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Volume 15, Issue 1, Week of January 9, 2017 like this,” said Arnot, when asked for his reaction to the Citizen of the Year honour. “I’m very grateful for everyone’s support of the award and the nomination, and the people at CTV who ultimately recognize that,” he added, also thanking David Fisher for his leadership. “Fundamentally you can’t have success in the community without a lot of support from many people, and certainly I feel I’ve had lots of support for the work that we’re trying to accomplish.” That support has come from many places, including the legal and aboriginal communities, and his own family: his wife, Linda; their four children – Marie, Matthew, Daniel and Michael; and two grandchildren. “I’ve been blessed to have people in the community . . . who have supported me in some of these things,” said Arnot, mentioning Chief Justice Brosi Nutting, Si Halyk, Jim Scharfstein, Paul Favel, Bob McKercher and others. “A lot of people could see that I was trying to take a cutting edge approach to different issues, and they were very supportive of that. That gave me strength and encouragement to deal with these issues. “On the aboriginal side, I’ve been influenced by a number of treaty elders – there are so many to mention, but some of the people who have influenced me the most are people like the late elder Alma Kytwhyhat, a very powerful education and communication elder; her husband Simon Kytwhyhat; people like Oliver Cameron and Ruth Cameron, Eugene Arcand and Lorna Arcand; and most recently (FSIN) Chief Bobby Cameron.”

Working toward reconciliation Arnot’s work as treaty commissioner, and now at the Human Rights CommisDavid Arnot, pictured talking with students at St. Joseph High School in 2014, is the Chief Commissioner sion, has come with many challenges, but for the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission. (Photo Supplied) Arnot says he has been blessed to confront them. He is particularly focused on reconciliation, which is now in the spotlight following the federal government’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. “The work is very important work,” said Arnot. “I think that reconciliation is probably the most pressing issue in SasJoanne Paulson cases. That motivated me to look at what all people in our city, province and coun- katchewan, because it has a direct effect Saskatoon Express we could do to help that.” try,” said David Fisher, vice-president and on the economy and the community in the n 1978, David Arnot was already a Arnot’s approach to changing the situa- general manager of CTV Saskatchewan. future. senior Crown prosecutor in North Bat- tion was to assemble a group of people to “He represents the best of our citizenry in “We’ve gone in the wrong direction for tleford, just three years after graduating help him start the Battlefords Rape Crisis his efforts to make our community more a long time on aboriginal issues, indigewith his law degree from the University of Centre, soon after renamed the Battlefords inclusive.” nous issues, and we need to have a change Saskatchewan. and Area Sexual Assault Centre. People in Arnot was born in Brandon, Man., grew in that direction – and that direction should He was handling a large number of sex- the community thought it was a novelty for up in Regina and Weyburn, and came to be reconciliation. ual assault cases at the time, and noticed a male to take the lead on an issue of that Saskatoon for Grade 12 before getting his “Not every citizen understands the need something that worried him a great deal. kind, and he had to seek female support for law degree. He then lived for a time in for that and its direct effect on the econo“I noticed that we had a high number of the venture. He found it. North Battleford, before coming back to my and the social future of Saskatchewan. sexual assault cases, and I also noticed that “In fact, it was very successful,” said Saskatoon in 1997. It depends on a positive reconciliation. the victims in those cases, primarily young Arnot, looking back. “I felt there was an He has served as a judge of the Provin“It’s not just up to government. It’s up females, were coming to give testimony injustice occurring in the way the system cial Court of Saskatchewan, director gen- to the private sector, the faith communities, but weren’t getting the kind of normal sup- was working because there weren’t these eral of Aboriginal Justice for the federal educators certainly are big stakeholders port I would have assumed they would get supports, and those supports had to be government, special advisor to the deputy and have a big role to play in reconciliafrom family, their friends, their extended found and created.” minister of justice, and as the Treaty Com- tion.” care group. I noticed that was not happenSo began his career as “a tireless missioner for the Province of SaskatcheThe relationship between the larger ing,” said Arnot in an interview last week. defender of the rights of all citizens,” as wan. Today, Arnot is in his second term as non-aboriginal community and the counThat lack of support was creating an CTV said in announcing Arnot as 2016’s the Chief Commissioner for the Saskatch- try’s indigenous peoples is “broken,” said injustice, said Arnot, “because the results Saskatoon Citizen of the Year. ewan Human Rights Commission. Arnot, and must be repaired. The greatest we were getting in court didn’t match what “Throughout his life, David has been a “To be quite frank, it’s really humbling tool society has, he says, is education. I believed the true facts were, in some true champion of respect and belonging for to understand that you’re being recognized (Continued on page 16)

