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The Mush Hole wins 5 Dora Mavor Moore Awards Santee Smith production tells the story of residential school in Canada STAFF REPORT

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TORONTO — Santee Smith’s new production ‘The Mush Hole’ scored at the 2020 Dora Mavor Moore Awards, taking 5 of the 6 nominations it received.

The Dora Mavor Moore Awards, produced by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA), celebrate excellence in Toronto’s performing arts sector for theatre, dance and opera.

The Mush Hole received the following awards in the Theatre For Young Audiences category: Outstanding Director - Santee Smith, Outstanding New Play - Santee Smith, Outstanding Production - Kaha:wi Dance Theatre / Young People’s Theatre, Outstanding Performance Ensemble Raelyn Metcalfe, Julianne Blackbird, Montana Summers, Jonathan Fisher, Santee Smith, Outstanding Projection Design: Ryan Webber, Shane Powless.

“The Dora Award honours heaped upon The Mush Hole are richly deserved. They demonstrate the emotional impact of this extraordinary work of theatre and dance.

Santee Smith and her

Kaha:wi Dance Theatre and Young People's Theatre were commended by their peers this week, winning 5 out of the 6 nods from the Dora Mavor Moore Awards for the production, The Mush Hole. The show, the most recent work by Santee Smith, tells the tale PHOTO BY KAHA:WI DANCE THEATRE of Indian Residential Schools in Canada.

collaborators bore with grace and courage the difficult role of embodying the trauma and the resilience of victims harmed by the Mohawk Technical School. The Mush Hole offers glimmers of hope despite the overwhelming shame associated with the history of Canada's Residential Schools.

We are very proud to have opened YPT's 54th season with this brave act of speaking truth,” says Allen MacInnis, Artistic Director, Young People's Theatre.

The term, ‘The Mush Hole’ is a reference to the nickname among residents of Six Nations for the former Mohawk Institute Residential School. It

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was the first residential school in Canada, after which all others were modelled and operated from 1828 to 1970. It served as an industrial boarding school for First Nations children from Six Nations, as well as other communities throughout Ontario and Quebec.

“For 142 years, the modus operandi of the school was to forcefully assimilate children into Euro-Christian society and sever the continuity of culture from parent to child. Canada’s first Prime Minister John A. MacDonald and Superintendent Duncan Campbell Scott were the main perpetrators of the residential school system. Students

experienced a range of abuses from sexual assault, food deprivation, and corporeal punishment at the hands of faculty and staff,” says a statement from KDT. “The Mush Hole reflects the realities of the Mohawk Institute Residential School experience and offers a way to open dialogue and to heal, through acknowledgement and honouring the spirit of Survivors and families that were impacted. The Mush Hole moves through the devastation of Residential School with grace and hope for transformation and release.

Opening a small window into the atrocities inflicted on thousands of

Indigenous children, it attempts to close the door on historical amnesia.

A haunting portrayal weaves through memories of Survivors, reliving traumas, school life, loss of culture, remembrance, returning to find each other and the lifting of shame. Residential School and the continuing institutionalized extermination of Indigenous lives and culture is an issue that affects all Canadians.”

The Mush Hole touring schedule has been impacted by COVID-19 but KDT says they are working to develop online materials for the production in partnership with the Woodland Cultural Centre.

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Elected Council, Cannabis Commission condemn illegal cannabis activity STAFF REPORT

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OHSWEKEN — Six Nations Elected Council and the community’s cannabis regulator issued a stern caution to community members Tuesday not to engage in illegal cannabis activity.

The statement says, “we believe it is important to highlight to the community that anyone willingly engaging in illegal activities in respect of cannabis is at risk of criminal and civil liability – and, more importantly, is endangering the health and safety of individuals in our community.”

Last Wednesday a collective of proposed cannabis business owners, the Six Nations People’s Cannabis Coalition, announced they would be opening cannabis retail locations illegally on July 1.

SNGR passed the Six Nations Cannabis Control Law in February 2019 and established a cannabis regulatory body, the Six Nations Cannabis Commission, in May 2019.

Last month, the cannabis regulator presented an update to SNGR outlining the pending legal framework is expected to open applications to cannabis producers this fall.

The coalition group says they are unhappy with the Commission’s timeline bringing legal cannabis retail activity open by fall 2021 and have decided to open illegally on July 1, bringing black market cannabis activity onto Six Nations.

Legal, regulated cannabis is routinely tested for over 96 pesticides, and other contaminants including mycotoxins and fungus — as well as bacteria like E.Coli and Streptococcus that can multiply during the curing process.

It is also tested for cross contamination with other substances like illicit drugs such as fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine.

In contrast, black market cannabis is not routinely tested for contaminants and is subject to being polluted with heavy metals or other illicit drug material which can severely impact human health.

The coalition group shared a proposed interim framework for cannabis activity online but did not disclose what health and safety guidelines participants are being held to, nor any proposed enforcement action to protect consumers, business owners or the community at large.

A recent connection to black market cannabis hit home on Six Nations earlier this month when an organized crime ring was busted by OPP and Six Nations Police, hauling in $2.5 million dollars in illicit cannabis products, along with 1.14 kilograms of cocaine, 10.2 kilograms of Piperidone, 1.3 kilograms of fentanyl, and $236,750 in CAD currency.

Cigarettes and vehicles were also seized in the raid. Two Six Nations men are facing charges as part of the two year investigation into organized crime stretching from Toronto, all the way to Montreal and Vancouver. A total of 16 people were charged.

The Six Nations Cannabis Commission issued a letter to the community on June 17 addressing the link between illicit

cannabis on the territory to organized crime, saying, “This is a case in point to why the development of a regulatory framework for the cannabis industry within our community is necessary. We must combat illegal activity and protect the community from organized crime.

Our framework will include comprehensive background checks on all potential applicants, including their associates.”

Six Nations Police issued a statement ahead of legalization in 2018 affirming that they will be enforcing the Cannabis Act in the community and again in 2019 when edible products became legalized in Canada.

“Strict Federal Safety and Quality Regulations protect public health and community safety. As such, retailers currently selling CBD oil or other cannabis-based products in their stores are required to immediately cease the sale of these products. The Six Nations Police Service will continue to act by enforcing and prosecuting those involved in this illegal activity,” said SNP.

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OHSWEKEN — Work is now underway to close the Six Nations Landfill Site for good and transition trash collection at the new Transfer Station.

SNGR says clay soil loads will be brought into the landfill site to tamp down the old landfill space. Details on the soil being brought in to complete the closure were issued in a publicly accessible online folder.

“We will be continuing

to test the soil every 5,000 cubic meters and posting them for the community to view at the same link,” said SNGR. Hauling of the soil will be complete by the end of August and will only be taking place from Monday to Friday between the hours of 7AM to 5PM. All trucks will be labelled with the A6N logo and will follow strict hauling routes from Highway 6, down Fourth Line to the Six Nations Landfill Site.

SNGR says the transfer station will be open in early July.

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'No celebrations': Canada Day frustrations munity that loves to come together and celebrate things but Canada Day is not one of those things I remember bringing the community together,'' she said in an interview.

Canada Day comes this year as Indigenous Peoples absorb reports of confrontations between the police and Aboriginal people, as well as accusations of systemic racism in British Columbia's health-care system.

Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, the director of the University of British

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VANCOUVER — Jess Housty can't remember the last time Canada Day was celebrated in the Heiltsuk Nation.

