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2026年8月31日，星期一

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一名女性周日在加德满都的一家医院查看失踪人员的照片。据尼泊尔灾害机构称，上周的洪水过后，仍有超过 2,500 人失踪。MANAN VATSYAYANA / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

伤亡人数攀升

行程组织者表示，尼泊尔山洪暴发导致失踪的宗教朝圣者可能已遇难，幸存者搜寻工作仍在继续 ■ A5

在华盛顿的朝鲜战争纪念碑前，加拿大与美国之间的裂痕显而易见

伊琳·加莱亚 华盛顿

在华盛顿国家广场距离白宫仅几步之遥的朝鲜战争阵亡将士纪念碑上，加拿大和美国的国名均以银色镶嵌。

这座纪念碑旨在纪念 1950-53 年朝鲜战争期间服役的人员，见证了这场冲突所付出的共同代价。近 27,000 名加拿大人作为联合国部队的一部分在朝鲜服役，与数百万美国人并肩作战。战争期间共有 516 名加拿大人牺牲，使其成为加拿大继两次世界大战之后最惨烈的海外冲突。

在列出 22 个参战国的纪念碑花岗岩延伸面上，“加拿大”和“美国”这两个名字分别位于两端。

此时此刻，这种距离似乎象征着另一种分歧：在贸易谈判破裂几天后，两国公民对彼此关系的关注程度截然不同。最近一个傍晚参观纪念碑的美国人似乎对此话题关注极少。

地图抵抗运动找到了一个令人惊讶的领导者，香农·普劳德富特（Shannon Proudfoot）撰文 ■ A4

“我们与加拿大的关系完全不在我的关注重点上，”来自马里兰州的瑞安·芬尼根（Ryan Finnegan）在纪念碑附近散步时表示，“并非针对加拿大，只是在我的思考优先级中，这件事被搁置了。”

根据安格斯·里德（Angus Reid）在 7 月和 8 月进行的调查，略多于半数的加拿大人表示他们正在“密切”关注关税威胁，而美国人的比例则不足四分之一。四分之一的美国人表示根本没有听说过此事。 ■ 纪念碑，A4

受关税打击，该国模具制造商转向增长的国防部门 ■ B1

天文学家满怀期待地见证 NASA 望远镜启程，开启一场史诗般的宇宙巡天之旅

伊万·塞梅纽克 (IVAN SEMENIUK) 科学记者

当三位美国天文学家因发现宇宙膨胀在加速而获得 2011 年诺贝尔物理学奖时，安德里亚·克雷斯皮 (Andrea Crespi) 还在意大利读初中。

在那个时候，这种加速的谜团——以及驱动它的被称为“暗能量”的奇特现象——似乎是一个无法解决的问题。

快进 15 年，如今在安大略省滑铁卢大学攻读研究生的克雷斯皮先生，可能成为了目前最有机会破解暗能量之谜的人之一。

随着周日上午南希·格雷斯·罗曼太空望远镜在佛罗里达州肯尼迪航天中心成功发射，这一令人兴奋的可能性向现实又迈进了一步。

该望远镜以 NASA 首任首席天文学家的名字命名，她曾助力开启太空天文学时代。现在，该望远镜准备探索研究人员关于宇宙的一些最深层问题，而暗能量位列榜首。

“这感觉像是一个机会，”克雷斯皮先生在谈到这次发射时表示，“就像我们正处于故事的转折点。”

尽管人们担心天气会导致清晨的起飞推迟，但条件最终证明足够有利，一枚 SpaceX 重型猎鹰火箭在东部时间上午 7:26 将望远镜轰鸣着送向太空。

这座巴士大小的观测站目前正处于前往 L2 的 100 天旅程中。L2 是空间中距离地球约 150 万公里的一个点，那里的引力平衡方式使得位于该处的天体能够轻松地保持相对于地球的位置。 ■ 望远镜，A7

文化 加拿大之星在受 Olivia Rodrigo 的 Lilith Fair 启发的音乐节上获得赞誉 ■ A15

医疗保健 急诊室医生报告患者数量达到前所未有的水平，夏季并未迎来缓解 ■ A6

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页眉

一个不列颠哥伦比亚省的团队找到了杀死海星的元凶。现在，阻止它的竞赛已经开始 ■ A8

秘密加拿大

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页眉....A8-9 社论与信函....A10 观点....A11 生活与艺术....A12 天气与第一人称...A13 益智游戏....A14

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商业报告....B1 观点与分析....B4 全球投资者....B8 体育....B10 漫画....B12 讣告....B16

播客

艾莉·格雷厄姆 (Allie Graham) 探讨人们如何利用假期学习新技能

周一至周五：$5.00 周六：$9.00 部分地区价格可能更高

文件显示：高铁线路在 40 年内的成本可能高达 $150-billion

比尔·库里 (BILL CURRY) 渥太华分局副局长 渥太华

《全球邮报》获得的一份内部文件显示，从多伦多到魁北克市的高铁线路在计入四十年运营和维护费用后，总成本预计约为 $150-billion——这一数字远高于联邦官员经常引用的范围。

Alto——负责这一巨型基础设施项目的国有企业——表示，该高铁线路的成本将在 $60-billion 至 $90-billion 之间。该机构表示，随着项目的推进，将公布更精确的成本估算。

这一公开的成本范围经常被用于媒体评论中，并清晰地列在 Alto 网站的问答环节中。该回答并未区分项目的资本成本与其运营和维护成本。

内部数据还显示，该国有企业预计票务收入将足以覆盖项目的运营支出。

随着加拿大建设高铁服务的前景日益成为现实，该项目在成本和潜在路线方面面临着越来越多的反对，包括保守党党魁皮埃尔·波利耶夫尔 (Pierre Poilievre)，他已承诺如果成为总理将取消该项目，以及东安大略省当地和省级立法者，他们担心高铁线路会对其农村社区产生影响。

安大略省被敦促重新考虑关于监狱死亡人数的《验尸官法》修正案

吉尔·马奥尼 (JILL MAHONEY)

囚犯权益倡导者正敦促安大略省政府保留对囚犯死亡事件进行强制性验尸官调查的制度，称在监狱死亡人数增加的当下，此类听证会能促进透明度。

政府拟取消对任何死于非自然原因的囚犯进行调查的要求。取而代之的是，验尸官办公室将对矫正设施中的死亡情况进行年度审查。

但卡尔顿大学犯罪学教授亚历山大·麦克莱兰 (Alexander McClelland) 表示，这种改变将限制机构的问责制，并剥夺家属获得答案的机会。他一直追踪加拿大境内的羁押死亡事件。

他说：“结果将是，全省范围内发生的一系列死亡事件最终只会成为报告中的一个脚注，人们无法参与其中，也无法了解死亡的具体情况或环境。”

验尸官调查是旨在查明事实而非判定责任的听证会。其目标是通过非约束性的建议来帮助防止未来的死亡。在安大略省，隶属于总检察长部的首席验尸官办公室必须在某些情况下举行调查，包括意外的监狱死亡、警方羁押期间的死亡以及被身体约束的精神病患者的死亡。 验尸官，A15

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伊丽莎白·辛德勒 (ELIZABETH SCHINDLER) 爱德华·伯廷斯基 (EDWARD BURTYNSKY) 的《海岸山脉 #3，黑塔峰》，加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省

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加拿大制造

爱德华·伯廷斯基 (EDWARD BURTYNSKY)，《海岸山脉 #3，黑塔峰》，加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省，2023, 2024，柯达专业相纸颜料喷墨打印，第 2 版（共 4 版），148.6 X 198.1 厘米，奥丹艺术博物馆馆藏。艺术家捐赠。照片：© 爱德华·伯廷斯基，由多伦多尼古拉斯·梅蒂维尔画廊 (NICHOLAS METIVIER GALLERY) 提供。

奥丹艺术博物馆位于不列颠哥伦比亚省的惠斯勒，由迈克尔·奥丹 (Michael Audain) 和原佐嘉 (Yoshiko Karasawa) 的慈善捐赠创立。作为加拿大较新的博物馆之一，它于 2016 年向公众开放。该博物馆的永久馆藏拥有 300 多件代表不列颠哥伦比亚省艺术的作品。全年举办的特别展览则展出具有国家和国际影响力的艺术家作品。audainartmuseum.com

总部位于多伦多的艺术家爱德华·伯廷斯基因拍摄全球工业开发导致环境退化的巨幅照片而获得国际认可。然而，这张拍摄于惠斯勒附近加里波第省级公园内火山烟囱峰——黑塔峰 (Black Tusk) 的照片，让人想起 19 世纪早期德国画家卡斯帕·大卫·弗里德里希 (Caspar David Friedrich) 的作品。

两位艺术家都对山岳景象持有浪漫主义的崇敬，然而，伯廷斯基先生的数字化作品在底层仍保留着一种哀歌，感叹由于过度的人类活动而迅速变化的景观。

大卫·什里布曼 (DAVID SHRIBMAN)

观点

特朗普痴迷于重新命名事物，但在地理问题上他站不住脚 ■ A11

专栏作家

除了牛奶和酸奶，还有几种被忽视的食物可以提供充足的钙 ■ A12

更正

一篇关于加拿大校园学生暴力增加的周六新闻文章中错误地称，目前儿童在安大略省自闭症计划（Ontario Autism Program）下获得诊断的等待时间超过五年。目前的等待时间最高为三年。

汤姆·麦克唐纳 (TOM MacDONALD)

观点

加拿大应对所有进口车辆征收全球关税，以维持其汽车产业的生存 ■ B1

冰岛在全民公投中拒绝加入欧盟的谈判

冰岛总理克里斯特伦·弗罗斯塔多蒂尔（Kristrun Frostadottir）周日在雷克雅未克举行新闻发布会，此前该国在一次竞争激烈的全民公投中拒绝了加入欧盟的谈判。LEONHARD FOEGER / 路透社

JOHAN AHLANDER TOM LITTLE

周日公布的全民公投结果显示，冰岛人投票决定留在欧盟之外。他们拒绝了政府重启成员国谈判的推动，并支持那些认为冰岛渔业水域过于重要而不能冒险的人。

这个拥有 400,000 人的北极岛国在十多年时间里一直就是否加入欧盟进行辩论。最初预计该国将以微弱优势支持举行成员国谈判，但本月的民意调查显示观点已经发生了变化。

一名欧盟外交官告诉路透社：“这对布鲁塞尔来说是一个明显的挫折，”并补充说，渔业和独立问题起到了决定性作用。

据公共广播公司 RUV 和其他冰岛媒体报道，在周六的全民公投中，52.8% 的选票反对政府与布鲁塞尔进行谈判的提议，47.2% 的选票表示赞成，合资格选民的投票率为 82.5%。

在六个选区中，只有雷克雅未克市中心的两个选区以多数票表示赞成，而农村地区和雷克雅未克郊区则投了反对票。

政府将成员身份定义为抵御贸易战和北极竞争的盾牌，并将此次公投描述为“现在或永远不再”的时刻。总理克里斯特伦·弗罗斯塔多蒂尔表示，只要她的中左翼联盟执政，一次“反对”票就将结束这场辩论。

在布鲁塞尔，一些官员曾表示希望冰岛的加入投票能够减轻对欧盟扩员的怀疑，并在北极安全成为焦点时从战略上加强该集团。

冰岛是北约成员国，但没有自己的常备军。在美总统唐纳德·特朗普对美国对该军事联盟的承诺表示怀疑之际，冰岛也讨论了加入欧盟是否能增强该国的安全性。

特朗普还多次表示，他希望收购另一个北极岛屿——格陵兰岛。

但对于一些冰岛人来说，渔业比安全更受关注。数据显示，渔业是冰岛最大的产业之一，其直接和间接贡献占国内生产总值的 15%，约占出口收入的 40%。

这个岛国在 2009 年金融危机袭击其规模较小且易受影响的经济体时，首次申请加入欧盟。一个怀疑欧盟的政府在 2013 年结束了谈判。

在周六的全民公投之前，由于冰岛一直与高通胀和高利率作斗争，财务问题再次成为核心议题。

“赞成”票的支持者表示，成为欧盟成员，以及可能采用欧元，可以带来缓解。冰岛央行的利率为 8%，而欧洲中央银行的利率为 2.25%。

冰岛最大的工会之一 Viska 的首席经济学家维尔亚尔穆尔·希尔马森（Vilhjalmur Hilmarsson）表示：“这不能解决冰岛的结构性缺陷，但它可以成为经济变得更健康的催化剂。”

领导“反对”运动的反对党领袖古德伦·哈夫斯坦斯多蒂尔（Gudrun Hafsteinsdottir）表示，经济理由被夸大了。她说：“这些不是布鲁塞尔能为我们解决的问题。这些是冰岛政治家必须解决的问题。”

70 岁的选民拉格尼尔杜尔·斯卡普赫丁斯多蒂尔（Ragnhildur Skarphedinsdottir）表示，冰岛独立运作得很好，因此她投票选择“反对”。

她在雷克雅未克投票前表示：“通过保持现状的独立，我们对未来充满期待。”

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特朗普炫耀委内瑞拉石油协议

5月，委内瑞拉的卡登（Cardon）炼油厂。代理总统德尔西·罗德里格斯（Delcy Rodríguez）表示，与美国的协议将使其国家开发新油田并增加产量。GABY ORAA / 路透社

美国总统分享链接称，控制该南美国家的巨额储备将使“加拿大收到警告”

奥利维亚·格兰迪（OLIVIA GRANDY）

美国总统唐纳德·特朗普已与委内瑞拉达成一项协议，以控制其石油储备，并发出信号，称在贸易战升级之际，该安排应被视为对加拿大的警告。

周日，特朗普在社交媒体上分享了一个链接，称这项将使美国获得该南美国家巨额石油储备多数控制权的委内瑞拉协议，让“加拿大收到警告”。

专家表示，该协议是在美加贸易谈判破裂几天后宣布的，可能会迫使加拿大原油在未来几年与委内瑞拉的产品进行逐桶竞争。

总统在 Truth Social 的一篇帖子中表示，这些储备将用于填补位于墨西哥湾沿岸的美国战略石油储备（SPR），该储备在近年来为应对全球供应中断和高燃料价格而大幅下降。同一天，特朗普发布了一系列针对加拿大的帖子，攻击该国的汽车工业，并敦促加拿大公司将业务转移到美国以避免关税。

委内瑞拉代理总统德尔西·罗德里格斯表示，该协议是与美国一项“为期25年的双边项目”，将使其国家开发新油田并显著提高生产目标。

多伦多商品背景公司（Commodity Context）的石油市场分析师罗里·约翰斯顿（Rory Johnston）表示，委内瑞拉在历史上一直面临产品进入市场的挑战，并称特朗普关于该协议将使 650 亿美元 桶石油处于美国控制之下的说法是“掩护手段”。

“尽管委内瑞拉拥有这些巨大的所谓储备，但他们目前的日产量仅约为 100 万桶，”他说。相比之下，加拿大每天生产超过 530 万 桶原油。

约翰斯顿表示，无论如何，对于加拿大原油工业而言，美委伙伴关系最终产生的影响可能是流入美国墨西哥湾沿岸石油竞争的“渐进式”增加。

约翰斯顿说，在其他条件相同的情况下，这种转变可能会导致“加拿大的油价略微恶化”，并补充说，跌幅可能会“在每桶 \$4 到 \$5 左右”。加拿大原油的质量与委内瑞拉原油相似。

在 Truth Social 上，特朗普表示，SPR 的“补齐”将“很快”开始，不过尚未提供关于协议时间表的更多细节。在伊朗战争期间，美国驾驶员最近在加油站感受到了压力。

罗德里格斯在社交媒体上表示，该协议“将促进大量投资，旨在恢复和重建用于发展我们碳氢化合物工业的战略基础设施”。经过数十年的破坏和衰败，委内瑞拉的石油基础设施处于失修状态。

该协议的宣布是在特朗普指示美国军方执行一项行动，抓捕委内瑞拉前领导人尼古拉斯·马杜罗（Nicolás Maduro）并将其押往美国，使其面临联邦麻醉恐怖主义和贩毒指控近九个月之后。

周六，罗德里格斯在国家广播公司 VTV 上表示，该协议将涉及开发 17 个战略油田，生产目标为每天 150 万 桶以上。同一天，《华尔街日报》报道称，美国政府计划持有委内瑞拉商人亚历杭德罗·贝坦库尔（Alejandro Betancourt）的私人石油公司北美蓝色能源伙伴公司（North American Blue Energy Partners）35% 的被动股权。

约翰斯顿先生表示，这项协议表明美国正在使其进口来源多样化，以减少对长期以来最依赖的国家——加拿大的依赖。

“在同一脉络下，我们需要继续加倍努力，使我们对他们能源需求的依赖多样化，”他说道，并补充称，这一问题触及了长期以来推动西海岸管道建设的诉求——该项目已被总理马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）列为优先事项。

驻多伦多的能源分析师德米特里·弗罗洛夫斯基（Dmitriy Frolovskiy）同样表示，特朗普先生的这项协议是一个信号，提醒加拿大应致力于扩大石油出口目的国名单。

“你需要更具流动性，需要更灵活，并且实际上需要探索新市场。因为如果你不探索新市场，那么这就是一场竞争，”他说道。

退休外交官兼大使肖恩·巴伯（Shawn Barber）表示，这是一场加拿大面临失败风险的竞争，是对国家经济安全的威胁。

“特朗普说过，美国不需要也不想要我们的汽车、钢铁和铝，”巴伯先生说道，他曾任加拿大公共安全部经济安全工作组负责人。

“通过这项协议，他向我们发出了警告。他现在是在表明，在未来的几年里，美国也将不再需要我们的石油。”

（本文由路透社报道）

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上周，在美国总统唐纳德·特朗普签署一项行政命令将安大略湖 (Lake Ontario) 更名为“美国湖” (Lake America) 的同一天，MapQuest——没错，就是那个在21世纪初用一叠打印好的路线指引引导无数次公路旅行的 MapQuest——发布了一条简单且直截了当的消息：“我们不改名。”

就这样，这家你甚至不知道还在经营的地图公司，成了反抗总统之癖的吉祥物。特朗普喜欢以一种像狗在消防栓旁抬起后腿标记领地的方式，为地理特征重新命名。

MapQuest 总经理道格·伯格 (Doug Berger) 指出，他们这种俏皮的反叛实际上始于去年对墨西哥湾的重新品牌化。

“我不会将其称为一种立场，我会称之为一次时机恰到好处的玩笑，”他在一次采访中表示，并补充说，极其热烈的反响表明公司做出了正确的决定。“这让我们意识到，无论是否涉及政治立场，这就是人们想要的。人们显然希望保留他们所认知的水域名称。”

伯格先生表示，该应用在周末迎来了“数十万新用户”，并指出它已成为苹果 App Store 中排名第二的热门导航应用。

在我们交谈两小时后，MapQuest 超过了 Google 地图，夺得第 1 名。

伯格先生说，MapQuest 最初的玩笑是，他们不更改地理名称是因为他们不知道如何更新地图，这是在调侃公众认为那里已经没人工作的刻板印象。他说，他们很清楚这些笑点，但事实上，这家总部位于洛杉矶的公司目前拥有 50 名员工，每月有 4000 万 人使用该应用。

MapQuest 的母公司 System1 在安大略省的圭尔夫 (Guelph) 设有办公室，这或许解释了其中蕴含的一些狡黠且具有反叛精神的加拿大式幽默。

“我们很高兴能参与到这场对话中，并为那些手机预装应用提供另一种替代方案，”伯格先生说。他指出，即使是所有关于人们惊讶地发现 MapQuest 依然存在的玩笑，也证明了它在人们记忆中的地位。

该公司还创建了一个简易的网页工具，允许用户重新命名一些特朗普试图据为己有的地标。例如，你可以凭空创造一张包含“你开什么玩笑湾” (Gulf of AreYouEffingKiddingMe) 或“小手湖” (Lake Tiny Hands) 的地图——总之，任何让你觉得对自己的反抗努力有意义的名称都可以。

“全球各地已经存在某种地缘政治命名地点的先例，根据你身处世界的哪个位置、哪个国家，你可能会看到不同地点的不同名称，”伯格先生说。“由于 MapQuest 主要在美国和加拿大使用，我们觉得就为了怎么称呼这些东西而产生争论简直是疯了，这也是为什么我们觉得自己在这一时刻能代表一种声音的原因。”

周末期间，社交媒体上充斥着人们宣布将安装 MapQuest 并抛弃 Google 地图的消息，此前这家科技巨头在周六宣布，其地图已切换为“美国湖”。Google 表示，这样做是为了与美国的地理名称信息系统 (Geographic Names Information System) 保持一致，并引用公司政策称应与官方政府来源对齐。

“在美国使用地图的用户将看到‘美国湖’（Lake America），在加拿大使用地图的用户将继续看到‘安大略湖’（Lake Ontario），而美国和加拿大以外的用户将同时看到这两个名称，”谷歌在的一篇博客文章中表示，文中附有一张图表，向国际用户显示该水域被标注为“安大略湖（美国湖）”。

另一方面，皇家加拿大地理学会则挺身而出，挥舞起反抗的旗帜。其外部事务高级副总裁罗丝玛丽·汤普森（Rosemary Thompson）在《政策》（Policy）杂志中写道，就其组织而言，“安大略湖依然是安大略湖”。

她重点介绍了皇家加拿大地理学会的“加拿大地球仪”——这是一个直径 127 厘米的定制海滩球，象征着一种抵抗，旨在“坚定地保护那些近期被特朗普式地理词典所抹除的名称和地点”。

该地球仪去年在学会俯瞰渥太华河的总部揭幕。

在这个地球仪上，墨西哥湾依然是墨西哥湾，阿拉斯加的迪纳利山（Denali）依然是迪纳利山而非麦金利山，而加拿大被涂成“帝国粉”，以将其与美国区分开来，并强调其与英国及英联邦的联系。当然，安大略湖保持不变。

“2025, 年 2 月，在白雪皑皑的渥太华，当我们的团队注意到这些地理宣言时，我们决定，名称很重要，主权很重要，”汤普森女士在谈到特朗普先生早前的重新命名行为时写道。她补充说，这个地球仪旨在“反映我们对国家的爱，并在一个充满激进言论的世界中成为反抗的象征”。

与大多数加拿大人一样，汤普森女士在看待美国政府目前的行为时，带有自己的历史记忆和亲身经历。她曾为 CTV 报道加美关系数十年，并在 9 / 11 当天以该网络华盛顿特派员的身份身处白宫。

当然，就在那一天，纽芬兰省甘德（Gander）的加拿大人向数千名惊恐且滞留的美国人敞开了家门，伸出了援手。

“五大湖不需要任何人告诉它们要‘再次伟大’，”汤普森女士在周末针对椭圆形办公室最新的地理侵略行为写道，“不需要任何自我膨胀；我们都知道它们很伟大。”

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福特被指利用贸易争端削弱绿色政策

杰夫·格雷 (JEFF GRAY) 皇后公园报道员

一些环保主义批评人士指责安大略省省长道格·福特 (Doug Ford) 试图利用与美国的贸易危机来削弱应对气候变化的斗争。

近日，省长多次敦促渥太华废除针对加拿大制造汽车的联邦尾气排放法规，并允许钢铁等受关税打击的行业免于工业碳定价。

福特先生表示，由于美国征收的关税威胁到汽车和钢铁行业的生存，这两项政策使这些行业损失了数亿加元，因此需要采取这些措施来提供帮助。但批评者指责他另有动机。

“看来他只是在利用所谓的贸易战，试图废除或削弱即将出台的任何标准，”倡议组织“环境防御”（Environmental Defence）的清洁交通项目经理萨姆·赫什 (Sam Hersh) 在谈到福特先生关于尾气标准的言论时说道。

圭尔夫（Guelph）省议员兼安大略省绿党党魁迈克·施赖纳 (Mike Schreiner) 表示，省长的请求将破坏其政府近期在电动汽车电池厂和钢铁制造商清洁电力炉方面投入的数十亿加元投资的合理性。

“他攻击特朗普，针对特朗普。但随后他实际上想实施与特朗普相同的政策，”施赖纳先生说道，他认为安大略省反而应该寻求吸引全球在可再生能源和绿色技术方面的投资。

而福特先生真实意图的模糊性更是火上浇油。他的公开言论与他在 8 月 21 日（即与美国贸易谈判破裂前）寄给总理马克·卡尼 (Mark Carney) 的信函中所概述的要求有所出入。福特先生的办公室在周五未回应要求其澄清言论或回应批评的请求。

上周在面对记者时，福特先生表示他呼吁“取消针对加拿大制造车辆的联邦温室气体排放标准”——如果从字面上理解，这是一个激进的步骤，汽车行业表示其并未主张这样做。

但在 8 月 21 日的信函中，福特先生告诉卡尼先生，如果他同意一项维持美国关税的协议，那么他应该听取安大略省长期以来的呼吁，制定“常识性的汽车温室气体排放标准，以提供监管缓解并帮助缩小与美国的竞争力差距”。

在言论中，福特先生表示他希望渥太华让“受关税影响的部门免于联邦排放性能标准”——他指的是由联邦要求但由省政府运行的工业碳定价系统。在他的信函中，他表示安大略省正在“考虑”采取此类行动，并呼吁卡尼先生“加速这些努力”。安大略省系统的任何变更必须与渥太华的规则保持一致。

联邦政府未透露是否会考虑福特先生的想法。卡尼先生此前已因放弃其前任贾斯汀·特鲁多 (Justin Trudeau) 所倡导的一系列绿色政策而受到一些环保主义者的批评。

加拿大汽车制造商协会主席兼首席执行官布莱恩·金斯顿 (Brian Kingston) 表示，汽车工业支持维持现有的尾气法规。

但该行业一直呼吁在渥太华推进收紧这些法规的计划之前暂停执行，该计划是在渥太华废除电动汽车销售强制目标时宣布的。

“我们正处于困境，成本在增加，我们最不应该做的就是通过那些与美国不一致的法规给行业增加额外压力，”金斯顿先生说道。

钢铁行业也尚未公开走到要求完全免除工业碳定价的地步，尽管其对美出口产品被征收 50% 的关税，导致其向最大海外市场运送的钢铁量减半。

加拿大钢铁生产商协会（Canadian Steel Producers Association）气候与环境副总裁约翰·库迪希（John Cuddihy）表示，钢铁制造商认可碳定价制度的重要性，但同时也欢迎就潜在的缓解措施进行讨论。其中一个方案是让安大略省实施一种类似于阿尔伯塔省工业碳定价制度的机制，允许陷入财务困境的公司申请减免。

“我们致力于与省政府和联邦政府合作，在确保继续推进气候目标的同时，保持竞争力，包括在面对美国关税的情况下，”库迪希先生说道。

纪念碑：访客大多不了解加拿大在朝鲜战争中的角色

周五，示威者在国家广场参加集会，旨在捍卫投票权并纪念“向华盛顿进军”63周年。ANDREW HARNIK / GETTY IMAGES

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与此同时，根据数据分析公司 YouGov 的数据，只有 45% 的美国人表示听说过马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）。

芬尼根先生确实听说唐纳德·特朗普总统下达了一项行政命令，将安大略湖（Lake Ontario）更名为美国湖（Lake America）。但他并没有太在意这一公告。

“这大概在两年内就会消失，”他说道，指的是下一次总统大选。

“我没听说太多，”来自加利福尼亚州萨克拉门托市外的费尔南多·佩奇（Fernando Pech）在谈到两国政府之间的裂痕时表示，“我以为他们已经解决了。”

这并不是说他最近没有注意到通货膨胀带来的压力：他那个四口之家外出就餐的频率降低了，因为账单经常超过 US$200, 而且汽油价格也更高。

贸易谈判在 8 月 21 日突然破裂，随后两国的代表就最后一刻提出的要求互相指责。针对特朗普先生对约 $28-billion 的加拿大商品征收 50% 关税的举措，渥太华方面计划于 9 月 8 日实施等额的反制关税。

随着美国经济感受到与伊朗冲突带来的压力（尤其是在加油站），贸易裂痕正在加深。

安格斯·里德（Angus Reid）的民调显示，在关注此事的人群中，美国人对向加拿大征收关税的支持度存在分歧，甚至在党派内部也是如此。虽然 10 个自称“MAGA共和党人”的人中有 7 个支持特朗普先生的关税政策，但非 MAGA 共和党人的分歧较大，约三分之一支持，四分之一不确定。民主党人则几乎一致反对，仅有 5% 支持该关税。

当地导游迈克·麦基（Mike McGhee）在纪念碑中心的一面美国国旗旁等待他带领的旅游团——国旗处于半旗状态，以纪念多莉·帕顿（Dolly Parton）。他不熟悉新一轮的关税威胁。“我一直在度假。但我妻子说最近新闻里关于加拿大人发生了一些事情，”他说。

关于总统给湖泊改名一事，他说：“我们不应该给任何东西改名。让经济运转起来怎么样？让我们别去干扰加拿大怎么样？”

那天晚上，纪念碑周围很热闹。在闷热的八月之日后，华盛顿开始转凉。偶尔有警车驶过，用红、白、蓝三色灯光照亮石碑和树木。

麦基先生表示，大多数参观朝鲜战争纪念碑的访客并不了解加拿大对这场冲突的贡献。

“我不知道公众是否知道我们与这些其他国家携手合作，”他说，“这里太强调美国了，以至于你很容易忘记。即使是在两次世界大战中也是如此。我们是与 20 个其他国家合作，而不仅仅是一个。”

在附近，乔什·塞夫齐克（Josh Sefcik）穿着一件发光背心，以便让随行的几十名在反思池周围漫步的游客认出他。

“从来没有人具体问过我为什么加拿大出现在这里，”他说，“当我们沿着联合国墙走时，我会提到它，”他指着参与冲突的国家名单补充道，“应该提高人们的意识。”

第二天，来自马里兰州格伦伯尼（Glen Burnie）的抗议者蒂姆·米利根（Tim Milligan）站在白宫附近，举着一块写满对特朗普政府不满的标牌。在标牌底部，用大写方块字写着最新添加的内容：“加拿大？？！真的吗？-！！”

“边境一直是开放的，物资往来频繁。据我所知，一直很顺利。过去没有人抱怨过，”他说，“关税？我们以前从未这样做过，至少没有达到这种程度。”

尽管目前局势紧张，但他认为，如果美国领导层发生变化，两国关系将会改善。

“一旦特朗普离任，MAGA（MAGA）运动终结，一切都会恢复正常，”他说，“这一切都是因为特朗普。美国人热爱加拿大。”

相关组织称：尼泊尔山洪威力巨大，失踪朝圣者生还机会渺茫

周日，在尼泊尔奇特旺，警察将山洪和泥石流灾害受害者的遗体搬运至集体埋葬地。 NAVESH CHITRAKAR / 路透社

基金会称，该团体在被冲走前不久抵达了西藏-尼泊尔边境的一栋移民局大楼

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上周尼泊尔洪水冲走了一群宗教朝圣者，其中包括 12 名加拿大人。失踪者的亲属被行程组织者告知，其家人极有可能未能生还。

总部位于印度的 Isha 基金会在网上发布的一份声明中表示，在旅行团最后报告抵达的地点——一座移民控制大楼——所遭受的洪水冲击，使得希望极其渺茫。

声明称：“目前，移民局办公区域似乎没有幸存者的鼓励性迹象。”

声明还指出：“熟悉地形的当地专家告诉我们的地面团队，任何人几乎不可能在如此巨大的洪水威力下幸存。碎片与水的混合物水位上升得很高，可能高达 150 英尺，且力量惊人，将整个建筑群完全摧毁。”

这些朝圣者是此次灾难中报告失踪的 31 名加拿大公民和永久居民中的一部分。周六，外交部长安妮塔·阿南德在声明中表示，一名此前失踪的加拿大人已被找到，目前幸存。

尼泊尔灾害机构表示，截至周日，死亡人数已攀升至 788 人，失踪人数超过 2,502 人；而中国当局报告在边境西藏一侧有 16 人死亡，546 人失踪。在尼泊尔仍有 400 多名外国国民失踪。

朝圣者向 Isha 基金会报告，他们于当地时间上午 9:05 抵达西藏-尼泊尔边境设施，不久后山洪将大楼冲走。

Isha 的精神领袖、通常被称为 Sadhguru 的贾吉·瓦苏德夫（Jaggi Vasudev）在周日的一场直播活动中表示，该团体通常很早抵达边境，以避免当天晚些时候的排队。该团体当时正从西藏冈仁波齐峰（Mount Kailash）朝圣归来，那里是印度教徒、佛教徒及其他信仰者的圣地。

他说：“我只希望我们没有那么强的纪律性。我希望我们能晚半小时到达。但我们准时到了。”

在活动期间，Sadhguru 向他的追随者谈到了接受命运的必要性。

他说：“你无法挽回已经逝去的生命。这不在我们的掌控之中。死亡是一片震耳欲聋的寂静。”

在直播活动中，一名失踪者的姐姐向他寻求答案，Sadhguru 表示没有人能带回死者或逝者。

他说：“没有任何语言能挽回生命，也没有任何语言能抹去痛苦。”

在尼泊尔中南部的奇特旺区，当局已开始将尚未确认身份的遗体埋入临时坟墓——此举引起了一些人的批评，其中包括一名尼泊尔前总理。

负责协调遗体处理工作的警察督察阿尼尔·塔帕（Anil Thapa）告诉美联社，临时埋葬是必要的，因为许多遗体在洪水中浸泡了数日，在被寻获时已经开始腐烂。

塔帕督察表示，当局正在保存 DNA 样本，拍摄具有辨识度的面部特征，并记录其他身份细节。每具遗体都被分配一个参考编号，以便家属随后认领。

周日，在可能进行埋葬之前，有 50 具遗体被采集了 DNA 样本。前一天，已有 100 名受害者被埋葬。

“人们担心这可能会变成永久埋葬，但这只是临时管理，”塔帕督察（Insp. Thapa）表示。“如果有人之后能利用现有信息核实身份，他们可以领回遗体并举行适当的葬礼。”

尼泊尔政府已开设一个官方网站，在上面发布了 2,000 多张死者的照片和描述，以帮助受害者的家人和朋友确认失踪者的身份。

鲁比·乔杜里（Ruby Chaudhary）有两名亲属失踪，她告诉美联社，在没有家属同意的情况下不应进行埋葬。

“死者应当被尊严地对待，”她说。“我们的传统是在河岸边，在直系亲属的陪伴下将他们火化。”

据尼泊尔国家灾害风险减轻与管理机构首席执行官达拉姆·拉杰·乌普雷蒂（Dharam Raj Uprety）称，在收到中国当局关于上游流量增加的信息后，尼泊尔当局还警告周日早些时候可能会有进一步的洪水。

中国国家通讯社新华社援引该国水利部消息称，周三洪水后在深山中形成的一个新湖泊已基本排空。

但新华社表示，水利部警告称，位于上游 5.6 公里处的一个坑穴（crater）仍含有估计 140 万 立方米的水，仍存在一定风险，需要密切监测。

（本文综合加拿大新闻社和美联社报道）

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急诊医生称患者量达到前所未有的水平

一名哈利法克斯医生认为，夏季激增是医院过度拥挤的必然结果

ALANNA SMITH 健康记者

加拿大各大城市的急诊医生表示，他们通常可以在夏季月份喘口气。但今年情况与以往截然不同，部分城市的患者数量达到了前所未有的高点。

接受《全球邮报》采访的医生们很难将今年夏天的就诊高峰归结为单一问题。他们表示，这是医院过度拥挤、人口老龄化、患者病情更加复杂以及其他医疗支持获取受限等问题的综合症状——而且名单还在增加。

此外，某些省份还存在独特因素，例如今年曼尼托巴省爆发的麻疹疫情导致数百人患病；或者 7 月份令安大略省窒息的山火烟雾，导致呼吸道相关急诊就诊量激增。

哈利法克斯 QEII 健康科学中心的急诊医生柯克·马吉（Kirk Magee）表示，今年夏天明显不同。

“很多时候你走进候诊室，感觉就像在 1 月份，”他回忆起最近的一次值班，当时他看到的患者已经等待了超过 15 小时。

“即使在流感季节的高峰期，这种情况也令人震惊，但在一年中的这个时间点，我从未见过这种情况。”

在夏季，急诊室（ED）预计会看到与划船、驾驶全地形车（quadding）或体育运动相关的创伤病例增加。但总体患者量往往会下降，因为呼吸道疾病减少且人们开始度假，尽管这一趋势在近年来有所减弱。

马吉医生表示，夏季激增是医院过度拥挤的必然结果，医疗系统领导者多年来一直在为此敲响警钟。“走廊医疗”现在已成为加拿大拥挤急诊室的常态。

温尼伯圣博尼法斯医院的急诊医生诺姆·卡茨（Noam Katz）表示，医疗系统不再是处于崩溃边缘，而是在我们眼前崩塌。“这就是人们多年来一直警告大家的最终状态，”他说。

加拿大健康信息研究所 6 月发布的一项涵盖 2024 年和 2025 年部分时段的研究显示，在加拿大的急诊室中，每 10 名患者中就有 1 人等待就医时间超过 14 小时。需要住院的患者等待时间有时是其三倍。

人员配置也是一个持续的挑战。另一项 7 月发表的研究发现，在加拿大医学会去年调查的 410 名急诊医生中，近一半减少了临床工作时间，大约 20% 已经停止在急诊室工作。

在整个加拿大，关于患者量的实时公开数据十分有限。虽然加拿大健康信息研究所确实在追踪这些指标，但并非所有医院都提供数据。

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这就是人们多年来一直警告大家的最终局面。

诺姆·卡茨 (NOAM KATZ) 温尼伯圣博尼法斯医院 急诊科医生

在阿尔伯塔省，提供给《全球邮报》的省内内部数据显示，7月26日有 7,485 名急诊住院患者 (EIP) 正在等待住院床位。这比去年7月的统计数据增加了 8%，比五年前增长了 96%，而与 2016 年相比则上升了 176%。

数据显示，这一问题在埃德蒙顿尤为严重，7 月份那里有 5,118 名急诊住院患者，比前一年增加了 37%。今年 1 月，这座省会城市的主要医院呼吁阿尔伯塔省因过度拥挤而宣布正式进入紧急状态；但该省并未这样做。

阿尔伯塔省医学会急诊医学部门候任主席保罗·帕克斯 (Paul Parks) 表示，医疗系统已不再具有弹性。

他警告称，患者将继续以类似于普拉尚特·斯里库马尔 (Prashant Sreekumar) 的方式死亡，后者去年 12 月在埃德蒙顿的一家急诊室等待 8 小时后去世。导致残疾和其他次优结果的风险也在增加。

“越来越多的人将出现在我们的候诊室里，他们将忍受数小时的痛苦而得不到护理，有些人可能会因此死亡。”

尽管加拿大各地的政治家都承诺要改善急诊室过度拥挤的问题，但急诊医生表示，省政府未能兑现承诺。

温哥华急诊医生凯特琳·斯托克顿 (Kaitlin Stockton) 表示，医生们请求不列颠哥伦比亚省成立一个工作组，并承诺执行一个旨在改善医疗服务交付的四步框架。她说，该省拒绝了这一请求。

该框架要求该省建立透明的绩效目标，强制公开报告利用率和绩效指标，使用问责框架，并创建一个独立的监督机构来审计绩效。

“我不想再听到关于多少钱花在了什么地方。我不在乎。我想知道结果，”斯托克顿医生说。“唯一被追究责任的是一线服务提供者。”

驻渥太华的急诊医生迈克尔·赫尔曼 (Michael Herman) 强调，急诊室过度拥挤“并非天意”，而是医院、卫生当局和政府政策选择不当的结果。

他表示，必须实施更好的数据收集和问责措施，以帮助理解困扰急诊室的问题：“如果你不量体温，就找不到发烧。”

失去季节性的喘息机会对员工士气也十分不利，尤其是在进入繁忙的病毒流行季之前。他说，由于工作节奏永不停歇，一些急诊室员工已经离职，他预计其他人也会效仿。

魁北克省也未能逃脱这种夏季现象。

驻蒙特利尔的急诊医生朱迪·莫里斯 (Judy Morris) 表示，急诊室拥堵的原因远在科室墙壁之外。她强调，社区支持不足，例如长期护理和成瘾治疗床位不足。

“如果存在能够充分治疗这些患者的适当设施，他们就不必来到急诊室，”她说，并补充道目前“看不到尽头”。

美国袭击霍尔木兹海峡的伊朗火箭发射装置

康斯坦丁·托罗平 (KONSTANTIN TOROPIN) 卡拉·安娜 (CARA ANNA) 本·芬利 (BEN FINLEY)

美国军队于周日袭击了位于霍尔木兹海峡的伊朗火箭发射装置，这是其一个月来的首次军事行动，打破了这场持续六个多月的断断续续战争中的短暂平静。伊朗迅速誓言将对这次被其称为“致命袭击”的行为进行报复。

美国中央司令部发言人蒂姆·霍金斯 (Tim Hawkins) 表示，据观察，革命卫队部队当时正准备向海峡发射火箭弹和水雷。美国军方上周完成了清除海峡国际航道水雷的工作。

伊朗的半官方新闻机构报道称，海峡附近的拉拉克岛 (Larak island) 附近传出爆炸声。革命卫队在伊朗国家广播公司发布的一份声明中提到，“我们的几名战士和同胞殉职并受伤”。

随后，伊朗国家电视台播放了其称之为伊朗向约旦境内美国基地发射弹道导弹的画面，以回应美国的袭击。约旦武装部队表示，他们在周一凌晨拦截了八枚进入该国领空的导弹。

回归公开冲突将给该地区带来危险。自2月28日战争爆发以来，伊朗一直将目标指向海湾国家境内的美国军事基地和基础设施。

美国军方上一次确认攻击伊朗是在7月29, 日，当时宣布对包括海岸监视和防御阵地在内的数十个革命卫队目标发动了“大规模袭击”。8月1, 日，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在海湾盟友卡塔尔、沙特阿拉伯和阿拉伯联合酋长国的敦促下，表示将命令军方暂停新的袭击。

此次袭击发生在前几天特朗普政府表示，将把重点转向增加经济压力而非军事行动，以试图结束与伊朗的战争之后。这一转变后的战略核心是威胁要惩罚任何继续与德黑兰进行贸易的国家或实体。

革命卫队发言人侯赛因·莫海比 (Hossein Mohebi) 将军在伊朗媒体发布的一份声明中表示，周日的袭击是“特朗普政权在经济战争期间犯下的致命错误”，敌人将在军事和经济上为此付出代价。美国转向使用制裁，是因为政府在经历了数月的战争后，正在权衡弹药库存减少的问题，这引发了人们对长期冲突可能会削弱美国在全球其他地区军事准备状态的担忧。

随着冲突的僵持，特朗普先生关于快速结束战争的言论似乎也在逐渐消退。他上周强调，他“并不急于”让伊朗回到谈判桌前，并继续主张伊斯兰共和国的领导层已陷入困境。

然而，过去一个月伊朗高级安全领导层的任命表明，在经历了数十年的制裁以及国内对异见零容忍之后，德黑兰依然态度强硬。

特朗普先生一直强调，美国和以色列的行动对伊朗的海军和空军造成了毁灭性打击。伊朗官员表示，该国遭受了$270-billion的直接和间接损失。在战争的前几周，以色列的军事袭击摧毁了该神权政府的大部分领导结构。

但伊朗通过袭击霍尔木兹海峡的船只找到了筹码，目前只有相对较少的运输石油和液化天然气的船只冒险通过。伊朗仍拥有足够的无人机和导弹，可以向通过该水道的船只开火，全球20%的石油通常经由该水道运输。

受美国袭击影响，原油价格在周日上涨。美国原油价格上涨1.8%，至每桶$84.94, 而国际标准布伦特原油价格上涨1.9%，至每桶$89.79.

德黑兰方面继续坚称，即使在与水域另一侧的邻国阿曼制定出海峡管理计划之后，美国在履行两国于6月中旬签署的谅解备忘录项下的义务之前，仍不能使用该海峡。

特朗普先生多次宣布“霍尔木兹海峡是开放的”，并称上周有24艘船只通过。但这仅为战争开始前每天通过的约130艘船只的一小部分。

被摧毁的车辆和碎片在周日散落在基辅郊区，此前俄罗斯的一次袭击击中了一座仓库并引发爆炸。FRANCISCO SECO / 美联社

俄罗斯今年对乌最致命袭击导致死亡人数升至38人

周五，在基辅，救援人员走在被俄罗斯无人机袭击损坏的私人住宅旁。VALENTYN OGIRENKO / 路透社

基辅

乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基周日在社交媒体上表示，俄罗斯对基辅西部一座仓库的袭击导致死亡人数升至38人，仍有4人失踪。此次袭击是今年以来这场战争中最致命的一次。

周五晚上对该仓库（据乌克兰官员称是一处弹药存储设施）的袭击引发了巨大的爆炸和火灾，波及附近数十栋房屋和建筑。

泽连斯基先生补充说，应急工作人员继续在米拉村的现场灭火，并识别和处置爆炸装置。他表示有20人受伤，其中包括两名儿童。周六，泽连斯基先生称米拉袭击是一次“可怕的情况”，是“那些将爆炸物存储在居民紧邻之处的人员严重失职”的结果。他表示，目前正在调查弹药是如何以及为何被存储在那里的。

与此同时，俄罗斯国防部周日表示，在乌克兰针对一家被称为“俄罗斯亚马逊”的零售商以及该国石油和天然气部门发起无人机袭击后，俄罗斯正准备对乌克兰的能源基础设施发动“大规模袭击”。基辅方面称，上述两个部门既为莫斯科入侵乌克兰提供了资金，也直接提供了燃料。

俄罗斯国防部将计划中的袭击描述为对基辅“持续攻击俄罗斯民用基础设施以及燃料和能源部门”的回应。

克里姆林宫发言人德米特里·佩斯科夫周日誓言，将对乌克兰所谓的“升级路线”以及针对俄罗斯民用经济的行为做出“适当回应”。

佩斯科夫先生告诉俄罗斯国家媒体，莫斯科一直在对他所谓的基辅军事及战争相关基础设施发动“相当系统性”的袭击。

近几个月来，乌克兰对俄罗斯最大的在线零售商 Wildberries 的设施发动了致命袭击，称该公司销售的军民两用商品助力了克里姆林宫的战争努力。乌克兰无人机还猛烈轰击了俄罗斯的炼油厂和其他能源基础设施，导致这个全球最大能源生产国之一出现了前所未有的燃料危机。

在战争之前的几个冬天里，俄罗斯系统性地打击乌克兰的电网，使数千人在极寒天气中失去暖气和照明。乌克兰官员多次警告，自2022年2月俄罗斯发动全面入侵以来，即将到来的冬天可能是最具挑战性的一次。

乌克兰新任国防部长叶夫根·赫马拉表示，该部门有方案来填补他从前任那里继承的270亿美元资金缺口。

赫马拉先生在周六就任后的首次记者简报会上发表了上述言论。此前，米哈伊洛·费多罗夫被解职引发了数周的抗议，导致基辅启动军事调整，并最终以费多罗夫先生呼吁举行选举的一段视频告终。赫马拉先生的评论于周日发布。

赫马拉先生曾是一名特种部队军官，后离开军队成为文职部长。在他接任之际，基辅的战争努力正面临日益增长的财务压力。他表示，优先事项将是在确保士兵获得薪资并满足其他基本需求的同时，避免战场物资短缺。

他表示，国防部正在考虑提前提取原计划于明年到账的900亿欧元欧洲贷款的一部分。

他誓言：“乌克兰将向其合作伙伴展示一个清晰的愿景和计划，”并补充说他计划保留国防部的大部分团队。

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望远镜：仪器的主镜最初旨在用于间谍活动

其对日冕仪的重要性。

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上图：周日，在佛罗里达州卡纳维拉角的肯尼迪航天中心，一枚火箭在升空，搭载着美国国家航空航天局（NASA）的南希·格雷斯·罗曼太空望远镜。 JOE SKIPPER / 路透社 右图：在科学家瓦妮莎·贝利（Vanessa Bailey）双手下方的两个金色盒子，是构成该仪器由加拿大制造的摄像机的部分电子设备。NASA / JPL-CALTECH

经过一段时间的测试，罗曼望远镜预计将在未来几个月内开始其对宇宙的史诗级巡天。美国及全球的天文学家正期待着这台新发射的仪器能提供海量数据，并希望在多个子领域取得发现。

“这将是革命性的，”谢布鲁克比숍大学（Bishop's University）的天文学家杰森·罗（Jason Rowe）表示。他是该团队的一员，将使用这台新望远镜来探测我们星系周围外星太阳系的特征和分布。

这颗重 10.5 吨、耗资 US$4.3-billion 的卫星历经多年打造，是 NASA 在太空部署的第三座大规模天文观测站——且在用途和历史方面最为独特。

哈勃和詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜旨在通过窥视天空中的极小区域来做出深刻发现，而罗曼望远镜的视野大约大 100 倍。它的强项不在于锁定单个目标，而在于大规模地观察宇宙——无论是捕捉构成银河系的无数恒星，还是凝视远方无数的星系。

通过观察更广的范围，它将更有机会发现转瞬即逝或罕见的现象，包括超新星和其他短寿命现象。

“我们的宇宙每秒都在上演壮丽的宇宙奇观，但它们发生得非常快，因此经常避开我们的望远镜，”NASA 该项目的资深科学家朱莉·麦克埃纳里（Julie McEnery）在周六的新闻发布会上表示。“凭借罗曼望远镜的全景视野，我们不仅能捕捉到这些事件，而且能一次看到很多个。”

对于一台如此适合窥探宇宙的望远镜来说，颇为契合的是，该仪器的主镜最初旨在用于窥探其他国家。

该主镜直径 2.4 米，与哈勃的主镜一样大，但焦距短得多，这使其对天空的视野更加开阔。

该镜面由 ITT 公司的一个部门（现为 L3Harris Technologies Inc. 的一部分）在 20 多年前制造，原计划用于一颗间谍卫星。但当该卫星在 2005, 年被取消时，这面精美的镜子成了一个累赘。2012, 年，美国军方机构国家侦察局（National Reconnaissance Office）正式将其赠送给 NASA。（该赠礼最初包含两面镜子，但 NASA 后来被要求归还第二面。）

这次意外的捐赠时机恰到好处。在诺贝尔奖授予暗能量的发现不到一年后，天文学家们当时正在寻找一种能够

而哈勃和詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜旨在通过窥视天空中的极小区域来做出深刻发现，罗曼望远镜的视野大约大 100 倍。

观察足够广阔的宇宙，从而能够准确测量暗能量影响的仪器。

围绕这面镜子构建的望远镜正是为此目的量身定制的。其设计确保了极高的稳定性，能够提供遥远星系的图像，使天文学家能够根据重力如何扭曲背景物体的光线，来感知宇宙中质量的分布情况。

它还专门用于红外波段的观测，这最有利于捕捉宇宙膨胀过程中星系发出的微弱光线。

天文学家感兴趣的其他领域也肯定会从中受益，包括对系外行星（围绕其他恒星运行的行星）的搜寻。

由于镜面已经就绪，该项目（当时被称为宽场红外巡天望远镜，简称 WFIRST）在前往发射场的道路上拥有巨大的领先优势。

然而，这段旅程并非一帆风顺。从 2019 年开始，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在其首任政府期间多次试图砍掉该望远镜项目。国会最终救回了该项目，并在去年白宫再次尝试取消该项目后再次将其挽救。

但结果对加拿大空间局来说并不那么乐观。加拿大空间局最初看到了与 NASA 合作的机会，计划为该望远镜的宽场仪器（Wide Field Instrument）构建校准系统和其他硬件。该设备对于望远镜测量暗能量至关重要。作为交换，加拿大天文学家将获得该望远镜的专属使用时间份额。（类似的安排曾让加拿大获得了哈勃和韦伯太空望远镜的使用时间）。

最终，渥太华方面对加拿大出资 1 亿加元的代价望而却步，并于 2018 年退出该项目。这一决定让加拿大天文学家陷入了被动局面。

尽管如此，加拿大在罗曼望远镜中依然保持着影响力，即便这不是官方身份。名为日冕仪（coronagraph）的第二台仪器旨在探测围绕遥远恒星运行的系外行星，它使用了由蒙特利尔 Nuvu Cameras Inc. 公司制造的相机。该设备由总部位于魁北克的科技公司 ABB Canada 完成组装并为太空飞行做好准备。

弗雷德里克·格兰德蒙（Frédéric Grandmont）是一名专业天文学家，目前担任 ABB 的技术与业务经理，他从项目启动之初就参与其中。他说，在望远镜科学组件的图像中看到加拿大制造的硬件令人兴奋——而意识到以下这一点则让人冷静：

“如果我们的组件不起作用，那么一切都无法运作，”他说。

日冕仪旨在抑制恒星的光芒，以便揭示围绕它们运行的行星。它出现在罗曼望远镜上的主要目的是测试一项技术，这项技术未来可能被用于一个拟议中的未来太空望远镜（名为“宜居世界天文台”，Habitable Worlds Observatory）中，用以搜寻类地世界。

但日冕仪只是该望远镜被预期用来揭示太阳系之外其他恒星系统的方式之一。

从明年开始，天文学家将使用宽场仪器凝视银河系中恒星密集的部分，寻找那些在瞬间穿过并扭曲背景恒星光线时可能显露踪迹的行星和卫星。与此同时，在行星重复遮挡部分恒星光线的情况下，望远镜将识别出围绕其中一些恒星运行的行星。

由于望远镜的视野中拥有超过 1 亿颗恒星，新数据将不可避免地为我们提供一个前所未有的视角，用以观察银河系不同区域的世界人口统计学特征。

“行星系统是如何演变成像我们太阳系这样的状态的？”罗博士说，“我认为这将是我们利用罗曼望远镜回答的关键问题。”

从长远来看，罗曼望远镜将逐渐积累关于星系的数据，这些数据将被用于追踪宇宙在漫长宇宙时间跨度内的膨胀情况。

研究人员希望通过这项测量，最终确定暗能量导致空间膨胀加速的程度。一旦这个数值被量化，并被包括欧洲的欧几里得太空望远镜（Euclid Space Telescope）和智利的薇拉·鲁宾天文台（Vera C. Rubin Observatory）在内的其他独立测量结果所证实，研究人员希望能够找出这种加速背后的物理机制。

“将所有这些信息整合在一起并呈现出完整的图景，基本上，宇宙的所有历史都将变得非常令人兴奋，”滑铁卢大学教授威尔·珀西瓦尔（Will Percival）说道。他是该团队在加拿大的首席研究员，该团队将利用罗曼望远镜在宇宙膨胀过程中测量遥远星系的运动。

珀西瓦尔博士和罗博士都通过去年获得的加拿大航天局资助参与罗曼望远镜的科学研究。

对于身为珀西瓦尔博士团队成员的克雷斯皮先生来说，望远镜在周日的成功发射标志着一场可能定义其职业生涯的冒险之旅的开始。

“这真的太棒了，”他在观看发射后表示，“能够成为这个将塑造未来宇宙学的时刻的一部分，真是太神奇了。”

铁路：去年公布的文件版本中关键财务数据被掩盖

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Alto 仅偶尔提及在列车服务建成后运行所需的额外支出，但从未公布过此类成本的估算值，也从未公开披露其预期收入的估算值。

然而，一份于 2023 年 9 月为该国有企业的首席执行官准备的简报文件提供了更详细的成本明细，涵盖了 40 年的周期。

在“基础设施资本”方面，估算成本为 $83.5-billion，处于 Alto 公开引用的 $60-billion 至 $90- 范围之内。

随后，该简报文件列出了另外两个成本类别：滚动资产预计成本在 $2- 和 $2.2- 之间，而“运营与维护”的估算成本在 $62.6- 和 $67- 之间。

该文件称，综合来看，其总体的 ROM（即粗略数量级）估算认为该项目的成本将在 $148.1- 和 $152.7- 之间。

文件中还提到，该高速铁路系统在 40 年周期内的预计总收入为 $105-。

这些数据包含在一份名为“技术简报草案”的文件中。当时，这家国有企业被称为 VIA HFR-VIA TGF Inc.，这指的是早期开发高频铁路而非高速铁路的计划。在准备该文件时，政府仍在权衡这两个选项，简报中包含了高频铁路与高速铁路的对比。去年年初，当时任总理贾斯汀·特鲁多宣布该项目将专注于高速铁路时，该国有企业被更名为 。

该文件的部分版本于去年底根据信息获取法公布，但关键财务数据被掩盖了。

《全球邮报》审阅了一份由消息人士提供的其中一份草案的未掩盖版本。《全球邮报》不对该消息人士进行身份确认，因为其未获授权分享此信息。

该项目设想建设约 1,000 公里的专用客运铁路，使电力高速列车能够以每小时 300 公里或更快的速度行驶。它承诺将该走廊的旅行时间缩短约一半。

目前的 Via Rail 客运列车在技术上能够以高达 200 公里 / 小时的速度行驶，但由于轨道法规限制，通常被限制在 160 公里 / 小时。

议会于 3 月批准了一项立法，授予联邦政府在拟建高速铁路沿线征收土地的新权力。

今年早些时候就该项目的潜在路线进行了磋商，并计划在今年公布渥太华至蒙特利尔路段（拟首先建设的路段）更具体的拟议路线。

表示，如果该项目在此之前获得内阁最终批准，建设工作可能会在 2029-30 财年开始。

在一次采访中， 总裁兼首席执行官马丁·英布劳（Martin Imbleau）表示，2023 年的文件是一份粗略的“桌面分析”。他表示，成本估算此后已进行修订，并将于明年进一步更新并向公众公布。

他表示，大型项目在公布预计运营成本之前，先确认其资本计划的参数是常见做法。

尽管如此，他表示 2023 年的数据与 关于收入将超过运营成本的说法大致一致。

当被问及 是否出于公关原因而避免公布其运营成本预测，以使项目总成本看起来较低时，他强烈否认了这一说法。

“绝对没有。绝对没有。如果你看那份演示文稿，如果我们公开了其中的信息，我也并不介意，”他指着收入高于运营成本的数据说道，“我在公关方面不胡扯。”

Alto 今年早些时候开展的社区咨询，激励了拟建路线沿线的一些农村居民组织抗议活动和在线活动，对该项目的成本及其对受影响居民的影响表示担忧。

其中一个名为“ALTO 高铁公民研究倡议”（ALTO HSR Citizen Research Initiative）的团体由具有私营部门和学术背景的志愿者领导。

安德鲁·海耶特（Andrew Hyett）是一名地质学家，曾是女王大学的研究员，他帮助该团体完成了该项目的财务分析。他表示，政府的推销辞令掩盖了全球大型项目成本普遍高于原计划的趋势。

他在一次采访中表示：“我认为这里存在大量的战略性误导。实际上并没有一个合理的商业案例。”

该团体在今年早些时候发布了自己的成本估算，预测在考虑到基于国际经验的预期成本增加后，资本成本将达到 $143-billion。该团体还预计，每年的维护费用为 $1.27-billion，运营费用为 $700-million，40 年的总费用约为 $178.8-billion，这高于联邦政府的内部预测。

该团体的报告还批评 Alto 对客流量的预测过于乐观，因为这与多伦多至魁北克市走廊的人口情况不符。

海耶特先生表示，他的团体支持对该走廊的客运铁路进行较为温和的改进，而非建设全速高铁。

Alto 最近发布了一份报告，概述了支持该项目的经济论据。

报告称，该项目将通过提高生产力、扩大劳动力市场、加强国际旅游以及在火车站周围建设新住房，每年使加拿大的 GDP 增长 1.1 per cent，即 $24.5-billion。

报告还称，该铁路项目在建设期间将创造约 50,000 个就业岗位，在运营期间将创造 5,000 多个持续就业岗位。

Alto 估计，到 2055 年，年客流量将达到 2400 万 人次，到 2084 年将达到 4300 万 人次。

为了提供背景参考，报告指出，现有的 Via Rail 服务的客流量已从 20 世纪 80 年代的每年 800 万人次下降到 2025 年的约 440 万 人次。

报告称，Via 目前的客流量水平较低，是因为该服务面临结构性限制，因为它需要与日益增长的货运流量共用轨道。

报告还指出，渐进式投资，或者之前提议的在专用轨道上运行传统客车的“高频铁路”服务，并不是解决方案。

报告称，高频铁路的资本成本将在 $45-billion 至 $75-billion 之间，但产生的经济效益仅为高铁的五分之一。

上图：研究技术人员在西温哥华附近的一个海星研究样地进行生物多样性调查时进行测量，日期为 July 12. 照片：JESSE WINTER / THE GLOBE AND MAIL

右图：弄清楚是什么导致海星死亡是一个重大挑战，因为研究人员起初无法判断是疾病、污染还是其他原因。

最右图：海洋疾病生态学家 Alyssa Gehman 博士（左）领导的团队在 August, 2025, 确定了导致此次爆发的原因是扇贝弧菌（vibrio pectenicida）。

发现海星神秘杀手后，不列颠哥伦比亚省科学家寻求阻止之法

为了遏制导致数十亿海洋动物死亡的细菌疾病，研究人员将目光转向了病毒

杰西·温特（JESSE WINTER）报道于不列颠哥伦比亚省缅因岛

一种神秘的疾病正在摧毁海星并威胁关键的生态系统。科学家们对此感到困惑，但他们仍在实验室和遥远且环境恶劣的地区辛勤工作，寻找答案。

这并非一部星际科幻电影的情节，而是一群海洋生物学家为了拯救北美西海岸的海星而开展的突破性科学研究。

2025年，加拿大研究人员确定了元凶：一种名为 vibrio pectenicida 的杀海星细菌。但这一发现引发了更多问题：它们从哪里来？为什么疫情会如此突然地爆发？有什么办法可以阻止它吗？

这场后来被称为“海星损耗病”（sea star wasting disease）的疫情于2013年开始在从墨西哥到阿拉斯加的太平洋沿岸蔓延。它摧毁了海星种群，包括抹去了全球最大的海星——向日葵海星近 90% 的数量。

“我们失去了超过60亿只海星，”不列颠哥伦比亚大学兼职教授、总部位于不列颠哥伦比亚省的哈凯研究所（Hakai Institute）海洋疾病生态学家艾丽莎·格曼（Alyssa Gehman）表示。

正是格曼博士的团队在2025年8月取得了突破，确定 vibrio pectenicida 是此次疫情的起因。

这种细菌基本上是从内部开始攻击海星，缓慢地将其内脏液化，直到它们坍塌成一堆黏液。虽然它们能够使所有类型的海星患病并死亡，但拥有数十条肢体且能长到自行车轮大小的巨型向日葵海星受创最重。

这是一种缓慢而恐怖的死亡，对海星种群及其生存的生态系统都产生了关键影响。

海星在它们的生物群落中是重要的捕食者，有助于控制猎物的数量——事实上，紫色海星是第一个被称作“关键种”（keystone species）的物种。如今，这个术语被用于描述脆弱的捕食者-猎物关系，这种关系主宰着从落基山脉的狼和麋鹿，到鲨鱼和海豹，再到狮子和角马的所有生物的生命。

在太平洋中，海星以海胆（以及许多其他生物）为食。如果没有足够的海星，海胆就会大量繁殖，并吞噬海带林和海草床，而这些是无数其他物种的关键栖息地。

弄清楚是什么在杀死海星是一项重大挑战。格曼博士的团队起初不知道这是一种疾病、污染污染还是其他原因。在证明该疾病可以从患病动物传播给健康动物后，他们测试了通过热处理是否能使受污染的水变得安全。他们发现是可以的，这表明存在一种他们可以杀死的病原体。

当他们进行艰苦的基因测试，将患病海星与健康海星的肠道生物群进行比较时，团队预计会发现更多的复杂性。然而，他们得到的数据如此清晰，以至于团队怀疑自己是否犯了错，并为了确保万无一失而重新运行了测试。

他们找到了这个反派。

但找到杀手和阻止杀手是两回事。格曼博士的团队现在专注于潜在的解决方案。因为这种传染病是由细菌引起的，他们可以在实验室中培养它，并更轻松地将其用于继续测试，但仍有许多问题尚待解决。

格曼博士表示，在他们努力分离病原体时，测试中给海星注射的细菌剂量在所有个体中都是致命的。今年夏天，他们正在测试是否确实存在一个可生存的剂量。如果存在，这可能表明某些海星已经拥有或能够进化出对该疾病的抵抗力。初步结果令人鼓舞。

“有一些迹象表明，存在一个它们能够生存的低剂量，”盖曼博士说。“所以问题是：这是否与遗传有关？如果确实如此，我们能否通过育种来增强这种抗药性？”

该团队最令人惊讶的发现之一仿佛是从《挽救计划》（Project Hail Mary）的剧本中截取出来的。看似不可阻挡的胸廓弧菌（vibrio pectenicida）实际上也有其天敌：噬菌体（bacteriophages，简称 phages），这是一种通过感染细菌并在其内部繁殖来攻击细菌的病毒。

“这太不可思议了，想到这一点真的让我大开眼界，因为这意味着胸廓弧菌在生态系统中有一个天敌，”盖曼博士说。这一认知可能会给海星带来一线生机。该团队目前正在探索是否可以使用噬菌体来创造一种天然抗生素，以帮助海星对抗这种疾病。

“希望我们能利用这种‘超能力’来治疗它们，”她补充道。

盖曼博士将这一发现归功于她在北卡罗来纳大学的一位同事：海洋微生物学和微生物病原体专家布莱克·内岛（Blake Ushijima）。

“布莱克告诉我们应该怎么做，基本上就是带一个 Nalgene [水瓶] 潜水，在海星附近舀一些水，封好后寄给他，”盖曼博士说。

“于是我们在不列颠哥伦比亚省（B.C.）的中海岸潜水时采集了八瓶海水寄给布莱克，他成功分离出了一批能够攻击胸廓弧菌的噬菌体。”

今年夏天，盖曼博士与另一位同事、研究科学家梅兰妮·普伦蒂斯（Melanie Prentice）在华盛顿州奥林匹克半岛的一个实验室合作，那里正是他们首次发现该细菌的地方。在一个布满管道和水箱的巨大谷仓式建筑中，普伦蒂斯女士正协助监督一系列旨在回答三个关键问题的实验：水温是否会影响细菌的行为激进程度；是否存在一个海星能够可靠生存的剂量；以及抗细菌噬菌体在减缓或阻止疾病方面效果如何。

紫色海星在控制其猎物种群数量方面如此重要，以至于它们成为了第一个被称作“关键种”（keystone species）的物种。

盖曼博士及其团队如果能完成成功的测试，将有助于科学家开发一种可沿太平洋海岸线大规模使用的抗细菌治疗方案。

虽然影响海星的消耗性疾病爆发似乎已经放缓，但太平洋即将到来的厄尔尼诺现象可能会再次推高海水温度。

这些测试还将帮助团队确定疾病爆发与气候变化导致的海水温度升高之间的关系。

“当海水变暖时，我们会看到向日葵海星种群中出现疫情爆发，然后随着冬季水温降低，疫情会逐渐消退，”普伦蒂斯女士说。“所以我们知道温度起到了作用，但我们并不真正清楚具体发生了什么。”

为了测试噬菌体对抗细菌的有效性，团队将使健康的海星接触致死剂量的胸廓弧菌，然后为其注射噬菌体，以观察这些病毒是否能阻止或减缓疾病的进展。

“我非常期待进行那些让它们接触细菌但却不会死亡的实验，”盖曼博士说。“我认为那将会非常令人兴奋。”

如果测试成功，科学家可以帮助开发一种抗菌治疗方案，该方案可沿太平洋海岸线大规模使用，以减轻与可预测的海温飙升相关的疫情影响。

“噬菌体真正酷的一点在于它们是自然存在的病毒，”普伦蒂女士说道。“这比[合成]抗生素治疗要好得多。”

“这更像是一种基于生态的自然解决方案，因为这是一种自然存在的病毒。”

