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editorial //

Local Vocal It’s been a bit of a poop-storm for democracy in our federal electoral district lately. What does it say about our parliamentary process when more than half of the slate of candidates who purport to want to sit as our member of parliament can’t commit to showing up to attend a community forum? What does it say about accountability when the nominees won’t return the calls or emails of local media? What does it say about voters’ chances of getting good representation in the House of Commons when the people claiming to want to occupy a seat there can’t even make some kind of public appearance to tell you as much? It says people don’t give a flying fig about any of that stuff. I get it. As a rule, Yellowhead is a pretty lonely place for Anybody But Conservatives—at least when you tally up the historical vote. With limited resources to run a country-wide campaign, it makes sense that parties concentrate on fighting key battles in contested ridings. And in our district, the writing’s not just on the wall, but appears to have been permanently sandblasted there. Still, this election cycle has been particularly painful. Perhaps we can chalk that up to an especially ugly contest between the federal party “leaders.” Since the writ was dropped, this has hardly been a battle of ideas. No one’s debating policy. Instead we get fear-mongering, conspiratorial pretence and character assassination. If the mud-slinging, pot shots and outright lies represent a war of attrition, the biggest casualty has got to be voters’ faith in the whole system. People are over it. And of course (of course!) the timing coincides with a traditional holiday, so instead of Uncle Chester and cousin Paisleigh agreeing to disagree over the merits of tofurkey, the fam will once again be subjected to their hot takes on immigration and climate change. How many times was “please don’t start talking about Greta Thunberg” recited over the wishbone in Alberta households this Thanksgiving? Ironically, that’s the problem. We’re not talking, we’re typing. While it might be awkward to serve up our lumpy political views with a second helping of mashed potatoes, I can’t say that’s worse than trying to engage online, where

anonymity empowers armies of trolls to spew whatever filth they think will shut down debate the fastest, and where the louder you shout, the more authority your position holds. Not to mention the sea of misinformation that can be summoned to back up whichever false narrative one sees fit to advance.

in Jasper had been cancelled, he decided to organize his own.

Even so, I still believe our country’s future has a lifeline. Here in Yellowhead, amidst the horizonless sea of apathy that has bobbed us into democratic paralysis, a buoy has been tossed. When 21-year-old Simon Golla saw that the all-candidates forum

It shows us there is hope.

While this act might not mean that suddenly Yellowhead voters across the political spectrum have agency to affect the election’s eventual outcome, it shows us that not all is lost. It shows us that democracy has a cadre of defenders. Yellowhead may be going through a poop-storm, but I’m confident that the next generation of sailors are confident in high seas. bob covey // bob@thejasperlocal.com

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All Candidates Forum gets reboot Simon Golla doesn’t mind taking things into his own hands. When Golla saw that the Jasper Park Chamber of Commerce’s October 6 All Candidates Political Forum had been cancelled due to a lack of commitment from Yellowhead nominees, the 21-year-old Jasperite rolled up his sleeves. “I thought I might as well try to put something together myself,” he said. And so, Golla, an aerospace engineering student taking a semester off from his studies at Carleton University, in Ottawa, got to work. The venue was easy enough to book—The Jasper Legion was willing and able to host on October 15—but as the Chamber of Commerce had experienced, the candidates were proving difficult to locate. “The hardest part was just getting in contact with the candidates,” he said. Once he finally did track them down, only four candidates— representatives from the Conservative, Libertarian, People’s Party of Canada and Veteran’s Coalition of Canada parties—could confirm their attendance in person. The Green and NDP candidates said they’d be happy to Skype in, and one, Jeremy Hoefsloot from the Liberals, said he

simply couldn’t get there. The fact that these folks weren’t easier to find demonstrates not only the lopsided nature of politics in this electoral district, but demonstrates that campaigning costs time and money, Golla said, two things that less-popular parties run short on. “For a lot of them it’s not like they weren’t interested or willing but they simply didn’t have the resources to do a snap trip to Jasper on a Tuesday after the long weekend,” he said. That’s the hard truth of being in a politically homogenous, geographically humungous riding. Still, not having a forum still didn’t sit well with Golla. Politics is a matter of representing constituents, he said, and to properly represent those constituents, it’s important to be able to get to know them. “In my mind it’s not enough to simply say ‘I’m abiding by a political platform,’” Golla said. “It’s important that political candidates are able to interact with the public they’re standing to represent, and that the public is able to ask questions.” A forum is one of the few opportunities for that interaction, he said.