Housty lives in the coastal B.C. town of Bella Bella where the Heiltsuk Nation is known for its efforts to help conserve and protect the Great Bear Rainforest. ``I can recall a lot of celebrations here, we're a com-

Columbia's Residential School History and Dialogue Centre, has been appointed by the provincial government to investigate accusations that some B.C. emergency room staff played a game to guess the blood-alcohol levels of Indigenous patients.

She said Celebrations like Canada Day, Victoria Day and St-Jean-Baptiste Day are symbols of colonialism.

Canada Day also comes after recent anti-pipeline protests by First Nations and the Black Lives Matter

movement, which adds to the complexity of the national celebration, she said.

Housty said she would also like to see a greater recognition of what Indigenous communities are facing. ``I don't think we can say everyone in Canada has grappled with the reality of what systemic racism is in this country,'' she said. ``The fact that it isn't historical, it's something that is alive and present and a lived reality for people around us.''

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A star from Moosonee has been found

The Darren Ross Agency of Six Nations has discovered new talent after hundreds of submissions for a national contest were submitted. Deanne Rose Moore (above) is a R&B Soul singer from Moosonee Ontario and her announcement video on YouTube garPHOTO OBTAINED BY TRT nered over 25,000 views.

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Six Nations based The Darren Ross Agency & Jukasa Studios led a 2 Month National search for Canada's Next Top Indigenous Superstar and have found a winner.

The talent search reached over 100,000 people across Canada on social media platforms and received hundreds of submissions.

In the end, Deanne Rose Moore of Moosonee, ON

was the winner. She is a R&B Soul singer and the Announcement Video on Youtube has over 25,000 views.

The Winner will be flown in & travel to Jukasa Studios to write & record a song with some of Canada's top music industry professionals. From Musicians, to engineers and the song will be released to Major Canadian Radio and Globally Online.

The New Single will start production in August 2020 and hope for an early 2021 Release.

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As human beings, we have a tendency to get our minds stuck on a oneway track. Consumed and obsessed when equipped with a new way of thinking, sometimes we can find ourselves forgetting about all the earlier lessons we learned on the way to learning a new way.

When we find ourselves in a new frame of mind, it doesn’t mean that we should totally disregard all the smaller steps that we took on the way to making a bigger leap. The little steps are equally as important to rememberand they are responsible for making up a large portion of who we become as emotional and spiritual thinkers.

Think about it this way: if you were training for a marathon, and practiced day in and day out until

you could finally finish the entirety of the run without stopping, would you stop training? Would you stop stretching and running and conditioning your body for the challenge if you successfully completed the marathon once?

Our brains and hearts are muscles and organs just like any other part of our body, yet they hold more magical powers; more mysticism that we as mere worldly humans couldn’t possibly comprehend. These muscles need to be exercised, massaged, and continually trained so as not to lose their strength.

A spiritual and enlightened journey is one that never really ends. It's something very temperamental, and if neglected or not taken seriously can lead you back to an emotional square one before you can even blink. Much like a language, if you don’t use it…you lose it.

The most important way to practice and nour-

ish our spiritual journeys is to encourage and take care of our relationships.

We must never drop the ball on our connections and relationships to the physical and spiritual things around us, and always tend to our relationship with the universe.

We are connected to all the life force around us- all as one working unit. With this in mind, it is easy to find similarities between humankind and other living things in the natural world we live in.

As I contemplate my own journey of growth, I can’t help but see the parallels between my own spirit’s determinations of bearing fruit and that of a tree or plant.

It is in our DNA to grow, to thrive, and to produce… just like a plant knows it is meant to grow.

As a gardener, it is common to trim your plants to encourage more growth- more fruit. If you simply clip the young leaves or pluck its fruit, it

encourages the plant to produce more. The plant has succeeded in what it knows it was meant to dobear fruit. As we collect its harvest it is encouraged to keep existing and producing for the purpose to provide.

Much like a plant, we also need to metaphorically trim our leaves and harvest our fruits in order to grow bigger and stronger, and be the best we can be.

We need to continue learning and continue practicing the things which we have already learned. Spiritual enlightenment is a never-ending journey, happiness is an ever-changing lesson.

Continue pruning yourself, and trimming your ideas to make room for more knowledge and growth. Your leaves will reach further for the sun, and your fruit will be juicier and more plentiful if you tend to the ever-growing living spirit within you.

By TRT Staff ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A criminal mischief charge has been dismissed against a journalist who was covering an Indigenous-led occupation at the Muskrat Falls work site in Labrador nearly four years ago.

A Crown lawyer told a Newfoundland and Labrador provincial court judge Tuesday that evidence would not be called in Justin Brake's case, which his lawyer Geoff Budden said was set for trial in July.

It marks the end of a years-long legal battle for Brake, who faced civil and criminal charges after he entered the Muskrat Falls site in October 2016.

People had entered the site to protest potential contamination of wild foods once the land was flooded for a reservoir, and Brake was reporting on the event for online news outlet The Independent.

He was later charged with civil and criminal contempt of a court-ordered injunction and with criminal mischief over $5,000 for alleged financial losses to

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In March 2019, provincial Appeal Court Justice Derek Green dismissed the civil charge, writing in his decision that Brake had established himself as a journalist and his actions did not fall within the injunction's scope.

Green's written decision also addressed the ``vital'' importance of press freedom when covering Indigenous-led land protests.

After Green's decision, the Crown dropped the criminal contempt charge but had planned to continue with the criminal mischief charge until reversing course this week.

Budden said the result was a relief for Brake after years battling the charges.

He said the Crown came to the right decision by concluding it was not in the interest of justice to proceed with a trial that would have taken up court time and other resources. ``It's really in the interest of everyone, not just our client but of the community generally, that it was dealt with in the way it was today,'' Budden said Tuesday.

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Thunder Woman Speaks: Canada created the Indian Act

By Rachel A. Snow Canada’s Indigenous constantly battle. They battle the pandemic, poverty, racism, targeted police attacks, different levels of government oppression and their own reserve “leadership”.

Sadly Canadians receive one-sided political messaging from mainstream media. They are not privy to information at the grassroots level.

Canadians understand that there are elections on reserve. Canadians think that reserve governments function the same as they do comparable to municipalities, regional or national bodies. Canadians do not understand that Indigenous governance prior to contact was different. Leaders were raised or mentored from childhood. The most humble or kindest child was mentored by the community and prepared for leadership.

Newcomer settlers herded Indians onto reserves. Canada wrote and implemented the Indian Act and sent Indian agents as overseers to reserves. The pass system restricted movement.

Controlling measures placed children in abusive residential schools breaking the family, clan and extended family units.

Indians were caged and starved. Broken families completed the breakdown of a centuries old transparent and mentored system.

Indian Agents lorded over hereditary leaders, cherry or apple picking more amenable “leaders” in the community.

It was at this point that leadership learned to get

something from the oppressors, it was necessary to “go along”. Almost 130 years later, this messaging has not changed.

Non-indigenous Canadians do not understand that a population on reserve is fixed. The pool of voters remains the same.

There is little to no movement to live off reserve and there have been court cases such as Corbiere that state off reserve band members must be allowed to vote. Therefore one large family or a set of large families can control the vote on reserve. Leadership then controls the council and the budgets, jobs, housing or renovation allocations, education funding and access to health or health dollars on reserve. People on reserve know this truth: if you are not family or worse if you have questioned leadership then you can be targeted for years.

What is it like to live without access to basic rights? What is it like to live without recourse?

When people on reserve attempt to bring attention to their hardship, Indian Affairs lobs this back to the band as an internal or policy issue.

