲基金在争夺机构客户方面竞争的加剧，给公司带来了压力。该公司在2007年至2012年期间的管理资产规模下降了40%，至370亿加元。

在资金流出公司的同时，员工和高层管理人员也在离开，他们离职后创办了自己的资金管理公司。

这场动荡引发了领导层的变动。二十多年来，关于贾里斯洛夫斯基先生最终何时退休的问题一直围绕在人们心中——《全球邮报》1995年的一篇关于当时69岁的他的特写报道开头写道：“在他悄然步入退休生活之际……”——但这一次，他真正退出了首席执行官的职位，由一个管理委员会接管。

即便如此，当贾里斯洛夫斯基先生在2018年达成协议，以9.5亿加元将这家投资管理公司出售给新斯科舍银行（Bank of Nova Scotia）时，92岁的他仍在为200名个人客户管理账户。

尽管出生于犹太父母家庭，并接受过加尔文宗、耶稣会和圣公会的教育，但贾里斯洛夫斯基先生写道，他避开了传统的宗教教义，认为自己“基本上是个不可知论者”。

“我想不到自己在接下来的100万年里，会静静地坐在云端之上。那将极其枯燥。那些想法是人类的发明，”他写道，“但这并不意味着伦理和负责任的行为在宇宙中没有位置。对我来说，亚里士多德的伦理学就是宗教。”

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今年秋季，焦虑情绪正渗透进多伦多地区的房地产市场，买家和卖家在 9 月份都选择了暂停。

Century 21 Legacy 的房地产经纪人普里特什·帕雷克 (Pritesh Parekh) 表示，如果无法获得预期的价格，卖家将不愿挂牌。而如果价格仍有下跌空间，买家则会对签署交易犹豫不决。

帕雷克先生表示，与美国的贸易紧张局势升级、中东冲突重启以及美国联邦储备委员会的加息，是再次令消费者感到不安的部分因素。

“对话的主题已经从‘负担能力’转变为‘紧迫性’，”帕雷克先生说，“这件事是否紧迫？”

大多伦多地区 (GTA) 9 月份的销售额同比去年同月下降了 9%，而同期新挂牌量下降了 14.4%。

上个月的平均价格较 2025 年 9 月下降了 5.1%，目前为 \$1,006,409。

经季节性调整后，上个月的销售额在 8 月份低迷的基数上进一步下降了 5.2%。

与去年同月相比，大多伦多地区 9 月份的房屋销售额下降了 9%，而新挂牌量下降了 14.4%。同期平均价格下降了 5.1%。弗雷德·卢姆 (FRED LUM) / 全球邮报

虽然少数稀有房产在多方出价中售出，但许多卖家在预留的报价审阅之夜未能达成交易。

帕雷克先生最近服务的一组买家并不急于搬家，但如果能以诱人的价格买到更大的房子，他们愿意迅速出手。

今年早些时候，一栋位于克里斯蒂街 (Christie Street) 和圣克莱尔西大道 (St. Clair Avenue West) 附近、经过翻新的三居室房屋挂牌价在 \$1.9 百万以上，随后降至 \$1.8 百万。

这栋位于 Rushton 路 150 号的半独立式房屋随后再次挂牌，要价 \$1.65 百万，并设定了报价截止日期。

帕雷克先生表示，这栋房子显然比这对夫妇在该价格区间内看过的房产要高出一个档次，且客户非常看好 Wychwood Park 附近区域的地理位置。

尽管如此，这对夫妇不愿支付远高于要价的金额，也不想通过低价出价来浪费时间。

帕雷克先生建议这对夫妇按照他们愿意支付的价格提交出价，而无需担心竞争。 ■ 爱尔兰 (IRELAND), H2

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房地产监管机构与萨斯喀彻温省房地产经纪人就纪律处分决定产生分歧

数百万加元丑闻导致两名房地产经纪人面临制裁和停业

SHANE DINGMAN 房地产记者

一项关于萨斯喀彻温省数百万加元房地产丑闻的纪律处分决定，引发了该省监管机构与专业房地产经纪人协会之间的口水战。

萨斯喀彻温省房地产经纪人协会（SRA）首席执行官克里斯·盖雷特（Chris Guérette）呼吁对萨斯喀彻温省房地产委员会进行调查和改革，她称 2 名违反省政府及委员会规则的当地房地产经纪人所受的制裁和停业处分“完全不足”。

这两名男子，保罗·查瓦迪（Paul Chavady）和杰里·霍尔格里姆森（Jerry Hallgrimson），是 Epic Alliance Inc. 的业务合作伙伴。Epic Alliance Inc. 是一家房地产投资和物业管理公司，在被发现违反证券交易规则从全加拿大投资者处筹集 $211-million 后，于 2022 年崩溃。

“房地产建立在信任之上，”盖雷特女士在 10 月 1 日发给协会成员的电子邮件中表示，并批评了查瓦迪先生和霍尔格里姆森先生面临的处罚。“这种信任取决于消费者知道，参与我们行业的人员必须遵守有意义的伦理、问责和透明度标准，并且在这些标准被违反时，会有相应的实质性后果。”

根据 10 月 1 日公布的同意协议，房地产监管机构发现，查瓦迪先生和霍尔格里姆森先生在 67 次机会中违反了该机构自身的章程和省级的《房地产法》，因为他们在担任买卖双方的双重代理时，未能代表买方的利益。同意协议通常是正式听证会和判决的替代方案，是在面对指控的人员参与下协商达成的。

同意协议详细列举了数十项其他违规行为，涉及未能删除销售合同中的条件，以及在其中一起案例中，在担任双重代理销售房屋时未能披露屋内存在石棉的情况。

两名房地产经纪人每人都被要求向委员会支付 $100,000 的累计罚款，并接受为期六个月的停业处分。霍尔格里姆森先生的停业立即开始，但盖雷特女士指出，查瓦迪先生的停业直到六个月后的 3 月才开始。她表示，这使得两名业务合作伙伴中至少有一人能够在另一人停业期间继续从事房地产业务。

“SRA 所称的‘完全不足的反应’，实际上是萨斯喀彻温省记录在案的最严厉制裁，”监管机构执行董事兼注册官亚伦·特图（Aaron Tetu）在 10 月 2 日的一份声明中回应盖雷特女士的担忧时表示。“证据表明，查瓦迪先生和霍尔格里姆森先生的行为构成了对基本专业职责和代表义务的完全缺失，但尚未达到证明其具有刑事犯罪的程度。”

在给《全球邮报》的一封电子邮件中，特图先生表示，萨斯喀彻温省的立法要求有刑事犯罪证明才能永久吊销房地产经纪人的执照。他表示，六个月的交错停业处分“在听证小组的合理范围之内”。他认为，鉴于本案证据数量庞大，如果进行听证会可能需要更多时间来梳理，“且结果可能更不可预测”，因此协商达成的协议是一个更好的结果。

在崩溃之前，Epic Alliance 利用从投资者那里借来的资金，在萨斯喀彻温省的萨斯卡通（Saskatoon）和北巴特福德（North Battleford）买卖了 700 多套房屋。目前尚未有人被提起刑事指控。然而，两名创始人罗谢尔·拉弗拉姆（Rochelle Laflamme）和艾丽莎·汤普森（Alisa Thompson）在 2024 年与该省金融和消费者事务管理局达成和解，同意支付 $300,000 的罚款，并接受 20 年禁止从事证券交易或工作的禁令。

查瓦迪先生（Mr. Chavady）和哈尔格里姆森先生（Mr. Hallgrimson）是 Epic Alliance 向投资者提供的 Funda-Flip 和 Hassle-Free Landlord 项目中的关键人物。根据破产受托人安永会计师事务所（Ernst & Young Inc.）的一份报告，在 2014 年至 2021. 之间，投资者向 Epic Alliance 提供了 $170-million 用于在萨斯卡通（Saskatoon）和北巴特福德（North Battleford）购买租赁房产。这些投资主要以抵押贷款的形式出现，且“超过了房产的购买价格，以便为房产翻修提供资金”。该公司共收取了超过 $14-million 的超额抵押贷款资金。

在 700 栋房屋中，约 280 栋 Fund-a-Flip 房产以 $72.6-million 的价格出售给了其他 Epic Alliance 投资者。这些交易通常由买方支付常规抵押贷款和 20-per-cent 的首付款，且买方与卖方由同一名代理人代表。监管机构纪律处分令中提到的 67 起双重代理销售就包含在这一总数之中。

根据安永（EY）的说法，大多数作为 Hassle-Free landlord 房产出售的房屋仅经过了极少量的翻修。在其中一个案例中，一栋购买价为 $198,000 的房屋在一年后的评估价为 $265,000，但安永仅能找到 $824 的翻修成本，尽管“厨房和浴室的内部照片显示，电器、台面和橱柜均已过时，并不表明进行过翻修”。

在该房屋挂牌上市的同一天，它以 $260,000 的价格出售给了一名 Epic 投资者——在投入 $824 翻修后获得了 $62,000 的收益。挂牌代理人因此次销售获得了 $1,700。

“这是一件大事，我仍在等待有人对此采取行动……以确保这种情况不再发生，”律师迈克·罗素（Mike Russell）表示。他在该公司被法院裁定破产期间代表了 120 名 Epic Alliance 投资者。

房地产公司 Epic Alliance 在筹集 $211-million 投资者资金期间被发现违反证券交易规则，随后于 2022 年崩溃。 JONATHAN HAYWARD/ 加拿大新闻社（THE CANADIAN PRESS）

罗素先生表示，投资者总共损失了约 $10-million。他表示，该公司几乎没有剩余资金可用于为他的客户追偿。

盖雷特女士（Ms. Guérette）对监管机构的同意协议中没有将 Epic Alliance 列为这两名男子交易的对方而表示沮丧，协议中仅将该公司称为“Invest-Co”。

她在一次采访中表示：“决定书中没有提到 Epic Alliance，但在萨斯喀彻温省这是常识。该同意令未能将其写清楚，这是一个失败。”

查瓦迪先生确认，监管机构已同意在同意协议中省略公司名称。他代表自己和哈尔格里姆森先生表示，将他们与 Epic Alliance 挂钩是不公平的，并反驳称处罚过轻。他在一次采访中说：“这对我们来说简直是一场噩梦。坦率地说，考虑到已经公布的内容和实际情况，我认为这近乎于严厉。”

盖雷特女士表示，她的协会已迅速采取行动，堵住其自身规则中的一个漏洞。该漏洞原本允许这两名房地产经纪人在等待停职期间，以“行政助理和业务合作伙伴账户（非会员）”的身份访问其服务和工具。

盖雷特女士表示，房地产委员会需要进行全面改革，以便在纪律处分事项上采取更快速、更有效的行动。她说：“你不能在顶层拥有软弱的结构和文化，却期望拥有一个强大的公司。”

爱尔兰：不确定的经济环境导致行为谨慎

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帕雷克先生表示，没有其他竞争出价者出现，他的客户以 $1.675-million（比要价高出 $25,000）买下了这栋房子。

他认为，由于该房产此前一直以较高价格挂牌且无人问津，在一些买家看来，该房源可能已经显得过时。

提交出价的截止日期可能令购房者望而却步，因为他们认为房主期望的价格远高于要价。

“所有这些因素共同导致我们成为了唯一提交报价的人。”

他指出，最初的要价并非严重的误判，因为该地区一套类似的房屋最近以超过 $1.9-million 的价格成交。

在谈到市场的变幻莫测时，他说：“这是 2026 年常见的故事。”

LowestRates.ca 的专家、抵押贷款经纪人利亚·兹拉特金表示，买家目前正面临艰难的抉择。她收到许多客户的电话，这些人已经安排好了融资，但想知道在经历了长期的下跌之后，安大略省的房价是否已经触底。

“确实有一些人已经获得了预审批，而且预审批已经维持了两年。他们每周都给我打电话问：‘你认为现在触底了吗？’”

兹拉特金女士指出，房地产市场的复苏很少呈 V 型，在重新回升之前，市场可能会在一段时间内保持平稳。

对于大多伦多地区（GTA）的许多房产来说，其价值已从 2022 年的高点下降了 25 per cent 以上。这种动态通常为现有房主提供了升级换房的机会，因为较大的买家群体通常对入门级住宅价值的支持程度高于高价位住宅。

她说，在当今不确定的环境下，许多有换房选择的人在采取行动时非常谨慎。

与此同时，兹拉特金女士指出，固定期限抵押贷款在最近几周变得更加昂贵，基于长期债券收益率的上升，她预计这一趋势将继续，而债券收益率反过来又会影响贷款机构设定的利率。

三年或五年固定期限贷款的抵押贷款利率

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确实有一些人已经获得了预审批，而且预审批已经维持了两年。他们每周都给我打电话问：‘你认为现在触底了吗？’

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抵押贷款经纪人

兹拉特金女士表示，低端利率近期一直维持在 4.24 per cent 左右，但主流贷款机构提供的利率则接近 5%。

兹拉特金女士说，一些买家在观望，因为他们认为未来可能会获得更低的房价或抵押贷款利率，但这是一个不可预测的结果。

在她看来，财务状况稳定的买家在找到合适的房子时，直接出手可能会更好。

“最低可能的房价和最低的抵押贷款利率可能不会同时出现。”

在许多地区和价格区间，房屋在市场上的挂牌时间变得更长，而且目前许多挂牌出售的卖家急于脱手。

她指出，存有首付款的人有机会以较低的价格买入。

“他们拥有巨大的谈判空间，”她说，并补充道，为了能把房子卖掉，有意愿出售的卖家可能会愿意接受低于预期的价格。

帕雷克先生表示，不均衡的结果让许多潜在卖家感到不安。

帕雷克先生说，近年来购房的房主在询问是否能以高于买入价的价格出售。

而那些有时间积累房屋净值的人则在质疑，升级换到新房是否值得。

“他们可以换房——但应该换吗？存在很多疑虑。”

帕雷克先生表示，这种不确定性源于宏观经济前景中的“如果”，因为人们在思考如果失去工作、利率上升或房价继续下跌会发生什么。

与此同时，长期持有房产的业主在房价于 2022 年第一季度进入低迷期后，仍在等待市场反弹。

去年此时，许多人推迟挂牌出售，因为他们赌市场会好转。但帕雷克先生表示，新挂牌的速度现在进一步放缓，因为许多房主认为他们无法获得理想的价格。

帕雷克先生从一些客户那里得知，他们已经准备好搬迁，但将挂牌时间推迟到了 2027 年初。

“现在速度甚至更慢，不确定性也更多，所以我认为人们在等待。”

待售的建筑遗产

一块形状奇特的狭小土地，催生出了一座经得起时间考验的创意设计

戴夫·勒布朗 (DAVE LeBLANC)

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在教堂街（Church Street）与东威利街（Wellesley Street East）交汇的同志村（Gay Village）中心，坐落着芭芭拉·霍尔公园（Barbara Hall Park）。公园内设有令人动容、深思且精心策划的多伦多艾滋病纪念碑。而就像俄罗斯套娃一样，在纪念碑之中，有一块刻有铭牌的石头，致力于纪念爱德华·卡姆斯基博士（Dr. Edward Kamski，1947-2006），他曾是“抗击艾滋病早期的医学领导者”。

卡姆斯基博士还留下了一笔建筑遗产……就在曾经只有一株玫瑰丛的地方。

20世纪90年代初，曾为这位好医生进行过两次翻修的建筑师保罗·鲁伯（Paul Reuber）被带去看了一块堪称多伦多最小的土地。在西顿街（Seaton Street）与舒特街（Shuter Street）的东北角，卡姆斯基博士指向西顿街 63 号旁边的一块三角形碎片，其宽度与人行道相差无几。

“他问：‘我们能在这里建点什么吗？’”鲁伯先生回忆道，“我回答说：‘除非你让我砍掉那株玫瑰丛！’说实话，那里看起来几乎没有空间种第二株玫瑰。”

但正如人们常说的，伟大的建筑师能将挑战转化为创意：弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特的“流水屋”，或阿尔伯特·弗雷的“弗雷住宅二号”（加州棕榈泉）便在脑海中浮现。鲁伯先生表示，设计方案“迅速”地从指尖流向绘图板。但当卡姆斯基博士将注意力转向另一处房产时，工程被搁置了“好几年”。当工程终于启动时，一名失踪的承包商导致地基工程又被拖延了“几年”。

等到“三角形房屋”（Triangle House）完工时，已经进入了新千年。虽然鲁伯先生曾参加过卡姆斯基博士在那里的几次派对，但到 2003 年，这座房子已被售出。

位于多伦多西顿街 63 号的“三角形房屋”由建筑师保罗·鲁伯设计。设计包括小型窗户，既能引入光线和微风，又能保持私密性。照片由保罗·鲁伯提供。

当时的业主凯瑟琳·奥斯本（Catherine Osborne）曾任建筑与设计杂志《Azure》的主编。在邀请笔者参观她居住 23 年的家时，她写道：“寻找那扇柠檬绿色的门！”

尽管颜色大胆，但这扇门很容易被忽略。因为根据人们接近西顿街 61 号的方式不同，这座房子本身看起来像是一个扩建部分；或者由于地势的变化，人们可能会完全错过那扇柠檬绿色的门，因为它比 63 号的红门位置低得多。

然而，就像反向的俄罗斯套娃，起初极小之物，最终演变成了宏大且极具表现力的后现代主义建筑。

宽敞。浅色木柜是90年代设计的典型，但在今天已不多见。水槽上方的横向窗户，以及利用舒特街立面“切入”空间而设计的两扇微小可开启窗户。鲁伯先生说，这些窗户捕捉到了“精选的街道景观”。

尽管立面宽度与一扇门相差无几，但一旦步入室内，人们会立即感觉到空间在视觉上地展开。这是因为可以沿楼梯向上看到通往厨房的走廊，向下看到独立地下公寓的入口，而最重要的是，可以直接看到二楼和三楼的阳台。而且，人们置身于一个充满光子的空间，光线从巨大的窗户倾泻而下，并由微小的方形“惊喜”窗户辅助。

走进内部，惊喜倍增。厨房如此紧凑，像船舱一样，但不知为何却很

“但私密性同样重要，”他继续说道，“所以有时窗户很小，有时它们用于框景，有时则被安置在天花板下方，以适应[卡姆斯基博士]庞大的艺术收藏。”

“而且当后面的那扇门和这扇窗户打开时，”奥斯本女士一边摇开其中一扇小窗，一边补充道，“你就能感受到一阵惬意的微风吹过；你能听到街道上的动静，但他们看不见你。”

走进客厅，人们很难在鲁伯先生的圆窗与奥斯本女士设计并由 Lebel & Bouliane 建造的通顶书架之间做出选择。在本文作者看来，后者与后现代主义（PoMo）美学相得益彰。

“我在一个派对上遇到了吕克 [Bouliane]；他当时正准备离开 Teeple 建筑师事务所并成立自己的工作室，”奥斯本女士回忆道，“于是我说，‘正好，我有一个项目。’”

这里还有一个小窗边座席，在鲁伯先生将钥匙交给卡姆斯基博士时它还不存在，但在建成后的这些年里，许多四足好友都非常喜欢这里。

说到这一点，奥斯本女士在这里改动并不大：浅色的拼花地板被染成了深色；门厅和厨房的地板被更换了；鲁伯选的一些颜色被刷成了白色（幸好还保留了一些，包括打断楼梯栏杆的三角形面板）；二楼客房里多了一面半墙。但鲁伯先生那充满活力的瓷砖浴室依然保留着，他对吊顶那古怪却精彩的赞美之作也依然在，而那些小窗户也没有被扩大。

“这在某种程度上是一栋充满细节的房子，”奥斯本女士说，“每个房间都有我非常喜爱的东西；现在我们坐在客厅里，那两扇窗户就是我的视角。当我在办公室看向月亮窗时，我很喜欢，因为那里正好有一棵树。……每一处细节都经过了考量。”

卡姆斯基博士表示，鲁伯先生应该“因其勇气、坚持、对我能力的完全信任以及给我充分的授权而获得赞赏”。

说到重新开始，这栋房子的下一个业主不应该抹除任何东西。事实上，他们应该接纳这个后现代主义的时间胶囊，并全身心地投入其中。将地板重新刷浅；恢复鲁伯先生完整的配色方案；将前门附近的室外金属雕塑 / 顶篷恢复成亮霓虹绿；如果预算允许，还可以购买一些充满趣味的孟菲斯设计集团（Memphis Group）家具。

该房产由 Royal LePage 的 CR 团队成员 Iwona Rychalska 和 Cara Carney负责挂牌销售。

室内有几处大胆的色彩选择，例如楼梯上的三角形面板和充满活力的浴室瓷砖。

安东尼·史密斯（左）和麦迪·蒂姆林站在他们位于多伦多的家门外。这对夫妇此前一直住在公寓里，但当他们决定要孩子时，开始寻找一栋能为成长中的家庭提供更多空间的房子。摄影：LAURA PROCTOR / THE GLOBE AND MAIL

夫妇将公寓升级为住宅

这对夫妇选择了位于多伦多 Seaton Village 的这栋三室加一间、两卫的半独立住宅，最终成交价格为 $1,385,000。

这栋位于 Brockton Village 的四室加一间半独立住宅空间宽敞，但这对夫妇担心会陷入竞价战。

这栋位于 Trinity Bellwoods Park 附近的三居室半独立住宅已被分割，这意味着需要进行大规模翻修。

在合适房产经纪人的帮助下，从高层公寓生活过渡到家庭住宅

ANDREA YU

质量改进经理麦迪·蒂姆林（Maddie Timlin）于 2023 年开始与高级项目经理安东尼·史密斯（Anthony Smith）约会。当时，两人都住在自己拥有的公寓里：蒂姆林女士住在多伦多 CityPlace 社区的一室单位，而史密斯先生住在她西侧 Fort York 的一室加书房单位。一年后的 2024, 8 月，39 岁的史密斯先生搬进了 35 岁的蒂姆林女士家中，并将自己的单位以每月 $2,700 的价格出租。

在同居两个月后，这对夫妇订婚了。但他们将生育孩子置于结婚之前。“我们想把家庭计划放在首位，”蒂姆林女士解释道，“我们的年龄稍微大了一些。”

他们知道一旦有了孩子，目前的居住情况将无法维持，因此在 2026, 3 月得知怀孕后，他们开始考虑一起买房。

他们联系了 Right at Home Realty 的房产经纪人凯瑟琳·杨（Catherine Young）来指导他们的搜寻。杨女士表示，她的绝大多数客户与蒂姆林女士和史密斯先生一样，是希望升级到更大房产以组建家庭的夫妇。

“我自己也是一名母亲，所以经历过从公寓生活到住宅的过渡，”杨女士解释说，“我明白其中的痛点在哪里。”

她鼓励准父母们不要只看美学，而要实际考虑。“你不会想到诸如‘我得推着婴儿车上楼’，或者‘当那些小鞋子和靴子弄脏时，我该把它们放在哪里’之类的事情，”杨女士说。

蒂姆林女士和史密斯先生都计划保留并出租他们的公寓。这使他们的预算在 $1.5-million 左右。

这对夫妇对需要翻修的房子持开放态度，因为史密斯先生喜欢装修和手工活（他在搬入前将蒂姆林女士的公寓进行了全面翻修），而且他们希望留在多伦多市中心。“步行便捷度和交通接驳对我们来说是重要因素，”史密斯先生解释道。

这对夫妇在寻找至少三个卧室和两个浴室的房子。一个可以作为客房套房的完工地下室也将是理想选择，因为住在渥太华的蒂姆林女士的母亲计划在孩子出生后与他们同住以帮忙照顾婴儿。对于史密斯先生的业余爱好来说，车库也是一个加分项。“我有许多工具和东西，”他说。

以下是他们的前三个选项：

TRINITY BELLWOODS PARK 附近的三居室分割联排别墅

这对夫妇非常喜欢这栋联排别墅的位置。它距离 Trinity Bellwoods Park 以及 Ossington Avenue 上的餐厅和酒吧仅几分钟路程。该房产带有一个 1.5 车位的车库，有相当大的存储空间。房屋本身最近经过翻修，但被分成了两个独立的套房，总共三个卧室加一个书房和两个浴室。要将其恢复成一个统一的家，需要进行大规模翻修。地面层的卧室较小，这意味着必须将地下室卧室作为主卧，他们并不喜欢这样。该房产的挂牌价为 $1,519,900, 他们认为价格过高。

BROCKTON VILLAGE 的四室加一间半独立住宅

史密斯先生非常喜欢这栋位于兰斯当大道（Lansdowne Avenue）和大学街（College Street）附近的半独立式住宅的宽敞感。这栋房子似乎由同一个家庭拥有了数十年，并配有一个宽敞的双车库，可用于存放史密斯先生的工具并作为工作室。卧室的大小适中，地下室经过翻新，设有独立入口、厨房和直接通往室外的通道——非常适合作为客房套房。房屋状况良好，可直接入住，但厨房和地板陈旧过时（不过，这对夫妇将其视为日后改善房屋的潜力）。该房产交通便利，靠近达夫林格罗夫公园（Dufferin Grove Park），但距离市中心稍远。该房产的挂牌价为 $1,199,000，史密斯先生认为这个价格太低了。他将其称为诱使多人竞价的“甜蜜陷阱”。

西顿村（Seaton Village）的三加一卧室半独立屋

在多伦多西顿村一条林荫大道上，这对夫妇在某栋房子挂牌出售当天恰好骑车经过。这栋三加一卧室、两个浴室的半独立式住宅有一个宽敞的前廊、一个壁炉以及大小适中的卧室。地下室配备了一间卧室和一个完整的浴室，供访客使用。

该房产可直接入住，但存在一些小缺陷，比如硬木地板会发出吱吱声，以及一扇无法正常关闭的卧室门。而且它只有一个单车库，与他们考虑的其他房屋相比，工作室空间有限。该房产的价格为 $1,399,000，他们认为价格略高。

他们的家：西顿村的三加一卧室半独立屋

虽然这对夫妇认为特里尼蒂贝尔伍兹（Trinity Bellwoods）附近的分户联排别墅在挂牌价上有谈判空间，但他们担心翻新成本太高且无法增加房产价值。该房产最终以 $1,458,000 的价格售出。史密斯先生和蒂姆林女士确实对布罗克顿村（Brockton Village）那栋“甜蜜陷阱”房产提出了报价，出价比 $1,199,000 的挂牌价高出 $100,000，但该房产最终被一个出价高出要价 $350,000 以上的人买走。这让他们转向了西顿村那栋三加一卧室的半独立屋，他们非常喜欢这栋房子的特色——该房屋建于 1908 年——以及它的后院，史密斯先生将其比作一座秘密花园。他们认为吱吱作响的地板和卧室门是史密斯先生可以轻松解决的小问题。

他们决定出价 $1,360,000，最终敲定的成交价为 $1,385,000。在谈到报价被接受时，蒂姆林女士说：“我很惊讶。我们才积极看房 2½ 周，所以时间非常早。但我们感到非常兴奋。”这对夫妇在 6 月底搬进了新家，此后进行了一些改进：安装了一些新灯具，修理了那扇无法正常关闭的卧室门，并粉刷了一些墙壁、门和装饰线条。他们还计划很快用新的实木地板更换吱吱作响的地板，并升级其暖通空调（HVAC）系统。

“我非常有环保意识，”史密斯先生说，“我们想安装热泵以及高效率的锅炉和热水器。”他们还在为新宝宝的到来做准备，预产期是 11 月 8 日。蒂姆林女士说：“婴儿房基本准备好了。”虽然在找房之前他们并不熟悉西顿村，但他们很高兴地发现这是一个家庭友好且具有社区意识的街区。

他们的购房时机也恰好让史密斯先生最近住院的父亲在不幸于 10 天后去世前，能在新家享用一顿晚餐。史密斯先生解释道：“他认为这是一栋好房子。他能来这里在后院露台上吃个汉堡，这非常有纪念意义。他为我们能为家庭做出这个选择而感到非常自豪。”

这座位于不列颠哥伦比亚省兰利市 816 248 St. 的房屋坐落在占地一英亩的土地上，周围环绕着大型马术庄园。这座房子曾是一座建于 1922, 年的校舍，并在 20 世纪 70 年代进行了扩建。在目前这座 2,724 平方英尺的住宅中，扩建部分现在是厨房所在地。照片由 EVOLVE MEDIA COLLECTIVE 提供

旧校舍的新用途

房屋外部采用了雪松木瓦外墙，现任业主还增加了一个户外休息区。

兰格利的一座回收建筑被改造成为坐落在田园诗般环境中的家庭住宅

卡罗琳·爱尔兰 (CAROLYN IRELAND)

816 248 St. 不列颠哥伦比亚省，兰格利 (LANGLEY, B.C.)

挂牌价：$2,750,000 税费：$4,904.45 (2026) 地块面积：一英亩 代理人：Carolyn Glazier 和 Sabrina Glazier，Angell, Hasman & Associates Realty

背景故事

当亚历克斯·奥斯特霍克 (Alex Oosthoek) 和吉尔·奥斯特霍克 (Jill Oosthoek) 在 2008 年首次看到这处待售房产时，这座前南奥特小学 (South Otter Elementary School) 的大部分教育痕迹已经消失了。

随着女儿海莉 (Hailey) 和珍娜 (Jenna) 的成长，奥斯特霍克夫妇觉得他们在不列颠哥伦比亚省新西敏市 (New Westminster, B.C.) 的那栋狭小的磨坊工人小屋里感到空间局促。

在之前的家庭出游中，他们已经探索过南兰格利的乡村景观和马场。

这座单间校舍建于 1922 年，旨在教育周边农业社区的孩子，在 20 世纪 70 年代进行了扩建，随后于 1983 年关闭。

该建筑荒废了几年，直到 1987 年被改造成私人住宅。

当奥斯特霍克夫妇参观这座房子时，前业主已经进行了一些改进，该业主曾从事电影行业的布景工作。

“他对想要实现的目标有自己的愿景，但所有工作都做得非常随意，”奥斯特霍克先生说道。

室内状况简陋，但这对夫妇都很有创意：奥斯特霍克女士是一位艺术家，而奥斯特霍克先生则是一位从事高端住宅项目的木匠。尽管存在一些古怪之处，但他们共同看到了其潜力。

“院子里有一些非常离奇的道具。后来我们发现孩子们在灰泥墙上刻了脏话，”奥斯特霍克先生笑着说。

如今的房子

随着奥斯特霍克一家定居于此，他们惊讶地发现邻居和路人表达了大量的善意，并分享了他们与这座社区地标相关的回忆。

“每个人都以为我们要把它推平，”奥斯特霍克先生说。

在 20 世纪 70 年代，一座形状和尺寸相似的回收建筑通过一个较小的连接部分与原校舍相连。

奥斯特霍克先生的首要任务是重建并统一三条不同的屋顶线。

在室外，原先为学生准备的有顶操场被前业主封闭了起来，他经常邀请音乐家来到这座独立建筑中进行即兴演奏。

这对夫妇决定将原操场区域改造为奥斯特霍克女士父亲的长辈套房。

很快出现了一些意想不到的古怪问题：原先的单间校舍被改造成了三个卧室，但它们仍然共用同一个电路。当家人打开其中一个房间的灯时，所有房间的灯都会亮起。

为了重新铺设电线和管道，他们别无选择，只能将室内拆除到仅剩墙骨的状态。

“我们当时在主屋里住得像难民一样，”奥斯特霍克先生回忆道，“有一段时间，全家人都扎营在客厅的木炉周围。”

在此过程中，这对夫妇发现了校园生活的痕迹：阁楼里存放着用于马铃薯袋赛跑的麻袋，室外土壤中则埋着丢失的锡兵。

在 20 世纪 70 年代，扩建部分是学校的办公室；如今，在这座 2,724 平方英尺的住宅中，这里提供了厨房、浴室以及休息和用餐区域。

这对夫妇邀请隔壁邻居来建造厨房。回想起在乡村生活偶尔出现的干扰，奥斯特霍克先生觉得很有趣。

“他的一些牛会跑到我们的院子里，我们得一起追它们。”

在室内变得更加舒适后，这对夫妇在外部增加了雪松木瓦外墙和户外休息区。

奥斯特霍克女士打造了种满薰衣草和多年生植物的花园。

随着这对夫妇及其女儿们听到更多关于这所学校的故事，她们了解到这里每年圣诞节都会举办一次煎饼早餐会。

于是，这家人决定为邻居、前学生和退休教师举办一场圣诞节自带菜肴的聚餐（potluck）。

“这所学校曾是一个社区中心，能再次这样做真的很棒，”奥斯特霍克女士说道，“我们对那些10英尺和12英尺高的圣诞树有着许多美好的回忆。”

在居住期间，这对夫妇继续逐步开展新的项目。附属套房最终变成了短期租赁房，随后又变成了艺术工作室和健身房。

“要承担这样一个项目，你必须非常浪漫，而且得有一点天真，”奥斯特霍克先生说，“这其实不是一次装修——而是一种生活方式。”

最出色的特点

这块一英亩的地产位于被指定为农业土地保护区（Agricultural Land Reserve）的区域内，该区域旨在保护当地免受城市扩张的影响。

房屋周围环绕着大型马术庄园，道路上没有路灯照明。

“这里的夜晚是漆黑、漆黑、漆黑的，”奥斯特霍克先生在描述这个宁静的环境时说道，他们有时能听到高大的冷杉林中传来猫头鹰的叫声。

现任业主为邻居以及该学校的前学生和教师举办圣诞聚餐，而该学校曾是举办煎饼早餐会的场所。

他回忆起全家刚搬来不久后的一次经历：马路对面的房主决定将他那座古旧谷仓的开口钉死——这让五六只栖息在里面的谷仓鸮感到十分恼火。

“那些猫头鹰尖叫着飞了一周左右，直到他重新打开谷仓，”他笑着说。

联排别墅大幅降价且低于挂牌价成交

2℃ Tacoma Ave., Toronto SUMMERHILL

挂牌价：$2,175,000（2026年6月） 此前挂牌价：$2,295,000（2026年5月） 成交价：$1,998,000（2026年6月） 此前成交价：$979,000（2004年6月）；$725,000（2002年5月） 税费：$12,067（2025年） 上市天数：13 房产总上市天数：33 挂牌代理人：Debbie Penzo 和 Graeme McIntosh，Chestnut Park Real Estate Ltd.

交易情况 这栋拥有三间卧室的联排住宅距离央街（Yonge Street）的 Summerhill 地铁站仅 150 米。5 月份，除了开放日访客外，该房产还接待了十多位参观者，但没有人倾向于以 $2,295,000 的价格购买。次月，卖家决定将挂牌价下调至 $2,175,000。与此同时，他们获悉一套更靠近 Cottingham 初级公立学校的类似联排别墅在降低挂牌价后，迅速以 $1,975,000 成交。

“近期的一宗可比交易设定了新基准，这让卖家对重新定价的决定充满信心，”代理人 Graeme McIntosh 表示。

“在调整价格后的两周内，我们收到了三份报价。”

一名出价 $1,998,000 的竞买者买下了这栋房龄 25 年的住宅。

买家被该房屋宽敞的面积和内置的双车库所吸引。“它的内部空间看起来和感觉起来都比外观看起来要大，”McIntosh 先生说道。

“人们还很喜欢可以从车库直接走进地下室的设计。这在当地非常罕见。”

房屋详情 这栋两层住宅位于一排砖房的末端，设有街道层入口和后方西向的露台。

主层拥有 10 英尺高的天花板，主娱乐区设有燃气壁炉，厨房位于两个用餐区之间。

楼上卧室旁设有两间完整的浴室和一个带水槽的洗衣房。

地下室还有一个额外的娱乐区。

代理人观点 “它有一个拥有高天花板的宽敞大厅，”McIntosh 先生表示。“无需维护，只有一个小前院和一个后露台。” - SYDNIA YU

八名买家竞标北约克平房

16 Jocada Rd., Toronto 枫叶区

挂牌价：$849,000（2026年6月） 成交价：$1.2-million（2026年6月）

此前成交价：不可用 税费：$5,392（2025年） 上市天数：5天 挂牌代理人：Andre Kutyan, Harvey Kalles Real Estate Ltd.

交易情况 这栋房龄53年的平房位于基尔街（Keele Street）和Highway 401.附近，占地42- by 137-foot，保持原貌。代理人Andre Kutyan打赌，如果定价较低，无论是开发商还是家庭，都会有更多人愿意评估该物业的潜力。

“在$1-million plus的价格区间，很多房产在市场上滞销，”Kutyan先生表示。

“我的定价方式是为了让它对大量买家具有吸引力，无论他们是想将其拆除、扩建还是直接入住。”

在6月的五天时间里，这栋平房接待了27位访客。到周一下午——即卖家设定的评估报价时间——共有八份出价登记。最终报价在挂牌价基础上增加了$351,000。

“最终，我看到的绝大多数出价来自想要入住该房屋的人，”Kutyan先生说。

“它位于相对中心的位置，地块面积可观，且房屋状况非常好。”

房屋详情 该住宅设有正式的客厅和餐厅，以及三间铺有硬木地板的卧室。

主层和底层均设有带用餐区的厨房和一套四件套浴室。所有这些区域均铺有陶瓷地砖。

地下室还设有带吧台的用餐区，以及一个带有木材燃烧壁炉的娱乐区，并有一个出口通往室外台阶，可直接进入院子。

房屋配备一个内置的双车库和一个私人车道。

代理人观点 “这栋房子的另一个优点是它有一个走出去式地下室（walkout basement），这在当地并不常见，”Kutyan先生说。

“很多买家将其视为潜在的地下室公寓，因为它有独立入口、走出去式设计以及厨房。”

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翻新后的 Seaton Village 半独立屋收获 19 份报价

415 Clinton St., Toronto SEATON VILLAGE

挂牌价：$1,149,000 (2026年5月) 成交价：$1,608,000 (2026年5月) 此前成交价：$640,000 (2011年6月)；$470,000 (2006年10月)；$295,000 (2000年6月) 税费：$8,023 (2025年) 上市天数：7天 挂牌经纪：Sandra Pate 和 Amy Polson, Sage Real Estate Ltd.

交易情况 这栋半独立屋是5月第一周在 Bloor 街 Christie Pits 公园附近少数在售的房产之一。$1,149,000 的诱人挂牌价吸引了近 100 名访客（不包括开放日访客）前来考察其魅力。经纪人 Amy Polson 预感到部分访客会带着报价回来，但收到 19 份报价是一个令人惊喜的意外。

“3月或4月[该地区]的房源并不多，”Polson 女士表示。

“我们知道会很热闹，但没有预料到会有这么多——”

看房次数或报价数量。

这栋拥有 126 年历史的房屋其地理位置和状况是最终成交价达到 $1.608-million 的关键因素。

“大多数看房的人是年轻夫妇和年轻家庭，他们正在寻找交通便利、配套设施完善的多伦多住宅，”Polson 女士说。

“它将原始魅力与现代化翻新相结合，在情感上触动了很多人。”

房屋概况 这栋两层住宅拥有 1,386 平方英尺的居住空间，包括三间卧室、三间浴室，以及铺有原始硬木地板的独立客厅和餐厅。厨房配有花岗岩台面、岛台和石材

地板。

后方的楼梯间可通往楼下的娱乐区，侧门则通往露台和车库。房屋面向 16-by 128-foot 地块后方的巷道。

自 2018, 以来，业主更换了包括洗衣机在内的多件电器，并安装了新屋顶、窗户、空调和主水管。

经纪人观点 “整个 Seaton Village 都非常特别，但这里靠近公共交通，就在 Bloor 街以北，且位于颇受欢迎的 Palmerston Avenue 初级公立学校学区内，”Polson 女士说。

“Christie Pits 公园就在跟前，Karma 食品合作社也在拐角处。” - SYDNIA YU

夏洛特顿住宅突破$1-million大关

7 Glynwood Dr., Charlottetown 夏洛特顿

挂牌价：$1.1-million（2026年1月） 成交价：$1.05-million（2026年6月） 税费：$8,340（2025年） 上市天数：144 挂牌代理人：Kelly Lantz, Century 21 Colonial Realty Inc.

交易情况 这栋拥有四间卧室的房屋位于夏洛特顿机场与市中心之间的住宅区，占地0.57英亩，居住面积为3,091平方英尺。代理人Kelly Lantz预计，其$1.1-million的挂牌价起初可能会让当地买家感到震惊，但他们随后会意识到，这栋位于双倍地块、面向百年公园（Centennial Park）的定制房产所具有的附加价值。

“这个社区还没有其他房产以超过$1-million的价格成交，这在一定程度上是个障碍，”Lantz女士表示。“但房屋的面积、装修水平以及地块大小证明了该价格的合理性。

“在那个社区，我见过的单户住宅最高成交价可能在$700,000左右，但平均价格更接近$500,000。”

在四个月的时间里，当地及省外买家都参观了这栋房龄54年的房屋。他们在6月份提交的第一份报价最终达成了一笔$1.05-million的坚定交易。

“我们知道突破$1-million会是一个挑战，但卖家对最终的结果感到满意，”Lantz女士说。

房屋详情 这栋两层住宅设有正式的客厅和餐厅，以及一个家庭房，紧邻配备有石英台面、中岛和高端电器的厨房。

主层还设有一个办公室和一间带有两间套内浴室的主卧室。屋内另有两间浴室。

二层设有三间卧室和一个备用房，房内有一把通往圆顶小窗（cupola）的梯子。

该房屋拥有一个未完工的地下室，并设有通往双车库的内部通道。

代理人观点 “这是一栋老房子，但经过了全面的升级和翻新，”Lantz女士说。

“那里有一把小梯子可以爬上去观察，可以俯瞰公园，远眺水域。” - SYDNIA YU

汉密尔顿房屋卖家无奈接受低于购入价的售价

133 Beland Ave. S., Hamilton GLENVIEW

挂牌价：$574,900（2026年6月） 成交价：$561,000（2026年6月） 此前成交价：$580,000（2021年7月）；$175,000（2006年10月） 税费：$4,422（2026年） 上市天数：11 挂牌代理：Michael St. Jean 和 John Martin，Michael St. Jean Realty Inc. 买方代理： . ， . Realty Inc.

交易过程 考虑到这座位于汉密尔顿的两居室平房周边供应量上升且房产价值下降，代理人 . 意识到，该房产不太可能以其客户在 2021 年市场顶峰时期购入的价格售出。他坦诚地告知卖家，卖家随后同意将挂牌价定为比其购入价低 $5,100 的价格。

“观察当前市场和社区内的可比交易，我们希望保持现实，”. 先生表示。

“我们必须考虑到存在竞争。在这个社区，库存水平处于标准状态，但与三四年前相比有所增加。”

房产平均需要 30 到 45 天才能售出，但这栋大约 60 年房龄的平房深受 . 先生已经在协助寻找房屋的买家们的喜爱。在两周内，该房屋以 $561,000 成交，比挂牌价低 $13,900。

“买家们寻找了一段时间，当这套房子出现时，他们很快就爱上了这里的位置、地下室的亲属套房以及已经完成的翻新，”. 先生说。

“这很适合他们。”

房屋概况 这栋砖砌平房拥有 917 平方英尺的居住空间，包括一个带餐区的厨房、客厅、餐厅、两间卧室和一间浴室。

地下室最近进行了重新装修，设有两间卧室和一个娱乐区，此外还配备了厨房、浴室和新的洗衣机。

屋顶以及供暖和冷却系统在六年前进行了更换。

在 40 x 100 英尺的地块上设有一个车库和私人车道。

代理人观点 “这里非常靠近红山（Red Hill [Valley]）公园路，可以很快进入 QEW 高速公路前往尼亚加拉、哈尔顿 / 皮尔 / 多伦多地区，”. 先生说。

“你处于市中心，但又不在市中心，位置比较隐蔽，非常靠近陡崖（escarpment）和斯通溪（Stoney Creek）。”

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两份对韦兰平房的出价将成交价推高至高于挂牌价

69 Andrew Lane, Welland, Ont. 韦兰

挂牌价：$599,900 (2026年8月)

成交价：$610,000 (2026年9月)

此前成交价：不可用 税费：$4,824 (2026) 上市天数：21 挂牌经纪：Michael St. Jean 和 Jonathan Scott, Michael St. Jean Realty Inc.

交易情况 这栋位于尼亚加拉瀑布西南方向韦兰的两卧室联排别墅，在8月的最后一周以 $599,900 的价格上市。到9月2日，两名买家开始进行购买洽谈。在9月中旬取消所有条件后，最高出价为 $610,000。

“我们最终有几位买家在同一时间竞争，迫使价格超过了 $600,000，”经纪人 Michael St. Jean 表示。

“我们并非抱着这种预期开始，但这是一款市场上并不容易买到的优质产品，而且社区环境很好。”

该房屋的单层设计在名为 Merritt Meadows 的分区块中很常见，但在周边地区并不多见。

“总的来说，这是一种非常受欢迎的产品类型，在金马蹄（Golden Horseshoe）的许多地区都很难找到，”St. Jean 先生说道。

“房产本身较新；呈现效果很好，且进行了大量升级。”

房屋详情 这栋联排别墅建于几年前，带有一个附属车库、1,245 平方英尺的居住空间以及一个未完工的地下室。

客餐厅共用区域拥有九英尺高的天花板、硬木地板，并可通往位于 28- by 104-foot 地块上的封闭式露台和连锁铺装庭院。

主层设有洗衣房和两间全卫，以及一个带有石英台面、岛台和瓷砖地板的开放式厨房。

经纪人观点 “[建筑商] Rinaldi Homes 在当地以质量最好而著称，”St. Jean 先生表示。

“韦兰运河（Welland Canal）在步行范围内，而且离高速公路非常近，[Highway] 406 号公路就在转角处。”

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对未售公寓征税计划引发批评

埃比的竞选承诺引发卑诗省开发商担忧，认为这将增加建筑风险

凯里·戈尔德 温哥华

卑诗省省长大卫·埃比（David Eby）承诺在竞选期间对开发商的未售公寓征税，这一举措引发了开发商的愤怒。这些开发商此前已支付了高昂的建筑费用，并且在无法售出的单位上承担着巨额的持有成本。

住房专家表示，如果埃比在10月24日再次当选，该提案将使开发社区难以再次信任这位省长。而该社区之外的政策分析师和专家也存在分歧，许多人对此税项感到困惑甚至持反对意见。该税项将在房屋空置第二年起生效，税率为评估价值的2%，随后在未售出的每一年增加1%。省长表示，他的新税项将针对大温哥华地区的5,000套未售空置公寓单位。

在一次新闻发布会上，省长告诉记者，他还将把投机与空置税提高到国内房主的2%和外国所有者的5%。

西蒙弗雷泽大学金融学教授安德烈·帕夫洛夫（Andrey Pavlov）表示，他对这一举措感到震惊。他认为，这在短期内可能会降低价格，但会产生严重的意外后果。

“没有人想持有，因为他们想卖掉——这就是他们赚钱的方式，然后将资金投入下一个项目。增加这些持有成本确实会激励开发商更快地销售。”

“其中一些人可能会说：‘好吧，随便吧，我接受损失然后继续前进。’因此，一些公寓的售价可能会低于其他公寓。但问题是，这是一个非常短期的效应。一旦你看向更长远的未来，问题当然在于，再也没有人愿意去建筑了。”

帕夫洛夫教授表示，如果卑诗省的建筑成本变得更高且风险更大，开发商将被迫建造昂贵的房屋。

“这种投资需要一定的回报率。当你增加风险时，就必须提高回报率。”

“这使得大多数项目在经济上变得不可行，因此永远无法启动。而那些能够启动的项目，需要提供极高的回报率，这意味着基本上只能是豪华建筑。而这并不是我们需要的那类住房。”

9月25日，卑诗省省长大卫·埃比（中）在卑诗省本拿比的一次省选竞选活动中就住房问题发表声明。身旁是新民主党（NDP）候选人罗哈尼·阿罗拉（Rohani Arora，左）、詹妮弗·怀特赛德（Jennifer Whiteside）、拉杰·乔汉（Raj Chouhan）和珍妮特·劳特莱奇（Janet Routledge）。 RICH LAM/ 加拿大新闻社

因此，我们所做的事情恰恰相反。”

商业经纪人马克·古德曼（Mark Goodman）表示，该税项将增加整体建筑成本，并使融资变得更加困难。

“他们正在惩罚那些建造房屋的人，”他说。“这是在周期完全错误的时间点完成项目的惩罚。贷款机构将其视为额外风险。将需要更多的预售。资本成本更高。更多项目被搁置，结果就是短缺进一步加剧。”

古德曼先生说：“这些开发商已经处于崩溃边缘。他们中的许多人正在离开这个行业，离开这个省。这是强迫，而不是住房计划。他是在威胁要向开发商开战。”

经济学家兼政策专家、总部位于渥太华的“缺失中间层倡议”（Missing Middle Initiative）创始主任迈克·莫法特（Mike Moffatt）称该税收计划为“糟糕的政策”，可能会产生降低价格的暂时效果，但弊大于利。

“它最终可能会有助于促成少数几笔销售，但在很大程度上，我不认为它能取得太多成就，”莫法特表示。“开发商无法销售的原因可能很多。如果房产上有建筑贷款，那么将其出售并承担损失可能并不可行。”

他表示，该税项甚至可能激励开发商拖延项目的完工，以规避缴税。

“如果你有一栋楼还没有完全售完，也许你会稍微等待一段时间，在获得入住许可之前尝试售出更多单元，”莫法特先生说道。

“我们已经面临足够的市场紧张局势和市场不稳定性。因此，在此基础上再增加一项税收并无帮助，”他说。“我明白这在政治上可能很受欢迎。但我认为总体而言，这不是修复住房市场的好办法。”

但省长的想法确实也有其支持者。规划顾问、前本拿比市高级开发规划师罗伯特·伦格表示，这可能会激励开发商进行销售，“并顺应目前的市场状况”。

“如果他们除了其他成本之外还必须开始缴纳税款，这将激励他们同意将价格降低到人们愿意支付的水平，而不是就那样持有这数以千计的单元，”他说道，呼应了省长的理由。

“他们不想惊扰市场，所以想要维持价格。在某些情况下，有人告诉我他们的融资方案不允许他们降低价格，尽管这可以通过协商解决。实际上，你面对的是一个不愿降低价格的寡头垄断局面。”

他认为开发商“希望外国买家能重返市场，希望相关禁令能够结束，”他补充道，指的是联邦政府对外国买家的禁令，该禁令将于1月到期。

“这将创造更多需求并推高价格。然后他们还会进行出于自身利益的推广，比如‘为什么不允许新单元的抵押贷款利息抵税？’，这是另一种推高价格的方法，即允许人们在税收减免的补贴下承担更高额的抵押贷款。因此，他们更倾向于任何形式的帮助，而不是被限制或被迫接受较低的价格。”

Wes-group Properties 总裁博·贾维斯表示，有些人说他们可以直接将单元出租，但在开发商面临如此多成本的情况下，这并不可行。

“如果我们出租，必须向联邦政府缴纳 5% 的商品及服务税（GST）。也许我们的省政府可以在这方面游说联邦政府，而不是针对住房提出又一项惩罚性税收？”他在一封电子邮件中写道。

“想象一下，仅仅因为汽车制造商、热泵制造商或几乎任何其他企业拥有尚未售出的成品库存，就对其征税，”他补充道。

他说，其结果将不会是增加产量。

一名开发商同意打折出售 23 套公寓，但贷款方表示反对

霍华德·柴（HOWARD CHAI） 温哥华

随着大温哥华地区完工但未售出的住宅继续堆积，政治家们从中看到了机会。

今年早些时候，不列颠哥伦比亚省省长大卫·埃比（David Eby）公布了一项计划，拟在联邦政府的资金支持下，收购完工未售的公寓，将其转换为租赁住房，并通过“租购计划”提供给不列颠哥伦比亚省居民。

该提案遭到了广泛批评，随后由新民主党（NDP）领导的政府选择提前举行大选，且埃比先生最近提出对完工未售公寓征收一项新税。该税率对于空置一年的单位起步为 2%，此后每年增加 1%。

在 9 月 25 日于本拿比举行的新闻发布会上，埃比先生引用报告称，大温哥华地区有数千套完工未售的公寓，并指责开发商不降低价格以迎合买家。

“其中一些已经空置两年多。超过 10 家开发商拥有这些公寓的一半以上。这些房子已经建好了，但他们不愿以人们愿意支付的价格出售。”

这种思维方式被许多专家反复提及，但它忽略了一个事实：开发商通常没有定价的最终决定权。

“在大多数建筑贷款中，都会有一项最低售价条款，”KSW 律师事务所合伙人阿曼·S·宾德拉（Aman S. Bindra）表示。“贷款协议或承诺函中会写明：‘这是我们对这些单位的估值，这是我们认为你能卖出的价格，未经我们同意，你不能以该数字的 90 或 95 per cent 出售。’”

假设一名开发商和贷款方就一个拥有 100 个单位的项目签署了 $100-million 贷款协议。如果开发商同意以总计 $80-million 的折扣价出售 90 个单位，这意味着他们必须将剩余的 10 个单位以 $20-million 的价格售出才能偿还贷款。

这说起来容易做起来难，尤其是在当今的市场环境下；如果开发商无法实现后者，那么承担损失的可能是贷款方。宾德拉先生表示，这就是贷款方试图避免的情况。

不列颠哥伦比亚省最高法院的一起涉及 1397676 B.C. Ltd. 和知名开发商 Westbank 的诉讼，就是一个典型的例子。

根据这家编号公司 2 月份提交的一份民事诉讼请求，该公司在 2025, 10 月与 Westbank 达成协议，以 $30-million 购买位于西温哥华马蹄湾（Horseshoe Bay）沿岸的 Sanctuary（一个拥有 158 个单位的豪华公寓项目）中 23 套完工未售的公寓，并计划将 23 套单位中的 17 套转让（炒作）以获利 $3.6-million。

原告称，商定的价格“低于或显著低于”这些单位之前的市场推广价格，这意味着 同意了批量折扣。

交易原定于 28, 2025, 11 月完成，但最终未能完成，因为 无法解除由 QuadReal Property Group（不列颠哥伦比亚投资管理公司的房地产子公司）持有的抵押贷款。 在 11 月 27 日通知了买家，并退还了押金及累计利息。

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在大多数建筑贷款中，都会有一项最低售价条款。贷款协议或承诺函中会写明：‘这是我们对这些单位的估值，这是我们认为你能卖出的价格，未经我们同意，你不能以该数字的 90 或 95 per cent 出售。’

AMAN S. BINDRA，KSW律师事务所合伙人

这家编号公司发起了诉讼，指控 Westbank 进行了某些误导性陈述并导致了损失，包括“承担了投资成本但几乎没有回报”。Westbank 和 QuadReal 则辩称，预售合同规定，如果交易未能完成，补救措施仅限于退还押金及累计利息。

QuadReal 在其提交的文件中表示，它拒绝解除抵押并同意大宗销售，因为“拟议的销售所设想的购买价格低于信贷协议要求的‘最低解除金额’，且明显低于公平市场价值”。

根据 QuadReal 的说法，平均售价为每平方英尺 $700，比公平市场价值平均低 $400，这将导致“数百万加元的收入损失”。

QuadReal 和 Westbank 拒绝就本报道发表评论。

在诉讼早期提交的文件中，1397676 B.C. Ltd. 的公司董事被确定为西温哥华区区长马克·塞格（Mark Sager），他将于下个月竞选连任。

在接受《全球邮报》采访时，塞格先生表示，他是代表一位朋友组织受让人并与 Westbank 协商交易的，他本人不会获得 $3.6-million 的利润。他补充说，在诉讼提起一段时间后，他被移出了公司董事职务，且未参与该诉讼程序。

近期在诉讼中提交的文件提到，该公司现在有两名董事，其邮寄地址在奥地利。9 月 29 日进行的公司董事查询确认，董事为弗兰克·艾格纳（Frank Aigner）和杰拉德·施魏格霍费尔（Gerald Schweighofer）——两人均隶属于总部位于维也纳的 HS Timber Group——而塞格先生不在名单之列。

塞格先生拒绝透露该朋友的姓名，但确认该朋友是奥地利人，他还分享了一封由 Westbank 高管发送、日期为 2025 年 11 月 28 日的电子邮件，信中为交易失败表示道歉。该邮件的收件人为“弗兰克”，并抄送给了塞格先生。

尽管该民事诉讼在本月早些时候仍处于活跃状态，但塞格先生告诉《全球邮报》，各方已就争议达成和解。

在解释其参与情况时，他表示去年他意识到了 Sanctuary 存在未售出的单元，他对该建筑印象深刻，希望看到这里住满当地人，而不是海外投资者或投机者。

“在采取行动之前，我专门询问了区政府的市政律师，我参与组织这组买家是否构成了利益冲突，”塞格先生说。“我得到的答复是没有。而且我想绝对明确一点：我没有收取任何私下款项，没有未披露的财务安排，也没有从这次交易中获利。我只是在聚集那些想要购买房屋并居住在马蹄湾（Horseshoe Bay）的当地买家。”

塞格先生还就公寓未售出问题以及此次事件所揭露的开发商与贷款机构之间的动态发表了评论。

“我们有已经完工但存在大量空置单元的建筑，而价格有时与买家实际愿意支付的价格脱节。融资安排可能使开发商难以根据当前市场状况调整价格，这可能会阻碍价格响应实际需求的正常市场机制。社区为此付出了代价。”

私立学校

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JK 与小学入学：教育者深知幼儿早期的重要性

幼儿早期标志着孩子教育旅程的开始，塑造了他们学习、探索以及与周围世界互动的方式。

“这是孩子教育中的一个关键阶段，”多伦多一所男童小学及中学——斯特林霍尔学校（The Sterling Hall School）的高年级幼儿园教师阿里扎·詹莫哈迈德（Aleeza Janmohamed）表示。詹莫哈迈德说，通过与教师和其他成年人建立关怀且信任的关系，孩子们能够“建立积极的自我形象，并为未来的社交关系和情感健康打下坚实基础”。

除了学术方面，对社交和情感发展的关注对家长来说也变得越来越重要。“家长希望他们的孩子具有韧性，能够建立强大的社交联系并培养协作能力——他们意识到这是孩子在以后生活中必不可少的素质，”詹莫哈迈德说。

以下是幼儿教室的内部情况，以及私立学校如何对待这一基础阶段。

斯特林霍尔学校（THE STERLING HALL SCHOOL）

在课堂上，詹莫哈迈德的指导原则是创造一个积极、包容的环境，以培养对学习的热爱并激发好奇心。在幼儿阶段，读写能力是重点，通过教学培养学生的技能和信心，使他们成为熟练的阅读者、写作人员以及高效的沟通者。

社交和情感发展是通过识别情绪和学习自我调节策略来培养的。有意义的游戏——无论是无结构的还是有结构的——都能支持学习、问题解决和协作。

“快乐且积极的学习体验能够持续建立更强的神经印迹，使学生更容易回忆起信息，”詹莫哈迈德说。“他们现在将积极的情绪与学习联系在一起，因此，这种学习能以更深层的方式扎根。”

马宾学校（THE MABIN SCHOOL）

多伦多一所招收初级幼儿园至 6 年级学生的学校——马宾学校（The Mabin School）校长西蒙·格雷夫桑德（Simone Gravesande）表示，幼儿早期是孩子发育中一个令人兴奋的时期。“孩子们的好奇心十分旺盛，世界对他们来说充满了吸引力，”她说。“他们天生爱发问，能够建立联系，注意到模式，并渴望了解事物是如何运作的。”

马宾学校相信应当利用这种好奇心。“我们的探究式教学法允许学生的问题和兴趣来驱动他们的学习，”格雷夫桑德说。“这培养出了对周围世界深感兴趣的学习者，他们通过真实且有意义的体验来深化对概念的理解。”

这并不意味着学术技能是次要的。“读写能力和计算能力贯穿于整个学习体验之中，并在有意义的语境中得到发展，”格雷夫桑德说。

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审慎地使用技术与 AI

大多数私立学校都制定了 AI 政策和框架，以指导学生和教职员工使用人工智能。

但在一个 模型泄露、假新闻和社交媒体信息过载的世界里，学习如何审慎地使用 ——无论是在课堂内还是课堂外——正变得日益重要。这就是为什么许多私立学校专注于为学生提供必要的工具，使他们在面对 使用时能够进行批判性思考，并将 技能与以人为本的技能相结合。

以下是私立学校为确保学生能够安全且合乎伦理地应对 era. 所采取的一些措施示例。

特拉法加城堡学校（安大略省惠特比）

特拉法加学校针对学生和教职员工执行一项明确的“人类主导”政策，将人工智能定义为学习和反馈的工具，而非人类思考和构思的替代品。

“我们的课程重点从‘什么是人工智能’以及‘如何批判性地使用人工智能’开始，最终培养出能够利用并管理人工智能、且在技术伦理考量方面有深厚基础的领导者，”特拉法加学校学术院长劳里·库奇尔卡（Laurie Kuchirka）表示。

从 Grade 4 开始，学生们学习人工智能是基于模式匹配而非事实理解运行的，这使其成为一个“猜测者”，容易产生看似是“事实”且语气自信、礼貌的输出。随着年龄增长，学生们练习识别模型中这种“讨好型”行为的证据，检查信息流中是否存在回声室效应的验证，并利用横向阅读法通过可靠来源交叉核实主张。

安全与隐私也被纳入学校的基础设施中。教职员工和学生仅在安全的封闭环境中与企业级人工智能模型交互。这在保护个人数据免受公共模型影响的同时，允许教师为学习维持一个安全且受监督的空间。

“目标不仅是培养能够使用人工智能的毕业生，更是培养有能力管理人工智能的毕业生，”库奇尔卡说道。

莱克菲尔德学院学校（安大略省莱克菲尔德）

莱克菲尔德学校采用“双轨制”人工智能评估方法已进入第三年：Lane 1，是在安全、受控的环境中完成作品；Lane 2，则是重新设计任务，使其预期并要求使用人工智能。

“在莱克菲尔德学院学校（LCS）的人工智能政策中，学生的思考是不可妥协的，”莱克菲尔德学校创新项目协调员兼人工智能内部工作组成员希瑟·亚当斯（Heather Adams）表示。

教师在设计评估方案时，确保学生无法将思考过程外包。例如，在课堂上撰写论文，并在任务当天提供提示词，这有助于衡量学生的实际知识水平。

在人工智能的使用方面，教师以身作则，践行他们要求学生做到的透明度。他们还为学生提供关于人工智能的发声机会，包括人工智能创新俱乐部（学生在其中接触人工智能开发的前沿），以及今年正在试行的学生人工智能倡议委员会。

“我们相信要培养一种透明的文化，以便学生和教师之间关于人工智能的对话能够公开进行，”亚当斯说。

她还表示，无论多少数字素养教育或反社交媒体指导，都无法说服青少年放下手机。因此，学校规定学生在 7 a.m. 至 5:30 p.m. 之间不得使用手机，同时在聚集空间、教室、走廊和午餐时间禁止使用手机。

“我们不会让学生在与大科技公司成瘾性设备的对抗中去打一场必败之仗，”亚当斯说道。

格林伍德学院学校（多伦多）

格林伍德学校在学习过程中对待人工智能采取三管齐下的方法：利用新兴的人工智能工具改善课堂体验；指导学生以学科特定的方式使用人工智能；以及培养能够让学生在不确定的未来中脱颖而出的持久技能。

“自 ChatGPT 最初发布以来，我们就一直在运行一个人工智能工作组，”该校学术与多元化总监瑞安·瓦尚（Ryan Vachon）表示。

“这个跨职能研究小组已成为我们人工智能方案的重要组成部分。其成员包括学校领导层、学术领导层以及教学和运营人员。”

教师在学习、项目和评估中何时使用人工智能是有意识地规划的。“这有助于为学生示范生产性使用与非生产性使用人工智能之间的区别，”他说道。

格林伍德学校还邀请了 Straight Up Health 的心理治疗师杰克·恩斯特（Jake Ernst）以及 Moral Courage® College 的创始人兼首席执行官伊尔沙德·曼吉（Irshad Manji）等演讲者，讨论数字世界在心理健康和应对极化方面如何影响学生。

多伦多比肖普-斯特拉坎学校 (BISHOP STRACHAN SCHOOL TORONTO)

“我们对人工智能的立场是激发好奇心并引导其伦理应用，”BSS教学与学习执行总监克里斯汀·克拉克 (Dr. Kristen Clarke) 博士表示。

与许多学校一样，比肖普-斯特拉坎学校采用绿-黄-红实践法，由教育工作者沟通何时可以使用 AI 以及何时不能使用。

“最有趣的是黄色区域——教师们正与我们的女孩和年轻女性进行有意义的对话，探讨何时使用 AI，以及何时应该攻克难题、创建多个版本或与人类交流，”克拉克说道。

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超越学术：独立学校如何通过服务与领导力塑造品格

“她们以自己的方式展现这些品质，”她说道。

学术成就可以通过成绩、测试分数和大学录取情况来衡量。然而，品格则更难量化。

但随着年轻人准备进入一个快速演变的世界，独立学校正更加强调培养判断力、韧性、共情能力和责任感等技能，所有这些都是为了帮助年轻人做出正确决定、服务他人并以道德准则进行领导。

在斯特林霍尔学校（The Sterling Hall School），品格培养从幼儿园开始，并刻意地与学术、课外活动、体育运动和日常校园生活交织在一起。

这所位于多伦多的私立男子学校将其大部分品格教育基于由心理学家克里斯托弗·彼得森（Christopher Peterson）和马丁·塞利格曼（Martin Seligman）开发的 VIA 品格优势框架。该框架确定了 24 项品格优势，分为六大核心美德（智慧与知识、勇气、人性、公正、节制和超越）。这 24 项品格优势包括创造力、判断力、好奇心、诚实、毅力、善良、公平、团队合作、领导力、谦逊、希望和幽默。

学生成功主任卡特里奥娜·加利恩（Catriona Gallienne）表示，VIA 品格优势基于这样一个理念：如果一个孩子在上述六个美德类别中每类至少拥有一种真正的能力，他们就能成长为一个能够过上充实生活并服务他人的人。

“品格不应该是惩罚性的，”她说，“它应该是一种带有愿景的东西，是一个持续发展的过程。”

对待服务的方式也与之类似。斯特林霍尔学校教授学生，领导力的根源在于服务和责任，而非头衔。学校鼓励学生去理解他们所帮助的人群和问题，而不是简单地筹集资金或积累志愿者时长。

随着包括人工智能（AI）在内的技术重塑学生将进入的世界，这种强调变得愈发重要。

“让他们脱颖而出的将是他们的人性，”加利恩说，“知识永远可以习得，但培养良好的品格和塑造优秀的人才是最关键的技能。”

在多伦多的天主教男子学校圣迈克尔学院（St. Michael's College School），培养这种人性包括给学生时间去深思自己正在成为什么样的人。该校的“蓝色笔记”（Blue Notes）引导式日志计划鼓励学生私下探索包括以下概念在内的内容：

多伦多的斯特林霍尔学校将其大部分品格教育基于一个确定了 24 项品格优势的框架，其中包括善良、团队合作、好奇心、公平和幽默。图片由斯特林霍尔学校提供。

“在他们毕业时，给予他们希望、信念和乐观精神，让他们相信自己能够产生影响并让事情变得更好，是我们能赋予他们的最强大的工具之一。”

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克莱尔·凯利博士（Dr. Claire Kelly） 学生生活助理校长 艾普比学院（Appleby College）

历史系主任兼学生品格与塑造负责人保罗·菲茨帕特里克（Paul Fitzpatrick）表示，学生需要思考正直、共情、韧性和责任感，并考虑这些品质如何转化为他们与他人及社区的关系。

学生品格与塑造负责人的目标是为学生创造讨论“拥有品格意味着什么”的机会，而不是假设品格会自动发展。

“我们的目标是，当学生展望未来时，他们不仅会问自己‘我会成为什么’，还会问‘我会成为一个怎样的人’，”菲茨帕特里克说道。

服务为学生提供了通过实践来回答这个问题的另一个机会。数学教师兼学校基督教与社区服务负责人罗伯特·范蒂利博士（Dr. Robert Fantilli）表示，圣迈克尔学校希望学生将服务视为不仅仅是安大略省的志愿者要求。

“青少年自然会花大量时间思考学校、体育、高等教育计划以及他们自己的目标，”他说。“服务让他们有机会走进他人的现实，看看他们的时间、天赋和机遇如何能改变他人的生活。”

高年级学生需完成额外的基督教服务部分，而通过“蓝色笔记”（Blue Notes）进行的反思则帮助学生思考他们的经历揭示了什么。

“这些年来我了解到，年轻人并不一定会因为我们告诉他们某些事情而改变，”范蒂利说。“更多时候，他们是因为遇到某个人或经历某件事挑战了他们的假设而发生改变。”

这意味着要将重点从统计小时数转移到结果上。

“我们希望学生不再问‘我完成了多少小时’，而是开始问‘我从这次经历中学到了什么’以及‘我对他人承担什么样的责任’，”范蒂利说。“这通常才是真正成长发生的地方。”

其理念是通过俱乐部、活动、指导和其他经历，给学生足够的机会去发现自己可以在哪里做出贡献，同时学习如何与他人协作。

多伦多私立女校（日校及寄宿制）哈弗加尔学院（Havergal College）的副校长林赛·诺伯格（Lindsay Norberg）表示，建立在关系基础上的社区参与方法可以产生深远的影响。

“服务帮助学生超越自我，理解他们能对他产生的影响，”威廉姆斯（Williams）说道。

在安大略省奥克维尔的男女合校（日校及寄宿制）艾普比学院，一些关于品格的最重要课程可能仅仅是通过学习与他人共同生活而实现的。

据学生生活助理校长克莱尔·凯利博士称，艾普比学院是加拿大唯一一所设有强制性 Grade 12 寄宿项目的学校。在 Grade 12, 开始时，每位学生都要搬进寄宿舍生活一年，包括那些家在附近的学生。该校学生来自大约 40 个国家。

这让青少年在高中压力最大的一年里聚集在一起，要求他们在面对青春期生活的日常压力与快乐的同时，处理文化、饮食、背景和价值观方面的差异。

“在文化、饮食、背景、价值观存在差异的情况下与他人共同生活……确实能以一种课堂无法实现的方式培养品格，”凯利说。

二十多年前，哈弗加尔学院开发了其社区合作伙伴计划。通过学校的“变革论坛”（Forum for Change），学生与北约克收获食物银行（North York Harvest Food Bank）、New Circles 和格勒诺布公立学校（Grenoble Public School）等组织合作。哈弗加尔学院采用一个“五P”框架——人员（people）、地点（place）、视角（perspective）、定位（positionality）和伙伴关系（partnership）——来鼓励学生理解他们所合作的社区和组织。

舍堂会议、舍堂活动和领导力项目为学生提供了在相对低风险的环境中练习团队协作、责任感和诚信的常规机会。

该校在校园之外也采取了类似的体验式方法，包括在安大略省特马加米（Temagami）的北部校区开展户外教育，以及要求获得 Appleby 文凭的学生必须具备国际体验。

国际体验也是获得该校文凭的一部分。去年，学生们前往葡萄牙进行环境与保护之旅；前往哥斯达黎加学习可持续发展与气候正义；前往爱尔兰学习冲突解决、和平建设和盖尔语复兴；以及前往泰国学习社会创新、历史与文化。

凯利（Kelly）表示，这些体验刻意将学生置于必须实践而非仅仅讨论勇敢、自我意识和领导力等品质的情境中。

一名学生可能会在 5 年级首次接触某个组织，并且在 10 年级或 11 年级作为学生领导者时仍在与其合作。随着时间的推移，学生可以看到一个组织及其需求如何变化，并对组织背后的个体产生更深层的理解。

“这不在于时长，而在于伙伴关系，以及在组织之间建立我们与该组织之间的伙伴关系，”诺伯格（Norberg）说道。

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“在学生毕业时，给他们一种希望、信念和乐观感，让他们相信自己能够产生影响并让事情变得更好，这是我们能赋予他们最强大的工具之一，”她说道。

Appleby 还将领导力定义为一种心态和技能，而不是仅限于拥有正式头衔的学生。凯利表示，在一个动荡的世界中，学校在赋予年轻人对自己具有能动性的信心方面也扮演着重要角色。

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哈弗盖尔学校（Havergal）的四项核心价值观——正直、探究、同情和勇气，同样塑造着校园生活。诺伯格（Norberg）表示，培养女孩的韧性有时意味着鼓励她们在面对困难时去奋斗，而不是要求自己立即获得正确答案。她补充道，这包括挑战围绕完美主义的社会预期，并鼓励女孩们去尝试、犯错、重新思考想法并再次尝试。

“我们鼓励学生通过行动来领导，并意识到每位学生都在发展这些

性格培养依然贯穿于导师制、体育运动、领导力以及社区参与之中。学生们参与的计划包括为人类栖息地（Habitat for Humanity）议会建设房屋，以及支持杜兰区（Durham Region）弱势家庭的圣诞捐赠活动；而高年级学生可以通过教师指导和高级导师计划来指导低年级学生。

“我们的价值观驱动着我们的组织，因此女孩们知道在一家由价值观驱动的学校中成长意味着什么，”诺伯格说。“这不仅仅是教她们价值观，而是让她们体验并成为一个践行价值观的学校的一部分。”

在多伦多的克雷斯特伍德预科大学（Crestwood Preparatory College），体验同样是其教学方法的核心。招生主任金·威廉姆斯（Kim Williams）表示，学校为学生提供不同的途径来实践领导力，而不是向他们展示一个单一的领导者形象模型。

在奥克维尔的沃尔登国际学校（Walden International School），“培养优秀的人（Making Good People）”这一简单的短语反映了其对自主权的看法。

校长达芙妮·佩鲁吉尼（Daphne Perugini）表示，这并不意味着要培养行为完美无缺的学生。当孩子们反复获得锻炼判断力的机会——做出艰难的选择、承担责任、从错误中恢复以及考虑他人的观点时，性格才会得到发展。

“‘培养优秀的人’并不是为了培养行为完美的孩子，”佩鲁吉尼说。“而是为了帮助年轻人培养判断力、同理心和责任感，从而决定他们想成为什么样的人，以及在选择至关重要时他们将怎么做。”

“孩子们通过反复实践的机会来培养性格，”佩鲁吉尼说。

最终，所有的项目、反思和机会都回到了学生最终必须为自己做出的决定上。

学生们被鼓励首先考虑社区实际需要什么，他们拥有什么样的能力，以及他们个人可以如何做出贡献。随着学生的成熟，责任感随之增加。从6年级到7,年级，服务学习变得越来越由学生主导，为学生在8.年级开展独立的社区项目做准备。她补充说，这种递进设计旨在让孩子们从参与服务，转变为了解服务的目的，并最终对自己的贡献方式承担所有权。

佩鲁吉尼还认为，正直、同理心、勇气、韧性和责任感等品质从根本上说是人类共有的，而非性别特有的。

“如今的领导力远不止于成为房间里声音最大的人，”她说。它可以意味着倾听、识别他人的需求、承担责任，并将个人的影响力用于服务于比自身更宏大的目标。

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大学先修课程（AP）项目正在演变

哈弗盖尔学院学校（Havergal College School）一直致力于扩大并深化其大学先修课程（AP）的提供范围。其旗舰项目是 Capstone 文凭项目。图片由哈弗盖尔学院学校提供

对于许多学生来说，为大学做准备是高中体验的核心部分。大学先修课程（）通过让学生在满足省政府要求的同时，有机会在大学水平进行学习，将这种准备工作提升到了一个新的高度。 由大学理事会（College Board）提供，允许学生深入研究他们热爱的科目，同时帮助他们培养更强的学习技能。根据大学和专业的不同， 考试结果可能会被认可为大学学分或高级入学资格。

“在目前某些大学和专业竞争非常激烈的环境下， 有助于让学生脱颖而出，”莱克菲尔德学院学校（Lakefield College School）的项目副主管迪恩·范·多勒维尔（Dean Van Doleweerd）表示，该校是一所招收 9 年级至 12 年级学生的男女共学学校。“ 课程是学生证明自身优势以及证明他们选择了更困难路径的一种方式。学校正在寻找日益多样化且准确的方法来衡量候选人，而 课程已被证明是一种有效的方法。”

在许多私立学校，对 课程的兴趣正在增长，学校的教学方法也在演变。

在莱克菲尔德学院学校，11 年级和 12 年级学生参加 考试的人数在七年内翻了一番。范·多勒维尔表示，虽然没有单一的原因，但其中一个促成因素是学校刻意选择鼓励孩子参加 课程。

“我们试图强调在进入大学之前探索大学水平挑战的价值，”他说。“目前的学生也听毕业生解释过，当他们在大学一年级的化学或物理课中接触到类似内容时， 课程发挥了怎样的作用。”

该校的长期目标是让每位毕业学生至少修读一门 课程。为了实现这一目标，莱克菲尔德在 Capstone 文凭项目之外，继续增加其 课程内容，涵盖数学、科学、社会科学、商业、语言和艺术等广泛领域。

莱克菲尔德通过更小的班级规模、与教师接触的时间更长、支持专注度和一致性的时间表以及个体支持，使 体验个性化。“这些条件对于 课程至关重要，因为其内容是统一的——每个人参加的都是同一场考试，”范·多勒维尔说。“因为我们无法个性化目的地，所以我们必须个性化旅程。”

位于不列颠哥伦比亚省维多利亚市的圣迈克尔大学学校（St. Michaels University School, SMUS）在其 项目中侧重于灵活性。

“传统上， 路径建立了一个从 9 年级开始的建议时间顺序，并规定了哪些课程最适合每个年级，”高级学校学术助理主任罗宾·埃米尔（Robyn Amiel）表示。“虽然这种逻辑是合理的，因为它侧重于低年级的技能培养和高年级的专业化，但 SMUS 的方法旨在为每个学生创造最合适的方案。”

大多数 班级由 11 年级和 12 年级学生混合组成，部分班级还包括 10 年级学生。“由于没有严格的先修要求，这种方法使学生能够以灵活的方式进入和退出 路径；他们在完成第一门课程后，并不被强制要求必须继续修读下一级别的 课程，”埃米尔说。

学生还可以注册多种科目，而不是遵循一个较为封闭的专业方向。“我们有希望在大学学习工程的学生注册我们的 世界历史课程，也有初露头角的艺术史学家注册 化学课程，”埃米尔说。

“在与大学顾问和教师的持续沟通中，学生在离开 SMUS 时已经体验到了 AP 课程提供的相当广泛的广度与深度。”

位于多伦多的女子学校哈弗加尔学院（Havergal College）正更加强调深度与广度。“近年来，我们对待大学先修课程（AP）的方式已演变为一个灵活、多方面的学术项目，该项目基于哈弗加尔的博雅教育哲学，”哈弗加尔学院学术院长 Lam Nguyen 表示。

他解释说，从历史上看， 往往被视为一种数量上的衡量，即以更快的速度增加更多内容。“在哈弗加尔，我们意识到，丰富教育不在于速度、数量或针对考试教学。相反，我们在高水平上专注于扩大和深化我们的课程设置。”

在哈弗加尔，学生可以自由地发现自己的热情和优势。“一旦学生确定了一个真正激发其好奇心的领域，无论是科学、人文、数学还是研究，我们都会提供他们深入钻研所需的学术深度、指导和高级课程，”Nguyen 说道。

除了丰富的 资源外，哈弗加尔的旗舰项目是 Capstone 文凭项目，包括 11 年级的 研讨课（ Seminar）和 12 年级的 研究课（ Research）。在 研究课中，学生在教师顾问和行业专业人士的密切指导下，设计并执行一项为期一年的独立研究。学生的研究课题涵盖了从浆细胞癌症生物学到青少年心理健康的社会分析等多个方面。

哈弗加尔还提供灵活的路径选择。“如果符合个人目标，学生可以利用大学水平的材料和 课堂工具进行个人提升，而无需承受 5 月份参加标准化考试的额外压力，”Nguyen 表示。

已成为多伦多克雷斯特伍德预科大学（Crestwood Preparatory College）学术丰富计划的关键部分。指导与大学咨询主管 Kathryn Appleby 表示，自从她七年前加入该校以来，学生对该项目的兴趣呈指数级增长。

“自我就职以来，我订购的考试数量几乎翻了一番，”她说。

这一增长与学生希望就读加拿大以外的高等教育机构的兴趣相吻合，因为许多国际学校高度重视 资历，并允许潜在学生在同龄人中脱颖而出。

克雷斯特伍德提供 16 门涵盖艺术、语言和科学的课程。学校还为学生提供自学该校 课程设置之外考试的机会。“如果我们学校没有提供某门课程，而他们愿意独立学习相关内容，我会为他们订购考试，他们可以在我们学校参加考试，”Appleby 说道。

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“并没有统一的 AP 学生画像，”哈弗加尔学校（Havergal）的 兰·阮（Lam Nguyen）表示，“虽然学术准备至关重要，但能够预示在 课程中取得成功的特质是好奇心、智力韧性以及对关系学习的投入：即敢于提问、与同伴协作并寻求教师的反馈。”

在选课期间，指导顾问会与学生及其家庭合作，评估学生的兴趣与目标、总工作量、课外活动承诺以及个人身心健康状况。“我们积极抵制那种认为‘尽可能多地修读 课程才是高等教育成功的必要条件’的观念，”阮说道。

莱克菲尔德学院（Lakefield College School）的院长 范·多勒维德（Van Doleweerd）表示，任何有高等教育计划的学生都是 课程的理想学生。学校会帮助学生确定修读哪些课程以及修读时间。

“课程教师、指导顾问和导师都在帮助学生了解自我并有意识地创造挑战方面发挥着作用，从而让他们为高中毕业后的生活做好充分准备，”他说道。

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在幼儿阶段，孩子们不仅是在获取新的知识和技能，他们还在学习“学校”的含义。“这是他们的第一次学校体验，其中包含一套期望、常规，以及结构化和非结构化的时间，”约克学校（The York School）的小学校长 萨拉·桑卡里（Sara Sankari）说道。该校是一所从初级幼儿园到 12 年级的男女共学学校。“这些概念在早期阶段和年龄段建立，形成了他们对学校、教育和学习的看法，同时也建立了联系与关系。”

