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Huge ice storm affects millions

By Jim Windle

A major ice storm wrapped its cold fingers around most of the northeast coast of North America Sunday, causing closures, traffic snarls and disrupting electric power to millions of people.

It was part of an ice storm, which affected millions from Northern Texas to Kentucky to New York, Vermont and as far north into Quebec.

Freezing rain began late Saturday evening and left trees with a heavy coat of ice. When the branches could handle no more weight, they came down taking power lines with them.

The resulting power outages affected about 350,000 people in Ontario.

As much as 20-30 mm of made ice for made for picturesque visuals, but very dangerous driv-

ing and walking.

Flight cancelations stranded hundreds of Christmas travellers at Pearson International Airport.

The storm also af affected the Two Row Times production of this week’s newspaper. But with generators and candles and some stellar work

by Chris McNaughton of Indicative Solutions to get our Internet server up and running, the staff was able to produce this week’s paper.

Premier Ontario Kathleen Wynne promised whatever resources necessary to those stranded without heat and power for several hours.

“We’re going to bring in the resources that are needed to deal with the situation,” Wynne told a news conference on Sunday.

Hydro One workers

were out in force and ready to work all night Sunday to get power restored, but the slip-

pery road conditions and downed trees made getting to trouble spots treacherous.

Municipalities along Highway 401 especially near the Lake Ontario shoreline took the full

brunt of the storm which some official say could take days to recover from.

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Grassroots youth group question Enbridge

By Jen Mt. Pleasant NEW CREDIT - Enbridge Gas Distribution Inc. sent representatives to the New Credit Community Centre, Wednesday, to answer regarding questions the proposed Line 11 Westover Segment Replacement Project. Line 11 starts at Westover Station and goes south then southeast to Nanticoke Junction.

In order to help fulfill Enbridge’s duty to consult First Nations people, Aboriginal Advisor Matt Jackson was on hand to inform inquisitive community members about the Westover Pipeline Replacement Project, which is slated to start in the Summer of 2014. The replacement project will fix 3.2 kilometres of pipeline in the area of Westover Station. The original pipeline was built in 1971. One community member asked how they expect to replace the pipeline, Jackson explained, “The pipeline will be shut down for two days and we will tie both ends of the pipeline before we go in and fix it.”

Jackson went on to explain the seven phases of work that make up an integrity dig: location of the dig site and stripping of topsoil where applicable; excavation to ex-

The

Members of the Alternative Roots group who met with Enbridge representatives on Wednesday night pose for a group photo. (Photo by Jen Mt. Pleasant) pose the pipe; cleaning the exposed pipeline; inspection of the pipe; maintenance or repair of the pipe segment as necessary; re-coat the pipe and backfill excavation and clean-up.

Enbridge has already undertaken environmental and archaeological studies, not just for the Pipeline 11 project but for the GTA project as well.

One environmental concern with the Pipeline 11 project is the Sheffield-Rockton wetland complex, which is along the route. Enbridge stated that they would protect the area by drilling and boring under the wetlands in two locations.

Of greater concern is the archaeological assessment that was completed for the GTA Project. The GTA Project consists of two segments of proposed high pressure, natural gas pipeline. According to their report, Enbridge has found various archaeological sites, including ancient Haude-

villages, nosaunee along their ‘preferred route’.

On hand Wednesday evening to question Enbridge’s agenda was grassroots group, Roots, Alternative which is comprised of youth from the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation.

Alternative Roots was founded on concepts of creating alternatives to drugs and alcohol through peer-to-peer connections.

They focus on youth and pressing issues within their community and surrounding areas including, social, political and economical issues. Their most recent concern is around the Enbridge pipeline and the effects it will have on the community and environment.

Members of Alternative Roots had the opportunity to meet with Enbridge representatives Wednesday night, where they expressed their concerns and asked questions.

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Inventor fields councilors’ questions

By Jim Windle

OHSWEKEN - John Kearns, the Scottish inventor of the Kearns garbage disintegrator now located at the Six Nations landfill, was at Council last Tuesday to answer a few questions and concerns about his invention which Kearns designed to efficiently and cleanly burn tons of garbage a day.

As with any new technology, there are skeptics and according to Kearns, that is a good thing because it gives him a chance to answer rumours and clarify points of misunderstanding before they grow out of proportion.

One question concerns emissions testing on the equipment to prove Kearns’ proclamations about his disintegrator.

According to Kearns, AMEC International, in Cape Breton, conducted the last emissions testing done on his machine 10 years ago.

But, why has it not been done since, some councillors wanted to know.

“We have a 130 page report from AMEC,” says Kearns. “We have not been tested since then, but the results of 0.00 emissions from that test is still zero. Ten years will not change that. That number was for THC’s in the stack. That’s the unburned fuel going through. It was tested by

Newly sworn in Six Nations Elected Chief receives an early Christmas gift from Garbage disintegrator inventor John Kearns at the Council Chambers last Tuesday evening. (Photo by Jim Windle)

AMEC at 0.00 and we are allowed 300 parts per million.”

He explains that as far as carbon in the residue ash goes, government standards are allowed 10,000 parts per million.

He claims his ash reads at 0.04, which is 250,000 times cleaner.

“Garbage today is essentially the same now as it was 10 years ago,” says Kearns.

Some have asked why, even today, there is no MOE or ETA approvals for his machine. These approvals will be necessary when the permanent 20-ton per day unit is delivered and up and running.

Kearns explained

that if he went ahead and had the sample loaner 10-tons per day unit tested where it is now located, which is under a temporary enclosure outside, open at both ends, he would have to do the same tests all over again when the new unit is moved inside.

“There are different criteria for inside testing,” he says. “There are different criteria involved. The site plays a very important role.”

Kearns met with Chief Hill, Mike Montour and Dale Bomberry the next day to go over details of the agreement signed by the outgoing Chief Bill Montour. In that meeting it was decided that the

Elected Council will have some testing done early in the New Year.