Indian Band councils under Indian Affairs elections can be challenged and there have been successful chiefs or councillors, seeking changes, who have managed to get elected. Indian Affairs will then step in impeding the chiefs or leaders who want to make change for the betterment of “all” their people. Indian Affairs prefers that chiefs and councils appear to Canadians as the leaders of their communities,

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not extensions of their departments.

Federal government control has continued its termination or assimilation agenda. Indian Affairs does host meetings or dialogues, carefully constructed to front that Indigenous First Nation voices are being heard.

What Indian Affairs does not say is that they have selected the kind of voices they want at the table to hear their own careful messages parroted back in Indigenous voices.

Currently, the Assembly of First Nations leads in parroting back Indian Affairs assimilatory policies or legislation.

“Go along” to stay alive.

The harsh lesson of survival has impacted First Nations. The carefully mentored First Nation leaders taught selflessness and love for all their people, lands and waters have all but disappeared.

In their place are hardened survivors who speak rhetoric while governing with tyrannical methods to remain in power. Opposition is not allowed.

There are constant reports on injustices on reserve happening. Basic needs, including access to a home or water are not being met. Relatives of council or council members receive the limited housing allocations or renovations year after year. This happens on reserve. Basic needs are not met. “Awareness of this hardship”, lead Canada to brilliantly bring human rights laws onto reserve. (applause) Colonized view – this is wonderful, we now have alternative laws to utilize.

Indigenous thinking view- this is dangerous

because at its core, this move undermines the authority and autonomy of chiefs and councils (such as they are) in our communities.

Why does human rights legislation have to apply on reserve? Why to right the wrongs that are happening to the poor Indians. (This is stated from some pearl clutching Indian Affairs representative) Why are these wrongs happening to the “poor” Indians? Well because Indian Affairs has allowed, promoted and sheltered actual Indian agents masquerading as “leaders” who are breaking their original caretaking roles for the people or lands. It is all to the good though.

Indian affairs compromised councils are far better suited to assist in signing agreements for money without understanding that will eventually lead to termination of “special rights”.

Indian Affairs and the federal government created the problem. They interfered in the original governance systems that would see the original people working together, protecting their lands, languages, ceremonies, and retaining their commitment to steward all life.

Is it not far, far better for these Indians to progress and compete with each other? Is it not better to make spiritual spaces into property?

Is it not better to lose languages and speak with ten dollar whiteman words?

Is it not better to leave behind these powerful but obviously “evil” ceremonies and become ca-

sual Christians at church once a week instead of following a spiritual every moment relationship?

Is it not better to teach these Indians that money is God, that progress and ripping up the earth and waters for the corporate few is more important that trying to retain the delicate balance that keeps life going?

Indian Act councils have used band monies to force out councillors who are trying to uphold codes of conduct or transparency to the people. Indian Affairs does nothing.

Councillors or regular band members who act as whistleblowers may get some Indigenous media coverage but the misuse of funds or misspending are known to Indian Affairs. Indian Affairs counts on this corruption.

If Indian Act councils are too busy taking for themselves then treaty or inherent rights can be legislated away. If Indian Act councils are elected based on families voting in families, then inept councils keep their free ride going while losing for all their people.

This is and has been the end goal of every federal or provincial government. They are the land and resource thieves. It is better to have Indian “leadership” assisting the thefts so that the Indian problem finally dies its final death. We are to terminate or assimilate.

Indian Affairs control of all facets of First Nation Indigenous life through their Indian agent councils and are pushing this agenda. Do you know what your council is doing?

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The day Canada was made legal

By Thohahoken Doxtater "If it wasn't for your people Canada would not be a nation today," said the late-Sylvannus General, last of the old time Mohawk Workers (Kanienkehaka Ratiiotens).

He was the brother of Emily C. General and a contemporary of Iroquois founders of the Mohawk Workers and Indian Defense League of America (IDLA) such as Sophie Martin and Clinton Rickard in the early 1900s.

Sylvannus referred to an event that took place between the Queen of England and the Mohawk People in Brantford, Ontario on October 1, 1869. On this day at the Mohawk Chapel in Brantford the Iroquois People (Wisk Nihohnnowentsiake) made Canada legal.

Here's how Canada became a nation as Sylvannus General said.

By custom the Iroquois people hold an important role among the Indigenous peoples of North America.

The Mohawk people were usually the first to tell Europeans how things worked over here. The best way they knew was to describe the entire continent as one Long House.

"Where the sun rises is the eastern door," the Old Ones would say," and where the sun sets is the western door. The blue sky over our heads is the roof, and living in that long house is one family."

The depiction of the Long House meant that Indian people (Onkwehonwe) considered themselves to be One Family, the origin of the idea "all my relations" (akwekon akenkweten).

Iroquois people have many customs for helping each other cope with changes. For example, some time in the future the law changes or a new "rafter" seems to be good or needed. The wanted change will be decided by the People and called "adding (moving) the rafters" (the Old Ones would say: "... enkaka'enionke tahnon tokat eniohetston, ne'e enthonwanatonkkwe' "thikate sontewanahsaren").

Moving or "extending the rafters" included not only making the Long House bigger, but also adding to the family. When an Iroquois family or person thought

highly or strongly of someone, a family, or families and wanted to adopt them, they took the matter to their Chief to confirm to the other clan families (the Old Ones would say: "... etho niienhatiriwenhawe tsi nonwe enthatika'enion ne Rotiianer tahnon onen ok tsi enthatiriwahnnirate tahnon enhonnohetse ne Rotiianer").

Adoption and "extending" the rafters in the Great Law (Kaiianereserakowa) gives Iroquois people a model for other Indigenous peoples living in the continent-wide Long House, but also is a colour-blind model that was reportedly used for Europeans since the 1600s. The model was also used in the creation of Canada.

In 1867 the British Crown enacted legislation called the British North America Act (BNA) that formed colonies north of the medicine line (the border created in 1760 by the Iroquois to separate the English and French) into the Dominion of Canada.

However, Queen Victoria understood that the preemptive right of the Indigenous people needed to be included. Conferring membership on the Iroquois People in the British Commonwealth in the late 1800s demonstrated the lofty position she accepted.

So, Queen Victoria sent her son Prince Arthur the Duke of Connaught to the Iroquois people near Brantford, Ontario at Her Majesty's Chapel.

On that Friday the 19-year-old Prince was given the condolence ceremony by Chief John Buck, made a chief (Rotiianer), and was adopted into the Long House with the name "Kar-a-kow-dye" which is the Mohawk wolf clan name Karakontie.

It was on that day Canada was added as a rafter to the Long House of Many Relations and became legal.

Usually when Iroquois people hear the Mohawk Workers tell the story the Old Ones are accused of making a mistake. However, the story of how the Iroquois people made Canada has many subtleties that help us understand that 150 years ago the Old Ones had a strong sense of their Indigenous international rights as a People. Adding

the Canadian rafter meant adopting a man to be their chief. This custom began in the 1600s with the Dutch and was repeated in 1869.

But it didn't end there.

In 1913 Arthur was given the condolence ceremony again at the Old Council House on the Six Nations Indian Reserve 30 kilometers from Brantford because his mother Victoria had died since he'd been there in 1869. The difference in 1913 was that he was Governor General of Canada.

And it didn't end there.