这一切能否实现以及需要多长时间，完全取决于该团队研究的成功程度。

普伦蒂女士预计，即使是开发生态治疗方案，可能也需要数年时间，而要完成必要的许可审批和其他要求以实现安全的大规模部署，则需要更长的时间。

而且时间并不在他们这一边。在肆虐十年后，这种损耗病疫情似乎已经放缓。一些海星种群已开始回升，成群的小海星正在绽放。

但今年秋季和冬季太平洋即将到来的厄尔尼诺现象威胁着将海水温度再次推高，这可能会引发另一次毁灭性的疫情。

普伦蒂女士表示，随着气候变暖，这些事件发生的频率越来越密集，给他们的工作增加了压力。但令她感到欣慰的是，他们的研究得到了如此多的关注。

“坦白说，我从未见过这么多人对我所做的事情如此感兴趣，”她说。“关于这一点，我们还有很多需要学习的地方。”

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)

大城市生活需要一个落脚之处

当国际排名对城市的宜居程度进行量化时，评分通常基于学校质量、通勤时间、空气污染或房地产成本等有形指标。

但对于优质的城市生活而言，同样重要的还有一些无形因素。其中之一便是具有亲和力的街道。虽然每个人对此的定义不同，但大多数人向往的是安全感、宜人的环境和良好的配套设施。此外，还需要一个可以坐下来休息的地方。

人们在市中心想要坐下来休息的原因有很多。与朋友聊天、四处观光、阅读书籍，或者仅仅是在炎热的夏日小憩。如果没有良好的公共座椅，这些选择就消失了。这会让城市变成一个仅仅用于穿行的场所，而非一个可以停下来享受的地方。而且在一个老龄化社会中，没有休息场所的城市实际上是对老年行人关闭了大门。

正因如此，许多加拿大城市将公共座椅视为顶多是“必要的恶”，要么勉强安装且维护糟糕，要么在优先级名单中被排得太靠后而直接被忽略，这实在令人沮丧。

今年夏天，多伦多就发生了这种情况。

一名市议员试图推动一项早已过期的想法，即在市政厅前大片混凝土区域安装座椅。这个被称为内森·菲利普斯广场（Nathan Phillips Square）的区域，虽然有喷泉和乐池作为核心，但大部分由开阔空间组成。其中心区域缺乏任何可以坐的地方。

因此，保罗·安斯利（Paul Ainslie）要求市府工作人员“审查在 2026 年夏季期间，在内森·菲利普斯广场采购并部署长椅的可行性及相关成本”。这一请求几乎让工作人员惊掉了下巴（或者说，惊到了长椅边）。根据他们的回复，由于“采购和实施的时间表”，以及广场上已经规划的活动（包括与世界杯相关的活动），今年夏天这样做根本不可能实现。

一个反向论点是：多伦多举办世界杯赛事及相关活动，恰恰是在全市范围内安装大量公共座椅的最佳时机。成千上万的游客首次到访，当地人花更多时间在户外活动，观赛派对也人满为患。

事实上，内森·菲利普斯广场本身就直播了多场比赛，仅凭这一点就足以成为在那里安装更好座椅的理由。

在加拿大主要城市中，对公共座椅缺乏关注这一点尤其令人气愤——在城市规划问题上，蒙特利尔一如既往地做得更好——因为这并不是什么高深科学。只需大量安装简单的长椅，数量要超过看似必要的程度；将它们放在人们想要坐的地方；然后防止它们破损失修。

真的就这么简单。但对于想要改进的城市来说，非固定式座椅是更人性化的选择。城市规划专家和社会观察家威廉·怀特（William Whyte）在半个世纪前就注意到，人们喜欢可移动座椅带来的自主权。正如他在《小型城市空间的社会生活》（The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces）中所写，这种座椅允许人们根据需要移向阴凉处或阳光下，靠近朋友或远离那个带着大音响的人。

这种方法在许多欧洲城市早已司空见惯，并在 20 世纪 90 年代帮助纽约的布莱恩特公园（Bryant Park）重焕生机，但在加拿大却出现得缓慢，因为这里的领导者似乎对盗窃过度焦虑。好消息是：多伦多的两个地点近年来安装了非固定椅子，而且它们似乎并没有被偷走。假设人们是善良的而非恶意的，有时会带来回报。

从大局来看，简陋的公园长椅似乎不是什么至关重要的关注点。它可能不在很多人的愿望清单之首。但它也不仅仅是一个“有了更好”的附加项。确保加拿大的未来需要强大的城市来驱动经济。而更宜居的城市更有可能吸引人才，也更有可能取得成功。

就在上周，联邦政府宣布提供资助，将允许数十位知名学者来到加拿大，其中许多人是为了逃离美国日益严重的反大学情绪。这些学者可以去任何地方。吸引他们来到加拿大的是可预测的资金支持、研究机会、政治氛围，以及他们即将迁入的城市的宜居性。

当这些人在加拿大的家中安顿下来，走在街道上并探索新社区时，城市政府至少能为他们做的是提供一个可以坐下来沉思的地方。

读者来信

无论改称什么

关于《特朗普签署行政命令重新命名安大略湖。这实际上改变了什么？》（8月28日）：华盛顿所制造的不过是一个联邦层面的别名，对任何港口主管、任何航海图以及任何加拿大人都没有约束力。

这就是为什么官方的回应奏效了。马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）提供了词源学解释，然后将文件原样退回。道格·福特（Doug Ford）的嘴角微微上扬，随即消失。

共享的水域并非有效的筹码。想要获得影响力的国家会建立市场、路线和制度。想要掌声的国家则会重新命名家具。其中一种习惯能够传承，而另一种在下次下雨时就会被冲刷掉。

大卫·伍德德（David Woodard） 芬兰，坦佩雷

唐纳德·特朗普玷污了霸凌的艺术，这令人可悲。这位总统比典型的沙盒霸凌者更糟糕，后者在无情地袭击受害者时至少还保留着一点点自尊。这次重新命名令人羞愧，因为它暴露了他的知识广度的局限性。

特朗普没有采取聪明的反击，而是选择通过诉诸于等同于毫无逻辑的非承接句，让自己坠入深渊。将安大略湖重新命名为美国湖，与关税战有什么关系？ ■ 诺曼·M·奥斯托纳尔（Norman M Ostonal） 不列颠哥伦比亚省，新威斯敏斯特

我们不需要与特朗普政府争论安大略湖的名字。让我们简单地在北岸称其为安大略湖，在南岸称其为美国湖。我们甚至可以在水中竖起一道栅栏来标记两国之间的边界，并将其命名为“特朗普线”——如果他愿意出钱的话。 ■ 艾娃·温特斯（Aiva Vinters） 多伦多

加拿大和美国的孩子们长期以来都被教授一个记忆五大湖的助记词：HOMES。在加拿大，我们将继续称其为安大略湖，因此它将依然是 HOMES。然而，在美国，小学生会被教授一个新的助记词——SHAME（羞耻）吗？

■ 德鲁·纳梅斯（Drew Nameth） 安大略省，伯灵顿

加拿大人肯定能负担得起一个宏大的姿态，以重启与邻国的谈判。为了认可数十年以来对五大湖以及所有北美流域的共同管理，我请求各市政府将废水处理设施的排放管和出水口以唐纳德·J·特朗普命名。

以他的名义命名这些至关重要的市政基础设施元素，将凸显我们对他在这段浑浊、动荡时期的领导力的共同感激之情。 ■ 詹姆斯·汤姆森（James Thomson） 哈利法克斯

经济后果

关于《贸易战给卡尼的投资峰会蒙上阴影》（8月25日）：加拿大是世界上国土面积第二大的国家，但人口勉强排进前 40 名。凭借丰富的自然资源和世界一流的劳动力，加拿大的人均繁荣度和机会应名列前茅。然而，按人均 GDP 计算，加拿大落后于 40 多个美国州。

加拿大人三次选出了近期的政府，这些政府并没有专注于国家建设，而是将几代人积累的财富分发给那些感觉良好但实际上削弱了国家物质基础的事业。随后，他们选出了一位擅长规定利率和银行准备金，但在谈判方面缺乏实践的领导人。正如许多繁荣建设者所知，银行家是繁荣的附属品，而非创造者。

近期的贸易谈判如此艰难并不令人惊讶，主要是因为加拿大花了一十多年时间让自己变得脆弱。有一天，加拿大人可能会感谢唐纳德·特朗普用现实给了我们一记耳光，并教会我们要做好最充分的准备。

■ 约翰·布德雷斯基（John Budreski） 不列颠哥伦比亚省，惠斯勒

谁在负责？

关于“福特必须掌控飙升的交通成本”（社论，Aug. 26）：安大略省近期交通项目的成本高得令人匪夷所思。是的，道格·福特确实应该采取行动。但我始终认为，这些项目的成本管理人员要么是不称职，要么是在打瞌睡，要么是无能为力。为什么我们面对的预算膨胀总是成了既定事实？

良好的项目管理应当是内置的。当情况恶化或出现意外事件时，应尽早刹车，以便快速重新调整计划。或者，我们只是成了令人懊悔的“诱饵与替换”策略的受害者——用低估价赢得工程，再通过范围蔓延来获取利润？无论哪种情况，我们必须掌控这个糟糕的局面。 奈杰尔·史密斯，多伦多

这是你的账单

关于“加拿大在反击时需要具有战略性”（Aug. 27）：最近观察美国媒体，我发现贸易争端已经跌出了新闻榜单。

我们应该通过对石油、钾肥、天然气、电力和其他商品征收出口税来唤醒美国人。要求切断或干扰商品供应，或大幅提高关税的呼吁，根本不应被考虑。

出口税带来的价格上涨足以让普通美国人感受到，但不足以让企业更换供应商，也不足以引发美国的重大反击。看看禁酒令引发的愤怒。想象一下，当石油高管、农民、卡车司机等人开始打电话时，白宫的电话线会是什么样子。

不要指望美国中期选举能改变白宫在关税上的路线。套用我们总理的话，我们必须掌控自己的命运。现在正是开始的时候。 ■ 尼尔·圣雅克，多伦多

关于“这场贸易战简直是愚蠢”（Aug. 26）：在我看来，关税引入了许多可以避免的荒谬现象——它是一种通胀工具，是一种不成比例地惩罚中低收入消费者的累退税，是缺乏竞争力的产业的人为保护伞——而其中最根本且被忽视的卑劣之处，是政府对私人商业交易的未经请求的干预。

在唐纳德·特朗普的案例中，公开的借口是阻止外国“敲诈”美国。但进口商品的是商人，而不是国家——而且通常是基于合理的理由，从而为进口国带来可征税的利润、就业和其他利益。在关税的喧嚣（Sturm und Drang）中，一个表面上的保守派政府却矛盾地抛弃了自由市场原则，导致公共领域的无知篡夺了私营部门的自律。

此时，罗纳德·里根关于英语中最可怕的话语的那句名言恰如其分：“我来自政府，我是来提供帮助的。”

史蒂文·理查兹，温哥华

听长辈的话

关于“多年前得到的建议正帮助我与衰老达成和解”（第一人称，Aug. 24）：关于那些在世数十年而获得的智慧：当我告诉同龄人，我每天最困难的事情就是早晨穿袜子时，我得到了睿智的认同点头；而向年轻人讲述这样的片段将是浪费时间，尽管这种经验之谈终将在未来等待着他们。

我多大了？我曾经 39, 但后来我数不清了。 伊恩·古斯里，渥太华

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面对特朗普，欧洲必须与加拿大站在一起

在强权即公理的世界里，欧盟是中型国家中规模最大的一方

菲利普·勒格兰 (PHILIPPE LEGRAIN) 伦敦

观点

作者曾任欧盟委员会主席经济顾问，现为伦敦政治经济学院欧洲研究所访问高级研究员，以及《他们与我们：移民与当地人如何共同繁荣》(Them and Us: How Immigrants and Locals Can Thrive Together) 一书的作者。

总理马克·卡尼 (Mark Carney) 今年早些时候在达沃斯发表的备受赞誉的演讲，至今仍是全球外交官们讨论的话题。卡尼先生主张，中型国家必须共同行动，以避免成为掠夺性超级大国的牺牲品；而他也践行了自己的诺言，在 美国总统唐纳德·特朗普威胁入侵丹麦领土格陵兰岛时，坚定地支持其欧洲盟友。

卡尼政府还继续向饱受战争蹂躏的乌克兰提供军事和财政援助。

然而，现在特朗普又针对加拿大——这个传统上美国最紧密的经济合作伙伴——发起了一场迅速升级的贸易战，欧洲领导人们却出奇地保持沉默。他们正在犯一个巨大的错误。团结必须是双向的。

除了威胁欧洲主权外，特朗普还多次断言加拿大应该成为美国的第51个州。特朗普希望通过限制加拿大与欧盟等其他伙伴达成替代协议的能力，使加拿大成为一个经济附庸，并且他正威胁要通过不断升级的关税来实现其目的。

加拿大承受不起这场失败。在赌注如此之高的情况下，欧盟应当拿出勇气，向加拿大提供一个更深层次的经济、政治和战略伙伴关系，将自己塑造为一个比现在的美国更具吸引力的替代方案。

试想，如果欧盟向加拿大提供一项增强的零关税贸易协定，将传递出多么强有力的信号。思考一下，加拿大和欧洲可以在北极安全、能源和关键矿产方面开展更紧密合作的所有方式。

试想，如果欧盟向加拿大提供一项增强的零关税贸易协定，将会传递出多么强有力的信号。

欧盟采取大胆行动的一个障碍是胆怯。尽管有充分证据表明特朗普先生并不尊重妥协者，但欧洲领导人仍然不敢冒险。然而，当各国敢于反抗特朗普先生的霸凌时，他往往会退缩。如果中等强国能够团结起来，他们在与超级大国谈判时将拥有更多选择和更大的筹码。

至少，来自欧盟的慷慨提议将加强加拿大目前相对于特朗普政府的地位。欧盟很可能成为特朗普先生的下一个目标。欧洲愿意独自承受更多的霸凌吗？

相反，另一个障碍是傲慢。在 pre-Trump era，当美国领导的基于规则的国际秩序依然完好时，欧盟认为自己是一个超级大国，至少在经济层面是这样。但在一个强权即公理的新世界里，欧盟必须承认，目前它缺乏与美国或中国抗衡的政治统一、军事实力、地缘政治筹码、经济活力和技术能力。它比自己想象的更像加拿大。

事实上，欧盟是中等强国中规模最大的一方。它不像美国和中国那样是顶级掠食者，这意味着它潜在地是猎物。一旦欧洲决策者接受这一现实，也许他们会更愿意与志同道合的力量合作，以应对共同的脆弱性。

第三个障碍是制度僵化。作为中等强国中规模最大的一方，欧盟能从与广泛合作伙伴的紧密协作中获得最大收益；事实上，它可以成为重叠的“自愿联盟”的锚点。但要扮演这个角色，它需要超越其过于僵化且以贸易为中心的合作模式——在这种模式下，深度经济整合仅限于那些渴望加入欧盟或同意全盘遵循其规则的国家。

欧洲反而应该采取更灵活、更广泛的合作形式，以更好地适应一个混乱、无序的世界。这些形式可以包括深度经济整合、紧密政治合作以及更广泛战略联盟的不同组合。

从更广泛的层面来看，欧盟委员会主席乌苏拉·冯德莱恩曾提出欧盟与《全面与进步跨太平洋伙伴关系协定》（CPTPP）挂钩的想法。欧盟和 CPTPP 合计占据了全球经济的近三分之一，份额超过了美国或中国。关于数字贸易协定的谈判已经开始，各方承诺不对彼此征收保护主义关税；但进展依然缓慢。

正如卡尼先生今年早些时候正确指出的那样：“在一个大国竞争的世界中，处于中间的国家有两种选择——要么为了争取青睐而相互竞争，要么联合起来创造一条具有影响力的第三条道路。”加拿大已经做出了选择。现在正是欧盟支持它的时刻。

名字意味着什么？不要指望总统能给出正确的答案

周四，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在椭圆形办公室签署了一项将安大略湖（Lake Ontario）更名为美国湖（Lake America）的行政命令后，在回答一名记者的提问。DEMETRIUS FREEMAN / THE NEW YORK TIMES

大卫·什里布曼 (DAVID SHRIBMAN)

观点

前《匹兹堡邮报-观察家报》执行主编，曾因报道美国政治而获得普利策奖

唐纳德·特朗普想要将安大略（Ontario）更名为美国（America）。那么，回应是否应该是：“再见，苏必利尔（Superior），你好，加拿大？”

当然，这样一来，面积为 82,103 平方公里的加拿大，就将比面积仅有 19,009 平方公里的美国更“优越”（superior）。特朗普先生在命令安大略湖放弃其延续数百年的名称时，显然没有衡量过各个五大湖的实际规模。

加拿大（位于安大略湖的北面、西面和西南面）以及世界上大多数其他国家将忽略这次北美贸易战中的最新一次冲击，因为该命令仅适用于美国政府机构和地图，对其他方的影响并不比总统 2025 年发布的“美国湾”宣言更大。

特朗普先生可能非常在意自己在历史中的地位，但在地理知识方面，他的根基并不稳固。例如，他不知道这个加拿大的省份是以湖泊命名的，而非相反；就像密歇根州的名字源自原住民对环绕该州下部西端湖泊的称呼一样。

但特朗普先生对遗产的关注，可能次于他对名字的痴迷。

十年前，他将曾是共和党总统提名竞争者、现任国务卿的马可·鲁比奥称为“小马可”。他称希拉里·克林顿为“狡诈的希拉里”，称乔·拜登为“狡诈的乔”，尽管他后来在拜登的绰号库中加入了“瞌睡乔”。这些大多被视为玩笑；毕竟，乔治·W·布什也喜欢给人们起外号，甚至将俄罗斯总统称为“普提·普特”（Pootie Poot），而他的白宫助手们则称让·克雷蒂安为“迪诺”（Dino），大概是因为当时的加拿大总理已接近 70 岁。

在特朗普先生——一个并不以爱开玩笑著称的人——在第二次就职典礼上誓言将北美最高峰的名字从德纳利（Denali，原住民名称，该名称与这座山紧密相连，以至于俄罗斯在拥有阿拉斯加时也使用它）改为麦金利山（Mount McKinley）之前，这一切都还只是游戏。这座山此前曾被称为麦金利山，是为了在 1917 年向威廉·麦金利（1897-1901 年美国总统）致敬，直到 2015 年巴拉克·奥巴马恢复了其原名。特朗普先生此举的推测原因：这位对进口关税深怀感情的第 47 任总统，将第 25 任总统视为关税的传唱者，显然不知道麦金利后来否认了对关税的支持。

当特朗普先生试图将墨西哥湾更名为美国湾时，由于美联社认为原名称具有国际认可度而拒绝使用，从而引发了一场争端和诉讼。随后，特朗普白宫限制了美联社参加总统活动和随行的权限。

特朗普先生现在正陷入一场关于约翰·F·肯尼迪表演艺术中心的争端。他在管理委员会上的盟友投票决定将他的名字添加到建筑上，而联邦法院命令将其移除。近日，司法部在法庭上辩称，特朗普政府有权在建筑上添加两段文字（“由总统唐纳德·J·特朗普翻新并修复”以及“由特朗普肯尼迪中心基金捐赠”）。

此前，政府采取行动，恢复了曾用于纪念邦联军队军官的军事设施名称。北卡罗来纳州的布拉格堡（Fort Bragg）是以拥有奴隶的邦联将军布拉克顿·布拉格（Braxton Bragg）命名的，在拜登执政期间被更名为自由堡（Fort Liberty）。国防部长皮特·海格塞斯（Pete Hegseth）在特朗普先生偏好但非正式的头衔“战争部长”的指导下，恢复了布拉格之名，并辩称该基地现在是以在第二次世界大战突出部战役中受伤的陆军伞兵罗纳德·布拉格（Ronald Bragg）命名的，这种说法没有人相信。

在新罕布什尔州的杰克逊（Jackson）也发生了类似的变动。这个城镇最初是以安德鲁·杰克逊（Andrew Jackson）命名的，而这位总统如今因其针对美洲原住民的战争而受到批评。该镇保留了原名，但投票决定该名称现在是指查尔斯·杰克逊（Charles Jackson）。

那么，这位杰克逊先生究竟是谁？

他是那片未来某天可能会被称为“加拿大湖”的水域周边土地区的联邦地质学家。

Meta 的和解揭示了法院的必要性及其局限性

泰勒·欧文 (TAYLOR OWEN)

观点

麦吉尔大学比弗布鲁克媒体、伦理与传播讲席教授，以及媒体、技术与民主中心的创始主任

周三，在加利福尼亚州奥克兰的一家联邦法院审理八天后，Meta 同意支付高达 US$17.1-billion，以解决 50 多名美国州总检察长提出的指控，这些指控称 Meta 故意将 Instagram 和 Facebook 设计成令儿童上瘾的产品。这代表了科技公司支付的规模最大的和解金。

但金钱是最不重要的。这次和解表明，诉讼可以帮助使社交媒体变得可治理——但诉讼本身无法进行治理。

虽然该公司并未承认有任何过错，但协议中包含的补救措施实际上在名义之外承认了一切。根据同意判决，青少年的账户现在将设有每日两小时的默认限制、夜间禁封以及在学校期间禁用推送通知。未成年人的点赞数将被隐藏，整容滤镜被禁止，算法推送将变为可选。此外，Meta 必须建立能够切实识别哪些用户是儿童的系统。这些补救措施几乎逐项对应了各州指控的损害，而直到上周为止，Meta 还否认这些损害与其产品有任何关系。

此次和解还削弱了该行业反对监管的主要辩护理由之一。大多数这些措施此前一直被平台坚称是无法实现的。现在，Meta 将根据这项美国同意判决来实施这些措施，尽管它仍在质疑欧盟委员会的初步认定，即其无限滚动、自动播放和推荐系统违反了《数字服务法》。限制因素一直以来都是动力问题，而非技术限制。

这些诉讼是必要的，因为它们揭露了能够让政府采取行动的信息。

审前证据开示阶段产生了 Meta 从未公布的关于青少年损害的内部研究，包括显示 Instagram 上有超过 100 万份关于 13 岁以下用户的报告（其中仅有极小部分得到了处理）的文件；揭示产品如何通过调整以最大化年轻人使用时间的参与度数据；以及一名其前工程师的宣誓证词，称年轻用户受损的比例远高于该公司公开承认的任何水平。十年来，这些信息被锁在公司内部，需要通过诉讼才能将其撬开。

但这次和解也表明，为什么仅靠诉讼在根本上不足以强制实现真正的改变。负责监督合规情况的审计员只能提出建议；而 Meta 决定做出哪些改变。时间限制在五年后到期，协议在 10. 后到期。这些保护措施仅适用于签署协议的美国各州的青少年，且协议声明其中的任何内容均不得在“任何国际司法管辖区”中作为先例，这意味着它无法保护加拿大儿童免受 Meta 明知正在发生的损害。Meta 甚至保留了对抗任何现行或未来法律的权利，只要这些法律旨在使这些保护措施永久化。此外，和解金中的 US$5-billion 取决于其主要竞争对手是否采取类似措施，即通过私下协商的规则制定来创建行业标准。四年的诉讼可能产生了一份重要的公共记录，但它带来的补救措施是狭隘的、临时的，且仅限于一家公司。

因此，政府需要接手此案留下的后续工作。今年6月，渥太华提交了C-34法案，即《安全社交媒体法》。该法案将设立一个数字安全委员会，有权要求所有加拿大青少年使用的平台进行Meta刚刚承认可行的那种设计更改，罚金最高可达全球营收的3%，且没有有效期。它还将涵盖AI伴侣聊天机器人，而这些内容在美方的协议中被明显忽略了。此外，它将适用于加拿大的儿童，而该和解协议根据其自身条款，并不适用。

更大的区别在于两种方法的运作方式。法院仅在损害造成后才采取行动；这项同意判决中的每一项补救措施都是针对儿童已经遭受的伤害而做出的，并且仅针对一家公司，将其产品在今年夏天时的设计修复方案固定下来。而正确的治理旨在防止下一次伤害的发生。C-34法案承诺让加拿大人使用的主要平台为其产品创造的风险负责。它要求这些平台评估风险、公布降低风险的计划、向研究人员开放底层数据，并向监管机构负责，由监管机构判定这些计划是否有效。随着这些产品的变化（它们必然会变化），相应的义务和问责制也将随之跟进。

像这样的案件不能取代治理，但可以帮助实现治理。诉讼打破了行业对信息的垄断，将重要证据记录在公共档案中，并消除了不采取行动的借口。政府现在需要接手后续工作。

什么样的锻炼方案最有利于睡眠？

如何利用活动自然地提升睡眠质量——或者至少不破坏它

RÉBECCA ROBILLARD

睡眠私语者（THE SLEEP WHISPERER）

“睡眠私语者”是一个提供关于睡眠健康见解和建议的专栏系列。它不能替代专业的医疗护理。

我们经常听到，白天的活跃能带来夜晚的安稳。事实上，运动可以降低压力激素，触发动态的体温和心血管变化，稳定生物钟并增强微生物群——所有这些反过来都能促进睡眠。然而，许多人想知道运动的类型和锻炼的时间是否会有影响。有些人担心高强度运动或深夜去健身房可能会对睡眠不利。

幸运的是，研究人员已经花了不少时间研究这些问题。以下是关于如何利用运动自然提升睡眠，或至少不破坏睡眠的一些须知事项。

时间与规律至关重要 虽然有些人喜欢在上床睡觉前不久去快跑或参加动感单车课，而另一些人则更喜欢瑜伽或带狗散步等较慢的活动。但对于一个良好的夜晚休息来说，哪种选择更好呢？

一项关于晚间运动影响的元分析显示，虽然晚间运动通常不会干扰健康成年人的睡眠，但根据强度和时间的具体情况，它可能会降低睡眠质量。具体而言，在睡前四小时内进行 30 到 60 分钟的急性高强度运动（例如短时间、孤立的冲刺跑、快速骑行或高强度间歇训练）可能会损害你的快速眼动（REM）睡眠并缩短总睡眠时长，尤其是如果运动时间越接近就寝时间，影响越明显。相反，晚间低强度的急性运动（例如散步或温和的瑜伽）似乎不会干扰睡眠，并且可能会带来适度的睡眠改善。

换句话说，虽然突然且孤立的高水平体力活动确实可能不是睡眠的最佳选择，但偶尔进行较温和的运动应该没有问题，但如果你的目标是改善睡眠，这可能不会产生显著的益处。

将规律运动融入你的日常生活中可能会产生更好的效果。一项系统评价显示，每周进行三到 10 次有氧运动或力量训练计划，持续五周到一年，可以缩短入睡所需的时间并提高睡眠质量，这可能是通过增强深层睡眠实现的。

选择你喜欢的项目 如果你在想哪种类型的运动最有利于促进睡眠健康，不必为此焦虑。

一些研究表明，普拉提在促进睡眠方面可能比其他类型的运动具有略强的优势，因为它将呼吸和放松技巧与运动相结合。对于老年人，每周至少两次、每次 40 到 60 分钟的中等强度步行结合肌肉耐力训练被认为是最佳的锻炼方案。

如果你是为了减肥而运动，睡眠不足可能会促使你增加热量消耗，但如果你正在节食，睡眠不足同时也会降低你能减轻的体脂比例。

然而，广泛的运动已被证明能改善睡眠，从太极和瑜伽到跑步、骑行、抗阻训练和其他体育运动。选择你喜欢的项目可能会帮助你坚持计划，并在减轻压力的同时进一步提升情绪，从而产生更强的睡眠效果。如果你能与志同道合的人一起运动，那就更好了，因为这还可以增强你的动力，并利用社交接触对睡眠产生的积极影响。

不要为了去健身房而牺牲睡眠

研究表明，我们花在运动上的时间往往与睡眠时间直接竞争。但牺牲睡眠以腾出更多时间运动具有严重的弊端。

例如，如果你是为了减轻体重而锻炼，削减睡眠时间可能会促使你增加热量消耗，但如果你正在节食，这同时也会降低你能减轻的体脂比例。

此外请记住，充足的睡眠是提高身体机能、减少受伤、修复训练后肌肉损耗以及提高专注力的关键。即使是奥运选手也经常表示，保护睡眠是其训练计划的一部分。

如果你有睡眠问题，体力活动可以提供帮助

五分之一的加拿大人患有失眠症。如果你是其中之一，那么锻炼应该被纳入你的解决方案考虑范围。

一项针对失眠人群的所有研究综述得出结论，锻炼能减少夜间清醒的时间，有助于获得更连续的睡眠，并减轻失眠症状。这些益处在较高强度的锻炼中似乎更为显著。

为了帮助缓解失眠，研究人员建议每周进行 150 分钟的中等强度锻炼（例如简单到每周五天，每天步行 30 分钟）；或者进行 75 分钟的高强度训练（例如，进行三次 25 分钟的间歇训练）。

对于患有睡眠呼吸暂停的人来说，锻炼也是一种有效的工具。呼吸暂停被定义为不自主的呼吸中断，会导致夜间血氧水平下降，但规律的锻炼能将这种情况的发生次数减少约 20%。

最终总结

总而言之，要使您的锻炼计划对睡眠产生最佳效果，规律性至关重要。如果您之前的生活方式较为久坐，那么采取循序渐进的方法来提高活动量，可能是最大限度减少对睡眠产生短暂负面影响的最佳选择。加拿大的 24 小时活动指南建议可以作为设定个人目标的良好起点。虽然在晚上进行轻度到中度的锻炼是没有问题的，但请尽量在就寝前留出至少一到两个小时的缓冲时间，以便您的身体在入睡前有时间放松下来。

Rébecca Robillard 博士（PhD）是渥太华大学心理学院的临床神经心理学家兼副教授。她还领导皇家精神健康医院的临床睡眠研究。她同时担任加拿大睡眠研究联盟（Canadian Sleep Research Consortium）的共同主席，该联盟是一个由睡眠科学家和临床医生组成的国家级中心。

这些被忽视的食物钙含量惊人地高

一汤匙奇亚籽含有 70 mg 钙。从多种来源摄取这种矿物质有助于增加您的每日摄入量。ISTOCK

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饮食思考

说到钙，人们首先想到的通常是乳制品。

例如，一杯牛奶或四分之三杯酸奶，每份可提供约 300 毫克 (mg) 的这种矿物质，而一些超滤牛奶提供的含量甚至更高。

但牛奶和酸奶并不是唯一能提供大量钙的食物。

事实上，有几种食物提供的钙含量比您意识到的要多得多。

无论您是纯素食者、乳糖不耐受者，还是仅仅希望在常规乳制品来源之外增加钙质摄入，以下是一些被忽视的食物，它们能有效满足您每日的钙需求。

为什么你的身体需要钙

众所周知，钙有助于构建并维持强健的骨骼。但这种矿物质的作用不仅限于支持骨骼健康。

肌肉的收缩、神经在全身传递信号、血管的正常运作以及血液的正常凝固都需要钙。

它还有助于调节重要激素的释放，包括胰岛素、促甲状腺激素和肾上腺素。

需要多少钙？

19 至 50 岁的成年人每天需要 1,000 mg 的钙；到 51 岁时，女性对钙的需求量增加到 1,200 mg。到 71 岁时，男性需要 1,200 的钙。

根据 2015 年加拿大社区健康调查（这是最近一份发布了钙摄入量数据的版本），超过 44% 的加拿大成年人通过饮食摄入的钙不足。

50 岁以上的女性和 70 岁以上的男性尤其容易出现饮食钙摄入不足的情况。青少年女孩也是如此。

为了帮助您满足每日钙需求，请不要忽视以下食物。它们还提供大量其他关键营养素。

帕玛森干酪

由牛奶制成的硬质奶酪是钙的良好来源，这并不令人意外。

但您可能不知道，每盎司帕玛森干酪含有高达 335 的钙，令人印象深刻。相比之下，每盎司陈年切达奶酪提供 200 。

帕玛森干酪每盎司还提供 10 g 蛋白质，比切达奶酪多约 30%。

与大多数陈年奶酪一样，帕玛森干酪是使用乳酸菌制成的，这种对肠道友好的微生物能发酵乳糖（牛奶中的天然糖分），并形成奶酪的风味和质地。

由于其发酵和陈化过程，帕玛森干酪的乳糖含量非常低，因此许多乳糖不耐受的人也能很好地耐受。

沙丁鱼

我最近推荐这种罐装鱼作为实现蛋白质目标的便捷橱柜常备品。但沙丁鱼也是极佳的钙源。

由于其骨骼柔软，一份三盎司的沙丁鱼可提供 280 至 325 的钙。

此外，这些钙还伴随着 7.5 mcg 的维生素 B12（相当于三天的量）和 45 mcg 的支持免疫的硒（占成年人每日需求的 80%）。

此外，在三盎司的沙丁鱼中，您还能发现 850 的 DHA 和 EPA 总和，这是油性鱼类中的两种 omega-3 脂肪酸。加拿大卫生部建议成年人每天摄入 250 至 500 的 DHA 和 EPA 以维持心脏健康。

羽衣甘蓝

一杯煮熟的这种绿叶蔬菜提供 177 的生物可利用钙，这意味着它提供的钙能被您的身体很好地吸收和利用。

虽然同样分量的煮菠菜含有更多钙 (245 )，但由于菠菜含有高含量的草酸（植物中与钙结合并降低其吸收率的天然化合物），您的身体只能吸收菠菜中约 5% 的钙。

一杯煮熟的羽衣甘蓝还提供 5 g 纤维和 493 mcg 的增强骨骼的维生素 K。在弗雷明汉心脏研究（Framingham Heart Study）中，维生素 K 摄入量最高（每天约 250 mcg）的老年人，其髋部骨折的风险显著低于摄入量最低的人群。

此外，羽衣甘蓝是叶黄素和玉米黄质的绝佳来源，这些抗氧化剂与健康的大脑衰老相关。

其他含有高量生物可利用钙的绿叶蔬菜还包括芜菁甘蓝（rapini）和小白菜。

白芸豆

在豆类中，白芸豆（也称为 cannellini 豆）是钙最丰富的来源之一，每杯提供 170 。

除了这种至关重要的矿物质，一杯白芸豆还含有高含量的纤维 (7 g)、B 族维生素叶酸 (153 mcg) 和镁 (119 )。

而且它们是调节血压的钾的卓越来源，每杯提供 1,061 。建议女性和男性每天分别摄入 2,600 和 3,400 的钾。

黑糖蜜

黑糖蜜是糖蜜中甜度最低且最浓缩的形式，每汤匙含有显著的 179 mg 钙。它还提供 3.6 mg 铁和 518 钾。

可以将黑糖蜜搅拌进燕麦粥中，将其打入奶昔，混入酸奶或用于烘焙。

积少成多的微量元素

来自坚果、种子、蔬菜和水果的少量钙质在一天之中累积，有助于您达到每日目标。

例如，每汤匙奇亚籽含有 70 钙，芝麻酱含有 64 ，杏仁酱提供 55 。

四分之一杯杏仁含有 96 ，一杯西兰花提供 60 。即使是一个中等大小的橙子也能提供 52 钙。

莱斯利·贝克（Leslie Beck）是一位常驻多伦多的私人执业营养师，同时担任 Medcan 的食品与营养总监。

我的食谱盒里不只有食谱

第一人称

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插画：马利·艾伦-艾什 (MARLEY ALLEN-ASH)

安妮·弗雷泽 (Anne Fraser) 写道，我食谱盒里的每一道食谱都承载着一张面孔和一段回忆。

我原本并非在寻找回忆。我只是在食谱盒里翻找我的胡萝卜蛋糕食谱——那是 50 多年前胡萝卜蛋糕刚流行起来时我抄录下来的。在那个年代，真正的主角是奶油奶酪糖霜。它简直就是点睛之笔。

当我翻阅数百张磨损严重的卡片时，我意识到了一件事。我的生活几乎可以通过这些食谱来追溯。我一直相信，围坐在餐桌旁的人才是最重要的。但精心准备的食物有一种神奇的力量，能将这些人聚集在一起。

最旧的卡片可以追溯到 1973 年我的新娘送礼会。朋友们带来的不是酒瓶或香氛蜡烛，而是手写的食谱。许多食谱的标题旨在讨好我的新丈夫：比如“大卫最爱的肉卷”或“大卫最爱的烧烤酱”。回想起来，当时似乎每个新婚女性都被期望学会通往丈夫心房的最快路径。

这其中或许有些道理。在经历过三任丈夫之后，我可以自信地说，浪漫可能会褪色，但一顿丰盛的晚餐永远会受到赞赏。

朋友、同事和邻居都在我的厨房里留下了自己的印记。每一道食谱都承载着一张面孔。分娩室的主管护士马丁小姐在两次接生之间的短暂休息时间里，带来了她那令人难忘的覆盆子派与我分享。南希的俄式牛肉（beef stroganoff）依然是我尝过的最顶级的版本。而我的圣诞鸡肝酱则成了家族传统。

谷歌可以在几秒钟内给我提供数千道食谱，但它无法给我我母亲或姐姐的手写字迹。

每当我看到她们的卡片时，我不得不停下来。特里的芝士蛋糕、浓郁巧克力蛋糕、泡沫李子布丁酱。朱迪的意式前菜。她们熟悉的笔迹带回了欢笑、家庭晚餐和共同度过的夏天。有时，它也会带来泪水。

谷歌同样无法取代那些因数十年的使用而沾染了黄油、香草和面粉污渍的索引卡。那些小小的滴痕是荣誉勋章。它们告诉我，这些食谱不仅仅是被收集起来的，更是被热爱着的。

食物一直标记着我生命的季节。夏天意味着我母亲无与伦比的酸樱桃派，以及用安大略省野蓝莓制作的马斯科卡（Muskoka）蓝莓派，尽管后者的价格贵得惊人。秋天带来了酸奶油苹果派，后来被我改良成了自己的桃子奶油版本。如果没有肝酱、辣椒酱、大马李子酱以及那些悄然成为家族传统的食谱，圣诞节就不像圣诞节。

这些年来，我的食谱书架随着我的好奇心一同扩张。印度料理通过亲密的朋友进入了我的生活。荷兰酱成了我的孩子们除了在我的餐桌上之外，在任何地方都拒绝食用的东西。甚至我的食谱书也在讲述故事，页边空白处写满了像“丈夫很喜欢这个”之类的笔记。

我的食谱卡既是指南，也是日记。

有一次，我和朋友们在一家偏远的度假屋里。我自告奋勇为 13 个人制作班尼迪克蛋。我的厨师朋友问：“我能帮什么忙？”

“把蛋 poached（水煮）了，”我回答。

度假屋的厨房没有漏勺，于是他冷静地拿起每个鸡蛋，用茶巾沥干水分，然后完美地将其放在等待着的英式玛芬上。

“你会烫伤手的！”我抗议道。

他的妻子微笑着说：“他的手被烫过太多次了，现在几乎没什么感觉了。”

这些是食谱永远不会记录的时刻，但不知怎么地，它们成了食谱的一部分。我的厨师朋友还曾不动声色地挽救了我丈夫制造的一场厨房灾难，其举止如此优雅，以至于餐桌上的没有人知道出了问题。每当端上那些羊排时，这个故事依然让我们发笑。

最近，我发现自己在思考，当我离世后，这些食谱将会变成什么样。

会有人珍惜这个盒子吗？会有人认出我母亲的笔迹吗？他们会做我儿子至今仍念念不忘的咖啡糖霜香蕉蛋糕，或是那款能让那些自称没胃口吃甜点的人也为之折服的烤蛋白大黄卡仕达蛋糕吗？

今日数独答案

也许我应该开始挑选最精华的部分传承下去。如果我可以规划自己的守灵仪式，我会要求供应我最喜欢的食谱，而不是精致的小三明治。让人们在围坐在餐桌前分享美食的过程中记住我。

因为这才是所有这些食谱真正的意义所在。

不是食材。

不是技巧。

而是人。

还有一个请求。

当那一刻到来时，请把我的 Cuisinart 食品料理机一起埋葬。

50多年前，在我姐姐的坚持下，我买了第一台。它彻底改变了我的烹饪方式，从完美的派皮到数不尽的家庭大餐。它可能是我拥有过的最忠实的厨房伙伴。

如果天堂有厨房，我打算让自己装备精良。

安妮·弗雷泽（Anne Fraser）现居安大略省索恩伯里（Thornbury, Ont.）。

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那是1958年。李·哈森（Lee Hazen）和西德尼·拉扎德（Sidney Lazard）正在进行练习赛，为即将到来的与意大利队的世锦赛对决做准备。当这手牌出现时，哈森在西位，拉扎德在东位。

也许南位本该以强两级叫法开局，但他没有这样做。然而，当北位对一个黑桃以两个梅花回应，随后将三个黑桃加到四个时，南位通过探索大满贯的可能性弥补了之前的损失。

在得知北位持有梅花A但只有一个K后，南位明智地放弃了大满贯，叫了六个黑桃。于是，哈森在面对六个黑桃的合约时负责首攻，并打出了唯一能给己方带来击败合约机会的牌——梅花6！

很难责怪庄家为了确保合约而用梅花A顶牌。他不敢尝试迫击（finesse），因为梅花6可能是单张，在这种情况下，一次失败的迫击随后会被梅花将吃，导致合约失败一墩。

南位在第一轮无法得知哈森持有所有四张缺失的将牌。单张梅花的风险远高于丢失一墩将牌的可能性。

庄家很快就得到了坏消息。他在第二轮打出黑桃到A，而当东位显示没有黑桃时，一切都结束了。南位丢失了一墩黑桃和一墩梅花，最终失败一墩。

如果哈森采取更常规的红心首攻，南位本可以完成满贯。在第二轮得知必须丢失一墩将牌后，庄家最终会尝试梅花迫击，并以12墩收场。

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雏菊链：动荡时代的避风港

周六，雏菊链原野（Daisy Chain Fields）音乐节的创始人奥利维亚·罗德里戈（Olivia Rodrigo）在加利福尼亚州欧文市的大公园（Great Park）演唱会上为约 45,000 名粉丝演出。MARIO ANZUONI / REUTERS

周六，雏菊链原野音乐节期间，粉丝们观看 Doechii 表演的航拍图。MARIO ANZUONI / REUTERS

莎拉·麦克拉克伦（Sarah McLachlan）和艾拉尼斯·莫里塞特（Alanis Morissette）与奥利维亚·罗德里戈轮番登台，这场现代版的“莉莉丝公平”（Lillith Fair）成为了关税争端的解药

RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI 报道于加利福尼亚州欧文市

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周六在加利福尼亚州，人们对加拿大人表达了许多爱；这在某种程度上缓解了近期边境以南的情况。1 事情在边境以南的发展情况。莎拉·麦克拉克伦和艾拉尼斯·莫里塞特轮番登台，在雏菊链原野（Daisy Chain Fields）音乐节上受到奥利维亚·罗德里戈的推崇并与其共同演出。这是一个位于欧文市、吸引了约 45,000 名粉丝参加的具有治愈力且令人振奋的音乐节。

该音乐节由罗德里戈女士组织，其中还包括 Doechii 和 Chappell Roan 震撼灵魂的表演，以及由 Stevie Nicks 带来的宏大收尾。罗德里戈女士是一位大胆的美国流行明星，创作了《deja vu》和《good 4 u》等超级热门单曲，她一直在不断测试 Z 世代流行明星的定义边界。

罗德里戈女士借鉴了麦克拉克伦女士的经验。后者在 20 世纪 90 年代末发起了“莉莉丝公平”（Lilith Fair），这场传奇巡演的阵容全部由女性组成，包括 Sheryl Crow、Bonnie Raitt 和 Missy Elliott 等人。这是麦克拉克伦女士对当时拒绝在电台连续播放女性艺术家作品的厌女体制的回应。

艾莉·潘基（Ally Pankiw）最近的纪录片《莉莉丝公平：构建谜团》（Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery）涵盖了大部分相关内容，罗德里戈女士也出演了该片。该片认为，这次巡演为如今由女性主导的音乐产业铺平了道路。

“如果没有‘莉莉丝公平’，就不会有‘雏菊链’，”罗德里戈女士在舞台上介绍麦克拉克伦女士时说道，随后两人共同演绎了后者 1997 年的热门歌曲《Building a Mystery》，现场气氛热烈。接着，她们以歌曲《Angel》震撼全场，将这首深情的二重唱献给深受喜爱的多莉·帕顿（Dolly Parton）。

接下来的表演很难超越，但莫里塞特女士带来了惊喜。这位“莉莉丝公平”的校友原不在这份豪华的演出名单中，当时在欧文市大公园的两个舞台上已有十多位艺术家待命。但此前宣布的嘉宾 Karen O 无法出席。当观众发现《Jagged Little Pill》的创作者来顶替时，全场爆发了欢呼。

罗德里戈女士在与莫里塞特女士共同演绎标志性歌曲《Ironic》时显得由衷地兴奋，而且这次表演略有不同。为了庆祝女性、多样性和 LGBTQ2IA 群体，莫里塞特女士修改了一些歌词：“那是遇到了我梦中的男人，然后遇到了他美丽的丈夫。”

这些激昂的二重唱承载着多重意义：在政治上、音乐上，以及对我这个带着家人的“女儿之父”个人而言。

麦克拉克伦女士和莫里塞特女士加入罗德里戈女士的舞台以获得认可，感觉像是对当前加美之间紧张关系的解药，而唐纳德·特朗普在十多天前决定升级这种紧张局势。进入雏菊链原野的感觉并不像是在跨越那条被视为敌线的美加边境，而更像是找到了避风港。

作为音乐节的领军人物，罗德里戈女士一直公开反对美国总统，猛烈抨击其政府削减对计划生育协会（Planned Parenthood）的支持，或在庆祝特朗普先生再次当选和 ICE 突袭的社交媒体视频中使用她的音乐。

她并不孤单，同样敢于发声的艺术家还包括说唱公主 Doechii、华丽摇滚女王 Chappell Roan 以及 Garbage 乐队主唱 Shirley Manson，这些艺术家多次公开反对特朗普先生。

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特朗普以及恐跨性别等议题，同时也为遭受美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）攻击的移民，以及在加沙和约旦河西岸遭受攻击的巴勒斯坦人发声。

“雏菊链原野”（Daisy Chain Fields）将大多数此类议题置于核心位置。艺术家们通过免费演出，为计划生育协会（Planned Parenthood）、家政工人权利、黑人与原住民健康以及 LGBTQIA 支持等项目筹集资金。

罗德里戈女士在台上宣布，筹得的 $10-million 得到了梅琳达·法兰奇·盖茨的等额捐赠，总计达到 $20-million。即便作为一项慈善活动和一场政治运动，“雏菊链原野”也呼应了曾做出类似慈善努力的“莉莉丝公平”（Lilith Fair）。作为一个思想较为狭隘的青少年，我错过了第一次“莉莉丝公平”，这就是为什么我非常珍惜这次与家人一起参加其“重生”活动的机会。

“雏菊链原野”似乎是我们所处时代的顶峰。对于一个“女儿之父”来说，这是一个令人欣快的时间点，在开满万寿菊的原野上穿着粉色衣服感到被接纳，并在 Doechii、罗恩女士和

艺术家们通过免费演出，为计划生育协会（Planned Parenthood）、家政工人权利、黑人与原住民健康以及 LGBTQIA 支持等项目筹集资金。

罗德里戈女士，以及萨布丽娜·卡彭特和爵士流行乐新星 Laufey，这些超凡的创作歌手在赢得 Z 世代心扉的同时，也要求 X 世代给予关注。

罗德里戈女士或许是最好的例子，她刚刚发行了第三张专辑《你如此深爱却显得如此悲伤》（You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love），并即将开启巡演，将停靠多伦多、蒙特利尔和温哥华。17, 岁时，她在结束迪士尼童星生涯后，凭借 2021 年的出道专辑《酸》（Sour）强势出击，其中强有力的主打曲《残酷》（brutal）捕捉到了一种根植于自我关怀的叛逆感。

从那时起，她不断成长，汲取了从谢丽尔·克劳、菲奥娜·艾普尔，以及在她最新专辑中引入的 The Cure 乐队等截然不同的影响，将其融入她关于陷入爱情又失恋的叙事中。

以罗德里戈女士与 The Cure 乐队的罗伯特·史密斯合唱的《我怎么了》（what's wrong with me）为例。歌曲以罗德里戈女士唱到她只是在“盯着天花板”开始，这是在对史密斯的一句旧词“盯着大海”进行改编，将那种浪漫主义和感受浓缩在她的卧室里。

罗德里戈女士不仅仅是为了得分而向她的世代影响者（包括麦克拉克伦女士和莫里塞特女士）致敬。她与他们进行对话。她将他们的宏大引入她的世界，就像她在《猝死》（drop dead）这首歌中让她的世界显得宏大一样——在那首歌里，她在酒吧厕所排队时瞥见的一个男人，看起来就像是“凡尔赛宫墙上的天使”。

这种世代间的互动也出现在她的其他领衔演出者身上，他们同样擅长对经典进行现代化改造。Doechii 是一位拥有极具攻击性节奏和包容性歌词的说唱歌手，她让那些在加州极端热浪中精疲力竭的观众们重新沸腾起来。

Doechii 从头到脚涂满了亮粉色油漆，展现出惊人的核心力量和嗓音强度，在碧昂丝、奎恩·拉蒂法等人的采样和即兴演奏中倾泻她的歌词，同时表演劈叉、后弯腰和鸭步。

在 Doechii 演出之后，我没有快步穿过原野去对面舞台观看 90 年代摇滚乐队 Garbage，因为我们需要为查佩尔·罗恩留好座位。她穿着一套受《第五元素》启发、令人惊艳的淡紫色空姐制服登场，立即用她那些带有 80 和 90 年代风格的流行金曲将大众迷得团团转。

《女性现象》（Femininomenon）、《火热出发》（Hot to Go）、《我的癖好是业报》（My Kink is Karma）、《祝你好运，宝贝！》（Good Luck, Babe!）以及包罗万象的《粉红小马俱乐部》（Pink Pony Club），带领我们进行了一场如同《绿野仙踪》般的旅程，从歌手的中西部根源一直延伸到加利福尼亚，这是一场关于寻找自我归属的庆典，其中夹杂着一种可以随之起舞的淡淡忧伤。

最后，罗德里戈女士身着白色连衣裙登台，与观众一起跳跃，邀请他们对着这个世界上所有错误的事情尖叫，并让他们接唱那些他们烂熟于心的歌词。

在演出过程中，她列举了她的灵感来源：麦克拉克伦女士、莫里塞特女士和斯蒂维·尼克斯。这位舰队麦克公司（Fleetwood Mac）的主唱与罗德里戈女士共同演绎了 1975 年的民谣《Landslide》，这场备受期待且美到令人心碎的二重唱为当晚画上了句号。两人共同演唱，在尼克斯女士独唱并深情地唱出“我也在渐渐老去”这句歌词时，罗德里戈女士稍作停顿。

这句歌词触动人心，尤其是对于我们这些带着自豪感注视着新一代成长的人来说。

验尸官：狱中死亡者之兄担心此举可能掩盖不当行为

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省政府表示，对监狱死亡事件进行年度审查将能更好地识别更广泛的系统性问题，并提供更及时的建议，同时避免让家属再次遭受创伤。

政府去年 12 月在网上提出了这项规则变更，并要求利益相关团体在一个月内提供书面反馈。然而，在因未咨询亲人死于狱中的家属而面临批评后，验尸官办公室表示，计划在今年夏天与家属及原住民代表举行额外的会议。

验尸官办公室积压了大量案件；死因研讯通常在死亡发生五年到七年后才举行。2024 年，该办公室举行了 47 场研讯，其中 45 场为强制性研讯。验尸官也可以根据自己的裁量权决定举行研讯，包括涉及公共安全问题的情况。

根据验尸官办公室的数据，在省监管下死亡的囚犯总数在过去 15 年中一直在增加，从 2010 年的 16 人上升到 2025 年的 41 人。这些数字包括自然死亡、药物过量和自杀。大多数在省监管下的人员都在等待审判。

前联邦监狱调查员、现任加拿大公民自由协会执行主任的霍华德·萨珀斯（Howard Sapers）表示，考虑到监狱独特的环境和高死亡率，取消研讯要求是错误的。

“我们讨论的不是一件小事，”他说。“我们讨论的是一个人在政府运营的全封闭机构中死亡，这意味着他们的生命完全取决于政府是否正确履行职责。”

批评者认为，政府的提议是削弱对监狱机构监督的更广泛尝试的一部分，这可能会导致更多死亡。

“在省内已经处于某种危机状态的情况下，这只会进一步限制透明度，”领导 Tracking (In) Justice 项目的麦克莱兰（McClelland）教授表示，该项目包括来自多所大学的研究人员和利益团体。他表示，政府应该增加资金以清理积压的研讯，并执行现有的建议。

2023 年，一个关于安大略省监狱死亡事件的验尸官专家小组发布了一份报告，称包括过度拥挤和因人员短缺导致频繁封锁在内的容量限制，正在造成不安全的情况，必须予以解决以防止进一步的死亡。报告还敦促政府加强监督，改善囚犯医疗保健并提供更多员工培训。

根据验尸官办公室的数据，在省监狱监管期间死亡的囚犯总数在过去 15 年中一直在增加，从 2010, 年的 16 人上升到 2025 年的 41 人。

省长道格·福特（Doug Ford）政府计划在未来十年内花费 $3-billion 建设新监狱并扩建现有设施，总检察长迈克尔·克兹纳（Michael Kerzner）的发言人萨达姆·库赛因（Saddam Khussain）表示。他称该省还在招聘数百名新的惩教工作人员。

尤苏夫·法基里（Yusuf Faqiri）的兄弟索莱曼（Soleiman）于 2016, 年在安大略省林赛的中央东惩教中心被杀，他担心取消强制性死因研讯可能会掩盖不当行为，尤其是在囚犯死于狱警之手的案件中。

“公众有权知道发生了什么，”他说。“我们的监狱一团糟，当有人在这些系统中死亡，特别是面临心理健康……挑战的人，这是唯一存在的机制，而取消这一机制将在未来几年产生深远影响。”

验尸官陪审团在 2023 年裁定索莱曼的死亡属于他杀。这名 30 岁的男子在处于严重的精神病危机时，被狱警在隔离室中殴打、喷洒胡椒喷雾，并被锁住手腕和脚踝。他的头上被套上了防唾液面罩，随后被留在地板上俯卧。他停止了呼吸，几分钟后被宣布死亡。

尽管索莱曼身上至少有 50 处伤痕，但没有一名监狱工作人员被起诉。虽然陪审团得出其死亡为他杀的结论，但这并非刑事裁定，不承担法律责任。

尽管如此，其家人花费多年时间寻求正义的法基里先生表示，死因研讯具有“里程碑意义”，因为它揭露了他的兄弟是如何死亡的。“我们寻求正义的路径就是寻找真相。这就是死因研讯所带来的不同……如果我们没有进行研讯，公众将不会知道索莱曼·法基里发生了什么。”

总检察长发言人库赛因先生表示，安大略省政府正提议修改《验尸官法》，要求对非自然原因的惩教死亡进行年度审查以改进系统。他表示，验尸官办公室在必要时仍可酌情举行研讯。

他在一封电子邮件中表示：“这种方法支持对监管期间死亡进行更及时、全系统范围的审查。”年度审查将“有助于确保建议能更高效地交付”。

验尸官办公室的项目交付与战略经理朱莉娅·努南（Julia Noonan）表示，在将该提案发布到网上后，该省收到了 42 份提交意见，其中许多意见支持“继续对监管期间死亡进行研讯”，同时也认可“替代方案的益处”。

2024, 年，该省对建筑意外死亡采用了年度审查制度，而此前此类死亡会触发强制性的验尸官研讯。

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面对升级的贸易战，预计加拿大央行将维持利率不变

MARK RENDELL 经济记者

由于正处于一场升级的贸易战中，且该战争面临着推高消费价格并打击经济增长的风险，预计加拿大央行本周将采取观望态度。

在进入秋季之前，加息或降息的可能性就已经很低。分析人士表示，现在渥太华与华盛顿之间贸易谈判的破裂——以及随之而来的针锋相对的关税威胁——使得该行在周三的利率公告中将基准利率维持在 2.25% 的可能性进一步增加。

“央行唯一的选择就是等待观察，”C.D. Howe 研究所首席执行官兼该机构货币政策委员会主席 Jeremy Kronick 表示。

“我们可能会回到谈判桌前。我有一种感觉，总理希望在 9月14日和15日主持投资峰会时能有一些积极的成果，因此从现在到那时，很多情况可能会发生变化。”

8月22日，在美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在马克·卡尼 (Mark Carney) 离开谈判桌后，对价值约 $28-billion 的加拿大出口商品征收了 50% 的新关税。渥太华则通过概述对美国产品采取“等额”反制关税作为回应，该措施计划于 9月8日生效。 利率，B6

报告称：新数据中心可能导致阿尔伯塔省电费激增

马修·麦克莱恩 (MATTHEW McCLEARN)

能源智库彭比纳研究所 (Pembina Institute) 的一份新报告显示，一座正在埃德蒙顿北部建设的数据中心可能会使阿尔伯塔省家庭每年的电费增加 $270 至 $460。

这座由科技巨头 Meta 在 7 月宣布的埃德蒙顿北部设施预计将在两到三年内开始运行。彭比纳研究所电力项目主任大卫·皮克普 (David Pickup) 表示，该设施的启动相当于在电网中增加了一个卡尔加里规模的城市。

虽然同一地点也将建设一座天然气发电厂以帮助为该设施供电，但皮克普先生表示，阿尔伯塔省的规定允许数据中心在自己的专用发电设备上线之前先连接到电网。

这种临时的不匹配可能会导致消费者电价激增——如果阿尔伯塔省成功吸引更多数据中心，这种效应将会重复出现。“这只是简单的经济学原理：如果需求增加而供应没有增加，价格就会上涨，”他说。

Meta 驳斥了彭比纳研究所的方法论和结论；发言人朱莉娅·佩雷拉 (Julia Perreira) 在一份声明中表示，这些结论是“基于假设和推测”。

省政府在过去两年中积极招揽数据中心，其一名发言人指责彭比纳研究所在散布恐惧。

这是关于数据中心巨大电力需求及其满足方式和付费方这一日益激烈的全球争论中的最新一次冲突。电力，B6

制造商们正感受到贸易不确定性的影响，并正在将其业务转型，以服务于主要的加拿大军事承包商，例如制造装甲车的通用动力陆地系统公司 (General Dynamics Land Systems)。CARLOS OSORIO / 路透社

受关税打击，加拿大模具制造商转向国防工业

PIPPA NORMAN 创新记者

在与《全球邮报》的采访中表示。

随着与美国的贸易战不断恶化，该国主要市场的业务陷入停滞，模具制造商正寻求在加拿大不断增长的国防工业中寻找机遇。

汽车、钢铁和铝业受美国关税的影响尤为严重，而模具公司依赖钢铁等投入品来制造产品，并依赖汽车或消费品等行业来采购这些产品。

这些税率在 15% 到 50% 之间，随之而来的经营成本上升正迫使许多公司在其他领域寻找新的业务方向。

特别是，他们正转向一个似乎资金充裕且在安大略省南部等地区已有深厚基础的增长行业，该地区拥有如国防公司通用动力陆地系统（GDLS）等大型承包商，该公司负责制造军用车辆。

“随着联邦政府在军事和国防领域的大规模投入和承诺，每个人都将其视为一个选项，并思考‘好吧，我适合在哪个位置？’”加拿大模具与机械协会（Canadian Tooling and Machining Association）主席路易斯·詹（Louis Jahn）表示。

他表示，他的一些会员已经开始向国防领域供货，而另一些人则对这种转型不感兴趣。但对于那些自去年年初以来感受到美加两国商业不确定性影响的人来说，利用一个渥太华将在未来十年持续投入资金的行业，是一个相对容易被接受的想法。

联邦政府意识到，如果渥太华想要实现国内国防供应链，工业转型既是机遇也是需求。今年夏天早些时候，在安大略省奥尔德卡斯尔（Oldcastle）举行的一场活动中，国防部长大卫·麦金蒂（David McGuinty）介入其中，帮助大型国防承包商（通常被称为“主承包商”）与模具和模具（TDM）行业牵线搭桥。

他在由温莎-埃塞克斯商会（Windsor Essex Chamber of Commerce）和加拿大模具与机械协会举办的一次早餐会上发表了主旨演讲。

麦金蒂先生表示，他带来了几家主承包商，包括 GDLS、波音（Boeing）、庞巴迪（Bombardier）、CAE 和通用防务（GM Defense）。

“我说，‘好了，主承包商们，请见见 TDM 的高管、员工和劳工代表。在座的各位，请见见主承包商。现在，在我讲完之后，你们将一起进入一个房间，告诉对方你们能做什么’，”他

位于安大略省基奇纳（Kitchener）的 XL Tool Inc. 运营副总裁兼共同所有者克里斯·赫戈特（Chris Hergott）表示，这些联系至关重要，尤其是因为进入国防领域最困难的部分之一就是建立关系。

XL Tool 大约在两年前开始尝试进入国防领域。这是确保该公司在变化的市场中保持韧性计划的一部分，目前该公司约 40% 的业务是汽车模具，60% 是能源等行业的其他模具。赫戈特先生表示，大约 15 年前，XL 以同样的心态开始向核能领域供货。“我们始终处于增长模式。”

但他说，就像公司在核能业务中看到实际收益之前需要五到八年一样，进入国防领域也需要时间。

“这是一条漫长而枯燥的道路。如果你认为只要关掉汽车开关，然后按下国防开关就能成功，那是不可能的。”

两年前，赫戈特先生通过将 XL Tool 在渥太华的受控商品计划（CGP）中注册来启动这项工作，以便该公司能够审查、持有或转移由联邦政府控制的、具有军事或国家安全意义的组件和技术数据。 ■ 国防，B6

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加拿大汽车产业已被标定为死亡之局。以下是我们如何拯救它

汤姆·麦克唐纳 (TOM MacDONALD)

观点

汽车产业是近期加美贸易谈判破裂的核心。美国总统唐纳德·特朗普威胁将在1月份实施50%的汽车关税，这使得在他任期内，我们几乎不可能维持一个整合的北美汽车市场。

特朗普经常宣称加拿大不应该生产任何车辆。周日，他在社交媒体上发布道：“我不要加拿大汽车，I don't want Canadian parts, I don't want Canadian anything.”