小学部采用国际文凭课程（IB）的初级年级项目（PYP）方法，其核心是基于探究的学习。

幼儿阶段是建立孩子自信、性格和学习热情的基石。贝夫尤格伦图像（BAYVIEW GLEN IMAGE）

“在约克学校，我们说‘把你的好奇心带给我们’，好奇心是我们的价值观之一，因为在那个年龄段，孩子们会问很多问题，”桑卡里说，“我们并不直接给出答案，而是为他们搭建舞台，让他们通过探究、游戏和其他方式寻找答案。”

约克学校哲学的一个核心部分是观察孩子的特质，并在他们所处的阶段给予支持。“我们会观察：他们已经具备了什么样的强大优势？他们的提升空间在哪里——我们希望看到他们在哪些方面获得成长？”小学部副校长 梅根·史蒂芬森（Megan Stephenson）说道。

多伦多法语学校

在多伦多法语学校（Toronto French School），学习在孩子进入小学部（La p'tite école）之前就已经开始了。从 18 个月起，学生就可以在 Jardin d'éveil 开始他们的 TFS 之旅，这是一个采用学校化教学方法的持牌托儿中心。

“‘Jardin d'éveil’这个名字意为‘觉醒花园’——这个理念捕捉到了 TFS 幼儿阶段的目的：唤醒感官、好奇心和惊叹感，同时帮助幼儿培养探索、质疑、创造以及理解周围世界的自信，”TFS 校长 让-巴斯蒂安·乌尔费尔斯（Jean-Bastien Urfels）说道。

d' 在概念上与法国国家课程保持一致，并受到瑞吉欧（Reggio Emilia）教学法的启发，该教学法专注于以儿童为中心、协作式和基于项目的学习。 d' 还将 IB 初级年级项目（PYP）作为教学框架，为年幼的学习者在年满三岁正式进入该项目做好准备。

语言是 d' 至关重要的一部分。“到学年结束时，所有学生都能用法语说短句，并能够理解该语言、遵循常规和指令，”乌尔费尔斯说。“从学术角度来看， d' 为学前班及之后的学习奠定了基础。”

BAYVIEW GLEN

Bayview Glen 是一所面向两岁至 1 年级儿童的男女共学学校，其职责被视为培养孩子天生的好奇心，并帮助他们建立在成长过程中所需的技能和信心。该校的教学方法深受雷吉欧-艾米利亚（Reggio Emilia）原则的启发，并基于这样一种信念：有意义的学习始于探究。教师密切关注孩子的问题、兴趣和想法，并将其作为深入探索的起点。

学前教育主任吉莉安·波茨-海明威（Gillian Potts-Hemingway）表示，一个简单的材料、一次观察或一段对话，可能会演变为解决问题、发挥创造力、协作与沟通的丰富机会。通过课堂内外的体验，学生们学会将自己视为有能力的学习者，且其想法具有重要意义。她说：“早年阶段并非仅仅是对后续阶段的准备，它们是构建孩子信心、性格和学习热情的基石。”

UPPER CANADA COLLEGE

今年秋天，位于多伦多的 UCC 扩展到了初级幼儿园（JK）阶段。高级幼儿园教师兼早期儿童学习负责人安娜·克劳福德（Anna Crawford）表示：“从初级幼儿园开始，学生们就在 UCC 社区中培养归属感，与其他班级的学生协作学习，并建立能够贯穿整个学业生涯的关系。”

新的初级幼儿园班级旨在符合发展阶段，并根据学习者的实际情况提供教学。UCC 是一所 IB 世界连续教育学校，因此其课程同时遵循初级年级项目（PYP）和安大略省课程指南。学生们参加专业课程，包括音乐、法语和体育，并设有户外活动时间。

初级幼儿园教师洛雷塔·费尔南多-史密斯（Loretta Fernando-Smith）表示：“归根结底，这是为了帮助孩子们理解，如何在成为社区中体贴、尊重他人且有联系的成员的同时，将真实的自我呈现在世界面前。”

ST. MICHAELS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL

位于不列颠哥伦比亚省维多利亚市的圣迈克尔大学学校（St. Michaels University School）初级学校助理主任尼科尔·特里普（Nicole Tripp）表示，早年阶段旨在“让学生沉浸在社区中，沉浸在语言中，并沉浸在社交与情感的发展中”。

SMUS 为三岁和四岁儿童提供初级幼儿园教育，侧重于体验式、基于游戏以及社交情感的学习。特里普说：“我们精心设计的有目的的游戏为建立关系、保持好奇心、犯错以及研究提供了许多机会。”

初级幼儿园的学生会访问学校图书馆，参加户外教育，并上艺术和法语等专业课程。他们还参加特里·福克斯跑步（Terry Fox Run）和运动会等学校活动。

SMUS 受雷吉欧启发的方法的一个关键方面是，孩子们受到尊重、重视，并被视为有能力的个体。特里普说：“我们认为他们能做惊人的事情。让我们来看看他们能做到什么。如果你持有高期望并设定高标准，那么就没有天花板。”

150 年 卓越教育

深厚的历史。充满活力的社区。变革性的教育。150 年来，RNS 一直在帮助学生成为未来的领导者和变革者。

“践行学科实务”：体验式学习不仅是实地考察

原住民长者兼雕刻师乔·马丁（Joe Martin）向圣迈克尔大学学校（St. Michaels University School）的学生们展示他为纪念其社区中寄宿学校幸存者而创作的图腾柱。图片由圣迈克尔大学学校提供。

在不列颠哥伦比亚省托菲诺（Tofino）附近的米尔斯岛（Meares Island）上，来自维多利亚市圣迈克尔大学学校（SMUS）的10年级学生在研究寄宿学校的历史后，与原住民长者兼雕刻师乔·马丁一同站在一座图腾柱前，这座图腾柱是马丁为纪念其社区中寄宿学校的幸存者而创作的。

马丁带领学生们在小径上行走，向他们展示特拉-奥基-阿特第一民族（Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations）世世代代如何利用岛上的资源，并讲述了他雕刻的图腾对社区的意义。

“作为一名教师，你在教授关于寄宿学校历史的内容，但当你真正身处这个地方——这里曾是最后一所寄宿学校所在地——并聆听乔的讲述时，这种具有变革性的体验才会真正触动你，”SMUS体验式教育、服务与全球远征负责人里根·戴利（Reagan Daly）说道。

在SMUS同一体验式项目中，学习工程与设计的学生们在今年秋季与总部位于北岸吉本斯（Gibsons）的能源公司BluEarth Renewables合作。他们将研究当地的水电大坝，与一线科学家交流，并返回校园构建自己的可再生能源项目。

戴利表示，学生们去年完成的一个令人难忘的项目是一个能产生电力的水车。对于戴利而言，将学习概念、与从业人员交流以及随后应用这些知识相结合，正是将有意义的体验式教育与简单的校外参观区分开来的关键。

戴利将SMUS的体验式项目描述为“学校中的学校”，它被嵌入到课表中并与学术课程挂钩。学生可以选择专注于工程与设计的STEAM方向，或者专注于户外教育和社会研究的“山脊线与海岸线”（Ridgelines and Coastlines）方向。原住民英语和艺术课程也整合在两个方向中，而课表则为学生提供了灵活性，让他们能花更长的时间与社区合作伙伴在校外工作。这种结构意味着远足并非体验的终点。

学生们还与一个名为“维多利亚之手项目”（Victoria Hand Project）的团体合作，该公司致力于研发低成本假肢并在全球范围内（通常是在冲突地区）开展工作。学生们设计了假肢，经历了设计过程，然后利用校园内的 3-D 打印机将其制造出来。

“关键在于利用校外时间来深化学习，”戴利说。

“每年的反馈都是他们热爱这个项目，”他说，“这是我们学校一个非常独特的机会。它既有趣又具有挑战性。”

越来越多的私立学校正将这些体验直接整合到学术规划中，要求学生的工作方式更像科学家、企业家、历史学家、工程师或其他专业人士。

多伦多的一所私立男女共学中高中——格林伍德学院学校（Greenwood College School）将这种方法描述为“践行学科实务”，这是体验式学习光谱的一部分，其进程从理论学习逐步过渡到与真实世界的真实接触。其核心理念是，一旦学生掌握了基础知识，就应该越来越多地执行那些该领域从业者所从事的任务。例如，一名学习营销基础的商业学生可以进入一个真实的案例研究，识别一个商业问题，并像营销人员那样与同行合作解决它。历史系学生分析原始资料和文物，法律系学生进行模拟审判，戏剧系学生则制作剧本。

“对我们而言，体验式学习并不意味着必须进行实地考察或远足，”格林伍德学校（Greenwood）负责学生学习的副校长埃兰娜·罗布森（Elanna Robson）表示，“我们认为体验式学习可以在教室里的日常教学中实现。

“为了促进这一点，我们规划的学习活动旨在模拟该领域从业人员所从事的工作，并要求学生创作该行业从业者会被要求创作的作品。”

她补充道，这种方法并没有削弱知识的重要性。事实上，格林伍德学校认为扎实的学科基础是先决条件。接下来的步骤是给学生机会运用这些知识，解决问题，并创作出专业人士所产出的那种作品。

格林伍德的学生还可以参加合作实习（co-op placements）和商业案例竞赛。“合作实习是学生在感兴趣的领域获得工作经验的绝佳机会，”罗布森说，“这些实习在让学生了解真实工作是什么样子方面具有极高的指导意义。

“在格林伍德，从事学科实践工作——无论是戏剧课上的排演，还是技术研究课上的木工项目设计与构建，亦或是新开设的时尚课上的一件服装设计——自然而然地有助于培养持久的技能，如解决问题、韧性、协作、沟通和技术诀窍，无论我们的毕业生未来选择什么样的职业路径，这些技能都能在他们的一生中发挥作用。”

位于安大略省奥克维尔（Oakville）的沃尔登国际学校（Walden International School）校长达芙妮·佩鲁吉尼（Daphne Perugini）表示，在该校从事学科实践意味着给学生提供真实的机会，将课堂学习应用于真实的用途、受众和问题中。随着学生的成长，体验的复杂程度也随之增加。

“他们必须在考虑实际使用者的体验之余，同时考虑功能性、可持续性和无障碍性，”她说，“共情能力成为了设计过程的一部分。”

由学生主导的计划还将社区建设与服务相结合。其目标不是将低年级学生推向特定的职业，而是让他们接触多样化的体验，在培养协作、解决问题、适应能力和共情能力的同时，揭示他们的兴趣和优势。

“真实的学习将问题从‘我需要知道什么？’转移到了‘我能用我所知道的做什么？’，”她说，“这种转变——从获取知识到有目的地应用知识——正是某些最有意义的学习发生的地方。”

位于安大略省惠特比（Whitby）的女子学校特拉法加城堡学校（Trafalgar Castle School）采取了类似的方法。该校副校长凯特·赫本（Kate Hebdon）将其描述为让学生摆脱对教科书材料的“被动吸收”，让他们扮演工作中的科学家、工程师、数学家、历史学家和艺术家的角色。

她表示，通过与包括安大略理工大学（Ontario Tech University）、多伦多都会大学（Toronto Metropolitan University）和德勤（Deloitte）在内的机构及企业的合作，学生能够接触到专业环境，从而发现个人优势，并规划高等教育和职业路径。

“学生们磨练面向未来的竞争力，包括系统思维、适应能力、技术流畅度（如 AI 使用、机器人技术和编程）以及协作沟通，”赫本说，“通过将这些体验植根于安大略省教育部的课程和‘理解为设计’（UbD）框架中，确保其与学术标准保持一致，利用实践工作来深化概念而非取代概念。”

在多伦多的一所圣公会女子日校兼寄宿学校——主教斯特拉钱学校（The Bishop Strachan School），校长米根·恩蒂克纳普（Meagan Enticknap）表示，合作实习、竞赛、国际项目和社区活动让学生接触到能够成为导师和榜样的专业人士。

同样重要的是，这些经历可以揭示学生此前未曾考虑过的职业，或者让他们意识到预想的职业路径并非他们所期待的样子。Enticknap 表示，一名 BSS 的学生在一家癌症研究中心完成了合作教育实习，这次经历让她产生了更强烈的从事医疗保健工作的愿望，同时也培养了自信心、沟通能力和同理心。

在位于安大略省奥克维尔的男女合校私立学校——艾普比学院（Appleby College），探索旨在为尝试留出空间，其中也包括失败。该校全球与体验式教育助理校长 Rob McGuiness 如此说道。

他表示，艾普比学院的体验式学习旨在让学生从理解概念提升到在现实世界场景中应用知识和技能。基于项目、基于地点以及体验式学习让学生接触到跨越传统学科边界的复杂问题。项目涵盖了从商业竞赛、STEM 俱乐部和可持续发展项目到实习和国际体验的广泛领域。较新的沉浸式项目（Immersive Programme）允许学生通过实践项目追求兴趣，而无需承受成绩压力。

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构建面向未来的教育引擎

战略规划提供了一份路线图，使私立学校能够实现其目标与愿景

那种在纸面上“完美”——掌握所有公式但在面对模糊情况时会惊慌失措——的毕业生旧模式，在今天已成为一种劣势。

这就是为什么圣克莱门特学校（St. Clement's School, SCS）——多伦多的一所圣公会独立全女生日校——正在对其教育引擎进行改造，旨在刻意培养能够适应环境的“变革者”，使其能够满足未来需求并在没有地图的情况下寻找方向。

该校负责学习、研究与创新的副校长希瑟·亨里克斯（Heather Henricks）在过去一年中一直致力于开发和完善学校的学习方法，以及探讨接下来的发展方向。

快速的变化——例如 AI 的出现，以及经济和地缘政治的现实——意味着计划的周期需要更短，且更具灵活性。她说：“过程本身依然具有同等甚至更高的价值，”但计划的形式需要有所改变。

SCS 将在今年秋季启动“卓越进化”（Excellence Evolved）计划——这是该校未来几年的学习方法。

亨里克斯表示：“这是一份详细的蓝图，指明了我们作为一所学校的发展方向，以便跟上并领先于全球学习趋势以及学生所需的技能。”

这是对其目前“深度学习”方法（或称“学习如何学习”）的演进，旨在确保学生和毕业生能为不断变化的未来做好充分准备。

该计划在很大程度上依托于经济合作与发展组织（OECD）的《Learning Compass 2030》，该指南确定了“变革能力”。这些是学生在 21 世纪所需的知识、技能、态度和价值观。

亨里克斯说：“为了让我们的语言对学生更友好，学校将此转化为八项‘生活行为’，我们希望这些行为能根植于这里的每一位学生心中：认识自我、与他人协作、应对复杂性、接纳不适、突破障碍、锻造解决方案、承担责任、服务于更伟大的事业。”

战略规划还有助于将一家私立学校与另一家区分开来。

每所学校都有独特的使命、愿景和价值观。多伦多的一所独立全男生日校——新月学校（Crescent School）的校长迈克尔·费林（Michael Fellin）表示：“这是我们作为一所学校存在的理由，也是我们将彼此以及与公立学校区分开来的原因。”

他说：“我们的使命就像我们的北极星，而战略规划则提供了抵达那里的路线图。我们通过设定年度目标来实现这一点，帮助学校逐步向实现我们的愿景迈进。”

新月学校每五年进行一次重大的战略规划进程，这为思考未来和致力于学校的持续改进提供了机会。这项工作并非在幕后完成；学校将其战略规划分享给学生、家长、教师、员工、校友和董事会成员。

在名为“Breakthrough 2030”的最新战略规划中，学校 2024 年的 CAIS 认证成为了战略规划的跳板。作为 CAIS（加拿大认证独立学校）流程的一部分，每位教师和员工都参与了

将有前途的男孩培养成有品格的男人

新月学校每五年进行一次重大的战略规划进程，最新的计划名为 Breakthrough 2030。

BREAKthrough 2030。 图片由新月学校提供

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世界正在迅速变化。……每年，我们都会重新审视我们的战略计划，以确保构建该计划所依据的假设依然准确。”

迈克尔·费林 (Michael Fellin) 校长 克雷森特学校 (Crescent School)

在为一个为期 18 个月的严格同行领导周期中发挥作用，在该周期中，他们根据 12 项国家标准对克雷森特学校进行了评估。

但“突破 2030” (Breakthrough 2030) 并非一成不变。

“世界正在迅速变化。虽然我们的战略计划跨度为五年，但我们必须在应对市场现实时保持敏捷，”费林说道。“每年，我们都会重新审视我们的战略计划，以确保构建该计划所依据的假设依然准确，并据此进行方向修正。”

他补充道，有一句流行语说“文化在早餐时就吃掉了战略”，这意味着如果组织的内部文化不支持，一个出色的战略计划也会失败。

“我们知道自己是谁，并且我们拥有一个共同的愿景，即培养品格能够丰富其社区并服务于更广泛利益的优秀男性，”费林说。“我们的战略帮助我们实现这一目标。”

安妮-玛丽·基 (Anne-Marie Kee) 是莱克菲尔德学院 (Lakefield College School) 的校长——这是一所面向 9 年级至 12 年级学生的男女共学寄宿及日校——她是“战略计划的坚定信奉者”。

莱克菲尔德学院位于安大略省莱克菲尔德一个占地 315 英亩的滨水校园内，大约六年前在第二处物业上启动了诺斯科特校园与农场 (Northcote Campus and Farm)。事实证明，莱克菲尔德在约 100 年前就曾拥有一个校园农场。基表示，这是一个战略计划应当“植根于过去并响应未来”的例子。

莱克菲尔德的“影响力 2035” (Impact 2035) 是其对未来的愿景：学生们准备好面对世界，感受到与自然的深厚联系，并理解社区的力量。

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圣迈克尔大学学校 (St. Michaels University School) 一所领先的加拿大 9-12 年级独立寄宿学校。欲了解更多信息，请访问 smus.ca

圣克莱门特学校 (St. Clement's School) 将在今年秋季启动“卓越进化” (Excellence Evolved) ——这是该校未来几年的学习方法。该校学习、研究与创新副校长希瑟·亨里克斯 (Heather Henricks) 表示：“这是一个详细的蓝图，指明了我们作为一所学校的发展方向，以便跟上并领先于全球学习趋势以及我们的学生所需的技能。”图片由圣克莱门特学校提供

续接第 S7 页 战略规划

莱克菲尔德的四大支柱之一是“每日户外活动”，研究表明这有助于学生的学业。“我们希望孩子们与世界建立深厚的联系，并对世界产生责任感，”基说道。

她说，当疫情袭来时，全世界都意识到了每天进行户外活动的益处。

“因为我们拥有这个战略计划，并且真正依托于我们作为一所学校一直以来的特质……我们抢占了先机，”基说。“这进一步推动我们在体验式学习专家领域向前发展，所以这是一个证明为什么需要战略计划的绝佳例子。”

但学校也对世界的变化持开放态度。每四年，莱克菲尔德会进行一次利益相关者调查，收集来自学生。

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社区正变得更加互联、融合且全球化，许多社会结构和体系正在被消除或重塑。这为那些做好准备的人带来了巨大的机遇。”

伊内斯·范·诺斯特兰 (Innes van Nostrand) 校长 艾普比学院 (Appleby College)

教职员工、家长和校友，以收集反馈并确保其课程计划和社区倡议与学校不断演变的需求保持一致。

基 (Kee) 表示，通过协作制定战略，“你能够获得更多的认同感”。

即使是在适应能力最强的学校中，制定一个固定的多年计划然后简单执行的传统模式也正变得越来越低效。

“当今世界以及我们的学生未来将做出贡献的世界，正日益被经济、社会政治、环境和技术方面持续不断的变革所主导，”位于安大略省奥克维尔 (Oakville)、招收 7 年级至 12, 年级学生的私立独立男女合校（日校及寄宿制）艾普比学院 (Appleby College) 的校长伊内斯·范·诺斯特兰 (Innes van Nostrand) 说道。

艾普比学院战略的一部分是想象教育本身将如何被颠覆和转型，就像我们看到在技术、零售和金融等领域发生的那样。

这意味着要密切关注塑造社会的重大力量——社会、技术、经济、环境和政治——并询问这对教育可能产生的影响。然而，目标并不是准确预测将发生什么，而是确保艾普比学院准备好适应并向新方向发展，以便在世界变化时为学生提供最佳支持。

从历史上看，学校的结构并不总是能以同样的速度或规模进行适应。

对于艾普比学院来说，适应意味着在建立强大的技术专业知识的需求与在无技术环境中学习的同样重要的益处之间取得平衡，同时还要应对对专业课程日益增长的需求，而该校长期以来一直致力于提供广泛的教育。

这也意味着探索新的商业模式，以扩大艾普比学院提供教育计划的方式。

“社区正变得更加互联、融合且全球化，许多社会结构和系统正在被消除或重塑，”诺斯特兰 (Nostrand) 说。“这为那些做好准备的人带来了巨大的机遇。”

根据亨里克斯 (Henricks) 的说法，对于 SCS 而言，战略计划使学校与自身的使命和愿景保持一致。它也是一个试金石，用以检验该使命和愿景是否继续具有相关性。

“战略规划过程也有其益处：它强迫你看向学校之外——超越环境扫描，”她说。这可以是一次社区建设活动，许多利益相关群体参与其中，“从而对当前和之前的优先事项产生有价值的质疑。”

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音乐与艺术：至关重要的教育

无论学生是绘画、演奏乐器还是在戏剧中表演，其价值都超越了媒介本身

艺术和音乐教育不仅仅是学习一种乐器或精通一个角色。学生通过艺术教育所获得的东西远远超出了舞台、工作室和排练室。以下是对一系列音乐和艺术项目的回顾——以及为什么这种教育至关重要。

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艾普比学院（Appleby College） 安大略省，奥克维尔

项目亮点：在艾普比学院，学术课程涵盖音乐、舞蹈、戏剧、媒体和视觉艺术，并配有广泛的课外活动。一个名为 AC Rocks 的高级摇滚音乐与表演团体，以及一个名为 Studio Live House Band 的学生合奏团在学校活动中进行表演；而视觉艺术课外活动则在工作室艺术、雕塑和高级作品集开发方面提供机会。每年，初中学生都会上演一部音乐剧或戏剧，学生们还承担幕后角色。在校外，学生们通过在罗伊·汤姆森音乐厅（Roy Thomson Hall）、奥克维尔表演艺术中心（Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts）和伯灵顿表演艺术中心（Burlington Performing Arts Centre）等场馆的演出积累经验。

宏观视角：艾普比学院艺术总监萨拉·乔伊（Sara Joy）认为艺术教育是一项人权。“艺术与我们的人类历史紧密相连；它是我们与他人建立联系的方式，也是我们自我疗愈的方式。因此，它是一种身心灵的连接，”她说道。

另一个益处是大脑发育。“有研究表明，艺术，尤其是音乐，能激活大脑的不同区域，”她表示。与此同时，犯错并获得建设性的反馈为学生未来的职业生涯培养了宝贵的技能。乔伊表示，学生们学习如何应对压力并克服恐惧，例如在众人面前表演，这在演示汇报、社交拓展和求职面试等场景中会对他们有所帮助。

特拉法加城堡学校（Trafalgar Castle School） 安大略省，惠特比

项目亮点：在全女生学校特拉法加城堡学校，艺术贯穿于整个校园体验之中。在小学部（4至6年级），学生每天接受声乐、戏剧和视觉艺术课程；而初中部学生（7和8年级）同样接受每日艺术指导，并增加了器乐学习。在高中部（9至12年级），学生可以选择一个重点领域，并通过专业课程提升技能。

在课堂之外，小学部学生参加城堡合唱团（Castle Chorale），在音乐会和节日庆典上演出。初中和高中部学生可以加入城堡乐队（ Band）、城堡弦乐团（ Strings）或城堡歌手合唱团（ Singers）。明年6月，城堡歌手合唱团的部分成员将前往英国伦敦，在卡多根大厅（Cadogan Hall）与一个名为 Vox Anima 的合唱团共同演唱。特拉法加学校每年还会制作一部剧场作品，由视觉艺术团队负责布景、服装和道具支持。

宏观视角：特拉法加城堡学校声乐总监菲奥娜·霍普金斯（Fiona Hopkins）表示，艺术教育关乎创造性思维。

“这不仅仅是为了得到正确答案；我们经历的过程训练了我们的大脑，使其能够灵活思考并进行创新，而不是只走单一的路径，”她说道。

韧性是另一个重要的学习收获。“我们接纳错误。在我的课堂和合唱团中，学生们知道如果你犯了错，就大声地犯错。因为大声的错误是在鼓励他们承担大胆的风险，”霍普金斯说。“韧性的培养来自于他们能够从错误中重新站起来并继续前行。为他人表演教会了我们能够应对困难的事情。”

多伦多的哈弗加尔学院（Havergal College）拥有一个涵盖视觉与媒体艺术、音乐和表演艺术的综合艺术项目。这些活动涉及的创作过程增强了核心执行功能，并赋予学生拥抱风险和培养成长型思维的信心。图片由哈弗加尔学院提供。

圣迈克尔大学学校，不列颠哥伦比亚省维多利亚市

项目亮点：在圣迈克尔大学学校（SMUS），艺术在各年级中都发挥着不可或缺的作用。在初级学校，学生们学习音乐、合唱、弦乐和视觉艺术课程，并可以参加如刺绣和舞蹈等课后俱乐部。

中学阶段的学生学习合唱和视觉艺术，并可以在弦乐团或管弦乐团中选择一项。高级学校拥有强大的戏剧、音乐以及视觉艺术与设计项目。学生们每年在维多利亚市中心的麦克弗森剧院（McPherson Playhouse）制作一部大型年度音乐剧。每场演出（去年是《悲惨世界》）均由学生担任全部演员、舞台管理和乐池管弦乐队。

学生还可以参与全球教育机会。今年春假，音乐专业的学生将开启一场“跨洲音乐奥德赛”，前往德国汉诺威、南非开普敦以及英国的伦敦和剑桥。此次行程包括在当地学生家中寄宿、参与协作工作坊以及戏剧体验。

宏观视角：“演出是一种强大且具有变革性的体验，”高级学校戏剧与剧场教师兼剧场主管摩根·麦克劳德（Morgan McLeod）表示。

“即使他们是剧中的主角，他们也会了解到每个人都是该作品的重要组成部分。我们强调，无论角色大小，每个人都扮演着不可或缺的一部分，每个人都在这里共同努力，以呈现一场精彩的演出。”

圣迈克尔大学学校高级学校乐队教师兼音乐主管伊恩·法里什（Ian Farish）见证了通过音乐和艺术培养的技能与素质如何延伸到学生生活的其他领域。就在最近，一名往届学生请求他为申请医学院写一封推荐信。

“在她高中期间，她是我们每场演出的音乐伴奏和钢琴演奏者，”法里什说道。在推荐信中，他被要求回答该学生如何展现共情力、投入度和外交手腕等品质。“我可以对其中的每一项都给出肯定的评价。”

多伦多哈弗加尔学院 (HAVERGAL COLLEGE, TORONTO)

项目亮点：哈弗加尔学院提供涵盖视觉与媒体艺术、音乐及表演艺术的全面艺术课程。在小学阶段，综合艺术项目（5年级和6年级）探讨艺术传统、历史、叙事和个人经验。通过驻校艺术家项目，学生和教师与专家共同协作，在学习艺术专业知识的同时增强文化理解。

在中学阶段，学生可以参加展览、音乐独奏会、音乐会以及戏剧和舞蹈表演。在高中阶段，他们充分挖掘自己的天赋，从加强戏剧技术能力到解决视觉艺术中的理论与实践问题。

哈弗加尔学院拥有广泛的课外活动，包括小学合唱团、初级合唱团、钢鼓演奏、时尚与设计俱乐部、编织、烹饪艺术等。对于7至12,年级的学生，哈弗加尔提供真实的艺术实践机会，包括在 Tanya Taylor 时尚实验室探索动手设计流程，在当地画廊展出作品，以及在多伦多的科纳音乐厅（Koerner Hall）参加年度春季音乐之夜演出。

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接第 S9 页 音乐与艺术

在克雷斯特伍德学校与预科学院 (Crestwood School and Preparatory College)，多样化的音乐与艺术项目鼓励学生探索创造力。

大局观：“艺术为学生提供了增强解决复杂问题能力的机会，同时提升个人和集体的自我意识、清晰度、问题发现及方案生成能力，”艺术总监兼艺术与设计教师马修·瓦雷 (Matthew Varey) 表示。

小学音乐教师杰夫·麦克莱恩 (Jeff MacLean) 表示，创作过程还能强化核心执行功能，使学生有信心勇于冒险并培养具有韧性的成长型思维。

“通过我们的小学艺术项目，哈弗加尔的学生获得了成为自我意识强、自信的创新者和领导者的技能与特质，无论他们选择哪个领域，”他说道。

小学综合艺术教师瑞秋·里德 (Rachel Read) 补充道：“我们蓬勃且充满活力的艺术项目让学生在学习多种技能的同时，进一步发现自己的个体特质。”

多伦多克雷斯特伍德 (CRESTWOOD, TORONTO)

项目亮点：在克雷斯特伍德学校 (Crestwood School)，初级学校学生（幼儿园至6年级）被鼓励通过音乐、戏剧和视觉创意来探索创造力。在音乐方面，学生探索歌唱和乐器表演；在视觉艺术方面，他们在学习表达自我的同时，探索各种材料和技术。戏剧艺术则在戏剧游戏、故事讲述和现场表演中培养信心与技能。其中一个亮点是大型音乐剧的制作，鼓励所有4年级和5年级的学生参与。

在克雷斯特伍德预科大学 (Crestwood Preparatory College)，高级学校学生（7年级至12年级）继续参加完整的音乐、艺术和戏剧项目。学生在年度艺术与技术节上展示他们的才华，该节日庆祝视觉与表演艺术、媒体制作、机器人技术和3D打印。学校还拥有广泛的课外俱乐部和团体，包括戏剧制作、数字艺术、舞蹈俱乐部、爵士乐队、弦乐俱乐部等。合唱团在学校活动以及基万尼斯音乐节 (Kiwanis Music Festival) 和安大略省声乐节 (Ontario Vocal Festival) 等当地节日上演出。

大局观：“随着学生年龄的增长，作业量增加，核心科目的难度提高，尤其是音乐课，成为了从日常生活压力中获得放松的一个美好机会，”克雷斯特伍德预科大学的中高级音乐教师安东尼·马里亚诺 (Anthony Mariano) 表示。

“其中包含一定的趣味因素，尤其是当学生演奏他们熟悉或接触到多种流派的音乐时。”他补充道，这种接触反过来有助于开阔他们的心胸。“在整个课程和科目中，这能激发他们的思考并让他们保持敏锐。”

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项目亮点：作为一所国际文凭课程 (IB) 学校，约克学校采取一种整体性的音乐与艺术教学方法，鼓励学生探讨历史、文化和社会背景。

在初级学校，音乐课包括唱歌、非洲鼓和音乐史，而视觉艺术专业的学生则探索广泛的媒介和艺术原理。在中学，戏剧专业的学生每年会排演一部音乐剧或戏剧作品，而音乐专业的学生则开始接触木管、铜管和打击乐器。学生们在音乐集会和学校音乐会上进行表演，并可参加合唱团和爵士乐队等课外活动。

在高级中学，学生在探索新技术和表达形式的同时，深化对艺术的理解。全面的戏剧、音乐和视觉艺术项目包括专业工作坊、在音乐会和活动中的演出，以及本地和国际艺术之旅，其中包括每年一次前往美国主要城市的艺术之旅，以及每两年一次前往国际目的地的音乐表演之旅。

宏观视角：在约翰·皮特曼 (John Pittman) 看来，音乐是广义教育的基础，且根植于人性之中。“我们如何共同分享、传递和记忆知识，这与人类的根源紧密相连，特别是通过使用歌曲和节奏来沟通、记忆并通过口述历史传承事物，”在中学和高级中学教授器乐的皮特曼说道。“从神经科学的角度来看，我们的生理结构决定了音乐是我们教育的一部分，以及我们学习和记忆事物的方式。”

临时中学及高级中学校长金海伦 (Helen Jin) 将音乐教育视为一种自我表达的方式。“我相信孩子和成年人会对某种音乐流派产生依恋，因为这种音乐表达让他们能够建立起一种连接，”她说道。

多伦多布兰克索姆大厅 (BRANKSOME HALL, TORONTO)

项目亮点：今年秋天，布兰克索姆大厅启用了卡伦·L·朱杰维奇创新中心与工作室剧院 (Karen L. Jurjevich Innovation Centre & Studio Theatre, iCAST)，其中设有罗氏家族工作室剧院 (The Lo Family Studio Theatre)，取代了原有的艾莉森·罗奇表演艺术剧院 (Allison Roach Theatre for Performing Arts)。这座先进的剧院作为一个学习实验室，学生们在其中探索表演以及灯光、声音、技术和设计。

在布兰克索姆大厅，学生们培养视觉艺术、电影、戏剧、音乐和舞蹈方面的技能。在中学和高级中学，每年会制作两部由教师指导的演出和一部由学生导演的演出。音乐教学从小班 (JK) 开始，随着学生的成长，他们扩展对器乐和声乐知识的了解。音乐专业的学生可以在音乐会、音乐剧以及当地节日中演出，而舞蹈团则在学校活动中表演并举办年终展演。全年举办的视觉艺术展览展示了从小班到 Grade 12 艺术家的作品。此外，还有毕业年级课程作品的电影展演。今年，哈弗加尔 (Havergal) 将为多伦多地区的女子学校举办首届女性电影节。

宏观视角：布兰克索姆大厅的艺术教学负责人安吉拉·大卫 (Angela David) 认为，共情能力和情感智能是学生通过艺术教育能够培养的最重要的品质。“扮演不同的角色或参与音乐，能让学生设身处地地体验他人的处境并理解复杂的情绪，”她说道。

她补充说，艺术项目还促使学生适应意外变化并寻找解决方案——有时需要在瞬间做出反应。“当他们面对选择时的不确定性，甚至仅仅是面对舞台恐惧时，学生们培养出了韧性和毅力。”

未来由我们引领。

面向未来的准备从现在开始。通过实践学习和接触前沿技术，Havergal 的学生们已准备好重新定义未来。

见证自信的起点。

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教育连续性的益处

“当学校在多年时间里了解一个孩子时，学习会变得更加个性化且更有意义”

一个多世纪以来，新月学校（Crescent School）一直致力于在男孩们人生中最具塑造力的几年中对其进行教育。今年，这所多伦多学校在 50 年多以来首次迎来了 Grade 1 和 Grade 2 的学生。此次扩招使学校回归到了其教育根基的重要部分，并为学生创造了一个更连续的学习旅程。

新月学校成立于 1913 年，最初是一所从初级幼儿园到 Grade 8 的学校，在 20 世纪 70 年代开始取消低年级并增加高年级。到了 90 年代，学校重新加入了低年级，直至 Grade 3。

副校长里奇·普罗瑟（Rich Prosser）表示，学校社区是此次举措的主要推动力。除此之外，这还提供了一个在更早的年龄将“有前途的男孩”培养成“有品格的男人”的机会——这也是该校的校训。

“最终，他们能够更早地融入我们的社区和文化，”普罗瑟说道。“从连续性的角度来看，构建文化和社区是采取这种方法的主要优势。”

通过教育连续性，学生在与同伴建立深厚关系的同时，能培养社区感和归属感。“这让我们的高年级男孩能够成为低年级男孩的优秀榜样，引导他们践行我们尊重、责任、诚实和同情心的核心价值观，”普罗瑟说。

“这段旅程不仅仅是将孩子从一个年级推进到下一个年级。它是基于我们对该孩子所了解的一切，在每个阶段持续支持他们的成长、自信和归属感。”

西蒙·格雷夫桑德（Simone Gravesande） 校长 马宾学校（The Mabin School）

在多伦多法语学校（TFS），这段旅程可以从很小的年纪就开始。在多伦多校区，学生可以从 La p'tite école 开始（包括 2 岁至 Grade 1 的儿童），并一直就读到 Grade 12。西校区则服务于学前班至 Grade 7。

校长让-巴斯蒂安·乌尔费尔斯（Jean-Bastien Urfels）表示，作为一所国际文凭课程（IB）连续性学校，TFS 构建了一个无缝的教育旅程，文凭课程的习惯早在 2 岁时就开始养成。从学前班开始，学生就培养 IB 学习者特质，其中包括探究者、沟通者、有原则且有爱心等。

“由于我们的教师在所有年级之间进行协作，小学教师能够准确理解学生在 TFS 学习旅程中不断进步并成为世界公民所需要的具体能力，”乌尔费尔斯说。“这种连续的旅程赋予了学生安全感、深厚的根基以及作为独立学习者承担智力风险所需的自信。”

TFS 如何在不同阶段递进式构建学生学习的一个例子是：独立研究、写作和公开演讲能力。在 La p'tite école，年幼的学生练习探究——提出问题并分享想法。到 Grade 5 时，他们以小组形式调查现实世界的问题，采访专家并展示研究结果。在 Grade 10，他们会根据个人兴趣完成一个自主研究项目。乌尔费尔斯表示，当他们进入文凭课程并面对要求严苛的 4,000 字扩展论文时，大学水平的研究和公开演讲已不再是令人生畏的新要求。

“这些是经过十年积累而成的习惯。”

在同样涵盖学前班至 Grade 12 的多伦多贝威格伦学校（Bayview Glen），这种连续性创造了强烈的归属感。学生在每个学部中穿行，他们处于一个了解他们、重视他们并致力于他们成长的社区之中。

“当学校在多年时间里了解一个孩子时，学习会变得更加个性化且更有意义，”校长詹姆斯·李（James Lee）说道。“学生们获得了承担风险的自信，发现了自己的优势，并成长为有同情心、有能力的年轻人。”

对于 Bayview Glen 而言，强大的教育连续性不仅仅是指从一个年级升入下一个年级。李表示，其核心在于确保每一次体验都能有意识地在之前的体验基础上进行构建。

在早年阶段，学生通过基于探究的体验和户外活动培养好奇心、创造力、独立性以及对学习的热爱。在预备学校阶段，这些基础通过设计思维、语言、器乐和 AI 素养等领域的特色项目得到加强。在高中阶段，学生通过跨学科研究、领导力机会、合作实习和全球学习体验来应用这些技能。

例如，通过 Bayview Glen 与 Round Square 的合作伙伴关系，学生可以参加国际会议，包括近期在迪拜举行的一次集会，他们在会上与来自世界各地的同龄人协作，探讨领导力、服务和全球公民意识。在学校看来，此类体验建立在多年的学习基础之上，有助于学生培养自信心、适应能力和全球视野。

教育连续性的益处还延伸到了家长和家庭。在 Bayview Glen，家长与教育者建立了信任关系，而教育者不仅了解他们的孩子，还了解其家庭的价值观和目标。连续的学校旅程还带来了慰藉与稳定性。“最有意义的教育旅程是建立在关系之上的，”李说，“当学生、家庭和教育者随着时间的推移共同成长时，非凡的事情就会发生。”

安大略省惠特比市 Trafalgar Castle 学校的副校长凯特·赫本（Kate Hebdon）同样将关系视为教育连续性的一个关键益处。在这所招收 4 年级至 12 年级女生的学校里，学生与教师及教职员工建立了深厚的关系和默契。赫本表示，当女孩进入青春期时，这一点尤为重要；她们可以寻求那些已经建立起信任基础的成年人的帮助。

另一个益处是减少学业旅程关键阶段的过渡。“改变是困难的——对每个人来说都很难，”赫本说，“我们永远不能低估社交世界对年轻人的重要性。社交联系至关重要，而这需要时间。”

赫本表示，对于家长来说，教育连续性提供了诸如常规性和一致性等实际益处，以及知道该给谁打电话以及在哪里获取信息。但它也有助于建立家庭传统。

“看到学生们对我们学校在不同阶段举行的各种成年礼（rites of passage）感到兴奋，这太棒了，”她说，“我们举办了欢迎返校烧烤活动，很多家庭都出席了，而且他们知道自己应该穿着代表所属学院（house）的颜色。”

多伦多的 Mabin 学校鼓励家庭在这一所涵盖初级幼儿园至 6 年级的学校中完成为期 8 年的旅程。“这种连续性使得每个孩子都能被真正地了解和看待，不仅是作为学习者的身份，还包括他们的兴趣、优势、挑战，以及孩子们随着时间推移成长和变化的方式，”校长西蒙·格雷夫桑德（Simone Gravesande）说道。

随着学生在校成长，教职员工对其学术、社交和情感发展的深刻理解，在学生接近 7 年级的过渡期时显得尤为宝贵。

她说：“我们不再将这次过渡简单地视为从一所学校搬到另一所学校，而是可以帮助学生和家庭，基于对孩子作为学习者和个体成长情况的深刻理解，为他们教育的下一个阶段做出深思熟虑的决定。”

在学术方面，Mabin 学校从幼儿园到 6 年级最强有力的共同主线之一就是对“心智习惯”（Habits of Mind）的运用。这些习惯包括坚持、负责任的冒险、共情、灵活思维和元认知。

“我们在真实且符合年龄的语境中引入并培养这些习惯，然后随着学生年级的升高，再次回顾并深化它们，”格雷夫桑德说。

“在马宾学校（The Mabin School），这段旅程不仅仅是将孩子从一个年级升入下一个年级。它是基于我们对该孩子所了解的一切，在每个阶段持续支持他们的成长、自信心和归属感。”

密切的关系是教育连续性的一个关键优势。MILESH PATEL / TRAFALGAR CASTLE SCHOOL

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导师如何帮助学生寻找方向

对于独立学校的学生而言，导师和顾问所扮演的角色与传统的课堂教师不同，但互为补充——他们通过建立长期关系，帮助年轻人发现自己的优势、兴趣和热情。

这些关系可以互惠互利，让导师有机会培养领导力、共情能力以及更强的使命感。

在位于多伦多中城的私立男女合校约克学校（The York School），健康总监埃莉莎·克莱恩-贝伯（Elissa Kline-Beber）表示，指导的价值始于连续性。当学生进入9年级时，他们会被分配一名顾问，该顾问将在整个高中阶段陪伴他们，成为学生及其家长熟知的可靠联系人；同时，学生会被分入一个大约10人的顾问小组。

“我认为这是我们学校立校之本，”她说，“我们是以建立关系为前提的。我们在所做的一切事情中都强调这一点。”

与可能仅与学生共事一年的学科教师不同，每位顾问都会对被指导者的学术表现、兴趣、挑战以及课堂之外的生活建立长期的了解。

“我认为大局观在孩子的生活中非常重要，”克莱恩-贝伯说，“有一个能够关注学生整体发展的人是非常有意义的。”

顾问小组每周还拥有一个专门的40分钟时段，没有僵化的学术议程。他们可能会讨论学校里或世界上发生的事情，解决学校中的某个问题，或者仅仅是花时间一起聊天。克莱恩-贝伯补充道，这种非结构化的时间最初受到了习惯于紧凑日程的学生和教师的质疑，但现在已变得极具价值。

“这现在成了学生日程表中非常宝贵的‘地产’。”

她说，更广泛的目标是建立一种关系，让学生有信心去探索想法、兴趣，并最终决定他们想成为什么样的人。指导关系可能会超出正式顾问的范围，延伸至教练、高年级学生以及整个学校社区中的其他成年人。

“我们希望我们的学生感到被关注，”克莱恩-贝伯说，“当我们为各种不同的观点提供空间，让孩子们尝试新想法，去体验、思考、拒绝或完善它时，我认为这就是我们创建社区的方式。”

强烈的归属感是

在安大略省埃托比科的私立男女合校金路学院（Kingsway College School），指导被刻意地视为一种双向关系。成年人不仅担任学生的导师，学生也会指导员工，让他们能从学生的视角看待学校，同时让学生获得作为顾问的宝贵经验。 PETER POWER / KINGSWAY COLLEGE SCHOOL

在纽布伦瑞克省的男女合校日校兼寄宿预科学校罗瑟赛-内瑟伍德学校（Rothesay Netherwood School），指导是一项共同责任。顾问小组每天见面，学生被要求互相照看，而不是将指导工作完全交给成年顾问。AYNSLEY COATES / WILD AND HEART PHOTOGRAPHY

在格林伍德（Greenwood），你不仅仅是人群中的一张面孔。我们规模足够小，让你感觉像在家一样，但又足够大，让你能找到志同道合的人。

格林伍德 另一种核心于学生体验的思维方式出现在纳沙泰尔初级学院（NJC），该学院在瑞士法语区城镇纳沙泰尔提供12年级课程。

“学生们离开了熟悉的家，聚集在另一个国家，通常是第一次在更大的独立空间中摸索，”NJC 运营临时执行董事梅根·瓦特（Megan Watt）表示，“在社区中拥有熟悉他们、能察觉到变化并真正关注其成长的成年人，提供了一个重要的支持基础。”

瓦特补充说，这些关系可以显著增强信心。学生们被不断鼓励去挑战自我，无论是意味着在课堂上大胆发言、承担领导角色、适应新文化、参加从未尝试过的活动，还是应对出国留学自然而然带来的挑战。

“我们能从毕业后依然持久的联系中，看到这些关系的深远影响，”瓦特说。

在多伦多的男女共学中高中格林伍德学院（Greenwood College School），指导工作借鉴了学生生活的方方面面，通过教师、家长、教练、社团负责人以及学生本人的反馈来提供个性化的引导。

“我们指导学生识别自己的优势，追求个人兴趣，并驱动他们去做最适合自己的事情，”指导与高等教育咨询主任温迪·赫罗德（Wendy Herod）说道。

赫罗德回忆起曾帮助过一名在心理健康、友谊和归属感方面遇到困难的 11 年级学生。通过逐步建立信任并增强该学生的信心，她见证了该学生建立友谊、参加学校活动，并以更强的自我意识和对未来的期待顺利毕业。

她补充说，导师也能从这类项目中获益。格林伍德的高年级学生导师在帮助低年级学生的同时，培养了沟通和建立关系的能力，这通常是因为他们记得自己也曾获得过类似的帮助。这种循环在校友中得以延续，他们会回到学校参加职业活动，提供面试和高等教育建议，并担任学校年度商业案例竞赛的教练或评委。

在安大略省奥克维尔的男女共学日校兼寄宿学校艾普比学院（Appleby College），其导师项目的独特之处部分在于导师不需要做的一件事：给学生打分。这可以创造出一种与传统课堂关系不同的动态。

“导师是以同理心而非评判的态度对待学生，”艾普比学院积极教育主任戴安娜·多德（Diana Dodd）表示，“我们的目标是发现他们的目标、热情和独特性。”

艾普比学院在学生入学前就开始建立这些关系，通过调查新生和导师的兴趣、背景和活动，利用这些信息来帮助组建小型导师组。这些小组会保持四年不变，使导师有机会建立更深层的关系，并引导学生在众多的学术和课外选择中做出决定。

“我的角色是尽可能多地观察，寻找学生告诉我他们感兴趣的事物，然后为他们提供多样化的选择，”多德说。

“我们提供很多项目。我把它看作一个自助餐，”她说，“有时我们会把盘子装得太满，因为每样东西看起来都很棒。我们在导师制中所承担的部分指导角色，就是确保学生在特定时间选取他们真正需要的份额。”

指导关系还可能延伸到学生与成年导师之间传统的 1 对 1 关系之外。在纽布伦瑞克省的男女共学日校兼寄宿预科学校罗瑟塞-内瑟伍德学校（RNS），指导被构建为一种共同责任。导师组每天见面，学生被要求互相照看，而不是将指导完全交给成年导师。导师同时还充当学生的知心人、支持者，以及家庭与学校之间重要的纽带。

对于 2024 届毕业生玛丽莎（Marisa）来说，这种关系在困难时期为她提供了鼓励与支持。

“与家庭动态之外的成年人建立关系是有价值的。我感到我的指导老师真正地关注到了我，”她说，并补充道，她的指导老师鼓励她把握机会，同时在“生活给我出难题时，提供一个可以依靠的肩膀”。

在罗瑟赛（Rothesay），这种益处也是双向的。RNS 学校助理校长克雷格·乔利莫尔（Craig Jollymore）将指导教师计划描述为他在该校工作中最喜欢的部分。

“能够产生这种影响，让人深感满足，”乔利莫尔说。“我的许多被指导学生在毕业多年后仍与我保持联系。”

在位于安大略省彼得堡（Peterborough）北部的男女合校寄宿及日校——莱克菲尔德学院（Lakefield College），寄宿环境使得指导关系能够延伸到预定的指导会议之外。

指导教师与宿舍关联，这让他们有机会通过活动、晚间值班、用餐和非正式交谈，在不同场景下观察学生。

“寄宿生活强化了指导的机会，因为成年人可以在许多不同的语境中看到学生，而不仅仅是将他们视为教室里的学习者，”学习成功总监詹·弗里克（Jen Frickey）表示。“他们关系的深度创造了一个只有寄宿学校才能提供的强大支持网络。”

指导关系也构建在学生领导力之中。每位 12 年级学生都担任一个重要的领导职务，而低年级学生可以在归属感、可持续发展、艺术与体育、健康和社区服务等领域担任宿舍领导。

这些职位允许学生在指导同龄人的同时，逐渐培养自己的领导能力。弗里克表示，这种结构创造了一个“可见的指导模型”，让具有不同背景和优势的学生学习如何领导、承担风险，并为毕业年级更重的责任做好准备。

在位于安大略省埃托比科（Etobicoke）的男女合校私立学校——金斯韦学院（Kingsway College, KCS），指导关系被刻意地视为一种双向关系。校长加斯·尼科尔斯（Garth Nichols）在担任该职位的第一年就亲身体会到了这一点，当时他邀请了四名学生——两名来自低年级，两名来自高年级——担任他的导师。

他们帮助尼科尔斯从学生的视角审视问题并挑战他的假设，而学生们则在为校长提供建议的过程中获得了宝贵的经验。“指导是双向的，”尼科尔斯说。

这种理念延伸到了 KCS 的 Path 项目，该项目将学生与他们未来可能从事领域的专业人士和导师联系起来。校友们也会分享他们的职业历程、经验和人脉，帮助学生构思他们原本可能不会考虑的机会和路径。

在多伦多的圣克莱门特学校（St. Clement's），将 1 年级到 12 年级的 480 名女孩聚集在同一屋檐下，为年长学生与年幼学生之间自然地发展指导关系创造了机会。

“榜样作用一直在发生，”校长玛莎·佩里（Martha Perry）说，她指出了高年级学生领导并与低年级“克莱门特女孩”共同工作的活动。

12 年级学生梅洛迪·法汉格·尼亚（Melody Farhang Nia）回忆起自己还是个紧张的 9 年级学生时，作为高年级戏剧中最年轻的主演，得到了她所钦佩的高年级演员的鼓励。这些关系贯穿了整个高中阶段，其中一些演变成了深厚的友谊。

现在，法汉格·尼亚自己也成为了一个导师，通过“阅读伙伴”（Reading Buddy）等项目与低年级学生一起工作。她说，指导工作教会了她敏感度、沟通能力以及如何适应另一名学生的个体需求。

“看到你的指导产生了影响是非常有成就感的，这让你觉得自己在某人的生活和社区中带来了真实且切实的改变，”她说。

学习也应在课堂之外进行

位于不列颠哥伦比亚省维多利亚市的圣迈克尔大学学校充分利用了该地区的山脉、森林和海洋。图片由圣迈克尔大学学校提供

对于私立学校而言，地理位置至关重要。校园周围的环境——无论是大城市的便利设施，还是宁静的湖泊与森林——都是学校生活的有意义延伸，为学生学习、建立联系以及与周围世界互动开辟了新途径。除了正式的户外教育项目，私立学校们正充分利用其独特的地理位置和周边环境。

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从耕作到莱克菲尔德的第一场雪

在卡切万努卡湖（Lake Katchewanooka）之滨，莱克菲尔德学院（Lakefield College School）与其自然环境有着深厚的联系。“你的物理环境可以塑造你的行为、关系、学习和福祉，”这所招收9至12年级学生的男女合校寄宿及日校校长安妮-玛丽·基（Anne-Marie Kee）表示，“我们希望每个人每天都能在户外，因此，这既是一种哲学，也是一种实际的现实。”

湖泊是校园日常生活的组成部分，包括帆船和赛艇等共课活动，以及游泳和桨板等娱乐活动。在附近，学生们可以在学校的诺斯科特（Northcote）校区和农场体验农场生活，这是一个占地155英亩的农场，拥有田野、森林小径和水岸。

学生们还可以步行前往附近的莱克菲尔德镇。“这是寄宿体验中非常重要的一部分，”基说道，“学生们有机会了解小镇莱克菲尔德是什么样子，当地的商店也非常关注我们的孩子及其安全。”

位于安大略省历史悠久的奥尔德奥克维尔（Olde Oakville）社区，校园占地10英亩，绿树成荫。“我们经常将学校环境视为‘第三位教师’，学生们可以在这里探索、协作并发现可能性。”

汉特（Hant）表示，学校的地理位置提供了两全其美的优势：一个安全、独立的住宅区，让女生们感到安全并敢于在学术上冒险；同时又能便捷地利用大多伦多地区（GTA）的主要城市资源。“我们的位置使得在安静、自然资源丰富的避风港中培养年轻学习者成为可能，同时能直接将高年级学生引入具有高影响力的专业空间。”

例如，在圣米尔德里德-莱特本学校（SMLS）标志性的11年级专业实习项目中，学生们在当地企业、医院、研究机构、科技初创公司和律师事务所完成实践安置。

加拿大的冬天总能创造令人难忘的时刻。“我最喜欢的一天是第一场雪落下的时候，看到这么多孩子在拍照，因为他们从未见过雪，”她说道。在一年一度的冬季狂欢节上，学生们享受着雪橇骑行、雪橇滑行、海狸尾巴（BeaverTails）甜点和枫糖太妃糖。

分布在两个校区：一个位于多伦多北端，坐落在布莱德尔路径（Bridle Path）和劳伦斯公园（Lawrence Park）社区之间；另一个是位于密西沙加的西校区。学校专注于培养具有同情心的全球公民，拥有一个多元化的学校社区，学生、职员和教师来自40多个国家。

学生们经常直接走进绿色的校园，进行实践环境科学、户外文学和基于自然的活动。教师们利用附近的湖滨、当地公园和历史遗迹进行实地研究、鸟类识别和创意写作项目。2025年，学生们参加了在附近盖洛克花园（Gairloch Gardens）举办的奥克维尔画廊（Oakville Galleries）“宽容之船”艺术装置活动。

多伦多法语学校（TFS）校长让-巴斯蒂安·乌尔费尔斯（Jean-Bastien Urfels）表示，TFS充分利用了多伦多和大多伦多地区提供的丰富多样性。“学校倡导这种多样性，接纳构成这座城市、我们的学生群体和员工的多元文化织锦。”

TFS利用该地区广泛的商业领袖、企业家、医疗和法律专业人士、艺术家以及其他领域领导者群体。他们走进教室与学生交流，作为客座演讲者参加集会，主持研讨会，担任导师，并帮助安排实习，以引导学生发现自己的热情和职业路径。

支持峡谷保护，并将许多跨学科方面整合到学术课程中。”

“我们将维多利亚视为我们学校校园的后花园，”SMUS的招生主任亚历克西斯·朗·伦（Alexis Lang Lunn）说道。SMUS是一所招收小班幼儿园至12年级的男女合校私立学校，并为9至12年级提供寄宿服务。

SMLS 的两全其美

多伦多法语学校（TFS）是

SMUS：自然奇观与城市环境的交汇

圣迈克尔大学学校（SMUS）位于不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华岛的维多利亚市，既临近城市，又毗邻太平洋海岸的自然景观。

“当学生在周围的生态系统和公民结构中学习时，课程内容会立即变得具有相关性和可操作性，”圣米尔德里德-莱特本学校（SMLS）的校长凯瑟琳·汉特（Catherine Hant）说道，该校坐落在一个安静的，

同样，这里也有与自然环境互动的机会。“多伦多校区与唐河谷峡谷（Don Valley Ravine）相连，TFS 为我们负责管理的 26 英亩美丽繁茂的绿色环境创建了相关项目，”乌尔费尔斯（Urfels）表示。“从 18 个月大到 12 年级的 TFS 学生都可以进入这个活生生的自然空间，在那里他们可以绘画、演奏音乐、研究植物、进行科研，或参与实践性的管理项目，这些项目

虽然其户外教育项目充分利用了该地区的森林、山脉和海洋，但除了校园范围之外，还有其他参与方式。寄宿生可以探索城市生活，通过乘坐公共交通、参观博物馆、观看戏剧以及参加立法机构的质询时间（Question Period）来培养独立能力。学校的地理位置还使其毗邻维多利亚大学，学生可以在那里参与实验室工作和协作学习。

多伦多法语学校拥抱多元文化

自然的环境为反思、活动和连接提供了天然的机会。”

“无论是学习还是个人成长，这些经历都增强了他们在传统课堂环境中所学到的知识，”朗·伦（Lang Lunn）说道。

艾普比学院（Appleby）的地理位置及其多元化的学生群体，也能为学生开启全新体验的大门。

“在一门向学生介绍不同水上交通工具的沉浸式课程中，许多学生第一次体验了这些活动，同时也遇到了生活在十六英里溪（Sixteen Mile Creek）自然栖息地中的乌龟、海狸和鸟类，”凯利（Kelly）说道。“他们在城镇中心地带对自然界产生了一种新的认知。”

除了自然环境，学生还可以与奥克维尔以及大多伦多和汉密尔顿地区的当地企业、文化机构和社区组织建立联系。这包括通过服务计划与当地社区团体互动，通过实习向专业人士学习，参与艺术和文化体验，或探讨环境问题。

在某些情况下，地理位置可以改变人生。朗·伦回忆起一名在 9 年级开始寄宿项目的学生，她此前从未划过船。通过 SMUS 的划船中心，她对这项运动产生了热情和执着，随后选择了一所设有划船项目的大学，并获得了全额奖学金。

艾普比学院：兼具乡村环境与城市便捷

艾普比学院是一所 7 年级至 12 年级的男女共学学校，位于安大略省奥克维尔一个占地 60 英亩的校园内，坐落在安大略湖畔。负责学生生活的助理校长克莱尔·凯利（Claire Kelly）博士表示，这种环境为学生提供了一些在繁忙的校园生活中难以找到的东西：重启空间。“无论是在 2 公里的林间碎木小径上行走，在湖边度过时光，还是简单地在课间穿过开阔的绿地，校园都创造了

特拉法加城堡学校：场所与合作伙伴关系

真实的古堡背景赋予了特拉法加城堡学校（Trafalgar Castle School）一种独特的场所感。但这所女子学校位于安大略省惠特比（Whitby, Ont.）的地理位置，也为其创造了与奥沙瓦（Oshawa）的安大略理工大学（Ontario Tech University）等机构建立合作伙伴关系的机会，以及通过特拉法加的“城堡之外”（Beyond the Castle）项目，与加拿大帝国商业银行美伦（CIBC Mellon）、德勤（Deloitte）和微软（Microsoft）等合作伙伴开展体验式学习和职业发展机会。

在更近的范围内，特拉法加与 EcoSpark 建立了合作伙伴关系，后者是一家在大多伦多地区开展项目的环保慈善机构。学生可以在校园内以及附近的一条小溪中参与研究。

在校园内，学生可以在“感恩花园”（Gratitude Garden）中参加活动并获得启发，这是一个由学校原住民研究俱乐部在原住民顾问的指导下种植的原住民花园。特拉法加还与附近的特伦特大学（Trent University）就一项“原住民学习方式”项目开展合作。

“所有这些机会都源于我们的地理位置，”校长梅丽莎·奈特-约翰逊（Melissa Knight-Johnson）说道。

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沉浸于历史，但始终展望未来

许多私立学校拥有悠久且令人自豪的历史，但它们同时也需要适应当今呈指数级变化的的世界。

那么，那些拥有深厚历史的私立学校，在维持家长和校友所看重的传统与长期特质的同时，是如何为了未来而演进与创新的？

上加拿大学院（Upper Canada College, UCC）是多伦多的一所独立男子日校兼寄宿学校，长期以来一直为学生维持着一套“舍”（house）制度。在高中部（8年级至12年级），学生被分配到10个舍之一：其中8个为日校生舍，2个为寄宿生舍。

这些舍是以UCC近200年历史上最高水平且最具影响力的教师命名的。

“我的舍——马特兰舍（Martland's House），是以约翰·马特兰（John Martland）命名的。他是一位古典学教师兼寄宿舍舍监，热爱体育，因其在课堂上的严厉举止与对所负责学生的深沉父爱之间形成的鲜明对比，而获得了‘温柔的强尼’（Gentle Johnny）这一绰号，”UCC负责发展事务的副校长布伦丹·德兰德里亚（Brendan Dellandrea）说道。

得益于全年开展的友好竞争，学生对所属之舍的认同感非常深厚。“为了赢得令人向往的劳杯（Rao Cup），学生们在学术、体育和学生精神方面竞争舍分，”他说，“如果这听起来很像《哈利·波特》，那么你的感觉完全正确——不过，决定胜负的更有可能是学生中心一场热闹的知识竞赛或一场友好的极限飞盘赛，而不是一场魁地奇比赛。”

作为一名教育领导者，他认为舍制度实现了几点目标：它将学校群体分成了十分之一的小组，为与新朋友建立深厚关系创造了平台。

它也是UCC指导计划的结构基础。在该计划中，每位学生都被分配一名舍指导教师，作为其在学术和课外活动直至毕业之路上所有相关事务的主要联系人。

“我们将在2029年庆祝上加拿大学院成立200周年。我们世界级的教育工作者对男孩之间的社交联系如何构建终身福祉、学习和成就的深层科学理解，使得我们舍制度的持久传统在今天得到了进一步升华，”德兰德里亚说道。

上加拿大学院将在2029年庆祝成立200周年，其持久的舍制度让男孩们能够建立有意义的社交联系。图片由上加拿大学院提供

70年来，纳沙泰尔初级学院（Neuchâtel Junior College）一直允许学生在瑞士度过高中的最后一年，在生活与学习中将欧洲视为教室的延伸。图片由纳沙泰尔初级学院提供

在位于安大略省惠特比的独立女子日校兼寄宿学校——特拉法加城堡学校（Trafalgar Castle School），其舍制度同样是一项悠久的传统。

“在精神日（spirit days），城堡学校充满了色彩，每个人都代表自己的舍，通过良性的竞争将社区凝聚在一起，”特拉法加学校的高级历史与社会科学教师阿曼达·博伊尔（Amanda Boyle）说道。

特拉法加学校的另一个标志性传统是五月节（May Day），这是一个将学校过去和现在的成员聚集在一起的仪式。

“五月节将学生与过去和传统联系在一起。它提醒当今的学生，他们从前辈那里获得了诸多益处，而且他们本身也是这个将延续到未来的姐妹会的一员，”博伊尔说道。

她说，特拉法加学校最美丽的长期传统之一是特拉法加毕业日典礼开幕时的雏菊链（daisy-chain），毕业生们通过一条长长的蓝色丝带连接在一起，每位学生身上都别着一朵胸花。

“这象征着她们所属的姐妹情谊，这种情谊在她们于城堡学校（the Castle）就读的岁月里将她们紧紧联系在一起，并将继续将她们彼此相连，”博伊尔说道。这项传统在特拉法加学校的毕业典礼中已延续了100年，并且是“连接过去与未来的重要环节”。

校长玛莎·佩里表示，圣克莱门特学校（SCS）以充满活力著称，这一点在许多悠久的传统中得到了体现。例如，每位学生和教职员工都隶属于四个学院之一——这一传统建立于20世纪60年代——并在一年之中参与充满活力的挑战、竞赛和学院日活动。

“SCS 在学校社区和认同感的语境下审视我们所有的传统，”佩里说。“例如，像年度圣诞颂歌服务（Carol Service）这样的传统在多年来一直得以维持，但我们也进行了调整，使其能够让更广泛的群体参与其中。”

在20世纪80年代，该服务仅面向学生和教职员工。现在，它在规模大得多的场馆举行，并欢迎在校学生和教职员工，以及前任教职员工、校友、前任家长及其家属参加。

在学校庆祝成立125周年之际，佩里表示，他们“关注传统及其重要性”。“随着时间的推移，语境和演进是重要的考量因素。”他们将 $125 周年的庆祝活动叠加在既有传统之上；例如，今年的圣诞颂歌服务将由一支校友合唱团进行仅限一晚的演出。

佩里表示，在考虑这些转变时，它们必须在反映当今时代的同时，依然与学校的价值观保持一致。

“在125年的历史中，我们对学术卓越的承诺从未动摇，但我们也需要不断前瞻，并意识到世界已变得截然不同，且在持续快速变化，这要求我们的学生具备一套不同的技能，才能在 SCS 之外以及在人生中取得成功，”她说。

70年来，纳沙泰尔初级学院（Neuchâtel Junior College）一直为学生提供机会，让他们在高中最后一年在瑞士生活和学习，将欧洲作为教室的延伸。

“NJC 许多最有意义的传统都源于那种体验，”NJC 加拿大办公室临时运营执行董事梅根·瓦特说道。这些传统包括学校旅行、共同庆祝以及在瑞士和欧洲探索的时间。

但瓦特表示，这些传统“最终远不止于保留特定的活动或事件”，“它们强化了我们希望学生在离开纳沙泰尔很久之后仍能随身携带的价值观和品质”。

她说，与寄宿家庭共同生活以及在海外学习可以培养独立性、适应能力和自信心，而旅行和文化浸润则能激发好奇心、开放心态以及对世界更广泛的理解。

“NJC 给学生提供了在更广阔的世界中发现自我的机会，”瓦特说。“我们的传统为这种成长提供了框架，同时允许每一代学生将这种体验转化为自己的独特经历。”

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接续第 S14 页 沉浸于历史之中

罗瑟塞-内瑟伍德学校（Rothesay Netherwood School）“坚守着对我们至关重要，且依然契合并忠实于今日学校面貌的传统，”这所位于新不伦瑞克省罗瑟塞（Rothesay, N.B.）、面向 6 年级至 12 年级学生的独立男女共学大学预科寄宿及日校的校长保罗·麦克莱兰（Paul McLellan）说道。

“我们每天都有礼拜。我们穿着校服。我们有一些延续了 100 多年的活动，”他表示。“如果你参加我们 9 月份的开学礼拜仪式，你会看到新学生领取他们的学校领带，而在仪式结束后，你会看到高年级学生在帮他们系领带。”

麦克莱兰说，校友团聚周末（Reunion Weekend）一年中总是最特别的时刻，届时学校的传承“通过那些深切眷恋在‘山丘’（the Hill）度过时光的校友们真正地活了起来”。（由于 RNS 位于罗瑟塞学院山路（College Hill Road）的顶端，因此常被 referred as the Hill。）

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植根于过去能让孩子们感觉到自己是某种比个体更宏大之物的一部分。你正在为当今的孩子们经营一所学校，而将过去编织进现在的过程充满了美感。”

安妮-玛丽·基 (Anne-Marie Kee) 校长 莱克菲尔德学院 (Lakefield College School)

今年，该校正在庆祝其 150 年的历史——这一里程碑将在全年通过校园各处的横幅、侧重历史的学术活动、特制服装和周边商品、特刊杂志以及内容丰富的校友团聚周末来纪念。但麦克莱兰 (McLellan) 表示，作为一所获得 CAIS 认证、圆桌学校 (Round Square) 成员以及 IB 世界学校，他们同样被前瞻性的愿景所激励。

圣迈克尔大学学校 (St. Michaels University School, SMUS) 是一所位于不列颠哥伦比亚省维多利亚市的私立男女合校寄宿学校，致力于创建能够构建跨代归属感的小规模及大规模活动，同时展示并强化学校诚实、尊重、服务和勇气这些核心价值观。

大学学校 (University School) 和圣迈克尔学校 (St. Michael's School) 于 1971 年合并为圣迈克尔大学学校。“在 SMUS，我们对‘遵循传统’意味着什么进行了大量思考，”SMUS 的寄宿与学生生活主任基思·德里斯科尔 (Keith Driscoll) 说道。

“一个例子是学生和教职员工聚集在一起的‘礼拜’时间。虽然它深植于传统，但这段共同相处的时间不再是单一信仰的表达。相反，它是我们作为一个社区聚集在一起的方式，”他说道。

这一传统保持不变，同时也反映了现在就读于此的学生，正如它在 100 年前反映了当时的学生一样。

在另一个例子中，SMUS 有一项长期以来的传统，即通过宴会庆祝其运动员的成就。由于学校同样重视其艺术项目，因此也开始了举办年度艺术盛典的传统。

“这是一个庆祝的巅峰之夜，是一项较新的传统，但它反映了当前学校的需求和成功，”德里斯科尔说道。

圣迈克尔学院学校 (St. Michael's College School) 是一所在多伦多的天主教私立男子学校，其历史可追溯至 1852 年。

“在这段时间里，许多传统兴起又消逝，”该校副校长埃米尔·约翰 (Emile John) 说道。然而，那些延续下来的传统有助于巩固其作为一所植根于天主教信仰的学校的身份。

“在我们所有的宗教传统中，圣迈克尔弥撒庆典和庭院将临节对我来说最为突出，”他说道。“在体育方面，我们有许多历史悠久的年度赛事，构成了我们校历的基石，例如丹·普伦德加斯特篮球赛 (Dan Prendergast Basketball Tournament) 和雪球接力赛 (Snowball Relays)。”

然而，其体育校历的压轴戏始终是返校日，因为它将社区的所有部分聚集在一起庆祝体育运动。

2029, 莱克菲尔德学院将庆祝其 $150 周年纪念，为了纪念这一时刻，一本关于其历史的书籍正在编写中。

“我们正尽早地帮助孩子们理解我们学校的故事以及叙事的力量，”莱克菲尔德学院校长安妮-玛丽·基说道。

这包括理解学校建筑是如何得名的。例如，穆迪屋 (Moodie House) 是以作家苏珊娜·穆迪 (Susanna Moodie) 命名的，她曾在 1832 年作为莱克菲尔德附近农场的一名定居者走在这片土地上——当时她并非教师（因为学校那时还不存在）。

“植根于过去能让孩子们感觉到自己是某种比个体更宏大之物的一部分，”基说道。“你正在为当今的孩子们经营一所学校，而将过去编织进现在的过程充满了美感。”

一所面向9至12年级学生的大学预科寄宿及日校。共同生活创造了共同学习的非凡机会。在莱克菲尔德学院学校（Lakefield College School），寄宿是沉浸式教育的一部分，学术挑战、创意追求、体育运动和户外生活成为了日常生活的一部分。在每个学生都能被关注的小型舍馆（Houses）中，青少年培养出自信、独立和视野，从而获得全球顶尖大学的录取名额，并在毕业后长期茁壮成长。

155英亩的湖畔校园和160英亩的再生学习农场——让学生每天都能受到自然的启发。

接续 S1 页 科技与人工智能

BSS 的教师将 AI 素养教育融入课堂，以强调批判性思维中的人文维度。例如，在英语课上，他们使用 AI 生成的文本，让学生进行分析并与经典文本示例进行对比。他们还就 在艺术领域的应用，以及声音、真实且具有文化底蕴的艺术表达的重要性展开辩论。

圣米尔德里德-莱特本学校，安大略省奥克维尔

SMLS 关于生成式 的政策概述了其允许和禁止的使用场景，重点关注学术诚信、批判性思维和伦理。这不仅适用于写作，还适用于图像创建和计算机编程。该政策还详细说明了不同年龄和阶段的学生应当以及不应当如何使用 ，以及与该技术相关的潜在风险。

例如，13 岁以下的学生在没有教师或家长监督的情况下，不得使用公开可用的 工具（如 Gemini、ChatGPT 或 Claude）。超过该年龄的学生，使用此类工具需获得教师的明确许可。

“ 可以辅助学习，例如通过头脑风暴、练习、反馈或修订，但它绝不能取代学生自己的思考，也不能被用于伪造作者身份或学习成果，”SMLS 学术副校长布拉德·里德（Brad Read）表示。“我们的目标是真正帮助学生审视 如何生成信息，质疑其准确性和潜在偏见，使用可靠来源验证主张，并考虑隐私、作者身份和学术诚信等问题。”

哈弗盖尔学院，多伦多

哈弗盖尔学院始终是一个以人为本的社区，刻意将生成式 定位为一种增强——而非主导或取代——学生与教师之间联系、互动和相互关联的方式。

“批判性思维和信息素养是我们优先考虑的核心且持久的技能，”哈弗盖尔学院学术院长 Lam Nguyen 表示。“我们通过打开大语言模型的‘黑匣子’来揭秘 ，使学生理解这些模型是如何生成输出结果的。”

学生们被要求审计 输出结果中的“幻觉”现象，验证来源语境，并评估 生成的文本和艺术作品中的观点及其潜在偏见。没有任何算法或系统是完全价值中立的。

针对 5 年级至 8 年级学生的“数字智慧”课程是哈弗盖尔学院核心课程的一部分，旨在帮助学生在智能手机、社交媒体和 时代成长过程中，理解并处理人际关系。

“我们将他们在利用技术时所做的选择，定义为一套习惯、心态和技能。学生在一段时间内培养这些能力，而这些能力会影响他们接收和消化信息、理解周围世界以及相互交往的方式，”哈弗盖尔学院 HC-X 主管 Adam Caplan 表示。

金斯威学院学校，安大略省伊托比科

“无论我们讨论的是生成式 、社交媒体、数字公民、机器人技术，还是我们尚未遇到的技术，我们的工作不能仅仅是让学生学会使用技术，”KCS 校长加斯·尼科尔斯（Garth Nichols）表示。“我们的责任是帮助他们培养判断力，以决定何时使用它、为何使用它、何时质疑它——以及何时完全不使用它。”

在 KCS，其方法刻意采取谨慎、健康的怀疑态度和建设性的质疑。“我们对可能性感到兴奋，但我们并不将热情等同于智慧，”尼科尔斯说。该校的生成式 哲学将 描述为一种学习

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我们来到这里不是为了与技术赛跑。我们来到这里是为了培养能够质疑技术、塑造技术、明智使用技术，并在技术共存的同时保持深厚人性的人才。”

加斯·尼科尔斯 (Garth Nichols)，金路学院 (Kingsway College School) 校长

工具，同时明确优先考虑 AI 素养以及数字化转型的以人为本的一面。

尼科尔斯表示：“这引发了许多问题：‘学习需要什么样的建设性挣扎？如果答案变得毫无阻碍，好奇心会发生什么？AI 在哪些方面能真正增加好奇心、创造力、可访问性和人类的连接？’我认为独立学校有特殊的责任共同探讨这些问题。”

“也许这就是学校在此时此刻扮演的更大角色，”他说，“我们来到这里不是为了与技术赛跑。我们是为了培养能够质疑技术、塑造技术、明智使用技术，并在技术共存的同时保持深厚人性的人才。”

艾普比学院 (APPLEBY COLLEGE)，安大略省，奥克维尔

艾普比学院的教职员工已经采用了针对不同学科和主题的各种 工具，例如 ChatGPT、Claude、Perplexity 和 Microsoft CoPilot。学校在所有学科领域都开展了广泛工作，旨在为课程开发和评估创建制定 政策和指南。

为了准备课堂使用，艾普比的学生在学年期间参加一系列自定进度的 课程。其中包括 30 分钟的入门级在线模块，旨在帮助建立对 的认知。

“关于 如何影响学习的研究仍处于早期阶段。我们的方法刻意保持灵活，”艾普比学院负责学术的助理校长卡洛斯·海伦诺 (Carlos Heleno) 博士说道，“我们每六个月审查一次指南，在采用前进行谨慎试点，并期待在获得更好的证据后重新审视我们的思考。”

从初中（7 年级和 8 年级）开始，数字公民意识和社会媒体意识被融入到一系列学科领域中。学校还引入了“禁止使用手机”政策，并在校期间禁止访问社交媒体网站，以减少干扰，鼓励亲社会行为并支持学生的心理健康。

上加拿大学院 (UPPER CANADA COLLEGE)，多伦多

UCC 在过去三年中在 探索和采用方面投入了大量资金。重点主要放在负责任、合乎伦理且安全地接纳这项技术，同时激发学习、实验和知识共享。

在教师的指导下，学生可以使用经 UCC 批准的 工具，教师会定期引导学生就 的伦理使用进行符合年龄和阶段的讨论。

“我们将 作为课堂上的协作伙伴，探索它增强教学和学习的方式，”UCC 学习与学术创新副校长朱莉娅·金尼尔 (Julia Kinnear) 表示，“例如，我们正借助 辅助的反馈循环结合专业教师支持，来增强个性化学习。”

在课堂之外，他们正与外部专家合作。今年夏天，他们与教育公司 kinship 合作举办了 UCC x kinship 精准数学夏令营，将专家教学与 赋能的个性化学习相结合。该夏令营的成功促成了本学年的一项试点，其中一个 9 年级班级的学生将能够使用 kinship 的 精准学习平台来支持他们的数学成长。

多伦多法语学校 (TORONTO FRENCH SCHOOL) 多伦多

“在我们的校训‘反思的个体，行动的公民’的指导下，我们教导学生以批判性思维和正直的态度拥抱技术，并将人工智能视为一种工具，而非人类好奇心、创造力和原创思维的替代品，”TFS校长让-巴斯蒂安·乌尔费尔斯（Jean-Bastien Urfels）表示。

此外，为了与国际文凭课程（IB）保持一致，TFS教导学生成为“内容的创造者，而非内容的模仿者”。该校哲学的一个例证是其“技能先于工具”的方法。该方法在 Grade 2 至 Level II 的专门设计与技术课程中教授，使学生在接触生成式人工智能工具之前，能够长期培养解决问题、批判性思维和研究技能。

这些项目受到了欧洲在人工智能立法（包括对学生的 AI 素养要求）方面领先地位的启发，同时也是对安大略省和 IB 课程的补充。

TFS 的数字公民教育与欧洲数字能力框架（DigComp）相结合，通过 PIX.fr 自适应学习平台实施，并与 IB 的学习方法（ATL）技能紧密结合。通过这些模块，学生可以掌握 16 个领域，包括信息与数据素养、在线沟通、内容创作、网络安全和数字问题解决。

沃尔登国际学校 (WALDEN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL)，安大略省奥克维尔

在沃尔登学校，对待人工智能的方法基于学术诚信、透明度和批判性思维。

“我们不认为答案是将学生与人工智能隔离开来，”沃尔登学校校长达芙妮·佩鲁吉尼（Daphne Perugini）表示。“我们的责任是培养他们的判断力，让他们知道何时使用它，如何质疑它，以及何时完全不使用它。”

沃尔登学校的学术诚信政策与 IB 指导方针一致，要求学生在使用人工智能生成的材料时保持透明，并像对待其他外部来源一样对其予以标注。“人工智能可以生成答案，”她说，“而我们的工作是培养那个知道如何处理这个答案的人。”

学生早在 Grade 4 就开始明确探索人工智能和批判性思维。重点不仅在于人工智能能做什么，而在于评估其输出结果，质疑其可靠性，并让学生明白，他们对自己最终提交的作品负有责任。

“我们无法预测学生未来会遇到哪些技术，”她说，“但我们可以让他们做好准备，以深思熟虑、批判性和伦理的方式去面对这些技术。”

多伦多圣迈克尔学院 (ST. MICHAEL'S COLLEGE SCHOOL)

在圣迈克尔学院 (SMCS)，对待人工智能 (AI) 的方式是循序渐进的，低年级学生的接触受到更多限制。

“我们希望确保学生使用 AI 来补充他们的学习和生产力，而不是取代它们，”SMCS 副校长大卫·李 (David Lee) 表示，“我们希望避免学生在利用 AI 代替自己完成工作时可能出现的认知卸载 (cognitive offloading) 现象。”

SMCS 还向学生教授建立积极数字足迹的重要性，以及不在网上从事不当行为；学校经常使用来自 Common Sense Media 的资源来推广良好的数字公民意识和社会媒体意识。例如，今年 8 年级的学生将参加包括数字公民意识和社会媒体意识在内的相关主题研讨会。

图片由上加拿大学院提供

关 (Kwan) 表示，诸如公共卫生、气候变化和城市内涝（多伦多在今年夏天直接经历了这一点）等问题都是复杂的系统，受到从科学、经济到政府政策、技术和人类行为等所有因素的影响。未来需要解决这些问题的人，必须能够驾驭这些相互关联的系统。

在一个复杂且快速变化的世界中，未来的挑战将日益跨越传统边界，独立学校正在重新思考学生的学习方式。

乔纳森·关 (Jonathan Kwan) 是多伦多的一所独立日校兼寄宿男校——上加拿大学院 (UCC) 的 Tanenbaum-Hutcheson 合作伙伴关系与社会影响总监。他表示，上加拿大学院的国际文凭课程 (IB) 毕业证书项目“系统转型路径” (Systems Transformation Pathway) 旨在让学生准备好应对这种复杂性，并解决那些很少能被简单地归入单一学科的问题。

将试点性质的国际文凭课程 (IB) 毕业证书项目“系统转型毕业路径”引入上加拿大学院 (UCC) 的过程始于 2016 年。该项目是一个跨学科流派，将系统思维和设计思维与数字创新工具及方法相结合

UCC成为首批试点新IB课程的学校之一

“我们希望继续做的是，尽可能长久地激发好奇心。”

自1995年起，UCC就将传统的IB课程纳入其教学大纲。在该课程中，学生在11年级和12年级攻读完整的IB文凭，修读六门科目——其中三门为高级水平（HL），三门为标准水平（SL）——以及IB文凭课程的核心要求：知识理论（TOK）、拓展论文（EE）以及创意、活动与服务（CAS）。

“我们并不是在重新设计整个文凭课程，”关（Kwan）表示，“‘系统转型路径’（Systems Transformation Pathway）取代了文凭课程学生通常需要完成的三分之一内容。”

该项目于2025年9月启动，UCC是全球被选中实施该初始项目的四所学校之一。另外三所分别是威尔士的UWC Atlantic、新加坡的UWCSEA以及温哥华的Mulgrave学校。IB（一个国际非营利教育基金会）计划在2030年将该路径在全球范围内推广。

该校的第一批学生即将完成这个为期两年的项目。

学生仍然需要修读三门高级水平课程和一门标准水平课程，并完成IB的核心要求，包括知识理论、拓展论文以及创意、活动与服务。但三门传统的标准水平课程中有两门被“系统转型路径”所取代，这实际上是对传统六科目学术课程中三分之一内容的重新构想。

“我们的学生将面临的许多问题都发生在福祉、多元主义和可持续性的交汇点上，而他们将拥有能够帮助其应对这种复杂性的工具和心态，”UCC学习与学术创新副校长朱莉娅·金尼尔（Julia Kinnear）博士说道。