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he response to the firNo one from university ading of University of ministration was there to thank Saskatchewan Huskies Towriss for his years of service. football coach Brian Towriss Stoicheff and the board has been overwhelming. became targets for the way the One after another, the emails firing was handled. How the acin my inbox told a story of outtual firing was executed is not rage. Writers said the man who clear. My best guess is memcoached the team for 33 years bers of the board delivered the deserved better than telling news to Towriss and had input players, assistant coaches and into his exit strategy. the media that he was “stepping The advisory board is the down.” first of its kind in Canada. It Editor Some called for the fouris comprised of 11 people, six month-old Huskie Athletics members of the public and five advisory board of trustees to be, as one from inside the campus. writer said, nuked. Others said they would Public members are David Dube, think twice before supporting the univer- Diane Jones Konihowski, Tom Anselmi, sity financially. David Sutherland, Shelley Brown and The board was unveiled with great Ken Juba. U of S representatives are Patti fanfare in September and got down to McDougall, Greg Fowler, Debra Pozega business in November. If its mandate was Osburn, Chad London and Peta Bonhamfollowed, the board would have recomSmith. mended to U of S president Peter Stoicheff I feel badly for putting the names of that Towriss be replaced. Stoicheff would board members in one paragraph, when I have made the final call. believe there is at least one voice stron“Following discussions between ger than the rest. For example, I doubt Huskie Athletics and coach Towriss about Anselmi, a former president and chief the future of the program, it was recogoperating officer for Maple Leaf Sports nized that this is an appropriate time for & Entertainment, cares who is coaching change,” Stoicheff said in a news release the football team. Anselmi, a native of issued during the holiday season. Ontario, studied engineering at the U of S Towriss most certainly didn’t initiate decades ago. those discussions. To his credit, Stoicheff apologized durWhen the news hit that Towriss was ing the Christmas season for the manner fired, people got angry. The longtime in which Towriss’ departure was handled. coach and ambassador for the university Some writers to the Express didn’t feel the deserved better than standing in a room president’s apology was sincere. I disagree and reading a prepared statement. The with that, but it was too little, too late. other people in attendance were athletic Should Stoicheff “nuke” the board as director Basil Hughton, a communications a writer suggested? There is no doubt it is person and a number of assistant coaches. now tainted. My vote is for disbanding it,

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with the university going back to the traditional way of running an athletics department. My vote doesn’t count, though. Many believe it was time for change at the top of Huskie football. Fair enough, but if you want a new coach, fire the old one. Don’t play the “stepping down” card. The search is now underway to find a replacement. An interim coach will be named in the next month. The interim coach and the new head coach could be the same person – Scott Flory, a Huskies assistant coach. Flory, a former Canadian Football League player, is said to have an outstanding grasp on the offensive side of the ball. Flory, who won two Vanier Cups as a Huskies player, brings continuity to the program and would be able to keep many of the volunteer assistant coaches on board. Volunteer coaches are vital to a university football program. If Flory doesn’t get the job, it is expected he will leave the program to pursue other opportunities. The board might be aiming higher than Flory. A name that has popped up is Paul LaPolice, a former CFL head coach who is now an assistant with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. It will take more money than what the U of S paid Towriss to bring LaPolice to town. Perhaps his salary would be topped up by alumni. Money does talk. There are those worried that the Saskatchewan content on the team will be reduced if an outsider is brought in. That may or not be true, but college sports programs entered an era of “just win, baby” years ago. The loser, baby, in this case, is the University of Saskatchewan’s reputation.

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we’d be doing for part of a year. Some of us had physically built and painted the sets. “The atmosphere was happy and fulfilling. Spike (Romanow’s nickname) instilled in us the good old college try attitude and we were a co-operative gang. Blair trusted us to do our jobs and I called that enlightened management.” The studio buzzed. There was an array of locally produced shows. At the beginning, the Saskatoon commercials weren’t taped in advance but performed live. The news packages were filled with local content because there weren’t any national news feeds available. Some will remember that the first Grey Cup telecast for Saskatoon consumption was delivered to CFQC on film via Air Canada and was aired a day after the game. Television was hard work for pioneers like Barnsley, who thrived on it. Most anyone who ever worked at the station acknowledged that because of network service shortcomings, staff members always became more creative and innovative in programming. What Barnsley also brought to the team was a sense of community. For 27 years, he devoted his early Saturday evenings to hosting Kinsmen Kingo and that included nine years of service after he’d retired. He enjoyed the launching of the Kinsmen Delivering the weather was challenging in Greg Barnsley’s day. (Photo Supplied) Telemiracle. Behind the scenes, he assisted many community organizations, including 25 years of service to the Saskatoon Sexual Assault Centre. The stories about Barnsley’s gifts to the community, his helping hand to newcomers in the business and devotion to family are countless. He was always aware of the growing-up process within Saskatoon and rom 1955 until 1992, with the big picture because sion licence and Barnsley was more than he made the city a better place to live. Greg Barnsley was the that’s where the systems form willing to try the new game. Happily in his later years, he still king of the television to affect our region and you Once Walter Romanow had been hired shared a strong friendship with his weathermen in Saskatoon. worked down to the regional as the TV station manager, his first hir1951 Bedford Road Collegiate graduatGiven the advances in higher forecasts.” ings were Barnsley and Ted Bissland as ing class. Through Barnsley’s connectechnology that today’s weathBarnsley died at the age of announcers, John Lumby as photographer tions and goodwill, three of them, Stan ercasters enjoy, Barnsley’s role 83 on Jan. 2, leaving behind and Nik Semenoff as artist. The wellThomas, Larry Langley and Gerry Moir was challenging and an amazing a career which was rich in established news department and the radio launched TV careers at CFQC. feat. He performed in the CFQC tradition. He was part of the station were virtually across the hall from On a personal note, I worked at CFQC studio five evenings a week with innovative team, being at the new TV studios. in both radio and television for four and the use of a blackboard, chalk, the right place at the right Barnsley was there when Romanow and a half years, 1960 through 1964, and an eraser and the felt markers time, to help Saskatoon enter general manager Blair Nelson pushed the although my main work was in sports and he threw at the board. He did the new, wonderful magical button on December 5, 1954, to launch the news, it was always comforting to have People his job in co-operation with the world of television in Decem- station. a presence of someone like Barnsley in Saskatoon Weather Office. ber, 1954. “No one considered it a historic mothe building. Over the years, we stayed Having watched Canada’s first TV While growing up in Saskatoon, he ment at the time,” Barnsley once told me connected, often as a visitor to Grey Cup weatherman Percy Saltzman while study- wanted to be in radio and was hired by in an interview. “Many of us looked upon parties or the Bedford Road reunions, ing at Ryerson College in Toronto, BarnCFQC in 1953. The A.A. Murphy family it as a reward for the rehearsals of mock always events which were filled with good sley’s philosophy was that “you started had also secured Saskatoon’s first televishows, commercials and newscasts which storytelling.

