Tiny tots on the powwow trail Photo by Chris Kornacki/Special to Wawatay News Teresa Trudeau leads one-year-old Angela Achneepineskun around the pow- wow circle at the annual Tiny Tots Powwow held April 30 at the Boys and Girls Club of Thunder Bay. See more photos on page 13. Northern Ontario’s First Nation Voice since 1974 9,300 copies distributed $1.50 www.wawataynews.ca PM#0382659799 Aroland wants records of Ring of Fire meetings PAGE 6 Student’s arrest leads to protest in Constance Lake PAGE 3 May 10, 2012 Vol. 39 No. 11 Cat Lake breaks ground on new school construction PAGE 7 A 4.3 magnitude earthquake struck near Moosonee. See story in English on page 3. Celebrating beaver in Mattagami Lenny Carpenter/Wawatay News A demonstrator shows onlookers how to skin a beaver during the Mattagami Beaverfest 2012 held on April 28. The annual festival enables the sharing of culture, said Mattagami First Nation Chief Walter Naveau. See page 9. Ft< Ua pi> ewgnbH , ;E;cooH b<jo> 4`3 , m<xv JjcoH b<j” Rick Garrick Wawatay News A traditional teacher is questioning why drugs are being prescribed to peo- ple who are already abusing prescrip- tion drugs. “A lot of people are being introduced to methadone to try to address their addiction,” said Ralph Johnson, a tra- ditional teacher from Sioux Lookout. “They have to stay on that drug for at least 10 years, some even longer. So it’s just replacing one drug for another.” Johnson said a number of his clients have had success in dealing with their prescription drug addiction through traditional healing methods at the Nat- ural Healing program he operates each summer at Rainy Lake. “They didn’t like just replacing another drug,” Johnson said. “It was pretty effective. We made sure the sweat lodge ceremonies were avail- able to them whenever they needed it, when they were going through a hard time.” Johnson said the sweat lodge was available every day for the clients, not- ing when they go into withdrawal they begin feeling pain, become anxious Traditional healing for oxy abuse and start shaking. “As soon as you start feeling those symptoms, you start preparing to go into the sweat lodge,” Johnson said. “It really helps detoxify and take those chemicals out of their system. It was really effective, but in the news there was no mention of utilizing traditional healing methods as a way to combat addictions.” Johnson wants people to be aware there are alternatives to healing from prescription drug addictions other than taking more drugs. “I talked to some of the other sweat lodge keepers in the community here and they feel the same way,” John- son said. “It’s just that there are no resources directed towards traditional healing, so (for) the traditional heal- ers it’s pretty well up to them to try to come up with their resources to hold the sweats. It’s usually out of their pocket that those services are pro- vided.” Johnson said the sweat lodge cer- emonies usually last from one to two hours, depending on the number of people participating. 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Tiny tots on the powwow trail
Photo by Chris Kornacki/Special to Wawatay NewsTeresa Trudeau leads one-year-old Angela Achneepineskun around the pow-wow circle at the annual Tiny Tots Powwow held April 30 at the Boys and Girls Club of Thunder Bay. See more photos on page 13.
Northern Ontario’s First Nation Voice since 1974
9,300 copies distributed $1.50
www.wawataynews.ca
PM#0382659799
Aroland wants records of Ring of Fire meetingsPAGE 6
Student’s arrest leads to protest in Constance LakePAGE 3
May 10, 2012Vol. 39 No. 11
Cat Lake breaks ground on new school constructionPAGE 7
A 4.3 magnitude earthquake struck near Moosonee. See story in English on page 3.
Celebrating beaver in Mattagami
Lenny Carpenter/Wawatay NewsA demonstrator shows onlookers how to skin a beaver during the Mattagami Beaverfest 2012 held on April 28. The annual festival enables the sharing of culture, said Mattagami First Nation Chief Walter Naveau. See page 9.
A traditional teacher is questioning why drugs are being prescribed to peo-ple who are already abusing prescrip-tion drugs.
“A lot of people are being introduced to methadone to try to address their addiction,” said Ralph Johnson, a tra-ditional teacher from Sioux Lookout. “They have to stay on that drug for at least 10 years, some even longer. So it’s just replacing one drug for another.”
Johnson said a number of his clients have had success in dealing with their prescription drug addiction through traditional healing methods at the Nat-ural Healing program he operates each summer at Rainy Lake.
“They didn’t like just replacing another drug,” Johnson said. “It was pretty effective. We made sure the sweat lodge ceremonies were avail-able to them whenever they needed it, when they were going through a hard time.”
Johnson said the sweat lodge was available every day for the clients, not-ing when they go into withdrawal they begin feeling pain, become anxious
Traditional healing for oxy abuse
and start shaking.“As soon as you start feeling those
symptoms, you start preparing to go into the sweat lodge,” Johnson said. “It really helps detoxify and take those chemicals out of their system. It was really effective, but in the news there was no mention of utilizing traditional healing methods as a way to combat addictions.”
Johnson wants people to be aware there are alternatives to healing from prescription drug addictions other than taking more drugs.
“I talked to some of the other sweat lodge keepers in the community here and they feel the same way,” John-son said. “It’s just that there are no resources directed towards traditional healing, so (for) the traditional heal-ers it’s pretty well up to them to try to come up with their resources to hold the sweats. It’s usually out of their pocket that those services are pro-vided.”
Johnson said the sweat lodge cer-emonies usually last from one to two hours, depending on the number of people participating.
See Traditional healing on page 10
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Aroland First Nation has filed a freedom of information request with the provincial government to get more information on the Ring of Fire.
The First Nation said it filed the freedom of information request because the Ontario government has been holding confidential meetings with Cliffs Natural Resources on the location of a chro-mite smelter.
Chief Sonny Gagnon said the company and the government are making decisions on the processing plant, infrastructure for the region and other mine details without consulting local communities or First Nations.
The First Nation wants a processing plant to be built in Green-stone, but is worried that the government and Cliffs are working behind closed doors to locate the plant in Sudbury.
Both the boys and girls Team Ontario are off to Saskatoon for the National Aboriginal Hockey Championships this week.
Both teams feature many players from northern Ontario. The teams met for the first time as a group in Toronto on May 5,
and flew the Saskatoon the same day.The tournament started on May 7 with both teams playing two
games. After the round robin wraps up on May 8, the knockout round goes from May 9 until May 12.
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An earthquake struck the James Bay coast, with an epicentre between Moosonee and Fort Albany (top). NAPS Chief of Police called the graduation of 18 auxiliary officers (middle left) ‘history in the mak-ing’. The National Aboriginal Hockey Championships started in Sas-katoon, with Team Ontario (middle right) featuring many players from northern Ontario. And Cat Lake First Nation broke ground on the con-struction of its new school (above), expected to open in 2013.
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Louis J. NeeganSpecial to Wawatay News
Mamawmatawa Holistic Education Centre (MHEC) of Constance Lake First Nation has addressed some of the concerns made by local organization, Parental Involvement Commit-tee (PIC), regarding the arrest of a student on school grounds.
Following a lock-down at the school resulting from threats made against a teacher by a 14-year-old student at MHEC, PIC held a protest of the school’s actions on May 7.
The protest was followed by a meeting at the Constance Lake community hall instigated by Chief Roger Wesley. School representatives and other com-munity members attended the meeting.
According to Constance Lake education administrator Ken Neegan, Principal Zandra Bear-Lowen and other staff members have been trained to handle almost any situa-tion, including lock-down sce-narios, as best as possible, and were merely following stan-dard procedure when authori-ties were contacted.
“It’s not as if we don’t care about our students,” Neegan said. “Safety of everybody is always top priority. In this particular situation, the stu-dent had threatened to shoot a teacher and police were conse-quently informed. If we erred, we erred on the side of safety. Any alternatives to a lock-down could have potentially wors-ened an already bad situation.”
Lenny CarpenterWawatay News
The “shaking” and “vibra-tions” felt by residents on the southern James Bay coast on the evening of May 1 was the result of an earthquake, according to National Resources Canada.
At about 8:04 p.m. on May 1, many Moosonee and Moose Factory residents experienced a shaking sensation, rattling dishes, and heard what one resident described as a “tractor passing by.” The effects were felt in Fort Albany, Kashechewan and as far away as Attawapiskat First Nation. No injuries or major
damage are reported.According to National
Resources Canada seismolo-gist Catherine Woodgold, the region experienced an earth-quake with a magnitude of 4.3 on the Nuttli magnitude scale (Richter scale equivalent for eastern North America). The Nuttli scale is a logarithmic measurement of the energy released by an earthquake.
“We don’t expect any signifi-cant damage at that magnitude level, just knick-knack falling from shelves and things like that,” Woodgold said.
According to the National Resources Canada website,
earthquakes with a magnitude of 3.5-5.4 are “often felt, but rarely cause damage” while a magnitude under 6.0 can cause “at most, slight damage to well-designed buildings” and “major damage to poorly constructed buildings over small regions.” Magnitudes between 7.0-7.9 are considered a “major” earth-quake that can cause severe damage over larger areas while 8.0-8.9 is consider “great” and can involve the loss of life.
The epicenter of the earth-quake was located about 69 kilometres northwest of Moosonee, somewhere between Moosonee and Fort Albany.
Woodgold said there have been 48 earthquakes within 100 kilometres of Moosonee since 1980, with three having magnitudes ranging between 3-3.6. Magnitudes under 3.5 are generally not felt.
The biggest southern James Bay earthquake recorded in the National Resources Canada database was in 1965 when a 4.9 magnitude earthquake hit the region.
