First Nations divided over pipeline plan
About 60 people converged on the steps
combat climate change.
‘Global Climate Strike’ draws protesters to city hall
change is “definitely not good” and that it’s been shown that activism works in terms of raising the issue with government.
About 60 people converged on the steps of city hall Friday morning as part of a series of “Global Climate Strike” events around the world urging world leaders to act more aggressively to combat climate change. Many were carrying signs bearing such lines as “Stop Denying the Earth is Dying,” “This Is A Crisis, Not A #Trend,” and “This Generation Will Not Wait.”
The protests were partly inspired by the activism of Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, who has staged weekly “Fridays for Future” demonstrations for a year, urging world leaders to step up efforts against climate change.
In Prince George, they have been held on Friday afternoons at Mr. PG since May.
Caitlyn McCarville said she has been participating when she can. She said climate
Concern about the petrochemical complex proposed for the BCR Industrial site was raised.
“The future is not about investing in two dying industries – oil and gas and carbon plastics,” said Zoe Meletis when she spoke to the participants. In an interview, Meletis said economic development should be contingent on environmental sustainability.
“The two can’t be delinked and I think new petrochemical plants too close to residences in a diversifying economy does not fit with that vision,” she said.
That the complex will rely on natural gas extracted by fracking was also raised as a concern.
A review by the B.C. Environmental Assessment office for an ethylene plant – one of three major components of the complex
Quesnel man guilty of firstdegree murder in Yukon
Gord FORTIN Whitehorse Star
A 12 person jury has found a 22-year-old Quesnel man guilty of first-degree murder in relation to Adam Cormack’s death.
The jury delivered its verdict on Thursday afternoon.
Deputy Justice Scott Brooker indicated that first degree murder comes with a statutory penalty of life in prison and parole ineligibility for 25 years.
The jury began deliberating on Wednesday after Brooker gave his official charge and dismissed two of the 14 jurors that participated in the trial. Legally, only 12 jurors can deliberate. During jury selection process in August, Brooker explained that 14 were chosen due to the projected length of the trial. It finished ahead of schedule.
The charge instructed the jury on the laws it would have to interpret.
Brooker gave the jury the options of convicting Penner on first degree murder, second degree murder or finding him not
guilty of either. The jury did not reach a verdict by 8 p.m. on Wednesday and thus had to be sequestered overnight. The deliberations resumed at 9:15 a.m. on Thursday.
The jury reconvened later that morning to ask for clarifications on the words deliberate action and weighing the consequences.
Brooker, after consulting with the Crown and the defense, explained that a deliberate act is one that is not rash. The person who takes this action considered the potential outcome. As for weighing the consequences, Brooker clarified that this is considering how one’s actions will impact others or reflecting on the potential punishment one could receive.
After the verdict was read, Crown prosecutor Tom Lemon indicated that there were two victim impact statements that would be read.
The first to be read was from Theresa Cormack, the mother of the deceased. — see ‘I JUST WANT, page 3
– is now underway.
Michelle Kerr, the Green party candidate in Cariboo-Prince George attended the event.
“This in an incredibly important cause and we all could probably agree that the government should wake up and take it seriously,” she said while speaking to the group.
“It’s such a victory,” Thunberg told The Associated Press in an interview in New York. “I would never have predicted or believed that this was going to happen, and so fast – and only in 15 months.”
Thunberg is expected to participate in a UN Youth Climate Summit on Saturday and speak at the UN Climate Action Summit with global leaders on Monday.
“They have this opportunity to do something, and they should take that,” she said. “And otherwise, they should feel ashamed.”
The world has warmed about one degree Celsius (1.8 Fahrenheit) since before the
Industrial Revolution, and scientists have attributed more than 90 per cent of the increase to emissions of heat-trapping gases from fuel-burning and other human activity.
Scientists have warned that global warming will subject Earth to rising seas and more heat waves, droughts, powerful storms, flooding and other problems, and that some have already started manifesting themselves.
Climate change has made record-breaking heat temperature records twice as likely as record-setting cold temperatures over the past two decades in the contiguous U.S., according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data.
Nations around the world agreed at a 2015 summit in Paris to hold warming to less than two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) more than pre-industrial-era levels by the end of this century.
— with files from The Canadian Press
Strimbold sentencing hearing postponed
Citizen staff
A sentencing hearing for former Burns Lake mayor Luke Strimbold will be postponed.
Set to occur this Monday in Smithers will be adjourned to accommodate court scheduling issues, B.C. Prosecution Service spokesman Daniel McLaughlin said.
Counsel will appear in B.C. Supreme Court in the community to set a new date for the hearing.
In May, Strimbold pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual assault involving four boys who were under the age of 16. A pre-sentencing report and a psychological assessment were ordered.
A special prosecutor had previously approved 29 charges against Strimbold, including sexual interference and invitation to sexual touching, that were alleged to have involved six people who were all under the age of 16 at the time.
An indictment shows the assaults he pleaded guilty to occurred between May 2014 and August 2017.
In 2011, he became British Columbia’s
youngest elected mayor when he was elected in Burns Lake, a community of about 1,850 people 226 kilometres west of Prince George. In September 2016 and part way through his second term, he resigned and in March 2018, Burns Lake RCMP confirmed he had been charged with numerous counts of sexual assault and related offences. — with files from The Canadian Press
Mark NIELSEN Citizen staff mneilsen@pgcitizen.ca
Art exhibit showcases students’ work
Christine HINZMANN Citizen staff chinzmann@pgcitizen.ca
Local artist Wendy Framst has organized the Dancing Paint Brushes exhibit to showcase her student’s work at the main branch of the Prince George Public Library until Sept. 30.
There are a dozen artists showing a couple of pieces each during the exhibit. Framst said she knows publicly displaying their work is an important element to being an artist.
One student came to Framst many years ago and she is the one who inspired this show.
Charlice Hartl, 18, has always loved making art and first heard about Framst giving lessons from a family friend.
“Charlice came to me about six years ago and started to work with me and is a great artist and always has been,” Framst said, who is a water colour artist.
“As I was watching her progress through the year I knew I wanted to create an opportunity for my students to show their work. I didn’t want to be the only one to see the amazing things they were creating.”
And that’s how Framst got the idea to organize an exhibit for her students.
For Hartl, who is a College of New Caledonia student training to be an electrician, things clicked pretty quickly for her when she started her art lessons with Framst.
Hartl started drawing and painting with water colour and now she prefers working with oil.
“I think I like landscape for the most part,” Hartl said.
“I really like doing sunsets in oil, especially for the last two years, that’s what I’ve been stuck on.”
Hartl went to Vancouver Island recently and took pictures she uses for inspiration.
“And you also put a little bit of your own into it, so if you don’t like where that tree is in the picture, you just change it to what
you want,” Hartl said. For the art exhibit Hartl chose to submit two pieces, which are oil on acrylic but they are on black canvas to offer a dramatic contrast. One piece depicts daisies and the other depicts tulips.
Hartl is a loyal student of Framst’s because Framst is such a warm-hearted person, Hartl said.
“Wendy will get books to give to her students and she’s always looking for ways to improve her studio and her students’ studio
and she’s just very kind to all,” Hartl said.
“No one’s not a good enough artist for her. Everyone is welcome at her
The Dancing
can be seen at the main branch of the library until Sept. 30.
Johnny Reid bringing holiday cheer to CN Centre on Dec. 11
Citizen staff
Johnny Reid is bringing his My Kind of Christmas tour to CN Centre Dec. 11. The multi-platinum award-winning Canadian singer will release the Christmas EP on Oct. 25 and then tour the country with 23 stops to bring a little holiday cheer to his faithful fans. Known best to live audiences as an energetic stage performer,
Reid will perform a mix of original songs along with classics like Merry Christmas Everyone. Songs on the soon-to-be-released EP are Sounds Like Christmas, My Kind Of Christmas, Fa La La La La, All I want For Christmas and Merry Christmas Everyone. Tickets go on sale Sept. 27 and are available at TicketsNorth.ca. Check out the title track of the new EP at https://johnnyreid.lnk. to/MyKindofChristmas
studio.”
Paint Brushes exhibit
Charlice Hartl, student of artist Wendy Framst, stands next to her painting titled Colours of Spring II. The art exhibit in the Bob Harkins branch of the Prince George Public Library show cases the work of Framst student’s.
Johnny Reid hosts the Juno Awards in Winnipeg in 2014. Reid will bring his My Kind of Christmas tour to CN Centre on Dec. 11.
International Day of Peace
‘I
just want him back’
— from page 1
She thanked court staff for the work done to get the conviction. She expressed her disdain for Penner.
“I hate you,” she said.
She said her son helped her around her home and now she can’t leave the house without looking over her shoulder. She reports feeling anxiety, post traumatic stress and other negative health impacts. She added that she is scared of people and does not trust anyone.
“I miss my boy more and more every day,” Theresa said.
She explained that her family was close. Her son’s death caused fighting with family. She said she fought with her daughter as they grieved. She added that Adam had helped pick out their dog, whom now sleeps in his room and waits for him to come home. The dog reportedly smells the box that contains Adam’s ashes.
She added that she waits for Adam to come home as well.
Theresa told the court that she had lost money due to being unable to work. The loss of her son forced her on disability.
She pointed out that her son may have had some trouble with the law but overall was a good kid.
“My feelings are crushed,” she said. She called Penner a coward for falsely befriending her son, taking him to the old Castle Rock gravel pit northwest of Whitehorse and shooting him. She felt Adam was
capable of defending himself if Penner had faught fair.
She was happy that Penner would be going to jail as he was “no good to society.”
Catherine Cormack, Adam’s sister read her statement.
She said that Penner ruined her life and left her family lost as well as confused.
She described her brother as kind and loving, the type of person that would help anyone.
“You, Penner, took that away from me,” she said.
She too reports having post traumatic stress disorder as well as anxiety attacks. She has been put on different medications and is on disability as well.
She added that her brother did nothing wrong to deserve his fate.
She feels like she is in a nightmare.
“I just want him back,” she said.
She felt Penner had no conscience, is a psychopath and should not be released from prison.
“Roses are red, violets are black, I want my baby brother back,” she said closing her statement.
Brooker gave Penner a chance to speak. Penner declined.
Crown prosecutor Amy Porteous and Lemon were not able to comment on the results after court.
Lemon briefly said that everyone worked very hard to get to this point.
Defense lawyers André Ouellette and Kelly Labine spoke to media outside the court. Ouellette said the jury is never wrong.
“When a jury delivers a verdict, justice is done,” he said.
He said he followed Penner’s instructions on not calling him as a witness. He was not able to give further details due to attorney client privilege. Ouellette was not in a position to say if there would be an appeal. He explained that this would be up to Penner himself who has 30 days to make that decision.
“I don’t plan anything, Mr. Penner will decide that,” he said. He explained that there is always an aspect of any case that can be appealed. He pointed out that Brooker is a very careful and experienced judge. At this point, Ouellette was unsure if there was anything appealable. That said, he clarified that if someone looked at the transcript something may be found.
“I can’t say at this point,” he said. He has no word from Penner on how he feels about being convicted. He said Penner heard the evidence like anyone else.
He said the trial unfolded quicker than anticipated. He expected the trial to last until the end of September. That said, it still went well.
He is unsure if he would have done anything different. He is satisfied he and Labine conducted the case well.
After the verdict was reached, Cormack’s family and friends stood outside the courthouse holding signs and celebrating Penner’s conviction.
Truckers to face high fines for not chaining up
Commercial truckers will now face higher fines for not carrying chains when required, as well as not installing them during mandatory chain ups on B.C. highways.
Starting Oct. 1, drivers will be fined $196 for not carrying chains when and where required, and $598 for not installing chains during mandatory chain ups, up from $121 for either offence.
“The stricter fines support the enhanced chain-up regulations implemented last November to improve safety and reliability of B.C. highways during winter conditions,” the provincial government said in a statement.
“The fine increases were not implemented at that time, as the ministry wanted to provide the industry with sufficient time to adjust its practices to the new regulations.”
Online readers say the gov’t needs to oversee vaping
Citizen staff
During the last Citizen poll we asked “should the federal and provincial governments do more to oversee vaping?” It seems the majority of online readers who offered their vote say the government should do more to oversee vaping.
With 160 votes and 47 per cent voters said “yes, vaping is as bad or worse than cigarette smoking,” while next most popular with 98 votes and 29 per cent voters said “yes, the health costs are significant.”
