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Still in crisis, Cat Lake First Nation awaits temporary replacement for nursing station razed by fire

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Still in crisis, Cat Lake First Nation awaits temporary replacement for nursing station razed by fire

Cat Lake First Nation Chief Russell Wesley, seen in this file photo from the Nishnawbe Aski Nation winter chiefs’ assembly in February, says he is grateful for how people have come together to support Cat Lake after its nursing station was destroyed in a fire Saturday night. (Sarah Law/CBC – image credit) Efforts are underway […]

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[leftistfeminista]

"The Anicinabe Park Occupation" began in mid-July 1974.. and lasted until late August, approximately, 39 days. For a month, armed Ojibway militants (mostly youth) occupied a 14‐acre park in the resort town of Kenora, in northwestern Ontario, to call attention to long‐standing grievances against the white authorities. The embattled Ojibway in Kenora Park, led by 24‐year‐old Louis Cameron, the head of the militant Ojibway Warriors Society, marked the new phase of their campaign, by "destroying a collection of fire-bombs, in a clearing. They then placed eight rifles and handguns, on a blanket and turned them over to Mayor James Davidson of Kenora, at the barricaded entrance to the park. In return, the 80 young Indigenous people were given a city permit, to spend 10 days more in the park. The Ojibway People say, that the park is Indigenous land, that was sold "illegally" to the city of Kenora, by the Department of Indian Affairs, in 1959. They also demanded social reforms for some 7,000 Indians, most of them impoverished, in Kenora and in nearby reserves.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A First Nation in northwestern Ontario that has faced decades of mercury poisoning is suing the provincial and federal governments, arguing they've failed to protect its treaty rights. Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek First Nation — known as Grassy Narrows — filed the lawsuit in Ontario's Superior Court of Justice on Tuesday morning. It argues the governments have violated their duties under Treaty 3 by failing to protect against or remedy the effects of mercury contamination in the English-Wabigoon River system. The allegations in this lawsuit haven't been tested in court. Contamination of the river system dates back to the 1960s and '70s when Dryden's paper mill in northwestern Ontario dumped an estimated nine tonnes of mercury into the water.

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Tagging: @newsfromstolenland

[proteusolm]

Austism win, finally got the final word on when to head north for treeplanting and the new date lines up with the train schedule so I can have a chill time on a train ride and enjoy the scenery instead of experiencing airport hell or like 30 hours and several transfers between busses. It is still a solid 24+ hours by train to get to the area of Northwestern Ontario I'll be working in, but a much cooler and more relaxed experience. Choo choo 🚂

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Reciprocity Benefits" cigar

"Uncle Sam - I'll smoke it, you may smell it."

From the Berlin (Kitchener) News Record, September 6 1911

[Context from my pal DN]: The 1911 federal election was the first "free trade" election. In office since 1896, Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier's Liberals sought their fifth consecutive sweeping majority. President Taft's proposal of lowering tariffs became the central political issue. Wrapped in the Union Jack, Robert Borden's Conservatives opposed free trade and argued that Canada would be taken over by the United States.

The election was close but the Conservatives came out ahead. The entrenched Liberal machine built around Laurier ensured the Liberals carried Quebec, but with a significant loss of seats to the Conservatives. The Liberals also carried Atlantic Canada, but just barely, signalling the crumbling of the old opposition to Confederation in the 1860s in which it was correctly predicted that losing free trade with New England would result in Atlantic Canadian industry being swallowed up by Montreal capital. The predictions came true, and Nova Scotia in particular suffered through a wave of deindustrializatoin in the 1880s and 1890s as Montreal capital bought up local concerns and shuttered them in favour of greater concentrations of industry in Montreal and the St. Lawrence Valley.

In the new prairie provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, the Liberals continued to dominate as colonization rapidly expanded the number of farmers who quickly found themselves locked into an east-west trade cartel controlled by the rail monopolies of CPR, Canadian Northern, and the Grand Trunk Pacific (the latter two would be nationalized and form Canadian National in 1919). The farmers were incensed that they were blocked from trading south to American markets at cheaper freight rates.

The Conservatives cut into Liberal support in Quebec and Atlantic Canada, but the bulk of its support came from Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia - the three Anglo provinces where industrial capitalism had taken hold during the "Second Industrial Revolution" that began in the 1890s. Not only that, but Ontario, Manitoba and BC were politically dominated by the most militant Anglo founders of Confederation. Through the Orange Terror of the 1870s against the Métis and their democratic allies, and a sustained political struggle against French language schooling rights, the bilingual and multicultural character of Manitoba had been legally and politically extinguished by the mid-1890s (and was a contributing factor to Laurier's Liberals winning the 1896 election, ending 18 years of Conservative rule).