“That’s not a full compliance test,” said Kearns. “That is when you test everything. They want people to come in to verify that this machine does exactly what I said it would do. And of course I agree with that.”

For tests to be done accurately, the disintegrator will have to have been running continuously, on a 24/7 schedule for a good week before they set a date for those independent tests to be done.

Until now, manpower has been a problem in getting Kearns unit up to full efficiency, as Six Na-

tions has to post the jobs and conduct interviews.

However this situation will be solved and the manpower trained by the end of January.

But there has been a glitch or two along the way as well; none that Kearns would consider problems.

The main burner has not been running at full capacity, however Kearns knows what the problem is and is rectifying it.

Some people have been concerned about an odor in the air around the machine.

“The burner was not doing what it was supposed to do said the inventor. “So, we started firing it up with wood. I called in a burner technician but he could not come because it was not registered under the Technical Standards and Safety Authority of Ontario. The tradesman would not come because they could lose their license if they worked on something that was not approved.

“What he smelled was unburned fuel. The flame was only 16 inches when it is supposed to be 8 feet. I called supplier to get it fixed. TSSA wrote back to give approval af after the supplier spoke to the TSSA. I forwarded the letter from TSSA Friday and the situation will be fixed soon. It didn’t get anywhere near what it was supposed to, so I shut it down.”

With the holidays right around the corner, Kearns doesn’t expect to be ready to fire it up full speed until early January.

But Kearns was also at Band Council bearing a gift for the new Elected Chief. It was a Mi’kmaq basket created by artist Ann Marie Prosper in the 1950’s, as a token of appreciation and congratulation to the new Chief.

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Brant insists on talks with Six Nations at table

By Jim Windle

PARIS, ON – You couldn’t have fit another person into the Brant County Council Chamber with a shoe horn Thursday night as a tightly packed crowd gathered to hear Mayor Ron Eddy read a prepared statement in response to Brantford’s Letter of Intent regarding a request to transfer 5,000 acres of the Johnson Settlement land claim lands from the County to the City.

Before reading the letter he drafted on behalf of his council, Eddy was careful to try and soften the blow to his neighbours at Brantford’s city hall. It was a stance that did not sit well with at least half of the room, which was full of developers and builders. But others opposed to the transfer for a myriad of reasons seemed relieved, at least for now.

Eddie reminded the packed room that a former council, a number of years ago, of which Eddie and a few other current councillors sat on, submitted a similar request for a land transfer, and that Brantford withdrew from talks at the last min-

Brant County Mayor Ron Eddy read a draft letter of response to Brantford’s Mayor Chris Friel and his council regarding Brantford desire to transfer 5,000 from the County to the City. (Photo by Jim Windle) ute.

He also attempted to address what he referred to as erroneous statements being made regarding the land in question, one of them being that there is a permanent agriculture belt around the County of Brant, which he denies. Eddy also wanted it understood that this stand-off was initiated by Ontario’s Places to Grow Act. “The City of Brantford is not the initiator of this present negotiations,” said Eddie. “It is the Province of Ontario that has designated Brant

to be in the greater golden horseshoe, and have included us in provincial policy which is the Places to Grow Act.” That Act is what municipalities stand behind when challenged about the destruction of farmland and the development of Six Nations land which is under claim by Ontario and the federal government, although they see it the other way.

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But Mayor Eddie explained that the Province has the power to arbitrarily change the boundaries with or without the approval of the affected municipalities. However, he added that, to date, they have wanted Brant and Brantford to sort it out between themselves, once again ignoring Six Nations as a stakeholder in the matter.

Eddie lamented that other annexations of County land into the city over the years have been rubber stamped by the County Council, or Township as it used to be referred to, “Which was wrong, wrong, wrong,” according to Eddie.

The draft letter was read by Mayor Eddy and put on the table for discussion and possible amendments, which led to some heated discussion between the Councillors.

After several clauses acknowledging Brantford’s perceived need for more land to develop, and the County of Brant’s view to protect what farm lands it has left, the meat of the letter came down to one paragraph.

“Therefore be it resolved that the Council of the County of Brant request that the Council of the City of Brantford continue to negotiate towards a mutually agreeable amendment to the City/County boundary, and that Six Nations of the Grand River be actively engaged in these future discussions,” read Eddy.

Some councillors were concerned that they did not have much of a chance to read the proposed resolution before being asked to approve it.

But it was later explained that the motion on the floor was to accept Mayor Eddy’s letter, in essence, to be sent to the MBO and Brantford outlining the County’s desire to engage in more negotiations which would also include Six Nations as stake-holders.

John Councillor Wheat spoke on the written resolution which he seconded.

“I seconded this resolution, and I support it,” said Wheat. “A very interesting question came up when this council met with Six Nations face to face, on Monday. I think it was Councillor Dave Hill

who asked, ‘what’s the rush?’”

“When you rush is when you make mistakes.

We need to do this so that the County of Brant finds it beneficial as well as the city. We need to take our time and do it properly. Once it’s done, it’s done and there is no turning back. We wanted to consult with our people and we have done that. We have heard from the stakeholders (builders and developers), and now we’ve finally started to talk with Six Nations, which is something we wanted to do months ago. Now we need to condense all that and move forward. I am fully in support of this resolution.”

Rob Chambers agreed that they should not feel pressured by the city’s gung-ho style.

Clearly frustrated with the ongoing fencing match between the city and the county, Councillor Chris Atfield and Mayor Eddy had some words, which spiced up the meeting a bit.

“We should be saying to Brantford, ‘you can’t use this (land)’, we’ll give you this (land) instead,” he said. “I believe they have to grow. But we should have the opportunity to tell them where.”

After much discussion, the vote was taken and, with the exception of Atfield, all gave consent in sending the drafted response to Brantford, with minor revisions, in response to Brantford’s Letter of Intent concerning the transfer.