Trailing with significantly less
votes with 57 votes and 17 per cent was “no, the health risks belong to the individuals and then with 23 votes and seven per cent voters said “no, there isn’t enough science to warrant more control.”
There was a total of 338 votes.
Remember this is not a scientific poll.
Next question is about the Justin Trudeau blackface controversy. We asked “will the photos of Justin Trudeau in blackface influence how you vote in the election?”
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Final Foodie Friday
Musician Curtis Abriel entertains the crowd in Wood Innovation Square on Fifth Avenue at the last Foodie Friday of the year Friday.
Previous regulations only required vehicles over 27,000 kilograms to carry and use traction devices, with only one wheel needing chains during winter conditions and mandatory chain ups.
The new, more all-encompassing enhancements clarify requirements for all commercial vehicles over 5,000 kilograms:
• Vehicles with licensed gross vehicle weights less than 11,794 kilograms, like buses or five-ton trucks, must use chains on a minimum of two tires and can use steel chains, cable chains, automatic chains, socks or wheel sanders if not equipped with winter tires.
• Vehicles with licensed gross vehicle weights of 11,794 kilograms or more must use steel chains.
The number of tires needing chains ranges from a minimum of two tires for vehicles without a trailer, to six tires on some larger and more-demanding configurations.
On the International Day of Peace on Friday, the United Nations flag was raised at city hall. Promoting peace is one of the six areas of focus for Rotary International. Local Rotarians on hand for the occasion were Mayor Lyn Hall, Jessica Fisher, Katherine Carlson and Coun. Garth Frizzell.
Citizen staff
Pipeline plan divides First Nations
Amanda COLETTA
Special To The Washington Post
When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he was approving the expansion of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline, Leah George-Wilson prepared for a fight.
George-Wilson, chief of the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation in Vancouver, said the $5.5 billion expansion will endanger the ecosystems of the inlet at the foot of her reserve. She’s challenging Trudeau’s decision in court.
Some 400 km northeast, Chief Michael LeBourdais of the Whispering Pines/Clinton Indian Band near Kamloops, was also following the government’s decision. Not because he opposes the pipeline. He wants to buy it.
LeBourdais leads the Western Indigenous Pipeline Group, one of several indigenous-led coalitions vying for a stake in the project. The groups argue that revenue from the pipeline, which carries crude oil from the Alberta tar sands to the British Columbia coast, could alleviate poverty in their communities, and ownership would give them a voice in decisions about environmental protections.
“We’ve been shut out of the economy since Canada was created,” LeBourdais said.
He wants to buy a stake of at least 51 per cent in the project and split the spoils with the Indigenous groups directly along the pipeline route. By some estimates, the expanded pipeline, used at full capacity, could generate more than $1 billion in annual revenue for its owners.
Indigenous ownership could be “a game-changer,” said Ken Coates, a professor of public policy at the University of Saskatchewan. Indigenous groups hold full or partial stakes in oil storage tanks and hydroelectric dams. But a controlling stake in a project the size of Trans Mountain, Coates said, would be unprecedented.
“This is actually the first time in Canadian history that they have the chance to participate in a major way and in an ongoing way in the kind of prosperity that Canadians take for granted,” he said.
Canada in recent years has struggled to complete major energy projects such as pipelines, in part because they tend to draw opposition from Indigenous groups.
The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is no different: It has touched off an interprovincial feud, exacerbated the ongoing antagonism between the energy sector and environmentalists, and divided indigenous groups.
For Trudeau, it has posed a major headache ahead of a tough federal election in October. The Liberal leader has promised to fight climate change, but fossil fuel extraction remains a pillar of the Canadian economy.
Canada is the world’s sixth largest energy producer and its fifth largest net exporter, according to its natural resources agency. The energy industry generated $174 billion in 2018, or 11.1 per cent of nominal gross domestic product; it employed 269,000 people directly and supported more than 550,500 indirectly. (The numbers include all energy sources, not just fossil fuels.)
Trudeau initially approved the pipeline expansion in 2016, but a federal appeals court soon annulled the decision, saying the government had failed to properly consult with indigenous people or consider the impact of increased tanker traffic on Pacific waters.
With the expansion in legal and political limbo, the Trudeau government bought the pipeline from Texas-based Kinder Morgan in 2018 for $3.4 billion. It intends to auction it back to the private sector once it has been “de-risked.”
“We will divest the Trans Mountain entities to a new owner or owners in a manner and at a time that protects the public interest, including the government’s investment,” said Pierre-Olivier Herbert, a finance ministry spokesman.
The prime minister approved the project again in June, saying it was crucial for alleviating a pipeline shortage that has slowed the flow of Alberta crude to market. That kicked off a fresh round of protests and legal challenges.
Even among indigenous groups, the project has opened divisions – between pro- and anti-pipeline groups, but also between the Indigenous-led coalitions clamoring for a stake in the project.
A federal appeals court said
Thursday it would hear six of those challenges, further delaying the project.
“We have left Indians and right Indians,” LeBourdais said. “It’s like politics anywhere.”
LeBourdais wanted to buy a stake in the project long before Trudeau approved it in 2016.
“(Government officials) were saying, ‘Woah, woah, slow down.’” he said. “I said, ‘No, no, this is a race.’
“Look what happened. Now we have all these other pretenders coming up.”
Delbert Wapass, executive chairman and founder of the rival Project Reconciliation group, said the opportunity is “almost too good to be true” – so much so that his group submitted a preliminary proposal to the federal government, which is not yet accepting bids, earlier this summer.
“If you’re no longer stuck managing poverty, now you’ve moved the needle where you’re starting to manage wealth,” said Wapass, the former chief of Saskatchewan’s Thunderchild First Nation.
His group wants to buy a 51 per cent stake in the existing pipeline and the expansion project, a $5.2 billion acquisition that would be financed by one of Canada’s big banks, with the debt backed by oil-shipping contracts.
About 20 per cent of the proceeds from the pipeline would be disbursed to the some 340 Indigenous groups in Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia who can join the project, he said; those groups closer to the pipeline route would get larger cuts.
The rest would go into an Indigenous sovereign wealth fund.
LeBourdais opposes the Project Reconciliation bid. He said he doesn’t think it should be open to groups in Saskatchewan or those not directly along the pipeline’s route because “they have nothing to risk.”
Tony Alexis, the co-chair of the Iron Coalition, another group with its sights on the pipeline, said indigenous ownership could serve as a model for future projects. But he cautioned against “taking a step too quickly.”
His sense from conversations with federal officials is that they want all of the Indigenous-led coalitions to come together and submit a single bid, so they don’t have to choose among several Indigenous-led proposals.
Trudeau said last month the government is “very interested in seeing indigenous partnership and indigenous ownership, potentially, of this pipeline” but is proceeding in a “measured way.”
Herbert said the finance ministry has launched a “formal engagement process” to “actively seek input from indigenous groups on ways that they could benefit.”
“It is important that indigenous communities have an opportunity for meaningful economic participation while we hold to our commitment of investing in a way that benefits all Canadians, and that operates the project on a commercial basis,” he said.
A federal official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations confirmed that the government has received “documentation” from Wapass’s group.
“Project Reconciliation is obviously very organized and has
built some type of capacity,” the official said. “But we don’t think that because they have built that capacity, the resources necessary to have a very detailed plan or the financial backing that they should have priority over groups that are maybe less organized.”
The official said it was too soon to say when the bidding process would open.
George-Wilson said Indigenous ownership of the pipeline makes the project no more palatable.
“We have looked closely at the economics of the project and in reality, in our view, there’s a lot of risk and uncertainty facing whomever owns it,” she said.
The Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs expressed similar concerns before Trudeau approved the project.
“There are good reasons why Kinder Morgan chose to walk away from this project and you should carefully consider them before investing your Nation’s money,” the chiefs wrote to Trudeau in April.
Wapass is undeterred.
“I respect their position,” he said. “But let’s be honest. I don’t see them driving Teslas.”
A federal appeals court said Thursday it would hear six challenges to the pipeline, further delaying the project. They include George-Wilson’s; she argues that the government still hasn’t adequately consulted with indigenous groups.
Coates said the Trudeau government would be “naive” to think indigenous ownership would reduce opposition to the project or stave off criticism from environmentalists in an election year.
Trudeau only one in dark makeup at 2001 party, attendee says
Laura KANE The Canadian Press
VANCOUVER — A man who attended an “Arabian Nights” gala held by a private school in Vancouver says no one besides Justin Trudeau attended in skindarkening makeup – but no one else was dressed as Aladdin, either.
Wayne Hamill went to the 2001 party because his kids were West Point Grey Academy students and he said the future Liberal leader’s costume was “great” and in keeping with the theme.
Other attendees, including other white people, were dressed as belly dancers or wearing saris or veils, Hamill said, adding he doesn’t recall anyone being offended by Trudeau’s costume or makeup.
“He didn’t do anything out of the ordinary. That’s what he did. He was a drama teacher,” said Hamill, who is white.
“It’s a costume and it was in the context of the theme of the party.”
Trudeau has apologized after photographs from the event surfaced along with other images of him made up in brownface or blackface. He said he had a blind spot because of his privilege and he deeply regrets behaviour he now recognizes as racist.
Numerous Canadians of colour, including NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Indigenous federal candidates, have said Trudeau’s use of dark face paint is hurtful and insulting.
Trudeau said Friday he would call Singh to personally apologize.
West Point Grey Academy released a statement Thursday saying its 2001 gala was organized by a culturally diverse group of parent volunteers and was intended to be celebratory and respectful. However, it said, it recognizes that cultural sensitivities have evolved over the past 18 years.
Another party attendee who was photographed with Trudeau, Sunny
NEWS IN BRIEF
B.C. First Nation signs land deal
CAMPBELL RIVER (CP) — A First Nation has signed an agreement that will return over 3,000 hectares of land after it has been in treaty negotiations for more than two decades. The land on the east coast of Vancouver Island will be returned to the We Wai Kai Nation, which has about 1,150 members in the Campbell River and Quadra Island areas. The land that is being returned under the incremental treaty agreement is on its territory around Campbell Lake. Chief Brian Assu says the First Nation is building a forestry industry and owning and managing private land is important as it develops its economy. The We Wai Kai and federal and provincial governments moved to the fifth stage of the six stage treaty process last month. The federal and provincial governments announced earlier this year that Aboriginal rights could not be extinguished or surrendered in the treaty process. Millions of dollars in expenses and loans accumulated by First Nations in the treaty process were also forgiven.
Two charged in Williams Lake killing
WILLIAMS LAKE (CP) — Two men have been charged with first-degree murder following
He didn’t do anything out of the ordinary. That’s what he did. He was a drama teacher. It’s a costume and it was in the context of the theme of the party.
— Wayne Hamill
Khurana, a turban-wearing Sikh, said Thursday he didn’t view the costume as racist and the school had no tolerance for discrimination.
Hamill, a Vancouver real estate agent, said he’s not a Trudeau supporter but he believes the uproar is unfair. He never once, over the years, thought of coming forward with a yearbook photo to “expose” Trudeau for his costume at the event, he said.
“Expose him for what? For being a good costume-dresser?” he said.
“It’s so taken out of context. It’s applying today’s standards to yesterday’s actions... At the time, it wasn’t as much of an issue to do that.”
He said Trudeau, who was 29 at the time, was a very expressive, enthusiastic and friendly teacher. Hamill also said the student population was diverse and included kids of South Asian, Middle Eastern, East Asian and First Nations descent.
Asked whether Trudeau’s costume was the most elaborate, Hamill replied, “If there was a prize for best costume, he probably would have won.”
Trudeau wrote in his 2014 memoir, Common Ground, that teaching at West Point Grey gave him new insights into the “privileged lives” of private-school students that he didn’t glean from his
the death of a man from British Columbia’s southern Interior.
The RCMP says the body of 34-year-old Branton Regner was recovered from the Fraser River near Williams Lake on Aug. 27, just over two weeks after he was reported missing following an alleged incident on the Rudy Johnson Bridge. An RCMP statement says 25-year-old Jayson Gilbert and 23-year-old Michael Drynock were charged with murder Wednesday. Police say Gilbert and Drynock also face single counts of attempted murder and kidnapping. They are scheduled to appear in provincial court in Williams Lake on all the charges Sept. 25.
