By Kate White, Ottawa Citizen August 9, 2013
National Peacekeepers' Day is the day to remember and honour Canadian peacekeepers, and marks the events of Aug. 9, 1974, when nine Canadian peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Emergency Force in Egypt and Israel lost their lives when their plane was shot down over Syria.
It is an important day to reflect on the contributions and leadership Canada could be making to UN peacekeeping today. Canadians often believe that we have continued to be a leader in contributing to UN peacekeeping around the world. Our global contribution is currently 92 police (largely in Haiti), 56 troops (again, largely in Haiti) and 12 military experts.
This, at a time when the Canadian Forces have emerged highly trained and experienced from one of the most complex engagements in Afghanistan, with skills and talents that will atrophy if not used. This is an important time for Canadians and our government to explore innovations and new leadership in peacekeeping. Peacekeeping has evolved in each mission since the first, promoted by Lester B Pearson, in the Sinai. Peacekeeping relies on highly trained and disciplined soldiers who are prepared to use force, using modern technologies, and is fraught with real dangers.
This hasn't stopped Canada in the past from bringing our best in leadership and resources to maintaining and building lasting peace so others might enjoy our freedom and great privileges. We should be doing that again.
Don't forget to thank a peacekeeper today.
Kate White,
President and CEO
United Nations Association in Canada
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NOVA SCOTIA PEP RALLY- OFF 2 CANADA GAMES- SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC
NOVA SCOTIA TEAM AND FANS- FANTASTIC VIDEO- well done
Sherbrooke 2013 aux Jeux du Canada d'Halifax / Sherbrooke 2013 in Halifax Canada Games
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxWbxtWzABY
Canada Games Day 8: Preview
Kings County News
Published on August 11, 2013
Topics : Canada Games , Team Nova Scotia , Nova Scotia , Kings , Para
On the first day of competition at week two at the Canada Games, several Kings County athletes will compete for Team Nova Scotia.
Para-athletes Ben Brown will compete at 4:50 p.m. ADTin the 400 m wheelchair preliminary, while David Bambrick will compete in shot put at 3:45 p.m. Read more about their hopes for the Games here.
Athletics competitions will get underway, with Chelsea MacMurtery of Hants Border competing in the 100 m Special Olympics Female at 2:50 p.m. and Greenwich’s Tyler Carter-Smith and Lindsey Griffin competing in the 100 m Special Olympics Male at 3:20 p.m. Special Athletes' coach Scott Turnbull is from Berwick.
Women’s basketball gets underway with Team Nova Scotia facing off against PEI at 10 a.m. Playing for Nova Scotia is Horton student Lauren Joudrey, while assistant coaches Beth Detienne and Adam Detienne are from Kentville.
Women’s beach volleyball will get underway at noon, with Nova Scotia facing off against New Brunswick. Playing for Team Nova Scotia is Hillary Monette of New Minas.
Watch the Canada Games online.
Full schedules, results and statistics are available here.
Read more about the local athletes or see a slideshow of them at the Games.
Mobile-friendly link to Kingscountynews.ca coverage
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CANADA GAMES
Push for the podium
David Bambrick
Published on August 11, 2013 The Register/Advertiser
By Jennifer Hoegg
jhoegg@kingscountynews.ca KingsCountyNews.ca
David Bambrick is looking forward to donning Team Nova Scotia gear this week.
The Wolfville para-athlete will compete in both shot put and discuss during the second week of the multi-sport competition in Sherbrooke, Que.
"It’s my first and only Canada Games so it’s pretty sweet to represent your province and put on that jersey with the flag on it," the 29-year-old said last week.
"It’s pretty sweet to represent your province.
"When I was a little kid I played all kinds of sports, but just town teams," Bambrick said. "This is my biggest accomplishment yet to represent my province."
Canada Games is a step towards the goal of representing Canada at the 2015 Para Pan Am games in Toronto. After that?
"My major goal is to represent Canada in 2016 in Rio," he said.
Not much holds Bambrick back rom his goals.
Bambrick has cerebral palsy in his right side and came to his sport through participating in Acadia’s SMILE program.