After World War I when Iroquois people had again kept their Two Row Treaty promise to the Crown for "mutual defense", Prince Edward was also given the condolence ceremony. Addressed by Asa Hill, Prince Edward was adopted by David John at Victoria Park in Brantford. The throng gathered there witnessed the Canadian rafter's new chief named Taionhense'iah (spelled "da-yon-hen-se-ia" at the time).

Taionhense'iah became known around the world as King Edward VIII. Why did they do this?

Was it their chance to be in the spotlights--their 15minutes of fame? Were they grabbing at something from back in the day?

The Old Ones knew their place in the world as a People. They had stated the Two Row Treaty for all land in North America. Sitting on the Two Row is the Gunshot Treaty to regulate European travel. Sitting on the Two Row is the 1701 Nanfan Treaty that covers the 320,000 square-mile economic zone now known as the Great Lakes watershed.

And lastly the Haldimand proclamation treaty covers all of southern Ontario from the Niagara escarpment and the land between lakes Erie, Huron, and Ontario--the Grand River valley set-aside specifically for the Iroquois. The 1701 Treaty of Montreal provides the land base for the Laurentian Iroquois—the Mohawks of Kanehsatake, Akwesasne and Kahnawake.

The Old Ones did not make a mistake. They knew precisely what they were doing. Here’s what they did on behalf of all Indigenous People.

Canada’s rafter was raised inside the Long House of Many Relations

when the Iroquois told the Crown “we stood you up in our land”: Iakorakowa… ionkiiari Wisk Nihohnnowentsiake ahensenonni atewatiteshstohn nera ohnwentsiate.” The agreement would last “as the long as the sun rises, the grass grows and the waters flow” (the Old Ones say: “… tsi nikariwes enkahhwatsiratatie tahnon entkarakwinekenseke, ohente entkeniohseke, nok ohnekanos konnes…”).

The Long House is governed by the Indigenous peoples’ law-of-the-land from coast to coast, which means so is Canada. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) certainly affirms that pre-emptive right that was long acknowledged in international law. With this certainly in mind according to Sylvannus General, on June 21, 1880 the Iroquois chiefs near current day Brantford, Ontario adopted the Indian Act to brace the Canada rafter to the other rafters in the Long House—from the Miqmaq rafter in the east to the Haida rafter in the west.

Canada formally became a legal nation.

Anything created by Canada is under the Indigenous people, including the Indian Act and by consequence the Band Councils. There might be a billion Canadians but the Canadian rafter has only one voice. There might only be a thousand Abenakis, but they also have one voice.

Each rafter has one voice no matter how big or small.

What happens when someone acts badly, such as Canada’s refusal to uphold the honour of the Crown?

If an adoptee acts badly the Old Ones gave their children another option. When the adopted individual, family, or nation misbehaves they can always be expelled.

The People could disown and remove the adoption (…onenkati sakwatka’we nok oni saiiakwarihsi tsi ionkwatekwe’tarakwenh, tahnon kati sewathahisaks ka’niiaonsesewe…).”

Indigenous Peoples have an international right to assert their Indigenous rights in their land. Indigenous leadership has a great responsibility to protect those Indigenous rights using the same thinking shown by the Old Ones--Canada is our country.

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All Nations flag raised in Kitchener

By Cory Bilyea KITCHENER – The All-Nations flag has been raised at the O:se Kenhionhata:tie camp as a small group of Indigenous People “gather in the Great Peace to celebrate, learn, and advance in our culture.

They represent several nations living under the peace of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum, and the Two Row Wampum,” according to their Facebook page.

What began on National Indigenous Day, June 21, has now attracted the attention of mainstream media and the mayors of Kitchener and Waterloo, Berry Vrbanovic, and Dave Jaworsky.

The camp is now a proper gathering space, with food tents, cooking supplies, and access to washroom facilities.

Moving forward the organizers are creating plans for cultural activities and learning opportunities for the local Indigenous community.

It will remain at Victoria Park until another land base more suitable is given back to the people, never to be taken away or charged fees for.

This will allow them to enlarge the community garden projects, erect permanent teaching lodges, sweat lodges, and other traditional activities that can be held, that are paramount to the healing of the people.

The Ontario Human Rights Commission has a specific creed and human rights for Indigenous peoples which include the following.

Indigenous peoples in Ontario continue to face major barriers practicing spiritual traditions.

This has sometimes been because people do not understand Indigenous Spirituality as a whole way of life, and as a result, don't recognize and accommodate Indigenous Spirituality in its diverse forms and expressions.

Also, attitudes and institutional practices of the colonial past continue to affect us today.

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights

of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is an international instrument adopted by the United Nations on September 13, 2007, to enshrine (according to Article 43) the rights that "constitute the minimum standards for the survival, dignity, and well-being of the indigenous peoples of the world."

UNDRIP protects collective rights that may not be addressed in other human rights charters that emphasize individual rights, and it also safeguards the individual rights of Indigenous people.

The Declaration is the product of almost 25 years of deliberation by U.N. member states and Indigenous groups.

Article 11 of this declaration says “Indigenous peoples have the right to practise and revitalize their cultural traditions and customs.

This includes the right to maintain, protect and develop the past, present and future manifestations of their cultures, such as archaeological and historical sites, artifacts, designs, ceremonies, technologies and visual and performing arts and literature.”

Victoria Park is part of the Haldimand Treaty and is also a traditional gathering, trading, feasting, and ceremonial site of the Chinnonton, the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinaabe nations.

The second part of article 11 says, “States shall provide redress through effective mechanisms, which may include restitution, developed in conjunction with indigenous peoples, with respect to their cultural, intellectual, religious and spiritual property taken without their free, prior and informed consent or in violation of their laws, traditions, and customs.”

An excerpt from the Haudenosaunee Confederacy’s website says, “Perhaps the most notable part of Haudenosaunee culture is the spirituality, seen through expressions of thanks for all we have and hope to have, which is shared among the nations.

Spirituality is a central

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All Nations flag raised in Kitchener continued from 7 part of the lives of the Haudenosaunee people but parallel to this is respect for other religions.

The Great Law of Peace itself was built into it, freedom of religion, which is respected by all its followers.

The nations of the Haudenosaunee believe that we borrow the earth from our children’s children and it is our duty to protect it and the culture for future generations. All decisions made now are made with the future generations, who will inherit the earth, in mind.”

Similarly, the Anishinaabe, the Cree, the Metis, and the hundreds of other Indigenous Nations have teachings and beliefs that are parallel to each other.

An excerpt from Ojibway Teachings – An Ojibway peoples resource says, “The teachings in the Ojibwe culture have been traditionally passed down from generation to generation orally through stories and ceremonies.

Historically, this has been done by the elders that carry the stories and traditions.

Today, oral traditions are being shared by those who carry the knowledge of such things.

The teachings of all Aboriginal cultures encompass the morals, values, structures, ceremonial practices, spiritual beliefs of the group. These teachings also ensured the survival of the people.

For the Ojibwe people, the teachings vary from nation to nation, because of the geographical placement of each particular group.

However, the Ojibwe teachings commonly come from the same root and share a similar message.”

The camp in Kitchener has grown to around 15 people throughout the week since it began and they will be hosting a gathering on July 1, as a day of mourning for what has been taken.

Their Facebook page

says, “This is not a day of celebration. This day is a reminder of what was taken from us. We are NOT Canadians. We are INDIGENOUS! Please join us throughout the day for singing, dancing, and speakers.”

A small garden was planted, as planting and harvesting are traditional methods of teaching with all First Nations, and is an incredibly important topic of the conversations happening right now. Food sovereignty is a great tool to have to help heal the people.