Horgan to discuss state of logging road site after bus crash
VICTORIA (CP) — Premier John Horgan is expected to meet with Indigenous leaders on Vancouver Island next week to discuss the state of a treacherous logging road where two students died in a bus crash. Horgan says he will meet with members of the Huu-ay-aht First Nations on Tuesday. Huu-ay-aht Chief Robert Dennis says his nation has long been seeking upgrades to the privately owned gravel road that is the only vehicle access between Port Alberni and Huuay-aht communities in Bamfield. The route is also the only one to the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre – the destination of a bus carrying 45 University of Victoria students that crashed last Friday, killing two passengers.
own advantaged upbringing.
“Whenever I discuss the problem of income inequality in our society, I think about the children and their families I met when teaching at that school. The parents I encountered at parent-teacher nights were successful, hard-working people, but their wealth gave some of them an excessive sense of entitlement,” he wrote.
“And many of the students had little exposure to or understanding of the larger society around them or the challenges faced by ordinary people.”
He acknowledged he knew many wealthy kids growing up and had plenty of advantages himself, including the opportunity to travel with his father, but he said Pierre Trudeau never spoke of wealth as being the ultimate goal in life.
Trudeau wrote that he worked at the school for two-and-a-half years, mostly teaching French and math, but occasionally other subjects including drama, creative writing and a Grade 12 law class.
While he emphasized that overall he loved his time at West Point Grey, he wrote that occasionally his unorthodox teaching methods put him at odds with the school’s more traditionalist administrators.
He said the incident that led to his departure involved a student who regularly got in trouble for defying the school’s dress code by wearing loose ties and dangling a chain from his belt. When the boy complained to him that the girls got away with breaking the dress code, Trudeau urged him to write about it in the school newspaper.
The administration disciplined the student for “lacking respect” and discontinued the newspaper, Trudeau wrote.
The incident convinced him that West Point Grey “was not the best fit for me as a teacher, nor I for them,” he wrote.
“Shortly after, I took a teaching position in the Vancouver public school system.”
Trump’s surprise over blackface incidents highlights global response to Trudeau
Stephanie LEVITZ The Canadian Press OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau pushed aside Friday global mockery of his decisions years ago to dress in blackface, saying he’s focused on apologizing to Canadians – including his rival, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. But images of the three times he chose to put on black- or brownface for costume events continued to flash around the world, reaching even the White House.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s reaction summed up how the incidents have surprised people accustomed to seeing Trudeau as a champion of inclusivity and diversity, raising questions about whether that brand is forever tarnished.
“I was hoping I wouldn’t be asked that question. ... Justin. I’m surprised and I was more surprised when I saw the number of times and I’ve always had a good relationship with Justin. I just don’t know what to tell you. I was surprised by it, actually,” Trump said.
Trudeau apologized profusely for the third day in a row for the incidents – one from his teens, one from his time as a whitewater rafting guide in his 20s and one when he was a teacher at a Vancouver private school. He said they were mistakes, and he did not understand at the time how racist wearing black- or brownface is.
Former Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne, a Liberal, said she’s worried that the apology will fall on deaf ears around the world.
“People in other countries don’t have the benefit or the access or the interest in, quite frankly, the day-to-day machinations of Canadian politics so they don’t know him as well as we do,” she said.
“So they kind of had him on this pedestal, which was unrealistic and ridiculous, and now he’s fallen off that pedestal and so there’s almost even more of an oversimplification on the international stage: he was perfect and now he’s the devil.”
Since the first photo emerged Wednesday night, Trudeau has been calling members of his cabinet, candidates and community leaders to try to make amends. In turn, all day Thursday, many of them were speaking out publicly, if a tad cautiously, in support of their leader.
On Friday, the day after Trudeau was the butt of late-night TV jokes in the U.S. and shocked headlines around the world, Chrystia Freeland took a turn.
As Trudeau’s foreign affairs minister, she has had the ears of many influential leaders and their aides around the globe.
Freeland said she was troubled and disappointed by the images, calling racism and intolerance unacceptable.
But she said she accepts his apology and commitment to do better.
“The prime minister continues to have my full and unwavering support,” she said in the statement posted to Twitter.
CP PHOTO
Liberal leader Justin Trudeau crosses the street on his way to make a policy announcement in Toronto on Friday.
Gov’t playing beetle games
What do the spruce trees of northern B.C. and the pacific salmon at Big Bar in the Fraser River have in common? Plenty. Both contribute big time to our provincial and local economies; both are integral to local ecosystems in which they inhabit; and both are in serious peril. And what don’t these same spruce trees and salmon have in common, other than the obvious differences between a tree and a fish?
A government that cares about the survival of both.
If you have driven through the Pine Pass the past two summers, you will have noticed all the red trees between Mt. Lemoray and Mackenzie Junction. If you used to drive this same road a few years back, you would have seen a similar red scene, just in slightly different places.
During the 1990s and 2000s, mountain pine beetle decimated our pine forests, on both sides of the Rockies.
This infestation started in Tweedsmuir Park and spread east across B.C. and into Alberta killing huge swathes of pine forests.
We watched as our once green forests turned various shades of red, then grey, which resulted in many logging cut blocks as government and forest companies tried
to stop the spread and salvage some value from our pine forests before they rotted.
Today, the mountain pine beetle is pretty much a pest of the past. They are still out there, just not enough pine trees for them to dine on and sustain an epidemic population.
Today, we have another pest, doing the same type of thing all over again, and it is called the spruce bark beetle. This beetle does to spruce trees what mountain pine beetles did to pine trees. A few thousand of these little critters all decide, at the same time, to attack one tree, and by doing that, they overwhelm that poor tree’s defences. And they just love the biggest and oldest spruce trees. The beetles are now at epidemic proportions in our mountain forests and that is what you see in areas like the Pine Pass. I’m told it is the same in the upper reaches of the Carbon, Moberly, Sukunka, and Lemoray valleys, as this is where many of our large, old spruce trees reside. Millions of these spruce trees are now dead or dying. This is where the comparison to salmon comes in. Most have likely heard about the big rock slide at Big Bar, and how this natural event has made it very difficult for migrating salmon to swim past. You also probably heard from the many local government and Indigenous community leaders imploring government to do something
about this, and following that, government spending millions of dollars to airlift salmon by the slide to ensure their survival (i.e. sparing no expense).
We can all agree that doing something about the salmon is good, as it will help sustain our future economy and current ecosystems. But what about our spruce trees? Shouldn’t government be doing something about this?
What you don’t see, and likely won’t, is any government action to stop this invasion. And quite to the contrary, what you do see is government implementing polices that prevent anyone from doing anything about this. The reality is our current government doesn’t wish to do anything about this epidemic as these little beetles are doing exactly what they wish for. The work of these little beetles fits right into governments’ long-term plans for our forests and forest economy. These areas where the spruce bark beetle are killing our spruce trees are the exact same areas our government wishes to turn into parks, protected areas or areas for caribou to roam, free from logging and free from those evil cut blocks.
They have a very simple strategy. It is called stall and wait. While our government investigates the implications of placing these large areas of spruce forests as off limits for industrial purposes, the beetles will soon render them uneconomic for the
Look at real racism
I am an Indigenous personand I have a question for the editor of Time magazine. Do you think releasing this “party” photo during an election was responsible? Should Time be called upon to answer in a court of law and not the court of public opinion to justify the release of this photo where intent was to be damaging, malicious and slanderous to a campaigning political party leader.
I am not voting Liberal, not because of a malicious photo, but I think there are much more important issues.
I hope Canadians are smart enough to judge Justin Trudeau for his actions as prime minister these past four years and not as an immature 20-something dressing up as a Disney character at a theme gala.
When our media reporting outlets grab on to slanderous, malicious, damaging reporting, this will have future consequences for brilliant young people raised with Facebook, Twitter and Instagram because they behaved like many young people without worldly experiences.
Time is guilty of raising the sensitivity bar on racism and diminishing or excusing acts of racism which is certainly not immature young people dressing up in costume.
We have a changing workplace with the generation of people raised with social media and I think it is their judgment that should be questioned.
Resurrecting 20 year old party pictures is going to impact
whether people enter into public life, distract from important issue, and harm unintended victims.
Stick to fact and not fantasy in costume. Did Time give any consideration how Trudeau’s children would view the photo, whether they will have endure the fallout of the irresponsibility of an adult, and if he is re-elected what will the global damage be, where it wasn’t hashed out in our country, on our streets, call-in shows, letters to editors of papers, and of course the gossip thread of Facebook, Twitter and other unfiltered damaging platforms.
Reporting today seems to be measured by the Facebook and President Trump Twitter feeds and a new generation of workers with a limited viewing platform and lack of context.
You’re approving this as the editor so you must have known this would be damaging publicly but more importantly to use no sensitivity to a man with a young family by resurrecting the actions of young immature youth who was at a party is negligent and potentially abusive to his children if they are subjected to questioning at school. This kind of reporting should disturb parents of young children who have to insulate children from adults who lack judgment and filters of stories that are not newsworthy, unless you choose to be on social media.
I would love to change the channel and hold legitimate news outlets accountable for the fallout of this type of reporting and have the head of these organizations explain the true intent.
From a person who lived through the worst racism in my ancestors’ country through the 1960s, you just diminished what true racism looks like by putting it in a party setting. By the way, next time one of our communities gifts a traditional blanket or dress, don’t dare wear it because it could be interpreted as racism.
Jo-Anne Berezanski
Lheidli T’enneh First Nation
Questionable paving
A new way of keeping our pavement in good shape - how about we pave it every second week?
A huge section of the Hart Highway was paved about two weeks ago, only to be ripped up and ready for repaving today.
There must be a good explanation for this, but I have never seen it before. Oh well, it seems there’s always something new out there.
Can anyone let me in on this costly activity?
B. Rosin Prince George
Cold water on idea
One of the more laudible promises by the Green Party on the campaign trail is the weaning off of fossil fuels by 2030. My environmentalist friends say that’s great but to do so, we would have to create two and a half to three more Site C dams to meet the growing demand for electricity. I wonder what water source they plan on diverting and damming to accomplish said goal.
Doug Strachan
Prince George
forest industry, as it is these same spruce trees that makes them so valuable. Keep the loggers out and in a couple of years government will be able to announce that the forest industry has no real reason to go into these areas, as there are no commercially valuable trees left to harvest.
The problem is we are told these same spruce trees play an important role in caribou survival. When the snows are deep, caribou come off the mountain tops to feed on lichens that grow on these same trees. As these spruce trees die, they lose their ability to support lichens. And, in a few short years, 100 per cenrt of these dead spruce trees will fall down, creating such a tangle it will be a few generations before these habitats are suitable for caribou once again.
And then what will government say?
Well, we tried, but the beetles ate the trees? It’s sad that another mill closes in our forest-dependent communities. Not because of us, just not enough trees to go around. Is there any hope? Not with this government, and without Indigenous communities also insisting it to do something about these spruce bark beetles, nothing will happen.
A simple, flat earth view: this is what happens to communities that think differently and have different values than the sitting government. This is pure politics. —
John.
The bloom is off the rose
If there is a visceral Liberal fear in this election campaign, it resembles the Conservative slogan about the prime minister: Not As Advertised. The Conservatives believe they can persuade Canadians that the prime minister is duplicitous or at least hypocritical about feminism, families and First Nations. What they didn’t bank on was his sudden vulnerability on race and that they needn’t lift a finger to effect it.
The publication by Time magazine of a repugnant 2001 photo from Justin Trudeau’s time as a teacher at West Point Grey Academy in Vancouver – him grinning in brownface and turban, hand slung over a woman’s chest – implodes a global political trademark that in many ways had made Canada proud. In the hours since, other evidence surfaced of immense concern.
On a partisan level, if Canadians in even small numbers – say, three to five percentage points – swing to the Tories from the Grits, there is no second Trudeau term. The Liberals are the Trudeau brand. The party cannot be elected on the basis of the supporting cast. It came to power, and it would depart, on the singular force, or its diminution, of Trudeau’s persona.
On a broader level, this episode stands to lay bare our pretensions about our power dynamics in a multicultural milieu and our place on the international stage. If our prime minister cannot be trusted to say who he is, how can our country lay any claim to say what it is?
The most formidable election campaign dilemma in memory brings us into uncharted Canadian territory, and it would be premature to guess its impact. It surely won’t ever be lemonade made from lemons.
