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Amy Wallis, a young musical theatre talent who starred at the Stratford Festival after shining as Anne of Green Gables at the Charlottetown Festival, has died. She was 32.

The Talent House, Wallis's agency, announced on Facebook that the Vancouver-born actor had passed away on Sunday surrounded by loved ones after a lengthy battle with leukemia, J. Kelly Nestruck writes.

The Globe and Mail profiled Wallis as one of five young actors to watch at the Stratford Festival in 2012.

She has starred in a variety of productions, such as Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance and the Arts Club's holiday production of Beauty and the Beast, in which her performance as Belle led her to a Jessie Richardson Award nomination.

According to Talent House, plans for a memorial will be announced soon.

A Globe and Mail investigation reveals Ontario cabinet minister Michael Chan was the focus of a briefing by security officials over fears he was under the influence of China - a case that exposes a deep divide between the spy agency and the province on the question of foreign influence.

Highlights from Craig Offman’s investigation:

• Mr. Chan’s unusually close ties to Chinese officials were of such concern to Canada’s spy agency that it took the extraordinary step of sending a senior official to raise the matter at Queen’s Park.
  
• To the provincial government of the day, which deemed the allegations baseless after a review by the Integrity Commissioner, Mr. Chan had done nothing wrong. By engaging the consul-general regularly, the minister was simply doing his job – and doing it well.
  
• In an interview with The Globe, Mr. Chan, who remains in cabinet, said two concerns raised by CSIS were baseless: The federal agency alleged that he owned property in China and that he asked Taoying Zhu, China's consul-general in Toronto until 2012, directly for a visa, suggesting the minister could bypass the formal application process. Were such a request granted, it could also have the appearance of a favour in need of reciprocation.
  
• There appears to be no precedent to guide an appropriate government response, given the rarity of what happened in the Chan affair.
  
• The result was an impasse, with then-premier Dalton McGuinty, Mr. Chan and Queen’s Park on one side, and CSIS on the other. There were no consequences for one of the most significant interventions by the federal spy agency in modern Canadian history, nor was there any transparency that would have allowed for a more meaningful debate, raising questions about what was learned from the affair.
  

The Liberals are promising there would be an equal number of female and male ministers in a Trudeau cabinet, and that all new Supreme Court judges would be bilingual under their government.

The proposals are part of a new package of reforms announced on Tuesday to offer a"fair and open government" to Canadians, Daniel LeBlanc reports.

“[Prime Minister Stephen] Harper has turned Ottawa into a partisan swamp,” Mr. Trudeau said, surrounded by his MPs and candidates. “What we need is real change, and leadership that fixes what Stephen Harper has broken.”

Mr. Trudeau also said the Oct. 19 general election would be the last held under the"first past the post" system. The Liberals are promising to enact electoral reform within 18 months of forming a government.

“We will also adopt a federal government-wide open and merit-based appointments process, which will ensure gender parity and that more Indigenous Peoples and minority groups are reflected in positions of leadership,” the Liberal proposal states.

An 18-year-old has been shot and killed after tracking down his lost cellphone, police in London, Ont., say.

Jeremy Cook was able to track his phone's location to an address in the city’s north end after he left it in a taxi early Sunday morning. He and a relative approached a car occupied by three men around 5:15 a.m. and as the car began to drive away, shots were fired. Police found Cook dead from multiple gunshot wounds. They are looking for three suspects.

When Glendale council voted 5-2 earlier this week to authorize the suburban city to terminate the arena lease with the Arizona Coyotes, which paid the team $15-million a year for the next 13 years, the politicians gave Coyotes owners Andrew Barroway and Anthony LeBlanc a potential windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars.

If the city follows through on ending the lease, the Coyotes will be free to move and negotiate with a lineup of suitor cities and potential owners, David Shoalts reports.

The best option for the Coyotes and NHL commissioner Gary Bettman would be to move to Quebec City, where a new arena will open in September. Other possibilities include Houston, Kansas City and (though likely a long shot) the Greater Toronto Area.

Those well-versed in Coyotes drama know that the original problem stemmed from the team's move to Glendale, moving away from its original well-heeled luxury-box owners and season subscribers.

However, what really matters here is that Glendale council gave the Coyotes an out – undoubtedly because the city of 260,000 simply cannot afford to keep paying the $15-million – at a time when there are now other cities available.