Currently, the mayors, Vrbanovic, and Jaworsky are reading the Declaration (UNDRIP) and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report, which they admitted to the camp during their visit, they had not read completely.

Vrbanovic vows he will make the necessary changes and provide space for the Indigenous people in the Waterloo region.

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ANTIGONISH, N.S. — Movie stars Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively are donating $200,000 to an institute at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia to help promote Indigenous women's leadership.

A release says the donation by the Hollywood couple is to kick-start the Coady Institute's goal of raising $1 million for its International Centre for Women's Leadership and the centre's Indigenous programming.

Reynolds is a Canadian actor who has starred in films such as ``Deadpool'' and ``Green Lantern,'' while his spouse Blake Lively is an American film actor whose credits include ``Green Lantern'' and ``A Simple Favor.''

In a statement issued through the university, Reynolds said he and Lively are proud to be

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively donated $200,000 for a womPHOTO OBTAINED BY TRT en`s program.

associated with the Coady Institute. ``The world's changing quickly, and one thing we're sure of is that communities are best led from within,'' Reynolds said. ``Indigenous women are the leaders who will develop and implement approaches to increase social capital of their own communities, organizations and nations.''

Karri-Lynn Paul, the lead facilitator of the

Indigenous women in community leadership program and one of its graduates, says a group of mentors and graduates from the past 10 years is examining ways to develop the program at the institute in Antigonish.

The institute is aiming to expand its offerings of leadership programs across the country for First Nations, Metis and Inuit women leaders.

Paul, a Maliseet from

the Woodstock First Nation in New Brunswick, said the program currently lasts five months and the institute is testing shorter, one-week courses based in Indigenous communities.

She says the expansion of the one-week programs in communities around the country is a particular priority. ``For many Indigenous women, there is a lot of work to do caring for our communities,'' Paul said, and travelling to the Nova Scotia campus for several weeks is not always feasible.

Paul said she came to St. Francis Xavier as a new mother to take the program in 2011, and it funded her mother to provide child care while she was studying.

She interviewed female chiefs and councillors in Maliseet communities for her study project, preparing a paper, a documentary and a website to showcase their stories.

Paul said when stu-

dents come to Antigonish, they typically spend several weeks on the campus learning about their leadership strengths and areas they need to work on.

From this stage, the students study how to build up their home communities. The students then spend three months in the community working on a project.

Paul, who is now based in Calgary, said the projects range widely, from a recent one in Vancouver that helped women learn safety and self-protection skills to another in rural Ontario that surveyed women on the most urgent needs of their island reserve. ``The projects are an opportunity for the women to showcase their leadership, and to lift them up,'' said Paul.

Graduates have gone on to become leaders on band councils and, in one case, a member of the legislative assembly in Nunavut, Paul said. Many carry on to undergraduate

and graduate level university programs.

Paul said Marie Delorme, an adviser to the Coady Institute and chief executive of the Imagination Group of Companies, met Reynolds and recommended some potential ways for him to provide philanthropic support to Canadian Indigenous communities. ``He did some research on the programs she recommended, and he chose Coady,'' Paul said. ``Reynolds supports Black Lives Matter, but he also said, 'I need to look to my own country and what's going on there.' '' Eileen Alma, director of Coady's International Centre for Women's Leadership, says the actors' commitment to learning more about Indigenous issues has been energizing to the Coady Institute. ``They have added a tremendous boost to our effort to amplify Indigenous women's voices locally and globally,'' she said.

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The Avro Arrow was almost resurrected 60 years after it was designed JIM WINDLE

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OTTAWA — The cold war was getting hotter every week in the late 1950’s.

The western world was ramping up production of some of the most lethal weapons and delivery systems ever created. With the USA and Great Britain competing with the Soviet Union (Russia) in a technological war, Canada was hardly expected to create what many say was the most advanced fighter jet in the world.

The A.V. Row Company’s Avro Arrow was the result and has since been called the best fighter bomber or its day, matching or even bettering test results of the current F-35.

Fred Smyth headed up the project by gathering the best scientists and aeronautical engineers in Canada into a team that ended up making history.

The official name was the CF 105.

Avro had already built the CF 100 Constellation, a jet liner which had advanced the future of jet

travel as both a bomber platform in war as well as a passenger liner in peace.

Britain had purchased a number of them, however a mid-air collision of Scandinavian Airlines System’s Douglas DC-6 and an Avro Aircraft in 1948, resulted in 39 lives lost. This highly publicized crash caused Britain to rethink its dealings with the A.V. Row Company. Many other countries followed suit, putting the company in dire straights.

But designers had already begun work on the Arrow and research and development continued.

The USA was looking for a replacement for its aging jet crafts and Canada, it appeared, had the inside track for selling 700 Avro Arrows to the States. That, along with a substantial number of Arrows ordered by Britain with other countries lining up.

The Korean War showed the western alliances need for a counter to the Russian built MIG jet fighter and Canada’s A.V. Row had the answer in the Arrow.

But unfortunate cancellations of major parts,

including its original Rolls-Royce jet engines, forced Avro to seek another manufacturer, which they found with Pratt and Whitney, but it too was shelved after unimpressive test flights.

That forced Avro designers to start work on its own engine which they called the Iroquois. It was an immediate success, expanding the range, speed, and fuel consumption dramatically. It was a perfect marriage technologies.

The first test model rolled out of the hanger in 1959 to be flown by a carefully selected flight team of test pilots including two Polish Airforce pilots who took it for a 35 minute spin, doing maneuvers impossible to accomplish with its competitors.

It was big, at 51.4 ft. It was beautiful, shinning white on the tarmac. It was faster than anything in the sky, tough as nails and it was all-Canadian.

Five test Arrows were built and three were flown for military buyers to see the Arrow make its long awaited debut and take wing for the first time. It

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Large by most fighter-bomber standards, it was a delta wing design and could carry a heavy payload as well as rockets fired from under its wings if necessary. But the biggest advantage was its speed. While reaching the sound barrier was big news with other manufacturers at that time, the Arrow was easily capable of reaching just shy of Mach 2, twice the speed of sound.

So what went wrong?

Looking back, it seemed to have been a perfect storm of politics, production delays, cost overages and the advent of missiles and long-range rockets. Some military strategists even claimed the Avro Arrow was obsolete before it was even to be sent into full production.

Louis St. Laurent was the Liberal Prime Minister when the Arrow project began and supported its development, ordering 37 Arrows equipped with Iroquois engines at a cost of $8-$10 million each.

The Conservatives won the 1957 election and things changed for the Arrow. John Diefenbaker was the new man in charge.

The fiscal promises he made during his campaign included tightening the belt on military spending.

By the end of 1959, it was all over.

Problems with the engine orders and other important supplier cancellations delayed the completion of the Arrow significantly and by 1959, when the Arrow made its official debut, it was already deemed obsolete by important military brass in Britain and the USA. After the launch of Sputnik it was thought the days of the bomber were over.

War had changed with the advent of the ballistic rockets, capable of delivering multiple nuclear warheads and fly faster than any bomber. The Arrow was designed to counter Russian long distance bombers from over the North Pole or across the Atlantic. Keeping up with a possible volley of armed rockets would require speeds beyond even the Arrow’s capabilities.

The future was surface to air missiles.

With this in mind,

Diefenbaker cancelled Canada’s order and pulled development support from the project and on February 20th, 1959, 13,000 Avro employees lost their jobs as well as all the creative designs and innovative tooling created to build this unique aircraft. The US and Britain followed by cancelling their orders.