What is clear is that the prime minister will try what he can –which is not a whole lot – to accept responsibility for his stupidity. He will need to be more difficult on himself and less difficult on others if he believes that what he did is forgivable. Trouble is, his positioning as a public figure has been premised on a high road we now can see was not his path travelled.
It’s not that this revelation –and others that have popped up, including an extraordinary video – would ever have been news to him. What he had to know, well before he tried to explain away his mistake, was that this would crush his currency and credibility. This
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must just be totally into his craw. I recall that we were gobsmacked as British Columbians when, as BC NDP leader, Adrian Dix said in his election debate with Christy Clark that he was “young” when he doctored a government document – young, meaning 35 at the time. Well, Trudeau was 29, not exactly a pup, either. He was a professionally trained teacher, presumably sensitized in matters of race and gender – and yes, being a role model for young people. If we can get past our initial skepticism and accept he did not recognize his racism in earlier times, he might have recognized later how these errors waiting in the wings would disqualify him from contemporary politics. Knowing what he knew was out there, one might assume it would have at least tempered his incessant sanctimony. And if he was this thirsty for power and wanted to proceed into public life, he might have recognized the wisdom of proactively admitting his foolhardiness.
But no, he stayed silent as episodes lingered. It staggers the mind that someone might think they would never surface, but there you have our prime minister. There, too, you have the Conservatives and their awfully on-the-nose slogan.
That being said, as a 2014 mayoralty candidate I experienced the extraordinary impact of apology. With his campaign slipping in the final week before the vote, the mayor offered a wide-ranging apology. Overnight, we watched polls shift. Many credited his contrition with his retained office. Trudeau issues apologies more often than Canada Post issues stamps, and he has no choice but to hope this one sticks. But there is a different dynamic here, in that it rattles his truest believers – his supporters, his caucus, his cabinet, even his international admirers – and disabuses his public and global identity. The door will be open to a leadership challenge. The revealed Trudeau now must accept we will never again see him the way he would wish. The leader who pledged to do politics differently now must pivot to find a path to survival.
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Meet the gay Indigenous winners of Amazing Race Canada
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Anthony Johnson and James Makokis docked at Rosseau Lake College in Ontario and spotted a pile of orange wooden pieces on a white tarp. As competitors on Canada’s version of The Amazing Race, to fulfill their next challenge they had to assemble an eightfoot-tall Muskoka chair. Makokis is the type to screw things on backward, but Johnson used to build Ikea furniture as a university side hustle. So Makokis followed his husband’s lead as Johnson went to work with a power drill.
Later, Makokis told the cameras, “Anthony does home renovations. He’s so butch,” his voice sounding proud and enamored.
The pair completed the task, and the following two, on their way to being crowned victors of the show’s seventh season. Sure, a round-the-world trip, two new Chevrolet Blazers and $250,000 are winnings to celebrate. But for them, the biggest perk was the show’s national platform. It was a chance for the country – and the world – to witness a bold example of a gay, Indigenous couple, the first to compete on the show. The prevalence of LGBTQ relationships on reality TV has grown in recent years, most notably with the Bachelor franchise featuring its first same-sex engagement (of Demi Burnett and Kristian Haggerty).
Johnson is a project consultant hailing from the Navajo Nation in Arizona. Makokis is a family physician specializing in transgender care from Alberta’s Saddle Lake Cree Nation. They both identify as two-spirit, an umbrella term that Indigenous people use to describe people in their communities who are gender-nonconforming. “We jump between ‘male’ roles and ‘female’ roles,” Johnson said. “We just do what needs to be done so that life doesn’t stall.”
Faced with a gantlet of activities, including digging for clams, getting remote-control robots through a maze and racing on Flyboards (a type of hoverboard), the duo says that willingness to do what was required gave them their edge. The final challenge was to construct an irrigation system. Again,
Johnson took the reins. “When you grow up on the (reservation), if you don’t know how to do it, it doesn’t get done,” Johnson said. “We had to irrigate our cornfields, and we didn’t have running water.”
They named themselves Team Ahkameyimok, spotlighting the Nehiyawewin that means “never give up.” They sported colourful clothing as they traversed six provinces, one territory, 14 cities and more than 20,000 kilometres, attire loaded with LGBTQ and environmental symbols. Their red, knee-length skirts sewn with rainbow ribbons stood out amid the dry-fit crew necks and tights other competitors wore. The skirts also represented missing and murdered Indigenous women, Johnson said, as well as transgen-
der and two-spirit people. In one episode, they donned blue T-shirts proclaiming “Water Is Life.” They met in a two-spirit Facebook group.
A moderator shared an Out magazine article about the Montana Two Spirit Society featuring a photo of Makokis, and Johnson was intrigued.
He contacted Makokis while Makokis was on a book tour around Australia. Five hours flew by as they talked over the phone, Makokis on a white-sand beach in Fiji, Johnson in his exposed-brick Brooklyn apartment.
Makokis later visited Johnson in New York City, where they biked, grabbed dinner in Little Italy and saw the Brooklyn Bridge.
The two are used to being in the spotlight: They had their wedding
Brittany Howard shines on her new solo album
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Solo projects can be hit or miss for artists looking to break from a band. For some, their newfound creative independence allows them to hit their stride. For others (even rock legend Mick Jagger), they seem to function better as part of a collective effort. Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes falls into the former category. Her personality and songwriting shine through on Jaime, the singer and guitarist’s 11-track solo debut.
Howard doesn’t play it safe on Jaime. She experiments with musical styles more than she typically has in her work with the Shakes. While Alabama Shakes adhere to a more classic rock sound, Howard brings in gospel, lo-fi and funk influences on Jaime. In her subject matter, she also doesn’t pull any punches, tackling religion in He Loves Me and race in Goat Head. Even seemingly simple songs, such as Georgia, carry weight. In a world where lesbian love songs are a rarity in the mainstream, this tender track feels both powerful and vulnerable. He Loves Me samples church sermons as Howard sings, “I don’t go to church any-
more.” The song confronts the dissonance between religious teachings and progressive lifestyles head on. “I know He still loves me when I’m smoking blunts/ Loves me when I’m drinking too much,” she sings. Then later, “He doesn’t judge me.” Just as Howard brings to light the gray area of religion in He Loves Me, she does the same with race in Goat Head. The song gives a personal account of her experience as a child born to a white mother and a black father. She learns that her father’s car was vandalized -someone not only slashed his tires, but put a goat’s head in the back. The track starts with a chilled-out beat, not introducing the shocking imagery of the goat head until the song is two minutes into its three-minute runtime. The image is meant to jolt listeners and shed light to a further point – conversations on race can’t be painted into a pretty picture when the underlying history reflects a grotesque past. She not only alludes to this past, but her own struggle with identity. Howard has rewarded audiences with her honesty, proving that she stands both within her band and on her own. She’s playing the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver on Nov. 19.
in the middle of running the 2017 Vancouver Marathon, staging the ceremony on English Bay Beach before finishing the race as a married couple.
Their resilience and trust in one another carried them through the tougher aspects of the race: chronic stress, restlessness, the selfish desire to take ownership of a task.
They each had to learn when to fall back and let the other shine, or at least try their best, Makokis said.
When they crossed the finish line, social media erupted with cheers. Johnson and Makokis were fan favourites, beloved for their wholesome personalities, bubbly humour and inspiring messages.
Their advocacy made them a lightning rod for praise and hope.
They were not deterred by the viewers who weren’t fans of their advocacy and lobbed dismissive comments such as “Just run the race” or “Why does this need to be political?” The show was an opportunity to showcase diversity in front of millions, ideal for a couple always ready to represent their identities, Johnson said.
“We’re born with status numbers,” Makokis said. “Our existences are political.”
So their work continues. The prize money will go toward dreams yet realized, like the cultural healing centre in Kehewin Cree Nation they want to create.
Until then?
“Our last challenge is to get on Ellen!” Johnson said, citing the couple’s favorite daytime talk show.
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James Makokis and Anthony Johnson build a massive Muskoka chair in an episode of The Amazing Race Canada.
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In this 2017 file photo, Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes performs at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans.
London’s book shops worth a visit
Michael HINGSTON
Special To The Washington Post
The first time I went to London, I asked a friend who lived there for bookstore recommendations.
“Well,” he said with a pause, “that depends. What kind?” I was too embarrassed to admit I didn’t realize I had to specify. But given that I was in the centre of the Englishspeaking literary world, it was an entirely reasonable question. That sense of overload returned immediately on a recent trip back to the city, but this time I was better prepared for the depth and breadth of London’s literary marketplace.
Looking for a first edition of Brideshead Revisited? No problem. How about a medieval map? You can find that, too. Want to pick up a stack of recent paperbacks – from inside a boat? Step right this way (and mind your head). No matter your interests, or your budget, London has a bookshop for you.
Daunt Books
Located a short walk from the Baker Street tube station, the original branch of this travelfocused chain greets you with an impeccably chosen selection of new fiction and nonfiction (including the most recent offerings from its publishing arm, Daunt Books Publishing). But the real allure is at the back. That’s where the store opens up into three full stories of books, organized not by genre, but by country – meaning Javier Marías’s novels sit unusually but comfortably alongside Lonely Planet Spain. With wooden banisters, skylights and all-around Edwardian charm, it’s also one of the most photogenic bookshops in the city.
Any Amount of Books
If I had to name a used bookstore that would appeal to anyone, the first place that comes to mind is Any Amount of Books. This shop is one of the few remaining on the booksellers’ row immortalized in Helene Hanff’s 1970 novel 84, Charing Cross Road (that address is now a McDonald’s), and it’s a winning jumble of genres, formats and price points. Big-game hunters can browse the store’s antiquarian titles, while those looking for quantity will be drawn to the eclectic and constantly updated sales rack out front. Most shoppers, however, will be happy to browse the walls of general-interest titles inside – but if you have something else to do that day, you might want to set a timer, lest you accidentally spend all day there.
Foyles
This London institution, once infamous for its maddeningly archaic business practices (titles were barely organized and there were no cash registers), has in recent years reinvented itself as a
of which is available at the store on Lamb’s Conduit Street – and each arranged, to my delight, in numerical order. Staff members work both sides of the business, and their inside knowledge of the stock means they are unusually skilled at handselling. I asked whether they had any good novels about London and was being rung up for a copy of Norah Hoult’s There Were No Windows, from 1944, in a matter of seconds.
Gay’s the Word
thoroughly modern bookselling chain. Nowhere is that newfound sleekness more on display than the five-story flagship shop on Charing Cross Road. It’s thoroughly stocked, clearly and intuitively organized, and even has a dedicated cafe on the top floor, which is perhaps why the new incarnation also feels a bit lacking in personality. More adventurous book lovers will want to get their kicks elsewhere, but if you need to grab a self-help book with an expletive in the title, or a Good Grammar Is Sexy tote bag, then Foyles is undoubtedly the place to go.
Peter Ellis Bookseller
Did you know that in the Harry Potterverse, the magical Diagon Alley is accessed via an abandoned-looking pub just off Charing Cross Road? The booksellers of the real-life Cecil Court do, if only because the alleyway in front of their shops is frequently clogged with tour groups learning that fact via megaphone. Once you weave your way through, however, an excellent assortment of cozy, higher-end bookshops awaits – including Peter Ellis, an old-school antiquarian bookseller who specializes in modern first editions. If your favorite book was published in the 20th century, here’s the place to treat yourself to that pristine copy you’ve always dreamed of.
Gosh! Comics
It’s fitting that there’s a BatSignal in front of Gosh!, as comics fans from all over the city will find themselves drawn to a graphicnovel selection that shows off just about everything the medium has to offer. The shop’s aesthetic is spare and understated, but the stock is not: each table and bookcase is piled with titles of all sizes, formats and colors. You’ll find traditional superhero fare here (including key creator sections for luminaries such as Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman), but also a large selection of children’s comics, an
entire wall of indie and smallpress titles, and a general fiction section – the latter yet another compelling argument that the genre has long since transcended the funny pages.