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Last time I looked, we are a winter city

t seems fitting that, as I ice skating location in Canada. is built around pillars like block the an otherwise productive, active space for write this, the temperature Virtually every school playwind, maximize sunshine and, of course, kids and families alike. in Saskatoon is minus 33. ground has a hill perfect for increase cycling. In communities fortunate enough to On this day, and at that temsledding. Kinsmen Park is a Fine, but according to highly scienhave a handful of dedicated volunteers, perature, we’re officially the popular destination for the tific information I found on the Internet, the ice is there, and it’s used. But I’d coldest spot in Canada. cross-country skiers living Edmonton has an average of 25 days per venture that these days more of them are It’s fitting because today I among us. year where the temperature dips below empty than being used. Can you imagwant to talk about Saskatoon Popular local businesses minus 20, while Saskatoon has more ine if we had dedicated that $85,000 to being a winter city. geared to outdoor adventures than 40. Edmonton rarely, if ever, dips seasonal civic staff tasked with keeping That concept was introhave winter covered, renting below minus 30. Further, our tax base is the rinks flooded and maintained? duced to city council in March cross-country ski packages, smaller, we have significant infrastrucMaybe a couple of students who move 2016, when city hall submitsnow shoes and FatBikes. Ap- ture needs and, frankly, don’t we have from rink to rink hosting after-school Columnist ted a report focused on the parently Saskatoon is home to higher civic priorities right now? programs for kids could do the work, various ways Saskatoon could Canada’s only known FatBike What I keep coming back to is the similar to the summer programming at capitalize, both indoors and outdoors, on specific cycling club – FatLanders Fatfact that Saskatoon already has a full paddling pools. You can be guaranteed winter. That report preceded a breakfast Tire Brigade. It promotes winter riding slate of winter activities. What more are that if the space was being utilized propheld a few weeks later, at which the city options and excursions. we looking for? Based on the lineups erly, the rinks’ boards would be ripe for outlined its winter city strategy to people Then there’s the PotashCorp Winter- and packed planes at the Sunwing depar- the same advertising – thereby, revenue who go to those kinds of breakfasts. The shines festival. Growing in scope and ture terminals, the only additional thing – that we see in indoor rinks across the public’s input is also being sought, apanimation every year, it was named in we’re looking for in January is a tan. city. parently, and this strategy is one of city December 2015 one of the Globe and In the meantime, if we’re really doing Saskatoon is fortunate enough to excouncil’s four-year priorities. Mail’s “Ten reasons to stay in Canada this, there’s only one thing we should be perience distinct weather patterns, each At this juncture, I’ll point out the for your winter vacation.” focusing on to make this a better city in with their own joys, and their own drawobvious: this whole process is costing Wintershines encompasses a full week winter, yet I’ve not heard a peep about backs. We are not a winter city. We are a Saskatoon taxpayers money. In fact, I’d of activities, including a snow park, it: our dozens of community and school- four seasons city, full of people and busiventure that the cost of developing the sleigh rides, bonfires and even a petting yard skating rinks that haven’t seen ice nesses doing just fine making the best of winter city strategy is already into the zoo. in years, even decades. They sit, vacant all of them, believe it or not, without city double digits, after salaries and adminisThe Broadway Theatre’s Winterand rundown, a total waste of space in hall holding their hands. tration are taken into consideration. ruption festival is also growing nicely. DC010912 Darlene In December, city council approved a A variety of acts from live theatre to new expenditure of $85,000 for research, podcast tapings to live music will be preconsultation and communication for the sented from Jan. 19 to 22 at the theatre whole winter city thing, as well as for or at various venues in the vicinity. This things like decorative lighting, skate year’s lineup includes a live taping of rentals and warming shelters. Canadaland with Jesse Brown, GrownReally? ups Read Things They Wrote as Kids DC071102 Darlene Which part of winter in Saskatoon do at the Cosmo Seniors Centre, and Fred we need to study? And did anyone ask Penner at Persephone Theatre. the residents of Saskatoon if they actuSo, with all this and more already in ally want a winter city? place, can somebody help me understand DC071102 Darlene On days where prolonged exposure why city hall feels the need to jump in to to the outdoor air in Saskatoon isn’t fix something that really isn’t broken? potentially fatal, my family can head In part, I think there’s some Edmondown to the Delta Bessborough to skate ton-envy involved. Edmonton, led by DC071102 Darlene at the Cameco Meewasin Skating Rink, Mayor Don Iveson, has invested a ton of JW010912 James Store Hours: 8am to 10pm which has been dubbed the best outdoor resources in a winter city strategy, which DC010902 Darlene