"The former co-ordinator of SMILE Ueli Albert talked to me one day."
The para-athletic coach, and national wheelchair coach, connected Bambrick to Steve Wohlmuth with Launchers’ Athletics.
"As you can see by my size, I’m not the Usein Bolt," Bambrick said, laughing. "At 240 pounds, I’m not going to get the nine seconds for 100 metres.
Throwing the shot put, however, Bambrick can do well.
"That was in 2009 and I’ve been with Steve ever since," Bambrick said. "He’s an awesome coach."
The coach has faith in Bambrick, too.
"I believe David will be on the podium," he said last week, "the question is what colour?"
Wohlmuth said Bambrick is still learning after three years in the sport, and only a month in discus, but is ready to compete in shotput and discus.
"Although David has CP, I continue to push him to higher levels," Wohlmuth added "No special treatment with me. Hopefully this will be a positive experience to advance David onto the international para-track and field stage."
Training six days a week in the weight room and on the track, Bambrick has been dedicating himself to his athletic goals, even giving up his work as the Acadia hockey team’s equipment manager.
"I have to give up something to gain something," he said.
Preparation has also been about fundraising and Bambrick said he is grateful for generous supporters.
"I would really like to thank the community and my family for all the support," Bambrick said. Especially his parents, he added. "They let my try everything in sport."
While Bambrick is thrilled to be with Team Nova Scotia for the first time, 25-year-old Ben Brown is competing in his third winter games.
Injured in an off-road vehicle accident, the Weston-native has retrained as a wheelchair athlete and represented the province in track at the 2009 summer games and wheelchair basketball at the 2011 winter games.
Sherbrooke will also be his last Games, Brown says.
"I’m using it as a stepping stone for the next thing," he said last week, "which is either world championships or the Para Pan Ams."
Ben Brown
<p>Ben Brown’s friends and supporters have signed a Nova Scotia flag for him to carry to the Canada Games.</p>
View the gallery
Like Bambrick, he has his sights set on the 2016 Paralympics and has been fully dedicated to wheelchair racing for the past two years.
"If you’re going to try to make the Paraympics in a sport, you can’t do other sports," he said. "It takes a whole dedication that not a lot of people understand.
" I truly stepped up my commitment in the fall of 2011 when I realized this is the sport that’s going to get me to travel the world, get to the Paralympics, enable me to get an education that allows me to get a fulltime career," he added.
As part of that mission, Brown’s goal is to be on the podium in Sherbrooke for both the 200-metre and 400-metre races.
"And personal bests, increase my world rankings for the end of the season and finish the season as strong as I started it or stronger," he added.
"We’re in the business of doing well and doing my very best, not of participating."
After dropping 10 seconds off his 400 time in the last year, Brown is having a good season and thinks he has what it takes to medal.
"Everything has been clicking very well," he said.
To get there, he has been training hard with coach Albert Ueli and facing the challenges of travel and fundraising to pay for equipment, fuel and living.
Finding the right surface to train one – the Acadia track is too soft – is one of the challenges, meaning Brown’s schedule includes frequent travel to Halifax to train at Saint Mary’s and at the Oval on the Commons.
At home, he hits the asphalt.
"My distance on the road can be a minimum 10, maximum 15 (kilometre) in 45 minutes," Brown said. "People in Aylesford, Cambridge, Berwick have all seen me.
After all the work and concentration, he’s ready to race.
"Looking forward to getting on the track and being the best I can be and hopefully shocking the country."
What to watch
Aug. 12
4:50 p.m. ADT
Ben Brown
400 M wheelchair preliminary
Personal best: 58.41 seconds
3:45 p.m.
David Bambrick
Shot put
Personal best: 11.33 metre
Aug. 13
2:50 p.m. ADT
Brown
200 M wheelchair preliminary
Personal best: 30.04 seconds
Aug. 15
3:45 and 4:15 p.m.
Brown
400 M wheelchair finals
Aug. 16
2:20 and 3:20 p.m.
Brown
200 M wheelchair finals
7 p.m.
David Bambrick
Discus
Personal best: 27.94 metres
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FISHERS/MARINERS DAY NOVA SCOTIA- honours r Fishers
Incredible Accordian playing...