Woodgold encourages residents who felt the earth-quake to report it through the National Resources Canada website at: earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca
Rick GarrickWawatay News
National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo is calling for First Nations to be involved from the outset in resource develop-ment.
“Currently, First Nations are often the last to know about major resource development,” Atleo said during his April 23 economics of reconciliation speech at the Canadian Club of Toronto. “This relegates our communities to few options and usually results in confron-tation. So we end up with pro-tests and legal battles that frus-
trate opportunity for everyone and deepen tensions today and in the future.”
K i t c h e n u h m a y k o o s i b Inninuwug Chief Donny Mor-ris said the government has to let his community know when resource development is being discussed for their traditional territory.
“We need to be in the driv-er’s seat,” Morris said. “This is our territory and when two companies are being bought out by the government, obvi-ously there is something there. The government is acknowl-edging our veto to say no, but it is taking them too long to come
to the forefront, where they basically buy out these compa-nies.”
The provincial govern-ment bought out God’s Lake Resource’s mining claims for $3.5 million on March 29 and Platinex’s mining claims for $5 million in 2008.
Although the province also excluded 23,000 square kilo-metres of land in KI’s tradi-tional territory from mining development in early March, Morris is concerned that more junior mining compa-nies will move into his area once their mining claims in the Ring of Fire mineral
exploration area are bought out for production by larger mining companies.
“That’s why we have to secure our lakes, rivers, our policies, our consultations,” Morris said. “We need to secure ourselves in those areas to meet the wave that will be coming up this way.”
Morris wants to see neigh-bouring municipalities working with First Nation communities in a coalition to keep more of the benefits of the mining pro-cess in the north.
“Imagine what kind of boom that would set off,” Morris said. “We (would) have finally
our non-native partners rec-ognizing our treaty rights. It would solve a lot of economic issues.”
Morris said there is “room enough” for everyone in north-western Ontario to make a liv-ing and get rich.
“But that respect of your treaty partner has to be at the forefront,” Morris said. “If the chiefs and mayors got together, it would shift the political aspect of this region.”
Atleo also wants First Nations to be involved as full partners in discussions about exploration, ownership, par-ticipation and production and
long-term sustainability of environments, communities and futures.
“Recent federal announce-ments about streamlining the regulatory process have cre-ated further fear and concern for many First Nations,” Atleo said during his economics or reconciliation speech. “Our rights have never been prop-erly addressed in the exist-ing processes. While we can all agree about efficiency, we must see a clear and explicit commitment for our rights and interests to be addressed, as required by the federal consti-tutional duty.”
‘We need to be in the driver’s seat,’ says National ChiefEarly First Nations involvement in development projects could save later conflict
Constant Lake First Nation school responds to student arrest and subsequent protest
On May 1 at about 1:15 p.m., police were contacted by MHEC in Constance Lake regarding a threat complaint. Nishnawbe-Aski Police Ser-vice being unavailable at the time, the Ontario Provincial Police were first to respond. With the school in lock-down, police investigation resulted in a 14-year-old student being arrested and brought to bail-court in Cochrane on May 2. The student was bailed out by family and released on May 3.
In a press release sent out after the incident, “Residential School Operating in Constance Lake First Nation,” the PIC stated that “Too many unan-
swered letters, emails, tele-phone messages, and promises plague the relationship between parents and the school admin-istration. The most recent inci-dent of a school lock-down is testament to the poor planning, and a one-sided sensational-ist reaction involving a special education student in a time of crisis.”
The PIC-led protest involv-ing parents and students took place early in the morning of May 7 at the junction of High-way 663 and Roger’s Road, with the intention of preventing any non-Aboriginal school staff members from entering the First Nation.
“It’s not about prejudice,” stated Michelle Frost of the PIC. “The protest was there to serve as a medium for what our organization ultimately stands for, one of the many issues (other than commu-nication problems between parents and the school) being the hiring of non-Aboriginal teachers over similarly quali-fied Native ones who can potentially better relate to First Nation students.”
Chief Roger Wesley and other band office staff mem-bers also attended and viewed the protest from a dis-tance. In an effort to lessen tension and instigate a poten-
tial discussion, Wesley spoke with Frost after the first hour and arranged the community hall meeting for later that evening, where both sides of the argument could commu-nicate in a structured manner.
Frost took the opportunity at the protest to present the chief with highlighted sections of Ontario’s School Lock-Down Procedure, claiming that a cri-sis coordinator or mental health specialist should have been con-tacted first and foremost due to the student’s known history.
Neegan noted that threats made by students at school can not be tolerated.
“As with many students,
it’s impossible to know what threats to take seriously,” Neegan said. “Obviously, none can be tolerated. After the inci-dent it was out of our hands and had become mainly a police matter. Honestly, the situation is quite straightforward.”
And though the PIC agreed to attend the community hall at the chief’s request, they left many of their protest signs intact and still hanging at Roger’s Road.
The signs were torn down shortly after.
Any progress made as a result of that meeting will likely be newsworthy, but for now, it would seem the matter is not yet settled.
Above: Chief Roger Wesley conversing with Parental Involvment Com-mittee representative Michelle Frost.
Left: Parents and students alike supporting early morning Parental Involvement Committee protest.
Earthquake strikes James Bay coast
The epicentre of the earthquake was between Moosonee and Fort Albany.
Photos by Louis J. Neegan
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Elders, they say, are hold-ers of wisdom. What they generally mean by that is
that the people we bestow that title on are recognized for the wealth of knowledge they hold about life, the world, and the spiritual life of our people. They are also role models and fit examples of lives lived accord-ing to principle.
It confuses me a great deal when people grant themselves the title of Elder.
There’s a world of difference between being a senior and being an Elder.
Wisdom isn’t necessarily gained just by the passing of years. I’ve met a lot of imma-ture, rigid and unhealed people well over the fifty-five years I’ve been around. In our way of seeing things wisdom is gained from the experience of humil-ity; the knowledge that what you know and what you don’t know are equal and being will-ing to continue to try to learn no matter the years you’ve accrued.
Elders, those who under-stand and live by that credo are few and far between. Older people, on the other hand, are plenty.
There’s a terrific need for wisdom these days. With the world in the state of flux that it’s in and the planet in such turmoil, people everywhere ache and yearn for sage advice, a direction and rituals to make sense of the topsy-turvy nature of things.
I was much the same way for a long time. But I’ve been fortunate to learn that genuine Elders are way-finders and the wisdom they carry is meant to help guide us to a position of balance and harmony with our-selves and everything in Cre-ation. It took a long time for me to learn to appreciate that.
But I had the great good for-tune of meeting a man named Jack Kakakaway when I was in my mid-30s.
Jack was a Plains Ojibway from Manitoba, a veteran, a recovering alcoholic, a father, powwow dancer and traditional teacher. He was possessed of a marvelous rolling laugh, loved to hear a good story, tell a joke and played a great mandolin. He was quiet, solemn but open and engaging as well.
He was an Elder in the truest sense.
When I met him I was living in Calgary and had been on the ceremonial road for a few years.
I knew something about Native spirituality, something about our traditions, and culture and I’d been around enough and had read enough to consider myself worldly about a lot of things. But Jack showed me how little I actually did know – and he did it gently and kindly.
Back then I believed that the things that mattered, the things that were important, needed elaborate and complicated answers. I’d grown used to reading huge tomes on philoso-phy, faith and the job of being fully human.
When it came to native spirituality and the way we were directed to live our lives, I believed that there needed to be deep, philosophical content to the answers.
Well, Jack saw things differently. To him simple, unadorned answers were always the best and when he spoke of vital things he always made sure to use language and images that were easily digested and understood.
He was a great teacher because of that. His ceremonies were always filled with good humor and gentle teaching and I never met anyone who went away from any of those gather-ings without feeling uplifted and empowered.
What Jack liked more than anything was to go walking on the land. We’d drive out of Cal-gary into Kananaskis Country and we’d park wherever he felt like walking and head up into the foothills. We’d spend entire afternoons and evenings out there.
One time when I was feel-ing lost and out of sorts with my newspaper job and life in the city, Jack got out of the car without speaking and started walking. I fell in behind him and waited for the wise words to come. Instead, he kept silent and walked and walked. He’d pause now and then to put his hand on a rock, a tree, some moss or the water in a stream. He never said a word about my problems or the answers in all that time.
When we got back to the car he stood there with his hands raised to the sky and his head bowed, breathing deeply. When he opened them he looked at me and I remember how clear his eyes were and how they glimmered with kindness. He asked me very quietly - “Did you hear all that?” I thought about his question and realized that I did.
Wisdom doesn’t live in words. It lives in feeling. That’s what he taught me that day. What I needed to hear was within me all the time. I just needed to pay attention to it. Wisdom taught me that.
In memory of traditional runners, sprinters and walkers
How many of us have heard of Kip? Why the interest? I listened to
a documentary on the long distance runners from Kenya. According to http://www.racingpast.ca, it states that “Kipchoge Keino was not the first Kenyan to win a medal in Empire Games nor the first to win an Olympic medal, but he was the first Kenyan to have a major impact on the interna-tional running scene and the first Kenyan to break world records.
For eight years, from 1965 to 1972, he was one of the best if not the best middle-distance runners in the world. He won two Olympic gold medals and two silver, as well as three Com-monwealth gold medals and one bronze.
And though more a competi-tor than a record breaker, he set world records for 3,000 and 5,000.
Kip Keino always raced
with panache and courage; whenever he was in a race, the interest rose. And of course he was the precursor of the flood of Kenyan runners that is still a dominant force in distance run-ning today.”