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o, you’re in The Free home for the evening, much now?” an old friend like what we have today. After asked. day school, the students on the I haven’t heard that phrase, “The reserve were bused into the Free,” in such a long time I alclosest town. most forgot about it. It was used I’ll never forget my first ride for those who lived on the streets on a school bus. The school bus or a life of addictions. In prison, we had was a horse team with a it had a different meaning. covered wagon. The wagon was “You’re joining The Free,” like one of those gypsy wagons the guys would say when an made of wood with windows. It inmate was getting released. The also had a small stove inside. Columnist Free is more than just a saying to The best part was waiting for those who are caught in the cycle the jingle of the bells the horses of drug or alcohol dependency. It’s also wore around their necks. Then, I knew I more than just a phrase for those who are would soon get inside to the comfort of a incarcerated or shut in a hospital. warm fire. The Free is something tangible; someFor some reason, the students aboard thing a person can feel or even smell. I were shy and hardly spoke a word. Of suppose I almost forgot what The Free course, you couldn’t shut me up because meant because of all the time I spent in a I spoke Cree and there’s not a shy bone in hospital or waiting at a clinic. Going back me. a few years, The Free meant walking out of That, I’m sure, was because I grew up an institution and not looking back. on a northern trap line and the only comEver since I was a boy, I dreamed of pany I had was my dogs. The Free. Maybe that was partly because I For the past eight years, I’ve been batstarted my education in a residential school tling an intestinal illness. There have been – although I was one of the lucky ones, be- several times when the doctors said I would cause that whole concept was being phased never make it past six months – and yet out by the time I started school. here I am. It’s been less than a year where I I was in one of those schools for a few haven’t felt pain or lived in a land of confuweeks when the rules changed, and First sion. It’s only been a while that I can truly Nations students were allowed to attend a say I am enjoying The Free. day school. The day school on my reserve It’s only when freedom has been previwas right next door to the residential ously taken that one truly understands how school. to live the life of The Free. Today, I enjoy There were white families who lived my walks, which are a big part of my medion the reserve and their children attended cal recovery. Today, I can thank the Creator the day school. I remember looking at the for standing with me during the darkest days students and thinking how nice it would be of my life. I can feel it and even smell it. to wear shorts, a T-shirt and proper runners. I look forward to the new year. I look The students at the residential school forward to the challenges and good times. had to wear uniforms that felt like horse Today, my street is going in a direction blanket material. The Free, at the time, where I see so much potential. Today, my meant I could wear anything I wanted. street is leading toward a little place called A day school was where a student The Free. JW010906 James could attend school during the day and go KNCREE@gmail.com

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The BRIT tradition continues from Jan. 12-14 Tammy Robert Saskatoon Express t’s an annual tradition, not just for high school students in Saskatoon, but those all over the globe. In 1968, the Saskatoon Secondary Schools Athletic Directorate sanctioned the first Bedford Road Senior Boys’ Invitational Basketball Tournament. Today, BRIT include more teams, including out-of-city / out-of-province / out-of-country teams. Hundreds of volunteers, teachers and students work gruelling hours to ensure that every year BRIT is as good, if not better, than the one before. This year 49th annual event will be held at Bedford Road Collegiate from Jan. 12-14. Opening ceremonies kick things off at 7 p.m. on Jan. 12, with the always popular Cheerleading and Pom Competition being held on Jan. 14 at noon. The list of high school teams playing in BRIT 2017 is as follows: Bedford Road Collegiate; Dr. Martin LeBoldus (Regina); Holy Cross High School; St. Francis Xavier (Edmonton); St. Joseph High School; Séminaire Saint-Joseph (Trois-Rivieres); Carson Graham (North Vancouver); Marion Graham; Colonel By Secondary (Ottawa); Magrath High School (Magrath, B.C.); Campbell Collegiate (Regina); Strathcona High School (Edmonton). The Saskatoon Express sat down with Craig Schumacher, a teacher at Bedford Road Collegiate and a BRIT organizer, to learn more about this year’s tournament.

Saskatoon Express: What’s new for BRIT 2017? CS: As a school built on tradition, Bedford Road has stuck to that in relation to the BRIT. And besides, when you have got the right formula for success, why would you mess with it? In all seriousness, there have not been many major changes to the tournament this year. One addition is the furthering of the partnership with the University of Saskatchewan which has provided a tournament breakfast on campus for all teams and coaches on the Friday morning of the tournament, and is providing practice times for teams at the PAC centre. Another addition to the tournament this year is a flag-raising ceremony which will take place during the opening ceremonies on Thursday night at 7 p.m. Bedford Road Collegiate will be adding the Canadian, Saskatchewan, Treaty 6, and Metis flags to a permanent, prominent location in the gymnasium. (Continued on page 13)