Monday, Dec. 16th, Mayor Eddy and some members of his council met at Six Nations with the new Elected Council, where they asked Six Nations what they wanted to see.

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EDITORIAL: Be thankful The bejewelled branches of the willow tree sparkled like diamonds. All of nature’s Christmas lights shone with a special kind of twinkle and illuminated the surrounding bushes with their own kind of beauty. When we awoke this morning it was to a world dripping with ice and no hydro. Our first thoughts went to the publishing of the Two Row Times and to thoughts of, if and when we would get our electricity back. Nature has a way of reminding us that she is indeed in charge, and letting us know that we should al-

ways be thankful for the kindness she shows us.

After unsuccessfully trying to reach hydro, we then found that we had no internet service.

The word, “desperation” doesn’t quite cover the gamut of emotions that assaulted us. Many of the roads on Six Nations were impassable for a period of time and seemed to provide an eerie parallel to the problems we were facing. So, faced with the challenge of having no hydro, no internet and icy roads, we knew we had our work cut out for us. When Mother Nature

speaks everyone better sit up and pay attention.

The storm that hit the Six Nations/Brantford area had been predicted for several days and was not a surprise but one would never know by how strongly we were affected. A low pressure system from Texas brought a significant amount of moisture that connected with a colder northerly flow which resulted in freezing rain and additional amounts of rainfall in the order of 10-15 millimeters. Mother Nature displayed for us her own ability to decorate beauteously and create havoc.

Our office looked particularly pretty and distinctly cold.

While we admired the loveliness of our surroundings, we were also busily placing phone calls to try and re-establish some sort of “connection”.

We managed to get a generator and then had to figure out a way to download all of our pertinent files, all the while clearing

away the ice from in front of our building. The ensuing rush to get into our ‘server’ and gain access was slightly comical. The whole issue of electricity became a flickering desire that was satiated by a 5000w generator.

Our work then became a blinding, blizzard of activity.

Mother Nature has a way of teaching lessons without us actually being aware of them at the time.

The storm that bore down upon us brought with it eye-opening awareness at our vulnerability and interdependence.

We managed to complete this issue through the help of our friends and some sheer grit and determination. We are grateful that we were able to overcome all the obstacles that were strewn across our path.

Mother Nature certainly has a sense of humour.

Feel free to smile. We sure did… Happy Holidays to all!

Two Row Times founder Jonathan Garlow and producer Dave LaForce take a moment to chuckle at the situation outisde the Two Row Times offices. The issue was produced using generator power as the biggest ice storm seen in recent Ontario history downed power lines through out the Haldimand Tract and beyond.

(Photo by Tom Keefer)

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Please don’t drink and drive

By W. Gail Laforme The holidays are especially dangerous, despite the fact that it is “the most wonderful time of the year”.

Many people choose to drink alcohol, to celebrate, to have fun with friends and family, and for some, it’s to numb themselves. It’s not always the most cheerful time of the year for a large portion of society.

Choosing to drink and drive not only involves the driver, and any passengers, but all those that may come across their path while out on the roads. It can affect many families and community members.

We lose loved ones every year due to this dangerous action. We often imagine automobile accidents only occurring between vehicles; however, it is very possible for pedestrians, whether they have been drinking or not, to be struck

down while walking home from a party by a drunk driver.

It is our hope, here at New Directions, that during this holiday season, our community remembers to stay safe.

Along with reminders that if you are choosing to use alcohol to celebrate, choose a designat designated driver who remains completely alcohol free.

People tend to forget that the dangerous ef effects of alcohol may not begin right away, and even after having only one, and driving soon afterwards, the results can begin to show, slowing down reaction time and blurring vision, along with numerous other impairments.

Please don’t be a statistic this year...

Choose, this season, to be substance free.

W. Gail Laforme Addictions Outreach Worker on behalf of New Directions Group

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Justice and Legality: The Sisters of Antigone

By Michael Keefer

Canada does seem to be having persistent problems with the law. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in its Delgamuukw and Marshall decisions, in 1997 and 1999, that First Nations peoples who never made treaties ceding their lands and resources to the Crown retain aboriginal title to their ancestral territories.

But Canadian governments, federal and provincial alike, have often simply ignored inconvenient court rulings on what constitutes the law of the land. The Burnt Church fishery dispute of 1999-2002 was nudged toward violence by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ refusal to accommodate Mi’kmaq rights confirmed by the Marshall decision; and in recent months the New Brunswick government, the RCMP, and the lower courts that have glibly handed out injunctions criminalizing any obstruction of fracking exploration on unceded Mi’kmaq land, appear again to have been violating the law.

Two leading experts in natural resources law have commented on this recent bout of lawlessness. Bill Gallagher has remarked that there are “seven high-level court cases” which native people won “on a very profound point of law,” with the courts giving “a series of admonitions” to the losing parties, “governments and interveners and industry” – despite which the New Brunswick government has left these court decisions “sitting on shelves.” And Michael McClurg has written that in the Elsipogtog case, “the rule of law [...] would arguably dictate” that the protesters had every right to be where they were, while others, “including the Crown and resource extraction companies, are trespassers.”

What are we to do when the very people who should be applying the rule of law fling it out the window, and when foolish or malignant pundits like Rex Murphy or Ezra Levant do their best

to obstruct public understanding of what’s going on?

But a further problem arises from the fact that even when governments respect the law, its structures may embody and legitimize wrongs and injustices.

Only in Utopia, the land of Cockagne, or the Big Rock Candy Mountain are legality and justice wholly one and the same.

Think of the words of the prophet Amos that Martin Luther King famously quoted in his “I have a dream” speech. Amos didn’t say “Let legality roll down”: he said, “Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream” (Amos 5: 24). What the civil rights movement was struggling against, in the name of justice and righteousness, was quite precisely a perverted legality: the laws and state practices of Jim Crow racism.

