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Pipeline unites First Nations Bill Phillips editor@pgfreepress.com The Joint Review Panel’s conditional approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline has certainly brought First Nations together. The tough part for Enbridge, though, is that it hasn’t brought them together to endorse the project. “If we look at the First Nations of the North, and even the province, there’s quite a solidarity on this issue,” says Ross Hoffman, Associate Professor of First Nations Studies at UNBC. “It’s a solidarity that I haven’t seen in many, many years … It’s been a long time since we’ve seen pretty well every leader in this province who represents a community, or a nation, standing together on something.” Hoffman says he expects the issue will end up in the courts, which may serve to unite First Nations communities even more and bring to a head the issues around land claims in B.C. “It’s unfinished business, in the sense that when Brit-
ish Columbia became a province, the federal governneed to deal with this matter and negotiation was the ment was stating to them they need to deal with the recommendation,” he says, adding it’s not that attempts aboriginal land question,” he says. “The province rehaven’t been made but “it needs to be a major focus.” fused. That’s why we’re in this place today where there’s Enbridge has made attempts to reach agreements with 20 years of treaty negotiations with not a great deal of First Nations, giving part ownership of the project to progress.” bands that sign on. And the province, in dealing A good portion of the Northern Gateway with mines and other development, has develpipeline will go through un-ceded territory. oped revenue-sharing plans with First Nations. Hoffman says the federal government Hoffman, however, says these types of plans should have put more energy into resolving aren’t the solution. the land claims issue, knowing that issues “I don’t believe it’s a corporate responsibility,” such as the Northern Gateway pipeline were he says. “I think negotiated deals with corporalooming on the horizon. tions are a way to avoid the more lengthy, ongo“I think they really dropped the ball on ing, positive solutions,” he says. “Those deals this one,” he says. “This could have been part corporations make with individual nations can of that process.” be divisive.” Even with landmark cases such as Calder He says it is a political, legal matter that needs in 1973 and Delgamuukw in 1997, there was UNBC to be addressed at that level first. an urging, by the courts, to negotiate treaties He adds that First Nations are not against ROSS HOFFMAN rather than let the courts decide. economic development. “There’s another example of where the message went “They want to be involved in the discussion, in a really to the federal and provincial governments, saying you meaningful way,” he says.
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Allan Wishart allanw@pgfreepress.com Monday was a good day to be working on the ice. Four volunteers were out at the Outdoor Ice Oval behind the CN Centre around 9 a.m., planning the morning’s activity. Jeremy Campbell makes his way down to the ice surface to take a look at the conditions. “You can see people have been skating on it,” he says. “There’s some ice dust that we’ll want to clean off.” A quick look tells him all he really needed to know to start planning the morning maintenance. “We’ll go over it with the broom to get rid of the ice dust, then use the water truck to put another layer on it. It still looks pretty thin in some spots.” It’s been a tough year for the Oval, which has yo-yoed between being open and closed as the weather changes. The original official opening in December was pushed back because of the city employees’ one-day strike, and large dumps of snow and above-freezing temperatures also made it difficult to keep the surface useable. “Now,” Campbell says, “we can hopefully get it ready to go for the rest of the winter – and this year, who knows how long that will be.” Dave Sharcott joins Campbell on the ice. Campbell explains the ideas he had for the morning, and gives Sharcott some advice on how to use the brushing machine. “I’m still just learning,” Sharcott says with a smile. “Jeremy’s the boss.” Back up in the parking area, both head over to the “Beef Barn,” which is a former livestock facility now used to store the ice oval equipment. Barry Bertrand pulls up by the barn and greets the others. “You want me to do the brushing?” he asks Campbell. Campbell says yes, but that he wants Sharcott to get some experience on the machine as well. Inside the barn sat the equipment used to keep the ice oval in shape. The largest piece was the water truck, with a pair of smaller machines on either side. One of them had a brush attached to the front, while the other had a blade for clearing larger amounts of snow. “We’ve also got a snowblower attachment that we can switch in if we have to,” Campbell says. As Campbell works on getting the water truck ready to go and Sharcott heads back to the oval to clear things like tables
