Canada's Big Five banks move away from mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policy - The Globe and Mail

As public health restrictions, such as gathering limits, masking and vaccine mandates across provinces have eased, banks appear to be changing their policies accordingly.Evan Buhler/The Canadian Press

Nine months after imposing them, all of Canada’s Big Five banks have suspended or removed mandatory vaccine requirements for staff, amid the broader lifting of COVID-19 restrictions across the country.

Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Bank of Montreal and Toronto-Dominion Bank all lifted their compulsory vaccine policies for employees over the past six weeks, allowing unvaccinated people to work in offices and branches without being subject to additional safety measures such as rapid testing.

All of the five largest banks took a firm stand on vaccines last August, requiring staff to attest that they were fully vaccinated by a certain date in order to enter any bank premises. Some, such as CIBC and BMO, made it compulsory for all employees, even those who worked from home, to be vaccinated.

But public-health restrictions, such as gathering limits, masking and vaccine mandates across provinces, have since eased, and banks appear to be changing their policies accordingly.

“It was becoming increasingly more challenging to have a higher standard of what was required from employees in the workplace, than what was in broader society,” said Helena Gottschling, RBC’s chief human resources officer, in reference to the easing of COVID-19 restrictions.

RBC suspended its vaccine requirement on May 23 for American and Canadian staff after consulting with public-health officials, Ms. Gottschling said.

“We have very high vaccination rates at the bank. Having a mandate was the responsible thing to do at the time, and we really saw our vaccination numbers increase after imposing it,” she added. RBC had allowed unvaccinated employees to work on its premises, as long as they showed proof of a negative COVID-19 rapid test and were masked. Those requirements have since been suspended.

In a statement to The Globe and Mail, Scotiabank said it has paused its vaccination policy, and unvaccinated employees are no longer required to follow masking and rapid testing procedures to enter offices. The bank said 94 per cent of its employees in Canada are fully vaccinated as of this week.

CIBC also told The Globe it has dropped its vaccine requirement after taking into consideration “government and public health direction.” BMO, too, told The Globe it currently does not have a mandatory vaccination policy. TD confirmed that it had lifted all of its vaccine mandates in May.

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Vaccine mandates have been one of the most controversial aspects of the pandemic, a clash of rights that pitted individual liberties against the communal protection of people more broadly. Across the country, hundreds of health care workers, government employees and private-sector workers were fired or put on unpaid leave for not getting vaccinated, spawning numerous legal challenges on the issue, some of which are still working their way through the court system, lawyers say.

But the frenzy surrounding compulsory vaccinations appears to be subsiding in tandem with the decline of hospitalizations and deaths related to COVID-19.

“I understand why employers would pause or remove vaccine mandates right now. These policies were controversial to begin with, and it’s a nice time to end them,” said Kelly O’Ferrall, a partner in labour and employment law at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. Ms. O’Ferrall said she’s seen employers go one of three routes with vaccine policies over the past few months: pause them, remove them altogether or stop enforcing them.

So what will happen to unvaccinated employees who were terminated or put on unpaid leave by employers who have since backtracked on their vaccine mandates?

“It depends if you’re a provincially or federally regulated employee,” said Andrew Monkhouse, partner at the Toronto-based labour and employment firm Monkhouse Law. “Federally regulated employees, like bank employees for example, could potentially ask for reinstatement under the unjust dismissal clause of the Canada Labour Code. But the vast majority of cases like this would be settled with a lump sum payment to the worker.”

Kathleen Chevalier, a partner in employment law at the Bay Street firm Stikeman Elliott LLP, said it would be unlikely that an unvaccinated employee would have a strong case against an employer that changed its vaccine policy.

“These policies were put in place when COVID was present enough to constitute a real health and safety risk. The employer’s position would be that the decision was justifiable at the time it was made and for the duration it was covered,” Ms. Chevalier said.

PwC Canada has also removed all of its COVID-19-related protocol including masking indoors for employees returning to the office. The accounting firm made these changes in April, after the majority of provincial public-health authorities had dropped vaccine mandates. Staff who are uncomfortable with unmasked colleagues have the option of sitting on a floor meant only for masked employees.

Some employers, however, continue to stick to their vaccine mandates. In statements to The Globe, Canada Life and Sun Life said they still require everyone who enters their offices to be vaccinated. Canada Life said it will re-evaluate that policy on July 1.

Ms. Chevalier says there is a risk in removing a vaccine mandate and then reintroducing it later if circumstances warrant: If new unvaccinated workers have been hired, it would be challenging to figure out how to deal with them.

“I have to say that on balance, there are few employers that have decided to get rid of vaccine policies altogether. There is a reluctance to say mission accomplished just yet,” she said.

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Five people injured in Wilmot Township crash - CTV News Kitchener

Waterloo regional police are investigating a collision in Wilmot Township that sent five people to hospital and disrupted power in the area.

It happened Sunday around 9 p.m. at the intersection of Notre Dame Drive and Carmel Koch Road.

In a news release issued Monday, police said a Ford travelling north on Notre Dame Road struck a Volkswagen travelling west on Carmel Koch Road.

Both vehicles then sheered a hydro pole, disrupting power in the area.

The driver of the Volkswagen, a 32-year-old man, was transported to hospital with serious injuries.

Two other occupants of the Volkswagen were transported to an out-of-region hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The driver of the Ford, an 18-year-old girl, and a passenger were both transported to a local hospital with serious injuries.

Area roads were closed for several hours while hydro repairs were completed.

Anyone who witnessed the incident is asked to call police.

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Bodies of five murder victims weren't discovered by the RCMP for more than 18 hours after they were killed - Halifax Examiner

The bodies of five victims on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020 — Joy and Peter Bond, Aaron and Emily Tuck, and Jolene Oliver — were not discovered by the RCMP until 4:45pm on Sunday, April 19, more than 18 hours after they were shot by the killer.