Likewise, British Columbia was politically loyal to the project of Confederation. It had been aggressively established as a British colonial outpost in the 1850s for the Empire's project of a united British North America and establishing a British base in the northwestern Pacific. The 1860s was marked by a series of colonial wars and punitive expeditions by British gunboats, redcoats and settler terrorist groups. Colonial victory was achieved with the deliberate smallpox genocide of Indigenous peoples on Vancouver Island which spread to Haida Gwaii and the mainland. Estimates of 15,000 to 30,000 Indigenous peoples died in a year - half the Indigenous population of Vancouver Island and Haida Gwaii. White people in Victoria, population 5,000 in 1862, were busy getting vaccinated, the smallpox vaccine having been discovered decades before available in the Pacific Northwest by the 1850s. By 1911, British Columbia had become a major coal and lumber exporter and the terminus of three new transcontinental railroads (CPR at Port Moody and Granville; Canadian Northern at Port Mann and later Pacific Central Station; Grand Trunk Pacific at Prince Rupert).

It seemed like the Conservatives had re-established their once-powerful "National Policy" coalition of British imperialists, Canadian capitalists and the Anglo working class. However, the Second Industrial Revolution, the two new transcontinental railways, and colonization of the prairies had radically expanded and altered the character of the industrial working class and the role of the state in society. The brewing rebellion of farmers, the Vancouver Coal Wars of 1912-1914, the great IWW strike of the Grand Trunk Pacific in 1913, and the success of state capitalist development (Ontario Hydro Commission - 1906, Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway - 1902, King's Industrial Disputes Investigation Act - 1907) were all harbingers of radical change that exploded with the pressure cooker of the Great War.

Farmers struck out on their own after the war with farmer parties taking power in Ontario (1919), Alberta (1921) and Manitoba (1922). The working-class insurgency of 1919 shook the ruling class and forged a broad and complex vanguard of radical working-class politics and action that formed a foundation for the great class struggles of the 1930s and 1940s.

The Conservatives, during and immediately following the war, were pressed to concede the vote of women, albeit through opportunistic means to win the 1917 election in favour of conscription, nationalize the CNoR and Grand Trunk in 1919, and lose its popular "producer" base that had won it power in 1911 and undergirded its electoral success during the first 30 years of Confederation.

Ever the opportunists, the Liberals under King abandoned the free trade mantra and spent the next 30 years overseeing the renovation of the Canadian state in the interest of capital while playing a ruthless game of stick, carrot and more stick against the growing insurgency of the "producer" classes which had grown too large and self-conscious to contain within a bourgeois two-party system.

The next seventy years would hold to this pattern until the economic base of the farmer and labour movements had sufficiently crumbled by the 1980s, at which point the Progressive Conservatives (a name courtesy of a 1940s merger of the Conservatives and a section of the farmer-based Progressives) pulled the plug on the National Policy of protective tariffs and home market development in favour of free trade with the United States.

With Mulroney's victory in the 1988 "free trade" election and subsequent refusal of provincial governments to challenge the free trade agreement (Bob Rae promised he would during his successful 1990 election campaign), the old 20th century political arrangements have collapsed. The small farmer class has disappeared to political insignificance. The working-class has been radically transformed since deindustrialization and free trade. The three-party political system that dominated the 1919-1990 period has collapsed and been remade with new coalitions of forces and factions - even if the party names carry forward into a new century.

With one "producer" class still standing - the working class - and the colonial and capitalist failures of Confederation coming home to roost at home and abroad, can a new vision and program for Canada be forged by a new working-class movement?

[atlanticcanada]

Summer set to be sweltering for most of the country: Environment Canada

It’s time to break out the sunscreen and air conditioning; this summer is expected to be a scorcher, according to Environment Canada.

Environment and Climate Change Canada said in a press release that there will most likely be “higher-than-normal temperatures (for) most of the country until at least the end of August.”

The release noted that we’ve already been seeing these higher temperatures in some regions, with atypical temperatures in the northern Prairies, northern Ontario and northern Quebec throughout June so far.

These regions, as well as the rest of Ontario and Quebec, British Columbia and Atlantic Canada, are expected to continue seeing these higher temperatures during the summer months to come.

A map showing the forecast for June through the end of August showed that the overwhelming majority of the country was more likely to be experiencing temperatures above the seasonal norm for their respective regions.

The only portions of the country more likely to see temperatures near the normal range were a few coastal regions of B.C., the eastern edge of Newfoundland and Labrador and some northern areas of Nunavut.

The sweltering temperatures expected this summer can be tracked to climate change, the agency said.

“Climate change is already affecting the frequency, duration, and intensity of extreme weather- and climate-related events in Canada,” the release stated. “Climate models indicate the country is warming at roughly double the global rate, especially in the north, which will lead to more damaging weather events.”

For the last couple of months, wildfires spurred on by dry conditions and heat have plagued communities from B.C. to Quebec to Nova Scotia.

There are still numerous wildfires burning in the north of B.C., including one at Donnie Creek, which is now the largest fire in the province’s history, according to officials. A region nearly as large as Prince Edward Island is still burning, and special air quality statements are in place for part of northern B.C.

In Quebec, smog warnings are in effect for several regions due to forest fires.

The northwestern portion of Ontario is under a broad, multi-day heat warning ranging from temperatures in the high 20s to the mid-30s, with Environment Canada noting that for some regions, “extreme heat will continue through the week with little to no relief.”