在近期的谈判中，美国商务部长霍华德·卢特尼克试图通过其中一项最后一刻的“毒丸”条款将其变为现实——将卡车排除在任何美国关税减免之外。他深知卡车占据了通用汽车公司（General Motors Co.）安大略省奥沙瓦工厂的大部分产量，且福特汽车公司（Ford Motor Co.）正在对其安大略省奥克维尔设施进行重新改造以生产卡车。

自1965年汽车协议以来，加美汽车工业一直紧密整合，为两国带来了巨大收益：降低了消费成本，提高了工人工资，实现了生产力的重大提升，并增加了总部位于美国的汽车制造商的利润。但特朗普不相信双赢安排。只要他认为自己给贸易伙伴带来了更大的损失，他很乐意让自己的国家承受经济损失。

本田汽车有限公司（Honda Motor Co. Ltd.）此前已暂停了一项加拿大项目，该公司周三表示，如果没有美墨加协定（USMCA）的延期，它将不会再建设另一座北美工厂。而上周一，随着贸易谈判的破裂，加拿大主要汽车零部件公司的股价最高下跌了9.7%。

对于加拿大而言，目前形势严峻。该国汽车产业直接雇佣了超过125,000人，另有427,000个工作岗位与之间接相关。2024, 该产业贡献了$17-billion的经济活动。如果整合的北美汽车市场瓦解，其连锁反应将加剧并蔓延至更广泛的经济领域。

加拿大应该如何应对？

或许之前的经验可以引导我们。在1965年汽车协议（最终被自由贸易协定取代）之前，加拿大的汽车关税最高可达25%。该汽车协议允许底特律 3 (GM, Ford and Chrysler – now Stellantis NV) 的车辆和零部件免税进入加拿大市场，但设有具体条件。

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高额债务与物价上涨令特朗普陷入困境

随着中期选举临近，总统的部分政策延长或加剧了美国人的经济困境

托尼·罗姆（TONY ROMM） 华盛顿报道

在总统唐纳德·特朗普重返办公室的近两年时间里，美国经济承受了巨大压力，使得家庭和企业不得不承受全球持续冲突和政府债务飙升带来的昂贵后果。

正是由于对疫情感到厌倦的选民在财务上的挫败感，帮助了特朗普及其共和党同僚在 2024 年夺回华盛顿的控制权。当时他们承诺将利用权力击败通货膨胀这一祸根，并大幅削减他们认为问题根源的挥霍性政府支出。

但特朗普在任内的行动使这些承诺变得复杂，甚至有所削弱。距离中期选举还有两个月，他的一些政策延长或恶化了那些他承诺要帮助的人的经济状况。

这一切始于一场残酷的全球贸易战，这加剧了疫情后数年里国家降低生活成本的长期努力。本周，总统升级了这一攻势，再次将目标对准加拿大，引发了一场代价高昂的关税报复战，这可能会推高美国人的物价。

此外，与伊朗的战争也远未结束。这场看似难以解决的冲突在周五达到了六个月的时间节点，导致汽油价格居高不下。而特朗普持续的军事干预成本进一步加剧了国家的财政危机，促使债务飙升至 US$40-trillion 以上。这一进展扰乱了债券市场，并影响到了美国人的财务状况，主要表现为包括抵押贷款在内的借贷成本变得更加昂贵。

总统仍然坚称，他的政府帮助了家庭和企业，并纠正了前任总统乔·拜登的错误。但民调日益表明，随着特朗普在执行其完整议程时要求选民保持耐心，选民们已经感到厌倦。这似乎将使中期选举变成一场针对特朗普在经济领域可信度的全民公投——而经济正是他政治崛起的关键来源。

惠誉评级（Fitch Ratings）美国经济主管奥卢·索诺拉（Olu Sonola）将美国持续高物价的动态描述为“千刀万剐”。

他指出，过去一年中出现了从战争到关税的一系列综合因素。索诺拉先生表示，这些发展加剧了通货膨胀，而且重要的是，影响了消费者对经济状况的预期。

他说：“这种滴水穿石般的影响——周复一周，月复一月——会产生作用。”

对于特朗普来说，最近几周发布的一系列令人担忧的经济快照揭示了其中的利害关系。其中包括周三公布的一项关键通胀指标，结果显示 7 月份的价格比去年同期上涨了 3.7 per cent。

这一数值与 6 月份测得的年化率相同，表明价格压力仍停留在远高于美联储目标值的水平。

在特朗普治下并非一切都糟糕。经济正在增长，制造业正在回升，并且

人们周二在纽约的一家超市购物。周三公布的一项关键通胀指标显示，美国 7 月份的价格比去年同期上涨了 3.7 per cent。ANGELA WEISS / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

关税是对进口商品征收的税，因此与以往一样，总统的行动似乎准备打击购买加拿大商品的美国购物者。在其中一项评估中，非党派的耶鲁预算实验室（Yale Budget Lab）本月预测，由于特朗普更新的关税清单，每个家庭平均每年将面临约 US$1,100 的额外成本。

劳动力市场保持稳定。这些积极因素出现在人工智能新投资激增的背景下，这不仅促使金融市场多次创下历史新高，而且随着该技术的真正普及，经济繁荣的可能性也随之增加。

但 EY-Parthenon 的首席经济学家格雷戈里·达科（Gregory Daco）表示，部分数据仍然揭示了“本可以实现的经济状况”。在本周的一份研究报告中，他指出，如果不是因为一系列“政策驱动”的近期冲击，美国可能会看到更强劲的增长和其他改善。

其中一次冲击发生在上周六，当时特朗普正式对来自加拿大的部分进口商品征收新关税，随后又威胁要对该国的汽车工业征收额外的、高额的关税。随着加拿大随后采取报复行动，这场争端让人想起特朗普全球贸易战初期那段疯狂的日子，当时这场贸易战令盟友和对手同样陷入动荡。

关税是对进口商品征收的税款，因此与此前一样，总统的行为似乎旨在打击购买加拿大商品的美国消费者。在其中一项估算中，非党派机构耶鲁预算实验室（Yale Budget Lab）本月预测，由于特朗普更新的关税清单，美国家庭平均每年将面临约 US$1,100 的额外成本。但当周四被问及价格上涨的可能性时，特朗普声称他对加拿大的关税将“对我们非常有利”。

富国银行（Wells Fargo）高级经济学家莎拉·豪斯（Sarah House）最终预测，年终通胀率可能在 3.5% 左右。她表示，这远高于部分专家在 2026 年初最初的预期，因为从人工智能的兴起到国家首都的政策决定，一系列因素的共同作用颠覆了此前较为乐观的预测。

“消费者所感知的情况”与“资金流出速度”之间“存在巨大的差距，”豪斯女士解释道。

白宫经济顾问委员会新任主席克里斯托弗·费兰（Christopher Phelan）在一份声明中坚持认为，关于通胀的长期预期“自本届政府成立以来一直保持克制且没有变化”。

但特朗普政策带来的不确定性使美联储的情况变得复杂。美联储的政策制定者对通胀感到不安，但目前在提高利率以抑制通胀方面仍持保留态度——至少目前如此。

“我们必须确信基础通胀正朝着我们的目标方向移动，且速度清晰且足够快，”美联储主席凯文·沃什（Kevin Warsh）周五在怀俄明州杰克逊的一次演讲中表示。“否则，我们还有工作要做。”

美联储尤其受到了特朗普与伊朗之间战争的考验，这场战争导致全球燃料价格上涨。根据 AAA 的数据，截至周五，美国加油站的平均价格仍高于每加仑 US$4，比一年前高出约一加元。能源冲击同样影响了柴油和航空燃料，导致运输和旅行成本增加。

尽管美联储选择了谨慎，但特朗普却加大了要求迅速削减利率的压力。特朗普忽略了大幅降息实际上可能会加剧通胀的风险，本月将犹豫不决的美联储理事会描绘成具有政治色彩，并坚持要求其理事们尝试降息。

“现在，当我们公布良好的数据时——我们一直这么做——他们却在不断推高利率，因为他们太害怕通胀了，”特朗普在最近的一次白宫活动中说道。“他们不应该害怕。他们应该允许利率下降。”

对于特朗普来说，美联储的决定牵涉到很多利益。在就货币政策向理事会施压的同时，总统也公开表达了他的愿望，希望降低借贷成本，以便政府自身的借贷成本更低。

这些要求是在一个不祥的里程碑背景下提出的：国家债务突破了$40-trillion，进一步超过了该国在给定年份内的总经济产出。巨大的差距凸显出，尽管两年前向选民承诺过紧缩政策，但特朗普先生及其共和党盟友在削减开支方面所取得的成效竟如此之少。

“这全是空谈，”布鲁金斯学会的预算与税务研究员、前共和党参议员助手杰西卡·里德尔（Jessica Riedl）表示。

里德尔女士回想起特朗普先生曾承诺完全消除债务，许多人认为这一目标是不切实际的。相反，财政失衡状况进一步恶化，债务偿还成本也随之增加，目前已成为政府最大的支出项目之一。

“共和党人总是说，‘把政府控制权交给我们，我们就会大幅削减开支’，”里德尔女士补充道，“他们现在掌控了政府，已经没有任何借口了。”

共和党领导的国会多次拒绝了特朗普先生预算提交方案中最深层的削减计划。在此过程中，总统反而加剧了问题。他今年推动大幅增加新的军事资金，这将进一步增加债务。除此之外，去年通过的一系列减税方案虽然可能刺激经济活动，但在未来十年仍可能让国家付出数万亿加元的代价。

除此之外，特朗普先生削减开支的尝试主要局限于单方面削减政府认为浪费的开支——而这些努力经常被联邦法院阻挠。

“我认为他们正在利用行政部门可用的杠杆做他们能做的事，”右翼团体传统基金会（Heritage Foundation）的预算政策专家丹尼尔·科瓦尔斯基（Daniel Kowalski）表示，“但总有一个时点需要立法部门的帮助，而这种情况一直没有发生。”

尽管如此，华盛顿两年的无所作为已经令华尔街感到不安。由于消费者借贷紧跟10-year bonds的走势，收益率的上升已波及整个经济领域。

作为回应，财政部长斯科特·贝森特（Scott Bessent）本月宣布了一项罕见的举措，即购买更多政府债券，但这仅产生了暂时效果。贝森特先生还承诺将提供一份完整的“财政整合”路线图以控制开支，但他并未提供这些计划的细节。

这一承诺让人想起贝森特先生在特朗普任期之初做出的大胆承诺，即将国家赤字降低至总产出的3 per cent，而这一目标目前看来依然遥不可及。尽管如此，这位部长坚称特朗普政府正处于正轨上，并将在适当的时间实现目标。

“我们正在为未来的增长创造生产性资产，这些资产将在未来持续纳税，”他告诉 Newsmax，“所以我认为这更像是拉开弹弓，创造大量的势能，随后将其转化为动能。”

纽约时报新闻服务（NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE）

美国财政部禁止部分记者参加 G20 财政会议

本杰明·马林 (BENJAMIN MULLIN)

本周，来自全球领先的富裕国家和发展中国家的领导人将在北卡罗来纳州阿什维尔举行 20 国集团（G20）财政会议，届时将有来自全球各新闻编辑室的大批记者随行。

然而，其中将缺失来自美国三大新闻编辑室的几名记者。

美国财政部未向《纽约时报》、 《华尔街日报》和彭博新闻社的个别记者发放报道此次活动的凭证。此次会议将吸引全球最大经济体的财政部长和央行行长参加。

《纽约时报》负责报道财政部的经济政策记者艾伦·拉佩波特 (Alan Rappeport) 被排除在会议之外。自 2017 年开始报道该部门以来，他曾亲自参加过近 12 次 G7 和 G20 会议。

《华尔街日报》的经济记者马特·格罗斯曼 (Matt Grossman) 同样被拒绝发放凭证。《华尔街日报》的一位发言人拒绝就此置评。

《纽约时报》发言人妮可·泰勒 (Nicole Taylor) 在一份声明中表示，这一决定“不仅是政府破坏独立新闻业的又一次令人不安的尝试，更是公然企图逃避公众监督”。

声明称：“鉴于伊朗战争、制裁、债券市场和通货膨胀已列入 G20 财政部长的议程，此次集会对全球经济和美国人民而言至关重要。”

财政部的一位发言人在声明中表示，该部门将欢迎“来自约 12 个国家的近 300 名媒体成员”，其中包括来自 NPR、《华盛顿邮报》和半岛电视台的记者。

该发言人表示：“[斯科特] 贝森特 (Scott Bessent) 部长将在整个活动期间参与多次媒体活动，包括与涵盖政治光谱各方的当地和国家媒体进行一对一采访。媒体成员在活动期间将拥有高度接触政策制定者的机会，而这种接触随之而来的是报道符合既定新闻标准的真实信息的责任。”

财政部发言人补充说，一名来自《纽约时报》的记者将会出席。该部门向吉姆·坦克斯利 (Jim Tankersley) 发放了凭证，他是《纽约时报》的柏林分社社长，负责报道德国及欧洲其他地区。

据《纽约时报》发言人透露，《纽约时报》华盛顿分社社长迪克·史蒂文森 (Dick Stevenson) 周四致信财政部，请求官员重新考虑不给拉佩波特先生发放凭证的决定。到目前为止，该部门尚未撤销其决定。

排除个别记者的决定是特朗普政府限制某些记者接触信息的最新案例。

去年，五角大楼实施了一项限制性的新闻政策，引发主流出版物的数十名记者以交回记者证的方式表示抗议。《纽约时报》起诉了五角大楼，认为新政策违反了第一修正案，一名法官随后裁定该政策违宪。

纽约时报新闻服务 (NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE)

伊朗战争给美国带来的经济影响并不均衡

一名期权交易员周四在纽约证券交易所交易大厅工作。自市场在3月下旬触底以来，道琼斯指数上涨了近19%，标准普尔指数上涨了近22%，纳斯达克指数则飙升了27%。YUKI IWAMURA / 美联社

冲突进入第六个月，投资者获利而消费者买单

马特·塞登斯基（MATT SEDENSKY） 纽约

在战争爆发之初，美国和以色列对伊朗进行无情轰炸，当时关于冲突代价最激进的预测是毫不留情的：油价飙升、全球衰退以及经济灾难。

但冲突进入六个月后，尽管全球经济没有一个角落未受影响，但最糟糕的预测并未成真。

Curity Partners 的投资策略师迈克尔·阿什利·舒尔曼（Michael Ashley Schulman）表示：“到目前为止，全球经济完成了一场金融版的《碟中谍》场景。”

以下是全球经济如何应对这场战争，以及谁是赢家和输家的分析。

赢家：没有恐慌的投资者

股市厌恶不确定性，而美国和以色列在2月28日决定袭击伊朗的举动带来了大量的不确定性。德黑兰升起滚滚浓烟，惊慌失措的伊朗人拥堵在试图逃离的道路上，包括儿童在内的死亡人数不断增加并登上头条。这足以让任何投资者感到不安。

油价飙升，华尔街开始撤退，随后经历了连续五周的下跌。道琼斯指数和纳斯达克指数进入回调期。标准普尔500指数经历了2022年以来最糟糕的一个月。

但自市场在3月下旬触底以来，出现了重大转折。道琼斯指数上涨了近19%，标准普尔指数上涨了近22%，纳斯达克指数则飙升了27%。如果这些涨幅能维持到2026, 的最后几个月，这三个指数将连续第四年上涨。

国际货币基金组织在7月的一份报告中表示，经济正“受到两个方向相反的主要力量的影响”。战争给增长带来了压力，但对人工智能的热情抵消了这种拖累。

普通民众在燃料、食品和旅行上的支出可能增加了。但到目前为止，华尔街对此不以为意。

输家：任何出行的人

这场战争最明显的经济后果是对石油的影响。由于通过霍尔木兹海峡的油轮运输速度降至极慢，布伦特原油价格从战前收盘时每桶约 $72 攀升至近 $120. 的高点。尽管价格有所回落，但仍比战前上涨了约 20%。

石油价格影响着从蜡笔到化妆品的每一样东西，但对任何出行的人打击尤为沉重。

根据国际航空运输协会的数据，航空燃油的平均成本预计将比 2025, 年高出 70%。航空公司随之提高了票价、增加了行李费并加收燃油附加费，同时削减航班或放弃增加航线的计划。例如，汉莎航空集团削减了 20,000 趟短途航班。而多年来一直陷入困境的精神航空（Spirit Airlines）则彻底消失了。

哥伦比亚大学经济学家布雷特·豪斯（Brett House）表示：“在接下来的几个月里，燃油附加费被取消且机票价格下降的可能性非常低。消费者的选择更少，航空公司之间的竞争也更少，因此，抑制票价上涨的压力也更小。”

赢家：清洁能源的论据

随着油轮停滞和燃料价格攀升，这场战争强化了清洁能源的销售主张。

在世界部分地区，电动汽车的销量创下纪录。在新加坡，电动汽车的同比增长率达到了 110%。在新西兰，这一数字达到了 180%。而在哥伦比亚，电动汽车的增长率达到了 300%。

根据国际能源署（International Energy Agency）的展望，全球电动汽车（EV）预计将在 2026 年占车辆总销量的 29%，高于去年的 25%。考虑到全球最大的两个经济体——美国和中国——的电动汽车需求出现下降，这一增长更显惊人。

那些特别依赖波斯湾石油的国家已被促使采取行动。在东南亚，各国领导人扩大了可再生能源的使用，并研究部署核电。在非洲，各国寻求扩大国内炼油能力并加速安装太阳能电池板。

运营情报公司 Sphera 的供应链专家斯科特·莱曼（Scott Lehmann）统计发现，已有 26 个国家和地区宣布采取清洁能源和电气化措施以应对战争。

他说：“这场危机迫使投资速度快于任何政策框架所能实现的程度。”

输家：反饥饿斗争

对于特权阶层来说，战争带来的成本可能仅仅是一个微小的波动。但对于最贫困的人来说，情况则完全不同。

由于波斯湾不仅是全球石油生产的领导者，也是化肥生产的领导者，这场战争给农民带来了沉重打击。正值许多农民决定种植作物的时节，化肥价格飙升。根据世界银行的价格指数，化肥价格在 4 月达到顶峰，比战前高出 44%。

作为回应，一些农民削减了化肥使用量，这可能会危及明年的收成。Gasilov Group 咨询公司的自然资源专家阿里夫·加西洛夫（Arif Gasilov）表示：“如果你现在减少化肥使用，在某种程度上就是在透支明年的土壤健康。”

联合国世界粮食计划署（WFP）警告称，数千万人口可能会陷入饥饿。在其本周的证词中，代理执行主任卡尔·斯考（Carl Skau）表示，“化肥出口的窒息”给亚洲和非洲带来了沉重打击。更高的运输成本也阻碍了世界粮食计划署自身的救援工作。

斯考先生说：“一艘停泊在霍尔木兹海峡的油轮，可能意味着苏丹的一个孩子每天少了一顿饭。当油价上涨时，面粉、大米和蔬菜的价格也会随之上涨。”

赢家：特朗普家族的业务

这场战争已经让美国损失了数百亿加元，并造成数千名伊朗人伤亡。据估计，它使全球预计产出减少了数千亿加元。

但处于风暴中心的男人——唐纳德·特朗普总统的家族，却是受益者之一。

由埃里克·特朗普和小唐纳德·特朗普准备将其上市的军事承包商 Powerus 公司，赢得了一项价值高达 $90-million 的美国空军合同，用于供应拦截伊朗无人机的拦截机。同样，小唐纳德在父亲连任几天后加入的私募股权公司 1789 Capital Management，持有几家从战争中获利的军事承包商的股份。其中一家 Anduril 公司获得了美国政府的批准，向科威特销售价值高达 $2-billion 的无人机拦截机。第二家，埃隆·马斯克的 SpaceX，正在提供卫星服务以引导美国无人机打击伊朗。第三家——火箭制造商 Firehawk Defense——赢得了五角大楼的推进剂和战斗部合同，以补充美国日益减少的库存。

1789 Capital 的发言人亚历克萨·亨宁（Alexa Henning）表示，小唐纳德并未参与向这些公司注资的决定，因此不存在“恶意关联”。

总统本人也获利颇丰。

由外部经理管理的投资组合大量购入了受战争推动的美国军事供应商股票，包括洛克希德·马丁（Lockheed Martin）、通用动力（General Dynamics）和诺斯罗普·格鲁曼（Northrop Grumman）。民主党本周发布的一份报告称，特朗普持有的石油和天然气股票价值飙升了高达 $15.5-million。

白宫发言人安娜·凯利（Anna Kelly）坚称“不存在利益冲突”，并且“特朗普总统仅为了美国公众的最佳利益而行动”。

尽管特朗普先生的个人财务状况有所获益，但他的政治前景则另当别论。这场冲突并不受欢迎，且随着中期选举的临近，可能会对选民产生影响。

美联社（ASSOCIATED PRESS）

负责组织卡尼投资峰会的联邦机构负责人辞职

詹姆森·伯科 (JAMESON BERKOW) 资本市场记者

负责组织总理马克·卡尼 (Mark Carney) 高规格加拿大投资峰会的联邦机构负责人宣布辞职。

据一名知情人士透露，加拿大投资局 (Invest in Canada) 首席执行官劳雷尔·布罗滕 (Laurel Broten) 上周通知其员工，她将于 9 月 1 日起离职。《全球邮报》未透露该消息来源的身份，且该人士未获授权披露此信息。

布罗滕女士曾任安大略省内阁部长及贝街 (Bay Street) 诉讼律师。自 2022 年起，她一直领导这家负责吸引外国直接投资进入加拿大的机构。布罗滕女士的语音信箱留言以及发送至其个人账户的电子邮件均未立即得到回复。

加拿大投资局正协助协调总理将于 9 月 14 日和 15 日在多伦多举行的首次全球顶尖商业领袖会议。该会议由加拿大两大最大的机构投资者共同主办：加拿大养老金计划投资委员会 (CPPIB) 和公共部门养老金投资委员会 (PSP Investments)。

此次峰会预计将聚集加拿大历史上规模最大的金融决策者群体，在与美国贸易战迅速升级的背景下，该活动引起了更多关注。预计将有来自 28 个国家的多达 250 位高管出席，他们共同管理着近 120 万亿加元的资产。卡尼先生正面临压力，需要兑现其在未来 5 年内吸引 5000 亿加元新私营部门投资的承诺。

该消息来源称，布罗滕女士在规划峰会的后勤细节方面发挥了关键作用，包括预订场地和选择全体会议的主题。另一名消息人士则对这一描述持有异议，称她的主要贡献是提供少量加拿大投资局员工来支持主要组织者。

她的辞职日期意味着，在她领导的机构历史上最受瞩目的活动即将举行前两周，她便离开了岗位。

如果肺癌能 找上凯蒂 (KATIE)， 它也能找上你。

每周锻炼 5-7 次

证券费用上涨威胁竞争力

监管成本在加拿大不断攀升，且存在许多阻碍效率的系统性内部障碍

安迪·米切尔 (ANDY MITCHELL)

观点

证券投资管理协会主席兼首席执行官

在世界范围内，各国政府都在竞争一种全球最宝贵的资源：投资资本。

拥有高效监管体系的国家具有明显的竞争优势。例如，欧盟的目标是将企业的行政负担减轻 25%，英国旨在将监管成本降低同样的 25%，而美国每制定一项新规，就会废除 10 项现有法规。

但在加拿大，监管成本正在攀升，且存在许多阻碍效率的系统性内部障碍。

最近取得了一定进展，安大略省承诺加入加拿大的监管护照系统（regulatory passport system），该系统允许证券公司通过单一监管机构进入资本市场，从而减少摩擦，使跨省和跨地区的业务开展更加便捷。随着不久后全国范围内都参与该系统，企业将能够以更少的障碍在全国范围内筹集资金并扩大规模。

然而，尽管我们看到了监管协调化增强的势头，但不断上涨的费用正对竞争力构成威胁。

当然，在合理范围内，费用至关重要。监管机构利用这些费用来监督市场、维护市场完整性并保护投资者。

然而，在过去十年中，加拿大最大的四家证券监管机构将费用提高了 54%，而其运营支出则大幅增长了 71%。这远高于同期消费者价格 28% 的涨幅。值得注意的是，在此期间

安大略省证券委员会计划根据通货膨胀提高费用，但费用已经随着行业收入的增长而上涨，因此企业最终可能会支付两次费用。 MELISSA TAIT / THE GLOBE AND MAIL

现在，继今年春季魁北克省提高费用之后，安大略省和不列颠哥伦比亚省的证券监管机构也提出了大幅提高费用的建议。安大略省证券委员会计划根据通货膨胀提高费用，但费用已经随着行业收入的增长而上涨，因此企业最终可能会支付两次费用。事实上，安大略省证券委员会（OSC）的费用提案显示，部分企业在最高档位的年费可能会从 2,037,500 加元跳升至 3,055,500 加元，而在其中一个中档位则从 100,500 加元升至 331,500 加元——这是一个惊人的 230% 的涨幅。在西部，不列颠哥伦比亚省（BC）

在过去十年中，加拿大最大的四家证券监管机构将费用提高了 54%，而其运营支出增长了 71%，远高于同期消费者价格 28% 的涨幅。

在西部，不列颠哥伦比亚省证券委员会——

necessary there is

est, the BC Securities Commission has twice in two years increased fees on companies when they raise money through certain private investment offerings.

在西部，不列颠哥伦比亚省证券委员会在两年内两次提高了公司通过某些私募投资发行筹集资金时的费用。

对于希望在加拿大建立或扩张的企业来说，这是一个闪烁的红灯。寻找投资地的全球投资者会询问诸如：利润率如何？复杂程度如何？负担如何？这里真的有吸引力吗？

高额费用影响所有规模的企业，但对于小型公司和新进入者来说，这种负担可能尤为沉重。当他们必须花费资金去应对重复工作和复杂性时，

spend money navigating an duplication and complexity, less available to invest in innovation, new technologies, cybersecurity, business expansion or job creation.

花费资金应对重复工作和复杂性，可用于投资创新、新技术、网络安全、业务扩张或创造就业的资金就会减少。

如果我们能理解其背后的逻辑，不断攀升的费用或许更容易被接受，例如通过提供成本回收的透明度、使用多年期框架提供可预测性，以及在提高费用前展现出处理现有盈余的自律。但我们看到的并非如此。

企业还面临着全国范围内复杂的费用结构、计算方法和申报要求。对于试图在全国范围内成长和繁荣的企业来说，这种碎片化是另一个主要障碍。同样重要的是，复杂性可能会影响更广泛的经济增长，并可能挫伤对企业的进一步投资。

这些相互矛盾的政策——护照制度向前迈出一步，而费用增加和监管复杂性则向后退了两步——表明我们需要一种更协调的方法来提升经济竞争力。

在其他方面，我们处于有利的竞争地位。我们的政治、监管和法律机构十分稳定。我们的资本市场和养老基金在全球范围内获得认可。而且我们拥有吸引投资者的投资专业知识、新兴 AI 技术和多元化人才。很少有国家拥有这些优势。

如果我们不提高竞争力，后果将非常严重。加拿大的投资行业代表约 2000 万 名加拿大人管理着超过 $4.5 万亿的资产。它支撑着大约 415,000 个就业岗位，对加拿大的国内生产总值贡献率超过 2%，并帮助将资金引导至加拿大企业、基础设施以及我们的未来。

安大略省致力于加入护照制度，这表明在不损害保护投资者安全的保障措施的前提下，人们渴望实现更高程度的统一。

政府、监管机构和行业应当共同努力，推动那些能够让投资、创新、市场竞争以及为加拿大投资者带来回报变得更加便捷的解决方案。

麦克唐纳：加拿大应对所有进口车辆征收 25% 的关税

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汽车工业对加拿大经济的贡献（单位：十亿加元）

1965 年汽车协议下的进口额（单位：十亿加元）

全球邮报，来源：加拿大统计局 全球邮报，来源：1978 年汽车工业调查委员会

• 美国从加拿大的进口 • 加拿大从美国的进口

全球邮报插图

其中一项规定是，他们每年在加拿大生产的车辆数量必须与其在当地销售的数量相当。其原则是“在销售地生产”。随后，当日本公司在 20 世纪 80 年代开始占据显著市场份额时，我们协商达成了所谓的“自愿出口限制”，以限制日本车辆的销售，直到这些公司承诺建立加拿大生产设施。“在销售地生产。”

考虑到这一点，我们绝对应该镜像特朗普征收的任何汽车关税，同时将底特律 3 获得任何关税减免的条件与其在加拿大的持续生产水平挂钩。但我们也应记住，这是一个全球性产业。匹配特朗普的关税可能只会导致美国制造商转向其墨西哥工厂来供应加拿大市场。为了防止这种贸易转移并维持国内汽车制造业的生存，加拿大应对所有进口车辆实施 25% 的全球关税。

对世界其他地区征收关税，并将减免与加拿大生产挂钩，将促使日本制造商维持其迄今为止对加拿大令人赞赏的承诺，以确保获得关税减免。而尚未在加拿大设厂的公司（如现代汽车公司）将更有意愿在这里投资。聚焦于非美国汽车制造商是关键。

在汽车协议期间，加拿大的产量大幅增长。但自 20 世纪 80 年代以来，情况发生了很大变化。1988 年的加美自由贸易协定以及随后的北美自由贸易协定（NAFTA），终结了汽车协议的生产保障机制，同时也见证了底特律 3 将生产转移至墨西哥。加拿大的车辆产量在 1999, 达到顶峰，约为 3. 百万辆，位居世界第五。在 2025, 我们的产量下降至 120 万，排名第十五。

底特律 3 在加拿大的衰落尤为剧烈。到 2025, 他们仅占加拿大车辆产量的 24%，其余 76% 来自丰田和本田。自贸易战开始以来，我们看到底特律 3 进一步撤出。通用汽车停止了在安大略省英戈尔索尔（Ingersoll）的电动货车生产，并暂停了在奥沙瓦（Oshawa）的第三班次。Stellantis 关闭了其在安大略省布兰普顿（Brampton）的工厂，并将 Jeep 的生产转移到美国，尽管此前获得了超过 $200-million 的加拿大政府补贴。福特的奥克维尔（Oakville）工厂自 2024, 起一直处于闲置状态，不过目前正在为了迎接 F 系列卡车的到来而进行设备改造。

在汽车协议时代，底特律 3 通常能以相当大的幅度超过其 1:1 的产销比要求。然而到 2025, 加拿大的整体比率已下降至每销售 1 辆车仅生产 0.6 辆。而这仅仅是因为丰田和本田在当地生产的车辆远多于销售量。底特律 3 每家的产量都远低于销量。现代汽车没有生产线，但销售的车辆比本田还多。所谓的“在销售地生产”已成空谈。

该行业目前正处于十字路口。如果特朗普先生决心破坏长期建立的北美整合，这对两国都将是坏消息，尤其是对底特律 3 巨头而言。但我们无法控制总统反复无常的冲动。我们也不应相信任何贸易协定能做到这一点，或者任何后特朗普时代的政权会迅速撤销他实施的关税。我们应当遵循总理马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）的格言，专注于控制我们能控制的事情，其中就包括进入我们自身市场的条件。

加拿大的汽车市场在 2025 年是全球第八大市场，目前依然保持活力且利润丰厚。我们的产业建立在利用该市场的准入权以换取生产的基础之上。在向由多边规则主导的更自由贸易演进的世界秩序中，我们背离了这一原则并降低了准入壁垒。但那些日子已经一去不返，正如卡尼先生在达沃斯所言，这可能并非一次暂时的破裂。我们需要适应这个新的世界失序状态。

“在销售地生产”的原则在过去为我们带来了诸多益处。现在它将再次发挥作用。加拿大若对所有汽车征收 25% 的全球关税，将不符合世界贸易组织（WTO）的规定（正如我们对中国车辆征收 100% 的关税一样）。这也将违背我们的双边和区域自由贸易协定。但绝境需要绝策。特朗普先生已经通过霸凌手段，迫使我们的主要非美汽车供应商——欧盟、日本、韩国、墨西哥——接受了 15% 至 25% 之间的关税。毫无疑问，他们应当给像加拿大这样不采取霸凌手段的盟友提供同等程度的理解与宽容。如果卡尼先生的中等强国团结有任何效力，那么现在就是检验它的时机。

有人主张，我们应该做好准备，眼睁睁地看着我们的汽车制造业像澳大利亚那样消失。对于一个该行业拥有如此悠久传统并做出如此巨大贡献的国家来说，那将是一个真正的遗憾。但在特朗普先生的攻击下，如果我们仅仅采取半心半意的应对措施，我们可能会朝着那个方向前进。现在是时候采取大胆行动了。

准备战斗吧！

汤姆·麦克唐纳（Tom MacDonald）曾任工业部汽车政策主管，以及加拿大全球事务部加拿大-美国贸易关系总司长。他曾是加拿大北美自由贸易协定谈判团队的成员。

本文是“繁荣之路”（Prosperity's Path）系列文章的一部分。在地缘政治不稳定和世界秩序更迭的时代，加拿大经济面临的挑战变得愈发明显、繁多且剧烈。本系列旨在探讨前行之路。

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马克·扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg，中），Meta 首席执行官，于 2 月在洛杉矶县加利福尼亚州高等法院出席一项关于技术成瘾的审理并作证后离开。MARK ABRAMSON / THE NEW YORK TIMES

消息人士称，C.J. Mahoney 成为公司首席法律官是因为他被达成协议的前景所吸引

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在关于在线儿童安全的联邦审判开始前六天，Meta 首席法律官 C.J. Mahoney 于 8 月 6 日前往田纳西州纳什维尔，与约十几个州的律师会面。两名熟悉此次对话的人士表示，他希望促成一项巨额和解。

今年，Meta 在关于其创建损害年轻用户的成瘾性产品的指控中已在法庭上遭遇挫败。在其中一次审判中，马克·扎克伯格在证人席上经历了整整一天的严厉质询（他不断重复道：“你们在歪曲事实”）。在加利福尼亚州的联邦审判中，他很可能再次被质询；在该案中，一个州政府联盟起诉了 Meta，认为该公司导致了全国性的儿童心理健康危机。

据四名熟悉谈判的人士透露，在田纳西州议会大厦园区内的一间装饰艺术风格办公室里，Mahoney 先生在享用贝果和咖啡的同时提出了他的条款，这些条款已获得扎克伯格先生的个人批准。Meta 将向各州支付最高 $19-billion，并对其平台进行更改以提高青少年的安全性。部分款项将被扣留，除非所有州都加入且其他社交媒体公司也达成和解。

对于在场的各州总检察长来说，这个提议非常诱人。相关人士表示，他们与这家硅谷巨头已经谈判了数月，但几乎没有进展。周二，47 个州（有两个州退出了诉讼）、哥伦比亚特区以及几个领地同意了一项价值约 $17-billion 的和解协议。

“田纳西州有一句话，”该州总检察长乔纳森·斯克尔梅蒂（Jonathan Skrmetti）在一次几乎所有州总检察长参加的会议上说道，他鼓励他们不要贪婪，“猪会变肥，但贪婪的猪会被宰杀。”

这项和解协议是公司与陷入诉讼的一组州之间规模最大的协议之一，于周三公布。关于该协议如何达成的记录是基于对州领导人、Meta 前任和现任高管的十多次采访，以及法院文件和审判证词。

多年来，拥有 Instagram 和 Facebook 的 Meta 似乎在应对儿童安全诉讼方面拥有不可逾越的防御。该公司的王牌是《通信体面法》（Communications Decency Act）的 230 条——这是一项 1996 年的法律，保护平台免于因用户在网站上发布的内容而承担责任——以及保护言论自由的宪法第一修正案。

但全球范围内对社交媒体给儿童带来有害影响的担忧日益增加。澳大利亚去年成为第一个禁止 16 岁以下儿童使用社交媒体的国家，许多其他国家也实施或正在考虑类似的规定。

在美国，自 2022, 以来，大量关于在线儿童安全的诉讼被提起，原告集中于一个新的论点，声称社交媒体网站以一种有害的方式设计其产品，违反了消费者保护法和其他法律。

这些诉讼指控相关公司故意创建像香烟一样令人成瘾的网站，借鉴了 20 世纪 90 年代针对大型烟草公司的策略。突然之间，依赖 230 条法律看起来不再那么安全了。

据两名熟悉公司内部想法的人士透露，Meta 内部对这些案件的担忧正在增加。

1月，Meta聘请了马奥尼（Mr. Mahoney）先生，他是一位资深的诉讼律师，曾担任微软公司的总法律顾问。一名熟悉Meta想法的人士表示，马奥尼先生直接向扎克伯格（Mr. Zuckerberg）先生汇报，他之所以接任首席法律官一职，部分原因是由于他对协商达成和解的前景感兴趣。他过去曾主导过复杂的交易，最著名的是在2020年，他以美国贸易代表副代表的身份，担任特朗普政府与加拿大及墨西哥贸易协定谈判的主要谈判代表。

四名熟悉相关对话的人士表示，在入职仅几天后，马奥尼先生就致电科罗拉多州总检察长菲尔·韦泽（Phil Weiser）和代表各州的首席谈判代表田纳西州总检察长斯克尔梅蒂（Mr. Skrmetti）先生，开始和解谈判。常驻硅谷的马奥尼飞往这两个州分别与他们会面。他希望探索一项大规模的和解方案，以结束全美所有州总检察长发起的联邦和州级诉讼。

双方此前曾进行过谈判。但由于马奥尼先生表现出如此明显的达成决议的意愿，对话的基调发生了变化。

但三名人士表示，一个障碍立即显现，因为Meta不愿对其产品做出某些更改。对于许多州总检察长来说，这是无法接受的底线。

“我们提起这些诉讼是因为我们想要保护孩子，并希望改革这些平台，”斯克尔梅蒂先生在一次采访中表示。强制平台做出更改“确实是这里最关键的部分”。

韦泽先生在采访中表示，每位总检察长都熟悉一个孩子因社交媒体而遭受伤害的案例。他补充道：“采取行动的共同承诺，根植于我们所有人都能认同的痛苦，以及我们所有人共同面对的恐惧。”

谈判陷入僵局。但几周之内，Meta就收到了一个关于未来潜在问题的严厉提醒。

一名被标识为K.G.M.的年轻女性在1月下旬开始的一场审判中出庭作证，指控社交媒体公司在平台上创建了诸如“无限滚动”之类的功能，导致她患上焦虑症和抑郁症。

被告方Meta、Snap、TikTok和YouTube在庭前听证会上辩称，由于第230.条规定，该案件应被撤销。但洛杉矶县加利福尼亚州高等法院的法官卡罗琳·B·库尔（Carolyn B. Kuhl）裁定，此案涉及的是产品责任，而非言论问题。

这场为期五周的审判让Meta深感尴尬。扎克伯格先生首次在陪审团面前就儿童安全问题作证。他因允许数百万未成年用户使用Instagram而受到严厉质询。声称孩子受到社交媒体伤害的家长们挤满了法庭。作为证据提交的内部文件显示，Meta的员工将自己与毒贩相类比。

与此同时，新墨西哥州总检察长正在州法院审理一起指控Meta违反消费者保护法的案件。

3月内的两天时间里，Meta在两起案件中全部败诉。这些裁决引发了人们对未来审判可能造成名誉损害的担忧。

随着Meta与加利福尼亚州、科罗拉多州、肯塔基州和新泽西州准备在今年夏天于奥克兰的美国加利福尼亚北区联邦地区法院进行审判，赌注变得更高。这些州指控Meta违反消费者保护法和儿童隐私保护法，寻求约US$200-billion的罚款以及对公司平台做出更改。

斯克尔梅蒂先生和几乎所有其他州的总检察长也分别提交了自己的诉讼。

但在持续的谈判中，Meta仍然未能满足各州在安全功能方面的所有要求。

在奥克兰审判前夕，Meta做出了最后一次尝试以终止该案件。该公司于7月22日请求美国第九巡回上诉法院撤销这些社交媒体成瘾案件，援引第230条下的法律保护。

在 Meta 等待第九巡回法院做出裁决期间，马奥尼先生带着他 $19-billion 的报价前往田纳西州。他离开时尚未达成协议，但谈判仍在继续。

四名知情人士表示，8 月 10, 上诉法院做出了不利于 Meta 的裁决。突然之间，谈判速度加快了。其中一名知情人士称，凭借新的筹码，各州开始在纳什维尔与 的律师进行面对面谈判，并通过视频通话进行每日磋商，以获得最终的让步。

作为协议的一部分，该公司同意采取更多安全措施。不断增加的平台变更清单包括：禁止青少年用户进行无止境滚动，以及对 Instagram 和 Facebook 的每日使用时间设定两小时上限。 还表示，将限制青少年在午夜至 6 a.m. 之间使用，并在 8 a.m. 至 3 p.m. 的学校时间段内静音通知。

提出，如果 TikTok 和 YouTube 等其他社交媒体公司也同意对其应用程序实施类似的控制，那么 将支付更多款项并提高年轻用户使用其平台的限额—— 表示，这将使其免于被单独针对。

该公司希望避免进入审判阶段，并将其设定为所有州都必须签署的条件。但五名了解对话情况的人士表示，在 8 月 11, 讨论拟议和解方案的视频通话中，一些州的总检察长询问资金是否足够以及将如何分配。

各州制定了一个公式，根据其人口规模以及每起案件中针对 的具体指控来分配基金。

上周，各州在奥克兰的案件在与 谈判期间进入了审判。上周日，科罗拉多州和田纳西州的总检察长向其他州提交了一份最终和解协议。他们通过电子邮件发送了该文件，并指示在周二 6 p.m. 前签署。

当天，Instagram 负责人亚当·莫塞里在奥克兰出庭作证。各州传唤扎克伯格先生出庭作证的计划迫在眉睫。

周二，除德克萨斯州、佛罗里达州和新墨西哥州外，所有州均签署了协议，审判随之结束。新墨西哥州此前已赢得诉讼，而 在周三与德克萨斯州达成约 $1-billion 的和解，为年轻用户提供与多州协议类似的安全护栏。

“Section 230 和第一修正案并非让 免于承担责任的无坚不摧之盾，”加利福尼亚州总检察长罗布·邦塔在周三与记者的通话中表示。各州的和解协议表明，这些法律在为“受到不当行为伤害的人员、儿童和家庭” “实现正义和问责”方面的能力有限。

马奥尼先生在周三的一份声明中表示，他为该协议以及它赋予父母保护孩子的权力感到自豪。

他说：“但其成功取决于所有其他社交媒体平台是否能跟随 的脚步。”

仍面临由青少年、家庭和学区发起的数千起其他诉讼。下一场重大的人身伤害审判计划于 10 月在洛杉矶县加利福尼亚州高等法院审理。

表示，有信心赢得该案。

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据知情人士透露，欧洲央行行长们在结束与美国同行的一次年度聚会后，并未感到全球合作的长期准则依然完好，反而担心与华盛顿之间本已紧张的关系未来将出现更多动荡。

美联储的政策制定者本周竭力缓解其同行的担忧，承诺将履行所有承诺。

但六名以上在堪萨斯城美联储年度杰克逊霍尔经济研讨会期间发表看法的官员表示，鉴于央行与政府之间存在分离，他们无法保证唐纳德·特朗普总统不会突然改变政策。

这些要求匿名的官员表示，美国财政部近期为了支撑日元以及降低美国长期借贷成本而采取的干预措施尤其令人担忧，因为这预示着未来将有更多干预行为以及对准则的背离。

在8月1日的日元交易后，美国财政部长斯科特·贝森特 (Scott Bessent) 确认财政部已出售欧元以换取日元，并表示他已向该地区的央行保证，此举“仅仅是资源的重新分配”。周五，他表示用于购买日元的外汇资产来自财政部的汇率稳定基金。

但消息人士称，欧洲官员尤其反感美国没有按照惯例提前告知他们出售欧元是交易的一部分。

其中一人表示：“这令人愤怒。你总是应该拿起电话提前打个招呼。”

“对我来说，这传递出的信号是美国想做什么就做什么。”

其他人则较为宽容，认为这次交易非常罕见，可能是一个无心之失。

欧洲中央银行和美联储的发言人均拒绝置评。

一名美国官员表示，美日干预是为了应对日元的无序波动，并支持全球金融市场的稳定。

该官员说：“这并非针对任何人。财政部与国际同行保持着密切且持续的沟通，但我们不对这些讨论的操作细节发表评论。”

消息人士还表示，贝森特增加回购长期债券的计划（这些交易可能需要通过发行更多短期债券来融资）也令欧洲央行行长们感到担忧，因为与购买日元一样，这表明政府愿意采取非常规措施来限制借贷成本。

第二位消息人士说：“这些干预通常只能提供暂时性的缓解。但他们显然很担心。那么接下来会发生什么？他们会向美联储施压，要求其开始在市场上购买债券吗？”

消息人士表示，虽然美联储是美国唯一的货币政策制定机构，且在设计上独立于选出的政府，但特朗普已经表明，他愿意采取极端手段来实现自己的意愿。

他们的担忧是，这可能会引发远超美国范围的市场动荡。

美国官员对此回应称，重复之前的声明，增加长期债券回购旨在为财政部获得高质量回购报价的长期板块提供更大的流动性。

该官员表示：“这不属于货币政策，也不是为了给利率设定上限而做出的努力。”

然而，周四一名美国财政部官员告诉记者，财政部“确实专注于降低这些长期收益率”，因为这些收益率已经高于该部门认为的“公平价值”。

一些消息人士表示，欧洲人的另一个担忧是，政治干预最终可能会波及美联储向全球最大央行提供的美元流动性后备支持，而这被认为是全球金融稳定的基石。

这些掉期额度确保了全球商业银行能够维持获取美元的渠道，尤其是在金融压力时期。

美联储年复一年地更新这一机制，前提是它确实维护了美国的利益和市场，因为在全球市场动荡时期，海外银行否则将被迫抛售美国债券。

“但在这个政府领导下，理性并不总是占据主导，”第三位消息人士表示。“当他们与最亲密的盟友采取报复性贸易政策时，特朗普可能会直接说：‘嘿，他们在坑我们’，然后掉期额度可能一夜之间就消失了。”

消息人士表示，目前还没有任何迹象表明这些后备支持处于危险之中，他们仍预计这些机制将保持不变。掉期额度由联邦公开市场委员会本身授权，并由美联储独立运营，而非由政府管理。

“有关美联储机制和掉期额度安排的决定权在美联储，”该财政部官员表示。“财政部就日元操作或债务回购所宣布的任何内容都没有暗示除此之外的情况。”

该官员补充说，贝森特先生期待在接下来的几天里，在北卡罗来纳州阿什维尔与 G20 财长和央行行长讨论金融稳定问题，寻求进一步推进政府关于孤立伊朗、促进增长和减少全球失衡的议程。

消息人士称，美联储主席凯文·沃什在就职仅一个多月后便前往欧洲，并竭力与当地官员建立良好关系，留下了总体积极的印象。

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利率：关税对增长的损害将超过对通胀的推高

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周五在怀俄明州莫兰的杰克逊霍尔，美联储主席凯文·沃什（中）与英格兰银行行长安德鲁·贝利（右）以及加拿大银行行长蒂夫·麦克莱姆交谈。AMBER BAESLER / 美联社

渥太华的报复行动将提高加拿大的物价，并增加整体通胀，而由于与中东战争相关的油价冲击，通胀目前已经处于高位。7 月的年度消费者价格指数（CPI）通胀率达到 3%，处于央行目标范围的上限。

加拿大银行一项针对去年实施的加拿大反制关税的研究发现，这些关税使目标商品的价格上涨了约 6%，并在价格冲击的峰值期间使整体 CPI 通胀增加了 0.3%。

与此同时，如果出口萎缩、企业在不确定性中推迟招聘和投资，且消费者变得紧张，贸易战的升级可能会更广泛地拖累加拿大经济。

“如果关税持续下去，它们对增长的影响将大于对通胀的推高，”加拿大帝国商业银行首席经济学家艾弗里·申菲尔德表示。

“价格水平会有一次适度的提升。我们的估计在 0.3% 左右，因为加拿大选择征收关税的许多商品恰恰是替代品很多的商品。因此，它对通胀的影响不大，而且如果增长放缓，由于闲置资源增加，很容易给通胀带来更大的下行压力。”

由于新的美国关税仅影响约 5% 的加拿大出口，贝街（Bay Street）的经济学家预计其宏观经济影响不会很大。加拿大帝国商业银行（CIBC）预计对国内生产总值的打击约为 0.5%，而加拿大皇家银行估计的影响为 0.4%。

但关税可能会对受影响的行业产生重大影响——包括电气设备、塑料、服装、造纸和家用电器——并对安大略省、魁北克省和不列颠哥伦比亚省造成尤为严重的打击。相应地，加拿大的报复行动可能会扰乱供应链，提高投入成本，并迫使加拿大公司重新思考其市场。

货币政策通过调整全国的金融条件，并不特别适合处理这种差异化的冲击。针对陷入困境的企业和工人的联邦及省政府定向救济通常效果更好。

“货币政策……无法针对受打击严重的部门：铝、钢和汽车。它无法帮助公司寻找新市场，也无法帮助公司重新配置其供应链，”行长蒂夫·麦克莱姆在 2025 年 10 月（他上一次下调利率时）表示。

“它能做的是尝试减轻受打击严重部门对经济其他部分的溢出影响，并尝试帮助经济适应这种结构性变化。但其作用有限，因为这不仅仅是周期性衰退，而是一次结构性变化。”

根据彭博数据，金融市场预计央行在今年剩余时间内将维持利率不变，然后在 2027 年初开始提高利率。

在某些方面，这回到了贸易战的早期阶段，当时特朗普先生威胁要发起一波又一波的关税，而渥太华则通过三轮反制关税对价值约 900 亿加元的美国进口商品做出回应——但随后在去年夏天撤回了大部分报复措施，希望达成缓和。

在贸易战爆发后的最初几个月里，麦克莱姆先生及其团队决定不依赖于通常采用的单一中心预测。相反，他们采用了一系列基于快速变化的美国贸易政策的乐观和悲观情景。其目标是选定一条能够应对各种可能关税结果的利率路径。

加拿大银行在 2025 年四次下调利率。进入 2026 年后，利率一直维持不变，因为关键的货币政策风险已从关税引发的经济衰退，转向由美国与伊朗战争引起的油价冲击。

如果不是因为贸易战最近的升级，央行可能正逐步趋向于提高利率。由于霍尔木兹海峡关闭导致的油价冲击推高了整体通胀；失业率在整个夏季呈下降趋势；且经济增长在第一季度基本持平后，于第二季度出现反弹。

周五公布的最新 GDP 数据显示，加拿大经济在第二季度的年化增长率达到了令人印象深刻的 3.3%，高于央行此前预测的 2.5% 增长。

但 C.D. Howe 研究所的克罗尼克先生表示，最终，在加拿大加息的理由仍然不充分。剔除波动较大的能源价格后的核心通胀指标仍接近央行 2% 的目标。此外，金融市场也在某种程度上替央行分担了工作。

近几个月来，作为抵押贷款和其他类型贷款利率基础的加拿大债券收益率，随着美国债券收益率的剧烈上涨而同步上升。

“无论如何，你已经在感受到某种程度的紧缩，所以我并不确定是否需要进一步推进，”克罗尼克先生说。“我认为目前没有足够的证据支持向任何一个方向做出大幅调整，无论贸易局势是否已经摆在面前。”

电力：Meta 数据中心最初将从阿尔伯塔省电网获取能源

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Meta 在 7 月宣布，正在斯图尔根县（Sturgeon County）动工建设一座耗资 $13-billion 的 AI 数据中心。该设施被描述为一座 1,000 兆瓦的设施，这大致相当于一个拥有 100 万居民的城市的能耗，或一座大型核电站的输出功率。根据加拿大能源监管局的数据，阿尔伯塔省现有的发电能力约为 16,000 兆瓦。

近期，北美各地涌现的大量超大规模数据中心旨在为人工智能应用提供所需的庞大计算能力，这引发了人们对价格飙升和电网可靠性下降的担忧。与其他北美司法管辖区一样，阿尔伯塔省采取了名为“自带电力”（bring your own power）的政策作为回应，旨在强制开发商支付为供应新数据中心而所需的任何额外发电和输电基础设施费用。

在这种情况下，总部位于埃德蒙顿的 Capital Power 最近宣布，已签署一项协议，将从 2028 年下半年开始为 Meta 的数据中心提供 250 兆瓦的容量和能源。

与此同时，一座名为 Greenlight 电力中心（由合作伙伴 Pembina Pipeline Corp. 和摩根士丹利基础设施合作伙伴支持）的新型 932 兆瓦燃气发电厂将在现场建设，专门为 Meta 的设施提供电力。该电厂将于 2030 年下半年投入运行。

佩雷拉女士写道：“事实是：Meta 将支付斯图尔根县数据中心将使用的能源升级和电力的全部费用——这些成本不会转嫁给阿尔伯塔省居民。”

然而，批评者认为，“自带电力”的方法不能保证对电价产生中性影响。这是因为数据中心的建设速度快于发电厂。Pembina 的报告断言，在运营初期，Meta 的设施将全部从阿尔伯塔省电网获取电力，这将导致供需状况趋紧。

阿尔伯塔省负担能力与公用事业部长 RJ Sigurdson 的新闻秘书 Ashli Barrett 指出，阿尔伯塔省居民在购买电力时有多种选择。他们可以通过固定利率合同采购，或者通过阿尔伯塔省公用事业委员会设定的默认利率采购。她断言，阿尔伯塔省居民必须明确选择退出固定利率，才会经历 Pembina 报告中所强调的波动利率。

她写道：“Pembina 研究所的分析旨在通过歪曲阿尔伯塔省居民支付电费的方式，将批发价格与阿尔伯塔省居民实际支付的零售价格混为一谈，从而故意制造恐慌并分化阿尔伯塔省居民。”

负责运营阿尔伯塔省电网的阿尔伯塔省电力系统运营商（AESO）提出了类似的观点，但承认数据中心可能会推高批发电价。其法律与客户项目副总裁 Gillian Barnett 在一份书面答复中指出，阿尔伯塔省居民并不支付批发电价。

她补充道：“阿尔伯塔省的电力市场通过供需的基本原则，自然地形成了价格的起伏。”

“来自包括数据中心在内的新负载的更高需求，预计将推高池（批发）价格，而这预计将吸引新的供应，从而降低池价格。”

然而，阿尔伯塔省电力市场的其他主要参与者似乎认同 Pembina 的担忧。

EPCOR 是一家总部位于埃德蒙顿的大型公用事业公司，其业务包括向埃德蒙顿及周边社区供电。在今年早些时候提交给 AESO 的一份报告中，EPCOR 警告称，“无论是否通过 BYOG（自带发电）流程，将数据中心负载添加到阿尔伯塔省互联电力系统中，都可能对电价信号产生实质性且可能是非预期的后果，预计将对阿尔伯塔省消费者产生负面影响。”

皮克普先生表示：“大家在某种程度上都认同，这将提高能源价格，首先是在批发层面，随后是在零售层面。”

其他北美电网运营商也在苦于如何满足数据中心巨大的能源需求。最大的此类机构 PJM Interconnection LLC 管理着包括新泽西州、伊利诺伊州、密歇根州和俄亥俄州在内的十几个美国州的电网。在北弗吉尼亚州等地，随着数据中心的快速大规模开发，PJM 内部的客户已经感受到了电费的上涨；这两个现象之间的关系已成为一个相当具有争议的话题。

代表该行业的数据中心联盟（Data Center Coalition）在 5 月发布的一份报告中承认，数据中心的扩张是导致电费上涨的因素之一，尤其是在 PJM 地区。但该联盟表示，这些设施已“成为一个简单的焦点”，从而分散了人们对其他促成因素（包括工业回流）的注意力。该联盟称，迄今为止的定量研究尚未发现美国数据中心由其他电力用户补贴的证据。

工人周三在安大略省温莎市 Cavalier Tool & Manufacturing Ltd. 的组装车间内工作。 DAX MELMER / THE GLOBE AND MAIL

国防：市场难以填补企业的汽车销售缺口

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如今，他继续通过参加国防贸易展并尽可能多地与人们交流 XL 能提供什么来开展这项工作。“我抱有谨慎的乐观，”他说。

对于安大略省温莎市 Cavalier Tool and Manufacturing Ltd. 的国际业务发展经理克里斯·范德·帕克（Chris Vander Park）来说，寻找进入国防市场的途径也是他日常工作的重要组成部分。他的业务中只有约 15% 与汽车相关，但几乎所有业务都与美国深度交织。

范德·帕克先生还在努力让他的公司获得受控商品计划（CGP）的批准，并在六个月前聘请了一名顾问，以帮助他了解国防领域。

从技术角度来看，范德·帕克先生和赫戈特（Hergott）先生表示，他们拥有能够实现这一转型的机械设备和熟练劳动力。

这并不是最困难的部分。真正的挑战在于赢得一个全新客户群的信任并获得其认可。

此外，加拿大模具与机械协会（Canadian Tooling and Machining Association）的扬（Jahn）先生表示，虽然国防市场值得这些制造商关注，但它不足以填补汽车行业停滞在订单簿中留下的缺口。

他的会员公司习惯于每年为该行业生产 1600 万至 1800 万个单位的产品。国防领域不需要如此大的规模，而且其政府客户在采购方面的节奏要慢得多。

“汽车工业规模很大，非常庞大。每年涉及数十亿加元，”扬先生说。

“那么，你能够填补如此大额的销售缺口吗？在大多数情况下，答案是‘不能’。但你仍然会尝试。”

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随着加拿大公司意识到AI带来的成本冲击，许多公司正在寻找既能帮助引领、又能控制下一波采用浪潮成本的员工：AI赋能官 (AI enablement officers)。

Vector研究所AI工程副总裁凯瑟琳·休姆 (Kathryn Hume) 表示，随着公司对大语言模型 (LLM) 的使用趋于成熟，这一角色近期已成为技术领域的一项热门工作。该职位最适合那些技术导向、具有敏锐商业洞察力和财务管理能力的人员。

Indeed招聘网站的经济学家奥布里·沃斯纳 (Aubrey Woessner) 表示，直到2025.，加拿大每百万个职位空缺中，AI赋能岗位的招聘广告平均约为10个。而现在，这一数字已攀升至每百万个岗位中约有550个AI赋能岗位。

获得AI赋能职位的人员，其薪资也可能反映出该工作需求的激增。

沃斯纳女士表示，截至8月中旬，今年AI赋能管理岗位的广告薪资中位数为$140,000；相比之下，不含AI赋能的管理岗位薪资中位数为$90,000。

企业正在寻找具备独特资质组合的候选人，以领导向寻找AI采用效率的转变。休姆女士表示，在一些工作场所，曾经流行“Token最大化” (tokenmaxxing) —— 即通过最大化消耗Token（LLM计算能力的单位，需付费）来证明员工的高生产力 —— 而现在，公司正将盈利能力放在首位。AI赋能经理必须成为最大化价值的专家，并向员工传达如何最有效地利用这些资源。

控制人工智能的成本已成为企业面临的一项重大挑战。例如，Uber Technologies Inc. 在春季表示，在员工耗尽 Claude Code Token 的使用额度后，公司在短短几个月内就烧光了全年的AI预算。与此同时，Shopify Inc. 在5月的上一次财报电话会议中提到成本增加后，于8月初报告利润增长，高管们暗示Token成本已得到控制。

休姆女士表示，担任AI赋能角色需要一定的技术能力，包括对AI系统机制的理解，能够与非技术利益相关者沟通，并拥有坚实的运营和财务管理基础。

但滑铁卢大学计算机科学教授伊迪丝·劳 (Edith Law) 表示，该领域所要求的系统性问题解决能力对于这类角色同样重要。

该大学最近宣布，将与总部位于多伦多的AI公司 Cohere Inc. 合作，推出一项专注于AI转型和变革管理的证书课程。

劳教授解释说：“我们意识到，具体技术在功能、成本等方面变化如此之快，因此我们的目标实际上是教授学生能够抵御这些变化的根本概念和流程。”这一非学分证书将提供专注于以人为本的设计、伦理、变革管理和商业战略的模块。

加拿大的大银行也在组建AI业务赋能团队。例如，蒙特利尔银行 (Bank of Montreal) 最近的一则招聘广告正在寻找一名AI赋能与可扩展性高级经理，该人员需帮助团队在整个业务中部署AI，并确保银行AI投资的可扩展性。

丰业银行 (Scotiabank) 首席技术官泰·帕纳戈普洛斯 (Ty Panagoplos) 表示，他正在寻找能够为组织的赋能工作带来抽象和创造性思维的人才。

他说：“你不仅需要真正理解技术，还需要理解如何重新思考技术，甚至如何重新思考一项业务。”

Panagoplos 先生还强调，候选人的沟通能力对其获得职位的机会具有重大影响。

“你需要能够向业务人员解释有时非常复杂的技术能力，并帮助他们理解如何利用这些能力。”

加拿大皇家银行（Royal Bank of Canada）AI 部门业务赋能副总裁 Sohaib Perwaiz 拥有医疗设备行业背景，持有商业管理和公共管理双硕士学位，并在麦肯锡公司（McKinsey & Co.）拥有咨询经验。他在一次采访中表示，在那里他曾协助大型银行进行技术驱动的转型。

他说：“在实验室的 AI 研究员所做的工作与服务客户的银行专业人员所做的工作之间，充当这种‘连接组织’的角色，正是赋能工作的核心所在。”

同样，Perwaiz 先生将他及其团队的职责描述为帮助整个银行重新思考 AI 如何融入业务模式，并充当“实地孵化器”以推动变革的实现。在 5 月的一次财报电话会议上，加拿大皇家银行的高管表示，自 2025 年以来，该银行的大语言模型（LLM）Token 使用量增长了 500% 以上。

Perwaiz 先生表示，具有多种背景的候选人——从转入技术岗位的运营人员到具有商业领导经验的工程师——都在考虑之列。但他们必须具备一个共同特质，他说：“在这种工作中能取得成功的人，是那些拥有不懈好奇心、始终寻求有趣方式来解决问题的人。”

资本配置可驱动高额回报

杰森·德尔·维卡里奥 (JASON DEL VICARIO)

观点

Hillside Wealth Management 投资组合经理

资本配置如果执行得当，可以将一家平庸的企业转化为一项卓越的投资。

威廉·索恩代克 (William Thorndike) 在《局外人》(The Outsiders) 一书中精辟地论证了这一点。书中描述的八位首席执行官在行业、性格和经营风格上各不相同，但拥有一个共同的重要特质：他们将资本配置视为 CEO 最重要的职责之一。他们在股价低廉时回购大量股票，在股价高昂时发行股票，并且抵制单纯为了增长而增长的行为。

几十年来，这些决策能够显著提高股东回报。

大多数人认为 CEO 主要是企业的公众形象和战略驱动力。而我们认为，最优秀的 CEO 会投入不成比例的时间去思考另一个问题：公司下一加元资本回报率最高的使用方式是什么？

我们最倾向的答案通常是将资金重新投资于现有业务。如果一家公司能够持续地将增量资本以超过 20 per cent 的回报率进行再投资，股东通常希望管理层保留尽可能多且能被高效部署的资本。

挑战在于，许多优秀的业务根本不需要太多资本。它们产生的现金远多于其能够合理再投资的金额。

在这种情况下，管理层可以寻求收购、支付股息、回购股票或积累现金。我们不希望看到管理层“徒劳地发力”——在能力圈之外进行“恶化多元化” (diworsifying)，或者仅仅因为有冗余现金而追求收购。

如果不存在具有吸引力的内部机会，我们宁愿通过股息收到这笔钱，或者在合适的情况下，通过执行得当的智能股票回购来获益。

一家可预测业务的长期回报可以简化为：股息率 + 盈利增长 + / - 估值倍数的变动。

假设一家公司的盈利每年增长 10 per cent，支付 3-- 股息率，目前的交易价格为盈利的 15 倍。如果 10 年后，市场将其估值为 20x，那么倍数扩张每年将贡献大约 3。

因此，预期回报大约为：3-- 股息 + 10-- 增长 + 3-- 倍数扩张 = 16 .

但股息有一个缺点。一旦支付，资本就离开了公司，可能会产生税收，并且再投资变成了我们的责任。

如果管理层相反地保留冗余现金，并耐心等待直到预期回报超过（例如）20 ? 时才回购股票，情况会如何？

这就是股票回购变得强大的地方。

Copart Inc. (CPRT-Q) 提供了一个有趣的例子。它运营着全球最大的车辆残值拍卖平台，拥有异常强大的竞争地位，基本上没有财务债务，且与产生的现金相比，所需的增量资本相对较少。

从历史上看，Copart 在回购方面一直非常谨慎。

在其 2026 财年的大规模回购计划之前， 投入了约 US\$2.35-billion 回购股票。这些股票的估计平均拆股后价格约为每股 US\$3.43 a share，平均估值约为盈利的 21.x 倍。

如今，用那 \$2.35-billion 注销的股票价值约为 \$23.45-billion ——资本回报倍数近 10x，估计货币加权年化回报率约为 17.3 .

将其与 的基础业务表现进行对比，结果令人启发。

在大约相同的 19-year 期间， 的总净利润年复合增长率约为 14.5 annually。其拆股后的股价从 2007, 8 月的约 \$1.76 增长到 2026, 8 月的 \$33.26，增长了 18.x 倍，年化增长率约为 16.7 .

该业务本身的收益复合增长率约为 14.5%，而股价的复合增长率则快了约 2.2 个百分点。这一差异部分反映了通过股票回购减少的股份数量——这使得每股收益的增长速度快于总收益的增长——以及一定的估值倍数扩张。

这种年均 2.2% 优势的力量很容易被低估：$100,000 以 14.5% 的复合增长率增长 19 年，将增至约 $1.31-million。而以 16.7% 的增长率计算，同样的 $100,000 将增至约 $1.88-million。因此，看似微小的 2.2 个百分点的提升，创造了约 $571,000 的额外财富，即最终价值增加了约 44%。当年化回报率的微小差异在长期维持时，会演变成财富上的巨大差异。

更重要的是，Copart 历史上的回购资本年化收益率似乎约为 17.3%，略高于该股 16.7% 的整体价格 CAGR（复合年增长率）。这支持了一个重要结论：Copart 通常在低于平均水平的估值时回购其股票。

而且，该公司并非每年机械地回购股票。在很长一段时间里，它几乎没有任何动作。只有当估值变得足够具有吸引力时，管理层才会采取激进行动。

这种区别至关重要。

分红政策意味着：我们有盈余现金，所以我们将将其返还。

而智能回购政策则意味着：我们有盈余现金，但只有在预期回报具有说服力时，我们才会部署这些资金。

后者需要耐心、纪律以及在长时间内甘于表现得不活跃的意愿。

最优秀的资本配置者明白，每一加元都有机会成本。有时正确的决定是再投资，有时是收购，有时则是分红。

而偶尔，一家伟大公司能做的最佳投资就是投资于自身。

作者、其家人及其投资资金均持有 Copart 的头寸。

只要做好准备，即便加元疲软，你依然可以拥有一个迷人的欧洲之夏

MEERA RAMAN

观点

不知你是否听说，我们正与美国处于贸易战之中，而上周谈判在最后一刻破裂，使这场战争再次被点燃。

这导致本就疲软的加元进一步暴跌，尽管本周有所回升。周四，加元交易价格上涨 0.2%，报 $1.3855 加元兑 1 美元，即 72.18 美分，收复了周一跌幅的一小部分。

但在最近的贸易风波之前，加元就已经处于低谷。上周，我访问了北爱尔兰和爱尔兰，这意味着我被两种汇率双重打击。

在北爱尔兰，1 加元大约能兑换 £0.532。跨过边界，它大约能兑换 €0.623。当一杯 £5 的咖啡实际上接近 $9.40 时，很难享受所谓的“欧洲之夏”。

不过，我确实找到了几种方法，让拿着我们可怜的加元旅行时能稍微减轻一些痛苦。

首先，我使用了一张没有跨境交易手续费的预付借记卡。一些加拿大信用卡也免除此类费用，例如丰业银行 Passport Visa Infinite 卡。否则，典型的 2.5% 跨境交易手续费意味着你让本就糟糕的汇率变得更糟。

另一条原则是始终使用当地货币支付。在许多旅游景点，刷卡机

用加元思考。当你度假时，一顿 €20 的午餐不知为何感觉像是一顿 $20 的午餐。事实绝非如此。在购买东西（尤其是那些无关紧要的东西）之前进行心理换算，可以帮助避免出现令人恐惧的“我今天怎么花了 $300？”的时刻。

给了我选择用英镑或欧元支付，或者立即将购买金额转换为加元的选项。加元看起来是自然的选择，但你必须抵制。

当你选择加元时，商家或支付处理机构会按其自身的汇率进行转换，而这个汇率可能比你的发卡行更差。

每当我将机器提供的加元价格与最终出现在账单上的金额进行对比时，我的银行卡总是胜出。

寻找折扣也很有价值。我的伴侣通过其雇主找到了一个名为 Go City 的应用程序优惠，我们用它购买了都柏林三个热门景点的门票，每张节省了约 $30。

最后，用加元思考。当你度假时，一顿 €20 的午餐不知为何感觉像是一顿 $20 的午餐。事实绝非如此。

在购买东西（尤其是那些无关紧要的东西）之前进行心理换算，可以帮助避免出现令人恐惧的“我今天怎么花了 $300？”的时刻。

目前，我对能够充分利用的旅行预算感到庆幸，并且很想念爱尔兰威士忌。

股市反弹面临部分障碍

纽约证券交易所的一台电视正在播放前美国联邦储备委员会主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔 2024 年在怀俄明州杰克逊霍尔发表的讲话。周五，投资者增加了对央行将在下次会议上加息的押注。ANGELA WEISS / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

就业报告、博通业绩等即将公布的数据将揭示经济健康状况

刘易斯·克劳斯科普夫（LEWIS KRAUSKOPF） 纽约

下周对美国劳动力市场的最新审视，以及半导体公司博通（Broadcom）的季度业绩，将考验一场已将股市推至接近历史高点的反弹行情。

标准普尔 500 指数录得周涨幅，使该基准指数距离 8 月 13 日的历史最高点仅剩略高于 1% 的差距。周三，AI 指标公司及市场巨头英伟达（Nvidia）发布的一份极其出色的季度报告提振了股市情绪，而此前本月上涨的国债收益率曾打击了市场信心。

投资者正关注将于 9 月 4 日公布的美国每月就业报告，以及就业数据是否会为美国联邦储备委员会未来几个月的利率计划提供线索。

“随着我们越来越接近 9 月的（美联储）会议，每一项数据的公布都将被放在显微镜下审视，因为这可能会影响美联储最终的决定，”Glenmede 投资战略副总裁迈克尔·雷诺兹（Michael Reynolds）表示。

在新任美联储主席凯文·沃什（Kevin Warsh）周五发表讲话后，由于美联储正努力应对高于目标的通货膨胀，投资者增加了对央行将在 9 月下次会议上加息的押注。

随着 8 月即将结束，标准普尔 500 指数今年以来累计上涨超过 12%。由大规模 AI 基础设施建设支出驱动的强劲企业利润增长，正推动美国股市这场近四年的牛市运行。

随着美国夏季结束，市场相对平静。Cboe 波动率指数在年度低点附近徘徊，本周的每日市场交易量远低于 2026 年的平均水平。

包括就业数据在内的几个即将发生的事件可能会动摇资产价格。根据截至周五的一项路透社民调，预计 8 月就业人数将增加 58,000 个岗位，美国失业率为 4.1%。7 月的报告显示劳动力市场意外走弱，就业人数减少了 23,000 个岗位。

“上一次的就业报告让市场和投资者产生了一点迟疑，”PNC 资产管理集团首席投资官阿曼达·阿加蒂（Amanda Agati）表示。

然而，阿加蒂女士表示，她怀疑劳动力市场是否出现了崩溃，并补充说她将寻找“是对上次报告中所见趋势的确认，还是可能回升至前几个月的水平”。

就业数据还可能表明美联储是否可能提高利率。本周的数据显示，通货膨胀率继续远高于美国央行 2% 的年度目标。

加息给股票表现带来了若干挑战，包括提高消费者和公司的借贷成本。

周五晚些时候的联邦基金期货显示，9 月下次会议加息的可能性为 57%，投资者担心，一份显示就业人数大幅增加且工资快速增长的强劲就业报告可能会增加此类押注。

“股市希望看到的是一个能让美联储能够维持利率不变的持续数据，”西北互助财富管理公司（Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management）股票首席投资组合经理马特·斯塔基（Matt Stucky）表示。

下周的其他经济数据包括制造业和服务业活动报告。供应管理协会（Institute for Supply Management）之前的月度读数显示，美国制造业活动增加至四年多来的最高水平。

“我们认为，这种势头能否延续到 9 月是非常值得关注的，”斯塔基先生说。

博通（Broadcom）周三将发布财报，其市值最近约为1.7万亿美元。在竞争对手半导体公司英伟达（Nvidia）的业绩推动股市指数上涨后，博通的财报也将成为关注焦点。

英伟达预测其下一财年的营收将大幅增长70%。对于这家通常不发布此类预测的AI风向标公司来说，这次披露十分罕见。

其他科技公司戴尔科技（Dell Technologies）和 Palo Alto Networks 将在下周发布报告。

路透社

考虑这份包含 15 只低成本且高评分 ETF 的精选名单

伊恩·谭 (IAN TAM)

数字分析师

CFA 及晨星加拿大 (Morningstar Canada) 投资研究总监

我们的筛选目标是什么？

在最热门的类别中寻找成本最低且评分较高的 ETF。

筛选过程

加拿大人已成为对费用更为敏感的投资者。晨星最近的资产流动数据清晰地证明了这一点。在截至 2026, 年 6 月的十年间，投资者向晨星将其分类为低成本、高评分的基金中投入了超过 $280-billion，同时从高费用基金中撤出了约 $13-billion。在市场压力和投机热情高涨的时期虽有少数例外，但总体趋势十分明确：投资者越来越倾向于选择能让他们在口袋里留下更多回报的产品。

行业对此做出了响应。资产管理公司继续在成本方面展开激烈竞争（尤其是在像纯股票指数敞口这样的领域），而监管机构则推动提高透明度。与十年前相比，投资者现在收到的关于投资成本的报告更为详细。而且从 2027, 年开始，由加拿大证券监管机构引入的“总成本报告”要求将使消费者在投资产品和咨询上支付的费用情况变得更加清晰。

当然，仅靠低费用并不能使其成为一项好的投资。一只 ETF 可能价格低廉，但结构糟糕、税收效率低下，或者在不同的市场环境下难以持有。因此，今天的筛选并非简单地寻找市面上最便宜的 ETF。

利用 Morningstar Direct 平台，我对按管理资产规模计算的四个最大 ETF 类别进行了筛选。随后，我寻找符合以下三个标准的基金：相对于同行而言费用极低；基于历史风险调整后表现的晨星五星评级；以及晨星铜、银或金牌评级，这表明我们的分析师认为该基金具有有助于其在长期内获得超额收益的属性。

结果是一份结合了低成本、强劲历史业绩和分析师积极前瞻性信心的 ETF 精选名单。对于希望在保持对主要资产类别高质量敞口的同时，尽可能保留更多回报的投资者来说，这些基金值得进一步关注。

我们的发现

符合上述要求的 ETF 列在本文随附的表格中，包括股票代码、费用、历史回报、晨星（Morningstar）评级、资产配置以及是主动管理还是被动管理。建议投资者首先查看每只 ETF 所属的类别，因为这些行业标准类别是晨星评级系统的基础。

本文不构成财务建议。鼓励读者在买卖此处列出的任何基金或 ETF 之前进行独立研究。

来源：Morningstar Direct / 数据截至 2026 年 8 月 25 日

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投资者下周关注要点

周一

• 中国 PMI
• 日本零售销售和工业产值
• 德国 CPI 和零售销售
• 英国市场休市

周二

日本资本支出和制造业 PMI

■ 欧元区 CPI、制造业 和失业率

(东部时间上午 9:30) 加拿大 8 月 S&P Global 制造业

(东部时间上午 9:45) 美国 8 月 S&P Global 制造业

(东部时间上午 10 点) 美国 7 月建筑支出

(东部时间上午 10 点) 美国 8 月 ISM 制造业指数

(东部时间上午 10 点) 美国 7 月职位空缺和劳动力流动调查 (JOLTS)

此外：加拿大和美国 8 月汽车销量

财报包括：Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.；戴尔科技公司 (Dell Technologies Inc.)；美敦力 (Medtronic PLC)；Palo Alto Networks .