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Brockman has devoted life to coaching Darren Steinke Saskatoon Express ean Brockman might go beyond the definition of career coach, when you consider he started working behind the bench in his late teens. Brockman, who is the head coach of the Saskatoon Blades, had been playing juvenile hockey and wasn’t looking to get into the coaching game. Things changed when he suffered a long-term injury at a tryout camp for a Regina team. “One of the guys from back home called me and asked me if I wanted to get involved,” said Brockman, who is from St. Benedict, Sask. “I was pretty young at the time. “I didn’t do it right off the bat, and he was pretty persistent and he got me into it. It just started that way. I think I was 18 at the time.” Brockman helped coach a minor hockey team in the Wakaw area, the Tri-Town Lions. While Brockman healed up to play senior hockey, he kept coaching. Coaching quickly became his main focus and he worked his way up the minor hockey ladder from atom and peewee to bantam and midget. In 1997, Brockman joined the junior A ranks as an assistant coach and assistant general manager of the Humboldt Broncos. He became the head coach and general manager in 2004 and joined the Blades as an assistant coach in 2014. Brockman said his passion for the game kept him in the sport.

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Dean Brockman started coaching hockey when he was a teenager. (Photo by Darren Steinke) “I always loved it,” said the 49-year-old bench boss. “I grew up watching my brothers. I grew up just loving the game. “It was an era where there were no video games or anything of that nature. I really grew up listening to it on the radio. You always pictured your heroes. “The first thing that I can remember vividly about hockey was the ’72 (CanadaRussia) series. From there, it was really about the love of the game and just trying

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to inspire players or kids to be better people, and inspire kids to play further than what they expected themselves.” Brockman made a lot of big memories during the 17 years he coached in Humboldt. The Broncos won the Royal Bank Cup for national junior A supremacy in 2003, when he was an assistant coach. He guided the Broncos to another Royal Bank Cup win in 2008 as head coach and took them back to the tournament in 2009

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and 2012. “The Royal Bank Cup was pretty surreal,” said Brockman. “At the time, you didn’t really know what you had accomplished. “You knew you had a fairly good team. As years have gone by, you know the importance of it. We had really good players. We were a team that nobody ever really gave us chances to win those things. (Continued on page 7)

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(Continued from page 6) hen you can do it and you can do it a couple of times, it is pretty special.” Brockman said the key to the Broncos’ success was the fact the staff looked for players who were good people first. “I always say good people make good players,” said Brockman. “We certainly had a lot of good people involved with the organization as players. “I think we had a great local affair with a lot of the towns that were around there. We had a lot of good local talent. I still believe that is the biggest thing. “If you are a good person, good things will happen to you.” During his time in Humboldt, Brockman said he had opportunities to jump to the WHL, but the moves didn’t work for his family. He also interviewed for some opportunities where he didn’t get the job. When the chance came to join the Blades in 2014, everything lined up both in his work life and family life to make the move. Once he was coaching in the WHL, Brockman said he had some settling in to do. “There are a lot of similarities, but there are a lot of differences,” said Brockman. “You spend more time on the road with these guys. “They all want to continue their playing career beyond Western Hockey League. They’re here because they made hockey their choice more than anything. Certainly, I think that is some of the differences. “The similarities, the game is still played with a puck, and it is still in the same mentality. Maybe the professionalism is more so in the Western Hockey League than it would be in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League.” Brockman became the Blades head coach last June after Bob Woods moved on to become an assistant coach with the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres. JW010913 James During his first season as head coach,

Brockman’s biggest challenge comes from the fact he keeps losing his top players to injury. Centre Cameron Hebig hasn’t played at all this season due to an upper body injury. Right-winger Mason McCarty has been out a month and a half with a lower body injury. Over-age centre Jesse Shynkaruk and defenceman Jake Kustra had extended stays on the shelf earlier this season, and over-age centre Markson Bechtold could also have a lengthy stay on the injury list. “It has been frustrating, because we haven’t had the lineup that you are thinking you are going to have way back when you get the job,” said Brockman. “That has been probably the biggest challenge, is trying to fit square pegs in round holes at times. “I like what we’ve done. I think we’ve created a culture where guys want to get better and want to work harder. We’ve tried to be a team that is going to be relentless. “At times, it has been frustrating, because I know we haven’t been there. We’ve brought a lot of good things off and on the ice that we can certainly carry into the second half of the year.” Brockman is trying not to look too far ahead. He believes his staff – which includes new assistant coaches Bryce Thoma and Ryan Keller along with veteran assistant coach Jerome Engele – has meshed well. “We’ve all been on the same page since day one,” said Brockman. “We want to make this team successful. I guess what you take from the first part is you just have to stick with it no matter what happens. “We’ve had our share of adversity, but in the same breath, we don’t want to use any of those things as excuses. Hopefully in the second half, our guys learned a lot in the first half that we can carry that forward.” (You can see more of Darren Steinke’s work in his online blog stankssermon. blogspot.ca.)

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Charlene Young beats the odds every day Charlene Young doesn’t consider blindness a disability. (Photo by Steve Gibb) Tammy Robert Saskatoon Express harlene Young wants you to look past what she can or cannot see. The 29-year-old Saskatoon woman loves good books, great movies, cooking and volunteering. She’s just finished bingewatching Stranger Things on Netflix, and is now considering starting The Crown, given the good things she’s heard about it.