Why the delay?

“It did not occur to me to look for additional [crime] scenes,” said Sgt. Andy O’Brien, who was in charge of containing crime scenes in Portapique for much of the day on Sunday.

There were about 30 houses in the community.

At 9:30am on Sunday, six properties comprised four known crime scenes.

Known crime scene #1: The killer’s warehouse, at 136 Orchard Beach Dr., was burned down. Across the road, at 123 Orchard Beach Dr., was the Blair home; Greg Blair’s body was lying on the deck of the house with a 40mm handgun next to his head, and his wife Jamie Blair’s body was inside in the bedroom. Next door, 135 Orchard Beach Dr., was Lisa McCully’s house; McCully’s body was lying on the yard in front of the house, near a fence post. Corrie Ellison’s body was across the road. These three properties were in essence one crime scene.

Known crime scene #2: Somewhat to the north was the Gulenchyn house at 71 Orchard Beach Dr.; the house was still smouldering. Dawn Madsen and Frank Gulenchyn were unaccounted for, but their bodies were later discovered in the remains.

Known crime scene #3: To the west, at 200 Portapique Beach Rd., was the killer’s burned out cottage.

Known crime scene #4: South of the cottage, at 293 Portapique Beach Rd., was the Thomas/Zahl home, which had burned down and was still smoking; Joanne Thomas and John Zahl were unaccounted for, but their bodies were later found in the remains.

That left about two dozen other houses in Portapique. Unbeknownst to police at 9:30am, there were two additional crime scenes, neither of which had been burned down:

Unknown crime scene #1: The home of Joy and Peter Bond at 46 Cobequid Crt. Peter Bond’s body was in the doorway of the home, propping open the door; Joy Bond’s body was a few feet behind him in the living room. The TV was on.

Unknown crime scene #2: The Tuck home at 41 Cobequid Crt. The bodies of Aaron Tuck, Jolene Oliver, and Emily Tuck were all in the living room of the house. The TV was on.

Officers were stationed at the road block at the intersection of Portapique Beach Road and Highway 2, and at each of the known crime scenes. They were to contain the sites until the Major Crime Unit arrived to investigate, thereby preventing the public from disturbing the scenes and maintaining a chain of custody for whatever evidence might be found at them.

Over the course of the next seven hours, RCMP officers containing Portapique maintained their positions. Cst. Nick Dorrington drove around the community looking for other fires or bodies lying on the roadways or in yards but found none; GPS records show he even pulled into the driveway of the Bond home and stayed there for about 30 seconds, but he didn’t report seeing anything. Staff Sergeant Al Carroll said he too drove around the community (Carroll’s vehicle did not have GPS), including onto Cobequid Court, but saw nothing. O’Brien drove from scene to scene, delivering energy bars and water to officers and covering for them so they could take bathroom breaks. There was a lot of sitting around, doing nothing.

Throughout that seven hours, no one made a systematic check of those other two dozen houses in the community.

Killer reemerges

The fake police car. Photo: Mass Casualty Commission

From about 10:30pm on Saturday night, April 18, until around 4am Sunday, RCMP officers in Portapique were dealing with an active shooter situation — hearing explosions (probably gas and propane tanks exploding at fire scenes) and gunfire (probably ammunition exploding in the fires), they believed the killer was still alive and in the community. In reality, the killer had driven away from Portapique in his fake police car at around 10:40pm .

At around 4am, officers heard what they thought was a single gunshot in the woods and a crisis negotiator at the command post had said the killer was likely “closure motivated” and so he may have killed himself in the woods.

After that, there was a lull in action — officers continued to search for the killer or his body and the Blair family dog was rescued, but there was no evident sense of urgency among police.

Then, at 6:30am, Lisa Banfield emerged from the woods, and explained that the killer had a fake police car. The Emergency Response Team (ERT) was sent to the known crime scenes in Portapique to see if any of the burned out vehicles at those scenes could’ve been the fake police car. They weren’t.

At 7:30am, Halifax police obtained a photo of the fake police car from Banfield’s sister and sent it to the RCMP. Soon after, a BOLO (be on the lookout for) was issued to police across the province; a description of the car was given, and notice that it could be “anywhere in the province.” The public was not alerted.

Beginning at 9:04am, the ERT was slowly evacuating residents in Portapique, starting at the northern end of Orchard Beach Road, and making their way south. Residents were directed to attend a “comfort station” established for evacuees at the Onslow Belmont Fire Hall. Over the next half hour, the ERT made it as far as Richard Ellison’s house on Orchard Beach Road, but not yet to Cobequid Court, along the beach at the south end of the community. Ellison was at the fire hall when it was fired upon by RCMP members.

At about 9:35am, 911 was notified about the killing of Lillian Campbell in Wentworth, at the hands of a man driving what looked like an RCMP cruiser. There was no doubt this was the mass murderer, and so all available RCMP resources were deployed to pursue the killer. Those resources included the ERT and other officers then in Portapique.

With so many officers leaving Portapique, Staff Sgt. Al Carroll was worried about scene crime containment in the community, so he and Sgt. Andy O’Brien travelled from the incident command post in Great Village to Portapique.

“We got out and talked with the guys, repositioned our guys around the site, and we just waited there, we stayed there,” Carroll told Mass Casualty Commission (MCC) investigators on November 10, 2021. “We’re just maintaining the scene, maintaining continuity for any investigative purposes, for further investigation, keeping people out of the scene.”

Carroll put O’Brien in charge of scene containment, and O’Brien made sure there was someone stationed at each known crime scene.

O’Brien did not speak directly with MCC investigators, and he has been granted witness “accommodation” such that his testimony before commission on May 30 and 31 will not be public, nor will he be cross-examined by lawyers representing victims’ families. He did, however, submit written responses to MCC investigators’ questions on January 28, 2022.

