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Editor-in-chief Darren McChristie Editor Adrian Lysenko adrian@thewalleye.ca Assistant Editor Rebekah Skochinski Senior Editor Tiffany Jarva Copy Editors Amy Jones, Bonnie Schiedel
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Vulnerability and Intimacy ■ 41 In Paint and Prose ■ 43 Stolen Snails and the Last Black Apples ■ 44 Riaz Mehmood
■ 46 Waasaashkaa
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n a cold evening in December 2014, I ventured into Port Arthur and stopped at the address I had been given. The windows and door were taped up with kraft paper and I could hear laughter inside. It felt like I was at the entrance of a speakeasy. In the dark room (I don’t think there were any overhead lights set up yet) there was chatter and a buzz with unfamiliar yet friendly faces. It was my first editorial meeting for The Walleye. Moving back to Thunder Bay earlier that year was almost like moving to a different city. There had always been an arts and culture scene in Thunder Bay but in the years I had been away, it seemed to have flourished tenfold with new restaurants, bars, bands, artists, as well as a magazine to cover them all. This October is a big milestone for The Walleye as it marks our 100th issue. For this month’s cover story we have decided to take a retrospective look at memorable issues, stories, and all those late nights and early deadlines with the people who were there. Plus, the magazine’s founding editor, Tiffany Jarva, gives us the story behind the
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inaugural issue’s cover photo and we put some of our favourite facts and stats that we’ve collected over the years into an infographic. Also in this issue, we look ahead at the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra’s upcoming season, preview the Toronto International Festival of Authors’ Lit on Tour, and we get the skinny on Waasaashkaa, the second annual gathering of Great Lake Surfers. This month also brings Halloween and things get a bit spooky as we feature some events happening on and around All Hallows’ Eve. I haven’t been here from the beginning but looking back from that first editorial meeting, I know I have been extremely fortunate to be part of the magazine and as editor I’ve met and worked with some incredible people who personify the best of Thunder Bay. As always, thank you very much to the founders of the magazine, contributors, advertisers, and especially our readers. Without all of you, we wouldn’t have made it this far. Here’s to another 100!
Featured Contributor Maria Artiga Maria was born in Toronto, raised in Chippawa and Niagara Falls, and recently made the big move to Thunder Bay. Her previous experience and education are in public relations and event management, and she is a self-proclaimed connoisseur of chai lattes. As a freshly minted Walleye contributor, she assists with social media, special projects, and events listings. Her passions include food, travel, cuddling with puppies, and living a sustainable life. Catch her around town Instagramming for The Walleye or dining out at Thunder Bay’s fave spots.
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Now in its fourth year, this annual culinary celebration of local cuisine, food producers, and farmers has more participating restaurants than ever—which means even more opportunity to enjoy good food at a great price. Each restaurant will offer prix fixe meals of two or three courses for $25 and $35 in mid-October using at least one local product like cheese, coffee, pasta, beer, meat, eggs, poultry, hot sauce, fruit, or vegetables. It’s a chance for both regulars to these establishments and those who’ve never been to enjoy the freshest and the best of the bountiful harvest season. Check their Facebook page for a list of restaurants and call ahead to book a table. Bon appetit! facebook.com/northerndelightstbay
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Sleeping Giant Brewing Company Prost! You don’t have to book a flight to Munich to partake in this celebration of beer and German culture. Sleeping Giant Brewing Company’s Oktoberfest will include a beer lounge, beer and cheese pairings, a wursteating contest, a stein-holding contest, and food by The Sweet North Bakery (think salted pretzels and spicy mustard). Advance tickets for this 19+ event are $5, or you can opt in as a VIP for $25, which gets you VIP entry, a glass stein souvenir, and a beer token. Doors open at 4 pm, and opening ceremonies are at 5:30 pm. Plus, there will be a breakfast the next day in the taproom with a cost of $20 for adults, $8 for kids. Proceeds from the event support Our Kids Count. sleepinggiantbrewing.ca
The Rocky Horror 4 Show
October 18-November 10 Downtown Port Arthur
Let’s do the time warp again! The Rocky Horror Show is a musical by Richard O’Brien that has been thrilling audiences and has had a cult-like following since its debut in the early 70s. You know how the story goes: on the way to visit a former college professor, two clean-cut kids run into car trouble during a rainstorm and stop at Dr. Frankn-Furter’s place for help. But that’s not all they find. Put on your fishnets and come along for the ride as Brad and Janet meet Riff-Raff, Magenta, Columbia, Rocky, and more. Get your tickets early to this unforgettable interactive play and get ready for the callouts! Call the box office at 345-5552, or order online. There’s a pay-what-you-can performance on October 28. magnus.on.ca
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Thunder Bay Community Auditorium They are calling it their most inclusive season ever, and the TBSO launch concert promises to be a special one, featuring Toronto-based music group the Métis Fiddler Quartet in the first half. This musical group of siblings has performed worldwide sharing their music, which is a blend of their Métis roots with jazz and classical music. Their performance will be a mix of Spanish, Sephardic, French, English, and Indigenous sounds. Then for the second half, the TBSO will deconstruct and reconstruct the classical symphony using some of the greatest works of all time from Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, curated by award-winning music director and conductor Paul Haas. Tickets are available at the Thunder Bay Community Auditorium box office and online. tbso.ca
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Various Locations Feed your hunger this Halloween! Join DefSup for their Lucky 13 downtown-wide Halloween festival and fundraiser for contemporary arts. When DefSup promises, they deliver, and the devilish good time is in the details: a cover of $20 gets you into all seven venues and a multi-pass/wristband with times and locations to help you schedule your horror. Mingle and move through all of the best Port Arthur haunts: The Foundry, Crocks, Black Pirates Pub, The Sovereign Room, Red Lion Smokehouse, El Tres, ATMOS, and everywhere in between. In one night see 54 performance acts, 42 live bands and DJs, with 235 musicians and performers. Make sure you arrive dressed to kill because there are thousands in prizes up for grabs for Best Costumes. Check their website for the latest spooky details.
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Persian Dining Our First Cover Shoot
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huge part of why it was easy to say yes to being part of The Walleye team was because of publisher/editor-in-chief Darren McChristie’s vision for the first cover: persians in a fine dining setting. It was a new take on the persian that hadn’t been done before. So fun. So quirky. So quintessential Thunder Bay. I loved it. We rolled with it, deciding to collect obvious and maybe not-so-obvious Thunder Bay “stuff” to include with the persians on the cover. And then it felt like a natural progression to pull characters from the content to feature as well. The cover was shot in my dining room by photographer John-Paul Marion. McChristie and Marion
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were often huddled together discussing possible angles and playing with the lights. We had boxes of persians. Parents fussing. Kids running around. Me running around. The Loop (a fairly new addition to the local fashion scene) totally “got” what we were doing and agreed to provide clothing. We had spent days leading up to the shoot discussing what we should feature. I borrowed a signed Staal jersey from a teacher friend. I printed off photos of Terry Fox and Paul Shaffer and framed them. The McChristies dug out an old Canada Games Choklit Moose colouring book. We also featured amethyst, local art, books, athletes, and albums. And then there was the
trophy walleye—our namesake. I sometimes still catch myself smiling looking at the nail hole in the door to my den that we used to mount that walleye. My son is on that cover wearing a trapper hat and a not-so-obvious-Thunder Bay-connection Parachute Club t-shirt—keyboard player Lauri Conger was originally from Thunder Bay and co-wrote many of popular 80s pop band’s songs. My son is playing with a miniature-sized Bombardier train. My friend Martha’s two daughters are there, one in a hockey jersey, the other in a high chair with a Thunder Bay-manufactured tray cover. Internationally known Grandmaster local pool player
(who was the husband of my daycare provider) Vince Chambers is also on the cover, along with roller derby ref Diane Meronyk. At the time, derby had been in the city for less than a year and I was a derby girl myself (aka TJ Hax). The derby team was pivotal in helping us launch the magazine, handing out the first issue at the corner of Bay and Algoma and during Canada Day celebrations. I have no doubt in my mind if we hadn’t taken the time and effort to get that first cover right, we wouldn’t have been embraced as quickly and warmly as we were. Here’s to that first cover for setting the right tone. Here’s to “Persian Dining.”
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From Grassroots to Game Changer
The History of The Walleye as Told by its Creators and Contributors The Lead-Up In 2007, Darren and Michelle McChristie started Superior Outdoors, an outdoor lifestyle magazine focused on the north shore. It was a glossy magazine, sold in stores and through subscriptions in Canada and the US. They did everything in-house, literally, from their kitchen. Darren McChristie (publisher/ editor-in-chief): My father, Doug, is an accountant (retired), and did a remarkable job of managing Superior Outdoors’ finances which kept us afloat so we could start The Walleye. We did everything from design and layout, ad sales, managing
subscriptions, and distribution to some of the photography, writing, and editing. As a small company, we didn’t have enough revenue to hire anyone to help us out. I always maintained that to do less, we had to do more—I recognized the need to start another publication to raise more capital and enable us to hire some staff. I moved to Thunder Bay from London [Ontario] in the late 80s and, over the years, observed the impact local media had on Thunder Bay’s sense of identity. Media holds a mirror to its community, but I felt that the image being reflected wasn’t accurate—it was missing the people who were quietly doing amazing things.
Superior Outdoors was an effort to showcase our area’s natural beauty and the adventurous people embracing it while The Walleye covers the unique people, places, and things that make our city distinct.
At the time we launched the magazine, Thunder Bay was struggling with a lot of empty retail spaces. It wasn’t exactly the best time to start a magazine; it was only two years after the market crash of 2008. Darren McChristie (publisher/editor-in-chief)
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It honestly felt like a small miracle to pull off that first issue. Tiffany Jarva (founding editor)
Tiffany Jarva (founding editor): I was supply teaching and a fairly new mom. I met Darren and Michelle when they first launched Superior Outdoors. I worked as a writer/editor in Vancouver and I was itching to get back to freelance writing. I had just started downhill biking again and my first piece for them was about biking Mount McKay (Anemki Wajiw). And I think it was maybe my second or third time meeting with Darren when he mentioned that he really wanted to do a local arts and culture magazine and, of course, I was all in. DM: At a house party for Superior Outdoors’ contributors, a few of us tossed around the idea of a fresh new publication to cover the changes we saw unfolding in Thunder Bay. After a little more thought, and discussion with Michelle, I called Tiffany and asked if she would be interested in being the editor of the magazine. TJ: I feel like it was part of the collective consciousness at the time—a lot was changing especially in terms of music, film, and food, and in terms of really young entrepreneurs choosing to stay put in their hometown and a wave of boomerang young adults returning home. But no one was actually investing the time or money to make a publication happen. That is, until Darren and Michelle decided to take it on. I honestly didn’t think I’d be asked to join the team as the founding editor. At first I was like, “I don’t know if I can do this.” They believed in me, gave me the push I needed, and so I just threw myself into the project.
DM: For years, I had been collecting alternative weeklies from larger cities we had visited. I wanted to build on two fundamental concepts: strong editorial content paired with equally strong imagery—I didn’t want to see blurry photos or cheesy stock images. This magazine would introduce Thunder Bay to new music, artists, restaurants, and events through a fresh outlook focussing on our own backyard. At the time we launched the magazine, Thunder Bay was struggling with a lot of empty retail spaces. It wasn’t exactly the best time to start a magazine; it was only two years after the market crash of 2008. We didn’t have a brewery or the diverse culinary scene we have today and there were only a handful of locally owned coffee shops. TJ: Jordan Burnell’s “My Home Town” video had just gone viral and was really a source of pride in the community. Madhouse was hopping and Tony and Adam’s had just opened on Red River Road. This Old Barn’s Swiss-trained chef Mike “Hoss” Ellchook was dishing out delicious locally sourced produce and meat. There was a resurgence at Bay and Algoma with the opening of The Growing Season and The Loop. Musicians like Jean-Paul De Roover and Shy-Anne Hovorka were shooting their first videos locally. Filmmakers like Michelle Derosier, Damien Gilbert, and Kelly Saxberg were actively creating their own narratives and visions of Northwestern Ontario.
The Walleye contributors and friends at our former office on St. Paul Street, spring 2016
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Sveta Morugova in Russia holding the December 2011 issue
Putting Together the First Issue Dr. Bruce Pynn brought our October 2011 issue to Easter Island
The Story Behind the Name TJ: Darren had asked a few of us to brainstorm names before our next meeting. I really thought it was important to have a name that reflected our region. At the time I was also a huge fan of the Canadian magazine The Walrus. My list included names like Amethyst, Birch, and Walleye. Other names included Hinterland (which I still love) and Next. We wanted our name to guide us. Nancy
Ewachow, one of our copy editors at the time, pointed out that if you are “walleyed” you have a wandering eye, which we immediately thought was perfect—giving the name multiple layers of meaning. Michelle McChristie: We also thought the name itself would catch people’s attention and reach a broader audience
You can’t make diamonds without pressure. Dave Koski (layout/production designer)
DM: We spent a lot of time in each others’ houses, kitchens, decks, and living rooms, always over a few beers with great conversation. We worked in a virtual environment once the process was figured out—we used the same method we used to put together for Superior Outdoors. Over the years, we have created a system that works for us, using the latest technology available. Nancy Ewachow (original copy editor/writer): Copy editing is always a challenge because it’s so deadline driven and not everyone wants to be patient to have that extra time to look. Things were done on paper or on Word in my kitchen or at Darren and Michelle’s, or at the Madhouse. TJ: Oh god. It honestly felt like a small miracle to pull off that first issue. But even more of a miracle to pull off the second issue, realizing I only had a few weeks compared to the months of planning before we launched. I actually tried to make a point of meeting with contributors in person at first but quickly realized I didn’t have enough time in a day. I don’t remember sleeping much, especially when covering live music. In the eleventh hour of that first issue Darren handed over the design to Dave [Koski]. DM: In 1998, Michelle and I
published a mountain bike guide. It was our first publication. We managed to sell an ad to Mink Mountain, and Dave was their designer—that’s when I first met him. I consider him one of Thunder Bay’s most talented designers, a true artist. I called him up randomly almost ten years later. He met me at the Madhouse for a beer and I basically dropped the idea of the magazine on his doorstep. I had the layout started but Michelle and I were headed to Rossport to kayak for the weekend with a deadline looming. Thankfully, he accepted the challenge. Dave created the palette of colours, our current logo and designed some key pages, including the events page, Off The Wall, and Top Five. I remember meeting at Dave’s house and viewing the first proofs on his deck. It was hard to believe we pulled it off. Dave Koski (layout/production designer): Darren sent me some preliminary layouts that he had been working on and gave me a list of publications that had the look and feel that he was aiming for, but they gave me great latitude with the overall layout. The first issue was a blur of emails and pulling all the elements together with an extremely tight deadline, but like I always say, “You can’t make diamonds without pressure.”
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Derby Girls and Persians: The First Issue Hits the Stands TJ: It’s almost embarrassing at times how positive and enthusiastic people were about the magazine, which is still the case today. When we launched with persians and derby girls on roller skates at Bay and Algoma, cars honked and there was a steady stream of people who approached us. Many had heard my [CBC radio] interview about the launch or saw us on Facebook. It was definitely a novel and fun way to launch and I think it set the tone for what we were trying to achieve. MM: Right from the first issue, people loved the magazine and we attracted new readers, contributors, and advertisers. It was very energizing for everyone involved and
exciting to stop by coffee shops or events and see people reading the mags. As time went on, the print issues seemed to vapourize in the first few days of the month—a good problem to have! TJ: Darren used to drop 1,000 copies off at my house, stored in my porch. I would hand-deliver issues and introduce myself. Back then I even sold some advertising. It really was a grassroots effort. DM: The reaction was overwhelmingly positive, although many people predicted that we would be a flash in the pan...that we would only last a few issues. How could we possibly print a new magazine every month?!
Memorable Moments Over the Years Jodi Velasquez in Jamaica, reading the December 2011 issue
Year One TJ: As soon as the first issue was launched, all kinds of creative people, including Rebekah Skochinski who took over as editor for a while and continues to be a crucial member of our team, contacted us wanting to be involved. Back then, because we were learning as we went, there were many tight deadlines. I think it’s also important to remember that we all had day jobs. I would teach, come home and parent, and then as soon as my kid was in bed I’d start working on the magazine. I made phone calls and would write and edit during my lunch hours. I even proofed an issue from Punta Cana right before Christmas. MM: A lot of all-nighters...a lot of last-minute photography and writing. We learned to plan an issue through trial and error, but we never missed a print deadline and have always delivered the goods for our
advertisers and readers. After celebrating the milestone of one year as a publication, the magazine had grown in content, contributors, and advertisers. It had also quickly grown in popularity and won the Cultural Business Award and the Small Business Award in 2012 at the City’s Arts and Heritage Awards. DM: I felt we had something successful after three years in production. We had worked out all the bumps in our process; it was starting to become a household name. The residents and business were enthusiastically supporting it and there were no indications we would ever run out of ideas. When our readers starting taking photos of our magazine in exotic destinations like Easter Island and Machu Picchu, I recognized that people really liked what we were doing. We hear “I love The Walleye” almost every day since we started.
We had worked out all the bumps in our process; it was starting to become a household name. Darren McChristie (publisher/editor-in-chief)
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MM: A lot of writers, including myself, have done some memorable interviews; opportunities we wouldn’t have had if we weren’t writing for The Walleye. For me, talking to Tommy Horricks, Gord Crompton, and Ray Dee about their relationships with Neil Young was pretty surreal. I had read about Young’s time in Thunder Bay in biographies and his autobiography, but I was pretty much hanging on every word these guys had to say...first-hand accounts from people who were there (November, 2010 issue). And I think I was the last writer to interview Bobby Curtola—what a storyteller! I was on the phone with him for hours. He was charming and funny and gave me much more than I needed for my article (I couldn’t figure out how to fit in his crazy stories from Vegas). It’s also been incredible to meet artists, chefs, entrepreneurs...all types of innovators that have chosen Thunder Bay as their home and are contributing to our cultural mosaic. Amy Jones (copy editor): My favourite column to write was always the Bucket List. I got to do so many cool things over the years—I took flamenco lessons, trained with a dragon boat team, and got to perform onstage at The Foundry with the Greenbank Trio. One year, I rode
all the rides at the CLE (and lived to tell about it!). I loved being able to explore all these new experiences, and show people that there are super cool things to do right in their own city. Rebekah Skochinski (assistant editor/former editor): Somehow, quite early on, I managed to make the Drink of the Month my regular feature, which means I get to paid to drink, which is like a dream come true, really. I love sitting at a bar and talking to people. The only downside is that in order to accommodate a schedule I once had to taste a drink at 9:30 am. I needed to go home immediately afterwards and take a nap! TJ: As a HUGE Blue Rodeo fan I will never forget being granted a last-minute interview by Jim Cuddy who said something like: “I’ve got some time do that interview with the girl from the fish magazine.”
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Moving On Up: The Magazine’s First Office Space MM: It was the first time we hired a full-time sales and marketing manager [Meagan Griffin] and we felt that we needed to establish more of a presence in the community. Several months before this, long-time writer Betty Carpick commented that The Walleye was somewhat of an enigma because it just “seemed to appear out of nowhere at the beginning of each month.” The office has given us a space to meet as a team and for our readers and advertisers to stop by and visit. We moved to Bay Street earlier this year and an added benefit of having our office in the Finnish Labour Temple is that we are helping a non-profit organization maintain one of our city’s heritage buildings. Plus, it’s in the neighbourhood where it all started. In 2017 at the Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Awards, the magazine won the Quality of Life Award and the inaugural GameChanger Award. DM: It felt great to receive the GameChanger award. I mean...we are obviously biased, but we feel like The Walleye has done a lot to complement all the great things going on in Thunder Bay. Being recognized as a game changer has everything to do with our grassroots beginnings. The stories come from the community and are a true reflection of what makes Thunder Bay so unique. It gives everyone with a connection to Northwestern Ontario a reason to be proud. TJ: What a journey. I let go of
the reins as editor when I landed a full-time teaching gig and it’s been thrilling to watch the magazine grow. Our first issue was 32 pages and we had nine names on our masthead; today we are at 100+ pages and there are close to 20 names on the masthead. When Rebekah and I accepted both the Quality of Life and GameChanger awards it felt pretty sweet to be recognized in that ballroom with such accomplished business owners and community members. Peers made a point of coming up to us throughout that evening to let us know that they truly LOVE The Walleye, encouraging us to keep doing what we’ve been doing. RS: Essentially I think we’re on the same journey as when we started. Yes, some things have changed— we have an office (I don’t have to work in my bathrobe if I don’t want to!), the process is more streamlined, we have a larger team of people and more resources—but for the most part we’re the same core group of people working towards the same goal. We still meet once a month to plan at our editorial meeting, where we eat pizza and drink beer, and we all excitedly talk at the same time. We’re like any work family: we don’t always agree on every small detail, but we do see eye-to-eye on the bigger picture and how the The Walleye fits into and feeds from the community. That’s what keeps us motivated and loving what we do. There are still so many stories to tell.
