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OBITUARIES............................BOTTAWA/QUEBECEDITION ■ TUESDAY,JULY30,2019 ■ GLOBEANDMAIL.COMThe Chinese government on
Monday laid down its firm sup-
port of Hong Kong’s beleaguered
leader and police force but failed
to offer any clear solutions after
two months of rolling protests
that have flared into violence and
stoked opposition to Chinese
rule.
Chinese officials made a
strongly worded defence of the
local Hong Kong authorities dur-
ing a rare news conference in
Beijing by the government office
that oversees policy toward the
city. But they failed to address the
demonstrators’ demands for
more accountability in the police
force and a greater say in the city’s
future, which could pave the way
for more unrest.
“Hong Kong cannot afford to
have instability,” Yang Guang, a
spokesman for the Chinese gov-
ernment’s Hong Kong and Macau
Affairs Office, told reporters.
“Should the chaos continue, it is
the entire Hong Kong society that
will suffer.”
Protest organizers quickly said
the briefing could feed the mo-
mentum of the demonstrations
by reinforcing the widely held
perception that Beijing and the
city’s leadership are oblivious to
the will of Hong Kong’s residents.
The remarks by Chinese offi-
cials Monday came days after a
People’s Liberation Army spokes-
man hinted that military force
could be used to bring to heel the
anti-government demonstra-
tions that have become regular
events in Hong Kong since June.
The demonstrations have repeat-
edly spiralled into violent melees
as smaller groups of more con-
frontational protesters have
faced off with police officers who
have used tear gas and clubs
against them, including last
weekend.
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LimaPanAms BFERNANDOLLANO/APThe former chair of CannTrust Holdings
Inc. – along with a company director – sold
$6-million of the company’s stock in the
weeks after he was informed in writing that
the cannabis producer was illegally grow-
ing marijuana plants in unlicensed rooms.
Trading records show that a holding
company controlled by Eric Paul and direc-
tor Mark Litwin sold nearly $1-million
worth of shares on Nov. 16 last year. That
was the same day a CannTrust executive
sent, and Mr. Paul replied to, an e-mail that
outlined the company’s illicit growing op-
erations.
The holding company, called Cannamed
Financial Corp., sold a further $5-million in
CannTrust shares over the next 30 days, ac-
cording to records filed with the Canadian
System for Electronic Disclosure for In-
siders (SEDI).
Trading by company executives and
board members is not illegal as long as they
do not possess confidential information
about the corporation that would affect
the stock price. SEDI is the means by which
Canadian insiders disclose their trades to
the public.
CannTrust’s board forced Mr. Paul, 76, to
resign his chairmanship last week in a
growing scandal at the cannabis company.
CannTrust has acknowledged that it grew
cannabis in large sections of its greenhousein Pelham, Ont., that had not yet been li-
censed by federal regulator Health Canada.
The unlicensed cultivation took place be-
tween October, 2018, and March of this
year.
The Globe and Mail reported last week
that Mr. Paul, chief executive Peter Aceto
and other CannTrust officials were made
aware of regulatory breaches at the South-
ern Ontario facility in an e-mail sent on
Nov. 16, 2018, seven months before the reg-
ulator uncovered evidence of unlicensed
growing. In a reply with a timestamp of
10:38 a.m. that day, Mr. Paul advised staff
on how to deal with the regulators. Mr. Lit-
win was not listed as a recipient of the e-
mail seen by The Globe.
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MembersoftheManitobaRCMPsearchneartheYorkLanding,Man.,garbagedumponMondayforBryerSchmegelskyandKamMcLeod,
whoarechargedwithsecond-degreemurderandaresuspectsintwootherkillings.MELISSATAIT/THEGLOBEANDMAIL
With two fugitives at large and
last seen in northern Manitoba,
members of the Bear Clan Patrol
boarded a plane. They left the
streets of Winnipeg behind and
landed squarely in the middle of a
manhunt playing out on wild and
challenging terrain.
It was Friday afternoon when
James Favel, the founder and ex-
ecutive director of the Bear Clan
Patrol, got a call from the As-
sembly of Manitoba Chiefs asking
for help in protecting and sup-
porting the remote Indigenous
communities at such a tense
time. By then, the RCMP had said
they believed the teenage fugi-
tives – who are suspects in two
deaths and have been charged in
connection with another, all in
B.C. – were in the Gillam area,
more than 700 kilometres north
of Winnipeg. A vehicle used by
the teens was found burned and
discarded in nearby Fox Lake
Cree Nation.
By noon Saturday, seven Bear
Clan Patrol members were on the
ground in northern Manitoba,
scouring the densely forested
land and liaising with residents.
BEARCLAN,AWinnipeg’s
Indigenous
patrolmoves
fromcityto
wilderness
KATHRYNBLAZEBAUMRCMP are withdrawing from York Landing
in northern Manitoba after failing to locate
two men wanted in a national manhunt
for the killings of three people in British
Columbia. One day after dozens of officers
flooded into the remote community acting
on a tip that the pair had been seen at the
local dump, police concluded the two men
likely weren’t there.
Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, and Kam McLe-
od, 19, continued to elude capture one
week after they were named suspects in
the deaths of a university lecturer and a
young tourist couple. The incident com-
mander on the case said Monday that
RCMP are moving some resources back to
Gillam, Man., where they had previously
focused their efforts.
“There are sightings all over Canada and
each one has to be followed up and police
use a significant amount of resources,
which takes away from another part of the
investigation,” Inspector Kevin Lewis said.
“It’s challenging when you don’t have a
start point, right? And here we are trying to
figure out where these fellows may be and,
yeah, it’s hard to answer.”
The manhunt for the two suspects shift-
ed to northern Manitoba on July 23. There
has not been a confirmed spotting of the
two men since the grey Toyota RAV4 they
were driving was found on fire in a ditch
near Fox Lake Cree Nation on July 22. They
are charged with second-degree murder in
the death of University of British Columbia
lecturer Leonard Dyck and are also sus-
pects in the fatal shootings of Australian
Lucas Fowler and his American girlfriend,
Chynna Deese.
On Sunday, members of the Bear Clan
Patrol, a Winnipeg-based, Indigenous-led
security group, were doing their last round
when they spotted two men at York Land-
ing’s dump, an open space teeming with
black bears. There are small mounds of
dirt, trash such as plastic bags and a clothes
washer, and scraps of food.
Dozens of officers descended on the
community Sunday. A search into the
night resumed Monday with canine units,
helicopters, a Royal Canadian Air Force
CC-130H Hercules aircraft, drones and an
RCMP boat patrol. Residents were advised
to stay indoors with the windows closed
and doors locked.
But the pair was not found. Insp. Lewis
said authorities want to have tactical re-
sources ready to deploy in multiple direc-
tions if need be. By Tuesday morning, all of
the officers will be gone from York Land-
ing.
“Right now, I have almost all my tactical
resources in York and there doesn’t seem
to be any immediate threat there now so I
am splitting my deck there, so speak,” Insp.
Lewis said.
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