“Nothing beats having a face to face conversation. You get that emotional response.” Golla is hoping that the October 15 forum will provoke an emotional response in the local electorate—particularly amongst voters of his generation. But he admits it’s tough to engage young people who are making the transition into adulthood. “Folks my age are grappling with the concept of what it means to be adults,” he said. “I think we have plenty of ideas for what direction we should be headed in but it’s sometimes another matter to have faith in yourself that your opinion should be taken seriously.” On the flip side, he thinks candidates have to be authentic when they ask young people for their input. If they’re reaching out to young people, Golla said, they should be doing it honestly, not just for political points. “It’s important to be intentional, as a political candidate, to say ‘I want to hear what you have to say,’ even if we don’t agree, and then taking that to heart,” he said. Golla’s event is called Pints and Politics. It takes place October 15 at 7 p.m. at the Jasper Legion. Bob Covey //

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local election //

Small town roots, big picture ideas Jeremy Hoefsloot got his first taste of political activism when he was still in high school.

Back in 2014, the ruling Alberta progressive conservative party was trying to balance a budget, but the price of oil had just taken a serious nosedive. The government was looking at a massive, unexpected deficit. To makeup for the shortfall, the PCs tried to ram through a series of cuts to scholarships for high school students going into university. Hoefsloot was one of those students. Hoefsloot was incensed. “You can’t balance a budget on the backs of students,” he said. “This really isn’t something that you should be taking out on the most vulnerable.” Hoefsloot took that message and ran with it, rallying other students in his high school and across the province. The PCs got eaten alive by the press and eventually, cancelled the cuts. Hoefsloot felt empowered. “I realized that young people could make a difference,” he said. Now Hoefsloot is once again trying to make a difference. The 22-year-old law student is running for political office. He’s campaigning for the Liberals— not exactly what you’d expect for a candidate who was raised

in Tomahawk, Alberta, a hamlet near Drayton valley “home to about 100 people and 100,000 cows,” according to Hoefsloot. But being from small town Alberta gives Hoefsloot a unique perspective on issues that his colleagues across the country don’t have, he says. For one, he says that no matter your position on the environment, it’s not fair to punish energy sector workers for their chosen careers. He supports a transition to a green economy, but one that is done in a way that takes into account the people who will be making the ultimate sacrifices. “You have to do right by the people in theses oil towns,” he said. “You can’t shake your finger and say ‘you should have known better.’” Speaking of which…despite his party leader not knowing better than to parade around in blackface as a 20-something, Hoefsloot is standing by LPC leader, Justin Trudeau. “He may have shown he was a privileged individual, glibly dealing with issues of race, but since then he’s taken serious action against radicalized violence and helped different communities through his role as Prime Minister,” Hoefsloot said. “He’s shown he’s not the same guy today that he was in 2001.” What also hasn’t changed,

//JEREMY HOEFSLOOT IS THE 2019 LIBERAL CANDIDATE FOR YELLOWHEAD.

Hoefsloot is all-too-aware of, is the voting pattern of the federal riding of Yellowhead. Since the electoral district was created in 1976 it’s been Tory blue, with the exception of a decade of Reform/ Canadian Alliance representation in the mid-1990s. And so Hoefsloot’s pitch is a pragmatic one: even if he doesn’t get in, he can be your political liaison, he says. Let’s build up our community rather than divide it,

he suggests. “It’s not just about winning and losing, it’s also about talking to people and seeing what matters to them, seeing what we can do on the national scale to make their lives easier.” Canada goes to the polls on October 21. To vote, you must be a Canadian citizen, be at least 18 years old on election day, and prove your identity and address. Bob Covey //bob@thejasperlocal.com

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“I REALIZED I’M HOME” 61 Canadians—50 from Jasper—make their citizenship official They came from Holland, the Philippines and the Czech Republic. They came from Spain, from India and Mexico.

mother-in-law—were there to support him. Not far away was Gopal Shelke and his wife, Savita. Shelke, who is from India, arrived in Jasper in 2008. At that time he would never have imagined being a Canadian citizen. But four days after he hosted his annual Indian Buffet fundraiser with