周三

日本消费者信心指数

(东部时间上午 8:15) 美国 8 月 ADP 全国就业报告

(东部时间上午 9:45) 加拿大央行利率决议及行长蒂夫·麦克莱姆 (Tiff Macklem) 的新闻发布会

随后

(东部时间上午 10 点) 美国 7 月工厂订单 (东部时间下午 2 点) 美国《褐皮书》发布。 财报包括：博通 (Broadcom .)；惠普企业 (Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.)；Major Drilling Group International .；Rockpoint Gas Storage .；Snowflake .

周四

日本和欧元区的服务业及综合 (东部时间上午 8:30) 加拿大 7 月国际商品贸易

(东部时间上午 8:30) 加拿大第二季度劳动生产率 (东部时间上午 8:30) 美国 8 月 29 日当周初请失业金人数

8 月 29 日

(东部时间上午 8:30) 美国第二季度生产率。华尔街预计年化增长率为 1.4%。

(东部时间上午 8:30) 美国 7 月商品和服务贸易逆差

(东部时间上午 8:30) 美国 8 月 Revelio 公共劳动力统计数据

(东部时间上午 9:30) 加拿大 8 月 S&P Global 服务业 (东部时间上午 9:45) 美国 8 月 S&P Global 服务业和综合

(东部时间上午 10 点) 美国 8 月 ISM 服务业

财报包括：BRP .；Ciena Corp.；Enghouse Systems Ltd.；露露乐蒙 (Lululemon Athletica .)；VersaBank；Zscaler .

周五

日本家庭支出 德国工厂订单 欧元区零售销售

(东部时间上午 8:30) 加拿大 8 月就业数据。华尔街预计就业人数增加 17,500 个，失业率维持在 6.4%。

(东部时间上午 8:30) 美国 8 月非农就业人数。共识预期为增加 58,000 个就业岗位，失业率维持在 4.1%，平均时薪同比增长 3.1%。

(东部时间上午 10 点) 加拿大 8 月 Ivey

(东部时间上午 10 点) 美国 8 月全球供应链压力指数

体育

前杂货配送司机 Dean 在妻子担任球童的情况下夺得英国大师赛冠军 ■ B14

Beckham Jr. 通过训练营，进入巨人队 53 人名单 ■ B15

美国公开赛

顺利晋级第二轮

周日在纽约举行的美国公开赛首轮比赛中，加拿大的莱拉·费尔南德斯 (Leylah Fernandez) 将球回击给中国的张帅。费尔南德斯以 6-3, 6-2 击败张帅 ■ B11

YUKI IWAMURA / 美联社

马克斯·舍尔泽 (Max Scherzer) 周日在多伦多罗杰斯中心对阵西雅图水手队的比赛中进行第一局投球。COLE BURSTON / 盖蒂图片社

谢尔泽在投手丘大放异彩，蓝鸟队横扫水手队

马蒂·克林肯伯格 (MARTY KLINKENBERG)

在一次重现昔日荣光的表现中，马克斯·谢尔泽 (Max Scherzer) 在周日贡献了他在蓝鸟队效力以来的最佳表现。他在这场 7-0 的胜利中，在 7 局比赛中仅允许对方击出 1 次安打，实现了零封西雅图水手队。

这位 42 岁的未来名人堂成员三振了 10 名击球手，超越了盖洛德·佩里 (Gaylord Perry)，以在其 19 年职业生涯中累计 3,535 次三振，升至历史总榜第九位。

他在第一局和第四局均完成了三振全场，仅允许两名跑者上垒——一名是通过泰勒·沃德 (Taylor Ward) 的保送，另一名是通过卡尔·罗利 (Cal Raleigh) 的二垒安打。

“这绝对是他为我们投出的最好一场比赛，”经理约翰·施耐德 (John Schneider) 表示。“今天的表现非常出色。他从一开始就进入了状态。”

“他 42 岁了，但球速依然能达到 95 英里。他准备充分且极具竞争力。坦白说，这就像是跳进了一台时光机。”

谢尔泽在 2025 赛季前加入多伦多队，并在 2026 赛季前与球队续约。他今年一直受到伤病困扰，这次胜利是他九次决定性登板中的第二次获胜。

“我们现在需要胜利，”谢尔泽说。“我们正处于季后赛争夺战的激烈阶段。我们必须每天赢球。这就是比赛的意义所在。我们正在战斗。”

蓝鸟队横扫了与水手队的这场三场系列赛。截至比赛结束，他们距离最后一个季后赛外卡席位仅差 $1 \frac{1}{2}$ 场胜负。这也是他们自 6 月 24 日以来首次回到距离 50% 胜率仅两场之内的位置。

西雅图在多伦多的这个周末表现糟糕。水手队在得分上以 4-19 落后，随着战绩下滑至 64-73，他们几乎葬送了争取季后赛席位的微小机会。

在周日的比赛中，他们仅击出一次安打，并被三振 15 次。

在这个起伏不定的赛季中，蓝鸟队“起死回生”的次数比《万圣节》里的迈克尔·迈尔斯 (Michael Myers) 还要多。

他们现在在最近 22 场比赛中赢了 14 场，最近 32 场中赢了 20 场，最近 36 场中赢了 22 场。他们在 8 月的战绩为 17-11，无疑是本赛季表现最好的一月。

亚历杭德罗·柯克 (Alejandro Kirk) 在第一局击出了一记 398 英尺的左中外野全垒打，为蓝鸟队取得了 2-0 的领先。他们在第五局凭借弗拉基米尔·格雷罗 (Vladimir Guerrero Jr.) 的二垒安打再得一分，并在第六局通过冈本和真 (Kazuma Okamoto) 击出的一记 405 英尺中外野全垒打将比分扩大为 4-0。随后在第八局，他们凭借安德烈斯·吉梅内斯 (Andrés Giménez) 的两分单打和布雷特·巴特曼 (Brett Bateman) 的二垒安打又增加了三分。

蓝鸟队，B13

周一早晨半场：赫勒拜克（Hellebuyck）的交易请求与可能改变 NHL 的合同

杰米·罗斯（JAMIE ROSS） 凯瑟尔·凯利（CATHAL KELLY） 除非他们正在赢球。

杰米·罗斯是《全球邮报》的体育编辑

凯瑟尔·凯利是国家体育专栏作家

J.R.：嘿，凯瑟尔，这周我们有很多可以讨论的话题。

让我们先从康纳·赫勒拜克（Connor Hellebuyck）开始，这位美国明星门将请求从温尼伯喷气机队（Winnipeg Jets）被交易走。在此之前，已有另外两名美国超级巨星离开了加拿大球队：布雷迪·特卡丘克（Brady Tkachuk）从俄亥俄被交易到了佛罗里达。

从渥太华被交易到了佛罗里达，以及去年通过交易离开温哥华砍树队（Canucks）前往明尼苏达的奎因·休斯（Quinn Hughes）。

枫叶队（Maple Leafs）应该担心吗？奥斯顿·马修斯（Auston Matthews）会是下一个吗？

C.K.：杰米，你之前跟我说你并没有“被告知”（典型的《全球邮报》用语）英超联赛的情况，只是随口乱猜。

现在你在预测池中把我虐得体无完肤，我觉得有点受伤，而且，是的，甚至觉得被骗了。好在还剩下 36 个比赛周，我知道情况会变得更糟。

至于美国球员的情况——这就像是一种人才流失，但并不影响整体智商？叫躯干流失？——我认为每支加拿大 NHL 球队都应该感到担心。这是一个积极的进展。

加拿大球队习惯了即便表现糟糕也能堆积金钱。无论他们有多烂，依然能填满体育馆并占据当地体育版面的头条。

你觉得闪电队（Lightning）或飓风队（Hurricanes）能享有这种好处吗？如果卡罗来纳队在赢得总冠军的第二天能登上《夏洛特观察报》的头版，我会感到惊讶。

但现在出现了一个变数——美国 NHL 球员正在产生辨别力。他们觉得不受欢迎（因为确实不受欢迎）。他们不想在自己的第二故乡受到攻击。不

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你会注意到，蒙特利尔加拿大人队（Montreal Canadiens）并没有面临秘密 MAGA 类型人群的反向流动。科尔·考菲尔德（Cole Caufield）并没有公开渴望回到熟悉的威斯康星河岸。

凯瑟尔·凯利 国家体育 专栏作家

枫叶队有一个简单的方法可以解决这个问题——变得像加拿大人队那样优秀。不幸的是，对于多伦多来说，优秀离他们很远。渥太华、温哥华、卡尔加里、温尼伯以及（也许）埃德蒙顿也是如此。

要么变得优秀，要么多选几个德国人。他们喜欢在恶劣天气下进行户外活动。

对于那些签署了长期合同的运动员在训练营开始前几周就要求交易，你有什么看法吗？

J.R.：在赫勒拜克的情况下，听起来他之前已经提出了请求，但直到上周才公开。是的，我对此有异议。这太不稳定了。

温尼伯是他整个职业生涯的专业之家。他签署了一份为期七年的合同，这意味着他直到 2031 都是一名喷气机队球员。当时他很乐意拿他们的钱，但突然在情况不顺时，他想跳伞逃离？

通过公开他的意愿，他是在逼温尼伯就范，现在所有人都知道他想离开。从交易的角度来看，这并没有让喷气机队处于强势地位。

C.K.：他把他们锁在了像朗达·劳齐（Ronda Rousey）那样的手臂锁中。

此时的本能反应是说：“如果他不喜欢，他可以留在温尼伯的家里看比赛。”

但这只会让俱乐部内部陷入混乱并导致总经理被解雇。在那之后，接任的人会给赫勒拜克想要的东西。所以你不如现在就给他。

如果现在情况糟糕，以后会更糟。典型的喷气机队球迷不会对这次交易换回的东西感到高兴。所以总经理无论如何都可能会被解雇。

我很惊讶为什么没有更多 NHL 球星使用这种合同末日武器。

佩古拉、梅德韦杰夫和科斯秋克成为美网首批胜者

周日在纽约举行的美网第一轮比赛中，美国选手杰西卡·佩古拉向罗马尼亚选手埃莱娜-加布里埃拉·鲁塞回球。KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH / 美联社

3号种子佩古拉在以 6-3, 6-2 击败鲁塞后，取得了她的第 30 场硬地赛胜利

布莱恩·马奥尼 纽约

杰西卡·佩古拉是首批参加美网的球员之一，她去年意识到，从周日开始比赛能带来一些不错的缓解。

“这有点奇怪，但我确实挺享受接下来的几天可以喘口气，而其他人还在为能否赢得首轮比赛而焦虑，”她说。

抢跑起步很棒——除非那是抢先回机场。

“我们刚才还在讨论这个，我说：‘赢球的时候周日比赛太棒了。但如果输了就不好，因为你会觉得比赛还没开始你就出局了，’”11号种子玛尔塔·科斯秋克说道。

佩古拉和科斯秋克都轻松获胜，现在她们在进入第二轮之前可以享受额外的休息日。

3号种子佩古拉以 6-3, 6-2 击败了埃莱娜-加布里埃拉·鲁塞。她说她起初很紧张，考虑到 2024 年美网亚军可能面临的利害关系，这在情理之中。

佩古拉本赛季以 46 场胜利领跑女子巡回赛。她获得了两个冠军，并三次进入决赛。如果佩古拉能赢得她的首个大满贯冠军，且 2 号种子埃莱娜·里巴金在半决赛前出局，佩古拉将成为排名第一的球员。

佩古拉接下来的对手将是维纳斯·威廉姆斯与同样持有外卡资格的索菲亚·肯宁之间比赛的胜者。她们原定于亚瑟·阿什球场的压轴赛进行比赛，而威廉姆斯将与妹妹塞雷娜搭档参加双打。

“在走上赛场之前我感到非常紧张，但我知道我的教练们说：‘你看起来并不那么紧张。我们觉得你打得很好，’”佩古拉说。

11号种子科斯秋克确实打得很好，她以 6-4, 6-1 击败了斯通·亨特，在法网和温网均进入半决赛后，为今年的最后一个大满贯赛事开启了强劲的开局。

周日开赛，但冠军球员直到周一才开始比赛

这是第二年实行周日开赛，不过一些最重量级的球星直到周一才开始比赛。两届卫冕冠军阿里娜·萨巴伦卡将对阵卡米拉·奥索里奥进行首场比赛；随后，去年赢得第二座美网冠军的卡洛斯·阿尔卡拉斯将在从右腕伤势中恢复后，进行他自 4 月以来的首场单打比赛。

前美网冠军大坂直美、伊加·斯维亚特克、斯隆·斯蒂芬斯和斯坦·瓦夫林卡也出现在周一的赛程中，此外还包括温网女单冠军琳达·诺斯科娃以及本·谢尔顿、亚瑟·菲尔斯、费利克斯-奥热--阿里亚西姆和弗朗西斯-蒂亚福等男单竞争者。

2021 年美网冠军达尼尔·梅德韦杰夫以 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 击败了雨果·加斯顿，摆脱了此前糟糕的赛前准备状态。这位 7 号种子在北美硬地赛季的战绩仅为 1-3，而这通常是他表现出色的时期。

“过去几周并不容易，”梅德韦杰夫说。“但我很高兴今天我能够打出高水平的网球。”

周日其他获胜者包括 19 号种子贾斯明·保利尼和 31 号种子莱拉·费尔南德斯（2021 年美网亚军）。两届大满贯单打冠军、27 号种子巴博拉·克雷吉科娃以 7-6 (4), 6-2 负于卡米拉·拉希莫娃。

美国选手、20 号种子汤米·保罗在第一盘抢七负于高曼（Coleman Wong）后迅速反弹，最终以 6-7 (3), 6-1, 6-3, 6-3 获胜。一年前，高曼成为首位在公开赛时代大满贯男单比赛中获胜并晋级 32 强的香港男子选手。

诺瓦克·德约科维奇于周日晚上对阵马里亚诺·纳沃内，开始追求创纪录的第 25 个大满贯冠军。39 岁的德约科维奇最近一次在首轮出局是在本月早些时候的辛辛那提站。

2014年美网冠军马里奇·西里奇和2022年亚军卡斯珀·鲁德均在开赛首日因伤退赛。

美网正处于形象更新过程中

尽管正赛直到周日才开始，但美网的活动已经进行了近一周。大量人群聚集在混双比赛、由罗杰·费德勒重返法拉盛草地公园领衔的表演赛以及单打资格赛现场，这些场地的入场是免费的。

周日首次到场的球迷可能会注意到这项赛事正处于转型期。美网正处于亚瑟·阿什球场三年翻新计划的第二年，该球场是美国网球协会比莉·简·金国家网球中心的中心场馆。这项耗资8亿加元的项目改进内容包括增加部分低层座位、升级并扩建娱乐区域，以及建设一座球员表现中心。

“在我们重新构思壮丽景观期间，请原谅我们的外观”，亚什球场入口上方的标牌上这样写道。

该项目计划在2027年美网之前完工。

美联社

泰坦队裁掉四分卫莱维斯，NFL各球队精简阵容：消息人士

罗布·马迪 (ROB MAADDI)

一名知情人士告诉美联社，在NFL各球队精简阵容的周日，田纳西泰坦队四分卫威尔·莱维斯 (Will Levis) 是被裁掉的1,100多名球员之一。

由于泰坦队尚未公布裁员名单，该人士在要求匿名的条件下发表了上述言论。

莱维斯是2023年的第二轮选秀球员，曾为泰坦队首发出战21场比赛，但他一直处于卡姆·沃德 (Cam Ward) 和米奇·特鲁比斯基 (Mitch Trubisky) 之后。他在为田纳西队效力的两个赛季中战绩为5-16，且在肩部手术后缺席了2025赛季。

“我认为他表现得很出色，”泰坦队教练罗伯特·萨利赫 (Robert Saleh) 在周六比赛后评价莱维斯时说道，“我觉得他今天做得非常好。我认为他在半场结束前最后两分钟的推进非常出色，对时间的掌控力很强。”

莱维斯表示，他相信自己能成为NFL的首发四分卫。

在季前赛收官战对阵熊队的比赛中，莱维斯在24-15的失利中完成了22次传球中的14次，传球码数143码。赛后他表示：“我觉得无论处于什么位置，你都必须对自己拥有那种信心。”

“我看到过一段话，我不记得是谁说的了，但大意是‘这个联盟里的每个人都是首发’。你必须具备这种心态。你可能在按下按钮的一瞬间就被派上场，并且必须准备好比赛。我觉得在我离开的一段时间里，我获得了很多东西，就是找回了在过去一年比赛中失去的一部分信心，我将在职业生涯的余下时间里保持这种心态。”

各球队必须在东部时间下午6点前将球员人数从90人削减至53人。

三届职业碗外接手奥德尔·贝克汉姆二世 (Odell Beckham Jr.) 在缺席2025赛季后成功进入纽约巨人的名单。

维京人队留下了2024年的首轮选秀球员J.J.麦卡锡 (J.J. McCarthy)。2023年的首轮选秀球员安东尼·理查森 (Anthony Richardson) 留在小马队。这两名四分卫此前都处于被裁的边缘。

布朗队在将迪伦·加布里埃尔 (Dillon Gabriel) 因背部受伤列入伤病预备名单后，保留了四名四分卫。谢德尔·桑德斯 (Shedeur Sanders) 将担任德肖恩·沃森 (Deshaun Watson) 的替补，而新秀泰伦·格林 (Taylen Green) 在深度图上排名第三。作为新秀在上赛季首发6场比赛的加布里埃尔可以在第5周回归。

亚特兰大猎鹰队同样选择了四名四分卫，保留了图亚·塔戈瓦伊洛亚 (Tua Tagovailoa)、迈克尔·佩尼克斯二世 (Michael Penix Jr.)、库珀·鲁什 (Cooper Rush) 和杰克·斯特兰德 (Jack Strand)。

几支球队在裁员截止日期前进行了交易。

2023年的首轮选秀球员、进攻截锋布罗德里克·琼斯 (Broderick Jones) 在周日更换了球队。四分卫奎因·尤尔斯 (Quinn Ewers) 和防守截锋CJ·奥科耶 (CJ Okoye) 同样如此。四分卫凯尔·麦考德 (Kyle McCord)、近端锋亨特·隆 (Hunter Long) 和马克·雷德曼 (Mark Redman)、截锋沃尔特·罗斯 (Walter Rouse)、防守后卫克拉克·菲利普斯三世 (Clark Phillips III)、防守截锋格文·德克斯特 (Gervon Dexter)、中锋塞德里克·范普兰-格兰杰 (Sedrick Van Pran-Granger) 和贾雷特·帕特森 (Jarrett Patterson) 也被交易。

在将尤尔斯交易到杰克逊维尔的一天后，海豚队通过从格林贝获得麦考德，并支付一个2028年的第六轮选秀权，从而获得了一名新的替补四分卫。海豚队此前为了获得尤尔斯，已从美洲虎队获得了一个2028年的第六轮选秀权。

麦考德在周五以42-38战胜亚利桑那的比赛中传了四个达阵，其中两个发生在最后$3 \frac{1}{2}$分钟内。但包装工队在5月签下了泰罗德·泰勒 (Tyrod Taylor) 来担任乔丹·洛夫 (Jordan Love) 的替补。

麦考德将担任马利克·威利斯 (Malik Willis) 的替补，后者在过去两个赛季在格林贝担任洛夫的替补后，于3月签署了一份为期三年、价值6750万美元加元的合同。

红雀队从杰克逊维尔获得了隆以及一个2028年的第七轮选秀权，以换取一个2028年的第六轮选秀权。隆在46场比赛中完成了20次接球，获得153码。

小马队从布法罗获得了范普兰-格兰杰和一个2027年的第七轮选秀权，以换取一个2027年的第六轮选秀权。范普兰-格兰杰在两个赛季中为比尔队出场18次，其中包括一次首发。

这次交易表明，首发球员康纳·麦戈文 (Connor McGovern) 在因未公开的下肢伤势缺席过去一个月的大部分时间后，将准备好回归。在麦戈文缺阵期间，劳埃德·库申伯里 (Lloyd Cushenberry) 接替了他的位置。

熊队从亚特兰大获得了2027年的一个第五轮选秀权和菲利普斯，以换取德克斯特。

一名因交易尚未公布而要求匿名的知情人士表示，49人队通过交易获得来自休斯顿的后备中锋帕特森，并为此支付了一枚2027年的第七轮选秀权。帕特森在2023.年被德州人队以第六轮选秀权选中，在过去三个赛季中首发出战了21场比赛。在旧金山，他将担任杰克·布伦德尔的后备。49人队曾在休赛期签下布雷特·托斯来担任该角色，但后者自8月初起因脑震荡而缺阵。

包装工队继续增强其近端锋的深度，通过支付一枚2028年的第七轮选秀权从公羊队获得雷德曼。此次变动发生在格林贝签下资深近端锋乔努·史密斯三天之后。

维京人队将劳斯和一枚2027年的第七轮选秀权送至爱国者队，以换取2027年的一枚第六轮选秀权。

前一天，钢人队将琼斯送往达拉斯以换取选秀权。琼斯三年前在匹兹堡被选为总第14顺位，他的加入增强了牛仔队进攻截锋位置的深度。

去年被迈阿密队以第七轮选秀权选中的尤尔斯将接替尼克·穆伦斯，担任特雷弗·劳伦斯的后备。

奥科耶从乌鸦队转会至巨人队，与哈博率再次团聚。

美联社

费尔南德斯、沙波瓦洛夫晋级美网第二轮

纽约 加拿大的莱拉·费尔南德斯晋级美国网球公开赛第二轮。

这位出生于魁北克省拉瓦尔的选手在周日的女子单打首轮比赛中以 6-3, 6-2 击败了中国的张帅。

种子排名第31位的费尔南德斯在比赛中有4个发球得分（ace），3次双误，并在7次破发机会中成功把握住3次。同时，她化解了张帅全部7次破发机会。

张帅在比赛中没有发球得分，有 1 次双误。

当天晚些时候，来自安大略省里士满山的丹尼斯·沙波瓦洛夫在男子单打比赛中以 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 击败了塞尔维亚的米奥米尔·凯奇马诺维奇。

沙波瓦洛夫有19个发球得分，但出现了11次双误，同时在14次破发机会中成功把握住6次。

加拿大新闻社

洛杉矶公羊队防守截锋亚伦·唐纳德在2023.年一场对阵纽约巨人队的比赛前等待登场。SETH WENIG / 美联社

唐纳德结束退休，回归公羊队追逐超级碗

格雷格·比查姆 洛杉矶

亚伦·唐纳德（Aaron Donald）已回归洛杉矶公羊队，在退休两年半后决定复出，与迈尔斯·加雷特（Myles Garrett）共同组成防守线。

在经过数周的讨论、准备以及这位明星防守截锋的高强度训练后，公羊队于周日宣布了 35 岁的唐纳德所做的决定。

唐纳德同意签署一份为期一年的合同。据 ESPN 报道，在一份包含大量激励条款的协议中，他的收入将至少达到 $20-million。

在完全效力于圣路易斯和洛杉矶公羊队的头 10 个赛季中，唐纳德成为了其时代最伟大的防守球员之一。在 2024 年 3 月较为突然地宣布退休之前，他曾三次获得美联社（AP）评选的 NFL 年度最佳防守球员奖，并 10 次入选职业碗（Pro Bowl），8 次入选全美最佳阵容（All-Pro），并赢得了一枚超级碗冠军戒指。

在与家人享受了两季退休生活后，唐纳德在今年夏天开始考虑复出，此前公羊队通过交易得到了加雷特——加雷特是当代防守线球员中少数能与唐纳德相媲美的人物。在美联社过去九年的年度最佳防守球员奖项中，唐纳德和加雷特合计赢得了五项，其中加雷特在克利夫兰布朗队期间赢得了最近三项中的两项。

为了复出，唐纳德进行了近两个月的身体准备，在公羊队的训练中心及其他地点进行锻炼，以测试自己的身体能否承受另一个 NFL 赛季的严苛要求。

主教练肖恩·麦克维（Sean McVay）数周以来似乎一直很有信心唐纳德倾向于回归，但决策过程一直延续到了整个季前赛，直到目前这个平静周。随后，公羊队将在下个月于澳大利亚开始准备与 49 人队的赛季揭幕战。

在 MVP 马修·斯塔福德（Matthew Stafford）率领的 NFL 排名第一的进攻线支持下，即便在唐纳德复出之前，洛杉矶在大多数博彩公司那里就已经是赢得麦克维执教下第二个超级碗冠军的夺冠热门。

美联社

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费尔南德斯帽子戏法率领联队逆转获胜

周日，在英格兰曼彻斯特，曼联的布鲁诺·费尔南德斯（右）在对阵伊普斯维奇的比赛中为球队打入首球。曼联在老特拉福德球场以 5-2 赢得了这场比赛。JON SUPER / 路透社

帕尔默在切尔西 4-3 险胜布莱顿的激烈比赛中再次成为焦点

STEVE DOUGLAS

再次落后于一支升班马，曼联在本赛季英超联赛初期面临着进一步尴尬的局面。

随后，布鲁诺·费尔南德斯挺身而出。

凭借一次冷静的帽子戏法，这位葡萄牙组织核心激励了曼联的逆转，在周日于老特拉福德球场对阵伊普斯维奇的比赛中以 5-2 获胜。

对于曼联来说，这是一场令人宽心的胜利。上周末，他们在联赛揭幕战中以 0-2 惨败给赫尔——一支通过冠军联赛附加赛升级、且被广泛认为是降级热门的球队。

在遭遇挫折后，曼联主教练迈克尔·卡里克呼吁保持冷静，但周日第 29 分钟，他的球队再次落后于另一支降级热门伊普斯维奇。

作为上赛季英超年度最佳球员，费尔南德斯在第 40 分钟通过一次反击，以一记强有力的左脚射门扳平比分；第 61 分钟，他通过点球打入第二球，将比分扩大为 3-1；七分钟后，他冷静地完成最后一击，完成帽子戏法。五年前，费尔南德斯在赛季首次主场亮相的比赛中也曾为曼联上演帽子戏法，当时的对手是利兹联。

“进球是足球运动中最棒的感觉，”他说，“在主场球迷面前完成帽子戏法是我感到自豪的事情。我希望我能做得更多。”

在费尔南德斯的进球之间，还出现了一个乌龙球。当时哈里·马奎尔在进攻组织中触手，随后射门。裁判没有判罚犯规，因为马奎尔的行为被判定为非故意手球，且他的射门并未直接得分，而是经由伊普斯维奇后卫雅各布·格里夫斯折射入网。

布赖恩·姆贝莫为曼联打入了最后一球，他接费尔南德斯的传球，在禁区边缘将球挑过门将。

在伤停补时阶段，由于阿根廷后卫利桑德罗·马丁内斯在自家球门附近被断球，伊普斯维奇打入一球挽回颜面。

状态回升的科尔·帕尔默

领跑切尔西

科尔·帕尔默在切尔西 4-3 狂胜布莱顿的比赛中打入最后一球，展现出重返巅峰状态的迹象。

这位组织核心在 2023-24 赛季（他加盟切尔西的首个赛季）表现惊艳，在联赛中打入 22 球，但此后他一直受到伤病困扰且状态下滑，最终导致帕尔默未能入选今年夏天英格兰队的世界杯大名单。

在英格兰队主教练托马斯·图赫尔的注视下，帕尔默在斯坦福桥球场奔跑 30 米，随后在禁区边缘用一记弧线球打入切尔西的第四球，在这一场快节奏的对攻战中彻底终结了布莱顿反超的希望。

罗梅奥·拉维亚和佩德罗·内托在第 14 分钟前就让切尔西 2-0 领先，随后若昂·佩德罗在第 32 分钟为哈比·阿隆索的球队打入第三球。

马利克·亚尔库耶在半场结束前为布莱顿扳回一球，随后客队进一步缩小分差——第 63 分钟，佩德罗将帕斯卡尔·格罗斯的传中球折射进了自家大门。

帕尔默的进球确保了切尔西的连续第二场胜利，此前他们在周一的联赛揭幕战中以 3-2 击败富勒姆。帕尔默在那场比赛中同样取得了进球。

布莱顿通过格罗斯在全场最后一次触球时打入第三球。

切尔西的一大不利因素是关键中场莫伊塞斯·凯塞多受伤，他在下半场替补登场后仅坚持了 14 分钟。

埃米·马丁内斯在完成从阿斯顿维拉的转会几小时后，便在切尔西出任门将。而与转会曼城传闻相关的恩佐·费尔南德斯再次缺席。

美联社

MLB

美国联盟 东区 外卡

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美国联盟

周日

克利夫兰 11, 堪萨斯城 1 多伦多 7, 西雅图 0 纽约洋基 16, 波士顿 1 明尼苏达 5, 芝加哥白袜 1 巴尔的摩 8, 奥克兰运动员 5

周六

波士顿 6, 纽约洋基 0, 第一场 芝加哥白袜 3, 明尼苏达 2 多伦多 4, 西雅图 3 堪萨斯城 8, 克利夫兰 3 纽约洋基 9, 波士顿 2, 第二场 巴尔的摩 5, 奥克兰运动员 3

周一 — 所有时间均为东部时间

西雅图 (Kirby 9-10) 对阵 波士顿 (Tolle 8-6), 下午 6:45

底特律 (Jobe 1-1) 对阵 明尼苏达 (Bradley 9-6), 下午 7:40

奥克兰运动员 (Jump 6-8) 对阵 德克萨斯 (deGrom 9-9), 下午 8:05

芝加哥白袜 (Kay 9-6) 对阵 休斯顿 (Lambert 8-7), 下午 8:10

纽约洋基 (Rodríguez 0-2) 对阵 洛杉矶天使 (待定), 下午 9:38

跨联盟

周日

洛杉矶道奇 6, 底特律 1 坦帕湾 5, 圣迭戈 4, 11局 德克萨斯 7, 密尔沃基 4 休斯顿 6, 纽约大都会 3 费城 5, 洛杉矶天使 2

周六

底特律 2, 洛杉矶道奇 1 纽约大都会 6, 休斯顿 2

国家联盟 东区

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外卡

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坦帕湾 7, 圣迭戈 6 密尔沃基 5, 德克萨斯 3 费城 4, 洛杉矶天使 2, 10局

周一 — 所有时间均为东部时间

周一 — 所有时间均为东部时间 纽约大都会 (Stock 0-3) 对阵 坦帕湾 (Seymour 9-5), 下午 6:40 巴尔的摩 (Bradish 7-12) 对阵 科罗拉多 (Gordon 1-4), 下午 8:40

国家联盟

周日

迈阿密 6, 华盛顿 2 亚特兰大 3, 科罗拉多 2, 10 局 匹兹堡 5, 圣路易斯 4 辛辛那提 对阵 芝加哥小熊

周六

匹兹堡 6, 圣路易斯 2 芝加哥小熊 17, 辛辛那提 5 亚利桑那 7, 旧金山 1, 第一场 亚特兰大 2, 科罗拉多 1 华盛顿 5, 迈阿密 4, 10 局 旧金山 7, 亚利桑那 2, 第二场

周一 — 所有时间均为东部时间

周一 — 所有时间均为东部时间 旧金山 (Molina 1-0) 对阵 亚特兰大 (Elder 8-7), 下午 6:05 圣迭戈 (King 8-9) 对阵 辛辛那提 (Singer 5-12), 下午 6:40 迈阿密 (Gusto 1-3) 对阵 华盛顿 (Dion 1-1), 下午 6:45 密尔沃基 (Harrison 10-3) 对阵 芝加哥小熊 (Holmes 5-6), 下午 7:40 费城 (Nola 5-10) 对阵 亚利桑那 (Pfaadt 7-1), 下午 9:40

NSL

周日

多伦多 2 渥太华 1

周六

周六 卡尔加里 2 温哥华 2 蒙特利尔 1 哈利法克斯 0

MLS 东部联盟

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西部联盟

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周日

新英格兰 3 哥伦布 1 达拉斯 3 圣路易斯 3

周六

奥斯汀 2 波特兰 1 夏洛特 2 亚特兰大 0 芝加哥 2 西雅图 2 科罗拉多 1 盐湖城 0 洛杉矶 FC 0 华盛顿 0 迈阿密 7 蒙特利尔 1 纳什维尔 4 辛辛那提 0 纽约城 1 多伦多 1 奥兰多 3 明尼苏达 3 费城 3 纽约红牛 1 圣迭戈 3 洛杉矶银河 1 圣何塞 0 休斯顿 0 温哥华 3 堪萨斯城 0

英格兰

英超联赛

周日

切尔西 4, 布莱顿 3 利兹 1, 布伦特福德 1 桑德兰 1, 富勒姆 0 曼联 5, 伊普斯维奇 2

周六

利物浦 2, 诺丁汉森林 2 伯恩茅斯 1, 埃弗顿 1 考文垂 0, 赫尔 1 托特纳姆 0, 纽卡斯尔 2

CPL（加拿大超级联赛）

< / td><>场次< / ><>胜< / ><>负< / ><>平< / ><>进球< / ><>失球< / ><>积分< / >< / tr><><>卡尔加里< / ><>19< / ><>13< / ><>2< / ><>4< / ><>37< / ><>11< / ><>43< / >< / ><><>汉密尔顿< / ><>19< / ><>13< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>29< / ><>14< / ><>41< / >< / ><><>渥太华< / ><>20< / ><>10< / ><>7< / ><>3< / ><>34< / ><>33< / >< / ><><>温哥华< / ><>20< / ><>8< / ><>9< / ><>3< / ><>26< / ><>23< / ><>27< / >< / ><><>魁北克< / ><>19< / ><>6< / ><>9< / ><>4< / ><>27< / ><>33< / ><>22< / >< / ><><>哈利法克斯< / ><>20< / ><>5< / ><>10< / ><>5< / ><>28< / ><>34< / ><>20< / >< / ><><>多伦多< / ><>17< / ><>4< / ><>7< / ><>6< / ><>22< / ><>37< / ><>18< / >< / ><><>维多利亚< / ><>18< / ><>1< / ><>12< / ><>5< / ><>22< / ><>39< / ><>8< / >< / table>

维多利亚 4 哈利法克斯 3

周六

卡尔加里 1 温哥华 0

WNBA 东部赛区

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西部赛区

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x — 已锁定季后赛席位

周日

亚特兰大 89, 明尼苏达 81 洛杉矶 90, 西雅图 74 金州 86, 波特兰 69 康涅狄格 对阵 达拉斯 休赛期：FIBA 世界杯

纽约 85, 芝加哥 66 菲尼克斯 101, 多伦多 69

CFL（加拿大橄榄球联盟）

东部赛区

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西部赛区

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第 13 周

轮空：埃德蒙顿

周日

不列颠哥伦比亚 对阵 渥太华

卡尔加里 28 汉密尔顿 23 萨斯喀彻温 28 多伦多 24

周一

周五

国际篮联男子世界杯

温尼伯 44 蒙特利尔 28

第二轮 — B组 周一 所有时间均为东部时间 阿根廷 对 加拿大，晚上 7:10 乌拉圭 对 波多黎各，晚上 7:10 巴拿马 对 巴哈马，晚上 8:10

2026年少棒世界系列赛

宾夕法尼亚州威廉斯波特

宾夕法尼亚州威廉斯波特 周日 第三名 东京（日本） 3 汉密尔顿（俄亥俄州） 2 总冠军赛 威廉斯塔德（库拉索） 11 亨德森（内华达州） 2

周六

国际冠军赛 威廉斯塔德（库拉索） 4 东京（日本） 0 美国冠军赛 亨德森（内华达州） 12 汉密尔顿（俄亥俄州） 2

NFL季前赛

周六

底特律 25, 印第安纳波利斯 16 芝加哥 24, 田纳西 15

周五

巴尔的摩 41, 华盛顿 3 亚特兰大 17, 迈阿密 12 卡罗来纳 16, 休斯顿 13 杰克逊维尔 19, 坦帕湾 0 纽约巨人 23, 纽约喷气机 6 辛辛那提 30, 费城 13 格林贝 42, 亚利桑那 38 新奥尔良 27, 达拉斯 24 西雅图 9, 堪萨斯城 9 丹佛 34, 明尼苏达 6

LPGA巡回赛

FM冠军赛

马萨诸塞州诺顿

周日

奖金池：$4.400 万 码数：6,533；标准杆：72

殷若宁，\$660,000 71-65-68-70—274 金孝周，\$413,842 68-67-70-71—276 Allisen Corpuz，\$300,213 68-67-74-68—277 Sei Young Kim，\$209,582 64-74-67-73—278 Rose Zhang，\$209,582 72-68-70-68—278 Jenny Bae，\$131,037 68-68-72-71—279 Brooke Matthews，\$131,037 772-69-70-68—279 山下美由，\$131,037 65-70-75-69—279 Jin Hee Im，\$89,213 70-70-69-71—280 Somi Lee，\$89,213 66-72-70-72—280 柳海兰，\$89,213 68-70-72-70—280 Jeeno Thithikul，\$89,213 72-68-71-69—280 安奈潾，\$67,971 72-72-66-71—281 Lauren Coughlin，\$67,971 68-71-70-72—281 Nataliya Guseva，\$67,971 69-68-72-72—281 畑冈奈沙，\$67,971 71-70-62-78—281 Pathy Tavatanakit，\$67,971 71-68-73-69—281 崔惠珍，\$54,288 72-66-73-71—282 Karis Davidson，\$54,288 70-73-70-69—282 黄安娜，\$11,406 69-70-76-77—292 Aphrodite Deng，\$0 73-71-73-77—294

PGA巡回赛

巡回赛冠军赛

亚特兰大

S. Scheffler, \$10,000,000 65-67-66-66—264 Viktor Hovland, \$5,000,000 64-66-65-72—267 Ryan Gerard, \$3,705,000 65-65-66-72—268 J. Bridgeman, \$1,707,143 68-67-66-68—269 Alex Fitzpatrick, \$1,707,143 68-68-67-66—269 Chris Gotterup, \$1,707,143 64-67-67-71—269 Russell Henley, \$1,707,143 70-65-66-68—269 Min Woo Lee, \$1,707,143 62-73-66-68—269 Rory McIlroy, \$1,707,143 68-69-63-69—269 Ludvig Åberg, \$1,707,143 65-68-65-71—269 T. Fleetwood, \$660,000 66-70-67-67—270 Adam Scott, \$660,000 66-67-65-72—270 Cameron Young, \$660,000 70-62-68-70—270 Tom Kim, \$536,250 67-68-68-68—271 Si Woo Kim, \$536,250 69-68-65-69—271 Collin Morikawa, \$536,250 64-67-72-68—271 Xander Schaeffele, \$536,250 67-67-67-66—271 Akshay Bhatia, \$460,000 65-69-71-68—273 Sam Burns, \$460,000 66-68-67-72—273 Justin Rose, \$460,000 68-65-69-71—273 Patrick Cantlay, \$408,750 68-70-68-69—275 Wyndham Clark, \$408,750 67-69-67-72—275 Matt Fitzpatrick, \$408,750 66-67-69-73—275 Hideki Matsuyama, \$408,750 69-70-67-69—275 Kristoffer Reitan, \$380,000 70-69-68-70—277 Ryan Fox, \$375,000 66-68-70-74—278 Alex Smalley, \$370,000 67-68-72-72—279 Robert MacIntyre, \$365,000 67-76-63-74—280 Gary Woodland, \$360,000 66-68-71-77—282

U SPORTS美式足球

周日

周日 女王大学 对 多伦多大学 周六 渥太华 38 滑铁卢 28 约克 35 卡尔顿 34 威尔弗里德·劳里尔 33 圭尔夫 28 麦克马斯特 31 温莎 26

电视节目

周一（均为东部时间）

网球

ATP / WTA巡回赛：美国公开赛，TSN 1, 3, 11 a.m. TSN 2, 7 p.m.

棒球

MLB：西雅图 vs. 波士顿，SN 安大略、东部、西部、太平洋频道，6:30 p.m.

MLB：圣迭戈 vs. 辛辛那提， 4, 6:30 p.m.

：奥克兰运动家 . 德克萨斯，SN 1, 8 p.m. ：纽约洋基 . 洛杉矶天使，SN 安大略、东部、西部、太平洋频道，9:30 p.m. ：费城 . 亚利桑那， 4, 9:30 p.m.

足球

西甲：巴列卡诺 . 巴塞罗那， 5, 3 p.m.

篮球

阿斯顿维拉 . 阿森纳，3 p.m.

国际篮联（FIBA）男子世界杯预选赛：加拿大 . 阿根廷， 5, 7 p.m.

截至8月 30, 9:25 p.m. 周日的结果

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库拉索夺得少棒联盟世界系列赛冠军

周日，库拉索队的球员和教练在击败内华达州亨德森队并赢得少棒联盟世界系列赛（Little League World Series）冠军赛后，在挥舞冠军旗帜奔跑时向球迷脱帽致意。MATTHEW O'HAREN / IMAGN IMAGES VIA REUTERS CONNECT

教练称“每个孩子[都能吃]麦当劳”，全国庆祝第二次获得 LLWS 冠军

亚历克斯·哈金斯 (ALEX HARKINS)

宾夕法尼亚州，南威廉斯波特

在过去的两周里，库拉索的少棒球员们在饮食、睡眠以及为这项青少年棒球最高水平赛事进行训练方面，表现得专注且自律。

现在，冠军们可以放松下来，享受 1 或 2 样美食了。

尤里恩斯利·德·温特 (Juriënsly De Windt) 和沙迪琼·德·拉诺伊 (Shardijon De Lanoi) 各贡献了 3 分打点，库拉索队在周日的冠军赛中以 11-2 击败内华达州，夺得其第二个少棒联盟世界系列赛冠军。

“每个孩子[都能吃]麦当劳，”库拉索队教练雷利森·吉斯伯塔 (Railison Gijsbertha) 笑容满面地说道。在他身边是 3 名喜形于色的球员，他们迫不及待地想在 22 年后第 1 次将奖杯带回他们那个微小的岛国。

德·温特担任先发投手，在 3 局中仅失 2 分，其中 1 分为自责分。吉恩德里·赖安 (Giendry Ryan) 和史蒂文·费利克斯 (Steven Felix) 在接替投球时表现近乎完美，在最后 3 局中完成了 4 次三振。

库拉索队此前曾在 2005、2019、2022 和 2023 年赢得国际组冠军并晋级决赛。这一次，来自威廉斯塔德帕里巴少棒联盟 (Pariba Little League) 的这支队伍在投手丘和击球区都拥有足够的火力，击败了美国冠军队。

在这次双败淘汰赛中，库拉索队保持不败，并在面对内华达州亨德森队时，克服了早期的 2 分劣势。

赖安在 $2\frac{1}{3}$ 局中完成了 4 次三振。费利克斯迫使内华达队的最后一名击球手击出高飞球，被中外野手吉恩德里接住。当球稳稳落在手套中时，庆祝活动开始了。

吉恩德里将手套扔向空中，队友们在 outfield 簇拥着他。库拉索队的内野手们互相泼水，而一群聚集在三垒休息区后面的球迷则挥舞着库拉索国旗。

随着赛事的进行，库拉索队的支持者不仅限于其本土球迷。许多来自美国的球迷开始佩戴其标志性的深蓝色和黄色帽子，有些帽子上签满了名字，库拉索球员在这一周里很乐意为他们签名。

“当我们去商店时，我们看到美国人也在买我们的周边，”吉斯伯塔说，“我们的队伍是一支优秀的队伍，一支伟大的队伍，当他们要求我们给球签名时，我们就这么做了。”

比赛初期他们表现得较为沉稳，当时看来，内华达队——第 1 支在没有击出本垒打的情况下晋级冠军赛的美国队——终于有望突破库拉索队出色的投手群。

在内华达队的迈克尔·克莱纳 (Michael Kleiner) 触击之后，马多克斯·布赖恩 (Maddox Bryan) 击出一记向中外野的直线单打，打入 2 分。沿着一垒线的内华达球迷挥舞着标语，其中一张印有二战标志性人物“铆钉女”罗西 (Rosie the Riveter)，并献给卡辛·迈耶 (Carsynn Meyer)，她是第 1 位在冠军赛中代表美国出场的女孩。

迈耶在周六内华达队击败俄亥俄州时，成为了第 1 位在美国冠军赛中击出安打的女孩，但在对阵库拉索队时 0 for 2。

当德·拉诺伊击出的球擦过二垒手克莱纳飞身拦截的手套，完成一次 2 分单打时，库拉索队扳平了比分。

在第四局，杰米尔·马蒂纳 (Jaymiëll Martina) 击出一记 2 分双击，让国际组冠军队取得了最终的领先优势。德·温特在第五局击出了一记清空垒包的双击，令库拉索球迷全场起立欢呼。在赛前带领观众唱国歌的库拉索广播播报团队也开始兴奋地欢呼。

内华达队去年也是亚军，在冠军赛中输给了台湾队。

“当他们回顾过去，意识到自己取得了什么成就以及从这里获得了什么时，”内华达队教练科里·爱德华兹 (Cory Edwards) 说，“我希望他们能给我发条短信或打个电话，记住这段极其精彩的旅程。”

美联社 (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)

加拿大选手 Kung 在 Elite Series 赛季收官钓鱼赛中夺冠

纽约州克莱顿

加拿大选手埃文·孔（Evan Kung）在周日以一种极其强势的方式挽救了他的 Elite Series 职业生涯。

来自安大略省皮克林（Pickering）的孔在圣劳伦斯河举行的赛季收官赛中夺冠，取得了他的首个 Elite Series 胜利。孔的五条限额鱼总重 27 磅 12 盎司，使其在本次锦标赛中的总重量达到 109 磅 9 盎司，创下了小口黑鲈赛事的总重量纪录。

27, 岁的孔获得了 $US100,000 冠军奖金，以及因钓到当日最大鱼（6 磅 13 盎司）而额外获得的 $1,000。

这次胜利对孔来说非常及时，他在进入本次赛事前在总排名中位列第 72 位。他需要一个稳健的成绩才能进入前 70 名，从而留在该巡回赛中。

周日的胜利不仅解决了这个问题——孔最终的总排名为第 55 位——而且这位加拿大选手还获得了参加 $1-million Bassmaster Classic 赛事的资格，该赛事定于 3 月 19 日至 21 日在南卡罗来纳州格林维尔哈特韦尔湖（Lake Hartwell）举行。这将是他职业生涯首次参加这项职业黑鲈钓鱼的顶级赛事。

“能参加比赛比在博览会工作要好得多，”孔说。“过去几年我一直在做那件事，一点也不好玩。”

“为了进入我的首届 Classic 赛，我等待了这么久。”

孔在周六排名第二（落后于美国选手特雷·麦金尼 1.5 磅）之后，获得了在决赛日竞争的资格。麦金尼是周日最后一名称重的选手，他需要 25 磅 5 盎司才能获胜，但最终成绩为 24 磅 4 盎司，以 107 磅 9 盎司获得第二名。

麦金尼以 735 分夺得总冠军，比来自安大略省卡文（Cavan）的科里·约翰斯顿（Cory Johnston）多 4 分。约翰斯顿同样获得了周日决赛圈的资格，并拥有当日最重的鱼袋（29 磅 9 盎司），最终以 106 磅 7 盎司获得第四名。

“我（周日）度过了很棒的一天，不能要求更多了，但本周起伏很大，”约翰斯顿说。“（周六）确实让我失去了赢得锦标赛的机会。”

约翰斯顿周六的五条限额鱼重量为 23 磅 2 盎司，是他本次锦标赛的最低总重。但在周日，约翰斯顿在一条 6 磅重的黑鲈在船边脱钩的一瞬间，灵巧地将其捞起。

“（周六）我来到一个有大鱼的地点，而（周日）我在那里钓到了三条 6 磅重的鱼，”约翰斯顿说。“我钓到了一条 7 磅重的鱼，它跳了起来，在空中时鱼线断了。”

“我当时认为那可能是一条 6 磅的鱼，但在今天钓到那三条之后，它绝对比那大得多。但这就是钓鱼，这就是让我们不断回归的原因。”

锦标赛前 10 名中，有 9 位选手的重量突破了 100 磅大关。

约翰斯顿的哥哥克里斯（Chris）——前两个赛季的总冠军——在本次锦标赛中排名第 17 位，重量为 73 磅 14 盎司。来自安大略省基诺拉（Kenora）的杰夫·古斯塔夫森（Jeff Gustafson）排名第 39 位（69 磅 10 盎司），而来自安大略省鲍曼维尔（Bowmanville）的库珀·加兰特（Cooper Gallant）排名第 64 位（45 磅 8 盎司）。

克里斯·约翰斯顿在总排名中位列第 11 位，而古斯塔夫森位列第 25 位。约翰斯顿兄弟和古斯塔夫森也获得了参加 '27 Classic 赛的资格。

加兰特在总排名中位列第 82 位。

孔在比赛第一天后排名第四，随后在周五升至第二，仅次于麦金尼，后者的 30 磅 11 盎司限额重量是 Bass 历史上小口黑鲈最重的鱼袋。

“我每天在比赛前都知道自己需要钓到多少重量才能留在 Elites 赛中，”孔说。

孔的大部分鱼是使用一种名为 Great Lakes Finesse 的原型饵料通过掉头钓组（dropshot rig）钓到的，他表示该饵料很快将上市。

加拿大通讯社

蓝鸟队：多伦多本赛季主场观众人数预计将突破 300 万大关

来自 B10 版

这位新秀中外野手在先发击球中三次上垒，包括两次保送和一次二垒安打，他还偷垒一次，并在格雷罗的二垒安打之前通过一次牺牲触击将迈尔斯·斯特劳送入得分圈。

“他准备充分，聪明且谦逊，”施耐德在谈到贝特曼时说道。他是一个很容易让人喜欢的人。他奠定了基调，并且很快就赢得了队友和球迷的喜爱。

“他是个真正的比赛型球员。”

柯克的这次本垒打是他今年的第 8 个。对于冈本来说，这是他第 28 次击出再见安打，创下了俱乐部历史上新秀的最高纪录。

多伦多队在赛后前往克利夫兰，将于周二开始与守护者队进行三场系列赛。之后，蓝鸟队将分别访问堪萨斯城和奥克兰，各进行三场比赛。

蓝鸟队直到 9 月 11 日才会回到罗杰斯中心，开始与金莺队的三场对决。尽管本赛季他们表现挣扎，但到该系列赛结束时，本赛季的主场观众人数将突破 300 万大关。

“我们目前的打法有很多值得称赞的地方，”施耐德说。“季后赛名额就在我们面前。我们将享受一天的休息，然后继续全力冲刺。”

在周日的比赛之前，体育场内的扬声器里正大声播放着 The Monkees 乐队的《I'm a Believer》。虽然似乎难以置信，但蓝鸟队已经再次回到了竞争行列中。

后卫：像马卡尔这样的一代才俊后卫比一名 No. 1 中锋更有价值

来自 B10

如果马修斯明天说他想被交易，叶子队除了交易他还能做什么？

谈到筹码，凯尔·马卡尔（Cale Makar）刚刚向所有人展示了如何利用它。

马卡尔并非像悉尼·库斯比（Sidney Crosby）、亚历克斯·奥维金科夫（Alex Ovechkin）甚至康纳·麦克戴维德（Connor McDavid）那样的巨星。其他城市的观众不会仅仅为了看他而买票。这部分是因为他司职的位置，部分是因为他的公众性格像条鳟鱼一样沉闷。

当你签下他时，你得到的不是一个代言人或天生的表演者。你购买的是一个性能组件。

然而，马卡尔仍然设法让自己成为了联盟历史上薪水最高的球员。我希望他能给他的经纪人买一箱香槟，然后再买下该酒庄的一份股份。

如果 US\$20-million 成为了 No. 1 后卫的新常态——而每位 No. 1 后卫都会这么想——那么一名 No. 1 中锋价值多少？

J.R.：我认为观看马卡尔比赛本身就值一张门票钱。

我不擅长计算数字，所以我不知道一名 No. 1 中锋值多少钱，而且从目前看来，这个价格每月都在变动。但我确实认为，能完成 No. 1 中锋所需职责的人，比能像四分卫一样掌控球队的一代才俊后卫要多得多。

基于这种稀缺性，这就是为什么球队如此看重马卡尔、休斯（Hughes）和莱恩·哈特森（Lane Hutson）这样的球员。

马卡尔的合同是今年夏天第四次刷新纪录合同。在 26 年之后，我们是否终于看到了 NHL 迎来它的“A-Rod”时刻，即范式转移的时刻？

C.K.：只有当球员能够在不放弃多年资格的情况下，利用筹码获得顶薪时，我才会相信范式已经转移。

所以现在所有目光都集中在休斯身上。显然，他想要一份与明尼苏达队的短期合同——相当于一个选择性退出条款。

如果休斯能迫使狂野队达成一份年薪高于马卡尔但期限仅为三年的协议，那么我们将进入一个新世界。那时，一个受到严格控制的市场将变成更像年度集市的东西。

而且很明显，休斯能做到这一点。狂野队的筹码是什么？他们说不并让他离队？只要休斯有足够的胆量，他就能得到他想要的。

这就是一个总体的范式转移——冰球巨星会开始像足球巨星那样思考吗？我支持任何能给系统带来更多混乱的事情。

过去一周另一个热门话题是 Good Good Golf 的网红们。据我所知，他们是一群极其典型的“兄弟”，在制作充满“兄弟味”的高尔夫内容时尽情地扮演“兄弟”。

但他们演得太过了，惹恼了公司里的那些“兄弟”。或者类似的情况。你能解释一下这里发生了什么，以及为什么有人会关心吗？

J.R.：高尔夫比任何其他运动都更深地被网红渗透。到处都是花式击球、名人赛，以及业余爱好者制作的并不好笑的高尔夫相关迷因和短剧。

他们通过邀请布赖森·德尚博（Bryson DeChambeau）或约翰·戴利（John Daly）与他们打一轮球来证明自己的存在感，然后将其拍摄并发布到社交媒体上。

Good Good 是该领域较大的品牌之一。该公司上周陷入严重危机，因为它制作了一则广告，画面显示一名男性艺人将一名女性艺人推倒在地，因为后者试图拿取一支禁用的发球杆。公司称这是在模仿电影《Obsession》。公众则认为这是在轻视针对女性的暴力。当尘埃落定，Good Good 的装备已被全美零售商下架，PGA 巡回赛与其保持距离，甚至连 Callaway（该广告的共同赞助商且批准了内容）

也退缩了。我觉得为了打出这些字，我变笨了，但既然你问了。

C.K.：知道我也因为了解这些而变得更睿智，感觉好多了。然后……瞧，我已经把它忘了。

你明白为什么公司和联盟更喜欢这种媒体环境了。新媒体不是他们的批评者，甚至不是他们的合作伙伴。他们是可有可无的志愿者广告商。

只要他们还有利用价值，就可以被变现。一旦失去价值，他们就会像逃生舱一样被从母舰上抛弃。他们能撑过大气层重新进入阶段吗？大概不能。

我看到在最初的一段时间里唯唯诺诺之后，Good Good 承诺要反击。问题在于，未来会有数以百万计的 Good Good 出现。你只需要一部手机摄像头，以及一个能反戴棒球帽的脑袋形状就足够了。

所以，祝他们好运吧。他们确实需要好运。

谢夫勒再夺联邦快递杯，PGA巡回赛职业生涯总奖金超越伍兹

霍夫兰以72杆收官，独占第二名，获得500万美元奖金，而谢夫勒获得1000万美元奖金

道格·弗格森，亚特兰大

斯科蒂·谢夫勒的第二个联邦快递杯冠军，以及他在这次令人惊叹的五年征程中取得的第22场PGA巡回赛胜利，与之前的所有胜利都不同，尽管看起来如此熟悉。

谢夫勒用一杯啤酒庆祝。

他在周日的巡回赛冠军赛中以低于标准杆4杆的66杆收官——领先的六名球员中没有其他人打破标准杆——谢夫勒必须等待最后两组球员完赛才能正式确定结果。

“里面有一个开放式酒吧，我想，‘好吧，我去拿杯啤酒。’味道太棒了，”谢夫勒说。“我其实不经常喝酒。我的妻子和经纪人说，‘哇，好久没见你喝啤酒了。’好吧，赛季现在结束了。我要喝杯啤酒。这是应得的啤酒。”

这一点毋庸置疑，而且关于谁拥有高尔夫球界最佳赛季的争论也不再存在。

谢夫勒在东湖俱乐部解决了这个问题，他在四个洞中追回了三杆的差距，并最终拉开距离赢得了巡回赛冠军赛，夺得第二个联邦快递杯冠军，并在PGA巡回赛总奖金数额上超越了泰格·伍兹。

谢夫勒在211码的第2洞用5号铁将球击至距离球洞两英寸以内，发出了反击信号。他在第4洞通过一个25英尺的小鸟球追上维克多·霍夫兰，在第13洞首次反超，最终以三杆之差获胜。

这是他首次在巡回赛冠军赛中获得72洞最低杆数。

当他在2024年获胜时，由于“起始杆”赛制给予第一种子选手的优势，他在比赛开始前就拥有两杆的领先。尽管另外两名球员的实际杆数更低，但他最终以四杆之差获胜。这件事至今仍让他耿耿于怀。

“当你处于比赛的最后冲刺阶段，且处于平分或落后一杆时，这与最后结算时加上起始杆之类的东西完全不同，”谢夫勒说。“我认为用一场真正的比赛来结束这一年，且我在东湖俱乐部是获胜者并拥有最低杆数，感觉更像是一种成就。”

谢夫勒今年第三次获胜——在PGA巡回赛季后赛的最后三周内赢了两场——与克里斯·戈特鲁普、马特·菲茨帕特里克以及美国公开赛冠军温亚姆·克拉克并列，成为2026年夺冠次数最多的球员。

球员们会对PGA巡回赛年度最佳球员的杰克·尼克劳斯奖进行投票。谢夫勒已经连续四年获奖——如果再获一次，他将与伍兹并列，成为连续获奖次数最多的球员。

接管职业生涯总奖金榜首之位是必然的。巡回赛冠军赛的4000万美元奖金池现在被计入官方奖金。谢夫勒赢得了1000万美元，将其职业生涯总额推高至1.30亿美元。

伍兹在1997年至2008年的巅峰时期，从未参加过奖金池超过1000万美元的比赛，他曾在职业生涯奖金榜首位占据了近26年之久。

对于谢夫勒来说，这是一次小小的救赎，他在旅行者冠军赛的附加赛中输给了霍夫兰，那是他今年五次获得亚军的比赛之一。

霍夫兰仅抓到一个小鸟球，以72杆收官，独占第二名，获得500万美元。对于这位挪威人来说，最令人恼火的是在后九洞的四个洞中，有三个推球击中了杯沿，其中两个是争小鸟球，一个是争标准杆。

“他确实很出色，而且每天都发挥稳定，”霍夫兰说道。“我今天本来也可以轻松打出66杆的。只是没能进入状态。……其实其他在争冠行列的人表现都没有那么出色，这就是你看到的——很多人在关键时刻掉链子。而他恰恰能顶住压力，打出一个不错的分数。这就足够赢球了。”

谢夫勒出现了两个博基（bogey）——一次是在第7洞球道上使用挖起杆的一次激进失误，另一次则是第14洞粗糙草区的一次糟糕球位——除此之外，他觉得在风力强劲且草地坚硬（导致落点感觉更小）的艰难一天里，自己没有太多失误。

东湖球场前三轮的累计平均分为67.35。周日的平均分为70.07。

落后霍夫兰一杆的瑞安·杰拉德在开球洞打出了双博基（double bogey），随后连续打出13个标准杆，最终以72杆获得第三名。

“他们今天把难度设到了极致，而这正是我们所预期的，”杰拉德说。“我只是状态不够好，无法将球精准地击向那些极具挑战性的洞口位置。”

谢夫勒表示，赢得联邦快递杯（FedEx Cup）的巡回赛冠军并不会改变他对本赛季的看法。那是让别人去评判的。即便如此，他仍有需要证明的地方。

他觉得自己在PGA巡回赛的季后赛中表现不佳——2022年他曾领先罗里·麦克罗伊六杆却被反超，而在2023年霍夫兰夺冠时，他虽然以领先两杆开局，但最终落后16杆，未能组织起有效的反击。

“今年我可能没有在常规赛中赢得本可以赢得的比赛，但能进入季后赛并赢得三场季后赛赛事中的两场，绝对是一个完美的赛季收官方式，”谢夫勒说。

“这就是我进入季后赛时的座右铭。也许在某些年份我在季后赛中表现不佳，但也许今年我的表现会比常规赛更好。”

他确实做到了，而赛后的庆祝啤酒无疑喝起来格外顺畅。

美联社（THE ASSOCIATED PRESS）

中国球星殷若宁在波士顿TPC赢得FM冠军赛

马萨诸塞州诺顿

周日，殷若宁在波士顿TPC赢得了FM冠军赛，这是她职业生涯第六次获得LPGA巡回赛冠军，最终击败了金孝周。

殷若宁在par-5的第12洞推进了一个25英尺的 birdie putt，与同组球员金孝周共同领跑。这位23岁的中国球员在微风条件下在接下来的五个洞均打出 par，并在par-5的第18洞打出 birdie，最终以70杆（-2）获得冠军，领先第二名两杆。

“当我站在第18洞的果岭上时，我非常激动，觉得所有的努力都得到了回报，”殷若宁说。“我对自己今天在场上的坚韧表现感到非常开心。”

金孝周打出71. 杆。她在par-3的第16洞出现三次推杆 bogey，未能推进一个九英尺的 par putt，从而掉队。这位本赛季两度夺冠的韩国球员在par-3的第17洞未能推进一个七英尺的 birdie attempt。

“到最后，赢家是若宁，”金孝周说。

金岁英在par-3的第11洞通过切球进洞打出 birdie，在最后一组球员中取得一杆领先，但随后在接下来的三个洞中因一个 double bogey 和两个 bogey 丢了四杆。她打出73杆，并列第四名。

殷若宁在2023年两次夺冠，在2024, 年三次夺冠，距离她上一次在2024年马来亚银行冠军赛（Maybank Championship）获胜已过去了672天。

“距离我上一次获胜已经过了这么久，”殷若宁说。“我知道我一直在努力，我的团队也是，我的母亲也在现场。一切都水到渠成了。”

她将搭乘午夜航班返回中国。

“我会回家和我的朋友以及家人一起庆祝，”殷若宁说。“我想我会在飞机上好好睡一觉。”

艾莉森·科普兹（Allisen Corpuz）打出68. 杆，以-11名列第三。同样是美国索尔海姆杯（Solheim Cup）球员的 Rose Zhang（68杆）与金岁英同列，落后一名。

世界排名第一的内莉·科达（Nelly Korda）在9月11-13日在荷兰举行的索尔海姆杯比赛前的最后一项赛事中打出73杆，以+1并列第50名。

欧洲队队长安娜·诺德奎斯特（Anna Nordqvist）在她的LPGA巡回赛最后一项赛事中并列第38名。她打出72杆，成绩为-1。

温哥华的黄亚楠（Anna Huang）当天打出77杆，并列第59名。卡尔加里的邓亚菲（Aphrodite Deng）同样打出77杆，并列第62名。

美联社

前杂货配送员乔·迪恩在妻子担任球童的情况下赢得英国大师赛冠军

英格兰，伯明翰

周日，排名第 292 位的前杂货配送员乔·迪恩（Joe Dean）在妻子的陪同下，以 63 杆（低于标准杆 9 杆）的成绩夺得其首个欧洲巡回赛冠军，赢得了英国大师赛。

这位 32 岁的英国人是在贝尔弗里（The Belfry）最后一轮开始时落后领先者 7 杆，但他通过 9 个小鸟球（包括最后 6 个洞中的 4 个）将本周总成绩提升至低于标准杆 14 杆，并在最后出场的球员仍有洞未打时夺得领先地位。

最终无人能追上他。四名球员——纳乔·埃尔维拉（Nacho Elvira，69 杆）、第三轮领先者丹尼尔·希利尔（Daniel Hillier，73 杆）、尼克拉斯·诺高（Niklas Norgaard，71 杆）和雅各布·斯科夫·奥莱森（Jakob Skov Olesen，71 杆）并列第二名，落后 3 杆。

这是欧洲队明年赖德杯（Ryder Cup）资格赛进程中的首场赛事，因此对于迪恩来说，这突然成了一个原本看似不可能的目标——对于一个在 2020 年新冠疫情期间从事杂货配送，并在没有参赛资格卡的情况下为了资助职业生涯而坚持配送近四年的人来说，这简直是戏剧性的转折。

乔·迪恩周日在英格兰萨顿科尔德菲尔德的贝尔弗里酒店及度假村赢得英国大师赛后，手持奖杯庆祝。BRADLEY COLLYER / PA VIA AP

“在大部分时间里，我很享受那份工作，”迪恩在谈到他之前的兼职工作时说道，“显然，那是完全不同的生活，完全不同的生活方式。我现在偶尔还能看到货车在路上跑，我也一直保持着联系。”

这也是一次家庭的成功。迪恩在 7 月的英国公开赛后与艾米莉（Emily）结婚，本周她担任了他的球童。

“我无法用语言感谢她对我所承受的一切，”迪恩说，“在球场外，面对低谷之类的事情，情况已经足够糟糕了。现在则是球场内外皆然。我希望我让她感到自豪。”

马尔科·彭格（Marco Penge）在最后一轮打出 72 杆，并列第六名，在赖德杯资格赛中取得了稳健的开局。两年前，他在欧洲巡回赛的一个突破赛季中未能被选为队长挑选球员。

彭格本周承认，队长卢克·唐纳德（Luke Donald）当时的决定是正确的，而其率领的队伍最终以 15-13 获胜。

纽约巨头队外接手奥德尔·贝克汉姆二世（Odell Beckham Jr.）在三场季前赛中完成了 7 次接球，推进 76 码，其中包括在周五晚与喷气机队的季前赛决赛中 3 次接球推进 53 码。ADAM HUNGER / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

