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small armada of boats set out from Bue-

nos Aires to ferry thousands of Argentine

soccer fans across the River Plate to Mon-

tevideo for the first World Cup final under

the cries of “Victoria o muerte!” (Victory or death).

While some got lost in the fog and never made it,

those who entered the Estadio Centenario arrived

to find a dispute over which match ball would be

used. The resolution was to play with Argentina’s

ball for the first half, before switching to Uruguay’s

for the second. Argentina clearly enjoyed the re-

sulting familiarity, taking a 2-1 lead into the half-

time interval. But the hosts returned the favour in

the second half and, spurred on by the majority of

the 93,000 in attendance, scored three unanswered

goals to emerge victorious. Worried at the possibil-

ity of violent retaliation from Argentine fans, Bel-

gian referee John Langenus used the cover of the

subsequent postmatch pitch invasion to escape to

the port and to the Italian ocean liner that took

him back to Europe. In Uruguay, a national holiday

was declared, and every member of the winning

team was given a house in recognition of his ef-

forts.PAUL ATTFIELD

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Kijiji Canada is removing the op-

tion to sell event tickets on its

platform due to authentication

and other challenges encoun-

tered in the shift to digital from

physical tickets.

The online buy-and-sell site,

owned by eBay Inc., said Monday

it cut the option to sell tickets, ef-

fective immediately. But listings

already posted will stay up until

they expire. All postings will ex-

pirein60days.

Kijiji made the move to combat

issues that digital tickets have cre-

ated around authenticity, espe-

cially as they can be bought and

sold directly online. It said the

tickets category is growing in pop-

ularity but is also a contentious

space – as even buyers who do

their due diligence find it difficult

to verify the validity of tickets

they purchase.

“The shift from physical tickets

to digital over the years has made

it hard; it’s posed some challenges

for Kijiji,” general manager

Matthew McKenzie said.

“There’s always risks related to

purchasing tickets from private

sellers. And there’s also just an

emotional piece, too. If you’re

looking to go to a concert and

maybe time is of the essence and

you make that decision that you

might not typically have made.”

The company had previously

restricted resales of Toronto Rap-

tors tickets for the NBA Finals as

seat prices soared into the tens of

thousands of dollars.

Kijiji will prevent event ticket

listings elsewhere on the site

through a combination of auto-

mated monitoring, customer sup-

port teams and users being able to

flag posts. Users will still be able to

sell community event tickets

through the community category.

EBay, however, will still have a

significant stake in the ticket-re-

sale market as the owner of ticket

site StubHub.

Ticket reselling has been a hot-

button issue as fans and some art-

ists balk at inflated ticket prices,

sometimes driven up by “scalper

bots,” which are able to purchase

large amounts of tickets for live

events.

Various levelsof government

are starting to crack down on tick-

et sellers. The Competition Bu-

reau said earlier this year that

Ticketmaster’s advertised prices

are deceptive because consumers

must pay additional fees that are

added later in the purchasing

process, but that it had not con-

travened federal competition leg-

islation by facilitating the mass

scalping of tickets through the use

of its TradeDesk software.

British Columbia in April pro-

posed consumer protection legis-

lation to prohibit mass-buying

software and regulate how tickets

to live cultural, recreational and

sporting events are bought and

sold in the province. That same

month, Ontario scrapped part of a

law that would have capped ticket

resale prices at 50 per cent above

the original face value.

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TORONTO

HALIFAXThe shipping industry

is under increased scrutiny after

two cargo ships were fined for

sailing too fast through the Gulf

of St. Lawrence, where the

rising death toll among en-

dangered North Atlantic right

whales has been partly blamed

on collisions with vessels.

There have been eight deaths

reported since early June, and

examinations of five of the

carcasses showed three of them

had injuries consistent with

ship strikes – a leading cause of

death for these rare mammals.

“While the shipping industry

has been overwhelmingly com-

pliant in respecting these

[speed limits], there are still

some exceptions, and Transport

Canada is examining all report-

ed cases of non-compliance,”

the department said in a state-

ment on Friday.

Sonia Simard, a spokes-

woman for the Shipping Feder-

ation of Canada, stressed the

industry’s level of compliance

has been impressive, given the

number of vessels that move

through the gulf.

“It is our understanding that

the compliance rate is over 98

per cent for 2019 and was

equally high in 2018,” Ms.

Simard, the federation’s director

of legislative and environ-

mental affairs, said in an

e-mail.

Of the more than 2,200 large

vessels that transited the gulf’s

shipping corridors between

April 28 and July 25, the Cana-

dian Coast Guard found 227

vessels had exceeded the re-

duced 10-knot speed limit – but

after investigation, three quar-

ters of these cases were closed

without fines.

Ms. Simard said many of the

vessels flagged by an automated

tracking system had exceeded

the limit by only 0.5 knots or

less.

However, another 48 cases

are under review.

“We know how important it

is,” Ms. Simard said in an in-

terview. “We are dedicated to

the best management mea-

sures.”

Chad Allen, the federation’s

director of marine operations,

said it’s important to under-

stand how difficult it is for the

crews of large ships to spot

whales.

Typically, larger commercial

vessels have an officer of the

watch and a lookout posted on

the bridge. Although they usu-

ally enjoy a commanding view

of the seas, it can be easy to

miss right whales when they

break the surface.

“The right whale doesn’t

present a big profile,” he said.

“It doesn’t have a big dorsal

fin.”

As well, when the whales

surface to breathe, the spray

from their blowholes is often

indistinguishable from breaking

waveswhen the winds exceed

15 kilometres an hour – a com-

mon occurrence on the gulf.

“As the wind picks up, when

they do spray, that spray gets

dissipated very quickly,” Mr.

Allen said.

The federation represents 70

shipping businesses in Canada,

which include ship owners,

operators and marine agents.

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