In all, 61 new Canadian citizens— joined by their families, friends, co-workers and supporters— made their status official at a community citizenship ceremony at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge October 10. “Congratulations,” Judge Claude Villeneuve told those who took their oath of citizenship. “May you be happy as “As we passed the Canadians.” park gate and saw Jasperite Rafael Marquezthe mountains I Brito was happy. The day, realized ‘I’m home.” he said, represented a milestone on a long journey. the Jasper Rotary “Canada felt like home right from Club, he was pledgthe beginning,” he said. ing allegiance to Marquez-Brito, who moved to her Majesty Queen Jasper from Mexico in 2008, said Elizabeth. the sacrifices he’s made have “It makes me proud,” been worth it to make a life in his he said. country. Lorena Barba was “It’s hard sometimes, but you just also proud to be have to keep on going,” he said. a new Canadian Rodel Pajarillaga knows about citizen. Barba came //Citizenship ceremonies offer the chance for Canadians to sacrifices. The 35-year-old moved to Jasper in 2010 tell stories about their journey to Citizenship. // bob Covey to Canada in 2007 with his wife, from Spain. She and but they had to leave their two her husband came ing family, they had an epiphany of And now—along with 60 of Caneldest children in the Philippines to Canada on a working holiday sorts. ada’s newest citizens—for Barba, while they established roots. It visa. They hadn’t planned on stay“As we passed the park gate and it’s official. wasn’t until 2015 that their chiling, but a few years ago, when they saw the mountains I realized ‘I’m dren were able to join them. Bob Covey //bob@thejasperlocal.com were returning to Jasper after visit- home,’” Barba said. “This one didn’t even know who I was,” Pajarillaga said, pointing to his 14-year-old son, Jian. But for four years now, the family has been together. Both Pajarillaga and his wife started out working at A&W; he now works for CN, while she is an insurance broker. “Many people from the Philippines have similar stories,” they said. To attain their citizenship, not only were candidates required to obtain their permanent residency, have lived in Canada for three years and prove their language skills, but they also had to pass a written test on Canadian history and politics. Pajarillaga said on many nights his children helped him study. “They are always correcting me on my pronunciation,” he laughed. On the day Pajarillaga stood up The Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge hosted a Canadian Citizenship with his fellow Canadians, all four ceremony for 61 new citizens October 10 // bob Covey of his children—plus his wife and

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FEATURE // Interviews/profiles by bob covey

Surfing the wave of scientific knowledge BOB MACDONALD WAS HOOKED ON SPACE FROM FIRST CONTACT.

As a young boy in the 1960s, MacDonald watched in awe as the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union heated up. “I figured by the time I was old and grey I’d be taking holidays on the moon,” he laughed. MacDonald might be grey these days, but the 68-year-old host of CBC’s Quirks and Quarks and one of Canada’s best-known science journalists isn’t exactly the retirement type. If he does take a holiday, it’s to explore the earth by land, sea and air. Ironically, it was by looking deep into outer space that helped him appreciate how incredible our home planet really is. “It’s a hostile universe out there,” he said. “Here we have this beautiful oasis that’s protecting us from deadly radiation from the sun. Ultimately the biggest lesson we get from astronomy is appreciating the earth.” Thousand of conversations with some of the world’s most notable scientists have undoubtedly helped that lesson sink in. But regardless of how many Nobel Peace Prize winners he interviews, how many bestselling books he writes (his newest is An Earthing’s Guide to Outer Space) and how many awards he garners for his contributions to the public’s understanding of science, he knows that humans are only scratching the surface of what’s out there. “I feel like a surfer, penetrating ignorance with science, surfing

The Dark Sky Festival is nin much in astronomical terms festivals go, that’s light year

Jasper’s Niki Wilson has been with t As the Dark Sky Festival’s science co helps pick out the stars from the dar “We want to bring in people who are ideas but also people who are eviden With Wilson’s help, the festival has o sion. Wilson said she’s not just thrill

“Ultimately the biggest lesson we get from astronomy is appreciating the earth.” along as we learn new stuff,” he said. On October 27, MacDonald will ride that wave into Jasper, where he’ll host Science For Breakfast as part of the Dark Sky lineup. MacDonald says the festival makes science interesting by bringing it to life. “To be out in nature and to see it— not to be in a scientific laboratory or doing all these high experiments— to be out in nature, whether it’s space or the forest or wherever, that’s where the Dark Sky Festival to me really works.”

Where imagination meets investigation

DR. SETH SHOSTAK WAS ALWAYS INTERESTED IN ALIENS.