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▲(L-R) Tanya Gouthro, Tracy Sadgrove, and Tiffany Jarva, winter 2011 ▼(L-R) Tiffany Jarva and Rebekah Skochinski accepting an award at the 2017 Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Awards
Rebekah Skochinski and Dave Koski on location at Fort William Historical Park
The Walleye fits into and feeds from the community. Rebekah Skochinski (assistant editor/former editor)
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Stats, Facts, and Firsts
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rom the first feature-length independent film in Canada to producing more NHL players per capita than any other city in the world, Thunder Bay is home to many interesting stats, facts, and firsts. Here are some of our favourites that we’ve collected over the years.
Second-Oldest Municipal Park
Waverley Park is the second-oldest municipal park in Ontario. The park was considered by residents and council before the Town of Port Arthur was even incorporated, and its establishment predates the Public Park Act. In fact, Port Arthur was the first municipality in Ontario and Canada to adopt this legislation. -August 2014
Pioneer of Electronic Music Courtesy of NRC Archives
One of the pioneers of electronic music was born and raised in Thunder Bay. Hugh Le Caine (1914-1977) began his experimentation with electronic sound while still a student in Port Arthur, working at home with handmade equipment. Between 1945 and 1948, Le Caine constructed the “electronic sackbut,” a sensitive instrument that could produce continuously variable sounds while allowing the composer to make constant tone and pitch adjustments. It was the forerunner of synthesizers. Le Caine also created 20 unique instruments, including a multi-track tape recorder on which 16 tapes could be played simultaneously. - November 2015 Port Arthur was the first municipality in Canada to own its own streetcar system, Thunder Bay was the first transit agency in Ontario to be 100% accessible, and the city was the first Canadian transit agency to use the NextBus system with passenger counters, fare box integrations, and passenger information systems. -October 2017
Thunder Bay Museum
Trailblazers in Transportation
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A Hockey Factory
Thunder Bay produces more NHL players per capita than any other city in the world. In total, including the former cities of Fort William and Port Arthur, we have produced 95 NHL hockey players—an astonishing 1 NHL player for every 1,084 people. The Walleye first discovered this statistic in February 2011 having also determined that we have the most outdoor rinks per capita in Canada. More recently, the website the10and3.com crunched the numbers themselves and found that Thunder Bay was clearly the largest producer of NHL players in Canada.
NWO Sports Hall of Fame
-February 2015
Rookie Goaltender Port Arthur’s Jack Walker
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In 2016, Matt Murray became the first goaltender in NHL history to win two Stanley Cups as a rookie, as well as setting the record for most playoff wins by a rookie goaltender with 22.
NWO Sports Hall of Fame
-July 2016
Filmmaking Firsts
Founded in 1929, the Port Arthur Amateur Cinema Society—the first amateur cinema society in Canada—made three back-to-back feature-length films in less than two years. Dorothea Mitchell was involved in writing and producing all three of the films, making her Canada’s first independent female filmmaker and in May 1929, A Race for Ties was Canada’s first fulllength amateur movie and premiered at the Lyceum Theatre in Port Arthur. -December 2012
Dorothea Mitchell
Sunny Days
Birth of the Bon Bon
These plump, lightly coated, crispy pork short ribs typically seasoned in Chinese spices and spritzed with lemon were created right here in Thunder Bay in 1946 by a local Chinese restaurant owner named Lam Pang.
Thunder Bay is probably the sunniest city in eastern Canada. This “probably” is based on long-term averages calculated by Environment Canada in the later 20th century, which totalled 2,183 annual hours of sunshine for Thunder Bay. -April 2012
-February 2016
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The Neil Young Connection
Springfield in 1966 and then would be members of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Between 1968 and 1995, David Briggs produced almost every Neil Young album. Few people know that, according to Neil Young, Thunder Bay’s Ray Dee is the “original Briggs.” It was at the 4-D in 1964 when Dee watched Neil Young perform for the first time. Later that year, Dee produced “I’ll Love You Forever” for Neil Young and The Squires. The song was recorded at the CJLX studio on Victoria Avenue. -November 2010
Chris Walter
Ray Dee Productions
In the 1960s Neil Young and his band The Squires spent months in Fort William, playing shows at the Flamingo Club, Circle Inn, the Fourth Dimension (or 4-D), and even a high school dance at Westgate High School. Neil Young and the Squires traveled in comfort (or rather, discomfort if you prefer to sit in a seat) in a 1948 Buick hearse known as Mort—the one immortalized in the song “Long May You Run.” It was at the 4-D that Young met Stephen Stills, who was playing with his band, Company. The two would form Buffalo
(L-R) Ray Dee and Neil Young
The History of the Persian Thunder Bay’s beloved pastry has many origin stories. One story claims that the persian was invented by Bennett’s Bakery in the late 1940s and named after an American army general—John Joseph Pershing, one of the most famous military men in U.S. history. A variation on this theme claims that the name was suggested by a visiting colonel with the surname Persian. Another story is that the first persian was created for and served to a visiting dignitary from Persia.
In our first issue, Michelle McChristie interviewed Professor Gary Genosko at Lakehead University. In an effort to trace the origin of the persian, Professor Genosko’s research team interviewed Hazel Bennett. Mrs. Bennett credited Art Bennett as the creative force behind the persian and held fast to the Colonel Persian story. The persian recipe was passed from the Bennetts to the Nuccis, who own and operate the Persian Man. -July 2010
In 1962, rock and roll singer Bobby Curtola (born in Port Arthur) became the first Canadian to have a gold record.
-November 2015
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Stop by Downtown Volkswagen, a $5.00 donation gets your vehicle a set of Pink valve Caps. Make your vehicle stand out and show your support! All proceeds go to the Northern Cancer Fund
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Sushi Rice makes 4 cups
Rollin’ With the Homies By Chef Rachel Globensky
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ack when I was a ski bum, footloose and fancy-free (and poor), my friends and I used to make a lot of sushi. Living in British Columbia., we had access to all kinds of fresh fish and good produce. We’d each chip in $10 and tramp off to the Overwaitea to buy avocado, carrots, cucumber, nori, wasabi, and soy sauce. Luckily, the liquor store was right around the corner from the grocery store, so a quick second stop to grab sake and plum wine made for a productive shopping trip. We made sticky rice, julienned our carrots and cucumbers with the mandoline slicer, made martinis from sake and plum wine, and got to rolling. Being amateur sushi rollers at best, let me be clear that our
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communal sushi looked more like a Home Ec project than what a master itamae would make, but it tasted amazing. And, so will yours! You can try shrimp tempura, California rolls, Philly rolls, or completely random rolls. But, best of all, making sushi at home is really, really fun! It all starts with the rice. If you have a rice cooker, you can use that, but good results can also be accomplished by use of the stovetop or microwave—whichever way you’re used to making rice. I use Nishiki brand rice, but you can use any rice labeled for sushi, and the trick is to rinse the rice under cool running water three or four times— the water doesn’t have to run clear. Drain the rice in a sieve for at least 30 minutes before cooking.
2 c sushi rice 2 c water Kelp leaf, 2” long, optional
Add rice, water, and optional kelp leaf to medium-sized, heavy-bottomed pot with a tight-fitting lid. Quickly bring to a boil, and reduce heat to a simmer. Cover the pot, and DON’T PEEK! Wait 15 minutes, and remove the pot from the heat. Keep that damn lid closed! Let rice rest for 10 minutes, and THEN remove the cover and kelp leaf.
¼ c rice vinegar (not seasoned) 3 Tbsp sugar 2 tsp salt 2 Tbsp mirin
Mix vinegar, sugar, salt, and mirin together well.
Mix vinegar, sugar, salt, and mirin together well. Place rice in a glass dish to cool, and lightly fan the rice as you pour the vinegar solution over. Mix rice gently, and let cool to room temperature. Seaweed for snacking is thinner and more flimsy than the stuff for sushi rolling—make sure the kind you get says it’s for sushi. While you’re in the international foods aisle, pick yourself up a few bamboo rolling mats. Some sites recommend using a clean dish towel or plastic wrap, but I have found that neither of those things work very well at all. Unrolling a bamboo mat and placing it inside a large zipper bag makes for easy-peasy clean up afterward. Have a small bowl of lukewarm water beside you for your hands as you work. Lay out a piece of seaweed on the mat, and spread with a layer of prepared rice, leaving a ½” strip of uncovered seaweed toward the top of your mat. If you’re feeling fancy, you can spoon the rice onto the plasticized mat, placing the seaweed on top, resulting in rice on the outside of your roll. Flatten gently with moist hands, and you’re ready for the sushi innards. What should you put inside? It’s really up to you. I like to have an assortment of julienned sweet bell pepper, carrot, English cucumber, green onion, avocado, mango, jalapeño, and radishes on hand. For the protein component, you can use
sliced sushi grade tuna or salmon (please don’t use random raw fish), cooked, cooled, and patted dry shrimp or scallops, canned salmon or crab mixed with mayo and hot sauce, cream cheese, chopped almonds or pecans, or various incarnations of tofu. Place your toppings on the bottom third of your seaweed/rice, very close together. You can pile some on top of each other, but try not to go overboard. Starting from the side closest to you, roll the seaweed/ rice over the toppings—this will bind them into the centre of the roll. Roll approximately one-quarter of the mat, and gently squeeze, so it sticks together. Unfold the bamboo mat a little, and repeat the process until you’ve rolled up to the strip of uncovered seaweed. Wet the strip with a little water, and continue rolling and squeezing everything into a spiral. If any veggies try to escape out the ends, shove them back in. Unroll the mat completely, and you should have a ricey burrito. Let that roll rest while you keep rolling more. When you’re ready for slicing, run your knife under cool running water periodically to rinse off any sticky rice. The ends may look a little wonky, but those can be your tasters. Arrange the slices prettily on a plate, and serve with wasabi, soy sauce, pickled ginger, and sesame seeds.
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Story by Rebekah Skochinski, Photo by Adrian Lysenko We don’t know where we’d be without the Madhouse. Literally. When we first started The Walleye, it’s where we often held our monthly editorial meetings. So it seemed a natural place to return, on this, our 100th issue. To celebrate this milestone, and to celebrate the arrival of sweater weather, they’ve created an Irish Whiskey Tea. First they infuse some Kilbeggan Irish Whiskey with cloves, star anise, lemon, honey, and a touch of sugar. After about four days it’s ready to be mixed with a gorgeous pear and vanilla bean simple syrup from Superior Seltzers. Top that with hot water, garnish with a clove-studded lemon wheel, a stick of cinnamon, a floating star anise, and you have a drink that envelops you like a warm hug. And should you feel a cold coming on, we hear one of these a day will keep the doctor away. You have our blessing.
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Best Bite Shawarma
New Restaurant Offers Glimpse of Lebanese Culture Story by Pat Forrest, Photos by Patrick Chondon
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he Skaf family’s tradition of entrepreneurship in northern Ontario is carrying on with the opening of Best Bite Shawarma located at 332 North High Street. Opened by Tony Skaf in late August, Best Bite Shawarma is in the building that used to house Skaf’s Combo Corner (across from Superior CVI High School). The Skaf family moved here from Lebanon and have always had businesses in Thunder Bay and the region. Tony had small grocery stores and restaurants in Schreiber and Geraldton. He has always been a good cook and butchered his own meat, which he continues to do at Best Bite Shawarma. The recipes are ones Tony and his daughter, Alice, have perfected over many dinners with family and friends. The dishes are inspired by visits to Lebanon or ones learned from other family members. Tony says, “We offer our customers authentic Lebanese cuisine. All of our dishes are made in
house, using fresh ingredients and spices. We also sell a variety of imported goods from Lebanon. Our goal is to offer a diverse taste, along with a glimpse of Lebanese culture.” Best Bite Shawarma offers something for everyone, including meatbased dishes along with vegetarian and vegan options. Favourites include the dish that inspired the name: marinated chicken and beef shawarma, cooked on a vertical rotisserie and paired with fresh vegetables. There’s also falafel served with fresh mint, pickled turnips, and tahini sauce, kibbeh with a side of tabbouleh salad, and of course the pastries (try the pistachio or cashew baklava). There are even a few favourites from the Combo Corner era, including a crispy chicken and potato wedge dinner, poutine, and burgers. Best Bite Shawarma is open for takeout Monday to Saturday from 11 am to 8 pm. Call 983-3278 to place your order.
Make the most of our Northern Way of Life “Country or city, let me help when you’re ready to Buy or Sell”
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Photo by Will Gregorash Photography
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he precious few jewel-toned maples have begun to show their rainbow hues and our breath has begun to make tender clouds that lace the air in our late sunrises and early sunsets. Autumn is here in earnest on the north side of the big lake, and thoughts of coziness and comfort creep in unbidden as we search for something to heat our cheeks and warm our bellies. Nothing fends off the fall frosts like a big bowl of spicy, steaming chili or a savoury plate of cassoulet. However, sometimes our eyes are bigger than our stomachs. To ward off any — shall we say — “awkward” effects of our rich autumn dishes, try a digestif as an after dinner drink. Containing carminative herbs, digestifs have long been enjoyed not only as a gentle palate cleanser at the end of a hearty meal, but also as an aid to digestion, working with blood flow and metabolic enzymes. Try an ounce of one after a fall-inspired meal or enjoy a contemporary cocktail with one to sweeten your medicine.
Fall for Delicious Digestifs By Jeannie Dubois, Certified Sommelier
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1 ounce coconut rum
1 ½ ounces Campari
1 ounce brandy
1 ounce pineapple juice
½ ounce gin
½ ounce Chartreuse
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well and pour into an old fashioned glass filled with ice.
¼ ounce Cynar
½ ounce lemon juice
¼ ounce Fernet-Branca
½ tsp. simple syrup
1 ounce white vermouth
1 dash bitters
15 drops orange bitters
Lemon zest for garnish
3 orange twists
Shake all ingredients together in an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with lemon zest.
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Fill a mixing glass with ice and add Campari, gin, Cynar, Fernet, vermouth, and bitters. Stir until well-chilled and strain into a serving glass. Twist orange peel over drink for essential oils and then discard.
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Nominations are now open for The Walleye’s
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Readers’ Survey Now it’s up to you to nominate your picks in as many categories as you can, keeping in mind this is an all local survey! To nominate, visit:
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Nominations close on October 21st and general voting starts November 1st!
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Take charge Get screened for cancer
Breast and cervical cancers can be detected early with regular cancer screening. Breast cancer screening mammograms are available at the following locations: • Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre and the Screen for Life Coach: (807) 684-7777 or 1-800-461-7031* • Thunder Bay Diagnostics: (807) 683-4411* *No referral required
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Cervical cancer screening is available: • Book an appointment with your health care provider • Contact a local sexual health clinic • Call the Screen for Life Coach at (807) 684-7777 or 1-800-461-7031
Talk to your health care provider about getting screened regularly for breast and cervical cancers. For more information about cancer screening, visit
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Anything But PumpkinSpiced: Beer Styles for the Fall
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Arminius Autumn Lager - Märzen (41.6 L, all-grain) OG = 1.056 FG = 1.011 IBU = 29 SRM = ~11.7 ABV = 5.8% Water 60L of Lake Superior Malt Bill 10kg Munich Malt
By Josh Armstrong, PhD, Certified Beer Judge
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s the fall progresses into October, the temperature gets colder and colder at night, and pumpkin spice can be found around every corner. Personally, while I can enjoy the occasional piece of pumpkin pie around Thanksgiving, I don’t tend to enjoy other foods that are “pumpkin-spiced.” Whether it’s a latte, cream cheese, or a beer, they all tend to be too sweet and overly spiced. When it comes to beer in the autumn, I avoid all bottles with pumpkin on the label and much prefer to drink and brew other seasonally appropriate styles. For example, Red IPAs are perfect for the fall. They have the same dry finish that make American IPAs so popular, but they also bring caramel, toffee, and other roasty dark malt characters that are often found in amber ales. They pair well with roasted vegetables, spicy food, or desserts made with dark chocolate. A fine local example of the style is Mr. Canoehead from Sleeping Giant Brewing Company.
Dry hopped with Citra and Amarillo hops, this red ale has a beautiful ruby red colour and a caramelly but hoppy taste. Another fall favourite beer style of mine is Extra Special Bitter, or ESB. ESBs are also malt-forward like the Red IPA, but they focus more on biscuity, nutty, and toasty malt characters (rather than the caramel or toffee) and tend to have a moderate crisp hop bitterness. According to the Beer Judging Certification Program Style Guidelines, “Drinkability is a critical component of the style.” What does drinkability mean exactly? It’s not easy to measure but people tend to use “high drinkability” to describe beers that when you finish it, you immediately want to have another one. ESBs are great paired with English cheddar, shepherd’s pie, and curry dishes. If you ever find yourself on the East Coast, my favourite ESB is made in Halifax at Propeller Brewing Co. It’s a copper-coloured brew that has a smooth malty flavour with faint
notes of coffee and dark fruits. Way back in the day this was my gateway beer into the craft brew scene. While Red IPAs and ESBs are great, for this year the fall beer style that we’ve chosen to brew is Märzen. Märzens are malty amber lagers that originated in Bavaria in southern Germany. Similar to ESBs, they tend to have good drinkability with a rich aftertaste but are not overly sweet or cloying. Check out our potential recipe in the side box. We’ll be using 100% Munich malt, which should produce a strong toasty and bready malt flavour. The Noble European hops (Saaz and Tettnang) will provide an elegant and restrained bitterness to balance out the strong malt character. I’m looking forward to enjoying this brew paired with pretzels, roasted pork, and homebrewed sauerkraut. P.S. If you really need to have a pumpkin beer this fall, try Saison DuPump from Great Lakes Brewery. Crisp and dry with understated spice additions, I can tolerate this pumpkin beer more than most.
Hops 80g German Tettnanger hops (4.5% alpha acid) at start of boil 60g German Tettnanger hops (4.5% alpha acid) with 10 minutes left in boil 60g Czech Saaz hops (3.0% alpha acid) with 10 minutes left in boil Yeast White Labs – German Lager Yeast (WLP 830) Instructions Adjust water chemistry with acidulated malt, gypsum, calcium chloride, and Epsom salt. Mash for 75 minutes at 66.7°C. Boil for 60 minutes, add hops as indicated. After completing the whirlpool, cool wort to 10°C and pitch yeast. Ferment for two weeks at 10°C and perform a diacetyl rest close to the end of fermentation.
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Jeff Ho Story by Cathi Winslow, Photo by Dahlia Katz
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n his mid-20s, Jeff Ho is already an accomplished Canadian theatre artist. He is a graduate of the National Theatre School, has performed as a stage and TV actor across North America, and debuted his own play, trace, at Toronto’s Factory Theatre in 2017. Ho will be performing excerpts of trace and leading two playwriting workshops in Thunder Bay on October 12 and 13. The Walleye spoke to him about pursuing a career in the theatre. The Walleye: You were born in Hong Kong and emigrated to Canada as a child. What challenges did you face in choosing to pursue a career in the arts? Jeff Ho: As per many immigrant families, my parents believed that a career in the arts was simply unviable. I faced a lot of resistance and I was left with a choice: stay with the family and receive support or leave
for theatre school and do everything alone. I chose the latter. That first rejection from my mom has been the harshest rejection I’ve ever faced. Now, with hindsight, I’m thankful for it. Who cares if some TV commercial audition didn’t go through, or I didn’t book that gig, or whatever. No rejection will ever be worse than your own parents saying you’ll never succeed, or that you’re a failure, you know? It gave me tenacity, and that has kept me going on, through the thick and thin of being an artist. TW: You wrote trace to unearth your own family history, stretching back three generations. How risky was it? JH: The writing of this play coincided with mending relationships between my family and me, 10 years after I left home. To have my mother see the production was one of those larger-than-life moments
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where my art and my life collided. It felt risky in that I was portraying her, all her strength and fire and temper, and to tell a family story is to air secret, dirty laundry for the public to see. It’s scary! However, my mother took it with such grace, and found great entertainment, truth, and nostalgia in the play. TW: How did your script change between the first draft of trace and the performance version? I know you replaced all the male voices with piano music. JH: The first draft of trace was this long-form piece of poetry titled 731. It was named after the Japanese Unit 731, a military unit that enacted horrific human experimentation throughout parts of China in World War II. I developed a play that told the personal story of my great-grandmother fleeing from wartime China to Hong Kong. Then
I began investigating the lives of my Great Grandma, Grandma, and Ma at a much deeper level, and to envision different ways the story could be told beyond language only. When I was five years old, I started playing classical piano and it’s absolutely core to how I see language, so it felt like an organic evolution to ask the piano to “speak” like a real character. TW: What would you say are some benefits of writing workshops like those you will facilitate in Thunder Bay? JH: Writing is such a solitary task. A workshop promotes a safe, collaborative space, where writers can share in each other’s work and dialogue strategies, problems, and resources. Workshops also nurture self-editing skills. Watching as a peer works through a tricky passage of text can help unlock possibilities for your own play. TW: As a facilitator, what do you enjoy about helping other artists develop their work? JH: I love witnessing the process of other artists and being able to share in how they work. I love the surprises that collaboration can foster, and I love being able to witness ah ha! moments. Every writer has a unique voice, and it is always a delight to encounter new stories, as varied as the makeup of our country. Jeff Ho will perform excerpts from trace at the Jean McNulty Recital Hall at Lakehead University on October 12 and lead workshops at Urban Abbey on October 13. For details, see 10x10tbay.ca.