and signs out of the way, Bertrand gets the brushing machine fired up. As he starts to roll out of the barn, Lyle Dickieson arrivs. He checks with Campbell to see if it might be worthwhile switching the snowblower on to the bladed machine. Campbell asks Bertrand to hold on for a second while they examine that option, but in the end, they decide to go with the brushing, a scrape with the small Zamboni they had donated a couple of years ago, and then a layer of water. Bertrand resumes his ride towards the oval, getting a salute RUN • from Campbell as he passes. “He used to drive a tank,” Campbell explains, “so I always salute him when he goes by.” Dickieson heads off to the small building attached to the CN Centre where the Zamboni was housed, and Campbell drives the water truck to the same location to pick up a couple of pieces of equipment. “There are a couple of things we like to keep in the heated room,” he says as he climbs back into the truck. Bertrand is, by now, brushing the snow off the ice, and is joined by Dickieson in the Zamboni scraping the surface. Campbell takes the water truck to one of the hydrants near the oval, and is joined by Sharcott to hook up and get a load of water. “The city has been great in working with us,” Campbell says, adjusting an anti-backup valve on the hose. “This valve is designed
to make sure that if we overfill the truck, the water won’t go back into the system they use at the rink.” It was just another day at the oval for the four. “A lot of times,” Campbell says, “there’s only three of us, so having the fourth man is a luxury. We’re always looking for volunteers.” He says the crews who work in the morning (his crew does Monday, Wednesday and Friday, another one does Tuesday and Thursday) are mainly retired people. “We’ll all worked with equipment at some point, so we’re familiar with it.”
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Melanie Desjardines with pieces from her new art exhibit on display at Groop Gallery on Third Avenue. View by appointment until March 2014.
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project which brought back some organization in my life. So in that way it was very therapeutic.” Desjardines is a self-taught artist who discovered her love of creating art through watercolours. However, because she and her husband own a sheet metal shop, she found herself surrounded by this “magical” material and that has meant she’s been able to experiment with new materials for a rather unique canvas. The artist uses acrylics, found items, collage and rust techniques to create imaginative works on sheet metal for a contempo-
pieces in metal went up. “I call it my O.C.D. series (Obsession with Color and Design) but it was really a therapy process,” Desjardines told the Free Press. “They are all very geometric, almost architectural works and through the use of color, balance and dimension, they tend to instill a sense or perception of a memory or a place.” Desjardines said the orderly nature of the art and its installation helped restore a sense of order in her personal life. “I’ve had a lot of adversity in my life this past year and so for me, this was a fun
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COLDSNAP Coldsnap 2014 gets underway Jan. 24 at the Ramada Ballroom with opening ceremonies and from the Peak Performance Project: The Boom Booms and Dear Rouge. On Saturday, Jan. 25 at the Ramada Ballroom the Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer, Miss Quincy and the Showdown and PG Idol winner David Baycroft will perform in the Rocking Raunchy Roots and Blues concert. The Newly Blended Melodies and Harmonies concert plays Sunday, Jan. 26 at the Prince George Playhouse and features Catherine MacLellan, Red Moon Road and Rosewood’s Diary. Smokin’ Hot Vocals runs Tuesday, Jan. 28 at the PG Playhouse featuring Royal Wood, David Myles and Ali Henry and the Northern Boys. Verse, Ballads and Slam on Wednesday, Jan. 29 at UNBC Canfor Theatre featuring Brendan McLeod, Poetry SLAM and an open mic. American Acoustic and Country Blues Friday, Jan. 31 at the PG Playhouse featuring Jerron “Blind Boy’ Paxton and Peter Lang. On Saturday, Feb. 1 at the Coast Inn of the North there will be a Spicy Latin Jazz an Afro-Cuban Dance Party featuring Rumba Calzada, Andino Suns and NBC Latino-Canadian Society.
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Boom Booms set for Coldsnap Teresa Mallam arts@pgfreepress.com The Vancouver-based band The Boom Booms take to the stage at Coldsnap Winter Music Festival in Prince George this month. They will be taking part in a workshop and performing at Youth Around Prince George (YAP) Friday, Jan. 24. Aaron Ross, lead singer and guitarist for The Boom Booms, spoke with the Free Press Wednesday from Vancouver about their music and the origins of their grassroots environmental organization The Music Tree. “This all had very humble beginnings. My brother Sean and I, and some of our friends we grew up with, just got together with other bands from our [East Vancouver] neighbourhood, we built a stage
and just started playing music and building it into a community event. We called it the Boom Boom Block Party. We were all committed to the same things around sustainability and so we began raising money and it just kind of went from there.” Indeed, they raised over $20,000 for organizations such as Environmental Youth Alliance (EYA), an inner city youth group and also The Music Tree, an organization co-founded by Ross that is committed to greening the planet by inspiring people to get involved in community building and selfsustainability projects. Besides Aaron and Sean Ross (vocals, cavaquinho), other band members are Geordie Hart, bass, vocals; Tom Van Deursen, electric guitar, vocals; Theo Vincent, percussion, vocals and Richard Brinkman on drums.
