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OPINION: A tale of two refugees - Northern Ontario Business

Our responses are similar, but by no means identical, and they are demonstrably not equally effective. These thoughts struck me as I listened to an exchange at the recent immigration forum held in Thunder Bay. The exchange was between one of the panellists and one of the Indigenous singers who had been invited to set the tone for the day – one of welcoming and reflection. The panellist was a recent refugee arrival, a new homeowner, and was presented as a case study for successful emergency immigration to Canada. He spoke about the important role his host family played in helping his family learn about their new community. Not just where the bus stops and grocery stores were, but being an advocate and interpreter for them at the bank, with education institutions, health providers and, most critically, in the workplace, where cultural differences had to be adapted to and overcome, on both sides. He and his wife, who was also on the panel, spoke glowingly about the settlement supports they and their children had received since coming to this country. The Indigenous singer was also not from Thunder Bay. Like the panellist, she talked of her struggles in her home community, and what drove her to seek a better life else...
https://www.northernontariobusiness.com/columns/opinion-a-tale-of-two-refugees-1327298

Online fundraiser launched to support Jacob family and Webequie community - Tbnewswatch.com

THUNDER BAY -- An online fundraising page has been created in the memory of Braiden Jacob after the teen's body was found in the city over the weekend. The 17-year-old from Webequie First Nation was in Thunder Bay accessing trauma and grief counselling services when he did not return to his hotel room on Dec. 5. A missing person report was filed with police on Dec. 6 and his body was found on Sunday morning on the golf course at Chapples Park. A GoFundMe drive has been launched for the Jacob family and Webequie First Nation with a goal of raising $100,000. "Funds will go directly to the Jacob family while they are in Thunder Bay awaiting the post-mortem results, charter flights to bring Braiden's body and his family back home to Webequie, funeral costs in the remote community, as well as immediate grief and trauma counselling for the family and community members and other associated costs," the fundraiser description reads. "We are asking for support from the community of T...
https://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/online-fundraiser-launched-to-support-jacob-family-and-webequie-community-1155091

Unsettling questions surround death of Timothy Atlookan in Thunder Bay - CBC.ca

Donna Atlookan weeps in the arms of a friend by the tree in the park across from the Thunder Bay courthouse where she said her son was found dead by hanging in October.The Thunder Bay police continue to investigate the Oct. 29 death of Timothy Atlookan, 25, that may not be what it appeared to be at first.Donna Atlookan said the coroner told her during a phone conversation that her son was found with a sweater or a jacket tied to his neck by the tree in Patterson Park.She doesn't know exactly how he was found, whether he was already on the ground or still hanging. Her memory comes back in fragments from the fog and haze of pain in the days after the death.She said the coroner suggested it was suicide.Timothy Atlookan, 25, was found dead in a Thunder Bay park on Oct. 29. (Submitted by Donna Atlookan)"It sounded like he was found hanging, that he died of asphyxiation," said Donna Atlookan.Atlookan said there was no mention of a suicide note.Thunder Bay police said this week in a statement that the file is still open and the death is still under investigation."We con...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/thunder-bay-atlookan-questions-1.4952885

Martin Bruce Hicks, 64 - International Falls Journal

His commitment issues were a struggle both in career and family life, but he remained committed to the surviving children — Katherine A. Hicks (Grass Valley, Calif. and Minnesota), Sara Hicks (Thunder Bay, Ontario), Dave Hicks (Thunder Bay, Ontario), Sarah Lyne Hicks-Catcher (Ottawa, Ontario and St. Paul, Minn.), and Martin Liam Hicks (Kingston, Ontario).Martin’s true endeavoring quality was his commitment and love for his children. He will be truly remembered for his dedication towards his children and being there for them under all circumstances.He worked at a restaurant in Minnesota in his early 20s. He was a member of the Anglican Church. He belonged to a poetry club and often enjoyed writing short stories. Patricia Hicks Lagerstrom (Gauthier) and her husband often spent time in Minnesota and Ontario in their son’s younger years, up until 1972 and university for Martin.When Martin was younger, he would write poetry in the back seat of the car and short stories to past the travel time, which lead to a full-time hobby in his older years of writing. Mr. and Mrs. Hicks attended their dad’s funeral with their son in the early years and social gatherings at the Gauthier’s family home in Minnesota. Grandma Pat’s parents would drive in from Wisconsin to Minnesota to see them regularly.Martin enjoyed camping, road-trips, writing poetry, hanging out at the park or restaurants. His great enjoyment was with his daughter, Sarah, and her numerous stories of adventure each time she left Ottawa. They would often exchange letters, share ideas on writing poetry, and spend time in the park on the benches with paper growing up. He had nicknamed her the Sara with an H!He is survived by his daughter, Sarah Lynne, and his granddaughters, Airlyn, Kaylin, Sierra, and Laura Priceless, all of St. Paul, Minn. and Ottawa, Ontario; his other grandchildren of Katherine Baca (Hicks), Tristen of California; his brother, died early in 1974, leaving him as the last child alive of Patricia Gauthier (Lagerstrom, Hicks) interchangeably throughout the years.He was pronounced dead suddenly and taken too soon. He was cremated with no reception as per his de...
http://www.ifallsjournal.com/announcements/tributes/obituaries/martin-bruce-hicks/article_b4b0063c-58f3-5972-a8b5-fb1e5cbfb542.html