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Let Horror Reign
The Second Annual Terror in the Bay Film Festival By Justin Allec Chateau Sauvignon: Terroir
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hris Borgo recognizes the contradiction that horror movies present their audience. “Being scared is supposed to be an unpleasant feeling, but some people love it,” he says. “It’s a rush to face your fears.” To this day he won’t get in the water if he can’t see the bottom—a testament to
the enduring influence of seeing Jaws when he was younger. Borgo’s love for the macabre grew with him and eventually led him to making his own films, such as 2016’s The Hag: Bloodline, and then bringing the Terror in the Bay Film Festival to fruition. After last year’s inaugural festival, Terror in the Bay is
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back and aiming to provide more cinematic terror at the Paramount Theatre October 18-20. Like last year, each night will offer immense variety in programming. Films from different subgenres with different budgets, run times, and countries of origin are all evaluated by Terror’s judges for creativity and overall production quality. “We look for films with good writing, interesting characters, and original storylines first and foremost,” Borgo says, with curated selections earning a spot in the festival’s lineup. Heading into the second year, Borgo’s expectations are high, both for the films and the genre’s increasing popularity. Horror’s gained a lot of cultural capital in the last year. Audiences looking for scares spent more than $1 billion in 2017, streaming platforms have been producing quality shows and
films on a weekly basis, and Jordan Peele’s unnerving Get Out won an Oscar. It’s a great time to be in the horror business. With substantial pride, Borgo reports that some selections that premiered at Terror’s inaugural festival went on to further success on the international circuit and for worldwide distribution. Now that the festival is beginning to become known within the industry, Borgo was pleased to see increased buzz when they called for submissions. “In all honesty, I think people will be taken aback by the sheer overall quality of these films, both from a technical and creative standpoint,” he says. All that energy has translated to a great lineup of films, the variety which prove that horror is only limited by imagination. For more information visit terrorinthebay.com.
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FilmTheatre The Second Most Pleasurable Thing We Do In the Dark. A Column About Movies
Marijuana in Movies
By Michael Sobota
Pedro: Hey, how’s my driving, man? Anthony Stoner (looking around): I think we’re parked. - Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, Up In Smoke
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anada makes the use and purchase of marijuana (reefer, weed, grass, pot ) legal this month. In Ontario, however, our government will only allow purchasing online. Ha ha ha—Kaministiquia Gold and Murillo Maui Wowi have been available locally for decades. Globally, the pungent dried stimulant has long been used as ancient medicine with healing powers or for simple contemporary pleasure. It has been a prop or a plot device in the movies for nearly a century, including several documentaries. Here are four cinematic gems that may alter your state of consciousness.
Up In Smoke (1978)
Grass (1999)
Growing Op (2008)
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This is the first and the best of seven films made by Tommy Chong and Cheech Marin, each of which celebrate the wonders of weed in different ways. Accidently deported to Mexico, Cheech and Chong commandeer a van which, unbeknownst to them, is constructed from marijuana. This is only one of a thousand points of plot that require your suspension of disbelief, and you won’t care. It is classic stoner comedy with both narrative and visual gags that set the bar for any pot plots that followed. Sheer comic brilliance. The tears you shed will be from the smoke that gets in your eyes.
Canadian director Ron Mann won a Canadian Screen Award (at the time, it was a Genie) for best documentary with this feature. Built entirely from archival footage, Mann chronicles the American experience with marijuana, showcasing remarkable and sometimes startling footage as that country escalates their war on the evil weed. There is footage of U.S. presidents from Eisenhower and Nixon through John F. Kennedy and on up to George W. Bush. Mann also gives a running total of the costs of that escalating war. While there are sequences with humour, this is mostly an unflinching dark history that makes clear what happens when political choices trump science or humanity. Narrated with tongue-incheek by Woody Harrelson.
Another Canadian director, Michael Melski, working from his own script, created a nice family comedy about growing the herb. Mom and dad are aging hipsters living in an innocuous suburban neighborhood. They have high school-age children—a rebel goth daughter and a slightly younger son who is trying to get out from under the stunting influence of his parents’ post-hippie capitalism. Yes, their home hides a grow-op. The son meets and is smitten by the new girl who moves in across the street and attends his same high school. Smartly written, the movie has layered complications that skillfully guide us toward a surprise ending, including an earned emotional high. Shot entirely in New Brunswick, it could be the Nova Drive developments in Thunder Bay. I love this film.
Director Rawson Marshall Thurber assembles a stellar cast (Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Emma Roberts, and a movie-stealing Will Poulter) in a bristly, nasty, fast-paced comedy. It is family story, a road trip story, a porn industry story, a drug smuggling story. Not for everyone, this movie features language that is contemporary, scatological, and wickedly funny. I heard several things I have never imagined any character saying on screen. It plays like an 18th century Jonathan Swift satire catapulted into our backyard, gleefully embracing our drug culture (there is one scene with a refrigerator packed from bottom to top with pot) and modern profanities. Can a comedy be nasty and fun? This one is.
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And here are six more smokey, tokey movies for your fall relaxation: Dazed And Confused (1993), Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000), Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004), Knocked Up (2007), Pineapple Express (2008), and Ted (2012).
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Bringing Thunder Bay Filmmakers Together
New Facebook Group Aims to Build Film Community By Kris Ketonen
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new Facebook group is taking a grassroots approach to building up Thunder Bay’s filmmaking community. The Thunder Bay Film Making Community Bulletin group—which can be located by searching “Thunder Bay Film Making” on Facebook— was founded over the summer by local filmmaker Jack Belhumeur, and modelled after similar groups he’d encountered in the past. “I moved here almost two years ago now from Edmonton,” Belhumeur says. “I was active in the filmmaking community there, and one of the things that was really helpful in Edmonton for filmmakers at any level was the groups, the
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Facebook groups.” But while Belhumeur was able to find several Thunder Bay-based photography groups on Facebook, his searches for groups dedicated to filmmaking came up empty. “It didn’t really make sense, because there’s a film school at Confederation College,” he says. “There’s a whole bunch of grads that are local and I’m sure still probably living in the area, and there’s a new program that they’ve got—Digital Media Production—over there.” So Belhumeur took it upon himself to fill that gap. The group is open to anyone with an interest in filmmaking, at any skill level, who wants to network, find cast or crew,
or discuss projects or other filmmaking-related topics. Belhumeur uses his own newly formed company, Infinity Blue Films, as an example. If he’s got a shoot booked, and needs people or other resources, he can simply make a post. “I’ve got a shoot booked for this day, and I need somebody who has a camera, and I need somebody who’s good at sound,” he says. “There’ll be somebody on that group who’ll take it for a day’s pay, or the experience.” “I know there are tonnes of artists here, and there are great artists,” he says. “There’s just a need for communication and community.”
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ot only was Lucas born a little early, he was born with an arm that didn’t move. As mom Natalie says, “having two older girls with no medical issues, it was frightening for my husband and I not to know what was happening with our son.” The NICU staff at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre immediately recommended that the family contact George Jeffrey Children’s Centre and at three months baby Lucas made his first visit. Unsure what Lucas’ condition was, clinicians at George Jeffrey worked with the family to figure things out. “From day one, I was blown away by the quality of care,” says Natalie. “Staff were unbelievably patient and caring as they connected us to specialists and encouraged us to go to Sick Kids in
Toronto. From there, we came up with a game plan and a right diagnosis for Lucas.” They learned that Lucas has a muscleshortening condition called arthrogryposis. When told that it could affect his whole body and possibly his brain, it made the family pretty anxious but George Jeffrey staff quickly said, “let’s cool down, that’s not always the case.” Over time it became clear that Lucas has a rare form of arthrogryposis that only affects one limb and now Natalie’s outlook is, “he’s blessed that it’s just one arm.” Lucas’ improvements have been phenomenal. “We have a whole team here,” Natalie says gratefully. “They’ve taught him how to do everyday things that three years ago I was worried wouldn’t be possible – like riding a bike. Now, he doesn’t think twice about jumping on his bike. We’ve seen him grow just like every other little boy. It’s hard to imagine what could have been if we didn’t have George Jeffrey.” When you have three kids and one of them needs extra help, it’s not easy. “We are so fortunate to be in Thunder Bay and have
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this facility,” Natalie says. “We still have to go to Sick Kids, but it’s minimal because they communicate so well with the Centre and our doctors. Sick Kids staff even talk about how lucky we are in Northwestern Ontario to have George Jeffrey.” But it’s not luck. George Jeffrey provides their services for families at no cost and for years, dedicated local groups, organizations, and businesses like Tbaytel have assisted George Jeffrey to ensure that every child has the chance to thrive. As Natalie shares, “Not having the phenomenal support of Tbaytel, where would any family like ours be? We can never pay back the way I wish we could.”
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e all experience journeys of growth through beginnings and endings. For artist Katrina Craig, articulating universal emotions with treasured mementos and the nuanced properties of natural fibres is not only an act of care and compassion, but also a catharsis. From October 3 to 30, the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, in partnership with the Manitoba Arts Alliance, will host Craig’s compelling work, The Process of Closure in the Community Room. On October 21, Craig will present an afternoon workshop for the general public, “Dissecting the Layers of Our Lives.” Craig is from the tiny village of Arlington near Tyne Valley on Prince
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Edward Island. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in textiles and fashion from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) University and has lived in Winnipeg since 2014. Her connections to the often-unacknowledged skills in women’s craft led her to use the intimacy of textiles as an expressive arts medium onto itself. Her work explores the poignancy of hidden lives, vulnerability and heartbreak through relationships to physicality and surroundings. In Craig’s own work and, often, as a part of her process with others, she uses weaving and fibre work to encourage a peeling of the elements of our lives that keep people bound to the past when the future may offer new possibilities.
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Or, as Craig’s Instagram description states, “Shedding our skins so we can see each other.” For The Process of Closure, Craig invited donations of sentimental objects of heartbreak. Her intention was to honour the act of release, the objects, and the stories as an expression of the physical and emotional experiences that are kept under the surface and revealed only to those who are closest. The gifts included snowboard boots, a book about human sexuality, two wedding bands, a stuffed animal, a beeswax candle, a David Bowie Ziggy Stardust record, and a pair of journals. Craig has deftly unraveled, interpreted, and reworked the materials to transform them into 15 exquisitely woven wall hangings. The workshop, “Dissecting the Layers of Our Lives,” invites participants to use visual mapping and mark making with embroidery to understand the complexities and progressions of individual personalities and lives. It will be an excellent opportunity to learn from Craig and experiment with the ways that fibre arts can act as a mediator between experiences and self. For more information and to register for the workshop, visit theag.ca.
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fter much preparation, local artist Kathleen (Kay) Anderson is ready to launch her latest project, In Paint and Prose, a book containing over 50 paintings. Although she holds a strong presence in both local and international artisan communities, Anderson has not been a life-long painter. She explains, “I can literally say that I fell into the paint pot,” after taking a card-making class
where a renegade by the name of Kathy decided that both she and Anderson would paint instead. Following the passing of her husband, who had encouraged her to pursue painting, Anderson began taking classes locally. “So many of our talented local artists contributed to honing my skills and promoting me down that road of painting and I’m very thankful to them,” she says. Anderson explains that she paints what she wants and feels in
the moment; however, she says a connecting theme throughout most of her work is nature. She draws inspiration from the nature surrounding her birthplace in Saskatchewan as well as from the picturesque scenery of Northwestern Ontario. Her book, In Paint and Prose, is a compilation of original watercolour paintings, each accompanied by a written story depicting experiences throughout Anderson’s life. The intent of her book is to leave something for her family to cherish, she says. “It was meant to be left behind so that future generations of my family could savour a little bit of the life that I and my family have lived.” In addition, Anderson hopes her work might inspire others to
do the same. “Passing stories on by word is great, but many eventually just fade away,” she says. “The stories that my mother had to tell were absolutely marvelous and I wish I had written them down, because they’re lost now.” Anderson will be holding an art exhibition and sale, sponsored by Ontario Arts Council, where her book and paintings will be for sale. The exhibition will take place on October 19 and 20 at the Airlane Hotel and Conference Centre. “Who could ask for more in retirement age, to have a whole new world opened up to them,” she say., “I never imagined myself doing watercolours and what a wonderful blessing and treasure it is.”
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Stolen Snails and the Last Black Apples By Robin Faye, Curatorial Intern Artist: Duncan Weller Title: Stolen Snails and the Last Black Apples Date: 1997 Medium: Graphite on paper Dimensions: 39 x 74 cm
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etail is the first word that comes to mind when describing Duncan Weller’s work, but it doesn’t stop there. Weller’s exquisitely fine detail within a multilayered narrative invites viewers to exercise their imaginations. The image of a bright and determined girl emerging from the undergrowth of a tangled forest riding the back of a wellfed rat, apparently in chase of one scowling art thief, begs the question: “What’s behind this, and where is it going?”
The protagonist and the stolen paintings pop from the surface of the drawing. Weller uses exceptionally skilful technique with graphite pencil, which he pushes to the extremes with fine, dark line and delicate light shading to provide intricate texture to the landscape. In the background, right-to-left diagonal shapes and markings align with the action in the young protagonist’s gaze and posture. Weller is an award-winning author and illustrator, a poet, a filmmaker, painter, muralist, designer, educator, and
storyteller. He is the recipient of the 2007 Governor General’s Literary Award for Children’s Literature – Illustration, and the 2008 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Picture Book Award (both for The Boy From The Sun). His 2008 exhibition at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, The Art of Duncan Weller, showcased over 70 of his works. As a prolific multimedia artist, Weller isn’t constrained by any style. In addition to his children’s picture books, he also writes middle years, young adult, and adult novels, short stories, and poetry.
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Riaz Mehmood Storytelling through Technology By Emma Christensen
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ultidisciplinary artist Riaz Mehmood uses video, photography, performance, and visual art to tell stories and prompt conversations with those who interact with his work. When asked about his personal history with art, Mehmood returns to memories of his childhood in a village near northern Pakistan. Here,
entertainment often took the form of tales told by professional storytellers or by his grandmother. As he grew older, he realized that he wasn’t restricted to spoken word. “I thought I would be more interested in telling stories through videos,” he says. Mehmood currently lives in Thunder Bay, but his work is shown
DoubleTake: This series of self-portraits uses the juxtaposition of images taken in Pakistan and Canada to explore both identity and the effect of industrialization and globalization on cityscapes in Pakistan. internationally. At times his art manifests as understated, almost playful interactions between people and technology, using sensors and video feedback to capture movement. This is demonstrated by one of his current works in progress, “The Warrior Caught in the Maze,” a performance art piece choreographed by Gitanjali Kolanad. The dancers are followed by several frames of their past movements projected onto the wall behind
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Jewelry, knitting, candles ceramics, stain glass, wreaths pottery, wood carvings Christmas decorations and more!
them. Other versions of his work, like the mixed-media sculpture “Once Upon a Drone,” reflect the darker sides of both technology and human history. The subject matter of his art returns frequently to Pakistan and its history of colonialism, and his own study of identity. Although he is fluent in the language of technology, unafraid to use code or algorithm to create art, Mehmood doesn’t limit himself to one medium or format. “For me art
TheArts is not restrictive,” he says. “These are all tools—painting is a tool, media, technology are tools too— but the work you do with them, that’s more important.” Mehmood speaks with warmth and humility, qualities that lend themselves to collaboration. He values the broad perspectives and unexpected outcomes that result from working with others. Mehmood also values the objective feedback. “You talk to other people and they show you what this idea would really look like; an angle that you never thought of.” The artist is equally interested in conversing with his audience, and evaluates his politically or culturally focused installations by the level engagement they achieve. “For me it’s successful if people who are seeing that piece start asking me questions or they start asking each other questions.” View more of Riaz Mehmood’s work online at vimeo.com/ user9075747 or at riazmehmood.com.
Burning: Riaz Mehmood and Mike Marcon recorded the process of burning a small-scale model of a store owned by a large corporation. “We wanted to work collaboratively on the idea of protest and resistance in the age of global capitalism and our role in supporting the consumer culture.”
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Once Upon a Drone: A replication of an American Predator drone, decorated with a Pakistani truck art motif, reflects on its impact as a lethal instrument of warfare in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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Outdoor
Waasaashkaa
Second Annual Gathering of Surfers to Take Place in Terrace Bay Story by Kat Lyzun, Photos by Richard Main
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n mid-October, when most of us are comfortably in sweater and pumpkin spice latte mode, the folks who love surfing on Lake Superior will be gearing up for the best waves of the year. Riding dark swells in biting winds is a world away from the sunny California surf scene, but devotees like Chris Dube say surfing the big lake is an unparalleled experience. “I’ve never felt a deeper connection to the land and the lake when I’m in the water,” he says. “Everybody has this idea that nature is this sunny day, but here’s this beautiful moment where you’re
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getting blasted by the wind and playing with one of the most powerful lakes on earth. The granite hills, the boreal forest, the fresh water. It’s a magical time of year…and it’s never lost on me just how beautiful it is and how lucky we are.” Dube is one of the organizers of Terrace Bay’s second annual gathering of Great Lakes Surfers, called Waasaashkaa (an Ojibway word for “the lake that has whitecaps”). Last year’s event drew about 150 people from the North Shore, Toronto, Duluth, and Manitoba. It’s not a surf competition, but instead a celebration of big lake surfing. “What we
Outdoor are trying to do is bring together all of us like-minded people to get together and share our passion for water and surfing...an opportunity to get together with friends new and old and celebrate the lake and the land,” he says. Beginners are welcome; Dube recommends visiting Natri Bros Surf and SUPerior Standup Paddleboards to rent or buy gear. You’ll need proper wetsuits with hoodies, mitts and booties made specifically for cold water surfing, which Dube says keeps you warmer than you could imagine. The Aguasabon Golf Course clubhouse in Terrace Bay will be the main gathering point for the event, with free
camping on the beach all weekend. Meals will be potluck style and there will be guest speakers for the evening to talk about lake surfing, surf travelling, and stand-up paddleboarding. Dates are in flux: either the weekend of October 13 or October 20. A bit of last minute planning is necessary due to the unpredictability of the weather and waves. However, Dube says if the first weekend doesn’t pan out, the October 20 weekend will be a go regardless of weather. Follow the Waasaashkaa: A Gathering of the Great Lakes Surfers event page on Facebook for updates and details.
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Brian Muir
The Coolest Geeks Around By Michelle Kolobutin
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alling all cosplayers, sci-fi fans, and movie buffs! This October will see the return of ThunderCon, Thunder Bay’s very own comic convention—a weekend of meet and greets, photo ops, cosplay, panels, and more. Since its inception in 2015, the volunteer-run ThunderCon has doubled in size each year. In 2017, ThunderCon welcomed over 000 people and now uses up every event room at the Valhalla Inn. Event organizer Heather Dickson says, “Everyone is welcome. ThunderCon was designed to be a family event with something for all ages. We have a costume contest with prizes for gift certificates to Michael’s, a games room, and meet and greets
with some comic con heroes.” One of the panelists is Brian Muir, who is the design genius behind Darth Vader’s mask. The convention is also excited to host Paul McGillion from Stargate. A full list of this year’s panelists is on the ThunderCon website. While it’s not required, attendees are encouraged to dress up. About three-quarters of people attend in costume and it adds to the experience. With the event falling on the weekend before Halloween, you can get two uses out of this year’s costume. Due to its growing popularity, ThunderCon has attracted vendors from all over the province and the United States. “It’s like Christmas for geeks,” Dickson shares. If you’re in the market for
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costumes or the finishing touches for one, you’re likely to find it there, as well as anything and everything having to do with your favourite characters and series. Anything having to do with scifi, fantasy, and pop culture is being celebrated at this event. To get the full experience you can also attend a VIP event the Saturday evening at Sleeping Giant Brewing Company. Weekend passes and daily tickets
are available. Tickets are available from Joey’s Seafood, Comix Plus, Hill City Comics, Lakehead Models & Collectibles, or online at thundercon.org
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CityScene Heartbeat Hot Sauce
Stuff We Like
Available at most local grocery stores
Creating heat waves ever since they launched, Heartbeat Hot Sauce is so good even Jeff Goldblum has tasted it. Using a variety of local peppers from DeBruin’s Greenhouses, these saucy purveyors of heat ferment the peppers so that they can still meet production yearround. We love that the taste strikes a balance between sweet and heat. It’s great on just about everything. Try the original red habanero, jalapeno, and their newest: blueberry habanero, which is made with Forgotten Lake Blueberry Ale. Yum.