贝克汉姆二世重返起点，入选巨人队53人名单

这位接球手上一场比赛是在2024年12月代表迈阿密队出战，当时他在海豚队共出场九场比赛

STEPHEN WHYNO

奥德尔·贝克汉姆二世（Odell Beckham Jr.）入选了纽约巨人队周日提交的53人名单。对于这位33岁的接球手来说，能够回到开启其NFL职业生涯的球队，是一个重要的回归里程碑。

随着训练营的推进，贝克汉姆的状态有所提升，并在季前赛中证明了自己依然具备产出能力。他在三场比赛中完成了7次接球，获得76码，其中包括在周五晚间对阵喷气机队的季前赛收官战中，通过3次接球获得53码。

“我觉得我已经倾尽全力，”贝克汉姆赛后表示。“我非常感激这次机会和这段经历。过去几年很艰难，我曾退后一步思考，是否要继续生活下去？是否已经结束了？我们经历着心理上的挣扎，但最终选择挺过去，坚持并克服逆境。”

教练约翰·哈博（John Harbaugh）表示，贝克汉姆在训练营表现良好，尤其是最后一周的练习状态最佳。

“他看起来状态不错，完成了多次精彩表现，”哈博说道。

贝克汉姆在上个赛季没有参加比赛，期间还因未能通过增强性能药物检测而执行了六场比赛的禁赛。他的最后一场比赛是2024年12月8日代表迈阿密队出战，当时他在海豚队出场九场，在12月13日被裁掉之前，共有9次接球，获得55码。

在未能获得其他球队合同并执行完禁赛后，贝克汉姆在今年春天开始恢复训练。他在4月为巨人队进行了试训，6月签约，并在一次季后训练后承认，他必须通过努力才能赢得一个名单席位。

在喷气机队的比赛后，当被问及这次回归对他意味着什么时，贝克汉姆回答道：“意味着一切。”

“看到我的儿子在比赛现场大喊，盯着我看，他还告诉他的一个朋友：‘没错，人们总是想给我的爸爸拍照。他一定是最棒的，’”贝克汉姆说。“这让我笑了，因为我只想向他证明。我想引领方向，为他树立一个好榜样。”

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过去几年很艰难，我曾退后一步思考，是否要继续生活下去？是否已经结束了？我们经历着心理上的挣扎，但最终选择挺过去，坚持并克服逆境。

奥德尔·贝克汉姆二世 纽约巨人队接球手

卡尔文·奥斯汀（Calvin Austin）遭遇赛季报销的膝伤，为贝克汉姆和回攻专家布拉克顿·贝里奥斯（Braxton Berrios）打开了大门。贝里奥斯虽然目前被裁，但预计将在9月13日对阵达拉斯队的赛季揭幕战前被召回。如果贝克汉姆在那晚出战，这将是他自2018年12月2日以来首次身穿巨人队球衣参加主场比赛。

贝克汉姆在2014年以第12顺位被巨人队选中，在2019年被交易至克利夫兰之前，他在该队度过了职业生涯的前五个赛季。在纽约期间，他曾四次接球码数突破1,000码。

在训练营期间穿着3号球衣后，由于接球手贾林·海亚特（Jalin Hyatt）在经历了三个赛季的部分时间且零接球达阵后被裁，贝克汉姆预计将重新穿上他熟悉的13号球衣。

海亚特是2023年的第三轮选秀球员，他并非近年来被裁掉的唯一高顺位新秀。进攻线球员埃文·尼尔（Evan Neal）在2022年以总第7顺位被选中，此前他出人意料地与球队续约，以便让新教练组自行决定其去留，但即便在队友护卫丹尼尔·法莱莱（Daniel Faalele）和乔什·埃泽杜（Josh Ezeudu）被交易后，他依然未能入选名单。

老将达里乌斯·斯莱顿（Darius Slayton）与贝克汉姆、马利克·纳伯斯（Malik Nabers）、达内尔·穆尼（Darnell Mooney）以及新秀马拉基·菲尔兹（Malachi Fields）一起，成为了入选名单的五名接球手。

外接手艾伦因涉嫌醉驾被捕

印第安纳波利斯

印第安纳波利斯小马队（Indianapolis Colts）外接手基南·艾伦（Keenan Allen）周日因涉嫌醉驾被捕。

34岁的艾伦目前面临初步的轻罪指控，包括醉酒驾驶机动车以及醉酒驾驶机动车——危及他人。

根据印第安纳波利斯大都会警察局的说法，警员在凌晨1点后发现一辆车停在禁停区，随即进行了交通调查。警员在与艾伦交谈时“注意到其有醉酒迹象”。在进一步调查后，他被逮捕。

小马队在8月19日宣布，他们已与曾六次入选职业碗（pro bowl）的艾伦达成一份为期一年的合同。在周六晚上以25-16输给底特律的季前赛中，他有一次接球，推进24码。

“我们已知晓昨晚涉及基南·艾伦的事件，”小马队在声明中表示，“我们正在收集更多信息，目前不作进一步评论。”

上赛季，艾伦在洛杉矶闪电队（Los Angeles Chargers）出战的17场比赛中，完成81次接球，推进777码，并获得4次达阵。在NFL历史上，他的接球次数（1,055次）排名第13位，接球码数（12,051码）排名第33位，达阵接球次数（70次）排名第52位。

绿湾包装工队球员雅各布斯在面临轻罪指控期间被列入委员豁免名单

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绿湾包装工队跑卫乔什·雅各布斯 (Josh Jacobs) 已被列入 NFL 的委员豁免名单，因为他目前面临两项待决的轻罪指控。此举将使其无法参加训练或出席比赛。

球员在被列入委员豁免名单期间将继续获得薪酬。在提出申请并获得俱乐部许可的情况下，雅各布斯可以在合理的范围内出现在俱乐部设施中，以参加会议、个人训练、治疗与康复以及其他获准的非橄榄球活动。

NFL 发言人布莱恩·麦卡锡 (Brian McCarthy) 周日确认雅各布斯已被列入该名单，此举发生在对其提起指控三天之后。ESPN 首先报道了这一进展。

包装工队将于 9 月 13 日在明尼苏达开启新赛季。

威斯康星州布朗县地区检察官大卫·拉西 (David Lasee) 周四宣布，雅各布斯被指控犯有殴打罪和故意损坏财产罪。这些指控源于警方描述的雅各布斯与其女友之间的一次肢体冲突。

雅各布斯于 5 月 26, 被捕，此前三天警方接到报案前往其家中调查一起骚扰事件。他于次日获释出狱。

雅各布斯的律师——大卫·Z·切斯诺夫 (David Z. Chesnoff)、理查德·A·肖恩费尔德 (Richard A. Schonfeld) 和克拉伦斯·F·杜查克三世 (Clarence F. Duchac III) 就 NFL 的决定发表了一份声明。他们指出，此举是“NFL 在审查事项期间使用的一项行政程序”。

他们表示：“这并非最终裁定。乔什尊重 NFL 的流程、包装工队以及他的教练和队友。他期待重返球队和 NFL。”

响应 5 月报案电话的霍巴特-劳伦斯警方表示，雅各布斯的女友告诉他们，由于雅各布斯的行为，她的头部出现了一个肿块。

警方表示，该女性称她当时正在查看雅各布斯的手机，发现他在与其他女性聊天，于是愤怒地将手机扔掉，但手机并未损坏。她告诉警方，雅各布斯拿走了她的手机，而她告诉他可以查看。

据警方称，该女性表示她试图从雅各布斯那里拿回手机，但他没有归还，反而抓住了她的手臂，并引发了一场持续数分钟的争执。随后他们分别乘坐车辆离开家中，之后又返回。

警方表示，该女性试图通过车库门出去时，雅各布斯抓住她并将她摔在地上，导致她的头部撞击。

警方表示，雅各布斯在她处于

雅各布斯上赛季冲球 929 码并获得 13 次达阵。此前在 2024 赛季，雅各布斯冲球 1,329 码并获得 15 次达阵，并第三次入选职业碗 (Pro Bowl)。

这位 28 岁的球员在七年的职业生涯中（包括在突袭者队效力的 5 个赛季）共冲球 7,803 码并获得 74 次达阵。他在 2022 年效力于拉斯维加斯期间获得了全美最佳球员 (All-Pro) 荣誉，并以 1,653 码的冲球距离领跑 NFL。

在被捕不到一周后，雅各布斯便回到了包装工队的训练场参加有组织的球队活动，并一直随队参加训练营，不过他一直受到腹股沟伤势的限制。

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公众人物，80岁

一名男子讲述在西班牙荒野与狼群共同成长的童年

他称自己在动物的帮助下在野外生活了约 11 年，他的故事被改编成文学作品和电影。尽管多年来人们对此表示怀疑，但他的经历令许多人着迷。

2010年，胡安·何塞·巴列斯塔（Juan Jose Ballesta，左）、曼努埃尔·卡马乔（Manuel Camacho）和马科斯·罗德里格斯·潘托哈（Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja）出席在马德里卡皮托尔电影院（Cine Capitol）举行的《狼群之间》（Entrelobos）首映礼。PABLO BLAZQUEZ DOMINGUEZ / GETTY IMAGES

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马科斯·罗德里格斯·潘托哈（Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja）于 8 月 15 日去世，享年 80 岁。据他度过晚年的圣西布劳-达斯-比尼亚斯（San Cibrao das Viñas）市镇当局称，罗德里格斯先生讲述自己在西班牙一个偏远地区成长，仅有狼和其他动物为伴，这段经历曾被作为案例研究分析，并被改编成文学作品和电影。

罗德里格斯先生的故事在 20 世纪 70 年代中期公开，在他描述为“不情愿地回归人类社会”约十年之后。作家加布里埃尔·哈内尔·马尼拉（Gabriel Janer Manila）从一名朋友那里听说了这个案例，并希望了解更多细节。

“起初，这看起来像是个编造的故事。这不可能成真，”哈内尔先生在 2010 年接受 Anika Entre Libros 网站采访时表示。

但他后来相信了这个故事，并从证人和其他研究中找到了支持罗德里格斯先生主张的证据。哈内尔先生随后写了一篇关于罗德里格斯先生童年的研究报告，之后又写了一本名为《我与狼共舞》（I Played With Wolves）的小说，该书最初出版于 2009 年。

这个故事还启发了由赫拉尔多·奥利韦拉斯（Gerardo Oliveras）执导的 2010 年电影《狼群之间》（Among Wolves），罗德里格斯先生在片中出演。

多年来，罗德里格斯先生面临着质疑，但他的故事令许多人着迷。哈内尔先生在访问了罗德里格斯先生声称去过的地方，并会见了一些支持该故事的人（包括一名曾照顾过他的神学生）后深信不疑，这些人提到罗德里格斯先生完全缺乏社交常识。

在西班牙西北部的圣西布劳-达斯-比尼亚斯的一个村庄兰特（Rante），罗德里格斯先生在生命最后的 25 年里居住于此。在电影上映前后，一些当地人告诉德国公共广播公司，在故事被拍成电影之前，他们一直对此表示怀疑——而有些人则表示他们依然持怀疑态度。2010 年，西班牙公共广播公司的一个团队陪同罗德里格斯先生前往他声称生活过的地方，拍摄了他展示一些生存技能（如用石头捕鱼）以及他对自然深刻熟悉（包括模仿鸟鸣）的场景。

无论如何，他最终被人们称为“莫雷纳山脉的狼孩”，并在随后的几十年里坚持这一说法。

关于在野外长大的主张通常被广泛地视为值得怀疑，且该领域的专业知识十分罕见。虽然此类案例极少，但确实存在一些著名的例子。野孩子也出现在古代神话和中世纪民间传说中，激发了人们在现实生活中对他们的痴迷。

1726 年，威尔士王妃卡罗琳（Caroline）寻求监护一名在德国森林中被发现的少年，该少年被称为“野孩子彼得”（Peter the Wild Boy），在欧洲引起了轰动。她将他安置在伦敦的家中，由一名医生看管，但当他被证明难以管教时，她将他交给了一名仆人照顾。所谓的“阿韦龙野孩子”（Wild Boy of Aveyron）在 18 世纪末于法国被发现，并被带到巴黎的一位医生那里，医生试图教他社会生存方式但以失败告终。

这类故事之所以吸引人们，是因为它们在讲述那些被认为生活在社会之外的孩子的同时，也反映了社会本身。文化历史学家迈克尔·牛顿（Michael Newton）在其 2002 年出版的《野女孩与野男孩：野孩子历史》（Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children）一书中写道：“通过这些关于野孩子的真实或虚构的故事，或许浮现出另一种叙事：一个碎片化的、令人心碎的故事，讲述了我们与自身野蛮形象之间持续的关系。”

据罗德里格斯先生所述，他于1946年6月出生在西班牙南部的一个贫困家庭。他的母亲在他很小的时候就去世了，而父亲后来娶的女人是一位虐待孩子的继母。全家住在莫雷纳山脉（Sierra Morena）一座偏远的高山小屋里，将木柴加工成木炭。他说，大约7岁时，他被交给一名年老的放羊人照顾，以接受接替其工作的培训。

“他接纳了马科斯，教他如何生存，如何照看羊群，以及如何做所有可能对他有帮助的事情，”雅内先生在2010年的采访中说道。

随后，那位老人去世或失踪了，年轻的马科斯开始自力更生，他不愿或无法回到之前的家中。

罗德里格斯先生表示，在狼和其他动物的帮助下，他在野外生活了大约11年。1965年，执法部门在狼群中发现了身穿兽皮的他。

他将回归人类生活描述为一件他不知道如何应对且永远无法完全接纳的事情。根据罗德里格斯先生的采访和雅内先生的研究，他的康复工作是由修女们承担的。他说，他失去了直立行走和使用人类语言的习惯，并且忘记了如何与人相处。

罗德里格斯先生表示，他一生中的大部分时间都在与人类社会作斗争。他在采访中说，多年来雇主一直利用他，人们嘲笑他，而他在动物之中时最快乐。

在兰特（Rante），他与环保组织“树之友”（Amigas das Árbores）一起工作，在学校向孩子们讲述他的青少年时期以及他与动物之间独特的经历。

该组织在本月早些时候的一篇社交媒体帖子中表示，他的最后愿望之一是“让他的骨灰留在接纳他的这个村庄”。

在2018年接受《国家报》（El Pais）采访时，罗德里格斯先生表示，尽管他对人类感到失望，但他已经没有机会回到山中生活了。他曾经居住的地区现在已经有了连接电网的小屋，而那些狼也变得陌生了。

“如果我呼唤它们，它们会回应，但它们不会靠近我，”他说，“我闻起来像个人类。”

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配音演员，85岁

加拿大表演者的配音赋予了擎天柱灵魂

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彼得·库伦（Peter Cullen）于周三在洛杉矶家中去世，享年 85 岁。他是一位配音演员，最著名的作品是为《变形金刚》系列中的擎天柱（Optimus Prime）以及《维尼熊》动画片中忧郁的驴子屹耳（Eeyore）赋予生命。

他的经纪人凯文·莫特利（Kevin Motley）确认了死讯，但未说明具体死因。

库伦先生曾表示，他最喜欢的配音角色正是那个与他联系最紧密的人物：擎天柱。擎天柱是《变形金刚》系列中恪守荣誉的主角，该系列基于一套热门玩具，于 1984 年开始作为电视动画系列剧播出。

他对该角色的诠释受到了其兄长拉里（Larry）的启发，拉里曾在越南服役于海军陆战队。当库伦先生试镜该系列（讲述机器人能变形为车辆等其他物体）的角色时，兄弟俩正住在同一个房间里。

“我说，‘我要去试镜了，’”库伦先生在 2014 年告诉《洛杉矶时报》，回忆起与哥哥的一次对话。“他说，‘试什么？’我说，‘我要演一辆卡车。’他笑了。我说：‘不，拉里。是一辆英雄卡车！’他说，‘英雄卡车？好吧，如果你要做英雄，就做一个真正的英雄。别像个混蛋。’”

他的哥哥随后给出了最后一个建议：“要足够强大，才能温柔。”

库伦先生在试镜期间记起了这个建议，调整了声音的音调，以更贴近他哥哥的声音。

“他给我的建议是，要成为一名领导者，就要强大且富有同情心，”库伦先生在 2019 年告诉《卡尔加里先驱报》。“不要做一个大吼大叫的好莱坞伪君子。他的声音基调非常、非常清晰，富有同情心，且温柔而深沉。”

“我去试镜，结果就在那里。在我面前的剧本页上，就是我的哥哥拉里。这就是我处理这个角色的方式。”

在 1984-87 年间通过综合频道播出四个季度的动画系列之后，库伦先生在《变形金刚》系列的多次迭代中再次饰演该角色，包括电子游戏、电视连续剧以及由迈克尔·贝（Michael Bay）执导的真人电影，后者在 21 世纪初成为了票房大热门。

擎天柱这个角色在 1986 年的一部动画电影中被写死。在 2015 年于密西沙加举行的一次《变形金刚》大会上，库伦先生回忆起与弗兰克·韦尔克（Frank Welker）一起阅读剧本的情景，后者为擎天柱的死敌威震天（Megatron）配音。

“‘嘿，弗兰克，我在第 17 页被干掉了，’”根据《密西沙加新闻》的一篇报道，库伦先生回忆起他当时对韦尔克先生说，“我没法回来了。车贷没钱付了。”

（在遭到抵制后，擎天柱在动画系列的第三季中复活了。）

库伦先生的另一个著名角色出现在 1988 年，他被选为 ABC 动画系列剧《维尼熊的新冒险》中维尼熊那忧郁的朋友屹耳的配音演员。随后，他在电影、其他动画系列以及直接发行录像带的作品中继续饰演该角色。

“我喜欢演屹耳，因为他单纯地很有魅力，”库伦先生在 2014 年告诉 NPR。“而且当我走过去，仅仅说一句——”他切换到了屹耳的声音——“‘你好。谢谢你注意到我。’——尤其是面对年幼的孩子时，我会得到非常多的反应。看到他们的脸亮起来，对我来说是巨大的快乐之一。”

彼得·克拉弗·库伦（Peter Claver Cullen）于 1941 年 7 月 28 日出生在蒙特利尔，父母是美国人：母亲穆丽尔·麦肯（Muriel McCann）毕业于纽约的美国戏剧艺术学院，父亲亨利·劳伦斯·库伦（Henry Laurence Cullen）是国际造纸销售公司的一名高管。

彼得在很小的时候就接触到了广播；他的外祖父阿尔弗雷德·沃特森·麦肯（Alfred Watterson McCann）是纽约 WOR 电台的一名揭露丑闻的广播记者。在麦肯先生于 1931 年去世后，彼得的姑姑和姑父阿尔弗雷德·W·麦肯二世（Alfred W. McCann Jr.）和多拉·麦肯（Dora McCann）接管了他的节目，并且在彼得从加拿大来访时，会让他参与广播。

“他们会说，‘现在，我来自蒙特利尔的小侄子在房间里，彼得，快过来向大家问好，’库伦先生在 2023 年的哥伦布市 GalaxyCon 展会上回忆道。

他将自己的配音生涯归功于童年在农场度过的时间。“我可以模仿牛、小牛、鸡，以及他们养的不同品种的狗，”他在 2014 年告诉 NPR。

他于 1963 年毕业于加拿大国家戏剧学院，职业生涯早期在加拿大剧院和讽刺节目中工作，包括加拿大广播公司（CBC）广播电台的《Funny You Should Say That》。

他在搬到好莱坞后的第一个重大突破出现在 1967 年，当时他被聘为《斯莫瑟兄弟喜剧时间》（The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour）的播报员。四年后，他成为了《桑尼和雪儿喜剧时间》（The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour）的播报员。他的其他配音作品包括《鸭霸Tales》（DuckTales）、《我的小马》（My Little Pony）和《捉鬼敢敢》电视系列剧，以及在由阿诺德·施瓦辛格主演的《铁血战士》（1987）中担任一个未署名角色，为片中的标题生物提供奇怪的喉音。

库伦先生与前加拿大小姐卡罗尔·安·巴尔默（Carol Ann Balmer）的婚姻于 1982 年以离婚告终。他们育有两个孩子，彼得·库伦二世（Peter Cullen Jr.）和克莱尔·安·库伦（Claire Ann Cullen），两人均为其遗属。他的兄弟拉里于 2011 年去世。关于库伦先生幸存亲属的完整信息未能获取。

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At Washington's Korean War memorial, a split between Canadians and Americans is on full display

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At the Korean War Veterans Memorial, just a short walk from the White House on the National Mall in Washington, the names of both Canada and the United States are inlaid in silver.

The memorial, dedicated to those who served in the Korean War of 1950-53, is a testament to the shared cost of the conflict. Nearly 27,000 Canadians served as part of United Nations forces in Korea, alongside millions of Americans. Five hundred and sixteen Canadians died during the war, making it Canada's third-bloodiest overseas conflict, after the two World Wars.

Along the monument's granite expanse, listing 22 countries that participated, the names “Canada” and “The United States” stand at opposite ends.

The gulf, at this moment, seems emblematic of another divide: how much citizens of each country are thinking about their relations with the other, a few days after trade negotiations broke down. The Americans visiting the memorial on a recent evening appeared to be thinking very

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little about the subject.

"Our relation to Canada is just not at the forefront of my mind," said Ryan Finnegan, of Maryland, out for an evening stroll near the monument. "No offence to Canada. It's just on the back burner when it comes to what I think about."

Just more than half of Canadians said they are following the tariff threats “closely,” compared with fewer than one-quarter of Americans, according to surveys conducted by Angus Reid in July and August. One-quarter of Americans said they hadn’t heard about them at all. ■ MEMORIAL, A4

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Astronomers watch with wonder as NASA telescope sets off for an epic survey of the universe

IVAN SEMENIUK SCIENCE REPORTER

Andrea Crespi was still a middle-school student in Italy when three American astronomers won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering that the expansion of the universe is speeding up.

Back then, the mystery of that acceleration - and the curious phenomenon called dark energy that powers it - seemed like an unsolvable problem.

Fast-forward 15 years and Mr. Crespi, now a graduate student at Ontario's University of Waterloo, may be among those with the best shot yet at cracking the riddle of dark energy.

That exciting possibility moved a step closer to reality on Sunday morning with the successful launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Named after NASA's first chief astronomer, who helped usher in the era of astronomy in space, the telescope is now poised to explore some of the deepest questions that researchers have about the universe, with dark energy topping the list.

"It feels like an opportunity," Mr. Crespi said about the launch. "Like we're at the turning point of the story."

Despite concerns that weather would postpone the early morning liftoff, conditions proved favourable enough for a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket to send the telescope roaring on its way at 7:26 a.m. ET.

The bus-sized observatory is now on a 100-day journey to L2, a point in space about 1.5 million kilometres away, where gravitational forces are balanced in a way that allows objects located there to easily maintain their position relative to Earth. ■ TELESCOPE, A7

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An internal document obtained by The Globe and Mail shows the full cost of a high-speed rail line from Toronto to Quebec City is estimated at about \$150-billion once four decades of operating and maintenance expenses are included – a figure that is well above the range regularly cited by federal officials.

Alto – the Crown corporation responsible for the massive infrastructure project – says the high-speed rail line will cost between \$60-billion and \$90-billion. The organization has said a more precise cost estimate will be released as the project is advanced.

That public cost range has routinely been used in comments to the media and is clearly stated in a question and answer section on Alto's website. The answer does not distinguish between the project's capital costs and its operating and maintenance costs.

The internal figures also show the Crown corporation expects fare revenue to more than cover the project's operational expenses.

As the prospect of Canada building a high-speed rail service has come closer to reality, the project has faced growing opposition to its cost and potential route, including from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who has pledged to cancel it if he becomes prime minister, and from local and provincial lawmakers in Eastern Ontario concerned about the effects of the rail line on their rural communities.

Ontario urged to reconsider Coroners Act amendment on jail deaths

JILL MAHONEY

Advocates for prisoners are urging the Ontario government to preserve mandatory coroner's inquests into inmate deaths, saying the hearings foster transparency at a time of increasing jail fatalities.

The government is proposing to scrap the requirement for an in-quest into the case of any inmate who dies from non-natural causes. Instead, the coroner's office would conduct an annual review of deaths in correctional facilities.

But such a change would limit institutional accountability while denying families answers, said Alexander McClelland, a criminology professor at Carleton University who tracks in-custody fatalities across Canada.

"The result will be that there will be a series of deaths that happen across the province that end up being a footnote in a report where there's no way to engage or understand how or what the circumstances of the deaths were," he said.

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Iceland rejects talks to join EU in referendum

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Icelanders voted to stay out of the European Union, referendum results showed on Sunday, as they rejected a government push to reopen membership talks and sided with those who said Iceland's fishing waters were too important to risk.

The Arctic island of 400,000 people has debated whether to join the EU for well over a decade and had initially been expected to narrowly back holding membership talks, but opinion polls this month showed views had changed.

"This is a clear setback for Brussels," an EU diplomat told Reuters, adding that the issues of fishing and independence had been decisive.

In Saturday's referendum, 52.8 per cent of ballots cast were against the government's proposal to hold negotiations with Brussels, 47.2 per cent were in favour and 82.5 per cent of eligible voters took part, public broadcaster RUV and other Icelandic media reported.

Out of six constituencies, only the two in central Reykjavik had a majority that voted in favour, while the rural areas and the Reykjavik suburbs voted against.

The government framed membership as a shield against trade wars and Arctic rivalry and presented the referendum as a "now or never" moment. Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir said a "no" would end the debate for as long as her centre-left coalition was in power.

In Brussels, some officials had voiced hopes that a vote to join from Iceland could ease skepticism toward EU enlargement and strategically strengthen the bloc when Arctic security is in focus.

Iceland, a NATO member state but with no standing army of its own, also debated whether EU accession could boost the country's security when U.S. President Donald Trump has cast doubt on the U.S. commitment to the military alliance.

Mr. Trump has also repeatedly said he wants to acquire Greenland, another Arctic island.

But for some Icelanders, fishing was a sharper focus than security. The industry is one of Iceland's biggest, making up 15 per cent of gross domestic product in direct and indirect contributions, and roughly 40 per cent of export revenue, data show.

The island nation first applied to join the EU in 2009 when a financial crisis hit the country's small, exposed economy. A euroskeptic government ended talks in 2013.

Ahead of Saturday's referendum, finances were again a central issue as Iceland has grappled with high inflation and interest rates.

Supporters of a "yes" vote said

EU membership, and possibly adopting the euro, could bring relief. Iceland's central bank interest rate is 8 per cent, compared with 2.25 per cent at the European Central Bank.

"It would not solve Iceland's structural faults, but it could become a catalyst to a more healthy economy," said chief economist Vilhjalmur Hilmarsson at Viska, one of Iceland's largest labour unions.

Opposition leader Gudrun Hafsteinsdottir, who led the “no” campaign, said the economic case is overstated. “These are not problems that Brussels will solve for us. These are problems that Icelandic politicians must solve,” she said.

Voter Ragnhildur Skarphedinsdottir, 70, said Iceland was managing well on its own and that she was voting "no."

“By staying independent as we are, we look brightly to the future,” she said before casting her ballot in Reykjavik.

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U.S. President shares link saying control over the South American country's vast reserves puts 'Canada on notice'

OLIVIA GRANDY

U.S. President Donald Trump has struck a deal with Venezuela to take control of its oil reserves and signalled the arrangement should be viewed as a warning to Canada as the trade war intensifies.

On Sunday, Mr. Trump shared a link on social media that said the Venezuela deal, which will grant the United States majority control over the South American country's vast oil reserves, puts “Canada on notice.”

Experts said the deal, announced days after U.S.-Canada trade talks fell apart, could force Canadian crude to compete barrel-for-barrel with Venezuela's product over the years to come.

The President said in a Truth Social post that the reserves will be used to refill America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), located along the Gulf Coast, which has been drawn down sharply in recent years to respond to global supply disruptions and high fuel prices. The same day, Mr. Trump made a series of posts directed at Canada, attacking the country's auto industry and urging Canadian companies to move their operations to the U.S. to avoid tariffs.

Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez said the deal is a “25-year bilateral project” with the United States that will see her country develop new oil fields and significantly increase its production targets.

Rory Johnston, oil market analyst at Toronto-based Commodity Context, said Venezuela has historically faced challenges getting its product to market and called Mr. Trump's claim that the deal will amount to 65 billion barrels coming under U.S. control a "red herring."

“Despite Venezuela having these massive claimed reserves, they currently produce only about a million barrels a day,” he said. In comparison, Canada produces over 5.3 million barrels of crude oil a day.

Regardless, for the Canadian crude industry, the effect of the U.S.-Venezuela partnership could eventually be an “incremental” increase in competition with the oil flowing into the U.S.’s Gulf Coast, said Mr. Johnston.

This shift will likely result in “slightly worse oil prices for Canada, all else equal,” Mr. Johnston said, adding that declines will probably be “in the ballpark of \$4 to \$5 dollars a barrel.” Canadian crude is similar in quality to Venezuela’s.

On Truth Social, Mr. Trump said the "topping up" of the SPR will begin "very shortly," though more details about the deal's timeline have not been provided. U.S. motorists have recently been feeling the squeeze at the pump amid the war in Iran.

Ms. Rodríguez said on social media that the deal “will facilitate a significant flow of investment aimed at the recovery and reconstruction of strategic infrastructure for the development of our hydrocarbons industry.” Venezuela’s oil infrastructure is in a state of disrepair after decades of damage and decay.

The announcement of the deal comes nearly nine months after the U.S. military at Mr. Trump's direction carried out an operation to capture Venezuela's former leader Nicolás Maduro and spirit him to the United States to face federal narcoterrorism and drug trafficking charges.

On Saturday, Ms. Rodríguez said on state broadcaster VTV that the deal will involve developing 17 strategic oilfields with a production target of more than 1.5 million barrels a day. The same day, The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. government plans to take a 35-per-cent passive stake in Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt's private oil company North American Blue Energy Partners.

Mr. Johnston said the deal signals that the U.S. is diversifying its imports away from the country it has been the most dependent on: Canada.

"In the same thread, we do need to continue to double down our diversification on our dependence on their energy demand," he said, adding that the issue speaks to the long-standing push for the West Coast pipeline – a project that Prime

Minister Mark Carney has prioritized.

Dmitriy Frolovskiy, a Toronto-based energy analyst, also said Mr. Trump's deal is a signal for Canada to work to expand the list of countries it ships oil to.

"You need to be more mobile. You need to be more flexible, and you actually need to explore new markets. Because if you don't explore new markets, then it's a competition," he said.

It's a competition that Canada is at risk of losing and a threat to the country's economic security, said Shawn Barber, a retired foreign service officer and ambassador.

"Trump has said America doesn't need and doesn't want our cars, our steel and our aluminum," said Mr. Barber, who is also the former head of the task force on economic security at Public Safety Canada.

"With this deal, he's fired a shot across our bow. He's now saying that, in the years ahead, America won't need our oil either."

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And so the map-app resistance begins

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MapQuest gains new attention by defying Trump's renaming of geographic landmarks

SHANNON PROUDFOOT

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Welcome to the map resistance.

On the same day that U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America, MapQuest – yes, that MapQuest, whose sheafs of printed directions guided so many early-2000s road trips – posted a simple, blunt message: "We're not changing it."

And with that, the mapping company you didn't even know was still in business became a mascot of the resistance to the President's penchant for renaming geographical features in the manner of a dog raising his hind leg next to a fire hydrant.

Doug Berger, general manager of MapQuest, points out that their cheeky rebellion actually started with the Gulf of Mexico rebrand last year.

"I wouldn't call it a stance, I would call it a well-timed joke," he said in an interview, adding that the wildly enthusiastic response suggests the company made the right call. "It's made us realize, political stance or not, it's what people want. People clearly want to hang on to the names of bodies of water that they recognize."

Mr. Berger said the app had welcomed “hundreds of thousands of new users” over the weekend, and he noted that it had become the second-most popular navigation app in Apple’s App Store.

Two hours after we spoke, MapQuest leapfrogged Google Maps to take the No. 1 spot.

MapQuest's original joke was that they weren't changing the geographic names because they didn't know how to update their maps, Mr. Berger said, a riff on the public's perception that no one works there any more. They're well aware of the punchlines, he said, but in fact the Los Angeles-headquartered company currently has 50 employees, and 40 million people use the app every month.

MapQuest's parent company, System1, has an office in Guelph, Ont., which perhaps explains some of the sly, rebellious Canadian humour at play here.

"We're just thrilled to be a part of the conversation and provide an alternate solution to those apps that are pre-installed on people's phones," Mr. Berger said. He pointed out that even all the jokes about people being shocked to discover that MapQuest still exists point to its place in people's memories.

The company also created a rudimentary web tool that allows users to rename some of the landmarks Mr. Trump has tried to claim as his own. You could, for instance, conjure yourself a map featuring the Gulf of AreYouEffingKiddingMe or Lake Tiny Hands – really, whatever feels most meaningful to your own resistance effort.

"There's already a kind of precedent of geopolitical names for places around the world, and depending on where you are in the world, what country you're in, you may see different names for different places," said Mr. Berger. "MapQuest being predominantly in the U.S. and Canada, we kind of think it's crazy that there's discourse over what to call things, and that's part of why we feel like we're a voice for this moment."

Over the weekend, social media was filled with people declaring they would install MapQuest and jettison Google Maps, after the tech giant announced on Saturday that it had switched to Lake America on its own maps. Google said it did so to match the U.S.'s Geographic Names Information System, citing a company policy to align with official government sources.

"People using Maps in the U.S. will see ‘Lake America,’ those in Canada will continue to see ‘Lake Ontario,’ and those outside of the U.S. and Canada will see both names," Google said, in a blog post accompanied by a graphic showing the body of water labelled as “Lake Ontario (Lake America)” for international users.

The Royal Canadian Geographical Society, on the other hand, sailed in to wave the rebel flag. Rosemary Thompson, senior vice-president external, wrote in Policy Magazine that as far as her organization is concerned, “Lake Ontario is still Lake Ontario.”

She highlighted the RCGS's Canada Globe, a custom-made, 127-centimere diameter beach ball of resistance that has “defiantly protected names and places recently expunged by the Trumpian lexicon of geography,”

ever since it was unveiled in the society's headquarters overlooking the Ottawa River last year.

On that globe, the Gulf of Mexico is itself, Alaska's Denali remains Denali and not Mount McKinley, and Canada is painted "imperial pink" to differentiate it from the United States and underscore its connections to the United Kingdom and Commonwealth. Lake Ontario, of course, remains unchanged.

"In February 2025, in snowy Ottawa, as our team took note of these geographical pronouncements, we decided that names matter, that sovereignty matters," Ms. Thompson wrote of Mr. Trump's earlier rebrands. She added that the globe was intended to "reflect our love of country and be a symbol of resistance in a world of high-octane rhetoric."

Like most Canadians, Ms. Thompson brings her own history and proximity to the current behaviour of the U.S. administration. She covered Canada-U.S. relations for CTV for decades, and was at the White House on 9/11 as the network's Washington correspondent.

That was, of course, the day that Canadians in Gander, N.L., opened their homes and their arms to thousands of scared and stranded Americans.

"The Great Lakes don't need anyone to tell them to be great again," Ms. Thompson wrote over the weekend about the latest geographic aggression from the Oval Office. "No ego-boosting is required; we all know they are great."

This is the map resistance. Please collect your compass, your pens and your parchment. We ride at dawn.

Ford accused of using trade feud to weaken green policies

JEFF GRAY

QUEEN'S PARK REPORTER

Some environmentalist critics are accusing Ontario Premier Doug Ford of attempting to use the trade crisis with the United States to undermine the fight against climate change.

The Premier has repeatedly urged Ottawa in recent days to scrap federal tailpipe emissions rules for Canadian-made cars and allow exemptions for tariff-stricken industries, such as steel, from industrial carbon pricing.

Mr. Ford said the moves are needed to help as the auto and steel sectors reel from the U.S. levies that threaten their survival, with the two policies costing them hundreds of millions of dollars. But critics accuse him of having other motives.

"It seems like he is just using the trade war, so to speak, to try and get rid of, or weaken whatever standard it is that is going to come in," said Sam Hersh, clean transportation program manager for the advocacy group Environmental Defence, referring to Mr. Ford's comments on tailpipe standards.

Mike Schreiner, the MPP for Guelph and Ontario's Green Party Leader, said the Premier's requests would undermine the rationale behind his own government's recent multibillion-dollar investments in both electric-vehicle battery plants and cleaner electric-powered furnaces for steelmakers.

"He attacks Trump and goes after Trump. But then he essentially wants to implement the same policies that Trump has," Mr. Schreiner said, arguing that Ontario should instead be seeking to attract global investment in renewable energy and green technology.

Adding fuel to the fire is confusion over what Mr. Ford actually meant. His public remarks have diverged from the way the demands were outlined in a letter he sent to Prime Minister Mark Carney on Aug. 21, before trade talks with the U.S. collapsed. Mr. Ford's office did not respond to a request on Friday to clarify his remarks or respond to the criticism.

Speaking to reporters last week, Mr. Ford said he was calling for “eliminating federal greenhouse gas emissions standards for Canadian-made vehicles” – taken literally, a drastic step and something the auto industry says it has not advocated for.

But in his Aug. 21 letter, Mr. Ford told Mr. Carney that if he agrees to a deal that maintains U.S. tariffs, he should heed Ontario's long-standing calls for "common-sense automotive greenhouse gas emissions standards that provide regulatory relief and help close the competitiveness gap with the United States."

In his remarks, Mr. Ford said he wanted Ottawa to exempt "tariff-impacted sectors from federal emissions performance standards" – by which he meant the federally required but provincially run industrial carbon-pricing system. In his letter, he said Ontario was “considering” such a move and called on Mr. Carney to “accelerate these efforts.” Changes to Ontario’s system must align with Ottawa’s rules.

The federal government would not say whether it would entertain Mr. Ford's ideas. Mr. Carney has already faced some criticism from environmentalists for dropping a series of green policies championed by his predecessor, Justin Trudeau.

Brian Kingston, president and chief executive officer of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers' Association, said the car industry supports keeping the existing tailpipe rules in place.

But it has been calling for a pause before Ottawa goes ahead with a plan to tighten those rules, which it announced when it scrapped its mandated target for EV sales.

"We are hurting, the costs are mounting, the last thing we should be doing is putting on additional pressure through regulations on the industry that di-"

verge from the U.S.," Mr. Kingston said.

The steel industry has also not publicly gone so far as to call for a complete exemption from the industrial carbon price, even as the 50-per-cent tariffs on its U.S. exports have slashed the amount of steel it ships to its biggest foreign market in half.

John Cuddihy, vice-president for climate and environment for the Canadian Steel Producers Association, said steelmakers recognize the importance of carbon-pricing systems but would also welcome discussion of potential relief. One option would see Ontario implement a mechanism similar to that in Alberta's industrial carbon-price regime, which allows companies in financial trouble to apply for a break.

"We're committed to working with the provincial and federal governments to continue to ensure that we advance our climate objectives, while remaining competitive including in the face of U.S. tariffs," Mr. Cuddihy said.

Memorial: Visitors largely unaware of Canada's Korean War role

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Meanwhile, only 45 per cent of Americans said they have heard of Mark Carney, according to data-analytics firm YouGov.

Mr. Finnegan did hear that President Donald Trump had made an executive order to re-name Lake Ontario to Lake America. But he didn't pay the announcement too much mind.

"It's probably going to be gone within two years," he said, referring to the next presidential election.

"I haven't heard too much," Fernando Pech, who is visiting D.C. from outside Sacramento, Calif., said of the rift between the two governments. "I thought they had settled it."

That's not to say he hasn't noticed the pinch of inflation lately: His family of four is dining out less frequently, as the bill regularly exceeds US\$200, on top of prier gas.

Trade talks collapsed suddenly on Aug. 21, with each country's representatives later pointing the finger at the other over last-minute demands. In response to Mr. Trump's imposition of 50-percent tariffs on about \$28-billion of Canadian goods, Ottawa's dollar-for-dollar countertariffs are scheduled to take effect Sept. 8.

The trade rift is deepening as the U.S. economy is feeling the strain of its conflict with Iran, particularly at the gas pumps.

Among those paying attention, surveys show American support for tariffs on Canada is split down, and even within, party lines, the Angus Reid polls indicate. While seven in 10 self-described “MAGA Republicans” back Mr. Trump’s tariffs, non-MAGA Republicans are more split, with about one-third supporting them and one-quarter unsure. Democrats are almost universally opposed, with just 5 per cent supporting the tariffs.

Mike McGhee, a local tour guide, was waiting in the centre of the memorial by the American flag – at half-mast, in memory of Dolly Parton – for a group he was showing around. He wasn't familiar with the new round of threatened tariffs. "I've been on vacation. But my wife said there's been something going on with Canadians and the news recently," he said.

On the President's renaming of the lake, he said: "We shouldn't be renaming anything. How about getting the economy going? How about we leave Canada alone?"

The memorial was busy that night. After a steamy August day, Washington was starting to cool down. Occasionally, police cars rolled by, lighting up the stone and trees in blue, white and red.

Most visitors to the Korean War monument aren't aware of Canada's contribution to the conflict, Mr. McGhee said.

"I don't know if it's public knowledge that we worked hand-in-hand with these other countries," he said. "This is just so about America that you kind of forget. Even in the World Wars. We were working with 20 other countries, not just one."

Nearby, Josh Sefcik was wearing a glowing vest to identify him to his cohort of a few dozen tourists, who were wandering around the reflecting pool.

“Nobody has ever asked me specifically why Canada is here,” he said. “I bring up the United Nations wall when we walk along it,” he added, gesturing to the list of countries that participated in the conflict. “There should be more awareness.”

The next day, protester Tim Milligan, from Glen Burnie, Md., stood near the White House holding a sign covered in complaints about the Trump administration. At the bottom, in capital block lettering, was the newest addition: "Canada??! Really?!!"

"The borders have been open, and things go back and forth. As far as I know, it's been good. No one else has complained in the past," he said. "Tariffs? We've never done this before, not to this extent."

Despite the current tension, he believes the relationship between the two countries will improve if there's a shift in U.S. leadership.

"Once Trump is gone and MAGA is dead, things will go back to normal," he said. "It's all Trump. Americans love Canada."

Force of Nepali flash floods leaves little chance of survival for missing pilgrims, organization says

Police officers carry bodies to a mass burial site for victims of the flash floods and mudslides in Chitwan, Nepal, on Sunday. NAVESH CHITRAKAR/REUTERS

Group reached an immigration building at the Tibet-Nepal border shortly before being swept away, according to foundation

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Relatives of the missing religious pilgrims swept away in last week's Nepali floods, a group that included 12 from Canada, are being told by the trip's organizer that their family members most likely did not survive.

The India-based Isha Foundation said in a statement posted online that the impact of the flood in the area where its group of travellers had last reported arriving, an immigration control building, leaves little room for hope.

"At this time, there seem to be no encouraging indications of survivors at the immigration office area," the statement said.

"The local experts who know the terrain well, have told our on-ground team that it is very unlikely that anyone could have possibly survived the force of the flood," it said. "The mix of debris and water rose very high, probably as high as 150 feet with immense force, completely wiping out the whole building complex."

The pilgrims are among 31 Canadian citizens and permanent residents reported missing in the disaster. On Saturday, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said in a statement that one person from Canada that was previously missing had been located alive.

Nepal's disaster agency said that as of Sunday the death toll had climbed to 788 with more than 2,502 missing, while Chinese authorities reported 16 deaths and 546 missing on the Tibetan side of the border. More than 400 foreign nationals remain missing in Nepal.

The pilgrims reported to the Isha Foundation that they had arrived at the Tibet-Nepal border facility at 9:05 a.m. local time, shortly before flash floods swept the building away.

Isha's spiritual leader, Jaggi Vasudev, commonly known as Sadhguru, said during an event livestreamed Sunday that the group usually arrives at the border early to avoid lineups later in the day. The group was on the way back from a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash in Tibet, a sacred site for Hindus, Buddhists and others.

"I only wish we didn't have so much discipline. I wish we had gone there half an hour later. But we went there on time," he said.

During the event, Sadhguru spoke to his followers about the need to accept fate.

"You can't reclaim lives that are gone. That is not in our hands. Death is a resounding silence," he said.

Asked for answers by the sister of one of the missing during the livestreamed event, Sadhguru said no one has brought back the dead or those who are gone.

"There are no words which can bring back lives. There are no words which can erase the pain," he said.

In south-central Nepal's Chitwan district, authorities have begun burying yet-to-be-identified bodies in temporary graves – a move that has drawn criticism from some, including a former Nepali prime minister.

Anil Thapa, a police inspector co-ordinating the handling of the bodies, told the Associated Press that temporary burial was necessary because many of the bodies had remained submerged in flood waters for days and were decomposing by the time they were recovered.

Insp. Thapa said the authorities are preserving DNA samples and photographing distinguishing facial features and recording other identifying details. The bodies are assigned a reference number to help families claim them later.

Fifty bodies were having DNA samples taken ahead of their likely burial Sunday. A day earlier, 100 victims were buried.

"People are worried that this could be a permanent burial, but it is only temporary management," Insp. Thapa said. "If someone is able to verify the identity later using the available information, they can take back the body and perform the appropriate funeral rites."

The Nepali government has opened an official website where it has posted more than 2,000 images and descriptions of the deceased to help family and friends of the victims identify those lost.

Ruby Chaudhary, who has two missing relatives, told the Associated Press that the burials should not proceed without families' consent.

"The dead deserve to be treated with dignity," she said. "Our tradition is to cremate them on the riverbank, surrounded by their immediate family."

Authorities in Nepal also warned of additional flooding early Sunday, after information from Chinese authorities of increased water flow upstream, according to Dharam Raj Uprety, chief executive of Nepal's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority.

Chinese state news agency Xinhua, citing the country's water resources ministry, said a new lake formed after Wednesday's floods high in the mountains had largely drained.

But Xinhua said the ministry warned that a crater located 5.6 kilometres upstream, which held an estimated 1.4 million cubic metres of water, still posed some risk and required close monitoring.

With reports from The Canadian Press and the Associated Press

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ER doctors say patient load unprecedented

One Halifax physician suggests summer surge a predictable outcome of hospital overcrowding

ALANNA SMITH HEALTH REPORTER

Emergency physicians in major cities across Canada say they can usually catch their breath during the summer months. But this year has been unlike any other with patient levels in some cities reaching highs never seen before.

Doctors who spoke with The Globe and Mail had difficulty pinning this summer's rush to any single issue. It's the symptom, they said, of hospital overcrowding, an aging population, more medically complex patients, limited access to other health care supports – and the list goes on.

Then there are unique factors in certain provinces, such as a measles outbreak that has sickened hundreds this year in Manitoba. Or the wildfire smoke that suffocated Ontario in July and led to a spike in respiratory-related emergency department visits.

Kirk Magee, an emergency physician at the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax, said this summer has been noticeably different.

"Many days you walk through the waiting room and it feels like it's January," he said, recalling a recent shift when he saw patients who had been waiting for more than 15 hours.

"That's horrific even in the middle of influenza season, but I've never ever seen that before at this time of year."

During the summer, EDs expect to see an increase in trauma cases linked to such activities as boating, quadding or sports. But overall patient volumes tend to dip as respiratory illnesses slow down and people head off on vacation, though the trend has been slimming in recent years.

Dr. Magee said the summer surge is a predictable outcome of hospital overcrowding, which leaders in the health care system have been sounding the alarm over for years. Hallway medicine is now the norm in congested EDs across Canada.

Noam Katz, an ER doctor at St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, said the health care system is no longer on the brink of collapse but caving in before our eyes. "This is the end state of what people have been warning everybody about for years," he said.

Research released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information in June, which covered parts of 2024 and 2025, showed that one in 10 patients spent more than 14 hours waiting for care in Canadian EDs. Those requiring admission sometimes waited three times longer.

Staffing is also a constant challenge. Another study, published in July, found that nearly half of the 410 ED physicians surveyed by the Canadian Medical Association last year had reduced their clinical hours and roughly 20 per cent had taken time away from working in EDs.

Real-time, public data on patient volumes are limited across Canada. While the Canadian Institute for Health Information does track these metrics, not all hospitals provide data.

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This is the end state of what people have been warning everybody about for years.

NOAM KATZ EMERGENCY ROOM DOCTOR AT ST. BONIFACE HOSPITAL IN WINNIPEG

In Alberta, internal provincial data provided to The Globe show there were 7,485 emergency inpatients (EIP) who were waiting for a hospital bed on July 26. This is an 8-per-cent increase from the July count last year, a 96-percent jump from five years ago and an 176-per-cent rise from 2016.

The data show the problem is particularly acute in Edmonton where there were 5,118 EIPs in July, a 37-per-cent increase from the previous year. In January, major hospitals in the capital called on Alberta to declare a formal emergency owing to overcrowding; the province didn't do so.

Paul Parks, president-elect of the Alberta Medical Association's emergency medicine section, said there is no more elasticity in the health system.

He warned that patients will continue to die in a similar manner to Prashant Sreekumar, who died last December after eight hours in an Edmonton ED. The risk also rises for disabilities and other suboptimal outcomes.

“More and more people are going to be in our waiting rooms, are going to be sitting hours and hours suffering in pain with no care and some may die because of it.”

Despite politicians across Canada having committed to improving ED overcrowding, emergency physicians say provincial governments are falling short on their promises.

Vancouver emergency physician Kaitlin Stockton said doctors asked British Columbia to create a working group and commit to a four-step framework to improve health care delivery. She said the province declined.

The framework asked the province to establish transparent performance targets, mandate public reporting of utilization and performance metrics, use an accountability framework and create an independent oversight body to audit performance.

"I don't want to hear any more about how much money is being spent on what. I don't care. I want to know the outcomes," Dr. Stockton said. "The only people who are being held accountable are front-line providers."

Michael Herman, an Ottawa-based emergency physician, stressed that ED overcrowding is "not ordained from heaven" but the result of poor policy choices from hospitals, health authorities and governments.

He said better data collection and accountability measures must be implemented to help understand the issues plaguing EDs: "If you don't take a temperature, you can't find a fever."

Losing the seasonal reprieve is also bad for staff morale, especially heading into the busy viral season. He said ED staff have left because the tempo is unrelenting and expects others will do the same.

Quebec, too, has not escaped the summer phenomenon.

Montreal-based emergency physician Judy Morris said the reason EDs are clogged extend well beyond the department's walls. She stressed that there are not enough community supports, such as long-term care and addiction treatment beds.

"If the appropriate facilities to adequately treat these patients would exist, they wouldn't have to come to the ER," she said, adding there is "no end in sight."

U.S. strikes Iranian rocket launchers on Strait of Hormuz

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U.S. forces struck Iranian rocket launchers on the Strait of Hormuz in their first military action in a month on Sunday, breaking a lull in fighting during an intermittent war that has lasted more than six months. Iran swiftly vowed to retaliate for what it called a deadly attack.

Forces with the Revolutionary Guard Corps were observed preparing to launch rockets with sea mines into the strait, according to Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for the U.S. Central Command. The U.S. military last week completed clearing sea mines from the strait's international shipping routes.

Semi-official news outlets in Iran reported sounds of explosions near Larak island on the strait. The Guard in a statement carried by Iran's state broadcaster noted "the martyrdom and injury of several of our fighters and compatriots."

Later, Iranian state television showed what it said were ballistic missiles being fired by Iran at U.S. bases in Jordan in response to the American strikes. Jordan's armed forces said they intercepted eight missiles that penetrated the country's airspace early Monday.

A return to open conflict would be dangerous for the region, where Iran has targeted U.S. military bases and infrastructure in Gulf countries since the war began on Feb. 28.

The last time the U.S. military confirmed targeting Iran was on July 29, when it announced a “heavy wave of strikes” on dozens of Revolutionary Guard targets including coastal surveillance and defence sites. On Aug. 1, U.S. President Donald Trump said he would order the military to hold off on new strikes at the urging of Gulf allies Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

The attack comes just days after the Trump administration said it would turn its focus to increasing economic pressure – rather than military action – to try to end its war with Iran. The shifting strategy centres on threats to punish any country or entity that continues to conduct business with Tehran.

Sunday's attack was a “fatal mistake by the Trump regime during the economic war” and the enemy will pay the consequences militarily and economically, a Guard spokesperson, General Hossein Mohebi, said in a statement carried by Iranian media. The U.S. turn to using sanctions came as the administration weighs diminished munitions stockpiles after months of war, sparking concerns that the prolonged conflict could undermine U.S. military readiness in other parts of the globe.

As the conflict grinds on, Mr. Trump's talk of finding a quick end to the war also appears to be fading. He stressed last week that he's "not in a hurry" to get Iran back to the negotiating table, and he continues making the case that the Islamic Republic's leadership is on the ropes.

Appointments to Iran's senior security leadership in the past month, however, have signalled Tehran's defiance after weathering decades of sanctions as well as a lack of tolerance for dissent at home.

Mr. Trump has consistently emphasized that the U.S. and Israel campaign has been devastating for Iran's navy and air force. Iranian officials have said the country has suffered US\$270-billion in direct and indirect damage. Israeli military strikes in the first weeks of the war wiped out much of the theocratic government's leadership structure.

But Iran has found leverage through its strikes against vessels on the Strait of Hormuz, where relatively few ships carrying oil and liquefied natural gas are risking passage. Iran still has enough drones and missiles to fire at vessels transiting the waterway through which 20 per cent of the world's oil normally flows.

Crude oil prices rose Sunday in response to the U.S. attack. The price for a barrel of U.S. oil went up 1.8 per cent to US\$84.94, while the price for a barrel of Brent crude, the international standard, rose 1.9 per cent to US\$89.79.

Tehran continues to assert that even after it works out a management plan for the strait with Oman, its neighbour on the other side of the waterway, the U.S. can't use it until it fulfills its obligations under the memorandum of understanding the countries signed in mid-June.

Mr. Trump has repeatedly declared that the “Strait of Hormuz is open,” saying 24 vessels passed through last week. But that’s a fraction of the roughly 130 vessels that transited daily before the war began.

Destroyed vehicles and debris are scattered on Sunday after a Russian attack struck a warehouse, spurring an explosion on the outskirts of Kyiv. FRANCISCO SECO/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Death toll rises to 38 from Russia's deadliest attack on Ukraine this year

Rescuers walk beside private houses damaged by Russian drone strikes on Friday in Kyiv. VALENTYN OGIRENKO/REUTERS

KYIV

The death toll from a Russian strike on a warehouse west of Kyiv, the war's deadliest attack so far this year, rose to 38 with four people still missing, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on social media Sunday.

The strike on Friday night on the warehouse – an ammunition storage facility according to Ukrainian officials – sparked massive explosions and fires that swept through dozens of nearby homes and buildings.

Emergency workers continued to extinguish fires and identify and neutralize explosive devices at the site in the village of Myla, Mr. Zelensky added. He said 20 people were injured, including two children. On Saturday, Mr. Zelensky called the Myla attack “a terrible situation” and a consequence of “terrible negligence on the part of those who stored explosives right next to people.” He said a probe was under way into how and why the ammunition came to be kept there.

Meanwhile, Russia's Defence Ministry said on Sunday it is preparing to launch “massive strikes” against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, following a Ukrainian drone campaign against a retailer dubbed “Russia’s Amazon” as well as the country’s oil and gas sector, which Kyiv says both funds and directly fuels Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

The Russian ministry described the planned attacks as a response to Kyiv's "ongoing attacks on Russia's civilian infrastructure and fuel and energy sector."

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov on Sunday vowed “an appropriate response” to what he said was Ukraine’s “path of escalation” and targeting of Russia’s civilian economy.

Mr. Peskov told Russian state media that Moscow has been launching “fairly systematic” strikes on what he called Kyiv’s military and war-related infrastructure.

Ukraine launched deadly strikes in recent months on the facilities of Russia's biggest online retailer, Wildberries, saying the company sells dual-use goods that have aided the Kremlin's war effort. Ukrainian drones have also pounded Russian oil refineries and other energy infrastructure, prompting an unprecedented fuel crisis in a country that is one of the world's biggest energy producers.

During the war's previous winters, Russia systematically battered Ukraine's power grid, depriving thousands of heat and light in freezing temperatures. Ukrainian officials have repeatedly warned that the coming winter may prove the most challenging since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February, 2022.

Ukraine's new Defence Minister Yevhen Khmara said the ministry has options for closing the

US\$27-billion funding gap he inherited from his predecessor.

Mr. Khmara made the remarks at his first briefing with reporters since taking the post on Saturday. His appointment followed weeks of protests after Mykhailo Fedorov's dismissal that sparked a military reset in Kyiv and culminated in a video in which Mr. Fedorov called for elections. Mr. Khmara's comments were released for publication on Sunday.

Mr. Khmara, a former special forces officer who left military service to become a civilian minister, takes over as Kyiv's war effort faces mounting financial pressures. He said a priority will be avoiding battlefield shortages while ensuring soldiers are paid and other essential needs are met.

The ministry is considering bringing forward part of a 90-billion-euro European loan planned for next year, he said.

"Ukraine will show its partners a clear vision and a clear plan," he vowed, adding he planned to preserve much of the ministry team.

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Telescope: Instrument's primary mirror was originally meant to be used for spying

its significance to the corona- graph.

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Above: A rocket lifts off carrying NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Sunday.
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Right: Two gold coloured boxes below scientist Vanessa Bailey's hands are some of the electronics that make up the instrument's Canadian-built cameras. NASA/JPL-CALTECH

After a period of testing, the Roman telescope is expected to begin its epic survey of the universe in the coming months. Astronomers in the U.S. and around the world are anticipating a trove of data from the newly launched instrument and hoping for discoveries across a range of subfields.

"It's going to be revolutionary," said Jason Rowe, an astronomer at Bishop's University in Sherbrooke, who is part of the team that will be using the new telescope to probe the characteristics and distribution of alien solar systems around our galaxy.

Years in the making, the 10.5-tonne, US\$4.3-billion satellite is NASA's third large-scale astronomical observatory in space – and the most unique in its purpose and history.

Whereas the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes were built to peer at tiny patches of sky to make their penetrating discoveries, Roman has a field of view that is roughly 100 times larger. Its forte is less about zeroing in on individual targets than it is looking at the universe in bulk – either by taking in the myriad of stars that make up the Milky Way, or by gazing out at the innumerable galaxies that lie beyond.

By seeing more, it will also have a better chance of spotting what is fleeting or rare, including supernovas and other short-lived phenomena.

"Our universe puts on spectacular cosmic displays every second, but they happen very quickly, so they often elude our telescopes," said Julie McEnery, NASA's senior scientist on the project, during a press briefing on Saturday. "With Roman's panoramic vision, we'll not only catch these events, but we'll see many at once."

Fittingly for a telescope so well-suited for spying on the cosmos, the instrument's primary mirror was originally meant to be used for spying on other countries.

Measuring 2.4 metres across, it is as large as the Hubble's main mirror but has a much shorter focal length, which accounts for its more expansive view of the heavens.

When it was created more than two decades ago by a division of ITT Corporation, now part of L3Harris Technologies Inc., the mirror was to be used in a spy satellite. But when the satellite was cancelled in 2005, the exquisite mirror became a white elephant. In 2012, the National Reconnaissance Office, an agency of the U.S. military, officially gifted it to NASA. (The gift originally included two mirrors, but NASA was later asked to return the second.)

The surprise donation could not have come at a better time. Less than a year after the Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery of dark energy, astronomers were now looking at the possibility of an instrument that could

Whereas the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes were built to peer at tiny patches of sky to make their penetrating discoveries, Roman has a field of view that is roughly 100 times larger.

see enough of the universe to definitely measure dark energy's effects.

The telescope that took shape around the mirror was tailor-made for that purpose. Its design ensured that it would be extremely stable, offering views of distant galaxies that would enable astronomers to perceive how mass is distributed in the universe based on how gravity distorts the light of objects in the background.

It was also geared to observing at infrared wavelengths, which are best for capturing the faint light of galaxies as the universe expands.

Other areas of interest to astronomers were also sure to benefit, including the search for exoplanets – planets around other stars.

And with the mirror already in hand, the project, then called the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, or WFIRST, had a big head start on its way to the launch pad.

The trip has not been a smooth one, however. Starting in 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump tried to axe the telescope on multiple occasions during his first administration. Congress ultimately rescued the project and did so again after another attempt by the White House to cancel it last year.

The outcome was not as happy for the Canadian Space Agency, which initially saw an opportunity to partner with NASA and build a calibration system and other hardware for the telescope's Wide Field Instrument. This is the device that is crucial for the telescope's dark energy measurements. In exchange, Canadian astronomers would have had a dedicated share of the telescope's time. (Similar arrangements have earned Canada time on both the Hubble and Webb space telescopes).

Ultimately, Ottawa balked at the \$100-million price tag for a Canadian contribution to the telescope, and in 2018, withdrew from the project. The decision left Canadian astronomers out in the cold.

Yet Canada has maintained a presence on the Roman telescope, even if it is not an official one. A second instrument, called a coronagraph, which is designed to spot exoplanets orbiting distant stars, utilizes cameras built by Nuvu Cameras Inc. of Montreal. The equipment was assembled and prepared for space flight by Quebec-based tech company ABB Canada.

Frédéric Grandmont, an astronomer by training who is technology and business manager for ABB, has been with the project from the start. He said it was thrilling to see the Canadian-made hardware in images of the telescope's scientific package – and sobering to realize

"If our component doesn't work, nothing works," he said.

The coronagraph is designed to suppress the light of stars in order to reveal planets that orbit around them. Its presence on the Roman telescope is primarily to test a technology that one day could be used to ferret out Earth-like worlds in a proposed future space telescope, called the Habitable Worlds Observatory

But the coronagraph is just one of the ways the telescope is expected to shed light on solar systems beyond our own.

Starting next year, astronomers will use the Wide Field Instrument to stare at a star-rich portion of our Milky Way, looking for planets and moons that may reveal their presence when they momentarily cross in front of and distort the light of background stars. At the same time, the telescope will identify planets that orbit around some of those stars in cases where a planet repeatedly blocks a portion of a star's light.

With upward of 100 million stars in the telescope's field of view, it is inevitable that the new data will provide an unprecedented look at the demographics of worlds across different regions of our Milky Way galaxy.

"How do planetary systems end up like our solar system?" said Dr. Rowe. "I think that will be a key question we'll answer with Roman."

In the longer term, Roman will gradually amass data on galaxies that will be used to trace the expansion of the universe over a large chunk of cosmic time.

It's this measurement that researchers hope will ultimately pin down the degree to which dark energy is causing the expansion of space to accelerate. Once that number is quantified and confirmed by other independent measurements, including Europe's Euclid Space Telescope and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, researchers hope they can identify the physical mechanism behind the acceleration.

"Putting them all together and getting that full picture across, basically, all of the history of the universe is going to be very exciting," said Will Percival, a professor at Waterloo who is Canada's lead researcher on the team that will be using the Roman telescope to clock the motion of distant galaxies as the universe expands.

Both Dr. Percival and Dr. Rowe are participating in Roman science through grants from the Canadian Space Agency that were awarded last year.

For Mr. Crespi, who is a part of Dr. Percival's team, the successful departure of the telescope on Sunday signals the start of an adventure that could define his career.

"It was really great," he said after watching the launch. "It's amazing to be part of this moment that is going to shape the cosmology of tomorrow."

Rail: Key financial figures were redacted in versions of document released last year

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Alto has only occasionally referenced the additional spending that will be required to operate the train service once it is constructed, but has never released an estimate of such costs, nor has it ever publicly released an estimate for its expected revenues.

However, a September, 2023, briefing document prepared for the Crown corporation's chief executive officer provides a more detailed cost breakdown, covering a 40-year period.

For “infrastructure capital,” the estimated cost is \$83.5-billion, which is within Alto’s publicly cited range of \$60-billion to \$90-billion.

The briefing document then lists two other cost categories: Rolling stock is projected to cost between \$2-billion and \$2.2-billion, while “operating and maintenance” is estimated to cost between \$62.6-billion and \$67-billion.

Combined, the document says its total ROM – or rough order of magnitude – estimate is for the project to cost between \$148.1-billion and \$152.7-billion.

It also says total projected revenue for the high-speed rail system is \$105-billion over the 40-year period.

The figures are contained in a document titled "Technical Briefing DRAFT." At the time, the Crown corporation was called VIA HFR-VIA TGF Inc., in reference to earlier plans to develop high-frequency rail, rather than high-speed rail. At the time it was prepared, the government was still weighing both options, and the briefing note included comparisons between high-frequency and high-speed rail. The Crown corporation was renamed Alto early last year when then-prime minister Justin Trudeau announced that the project would focus on high-speed rail.

Versions of the document were released late last year under access to information laws, but the key financial figures were redacted.

The Globe reviewed an unredacted version of one of the drafts provided by a source. The Globe is not identifying the source as they were not authorized to share the information.

The project envisions about 1,000 kilometres of dedicated passenger rail that would allow electrified high-speed trains to travel at speeds of 300 kilometres an hour or more. It promises to cut travel times along the corridor by about half.

Current Via Rail passenger trains are technically capable of travelling at speeds of up to 200 km/h, but are generally limited to 160 km/h because of track regulations.

Parliament approved legislation in March that granted the federal government new powers to expropriate land along the proposed high-speed rail route.

Alto held consultations earlier this year on the potential route for the project and is planning to release a more specific proposed route this year for the Ottawa-to-Montreal segment, which it is proposing to build first.

Alto has said construction could begin in the 2029-30 fiscal year, if the project receives final cabinet approval before then.

In an interview, Alto president and CEO Martin Imbleau said the 2023 document was a rough "desktop analysis." He said cost estimates have since been revised and will be further updated and released publicly next year.

He said it is common for large projects to confirm the parameters of their capital plan before announcing estimated operating costs.

Nonetheless, he said the 2023 figures are broadly in line with Alto's statements that revenue will exceed operating costs.

When asked if Alto has avoided releasing its operating cost projections for public relations reasons in order to keep the total project cost lower, he strongly rejected the question.

"Absolutely not. Absolutely not. If you look at that deck, if we had made public the information in that deck, I wouldn't mind," he said, pointing to the revenue figures outpacing operating costs. "I'm not a bullshitter on the PR stuff."

Alto's community consultations earlier this year inspired some rural residents along the proposed route to organize protests and online campaigns raising concerns about the project's cost and impact on affected residents.

One such group, the ALTO HSR Citizen Research Initiative, is led by volunteers with private sector and academic backgrounds.

Andrew Hyett, a geologist and former Queen's University researcher who helped produce a financial analysis of the project for the group, said the government's sales pitch glosses over the global trend of megaprojects costing more than originally planned.

"I think there's a lot of strategic misrepresentation going on," he said in an interview. "There isn't really a business case."

The group released its own cost estimates earlier this year, predicting capital costs would reach \$143-billion after factoring in cost increases that can be expected based on international experience. The group has also projected that maintenance would cost \$1.27-billion a year and operations would cost \$700-million a year, for a total of about \$178.8-billion over 40 years, which is higher than the internal federal projections.

The group's reports also criticize Alto's ridership projections as overly optimistic based on the Toronto-to-Quebec City corridor's population.

Mr. Hyett said his group supports more modest improvements to passenger rail in the corridor, rather than full high-

speed rail.

Alto recently released a report outlining its economic arguments in support of the project.

The report claims the project will increase Canada's GDP by 1.1 per cent, or \$24.5-billion, a year through productivity gains, expanded labour markets, stronger international tourism and new housing units built around train stations.

The report also said the rail project will create approximately 50,000 jobs during construction and more than 5,000 ongoing jobs during operations.

Alto estimates that ridership will reach 24 million passengers a year by 2055 and up to 43 million by 2084.

For context, the report said ridership on the existing Via Rail service has declined from eight million passengers a year in the 1980s to about 4.4 million in 2025.

The report said Via's current ridership levels are low because of the structural limitations the service faces as it shares track with a growing volume of freight traffic.

It also said incremental investments, or the previously proposed high-frequency rail service that would run traditional passenger trains on dedicated tracks, are not the answer.

It said high-frequency rail would carry a capital cost of between \$45-billion and \$75-billion, yet would only generate one-fifth of the economic benefit of high-speed rail.