“Each scene, or house, at Portapique had a member, with police car, stationed in proximity to the scene,” wrote O’Brien. “That member was responsible for maintaining continuity of the scene, assuring that no one approached the scene and that evidence was preserved. This was accomplished visually, and with foot patrols of the scene, if appropriate. Some scenes were burned out basements that could entirely be observed without moving from one spot.”

“No members were sent to any other locations in Portapique while I was on scene,” continued O’Brien. “I was not aware that there were other scenes. It did not occur to me to look for additional scenes.”

Neither did it occur to O’Brien to continue the evacuation of Portapique that the ERT had abandoned when it left the community to pursue the killer.

Autopsy reports for the Bonds, Tucks, and Oliver show that their injuries were such that they died either instantly or very soon after being shot. But from 9:30am through until 4:46pm, it was still unknown if there were any other victims who may had been injured but not killed, and who therefore needed medical attention. No one was looking for such potential victims, however.

Cst. Nick Dorrington at Portapique

Cst. Nick Dorrington had given a speeding ticket to the killer on February 12, 2020, and as was Dorrington’s practice when issuing a ticket, he took a photo of the killer’s driver’s licence; in the early hours of April 19, that photo was distributed to all police officers.

Dorrington was positioned at Brown Loop when Carroll and O’Brien arrived in Portapique around 10am.

O’Brien repositioned Dorrington and Cst. Trent Lafferty to the Lisa McCully crime scene. Lafferty was to maintain that scene, but O’Brien directed Dorrington “to do kind of a quick drive around Portapique to see if I see anything crazy, if there’s any more fatalities on front lawns, and so forth, and any more structural fires that hadn’t been reported,” Dorrington told MCC investigators in an interview on November 9, 2021. “So I do a quick loop through, nothing in particular, so I return to the first scene that he wanted me to return to and hold [the McCully scene]. So I go there.”

Cst. Nick Dorrington enters Cobequid Court. May: Mass Casualty Commission

GPS data from Dorrington’s vehicle shows he arrived at the intersection of Orchard Beach Drive and Cobequid Court at 10:19:15am, then travelled north to just past the intersection of Orchard Beach Drive and Portapique Crescent, before again travelling south to Cobequid Court.

He turned right, passed the driveway to the Tuck home at 41 Cobequid Court and went to the western end of Cobequid Court, which is at the Bond home at 46 Cobequid Court. Dorrington was positioned in front of the Bond home for 28 seconds, from 10:26:47am to 10:27:15am.

Cst. Nick Dorrington travelled to the southern end of Portapique. Map: Mass Casualty Commission

Dorrington then drove back to the intersection of Cobequid Court and Orchard Beach Drive and south to make a loop around the beach, then back to the same intersection, east on Cobequid Court to Bayview Court. At this point, Dorrington was about 20 metres from the entrance to blueberry field road — which MCC investigators say was the route the killer took to escape Portapique the night before.

Dorrington continued south on Bayview Court to its end, and then reversed himself, again passing the entrance to the blueberry field road on his way to returning to the McCully scene.

Dorrington seems not to have noticed anything wrong with any of the scenes. In his interview with MCC investigators, he was not asked directly about the Bond home or about the blueberry field road. He is not currently scheduled to testify before the commission.

At 1:38pm, Lafferty noticed a man driving near Lafferty’s position at the McCully house. “That problem will be solved in a second,” radioed Dorrington. But O’Brien got on the radio to say that the man lived in Portapique and had stayed through the night; he was going to the store to buy infant formula for his three-month old baby. “I asked him to stay home,” radioed O’Brien.

Staff Sgt. Al Carroll and the blueberry field road

The entrance to the blueberry field road from Cobequid Court. Photo take by Mass Casualty Commission staff on Aug. 23, 2021

In his interview with MCC investigators and again in his sworn testimony before the commission last week, Carroll said that he had driven through Portapique sometime between 10am and noon on April 19, but noticed no other crime scenes.

“I drove down that road [Cobequid Court], there was a nice house on the left-hand side and at the end of that road was an entryway into the blueberry field,” Carroll told MCC investigators. “And that morning, when I was there, I said, ‘Oh, there’s a barrier up.’ There was a chain barrier, a chain or wire across the top, and there was some type of marking thing to identify the chain was there… So, that chain was definitely in place and if that’s the egress point that [the killer] used, I’m saying he would have had to stop, take the chain out, take — take the — take the wire chain off, drive — drive the car through and re— put the chain back in place, put it back up. Otherwise, the height would have cleaned the light bar or anything off the roof of a car.”

Asked about the house he passed, Carroll said that “something tells me that when I was driving down there that I looked up at that house and I thought I saw somebody on the deck. I recall waving at them.”

Carroll didn’t say why he didn’t instruct the person on the deck to evacuate, or why he didn’t send an officer to escort them out of the community.

That house, at 2 Cobequid Crt., belonged to Debra Thibeault. It was immediately adjacent to the entryway to the blueberry field road. Thibeault told MCC investigators that she had permission from the owner of the blueberry field to use the blueberry field road and it was her normal way from Highway 2 to her house. There was a rope — not a chain — across the entryway at Cobequid Court. “We always put the rope back up because it’s private,” she explained.

Thibeault lived alone at her Portapique property, as her husband Peter, who worked for the Navy, wasn’t allowed to live so far from the ships. However, she would often stay with him in Halifax. On Saturday, April 18, 2020, she made a Costco run and then visited with Peter; it was snowing, so she stayed with him overnight. She wasn’t allowed to return to Portapique for several days, as it was a crime scene. Which means, she wasn’t at 2 Cobequid Crt. on Sunday morning, when Carroll said he waved at somebody on the deck.