But that might just have been his DNA. “There’s an evolutionary benefit to being interested in strange creatures,” Shostak says. “Humans are hard-wired for it.” Even so, Shostak’s fascination with outer space was particularly acute. As an 11-year-old, he got a telescope. As an eighth grader, he remembers reading stories about UFOs and making goofy science fiction movies with his friends. “I tested high on the imagination spectrum,” he said. These days, he’s still interested in what, to some, might constitute as sci fi. Not to mention his telescope is a lot bigger than the one he had in 1954. As the senior astronomer for the SETI (Search Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) Institute, Shostak has made it his life’s work to try to locate evidence of intelligent life in space. By using high powered radio antennas to

“There’s an evolutionary benefit to being interested in strange creatures.” eavesdrop on outer space, he and his colleagues are listening for a signal from other life forms. “We’ve only looked at a few thousand star systems,” Shostak said. “In the next 20 years that number could climb to a million.” That leads Shostak to believe we will hear from intelligent extra terrestrials in the next two decades. Which, no matter how your DNA is constructed, will be of great interest to humankind. “It’s hard to imagine any story that could be more dramatic than that,” he said. ________________________

DR. SETH SHOSTAK AND NICK POPE HOST SCIENCE FOR BREAKFAST ON OCTOBER 26 WITH A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE SEARCH FOR EXTRA TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Hard work and sacr of citizen-scientist’s DR. SHAWNA PANDYA’S SCHEDULE WAS ADMITTEDLY TIGHTLY BOOKED LAST WEEK.

She had crammed in micro gravity parabolic flight testing directly after she wrapped up underwater experiments as part of protect NEPTUNE, a mission to test how body functions change over time in space-like conditions. “It’s about par for the course,” she smiled. Micro gravity parabolic flight testing is simply, she points out, a fancy way of saying testing space suits, but if it sounds like she’s shrugging off alternately spending five days underwater and then jumping in an aircraft which simulates zerogravity by repeatedly nosediving from 30,000 feet, it’s because Pandya has her sights set much, much higher. The 34-yearold is building her skills and experience so she can someday go to space. “That’s something I’ve been training towards for a long time,” she said. That training has encompassed a spectrum of disciplines—from medicine to martial arts—but as a rule, it has been disciplined. Unequivocally, the 34-year-old credits her success to hard work and her parents’s sacrifice. In winter, 1981, the Pandya family moved from tropical India to minus-30-degree Brandon, Manitoba to give their kids a better life, as Dr. Pandya put it. “It’s the traditional immigrant story,” she said. Her own story is anything but traditional. Like the parabolic flight arc flown by the National Research Council Canada’s aircraft to simulate zero-gravity, Pandya’s path has been steep, accelerated and precise. She holds degrees in neuroscience, space studies and medicine. She is a licensed physician. She co-founded CiviGuard, a disasterresponse system that helps citizens get in contact with first responders during emergencies. She’s a sky-diver, advanced SCUBA diver and holds a black belt in Taekwondo. She speaks three languages fluently. So she’s used to her calendar

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taking place on the backdoor of her hometown, but she’s also proud of the festival’s progressiveness. “I’m proud to work with an organization that’s tried hard to keep diversity in mind,” she says. Wilson, a trained biologist who made the leap to science communicator and journalist a decade ago, says science comes to life at Dark Sky through storytelling. “I think being able to spin a good yarn, to be personable, empathetic and relatable is fundamental to any kind of communication,” she says. The festival stars profiled below are shining examples of that.

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Science as rock and roll isn’t a moonshot

the event since it was just a nebula. ontent advisor and festival host, she rk matter. e really engaging and have great nce-based,” she said. once again accomplished that misled to have a world-class festival

“We all have the same 24 hours in a day.” being full. “It’s been one adventure to the next,” she said. But Pandya insists she’s not any more gifted or talented than the next person. What has set her apart, she says, is being driven, and being organized. “Organization is one of those things that we think will come naturally as we grow up,” she said. “But just like discipline, time management and even happiness, these are things to work towards.” Pandya approaches timemanagement the same way she approaches flying an aircraft (she’s also working towards her private pilot’s license). She plots her course—in this case, setting immediate, short, intermediate and long-term goals—and maintains a constant rate of scan as she progresses on her flight path. By checking in regularly with what needs to be done now, this week, this month, etc, she’s making sure she stays on course while continuing to serve the bigger picture. “We all have the same 24 hours in a day,” she says. On October 26, Dr. Pandya will share two of those hours with Dark Sky Festival audience members when she joins an illustrious panel for an in-depth discussion about the challenges and successes of the ongoing quest to land a a crewed mission on Mars. It’s another way for this citizenscientist to inspire others while pursuing her goal of someday getting to space. In other words, par for the course.

JAY INGRAM MAY HAVE BEEN BORN IN THE WRONG ERA.