Although the overall summer forecast predicts temperatures will be higher than normal, June is still bringing surprises. A low-pressure system brought heavy precipitation in the B.C. communities of Ashcroft, Cache Creek and southern Chilcotin earlier this week, and the same system brought flurries and snow to several areas as well.

Snow in an otherwise hot summer isn’t as surprising as it sounds — climate change can increase precipitation unexpectedly, with Environment Canada noting in their release that it can also spur on the risk of floods.

“Climate change also brings more intense rainfalls, which are expected to increase urban flood risks, and coastal flooding is expected to increase in many areas of Canada due to local sea-level rise,” the release stated. “The average intensity of hurricanes is also expected to increase, though an increase in the total number of tropical cyclones is not expected.”

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[iilssnet]

About Hudson Bay, facts and maps

Hudson Bay is the summer home of up to 50,000 beluga whales! Each July and August an estimated 50,000 beluga whales migrate south into river estuaries that flow into the Hudson Bay. The whales use this estuaries as their grounds to feed, molt (shed skin), and give birth. Hudson Bay, inland sea indenting east-central Canada. With an area of 316,000 square miles (819,000 square km), it is bounded by Nunavut territory (north and west), Manitoba and Ontario (south), and Quebec (east). Hudson Bay (Southern East Cree: ᐐᓂᐯᒄ, romanized: Wînipekw; Northern East Cree: ᐐᓂᐹᒄ, romanized: Wînipâkw; Inuktitut: ᑲᖏᖅᓱᐊᓗᒃ ᐃᓗᐊ, romanized: Kangiqsualuk ilua or Inuktitut: ᑕᓯᐅᔭᕐᔪᐊᖅ, romanized: Tasiujarjuaq; French: baie d'Hudson), sometimes called Hudson's Bay (usually historically), is a large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada with a surface area of 1,230,000 km2 (470,000 sq mi). It is located north of Ontario, west of Quebec, northeast of Manitoba and southeast of Nunavut, but politically entirely part of Nunavut.

How far is it from Toronto to Hudson Bay? The distance between Toronto and Hudson Bay is 273 km. The road distance is 319.3 km. The large-scale cold air masses originating over Hudson Bay and the cold mesoscale winds combine to impose cold air temperatures on the adjacent terrestrial environment. Population. The area around Hudson Bay is very sparsely populated. The biggest sector of the population is the Inuit, who have largely given up their traditional way of life as hunters and now live from fishing and handicrafts in the few small communities dotted along the coast.

Is the town of Hudson in “Heartland” a real place? Hudson does exist — just under a different name! If you want to visit the town of Hudson, you'll need to make a trip to High River in Alberta, Canada. High River has all the small-town charm that you would expect from the town that serves as Hudson in “Heartland”. Who lives in Hudson Bay? The primary occupants continue to be Indian and Inuit bands living by fishing and hunting. The largest settlement is Churchill, Man (pop 1089, 1996c), at the mouth of the Churchill River. Where is the most beautiful bay in the world? Bay watch: 8 of the world's most beautiful bays - 1: Halong Bay, Vietnam. - 2: Bay of Kotor, Montenegro. - 3: Bay of Islands, New Zealand. - 4: Paradise Bay, Antarctica. - 5: Bay of Fundy, Canada. - 6: Phang Nga Bay, Thailand. - 7: Guanabara Bay, Brazil. - 8: San Francisco Bay, USA. Is Hudson Bay worth visiting? Hudson Bay is a city in Saskatchewan, Canada. It has many popular attractions, including Hudson Bay, making it well worth a visit. Hudson Bay is a city in Saskatchewan, Canada. It has many popular attractions, including Hudson Bay, making it well worth a visit. Do polar bears live in Hudson Bay?

Researchers surveyed Western Hudson Bay — home to Churchill, the town called "the Polar Bear Capital of the World," — by air in 2021 and estimated there were 618 bears, compared to the 842 in 2016, when they were last surveyed. Can you swim in the Hudson Bay? “Most people think that you can't swim here, but you totally can. In fact, the water has never been cleaner.” Gershenhorn is part of a loosely knit group of West Siders who enjoy, when the weather warms up, freely frolicking in the Hudson. What language do they speak in Hudson Bay? Kivalliq, also known as Kivallirmiutut, Caribou Eskimo, or formerly as Keewatin, is a dialect of Eastern Canadian Inuktitut which is spoken along the northwestern shores of Hudson Bay in Nunavut. Are there sharks in Hudson Bay? While it is rare to find a shark in the Hudson River, there have been several sightings over the years. Sharks may swim into the estuary from time to time but won't travel far up north, due to the freshwater. Why do people live in Hudson Bay? They make their living by fishing and hunting, some are in the trade industry and tourism. Hudson Bay was named after Henry Hudson, an Englishman who first explored the region looking for a northwestern passage to Asia at the beginning of the 17th century. Is Hudson Bay water clean? The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) has listed various portions of the Hudson as having impaired water quality due to PCBs, cadmium, and other toxic compounds. Can you drink from the Hudson River? Seven communities and over 100,000 people rely on drinking water from the Hudson River. Riverkeeper helped these seven communities — the City of Poughkeepsie, Village of Rhinebeck and the Towns of Esopus, Hyde Park, Lloyd, Poughkeepsie and Rhinebeck — organize as the Hudson River Drinking Water Intermunicipal Council. Is the Hudson River clean or dirty? Every New Yorker knows that while the Hudson is likely at least slightly cleaner than the East River (and certainly cleaner than the Gowanus Canal), it's by no means recommended for swimming or drinking. Read the full article