Above: Research technicians take measurements while conducting a biodiversity survey in a sea star research plot near West Vancouver on July 12. PHOTOS BY JESSE WINTER/THE GLOBE AND MAIL

Right: Figuring out what was killing sea stars was a significant challenge as researchers could not tell at first if it was a sickness, pollution contamination or some other cause.

Far right: Marine disease ecologist Dr. Alyssa Gehman, left, led the team that in August, 2025, identified vibrio pectenicida as the cause of the outbreak.

Having found a mysterious killer of sea stars, B.C. scientists see a way to stop it

To halt a bacterial illness that killed billions of marine animals, researchers look to viruses

JESSE WINTER MAINE ISLAND, B.C.

A mysterious disease is destroying stars and threatening critical ecosystems. Scientists are stumped, but they toil away in laboratories and distant, inhospitable environments, searching for an answer.

It's not the plot of an interstellar sci-fi movie: It's the groundbreaking science being done by a co-operative of marine biologists trying to save western North America's sea stars.

In 2025, Canadian researchers identified the culprit: star-killing bacteria called vibrio pectenicida. But the discovery only prompted more questions: Where did they come from? Why had the outbreak exploded so suddenly? Can anything be done to stop it?

The outbreak of what came to be known as sea star wasting disease began spreading up and down the Pacific coast, from Mexico to Alaska, in 2013. It devastated sea star populations, including wiping out almost 90 per cent of sunflower stars, the largest sea stars in the world.

“We lost over six billion of them,” said Alyssa Gehman, an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia and a marine disease ecologist at the B.C.-based Hakai Institute.

It was Dr. Gehman's team that made the breakthrough in August, 2025, identifying vibrio pectenicida as the cause of the outbreak.

The bacteria essentially attack sea stars from the inside out, slowly liquefying their guts until they collapse into piles of goo. While they are capable of sickening and killing all types of stars, the giant sunflower sea stars, which have dozens of limbs and can grow to the size of a bicycle wheel, were hardest hit.

It's a slow, hideous death that has critical effects on both sea star populations and the ecosystems where they live.

Sea stars are important predators in their communities that help to keep their prey populations in check – so important, in fact, that purple sea stars were the first to be called a “keystone” species. The term is now used for the fragile predator-prey relationships that govern the lives of everything from Rocky Mountain wolves and elk, to sharks and seals, to lions and wildebeest.

In the Pacific Ocean, sea stars eat sea urchins (among many other things). Without enough sea stars, urchins proliferate and devour kelp and seagrass forests that are critical habitats for innumerable other species.

Figuring out what was killing sea stars was a significant challenge. Dr. Gehman's team didn't know at first whether it was a sickness, pollution contamination or some other cause. After proving the disease was transmissible from a sick animal to a healthy one, they tested whether contaminated water could be made safe by heat-treating it. They found that it could, which suggested there was a pathogen they could

kill.

When they did painstaking genetic testing to compare the gut biomes of sick stars with healthy ones, the team expected to find yet more complexity. Instead, the data they got back were so clear the team wondered whether they'd made a mistake, and reran their tests just to be sure.

They had found their villain.

But finding the killer and stopping it are two different things. Dr. Gehman's team is now focused on potential solutions. Because the contagion is a bacterium, they can grow it in the lab and more easily use it to continue testing, but many questions remain.

When they worked to isolate the pathogen, Dr. Gehman said, their tests subjected sea stars to doses of the bacteria that were universally lethal. This summer they're testing to see whether there is, in fact, a survivable dose. If there is, it could suggest that some sea stars have or are capable of evolving a resistance to the disease. Early results are encouraging.

"There's some hint that there is a low dose that they can survive," Dr. Gehman said. "So the question is: Is that genetically linked? And if it is, can we breed for that sort of increased resistance?"

One of the team's most surprising discoveries feels ripped from the script of Project Hail Mary. The seemingly unstoppable vibrio pectenicida does, in fact, have natural predators of its own: bacteriophages, or phages for short, viruses that attack bacteria by infecting them and reproducing inside them.

“That’s incredible, and has really kind of blown my mind to think about because that means vibrio pectenicida has a natural enemy that’s also in the system,” Dr. Gehman said. That knowledge could give sea stars a fighting chance. The team is now exploring whether the phages can be used to create a kind of natural antibiotic to help sea stars fight off the disease.

“Hopefully, we can maybe use that superpower to treat them,” she added.

Dr. Gehman credits the discovery to a colleague at the University of North Carolina: Blake Ushijima, an expert in marine microbiology and microbial pathogens.

"Blake gave us instructions on what we were supposed to do, which was basically to take a Nalgene [bottle] diving, scoop some water near a sea star, close it up and send it to him," Dr. Gehman said.

"So we took eight Nalgenes of seawater while diving up in the central coast of B.C., sent them to Blake, and he was able to isolate a bunch of phages that attack vibrio pectenicida."

This summer, Dr. Gehman is working with another colleague, research scientist Melanie Prentice, at a lab on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, where they first discovered the bacteria. In a large, barn-like structure festooned with pipes and water tanks, Ms. Prentice is helping to oversee a series of experiments aimed at answering three key questions: Does water temperature affect how aggressively the bacteria behave, is there a dose that sea stars can reliably survive, and how well do the anti-bacteria phages help slow or stop the disease?

Purple sea stars are so important to keeping their prey populations in check that they were the first to be called a 'keystone' species.

Successful tests by Dr. Gehman and her team could help scientists develop an anti-bacterial treatment regime that could be used at scale along Pacific coastlines.

While the wasting disease outbreak affecting sea stars appears to have slowed, a looming El Nino in the Pacific could drive ocean temperatures higher again.

The tests will also help the team determine the relation between the outbreaks and rising ocean temperatures caused by climate change.

"When the seawater warms up, then we'll start to see outbreaks in sunflower sea star populations that'll kind of then taper off as the water gets cooler into the winter," Ms. Prentice said. "So we know that temperature plays a role, but we don't really know exactly what's going on."

To test the bacteriophages' effectiveness at fighting the bacteria, the team will expose healthy sea stars to lethal doses of vibrio pectenicida and then inject them with the phages to see whether the viruses can halt or slow the disease's progress.

"I'm really excited to run experiments where we expose them and then they don't die," Dr. Gehman said. "I think that's going to be really exciting."

Successful tests could help scientists develop an anti-bacterial treatment regime that could be used at scale along Pacific coastlines to help blunt the effects of outbreaks associated with predictable ocean temperature

spikes.

"Something that's really cool about phages is that these are naturally occurring viruses," Ms. Prentice said. "It's a lot more preferable than a [synthetic] antibiotic treatment.

"It's a little bit more of a natural kind of eco-based solution because this is a naturally occurring virus."

Whether any of that comes to fruition, and how long it takes, all depends on how successful the team's research is.

Ms. Prentice expects it could be years before even the protocol for an ecosystem treatment is developed, and longer still to navigate the necessary permitting and other requirements to actually deploy it safely at scale.

And time is not on their side. After raging for a decade, the wasting disease outbreak appears to have slowed. Some sea star populations have begun to rebound, with constellations of tiny baby sea stars blossoming.

But a looming El Nino in the Pacific this fall and winter threatens to drive ocean temperatures higher again, which could trigger another devastating outbreak.

As the climate warms, these events are stacking closer and closer together, adding pressure to their work, Ms. Prentice said. But she's heartened by how much attention their research is getting.

"Honestly, I've never had so many people so interested in what we're doing," she said. "There's so much that we have to learn about it."

The subject who is truly loyal to the chief magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures - Junius

Big-city life demands a place to sit

When international rankings tabulate the liveability of cities, they often base the score on tangibles such as school quality, commute times, air pollution or real estate costs.

But there are intangibles that are equally important to good city life. And one of those is hospitable streets. While this means different things to different people, most enjoy safety, a pleasant environment and good amenities. Also, somewhere to sit.

There are plenty of reasons why people might want to sit down in the middle of a city. Chatting with a friend, taking a look around, reading a book or maybe just having a rest on a hot summer day. Without good public seating, these options disappear. That turns cities into places merely to move through rather than to stop and enjoy. And in an aging society, cities without places to sit are effectively closed to older pedestrians.

Which makes it frustrating that too many Canadian cities treat public seating as a necessary evil at best, grudgingly installed and poorly maintained, or sometimes pushed so far down the priority list it gets skipped entirely.

That happened this summer in Toronto.

A city councillor tried to make progress on the long-over-due idea of installing seating throughout the expanse of concrete in front of city hall. This area, called Nathan Phillips Square, is anchored by a fountain and bandstand but is made up mostly of open space. Its central area lacks anywhere to sit.

So Paul Ainslie asked city staff to “review the feasibility and associated costs of procuring and deploying benches at Nathan Phillips Square for the 2026 summer season.” The request just about sent staff to the fainting, er, bench. According to their response, doing so was just not possible this summer owing to “procurement and implementation timelines,” as well as activities that had already been planned for the square, including those related to the World Cup.

A counterargument would be that Toronto hosting World Cup games, and associated activities, is exactly the time to install lots of public seating – all around the city. Thousands of tourists visited for the first time, locals spent more time out and about and viewing parties were packed.

In fact, a number of games were screened at Nathan Phillips Square itself, which would have been good reason alone to install better seating there.

What's particularly galling about the limited love for public seats in major Canadian cities – Montreal, as always with urbanism issues, does better here – is that this is not rocket science. Install simple benches in large numbers, more than seem necessary. Put them in places where people will want to sit. And then stop them falling into disrepair.

It really is that simple. But for cities that want to do better, seats that are not fixed in place are a more user-friendly option. Urbanist and social observer William Whyte noticed a half-century ago that people liked the autonomy offered by moveable seats. As he wrote in The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, this sort of seating allowed people to shift into the shade or under the sun, close to a friend or away from the guy with the boom box.

This approach is old hat in many European cities and helped revitalize New York's Bryant Park in the 1990s, but it has been slow to emerge in Canada, where leaders appear paranoid about theft. The good news: Two locations in Toronto have in recent years installed chairs that are not fixed down, and they don't seem to be walking away. Assuming the best of people, rather than the worst, can sometimes pay off.

The humble park bench may not seem a terribly important concern in the big picture. It may not be at the top of very many people's wish-list. But it's not just a nice-to-have, either. Securing Canada's future requires strong cities, which drive the economy. Cities that are more liveable are more likely to attract people and more likely to succeed.

Just last week, the federal government announced grants that will allow dozens of prominent scholars to come to Canada, many of them fleeing an increasingly anti-university attitude in the United States. Such academics can go anywhere. What draws them to Canada are predictable funding, research opportunities, the political climate and, yes, the liveability of the cities to which they will be moving.

As these people settle into Canadian homes, walking the streets and exploring new neighbourhoods, the least city governments can do is give them a place to sit and ponder.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

BY ANY OTHER NAME

Re “Trump signed an executive order to rename Lake Ontario. What does it actually change?” (Aug. 28): What Washington has produced is a federal alias, binding on no harbour master, no shipping chart and no Canadian.

That is why the official reply worked. Mark Carney supplied the etymology and returned to the file. The corners of Doug Ford's mouth darted up and vanished.

Shared water is a poor prop. Countries that want leverage build markets, routes and institutions. Countries that want applause rename the furniture. One of those habits travels. The other washes off the next time it rains.

David Woodard Tampere, Finland

It's pitiful that Donald Trump has tarnished the art of bullying. The President is worse than the typical sandbox bully who has at least a modicum of self-respect by pouncing on his victim mercilessly. The renaming is shameful as it exposes the limits of his intellectual breadth.

Instead of engaging in smart riposte, Trump chose to lower himself into the abyss by resorting to the equivalent of nonsensical non sequiturs. What has renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America to do with tariff wars? ■ Norman M Ostonal New Westminster, B.C.

We do not need to argue with the Trump administration about the name of Lake Ontario. Let us simply call it Lake Ontario on the north side and Lake America on the south side. We can even have a fence erected in the water to mark the boundary between our two countries and call it the Trump Line – if he pays for it. ■ Aiva Vinters Toronto

Children in Canada and the United States have long been taught a mnemonic for the Great Lakes: HOMES. In Canada, we will continue to refer to Lake Ontario, so HOMES it shall remain. In the United States, however, will schoolchildren be taught a new mnemonic - SHAME?

■ Drew Nameth Burlington, Ont.

Surely Canadians can afford a grand gesture to resuscitate negotiations with our neighbours. In recognition of decades of joint stewardship of the Great Lakes and, for that mater, all North American watersheds, I ask municipal governments to name the discharge pipes and outflows from their waste water treatment facilities after Donald J. Trump.

Naming these vital elements of civic infrastructure in his honour would highlight our collective appreciation of his leadership in

these murky, turbulent times. ■ James Thomson Halifax

ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES

Re “Trade war casts shadow over Carney’s investment summit” (Aug. 25): Canada is the world’s second-largest country by area but barely top 40 in population. With abundant natural resources and a world-class work force, Canada should rank among the highest in prosperity and opportunity per capita. Instead, by GDP per capita, Canada trails more than 40 U.S. states.

Canadians thrice elected recent governments that, rather than focusing on nation building, dispensed generations-built wealth to causes that felt good but weakened the country materially. They then elected a leader skilled in dictating interest rates and bank reserves, but little practised in negotiating. As many prosperity builders know, bankers are accessories to prosperity; they do not create it.

That recent trade negotiations were tough should not be a surprise, mostly because Canada spent more than a decade making itself vulnerable. One day, Canadians may appreciate Donald Trump for slapping us in the face with reality and teaching us to be best prepared.

■ John Budreski Whistler, B.C.

WHO'S IN CHARGE?

Re “Ford must get grip on soaring transit costs” (Editorial, Aug. 26): The costs of recent transit projects in Ontario are head-scratchingly outrageous. And, yes, Doug Ford should do something about it. But I always think that the cost managers on these projects are either incompetent, asleep or impotent. Why are we faced with ballooning budgets as faits accomplis?

Good project management should be baked in. When things go south or unexpected events crop up, put the brakes on early so plans can be quickly recalibrated. Or are we just victims of a rueful bait and switch, where low estimates win jobs and scope creep brings in profit? In either case, we have to get a handle on this appalling situation. Nigel Smith Toronto

HERE'S YOUR BILL

Re “Canada needs to be strategic as it hits back” (Aug. 27): Watching U.S. media outlets recently, I see the trade dispute has already dropped to the bottom of the news.

We should wake up Americans with export taxes on oil, potash, natural gas, electricity and other commodities. Calls to shut off or disrupt commodities or dramatically increase tariffs should be non-starters.

Price increases from export taxes would be enough for the average American to feel it, but not enough for businesses to switch suppliers or to provoke a major U.S. response. Look at the irritation the alcohol ban has caused. Imagine the White House phone lines when oil executives, farmers, truckers and others start to call.

Do not count on U.S. midterm elections to change the White House's course on tariffs. To paraphrase our Prime Minister, we must be masters of our own destiny. High time we start. ■ Neal St. Jacques Toronto

Re “This whole trade war thing is stupid” (Aug. 26): Of the many avoidable perversities I see ushered in by tariffs – an inflationary tool, a regressive tax disproportionately punishing middle- and low-income consumers, an artificial protector of uncompetitive industries – the most fundamental and overlooked obscenity is the unsolicited government intervention in private business transactions.

In Donald Trump's case, the stated pretext is stopping foreign countries from “ripping off” the United States. But countries don't import goods, businessmen do – and usually for sound reasons that lead to taxable profit, jobs and other benefits to the importer's country. Lost in the Sturm und Drang of tariffs is this paradoxical abandonment of free market principles by an ostensibly conservative administration, leading to the usurping of private discipline by public ignorance.

Cue Ronald Reagan's famous line about the scariest words in the English language: "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

Steven Richards Vancouver

HEED YOUR ELDERS

Re “Advice I got years ago is helping me make peace with aging” (First Person, Aug. 24): On the wisdom which comes from having been around for more than a few decades: When I tell contemporaries that the most difficult thing I do each day is get my socks on in the morning, I get nods of wise agreement; to relate such an episode to younger people would be a waste, although such wisdom from experience awaits them.

How old am I? I used to be 39, but then I lost count. Ian Guthrie Ottawa

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Europe must stand with Canada against Trump

The EU, in the world of might makes right, is the largest of the middle powers

PHILIPPE LEGRAIN LONDON

OPINION

Former economic adviser to the president of the European Commission, a visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics' European Institute and the author of Them and Us: How Immigrants and Locals Can Thrive Together

Prime Minister Mark Carney's widely acclaimed speech at Davos earlier this year remains the talk of diplomats worldwide. Mr. Carney argued that middle powers must act together to avoid becoming victims of predatory superpowers, and he has lived by his words, duly standing with his European allies as U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to invade Greenland, a Danish territory.

Mr. Carney's government has also continued to provide military and financial aid to war- torn Ukraine.

Yet now that Mr. Trump has launched another rapidly escalating trade war against Canada, traditionally the United States' closest economic partner, European leaders have been conspicuously silent. They are making a big mistake. Solidarity must be a two-way street.

In addition to threatening European sovereignty, Mr. Trump has repeatedly asserted that Canada ought to become the 51st U.S. state. Mr. Trump wants to make Canada an economic vassal by limiting its ability to strike alternative deals with other partners such as the EU, and he is threatening ever-escalating tariffs to achieve his ends.

Canada cannot afford to lose this fight. With the stakes so high, the EU should muster the courage to offer Canada a much deeper economic, political and strategic partnership, presenting itself as an attractive alternative to what America has become.

Consider the powerful message that the EU could send if it offered Canada an enhanced zero-tariff trade deal. Think of all the ways that Canada and Europe could collaborate more closely on Arctic security, energy and critical minerals.

Consider the powerful message that the EU could send if it offered Canada an enhanced zero-tariff trade deal.

One obstacle to bold EU action is cowardice. Despite ample evidence that Mr. Trump does not respect appeasers, European leaders are still wary of sticking their necks out. Yet when countries stand up to Mr. Trump's bullying, he tends to back down. If middle powers can come together, they will have more options and greater leverage to negotiate with superpowers.

At the very least, a generous offer from the EU would strengthen Canada's current position vis-à-vis the Trump administration. The EU could easily be Mr. Trump's next target. Does Europe want to endure more bullying alone?

Another hurdle, conversely, is arrogance. In the pre-Trump era, when the U.S.-led rules-based international order was still intact, the EU considered itself a superpower, at least in economic terms. But in the new world of might makes right, the EU must acknowledge that for now it lacks the political unity, military muscle, geopolitical leverage, economic dynamism and technological prowess to rival the U.S. or China. It is more like Canada than it thinks.

In fact, the EU is the biggest of the middle powers. It is not, like the U.S. and China, an apex predator, which means that it is potential prey. Once European policy makers accept this reality, perhaps they will be more open to collaborating with like-minded powers to address their shared vulnerabilities.

A third obstacle is institutional rigidity. As the largest of the middle powers, the EU has the most to gain from closer collaboration with a wide range of partners; indeed, it could be the anchor for overlapping “coalitions of the willing.” But to play that role, it needs to move beyond its overly rigid and trade-centric model of co-operation, where deep economic integration is reserved for countries that aspire to join the

EU or agree to follow its rules wholesale.

Europe should instead embrace more flexible and wide-ranging forms of co-operation that are better suited to a messy, disordered world. These could involve varying combinations of deeper economic integration, closer political co-operation, and broader strategic alliances.

More broadly, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has floated the idea of the EU linking up with the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. Together, the EU and CPTPP account for nearly one-third of the world economy, a greater share than that of the U.S. or China. Talks have already begun on a digital trade deal, with parties pledging not to impose protectionist tariffs on one another; but progress remains slow.

As Mr. Carney rightly put it earlier this year, “In a world of great power rivalry, the countries in between have a choice – compete with each other for favour, or combine to create a third path with impact.” Canada has made its choice. This is the moment for the EU to support it.

What's in a name? Don't expect the right answer from the President

U.S. President Donald Trump takes a question from a reporter after signing an executive order to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in the Oval Office on Thursday. DEMETRIUS FREEMAN/THE NEW YORK TIMES

DAVID SHRIBMAN

OPINION

Former executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of U.S. politics

Donald Trump wants to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America. So might the response be, "Goodbye Lake Superior, Hello Lake Canada?"

Of course then Lake Canada, at 82,103 square kilometres, would be superior to Lake America, which checks in at a measly 19,009 square kilometres. In taking the measure of Canada when he ordered Lake Ontario to abandon its centuries-old name, Mr. Trump clearly didn't take the measure of the individual Great Lakes.

Canada (which sits on the north, west and southwest of Lake Ontario) and most of the rest of the world will ignore this latest blast in the North American trade war, for it will apply to U.S. government agencies and maps but will have no more effect on others than did the President's 2025 Gulf of America proclamation.

Mr. Trump may have a preoccupation with his role in history, but he's on shaky grounds when it comes to geography. He didn't know, for example, that the Canadian province was named for the lake rather than the other way around, just as Michigan acquired its name from the Indigenous term for the lake that hugs the western extremity of the lower part of the state.

But Mr. Trump's preoccupation with his legacy might come second to his obsession with names.

A decade ago, he called Marco Rubio, once a competitor for the Republican presidential nomination and now the Secretary of State, “Little Marco.” He called Hillary Clinton “Crooked Hillary” and Joe Biden “Crooked Joe,” though he later added “Sleepy Joe” to the Biden repertoire. Most of that was dismissed; George W. Bush, after all, was fond of renaming people, even to the extent of calling the President of Russia “Pootie Poot,” while his

White House aides called Jean Chrétien "Dino," presumably because the Canadian prime minister was in his late 60s at the time.

It's all fun and games until Mr. Trump, not known as a prankster, vowed in his second inauguration to change the name of the highest peak in North America from Denali – the Indigenous name, one so attached to the peak that Russians employed it when they owned Alaska – to Mount McKinley. It had been called McKinley before, as an homage in 1917 to William McKinley (U.S. president from

1897-1901) until Barack Obama in 2015 restored the original name. The presumed reason for Mr. Trump's action: The 47th President, with a deep affection for import duties, considered the 25th president the troubadour of tariffs, apparently not knowing that McKinley later repudiated his support for them.

When Mr. Trump moved to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, he sparked a contretemps and lawsuit after the Associated Press, arguing the original name had international recognition, refused to use it. The Trump White House then restricted AP's access to presidential events and travel.

Mr. Trump now is engaged in a battle over the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. His allies on the governing board voted to add his name to the building, a federal court ordered it removed, and in recent days the Justice Department has argued in court that it was within the Trump administration's rights to add two phrases to the building ("renovated and restored by President Donald J. Trump" and "endowed by the Trump Kennedy Center Fund").

This comes after the administration moved to restore names to military installations that once honoured officers from the Confederate Army. North Carolina's Fort Bragg, named for slave-owning Confederate General Braxton Bragg, was renamed Fort Liberty during the Biden years. Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth, operating under Mr. Trump's preferred but unofficial title Secretary of War, restored the Bragg name, fooling nobody in arguing the base now was named for Army paratrooper Ronald Bragg, injured during the Battle of the Bulge in the Second World War.

A similar change was made in Jackson, N.H., a town originally named for Andrew Jackson, a president now criticized for his battles against Native Americans. The town kept the name but voted that it now refers to Charles Jackson.

And who exactly was this Mr. Jackson?

He was the federal geologist for the land district around the body of water that some day could be known as Lake Canada.

Meta's settlement reveals the necessity and the limits of the courts

TAYLOR OWEN

OPINION

The Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communication and the founding director of the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill University

On Wednesday, eight days into a trial in a federal courtroom in Oakland, Calif., Meta agreed to pay as much as US\$17.1-billion to settle claims brought by more than 50 American attorneys-general that it deliberately designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children. It represents the largest settlement ever paid by a technology company.

But the money matters least. What the settlement shows is that lawsuits can help make social media governable – but they cannot do the governing.

While the company admitted no wrongdoing, the remedies that were part of the agreement are effectively an admission in all but name. Under the consent judgment, teens' accounts will now have a default two-hour daily limit, an overnight blackout and no push notifications during school hours. Counts for likes will be hidden for minors, cosmetic-surgery filters banned and the algorithmic feed made optional. And Meta must build systems that actually identify which users are children. These remedies are aligned almost point-by-point to the harms the states alleged, which until this past week Meta denied had anything to do with its products.

The settlement also undermines one of the industry's main defences against regulation. Most of these measures are things platforms have long insisted were unworkable. Meta will now implement them under this American consent judgment, even as it contests the European Commission's preliminary finding that its infinite scroll, autoplay and recommender systems breach the Digital Services Act. The constraint is, as it always has been, one of motivation, not of technical limitations.

These suits are necessary because they reveal information that enables government to act.

The pretrial discovery phase produced internal research on teen harm that Meta never published, including documents showing more than a million reports of under-13 users on Instagram (with only a fraction of them acted on), engagement data revealing how the products were tuned to maximize the time young people spent on them, and sworn testimony from one of its own former engineers that young users were harmed at rates far beyond anything the company publicly acknowledged. For a decade, this information was locked inside the companies, and litigation was needed to pry it loose.

But the settlement also shows why litigation on its own is fundamentally insufficient to enforce real change. The auditor who will monitor compliance can only make recommendations; Meta decides what changes will be made. The time limits expire after five years, and the agreement after 10. The protections apply only to teens in the American states that signed on, and the agreement declares that nothing in it shall serve as precedent in “any international jurisdiction whatsoever," meaning it won't protect a Canadian child from the very harms Meta knows are happening. Meta even kept its right to fight any law, current or future, that would make these protections permanent. And US\$5-billion of the settlement is contingent on its major competitors adopting similar measures, creating industry standards via privately negotiated rule-making. Four years of litigation may have produced an important public record, but it led to a remedy that is narrow, temporary and confined to one company.

So governments need to pick up where this case leaves off. In June, Ottawa tabled Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act. It would create a Digital Safety Commission with the power to require the type of design changes Meta just conceded were possible, for every platform young Canadians use, with penalties reaching up to 3 per cent of global revenue, and no expiry date. It would also cover AI companion chatbots, which were conspicuously omitted from the American deal. And it would apply to Canadian kids, which the settlement, by its own terms,

does not.

The bigger difference is in how the two approaches work. Courts act only after the damage is done; every remedy in this consent judgment responds to harms children have already suffered, and locks in a list of design fixes to products as they existed this summer for just one company. Governance, done properly, works to prevent the next harm. C-34 promises to make the main platforms Canadians use responsible for the risks their products create. It requires them to assess risks, publish plans to reduce them, open the underlying data to researchers, and answer to a regulator that would judge whether the plans are working. As these products change, which they invariably will, the obligations and accountability would follow.

Cases like this do not replace governance, but they can help enable it. Litigation broke up the industry's monopoly on information, put important evidence on the public record and stripped away arguments for inaction. Government needs to take it from here.

What exercise regimen is best for sleep?

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How to leverage activity to naturally boost your slumber – or at least not wreck it

RÉBECCA ROBILLARD

THE SLEEP WHISPERER

The Sleep Whisperer is a series of columns offering insights and advice about sleep health. It is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care.

We often hear that active days lead to restful nights. Indeed, exercise reduces stress hormones, triggers dynamic body temperature and cardiovascular changes, stabilizes the biological clock and strengthens the microbiota – all of which can in turn facilitate sleep. Yet, many people wonder if the type of exercise and the timing of the workout makes a difference. Some worry that high-intensity sports or late-night trips to the gym may be detrimental for sleep.

Luckily, researchers have spent quite some time studying these questions. Here are some things to know about how to leverage exercise to naturally boost your sleep, or at least not wreck it.

TIMING AND REGULARITY MATTER While some people like to head out for a fast run or spin class shortly before hitting the sheets, others prefer slower activities such as yoga or taking the dog out for a walk. But is one option better than the other for a good night's rest?

A meta-analysis on the effects of evening exercise showed that, while it doesn't generally disrupt sleep for healthy adults, it can worsen sleep quality depending on the intensity and timing. Specifically, doing 30 to 60 minutes of acute high-intensity exercise (e.g. a short, isolated bout of sprinting, fast cycling or intensive interval training) within four hours of bedtime can take a toll on your REM sleep and trim your overall sleep duration, especially if done closer to bedtime. Conversely, acute exercise of lower intensity in the evening (e.g. walking or gentle yoga) did not seem to disrupt sleep and may drive modest sleep improvements.

In other words, although sudden isolated periods of high-level physical activity could indeed not be the best for your sleep, the occasional milder exercise should not be an issue, but may not yield strong sleep benefits if this is your goal.

Integrating regular exercise in your routine is likely to produce much better results. A systematic review showed that three to 10 sessions a week of either aerobic or strength-training programs spanning five weeks to a year reduced the time needed to fall asleep and improved sleep quality, probably by enhancing deep sleep.

CHOOSE SOMETHING YOU ENJOY If you're wondering what type of exercise is best for promoting sleep health, don't sweat it.

Some research suggests that Pilates may have slightly stronger advantages for sleep compared with other types of exercise because it integrates respiration and relaxation techniques with exercise. For older adults, moderate-intensity walking combined with muscle endurance training for 40 to 60 minutes at least two times a week was found to be the optimal exercise regimen.

If you are exercising to shed weight, cutting down on your sleep can drive you to raise your caloric consumption, while also reducing the proportion of fat body mass that you can lose if you are on a diet.

Yet a wide range of exercise has been shown to improve sleep, from tai chi and yoga to running, cycling, resistance training and other sports. Picking something you enjoy is likely to help you stick to your program and further boost your mood while lowering stress for stronger sleep effects. If you can do it in good company, even better, as it may also enhance your motivation and tap into the positive effects of social contacts on sleep.

DON'T SKIMP ON SLEEP SO YOU CAN HIT THE GYM

Studies show that the time we spend exercising often directly competes with our sleep time. But sacrificing your sleep to make more time for exercise has serious drawbacks.

For instance, if you are exercising to shed weight, cutting down on your sleep can drive you to raise your caloric consumption, while also reducing the proportion of fat body mass that you can lose if you are on a diet.

Also keep in mind that sufficient sleep is key to boosting physical performance, minimizing injuries, restoring your muscles' wear and tear after training and sharpening your focus. Even Olympians often share that protecting sleep is part of their training plans.

IF YOU HAVE SLEEP ISSUES, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY CAN HELP

One in five Canadians suffer from insomnia. If you're one of them, exercise should be on your radar as part of the solution.

A review of all research with people experiencing insomnia concluded that exercise reduces the time spent awake at night, favours more consolidated sleep and tones down insomnia symptoms. These benefits seemed to be more prominent with higher intensity exercise.

To help alleviate insomnia, researchers proposed either 150 minutes of moderate exercise a week, which could be as simple as 30 minutes of walking five days a week; or 75 minutes of higher intensity training – for instance, three sessions of 25 minutes of interval training.

For people with sleep apnea, exercise is also an effective tool. Apnea, defined by involuntary pauses in respiration, can create dips in nocturnal blood oxygen, but regular exercise reduces the number of these by about 20 per cent.

THE FINAL SCORE

All in all, to make your exercise regimen optimal for sleep, regularity is critical. If you start from a more sedentary lifestyle, taking a gradual approach to increase your activity levels may be best to minimize transient negative effects on sleep. Canada's 24-hour guideline recommendations for activity may be a good place to start to set your own target. Although exercising in the evening may be fine if you keep it mild to moderate, try to leave at least one to two hours of buffer before bedtime so your body has time to wind down before you nod off.

Dr. Rébecca Robillard, PhD, is a clinical neuropsychologist and associate professor at the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa. She also leads clinical sleep research at the Royal mental health hospital. She co-chairs the Canadian Sleep Research Consortium, a national hub of sleep scientists and clinicians.

These under-the-radar foods are surprisingly high in calcium

A tablespoon of chia seeds contains 70 mg of calcium. Consuming the mineral from a wide range of sources can help boost your daily intake. ISTOCK

LESLIE BECK

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

When it comes to calcium, dairy products are often the first foods that come to mind.

One cup of milk or three-quarters of a cup of yogurt, for example, each supply about 300 milligrams (mg) of the mineral, while some ultrafiltered milks provide even more.

But milk and yogurt aren't the only foods that deliver plenty of calcium.

In fact, several foods provide considerably more calcium than you might realize.

Here are some under-the-radar foods that put a decent dent in your daily calcium requirements, whether you're vegan or lactose intolerant or just looking to expand your calcium content beyond the usual dairy sources.

WHY YOUR BODY NEEDS CALCIUM

It's well known that calcium helps to build and maintain strong bones. But the mineral does more than support skeletal health.

Calcium is needed for muscles to contract, nerves to transmit signals throughout the body, blood vessels to function properly and blood to clot normally.

It also helps regulate the release of important hormones, including insulin, thyroid-stimulating hormone and adrenalin.

HOW MUCH CALCIUM?

Adults ages 19 to 50 require 1,000 mg of calcium a day; at the age of 51, women's calcium needs increase to 1,200 mg. At 71, men need 1,200 mg of calcium.

According to the 2015 Canadian Community Health Survey, the most recent version with published data on calcium consumption, more than 44 per cent of Canadian adults had inadequate calcium intakes from their diet.

Women over 50 and men over 70 were especially likely to fall short on dietary calcium. So were teenaged girls.

To help you meet your daily calcium requirement, don't overlook the following foods. They also supply significant amounts of other key nutrients.

PARMESAN CHEESE

It's not surprising that hard cheeses, made from milk, are good sources of calcium.

But you might not know that Parmesan cheese serves up an impressive 335 mg an ounce. In comparison, an ounce of aged cheddar cheese provides 200 mg.

Parmesan also delivers 10 g of protein an ounce, about 30 per cent more than cheddar.

Like most aged cheeses, Parmesan is made using lactic acid bacteria, gut-friendly microbes that ferment lactose, the natural sugar in milk, and develop the flavour and texture of cheese.

Owing to its fermentation and aging process, Parmesan is very low in lactose, making it well tolerated by many people with lactose intolerance.

SARDINES

I recently recommended this tinned fish as a convenient pantry staple for hitting your protein goals. But sardines are also an excellent source of calcium.

A three-ounce serving offers a generous 280 to 325 mg of the mineral, owing to their soft bones.

That calcium also comes with 7.5 mcg of vitamin B12 (three days' worth) and 45 mcg of immune-supportive selenium, 80 per cent of the daily requirement for adults.

Plus, in three ounces you'll find 850 mg of DHA and EPA combined, the two omega-3 fatty acids in oily fish. Health Canada recommends adults consume 250 to 500 mg of DHA and EPA each day for heart health.

KALE

One cup of this cooked leafy green serves up 177 mg of bioavailable calcium, which means it provides calcium that your body absorbs and uses well.

While the same amount of cooked spinach has more calcium (245 mg), your body only absorbs about 5 per cent of the calcium in spinach because of its high content of oxalates, natural compounds in plants that bind to calcium, decreasing its absorption.

One cup of cooked kale also provides 5 g of fibre and 493 mcg of bone-strengthening vitamin K. In the Framingham

Heart Study, older adults with the highest vitamin K intakes, about 250 mcg a day, had a significantly lower risk of hip fracture than those with the lowest intakes.

What's more, kale is an exceptional source of lutein and zeaxanthin, antioxidants associated with healthy brain aging.

Other leafy greens with high amounts of bioavailable calcium are rapini and bok choy.

WHITE KIDNEY BEANS

Among pulses, white kidney beans (known as cannellini beans) are one of the richest sources of calcium, delivering 170 mg per one cup.

In addition to this vital mineral, one cup of white kidney beans contains high amounts of fibre (7 g), the B vitamin folate (153 mcg) and magnesium (119 mg)

And they're an outstanding source of blood-pressure-regulating potassium, offering 1,061 mg per one cup. Women and men are advised to consume 2,600 and 3,400 mg of potassium daily, respectively.

BLACKSTRAP MOLASSES

Blackstrap molasses is the least sweet and most concentrated form of molasses, containing a notable 179 mg of calcium a tablespoon. It also provides 3.6 mg of iron and 518 mg of potassium.

Stir blackstrap molasses into oatmeal, blend it into smoothies, mix it into yogurt or use it in baking.

SMALLER AMOUNTS THAT ADD UP

Smaller calcium contributions from nuts, seeds, vegetables and fruit add up over the course of the day, helping you reach your daily target.

For example, per tablespoon, chia seeds contain 70 mg of calcium, tahini has 64 mg and almond butter provides 55 mg.

One quarter-cup of almonds has 96 mg and one cup of broccoli provides 60 mg. Even a medium orange offers 52 mg of calcium.

Leslie Beck, a Toronto-based private practice dietitian, is director of food and nutrition at Medcan.

My recipe box holds more than just recipes

FIRST PERSON

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ILLUSTRATION BY MARLEY ALLEN-ASH

Every recipe in my recipe box carries a face with it and memories, Anne Fraser writes

I wasn't looking for memories. I was simply searching through my recipe box for my carrot cake - the one I copied more than 50 years ago when carrot cake first became fashionable. Back then, the real star was the cream cheese icing. It was, quite literally, the icing on the cake.

As I flipped through hundreds of well-worn cards, I realized something. My life could almost be traced through those recipes. I've always believed it is who sits around the table that matters most. But lovingly prepared food has a remarkable way of bringing those people together.

The oldest cards date back to my bridal shower in 1973. Friends arrived bearing handwritten recipes instead of bottles of wine or scented candles. Many carried titles aimed at pleasing my new husband: David's Favourite Meatloaf or David's Favourite Barbecue Sauce. Looking back, it seems every newly married woman was expected to learn the quickest route to her husband's heart.

There may have been some truth to that. Three husbands later, I can confidently say that romance may fade, but a good dinner is always appreciated.

Friends, colleagues and neighbours all left something of themselves in my kitchen. Every recipe carries a face with it. Miss Martin, my head nurse in the delivery room, brought her unforgettable raspberry pie to share during a quiet break between deliveries. Nancy's beef stroganoff remains the finest version I've ever tasted. My Christmas chicken liver pâté has become a family tradition.

Google can give me thousands of recipes in seconds. It cannot give me my mom or sister's handwriting.

When I come across their cards, I have to stop. Terry's cheesecake, chocolate decadence, foamy plum pudding sauce. Judy's antipasto. Their familiar script brings back laughter, family dinners and summers together. Sometimes it also brings tears.

Google also cannot replace the stained index cards spotted with butter, vanilla and flour from decades of use. Those little drips are badges of honour. They tell me these recipes weren't simply collected, they were loved.

Food has always marked the seasons of my life. Summer means my mother's incomparable sour cherry pie and Muskoka blueberry pie made with Ontario wild blueberries, despite their eye-watering price. Autumn brings sour cream apple pie, later transformed into my own peach-es-and-cream version. Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without pâté, chili sauce, damson plum jam and the recipes that have quietly become family traditions.

Over the years, my cookbook shelves expanded along with my curiosity. Indian cooking entered my life through dear friends. Hollandaise sauce became something my children refused to eat anywhere but at my table. Even my cookbooks tell stories, their margins filled with notes like, "Husband loved this one."

My recipe cards are as much journals as they are directions.

One time I was with friends at a remote cottage. I volunteered to make eggs benedict for 13 people. "What can I do?" my chef friend asked.

"Poach the eggs," I replied.

The cottage kitchen had no slotted spoon, so he calmly lifted each egg, drained it with a tea towel and placed it perfectly on the waiting muffins.

"You'll burn your hands!" I protested.

His wife smiled and said, "His hands have been burned so many times, he hardly feels it any more."

Those are the moments recipes never record, yet somehow they become part of them. My chef friend also discreetly rescued a kitchen disaster of my husband's making with such grace that no one at the table knew anything had gone wrong. The story still makes us laugh whenever those lamb chops are served.

Recently, I found myself wondering what will become of these recipes when I'm gone.

Will someone treasure the box? Will anyone recognize my mother's handwriting? Will they make the banana cake with coffee icing that my son still talks about, or the rhubarb custard cake with baked meringue that converts even those who claim they have no room for dessert?

TODAY'S SUDOKU SOLUTION

Perhaps I'll begin choosing the very best to pass along. If I could plan my own wake, I'd ask for my favourite recipes to be served instead of dainty sandwiches. Let people remember me over good food, shared around a table.

Because that's what all these recipes have really been about.

Not ingredients.

Not techniques.

People.

One request remains.

When the time comes, bury me with my Cuisinart.

I bought my first one more than 50 years ago after my sister insisted I needed it. It revolutionized my cooking, from flawless pie crusts to endless family meals. It may be the most faithful kitchen companion I've ever owned.

If heaven has a kitchen, I intend to be well equipped.

Anne Fraser lives in Thornbury, Ont.

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South dealer. North-South vulnerable.

66 "The Family Circus" cartoonist Bil
67 Puts two and two together?
68 ____ 500 (car race)
69 Perform an amazing guitar solo, or rip up

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EDITED BY TARUN KRISHNAMURTHY

The year was 1958. Lee Hazen and Sidney Lazard were playing a practice session in preparation for their forthcoming world championship match against Italy. Hazen was West and Lazard East when this hand came up.

Perhaps South should have opened with a strong two-bid, but he didn't. However, when North responded to one spade with two clubs and then raised three spades to four, South made up for lost ground by exploring for the possibility of a grand slam.

Upon learning that North had the ace of clubs but only one king, South wisely rejected the grand slam and bid six spades. Thus, Hazen found himself on lead against six spades and made the only lead to give his side a chance to defeat the contract – the six of clubs!

It's hard to blame declarer for trying to ensure the contract by going up with the ace of clubs. He was afraid to finesse because the six of clubs might have been a singleton, in which case a losing finesse would be followed by a club ruff for down one.

South could not know at trick one that Hazen had all four missing trumps. The danger of a singleton club far exceeded the possibility of losing a trump trick.

Declarer got the bad news soon enough. He led a spade to the ace at trick two, and when East showed out, it was all over. South lost a spade and a club and went down one.

Had Hazen made the more normal lead of a heart, South would have made the slam. After learning at trick two that he had to lose a trump trick, declarer would eventually have tried the club finesse and finished with 12 tricks.

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1 Hidden store of money received by auditors (5)
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3 More quickly beheaded flower (5)
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5 Start up again after parking for dare (7)
6 The responsibility of those who are very little with it (2-2-3-6)
7 What could be threatening number in harbour (7)
11 Small amount of broth, cold, available from the menu (7)
12 Looking embarrassed about bad tear in tyre (7)
14 Partially glance towards window (6)
17 Jacket father used around ship (5)
18 What begins day — it's the tiny yellowhammer's simple song (5)

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Daisy Chain a sanctuary in turbulent times

Olivia Rodrigo, who founded the Daisy Chain Fields festival, performs for approximately 45,000 fans at the concert at Great Park in Irvine, Calif., on Saturday. MARIO ANZUONI/REUTERS

An aerial view as fans watch Doechii perform during the Daisy Chain Fields Music Festival on Saturday. MARIO ANZUONI/REUTERS

Sarah McLachlan and Alanis Morissette took turns on stage with Olivia Rodrigo for modern-day Lillith Fair antidote to tariff disputes

RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI IRVINE, CALIF.

CONCERT REVIEW

There was a lot of love for Canadians down in California on Saturday; a reprieve of sorts from how things have been going of late

1 things have been going of late south of the border. Both Sarah McLachlan and Alanis Morissette took turns on stage being celebrated by and performing with Olivia Rodrigo at Daisy Chain Fields, a healing and electrifying music festival in Irvine attended by approximately 45,000 fans.

The festival, which also featured soul-shaking performances from Doechii and Chappell Roan and a monumental finale with Stevie Nicks, was organized by Ms. Rodrigo. She's the brash American pop star behind megahits like deja vu and good 4 u, who is constantly testing the boundaries of what a Gen Z pop star could be.

Ms. Rodrigo took a page from Ms. McLachlan, who launched Lilith Fair in the late 1990s, the legendary tour featuring Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt and Missy Elliott among its all-women lineup. It was Ms. McLachlan's response to a misogynist system that at the time refused to play female artists back-to-back on the radio.

Much of this is covered in Ally Pankiw's recent documentary Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery, which features Ms. Rodrigo, and makes the case that the tour paved the way for a music industry today dominated by women.

“Without Lilith Fair, there would be no Daisy Chain,” Ms. Rodrigo said onstage, introducing Ms. McLachlan before the two delivered a rousing rendition of the latter’s 1997 hit Building a Mystery. They then brought the house to its knees with Angel, dedicating the sentimental duet to the beloved Dolly Parton.

That's a hard act to follow, but Ms. Morissette had the element of surprise. The Lilith Fair alumna wasn't scheduled to appear as part of the stacked lineup, which had more than a dozen artists on deck across two stages in Irvine's Great Park. But a previously announced guest, Karen O, couldn't make it. The crowd erupted when they found out the Jagged Little Pill artist was filling in.

Ms. Rodrigo seemed genuinely excited to be joining Ms. Morissette for an iconic performance of Ironic, with a bit of a twist. Ms. Morissette swapped out some lyrics for a festival celebrating women, diversity and the LGBTQ2IA community: "It's meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful husband."

These soaring duets were layered with meaning: politically, musically and personally, for me, a girl-dad, with family in tow.

Ms. McLachlan and Ms. Morissette joining Ms. Rodrigo onstage to get their flowers felt like an antidote to the current tension between Canada and the U.S., which Donald Trump decided to ratchet up more than a week ago. Entering Daisy Chain Fields didn't so much feel like I was crossing the enemy line that is the Canada-U.S. border but finding sanctuary.

Ms. Rodrigo, the festival's matriarch, has always been a vocal opponent to the U.S. President, putting his administration on blast for defunding Planned Parenthood supports, or for using her music in social-media videos celebrating Mr. Trump's re-election and ICE raids.

She was in good company with likewise vocal artists like rap princess Doechii, glam rock queen Chappell Roan and Garbage lead singer Shirley Manson, artists who have repeatedly spoken out against Mr.

Trump and issues like transphobia, while also speaking up for migrants under attack from ICE and Palestinians under attack in Gaza and the West Bank.

Daisy Chain Fields kept most of those issues front and centre. The artists were performing for free to raise money for Planned Parenthood, domestic workers' rights, Black and Indigenous health, LGBTQIA supports, among others.

Ms. Rodrigo announced onstage that the US\$10-million raised was matched by Melinda French Gates, for a total of US\$20-million. Even as a charity, and a political movement, Daisy Chain Fields echoes Lilith Fair, which made similar philanthropic efforts. As a more narrow-minded teenager, I missed Lilith Fair the first time out, which is why I relished the opportunity to attend its second coming with my family.

Daisy Chain Fields seemed the apotheosis for this moment we're in. This is a euphoric time to be a girl-dad, feeling welcomed to dress in pink in a field full of marigolds, and find in Doechii, Ms. Roan and

The artists were performing for free to raise money for Planned Parenthood, domestic workers' rights, Black and Indigenous health, LGBTQIA supports, among others.

Ms. Rodrigo, along with Sabrina Carpenter and jazz pop sensation Laufey, transcendent singer-songwriters who have captured Gen Z's hearts while demanding Gen X pay attention.

Ms. Rodrigo, who just released her third

album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, and is about to go on tour with stops in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, is perhaps the best example. At 17, she came out swinging in her post-Disney child-star career with her 2021 debut album Sour, the hard-hitting lead track brutal capturing a rebelliousness rooted in self-care.

And since then, she's

grown, invoking influences as varied as Sheryl Crow, Fiona Apple and, on her latest album, The Cure, part of her narratives about falling in and out of love.

Take Ms. Rodrigo's duet with The Cure's Robert Smith, what's wrong with me. The song opens with Ms. Rodrigo singing she's just "staring at the cei-ling," riffing on an old Smith line, "staring at the sea," containing its romanticism and feeling in her

bedroom.

Ms. Rodrigo doesn't just nod to her generational influences, Ms. McLachlan and Ms. Morissette among them, to score points. She negotiates with them. She brings their immensity into her world in the same way that she makes her world feel immense on a song like drop dead, where a guy she spies at a bar, in line for the toilet, appears like “an angel on the walls of Versailles.”

That generational interplay was present among her fellow headliners who are just as adept at hotwiring the classics. Doechii, a rapper with combative flows and inclusive lyrics, got the crowds, who were withering from an extreme California heatwave, roaring to life.

Slathered in hot pink paint from head-to-toe, Doechii was showing off incredible core and vocal strength, unloading her verses over samples and riffs from Beyoncé, Queen Latifah and more, while performing splits, backbends and duckwalks.

After Doechii, I didn't skip across the field to the opposite stage to catch nineties rock band Garbage because we needed to stay seated for Chappell Roan. She came out in a stunning lavender stewardess costume inspired by The Fifth Element and immediately wrapped the masses around her pinky finger performing her '80s and '90s inflected pop hits.

Femininomenon, Hot to Go, My Kink is Karma, Good Luck, Babe! and the all-embracing Pink Pony Club take us on a Wizard of Oz-like journey from the singer's Midwest roots to California, a celebration of finding one's place with a pang of melancholy that you could dance to.

Finally, Ms. Rodrigo took the stage in a white dress, hopping along with the audience, inviting them to scream at everything that's wrong with the world and letting them carry verses to songs they knew by heart.

Along the way, she rolled out her inspos: Ms. McLachlan, Ms. Morissette and Stevie Nicks. The Fleetwood Mac lead joined Ms. Rodrigo for a much anticipated and achingly beautiful duet of the 1975 ballad Landslide to close the night. The two sang together, with Ms. Rodrigo pausing briefly for Ms. Nicks's solo and deliberate delivery of the line, "and I'm getting older, too."

It hit hard, especially for all of us watching this new generation with pride.

Coroners: Brother of man killed in prison fears move could shield wrongdoing

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The provincial government says annual reviews of correctional fatalities would better identify broader systemic issues and provide more timely recommendations, while avoiding retraumatizing families.

The government proposed the rule change online last December and asked stakeholder groups to provide written feedback within a month. However, after facing criticism for not consulting people whose loved ones had died in jail, the coroner's office said additional meetings were being planned this summer with families and Indigenous representatives.

The coroner's office has a backlog of cases; inquests typically happen five to seven years after a death occurs. In 2024, the office held 47 inquests, 45 of which were mandatory. Coroners also have the option to call inquests at their discretion, including relating to public-safety issues.

The total number of inmates who have died in provincial custody has been increasing over the past 15 years, rising to 41 in 2025 from 16 in 2010, according to the coroner's office. The numbers include natural deaths, drug overdoses and suicides. Most people in provincial custody are awaiting trial.

Eliminating the requirement for inquests is wrong given the unique environment and high death rate in jails, said Howard Sapers, a former federal correctional investigator who is now executive director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

“We're not talking about a small matter here,” he said. “We are talking about somebody's death when they are in a total institution that the government is operating, which means that their very life depends on the government doing its job properly.”

Critics argue the government's proposal is part of a broader attempt to erode scrutiny of correctional institutions that could lead to more deaths.

"It's just going to limit further transparency in an already kind of crisis situation in the province," said Prof. McClelland, who leads the Tracking (In) Justice project, which includes researchers from several universities and interest groups. He said the government should instead increase funding to clear the inquest backlog and implement existing recommendations.

In 2023, a coroner's expert panel on Ontario jail deaths released a report saying capacity limitations, including overcrowding and frequent lockdowns due to staff shortages, were causing unsafe conditions and must be addressed to prevent further fatalities. The report also urged the government to increase oversight, improve inmate health care and provide more staff training.

The total number of inmates who have died in provincial custody has been increasing over the past 15 years, rising to 41 in 2025 from 16 in 2010, according to the coroner's office.

Premier Doug Ford's government is planning to spend \$3-billion to build new jails and expand existing facilities over the next decade, said Saddam Khussain, spokesman for Solicitor-General Michael Kerzner. He said the province is also hiring hundreds of new correctional workers.

Yusuf Faqiri, whose brother Soleiman was killed at the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ont., in 2016, fears that eliminating mandatory inquests could shield wrongdoing, especially in cases where inmates die at the hands of guards.

"The public has a right to know what's going on," he said. "Our jails are a mess and when somebody dies in these systems, especially with mental-health ... challenges, this is the only mechanism that exists, and to take this mechanism away is going to have a consequential impact for years to come."

A coroner's jury ruled in 2023 that Soleiman's death was a homicide. The 30-year-old was in a severe psychotic crisis when guards beat, pepper-sprayed and shackled him by his wrists and ankles in a segregation cell. A spit hood was placed over his head, and he was left lying stomach-down on the floor. He stopped breathing and was declared dead minutes later.

No jail staff were charged despite Soleiman sustaining at least 50 injuries. Though the jury concluded his death was a homicide, it was not a criminal finding and carried no legal liability.

Still, Mr. Faqiri, whose family spent years attempting to get justice, said the inquest was “monumental” because it revealed how his brother died. “Our path to justice was getting to the truth. That's the difference that the in-quest made. ... If we didn't have an inquest, the public would not know what happened to Soleiman Faqiri."

The Ontario government is proposing amending the Coroners Act to require annual reviews for non-natural correctional deaths to improve the system, said Mr. Khussain, spokesman for the Solicitor-General. He said the coroner's office could still hold discretionary inquests when warranted.

"This approach supports a more timely, system-wide review of in-custody deaths," he said in an e-mail. Annual reviews would "help ensure recommendations are delivered more efficiently."

The province received 42 submissions after posting the proposal online, many of which supported “the continuation of inquests into in-custody deaths” while recognizing “the benefits of alternative approaches,” said Julia Noonan, manager of program delivery and strategy at the coroner’s office.

In 2024, the province adopted annual reviews for accidental construction deaths, which previously triggered mandatory coroner's inquests.

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MARK RENDELL ECONOMICS REPORTER

The Bank of Canada is expected to bide its time this week as it wrestles with an escalating trade war that risks pushing up consumer prices while hammering economic growth.

The odds of an interest-rate hike or cut were already low heading into the fall. Now, the breakdown of trade negotiations between Ottawa and Washington – followed by tit-for-tat tariff threats – makes it even more likely the bank will keep its benchmark interest rate steady at 2.25 per cent at Wednesday's rate announcement, analysts say.

"The only option for the bank is to wait and see," said Jeremy Kronick, chief executive officer of the C.D. Howe Institute and chair of the organization's monetary-policy council.

"We could go back to the negotiating table. I have a feeling the Prime Minister is going to want to have something positive when he hosts the investment summit on the 14th and 15th of September, so lots could change between now and then."

On Aug. 22, U.S. President Donald Trump imposed new 50-percent tariffs on around \$28-billion worth of Canadian exports after Mark Carney walked away from the negotiating table. Ottawa responded by outlining “dollar-for-dollar” countertrariffs against U.S. products, which are scheduled to come into force on Sept. 8. RATES, B6

New data centre could cause spike in Alberta electricity bills, report says

MATTHEW McCLEARN

A data centre under construction north of Edmonton could raise power bills by between \$270 and \$460 annually for Albertan households, according to a new report by the Pembina Institute, an energy think tank.

The facility north of Edmonton, announced by tech giant Meta in July, is expected to begin operating in two to three years' time. David Pickup, director of Pembina's electricity program, said its startup will be equivalent to adding a city the size of Calgary to the grid.

While a natural-gas-fired power plant will also be constructed at the same site to help power the facility, Mr. Pickup said Alberta's rules allow data centres to connect to the grid prior to bringing their own dedicated generating units online.

This temporary mismatch could cause consumer electricity rates to spike – an effect that would be repeated if Alberta is successful in attracting more data centres. "It's just simple economics that if you have more demand and you don't have more supply, prices go up," he said.

Meta dismissed Pembina's methodology and conclusions; in a statement, spokesperson Julia Perreira said they were "based on hypotheticals and assumptions."

A spokesperson for the provincial government, which has aggressively courted data centres for the past two years, accused Pembina of fearmongering.

It's the latest scuffle in an intensifying global debate about the consequences of data centres' massive electricity needs, how they're satisfied and who pays. POWER, B6

Manufacturers are experiencing the impact of trade uncertainty and are transitioning their operations to serve major Canadian military contractors such as General Dynamics Land Systems, which builds armoured vehicles. CARLOS OSORIO/REUTERS

Hit by tariffs, Canadian tool-and-die makers eye defence industry

PIPPA NORMAN

told The Globe and Mail in an interview.

INNOVATION REPORTER

Tool-and-die manufacturers in this country are seeking opportunities in Canada's growing defence industry as business in their major markets stalls amid a worsening trade war with the United States.

The automotive, steel and aluminum sectors have been especially hard hit by U.S. tariffs, and tooling companies rely upon inputs such as steel to make their products and sectors such as automotive or consumer goods to buy them.

The levies range from 15 to 50 per cent, and the consequent rising cost of doing business is forcing many to look elsewhere for new lines of work.

In particular, they're turning to a growing sector that's seemingly flush with federal funds and already has a well-established presence in areas such as Southern Ontario through major contractors such as defence company General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS), which builds military vehicles.

"With this big spend and promise from the federal government in military and defence, everybody's looking at it as an option and saying, 'Okay, where do I fit in?' " said Louis Jahn, president of the Canadian Tooling and Machining Association.

Some of his members are already selling into defence and others aren't interested in making the transition, he said. But for those feeling the effects of business uncertainty in the U.S. and Canada since early last year, the idea of tapping into an industry in which Ottawa is committing consistent spending over the next decade is a relatively easy sell.

The federal government recognizes the opportunity and need for industry to transition if Ottawa is going to achieve a domestic defence supply chain. At an event earlier this summer in Oldcastle, Ont., Defence Minister David McGuinty stepped in to help play matchmaker between major defence contractors, often called primes, and the tool, die and mould (TDM) industry.

He delivered a keynote address at a breakfast gathering, which was held by the Windsor Essex Chamber of Commerce and the Canadian Tooling and Machining Association.

With him, Mr. McGuinty said, he brought several primes, including GDLS, Boeing, Bombardier, CAE and GM Defense.

"I said, 'Okay, primes, meet TDM executives and employees and labour reps. You folks in the audience, meet the primes. Now, when I finish talking, you're going to go into a room together, and you're going to tell each other what it is you can do,' he

These connections are key, said Chris Hergott, vice-president of operations and co-owner of XL Tool Inc. based in Kitchener, Ont., particularly since one of the hardest parts of breaking into the defence sector is relationship building.

XL Tool started working on getting its foot in the defence door about two years ago. It was part of a plan to ensure the business, which is currently about 40 per cent automotive tooling and 60 per cent other tooling for industries such as energy, stays resilient in a changing market. Around 15 years ago, XL began selling into the nuclear sector with the same mindset, Mr. Hergott said. "We're always in a growth mode."

But just like it took five to eight years before the company began seeing real benefits out of its nuclear work, breaking into defence will take time, he said.

"It's a long, tedious road. If you think you're just going to turn off the automotive switch and hit the defence switch, it doesn't work like that."

Two years ago, Mr. Hergott began this effort by registering XL Tool with Ottawa's Controlled Goods Program (CGP), so it could examine, possess or transfer components and technical data with military or national-security significance that are controlled by the federal government. ■ DEFENCE, B6

PROSPERITY'S PATH

Canada's auto sector is marked for death. Here's how we can save it

TOM MacDONALD

OPINION

Autos were at heart of the recent collapse of Canada-U.S. trade negotiations, and U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to enact a 50-per-cent auto tariff in January makes it unlikely that we can maintain an integrated North American automotive market while he is around.

Mr. Trump has often proclaimed that Canada should not be producing any vehicles. On Sunday he posted on social media: "I don't want Canadian cars, I don't want Canadian parts, I don't want Canadian anything."

During the recent negotiations, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick tried to bring that closer to reality with one of his last-minute poison pills – excluding trucks from any U.S. tariff relief, knowing that they represent most of the production at General Motors Co.'s Oshawa, Ont., plant and that Ford Motor Co. is retooling its Oakville, Ont., facility to produce them.

The Canada-U.S. auto industry has been closely integrated since the 1965 auto pact, with huge benefits for both countries: lower consumer costs, better wages for workers, major productivity gains and higher profits for U.S.-based automakers. But Mr.

Trump does not believe in win-win arrangements. He is happy to inflict economic losses on his own country as long as he thinks that he is inflicting greater losses on a trading partner.

Honda Motor Co. Ltd., which already suspended a Canadian project, said on Wednesday it would not build another North American plant without an extension of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. And last Monday, shares of major Canadian auto-parts companies fell as much as 9.7 per cent on the collapse of trade talks.

For Canada, the moment is dire. More than 125,000 people are directly employed in the country's auto sector, and 427,000 jobs are indirectly linked. In 2024, the sector was responsible for \$17-billion of economic activity. If the integrated North American auto market unravels, the fall-out compounds and spreads across the wider economy.

How should Canada respond?

Perhaps previous experience should guide us. Before the 1965 auto pact (eventually superseded by free-trade deals), Canada's auto tariff was up to 25 per cent. The auto pact granted the Detroit 3 (GM, Ford and Chrysler – now Stellantis NV) duty-free entry to the Canadian market for vehicles and parts, but with specific conditions.

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High debt, rising prices catch up to Trump

As midterms near, some of the President's policies have prolonged or worsened economic struggles of Americans

TONY ROMM WASHINGTON

In the nearly two years since President Donald Trump clinched his return to office, the U.S. economy has come under great duress, leaving families and businesses to suffer through the expensive consequences of constant global conflict and soaring government debt.

It was the financial frustration of a pandemic-weary electorate that helped Mr. Trump and his fellow Republicans take charge in Washington in 2024, which they promised to use to defeat the scourge of inflation and slash the profligate government spending they saw as the root of the problem.

But Mr. Trump's actions in office have complicated – if not undermined – those pledges. With two months until the midterms, some of his policies have prolonged or worsened the economic fortunes of those he promised to help.

It began with a punishing global trade war, which exacerbated the nation's long quest to bring down the cost of living in the years following the pandemic. This week, the President escalated that offensive and took renewed aim at Canada, setting off a costly tariff tit-for-tat that could drive up prices for Americans.

Nor is the war with Iran anywhere close to complete. The seemingly intractable conflict, which reached the six-month mark Friday, has kept gas prices sky-high. And the costs of Mr. Trump's ongoing military intervention have further exacerbated the nation's fiscal woes, helping to send the debt soaring past US\$40-trillion. The development has roiled the bond market in ways that have implicated Americans' finances, chiefly by making borrowing, including mortgages, more expensive.

The President still maintains that his administration has helped families and businesses, and righted the wrongs of his predecessor, president Joe Biden. But polls increasingly suggest that voters have tired of Mr. Trump's appeals for patience as he enacts his full agenda. That appears poised to turn the midterms into a referendum on Mr. Trump's credibility on the economy – a key source for his political rise.

Olu Sonola, the head of U.S. economics at Fitch Ratings, described the dynamic around persistently high prices in America as “death by a thousand cuts.”

He pointed to a confluence of factors, from war to tariffs, that have surfaced over the past year. Mr. Sonola said those developments had exacerbated inflation – and, importantly, shaded consumers' expectations about the state of the economy.

"The drip, drip, drip -week in and week out, month in and month out - has an impact," he said.

For Mr. Trump, the stakes are laid bare in a series of concerning economic snapshots released in recent weeks. That includes a key gauge of inflation, published Wednesday, which found that prices in July rose by 3.7 per cent compared with a year earlier.

It was the same annualized rate as measured in June, illustrating that price pressures are stuck at a level well above the Federal Reserve's target.

Not all is bad under Mr. Trump. The economy is growing, manufacturing is on the upswing and

People shop for groceries at a supermarket in New York on Tuesday. A key gauge of inflation, published Wednesday, found that prices in the U.S. in July rose by 3.7 per cent compared with a year earlier. ANGELA WEISS/ AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Tariffs are taxes on imports, so much as before, the President's actions appeared primed to hammer American shoppers who buy Canadian goods. In one estimate, the non-partisan Yale Budget Lab projected this month that households would face, on average, about US\$1,100 in additional annual costs from Mr. Trump's updated slate of duties.

the labour market has remained steady. Those positives come amid a surge of new investments in artificial intelligence, one that has produced record days in financial markets and raised the odds of an economic boom as the technology truly takes hold.

But Gregory Daco, the chief economist at EY-Parthenon, said some of the data nonetheless illustrated the “economy that could have been.” In a research note this week, he said the United States might have seen more robust growth and other improvements if not for a set of recent shocks that were “policy driven.”

One of those shocks arrived last Saturday, when Mr. Trump officially slapped new tariffs on a subset of imports from Canada, then threatened additional, steep duties on the country's auto industry. As Canada moved later to retaliate, the spat recalled the frenetic opening days of Mr. Trump's global trade war that roiled allies and adversaries alike.

Tariffs are taxes on imports, so much as before, the President's actions appeared primed to hammer American shoppers who buy Canadian goods. In one estimate, the non-partisan Yale Budget Lab projected this month that households would face, on average, about US\$1,100 in additional annual costs from Mr. Trump's updated slate of duties. But, when asked Thursday about the potential for price increases, Mr. Trump claimed that his tariffs on Canada would be "very good for us."

Sarah House, a senior economist with Wells Fargo, ultimately projected that inflation could end the year around 3.5 per cent. That would be well above what some experts had originally anticipated at the start of 2026, she said, before a confluence of factors – from the rise of AI to policy decisions in the nation's capital – upended the rosier forecasts.

"There's this big gap between what consumers are taking in" and "how fast money is going out the door," Ms. House explained.

In a statement, Christopher Phelan, the new chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, maintained that long-term expectations around inflation “have remained tempered and unchanged since the beginning of the administration.”

But the uncertainty stemming from Mr. Trump's policies has complicated matters for the Fed, where policymakers have grown restive about inflation but have held back on raising rates to tame it — at least for now.

"We must be confident that underlying inflation is moving to our objective, clearly and at sufficient speed," Kevin Warsh, the chair of the Fed, said during a speech Friday in Jackson, Wyo. "Otherwise, we have work to do."

The central bank has been tested in particular by Mr. Trump's war with Iran, which has caused fuel prices to rise globally. By Friday, the average price at the U.S. pump was still above US\$4 a gallon, according to AAA, about a dollar more than a year ago. The energy shock has similarly hit diesel and jet fuel, making shipping and travel more expensive.

While the Fed has opted for caution, Mr. Trump has ratcheted up his demands for swift cuts to interest rates. Ignoring the risk that a steep drop could actually exacerbate inflation, Mr. Trump portrayed the reluctant Fed board this month as political and insisted that its governors give cuts a try.

"Now, when we announce good numbers, which we're doing all the time, they keep driving the interest rates up, because they're so afraid of inflation," Mr. Trump said at a recent White House event. "And they shouldn't be. They should allow interest rates to go down."

For Mr. Trump, there's much at stake in the Fed's decision. As he browbeats the board on monetary policy, the President has also spoken openly about his desire to see borrowing costs lowered so that it is cheaper for the government itself to borrow.

Those demands have come against the backdrop of an ominous milestone: the national debt's surpassing US\$40-trillion, further outpacing the country's total economic output in a given year. The yawning gap underscored just how little Mr. Trump and his Republican allies have managed to cut spending, despite promising austerity to voters two years ago.

"It's all talk," said Jessica Riedl, a budget and tax fellow at the Brookings Institution and former aide to a Republican senator.

Ms. Riedl recalled Mr. Trump's promises to eliminate the debt entirely, a goal many saw as unrealistic. Instead, the fiscal imbalance has worsened, as has the cost of servicing the debt, which now ranks among the government's largest expenses.

"Republicans always say, 'Give us control of government, and we'll slash spending,' " Ms. Riedl added. "They have control of government, and they have no excuse left."

Repeatedly, the GOP-led Congress has rejected the deepest cuts in Mr. Trump's budget submissions. In the process, the President has added to the problem. He has pushed this year for a surge of new military funding that would add to the debt. That is on top of a package of tax cuts enacted last year, which may spur economic activity but still could cost the country trillions over the next decade.

Otherwise, Mr. Trump's attempts to cut spending have largely been limited to unilateral actions to cut spending the administration sees as wasteful – efforts that often have been stymied by federal courts.

"I think they're doing the things they can do with the levers that are available to them as an administration," said Daniel Kowalski, a budget policy expert at the Heritage Foundation, a right-leaning group. "But there does come a point where you need some help from the legislative branch, and that has not been happening."