Persephone Books
This shop does double duty not only as a charming retail outlet, but also as the office space for the publisher of the same name, which has been bringing neglected titles from mostly mid-century female authors back into print since 1999. At this point, Persephone’s backlist runs to more than 130 titles, each
While North Americans are often familiar with Charing Cross Road’s literary reputation, the nearby districts of Bloomsbury and Saint Pancras are home to their own excellent cluster of bookshops. Start your visit here, at Britain’s oldest LGBT+ bookstore, which has been around since 1979. Gay’s the Word has enough stock that you might mistake it for a generalinterest shop, and it has a particularly strong selection of queer history and politics. (Though its fiction is nothing to sniff at, either: author Sarah Waters has called Gay’s the Word “Britain’s best outlet for lesbian, gay and transinterest books.”) The shop has also long been a hub for London’s larger LGBT+ community, with a busy bulletin board, a range of instore events and discussions, and even a mini-exhibit of queer pins from Paud Hegarty, a former store manager and gay activist who died in 2000.
Skoob Books
Just around the corner from Gay’s the Word is the staircase down to Skoob Books (get it?), an underground trove of more than 50,000 secondhand titles at hard-to-beat prices. At Skoob, the element of surprise is key, which is why the store is full of nooks and crannies to scour and get lost browsing in. The store boasts a wide range of nonfiction, including philosophy, history, politics and science, and its fiction selection includes the siren’s call that is entire bookcases of orange and black Penguin Classics. The lowhanging pipes and heating ducts heighten the feeling you’re about to unearth something special.
Word on the Water
It might sound like a gimmick – and the ambiance of Regent’s Canal doesn’t hurt – but this floating, century-old Dutch barge is a legitimate secondhand bookshop. Its stock ranges from classics to photography to contemporary fiction, and the farther inside you venture, the snugger it gets; when you reach the children’s section on the lowest level, you’ll find the Lshaped couch that attracts patrons and the bookshop dog alike. In warmer weather, the shop hosts live music on its rooftop. When it gets chilly, there’s a wood-burning stove to help keep you warm as you browse.
The interior of Daunt Books Marylebone.
MAURICIO MOLIZANE DE SOUZA/GOSH! COMICS/ GAY’S THE WORD Tables and bookcases at Gosh! Comics in Soho, above, are piled with all types of titles. Gay’s the Word, right, is in another book-rich neighborhood – Bloomsbury.
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Cougars face Giant challenge
Ted CLARKE Citizen staff
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The Prince George Cougars made a valiant try to gain the upper hand on the Vancouver Giants in their season-opening game Friday at CN Centre.
Tyson Upper’s two-goal effort late in second period to tie the game gave the Cougars hope they might just have what it takes to knock off the defending Western Conference champions.
But the Giants, with 16 returning players from the team that came one overtime goal short of winning the Western Hockey League title last season, found a way to get the job done.
Justin Sourdif broke a 3-3 deadlock with the Cougars on the penalty kill early in the third period and that paved the way for a 5-3 victory.
Sourdif took the puck from goalie Trent Miner and went coast-to-coast, catching the defence flatfooted as he ripped a high snapper in behind Taylor Gauthier.
The Giants put this one to bed in the late
stages with an empty-netter from Jackson Shepard.
While the result was disappointing for the Cougars, the effort was certainly there and for the most part they matched the pace of their opponents. The finger of blame for the loss could be pointed at the Cats’ power play, which scored just once in seven twominute opportunities.
Aside from their first crack at it in the first period the Giants penalty-killers effectively got the job done without having to lean too much on goalie Trent Miner, especially in the second period, when they were shorthanded for a total of eight minutes.
Lukas Svejkosky went post-and-in on a 2-on-1 to restore the Giants’ two–goal lead early in the period. That lasted until late in the second period when the 18-year-old Upper went to work.
His first one, at 16:36, was one Miner probably would want back, a change-up from the top of the circle that slipped in under the arm of the 18-year-old Colorado Avalanche draft pick.
Then with just 11.7 seconds left in the
period, after pointman Ryan Schoettler made a nimble move along the blueline to keep the puck in the zone, Upper deflected Schoettler’s shot high into the net to tie it up.
After Sourdif’s goal the Cougars had very few quality chances.
The best came with about five minutes left, after Ethan Browne took the puck in deep through the slot. The puck came out to Cole Moberg and from 20 feet away he missed an open-look shot that sailed high over the net.
The Giants scored first, 4:48 in, and it was a strange one. Tristan Nielsen gained the puck standing on the goal line and fed it into the crease and went in off the skate of Gauthier. The Giants made it 2-0 late in the period on their first power play. Seth Bafaro took advantage of the screen in front of Gauthier and let go a low wrister that found the side of the net.
The Cougars got that one back less than a minute later. Moberg, who usually lines up on defence, joined the forwards on the left side of the Cougars’ new-look power play
and just 11 seconds into the penalty he took a backhand feed from Josh Maser from behind the net and from close range whipped it past Miner.
LOOSE PUCKS: The same teams meet tonight (7 p.m.) at CN Centre… The crowd count on opening night was 2,857…Defenceman Jacob Gendron made his WHL debut lining up on the Giants blueline. The 17-year-old former major midget Cariboo Cougar took a regular shift as one of only five defencemen in the Giants’ lineup due to injuries and the three-player limit on 20-year-olds. Gendron’s father Shawn played two seasons as a forward with the Cougars their first two seasons in Prince George (1994-96)… The Winnipeg Ice, in their first game in Winnipeg since the franchise shifted from Cranbrook, beat Brandon 3-2 Friday… Giants colour commentator Bill Wilms was behind the mic for his 80th game at CN Centre. He started 20 years ago with the Seattle Thunderbirds and is now in his 18th season with the Giants, serving as former Cougar play-by-play broadcaster Dan O’Connor’s right-hand man.
Chiefs dump Spruce Kings in Chilliwack
Ted CLARKE Citizen staff
The Prince George Spruce Kings road show was put to the test for the first time this season Friday night and the Chilliwack Chiefs proved inhospitable hosts.
Boosted by Ethan Bowen’s hat trick, they beat the Kings 6-2 at Prospera Place in Chilliwack to earn their second win of the season. Bowen’s second of the game 9:55 into the second period put the Chiefs ahead 3-2 and they
never looked back, handing the Spruce Kings (1-2-2-0) their second regulation-time loss.
Arlo Merritt scored two goals for Chilliwack (2-3-0-0) and Peter Reynolds also scored. Brett Phoh and Preston Brodziak replied for
the Kings (1-2-2-0), each notching their second goals of the season. Mathieu Caron blocked 27 of 29 shots in the Chiefs nets. Jett Alexander took the loss, stopping 22 of 28 shots. The Spruce Kings continue their three-game
roadtrip tonight (7:15 p.m. start) in Langley where they meet the Rivermen. They’ll also play Sunday afternoon (3 p.m.) against the Coquitlam Express. The Rivermen beat Coquitlam 6-1 Friday night in Langley.
Paciejewski, Paulson waving P.G. flag in world tournament
Ted CLARKE Citizen staff
Cole Paciejewski did his part as the offensive sparkplug for Team Scotland at the World Indoor Lacrosse Championship in Langley.
The 26-year-old from Prince George scored seven goals and had four assists to lead the Scottish attack in their opening game Thursday against Slovakia. Unfortunately for Scotland, the Slovakians were relentless when they had the ball and pounded out a 24-14 victory. Slovakia broke open a close game in the
second quarter, outscoring Scotland 7-3 to take a 13-7 lead into the intermission. Shots were almost even, 54-53 in favour of Slovakia.
Scotland, after an off-day Friday, will take on Germany at Langley Events Centre Saturday at 4:30 p.m.
Paciejewski’s team will also play Mexico on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. and Czech Republic Monday at 7:30 p.m.
One other Prince George connection is playing in the 20-team tournament.
Leif Paulson, 31, a former junior star with the Prince George Posse in the early
2000s who went on to play senior A in the WLA for the Coquitlam Adanacs is part of Team Sweden at the world championship.
In its tournament-opener Friday morning Sweden lost 23-6 to Finland. Paulson picked up a goal and two assists in that game. Shots were 62-22 in Finland’s favour.
Paulson played four years of field lacrosse for the Cornell University Big Red and was with the team in May 2009 when they advanced to the NCAA championship game, losing the title in overtime to the Syracuse Orange.
Sweden will now focus on trying to beat Austria when the teams meet Saturday at 1:30 p.m. The Swedes have a date with Australia Sunday at 7:30 p.m. and are also scheduled to play Costa Rica Monday at 1:30 p.m. In Thursday’s marquee matchup, Canada beat the United States 16-6. Canada went on to play England Friday afternoon. Canada will face Israel Sunday at 4:30 p.m. and wraps up round-robin play Monday at 7:30 p.m. against the Iroquois Nationals.
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Local hockey product Jacob Gendron plays defence for the Vancouver Giants as they take on the Prince George Cougars on Friday night at CN Centre.
Toronto Raptors, Nike partner on sports hijab
Curtis RUSH
Special To The Washington Post
As Paul Jones browsed through the Toronto Raptors’ apparel shop at Scotiabank Arena on Tuesday afternoon, the team’s radio and TV broadcaster spotted a rack of hijabs bearing the Raptors’ claw logo along with the Nike swoosh.
The head coverings, worn in public by some Muslim women, have not always been accepted by major sports organizations. Now, they are being marketed and sold by the Raptors and Nike as part of an inclusive initiative inspired by Muslim women basketball players in Toronto.
“It’s part of our world – including people,” said Jones, who has been with the franchise for 24 years. “I like it. It says to me, ‘We include you. You’re part of this.’”
The Raptors unveiled their team-specific Nike Hijab Pro on Friday with a promotional video, becoming the first NBA team to license officially branded hijabs.
In the days since, the headwear has inspired reaction across North America, but especially among the Muslim community in Greater Toronto, which numbers more than 400,000, according to the latest census data in 2011.
“People who aren’t Raptors fans or who aren’t Muslims or who aren’t female are seeing this as a step in the right direction for multiculturalism in Toronto and celebrating diversity,” said Amreen Kadwa, the founder of the Hijabi Ballers, the Muslim women’s basketball group that was founded in 2017 and plays every Sunday in Toronto.
Sports governing bodies have been slow to embrace the hijab. Until a rule change in 2017, head coverings, including the hijab and Jewish yarmulkes, were banned by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) due to concerns that they might pose safety risks during game play.
A Change.org petition, which was accompanied by the #FIBAAllowHijab campaign, received more than 132,000 signatures in support of Muslim women athletes. Similarly, the International Soccer Federation (FIFA) banned head coverings until 2014, a rule that restricted the Iranian women’s team from competing in multiple international tournaments.
The idea to conceive and sell the hijab was a “Raptors-led initiative,” according to an NBA spokesperson, but the league, which has focused on tolerance and diversity under Commissioner Adam Silver, expressed
no reservations. Although it’s not yet clear whether other NBA and WNBA teams will follow suit with their own versions, executives from both leagues have prioritized creating products that appeal to their global fan bases and to their diverse player pools. The feedback from the NBA has been “very supportive and positive,” said Jerry Ferguson, senior director for marketing for Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, the Raptors’ parent group.
In May, as the Raptors were advancing in the playoffs en route to their championship, Ferguson read a newspaper feature about the Hijabi Ballers and wanted to know what the group thought of wearing a Raptors-branded hijab. The players liked it and agreed to appear in the promotional video.
“We think it’s beautiful film that shines a bright, beautiful spotlight on those young women who are playing basketball,” said Ferguson, who also asked the Hijabi Ballers to assist with some messaging through the large Muslim community, many of whom have become Raptors fans.
The National Council of Canadian Muslims praised the Hijabi Ballers for inspiring the Raptors.
“One of the beautiful things about sports is that everyone can play,” Mustafa Farooq, the council’s executive director, told the Associated Press. “We thank the Raptors for taking this step.”
Jones, the team broadcaster, is also a former elementary school principal, and said he foresees the message of including others filtering down through schools in Canada.
“You can now have kids in grades five and six playing in their school tournaments wearing them. Why? Because Nike and the Raptors have said it’s okay,” he said. “Before, people who didn’t know or who didn’t accept would look and say, ‘Why is that kid wearing that?’ Now it’s a powerful endorsement.”
About a half-hour drive west of Toronto in the suburb of Mississauga, Heba Mousa has already seen such benefits. Her 14-yearold daughter was concerned about volleyball tryouts because she was set to wear a hijab for the first time. But she felt better after watching the video featuring the Hijabi Ballers. Her mother took her to a Nike outlet, where there was only one hijab left.
“She was really worried about wearing a hijab because she really wanted to continue to pursue playing volleyball,” Mousa said of
her daughter. “It’s nice to see other role models on social media who have decided to continue to wear or start wearing a hijab.”