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o make it to 100 issues feels pretty neat. To commemorate this occasion we have compiled a special edition of Stuff We Like that reflects the diversity and ingenuity of the people who contribute to making our community special. Yes we have delicious, crispy-edged Finn pancakes and plenty of pinkiced donuts and a Robin’s Donuts on every corner, but we’re more than just the usual things you think of when you think of Thunder Bay. And because everyone is doing such great work, it’s impossible for us to fit it all on just one page! So if we missed a favourite local product of yours, please email us so we can help share the love. In the meantime, here’s Stuff We Like from Thunder Bay.
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Northies Hoodie
Thunder Bay Country Market
Now that the autumnal equinox is upon us, we’re all reaching for an extra layer of warmth. Show your true northie spirit with a Northies brand hoodie. We’re totally vibing on this pullover because the logo is a nod to our northern roots, the cotton is soft and comfortable, and it’s suitable enough for a hike in the bush, but classy enough to meet up with friends downtown for a pint.
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Knife Fight Press Pennant Nor’Wester Maple Co Maple Syrup Thunder Bay Country Market
Tapping into the ancient tradition of making maple syrup, Nor’Wester Maple Co operates in the heart of the Nor’Wester mountain range. Carefully handmade in small batches from sustainably grown maples, this grade A, 100% pure and sweet amber-coloured elixir is perfect on pancakes (thin or fluffy), for baking, or licked right off your finger. You can taste the passion and the respect for our great outdoors in every delicious drop.
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From Current River, County Park, and Port Arthur, to the East End, Fort William and Westfort, Thunder Bay is a city of neighbourhoods stitched together. You rep yours and we’ll rep ours with a pennant from DIY screen printers Knife Fight Press. Print, cut, and sewn in-house from eco felt, these pennants are currently offered in eight varieties. Don’t see where you live in the mix? Stop and talk to them at an upcoming craft shows (like The Craft Revival and Craftland) or contact them online.
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Local Craft Beer It’s hard to think back to a time when we couldn’t pick up a local growler for the weekend or walk into a restaurant and order a local beer on tap. That’s how deeply we’ve embraced craft beer—it’s like it’s always been here. Trailblazers Sleeping Giant Brewing Company continue to draw inspiration for their libations from Lake Superior and the northern wilderness, as do newcomers Dawson Trail Craft Brewery. Great tasting beer made by great people. What can we say, we’re big fans.
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Three Huggers Beeswax Food Wraps Thunder Bay Country Market
Leave it to three child entrepreneurs (it’s a family project) to think of the future and come up with a reusable alternative to plastic wrap. Handmade from premium grade beeswax, pine gum resin, and jojoba oil these food wraps are biodegradable, naturally anti-bacterial and an easy wipe clean. Use to wrap things like sandwiches, cheese, fruit, and vegetables. Zero waste. We think they’re the bee’s knees!
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Locally Roasted Coffee Coffee culture is alive and well in the city. The biggest benefit of locally roasted coffee is the freshness, flavour, and the friendliness factor of knowing your roaster, all of which Thunder Bay has in spades. We’re fortunate to have three cheerful sources for these beloved beans, which you can find in many independent coffee shops around town. There’s Wolfhead Coffee (featuring naturally smoked blends), Rose N Crantz Roasting Company, and St Paul Roastery, who roast, sell, and serve on-site.
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21 breathtaking concerts. Mainstage. Second Stage. Earth Day. Wired. Tom Jackson. Rita Chiarelli. Jeans ’n Classics Beatles—and Led Zeppelin. Philip Glass. Beethoven. New ways to buy! Series start from just $119. There’s never been a season like it! Look for our brochure, or call for yours: 626.TBSO (8276). Or visit tbso.ca COMING UP: Symphony Virgins: Listen like it’s the first time! Bring someone new! Fri., Oct. 12, 7:30 at the Da Vinci Tear Down the Walls: First regular concert of the season—a classical powerhouse! Thurs., Oct. 18, 7:30 at the Auditorium Rise and Take Flight: Women’s concert! Thurs., Oct. 25, 7:30 at Hilldale Church When Night Wind Falls: Spooktacular! Sun.., Oct. 28, 3:30 at Grassroots Church
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Community Health and Wellbeing Week October 22-28, 2018 NorWest Community Health Centres is part of a vibrant network of more than 100 community governed, interprofessional, primary health care organizations that serve diverse communities in Ontario. NorWest serves people who often experience barriers to health care: people living on low incomes, those in rural and remote areas, recent immigrants, people with disabilities, people living with mental health and addictions challenges, and people who identify as LGBTQ. We are able to provide both primary health care services and a range of community supports that are based on the needs of the people we serve. NorWest is celebrating Community Health and Wellbeing Week from October 22 to 28, 2018. Our focus this October is to encourage and support our clients to engage in their community and vote in the municipal election. The Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW), the basis for our community development strategy, focusses on key aspects of life. Just as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measures the value of
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goods and services produced during a time period, providing us with an indication of our financial wellbeing, the CIW provides a measure of how we are doing with regards to our health. At the root of the CIW are the Canadian values of democracy, diversity, economic security, equity, fairness, health, inclusion, safety and sustainability. Under the CIW, one indicator of health is civic engagement. As part of her research for her book ‘The Village Effect’, psychologist Susan Pinker found that “face-to-face contact matters”, and the personal village around you helps you thrive. The network of community and connections you have, this’ village’ you belong to, has the greatest impact on your longevity and is more of a determinant of living a long life than not drinking, not smoking, exercising and other lifestyle factors. One way people can engage and connect with their personal village is to participate in elections. The upcoming municipal election falls during Community Health and Wellbeing Week
(October 22nd-28th). Instead of ensuring you go for a run or pack a healthy lunch on October 22nd, grab your neighbour and walk to your local poll and cast your vote. Voting is a healthy choice, maybe the healthiest one you can make. To learn more about the candidates, polls, how to register to vote and important election dates visit www.tbayvotes.ca
To find out more about us NorWest Community Health Centres programs and services visit www.norwestchc.org, or www.facebook.com/NorWestCHC or call us at 807-622-8235.
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Lit on Tour
IFOA Returns to Thunder Bay By Shauna Kosoris
“F
or me, the Lit On Tour is incredibly valuable because it allows readers and writers who might not have otherwise been able to connect to come together,” says Ann Y.K. Choi, the author of Kay’s Lucky Coin Variety. Choi will be joining Arjun Basu, Kim Moritsugu, and Ruby Slipperjack at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery on October 30 for the 8th Annual Thunder Bay Lit On Tour. The event—which is co-hosted by Lakehead University, Northwestern Ontario Writers Workshop (NOWW), Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay Public Library, Toronto International Festival of Authors (IFOA), and CBC Radio—brings authors of contemporary literature from across Canada to our city. The event will start off with each of the authors reading a
passage from their most recent work. After that, the audience will be given a chance to ask questions of the authors. This is followed by book signings. “I’m grateful to be invited to participate in IFOA and Lit On Tour, and to have a chance to promote my novel to an interested audience,” says Moritsugu. “I have fond memories of Thunder Bay from my last visit to the city, in 2007, when I was a guest author at the Sleeping Giant Writers Festival, and had my best-ever speaking experience there.” This year, Moritsugu will be promoting her seventh novel, The Showrunner. Sharing unique experiences is a large part of the appeal of Lit On Tour. Basu, who will be promoting Waiting for the Man, was born in Montreal, and is the child of
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Kim Moritsugu immigrants who came to Canada from India. Slipperjack, author of Dear Canada: These Are My Words, is a member of the Eabametoong First Nation and a professor in the Indigenous Learning department at Lakehead University. Choi immigrated to Canada from South Korea in the 1970s. “As a female author of Asian
heritage, I welcome the opportunity to share a different perspective and experience from others,” says Choi. “I appreciate the same chance to engage and hear from others as well.” Tickets are available for $15 at the Brodie Resource Library, the Waverley Resource Library, and the Thunder Bay Art Gallery. For more information visit litontour.com.
INTIMATE FRENCH BAROQUE Our New Harpsichord Revealed! Elizabeth Ganiatsos – harpsichord
with violin, Baroque flute & cello Music from the Golden Age of Louis XIV and XV
Saturday, November 3, 2018, 8 PM St. Paul’s United Church 349 Waverley Street, Thunder Bay, ON Admission at the door: $15; $10 students
New Internationally Recognized Artist
DORIS PONTIERI A Walk Through The Birches, 40 x 30
Doris has exhibited her paintings at the annual art show at the Louvre in France, the McMichael Gallery in Canada and accepted a commission by the Vatican in Italy.
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CityScene Sativa vs. Indica
THC vs. CBD
There are two main species of cannabis, which produce very different effects.
There are hundreds of strains and varieties of cannabis, each with specific levels of cannabinoids. The following are the two most important cannabinoids to help you decide what strain or variety is best for you.
Sativa
Cannabis 101 Recreational marijuana possession, home-growing, and sale to adults becomes legalized October 17 in Canada, which has many advocates of the drug saying it’s high time. Here’s everything you need to know so that you can be prepared for the roll out. Cannabis (aka marijuana, weed, or pot) is a plant that originated in Central Asia. It contains hundreds of chemical substances and over 100 of these are known as cannabinoids. Cannabinoids are made and stored in the plant’s trichomes, which are the small hairs that stick out from the flowers and leaves of the plant. Cannabinoids have effects on cell receptors in the brain and body, and they can also change how those cells behave and communicate with each other.
First classified by Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in 1753, the name sativa comes from the Latin word for “cultivated.” Originating from countries by the Equator, sativa has been cultivated throughout recorded history as a source of fibre, food, and medicine, with different parts of the plant harvested according to its use. Sativa plants grow tall and thin and are often characterized by their long, slender, finger-like leaves. Sativa tends to provide more invigorating, uplifting cerebral effects that pair well with physical activity, social gatherings, and creative projects.
Indica In 1785, French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck published the discovery of a new species of cannabis in India he named Cannabis indica. Found originally in the Hindu Kush mountains in the Middle East, the indica plant is broad-leafed, and shorter, wider, and more densely branched than the sativa plant. Also known as “in-da-couch,” indica strains are known to have physically sedating effects, making them perfect for relaxing with a movie or as a nightcap before bed.
THC Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the most researched cannabinoid. It is the principal psychoactive ingredient of cannabis and is responsible for the “high,” or euphoria associated with cannabis. The potency of THC in cannabis is often shown as a percentage of THC by weight or by volume of an oil, ranging from 0% to 30%.
CBD Cannabidiol (CBD) is the second most well-studied cannabinoid. CBD is nonpsychoactive, meaning it won’t get you high. CBD has a long list of uses for medicinal purposes, dozens of which qualify for a prescription under Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (ACMPR). It is also being studied for possible therapeutic uses.
From Prohibition to Legalization: A Timeline of Cannabis in Canada 1801
Robert Hunter, the Lieutenant Governor of the province of Upper Canada, on behalf of the King of England, distributed hemp seeds free to Canadian farmers in an effort to stimulate industry.
1923
Cannabis was deemed illegal in Canada, after the Narcotics Drug Act Amendment Bill introduced the Act to Prohibit the Improper Use of Opium and Other Drugs, adding cannabis, in addition to opium, cocaine, and morphine.
1937
The first four possession offences occurred (not clear whether these were charges or convictions), according to Panic and Indifference: The Politics of Canada’s Drug Laws.
1969
The Canadian government established the Royal Commission of Inquiry in the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, known as the Le Dain Commission.
Supreme Court Justice Gerald Le Dain
1922
Pioneering Canadian women’s rights activist Emily Murphy published her anti-drug, anti-immigrant manifesto, The Black Candle, in which she claimed that marijuana turned its users into homicidal maniacs.
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1932
The first seizure of marijuana cigarettes occurred.
1968
The number of cannabis convictions jumped to 2,300 as marijuana use increased, particularly among college and university students, and those involved in the hippie counterculture movement.
1972
The Le Dain Commission recommended decriminalizing simple cannabis possession and cultivation for personal purposes.
CityScene Terpenes
Strains for Beginners
Terpenes are the fragrant oils that provide cannabis varieties with flavours like mint, citrus, pine, and berry. They are not unique to cannabis and can be found in many other plants as well. These oils are secreted in the flower’s resin glands, which also produce THC, CBD, and other cannabinoids. Each type of terpene is associated with unique effects.
For those looking to try cannabis for the first time, the best advice is to slowly ease into THC-dominant cannabis strains as they’re more likely to cause discomfort for inexperienced users. Percentages as low as 4% are a good place to start as they will produce little to no high; 30% total THC by dry weight should be considered very potent. It’s difficult to get plants to produce much more than that.
Some Types of Terpenes
CB Dutch Treat (20% sativa, 80% indica) - CBD level of 8% with a THC level of 4% Dancehall CBD (60% sativa, 40% indica)- CBD level of 6.9% with a THC level of 5.1% Cannatonic (50% sativa, 50% indica) - CBD levels of 6-17% with THC levels rarely above 6% Pennywise (30% sativa, 70% indica) - CBD and THC levels 9% Plushberry (20% sativa, 80% indica)- CBD levels of 0.39% with a THC level of 17.38%
Alpha-Pinene Aroma: Pine Potential effects: Alertness and memory retention Potential medical value: Treatment of asthma, pain, inflammation, ulcers, and anxiety Also found in: Pine needles, rosemary, basil, parsley, dill
Linalool
Beta-Caryophyllene Aroma: Pepper, spicy, woody Potential effects: Stress relief Potential medical value: Treatment of pain, anxiety/depression, ulcers Also found in: Black pepper, cloves, cinnamon
Myrcene
Limonene
Aroma: Musky, earthy, herbal, cardamom, bay leaves, cloves Potential effects: Sedation; enhances THC’s psychoactive effects Potential medical value: Antioxidant; treatment of insomnia, pain, and inflammation Also found in: Mango, lemongrass, thyme, hops
Aroma: Citrus Potential effects: Stress relief, elevated mood Potential medical value: Treatment of anxiety, depression, inflammation, and pain Also found in: Fruit rinds, rosemary, juniper, peppermint
1977
Newspapers quoted then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau telling the Young Liberals club at the University of Toronto: “If you have a joint and you’re smoking it for your private pleasure, you shouldn’t be hassled.”
Aroma: Floral Potential effects: Stress relief, sedation Potential medical value: Treatment of anxiety, depression, insomnia, pain, inflammation, and neurodegenerative disease Also found in: Lavender
Humulene Aroma: Woody, earthy Potential effects: Suppresses appetite Potential medical value: Anti-inflammatory Also found in: Hops, coriander, cloves, basil
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2017
The Government of Canada proposed the Cannabis Act, which would legalize the possession, use, cultivation, and purchase of limited amounts of cannabis by adults 18 years of age and older.
canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/ drugs-medication/cannabis/about cannimed.ca greenrelief.ca leafly.com/news/canada/ history-cannabis-canada Giffen, Endicott and Lambert, Panic and Indifference: The Politics of Canada’s Drug Laws (Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, 1991) news.vice.com/article/from-raving-maniacsto-the-prince-of-pot-a-history-of-weed-incanada
2001
The Canadian government enacted the first rendition of the country’s medical marijuana law, the Marihuana for Medical Access Regulations (MMAR), allowing licensed patients to access cannabis from licensed growers, or grow their own.
October 17, 2018
Recreational marijuana possession, home growing and sales to adults becomes legalized.
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to book an appointment to talk about basic makeup application and choosing the best colours. Daily life for Kauppi involves working hard as a wife and mother, providing multiple services at her spa in Victoriaville, and doing makeup on location for weddings and movie shoots. You can see Kauppi’s work on the big screen soon—she
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What’s Inside... A Makeup Bag? Story and Photos by Leah Morningstar
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hen it’s time to think about Halloween costumes, you have a few options: get crafty and sew something, piece together a costume from what you already have in your closet, or find something fabulous from a speciality store like Spirit of Halloween. Whatever you decide to do, you might be interested in hiring a professional makeup artist. It’s not that expensive and it’s a great way to add some serious mileage to your chosen Halloween look. This is where Scotia Kauppi— makeup artist and owner of Sweet Cherry Spa—comes in. In addition to Halloween makeup, Kauppi does bridal makeup, movie makeup, and regular services such as waxing, manicures, pedicures, and facials.
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Black cake eyeliner is something that Kauppi will be using on almost every single costume look she helps create. A lot of Halloween costumes will also use things like blood and horns, fangs, and various prosthetics. This is getting into more serious and realistic costuming territory. Kauppi purchases a lot of her prosthetics but she is also a skilled crafter and makes prosthetics out of liquid latex, tissue, and fake blood. Kauppi uses mostly products from the brand Mudd. For a simple everyday look she recommends using a primer, liquid foundation, blush, eyeshadow in a neutral colour, black eyeliner, black or brown mascara, eyebrow powder or pencil, and lip gloss. If this seems a bit daunting, Kauppi would be happy
was head of makeup for the locally filmed WWI docudrama, Lakehead at War, which is set to premiere on Remembrance Day. Visit her Facebook page to learn more about her spa and book an appointment. facebook.com/ SweetCherrySpa
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Voting day is on Oct. 22 Three ways to vote
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Bears’ Bees and Honey Barry Tabor
Story by Sarah Kerton, Photo by Cole Breiland
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oney. This nectar of the gods seems so commonplace, most people don’t stop to think about the amazing processes that create it. Just a spoonful in your tea contains the efforts of thousands of flowers and hundreds of bees. And honey is so much sweeter when it is harvested locally. You may have noticed Bears’ Bees and Honey at the Thunder Bay Country Market, sharing space with Paradis Apiaries. Barry Tabor, the owner of Bears’ Bees and Honey, has been keeping bees since the summer of 1996. His interest in bees has been a lifelong passion. His home is a hive of activity itself, where together with wife Lesya and daughter Maryana he has been developing all sorts of related products. They will have even more coming to the market in the new year, including creamed honey and medicinal rubs. Tabor manages fifty hives at the height of the summer, and has help from different beekeepers in
the area. He shares his knowledge of and passion for beekeeping with school groups and other organizations, and has made close relationships with Roots to Harvest, mentoring quite a few of their alumni and other amateur beekeepers in the community. At Bears’ Bees and Honey they process all the honey by hand, leaving behind the natural pollens and creating natural, unpasteurized, local honey. Their honeys take on the flavours of the flowers they came from, with their blueberry blossom honey and Northern Mix honey coming from two apiaries at the top end of Lake Nipigon. Their wildflower honey comes from two apiaries in Kakabeka Falls and their home apiary on Lakeshore Drive in Shuniah. Look for their Bears’ Bee Balm, honey, and candles next time you’re at the Thunder Bay Country Market. For more info visit bearsbeesandhoney.com.