Early in his childhood, he was orphaned. His dream had been to help his people. He saw his goal through competitions at long distance running. He did achieve his goal and lived for the people.
Whatever monies he received from his long distance run-ning went towards helping his people.
Today he and his partner run a foundation geared to help the orphans. He is known as hav-ing a heart of gold because his monies goes towards helping the children, fostering hun-dreds of children, and building schools. For Kenyan athletes like Kip, they do not seek fame to gratify their egos, or for their retirement fund: their mindset is to share their wealth with others.
Kenyan runners achieve their goal by their carbohydrate diet of cornmeal, home that is situ-ated in higher altitudes, and from childhood they lead a dis-ciplined lifestyle. They have no vehicles to replace their mobil-
ity. They walk or run to achieve their tasks. The Kenyan run-ners come from a place along a rift valley.
Traditionally Anishinini/Anishnawbe/Muskego (Aborig-inal) lived a life similar to the Kenyan people. They believed in sharing whatever they had. I heard stories from my parents about how my grandfather Samson believed in the concept of sharing whatever he had. There were times he would come home without his mitts because he saw another person that needed mitts.
He would come home without his moccasins because he saw another person that needed foot-wear. Kenyan people still believe in that concept of sharing.
Traditionally Aboriginal people walked or ran to achieve their tasks. My father walked around his trap line. He esti-mated that his trap line was about 80 miles. He told me that he walked an average of 40 miles per day and spent a night out in the bushes trying to check all his traps. I know from listening to his story he lead a disciplined lifestyle to have the ability to trap. With every task he had, he pursued it with the same zeal, dedication and hard work.
Aboriginal people lived on a diet that surrounded their envi-ronment. They were in excel-lent health living on diet rich in protein consisting of wild meats and fish. This diet was conducive for their health and well-being.
Aboriginal people live in an environment that is situated in the Canadian Shield that is full of hilly rocky terrain, moss, and numerous waterways. Elevation is lower.
Grounds are not made for a smooth journey if one wants to tackle the goal of being a long distance runner.
But yet traditionally our ancestors travelled the north-ern terrain all the way to arctic using snowshoes and dog teams in the winter; and boats or canoes in the summer. They carried enormous loads over the portages.
What has happened over time where people are no lon-ger able to have the agility, dis-cipline and dedication it takes to have the ability to walk 30 or 40 miles a day like our ances-tors were able to accomplish? Do Aboriginal youth of today have the endurance, discipline and dedication it takes to become long distance sprinters or runners?
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By Garnet Angeconeb, Anishinaabe citizen of Sioux Lookout
For centuries, long before the town of Sioux Lookout was founded by the newcomers in 1912, this area was the home-land to the Anishinaabe people. Sadly some of the descendants are now visibly dislocated from their traditional territory – strangers in their own land.
Often the visible social issues evident to the public eye have unfortunately soured some rela-tions between the Anishinaabek and non-Aboriginal people. Much has changed for the bet-ter, but there still lives within the veneer, remnants of racism that rear their ugly heads from time to time.
The results of systemic racism have created an “us and them” division within the community. These attitudes continue to sub-sist in subtle ways.
In the 1980s, Sioux Lookout was the exciting scene of Anishi-naabe organizations settling in, and thus contributing signifi-cantly to the economic well-being and survivability of the town. This was a welcomed movement especially by the business com-munity including the education institutions, health, and other entities. Otherwise, Sioux Look-out was facing a “gloom and doom” bust cycle to its economy with the major downsizing of the local CN operations and the closure of the National Defence Radar Base.
With the increase of the Anishinaabe population, it was befitting to sustain and main-tain amiable relations. Thus in 1988, the municipal council initiated a group that eventu-ally became known as the Sioux Lookout Anti-Racism Commit-tee. The purpose of the group at
Dear Sioux Lookout...Re: Response to the Sioux Lookout Anti-Racism Committee Regarding the Public Letter in the April 26, 2012 edition of Wawatay News
[Editor’s Note: Wawatay News had to cut some of the following letter due to space restrictions. The full text of Garnet Angeconeb’s letter can be found online at www.wawataynews.ca]
the time was clear and straight-forward; relationship building between the Anishinaabek and the non-Aboriginal people.
Over the years, however, issues and circumstances have changed. The time has now come to reassess and rethink on how best to reinforce the build-ing of relations; it’s an ongoing effort. Perhaps a new strategy is formulating on the horizon – a new approach for all of us to think about.
Rethink the Purpose of the Sioux Lookout Anti-Racism Committee
Over the years, the Sioux Lookout Anti-Racism Committee has digressed from its original purpose. There are a number of reasons for this change that may explain the organization’s digres-sion such as, but not only attrib-utable to: inconsistent funding sources; change in Sioux Look-out’s demographics; loss of focus; lack of direction; lack of support from the Anishinaabe people; and, complacency.
Although there have been some worthy projects and pro-grams initiated by the Sioux Lookout Anti-Racism Commit-tee, the reality is that the orga-nization has strayed away from its original intent – to build rela-tions between the Anishinaabek and non-Aboriginal community. By directing its energy and lim-ited resources to other issues, it appears that the Sioux Look-out Anti-Racism has lost focus on the original purpose of the organization.
It is safe to say that the work to realize the original vision of the Sioux Lookout Anti-Racism Committee is far from over; rac-ism is still alive.
It is apparent for whatever rea-sons, the Anishinaabe commu-nity has not fully participated nor has it adequately been engaged in the work of the Sioux Lookout Anti-Racism Committee. The work to address issues of racism and attempts to build relations are still ongoing efforts. These efforts will be ongoing for a long time yet. Whether it is through the Sioux Lookout Anti-Racism
Committee or something new, the effort to improve race rela-tions must be undeniably sup-ported by all citizens.
If the Sioux Lookout Anti-Racism Committee is to win its trust back from the Anishinaabe community, then it must make every effort to garner meaning-ful participation and engage-ment from that community. If it does not, perhaps the time has arrived for the larger com-munity to explore new ways and processes to address social issues, in a way that makes the Anishinaabe participation and engagement more meaningful.
Recommendations1. the Sioux Lookout Munici-
pal Council and area First Nations jointly commit to develop a process that ensures and allows meaningful dialogue to take place, and that this pro-cess is not limited to political, economic, and social relations. This process is to be premised on good faith to build strong ties between the Anishinaabe community (at large) and the Municipality of Sioux Lookout. Further this new process must be fully endorsed and resourced by all parties, including the fed-eral, provincial, municipal and First Nations governments.
2. the Sioux Lookout Anti-Racism Committee be reor-ganized and reconstituted to officially become what it has become – a vehicle that pro-motes multiculturalism; youth activities; and other social jus-tice issues. Such revision of pur-pose, mandate and goals would finally allow the Sioux Look-out Anti-Racism Committee to change its controversial name to something less adversarial ; and finally,
3. the Municipal and First Nations leadership lobby the Ontario government to estab-lish a branch office of the Ontario Human Rights Com-mission to be located in Sioux Lookout.
Thank you!Garnet AngeconebAnishinaabe
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Anishinabek Nation calls for direct First Nation consultation on new mining act regulations
Aroland files information request on Ring of Fire meetings
Shawn BellWawatay News
The Anishinabek Nation is calling out the Ontario govern-ment over phase 2 of the new Ontario mining act, saying the government is pushing through changes without directly con-sulting First Nations.
Ontario had set a May 1 deadline for comments on new regulatory proposals under phase 2 of the mining act. The regulations were posted online on March 12, with stakehold-ers asked to submit comments and concerns electronically or in written form.
The Anishinabek Nation refused to comment through the Environmental Registry, stating that the current pub-lic consultation process does not meet the standards on the
Crown’s duty to consult and accommodate set by Supreme Court decisions.
“More than ever, the level of dialogue with First Nations is critical,” said Lake Huron Regional Grand Chief Isadore Day in a press release. “Our gov-ernment to government discus-sions must match the dire need for clear and fair consultation with our First Nations and pro-mote and clear and fair treaty right to sharing in the resource-based economy.”
Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) and the Grand Coun-cil of Treaty #3 also did not respond to the request for comments by the deadline, although neither organization provided its reasons for not responding.
Phase 2 of the mining act deals with a number of issues
of importance to First Nations. The new regulations require prospectors to inform First Nations before doing any explo-ration work on traditional lands. First Nations will also be provided the opportunity to provide input on projects before any drilling work can proceed.
The government also plans to conduct an awareness program on Aboriginal consultation to inform industry what needs to be done, and establish a dispute resolution process for when consultation between indus-try and First Nations does not result in agreement.
Ontario’s director, Mining Act Modernization Secretariat, Robert Merwin, said that much of what is being proposed in phase 2 encourages indus-try and First Nations to work together on consultation and
accommodation.“The whole process is based
upon a system of mutual respect and goodwill,” Merwin said. “That is the basis of what we’re proposing. We think a conversation will work between First Nations and industry.”
Day, however, said the Anishinabek Nation believes the government has to retain its role to consult and accom-modate with First Nations on development decisions.
“It is incumbent upon the Ministry to ensure that assign-ing a directive to developers to consult First Nations should in no way erode our rights at the government table,” Day said. “The province must maintain its role as a treaty partner and accommodate a process that is consistent to Anishinabek goals and values.”
Ramsay Hart of Mining Watch Canada said that while many aspects of the new mining act are positive, the government is still not meeting its duty to consult with First Nations.
“I think they are setting them-selves up for future problems. It’s disappointing to see that the government has not learned the lesson yet,” Hart said, adding that the new regulations fail to provide clarity on how consulta-tion with First Nations on min-ing is going to work.