Shireen Ahmed, a member of the Hijabi Ballers’ advisory board and a sportswriter, activist and podcaster, said having the item sold by the massively popular, title-winning Raptors certainly helps, too.
“There are high school teams and varsity teams in the U.S. and Canada that have purchased sports hijabs to match their uniforms, but this is a pro sports teams selling merchandise,” she said. “I am not surprised it was the Raptors because this is one of the places where this will fly. But I hope it is really something that other leagues take note of. I’d really love to see the WNBA do it.”
The WNBA has not yet had a player request to wear a hijab during games, but the league would allow it, according to people familiar with the matter.
Ferguson, the Raptors marketing executive, said he wanted the team to represent more of its fans.
“This is why this thinking makes this so powerful and special,” Ferguson said.
Even though a pro basketball team is selling the product, the Nike hijab has found buyers in other sports since first hitting shelves in 2017.
When she’s sparring and in competition, Lareb Hussain, a boxer in Toronto, puts a scarf around her head with the head gear atop. In training, she wears a toque, but she said that’s “sweaty and gross,” so she is looking forward to trying this new hijab under her head gear.
“This will open up the field of sports for women who wear the hijab,” Hussain said. “There’s a whole range of combat arts that involve Muslim women around the world. We’re part of this whole society of Muslim female fighters.”
Mehnaaz Bholat also sees possibility in the new hijab. She didn’t play basketball in high school because her parents wouldn’t allow her to wear shorts, which would go against her religious views by displaying her legs. Now a 29-year-old mother of two, she wears track pants and a hijab when playing with the Hijabi Ballers, which she joined this year.
“I wish I had a girl, so she could see all this,” said Bholat, who has 4-year-old and 19-month-old boys. “But I hope when my boys grow up they will see that sports are not just meant for boys and that being Muslim doesn’t stop you from playing sports.”
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The Toronto Raptors and Nike introduced team-branded hijabs last week.
Torres tumbles, AL East champ Yankees fall to Blue Jays
Ben WALKER
The
NEW YORK — Star second baseman Gleyber Torres prompted an audible gasp from the Yankee Stadium crowd when his right leg buckled while fielding a grounder and made an early exit Friday night as New York lost to the Toronto Blue Jays 4-3.
Torres said his lower legs felt weakness. Yankees manager Aaron Boone said he expects him to be OK but pulled him as a precaution. Torres leads the AL East champions with 38 home runs and is hitting .284 with 90 RBIs.
Aaron Judge and Tyler Wade homered for the Yankees a day after they clinched the division. New York is still competing for the best record in the majors and home-field advantage throughout the post-season – the Yankees and Houston each began the day with 100 wins.
Justin Smoak hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the seventh to help Toronto match a season high with its fifth straight victory. He connected off Tommy Kahnle (3-2) as the Yankees’ bullpen wobbled in the late innings for the third time in a week.
Danny Jansen also homered for the Blue Jays. Jason Adam (2-0) won in relief. and Ken Giles closed for his 21st save in 22 chances.
Torres was shaken up in the fourth. With Cavan Biggio running from second, Torres skidded to stop Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s grounder up the middle and sprung to his feet to throw home. But his plant leg gave way, and he went down hard as Biggio scored.
The awkward tumble prompted the crowd of 45,270 to gasp, and manager Aaron Boone and head athletic trainer Steve Donohue came out to check on Torres. After a few moments, Torres got up and stayed in through the sixth.
The Yankees have been beset by injuries this year, with several stars banged up heading into their Division Series opener Oct. 4.
Yankees starter J.A. Happ allowed two runs and four hits in 5 1/3 innings, giving up his 34th home run.
He worked around an early triple on a fly-
ball misplayed by right fielder Clint Frazier.
Roster move
The Blue Jays claimed INF Breyvic Valera off waivers from the Yankees. He’ll join his new team Saturday. RHP Ryan Dull, recently claimed from the Yankees, was designated for assignment.
Trainer’s room
Blue Jays: SS Bo Bichette is likely to miss this weekend series after being hit on the
helmet by a pitch Thursday night in Baltimore. The 21-year-old rookie is batting .311 with 11 home runs in 46 games.
“It could be a few days, three days, a week,” manager Charlie Montoyo said.
“If I had to guess, Bo wants to play today but realistically... I don’t see him playing these three days.”
Yankees: OF Giancarlo Stanton got a day off after playing two days in the field. He’s set to start Saturday. ... Slugger Edwin Encarnacion (oblique) is expected to play next week, Boone said. C Gary Sanchez (groin tightness) is recovering more slow
than Encarnacion, but Boone is “optimistic he’ll be ready for the post-season.”
Up next
Blue Jays: Rookie RHP T.J. Zeuch (1-0, 4.61 ERA) got his first MLB win in his previous outing, going 5 1/3 innings in relief vs. the Yankees last Sunday.
Yankees: LHP James Paxton (14-6, 3.88) has won a career-best nine straight starts. He beat Toronto last weekend in his most recent game and pitches this time on six days’ rest.
Stampeders continue their mastery of the Argos
Dan RALPH The Canadian Press
TORONTO — Bo Levi Mitchell threw for 346 yards and a TD as the Calgary Stampeders beat Toronto 23-16 on Friday night to continue their mastery of the Argonauts. Mitchell finished 33-of-48 passing with two interceptions to improve to 11-0 alltime versus Toronto (2-10). And Calgary (94) earned its 12th straight regular-season win over the Argos and seventh consecutive road victory here.
However, Toronto did upset Calgary 2724 in the 2017 Grey Cup game in Ottawa. Calgary improved to 4-0 with Mitchell back under centre despite being without the CFL’s leading receiver (Reggie Begelton) and tackles leader (middle linebacker Corey Greenwood). It wasn’t a clean performance as the Stampeders committed three turnovers and could only muster a second-half field goal. And that allowed Toronto to score 10 fourth-quarter points to pull to within 23-16 with 1:56 to play. James Franklin found Derel Walker on a 35-yard TD strike at 13:04 after Tyler Crapigna booted a 35yard field goal at 10:40 before a season-low BMO Field gathering of 9,819. That’s as close as Toronto would get. Calgary took over at its 25-yard line with 1:51 and ran out the clock to drop the Argos to 2-4 in their last six games after starting the season 0-6.
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Thompson in the third and marched the Argos 64 yards on six plays, setting up Crapigna’s 36-yard field goal at 11:04 to cut Calgary’s lead to 20-6. Franklin finished 12-of-16 passing for 147 yards and a TD. Bethel-Thompson was 12-of-18 passing for just 86 yards with an interception after throwing 12 TD passes and just two interceptions in his previous five starts.
However, Toronto’s offence – which had averaged 418 net yards in the previous five games – struggled with consistency on a night when the Toronto Maple Leafs hosted the Buffalo Sabres in NHL exhibition action. Also, it was the Argos’ first game here since 41-26 loss to Edmonton on Aug. 16. Terry Williams and Ka’Deem Carey scored Calgary’s touchdowns. Rene Paredes added two converts and three field goals.
Crapigna accounted for Toronto’s scoring with three field goals.
Paredes gave Calgary a 20-3 half-time lead with a 17-yard boot at 14:31 of the second. It came after Toronto mysteriously gambled (unsuccessfully) on third-and-five, giving the Stampeders the ball at the Argos’ 53-yard line.
Toronto did sack Mitchell once, something that hadn’t happened in his previous three contests. But the Stampeders’ defence registered six, including two each for Toronto native Derek Wiggan and Mike Rose. Calgary converted two Toronto turnovers
Bafaro 1 (Plouffe, Hardy) 15:20 (pp)
Moberg 1 (Maser, Schoettler) 16:11 (pp)
– Rhinehart PG (roughing) 14:09, Bulych Van (cross-checking) 15:57, Sourdif Van (charging) 17:41. Second Period Vancouver, Svejkovsky, 10:50 Prince George, Upper 1 (Sander, Gauthier) 16:36 Prince George, Upper 2 (Schoettler) 19:49 Penalties – Bulych Van (slashing) 4:33, J.Shepard Van (cross-checking) 7:50, Sander PG (interference) 13:26, Plouffe Van (hooking) 14:26, Brown Van (slashing) 17:12. Third Period Vancouver, Sourdif 1 (Miner) 4:56 (pp) Vancouver, J.Shepard 1 (Roman) 18:53 (en) Penalties – Leppard PG (cross-checking) 3:33, Sourdif Van (charging) 5:10. Shots on goal by Vancouver 13 6 10 -29 Prince George 6 8 9 -23 Goal – Vancouver, Miner (W,1-0-0, 23-20); Prince George, Gauthier (L,0-1-0,
(interception, downs) into 10 points (TD, field goal). The Stampeders came into the game leading the CFL in interceptions (19) and points off turnovers (93) and tied with Winnipeg for most turnovers forced (35). Franklin replaced starter McLeod Bethel-
Mitchell methodically marched the Stampeders to the Toronto 10-yard line before two incompletions set up Paredes’ boot. Williams opened the scoring by converting a second-and-two toss into a 23-yard TD run at 7:45.
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Toronto Blue Jays’ Justin Smoak fist-bumps third base coach Luis Rivera after hitting a two-run home run during the seventh inning of a game against the New York Yankees on Friday in New York.
Calgary Stampeders quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell throws an incomplete pass during a game against the Toronto Argonauts in Toronto on Friday.
Fredericton latest city to grapple with drive-thru woes
Holly McKENZIE-SUTTER
The Canadian Press
The City of Fredericton will spend $40,000 to direct motorists around a busy Tim Hortons in the latest move by a Canadian municipality to curb traffic headaches and other concerns caused by restaurant drive-thrus.
At a transportation committee meeting this week, councillors approved the plan to construct a “traffic circle” at the end of the city’s Wallace Avenue and to introduce a bylaw banning left turns into the restaurant’s drive-thru.
“There are significant impacts on traffic flow on this major northside arterial as well as traffic and pedestrian safety concerns as frustrated drivers start making unpredictable movements to avoid queued vehicles,” the administrative report on the proposed changes says.
The New Brunswick capital is the latest Atlantic Canada municipality forced to consider the tension between public safety concerns and motorists’ convenient access to a quick coffee or lunch.
This summer, Paradise, N.L., rejected an application for a drive-thru restaurant planned near an elementary school after parents and community members raised safety concerns. A spokesperson for the town said the decision is being appealed. Halifax, which is considering expanding limits already in place around new drivethrus in the city’s downtown, was forced to contend with the issue this month after post-tropical storm Dorian hit Nova Scotia.
Officials asked drivers to stay home in the immediate aftermath of the storm, with Erica Fleck, the city’s assistant chief of community risk reduction, noting that hundreds of cars backed up at drive-thrus were impeding cleanup efforts.
South of the border, Minneapolis, Minn., adopted an ordinance last month banning the construction of new drive-thrus in all areas of the city. It said the ban is aimed to fulfil land-use, transportation, and environmental goals.
The Associated Press reported Minneapolis was the first American city of comparable
LNG technology developed in Calgary touted as greener, cheaper
to direct motorists around a busy Tim Hortons. It’s the latest move by a Canadian
size to enact a city-wide ban – but the move was not without pushback from retail developers. And the editorial board of the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper argued that banning drive-thrus would make life harder for busy families and struggling businesses. Drive-thrus have become a reliable restaurant staple in North America over the last century. In-N-Out Burger claims to have invented the first two-way speaker box at its flagship California restaurant in 1948. But in recent years, environmental concerns over emissions and the desire to improve quality of life in increasingly dense
Dan HEALING The Canadian Press
CALGARY — University of Calgary researchers focused on nanotechnology say they have developed a cheaper and more environmentally friendly way to create liquefied natural gas.
The Split Flow Integrated LNG process uses specialized materials and chemistry to remove carbon dioxide and other impurities from the natural gas stream without having to cool and then warm the gas, as is done now in the leading LNG process, say its developers, associate professor Nassar Nashaat and student Arash
urban areas have led more municipalities to push back. And researchers have suggested that a ban on drive-thrus could make cities healthier and safer.
A 2018 study published in the journal BMC Public Health by public health researchers at the University of Alberta found 27 Canadian municipalities across six provinces had adopted partial or full bans on fast food drive-thru service between 2002 and 2016. The bans were concentrated in Ontario, B.C. and Alberta, typically starting in larger cities like Toronto and Vancouver and later implemented by smaller mu-
Ostovar of the Schulich School of Engineering.
