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High school teacher Dave Dsuchanek, also known as “flag man,” poses for a portrait after teaching a class of grade twelve students at Appleby College in Oakville, Ont., on January 26, 2018. The 58-year-old has taken on various missions including fighting to rewrite a slogan on the Canadian Coat of Arms and ordering $400 worth of Canadian flags to stock his car so he can replace flags himself. (Photograph by Michelle Siu)
“I am legitimately sane.” Dave Suchanek prefaces his introduction this way because he harbours an alter ego who wears red pants, a maple leaf jacket and mask and drives around protecting Canadian heraldry. Most recently, he has contacted all 338 members of Parliament in his effort to rewrite the slogan in the Canadian Coat of Arms. “I’m like a dog on my bone,” Suchanek says. “Until I get my way, I’ll be a thorn in their side. Eventually someone’s going to say it cannot be done, and that’s like music to my ears.”
Suchanek is a high school teacher in Oakville, Ont…

TORONTO _ Thomson Reuters Corp. says president and chief executive Jim Smith was taken to hospital Monday after feeling unwell.
The company didn’t release details of Smith’s illness but said he was under observation.
During his absence, chief financial officer Stephane Bello will oversee Smith’s responsibilities in addition to his regular duties.
Smith was appointed chief executive in January 2012. He had been chief operating officer at Thomson Reuters, after rising through the ranks since joining its predecessor company Thomson Corp. in 1987.
He was at the helm in October 2016 when the company announced its executive functions _ which had been in or around New York City under different CEOs _ would move back to Toronto, where they’d been located for many years.
Smith also said at the time that Thomson Reuters was attracted to Toronto’s emerging technology sector.
He said Thomson Reuters would establish a new technology centre, with up to 1,500 jobs, that would focus on “emerging skills” such as cognitive computing, artificial intelligence and data visualization…

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TORONTO _ Losses in the energy sector led Canada’s main stock index modestly lower as U.S. markets drifted higher for the third day in a row.
The S&P/TSX composite index was down 25.41 points to 15,216.47, in a largely broad-based decline.
In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 39.18 points to 24,640.45. The S&P 500 index was up 6.94 points to 2,662.94 and the Nasdaq composite index was up 31.55 points to 7,013.51.
Today’s market calm follows harrowing levels of market volatility over the last two weeks when the TSX fell more than five per cent and Wall Street indexes entered “correction” territory.
The Canadian dollar closed at an average trading value of 79.37 cents US, up 0.02 of a U.S. cent.
The March crude contract was down 10 cents to US$59.19 per barrel and the March natural gas contract was up four cents to US$2.59 per mmBTU.
The April gold contract was up US$4.00 to US$1,330.40 an ounce and the March copper contract was up eight cents to US$3…