FISHERMEN'S FAREWELL John Drakes, Nfld Accordion Player
"Fisherman's Farewell" is a newfie (newfoundland) song composed by Jim Pittman (1937-1996) from Nova Scottia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSGldCI8HE4
Scenes of Fortune Bay, Nfld and song "
Fisherman's Farewell" sung by John Drakes
website: www.lukeysboat.com
CDs available jsdrakes@hotmail.com
I dedicate this song to my very best friend Ron from Canada. I had not a partiture to learn the song. I played this song on my own style with some improvisations. It is played with a 45 years old Scandalli accordion.
Thanks to Nfld Accordion Player John Drakes for some information about this song. He played this song with his group Lukey's Boat (www.lukeysboat.com)
First Annual Mariner's Day Observed- Nova Scotia Nouvelle-Ecosse
Fisheries and Aquaculture
August 9, 2013 12:50 PM
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Nova Scotians who make a living at sea will be remembered Sunday, Aug. 11, as the province observes Mariner's Day and Seaman's Memorial Day.
A sunset ceremony will take place at the Fishermen's Monument, MacCormack's Beach Provincial Park, 1641 Shore Rd., Eastern Passage, with refreshments at Fisherman's Cove after the event.
"Mariner's Day pays tribute to all men and women who contributed so much to the economic prosperity of this province and who lost their lives in the process," said Sterling Belliveau, Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture. "It also provides an opportunity to promote safety practices within the fishing industry."
Families can encourage safety by asking loved ones to take greater precautions while at sea, ensuring a crew will return home without suffering an injury or worse.
The province is working with agencies and associations to promote safety within the fishing industry and to help prevent future fatalities.
"On Mariner's Day, the Fisheries Safety Association of Nova Scotia recognizes the history of the fishing industry and its contribution to our wonderful province," said Stewart Franck, executive director of the association. "With the strong tradition of fish harvesting also comes a saga of loss and tragedy off our coast.
"We are hopeful that Mariner's Day will prompt every person associated with the Nova Scotia fishing industry to strengthen their commitment to safety at work and at sea."
A ball tournament is also planned in the Municipality of Barrington in memory of Katlin Nickerson, captain of the ill-fated Miss Ally. The tournament, which starts on Friday and wraps up on Mariner's Day, has 18 teams registered. Funds raised will support the Katlin Nickerson Memorial Bursary.
In April, the Mariner's Day Act was passed to observe the second Sunday in August as Mariner's Day.
Some communities, such as Canso, will continue to observe Seaman's Memorial Day. The Canso ceremony, hosted by the Canso Lions Club, will begin at 2 p.m. at the Seaman's Memorial.
FOR BROADCAST USE:
Nova Scotians who make a living at sea will be remembered
this Sunday (August 11th) as the province observes Mariner's Day.
Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Sterling Belliveau says
Mariner's Day pays tribute to all men and women who contributed
so much to the economic prosperity of this province and who lost
their lives in the process and provides an opportunity to promote
safety practices within the fishing industry.
In April, the Mariner's Day Act was passed to observe the
second Sunday in August as Mariner's Day. Some communities, such
as Canso, will continue to observe Seaman's Memorial Day.
Global National : Push for Maritime memorial day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0eiNJBvCik
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The sea is our life in Nova Scotia....Newfoundland... PEI and New Brunswick..... FOR ALL U BELOVED FISHERS....
Canada's beautiful soul.... from Nova Scotia Blue Rocks (Lunenburg-Liverpool area)...... Hank Snow...
Hank Snow - Squid Jiggin Grounds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyHJ7XU5eLE
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NOVA SCOTIA- SHIPBUILDING.... IT'S WHO WE ARE..... THE BLUENOSE.... OR OUR CANADIAN NAVY....OR OUR FISHERS.... IT'S WHAT WE DO...
The Queen of the Grand Banks Schooners
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWUD_r6E4U8
Rare footage of the original Bluenose schooner, racing against her Gloucester rival, the Gertrude L. Thibault, set to Stan Roger's inspiring music and voice.
Hats off to two great Canadian icons.