When the science writer and broadcaster looks back at Victorian England, he notes that lecture halls were regularly sold out for science presentations. “People went to science lectures the way they went to the opera,” he said. These days, despite the incredible discoveries that are taking place every day across the scientific world, science typically takes a back seat to politics, sports, weather and pop-culture. “People are missing out,” he says. But Ingram—who is best known for his 16-year tenure as the host of Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet—knows how to adapt. Part of communicating in today’s attention-deficient world is being an entertainer. Cue his latest project: Lunacy. In it, Ingram and a five-piece band take to the stage to explore humankind’s relationship with the moon. It’s a musical, visual and scientific performance examining our relationship with our closest celestial body. “It’s an integration of information and the emotional quality of music,” he said. Lunacy will make its debut at the Jasper Dark Sky Festival. The show will orbit around the 50 year anniversary of man’s first steps on the moon. Not many people realized the designer of the rocket

EarthEx Contracting LTd. “There’s a number of downsides to living on the moon. It’s effing cold and there’s no air.” that took the crew of Apollo 11 was a former Nazi-turned American hero. Likewise, Ingram is excited to help people understand that current aspirations for making another lunar landing isn’t as easy as simply firing up up Buzz Aldren’s old rocket ship. “There’s a number of downsides to living on the moon. One “day” on the moon equals 14 days and 14 nights; there’s incredibly high radiation and cosmic rays coming from the sun, unfiltered by an atmosphere; it’s effing cold; and there’s no air,” he said. “Altogether it’s a recipe for a pretty unpleasant life.” Illuminating the…(ahem)…dark side of the moon is part of how Ingram and this band will put a different spin on the 50 year anniversary of the first moon landing. “It’s a little bit rock and roll,” he said. No matter what era you should have been born in, festival goers should expect a full house. _________________________

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“Let’s call it Steve”: Night sky documentary captures spirit of astronomical discovery

professor and space physicist Eric Donovan and Elizabeth MacDonald, a space physicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. After the session, some of the group gathered at a local pub. That’s when they showed It was summer, 2014. Raztlaff, a the scientists the photo of software developer by day and the strange purple streak. an avid aurora borealis chaser by “I’ve looked at as much night, had pretty much wrapped aurora data as anyone on up his evening when he took a the planet,” Donovan said. closer look at the images he shot on a backroad north of his home in “But I’d never seen this before.” Airdrie, Alberta. Suddenly, the group knew The photos he shot of the aurora they had indeed found weren’t anything remarkable—as something special. a member of the Alberta Aurora “It was amazing,” Ratzlaff Chasers he’d taken plenty of im// Members of the Alberta Aurora Chasers under the pheremembered. “To watch ages that were more dramatic. nomenon known as steve // Daniel Sanchez the whole thing happenBut the ones of the supposed jet ing, to be there for the becontrail made him look twice. And now visitors to the Jasper graphic images from the aurora ginning of a scientific discovery.” “I saw a kind of illumination,” he Dark Sky Festival can get a sense chasers with their own data. That More research was needed, but said. “I started to reach out to find opportunity came on July 26, 2016 of the drama. Chasing Steve will they still didn’t have a name for out if anybody else saw it.” when an event registered in Dono- screen at the Chaba Theatre on what they were investigating. What his display screen showed October 26, at 10 a.m. van’s satellite data that he susIt wasn’t aurora and it wasn’t a was a distinct arc of light; a purpected might be Steve. He quickly Ratzlaff hopes the film will show proton arc. Tasked plish, green viewers that you don’t have to be a reached out to the aurora chasers with naming the convexity, scientist to help make a scientific to see if anyone else had seen it. phenomenon that bending overdiscovery. They certainly had. It represented “I think it shows anyone they discovered, head from “This is one of the most significant a breakthrough the likes of which can make significant the Alberta Authe eastern Donovan had never experienced in discoveries ever for non-scienrora Chasers were contribution to science.” horizon to tists,” he said. “I think it shows anyhis career. inspired by the 2006 “It was unbelievable,” Donovan the west. His one can make significant contribuanimated movie peers consaid. “It was the most exciting, tion to science.” Over The Hedge. As breathtaking thing I’ve ever expefirmed they Bob Covey //bob@thejasperlocal.com too, had seen the phenomenon, but such, with playful nod to helping rienced in science.” they chalked it up to a “proton arc.” mysterious a little more knowable, they named the new atmospheric Although that description was JASPER SKYTRAM event “Steve.” vague, Ratzlaff shrugged it off. It Although amateur photographers seemed no one was getting too had known about Steve for years, excited about his finding. it was new to scientists. To verify Fast forward a year later to when Raztlaff and some of his fellow au- and document the finding, Donovan and his colleagues at NASA rora chasers attended a lecture by SEPTEMBER 7 - OCTOBER 26, 2019 needed to cross reference photoUniversity of Calgary astronomy

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