Still, two years of inaction in Washington have rattled Wall Street. Rising yields have rippled across the economy, since consumer borrowing closely tracks the trajectory of 10-year bonds.

In response, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a rare move this month to buy up more government bonds, though it had only a temporary effect. Mr. Bessent also promised a full road map for “fiscal consolidation” to rein in spending, though he provided no details about those plans.

The pledge recalled Mr. Bessent's bold promises at the start of Mr. Trump's term to bring the nation's deficit down to 3 per cent of its total output, a target still far in the distance. Still, the secretary maintained that the Trump administration was on track – and would reach its goal in due time.

"We are creating productive assets for future growth, which will be paying taxes all the way down the line," he told Newsmax. "So I think of that more like pulling back the slingshot and creating a lot of potential energy that becomes kinetic."

NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

U.S. Treasury bars some reporters from G20 finance meeting

BENJAMIN MULLIN

When leaders from the world's leading rich and developing nations gather this week for the Group of 20 finance meeting in Asheville, N.C., they will be joined by throngs of journalists from newsrooms around the globe.

Missing from among them, though, will be several reporters from three of the largest newsrooms in the United States.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has not granted credentials to individual reporters for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News to cover the event, which will draw finance ministers and central bank governors from the world's biggest economies.

Alan Rappeport, an economic policy reporter who reports on the Treasury Department for Times, has been excluded from the meeting. Since he began covering the department in 2017, he has attended nearly a dozen G7 and G20 meetings in person.

Matt Grossman, an economics reporter for The Wall Street Journal, was also denied a credential. A spokesperson for the Journal declined to comment.

Nicole Taylor, a spokesperson for the Times, said in a statement that the decision was “not just another disturbing effort by the administration to undermine independent journalism, but a blatant attempt to evade public scrutiny."

"With the war in Iran, sanctions, the bond markets and inflation on the agenda for the G20 finance ministers, the stakes of this gathering are significant for the global economy and the American people," the statement said.

A spokesperson for the Treasury Department said in a statement that the department would be welcoming “nearly 300 members of the media from approximately a dozen countries,” including reporters from NPR, The Washington Post and Al Jazeera.

"Secretary [Scott] Bessent will participate in numerous media engagements throughout the event, including one-on-one interviews with local and national outlets across the political spectrum," the spokesperson said. "Members of the media will have a high level of access to policymakers throughout the event, and with that access comes a responsibility to report factual information consistent with established journalistic standards."

The Treasury spokesperson added that a reporter from the Times would attend. The department granted a credential to Jim Tankersley, the Times' Berlin bureau chief who reports on Germany and other parts of Europe.

Dick Stevenson, the Times' Washington bureau chief, sent a letter to the Treasury Department on Thursday asking officials to reconsider the decision not to credential Mr. Rappeport, according to a Times spokesperson. So far, the department has not reversed its decision.

The decision to exclude individual reporters is the latest example of the Trump administration restricting access to certain journalists.

Last year, the Pentagon imposed a restrictive press policy that prompted dozens of journalists from mainstream publications to surrender their press badges in protest. The Times sued the Pentagon, arguing that the new policy violated the First Amendment, and a judge later ruled that it was unconstitutional.

NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

Iran war exacts an uneven economic toll on the U.S.

An options trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday in New York. Since the market bottomed in late March, the Dow has gained nearly 19 per cent, the S&P is up almost 22 per cent and the Nasdaq has surged 27 per cent. YUKI IWAMURA/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Six months into the conflict, investors prosper while consumers pay

MATT SEDENSKY NEW YORK

As the U.S. and Israel relentlessly bombed Iran in the opening days of war, the most dramatic predictions of the conflict's toll were unsparing: surging oil prices, worldwide recession and economic catastrophe.

But six months into the conflict, the direst predictions haven't come true even if no corner of the world's economy has been untouched.

“So far, the global economy has pulled off the financial equivalent of a Mission Impossible scene,” said Michael Ashley Schulman, an investment strategist with Curity Partners.

Here's a look at how the global economy has weathered the war, and who have been the winners and losers.

WINNER: INVESTORS WHO DIDN'T PANIC

Stock markets hate uncertainty, and the decision by the U.S. and Israel to attack Iran on Feb. 28 delivered heaps of it. Columns of smoke rose from Tehran, frantic Iranians clogged roadways trying to escape and mounting deaths, including of children, made headlines. It was enough for any investor to feel squeamish.

Oil prices surged and Wall Street began a retreat that would begin five consecutive losing weeks. The Dow and Nasdaq entered corrections. The S&P 500 had its worst month since 2022.

But a major turnaround has unfolded since the market bottomed in late March. The Dow has gained nearly 19 per cent, the S&P is up almost 22 per cent and the Nasdaq has surged 27 per cent. If those gains survive the waning months of 2026, all three indexes would post their fourth consecutive year of gains.

The International Monetary Fund, in a July report, said the economy was “being shaped by two major forces, pushing in opposite directions.” The war has strained growth, but enthusiasm over artificial intelligence has offset the drag.

Main Street may be paying more for fuel, food and travel. But Wall Street, so far, is shrugging it off.

LOSER: ANYONE ON THE MOVE

The war's most obvious economic consequence has been its impact on oil. With tanker movement through the Strait of Hormuz slowed to a crawl, the price of Brent crude climbed from a prewar close of about US\$72 a barrel to as high as nearly US\$120. Although prices have eased, they are still up about 20 per cent from before the war.

Oil's price affects everything from crayons to cosmetics, but it hits anyone on the move especially hard.

Jet fuel is expected to cost, on average, 70 per cent more than in 2025, according to the International Air Transport Association. Airlines, in turn, have raised ticket costs, hiked baggage fees and slapped on fuel surcharges while slashing flights or backing off from plans for added routes. Lufthansa Group, for one, cut 20,000 short-haul flights. Spirit Airlines, though troubled for years, evaporated.

"The likelihood that fuel surcharges are going to be rolled back and airfares are going to be brought down is very low over the next few months," said Brett House, a Columbia University economist. "There is less choice for consumers and less competition between airlines, and therefore, less pressure to rein in fare increases."

WINNER: THE CASE FOR CLEAN POWER

With tankers at a standstill and fuel prices climbing, the war strengthened a clean-power sales pitch.

Sales of electric vehicles hit records in some parts of the world. In Singapore, year-over-year growth of EVs reached 110 per cent. In New Zealand, the figure hit 180 per cent. And in Colombia, EVs notched a 300-percent increase.

Worldwide, EVs are projected to account for 29 per cent of total vehicle sales in 2026, according to an International Energy Agency outlook, up from 25 per cent last year. That growth is even more impressive considering the world's two biggest economies, the United States and China, saw declining demand for EVs.

Countries that were particularly reliant on Persian Gulf oil have been spurred to action. In Southeast Asia, leaders have rolled out more use of renewable energy and researched deploying nuclear power. In Africa, countries have looked to expand domestic refining and accelerated the installation of solar panels.

Scott Lehmann, a supply chain expert at Sphera, an operational intelligence firm, counts 26 countries and regions that have announced clean energy and electrification measures in response to the war.

"The crisis is forcing investment faster than any policy framework would have," he said.

LOSER: THE FIGHT AGAINST HUNGER

For the privileged, the costs brought by war may barely be a blip. For the poorest, it's a different story.

With the Gulf not just a leader in global oil production, but also of fertilizer, the war has dealt a blow to farmers. Just as many were making decisions about their crops, fertilizer prices soared, peaking in April at 44 per cent higher than before the war, according to the World Bank's price index.

In response, some farmers trimmed their fertilizer use, potentially imperiling next year's harvests. "If you're reducing your fertilizer usage right now, it's in a way borrowing against next year's soil health," said Arif Gasilov, a natural resources expert with the Gasilov Group consultancy.

The United Nations World Food Programme has warned that tens of millions could be pushed into hunger. In testimony this week, its acting executive director, Carl Skau, said the “suffocation of fertilizer exports” had hit Asia and Africa hard. Higher transportation costs hindered the WFP’s own humanitarian efforts, too.

"An oil tanker anchored in the Strait of Hormuz can mean one less meal a day for a child in Sudan," Mr. Skau said. "When oil prices go up, so does the price of flour, rice and vegetables."

WINNER: THE TRUMPS'S BUSINESSES

The war has already cost the U.S. tens of billions of dollars and caused thousands in Iranian casualties. It has shaved an estimated hundreds of billions of dollars from projected global output.

But the family of the man at the center of it all, President Donald Trump, has been among the beneficiaries.

Military contractor Powerus, about to be taken public by Eric and Donald Trump Jr., won an Air Force contract worth as much as US\$90-million to supply interceptors to shoot down Iranian drones. Similarly, the private equity firm 1789 Capital Management, which Don Jr. joined days after his father's re-election, owns stakes in several other military contractors profiting from the war. One of them, Anduril, won U.S. approval for up to US\$2-billion in sales of drone interceptors to Kuwait. A second, Elon Musk's SpaceX, is providing satellite service to guide U.S. drones against Iran. And a third – rocket maker Firehawk Defense – won Pentagon contracts for propellants and warheads to replenish dwindling U.S. supplies.

A spokesperson for 1789 Capital, Alexa Henning, said Don Jr. wasn't involved in the decision to put money in those companies, so there is no "nefarious connection."

The President himself has done well, too.

His investment portfolio run by outside managers has scooped up shares of U.S. military suppliers helped by the war, including Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman. Democrats released a report this week saying Mr. Trump's holdings in oil and gas stocks have soared by as much as US\$15.5-million.

A White House spokesperson, Anna Kelly, insisted “there are no conflicts of interest” and that “President Trump only acts in the best interests of the American public.”

Even as Mr. Trump's personal finances have benefited, his political fortunes are another question. The conflict has been unpopular and could weigh on voters as midterm elections near.

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Head of federal agency organizing Carney's investment summit resigns

JAMESON BERKOW CAPITAL MARKETS REPORTER

The head of the federal agency tasked with organizing Prime Minister Mark Carney's high-stakes Canada Investment Summit is resigning.

Laurel Broten, chief executive officer of Invest in Canada, informed her staff last week that she will be leaving her position as of Sept. 1, according to a source familiar with the matter. The Globe and Mail is not identifying the source, who was not authorized to disclose that information.

Ms. Broten is a former Ontario cabinet minister and Bay Street litigator. She has led the agency responsible for attracting foreign direct investment in Canada since 2022. Messages left on Ms. Broten's voicemail and an e-mail sent to her personal account were not immediately returned.

Invest in Canada is helping co-ordinate the Prime Minister's inaugural gathering of top global business leaders in Toronto on Sept. 14 and 15 alongside two of the country's largest institutional investors who are serving as co-hosts: the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board.

The summit, which is expected to bring together the largest group of financial decision-makers ever to assemble in Canada, has garnered even more attention in the wake of a rapidly evolving trade war with the United States. As many as 250 executives from 28 countries that collectively manage nearly \$120-trillion are expected to attend the event. Mr. Carney is under pressure to deliver on a promise to attract \$500-billion in new private-sector investment over the next five years.

Ms. Broten has been playing a key role in planning the summit's logistical details, the source said, including booking venues and selecting plenary session topics. Another source disputed that characterization, saying her main contribution has been the provision of a small number of Invest in Canada staff to support the primary organizers.

The date of her resignation means she is leaving two weeks before the most high-profile event in her agency's history is due to take place.

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Rising securities fees threaten competitiveness

Regulatory costs are climbing in Canada, with many systemic internal barriers to efficiency

ANDY MITCHELL

OPINION

President and chief executive of the Securities and Investment Management Association

Around the world, governments are competing for one of the world's most valuable resources: investment capital.

Countries with efficient regulatory systems have a definite competitive advantage. For example, the European Union is targeting a 25-per-cent reduction in administrative burden for businesses, Britain is aiming to cut regulatory costs by the same 25 per cent, and the U.S. is repealing 10 existing regulations for every new one it creates.

But in Canada, regulatory costs are climbing, and there are many systemic internal barriers to efficiency.

There was progress recently when Ontario committed to joining Canada's regulatory passport system, which allows securities firms to gain access to capital markets through a single regulator, reducing friction and making it easier to conduct business across provinces and territories. With the whole country participating in the system in the near future, firms will be able to raise capital and scale nationally with fewer obstacles.

But while we've seen momentum toward greater regulatory harmonization, rising fees are posing a threat to competitiveness.

Fees are important, of course, within reason. Regulators use them to oversee markets, maintain market integrity and protect investors.

However, over the past decade, Canada's four largest securities regulators raised fees by 54 per cent, while their operating expenses went up by a whopping 71 per cent. This is well above the 28-percent rise in consumer prices in the same period. It's worth noting that during this

The Ontario Securities Commission plans to raise fees based on inflation, but fees already go up as the industry's revenue grows, so firms could end up paying twice over. MELISSA TAIT/THE GLOBE AND MAIL

Now, securities regulators in Ontario and British Columbia are proposing significant fee increases after Quebec's hike this past spring. The Ontario Securities Commission plans to raise fees based on inflation, but fees already go up as the industry's revenue grows, so firms could end up paying twice over. In fact, the OSC's fee proposal says some firms' annual fees could jump from \$2,037,500 to \$3,055,500 in the top tier, and from \$100,500 to \$331,500 in one of the middle tiers – an astonishing

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est, the BC Securities Commission has twice in two years increased fees on companies when they raise money through certain private investment offerings.

This is a flashing red light for businesses hoping to establish or expand in Canada. Global investors looking for a place to put their money ask questions such as what are the margins, what's the complexity, what's the burden, how attractive is it really?

High fees affect businesses of all sizes, but for smaller firms and new entrants, the burden can be particularly onerous. When they have to spend money navigating unduplication, and complexity

spend money navigating an duplication and complexity, less available to invest in innovation, new technologies, cybersecurity, business expansion or job creation.

Ever-mounting fees might be easier to digest if we could understand the rationale, such as by providing transparency about cost recovery, offering predictability using multiyear frameworks and showing discipline in addressing existing surpluses before raising fees. But that is not what we are seeing.

Firms also face a complicated mix of fee structures, calculation methods and filing requirements across the country. For businesses trying to grow and thrive nationally, that fragmentation is another major roadblock. Equally important, complexity can affect broader economic growth and potentially discourage further investment in businesses.

These conflicting policies – one step forward with the passport system and two steps back with fee increases and regulatory complexity – are signs that we need a more co-ordinated approach to economic competitiveness.

We are in a good position to compete otherwise. Our political, regulatory and legal institutions are stable. Our capital markets and pension funds are recognized globally. And we have the investment expertise, emerging AI technology and diverse talent that appeals to investors. Few countries have these advantages.

A lot is at stake if we don't step up our game. Canada's investment industry manages more than \$4.5-trillion on behalf of approximately 20 million Canadians. It supports roughly 415,000 jobs, contributes more than two per cent to Canada's gross domestic product and helps funnel capital into Canadian businesses, infrastructure and, indeed, our future.

Ontario's commitment to join the passport system demonstrates that there is an appetite for greater harmonization without compromising the guardrails that keep investors safe.

Governments, regulators and industry should work together to push for solutions that make it easier to invest, innovate, compete in the marketplace and deliver results for Canadian investors.

MacDonald: Canada should impose 25-per-cent tariff on all vehicle imports

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One was that, each year, they had to produce as many vehicles in Canada as they sold here. "Build 'em where you sell 'em," the principle went. Then, when Japanese companies began to capture a significant market share in the 1980s, we negotiated so-called "voluntary export restraints" to limit the sale of Japanese vehicles until those companies undertook to establish Canadian production facilities. "Build 'em where you sell 'em."

Bearing that in mind, we should definitely mirror whatever auto tariffs Trump imposes, while tying any tariff relief for the Detroit 3 to their continued levels of Canadian production. But let's also remember that this is a global industry. Matching Trump's tariffs may only result in U.S. manufacturers shifting to their Mexican operations to supply the Canadian market. To prevent such trade diversion, and to keep our domestic auto manufacturing sector alive, Canada should enact a 25-per-cent global tariff on all vehicle imports.

Tariffs for the rest of the world, with relief tied to Canadian production, would induce Japanese manufacturers to maintain their so-far admirable commitment to Canada in order to ensure tariff relief. And companies not in Canada, such as Hyundai Motor Company, would be more inclined to invest here. Focusing on non-American automakers is key.

Under the auto pact, production surged in Canada. But since the 1980s, much has changed. The 1988 Canada-U.S. free-trade agreement, followed by NAFTA, put an end to the auto pact production safeguards and also saw the Detroit 3 shift production to Mexico. Canadian vehicle output peaked at roughly three million units in 1999, fifth in the world. In 2025, our output was down to 1.2 million and we were fifteenth.

The decline of the Detroit 3 in Canada has been particularly dramatic. By 2025, they represented only 24 per cent of Canadian vehicle production, with the other 76 per cent coming from Toyota and Honda. Since the trade war began, we have seen a further pullback by the Detroit 3. GM ceased its electric van production in Ingersoll, Ont., and suspended its third shift in Oshawa. Stellantis closed its Brampton, Ont., facility and shifted Jeep production to the U.S. despite receiving more than \$200-million in Canadian government subsidies. Ford's Oakville plant has sat idle since 2024, although it is being retooled in anticipation of the F-Series truck.

In the days of the auto pact, the Detroit 3 normally exceeded their one-to-one production-to-sales ratio requirement by a considerable margin. By 2025, however, the overall ratio in Canada was down to 0.6 vehicles produced for each one sold. And that is only because Toyota and Honda produce many more vehicles than they sell here. Production by each of the Detroit 3 sits far below sales. Hyundai has no production but sells more vehicles than Honda. So much for "Build 'em where you sell 'em".

The industry is now at a crossroads. If Mr. Trump is determined to undermine the long-established North American integration, it will be bad news for both countries and particularly for the Detroit 3. But we can't control the President's erratic impulses. Nor should we believe that any trade agreement will do so, or that any post-Trump regime will quickly roll back the tariffs he puts in place. We should follow Prime Minister Mark Carney's maxim of focusing on controlling what we can control, which includes the conditions for access to our own market.

Canada's vehicle market, the world's eighth largest in 2025, remains buoyant and highly profitable. Our industry was built on leveraging access to that market in exchange for production. We moved away from that principle and lowered access barriers in a world order evolving toward freer trade governed by multilateral rules. But those days are gone and, as Mr. Carney said at Davos, this is probably not a temporary rupture. We need to adapt to the new world disorder.

The principle of “Build ‘em where you sell ‘em” has served us well in the past. It would serve us well again. A move by Canada to enact a 25-per-cent global tariff on all autos would not be World Trade Organization-consistent (any more than our 100-per-cent tariff on Chinese vehicles). It would also run contrary to our bilateral and regional free-trade agreements. But desperate times require desperate measures. Mr. Trump has already bullied our main non-U.S. auto suppliers – the EU, Japan, Korea, Mexico – into accepting tariffs between 15 per cent and 25 per cent. Surely, they should provide a non-bullying ally like Canada a similar level of understanding and forbearance. If Mr. Carney's middle-power solidarity has any validity, this is a place to test it.

There are those who argue we should simply be prepared to see our vehicle manufacturing industry disappear, as Australia did. That would truly be a shame for a country where the sector has had such a long tradition and contributed so much. But with Mr. Trump's attacks, we will probably be headed in that direction if we merely respond with half-measures. It is time to be bold.

Elbows up!

Tom MacDonald is a former director for automotive policy in the Department of Industry and former director general for Canada-U.S. trade relations at Global Affairs Canada. He was a member of Canada's negotiating team for the North American free-trade agreement.

This essay is part of the Prosperity's Path series. In a time of geopolitical instability and a shifting world order, the challenges facing Canada's economy have only gotten more visible, numerous and intense. This series examines the path forward.

How Meta's \$17.1-billion social media settlement happened

Mark Zuckerberg, centre, Meta's chief executive, departs after testifying in a tech addiction trial at California Superior Court of Los Angeles County in February. MARK ABRAMSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES

C.J. Mahoney became company's chief legal officer because he was attracted to the prospect of negotiating a deal, source says

CECILIA KANG ELI TAN WASHINGTON

Six days before the start of a federal trial over online child safety, C.J. Mahoney, Meta's chief legal officer, travelled to Nashville, Tenn., on Aug. 6 to meet with lawyers for about a dozen states. He wanted to broker an enormous settlement, two people familiar with the conversation said.

Meta had already suffered losses in court this year over claims that it created addictive products that harmed young users. Mark Zuckerberg had endured a full day of grilling on the witness stand during one of those trials. ("You're mischaracterizing this," he kept repeating.) He was likely to be questioned again at the federal trial in California, in which a coalition of states had sued Meta, arguing that the company had contributed to a national child mental health crisis.

Over bagels and coffee in an art deco office on Tennessee's Capitol grounds, Mr. Mahoney presented his terms, which Mr. Zuckerberg had personally approved, according to four people familiar with the negotiations. Meta would pay the states up to US\$19-billion and make changes to its platforms to improve teen safety. Some of the payment would be withheld unless all states joined and other social-media companies also settled.

For the state attorneys-general in the room, the offer was intriguing. They had been negotiating with the Silicon Valley giant for months with little progress, the people said. On Tuesday, 47 states – two had dropped out of the lawsuit – the District of Columbia and several territories agreed to a settlement worth roughly US\$17-billion.

"There's a saying here in Tennessee," Jonathan Skrmetti, the state's Attorney-General, said in one of the meetings with nearly all the state attorneys-general, encouraging them not to get greedy. "Pigs get fat, and hogs get slaughtered."

The settlement, one of the largest agreements between a company and a group of states embroiled in litigation, was announced Wednesday. This account of how it came together is based on a dozen interviews with state leaders, former and current Meta executives, court documents and trial testimony.

For years, Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, seemed to have an impenetrable defence against child safety lawsuits. The company's aces were Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a 1996 law that protects platforms from liability over what users post on their sites, and the First Amendment, which protects free speech.

But concerns have mounted globally over the harmful effects of social media on children. Australia last year became the first country to bar children under 16 from using social media, and many other countries carried out or are considering similar rules.

In the United States, a flood of online child safety lawsuits have been filed since 2022, and the plaintiffs focused on a new argument claiming that social media sites designed their products in a harmful way that violates consumer protection and other laws.

The suits accused the companies of knowingly creating sites that were as addictive as cigarettes, taking a page from a strategy used against Big Tobacco in the 1990s. Suddenly, relying on Section 230 didn't look so safe.

At Meta, concern was growing about the cases, according to two people familiar with thinking inside the company.

In January, Meta hired Mr. Mahoney, a veteran litigator who had been general counsel at Microsoft. Mr. Mahoney, who reports directly to Mr. Zuckerberg, took the position of chief legal officer in part because he was attracted to the prospect of negotiating a settlement, one of the people familiar with Meta's thinking said. He had negotiated complex deals in the past, most notably in 2020 when, as deputy U.S. trade representative, he was a lead negotiator of the Trump administration's trade deal with Canada and Mexico.

Just days after starting his new job, Mr. Mahoney called Attorney-General Phil Weiser of Colorado and Mr. Skrmetti of Tennessee, the lead negotiators for states, to begin settlement talks, four of the people familiar with the conversations said. Mahoney, who is based in Silicon Valley, flew out to meet them separately in their states. He wanted to explore a grand settlement to end federal and state cases brought by all of the nation's attorneys-general.

The two sides had held previous talks. But the tenor of the conversations changed because Mr. Mahoney seemed so clearly interested in reaching a resolution.

But a roadblock immediately became apparent because Meta was reluctant to make some changes to its products, three of the people said. That was a non-starter for many of the state attorneys-general.

"We brought these suits because we wanted to protect kids and we wanted to reform the platforms," Mr. Skrmetti said in an interview. Forcing changes to the platforms "is really the most significant part here."

Every attorney-general was familiar with an instance of a child facing harm from social media, Mr. Weiser said in an interview. "The shared commitment to do something was rooted in the pain that all of us recognize, the fears that all of us had," he added.

The talks dragged. But within weeks, Meta received a harsh reminder of the potential problems ahead.

A young woman identified as K.G.M. took the stand at a trial that began in late January, making accusations that social-media companies had created features on their platforms like infinite scroll that had led to her anxiety and depression.

The defendants, Meta, Snap, TikTok and YouTube, had argued in pretrial hearings that the case should be scrapped because of Section 230. But the judge, Carolyn B. Kuhl of California Superior Court of Los Angeles County, ruled that the case was about product liability, not speech.

The five-week trial was deeply embarrassing for Meta. Mr. Zuckerberg testified for the first time about child safety in front of a jury. He was grilled about allowing millions of underage users on Instagram. Parents who said their children were harmed by social media packed the courtroom. Internal documents presented as evidence showed Meta's employees comparing themselves with drug pushers.

Simultaneously, New Mexico's attorney-general was trying a case in state court charging Meta with violating consumer protection laws.

Within two days in March, Meta lost both cases. The decisions raised questions about reputational harm that future trials could inflict.

The stakes were getting higher, as Meta and California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey geared up for trial this summer in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in Oakland. The states had accused Meta of violating consumer protection laws and child privacy protections, seeking roughly US\$200-billion in penalties and changes to the company's platforms.

Mr. Skrmetti and nearly all the other state attorneys-general had also filed their own cases.

But in the ongoing talks, Meta still wasn't meeting all the states' demands on safety features.

On the eve of the Oakland trial, Meta made a last-ditch effort to kill the case. The company asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on July 22 to throw out the social media addiction cases, invoking legal protections under Section 230.

As Meta waited for a decision from the 9th Circuit, Mr. Mahoney trekked to Tennessee with his US\$19-billion offer. He left without a deal, but talks continued.

On Aug. 10, the appeals court ruled against Meta. Suddenly the talks sped up, four of the people said. With their new leverage, the states began daily negotiations with Meta's lawyers in person in Nashville and over video calls, to get final concessions, one of the people said.

As part of the deal, the company agreed to more safety measures. The growing list of platform changes included stopping teenage users from endless scrolling, and imposing a two-hour daily limit on use of Instagram and Facebook. Meta also said it would limit teen use between midnight and 6 a.m. and silence notifications during school hours of 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Meta proposed paying more and increasing limits on how much young users could use its platforms if other social media companies, like TikTok and YouTube, agreed to similar controls for their apps — something that Meta said would keep it from being singled out.

The company wanted to avoid going to trial, and had made it a condition that all the states needed to sign on. But on a video call to discuss the proposed settlement Aug. 11, some state attorneys-general asked if the money was enough and how it would be divided, five people with knowledge of the conversations said.

The states came up with an equation to divvy up the fund based on the size of their populations and the individual charges brought against Meta in each case.

The states' case in Oakland went to trial last week while they were still negotiating with Meta. Last Sunday, the Colorado and Tennessee attorneys-general presented a final settlement deal to the other states. They emailed the document with instructions to sign by Tuesday at 6 p.m.

That day, Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, testified in Oakland. The states' plan to call Mr. Zuckerberg to testify was looming.

On Tuesday, every state signed except Texas, Florida and New Mexico, ending the trial. New Mexico had already won its case, and Meta settled with Texas on Wednesday for about US\$1-billion, offering safety guardrails for young users similar to the multi-state agreement.

“Section 230 and the First Amendment are not impenetrable shields to holding Meta accountable,” California Attorney-General Rob Bonta said in a call with reporters Wednesday. The states’ settlement shows the limits of the abilities of those laws “to deliver justice and accountability” to “the people, children, families who’ve been harmed by misconduct.”

Mr. Mahoney said in a statement Wednesday that he was proud of the agreement and the power it gave parents to protect their children.

"But its success depends on all other social media platforms following Meta's lead," he said.

Meta still faces thousands of other suits filed by teenagers, families and school districts. The next major personal injury trial is scheduled to be heard in California Superior Court of Los Angeles County in October.

Meta said it was confident it could win the case.

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Europe's central bankers fear more turbulence in testy U.S. relations

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Europe's central bankers are leaving an annual getaway with their U.S. counterparts far from reassured that long-standing norms in global co-operation remain intact and worried that more turmoil is ahead for an already testy relationship with Washington, sources familiar with the discussion said.

Federal Reserve policy makers went out of their way to ease their counterparts' concerns this week, promising to honour all of their commitments.

But, given the separation between the central bank and the administration, they could offer no guarantees against sudden policy shifts by President Donald Trump, more than half a dozen officials on the sidelines of the Kansas City Fed's annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium said.

Recent U.S. Treasury interventions to prop up the Japanese yen and to lower longer-term U.S. borrowing costs were particularly concerning as they foreshadowed more intervention and breaks with norms, the officials, who asked not to be named, said.

After the Aug. 1 yen transaction, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed that the Treasury had sold euros for the Japanese currency and said he reassured central banks in the region that the move was "just a reallocation of resources." On Friday, he said that the foreign exchange assets to buy yen came from the Treasury's Exchange Stabilization Fund.

But European officials were especially annoyed the U.S. did not give them a customary heads-up that euro sales were part of the transaction, the sources said.

“That was infuriating,” one of them said. “You always pick up the phone and give heads-up.”

"The message to me is that the U.S. does whatever it wants."

Others were more forgiving and said the transaction was so unusual that it may have been an honest oversight.

Spokespeople for the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve declined to comment.

A U.S. official said the U.S.-Japan intervention was undertaken to counter disorderly movements in the yen and to support stability in global financial markets.

"It was not directed at anyone else," the official said. "Treasury maintains close and ongoing communication with our international counterparts, but we do not comment on the operational details of those discussions."

The sources also said that Mr. Bessent's plan to increase buybacks of longer-dated bonds - transactions that may need to be financed by issuance of more shorter-term maturities - was also a concern to European central bankers because, like the yen purchase, it indicates the administration was willing to take unusual measures to cap borrowing costs.

"These interventions normally offer just temporary relief," a second source said. "But they are clearly worried. So what is next? Will they put pressure on the Fed to start buying bonds on the market?"

While the Fed is the sole U.S. monetary policy-making body, independent in that mission by design from the elected administration, the sources said Mr. Trump has shown he is willing to go to extraordinary lengths to get his will across.

Their concern was that this could then set off upheaval in markets that would go far beyond the U.S.

The U.S. official responded by repeating earlier statements that the increased long-end bond buybacks were aimed at providing greater liquidity in longer-dated sectors where Treasury gets high-quality buyback offers.

“They are not monetary policy or an effort to impose a cap on interest rates,” the official said.

On Thursday, however, a U.S. Treasury official had told reporters the Treasury was “really focused on bringing those long-end yields lower” because they had risen above what the department viewed as “fair value.”

Another of the Europeans' worries was that political meddling could eventually involve the dollar liquidity backstops provided by the Fed to the world's biggest central banks, considered a cornerstone of global financial stability, some of the sources said.

These swap lines ensure that commercial banks around the world retain their access to U.S. dollars, especially in moments of financial stress.

The Fed renews this facility year after year on the premise that it actually safeguards U.S. interests and markets, since overseas banks in moments of global market upheaval could otherwise be forced to dump U.S. bonds.

“But rationality doesn’t always prevail with this administration,” a third source said. “When they run retaliatory trade policies with their closest allies, Trump could just say, ‘Hey, they’re ripping us off’ and the swap lines could be gone overnight.”

The sources said there has not been even a hint that these back-stops are in danger, and they still expected them to remain unchanged. The swap lines are authorized by the Federal Open Market Committee itself and operated exclusively by the Fed, not the administration.

“Decisions concerning Federal Reserve facilities and swap-line arrangements rest with the Federal Reserve,” the Treasury official said. “Nothing Treasury has announced regarding either yen operations or debt buybacks suggests otherwise.”

The official added that Mr. Bessent looked forward to discussing financial stability issues with G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in the coming days in Asheville, N.C., seeking to further press the administration's agenda on isolating Iran, fostering growth and reducing global imbalances.

Fed chairman Kevin Warsh travelled to Europe just over a month into his job and went out of his way to foster good relations with officials there, leaving a predominantly positive impression, the sources said.

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Rates: Tariffs seen hurting growth more than lifting inflation

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Fed chair Kevin Warsh, centre, talks to Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, right, and Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem at Jackson Hole on Friday in Moran, Wyo. AMBER BAESLER/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Ottawa's retaliation will raise prices in Canada and add to headline inflation, which is already running hot because of the oil-price shock tied to the war in the Middle East. Annual Consumer Price Index inflation hit 3 per cent in July – the top end of the central bank's target range.

A Bank of Canada study of Canadian countertariffs imposed last year found that they raised the prices of targeted items by around 6 per cent and added 0.3 per cent to overall CPI inflation at the peak of the price shock.

At the same time, an escalation in the trade war could weigh on the Canadian economy more broadly if exports contract, businesses hold off hiring and investing amid the uncertainty and consumers get nervous.

"If the tariffs stick, they will have more of a growth impact than a lift to inflation," said Avery Shenfeld, chief economist at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.

"There is a modest one-time lift to the price level. Our estimate is on the order of 0.3 per cent, because many of the items that were chosen for tariffs in Canada are the very items where there are lots of substitutes. So, it's not a big inflation impact, and if growth slows, you could easily put more downward pressure on inflation from increasing slack."

Because the new U.S. tariffs only hit about 5 per cent of Canadian exports, Bay Street economists aren't expecting them to have a large macroeconomic impact. CIBC pegs the hit to gross domestic product at about 0.5 per cent, while Royal Bank of Canada estimates the fallout at 0.4 per cent.

But the tariffs could have a major impact on the affected industries – including electrical equipment, plastics, clothing, paper and appliances – and hit Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia particularly hard. Canada's retaliation, in turn, could disrupt supply chains, raise input costs and force Canadian companies to rethink their markets.

Monetary policy, which adjusts financial conditions for the entire country, isn't particularly well-suited for dealing with this kind of disparate shock. Targeted federal and provincial government relief for struggling businesses and workers tends to work better.

"Monetary policy ... can't target the hard-hit sectors: aluminum, steel and autos. It can't help companies find new mar-

Because the new U.S. tariffs only hit about 5 per cent of Canadian exports, Bay Street economists aren't expecting them to have a large macroeconomic impact. CIBC pegs the hit to gross domestic product at about 0.5 per cent, while Royal Bank of Canada estimates the fallout at 0.4 per cent.

kets. It can't help companies reconfigure their supply chains," Governor Tiff Macklem said in October, 2025, the last time he cut interest rates.

“What it can do is it can try to mitigate the spillovers from the hard-hit sectors to the rest of the economy. And it can try and help the economy adjust to this structural change. But its role is limited because this is more than a cyclical downturn, it’s a structural change.”

Financial markets expect the central bank to remain on hold through the remainder of the year, before starting to increase interest rates in early 2027, according to Bloomberg data.

In some ways, this is a return to an earlier phase in the trade war, when Mr. Trump threatened wave after wave of tariffs, and Ottawa responded with three rounds of countertariffs on some \$90-billion worth of U.S. imports – only to later walk back much of the retaliation last summer in the hopes of reaching a détente.

Throughout the opening months of the trade war, Mr. Macklem and his team decided not to rely on a central forecast, as is usually the case. Instead, they used a range of upside and downside scenarios that hinged on rapidly changing U.S. trade policy. The goal was to pick a path for interest rates that could work for a variety of possible tariff outcomes.

The Bank of Canada cut interest rates four times in 2025. It's been on hold through 2026 as the key monetary-policy risk shifted from a tariff-induced recession to the oil-price shock caused by the U.S. war with Iran.

If it wasn't for the latest flare-up on the trade front, the central bank was possibly inching toward an interest-rate hike. The oil-price shock owing to the closing of the Strait of Hormuz has lifted headline inflation; unemployment has been trending lower through the summer; and economic growth rebounded in the second quarter after essentially flatlining in the first.

The latest GDP numbers, published on Friday, showed that the Canadian economy grew at an impressive annualized rate of 3.3 per cent in the second quarter, ahead of the central bank's forecast for 2.5-per-cent growth.

But ultimately, the argument for a rate hike in Canada has remained inconclusive, said Mr. Kronick of the C.D. Howe Institute. Core-inflation measures that strip out volatile energy prices remain close to the central bank's 2-per-cent target. And financial markets are also doing some of the central bank's work for it.

In recent months, Canadian bond yields – which underpin interest rates for mortgages and other types of loans – have risen alongside the sharp increase in U.S. bond yields.

"You're getting a bit of that tightening, anyways, so I'm not sure you need to push that any further," Mr. Kronick said. "I just don't see evidence to move very much in either direction at this point, whether the trade situation was upon us or not."

Power: Meta data centre to initially draw its energy from the Alberta grid

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Meta announced in July it was breaking ground on a \$13-billion AI data centre in Sturgeon County. It's described as a 1,000-megawatt facility, which is roughly equivalent to the consumption of a city with one million residents, or the output of a large nuclear power plant. According to the Canada Energy Regulator, Alberta's existing generating capacity amounts to about 16,000 megawatts.

A recent influx of hyperscale data centres across North America, intended to supply the massive computing power required for artificial intelligence applications, has raised fears of surging prices and declining grid reliability. Like other North American jurisdictions, Alberta has responded by pursuing a policy known as “bring your own power,” which seeks to compel developers to pay for any additional power generation and transmission infrastructure required to supply new data centres.

In this case, Edmonton-based Capital Power recently announced it had entered into an agreement to provide 250 megawatts of capacity and energy to Meta's data centre, beginning in the second half of 2028.

Meanwhile, a new 932-mega-watt gas-fired power plant known as the Greenlight Electricity Centre (backed by partners Pembina Pipeline Corp. and Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners) will be constructed on-site to provide power exclusively to Meta's facility. That will enter service in the second half of 2030.

Ms. Perreira wrote: "Here's the truth: Meta pays the full cost of energy upgrades and electricity that our Sturgeon County data centre will use – those costs will not be passed on to Albertans."

However, critics contend that the "bring your own power" approach doesn't guarantee a neutral impact on electricity prices. That's because data centres can be built faster than power plants. Pembina's report asserts that in its early years, Meta's facility will draw all of its power from Alberta's grid, leading to tightening supply-demand conditions.

Ashli Barrett, press secretary for Alberta's Minister of Affordability and Utilities RJ Sigurdson, pointed out that Albertans have a variety of options when buying electricity. They can procure it through fixed-rate contracts, or through a default rate set by the Alberta Utilities Commission. Albertans would have to explicitly opt out of fixed rates to experience the volatile rates highlighted in Pembina's report, she asserted.

“Pembina Institute’s analysis is designed to intentionally fear-monger and divide Albertans by mischaracterizing how Albertans pay for power, conflating wholesale rates with the retail rates that Albertans actually pay,” she wrote.

The Alberta Electric System Operator, which operates Alberta's grid, made a similar point but acknowledged that data centres could raise wholesale electricity prices. Gillian Barnett, its vice-president of law and customer projects, noted in a written response to questions that Albertans don't pay wholesale electricity prices.

“Alberta’s electricity market naturally creates an ebb and flow of prices through the fundamental principle of supply and demand,” she added.

“Higher demand from new load, including data centres, is expected to raise pool (wholesale) prices, which is anticipated to attract new supply, thereby lowering pool prices.”

Other major participants in Alberta's power markets appear to share Pembina's concerns,

however.

EPCOR is a major Edmonton-based utility company that, among other things, delivers electricity to Edmonton and nearby neighbourhoods. In a submission to the AESO earlier this year, EPCOR warned that "the addition of data centre load to the Alberta interconnected electric system, within or outside the BYOG [bring your own generation] process, is likely to have material, and perhaps unintended consequences, to the electricity price signal with anticipated negative impacts to Alberta consumers."

Said Mr. Pickup: “Everyone’s kind of agreed that this will increase energy prices, certainly at the wholesale level, and then also at the retail level.”

Other North American grid operators are struggling with how to accommodate data centres' massive energy needs. The largest such body, PJM Interconnection LLC, manages the grid in more than a dozen U.S. states including New Jersey, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio. Customers within PJM are already experiencing rising electricity rates along with rapid, massive data centre development in places like northern Virginia; the relationship between those two phenomena has become a subject of considerable controversy.

The Data Center Coalition, which represents the industry, acknowledged in a report published in May that data centre expansion is one factor inflating power bills, particularly in PJM's region. But it said those facilities have “become an easy focal point” that has distracted attention from other contributing factors, including industrial reshoring. It said quantitative studies to date have yet to uncover evidence that U.S. data centres have been subsidized by other power users.

Workers are seen in the assembly hall at Cavalier Tool & Manufacturing Ltd. in Windsor, Ont., on Wednesday. DAX MELMER/THE GLOBE AND MAIL

Defence: Market unlikely to fill companies' auto sales gap

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Today, he continues this work by attending defence trade shows and speaking to as many people as possible about what XL has to offer. "I'm hopefully optimistic," he said.

Parsing out a way into the defence market is a big part of Chris Vander Park's day, too, as international business development manager at Cavalier Tool and Manufacturing Ltd. in Windsor, Ont. His business is only about 15 per cent automotive but almost all of it is heavily intertwined with the U.S.

Mr. Vander Park is also working on getting his business approved with the CGP and he hired a consultant six months ago to help him understand the defence space.

From a technical standpoint, Mr. Vander Park and Mr. Hergott said they have the machinery and skilled work force to make the transition work.

That's not the hard part. It's gaining the trust of and being recognized by a whole new customer base that poses the real challenge.

Plus, while defence is a market worthy of these manufacturers' attention, Mr. Jahn, of the Canadian Tooling and Machining Association, said it won't be enough to fill the rift left in their order books from a stalled automotive sector.

His member companies are used to making 16 million to 18 million units a year for that industry. Defence doesn't demand the same volume, and its government customers move at a much slower pace when it comes to purchasing.

"The auto industry, it's big. It's huge. It's multibillions every single year," Mr. Jahn said.

"So, are you able to backfill that amount of sales? The answer in most cases is 'no.' But you'll still try."

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How to land the hot new job in corporate Canada: AI enablement manager

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Fluency in ‘tokenomics,’ along with some soft skills, are in demand

OLIVIA GRANDY

As Canadian companies wake up to AI sticker shock, many of them are seeking employees who can both help spearhead and control the costs of the next wave of adoption: AI enablement officers.

The role has recently emerged as a hot job in the technology sector as companies' use of large language models (LLM) matures, said Vector Institute VP of AI engineering Kathryn Hume. The position is best suited to someone who is technology-oriented, has strong business acumen and financial management skills.

Job postings for AI enablement roles averaged roughly 10 per every million Canadian listings on job site Indeed up until 2025. Now, that number has climbed to about 550 AI enablement postings per million, said Aubrey Woessner, an economist at Indeed.

Those who land AI enablement roles may also see salaries that reflect the surge in demand for this work.

This year, the median advertised salary for management AI enablement roles was \$140,000 as of mid-August. That's compared with \$90,000 in management roles that do not include AI enablement, Ms. Woessner said.

Organizations are looking for candidates with a unique combination of credentials to lead a shift toward finding AI-adoption efficiencies. In workplaces where "tokenmaxxing"- that is, maximizing the consumption of tokens, which are units of LLM computting power that cost money, as proof of high employee productivity – were all the rage, companies are now prioritizing profitability, Ms. Hume said. AI enable-ment managers must instead be experts at maximizing value and communicating to employees how best to use those resources.

Controlling the costs of artificial intelligence has emerged as a major challenge for companies. For example, Uber Technologies Inc. said in the spring that it burned through its entire annual AI budget in just a few months after its employees exhausted their use of Claude Code tokens. Meanwhile, Shopify Inc. reported profit growth as executives suggested token costs were under control in early August, after noting increased costs during its previous earnings call in May.

You'll need some technical chops for an AI enablement role, including an understanding of the mechanics of an AI system, being able to communicate with non-technical stakeholders and having a strong foundation of operations and financial management, Ms. Hume said.

But, the systemic problem-solving skills the field demands are just as important for these types of roles, said University of Waterloo computer science professor Edith Law.

The university recently announced a certificate focused on AI transformation and change management in partnership with Toronto-based AI company Cohere Inc.

"We recognize that specific technologies are changing so rapidly in terms of what they can do, how much they cost, etc., so our goal is really to teach the students the fundamental concepts and processes that would be resilient to these changes," Prof. Law explained. The non-credit certificate will offer modules focused on human-centred design, ethics, change management and business strategies.

Canada's big banks are also assembling AI business enablement teams. For instance, a recent job posting from Bank of Montreal was seeking an AI enablement and scalability senior manager, someone who could help teams deploy AI across the business and ensure scalability of the bank's AI investments.

Scotiabank chief technology officer Ty Panagoplos said he is looking for individuals who bring abstract and creative thinking to his organization's enablement efforts.

"Not only do you really need to understand the technology, but you need to understand how to rethink technology and almost how to rethink a business," he said.

Mr. Panagoplos also emphasized the sway a candidate's communication skills could have on their chances of landing a role.

"You need to be able to translate sometimes complex technology capabilities with business people and help them understand how to leverage it."

Sohaib Perwaiz, Royal Bank of Canada's vice-president of business enablement for its AI group, has a background in the medical device industry, master's degrees in both business and public administration, along with consulting experience at McKinsey & Co. There, he worked with large banks on tech-enabled transformation, he said in an interview.

“Being that connective tissue from what happens with the AI researchers in the labs to what happens with the banking professionals that serve our clients is where enablement lives,” he said.

Similarly, Mr. Perwaiz described him and his team's mandate as helping the entire bank rethink how AI can play into business models, and serving as "on-the-ground incubators" to make changes happen. In a May earnings call, RBC executives said the bank's LLM token use was up by more than 500 per cent since 2025.

Mr. Perwaiz said candidates with a variety of backgrounds – from operators who went into technology roles to engineers with business leadership experience – are under consideration. But they all must have a common trait: “People who thrive in this type of a job are people who are relentlessly curious, who are always looking to find interesting ways to solve problems,” he said.

Capital allocation can drive big returns

JASON DEL VICARIO

OPINION

Portfolio manager with Hillside Wealth Management

Capital allocation, when done well, can turn an average business into an exceptional investment.

William Thorndike makes this case beautifully in The Outsiders. The eight chief executive officers profiled in the book differed in industry, personality and operating style, but shared an important trait: They viewed capital allocation as one of the CEO's most important responsibilities. They bought back large amounts of stock when shares were cheap, issued shares when expensive and resisted pursuing growth simply for growth's sake.

Over decades, these decisions can materially enhance shareholder returns.

Most people think of a CEO primarily as the public face and strategic driving force of a business. We think the best CEOs spend disproportionate time asking a different question: What is the highest-return use of the next dollar of corporate capital?

Our favourite answer is usually reinvestment in the existing business. If a company can consistently reinvest incremental capital at returns of more than 20 per cent, shareholders should generally want management to retain as much capital as can productively be deployed.

The challenge is that many wonderful businesses simply don't need much capital. They generate far more cash than they can sensibly reinvest.

Management can then pursue acquisitions, pay dividends, repurchase shares or accumulate cash. What we do not want is management "pushing on a string" - "diworsifying" outside its circle of competence or pursuing acquisitions simply because excess cash is available.

If attractive internal opportunities don't exist, we would rather receive the money through dividends or, under the right circumstances, intelligently executed share repurchases.

The long-term return from a predictable business can be simplified as: dividend yield + earnings growth +/- change in valuation multiple.

Imagine a company growing earnings at 10 per cent annually, paying a 3-per-cent dividend yield and trading today at 15x earnings. If 10 years from now, the market values it at 20x, multiple expansion contributes roughly another 3 per cent annually.

Expected return is therefore approximately: 3-per-cent dividend + 10-per-cent growth + 3-per-cent multiple expansion = 16 per cent.

But dividends have a disadvantage. Once paid, the capital leaves the company, may incur taxes and becomes our responsibility to reinvest.

What if management instead retained excess cash and waited patiently to repurchase stock only when the prospective return exceeded, say, 20 per cent?

This is where buybacks become powerful.

Copart Inc. (CPRT-Q) provides an interesting example. It operates the world's largest vehicle salvage auction platform, has an unusually strong competitive position, carries essentially no financial debt and requires relatively little incremental capital compared with the cash it generates.

Historically, Copart has been remarkably selective about buybacks.

Prior to its large fiscal-year 2026 repurchase program, Copart deployed approximately US\$2.35-billion repurchasing stock. Those shares were acquired at an estimated average split-adjusted price of roughly US\$3.43 a share and at an average valuation of approximately 21.7x earnings.

Today, the shares retired with that US\$2.35-billion would be worth approximately US\$23.45-billion – nearly a 10x multiple on capital and an estimated money-weighted annualized return of approximately 17.3 per cent.

The comparison with Copart's underlying business performance is illuminating.

Over approximately the same 19-year period, Copart's total net income compounded at roughly 14.5 per cent annually. Its split-adjusted stock price increased from approximately US\$1.76 in August, 2007, to US\$33.26 in August, 2026, an 18.9x increase, or approximately 16.7 per cent annually.

The business itself compounded earnings at approximately 14.5 per cent, while the stock compounded about 2.2 percentage points faster. That difference reflects, in part, share-count reduction from buybacks – which allowed earnings per share to grow faster than aggregate earnings – as well as some valuation-multiple expansion.

The power of that 2.2-per-cent annual advantage is easy to underestimate: \$100,000 compounded at 14.5 per cent for 19 years grows to approximately \$1.31-million. At 16.7 per cent, the same \$100,000 grows to approximately \$1.88-million. A seemingly modest 2.2 percentage-point improvement therefore creates roughly \$571,000 of additional wealth, or about 44 per cent more ending value. Small differences in annual returns become very large differences in wealth when sustained for long periods.

More importantly, Copart's historical buyback capital appears to have earned approximately 17.3 per cent annually, slightly better than the stock's 16.7-per-cent overall price CAGR (compound annual growth rate). That supports an important conclusion: Copart generally repurchased its shares at better-than-average valuations.

And it did not mechanically buy stock every year. For long stretches, it did almost nothing. When valuation became sufficiently attractive, management acted aggressively.

That distinction matters.

A dividend policy says: We have excess cash, so we will return it.

An intelligent buyback policy says: We have excess cash, but we will only deploy it when the prospective return is compelling.

The latter requires patience, discipline and a willingness to look inactive for long periods.

The best capital allocators understand that every dollar has an opportunity cost. Sometimes the right decision is reinvestment. Sometimes it is an acquisition. Sometimes it is a dividend.

And occasionally, the best investment a great company can make is in itself.

The author, his family and his investment fund all own a position in Copart.

With some preparation, you can still have a glamorous Euro summer despite a weak loonie

MEERA RAMAN

OPINION

Not sure if you've heard, but we're in a trade war with the United States, and it was reignited last week when negotiations fell apart at the eleventh hour.

That sent the already-weak Canadian dollar tumbling, although it clawed back some ground this week. On Thursday, the loonie was trading 0.2-per-cent higher at \$1.3855 per U.S. dollar, or 72.18 U.S. cents, recouping a small part of Monday's decline.

But the loonie was hurting well before the latest trade drama. Last week, I visited both Northern Ireland and Ireland, which meant getting humbled by two exchange rates.

In Northern Ireland, one Canadian dollar bought me about £0.532. Across the border, it got me roughly €0.623. It's hard to have a "Euro summer," when a £5 coffee is actually closer to \$9.40.

I did find a few ways to make travelling with our measly loonie slightly less painful.

For starters, I used a prepaid debit card with no foreign-transaction fees. Some Canadian credit cards waive them too, including the Scotiabank Passport Visa Infinite Card. Otherwise, the typical 2.5-per-cent foreign-transaction fee means you're making an already-bad exchange rate even worse.

Another rule is to always pay in the local currency. At plenty of tourist spots, the card reader

Think in Canadian dollars. A €20 lunch somehow feels like a \$20 lunch when you're on vacation. It is decidedly not. Doing the mental conversion before buying something (particularly the forgettable stuff) can help prevent the dreaded "how did I spend \$300 today?" moment.

gave me the option of paying in pounds or euros, or converting the purchase into Canadian dollars on the spot. Canadian dollars feel like the natural choice, but you must resist.

When you choose Canadian dollars, the merchant or payment processor does the conversion at its own exchange rate, which can be worse than your card issuer's.

Whenever I compared the CAD price offered by the machine with what eventually appeared on my statement, my card won.

It's also worth looking for discounts. My partner found a deal through his employer for an application called Go City, which we used to buy tickets for three popular Dublin attractions and saved about \$30 each.

And finally, think in Canadian dollars. A €20 lunch somehow feels like a \$20 lunch when you're on vacation. It is decidedly not.

Doing the mental conversion before buying something (particularly the forgettable stuff) can help prevent the dreaded "how did I spend \$300 today?" moment.

For now, I'm feeling thankful for my travel budget that I made good use of and am missing Irish whisky.

Stock-market rally facing some hurdles

A TV at the New York Stock Exchange broadcasts former U.S. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell speaking in Jackson Hole, Wyo., in 2024. On Friday, investors increased bets the central bank would hike rates at its next meeting. ANGELA WEISS/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Jobs report, Broadcom results among upcoming data to shed light on economy's health

LEWIS KRAUSKOPF NEW YORK

A fresh look at the U.S. labour market in the coming week along with quarterly results from semiconductor company Broadcom will test a market rally that has lifted stocks near record highs.

The S&P 500 posted a weekly gain, putting the benchmark index slightly more than 1 per cent away from its Aug. 13 all-time high. A blowout quarterly report on Wednesday from AI bellwether and market behemoth Nvidia boosted sentiment for stocks, which had been dented earlier in the month by rising Treasury yields.

Investors were focused on the monthly U.S. employment report, due on Sept. 4, and on whether the jobs data would offer hints about the U.S. Federal Reserve's plans for interest rates in coming months.

"As we're starting to get closer to that September [Fed] meeting, each data print is going to be under the microscope as it may inform what the Fed ultimately does," said Michael Reynolds, vice-president of investment strategy at Glenmede.

After a speech by new Fed chair Kevin Warsh on Friday, investors increased bets that the central bank would hike rates at its next meeting in September, as it grapples with above-target inflation.

With August coming to a close, the S&P 500 was last up more than 12 per cent for the year. Strong corporate profit growth driven by massive spending on the AI infrastructure buildout is fueling the nearly four-year-old bull run in U.S. equities.

Markets have been relatively calm as summer ends in the U.S. The Cboe Volatility Index hovered near its low point for the year, and daily market trading volume this week was well below its 2026 average.

Several upcoming events could shake assets, including the jobs data. Employment for August was expected to have climbed by 58,000 jobs, with the unemployment rate at 4.1 per cent in the U.S., according to a Reuters poll as of Friday. The July report showed a surprise labourmarket weakening, with employment declining by 23,000 jobs.

"The last jobs report gave the market and investors a little bit of pause," said Amanda Agati, chief investment officer of PNC Asset Management Group.

However, Ms. Agati said she doubted there was a breakdown in the labour market, adding she would be looking for “either confirmation of that trend that we saw in the last report, or maybe a bounce back to prior months.”

The jobs data could also indicate whether the Fed is likely to raise interest rates. Data this week showed inflation continued to run well above the U.S. central bank's 2-per-cent annual target.

Rate hikes pose several challenges for equity performance, including by raising borrowing costs for consumers and

companies.

Fed funds futures late on Friday suggested a 57-per-cent chance of a hike at the next meeting in September, and investors were wary that a hot jobs report showing a big jump in employment and sharp wage growth could increase such bets.

“What the stock market wants to see is a continued number that gives the Fed the ability to remain on hold,” said Matt Stucky, chief portfolio manager, equities, at Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management.

Other economic data in the coming week included reports on manufacturing and services sector activity. The prior monthly reading from the Institute for Supply Management showed U.S. manufacturing activity increased to the highest level in more than four years.

"Continuing that momentum into September we think is something that's really noteworthy to watch," Mr. Stucky said.

Wednesday's earnings report from Broadcom, whose market value was last about US\$1.7-trillion, will also be in focus, after rival semi-conductor company Nvidia's results lifted equity indexes.

Nvidia forecast a whopping 70-per-cent jump in revenue for its next fiscal year. It was a rare disclosure for the AI bellwether, which typically does not issue such projections.

Other reports are due next week from tech companies Dell Technologies and Palo Alto Networks.

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Consider this shortlist of 15 low-cost but well-rated ETFs

IAN TAM

NUMBER CRUCHER

CFA and director of investment research for Morningstar Canada

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

Cheapest well-rated ETFs in the most popular categories.

THE SCREEN

Canadians have become far more fee-conscious investors. This is clearer than ever in Morningstar's recent asset flows data. Over the decade ending June, 2026, investors poured more than \$280-billion into funds that Morningstar classifies as having low

Low costs, high marks fees, while withdrawing roughly \$13-billion from funds with high fees. There were a few exceptions during periods of market stress and speculative enthusiasm, but the broader trend has been clear: Investors increasingly prefer products that leave more of the return in their own pockets.

The industry has responded. Asset managers continue to compete aggressively on cost (especially in areas like plain vanilla stock index exposure), while regulators have pushed for greater transparency. Investors already receive more detailed reporting on investment costs than they did a decade ago. And beginning in 2027, Total Cost Reporting requirements introduced by Canadian securities regulators will provide an even clearer picture of what consumers are paying for investment products and advice.

Of course, low fees alone don't make a good investment. An ETF can be inexpensive and still be poorly constructed, tax inefficient or difficult to own through different market environments. Hence, today's screen doesn't simply look for the cheapest ETFs available.

Using the Morningstar Direct platform, I screened four of the largest ETF categories by assets under management. I then looked for funds that met three criteria: exceptionally low fees relative to peers; a five-star Morningstar rating based on historical risk-adjusted performance; and a Morningstar medal rating of bronze, silver or gold, indicating our analysts believe the fund has attributes that could help it outperform over the long term.

The result is a shortlist of ETFs that combine low cost, strong historical results and positive forward-looking analyst conviction. For investors looking to keep more of their returns, while maintaining quality exposure to major asset classes, these funds may be worth a closer look.

WHAT WE FOUND

The ETFs that met the above requirements are listed in the table accompanying this article inclusive of ticker, fees, trailing returns, Morningstar ratings, asset allocations and whether they are actively or passively managed. Investors are urged to first look at the category to which each ETF belongs, as these industry-standard categories are the basis of Morningstar's rating system.

This article does not constitute financial advice. Readers are encouraged to conduct their own research before buying or selling any of the funds or ETFs listed here.

Source: Morningstar Direct | Data as of August 25, 2026

FUND LEGAL NAME	TICKER	MORNINGSTAR CATEGORY	MER(%)	ACTIVE/PASSIVE	MORNINGSTAR RATING FOR FUNDS	MORNINGSTAR MEDALIST RATING	TOTAL TOTAL		RET ANNLDZ 3 YR (%)	RET ANNLDZ 5 YR (%)	RET ANNLDZ 10 YR (%)	RET ANNLDZ 15 YR (%)	INCEPTION DATE	CAN. EQUITY (%)	U.S. EQUITY (%)	INT'L EQUITY (%)	FIXED INCOME (%)	CASH (%)
							RET YTD (%)	RET 1 YR (%)
Vanguard FTSE Canada Index ETF	VCE-T	Canadian Equity	0.06	Passive	5 Stars	Gold	17.8	32.7	26.3	15.7	13.4		11/30/2011	99.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Vanguard FTSE Global All Cap ex Canada Index ETF	VXC-T	Global Equity	0.22	Passive	5 Stars	Gold	15.4	21.7	21.4	12.5	12.8		6/30/2014	0.0	63.1	35.9	0.0	0.8
iShares Core MSCI All Country World ex Canada Index ETF	XAW-T	Global Equity	0.22	Passive	5 Stars	Gold	15.7	22.2	21.2	12.8	12.9		2/10/2015	0.0	64.5	35.0	0.0	0.5
Vanguard Global Value Factor ETF	VVL-T	Global Equity	0.38	Active	5 Stars	Silver	22.8	30.9	23.5	16.4	13.0		6/14/2016	3.1	69.6	27.1	0.0	0.0
Vanguard Global Momentum Factor ETF	VMO-T	Global Equity	0.38	Active	5 Stars	Gold	19.6	28.9	28.4	15.6	14.5		6/14/2016	3.0	70.0	27.0	0.0	0.0
Vanguard All-Equity ETF Portfolio	VEQT-T	Global Equity	0.22	Active	5 Stars	Gold	16.1	25.2	22.9	13.5			1/29/2019	29.9	45.1	24.4	0.0	0.5
iShares Core Equity ETF Portfolio	XEQT-T	Global Equity	0.20	Active	5 Stars	Silver	16.3	24.9	22.7	13.4			8/7/2019	25.4	45.2	28.8	0.0	0.6
iShares ESG Equity ETF Portfolio	GEQT-T	Global Equity	0.25	Active	5 Stars	Gold	17.5	25.1	25.4	14.1			9/2/2020	30.4	46.0	23.1	0.0	0.4
Mackenzie Growth Allocation ETF	MGRW-T	Global Equity Balanced	0.18	Active	5 Stars	Gold	13.1	20.9	19.6	11.3			9/29/2020	23.5	35.6	21.0	19.0	0.9
BMO Growth ETF	ZGRO.T-T	Global Equity Balanced	0.18	Active	5 Stars	Silver	12.9	20.2	18.8				1/23/2023	20.1	39.8	20.2	19.7	0.2
iShares Core Growth ETF Portfolio	XGRO-T	Global Equity Balanced	0.20	Active	5 Stars	Gold	13.1	20.2	19.0	10.8	10.4	9.6	6/21/2007	19.9	36.4	23.9	19.2	0.6
TD Growth ETF Portfolio	TGRO-T	Global Equity Balanced	0.17	Active	5 Stars	Silver	13.4	21.2	20.7	12.5			8/11/2020	24.4	40.4	20.4	14.2	0.8
BMO S&P 500 Index ETF	ZSP.U-T	US Equity	0.09	Passive	5 Stars	Gold	13.8	20.4	22.2	14.6	15.7		11/14/2012	0.0	99.5	0.5	0.0	0.0
iShares Core S&P 500 Index ETF	XUS-T	US Equity	0.09	Passive	5 Stars	Gold	13.9	20.4	22.2	14.6	15.7		4/10/2013	0.0	99.2	0.5	0.0	0.3
CI S&P 500 ESG Index ETF	ESG-T	US Equity	0.17	Passive	5 Stars	Gold	15.0	23.5	22.3	15.5			3/5/2020	0.0	99.3	0.6	0.0	0.2

WHAT INVESTORS NEED TO KNOW FOR THE WEEK AHEAD

MONDAY

- China's PMI - Japan's retail sales and industrial production - Germany CPI and retail sales - British markets closed

TUESDAY

Japan's capital spending and manufacturing PMI

■ Euro zone CPI, manufacturing PMI and jobless rate

(9:30 a.m. ET) Canada's S&P Global Manufacturing PMI for August

(9:45 a.m. ET) U.S. S&P Global Manufacturing PMI for August

(10 a.m. ET) U.S. construction spending for July.

(10 a.m. ET) U.S. ISM Manufacturing for August

(10 a.m. ET) U.S. Job Openings & Labor Turnover Survey for July

Also: Canadian and U.S. auto sales for August

Earnings include: Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.; Dell Technologies Inc.; Medtronic PLC; Palo Alto Networks Inc.

WEDNESDAY

Japan's consumer confidence

(8:15 a.m. ET) U.S. ADP National Employment Report for August

(9:45 a.m. ET) Bank of Canada's rate decision with Governor Tiff Macklem's news conference

to follow

(10 a.m. ET) U.S. factory orders for July (2 p.m. ET) U.S. Beige Book is released. Earnings include: Broadcom Inc.; Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.; Major Drilling Group International Inc.; Rockpoint Gas Storage Inc.; Snowflake Inc.

THURSDAY

Japan's and Euro zone's services and composite PMI (8:30 a.m. ET) Canada's international merchandise trade for July

(8:30 a.m. ET) Canadian labour productivity for Q2 (8:30 a.m. ET) United States' initial jobless claims for week of

Aug. 29

(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. productivity for Q2. The Street is expecting an annualized rate rise of 1.4 per cent.

(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. goods and services trade deficit for July

(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. Revelio Public Labor Statistics for August

(9:30 a.m. ET) Canada's S&P Global Services PMI for August (9:45 a.m. ET) U.S. S&P Global Services and Composite PMI for August

(10 a.m. ET) U.S. ISM Services PMI for August

Earnings include: BRP Inc.; Ciena Corp.; Enghouse Systems Ltd.; Lululemon Athletica Inc.; VersaBank; Zscaler Inc.

FRIDAY

Japan's household spending Germany's factory orders Euro zone's retail sales

(8:30 a.m. ET) Canadian employment for August. The Street is expecting an increase of 17,500 jobs with the unemployment rate remaining 6.4 per cent.

(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. nonfarm payrolls for August. Consensus is a gain of 58,000 jobs with the unemployment rate remaining 4.1 per cent and average hourly wages gaining 3.1 per cent year-over-year.

(10 a.m. ET) Canada's Ivey PMI for August

(10 a.m. ET) U.S. Global Supply Chain Pressure Index for August

SPORTS

Former grocery driver Dean captures title at British Masters with wife as caddie ■ B14

Beckham Jr. makes it through training camp, lands on the Giants' 53-man roster ■ B15

U.S. OPEN

Cruising into the second round

Canada's Leylah Fernandez returns the ball to Zhang Shuai, of China, during the first round of the U.S. Open on Sunday in New York. Fernandez beat Zhang 6-3, 6-2 ■ B11

YUKI IWAMURA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Max Scherzer pitches in the first inning against the Seattle Mariners at Rogers Centre on Sunday in Toronto. COLE BURSTON/GETTY IMAGES

Scherzer shines on the mound as Blue Jays sweep Mariners

MARTY KLINKENBERG

In a blast from the past, Max Scherzer served up his best performance as a Blue Jay, shutting out the Seattle Mariners on one hit over seven innings on Sunday in what became a 7-0 victory.

The 42-year-old future Hall of Famer struck out 10 batters to pass Gaylord Perry and move into ninth place on the all-time list with 3,535 over his 19-year career.

He struck out the side in the first and fourth innings and allowed only two runners – one on a walk to Taylor Ward and the other on a double by Cal Raleigh.

"It is the best that he has pitched for us for sure," manager John Schneider said. "It was a remarkable performance today. He was dialed in from the very beginning.

"He is 42 and he was throwing 95 miles an hour. He prepares and he competes. It was like hopping in a time machine, to be honest with you."

Scherzer joined Toronto ahead of the 2025 season and re-signed with the club before the 2026 campaign. He has struggled with injuries this year and the win was only his second in nine decisions.

"We need wins right now," Scherzer said. "We are in the thick of the of it in the playoff race. We have to win every day. This is what you play the game for. We are in a fight."

The Blue Jays swept their three-game series against the Mariners and as of the game's end were $1 \frac{1}{2}$ games out of the final wildcard playoff berth. They got back to within two games of .500 for the first time since June 24.

Seattle had a terrible weekend in Toronto. The Mariners were outscored 19-4 and pretty much blew whatever slight chance they had at securing a playoff spot as they dropped to 64-73.

On Sunday they mustered just one hit and struck out 15 times.

In a roller-coaster ride of a season, the Blue Jays have come back from the dead more often than Michael Myers in Halloween.

They have now won 14 of their last 22 games, 20 of their last 32, and 22 of their last 36. They went 17-11 in August, easily their best month of the campaign.

Alejandro Kirk staked the Blue Jays to a 2-0 lead in the first inning when he smacked a 398-foot home run to left-centre field. They added another run on a double by Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in the fifth inning and went ahead 4-0 in the sixth on a 405-foot homer to centre by Kazuma Okamoto. They added three more in the eighth on a two-run single by Andrés Giménez and a double by Brett Bateman.

JAYS, B13

Monday Morning Halfback: Hellebuyck's trade demand and the contract that could change the NHL

JAMIE ROSS CATHAL KELLY unless they are winning.

Jamie Ross is the Sports editor at the Globe and Mail

Cathal Kelly is the national sports columnist

J.R.: Hey Cathal, we've got lots to play with this week.

Let's start with Connor Hellebuyck, the star American goaltender who asked to be traded away from the Winnipeg Jets. This follows the departure from Canadian teams of two other U.S. superstars, Brady Tkachuk, who was traded to Florida from Ohio.

traded to Florida from Ottawa, and Quinn Hughes, who left the Canucks in a trade to Minnesota last year.