As for getting First Nations input into phase 2 of the mining act, Merwin said that the gov-ernment respects the Anishi-nabek Nation’s decision not to respond by the deadline. He said ongoing efforts to consult with First Nations on the new regulations will continue, and that the government will still
take into account any com-ments from First Nations even though the deadline has passed.
Merwin noted that phase 2 was originally planned to be implemented last summer, but the dates have been pushed back to allow for more consulta-tion and input.
“We want to take the time to get it right,” Merwin said. “We think in total we’ve taken sig-nificant strides to listen to com-ments and address concerns.”
As of the deadline, 145 comments had been received, mostly from industry but also some individual First Nations, Merwin said.
The comments and feed-back gathered through the pro-cess will be included in draft resolutions on the mining act expected to be presented to the government later this year.
Rick GarrickWawatay News
Aroland First Nation has filed a freedom of information request relating to the Cliffs Natural Resources chromite mine project in the Ring of Fire.
Aroland Chief Sonny Gagnon said he discovered the provin-cial government and Cliffs had been holding confidential meet-ings during a May 1 meeting with Joseph Carrabba, Cliffs chairman, president and CEO.
“I just wanted to know what they are not revealing to us,” Gagnon said, “especially when they are going to make deci-sions affecting my First Nation and my membership.”
Gagnon said his community and many other local commu-nities will be impacted by the Cliffs project.
“We believe Cliffs and the province are holding discus-sions behind all of our backs about the ferrochrome process-ing plant, the mine, the infra-
structure, and more,” Gagnon said. “We need to find out the extent of these exclusive meet-ings. They are deciding the future for everyone in north-western Ontario without con-sulting any of us.”
Aroland is seeking records in the possession of the Minis-try of Northern Development and Mines and any provincial department and ministry with which the MNDM participated
in the decision to site the Cliffs ferrochrome processing plant in the greater Sudbury area, near Capreol.
Gagnon said his community had been looking for the ferro-chrome processing plant to be built in the local area to maxi-mize benefits from the chromite deposit.
“We’re looking at 100-years plus,” Gagon said, estimating the life of the Cliffs chromite deposit. “I want to make sure it is done right today so the future of our children and grandchil-dren are taken care of.”
Gagnon said his community remembers watching the forest industry haul all the trees away from their area without much benefit to the community.
“Now they want to do the same with the ore,” Gagnon said. “The mining companies want to take the resources out of our ground and for us to watch them take it away again. I say no — this time you are not going to take it away.”
Gagnon said he is going to do whatever he can to maximize employment and growth in his community.
“They need to prosper,” Gagnon said. “We need hous-ing, we need just about every-thing.”
Gagnon said his community has not had much of an oppor-tunity to discuss the chromite development process with the provincial government or Cliffs.
“How do they get the input as to what the Supreme Court of Canada has recognized to the right to consult and accommo-date,” Gagnon said. “They are breaking their own laws. I’m not breaking no laws; they are and it seems like we are getting the short end of the stick all the time when it comes to develop-ment.”
Gagnon said the situation is a breach of his community’s constitutional right under section 35 of the Canadian Constitution Act, 1980 which guarantees First Nations the
right to be consulted and accommodated on matters that affect them and their tra-ditional lands.
“This is exactly why a com-prehensive environmental assessment does not work for First Nations,” Gagnon said. “We want a negotiated joint review panel, we want to fully participate, we want to pro-tect our land, our people and exercise our Aboriginal treaty rights. We don’t want to be a victim of the comprehensive (environmental assessment) and end up like Attawapis-kat.”
An MNDM spokesman said the ministry has not yet received the freedom of infor-mation request by official chan-nels, but once it arrives they will review it and determine how long it will take to respond.
“The usual requirement is 30 calendar days,” said Andrew Morrison, spokesman with MNDM. “However, if there are circumstances that require a lot
more resources to be involved or if it is a particularly large request requiring more time to compile, then we would work with the requestor to establish a longer timeline.”
Morrison said the provincial government has been involved in discussions with compa-nies, including Cliffs, regard-ing development in the Ring of Fire.
“The focus of those discus-sions has been to ensure that Ontario benefits from the investment proposed by Cliffs, including the ferrochrome processing facility,” Morri-son said. “The decision where that facility may be located is one that rests with Cliffs, so I would encourage anyone who wanted more information about that location to contact Cliffs directly.”
Morrison said MNDM Min-ister Rick Bartolucci’s goal is ensure the facility is located in Ontario to maximize opportuni-ties for the province.
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Cat Lake elementary school students are eagerly await-ing the opening of their new school in September 2013.
“There was one older stu-dent who said he wanted to fail so he can go to the new school,” said Ruby Keesick-quayash, principal of Titotay Memorial School. “It’s defi-nitely huge — there’s more room for all the programs that we should have, like for phys-ed, we’ll have a gym.”
The community’s 115 ele-mentary students currently participate in phys-ed pro-grams when the weather is good enough for them to go outside. They were moved into their current school, which consists of an old building with five classrooms and a portable classroom, a few years ago after their old school burned down.
“It’s OK when it’s nice days, but on rainy days we can’t go outside,” Keesickquayash said.
Keesickquayash said stor-age has also been a problem in the current school, noting her principal’s office is par-tially used as a storage room.
“My desk is where I store stuff too,” Keesickquayash said. “So there will certainly be a lot of space for setting up things (in the new school).
Deputy Grand Chief Terry Waboose, Windigo First Nations Council chair Frank McKay and a group of project workers, Windigo technical staff and Aboriginal Affairs
Cat Lake school under construction
and Northern Development Canada staff celebrated the new school along with stu-dents, Elders, leaders and com-munity members during a May 1 sod-turning ceremony.
“It’s going to bring a positive influence on the children,” said Cat Lake Chief Matthew Kee-waykapow. “We’ve been using makeshift classrooms and it is really cramped in there. It’s not a good environment for learning, but this school is
going to address most of those problems due to the size and space.”
Keewaykapow said everyone in the community is excited about the new school, which w ill feature a computer lab, library, cafeteria and baseball field in addition to the gym and be located west of the air-port near an old settlement.
“It’s going to be the pride and joy of the community when it is completed,” Kee-
waykapow said, noting the community looked at four loca-tions for the new school. “That is the best one we came up with.”
McKay commended the community, Windigo technical staff, government representa-tives and consultants for all the hard work throughout the planning process.
“There is team work involved in ensuring these dreams can come true,” McKay
said. “Working together with the government, work-ing together with consultants and other experts is required to design and construct this building.”
Waboose sees hope for the future at the cleared site for the new school.
“It’s unfortunate these events happen too far in between,” Waboose said. “I’ve been in office for six years and this is only the fourth school
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Cat Lake Chief Matthew Keewaykapow, left, Titotay Memorial School principal Ruby Keesickquayash, centre, NAN Deputy Grand Chief Terry Waboose, second from right, and Windigo First Nations Council chair/CEO Frank McKay, right, took part in Cat Lake’s May 1 sod-turning ceremony for a new school.
Top: Deputy Grand Chief Terry Waboose celebrated with NAPS Const. Russell Cheechoo, Martha Wesley, Desirae Turtle, Dakota Keeper and Amber Crane. Above: Model of new elementary school.
I’ve participated in at either an opening or a sod turning.”
Although Cat Lake has been struggling with problems due to prescription drug abuse, Waboose said the community must keep moving forward.
“We must keep working on the projects and initiatives that are going to better our communities,” Waboose said. “It is certainly my hope to come back in September 2013 to see the final product.”
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Hunters continue traditional hunt while living in city
Lenny CarpenterWawatay News
When Zac Tait of Wapekeka First Nation moved to Thun-der Bay last fall, he was deter-mined to continue the annual tradition of going out on the goose hunt.
After all, the 38-year-old hunted while growing up in Sachigo Lake and it was some-thing he rediscovered more than 10 years ago after living mostly in urban centres such as Thunder Bay, Peterborough, Fort Frances and London, Ont. When he married and moved up to Wapekeka First Nation, Tait decided to reconnect with traditional hunting.
“I had to feed my family,” he said. “My wife likes to eat tradi-tional meat.”
Continuing the traditional hunt while living in the city was something John-Paul Nakochee was also determined to do. The 72-year-old’s oldest memories are of living out in the trapline near Fort Albany First Nation.
“I start remembering when I was 5 being up the river all winter with my parents and uncles,” Nakochee said. “We made a living that way, at that time anyway.”
In 1969, Nakochee moved to Ottawa where he lived for 18 years before moving to the Timmins area, where he still lives today. He learned imme-diately that hunting would be different in the south. Where the north is isolated with no highways, a smaller popula-tion, and land owned by either the reserve or the Crown, you can go hunting almost any-where, Nakochee said, so long as it is not along a family’s tra-ditional trapline.
But in the south, people are more densely packed and a lot of land is privately owned.
“You can go hunting any-where that’s Crown land,” Nakochee said. “But you have to be careful of private property.”
Since he belonged to Treaty 9 community, Nakochee said he could legally hunt anywhere that is Crown land within the Treaty 9 area. While Tait is also a member of a Treaty 9 band, the Thunder Bay area is the traditional territory of Fort William First Nation, which is not a signatory to that treaty. So Tait’s first step to hunting in the Thunder Bay area was requesting permission from Fort William.
“I called them and I had to write a letter requesting per-mission,” Tait said. Weeks later Tait received a letter from the First Nation signed by the chief allowing Tait to go hunting. It did come with limitations, however.
“There’s no limit on geese,” Tait said. “But I can only shoot
one moose and two deer. And I can go fishing too.”