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Young also adores her job. Once a week, bright and early at 7 a.m., Young settles at her desk at the Saskatoon Police station, and begins deftly stick-handling the hundreds of phone calls the station receives daily. And at the end of her 10-hour shift, she has once again beaten the odds. Young is blind and has been so her entire life. According to the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB), only one-third

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text on the screen.” Instead of using a mouse, Young uses key combinations to carry out computer tasks. “I also use a dual headset where the left ear piece hooks up to the phone, and the right ear piece hooks up to the computer, where I can hear my speech synthesizer,” explained Young. “This makes it easier for me to multi-task talking on the phone and using my computer to find a particular phone number to transfer someone to.” The recent graduate of the office administration program at Saskatchewan Polytechnic says she is very grateful to the Saskatoon Police Service for considering her abilities before her blindness, and for hiring her right away. “Other employers need to understand that working with most people who are blind or partially sighted is no different than working with anyone else,” said Young. “I knew that I wanted to make a difference and change the perspectives of people around hiring someone who is blind or partially sighted, and hope they would get over their misconceptions.” The misconceptions are certainly rampant. CNIB research reveals that a whopping 70 per cent of Canadians say that, given the choice of two fully and equally qualiﬁed job candidates, they would hire a sighted job candidate over a blind one, yet people who have previously worked with a person with vision loss are more likely to hire the blind candidate over a sighted candidate, all other things being equal. “My biggest challenge has been finding employment,” admitted Young. “I was able to overcome this challenge by doing some networking with my MLA in Rosetown. That led me to find my first job in 2010, at the Highway Hotline with the Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure Department for the Government of Saskatchewan.” While Young is happy in the role she has with SPS now, it is only part-time, so she is still looking for full-time employment in Saskatoon in a clerical, customer service or data entry role. Ten years from now, she says she hopes to be raising a family while enjoying a fulfilling executive role within a great organization. Given everything she’s accomplished so far, there’s little doubt Young will achieve all of her goals. For more information about hiring someone who is blind or partially sighted, please visit http://cnib.ca/employability. 518 Circle Drive East 306.652-6474 www.amishheirlooms.ca

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New single health board decision opens door for discussion

We see health care as free, didn’t see the single probut it is not free. It is tax-funded vincial health board deciand nigh on 50 per cent of every sion coming. I thought the tax dollar goes into medicare. province would break it up into When medicare was introduced south, central and north regions in 1961-62, we all paid an annual much like it did with the young premium. There were rates for offenders’ facilities. families and singles and those The information to date is with incomes under a certain so preliminary that it is hard threshold did not pay. to determine whether this is Other provinces still do have a good move or not, but we premiums and/or insurance should assume that a financiallyColumnist packages for additional services, strapped provincial government such as ambulance, therapists, believes it will save money in the long run. What is dangling in the wind prescriptions, dental, optical, travel, and so is whether delivery of health care services on. Many residents of Saskatchewan also will be the same, better or worse under this have additional coverage packages that are part of their employment contracts, yet we model. don’t see this as tiered health care. In listening to media reports on the But if a private clinic offers cataract announcement, the major public reactions seem to be lack of community input and that surgery or an MRI at a cost to the patient, it is viewed as tiered service, a form of decisions will be made by a remote board not understanding local concerns. Chalk this privatization and as unfair even though this does shorten the queue and take stress off the up to taking the Band-Aid off with a quick public system. It is a parallax view. rip versus a slow peel. There was a time when we had deterHad the government held public hearings, every health organization would have rent fees, and once or twice an annual presented reasons for maintaining the status statement arrived advising how much money was spent on us individually or on quo and predicting doom and gloom if any change was to be implemented, particularly our families in that year. Political opposition cried foul and if there were to be jobs eliminated. those practices went by the wayside. And, of course, everyone (and there are Then a government came along espousing many) who had a negative experience in health care would have taken the stage to tell universality, meaning no one should pay their tale of woe, although those tales would anything and that’s when we all stopped caring about the cost. Just give us everyhave related to the current system rather thing we want and don’t charge us. We than any proposed new governance model. Already detractors are claiming this move is buried our heads in the sand, bought into the first step to privatization, trying to instill the free model and then complained about fear in our hearts. Don’t they know the fed- increasing taxes and declining services. During medicare’s history, new services eral government mandates that all provinces were added and some were eliminated due provide public health care? A governance board sets the policies and to excessive costs. Some hospitals were goals, negotiates contracts and, likely, sets an closed and many facilities fell into disreannual budget. It does not do daily manage- pair, remaining so to this day. Wait times for surgery were growing and facility opment of hospitals nor should it impede the erational costs were becoming prohibitive. operations of doctors’ offices. We can presume that some chief executive officers and People started using high-cost emergency administrative positions will be transitioned departments for hangnails and sniffles instead of booking a doctor’s appointment into managers with new titles, changed or going to a medi-clinic. responsibilities and possibly lower wages. When pharmacare came into being, I would like to think that a new board patients were being over-medicated because will examine issues that, although they seem costly at the front end, may prove to the cost of the dispensing fee was cheap. We be financially prudent down the road. For abused our system and let it become a political football. Now it is time to pay the piper. example, I have never understood why Have no doubt that the proposed model hospitals discharge most mothers and their will evolve over the months and years to infants within hours of birth, especially first-time mothers or single mothers with- come. Opponents will sabre rattle about privatization and any change of service out home support. delivery. Perhaps the new board will be After long hours of labour, a mother comprised of members from each of the needs time to recover, may have medicurrent regional boards, who will be concal needs resulting from the delivery and requires instructional help with nursing and duits for local concerns. The future role of Catholic hospitals, infant care. I wonder how many of those new mothers and/or infants wind up return- which are owned by the Catholic Health Council, will need to be determined. But ing to doctors’ offices and hospitals with if nothing else results from this proposed more costly health needs that could have model, the government has, at the very least, been prevented with some post-natal care. opened the door for a dialogue about mediIn the last few years, we have been care and we, at the very least, should open warned that changes to health care are essential, or the system will collapse under our minds to considering options for the future of our valued health care system. its own weight. However, changing a As a friend likes to tell me, we should governance model isn’t going to improve pay at least the same amount to see a doctor health care delivery, although changing as we pay a barber for a haircut. public mentality and managing expectaDC010918 Darlene ehnatyshyn@gmail.com tions of our systems could preserve it.