[laresearchette]

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: HOME IN A HEARTBEAT WITH GALEY ALIX (HGTV Canada) 10:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT CHANGING PLANET (PBS Feed) FOOD TRUCK PRIZE FIGHT (TBD - Food Network Canada) PRETTY STONED (TBD - MTV Canada)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

CBC GEM GRAND DESIGNS UK (Season 20 (b)) THE STROKE DOC

DISNEY + STAR ALONE (Season 6) DOCTOR LAWYER (Season 1) MASCARA CONTRA CABALLERO (Season 1) MR. MERCEDES (Seasons 1-3) THE OWL HOUSE (Season 3, all episodes) YANG HILANG DALAM CINTA/WHAT WE LOSE TO LOVE (Season 1)

NETFLIX CANADA CHIMP EMPIRE MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS: ONCE & ALWAYS

MLB BASEBALL (SN1) 12:30pm: Rays vs. Reds (SN Now) 3:00pm: Mets vs. Dodgers (TSN) 7:00pm: Angels vs. Yankees (SN1) 8:00pm: Jays vs. Astros

NHL HOCKEY (SN360) 7:00pm: Islanders vs. Hurricanes - Game #2 (CBC/SN) 7:30pm: Panthers vs. Bruins - Game #2 (SN360) 9:50pm: Wild vs. Stars - Game #2 (SNWest) 10:00pm: Kings vs. Oilers - Game #2

NBA BASKETBALL (TSN3/TSN4) 7:30pm: Lakers vs. Grizzlies - Game #2 (TSN5) 9:00pm: Heat vs. Bucks - Game #2 (TSN3/TSN4) 10:00pm: Timberwolves vs. Nuggets - Game #2

BIG BROTHER CANADA (Global) 9:00pm

THE WOMAN WITH THE GIANT STOMACH (TLC Canada) 10:00pm: Ashley's massive, hanging pannus impedes her ability to work, walk or live anything resembling a normal life; in order to help, Dr. Gruber will have to perform the most extensive series of awake surgeries in her career.

LOST CAR RESCUE (History Canada) 10:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): The team tracks down several historic vehicles in the remote region of Rainy River, in Northwestern Ontario; as Steve and Lee compete with Dave, Matt and Jess hit the skies in search of a historic railway truck to assist a local museum.

[ramenheim]

...Anyways.

"The legacy of environmental racism towards Native Americans is also inseparable from the United States’ history of nuclear development and military innovation. From the 1940s to the 1980s, the Navajo Nation was one of the most plentiful uranium mining sites in the country — the U.S. government extracted over four million tons of uranium ore from sites on the reservation to make nuclear weapons. Navajo people who lived near uranium mines were not warned about the hazards of radiation, and experienced alarmingly high rates of lung cancer, leukemia, kidney disease, birth defects and several other health issues. Mining companies later abandoned these mines without cleaning up the large quantities of uranium on the reservation; even today, the Navajo people continue to suffer adverse health effects related to radiation. The Oglala Lakota people living at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, which also has an extensive history of uranium mining, have a cancer mortality rate that is 40 percent higher than that of the overall population."

https://bpr.studentorg.berkeley.edu/2021/07/10/the-lasting-harms-of-toxic-exposure-in-native-american-communities/

"The extent of toxic exposure in Native communities reflects the U.S. government’s tendency to view Native American reservations, and by extension, Native American people, as expendable."

PDF:

http://www.nirs.org/wp-content/uploads/radwaste/scullvalley/historynativecommunitiesnuclearwaste06142005.pdf

Canada Oct. 2024:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/nuclear-waste-storage-site-opposition-northwestern-ontario-1.7341911

Canada late 1990s:

Https://rshare.library.torontomu.ca/articles/thesis/Nuclear_fuel_waste_and_aboriginal_concerns_Canada_s_nuclear_fuel_waste_management_concept_public_hearings--a_content_analysis/14665398?file=28152126

I get that this post was about Europe, but like. You can't seriously think that it's ~~coincidental~~ that none of your major cities would allow nuclear waste processing+storage in close proximity to its citizens. Greenhouse Gasses are not the Be All End All of energy pollution.