其标志性课程“为了更美好世界的创新”将系统思维和设计思维与数字化创新相结合，并通过福祉、多元主义和可持续性这三个基础视角来审视地方、国家和全球问题。

关表示，根本性的转变是教会学生审视问题的整体，而非单一组成部分。“当人们问‘什么是系统思维’时，它实际上是指你在看待问题时，观察的是整个范围，而不是一个非常狭窄的角度，”他说道。

他补充道，以安大略省家庭医生短缺为例。单纯培训更多医生似乎能解决问题，直到学生们开始考虑医学教育、资金、设施、政府、保险以及医疗系统中其他相互关联的元素。

例如在气候问题上，学生们可能在一次探讨其经济方面，另一次深入研究气候变化的科学，然后讨论其人文方面。学生们可以将所有这些视角纳入一次讨论，而不是孤立地检查每个组成部分。

同样的哲学也应用于课堂内部。UCC采取跨学科方法，由不同领域的教师共同协作。其执行团队包括来自设计、人文与公民教育以及科学领域的教育工作者。

学生不再是在铃声响起时从“数学大脑”切换到“历史大脑”，而是一个问题就可以引导他们进入科学、经济、技术或其产生的人文后果。

“我认为我们尝试通过系统转型所做的是给他们提供一种不同的方式，让好奇心能够持续增长，”关说道。

学生们已经证明了这种自由可以带来什么样的结果。关提到了一项与多伦多市的合作项目，学生将在其中深入研究多伦多的雨水管理挑战。

“我们并不期望他们能提出大胆、疯狂的想法，”关说，“起码，孩子们会投入到这个项目中，他们将获得六个月处理外部真实世界数据的机会，希望这能激发他们，让他们想要继续从事这项工作。”

这种方法比学生因为被告知某门学科有用，或者因为跟随父母的选择而学习该学科，要更加真实且更具影响力。

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该项目在六个月的顶峰项目（capstone project）中达到高潮，关（Kwan）将其比作一项咨询任务。学生将花费大约三个月的时间，尝试将一个问题（例如雨水与城市环境）作为一个完整的系统来理解——包括其利益相关者、压力以及潜在的干预点——然后再花费三个月的时间设计并实施一项应对措施或干预方案。

或许最值得关注的是这项工作的评估方式。学生是否获得评分并不取决于他们提出的干预方案最终是否成功，重点在于他们所遵循的过程或旅程。

11月20日 初中和中学

关表示，传统的基于结果的评估可能会鼓励有抱负的学生对作业进行“逆向工程”，通过最小化风险来最大化他们的分数。消除这种压力能给他们更大的自由去尝试困难的事情。

“如果没成功，太好了，”关说，“这将成为一个非常棒的谈资。”

10月14日 小学

这种面对复杂问题的意愿，正是 UCC 希望学生在项目结束后能带走的核心能力。

“对我们来说，学习是‘少即是多’，”关说，“我们不会给他们安排过满的计划。我们给他们思考的空间，提供一些指导，然后看他们如何发展。”

在这个过程中，学生可以探索他们为什么采取这种方法，以及他们还可以怎么做。“但他们可以大胆尝试，而不仅仅是选择一个简单的项目。”

去年另一个项目将学生送往多伦多市档案馆，研究 UCC 周边的区域并设计五站式的步行导览路线。

同一块相对较小的地理区域产生了截然不同的结果，包括对隐藏水道、当地艺术的探索，以及一次受卡萨罗马（Casa Loma）亨利·佩拉特爵士（Sir Henry Pellatt）的贪婪与奢侈所启发的导览。

“我认为现在的教育太死板了，”关说，“每位教师都在努力满足课程要求，因为他们必须这样教孩子才能获得认证。当我们给他们宽松的要求，减少对孩子的限制并退到一边时，他们真的能让你感到惊喜。”

RDS 罗斯代尔日校（THE ROSE DALE DAY SCHOOL）

11月4日 初中和中学

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快乐的员工 = 快乐的学生

AYNSLEY COATES / WILD AND HEART PHOTOGRAPHY / courtesy of ROTHESAY NETHERWOOD SCHOOL

许多学校领导者认为，培养学生——建立自信、韧性以及学习的快乐——始于其员工。换句话说，为教职员工创造积极的教学环境，将转化为学生积极的学习环境。

“我们深知，从预算紧张到课堂压力，当前的挑战如何深刻地影响着整个学校系统中的敬业教育工作者，”多伦多独立男子学校 Crescent School 的专业发展与研究执行总监 Sandra Boyes 博士说道。

她表示，那些选择将教育作为职业的人知道，这个角色所涉及的远不止是成为一名学科专家，还包括成为一名导师、教练和问题解决者。

“这是一项巨大的责任，而投资于我们教职员工的福祉、职业发展和工作与生活的平衡，对于我们的学生所获得的学习体验至关重要，”Boyes 说道。

应用心理学家 Michael Reichert 博士的研究强调，男孩在与学科内容建立联系之前，会先与他们的老师建立联系。当被问及最有意义的学习经历时，男孩很少提到教学计划；他们谈论的是那些激励他们的老师。

因此，当教师承受高水平的压力时，自然会影响他们在课堂上的日常状态。“这就是为什么支持每位团队成员的福祉是我们工作的核心，”Boyes 说道。

Crescent School 的首席人力资源官 Gregory Peck 表示，学校对教职员工福祉的承诺，始于有意识地吸引和留住与使命一致的人才。

所有进入 Crescent School 的新教师都要完成国际男子学校联盟（IBSC）的“男子学校新人”课程。“这些项目确保 Crescent 的教职员工在男孩如何高效学习方面拥有坚实的基础，掌握最新的技术和工具，从而营造一个让男孩们茁壮成长的环境，”Peck 说道。

Crescent 每年在专业发展方面投资超过 $400,000，支持个人发展计划，为职业成长提供量身定制的路径，包括提供津贴的年度“挑战”机会和员工认可计划。

在 Greenwood College School，员工的持续成长与发展同样是重点。“我们聘用具有成长型思维的人。每位员工都有一份年度成长计划，用于支持他们提升实践水平并构建个人能力，”多伦多 7 年级至 12 年级独立男女合校 Greenwood College 的校长兼学校负责人 Heather Thomas 说道。

的每位员工都拥有一份基于学校战略计划的专业成长计划。

“每位员工都会就该计划在学校角色中的具体体现进行沟通并获得支持，” 教学、学习与研究中心执行总监 Mary Gauthier 说道。“关于幸福感的研究表明，人们需要看到自己的工作是有意义的，并且被认可。”

有意识地建立员工之间的联系，以培养归属感。他们的许多专业发展都建立在员工协作的基础上，包括共同解决问题、分享最佳实践以及互相教授新技能。

人们还意识到，成年人示范的态度和行为会对学生产生强大的影响。“我们当然可以教授关于幸福的知识，但让学生感受到幸福的影响会更有成效，”Gauthier 说道。

这可以通过几种方式实现。例如，顾问们会引导学生讨论幸福的含义——即通过成为一个充满活力的社区的一员而获得归属感和目标感，而不是试图时刻保持“快乐”。

“在格林伍德（Greenwood），我们相信幸福带来成功，而非相反，”托马斯（Thomas）说道。“幸福是一种心态，它在人们投入、充实、建立联系且保持乐观时得以发展。”

在纳沙泰尔初级学院（Neuchâtel Junior College, NJC），学生的体验与创造这种体验的人们紧密相连。

“这在 NJC 尤为重要，因为我们的教育体验远远超出了教室的范围，” 加拿大办公室临时运营执行董事梅根·瓦特（Megan Watt）表示。“我们的教师与学生一起教学、指导、旅行和探索，建立了让在 的一年变得如此具有变革性的关系。”

由于 的学习发生在教室中、通过旅行以及在更广泛的欧洲背景下进行，教师的专业学习不仅与学术卓越相关，还与体验式教育、指导和学生

在罗瑟赛-内瑟伍德学校（Rothesay Netherwood School, RNS），该校五年战略计划的一个根本目标是确保所有员工都能在一种认可其贡献、投资其成长并将工作与明确目标相结合的文化中获得支持。

发展。

“从核心来看，我们的方法很简单，”瓦特说。“如果我们希望学生好奇、勇敢、建立联系并准备好成长，我们需要创造一个让周围的成年人也能体验到这些事物的环境。”

“我们知道，优秀的学生学习只能在与值得信赖的成年人建立强大关系的环境中发生，”保罗·麦克莱兰（Paul McLellan）说道。他是 RNS 的校长，该校是一所位于新不伦瑞克省圣约翰郊区罗瑟赛的独立男女合校，提供 6 年级至 12 年级的寄宿和日校教育。

保罗·麦克莱兰 校长 罗瑟赛-内瑟伍德学校

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“当我们的教师和员工在一个真正充满关怀的社区中感受到强烈的归属感和价值感时，会产生直接惠及学生的涟漪效应。”

我们知道，优秀的学生学习只能在与值得信赖的成年人建立强大关系的环境中发生。当我们的教师和员工在一个真正充满关怀的社区中感受到强烈的归属感和价值感时，会产生直接惠及学生的涟漪效应。”

培养一个投入且充满关怀的社区，意味着为员工提供多样化的健康支持，并共同制定可实现的年度目标。“我们使用频繁的员工脉搏调查来检查、联系并演进我们的健康方案，”麦克莱兰说。

“在很多方面，我们试图为沃尔登（Walden）的成年人和孩子创造相同的条件：信任、自主权、归属感、成长机会以及承担风险的信心，”达芙妮·佩鲁吉尼（Daphne Perugini）说道。她是沃尔登国际学校（Walden International School）的校长，该校是位于安大略省奥克维尔的一所 IB（国际文凭课程）世界学校，招收从初级幼儿园到 8 年级的学生。

“当教师自己体验到这些事物时，他们能更好地为学生创造这些条件，”她说。“这就是我们认为快乐的员工与繁荣的学生相交的地方。”

她补充说，成年人在学校中体验到的文化不可避免地会成为孩子体验到的文化的一部分。为了让学生拥有自主权、承担智力风险并对自己的思考充满信心，教导他们的成年人需要体验到同样的事物。

停止思考 他未来会成为什么。 开始思考 他将成为谁。

SMCS 圣迈克尔学院学校 巴西里安神父

成为善良之人

私立学校通过雄心勃勃的资本投资共建未来

位于安大略省奥克维尔的艾普比学院（Appleby College）计划于2027年6月完工，并于同年秋季全面投入学生使用。考克韦尔大厅（Cockwell Hall）旨在将学术、技术、学生生活和寄宿融为一体。这个创新生态系统将包括教室、公共休息室、学习舱、录音室以及额外的寄宿床位。其中心将是一个135平方米的创新与技术实验室。MJMA建筑与设计渲染图，由艾普比学院提供

对于独立学校而言，重大资本项目远不止于增加建筑面积。

这是一个打造该校特有专业学习环境的机会。

在安大略省奥克维尔的艾普比学院，考克韦尔大厅是一座全新的主要建筑，旨在将学术、技术、学生生活和寄宿融为一体。该校校长兼副校长弗雷泽·格兰特（Fraser Grant）表示，这所招收7年级至12年级学生的男女合校（含日校和寄宿）旨在创建一个互联的创新生态系统。

考克韦尔大厅计划于2027年6月完工，并于同年秋季全面投入学生使用，届时将包括7间教室、一个123平方米的公共休息室、学习舱、两个录音室以及16张额外的寄宿床位。其中心将是一个135平方米的创新与技术实验室。

“我们的社区、校友、家长、学生、职员和教师能够共同分享我们对未来教育的愿景，这一点至关重要，而他们的支持更是关键，”他说道。

艾普比学院为所有资本项目设立了指导委员会，并听取所有利益相关者的意见。

新实验室将与艾普比现有的设计和机器人实验室形成互补，为学生提供三个不同的空间，用于开发创意、构建原型并最终进行测试。

创新实验室将包括一个创业路演空间、绿幕、移动工作舱、播客室和录音站，学生可以使用人工智能来帮助开发解决现实生活问题的方案。

“这就是目前一个完整的创新与技术生态系统，”弗雷泽说道。

其目标是将学习延伸到传统的教室结构之外。例如，学习商业的学生可以制定商业计划，在专业风格的环境中进行路演，并利用实验室的制作设施创建营销材料。

“我们非常坚信这种体验式学习和基于项目的学习，”弗雷泽说。

“因此，现在能够接手一个项目，进行创新、设计，并实际制作原型并将其完成，我认为这在未来将非常重要。”

可持续性仍然是另一个主要组成部分。考克韦尔大厅将采用地源热泵供暖和制冷、高性能窗户、能源监测建筑自动化系统，以及在选择时考虑了隐含碳足迹的建筑材料。一个由91块面板组成的太阳能阵列预计每年将产生约245,000 kWh的清洁电力。

学生们将真正地在艾普比最新的建筑上留下自己的名字——去年春天，学生们受邀在创新实验室的结构梁上签名，这些梁在建筑完工后将保持外露。

在多伦多的一所私立男子学校——面向小学和中学生的克雷森特学校（Crescent School），今年9月完成的一项重大扩建解决了当地学生和教师的一个截然不同的需求：为长期以来人数已超出原食堂承载能力的学生群体，提供一个更大、更灵活的聚集场所。

这个为期两年的项目的核心是全新的校友社区大厅（Alumni Community Hall）——这是一个拥有480个座位、配有落地窗的明亮空间。其目标是建立一个温馨的空间，能够容纳克雷森特学校整个高中部的用餐、集会和特别活动。

此次扩建还包括一个新的学校入口、学生公共区、办公室和会议空间、一个商业级厨房以及一个多站式配餐区。据该校首席发展官杰米·卢格希德（Jamie Lougheed）称，将配餐区与用餐区分开，意味着该大厅在全天都可以用于学生的协作和社交活动，而不再局限于用餐时段。

该项目由

“我们的前行之路”（Our Way Forward）提供资金，这是克雷森特学校（Crescent）规模最宏大的筹款活动，共筹集了超过 $65-million。卢格希德表示，学费涵盖了学校的运营支出，包括工资、校园维护、技术和日常餐饮服务，而筹款则用于支持资本项目、财务援助和项目增强。

仅克雷森特学校的家长年度捐赠计划每年就捐赠约 $1.2-million。卢格希德表示，几代捐赠者帮助建设了学校的设施和项目，而目前的家庭和校友正在延续这一传统。展望未来，克雷森特学校正在制定一项校园总体规划，研究学校在未来 20-plus 年里的需求。

布兰克索姆女校（Branksome Hall）是一所位于多伦多的独立日校兼寄宿女校，该校开设了卡伦·L·尤尔杰维奇创新中心与工作室剧院（iCAST）——这是一个面积为 34,458-square-foot 的设施，旨在将技术、创业和艺术整合在同一个屋檐下。该校于 Sept. 17 举行了盛大的开幕式。

这一世界级的设施旨在作为教室的延伸，让这所涵盖从初级幼儿园到 Grade 12 的学校中，不同学科的学生能够开发、构建并测试想法。iCAST 是加拿大任何 JK-Grade 12 机构中首个此类设施。

其设施包括：机械、木工和机器人工作坊；

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这些空间培养了突破极限所需的创造性信心，无论对于今天的学生还是未来的后代都是如此。”

让-巴斯蒂安·乌尔费尔斯（Jean-Bastien Urfels） 校长 多伦多法语学校

人工智能和增强现实实验室；一个 STEAM 工作室；以及一个学生和行业专家可以展示想法的推介区。

Noodle HQ 为布兰克索姆的商业加速器提供了永久场所，而制造空间则允许学生制造原型。

艺术也被整合到了这种创新模式中。一个灵活的黑匣子工作室剧院配备了可移动座椅和 2,550-square-foot 的张力网格，用于专业级的剧院照明，同时也为演讲者、小组讨论和社区活动提供空间。

将表演艺术与技术结合在一起的首要目标是鼓励跨学科工作，并为学生接受高等教育和从事新兴职业做好准备。

该校还将 iCAST 视为其努力消除 STEM 领域持久存在的性别差距的一部分，通过让女孩尽早接触先进技术和实践编程来实现。

据多伦多法语学校（TFS）校长让-巴斯蒂安·乌尔费尔斯（Jean-Bastien Urfels）称，在这所私立男女共学双语学校中，资本投资正从设施扩建和学生健康基础设施的角度来看待。

TFS 在其位于密西沙加的西校区开设了一个新的体育中心，为学生提供了远超体育范畴的设施。乌尔费尔斯表示，该中心包括 Gymnase Kaneff，这是一个标准尺寸的小学体育馆，将使该校区能够首次举办篮球和排球主场比赛。该空间还将作为集会和毕业典礼的聚集地。

配备了 3-D 打印机和其他工具的新 MakerPro 技术与设计空间，为学生提供了将想法转化为实体项目的机会。该中心还支持体育教育、课后项目和学生健康。

该项目在 TFS 社区的支持下得以实现，是“Can't Wait! La campagne pour TFS”的一部分，并完成了该校 Master Campus Plan 中的两个资本项目之一。

现在人们的注意力转向了多伦多校区，那里已开始建设 L'Atelier。这是一栋面积超过 37,000 平方英尺的新建筑，旨在围绕跨学科和前瞻性学习而设计。规划包括一个 360 个座位的多功能礼堂，一个配备了工程、机器人、原型设计和应用数学设备的设计工作室，经过声学优化的音乐和录音室，以及新教室和屋顶露台。一个新的健康与福祉中心将把医疗专业人员和学生支持服务整合在同一屋檐下。

“该设施在设计之初就旨在面向未来，围绕灵活的跨学科空间构建，以鼓励创新问题的解决、勇于冒险以及对学生的全面支持，”乌尔费尔斯（Urfels）表示。“通过超越死记硬背，这些环境将通过公开演讲、表演和辩论，培养由 STEAM 驱动的设计思维、沟通能力和领导力。”

“通过鼓励学生挑战传统并从失败中学习，这些空间培养了突破极限所需的创造性自信，这不仅适用于今天的学生，也适用于未来的几代人。”

男孩们发现学习乐趣的地方。

SHS

斯特林大厅学校 (THE STERLING HALL SCHOOL) 男孩们的归属之地。

在圣迈克尔大学学校 (St. Michaels University School)，物理专业的学生通过工程师和研究人员使用的仪器获得实践经验，并将理论与现实世界的应用相结合。 EMMA ROSSUM / ST. MICHAELS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL

投资于先进的设计与工程课程

通过实际应用测试解决方案。

拥有 3-D 打印机和数字化制造工具固然很好，但这本身并不能创建有意义的设计和工程课程。

从设计思维过程和项目式学习等教学框架，到将创客空间与课程及社区伙伴关系相结合，许多私立学校正超越单纯地拥有一个创客空间，转而构建有意义的课程体系。

根据圣迈克尔大学学校 (SMUS) 的教育技术总监戴夫·赫兰农 (Dave Hlannon) 的说法，工程与设计远不止于拥有一个绝佳的钻研空间。SMUS 是一所位于不列颠哥伦比亚省维多利亚市的私立男女共学、涵盖初级幼儿园至 Grade 12 的寄宿学校。

他说：“将学习重新定义为以设计思维为导向，以好奇心为先导，并积极构建解决方案，所有这些都能培养在工程和设计领域提升学生能力所必需的关键技能。”

SMUS 投资于专业的教育技术专长、专业教师，以及一个不断扩展的课程路径，让学生在其中解决真实问题——与社区和大学合作伙伴合作，使用工业工具，并设计、构建和

这始于初级学校的“应用设计、技能与技术”(ADST) 课程。这是一个主要在不列颠哥伦比亚省使用的、涵盖幼儿园至 Grade 12 的手动实践课程框架，旨在教授学生如何利用设计思维和实践技能解决现实世界的问题。

在中学阶段，学生有多个涉及创客空间的课程选项和选修课；而高中阶段的学生则可以使用一个不断发展的工程、技术与设计部门。

“我们给学生提供混乱的、棘手的问题，给他们挣扎的机会，并让他们从失败中学习，”赫兰农说。

他表示，学生使用的工具包——从软件到 3-D 打印机和激光切割机——“与你在商业工业现场能找到的完全一样”。“学生们正在使用专业人士每天都在使用的一些相同工具来培养技能。”

学校为 Grade 3 至 Grade 12 提供由经验丰富的教师授课的课程，同时专业实验室技术员在学校所有的设计空间中为学生提供支持。

续见第 S20 页

圣克莱门特学校 (ST. CLEMENT'S SCHOOL)

这就是好奇心的样子。

在圣克莱门特学校，我们教授 Grades 1-12 的学生如何进行深度、批判性和创造性思考。

SCS 的这里与众不同。

位于安大略省惠特比的特拉法加城堡学校 (Trafalgar Castle School) 拥有一套从 Grade 4 到 Grade 12, 的阶梯式 STEAM 课程，该课程整合了设计思维过程，并强调通过“建设性失败”来培养韧性。 MILESH PATEL / TRAFALGAR CASTLE SCHOOL

接续第 S18 页 工程与设计

“在 SMUS 的高中课程中，我们与不列颠哥伦比亚大学和维多利亚大学（UVic）等高等教育合作伙伴开展了大量合作，以利用大学的实验室和专业知识，”Hlannon 表示。

维多利亚之手项目（Victoria Hand Project, VHP）是一家与维多利亚大学有联系的当地慈善机构，也是 SMUS 的项目合作伙伴之一。SMUS 的学生与 VHP 合作，为其低成本义肢设计并制作扩展原型，这些义肢被应用于全球。其中一些项目由 VHP 的工程师和设计师进一步开发，转化为义肢使用者可以使用的真实产品。

“对于我们的学生来说理所当然的任务，比如拉拉链或弹吉他，对于需要这些义肢的人来说几乎是不可能的，”Hlannon 说。“他们设计的适配扩展件扩大了接收者的能力，改善了他们的生活。”

位于安大略省惠特比的特拉法加城堡学校（Trafalgar Castle School）是一所独立的女子日校兼寄宿学校。该校技术教师 Penny Senior 表示，要超越传统的创客空间，需要将重心从最终产品转移到学习过程本身。

在特拉法加学校，这是通过一个从 4 年级到 12 年级的阶梯式 STEAM 课程实现的，以确保技能在自然且符合发展阶段的情况下递进。

Senior 表示，该计划整合了设计思维过程，强调建立对用户的共情，并通过“生产性失败”培养韧性——这一概念教会学生在原型不可避免地失败时，如何进行故障排除、迭代并改进设计。

“我们的课程要求进行真实的问题解决，例如 9 年级的协作项目，学生在创业课上设计自己的企业，并在技术课上使用我们的 3D 打印机和激光切割机制造实物产品，”Senior 说。

10 年级的学生会访问亚马逊的工程部门，以观察他们的学习在现实世界中的实践。亚马逊分享了他们如何利用设计思维过程和人工智能来设计和制造产品。

学生们掌握了行业标准工具，包括 CAD（TinkerCad 和 OnShape）、Python、Java、C++（Arduino）和 3D 打印机，以及木工工具和使用激光雕刻机与切割机的 Glowforge。

“他们设计、构建并测试实用解决方案，例如绘制制造鸟屋的蓝图，或在我们的泳池中构建并测试等比例的纸板船原型，”Senior 说。

学生们利用这些工具来解决环境问题，例如编写 Micro:Bits 代码使其在学校花园中充当授粉计数器，或为货轮设计可持续的硬质帆。

例如，为了解决真实的无障碍挑战，8 年级的学生采访了使用轮椅的人员——以帮助建立共情——然后设计了一个旨在提高学校无障碍程度的机器人系统原型。

特拉法加学校的“超越城堡”（Beyond the Castle）项目还专门用一周时间进行校外体验式学习，让学生参加滑铁卢大学、多伦多大学和多伦多都会大学等机构的研讨会。

“我们与德勤（Deloitte）、微软（Microsoft）、太阳生命（Sunlife）和亚马逊（Amazon）等行业领导者合作，进行设施参观、导师小组讨论，并接触真实的企业技术及其研发部门，”Senior 说。

“我们与安大略理工大学（Ontario Tech University）的深度合作，使我们能够使用其创客实验室（Maker's Lab）、参加竞争性编程研讨会、微证书课程，并为我们的学生提供保证的本科录取资格，”她补充道。

例如，9 年级的学生参与了一项与安大略理工大学的资助项目，利用虚拟现实头显设计辅助痴呆症患者的应用程序。而 7 年级和 8 年级的学生则与杜兰学院（Durham College）合作，访问其制造部门和科学实验室，以增强科学与技术课程。

教学框架、体验式学习和社区合作伙伴关系都有助于构建有意义的设计与工程项目——这些项目的影响力远超创客空间。

KCS 金路学院学校 (KINGSWAY COLLEGE SCHOOL)

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男孩和女孩的大脑有所不同，这就是为什么针对性别的教学方法有效

众所周知，儿童的大脑与成年人的大脑不同。但通过了解男孩和女孩大脑之间的差异可以获得什么？对于独立学校而言，该领域的研究可以在更广泛地认识影响学生发展因素的同时，为如何支持学生需求增加另一个维度。

“科学研究不断揭示男性和女性大脑发育之间的差异，而且必须说明的是，两者并没有优劣之分——但它们确实不同，”位于安大略省奥克维尔的女子学校圣米尔德里德-莱特本学校（SMLS）校长凯瑟琳·汉特（Catherine Hant）表示。

“很明显，女孩的大脑不仅在成熟方式上有所不同，而且她们每天在课堂上都展现出令人惊叹且独特的优势。这就是为什么一所针对女孩学习方式而设计的学校如此重要。”

汉特指出了专家（如领先的儿童与青少年精神病学家及神经科学家杰伊·吉德博士 [Dr. Jay Giedd]）的研究，以及国际女子学校联盟（ICGS）收集的持续研究，这些研究提供了关于性别特异性发育的见解。

虽然吉德博士表示男孩和女孩的智商非常相似，但男孩和女孩的大脑在某些结构的尺寸及其发育模式上存在差异。大脑成熟的一般趋势是，女孩的大脑比男孩的大脑成熟得更早。

“核磁共振成像（MRI）还显示，女孩大脑左右半球之间的沟通更强，从而能够进行多任务处理、复杂的社会认知，以及将分析细节与情感语境相结合的能力，”汉特说。“研究人员还发现，女孩倾向于更早地发育前额叶皮层网络。这里是冲动控制、规划和自我调节的中心，这使她们在反思性和自主学习方面具有明显优势。”

对于 SMLS 而言，关于性别特异性大脑差异的研究肯定了学校的核心宗旨，同时提供了新的见解以不断完善其教学方法。“这证明了我们的单性别环境并不是为了孤立女孩，而是为了创造一个支持性的空间，让她们能够在自然的生物时间线中茁壮成长，”汉特说。

“我们没有试图让女孩适应一个标准的、一刀切的模型；我们围绕她们来设计模型，”她继续说道。“当我们把这一点与全球学校系统的研究数据相结合时，例如 2023 年的 ICGS-OECD 报告，它进一步强化了女子教育的影响力。它确实能利用她们的优势，为她们的成功奠定基础。”

这些知识是如何产生

接续第 S6 页 体验式学习

麦金尼斯表示，这些体验经过精心设计，旨在帮助学生挖掘自身优势，测试关于潜在职业路径的假设，并习惯于在陌生环境中工作。

从 7 年级到 12 年级，这种方法强调好奇心、开放心态、适应能力、共情力、协作能力、自我意识和独立性。通过基于项目的学习、真实性评估以及 Appleby 的卓越文凭（全球领导力、STEM 领导力、商业领导力及创意艺术领导力），这些体验与学术学习相结合。

“这是为了让他们做好迎接未来的准备，”吉尼斯说。“他们不应仅仅成为知识的容器，实际上，他们需要能够应用这些知识，以便在未来的环境中发挥作用。”

多伦多法语学校（Toronto French School）是一所位于多伦多的男女合校双语学校。校长让-巴斯蒂安·乌尔费尔斯（Jean-Bastien Urfels）表示，学生在 10 年级就可以通过 Le Stage 项目开始接触职场，该项目将学生与与其兴趣相关的领域导师匹配，进行职场实习。该校的创业、创新与商业课程则采取了另一种路径：学生用一个学期的时间向行业专家学习，同时启动自己的创业项目，制作最小可行性产品并测试想法。该课程在 TFS Cougars' Den 活动中达到高潮，学生向专家评委推介商业模式，前两名将获得种子资金。

乌尔费尔斯表示，这些体验被嵌入到 TFS 的教育之中，而非被视为附加项。同样的理念也延伸至国际层面，学生参加在摩洛哥举行的模拟联合国等活动，并在巴黎学习联合国教科文组织（UNESCO）的相关知识，以及在学校校园内——至于在学校的生活？汉特表示，因为 SMLS 了解女孩的学习方式，学校的每个角落都是为了发挥她们的优势并建立她们的信心而构建的。

“我们知道，当概念与人文连接和沟通相结合时，女孩们表现得最为出色，”她说。“无论是物理还是诗歌，我们将高学术严谨性包裹在协作且充满讨论的体验之中。”

SMLS 还很早就引入了动手实践的空间设计、几何学和工程学。汉特说，这确保了女孩们“在社会刻板印象试图告诉她们相反结论之前，就建立了坚如磐石的空间自信”。学校还培养一种无畏冒险的文化，将承担巨大的智力风险和犯错视为学习过程中至关重要的步骤而予以赞赏。

一个例子是 SMLS 对 STEM 和机器人技术的处理方式。“我们的编程和机器人项目采用迭代设计。因此，如果机器人第一次尝试没有成功，我们的女孩不会将其视为失败——她们将其视为用于调试和改进的数据，”汉特说。

“我们还将科学和数学编织进现实世界的人类挑战中，利用女孩强大的关系处理能力，使复杂、抽象的概念变得具有深刻的个人意义且令人难忘。”

这种为女孩创造成长空间的强调，也得到了特拉法加城堡学校（Trafalgar Castle School）校长的共鸣。该校位于安大略省奥克维尔，是一所女子学校。梅丽莎·奈特-约翰逊（Melissa Knight-Johnson）表示，虽然研究显示存在某些性别相关的差异，但科学并未证明所有男孩都以一种方式学习，而女孩仅以另一种方式学习。

“这并不是要提供一套与男孩截然不同的课程，”奈特-约翰逊说。

“我们在特拉法加所做的是——基于大量研究、数据以及 152 年教育女孩的经验——创造一个让女孩能够占据每一个空间的环境。无论那个空间是什么，无论那个领导职位是什么，她们都能获得进入的机会、鼓励以及关于如何占据这些空间的阶梯式规划。”

奈特-约翰逊表示，特拉法加密切关注成就（这很重要，但可能变成一种执念）、自信（在青少年时期可能会受到影响）以及身心健康这三者之间的交汇点。

“我们将这些因素结合在一起，以便那些在学术上表现非常出色的学生在课堂上发言时能感到更加自在，”她说。

“这对我们非常重要。我们的责任不仅是培养能力，还要培养自信、自主意识、韧性以及承担适当风险的意愿。我们项目的另一个标志是，我们鼓励她们承担风险，有时甚至允许失败，因为我们通过失败来学习。”

在这里，其位于唐河谷（Don Valley）的地理环境成为了环境科学、研究、艺术和管护的活教室。

商业竞赛、国际旅行和社区项目也是克雷斯特伍德预科学校（Crestwood Preparatory College）教学方法的一部分，旨在让学生接触到传统课堂之外的可能性。招生主任金·威廉姆斯（Kim Williams）表示，诸如 DECA 商业竞赛之类的项目可以帮助学生识别自身优势，探索兴趣，并在培养沟通、协作、适应能力和自信心的同时，对可能的未来路径有更清晰的认识。

在位于安大略省莱克菲尔德（Lakefield）奥托纳比河（Otonabee River）畔的男女共学学校——莱克菲尔德学院（Lakefield College School），现实世界的实验室通常就是户外，可持续发展助理负责人珍妮丝·格林希尔兹（Janice Greenshields）如是说。超过 78 per cent 的学生参加户外教育课程，学习的技能涵盖从导航和野外急救到领导力、白水划艇以及冬季远征技能等多个方面。

“莱克菲尔德的独特之处在于，我们所有的户外体验都由我们自己的教职员工开发并带领，”格林希尔兹说。这包括 Grade 12 学生在阿尔冈金公园（Algonquin Park）划独木舟、徒步行走于布鲁斯步道（Bruce Trail），或参与社区共享农业项目。户外学习并非孤立的冒险，而是课程体系的一部分。

莱克菲尔德还将全球交流、共课探索、实践商业教育和社区合作伙伴关系相结合，为学生提供实际的现实世界学习机会。学生可以通过涵盖创业、法律、编程和 AI 等各种社团探索潜在职业，而商业课程则强调案例研究、决策制定和领导力。

“我们永远不知道未来会遇到什么，或者在工作中需要解决什么问题，”格林希尔兹说。“我们的学生需要能够随机应变，做出决定，并获得同伴的共识。”

当女孩敢于冒险，伟大的事情就会发生

社会规范可能会使女孩倾向于成为顺从者而非冒险者。像毕晓普-斯特拉钱学校（Bishop Strachan School）这样的女子学校鼓励学生走出舒适区。图片由毕晓普-斯特拉钱学校提供

女孩需要更多冒险的机会。而这正是几所女子学校致力于实现的目标——通过有目的的课程规划、课外活动和领导力机会来建立自信。

“根深蒂固的社会规范在历史上将女性塑造为照顾者和顺从者，而非大胆的决策者，”多伦多的一所圣公会女子日校兼寄宿学校——毕晓普-斯特拉钱学校（BSS，涵盖从初级幼儿园到12年级）的副校长琳达·沃特斯（Lynda Watters）表示。

克服这些依然存在的潜规则是该校工作的动力。“BSS女孩的特质明确地将经过计算的冒险融入到日常校园生活中，为学生提供每天走出舒适区并培养坚韧品质的机会，”沃特斯说。

在纯女生的环境中，每一个领导岗位——从学术团队队长到首席级长——都由年轻女性担任。她们在高度可见的岗位上以及日常点滴中发挥领导作用。

“为了在世界上推动有意义的变革，年轻女性必须学会应对不确定性，”沃特斯说。“我们赋予女孩做出深思熟虑决策的知识、执行决策的勇气，以及承担结果的自信。”她们学到，失败并非挫折，而是未来成长所必需的。

冒险在校内外的多种形式中发生。无论是学生在冰球比赛中从蓝线处果断射门，在课堂上挑战同伴的观点，还是与亲密好友竞争领导岗位，这些都涉及风险。

“研究一致表明，女性高级管理人员与参与高水平体育运动之间存在强相关性，这在很大程度上是因为体育运动教会个人如何应对压力、采取经过计算的风险并从失败中反弹，”沃特斯说。

“在BSS，我们将这些机会扩展到学生生活的每一个领域，”她说。“最近，一名学生以雄辩且沉稳的姿态在全校面前发表讲话，而两年前这对她来说感觉是不可能的里程碑。”

正是这种在支持性环境下渐进且重复的冒险机会，有助于将最初的怀疑转化为长期的领导力自信。

由于每个学生都是独特的——对一名学生来说令人生畏的事情，对另一名学生来说可能自然而然——因此BSS的冒险是个性化的。

“通过深入了解我们的学生，我们在他们突破现有能力时给予支持，”沃特斯说。“真正的成长发生在舒适区之外，因此我们积极鼓励女孩在追求既有热忱的同时，探索陌生的学科。”

例如，BSS鼓励在智力、体育、艺术和人际交往方面冒险。这涵盖了从向行业专家展示独立研究、在创新挑战赛中推介原创创业项目，到承担个人舞台表演以及从零开始创立新的学生倡议。

在位于安大略省惠特比（Whitby）的特拉法加城堡学校（Trafalgar Castle School，一所面向4至12年级学生的独立女子日校兼寄宿学校），冒险被视为推动变革的核心部分。

“社会往往在潜移默化中引导女孩追求完美而非尝试机会，从而强化了她们在学术或社交环境中对犯错、被评判或走出舒适边界的恐惧，”特拉法加学校的副校长凯特·赫本（Kate Hebdon）表示。

“当女孩们意识到失败仅仅是迭代和数据收集，而非对其个人价值的反映时，她们就会产生信心去迎接未来的重大挑战，”她说。

承担风险能培养智力勇气、灵活的问题解决能力、自我主张能力、领导力以及情绪调节能力。当这种实践在学校环境中进行时，它就成了毕业后生活的“受控实验室”。

“这在承担风险的同时提供了一张关怀的安全网，”赫本说道。这让学生们能够准备好在大学和职业环境中“应对模糊地带，坚持自己的想法，并从挫折中反弹”。

特拉法加学校创造了一个全女性、规模精简的环境，旨在消除社交压力，使学生能够安全地进行尝试、失败并再次尝试。

学校积极鼓励智力风险（如大胆发言或在表达不同意见时进行协作）、创意与技术风险（如设计思维和原型制作）以及个人与社交风险（如担任领导职务和参与社区活动）。

例如，在商业创业课程中，9年级的学生致力于解决一个问题并策划一款能让社区受益的产品，然后在学校的五月节庆祝活动上将其售出。

“我们所有11年级和12年级的学生都要为同龄人和低年级学生主持一个为期五节课的研讨会，分享并共同探讨一项特定的技能或兴趣领域，”赫本说道。

这些现实世界的机会和经验将学生拉出舒适区，让他们从中学习如何克服摩擦感或尴尬感。

即便在当今时代，女孩和女性仍然面临着影响其身份认同和行为方式的微妙社会期待。

“人们认为，在答案不确定时举手，或者承担高风险的竞争角色，与社会压力相冲突——”

“这种压力要求她们必须表现得随和，”安大略省奥克维尔的一所独立女子学校——圣米尔德里德-莱特本学校（SMLS）的学术副校长布拉德·里德（Brad Read）说道。

“潜意识中的偏见仍可能引导女孩远离机器人学、高级STEM或领导岗位等环境，”他表示。“而且人们有一种认为失败是不可接受的感觉，导致她们倾向于留在舒适区，而不是尝试那些无法保证成功的事情。”

SMLS致力于创造一个性别不再成为障碍的环境。里德表示，这很重要，因为女孩需要专门的空间来承担风险——自信是通过实践而非完美建立起来的。

“当女孩被保护在潜在的失败之外时，她们就失去了了解自己真正能力的机会，”里德说。“当女孩走出舒适区，她们学会将失败重新定义为学习和成长中正常且健康的一部分。”

这可以帮助她们打破性别刻板印象，尤其是在工程、商业和技术等男性主导的领域，并使采取主动行为变得常态化。

“我们知道，在学校敢于挺身而出的女性，在日后更有可能申请具有挑战性的工作、要求晋升或开展创业项目，”里德说道。

在SMLS，承担风险被刻意织入其文化之中。在一所完全为女孩设计的学校里，每一个角色都由女孩担任。教师和顾问充当积极的导师，引导她们度过挫折。

而且，承担风险并非听天由命，而是直接构建在结构化课程中，例如为女孩提供专业实习、国际交流和竞争性团队等现实世界的机会。

女孩们可以修读大学预修课程（AP），组织学校集会，尝试一项新运动或成为舍长。她们还可以潜心钻研编程，或加入SWAT 771（学校的高级机器人团队）——这是一个女孩在历史上代表性不足的STEM领域。

“学校是最终的试金石，”里德说。“在性格形成的关键时期，这里是学生承担智力与个人风险的安全场所，这让女孩在现实世界的领导力竞争中占据先机。”

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Anne Carson sits outside her home in Reykjavik in 2023. Ms. Carson has received several other international honours, including the Lannan Literary Award for poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. KJARTAN THORBJOERNSSON/GOLLI/REUTERS

Venerated poet and classicist Anne Carson awarded Nobel

Toronto native, 76, becomes third Canadian-born winner of literature prize as academy cites 'her bold and inventive oeuvre'

BRAD WHEELER

Canada's Anne Carson has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, worth 12 million Swedish crowns, or about \$1.7-million. The announcement was made Thursday in Stockholm.

The 76-year-old modernist poet, translator, classics scholar and member of the Order of Canada was recognized for “her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

She is the third Canadian to be awarded the prize, given to a living writer for outstanding career contributions in literature.

"Anne Carson has, throughout her entire career, combined poetry writing with translation work and teaching at various universities. Almost all her literary production has centred upon the intersection between the philologist's obsession with words and the poet's desire for new meaning. She has herself identified the etymology of words as the starting point for all her work," the Swedish Academy said in a statement.

The Toronto-born writer has earned high international recognition before, receiving the Lannan Literary Award for poetry, the T. S. Eliot Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature and the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.

Upon notification that she had won, Ms. Carson told the Swedish Academy by phone that she was currently in Iceland “listening to the wind,” and that she was taken by surprise but very happy.

Asked by The Globe and Mail for a response to winning the prestigious prize, she e-mailed back a one-word reaction in all caps: "YIKES!!"

Among her best-known works is 1998's Autobiography of Red, both a novel and a poem, and also both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present. CARSON, A8

Ottawa's move to fast-track oil pipeline runs into first legal challenge

EMMA GRANEY ENERGY REPORTER CALGARY

An Alberta First Nation is taking Ottawa to court over the government's decision to designate the planned Pacific Link oil pipeline a priority in the national interest, the first legal challenge to the federal push to fast-track the project.

At the heart of the application for judicial review, filed by Cold Lake First Nations on Thursday, are the community's concerns about a lack of consultation over the pipeline, which would carry one million barrels of oil a day from Bruderheim, Alta., to Roberts Bank in British Columbia. Another focus of the application is a massive carbon-capture project planned for the oil sands.

Prime Minister Mark Carney has repeatedly tied approval of the pipeline to that carbon-capture project, called Pathways, which would include a 400-kilometre pipeline that would transport carbon trapped at oil sands facilities to an underground hub near Cold Lake, Alta.

Cold Lake First Nations sits in the middle of oil sands development in Northern Alberta. While the community supports responsible resource development, Chief Kelsey Jacko said in a statement, it wants to ensure activity is “done right, with meaningful consultation and clear answers about the long-term impacts of projects in the region.”

The legal challenge from Cold Lake is the first against Pacific Link, which would give Alberta oil access to more international markets and garner higher prices.

Pacific Link last week became the first major project to be designated a national priority under the federal Building Canada Act, new legislation that is a marquee element of Mr. Carney's economic agenda.

The pipeline is also a priority of the Alberta government, which has cited it as an example of cooperation with Ottawa in the lead-up to the province's referendum on separation this month.

The act provides an accelerated pathway through regulatory approvals, but has been criticized by Indigenous groups over concern that a faster approval process could trample their treaty rights. PIPELINE, A6

China touts its desert fish farms as a feat of ingenuity. The truth is more complicated

IAN URBINA

China's Xinjiang region, located on the country's far northwest frontier, is a land of unforgiving extremes. Defined by mountains and a vast desert, the area - which is also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region - makes up one-sixth of the country's land mass.

At Xinjiang's southwest border stands K2 at 8,611 metres, the second-highest mountain in the world. Nearly one out of six climbers has died trying to reach K2's summit, making attempts to scale it far more deadly than trying to reach the top of Mount Everest.

The Karakoram Range, where

K2 is situated, is just one of four major mountain ranges abutting, slicing through or ringing Xinjiang. Together, the mountains, while breathtaking to look at, keep much of Xinjiang starved of moisture. Barely 15 centimetres of rain fall every year across the region's 1.6 million square kilometres.

The result is that a huge swath of Xinjiang is taken up by China's largest desert, the Taklamakan. Home to colossal sandstorms, the Taklamakan's ever-shifting dunes can top 200 metres, earning it a variety of grim names, including the Land of Ruins and the Sea of Death.

Remarkably, China has found a way to bring fish to this inhospitable region. Between the 1960s and now, China has established roughly 1,000 fish farms in Xinjiang that produce about 180,000 tonnes of seafood annually, including salmon, crayfish, bass, carp, crab and shrimp.

In China, fish farming is portrayed as a source of national pride, bolstered by a government-backed media that highlights the engineering feats required for aquaculture in such an inhospitable location. Chinese media call it the "Blue Miracle," a maritime economy in one of the most landlocked places on Earth.

But this project comes with extraordinary risks and contradictions - polluting mountain rivers and lakes, pumping fish full of antibiotics and other chemicals dangerous to the people who eat them, misleading consumers with mislabelled seafood, and driving tremendous amounts of overfishing in other countries' waters to form the feed pellets eaten by carnivorous species farmed in Xinjiang.

China's push for inland aquaculture also occurs against the backdrop of intense state repression in Xinjiang, including the forced relocation, detention and surveillance of millions of people, and the appropriation of huge swaths of land.

The Outlaw Ocean Project, a news organization in Washington, mapped these farms as part of a sweeping investigation showing how much seafood is reaching the United States, including government facilities, in violation of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA).

The U.S. bans all goods produced “wholly or in part” by workers in Xinjiang or by ethnic minorities from the region on the presumption that they were made with state-sponsored forced labour.

In the context of U.S. law, North Korean and Xinjiang workers are a priori established as forced labour because of the distinct level of state repression they experience and how the government treats that category of people generally. The U.S. government has described China's actions in Xinjiang as a form of genocide.

Canadian laws do not cite China specifically but prohibit imports tied to forced labour of any kind.

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For October, we are featuring works from the National Gallery of Canada, one of the world's most respected art institutions. Founded in 1880, the Ottawa-based gallery has played a key role in Canadian culture for more than a century. The NGC works to develop, preserve and present more than 90,000 pieces, representing one of the most comprehensive collections of Indigenous and Canadian art, major works from the 14th to 21st centuries, as well as extensive library and archival holdings. https://www.gallery.ca/

Frederick Alexcee – also known by his Tsimshian name, Wiksamnen – created paintings and sculptures during a period of profound change for Northwest Coast Indigenous nations. Mr. Alexcee's view of Lax Kw'alaams here depicts the post during its heyday in the 1850s to 1870s, likely recalled from his own childhood memories and those of his elders. Alexcee's innovative practice was characterized by both continuity and change, and perhaps a greater cause of keeping record.

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Arkells sell TDSB hats to support school nutrition programs

DAVE McGINN EDUCATION REPORTER

Arkells frontman Max Kerman worked with the rock band's merchandise designer to make a vintage-looking hat featuring the Toronto District School Board's logo of an apple.

Max Kerman, frontman of the Canadian rock band Arkells, likes vintage fashion and loves – really loves – public education.

His mom was a special education teacher in Toronto. Reflecting back on his high school years, he said his time at Harbord Collegiate Institute helped shape who he is today.

In his view, public school is one of the great democratic institutions deserving of much more boosterism. A few years ago, Mr. Kerman worked with the band's merchandise designer to make a vintage-looking hat featuring the Toronto District School Board's logo of an apple.

He's been wearing it periodically ever since. It starts a lot of conversations with people, many of whom don't even know he's in a band.

"They just see the hat and they want to talk about their school. They want to talk about their education," Mr. Kerman said. "Teachers feel really seen by it, teachers really appreciate it, so I figured let's make this for sale a little bit more widely."

This week, with the board's permission, the band began selling two versions of the hat online for preorder, for \$40 each. There is a green rope hat, featuring a thin decorative cord stretched across the front, and a floppy grey version.

Proceeds from the sales will go to support the nutrition programs at Toronto Foundation for Student Success.

So far, the hats have received some high-profile endorsements from Canadian indie-rock luminaries. Jim Cuddy of Blue Rodeo has been seen sporting one. So, too, has former Barenaked Ladies member Steven Page.

Dan Levy, of Schitt's Creek fame, has reached out to the band to say he'd love to get one.

Mr. Kerman, 39, said his first inspiration for the hat was his mother, who used to teach at Central Technical School in the Harbord Village area of Toronto, near where he attended high school.

Thanks to her, Mr. Kerman gained his appreciation for public education as a great equalizer.

"I've always thought about sort of the randomness of luck when it comes to a child's upbringing, and how amazing a great public school system can be," he said. "That no matter who your parents are, no matter what postal code you live in, or no matter what your parents' job is, every kid can come through the same doors and get to share time with each other."

The hat is a celebration of everyone working in public school, especially teachers, Mr. Kerman said.

Part of its appeal, is that unlike a Harvard sweatshirt or a Ferrari hat, the brand it's repping – the idea of public school itself – is the antithesis of exclusivity.

Proceeds from the sales will go to support the nutrition programs at Toronto Foundation for Student Success.

"Given how much social isolation there is, given how much division the algorithmic social media channels offer us ... what is a place where we can all just see each other for the humans that we are?" he said. "That is a public school."

The choice to support student nutrition programs came to Mr. Kerman by way of his niece and nephew, who attend high school in Toronto. They had told him about the healthy breakfast program at their school, accessible to

all students.

"I thought, yeah, this is a good place because kids need to be well-fed if they're going to have a good day at school," he said.

The Toronto Foundation for Student Success supports nearly 1,000 school nutrition programs that provide 284,000 healthy meals to students every school day.

Across the country, nearly one-third of children under the age of 18 - 2.4 million kids - live in food insecure households, according to Statistics Canada data.

The hats are not just a celebration of public school in support of a good cause - they're also a reminder of the responsibility to care for everyone that public education is founded on, Mr. Kerman said.

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Advisers view Vancouver International Airport as a priority among Canada's four airports to go through Ottawa's privatization process as they expect it to draw First Nations investment. JENNIFER GAUTHIER/REUTERS

MacKinnon notes no decisions have been made on which location will go through the process first

BILL CURRY OTTAWA ANDREW WILLIS TORONTO ERIC ATKINS TORONTO

Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon said Thursday that Ottawa is in talks with First Nations about partnerships as it seeks new private investors for Canada's four largest airports.

However, he said, no decisions have been made on which airport will go through the process first.

The Globe and Mail reported Wednesday, citing sources, that bankers and lawyers advising Ottawa have decided that Vancouver International Airport should be the first of the four airports to go through Ottawa's privatization process. Further, Ottawa's advisers are offering Indigenous groups in British Columbia an opportunity to be minority investors.

Advisers view Vancouver Airport, or YVR, as the priority because they expect it to draw First Nations investment.

The Globe report said the government's airport plans are in their early stages, and the timing and structure of investments could change, according to four sources.

The Globe is not naming the sources because they are not permitted to speak for their employers.

Indigenous investors listening to pitches for stakes in the Vancouver Airport include the Musqueam First Nation, The Globe reported. The airport is on the Musqueam's unceded territory.

In a speech to a gathering of the International Air Transport Association in Ottawa Thursday, Mr.

MacKinnon told industry representatives that the government is seeking their ideas on the best way to proceed with the plan.

Speaking with reporters after the speech, Mr. MacKinnon did not dispute that talks have been held with the Musqueam First Nation as part of broader consultations.

"I certainly acknowledge that there have been fulsome discussions, as you can imagine, whether it be major projects, reconciliation writ large, or this initiative. We're in constant communication with relevant First Nations," he said.

Mr. MacKinnon said Ottawa is relying on advisers for technical expertise but cautioned that talk of which airport will go through the process first is speculative.

"These are large and complicated transactions. They require expertise," he said. "So that creates a number of people who are involved in this, and a number of people who speculate, but I want to be clear that no decisions have been made."

Prime Minister Mark Carney first announced the airport plan at an investment summit held last month in Toronto.

At the time, the government said the plan would see Ottawa retain ownership of the underlying land and assets but seek private investment through long-term agreements that will bring in new capital and expertise for airport operations and growth.

In his speech, Mr. MacKinnon described the plan as an effort at "unlocking" new investment in Canada's airports.

The minister has previously said that some of the revenue raised through the process will be redirected to support improvements for Canada's smaller, re-

gional airports.

"We're looking for ideas around innovation, ideas around taking risks and being entrepreneurial with many of our airport assets," he said in his speech Thursday.

"So, beyond the four identified facilities, we're looking to all of you - airlines, airports, and all the players in the system - for ideas about how we can make our system more affordable, work more fluidly, and take better care of the people who entrust their travel to us," he said.

Speaking at the Ottawa conference on Thursday, executives who run some of Canada's smaller airports urged the federal government to take its time on plans for the four largest hubs. They said they want to ensure Ottawa selects the right model and doesn't merely create a more expensive toll collector for airports, travellers and airlines, as well as a poorly

All but three of Canada's 26 largest airports have, since the 1990s, been operated by non-profit corporations that rely on user fees and pay rent to the federal government. The airports have long pushed Ottawa to reinvest the rent – which totalled more than \$500-million in 2025 – in the airport system.

Joyce Carter, chief executive officer of the Halifax International Airport Authority, agreed that the model for all airports is due for a review and change. "But we have to do it slowly and we have to do it carefully," Ms. Carter said.

The airport operator paid \$12-million in federal rent in 2025 and made a profit of \$19.4-million, according to its annual report.

"It really is prohibitive for an airport my size to have to pay the rent we do, and it really does restrict the development that we can do in our community," Ms. Carter said.

"And so, revisiting that model to be able to have it more fair and equitable as part of this would be a good outcome."

Monette Pasher, CEO of the Canadian Airports Council, which represents more than 100 airports, said there are many questions about the “massive change” in how the country’s biggest airports are run, including the government’s goal. Is the privatization about making profits or improving affordability for travellers, she asked.

At stake, she said, is the ability of the airport industry to grow to meet demand for air travel that is expected to double in the next 20 years. "We really don't know what concession model they're going to choose, and there are many," Ms. Pasher said.

"And in our experience, there's some really good ones out there. We think we're a good one, and there are also many others that are good, and there are many that are bad."

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Ontario Premier's Office dismisses ex-Postmedia chair's claim about op-ed before election

JEFF GRAY LAURA STONE

Paul Godfrey, the 87-year-old former Postmedia chairman and a long-time prominent Progressive Conservative, is accusing Ontario Premier Doug Ford's office of trying to use the potential extension of a government contract with a company run by Mr. Godfrey's son as "political leverage."

In an allegation that has been denied by both the Premier's Office and Postmedia, Mr. Godfrey – chairman of Metro Toronto from 1973 to 1984 and later chief executive of the Toronto Blue Jays – says he felt pressured to ask his former newspaper chain to print an op-ed by the Premier before last year's snap provincial election.

The allegation is the latest chapter in a tangled, multimillion-dollar legal battle involving the provincial government and Keel Digital Solutions Corp., a technology company that is subject to an OPP probe and has been put into receivership. Its chairman is Mr. Godfrey's son, Rob Godfrey.

Keel Digital Solutions Corp. and its subsidiary Get A-Head Inc., which operated an online mental-health counselling portal, received \$40-million in government payments over the past five years from the province's Ministry of Colleges and Universities, the Ministry of Health, and the Skills Development Fund, which distributes cash for worker-training programs and was the subject of a political firestorm last year.

In a sworn statement that was released this week, the elder Mr. Godfrey alleges that in January, 2025, his son told him that he had just spoken to Patrick Sackville, then Mr. Ford's chief of staff. The statement says Mr. Sackville had agreed to help hurry up an approval for a proposal to switch Keel's contract with the Ministry of Colleges and Universities to a three-year term, instead of having to renew it each year.

But the statement alleges that

Mr. Sackville then added that he needed a “favour” – the publication of a letter from the Premier in all of Postmedia’s Ontario newspapers justifying the province’s impending early election call. Mr. Godfrey’s time at the helm of Postmedia had ended in 2022, and while he said he was “uncomfortable” with the request, he still brought it to the media company’s brass.

"I have spent an entire career either in or around politics," his statement reads. "I understood what this demand from the Premier's office meant. This was using political leverage and power over a small company to extract a benefit that Keel had no ability to provide."

In a statement provided by Mr.

Ford's spokesperson Hannah Jensen, the Premier's Office said Mr. Godfrey's "claims are categorically untrue and completely disconnected from reality."

In a statement sent to media on Thursday, Mr. Godfrey repeated the allegations and called the response from the Premier's Office "laughable." In an e-mail, his assistant declined to make him available for an interview.

Mr. Sackville told The Globe and Mail on Thursday that "the allegation is entirely false."

In a statement, Postmedia said it was the Premier's Office that approached the company's current CEO about an op-ed, and that the request was passed to the editorial team for consideration, who chose to run it.

“No commercial consideration would ever be required for the Premier, or any political figure, to share their opinion in our editorial pages,” the Postmedia statement reads. “We have no knowledge of the background events described by Mr. Godfrey.”

The newspaper chain also noted it has run op-eds by multiple other politicians, including one from Bonnie Crombie, then the Ontario Liberal leader and Mr. Ford's rival in the 2025 campaign, three days after Mr. Ford's piece was published.

The company at the centre of the dispute, Keel Digital, has now run aground financially amid a pitched battle with the province over how the taxpayer cash Get A-Head received was accounted for. This week, a court agreed with a request by a lender, National Bank, to put the companies into receivership over \$4.5-million in unpaid debts.

Last year, Ontario forwarded a forensic audit of Get A-Head to the Ontario Provincial Police, prompting the force to open an investigation. Early this year, the province took the companies and their executives to court, accusing them of “fraudulent misrepresentation” and demanding \$25.7-million in repayments. The defendants have denied any wrongdoing and countersued, alleging \$100-million in damages. Talks to settle the legal fight have not resulted in a deal. The allegations have not been tested in court.

Keel Digital has previously accused the government of using the company as a “scapegoat” to distract from the political controversy surrounding the flow of Skills Development Fund cash to organizations with ties to the Progressive Conservatives.

In an interview with The Globe on Thursday, Rob Godfrey said his request to Mr. Sackville was to prod the Treasury Board to hurry its approval of a three-year deal for his company's services, not to win the contract itself. He said it wasn't a "big ask."

He said Mr. Sackville then "switched topics" and asked for a "favour." While he did not explicitly link the op-ed to the contract, Mr. Godfrey said this was what he understood: "It was a friendly conversation. At the time it was said friendly. But that's how things work."

Ottawa declassifies details about CIA's role in resettling Nazi war criminals

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The government has declassified portions of a report on the resettlement of Nazi war criminals that reveal new details of how dozens of people, including those suspected of collaboration with the Third Reich, were helped to come to Canada after the Second World War through a secret CIA program.

The newly declassified information sheds more light on the role American intelligence agencies played in facilitating the settlement of Nazi collaborators in Canada, in some cases by providing false identity papers. Sections of the report kept secret for decades also reveal new specifics about the number of people thought to have entered the country with U.S. covert help.

The federal government Thursday declassified more of a 40-year-old report written by historian Alti Rodal for the 1985-86 Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals in Canada, headed by former Quebec judge Jules Deschênes. The commission investigated allegations that Canada had become a safe haven for Nazi war criminals.

Last month, a Federal Court judge ordered Ottawa to publish redacted parts of the Rodal report. Canadian Identity Minister Marc Miller decided not to appeal the court ruling, which followed a legal action by Jewish organization B'Nai Brith.

Most of Ms. Rodal's report had already been made public, with further declassified details released in 2024.

The report found that Nazi collaborators who had aided the United States, including by providing information, were as- sisted in entering Canada by the Research and Resettlement Branch of the United States Ar- my in Europe (USAREUR).

The Rodal report said USA-REUR was then a cover organization for the Central Intelligence Agency and other such U.S. agencies. The U.S. Army organization admitted that some of its informants had criminal records, including a number arising from cases involving moral turpitude - the category under which Nazi collaborators were listed.

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According to the newly unredacted text, the RCMP had reported to Ottawa in 1954 “that some forty persons had been presented for admission to Canada in 1953 by USAREUR.”

Another unredacted section says that American intelligence personnel “could well have assisted persons with war criminal background to immigrate to Canada.”

“They were in a position to provide such persons with false documentation and to report to Canadian Visa Control officers in the course of their routine checks that there was nothing adverse about these prospective immigrants,” one declassified section of the report said.

Another newly unredacted section shows that the RCMP pushed back against admitting dozens of suspected war criminals to Canada by rejecting some applicants sponsored by the covert U.S. program.

A 1954 memorandum from the then-RCMP commissioner to a former Canadian undersecretary of state referred to 35 people who had already come to Canada with the assistance from USAREUR. It added that there were "52 additional names of applicants sponsored or advanced by USAREUR but rejected by the RCMP, mainly on security grounds."

Another declassified section of the report suggests the RCMP was not aware of the precise number of suspected war criminals who settled in Canada with American help: "The RCMP for its part was convinced in 1954 that larger numbers than those actually detected had been pushed through the Canadian immigration stream with false documentation arranged by USAREUR."

Jared McBride, a history professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who provided witness testimony during the court hearing, said the declassified information is “more revealing than previously anticipated.”

"It is known that U.S. intelligence sought to relocate defectors and displaced persons who had provided services to them – not only to the United States after the war, but also to other countries. What is far less known is that U.S. intelligence sought to deliberately deceive its allies by creating fictional biographies for these individuals, as described by Canadian officials and summarized by Rodal in this report."

In ordering more sections of the 618-page report to be unredacted last month, Judge Simon Fothergill said he considered "the importance of the historical record" and "the passage of time."

Only one redacted portion of the report, Nazi War Criminals in Canada: The Historical and Policy Setting from the 1940s to the Present, now remains. Part two of the Deschênes Commission report, which included a list of names of suspected war criminals, has never been released.

Simon Wolle, B'Nai Brith Canada's chief executive officer, hailed the release of almost all the secret passages in the Rodal report as a "historic outcome."

"We are pleased this information has been made available to historians, survivors of the Holocaust and their descendants, and the public. The time has finally come to obtain justice for the Jewish people, for Canadians to learn from the past, as well as to pursue truth and accountability in Canada."

Ms. Rodal told The Globe and Mail that Justice Deschênes had intended in 1986 that her report be made public and accessible.

"My hope is that the saga surrounding my report will lead to greater transparency about important aspects of our past, to a greater sense of responsibility to preserve and make accessible the historical record, particularly records relating to the Holocaust," she said in a statement Thursday.

Bernie Farber, former CEO of the Canadian Jewish Congress, who for decades has urged Ottawa to open its archives on Nazi war criminals, said successive governments have found reasons to conceal this history, but “with this release, the past is finally catching up with the present.”

"Alti Rodal's report for the Deschênes Commission examined how Nazi war criminals entered Canada and lived peacefully here for decades. It exposed grave failures of judgment by Canadian officials in the late 1940s and 1950s," he added.

The federal government came under renewed pressure to release previously classified elements of the commission's work after Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old who served in a Nazi-led Ukrainian SS division, was given standing ovations in the House of Commons during a visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in 2023.

Historian Per Anders Rudling of Lund University in Sweden, who researches Nazi war criminals in Canada, said the government should now release the full list of suspected Nazi war criminals who came to Canada.

He said “if Libraries and Archives Canada is interested in stimulating understanding, now would be a good time to open their relevant archives to researchers.”

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Author's testimony mentions university bursary and a possible lawsuit against school

MIKE HAGER VANCOUVER

The former creative-writing student who accused best-selling novelist and then-professor Steven Galloway of sexual assault threatened to sue the University of British Columbia for up to \$3-million, claiming negligence by the school and other offences.

The B.C. Supreme Court heard Thursday that the university had already given the woman a bursary after graduating worth \$30,000, money that Mr. Galloway testified Thursday the woman was not entitled to.

Mr. Galloway, who was the chair of the school's creative-writing program, launched a defamation case against almost two dozen defendants. He claims that their allegations that he sexually assaulted and harassed the woman ruined his reputation, cost him his job and destroyed his personal life. Only the woman and three others are on trial. The rest have settled with Mr. Galloway.

The court heard about an April 7, 2016, e-mail from the woman's then-lawyer, Joanna Birenbaum, to UBC's associate vice-president of equity & inclusion, Sara-Jane Finlay. In it, Ms. Birenbaum thanks the school for its "very quick transfer of funds," which Mr. Galloway said he found out in 2017 amounted to \$30,000.

The payment was first revealed during his arbitration with the school over his firing.

Mr. Galloway told the court he believed that the woman, his former lover, was not eligible for the money because she had already graduated.

"There's no academic reason to have given this," he stated during questioning from his lawyer, Daniel Burnett.

Court also heard that later in 2016, sometime in the middle of December, UBC's general counsel Hubert Lai was involved in an e-mail discussion over the woman's draft statement of claim to sue the school for up to \$3-million for negligence, breach of contract and other reasons.

It was not revealed in court Thursday what happened with her lawsuit threat.

Arden Beddoes, lawyer for the woman who is known as A.B. because her identity is protected by a publication ban, objected to Mr. Galloway's testimony about the internal UBC e-mails because he said it called for Mr. Galloway to speculate.

"The documents speak for themselves," Mr. Beddoes said of the exhibits of internal UBC communications.

But Mr. Burnett was allowed by the judge to pursue the discussion of financial compensation for A.B. because – if his client is awarded damages – it could point toward her malicious actions.

Mr. Galloway told the court he believed that the woman, his former lover, was not eligible for the money because she had already graduated.

"The communications by or on behalf of A.B. getting and seeking money out of UBC is arising from the very thing that is the defamation," he said.

A.B. is not testifying and, at the start of the trial, Mr. Beddoes told the court that she was withdrawing her defences of truth and fair comment - but not admitting that she spread lies about her former romantic partner. Mr. Beddoes said she had tried to kill herself twice in recent months because of the stress of the ordeal.

After the woman's allegations surfaced in 2015, Mr. Galloway was suspended and then fired as head of UBC's creative-writing program without severance due to breach of trust. News of the incident spurred an online firestorm over the CanLit luminary's rights to due process versus the rights of his alleged victim.

A retired judge hired by the university to investigate the complaint found that, on a balance of probabilities, it could not be established that he committed sexual assault or assault.

Mr. Galloway was never charged with a crime.

Earlier Thursday, Mr. Burnett asked his client about the up to \$1.5-million in total royalties he made from his 2008 international bestseller The Cellist of Sarajevo.

Court heard that the book had been optioned for a movie adaptation, which never materialized.

Mr. Galloway testified that he had signed a contract to produce three new books about a ventriloquist detective before the allegation surfaced and detonated his ability to continue as an author or be booked as a paid public speaker.

He said his income from book royalties had since “cratered” to about \$5,000 to \$10,000 a year “tops,” and that he hasn’t received any invitations for speaking engagements.

Mr. Galloway also testified that people who signed a letter criticizing the university's handling of the misconduct case against him were subjected to "extremely hurtful" comments and suffered socially and professionally.

The letter, known as “UBC Accountable,” was published in November, 2016 with signatories from the literary community, including Margaret Atwood, but Mr. Galloway said many removed their names after a wave of vitriolic online criticism.

He said people lost jobs and friendships were ruined, and one signatory called him in tears, saying her daughter was never going to speak to her again.

A number of friends, even those who believed in his innocence, would not talk to him any more because being associated with him would be “career suicide,” he said.

Mr. Galloway said that after he'd won an arbitration award from the university, he "briefly had the hope" that the social-media storm would subside, but the posts continued.

He did not get his job back as part of the arbitration.

"I wouldn't have gone back for a million dollars a year to that place," Mr. Galloway said.

Mr. Galloway is due to be cross-examined by lawyers for the four defendants starting Friday.

With a report from The Canadian Press

Pipeline: Government aims to finish review by next fall to start operations by 2032

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Other First Nations leaders have also voiced concerns about the new pipeline, including Terry Teegee, Regional Chief of the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations, and the Coldwater Indian Band, in B.C.

Ottawa has said Pacific Link will create 140,000 jobs, generate more than \$20-billion in GDP a year and \$100-billion in government revenue by 2060.

The government is aiming to finish the project's federal review process, including consultations, by Sept. 1, 2027, in hopes of having it operational by 2032.

Its expected price tag is between \$35.2-billion and \$43.7-billion.

Cold Lake has been raising concerns with the federal government since 2023 “about the potential environmental, geological and safety risks” related to the proposed Pathways carbon storage hub, “as well as the cumulative impacts of oil sands development in its territories,” Mr. Jacko said.

Yet Ottawa moved ahead with the designation despite repeated requests from Cold Lake for meaningful and timely engagement about the pipeline and Pathways, he added.

While the legal action “does not close the door to working with Canada,” he said, “responsibility to take the first step outside the courtroom now rests with Canada."

In the application for judicial review, Cold Lake First Nations' lawyers said the designation breached Canadian law and is inconsistent with the honour of the Crown.

“Increasing oilsands production will have significant adverse effects on the ability of CLFN members to maintain their Luechogh Tue Denesuline way of life as promised by Treaty No. 6,” the application said.

"Canada has made no effort to understand or mitigate the massive cumulative effects of oil-sands development on CLFN's Luechogh Tue Denesuline treaty rights."

Federal officials have acknowledged the possibility of legal challenges to Pacific Link and its designation, but Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson said in a recent interview he's confident the government is using best practices.

"What we see in pretty much any project these days, is somebody decides to challenge them. Whether they'll be successful or not is a very different question," Mr. Hodgson said last week.

The minister's office did not provide a comment on the legal challenge when The Globe and Mail reached out on Thursday.

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Doctors who receive gifts or payments prescribe pharmaceuticals more frequently

Cochrane review says it found 'high-certainty evidence' that offerings had a harmful effect on the volume of prescriptions written

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Doctors who receive gifts or payments from pharmaceutical companies end up prescribing more frequently, and choosing less suitable medications, a review of nearly a hundred medical studies has concluded.

The findings were released on Thursday in a Cochrane review, an analysis that aggregates results from previous health care research. "We found high-certainty evidence that gifts and payments have a harmful effect on prescribing appropriateness and are associated with higher volumes of prescribing," the paper said.

The review looked at studies conducted in the United States and Europe, where researchers have access to databases documenting payments received by health care professionals. There was no data for Canada since pharmaceutical companies here are not required to declare what they give to physicians.

Innovative Medicines Canada, an association that represents about 40 drug makers, said in a statement that its code of ethical practices prohibits members from providing gifts or other personal benefits.

The code, however, permits companies to offer “reasonable meals/refreshments” during promotional activities. It also allows them to compensate health care professionals for participating in activities such as speaking engagements, chairing meetings, advisory boards or market research.

"Canada and the U.S. operate under different regulatory and disclosure frameworks. These differences are important context when comparing practices between the two countries," the association's statement said.

However, Joel Lexchin, a professor emeritus at York University's Faculty of Health and one of the review's co-authors, said the findings of the Cochrane analysis could apply to Canada. "Based on the 45 years that I've been looking at these issues, it's pretty clear to me the way that the drug companies promote their drugs here in Canada is the same as the way that they promote them in the United States," he said in an interview.

Prof. Lexchin added that Ottawa should step in and make payment disclosure mandatory. "But the federal government has never shown any interest in doing this," he said.

Alexandre Bergeron, a spokesperson for federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel, said that regulating physicians is a provincial and territorial jurisdiction.

Ontario is the only province to have passed a law requiring companies to divulge their payments to health care professionals and organizations. The Health Sector Payment Transparency Act was enacted in 2017 under former Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne. However, it never came into force because its regulations hadn't been finalized by the time Premier Doug Ford's Conservatives took power in 2018.

Prof. Lexchin said it would be preferable to have a federal disclosure law, rather than provincial legislation. "Much, much more" data for the whole country would be available that way, he said.

The Cochrane review looked at 93 studies – 82 from the U.S. and others from France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom. "The vast majority of the studies, all but one, showed that exposure to the promotional activity of gifts or payments made the prescribing less appropriate," said the review's senior author Lisa Bero, a University of Colorado Anschutz medicine professor.

Dr. Bero and another co-author, Barbara Mintzes, a University of Sydney pharmacy professor, spoke to reporters at a technical briefing on Tuesday.

They shared a graph from one study showing that the number of meals that doctors received from opioid manufacturers correlated with the number of doses they prescribed the following year.

The same pattern occurred with other classes of drugs, such medications for diabetes or blood pressure, Dr. Mintzes said. "This isn't just an individual doctor-patient issue, and it's certainly not just an issue of a few bad apples. It's more of a systemic problem."

Even “very small payments” influenced physicians to prescribe higher doses, beyond national guidelines, Dr. Bero said.

In the U.S., the Physician Payments Sunshine Act requires pharmaceutical companies to declare all payments to physicians. France has a similar public database, Transparence Santé.

The French data, for example, enabled researchers to analyze records for more than 41,000 family doctors, documenting how those who received gifts prescribed more.

Some Canadian companies voluntarily release their payment information. GSK Canada, for instance, made public a breakdown of the \$18.9-million it paid in 2025 to health care professionals and corporations. Other manufacturers provide only the total sum they disbursed, with no further details.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney offered his congratulations on the social-media platform X. "With wit, imagination, and a style entirely her own, Canadian poet Anne Carson has reimagined the classics," he wrote. "She has brought ancient stories to new audiences and transformed the way we think about literature."

The daughter of a banker, Ms. Carson grew up in a number of small Canadian towns. The future professor at Princeton University, McGill University and other schools twice quit her own studies at St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto - a compulsory course on Milton was a deal-breaker for her. She eventually completed a bachelor of arts there in 1974.

Ms. Carson's first published poetry, 1984's Canicula di Anna, resulted in her first international literary prize, the Betty Colladay Award from the Quarterly Review of Literature. Her debut full-length poetry collection was Short Talks, published by Brick Books in 1992.

Her first book of essays, 1986's Eros the Bittersweet, "stunned the classics community as a work of Greek scholarship," according to John D'Agata of the Boston Review. (Mr. D'Agata also wrote that Ms. Carson's Men in the Off Hours was "trying its darndest to be poetry.") Eros the Bittersweet was voted onto the 1999 Modern Library Reader's list for the 100 Best Nonfiction books of the 20th century.

Michael Ondaatje once hailed Ms. Carson as "the most exciting poet writing in English today."

The previous Canadian winners of the Nobel Prize in literature are short-story writer Alice Munro, who won in 2013, and Saul Bellow, who was born in the Montreal suburb of Lachine but moved to the United States as a child. He won in 1976.

Hours after the initial announcement, Ms. Carson spoke to the Swedish Academy again. "I'm just eating crackers and drinking tea," the poet said by phone from her home in Reykjavík. "I noticed the floor needed sweeping, so I leapt up and did that."

The poet and her husband are currently thinking up ways to spend the prize money. "I have a friend who needs a house," she said. "We always give a lot to Doctors Without Borders."

The former classics professor was asked why the classics were relevant. She said they were not: "I don't think I'm interested in relevance. I'm interested in us being relevant to them."

The prize has been awarded 119 times to 123 laureates since 1901. Ms. Carson is the 19th woman. Among the illustrious laureates are Rudyard Kipling, Pearl Buck, Winston Churchill, Gabriel

García Márquez, Jean-Paul Sartre, Toni Morrison, José Saramago, John Steinbeck, Harold Pinter, Ernest Hemingway and, "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," Bob Dylan.

After receiving the award in 2016, the iconic songwriter waited days before commenting publicly. He ultimately did not attend the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, choosing instead to meet with the Swedish Academy in a private ceremony there.

Ms. Carson is also publicity shy. As noted in a Globe and Mail profile in 2000, she doesn't like to talk about herself and is so reclusive she wouldn't permit a photographer for the interview.

Up to that point, despite her international acclaim, Ms. Carson had yet to win a major Canadian literary award. (Finally, in 2001, she won the inaugural Griffin Poetry Prize for Men in the Off Hours. She added another Griffin in 2014 and won the Governor-General's Award for English-language poetry in 2020 for Norma Jeane Baker of Troy.)

Asked in 2000 why she didn't enjoy as enthusiastic a following in her own country as she did in the United States, Ms. Carson scoffed: "It's typical of Canadians. You have to win awards outside this country before they'll recognize you."

Griffin Poetry Prize founder Scott Griffin said Ms. Carson's win raises the profile of poetry to its "rightful place as the essence of literature," and that Ms. Carson is the perfect writer to do it.

“Poetry is the craft of using very few words to convey a very big subject. It’s a true art form that is difficult for most people, and even good poets, to do. Anne is the quintessential author of that kind of talent, almost to an extreme point.”

Ms. Carson has Parkinson's disease, which profoundly affects her penmanship and, as a result, hampers her creative process. "Hard to describe or explain the shame of bad handwriting," she wrote in an essay for the London Review of Books in 2024.

Last year, she participated in the album The Great Lakes Suite by the Toronto art-rock band Rheostatics. She read poems from her 1995 book Plainwater for the project.

Established in the will of Swedish dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel, the prizes for achievements in literature, science and peace have been given since 1901.

Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai earned last year's Nobel Prize in literature for his "compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art." He won the Man Booker International Prize in 2015.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee will announce this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner in Oslo on Friday. Prime Minister Mark Carney is believed to be among the contenders for what is considered the most distinguished award in the world.

FORT HOOD SHOOTER'S MILITARY EXECUTION WILL BE PUBLIC AND STREAMED LIVE, PENTAGON SAYS

WASHINGTON Pentagon officials said Thursday that the Army officer convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting would be executed in public, a practice that ended in the United States nearly a century ago and is most commonly carried out in a handful of countries including Iran, North Korea and the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon said in a statement that the military execution, scheduled for Dec. 3, would also be broadcast via livestream. Such a broadcast has little precedent, and releasing video of executions is most often associated with extremist militant groups such as the Islamic State group.

The announcement adds to the growing spectacle around the planned execution of Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people and wounded 32 others when he brought a personal handgun onto the grounds of Fort Hood, Tex. The rampage was the deadliest shooting at a U.S. military base and sent shock waves through the U.S. military.

There are few countries that hold public executions. The human-rights group Amnesty International has highlighted some cases in which public executions in Iran and Saudi Arabia have been filmed by bystanders.

In an interview with Real America's Voice, a conservative outlet, aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth said Thursday that the execution would be public and available to watch “because people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things.” The Pentagon later confirmed in a statement that the execution would be livestreamed.

The Army has said the public execution of Mr. Hasan will be conducted by firing squad at Fort Hood, the site of the shooting. If carried out, it would be a first in modern American history.

On Nov. 5, 2009, Mr. Hasan, an Army psychiatrist stationed at Fort Hood, brought a personal handgun onto the base grounds and opened fire.

Mr. Hasan said that he carried out the attack, which occurred at the height of the post-Sept. 11, 2001, fight against terrorism, to wage jihad for what he called the illegal and immoral wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

He admitted to the killings during his court-martial and was convicted in 2013 of 45 counts of premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder.

Mr. Hasan, who was wounded in the shooting, is being held at the military death row prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

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The Karakoram Range, where K2 is situated, is one of four major mountain ranges slicing through Xinjiang, China. A huge swath of the land is desert, but China has found a way to bring fish to this inhospitable region by using underground aquifers adjusted to mimic seawater. JOE STENSON/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

China: More than half of the world's seafood now comes from aquaculture

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Since 2024, the transparency legislation Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act requires certain entities and federal institutions to report their efforts to prevent or reduce the use of forced and child labour in their supply chains.

In June, legislation was introduced to allow the Minister of Foreign Affairs to create a list of high-risk goods where there is reason to suspect they are produced by forced labour. In 2025, Canada imported more than \$710-million worth of seafood from China, according to Canada's Fisheries and Oceans Trade database.

The Taklamakan proved a forbidding obstacle for the Silk Road traders, and centuries later, it can still defeat the best efforts to push eastward across it.

Less than 10 per cent of Xinjiang has ever been fit for human habitation, according to researchers at Xinjiang University. Those who have eked out an existence have mostly been nomadic herdsmen, with refuge for them and their families found around a modest number of oases fed by mountaintop glaciers. Historically, Xinjiang's native populations have included Turkic Uyghurs, Han Chinese, Kazakhs, Mongols and Tajiks.

Central Chinese authorities were long content to regard Xinjiang as a remote and rugged strategic buffer against an outside threat from the west. Shortly after the 1949 revolution, though, the state began to imagine Xinjiang as more than a wild outpost, and rather as a valuable territorial holding.

Beginning in the 1950s, Chinese government geologists discovered oil and gas in three of Xinjiang's topographical basins – the Tarim, Junggar and Tuha – and mounted some of the deepest drilling programs ever seen. Xinjiang became the western anchor of what was called the West-East Gas Pipeline, a monumental project that sends natural gas more than 4,000 kilometres to cities such as Shanghai.

At the same time, the state re-engineered the Tarim River, China's longest, in a bid to turn the province's hard and dry soil into farmable land. It built reservoirs on the Tarim's tributaries; added diversion gates to control flow, and canals to carry water to what would become newly levelled farmland. The controlled use of the Tarim would help jump-start the growing of a range of crops in

Xinjiang, including an aggressive push to plant and harvest cotton.

Amid the discovery of natural resource riches and the marvels of technology, there was always the daunting human project of somehow creating a work force for the state's ambitions in Xinjiang. The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps would handle that feat of reinvention.

The XPCC is a paramilitary-cum-corporate unit loosely tied to the Chinese army, made up of former soldiers turned economic developers. They were sent to Xinjiang as government agents meant to turn herdsmen into farmers.

Between 2010 and 2021, the XPCC converted more than 380,000 hectares in Xinjiang to use for growing cotton, as well as for a variety of other industries, from fruit farming to solar fields, according to a 2023 study in the journal Communist and Post-Communist Studies. Today, Xinjiang produces roughly 20 per cent of the world's cotton supply, and is a major source of export crops such as tomatoes, lavender and wine grapes.

But reports of the company's coercive tactics in Xinjiang have earned it a notorious international reputation. The company has engaged in practices including land expropriation; internment and imprisonment; forcible migration of people; repressive, preemptive policing; religious persecution; social engineering and forced labour, according to a report published by researchers at the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice at Sheffield Hallam University.

The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps did not respond to a request for comment.

Of all the transformations in Xinjiang over the past 75 years, none may be as remarkable and improbable as the project to grow fish in Xinjiang.

It turns out that in China's earliest efforts to pull oil out of Xinjiang, its government drilling teams were regularly turning up evidence of underground aquifers, including underneath the Taklamakan Desert. Researchers knew that the Taklamakan had once been entirely underwater, connected to one of the Earth's oceans. The desert's sand and soil were littered with ancient coral fragments, microscopic plankton, bivalves and gastropods.

In 2003, government researchers mapped the aquifers found beneath Xinjiang's arid vastness, and tested the discovered water to see both how pressured and just how salty it was.

Initially, the tests suggested the waters under the Taklamakan and elsewhere across Xinjiang were a cruel joke - too salty to be used for farming, too bitter to be consumed by humans. The joke didn't last. Chinese scientists eventually realized that the underground waters in Xinjiang could be adjusted to mimic sea-water.