When Thibealt did return to her Portapique home, she noticed that the gate to the blueberry field had been destroyed.

“I was like, ‘Geez, where’s the posts?'” she said. “And the posts, whoever drove through, broke them in two.”

Thibeault took photos of the broken fence posts, which have been entered as MCC exhibits. She insisted that when she left Portapique on Saturday, April 18, the rope was properly in place.

Carroll’s and Thibeault’s testimony directly contradict each other. Thibeault had several years’ experience with the blueberry field road and the entryway to it at Cobequid Court, and had regularly put the rope back across it. Carroll, for his part, had never seen the blueberry field road or the entryway to it until, he says, he saw it on April 19.

Carroll’s version is uncorroborated by any other evidence or witness accounts. But if his testimony, under oath, were true, it would suggest that the killer did not use the blueberry field road to exit Portapique. And if the killer did not travel out of the community on the blueberry field road then the multiple mapping errors in the early hours of April 19 and Carroll’s failure to recognize the blueberry field road as a potential exit route would not be so significant.

Families worry about their loved ones

Jolene Oliver, Emily Tuck, and Aaron (Friar) Tuck. Photo: GoFundMe

After he learned of the Lillian Campbell murder, Cst. Nick Dorrington texted his wife, Dawn Dorrington.

“I tell her to shelter in place,” Dorrington told MCC investigators in an interview on November 9, 2021. “We have in-laws in the house, and I said, ‘Go down with them and shelter in place. Don’t answer the door.’ My concern was that I was the last one that had contact with him [the killer] and gave him a nice, healthy ticket, and so he’s clearly motivated. You know, he knows that he’s going up for murder and to take out, you know, a cop on the way is nothing to him. So I informed her of that, to shelter.”

It’s unknown if other RCMP officers had contacted their families members, but Dawn Dorrington called her friend Lynn MacKeigan to warn her of the danger, and soon there was an informal text tree of warnings that also reached Sandra McCulloch, a lawyer with Patterson Law, which who now represents many of the victims’ families. On April 19, McCulloch was at home in Elmsdale, outside playing with her kids, not far from the path of the killer.

“I get a text message from a friend at 11:25 telling me of the direction to stay inside and lock doors, and that there was an active shooter in the area,” said McCulloch. “She received a call from a friend of hers who had family who were RCMP members, and they conveyed a private alert to their loved ones.”

“So that’s how I learned of the mass casualty event — not through Twitter, not through Facebook, not through Alert Ready, but because I was lucky to have a friend who had a member of the RCMP as a family member, who was alerting their loved ones.”

Worrying about relatives is an understandably human response. When the public became aware Sunday morning that something terrible had happened in Portapique, people began contacting 911 because they couldn’t reach family members who lived in the community to see if they were safe. Some of those calls were forwarded to RCMP officers in Portapique.

A full accounting of those family calls will be published at a later date by the MCC, but some of the calls are related in a document released last week.

Cst. Nick Dorrington’s handwritten notes record two of those calls asking for well-being checks:

10:20am: Call from Justin to confirm well-being of Parent Elizabeth and Thomas Zahl at 293 Portapique Beach Road (as of 14:40 Justine [sic] still had not heard from either parent.

11:10am: Cheryl Blackie requested a well-being check on Aaron Tuck at 41 Cobequid Court.

Despite that request for a check on Aaron Tuck at his house, his body wasn’t discovered until more than five and a half hours later.

Joy Bond and Peter Bond. Photo: Facebook.

After Cpl. Rodney Peterson passed the killer on Highway 4 without recognizing him, Peterson ended up attending to the scene of the murder of Heidi Stevenson and Joey Webber in Shubenacadie. He was then directed to relieve officers who had been working through the night in Portapique. It’s unclear when Peterson arrived in Portapique, but in the afternoon on Sunday, well-being calls were forwarded to him.

Peterson’s written report shows that he received a call at 3:11pm from Tara Long, who was looking for her brother, Aaron Tuck, who lived at 41 Cobequid Court.

“Apparently her brother lived in Portapique and she couldn’t get a hold of him,” Peterson later told MCC investigators. “At that time, I knew a lot of people had been diverted from Portapique, the residents, to the fire hall or something like that as like a comfort zone… And so I said, ‘Well, he might be there, you know, I don’t know for sure.’ I got his name and whatnot. So from there, I contacted a corporal down and working… I called him up and he says, ‘Yeah, I can’t do it right now… I’m the only one here at my post.'”

At 3:50pm, Peterson received a call from Rebecca MacKay, who also wanted a well-being check. It’s unclear who MacKay was asking about.

Peterson was annoyed by the calls. He called dispatch to complain.

“I said, ‘Listen, you know, I don’t think we should be taking these calls,” said Peterson. “We’re trying to do things out here. Is there any way somebody else can take these calls?”

After that, well-being calls were taken by Cst. Dave Lilly at the dispatch centre.

Finally, at 4:46pm, Cpl. Jarrett MacDonald had the time to check on the Tuck home at 41 Cobequid Crt., which Peterson had told him about an hour and a half before. But MacDonald went to the wrong house — he arrived at 46 Cobequid Crt., the Bond home. He discovered the body of Peter Bond in the doorway, and saw Joy Bond dead behind him.

MacDonald then went to the correct address and discovered the bodies of Aaron Tuck, Jolene Oliver, and Emily Tuck.

Only then did RCMP officer begin checking other residences in Portapique.

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Five dogs rescued from hot car as Calgary Humane Society calls on pet owners to consider the danger - Calgary Herald

Two of the dogs were found unresponsive because of the heat in the car on Thursday

FILE PHOTO: Pup Lilly stays cool sleeping in the shade with her bowl of water after a walk with her owner on the Riverwalk in the East Village on Tuesday, June 29, 2021. Gavin Young/Postmedia

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The Calgary Humane Society is sounding the alarm after five dogs had to be rescued from a hot car last week.