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for her, for once. For the first time, we used Airbnb. We have previously used VRBO (Vacation Rental By Owner, for the uninitiated) with generally good to great results, but couldn’t find a Winnipeg place near Mum’s on VRBO – at least, not an affordable one. Arriving at our destination, we find that the parking area out back, promised for our use, has not been shovelled out. You may recall Winnipeg was inundated by snow, courtesy of a Colorado low, at Christmas. The streets have windrows up to my thighs. According to one newscast, this made December the second snowiest since record-keeping began. The porch, as I push open the creaking door, is full of ancient furniture covered in animal air. It reeks. I think, oh oh. The door isn’t locked, as the host said. We push it open, and are almost thrown back by the smell: decades of three-pack-aday smoking, pet odours, and God knows what else. The fridge is filthy. Mouse poison covers the floor in the bathroom closet. The host informs me that junkies used to live there, but he was able to clean all the blood off the walls before repainting. A few minutes later, I open the front door – well, push it hard; it scrapes against the stoop – to close the porch door, after bringing in our bags. (Continued on page 11)

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(Continued from page 10) wo enormous dogs, barking their fool heads off, streak toward me. I dash back to the inside door and pull with all my might, shrieking. (Husband at this point is moving the car, having been yelled at by the neighbour for parking in front of a path.) We drop our bags, and head for Mum’s. Later, we return. Within half an hour, I am toasting coffee grounds on the stove to ameliorate the reek, and then head to the washroom. The toilet won’t flush. I am done. We know there have been creatures. What will come out at night? Not to mention junkies. We pack up and head for Mum’s, as I text the host. I still have not heard back from him. Messaging Airbnb about this situation, I learn I’m going to get less than half my money back. If there was ever a reason for caveat emptor, this is it. Airbnb is supposed to check things out, at least to some extent, and ensure your payments, and so on and so forth. Be not assured. Five days later, we are back at the airport. We trek down two flights of stairs and wait in a freezing hallway to, again, cross the tarmac toward our tiny waiting

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Raven Mystique Clow produces several potash canvases, but only during the summer; the process is so chemically toxic, it must be done outside in the summer months. In the winter months, he is now creating a series of paintings featuring the raven, a bird that fascinates him due to its intelligence and diverse cultural meaning. “I have to switch back and forth if I want to keep painting all year round. The potash work is seasonal, because of the process. “It’s something completely different from the potash. You’re kind of bouncing between almost abstract art with the potash and more traditional wildlife paintings with the ravens. “It’s certainly helping me hone my skills. I’m hoping to get enough ravens together to eventually have just an exhibition of ravens.” The potash works are now hanging alongside the ravens at City Perk on Seventh Avenue in City Park, in Clow’s show entitled From The Ground Up. “It’s a mixture of everything,” said the man who likes to mix it up. “There are wheat fields, potash, ravens. It shows everything that I do.” He’s quite absorbed in the raven’s mystique, and notes that the bird is considered smarter than dolphins or chimpanzees. “For some people they’re a good omen, for some they’re a bad omen,” said Clow. “For the Cree people here, (ravens are) not necessarily a good thing. If you go out to the west coast, it’s the creator for the world. It’s literally the top of the totem pole. “They’re extremely intelligent animals. I’m quite fascinated by how they mean different things to different people.” While painting the ravens may not be as technically “impossible” as painting with potash, they have also come with challenges. “Never having painted a bird before in my life, like an idiot I start with a black one,” said Clow, laughing. That being said, his ravens have already achieved some notice, taking three blue ribbons at the Reflections of Nature Wildlife Show. Winter Glide, the largest work hung at City Perk, received best of show at Reflections. The works are for sale. Contact Clow via his website, www.jamesmclow.ca, for price information. He will also show two pieces at the Mann Gallery in Prince Albert coming up in February, in a juried event.