While most non-Native hunters would also apply for a hunting license, Tait and Nako-chee could hunt outside of the provincially-regulated hunting
seasons so long as they carried one document on them: their status cards.
“Even if you look like an Indian, they (the MNR) don’t go for that,” Nakochee said with a chuckle. “You gotta have your card.”
Nakochee and Tait were also required to earn their Firearms Acquisition Certificate so that they can legally purchase, own and use firearms. They also learned hunting laws that were borne out of safety issues.
For instance, Tait learned you must be completely off the highway to hunt and you can-not shoot in the direction of the road, even with a shotgun.
“So if the geese fly toward the highway, you can’t shoot them,” he said. “It happened a few times.”
When moose hunting in the fall, Nakochee adorns the
bright orange jackets to makes him visible to other hunters. He recalled one time driv-ing along the road and seeing movement in the bush. Think-ing it might be a moose, he got closer and realized it was a worker.
“That’s why it’s so impor-tant,” Nakochee said. “There’s a lot of hunters out there.”
In selecting a hunting spot, Nakochee said he tries to find Crown land to hunt on, but it can be difficult to tell.
“Most of the places are not marked private property,” he said. “That’s where you can get into trouble. If you kill a moose on private property and there’s no mark, then you have a tough time with the MNR.”
Nakochee said he shot a moose that was on someone’s unmarked property and the MNR became involved. Nako-chee got off because he was able to prove there was no property marker.
Sometimes, Nakochee goes hunting along a river since the land within 60 feet of each side cannot be owned.
For Tait, he chose to go straight to a property owner to find a hunting spot.
“I was fortunate enough to make friends with a farmer with 100 acres of farmland,” Tait said. He received permis-sion to hunt on the property and the farmer even called all the nearby farmers to inform
them of Tait’s presence.“I always keep in contact
with (the farmer), like when I’ll come in to hunt, because he has his neighbours and they have cattle,” Tait said.
The property has a pond at one end, which is where Tait did most of his goose hunting.
Tait however had no decoys to lure in the geese, as they can be expensive and he had left his in Wapekeka.
“I tried using garbage bags one time,” he said with a laugh. But for the most part, he said, he just sat by the pond and lured the geese in with goose calls.
Tait uses a store-bought goose caller to lure in the geese – not because of any regula-tions but it was a suggestion offered by his fellow hunters back in Wapekeka.
“My goose calling, they say ‘Stop scaring the geese away, you sound like a dog,’” Tait said, laughing.
Tait also does not use a blind but instead hides in the grass by the pond.
“It’s easier to move around,” Tait said, “and I can’t just make a big wood nest and leave it behind.” For next year, he plans on buying a collapsible blind.
The terrain of the south can prove to be a challenge for Nakochee, as it can be difficult to walk around.
“The ground is very very soft, you have to be careful where you walk,” Nakochee said. “You can’t just run all over the place. If you kill a bird, you can’t just run after it. Up north, it’s soft too, but it’s not as dan-gerous as down here. Down here you have to be careful.”
The type of land around a lake can factor in whether it is
be good spot or not.“Some are just rocks all
around,” Nakochee said, not-ing that it is not like that in the muskeg up north. “In the bottom, there’s no marsh. The birds don’t like to hang around there.”
One of the benefits of hunt-
ing near cities that Nakochee and Tait agree on is the acces-sibility of the hunting spots to their homes.
“I drive home everyday, because there’s a lot of roads,” Nakochee said. It is much eas-ier compared to traveling the river up north to get to his fam-ily camp, he said, especially at his age.
Hunting near Thunder Bay allowed Tait to continue to work full-time and not miss any days. He said he would be out at 6 a.m. to hunt for an
hour or so, head back to the city for work, then hunt again in the evenings. On the weekends, he hunted all day.
He also liked the convenience of driving instead of taking a ski-doo or canoe.
“After the drive, I just take a little walk and I’m there,” he said. “And I’m done setting up by the time I get there.” His Wapekeka morning routine consisted of fill-ing his Thermos, but in the city, “I drop by Tim Hortons or Robins,” he said.
This spring, Tait and his friend ended up with about 30 geese hunting on the farmer’s property. Nakochee said he did not fare as well because he was in British Columbia and North Bay when the geese flew earlier than usual this spring.
In hunting down south, Nako-chee advises all hunters to edu-cate themselves on the rules and regulations.
“It takes a while, especially if you don’t ask,” he said. “You can talk to the (MNR) game warden.”
Nakochee said he will con-tinue to go hunting while living in Timmins and hopes to go back on his traditional grounds in the near future.
“It’s very important me,” he said. “It’s who I am.”
Tait described his first hunting experience near Thunder Bay as “awesome.”
“It provides for me and my family and whoever else I share with,” he said. “It keeps my tradition going and I hope my son continues it too – and I have two younger sons who want to go hunting every chance they get.”
Members of Wakepeka and Fort Albany adapt to hunting laws in south
photos by Henry Beardy/Special to Wawatay News
Zac Tait of Wapekeka First Nation heads to his truck with a day’s catch of geese. The 38-year-old experi-enced his first hunt near Thunder Bay this past spring. In order to hunt in the area, Tait gained permission in a letter from Fort William First Nation, as the region is in their traditional territory.
Top: Wapekeka First Nation’s Zac Tait stands in the marsh with his two youngest sons. Tait said hunting near the city allows him to pass on his traditions.
Below: Tait was able to gain permission from a local farmer to hunt on 100 acres of land. Rather than make a blind, Tait hid in the grass and used goose calls to lure in the geese.
“You can go hunting anywhere that’s Crown land, but you have to be careful of private prop-erty.”
-John-Paul Nakochee
“It keeps my tradition going and I hope my son continues it too.”
-Zac Tait
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Mattagami Beaverfest offers sharing of culture
Lenny CarpenterWawatay News
It was a day of sharing their culture as Mattagami First Nation celebrated the Beaver-fest on April 28.
In its 9th year, the Beaver-fest is an annual celebration and sharing of the Mattagami people’s culture, said Matta-gami First Nation Chief Wal-ter Naveau.
“It’s a way to experience how we lived and share our culture, and show people that this is who we are as First Nations people.”
Naveau said the beaver is a significant part of his people’s culture.
“The beaver was one of our primary food sources,” he said. “It was our food, it was our diet. He helped us to stay more healthy than what we buy in at the store today.”
The beaver also played a big part in the fur trade, as in the past, families spent the winter months out on their traplines and brought fur pelts to the trading post to trade for food or supplies.
Beaverfest featured dem-onstrations of how to skin and roast a beaver, along with stretching and preparing the hide. The event also had music performances, raffle draws, and a community feast that fea-tured, of course, the beaver.
Many of the youth in this 450-member First Nation live off the reserve for school and jobs in nearby Sudbury and Timmins, making it harder to connect to the land. Today just 300 members live on the reserve.
Naveau said by having the demonstrations, it gave the community youth an educa-tional experience.
“It’s a great opportunity for our youth to see with their own eyes and actually learn some of these things that they’ve never done,” he said. “Part of that culture is gone but it’s coming back and by demonstrating to the youth in the community, it brings a sense of pride in who they are.”
Beaverfest was organized by Elder Leonard Naveau in partnership with the Gogama Fur Council.
“It’s tremendous job to bring people in spirit of unity and also in that spirit of harmony where we work together as a nation to welcome all the different tribes: the Crees, Ojibwas, Oji-Crees, the French, you name it,” Chief Naveau said.
Naveau said the first event started off small by Elder Naveau with two beavers and it continues to get bigger every year.
Left: Spring Nakogee of Fort Albany First Nation expresses how she feels about the skinned beaver in front of her. Several beavers were skinned as part of demonstrations for the Mattagami Beaverfest 2012.
Above: Four beavers are roasted over an open fire in preparation for the community feast. Mattagami First Nation Chief Walter Naveau said that the beaver was one of his people’s primary food sources and source of income during the fur trade.
Mattagami Beaverfest allows youth to learn culture and grow sense of pride in who they are: Chief Walter Naveau
Leonard Naveau of Mattagami First Nation skins a beaver as part of demonstrations during the Mattagami Beaverfest 2012. Naveau started the first Beaverfest and has organized the event every year.
photos by Lenny Carpenter/Wawatay News
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Left: A demonstration of stretch-ing the beaver pelt.
Bottom left: Marnie Hunter of Weenusk First Nation tends to geese being roasted while guests look on.
Below: Jessica Echum shows off her t-shirt that is sported by sev-eral other Mattagami women.
Right: Community members and guests help themselves during the community feast.
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Continued from age 1Johnson said it usually takes
four to five days to get over the extreme withdrawals in his Nat-ural Healing program.
“It’s just a matter of having additional supports there for people after that if they need to talk to somebody,” Johnson said. “Or if again, they need to go into a sweat, then those avenues are made available to them.”
Although 15-20 clients usu-ally attend each session of the Natural Healing program, which operates for one week once every month throughout the summer months, John-son said most of his clients are attending for reasons other than prescription drug abuse.
“When we first started get-ting people who were addicted to OxyContin, that’s when we changed our program and started doing sweats every day,” Johnson said.
Johnson said his clients are usually in a different frame of mind after undergoing the Nat-ural Healing program.
“They learn a different way of looking at life,” Johnson said. “We’ve had a lot of positive feed-back from the people who came.”
Johnson said the Natural Healing program includes a teaching lodge and other heal-ing avenues in addition to the sweat lodge.
“Some people will go out on the island and do some healing work,” Johnson said. “There are emotions, so people are given instruction on how to work through that. We also have avail-able to us not only counselling but other forms of therapy, like focusing as an avenue for people that are interested in sitting one on one with somebody.”