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Uncommon Women Sharing Inspirational Stories By Pat Forrest
(L-R) Leah Parsons, Jacquie Kennedy, Crystal Davey, Nina Ruberto, and Marlo Ellis
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group of women who have lived through incredible trauma and adversity and have gained hope and strength will be in Thunder Bay in October to share their inspirational stories as part of The Uncommon Woman’s first cross-country tour. The Uncommon Woman founder Marlo Ellis has worked with thousands of women to guide them through adversity towards positive change and empowerment. Ellis, who will also be one of the presenters (The Journey into Becoming an Uncommon Woman), says there are not enough opportunities for
women who are not celebrities to talk about their struggles and how they overcame them. Her goal is to “give women a platform to share their stories of strength from struggle, and in doing so inspire others to take radical action in their lives— despite the pain, the risks and the odds.” Attendees, says Ellis, will have an opportunity to see and be seen, hear and be heard, and to overcome pain and adversity through empowerment, connection, and transformation. Participants will hear the stories of TedX Speaker Leah Parsons, whose daughter was raped in 2012
and died by suicide in 2013 (The Power in Pain: A Mother’s Journey Through Grief and Loss); Jacquie Kennedy, who grew up with a father who, after coming home from the war, numbed his pain through alcohol and had violent outbursts (Shadowboxing: The Fight to Heal the Child Within); Thunder Bay’s Nina Ruberto, who was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer just two days after her 40th birthday (Vivi con Passione: From Cancer Survivor to Passion Crusader); and Crystal Davey, whose mother is one of the Indigenous women missing and presumed murdered
by Robert Pickton (Breaking the Cycle: Murdered or Missing, A Daughter’s Journey). Each speaker will share her own story and offer the unique opportunity for the audience to exchange experiences in a question and answer period. Ellis’ mother, breast cancer survivor Nora Ellis, is MC. The Uncommon Woman Cross Country Tour will be in Thunder Bay on October 6 at the University Centre Theatre at Lakehead University. You can purchase tickets at theuncommonwoman.com
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This is Thunder Bay Interviews by Nancy Saunders, Photos by Laura Paxton This month, The Walleye asked you why you live in Thunder Bay, and what you love about your community. Stacey: I live in Thunder Bay because I think it’s a great place to raise my young family. I see a really bright future here, and I love the sense of community.
Crystal: I feel like Thunder Bay is home. The people are what I love about it. I feel
like we’ve formed a community within our neighbourhood, and I never want to leave. I’ve travelled around and I haven’t felt the same way as I do when I come home. I’ve seen peoples’ state of mind or perceived idea about certain neighbourhoods or certain areas of town and I think if we all stick around here and try to make it a better place, it will be a better place.
Keri and Craig: (K) We’re born and raised in Thunder Bay so this is where our roots
are, so we stayed here, and Craig’s got business so we stay. Community-wise, it’s great for children—they always have things going on for kids, but they always have things going on for adults, too, so it’s nice that you can have the best of both worlds. Family included, and then adult fun.
(C) We live here for the family and the two businesses that we own, and we stay
because of all the support from family and from other businesses around. We have two children, and too many aunts and uncles and cousins.
Joe: I was born and raised in and around Thunder Bay—a country boy all my life. One
of the greatest things I love about Thunder Bay is not only is it a city, you can drive 20 minutes in any direction, get out of your car, walk 100 yards, and it’s almost like nobody has ever set foot there. If you’re an outdoors person, that’s great. Even though we’re two cities made one, we still have a small-town mentality at times, so there are lots of neighbourly actions and things like that among my neighbours. We are a friendly town despite what everyone else wants to think. I just love Thunder Bay and I’m going to be here for the rest of my life—I know that for a fact.
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Ashley: I visited a couple of times before moving here for work and for relationships. The organization I work with has a lot of relationships with the First Nations communities up north, and they had been asking in partnership for people to move to Thunder Bay to start some initiatives around Indigenous kids going to high school here, in good ways. They asked me to come and work with them. I am super-new and am still trying to get to know people and figure out who’s here and what it’s like, and what are ways that I can be involved that are good and appropriate. I really like it. I think the city is beautiful and wonderful.
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Thunder Bay Votes Three Questions for Mayoral Candidates By Kris Ketonen What are some of the biggest challenges facing our downtown cores and how will you address those challenges?
Ronald Chookomolin: In order to invest in businesses, we need to give businesses incentives—reducing taxes. At the same time, you have people that are roaming the streets, and you hear a lot of cases where it’s not good for business. People drinking, and with addictions and mental health issues. Part of the solution is, if we want to address tourism, to start looking at the root causes of bettering our city. And that’s one area that’s been neglected for a long, long time. I don’t think it’s ever been addressed.
Mariann Sawicki: On the south side, we have issues with Victoriaville Mall, and crime. Well, we actually have crime on both sides, and I think one of the biggest issues is cleaning up both sides as far as crime goes, addictions, drugs. We need to have
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more foot patrol. And if we need to increase our police force, then we should do so. I want our city safe, and I want it like it used to be, where you wouldn’t have to lock your doors, and you could go out and feel safe all the time.
Frank Pullia: From a business perspective, what I’m hearing the most is that there’s still too much red tape and bureaucracy for small, medium-sized enterprises that want to grow and expand. Another area that needs a boost is the incentive program. And I think the last part the downtown needs is community policing, on the beat, police officers that get to know the area better so we can provide reassurance to the businesses and also to the residents that we’re looking after their community safety. And then, obviously, there’s a need for social programs for long-term support in mental health and addiction, because the downtown areas are the areas where some people need our help, and we need to be proactive and responsive to their needs.
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oters in the City of Thunder Bay will head to the polls on October 22 for the next municipal election, and among the votes they’ll cast is one that will help choose the city’s next mayor. Here’s how the candidates responded to our three questions. Candidates’ comments have been edited for length. Editor’s note: Ed Hailio, Kevin Cernjul, and Jim Gamble were contacted but failed to respond before our print deadline. Bill Mauro: I believe, and I think others do, that the downtown south core has not received, or seen, the same level of investment from the private sector, and has not seen anywhere near the rejuvenation that the north core has. Part of the focus for me will certainly be on dealing with what, if anything, exists in the official plan of the City of Thunder Bay that may be restricting certain kinds of development in the south core, and focusing that kind of development in the north core. That’s number one. Number two, there are some things that we can absolutely control when it comes to generating investments in the downtown south core, and that is where our public infrastructure goes. I use the examples of the police station and Thunder Bay Telephone buildings. And at the time, people thought those were good locations, but I think they’re two examples of public infrastructure that when they were located to their present locations, if they had been put downtown south core, you’d just pumped 800 to 1,000 employees into that south core, and that’s what has to happen where you start to get traffic that generates and supports business investment.
Wolfgang Schoor: The biggest problem is the lewd behaviour. And I would like to be soft on this, you know, and I don’t want to be centring any cultural segment of our population out, you know what
I mean? It’s lewd behaviour. It is some sort of behaviour that doesn’t adhere to the legally established, the provincial, the city moral standards, and the appropriate behaviour.
Iain Angus: I think in terms of the north core, the challenge is how do we sustain the economic activity that currently exists in the evening, and how do we expand that into the daytime, because I understand that the number of people who are shopping in that area still is not where the folks would like. In terms of the south core, we’ve got bigger issues. We’ve got safety issues, we’ve got crime issues, we’ve got a lot of empty space issues. So that’s sort of setting the stage for the two. The broad overarching thing that we need to do, is we need to do what was promised in urban renewal way back when, but was never implemented, and that’s the construction of a whole range of mixed housing. By mixed, I mean various income groups in those areas. Overall though, what I want to do is create a couple of neighbourhood teams, should the neighbourhood be interested, pulling together people with both lived experience and expertise in redevelopment of cores to see what kind of plans we can develop.
CityScene incentive to get them an opportunity to open a business. That would not only create revenue, it would give jobs and it would beautify the area. So that would be both downtown cores. But Thunder Bay north seems to be just a little bit more enhanced than the south, but irregardless, any areas and run-down buildings that could be revived if the tax incentive was given, then that’s what I’m for. I’m for that. Shane Judge: The two cores are quite different. The south core is really suffering because of the Victoriaville experience, and the lack of movement in the area. As well as the movement of certain bars from other parts of the town have just created a socially dysfunctional area outside of Victoriaville. I think part of the answer is to open Victoriaville. Council made the decision to study the closure of it and is in the process of doing that, and as soon as that began, of course, nobody’s going to invest in the place. Why move a business in there? So it’s done, it’s gotta come down, the road’s gotta be opened up. On the north side, I was disappointed in the streetscape that was created. They spent money down there putting in lockstone, but in my opinion, not a very good job was done. I would like to see that area transformed into a different kind of experience. I think that there’s a place, for example, for an open square surrounded by buildings, that would be protected from the winds, so that you would have a longer, in the season, social experience.
Peter Panetta: I would like personally to see Simpson Street or the like, whether it’s Port Arthur or Fort William, to be more like a, I guess you can compare it to an Osborne Village in Winnipeg, where small businesses flourish with a tax break
families with children, and we need more doctors. So if we have something that is attractive—like I had suggested a waterpark. I know that we have lots of debt and bills and stuff like that, but I believe that something like that will be an attraction, and we have such a beautiful waterfront, and all the possibilities of having something like that.
If you received a $1 million grant to use for the city any way you wanted, what would you do with it and why?
Ronald Chookomolin: Addictions. When I talk about addictions and mental health, I would implement funds into drugs and alcohol treatment within Thunder Bay, just to start up. I would partner up with the Attorney General, work with the public safety minister at the federal level, and start to re-introduce and have constructive solutions for court-mandated treatment programming. The crime is high in Thunder Bay because, the root cause is obviously addiction.
Mariann Sawicki: I would probably look at using it for things that are going to bring more people here. So, possibly something that is an attraction. We need young
asking about a new soccer-plex, do we still need a new hockey rink? So, if you received a $1 million grant, and there are many others who would prefer to not see it spent at all, and just use it in general revenues to avoid potential tax increases. But I think for not having been on the inside to actually see what the situation is with the current council, and the current city infrastructure asset management plan, it’s a difficult one for me to answer. But I would say it’s either going to be going into the hard infrastructure, or softer infrastructure.
Frank Pullia: I would use it to provide help and incentives to the arts and culture community, and the small businesses, enterprises, to really grow and expand. Our critical mass is already occurring in many parts of the city, they need that little extra help. Right now, we have $100,000 for incentive programs across the city—not enough. I would use that million dollars, and that million dollars would pay back tenfold in terms of the kind of growth that we could accelerate.
Wolfgang Schoor: The first thing, right off the hop, do an evaluation. Who needs it the most? And where will it do the most good? Everything starts with an evaluation, with an assessment, with an analysis, because haste makes waste, and we don’t want to do that.
Bill Mauro: I think the city has a number of significant challenges in front of it. Do we have bridges and roads or sewer and waterworks that absolutely are necessary and need to be invested in, and are in danger of failure if those investments aren’t made? Or, if we’re not in that position, do we have an opportunity to consider what I sometimes see as softer infrastructure—recreational facilities. There’s a lot of people
Iain Angus: I would probably put it in reserve, and use it to match other dollars, so that we can do more with it. And we do that with Renew Thunder Bay. We took provincial funding that was unspecified, and we banked it, and we’ve been using it over the years only for those that lever money from other orders of government. So rather than putting the the $1 million in to a specific project—although I’m sure there are
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they’re the next generation. We don’t take care of our youth, we have no next generation. We’re not going anywhere. This city will stagnate. If we don’t take care of the base, it’s like anything. If you don’t have a solid core to your home or anything else, with no foundation, with top will fall. What neighbourhood do you live in and why? Can you share your favourite places to spend time in Thunder Bay?
Shane Judge: What I would do with it is I would use part of it to create a foundation that would accept donations from the public to preserve the city’s heritage buildings. The money from the million dollars would be used to generate matching funds from church communities, businesses, that would see the facades or the roof of our heritage— these would have to be designated buildings—protected.
Peter Panetta: That goes back to the first question—we’re going to take care of our youth, because
Ronald Chookomolin: I live on Simpson Street. It’s a very busy area. I love the neighbourhood. And the most places I go with my family is we go out and about. I love to jog, I’m a runner, my partner bikes along beside me. And we go at the waterfront. Mariann Sawicki: I live in Westfort. Why? Well, I’d grown up in Green Acres area. My parents’ home is on Leland, and I just love the area. My dad grew up in Westfort. I love the Westfort area. It’s convenient; it’s close to a lot of things. Whether I go towards Syndicate, I’m near the mall—not that I shop or anything like that, I’m not a shopper—but I just like the area. Frank Pullia: I live on Banning Street, near Kangas Sauna, in the Bay and Algoma District. I grew up here, and when I had a chance to come back, I did. I love the neighbourhood. There was a tendency with friends and colleagues who were telling me, because I moved back from the suburbs, and they were going, why are you going back into the neighbourhood? I’m going because I love it
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over there. I feel at home. I can walk anywhere. I can walk to the Canada Games Complex, I can walk to the Bay and Algoma area, go for a drink, go to restaurants. I can walk to parks, Hillcrest Park is up the street. I can walk to the university. Bill Mauro: I live in Northwood. My family grew up in Port Arthur, but we moved into what was just becoming Northwood in 1966 or 1967, and I’ve been in Northwood ever since. So that’s what’s been home for 50 years. My favourite place in Thunder Bay? Well, I like to be outside as much as I can. And so, when when I’m healthy enough, I like to run, and it doesn’t matter where I’m running as long as I’m outside. Wolfgang Schoor: I live on Villa Street. I have been here, like I said, for 30 years, at this house, as my home base. I live here, I like it. From the top floor, the house is almost 40 feet high. I can see the lake, I’m near the waterfront, I’m close to the downtown core. I’m close to a creek, I can go fishing if I want to, although I don’t have the time, you know, sometimes, but I go and take a picture here and there, and watch somebody else fish. The favourite place for me is right here in the city. Iain Angus: I live in Northwood, although I’ve moved around the town a lot over the years. In terms of spending time, I have to say Chippewa Park. That’s where I grew up, that’s where I’ve spent a lot of my private time, working with the Friends of Chippewa to redevelop, to program and to market Chippewa Park. And certainly the carousel,
which is the main project right now, is uppermost in my mind. I used to sell tickets when I was 12 years old for people to get on the carousel, so that’s how far back I go with that. Shane Judge: I live in Westfort ward politically, although I have to tell you, I want to get rid of the ward system. But I live on Catherine Street, not far away from the old McKellar hospital, and I fell in love with this 110-year-old house. It was astonishing—when I walked in the living room, I was expecting a building with these little tiny windows because it was such an old house, but it’s got these big, expansive windows that back in the day must have been incredibly expensive to keep the heat inside of. I just love this kind of genteel, treed nature of this neighbourhood, and as a consequence, I love just walking around the neighbourhood. Peter Panetta: Semi-rural, northwest area of the city. I know I’m quite gregarious, but I am very private. I like the country setting. I like the solitude up there. Lately, I’ve had three grandchildren living with me, so it’s all about grandchildren right now. So I’m always going to parks, or I’m going to the Cascades, or today we were at the Mission Marsh. But where’s my favorite place to go? I do love the Marina. And Hillcrest Park. There’s your Sleeping Giant view right there, and it’s a beautiful, beautiful spot. I like Chippewa Park, as well, but I also like Mount McKay. I love that as well.
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Highlights of Thunder Bay’s Annual Halloween Events Story by Maria Artiga, Photo by Patrick Chondon
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rick or treat! Personally, we think one day for Halloween is not enough, and it should at a minimum span over one week. Luckily, these Thunder Bay activities stretch out over the entire month of October and are for adults, kids, or the ghoul in you. Happy haunting, kiddos!
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Where: Kinsmen Youth Centre, 609 North James Street Cost: Free Ages: 12–18 In the mood for Halloween tricks and games? Youth Move is mixing up a Halloween party in their activity cauldron. Attend a night of Halloween games, activities, and food, including fall favourites such as pumpkin carving, roasting pumpkin seeds, and making pumpkin spice lattés. Come dressed in your best costume for the contest. This will be a fan favourite for any of the young witches and ghouls out there. 625-2344
Where: Maple Tops Paramount Theatre Cost: $12 for a one-day pass and $30 for a three-day pass Ages: 19+ Time to get your abnormal on and get ready for an eerie weekend of independent horror. This three-day film festival celebrating all things horror is filled with everything from slasher flicks to the supernatural and slow-burn suspense. Enjoy local indie films and international trailers all screened the at the historic Maple Tops Paramount Theatre. Before the films, the red carpet will be rolled out with door prizes to be won. If you love anything horror this is the event for you. facebook.com/terrorinthebay
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This year at Haunted Fort Nights, be prepared to be caught between the living and the dead. This experience will not disappoint as each tour extends over an hour. Expect chills, creatures, and spookiness alike. Will you leave untouched or ready for more? fwhp.ca/hauntedfort-night
Just like a pumpkin spice latté is to fall, so is Pumpkinfest is to the Thunder Bay Halloween season. Pumpkinfest features rides, food, games, farm animals, and of course, pumpkins. There is no shortage of things to do for the family. Get lost in the kids’ monster corn maze or soak up the warm fall colours. gammondalefarm.com/ pumpkinfest
The Hunger When: October 27 starting at 8 pm Where: Downtown Port Arthur: Crock’s, Black Pirates Pub, The Foundry, The Sovereign Room, Red Lion Smokehouse, El Tres and Atmos Cost: $20 for entry to venues, otherwise free to wander Ages: 19+ The Hunger is back and better than ever. For its 13th year, it will feature 54 performance acts including 42 bands and DJs of all genres. There will be fabulous specialty performers and thousands in Halloween costume contest prizes at all locations. Feed your hunger and treat yourself to the wildest, slickest Halloween with attitude. Advice: come early, you don’t want to miss a thing. definitelysuperior.com
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mmanuel Jal—former child soldier, now actor, hip hop artist, author, and peace activist—will be sharing his story of tragedy and triumph at the Valhalla Inn on Thursday, November 1 during a fundraising event hosted by Thunder Bay’s World Vision volunteer group, Hope for all Kids. Jal was “recruited” when he was seven years old by the Sudan People’s Liberation Army and forced to do as many other child soldiers do: kill or be killed. Several years later, when the fighting became unbearable, Jal ran away. He was 11 years old when Emma McCune, a British aid worker, adopted him and
smuggled him into Kenya. When McCune died in a road accident, Jal was left to live in the slums while he attended school. It was there that he discovered hip hop music and was drawn to its intensity and spiritual and political power. He began to write and perform, and his songs began to climb the charts. Within a few years he had many accomplishments under his belt: performing at Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday party, sharing the stage with Bono, Peter Gabriel, and other international music stars, acting in Ron Howard’s film The Good Lie starring Reese Witherspoon, receiving five studio album award
Emmanuel Jal nominations (including a Juno for Best World Music in 2015), releasing his highly acclaimed novel War Child and, most importantly, becoming a peace activist. “I believe I have survived for a reason,” he says. “To tell my story … to touch lives.” And what a story it will be to
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mother was actually setting out to create singers,” Cosbey says. “She’d heard that starting on a string instrument was a great way to be able to start music quite early, and also very good at developing your ear, your sense of pitch, which is a big help, of course, if you’re singing.” But Cosbey’s interest in the violin grew, and he continued studying the instrument. He studied at the Conservatory of Music in Regina, and then at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. His orchestral experience goes back to his childhood, as well; he’d been playing in junior orchestras since he was eight, and started playing with the Regina symphony at 15. “It’s a different thing coming into a professional orchestra when you’re 15,” he says. “I remember getting that first folder full of music and having two weeks to learn it, and thinking ‘Oh my God, how am I going to learn all this in two weeks?’” “It’s got easier,” he says with a laugh. “But it a wonderful experience to get used to playing in a professional orchestra so young.”
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omen way-pavers did indeed make waves at the Royal Canadian Legion Port Arthur Branch No. 5 on September 8. The event was put together by Sunday wilde, who was somewhat homeless having recently relocated from Atikokan. But she was right at home opening the show with her new stand- up bassist Arek Chamski, formerly of the Old Dawson Trail Blues Band, spiffily dressed for the occasion. Chamski more than adequately filled in the shoes of wilde’s former partner Reno Jack, who sadly passed away recently. Wilde has improved her stage presence, and anchored the evening deep in the blues tradition with a raw, rollicking performance. The waves were kept a-rollin’ by Tara O’Brien, a blueswoman from an earlier era of the TBay blues scene and an old family friend of wilde’s. Starting out a little rusty but warming as the set progressed, O’Brien displayed intricate guitar technique and a wornaround-the-edges, dusky-rose
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Sheila Gostick voice finely suited for the folksy blues she played. A cover of “Rich Man’s Blues” and her own quirky “It’s Drunk Out Tonight, Lock the Doors” were highlights of her turn. Cultural mainstay Jen “Bent” Metcalfe, who hosts a popular LU radio show Tuesday afternoons, was up next. Metcalfe’s commanding presence rocked the room even after breaking her sixth string and switching to an a capella tune to close her set. Finally, the caustically funny Sheila Gostick stepped up to the mic. Toronto’s Queen Street “village genius” met wilde at the Cameron House, where they became fast friends. Her set was a wildly funny ride from a social heckler with a machine gun delivery laser-focused on today’s absurdities (including Doug Ford). “When did social life become office work?” quipped Gostick. By the end of her monologue even the hard-bitten regulars of the house were in stitches. Taken all together, it was simply a great show—one that I will remember for a long while.