The result is that capital costs are reduced because less equipment is needed, while operating costs and greenhouse gas emissions are lowered because less energy, water and chemicals are consumed. The duo are seeking an industrial partner to use the technology on a pilot basis to prove its benefits.
“We have plenty of natural gas resources here in Alberta and existing facilities where our technology can be integrated,” said Nassar, estimating there are 50 potential locations.
“The idea is that anybody who is producing
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Currencies
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restaurant drive-thrus.
nicipalities nearby. Reasons cited included community aesthetics and safety, traffic issues, litter, noise and concerns about air pollution. None of the municipalities identified obesity and chronic disease as a motivation, but the researchers noted that research into such bylaws could be “a vital part” of preventing chronic disease in Canada. “Fast food drive-thru service bans are one policy option that may be considered as part of a comprehensive, multi-pronged strategy to promote healthier food environments and improve population health,” the authors wrote.
natural gas can now produce LNG.” Proponents tout LNG as a transition fuel which can replace coal or diesel as a more environmentally friendly way to generate electricity and power vehicles. Natural gas volumes are reduced by about 600 times when converted to LNG. But environmentalists have charged that building B.C.’s many proposed LNG projects – including the $40-billion LNG Canada project led by Shell Canada which is now under construction – will make it impossible for the province to meet its GHG emission reduction targets.
in which a new high wasn’t reached as the TSX rose for a fourth consecutive week. Despite setting new records, the market’s performance was not as impressive as it might seem given its movements over the last decade, says Philip Petursson, chief investment strategist at Manulife Investment Management.
“We’re not that far ahead of where we were in 2008, so if you annualize that performance it’s less than stellar,” he said.
“So while it looks like we should be getting excited about an all-time high, it’s taken a long time to actually get there.” Petursson said the Toronto stock market is much more attractively valued than markets south of the border so there would be greater upside yet to come.
“Plus when you have something such as oil prices positively impacting a large sector as we have, then that’s the recipe for continued new highs.”
Seven of the 10 major sectors of the TSX were higher including heavyweight materials, energy and financials.
Materials gained one per cent on higher gold prices as shares of several miners rose, led by First Quantum Minerals Ltd, Kinross Gold Corp. and Barrick Gold Corp. The December gold contract was up US$8.90 at US$1,515.10 an ounce and the December copper contract was down 0.2 of a cent at US$2.61 a pound.
The markets today
TORONTO (CP) — Canada’s main stock index closed at its fourth record high of the week on Friday to defy decreases in the U.S. over renewed trade concerns. The S&P/TSX composite index gained 41.34 points at 16,899.69, a new record close after hitting an intraday record of 16,947.23 in earlier trading. Wednesday was the only day of the week
Energy prices ended the week six per cent higher following last weekend’s attack on Saudi Arabia that initially caused them to spike. The November crude contract was down 10 cents on the day at US$58.09 per barrel and the October natural gas contract was down 0.4 of a cent at US$2.53 per mmBTU.
But Petursson said the week’s rally could mark the start of a longer bullish run or reversal for the energy sector.
“If you look at what’s been driving the TSX over the last month it’s been the energy sector, the energy sector is starting to rebound a little bit,” he said.
Customers line up at a Tim Hortons on Sept. 8. The City of Fredericton will spend $40,000
city to curb traffic headaches caused by
What are thoughts and prayers worth?
Study looks to put a financial value on divine intervention
The Washington Post
Few gestures are given as freely as thoughts and prayers after a national tragedy. A first-of-a-kind study published Monday tries to establish whether Americans appreciate the offer.
Christians generally value thoughts and prayers, the study found, but “this value is not universal,” said Linda Thunström, an economist at the University of Wyoming. “There are other people who are, if you will, harmed or experience discomfort from receiving these gestures.” Atheists and agnostics would pay money to avoid having a stranger pray for them and were indifferent to a stranger’s thoughts, the researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“If you wanted to maximize welfare for society,” Thunström said, consider the audience before giving thoughts and prayers as a response to grief.
Twitter – where many give and embrace thoughts and prayers, and others swat down the offers – inspired the study. U.S. President Donald Trump has tweeted “thoughts and prayers” more than 30 times since he took office.
A frequent criticism, particularly in the wake of mass shootings, is that the gesture is hollow and performative.
The phrase dates to 17th-century religious manuals, University of Notre Dame professor Thomas Tweed, who studies American religions, told The Washington Post in 2015. The words have become a “ritual or ceremonial phrase” offered at “difficult moments,” Tweed said, “but translated into the new media of Twitter and the other social media, it takes on a widely disparate meaning.”
Twitter “may or may not be a representative kind of medium,” said study author Shiri Noy, a sociologist at Denison University in Ohio, “which is why we set out to look at it empirically.”
Thunström and Noy studied people recovering from a natural disaster.
They enlisted more than 400 North Carolinians in the fall of 2018, after Hurricane Florence struck.
They studied two groups – Christians, and atheists or agnostics – because the two are “the most, perhaps, predominant in contemporary U.S.,” Thunström said. A majority of Americans, about 70 per cent, are Christians. Twenty per cent are nonreligious, and atheists and agnostics represent a fast-growing group.
At the beginning of the experiment, the researchers asked participants to describe hardships they had suffered within the previous year. Then the researchers introduced the offer of a thought or prayer given by a stranger.
Most people cannot stroll into their corner stores and purchase a thought or prayer – a prayer, in an economist’s jargon, is a “nonmarket good,” Thunström said. So the researchers presented participants with a choice: a prayer or thought versus money.
The scientists gave their subjects a participation fee, plus $5 to pay for the experiment. Participants could use all or part of that sum in exchange for a gesture – or to guarantee that no one prayed for them. In every case, real money was on the line. Let’s say Thunström offered you a prayer
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost –Luke 19:10
This past summer, our family adopted a cat from the PG Humane Society. They told us she was in good health and had been found abandoned and so, like all the animals in their care, she needed someone to have compassion and take her in.
After talking it over as a family, we decided we would be the family to give this abandoned kitty a home.
We have often wondered how it was that she was found herself
from a Christian stranger or $5 to help overcome a hardship. If you declined the prayer, she would ask whether you wanted a prayer or $4.50. Now you take the prayer. If you were not willing to forgo $5 but you were willing to forgo $4.50, “that means your willingness to pay, or your value of the prayer, must be somewhere between $4.50 and $5,” Thunström said. Economists have used this technique to place values on things like nature or endangered species.
In some cases, the participants were told the prayer would come from a priest instead of a Christian stranger. True to what Thunström called a tradition of “non-deception” among economists, the study authors either gave the participants the money in question or recruited Christian strangers – and a priest, who volunteered – to pray for the people who chose the prayers. What kind of harm the participants suffered, whether hurricane-caused or not,
abandoned on the streets of Prince George.
Did you she just run away (the humane society does make every effort to find owners) due to curiosity or perhaps neglect?
Was she just abandoned because she was more work than had been anticipated?
Was she simply the victim of a
did not influence how much people valued thoughts and prayers. Religious belief, though, showed a striking effect.
The Christians who participated in this study valued prayer from a stranger, on average, at more than $4. A prayer from a priest was worth about $7. The nonreligious participants would pay a few dollars for a priest to not pray for them, and over $3.50 to avoid a Christian stranger’s prayer.
“This article raises an interesting point –some people, maybe, just don’t want your thoughts or prayers,” said University of Colorado at Denver psychologist Kevin Masters, who was not a member of the research team. In 2006, Masters and his colleagues analyzed the body of research on the effects of prayer on someone’s behalf. No study was able to show that prayer has discernible health benefits on a distant recipient.
The new research, Masters said, may reflect a difference in perceptions of prayer’s
move to a new house she wasn’t welcome in?
We don’t know. We do know is she was lost in a situation she needed help to get out of.
It reminds me very much of how God came to us when we were lost. Humankind was lost in our own choices and unable to get out of the consequences no matter how hard we might try. The Bible tells us that though we were lost without hope God came to us. Unlike our cat, however, we were not just random strays out there in the cosmos, we were lovingly created by God and we had chosen to walk
meaningfulness. Christians may associate prayer with the type of empathy that encourages aiding disaster victims, he said, whereas atheists or agnostics may not. The president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, R. Albert Mohler Jr., defended expressions of thoughts and prayers as part of the “common spiritual language of the American people” in a 2017 op-ed for The Post. “Praying is not a way of avoiding responsibility,” he wrote, “but of affirming it.”
When asked whether people would respond similarly to “thoughts and prayers” after mass shootings or other types of disasters, Thunström said she “wouldn’t care to speculate about that.” Thoughts or prayers from celebrities or politicians may provoke different reactions than a stranger’s blessing, too. “Somebody that you identify with, or whose identity you know, at least – that could all matter,” Thunström said.
away. In spite of our offence being against God and God alone, He still made the way to rescue us. He stands by the ready, we just need to respond. There’s another parallel to our cat and God’s pursuit of us. You see when we first brought our cat home, she was fairly quiet and affectionate, seemingly glad to be in a house with food to eat, places to sleep and litter that wasn’t shared. As the weeks went on though she, like pretty much every cat, began to assert her place in the household. She now makes it very clear when her bowl is empty or a window is closed and affection
comes most often only when she wants something. For us who have responded to God’s call to rescue, it can be too easy to become comfortable and lose sight of the gratitude that should be our response to what God has done for us. All we do should come out of our gratitude for what God has done in our lives and not out of what we want Him to do.
So if you’re lost, know there is a God who desperately wants you to know you can be found. If you’ve been found, don’t lose sight of how incredible it is to be known and loved by God.
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Friends and family of Andre Anchondo pray during his funeral mass Aug. 16, 2019 at St. Patrick Cathedral in El Paso, Texas. Anchondo who was one of the 22 killed in the mass shooting at a Walmart on Aug. 3.
Kopp sisters return in Amy Stewart’s new novel
Carol MEMMOTT Special To The Washington Post
Constance Kopp takes on the military establishment in Kopp Sisters on the March, the fifth in Amy Stewart’s entertaining series about three fiercely feminist sisters who refuse to believe that men are meant to rule the world.
The fictional Constance and her sisters, Norma and Fleurette, are based on the real Kopp sisters, who gained celebrity after Constance became one of the first female deputy sheriffs in the United States. Weaving fact and fiction, Stewart’s latest tale of the sisterhood finds Constance struggling with the loss of that job, an insult that took place in last year’s Miss Kopp Just Won’t Quit.
The sisters’ financial woes and America’s looming participation in the First World War give this novel a more serious tone than its predecessors. It’s based less on the real-life sisters and more on Stewart’s imagining of their life as the country moves toward the verge of the war. There may be less humour this time, but the story is ultimately more gripping and satisfying as it makes abundantly clear the continuing societal dismissal of women’s worth, even when the fate of the world is at stake.
A handful of disgruntled women go rogue, clandestinely learning hand-tohand combat and marksmanship. Their goal: learn selfdefense and travel to France to drive ambulances and tend the wounded.
In 1917, with their lives at loose ends, the fictional sisters sign up for a six-week “Army camp for girls,” an actual national service program set up to train women to do their part for the war effort. Military leaders were adamant “there is no intention of producing a modern Amazonian corps,” but they hadn’t yet met the Kopps. Stewart places them at a real-life camp in Chevy Chase, Md., which opened in 1916. The action-loving sisters are quickly disenchanted, spending their days “learning the skills most women are suited for who wish to be intelligently useful in times of national stress.”
But bandage rolling and bed-making don’t quite cut it for the Kopps, who are reminded by one of the camp’s driving forces that women’s involvement in the war effort must start small.
“No one woke up one morning and decided that women should train just as men do – well no one of the male persuasion woke up and thought that,” a female member of the War Department warns them.
A handful of disgruntled women go rogue, clandestinely learning hand-to-hand combat and marksmanship. Their goal: learn self-defense and travel to France to drive ambulances and tend the wounded.
Norma, meanwhile, is trying to convince the army that pigeons are the best way for the military to communicate during wartime (history later proved that these birds were indispensable message carriers), and Fleurette, a budding actress, is organizing entertainment for the troops.
Life in the camp provides a meaty story, but Stewart dishes up another savory drama based on another historical figure: Beulah Binford, who, like the Kopps, never attended army camps. She was, however, a woman hated by the American public for her involvement in a murder case in Richmond, in which she was unfairly vilified because a man who killed his wife was obsessed with her.