Tough to say goodbye - The Chronicle Journal

The grieving family of Marlan Patrick Chookomolin want closure for the young man who was taken off life support a week ago.Chookomolin, 25, was found critically injured in Thunder Bay during the early hours of June 25 on a pathway in the County Park area that runs parallel to Highway 11/17.On Monday, family and friends paid their respects to Chookomolin during a visitation service at a city funeral home.Today, Chookomolin will be brought to his home community in Peawanuk in the Far North for funeral services and burial.“We are being strong and trying to keep it together,” Ron Chookomolin, father of Marlan, told The Chronicle-Journal on Monday.“We haven’t heard anything from Thunder Bay Police Services. We have left a message and they haven’t contacted the family to update, but I do understand that there have been recent developments in Thunder Bay (double homicide) and I do understand they are busy.”The family was last contacted by police on Friday of last week.“It is alarming and concerning,” Chookomolin said. “We want to bring the person responsible for this to court, to answer to the charge and we need to get closure.”The Chookomolin had invited the c...
http://www.chroniclejournal.com/news/local/tough-to-say-goodbye/article_b57c5b00-606a-11e7-8c06-430515aa4281.html

A Celebration Of Life: Bruce Wilkie - PuslinchToday

Squamish. Bruce was born in Perth, Scotland and emigrated to Vancouver in 1955. He graduated from North Vancouver High School in 1958 then attended UBC for two years prior to acceptance into the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph, Ontario. Bruce graduated in 1965 from the OVC, winning the Winegard medal as the top student. The same year he married Dorothy Ann Gibb, whom he'd met during High School. After a year of clinical practice in Chilliwack, BC, Bruce and Dorothy moved to New York state where Bruce completed his PhD at Cornell University in 1971 in Veterinary Immunopathology. Two years of post-doctoral work in Bern, Switzerland was followed by an appointment to the Ontario Veterinary College in 1973, as professor of Veterinary Immunomicrobiology. Bruce had a distinguished career at the University until retiring in 2006, after which he was granted the title University Professor Emeritus honouring his outstanding research record and significant contribution to the training and development of numerous graduate students. In 2015 the OVC Alumni Association named Bruce the Distinguished Sciences Alumnus for his long, productive academic career. Notable, Bruce and his colleague Patricia Shewen developed a highly successful vaccine for Shipping Fever Pneumonia in cattle, called Presponse. This innovation earned a Bronze Trophy in the 1989 Canada Awards for Business Excellence. Bru...
https://www.puslinchtoday.ca/2019/03/04/a-celebration-of-life-bruce-wilkie/

‘Write me soon. Stay safe’: A story of Canada’s opioid crisis, told in letters from prison - The Globe and Mail

At her home in Guelph, Ont., Moira Barber lays out one of the letters between her common-law husband, Albert (Manie) Daniels, and Spencer Kell, his old cellmate at Ontario's Maplehurst prison. Tijana Martin/The Globe and Mail When Spencer Kell got out of jail last spring, leaving his cellmate Manie Daniels behind, the two friends started exchanging letters. Mr. Daniels's, written in flowing cursive script, came to Mr. Kell in Ottawa, where he was trying to stay clean and build a new life. Mr. Kell's, in bold block letters, arrived at Maplehurst prison in Milton, Ont., where Mr. Daniels was serving out the final months of his latest stretch behind bars. Their brief correspondence shines a light on the dangers that former prisoners face in the midst of Canada's opioids crisis. Mr. Daniels's full name was Albert Joseph Daniels. His Cree name was Little Buffalo that Runs Against the Herd. His mother and sisters called him Manie – little man – because he was the only boy in the family. Story continues below advertisement He was torn away from his home on Saskatchewan's Peepeekisis First Nation to be educated in church-run res...
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-write-me-soon-stay-safe-a-story-of-canadas-opioid-crisis-told-in/

Bane, Jean Hypes - NRVN News

Carla Williams (and Rodney) of New Castle, VA; Ann Armel (and Bryan) of Cody, WY, Webb Hypes (and Carol) of Bridgewater, VA, Watt Hypes (and Jann) of Culpeper, VA, Dayton Hypes (and Karen) of London, Ontario, Canada; Trenor Hypes (and Maggie) of Charleston, SC; Eugene Miller Bane, Jr. (and Becky) of Salem, VA; Nancyanne Schultejans of St. Louis, MO; James Bane (and Eileen) of Golden, CO; Nancy Bane Peery Olson (and David) of Fayetteville, NC; and Brenda Bane Fanning (and Ronnie) of Pearisburg, VA. She is remembered as a loving and caring woman devoted to her family, friends, God, and her community. Jean Bane will be deeply missed by all. The family is in the care of A. Vest & Sons Funeral Home. Visitation will be held March 27 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. A memorial service will be held at 11 am on March 28 at the A. Vest Funeral Home in White Gate, VA with Rev. Gary Poff, pastor of Castle Rock Baptist Church presiding. Burial will follow at the Walkers Creek Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you remember Jean Bane with a donation to the Trenor Cemetery Fund, c/o Sarah Fisher, 24904 Craigs Creek Rd, New Castle, VA 24127 or a charity of your choice. Let's block ads! (Why?)...
https://nrvnews.com/bane-jean-hypes/