The notion of fish farming dates back millennium, and began humbly enough. Storms would wash fish ashore, stranding them in ponds and other small bodies of inland water. Rather than simply catching and eating them, people found ways to feed them and allow them to multiply.

Researchers believe that no later than 475 BC, China was far enough along in the practice to have assembled a manual on how best to carry it off. The manual laid out ideal water levels to keep and guidance on how to harvest the fish without draining the ponds. Carp was the dominant subject of China's efforts. They bred often, did not eat their own, grew quickly – and tasted quite good.

China was hardly alone. Ancient Egyptians raised tilapia in ponds off the Nile River. Roman engineers cultivated oysters in tidal lagoons. The appeal, of course, was straightforward. Fish are a vital source of protein for the diets of any population. Yet fishing is often a seasonal business, its productivity unpredictable from year to year. Farming fish could be year-round, reliable and inexpensive.

Today, what is broadly called aquaculture is a global phenomenon. More than half of all seafood the world consumes now comes from aquaculture rather than wild catch. Globally, the raising of clams, oysters, scallops and mussels - distinctive aquaculture marvels because they require no feed and very little freshwater - has driven much of the explosive growth. In a 2019 report, the Nature Conservancy argued that by 2050, sustainably managed fish farms should become humanity's primary source of seafood.

Most ambitious fish farming falls into a small handful of models. The dominant system, used broadly in Asia, is the freshwater pond: excavated basins stocked with hatchery-raised juveniles, fed daily and aerated mechanically to prevent oxygen crashes. Along coasts globally, floating net pens hold fish in open water, relying on currents to disperse waste. Some fish farms operate fully enclosed recirculating systems, filtering and reusing water inside warehouses.

Global aquaculture was a US\$313-billion industry as of 2022, and it has generated varied and extraordinary benefits. In India, it is a major source of employment, particularly for women. In Bangladesh, the expansion of fish farming has helped drive down prices, making seafood more affordable for poorer households. The industry, even accounting for CHINA, A10

Fish farms in western China

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China: Farmed fish tied to allegations of forced labour and illegal antibiotic use

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The dominant system used for fish farming in Asia is the freshwater pond: excavated basins stocked with hatchery-raised juveniles, fed daily and aerated mechanically to prevent oxygen crashes, including this grid of fish cultivation ponds at Hetian Yujianjianglai Aquaculture in Xinjiang, China.

Another method for farming involves floating net pens that hold fish in open water, relying on currents to disperse waste, such as this salmon pen at Xinjiang Tianyun Organic Agriculture Company in China.

Xinjiang Tianyun Organic Agriculture Company sells roughly \$42-million worth of seafood annually and owns at least half a dozen enterprises, including a breeding centre, a processing plant, a cold-storage facility and multiple salmon ponds, some measuring more than 50 metres across.

transporting the farmed fish around the world, is a far smaller source of carbon emissions than beef or pork.

It has also generated advances in technology. Beyond those basic models, recent efforts to expand the nature and reach of the business have pushed innovation. The Norwegians have built enormous, semi-submersible structures in the open ocean, capable of housing 1.5 million salmon. The Chinese have built “aquaculture ships,” huge vessels sent to sea with 15 breeding cabins capable of holding a total of 90,000 cubic metres of water. In Scotland, underwater robots combat sea lice, a parasite that feeds on salmon. Modest fish farms in Indonesia have been using smartphone apps to manage timed, more cost-effective feeding schedules.

And then there is the engineering of the fish themselves. In the U.S., the seafood company Aqua-Bounty Technologies Inc. has won approval from Health Canada and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to raise cloned salmon.

But aquaculture is also freighted with a multitude of downsides. Crowding millions of fish together produces enormous volumes of waste. In shallow coastal pens, solid waste settles into thick sludge on the seafloor, smothering plants and animals. Excess nitrogen and phosphorus fuel algal blooms, kill wild fish, and drive away beachgoers. Fish bred to grow faster and larger sometimes escape, threatening native species.

Perhaps most vexing for the sustainability of the industry is the zero-sum question of feeding the world's farmed fish. Aquaculture was supposed to be the solution to the dangerously depleted fish stocks in the oceans. More than a third of the world's stocks are overfished and worsening every year, according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). But what farmed fish eat is other fish, many of them drawn from those same depleted stocks.

On July 25, 2021, at an outdoor theatre in northern Xinjiang, 50 villagers gathered, according to a video published by Xinjiang Tianyun Organic Agriculture Company. Officials with the company were there to hand out cash – as much as the equivalent of about \$35,000 a village (or a couple of hundred dollars for each household).

Tianyun is China's poster child for its aquaculture breakthroughs in Xinjiang. The company owns at least half a dozen aquaculture-related enterprises, including a breeding centre, a processing plant, a cold-storage facility and multiple salmon ponds, some measuring more than 50 metres across. It sells roughly \$42-million worth of seafood annually, producing more than 6,000 tonnes of fish a year and around 40 per cent of China's domestically produced salmon.

But Tianyun is also a government darling for the ways it has allegedly managed to enlist and excite the local population. Tianyun has generated jobs, and invited workers, their families and other villagers across the region to become shareholders in the desert seafood business.

The cash being handed out at the village gathering was one of the latest dividend payouts. When the first happened years earlier, the locals weren't sure what to make of it, wondering if the money was really being given to them, and whether they could take it home. Four years later, they'd grown a lot more comfortable with the returns on their investments. That July day, with music playing from speakers near the theatre stage, state television was there to capture the moment, with a reporter breathlessly noting the joy of counting money.

China's desert fish-farming project is actually as much a consequence of self-preservation as creative ingenuity. The country is both the world's largest producer and consumer of seafood.

Its extraordinary fleet of fishing vessels - more than 6,500 distant-water fishing boats working the world's oceans, and another 200,000 operating in China's coastal waters - is the stuff of legend and international alarm. (By comparison, the U.S. distant-water fleet includes roughly 300 vessels.) And yet, it has not been enough to satisfy the government.

Aquaculture, a 2024 report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Brookings explained, is central to Beijing's efforts "to bolster food security."

As a result, through the 1980s and 90s, local governments converted tidal flats and estuaries into shrimp ponds and marine cages, building hatcheries, feed mills and export infrastructure. At first, most Chinese fish farms were concentrated along the eastern coast, particularly in Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang and Shandong, where sheltered bays and river deltas were rapidly transformed into aquaculture zones. By 2014, aquaculture installations dotted more than 30 per cent of China's shoreline.

China did great business, and great environmental damage to its waterways. In response, Beijing moved to restructure the aquaculture industry. Officials called for reducing aquaculture in overcrowded coastal waters and expanding it inland. In 2018, authorities had removed roughly 300,000 coastal farming cages. In 2019, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued new guidance on the “green development of aquaculture,” urging provinces to “actively develop” fish farming in places with supplies of underground waters rich in salt, such as Xinjiang.

Culturally, fish farming is framed as a way to eliminate what officials describe as “idleness” and to mobilize “surplus labour” in a region long portrayed as economically stagnant. Without reshaping rural culture, disorder would persist in Xinjiang, Tang Renjian, head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, warned in a 2021 article published on the ministry’s website.

Beijing had demonstrated its willingness to use both enticements and force to accomplish its cultural and economic aims in Xinjiang.

Since 2014, according to Human Rights Watch and the Council on Foreign Relations, Uyghurs and other Muslim groups in the region have been subjected to an extensive state campaign of repression that has included mass detention and relocation, large-scale land seizures, forced labour and criminal penalties for speaking native languages or practising religious and cultural traditions.

With support from the XPCC, Beijing's muscle, the Chinese government placed more than a million local people into detention camps in Xinjiang from 2017 to 2021, as they were driven to give up their historic livelihoods and dig for oil or farm the land, according to Amnesty International.

By the end of 2024, using local labour, the XPCC partly or fully ran at least 50 fish farms in Xinjiang that collectively produced the equivalent of more than \$400-million worth of seafood, according to a press release by the XPCC.

In northern Xinjiang, where the Tianyun company is headquartered, the largest ethnic group is the Kazakhs, a people who had practised nomadic pastoralism for ages. Tianyun partnered with a government-affiliated rural credit union to provide interest-free loans - typically about 10,000 yuan, or \$2,100 in Canadian dollars - to hundreds of local residents, allowing them to buy shares in a subsidiary that would support the fish farm through tasks such as labour subcontracting and sales.

Tianyun has invited villagers across the region to become shareholders in the desert seafood business, including at this 2021 event where people were given as much as the equivalent of \$35,000 on stage.

The chairman of Xinjiang Tianyun Organic Agriculture, Zhang Xiu, left, handed platters of cash to villagers as part of the company's annual profit distribution ceremony, a practice which began in 2017.

Workers pack seafood at a Tianyun processing facility. While there have been allegations of forced labour and human-rights abuses, the Chinese government does not allow unannounced inspections of factories or farms.

Collectively, these households funded almost half of the subsidiary's startup capital. In return, each household received fixed annual payments for several years, followed by dividends as a percentage of their initial pay-in. Villagers were also offered paid work operating equipment or harvesting fish.

To further reassure and persuade the locals, Tianyun and state media outlets have engaged in an elaborate advertising campaign of sorts, making films trumpeting the benefits of fish farming and not so subtly warning of what resisting the province's economic transformation might entail.

A video published by state-run Xinhua News featured an interview with a local man who, according to a local news report about the film, gave up working as a sheep herder to work in a nearby village at a fish farm. The salmon-breeding outpost was opened by Tianyun and a state-run, poverty-alleviation program in 2017. By 2023, he was earning 48,000 yuan (around \$10,000) annually, more than four times his former income, the news report said. Zhang Xiu, the company's chairman, said Tianyun aimed to create 10,000 jobs and generate 3 billion yuan – about \$635-million – in revenue by 2025.

In a 2020 television segment, the former herder gave state reporters a tour of an apartment provided by Tianyun, with polished red floors, large windows and a modern kitchen. In the film, his wife credits the party and the government for his stable job, which she says changed their life tremendously. By 2023, Tianyun had purchased around a hundred homes in and around Ka Lasu Township for employees.

A second, more recent government film shot in part at Tianyun, titled Land of Hope, had a rougher edge. James Leibold, professor of Politics and Asian Studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, said in an interview that, as propaganda, Land of Hope offers a romantic vision of China's project to modernize its hinterland.

It tells the story of a fledgling fish farm and the local man behind it. He meets resistance from his neighbours, who fear chemicals used in fish farming might kill their cows and sheep.

Another local man sets out to do damage to the fish farm and is arrested. He is sentenced to a year in prison, but in a show of mercy by the court, he's given the chance to avoid serving the time by maintaining good behaviour during a two-year probation. Law enforcement officers sit down with the two men over platters of seafood. Teased by the others, the second man agrees to try some salmon.

An elder rises, slaps a stack of cash on the table, and declares he will invest to save their hometown.

According to Leibold, such propaganda invariably portrays China's western inhabitants – Mongolians, Tibetans and Uyghurs – as indolent residents on resource-rich lands, who lack the ability to unlock its potential.

The Xinjiang Tianyun Organic Agriculture Company said in an e-mailed response to a request for comment that claims of systemic forced labour “are completely factually unfounded” and described the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act as an unreasonable and politically motivated framework that violates the principles of fair international trade. Tianyun says it strictly abides by China’s laws on labour and contracts and resolutely protects the legitimate rights and interests of every employee.

"Our company has never been involved in, nor will it ever participate in, any form of forced labour," the company said. "On the contrary, we provide competitive compensation, comprehensive occupational health and safety protections, and career development opportunities."

Easing the pressure on the planet's oceans has long been marketed as the aquaculture industry's greatest triumph.

But for all its accomplishments in Xinjiang, authorities in Beijing have yet to crack what might be the single greatest challenge to the sustainability of its aquaculture aspirations.

Feeding the fish they are growing, it turns out, is the most expensive aspect of fish farming, accounting for 70 per cent of the industry's operating budgets, according to the FAO. The only commercially viable option at scale remains fishmeal: a pulverized, protein-rich powder made from wild fish caught at sea. More than a fifth of all fish harvested globally ends up as fishmeal or other non-human feed.

The conundrum, then, is stark: The volume of fish needed to farm some of the world's most popular species - salmon, shrimp, sea bass - far outstrips what the fish farms ultimately produce. Before it reaches market, a farmed salmon at some farms might eat more than six times its weight in wild-caught fish.

That matters in Canada in particular because farmed salmon, one of the country's most popular types of seafood, has long been marketed as a modern answer to the limits of wild fishing. Yet the deeper problem raised by Xinjiang's desert fish farms is the same one that shadows salmon aquaculture almost everywhere: not simply where the fish are raised, but what they are fed. Move the cages inland, automate the ponds, filter and recirculate the water, and the arithmetic still leads back to the sea. Much of the industry remains dependent on turning wild fish into feed.

Furthermore, the inexpensive species the industry targets are relied on for basic sustenance by people in poorer countries and by ecosystems below the water. Much of the catch destined for fishmeal processing comes from Peru, Chile, Vietnam and India. The environmental impact is considerable: Waste from fishmeal factories fouls clean waterways; its stench blankets entire communities. Not least, the rapacious race to meet the demand has also led to spikes in illegal fishing across the world.

Researchers have explored alternative protein sources for the farmed fish, but none are yet affordable at scale. Global fishmeal consumption, as a result, is projected to rise nearly 10 per cent between 2022 and 2032, according to the FAO.

China, in particular, has struggled to confront the idea that aquaculture as a solution to decimated wild fish stocks is actually exacerbating the crisis. Historically, its fish farms relied on forage fish from coastal waters. By 2016, more than 30 per cent of China's coastal catch consisted of these species.

The pressure proved unsustainable. Of 15 fish species assessed in a 2020 study, 11 were overfished, depleted or outside safe biological limits – five of them forage fish. To ease the strain, China cut its near-shore fleet by roughly 40,000 vessels in 2020 down to 230,000, and increasingly turned to imported fishmeal, especially from Peru. According to a 2023 UN report, China imports more than 40 per cent of the world's fishmeal, a share projected to rise to 55 per cent by 2032.

“China wants food autonomy,” said Philip Chou, a China specialist with the global environmental group Oceana, in an interview. “But to get there, it’s also going to need feed autonomy.” Right now, Mr. Chou said, China has neither.

Beyond issues with sustainability, China also suffers from a credibility problem.

Growing evidence shows that its companies often misrepresent to an unwitting global public what kinds of farmed fish they are bringing to market. Fish, marked up and sold as salmon, are actually rainbow trout. What's labelled cod is often, rather, pollock. Online, local Chinese consumers have not infrequently called out the scams.

The concerns about the dishonesty go beyond matters of taste. In a 2018 interview with China Daily, Zhong Kai, deputy director of the China Food Information Center, reacted to Chinese companies advertising salmon that was actually trout. "I do not recommend eating it raw," he said, advising thorough cooking to kill parasites.

Chinese companies have sought help from seafood quality-assurance outfits in reassuring the public – its own citizens and consumers worldwide – that their farmed fish are produced safely, sustainably and without forced labour. Those organizations, Best Aquaculture Practices among the most prominent, claim they are independent entities with exact-ing standards.

But many researchers and ocean-sustainability advocates regard BAP and similar firms as unable or disinclined to root out real problems. The Chinese government, in any case, does not typically allow unannounced inspections of factories or farms, and it tightly restricts the activities of journalists investigating labour, environmental or human-rights abuses.

With increasing frequency, investigators have found large quantities of drugs in the Chinese farmed fish – antibiotics at levels that are illegal according to Chinese food-safety laws, as well as dangerous amounts of sedatives to calm the fish during transport.

In a May, 2024, open letter, more than 70 environmental, animal-welfare and community organizations accused BAP of "greenwashing," arguing that certified farms are "rarely - if ever - held to account for adverse outcomes" tied to their operations.

The Aquaculture Stewardship Council, the other major global certification body, announced in 2024 that it would withdraw from China. While financial considerations were cited, industry publications such as Salmon Business and Seafood Source linked the decision to an investigation documenting the widespread use of state-sponsored forced labour involving Uyghur and North Korean workers in Chinese seafood-processing plants.

Tianyun exports – often through intermediaries – its farmed seafood products to more than a dozen countries, including the United States and Canada, according to Bait-to-Plate, an online tool created by the Outlaw Ocean Project that maps seafood supply chains. This trade occurs in violation of a U.S. ban on goods produced “wholly or in part” by workers in Xinjiang or by ethnic minorities from the region, on the presumption that they were made with state-sponsored forced labour.

Tianyun's salmon products will be exported to all parts of the world, said Zhang Yuru, the company's deputy general manager, in 2024. The firm is also branching into salmon-collagen peptide drinks and peptide tablets - protein supplements marketed as slowing the aging of skin and joints.

In Xinjiang today, a fledgling tourism business has grown up around the region's fish farming success. At a fish farm run by the Xinjiang Saihu Fishery Technology Development Company, there is actually what the company hails as a fish-farming theme park. It features a museum and a restaurant that serves Sichuan pepper whitefish, whitefish sashimi and caviar.

The Chinese have also organized media tours for foreign reporters and actively recruited foreign food influencers to record and post videos and other testimonials about the wonders of growing fish in Xinjiang.

Among the most popular frontier influencers is a Russian student who created a video offering a day in the life of an employee at a salmon farm, which was published by a state news outlet. A video by an American vlogger promoted green development on the edge of the Taklamakan. These videos were subsequently amplified by media outlets affiliated with the XPCC, as well as on state-run channels on YouTube and Facebook.

But it is the government itself that attempts to frame the unlikely industry in the grandest terms. In 2025, an article published by state media declared Xinjiang's aquaculture hotbed in the deserts and rivers of its forbidding western frontier "a testament to human ingenuity and resilience."

Beijing presents Xinjiang's aquaculture boom as proof that technology can conquer geography. But the story of fish raised in the desert is also a story about how modern food systems displace their burdens: drawing feed from distant seas, labour from vulnerable populations, and trust from consumers asked to believe that abundance can be manufactured without sacrifice.

The reporting for this story was part of a larger investigation conducted by an international team of journalists based at The Outlaw Ocean Project.

EDITORIAL

The subject who is truly loyal to the chief magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures - Junius

The Liberals are right to restrict MAID

The federal Liberal government has, finally, taken the necessary step of scrapping the planned expansion of medically assisted dying to people whose sole underlying condition is mental illness.

For years, the Liberals have delayed, extending the deadline for when people suffering from mental illness would be allowed access to assisted death. Initially, the Trudeau Liberals pretended that this was simply a matter of logistics, that the provinces needed more time to ready their health care systems.

Justice Minister Sean Fraser was, thankfully, much more forthright on Wednesday as he sketched out Ottawa's intention to bar assisted death for mental illness. He pointed to a lack of health care for mental illness and, more pointedly, what he called a lack of consensus on whether mental illnesses can be accurately diagnosed as irremediable.

That second point is critical: irremediability is one of the lynchpins of the exemption for medical assistance in dying, or MAID, under the Criminal Code. It must be established that a medical condition is irremediable in order for a person to be eligible.

Given that legal imperative, Mr. Fraser's decision is the right one. And it echoes the findings of the joint House and Senate committee on MAID, which recommended excluding mental illness.

But the Liberals fall short in two other ways: failing to shore up guardrails in the current system, and proposing a hasty expansion of MAID to allow for advance directives.

As we have previously argued, Ottawa should restore the mandatory 10-day waiting period for Track 1 requests (where a natural death is reasonably foreseeable).

That delay was intended to ensure that no Canadian would take a hasty decision on an irreversible matter. But Ottawa removed that guardrail in 2021. (There still is a delay built into Track 2 requests, where a natural death is not reasonably foreseeable; there is a 90-day assessment window.)

Those opposing a 10-day reflection period contend that it is unnecessary and simply means that a patient will have to endure days more of suffering.

Balanced against that is the consideration that a decision to end one's life should be a measured one, not one taken in haste. There are also indications in Health Canada data that the removal of the 10-day reflection period may have had the unintended effect of triggering such hasty decisions.

From November, 2018, through to the end of 2019, there were 5,389 assisted death procedures and 263 withdrawn requests. For 2024, the most recent year for which there are data, there were 16,499 assisted death procedures and 689 withdrawn requests.

There were proportionately fewer withdrawn requests after the 10-day reflection period was scrapped, than in 2018-19. It's impossible to know for certain why Canadians are now less likely to withdraw MAID requests. But logic, not to mention prudence, points to reinstating the reflection period. Mr. Fraser invoked the precautionary principle in the decision to not expand MAID to mental illness. That same principle should be applied in the case of the 10-day reflection period.

More broadly, the government needs to make it clear that the Criminal Code will be enforced. Individual practitioners do not have the right to roam beyond the legal boundaries laid down by government. If they do, they should be prosecuted.

The government will also propose as part of its planned legislation allowing for advance directives, in cases where a degenerative disease such as Alzheimer's will eventually deprive a person of the ability to consent to MAID.

Why such a major expansion, now? Mr. Fraser did not really have an answer, but it's hard to avoid the conclusion that it is a political balancing act aimed at muting criticism of the government's move to restrict MAID in one area by expanding it in another.

Whatever the motivation, the provisions around advance directives should be severed from those barring MAID for reasons of mental illness. There needs to be full consideration of the implications of such an expansion, and a convincing demonstration that there will be safeguards in place to avoid the obvious peril of elderly Canadians being coerced to, or feeling they must, accede to an advance directive.

The Liberals are to be commended for backing away from one ill-advised expansion of MAID. They should make sure that they are not embarking on another.

SINCLAIR STEWART DEPUTY EDITOR ANGELA PACIENZA EXECUTIVE EDITOR

JAMES KELLER NATIONAL EDITOR CHRISTINE BROUSSEAU MANAGING EDITOR, PRIORITIES

ANDREW SAUNDERS PRESIDENT AND CEO DAVID WALMSLEY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

TRADE-OFFS

Re “Trying to understand the markets? We asked analysts for the best indicators” (Report on Business, Oct. 2): The world and its global economy are moving away from the decades-long experiment with international economic efficiency.

That was the theme of “free trade,” with countries producing whatever they do best and cheapest, then trading with the rest of the world for whatever else they need. We would all be better off.

But in the new world order, international trade is no longer secure. So economic efficiency is given up for the sake of economic security, which means producing whatever a country can of what it needs, because it might not get them elsewhere.

International trade will tend toward things which are needed elsewhere such as oil, coffee and other natural resources. This is a shame. We will all be worse off.

The investment strategies of governments, businesses and even individuals should be based on emerging economic realities, not nostalgia for the past. ■ Frank Olenski Brantford, Ont.

THE NEW GUY

Re “The PQ is back in office without a lot of people power behind the next premier” (Oct. 7): It is argued that a government should trim its program to fit the size of its vote.

Yet in Britain, Keir Starmer had a landslide victory but couldn't manage to do much when he was prime minister.

Paul St-Pierre Plamondon has a mandate, however narrow, and there is nothing in the Constitution, to my knowledge, to prevent him from at least trying to implement his program in full. ■ Paddy Fuller Ottawa

"It's hard to guess which way Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon will turn now to govern."

I anticipate that Mark Carney will view this moment as a personal challenge to solve, to conquer. He will do everything within his power to work his magic on Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, and succeed in somehow winning him over to save Canada.

Indeed, after their first conversation, Mr. Carney said: "This is a crucial time for our country, it's a crucial time for Quebec. This is not a time to wait for something a few years down the road. It's a time to act. It's a time for boldness."

■ Sydney Sharpe West Vancouver

RIGHT OF WAY

Re "Just how conservative is Mark Carney's government?" (Opinion, Oct. 3): It is suggested that the Conservatives "induced the Liberals to govern in a more conservative vein." To propose that Mark Carney's worldview has been shaped by the Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre seems sophistry.

Mr. Carney was appointed as governor of national banks by conservatives Stephen Harper and David Cameron. He thrived in the private banking world. He is hardly a Johnny-come-lately to conservative thinking.

As far as liberal initiatives that “only conservatives” could have implemented, none come to mind in recent federal Canadian history.

David Steele Saskatoon

ON MAID

Re “Ottawa to bar MAID for patients whose sole condition is mental illness” (Oct 8): I am glad the Liberals are looking at enlarging the scope of eligibility for medical assistance in dying.

As an 80-year-old woman with a 92-year-old husband, surrounded by friends in various stages of mental and physical deterioration, including dementia, it seems to me the next step should be allowing written MAID requests under specific guidelines, even if someone is no longer capable of giving consent.

My husband and I tried to write such a document, only to be told by a lawyer it is not available in Ontario. It should be available to anyone in our position.

Kathryn Kossow Toronto

From a fiscal point of view, I anticipate that any and all expansion of medical assistance in dying will help provincial and federal budgets.

Palliative care, hospice, hospital care, doctors' time and more: The financing of all these would take into account the thousands who no longer need any of these services. It is not polite to talk of MAID in this way, but can we deny the truth?

Ruth Harper Toronto

Re “It’s well past time for Catholic hospitals to be secularized” (Oct. 6): An informative column, especially for Albertans since publicly funded Covenant Health, a Catholic-based organization that restricts access to medical assistance in dying, is expanding in the province.

There is also Alberta's Bill 18, the Safeguards for Last Resort Termination of Life Act, which awaits proclamation. It would restrict MAID to Track 1 patients whose natural death is reasonably foreseeable with 12 months. Track 2 would disappear.

There would be no advance requests permitted or out-of-province referrals. Health care providers would be forbidden from initiating MAID discussions with patients. Even public displays of

MAID information would be re- stricted inside health facilities.

If Bill 18 is proclaimed, Albertans would endure inequities not experienced by Canadians in other provinces. I guess the government is counting on Question 9 of the referendum, on prioritizing provincial laws despite federal legislation, being approved by the public.

It is not too late to protest unfair legislation. ■ Mary Valentich Calgary

NOT SO FAST

Re "Sadly, we might be repeating Britain's high-speed rail mistakes" (Oct. 3): This crystallizes my doubts about the Alto project.

It feels a lot like a national vanity project. Part of the rationale seems to be that because other major economies have high-speed rail, so should we. That obviously is not part of the business case, which should be paramount.

If we want to increase passenger rail usage along the busy Toronto-Quebec City corridor, wouldn't it be more economic to build a dedicated passenger line paralleling the existing right-of-way? It would allow Via Rail trains, perhaps more advanced ones, on its own lines at higher speeds and without being side-tracked by freight. Presumably it could also use existing stations.

Such a project would conceivably be less expensive. The money saved could be used to improve rail service in other parts of Canada, making for a true national project since all taxpayers would foot the bill for Alto.

Steve Mertl Vancouver

MATT FREHNER MANAGING EDITOR, PRODUCTS AND PLATFORMS

Although the high-speed train would run through a densely populated corridor, this project suffers a distinct disadvantage in that Canada overall is a sparsely inhabited country. This is unlike successful European counterparts that have significantly larger populations in much smaller areas.

Given the cost of tens of billions of dollars, it would be problematic if the project ran a similarly massive deficit. How to justify the losses when all Canadians would foot a bill that only benefits a specific slice of the Canadian community? Especially when many Canadians in the East and West already feel that the federal government favours Ontario and Quebec at their expense.

Ross Hollingshead Toronto

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Barring MAID for mental illness is a mistake

The government's plan to refuse requests for these Canadians is cowardly

JEAN MARMOREO

OPINION

Medical doctor and the co-author with Johanna Schneller of The Last Doctor: Lessons in Living from the Front Lines of Medical Assistance in Dying

I have sat at more deathbeds than most politicians will ever picture in their nightmares.

I was among the first physicians in this country to provide medical assistance in dying when it became legal in 2016. For more than 10 years, I have helped people die with the dignity this country promised them. So I am firm in saying that when Ottawa this week said it planned to bar those whose sole underlying condition is a mental disorder from requesting an assisted death, it wasn't prudence dressed up as caution; it was politically driven cowardice in the face of controversy surrounding an individual's Charter rights of bodily autonomy.

On June 17, the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying recommended that Parliament indefinitely refuse MAID for people whose only underlying condition is a mental illness. That was the second time the committee met to review this. Justice Minister Sean Fraser then rereviewed that recommendation, and on Wednesday announced that Ottawa will soon forbid access to MAID for mental illness indefinitely. It seems this battle is now over.

But my message is, Canadians can't afford to have our legislators choose this path when it comes to people with mental illness.

I'm not talking about our newly heightened sensitivity to many mental health issues that afflict millions of Canadians, such as social anxiety, isolation, anomie of purpose and meaning. We all carry a little mental illness from time to time.

This is different. With MAID, the threshold of eligibility would be a diagnosed mental disorder, assessed by many psychiatrists. The confirmation of grievous and irremediable suffering would follow only after every reasonable treatment has failed, exactly as we already require for cancer, ALS, or end-stage heart failure. I have often consulted psychiatrists about patients with treatment-resistant depression – in addition to their physical disease – in the same way I consult oncologists on their prognosis for a cancer patient.

Indeed, the clinical apparatus already exists for rigorous, team-based, multiyear, and multitreatment assessments. We don't have to invent or build anything by allowing MAID for a DSM-5 mental disorder. But by disallowing it, our government sends a message to mentally ill Canadians that they don't have autonomy over their own death while every other grievously ill Canadian does.

Ottawa is also telling a patient with treatment-resistant depression or complex PTSD that their agony is less credible than another person's cancer. All this simply because their illness resides in the brain. Anyone who believes that the pain of mental illness is less terrible than the pain of cancer hasn't experienced the helplessness of sitting with a family in the face of their child or loved one's severe depression.

Psychiatry is understandably uncomfortable with the idea of predicting irremediability. And perhaps a cure for treatment-resistant depression will arrive tomorrow. As doctors, we always practise with hope, and these complex cases test us.

But discomfort is not the same as unreadiness.

Indeed, the Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers has been preparing its members for years to manage requests from patients with a mental illness, creating detailed guidelines on assessing incurability, developing curricula for practitioners, and establishing online forums for assessors and providers. What's more, every province has had years to build protocols.

Repeatedly, Ottawa has begged for more time. And this week, what was once a reasonable caution has become an alibi that carries terrible costs.

I have known too many patients who deteriorated and ended their own lives alone, without safeguards, without support, without the humane and legally supervised option that a person with a physical diagnosis would have been granted without a second thought. Canadians don't keep statistics on "botched suicides," but we should.

In 2015, the Supreme Court's Carter decision opened the door to MAID. It recognized that a grievous and irremediable condition was never meant to exclude either chronic illness or a despairing mind. But in 2021, when the federal government carved out mental illness as a political concession to nervous provinces, it's important to remember this wasn't a clinical decision; it was a political finger-in-the-wind.

I have watched hundreds of good deaths, enough to know that one delivered at the patient's request, after careful and rigorous assessment, is not an act of harm, but of mercy.

So I ask the Carney government to trust the doctors who have spent a decade building these safeguards to accommodate a sole mental disorder request for MAID.

If they can act with courage in this, they will give Canadians with enduring unbearable mental suffering what they deserve and have a right to: a good death.

Alberta's separatists' greatest liability is their leaders

Jeffrey Rath, of the Alberta Prosperity Project, gives a speech at a separation petition pitch event in Eckville, Alta., in January. AHMED ZAKOT/THE GLOBE AND MAIL

GARY MASON

OPINION

When the history of Alberta's upcoming referendum on separation is written, its inevitable defeat will be placed firmly at the feet of those who agitated for it in the first place – the separatist leaders themselves.

No group has done more harm to their cause than the incompetents leading the campaign and making it a national embarrassment. Beyond that, they have almost certainly managed to stoke rage among many Albertans over some of their actions.

Even Premier Danielle Smith, who has played footsies with the separatists in her United Conservative Party almost from the outset of her leadership, recently summoned the courage to mock and ridicule them.

We speak, of course, of the explosive report in last weekend's Globe and Mail, which detailed meetings separatist leaders, including Jeffrey Rath of the Alberta Prosperity Project, had with representatives of the U.S. government in Washington. Separatist leaders also met with Republican Party operatives in Calgary earlier this year.

According to the story, discussions were held on whether an independent Alberta would be able to convert their Canadian dollars, one-for-one, for U.S. dollars. (Which would instantly confer a 40-per-cent bonus to Albertans). What did the Alberta separatists allegedly offer in return? Oh, just a cut of Alberta's oil royalties, access to precious metals and a right-of-way across the province so Americans could build a rail- way to Alaska, among other things.

Just little stuff like that.

The report included on-the-record comments from an Albertan who was involved.

The story was quickly denounced by people like Mr. Rath as fiction. But few believe him. While Ms. Smith had been initially silent on the matter (aside from a bland statement issued by her office that said the Premier was not affiliated with those purported to be involved and was against separation), she eventually addressed the matter publicly with reporters later in the week.

In words that would certainly be characterized as critical by her standards, she called the actions of the separatist group "ridiculous."

“... I think it's absurd that anybody would offer something like that up that's not theirs to offer,” the Premier told reporters. “It's a decision that Albertans would make and I don't think Albertans would support it.”

You think? Talk about the biggest goal the separatists could score on themselves. These folks are talking about giving away something that only Albertans have the right to negotiate – not unelected sellouts like Mr. Rath. Now people in the province (and beyond) have a clearer picture of the type of people behind this whole, preposterous campaign.

And yet Mr. Rath still gets treated like someone who has

credibility.

Mr. Rath was interviewed in February by CTV's Vassy Kapelos, who asked whether he understood why there might be some people upset over the meetings with U.S. officials.

Mr. Rath went off in predictably illogical and bizarre directions. He complained about the fact he couldn't get a meeting with Ottawa about the need for a pipeline to the Pacific. I wonder if that's because he's an outspoken separatist and the federal government engages with elected governments, not unelected buffoons.

He said people in Ontario are upset over the idea of Alberta separating because "for the first time in their lives [they] are going to have to pay their own bills and pay the bills of the Maritimes that we've been paying for years." He suggested "communist Ottawa" was "leveraging communist China" against Alberta. Now there's a good conspiracy for you.

Mr. Rath boasted about his education (London School of Economics) and said those meeting with U.S. officials were “conducting due diligence on behalf of our fellow Albertans.”

"We're serious professionals," he insisted.

This week it was reported that two American litigation funders allege Mr. Rath and his law firm made “false, inaccurate and misleading” representations to keep receiving millions of dollars to help underwrite two First Nations lawsuits against the federal government – after the firm had been fired and replaced.

The plaintiffs are seeking \$112.56-million from Mr. Rath and his corporation RathPC.

None of the allegations have been proven in court.

Meantime, the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation and Tallcree First Nation are suing Mr. Rath separately over millions of dollars allegedly withdrawn without consent from settlement trusts he oversaw.

None of those allegations have been proven in court, either.

I'm confident that after this referendum goes up in flames, separatist leaders in Alberta will insist they will live to fight another day. My suggestion: They form their own separatist party and put themselves up for election.

Meantime, they should desist from undertaking any meetings with officials from the U.S. government in which Alberta's future is discussed. The next time it could come with far greater consequences for them.

The Steven Galloway trial demonstrates how hot takes can set fire to people's lives

MARSHA LEDERMAN

OPINION

In 2015, Twitter was still the platform of choice in some circles for online discourse, which hadn't yet been chased away by Elon Musk, and the trolls and bots that now prevail. That November, when the best-selling novelist Steven Galloway was suddenly and mysteriously suspended as head of the University of British Columbia's creative writing program owing to "serious allegations," as the school disclosed in a memo to its students, speculation was rampant – not just in the halls of academe and the literati, but online. Within days there were tweets that mentioned rape with Mr. Galloway's name as the hashtag, a B.C. court heard this week.

Mr. Galloway launched a defamation lawsuit against what is now down to four defendants, including the woman who accused him of sexual assault, known publicly as A.B. He testified this week that they had an extramarital relationship with her “enthusiastic, ongoing consent” for about two years before it ended amicably, or so he thought.

Most of the defendants have settled, so there have already been undisclosed legal consequences.

But the courtroom has heard this week about other consequences: How the hot takes from people in CanLit and casual observers landed not just in the in-boxes and Twitter feeds of the people involved, but in their homes and lives, to grave effect.

The court heard of Mr. Galloway being unable to eat or sleep, throwing up frequently, having severe panic attacks, shaking in the fetal position, crying, unable to participate in family life; of being huddled under a blanket on Christmas Day, incapable of being truly present in a world that considered him a rapist. This was a man who lost not only his job chairing UBC's creative writing program and his lucrative international writing career, but his community and many friends.

His children, then school-aged, had to deal with their dad being absent from their events and the fear of being targeted for sharing his last name. The joy of blending his family with his now-wife Katie Wagner and her two children descended into a hellscape months later, as he was unable to function.

Ms. Wagner became a caregiver, watching over Mr. Galloway, keeping an eye on his medication, trying to stop him from reading all the horrible things online. Waking up to find him absent from the bed and then tracking him down elsewhere, contemplating suicide.

The court also heard about the intense backlash to the 2016 "UBC Accountable" open letter calling for due process from the university. It was signed by many Canadian authors. But rather than offer relief from the bombardment, it prompted what Mr. Galloway described as a "tsunami of vitriol and hatred" directed at the signatories. "They were losing jobs, they were being disinvited from places," Mr. Galloway testified. Margaret Atwood was called a rape apologist. He recalled author Miriam Toews calling him "in tears, saying 'Steve, I have to unsigned the letter or my daughter will never talk to me again."

The hate has come for all sides. In A.B.'s application for anonymity, she disclosed that cruel messages filled her inbox when she was publicly identified at one point during this ugly mess. Court heard that she has attempted suicide twice this year. And on Wednesday, another defendant, Glynnis Kirchmeier, described a vile message she received the night before.

People can be bravely horrible from the anonymity of their keyboards.

On the trial's opening day, Justice Neena Sharma repeated a line you'll often hear in newsrooms: "Don't read the comments." She was speaking about A.B., suggesting it would be wise for her to avoid reading them to minimize harm to herself.

I'll go one further: It would be wise for all of us to reconsider making comments.

For years, many decided that Mr. Galloway was not deserving of compassion, privacy or innocent-until-proven-otherwise. And that the defendants – current and previous – in his lawsuit and supporters on both sides were not deserving of dignity either. The vitriol continues online, even now.

If ever there was a defining mess in Canadian academia, the Galloway case is it. It led to a career cancellation, widespread online mobbing and lives altered forever. You can see some of those people – real people – in the courtroom. Mr. Galloway in particular, a shell of his former CanLit celebrity self in suits that hang off him, whose hand shook as he tried to drink some water while testifying that the rape allegations made against him were complete fictions. Not the kind he used to write – something he can't do any more, as he told the court, before breaking down in the witness box. The kind that ended that life for him.

DOUG SAUNDERS will return

Do not accept this film's friend request

In The Social Reckoning, Jeremy Strong plays Mark Zuckerberg, conceived as a Benjamin Button-like creation – a man-child trapped in the body of a child-man.

Sorkin's follow-up to The Social Network is so inept it will turn even the fiercest Facebook hater into a believer

BARRY HERTZ REVIEW

Written and directed by Aaron Sorkin Starring Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong

It is not particularly hard to hate Facebook.

Indeed, it wouldn't take a Harvard scholar par Winklevoss to make the case that Mark Zuckerberg's social-media behemoth just might be the 21st century's most disastrous invention, an addictive vessel of late-stage capitalism that feeds on and amplifies humanity's very worst instincts. The fact that I can't even share this movie review on Facebook because of the corporation's bully-like beef with the Canadian government doesn't help its cause. But really, you don't have to go searching for reasons to disavow the service. The experience of using Facebook is the case against Facebook.

All of which makes writer-director Aaron Sorkin's new movie, The Social Reckoning, an astounding piece of cinema. Over the course of just 112 minutes, Sorkin's docudrama tracing Zuckerberg's corporate malfeasance in the early 2020s will turn even the most hardcore Facebook hater into a true-blue Facebook believer – the film is just that magnificently, unbelievably, despicably bad.

To understand why - to fully comprehend how someone could make a movie so inept that it will have you rooting for Big Tech - you first need to know that The Social Reckoning is, despite all pretenses and marketing materials to the contrary, not a genuine sequel to The Social Network. That 2010 film was, in the hands of director David Fincher and his varsity-league cast, one of the great movies of the past quarter-century, a gorgeously shot, technically innovative, brilliantly performed, and ambitiously layered tour through our culture's descent into social-media hell. The Social Reckoning might share a screenwriter in Sorkin, and an ostensible subject in Facebook, but comparing the two movies is akin to comparing apples to Apple. One is a giant world conqueror, the other is a bushel of slowly rotting fruit.

The new film's problems start, and largely stop, with Sorkin, who decided to direct his own script this time rather than enlisting someone who knows what they're doing. Shooting the film like a particularly lazy direct-to-streaming movie - all simple camera setups, overexposed lighting, and blocking that recalls a high school's unauthorized staging of A Few Good Men - the guy can't even nail down a simple walk-and-talk scene, the supposed signature of any Sorkin production, from The West Wing through Moneyball. As a result of this aesthetic incompetence, even the sharpest Sorkin lines, of which there are precious few here, feel dulled and flattened.

This becomes a particular problem once the film sets up its narrative, which is as loose and tedious as The Social Network's was tight and riveting. Mostly, this is a journalism thriller, with much of the action centred on a real-life pair of anti-Facebook heroes: Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz (played by Jeremy Allen White) and data engineer Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison). Disillusioned by Facebook's evolution from a relatively benign community platform to an online fire hose flooding the internet with hate and deception, Haugen goes full whistle-blower, helping Horwitz report a series of blistering investigations that threaten Zuckerberg's empire.

But while Sorkin thinks that he's writing something on the level of All the President's Men or Meet John Doe - even having the characters at one point name-check Woodward and Bernstein, and later running down the highlights of Frank Capra's canon - the filmmaker is actually conjuring up an insufferably sanctimonious fantasia of blue-state boomers. It is almost as if Sorkin is actively testing his audience's tolerance for self-righteous didacticism.

A late-film swerve into the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack, for instance, is so eye-rolling in its conception and hacky in execution that you begin to question just whose side of the political aisle Sorkin is on anyway. This is the kind of hoary pap that threatens the fabric of American democracy, forget any dudes sporting MAGA caps.

The sheer insufferability of Sorkin's sensibilities unfortunately extends to the real-life people that the filmmaker is purporting to champion. The thuddingly bland relationship between Horwitz and Haugen, who are afforded exactly one character trait apiece (he's a Luddite, she's a nerd) and forced to deliver long monologues about such scintillating topics as “user engagement” and “meaningful social interactions,” makes it hard to believe that the characters originated from the same mind that gave such prickly life to The Social Network’s rebels and rabble-rousers. There is one date-night-at-a-bar scene that is such a blatant, sloppy riff on the pub-set spat that opens Fincher’s film that 2010-era Sorkin should consider suing current-day Sorkin.

Meanwhile, neither Horwitz or Haugen gets any lift from a sleep-walking White or an annoyingly twitchy Madison, the latter of whom should hold onto that Academy Award for Anora extra tight these days.

What's worse, though, than Sorkin's hammy vision of the people who populate a 2020s-era newsroom - one that is even more cringey and out-of-touch than, well, The Newsroom - is his new, but far from evolved, approach to Zuckerberg. Swapping out Jesse Eisenberg for Jeremy Strong, Sorkin's updated Zuck is conceived as a Benjamin Button-like creation, a man-child trapped in the body of a childman. Or maybe it's closer to Martin Short's intentionally obnoxious arrested-development work in Clifford.

Either way, Strong gives over his entire self to the role and it is still not enough. The actor, who must be suffering some version of Sorkin-holm syndrome (after his previous collaborations with the director on Molly's Game and The Trial of the Chicago 7) simply cannot overcome the faux-clever dialogue and dead-on-arrival direction that he is handed.

By the time a self-satisfied and hilariously long coda of text fills the screen before the end credits – at which point composer Alexandre Desplat's score fully tips over into self-parody, a dispiriting follow-up to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's piercing work on Fincher's film – the movie unintentionally recalls and then subverts one of Sorkin's very best lines. If Aaron Sorkin was the inventor of The Social Network, he'd have invented The Social Network.

The Social Reckoning opens in theatres Friday.

Father knows best, and then some

BARRY HERTZ

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother CLASSIFICATION 14A; 112 MINUTES

Written and directed by Bassam Tariq Starring Mahershala Ali, John Cho and Giancarlo Esposito

CRITIC'S PICK

The first few minutes of Bassam Tariq's wild and invigorating new action drama Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother succinctly break down the film's initially confounding, perhaps annoyingly repetitive title. As the opening credits roll on, an unseen voice recounts an Islamic hadith, or teaching, in which a man seeks the advice of the Prophet Muhammad, asking: "Who is most deserving of good treatment?" The answer: "Your Mother." But who after that, Prophet? "Your Mother." Yes, but even after her? You get the idea.

In Tariq's world, though, it is the profound absence of a mother that fuels his story. In the suburbs of Houston, a devoutly religious family man named Latif (Mahershala Ali) has just lost his wife to cancer, and is left to fend for himself and his three young children, including an infant boy who refuses to accept anything other than his late mother's milk.

This might be enough high-stakes anxiety to fuel a domestic drama of sizable proportions, but Tariq has grander, knottier ambitions. Latif is not just a father of faith whose second home is his nearby mosque, but also a contract killer embarking on a righteous quest of vengeance, whacking men who he deems to be making the world a worse place.

And so, as Latif frantically drives around the soulless strip malls of Texas searching for breast milk to satisfy his child's growing hunger, he also must balance several existential debts that he has placed upon himself. There are the financial promises that he has made to his criminal associates (including Mike, a corrupt businessman, played by Laith Nakli), the promises that he issued to his local imam Abdul (Giancarlo Esposito) to get out of the murder-for-hire game for good, and the mortal danger that comes with having tried, and failed, to assassinate a gun nut named Pastor Yoon (John Cho) who is forming his own fundamentalist Christian cult.

That all might sound like a mouthful of absurdity to swallow, but Tariq balances all the disparate ingredients into a grand, singular buffet of big-screen blowouts. For every moment of quiet, stirring reflection – including several searing confrontations between Latif and his teenage daughter Fatiha (played by the mononamed breakout actress Adia) – there are brutal, electrifying shootouts and swordplay staged between warring factions of men who are determined that they alone are on the right side of God.

While some of the action sequences are staged with more style and substance than others – the best moments seem to be pulled from fight choreography that was initially planned for Tariq and Ali's since-abandoned reboot of Marvel's Blade franchise – the violence is consistently fuelled by a what-the-hell sense of wonder. Simply put: There are story points and images in this movie – from the concept of halal porn to the notion of using vacuum-sealed baggies of breast milk as contraband to whatever gonzo technique Cho is using to embody a genuinely whacked-out villain – that have never been put on screen before.

Mahershala Ali, centre, anchors nearly every frame as Latif, a devout father turned contract killer in Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother.

Certainly, Tariq has created a world that borrows heavily from samurai culture (especially Lone Wolf and Cub), the John Wick series, and the universal dread that every North American suburbanite faces when they must drive great distances to accomplish the most minor of tasks. But the filmmaker mixes all his influences and ideas up into something delightfully unpredictable and affecting.

And still, the best thing that Tariq might have done is placing the entire effort upon the shoulders of his leading man, Ali. Occupying almost every frame of the film, the Oscar-winning actor – who has never really had the chance to headline a movie before, shocking as that fact might be – cements his character's complexities from the very start. This is a role that requires an actor to project so very much with so few words, and Ali absolutely kills it with as much vigour and vitality as is required of his on-screen hero.

Eventually, the film does circle back to that opening hadith, with the Prophet Muhammad asked a fourth and final time who should be deserving of the best treatment, following one's mother. The answer? Of course, it's "Your Father."

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother opens in Toronto Friday, expanding across the country Oct. 16.

A fresh, moving portrait of Terry Fox that makes a myth human again

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Run Terry Run CLASSIFICATION N/A; 109 MINUTES

Directed by Sean Menard

CRITIC'S PICK

Taking the adage "show, don't tell" to a triumphant extreme, Run Terry Run succeeds in humanizing Terry Fox, a tall order when he's beer mythologized so much he's the new face of the Canadian \$5 bill.

Existing entirely in the present tense, director Sean Menard's stirring documentary brings back 1980 Canadiana and stays tight on Fox as he grapples with deteriorating health and increased attention coming of age as he realizes in real time that the Marathon of Hope will have to run on without him. With never-before-seen footage and a total commitment to not breaking from archival material, the picture succeeds in bringing back a well-known story with new energy, an energy entirely deserving of a big-screen release.

Fox bickers with his little brother, goofs around with his best friend, laughs on a swim with a 10-year-old cancer survivor and breaks down reluctantly as he tries to address an increasingly large crowd.

The film has all of the hallmarks of a non-fiction Oscar pick and, given Menard's love of cinema and the screenwriter's expressed desire to make his next picture break from

It shows the Canadian legend as a real human being with real heart and real pain.

his documentary streak, Run Terry Run is both a moving piece of Canadian history and a salvo for its director, who hopes to take his place in line behind Matt Johnson in the next wave of creators of independent Canadian film.

Growing up, Menard was an impressionable adolescent who found work at a movie theatre, and you can feel him approaching his subject matter through a young audience's wide eyes. Entertaining, insightful and endearingly fresh, Run Terry Run is a crowd-pleasing triumph of reanimation that adds to the Terry Fox legend in the only remaining way of value: It shows the Canadian legend as a real human being with real heart and real pain.

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At sea, our family made up our own words

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Even a world-renowned linguist was impressed by our family dictionary, Lorraine Escher writes

I have been sailing around the world with my husband, Rick, and our four children since 2015. In that time, we have developed some vocabulary of our own. I wrote a family dictionary that captures more than 100 unique words and phrases we use at sea. For example, we might use “hobbleton” as a term of endearment when speaking to an injured person. We use the term “engine clothing” to describe an outfit worn for grubby boat jobs.

Recently, my dictionary has become a solace. I use it in the same way some people might flip through old photo albums. After years of home-schooling, my eldest daughter, Betty, has been accepted into university in Ontario. She is leaving our boat to begin her first year. We will continue our circumnavigation from Malaysia without her.

TODAY'S SUDOKU SOLUTION

2	4	5	9	7	1	3	8	6
6	9	1	5	8	3	7	4	2
8	7	3	4	2	6	1	5	9
3	5	9	7	4	2	8	6	1
4	6	7	1	3	8	9	2	5
1	8	2	6	5	9	4	7	3
9	3	4	2	6	7	5	1	8
5	2	8	3	1	4	6	9	7
7	1	6	8	9	5	2	3	4

WORLD FORECAST

I recently added definitions for “bathroom tourism” and “Magic Porridge Pot mom” and felt a strange mix of joy and loss. The dictionary preserves family memories, including those made when our kids were small.

While looking for other family dictionaries, I came across the book Kitchen Table Lingo. It contains a compilation of public submissions with words like "bogwurple," as well as contributions from some well-known authors and broadcasters. English linguist David Crystal wrote the afterword.

TODAY'S KENKEN SOLUTION

2÷3	2-1	3-5	2	8×4	30×6
6	3	7+4	5-1	2	5
2-4	2	3	6	6+5	1
10×1	2÷4	2	11+5	6	24×3
2	11+5	6	3÷3	1	4
5	5-6	1	1-4	3	2

NATIONAL FORECAST

I was delighted to see that I shared a common interest with people whose careers left me awestruck. Quicker than I could type "What are you thinking?" I found David Crystal's website, clicked "Contact" and filled in an online form.

For 15 hours I sat alone with the knowledge that I had contacted a world-renowned linguist about our family dictionary.

As Rick was talking to me about our watermaker, I received a notification on my phone. Crystal's name flickered briefly. "Oh!" I said, and I turned off my phone.

Without missing a beat, Rick continued, "What we need is a quick-fit hose connection that allows a big pipe to go to a smaller one." We agreed that this seemed to be what plumbing was all about. Small to big, and big to small. Then, as Rick made some notes, I opened my e-mail.

"Oh, Rick! David Crystal wrote to me."

Rick looked up. "Who?"

"He's a famous English linguist. He's written more than 100 books and received an Order of the British Empire. I sent him a note about our family dictionary."

"What did he say?"

I read his note out loud: "Many thanks for sending this, Lorraine. It's such a worthwhile project, and I wish more families did such a thing."

I read the words again.

The front cover of Crystal's 2002 book, Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion displays a quote from actor Kenneth Branagh that reads, "Detailed, comprehensive, fascinating."

I imagined a similar endorsement appearing on our family dictionary: "Such a worthwhile project - David Crystal."

Of course, I had to respond. It would be rude not to. But what to say?

In his e-mail, he'd mentioned his most recent book. Seeing a connection, I wrote:

Hello Professor Crystal,

...There have been several times during our circumnavigation when I have felt like an unwitting Victorian curiosity-seeker myself. I touched on that feeling in a blog post I wrote about land diving in Vanuatu...

Grammar check. Send.

The next day at breakfast, I had hardly sat down before I saw his reply.

"He wrote again!" I said excitedly. Rick stirred his bowl of yogurt. Betty was up earlier than usual and came into the cockpit to share the excitement.

I took a breath. "Thank you, I'd not come across land diving before. Extraordinary! And very nicely written."

"Very nicely written" seemed to glow off the page.

"It's not exactly 'Amazing, excellent work' though," I said, feeling a tinge of disappointment. "No, it's great, Mom."

"You should ask if he might be okay with you putting his comments on your blog," Rick said as he scraped the last bits of yogurt from his bowl.

This time I really felt like I was pushing my luck. I was writing to a man who had written several books about English grammar. Every word was considered before I sent him another note.

Then, I waited. Breakfast turned into lunch.

I tried to tell myself it didn't matter. While it would have been nice to receive formal permission for using his quotes on my blog, it was not really necessary. Really.

Then, he wrote again:

"Sure. No problem."

One day, my kids will look back at our family dictionary. They might share a laugh revisiting family terms like "nimbleton" and "wavers." Maybe Betty will find herself at school back in Canada with her arms akimbo and she will remember how she'd sometimes "put out her bingo wings" to claim space in an anchorage.

Lorraine Escher lives in Ottawa and is currently circumnavigating Malaysia on a sailboat.

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	TODAY		TOMORROW		SUNDAY
AMSTERDAM	18/11	SH	15/10	SH	15/8	SH
ATHENS	25/19	S	25/17	SH	24/17	T
BANGKOK	32/26	SH	31/24	T	29/24	T
BEIJING	26/16	S	27/16	S	26/18	S
BERLIN	14/10	SH	17/9	SH	14/9	SH
BRUSSELS	16/9	SH	14/8	S	14/8	S
COPENHAGEN	13/11	PC	15/9	SH	12/9	SH
FRANKFURT	13/9	PC	14/7	SH	13/5	SH
HONG KONG	27/25	S	28/25	S	28/26	S
JERUSALEM	26/17	S	27/18	S	26/17	PC
LAS VEGAS	36/23	S	32/20	PC	24/17	SH
LONDON	19/10	SH	14/8	PC	14/10	PC
LOS ANGELES	31/20	S	28/22	C	24/16	S
MADRID	19/10	S	22/12	S	22/13	PC
MIAMI	32/26	T	31/27	T	32/26	T
MOSCOW	17/9	C	12/7	SH	13/9	C
NEW DELHI	33/23	SH	33/23	T	33/23	PC
NEW YORK	21/11	S	19/13	S	19/17	PC
NICE	22/16	SH	23/16	S	23/17	PC
ORLANDO	29/24	T	30/24	T	31/24	T
PARIS	16/12	C	17/11	PC	16/9	C
PHOENIX	39/28	S	34/23	C	30/23	T
ROME	21/15	SH	21/15	SH	24/12	S
SAN FRANCISCO	18/14	S	15/11	S	16/12	S
SEOUL	24/14	PC	26/17	S	28/19	S
SINGAPORE	31/25	T	29/26	T	30/25	T
SYDNEY	19/17	S	33/18	SH	21/18	S
TOKYO	24/16	S	25/17	S	25/18	S
WASHINGTON	23/14	PC	23/16	PC	20/18	SH

LEGEND

	TODAY		TOMORROW		SUNDAY
BANFF	11/1	R	0/5	SN	4/8	S
BARRIE	16/5	S	19/14	PC	19/12	SH
BRANDON	20/8	PC	19/5	PC	7/1	C
CALGARY	14/0	SH	1/3	SN	2/7	PC
CHARLOTTETOWN	15/6	PC	10/5	PC	12/12	PC
CHICOUTIMI	8/2	SH	9/3	PC	20/11	PC
CHURCHILL	4/1	RS	5/2	C	4/0	RS
CORNER BROOK	14/6	SH	9/4	R	8/5	SH
CORNWALL	14/3	SH	15/11	S	21/14	PC
EDMONTON	8/0	R	3/2	SN	3/4	PC
HALIFAX	18/7	S	13/5	S	15/13	PC
HAMILTON	18/6	S	22/16	PC	19/14	R
HUNTSVILLE	13/4	SH	17/13	PC	20/12	C
IQALUIT	0/6	PC	-1/5	PC	-2/6	PC
JASPER	4/2	R	1/9	SN	5/8	S
KELOWNA	14/6	R	10/0	SH	12/0	S
KINGSTON	16/7	SH	16/15	S	18/15	SH
LONDON	17/8	S	22/16	S	18/13	R
MONTRÉAL	13/3	PC	14/9	S	20/13	PC
NIAGARA FALLS	18/8	S	22/16	PC	19/15	R
NORTH BAY	11/2	SH	16/13	PC	19/11	PC
OTTAWA	13/1	SH	16/9	PC	20/13	PC
PRINCE GEORGE	9/0	SH	8/3	S	8/0	S
PETERBOROUGH	15/4	S	17/13	PC	18/14	SH
QUEBEC	12/2	SH	12/5	S	19/13	PC
REGINA	21/7	PC	10/1	C	4/1	C
SASKATOON	15/5	PC	5/0	SH	5/3	PC
SAULT STE MARIE	15/8	S	21/16	PC	22/12	PC
SAINT JOHN	15/6	SH	13/5	S	15/13	PC
SEPTÈLES	10/5	PC	11/3	SH	6/4	R
ST JOHN'S	17/9	SH	12/6	SH	9/7	PC
SUDBURY	14/3	PC	17/14	PC	20/12	PC
THUNDER BAY	14/9	PC	22/12	PC	26/10	S
THOMPSON	6/0	PC	2/1	SN	3/1	SN
TORONTO	18/10	S	18/14	S	19/15	SH
VAL-D'OR	7/1	PC	11/9	PC	21/11	PC
VANCOUVER	15/9	SH	14/6	SH	15/6	S
VICTORIA	17/9	SH	14/8	SH	14/9	S
WHISTLER	11/4	SH	10/0	PC	12/3	S
WHITEHORSE	4/4	S	7/1	S	7/1	PC
WINNIPEG	19/13	C	24/9	PC	9/5	R
YELLOWKNIFE	3/4	PC	4/2	PC	6/2	PC

C CLOUDY	RS RAIN/SNOW
FG FOG	S SUN
FR FREEZING RAIN	SN SNOW
HZ HAZE	SF SNOW FLURRIES
NA NOT AVAILABLE	SH SHOWERS
PC PARTLY CLOUDY	T THUNDERSTORMS
R RAIN	W WINDY

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BRIDGE BY STEVE BECKER FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2026

Amusing incidents occasionally occur in major tournaments. For example, some years ago a young Polish pair, representing their country for the first time in the annual world championship, reached a dreadful grand-slam contract.

After the opening lead was made and dummy appeared, declarer could see his partner overbid his values. Declarer looked at dummy and said: "That dummy

61 Snoop ____ 62 Head games?

DOWN 1 "NOW!" 2 Vex 3 "____ Enchanted" (2004 film) 4 Longing 5 Completely unrestrained 6 State 7 Nonverbal approval 8 Rowing implement 9 Squished circle 10 Boxing great Oscar ____ Hoya 11 Guru's retreat 12 Grotto for gouda, perhaps 13 "The only tired I was, was tired of giving in" speaker 14 Mini-albums 22 Food preservation liquid 23 Deserving one star 24 Commercial battery? 26 Bump treated with a warm compress 27 Vacationing in the Outback, say? 29 Flair 30 Actress Minnelli 31 Powered-up Nintendo character who shoots flaming balls (even in underwater levels) 32 Food, informally 33 Shrek or Fiona 35 Poet Angelou 36 Provide your two cents 37 "Juno" actor Michael 42 Panama's location? 43 Floor duster

53 _ grrrl ('90s feminist punk movement) 54 _ about (travels aimlessly) 55 Box set unit 57 Sn on the periodic table 58 Brooding music genre

is an insult to Poland!"

If you were West on the following layout, you might have similar feelings if you reached Six Spades due to partner's over-optimism after you opened two notrump. However, they don't allow you to change the contract, so the question is, how would you proceed after North leads the 10 of clubs? (Assume the missing trumps are divided 3-1 or 2-2).

West ♠ K Q 10 9 ♥ A K 3 ♦ A 10 2 ♣ A 3 2

East ♠ AJ 8 7 6 ♥ 7 6 ♦ Q 5 ♣ J 6 5 4

The only genuine chance for the slam is to find South with the doubleton K-Q of clubs, as well as the king of diamonds. So you lead a low club from dummy, and South, luckily for you, produces the queen.

You next cash three rounds of trump (South turns up with three of them) and continue with the A-K and another heart, ruffing in dummy. Now you play the club five, taken by South with the king. You hope South will return a diamond away from the king, which would hand you the slam, but he smartly exits with a heart instead.

After discarding a diamond from your hand and ruffing the heart with dummy's last trump, you return the queen of diamonds, covered by the king and ace. Miraculously, you are now on the verge of making the contract if North holds the jack of diamonds. You hope he started with a hand such as:

♠5 ♥Q1082 ♦J843 ♣10987

If that's what he was dealt, he will be a dead duck when you next play the queen of spades in this position:

Whatever North discards on the spade queen, you make the contract. Of course, you must be sure to congratulate your partner on his brilliance in contracting for such a dreadful slam!

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INSTRUCTIONS Fill in the grid so that each row of nine squares, each column of nine and each section of nine (three squares by three) contains the numbers 1 through 9 in any order. There is only one solution to each puzzle.

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Royal Bank subsidiary will vote against takeover of H&R REIT

TIM KILADZE

RBC Global Asset Management, one of H&R Real Estate Investment Trust's largest unitholders, will vote against H&R's proposed takeover by another REIT, adding a prominent voice to a growing campaign against the deal.

The bank, which currently owns 9.3 million H&R units, said Thursday it will vote against the takeover by GO Residential Real Estate Investment Trust. It declined to elaborate on its reasoning.

A day earlier, Boston-based Mill Pond Capital also came out against the deal. Mill Pond beneficially owns 2.2 million H&R units.

H&R agreed to a complex deal in August that is ultimately a takeover by GO Residential. But it also involves a consortium of other buyers that includes Blackstone Real Estate, Crestpoint Real Estate Investments Ltd. and CRAL, a company controlled by relatives of H&R founder Tom Hofstedter.

Both H&R's units and GO's units have lost value on the Toronto Stock Exchange since the deal was announced in mid-August, with H&R down 12 per cent and GO down 20 per cent. The S&P/TSX Capped REIT Index is down 7 per cent over the same period.

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Defence firms wary about procurement speed despite new legislation

PIPPA NORMAN INNOVATION REPORTER HALIFAX

New legislation to transform Ottawa's Defence Investment Agency into a Crown corporation is a positive step, industry members say, but concerns about slow-moving procurement remain as the agency pursues a new business model.

A ballroom inside of the Halifax Convention Centre was packed on Wednesday afternoon as Wendy Hadwen, assistant deputy minister of policy and industry, who recently moved into the DIA, got up on stage to talk about the progress her agency has made and answer questions from stakeholders.

"We have no time," she said in her opening remarks. "It is a situation that is quite urgent, and Canada must now quickly become the kind of country that can marry up its industrial advantages with its operational needs, put them together in line with the defence demand signal, and get out in the world, compete and win."

It has been almost exactly a year since the federal government launched its defence-procurement arm, dedicated to streamlining the multidepartment process that has long been criticized for its sluggish pace and inaccessibility to small and medium-sized businesses.

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COMPANIES

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Stephen Jarislowsky, legendary businessman who championed corporate governance, dies at 101

ANDREW WILLIS JAMESON BERKOW NICOLAS VAN PRAET

Billionaire investor Stephen Jarislowsky, a champion of corporate governance and former spy, has died at the age of 101.

Mr. Jarislowsky co-founded what became one of the country's largest asset management companies, Jarislowsky Fraser Ltd., after moving to Montreal in the 1950s.

He made his name as a pioneer advocate for shareholder rights, embracing the concept long before it became trendy by engaging in public battles with CEOs, family businesses and boards of directors. Later in his career, he became a philanthropist who supported the study of democracy at universities and built one of the country's finest private art collections.

In the 1970s and 80s, Mr. Jarislowsky fought against deals backed by the Canadian corporate establishment, including the Billes family behind Canadian Tire, Montreal's Bronfman clan, the corporate raider Conrad Black and auto-parts magnate Frank Stronach.

On Thursday, Mr. Black, the former chairman and chief executive officer of media company Hollinger Inc., paid tribute to his onetime sparring partner.

"A German-Jewish fugitive from the pogroms of Europe, who became a breaker of Japanese codes for the U.S. Navy and ultimately the dean of money-managers in Canada, he was cantankerous, perceptive, and indomitable, but always a loyal and convivial friend," Mr. Black said in an e-mail.

"His intellectual energy and originality will be remembered and missed by all who knew him," he added. "He was unique." JARISLOWSKY, B8

Obituary Investment guru was a crusader for ethical business practices ■ B17

Shift to shorter-term mortgages leaves homeowners exposed to rate hikes, oil price shocks

SALMAAN FAROOQUI

A record-low number of homeowners are opting for long-term fixed-rate mortgages, and economists say a reliance on cheaper, less-stable products could leave the housing market more susceptible to monetary policy changes and outside forces such as oil price shocks from the war in Iran.

Just 8.8 per cent of Canadians signed a fixed mortgage with a term of five years or longer this summer, according to a data analysis by National Bank. It's a major change from the prepandemic era, when nearly 50 per cent of homeowners signed long-term fixed mortgages.

National Bank senior economist Daren King, who authored the study, said that the recent spike in bond yields – which lenders base their mortgage rates on – and the corresponding hikes in long-term fixed mortgage rates mean that even fewer consumers will choose them in the coming months. The data in Mr. King's report reflect trends until July, 2026.

Mr. King said the housing market could remain even more sluggish than expected if homeowners are increasingly rate-sensitive, especially since the Bank of Canada is expected to raise interest rates in the coming months and bond yields continue to soar near two-year highs and drive up the cost of borrowing.

"In August and September, the recovery to the housing market stopped," Mr. King said. "At first, it was caused by uncertainty from the U.S. trade conflict, but now it's more of the impact of rising interest rates."

The decrease in long-term fixed rate borrowing accelerated around 2022, when less than 20 per cent of consumers were choosing those mortgages. They instead opted for short-term fixed rates at a time when all mortgage rates were high, betting that borrowing costs would drop quickly. More than 80 per cent of shoppers were choosing a fixed term shorter than five years at the peak of that trend in mid-2023. MORTGAGES, B11

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Food inflation has been tame recently. That might not last

Canadian food inflation has been surprisingly subdued in recent months, though it often doesn't feel that way in the grocery aisle. But even as the pace of food price increases cools for consumers, the farmers who produce that food face spiralling costs that could bring that relief to an end.

Total farm input costs, which reflect prices for everything farm operators need to run their business, soared more than 11 per cent in the second quarter compared with the year before, according to Statistics Canada. Only twice in the past 25 years have farm costs risen faster annually: in late 2008, when inflation-adjusted oil prices hit their highest levels ever, and in early 2022, when commodity prices surged after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the breakdown of global supply chains.

The two biggest costs driving the latest surge, not surprisingly, are farm machinery fuel costs – which largely mean diesel – and fertilizer prices, both of which reflect fallout from U.S. President Donald Trump's war with Iran.

Farm input costs can bounce around a lot, but over time they tend to foreshadow faster food price inflation. And yet for the time being, that link is weak.

In August, the last month for which Statscan has released consumer price data, annual food inflation slowed to 2.8 per cent, the third straight monthly slowdown and the slowest pace since early 2024.

Statscan's farm input numbers only cover up to the second quarter of the year, so they represent a snapshot of farm costs from several months ago. But the trajectory is clearly pushing higher, and with diesel prices near their highest levels ever, the pressure on farmers, and hence food prices, is only rising. JASON KIRBY

McCarthy Tétrault to open office in Chile

Canadian law firm expands Latin American practice with Santiago office focused on mining and energy sectors

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McCarthy Tétrault LLP is expanding its Latin American practice by opening a physical office in Chile, saying it is the only major Canadian law firm with an on-the-ground presence in the region.

The firm found roughly 3,000 square feet of space in Santiago, has hired an office manager for the location and plans to move in within two months. Shawn Doyle, who has worked for McCarthy Tétrault in Santiago for the past four years, has been appointed managing partner of the new office.

"It is important for me to stress that it is not just a Chile office," Mr. Doyle said in an interview from Copenhagen, where he is attending the International Bar Association's annual conference.

"It will be based in Santiago, that is where I live and it has to be located somewhere, but it's a Latin America-wide practice."

Mining will be a major area of focus for the new office, Mr. Doyle said, as several Canadian mining companies have operations throughout the region. He serves on the advisory council for the World Association of Mining Lawyers, and previously spent three years as the Chile country manager for Polish copper and silver miner KGHM Polska Miedz SA.

The firm found roughly 3,000 square feet of space in Santiago, has hired an office manager for the location and plans to move in within two months.

Several other Canadian law firms also have long-established Latin American practices, though they are generally operated from Canada.

"It is part of their mining practice, it is part of their energy practice," Mr. Doyle said. "I don't think any other firm has taken the same methodical, comprehensive, strategic approach to the region, as a region, the way we have over the past few years."

He said that opening an office, which will accommodate “several” other Canadian lawyers in addition to himself, is “a reconfirmation of the strategic focus and the commitment to the region that we have.”

"You can do some of the work that we do from Canada, but there's other work that we can just do better and be more helpful to clients because we speak the language, literally and figuratively," Mr. Doyle said. "We know what is going on. We are closer to the action. That often can be translated into better, more situationally aware advice for our clients."

Trade between Canada and the Latin American and Caribbean region has grown steadily over the past several years. According to Global Affairs Canada, the total value of trade between Canada and the region has grown by more than one-third from roughly \$70-billion in 2018 to approximately \$95-billion in 2024.

The region accounted for nearly 20 per cent of all Canadian direct investment abroad in 2024, the Global Affairs data showed, or about \$475-billion.

"The theme of the day is diversification of Canada's economic relationships, though the focus is often on Europe and on Asia," Mr. Doyle said. "Those are important places, but Latin America is close at hand and it is important as well."

The PBO estimates that the federal gas-tax pause will save families in the highest income quintile an average of \$468, compared with just \$132 for those in the lowest quintile. KEITO NEWMAN/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Ottawa's gas tax break will benefit high-income families more, PBO finds

CRAIG LORD OTTAWA

Ottawa's gas-tax pause is offering a bigger break at the pumps to the households that earn the most largely because they buy more fuel, the parliamentary budget officer says in a new report.

The federal government temporarily suspended the federal excise tax on gasoline, diesel and jet fuel in April. The pause was supposed to end on Sept. 7, but the government announced last month it would extend that pause into 2027.

Half the tax rate will be reap- plied starting Feb. 1 and the tax will be restored to the full rate on April 1. Parliamentary Budget Off- icer Annette Ryan said in a new report Thursday that the total tax pause will save the average family \$276 over the course of the rough- ly one year it's in place.

But those savings increase for families in higher tax brackets. The PBO estimates that families in the highest income quintile can expect to save an average of \$468, while those in the lowest quintile would see just \$132 in relief.

Fuel costs often make up a bigger share of lower-income families' total budgets, but households that earn more also typically spend more at the pumps.

The Liberals paused the fuel excise tax to offer Canadians relief from a global energy shock driven by the war in Iran.

The federal government temporarily suspended the federal excise tax on gasoline, diesel and jet fuel in April.

The government has not provided a per-family estimate of tax savings from the program. Ottawa says the suspension removes roughly 10 cents from a litre of gasoline and four cents from a litre of diesel.

John Fragos, spokesperson for Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, said the fuel tax pause is a blanket measure that applies evenly to all Canadians based on how much they're driving.

The Liberals' other major affordability program, the Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit, is income-tested and proportionally benefits lower-income households with direct payments, he noted.

Mr. Fragos also said that the relief on diesel costs can pass through Canadian supply chains. Those savings per fuel litre can cut costs for businesses and bring down final prices for consumers on store shelves, he argued.

The PBO noted its estimates assume total savings from the tax break are passed on by producers, but those projections could be affected if corporations retain those savings. The budget office expects the total cost of the fuel tax pause will be \$4.9-billion, just under the federal government's estimate of \$5.3-billion.

The federal Conservatives attempted to pass a motion this week to extend the tax break and cut other fees associated with diesel production, but the proposal was voted down by other parties in the House of Commons on Wednesday.

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Advanced AI heightens cybersecurity risks for banks, regulator says

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Canada's banking regulator is warning that rapid AI development is amplifying cybersecurity and technology sovereignty risks in the country's financial system.

The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions highlighted AI risks in its fall update on the biggest threats facing the banking sector. The regulator said the pace of AI development has “accelerated materially” since it unveiled its annual risk outlook in April.

The rate of change in frontier models is “unprecedented” and the time between discovering a vulnerability and potential exploitation of that gap has shortened, reducing the time that financial institutions have to identify the risk and address it, OSFI said.

"In an era of advancing AI capabilities, resilience is a competitive advantage," OSFI superintendent Peter Routledge said in a statement released with the fall update Thursday. "Financial institutions that harness AI responsibly while managing cyber, technology, and third-party risks will position themselves to thrive in a complex environment."

On Wednesday, Mr. Routledge told a room of financial institution risk professionals that the regulator is planning to implement an AI “safety code” as threats from AI agents and Anthropic’s powerful Claude Mythos model escalate risks among the country’s banks.

While the initiative is still in its early stages, he said the guidelines could consist of broad, high-level standards that provide a basic level of safety and protection for the financial system, while also establishing a “wide perimeter for innovation.”

Canadian banks have been increasingly conducting AI research and implementing tools that boost productivity and generate revenue. On Tuesday, AI benchmarking platform Evident ranked all of Canada's five biggest banks among the top 30 in a list of 50 global financial institutions on AI adoption.

But advances in AI also increase the speed and sophistication of cyberattacks, which could allow weaknesses that seem minor to be exploited for high-impact attacks, OSFI said in the fall update.

“Frontier AI models can locate and exploit more vulnerabilities, enabling adversaries to launch coordinated, large-scale attacks across systems, applications, and third-party ecosystems,” the regulator said.

Risks to Canada's technology sovereignty are also on the rise, according to the fall update. The development of frontier models is dominated by a small group of providers, and many are concentrated outside of Canada.

Escalating geopolitical tensions, including technology restrictions and policy actions in foreign markets, could affect access to technology and services for Canada's institutions, OSFI said.

OSFI has recently been ratcheting up its oversight of AI. In 2023, the regulator and the Global Risk Institute released a report on the implications of AI for financial services institutions. OSFI has also previously cited AI as a key threat in its annual risk outlook.

Earlier this year, the regulator unveiled two technology risk bulletins on generative and agentic AI and frontier AI and listed ways to strengthen resilience against vulnerabilities.

General Fusion reaches plasma milestone

General Fusion Group said Thursday it compressed hydrogen plasma to an electron energy exceeding one kiloelectron volt (1 keV), equivalent to more than 12 million degrees Celsius. JENNIFER GAUTHIER/THE GLOBE AND MAIL

B.C. company says latest test marks progress toward building a commercial-scale reactor

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General Fusion Group Ltd., Canada's main contender in the emerging fusion energy sector, has claimed a new milestone on its path to building a commercial-scale reactor.

On Thursday, the Richmond, B.C., company announced it had successfully compressed a hydrogen plasma to the point where the energy of electrons in the plasma surpassed one kiloelectron volt (1 keV) - a threshold roughly equivalent to a temperature of slightly more than 12 million degrees Celsius.

The result demonstrates an ability to maintain the stability of a plasma while compressing it to the extraordinarily high pressures and temperatures required for fusion reactions to occur. It represents the first in a series of goals the company said it would try to achieve as it explores its unique approach known as magnetized target fusion.

"This is a step forward towards commercialization, delivering reliable commercial clean power from fusion energy," said Greg Twinney, the company's chief executive officer.

He added that the achievement moves the company toward its next goal of reaching an energy 10 times higher and, ultimately, toward operating a demonstration power plant by 2035.

Founded in 2002, General Fusion became a public company in July when it merged with a special-purpose acquisition company, becoming General Fusion Group Ltd., with a current market value around US\$500-million.

Shares of General Fusion surged Thursday, closing up more than 14 per cent to US\$8.71 on the Nasdaq stock exchange.

Mr. Twinney said the capital it raised in the process “funds us through the next couple of milestones.”

Fusion is a type of nuclear reaction that scientists have long hoped to harness for power generation. It releases energy by combining the nuclei of lightweight elements, typically different forms of hydrogen.

In contrast, fission – the process that operates inside conventional nuclear reactors – involves breaking up heavy atomic nuclei like uranium.

If fusion can be made to work, it promises several advantages, including the fact that it delivers far more energy per quantity of fuel used.

The key challenge is that the fuel must be extremely hot before it reaches a point where it produces more energy than is needed to keep the process going. The point of net energy gain is referred to as Q greater than 1.

General Fusion is one of several companies worldwide that are testing ways to commercialize fusion. Its approach involves compressing a lithium metal shell with hydrogen inside to drive the hydrogen to fusion conditions.

Since 2023, the company has been developing LM26, a machine designed to test the method, which it has used to stage successively more powerful compressions.

Mr. Twinney said General Fusion achieved the 1 keV milestone during the past three months. It has released its results together with a pair of technical papers that have been submitted for peer review.

To have independent confirmation of its 1 keV measurement, the company partnered with the UK Atomic Energy Authority. The authority has expertise in measuring plasmas developed over decades of operations with the Joint European Torus, a fusion experiment in Oxfordshire that ran until 2023.

The authority and General Fusion together built a laser-based system to measure the energy of electrons in the plasma through an effect known as Thomson scattering, a gold standard in the industry.

While the measurement relates to the electrons in the plasma, not the hydrogen nuclei involved in the fusion, Megan Wilson, General Fusion's chief strategy officer, said those nuclei also showed "meaningful heating" based on measurements of neutrons released by the plasma along with other indicators.

The company still has many hurdles to overcome to get to commercial energy production. Once the desired plasma energy is reached using LM26, it intends to switch from a solid to a liquid metal liner around the plasma, which can then be deployed inside a reactor that compresses plasma in a repeating cycle, rather than a single shot. The pulses of energy generated would be harnessed for a power plant.

The company's approach compresses plasma in a matter of milliseconds rather than on time scales as short as nanoseconds required by some other methods. Ms. Wilson said it "means less power required for the process, less complexity, and ultimately less cost."

In a joint statement with General Fusion, Dennis Whyte, a leading fusion expert and the U.K. authority's newly appointed CEO, said the 1 keV milestone "reflects the tangible progress being made by General Fusion and others across a diverse set of fusion approaches in the private sector."

The U.S.-based Fusion Industry Association lists 56 fusion companies around the world in its latest survey of the sector, with total funding estimated at US\$14.2-billion.

Former Infoway CEO was dismissed in part for committee testimony: company

CHRIS HANNAY

The former chief executive of Canada Health Infoway was terminated in part because his testimony at a parliamentary committee negatively affected the public image of the federally funded organization, Infoway argued in a new legal filing.

The long-time CEO, Michael Green, was dismissed April 29, days after he testified at a House of Commons health committee to answer questions from members of Parliament about the failure of PrescribeIT, a nearly \$300-million federal project to get doctors to send their prescriptions electronically.

Fewer than 5 per cent of prescriptions flowed through the service by the time Infoway's board decided to cancel it as of May 29, as The Globe and Mail has previously reported.

Mr. Green filed a wrongful-dismissal lawsuit on July 30, alleging that he had been made a scapegoat for the program's failure. He argued that he was owed more than \$3-million in damages.

In a statement of defence filed Oct. 1, Infoway argued that Mr. Green “was terminated for bona fide reasons and on a without-cause basis.”

Infoway said its board had given Mr. Green performance ratings of “exceeds” and “thriving” in past years but downgraded his rating to “delivering” for the 2025-26 fiscal year because of concerns about his performance, “including the failure to establish a sustainable funding model for PrescribeIT.”

Mr. Green's appearance at the parliamentary committee "did not meet the board's expectations for the CEO, and negatively impacted the public reputation of Infoway and its relationship with stakeholders," Infoway said in the statement of defence.

MPs “expressed frustration with the Plaintiff’s answers, including on questions relating to PrescribeIT’s funding and costs, adoption, executive compensation, and the rationale for the PrescribeIT’s transition away from its existing model to an open standards model,” the statement said.

The board was already considering new leadership with a different set of skills for the organization's post-PrescribeIT future, Infoway said in its statement, adding that the committee appearance “substantiated”

those concerns.

Infoway said it offered a severance package in line with Mr. Green's contract, which included a year's worth of base salary and benefits, along with some bonuses, RRSP contributions and car allowance.

Before he was dismissed, Mr. Green was earning nearly \$900,000 a year in total compensation and had been CEO since 2014.

Although PrescribeIT was wound down in most of the country in May, Quebec announced in the summer that it would keep a version of the program running in the province for four years. The Quebec platform, which started as a 14-pharmacy pilot project, was expanded this week to 134 sites.

In June, Health Minister Marjorie Michel's office said it was pausing funding for Infoway and ordered a third-party audit and strategic review of the organization. On Tuesday, Ms. Michel said in the House of Commons that Infoway has still not received any federal funding this fiscal year, pending results of the review.

Conservative MP Dan Mazier, who was among those who questioned Mr. Green, said Infoway should be defunded, and pointed out that Health Canada has a seat on the organization's board.

"For years, Infoway's board, which the Health Minister's own official is a member of, rated his performance as 'exceeds' and 'thriving' while \$300-million was wasted on a program nobody used," he said.