The Canadian legal system has moved towards remedying some institutionalized features that run counter to justice. Attempts are being made to provide restorative justice through Gladue courts; and the Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall, Jr. Prosecution (1989) declared that “Native Canadians have the right to a justice system [...] which has respect for them, and which dispenses justice in a manner consistent with, and sensitive to their history, culture and language.”

On the level of resource issues, it’s clear that a system of law and justice that was respect-

ful of and sensitive to native history, culture and language would not for a moment permit practices like fracking. But the corporations involved in resource extraction are bound by corporate law to understand value as a matter of maximizing shareholders’ profits – and to discard the real values of justice, respect for aboriginal title, and the responsibility to preserve the land for future generations.

The hollowness of this perverted legality can be exposed by comparison to higher understandings of what binds us to the land we all belong to.

We can find such forms of understanding in the Mi’kmaq system of justice (koqqwaja’ltimk) one of whose principles, as Leslie Jane McMillan explained in her 2002 doctoral thesis on Mi’kmaq Legal Consciousness, is sharing (utkunajik) within a common territory (netukulimk). We can find them, more fully elaborated, in the Six Nations or Haudenosaunee Kaienereh’ko:wa, known in English as the Great Peace.

In 2006, two women of the Six Nations, Katinies and Kahentinetha, explained their intervention in an issue involving environmental degradation in the Haldimand Tract lands as prompted by the Kaianereh’ko:wa’s Wampum 44, which defines the women as the “progenitors of the soil,” and makes them, the elders said, “the Caretakers of the land, water and air of Turtle Island. As

the trustees, we are obligated to preserve and protect the land’s integrity for the future generation.”

In the same year, another Six Nations woman, Hazel Hill, informed local newspapers in Grand River and Caledonia that the controversy that had erupted over a land reclamation near Caledonia was not just a question of ownership, but a conflict between two systems, one that has served oppression and another higher and much way of life: It’s not about disrespecting [...] the laws of Canada, but more importantly about respecting [...] the Universal Law given to us by the Peacemaker and Gigonsaseh, and upholding our responsibilities as individuals in accordance with that law [....] It’s not about an occupation, but about asserting our jurisdiction.

Canadians of European heritage may find it easier to understand these appeals to a system of justice higher and more ancient than the law of the Canadian state if they remember a story that forms part of their own heritage. It is the story of Antigone, a daughter of the royal house of Thebes, as told

by Sophocles, one of the great tragic playwrights of ancient Greece, four and a half centuries before the beginning of our Common Era. Antigone’s two brothers quarrelled over the throne of Thebes.

One, who was banished, returned with an army and attacked the city.

When the brothers killed

each other in battle, their uncle, who became king, proclaimed that the one who had defended the city should be buried with due honours, while the other’s corpse should rot outside the city and be consumed by dogs and carrion birds – and anyone who gave the body burial rites should die.

It is made clear that the king’s decree violated a primal order of justice. Carrion-eating animals and birds refused to touch the corpse; then, after Antigone defiantly gave it burial rites, which the king reversed, exposing the dead body again, the carrion-eaters gorged themselves and vomited the rotting flesh onto the altars of the city’s temples.

At a central moment in the play, Antigone’s tells the king that his law went against the highest god, Zeus, and against an order of Justice higher than any decree of the state. I quote from Robert Fagles’ translation: It wasn’t Zeus, not in the least,

who made this proclamation – not to me.

Nor did that Justice, dwelling with the gods beneath the earth, ordain such laws for men.

Nor did I think your edict had such force that you, a mere mortal, could override the gods, the great unwritten, unshakable traditions.

They are alive, not just today or yesterday: they live forever, from the first of time....

Set aside this tragedy’s lurid details: its central conflict, between a law arrogantly and unjustly proclaimed by the state, and a higher sense of justice, of “unshakable traditions” that Antigone courageously obeys in principled resistance to the state’s brute force, has a familiar ring.

The women of the Six Nations, and the Mi’kmaq women who have taken a stand, together with their menfolk, in opposition to fracking exploration in New Brunswick, are sisters of Antigone.

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Here’s how it works. If you want to nominate someone, simply tell us their story and submit your nominations via email by DECEMBER 31, 2013. Describe the situation in 400 words or less. Give us the backstory: what happened to create the need for this individual or family? Follow up with what is needed, why is it needed, when is it needed, how and where can help be provided?

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Justice For Levi campaign makes precedent

By Jen Mt. Pleasant On June 24, 2009, Levi Schaeffer, 30 years old, was fatally shot by an Ontario Provincial Police officer. Since then, Levi’s mother, Ruth has been fighting for justice. Four and a half years of being bounced around from court to court finally paid off for the Schaeffer family as Canada’s highest court ruled in their favour last Thursday.

What gave notoriety to this case was that af after Schaeffer was fatally shot, the officers involved, were given two days, by their Superior, to write up their notes with the help of a lawyer.

Levi Schaeffer of Peterborough was diagnosed with schizophrenia in his early 20’s. In late Spring of 2009, he decided to travel by foot and bike, into Ontario’s northern wilderness. On June 24, Schaeffer had his camp set up at the edge of Osnaburgh Lake near Pickle Lake. Pickle Lake is approximately 540 kilometres north of Thunder Bay. As he was cooking lunch, two police officers pulled up to Schaeffer’s camp in an unmarked boat. The of officers were searching for a green motorized canoe

Levi and his nephew (Photo from justiceforlevi.org) that was reported missing by a local man.

What happened after that is questionable. What is known, is that the officers believed that Schaef Schaeffer stole the missing boat.

After the shooting, a member of the OPP advised both officers to contact a police union lawyer who was also a former officer.

They were also informed to write their notes at the direction of the lawyer. Both officers had the same lawyer.

Whenever police officers are involved in incidents where a person has been seriously injured or dies, the province’s Spe-

cial Investigations Unit (SIU) is brought in to investigate. The SIU is an independent body and is made up of civilian members. They have the power to investigate and charge police officers.