I wish all environmentalists a very suck cocks in hell

[ulkaralakbarova]

A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: George Caldwell: Gene Wilder Hildegard ‘Hilly’ Burns: Jill Clayburgh Grover Muldoon: Richard Pryor Roger Devereau: Patrick McGoohan Bob Sweet: Ned Beatty Sheriff Chauncey: Clifton James Mr. Edgar Whiney: Ray Walston Professor Schreiner & Johnson: Stefan Gierasch Chief: Len Birman Plain Jane: Valerie Curtin Rita Babtree: Lucille Benson Ralston: Scatman Crothers Reace: Richard Kiel Jerry Jarvis: Fred Willard Burt: Delos V. Smith Jr. Blue-Haired Lady: Mathilda Calnan Mexican Mama-San: Margarita García Conventioneer: Henry Beckman Conventioneer: Harvey Atkin Porter: Lloyd White Benny: Ed McNamara Night Watchman: Raymond Guth Engineer #2: John Daheim Fat Man #1: Jack O’Leary Fat Man #2: Lee McLaughlin Red Cap: Bill Henderson Cab Driver: Tom Erhart Moose: Gordon Hurst Waiter (uncredited): J.A. Preston Shoeshiner: Nick Stewart Conventioneer: Steve Weston Film Crew: Casting: Lynn Stalmaster Original Music Composer: Henry Mancini Executive Producer: Martin Ransohoff Writer: Colin Higgins Set Decoration: Marvin March Hairstylist: Joan Phillips Director of Photography: David M. Walsh Editor: David Bretherton Makeup Artist: William Tuttle Stunts: Alan Oliney Producer: Edward K. Milkis Producer: Thomas L. Miller Executive Producer: Frank Yablans Stunt Double: Jeannie Epper Stunts: John Daheim Stunts: Nick Dimitri Stunts: Bob Herron Director: Arthur Hiller Production Design: Alfred Sweeney Stunt Coordinator: Mickey Gilbert Production Manager: Peter V. Herald Production Manager: Jack B. Bernstein Stunts: Janet Brady Sound: Harold M. Etherington Movie Reviews: Wuchak: **_Drama, romance, crime, mystery, comedy, adventure, suspense and action on a train_** A book editor traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago by rail (Gene Wilder) supposedly witnesses a crime while partying with a secretary (Jill Clayburgh). He suddenly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy. Richard Pryor plays a helpful thief, Ned Beatty a passenger, Patrick McGoohan a smooth art expert, Richard Kiel a heavy and Len Birman a cop. “Silver Streak” (1976) meshes Hitchcockian murder thriller with the amusing antics of Wilder and Pryor for an entertaining train flick. As my title blurb states, it expertly mixes genres into a fun and compelling rail ride. If you like train flicks like “Runaway Train” (1985), “Transiberian” (2008), “Train” (2008), “Night Train” (2009), “Beyond the Door III” (1989), “The Cassandra Crossing” (1976), “Breakheart Pass” (1975) and “Horror Express” (1972) you’ll also enjoy this one. It’s as good or better than most of ’em. It just includes amusement along with the life-or-death thrills à la the 80’s Indiana Jones adventures. The film runs 1 hour, 54 minutes, and was shot in SoCal, including Century City (studio), Union Station in Los Angeles, South Pasadena (New Mexico train stop), the Mojave Desert (the ranch with the plane) and Brea (the redneck sheriff’s office), as well as Alberta (the prairie scenes), Locust Hill in Ontario, Union Station in Toronto and Northwestern Station in Chicago. GRADE: A-/B+

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Cat Lake First Nation's nursing station burns down, leaving remote community without health-care hub

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Cat Lake First Nation's nursing station burns down, leaving remote community without health-care hub

Cat Lake First Nation’s nursing station is described as a Cat Lake First Nation’s nursing station has burned down, leaving the remote northwestern Ontario community without a central access point to health-care services. Nishnawbe Aski Police Service (NAPS) confirmed that a fire broke out at the Margaret Gray Nursing Station Saturday night just before 9:30 […]

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[christinamac1]

Heavy resistance to Canada's 1st nuclear waste repository, while Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) says it is safe.

Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO)  reaffirms safety of Canada’s 1st nuclear waste repository but there’s still heavy pushback Preferred site, in either southern or northwestern Ontario, to be chosen by year’s end Sarah Law · CBC News  Mar 18, 2024 The body tasked with selecting the future storage site for Canada’s nuclear waste has reaffirmed its confidence in the project’s safety,…

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Wildfires in northwestern Quebec prompted thousands to evacuate the area over the weekend, as the number of blazes pushed past 150 and firefighters and the military poured into parts of the province to fight the encroaching flames -- even as that threat eased slightly Sunday on the North Shore.

Some 5,500 residents of the Abitibi-Temiscamingue region, which borders Ontario, have been relocated, Public Security Minister Francois Bonnardel said at a news conference in Montreal.

Another 4,500 people in the North Shore community of Sept-Iles and its outskirts were also forced from their homes due to a pair of wildfires burning north of the city, but no further evacuations are planned at the moment, Bonnardel said.

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[eviesessays]

1. At what times in your life were you the happiest, and why?

To ask an octogenarian when  the happiest time in their life was, and why that was so sets forth a monumental task  that requires the review of many memories, experiences and events.   I will make that attempt but given the ravages of old age and the myriad of events I will likely miss something.