With a report from Tu Thanh Ha

Corus completes recapitalization, names new board after restructuring

IRENE GALEA

Corus Entertainment Inc. has completed its recapitalization plan and named its new board of directors, who will aim to strengthen the ailing media company's balance sheet as it deals with declining revenue and weak advertising demand.

The board faces the challenge of turning around a company affected by numerous rounds of job cuts and operating amid industry-wide pressures on traditional broadcasting. Meanwhile, Corus has been forced to compete with streaming giants for viewers' attention.

The company struck an agreement with debtholders last year in order to maintain operations as it struggled with a heavy debt load and liquidity constraints.

The restructuring, approved by the telecom regulator in September, saw some of the company's lenders exchange approximately \$500-million in debt for a 99-per cent ownership interest in new parent company Corus Entertainment Holdings Inc., which will manage the company's 40 television stations and 36 radio stations.

The new board will be composed of Maryann Turcke, Erin O'Toole, Stuart Garvie, Jeremy Walker and Corus chief executive officer and interim chief financial officer John Gossling.

Ms. Turcke has been appointed chair of the board. The media executive recently served as the chief operating officer of the National Football League, and previously as president of Bell Media. She is a board member on several other companies including the Royal Bank of Canada.

"We want to build a business that is resilient and will grow into the future," Ms. Turcke said in a statement. "Our priority is to continue to strengthen Corus' leadership position in Canada by delivering news that Canadians trust and entertainment that Canadians love."

Mr. O'Toole, president and managing director of corporate intelligence and risk management firm ADIT North America, will lead the human resources and governance committee. Mr. O'Toole spent over a decade in Parliament, serving as a cabinet minister and later as Conservative leader of the Official Opposition.

“Corus plays a vital role not just in the media industry but also in the fabric of Canadian culture and democracy,” Mr. O'Toole said in a statement.

Ottawa, he added, should strive to adapt its regulatory framework to ensure Canadian sovereignty as its broadcasters “compete against dominant American platforms intent on writing the rules for the global digital economy.”

Mr. Garvie will chair the operating committee. Mr. Garvie has held a range of executive positions in the media and advertising industry, including as president of

Bell Media Sales, and as the former CEO of media buying agency WPP Media Canada.

Mr. Walker, the former deputy chair and global head of TD Securities for the communications, telecommunications and media sectors, will chair the company's audit committee.

The revamped capital structure will positions Corus for “new opportunities and future growth,” Mr. Gossling said in the statement.

Corus reported a 16-per-cent drop in revenue compared with the prior year in its third quarter, ended May 31. Its consolidated profit margin declined to 12 per cent, from 21 per cent the previous year. The company posted a \$32.5-million loss attributable to shareholders, compared with a \$7-million loss the prior year.

However, it had \$6-million in free cash flow, up from a \$32.5-million loss in 2025.

Corus cut dozens of media jobs in July, particularly in Western Canada, as it moved to centralize the operations of some of its Global News stations, and confirmed a further set of layoffs in August.

Corus's existing class B non-voting shares are expected be delisted from the Toronto Stock Exchange at the close of trading on Oct. 9, the company said in the release. New common and variable voting shares in the holding company will begin trading at market open on Oct. 13 under the ticker "CORS."

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Alberta AI use gives legal community a buzz

Earlier this year, Alberta Distillers launched Northern Keep, a premium vodka produced from Canadian-grown rye and winter wheat. The Alberta Whisky Act sets out new labelling standards to boost the brand power of the Western province's distilled drink.

In drafting the Whisky Act with artificial intelligence, the province's use of the tech is proof of its potential

RITA TRICHUR

OPINION

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government has taken a spirited approach to using artificial intelligence to craft new legislation.

It used a dram of AI to draft its landmark Alberta Whisky Act, which sets out new labelling standards to boost the brand power of the Western province's distilled drink. The idea is to give it a regional identity similar in stature to Kentucky bourbon.

But that marketing strategy isn't the most potent part of this story. Alberta's pioneering use of AI is believed to mark the first time that any Canadian jurisdiction has used the technology for lawmaking purposes. So it is easy to see why the country's legal community thinks that's neat.

Law firm Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP has published two reports on this issue in recent weeks, sparking a broader conversation about the opportunities and risks for governments that use AI when creating legislation.

The first instalment of Fasken's "Distilled Law" series argues that Alberta's trailblazing move has garnered attention far beyond the food and beverage industry, piquing the interest of policy makers, technophiles, intellectual-property lawyers and other legal experts curious about government use cases for AI.

"The Whisky Act highlights a broader issue: what role should AI play in the development of legislation?" states Fasken's second segment in the series, published on Sept. 15.

Dale Nally, Minister of Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction, has said the government used AI in the initial drafting of the legislation, calling it “a first good step” for the province.

"We said all along that we're not going to let AI write the legislation and we're just going to take a seat at the back of the room. We said that there's going to be eyes on this every step of the way," Mr. Nally told journalists earlier this year.

"So we used AI to analyze the data and to really come up with the building blocks from which we can work from. And so we're pleased with that."

Alberta's government is certainly breaking new ground with its novel use of AI. Even so, Mr. Nally appears to be clear-eyed about the technology's potential pitfalls.

"We're not really anticipating a world where AI writes all of our legislation alone," he said. "But we certainly anticipate one where AI can be one of the tools" used to write legislation.

That is the most significant insight that one can glean from Alberta's foray into AI-assisted lawmaking. Actual human beings never relinquished their responsibility for oversight.

Fasken's analysis appropriately highlights the "limitations of AI-assisted legislative drafting," even if the technology can tackle tedious, time-consuming tasks such as synthesizing large amounts of information and flagging factual errors.

It stresses that drafting legislation also "requires contextual knowledge and judgment" about a government's policy objectives and any real-world consequences for citizens.

"There is also a risk of bias: because AI systems reflect the data on which they are trained, they may import assumptions or priorities that do not fit the specific conditions of the legislative initiative or that favour particular approaches reflected in such data," Fasken's second report states.

"For these reasons, human oversight remains essential. Legislative counsel and policy-makers must be able to review and assess all aspects of AI-assisted legislative drafting."

In other words, government officials and bureaucrats cannot behave like automatons while using AI to draft laws. Human discernment provides a required dose of sober second thought.

Still, Alberta's experimentation is promising because it points to more practical AI applications for governments, which are known for their plodding productivity.

For its part, Alberta also uses an AI-enabled wildfire prediction system that draws on historical fire, weather and ecological data, according to a 2025 report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

That same OECD study found that governments mostly use AI to improve their “internal operations” and for “public service delivery.” Legislators rarely use it for policy-making purposes.

With respect to drafting legal texts, the OECD notes that "AI systems can generate preliminary drafts" by using templates and existing laws.

"This process helps ensure adherence to standards while saving time and resources," its report states. "Additionally, AI can cross-reference new drafts with current laws, identifying potential conflicts and minimising human errors."

Governments, therefore, face the challenge of mitigating the technology's risks without missing out on its benefits.

Alberta's use of AI to draft its whisky law is proof of the tech's evolving potential. But governments must use it with a peg of prudence or risk finding themselves on the rocks.

Mark Carney has started fixing immigration. He needs to keep at it

TONY KELLER

OPINION

The Carney government has spent the past year and a half leaning hard on the wheel, trying to steer away from some of the Trudeau government's worst navigational errors.

One of the big issues where the previous government got it very wrong, and where the current government says it wants to chart a different course, is immigration.

Prime Minister Mark Carney's watchword on the file is "control." It's the first term he reaches for whenever he talks about immigration. Answering a question about immigration from The New York Times, he used the word seven times.

This doesn't mean closing the border or stopping all arrivals. It's about moderating the immigration level after Justin Trudeau's record surge, and giving the public a sense that government is back in control of who comes to Canada, and who stays.

Prime Minister Mark Carney's watchword on the file is 'control.' It's the first term he reaches for whenever he talks about immigration. Answering a question about immigration from The New York Times, he used the word seven times.

After a sharp drop in student arrivals since 2024, and a refugee claims backlog that is falling for the first time in years, Team Carney can claim progress on the immigration file.

However, as I wrote earlier this week, quite a bit of course-correcting remains.

What does the Carney government still need to do?

Let's review where we are, and how we got here

Under the previous government, employers and educational institutions – whether good, bad or awful – were offered an unlimited number of temporary work visas and student permits. That led to recruiters scouring the developing world, selling the hope of Canadian citizenship in return for a couple of semesters and low tuition at no-name, puppy-mill colleges.

Between 2022 and 2024, the number of new Canadian residents averaged one million a year – four times the level of the 1990s, 2000s or early 2010s. Canada's legal temporary-resident population grew to three million by 2024.

It was an unprecedented and unplanned immigration surge, driven by a government that branded itself to be progressive, yet acted as if Canada's main economic problem was a shortage of people willing to work for minimum wage, or less.

The Trudeau government started backpedaling in its final year, and the Carney government continued. The number of student visas has been capped at a level far below the heights of a couple of years ago. The count of foreign students in Canada, which topped one million in the summer of 2024, is now down to 590,000.

However, the hangover from so many people arriving on temporary visas is still with us.

According to the federal Immigration Department, the number of visa students has fallen by 404,000 since January, 2023. But the tally of people on work visas - mostly former visa students - has risen by 327,000. The population of asylum claimants in Canada has also more than tripled over the past four years, to 530,000.

As a result, the legal temporary-resident population – which the Carney government wants to lower to 5 per cent of the population, or around 2.1 million – has barely budged over the past two years. After peaking at three million in late 2024, Statistics Canada estimates that it's now 2.8 million.

That is even though Canada is devoting a large share of its permanent immigration places to temporary residents.

Also, as part of the hangover, Statscan says that its previous population figures, which assumed that people whose visas expired immediately left, were off the mark.

It now has better information on who leaves, and who gets another visa and remains. (It's still working on measuring how many remain in Canada without legal permission.)

With fewer temporary residents leaving, a widely reported decline in the Canadian population in 2025 turns out never to have happened.

In the coming weeks, Ottawa will release its annual immigration plan, including numerical targets – temporary and permanent – for the coming years.

The main goal of Canadian immigration policy should be to benefit Canada. Immigration can benefit Canada, and we should say that loud and clear. But we also need to acknowledge that the previous government's immigration choices generated more downsides than upsides, not least by inflaming our politics.

One part of Canada's immigration program will always be about welcoming refugees from overseas. Another part will always be family reunifications. But Canada's main focus has been independent economic immigrants. Until the Trudeau government, there had been an increasing accent on immigrants whose education, skills and experience earned them top scores on Canada's points system.

The two-thirds or so of immigrants who come through the economic stream should be chosen like applicants to a selective university. Canada has historically been quite good at that.

We need to return to that approach, and double down on it.

Liberals and Conservatives also need to shut out the loudest voices on the far left and the far right. Ignore the minorities on the fringes who see immigration entirely through an identitarian lens.

Instead, be practical and reasonable. Make policy for the quiet majority of Canadians on the centre-left and centre-right, who just want to know that our borders mean something, that immigrants are carefully chosen, and that immigration can be a two-way street that benefits immigrants and Canadians.

Immigration was so uncontroversial in Canada, for so long, because previous governments inherently understood the bargain, and pursued a common, non-partisan immigration policy. We need to get back to that.

How?

Continue reducing temporary immigration: The temporary-immigration streams used to be small, but they exploded under the Trudeau government. They came to be seen as backdoors to permanent immigration, for those who would not otherwise have scored high enough to secure permission to permanently immigrate.

These pathways need to be wound back, and some need to be wound down. The Carney government has promised to bring temporary-resident numbers down to 5 per cent of the national population by next year, but it's well behind schedule. In any case, the target is too high.

The C.D. Howe Institute's expert group on immigration suggests aiming for 3 per cent. I agree. What's more, the vast majority of future temporary residents should be high-quality visa students or former students on postgraduate work permits.

End the low-wage temporary foreign worker program: It makes sense to give Canadian businesses the flexibility to temporarily hire an aeronautical engineer from overseas. It makes no sense to hand out temporary visas for low-wage work. Canada has a shortage of educated and skilled people in some highpaying fields, but there is no generalized shortage of workers, nor is there a lack of unskilled workers.

Temporary work visas should no longer be available for jobs paying less than \$100,000 a year, with the singular exception of the long-standing seasonal agricultural worker program. A reduction in the pool of people available for entry-level jobs should cause wages at the bottom of the income scale to feel some upward pressure. That would be a good thing.

Focus student visas on the best: The limited number of student visas should go to the highest-quality institutions and programs, admitting the most-qualified students, and charging the highest international tuition.

What happened during the Trudeau era was the opposite, as provinces – led by Ontario – took advantage of the unlimited number of student visas to encourage the weakest and lowest-tuition institutions, mostly public and private colleges, to go on a cash grab. What was being sold was entry into Canada, not education.

Our leading public universities, which charge international undergraduate tuition of \$50,000 and up, and even more for some master's programs, should get nearly all of the visas. Private colleges should get none. Public colleges should get few.

Stable permanent immigration: From the early 1990s until the Trudeau government, Canada's immigration rate was relatively stable, through Liberal and Conservative administrations. It helped to make immigration as boring and unnoticed as functioning plumbing.

Let's set our immigration rate at 0.7 per cent of the population – that's about 300,000 new immigrants. Keep the rate there year after year, indefinitely.

An immigration rate of 0.7 per cent would be on par with where things were for the quarter century before the Trudeau government. It would be well below the level Canada hit from 2022 to 2024, and somewhat lower than the figure the Carney government has targeted. But by international standards, it would still be above average.

As I detail in my book on immigration, the U.S. legal-immigration level in the decades before the first election of President Donald Trump was around 0.3 per cent.

As on other key files, the Carney government has started to turn the ship on immigration. As with those other issues, more turning is still needed.

Canada, allies target factory overproduction

Solar panels are seen at the Ningdong Energy and Chemical Base in Yinchuan, China, last month. AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Joint pledge warns excess production of EVs, batteries and solar panels harms domestic industries

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Canada, the United States, the European Union and more than a dozen allies pledged in a joint statement Wednesday to tackle excess global production capacity of electric vehicles, batteries and solar panels, an issue Washington has blamed on China.

In all, 14 countries – all members of the Group of 20 – plus the EU signed on to this communiqué, which warned of the increasing harms that factory overproduction “created, sustained, or contributed to by government policies or interventions” is causing to the signatories’ domestic industries.

Notably, however, G20 members including China, Brazil, Indonesia, Russia, Saudi Arabia and South Africa did not sign the statement.

The statement did not name any countries considered responsible for subsidizing factories or overproducing goods that swamp global markets.

But it named affected industries: electric vehicles, batteries, solar panels, chemicals and some semiconductors.

"We are concerned that, absent timely and effective actions, structural excess capacity and production in these sectors will cripple our domestic industries, displace local production, destroy jobs, undermine our economies, hinder efforts to develop and industrialize, and ultimately lower the standard of living for our people," the joint statement said.

The U.S. focus on measures to fight excess factory capacity - with Beijing as its main culprit – could tie Prime Minister Mark Carney's hands as he tries to push forward in negotiations with President Xi Jinping on allowing a bigger role for China in Canada's economy.

The challenge for Mr. Carney will be offering China more access given U.S. demands in the current trade dispute between the United States and Canada. In trade talks, which are suspended at the moment, the U.S. government has been trying to press Canada into aligning its tariffs with steep American levies against China.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer made a point Thursday of noting Canada agreed to the communiqué.

"They signed on to this statement that we did on excess capacity, they know this is a problem too," Mr. Greer told CNBC.

He said the U.S. and allies "have agreed to co-ordinate action."

Mr. Carney is expected to meet Mr. Xi in Shenzhen, China, next month as part of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, which is hosted by Beijing. The two leaders will take stock of progress so far in boosting trade and investment.

Mr. Greer told CNBC the U.S. focus is on factory overproduction in China, but also in Vietnam and other Asian economies that he said are subsidizing production not to meet their citizens' needs but to take over foreign markets.

"It makes it impossible for American workers or workers in the European Union or Japan or wherever it is to actually get ahead," he said.

Mr. Greer noted EU Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic said Thursday one of his goals during a visit to Beijing was to try to “rebalance the European Union’s unsustainable trade deficit” with China.

The Chinese government has dismissed allegations that it's overproducing and exporting to dominate foreign markets.

This concern about excess factory capacity was what led Canada in 2024 to join with the United States in imposing 100 per cent tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles.

Mr. Carney earlier this year broke with Washington during his rapprochement with Beijing to allow some Chinese-made EVs into Canada at a much-reduced tariff. The quota of 49,000 will rise annually over the next few years.

Wednesday's statement was signed by Argentina, Australia, Canada, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Poland, Turkey, Britain and the United States.

Starbucks has reportedly eyed Chipotle takeover

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Starbucks Corp. has explored a takeover of Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc., the Financial Times reported on Thursday, in a move that would reunite chief executive Brian Niccol with the burrito chain he led before joining the coffee giant two years ago.

The potential deal comes as restaurant chains wrestle with uncertain demand from inflation-weary consumers and rising operating costs, prompting companies to look for new avenues of growth while facing pressure to improve profitability. Starbucks has worked with advisers in recent months on a takeover proposal for Chipotle, the FT reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

Starbucks and Chipotle did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment. Shares of Chipotle, which has a market capitalization of nearly US\$39-billion, were up about 6 per cent on Thursday, while those of Starbucks were down about 3 per cent. Starbucks is worth about US\$107-billion, according to LSEG data.

Analysts said any acquisition would likely be a costly undertaking for Starbucks, which is still investing heavily in its turnaround efforts.

"A deal could require heavy borrowing or issuing shares," said Lale Akoner, global market strategist at eToro. "Without a compelling financial case, investors may view the deal as an expensive distraction."

Starbucks is in the midst of a turnaround under Mr. Niccol, who has prioritized customer satisfaction through investments in staffing and store improvements aimed at reducing wait times and restoring the coffee house atmosphere that helped make the chain a global brand.

Since joining the company in September, 2024, Starbucks has committed at least US\$500-million to labour investments as part of its reorganization, contributing to pressure on profitability.

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Canada has the strengths to lead in life sciences. Now will it?

Every delay is a patient waiting for a treatment that already exists, says the new general manager of Bristol Myers Squibb Canada

Leadership depends on an access environment that encourages companies to bring both trials and new therapies here.

When Massimiliano Magnelli arrived in Canada to officially take the helm as general manager of Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) Canada in August, he brought more than two decades of life sciences experience across international markets. What he found in Canada, he says, is a system full of promise but running short of the delivery patients deserve.

"Canada has everything it needs to lead in life sciences," Mr. Magnelli says. "We are committed to being a strategic and trusted partner to make sure our system can deliver on that promise for patients."

This is not a routine introduction. It is, in Mr. Magnelli's words, a call to action grounded in what he has observed since taking on the role.

Strength meets a structural gap Canada's advantages are real. World-class research institutions, top clinical talent and a strong scientific base have made the coun- try a magnet for pharmaceutical investment. Canada's clinical trial ecosystem, Mr. Magnelli notes, is a national advantage that supports patients, researchers and high- skilled jobs. But that leadership depends on an access environment that encourages companies to bring both trials and new therapies here.

That is where the gap persists. Despite receiving Health Canada approval, a growing number of medicines are not reaching patients. In fact, only 21 per cent of new medicines become available through Canadian public plans. For those that do, Canadians wait an average of two years following approval – the longest wait in the G7.

For people living with serious or complex conditions, these delays can mean real consequences for their health outcomes and quality of life.

Mr. Magnelli sees a rare opportunity in this moment. In July, the federal government's Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Sector Task Force has produced recommendations that government, industry and patient groups broadly agree on, he says, and now is the time to move from recommendations to implementation.

Priorities include: modernizing health technology assessment and pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance (pCPA) approaches to reflect the full clinical, patient and societal value of a treatment; improving time to patient access; reforming Canada's Drug Agency (CDA-AMC); and enhancing federal investment for innovative medicines.

Ontario's FAST program is proof it can work

Mr. Magnelli points to Ontario's Funding Accelerated for Specific Treatments (FAST) program as evidence that faster access and system sustainability are not mutually exclusive. Designed to accelerate access to select cancer medications, Ontario's pilot program helped funded treatments attain public reimbursement about 60 per cent faster than similar high-priority medicines. In fact, where data was available, provincial listings in other provinces took up to four months longer than in Ontario, with an average delay of three months.

"It offers a model for other jurisdictions and shows that an agile, patient-centred reimbursement system is achievable," Mr. Magnelli says. He is careful to frame FAST as a proof point rather than a complete solution, and he encourages other provinces and territories to look at scaling similar approaches.

Building on Canada's advantage BMS Canada invests close to \$45-million annually in research and development, working with institutes across the country to help build one of Canada's largest clinical trial networks among major pharmaceutical companies.

At the end of 2025, the company had 100 active trials across multiple therapeutic areas involving roughly 1,000 patients at nearly 300 sites, ranking among the top five pharmaceutical companies for active trials in Canada. Close to 70 per cent of BMS's global priority clinical trials are conducted here.

"Global headquarters increasingly evaluate a country's access environment when deciding where to bring the next clinical research program,"

Mr. Magnelli says. "Canada's research environment positions it well to meet that standard, but only if investments in innovative medicines [and] timely access are prioritized."

Canada's pharmaceutical sector ranks ninth globally, representing two per cent of global sales. It supports nearly 150,000 high-skilled jobs, contributes \$25-billion to the economy and invests \$3.5-billion in research and development. Aligned reviews between Health Canada, CDA-AMC and Institut national d'excellence en santé et en services sociaux (INESSS) have already cut the time from regulatory approval to reimbursement recommendation by more than 80 per cent in two years, proof that coordinated action produces results.

"As [industry association] Innovative Medicines Canada points out, peer countries like the UK are committing to doubling spending on new medicines over ten years," Mr. Magnelli says. "Canada needs to match this ambition to stay competitive."

Closing the gap, together Mr. Magnelli's message to policymakers is direct: This is a defining moment for bold, coordinated action, not incremental adjustment. That means enhancing federal investment in innovative medicines, expanding accelerated access pathways across every province and territory and prioritizing life sciences in policy negotiations to align Canada's intellectual property to global standards.

Every delay, he notes, is a patient waiting for a treatment that already exists.

"We're not waiting on the sidelines," Mr. Magnelli says. "BMS Canada is ready to be part of the solution, working with industry, government and patient communities to build a resilient, competitive life sciences sector."

He adds, "Canada can lead globally in this space. But leadership requires that investment, access and regulatory systems evolve at the pace of innovation, starting now."

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Leading the industry conversation in a time of change

How emerging AI technologies can help improve the work of corporate real estate professionals

Traditional office setups are giving way to new designs that prioritize collaborative work spaces and advanced video interaction with colleagues located elsewhere. JACOB WACKERHAUSEN VIA GETTY IMAGES

The changing nature of work is driving new requirements for the spaces in which employees do their jobs. That is one of the factors changing the operating environment for corporate real estate (CRE) professionals who provide and service office buildings and other work-related properties.

The CRE sector is also challenged by the need to optimize cost savings, develop better planning processes, and meet demands for sustainable and efficient operations. With increasingly complex mandates, the sector is exploring how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) can provide novel solutions.

In this new era, CoreNet Global Canadian Chapter (CGCC) is leading the industry conversation on practical and responsible applications of AI to help the CRE community navigate transformation.

"Corporate real estate is going through a fundamental reset, and traditional CRE tools can't keep pace with the speed of the changing mandates," says Lisa Henderson, president of CGCC. "Organizations are asking, 'How do we redesign space for today? How are people actually working? How do we make sense of the data that we're collecting?"

The mission of the CoreNet Global Canadian Chapter is to empower professionals in the practice of corporate real estate in Canada by delivering impactful professional development, broadening industry connections, sharing emerging practices, and recognizing outstanding performance and delivery.

"Our members are seeking perspective on the value of new AI and other proptech tools as the industry prepares for the future," Ms. Henderson says. "These challenges are affecting all CRE stakeholders, and nobody wants to solve them in isolation. And CoreNet is ideally suited to facilitate peer-to-peer discussions to allow organizations to learn from each other while also gaining access to thought leaders."

The members of CGCC include the full range of CRE stakeholders: occupiers, service providers, executives, practitioners and emerging professionals.

Not only does it connect the cross-Canada CRE community, it also links with the global community through CoreNet Global's network of over 10,000 members across 50 countries. One key opportunity to learn about international solutions is offered through the annual CoreNet Global Summit North America, taking place this year in Chicago, October 26–28.

These international conversations are especially valuable, says Ms. Henderson. "Technology transcends borders. Artificial intelligence is being rapidly adopted across the industry, and it's important for Canadian leaders to learn about adoption around the globe and be in a position to

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Lisa Henderson President, CoreNet Global Canadian Chapter

implement changes that suit the Canadian environment."

POTENTIAL AI SOLUTIONS FOR EVOLVING PRIORITIES

While adoption of AI technologies is in its early stages, CRE leaders are conducting pilots and testing practical use cases in a number of areas.

"One priority is to determine how AI tools can drive better floor plan and efficient space utilization to meet users' demand for different types of workspaces," says John DeBenedictis, Canadian director of facilities and real estate services at TD Bank and a director on CGCC's Leadership Council.

More organizations still have hybrid structures, with a blend of on-site, remote or multiple unassigned office work locations. When remote employees come to the office, they often need places where they can get together with colleagues or clients rather than another desk for head-down work.

Employee roles are also changing as organizations hire more AI and other technical experts, says Mr. De-Benedictis. "Those technical experts use different tools and may perform their work patterns differently, so the traditional office desk setup may not work for all. Organizations want a

blend of more interactive work space, more advanced video interaction with colleagues in other areas and gathering spaces, so that's changed the dynamic of how landlords and end users need to think about their use of space and the amenities in general."

Decision-makers are considering how AI and predictive analytics can help then run building operations more efficiently and sustainably; better predict future capital asset replacement needs; and gain more accurate cost projections. They are also seeking new ways to enhance their own employees' productivity and to help property users better serve their clients through productivity gains.

One simple operational area that holds a lot of promise is predictive building maintenance.

"Think about your home, where you change the furnace filter every season because that's recommended, even though your filter may still be working," says Mr. DeBenedictis.

"In CRE, we will be piloting the further advanced use of remote technology in bank buildings, so we'll get a signal or use machine learning over time to predict the profile on when we need to replace something like an HVAC filter" he says. "So that helps cut operating costs by reducing unnecessary equipment changes,

avoid service truck rolls, increase equipment efficiency while also reducing impact on air quality and building services from unplanned breakdowns."

BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE

"Helping the CRE community understand and use new technologies aligns with CGCC's mandate to elevate the profession through education, development and exposure to the important tools shaping the industry," Ms. Henderson says. "Our goal is to advance industry excellence to equip stakeholders to thrive in the future industry, where roles and demands will look different than they do today. Change is coming quickly, and we don't want to merely respond to it; we want to help lead it."

Another goal for the community is to make sure it has the right organizational structures to support collaboration through technology and that its employees have the ability to optimize the new tools. "Human capital is an important area of development for the CRE sector," says Mr. DeBenedictis. "As our roles evolve and new AI tools become available, we need to assess the skill sets of our teams and ensure we augment them for the new era."

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THE OPERATING MODEL PROBLEM BLOCKING YOUR REAL ESTATE STRATEGY

BY CASSIA SOOKHOO, Director, JLL Consulting, and DANIEL ROONEY, Managing Director, JLL Consulting

Portfolio optimization has been the top corporate real estate objective for three years running, cited by 71 per cent of respondents in JLL's 2026 benchmark data.

rights, so outcomes take weeks, not quarters.

TEAMS ARE STRUCTURED FOR YESTERDAY'S MANDATE

JLL research shows 50 per cent of occupiers lack enough digital and AI talent, and 70 per cent have no change management framework for AI. That hurts data-heavy functions like portfolio strategy

most. Monthly scenario planning, which blends utilization, booking and business driver data, can't happen without people who can interpret the data and a change framework to act on it.

DATA IS NOT BUILT TO DRIVE ACTION

Space data accuracy is the second-highest priority in JLL's 2026 findings, with reporting quality close behind. It has displaced the cost-reduction priorities of previous years. Leaders can't optimize what they can't see or act on quickly. Even well-resourced teams can't turn strategy into fast decisions without data they trust.

The payoff is substantial. Organizations that pair agile governance with AI-equipped talent and trusted data execute continuously instead of reacting to portfolio demands once a year. Closing the gap between 54

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Organizations that pair agile governance with AI-equipped talent and trusted data execute continuously instead of reacting to portfolio

demands once a year. Closing the gap between 54 per cent utilization and the 79 per cent target takes more than a better real estate strategy. It takes an operating model built to deliver.

per cent utilization and the 79 per cent target takes more than a better real estate strategy. It takes an operating model built to deliver.

The pattern across JLL's 2026 findings is clear: transformation has to be continuous, not a one-off initiative. Continuous transformation is an organizational capability first and a real estate outcome second. A real estate strategy is only as good as the governance that acts on it and the people and data behind it.

Before you commit capital to your next portfolio move, step back and ask: "Do we have the right operating model to turn strategy into execution, and to give space users a seamless change experience?"

If the answer is unclear, evaluate and align the operating model supporting the portfolio with the future direction of the business.

Return-to-office mandates have only sharpened that focus. Cost reduction has dominated executive conversations for years, yet global office utilization sits stuck at 54 per cent against a target of 79 per cent. That 25-point gap has outlasted countless portfolio reviews and consolidations. Strategy alone clearly can't close it.

The gap persists because most organizations treat underutilization as a footprint problem. On paper, it looks like one. It isn't. The root causes sit in the operating model. Governance is slow, and talent and change management frameworks aren't ready for artificial intelligence (AI). Space data is also unusable. Until leaders fix the operating model behind their portfolios, the utilization gap will keep hitting the balance sheet.

Three operating model gaps explain why so many real estate strategies are still stalled.

GOVERNANCE MOVES SLOWER THAN THE BUSINESS

Traditional real estate governance runs on annual lease cycles and rigid approval calendars. That breaks down when business units need to scale headcount up or down within a quarter. Governance has to absorb those swings. Finance, real estate and business leaders need shared decision triggers and clear decision

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H&R: Unitholders will receive mix of cash, GO units if transaction is approved

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Mill Pond raised several investor concerns about the deal in a letter to Stephen Gross, H&R's lead independent board trustee, on Wednesday. They included confusion around a partial sale of assets to Mr. Hofstedter, as well as fears about preferential treatment for his deal.

The takeover involves GO acquiring H&R's residential properties across three U.S. Sunbelt states and the New York metropolitan area, among other assets; Blackstone, Crestpoint and PSP Investments each acquiring some of H&R's Canadian industrial properties; and CRAL acquiring H&R's remaining "non-core assets."

H&R unitholders will receive a mix of cash and GO units if the transaction is approved. However, Mr. Hofstedter, who is one of

H&R's largest unitholders, has a different form of payment and his units will be cancelled, which means he isn't rolling his equity into GO.

"No other unitholder was offered consideration in that form," Mill Pond wrote in its letter.

GO's involvement has also caused frustration. Because of its financial limitations around new debt, GO can only pay so much in cash, and therefore must issue some GO units as a form of payment.

Some existing GO unitholders who disliked the deal responded by selling units, because it amounts to a reverse takeover of sorts. If the acquisition goes through, H&R unitholders will own roughly two-thirds of the combined company. The deal also adds exposure to the U.S. Sunbelt; currently, GO predominately owns luxury multifamily properties in New York.

GO Residential went public at US\$15 a unit on the TSX in 2025 - its IPO was priced in U.S. dollars - and its units currently trade for US\$7.78 apiece.

GO's involvement has also caused frustration. Because of its financial limitations around new debt, GO can only pay so much in cash, and therefore must issue some GO units as a form of payment.

In a takeover circular filed with regulators on Thursday, H&R's independent board trustees justified the deal by saying that over two years, they tested available alternatives – including a stand-alone repositioning, an industrial sale, a residential spin-out and a formal market check involving approximately 18 potential counterparties.

"Ultimately, no other unconditional, en bloc offer emerged," they wrote, referring to the consortium deal that found buyers for all of H&R's assets. "In the view of the independent trustees, the transaction is the best available outcome: H&R REIT unitholders receive immediate cash, a tax-efficient rollover into a scaled multiresidential focused real estate investment trust in which H&R REIT unitholders will receive a majority of the outstanding GO REIT Units upon closing of the transaction, and the potential to participate in value discovery that may be meaningful as the combined platform re-rates toward its

peers."

H&R REIT has traded on the TSX for decades and made its name as a diversified real estate company that owned retail, office, industrial and multifamily properties.

The REIT has repositioned itself over the past five years because investors fell out of love with its asset mix. Its asset sales have included spinning out 27 enclosed malls into the newly created Primaris REIT and selling some major office assets, such as the Bow Tower in Calgary and a Bell Canada office campus in Mississauga.

In 2025, the company received multiple permutations of partial takeover offers, but the board of trustees decided against a deal. Takeover talks resumed in March, 2026, and concluded in August with the multiparty transaction.

Defence: Agency says it would not operate as for-profit under new Crown structure

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Since then, the agency has made several announcements about projects expedited under its watch, some of which were already under way and moved over to the DIA after its founding. But its work is yet to be felt in broad strokes across the Canadian defence industry, owing to a \$100-million floor on the contracts it can award, cutting out smaller companies from benefiting directly.

This could all be about to change. Legislation tabled on Tuesday in the House of Commons proposes making the agency a Crown corporation, alongside the likes of the Business Development Bank of Canada and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. This would make the DIA distinctly different from a typical government department, giving it freedom to operate more like a business. It would also help the agency procure military goods faster, according to chief executive officer Doug Guzman.

This move would come with a slew of changes, including a hiring process more akin to the private sector and different governance structures, such as a board of directors.

All Crown corporations generate resources, Ms. Hadwen said in an interview on Wednesday, and the redesignated DIA will be no different. Part of the new legislation would allow the agency to make investments for the purposes of national defence – something it's not able to do in its current capacity, housed within Public Services and Procurement Canada.

The agency's investment mandate would likely generate some returns, but where those go or how they would be used is something the DIA will have to negotiate with the Minister of Finance, Ms. Hadwen said.

Agency spokesperson Le Nguyen said in a statement that it will not operate as a profit-making business under this new structure. However, she added that "it will have the tools to play a greater commercial role beyond simply buying equipment."

Overall, the agency will continue to be funded "primarily through government appropri-

Armoured vehicles are shown at the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries annual trade show in Ottawa in May. Legislation tabled on Tuesday in the House of Commons proposes making Ottawa's Defence Investment Agency into a Crown corporation. JUSTIN TANG/ THE CANADIAN PRESS

ations approved by Parliament," she said.

Some of the DIA's new powers would be facilitated through something called a consolidated revenue fund, the legislation states. Through this, the corporation would be able to make loans and advance payments, for example. The Finance Minister would also be able to use the fund to make loans to the corporation itself. However, the amount paid out of the fund for any of these use cases cannot exceed \$1-billion at any time.

In terms of staffing, the new legislation explicitly states that any employee currently with the agency will not have their status affected by the passing of the bill. This includes their pensions, Ms. Hadwen said.

Kevin Toderel, chief executive of Remote Robotic Systems Inc., a technology company based in Mississauga, said he's glad to see the DIA becoming a Crown corporation, with independence from other government departments and more of a for-profit motive.

“Having it be free to do what they need to do is going to have a huge impact,” he said, referring to how defence procurement is done in Canada.

Until then, however, he said he's still anxious for things to move faster, in terms of procurements and getting the agency closer to its final form.

Josh Ogden, CEO of Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions Inc., told The Globe and Mail the day after the legislation was tabled that he still had several questions about how the agency would work if it became a Crown corporation, and how that would affect him in turn as someone who runs a Canadian defence company selling drones and their components.

Those concerns include who will be on the board and how they will balance expertise and conflicts of interest. He said that like many, he is wondering: "How do you make money and how do you be sustainable?" This legislation is the latest in a series of proposed changes to affect the agency over the past several months.

In May, legislation to implement certain provisions of the 2025 federal budget was tabled and included several sections about the DIA and bringing it out from under the PSPC umbrella. Then, in September, The Globe reported that Mr. Guzman was planning to step down. A couple weeks later, Mr. Guzman sent an e-mail to staff stating his intention to stay.

While the flurry of news stories has had little impact overall on the agency's daily operations, many in the industry have been left questioning what's to come, and when they can realistically expect the DIA to follow through on its mandate to make all Canadian defence procurement move at the speed of relevance.

Jarislowsky: Colleagues remember businessman who gave generously

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Mr. Jarislowsky frequently and successfully pushed foreign companies attempting takeovers in Canada to improve their offers, with the quiet support of his money-management peers.

"Steve was a renaissance man whose range of knowledge and expertise were extraordinary," said former governor-general David Johnston, a long-time friend of Mr. Jarislowsky and a member of the Jarislowsky Foundation's advisory council.

"Few people have had such an impact working to create a better Canada for all than Stephen."

In 2002, Mr. Jarislowsky co-founded the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance, an influential lobby group. Catherine McCall, the coalition's CEO, called Mr. Jarislowsky "a remarkable man whose impact those of us working in corporate governance today aspire to emulate."

Stephen Jarislowsky was born in Berlin in 1925. His father was an industrialist and merchant banker, while his mother was a lawyer, and both were Jewish. When Stephen was 4, his father died from scarlet fever, and he and his siblings were sent to live near relatives in Amsterdam, then moved to Paris.

In 1941, the family left France for the United States. After he graduated from Cornell University with a mechanical engineering degree, Mr. Jarislowsky was drafted into the U.S. Army and served as an intelligence officer in Asia.

After the Second World War, Mr. Jarislowsky went to Harvard Business School. He then took a job at Alcan Aluminum Ltd. and moved to Montreal. In the 1950s, he teamed up with stockbroker Scott Fraser to launch a company that provided corporate research to investors. The service became money manager Jarislowsky Fraser.

Bank of Nova Scotia acquired Jarislowsky Fraser in 2018 for \$950-million.

Kim Shannon, founder and co-chief investment officer at Sionna Investment Managers who served on the CCGG board of directors for nearly 20 years, said Mr. Jarislowsky was “known for watching his pennies.”

"His office was across the hall from a major Canadian broker, and rather than pay for his own current news feed, he would go over to the brokers' offices and read their typed newspaper feed as it was emerging out of the machine," Ms. Shannon said.

Maxime Ménard, CEO of Fiera Capital, worked at Jarislowsky Fraser for two decades and knew Mr. Jarislowsky personally for 25 years.

TD deputy chair Frank McKenna called Mr. Jarislowsky 'one of the most fascinating Canadians I've ever met.'

"He had a way of making you think harder, aim higher, and he had an impeccable sense of humour," Mr. Ménard said. "He gave generously of his time and wisdom, and he expected a lot from the people he believed in."

Mr. Jarislowsky remained the controlling shareholder in his asset management firm through his career. Some senior employees departed Jarislowsky Fraser to start rival platforms because they could not share in its ownership. Mr. Fraser left 20 years after the company's founding.

In 2022, Mr. Jarislowsky's family foundation donated \$10-million to hire professors as “trust and political leadership chairs” at five liberal arts-focused universities across the country. The money went to Acadia University, the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières, Trent University, the University of Lethbridge and Vancouver Island University.

"We've got schools to train doctors, engineers and lawyers. Why aren't there degrees for aspiring politicians or civil servants?" Mr. Jarislowsky said in an interview at the time. The Jarislowsky Foundation is one of the country's largest, with assets of \$386-million at the end of last year.

Toronto-Dominion Bank deputy chair Frank McKenna called Mr. Jarislowsky "one of the most fascinating Canadians I've ever met."

"His success in business is legendary but so should be his philanthropy," said Mr. McKenna, a former premier of New Brunswick who served on the board of the Jarislowsky Foundation. "He was passionate about the study and promotion of democracy because he had witnessed its antithesis for much of his life."

Montreal businessman Jonathan Goodman, who founded Knight Therapeutics, was Mr. Jarislowsky's neighbour and visited him frequently in his later years. He said he never seemed bothered by his age and "acted like he was 20."

The two men started a book club together during the COVID-19 pandemic. "I can't remember the last five books we read. Stephen can remember the last 30," Mr. Goodman said.

Denis Durand worked with Mr. Jarislowsky for 29 years at his money-management firm. He remembers a boss who didn't fuss about his employees' backgrounds - the workplace was full of people from different parts of the world who spoke different languages - but was demanding of his staff.

Later in his career, Mr. Jarislowsky often joined his wife on Vancouver Island in the summers only to return to Montreal soon after, Mr. Durand said. "We would laugh because, you know, he'd stay there for two weeks and then come back. ... He'd say, 'I'm coming back to the office. It's more fun.'"

With reports from James Bradshaw

Canada weighs China-led bank role

Champagne says review continuing more than three years after break

STEVEN CHASE SENIOR PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER

The federal government is still mulling whether to reactivate its membership in the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank more than three years after Ottawa suspended participation in a high-profile diplomatic rupture with Beijing.

Canada's frozen membership in the bank, one of the more-prominent breaks with China during a deep freeze between the two countries, remains unresolved despite Prime Minister Mark Carney's efforts to rekindle ties with Beijing.

In June, 2023, then-deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland, in her separate capacity as finance minister, announced a halt to Canadian engagement with the bank, which funds billions of dollars of infrastructure development in Asia. It also provides financing in other parts of the world.

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne's office said a review is still continuing nearly $3^{1/2}$ years later and that Canada's activity at the bank remains suspended.

"We have not unfrozen it," John Fragos, press secretary to Mr. Champagne said. "The review is under way. We will have an update in due course."

The decision to suspend was taken after the Asian bank's Canadian communications chief resigned and publicly accused the multilateral development institution of being an agent of Beijing. Bob Pickard recommended that Ottawa quit the bank, alleging that it was “dominated” by members of the Chinese Communist Party and was a tool used by the Beijing to extend its influence around the world.

Ms. Freeland cited Mr. Pickard whom she said had “voiced serious concerns regarding the bank,” when she halted all Canadian government-led activity at the bank and announced a review of the “allegations raised and of Canada’s involvement in the AIIB.”

Guy Saint-Jacques, a former Canadian ambassador to China, said Ottawa should determine whether Canadian companies are deriving sufficient business from the AIIB.

"The bank is well-managed, and clearly the Chinese have made efforts to really adopt international standards. But the main question is: Are we getting benefits out of that?"

Jeff Mahon, a former deputy director of the China division at Global Affairs Canada, said he would look to the expected meeting between Mr. Carney and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Nov. 18-19 Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit or other bilateral events for an announcement.

“Canada gives China a win by making a decision to resume,” Mr. Mahon said, adding that Ottawa will want to take a decision as part of reciprocal measures taken by Beijing as well.

The United States under former president Barack Obama had lobbied allies not to join the bank but many did, including Britain. Japan and the U.S. are not members.

Ottawa officially joined the AI-IB in 2018 - committing to US\$995-million for a 1-per-cent stake - one of the first Western countries to do so, alongside Belgium and Ireland.

Since then, the bank has grown to more than 100 members, with Germany, South Korea and Australia all making major investments, taking stakes of between 3 per cent and 5 per cent each. China remains the largest shareholder by far, controlling more than a quarter of all votes.

Ottawa has acknowledged some criticisms about the bank, at least privately.

In a 2019 briefing book prepared by Global Affairs Canada and later published by a House of Commons committee, the agency grouped the AIIB alongside the Chinese President's signature Belt and Road Initiative – both of which it said were designed to leverage China's "economic prowess to gain regional influence and export its model of governance around the world."

Oil patch profits vastly outpacing spending – for now, report says

LAUREN KRUGEL CALGARY

Pumpjacks draw oil out of the ground near Olds, Alta., in 2020. High prices have created a windfall for Canada's oil producers, with that sector the biggest contributor to non-financial industry profits during the second quarter, according to Statistics Canada. JEFF McINTOSH/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canadian oil producers saw a 68-per-cent surge in operating profits between the first and second quarters of this year, but capital spending hasn't kept anywhere near the same pace, says a new report from Deloitte Canada.

The consulting firm notes that crude prices have experienced “considerable volatility” in recent months owing to the Middle East war, with the international light benchmark, Brent, fluctuating between US\$68 and US\$105 a barrel in July and August alone.

High prices have created a windfall for Canada's oil producers, with that sector the biggest contributor to non-financial industry profits during the second quarter, according to Statistics Canada.

Separate capital expenditure data from Statscan, meanwhile, has shown only modest movement recently, rising about 7 per cent to \$11-billion in the second quarter compared to the first. Citing Baker Hughes rig count data, Deloitte says drilling in Canada was up 17 per cent during the second quarter compared to the same time a year earlier.

"It's clear that producers are prioritizing drilling programs in plays which offer efficient, short-cycle economics, such as in the Montney, Duvernay and Clearwater, rather than pursue long-cycle, capital-intensive projects," Deloitte said in the report released Thursday. "Producers view the current price environment as temporary, or uncertain, rather than rooted in a fundamental supply-demand shift."

Deloitte is forecasting West Texas Intermediate oil prices - the benchmark for light oil produced from U.S. fields - to average US\$76.50 a barrel in 2027, down from a projected 2026 average of US\$90.

Andrew Botterill, who leads Deloitte Canada's oil, gas and chemicals practice, said over the past five to eight years, companies have been under pressure from investors to keep spending and debt in check. The COVID-19 pandemic, and the price collapse that accompanied it, ravaged oilpatch finances when they had barely recovered from the 2014-15 bust.

But now, Mr. Botterill said, there's a sense of "we could be much more" in the sector. A new million-barrel-a-day export pipeline has been proposed to the British Columbia coast, and Prime Minister Mark Carney's government has made moves to simplify the regulatory process, roll back Trudeau-era environmental policies and expand investment tax perks.

"We could see significant growth coming from Canada," Mr. Botterill said.

"And I think what we are going to see play out over the coming year is companies are going start to look at, 'Where are we going to make our bets? Where are we going to start to make bigger capital spends for ... the medium and long term?' "

Earlier this week, oil sands giant Cenovus Energy Inc. announced an agreement to buy smaller peer Athabasca Oil Corp. for \$5.7-billion. Fellow energy heavyweight Suncor Energy Inc., meanwhile, said it reached a deal to sell some of its Atlantic Canada offshore holdings for \$1.2-billion as it focuses on its core oil sands business.

Mr. Botterill said those transactions are "preparatory steps" for companies looking at growth over a long time horizon.

Deloitte is forecasting West Texas Intermediate oil prices to average US\$76.50 a barrel in 2027, down from a projected 2026 average of US\$90.

"Where would we be more likely to play that capital and let's make sure we get our portfolio in that direction."

On the natural gas side, the Deloitte report said prices in Alberta have averaged below an anemic \$2 per thousand cubic feet year-to-date, despite increasing exports from the LNG Canada terminal in Kitimat, B.C., which started

up in mid-2025.

Output averaged 20 billion cubic feet a day during the second quarter, about 5 per cent above the same period in 2025. Companies kept growing production as they chased more valuable natural gas liquids, like propane, which come out of the ground along with dry natural gas.

Mr. Botterill said in August and September, typically the weakest time of year for Alberta natural gas, prices did not see sharp declines like they usually do, but stayed relatively steady.

“What that shows you is that there is natural gas demand building in Canada. The ability to export off our West Coast is making a difference,” he said.

"We're much more structurally sound on the natural gas market than we were say, a year ago."

Deloitte expects Alberta gas prices to average \$1.75 per thousand cubic feet this year, climbing to \$2.15 next year and well above \$3 post-2029.

The report also touched on artificial-intelligence adoption in the oil patch, which was detailed in another study Deloitte published in February.

It said 72 per cent of energy, resource and industrial companies use "physical" AI - through machines and control systems - to some extent.

However, many struggle to level up from pilot projects to enterprise-wide use, and only 16 per cent of companies reported using AI extensively.

“Oil and gas companies are used to capital intensive investments, with the oilsands as a prime example of making big bets. Simply put: it’s a business that isn’t afraid of risk,” the report said. “But to compete with capital that is designated to core operations for development, expansion and optimization projects, the value proposition for AI use cases needs to be well developed.”

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Crypto tracing a priority for new financial-crimes agency, deputy minister says

ALEXANDRA POSADZKI FINANCIAL AND CYBERCRIME REPORTER

Following digital-money trails will be a priority for Canada's new Financial Crimes Agency in the war against illicit finance, says Rob Stewart, deputy minister of the proposed law enforcement agency.

Mr. Stewart, who has the task of getting the long-promised initiative off the ground, has spent months speaking to stakeholders ranging from policing agencies to private-sector experts to international partners.

The Financial Crimes Agency (FCA) could launch as early as next year, depending on when Bill C-29, the legislation to establish it, passes, Mr. Stewart said. The bill, which was introduced in the spring and is currently being studied by MPs in a parliamentary committee, aims to more effectively target financial crimes.

One of the skill sets that he'll be looking for when staffing the new agency is the ability to analyze cryptocurrency transactions, to address the growing use of virtual currencies by organized-crime groups to move money across borders.

"Crypto is a growing part of the movement of the proceeds of crime, particularly at the more organized level of financial crime, where organized crime is involved," Mr. Stewart said in an interview at the ACAMS conference in Toronto on Thursday. (ACAMS is a global organization dedicated to fighting financial crime.)

Criminals are “consolidating their cash, they’re converting it to crypto, they’re moving it to another jurisdiction and they’re washing it back into the system,” he explained.

Canada's ability to prosecute complex money-laundering cases, seize proceeds of crime and supervise high-risk businesses such as virtual currency exchanges was flagged as weaknesses by the Financial Action Task Force. That's even as Canada's overall financial-crime regime received a passing grade in the global financial watchdog's review, which was published last week.

The FCA's work force, which is expected to be around 230 to 250 people, mostly civilians, will be broken up into two categories: peace officers, and regular officers of the agency. The RCMP is expected to provide 150 staff on a temporary basis to help get the agency up and running, and a commissioner will be hired to oversee the operation, according to Mr. Stewart.

Finding workers skilled in areas such as forensic accounting, digital forensics and blockchain analysis will be essential to the agency's success, Mr. Stewart said.

He highlighted unregistered money-services businesses, such as cryptocurrency exchanges, as one area that requires additional enforcement. Some of them are openly flouting the law, hanging signs that say "No KYC" in their windows, Mr. Stewart said. (KYC, which stands for Know Your Client, refers to the requirement that financial institutions and other regulated businesses confirm the identities of their customers.)

Stablecoins such as Tether, which are virtual currencies pegged to more stable assets like the U.S. dollar, are also of concern to Mr. Stewart, who calls them “almost ready-made for criminality.”

Unlike cryptocurrencies, whose values fluctuate wildly, Tether's value is relatively stable, making it better suited for payments. That stability, combined with the ability to move money across borders quickly, has also made it attractive to criminals, anti-money-laundering experts and law enforcement officials have said.

Ryan Wedding, the Canadian Olympic snowboarder accused of trafficking drugs for Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, is alleged to have used a sophisticated Tether network to launder money.

Canada's biggest banks are experimenting with tokenized deposits after the passing of Canada's Stablecoin Act, which received royal assent in March.

Ottawa has also introduced legislation to ban cryptocurrency ATMs, which Mr. Stewart characterized as “the tool of choice for street-level fraudsters.”

Despite recent efforts, much work remains to be done in the fight against financial crime, including enhancing information sharing between entities, Mr. Stewart said.

"We are at war with financial criminals, and we need to do better, and the government is dedicating itself to that."

Rising GIC rates could be a reason not to lock in

Normally, a rising five-year GIC rate makes the decision simple: Lock in before rates fall again

JIMMY NGUYEN

Writer and content developer at WOWA.ca, a Canadian personal finance platform

Canadian savers finally have 4-percent GICs to choose from again. The highest five-year GIC rate has climbed to 4.50 per cent, while the best three-year GIC rate is 4.40 per cent and the best one-year rate is 4.00 per cent.

Even savings accounts have become more competitive, with WealthOne offering Canada's top standard savings account rate at 3.00 per cent and Manulife also offering 3.00 per cent on new deposits for two years.

Normally, a rising five-year GIC rate makes the decision simple: Lock it in before rates fall again.

But what if rates are still rising?

With the Bank of Canada's policy rate currently at 2.25 per cent, WOWA's latest market-based interest rate forecast has it rising to 2.50 per cent around the beginning of 2027, 3.25 per cent by mid-year and 3.50 per cent by the end of 2027, before reaching 3.75 per cent in 2028.

This creates a problem for savers. Locking in a long-term GIC protects you from rates falling, but it also prevents you from taking advantage if GIC rates rise.

WAITING FOR HIGHER RATES IS STILL A BET

A higher Bank of Canada rate does not automatically mean a five-year GIC will rise by the same amount.

The overnight rate has its strongest effect on shorter-term rates. Longer-term GIC and fixed mortgage rates depend more heavily on expectations for future policy rates and Government of Canada bond yields. If investors already expect Bank of Canada interest rate decisions to result in hikes, some of those increases can already be reflected in today's GIC rates.

That explains why GIC rates have already moved sharply. Since late July, the best one- and two-year GIC rates have risen 35 basis points, the three-year rate 50 basis points, and the five-year rate 40 basis points

SAVERS NOW FACE A DIFFERENT RATE RISK

That creates lock-in risk: Buy a five-year GIC today, and you could be stuck at a lower rate if rates keep rising. One way to reduce that risk is to divide savings among several GIC maturities.

If interest rates rise as markets currently expect, the shorter-term GICs mature sooner and can potentially be reinvested at higher rates. If today's forecast turns out to be wrong and rates fall or are limited, the three-year and five-year portions have already locked in today's relatively high rates.

DON'T IGNORE SAVINGS ACCOUNTS EITHER

For money that may be needed soon, liquidity by way of a high-interest savings account still matters more than squeezing out every last basis point with a GIC.

The best standard savings rate is currently 3.00 per cent offered by WealthOne. Promotional savings offers reach 5.00 per cent, although the highest promotional rate by BMO lasts only four months before falling to 0.45 per cent.

Interest rates are provided by WOWA.ca, which gathers, aggregates and freely disseminates data on mortgage rates, savings accounts, and GIC rates from 50+ Canadian financial institutions.

Highest GIC and savings accounts rate table

PRODUCT	BEST RATE	PROVIDER	SECOND-BEST RATE	PROVIDER
Savings Account - Standard Rate	3.00% tie	WealthOne (HISA and RRSP HISA), Manulife	2.85%	Saven
Savings Account - Promo Rate*	5.00%	BMO (4 months, dropping to 0.45%)	4.60% tie	Simplii Financial (5 months, dropping to 0.30%), RBC (3 months, dropping to 0.55%), CIBC (3 months, dropping to 0.30%)
One-year GIC	4.00%	Haventree Bank	3.85% tie	Maxa, Hubert, Outlook
Two-year GIC	4.25% tie	WealthOne, Oaken	4.20%	Haventree Bank
Three-year GIC	4.40%	WealthOne	4.30% tie	Haventree Bank, Oaken
Five-year GIC	4.50% tie	WealthOne, Oaken	4.45%	Haventree Bank

*Short-term promotional rates apply for a limited period, after which the interest rate generally falls substantially.

Rates are annual as of Oct. 7, 2026, and can change at any time. Availability may depend on account type, deposit amount, province, and eligibility requirements. Listed institutions are federally or provincially insured, with coverage limits varying by jurisdiction. WealthONE's non-registered savings tiers are 2.60 per cent below \$10,000, 2.75 per cent from \$10,000 to \$25,000 and 3.00 per cent at \$25,000 or more.

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Autocallable ETFs are in Canada. Here's what you need to know

TERRY CAIN

Autocallable exchange-traded funds are one of the hottest new product innovations in the United States. Now that they've arrived in Canada, advisers may be asking if these ETFs make sense for client portfolios.

Casey Yang, director of ETF sales and strategy at TD Securities Inc. in Toronto, says autocallable ETFs are among the fastest-growing ETF segments in the U.S. because they meet a specific investor need: high income with some downside protection.

The U.S. autocallable ETF market has grown to more than US\$5-billion in assets under management since the first products launched last year.

"Growth is being driven by demand for income alternatives to traditional fixed income and covered-call ETFs," Ms. Yang says.

HOW AUTOCALLABLE ETFS WORK

A TD Securities Inc. report published in September describes the autocallable ETF as a “market-linked investment that provides regular coupon payments and aims to return principal at maturity, or earlier if the note is called, provided the underlying reference index [...] remains above predetermined downside thresholds."

The report adds: “A useful way to think about it is as a bond-like investment [in which] both the income stream and principal protection are linked to equity market performance rather than traditional interest rates.”

Autocallable ETFs offer the potential for higher monthly income than traditional fixed-income securities, but that potential comes with some equity market risk.

Coupon payments typically continue as long as the reference index remains above a preset downside barrier.

Principal is generally returned in full at maturity, the TD Securities report says, unless the index finishes below that barrier, “at which point investors may experience a loss of capital.”

The ETF wrapper is attractive, Ms. Yang says, because it provides daily liquidity and easier access for investors.

To that end, Canadian issuers are now bringing structured-income strategies into the domestic ETF market. Purpose Investments Inc. led the way with the launch in August of Purpose Structured Equity Yield Fund, which offers a structured income strategy based on broad market indexes.

BMO Global Asset Management followed in September with the launch of BMO Strategic Autocallable Income US Large Cap ETF, Canada's first dedicated autocallable ETF, which applies the structure to a portfolio of U.S. large-cap stocks rather than a broad index.

Sara Petrcich, head of ETFs and alternatives at BMO GAM, says autocallable notes have become increasingly popular but can be difficult for investors to access.

Canadian issuers are now bringing structured-income strategies into the domestic ETF market. Purpose Investments Inc. led the way with the launch in August.

Ms. Petrcich, who took over BMO GAM's ETFs business in 2023, when it was combined with the synthetic asset management business, says BMO GAM created the ETF to make this investment strategy more accessible.

Ms. Petrcich says one of the key advantages of the new BMO GAM autocallable ETF is that returns aren't dependent solely on strong stock market growth.

Investors may continue to earn income even if the underlying stocks are flat or experience moderate declines, provided certain thresholds aren't breached.

The strategy also offers diversification by investing across a range of leading U.S. companies and sectors, reducing reliance on the performance of any single stock.

Ms. Yang says what differentiates BMO GAM's new ETF from existing autocallable funds is its positioning between the two major camps in the U.S. market.

Specifically, on one end are diversified autocallable ETFs based on broad market indexes while on the other are concentrated single-stock autocallable ETFs that can generate substantially higher distributions, but with much greater risk.

Many U.S. autocallable ETFs based on broad indexes generate yields ranging from roughly 8 per cent to 18 per cent, she says, while some single-stock autocallable ETFs generate even higher distributions.

The BMO GAM ETF “attempts to strike a middle ground by combining diversification across multiple stocks with the higher income potential associated with individual-stock volatility,” Ms. Yang says.

WHO ARE THESE ETFS FOR?

Ms. Yang says autocallable ETFs are best suited for income-oriented investors who are comfortable sacrificing part of their upside potential in exchange for higher cash flow and some downside protection.

"They may appeal to retirees, yield-focused investors and those looking for alternatives to covered-call strategies," she says. "These products are generally better viewed as strategic income holdings rather than short-term trading vehicles."

As for the risks and downside, Ms. Yang notes the protection is conditional: if the underlying reference stock or index falls below the protection barrier, investors can be exposed to significant losses.

Another risk is capped upside. If markets rise sharply, the autocall feature may trigger an early redemption, meaning investors may not capture the same gains that a traditional equity investment would.

There's also the complexity to consider, Ms. Yang says.

"These products are more sophisticated than traditional equity, bond or covered-call ETFs, so investors need to understand how coupon barriers, autocall triggers and protection barriers interact," she says.

Given the strong adoption of autocallable ETFs in the U.S., she says it wouldn't be surprising to see meaningful interest from yield-focused Canadian investors.

Europe's woes give U.S. dollar bulls fresh reason to press on

LAURA MATTHEWS

SAQIB IQBAL AHMED NEW YORK

The U.S. dollar has surged to an 18-month high this fall, with the latest gains driven by uncertainty across the Atlantic that is emboldening some investors to bet on further dollar appreciation.

Analysts said the dollar continues to draw support from high titudes to draw support from high – and likely rising – U.S. interest rates, resilient economic growth and persistent inflation risks. Yet Europe's challenges, centring on large deficits in France and the prospect of broader stress rippling to Italy and across the bloc, are emerging as a likely driver of dollar performance in coming months.

The greenback has appreciated about 5 per cent against the euro this year, helping to lift the dollar index, which measures its strength against six major currencies, including the euro, its largest component.

"The euro remains under pressure, limiting one of the dollar's main alternatives," said Uto Shinohara, senior investment strategist at Mesirow Currency Management.

The spread between French and German 10-year bond yields posted its biggest weekly jump in decades last week, while the Italian-German yield gap saw its steepest weekly increase since the COVID-19 pandemic. The euro was last down 0.67 per cent against the dollar at 1.1183.

"[There's] a lot of focus on those countries where there's political dysfunction preventing the return of fiscal trajectories to anything that could be considered sustainable," said Karl Schamotta, chief market strategist at Corpay in Toronto.

One concern is that the euro is no longer drawing much support from hawkish signals from the European Central Bank.

The ECB raised interest rates by 25 basis points in September, the second time this year that the central bank moved to quell an energy-driven rise in inflation, but the euro fell after the decision as markets worried about the economic impact of future hikes.

Higher European yields have typically supported the euro, but its muted response suggests investors are increasingly focused on growth and fiscal risks. Rising energy prices could add further pressure.

"Structurally, Europe is a major energy importer and more reliant on manufacturing than the US. The impact is clear: high energy prices will hold the region back," said Benjamin Ford, researcher at macro research and strategy firm Macro Hive.

Mr. Ford expects the euro to fall to US\$1.10 within the next month, nearly 2 per cent below its current level.

"The U.S. appears to have a stronger medium-term thesis whereas Europe is prone to being on the receiving end of shocks," Mr. Ford said.

Investors are also weighing whether the ECB can continue fighting inflation without inflicting greater damage on an economy already showing signs of strain. Euro zone inflation surged more than expected in September and is likely to increase further in the coming months on soaring energy costs, keeping pressure on the ECB to raise rates.

"The asymmetry around where the euro can go is very much skewed to the downside," said Dan Tobon, head of G10 FX strategy at Citi in New York. "And one place that that could come from most easily is from a policy error by the ECB overtightening into a market that can't withstand it any more."

One-month euro risk reversals, which measure whether options traders are paying more to hedge against euro losses than gains, were on Friday at their most bearish since March, while the three-month measure hit its most negative level since June, 2024.

Fed policy makers have signalled that inflation risks remain elevated, helping to keep Treasury yields at multiyear highs.

"Yields continue to climb, with U.S. rates at an absolute spread advantage to most developed markets," Mr. Shinohara said.

Fed funds futures are showing an about 84-per-cent chance for at least one more rate hike of 25 basis points by December.

While few strategists are forecasting a dramatic surge in the dollar from current levels, they say the combination of resilient U.S. growth, elevated yields and Europe-specific risks continues to tilt the balance in the dollar's favour.

"As of right now, this skew is very much looking ugly for Europe," said Citi's Mr. Tobon.

REUTERS

Mortgages: Variable rates come with own risks

Long-term fixed rates falling out of favour The proportion of long-term fixed mortgage holders fell to its lowest level since records began, as consumers opted for short-term and variable rates

FROM B1

THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: NBC ECONOMY AND STRATEGY

Mortgage rates

	INSURED	PROVIDER	UNINSURED	PROVIDER
1-year fixed	4.49	Ratehub.ca	4.59	Ratehub.ca
2-year fixed	4.24	Ratehub.ca	4.59	Ratehub.ca
3-year fixed	4.39	Ratehub.ca	4.69	Ratehub.ca
4-year fixed	4.44	True North	4.79	BMO
5-year fixed	4.34	Ratehub.ca	4.84	Ratehub.ca
10-year fixed	5.43	Ratehub.ca	5.43	Ratehub.ca
5-year variable	3.40	Ratehub.ca	3.65	Ratehub.ca
HELOC	NA	NA	4.95	Ratehub.ca, True North

THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: RATEHUB.CA; DATA AS OF OCT. 8.

The advantage of shorter-term mortgages has greatly diminished. Victor Tran, an Ontario-based mortgage broker, said three-year fixed rates are currently only 0.1 per cent cheaper than five-year fixed rates.

That's part of the reason why variable rates have been making a comeback in 2026, with more than 40 per cent of consumers signing one, up from less than 10 per cent in 2024. Variable rates are also nearly one percentage point cheaper than fixed rates right now.

But variable rates come with their own risks. Financial markets have priced in the likelihood of four Bank of Canada rate hikes by mid-2027, which would bring variable rates up to the mid-4-percent range, a level comparable with current five-year fixed rates.

Kari Norman, a senior economist with Desjardins, said oil price shocks caused by the war in Iran and the impact of the U.S. trade war on the Canadian economy are examples of how variable or short-term mortgage holders carry more immediate risk.

"Who would have thought that we'd have an oil price shock this year. We couldn't have anticipated that a year ago," Ms. Norman said.

She said someone signing a five-year fixed rate would likely see their family income increase over the life of their mortgage term, allowing them to absorb similar rate hikes better.

In the long term, Mr. Tran predicts that five-year fixed rates will make a comeback. More of his clients are already choosing longer-term rates.

"A lot of people coming up for renewal are looking for stability," Mr. Tran said.

However, pricing on five-year rates will face upward pressure for the rest of 2026. Mr. King noted that those rates have been unusually low compared with bond yields because of intense competition between lenders over a large cohort of renewals five years on from the pandemic housing boom. Once that wanes and the slower winter season begins, lenders will likely increased their rates even if bond yields stay flat.

Unless geopolitical stresses like the war in Iran ease, Mr. King said the housing market will remain in a weak state in 2027.

Stocks end mixed after rising oil prices

Some sharp reversals kept financial markets unsteady on Thursday, as oil prices rose and stock indexes finished mixed.

The S&P 500 fell 0.5 per cent for a second straight loss after setting its all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 51 points, or 0.1 per cent, and the Nasdaq composite fell 1.3 per cent as technology stocks took particularly hard hits. The S&P/TSX Composite Index closed up 103.52 points, or 0.30 per cent, at 35.145.38, after on Wednesday falling 1.7 per cent to its lowest closing level since July 20.

U.S. stocks felt pressure from a 4.1-per-cent rise in the price for a barrel of Brent crude oil to US\$104.28. It's been pinballing between US\$96 and nearly US\$110 over the past month on uncertainty about when the war with Iran will allow the global energy industry to return to normal.

Brent got to nearly US\$106 in the morning before U.S. Donald Trump sent its price veering after saying “productive discussions” are happening with Iran and that the U.S. military would not attack it before the upcoming U.S. elections in November. That briefly sent Brent toward \$103 before it eventually turned back upward.

Even sharper swings shook the bond market, where yields have been jumping worldwide to their highest levels in years or even decades, which threaten to slow the economy.

The 10-year Treasury yield initially rose with oil prices, going from 5.28 per cent late Wednesday to 5.35 per cent early Thursday morning. But it then fell all the way back to 5.23 per cent.

It dropped after the U.S. government said that it sold US\$22-billion in 30-year Treasury bonds at an auction with a high yield of less than 5.62 per cent. That helped bring the 30-year Treasury yield down to 5.6 per cent from 5.73 per cent in the morning, which is a notable move for the bond market.

A day earlier, an auction of 10-year Treasurys also helped bring down yields. Strong demand there showed investors are still willing to buy U.S. government debt, even though their prices have fallen sharply this year because of worries about high inflation, big government debt loads and other factors.

“Higher U.S. Treasury yields are starting to create their own demand, buyers are showing up for the right price,” said Tony Miano, global investment strategy analyst at Wells Fargo Investment Institute.

For their part, Canadian bond yields were relatively unchanged late Thursday from Wednesday's levels.

ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS, GLOBE STAFF

These Canadian stocks have financial strength

Stocks with attractive valuations and fundamentals

GARY CHRISTIE

RANK	COMPANY	TICKER	INDUSTRY	MKT. CAP. ($BIL)	RECENT PRICE ($)	TC QUANT. RATING	DIV. YLD. (%)	DEBT/ EQTY	P/E (TTM)	YTD PERF. (%)	1-YR PERF. (%)
1	Suncor Energy Inc.	SU-T	Oil & Gas	113.76	97.26	63	2.47	0.3	12.99	55.3	70.6
2	Cenovus Energy Inc.	CVE-T	Oil & Gas	80.54	43.67	63	2.02	0.34	12.13	81.6	76.7
3	Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.	CNQ-T	Oil & Gas	139.77	67.8	61	3.69	0.37	12.06	43.9	48.8
4	Perseus Mining Ltd.	PRU-T	Metals & Mining	8.25	6.1	53	2.25	0	13.56	20.8	35.6
5	Manulife Financial Corp.	MFC-T	Insurance	98.45	59.51	58	3.26	0.3	16.13	19.5	30.9
6	Algoma Central Corp.	ALC-T	Transportation	1.07	26.33	59	4.71	0.73	6.24	38.7	51.3
7	IGM Financial Inc.	IGM-T	Asset Management	18.94	82.03	51	3.02	0.83	16.61	32.5	58
8	Endeavour Mining PLC	EDV-T	Metals & Mining	18.65	76.37	65	3.45	0.32	15.75	12.3	25.8
9	Nutrien Ltd.	NTR-T	Agriculture	47.64	99.83	53	3.13	0.49	14.17	15	18.4
10	Lassonde Industries Inc.	LAS.A-T	Beverages - Non-Alcoholic	1.58	230.95	56	2.16	0.38	10.2	6.3	8.9

Source: Trading Central

NUMBER CRUNCHER

Head of North American research at Trading Central in Ottawa

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

Canadian stocks that combine attractive valuations with financial strength and solid underlying fundamentals.

Canadian-born investor David Dreman, a Winnipeg native and author of Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Psychological Edge, became known for buying fundamentally sound companies trading at relatively low valuations. He argued that investors often become too pessimistic about unpopular stocks and too optimistic about highly valued companies.

His approach centres on buying lower-P/E ratio stocks, where expectations may already be modest, giving them room to outperform if conditions improve. Our screen applies that value-oriented idea while adding our own quality filters, including Trading Central's TC Quantamental Rating.

THE SCREEN

Using Trading Central Strategy Builder, we began by focusing on Canadian companies across all major sectors, with a minimum market capitalization of \$1-billion to concentrate on larger, more established businesses.

To emphasize value, we required a trailing price-to-earnings ratio of 17 or less, focusing on companies trading at a discount to the broader Canadian market. For comparison, the S&P/TSX Composite Index currently trades at a P/E ratio of 18.59.

We also applied Trading Central's Quantamental framework, a systematic 20-factor model combining valuation, growth, quality, momentum and income, requiring a rating of at least 50 out of 100.

The same proprietary framework underpins the Solactive TC Quant CA 50 Index, tracked by the Trading Central Quant Canada 50 Equity Index ETF, which provides systematic exposure to the 50 highest-scoring Canadian companies.

To favour companies with more manageable leverage, we limited the debt-to-equity ratio to 1.

We required a dividend yield between 2 per cent and 5 per cent. The minimum adds an income component, while the upper limit helps reduce exposure to unusually high-yielding stocks, where elevated yields may reflect greater business risk or share-price volatility.

We have also included 52-week and year-to-date price performance for reference.

MORE ABOUT TRADING CENTRAL

Trading Central is a global leader in financial market research and investment analytics for retail online brokers and institutions. Its product suite provides actionable trading ideas based on technical and fundamental research covering stocks, exchange-traded funds, indices, forex, options and commodities. Strategy Builder, our stock screener, is available through leading retail brokers in Canada and worldwide.

WHAT WE FOUND

Topping our list is Suncor Energy Inc., with a TC Quantamental Rating of 63. The shares trade at 12.99 times trailing earnings, and offer a dividend yield of 2.47 per cent. Suncor has also shown considerable price strength, gaining 55.3 per cent year-to-date, and 70.6 per cent over the past 52 weeks.

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. is the largest company on our list by market cap, at \$139.77-billion. The oil and gas producer trades at 12.06 times trailing earnings, has a dividend yield of 3.69 per cent and a relatively low debt-to-equity ratio of 0.37. Its shares have gained 43.9 per cent year-to-date and 48.8 per cent over the past year.

Among the non-oil-and-gas names, Algoma Central Corp. stands out. The Great Lakes and ocean shipping company has the lowest P/E ratio on our list at just 6.24, and a dividend yield of 4.71 per cent, while its shares have risen 38.7 per cent year-to-date and

51.3 per cent over the past year. The company recently announced a \$1-a-share special dividend and raised its regular quarterly dividend by 48 per cent to 31 cents a share, following an increase in earnings.

Trading Central Strategy Builder provides a back-testing capability to evaluate how an investment strategy would have performed historically. Using a five-year historical period with quarterly rebalancing, the screen described above generated an annualized return of 17 per cent, compared with an annualized return of 12 per cent for the S&P/TSX Composite Index over the same period.

The investment ideas presented here are for information only. They do not constitute advice or a recommendation by Trading Central in respect of investing in financial instruments. Investors should conduct further research before investing.

EYE ON EQUITIES DAVID LEEDER

LINAMAR (LNR-TSX) CLOSE \$94.52, DOWN \$2.19

TD Cowen analyst Brian Morrison is expecting in-line third-quarter results from Canadian auto parts suppliers, predicting 2026 guidance will be maintained with “a softer year-over-year production backdrop, margin benefits from efficiencies/ AI/improved contract economics, and strong FCF supporting active NCIBs.” Target: He lowered his Linamar Corp. to \$120 from \$123, keeping a “buy” rating. The consensus target on the Street is \$112.40.

VERSAMET ROYALTIES (VMET-TSX) CLOSE \$12.19, UP 6¢

TD Cowen analyst Derick Ma initiated coverage of Vancouver-based Versamet Royalties Corp. with a "buy" rating, expecting it to reach "high near-term organic growth that will drive a significant uplift in EBITDA and deal making capacity over the next 5 years."

Target: Mr. Ma set a target of \$21 a share, pointing to a 73-per-cent total return based on its Wednesday closing price. Consensus is \$19.12.

EXCHANGE INCOME (EIF-TSX) CLOSE \$116.70, DOWN 32¢

There are “plenty of tailwinds ahead” for Exchange Income Corp., according to National Bank Financial analyst Cameron Doerksen, who emphasizes key aviation end markets “remain positive.” “As the largest aviation provider into Canada’s North and other remote areas, EIC is ideally positioned to see growth from Canada’s investment in defence and other infrastructure in the North.”

Target: Mr. Doerksen reaffirmed an "outperform" rating and \$145 target. Consensus is \$148.82.

AIR CANADA (AC-TSX) CLOSE \$24.05, DOWN 95¢

Canaccord Genuity analyst Mark Neville reduced his third-quarter forecast for Air Canada. "While the price of oil is well off the highs seen since the start of the war, jet fuel prices are back near highs as crack spreads have moved materially higher due to disruptions in global refining capacity. Target: Mr. Neville lowered his target to \$29 from \$33, keeping a "hold" rating. Consensus is \$36.38.

MTY FOOD GROUP (MTY-TSX) CLOSE \$30.25, DOWN 53¢

The third quarter is shaping up to be “another challenging” period for MTY Food Group Inc., according to TD Cowen analyst Cheryl Zhang, emphasizing “consumer spending pressure, cost inflation, and elevated promotions persist.” “Recently announced corporate store closures should weigh on near-term results before delivering longer-term benefits,” she said.

Target: She kept a "hold" rating and \$38 target for shares of MTY. Consensus is \$41.17.