Ian Scott, recent director of the SIU, cleared both officers of any wrongdoing. However, in his final report he stat stated that the way the notes were handled prevented him from determining what really happened during the events leading up to the shooting.

Neither officer was disciplined and the SIU concluded that the offi-

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cer had no choice but to shoot Schaeffer. Furthermore, Scott’s decision was based solely on the ‘taint ‘tainted’ notes of the only surviving witnesses: the two Ontario Provincial Police officer’s of the Pickle Lake Detachment.

The Schaeffer family took the OPP and SIU to court asking the judge to interpret the note-taking rules. Scott also submit submitted a factum that backed the family. The court ruled that the issue is a matter for the Legislatures, not the courts. The application was struck down.

The Schaeffer family then appealed the decision, which went all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. In a landmark decision Thursday, the court ruled in favour of the Schaeffer family. This means that police officers who kill civilians will no longer be able to have their notes written under the discretion of a lawyer before submitting them to the SIU and any other agency that is civilian-run which investigates when

police are suspected of wrongdoing.

This historic Supreme Court ruling will set a new precedent for future incidents where police kill civilians. Although families will not be able to directly read police notes, they can now rest assured that the notes will be accurate and accountable.

Furthermore, future investigations conducted by civilian agencies of police wrongdoing, will be legit legitimate. And lastly, police can no longer assign the same police association lawyer to all police officers.

According to the Coalition for Justice for Levi Schaeffer, although this is a win for the Schaef Schaeffer family, ‘we still have police killing mentally ill people.” The unofficial modus operandi of police officers when dealing with mentally ill persons is to draw their weapon.

According to the coalition, “we still have a reality were certain people – people of colour, Indigenous folk, queers, the poor, peo-

ple with disabilities, vulnerable women – are disproportionately targeted, intimidated and violated by police in our communities.” Levi’s mom, Ruth, who has been at the heart of this whole ordeal, feels a great sense of relief with Thursday’s court ruling.

First Nations people are not strangers to police shootings. In 1988, J.J. Harper was shot and killed by Winnipeg Police.

In June 2008, Chase McKay of the White Bear First Nation in Saskatchewan was shot and killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). In March 2011, Kinling Fire was shot to death near his home in Edmonton. In January 2013, Ryan Jacob was shot dead by Burnaby police. In August 2013, a man from the Cold Lake First Nation in Alberta, was gunned down by RCMP. And, in August of 2013, Lance Cutarm was shot to death by RCMP during a routine traffic stop southwest of Edmonton.

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Dealing with grief: Surviving the holidays

By TRT Staff

This time of the year is supposed to be joyful and merry. Commercial ads in the media show us the happy family: all sitting together by the fireplace on Christ Christmas Eve, eating cookies and drinking hot chocolate.

Presents are stockpiled under the Christmas tree and we hear the pitter-pat pitter-patter of little feet, anxious and anticipating the arrival of Santa. With 24 hours of Christmas songs on the radio and all your favorite holiday shows on TV, it’s hard to avoid the holiday season. It’s all around us.

It’s also hard to be joyful and merry when we lose a loved one, especially due to sudden and tragic deaths. The first year is the toughest: getting through all the ‘firsts’. First birthday, first Halloween, and first Christmas. Christmas always seems to be the hardest, especially when everyone around us is not

only happy, but completely oblivious to our sadness. Like the world forgot about us. This often leaves us feeling lost and alone which can easily lead to depression and unhealthy thoughts.

When some one passes away in tight-knit communities like Six Nations and New Credit, we all realize that grief doesn’t just touch the families and friends of our dearly departed, it af affects the entire community. And it’s especially in times like these, that we need to come together as a community and help each other get through the tough times.

The Two Row Times asked a couple of community members to comment on grief and offer words of advice on how to cope in healthy ways during the holidays: Wendy Hill, (Cayuga Nation) had this to say, “I have dealt with death of a dear loved one during

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Christmas. The 10-day feast fell on Christmas Eve and that was the hardest Christmas I ever felt. I had a daughter so I still tried to be present and keep going and give her a good holiday. So sometimes there are people not okay with the holidays and we should be aware of this. Sometimes it’s one of the hardest times to experience.

This is why it’s one of the holidays with high suicide rates. When family ties have been severed it’s a realization of not having the ideal family unit. The advice I give to people at this time is to find those friends or family that you do have a good relationship with and spend time with them.

Also try to do activities that bring joy and fun memories for you. For myself I liked to sleigh ride in my childhood, so this is something I try to continue with my family as well as skating. Playing in the

snow or just going to visit.

If you have friends or family members who are struggling with depression or who have no family, invite them over or stop in and gift them with your company or a gift. It could make a huge difference. Sometimes it’s just the invite to a dinner that can change someone’s thoughts of tak taking their life or going further into depression.

This is time for telling the history and stories to stir up the strength and hope in ourselves to continue on in life. The winter comes from the north, g randfat her/g uardian, and it’s symbolic of elderly stage of life. It’s a difficult time in life, and so many people feel the difficult time but only for a few months.

But the stories are supposed to be told while everything is resting and listening to see if we remember and still honour our ancestors and their

journey. This is also a time to look back at this year and improve how you did this past year. Appreciat Appreciating the good that you have done and what others have done for you. This is the purpose of our midwinter ceremonies, to bring people together and dance and celebrate this past year and pray and hope for the coming year.”

Sakoieta Widrick (Mohawk Nation), believes that, “Grief, loss and mourning are necessary for our bodies to psychologically accept that there has been a change in our sense of reality. Some one or something that was there is no longer there. It is important for the body to accept that if it is ever going to move on and pick up life and living.

Holidays are often hard because those are times when we usually had contact with those people who are now no longer with us. It is good

to remember them with a special little type of remembrance ceremony and also to do that with new friends, creating something special with them as well.