On orders from Ottawa, all five prototypes were cut up for scrap and sold to a Hamilton scrap dealer for 6.5 cents a pound. In total there was 67,000 pounds of scrap in all which brought in $4,255.

Britain still wanted to buy two Arrows to study its advances for their own program, but Canada refused to sell and scrapped every last one built.

But why were the advances in technology and design ordered to be destroyed as well? That has been a lingering question for 61-years since the world’s most advanced fighter-bomber was unceremoniously scrapped in a Hamilton scrap yard.

Years later, former Conservative federal minister Davis Rosen spoke of the decision to scrap the Arrow.

“It’s not something, in my view, one can be dogmatic about,” Rosen said in an interview.

“Regrettably, it was the right decision at the time.

I thought so then, and I think so now.”

The Americans offered Canada its new fighter, the Voodoo, plus its new Bomarc missile system in compensation at a cost much more palatable to the Conservatives. The Voodoo was a much inferior aircraft in many ways, including its distinctive stubby wings so it could deployed from an aircraft carrier.

Fortunately, some of the advanced design team disobeyed orders and kept blueprints and other research and testing materials hidden. With these papers, scientific and mechanical knowledge of the Arrow program, it was possible to resurrect the mighty Arrow.

It was even tabled at the war department that a new generation Arrow was possible at a fraction of the cost of those CF35’s.

What more, it would out-

perform the stealthy CF35 in almost every test.

When current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau eventually cancelled the F-35 order, rather than go back to the Arrow, Canada chose to buy used F-18’s from Australia instead.

How good was the Avro Arrow?

Canada had ordered what they called the 5th generation of CF35 Lightning at a cost of around $200 million each. Also on the table was a new, modernized version of the Avro Arrow using the original design as a base but expanding on it with today’s technology.

It was a gutsy plan, but the results of a direct paper comparisons made between the pending CF 35 and a modernized Arrow2, showed just how good the original Avro Arrow was and still can be.

In comparative studies of both planes, the 1959 Avro Arrow plus, or SuperArrow, and the 2019 CF 35 are startling.

The Arrow could fly twice the distance of a CF35 without refuelling, could fly at twice the speed of sound, and at 50,000 ft. or better. And it could carry a much bigger payload.

One historian called the cancellation of the Avro Arrow an act of political stupidity, while others point out that the cost of the project would have completely drained any funding for the Army and Navy for up to five years.

According to retired general A. McKenzie, “After 60-years, the Avro Arrow would still exceed today’s standards.”

Paul Hillier, Liberal Defence Minister said at the time, “We could have worked out something regarding the Arrow.” But it never was, and arguably the best warplane of 1959 and 2019 never made it to production.

A non-working replica of the Avro Arrow is now in a museum in Ottawa after being built as a prop for a movie about the famous cold war Canadian warplane. An actual working Iroquois engine is also in a museum after being located years after the project was cancelled and all its parts ordered destroyed.

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Baby Rabbit Nests: a close call turns into a successful rescue

By Jen MtPleasant About a month ago I was raking grass in my yard right after it was cut, when I came across what appeared to be a nest of baby bunnies.

Upon taking a closer look, sure enough, I seen two bunnies that looked only days old. The mother had dug a nest in the ground under a pile of brush. I removed the brush so that the lawn could be cut there, not realizing there was a nest.

The lawnmower left the nest almost completely destroyed. The sun was beating down on these babies, the mother was nowhere in sight, I panicked.

I remembered Hobbitstee Wildlife Refuge out near Nanticoke because I took several injured snapping turtles there last summer.

I got them on the phone and I explained the situation. Sent them pictures of the babies. They offered to take them in right away.

I thought I’d wait it out a day to see if the mother came back. I did some quick research and learned that I shouldn’t try and intervene too much. I rebuilt the nest as best I could in the exact same spot. This step is extremely important.

The nest should be in the exact spot or as close to the old nest as possible.

This little guy had a close call with a lawn mower but luckily his nest was safe and no baby bunnies were injured! They have grown PHOTO BY JEN MTPLEASANT and are now playing in the yard.

And that’s all I had to do.

I didn’t try feeding the babies because that would reduce their chance of survival and whatever formula you try and feed them can make them severely ill.

On top of all this, the forecast was calling for severe thunderstorms that night. I put a tarp over top of the nest I re-built with brush, sticks and dried grass. I left them in the same hole the mother had built for them. I was careful not to smother the babies or make it so fool proof that even the mother wouldn’t be able

to get to her babies. I left an opening where she could get in.

Mother rabbits only come to the nest once or twice during the night.

She won’t dare go in the day because she may attract prey. To best protect her babies and give them the best possible chance of survival, she’ll feed her babies at night. What she does is gently lay over top of the nest to feed. Then she will place grass and her own fur over top of the nest, being extra careful not to pack it down too hard. Her babies need to breathe.

Check on the babies in the morning for the first few days. I used a sock to pick them up so that I wouldn’t be leaving my scent on them. Mother rabbits will still care for their babies even with a human scent but it’s always best not to handle them. For the first few days, I went out and checked on them in the morning. If their bellies are sunken in, that means they haven’t been fed. If their little bellies are full, you know the mother has been going to feed them.

I checked on the babies for the first few days and found that mother rabbit was feeding them regularly. I continued to check on them periodically over the next two weeks. One morning I went out to check on them and they were gone. About a week later, one evening, I seen both bunnies, a bit bigger running around in my yard, chasing each other.

I thought, they’re old enough to be with their mom now.

If you ever have questions or concerns about wild baby animals and they do not appear to be starving, sick or in immediate danger, call Hobbitstee Wildlife Refuge and ask for advice. You can find them on Facebook.

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Arielle MacDonald “Excited” about being named Co-MVP for BCI Mustangs NEIL BECKER

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BCI Mustangs hockey player Arielle MacDonald couldn’t have asked for a better way to end what had been a thrilling high school hockey career.

Approximately four months after winning her second Brant County high school girls’ championship, MacDonald received the ultimate thrill as she was selected as the teams Co-MVP. “I was pretty excited to hear I got MVP my last year,” MacDonald said.

“Because it’s just so exciting to see that my coach recognized how much I tried to contribute to the team to make us better and to help lead us to a championship.” MacDonald went on to add, “I was really pretty excited about it because out of everybody on the team she chose me as an MVP so it just means a lot that she thought I deserved it.”

MacDonald, who shared that MVP award with teammate Emily Dejong, had a knack for coming through in the clutch.

This included back in late February when at the Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre this smooth skating defenceman had a goal and an assist in pacing the Mustangs to a 4-0 Brant County championship win against the St, John’s College Green Eagles.

Incredibly, this was the Mustangs sixth straight Brant County girls’ hockey championship.

“It’s always very exciting to put on the BCI blue and gold colors because it’s always a pleasure to be able to represent my school out on the ice doing the thing I love,” MacDonald said. “I would say maybe some games were competitive but most of the times we were clearly the dominant team and were winning a lot of our games.”

Providing tremendous leadership and determination, MacDonald and championships seem to go together as she also won Brant County as a Grade 9 player, and after this latest achievement, has won two in the two years she played high school hockey.

It wasn’t hard for MacDonald to come up with a favorite memory from this past season which she will always remember.

“My last game with BCI the championship,” she said. “I scored from the blue line bar down and that was a big moment for me because all the teachers that were there and all the fans went crazy and it really motivated the girls which ended up helping us get the victory.”