ETFS STOCKS \$1 OR MORE

TSX VOLUME TOP 20 FOR STOCKS \$1 OR MORE

OCT. 11, 2016
COMMODITIES
S&P/TSX COMPOSITE INDEX PAST 12 MONTHS

TSX INDEXES AND SUB INDEXES

S&P 500 PAST 12 MONTHS

	CLOSE	NET CHG	% CHG	VOL 000s	YTD %CHG
TSX COMPOSITE IND	35145.38	103.52	0.30	291879	10.82
TSX 60 INDEX	2070.76	5.84	0.28	147885	11.33
TSX COMPLETION IN	2262.97	7.83	0.35	143994	8.81
TSX SMALLCAP INDE	1415.07	3.61	0.26	98044	18.26
TSX VENTURE COMPO	867.76	-9.41	-1.07	40273	-12.15
TSX CONSUMER DISC	382.35	1.34	0.35	4285	-0.07
TSX CONSUMER STAP	1239.05	12.53	1.02	4613	0.07
TSX ENERGY CAPPED	455.08	12.41	2.80	64421	51.48
TSX FINANCIALS CA	715.66	-2.15	-0.30	52706	14.05
TSX HEALTH CARE C	21.58	-0.34	-1.55	2654	-1.46
TSX INDUSTRIALS C	485.54	1.19	0.25	17665	3.97
TSX INFORMATION T	343.20	-3.90	-1.12	9214	5.08
TSX MATERIALS CAP	811.40	5.54	0.69	64176	8.23
TSX REAL ESTATE C	290.84	1.30	0.45	7467	-8.07
TSX GLOBAL GOLD I	875.66	11.75	1.36	126537	7.11
TSX GLOBAL MINING	239.61	0.55	0.23	331129	14.22
TSX INCOME TRUST	226.92	-0.97	-0.43	8931	3.04
TSX PREFERRED SHA	700.38	1.24	0.18	819	0.59
TSX COMMUNICATION	135.63	0.79	0.59	15950	-13.53
TSX UTILITIES CAP	380.74	-1.12	-0.29	20038	8.07

	CLOSE	NET CHG	% CHG	VOL 000s	YTD %CHG
TD TORONTO-DOMINI	162.23	-0.20	-0.12	15417	25.41
CNQ CDN NATURAL R	69.84	2.04	3.01	14698	50.23
BNS BANK OF NOVA	124.43	0.14	0.11	9575	22.92
ATH ATHABASCA OIL	12.31	0.04	0.33	9169	75.11
CVE CENOVUS ENERG	44.77	1.10	2.52	7705	92.81
DML DENISON MINES	3.37	-0.29	-7.92	7608	-7.42
T TELUS CORPORATI	11.43	0.09	0.79	6403	-36.82
TRP TC ENERGY COR	85.36	1.36	1.62	6331	12.94
BCE BCE INC.	28.35	0.16	0.57	5667	-13.41
WCP WHITECAP RESO	18.51	0.43	2.38	5276	60.96
SU SUNCOR ENERGY	100.89	3.63	3.73	5022	65.61
ENB ENBRIDGE INC	66.14	0.71	1.09	4719	0.70
BTE BAYTEX ENERGY	6.77	0.23	3.52	4639	52.48
MFC MANULIFE FIN	59.89	0.38	0.64	4519	20.16
ABX BARRICK MININ	56.86	1.02	1.83	4385	-4.90
TVE TAMARACK VALL	13.70	0.39	2.93	4373	71.68
XIU ISHARES SP TS	52.33	0.14	0.27	4338	11.36
AQN ALGONQUIN POW	7.22	-0.01	-0.14	4248	-14.45
EMA EMERA INCORPO	65.25	-0.11	-0.17	4132	-3.53
RY ROYAL BANK OF	270.87	-1.95	-0.71	3928	15.76

TSX GAINERS
TSX LOSERS TOP 20 FOR STOCKS \$1 OR MORE

	CLOSE	NET CHG	% CHG	VOL 000s	YTD %CHG
FTG FIRAN TECHNOL	32.00	6.59	25.93	406	177.06
PRN PROFOUND MEDI	9.84	1.68	20.59	64	-8.64
RCH RICHELIEU HAR	38.63	3.95	11.39	267	-2.35
TVA-B TVA GROUP I	2.49	0.24	10.67	14	369.81
THNC THINKIFIC LA	2.05	0.19	10.22	93	5.67
SOXD MEGASHORT -3	11.62	1.06	10.04	119	-94.35
MCB MCCOY GLOBAL	2.65	0.23	9.50	230	-9.86
GAU GALIANO GOLD	3.00	0.23	8.30	500	-14.04
CSCI COSCIENS BIO	9.89	0.71	7.73		16.08
ALC ALGOMA CENTRA	28.32	1.99	7.56	18	49.84
GO-U GO RESIDENTI	7.78	0.53	7.31	274	-33.62
YGR YANGARRA RESO	1.63	0.10	6.54	283	55.24
COID SAVVYSHORT -	4.41	0.26	6.27	2	-71.10
CNQU SAVVYLONG 2X	49.09	2.77	5.98	3	100.37
CHLT CUSTOM HEALT	7.68	0.43	5.93	6	-23.20
CMGS CHIPOTLE CDR	12.56	0.69	5.81	96	-14.27
ZYNS PHILIP MORRI	27.60	1.51	5.79	1	22.72
XMF-A M SPLIT COR	1.65	0.09	5.77		89.66
NRGU BETAPRO SP T	71.00	3.86	5.75	108	117.52
EDT SPECTRAL MEDI	1.14	0.06	5.56	44	-20.83

	CLOSE	NET CHG	% CHG	VOL 000s	YTD %CHG
TGO TERAGO INC.	1.32	-0.18	-12.00		103.08
HUT HUT 8 CORP	113.06	-14.36	-11.27	997	79.12
SOXU MEGALONG 3X	44.16	-5.19	-10.52	61	233.41
SOLA-U EVOLVE SOL	7.89	-0.86	-9.83		-15.34
ELVA ELECTROVAYA	8.22	-0.87	-9.57	201	-24.17
MUU SAVVYLONG 2X	17.22	-1.77	-9.32	355	-23.47
AMDU SAVVYLONG 2X	26.51	-2.72	-9.31	9	22.73
TI TITAN MINING C	3.01	-0.29	-8.79	96	-21.82
XNDU XANADU QUANT	5.86	-0.55	-8.58	1082	-63.44
NEO NEO PERFORMAN	27.91	-2.58	-8.46	291	79.37
LETH EVOLVE LEVER	22.63	-2.08	-8.42		-24.06
ORBU SAVVYLONG 2X	11.28	-1.03	-8.37	6	-40.32
KITS KITS EYECARE	16.10	-1.40	-8.00	122	-12.17
DML DENISON MINES	3.37	-0.29	-7.92	7608	-7.42
CRWV COREWEAVE CD	15.38	-1.29	-7.74	467	-37.12
ETHY-U PURPOSE ET	1.57	-0.13	-7.65	8	-41.85
SOLL-U PURPOSE SO	8.45	-0.66	-7.24		-14.13
SOLQ-U 3IQ SOLANA	8.80	-0.68	-7.17	4	-11.56
HIVE HIVE DIGITAL	3.65	-0.28	-7.12	3571	3.11
URE UR-ENERGY INC	1.45	-0.11	-7.05	269	-22.87

S&P/TSX COMPOSITE INDEX STOCKS

	CLOSE	NET CHG	% CHG	VOL 000s	YTD %CHG
VNP 5N PLUS INC.	30.25	-1.32	-4.18	433	70.71
ABRA ABRASILVER R	11.57	0.10	0.87	441	8.33
AAV ADVANTAGE ENE	10.51	0.20	1.94	834	-10.48
ARE AECON GROUP I	52.30	-1.81	-3.35	393	67.20
AEM AGNICO EAGLE	261.47	4.26	1.66	821	12.33
AC AIR CANADA	24.05	-0.95	-3.80	3004	24.68
AGI ALAMOS GOLD I	45.83	0.89	1.98	528	-13.53
AQN ALGONQUIN POW	7.22	-0.01	-0.14	4248	-14.45
ATD ALIMENTATION	77.87	0.76	0.99	903	3.88
AAUC ALLIED GOLD	27.93	0.00	0.00	504	-11.19
AP-UN ALLIED PROP	6.03	-0.07	-1.15	1426	-54.90
ALA ALTAGAS LTD.	55.05	0.65	1.19	659	31.54
ALS ALTIUS MINERA	63.18	-1.79	-2.76	94	54.70
AIF ALTUS GROUP L	45.77	0.87	1.94	63	-19.29
USA AMERICAS GOLD	6.02	0.08	1.35	954	-14.49
ARIS ARIS MINING	23.86	-0.42	-1.73	1108	7.19
ATZ ARITZIA INC	121.89	-1.39	-1.13	639	3.87
ACO-X ATCO LTD. C	79.54	-2.37	-2.89	1011	41.08
ATH ATHABasca OIL	12.31	0.04	0.33	9169	75.11
ATRL ATKINSREALIS	86.66	1.28	1.50	718	-2.19
ATS ATS CORPORATI	25.15	-0.22	-0.87	366	-33.48
ASM AVINO SILVER	7.74	0.12	1.57	540	-9.37
AYA AYA GOLD AND	37.34	0.02	0.05	686	90.12
BTO B2GOLD CORP.	7.29	0.17	2.39	3166	17.96
BCE BCE INC.	28.35	0.16	0.57	5667	-13.41
BDGI BADGER INFRA	91.50	-1.65	-1.77	79	25.12
BMO BANK OF MONTR	228.42	-2.30	-1.00	3818	28.15
BNS BANK OF NOVA	124.43	0.14	0.11	9575	22.92
ABX BARRICK MININ	56.86	1.02	1.83	4385	-4.90
BHC BAUSCH HEALTH	8.60	-0.19	-2.16	329	-9.76
BTE BAYTEX ENERGY	6.77	0.23	3.52	4639	52.48
BIR BIRCHCLIFF EN	6.70	0.09	1.36	1279	-10.31
BDT BIRD CONSTRUC	80.39	-1.78	-2.17	272	181.87
BB BLACKBERRY LIM	12.27	-0.24	-1.92	3407	136.87
BEI-UN BOARDWALK	60.66	0.28	0.46	95	-5.92
BBD-B BOMBARDIER	294.23	-5.37	-1.79	197	26.01
BYD BOYD GROUP SE	111.27	1.57	1.43	115	-49.11
BAM BROOKFIELD AS	64.21	0.70	1.10	1431	-10.70
BBUC BROOKFIELD B	37.26	0.23	0.62	62	-24.04
BN BROOKFIELD COR	52.27	-0.44	-0.83	3856	-17.06
BIP-UN BROOKFIELD	52.47	-0.97	-1.82	658	9.98
BEP-UN BROOKFIELD	41.63	-0.41	-0.98	512	12.24
DOO BRP INC	77.36	-1.96	-2.47	311	-20.29
CAR-UN CDN APARTM	31.36	0.29	0.93	487	-14.94
CNQ CDN NATURAL R	69.84	2.04	3.01	14698	50.23
GIB-A CGI INC	98.98	0.69	0.70	485	-21.93
CRT-UN CT REAL ES	17.00	-0.01	-0.06	197	4.49
CAE CAE INC	32.93	-0.08	-0.24	820	-21.11
CCO CAMECO CORP	123.93	-3.03	-2.39	1098	-1.39
CM CANADIAN IMPER	153.68	-0.89	-0.58	2170	23.51
CNR CANADIAN NATI	166.23	1.24	0.75	1118	22.45
CP CANADIAN PACIF	120.00	0.82	0.69	1072	18.75
CTC-A CANADIAN TI	190.82	0.71	0.37	128	9.70
CU CANADIAN UTILI	49.40	-0.45	-0.90	1171	15.61
CPX CAPITAL POWER	64.04	-0.25	-0.39	525	9.38
CS CAPSTONE COPPE	13.58	-0.34	-2.44	3855	-1.45
CJT CARGOJET INC.	87.61	1.35	1.57	52	4.37
CCL-B CCL INDUSTR	94.04	0.79	0.85	340	8.47
CLS CELESTICA INC	506.58	-23.43	-4.42	397	24.77
CVE CENOVUS ENERG	44.77	1.10	2.52	7704	92.81
CG CENTERRA GOLD	31.05	0.91	3.02	556	57.14

	CLOSE	NET CHG	% CHG	VOL 000s	YTD %CHG
CEU CES ENERGY SO	18.67	0.62	3.43	386	52.16
CSH-UN CHARTWELL	19.45	0.01	0.05	553	-3.23
CHP-UN CHOICE PRO	14.70	0.05	0.34	627	-0.74
CCA COGECO COMMUN	52.43	-0.07	-0.13	368	-21.12
CIGI COLLIERS INT	122.77	0.33	0.27	132	-39.14
CSU CONSTELLATION	2912.00	10.02	0.35	50	-11.79
CRR-UN CROMBIE RE	15.68	0.05	0.32	117	2.69
CURA CURALEAF HOL	13.50	-0.56	-3.98	448	31.96
DFY DEFINITY FINA	67.23	0.96	1.45	325	-11.46
DML DENISON MINES	3.37	-0.29	-7.92	7608	-7.42
DSG DESCARTES SYS	115.46	1.39	1.22	279	-4.11
DSV DISCOVERY MIN	11.48	0.07	0.61	2710	36.99
DOL DOLLARAMA INC	188.74	3.37	1.82	753	-7.99
DPM DPM METALS IN	54.28	2.28	4.38	1522	27.96
DIR-UN DREAM INDU	12.64	-0.07	-0.55	632	0.48
EQB EQB INC	118.87	0.05	0.04	54	14.42
ELD ELDORADO GOLD	52.43	0.15	0.29	485	6.28
EFN ELEMENT FLEET	21.43	-0.22	-1.02	1643	-40.55
EMA EMERA INCORPO	65.25	-0.11	-0.17	4132	-3.53
EMP-A EMPIRE COMP	49.31	0.44	0.90	659	3.33
ENB ENBRIDGE INC	66.14	0.71	1.09	4719	0.70
EDR ENDEAVOUR SIL	12.16	0.30	2.53	1215	-5.81
EFX ENERFLEX LTD	34.07	0.25	0.74	639	61.01
EFR ENERGY FUELS	14.12	-0.53	-3.62	1298	-28.97
EQX EQUINOX GOLD	15.78	0.20	1.28	2393	-18.20
ERO ERO COPPER CO	51.14	-1.24	-2.37	414	31.70
EIF EXCHANGE INCO	116.70	-0.32	-0.27	200	42.39
EXE EXTENDICARE I	27.20	-0.59	-2.12	606	27.40
FFH FAIRFAX FINAN	2223.45	23.53	1.07	91	-15.00
FTT FINNING INTL	105.41	-1.26	-1.18	505	41.74
FCR-UN FIRST CAPI	23.03	0.07	0.30	225	21.85
AG FIRST MAJESTIC	24.14	0.39	1.64	2462	5.41
FM FIRST QUANTUM	37.88	-0.64	-1.66	2652	2.93
FSV FIRSTSERVICE	182.28	1.33	0.74	64	-14.60
FTS FORTIS INC	75.92	0.26	0.34	1462	6.39
FVI FORTUNA MININ	15.10	0.66	4.57	1117	12.27
FNV FRANCO-NEVADA	342.05	2.92	0.86	403	20.22
FRU FREEHOLD ROYA	16.86	0.28	1.69	708	10.99
GMIN G MINING VEN	47.78	-0.54	-1.12	782	15.16
GFL GFL ENVIRONME	60.17	0.22	0.37	637	2.05
GEI GIBSON ENERGY	32.16	0.71	2.26	616	28.03
GIL GILDAN ACTIVE	59.49	0.68	1.16	804	-30.66
GRT-UN GRANITE RE	83.42	0.41	0.49	69	2.09
GWO GREAT-WEST LI	87.55	-0.01	-0.01	680	29.34
HPS-A HAMMOND POW	287.14	-6.14	-2.09	57	80.05
HWX HEADWATER EXP	13.88	0.36	2.66	307	48.13
HR-UN HR REAL EST	9.60	0.34	3.67	1236	-6.16
HBM HUDBAY MINERA	36.09	-0.78	-2.12	1441	32.44
H HYDRO ONE LIMIT	50.89	0.06	0.12	1864	-6.86
IAU I 80 GOLD COR	2.20	0.08	3.77	1127	8.91
IAG IA FINANCIAL	201.21	-0.78	-0.39	269	13.15
IMG IAMGOLD CORP	26.20	0.47	1.83	1090	15.67
IGM IGM FINANCIAL	80.08	-1.95	-2.38	655	29.56
IMO IMPERIAL OIL	174.74	4.36	2.56	1077	47.36
IFC INCTACT FINANC	242.41	3.69	1.55	506	-15.16
IPCO INTERNATIONA	36.57	1.70	4.88	136	47.28
IVN IVANHOE MINES	11.16	-0.45	-3.88	3916	-28.51

	CLOSE	NET CHG	% CHG	VOL 000s	YTD %CHG
BANK EVOLVE CDN B	10.70	-0.05	-0.47	526	10.42
DLR-U GLOBAL X US	10.10	0.00	0.00	1223	-0.39
DLR GLOBAL X US D	14.35	-0.05	-0.35	1395	3.09
GDXD BETAPRO CDN	8.72	-0.25	-2.79	364	-46.63
HHIS HARVEST DIVE	11.81	-0.16	-1.34	1221	-3.43
HND BETAPRO NAT G	21.25	0.71	3.46	934	-43.56
HNU BETAPRO NAT G	8.78	-0.30	-3.30	3447	-46.13
HOD BETAPRO CRUDE	16.89	-0.94	-5.27	2452	-88.33
HOU BETAPRO CRUDE	25.82	1.23	5.00	1589	194.41
MSTE HARVEST STRA	2.69	-0.04	-1.47	952	-37.44
QQU BETAPRO NASDA	40.92	-1.17	-2.78	616	35.86
RING GLOBAL X EQL	14.26	0.10	0.71	1115	-22.16

	CLOSE	NET CHG	% CHG	VOL 000s	YTD %CHG
SLVU BETAPRO SILV	14.22	-0.22	-1.52	427	-60.54
SQQQ BETAPRO -3X	6.59	0.27	4.27	655	-49.85
TQQQ BETAPRO 3X N	40.54	-1.71	-4.05	475	48.06
VEQT VANGUARD ALL	62.24	-0.32	-0.51	665	15.88
XEG ISHARES SP TS	29.07	0.79	2.79	2667	51.25
XEQT ISHARES CORE	45.65	-0.26	-0.57	1089	14.44
XIC ISHARES CORE	56.09	0.17	0.30	506	10.96
XIU ISHARES SP TS	52.33	0.14	0.27	4338	11.36
XQQ ISHARES NASDA	74.60	-1.05	-1.39	388	19.76
XUT ISHARES SP TS	34.43	-0.10	-0.29	763	7.90
ZAG BMO AGGREGATE	13.38	0.02	0.15	445	-2.90
ZEB BMO EQUAL WEI	71.04	-0.45	-0.63	1630	21.85

	PRICE	NET CHG		PRICE	NET CHG		PRICE	NET CHG
GOLD	4157.00	16.30	LEAN HOGS	75.82	-1.10	CORN	500.25	-1.75
SILVER	59.42	-0.87	COFFEE	289.05	-3.65	SOYBEAN	1287.50	-10.00
NATURAL GAS	3.17	-0.04	ALUMINUM	3153.75	-60.50	CANOLA	815.90	5.60
CRUDE OIL WTI	91.49	3.21	HKFE NICKEL CNH	104330.0	270.00	S&P 500 COMM SRVS	589.95	3.65
CRUDE OIL BRENT	100.20	-0.38	WHEAT	683.25	-3.25	FEED WHEAT	216.50	-1.75
HIGH GRADE COPPER	6.57	-0.08	LUMBER PHYSICAL	518.50	1.00	BITCOIN FUTURES	82035.0	-1585.00

Gold, Silver (USD/oz), Nat gas (USD/mmbtu), Oil (USD/barrel), Copper (USD/lb), Coffee (USD/lb), Aluminum (USD/tonne), HKFE Nickel (in Renminbi-Yuan/tonne), Canola and Barley (in Cdn dollars/tonne), Feed Wheat (in Br. pounds/tonne)

DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE PAST 12 MONTHS

TSX 52-WEEK HIGHS STOCKS \$1 OR MORE

S&P GLOBAL 100 INDEX PAST 12 MONTHS

	CLOSE	NET CHG	% CHG	VOL 000s	YTD %CHG
GUD KNIGHT THERAP	10.73	0.02	0.19	49	77.36
SOIL SATURN OIL A	7.65	0.15	2.00	822	214.81
PLTU SAVVYLONG 2X	38.89	1.29	3.43	7	63.54
SU SUNCOR ENERGY	100.89	3.63	3.73	5022	65.61
VLE VALEURA ENERG	16.40	0.38	2.37	495	100.49
WFC WALL FINANCIA	23.74	0.89	3.89		50.73

	CLOSE	NET CHG	% CHG	VOL 000s	YTD %CHG
ABBV ABBVIE CDR (	37.74	0.04	0.11	1	16.48
ALC ALGOMA CENTRA	28.32	1.99	7.56	18	49.84
ANET ARISTA NETWO	37.57	-1.03	-2.67	32	57.13
BCE-PR-K BCE INC	22.88	0.07	0.31	14	14.40
CVVY CAVVY ENERGY	2.40	0.05	2.13	851	163.74
FTG FIRAN TECHNOL	32.00	6.59	25.93	406	177.06
HWO HIGH ARCTIC E	1.10	-0.07	-5.98	8	30.95

TSX 52-WEEK LOWS STOCKS \$1 OR MORE

	CLOSE	NET CHG	% CHG	VOL 000s	YTD %CHG
ATX ATEX RESOURCE	2.13	0.02	0.95	508	-35.65
ATS ATS CORPORATI	25.15	-0.22	-0.87	366	-33.48
BMW BMW CDR (CAD	15.84	-0.33	-2.04	3	-44.15
BEI-UN BOARDWALK	60.66	0.28	0.46	95	-5.92
BRAG BRAGG GAMING	1.59	-0.02	-1.24	4	-44.79
BTB-UN BTB REIT U	3.61	0.03	0.84	77	-11.74
BNKR BUNKER HILL	3.39	0.04	1.19	55	-59.30
CADY CADILLAC MIN	5.31	-0.04	-0.75	253	-25.00
CIA CHAMPION IRON	2.84	-0.06	-2.07	253	-48.27
ENS-PR-A E SPLIT	10.53	-0.03	-0.28	3	-6.65
EFN ELEMENT FLEET	21.43	-0.22	-1.02	1643	-40.55
EMA EMERA INCORPO	65.25	-0.11	-0.17	4132	-3.53
EFR ENERGY FUELS	14.12	-0.53	-3.62	1298	-28.97
FC FIRM CAPITAL M	10.84	0.21	1.98	70	-7.51
ASME HARVEST ASML	12.18	-0.15	-1.22	1	-2.17
INTE HARVEST INTE	10.98	-0.81	-6.87	6	-12.58
HSTR HELIOSTAR ME	2.31	-0.01	-0.43	614
LIF LABRADOR IRON	22.06	-0.24	-1.08	367	-26.15
LAC LITHIUM AMERI	3.34	-0.09	-2.62	1945	-44.05
LULU LULULEMON CD	4.01	0.05	1.26	658	-56.13

	CLOSE	NET CHG	% CHG	VOL 000s	YTD %CHG
MGEg MACKENZIE GL	19.98	-0.14	-0.70	7	-0.15
MMEA MACKENZIE MO	19.82	-0.41	-2.03	5	-1.00
MKP MCAN MORTGAGE	20.53	0.29	1.43	50	-8.47
BENZ MERCEDES-BEN	16.62	-0.02	-0.12		-33.15
MGFI MIDDLEFIELD	10.01	-0.18	-1.77	4	-0.10
MRG-UN MORGUARD N	14.45	-0.01	-0.07	29	-16.81
MTY MTY FOOD GROU	30.25	-0.53	-1.72	141	-20.65
NFGC NEW FOUND GO	2.19	0.02	0.92	297	-15.77
NRR-UN NORTHVIEW	13.92	-0.18	-1.28	2	-13.81
PVS-PR-M PARTNERS	24.95	-0.06	-0.24	23	-3.41
PVS-PR-U PARTNERS	24.80	-0.10	-0.40	1	-1.78
PZA PIZZA PIZZA R	10.32	0.12	1.18	142	-33.89
RS REAL ESTATE SP	8.37	-0.11	-1.30	59	-8.22
SHPD SAVVYSHORT -	4.55	0.14	3.17	33	-62.61
SRV-UN SIR ROYALT	13.54	-0.61	-4.31	7	-7.07
TLRY TILRAY BRAND	5.10	-0.22	-4.14	1507	-58.90
TF TIMBERCREEK FI	5.20	0.09	1.76	443	-23.98
TNT-UN TRUE NORTH	7.48	-0.04	-0.53	56	-15.58
WDC WESTERN DIGIT	23.92	-0.69	-2.80	131	-15.15
XNDU XANADU QUANT	5.86	-0.55	-8.58	1082	-63.44

TSX COMPOSITE INDEX

SOURCE: BARCHART

OCT. 8, 2026

	CLOSE	NET CHG	% CHG	VOL 000s	YTD %CHG
JWEL JAMIESON WEL	45.45	0.00	0.00	190	35.07
KNT K92 MINING IN	27.75	-0.05	-0.18	884	22.30
KEL KELT EXPLORAT	10.99	0.17	1.57	519	43.29
KEY KEYERA CORP	54.05	1.73	3.31	1667	22.84
KMP-UN KILLAM APA	17.00	-0.16	-0.93	592	3.66
KXS KINAXIS INC	178.40	2.66	1.51	45	3.07
K KINROSS GOLD CO	33.20	0.16	0.48	3272	-14.12
LIF LABRADOR IRON	22.06	-0.24	-1.08	367	-26.15
LB LAURENTIAN BAN	40.38	0.00	0.00	66	0.20
LSPD LIGHTSPEED C	14.79	0.19	1.30	367	-10.69
LNR LINAMAR CORP	94.52	-2.19	-2.26	268	13.93
LAC LITHIUM AMERI	3.34	-0.09	-2.62	1945	-44.05
L LOBLAW CO	62.68	0.46	0.74	1321	1.02
LUG LUNDIN GOLD I	86.71	1.70	2.00	603	-23.95
LUN LUNDIN MINING	33.55	-0.38	-1.12	1291	13.73
MG MAGNA INTERNAT	90.82	-1.80	-1.94	732	24.12
MFC MANULIFE FIN	59.89	0.38	0.64	4519	20.16
MFI MAPLE LEAF FO	25.00	0.50	2.04	277	0.28
MDA MDA SPACE LTD	38.81	-2.53	-6.12	1585	45.68
MX METHANEX CORP	88.24	1.96	2.27	287	62.09
MRU METRO INC	90.72	1.21	1.35	306	-8.17
MAU MONTAGE GOLD	16.99	-0.32	-1.85	389	71.96
MTL MULLEN GROUP	27.39	0.67	2.51	273	74.02
NA NATIONAL BANK	195.40	-3.30	-1.66	1570	13.20
NXE NEXGEN ENERGY	12.33	-0.48	-3.75	3815	-2.38
NFI NFI GROUP INC	25.41	0.30	1.19	295	63.72
NGEX NGEX MINERAL	23.16	-0.57	-2.40	166	-9.53
NPI NORTHLAND POW	22.15	0.09	0.41	1470	24.09
NG NOVAGOLD RES I	8.89	-0.17	-1.88	1065	-30.55
NTR NUTRIEN LTD	99.52	-0.31	-0.31	1022	17.47
OR OR ROYALTIES I	48.55	0.23	0.48	282	-0.14
OGC OCEANAGOLD CO	37.92	0.24	0.64	910	-2.52
ONEX ONEX CORPORPA	102.50	-0.89	-0.86	67	-9.26
OTEX OPEN TEXT CO	33.03	0.03	0.09	756	-26.11
PAAS PAN AMERICAN	64.38	1.16	1.83	659	-9.53
POU PARAMOUNT RES	32.05	0.59	1.88	300	32.49
PXT PAREX RESOURC	28.21	0.79	2.88	744	52.90
PPL PEMBINA PIPEL	67.17	1.59	2.42	2289	28.46
PPTA PERPETUA RES	28.59	0.12	0.42	152	-13.96
PEY PEYTO EXPLORA	24.33	0.51	2.14	811	7.13
POW POWER CORPORPA	88.11	0.42	0.48	1809	20.78
PSK PRAIRIESKY RO	33.84	0.68	2.05	300	25.19
PBH PREMIUM BRAND	70.82	0.44	0.63	154	-30.37
PMZ-UN PRIMARIS R	21.55	-0.20	-0.92	596	38.23
QBR-B QUEBECOR IN	64.65	0.24	0.37	657	25.05
RBA RB GLOBAL INC	119.60	4.91	4.28	831	-15.36
QSR RESTAURANT BR	100.43	1.36	1.37	647	7.23
RCH RICHELIEU HAR	38.63	3.95	11.39	267	-2.35
REI-UN RIOCAN REA	20.50	0.11	0.54	735	9.63
RCI-B ROGERS COMM	44.09	0.32	0.73	2853	-14.90
RY ROYAL BANK OF	270.87	-1.95	-0.71	3928	15.76
RUS RUSSEL METALS	87.99	-0.28	-0.32	203	100.89
SAP SAPUTO INC.	39.02	0.51	1.32	421	-5.54
SEA SEABRIDGE GOL	38.61	0.61	1.61	90	-5.11
SHOP SHOPIFY INC	234.19	-2.40	-1.01	2191	5.97

	CLOSE	NET CHG	% CHG	VOL 000s	YTD %CHG
SIA SIENNA SENIOR	19.36	0.03	0.16	716	-5.24
SVM SILVERCORP ME	14.64	0.30	2.09	535	27.53
SKE SKEENA RESOUR	44.72	1.24	2.85	451	37.18
SRU-UN SMARTCENTR	26.26	0.07	0.27	165	1.98
SGD SNOWLINE GOLD	15.00	-0.10	-0.66	421	-13.59
SOBO SOUTH BOW CO	48.10	0.52	1.09	473	27.42
SXGC SOUTHERN CRO	10.50	-0.14	-1.32	461	-0.85
SDE SPARTAN DELTA	13.87	0.52	3.90	487	91.31
SII SPROTT INC.	163.68	-0.35	-0.21	34	21.75
SSRM SSR MINING I	47.76	1.05	2.25	319	58.72
STN STANTEC INC	96.42	1.24	1.30	401	-25.56
SJ STELLA JONES I	65.68	1.42	2.21	95	-22.85
SCR STRATHCONA RE	40.23	0.33	0.83	417	42.00
SLF SUN LIFE FINA	109.07	0.86	0.79	1369	27.30
SU SUNCOR ENERGY	100.89	3.63	3.73	5022	65.61
SPB SUPERIOR PLUS	6.97	-0.03	-0.43	366	-0.99
TRP TC ENERGY COR	85.36	1.36	1.62	6331	12.94
X TMX GROUP LIMIT	51.51	-0.19	-0.37	437	-1.38
TVE TAMARACK VALL	13.70	0.39	2.93	4373	71.68
TECK-B TECK RESOU	92.10	-1.16	-1.24	793	40.16
T TELUS CORPORATI	11.43	0.09	0.79	6403	-36.82
TVK TERRAVEST IND	109.45	-1.42	-1.28	136	-33.47
TFII TFI INTERNAT	164.00	3.68	2.30	509	15.60
NWC THE NORTH WES	55.23	0.84	1.54	98	12.92
TRI THOMSON REUTE	144.46	2.70	1.90	577	-20.25
TPZ TOPAZ ENERGY	28.85	0.74	2.63	894	4.76
TXG TOREX GOLD RE	70.73	-0.42	-0.59	948	7.92
TIH TOROMONT IND	212.90	-4.10	-1.89	304	28.21
TD TORONTO-DOMINI	162.23	-0.20	-0.12	15417	25.41
TOU TOURMALINE OI	63.22	0.66	1.05	2433	2.68
TA TRANSALTA CORP	18.34	-0.02	-0.11	1952	5.65
TKO TREKOR METALS	11.80	-0.35	-2.88	1718	51.87
TFPM TRIPLE FLAG	43.55	0.59	1.37	141	-4.52
TSU TRISURA GROUP	40.44	-0.13	-0.32	47	-5.34
VET VERMILION ENE	16.88	0.42	2.55	1121	47.81
VZLA VIZSLA SILVE	4.94	0.06	1.23	828	-34.31
WSP WSP GLOBAL IN	161.92	-0.53	-0.33	704	-34.85
WCN WASTE CONNECT	220.02	-1.26	-0.57	391	-8.60
WDO WESDOME GOLD	33.61	0.54	1.63	931	47.80
WFG WEST FRASER T	91.18	0.96	1.06	205	8.59
WN WESTON GEORGE	101.61	1.11	1.10	279	7.31
WPM WHEATON PRECI	192.06	1.66	0.87	779	19.03
WCP WHITECAP RESO	18.51	0.43	2.38	5276	60.96

BONDS CANADA
CURRENCIES FOREIGN EXCHANGE CROSS RATES

TERM	YIELD	CHG
2-YEAR	3.24	0.00
5-YEAR	3.60	-0.01
10-YEAR	3.93	-0.02
30-YEAR	4.29	-0.02

RATES	RATE	CHG
BOFC OVERNIGHT TARGET	2.25	UNCH
CANADIAN PRIME	4.45	UNCH
Source: wires

	CAD	USD	AUD	EUR	GBP	JPY	CHF
CAD	-	0.7029	1.0100	0.6269	0.5313	110.96	0.5845
USD	1.4227	-	1.4370	0.8917	0.7559	157.86	0.8315
AUD	0.9900	0.6959	-	0.6205	0.5260	109.85	0.5787
EUR	1.5952	1.1213	1.6114	-	0.8477	177.02	0.9326
GBP	1.8820	1.3229	1.9010	1.1798	-	208.82	1.1000
JPY	0.0090	0.0063	0.0091	0.0057	0.0048	-	0.0053
CHF	1.7108	1.2026	1.7282	1.0724	0.9090	189.85	-

TERM	YIELD	CHG
2-YEAR TREASURY	4.75	-0.02
5-YEAR TREASURY	4.99	-0.04
10-YEAR TREASURY	5.22	-0.06
30-YEAR TREASURY	5.60	-0.07

CANADIAN DOLLAR \$0.7030 -0.0137 (-1.9115%) FAST YEAR. AS OF 4.47 P.M.

RATES	RATE	CHG
FED TARGET RATE	3.75-4.00	UNCH
U.S. PRIME	7.00	UNCH
Source: wires

DATA PROVIDED BY BARCHART, EXCEPT WHERE NOTED
OCT. 8, 2026 \$0.7030

SPORTS

GUARDIANS VS. WHITE SOX

Shorter camps are having minimal impact on hockey ■ B14

Canada hones fearless, risk-taking soccer under Casey Stoney ■ B15

On the slide

Chicago White Sox shortstop Colson Montgomery throws to first base after forcing out Cleveland Guardians outfielder Steven Kwan during the first inning in Game 4 of the ALDS on Thursday. For the game story, head to ■ GLOBESPORTS.COM

NAM HUH/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Yankees' would-be home run screams for a human touch

OPINION

As of this writing, the entire island of Manhattan has not yet turned on the fan who may or may not have cost the Yankees their season on Wednesday night.

That's helped by the fact that he has yet to be publicly identified, though that's coming. When it does, it may be a good idea to move temporarily to solidly Mets territory, and while there find a plastic surgeon who can give you a new head.

How delighted that fellow must have been to get seats directly over the left-field wall. And how amazed to see an Anthony Volpe fly ball sailing right toward him. And how natural to reach a few inches over the wall to grab himself a historic trophy. And how ecstatic he looks to be celebrating Volpe's game-tying home run with his Yankees-loving pals.

Then how conflicted he must have felt when it became clear that home run was subject to more than the usual, pro forma video review. And how chilled as that review stretched on for what felt like hours. And how forlorn when it was announced that the home run was being recalled for fan interference. And how much like heading straight to the bus station to buy a ticket for whatever bus going wherever as he was being frogmarched out of the stadium by police.

Someone should write a book about it – just that half hour. Don DeLillo's almost 90, but I believe he's got one good one left in him.

It's true that it wouldn't have been a home run without our still-anonymous anti-hero. The ball was headed straight down, and clearly falling a few inches short of the top of the wall. With that in mind, this guy's no Steve Bartman. He isn't personally responsible for punching a couple of million of his neighbours in the crotch.

However, that's not to say that the ball wouldn't have hit the top of said wall, and skittered away from Tampa left-fielder Victor Mesa Jr., who was under it at full, leaping stretch. If the bounce was right, that shot had inside-the-park home run written all over it.

In one world, the Yankees win a 'where were you when you saw it?' game. New York is now living in the other world.

The upshot is twofold. First, on the Yankees losing in this way - ha ha.

Second, on the video replay ensuring that a fair and correct second thought was applied to the play - what a disappointment.

This is why video replay doesn't work - because it works. It eliminates the intervention of fate. It robs us of mythology. ■ KELLY, B15

Tampa Bay Rays left fielder Victor Mesa Jr. makes an attempt on a ball hit by New York Yankees infielder Anthony Volpe during Game 3 of the ALDS on Wednesday. The umpires reviewed the play, overturning what would have been a game-tying home run, ruling fan interference and giving Volpe a double. YUKI IWAMURA/AP

MLB proposes a 154-game regular season, making Mondays a regular day off

RONALD BLUM NEW YORK

Major League Baseball proposed to shorten the regular season to 154 games from 162 starting in 2029 and to expand the Division Series to best-of-seven in a plan given to players during collective bargaining Thursday.

Owners also proposed adding nine additional days off to the current postseason format, extending it to a maximum 42 days in a move that would give top starting pitchers potential to appear more often.

MLB would allow higher-seeded teams in the first two rounds of the postseason to pick their opponents beginning next year and would make most regular-season Mondays a day off for the vast majority of teams starting in 2029 except for those in up to two nationally broadcast games.

Cutting regular-season games would reduce the opportunity for players to set season and career records.

"Returning to a 154-game schedule would allow us to introduce a weekly off day, which is good for player health, while also creating a new national broadcast window to showcase our most exciting teams and players," MLB spokesman Glen Caplin said in a statement.

The players' association said it will review the plan and will respond at the bargaining table.

Baseball's five-year labour contract expires Dec. 1, and management is expected to lock out players in a confrontation that could delay or wipe out the 2027 season. MLB proposed a salary cap, which the union has vowed to never accept, along with limits on contract values and length.

"Unfortunately, the league once again made clear that all of its proposals are contingent on players' agreement to a salary cap, a system that guts player rights and compensation, as well as its other anti-player proposals," the union said in a statement.

MLB's regular season currently schedules 162 games over 187 days, and the new format would play the 154 games over 180 in most years.

MLB would keep the wild card series at best-of-three at the ballpark of the higher-seeded team, add an extra day off between Games 1 and 2 and stagger series starts. There would be only two games scheduled on each of the first three days rather than the current format of up to four games per day.

No. 3 seeds could select after the regular season whether to host No. 5 or No. 6 in the wild card series, and the No. 1 seeds could pick which wild-card winner to play in the Division Series. Each best-of-seven series would be played over 11 days instead of nine, adding off days before Games 5 and 7 in addition to the travel days before Games 3 and 6. MLB would stop scheduling early round postseason games in afternoons after some teams have struggled to fill stadiums in those slots.

Management made a "pick your opponent" proposal in 2022 bargaining as part of a 14-team playoff plan players didn't agree to.

"A shorter regular season unlocks making October even better for our fans – with fewer weekday afternoon games, a longer Division Series and more opportunities to see the game's best pitchers on the biggest stage," Caplin said.
■ MLB, B15

	W	L	T	Pct	PF	PA
Buffalo	3	1	0	.750	127	107
New England	2	2	0	.500	65	77
N.Y. Jets	1	3	0	.250	76	84
Miami	0	4	0	.000	46	101
SOUTH
Jacksonville	3	1	0	.750	104	53
Indianapolis	2	2	0	.500	102	104
Tennessee	0	4	0	.000	55	83
Houston	0	4	0	.000	84	109
NORTH
Cleveland	3	1	0	.750	81	95
Baltimore	3	1	0	.750	116	96
Pittsburgh	2	2	0	.500	77	87
Cincinnati	2	2	0	.500	97	85
WEST
Kansas City	4	0	0	1.000	118	77
Las Vegas	3	1	0	.750	115	84
Denver	2	2	0	.500	74	94
L.A. Chargers	0	4	0	.000	67	106

x — clinched playoff berth. y — clinched division.
WESTERN CONFERENCE

Shorter NHL training camps have minimal impact on early-season hockey, but it's still sloppy

Edmonton Oilers right winger Vasily Podkolzin, centre, celebrates a goal on Seattle Kraken goalie Philipp Grubauer during Saturday's game at Rogers Place in Edmonton. WALTER TYCHNOWICZ/IMAGN IMAGES

Coaches working to figure out how to teach their teams systems with less preseason time

STEPHEN WHYNO

The first three days of the earliest leaguewide start in NHL history delivered scores straight out of the 1980s.

Edmonton and Vancouver played 6-5 and 9-7 games. Pittsburgh routed Philadelphia 7-0. Colorado beat Los Angeles 8-4.

"There's a lot of goals being scored, which tells you that there's some loose hockey still being played," New York Islanders coach Peter DeBoer said Thursday.

The hockey has been sloppy and goaltenders are stopping the puck less than last season.

But with the first 100 or so games in the books following shorter training camps and less exhibition action, there's little evidence to suggest that it has drastically altered the play on the ice compared with previous starts that come with gaps in fundamentals and the occasional blowout.

"I think it's been like that for the last 100 years, so I was not expecting this year to be any different," Utah coach Andre Tourigny said.

WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY ABOUT THE FIRST WEEK-PLUS

The first 110 games have featured 344 goals – led by Oilers defence-man Evan Bouchard with six. Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin even has one from scoring in-

to an empty net.

That's an average of 6.26, up a tick from the 6.1 over the first 112 games a year ago. Power plays are clicking at a 20.9 per cent success rate, compared with 19.8 per cent, led by Tourigny's Mammoth at 61.5 per cent.

"Maybe less time to practise special teams," said Utah's Dylan Guenther, who leads the league with six power play points.

"We had a pretty big emphasis on that in camp because we did a lot of special teams, so it's good that a little bit of that is paying off."

The average save percentage so far is .890. Netminders combining for an .896 last season was the lowest in the NHL since 1994, and it's not getting any easier for hockey's masked men.

There are a similar number of giveaways, more than 16 a game, and plenty of odd-man rushes to be found.

"Teams can score, like there's so much skill," New Jersey defenceman Brenden Dillon said. "Teams have so much skill, so on the defensive side, all it takes is one stick being in the wrong spot or one guy being out of position and teams are going to make you pay."

WHAT CHANGES FROM A SHORTER CAMP

It is an annual debate every fall how to get the most out of camp, Devils coach Sheldon Keefe said, which leads to plenty of teaching early in the regular season.

"Do we roll out everything and then introduce it, but then you don't get good at anything?" Keefe said. "Or do you just roll out a few things at a time and try to really grasp onto that and then you build out from there? You have to do that even more so in the shortened camp. You've got to kind of prioritize a few key areas you focus on, and then you just keep kind of building it out as you go."

Player fitness is not a concern in this day and age when summer skates are commonplace. It may take several more weeks to determine if fewer preseason games contributed to any sort of increase in injuries.

More games are slipping away from teams with big deficits, though. There have been 22 decided by three or more goals, a little more than usual.

"Everybody's pretty sharp pretty early," Islanders captain Bo Horvat said. "You get the odd game here and there where it gets a little sloppy. But I think obviously play will pick up, and things will get a little bit crispier as the season goes on."

Teammate Kyle Palmieri said the Islanders discussed taking advantage of some of the sloppiness around the league, hoping that being more disciplined in the fall can pay dividends. Dillon understands coaches probably would have liked another week or two to iron some things out, but there isn't much clamouring to go back to the old ways.

"It's nice having a shorter camp," Guenther said. "I'm not going to complain about that."

Good thing, then, because this is the NHL's new normal. As part of that, everyone seems to acknowledge this is how early-season fall hockey goes – a long way from playoff races in the spring and the lockdown, tight-checking intensity chasing the Stanley Cup.

"I think there's a lot of clean up to do from everybody," Tourigny said. "At this point, I don't think there's any team who's perfectly perfect on anything."

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NHL

EASTERN CONFERENCE
ATLANTIC DIVISION

	GP	W	L	OT	GF	GA	Pt
Ottawa	4	3	1	0	12	9	6
Tampa Bay	4	3	1	0	11	9	6
Florida	4	2	0	2	8	8	6
Boston	5	3	2	0	15	12	6
Toronto	4	2	2	0	11	11	4
Buffalo	4	2	2	0	10	15	4
Montreal	4	1	2	1	14	19	3
Detroit	3	1	2	0	7	8	2

METROPOLITAN DIVISION
N.Y. Rangers	5	4	1	0	16	8	8
Carolina	5	3	1	1	18	14	7
Washington	3	2	1	0	11	8	4
Pittsburgh	4	2	2	0	18	13	4
Columbus	2	1	1	0	7	7	2
N.Y. Islanders	3	1	2	0	9	7	2
New Jersey	3	1	2	0	6	13	2
Philadelphia	5	0	3	2	6	19	2

WESTERN CONFERENCE

CENTRAL DIVISION

	GP	W	L	OT	GF	GA	Pt
Winnipeg	4	3	0	1	12	10	7
Utah	5	3	2	0	18	14	6
Minnesota	4	2	1	1	11	8	5
Nashville	4	2	1	1	12	11	5
Colorado	3	2	1	0	16	8	4
Dallas	4	2	2	0	10	6	4
St. Louis	3	1	2	0	7	10	2
Chicago	4	1	3	0	9	17	2

PACIFIC DIVISION

FATRIC DIVISION
Edmonton	4	3	0	1	22	16	7
Vegas	4	3	1	0	17	10	6
Anaheim	3	2	1	0	9	10	4
San Jose	3	2	1	0	9	12	4
Seattle	4	2	2	0	15	11	4
Vancouver	5	2	3	0	21	25	4
Los Angeles	3	0	2	1	9	15	1
Calgary	3	0	3	0	3	16	0

Thursday

Carolina 7 Vancouver 2 Dallas 4 Buffalo 0 Tampa Bay 3 Minnesota 2 Nashville 5 Montreal 2 Ottawa 2 Philadelphia 1 Boston 6 Utah 1 Chicago at N.Y. Islanders San Jose at St. Louis Colorado at Calgary Toronto at Vegas Wednesday

Wednesday

Washington 5 Pittsburgh 3 Winnipeg 3 Colorado 2 Edmonton 5 Anaheim 2 Friday

Friday

All Times Eastern

N.Y. Rangers at Washington, 7 p.m. Pittsburgh at Columbus, 7 p.m. Seattle at Detroit, 7 p.m. Anaheim at Winnipeg, 8 p.m. Saturday's Games Philadelphia at Boston, 1 p.m. Vancouver at New Jersey, 3:30 p.m. Edmonton at San Jose, 4 p.m. Minnesota at Florida, 6 p.m. Carolina at Chicago, 7 p.m. Columbus at St. Louis, 7 p.m. Dallas at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. Detroit at Montreal, 7 p.m. Nashville at Ottawa, 7 p.m. Toronto at Colorado, 7 p.m. Utah at Buffalo, 7 p.m. Tampa Bay at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 p.m. Anaheim at Calgary, 10 p.m. Los Angeles at Vegas, 10 p.m.

AMERICAN CONFERENCE
NFL

	W	L	T	Pct	PF	PA
N.Y. Giants	3	1	0	.750	82	79
Philadelphia	2	2	0	.500	75	93
Dallas	2	2	0	.500	122	112
Washington	1	3	0	.250	88	122
SOUTH
Carolina	2	2	0	.500	121	109
Atlanta	2	2	0	.500	96	92
New Orleans	1	3	0	.250	105	128
Tampa Bay	0	4	0	.000	76	96
NORTH
Minnesota	4	0	0	1.000	86	51
Chicago	3	1	0	.750	112	65
Detroit	2	2	0	.500	119	127
Green Bay	2	2	0	.500	73	105
WEST
San Francisco	4	0	0	1.000	122	64
Seattle	3	1	0	.750	105	73
L.A. Rams	2	2	0	.500	85	83
Arizona	1	3	0	.250	87	117

WNBA PLAYOFFS
SEMIFINALS

Byes: Kansas City, Carolina

Thursday

Tampa Bay at Dallas

Sunday

Philadelphia vs. Jacksonville (at London, England). 9:30 a.m.

England), 9:30 a.m.

Chicago at Green Bay, 1 p.m.
Cincinnati at Miami, 1 p.m.
Cleveland at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.
Houston at Tennessee, 1 p.m.
Indianapolis at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.
Las Vegas at New England, 1 p.m.
Minnesota at New Orleans, 1 p.m.
N.Y. Giants at Washington, 1 p.m.
Denver at L.A. Chargers, 4:05 p.m.
Detroit at Arizona, 4:25 p.m.
San Francisco at Seattle, 4:25 p.m.
Baltimore at Atlanta, 8:20 p.m.

Monday

Buffalo at L.A. Rams, 8:15 p.m.

U SPORTS FOOTBALL

Friday — All Times Eastern Toronto at McMaster, 12 p.m. Saturday

Ottawa at York, 1 p.m.

Ottawa at York, 1 p.m. Windsor at Queen's, 3 p.m. Western at Carleton, 4 p.m.

(Best-of-5. All Times Eastern) GOLDEN STATE (2) VS. LAS VEGAS (3) (Golden State leads series 2-0) Wednesday Golden State 83, Las Vegas 81 Friday Golden State at Las Vegas, 9:30 p.m. Sunday x-Golden State at Las Vegas, TBD ATLANTA (4) VS. NEW YORK (8) (Atlanta leads series 2-0) Wednesday Atlanta 101, New York 98 (OT) Friday Atlanta at New York, 7:30 p.m. Sunday x-Atlanta at New York, 2 p.m. x — played only if necessary CFL

EAST DIVISION

	GP	W	L	PF	PA	Pt
y-Montreal	15	12	3	535	420	24
x-Toronto	16	9	7	462	455	18
Hamilton	16	5	11	396	474	10
Ottawa	15	0	15	355	558	0

WEST DIVISION

	GP	W	L	PF	PA	Pt
x-Edmonton	15	11	4	470	382	22
British Columbia	15	9	6	452	398	18
Saskatchewan	15	8	7	430	408	16
Calgary	16	8	8	572	541	16
Winnipeg	15	7	8	383	419	14

y — clinched division. WEEK 19 Bye: Toronto Friday Edmonton at Hamilton, 7 p.m. Ottawa at British Columbia, 10 p.m. Saturday Calgary at Winnipeg, 7 p.m. Monday Saskatchewan at Montreal, 1 p.m. NRA PRESEASON

NBA PRESEASON

Thursday

Boston 124, Cleveland 113 New Orleans at Miami Philadelphia at Brooklyn Washington at New York Atlanta at San Antonio Sacramento at L.A. Lakers

Wednesday

Indiana 123, Minnesota 112
Orlando 122, Memphis 118
Milwaukee 128, Oklahoma City 126
Chicago 124, Phoenix 117
Portland 123, Golden State 118
Friday — All Times Eastern
Memphis at Chicago, 8 p.m.
At Margo, China

At Macao, China

Dallas vs Houston, 8 a.m.

Saturday

Atlanta at Indiana, 7 p.m. Detroit at Washington, 7 p.m. Minnesota at Miami, 8 p.m. Philadelphia at Boston, 8 p.m. Sacramento at Golden State, 8:30 p.m. San Antonio at Phoenix, 10:30 p.m. At Vancouver

At Vancouver

Toronto vs L.A. Clippers, 6:30 p.m.

MLS
EASTERN CONFERENCE

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pt
x-Nashville	27	18	3	6	55	21	60
New England	27	14	9	4	45	36	46
Miami	27	12	5	10	64	50	46
Chicago	27	13	8	6	49	39	45
Charlotte	27	12	8	7	47	38	43
Philadelphia	27	11	10	6	54	44	39
Orlando	27	10	13	4	48	64	34
Cincinnati	26	8	9	9	55	64	33
N.Y. Red Bulls	27	9	12	6	34	51	33
N.Y. City F.C.	27	8	10	9	41	36	33
D.C.	26	6	8	12	34	42	30
Columbus	27	8	14	5	39	43	29
Toronto	27	6	10	11	39	51	29
Atlanta	27	7	14	6	32	45	27
Montreal	27	6	15	6	34	54	24

Vancouver	27	15	7	5	60	29	50
St. Louis	27	13	6	8	48	36	47
Dallas	27	13	6	8	50	42	47
San Jose	27	13	8	6	49	39	45
Houston	27	13	9	5	34	32	44
L.A. F.C.	28	11	9	8	43	30	41
Seattle	27	10	9	8	35	35	38
Colorado	27	11	13	3	38	38	36
L.A. Galaxy	28	9	10	9	37	44	36
Portland	27	9	13	5	48	51	32
Salt Lake City	27	9	13	5	40	44	32
San Diego	27	8	11	8	47	47	32
Austin	27	7	10	10	35	47	31
Minnesota	27	7	12	8	40	49	29
Kansas City	27	6	18	3	32	65	21

Saturday — All Times Eastern Montreal at Toronto, 1 p.m. New York City F.C. at Chicago, 2:30 p.m. Cincinnati at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. Columbus at Orlando, 7:30 p.m. D.C. at Miami, 7:30 p.m. Dallas at Charlotte, 7:30 p.m. Salt Lake City at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m. San Diego at N.Y. Red Bulls, 7:30 p.m. Seattle at New England, 7:30 p.m. Houston at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m. Nashville at Austin, 8:30 p.m. Portland at Kansas City, 8:30 p.m. San Jose at Colorado, 9:30 p.m. Vancouver at L.A. F.C., 10:30 p.m.

CPL

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pt
x-Calgary	25	16	4	5	51	19	53
x-Hamilton	25	15	4	6	41	20	51
x-Ottawa	25	12	9	4	38	41	40
Vancouver	25	9	10	6	35	33	33
Quebec	25	9	12	4	38	45	31
Halifax	25	7	12	6	38	42	27
Toronto	25	6	10	9	40	56	27
Victoria	25	2	15	8	30	55	14

AHL
Friday — All Times Eastern Manitoba at Grand Rapids, 7 p.m. Toronto at Hamilton, 7 p.m. Hartford at Providence, 7:05 p.m. Syracuse at Rochester, 7:05 p.m. Rockford at Iowa, 8 p.m. Bakersfield at Calgary, 9 p.m. Abbotsford at Colorado, 9:05 p.m. San Diego at Coachella Valley, 10 p.m. Tucson at San Jose, 10 p.m.
Kingston 7 Barrie 4
Niagara 2 Ottawa 1 (OT)
North Bay 4 Sudbury 3 (OT)
Wednesday
Flint 5 Kitchener 2
Friday — All Times Eastern
Kingston at Brampton, 7 p.m.
Erie at London, 7 p.m.
Oshawa at Sarnia, 7:05 p.m.
Peterborough at Sudbury, 7:05 p.m.
Owen Sound at Guelph, 7:07 p.m.
Kitchener at Sault Ste. Marie, 7:07 p.m.
Newfoundland 6 B-Boisbriand 3 Victoriaville 5 Shawinigan 3 Friday — All Times Eastern Drummondville at Charlottetown, 6 p.m. Rouyn-Noranda at Saint John, 6 p.m. Cape Breton at Chicoutimi, 7 p.m. Baie-Comeau at Gatineau, 7 p.m. Newfoundland at Rimouski, 7 p.m. Blainville-Boisbriand at Val-d'Or, 7 p.m.

Wednesday

Wednesday Quebec 2 Toronto 1 Hamilton 3 Victoria 0 Saturday — All Times Eastern Vancouver at Quebec, 4 p.m.

EPL

Saturday — All Times Eastern Arsenal vs. Leeds, 7:30 a.m. Aston Villa vs. Brentford, 10 a.m. Chelsea vs. Bournemouth, 10 a.m. Ipswich vs. Fulham, 10 a.m. Sunderland vs. Brighton, 10 a.m. Man United vs. Tottenham, 12:30 p.m.

OHL

Thursday

QMJHL

Thursday

Halifax 6 Rouyn-Noranda 2 Drummondville 4 Moncton 3 Wednesday

WHL

Wednesday

Brandon 3 Kamloops 1 Kelowna 10 Swift Current 2 Lethbridge 5 Tri-City 3 Friday — All Times Eastern Calgary at Red Deer, 9 p.m. Prince Albert at Regina, 9 p.m. Moose Jaw at Saskatoon, 9 p.m. Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 9 p.m. Swift Current at Kamloops, 10 p.m. Wenatchee at Portland, 10 p.m. Brandon at Penticton, 10:05 p.m. Vancouver at Seattle, 10:05 p.m. Lethbridge at Spokane, 10:05 p.m. Everett at Tri-City, 10:05 p.m.

PGA TOUR

BAYCURRENT CLASSIC
At Kanagawa, Japan

THURSDAY'S FIRST ROUND — PAR 71
Jacob Bridgeman	31-32—63
Jordan L. Smith	32-32—64
Ricky Castillo	32-33—65
Pierceson Coody	34-31—65
Max Homa	31-34—65
Mac Meissner	30-35—65
David Lipsky	33-33—66
Keith Mitchell	32-34—66
Also

MLB PLAYOFFS

DIVISION SERIES

(Best-of-5. All Times Eastern) AMERICAN LEAGUE

TAMPA BAY (1) VS. NY YANKEES (4) (Tampa Bay wins series 3-0)

Tampa Bay 4, N.Y. Yankees 3

CLEVELAND (2) VS. CHICAGO WHITE SOX (6) (Chicago White Sox lead series 2-1) Thursday

Cleveland at Chicago White Sox Wednesday

Cleveland 9, Chicago White Sox 3 Saturday

x-Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, 8 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Wednesday

Milwaukee 3, San Diego 1

Milwaukee 5, San Diego 1 L.A. DODGERS (2) VS. ATLANTA (3) (L.A. Dodgers wins series 3-1) Wednesday

L.A. Dodgers 4, Atlanta 1

TELEVISION

FRIDAY (ALL TIMES EASTERN)

AUTO RACING

F1: Singapore Grand Prix, Sprint Qualifying, TSN 5, 8 a.m.

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, Eco-save 200, FOX, 5 p.m.

BASKETBALL

NBA: Houston vs. Dallas, NBA TV Canada, 8 a.m.

WNBA: Atlanta vs. New York, TSN 4, 7:30 p.m.

WNBA: Golden State vs. Las Vegas, TSN 4, 9:30 p.m.

FOOTBALL

NCAA: Florida State vs. Louisville, TSN 2, 7 p.m.

CFL: Edmonton vs. Hamilton, TSN 1, 3, 7 p.m. NCAA: Iowa at Washington, FOX, 9 p.m. CFL: Ottawa vs. BC, TSN 1, 5, 10 p.m. GOLF

DP World Tour: Open de Espana, Second Round, Golf Channel, 8 a.m.

PGA Champions: Constellation FURYK & FRIENDS, First Round, Golf Channel, 1 p.m. NB3 Canadian Junior Golf Western Championship, TSN 4, 5, 2:30 p.m.

PGA Korn Ferry Tour Championship, Second Round, Golf Channel, 3 p.m.

ond Round, Golf Channel, 3 p.m. PGA: Baycurrent Classic, Third Round, Golf Channel, 11 p.m.

HOCKEY

NHL: Anaheim vs. Winnipeg, SN 1, 8 p.m. SOCCER

Eredivisie: PSV vs. Heerenveen, SN World, 2 p.m.

Women's International Friendly: Canada vs. Denmark, TSN 5, 7 p.m.

vs. Denmark, TSN 5, 7 p.m. TENNIS

TENNIS

WTA: China Open, Quarterfinals, TSN 4, 7 a.m.

ATP: Shanghai Masters, TSN 3, 12 a.m. (Saturday)

WTA: China Open, Semifinals, TSN 4, 3 a.m. (Saturday)

RESULTS AS OF THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 9:45 P.M.

CORNERED

BIZARRO
SPEED BUMP
OFF THE MARK

"ON YOUR LEFT!"

Haaland calls for Man City unity

Erling Haaland, centre, celebrates scoring Man City's first goal against rivals Manchester United on Sept. 13. City is undefeated in all competitions so far this season. MICHAEL REGAN/GETTY IMAGES

Manager Enzo Maresca also expresses ‘trust’ in the club’s owners over guilty verdict on financial charges

STEVE DOUGLAS MANCHESTER, ENGLAND

Erling Haaland called on everybody at Manchester City to “stick together” in the striker’s first public comments since the club was found guilty of large-scale financial rule-breaking in the Premier League.

City manager Enzo Maresca also spoke for the first time about English soccer's biggest modern-day scandal, expressing his "trust" in the club's ownership and saying his players "don't care too much about the noise."

City will play Liverpool on Sunday in its first match since the publication of an investigatory panel's verdict that City artificially inflated its revenue by more than US\$1-billion from 2009-18 to circumvent financial fair-play rules that restricted rival clubs in that period.

City was found guilty by the panel of all 80 of the serious financial charges brought by the Premier League and could be hit with severe sanctions - including being expelled from the top flight. City has lodged an appeal against the findings.

In an interview with Sky Sports published Thursday, Haaland - City's most high-profile player - said: "We have to stick together and we have to spread the love to each other. So yeah, stick together, enjoy the ride and smile."

Asked what his message would be to City fans travelling to Anfield, where a potentially hostile reception awaits the team, Haaland said: "We have to stick together, we have to stay with each other and we have to stay positive.

"No matter what happens in life, we have always have to have a smile. So we have to stay positive, look ahead and try to win football games and then try to enjoy the situation and the game."

City later published an in-house interview with Maresca, who gave his first remarks on the matter with domestic soccer having been on hold for the past three weeks because of an extended international break.

"Personally I'm very calm to be honest," he said of City's situation. "The club has been quite clear. We trust completely the club. We understand the noise but the focus for us is just what we can control and we can control just the football side."

Maresca said the feeling in the squad was "fantastic" ahead of City's next two games - against Liverpool and then Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League on Wednesday.

City has won all seven of its matches this season in all competitions and is top of the Premier League.

"The players are just focused on that. They know what we can control is the football side – they are not worried at all about different things," Maresca said.

"They know their profession and they know that the noise is there but they don't care too much about the noise."

Maresca is likely to face more severe questioning Friday when he holds his prematch news conference with reporters.

LAMPARD AND OTHER MANAGERS SPEAK ABOUT CITY CASE

The return of the Premier League offers rival team coaches a first opportunity to react to the City case that has rocked the world's most popular soccer league and is likely to have a major impact on the remainder of the season.

They weren't rushing to judgment on Thursday.

"We've all seen the news. It's obviously big news," said Frank Lampard, the Coventry manager who played for City for one of the seasons - 2014-15 - that has been under investigation.

"Man City are appealing the situation so I guess my reaction is that: What can you say when an appeal is going on? I'm not inside the story, I'm outside it completely – I played for Man City a long time ago, for one year – so we'll wait and see what the result of the appeal is."

Bournemouth manager Marco Rose preferred to stay away from the matter, saying: "I'm a football coach, not a politician," while Newcastle manager Matthias Jaissle said he was "not able to judge" as a manager of another club and "there are authorities taking care of it."

In a similar vein, Leeds manager Daniel Farke said there were "more qualified people ... able to speak about it."

Speaking at the Leaders in Sport conference in London, Leeds chairman Paraag Marathe - president of the club's U.S.-ownership group, 49ers Enterprises - said he believed "the most just result, I'm sure, will be delivered."

"In any sport, you know, everybody wants to play by the same rules," he added, without mentioning City.

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Canada honing a risk-taking, fearless identity ahead of qualifiers

GEMMA KARSTENS-SMITH

The head coach of Canada's women's soccer team says her group isn't playing games for fun in the lead-up to next summer's World Cup.

Casey Stoney says the coming games against Denmark in Montreal and Toronto will be about testing the team's mettle.

"It's not an exhibition," she said on Thursday.

"This is a game we are here to perform and win. ... So this is not a friendly. This is about performance, this is about making sure we build on what we've built over the last 16 to 18 months against an opponent, how we can take our performances to the next level."

The ninth-ranked Canadians will play host to No. 12 Denmark in Montreal on Friday before the two teams face off in Toronto on Monday.

The games kick off an important stretch for a Canada side that's set to face Panama in the quarter-finals of the CONCACAF W Championship on Nov. 28. The country is looking to qualify for both the 2027 World Cup in Brazil and the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics via the tournament.

Preparing for those meaningful matchups requires Stoney's side to build on its past performances and refine its identity.

"This team's always been hard to beat. We don't want to lose that. That's really, really important," the coach said. "But we need to take different risks now to try and create more opportunities to score goals while remaining hard to beat."

While Canada is still looking to secure a berth in the 2027 World Cup, the team is also vying to climb into the top eight teams in FIFA's rankings to gain a more favourable draw at the tournament.

Playing top European teams - including Denmark - is part of that work, Stoney said.

"It's very much about performance but it's also about trying to create that winning mindset."

Canada holds a 3-3-0 record against Denmark, but the two sides haven't played since

Canada is set to play Denmark in Montreal and then Toronto. The back-to-back games kick off an important stretch for the team ahead of next year's World Cup. SUE OGROCKI/AP

2017 when the Canadians took a 1-0 victory at the Algarve Cup in Portugal.

The visitors will provide tough tests in Toronto and Montreal, said defender Gabrielle Carle.

“Denmark is a very good side, already qualified [for the World Cup], came first in a group that had Italy and Sweden, so really good team,” she said. “I think for us, it’s good preparation.”

Canada will need to be careful about how it uses the ball and controls transition moments, being mindful of attacking threats such as Bayern Munich standout Pernille Harder, Stoney said.

"They're very hardworking, they're very organized, they're hard to break down," she said. "And they've got threats on the counter. Let's not hide away from the fact they have some world-class players on their team."

The Canadians want to be more creative offensively, she added, and that will mean taking more risks.

"This is about how do we build a team that knows they can beat anyone on their day? No fear," Stoney said. "We want to take on the best teams. This is what it's about."

THE CANADIAN PRESS

Kelly: Being angry is an important part of enjoying sports

FROM B13

Volpe's home run was immediately reminiscent of another - Derek Jeter's winner in Game 1 of the 1996 ALCS.

Same situation - a ball hit high, headed toward a clutch of outfield fans in the Bronx.

In that instance, it was a 12-year-old kid, Jeffrey Maier, who reached over the wall and caught the ball.

There are fewer camera angles of the Jeter/Maier home run than of Volpe's, but it looks worse. Maier is out over the field up to his elbow, plus he's wearing a baseball glove. Like our temporarily nameless friend on Wednesday night, Maier also celebrated like he was the one who'd hit the ball, rather than the one who'd gotten in the way of it.

After Volpe's 'home run,' the outfielder underneath it, Mesa, looked bemused. After Jeter's home run, no ironic quotes required, the outfielder, Tony Tarasco, was apoplectic. Tarasco was absolutely certain it was interference. But there was no video review in '96, and so no recourse.

The Yankees won the World Series that year. They started winning a ton of them then. One of those championships is like another. The main thing that differentiates that run from the others is Jeffrey Maier, celebrity twerp, terror of the seventh grade.

In 2012, the Baltimore Sun did a story about Maier. Its lede: "The most despised child in the history of Baltimore sports is all grown up." That piece is a sort of closing of the books on The Jeffrey Maier Incident (which is what Wikipedia calls it).

In the Sun article, Maier comes off as a very likeable and self-aware guy. In order for any sports story to qualify as a legend, the circle must eventually be closed. The conciliatory piece in Baltimore's main organ did that.

Another must – a valuable lesson was learned. Maier's completed cycle reminds us that sports aren't real life. They don't actually matter. Being angry about them is part of enjoying them. Always remember that. Jeffrey does.

What will be learned from The John Doe Incident? Nothing. Once the shnook who caught the ball has his life run through by the tabloid press, people will forget it happened. Because it didn't happen. Replay killed it.

What a terrible waste of a scandal. Lots of scandals to choose from these days, but most of them are clinically depressing. We can't afford to waste the fun ones.

Were I made arbiter of sports, the first thing I'd do is less arbitrating. Leave the technology out of it. Let the human official in place decide.

Let her do it based on one look, in real time, as she's moving in one direction and the play is moving away from her, through a thicket of bodies. In other words, let her guess. The average professional sports official is probably good for a 60, 70 per cent success rate at guessing, which is about right.

Then let's argue about it for the next 10 or 20 years. The downside to this is that the Yankees may occasionally win. But in sports, as in all things, sacrifices must be made for the common good.

MLB: Proposal includes four day-night doubleheaders between division rivals

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"And allowing the top seeds to select their opponents in the first two rounds would create compelling storylines, intensify existing rivalries and create new ones."

As part of the proposal, each team would be scheduled for four day-night doubleheaders, one against each division rival.

Minor league schedules have included days off on Mondays since 2021.

Big league clubs would be scheduled for Monday games on national holidays, when many typically draw large crowds. Teams that play Mondays would be scheduled to have Thursday off.

MLB said player salaries would not be adjusted to reflect fewer games and bonus provision thresholds – like those that pay players for games played – would be adjusted to reflect the shortened schedule.

The National and American Leagues adopted 154-game schedules in 1904 that had every team in each eight-team circuit playing all opponents 22 times.

The AL switched to a 162-game schedule when it expanded to 10 teams for 1961 and the National League followed suit the next year.

The LCS started in 1969 and were best-of-five through 1984, then expanded to best-of-seven.

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JOSEPH AGOSTINO

Joseph Agostino passed away on October 7, 2026, surrounded by his wife and children.

Joe was born on June 24, 1948 in San Giorgio Morgeto, Calabria, Italy. He came to Canada when he was 3 months old, and although Toronto was his home for most of his 78 years, Italy was always special.

After graduating from the University of Western Ontario Law School, he built a distinguished and successful career first in private practice and then as Chief Counsel for Hydro One. But Joe's greatest accomplishment was not his law career; it was his family.

Joe met his wife, Phyllis through his love of ballroom dancing and she became his lifelong partner for over 45 years. Together they welcomed three children, Juliana (Saul) Christina (Charles) and Anthony (Kassandra). Joe was also a loving brother to Angela Devlin (Ed) and son-in-law to Tony and Maria D'Agostino and brother-in-law to Frank D'Agostino.

Joe was so very proud of his children, but it was his granddaughter Chloe who captured and melted his heart these last three years. She was his pride and joy and will forever be his legacy. He was fortunate enough to spend several weeks with her in Tuscany last year. Those days provided him with the time he so longed to have with his adored grandchild.

Joe was an avid reader and a lover of opera, particularly the many pieces written by Puccini. He took pleasure in both. Joe was also very particular about his lawn, taking great pains to make sure it was perfectly cut and trimmed. He was so meticulous that even the neighbours would comment.

Joe deeply valued family, cherished traditions, and celebrated life. The home he shared with Phyllis became a gathering place where family and friends came together around the table for great food, good wine, and plenty of laughter. In summer, everyone looked forward to warm evenings on Joe's patio enjoying one of his famous Aperol Spritzes.

Joe will always be remembered for his compassion, his practicality, his appreciation for life, his love for family, and his strong belief in justice. He will be truly missed by so many.

The family will receive friends at the Turner & Porter Yorke Chapel, 2357 Bloor Street West, Toronto on Saturday, October 10, 2026 for one-hour prior to a Funeral Service in the Chapel at 11 a.m.

A Private Funeral will take place afterwards.

As an expression of sympathy, memorial donations may be made to a charity of your choice. Online condolences may be made at turnerandporter.ca

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MARY LOIS HARRIS (née May) July 26, 1922 September 30, 2026

With immense love and profound gratitude for her long and extraordinary life, we announce the passing of Mary Lois Harris, of Toronto, on September 30, 2026, in her 105th year.

Mary was predeceased by her husband, Robert John "Jack" Harris (1997); her son, William Harris (1980); her sister, Margaret Ruddick (2019); brother, William (2013); and brother, David (1943).

Surviving Mary are her daughter, Helen (Jody); son, David; daughter-in-law, Penny Caldwell; granddaughters, Carly Pesek (Phillip) and Emma Harris (Matthew Breton-Honeyman); great-grandchildren, Abigail and Logan Pesek, and Beau and Calla Honeyman; as well as many cherished nieces and nephews in the May, Harris, Ruddick and Crawford families.

Mary was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, the daughter of Helen Mary (Earp) and Arthur William May. She attended Trinity College at University of Toronto and in 1945 graduated from the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal as an RN followed by service in military hospitals in the Montreal area. Mary met Jack at the end of WWII while traveling with her mother by ship across the Atlantic and thus began a beautiful partnership. After their marriage in 1948, she and Jack lived briefly in Wales and then settled in the Beach district of Toronto. Mary's favourite place was the cottage at Pointe au Baril on Georgian Bay.

A member of the Friends of the Library Trinity College, Mary was also a proud volunteer at the Toronto East General Hospital (now Michael Garron) for more than 60 years.

Grateful thanks to Mary's long-time caregivers, Jane, Cecilia, and Josephine, for their love and compassion.

Funeral to be held on Wednesday, October 14th, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Nicholas Birch Cliff Anglican Church, 1512 Kingston Rd., Scarborough.

In lieu of flowers, if you wish, a gift to the Lung Association or St. Nicholas Church would be appreciated.

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ELIZABETH HELBRONNER (née Boysen) February 28, 1931 – October 7, 2026

Elizabeth died peacefully at her Toronto home after a brief illness. She is survived by her beloved daughters, Caroline (Nicholas Brearton), Alison (Bruce McDonald), and Valerie (Gary Salewicz); her six grandchildren, Martin (Chloe), David (Whitney), Jack, Zoë, Amelia, and Ellen; and her great-grandson, James. She was predeceased by her husband of 68 years, Jacques "Jim" Helbronner; her parents, Charles and Irene Boysen; and her aunt, Leila Stevens.

Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Elizabeth grew up in Washington, D.C. She attended The Madeira School and Vassar College as a young woman. During her junior year abroad at the University of Geneva, she met Jim. Their courtship spanned two continents, and they were married in Washington in late 1954. Arriving at the border together in a green Chevy convertible in December of that year, Elizabeth and Jim set out on a long and fulfilling life in Canada. Their marriage began with supporting each other's careers and building a network of lifelong friends in Montreal and later in Toronto, where they raised three daughters. Elizabeth loved being the "mother bear" and nurtured her children with love, genuine interest and gentle guidance. They shared memorable family time at Caledon Ski Club and epic summer driving trips to the beach in Maryland with Elizabeth's mother and aunt.

She and Jim taught their daughters to be independent, ambitious and thoughtful, and she gracefully modelled those qualities while balancing her responsibilities as a wife and mother with a highly accomplished, long career as a real estate agent. Working with others brought Elizabeth great joy, and her business savvy, market instincts, and social skills made her a formidable ally for any client fortunate enough to engage her. While every deal was important, Elizabeth derived her greatest professional satisfaction when assisting family members with a real estate endeavour.

Elizabeth was a true lady, elegant, refined and exquisitely attired. She was also composed and confident, calmly advocating for herself from early in her career, when professional women often faced bias and injustice, and throughout the years that followed. She had many artistic interests, enjoying ballet, opera, and theatre. She adored bridge and was a skilled player. An avid reader, she could often be found relaxing with a new book in her garden.

As her family grew, Elizabeth generously extended her attention and regard to each newcomer. Her light shone on everyone, and her interest in her family members' daily lives never wavered. She delighted in her grandchildren's major milestones and lent a sympathetic and supportive ear during any tribulations. Her depth of experience, intelligence, and an evolving contemporary perspective created a wisdom that was widely sought and highly valued by young and old.

From her earliest days in Toronto, Elizabeth was intentional about establishing local roots. She valued traditions that brought people together, and her home was always warm and welcoming. She presided over family dinners, holiday gatherings, backyard parties, and neighbourhood mixers with thoughtfulness and care, recognizing that meaningful communication and connection were the drivers of unity, kinship and community.

Elizabeth and Jim were proud Canadians to their core, but they never lost their curiosity and appreciation for the wonders of different languages, cultures and histories. They lived abroad in Brussels during the latter stages of Jim's career and then travelled extensively in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America in their 70s and 80s. They modelled an admirable sense of adventure that remains instilled in their daughters and grandchildren.

After Jim's passing in 2023, Elizabeth settled in at The Dunfield, once again demonstrating a pragmatic and courageous approach to change and new circumstances that was a personal hallmark. She enthusiastically participated in events and activities at her new home, rekindling friendships and making many new ones.

Elizabeth will be remembered as a determined and remarkably self-sufficient woman, a loyal and interesting friend, and a kind, engaging and proud matriarch. She always made others feel appreciated and understood, and she will be deeply missed by all who knew her.

Elizabeth received attentive and thoughtful medical and home care, and the family is grateful to her longtime family physicians, Dr. Martin Schwartz and Dr. Jacqueline Schwartz; the staff at Home Instead; The Dunfield; and the doctors and nurses from Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care.

A visitation for family and friends will be held on Tuesday, October 13th, from 4:00 - 7:00 p.m. at The Dunfield Retirement Residence, 77 Dunfield Avenue, Toronto. In lieu of flowers, the family would be grateful for any donations in Elizabeth's memory to The Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care.

SHEILA LAHIFFE October 31, 1945 – October 2, 2026

With sad hearts, we share the news that Sheila passed away peacefully, at her home in North Vancouver after a brief illness, surrounded by her family, on October 2, 2026, at the age of 80.

Sheila was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, auntie, sister, advocate and friend. She overcame poverty, dyslexia and the cultural constraints of her time to become a schoolteacher, an innovative businesswoman, a master gardener, and a builder of community wherever she went.

Sheila was born in Dublin, Ireland, to Patrick and Josephine Stuart. Her father's work as a Bank of Ireland manager took the family through a succession of villages in the West of Ireland. Her earliest years were spent in the family hometown of Belmullet, Co. Mayo, before a move to Ballygar, Co. Galway, where she formed many of her most treasured childhood memories. From the age of nine, she boarded at school in Dundalk, Co. Louth, during which time the family moved on to Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare. She went on to earn a science degree and a Diploma in Education from University College Dublin. While at UCD, she met Brian, the love of her life.

Sheila and Brian married in Dublin in 1968, and three children soon followed. In 1973, the young family set off for North America. They spent a year in remote northern Canada, then 2.5 years in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where Sheila raised three small children and kept the home fires burning while Brian completed his Master's in Periodontics. They then made their home in Vancouver. For almost 30 years Sheila managed Brian's thriving periodontics practice, where her hard work and astute judgement deserve much of the credit for its clinical excellence and the high regard in which it was held.

After retiring, Sheila threw herself into community life. She volunteered with the Vancouver Probus Club and with the Friends of the Garden (FOGs) at the UBC Botanical Garden, where she capably organized their much-loved annual apple sale, an important fundraiser for the garden. She was a keen bridge player and a wonderful cook, and she liked nothing better than to host fun gatherings of family and friends. Above all, she was a loving, creative and endlessly fun grandmother to Liam and Evan.

Sheila is survived by her children, Maria, Brian (Erin) and Geraldine (WillyBen); her grandchildren, Liam and Evan; and her siblings, James (Lesley), Tim and Mary (Colin). She was predeceased by her beloved husband, Brian; and her sister, Patricia.

She will be deeply missed and lovingly remembered.

A memorial and celebration of life will be held on Thursday, October 15th, at 1:00 p.m. at the University Centre, 6331 Crescent Rd., Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1. In lieu of flowers, donations in Sheila's memory may be made to Parkinson Canada.

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In 1955, Stephen Jarislowsky co-founded Jarislowsky Fraser, which began selling subscriptions to its statistical reviews. The fledgling outfit turned into a powerhouse of world investing, overseeing roughly \$60-billion in 2007. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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INVESTMENT GURU WAS A CRUSADER FOR ETHICAL BUSINESS PRACTICES

While building one of Canada's most powerful institutional money management firms, he fought for shareholder rights and became an outspoken critic of inept corporate leadership

JASON KIRBY

As a young counter-intelligence officer with the United States Army stationed in postwar Japan, Stephen Jarislowsky honed his investigative skills hunting black marketeers and rooting out Nazis from among the Germans living in the country.

The posting also gave him his first exposure to the concept of governance. One day, his unit picked up rumours that the wife of U.S. General Douglas MacArthur was attempting to influence the outcome of postwar reconstruction contracts. Chasing down that lead resulted in Mr. Jarislowsky's unit being temporarily suspended.

Years later, according to his 2005 book, The Investment Zoo, Mr. Jarislowsky would draw heavily on those early experiences as he built a small securities research firm into one of Canada's most powerful institutional money managers.

In the process, the former chairman of Jarislowsky Fraser Ltd. emerged as a crusader for shareholder rights and a sharp-tongued critic of underperforming or inept corporate executives and the board of directors who blindly supported them.

An investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Mr. Jarislowsky died on Thursday in Montreal at the age of 101, according to his family.

At its peak, Jarislowsky Fraser was a powerhouse in the world of institutional investing. In 2007, the firm oversaw roughly \$60-billion in assets for pension funds, foundations, corporations and high-net-worth individuals from its Montreal head office.

During the prior four decades, Mr. Ja- rislowsky had repeatedly deployed his growing clout to cross swords with a who's who of Canadian corporate titans, including the Billes family behind Canadian Tire, Montreal's powerful Bronfman clan, the former media mogul Conrad Black and auto parts magnate Frank Stronach.

Though the circumstances were different in each case, he took up the fight against transactions and deals he saw as manipulative and abusive toward minority shareholders, doggedly battling his opponents with biting language that earned him a reputation for being quick to temper – and made him a favourite source for multiple generations of business journalists.

When the Billes family in 1986 attempted to sell its voting-class shares to Canadian Tire dealers in a transaction that disadvantaged investors with non-voting shares, he publicly derided the deal as “crap” and “grossly abusive” while successfully convincing regulators and courts to block it. Likewise, he clashed repeatedly with Mr. Black over the latter’s management fees at Southam Inc. and later his attempt to take Hollinger Inc. private, describing his former friend as a “bully” and demanding regulators take action.

Mr. Jarislowsky also frequently used his pulpit to lambaste other targets: boards of directors for being “puppets of management”; lax regulators for allowing white-collar crime in Canada to become “a pretty good bet – almost as good as the house in Las Vegas”; and successive governments that “placed self-perpetuation through massive vote buying policies ahead of long-term economic progress.”

Mr. Jarislowsky was born in Berlin on Sept. 9, 1925, to accomplished parents, both Jews. His father was an industrialist and a merchant banker, his mother, a lawyer. When Mr. Jarislowsky was 4, his father died from scarlet fever, and he and his siblings were sent to live near relatives in Amsterdam.

It was the first of several challenges the family would endure. When the Nazis rose to power, the businesses his father had built were seized (then later nationalized by East Germany's Communist government in 1947). The family moved to Paris, where Mr. Jarislowsky studied and became fluent in French and English. But when his stepfather's work helping refugees escape German-occupied France for the U.S. was uncovered by the Gestapo, the family too had to flee, again, arriving in New York in 1941.

After he graduated from Cornell University with a mechanical engineering degree, Mr. Jarislowsky was drafted into the U.S. Army, becoming a U.S. citizen in the process. Upon his return to America from his posting in Asia, he delved back into education, completing a degree in Far Eastern studies at the University of Chicago before enrolling in the Harvard Business School where he got his first taste of investing.

Harvard led to a stint at Alcan Aluminum Ltd. and to Montreal, the city where he would eventually settle permanently with his first wife, with whom he had two sons.

As a hobby in 1955 he developed an “experimental” statistical service, crunching balance sheets, income statements and valuation ratios on roughly 200 Canadian companies. After teaming up with Scott Fraser, a junior broker at the time, Jarislowsky Fraser was born, selling subscriptions to its statistical review before branching into field research through interviews with company executives. Soon, firms in Chicago, New York and London were turning to the fledgling outfit for investment counselling services. (Mr. Fraser left the firm roughly 20 years later.)

By the 1970s and 80s, Mr. Jarislowsky was regularly at the centre of corporate battles as foreign companies sought to take their publicly traded Canadian subsidiaries private, often at opportunistic valuations. It was shareholder activism before most people had ever heard the term.

The success Mr. Jarislowsky was having for his investor clients translated into a windfall for himself that eventually grew into one of Canada's largest personal fortunes. Though he made regular appearances on various rich lists – Forbes last estimated his net worth at US\$3.9-billion – he lived a relatively modest life with his second wife Gail, who he married in 1968. (The couple had two more children, daughters. One of Mr. Jarislowsky's sons from his first marriage died in 2014 after an illness.)

Mr. Jarislowsky didn't own yachts or luxury vehicles, though he was an avid art collector, particularly works by Canadian artists, French impressionists and Chinese jade. The couple still lived in the same Westmount home they bought in 1972.

That said, he recognized the value of wealth, writing: "Money doesn't mean reckless spending, but it does mean freedom."

Similar to his investment strategy, he applied a studied approach to his philanthropic giving. In 1993, he established the Jarislowsky Foundation, which oversees assets worth more than \$386-million and donated millions annually to hospitals, universities, nature trusts, cultural institutions and organizations that promote democracy and foster political leadership training. "Charity should be effective, should achieve measurable goals, should be implemented by people with integrity, should be fully researched so you know that your gifts will not end up in the wrong pockets," he wrote. "You should not give sentimentally, but insist on regular reviews of stewardship, throughout the process."

Mr. Jarislowky's other legacy is a heightened awareness in Canada about the importance of corporate governance. Whereas in the 1980s he guided an informal network of institutional money managers who together accounted for roughly 60 per cent of stock market trades and used that clout to influence recalcitrant boards of directors, he formalized that approach amid accounting scandals in the early 2000s at the likes of Worldcom, Enron and Nortel.

In 2002 he co-founded the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance, made up of powerful institutional investors to press for improved board oversight of public companies, and in 2005 he helped establish the Institute for Governance of Private and Public Organizations, a think tank to research and recommend ways to improve governance.

In 2008 Mr. Jarislowsky was named a companion of the Order of Canada, with the official citation highlighting his advocacy for shareholder rights; he has also received honorary degrees from 20 Canadian universities.

But Mr. Jarislowsky and his firm faced stumbles, too. In the late 1990s, as dot-com mania gripped investors' psyche and quaint concepts such as value and fundamentals fell out of favour, he faced a drumbeat of complaints from clients unhappy with the lagging returns generated by the Old Economy stocks he kept their money in. His response: "Then take your money and gamble with it if you want," he told this reporter, while explaining his deep skepticism for tech stocks. "Technology is just about new ways to communicate, nothing else. People still eat. They still drive cars. They still fornicate. What's new?"

His stubbornness was eventually rewarded. By 2001 the narrative turned after the Internet stock frenzy collapsed in spectacular fashion and investors chased the safety of dividend-paying stocks and disciplined portfolio management.

However, other headwinds were building. The emergence of lower cost passive investment products and increased competition from Canada's big banks and hedge funds for institutional clients put pressure on the company, which saw its assets under management fall 40 per cent between 2007 and 2012 to \$37-billion.

At the same time as money was leaving the firm, so too were staff and high-level executives who departed to launch their own money management firms.

The upheaval prompted a leadership shakeup. For more than two decades, questions swirled about Mr. Jarislowsky's eventual retirement – one 1995 feature in The Globe and Mail on the then-69-year-old began, "As he slips quietly into retirement ..." – but this time he stepped back as chief executive officer for real, allowing a management committee to take over.

Even so, when Mr. Jarislowsky struck a deal in 2018 to sell the investment management company to Bank of Nova Scotia for \$950-million, he was still handling accounts for 200 personal clients at the age of 92.

Despite having been born to Jewish parents and educated by Calvinists, Jesuits and Episcopalians, Mr. Jarislowsky wrote that he eschewed traditional religious doctrine and considered himself "basically agnostic."

"I can't see myself sitting silently and quietly on top of a cloud for the next million years. That would be awfully dull. Those ideas are the inventions of humans," he wrote. "But that doesn't mean that ethics and behaving responsibly don't have a place in the universe. To me, the ethics of Aristotle is religion."

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Angst is permeating the Toronto-area real estate market this fall as buyers and sellers hit pause in September.

Sellers are reluctant to list if they won't fetch the price they are hoping for, says Pritesh Parekh, real estate agent with Century 21 Legacy. Buyers are hesitant to sign a deal if prices have farther to fall.