It is necessary when there has been a loss to grieve over it and come to accept it and then find a way to move on so we don’t let our grieving get us stuck. We also need to recognize that we will never get over the loss only come to accept it, but with the empty hole that loss has created we need to fill that with something else.”

To acknowledge everyone in our community who have lost a loved one over the years to tragic and sudden deaths and to those who feel that our loved ones simply left us way too soon, we, at Two Row Times are sending you all a BIG bundle of strength, love, and support during this holiday season.

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FEATURE COLUMN: LET'S TALK NATIVE WITH JOHN KANE

Pope Francis: A Gimmick or a Game Changer?

We are hearing much about this new Pope and his radical support for the poor, but the truth is there will remain a gaping hole in his posture until the papal bulls responsible for the Doctrine of Christian Discovery are addressed. Only a full repudiation of the papal bulls of Pope Nicholas V (1452) and Pope Alexander VI (1493) will keep the bold statements of Pope Francis from ringing hollow for Indigenous people.

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It isn’t enough for the Catholic Church to merely suggest, as it has, that the 15th century bulls are no longer church doctrine.

The Vatican started this mess and it’s up to this Pope to make a definitive statement rejecting the racist doctrine that continues to be the cause for much of the very poverty to which he speaks.

Of course, strong statements by churches or the Vatican alone will not undo the damage. The United Nations made its statement, stopping just short of a specific condemnation of the church doctrine in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) but the intent was quite clear. The third af affirmation of the UNDRIP states: “that all doctrines, policies and practices based on or advocating superiority of peoples or individuals on the basis of national origin or racial, religious, ethnic or cultural differences are racist, scientifically false, legally invalid, morally condemnable and socially unjust.”

But while the U.S.

rejects world opinion or international law confronting their “morally condemnable and socially unjust” laws, it seems to have had no problem codifying into its law church doctrine that clearly conflicts with its claim to a separation of church and state.

Both the US and Canada have backed themselves into a corner on this. As these two countries attempt to promote themselves as the moral authority for the world even as the balance of world domination slips away from them and they actively destroy the land, water and air in pursuit of dollars, their ugly history and justice systems built on racist church dogma cannot be ignored.

The “house of cards” that is their federal Indian law cannot survive any legitimate scrutiny.

And their oppressive policies that include raids, physical abuse, kangaroo courts and the general criminalization of all things Native are becoming harder and harder for them to explain away as anything less than a gentler form of genocide.

Meanwhile, our people continue to defend the land and the future for all of our children while the U.S. and Canada continue to lose credibility with anyone not in their pockets.

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years. Both would be a great dream but neither is realistic. In fact some of our own people would be casualties of a toppling of the house of cards the U.S. and Canada is built on. I believe our leverage over their weakness should be used to press for honest and fruitful negotiations to solve the conflicts arising from the oppressive nature of these beasts.

There is much work we need to do to return to our ways of solving problems. Rejecting “Indian Act” and Bureau of Indian Affairs dictates and interference is an important start. Taxation and any outside controls of our economic development also need to be pushed back. And, of course, a seat at the table over environmental issues is an absolute must.

The unfettered access to resources from our lands and practices that continue to place our children’s future in jeopardy must

end and any discussion for such going forward must include us.

As reasonable as this sounds to Native people, the US and Canada are a long way from being reasonable on these matters.

Only a repudiation of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and the U.S. Supreme Court decisions and opinions that start in 1823 with Johnson v.

M’Intosh can slap some sense into countries that allowed “racist, scientif scientifically false, (and) legally invalid” church doctrine to become their laws of the land. This is literally their entire basis for the diminishment of Native sovereignty.

So step up “Man of the Year” and take the big steps to address poverty.

After all, it is the Vatican and other corporations of Christian nations that sit on the wealth and resources that have been and continue to be extracted from the lands

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And it is that accumulation and consolidation of wealth that is responsible for poverty. And it is the papal bulls from past Popes that paved the way for this unlawful subjugation that continues today.

Clean your house, Pope Francis, and we’ll take it from there.

- John Karhiio Kane, Mohawk, a national expert commentator on Native American issues, hosts “Let’s Talk Native…with John Kane,” ESPN-AM 1520 in Buffalo, Sundays, 9-11 p.m. Eastern Time.

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FEATURE COLUMN: SCONEDOGS & SEED BEADS

Decolonizing Christianity

By Nahnda Garlow What do you know about the very First Christmas?

Maybe you’ve heard the Bible story; an angel, a pregnant lady, some shepherds with donkeys and wise men riding camels all end up in a stable in Israel looking at this tiny baby boy. A cozy image with a message for all mankind; a Saviour is born.

Yet he would not be the gift the people of Israel were hoping for. He was persecuted, captured, tortured and killed by the religious dictatorship of his time because of the message controversial he carried. It went something like, ‘Believe me fellows, this religiosity is blocking the way to God.’ He spread this message on earth, was crucified by the religious dictatorship and its devoted followers, yet he miraculously rose three days after his death fulfilling the promise that there is hope in heeding his words; eternal life in Heaven.

It comes in many flavors, but this is the message many still cling to when someone they love passes. You will see them again someday in Heaven, and there will be no more tears, no more struggle and no more pain.

Yet western Christianity has such a bad track

record toward humanity that you can’t say much about Jesus and Christmas in the public arena without being hushed or edited. In a valiant effort to save the economy in rushes the champion of Christmas; the almighty dollar. It seems the newer capitalist Christmas finds Jesus, the manger and all the rest of it a tad embarrassing. Dare I say, taboo. Unless of course it’s framed in the context of a black and white movie from the 1930‘s – then it’s romantic.

This weekend I was shopping for wrapping paper and there was not one roll that had camels or wise men on it. No cards at any major retailers were anything remotely manger related. I barely saw an angel at all.

In fact, this year the trend for trees is colored butterflies and ribbon. Ain’t no harm in that. Ain’t no Jesus either.