Today they are working on their new album to be released in the spring and they’re already getting “good radio play” at stations across the country for their single, Real Love, says Ross. It’s true, (just as the group’s bio states) that these friends and bandmates once worked at tree-planting camps in British Columbia, planting trees by day and creating and performing their music by night – mostly for their own entertainment. When the planting season ended, that’s when they decided to put together the Boom Boom Block Party, which became a hit with East Vancouver residents. Asked what name they give to their own brand of music, band members came in with their own diverse music genres from Ross’ reggae and folk to Hart’s jazz and Brinkman’s rock ‘n’ roll. Well, it all meshed magi-
Real estate market sees gains Real estate prices in Prince George continued to slowly edge upwards in 2013, according to figures released by the B.C. Northern Real Estate Board. In the City of Prince George, 1,291 properties worth $314 million sold in 2013, compared with 1,244 properties worth $294 million in 2012. At year-end there were 639 properties of all types available through MLS® compared to 620 properties at the end of 2012. “The BC Northern area continued its upward trend in sales volumes for the fourth year in a row and the average sale price for the entire area rose by over four per cent,” said Gisela Janzen, board president. “Markets in the northwest region performed extremely well, mostly driven by large economic projects and developments. Markets in the south-
ern region remained largely unchanged from the previous year mainly due to a poorly performing labour market. Overall B.C. Northern appears to be most resilient in this post recession period when compared to the rest of the province.” In Prince George the average selling price of single-family home has gone from $246,484 in 2011 to $259,962 in 2013. In the area west of the by-pass, half of the 290 single-family homes sold in 2013, sold for less than $230,250. As well, 20 apartment units and 33 townhomes changed hands in 2013. As of December 31 there were 44 single family homes listed through the Multiple Listing Service in this area of the city, compared to 58 at the same time last year.
cally to a point where Ross says: “Right now we’re calling it world soul.” In 2011, The Boom Booms released their debut album, Hot Rum, which earned the indie band a spot in the Peak Performance Project, B.C.’s prestigious contest for emerging musicians. They won second place and a cash prize of $75,000 which they used to pursue their passion for music, travel and culture to Brazil where they travelled up the Amazon River. The footage from the adventure was turned into an online music and travel documentary called Boom Boom Brazil. The band’s trip records live shows, interviews with activists, jams with local musicians and a cameo appearance by the band’s idol, Manu Chao.
“The experience was a crossroads both musically and spiritually for us,” says Ross in the band’s press release. “It steered us from having a hobby and a way to see the world, to having a career and a way to change it.” After the release of their new album in the spring, Ross says the band plans to spend time touring the west coast and parts of the U.S. The Boom Booms will be at Coldsnap Winter Music Festival 2014 for a workshop and performance with CBC Radio One’s special Livin’ in the VLA at Youth Around Prince George (YAP) 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24. For more information on the band visit www.theboombooms. com or follow them on Facebook and Twitter.
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Art that asks questions Teresa Mallam arts@pgfreepress.com Photographer Alex Moffat’s solo exhibition The Ancients, which opens Jan. 16 at Studio 2880, is likely to stir hearts and raise questions. Moffat hopes it will do even more. “All photographers aspire to engage their viewer and get them to see what
they see when they look through the lens,” he said, “but this (The Ancients) allows them to look for and find deeper understanding. So in a way, it’s a search for spirituality. If they look, ask questions and open themselves up to the possibility, they see the light on the branches ... and the souls of the trees or the spirits of the forests that reside there.” The Ancients contains works by Moffat that began with a few photos that were out of focus but created an interesting
image. The photographs were taken over the course of about three years. Moffat says he began changing direction in his photography after attending a photography workshop in Santa Fe which “focused” on light a few years ago and he came away with a greater appreciation for the way light appeared to change things. On subsequent walks closer to home, through the Ancient Forest, an old-growth cedar forest between Prince George and McBride, the photographer began to see
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