Mr. Parekh says escalating trade tensions with the United States, renewed conflict in the Middle East and the U.S. Federal Reserve's interest rate hike are some of the factors unsettling consumers again.

"The conversation has changed from affordability to urgency," says Mr. Parekh. "Is this urgent or not?"

Sales in the Greater Toronto Area dropped 9 per cent in September from the same month last year, while new listings fell 14.4 per cent in the same period.

The average price declined 5.1 per cent last month from September, 2025 to stand at \$1,006,409.

Sales last month decreased 5.2 per cent on a seasonally adjusted basis from the tepid pace in August.

Compared with the same month last year, home sales in the Greater Toronto Area were down 9 per cent in September, while new listings were down 14.4 per cent. The average price over that same period has declined 5.1 per cent. FRED LUM/THE GLOBE AND MAIL

While rare properties sold with multiple offers, many sellers failed to land a deal on nights reserved for viewing offers.

Mr. Parekh recently worked with one set of buyers who were in no rush to move, but they were willing to pounce if they found a larger house at a tempting price.

A renovated three-bedroom house near Christie Street and St. Clair Avenue West was listed with an asking price above the \$1.9-million mark early this year, then reduced to \$1.8-million.

The semi-detached house at 150 Rushton Rd. was then relisted with an asking price of \$1.65-million and an offer deadline.

The house was clearly a cut above the properties the couple had been looking at in that price range, says Mr. Parekh, and the clients were keen on the location in the area near Wychwood Park.

Still, the couple was reluctant to pay a large amount above asking and they didn't want to waste time with a lowball offer.

Mr. Parekh recommended that the couple submit a bid at the price they were willing to pay without worrying about the competition. ■ IRELAND, H2

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Multimillion-dollar scandal led to a pair of realtors facing sanctions and suspensions

SHANE DINGMAN REAL ESTATE REPORTER

A disciplinary decision related to a multimillion-dollar real-estate scandal in Saskatchewan has kicked off a war of words between the provincial regulator and the professional realtor association.

Saskatchewan Realtors Association (SRA) chief executive Chris Guérette is calling for an inquiry and overhaul of the Saskatchewan Real Estate Commission over what she called "wholly inadequate" sanctions and suspensions for two local realtors who breached provincial and commission rules.

The two men, Paul Chavady and Jerry Hallgrimson, are business partners who performed key roles for Epic Alliance Inc., a real-estate investing and property-management company that collapsed in 2022, after it was found to have broken securities trading rules in raising \$211-million from investors across Canada.

"Real estate is built on trust," Ms. Guérette said in an e-mail to her association's members on Oct. 1, criticizing the penalties faced by Mr. Chavady and Mr. Hallgrimson. "That trust depends on consumers knowing that the people participating in our profession are held to meaningful standards of ethics, accountability and transparency, and that there are meaningful consequences when those standards are breached."

According to consent agreements released on Oct. 1, the real-estate regulator found that on 67 occasions, Mr. Chavady and Mr. Hallgrimson violated its own bylaws and the provincial Real Estate Act by failing to represent the interests of buyers when they were acting in dual agency for both buyer and seller. Consent agreements are typically a substitute for formal hearings and judgments, and are negotiated with participation from those facing the allegations.

The consent agreements detailed dozens more violations related to failing to remove conditions on sales contracts, and in one case, failing to disclose the presence of asbestos in a home they sold in dual agency.

The two realtors are each required to pay \$100,000 in cumulative fines to the commission and serve a six-month suspension. Mr. Hallgrimson's suspension begins immediately, but Ms. Guérette noted Mr. Chavady's suspension does not begin until six months later in March. She said this allows at least one of the two business partners to continue practising real estate while the other is suspended.

“What the SRA states to be a ‘wholly inadequate response’ are the most punitive sanctions on record in Saskatchewan,” the regulator’s executive director and registrar Aaron Tetu said in a statement on Oct. 2, responding to Ms. Guérette's concerns. "The evidence demonstrated that Mr. Chavady and Mr. Hallgrimson's conduct constituted a complete lack of basic professional duties and representation but fell short of demonstrating criminality."

In an e-mail to The Globe and Mail, Mr. Tetu said that Saskatchewan's legislation requires proof of criminality to permanently revoke the licence of a realtor. He said the six-month, staggered suspensions fell "within the range of reasonableness for the hearing panel." He suggested the negotiated agreement was a better outcome than a hearing, given the large amount of evidence in the case that could have taken more time to sort through "and may have yielded a less predictable result."

Before its collapse, Epic Alliance bought and sold more than 700 homes in Saskatoon and North Battleford, Sask., with funds borrowed from investors. No one has been charged criminally. However, the two founders, Rochelle Laflamme and Alisa Thompson, agreed to a settlement in 2024 with the province's Financial and Consumer Affairs Authority to pay \$300,000 in fines and accept a 20-year ban on trading or working in securities.

Mr. Chavady and Mr. Hallgrimson were key players in the Funda-Flip and Hassle-Free Landlord programs offered to investors by Epic Alliance. According to a report from bankruptcy trustee Ernst & Young Inc., investors gave Epic Alliance \$170-million to buy rental properties in Saskatoon and North Battleford be tween 2014 and 2021. That investment was mainly in the form of mortgages that were “in excess of the properties’ purchase price in order to provide funding to renovate the properties.” The company collected more than \$14-million in excess mortgage money.

Of the 700 homes, about 280 Fund-a-Flip properties were sold to other Epic Alliance investors for \$72.6-million, typically with a conventional mortgage and 20-per-cent down payment from the buyers, who were represented by the same agent as the sellers. The 67 dual-agency sales referred to in the regulator's disciplinary order were from this total.

According to EY, most of those properties sold as Hassle-Free landlord properties had received minimal renovations. In one case, it could find only \$824 worth of renovation costs spent on a home purchased for \$198,000 that was appraised for \$265,000 one year later, even though “interior pictures of the kitchen and bathrooms showed outdated appliances, countertops and cupboards which were not indicative of a renovation occurring.”

The same day that home was listed, it was sold to an Epic investor for \$260,000 - a \$62,000 gain after \$824 in renovations. The listing agents received \$1,700 for the sale.

"This was a big deal, and I'm still waiting for someone to do something about it ... to make sure it doesn't happen again," said lawyer Mike Russell, who represented 120 Epic Alliance investors through the court-ordered insolvency of the compa

Real estate company Epic Alliance collapsed in 2022 after it was found to have broken securities trading rules when it raised \$211-million from investors. JONATHAN HAYWARD/ THE CANADIAN PRESS ny. The investors collectively lost about \$10-million, Mr. Russell said. He said the company had almost no money left to recover for his clients.

Ms. Guérette expressed frustration that the regulator's consent agreements did not name Epic Alliance as the party that the two men dealt with, referring to the company only as "Invest-Co."

"The decision doesn't say Epic Alliance, but it's common knowledge in Saskatchewan. It is a failure of that consent order that it's not very clear," she said in an interview.

Mr. Chavady confirmed that the regulator had agreed to leave out the company's name in the consent agreements. Speaking on behalf of himself and Mr. Hallgrimson, he said it was unfair to tie them to Epic Alliance, and disputed that the penalties were light. "It's been quite a nightmare for us. Frankly, when weighed against what's been published and what's there, I would say it's borderline heavy-handed," he said in an interview.

Ms. Guérette said her association has moved quickly to close a loophole in its own rules that would have allowed either of the realtors to access its services and tools as “administrative assistant and business partner accounts (non-members)” while a suspension was pending.

Ms. Guérette said the real-estate commission needs an overhaul so it can act more quickly and effectively on disciplinary matters. "You cannot have a weak structure and culture at the top and expect to have a strong corporation," she said.

Ireland: Uncertain economic environment has lead to cautious behaviour

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No rival bidders came to the table, says Mr. Parekh, whose clients secured the house for \$1.675-million, or \$25,000 above asking.

He figures the listing might have appeared stale to some buyers because the property had languished at higher prices.

The deadline for submitting bids likely discouraged house hunters who figured the homeowners were expecting a large premium to the asking price.

"All of these factors lined up to us being the only ones who put in an offer."

He notes that the original asking price was not a glaring misjudgment because a comparable home in the area had recently sold above \$1.9-million.

"This is a common story in 2026," he says of the vicissitudes of the market.

Mortgage broker Leah Zlatkin, an expert for LowestRates.ca, says buyers are tussling with tough decisions at the moment. She receives many calls from clients who have their financing lined up but wonder if home prices in Ontario have reached bottom after a lengthy down-

turn.

"I do have people who are preapproved and have been preapproved for two years. They call me every single week and say, 'do you think we're at the bottom yet?"

Ms. Zlatkin points out that recoveries in real estate are rarely V-shaped and the market can remain flat for some time before a renewed upswing.

Values have decreased by more than 25 per cent from the heights of 2022 for many properties in the GTA. That dynamic often provides an opportunity for existing homeowners to move up because a larger buyer pool typically supports the value of entry-level homes more than those in higher price brackets.

In today's uncertain environment, many people who have the option to trade are cautious about taking the leap, she says.

Meanwhile, Ms. Zlatkin points out, fixed term mortgages have been getting more expensive in recent weeks, and she expects that trend to continue based on rising yields for long-term bonds, which in turn influence the rates that lenders set.

Mortgage rates for loans with fixed terms of three or five years

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I do have people who are preapproved and have been preapproved for two years. They call me every single week and say, 'do you think we're at the bottom yet?'

LEAH ZLATKIN MORTGAGE BROKER AT LOWESTRATES.CA have recently been hovering around 4.24 per cent at the low end, says Ms. Zlatkin, but mainstream lenders have been offering rates closer to five per cent.

Ms. Zlatkin says some buyers are holding off because they figure they may get a lower home price or mortgage rate in the future, but that's an unpredictable outcome.

Buyers who are in a stable financial position are likely better off jumping in when they find the right house, in her opinion.

"The lowest price possible and lowest mortgage rate might not line up."

Homes have been sitting on the market for longer stretches in many areas and price brackets, and many sellers with properties listed at the moment need to sell.

People with a down payment saved up have a chance to buy at a lower price, she points out.

"They have a huge opportunity to negotiate," she says, adding that motivated sellers might be willing to take less than they were hoping for just to get a property sold.

Mr. Parekh says the uneven results are making many potential sellers wary.

Homeowners who have bought in recent years are asking if they can sell for more than they paid, Mr. Parekh says.

Those who have had time to build up equity question whether trading up to a new property is worthwhile.

"They can trade up - but should they? There are a lot of doubts."

The uncertainty arises from "what ifs" in the macroeconomic outlook, says Mr. Parekh, as people ponder what would happen if they lose their job or interest rates rise or real-estate prices continue to decline.

Long-time owners, meanwhile, are still holding out for a turnaround after prices entered a slump in the first quarter of 2022.

Last year at this time many people delayed listing as they gambled that the market would improve. But the pace of new listings has slowed even more because many homeowners figure they won't fetch the price they want, Mr. Parekh says.

Mr. Parekh is hearing from some clients who are prepared to move but they have put off listing until early 2027.

"Now it's even slower, and there is even more uncertainty, so I think people are waiting."

An architectural legacy on offer

A small scrap of land in an unusual shape leads to a creative design that stands the test of time

DAVE LeBLANC

ARCHITOURIST

In the heart of the Gay Village at Church Street and Wellesley Street East is Barbara Hall Park. Inside the park is the moving, thoughtful and lovingly curated Toronto AIDS Memorial. And, like a Matryoshka nesting doll, within the memorial there is a stone with a plaque dedicated to Dr. Edward Kamski (1947-2006) who was “an early medical leader in the fight against HIV/AIDS.”

Dr. Kamski left behind an architectural legacy as well ... where there was once only a rose bush.

In the early 1990s, architect Paul Reuber, who had done two renovations for the good doctor, was shown what must have been the smallest scrap of land in Toronto. Standing at the northeast corner of Seaton Street and Shut-er Street, Dr. Kamski pointed to a triangular fragment beside No. 63 Seaton no wider than the sidewalk.

"He asked, 'Can we build something here?' " remembers Mr. Reuber. "I responded, 'Only if you let me cut down the rose bush!' Honestly, there hardly looked like there was enough room to plant a second one."

But, as is often said, a great architect is one that transforms challenge into creativity: Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, or Albert Frey's Frey House II (Palm Springs, Calif.) come to mind. And, says Mr. Reuber, the design flowed from fingertips to drafting board "quickly." But when Dr. Kamski turned his attention to another property, things were put on hold for "several years." When work did begin, a vanishing contractor meant the foundations were wrapped up "for a few more years."

By the time “Triangle House” was done, it was a new millennium, and while Mr. Reuber would attend a few of Dr. Kamski’s parties there, by 2003 the house had been sold.

The 'Triangle House' at 63 Seaton St. in Toronto was designed by architect Paul Reuber. The design included small windows that allow in light and a breeze but still maintain privacy. PHOTOS BY PAUL REUBER

That owner, Catherine Osborne, was once editor-in-chief of the architecture and design magazine Azure. Inviting this writer to have a look at the place she's called home for 23 years, she wrote: "look for the lime green door!"

Despite the bold colour, it's an easy door to miss, since, depending on how one approaches No. 61 Seaton, the house itself can look like an addition, or due to the change in grade one can miss the lime green door completely as it sits much lower than the red door of No. 63.

Yet, like Russian nesting dolls in reverse, what starts out very, very small turns into big, expressive postmodern architecture.

spacious. The light wood cabinets, typical of 1990s design but rare today. The horizontal window over the sink, the two tiny, operable windows that take advantage of the Shuter facade's 'carve-in.' These, say Mr. Reuber, capture "select street views."

Despite a facade not much wider than a door, step inside and one immediately senses an unravelling as the space opens up, visually. That's due to the view up the stair into the hallway that leads to the kitchen, the view down to the entrance to the separate basement apartment, and, most importantly, the view directly overhead to the second-and third-floor balconies. And the fact that one is in a space filled with photons raining down from massive windows assisted by tiny, square, 'surprise' windows.

Walk inside and the surprises multiply. The kitchen, so compact and ship-like yet somehow

"But privacy was also important," he continues. "So sometimes windows are small, sometimes they frame views, other times they are just below the ceiling to accommodate [Dr. Kamski's] extensive art collection."

“And when that door is open at the back and this,” adds Ms. Osborne as she cranks one of the tiny windows open, “you just get this nice breeze through; you can hear what’s going on in the street but they can’t see you.”

Walk into the living room, and the eye finds it difficult to choose between Mr. Reuber's oculus window or the towering bookshelf Ms. Osborne had designed and built by Lebel & Bouliane. Which, in this writer's opinion, fits right in with the PoMo aesthetic.

"I met Luc [Bouliane] at a party; he was just leaving Teeple Architects and starting his own studio," remembers Ms. Osborne. "And I said, 'Well, I've got this project.'"

There's a little window-seat, too, that wasn't there when Mr. Reuber handed the keys to Dr. Kamski, but many a four-legged friend has appreciated in the years since built.

Speaking of which, Ms. Osborne hasn't changed little in here: the light parquet floors were stained darker; the foyer and kitchen flooring has been changed; a few Reuber-chosen colours have been painted white (thankfully some remain, including the triangle panels that interrupt staircase pickets); and there is a half-wall in the upstairs guest room. But Mr. Reuber's exuberant, tiled bathrooms remain, his odd-yet wonderful-celebration of bulkheads is here, and those tiny windows have not been enlarged.

"It's kind of a house of details," says Ms. Osborne. "Every room has something that I really love; right now, we're sitting in the living room and those two windows are my viewpoint. When I'm in my office looking out the moon window, I love that because there's a tree right there. ... Every piece has been taken into consid-

eration."

Dr. Kamski says Mr. Reuber should be "given credit for his bravery, persistence, complete faith in my abilities and [for] giving me carte blanche."

And speaking of a clean slate, the next owner of this house should not erase anything. They should, in fact, take this post-modern time capsule and lean into it, hard. Relighten the floors; restore Mr. Reuber's full colour scheme; restore the exterior metal sculpture/canopy near the front door to full neon green; and, if their budget permits, purchase some playful Memphis Group furniture.

The house is listed by Iwona Rychalska and Cara Carney, the CR Team, with Royal LePage

The interior has several bold colour choices, such as the triangle panels on the staircase and the exuberant bathroom tiles.

Anthony Smith, left, and Maddie Timlin stand outside of their Toronto home. The couple had been living in a condo but when they decided to have children they started looking for a house that had more space for a growing family. PHOTOS BY LAURA PROCTOR/THE GLOBE AND MAIL

Couple upgrades from a condo to a house

The couple chose this three-plus-one-bedroom, two-bathroom semi-detached home in Toronto's Seaton Village, settling on a final price of \$1,385,000.

This four-plus-one-bedroom semi in Brockton Village was spacious, but the couple was worried about getting into a bidding war for it.

This three-bedroom semi near Trinity Bellwoods Park had been subdivided, meaning it needed major renovations.

The transition from high-rise living into a family home is helped with the right realtor

ANDREA YU

Maddie Timlin, a quality improvement manager, began dating Anthony Smith, a senior project manager, in 2023. At the time, they were both living in condos that they owned: Ms. Timlin in a one-bedroom unit in Toronto's CityPlace neighbourhood and Mr. Smith in a one-bed-plus-den west of her in Fort York. A year later, in August, 2024, Mr. Smith, 39, moved in with Ms. Timlin, 35, and rented out his unit for \$2,700 a month.

Two months after moving in together, the couple were engaged. But they prioritized having a child before getting married. "We wanted to put the family planning first," Ms. Timlin explains. "We're a little bit older."

They knew their current living situation wouldn't work once they added a kid to the mix, so once the couple found out they were pregnant in March, 2026, they started thinking about buying a house together.

They connected with realtor Catherine Young from Right at Home Realty to guide their search. Ms. Young says that the majority of her clients are, like Ms. Timlin and Mr. Smith, couples upgrading into bigger properties to start a family.

"I'm a mom myself, so I've gone through that transition of going from condo life to a house," Ms. Young explains. "I understand what the pain points can be."

She encourages expecting families to look beyond the aesthetics and think practically. "You don't think of things like, 'I'll have to take the stroller up the stairs,' or 'Where am I going to leave all the little shoes and boots when they get dirty,' says Ms. Young.

Both Ms. Timlin and Mr. Smith planned to keep their condos and rent them out. That left them with a budget of around \$1.5-million.

The couple were open to a fixer-upper, since Mr. Smith enjoys doing renovations and handiwork (he fully renovated Ms. Timlin's condo before he moved in), and they wanted to stay central in Toronto. "Walkability and access to transit were big factors for us," Mr. Smith explains.

The couple were looking for at least three bedrooms and two bathrooms. A finished basement that could serve as a guest suite would also be ideal since Ms. Timlin's mom, who lives in Ottawa, planned to stay with them after the birth to help with the baby. A garage was also a bonus for Mr. Smith's hobby work. "I have a lot of tools and things," he says.

Here were their top three options:

THREE-BEDROOM SUBDIVIDED TOWNHOUSE NEAR TRINITY BELLWOODS PARK

The couple loved the location of this townhouse. It was a few minutes from Trinity Bellwoods Park and the restaurants and bars on Ossington Avenue. The property came with a 1½-car garage with decent space for storage. And the home itself had been recently renovated, but as two separate suites with a total of three bedrooms plus a den and two bathrooms. It would require significant renovations to turn back into a cohesive home. The above-grade bedrooms were small, which meant making the basement bedroom their primary, which they didn't love. The property was listed at \$1,519,900, which they figured was overpriced.

FOUR-PLUS-ONE-BEDROOM SEMI IN BROCKTON VILLAGE

Mr. Smith loved the spaciousness of this semi-detached home near Lansdowne Avenue and College Street. It appeared to have been owned by the same family for decades and had a spacious two-car garage for Mr. Smith's tools and workshop. The bedrooms were a good size, and the basement was renovated with a separate entrance, kitchen and direct outdoor access – ideal for a guest suite. The home was in good condition and was move-in-ready, but its kitchen and flooring were old and outdated (however, the couple saw this as potential to improve the home over time). The home was well-connected by transit and close to Dufferin Grove Park, but it was slightly further from the city centre. The home was listed for \$1,199,000, which Mr. Smith thought was too low. He called it a "honeytrap" to entice multiple bids.

THREE-PLUS-ONE-BEDROOM SEMI IN SEATON VILLAGE

Located on a tree-lined street in Toronto's Seaton Village, the couple happened to cycle past this home on the day it was listed for sale. The three-plus-one-bedroom, two-bathroom semi-detached home had a large front porch, a fireplace, and well-sized bedrooms. The basement was equipped with a bedroom and a full bathroom for visiting guests.

The home was move-in ready, but there were some quirks, like creaky hardwood flooring and a bedroom door that didn't close properly. And it only had a one-car garage, which offered limited space for a workshop, compared to the other homes they considered. The home was priced at \$1,399,000, which they thought was slightly overpriced.

THEIR HOME: THREE-PLUS-ONE-BEDROOM SEMI IN SEATON VILLAGE

While the couple figured the subdivided townhome near Trinity Bellwoods had room in its listing price for negotiation, they worried that renovating it would be costly and wouldn't add to the property value. It ended up selling for \$1,458,000. Mr. Smith and Ms. Timlin did put an offer in on the "honeytrap" home in Brockton Village, bidding \$100,000 over the listing price of \$1,199,000, but the property eventually went to someone who bid more than \$350,000 over asking. That left the three-plus-one semi in Seaton Village, which they loved for its character – the home was built in 1908 – and its backyard, which Mr. Smith likened to a secret garden. They figured the creaky floors and bedroom door would be easy fixes for Mr. Smith to tackle.

They decided to offer \$1,360,000 on the home, eventually settling on a final price of \$1,385,000. "I was surprised," Ms. Timlin says of their offer being accepted. "We had only been actively seeing properties for 2½ weeks, so it was very early. But we felt really excited." The couple moved into their new home at the end of June and have made a few improvements since then: installing some new light fixtures, fixing that bedroom door that didn't close properly, and painting some walls, doors and trim. They also plan on fixing the creaky floors soon with some new, solid hardwood, as well as upgrading their HVAC system.

"I'm really ecoconscious," says Mr. Smith. "We want to put in a heat pump and a high-efficiency furnace and water heater." They're also getting ready for the arrival of their new baby, who is due on Nov. 8. "The baby room is pretty much ready," Ms. Timlin says. While they weren't familiar with Seaton Village before their house hunt, they're happy to discover that it's a family-friendly, community-minded neighbourhood.

Their purchase also came in time for Mr. Smith's father, who had been in the hospital recently, to enjoy a meal at their new home before he sadly passed away 10 days later. "He thought it was a good house," Mr. Smith explains. "It was quite sentimental that he could come and just have a hamburger on the back patio. He was really proud of us to have made this choice for our family."

This house at 816 248 St. in Langley, B.C., sits on a one-acre plot of land surrounded by large equestrian estates. The home was once a schoolhouse built in 1922, which was expanded in the 1970s. The addition is now where the kitchen sits in the 2,724-square-foot home. PHOTOS BY EVOLVE MEDIA COLLECTIVE

New assignments for an old schoolhouse

The exterior of the home had cedar shake siding and the current owners added and outdoor siting area.

Reclaimed buildings in Langley transformed into a family home in an idyllic setting

CAROLYN IRELAND

816 248 St. LANGLEY, B.C.

Asking price: \$2,750,000 Taxes: \$4,904.45 (2026) Lot size: One acre Agents: Carolyn Glazier and Sabrina Glazier, Angell, Hasman & Associates Realty

THE BACKSTORY

Most of the trappings of education had vanished from the former South Otter Elementary School when Alex and Jill Oosthoek first saw the property for sale in 2008.

The Oosthoeks were feeling cramped in their tiny mill worker's cottage in New Westminster, B.C., as their daughters Hailey and Jenna grew.

They had already explored the rural landscape and equestrian farms of South Langley during family outings to the area.

This one-room schoolhouse, built in 1922 to educate the children of the surrounding farming community, was expanded in the 1970s, then shuttered in 1983.

The building languished for a few years before it was converted into a private residence in 1987.

When the Oosthoeks toured the home, some improvements had been made by the owner, who worked on sets for the film industry.

"He had a vision for what he wanted to achieve, but it was all done very haphazardly," says Mr. Ooosthoek.

The interior was rough, but the couple are both creative: Ms. Oosthoek is an artist, and Mr. Oosthoek is a carpenter who works on high-end residential projects. Together they could see the potential, despite some peculiarities.

"There were really bizarre props in the yard. And later we found out that kids had scratched obscenities into the stucco," Mr. Oosthoek says with a laugh.

THE HOUSE TODAY

As the Oosthoek family settled in, they were surprised at the outpouring of goodwill from neighbours and passersby who shared memories of their connection to the community landmark.

"Everyone was expecting that we were going to bulldoze it," says Mr. Ooosthoek.

In the 1970s a reclaimed building of similar shape and size had been joined to the original schoolhouse with a smaller portion bridging the two.

Mr. Oosthoek's first task was to rebuild and harmonize three dif-

ferent rooflines.

Outside, a covered playground for the students had been enclosed by the previous owner, who invited musicians over for jam sessions in the stand-alone structure.

The couple decided to transform the former play area into an in-law suite for Ms. Oosthoek's father.

Some unexpected quirks soon turned up: the former one-room schoolhouse had been converted into three bedrooms, but they still shared the same electrical circuit. When family members turned on the lights in one room, they came on in all of them.

There was no choice but to take the interior back to the studs in order to redo the wiring and the plumbing.

"We were all living like refugees in the main house," recalls Mr. Oosthoek. "There was quite a period of time when the whole family was camped out in the living room, around the wood stove."

Along the way, the couple discovered vestiges of scholastic life: the burlap bags used for potato sack races were stored in the attic and lost tin soldiers were embedded in the soil outside.

In the 1970s, the addition housed the school's offices; today it provides the kitchen, bathrooms, and areas for lounging and dining in the 2,724-square-foot home.

The couple enlisted the next-door neighbour to build the kitchen. Mr. Oosthoek looks back with amusement at the occasional disruptions in farm country.

"Some of his cows would get loose into our yard and we had to chase them around together."

Once the interior became more comfortable, the couple added cedar shake siding and outdoor sitting areas to the exterior.

Ms. Oosthoek created gardens filled with lavender and perennials.

As the couple and their daughters heard more stories about the school, they learned that it was the venue for a pancake breakfast each Christmas.

The family decided to host a Christmas potluck for neighbours, former students and retired teachers.

"The school was a community hub, and it was really nice to do that again," says Ms. Oosthoek. "We have a lot of fond memories of 10- and 12-foot Christmas trees."

The couple has continued to gradually undertake new projects throughout their time there. The in-law suite eventually became a short-term rental, and then an art studio and gym.

"To take on a project like this you have to be really romantic and a little bit naïve," says Mr. Oosthoek. "It's not really a renovation - it's a lifestyle."

THE BEST FEATURE

The one-acre property sits within a zone designated as an Agricultural Land Reserve, which protects the area against urban sprawl.

Large equestrian estates surround the home, and no street lights illuminate the roads.

"It's black, black, black here at night," Mr. Oosthoek says of the peaceful setting, where they sometimes hear owls hooting from inside tall stands of fir trees.

The current owners host a Christmas potluck for neighbours, along with former students and teachers of the school, which was the venue of a pancake breakfast.

He recalls the time not long after the family arrived when the homeowner across the road decided to nail shut the openings in his antique barn – to the vexation of five or six barn owls that roosted inside.

"The owls flew around for about a week – screeching – until he opened up the barn again," he says with a laugh.

Big price cut and an under-asking sale for townhouse

2C Tacoma Ave., Toronto SUMMERHILL

Asking price: \$2,175,000 (June, 2026) Previous asking price: \$2,295,000 (May, 2026) Selling price: \$1,998,000 (June, 2026) Previous selling prices: \$979,000 (June, 2004); \$725,000 (May, 2002) Taxes: \$12,067 (2025) Days on the market: 13 Property days on market: 33 Listing agents: Debbie Penzo and Graeme McIntosh, Chestnut Park Real Estate Ltd.

THE ACTION This three-bedroom row home, only 150 metres from Summerhill subway station on Yonge Street, had more than a dozen visitors, not including open house guests, in May, yet none felt a strong inclination to purchase it priced at \$2,295,000. The next month, the sellers decided to trim their asking price to \$2,175,000. Meanwhile, they caught wind of a similar townhouse, closer to Cottingham Junior Public School, that had cut its asking price and quickly sold for \$1,975,000.

"A recent comparable sale set a new benchmark, which gave the sellers confidence in their decision to reprice," said agent Graeme McIntosh.

"At the new price, within two weeks, we received three offers."

A bidder at \$1,998,000 took the 25-year-old home.

Buyers were attracted by the home's generous size and built-in, double garage. "It looked and felt bigger inside than it "It looked and felt bigger inside than it did from the outside," Mr. McIntosh said.

"People also liked that you could walk from the garage into the basement. It's very rare in the area."

WHAT THEY GOT This two-storey home at the end of a row of brick houses has a street level entrance and a west-facing deck at the rear.

The main floor has a 10-foot ceiling, a gas fireplace in the primary entertaining area, and a kitchen between two dining areas.

There are two full bathrooms and a laundry room with a sink by the bed-

rooms upstairs.

An additional recreation area is in the basement.

THE AGENT'S TAKE "It has an expansive great room with tall ceilings," Mr. McIntosh said. "There's no maintenance, just a small front yard and a back deck." - SYDNIA YU

Eight buyers bid on North York bungalow

16 Jocada Rd., Toronto MAPLE LEAF

Asking price: \$849,000 (June, 2026) Selling price: \$1.2-million (June, 2026)

Previous selling price: Not available Taxes: \$5,392 (2025) Days on the market: Five Listing agent: Andre Kutyan, Harvey Kalles Real Estate Ltd.

THE ACTION This 53-year-old bungalow is in original condition on a 42- by 137-foot lot near Keele Street and Highway 401. Agent Andre Kutyan wagered that more people, builders and families alike, would be willing to gauge the property's potential if it were priced low.

“Things were sitting around on the market in that \$1-million plus range,” said Mr. Kutyan.

"I priced it in a way that would make it attractive to a lot of buyers, whether to tear it down, add on, or live in."

Over five days in June, the bungalow had 27 visitors. By Monday afternoon, the time the seller had set to assess offers, eight bids were registered. The final offer added \$351,000 to the asking price.

"Ultimately, most bids I saw were from people looking to live in the house," Mr. Kutyan said.

"It's a sizable lot in a relatively central location, and the house is in very good shape."

WHAT THEY GOT The home has formal living and dining rooms and three bedrooms with hardwood flooring.

There is an eat-in kitchen and a four-piece bathroom on both the main and lower level. All have ceramic tile flooring.

The basement also has a dining area with a wet bar and a recreation area with a woodburning fireplace and an exit to exterior steps leading up to the yard.

There is a built-in, double garage and a private driveway.

THE AGENT'S TAKE "Another great thing about this house was it has a walkout basement, which is not typical for the area," Mr. Kutyan said.

"A lot of buyers were looking at it as a potential basement apartment because it has a separate entrance, a walkout and a kitchen."

- SYDNIA YU

Updated Seaton Village semi rakes in 19 offers

415 Clinton St., Toronto SEATON VILLAGE

Asking price: \$1,149,000 (May, 2026) Selling price: \$1,608,000 (May, 2026) Previous selling prices: \$640,000 (June, 2011); \$470,000 (October, 2006); \$295,000 (June, 2000) Taxes: \$8,023 (2025) Days on the market: Seven Listing agents: Sandra Pate and Amy Polson, Sage Real Estate Ltd.

THE ACTION This semi-detached house was one of few properties for sale near Christie Pits Park on Bloor Street during the first week of May. An attractive asking price of \$1,149,000 lured nearly 100 visitors, not including open house guests, to examine its charms. Agent Amy Polson sensed that some of those visitors would return with offers, but getting 19 was a welcome surprise.

"There hadn't been a lot of inventory [in the area] in March or April," Ms. Polson said.

"We knew it would be busy, but we did not anticipate that num-"

ber of showings or offers."

The location and condition of the 126-year-old home were key factors in the final sale price of \$1.608-million.

"Most people looking at it were young couples and young families looking for Toronto homes with great access to amenities," Ms. Polson said.

"It also touched a lot of people emotionally with a combination of original charm and updates."

WHAT THEY GOT This two-storey house has 1,386 square feet of living space, including three bedrooms, three bathrooms and separate living and dining rooms with original hardwood flooring. The kitchen has granite countertops, an island and stone

flooring.

A rear stairwell has access to a recreation area downstairs and a side door to the patio and garage. It faces a laneway behind the 16-by 128-foot lot.

Since 2018, the owners replaced several appliances, including a washing machine, and installed a new roof, windows, air conditioner and water main.

THE AGENT'S TAKE "All of Seaton Village is quite special, but this is in proximity to transit, just north of Bloor Street, and it's in Palmerston Avenue Jr. Public School district, which is popular," Ms. Polson said.

"Christie Pits is right there and Karma food co-op is around the corner." - SYDNIA YU

Charlottetown home breaks \$1-million barrier

7 Glynwood Dr., Charlottetown CHARLOTTETOWN

Asking price: \$1.1-million (January, 2026) Selling price: \$1.05-million (June, 2026) Taxes: \$8,340 (2025) Days on the market: 144 Listing agent: Kelly Lantz, Century 21 Colonial Realty Inc.

THE ACTION This four-bedroom house has 3,091 square feet of living space on a 0.57-acre lot in a residential neighbourhood between Charlottetown's airport and downtown core. Agent Kelly Lantz anticipated its asking price, \$1.1-million, might shock area buyers at first, but they would come to appreciate the added value in a custom property on a double lot, fronting onto Centennial Park.

“Nothing else has sold in this neighbourhood for over \$1-million, which was a bit of a hurdle,” said Ms. Lantz. “But the square footage, finishes of the house and the lot size justified the price.

"In that neighbourhood, the highest sale I'd seen for a single-family home might have been in the \$700,000 range, but the average is more like \$500,000."

Both local and out-of-province buyers toured the 54-year-old house over four months. Their first offer presented became a firm deal at \$1.05-million in June.

"We knew getting over \$1-million would be a challenge, but the seller was happy with where we landed at the end of the day," said Ms. Lantz.

WHAT THEY GOT This two-storey house has formal living and dining rooms, and a family room next to a kitchen with quartz countertops, an island and high-end appliances.

The main floor also has an office and a primary bedroom with two ensuite bathrooms. There are two more bathrooms in the home.

The second floor has three bedrooms and a spare room with a ladder to a cupola.

The home has an unfinished basement and interior access to a double garage.

THE AGENT'S TAKE "It's an older house, but it was completely updated and renovated," Ms. Lantz said.

"There's a little ladder you can climb up to the lookout, overlooking the park and off in the distance to the water." - SYDNIA YU

Sellers were resigned to getting less than they paid for Hamilton home

133 Beland Ave. S., Hamilton GLENVIEW

Asking price: \$574,900 (June, 2026) Selling price: \$561,000 (June, 2026) Previous selling prices: \$580,000 (July, 2021); \$175,000 (October, 2006) Taxes: \$4,422 (2026) Days on the market: 11 Listing agents: Michael St. Jean and John Martin, Michael St. Jean Realty Inc. Buyers' agent: Michael St. Jean, Michael St. Jean Realty Inc.

THE ACTION Considering rising supply levels and declining property values around this two-bedroom bungalow in Hamilton, agent Michael St. Jean knew it was unlikely it would sell for the amount his clients paid when they bought it at the height of the market in 2021. He was frank with the sellers, who agreed to an asking price that was \$5,100 less than what they had paid.

"Looking at the current market and comparable sales in the neighbourhood, we wanted to be realistic," said Mr. St. Jean.

"We had to keep in mind we had some competition. In this neighbourhood, the inventory level was standard, although compared to three or four years ago, it's higher."

Properties were taking 30 to 45 days to sell on average, but this roughly 60-year-old bungalow was a hit with buyers who Mr. St. Jean was already working with in their house hunt. Within two weeks, the house was sold for \$561,000 - \$13,900 below the asking price.

"The buyers were looking for a bit, and when this one popped up, they fell in love pretty quickly with the location, the basement in-law suite and the updates that had been done," Mr. St. Jean said.

"It worked for them."

WHAT THEY GOT This brick bungalow has 917 square feet of living space, including an eat-in kitchen, living and dining rooms, two bedrooms and one bathroom.

The basement was recently refinished with two bedrooms and a recreation area, plus a kitchen, bathroom and new laundry machines.

The roof and heating and cooling systems were replaced six years ago.

A garage and private driveway are on the 40- by 100-foot lot.

THE AGENT'S TAKE "It's very close to Red Hill [Valley] Parkway and you can get onto the QEW to go to Niagara, Halton/Peel/Toronto area pretty quickly," said Mr. St. Jean.

"You're downtown, but not downtown, kind of tucked away, very close to the escarpment and Stoney Creek."

- SYDNIA YU

Two bids for Welland bungalow drive sale price over asking

69 Andrew Lane, Welland, Ont. WELLAND

Asking price: \$599,900 (August, 2026)

Selling price: \$610,000 (September, 2026)

Previous selling price: Not available Taxes: \$4,824 (2026) Days on the market: 21 Listing agents: Michael St. Jean and Jonathan Scott, Michael St. Jean Realty Inc.

THE ACTION This two-bedroom townhouse in Welland, southwest of Niagara Falls, came on the market priced at \$599,900 during the last week of August. By the second day of September, two guests started purchase talks. The best offer, cleared of conditions in mid-September, came in at \$610,000.

"We ended up having a couple of buyers swirling around at the same time, forcing the price over \$600,000," said agent Michael St. Jean.

"We don't go in expecting that, but it's a good product not readily available, and it's a nice neighbourhood."

The home's single-storey design is common in the subdivision, called Merritt Meadows, but not in the surrounding area.

"In general, it's a pretty sought-after type of product, hard to find in many areas of the Golden Horseshoe," Mr. St. Jean said.

"The property itself is newer; it showed well and had a lot of upgrades."

WHAT THEY GOT Built several years ago, this townhouse has an attached garage and 1,245 square feet of living space, and an unfinished basement.

The combined living and dining area has a nine-foot ceiling, hardwood flooring, and access to an enclosed deck and interlocking patio on the 28- by 104-foot lot.

A laundry room and two full bathrooms are on the main floor, as well as an open-concept kitchen with quartz countertops, an island and tile flooring.

THE AGENT'S TAKE "[The builder] Rinaldi Homes is known in the area to be the best quality," Mr. St. Jean said.

"Welland Canal is within walking distance, and it's very close to the highway, with [Highway] 406 literally around the corner."

- SYDNIA YU

Plan to tax unsold condos draws criticism

Eby's election promise has B.C. developers raising concern it would make building riskier

KERRY GOLD VANCOUVER

B.C. Premier David Eby's election promise to slap developers with a tax on unsold condos has been met with outrage from developers who've already paid hefty fees to build and who are paying substantial carrying costs on units they can't sell.

Housing experts say the proposal will make it hard for the development community to trust the Premier again, if he is re-elected on Oct. 24. And policy analysts and experts outside that community are also divided, with many perplexed and even opposed to the tax, which would kick in by the second year of vacancy at 2 per cent of the assessed value, then go up by 1 per cent each year it remains unsold. The Premier said his new tax would target 5,000 vacant unsold condo units in Metro Vancouver.

At a news conference, the Premier told reporters he'd also increase the speculation and vacancy tax to 2 per cent for domestic homeowners and 5 per cent for foreign owners.

Simon Fraser University finance professor Andrey Pavlov said he was shocked by the move, which could drop prices in the short term, but have severe unintended consequences, he said.

"No one wants to hold because they want to sell – that's how they make their money, and then they deploy the money for the next project. To add to those carrying costs, sure, that will incentivize developers to sell even faster.

"And some of them may say, 'Fine, whatever, I'll take the loss and move on.' So, some condos might be sold at a lower price than other ones. But the problem is, this is a very short-term effect. And once you look past that horizon, the issue, of course, is that no one will ever want to build."

If building in B.C. becomes more expensive and riskier, developers will be forced to build expensive homes, said Prof. Pavlov.

“That investment needs to have some rate of return. And when you make it riskier, you must increase the rate of return.”

"And that makes most projects uneconomical, so they never start. And the ones that do start, they need to offer a huge rate of return, which means basically luxury buildings. And that's not the type of housing we need."

B.C. Premier David Eby, centre, makes an announcement on housing during a provincial election campaign stop in Burnaby, B.C., on Sept. 25. Alongside are NDP candidates Rohani Arora, left, Jennifer Whiteside, Raj Chouhan and Janet Routledge. RICH LAM/ THE CANADIAN PRESS

So, we're doing exactly the opposite."

Commercial broker Mark Goodman said the tax will add to the overall cost of building and make financing more difficult.

"They're punishing the people who build homes," he said. "This is a penalty for completing projects at completely the wrong time in the cycle. Lenders will treat it as extra risk. More pre-sales will be required. There's a higher cost of capital. More projects get shelved, and so what happens is the shortage gets deeper.

"These developers are already on the brink. Many of them are leaving the industry, leaving the province," said Mr. Goodman. "That's coercion. It's not a housing plan. He's threatening a war on developers."

Economist and policy expert Mike Moffatt, founding director of Ottawa-based Missing Middle Initiative, called the tax plan "bad policy" that could have the temporary effect of reducing prices but creating more harm than good.

"It may end up helping motivate a few sales, but for the most part, I wouldn't expect it to accomplish a whole lot," said Mr. Moffatt. "There can be many reasons why a developer might not be able to sell. If there's a construction loan on the property then selling it and taking a loss might not be feasible."

He said that the tax could even incentivize developers to stall on completing the project to avoid the tax.

"If you have a building that's not completely sold, maybe you wait a little bit, try and sell more units before obtaining an occupancy permit," said Mr. Moffatt.

"We have enough market tension and market instability. So, adding a tax on top of that doesn't help," he said. "I get that it probably is politically popular. But I think overall, it's not a good way to fix the housing market."

But the Premier's idea does have its share of supporters. Robert Renger, planning consultant and former senior development planner for the City of Burnaby, said it could incentivize developers to sell “and meet the market where it is right now.”

"If they have to start paying a tax in addition to their other costs, it'll incentivize them to agree to lower their prices to what people are willing to pay, instead of just sitting on these many thousands of units," he said, echoing the Premier's justification.

"They don't want to spook the market, so they want to maintain the prices. In some cases, I've been told their financing doesn't allow them to lower the prices, although that can be worked out. You've got an oligopoly, really, that has an interest in not lowering prices."

He believes that developers "are hopeful that foreign buyers will come back into the market, that the ban on that will end," he added, referring to the federal government's ban on foreign buyers, which expires in January.

“That would create more demand and push prices up. Then they also do self-interested promotions like, ‘why not allow interest on mortgage payments for new units be tax deductible?’ which is another way of getting prices up, by allowing people to have bigger mortgages subsidized by tax breaks. So, they prefer any kind of sort of help, rather than being constrained or forced to take lower prices.”

Beau Jarvis, president of Wes-group Properties, said some people have said they could just rent out the units, but that isn't feasible when developers are facing so many costs.

"We have to pay 5 per cent GST to the federal government if we rent them. Perhaps our provincial government could lobby the federal government on this front rather than proposing yet another punitive tax on housing?" he said in an e-mail.

"Imagine taxing an automobile manufacturer, a heat-pump manufacturer or virtually any other business simply because it had finished inventory that had not yet sold," he added.

The result would not be increased production, he said.

A developer agreed to sell 23 condos at a discount. The lender said no

HOWARD CHAI VANCOUVER

As completed unsold homes continue to pile up in Metro Vancouver, politicians are seeing opportunity.

Earlier this year, B.C. Premier David Eby unveiled a plan to buy up completed unsold condos with financial support from the federal government, convert them into rental homes and make them available to British Columbians via a rent-to-own program.

The proposal received widespread criticism, the NDP-led government opted to call a snap election, and Mr. Eby recently proposed a new tax on completed unsold condos. The tax would start at 2 per cent for units that have been vacant for one year before increasing by 1 per cent every year thereafter.

At a news conference in Burnaby on Sept. 25, Mr. Eby cited reports of thousands of completed unsold condos in Metro Vancouver and blamed developers for not lowering prices to meet buyers.

"Some of them have been sitting for more than two years. More than 10 developers own over half of those condos. They've been built and they won't sell them at the price that people are willing to pay."

It's a line of thinking that has been repeated by many pundits, but it misses the fact that developers often don't have final say on pricing.

"In most construction loans, there will be a minimum sale price clause," said Aman S. Bindra, a partner at KSW Lawyers. "There will be a loan agreement or commitment letter saying 'here's what we value the units at, here's what we think you're gonna be able to sell them for, and you can't sell them for 90 or 95 per cent of that number without our consent.'

Say a developer and lender enter into a \$100-million loan agreement for a project with 100 units. If the developers agreed to sell 90 units for a discounted price totalling \$80-million, that would mean they would have to sell the remaining 10 units for \$20-million to pay off the loan.

That is easier said than done, particularly in today's market, and if the developer is unable to achieve the latter, it's the lender that may take the loss. This is the situation lenders try to avoid, says Mr. Bindra.

A prime example of this has been at the centre of a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of British Columbia involving 1397676 B.C. Ltd. and prominent developer Westbank.

According to a civil claim filed by the numbered company in February, it entered into an agreement with Westbank in October, 2025, to buy 23 completed but unsold condos at Sanctuary - a 158-unit luxury condo project along Horseshoe Bay in West Vancouver - for \$30-million and had plans to assign 17 of the 23 units - flip them - for a profit of \$3.6-million.

The plaintiff said that the agreed-upon prices “were below or significantly below” the price the units were previously marketed for, meaning Westbank agreed to a bulk discount.

The transactions were scheduled to be completed on Nov. 28, 2025, but ultimately did not complete because Westbank was unable to discharge a mortgage held by QuadReal Property Group – the real estate subsidiary of the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation. Westbank notified the buyer on Nov. 27 and returned the deposit with accrued interest.

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In most construction loans, there will be a minimum sale price clause. There will be a loan agreement or commitment letter saying 'here's what we value the units at, here's what we think you're gonna be able to sell them for, and you can't sell them for 90 or 95 per cent of that number without our consent.'

AMAN S. BINDRA A PARTNER AT KSW LAWYERS

The numbered company initiated the lawsuit alleging that Westbank made certain misrepresentations that resulted in damages, including “incurring the costs of the investments with little to no return.” Westbank and QuadReal argued that the pre-sale contracts stated that in the event the transactions failed to close, remedies would be limited to the return of the deposits with accrued interest.

In its own filing, QuadReal said that it refused to discharge the mortgage and consent to the bulk sale because “the proposed sale contemplated a purchase price below the ‘minimum discharge amount’ as required by the credit agreement, and was otherwise significantly below fair market value.”

According to QuadReal, the average sale price was \$700 per square foot, which was below fair market value by an average of \$400 per square foot and would've resulted in "a loss of revenue in the millions of dollars."

QuadReal and Westbank declined to comment for this story.

Documents filed early in the proceeding identify the corporate director of 1397676 B.C. Ltd. as Mark Sager, the Mayor of the District of West Vancouver, who is running for re-election next month.

Reached by The Globe and Mail, Mr. Sager said he assembled the assignees and negotiated the deal with Westbank on behalf of a friend and that he would not have received the \$3.6-million in profit. He added that he was removed as a corporate director some time after the lawsuit was filed and has not been involved in the proceeding.

Documents filed more recently in the proceeding allude to the numbered company as now having two directors with an Austrian mailing address. A corporate director search performed on Sept. 29 confirmed that the directors are Frank Aigner and Gerald Schweighofer – both affiliated with Vienna-based HS Timber Group – and Mr. Sager is not listed.

Mr. Sager, who declined to name the friend but confirmed that the friend is Austrian, also shared an e-mail from a Westbank executive dated Nov. 28, 2025, apologizing for the failed transaction. The e-mail was addressed to "Frank" and copied to Mr. Sager.

Although the civil suit was active as of earlier this month, Mr. Sager told The Globe that the parties have settled the dispute.

Explaining his involvement, he said he became aware of the unsold units at Sanctuary last year, was impressed by the building, and wanted to see it filled with locals instead of offshore investors or speculators.

"Before proceeding, I specifically asked the district's municipal lawyers whether my involvement in putting this group of buyers together presented a conflict of interest," said Mr. Sager. "I was advised that it did not. And to be absolutely clear: I was not receiving a side payment, I had no undisclosed financial arrangement, and I was not making a profit from this transaction. I was bringing together local buyers who wanted to purchase homes and live in Horseshoe Bay."

Mr. Sager also commented on the issue of unsold condos and the dynamic between developers and lenders that has been laid bare by the incident.

"We have completed buildings with significant numbers of empty units, while prices sometimes remain disconnected from what buyers are actually prepared to pay. Financing arrangements can make it difficult for developers to adjust prices to current market conditions, and that can prevent the normal market process of prices responding to actual demand. The community pays a price for that."

Private Schools

Friday, October 9, 2026

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IMAGE COURTESY OF THE STERLING HALL SCHOOL

JK AND PRIMARY PLACEMENT Educators know the importance of the really early years

The early years mark the beginning of a child's educational journey, shaping how they learn, explore and engage with the world around them.

"It's a critical stage in a child's education," says Aleeza Janmohamed, senior kindergarten teacher at The Sterling Hall School, an all-boys elementary and middle school in Toronto. Through caring, trusted relationships with teachers and other adults, children "build a positive self-image and a strong foundation for their future interpersonal relationships and emotional health," Janmohamed says.

Alongside academics, a focus on social and emotional development is becoming increasingly important to parents, too. "Parents want their children to be resilient, build strong social connections and develop collaboration skills – and they recognize this as something essential they want for their children in later life," Janmohamed says.

Here's a look inside early years' classrooms and how private schools are approaching this foundational period.

THE STERLING HALL SCHOOL

In the classroom, Janmohamed's guiding principle is to create a positive, inclusive environment that fosters a love of learning and nurtures curiosity. In the early years, literacy is a key focus, with instruction that build skills and confidence for students so they're proficient readers and writers, and effective communicators.

Social and emotional development is fostered through identifying emotions and learning strategies for self-regulation. Meaningful play – both unstructured and structured – supports learning, problem-solving and collaboration.

"Joyful, active learning experiences continue to build stronger neural imprints, making it easier for students to recall information," Janmohamed says. "They now have positive emotions associated with the learning and, so, that learning takes root in a deeper way."

THE MABIN SCHOOL

Simone Gravesande, principal at The Mabin School, a junior kindergarten to Grade 6 school in Toronto, says the early years are an exciting time in a child's development. "Children's curiosity is alive, and the world is deeply exciting to them," she says. "They are naturally asking questions, making connections, noticing patterns and wanting to understand how things work."

The Mabin School believes in harnessing that curiosity. "Our inquiry-based approach allows students' questions and interests to help drive their learning," Gravesande says. "This creates learners who are deeply interested in the world around them and who develop an understanding of concepts through authentic, meaningful experiences."

That doesn't mean academic skills are secondary. "Literacy and numeracy are woven throughout the learning experience and developed in meaningful contexts," Gravesande says.

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USING TECHNOLOGY AND AI THOUGHTFULLY

Most private schools have an AI policy and framework to guide the use of artificial intelligence by students and faculty.

But learning to use AI thoughtfully – in the classroom and beyond – is becoming increasingly important in a world of AI model breaches, fake news and social media overload. That's why many private schools are focused on giving students the tools they need to think critically when it comes to their AI use, as well as integrating AI skills with human-centred skills.

Here are a few examples of what private schools are doing to ensure their students can safely and ethically navigate the AI era.

TRAFALGAR CASTLE SCHOOL WHITBY, ONT.

Trafalgar operates under a clear "human-in-the-lead" policy for students and staff, framing AI as a tool for learning and feedback rather than a substitute for human thinking and ideation.

"Our curriculum grows from a focus on what AI is and how to critically use AI to graduating leaders equipped to leverage it and govern it, with a strong grounding in the ethical considerations of the technology," says Laurie Kuchirka, Trafalgar's dean of academics.

Starting in Grade 4, students learn that AI operates on pattern-matching rather than factual understanding, making it a 'guesser' prone to confident, polite outputs that appear as 'facts.' As students get older, they practise identifying evidence of the 'pleaser' behaviour of models, checking feeds for echo chamber validation and using lateral reading to cross-check claims against trusted sources.

Safety and privacy are also built into the school's infrastructure. Staff and students interact solely with enterprise AI models in a secure, closed environment. This protects personal data from public models while allowing teachers to maintain safe, supervised spaces for learning.

"The goal is not only to produce graduates who can use AI, but graduates who are equipped to govern it," Kuchirka says.

LAKEFIELD COLLEGE SCHOOL LAKEFIELD, ONT.

Lakefield is in its third year of using a "two-lane" approach to AI assessments: Lane 1, where work is produced in a secure, moderated environment, and Lane 2, where tasks are redesigned to expect and require AI use.

"In LCS's AI policy, student thinking is non-negotiable," says Heather Adams, Lakefield's innovative program co-ordinator and AI internal working group member.

Teachers design assessments in a way that guarantees students can't offload thinking. For example, in-class essays, where prompts are provided on the day of the task, help them measure what students know.

Faculty model the transparency they ask from students when it comes to AI use. They also offer opportunities for student voices around AI, from its AI Innovation Club, in which students work at the forefront of AI development, to a new student AI advocacy council that's being piloted this year.

"We believe in fostering a culture of transparency, so that conversations between students and teachers about AI are open," Adams says.

She also says that no amount of digital literacy or anti-social media instruction will convince teenagers to put down their phones. So, instead, students aren't allowed to use their phones from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., while gathering spaces, classrooms, hallways and lunchtimes are phone-free.

"We aren't leaving it up to students to fight a losing battle against Big Tech's addictive devices," Adams says.

GREENWOOD COLLEGE SCHOOL TORONTO

Greenwood's approach to AI in the learning process is three-pronged: Using emerging AI tools to improve the classroom experience, preparing students to use AI in subject-specific ways and building durable skills that will differentiate students in an uncertain future.

"We've been running an AI working group since the initial release of ChatGPT," says Ryan Vachon, the school's director of academics and pluralism.

"This cross-functional research group has become a significant part of our AI approach. It includes members from school leadership, academic leadership, and both the teaching and operations staff."

Teachers are intentional about when to use AI in learning, projects and assessments. "This helps to model for students the differences between productive and unproductive AI use," he says.

Greenwood has also brought in speakers such as Jake Ernst, a psycho-therapist at Straight Up Health, and Irshad Manji, founder and chief executive officer of Moral Courage® College, to discuss how the digital world affects students in ways related to mental health and navigating polarization.

BISHOP STRACHAN SCHOOL TORONTO

"Our position regarding AI is one that instills curiosity and ethical application," says Dr. Kristen Clarke, BSS executive director of teaching and learning.

Like many schools, Bishop Strachan School has a green-yellow-red practice, with educators communicating when AI is and is not being used.

"What is most interesting is the yellow – teachers are having meaningful conversations with our girls and young women about when to use AI and when to push through something hard, or create multiple versions, or talk with a human," Clarke says.

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BEYOND ACADEMICS: How independent schools build character through service and leadership

qualities in their own way," she says.

Academic achievement can be measured in grades, test scores and university acceptances. Character, however, is harder to quantify.

But as young people prepare to enter a fast-evolving world, independent schools are placing even greater emphasis on developing skills such as judgment, resilience, empathy and a sense of responsibility, all of which are needed to help young people make good decisions, serve others and lead with a moral compass.

Character development begins in kindergarten at The Sterling Hall School and is deliberately interlaced with academics, extracurricular activities, athletics and daily school life.

The private boys' school in Toronto bases much of its character education on the VIA Character Strengths framework developed by psychologists Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman, which identifies 24 character strengths grouped under six core virtues (wisdom and knowledge, courage, humanity, justice, temperance and transcendence). The 24 character strengths include creativity, judgment, curiosity, honesty, perseverance, kindness, fairness, teamwork, leadership, humility, hope and humour.

The VIA Character Strengths are based on the idea that if a child has at least one true ability in each of those six virtue categories, they can grow into an adult who can live a fulfilling life and serve others, says Catriona Gallienne, director of student success.

"Character shouldn't be punitive," she says. "It should be something that's a bit aspirational, that's an ongoing development."

Service is approached similarly. The Sterling Hall School teaches that leadership is rooted in service and responsibility, not titles. Students are encouraged to understand the people and issues they are helping rather than simply fundraising or accumulating volunteer hours.

That emphasis takes on added importance as technology, including AI, reshapes the world students will enter.

"The thing that's going to set them apart is their humanity," Gallienne says. "You can always gain knowledge, but developing good character and raising good humans is the most crucial skill."

At St. Michael's College School, a Catholic school for boys in Toronto, developing that humanity includes giving students time to think deliberately about who they are becoming. The school's Blue Notes guided-journalising program encourages students to privately explore concepts including

The Sterling Hall School in Toronto bases much of its character education on a framework that identifies 24 character strengths that include kindness, teamwork, curiosity, fairness and humour. IMAGE COURTESY OF THE STERLING HALL SCHOOL

Giving students a sense of hope and belief and optimism that they can make a difference and they can change things for the better is one of the most powerful tools we can give them as they graduate."

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Dr. Claire Kelly Assistant head of school, student life Appleby College

integrity, empathy, resilience and responsibility, and then consider how those qualities translate into their relationships and communities, according to Paul Fitzpatrick, department head of history and student character and formation lead.

The student character and formation lead aims to create opportunities for students to discuss what it means to have character, rather than assume it develops on its own.

"The goal is that when they think forward about their future, our students don't just ask themselves 'What will I be?', but also 'Who will I be?'" Fitzpatrick says.

Service gives students another opportunity to answer that question through experience. Dr. Robert Fantilli, a math teacher and the school's Christian and community service lead, says St. Michael's wants students to see service as more than Ontario's volunteer requirement.

"Teenagers naturally spend a lot of time thinking about school, sports, post-secondary plans and their own goals," he says. "Service gives them a chance to step into someone else's reality and see how their time, talents and opportunities can make a difference in the lives of others."

Senior students complete an additional Christian service component, while reflection through Blue Notes helps students consider what their experiences have revealed to them.

"I've learned over the years that young people don't necessarily change because we tell them something," Fantilli says. "More often, they change because they encounter someone or experience something that challenges their assumptions."

That means shifting the emphasis away from tallying hours and toward what happens as a result.

"We want students to move beyond asking, 'How many hours have I completed?' and start asking, 'What did I learn from this experience?' and 'What responsibility do I have to others?" Fantilli says. "That's often where real growth happens."

The idea is to give students enough opportunities – through clubs, events, mentorship and other experiences – to discover where they can contribute while learning how to collaborate with others.

Shaping an approach toward community engagement that is built around relationships can last for years, says Lindsay Norberg, deputy principal at Havergal College, a private day and boarding school for girls in Toronto.

"Service helps students look beyond themselves and understand the impact they can have on others," Williams says.

At Appleby College, a co-ed day and boarding school in Oakville, Ont., some of the most consequential lessons in character can happen simply by learning to live alongside other people.

Appleby is Canada's only school with a mandatory Grade 12 boarding program, according to Dr. Claire Kelly, assistant head of school, student life. At the beginning of Grade 12, every student moves into a boarding house for the year, including those whose family homes are nearby. The school includes students from approximately 40 countries.

That places teenagers together during one of the most demanding years of high school, requiring them to deal with differences in culture, food, background and values alongside the everyday pressures and joys of adolescent life.

"Living alongside others across differences in culture, food, background, values ... really teaches character in a way that the classroom alone cannot," Kelly says.

More than two decades ago, Havergal developed its Community Partnerships program. Through the school's Forum for Change, students work with organizations such as North York Harvest Food Bank, New Circles and Grenoble Public School. Havergal uses a five-P framework – people, place, perspective, positionality and partnership – to encourage students to understand the communities and organizations with which they are working.

House meetings, inter-house activities and leadership programming provide regular opportunities to practise teamwork, responsibility and integrity in relatively low-stakes situations.

The school takes a similarly experiential approach beyond campus, including outdoor education at its northern campus in Temagami, Ont., and a required international experience for students earning an Appleby diploma.

International experiences are also part of earning a diploma there. Last year, students travelled to Portugal for an environment and conservation trip; Costa Rica for sustainability and climate justice; Ireland for conflict resolution, peacebuilding and Gaelic revival; and Thailand for social innovation, history and culture.

Kelly says those experiences deliberately put students in situations in which qualities such as bravery, self-awareness and leadership have to be practised rather than simply discussed.

A student might first encounter an organization in Grade 5, for example, and still be working with it as a student leader in Grade 10 or Grade 11. Over time, students can see how an organization and its needs change and achieve a deeper understanding of the people behind it.

"It's not about the hours; it's about the partnership and building the partnership across the organization between us and that organization," Norberg says.

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"Giving students a sense of hope and belief and optimism that they can make a difference and they can change things for the better is one of the most powerful tools we can give them as they graduate," she says.

Appleby also frames leadership as a mindset and skill, not something reserved for students with a formal title. In a volatile world, Kelly says, schools also have an important role in giving young people confidence that they have agency.

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Havergal's four core values of integrity, inquiry, compassion and courage also shape school life. Norberg says developing resilience in girls can sometimes mean encouraging them to struggle with something rather than expecting themselves to get it right immediately. That includes challenging social expectations around perfectionism and encouraging girls to try, make mistakes, rethink ideas and try again, she adds.

"We encourage students to lead through their actions and recognize that every student develops these

Character development remains woven through mentorship, athletics, leadership and community involvement. Students take part in initiatives such as Habitat for Humanity council builds and a Christmas Drive supporting disadvantaged families in Durham Region, while older students can mentor younger students through teacher advisory and senior mentorship programs.

"Our values drive our organization, and so the girls know what it means to grow up in a school that is driven by values," Norberg says. "It's not just about teaching them values; it's about them experiencing and being part of a school that lives values."

Experience is central to the approach at Crestwood Preparatory College in Toronto as well, where students are given different avenues to practise leadership rather than being presented with a single model of what a leader should look like, says Kim Williams, director of admissions.

Agency is reflected in a simple phrase at Walden International School in Oakville: "Making Good People."

That doesn't mean producing perfectly behaved students, says Daphne Perugini, head of school. Character develops when children repeatedly have opportunities to exercise judgment - making difficult choices, accepting responsibility, recovering from mistakes and considering someone else's perspective.

"Making Good People isn't about producing perfectly behaved children," Perugini says. "It's about helping young people develop the judgment, empathy and sense of responsibility to decide what kind of person they want to be. And what they will do when their choices matter."

"Children develop character by having repeated opportunities to practise it," Perugini says.

Ultimately, all the programs, reflection and opportunities come back to the decisions students eventually have to make for themselves.

Students are encouraged to first consider what a community actually needs, what abilities they possess and how they can personally contribute. Responsibility increases as students mature. Service learning becomes increasingly student-directed through Grade 6 and Grade 7, preparing students for an independent community project in Grade 8. The progression is designed to move children from participating in service to knowing its purpose and ultimately taking ownership of how they contribute, she adds.

Perugini also argues that qualities such as integrity, empathy, courage, resilience and responsibility are fundamentally human rather than gendered.

"Leadership today is also about much more than being the loudest voice in the room," she says. It can mean listening, recognizing what someone else needs, accepting responsibility and using one's influence in service of something larger than oneself.

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Advanced Placement programs are evolving

Havergal College School has been working to broaden and deepen its Advanced Placement (AP) offerings. Its flagship offering is the AP Capstone Diploma program. IMAGE COURTESY OF HAVERGAL COLLEGE SCHOOL

For many students, preparing for university is a central part of the high-school experience. Advanced Placement (AP) courses take that preparation a step further by giving students the opportunity to study at a university level, alongside fulfilling provincial requirements. Offered through the College Board, AP allows students to dive deeper into subjects they're passionate about, while helping them build stronger study skills. AP exam results may be recognized for university credits or advanced standing, depending on the university and program.

"In what is currently a very competitive landscape for particular universities and programs, AP helps to differentiate students," says Dean Van Doleweerd, associate head of programs at Lakefield College School, a co-ed school for Grade 9 through Grade 12. "AP courses are one way in which students can help to demonstrate strengths and evidence the fact that they have chosen the harder path. Schools are looking for increasingly varied and accurate ways to measure candidates, and AP courses have proven to be one good way to do this."

At many private schools, interest in AP courses is growing and schools' approaches are evolving.

At Lakefield College School, the number of AP exams written by Grade 11 and Grade 12 students has doubled in seven years. While there is no single reason, Van Doleweerd says one contributing factor is that the school made a deliberate choice to encourage kids to take an AP course.

"We have tried to highlight the value of exploring university-level challenges before they go to university," he says. "Current students have also heard graduates explain the value of an AP course when they were looking at similar content in first-year chemistry or physics."

Its longer-term goal is for every graduating student to take at least one AP course. To help achieve this, Lakefield continues to add to its AP course content, which includes a wide range of courses in math, science, social science, business, languages and arts, in addition to the AP Capstone diploma program.

Lakefield personalizes the AP experience through smaller class sizes, longer time spent with the teacher, a schedule that supports focus and consistency, and individual support. "Those conditions matter a great deal with an AP course because the content is universal – everyone writes the same exam," Van Dole-weerd says. "Because we can't personalize the destination, we have to personalize the journey."

With its AP program, St. Michaels University School (SMUS) in Victoria, B.C. focuses on flexibility.

"Traditionally, the AP pathway establishes a recommended chronological sequence starting in Grade 9, and prescribes which courses are best suited for each grade level," says Robyn Amiel, assistant director of senior school academics. "While the rationale is sound because it focuses on skill building in the lower grades, and specialization in the upper grades, SMUS's approach seeks to create the best fit for individual students."

Most AP classes are a mix of Grade 11 and Grade 12 students, with some also including Grade 10s. "With no firm prerequisites, the approach enables students to enter and exit AP pathways in a flexible way; they are not beholden to continue taking the next level of an AP course after

completing the first one," Amiel says.

Students can also enroll in a variety of subjects rather than follow a more confined stream. "We have students who wish to study engineering in university enroll in our AP World History course, and we have budding art historians enrolling in AP Chemistry courses," Amiel says.

"With ongoing consultation with their university counsellors and teachers, students leave SMUS having experienced a considerable breadth and depth of AP course offerings."

Havergal College, an all-girls school in Toronto, is placing a greater emphasis on depth and breadth. "In recent years, our approach to Advanced Placement has evolved into a flexible, multifaceted academic program grounded in Havergal's liberal arts philosophy," says Lam Nguyen, dean of academics at Havergal College.

Historically, he explains, AP was often viewed through the lens of volume, adding more content at a faster pace. "At Havergal, we recognized that enrichment is not about speed, volume or teaching to the test. Instead, we have focused at a high level on both broadening and deepening our offerings."

At Havergal, students can freely discover their passions and strengths. "Once a student identifies an area that truly sparks their curiosity, whether in the sciences, humanities, mathematics or research, we provide the academic depth, mentorship and advanced coursework they need to specialize deeply in it," Nguyen says.

Beyond a robust range of AP sources, Havergal's flagship offering is the AP Capstone Diploma program, comprising AP Seminar in Grade 11 and AP Research in Grade 12. In AP Research, students design and execute an independent, year-long study, working closely with faculty advisors and industry professionals. Student research topics have spanned from plasma cell cancer biology to social analyses of adolescent mental health.

Havergal also offers flexible pathway options. "Students can engage with university-level material and AP classroom tools for personal enrichment without the added pressure of writing a standardized May exam if it doesn't fit their personal goals," Nguyen says.

AP has become a key part of academic enrichment at Crestwood

Preparatory College in Toronto. Kathryn Appleby, head of guidance and university counselling, says interest in the program has grown exponentially since she joined the school seven years ago.

"The number of exams I'm ordering has almost doubled since I started," she says.

The growth coincides with students' interest in pursuing post-secondary institutions outside of Canada, as many international schools highly value AP credentials and allow prospective students to stand out among their peers.

Crestwood offers 16 courses spanning art, languages and sciences. The school also gives students the opportunity to self-study for exams outside its AP course offering. "If there is course that we don't offer at school, and they are willing to cover that content independently, I will order the exam for them and they have the ability to write it at our school," Appleby says.

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"There is no single AP student profile," says Havergal's Lam Nguyen. "While academic readiness is essential, the qualities that predict success in AP are curiosity, intellectual resilience and a commitment to relational learning: asking questions, collaborating with peers and seeking feedback from teachers."

During course selection, guidance counsellors work with students and families to evaluate student interests and goals, total workload, co-curricular commitments and personal well-being. "We actively counter the mindset that taking as many APs as possible is necessary for post-secondary success," Nguyen says.

Lakefield College School's Dean Van Doleweerd says any student with a plan for post-secondary education is the ideal student for AP. The school helps students determine which courses to take and when.

"Teachers of the course, guidance counsellors and advisors all play a role in helping students understand themselves and intentionally create challenges, so they are properly preparing themselves for life after high school," he says.

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In the early years, children aren't just gaining new knowledge and skills, they're learning the meaning of school. "This is their first school experience, and there's a set of expectations and routines, and structured and unstructured time," says Sara Sankari, junior school principal at The York School, a co-ed school from junior kindergarten to Grade 12. "These concepts get built at the early stages and ages, and form their ideas about school, education and learning, as well as building connections and relationships."

The junior school uses the International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Programme approach, which centres on inquiry-based learning.

The early years are the foundation for building a child's confidence, character and love of learning. BAYVIEW GLEN IMAGE

"At The York School, we say, 'bring us your curious,' and curiosity is one of our values because at those ages kids ask a lot of questions," Sankari says. "As opposed to answering, we set the stage for them to find the answers through inquiry, play and other ways."

A central part of York's philosophy is looking at who the child is and meeting them where they are. "We look at: What are they already bringing as a big strength? And what is their stretch – where do we want to see growth happen for them?" says Megan Stephenson, junior school vice-principal.

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At Toronto French School, learning begins well before a child enters the junior school, La p'tite école. From 18 months, students can begin their TFS journey at Jardin d'éveil, a licensed childcare centre with a school-based approach.

"The name 'Jardin d'éveil' means 'garden of awakening' – and that idea captures the purpose of the early years at TFS: awakening the senses, curiosity and a sense of wonder, while helping young children develop the confidence to explore, question, create and make meaning of the world around them," says Jean-Bastien Urfels, head of school at TFS.

Jardin d'éveil is conceptually aligned with the French national curriculum and inspired by the Reggio Emilia pedagogy, which focuses on childled, collaborative and project-based learning. Jardin d'éveil also uses the IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) as a teaching framework, priming young learners for their official entry into the programme once they turn three.

Language is a vital part of Jardin d'éveil. "By the end of the school year, all of the students can speak short sentences in French and have the ability to understand the language, follow routines and instructions," Urfels says. "From an academic perspective, Jardin d'éveil serves as a foundation for pre-kindergarten and beyond."

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Bayview Glen, a co-education school for children ages two to Grade 1, sees its role as nurturing children's natural curiosity and helping them build the skills and confidence they need to thrive. Its approach is inspired by Reggio Emilia principles and grounded in the belief that meaningful learning begins with inquiry. Teachers pay close attention to children's questions, interests and ideas, using them as starting points for deeper exploration.

Gillian Potts-Hemingway, preschool director, says what may begin as a simple material, observation or conversation can evolve into rich opportunities for problem-solving, creativity, collaboration and communication. Through experiences inside and outside the classroom, students learn to see themselves as capable learners whose ideas matter. "The early years are not simply preparation for what comes next," she says. "They are the foundation upon which a child's confidence, character and love of learning are built."

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This fall, UCC in Toronto expanded into junior kindergarten. "Beginning in JK, students develop their sense of belonging in the UCC community, collaborate with and learn alongside students in other classes, and develop relationships that can last throughout their schooling," says Anna Crawford, senior kindergarten teacher and early childhood learning leader.

The new JK class is designed to be developmentally appropriate and to meet learners where they are. UCC is an IB World Continuum School, so the curriculum adheres to both the Primary Years Programme (PYP) and Ontario Curriculum guidelines. Students have specialist classes, including music, French and physical education, with outdoor time built in.

"Ultimately, it is about helping children understand how they can bring their authentic selves to the world while being thoughtful, respectful and connected members of a community," says Loretta Fernando-Smith, junior kindergarten teacher.

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Early years are about "immersing students in community, immersing them in language and immersing them in social and emotional development," says Nicole Tripp, assistant director of the junior school at St. Michaels University School in Victoria, B.C.

SMUS offers junior kindergarten for ages three and four. It focuses on experiential, play-based and social-emotional learning. "The intentional play that we set up provides many opportunities for relationship-building, being curious, making mistakes and researching," Tripp says.

JK students visit the school library, take part in outdoor education and have specialist classes such as art and French. They also participate in school activities such as the Terry Fox Run and Sports Day.

A key aspect of SMUS's Reggio-inspired approach is that children are respected, valued and seen as capable. "We view it as they can do amazing things. Let's figure out what they are capable of. And if you have high expectations and set the bar high, there is no ceiling," Tripp says.

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'DOING THE WORK OF THE DISCIPLINE' Experiential learning is more than a field trip

Indigenous elder and carver Joe Martin shows students of St. Michaels University School the totem he created to commemorate residential school survivors from his community. IMAGE COURTESY OF ST. MICHAELS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL

On Meares Island near Tofino, B.C., Grade 10 students from St. Michaels University School (SMUS), in Victoria, study the history of residential schools before standing with Indigenous elder and carver Joe Martin at a totem pole he created to commemorate residential-school survivors from his community.

Martin leads the students on a trail, showing how the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations used resources on the island for generations and speaks about what the totem he carved represents to the community.

"As a teacher, you're teaching this content about residential school history, but when you're actually in this place, where this final residential school was and listen to Joe, these are the kinds of transformative things that really hit you," says Reagan Daly, head of experiential education, service and global expeditions at SMUS.

Elsewhere in the same experiential program at SMUS, students studying engineering and design are working this fall with BluEarth Renewables, an energy company based in Gibsons on the North Shore. They will study the hydroelectric dam there, connect with scientists on the ground and return to campus to build their own renewable energy project.

A memorable project students built last year was a water wheel that produced power, Daly says. For Daly, that combination of learning concepts, engaging with people doing the work and then applying that knowledge is what separates meaningful experiential education from simply taking students somewhere outside the school.

Daly describes SMUS's experiential program as a "school within a school," embedded into the timetable and tied to academic classes. Students can enter either a STEAM stream focused on engineering and design or Ridgelines and Coastlines, which is centred on outdoor education and social studies. English First Peoples and art courses are also integrated into both streams, while the timetable provides the flexibility for students to spend extended periods working off campus with community partners. The structure means an excursion isn't the conclusion of the experience.

The students have also worked with a group called the Victoria Hand Project, a company that engineers low-cost prosthetics and works globally, often in conflict zones. Students engineered prosthetics, going through the design process and then creating them using 3-D printing machines on campus.

"It's about leveraging that time off-campus to go deeper into learning," Daly says.

"The feedback every year is they love the program," he says. "It's such a unique opportunity within our school. It's fun and they are challenged."

Increasingly, private schools are integrating these experience directly into academic programming, asking students to work more like scientists, entrepreneurs, historians, engineers or other professionals.

Greenwood College School, a private co-ed middle and high school in Toronto, describes the approach as "doing the work of the discipline," which is part of an experiential-learning spectrum that progresses from theoretical learning to authentic engagement with the real world. The idea is that, once students have acquired foundational knowledge, they should increasingly perform tasks resembling those undertaken by people working in that field. A business student who learns marketing fundamentals, for example, can move into a real-world case study, identify a business problem and work with peers to solve it as a marketer might. History students analyze primary sources and artifacts, law students conduct mock trials and drama students produce plays.

"To us, experiential learning doesn't require going on a field trip or excursion," says Elanna Robson, Greenwood's vice-principal of student learning. "We believe that experiential learning can happen day-to-day in the classroom.

"To facilitate this, we plan for learning activities that simulate what a person working in the field would be engaging in, and we ask students to create things that a person in that industry would be tasked to create."

The approach doesn't diminish the importance of knowledge, she adds. In fact, Greenwood considers a strong grounding in the discipline a prerequisite. The next step is giving students opportunities to use that knowledge, solve problems and create the kinds of work professionals produce.

Greenwood students also get to take part in co-op placements and business case competitions. "Co-op placements are terrific opportunities for students to gain work experience in fields of interest," Robson says. "The placements are so instructive in providing students with an understanding of what a real job is like.

"At Greenwood, doing the work of the discipline, whether that's producing a play in drama or designing and building a wood project in tech studies or a piece of clothing in our new fashion class, naturally lends itself to the development of durable skills such as problem solving, resilience, collaboration, communication and technical know-how that our graduates can apply throughout their lives, regardless of their career paths."

Doing the work of the discipline at Walden International School in Oakville, Ont., means giving students authentic opportunities to apply classroom learning to real purposes, audiences and problems, says Daphne Perugini, head of school. As students grow, the complexity of the experiences grows with them.

"They have to consider function, sustainability and accessibility alongside the experience of the person who might actually use what they create," she says. "Empathy becomes part of the design process."

Student-led initiatives also combine community building with service. Rather than pushing younger students toward specific careers, the goal is to expose them to varied experiences that reveal their interests and strengths while developing collaboration, problem-solving, adaptability and empathy.

"Authentic learning moves the question from 'What do I need to know?' to 'What can I do with what I know?'" she says. "That shift – from acquiring knowledge to applying it with purpose – is where some of the most meaningful learning happens."

Trafalgar Castle School, an all-girls school in Whitby, Ont., takes a similar approach. Kate Hebdon, deputy head of school, describes it as moving students away from the "passive absorption" of textbook material and putting them into the roles of working scientists, engineers, mathematicians, historians and artists.

Partnerships with institutions and businesses, including Ontario Tech University, Toronto Metropolitan University and Deloitte, give students exposure to professional environments, allowing students to discover their personal strengths and map out post-secondary and career pathways, she says.

"Students hone future-ready competencies, including systems thinking, adaptability, technical fluency (such as AI usage, robotics and coding) and collaborative communication," Hebdon says. "Alignment with academic standards is ensured by grounding these experiences in the Ontario Ministry of Education curriculum and the Understanding by Design (UbD) framework, using practical work to deepen concepts rather than replace them."

At The Bishop Strachan School, an Anglican day and boarding school for girls in Toronto, head of school Meagan Enticknap says co-op placements, competitions, international programs and community campaigns expose students to professionals who can become mentors and role models.

Just as importantly, those experiences can reveal careers students hadn't considered or show them that a presumed career path isn't what they expected. One BSS student completed a co-operative education placement at a cancer research centre and came out of it with a stronger desire to work in health care, while developing confidence, communication and empathy, Enticknap says.

At Appleby College, a co-ed private school in Oakville, Ont., exploration is designed to leave room for experimentation – including failure, says Rob McGuiness, assistant head of school, global and experiential education.

Experiential learning at Appleby is designed to move students beyond comprehending concepts to applying knowledge and skills in real-world settings, he says. Project-based, place-based and experiential learning exposes students to complex problems that cross traditional subject boundaries. Programs range from business competitions, STEM clubs and sustainability projects to internships, international experiences. The newer Immersive Programme allows students to pursue interests through hands-on projects without the pressure of grades.

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Strategic planning provides a roadmap that allows private schools to achieve their goals and aspirations

The old model of a "perfect-on-paper" graduate who knows all the formulas but panics in the face of ambiguity is a liability today.

That's why St. Clement's School (SCS), an Anglican independent all-girls day school in Toronto, is engineering its educational engine to intentionally produce adaptable "difference makers" who can meet future demands and navigate without a map.

Heather Henricks, the school's vice-principal of learning, research and innovation, has spent the past year developing and refining the school's approach to learning – and where to take it next.

The fast pace of change – such as being seen with AI, and economic and geopolitical realities – means that plans need to be shorter in duration and more flexible. "The process remains equally if not more valuable," she says, but the plan needs to look different.

SCS is launching Excellence Evolved this fall – the school's approach to learning over the next few years.

"It's a detailed blueprint for where we're going as a school in order to keep up with, and ahead of, global trends in learning and the skills our students require," Henricks says.

It's an evolution of its current approach to deeper learning – or "learning how to learn" – and a way to ensure students and graduates are as prepared as possible for an evolving future.

The plan leans heavily on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)'s Learning Compass 2030, which identifies "transformative competencies." These are the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values students require in the 21st century.

"To make our language more student-friendly, as a school we have translated this into eight 'lived behaviours,' which we wish to become engrained in each one of our students here: know yourself, work with others, wrestle with complexity, embrace discomfort, push barriers, forge solutions, own it, serve something greater," Henricks says.

A strategic plan also helps differentiate one private school from one another.

Each school has a unique mission, vision and values. "It is the reason we exist as a school and what separates us from each other and from public schools," says Michael Fellin, headmaster of Crescent School, an independent, all-boys day school in Toronto.

"Our mission is like our North Star, and strategic planning provides the roadmap for getting there," he says. "We do this by setting annual goals that help the school move incrementally toward achieving our aspirations."

Crescent School undertakes a major strategic planning process every five years, which provides an opportunity to contemplate the future and commit to ongoing school improvements. This work isn't done behind the scenes; the school shares its strategic plan with students, parents, faculty, staff, alumni and board members.

With its latest strategic plan, called Breakthrough 2030, the school's 2024 CAIS Accreditation served as a springboard for strategic planning. As part of the CAIS (Canadian Accredited Independent Schools) process, every faculty and staff member played a

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Crescent School undertakes a major strategic planning process every five years, with the latest plan called Breakthrough 2030.

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The world is rapidly changing. ... Each year, we revisit our strategic plan to ensure that the assumptions used to build it remain accurate."

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role in a rigorous, peer-led, 18-month cycle in which they evaluated Crescent against 12 national standards.

But Breakthrough 2030 isn't set in stone.

"The world is rapidly changing. Although our strategic plans span a five-year period, we must also be agile in response to market realities," Fellin says. "Each year, we revisit our strategic plan to ensure that the assumptions used to build it remain accurate and to course-correct accordingly."

There's a popular saying that "culture eats strategy for breakfast," he adds, meaning that a brilliant strategic plan fails if the organization's internal culture doesn't support it.