Johnson said everyone attending the Natural Heal-ing program is in charge of their own healing and many volunteer to cook break-fast, lunch and supper. “There’s also people working constantly to make sure there is wood for the sweats, grand-fathers and the area is cleaned out,” Johnson said. “So every-body participates.”
The first session of this year’s Natural Healing program is scheduled to begin on May 27.
While Johnson said the Natu-ral Healing program is as effec-tive as other prescription drug abuse programs, he knows of
some clients who started abus-ing prescription drugs again about six to seven months after completing their session.
“But they didn’t have any access to any supports in their community,” Johnson said.
Johnson is now considering setting up a sweat lodge in the Sioux Lookout area to provide services to clients throughout the whole year.
“If you’re dealing with addic-tions like that, you have to be prepared to run sweats every day,” Johnson said. “That takes a lot of resources and a lot of time and energy, but when we’re out at Rainy Lake we have a lot of volunteers.”
Johnson would like to see a healing centre established in Sioux Lookout for housing and treating people through tradi-tional healing methods.
A Health Canada spokes-woman said the National Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Pro-gram and National Youth Solvent Abuse Program both incorporate a combination of mainstream and traditional approaches to support healing from substance use issues, including prescription drug abuse.
“Under the Non-Insured Health Benefits program, Health Canada facilitates access to tra-ditional healers in two ways,” said Olivia Caron, media rela-tions officer with Health Can-ada. “Health Canada will pro-vide coverage for travel, accom-modations and meals for a cli-ent to see a traditional healer, based on specific criteria. When more than one client from the same community would like to access the services of a tradi-tional healer or where it makes more sense to bring the healer to the community, Health Can-ada, under the NIHB Program, will provide coverage for travel and accommodations and meals while in transit for the healer to get to the community.”
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A mother of five wants to increase awareness of policing among children and youth in her community after graduat-ing from Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service’s Auxiliary Constable program.
“It will help me to be a role model in my community,” said Mattagami’s Deanna Heyte, one of 18 auxiliary constables who graduated on May 4 at NAPS headquarters in Thunder Bay. “It will allow them (children and youth) to be able to ask questions and maybe help them in deciding to take a career in policing as well.”
Slate Falls’ Lenny Tyler Loon said the Auxiliary Constable program was “a blast.”
“We undertook firearms training, which was awe-some,” Loon said. “Just hav-ing the NAPS ERT (Emergency Response Team) members training us the entire week was phenomenal. It was really well coordinated and just an awe-some experience in every way.”
Loon is looking forward to serving his own community.
“I’ll be assisting with main-taining the peace and ensuring the law is upheld along with regular constables,” Loon said. “The community will benefit by having one of its own band members out visibly assist-ing the regular NAPS officers. Hopefully, it will make the com-munity more friendly towards the police service.”
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vision to get more community members involved in policing, noting that 18 auxiliary con-stables graduated this year and eight last year. The program has been operating since 2004.
“This is history in the mak-ing,” Chum said, explaining the increase in auxiliary constable
graduates is part of his goal to improve policing in the com-munities. “I’ve been telling the chiefs of our communities that is what my goal is, my vision. We have to start recruiting our own people.”
Chum said the auxiliary con-stables are provided with the
same training as the regular constables.
“They learn how to use batons, pepper spray, hand cuffs, hand-to-hand combat tactics, communications, how to arrest somebody or what the arrest procedures are,” Chum said. “This is the same kind of
training our police officers go through, but it’s the fast ver-sion. They are not going to be carrying a firearm, they are not going to be carrying any weap-ons.”
The auxiliary constables were also trained in First Nation awareness, policy and proce-
dures, physical fitness, fire-arms, Criminal Code law, note-book entries, use of force and defensive tactics.
Attawapiskat’s Martha K. Kataquapit said the Auxiliary Constable program means the future to her and her commu-nity.
“It means my future, it means my people, it means my land, it means a lot to me,” Kataquapit said.
“I just hope I can be an exam-ple for the youth and other peo-ple can encourage them to try something that they never had tried.”
Kataquapit said the training was exciting, challenging and rewarding.
“I met wonderful people,” Kataquapit said. “I loved it; I hope I can do more in the future.”
The auxiliary constables’ role is to assist NAPS police offi-cers by performing 20 hours of volunteer service per month in their communities: Moose Factory, Aroland, Mattagami, Attawapiskat, Constance Lake, Kasabonika, Eabametoong, Slate Falls, Sandy Lake, Neskan-taga, Mishkeegogamang, Webe-quie and Cat Lake.
Moose Factory’s Chris Alisappi said the Auxiliary Con-stable program is a stepping-stone for him to gain experience working with NAPS for a poten-tial career in policing.
“I’m from the community and I know the social issues that are there right now and it will feel pretty great to be involved and to help assist in these issues and even help control it,” Alisappi said.
photo by Rick Garrick/Wawatay News
Nishnawbe-Aski Police Services graduated 18 auxiliary constables on May 4 at the NAPS headquarters in Thunder Bay. NAPS chief of police Claude Chum said the 18 graduates are “history in the making,” noting the Auxiliary Constable program is part of his vision to get more com-munity members involved in policing.
Applications must be received by 4:00 p.m. Friday, May18, 2012. Fax, email or mail your resume complete with statement of personal philosophy of education, copy of Ontario Certifi cate of Qualifi cation and written permission for NNEC to contact three employment references and a brief cover letter to Human Resources at NNEC Head Offi ce in Frenchman’s Head (807)582-3865 fax, email [email protected] or mail to Box 1419, Sioux Lookout, Ontario P8T 1B9.
Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.NNEC requires Criminal Background Checks from those offered positions.
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NORTHERN NISHNAWBEEDUCATION COUNCIL
Secondary Teachers
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NNEC invites applications for full time teaching positions for the 2012-2013 year at Pelican Falls First Nations High School and Wahsa Distance Education Centre..
Pelican Falls First Nations High School and Wahsa Distance Education Centre is operated by the Northern Nishnawbe Education Council under the direction of District Chiefs and First Nation communities. Pelican Falls First Nations High School is a unique facility that is located on Pelican Lake in the traditional territory of Lac Seul First Nation and within the Municipality of Sioux Lookout, Ontario. Wahsa Distance Education Centre provides secondary education services to northern communities across the Sioux Lookout district by radio and Independent Learning courses. Wahsa develops, delivers, and co-ordinates courses, training, and support services in consultation with participating First Nations..
Teaching positions are full time with additional teaching assignments.
NNEC provides:• Competitive salary• Extended vacation periods• Established student support staff and counselling network
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS• Certifi cate of Qualifi cations and Intermediate/Senior
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FIRST NATION POLICE CONSTABLE
The community New Saugeen First Nation is currently accepting applications from mature, motivated, community-oriented people to fi ll an opening with the Ojibway Nation of Saugeen Police Service. This permanent constable position works for New Saugeen First Nation and is administered by the Ontario Provincial Police. The community is 140 km north of Ignace, ON.
ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS: • Currently active as a sworn police offi cer • Grade 12 with Ontario Secondary School Graduation Diploma • Valid Ontario Drivers License in good standing • 19 years of age or older • No criminal record for which a pardon has not been granted • Be of good moral character and habits • Must submit a current medical certifi cate and be in good health,
mentally and physically suitable for active full time duty • Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS: • Diploma graduate of an Ontario credited Law and Security Program • Other post secondary studies in law and justice or native studies • Preference will be given to a sworn police offi cer. • Further information can be obtained by contacting Sgt. Marty
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DEADLINE: Friday, May 31st 2012 at 4:00pm. Late applications will not be accepted. Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Submit applications to:
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20120510 OPP New Saugeen Cst Job AdResidential Counsellors are required for casual and part time positions. Team members will be responsible for carrying out daily programming, facilitating groups, case conferencing and supervision of clients.
QUALIFICATIONS• Child and Youth Worker diploma and/or related
discipline;• Experience working with youth in a residential treatment
setting;• Must have experience and understanding of Native
culture, and of the geographic realities and social conditions within remote First Nation Communities;
• Work experience in Residential Services with children, adolescents, and families.
KNOWLEDGE & ABILITY• A thorough understanding of the Child & Family Services
Act and Mental Health Act a defi nite asset;• Ability to communicate in one or more of the First
Nations dialects of the Sioux Lookout District will be an asset;
• Ability to take direction and facilitate individualized treatment plans;
• Must be willing to relocate if applicable.
Please send cover letter, resume, three most recent employment references and an up-to-date Criminal Reference Check with a Search of the Pardoned Sexual Offender Registry to:
Human Resources DepartmentSioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority
61 Queen Street, P.O. Box 1300Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1B8
The Health Authority wishes to thank all applicants in advance. However, only those granted an
interview will be contacted.
For additional information regarding the Health Authority, please visit our Web-site at www.slfnha.com
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Crystal Davey spent much of her early childhood moving from home to home and school to school.
The Rocky Bay First Nation member grew up as a Crown ward and attended over 40 schools by the time she was 10 years old. Then she came under the care of Dilico Anishi-nabek Family Care and her life improved from there.
Now the 28-year-old is a spokesperson for the Dilico Children’s Foundation’s Aim High campaign, which is aimed at raising awareness and funds for its various educational programs for children in care. The campaign was launched in response to the growing demand for financial assistance felt by youth pursuing higher education and career opportu-nities.
Among the programs is the Rising Eagle Bursary Fund, which is an option for the 6,000-plus children and youth who access the child welfare and mental health services offered by Dilico Anishinabek Family Care each year. The pro-gram provides education incen-tives, cultural opportunities, scholarships and bursaries to youth who demonstrate merit and financial need.