COMMENT:
Noone from Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver or any other "great" Canadian city can ever understand the maritime pride this song and that ship bring to every Nova Scotian!
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FISHERS..
GOD BLESS CANADA`S FISHERS
NOVA SCOTIA`S halibut fishing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIrD0u11Tmc
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Lobster Fishery in Southwest Nova Scotia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=linihCkB3rk
Province to consider lobster plant proposal
Greg Bennett RSS Feed
The Coastguard
The proponents of a new lobster processing plant in Cape Sable Island will be meeting with the Economic Development Minister Graham Steele at the end of this month in an effort to leverage provincial funding for the project.
Members of the Fishermen’s Premium Atlantic Lobster Inc., a company born from a local fishermen’s association, hopes to buy and expand upon an existing Cape Sable Island lobster tank and pound to turn it into a processing facility that would hire between 60 and 70 people on a seasonal basis.
The new company submitted a business plan to the province at the beginning of the month with the hope that more than 50 per cent of the capital costs would be covered.
Although born from the 1688 Professional Lobster Fishermen’s Association, company officer Erica Smith emphasized that the new company was a completely separate entity with its own board of directors.
While operated as a company, the operation would follow the cooperative principles say proponents.
If approved, the company hopes to purchase the property this fall and start lobster processing operations early in 2014.
The Municipality of Barrington is supporting the fledgling company’s efforts in principle
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Cadets don pink instead of camouflage for anti-bullying rally
Raise awareness and money for Kids Help Phone
The cadets raised $250 for Kids Help Phone through T-shirt sales. (Shane Fowler/CBC)
More than 200 Canadian cadets attended an anti-bullying rally at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown on Thursday, sporting pink T-shirts.
Cpl. Katy Adams was among them. She says she gets bullied, all the time — both inside the cadets and out.
"I've been bullied all my life," said Adams, a petite 17-year-old from Oxford, N.S., who is going into Grade 12 this fall.
"I've been to three different schools and I've been bullied at every school I've been to," she said. "It makes me feel really small inside."
"I came here, to camp, to stay away from bullying and I get here and there is so much bullying going on. I always want to go home every time it happens," said Adams.
"All the girls in our barracks, there's 40 of them in there, like 42, and there's so much bullying going in there, it's crazy."
"I think that these things do help," she said, referring to the protest.
Goal is to educate
The goal of the campaign is to expose, and eliminate bullying within the cadet program and have that experience filter into the everyday life of a young person after the army program has ended, said Lt.-Col. Allan Boileau, the commanding officer of Argonaut Cadet Summer Training Centre.
"Up until Grade 9 I was the smallest kid in my class," admits Boileau. "I was definitely picked on, so maybe that gives me a little more sympathy to the cause too."
Cadets purchased the pink T-shirts with their own money, raising $250 for the Kids Help Phone, a service dedicated to anonymously helping kids and teens through life issues, including bullying.
"It may not be a lot of money, we realize that. But the goal here is education," said Boileau.
"We're dealing with young people, between ages of 12 and 18 at the training centre here. So sometimes it becomes a matter of them not realizing that they're bullying somebody," he explained.
"Sometimes they just think that they are 'teasing' somebody. However the impact on the other cadet is that they feel as if they are being bullied."
Boileau said he's not naïve enough to think that bullying doesn't happen in cadets, but he contends there’s "very little" going on.
"We're very proactive. Cadets are given presentations when they first come on the grounds. We don't put up with it here," he said.
"It's important because up here in Camp Argonaut," said cadet Cameron Hibbs, from Belle Isle, N.L. "We don't like bullying and we look at ourselves as one big family," he said.
"In families there shouldn't be bullying."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2013/08/09/nb-cadets-bullying-protest.html
comment:
My 20 year old went through 5 year,s of cadet training,was bullied all her life and found a good home with the canadian forces reserve unit and is now at gagetown training.hats off to the cadet program
AND..