As a child I enjoyed playing with my brothers.  We had active imaginations and a blanket could become a tent or a boat as the necessity arose. The small woods behind our house was a place for great hunts and Cowboy and Indian games. That was before it was declasse to refer to native Americans as Indians.  On summer days we packed a lunch and towel and headed for the lake with only the responsibility o f being home by 4:00pm to be ready for dinner.  In winter we put on our skates and walked down to the lake to clear a rink and skate until we looked like colorful ice sculptures.

I remember the joy of the end of World War Two.  Our neighbor Roddy McIvor was killed when his plane was shot down over France.  Many of our playmates had Dads away at the war. On VE day and then on VJ Day we formed a tin pan band and we paraded up and down Wellington Street singing every patriotic song we knew many times over. Food rations were ending.. We no longer were sitting by the radio hearing Quentin Reynolds refer to Hitler as Dr. Schicklegruber. The speeches of Winston Churchill are engraved in my memory.  These were worrisome times and the great joy was being done with them and hoping that would last for all time.

Graduation from Sioux Lookout Continuation School was a big event. This was the beginning of my adult life. At the age of 17 I was going to St. Joseph’s Hospital School of Nursing in Port Arthur,  Ontario to become a Registered Nurse.  Those were happy years with parties and dances and boyfriends memorable and forgettable. I was pinned to a Beta Theta Pi named Howie Steward.  He was handsome and at Northwestern University in Evanston , Illinois.  The distance took its toll and that joy ended.  Graduating from Nursing School was a lifelong goal accomplished.

In 1958 I married a Scotsman named James Wemyss Joss.  Because of his work with an American firm we moved to Pasadena Texas where my firstborn Heather arrived healthy and beautiful  Another move to Anchorage, Alaska and the birth of Jaylyn.  She too was beautiful and healthy. For several months in 1959 we lived in a beach house in Cheriton, Virginia where Jay’s employer, RCA was building some ,”over the horizon” scanning radar.  I was eight months pregnant with Robin and the nearest hospital was 25 miles away in rural Maryland.  We moved to Mobile, Alabama where  Robin was born a very healthy and beautiful baby.  In 6 weeks we were on our way to Washington DC where Jay would eventually work for the Navy Dept.  Peter was born at Washington Hospital Center and was a very handsome baby.  We spent joyous summer vacations at Rehoboth Beach and many holidays in Canada. Washington was a wonderful city with endless things to do and great museums with no entry fees.  There were wonderful military tattoos and magnificent fireworks.There were also times of great concern like the murder of President Kennedy and Martin Luther King..  There were certainly happy times with good friends and good jobs but Jays drinking became an enormous problem.  We were divorced.

Four years after parting I married again. We moved to Boston.  This was a time of peace and stability if not great joy.  My children were all going off to college and I did likewise.  I  worked full time and went to school in the evening. At the age of 49 I received a Bachelor of Science degree from Northeastern University in Boston. This was an enormously joyous moment for me and a lifelong dream realized.  I was the first one in my family to do so. Three of my four children received college degrees and Robin dropped out of college to pursue a career in acting and modelling in New York.  Life was peaceful  .

In 1985 we bought a beautiful house in Warner, NH.  It was 27 acres on the Warner River and one marker of the property was the abutment of the Waterloo covered Bridge. The property lie in the intervale of the Mink Hills. It was idyllic.  It had an in ground pool with a beautiful bar and cabana.. There was a one room .building near the river with a wood stove for heat.  This proved a magnificent feature. There was a large vegetable garden sadly unattended but all looked very appealing.  After two years here my husband told me of a long standing affair he was having with a woman from our church in Bedford.  That was the end of the marriage but was the beginning of the happiest time of my life.

I was welcomed back  to work at McLean Hospital where I had many friends.  I belonged to the Warner Historical Society where I spent many years running the barn sale that raised significant funds for the Society.  I volunteered at the recycling station where I sorted glass and swatted flies and met most of the town people.  I experienced a cancer diagnosis and was successfully treated at Dana Farber Cancer Center in Boston. I traveled to Scotland , Spain, Portugal, Italy Germany and the Canadian Rockies many times.  In the midst of this all my children but Robin  married. All my grandchildren were born while I lived in Warner.  It was hard to imagine a greater joy than seeing your own babies born beautiful and healthy but grandchildren can do that.

The grandchildren visited often.  Anne and Merton and Hillary and Harry sometimes had time together there.  Kalote and Will came along later and had less time but still have happy memories of wonderful times there.  The little house by the river became the center of an annual event.  I baked each of the grandchildren a gingerbread house and I cut evergreen boughs and every year for many, on the Sunday after Thanksgiving we gathered in the little house.  the children decorated their houses and we made Christmas wreaths and swags.  We had chili that was kept warm on the old wood stove. In summer they swam for hours in the pool.  We flew huge styrofoam airplanes in the meadow.  We slid down the hill toward the pool in Winter.  We ate strawberries in the garden and dug potatoes. We had a snowball fight over the barn roof on the last Easter Sunday I lived there.  It was the best of times and the greatest joy.