As a child who grew up in care, Davey understands first-hand the impact and incentive receiving financial assistance can have on a child.
Dilico launches Aim High campaign for youth education
“I received an award when I was in high school and I can see that the kids thought that was pretty amazing and I could see that kids are really excited to be appreciated and recognized for positive things rather than the negative stuff,” she said.
Davey grew into a role model for the other children and was the first person under Dilico’s care to attend post-secondary school. She entered into a three-year compressed Bach-
elor of Science in nursing pro-gram where she achieved first class standing. Then she began work as a full-time pediatric registered nurse and went on to complete a master’s degree in public health nursing, where she also earned a nurse practi-tioner certificate.
Davey is now nurse practitio-ner with Dilico’s Family Health Team.
“With Dilico’s help and my foster parents, they encour-
aged me to stay in school and continue on and be whoever I wanted to be,” Davey said.
Over half of Canada’s Aborig-inal population is expected to be 25 years of age or younger by 2020. Davey said the need to support and promote education and training among this group is important, which is why she agreed to be the campaign spokesperson.
“I want to continue to be a positive role model for Aborigi-nal kids and foster kids and continue on to follow their dreams,” she said. Davey plans on continuing her education by going to medical school.
The Aim High campaign launch was marked with a $5,000 donation made by TD Bank to be awarded to a deserv-ing student pursuing post-sec-ondary education this fall.
“We are absolutely thrilled to provide this award to a deserv-ing student and we are very excited about the opportunity to offer a mentorship compo-nent as well,” said Rich Coul-terman, district vice-president of TD’s northwestern Ontario commercial banking group in a press release. “Aboriginal youth are key to the success of our community and being here today to encourage them to aim high in their achievements is an amazing thing.”
For more information about the Aim High campaign or to donate to the Rising Eagle Bur-sary Fund, interested parties can visit www.dilicochildrens-foundation.com.
Program aims to provide post-secondary funding for students in child welfare system
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Dilico Children’s Foundation board member Celina Reitberger pic-tured with Aim High campaign spokeswoman Crystal Davey after accepting a $5, 000 Soar to Success award from TD Bank’s north western Ontario commercial banking group.
Powwow honours children on Earth Day
Raven Spade (left) with her new born son DeAndre Spade-Twance and Chelsea Dault with her one-year-old daughter Angela Achneep-ineskun at the annual Tiny Tots Powwow held April 30 at the Boys and Girls Club of Thunder Bay.
Photos by Chris Kornacki
Chelsea Dault walks around the powwow circle with her three-year-old son Jacob Achneepineskun. Jeff Neekar lead the drum. The various Native Organizations helping with the event were the Metis Nation of Ontario, Thunder Bay Indian Friendship Centre, Ontario Native Women’s Association, Anishaawbe Mushkiki and others. The event has been held on Earth Day for the past five years to honour children aged 0-6 years of age.
INSPECTIONApproved 2012–2013 Annual Work ScheduleOgoki Forest
The Nipigon District of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) has reviewed and approved the Long Lake Forest Products Inc. April 1, 2012–March 31, 2013 Annual Work Schedule (AWS) for the Ogoki Forest.
Availability
The AWS will be available for public inspection at the GreenForest Management Inc. office in Thunder Bay and the MNR public website at ontario.ca/forestplans beginning Wednesday, May 9, 2012 and throughout the one-year duration. Ontario Government Information Centres at 5 Wadsworth Drive in Nipigon and 208 Beamish Avenue West in Geraldton provide access to the Internet.
Scheduled Forest Management Operations
The AWS describes forest management activities such as road construction, maintenance and decommissioning, forestry aggregate pits, harvest, site preparation, tree planting and tending that are scheduled to occur during the year.
Tree Planting and Fuelwood
Long Lake Forest Products Inc. is responsible for tree planting on the Ogoki Forest. For information regarding tree planting job opportunities, please contact Ryan Murphy at 807-343-6471.
For information on the locations and licence requirements for obtaining fuelwood for personal or commercial use, please contact Ben Bartlett at the Nipigon District MNR Office.
More Information
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The 16-year-old from Moose Factory watched the 2010 wom-en’s Olympics hockey tourna-ment with stars in her eyes.
When it was all over, Lin-klater knew that was where she wanted to be.
“Watching the girls win the gold at the Olympics, I want that experience,” Linklater says. “It made me want to keep going with hockey.”
Linklater will take a big step towards her goal when she laces up the skates for Team Ontario at the National Aboriginal Hockey Championships in Sas-katoon, Sask. from May 6-12.
Linklater is the first girl from Moose Factory to ever make the team, and at only 16, one of the youngest.
Both the girls and the boys
team met for the first time in Toronto on May 5, before flying to Saskatoon that day and start-ing practices as a team.
The teams were assembled through a series of tryouts held across Ontario. Most of the players are new to the squads, having never played together before, so one of the first chal-lenges was to bond quickly before games start on May 7.
Linklater comes from the most northernly community, but she is certainly not the only girl from northern Ontario. Team Ontario features five play-ers from northern Ontario, and another five from the North Bay and Sudbury region.
Bailey Meawasige is another newcomer to the team. Mea-wasige, of Fort William First Nation, was one of only three players from northwestern Ontario to make the team out of the tryout in Thunder Bay. But while Meawasige is technically
a rookie at the tournament, at 20 she is one of the oldest play-ers on the team and she knows
the coaches are going to look to her for veteran leadership.
“I look forward to doing any-thing I can to help out, to be a leader as one of the older play-ers,” Meawasige said.
Meawasige also has an advantage from playing her minor hockey in the Thunder Bay hockey system, against stiff competition. As a young girl she played boys hockey, only switching to girls hockey at the age of 13. And she said her younger brother also pushed
her, as they played together year after year with a lot of sib-ling rivalry.
“Playing boys hockey showed me how to be aggressive, and play with a little more contact,” she said with a laugh.
Another veteran on the girls team is Roberta Mamakwa of Sioux Lookout, a Kingfisher Lake band member. Mamakwa was on the silver-medalist Team Ontario in 2010, the last time Ontario put a girls team in the tournament.
Mamakwa said she knows how tough it was not only to adapt to a higher level of hockey than what most of the girls were used to, but also to adapt so quickly and do so with a new group of players who have only a day of practice together before the tournament begins.
But she said her experience in 2010 has increased her con-fidence as a player, and she knows she will be called on to
use those experiences in a lead-ership role this time around.
“I learned a lot from the older girls (in 2010) about how to lead the team, how to be pre-pared to play every day and how to motivate the younger players to play hard,” Mamakwa said. “I’m pretty confident to go play over there.”
Meanwhile on the boys side, Lac Seul is sending a host of players to the team. Five boys from the community have made the team, an unprecedented number of players from the same community.
Johnathan Carpenter returns to the team, one year more experienced than he was when he played as a 15-year-old on the 2011 bronze medal-winning Team Ontario.
Carpenter said he expects to do even better than last year, now that he has another year of experience under his belt.
He said the fact that so many
players are coming from Lac Seul will make it easier for the team to bond in a tournament where they have never played together before.
“It’s pretty good to represent our reserve this way,” Carpen-ter said. “Most of us have been playing together since we were younger.”
Carpenter also knows first hand how good it is for the younger children on the reserve to see guys his age succeeding in hockey. He said he regularly has little kids asking him where he’s playing and how his hockey career is coming along.
“I guess we’re kind of role models in our community,” he said.
The round robin part of the tournament finishes on May 8, after each team has played three games. From there the teams will be divided into seeds for the knockout round from May 9-12.
Team Ontario looks north for skills, leadership
“I look forward to doing anything I can to help out, to be a leader as one of the older play-ers.”
-Fort William First Nation’s Bailey
Ontario’s male team at this year’s National Aboriginal Hockey Championship has an Eagle’s flair - with five players from Lac Seul making the squad. The team won a bronze medal at last year’s championships, and looking to up that this year.
Roberta Mamakwa of Kingfisher Lake will be called on to be a leader, as she played on the silver-medal winning Ontario team in 2010.
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Joyce AtchesonSpecial to Wawatay News
The pain of loss is heartfelt for youth who must manage it with limited resources. Loss through a parent’s extramari-tal affair, a friend’s or brother’s suicide, Alzheimer’s taking a well-loved grandparent to an unknown place you can’t reach, moving to a place where you are an outsider, parents’ drink-ing and leaving children alone, fetal alcohol affecting a sibling, or car accidents can lead to despair when you have no one to share with or who thinks as you do.
This easy to read book com-piled by Ann Walsh with chap-ters written by 13 authors brings reality home with its depth and breadth of experi-ences. How do you handle taking a grandmother to an
appointment when she starts to sing at the top of her lungs on the bus? What do your friends who are on the same bus think? How do you tell your dad that his new lady friend and bed mate is not the woman you want in your life? How do you balance talking with mom and dad when this happens? Why did she die? What made her go out late at night and not come home until she was so drunk that she died of alcohol poi-soning? Why do parents care so little about themselves that they drink all the time? Why don’t they care about us? What is wrong with us that they need to drink to push us away?
Out of the pits of despair these writers emerge with sto-ries of how they came to write to handle their own dark times. One wrote her first story under the dining room table. Another
wrote a story and went door-to-door to sell it for money they needed. The dark times bring forth warriors and survivors and that’s a strong message from this enlightening book.