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A Fine Balancing Act Creating TBSO’s Season 58
By Gerald McEachern, Executive Director, TBSO
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aul Haas is no stranger to building symphony seasons. In addition to the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, he leads the Symphony Orchestra of Northwest Arkansas (SoNA) and spends summers conducting at world-famous Tanglewood in Massachusetts. But where those involve orchestras with 60 or more musicians, the Thunder Bay orchestra is half that size. So when it came to designing the upcoming TBSO season, he had his work cut out for him. How far could he move toward new musical experiences to attract new audiences? What classical works should he program to satisfy
serious music fans? How much of his personal preferences should he include? And how to design exciting, powerful programs for a 30-piece orchestra? A great deal of classical music has been written for orchestras larger than the TBSO. This imposes restrictions for small orchestras. Some pieces are too ambitious. Others are too expensive to produce. So he talked to his leadership. Together they decided to “tear down the walls” between all types of music to create an open space that would allow imagining a classical voice unique to the TBSO. They understood the risks. Some of the
traditional audience might think their music preferences had been overlooked. Some intended audiences might not get that there were new, exciting things happening on stage. But they all agreed that the orchestra needed to expand creatively. Musicians were actively involved in designing the season, including a Women’s concert designed by women in the orchestra. On the leading edge is a Wired concert creating a dialogue between classical music and live electronics—a first for the orchestra and local audiences. While in some ways this season appears to be a dramatic departure from past seasons, the main structure remains. Masterworks and Pops have merged into “Mainstage,” but you’ll easily identify both serious and popular classics. On the more serious side are the Launch, Power, Life, Wired, and Outsiders concerts. On the popular side are the Jeans ’n Classics Led Zeppelin and the Beatles’ Abbey Road–White Album
concerts, and the Winter Holiday, Tom Jackson Diversity, and World Earth Day concerts. And that’s just Mainstage. There’s a whole other Second Stage series to explore! This season also offers some groundbreaking subscription deals. For the first time ever the TBSO is offering a “couples” season subscription—which works out to less than $25 per ticket. There’s also a super-affordable Family Series package offering three concerts for a family of four for just $119—less than $10 a ticket. Whether you’re a follower of virtuosos like pianist David Jalbert performing Gershwin or a fan of dynamic singers like Rita Chiarelli and local stars like Matt Sellick, you’re going to love the TBSO’s seriously great experience this season. To get the TBSO season brochure just email info@tbso.ca, or call 626. TBSO (8276). Or visit tbso.ca online for all the exciting details. Now’s the time to act—subscriptions sales close in mid-October.
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Jamie Labrador Not Wasting Time
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amie Labrador is only 19 years old, but her talents go far beyond her years. She first took the stage at a mere three years old to sing karaoke, and since then she has been hooked on the spotlight. She continued with karaoke as a child, but moved onto serious performances as a musician in her early teens. Labrador was introduced to local artists in Thunder Bay, and began receiving invitations to sing at various events. The live performances helped Labrador gain confidence in her voice and performing abilities, and she left her shyness behind when she took to the stage. At age 14, Labrador began learning the guitar, and songwriting followed soon after. “I used it as a healthy way to cope with and express my emotions,” Labrador says of her songwriting. “Teenage years can be extremely stressful and confusing, and music was my way of making sense of it all.” This expression can be heard in her recently released single “Wasted Time” which is available on outlets such as Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and iTunes. Using personal experience in her writing helps her listeners connect to her music and relate to the lyrics. The catchy song tells of badly ended love,
delivered with Labrador’s passionate voice. “Wasted Time” is reminiscent of break-up anthems from artists such as P!nk, Kelly Clarkson, and Taylor Swift, though much less in-your-face. Labrador draws inspiration from Ed Sheeran, who she claims can capture an audience with a few guitar chords and a story, as well as artists such as James Arthur, Sam Smith, and Kehlani. She has a cover of Sheeran’s “Perfect” on YouTube, which showcases the soft breathiness of her natural voice. “Wasted Time” was recorded with Mark Zubek of Zedd Records in Toronto
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releasing in the future. Labrador credits her hometown of Thunder Bay with her growing success, and is constantly inspired by local artists and what they have achieved. “Seeing the hustle and passion people put into their art really inspires me,” she says. While she will be working on producing her first album, she hopes to keep participating in community events and getting her name known. Her dream of becoming a professional musician has been well supported thus far in Thunder Bay, and she hopes to continue making her beloved city proud.
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BURNING TO THE SKY
The Queen of Soul By Gord Ellis
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retha Franklin died on August 16, 2018. She was 76. Losing a talent like Aretha Franklin is the kind of loss that is impossible to measure. Her voice was angelic, infused with God and soul and the church. Yet at the same time, Aretha could make you feel passion and desire and romantic pain like few other singers. Her abilities as a singer and interpreter of songs was unmatched. Her presence on any song, no matter how blatantly contrived (and there were a few of those in the 80s) immediately made
it both palatable and wondrous. She could sing with anyone and the other person would sound better than you had ever heard them. Aretha was a Kraken of talent. It poured out of her. She was nearly always at her best while seated at the piano. Her churchy keyboard runs, so tasty and spare, seemed to run counter to—and in line with—her soaring vocals. My first real introduction to this great artist occurred while listening to one of her famous piano performances on university
radio at Western. I was alone in my basement apartment, and for some reason was recording an entire broadcast of mixed music on a cassette player. The second song, after 10cc’s “Rubber Bullets” was Aretha Franklin singing “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” I didn’t actually know it was her at the time, but learned later when the credits were read. That opening vamp, with the piano playing and gospel choir singing “Don’t trouble the waters... why don’t ya, why don’t ya just let it be…” made my hair stand up on end. Then, after a lot of musical foreplay, came that voice. So rich, so authoritative. So full of God. Aretha was a preacher at a pulpit of ivory keys. She took that oh-so-familiar Simon & Garfunkel classic and turned it inside out and upside down. The song was long and luxurious, but you really didn’t want it to end. I’ve listened to the song about 200 times in my life. I’ve never tired of it. Just recently, I watched her perform it on a YouTube video. Seeing her at the piano, reaching over for the high notes, looking at the choir and audience, made it feel like the first time again. She was a
performer, at her best in front of an audience. Spreading the gospel of love, pain and soul. Aretha has made me cry quite a few times over the years. When I’ve been heartbroken, or hurt, I’ve listened to her. When I’m feeling really happy, Aretha is also there. To this day, when I hear “I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You” I feel emotional. She brings on the ache. There is just something about her music. The last time I cried over Aretha was just after the news of her death got out. Like so many others, I turned to the music for comfort. Then a link to a performance showed up in my feed. It was a live video from 2015, when she performed at the Kennedy Center Awards honouring singer and songwriter Carole King. Aretha, older, and looking a bit frail, strode out to the piano to perform one of her signature songs. Any doubts about her voice disappeared from the first notes. It was majestic, a thing of power and beauty, as if it was coming from somewhere else. From heaven. So effortless. So in control. So beautiful. She stood up and brought down the house. Tears burned my eyes. Thank you Lady Soul.
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assive Scar Era was formed in 2005 in Alexandria, Egypt as the brainchild of guitarist/vocalist Cherine Amr, a young woman with a love of heavy music. Due to her strict family upbringing, Amr was only allowed to play music with other girls. After a few attempts to form an all-girl band, she met violinist Nancy Mounir while attending a jazz concert. Little did she know that the two would soon become
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to create a truly unique sound. Since their inception, the band has released several recordings: Reincarnation EP in 2006, Unfamiliar Territory EP in 2010, Precautionary Measures EP in 2011, Comes Around You EP in 2012, 30 Years EP in 2016, and the Color Blind EP which will be released this month. MSE has toured the globe playing a number of major festivals including Sweden Rock Festival (Sweden), SOS Music Festival (Egypt), Metal Asylum (Dubai, UAE), Slot Art Festival (Poland), SXSW (USA), Inferno Metal Festival (Norway), Total Metal Festival (Italy), and Freakstock Festival (Germany) just to name a few. They’ve shared stages with metal giants like Dream Theatre, Dimmu Borgir, Kreator, Moonspell, Tyr, and Orphaned Land among many others. The band even had a music placement in the Egyptian film Microphone and
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Back to the Stage Door Canteen Roy Coran Big Band to Kick Off Inaugural Season By Melanie Larson
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fter 50 years of diligently keeping the spirit of big band music alive in Thunder Bay, The Roy Coran Big Band are unveiling their very first formal season of concerts. The season kicks off on November 9 and will consist of four shows throughout the year. Ted Vaillant, musical director of Roy Coran Big Band, describes this season as the logical “next step” in the band’s development. “We have been working hard over the past few years, expanding our repertoire, rehearsing diligently, and fulfilling our
mandate to keep big band music alive in our city,” he says. An official season has been in the works for nearly two years—it was just a matter of timing, according to Vaillant. “We tried to organize last year but were unable to secure all of the venues in time. We worked very hard this summer getting all the details in order,” Vaillant says, adding that he hopes these shows will appeal to a wider audience. “We would love to expand our fanbase to younger people as well.” Back to the Stage Door Canteen
is the first show in the season, taking place on November 9 at the Slovak Legion. “The stage door canteen was an actual spot in New York during World War II. They also existed in Hollywood, Paris, and London,” says Vaillant. “They often had celebrities volunteer to serve the soldiers.They were designed to entertain soldiers on leave.” The Roy Coran Big Band hopes to capture the atmosphere of these canteens and transport audiences back in time. The season rolls along with A
Big Band Swinging Christmas on December 14, a show featuring the Choir of St. Agnes, followed by A Night at Caesar’s Palace with Daylin James on February 23, and A Tribute to Count Basie on April 12. Season passes are $85 and will also include a free voucher for a special family concert in May, an extra event supported by the Ontario Arts Council. Vaillant hopes this unique set of shows will give fans “a chance to hear the wide variety of styles that big bands can play.”
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The CanAfrica Blues Tour Doc MacLean and Albert Frost Conjure Up Some Blues By Ken Wright
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the birth of Nelson Mandela, and this month they will be in Thunder Bay at the Branch 5 Legion. MacLean’s innumerable annual tours have clocked thousands of miles across Canada’s provinces and territories as well as 25 American states. In particular, MacLean enjoys bringing the woolly timbres of his National Steel guitar and earthy resonance of his baritone vocals to those overlooked places where the blues rarely venture. As he says with justifiable pride, “No venue
too large, too small, too grand, or too humble.” In 2017, he was named one of the top acts at South Africa’s multi-stage OppiKoppi Festival. People Magazine described him as a “beautiful storyteller” and an “inspiration” to the township musicians. A Fender-endorsed artist, Frost won the 2017 South African Music Association award for Rock Album of the Year. He has toured with Simple Minds and REM, supported The Rolling Stones and performed with the legendary Ali Farka Touré.
Frost earned his blues credentials playing with Cape Town’s The Blues Broers (pronounced “brews”). More recently, he has deftly manoeuvred his six-string virtuosity into other musical realms.
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New Decade, New Harpsichord Consortium Aurora Borealis Celebrates 40th Season By Ayano Hodouchi Dempsey
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ounded in 1979 by artistic director Elizabeth Ganiatsos, Northwestern Ontario’s premier chamber music ensemble Consortium Aurora Borealis, will celebrate its ruby anniversary this year with a new harpsichord, which it will show off at a special concert on November 3. Built in 1985, the ensemble’s previous instrument had seen better days and in recent years required a lot of work to make it presentable for concert performances. The Consortium was able to locate a replacement instrument, expertly restored by Dale Munschy
of Boston-based Antiquarian Keyboard Instruments. Called a Hubbard French Double, the new harpsichord was originally built by American harpsichord maker Frank Hubbard and modelled after two instruments made in 1769 and 1770 by renowned French harpsichord maker Pascal Taskin. It has two manuals (keyboards) which allow the performer to choose different sets of strings to play, therefore varying the tone and volume. The ensemble started a fundraising campaign earlier this year “selling” the harpsichord’s 122 keys—for a donation of $50,
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supporters could pick a key to call their own. The new instrument arrived in Thunder Bay this summer and will be unveiled at the concert on November 3, which will feature repertoire it was built for: French Baroque music. Harpsichords in the French style have a rich sonority and are particularly suited to the sumptuous and elaborate music of France in the 17th and 18th centuries. Works by Couperin, Lully, Forqueray, Rameau and others will be featured at the concert. There will be solo works as well as chamber music with violinists Kathlyn Stevens and Iain McKay, cellist Peter Cosbey, and Baroque flute player Robert Van Wyck. “The arrival of this harpsichord is tremendously exciting for all of us, musicians and audience alike,” says Ganiatsos, who is also performing at the concert. “It has a timbre
that is imminently suited to the French repertoire, which is why I have chosen to introduce it to the Thunder Bay public with a French Baroque programme, recreating sounds both intimate and grand from the Court of Louis XV. French harpsichord music has always held a very dear place in my heart. I always felt a great affinity with the subtleties and sensibilities of the style, ever since first encountering it at the beginning of high school.” The performance takes place at St. Paul’s United Church and there will be a pre-concert talk at 7:30 pm before the performance at 8 pm. As always, admission is $15 ($10 for students). For those curious about the fate of the “retired” previous instrument, it is still in town – at St.Paul’s Anglican Church under the care of Sean Kim.
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bodiesofwater Rae Spoon
Coming off the twentieth anniversary of their first show, Rae Spoon is back with their sixth album bodiesofwater, an effort that mirrors its title both lyrically and sonically. Spoon seamlessly flows between electronica, alt-rock, and folk as they navigate heavy synths, catchy drum beats, and atmospheric strings to set the tone of each track. Spoon’s lyrics ponder the role of water, air, and land in our lives on a personal, political, and metaphorical level. They tackle ever-so-relevant issues such as the treatment of sexual assault survivors on “In My Town,” the dangers of pipelines in “You Don’t Do Anything,” and the fluidity of gender and selfexpression in “Do Whatever the Heck You Want.” From my first foray into their vast discography, one thing is clear: Rae Spoon is one hell of an important voice in music and I hope they continue using it for 20 years to come. . - Melanie Larson
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In the Blue Light Paul Simon
Paul Simon’s In the Blue Light features a diverse group of musicians who have joined him to reimagine ten of his favourite (though mostly lesser-known) songs, drawn from There Goes Rhymin’ Simon (1973), Still Crazy After All These Years (1975), OneTrick Pony (1980), Hearts and Bones (1983), The Rhythm of the Saints (1990), You’re the One (2000), and So Beautiful or So What (2011). Simon said he hoped his listeners would find these new versions of old songs “refreshed like a new coat of paint on an old family home.” That’s what it does feel like. There are no dramatic changes, just thoughtful shifts. One standout is “René and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War.” Originally a slow ballad, it’s been reinvented as an orchestral piece that complements Simon’s stillbeautiful tenor. Brought onstage each night along with “Can’t Run But” on Simon’s Homeward Bound– the Farewell Tour, it’s apparently a show-stopper. - Pat Forrest
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Loved
KEN Mode
I always hate it when people talk about an album and say, “Be patient—you’ll need a few listens to get into it!” KEN Mode’s seventh album, Loved, is the perfect response because on paper, the Winnipeg trio have once again crafted a collection of songs that should be repellant. These nine songs are full of caustic feedback, distorted strings and harsh bellows. However, KEN Mode hasn’t endured for 20 years and won a Juno award because they demand the same amount of work from the listener that they put into composing. The band knows there needs to be some reward for the listener besides the challenge. However abrasive they’re being, KEN Mode write noise rock songs that are great because they rock, with all the grinning swagger and fun necessary for dancing. Whatever your version of that looks like, you need great songs, and Loved provides. Also, they picked some truly unsettling cover art. - Justin Allec
It’s a Secret, Baby Secret Baby
It’s probably among the worst kept secrets of all time—local band Secret Baby has recently released their debut album, It’s a Secret, Baby. It is also no secret that this album is fantastic. Made up of legendary staples of the Thunder Bay music scene—my all-time favourite local “front man” Matthew Henry, my new favourite “front man” Kristian Hodgins, Mike Wheeler on the axe chopping up riffs, and the backbeat made up of Wayne Marcin on bass and Kyle Delin on drums—Secret Baby has hammered out music that will make the punk-rock fan in you wink, smile, and hold a thumb up. Produced by equally fabled local producer Chad “Chooch” in the Racket Room, the album sounds exactly as it should. The songs are raw and natural, yet masterfully constructed. My favourite tracks are “Bloodhorne” with close seconds being “Why Bother?” and “Freak In/ Out.” The rest of tracks make it hard to even pick favourites on an album that really makes you feel like a rocker through and through. - Jamie Varga
Angelique’s Isle Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Michelle Derosier
Although Angelique’s Isle is set in 1845, the underlying themes of reconciliation and exploitation of natural resources are more relevant today than ever. Based on the novella Angelique Abandoned by James R. Stevens, the film is inspired by the true story of Angelique Mott (played by the excellent Julia Jones), a young Ojibway woman who, along with her newlywed voyageur husband Charlie (Charlie Carrick), are left stranded during a harsh winter on Lake Superior’s Isle Royale. To survive, Angelique must confront her traumatic past and return to the traditional knowledge of her upbringing. Despite the dire circumstances and conditions, the cinematography is stunning, showcasing the rugged yet beautiful landscape (the film was shot around Thunder Bay and Terrace Bay). Angelique’s Isle is a crowning achievement in filmmaking not only for Northwestern Ontario but all of Canada. - Adrian Lysenko
Alone: A Love Story Michelle Parise
Listening to narrator and author Michelle Parise tell her story of love, loss, and longing in the CBC Radio original podcast Alone: A Love Story is like sitting back and getting into all of life’s ups and downs with a friend you have known for years. Her voice is cathartic and she holds nothing back as she shares the story of finding, loving, and losing her husband, along with the life she thought she would have forever. She is eloquent in describing her feelings of heartache and betrayal as her entire universe explodes following her husband’s infidelity. As you listen, you travel along with her as she begins to navigate her life alone, searching through many facets of her life to try to heal and rebuild her sense of self and identity. Her journey will pull at your heartstrings with so much raw emotion that it leaves you wanting more. Sometimes haunting and sometimes endearing, Alone: A Love Story, is a podcast that will resonate with many.
French Exit
Patrick deWitt
In French Exit, Frances Price and her adult son, Malcolm, flee the New York high life after running out of money. Accompanied by their cat, Small Frank, who they both believe to be possessed by the soul of Frances’ late husband, they head off to have a “new start” in Paris, France. Frances sets out with ruinous abandon to spend what meagre funds she has left while Malcolm tries to come to terms with the traumatic rejection he experienced in his childhood. French Exit isn’t big and exciting out of the gate, but I can respect that because it is in service of the overall story. deWitt approaches his book with a patient hand, showcasing his characters and letting them come to life in our minds before using them for anything particularly funny or tragic. What comes off is the work of an experienced author: things feel meaningful without being forced, and there is a depth to the narrative. - Alexander Kosoris
Nowadays
Chris “Merk” Merkley and Kurt Martell
As you might guess by the cover and a quick glance at the pages inside, Nowadays is a graphic novel about a zombie infestation hitting the Thunder Bay area. The story is framed by the experience of Brendan, a widower-turnedaccidental-zombie, who is able to reunite with his wife and daughter who passed away five years prior. The bulk of the book focuses on a group of tree planters with diverse backgrounds who wind up meeting Brendan and his family, fighting for their lives against other zombies, and trying to figure out how to maintain their humanity along the way. There are plenty of recognizable images, scenes, locations, and people from Thunder Bay depicted throughout Nowadays. You may not look at your neighbours quite the same way again! - Jesse Roberts
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Architecture
Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital
Story by Laurie Abthorpe, Photos by Gary Johnson
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he complex of buildings that made up the Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital (LPH) was built in multiple phases over a 25-year period from 1938 to 1963. Since the early 1930s, both the provincial government and the local medical community knew the establishment of a mental hospital at the Lakehead was needed. Patients needing mental health care were sent to southern Ontario for hospitalization. In 1936, 12 male patients, originally from Northwestern Ontario, arrived by train under the care of two nurses, a doctor, 12 male attendants and one chef. The staff was there to set up what became known as the Ontario Hospital Fort William at the vacated 1,302 acre prison farm about 16 kilometres south of Fort William along the Scott Highway (now Hwy 61). Many renovations were made to the site; however, the space allowed for only 75 male patients and no female patients. This meant that all female and any additional male patients were placed at the local jail until such time as they could be escorted to facilities in southern Ontario. The site along the Scott Highway faced many challenges, from housing of patients to its water supply, and it was soon determined that a more suitable location for a permanent hospital would need to be found. On October 25, 1937, the City of Port Arthur transferred 169.2 acres of
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land on North Algoma Street to the provincial government where a new hospital would be constructed. Construction of the administration building for the Ontario Hospital Port Arthur began early in 1938. Designed by architect George White, the single-storey administration building was constructed of red brick trimmed with grey stone. The main entrance to the building has an arched entry featuring stone engraved with the Ontario coat of arms, rams, and flowers. A clerestory of windowed walls rises up above the roofline from the center of the building. Completed in December of 1938, the administration building was built to house an initial 45 patients. Due to the onset of World War II, the transfer of patients was postponed and the administration building taken over by the Department of National Defence for use as a military hospital, caring for personnel staffing Northwestern Ontario’s prisoner of war camps. It wasn’t until 1944 that the hospital was returned the Department of Health and the first mental health unit opened with 15 male patients. It was in 1950 that contracts for the additional planned buildings for the Ontario Hospital Port Arthur were finally let. These buildings included three pavilions and the power house. These were completed in 1954 while a further two pavilions along with the laundry were under construction. The Ontario
Architecture Hospital Port Arthur was officially opened on May 26, 1954. By 1955 all patients from the Ontario Hospital Fort William had been transferred to Port Arthur and the initial facility closed. Many patients, male and female, that had also been relocated the year prior from southern Ontario facilities were transferred back to Northwestern Ontario and the new Port Arthur facility. The final complex of buildings that made up the Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital was complete by 1963 with a bed capacity of 1100. In 2003, St. Joseph’s Care Group assumed both the governance and
management of the LPH from the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. A new 38-bed mental health wing has now been completed at St. Joseph’s Hospital and the LPH site closed. The former LPH site has been returned to Infrastructure Ontario. Laurie Abthorpe is the heritage researcher for the Heritage Advisory Committee, which advises City Council on the conservation of heritage buildings, sites, and resources, and their integration into development. For more information on the city’s heritage resources, visit thunderbay.ca/living/ culture_and_heritage.