After my 70th birthday it became increasingly more clear that I could no longer manage three acres of lawn, an aging pool, and an enormous garden. I sold Warner and moved to Mountain Road in Concord.

I am now enjoying the pleasure of my grandchildren finishing degrees and living very interesting lives.  And then there is the sheer pleasure of great grandchildren and the joy begins again.  Since I am past my mid 80’s I will not know the full extent of that So I will say with the fondest of memories that my 22 years in Warner were the most joyful days of my life.

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"Unfortunately, at the same time, another, more ominous threat began to influence non-English socialists at the Lakehead. The general anti-war position of the SDPC [Social Democractic Party of Canada] before the war and its role in radicalizing local union activities during the strike of 1913 made socialists and non-English workers the subject of rumours and speculation regarding plots of espionage and sabotage. As in many communities throughout Canada, this belief was rooted in two things that demonstrate how many residents of the twin cities imagined their communities’ roles within both Canada and the world. The editor of the Port Arthur Daily News best summarized what many in the region felt in an editorial published on 25 June 1915. He charged that Port Arthur, as a port of strategic national importance, needed to become more vigilant against impending threats to the community. This position was strengthened by the apparent sabotage of a government wireless station in Port Arthur. The stationing of men from the local militia and police departments at those industries and services deemed critical only served to heighten tensions. Incidents between workers and soldiers increased during the first years of the war at the coal docks and grain elevators of both cities, including gun battles and fistfights. Although labourers from every ethnic group participated in the taunting and fighting, however, the local press targeted only “aliens” and known socialists in its condemnation. As the work of Gerald Ross has revealed

in spite of the perceived notion that the threat of sabotage came largely from the unemployed and impoverished workers, there was also strong sentiment among Anglo-Canadians and immigrant workers from all allied powers that the enemy aliens should be released from their jobs.

This resulted not only in the dismissal of thousands of workers across Canada but also in the establishment of work camps throughout Northwestern Ontario under the War Measures Act. Internment plainly often had more to do with relieving governments of the burden of maintaining the unemployed than with questions of national security. It was of a piece with a growing climate of hostility against “foreigners,” one from which members of the left were by no means exempt. Moreover, it fit comfortably into a long-standing state interest in repressing labour. Workers participating in strikes were considered by local authorities to be unemployed and they, along with “any suspicious individuals,” could be arrested and interned. For many, internment meant both being sent to work camps located in the Canadian hinterland and confiscation of property. Far from doing nothing, internees were required to build additional camps and their labour was used for road building, land clearing, woodcutting, and railway construction.

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The Lakehead held one of the largest prewar Ukrainian communities in the country, and although little is known about them, they comprised a significant portion of the working class. This included a purported Ukrainian-language branch of the SDPC. The nature of the Ukrainian workforce in Fort William was similar to those in Edmonton and Montreal. Ukrainians in Fort William predominantly worked for the CPR as freight and coal handlers, and in the local iron foundries in the eastern part of the city. The work was hard, heavy, dirty, and often some of the most dangerous in the region. These areas of employment were also ones in which labour unrest had been rampant before 1914, and thus were targeted by officials. Italians living in Fort William and Port Arthur were also treated with suspicion despite the significant role Italian troops were playing in the fight against the Central Powers. This had more to do, however, with their involvement in past labour unrest than with any real concern felt by employers over the loyalty of their employees, a situation highlighted by the fact that preference continued to be given to Austrian and German workers in both cities. So acute had the situation become by June 1915 that the Italian consular agent, E. Marino, publicly criticized local hiring practices. He chided employers for ignoring the fact that, unlike many in the region, these men were “offering themselves for service in defense of the principles [for] which Britishers were fighting in France against Germany.” Those most targeted for their “socialistic tendencies,” however, were members of the Finnish community. In large part, such attention was due to the leading role many Finns in Port Arthur and Fort William had played in the establishment of the Finnish Socialist Organization of Canada (FSOC) in early 1914. That March, the Port Arthur Finnish Labour Temple had in fact been the site of the first convention, which had been attended by delegates representing 3,062 Finns from Finnish socialist societies across Canada. From Northwest-ern Ontario, locals from Port Arthur (359 members), Fort William (235 members), Nolalu (16 members), Nipigon (42 members), Kivikoski (39 members), Fort Frances (27 members), Intola (37 members), and Wolf Siding (37 members) were present. Those in attendance included a young Sanna Kannasto, who was given the task of organizing both men and women in Northern Ontario. Prompted by the FSOC’s apparent interest in radicalizing Lakehead workers and the salience of socialists in its leadership, the RCMP began an intensive campaign of harassment. As future Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and Communist organizer Amos Tobias (A.T.) Hill later recalled, more than once the RCMP would “march to the [Finnish] hall during just an ordinary dance, or during the middle of a play, and stop everything, then [demand] naturalization papers or other forms of identification to prove that they were ‘loyal Canadians.’” It was not uncommon for a dozen people attending a dance to be arrested and imprisoned in the local jail for a couple of days. Considering the ethnic factionalism that defined the experience of the working class at the Lakehead before the war, it should come as no surprise that the predominantly Anglo-controlled labour organizations remained relatively quiet about this issue. Even as hundreds of local workers were interned, the local trades and labour councils supported government officials. Only when federal or municipal officials intended to let employers use “alien labourers” did they protest. Workers, who had stood shoulder to shoulder in strikes before the war, were divided further between those labelled “enemy aliens” and those who were not. For all those deemed to be a menace, real or imagined, the threat of deportation was an ever-present danger. This included any who spoke out against municipal, provincial, and federal authorities or against the war in general."