CANADIAN PURE- Classified- OFFICAL VIDEO- 3 Foot tall- MEN BREAKING CHAINS OF ABUSE
ONE BILLION RISING- breaking the chains of abuse and bullying- CHECK OUT- MEN breaking the chains of abuse- bullying - KIDS STAND AGAINST BULLYING-
VIBE Premiere: Classified '3 Foot Tall' Video
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=641632725854753&set=a.153203521364345.32932.100000240949070&type=1&theater
CHECK OUT- breaking the chains of abuse- CLASSIFIED'S NEW VIEW 3foot tall- MEN BREAKING THE CHAINS
OH MY GOD.... CLASSISIFIED HAS THE BEST BULLY VIDEO E-VA- Break the chains of abuse
VIBE Premiere: Classified '3 Foot Tall' Video-OFFICIAL VIDEO
VIBE Posted July 23, 2013 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BV_b9zTUvs&feature=player_embedded
In the follow-up to his chart-topping single "Inner Ninja," rapper Classified doesn't fall short of delivering his message on "3 Foot Tall." In the video, the Canadian spitter recruits a pint-sized voice box to battle against negative verbal warfare. "When you're alone, life can be a little rough/ It makes you feel like you're 3 foot tall/ When it's just you, well times can be tough/ When there's no one there to catch your fall," sings the toddler with a faux black eye. With words like "dummy," "loser," and the more sexually charged "faggot" and "lesbian" sprawled across the clip, the writings on the wall come at a time where digital bullying has run rampant in the younger generation, especially with the presence of social media. Still, it's the ability to overcome that stands above all. Watch the rapper also known as Luke Boyd preach the good word in the video below. - See more at: http://www.vibe.com/article/classified-3-foot-tall-video#sthash.q3GzUtE2.dpuf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BV_b9zTUvs&feature=player_embedded CHECK OUT- MEN breaking the chains of abuse- bullying
CHECK OUT- breaking the chains of abuse- CLASSIFIED'S NEW VIEW 3foot tall- MEN BREAKING THE CHAINS
OH MY GOD.... CLASSISIFIED HAS THE BEST BULLY VIDEO E-VA- Break the chains of abuse
VIBE Premiere: Classified '3 Foot Tall' Video-OFFICIAL VIDEO
VIBE Posted July 23, 2013 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BV_b9zTUvs&feature=player_embedded
In the follow-up to his chart-topping single "Inner Ninja," rapper Classified doesn't fall short of delivering his message on "3 Foot Tall." In the video, the Canadian spitter recruits a pint-sized voice box to battle against negative verbal warfare. "When you're alone, life can be a little rough/ It makes you feel like you're 3 foot tall/ When it's just you, well times can be tough/ When there's no one there to catch your fall," sings the toddler with a faux black eye. With words like "dummy," "loser," and the more sexually charged "faggot" and "lesbian" sprawled across the clip, the writings on the wall come at a time where digital bullying has run rampant in the younger generation, especially with the presence of social media. Still, it's the ability to overcome that stands above all. Watch the rapper also known as Luke Boyd preach the good word in the video below. - See more at: http://www.vibe.com/article/classified-3-foot-tall-video#sthash.q3GzUtE2.dpuf
http://www.vibe.com/article/classified-3-foot-tall-video
LINKS ON BULLYING AND CHILD ABUSE- (Mind Rape/Physical Torture/Sexual Assault)
FOR KIDS- TWEENS-TEENS-YOUNGBLOODS- But perhaps most of all..... each and every Canadain Adult- we must take more responsibility and be more vigilant:
To learn more about bullying and if u r being abused- check out:
www.stopcyberbullying.org
www.cyberbullying.novascotia.ca
www.prevnet.ca
www.cpha.ca/en/activities/safe-schools.aspx
http://needhelpnow.ca/app/en/ AND http://needhelpnow.ca/app/fr/
RespectED: Violence & Abuse Prevention
http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=000294
www.kidshelpphone.ca
If you are a victim of bullying, call The Kids Help Phone at 1-800-668-6868.
AND...
Bullying Prevention Awareness Month
Again (Made by Canadian students for Canadian students) we give u an A Plus
De nouveau (Fait par des étudiants canadiens pour des étudiants canadiens) nous donnons u Un un Plus
L'Intimidation Psychologique (Anti-Bullying Commercial)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px1uK5tpAq8&feature=related
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