Another huge highlight MacDonald mentioned was playing in a Stratford tournament where the BCI team were riddled with injuries and played shorthanded.

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“We still managed to keep the game close,” MacDonald said. “Not to mention I got a lot of playing time and managed to score a couple of goals somehow so it was a pretty fun time.”

The feeling of winning never gets old for MacDonald who couldn’t contain her excitement when describing what emotions, she was feeling in helping her school win that sixth straight Brant County girls hockey championship.

“It’s always so exciting to win a school championship because knowing your bringing home a gold medal and trophy to your school is always an amazing feeling, not to mention the team we played realty had it out for us,” MacDonald said. “They did a lot of smack talk so beating someone who thinks they’re better than you is always great to do.”

Reflecting on what made the team so successful, MacDonald was very candid as she stated, “Throughout the season I think we learned how to play with everybody really good considering none of us played together on a hockey team and some of us didn’t even play hockey.

We managed to become a hockey team in the end and bring home the gold.”

Next season this CoMVP will be playing at Concordia University.

Habs goalie Carey Price skeptical about NHL return NEIL BECKER

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Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price knows all too well the dangers associated with the COVID19 pandemic.

Recently, Price got a first- hand look when a friend of his mother passed away from the virus.

“At that point I was like: Wow!”, Price said about the Pandemic hitting so close to home. “Watching it on the news and hearing about it is distant until it affects somebody that you care for.”

Price got a little philosophical as he went on to add, “Death is inevitable for all of us. Nobody’s escaping that. So definitely hopefully we can learn from this and prepare as well as we can. I have no doubt that we’re going to have another one of these (pandemics) at some point.”

During the NHL stoppage, which began on March 12th, Price travelled with his wife Angela and two young daughters to Kennewick Wash which is where he not only played his junior hockey with the Tri-City Americans but also met his wife.

Currently, Price has begun to prepare for Phase 3 of the NHL return, by working out in the American’s gym and hit-

Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price has some concerns about the NHL resuming play with the 24 team Return to Play Playoff Format. Price, who is eager to once again play, has been practicing on the Tri-City (his old Junior team) Americans ice surface.

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ting the ice for some hard practices. Training camps are scheduled to open on Friday, July 10th as teams prepare for a 24 team Return To Play Playoff Format.

Despite wanting to play, Price does have some questions and concerns about the NHL resuming play.

“I have about an equal amount of optimism and pessimism,” Price said.

“It’s a very unusual situation; I want the opportunity to be able to play for a Stanley Cup, but I want to be able to continue living life normally. A lot of cases haven’t panned out, for a lot of people, very well. I have friends’ family members who have passed away from COVID-19. It’s nothing to balk at.”

Price also went on to add, “It’s a very serious situation and I don’t think everybody has all the answers, so that’s why I feel that way.”

If the NHL goes ahead with the Return to Play 24 team playoff format, Price said that his wife, who is pregnant with the couple’s third child, would not be travelling with her husband to a hub city where he would be playing. Instead she would stay with the other two children at home.

“There’s still a lot of questions that need to be answered,” Price said. “We have obviously a unique situation right now. The NHL and the NHLPA are trying to make the best of a very difficult situation.

So moving forward I’d like to play, we have a lot of questions that need to be answered and a lot of scenarios that need to be covered before I can vote yea or nea.”

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Brantford Golden Eagles 2009 Sutherland Cup champs to be enshrined

By Neil Becker BRANTFORD - In October, the 2009 Sutherland Cup champions Brantford Golden Eagles will officially by inducted into the Brantford and Area Sports Hall of Recognition.

Originally, the 2009 Golden Eagles squad were supposed to be inducted on June 10, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, plans were changed to have the ceremony on October 21st 6:30 p.m. at the Best Western Brantford Hotel and Conference Centre.

“I was first told about the 2008-2009 Eagles team getting elected into the hall of fame from my in-laws,” Brock Farmer,

The Brantford Golden Eagles 2009 squad had a year to remember, as they defeated the Stoney Creek Warriors in five games to win the Sutherland Cup. This team will be enshrined on October 21st. to the Brantford and Area Sports Hall of Recognition.

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who was on the team said.

“My wife’s brother was the goalie on the team that year. I was surprised that they planned on inducting our team to the Brantford

hall of fame.”

In what was a truly historic campaign, the Golden Eagles dominated regular season play as they finished first overall with a 41-7-4 record.

Brantford then made a bold statement by opening up their quarter finals best of seven playoff series against the Guelph Dominators by rolling to a 15-0 win.

“I think what really made us a dominant team that year was that all of us players kind of knew we had a good team going into the season,” Farmer said.

“Also not knowing it at the start of the season, but we would have our

Assumption Lions Trevor McDonald captures senior football Co-MVP honors

top line all reach over 100 points. The highlight of the season I think was winning the Suthy at the end.”

Riding the wave of momentum after that series opening win against Guelph, the Golden Eagles continued to roll as they defeated Guelph before beating the Listowel Cyclones in semi-finals action.

“Myself, I thought we could win the Suthy,” Farmer said. “When we started to win, and continue to win games, I had a feeling that there wasn’t a team in the league that would beat us. I believe the rest of the team felt that way as well.”

Facing the Kitchener Dutchmen in the finals, Brantford ended up winning the best of seven series four games to one.

Showing strong character and determination, Brantford found themselves in a big hole with no margin of error as they began the Sutherland Cup’s three -team double-round robin by dropping the first two games.

Eventually they would prevail by defeating the Sarnia Legionnaires by a 4-2 score before defeating the Stoney Creek Warriors and punching their ticket to the Sutherland Cup finals.

“Every player bought into the system the coaching staff put into place which made us such a dominant team,” Farmer said.

Eventually history was made as they went on to defeat the Warriors in five games to celebrate their first Sutherland Cup win since 1941 when they were called the Brantford Lions.

It was a historic year for this 2009 Golden Eagles squad who come October will take their rightful spot in Brantford and Area Sports Hall of Recognition.

Assumption Lions veteran Trevor McDonald recently was named the Co-MVP of the Assumption Lions football team. This had been quite the memorable season for McDonald who played a pivotal role in helping his team win the Sr. Boys Brant County and OWOSSA Championship.

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Assumption Lions wide receiver/defensive back and kick returner Trevor McDonald had a season for the ages.

Making a statement in his fifth and final season of high school football, this 5 -foot 11”, 175pound athlete proved clutch when last fall, he played a big factor in helping the Lions’ win the Sr. Boys Brant County, which was followed by the CWOSSA championship.

McDonald’s athleticism didn’t go unnoticed as he officially committed in early March to play next season football at Champlain College for the Cougars.

Recently, McDonald accomplished another

big achievement when Assumption College unveiled their school athletic awards which saw McDonald and quarter back Rexton Harper win MVP honors for the senior Lions football team.

“Trevor just plays all over the place. He’s just really talented and he’s athletic,” Assumption teammate Ethan Jamieson said. “I have played with Trevor for 5-6 years and he’s a good friend.”

This past season McDonald, who was the team captain, showed strong athleticism by scoring 12 touchdowns and making plays happen.

Reflecting on McDonald’s talents and what he brought to Assumption, Jamieson was quick to state, “Trevor is more of a team leader. He likes to have fun but when it’s time to take practice and

games seriously he can switch (gears) and take them seriously. Jamieson went on to add, “He likes to lead by example and he is one of those guys that can help the team improve around him.”