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Rapunzel, child friendly dinner buffet followed by a dance JANUARY 11 lead by Prince Charming. For children 12 years of age and The Soroptimist International Club of Saskatoon is hosting under and their guardian. 100 percent of all donations will the 2016 Soroptimist International Award Winner, Terriea go toward the purchase of equipment for the Neonatal Wadud at the Gordon Oakes Red Bear Centre. Admission is Intensive Care Unit. Tickets $100 per person. For more free. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Senator L. Dyck will introduce information, visit www.theglenatcrossmount.ca/program/ the speaker whose subject is abuse, addiction and human princessball. trafficking. For more information, contact Lauralene66@ ***** gmail.com or at 306-229-7846. Canadian Trigeminal Neuralgia Association (CaTNA) support group meeting for people with TN and facial pain. 1:30 p.m. JANUARY 14 at Cosmo Civic Centre, 3130 Laurier Dr. For more informaOne light chant and dance. 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By RJ Currie he Canadian Open in North Battleford saw top seeds Rachel Homan and Jennifer Jones upset in Draw 1. They’re so good at throwing rocks, maybe they took things for granite. • The BC government will increase the minimum wage by 40 cents before October 2017. In related CFL news, the Lions announced a major increase in playoff bonuses. • Jayhawks coach Bill Self said he didn’t know if Svi Mykhailiuk travelled on his controversial buzzer-beater to edge Kansas State. Really? Assembling my IKEA dresser took fewer steps. • A Florida octogenarian pleaded no contest to battery and assault with a weapon in a shuffleboard fight after charges were reduced to misdemeanors. His gums weren’t loaded. • A new U.S. study ranks Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi as the three least healthy states. Main factors are obesity, smoking and being sick of Nick Saban and Alabama. • Stand-up comic Rob Schneider says he’s putting together a plan to purchase the 49ers. Probably not the first comedian to buy a joke. • December 29th was the fifth day of Christmas. NASCAR’s Ricky Stenhouse Jr. sent fellow driver and reported true

love Danica Patrick his traditional gift: five piston rings. • Pittsburgh sportswriter Gene Collier wrote an excellent column on trite, overused expressions in sports. Personally, I try 110 per cent to avoid clichés like the plague. • A belated Happy New Year to the Seattle Seahawks, who signed Devin Hester to field punts and kicks in the playoffs. And many happy returns. • UK scientists claim roosters use deception to get more than their fair share of sex. This includes disguising clucks, pretending to have found food and saying they play in the NBA. • Centre Troy Terry had three semifinal shootout goals and the only shootout marker in the final to earn Team USA junior hockey gold. Question: Did U.S. fans wave Terry Towels? • PGA boss Jay Monahan wants to change the schedule to avoid going headto-head with the NFL on Sundays. The reasons are obvious — to everyone except the CFL.

RJ’s Groaner of the Week North Pole police have finally cleared Santa’s head elf of charges of careless use of a firearm. Authorities admit mistakes were made after finding a cartridge in a pear tree.

Education key to making world a better place: Arnot

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(Continued from page 1) undamentally, we need to ensure that indigenous people have the tools that are required to participate in the economy and that fundamentally means education – education to the same degree of every Canadian citizen. “The education needs to have a frontend investment so that we can get to equal education ….equal opportunities, and that’s what we haven’t seen. You can’t have an underclass of people perpetually facing numerous social problems because of unemployment, under-education and lack of opportunity.” Others have said the same thing, he points out, such as former Prime Minister Paul Martin, who called the relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples “Canada’s national shame.” “I find that education is really the most critical feature,” said Arnot. “Education is the engine of democracy. It’s the pathway to harmony. I’ve always said that in order to get to the harmony that we need in this community, and the community of Saskatchewan, really, and Canada, we have to have respect; and the only way you can generate respect is if you generate empathy. “And empathy can only be garnered by understanding, and understanding is created by knowledge, and therefore education is the foundation for the kind of harmony, the kind of respect that we need in Saskatoon, in Saskatchewan, in Canada to have healthy, respectful communities.” To that end, while Arnot was still treaty commissioner, he was behind creating a program for Saskatchewan schools, called Teaching Treaties in the Classroom. “We called it We Are All Treaty People. That was important work, and that was down to educators and the broad breadth of stakeholders in the education community, the Saskatchewan School Boards Association, the STF (Saskatchewan Teachers

Federation), the universities, and of course the ministry of education. “That pedagogy was made mandatory by the Wall government in 2008 (for) every grade and every school in Saskatchewan. That I think has had a major influence on young people.” The pedagogy was first created in 2001. Two years later, Gov. Gen. Adrienne Clarkson and her husband, John Ralston Saul, came to Saskatoon and visited the Office of the Treaty Commissioner’s learning centre. The office had brought in Grade 3 students from Beardy’s-Okemasis Reserve and Lakeview School to welcome the couple. “When I introduced the governor general, I asked the students there, who here is a treaty person? And every child put their hand up – 30 from Beardy’s, 30 from Lakeview. All 60 students put their hands up. “They’re now adults. They now themselves are parents, and I hope they have a different view of reconciliation. I know that had a big effect on the governor general. She still recalls it in public discussions.” Now at the Human Rights Commission, Arnot has led the creation of a new pedagogy around what it means to be a Canadian citizen. The program is focused on the “New Three Rs” – rights, responsibility and respect, for students from K to 12. “We want to produce students who embody the five Es: enlightened, ethical, empathetic, empowered and engaged,” said Arnot. “Fundamentally we want all students to approach issues with the view of making the world a better place. That’s the lens with which we want students to see the future: how do we make this place better.” Arnot, for his part, sees his future as following the same path he has carved thus far. “I’m going to continue to work on all these issues . . . until I see a real change in the social fabric of Saskatchewan and Canada. It’s not going to happen overnight. I’ll be at it for a while yet.”

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