It seems in an attempt to divert attention from the oppression and abuse the church has inflicted upon mankind, they’ve opted to “de-Jesus” Christmas, and rebrand it “the season of giving”. Christmas has conveniently become a consumers delight so we can all move forward as Shiny Happy People holding hands, caroling by candlelight and tearing into our gifts as quick as you can.

What the... Where did Jesus go? And what is this wool doing over my

eyes!

Those with any sense can see the message of Christ and the actions of the church do not align. But you can’t and shouldn’t erase the Christian context from Christmas and replace it with consumerism hoping the problems will all just fade away. It is the old “bait and switch” trick. First, remove Jesus, then replace him with presents as quick as you can and hope everyone will be too distracted to notice. Meanwhile happy people across the nation embrace it hook, line and sinker; all the while cheering ‘Merry “X”-mas’.

Ongwehowe people aren’t falling for it though.

We know the church is responsible for molesting children, we know the church is responsible for genocide against in-

digenous nations around the world. Moreover, we Ongwehowe know the church has not taken hard action to do what they should; make amends for the past and reject the assimilationist mandate. No amount of presents can distract us from that truth.

Unfortunately, there is a deceived and vocal leadership in First Nations churches who continue to convert indigenous people to a special brand of westernized Christianity. This is a misinformed church that traditional condemns people, cultural dances and indigenous nationhood as spiritually destitute. Perhaps the worst offence of all in this community apart from misinterpretation of the bible, is the hard practice of pointing people away

from political resistance, and toward passivity and subservience to the worldly powers that be.

All with the hopes it will get them a better seat at the table when they get to Heaven. Of course, that version of Heaven will be filled with gold curtains, sturdy wooden chairs with red velvet padding and a blonde, blue eyed Jesus Christ. But no feathers, no dancing, and definitely no drums!

What is the hard truth here? Sadly, we might never truly see Christ if we look towards

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Blast stone Generals 10-3

By Jim Windle BRANTFORD – The Brantford Blast continued to put distance between themselves and the rest of the Allan Cup Hockey League by going double digits on the Stoney Creek Generals, 10-3, Friday night at the Brantford and District Civic Centre.

The win increased Brantford’s record to 101-0-1 for 21 points, seven points ahead of second place Whitby Dunlops who have 14 points, but hold one game in hand on the Blast.

Chris Leveille, Mike Ruberto and Chad Spurr built up a 3-0 first period lead with Six Nations’ and New Credit centreman Cameron Sault opening the second period from Chris Rebernik and Dave Russell at 1:35.

Mike Ruberto made it 5-0 before Matt Ruberto answered his brother’s goal for Stoney Creek, at 8:27. Jeremy Bloomfield and playing coach Mike Burgoyne gave Brantford a 7-1 lead after 40 minutes.

Cam Sault set up Rebernik at 1:17 along with Dave Russell for the 8-1

goal. Kyle McQuade recorded the General’s second goal at 5:45, but Jamie Williams and Rebernik made it 10-2 assisted by Sault for his third point and Mark Taylor.

Stoney Creek scored one more goal but it made no difference in the outcome, which was determined after the first period.

Brett Leggat looked solid and confident in the Brantford goal, facing 21 shots but Stoney Creek’s Daniel Svedin and David DiGironimo didn’t fair as well, making only 12 saves between them.

Cam Sault slips in behind the defence and looks for a man out front to pass to in Brantford’s 10-3 win over the visiting Stoney Creek Generals at the Brantford and District Civic Centre Friday night. Next action for the Blast is Sunday afternoon when Brantford and the Generals mix it up again, this time, in Stoney Creek.

Corvairs close out 2013 with back-to-back wins

By Jim Windle CALEDONIA - The Caledonia Corvairs will be taking some well-deserved time off between Christmas and the New Year – as a team that is.

But Kyler Nixon, Cody Brown, Matt Quilty, Colin Furlong, coach Mike Bullard, trainer Ray “Razor” McColeman and equipment manager Brendan Painter will be getting ready to represent Team Vaive at the 2013-2014 All-Star and Top Prospects Game to be played Sunday, Dec. 29th at 1:30, at the Vale Centre in Port Colborne. Connor Murphy, will be playing in the Top Prospects game later on in the afternoon .

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Friday night, they downed the Fort Erie Meteors 4-2.

Kyle Nixon opened the scoring at 3:58 on a

powerplay assisted by Connor Murphy and Matt Quilty. Thorold’s Kevin Lavoie and Joe Mitchel gave the Black Hawks a 2-1 lead heading into the second period.

That proved to be all the success the visitors would have as the Corvairs methodically picked apart the Black Hawks like a Christmas Turkey the rest of the way.

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Brier Jonathan tied the game at 2-2 halfway through the second period assisted by Cody Brown and Connor Murphy. Then, at 13:57, Jeffrey Malott provided what would stand as the game winner. Scott Dorian and Jordan Peacock assisted.

Malott notched his second goal of the game at 2:49 assisted by Todd Ratchford and Cody

Brown. Peacock and Patton contributed with third period goals as well for the 6-2 final. Colin Furlong recorded the win in the Caledonia net.

The Caledonia Pro-Fit Corvairs added another win to the column Friday night in the first game of a two-night-stand at the Haldimand Centre Arena in Caledonia. The visiting 7-20-4, Fort Erie Meteors put up a reasonable effort but went home on a quiet bus after losing a 4-2 decision.

The Corvairs took a 1-0 lead after the first period with Star of the game, Kyler Nixon putting away a powerplay goal at 10:44 assisted by Jayme Forslund and Cody Brown.

Matt Quilted made it 2-0 from Spencer Gourlay and Nixon at 4:36 of

the second period before penalty problems let the Meteors into the game at 5:51 on a powerplay marker scored by Braden Kavaratzis.

Cody Brown popped in a powerplay goal at 10:24 assisted by Nixon and Quilty.