Meanwhile, McDonald also received some high praise from coach Jason Nagy who stated, “Trevor is a fantastic athlete and a true playmaker. He was one of the reasons ACS senior football had a successful 2019 season. He’s been an important part of Assumption football and it’s been a pleasure coaching him at both the junior and senior level for the past five years.”

No doubt it was a proud moment for McDonald to be selected as Assumption College senior boys football Co-MVP.

New England Black Wolves goalie Doug Jamieson had a career season which saw him post an 8-3 record with an 8.77 G.A.A. On the strength of his success, Jamieson found himself a finalist for the PHOTO BY NEW ENGLAND BLACK WOLVES NLL Goalie of the Year.

New England Black Wolves Doug Jamieson finalist for NLL Goalie of the Year NEIL BECKER

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On Tuesday, June 30th you can bet that the Six Nations community will be holding their collective breath in anticipation.

With all the votes tabulated, this is when the NLL announce the various individual end of season awards, which includes Six Nations talent and New England

Black Wolves goalie Doug Jamieson.

This former 2016 second round (19th overall) pick of New England who had an 8-3 record with an 8.77 GAA and 0.826 along with four assists in 11 games, is a finalist for the NLL Goalie of the Year.

“It would mean a lot to the community being lacrosse is a part of our identity here in Six Nations,” Halifax Thunderbirds goalie, and Six Nations resident Warren

Hill said. “He (Jamieson) would be up there with local goalie legends Ken Montour who won the honor back in 2009 I believe.”

The future looks extremely bright for Jamieson who played a major role this season in leading New England to first place in the East Division with an 8-3 record before play was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Waterloo Police investigate racist flyers

By TRT Staff A criminal investigation got underway on Wednesday after racist flyers openly attacking Black people were anonymously distributed to local homes, according to a southern Ontario police force.

Waterloo Regional Police said the force's hate crime unit launched the probe hours after first learning of the pamphlets, which they alleged were left in mailboxes and on front steps of homes in both Kitchener and Waterloo.

The flyers, images of which were shared to social media and confirmed by police, show a picture of a Black man and white woman over text that both criticizes interracial relationships and parrots widely debunked claims about the intelligence of Black people. . ``We want to reassure the public that this is a priority for our service,'' police spokeswoman Cherri Greeno said in a statement. ``Investigators and analysts with our general detectives and hate crime units are investigating to

determine the circumstances surrounding this incident, including identifying those responsible for disseminating the flyers.''

Donalee McIntyre, a local resident, social worker and community advocate, said the eugenics extolled in the flyer are a tangible example of the racism Black and other racialized communities face on a regular basis. ``People who are Black and Indigenous, people of colour, experience this every day,'' she said. ``It's not a one-off. These are things that people experience.''

The reaction was similar for Laura Mae Lindo, a provincial NDP legislator representing a Kitchener riding and head of the party's Black caucus. She said waking up to such blatantly racist material is traumatizing for members of racialized communities and is bound to raise fundamental questions of safety. ``It literally makes you worry that you're surrounded by people who look at you and think that, because of the colour of your skin, you're lesser,'' she said. ``Because that's what the language on that

flyer is suggesting.''

Word of the pamphlets sparked a number of social media posts from local residents decrying what they describe as pervasive, overt racism throughout the community.

Mayor Dave Jaworsky rejected that notion, noting city council has condemned anti-Black racism and unanimously affirmed support for the Black Lives Matter movement.

He decried the flyers, saying they have no place in any community. ``The distribution of this racist garbage is disgusting and I strongly condemn the message and the cowards that created it,'' Jaworsky said in a statement. ``I know it does not reflect the values of the majority of residents in our city.''

McIntyre said those who purport to fight racism and show solidarity with those experiencing racism need to fundamentally reconsider how they respond to such incidents, adding those who are being targeted should not bear primary responsibility for resolving the problem.

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King – Lawrence “Lolly”, Graham (Push)

Dean Wade Sowden February 2, 1996 – July 5, 2019

It is with great sadness that we share the sudden loss of this amazing man.

Lol was called to be with the Creator on June 26th, 2020, one day after his 71st birthday.

Beloved husband of 43 years to Bridie, father of Kerri (Scott) and Shannon, and cherished Papa of Lexie, Jaxon, Hudson and Mason. Dear brother of Leslie, Leona, Lonnie, Jean, Beverly, Vic and Harv.

Much loved Uncle to many nieces and nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews. Predeceased by his parents Graham and Philnese King (nee Brant), brother Lorne, and in-laws John and Louise Conway. Lolly spent most of his working career as an iron worker and welder. He loved his family dearly, and spent the last 18 years being a devoted and proud Papa.

His good-natured humour and quick wit will be fondly remembered by all those who met him.

A private family service took place on Monday, June 29th, 2020 followed by internment at the New Credit Cemetery. Chi- miigwech to his health care team for their support over the years. www.rhbanderson.com

It is difficult to find the words to express our gratitude for the many kindnesses our Friends and Family have shown us during the great loss of our precious Son. We wanted to thank all of our family and friends who supported us in one way or another. The cards, letters, phone and email messages, prayers, and visits meant a great deal to us. We would like to extend a special acknowledgment to our Pastors/family Ken & Sonya Sault who helped tremendously throughout our difficult time.

We are unable to write individual thank yous to each one of you, given the great outpouring of support. Please know that your generosity and thoughtfulness have touched us deeply. It is a difficult transition but our God is an Awesome God!!!

Dean’s message to all is:

If you can be one thing be Kind.

Finally, Brothers, Whatever things are True, Whatever things are Honorable, Whatever things are Just, Whatever things are Pure, Whatever things are Lovely, Whatever things are of Good Report; If there is any Virtue, and if there is any Praise, think on these things.

Philippians 4:8

A year has come so fast but we miss you Dean…every minute of every day. Always, Always & Forever.

Thank you for your voice of Concern, your gesture of Caring, and the Love you offered. Les, Lori Sowden and sister Yvonne special niece Kiara.

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18. Soul and calypso song 19. Murres 21. Irish river 22. Accepts as true 27. The Bay State 28. 1950s Hollywood icon 33. Blood type 34. In a way, became lost 36. Large primate 37. A spongelike cake leavened with yeast 38. Mama __, folk singer 39. Visual metaphor (computers) 40. Trim by cutting 41. Small group of people 44. Pulitzer-winning scientist 45. Unique S. American mammal 48. Energy, style and enthusiasm 49. One who works for you 50. Snakelike fish 51. Consumers

CLUES DOWN 1. Cylindrical sacs 2. Extinct North Germanic language 3. Late rocker Allman

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GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 The desire to make big changes in your life may not be possible right now, Gemini. Rather, focus on small things you can change immediately and easily.

CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 Insecurity about the future could put a bit of a damper on daily life, Cancer. No one really knows what is around the corner, so try to take things one day at a time.

4. Word element meaning ear 5. Amino acid (abbr.)

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LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 Hitting a creative wall can certainly derail your plans, Libra. But only if you let it. Instead, enlist the help of others for some creative inspiration that can put you back on track.

SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 You may find it very challenging to see eye-to-eye with someone close to you. It’s easy to let things escalate. Agree to disagree and recognize you each have a point.

SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, professional matters may require further investigation this week. If you desire stability, it may be time to find a different career path.

CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 Finding time to do something for yourself can be tough when everyone seems to be relying on you.

But you have to set aside moments for personal pampering, Capricorn.

AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, count your blessings in the days ahead.

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PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20 You may reevaluate your plans when a bit of shocking news comes your way, Pisces. The nature of this news is positive, so look forward to it.

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