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Two of the dogs were found unresponsive because of the heat in the car on Thursday. The dogs were OK after being saved by the peace officers who responded, Brad Nichols, director of operations and enforcement with the Calgary Humane Society, said Sunday.

This situation should act as a reminder to pet owners that it is dangerous to keep animals in vehicles as the temperature rises, he said.

“As it’s getting warmer, it’s late May at this point, so between now and probably late September it is a bad idea to take your dog with you if you can’t monitor it,” said Nichols.

“This is a major source of our work over the summertime — as well as police — and so the message is just don’t do it.”

Reports are made directly to the Calgary Humane Society or to the police, who then respond to the vehicle and check on the animal for signs of distress.

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Vehicles get very hot inside when the weather is warm and it’s extremely dangerous for dogs to be kept there, he said. Dogs should not be left in a vehicle under any circumstance in warm or hot weather.

Nichols said the rescue of the five dogs last week highlights the risks of that kind of behaviour, especially as two of the dogs were found unresponsive and could have been seriously harmed or killed in the heat.

“In general, the people who leave their dogs in a vehicle are those who minimize the risk of it. They’re going out to do multiple things and heading to the dog park or pet store, so the dog comes along, but they stay in the car for the other stops,” he said.

“It’s just as dangerous, even if it’s only for a few minutes if it’s really hot out.”

The Calgary Humane Society is hoping that pet owners take the risks seriously this summer and opt to never leave their dogs in the car.

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Five American Women Reach The Round Of 16 At French Open - Forbes

When Madison Keys finished off Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina in a third-set tiebreak on Saturday at Roland Garros, she became the fifth American woman into the Round of 16 at the year’s second Grand Slam.

Keys, the No. 22 seed joins No. 11 Jessica Pegula, No. 18 Coco Gauff, No. 27 Amanda Anisimova and unseeded Sloane Stephens in the fourth round.

By contrast, no American men remain in the singles draw.

“Success breeds success and these women are all pushing each other to keep going deeper in slams,” ESPN’s Rennae Stubbs said. “It started with Sloane [Stephens] and [Sofia] Kenin and others winning slams, Danielle [Collins] making finals. With Serena and Venus not playing it’s nice to see the other Americans pick up and run with it.”

Serena, 40, has won 23 major titles but hasn’t played since Wimbledon last year due to injury. She may return at Wimbledon this summer. Venus, 41, owns seven major singles titles but her last major appearance was also last summer’s Wimbledon. Serena is currently ranked No. 276 in the world, Venus No. 529.

In their wake, Stephens won the U.S. Open in 2017 and Kenin the Australian Open in 2020, while Collins reached this year’s Australian Open final before losing to then-world No. 1 Ash Barty.

Stephens is the only member of the remaining group to win a major, having beaten Keys in the 2017 U.S. Open final.

Stephens also defeated Keys in the 2018 Roland Garros semifinals before losing to Simona Halep in the final.

Now Keys is back in the second week and will face No. 29 Veronika Kudermetova of Russia on Monday.

“I really just tried to focus on making as many balls as I could and trying to stay in rallies, just waiting for the right opportunity to try to go for my shots,” Keys said on-court after her 3-6, 6-1, 7-6(3) victory. “And I”m pretty happy with the win today.”

“It means the world to me,” she added. “Growing up, we always dream of being in these big tournaments and doing well and being able to make a second week means so much, and I’m so happy I get to stay in Paris a little bit longer.”

Keys has an opportunity to get through to the semifinals on the top half of the draw, where she could end up facing world No. 1 Iga Świątek, who won her 31st straight match Saturday against Danka Kovinić, 6-3, 7-5. With one more victory, Świątek would tie Justine Henin for the third longest winning streak among women this century.

Pegula, whose family owns the Buffalo Bills, is also on the top half of the draw and will meet Romania’s Irina-Camelia Begu on Monday. If she advances, she could face Świątek in the quarterfinals.

On the bottom half of the draw, Anisimova, who knocked out four-time major champion Naomi Osaka in the first round, will face No. 17 Leylah Fernandez, the U.S. Open runner-up, in the fourth round Sunday.

Gauff, who reached the Roland Garros quarterfinals a year ago for her best performance at a major, faces No. 31 Elise Mertens in the fourth round Sunday.

“I think that now I feel like mentally I'm in a better place than I was last year,” Gauff said. “Coming into the second week I think sometimes that's what makes Grand Slams harder is because it is two weeks and there is no other way to prepare for two weeks of playing.

“I think going into my next match, I played her before, and I think I'm a lot more relaxed than going into my fourth-round match last year. I think I'm a lot more prepared to play two weeks of tennis.”

Stephens, meantime, meets No. 11 Jill Teichmann of Switzerland in the fourth round Sunday.

Stephens had to fight back from a set down in each of her first two rounds, but ended the run of 19-year-old Frenchwoman Diane Parry in straight sets Friday. Her 31 wins in Paris mark her most at a Grand Slam.

“Considering that I did not win a single match before coming into the French Open, I would say that I'm doing the absolute best that I can, and that I am pleased to be in the fourth round for the eighth time,” she said. “I don't think you ever know when it's gonna happen or when it's gonna click. ... Happy to put the wins together now.”

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Middle Tennessee men's and women's track and field teams showed up big at the NCAA East Preliminaries this weekend. Five Blue Raiders across seven events qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon which kicks off Wednesday, June 8.
 
Graduate student Eusila Chepkemei was able to qualify for both the women's 1500 meter and 5000 meter in record-breaking fashion. During the women's 1500 meter, Chepkemei ran 4:12.67, breaking her previous program record of 4:13.16 set in the same stadium. Her time earned her second in her heat and fifth overall. After obliterating the previous 5000-meter record earlier in the season, she shaved just a hair off with a time of 15:52.54 Saturday night. She finished a few steps behind two Alabama stars, earning third in her heat and 10^th overall.
 