With the score 3-1 after two periods, Nixon notched his second goal and his fourth point of the game on a powerplay from Quilty and Connor Murphy a little over a minute into the third period.

With a two man advantage due to penalties assessed to goalie Colin Furlong for slashing and a bench minor to coach Mike Bullard, Fort Erie got its second of the game at 7:14, for the final 4-2 score in Caledonia’s favour.

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Obituaries

Obituaries

In Memoriam

DECEMBER 25TH, 2013

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In Memoriam

Thomas Arnold Williams -

GRANDPA HOOD-DECEMBER 27, 2011

August 18, 1959-December 17, 2013

I never ask for miracles But today just one will do To see the front door open and See our grandpa walk through.

Dear Lord up above, give Grandpa our love Hug him and kiss him and tell him we love him and that we are always thinking of him.

Tom, beloved husband of Susan; dear father of Gilbert (Jody); special grandfather of Josh, Gemma and Jewelia; Medicine friend of Becky, and Sam, has gone home to the Creator.

Tom fought a long brave battle and will be greatly missed by his mother Janice; sisters, Cindy, Arlene, Darlene and Sharon; brothers Duane, Richard, Paul, Jeff and Greg. He will be missed by his brothers and sisters-in-law, several nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews and many aunts and uncles. He is predeceased by his father Lester Williams and step-father Warren Greene, grandparents Enos and Gladys Williams and Gilbert and Mabel (Issacs) Thomas and uncle Edward Thomas.

Tom rested at 3514 Sixth Line Road after 5 pm Wednesday December 18, 2013. Funeral Service was held at Onondaga Longhouse, Friday December 20, 2013 at 11 am. www.rhbanderson.com

In Memoriam

In Memoriam

HILL: FRANK (HOOD) In memory of a loving husband Who passed away December 27, 2011 May the winds of love blow softly And whisper so you’ll hear.

I will always love you and miss you And wish that you were here.

My thoughts are ever with you Though you have passed away And those who loved you dearly Think of you each day.

Missed and forever loved, Wife Marge

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On December 27th, 2011 a loving father, grandfather and great-grandfather left this earth. Our memories are all we have left of him to cherish for the rest of our days.

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HILL: FRANK (HOOD) In memory of our father, grandfather, and great grandfather who was taken from us December 27, 2011.

We hold you close within our hearts And there you shall remain.

To walk with us throughout our lives, Until we meet again.

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CLUES ACROSS 1. Lawyer disqualification 7. Filled in harbor 13. Die 14. Expected 16. As in 17. Squares puzzle 19. Of I 20. Small depressions 22. Cambridgeshire Cathedral 23. Layout and furnishings 25. Sandhill crane genus 26. Challenges 28. A widow’s self-immolation 29. Earth System Model (abbr.)

30. Sound unit 31. A teasing remark 33. Surrounded by 34. Distinctive elegance 36. Imperturbable 38. Gulf of, in the Aegean 40. Ice mountains 41. Rubs out 43. German writer Weber 44. Tub 45. Digital audiotape 47. UC Berkeley 48. Actress Farrow 51. Epic body of poetry 53. Weight unit 55. A mild oath 56. More infrequent 58. One point N of due W 59. More rational 60. Exclamation of surprise 61. Manual soil tiller 64. 24th state 65. Surveyor 67. About ground 69. Something beyond doubt 70. Add herbs or spices CLUES DOWN 1. Shelves 2. Max. medical unit 3. Religious orders 4. Blocks 5. Volcanic mountain in Japan 6. Close again

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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, some difficulty awaits you, but you are strong and fully capable of handling what’s coming your way. Maintain your composure and stick it out a little longer.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, this is your week to shine and let everyone at work know just how talented and devoted you are to the team. Enjoy the fanfare while you can get it.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 Distractions are lurking, Gemini, but you will still manage to get things done. Somehow you find the focus needed to muddle through all the work.

7. Clemens hero 8. -Jima 9. Rendered hog fat 10. Ocean ebbs 11. Spielberg blockbuster 12. Grade reducing 13. Shirk 15. Treats with contempt 18. Single Lens Reflex (abbr.)

21. Integer 24. Photographers 26. Lair 27. Female sibling 30. Supported a structure 32. German socialist August 35. Angeles, Alomos or Lobos 37. Ripe tomato color

Answers for December 25, 2013 Edition Crossword Puzzle

38. Indefinite small number 39. Wind River Res. peoples 42. A baglike structure 43. Flying mammal 46. In poor taste 47. Hosts film festival 49. Evansville Hockey team 50. Ohio tire town 52. Popeye cartoonist 54. Resource Based Economy (abbr.)

55. Hates, Scot.

57. Evaluate 59. Porzana carolina 62. Decay 63. Own (Scottish) 66. Atomic 29 68. Santa says X3

SUDOKU

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 Trust someone close to you with a few of your secrets, Cancer. Holding them in may only cause you grief in the long run. Don’t worry, your confidante will be supportive.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, an investment opportunity has piqued your interest. Until you sign over the funds, be sure to research everything thoroughly and call in some expert advice.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, you have a lot on your plate, but you can handle it on your own. If things are to get done, you will get them accomplished of your own accord, even if it takes longer.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 Some added confidence is all you need to get back on the right track, Libra. Things are bound to work out in your favor, especially when you put your mind to something.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, just when skepticism seems to be taking over, you will discover once in a while there are a few surprises with happy endings. Enjoy your good luck.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, though unusual, your behavior might seem perfectly reasonable to you. But unless you share your thoughts with others, they may wonder what is going on.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 Remember that words said in the heat of the moment will not soon be forgotten, Capricorn.

Don’t forget to employ some tact when discussing serious matters with loved ones.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, this week you will have to be very convincing if you want plans to go your way.

Brush up on your approach and give thought to exactly what it is you want to say.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 Take a few days to let your mind wander, Pisces.

You will probably find being a free spirit to be a refreshing break from the norm.

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