- Michel S. Beaulieu, Labour at the Lakehead: Ethnicity, Socialism, and Politics, 1900-35. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2011. p. 44-46.

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Vaughan – an area steeped in history, culture, and infinite attractions. Located in the Greater Toronto Area, Vaughan is bounded by Caledon and Brampton to the west, King and Richmond Hill to the north, Markham and Richmond Hill to the east, and Toronto to the south.

Vaughan was named after Benjamin Vaughan, a British commissioner who signed a peace treaty with the United States in 1783. The Huron-Wendat people populated what is today Vaughan, and the first European to pass through Vaughan was the French explorer Étienne Brûlé in 1615. Vaughan Township was established in 1792 and merged with the Village of Woodbridge in 1971 to form the Town of Vaughan. In 1991, it changed its legal status to the City of Vaughan.

Vaughan’s population as of 2021 was 323,103, with a population density of 1,186.0/km. Vaughan’s median age as of 2021 was 41.6, on par with the Ontario median age of 41.6. English is the mother tongue of 45.2% of the residents of Vaughan, with Italian (9.8%), Russian (6.0%), and Mandarin (4.0%). Christianity (53.1%) is the most reported religion among the population, with Catholicism (38.6%) making up the largest denomination. Italian (26.5%), Chinese (8.5%), and Jewish (7.9%) are the top ethnic origins in Vaughan. Visible minorities make up 35.4% of the population.

Vaughan is governed by a ten-member council comprising a mayor, four regional councillors, and five local councillors. Vaughan offers a complex transportation infrastructure, including highways, public transit, regional roads, municipality-funded roads, and train services. The Vaughan Metropolitan Centre is a new city center under development around the intersection of Highway 7 and Jane Street. The Vaughan Metropolitan Centre is served by the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre subway station, which is the northwestern terminus of Line 1 Yonge–University of the Toronto subway system. Vaughan was the largest city in Canada without a hospital until the 2021 opening of Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital.

Manufacturing dominates the local economy, followed by construction, retail trade, wholesale trade, and transportation and warehousing. Small businesses with fewer than 20 employees account for 81% of all business establishments.

Major Tourism Points of Interest Canada’s Wonderland Village cores of Kleinburg Edgeley Legoland Discovery Center McMichael Canadian Art Collection

As well as Vaughan Mills, the Kortright Centre for Conservation, Reptilia and Woodbridge. Interesting Neighborhoods Concord Thornhill Maple ​ Construction activity has exceeded the $1 billion mark in eight of the last ten years. Vaughan is home to 184 Canadian or regional headquarters, including Adidas Canada, GFL Environmental, Recipe Unlimited, St. Joseph Communications, Toys R Us, and Yum! Brands.

Vaughan is made up of nearly a dozen historic communities, with most residents identifying more with the larger communities than the city as a whole. Canadas Wonderland is located on the east side of Highway 400 between Rutherford Road and Major Mackenzie Drive. Vaughan Mills is a large shopping mall that opened in 2004, which includes Legoland Discovery Centre. McMichael Canadian Art Collection is located in Kleinburg. Boyd Conservation Area is a park located east of Islington Avenue, south of Rutherford Road. Baitul Islam Mosque is the headquarters of the Canadian Ahmadiyya Muslim community. Kortright Centre for Conservation is located between Rutherford Road and Major Mackenzie Drive east of Islington Avenue. Reptilia Zoo is a 25,000 sq ft Reptile Zoo and Education Centre located near Vaughan Mills. York University, a major comprehensive university, is located in North York, Ontario, on the Toronto side of the Toronto-Vaughan border. There are several elementary and high schools in Vaughan, which operate under different boards. Niagara University runs a branch campus in Vaughan. ​ Vaughan is home to many amateur sports teams for various sports. There are four major sports leagues in the city, with a rep and select levels of each sport. The Vaughan Vikings represent the city in baseball and softball. The Vaughan Flames is a youth organization exclusively for women’s hockey. Vaughan SC, Woodbridge SC, and Kleinburg Nobleton SC offer house league and rep programs for youth soccer. The Ontario Soccer Association, the largest sports organization in Canada, is based in Vaughan. The Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame and Museum is located in Vaughan. The semi-professional York Region Shooters from the Canadian Soccer League is based in Vaughan.

There are several newspapers in Vaughan, including the Vaughan Citizen and the Thornhill Liberal. Lo Specchio is an Italian-language newspaper published in Vaughan. City Life is a Vaughan-specific lifestyle magazine published bi-monthly.

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