Beulah’s story adds a grimness to the novel as Stewart writes of how Beulah was abused by men since childhood and then dragged through the mud by the media for years. In Kopp Sisters on the March, a desperate Beulah arrives at the camp under an assumed identity, hoping to use her training as a way to escape America and get lost in war-torn France.
Beulah and Constance couldn’t have foreseen that they would have to reckon with their past at the women’s camp, but they come out of this story more powerful and self-confident.
As one character sums it up: “If we set about doing what we know, in our hearts and minds, must be done, then we will be impossible to ignore. We will take our place at the table because it belongs to us.” Memmott, a freelance book critic, lives in Virginia.
HANDOUT PHOTO BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
Kopp Sisters on the March is the fifth novel in Amy Stewart’s Kopp sisters series. Constance, Norma and Fleurette Kopp are based on the real Kopp sisters, who gained celebrity after Constance became one of the first female deputy sheriffs in the United States.
HANDOUT PHOTO BY KNOPF
The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina is a look at life on the lawless oceans of the world.
A look at the lawless world off our shores
Alyssa ROSENBERG The Washington Post
The remote is now very near: Mount Everest has traffic jams, and Instagram influencers are posing at Chernobyl. The Google Car maps where we live, photographing our homes usually when the lawn is unkempt. The world has never felt smaller or more known, for good and ill.
Into that world comes Ian Urbina’s The Outlaw Ocean bearing an unsettling idea: there is still much we don’t know about our world, and the consequences of our ignorance are likely to arrive onshore not in a gentle swell but with crashing force. Urbina argues that the vast oceans and their borders with land are changing more quickly than we can imagine.
The wide expanses of the sea are ungoverned, if not ungovernable, because it benefits too many powerful people to let them stay that way. The result is a book that leaves behind the unnerving feeling that we’re becalmed and can move in no positive direction: The Outlaw Ocean brings the reader up close to an overwhelming truth, but the magnitude of the revelation is paralyzing.
The book grew out of Urbina’s reporting about the sea for the New York Times, and as a result, it is constructed as a series of seafaring yarns. The installments vary wildly in tone, as you might expect in the nautical genre of storytelling. Max Hardberger, a raffish oceanic repo man, stars in Urbina’s heist story. Offshore abortionist Rebecca Gomperts helps women in an outlaw feminist fable. Captains Adam Meyerson and Wyanda Lublink are the book’s environmentalist Ahabs, chasing down not a fearsome whale but a Japanese ship that slaughters whales in exceptionally brutal fashion. And men like Lang Long, a Cambodian who was trafficked and sold into the Thai fishing industry, are modern-day Billy Budds in a system that lacks even the rough justice of a drumhead court-martial.
That Urbina has been able to pluck these people out of the vast blue expanse that surrounds them and locate them, both on the map and in our minds, at least for a moment, is an impressive feat of reporting. (It’s also to his credit that Urbina knows how to serve as a gangway between his reader and his subject material without making himself the story.) While all nonfiction books presumably exist to tell readers something they didn’t already know, The Outlaw Ocean uses our lack of knowledge to bolster his argument: if we don’t know much about sea slavery or the battles between environmentalists and the fishing industry, it’s because it’s hard for us landlubbers to know what happens so far from shore.
This isn’t the only sense in which Urbina has constructed his book as a kind of inexorable current, circling around and around again. Though it certainly has its lighter segments, especially Urbina’s visit to the Principality of Sealand, a micronation founded in 1967 on an abandoned offshore platform, his stories keep converging on a grim point: that the vastness of the ocean has served the purposes of governments and businesses that prefer to operate in a realm without rules. There are exceptions, like the tiny island nation of Palau, which is trying to curb illegal fishing through quirks of maritime law that give it dominion more than 595,000 square kilometres of ocean. But apparently, there are plenty of powerful people who stand to benefit from the lawless state of the ocean – and plenty more of us who so badly want to believe that we can have cheap, ethically harvested seafood that we’re willing to let them keep it that way. That may be difficult to do after reading The Outlaw Ocean. Urbina’s chronicles of man’s inhumanity to man, as well as to fish – some of which leave the creature in Jaws looking less like a monster and more like a justified revolutionary – had me considering giving up seafood.
Urbina is so successful at communicating the scale of the ocean, and the cruelty and neglect above and below its waters, that reading his book sometimes feels like gasping for a breath of air before slipping under the waves again. How can we possibly dismantle “an imperceptible mesh wall that can stretch seven miles across and twenty feet high” and that traps tons of fish – much less the industry that developed nets that big?
If there’s a program for change to take away from The Outlaw Ocean, it might emerge from the dense tangle of marine law and custom Urbina hauls up from the fathoms. A lesser writer might have been daunted by the technicalities. But Urbina deftly reveals complicated ideas through his stories, whether he’s exploring how lacunas in Thai labour law leave sea slaves vulnerable or depicting firsthand how flags of convenience meant to track ships can be used to make them disappear.
As with plenty of what takes place on land, it’s dispiriting to think that we’ve chosen this state of affairs, and it may be too late to recover the trash that’s made its way to the deepest waters on Earth or to restore the fish and sea animal populations devastated by our insatiable appetites. But we decided to make the oceans outlaw territory; that, at least, is a decision we might be able to take back, even if only a league at a time.
How to hang family photos
Elizabeth MAYHEW
The Washington Post
Without question, we are living in a photo-saturated world. Most of us have access to thousands of images on devices we carry with us everywhere. Mariam Naficy, founder and chief executive of Minted design marketplace, says pictures have become a form of social currency. “Posing for them, taking them and sharing them have become how we communicate with friends and family.”
So you have to wonder, if we’re already inundated with photos of our kids and dogs, do we need to have images of them hanging in our homes, too?
For many of us, the answer is still yes, but we’re not using family photos in the way we used to.
“My clients want their family photos to have a visual impact and not be scattered throughout the house in random frames,”
New York interior designer Ashley Whittaker says. She prefers to consolidate her clients’ photos in a private space in their homes and hang them in a gallery-like fashion.
Interior designer Todd Klein
agrees that family photos should stay in a home’s private spaces –the master bedroom, the dressing room, the mudroom – for three reasons. One: you probably spend more time in the private spaces of your home, so you interact with the images more frequently. Two: most family photographs need to be viewed very closely because they are small and intimate. “Hang small photos over a big sofa,” Klein says, “and they will get lost.”
And three: by hanging photos in a gallery configuration, you can create an interesting arrangement with a bigger presence, like an art installation.
With thousands of images on our phones, it is hard to zero in on the few images of family and friends that are frame-worthy, not to mention wall-worthy.
So how do you narrow them down? Tessa Wolf, creative director of the online framing company Framebridge, says to start by doing a quick scroll through your camera roll. “Don’t spend more than five minutes doing it,” she says. “See what photos immediately pop out to you and mark them as favorites as you go; that way you can easily find them in an
album.” If you use a photo editing app, Wolf says to look first at the photos you’ve already chosen to edit; they were probably the best ones when you took them. Choosing from those preselected favorites will prove much more manageable. Or hire a professional to help. As part of her decorating services, Whittaker helps her clients curate their family photos. She and her team select, crop and edit images, ensuring every family member is equally represented in the mix. Once you select your favorite photos, you want to take into account the size and scale of the images. If all your images are similar in style or tone (for example, they’re all from the same photo shoot or taken on the same day), choose a mix of close-up and distant images to add visual interest. Also, Wolf says, mix the size of the photos to give a more organic feel to the final arrangement.
If you are going for a more varied look, Wolf says, mix black and white photos and colour photos together on a wall. “Just be sure to have a nice mix of the two throughout the gallery wall so it looks balanced.” And she adds,
“You can easily convert a colour photo to black and white on your phone, in Instagram, or using pretty much any photo editor like VSCO.”
When it comes to printing images, most online sites will automatically check the image’s resolution and then suggest the largest size at which you can print it without compromising the quality. Wolf says many phone photos can be printed larger than you would think: “A photo from a new iPhone can be blown up to about 22 by 30, which is huge.”
For framing, Naficy, Whittaker, Klein and Wolf agree that frames don’t have to match, but choosing frames with a similar hue will create a more unified look. For example, Wolf suggests mixing white and silver or natural wood frames – using different widths and textures - but all in similar colour and tone.
Both Whittaker and Klein also like to incorporate family keepsakes into their clients’ gallery walls. “Our goal is to create arrangements for our clients that feel special and, most of all, personal,” Whittaker says. Klein likes to think of these arrange-
ments as scrapbooks of a family’s life; he includes framed diplomas, invitations, ticket stubs - as he says, “all the different things that people save because they mean something.” Though incorporating other items into your gallery wall display is more interesting, it can also be more challenging to hang. Naficy says to look for similar hues, shapes, textures and patterns and group them together for a more cohesive display. When creating a gallery wall, Wolf says, you don’t want the outer edges of your arrangement to be square; you want them to be imperfect so you can add new pieces as you get them. She advises keeping two inches between each piece so that the arrangement looks intentional and maintains a degree of consistency no matter how big it gets. If you have less space between the pieces, Wolf says you will have trouble controlling the arrangement; more space and it will look like you didn’t plan to hang the pieces together.
And whatever you do, Kline says, “hang each picture using two hooks, so the frames don’t move around.”
Restoring discoloured slate around a fireplace
Q: We have an attractive freestanding gas fireplace. The top is ringed in black slate. When the fireplace is turned on, the slate turns a discoloured light gray. The fireplace installer said it’s normal for the slate to get slightly hot and to use dishwashing liquid to restore its colour and finish when it cools down. We did this, but when we turned on the fireplace, the slate turned a more pronounced light gray, almost white, and it retained this colour after it cooled off. What can we do to restore the discoloured slate?
A: “There is such a thing as fading slate,” said Chuck Muehlbauer, technical director of the Natural Stone Institute, a trade association that offers training and technical
advice about the use of stone in many building applications. “But this doesn’t sound like that.”
Slate is a metamorphic rock consisting of numerous minerals.
Depending on the mix, it can be black, gray, blue-gray, red, purple or even green. Some slate quickly fades to softer colours after it’s installed on roofs or pavement, while other kinds of slates, which the industry classifies as “unfading,” retain their original colour. The natural fading of some slates isn’t likely to be the cause of your problem because that colour change is triggered by ultraviolet light, Muehlbauer said. Your slate was probably coated with a sealer or colour enhancer, and that’s what’s turning white or gray in response to heat. Sealers make stone less porous. Colour
enhancers, which often double as penetrating sealers, darken stone and make the colour look more vibrant, especially if the stone has dulled from weathering or wear.
“Sealers have been correctly marketed and also over-marketed,” Muehlbauer said. “There are a lot of applications where it was applied where it didn’t need to be.” The only reason to seal stone, he said, is to make porous stone more stain-resistant. Slate varies in how porous it is, so for a slate countertop – as for countertops made of many other types of stone – sealing may make sense. But for slate surrounding a fireplace, there is no reason to add a sealer, Muehlbauer said.
Installers are typically the ones who apply sealers and colour enhancers. But distributors some-
times do this before the slabs are sold to fabricators or homeowners. Because the slate pieces on your fireplace are small, it’s possible the installer used stone left over from another job and didn’t know the stone was already sealed or treated with a colour enhancer.
Unfortunately, there is no easy way to determine what type of product may have been used on your stone or what will take it off. You would need to test – and even then, it can be difficult to tell whether a stripper is working. “You’re not going to see the residual sealer come off on your rag,” Muehlbauer said.
So first wipe water across the stone, then see how much it beads up. Then apply the stripper, following instructions on the label. When the stone is dry, wipe water
across it again. If the stripper worked, more of the water should soak in and less should bead up. If there is only a little change, you might need to repeat the process –or switch to a different stripper. Water-based products are easiest and safest to use, but they aren’t effective against all sealers. If a water-based stripper doesn’t work, you might need to use a solvent such as acetone or toluene, Muehlbauer said. Acetone is considered less toxic than many other industrial solvents, but it and toluene are both highly flammable, and breathing even moderate amounts of the fumes can cause health problems. Extinguish all flames first, open windows and doors, wear goggles and gloves, and apply only a small amount at a time.
ASHLEY WHITTAKER
A family photo wall designed by Ashley Whittaker for a Connecticut client.
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