The junior, Alaba Akintola, fought wind and rain all weekend but came out on top in both the men's 100 meter and 200 meter. Running into a monster headwind of -0.6, Akintola earned second in his heat with a time of 10.18 seconds. During the men's 200-meter dash, Akintola reached a time of 20.61 seconds. He automatically qualified for the 100 meter and qualified by time for his display in the 200 meter.
 

The All-American, sophomore Omamuyovwi Erhire, nearly jumped out of the stadium, tying a season's best mark of 2.18 meters in the men's high jump. His mark on Saturday earned him a two-way tie for first place and automatically qualified him for a trip to Eugene.
 
Graduate student Abigail Kwarteng was a part of major NCAA preliminary-round history, being part of 11 jumpers in the East to clear a mark of 1.84 meters in the women's high jump. Her mark of 1.84 meters earned her a five-way tie in the East preliminaries for first place and an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships in June.
 

Last, but certainly not least, graduate student Esther Isa earned her third trip to the NCAA Championships after taking seventh in the women's triple jump. Her mark of 13.07 meters is her second best of this outdoor season and makes her the third Nigerian for the Blue Raiders to qualify for nationals.
 
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KAMLOOPS, B.C. –A goal just under six minutes into overtime pushed the Kamloops Blazers past the Seattle Thunderbirds in Game Five of the WHL Western Conference Championship Series at the Sandman Centre Friday.  The win gives Kamloops a 3-2 lead in the best of seven series. Game Six is set for Sunday at 5:05 p.m. at the accesso ShoWare Center in Kent.

T-birds head coach Matt O’Dette liked his team effort except for some defensive zone issues. “Generally, we played a pretty good game,” he said. “Maybe a couple too many lapses defensively. I thought we deserved a better fate. We didn’t necessarily get the bounces, or the calls and we ended up on the wrong side of it tonight.”

For the first time in the series Seattle opened the scoring.  Conner Roulette snapped in his third of the postseason at 1:51 of the opening period with Henrik Rybinski earning the lone assist. The T-birds had a chance to add to the lead but couldn’t convert on their only power play chance of the night just five minutes later, despite some good looks.

“I think our one power play, we worked the puck around really well,” commented O’Dette. “We had some opportunities at the net and a few shots that missed.”

The Blazers then knotted the game at 1-1 on a Matthew Seminoff goal at 6:44.

The Thunderbirds regained the lead early in the second period.  Lukas Svejkovsky popped home his eighth of the playoffs, batting home a rebound of a Jeremy Hanzel shot.  Roulette had the second assist. Seattle then got hemmed in their own zone by the Kamloops forecheck and the Blazers were able to tie things up again at 2-2 six minutes later, as Daylan Kuefler’s scored the first of his two goals on the night.

Kamloops grabbed their first lead five minutes into the third period.  Conner Levis batted a puck out of the air with a high stick, but because it deflected off a T-birds stick and into the net, the goal was allowed to stand after a lengthy review.

The T-birds shook that one off and got the game back to even when Kevin Korchinski too a pass from Jared Davidson, skated into the slot, and snapped home his sixth playoff goal at 10:27.

That sent the game to overtime where Kuefler knocked home a rebound at 5:39 for the game winner.

Seattle has been able to shut down the Blazers top two scoring threats, Logan Stankoven and Luke Toporowski, the last two games. They’ve limited them to just two Stankoven assists.  But O’Dette says, like the T-birds, the Blazers have three good scoring lines. “Their depth scoring came through for them. It’s a little tougher on the road for us to get the matchups we want. They have multiple threats, and we have to deal with that, just as they have to deal with our scoring depth.”

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Rybinski returned to the lineup after missing the last three games.  Svejkovsky was back as well after he missed Game Four.

Seattle has been awarded just two power plays in the last two games, something that doesn’t sit well with O’Dette. “We cannot get a call. I can’t figure it out. One or two power plays a game, that’s all we get. There was a hook of Svejkovsky with two minutes left in the game. That’s a pretty big moment late in the game and we don’t get the call.”

Korchinski, who has just four goals in 67-games during the regular season, now has six in 17 playoff games.

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Representatives of the North and South Dundas Chambers of Commerce, as well as the Dundas Federation of Agriculture, pose with five of six local candidates running in the 2022 provincial election Thursday May 26, 2022 in Chesterville, Ont. Shawna O'Neill/Cornwall Standard-Freeholder/Postmedia Network Photo by Shawna O'Neill /Shawna O'Neill/Standard-Freeholder

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CHESTERVILLE — The third of three local debates scheduled prior to the upcoming election on June 2 saw a healthy crowd of potential voters on Thursday evening in North Dundas.

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The debate was hosted in partnership by the North Dundas Chamber of Commerce, South Dundas Chamber of Commerce, and the Dundas Federation of Agriculture, held at the Chesterville and District Lion’s Club. Five of six Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry (SDSG) candidates were in attendance, with the New Blue Party of Ontario’s Claude Tardif being absent.

The candidates each had a chance to share opening and closing remarks about themselves and their party’s platform. Questions were first asked by the event’s hosts, followed by members of the public. Organizers requested only two candidates be asked about one topic.

Throughout the evening, questions seldom reached Green Party of Ontario candidate Jacqueline Milner, or Ontario Party candidate Remi Tremblay — with Tremblay even declining to answer one question. Voters were most interested in hearing from Ontario NDP candidate Wendy Stephen, Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario candidate Nolan Quinn, and Liberal Party of Ontario candidate Kirsten Gardner.