Should the Maple Leafs be worried? Is Auston Matthews next?

C.K.: Jamie, you fed me this line about how you weren't "read in" (top notch Globe-ism) on what was happening in the Premier League and just winged it.

Now that you're crushing me in the pool, I feel a little hurt and, yes, even

duped. The good thing is that, with 36 game weeks to go, I know it will get much worse.

Vis a vis the American – what is like a brain drain, but doesn't affect aggregate IQ? A torso drain? – I think every Canadian NHL team should be worried. That's a positive development.

Canadian teams are used to stacking money despite being terrible. Doesn't matter how bad they are, they still pack the arena and lead the local sports section.

You think the Lightning or the Hurricanes get that benefit? I'd be amazed if Carolina made the front page of the Charlotte Observer the day after they won the Cup.

But now a wrinkle - American NHLers are developing discernment. They're not feeling welcome (because they're not). They don't want to be aggressed in their second homes. Not

“

Canadian teams are used to stacking money despite being terrible. Doesn't matter how bad they are, they still pack the arena and lead the local sports section.

You'll notice that the Montreal Canadiens are not facing a reverse flow of secretly MAGA types. Cole Caufield isn't publicly pining for the familiar shores of the Wisconsin River.

CATHAL KELLY NATIONAL SPORTS COLUMNIST

There's a simple way for the Leafs to head off this problem – be as good as the Canadiens. Unfortunately for Toronto, goodness eludes them. Ditto Ottawa, Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg and (maybe) Edmonton.

Either be good or draft more Germans. They like being outdoors in rough weather.

Do you have any problem with athletes under long-term contract demanding trades a couple of weeks be-

fore camp starts?

J.R.: In the case of Hellebuyck, it sounds like he'd previously made the request but only publicized it last week. And yes, I do have a problem with it. It's flaky.

Winnipeg has been his professional home his entire career. He signed a seven-year deal, making him a Jet until 2031. He was happy to take their money at the time, but suddenly when things are going poorly, he wants to pull the chute?

By making his wishes public, he's forcing Winnipeg's hand, and now everyone knows he wants out. Doesn't exactly put the Jets in a strong position from a trade standpoint.

C.K.: He's got them in one of those Ron-da Rousey arm bars.

The knee jerk here is to say, 'If he doesn't like it, he can watch the games from his home, in Winnipeg.'

But that will only turn the club inside-out and get the GM fired. After that's done, the next guy gives Hellebuyck what he wants. So you might as well give it to him now.

If it's bad now, it will get worse. The typical Jets fan isn't going to be delighted at what they get back in this trade. So the GM may be getting fired anyway.

I'm surprised more NHL stars don't use this contractual doomsday weapon. HALFBACK, B13

Pegula, Medvedev and Kostyuk among early winners at U.S. Open

Jessica Pegula of the United States returns the ball to Romania's Elena-Gabriela Ruse during the first round of the U.S. Open on Sunday in New York. KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

No. 3-seeded Pegula picks up her 30th hardcourt win after besting Ruse 6-3, 6-2

BRIAN MAHONEY NEW YORK

Jessica Pegula was one of the first players to compete at the U.S. Open, and she learned last year that starting Sunday provided some nice relief.

"It is a little bit weird, but I did kind of enjoy that I could breathe for the next couple of days and everyone else is still freaking out about whether they're going to win their first round," she said.

The head start is great – unless it's a head start back to the airport.

"We were just talking about it, and I said, 'It's so nice to play on Sunday when you win. But if you lose it's not nice, because you feel like the tournament didn't even start and you're out of it,'” No. 11 seed Marta Kostyuk said.

Pegula and Kostyuk both won easily and now the get the benefit of any extra day of rest before returning for the second round.

The No. 3-seeded Pegula beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse 6-3, 6-2. She said she was nervous early, which makes sense given what could be at stake for the 2024 U.S. Open runner-up.

Pegula leads the women's tour with 46 wins this season. She has two titles and has reached three other finals. Pegula can become No. 1 in the rankings if she wins her first major title and No. 2 Elena Rybakina loses before the semi-finals.

Pegula next faces the winner of the match between Venus Williams and fellow wild card Sofia Kenin. They were set to play in the nightcap at Arthur Ashe Stadium, and Williams and sister Serena are scheduled to play doubles together.

"I felt really nervous before I went out there, but I know my coaches were like, 'You didn't really look that nervous. We thought you played great,'" Pegula said.

The No. 11-seeded Kostyuk sure did, beating Storm Hunter 6-4, 6-1 for a strong start to the year's final major after reaching the semi-finals at the French Open and Wimbledon.

A SUNDAY START BUT THE CHAMPIONS DON'T BEGIN UNTIL MONDAY

It was the second year of a Sunday start, though some of the biggest headliners don't begin until Mon- day. Two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka plays her opening match against Camila Osorio, before Carlos Alcaraz, who won his second U.S. Open title last year, plays his first singles match since April after recovering from a right wrist injury.

Past U.S. Open champions Naomi Osaka, Iga Swiatek, Sloane Stephens and Stan Wawrinka are also on the Monday schedule, along with Wimbledon women's champion Linda Noskova and men's contenders such as Ben Shelton, Arthur Fils, Félix Auger-Aliassime and Frances Tiafoe.

Daniil Medvedev, the 2021 U.S. Open champion, shook off his miserable preparation for the tournament by beating Hugo Gaston 6-4, 6-2, 6-4. The No. 7 seed was just 1-3 in the North American hard-court swing, usually a time he thrives.

“Last couple of weeks was not easy,” Medvedev said. “But I’m happy that today I managed to produce high-level tennis.”

Other winners Sunday included No. 19 Jasmine Paolini and No. 31 Leylah Fernandez, the 2021 U.S. Open runner-up. No. 27 seed Barbora Krejcikova, a two-time Grand Slam singles champion, lost 7-6 (4), 6-2 to Kamilla Rakhimova.

American Tommy Paul, the No. 20 seed, bounced back from losing a first-set tiebreak to Coleman Wong to win 6-7 (3), 6-1, 6-3, 6-3. Wong a year ago became the first man from Hong Kong to win an Open-era Grand Slam men's singles match on the way to reaching the round of 32.

Novak Djokovic begins his quest for a record-extending 25th Grand Slam title on Sunday night against Mariano Navone. Djokovic, 39, most recently lost his opening match earlier this month at Cincinnati.

Maric Cilic, the 2014 U.S. Open champion, and 2022 runner-up Casper Ruud both withdrew with injuries on the opening day.

THE U.S. OPEN IS IN THE PROCESS OF GETTING A NEW LOOK

Though the main draws didn't begin until Sunday, action at the U.S. Open has already been going on for nearly a week. Large crowds gathered for the mixed doubles tournament, an exhibition headlined by Roger Federer's return to Flushing Meadows and the singles qualifying tournaments, with admission to the grounds free.

Fans who came for the first time Sunday may have noticed a tournament in transition. The U.S. Open is in the second year of a three-year renovation of Arthur Ashe Stadium, the main venue at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. The improvements in the US\$800-million project include the addition of some lower-level seating, upgrades and additions of entertainment areas and the construction of a player performance centre.

"Please pardon our appearance while we are reimagining spectacular," reads a sign above the entrance to Ashe.

The project is scheduled to be completed in time for the 2027 U.S. Open.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Titans cut QB Levis as NFL teams trim their rosters: source

ROB MAADDI

Tennessee Titans quarterback Will Levis was among more than 1,100 players cut Sunday as NFL teams trimmed their rosters, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the Titans hadn't announced their cuts.

A second-round pick in 2023 who started 21 games for the Titans, Levis was stuck behind Cam Ward and Mitch Trubisky. He was 5-16 for Tennessee in two seasons and didn't play in 2025 following shoulder surgery.

"I think he's been awesome," Titans coach Robert Saleh said of Levis following Saturday's game. "I thought he did a really nice job today. I thought he had a really good two-minute drive at the end of the half. Very good awareness with the time."

Levis said he believes he can be a starting quarterback in the NFL.

"I feel like you've got to have that confidence in yourself regardless of your position," Levis said after going 14 for 22 for 143 yards against the Bears in a 24-15 loss to close out the preseason.

"I saw a quote, I forget who it was, but it's, 'Everyone in the league here is a starter.' You've got to have that mentality. You could be in at the press of a button and just be ready to play. That's one thing that I feel like I gained a lot in my time away, is gaining back some of the confidence that I lost throughout the last year that I played and I'm going to maintain that mindset the rest of my career."

Teams had to be down to 53 players from 90 before 6 p.m. ET.

Three-time Pro Bowl wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. made the New York Giants after missing the 2025 season.

The Vikings kept J.J. McCarthy, a first-round pick in 2024. Anthony Richardson, a first-round pick in 2023, remains with the Colts. Both quarterbacks were on the bubble.

The Browns kept four QBs after placing Dillon Gabriel on injured reserve with a back injury. Shedeur Sanders will back up Deshaun Watson and rookie Taylen Green is No. 3 on the depth chart. Gabriel, who started six games as a rookie last season, can return in Week 5.

The Atlanta Falcons also went with four QBs, keeping Tua Tagovailoa, Michael Penix Jr., Cooper Rush and Jack Strand.

Several teams made trades ahead of the cutdown deadline.

Offensive tackle Broderick Jones, a 2023 first-round pick, changed teams on Sunday. So did quarterback Quinn Ewers and defensive lineman CJ Okoye. Quarterback Kyle McCord, tight ends Hunter Long and Mark Redman, tackle Walter Rouse, defensive back Clark Phillips III, defensive lineman Gervon Dexter, centres Sedrick Van Pran-Granger and Jarrett Patterson were also traded.

A day after trading Ewers to Jacksonville, the Dolphins landed a new backup quarterback by acquiring McCord from Green Bay for a 2028 sixth-round pick. The Dolphins had acquired a 2028 sixth-round pick from the Jaguars for Ewers.

McCord threw four touchdown passes in a 42-38 victory over Arizona on Friday, including two in the final $3 \frac{1}{2}$ minutes. But the Packers signed Tyrod Taylor in May to back up Jordan Love.

McCord will back up Malik Willis, who signed a three-year, US\$67.5-million contract in March after playing behind Love in Green Bay the past two seasons.

The Cardinals acquired Long and a 2028 seventh-round selection from Jacksonville for a sixth-round selection in 2028. Long has 20 receptions for 153 yards in 46 games.

The Colts got Van Pran-Granger and a 2027 seventh-round pick from Buffalo for a 2027 sixth-round selection. Van Pran-Granger appeared in 18 games, including one start with the Bills in two seasons.

The trade is an indication starter Connor McGovern will be ready to go after missing much of the past month with an undisclosed lower-body injury. Lloyd Cushenberry had replaced McGovern when he was sidelined.

The Bears acquired a 2027 fifth-round pick and Phillips from Atlanta for Dexter.

The 49ers added a backup centre in Patterson from Houston for a 2027 seventh-round pick, a person familiar with the deal said on condition of anonymity because it hadn't been announced. Patterson started 21 games over the last three seasons after being a sixth-round pick by the Texans in 2023. He will back up Jake Brendel in San Francisco. The Niners had signed Brett Toth to fill that role in the off-season but he has been out since early August with a concussion.

The Packers continued to boost their tight end depth by acquiring Redman from the Rams for a 2028 seventh-round pick. The move comes three days after Green Bay signed veteran tight end Jonnu Smith.

The Vikings sent Rouse and a 2027 seventh-round pick to the Patriots in exchange for a sixth-round pick in the 2027.

A day earlier, the Steelers sent Jones to Dallas for draft picks. Jones who was picked 14th overall by Pittsburgh three years ago, gives the Cowboys depth at offensive tackle.

Ewers, a seventh-round pick by Miami last year, will replace Nick Mullens as Trevor Lawrence's backup.

Okoye went from the Ravens to the Giants, reuniting with Harbaugh.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

FERNANDEZ, SHAPOVALOV ADVANCE TO SECOND ROUND OF U.S. OPEN

NEW YORK Canada's Leylah Fernandez is on to the second round of the U.S. Open.

The Laval, Que., native defeated China's Shuai Zhang 6-3, 6-2 in opening-round women's singles action on Sunday.

The 31st-seeded Fernandez had four aces to three double faults and converted three of her seven break-point chances. She also saved all seven of

Zhang's break-point opportunities.

Zhang was held without an ace and had one double fault.

Later in the day, Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., defeated Serbia's Miomir Kecmanovic 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 in men's singles play.

Shapovalov had 19 aces, but committed 11 double faults, while also breaking on six of his 14 chances. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald waits to take the field before a game against the New York Giants in 2023. SETH WENIG/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Donald ends retirement, returns to the Rams for Super Bowl hunt

GREG BEACHAM LOS ANGELES

Aaron Donald has returned to the Los Angeles Rams, ending his retirement after 2½ years to join Myles Garrett on their defensive line.

The Rams announced the 35-year-old Donald's decision Sunday following several weeks of discussion, preparation and intensive workouts for the star defensive lineman.

Donald agreed to a one-year contract, and ESPN reported he will make at least US\$20-million in an incentive-laden deal.

Donald became one of the greatest defensive players of his era during his first 10 seasons spent entirely with the Rams in St. Louis and Los Angeles. He won three AP NFL defensive player of the year awards while earning 10 pro bowl selections, eight all-pro selections and a Super Bowl ring before he retired somewhat abruptly in March 2024.

After two seasons enjoying retirement with his family, Donald began to entertain the notion of a comeback this summer after the Rams traded for Garrett, one of Donald's few peers in contemporary defensive line play. Donald and Garrett have combined to win five of the AP's past nine defensive player of the year awards, including two of the past three for Garrett with the Cleveland Browns.

Donald went through nearly two months of physical preparation for his comeback, working out at the Rams' training complex and elsewhere as he tested his body for the rigours of another NFL season.

Coach Sean McVay has seemed confident for weeks that Donald was leaning toward a return, but the decision process stretched through the entire preseason and into the current quiet week before the Rams begin preparations for their season opener against the 49ers in Australia next month.

With MVP Matthew Stafford leading the NFL's top-ranked offence, Los Angeles was already the betting favourite in most sportsbooks to win its second Super Bowl title under McVay even before Donald's comeback.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

	W	L	Pct	GB
Tampa Bay	82	54	.603	—
New York	78	59	.569	$4\frac{1}{2}$
Boston	74	63	.540	$8\frac{1}{2}$
Baltimore	68	69	.496	$14\frac{1}{2}$
Toronto	68	70	.493	15
CENTRAL DIVISION
Chicago	72	64	.529	—
Cleveland	69	68	.504	$3\frac{1}{2}$
Minnesota	65	72	.474	$7\frac{1}{2}$
Detroit	63	73	.463	9
Kansas City	62	76	.449	11
WEST DIVISION
Houston	69	68	.504	—
Texas	67	70	.489	2
Seattle	64	73	.467	5
Athletics	53	84	.387	16
Los Angeles	52	85	.380	17

CENTRAL DIVISION

Fernandes's hat trick leads United to comeback win

Manchester United's Bruno Fernandes, right, scores his side's first goal against Ipswich in Manchester, England, on Sunday. United won the game 5-2 at Old Trafford. JON SUPER/REUTERS

Palmer stars again for Chelsea in eventful 4-3 victory over Brighton

STEVE DOUGLAS

Trailing – again – to a promoted team, Manchester United was facing further embarrassment early in this season's Premier League.

Then Bruno Fernandes intervened.

With a clinically taken hat trick, the Portugal playmaker inspired United's comeback in a 5-2 win over Ipswich at Old Trafford on Sunday.

It was a relieving win for United, which opened its league campaign last weekend with a stunning 2-0 loss at Hull – a team that was promoted via the Championship playoffs and was widely tipped to be the favourite for relegation.

After that setback, United manager Michael Carrick appealed for calm – but saw his team fall behind on Sunday to Ipswich, another big candidate for relegation, in the 29th minute.

Fernandes, the player of the year in the Premier League last season, equalized with a thunderous left-foot shot at the end of a counterattack in the 40th, converted from the penalty spot for his second goal in the 61st to make it 3-1, and completed his hat trick seven minutes later by calmly slotting home a finish. Five years ago, Fernandes also scored a hat trick for United in his first home appearance of the season, against Leeds on that occasion.

"Scoring goals is the best feeling in football," he said. "Doing a hat trick at home with our fans is something I'm proud of. I hope I can do much more."

Between Fernandes's goals, there was time for an own-goal following a shot by Harry Maguire, who handled the ball in the build-up. A foul wasn't awarded because it wasn't adjudged a deliberate handball by Maguire and also he didn't score directly from his shot, with the ball instead deflecting in off Ipswich defender Jacob Greaves.

Bryan Mbeumo completed the scoring for United, running onto a pass from Fernandes and lobbing the goalkeeper from the edge of the area.

Ipswich grabbed a stoppage-time consolation after Argentina defender Lisandro Martínez was dispossessed near his own goal.

REVITALIZED COLE PALMER

LEADS THE WAY FOR CHELSEA

Cole Palmer showed more signs of a return to his top form by completing the scoring for Chelsea in its wild 4-3 win over Brighton.

The playmaker was a revelation in the 2023-24 season – his first at Chelsea – when scoring 22 league goals but he has struggled with injuries and a loss of form since, culminating in Palmer missing out on a place in England's World Cup squad this summer.

In front of England coach Thomas Tuchel, Palmer ran 30 metres before curling home a shot from the edge of the area for Chelsea's fourth goal at Stamford Bridge to end Brighton's realistic hopes of a comeback in an end-to-end thriller.

Roméo Lavia and Pedro Neto put Chelsea 2-0 ahead by the 14th minute before Joao Pedro added a third in the 32nd for Xabi Alonso's team.

Malick Yalcouyé pulled a goal back for Brighton just before halftime, and the visitors further reduced the deficit when Pedro deflected a cross from Pascal Gross into his own net in the 63rd.

Palmer's goal clinched a second straight victory for Chelsea, which opened its league campaign by beating Fulham 3-2 on Monday. Palmer scored in that game, too.

Brighton netted its third, through Gross, with the last kick of the game.

A negative for Chelsea was an injury to key midfielder Moisés Caicedo, who lasted just 14 minutes after his return to the team as a second-half substitute.

Emi Martínez played as goalkeeper for Chelsea hours after completing his move from Aston Villa. Enzo Fernandez, linked to a move to Manchester City, was missing once again.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MLB

AMERICAN LEAGUE
EAST DIVISION
WILD CARD

TBD OILS
	W	L	Pct	GB
New York	78	59	.569	+9
Boston	74	63	.540	+5
Cleveland	69	68	.504	—
Baltimore	68	69	.496	1
Toronto	68	70	.493	$1\frac{1}{2}$
Texas	67	70	.489	2
Minnesota	65	72	.474	4
Seattle	64	73	.467	5

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Sunday

Cleveland 11, Kansas City 1 Toronto 7, Seattle 0 N.Y. Yankees 16, Boston 1 Minnesota 5, Chicago White Sox 1 Baltimore 8, Athletics 5

Saturday

Boston 6, N.Y. Yankees 0, 1st game Chicago White Sox 3, Minnesota 2 Toronto 4, Seattle 3 Kansas City 8, Cleveland 3 N.Y. Yankees 9, Boston 2, 2nd game Baltimore 5, Athletics 3

Monday — All Times Eastern

Seattle (Kirby 9-10) at Boston (Tolle 8-6), 6:45 p.m.

Detroit (Jobe 1-1) at Minnesota (Bradley 9-6), 7:40 p.m.

Athletics (Jump 6-8) at Texas (deGrom 9-9), 8:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Kay 9-6) at Houston (Lambert 8-7), 8:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Rodríguez 0-2) at L.A. Angels (TBD), 9:38 p.m.

INTERLEAGUE

Sunday

L.A. Dodgers 6, Detroit 1 Tampa Bay 5, San Diego 4, 11 innings Texas 7, Milwaukee 4 Houston 6, N.Y. Mets 3 Philadelphia 5, L.A. Angels 2

Saturday

Detroit 2, L.A. Dodgers 1 N.Y. Mets 6, Houston 2

NATIONAL LEAGUE
EAST DIVISION

	W	L	Pct	GB
Atlanta	82	55	.599	—
Philadelphia	77	60	.562	5
Miami	69	68	.504	13
Washington	65	74	.468	18
New York	61	76	.445	21

CENTRAL DIVISION
Milwaukee	85	52	.620	—
Chicago	77	59	.566	$7\frac{1}{2}$
St. Louis	68	70	.493	$17\frac{1}{2}$
Pittsburgh	67	71	.486	$18\frac{1}{2}$
Cincinnati	64	72	.471	$20\frac{1}{2}$

WEST DIVISION
Los Angeles	82	55	.599	—
Arizona	73	65	.529	$9\frac{1}{2}$
San Diego	72	65	.526	10
San Francisco	56	81	.409	26
Colorado	52	85	.380	30

WILD CARD

	W	L	Pct	GB
Chicago	77	59	.566	+5
Philadelphia	77	60	.562	$+4\frac{1}{2}$
Arizona	73	65	.529	—
San Diego	72	65	.526	$\frac{1}{2}$
Miami	69	68	.504	$3\frac{1}{2}$
St. Louis	68	70	.493	5

Tampa Bay 7, San Diego 6 Milwaukee 5, Texas 3 Philadelphia 4, L.A. Angels 2, 10 innings

Monday — All Times Eastern

Monday — All Times Eastern N.Y. Mets (Stock 0-3) at Tampa Bay (Seymour 9-5), 6:40 p.m. Baltimore (Bradish 7-12) at Colorado (Gordon 1-4), 8:40 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Sunday

Miami 6, Washington 2
Atlanta 3, Colorado 2, 10 innings
Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 4
Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs

Saturday

Pittsburgh 6, St. Louis 2
Chicago Cubs 17, Cincinnati 5
Arizona 7, San Francisco 1, 1st game
Atlanta 2, Colorado 1
Washington 5, Miami 4, 10 innings
San Francisco 7, Arizona 2, 2nd game

Monday — All Times Eastern

Monday — All Times Eastern San Francisco (Molina 1-0) at Atlanta (Elder 8-7), 6:05 p.m. San Diego (King 8-9) at Cincinnati (Singer 5-12), 6:40 p.m. Miami (Gusto 1-3) at Washington (Dion 1-1), 6:45 p.m. Milwaukee (Harrison 10-3) at Chicago Cubs (Holmes 5-6), 7:40 p.m. Philadelphia (Nola 5-10) at Arizona (Pfaadt 7-1), 9:40 p.m.

NSL

Sunday

Toronto 2 Ottawa 1

Saturday

Saturday Calgary 2 Vancouver 2 Montreal 1 Halifax 0

MLS
EASTERN CONFERENCE

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pt
Nashville	22	16	2	4	47	17	52
Miami	22	12	4	6	56	41	42
Chicago	21	11	6	4	39	28	37
New England	23	11	7	4	36	27	37
Charlotte	21	10	7	5	40	32	35
Cincinnati	22	8	7	7	49	51	31
N.Y. City F.C.	22	7	8	7	36	31	28
N.Y. Red Bulls	22	7	10	5	32	46	26
Orlando	22	7	11	4	37	54	25
Toronto	22	5	7	10	32	38	25
D.C.	22	5	7	10	28	36	25
Philadelphia	22	6	10	6	34	39	24
Atlanta	22	6	13	3	25	38	21
Montreal	22	5	11	6	30	46	21
Columbus	22	5	12	5	31	39	20

WESTERN CONFERENCE

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pt
Vancouver	21	13	4	4	48	18	43
Houston	22	12	7	3	30	26	39
L.A. F.C.	23	10	7	6	36	22	36
San Jose	22	10	8	4	39	33	34
Dallas	22	9	6	7	41	37	34
St. Louis	22	9	6	7	33	30	34
Colorado	22	10	11	1	31	28	31
San Diego	22	8	8	6	40	33	30
Minnesota	22	7	7	8	30	32	29
Salt Lake City	21	8	9	4	34	33	28
Portland	22	8	10	4	39	39	28
Seattle	21	7	9	5	24	29	26
L.A. Galaxy	23	6	9	8	28	35	26
Austin	22	6	10	6	28	41	24
Kansas City	22	4	15	3	20	54	15

Sunday

New England 3 Columbus 1 Dallas 3 St. Louis 3

Saturday

Austin 2 Portland 1
Charlotte 2 Atlanta 0
Chicago 2 Seattle 2
Colorado 1 Salt Lake City 0
Los Angeles F.C. 0 D.C. 0
Miami 7 Montreal 1
Nashville 4 Cincinnati 0
New York City F.C. 1 Toronto 1
Orlando 3 Minnesota 3
Philadelphia 3 N.Y. Red Bulls 1
San Diego 3 L.A. Galaxy 1
San Jose 0 Houston 0
Vancouver 3 Kansas City 0

ENGLAND

PREMIER LEAGUE

Sunday

Chelsea 4, Brighton 3
Leeds 1, Brentford 1
Sunderland 1, Fulham 0
Man United 5, Ipswich 2

Saturday

Liverpool 2, Nottingham Forest 2 Bournemouth 1, Everton 1 Coventry 0, Hull 1 Tottenham 0, Newcastle 2

CPL

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pt
Calgary	19	13	2	4	37	11	43
Hamilton	19	13	4	2	29	14	41
Ottawa	20	10	7	3	34	34	33
Vancouver	20	8	9	3	26	23	27
Quebec	19	6	9	4	27	33	22
Halifax	20	5	10	5	28	34	20
Toronto	17	4	7	6	22	37	18
Victoria	18	1	12	5	22	39	8

Victoria 4 Halifax 3

Saturday

Calgary 1 Vancouver 0

WNBA
EASTERN CONFERENCE

	W	L	Pct	GB
x-Indiana	26	14	.650	—
x-Atlanta	26	14	.650	—
x-New York	24	16	.600	2
x-Washington	24	16	.600	2
Chicago	15	25	.375	11
Toronto	11	29	.275	15
Connecticut	10	29	.256	$15^{1/2}$

WESTERN CONFERENCE

	W	L	Pct	GB
x-Minnesota	31	9	.775	—
x-Golden State	29	11	.725	2
x-Las Vegas	27	13	.675	4
x-Dallas	23	16	.590	$7\frac{1}{2}$
Portland	16	24	.400	15
Los Angeles	15	25	.375	16
Phoenix	14	26	.350	17
Seattle	8	32	.200	23

x — clinched playoff berth

Sunday

Atlanta 89, Minnesota 81
Los Angeles 90, Seattle 74
Golden State 86, Portland 69
Connecticut at Dallas
BREAK FOR THE FIBA WORLD CUP

Saturday

New York 85, Chicago 66 Phoenix 101, Toronto 69

CFL

EAST DIVISION

	GP	W	L	PF	PA	Pt
Montreal	11	9	2	395	307	18
Toronto	11	5	6	328	339	10
Hamilton	12	4	8	280	347	8
Ottawa	10	0	10	223	368	0

WEST DIVISION

	GP	W	L	PF	PA	Pt
Edmonton	11	8	3	323	279	16
Saskatchewan	11	7	4	337	295	14
Winnipeg	11	6	5	300	314	12
British Columbia	10	5	5	274	267	10
Calgary	11	5	6	406	350	10

WEEK 13

Bye: Edmonton

Sunday

British Columbia at Ottawa

Saturday

Calgary 28 Hamilton 23 Saskatchewan 28 Toronto 24

Monday

Friday

FIBA MEN'S WORLD CUP

Winnipeg 44 Montreal 28

SECOND ROUND — GROUP B Monday All Times Eastern Argentina at Canada, 7:10 p.m. Uruguay at Puerto Rico, 7:10 p.m. Panama at Bahamas, 8:10 p.m.

2026 LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES

At Williamsport, Pa.

At Williamsport, Pa. Sunday THIRD PLACE Tokyo (Japan) 3 Hamilton (Ohio) 2 OVERALL CHAMPIONSHIP Willemstad (Curaçao) 11 Henderson (Nev.) 2

Saturday

INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Willemstad (Curaçao) 4 Tokyo (Japan) 0 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP Henderson (Nev.) 12 Hamilton (Ohio) 2

NFL PRESEASON

Saturday

Detroit 25, Indianapolis 16 Chicago 24, Tennessee 15

Friday

Baltimore 41, Washington 3
Atlanta 17, Miami 12
Carolina 16, Houston 13
Jacksonville 19, Tampa Bay 0
N.Y. Giants 23, N.Y. Jets 6
Cincinnati 30, Philadelphia 13
Green Bay 42, Arizona 38
New Orleans 27, Dallas 24
Seattle 9, Kansas City 9
Denver 34, Minnesota 6

LPGA TOUR

FM CHAMPIONSHIP

At Norton, Mass.

Sunday

Purse: \$4.4 million Yardage: 6,533; Par: 72

Ruoning Yin, \$660,000 71-65-68-70—274 Hyo Joo Kim, \$413,842 68-67-70-71—276 Allisen Corpuz, \$300,213 68-67-74-68—277 Sei Young Kim, \$209,582 64-74-67-73—278 Rose Zhang, \$209,582 72-68-70-68—278 Jenny Bae, \$131,037 68-68-72-71—279 Brooke Matthews, \$131,037 772-69-70-68—279 Miyu Yamashita, \$131,037 65-70-75-69—279 Jin Hee Im, \$89,213 70-70-69-71—280 Somi Lee, \$89,213 66-72-70-72—280 Hae-Ran Ryu, \$89,213 68-70-72-70—280 Jeeno Thithikul, \$89,213 72-68-71-69—280 Na Rin An, \$67,971 72-72-66-71—281 Lauren Coughlin, \$67,971 68-71-70-72—281 Nataliya Guseva, \$67,971 69-68-72-72—281 Nasa Hataoka, \$67,971 71-70-62-78—281 Pathy Tavatanakit, \$67,971 71-68-73-69—281 Hye Jin Choi, \$54,288 72-66-73-71—282 Karis Davidson, \$54,288 70-73-70-69—282 Anna Huang, \$11,406 69-70-76-77—292 Aphrodite Deng, \$0 73-71-73-77—294

PGA TOUR

TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP

At Atlanta

S. Scheffler, $10,000,000	65-67-66-66—264
Viktor Hovland, $5,000,000	64-66-65-72—267
Ryan Gerard, $3,705,000	65-65-66-72—268
J. Bridgeman, $1,707,143	68-67-66-68—269
Alex Fitzpatrick, $1,707,143	68-68-67-66—269
Chris Gotterup, $1,707,143	64-67-67-71—269
Russell Henley, $1,707,143	70-65-66-68—269
Min Woo Lee, $1,707,143	62-73-66-68—269
Rory McIlroy, $1,707,143	68-69-63-69—269
Ludvig Åberg, $1,707,143	65-68-65-71—269
T. Fleetwood, $660,000	66-70-67-67—270
Adam Scott, $660,000	66-67-65-72—270
Cameron Young, $660,000	70-62-68-70—270
Tom Kim, $536,250	67-68-68-68—271
Si Woo Kim, $536,250	69-68-65-69—271
Collin Morikawa, $536,250	64-67-72-68—271
Xander Schaeffele, $536,250	67-67-67-66—271
Akshay Bhatia, $460,000	65-69-71-68—273
Sam Burns, $460,000	66-68-67-72—273
Justin Rose, $460,000	68-65-69-71—273
Patrick Cantlay, $408,750	68-70-68-69—275
Wyndham Clark, $408,750	67-69-67-72—275
Matt Fitzpatrick, $408,750	66-67-69-73—275
Hideki Matsuyama, $408,750	69-70-67-69—275
Kristoffer Reitan, $380,000	70-69-68-70—277
Ryan Fox, $375,000	66-68-70-74—278
Alex Smalley, $370,000	67-68-72-72—279
Robert MacIntyre, $365,000	67-76-63-74—280
Gary Woodland, $360,000	66-68-71-77—282

U SPORTS FOOTBALL

Sunday

Sunday
Queen's at Toronto
Saturday
Ottawa 38 Waterloo 28
York 35 Carleton 34
Wilfrid Laurier 33 Guelph 28
McMaster 31 Windsor 26

TELEVISION

MONDAY (ALL TIMES EASTERN)

TENNIS

ATP/WTA Tour: US Open, TSN 1, 3, 11 a.m. TSN 2, 7 p.m.

BASEBALL

MLB: Seattle vs. Boston, SN Ontario, East, West, Pacific, 6:30 p.m.

MLB: San Diego vs. Cincinnati, TSN 4, 6:30 p.m.

MLB: Athletics vs. Texas, SN 1, 8 p.m. MLB: N.Y. Yankees vs. L.A. Angels, SN Ontario, East, West, Pacific, 9:30 p.m. MLB: Philadelphia vs. Arizona, TSN 4, 9:30 p.m.

SOCCER

La Liga: Rayo Vallecano vs. Barcelona, TSN 5, 3 p.m.

BASKETBALL

Aston Villa vs. Arsenal, 3 p.m.

FIBA Men's World Cup Qualifier: Canada vs. Argentina, TSN 5, 7 p.m.

RESULTS AS OF SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 9:25 P.M.

CORNERED

OFF THE MARK
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SPEED BUMP

BIZARRO

Curaçao wins Little League World Series

Curaçao players and coaches tip their caps to fans while running with the championship banner after defeating Henderson, Nev., to win the Little League World Series championship game on Sunday. MATTHEW O'HAREN/IMAGN IMAGES VIA REUTERS CONNECT

Coach says 'every kid [will eat] McDonald's,' as nation celebrates its second LLWS title

ALEX HARKINS

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, PA.

For the last two weeks, Curaçao Little Leaguers were focused and disciplined about what they ate, when they slept and how they practised for youth baseball's biggest tournament.

Now, the champs can relax and enjoy a treat or two.

Juriënsly De Windt and Shardijon De Lanoi each drove in three runs, and Curaçao won its second Little League World Series title, beating Nevada 11-2 in the championship game on Sunday.

"Every kid [will eat] McDonald's," Curaçao coach Railison Gijsbertha said, smiling ear-to-ear, alongside three beaming players who couldn't wait to take the trophy home to their tiny island nation for the first time in 22 years.

De Windt started on the mound and allowed two runs, one earned, in three innings. Giendry Ryan and Steven Felix were nearly flawless in relief with four strikeouts over the final three innings.

Curaçao had advanced to the finals by winning the international title in 2005, 2019, 2022 and 2023. This time, the group from Pariba Little League in Willemstad had enough firepower from the mound and at the plate to beat the U.S. champion.

Curaçao went unbeaten in the double-elimination tournament before overcoming an early two-run deficit to the team from Henderson, Nev.

Ryan fanned four in $2\frac{1}{3}$ innings. Felix forced Nevada's final batter to pop out to Giendry in centre field. Once the ball was safely in his glove, the celebrations began.

Giendry tossed his glove in the air as his teammates swarmed him in the outfield. Curaçao's infielders showered each other with water as a pack of fans tucked behind the third base dugout waved the Curaçao flag.

Curaçao's support grew beyond its native fans as the tournament wore on. Many fans from the United States began wearing its signature navy blue and yellow hat, some loaded with signatures that Curaçao players were happy to provide throughout the week.

"When we went to the shop, we saw people from the States were buying our stuff," Gijsbertha said. "Our team is a good team, a great team, and when they ask us to sign a ball, we do that."

They were quiet early as it looked like Nevada, the first U.S. team to advance to the championship without a home run, would finally crack Curaçao's standout pitchers.

Following a bunt from Nevada's Michael Kleiner, Maddox Bryan lined a single to centre field, driving in two runs. Nevada fans along the first base line waved signs, including one featuring World War II icon Rosie the Riveter and dedicated to Carsynn Meyer, the first girl to play for the U.S. in the championship game.

Meyer, who became the first girl to get a hit in the U.S. championship when Nevada beat Ohio on Saturday, went 0 for 2 against Curaçao.

Curaçao tied it when De Lanoi lined a ball off the glove of a diving Kleiner at second base for a two-run single.

The international champs took the lead for good on a two-run double by Jaymiëll

Martina in the fourth. De Windt added a bases-clearing double in the fifth that brought the Curaçao fans to their feet. The Curaçao radio broadcast team, which led the crowd in the country's national anthem before the game, began to exult.

Nevada also was the runner-up last year, falling to Taiwan in the championship game.

"When they look back and kind of realize what they've accomplished and what they've gained from here on out," Nevada coach Cory Edwards said, "I hope they shoot me a text or give me a call and just remember that it was a hell of a ride."

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Canadian Kung captures season-ending fishing event at Elite Series

CLAYTON, N.Y.

Canadian Evan Kung saved his Elite Series career in a big way Sunday.

Kung, of Pickering, Ont., won the season-ending event at the St. Lawrence River for his first Elite Series victory. Kung's five-fish limit weighed 27 pounds 12 ounces, giving him 109 pounds nine ounces for the tournament, a record total for a smallmouth bass event.

Kung, 27, claimed the \$US100,000 winner's share and an additional US\$1,000 for the day's biggest fish (six pounds 13 ounces).

The win was a very timely one for Kung, who entered this event standing 72nd in the overall standings. He needed a solid finish to crack the top-70 and remain on the circuit.

Sunday's victory not only took care of that – Kung finished 55th overall – but the Canadian also qualified for the US\$1-million Bassmaster Classic slated for March 19-21 on Lake Hartwell in Greenville, S.C. It will be Kung's first career appearance in pro bass fishing's marquee event.

"It's going to be much better to fish in it than work in the Expo," Kung said. "I've done that the last couple of years and it's not fun.

"I've waited so long to get to my first Classic."

Kung qualified to compete on the final day after standing second Saturday, 1.5 pounds behind American Trey McKinney. McKinney was the last competitor to weigh in Sunday and needed 25 pounds five ounces to win but had 24 pounds four ounces to finish second with 107 pounds nine ounces.

McKinney captured the overall title with 735 points, four more than Cory Johnston of Cavan, Ont. Johnston also qualified for Sunday's final round and had the day's heaviest bag (29 pounds nine ounces) to finish fourth with 106 pounds seven ounces.

"I had a great day [Sunday], couldn't ask for anything better but a lot of highs and lows out there this week," Johnston said. "[Saturday] cost me winning the tournament, for sure."

Johnston's five-fish limit Saturday was 23 pounds two ounces, his lowest total of the tournament. But on Sunday, Johnston was able to deftly scoop up a six-pound bass just as it became unhooked at the side of his boat.

"I pulled up to a spot [Saturday] where there were big ones and I caught three six-pounders there [Sunday]," Johnston said. "I hooked a seven-pounder, it jumped and the line broke when it was in the air.

"I was thinking it was probably a six but after catching those three today, it was definitely a lot bigger than that. But that's fishing, that's what keeps us coming back."

Nine of the tournament's top-10 finishers cracked the 100-pound mark.

Johnston's brother, Chris - the overall champion the previous two seasons - finished 17th in the tournament with 73 pounds 14 ounces. Jeff Gustafson, of Kenora, Ont., was 39th (69 pounds 10 ounces) while Cooper Gallant of Bowmanville, Ont., was 64th (45 pounds eight ounces).

Chris Johnston was 11th in the overall standings while Gustafson was 25th. The Johnstons and Gustafson also qualified for the '27 Classic.

Gallant was 82nd overall.

Kung was fourth after the first day of competition, then moved into second Friday behind McKinney, whose limit of 30 pounds 11 ounces was the heaviest bag of smallmouth bass in Bass history.

"I knew every day going in what I needed to catch just to stay in the Elites," Kung said.

Kung got the majority of his fish on a dropshot rig using a Great Lakes Finesse prototype bait that he said will be hitting the market soon.

THE CANADIAN PRESS

Jays: Toronto expected to surpass 3 million mark for home attendance this season

FROM B10

The rookie centre-fielder lead off reached base three times with two walks and the double, also stole a base and laid down a sacrifice bunt to put Myles Straw in scoring position before Guerrero's double.

"He's prepared, he's smart and he is humble," Schneider said of Bateman. He's an easy guy to like. He sets the tone and very quickly has become well liked by the guys and the fans.

"He's a gamer."

The home run by Kirk was his eighth of the year. For Okamoto it was sayonara for the 28th time, the most by a rookie in club

history.

Toronto travelled to Cleveland after the game and begins a three-game series against the Guardians on Tuesday. After that the Blue Jays visit Kansas City and the Athletics each for three games.

The Blue Jays don't return to Rogers Centre until Sept. 11 for the first of three contests with the Orioles. They have scuffled this season but by the end of that series will have surpassed the 3 million mark for home attendance this season.

"There is a lot to like about the way we are playing right now," Schneider said. "The play-off spot is kind of right there in front of us. We are going to enjoy a day off and then keep our foot on the gas."

Before Sunday's contest I'm a Believer by The Monkees was blasting over the speakers inside the stadium. It seems hard to believe but the Blue Jays have crawled back into the race once again.

Halfback: A generational defenceman like Makar is worth more than a No. 1 centre

FROM B10

If Matthews says he wants to be traded tomorrow, what can the Leafs do but trade him?

On the topic of leverage, Cale Makar just showed everyone how to deploy it.

Makar's not a star in the sense that Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin or even Connor McDavid are. People in other cities are not buying tickets just to see him. That's partly the position he plays, and partly that he has the public personality of a trout.

When you sign him, you're not getting a pitchman or a natural entertainer. You're purchasing a performance widget.

Yet Makar has still managed to make himself the highest paid player in league history. I hope he's buying his agent a case of champagne, and then buying him a share in the winery.

If US\$20-million is the new normal for a No. 1 defenceman – which is what every No. 1 defenceman will think – what's a No. 1 centre worth?

J.R.: I happen to think watching Makar is worth the price of admission.

I am not so good with numbers so I don't know what a No. 1 centre is worth, and the price is changing monthly by the look of it. But I do think there are more of them out there who do what you need a No. 1 centre to do than there are generational defenceman that can quarterback your team.

Given that scarcity, that's why teams value players like Makar, Hughes and Lane Hutson.

The Makar deal is the fourth time this summer a new record contract has been set. Are we finally seeing the NHL have its A-Rod, paradigm-shift moment, 26 years later?

C.K.: I'll believe the paradigm has shifted when players are able to leverage for top money, without giving away years and years of eligibility.

So it's all eyes on Hughes. He apparently wants a short-term deal with Minnesota – the equivalent of an opt-out clause.

If Hughes can force the Wild into a deal is north of Makar's in terms of annual dollar value, but for only three years, then we are in a new world. That's when a tightly controlled market becomes something more like an annual bazaar.

And it's obvious that Hughes can do that. What's the Wild's leverage? They're going to say no and let him walk? As long as Hughes has the steel, he can have what he wants.

That's the overarching paradigm shift – will hockey stars start thinking like soccer stars? I'm for anything that introduces more chaos into the system.

Another big talker this past week was the influencers at Good Good Golf. As best I can tell, they are a bunch of brotastic bros who bro out while making bro-y golf content.

But they bro'd too hard, upsetting the bros in corporate. Or something. Can you explain what's going on here, and why anyone should care?

J.R.: Golf, more than any other sport, has been permeated by influencers. It's all trick shots and celebrity tournaments and dilettantes making unfunny golf-related memes and skits.

They legitimize their existence by getting Bryson DeChambeau or John Daly to play a round with them, which they film and post to social media.

Good Good is one of the bigger brands in the space. The company caught serious heat last week when it produced an ad that showed one its male personalities showing one of its female personalities to the ground as she reached for a forbidden driver. The company said it was a parody of the movie, Obsession. The public felt it was making light about violence against women. When the dust settled, Good Good gear had been dropped from retailers across America, the PGA Tour distanced itself, and even Callaway (which co-sponsored the ad, and approved the content)

backed away. I feel dumber for having typed any of that, but you asked.

C.K.: Feel better knowing I feel wiser for knowing it. Aaaaand ... there, I've already forgotten it.

You get why companies and leagues prefer this sort of media environment. The new media are not their critics. They're not even their partners. They're their dispensable, volunteer advertisers.

For as long as they're useful, they can be monetized. The minute they aren't, they can be jettisoned from the mother ship like an escape pod. Will they survive atmospheric re-entry? Probably not.

I see that after rolling over for the first little while, Good Good is promising to fight back. The problem is that there are a million Good Goods coming up. All you need is a phone camera and a head shaped so that you can turn a ball cap backward on it.

So, good good luck to them. They'll need it.

Scheffler captures another FedEx Cup, passes Woods in PGA Tour career earnings

Hovland closes with a 72 to finish alone in second, taking home \$5-million to Scheffler's \$10-million prize

DOUG FERGUSON ATLANTA

Scottie Scheffler's second FedEx Cup title, and his 22nd victory on the PGA Tour during this astonishing five-year run, was different from all the others, even if it looked all too familiar.

Scheffler celebrated with a beer.

He had just closed with a four-under 66 in the Tour Championship on Sunday - no one else from the leading six players broke par - and Scheffler had to wait for the last two groups to finish to make it official.

"There was an open bar inside and I'm like, 'All right, I'm grabbing a beer.' It tasted great," Scheffler said. "I don't really drink often. My wife and manager were like, 'Wow, I haven't seen you have a beer in a long time.' Well, season's over now. I'm going to have a beer. Well-earned beer."

There was no arguing that, and there's no longer a debate over who had the best season in golf.

Scheffler took care of that at East Lake when he made up a three-shot deficit in four holes and pulled away to win the Tour Championship, claim a second FedEx Cup title and move past Tiger Woods for most PGA Tour earnings.

Scheffler signalled his rally with a 5-iron to within two inches of the cup on the 211-yard second hole. He caught Viktor Hovland with a 25-foot birdie on the fourth hole, pulled ahead for the first time on the 13th and wound up with a three-shot victory.

It was his first time with the low 72-hole score at the Tour Championship.

When he won in 2024, he had a two-shot lead before the tournament began given to the No. 1 seed under the “starting strokes” format. He won by four shots, even though two other players had a lower actual score. That still bugs him.

"When you're coming down the stretch of a tournament and you're tied or one shot back, it's different than when you're adding it up at the end and there's starting strokes and all that stuff," Scheffler said. "I think having a real tournament to finish the year, where I am the winner and the lowest score at East Lake, feels like a bit more of an accomplishment."

Scheffler won for the third

Scottie Scheffler hits from a bunker on the 16th hole during the final round of the PGA Tour Championship on Sunday in Atlanta. Scheffler closed with a four-under 66 to win the event. COLIN HUBBARD/ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

time this year – twice in the last three weeks during the PGA Tour's postseason – to match Chris Gotterup, Matt Fitzpatrick and U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark for most titles in 2026.

Players vote on the Jack Nicklaus Award for PGA Tour player of the year. Scheffler has won the last four years – another would tie him with Woods for most consecutive awards.

Taking over the top spot in career earnings was inevitable. The US\$40-million purse at the Tour Championship now counts as official money. Scheffler won US\$10-million, pushing his career total to US\$130,390,661.

Woods, who never played for more than a US\$10-million purse during his peak years from 1997 through 2008, had been at the top of the career money list for nearly 26 years.

It was a small slice of redemption for Scheffler, who lost in a playoff to Hovland at the Travelers Championship, one of his five runner-up finishes this year.

Hovland made only one birdie and closed with a 72 to finish alone in second, worth US\$5-million. Most aggravating for the Norwegian was having three putts hit the lip in a four-hole stretch on the back nine, two of them for birdie and one for par.

"He's just good, and he played good every day," Hovland said. "I could have shot 66 easily as well today. Just didn't have it. ... It wasn't like anybody else really played all that great in contention, and that's what you see - a lot of guys just gagging and throwing up. And that's where he just kind of stays in it and shoots a nice score. That gets the job done."

Scheffler had two bogeys – one an aggressive miss with a wedge from the fairway on No. 7, the other from a gnarly lie in the rough on the 14th – and otherwise felt he didn't miss much over a tough day of wind and firm turf that made the landing spots feel smaller.

East Lake played to a cumulative average of 67.35 through three rounds. On Sunday, the average score was 70.07.

Ryan Gerard, one shot behind Hovland staring out, made double bogey on the opening hole, followed with 13 straight pars and shot 72 to finish alone in third.

"They made it as difficult as they could today, and that's kind of what we were looking for," Gerard said. "I just wasn't on enough to execute shots to really tucked hole locations."

Scheffler said winning the Tour Championship for the FedEx Cup doesn't change his outlook on the season. That's for others to judge. Even so, he had a point to prove.

He felt as though he had underachieved in the PGA Tour postseason - losing a six-shot lead to Rory McIlroy in 2022, not putting up much of a fight when Hovland won in 2023 when he started with a two-shot lead and finished 16 shots behind.

"To come in this year maybe not winning the tournaments that I could have won throughout the regular season, to come in and win two out of three playoff events, is definitely a nice way to finish off the season," Scheffler said.

“That was my motto going into the playoffs. Maybe in years I’ve underperformed in the postseason, and maybe this is a year I’ll perform better than I have in the regular season.”

That he did, and the beer no doubt went down smoothly.

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Chinese star Ruoning Yin wins FM Championship at TPC Boston

NORTON, MASS.

Ruoning Yin won the FM Championship on Sunday at the TPC Boston for her sixth career LPGA Tour victory, outlasting Hyo Joo Kim.

Yin ran in a 25-foot birdie putt on the par-five 12th for a share of the lead with playing partner Kim. The 23-year-old Chinese player parred the next five in breezy conditions and birdied the par-five 18th for a two-under

70 and a two-stroke victory.

"I was really emotional when I was on the 18 green and just felt like all the hard work paid off," Yin said. "Just really happy how I grinded out there today."

Kim shot 71. She dropped back with a three-putt bogey on the par-three 16th, missing a nine-foot par try. The South Korean player - a two-time winner this season - missed a seven-foot birdie attempt on the par-three 17th.

"At the end of the day it was

Ronni," Kim said.

Sei Young Kim chipped in for birdie on the par-three 11th to take a one-stroke lead in the final group, then dropped four shots on the next three holes with a double bogey and two bogeys. She shot 73 to tie for fourth.

Yin won twice in 2023 and three times in 2024, with a span of 672 days since her last win in the 2024 Maybank Championship.

"It's just been so long since my last win," Yin said. "I know I work hard and also my team, my mom is here. Just everything comes together."

She had a midnight flight to China.

"I'll be back home and celebrate with my friend and my family," Yin said. "I think I'm going to take a good sleep on the plane."

Allisen Corpuz was third at 11 under after a 68. Fellow U.S. Solheim Cup player Rose Zhang (68) was another shot back with Sei Young Kim.

Top-ranked Nelly Korda tied for 50th at one over after a 73 in the final event before the Sept. 11-13 Solheim Cup matches in the Netherlands.

European captain Anna Nordqvist finished her final event on the LPGA Tour in tie for 38th. She was one under after a 72.

Vancouver's Anna Huang had a 77 on the day to finish tied for 59th. Calgary's Aphrodite Deng also had a 77 to place in a tie for 62nd.

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Former grocery driver Joe Dean wins British Masters with wife as caddie

BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND

Joe Dean, a former grocery delivery driver ranked No. 292, captured his first European tour title by shooting nine-under 63 to win the British Masters with his wife on the bag on Sunday.

The 32-year-old Englishman started the final round seven strokes off the lead at The Belfry but made nine birdies – including four on his last six holes – to finish the week on 14-under par and move into the lead with the late starters still having holes to play.

No one could catch him, with four players – Nacho Elvira (69), third-round leader Daniel Hillier (73), Niklas Norgaard (71) and Jakob Skov Olesen (71) – tying for second place, three shots back.

This was the first tournament in Team Europe's qualifying process for next year's Ryder Cup, so that's suddenly an unlikely target for Dean – quite the turn of events for someone who spent time delivering groceries during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and kept doing it for nearly four years to help fund his career when he didn't have a card.

Joe Dean celebrates with the trophy after winning the British Masters at The Belfry Hotel & Resort in Sutton Coldfield, England, on Sunday. BRADLEY COLLYER/PA VIA AP

"I enjoyed it for most of the time," Dean said of his old part-time job. "Obviously it's a completely different life, a completely different lifestyle. I still see the vans going up and down the road every now and then, and I keep in touch."

It was a family success, too. Dean got married to Emily following the British Open in July and she was his caddie this week.

"I can't thank her enough for what she has to put up with, with me," Dean said. "It was bad enough off the course, with the lows and stuff. Now it's on and off the course. I hope I made her proud."

Marco Penge tied for sixth place with a final-round 72, marking a solid start to Ryder Cup qualifying after he failed to get selected as a captain's pick two years ago in a breakout season on the European tour.

Penge acknowledged this week it was the correct call by captain Luke Donald, whose team went on to win 15-13.

Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. made seven catches for 76 yards over three preseason games, including three for 53 in the preseason finale against the Jets on Friday night. ADAM HUNGER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Beckham Jr. comes full circle, making the Giants' 53-man roster

Wide receiver's last game was in December, 2024, with Miami, when he played nine games for the Dolphins

STEPHEN WHYNO

Odell Beckham Jr. made the New York Giants' 53-man roster submitted Sunday, a significant milestone in the wide receiver's comeback at age 33 on the team he started his NFL career with.

Beckham got better as training camp progressed and showed in exhibition play that he could still produce. He made seven catches for 76 yards over three games, including three for 53 in the preseason finale against the Jets on Friday night.

"I feel like I gave everything I had," Beckham said afterward. "I'm just truly grateful for that opportunity, that experience. It was a tough couple years, taking a step back and deciding, do you go forward with life? Are you done? The mental battles that we go through and just push through, persevere and overcome adversity."

Coach John Harbaugh said Beckham had a good camp, with the final week of practices being his best.

"He's looked good and made numerous plays," Harbaugh said.

Beckham was out of football last season, including time spent serving a six-game suspension for failing a performance-enhancing drug test. His last game was Dec. 8, 2024, with Miami, when he played nine games for the Dolphins and had nine catches for 55 yards before getting waived on Dec. 13.

After not catching on anywhere and serving the suspension, Beckham began ramping back up this past spring. He worked out for the Giants in April, signed in June and acknowledged after one of his first off-season workouts that he would have to earn a roster spot.

Asked after the Jets game what he would mean, Beckham said, "Everything."

"Seeing my son at the game, yelling, just looking at me, and he told one of his friends: 'Yeah, people always want to take a picture of my dad. He must be the best," Beckham said. "And it just made me laugh because I just want to show him. I want to lead the way. I want to be a good example for him."

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It was a tough couple years, taking a step back and deciding, do you go forward with life? Are you done? The mental battles that we go through and just push through, persevere and overcome adversity.

ODELL BECKHAM JR. NEW YORK GIANTS WIDE RECEIVER

A season-ending knee injury to Calvin Austin opened the door for Beckham and return specialist Braxton Berrios, who is being released but is expected to be brought back before the season opener Sept. 13 against Dallas. If he plays that night, it will be Beckham's first home game in a Giants uniform since Dec. 2, 2018.

Drafted 12th by the Giants in 2014, Beckham spent his first five professional seasons with them before getting traded to Cleveland in 2019. He eclipsed 1,000 yards receiving four times with New York.

After going through camp wearing No. 3, Beckham is also expected to get his familiar No. 13 back after wideout Jalin Hyatt was cut following parts of three seasons with zero touchdown catches.

Hyatt, a third-round selection in 2023, was not the only high draft pick from recent years released. Offensive lineman Evan Neal, taken seventh overall in 2022 and surprisingly re-signed for a new coaching staff to make its own determination, did not make the roster even after fellow guards Daniel Faalele and Josh Ezeudu got traded.

Veteran Darius Slayton joined Beckham, Malik Nabers, Darnell Mooney and rookie Malachi Fields as the five receivers who made it.

Colts wide receiver Allen arrested on drunken driving charges

INDIANAPOLIS

Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Keenan Allen was arrested Sunday on drunken driving charges.

Allen, 34, is facing preliminary misdemeanour charges of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated - endangering a person.

According to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, officers conducted a traffic investigation shortly after 1 a.m. after observing a vehicle park in a no-parking zone. Officers “noticed signs of intoxication” when they spoke with Allen. He was arrested after further investigation.

The Colts announced on Aug.

19 that they had agreed to a one-year contract with Allen, a six-time pro bowl selection. He had one catch for 24 yards during Saturday night's 25-16 preseason loss to Detroit.

"We are aware of the incident involving Keenan Allen last night," the Colts said in a statement. "We are in the process of gathering more information and have no further comment at this

Allen had 81 receptions for 777 yards and four touchdowns in 17 games with the Los Angeles Chargers last season. He ranks 13th in NFL history in receptions (1,055), 33rd in yards (12,051) and 52nd in TD catches (70).

Packers' Jacobs placed on commissioner's exempt list while he faces misdemeanour charges

STEVE MEGARGEE

Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs has been placed on the NFL's commissioner exempt list while two misdemeanour charges against him are pending, a move that prevents him from practising or attending games.

Players continue to get paid while on the commissioner's exempt list. Upon request and with the club's permission, Jacobs may be present at the club's facility on a reasonable basis for meetings, individual workouts, therapy and rehabilitation and other permitted non-football activities.

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy confirmed Sunday that Jacobs had been placed on the list, a move that comes three days after the charges were filed against him. ESPN first reported the development.

The Packers open their season Sept. 13 at Minnesota.

Brown County (Wisconsin) District Attorney David Lasee announced Thursday that Jacobs had been charged with battery and criminal damage to property. The charges arose from what police described as a physical confrontation between Jacobs and his girlfriend.

Jacobs was arrested on May 26, three days after police were called to his home to investigate a disturbance. He was released from jail the next day.

Jacobs' lawyers - David Z. Chesnoff, Richard A. Schonfeld, and Clarence F. Duchac III - issued a statement in response to the NFL's decision. They noted this move is "an administrative procedure used by the NFL while a matter is being reviewed."

"It is not a final determination," they said. "Josh respects the NFL process, the Packers, and his coaches and teammates. He looks forward to his return to the team and the NFL."

Hobart-Lawrence police officers who responded to the May call said Jacobs's girlfriend told them she had a lump on her head as a result of Jacobs's actions.

Police said the woman said she had been looking through Jacobs's phone and saw he was talking to other women, and that she threw the phone in anger without breaking it. She told police that Jacobs had her phone and she told him he could look through it.

According to police, the woman indicated she tried to retrieve her phone from Jacobs, but he didn't return it and instead grabbed her arm and began a struggle that lasted several minutes. They then left the home in separate vehicles before eventually returning.

Police said the woman was trying to exit a garage door to get outside when Jacobs grabbed her and threw her to the ground, causing her to hit her head.

Police said Jacobs also took the phone from her while she was on

Jacobs rushed for 929 yards and 13 touchdowns last season. That followed a 2024 season in which Jacobs ran for 1,329 yards and 15 touchdowns while earning his third pro bowl selection.

The 28-year-old has rushed for 7,803 yards and 74 touchdowns in his seven-year career, which included five seasons with the Raiders. He earned all-pro honours and had an NFL-leading 1,653 yards rushing with Las Vegas in 2022.

Jacobs was back on the field with the Packers for organized team activities less than a week after the arrest and has been with the team for training camp, though he's been limited by a groin injury.

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PUBLIC FIGURE, 80

MAN TOLD OF A CHILDHOOD WITH WOLVES IN THE WILDS OF SPAIN

He said he lived in the wild for about 11 years with the help of animals and his tale was adapted into literature and film. Though doubts were expressed over the years, his story fascinated many

Juan Jose Ballesta, from left, Manuel Camacho and Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja attend the Entrelobos premiere in Madrid's Cine Capitol in 2010. PABLO BLAZQUEZ DOMINGUEZ/GETTY IMAGES

EPHRAT LIVNI

Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja, whose account of growing up in a remote part of Spain, with the companionship of only wolves and other animals, was analyzed in a case study and adapted into literature and film, died Aug. 15 at 80, according to authorities in San Cibrao das Viñas, the municipality where he spent his final years.

Mr. Rodríguez's story came to light in the mid-1970s, about a decade after he had made what he described as an unwilling return to human society. Gabriel Janer Manila, a writer, heard about the case from a friend and wanted to learn more.

"At first, it seemed like a fabrication. It couldn't be true," Mr. Janer said in a 2010 interview with the site Anika Entre Libros.

But he came to believe the tale, finding corroboration for Mr. Rodríguez's claims from witnesses and other research. Mr. Janer would go on to write a study about Mr. Rodríguez's childhood and, later, a novel called I Played With Wolves, originally published in 2009.

The story also inspired a 2010 film directed by Gerardo Oliveras, Among Wolves, in which Mr. Rodríguez appeared.

Mr. Rodríguez faced doubts over the years, but his story fascinated many. Mr. Janer became convinced after visiting places Mr. Rodríguez said he had been and meeting people - including a seminarian who had cared for him - who backed up the story and spoke of Mr. Rodríguez's complete lack of social know-how.

In Rante, a village in San Cibrao das Viñas, in northwest Spain, where Mr. Rodríguez lived for the last quarter-century of his life, some people told Germany's public broadcaster around the time the film was released that they had doubted his story until it was made into a movie – and some said they continued to be dubious. In 2010, a team from Spain's public broadcaster travelled with Mr. Rodríguez to the place where he said he had lived, filming him showing some of his survival skills, like catching fish using rocks, and his deep familiarity with nature, including mimicking bird calls.

In any case, he eventually came to be known as the “wolf boy of Sierra Morena” and stuck to the story over the decades.

Claims of having grown up in the wild are widely viewed with skepticism, and expertise in the subject is rare. There have been some notable cases, though they are few. Feral children also appeared in ancient myths and medieval folk tales, fuelling a real-life fascination with them.

In 1726, Caroline, the Princess of Wales, sought the guardianship of a youth found in the woods in Germany who became known as Peter the Wild Boy and was a source of wonder in Europe. She installed him in her house in London under the watch of a doctor, then put him in the care of a servant when he proved unruly. The so-called Wild Boy of Aveyron was found in France at the end of the 18th century and was taken to a physician in Paris who tried and failed to teach him society's ways.

Such tales have intrigued people because they say as much about society as they do about the children said to have lived

PETER CULLEN outside of it. "Through the stories, factual and fictional, of the feral children, there emerges, perhaps, another narrative: the fragmented and haunting story of our continuing relationship with the savage image of ourselves," the cultural historian Michael Newton wrote in his 2002 book, Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children.

As Mr. Rodríguez told it, he was born into a poor family in southern Spain in June, 1946. His mother died when he was very young, and the woman his father later married was an abusive stepmother. The family lived in a remote alpine hut in the Sierra Morena mountain range, turning firewood into charcoal. When he was about 7, he said, he was put in the care of an old goatherd, to be trained to replace him.

"He takes Marcos in and teaches him how to survive, how to care for the flock of goats, how to do everything that might help him," Mr. Janer said in the 2010 interview.

The old man then died or disappeared, and young Marcos began to fend for himself, unwilling or unable to return to his former home.

Mr. Rodríguez said he lived in the wild for about 11 years with the help of wolves and other animals. In 1965, he was discovered by law-enforcement authorities among wolves, wearing animal skins.

He described his return to life among humans as something he did not know how to manage and would never fully embrace. According to Mr. Rodríguez's interviews and Mr. Janer's study, his rehabilitation was undertaken by nuns. He said he had lost the habits of walking upright and of using human speech, and he had forgotten how to behave with people.

Mr. Rodríguez said he struggled with human society for much of his life. Employers had taken advantage of him over the years, people had mocked him and he had been happiest among the animals, he said in interviews.

In Rante, he worked with Amigas das Árbores, an environmental group, speaking to children at schools about his youth and his unique experience with animals.

The group, in a post on social media earlier this month, said that one of his final wishes had been “for his ashes to remain in the village that took him in.”

In an interview with the newspaper El Pais in 2018, Mr. Rodriguez said that despite his disappointment with humanity, he had no chance of returning to a life in the mountains. The area where he had once lived now featured cottages connected to the electric grid, and the wolves were strangers.

"If I call out to them they are going to respond, but they are not going to approach me," he said. "I smell like people."

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VOICE ACTOR, 85

Canadian performer's vocals gave Optimus Prime a soul

SOPAN DEB

Peter Cullen, a voice actor best known for bringing to life Optimus Prime in the Transformers franchise and the gloomy donkey Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh cartoons, died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 85.

His agent, Kevin Motley, confirmed the death, but did not specify a cause.

Mr. Cullen has said his favourite voice role was the one with which he was most closely associated: Optimus Prime, the honour-bound protagonist of the Transformers franchise, which began as a television cartoon series in 1984, based on a popular set of toys.

His take on the character was inspired by his brother Larry, who had served with the Marines in Vietnam. The brothers were roommates when Mr. Cullen auditioned for a role in the series, about robots that transform into other objects, like vehicles.

“I say, ‘I’m going to an audition,’” Mr. Cullen told the Los Angeles Times in 2014, recalling an exchange with his brother. “He says, ‘For what?’ I say, ‘I’m going to be a truck.’ He laughs. I say: ‘No, Larry. It’s a hero truck!’ He says, ‘A hero truck? Well if you're going to be a hero, be a real hero. Don't be a jerk.'

His brother then offered one final pointer: "Be strong enough to be gentle."

Mr. Cullen remembered that counsel during the audition, adjusting his voice's pitch to more closely mimic his older brother's.

“His advice to me was that to be a leader, be strong and compassionate,” Mr. Cullen told The Calgary Herald in 2019. “Don’t be a yelling, screaming Hollywood phony. The tone of his voice was very, very clear and compassionate and soft with depth.

"I went to the audition and there it was. It was Larry, my brother, on the pages in front of me. That's how I handled it."

After the cartoon series, which ran for four seasons in syndication from 1984-87, Mr. Cullen reprised the role in several iterations of the Transformers franchise, including video games, television series and the Michael Bay-helmed live-action films, which were box office smashes in the 2000s.

The Optimus Prime character was killed off in a 1986 animated film. At a 2015 Transformers convention in Mississauga, Mr. Cullen recalled reading the script with Frank Welker, who voiced

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Megatron, Optimus Prime's mortal enemy.

“‘Hey Frank, I’m getting whacked on page 17,’” Mr. Cullen recalled telling Mr. Welker, according to an account in The Mississauga News. “I’m not coming back. There go the car payments.”

(After a backlash, Optimus Prime was revived in the third season of the cartoon series.)

Mr. Cullen's other notable role came when he was cast in 1988 as the voice of Eeyore, Winnie the Pooh's forlorn friend, in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, an animated series on ABC. He went on to reprise the role in films, other animated series and straight-to-video releases.

"I enjoyed doing Eeyore because he was simply charming," Mr. Cullen told NPR in 2014. "And I get an awful lot of reactions from, especially, young kids when I go up and just say" - he slipped into Eeyore's voice - "Hello. Thanks for noticing me.' And to see their faces light up, that to me is one of the great joys."

Peter Claver Cullen was born July 28, 1941, in Montreal to American parents, Muriel McCann, a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, and Henry Laurence Cullen, an executive with the International Paper Sales Co.

Peter was exposed to radio at an early age; his maternal grandfather, Alfred Watterson McCann, was a muckraking radio journalist on WOR in New York. After Mr. McCann died in 1931, Peter's aunt and uncle, Alfred W. McCann Jr. and Dora McCann, took over his show and would put their nephew on the air when he visited from Canada.

"They would say, 'And now, my young nephew from Montreal is in the room, and come over here, Peter, go and say hello to the people,' Mr. Cullen recalled at GalaxyCon Columbus in 2023.

his voice acting career to the time he spent on a farm as a child. “I could imitate the cows, the calves, the chickens, the different dogs they had,” he told NPR in 2014.

He graduated from the National Theater School of Canada in 1963 and spent the early days of his career working in Canadian theatre and on satirical shows, including Funny You Should Say That on CBC Radio.

His first big break after moving to Hollywood came in 1967, when he was hired as an announcer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Four years later, he became the announcer for The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour. His other voice credits include DuckTales, My Little Pony and the Ghostbusters television series, as well as an uncredited role providing the strange guttural noises made by the title creature in Predator (1987), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Mr. Cullen's marriage to Carol Ann Balmer, a former Miss Canada, ended in divorce in 1982. They had two children, Peter Cullen Jr. and Claire Ann Cullen, both of whom he leaves. His brother Larry died in 2011. Full information on Mr. Cullen's survivors was not available.

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