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Health
JOHNNY
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What Does a Healthy Thunder Bay Look Like? By Jeremy Landon, Thunder Bay District Health Unit
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hat does a healthy Thunder Bay look like? Besides well-connected sidewalks, trails, and access to healthy food, it’s a city where neighbourhoods are compact and accessible. Everything you need is only a short trip away. Shops and services are nearby and people know their neighbours. Healthy cities are the best places to live, work, play, and do business. Unfortunately, many cities, including Thunder Bay, are not being built with health in mind. Over the last few decades, the pattern of development in North America has been to build out instead of in; this means sprawling suburbs on the edge of town instead of building
in existing urban areas. This type of development is not sustainable. Suburbs result in increased vehicle dependence with fewer opportunities to choose active transportation and less access to healthy food. This can lead to physical inactivity and higher risk factors for chronic diseases (diabetes, heart diseases, and some cancers). In addition, the cost to maintain suburban development is a burden on taxpayers because basic infrastructure costs remain constant, but a smaller population base is served. Low density is therefore considered costlier in terms of development. Cities should invest in dense, urban, mixed-use developments to support health and promote economic sustainability.
It’s time to think about the pattern of development in Thunder Bay and the future health of our neighbourhoods. Changing the way we design our city requires the support of the community and its leaders. If a thriving, compact, and vibrant Thunder Bay is where you want to live, consider what your 2018 municipal candidates have to say about building a healthy city. With the upcoming municipal elections, TBDHU asked candidates three questions about supporting active transportation, access to healthy food options, and healthy urban development. Check out tbdhu.com/healthycity to see the candidates’ responses.
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Health
Darcy Price
Working to Meet Mental Health Needs By Katherine Mayer, Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre
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he stigma surrounding mental health is beginning to dissolve thanks to many great resources, organizations, and advocates in our community. Providing mental health support is especially important in Northwestern Ontario,
as our region sees a higher rate of mental health issues compared to the rest of the province. In fact, the Emergency Department (ED) at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre is one of the busiest in the province, with 6,320 visits
related to mental health and addictions reported in 2017. As part of Mental Health Awareness Week, Darcy Price, interim director of Adult Mental Health and Forensics at our hospital, provided updates on a new initiative underway to address mental health needs of all patients. “Mental health has been a priority in our hospital’s Strategic Plan since 2012,” says Price. “Because the work in this area is so diverse and specific, mental health continues to be a priority into 2020. Many steering committees, working groups, and specialized teams are collaborating to be able to meet the mental health needs of our patients and also to support our staff.” Price explains that a new, successful initiative has already been implemented. “Our hospital has developed an Interprofessional Consultation Liaison Team, comprised of mental health nurses, psychiatrists, and resident physicians. The team assesses the mental
health needs of identified patients and works together with the treating team to determine a plan to provide the best support and care,” explains Price. “Recommendations could include transferring the patient to the mental health inpatient unit, ongoing visits from the interprofessional Consultation Liaison team, or providing medication and treatment options.” This would also include recommendations for community follow-up on discharge. The Interprofessional Consultation Liaison Team initially was piloted for three months on two inpatient units; however with the success of the pilot and positive feedback from staff and patients, the team’s services have now expanded to support all inpatient units across the hospital. For the full list of hospital and community services for mental health, visit tbrhsc.net and choose “Mental Health Program” under the tab “Programs and Services.”
ST. PAUL’S UNITED CHURCH We welcome all, we are thankful for all, including cats, dogs, rabbits, turtles! Animal blessing service on October 14 at 7:00pm. Open to all animals and humans. 807-345-5864 Sundays at 10:30 | 349 Waverley Street | www.stpaulstbay.net
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Green
Depave the Way Opportunity to Turn Pavement into Paradise in Thunder Bay
By Will Vander Ploeg, Program Coordinator, EcoSuperior
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epave Paradise projects engage local volunteers to convert pavement into a neighborhood green space. These green spaces may include a community garden, native plants, flower beds, a rain garden, or a combination. The program originated in Portland, Oregon in 2008 to address the rapidly increasing area of impervious surfaces within urban centres. This project was adopted in Canada in 2012 by the national organization Green Communities Canada. GCC partners with local nonprofits to provide guidance and support throughout their Depave journey. EcoSuperior has been selected to host Depave Paradise events in Thunder Bay. Hard surfaces such as parking lots, roadways, and buildings interrupt the natural water cycle, preventing rainfall or snowmelt from soaking back into the soil. These impervious surfaces can put a strain on city infrastructure, leading to increased volumes of stormwater runoff and pollution in local waterways.
As rain and melting snow travels over hard surfaces and flows into sewers that drain to nearby waterways, it picks up contaminants like motor oil, gas, metals, pet waste, litter, and road salt along the way. By removing unused pavement and replacing it with native vegetation, we can increase natural infiltration and help protect local water quality and wildlife habitat. Creating more neighbourhood green spaces within our city also helps to absorb carbon dioxide, cool urban centres, and offer beauty and civic pride.
A Depave Paradise event requires a willing site host with a patch of unused pavement, and an agreement to maintain the greenspace. A workforce of community volunteers will help tear up pre-cut pavement and create a beautiful green space for our community to enjoy. In-kind contributions and donations are accepted to help cover some of the costs of materials and planting supplies required to complete the project. Common host sites for Depave events have included schools, churches, and local businesses.
EcoSuperior is looking for suitable sites in Thunder Bay for projects in 2019—do you have a location in mind? Make a suggestion by contacting Will at EcoSuperior (6242658) or william@ecosuperior.org.
Volunteer as a Wayfinder at St. Joseph’s Hospital Join Our Team Today! Help make a difference in your community by visiting with residents in long-term care or clients at St. Joseph’s Hospital. Contact Volunteer Services: 807-768-4448 | volunteers.sjcg@tbh.net
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OctoberEventsGuide October 1–2, 6–11 pm
Wine Stations
The Chanterelle on Park
It’s the 9th annual wine tasting affair as Children’s Centre Foundation Thunder Bay partners with The Chanterelle on Park and Tomlin Restaurant to bring you a tasteful, eclectic menu and six wine pairings.
foundation@childrenscentre.ca
October 1-6
Random Acts of Poetry
Definitely Superior Art Gallery
Definitely Superior Art Gallery presents the 14th annual Random Acts of Poetry performance project. Featuring 30 urban intervention performances throughout Thunder Bay by 24 spoken word performers and singer-songwriters in their iconic orange poetry construction crew coveralls to promote literacy, art, and poetry in places where people live their everyday lives.
definitelysuperior.com
October 1–31
Community Book Sale Mary J. L. Black Library
The Thunder Bay Public Library is holding a book sale on November 3. Calling on local authors, book collectors, and book owners of all ages to sell your own books—you can book your table in October for the sale in early November.
diapiove@tbaytel.net
October 2, 6–9 pm
Strong Neighbours Night Out Finlandia Club
This evening will bring together neighbours to connect with each other over a locally sourced meal. Together they will select actions they can take to build a stronger, safer, and more environmentally friendly community.
684-3217
October 3, 5–7 pm
Let’s Connect The Foundry
Meet new people, have some food and drinks, and connect with friends face to face!
facebook.com/letsconnectbay
October 3, 7–8:30 pm
Waverley Graphic Novel Book Club
Waverley Resource Library
Are you an adult who likes to read graphic novels? This group is for you! Members will meet one Wednesday a month to discuss graphic novels based on a chosen theme.
October 3, 6:30–8:30 pm
Roots to Harvest Workshop
Waverley Resource Library
This month’s workshop is “Putting the Garden to Bed: Preparing for Winter,” presented by Holly Rupert of the Thunder Bay & District Master Gardeners.
General Food Art Sports Music
October 3, 5–11 pm
Chess Night
Red Lion Smokehouse
Come by for some strategy and beers. Join a freestyle chess night open to anyone who would like to play. Boards will be provided, but please feel free to bring your own.
facebook.com/ redlionsmokehouse
October 5, 6–9 pm
Basic Photography Cooking with the Skills and Secrets with Seasons ll Laura Paxton A Fine Fit Catering Mary J.L. Black Library Studio Learn the secrets to great photography with Laura Paxton. All ages welcome!
tbpl.ca
October 3–31
The Process of Closure Thunder Bay Art Gallery
Textile art from Manitoba artist Katrina Craig, whose work investigates hidden lives, vulnerability, and heartbreak. See this month’s Art section for more info.
theag.ca
October 4–7, 11–14, 18–21, 25–28
Haunted Fort Night
Fort William Historical Park
Sinister forces are stretching the forlorn barrier between the living and the departed in the forsaken community of William’s Town. Will you be able to escape untouched?
fwhp.ca
Welcome to the second installment of Cooking with the Seasons Series for the fall! October’s class has some truly spectacular dishes, focusing on food with a spectacular Northwestern Ontario vibe.
October 4, 7–9 pm
Beer & Books
Red Lion Smokehouse
Join us for an evening of literary discussion, craft beer, and some delicious snacks. At our first session, we will be reading The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.
facebook.com/ redlionsmokehouse
October 5, 8 am–4:30 pm
Member and Studio Partner Exhibition
Baggage Building Arts Centre Works presented by members. Printmaking and ceramics studio partners included.
facebook.com/ BaggageBuildingArts
October 6–8, 13, 14, 20, 21, 27, 28, 11 am–5 pm
24th Annual Pumpkinfest
Gammondale Farm
Celebrate the magic of autumn with Gammondale’s annual Pumpkinfest. There are over 20 attractions for families to explore and a variety of local food treats every weekend in October!
info@afinefitcatering.ca
gammondalefarm.com
October 5, 6–10 pm
October 9, 6–8 pm
dining at the Finlandia. Chef Derek Lankinen and his team will be on hand to make the magic happen. You won’t want to miss this tasty tribute to Thunder Bay’s own culinary institution, the Hoito Restaurant.
Sleeping Giant Brewing Co.
thefinlandia.com
facebook.com/rootstoharvest
Finlandia Goes Foodie Sleeping Giant Beer and Local Food Finlandia Hall Pairing Nights Come and enjoy an evening of fine
October 6, 9 am–5 pm
The second Tuesday of every month is a featured SGBC brew and local food taste night! For a $5 donation towards Roots to Harvest, you can sample them together.
October 9, 6–8 pm
The Uncommon Woman CrossCountry Tour
Fresh Air Trail Run
A group of women who have lived through incredible trauma and adversity and have gained hope and strength will be in Thunder Bay in October to share their inspirational stories.
tbnordictrails.com
Lakehead University
345-8275 ext. 6814
624-4206
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October 4, 7–9 pm
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October 6 9:30 am–12:30 pm
Kakabeka Farmers’ Market Kakabeka Legion
At Kakabeka Farmers’ Market you’ll find locally grown produce, local meats, jams, breads, pies and treats, perennials and other plants, and many other local products.
kakabekafarmersmarket.ca
Kamview Nordic Centre
This trail run features a short course and a long course, and a kids’ minirace! Cost is $5 per participant.
October 9, 6–8 pm
Let’s Talk About Reconciliation Film Screening Waverley Resource Library
Films will begin with a smudge and facilitated discussions to follow. Everyone is welcome to participate in the discussions and smudge.
tbpl.ca
October 9–21
Northern Delights Downtown Port Arthur
Savour this annual culinary discovery of local food producers and restaurants. See this month’s Top Five for more info.
facebook.com/ northerndelightstbay
Treat yourself to fully-loaded TV tbaytel.net/tv
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October 12, 5–9:30 pm
VON Trivia Challenge Italian Cultural Centre
Participate in the VON Trivia Challenge Quiz Night in support of local programs in Thunder Bay.
adriana.foresto@von.ca
October 13, 5:30 pm
The Greek Community of Thunder Bay Centennial Gala Celebration
Victoria Inn Hotel & Convention Centre Thunder Bay
Enjoy everything the Greek culture has to offer including Greek dancers, music, cuisine, and more.
facebook.com/greek100tbay
October 13
Oktoberfest
Sleeping Giant Brewing Co.
Oktoberfest is an annual celebration of German culture. Join us for great craft beer, custom cask beer, a keg toss, stein-holding competitions, and more! See this month’s Top Five for more info.
sleepinggiantbrewing.ca
October 13–14
October 16
October 19–20
October 25, 26, 30, 7–9 pm
Thunder Bay Libraries
Airlane Hotel and Conference Centre
Waterfront District
Customer Appreciation Day In celebration of Ontario Public Library Week, visit any library location to share refreshments, meet the staff, and update your card! Win prizes and giveaways.
tbpl.c
October 16, 7 pm
2018 CBC Massey Lectures Presents Tanya Talaga: All Our Relations Thunder Bay Community Auditorium
Join Tanya Talaga, author of Seven Fallen Feathers, as she delivers a lecture entitled “All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward.”
tbca.com
October 17, 6:30–8 pm
Waste Reduction in the Home Waverley Resource Library
An overview of residential waste and its impact on our environment.
tbpl.ca
October 18, 6 pm
Ivanka: Pasta, Salami Waasaashkaa: A and a Guy Named Gathering of the Great Pasquale Lakes Surfers Slovak Legion Terrace Bay
Friends, surfers, rad people who love the water: The second annual gathering of the Great Lakes Surfers in Terrace Bay is on! A weekend filled with water and shredding for everyone. See this month’s City Scene section for more info.
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October 14, 5 pm
Empty Bowls Moose Hall
Your $30 ticket purchase includes dinner and a choice of a handmade pottery bowl or pair of quilted placemats, donated by members of the Thunder Bay Potters’ Guild and the Empty Bowls Quilters.
emptybowlsthunderbay.com
October 15–21
Waste Reduction Week EcoSuperior
Commit to sending less garbage to the landfill! Free workshops, presentations, contests, and events.
ecosuperior.org
Picture it: Ivanka moves on up, across the bridge and over the tracks. Ivanka has moved into her new house right next door to a nice Italian man named Pasquale. Will sparks fly?
keynoteevents.ca
October 18–20
Terror in the Bay
Maple Tops Paramount Entertainment Theatre
The second annual Terror In The Bay Horror Film Festival is here! See this month’s Top Five for more info.
In Paint and Prose
Kathleen Anderson presents In Paint and Prose. Images of watercolour paintings will be displayed that tell her story in paint and her book which holds the stories in words. See this month’s Art section for more info.
kayandy@shaw.ca
October 19, 6–9 pm
Dining in the Dark The Chanterelle on Park
Guests experience a meal without the benefit of sight by wearing blindfolds. Proceeds are in support of CNIB.
Dininginthedarktbay.ca
October 20
Harry Potter-themed Treats The Sweet North Bakery
Grab your sweater vest and come warm up with us this season with Harry Potter-themed treats!
thesweetnorth.ca
October 21, 10 am–4 pm
October 18–November 10
The Rocky Horror Show
On the way to visit an old college professor, two clean-cut kids run into tire trouble and seek help at the Frankenstein place. See this month’s Top Five for more info.
Whitewater Golf Club
Enjoy wine, food, and live entertainment in support of The Boys and Girls Club.
tbayboysandgirlsclub.org
October 26
The Thunder Bay Celebrity Hockey Classic
Thunder Bay Tournament Centre
Join Easter Seals Ontario, Wendel Clark, and other NHL superstars for the second annual Thunder Bay Celebrity Hockey Classic. Proceeds go towards Easter Seals.
October 26–27
Sivertson Gallery
684-3066
Enjoy works by Inuit sculptor Bill Nasogaluak and throat singers Nina Segalowitz and Taqralik Partridge.
October 21, noon–2 pm
sivertson.com
Kamview Nordic Centre
October 27
tbnordictrails.com
Madhouse
Fresh Air Trail Run The 14th Annual Kamview Fresh Air Off-Road 1/2 Marathon ends the trail run season
October 23, 6 pm
Hog Wild
The Chanterelle on Park
October 24, 8–9 pm
Beardmore: The Viking Hoax That Rewrote History Thunder Bay Museum
October 27
Top Chef Thunder Bay Victoria Inn
7th Annual Top Chef Thunder Bay and NWO. Join Food Network star Bob Blumer for a fun and tasty evening as Thunder Bay and Northwestern Ontario’s finest food establishments compete by creating “The Perfect Bite.”
keynoteevents.ca
October 27–28
An Evening of Wine & ThunderCon Food Stations
Inuit Premiere
rootstoharvest.org
tparsons@hotmail.ca
October 26
Over 50 crafters from the local community with more than 70 tables of unique handmade gifts.
Thunder Bay 55 Plus Centre
October 18–31
Nothing is scarier than the bush at night…especially at Halloween!
seekadventureandtours.com
celebrityhockeyclassics.com
terrorinthebay.com
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Be spooked on a two-hour evening walking food tour in Thunder Bay’s Waterfront District. Enjoy three small local “treats,” paired with haunting, and mysterious stories of the area.
23rd Annual Harvest Craft Market
Polish your work boots and put on your finest flannel—Chef Steve Simpson pulls out all the stops for this fall pig roast.
Slate River Slaughter Halloween Display
Tricks, Treats + Haunted Streets
Madhouse’s Annual Insane Asylum Halloween Party
Valhalla Inn
Come and “get your GEEK on” with all the rest of Thunder Bay’s geeks, nerds and fans of all stripes. See this month’s City Scene section for more info.
thundercon.org
October 30
Lit on Tour
Thunder Bay Art Gallery
Meet authors Arjun Basu (Waiting for the Man), Ann Y.K. Choi (Kay’s Lucky Coin Variety), and Kim Moritsugu (The Showrunner). The authors will read selections from their works and answer audience questions. See this month’s City Scene section for more info.
litontour.com
November 1, 6 pm
An Evening of Hope and Peace Valhalla Inn
Alongside Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier, musician, actor, peace activist, and author there will be a presentation and an African-style dinner with a live and silent auction. All proceeds will go to World Vision programs to help former child soldiers.
hopeforallkids.ca
Hey, adults! No cover. No line. Costumes, prizes, spooky drinks, and giveaways all night! Come join us, if you dare.
Until November 25
madhousethunderbay.com
Thunder Bay Art Gallery
October 27, 8 pm–2 am
The Hunger - Lucky 13 Various Locations
If it’s Halloween, it must be The Hunger! Enter the 13th edition of the largest, wildest music and performance spectacle you’ll ever experience in one night! See this month’s Top Five for more info.