The first question came from North Dundas Chamber president Nanda Wubs. She asked Quinn to define the two most pressing issues the business community is currently facing, and two proposed party solutions.

“Being a small business owner myself… staffing. Anyone I have spoken to… we have a huge staffing issue. And supply chain, is the second issue I see, still glaring its head after two years of the pandemic,” said Quinn. “As for solutions, staying open is one of them… we have lowered the small business tax down to 3.2 per cent, a very predictable percentage so (businesses) can focus on staffing.”

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Once the mic was opened to the public, things got personal.

A father from Berwick asked Quinn and Stephen what they would do to help people who are living on the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) get ahead.

“I have son on ODSP. He is living on $1,169 a month. That is ridiculous with inflation,” he said.

Quinn replied his party has committed to raising ODSP by five per cent.

“Increase of five per cent,” Stephen scoffed. “Just letting us hold onto that number for a second… disability is not a choice. The folks who are collecting ODSP… they need this income in order to live with dignity and respect… and five per cent is nothing… an NDP government will increase it immediately by 20 per cent, but that’s still not enough to live on, so in our second year we will double that.”

Winchester District Memorial Hospital (WDMH) and Dundas Manor CEO Cholly Bolland took to the microphone to question Quinn and Gardner. He commented both institutions he manages have been ignored over the past four years, and said similar institutions in neighbouring regions have received substantial, ongoing funding.

“What are you going to do so our important health-care institutions here are treated fairly and on par with other ridings, with… cabinet ministers?” asked Bolland.

“When it comes to Dundas Manor, I think it’s really important we get it done, and those aren’t just empty words,” said Quinn.

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“This makes me mad as hell,” said Gardner. “I know in this room we have people who have donated hundreds, and hundreds of dollars of their own money, not just to the manor, but to the Winchester hospital. And the idea that our fundraising keeps increasing, but the commitment from the province keeps decreasing… I too have been ignored…

“If I am your MPP I will sit at the table with you, not sending the message that comes from Toronto… we will get it done.”

A local nurse asked Gardner and Stephen their party’s commitment to repealing Bill 124. Bill 124, passed by the Ford government in 2019, has negatively impacted health-care professionals, as it mandates wage increases to a maximum of one per cent total compensation for three years.

“It’s gone,” said Gardner.

“Similarly, a very brief answer, we will scrap that immediately,” said Stephen.

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The Oilers have an opponent in the Western Conference final and the Hurricanes will be trying to reverse a troubling playoff trend.

Here are five things to know as we head into Saturday's post-season action:

OILERS TO FACE AVALANCHE IN WESTERN CONFERENCE FINAL

J.T. Compher scored two goals and Darren Helm potted the game-winner with six seconds to play in regulation to help the Colorado Avalanche to a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Blues Friday as they took their second-round series 4-2.

The win set up a Western Conference final between the Avalanche and the Edmonton Oilers.

Just the third time the two franchises will meet in the post-season, and the first time since 1998.

They first met in the second round in 1997 as Colorado won 4-1. In 1998, Edmonton won in the first round in seven games.

UNLIKELY HEROES SHINE BRIGHT FOR AVALANCHE

The Avalanche were able to clinch their second-round series with the Blues in Game 6 thanks not to their top-line stars like Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar, Nazem Kadri and Mikko Rantanen.

Instead, it was the centres of their bottom six that got the job done.

Third-line centre Compher scored twice while fourth-line centreman Helm scored the series-clinching goal.

Helm scored just seven goals in 68 games during the regular season while Compher was a little more productive, finding the back of the 18 times.

Heroes will always grab the headlines, and sometimes those heroes aren't necessarily what most would consider to be star players.

HUSSO STRONG IN DEFEAT

Despite the loss, Blues goaltender Ville Husso was strong in Game 6.

He stopped 36 of the 39 shots he faced in the game as the Avs pressured him from the opening puck drop.

Husso entered the series in relief of starter Jordan Binnington after he was forced out of it in the first period of Game 3.

The Finnish netminder was shaky for much of his time between the pipes during the series but closed strong, unfortunately for him and St. Louis, in a losing effort.

CAN HURRICANES BUCK THEIR POST-SEASON TREND?

The Carolina Hurricanes are perfect 7-0 at home during these playoffs so far, but a disastrous 0-5 on the road.

On Saturday, they'll have an opportunity to finish off the New York Rangers in Game 6 of their second-round series.

The problem for Carolina, however, is that chance will come in Madison Square Garden.

Of course, if they lose, the Canes will have Game 7 back home to try to get the job done, but winning on the road is never a bad idea in the playoffs, especially if it gives you a chance to clinch a series.

RANGERS IN FAMILIAR POSITION

Down 3-2 to Carolina, despite the threat of elimination, New York should feel right at home with its back against the wall.

The Rangers rallied back down 3-1 to the Pittsburgh Penguins becoming the first team in NHL history to rally from a deficit in three consecutive elimination games in order to advance.

Only needing to win two more games to reach the next round should prove relatively simple, by comparison.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 28, 2022.

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PBS documentary 'American Masters: Joe Papp in Five Acts' features the life and work of the founder of Off-Broadway's Public Theater - DC Theater Arts - DC Metro Theater Arts

To commemorate this summer’s 60^th anniversary season of Free Shakespeare in The Park, presented at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, PBS is broadcasting a new documentary in its popular arts series, American Masters: Joe Papp in Five Acts. Directed, produced, and written by Tracie Holder and Karen Thorsen, it tells the story of the legendary theatrical producer and director, champion of the arts, and major cultural figure in NYC’s recent history, who, in addition to making the plays of Shakespeare available on a yearly basis at no cost to audiences, also founded The Public Theater and produced such groundbreaking hits as Hair, A Chorus Line, and for colored girls who considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf.

Joe Papp with Charles Durning and others at the Delacorte Theater. Photo by George Joseph.