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Dark Times -- Ann Walsh, editor (Ronsdale Press, Vancouver, BC; 2005; ISBN 1-55380-028-1; 183 pages; $9.95)
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2012 Keewaywin AwardsIn recognition of outstanding achievements
and dedication to the people ofNishnawbe Aski Nation
Nominate someone from your community today!Nomination deadline is July 3, 2012
Categories:NAN Women Award
NAN Elder AwardEmile Nakogee for Outstanding Leadership Award
NAN Youth Award
Awards to be presented at XXXI Keewaywin ConferenceKashechewan First Nation August 2012
Nomination forms are available at nan.on.caOr by calling 1-800-465-9952
Nishnawbe Aski Nation35 Years of Unity, Strength, Success
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24th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGSaturday, June 23, 2012
9:30 a.m.
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photo by James Benson/Special to Wawatay NewsA North Caribou Nurse takes part in a challenge in a mud pie throwing contest while Health Direc-tor Tina Quequish and six-year-old Timmy Chikane throw the bowl of mud over the nurse’s head. This was part of a fundraiser to bring in the SuboxoneTreatment Program into the community.
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“Ask the NWMO” is an advertising feature published regularly in this and other community newspapers to respond to readers’ questions about Canada’s plan for managing used nuclear fuel over the long term and its implementation. The Nuclear Waste Management Organization welcomes your questions. Please forward your questions to [email protected].
« Demandez-le à la SGDN » est un encadré publicitaire qui paraîtra régulièrement dans ce journal et dans d’autres journaux de la collectivité pour répondre aux questions que se posent les lecteurs sur le plan canadien de gestion à long terme du combustible nucléaire irradié et de sa mise en oeuvre. La Société de gestion des déchets nucléaires
attend vos questions. Veuillez envoyer vos questions à [email protected].
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Sean Russell is the Director of Adaptive Phased Management Repository Research and Development at the Nuclear Waste Management Organization. He has worked more than 30 years in Canadian programs for managing used nuclear fuel and low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste. He provided key technical support to the NWMO for the development of conceptual designs and cost estimates for various approaches to the long-term management of nuclear fuel waste, and was one of the principal authors of the NWMO’s 2005 Final Study and recommendations to the Government of Canada, Choosing a Way Forward: the Future Management of Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel.
Sean Russell est le directeur de la recherche-développement pour le dépôt de la Gestion adaptative progressive à la Société de gestion des déchets nucléaires. Il a travaillé pendant plus de 30 ans pour des programmes canadiens de gestion du combustible nucléaire irradié et de déchets de faible et moyenne activité. Il a fourni à la SGDN un soutien technique de premier plan pour la mise au point des modèles conceptuels et l’estimation des coûts liés aux diverses approches de gestion à long terme des déchets de combustible nucléaire, et il a collaboré à la rédaction en 2005 de l’Étude finale de la SGDN et aux recommandations formulées au gouvernement du Canada, Choisir une voie pour l ’avenir : L’avenir de la gestion du combustible nucléaire irradié au Canada.
The Deep Geological Repository is the preferred choice of Canadians
The Government of Canada asked the NWMO to conduct a study of possible approaches for the long-term management of used nuclear fuelin Canada. The study focused on three approaches identified by the Government of Canada: deep geological disposal; storage at nuclearreactor sites; and centralized storage. The study also examined 11 other approaches that have been discussed internationally.
The NWMO involved a broad cross-section of Canadians in discussions about these approaches. The approach that was identified by Canadians as the one that best meets their values and objectives was an approach which draws elements from several approaches. This approach was named Adaptive Phased Management. It was adopted as Canada’s plan for the long-term management of used nuclear fuel by the Government of Canada in June 2007. The ultimate goal of Adaptive Phased Management is the centralized containment and isolation of the used fuel in a deep geological repository.
Canadians also identified other necessary components that are included in the plan: flexibility in the pace and manner of implementation; ongoing robust research program; potential for retrievability of the used fuel for an extended period; continuous monitoring of the used fuel; ongoing public involvement; and the need to seek an informed and willing community to host the deep geological repository.
The Deep Geological Repository best addresses our responsibility to future generations
Canadians involved in the study told the NWMO that we should not rely on the existence of strong institutions, long-term funding and active management capacity over many, many thousands of years into the future in order to manage the waste we have created today.
A deep geological repository uses a combination of engineered and natural barriers to contain and isolate the used fuel from people and the environment over the very long term. A deep geological repository can be actively managed and monitored for as long as society wishes to do so. A deep geological repository can also be sealed at a future date, when the community, the NWMO and regulators agree that it is appropriate to do so. A deep geological repository would be passively safe and would not rely upon human institutions and active management in order to contain and isolate used fuel from people and the environment over the long term.
The Deep Geological Repository is a high-technology facility
A deep geological repository for used nuclear fuel is a high-technology national infrastructure project. It involves the development of a multiple-barrier system designed to safely contain and isolate used nuclear fuel over the long term. It will be constructed at a depth of approximately 500 metres, depending upon the geology of the site, and will consist of a network of placement rooms for the used fuel.
Used fuel will be loaded into specially designed and certified containers at the reactor sites and transported to the repository site where it will be repackaged in long-lived, corrosion-resistant containers for placement in the repository. The containers will be lowered through a shaft and transported underground to one of many placement rooms. The containers will be placed in vertical or horizontal boreholes drilled into the rock. They will then be sealed using bentonite clay, a natural, proven-effective sealing material.
The used fuel will be monitored throughout all phases of implementation. It will also be retrievable at all times. The access tunnels and shafts will be backfilled and sealed only when the community, the NWMO and regulators agree that it is appropriate, and postclosure monitoring can then be implemented.
Le dépôt géologique en profondeur est l’approche privilégiée par les Canadiens
Le gouvernement du Canada a demandé à la SGDN de réaliser une étude des approches possibles de gestion à long terme du combustible nucléaire irradié au Canada. L’étude prenait en considération trois approches envisagées par le gouvernement du Canada : le stockage en couche géologique profonde; l’entreposage sur les sites des réacteurs; et l’entreposage centralisé. La SGDN a également examiné 11 autres approches qui avaient été envisagées de par le monde.
La SGDN a engagé un large éventail de Canadiens à discuter de ces approches. Celle qui a été privilégiée par les Canadiens a été choisie parce qu’elle correspondait le mieux à leurs valeurs et à leurs objectifs. Elle est constituée d’éléments de plusieurs des approches étudiées. Elle a été appelée la Gestion adaptative progressive. En juin 2007, le gouvernement du Canada l’a adoptée comme plan de gestion à long terme du combustible nucléaire irradié. Le but ultime de la Gestion adaptative progressive est le confinement et l’isolement centralisés du combustible irradié dans un dépôt géologique en profondeur.
Les Canadiens ont aussi identifié d’autres éléments essentiels qui sont inclus dans le plan : une flexibilité dans l’échéancier et la méthode de mise en œuvre; un solide programme continu de recherche; la possibilité de récupérer le combustible irradié pendant une période prolongée; la surveillance continue du combustible irradié; la participation continue du public; et l’exigence de trouver une collectivité informée qui consentira à accueillir le dépôt géologique en profondeur.
Le dépôt géologique en profondeur est l’approche qui permet le mieux de nous acquitter de notre responsabilité envers les générations futures
Les Canadiens qui ont participé à l’étude ont dit à la SGDN que nous ne devrions pas compter sur l’hypothèse que des institutions fortes, un financement à long terme et une capacité active de gestion seront disponibles pendant plusieurs milliers d’années pour gérer les déchets que nous avons créés.
Un dépôt géologique en profondeur mise sur une combinaison de barrières ouvragées et naturelles pour confiner et isoler à très long terme le combustible irradié de la population et de l’environnement. Il peut être activement géré et surveillé pour aussi longtemps qu’une société le souhaite. Il pourra également être scellé le jour où la collectivité, la SGDN et les autorités réglementaires conviendront que le temps est venu de le faire. Un dépôt géologique en profondeur serait passivement sûr et ne dépendrait pas d’institutions humaines et d’une gestion active pour confiner et isoler à long terme le combustible irradié de la population et de l’environnement.
Le dépôt géologique en profondeur est une installation de haute technologie
Le dépôt géologique en profondeur de combustible nucléaire irradié se veut un projet d’infrastructure national de haute technologie. Il comprend le développement d’un système à barrières multiples destiné à confiner et à isoler à long terme et de manière sûre le combustible nucléaire irradié. Le dépôt sera construit à une profondeur d’approximativement 500 mètres, selon la géologie du site choisi, et consistera en un réseau de salles de mise en place de combustible irradié.
Le combustible irradié sera chargé dans des conteneurs spécialement conçus et homologués à cet effet sur les sites des réacteurs et acheminé vers le site du dépôt où il sera remballé dans des conteneurs de longue durée résistant à la corrosion avant d’être placé dans le dépôt. Les conteneurs seront descendus à travers un puits et transportés sous terre vers une des nombreuses salles de mise en place. Ils seront logés dans des trous forés verticalement ou horizontalement dans la roche. Les salles seront ensuite scellées à l’aide d’argile de bentonite, un matériau naturel dont les propriétés d’étanchéité ont été démontrées.
Le combustible irradié sera surveillé pendant toutes les phases de la mise en œuvre. Il demeurera de plus récupérable en tout temps. Les galeries et puits d’accès ne seront remblayés et scellés que lorsque la collectivité, la SGDN et les autorités réglementaires jugeront que le temps est venu de le faire. La surveillance post-fermeture commencera alors.
Why is the NWMO pursuing a Deep Geological Repository? Pourquoi la SGDN planifie-t-elle la construction d’un dépôt géologique en profondeur?
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