Uprising: The Power of Mother Earth This exhibition charts Christi Belcourt’s artistic career beginning with early works showcasing the natural world’s beauty and onto her large sweeping murals, including her collaborations with knowledge holder, storyteller, and emerging visual artist Isaac Murdoch.
theag.ca
definitelysuperior.com
Come out to hear Douglas Hunter speak about his recent book, Beardmore: The Viking Hoax That Rewrote History.
facebook.com/ Thunderbaymuseum
magnustheatre.com
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OctoberMusicGuide OCT 1 Every Folk’n Monday The Foundry 7 pm / No Cover / 19+
OCT 2 Thunder Bay Community Band Jam 250 Park Ave 7:30 pm / No Cover / AA
The Best Karaoke In TBay The Foundry 10 pm / No Cover / 19+
OCT 3 The Best Karaoke In TBay The Foundry 10 pm / No Cover / 19+
OCT 4 Jazzy Thursday Nights The Foundry 7 pm / No Cover / 19+
Prime Time Karaoke PA Legion Branch 5 8:30 pm / No Cover / 19+
Open Stage with Craig Smyth & Tiina Flank The Foundry 10 pm / No Cover / 19+
OCT 5 Merkules & Guests Crocks 9 pm / $35–$100 / 19+
The Gin Tonics
Red Lion Smokehouse 9:30 pm / No Cover / 19+
Metal Night
Black Pirates Pub 10 pm / $5 /19+
Tourist Bureau w/ DJ Big D The Foundry 10 pm / $5 / 19+
OCT 6 Folk’n Saturday Afternoons The Foundry 1 pm / No Cover / 19+
Hotel California: The Original Eagles Tribute Thunder Bay Community Auditorium 7:30 pm / $35 / AA
Doc MacLean + Albert Frost: The CanAfrica Blues Tour PA Legion Branch 5 8 pm / $TBA / 19+
Metal Night
Black Pirates Pub 10 pm / $5 /19+
DJ Big D
The Foundry 10 pm / $5 / 19+
OCT 7 All-Star Karaoke
PA Legion Branch 5 3 pm / No Cover / 19+
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Open Jam
Cold Lake Sun
The Gin Tonics
OCT 8 Every Folk’n Monday
Sunday wilde with Arek Chamski
Variety Show
PA Legion Branch 5 6 pm / No Cover / AA
Black Pirates Pub 10 pm / $5 / 19+
The Foundry 7 pm / No Cover / 19+
In Common 7 pm / $10 / AA
OCT 9 Thunder Bay Community Band Jam
OCT 14 All-Star Karaoke
250 Park Ave 7:30 pm / No Cover / AA
The Best Karaoke In TBay The Foundry 10 pm / No Cover / 19+
OCT 10 The Best Karaoke In TBay The Foundry 10 pm / No Cover / 19+
OCT 11 Jazzy Thursday Nights
PA Legion Branch 5 3 pm / No Cover / 19+
Open Jam
PA Legion Branch 5 6 pm / No Cover / AA
OCT 15 Every Folk’n Monday The Foundry 7 pm / No Cover / 19+
OCT 16 Thunder Bay Community Band Jam
The Foundry 7 pm / No Cover / 19+
250 Park Ave 7:30 pm / No Cover / AA
Prime Time Karaoke
Everlast: Whitey Ford’s House of Pain Tour
PA Legion Branch 5 8:30 pm / No Cover / 19+
Open Stage with Craig Smyth & Tiina Flank
Crocks 8 pm / $30 / 19+
The Best Karaoke In TBay
The Foundry 10 pm / No Cover / 19+
The Foundry 10 pm / No Cover / 19+
OCT 12 Harvest Ceili Barn Dance
OCT 17 The Best Karaoke In TBay
River Valley Farm 7 pm / $5–$20 / AA
The Foundry 10 pm / No Cover / 19+
McNasty Brass Band
OCT 18 Jazzy Thursday Nights
Crocks 9 pm / $10 / 19+
Tumblestone Presents Black Pirates Pub 10 pm / $5 / 19+
The Thirsty Monks The Foundry 10 pm / $5 / 19+
OCT 13 Folk’n Saturday Afternoons The Foundry 1 pm / No Cover / 19+
The Brass is Coming to Town St Patrick High School 6 pm / $15–$30 / AA
John Mellencamp
Thunder Bay Community Auditorium 8 pm / $139–$349 / AA
McNasty Brass Band Crocks 9 pm / $10 / 19+
A Tribute to the Tragically Hip The Foundry 10 pm / $5 / 19+
The Foundry 7 pm / No Cover / 19+
Prime Time Karaoke PA Legion Branch 5 8:30 pm / No Cover / 19+
Open Stage with Craig Smyth & Tiina Flank The Foundry 10 pm / No Cover / 19+
TBSO Mainstage Series Launch Concert: Tear Down the Walls Thunder Bay Community Auditorium 7:30 pm / $TBA / AA
OCT 19 Jean-Paul De Roover Black Pirates Pub 10 pm / $5 / 19+
A Tribute to Rush The Foundry 10 pm / $5 / 19+
OCT 20 Folk’n Saturday Afternoons The Foundry 1 pm / No Cover / 19+
Beaux Daddy’s Grillhouse 6:30 pm / No Cover / 19+ Branch 5 Legion 8 pm / $10 / AA
The Ashley Hundred w/ DJ Big D The Foundry 10 pm / $5 / 19+
The 6th Annual Wig Wars Black Pirates Pub 10 pm / $15 / 19+
OCT 21 All-Star Karaoke
PA Legion Branch 5 3 pm / No Cover / 19+
Open Jam
PA Legion Branch 5 6 pm / No Cover / AA
OCT 22 Every Folk’n Monday The Foundry 7 pm / No Cover / 19+
OCT 23 Thunder Bay Community Band Jam 250 Park Ave 7:30 pm / No Cover / AA
The Best Karaoke In TBay The Foundry 10 pm / No Cover / 19+
OCT 24 Massive Scar Era Black Pirates Pub 8 pm / $6 / AA
The Best Karaoke In TBay The Foundry 10 pm / No Cover / 19+
OCT 25 Jazzy Thursday Nights The Foundry 7 pm / No Cover / 19+
Celtic Thursday
Red Lion Smokehouse 7:30 pm / No Cover / 19+
TBSO House Series: Women’s Concert Rise and Take Flight Thunder Bay Community Auditorium 7:30 pm / $TBA / AA
Prime Time Karaoke PA Legion Branch 5 8:30 pm / No Cover / 19+
Open Stage with Craig Smyth & Tiina Flank The Foundry 10 pm / No Cover / 19+
OCT 26 Spirit Alive Celebration Gala Italian Cultural Centre 6:30 pm / $100 / 19+
Ten Foot Pole w/ Spit + Redundant Crocks 8 pm / $20 / 19+
The World’s Most Authentic Johnny Cash Tribute PA Legion Branch 5 8 pm / $20 / 19+
Baysafe & Sound: Halloween Dance Party Black Pirates Pub 10 pm / $5 / 19+
The Tourist Bureau The Foundry 10pm / $5 / 19+
OCT 27 Folk’n Saturday Afternoons The Foundry 1 pm / No Cover / 19+
The World’s Most Authentic Johnny Cash Tribute PA Legion Branch 5 8 pm / $20 / 19+
Roller Derby Ghouls w/ Perversion Shooter’s Tavern 9pm / $3-$5 / 19+
OCT 28 All-Star Karaoke
PA Legion Branch 5 3 pm / No Cover / 19+
TBSO Family Series: Spooktacular Thunder Bay Community Auditorium 3:30 pm / $TBA / AA
Rumours: The Ultimate Fleetwood Mac Tribute Grassroots Church 7:30 pm / $40–$50 / AA
Open Jam
PA Legion Branch 5 6 pm / No Cover / AA
OCT 29 Every Folk’n Monday The Foundry 7 pm / No Cover / 19+
OCT 30 Thunder Bay Community Band Jam 250 Park Ave 7:30 pm / No Cover / AA
Gate Night Horror Show Black Pirates Pub 8 pm / $5 / AA
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Conor Gains* Compass Vega
14 Jennifer Castle* Angels of Death Idée Fixe 15 Jo Passed* Their Prime Royal Mountain
CILU 102.7fm’s Monthly Charts for this issue reflect airplay for the month ending September 11, 2018. Check out our weekly charts online at luradio.ca or tune in to the weekly Top 20 Countdown Saturday from 9-11pm (or the rebroadcast Tuesday 1-3pm) on 102.7fm in Thunder Bay or stream us live world-wide at luradio.ca.
Hip Hop 1
Chance The Rapper Four New Songs Self-Released
16 Dave Matthews Band Come Tomorrow RCA Records 17 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Hope Downs Sub Pop
Jafo’s Collection: A Tribute Show to Kurt “Jafo” Martell Fridays at 3pm and Tuesdays at 8:30am Jafo’s Collection is a 30-minute tour of the massive music collection that Jafo shared with Thunder Bay during his 13-year residency at 102.7fm. Every song is selected from mixed CDs that Jafo meticulously created for his radio show, Jafo’s Mood. From A Tribe Called Red to Man Man, zombie apocalypse sketches to Fiona Apple, Cloud Cult to the theme from Spider Man (yup, that’s in there), it’s the furthest thing from commercial radio playlists that you’ll find on the airwaves. Join us every week for a playlist that is inspired by Jafo’s “anti-radio” show, in honour of our dear friend, Kurt Martell. Dedicated to the Martell/Boyer family and friends and fans of Jafo.
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Yukon Blonde* Critical Hit Dine Alone Records
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Father John Misty Customer Sub Pop
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Sam Weber* New Agile Freedom Self-Released
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Wax Mannequin* Have a New Name Coax
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The Honest Heart Collective* Grief Rights Self-Released
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Calpurnia* Scout Royal Mountain
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18 Georgian Bay* Courage Vol 1: Soleil Georgian Bay 19 Megan Bonnell* Separate Rooms Cadence Music Group 20 Tancred Nightstand Polyvinyl
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Ross From Friends Family Portrait Brainfeeder
Bernice* Puff: In the air without a shape Arts & Crafts Johnny Marr Call the Comet Voodoo
10 Peach Kelli Pop* Gentle Leader Mint 11 Parquet Courts Wide Awake! Rough Trade 12 Great Lake Swimmers* The Waves, The Wake Nettwerk Music 13 The Marwills* A Mother’s Worry Self-Released
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Gordon Grdina’s The Marrow* Ejdeha
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Hamilton de Holanda Jacob Bossa Deckdisc
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Kamasi Washington Heaven And Earth Young Turks
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Nadjiwan* Tomahawk Rock Self-Released
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Brownout Fear Of A Brown Planet Fat Beats
Page 38* Swingin’ From The Ceiling Self-Released
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Snotty Nose Rez Kids* The Average Savage Self-Released
lié* Hounds Mint
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Drake* Scorpion Cash Money
Not Of* Hypocritic Oath No List
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Burn The Priest Legion: XX Epic
International 1
Lara Klaus Força do Gesto Urânio
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Gurrumul Djarimirri Skinnyfish
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Jupiter & Okwess Kin Sonic Everloving
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Bruce Haack* Preservation Tapes Telephone Explosion
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Helena Hauff Qualm Ninja Tune
Hamilton de Holanda Jacob Bossa Deckdisc
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Leon Vynehall Nothing Is Still Ninja Tune
Red Baraat Sound The People Rhyme & Reason
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Deadbeat* Wax Poetic For This Our Great Resolve Blkrtz
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Debra Mann* Full Circle: The Music of Joni Mitchell Whaling City Sound
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Peggy Lee* Echo Painting Songlines
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Georgian Bay* Courage Vol 1: Soleil Georgian Bay
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The Marwills* A Mother’s Worry Self-Released
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Neko Case* Hell-On Anti-
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Darren McChristie
The Falling Leaves Drift by the Window By Graham Saunders A secret sugar bush, Neebing Township
T
he change of colours in the landscape, just in case you needed a reminder, flag that the growing season is winding down. Weather and light conditions influence all stages of leaves during the growing season. Leaf-out was a little later than usual this spring because April was colder than usual. New growth is vulnerable to freezing and shrubs and trees delay until air and soil temperatures are suitable. Hence, it is unlikely to see new green growth until after snow is gone. What happens if it snows after “green-up”? Well, buds contract as much as possible and everything goes into a pause mode. This year, the vibrant green of “green-up” began in May and continued into June. Both these months featured temperatures comfortably above average and this warmth provided a good start for
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foliage. However, spring and early summer were drier than average and reduced moisture available may have consequences later. Leaves appear green because of the pigment chlorophyll. Leaves are busy and complex places. The chlorophyll traps the sunlight and converts this to energy for the plant. An extended peak of light from May through July (centred on the summer solstice in later June) results in considerable chlorophyll in active leaves. There are various chemical processes that result in other pigments—carotenoids, which are yellow and orange, and anthocyanins, which are red and purple. Green chlorophyll dominates and masks other colours until autumn. Light regulates chlorophyll production, so in later summer less chlorophyll is being produced and green hues are diminished. Eventually, the hidden
colours emerge and take over as autumn continues. The peak and intensity of autumn colour varies by landscape and timing. I keep track of when spring green-up and peak autumn colour occur. Spring dates are visually easier because the changes from no green to green on shrubs, poplars, and other trees are fairly obvious. The autumn peak is not so easy to define. I think of the peak as when half of the leaves have colour and half are green and suggest this usually happens in Thunder Bay and rural areas during the first week or two of October. The decline in light is the driving cause of the change of leaf colour, but contributions from weather can delay or hasten the peak. In September, cool overnight temperatures but without “hard” frosts followed by cool and sunny
days are likely to enhance and prolong leaf colour change. Conversely, intense rainfall and/or brisk winds speeds up the decline and fall of foliage, especially if leaf stems and tree branches are not tightly bonded. Recent months featured a warm but relatively dry growing season for Thunder Bay and the northwest region. Perhaps this reduced moisture accounts for the occasional glimpse of brown and copper tones we saw in a few trees in August. Eventually the leaves will fall off the tree—this is known as abscission. Between the leaf and the stem are a group of cells that form the abscission layer. When the light declines in autumn the remaining nutrients of the leaf will be drawn into the tree, a protective layer develops and then the leaf will drop off.
Storm Festival Lake Superior
November 9-11, 2018
Treat yourself to a storm-season weekend of events, including wave dash and more!
See the complete event line up at VisitCookCounty.com/stormfest
Whitewater Golf Club Presents
An Evening of Wine & Food Stations in support of
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Thunder Bay
Friday, October 26th 6:15 Wine Tasting 7:30 Food Stations & Live Entertainment
$100 per person
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By Donna Gilhooly
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ver the past 100 issues of The Walleye, Thunder Bay has changed significantly. Once known for our persians, saunas, and hockey players (and a mayor who famously patted the Queen’s bum), we are now more likely known for our galleries and spectacular waterfront. Toronto snobs who once showed surprise that we have both a symphony orchestra and a professional theatre have now had to come to terms with the excellence of the programming found here in Thunder Bay. Since the first publication of The Walleye, seismic shifts have occurred in our collective thinking. The first fault line occurred with the development of the award-winning waterfront, which—for the first time in our history and as a matter of principle—married local materials with local artists and craftspeople to create a public space that is uniquely our own. When the first phase of the waterfront was completed, our sense of self began to change. We had created something worth celebrating and it stood up against the best of the best anywhere else in the world. The downtown core adjacent to the park began to flourish and new restaurants and businesses have sprung up. A fine example is Louise Thomas’ Ahnisnabae Art Gallery on Cumberland Street. Initially created
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as an homage to her late husband, Roy Thomas, the gallery has become so rich and profound in its depth of talent that it takes one’s breath away. More than a gallery operator, Louise is both a mentor and a dealer for over 300 Indigenous artists in our region and across the country. Kitty-corner from Ahnisnabae Gallery is Definitely Superior Art Gallery. DefSup is a vibrant, artist– run gallery known throughout the country for its work in supporting new and emerging artists, engaging the community, and involving young people. In 2013, it won the prestigious Premier’s Award for Excellence. The city comes alive during its multi-disciplinary arts events like Urban Infill, and the creative efforts of the art collective for young, emerging artists, Die Active. The most significant cultural experience I have had in the eight years since the inception of The Walleye was at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery for the “Walking with Our Sisters” exhibit. A commemorative installation, it featured upward of 1,800 pairs of vamps (moccasin tops) made in memory of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. This exhibit contributed to the conversations that needed to take place in and between both our communities (Indigenous and settler) and between men and women everywhere.
I am excited by the prospect of the Thunder Bay Art Gallery moving to the waterfront. I predict it will be one of the most significant galleries in all of Canada. Its role in creating these conversations, in exploring ideas and telling our stories, is invaluable. Through art and storytelling healing can begin, friendships can be made, and minds can be opened or changed. A gallery is more than art. Looking back, I would think
another shift in our perception of our cultural selves has been a raised awareness of Thunder Bay’s history and heritage. Nancy Perozzo, the advocate and leading light of the Friends of Grain Elevators, has raised our awareness of our industrial past and the significant role we played in the opening of Canada and in feeding the world. Diane Imrie, executive director of the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, has illustrated our great sports heritage. And Charlie Brown and crew of the Lakehead Transportation Museum Society have finally had lift off—they have brought home the Alexander Henry and are in the process of creating a transportation museum at the waterfront. There is so much more—the new pavilion at Waverley Park fundraised by the Coalition for Waverley Park, the fine ongoing work of the Thunder Bay Museum, and the restoration of the C.W. Parker Carousel at Chippewa Park. It is evident that we have come to a point in our evolution as a community where we believe that we have a story worth telling. This is important. We need the courage to tell our stories and the respect for one another to listen to what is being said. Art and culture can be the vehicle to lead these discussions.
Patrick Chondon
We Have Stories to Tell
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My Fall Into Fear By Autumne Atwood Breathing, it’s instinctive. In and out, it’s unconscious. Breathing, it’s simplistic. I’m six years old, dawdling down the damp, leaf covered sidewalk of our dead end street. My dead end life. I pull my splintered wooden wagon behind me. I’m leaving a crippling torture. Running away to anywhere better. My wagon contains my most prized possessions: favourite bear, a knotted skipping rope, chestnut collection, and a small box of Smarties saved from last year’s Halloween. I clench in my angry fist, A buffed glistening rock, It’s more exquisite than I’ll ever dream to be. I have kept this jewel hidden, Preserved to one day skip over the quiet stillness of an endless lake.
“Pick up your feet when you walk. Stop mumbling when you talk. 8 out of 10 on your first spelling test, that doesn’t sound like you did your best? I don’t know why I ever had children.” My mind is haunted with voices telling me I’m not enough. My tiny arms pull the wagon forward, each step is an overwhelming burden. I can’t even run away from my suffering without fail. For the first time, I recognize my demons, once other people, have become a part of me, a part of my head and, their voices have now become my own. Breathing becomes unwelcomed. In and out, is laborious. Breathing, it’s onerous. I look up to the darkened sky, thick with threatening storm clouds, my mood and the weather become one.
Wait, digital Illustration, boy Roland Breathe in.
Neurons fire, my brain rewires.
It’s inescapable. Fear. Dizziness.
For I know it longs for freedom and one day will whisper effortlessly away from me,
There is a flood of hesitation… Anticipation…
I gasp, suctioning air from every direction into impatient lungs.
Flickering fiercely over a serene water.
Breathe in.
It will take the escape when it’s offered as I would take mine.
Breathe in.
Breathing, it’s habitual.
It’s crushing.
In and out, it’s constant.
Punishing.
Breathing, it’s ordinary.
I gulp for more, not satisfied.
Breathe in.
I let go of my wagon handle.
Water streams down my face, the sky pelts rain onto me from its depths. Then I discover my face is engulfed in my own tears, Suddenly aware that heaven doesn’t exist for someone like me.
Panic and fear rise out of my soul with nowhere to go so they return to me. It’s unavoidable, Repetitive. Nothing exists but the absence of my breath. My eyes wide open, they search for a way out of myself. The realization that I am too a failure at breathing smacks rough against my face, The harshness bound to echo for years to come.
My wagon is heavy despite the few things I carry.
It too is paralyzed in time, then begins edging away from me,
Breathe in, with intention.
Weighted with rigid demands to be perfect, to act grown up, to be different, and to already have all the answers.
Rolling backwards down the pathway.
All I breathe in is fear.
But my fingers are sticky, my pigtails crooked, and my scuffed rubber boots drag through the wet leaves.
Breathe in.
Waves of alarm bury my fallen rock with brightly coloured autumn leaves.
My irreplaceable stone falls into the muddy puddle formed on the cracked sidewalk,
It goes unnoticed, just as I am hidden, out there on the pavement, alone and six.
Aimed for travelling the unknown with strength and bravery,
Far away from its destiny of a delicate dance, skimming across the water.
And no one sees me.
Along with my dreams, chased away by fear.
My knee has a scrape and I keep picking at it. My bandaid finally falls off.
My palms open with spontaneity, grasping my chest.
Breathe out, with consciousness.
My wagon descents further, banging into the old maple tree, cascading over, transforming my innocence in seconds. My simple, smooth stone, destined for greatness,
Sits alone, in a dirty puddle,
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