"We know who we are, and we share a vision of developing good men whose character enriches their communities and serves the greater good," Fellin says. "Our strategy helps us get there."

Anne-Marie Kee, head of school for Lakefield College School – a co-ed boarding and day school for students in Grade 9 to Grade 12 – is a "huge believer in strategic plans."

Lakefield, which is situated on a 315-acre waterfront campus in Lakefield, Ont., launched the Northcote Campus and Farm on a second property about six years ago. Turns out, Lakefield had a campus farm about 100 years ago. It's example of how a strategic plan should be "rooted in the past and responsive to the future," Kee says.

Lakefield's Impact 2035 is its vision for what's ahead: Students are ready for the world, feel a deep connection to nature and understand the power of community.

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St. Clement's School is launching Excellence Evolved this fall – the school's approach to learning over the next few years. 'It's a detailed blueprint for where we're going as a school in order to keep up with, and ahead of, global trends in learning and the skills our students require,' says Heather Henricks, the school's vice-principal of learning, research and innovation. IMAGE COURTESY OF ST. CLEMENT'S SCHOOL

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One of Lakefield's four pillars is Outdoors Every Day, which research has shown can help students academically. "We want kids to have a deep connection to and feel a responsibility for the world," Kee says.

When the pandemic hit, she says, the whole world realized the benefits of being outdoors every day.

"Because we had this strategic plan and really leaning into who we've always been as a school ... we were ahead of the game," Kee says. "It propelled us even more forward into this area of being experts in experiential learning, so that was one great example of why you need a strategic plan."

But the school is also open to how the world is changing. Every four years, Lakefield conducts a constituent survey, collecting data from students,

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staff, parents and alumni, to gather feedback and ensure it is aligning its programs and community initiatives with the evolving needs of the school.

By developing its strategy collaboratively, "you just get more buy-in," Kee says.

Even in the most adaptable schools, the traditional model of developing a fixed, multi-year plan and then simply executing against it is becoming less effective.

"The world of today and that in which our students will be making their own contributions is increasingly dominated by unabated change – economic, sociopolitical, environmental and technological," says Innes van Nostrand, principal of Appleby College, a private, independent co-ed day and boarding school for students in Grade 7 to Grade 12, located in Oakville, Ont.

Part of Appleby's strategy is imagining how education itself could be disrupted and transformed, just as we've seen happen in sectors such as technology, retail and finance.

That means paying close attention to the major forces shaping society – social, technological, economic, environmental and political – and asking what the impact on education could be. The goal, however, isn't to predict exactly what will happen. It's to make sure that Appleby is prepared to adapt and move in new directions to best support students as the world changes.

Historically, schools have not always been structured to adapt at that same pace or scale.

For Appleby, adapting means balancing the need to build strong technical expertise with the equally important benefits of learning in technology-free environments, as well as responding to growing demand for specialized programming for a school that has a long-standing commitment to a breadth of education.

It also means exploring new business models that could broaden how Appleby delivers its educational program.

"Communities are becoming more interconnected, blended and global, and many societal structures and systems are being eliminated or reinvented," Nostrand says. "This brings great opportunity for those who are prepared."

For SCS, a strategic plan keeps the school aligned with its mission and vision. It's also a litmus test for whether that mission and vision continue to be relevant, according to Henricks.

"The strategic planning process also has benefits: It forces you to look outside your school – beyond an environmental scan," she says. It can be a community-building exercise where many constituent groups are involved, "leading to valuable questioning of current and previous priorities."

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Music and arts: Education that matters

Whether students paint, play an instrument or perform in a play, the merits transcend the media

An arts and music education is not simply about learning an instrument or mastering a role. What students gain through an arts education extends far beyond the stage, studio and rehearsal room. Here's a look at a range of music and arts programs - and why this education matters.

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Program Highlights: At Appleby College, academic programming spans music, dance, drama, media and visual arts, alongside a wide range of co-curriculars. A senior rock music and performance group, AC Rocks, along with a student ensemble called Studio Live House Band perform at school events, while visual arts co-curriculars offer opportunities in studio art, sculpture and advanced portfolio development. Every year, middle school students put on a musical or play, with students also taking on behind-the-scenes roles. Outside the school, students gain experience through performances at venues such as Roy Thomson Hall, the Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts and the Burlington Performing Arts Centre.

The Bigger Picture: Sara Joy, director of arts at Appleby College, believes arts education is a human right. "Art is closely tied to our human history; it's how we connect with other people and it's how we can take care of ourselves. And so, it's a mind-body-spirit connection," she says.

Another benefit is brain development. "There are studies that show how the arts, especially music, light up all different parts of the brain," she says. At the same time, making mistakes and receiving constructive feedback builds valuable skills for students' future careers. Joy says students learn how to handle stress and overcome fears such as

performing in front of people, which can benefit them in situations like presentations, networking and job interviews.

TRAFALGAR CASTLE SCHOOL WHITBY, ONT.

Program Highlights: The arts are woven throughout the school experience at the all-girls Trafalgar Castle School. In the junior school (Grades 4 to 6), students receive daily lessons in vocal music, drama and visual arts, while middle school students (Grades 7 and 8) also receive daily arts instruction, with the addition of instrumental music. In senior school (Grades 9 to 12), students can choose an area of focus and build their skills with specialized courses.

Outside of classes, junior school students participate in the Castle Chorale choir, performing at concerts and festivals. Middle and senior school students can join Castle Band, Castle Strings or Castle Singers. Next June, some members of Castle Singers will travel to London, England, to sing with a choir called Vox Anima at Cadogan Hall. Trafalgar also puts on a theatre production every year, with the visual arts team supporting the show with sets, costumes and props.

The Bigger Picture: Arts education is about creative thinking, says Fiona Hopkins, vocal music director at Trafalgar Castle School.

"It's not just about getting the right answer; the process we work through trains our brains to be flexible and to innovate rather than go down a single path," she says.

Resilience is another important learning. "We embrace mistakes. In my classes and choirs, students know if you make a mistake, make it a loud one. Because a loud mistake is encouraging them to take bold risks," Hopkins says. "The resilience piece comes from them being able to pick themselves up from that mistake and continue on. Performing for people teaches us that we can do hard things."

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ST. MICHAELS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL, VICTORIA, B.C.

Program Highlights: At St. Michaels University School (SMUS), the arts play an integral role across the grades. In junior school, students take courses in music, choir, strings and visual arts, and can participate in after-school clubs such as stitching and dance.

Middle school students take choir and visual art, and can choose between playing in the strings orchestra or concert band. Senior school has robust theatre, music and visual arts and design programs. Students produce a major annual musical at the McPherson Playhouse in downtown Victoria. Each show (last year it was Les Misérables) features an all-student cast, stage management and pit orchestra.

Students can also participate in global education opportunities. This spring break, music students can go on a "multi-continental music odyssey" to Hanover, Germany, Cape Town, South Africa, and London and

Cambridge, England. The trip includes home stays with local students, collaborative workshops and theatre experiences.

The Bigger Picture: "Performances are a powerful and transformative experience," says Morgan McLeod, drama and theatre teacher, senior school, and head of theatre.

"Even if they are a lead in the show, the learn that everybody is an important part of that piece. We stress that no matter the size of the role, everyone plays an integral part and everyone is there to help put on a fantastic show."

Ian Farish, St. Michaels University School band teacher, senior school, and head of music, has seen how skills and qualities developed through music and the arts extends to other areas of students' lives. Just recently, a former student asked him for a reference letter for medical school.

"She was our musical accompanist and piano player for every performance during her high school years," Farish says. For the reference, he was asked to answer how the student demonstrated qualities such as empathy, commitment and diplomacy. "I could speak to every single one."

HAVERGAL COLLEGE, TORONTO

Program Highlights: Havergal College offers a comprehensive arts program spanning visual and media arts, music and performing arts. In junior school, the Integrated Arts program (Grades 5 and 6) explores art traditions, history, storytelling and personal experience. Through an artist-in-residence program, students and teachers work with experts who introduce cultural understandings alongside artistic expertise.

In middle school, students can take part in exhibitions, music recitals, concerts, and drama and dance performances. In senior school, they explore their talents to the fullest, from strengthening their technical skills in drama to solving theoretical and practical problems in visual arts.

Havergal's wide array of co-curriculars includes Primary Choir, Junior Choir, Steel Pan Drumming, Fashion and Design Club, Knitting, Culinary Arts and more. For Grades 7 to 12, Havergal provides real-world arts opportunities, from exploring hands-on design processes at the Tanya Taylor Fashion Lab to exhibiting artwork at local galleries and performing at Toronto's Koerner Hall for the annual Spring Music Night.

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The Bigger Picture: "The arts provide opportunities for students to increase their ability to solve complex issues while furthering individual and communal self-awareness, clarity, problem-finding and solution-generating skills, says Matthew Varey, director of arts and art and design teacher.

Jeff MacLean, junior school music teacher, says the creative process also sharpens core executive functioning, giving students the confidence to embrace risk-taking and cultivate a resilient growth mindset.

“Through our primary arts program, Havergal students gain the skills and dispositions to be self-aware, confident innovators and leaders in whatever field they choose,” he says.

Adds Rachel Read, junior school integrated arts teacher: "Our thriving and vibrant arts program allows students to learn a variety of skills while discovering more about who they are as individuals."

CRESTWOOD, TORONTO

Program Highlights: At Crestwood School, junior school students (junior

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GRADE 12 | GAP YEAR kindergarten to Grade 6) are encouraged to explore creativity through music, drama and visual creativity. In music, students explore singing and instrumental performance, and in visual arts, they explore a variety of materials and techniques while learning to express themselves. Theatre arts builds confidence and skills in dramatic play, storytelling and live performance. A highlight is the production of a major musical, with all students in Grade 4 and Grade 5 encouraged to participate.

A transformational year that extends far beyond the classroom.

At Crestwood Preparatory College, senior school students (Grade 7 to Grade 12) continue with full music, art and drama programs. Students display their talents at the annual Arts and Technology Festival, which celebrates visual and performing arts, media production, robotics and 3-D printing. The school also has a wide range of extracurricular clubs and groups, including drama production, digital art, dance club, jazz band, strings club and more. The choir sings at school events and local

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The Bigger Picture: "As students get older and the homework larger and the level of difficulty in core subjects increases, music class in particular is a nice break from the stress of everyday life," says Anthony Mariano, intermediate/senior music teacher at Crestwood Preparatory College.

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"There's a certain fun factor in it, especially when students are playing music that they are either familiar with or when they're exposed to a variety of genres." In turn, that exposure helps opens their minds, he adds. "Across curriculum and subjects, it gets them thinking and keeps them on their toes."

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THE YORK SCHOOL, TORONTO

Program Highlights: As an International Baccalaureate (IB) school, The York School takes a holistic approach to music and the arts, encouraging students to examine historical, cultural and social contexts.

In junior school, music classes include singing, African drumming and music history, while visual arts students explore a wide range of mediums and art principles. In middle school, drama students stage a musical or drama production each year, while music students are introduced to woodwind, brass and percussion instruments. Students perform at music assemblies and school concerts, and can take part in co-curriculars such as choir and jazz band.

In senior school, students expand their understanding of the arts while exploring new techniques and forms of expression. Comprehensive drama, music and visual arts programs include professional workshops, performances at concerts and events, and local and international arts trips, including an annual arts trip to a major U.S. city and a music performance trip to an international destination every other year.

The Bigger Picture: In John Pittman's view, music is fundamental to education in general and rooted in being human. "How we collectively have shared, transmitted and remembered knowledge connects to the very roots of humanity, particularly through our use of song and rhythm to communicate, remember and pass things on through oral history," says Pittman, who teaches instrumental music at the middle and senior school levels. "Neurologically speaking, we're wired to have music as a part of our education and how we learn and remember things.

Helen Jin, interim middle and senior school principal sees music education as a way to express oneself. "I believe kids and adults attach themselves to a music genre because that expression of music allows for them to have a connection," she says.

BRANKSOME HALL, TORONTO

Program Highlights: This fall, Branksome Hall opened the doors to the Karen L. Jurjevich Innovation Centre & Studio Theatre (iCAST), which houses The Lo Family Studio Theatre, replacing the Allison Roach Theatre for Performing Arts. The state-of-the-art theatre serves as a learning lab where students explore performance alongside lighting, sound, technology and design.

At Branksome Hall, students develop skills across visual arts, film, theatre, music and dance. In middle and senior school, two teacher-directed shows and one student-director show are produced each year. Music instruction begins in JK, and as students mature, they expand on their knowledge of both instrumental and vocal music. Music students can perform in concerts and musicals, as well as in local festivals, while the Dance Company performs at school events and puts on a year-end showcase. Visual arts exhibitions throughout the year showcase the work of artists from JK to Grade 12. There's also a film showcase of graduating year course work. This year, Havergal is hosting the first-ever Women in Film Festival for Toronto-area girls' schools.

The Bigger Picture: Angela David, arts instructional leader at Branksome Hall, sees empathy and emotional intelligence as the most important qualities students can develop through an arts education. "Acting as a different character or engaging in music allows students to walk in another person's shoes and understand complex emotions," she says.

Artistic projects also push students adapt to unexpected changes and find solutions – sometimes at a moment's notice, she adds. "As they face uncertainty of making choices or even simply facing stage fright, students develop resilience and perseverance."

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The benefits of educational continuum

'When a school knows a child over many years, learning becomes more personal and meaningful'

For more than a century, Crescent School has educated boys through some of the most formative years of their lives. This year, the Toronto school welcomed Grade 1 and Grade 2 students for the first time in more than 50 years. The expansion returns the school to an important part of its educational roots – and creates a more continuous journey for students.

Crescent School was founded in 1913 as a junior kindergarten to Grade 8 school, and in the 1970s began dropping lower grades and adding upper grades. In the 1990s, the school added lower grades back in, to Grade 3.

Deputy headmaster Rich Prosser says the school community was a major driver behind the move. Beyond that, there was an opportunity to develop "men of character from boys of promise" – the school's motto – at an earlier age.

"Ultimately, they get into our community and our culture that much earlier," Prosser says. "From a continuity perspective, building culture and community is the primary advantage of having that approach."

With an educational continuum, students develop a sense of community and belonging, while building strong relationships with their peers. "It allows our older boys to be great models for the younger boys, to help guide them through our core values of respect, responsibility, honesty and compassion," Prosser says.

The journey is not simply about moving a child from one grade to the next. It is about building on everything we have learned about that child and continuing to support their growth, confidence and sense of belonging at every stage."

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At Toronto French School (TFS), the journey can begin from a very young age. At the Toronto campus, students can start in La p'tite école, which includes children from age two to Grade 1, and continue their education through Grade 12. The West campus serves Pre-K to Grade 7.

As an International Baccalaureate Continuum School, TFS builds a seamless educational journey where diploma program habits begin as early as age two, says Jean-Bastien Urfels, head of school. Starting in Pre-K, students develop attributes of the IB Learner Profile, which include inquirers, communicators, principled and caring, among others.

"Because our faculty collaborate across all grade levels, primary teachers understand the exact competencies required for students to develop as they progress through their TFS journey and become citizens of the world," Urfels says. "This continuous journey gives students the security, strong roots and confidence they need to take intellectual risks as independent learners."

One example of how TFS builds on student's learning from one stage to the next is independent research, writing and public presentation skills. In La p'tite école, young students practise inquiry – asking questions and sharing ideas. By Grade 5, they're working in groups to investigate a real-world issue, interview experts and present their findings. In Grade 10, they complete a self-directed research project based on their personal passion. By the time they reach the demanding 4,000-word extended essay in the diploma programme, Urfels says university-level research and public speaking aren't intimidating new requirements.

"They are familiar habits built over a decade."

At Toronto's Bayview Glen, which also spans preschool to Grade 12, that continuity creates a strong sense of belonging. Students move through each division as part of a community that knows them, values them and is invested in their growth.

"When a school knows a child over many years, learning becomes more personal and meaningful," says James Lee, head of school. "Students gain the confidence to take risks, discover their strengths, and develop into compassionate, capable young adults."

For Bayview Glen, a strong educational continuum is about more than moving from one grade to the next. It is about ensuring that each experience builds intentionally on the one before it, Lee says.

In the early years, students develop curiosity, creativity, independence and a love of learning through inquiry-based and outdoor experiences. In the prep school, those foundations are strengthened through signature programs in areas such as design thinking, languages, instrumental music and AI literacy. In upper school, studies apply those skills through interdisciplinary research, leadership opportunities, co-op placements and global learning experiences.

Through Bayview Glen's Round Square partnership, for example, students can participate in international conferences, including a recent gathering in Dubai where they collaborated with peers from around the world and explored leadership, service and global citizenship. In the school's view, experiences such as this build upon years of learning, helping students develop confidence, adaptability and a global perspective.

The benefits of an educational continuum also extend to parents and families. At Bayview Glen, parents develop trusted relationships with educators who understand not only their child, but also their family's values and goals. A continuous school journey also brings comfort and stability. "The most meaningful educational journeys are built on relationships," Lee says. "When students, families, and educators grow together over time, remarkable things can happen."

Kate Hebdon, deputy head of school at Trafalgar Castle School in Whitby, Ont., also sees relationships as a key benefit of an educational continuum. At the all-girls Grade 4 to Grade 12 school, students build strong relationships and rapport with teachers and faculty members. That's especially important when girls reach adolescence; they can turn to trusted adults they've already forged ground with, Hebdon says.

Another benefit is reducing transitions at key stages of the academic journey. "Change is hard – it's hard for everybody," Hebdon says. "We can never underestimate how important the social world is for a young person. Social connections are vital, and these take time."

For parents, an educational continuum offers practical benefits such as routine and consistency, along with knowing who to call and where to get information, Hebdon says. But it also helps to build family traditions.

"There's an excitement for the different rites of passage we have throughout our school, which is wonderful to see," she says. "We had our Welcome Back barbecue where lots of families show up, and they know they're supposed to wear the house colours."

The Mabin School in Toronto encourages families to commit to an eight-year journey at the junior kindergarten to Grade 6 school. "This continuity allows each child to be truly known and seen not only for who they are as learners, but for their interests, strengths, challenges and the ways our children are growing and changing over time," says principal Simone Gravesande.

The faculty's deep understanding of each student's academic, social and emotional development as they progress through the school is particularly valuable as students approach the transition to Grade 7.

"Rather than viewing that transition as simply moving from one school to another, we can help students and families make thoughtful decisions about the next stage of their education based on a deep understanding of who the child has become as a learner and as a person," she says.

Academically, one of the strongest common threads from kindergarten through Grade 6 at The Mabin School is its use of Habits of Mind. These include persistence, responsible risk-taking, empathy, flexible thinking and metacognition.

"We introduce and develop these habits in authentic, age-appropriate contexts, and then revisit and deepen them as students move through the grades," Gravesande says.

"At The Mabin School, the journey is not simply about moving a child from one grade to the next. It is about building on everything we have learned about that child and continuing to support their growth, confidence and sense of belonging at every stage."

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How mentors help students find their path

For independent-school students, mentors and advisors can play a role that is separate from but complementary to traditional classroom educators – building longer-term relationships that help young people discover their strengths, interests and passions.

Those relationships can be mutually beneficial, giving mentors a chance to develop leadership, empathy and a stronger sense of purpose.

At The York School, a private co-ed school in midtown Toronto, the value of advising starts with continuity, says Elissa Kline-Beber, York's director of wellness. When students enter Grade 9, they are assigned an advisor who remains with them throughout senior school and acts as a consistent go-to person that the student and their parents get to know well, along with an advisor group of roughly 10 students.

"I think this is fundamental to who we are as a school," she says. "We are predicated on relationship-building. We talk about it in everything that we do."

Unlike subject teachers who may work with a student for only a year, each advisor develops a long-term understanding of their mentee's academic performance, interests, challenges and life outside the classroom.

"I think big picture is really important in kids' lives," Kline-Beber says. "Somebody whose eyes are trained on the whole student is really meaningful."

Advisor groups also receive a dedicated 40-minute block each week with no rigid academic agenda. They might discuss something happening at school or in the world, work through an issue at the school or simply spend time talking together. That unstructured time, initially questioned by students and teachers accustomed to tightly scheduled school days, has become highly valued, Kline-Beber adds.

"It's now become very valued real estate in the student's calendar."

The wider objective is to create relationships that give students the confidence to explore ideas, interests and ultimately who they want to become, she says. Mentorship may go beyond formal advisors to coaches, older students and other adults throughout the school community.

"We want our students to feel seen," Kline-Beber says. "When we give space for lots of different viewpoints, for kids to experiment with new ideas, to try something on, think about it, reject it, massage it, that's how I think we create community."

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Mentorship is deliberately treated as a two-way relationship at Kingsway College School, a private co-ed school in Etobicoke, Ont. Adults not only serve as mentors to students, but students mentor staff as well, letting them see the school through a student's perspective while giving students valuable experience as advisors. PETER POWER/KINGSWAY COLLEGE SCHOOL

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At Greenwood, you're more than just a face in the crowd. We're small enough to feel like home, but big enough for you to find your people.

Greenwood A different school of thought central to the student experience at Neuchâtel Junior College (NJC), which offers the Grade 12 curriculum in the French-speaking town of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

"Students have left the familiarity of home and come together in another country, often navigating greater independence for the first time," says Megan Watt, interim managing director of operations, at NJC. "Having adults within the community who know them well, notice when something has changed and are genuinely invested in their growth provides an important foundation of support."

Those relationships can significantly bolster confidence, adds Watt. Students are continually encouraged to stretch themselves, whether that means speaking up in class, taking on a leadership role, navigating a new culture, participating in an activity they have never tried before or managing the challenges that naturally come with living abroad.

"We see the impact of these relationships in the connections that endure long after graduation," Watt says.

At Greenwood College School, a co-ed middle and high school in Toronto, advising draws on perspectives from across a student's life, with input from teachers, parents, coaches, club leaders and students themselves to personalize that guidance.

"We coach students to identify their strengths, pursue their personal interests and drive them to do what best fits them," says Wendy Herod, director of guidance and postsecondary counselling.

Herod recalls working with a Grade 11 student having difficulty with her mental health, friendships and feeling of belonging. By gradually building trust and the student's confidence, she watched her develop friendships, participate in school events and graduate with a stronger sense of self and excitement about her future.

Mentors benefit from programs like this as well, she adds. Greenwood's older student mentors develop communication and relationship-building skills while helping younger students, often because they remember receiving similar support themselves. That cycle continues among alumni, who return for career events, offer interview and postsecondary advice, and coach or judge the school's annual Business Case Competition.

At Appleby College, a co-ed day and boarding school in Oakville, Ont., the distinction of the advisor program rests partly in what advisors aren't required to do: grade the student. That can create a different dynamic from the traditional classroom relationship.

"An advisor stands with compassion rather than judgment," says Diana Dodd, Appleby's director of positive education. "What we're meant to do is find their goals, find their passions and find their uniqueness."

Appleby begins building those relationships before students enter the school by surveying incoming students and advisors about their interests, backgrounds and activities and using that information to help form small advisor groups. Those groups stay together for four years, giving advisors an opportunity to develop deeper relationships and guide students through the many academic and extracurricular choices available to them.

"My role is to observe as much as I can and look for those things that the students are telling me they're interested in, and then provide them with a variety of options," Dodd says.

"We offer a lot of programming. I think of it as a buffet," she says. "Sometimes we overfill our plate because everything is amazing. Part of the mentoring role that we have within advisory is making sure the students are taking the portions that they need at that particular time."

Mentorship may also extend well beyond the traditional one-to-one relationship between a student and an adult advisor. At Rothesay Netherwood School (RNS), a co-ed day and boarding prep school in New Brunswick, mentorship is structured as a shared responsibility. Advisor groups meet every day, with students expected to watch out for one another rather than leaving mentorship solely to the adult advisor. The advisor also serves as a confidant and champion for students and an important link between home and school.

For Marisa, a 2024 graduate, that relationship provided both encouragement and support through difficult periods.

"There is value in developing a relationship with an adult outside of the family dynamic. I felt truly seen by my advisor," she says, adding that her advisor encouraged her to embrace opportunities while providing "a shoulder to lean on when life threw curveballs at me."

The benefits also flow in the other direction at Rothesay. Craig Jollymore, RNS assistant head of school, describes the advisor program as his favourite part of working at the school.

"The opportunity to make this kind of difference is deeply satisfying," Jollymore says. "Many of my advisees keep in touch for years after graduation."

At Lakefield College School, a co-ed boarding and day school north of Peterborough, Ont., the boarding environment allows mentorship to extend well beyond scheduled advisor meetings.

Advisors are connected to a house, giving them opportunities to see students in different settings through activities, evening duties, meals and informal conversations.

"Boarding intensifies the opportunity for mentorship because adults see students in many different contexts, not only as learners in a classroom," says Jen Frickey, director of learning success. "The depth of their relationships creates a powerful support network that only boarding can offer."

Mentorship is also built within student leadership. Every Grade 12 student has a major leadership position, while younger students can serve as house leaders in areas including belonging, sustainability, arts and athletics, health and community service.

Those positions allow students to mentor peers while gradually developing their own leadership abilities. Frickey says the structure creates "a visible model of mentorship," allowing students with different backgrounds and strengths to learn how to lead, take risks and prepare for greater responsibilities in their graduating year.

Mentorship is deliberately treated as a two-way relationship at Kingsway College School (KCS), a private co-ed school in Etobicoke, Ont. Head of School Garth Nichols experienced that firsthand when, during his first year in the role, he asked four students – two from the junior school and two from the senior school – to serve as his mentors.

They helped Nichols see the school through a student's perspective and challenged his assumptions, while the students gained valuable experience from advising their head of school. "Mentorship works both ways," Nichols says.

That philosophy extends to KCS's Path program, which connects students with professionals and mentors in fields they may eventually pursue. Alumni also share their career journeys, experiences and networks, helping students envision opportunities and pathways they might not otherwise have considered.

At St. Clement's School in Toronto, having 480 girls in Grade 1 through Grade 12 under one roof creates chances for mentorship to develop naturally between older and younger students.

"There is role modelling happening all the time," says Principal Martha Perry, pointing to activities in which senior students lead and work alongside younger Clementines.

Grade 12 student Melody Farhang Nia recalls being a nervous Grade 9 student and the youngest lead in the upper school play being encouraged by older cast members she admired. Those relationships continued throughout high school, and some became close friendships.

Now Farhang Nia has become a mentor herself, working with younger students through opportunities such as the Reading Buddy program. She says mentoring has taught her sensitivity, communication and how to adapt to another student's individual needs.

"It's so rewarding to see your mentorship have an impact, and it makes you feel like you're making a real and tangible difference in someone's life and the community," she says.

Learning belongs outside the classroom, too

St. Michaels University School in Victoria, B.C., takes full advantage of the area's mountains, forests and ocean. IMAGE COURTESY OF St. MICHAELS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL

For private schools, place matters. The environment around a campus – whether it's big-city amenities or serene lakes and forests – is a meaningful extension of school life, opening up new ways for students to learn, connect and engage with the world around them. Beyond formal outdoor education programs, private schools are making the most of their distinctive settings and surroundings.

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On the shores of Lake Katchewanooka, Lakefield College School has a strong connection to its natural surroundings. "Your physical environment can shape your behaviour, relationships, learning and well-being," says Anne-Marie Kee, head of school at the co-ed boarding and day school for Grade 9 through Grade 12. "We want everyone to be outdoors every day and, so, it's both a philosophy and a practical reality."

The lake is part of daily campus life, with co-curricular activities such as sailing and rowing, and recreational activities such as swimming and paddleboarding. Nearby, students experience farm life at the school's Northcote Campus and Farm, a 155-acre farm with fields, forest trails and waterfront.

Students can also walk to nearby Lakefield. "That's a huge part of the boarding experience," Kee says. "Students get a chance to know what small-town Lakefield is like, and the local shops are very dedicated to our kids and their safety."

tree-lined, 10-acre campus in the historic neighbourhood of Olde Oakville, Ont. "We often think of the school environment as a 'third teacher,' where students can explore, collaborate and discover what's possible."

Hant says the school's location offers the best of both worlds: a safe, self-contained residential enclave where girls feel secure to take academic risks, combined with easy access to the major urban resources of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). "Our location makes it possible to nurture young learners in a quiet, nature-rich sanctuary while introducing older students directly into high-impact, professional spaces."

For example, in SMLS's signature Grade 11 Professional Internship, students complete hands-on placements with local businesses, hospitals, research facilities, tech startups and law firms.

Canada's winters can be counted on to create memorable moments. "My favourite day is the first snowfall and seeing how many kids are taking pictures because they've never seen snow," she says. At the annual winter carnival, students enjoy sleigh rides, tobogganing, BeaverTails and maple taffy.

to two campuses: one in the north end of Toronto nestled between the Bridle Path and Lawrence Park neighbourhoods; and the West Campus in Mississauga. The school focuses on developing compassionate global citizens and has a diverse school community with more than 40 countries represented among students, staff and faculty.

Students regularly step right onto the green campus for hands-on environmental science, outdoor literacy and nature-based play. Teachers use the nearby lakefront, local parks and historical sites for field studies, bird identification and creative writing projects. In 2025, students participated in Oakville Galleries' Ship of Tolerance art installation in nearby Gairloch Gardens.

TFS takes full advantage of the rich diversity that Toronto and the GTA offer, says Jean-Bastien Urfels, head of school. "Championing that diversity, the school embraces the multicultural tapestry that makes up the city, our student body and staff."

TFS taps into the region's wide community of business leaders, entrepreneurs, health care and legal professionals, artists and other leaders in their fields. They engage with students in their classrooms, join assemblies as guest speakers, lead workshops, act as mentors and help set up internships for students to discover their passions and career paths.

support ravine protection, with many interdisciplinary aspects integrated into the academic curriculum."

"We consider Victoria the backyard of our school campus," says Alexis Lang Lunn, director of admissions at SMUS, a co-ed, junior kindergarten to Grade 12 private school with boarding offered for Grade 9 to Grade 12.

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NATURAL WONDERS MEET URBAN ENVIRONMENT AT SMUS

Located in Victoria, B.C. on Vancouver Island, St. Michaels University School (SMUS) is close to both the city and the natural landscape of the Pacific Coast.

"When students learn within their surrounding ecosystem and civic structure, the curriculum becomes immediately relevant and actionable," says Catherine Hant, head of school at St. Mildred's-Lightbourn-School (SMLS), which sits on a quiet,

There are opportunities to engage with the natural surroundings, too. "The Toronto campus is connected to the Don Valley Ravine, and TFS creates programming for 26 acres of the beautiful lush green environment that is in our care," Urfels says. "TFS students from 18 months through Grade 12 have access to this living natural space, where they may go to paint, play music, study plants, conduct research or engage in hands-on stewardship projects that

While its outdoor education program makes the most of the area's forests, mountains and ocean, there are other ways to engage beyond the school grounds. Boarding students can explore city life, gaining independence by using transit, visiting museums, going to the theatre and attending Question Period at the legislature. The school's location also affords proximity to the University of Victoria, where students can take part in labs and collaborative learning.

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natural opportunities for reflection, movement and connection."

"Be it learning or personal growth, these experiences augment what they learn in a traditional classroom setting," Lang Lunn says.

Appleby's location – and diverse student body – can also open the door to entirely new experiences.

"During an immersive course introducing students to different forms of watercraft, many students experienced these activities for the first time while also encountering turtles, beavers and birds in their natural habitat on Sixteen Mile Creek," Kelly says. "They gained a new awareness of the natural world in the middle of their town."

Beyond the natural environment, students can connect with local businesses, cultural institutions and community organizations in Oakville and in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. This can include engaging with local community groups through service initiatives, learning from professionals through internships, participating in arts and cultural experiences, or exploring environmental issues.

In some cases, location can be life-changing. Lang Lunn recalls a student who started the boarding program in Grade 9 and had never rowed before. Through SMUS's Rowing Centre, she developed a passion and commitment to the sport and went on to choose a university with a rowing program, earning a full-ride scholarship.

APPLEBY COLLEGE: PASTORAL SETTING WITH URBAN ACCESS

Appleby College is a Grade 7 to Grade 12 co-ed school located on a 60-acre campus in Oakville, Ont., on the shores of Lake Ontario. Dr. Claire Kelly, assistant head of school, student life, says the setting gives students something that can be hard to find in a busy school day: space to reset. "Whether they are walking the two-kilometre wooded chip trail, spending time by the lake or simply moving through open green space between classes, the campus creates

TRAFALGAR CASTLE SCHOOL: PLACE AND PARTNERSHIPS

A real historic castle backdrop gives Trafalgar Castle School a distinct sense of place. But the all-girls school's location in Whitby, Ont., also creates opportunities for partnerships with institutions such as Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, as well as experiential learning and career development opportunities through Trafalgar's Beyond the Castle program, with partners such as CIBC Mellon, Deloitte and Microsoft.

Closer to home, Trafalgar is partnered with EcoSpark, an environmental charity that operates programs across the Greater Toronto Area. Students can take part in research on school grounds and at a nearby creek.

On school grounds, students can partake in activities and get inspired in the Gratitude Garden, an Indigenous garden planted by the school's Indigenous Studies Club in consultation with an Indigenous advisor. Trafalgar also connects with nearby Trent University on an Indigenous Ways of Learning program.

"All of these opportunities are built out of our physical location," says Melissa Knight-Johnson, head of school.

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Many private schools have long and proud histories, but they also need to accommodate today's exponentially changing world.

So how are private schools with rich histories evolving and innovating for the future, while still maintaining the traditions and longstanding traits that parents and alums value?

Upper Canada College (UCC), an independent, all-boys day and boarding school in Toronto, has long maintained a house system for students. In the Upper School (Grade 8 to Grade 12), students are assigned to one of 10 houses: eight for day boys and two for boarding students.

The houses are named after the highest-calibre and most influential teachers in UCC's nearly 200-year history.

"My house, Martland's House, is named after John Martland, a classics teacher and boarding house master who was devoted to athletics and earned the nickname 'Gentle Johnny' for the contrast between strict classroom comportment and a deep fatherly care for the students in his charge," says Brendan Dellandrea, UCC vice-principal of advancement.

House affinities run deep, thanks to a friendly year-round rivalry. "To win the coveted Rao Cup, students compete for house points across academics, athletics and student spirit," he says. "If this all sounds rather Harry Potter-esque, you're absolutely right

– though an uproarious trivia match in the student centre or a friendly game of ultimate frisbee is more likely to determine the winner than a game of Quidditch."

As an educational leader, he sees the house system accomplish a few things: It breaks the school cohort down by a tenth, creating a forum for deep relationships with new friends.

It's also the structural foundation for UCC's advising program, in which every student is assigned a house advisor who serves as their primary point of contact for everything related to their academic and co-curricular journey to graduation.

"We will be celebrating 200 years of Upper Canada College in 2029, and the enduring tradition of our house system is made better today by a deep scientific understanding among our world-class educators of how social connections among boys create the foundation of lifelong

Upper Canada College will be celebrating 200 years in 2029 and its enduring house system allows boys to make meaningful social connections. IMAGE COURTESY OF UPPER CANADA COLLEGE

For 70 years, Neuchâtel Junior College has allowed students to spend their final year of high school living and learning in Switzerland, with Europe as an extension of the classroom. IMAGE COURTESY OF NEUCHÂTEL JUNIOR COLLEGE

well-being, learning and achievement," Dellandrea says.

At Trafalgar Castle School, an independent all-girls day and boarding school in Whitby, Ont., its house system is also a long-standing tradition.

"On spirit days, the Castle is alive with colour as everyone represents their house and brings the community together with good-natured rivalry," says Amanda Boyle, senior history and social sciences teacher at Trafalgar.

Another defining tradition at Trafalgar is May Day, a ceremony that brings together past and present members of the school.

"May Day connects students to the past and to tradition. It is a reminder of all the many ways that today's students benefit from those who went before them and that they, too, are part of the sisterhood that will carry into the future," Boyle says.

But one of the most beautiful longstanding traditions at Trafalgar, she says, is the daisy-chain at the opening of the Trafalgar Day graduation ceremony, in which graduates are linked together with one long blue ribbon pinned to each student with a corsage.

"This symbolizes the sisterhood they are a part of, that has held them together through their years at the Castle, and will continue to connect them to each other," Boyle says. This tradition has been part of Trafalgar's graduation ceremony for 100 years, and is "an important part of linking past and future."

St. Clement's School (SCS) is known as a spirited school, says principal Martha Perry, and this comes through in many longstanding traditions. For example, each student and staff member belongs to one of four houses – a tradition established in the 1960s – and engages in spirited challenges, competitions and House Days over the course of the year.

"SCS considers all of our traditions within the context of school community and identity," Perry says. "For example, traditions such as our annual Carol Service have been maintained over years with changes to enable it to be more accessible to a broader community."

In the 1980s, the service was for students and staff only. Now, it's held at a much larger venue and wel-

comes current students and staff along with past staff, alums, past parents and families.

As the school celebrates 125 years, they're "mindful of traditions and how important they are," Perry said. "Context and progression are important considerations as time moves on." They're layering $125^{\text{th}}$ celebrations over established traditions; for example, this year's Carol Service will feature a one-night-only appearance by an alum choir.

When considering these shifts, they must still align with the school's values, while reflecting the present day, Perry says.

"Our commitment to academic excellence has not wavered over our 125-year history, but we also need to be constantly looking ahead and recognizing that the world is a very different place, continues to change rapidly and requires a different set of skills for our students to be successful beyond SCS and in life," she says.

For 70 years, Neuchâtel Junior College has offered students an opportunity to spend their final year of high school living and learning in Switzerland, with Europe as an extension of the classroom.

"Many of NJC's most meaningful traditions grow from that experience," says Megan Watt, interim managing director of operations for NJC's Canadian office. These include school trips, shared celebrations and time spent exploring Switzerland and Europe.

But these traditions are "ultimately about much more than preserving particular activities or events," Watt says. "They reinforce the values and qualities we hope students will carry with them long after they leave Neuchâtel."

Living with a host family and learning abroad develops independence, adaptability and confidence, she said, while travel and cultural immersion encourage curiosity, openness and a broader understanding of the world.

"NJC gives students the opportunity to discover who they are in a wider world," Watt says. "Our traditions provide a framework for that growth while allowing every generation of students to make the experience their own."

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Rothesay Netherwood School has "held onto traditions that are important to us and that still fit and remain true to the school we are today," says Paul McLellan, head of school at the independent, co-ed university-preparatory boarding and day school for Grade 6 to Grade 12 in Rothesay, N.B.

"We have chapel every day. We have uniforms. We have some events that span more than 100 years," he says. "If you come to our opening chapel service in September, you'll see new students receiving their school tie and, after the service, you'll see senior students helping tie the ties."

Reunion Weekend is always a special time of year, McLellan says, when the school's legacy "truly comes to life through alumni who care deeply about their time on the Hill." (RNS is often referred to as the Hill because of its location at the top of College Hill Road in Rothesay.)

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Being rooted in the past helps kids feel like they're part of something bigger than themselves. You're running a school for today's kids with the beauty of weaving the past into the present."

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This year, the school is celebrating its 150-year history – a milestone that will be marked throughout the year with banners across campus, history-focused academics, special apparel and merchandise, a special-edition magazine and a packed Reunion

Weekend. But McLellan says they're also energized by a forward-looking vision as a CAIS-accredited school, a member of Round Square and an IB World School.

St. Michaels University School (SMUS), a private co-ed boarding school in Victoria, B.C., endeavours to create both small- and large-scale events that build belonging across generations while demonstrating and reinforcing the school's core values of honesty, respect, service and courage.

University School and St. Michael's School amalgamated in 1971 to become St. Michaels University School. "At SMUS, we have done a great deal of thinking about what it means to follow tradition," says Keith Driscoll, SMUS's director of boarding and student life.

"One example is the time the students and faculty come together known as 'chapel.' While it is steeped in tradition, this time together is no longer an expression of single faith. Rather, it is how we gather together as a community," he says.

The tradition has remained the same, while also reflecting the students who are here now, just as it reflected the students who were here 100 years ago.

In another example, SMUS has a long-standing tradition of celebrating its athletes with a banquet. Since the school is equally invested in its arts programs, it also began the tradition of an annual arts gala.

"It's a culminating night of celebration and a newer tradition but one that reflects the needs and success of the current school," Driscoll says.

St. Michael's College School, an all-boys Catholic private school in Toronto, dates back to 1852.

"In that time, many traditions have come and gone," says Emile John, the school's vice-principal. However, the ones that have lasted helped to cement its identity as a school rooted in its Catholic faith.

"Of all our religious traditions, the Feast of St. Michael's Mass and Advent in Courtyard are two that stand out for me," he says. "Athletically, we have many storied yearly tournaments that form the cornerstones of our calendar, such as the

Dan Prendergast Basketball Tournament and the Snowball Relays."

However, the capstone of its athletic calendar is always Homecoming, since it brings together all sections of the community to celebrate athletics.

In 2029, Lakefield College School will be celebrating its $150^{\text{th}}$ anniversary and, to mark the occasion, a book on its history is being written.

"We're starting early in helping kids understand the stories of our school and the power of storytelling," says Anne-Marie Kee, Lakefield's head of school.

That includes understanding how school buildings got their names. Moodie House, for example, is named after writer Susanna Moodie, who once walked this property – not as a teacher (the school didn't exist yet) but as a settler on a farm near Lakefield, back in 1832.

"Being rooted in the past helps kids feel like they're part of something bigger than themselves," says Kee. "You're running a school for today's kids with the beauty of weaving the past into the present."

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BSS faculty embed AI literacy moments into the classroom to bring home the human aspect of critical thinking. For example, in English, they use AI-generated texts for students to analyze and compare with examples of great texts. They also have debates about AI in the arts and the importance of voice and authentic, culturally infused artistic expression.

ST. MILDRED'S-LIGHTBOURN SCHOOL, OAKVILLE, ONT.

SMLS's policy on generative AI outlines its permitted and prohibited uses, with a focus on academic integrity, critical thinking and ethics. This applies not only to writing, but to image creation and computer coding. The policy also breaks down how AI should and shouldn't be used by students at different ages and stages, as well as the potential risks associated with the technology.

For example, students under the age of 13 are not permitted to use publicly available AI tools (such as Gemini, ChatGPT or Claude) without supervision by teachers or parents. Above that age, its use requires explicit permission from a teacher.

"AI may support learning, for example, through brainstorming, practice, feedback or revision, but it must not replace the student's own thinking or be used to misrepresent authorship or learning," says Brad Read, deputy head of academics at SMLS. "We are really aiming to help students examine how AI generates information, question its accuracy and potential bias, verify claims using credible sources and consider issues such as privacy, authorship and academic integrity."

HAVERGAL COLLEGE, TORONTO

Havergal remains a human-centred community, intentionally positioning generative AI as a way to augment – not dominate or replace – the ways students and teachers connect, interact and relate to one another.

"Critical thinking and information literacy are core, enduring skills that we prioritize," says Lam Nguyen, Havergal's dean of academics. "We demystify AI by opening the 'black box' of large language models, so students understand how these models generate their outputs."

Students are challenged to audit AI outputs for hallucinations, verify source context and evaluate perspectives and underlying bias in AI-generated text and artwork. No algorithm or system is entirely value-neutral.

The Digital Wisdom course for students in Grade 5 to Grade 8 is part of the core curriculum at Havergal, helping students understand and navigate human relationships as they grow up in an era of smartphones, social media and AI.

"We frame the choices they make in using technologies as a set of habits, mindsets and skills that students develop over time and that can impact the ways they receive and digest information, make sense of the world around them and relate to one another," says Adam Caplan, director of HC-X at Havergal.

KINGSWAY COLLEGE SCHOOL ETOBICOKE, ONT.

"Whether we are talking about GenAI, social media, digital citizenship, robotics or technologies we haven't encountered yet, our job cannot simply be to prepare students to use technology," says KCS head of school Garth Nichols. "Our responsibility is to help them develop the judgment to decide when to use it, why to use it, when to question it – and when not to use it at all."

At KCS, the approach is intentionally one of caution, healthy skepticism and productive doubt. "We are excited about possibility, but we don't equate enthusiasm with wisdom," Nichols says. The school's GenAI philosophy describes AI as a learning

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Garth Nichols Head of school Kingsway College School

tool, while explicitly prioritizing AI literacy and the human side of digital transformation.

And this leads to a lot of questions: "What productive struggle is necessary for learning? What happens to curiosity if answers become frictionless? And where can AI actually increase curiosity, creativity, accessibility and human connection?" Nichols says. "I think independent schools have a particular responsibility to explore those questions together.

"And perhaps that is the larger role of schools in this moment," he says. "We aren't here to race technology. We are here to develop young people capable of questioning it, shaping it, using it wisely and remaining deeply human alongside it."

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Appleby's faculty members have adopted various AI tools specific to disciplines and subject matters, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Microsoft CoPilot. And extensive work has been done across all subject areas to establish policies and guidelines for AI in course development and assessment creation.

In preparation for in-class use, Appleby students take part in a series of self-paced AI courses during the school year. These include 30-minute, introductory-level online modules designed to help build awareness around AI.

"The research on how AI affects learning is still at an early stage. Our approach is deliberately fluid," says Dr. Carlos Heleno, assistant head of school, academics, at Appleby. "We review our guidance every six months, we pilot carefully before we adopt and we expect to review our thinking as better evidence becomes available."

Starting in middle school (Grade 7 and Grade 8), digital citizenship and social media awareness are woven through a series of subject areas. The school has also introduced a 'no cellphone' policy and no access to social media sites during the school day to limit distractions, encourage prosocial behaviours and support student well-being.

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UCC has invested significantly in AI exploration and adoption over the past three years. Much of the focus has been on responsibly, ethically and safely embracing the technology, while simultaneously inspiring learning, experimentation and knowledge-sharing.

Students are allowed to use AI tools that have been approved by UCC with guidance from their teachers, who routinely engage their classes in age-and stage-appropriate conversations around the ethical uses of AI.

"We're using AI as a collaborative partner in the classroom, exploring the ways it can augment teaching and learning" says Julia Kinnear, vice-principal of learning and academic innovation with UCC. "For instance, we're enhancing personalized learning with the help of AI-assisted feedback loops combined with specialized teacher support."

Outside the classroom, they're partnering with external experts. This past summer, they partnered with education company kinship to offer a UCC x kinship Precision Math Sum-

mer Camp that combined expert teaching with AI-enabled personalized learning. The camp's success has led to a pilot in the current academic year in which students in one of its Grade 9 classes will be able to use kinship's AI-enabled precision learning platform to support their mathematical growth.

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"Guided by our motto, 'individuals who reflect, citizens who act,' we teach students to embrace technology with critical thinking and integrity and to view AI as a tool rather than a replacement for human curiosity, creativity and original thinking," says Jean-Bastien Urfels, head of school for TFS.

And, in alignment with the International Baccalaureate (IB) program, TFS teaches students to be "content creators, not content imitators." One illustration of the school's philosophy is its Skills before Tools approach. Taught within dedicated design and technology classes offered from Grade 2 to Level II, it allows students to build problem-solving, critical-thinking and research skills long before an introduction to generative AI tools.

These programs are inspired by Europe's leadership in AI legislation, including AI literacy requirements for students, while complementing the Ontario and IB curricula.

TFS' digital citizenship education is integrated with the European Digital Competence Framework (DigComp), delivered through the PIX.fr adaptive learning platform, and closely aligned with the IB's Approaches to Learning (ATL) skills. Through these modules, students master 16 domains, including information and data literacy, online communication, content creation, cybersecurity and digital problem-solving.

WALDEN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, OAKVILLE, ONT.

At Walden, the approach to AI is grounded in academic integrity, transparency and critical thinking.

"We don't believe the answer is to keep students away from AI," says Walden head of school Daphne Perugini. "Our responsibility is to develop the judgment to know when to use it, how to question it and when not to use it at all."

Walden's academic integrity policy, aligned with IB guidance, requires students to be transparent about the use of AI-generated material and to acknowledge it as they would other external sources. "AI can generate an answer," she says. "Our job is to develop the person who knows what to do with it."

Students begin explicitly exploring AI and critical thinking as early as Grade 4. The emphasis is not simply on what AI can do, but on evaluating its output, questioning its reliability and understanding that the student remains responsible for the work they ultimately produce.

"We can't predict which technologies our students will encounter in the future," she says, "but we can prepare them to approach those technologies thoughtfully, critically and ethically."

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At SMCS, the approach to AI is gradual, with more restricted exposure in younger grades.

"We want to ensure that our students use AI to supplement their learning and productivity rather than replace it," says SMCS vice-principal David Lee. "We want to avoid the cognitive offloading that can occur when students use AI to do their work for them."

SMCS also teaches students about the importance of a positive digital footprint and not engaging in inappropriate behaviour online, often using resources from Common Sense Media to promote good digital citizenship and social media awareness. This year, for example, Grade 8 students will be participating in workshops on topics that include digital citizenship and social media awareness.

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Issues such as public health, climate change and urban flooding – something Toronto experienced this past summer directly – are complex systems, influenced by everything from science and economics to government policy, technology and human behaviour, Kwan says. Those who will need to solve these problems in the future will need to able to navigate those interrelated systems.

In a complex, rapidly changing world in which the challenges of tomorrow will increasingly cross traditional boundaries, independent schools are rethinking how students learn.

Upper Canada College's International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme Systems Transformation Pathway aims to prepare students to navigate that complexity and solve problems that rarely fit neatly within a single discipline, says Jonathan Kwan, Tanenbaum-Hutcheson director of partnerships and social impact at UCC, an independent day and boarding school for boys in Toronto.

The process of bringing the pilot International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme Systems Transformation Graduation Pathway to UCC began in 2016. The program is an interdisciplinary stream that merges systems thinking and design thinking with digital innovation tools and approaches

UCC among the first to pilot new IB program

"What we want to continue to do is fuel curiosity for as long as possible."

UCC has been delivering the traditional IB program as part of its curriculum since 1995, in which students pursue the full IB Diploma in Years 11 and 12, taking six subjects – three at higher level and three at standard level – along with the Diploma Programme core requirements of Theory of Knowledge, the Extended Essay and Creativity, Activity and Service.

"We're not reinventing the entire diploma," Kwan says. "The Systems Transformation Pathway replaces one-third of what typically a diploma student would need to do."

The program launched in September 2025, and UCC was one of four schools worldwide selected to deliver the initial program. The three others are UWC Atlantic in Wales, UWCSEA in Singapore and Mulgrave School in Vancouver. The IB, an international non-profit education foundation, plans to roll the pathway out globally in 2030.

The school's first cohort is nearing completion of the two-year program.

Students still take three higher level courses and one standard level course and complete core IB requirements, including Theory of Knowledge, the Extended Essay and Creativity, Activity and Service. But two of the three traditional standard level courses are replaced by the Systems Transformation Pathway, effectively reimagining one-third of the traditional six-subject academic program.

"A lot of the issues that will confront our students will happen in the intersection of well-being, pluralism and sustainability, and they will have the tools and mindsets to help them navigate that complexity," says Dr. Julia Kinnear, vice-principal of learning and academic innovation at UCC.

Its signature course, Innovation for a Better World, combines systems thinking and design thinking with digital innovation, and examines local, national and global issues through three foundational lenses of well-being, pluralism and sustainability.

The fundamental shift is teaching students to look at the entirety of a problem rather than one component, Kwan says. "When people say, 'What is systems thinking?' It's really when you're looking at problems, looking [at] the entire scope of that versus a very narrow slant," he says.

Consider Ontario's shortage of family doctors, he adds. Simply training more doctors might seem to solve the problem, until students consider medical education, funding, facilities, government, insurance and the other interconnected elements of the healthcare system.

With climate, for example, at one time students might explore the economic aspect of it. Another time they might delve into the science of climate change. Then they might talk about the human aspect of it. Rather than examining each component in isolation, students can bring all of those perspectives into one discussion.

The same philosophy applies inside the classroom. UCC takes an interdisciplinary approach, with teachers from different fields working together. Its implementation includes educators from design, humanities and civics, and science.

Instead of students switching from a "math brain" to a "history brain" when the bell rings, one problem can lead them into science, economics, technology or its human consequences.

"I think what we're trying to do with system transformation is give them a different way, which allows curiosity to continue to grow," Kwan says.

Students have already demonstrated where that freedom can lead. Kwan talks about a project with the City of Toronto, in which students will delve into Toronto's stormwater challenges.

"We don't expect them to come up with bold, crazy ideas," Kwan says. "At a minimum, kids are going to lean into this project, and they're going to get six months working with outside real-world data that will hopefully stoke them and make them want to continue to do this."

This approach is more real and impactful than when students study a discipline because someone told them it would be useful, or because that's the direction their parents took.

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The program culminates in a six-month capstone project that Kwan compares to a consulting assignment. Students will spend roughly three months trying to understand an issue, such as stormwater and urban environments, as a complete system

– including its stakeholders, pressures and potential points of intervention – before spending another three months designing and implementing a response or intervention.

Perhaps most notable is how that work is assessed. Students aren't graded according to whether their proposed intervention ultimately succeeds. The emphasis is on the process or journey they followed.

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Kwan says traditional outcome-based assessment can encourage ambitious students to reverse-engineer assignments, minimizing risk to maximize their marks. Removing that pressure gives them greater freedom to attempt something difficult.

"If it doesn't work, great," Kwan says. "What a great story you're going have to talk about."

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That willingness to confront complicated problems is central to what UCC hopes students carry beyond the program.

"Learning for us is less is more," Kwan says. "We don't over-program them. We give them food for thought. We give some guidance and then see where they go."

And, in the process, students can explore why they took the approach they did and what they might do otherwise. "But they can go for it, not just take an easy project."

Another project last year sent students to the City of Toronto Archives to research an area surrounding UCC and design five-stop walking tours.

The same relatively small geographic area produced dramatically different results, including explorations of hidden waterways, local art and a tour inspired by the greed and extravagance associated with Casa Loma's Sir Henry Pellatt.

"I think education today is so boxed in," Kwan says. "Every teacher is struggling to meet the requirements of a curriculum that they are required to teach kids so they can get their certification. When we give them loose requirements, and we put less restrictions on kids and get out of the way, they can really surprise you."

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Many school leaders believe that nurturing students – building confidence, resilience and joy in learning – starts with their staff. In other words, creating a positive teaching environment for faculty translates into a positive learning environment for students.

"We know how current challenges, from tight budgets to classroom stress, can deeply affect dedicated educators across school systems," says Dr. Sandra Boyes, executive director of professional development and research with Crescent School, an independent boys school in Toronto.

Those who choose to be an educator as a profession know the role involves much more than being a subject-matter expert, she says. It also involves being a mentor, a coach and a problem-solver.

"It is a tremendous responsibility, and investing in the well-being, career development and work-life balance of our faculty is crucial to the learning experience our students receive," Boyes says.

Research by applied psychologist Dr. Michael Reichert highlights that boys connect with their teachers before they connect with the subject matter. When asked about their most meaningful learning experiences, boys rarely mention lesson plans; they talk about the teachers who inspired them.

So when teachers are carrying high levels of stress, it naturally impacts their daily presence in the classroom. "That is why supporting the well-being of every team member is at the heart of what we do," Boyes says.

Gregory Peck, Crescent's chief people officer, says the school's commitment to faculty and staff well-being starts with being intentional in attracting and retaining mission-aligned talent.

All new teachers to Crescent complete the International Boys' Schools Coalition (IBSC) New to Boys' Schools course. "These programs ensure that Crescent faculty have a sound foundation in how boys learn best, with up-to-date techniques and tools, resulting in an environment where boys flourish," Peck says.

Crescent invests more than \$400,000 annually in professional development, supporting individual development plans that provide tailored pathways for career growth, including annual 'stretch' opportunities with stipends and staff recognition programs.

At Greenwood College School, too, a key focus is the ongoing growth and development of staff. "We hire people who have a growth mindset. Each staff member has an annual growth plan, which is used to support them to level up their practice and build their individual capabilities," says Heather Thomas, principal and head of school at Greenwood College, an independent co-ed school for Grade 7 to Grade 12 in Toronto.

Each member of Greenwood's staff has their own professional growth plan, grounded in the school's strategic plan.

"Each member of the staff has conversations and support for what that looks like in their role within the school," says Mary Gauthier, executive director of Greenwood's Centre for Teaching, Learning and Research. "The research on happiness suggests that people need to see that the work they do matters and that it is seen."

Greenwood intentionally builds connections among staff to nurture a sense of belonging. Much of their professional development is built on collaboration among staff, including problem-solving together, sharing best practices and teaching each other new skills.

There's also a recognition that the attitudes and behaviours that adults model can have a powerful impact on students. "We can, of course, teach about happiness, but it is more impactful for students to feel the effects of happiness," Gauthier says.

This is achieved in a few ways. For example, advisors lead discussions about the meaning of happiness – feeling a sense of belonging and purpose that comes from being part of a dynamic community, rather than trying to be 'happy' all the time.

"At Greenwood, we believe happiness leads to success, not the other way around," Thomas says. "Happiness is a mindset that develops when people are engaged, fulfilled, connected and optimistic."

At Neuchâtel Junior College, the student experience is deeply connected to the people who create it.

"This is particularly important at NJC because our educational experience extends well beyond the classroom," says Megan Watt, interim managing director of operations for NJC's Canadian office. "Our faculty teach, mentor, travel and explore alongside our students, creating the relationships that make a year at NJC so transformative."

Because learning at NJC takes place in classrooms, through travel and within the wider European context, professional learning for faculty is connected not only to academic excellence but also to experiential education, mentorship and student

At Rothesay Netherwood School (RNS), a fundamental goal of the school's five-year strategic plan is to ensure that all employees are supported by a culture that recognizes their contributions, invests in their growth and aligns their work with a clear sense of purpose.

development.

"At its heart, our approach is simple," Watt says. "If we want students to be curious, courageous, connected and ready to grow, we need to create an environment in which the adults around them can experience those things, too."

"We know that great student learning happens only in the context of strong relationships with trusted adults," says Paul McLellan, head of school for RNS, an independent, co-ed boarding and day school for Grade 6 to Grade 12 in Rothesay, a suburb of Saint John, N.B.

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"When our teachers and staff feel a strong sense of belonging and value in a truly caring community, it creates ripple effects that directly benefit our students."

We know that great student learning happens only in the context of strong relationships with trusted adults. When our teachers and staff feel a strong sense of belonging and value in a truly caring community, it creates ripple effects that directly benefit our students."

Fostering an engaged and caring community means providing access to a diverse range of wellness supports for employees, as well as co-constructing achievable annual goals. "We use frequent employee pulse surveys to check in, connect and evolve our wellness approach," McLellan says.

"In many ways, we are trying to create the same conditions for the adults and children at Walden: trust, agency, belonging, opportunities to grow and the confidence to take risks," says Daphne Perugini, head of school with Walden International School, an IB (international baccalaureate) World School in Oakville, Ont., for students in junior kindergarten to Grade 8.

"When teachers experience those things themselves, they are better positioned to create them for their students," she says. "That is where we believe happy staff and flourishing students intersect."

The culture adults experience in a school inevitably becomes part of the culture children experience, she adds. For students to have agency, take intellectual risks and have confidence in their own thinking, then the adults teaching them need to experience those same things.

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Private schools build for the future with ambitious capital investments

Cockwell Hall, designed to bring academics, technology, student life and boarding together, is scheduled for completion at Appleby College in Oakville, Ont., in June 2027 and full student use that fall. This ecosystem for innovation will include classrooms, a common room, study pods, recording booths and additional boarding beds. At its centre will be a 135-square-metre innovation and technology lab. MJMA ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN RENDERING COURTESY OF APPLEBY COLLEGE

For independent schools, major capital projects are much more than adding square footage.

They are an opportunity to build a specialized learning environment unique to that particular school.

At Appleby College in Oakville, Ont., Cockwell Hall is a major new building designed to bring academics, technology, student life and boarding together. The school is looking to create an interconnected ecosystem for innovation, says Fraser Grant, head of school and deputy principal of the co-ed day and boarding school for Grade 7 to Grade 12.

Scheduled for completion in June 2027 and for full student use that fall, Cockwell Hall will include seven classrooms, a 123-square-metre common room, study pods, two recording booths and 16 additional boarding beds. At its centre will be a 135-square-metre innovation and technology lab.

"It's so important that our community, alumni, parents, students, staff and faculty all share our vision of education in the future, and their support is crucial," he says.

Appleby has a steering committee for all its capital projects, with input from all stakeholders.

The new lab will complement Appleby's existing design and robotics labs, giving students three distinct spaces to develop an idea, build a prototype and ultimately test it.

The innovation lab will include an entrepreneurial pitch space, green screen, mobile working pods, podcast rooms and recording stations, with students able to use artificial intelligence to help develop solutions to real-life problems.

"It's a complete ecosystem for innovation and tech right now," Fraser says.

The goal is to take learning beyond the traditional classroom structure. Students studying business, for example, could develop a business plan, pitch it in a professional-style setting and create marketing material using the lab's production facilities.

"We really believe strongly in that experiential side and project-based learning," Fraser says.

"So, being able to take a project now, innovate, design it and actually prototype it and take it through to completion, I think that's going to be so important in the future."

Sustainability remains another major component. Cockwell Hall will use geothermal heating and cooling, high-performance windows, energy-monitoring building automation and construction materials selected with their embodied carbon footprint in mind. A 91-panel solar array is ex-

pected to generate approximately 245,000 kWh of clean electricity annually.

Students will literally be leaving their names on Appleby's latest structure – last spring students were invited to sign structural beams in the innovation lab that will remain exposed when the building is finished.

At Crescent School, a private boys' school for elementary and secondary students in Toronto, a major expansion completed this September addresses a very different need for the students and faculty there: a larger, more flexible gathering place for a student population that had for a long time outgrown its former dining hall.

The centrepiece of the two-year project is the new Alumni Community Hall – a bright, 480-seat space with floor-to-ceiling windows. The goal was to build a welcoming space that accommodates Crescent's entire upper school for meals, gatherings and special events.

The expansion also includes a new school entrance, student commons, office and meeting spaces, a commercial-grade kitchen and multi-station servery. According to the school's chief advancement officer, Jamie Lougheed, separating the servery from the dining area means the hall can remain available throughout the day for student collaboration and social activities rather than being limited to meal periods.

The project was funded through

Our Way Forward, Crescent's most ambitious fundraising campaign, which raised more than \$65-million. Lougheed says tuition covers the school's operating expenses, including salaries, campus maintenance, technology and daily food service, while fundraising supports capital projects, financial assistance and program enhancements.

Crescent's Parent Annual Giving program alone donates approximately \$1.2-million annually. Lougheed says generations of donors have helped build the school's facilities and programs, while current families and alumni are continuing that tradition. Looking further ahead, Crescent is developing a master campus plan examining the school's needs over the next 20-plus years.

Branksome Hall, an independent day and boarding school for girls in Toronto, has opened the Karen L. Jurjevich Innovation Centre and Studio Theatre (iCAST) – a 34,458-square-foot facility designed to bring technology, entrepreneurship and the arts together under one roof. The school held its grand opening Sept. 17.

The world-class facility is intended as an extension of the classroom in which students across disciplines in the junior kindergarten to Grade 12 school can develop, build and test ideas. The iCAST is the first of its kind for any JK-Grade 12 institution in Canada.

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These spaces cultivate the creative confidence needed to push limits, both for today's students and for generations to come."

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artificial intelligence and augmented-reality labs; a STEAM studio; and a pitch area where students and industry experts can present ideas.

The Noodle HQ provides a permanent home for Branksome's business accelerator, while fabrication spaces allow students to manufacture prototypes.

The arts are integrated into that innovation model, as well. A flexible black-box studio theatre features movable seating and a 2,550-square-foot tension grid for professional-quality theatrical lighting, while also providing space for speakers, panels and community events.

The overriding objective in bringing performing arts and technology together is to encourage interdisciplinary work and prepare students for post-secondary education and emerging careers.

The school also sees iCAST as part of its effort to confront the persistent gender gap in STEM by giving girls early access to advanced technologies and hands-on programming.

At Toronto French School (TFS), a private co-ed bilingual school, capital investment is being viewed through the lens of facilities expansion and student wellness infrastructure, according to Jean-Bastien Urfels, head of school.

TFS has opened a new athletic centre at its West Campus in Mississauga, giving students facilities that extend well beyond athletics. The centre includes Gymnase Kaneff, a regulation-size junior school gym that will allow the campus to host basketball and volleyball home games for the first time, Urfels says. The space will also serve as a gathering place for assemblies and graduation ceremonies.

New MakerPro technology and design spaces furnished with 3-D printers and other tools give students opportunities to turn ideas into physical projects. The centre also supports physical education, after-school programming and student wellness.

The project, made possible with support from the TFS community, is part of Can't Wait! La campagne pour TFS and completes one of two capital projects in the school's Master Campus Plan.

Attention is now turning to the Toronto campus, where construction has begun on L'Atelier, a new 37,000-plus-square-foot building designed around interdisciplinary and forward-looking learning. Plans include a 360-seat multipurpose auditorium, a design studio equipped for engineering, robotics, prototyping and applied mathematics, acoustically optimized music and recording rooms, new classrooms and a rooftop terrace. A new health and wellness centre will bring health professionals and student-support services together under one roof.

"The facility is purposely designed to be future-focused, built around flexible, interdisciplinary spaces, which encourage innovative problem-solving, risk-taking and holistic student support," Urfels says. "Moving beyond rote learning, the environments will foster STEAM-driven design thinking, communication and leadership through public speaking, performances and debates.

"By encouraging students to challenge conventions and learn from failure, these spaces cultivate the creative confidence needed to push limits, both for today's students and for generations to come."

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testing solutions with real applications.

Having a 3-D printer and digital fabrication tools is great – but that in and of itself doesn't create meaningful design and engineering programs.

From pedagogical frameworks such as the design thinking process and project-based learning to aligning makerspaces with the curriculum and community partnerships, many private schools are moving beyond simply having a makerspace and building meaningful programs.

Engineering and design is about much more than having a great space to tinker, according to Dave Hlannon, director of education technology with St. Michaels University School (SMUS), a private co-ed, junior kindergarten to Grade 12 boarding school in Victoria, B.C.

"Reframing learning to lead with a design-thinking lens, leading with curiosity and actively building solutions all build critical skills essential to growing student capacity in engineering and design," he says.

SMUS has invested in dedicated educational technology expertise, specialist faculty and a growing pathway of courses in which students tackle authentic problems – working with community and university partners, using industry tools, and designing, building and

This starts in junior school with Applied Design, Skills and Technologies (ADST) classes, a kindergarten to Grade 12 hands-on curriculum framework primarily used in B.C. that teaches students how to solve real-world problems using design thinking and practical skills.

In middle school, students have several course options and electives that involve makerspaces, while students in senior school have access to an evolving engineering, technology and design department.

"We give the students messy, intractable problems and give them opportunities to struggle and learn from their failures," Hlannon says.

The toolkits that students work with – from software to 3-D printers and laser cutters – is “the very same you could find in a commercial industrial site,” he says. “Students are building skills using some of the very same tools that the professionals are using on a daily basis.”

Courses with experienced teachers are offered in Grade 3 to Grade 12, while specialist lab technicians support students in all of the school's design spaces.

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"In SMUS senior school programs, there is a lot of work with external partners at post-secondary partners like the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria (UVic) to make use of university labs and expertise," Hlannon says.

The Victoria Hand Project (VHP), a local charity with connections to the University of Victory, is one of SMUS' project partners. SMUS students work with VHP to design and prototype extensions for their low-cost prosthetics, which are used around the globe. Some of these projects are furthered by VHP engineers and designers into real items people with prosthetics can use.

"Tasks that our students take for granted, such as zipping up a zipper or strumming a guitar, are near impossible for individuals needing these prosthetics," Hlannon says. "The adaptive extensions they design expand the capabilities of these recipients and improve their lives."

Moving beyond a traditional makerspace requires shifting the focus from the final product to the learning process itself, says Penny Senior, technology teacher at Trafalgar Castle School in Whitby, Ont., an independent all-girls day and boarding school.

At Trafalgar, this is achieved through a scaffolded STEAM program from Grade 4 through Grade 12, ensuring a natural, develop-

mentally appropriate progression of skills.

The program integrates the design thinking process, Senior says, which emphasizes building empathy for the user and developing resilience through 'productive failure' – a concept that teaches students to troubleshoot, iterate and improve designs when a prototype inevitably fails.

"Our courses demand authentic problem-solving, such as our Grade 9 collaboration where students design their own businesses in entrepreneurship and manufacture tangible products in tech class using our 3-D printers and laser cutters," Senior says.

Grade 10 students visit Amazon's engineering department to see their learning in real-world practice. Amazon shares how they use the design thinking process and artificial intelligence to design and manufacture products.

Students master industry-standard tools, including CAD (TinkerCad and OnShape), Python, Java, C++ (Arduino) and 3-D printers, as well as woodworking tools and Glowforge using a laser engraver and cutter.

"They design, build and test practical solutions, such as drafting blueprints to manufacture birdhouses or building and testing life-size cardboard boat prototypes in our pool," Senior says.

Students leverage these tools to address environmental issues, such as coding Micro:Bits to act as pollinator counters in the school's gardens or designing sustainable rigid sails for cargo ships.

To solve real accessibility challenges, for example, Grade 8 students interviewed people who use wheelchairs – helping to build empathy – and then designed a prototype robotic system aimed at making the school more accessible.

Trafalgar's Beyond the Castle program also dedicates a full week to off-campus experiential learning, engaging students in workshops at institutions such as the University of Waterloo, the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University.

"We partner with industry leaders like Deloitte, Microsoft, Sunlife and Amazon for facility tours, mentorship panels and exposure to real-world corporate technologies and their research and development departments," Senior says.

"Our deep collaboration with Ontario Tech University provides access to their Maker's Lab, competitive coding workshops, micro-credential courses and guaranteed undergraduate admission for our students," she adds.

For example, Grade 9 students participated in a grant with Ontario Tech University to design apps using virtual reality headsets to assist dementia patients. And students in Grade 7 and Grade 8 collaborated with Durham College, visiting their manufacturing department and science labs to enhance the science and technology program.

Teaching frameworks, experiential learning and community partnerships all help to build meaningful design and engineering programs – ones that reach far beyond the makerspace.

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Boys' and girls' brains are different, which is why sex-specific approaches work

It's well known that children's brains differ from those of adults. But what can be gained by understanding differences between boys' and girls' brains? For independent schools, research in this field can add another dimension to how to support students' needs, alongside a broader appreciation of the factors that shape their development.

"Scientific research continues to shed light on the differences between male and female brain development, and it's important to say that neither is better – but they are different," says Catherine Hant, head of school at St. Mildred's-Lightbourn School (SMLS), an all-girls school in Oakville, Ont.

"It's clear that girls' brains don't just mature differently – they bring incredible, unique strengths to the classroom every single day. That is why a school designed for how girls learn is so important."

Hant points to studies by experts such Dr. Jay Giedd, a leading child and adolescent psychiatrist and neuroscientist, along with ongoing research collected by the International Coalition of Girls' Schools (ICGS), which provide insights into sex-specific development.

While Dr. Giedd has said the IQs of boys and girls are very similar, there are differences between boys' and girls' brains both in the size of certain structures and in their development patterns. The general trend for brain maturation is that girls' brains mature earlier than boys' brains.

"MRI imaging also shows enhanced communication between the left and right sides of the brain in girls, allowing for multitasking, complex social cognition and the ability to combine analytical detail with emotional context," Hant says. "Researchers have also found that girls tend to develop prefrontal cortex networks earlier. These are the home of impulse control, planning and self-regulation, which gives them a distinct advantage in reflective, self-directed learning."

For SMLS, research on sex-specific brain differences affirms the school's core purpose, while providing fresh insights to continually refine its teaching approach. "It proves that our single-sex environment isn't about isolating girls – it's about creating a supportive space where they can thrive on their natural biological timeline," Hant says.

"We don't try to fit girls into a standard, one-size-fits-all model; we design the model around them," she continues. "And when we combine this with research on data on school systems worldwide, like the ICGS-OECD report from 2023, it reinforces the impact of a girls' education. It really works with their strengths to set them up for success."

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McGuiness says these experiences are intentionally designed to help students uncover strengths, test assumptions about potential career paths and become comfortable working in unfamiliar environments.

Across Grade 7 to Grade 12, the approach emphasizes curiosity, open-mindedness, adaptability, empathy, collaboration, self-awareness and independence. Experiences are integrated with academics through project-based learning, authentic assessments and Appleby's Diplomas of Distinction (global leadership, STEM leadership, business leadership and creative arts leadership).

"It's about making them future-ready," Guiness says. "They're not just meant to be a container of knowledge, but actually they need to be able to apply that to be able to function in their sort of future place."

At Toronto French School, a co-ed bilingual school in Toronto, that encounter with the working world can begin in Grade 10 through Le Stage, which matches students with mentors in fields connected to their interests for workplace internships, says Jean-Bastien Urfels, head of school. The school's Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Business program takes another route. Students spend a semester learning from industry experts while launching their own ventures, producing minimum viable products and testing ideas. The course culminates in the TFS Cougars' Den, where students pitch business models to expert judges and the top two receive seed funding.

Urfels says those experiences are embedded in TFS education rather than treated as add-ons. The same philosophy extends internationally, where students participate in activities such as Model United Nations in Morocco and learn about UNESCO in Paris, and onto the school's campus, to life in the school? Hant says because SMLS understands how girls learn, every corner of the school is built to play to their strengths and build their confidence.

"We know that girls excel when concepts are tied to human connection and communication," she says. "Whether it's physics or poetry, we wrap high academic rigour in collaborative, discussion-rich experiences."

SMLS also introduces hands-on spatial design, geometry and engineering early. Hant says this ensures girls "build rock-solid spatial confidence long before societal stereotypes ever try to tell them otherwise." The school also cultivates a culture of fearless risk-taking, where taking big intellectual risks and making mistakes are celebrated as crucial steps in learning.

One example is SMLS's approach to STEM and robotics. "Our coding and robotics programs use iterative design. So, if a robot doesn't work on the first try, our girls don't see a failure – they see data to debug and improve," Hant says.

"We also weave science and math into real-world human challenges, leveraging girls' strong relational processing to make complex, abstract concepts deeply personal and memorable."

That emphasis for creating space for girls to thrive is echoed by Melissa Knight-Johnson, head of school at Trafalgar Castle School, an all-girls school in Oakville, Ont. She says that while research shows certain sex-related differences, the science doesn't show all boys will learn one way and girls will only learn another.

"It's not about delivering a fundamentally different curriculum versus boys," says Knight-Johnson.

"What we do at Trafalgar, based on lots of research, data and 152 years of experience in educating girls – is create an environment where girls can occupy every space. Whatever that space is, whatever that leadership position is, it's them having access, encouragement and scaffolded planning for how they occupy those spaces."

Knight-Johnson says Trafalgar pays close attention to the intersection of achievement, which is important, but can become a fixation, confidence, which can be impacted in the teenage years, and well-being.

"We bring those together so that a student who might be doing really well academically becomes more comfortable speaking out in a classroom," she says.

"That's very important to us. It's our responsibility to instill not just a competence, but confidence, agency resilience and willingness to take appropriate risks. Another hallmark of our program is that we encourage them to take risk and sometimes fail, because through failing we learn."

where its Don Valley setting becomes a living classroom for environmental science, research, art and stewardship.

Business competitions, international trips and community projects to expose students to possibilities beyond a conventional classroom are also a part of Crestwood Preparatory College's approach. Kim Williams, director of admissions, says programs such as DECA business competitions can help students identify strengths, explore interests and obtain a clearer sense of possible pathways while building communication, collaboration, adaptability and confidence.

At Lakefield College School, a co-ed school on the Otonabee River in Lakefield, Ont., the real-world laboratory is often the outdoors, says Janice Greenshields, assistant head of sustainability. More than 78 per cent of students take outdoor education courses, learning skills ranging from navigation and wilderness first aid to leadership, whitewater paddling and winter expedition skills.

"What's unique to Lakefield is that all of our outdoor experiences are developed and led by our own faculty and staff," Greenshields says. That includes Grade 12 students canoeing in Algonquin Park, hiking the Bruce Trail or working on a community-shared agriculture program. Instead of isolated adventures, outdoor learning is part of the curriculum.

Lakefield also combines global exchanges, co-curricular exploration, hands-on business education and community partnerships to give students practical, real-world learning opportunities. Students can explore potential careers through clubs ranging from entrepreneurship and law to coding and AI, while business courses emphasize case studies, decision-making and leadership.

"We never know what is going to be thrown our way or what problems will need to be solved in our job," Greenshields says. "Our students need to be able to think on their feet, make decisions and gain consensus from their peers."

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Societal norms can condition girls to be conformists rather than risk takers. All-girls schools such as Bishop Strachan School encourage students to go outside their comfort zones. IMAGE COURTESY OF BISHOP STRACHAN SCHOOL

Girls need more opportunities to take risks. And that's exactly what several all-girls' schools have set out to do, by building confidence through intentional programming, extracurriculars and leadership opportunities.

"Deep-seated societal norms historically conditioned women to act as caretakers and conformists rather than bold decision-makers," says Lynda Watters, deputy head of school for the Bishop Strachan School (BSS), an Anglican day and boarding school for girls in Toronto from junior kindergarten to Grade 12.

Overcoming these lingering un-written rules drives their work at the school. "The Signature of a BSS girl explicitly integrates calculated risk-taking into everyday school life, providing students with daily opportunities to step outside their comfort zones and build grit," Watters says.

In an all-girls environment, every leadership role – from academic team captain to head prefect – is held by a young woman. They lead both in highly visible capacities and through everyday moments.

"To drive meaningful change in the world, young women must learn to navigate uncertainty," Watters says. "We equip girls with the knowledge to make thoughtful decisions, the courage to execute them and the confidence to live with the outcomes." They learn that failure isn't a setback, but essential for future growth.

Risk-taking happens in many ways within and outside the school. Whether a student is taking a decisive shot from the blue line in hockey, challenging a peer's viewpoint in class or running against close friends for a leadership role, these all involve risk.

"Research consistently highlights a strong correlation between female C-suite executives and participation in high-level sports, largely because athletics teach individuals how to handle pressure, take calculated risks and rebound from failure," Watters says.

"At BSS, we extend those opportunities across every area of student life," she says. "Recently, a student addressed the entire school with eloquence and poise, a milestone that felt impossible to her just two years ago."

It's these incremental, repeated risk-taking opportunities in supportive settings that help to transform initial doubt into long-term leadership confidence.

Since every student is unique – what feels daunting to one student may come naturally to another – risk at BSS is personalized.

"By knowing our students deeply, we support them as they push past their existing proficiencies," Watters says. "True growth occurs outside one's comfort zone, so we actively encourage girls to explore unfamiliar disciplines alongside their established passions."

For example, BSS encourages intellectual, athletic, artistic and interpersonal risk-taking. This ranges from presenting independent research to industry experts and pitching original ventures in innovation challenges to taking on solo stage performances and founding new student initiatives from the ground up.

At Trafalgar Castle School, an independent all-girls day and boarding school for students in Grade 4 to Grade 12 in Whitby, Ont., risk is seen as an essential part of change-making.

"Society often subtly conditions girls to seek perfection over taking chances, reinforcing a fear of making mistakes, being judged or stepping outside comfortable boundaries in academic or social settings," says Kate Hebdon, Trafalgar's deputy head of school.

"When girls learn that failure is simply iteration and data gathering, rather than a reflection of their worth, they develop the confidence to take on significant challenges down the road," she says.

Taking risks fosters intellectual courage, adaptable problem-solving, self-advocacy, leadership and emotional regulation. And when this is done in a school setting, it serves as a “controlled laboratory” for life beyond graduation.

"It is a safety net of care while taking a risk," Hebdon says. This prepares students to "navigate ambiguity, stand up for their ideas and bounce back from setbacks in university and career settings."

Trafalgar creates an all-female, small-by-design environment in which social pressure is removed, making it safe to experiment, fail and try again.

The school actively encourages intellectual risks (such as speaking up or collaborating while expressing differences of opinion), creative and technical risks (such as design thinking and prototyping) and personal and social risks (such as stepping into leadership roles and community engagement).

For example, in its business entrepreneurship course, Grade 9 students work to address an issue and curate a product that the community would benefit from – and then sell it at the school's May Day celebration.

"All our Grade 11 and 12 students take on leading a five-session workshop for their peers and younger students, sharing a particular skill or interest area to share and explore together," Hebdon says.

These real-world opportunities and experiences draw students out of their comfort zones, and from which they learn to work through feelings of friction or awkwardness.

Even in today's day and age, girls and women still face subtle societal expectations that influence their identity and how they behave.

"There's this idea that raising their hand with an uncertain answer or stepping into a high-stakes competitive role is at odds with social pres-"

sures to be agreeable to others," says Brad Read, deputy head of academics with St. Mildred's-Lightbourn School (SMLS), an independent all-girls school in Oakville, Ont.

"Unconscious biases can still steer girls away from stepping into environments like robotics, advanced STEM or leadership positions," he says. "And there's this sense that failure is unacceptable, leading them to stay inside their comfort zones rather than attempt something where success isn't guaranteed."

SMLS works to create an environment in which gender isn't a barrier. That's important, Read says, because girls need dedicated spaces to take risks – confidence is built through practice, not perfection.

"When girls are sheltered from potential failure, they miss out on learning how capable they truly are," Read says. "When girls step out of their comfort zone, they learn to reframe failure as a normal, healthy part of learning and growth."

And this can help them shatter gender stereotypes, especially in male-dominated spaces such as engineering, business and tech, and normalizes taking the initiative.

"We know that women who step up in school are far more likely to apply for ambitious jobs, ask for promotions or launch entrepreneurial ventures later in life," Read says.

At SMLS, risk-taking is intentionally woven into its culture. In a school engineered entirely for girls, every single role is held by a girl. Teachers and advisors act as active mentors who guide them through setbacks.

And risk-taking isn't left to chance; it's built directly into structured programming, such as giving girls real-world opportunities such as professional placements, international exchanges and competitive teams.

Girls can take Advanced Placement (AP) courses, organize a school assembly, try a new sport or become a house leader. They can also dive into coding or join SWAT 771, its senior robotics team – a STEM area in which girls have historically been underrepresented.

"School is the ultimate testing ground," Read says. "It's a safe place for students to take intellectual and personal risks during their formative years, which gives girls a head start on real-world leadership."

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