A native of Brooklyn, Papp (1921-91) was dedicated to expanding public access to the arts, in the belief that great art was for everyone, not just a privileged few. “We have public libraries,” he would argue, “Why not public theaters?” His goal was a “theater of inclusion” on-stage, backstage, and in the audience, recognizing the role artists could play in building a more democratic society, and convinced that women, LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and other marginalized communities, denied power elsewhere in society, could develop it on the stage.

Featuring rare footage from the 1950s to his death in 1991, along with up-close scenes from the performances themselves, the American Masters story of Papp’s personal history and professional accomplishments is told without narration. Instead, it is relayed in full by the artists who knew and worked with him, including such luminaries as David Hare, James Earl Jones, Kevin Kline, Larry Kramer, Mandy Patinkin, Martin Sheen, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, and George C. Wolfe (former Artistic Director of The Public Theater), among others.

Now in its 36^th season on PBS, American Masters illuminates the lives and creative journeys of artists who have left an indelible impression on our nation’s cultural landscape. Setting the standard for documentary film profiles, the series has earned 28 Emmy Awards, fourteen Peabodys, three Grammys, two Producers Guild Awards, an Oscar, and many other honors.

American Masters: Joe Papp in Five Acts premieres nationwide on Friday, June 3, at 9 pm ET, on PBS (channel 13 in NYC; for other locations, check local listings). It is also available for streaming concurrent with broadcast on all station-branded PBS platforms, including the PBS website and the PBS Video App, on iOS, Android, and Roku streaming devices, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TV, Chromecast, and VIZIO, as part of the multiplatform campaign #PBSForTheArts.

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‘If there’d even been five minutes’ warning’: Woman questions storm alert system - Global News

Bethany Armstrong watched as the sky turned a tint of green on Saturday afternoon.

The Peterborough, Ont., woman was out camping with friends in Lakehurst, Ont., at the time, so she checked a weather app on her phone and noticed a thunderstorm warning.

That was the only indication she said she had that a vicious storm was about to hit.

Armstrong said she never received the emergency alert that many Ontario residents got on their cellphones, warning them to seek shelter ahead of severe weather that ultimately killed 11 people.

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One of those who died was a close friend of Armstrong’s family — Armstrong says that friend didn’t get the alert either.

“If there’d even been five minutes’ warning … she would have gotten inside,” Armstrong said of the woman she likened to her second mom.

Joanne Labelle, 64, of Cornwall, Ont., was among those killed as a result of the storm. She had been staying in a trailer on Armstrong’s parents’ property in the Peterborough area when the intense winds and rains hit.

Labelle’s husband and Armstrong’s father found Labelle struck by a tree _ Armstrong said the family thinks Labelle had been trying to get from the trailer to a house on the property when she was hit.

Armstrong said her family and Labelle’s husband later checked Labelle’s cellphone, which was with her during the storm, but found no evidence of an alert.

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“I just think like, ‘Wow, you know, if she had got the alert, we wouldn’t maybe be in this situation,”’ Armstrong said, describing Labelle as a “smart” woman who loved the outdoors and would have taken a severe weather warning seriously.

Emergency alerts are issued in Canada through the Alert Ready system, which delivers critical alerts to Canadians through television, radio and LTE-connected and compatible wireless devices.

The system was developed with many partners, including federal, provincial and territorial emergency management officials, Environment and Climate Change Canada, weather information company Pelmorex Corp., the broadcasting industry and wireless service providers.

Cecelia Parsons, a spokesperson for Environment Canada, said “broadcast immediate” alerts are sent through the Alert Ready system for tornado warnings and severe thunderstorm warnings involving wind gusts of 130 kilometres per hour or greater and hail that is at least seven centimetres in diameter. Saturday’s storm was the first time such an alert for a thunderstorm was sent through the system, she said.

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However, some residents may not have received an emergency alert on their smartphones for a number of reasons, including their phones not being “compatible,” Parsons said.

“This may occur for a variety of reasons: the phone is turned off or in silent or airplane mode; the phone is not physically in the specific area targeted for the alert; device compatibility, connection to an LTE network, cell tower coverage and device software and settings,” she said.

Martin Belanger, director of public alerting for Pelmorex, said smartphones need to be in the area where an emergency alert has been issued in order to receive an alert and also need to be connected to an LTE or 5G network — a requirement established by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

As of April 2019, the CRTC requires that new phones sold by Canada’s wireless carriers be compatible with the emergency alerting system, Parsons added.

Belanger said Environment Canada was responsible for issuing the emergency alerts on Saturday and Pelmorex received those alerts and made them available to broadcasters and wireless service providers.

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He added that Pelmorex received “some” reports from the public about not getting an emergency alert during Saturday’s storm. When the company receives such reports, it shares that information with its partners, he said.

Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair said that with 11 people dead, the early warning system didn’t work as well as it could have to protect residents from last weekend’s storm.

“I think there needs to be improvement,” Blair said on Friday from Indonesia, where he was attending international meetings on disaster risk and mitigation.

“When (there’s) information that Canadians need to take the steps in order to be safe, we need to make sure that they get that information.”

Blair said public education is also needed so Canadians know what to do when they receive such an alert. He also said the country’s public alerting system, controlled by provinces and territories, is applied “inconsistently.”

“The tragic loss of life and the damage that occurred in Ontario and Quebec over the past several days demonstrate to us that there is still more work to do, and we’re committed to doing that,” he said.

Armstrong, who made it through the storm last weekend by taking shelter in a nearby home, said she would like to see the Alert Ready system improved.

“I just hope that things can improve for the future and that they can get either a better system in place or adjust the criteria that has to be met,” she said as she remembered Labelle as a beloved matriarch and a mainstay at the pharmacy where she worked. “So we can try and help save other people.”

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