Yesterday S News Bancroft This Week

										August 30, 2022																			

By Nate Smelle THERE’S NOTHING like a stack of old newspapers or magazines to get my wheels turning. As soon as I lay eyes on such a pile, I immediately add investigating it to my to-do list. With our climate and geopolitical landscape changing so rapidly these days, for some, spending time researching yesterday’s news can seem like a waste of time. While it may be true that we should keep our ears steady when it comes to absorbing the daily news, for me, taking the time to understand yesterday’s news is just as important. Looking back, my appreciation of yesterday’s news began at the age of nine. When I visited my grandparents, there was a room that served as a library/office/art gallery that they called the den. I remember the place having a certain magic of its own. Where the walls weren’t lined with books, there were oil paintings, sculptures, strange houseplants and mysterious objects they collected from their travels. Being the most accessible, the bottom shelves were where I would start exploring. On the bottom shelf in the corner next to my grandfather’s reading chair, there was always a pile of newspapers and magazines from the previous week. Once I was left to my own devices, this is where I could be. Scissors in hand, I went through the old papers, cutting out the most interesting articles and photos, then pasting them into a scrapbook. Although I understood very little of what I read at the time, my grandparents try to keep me busy and planted the seed that grew into my active appreciation of yesterday’s news. To this day, I use the same cut-and-paste research method when working on a story. I recently came across a chest of vintage Rolling Stone records and magazines from the 1970s and 1980s that I picked up at a yard sale a few years ago. I have yet to dive into the magazines, however, on Sunday morning I decided to give some of the albums a spin. After indulging in Tom Waits’ Swordfishtrombones and Ween’s Chocolate and Cheese, I started flipping through the pages of Saturday’s Financial Post while listening to Schubert’s “The Unfinished Symphony, Symphony #5.” Immediately after picking up the paper, I dove into a story by Post reporter Meghan Potkins about the United Nations mission in northern Alberta. What is the UN doing in northern Canada? Basically, the people of the Mikisew Cree First Nation and the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation contacted the UN in an effort to protect their ancestral lands – also home to Wood Buffalo National Park, the site of one of the largest freshwater deltas in the world, and home to the endangered whooping cranes and the continent’s largest population of wild bison.” – from Suncor Energy Inc. plans. to release 1.4 trillion gallons of wastewater currently stored in the tar sands tailing ponds on the Athabasca River. Wastewater, or tailings as it is called by the industry, is a highly toxic slurry of sand, silt, clay and water that is separated from the asphalt during the refining process. Although the residual hydrocarbons, salts, organic compounds and minerals that make up this mixture pose a potentially deadly threat to any living thing that comes into contact with them, according to Suncor’s director of water and closure Ron Guest, the company claims they have “He’s done a lot of testing to know we can treat the water and get the chemistry in the acceptable range for aquatic organisms and the environment.” Now I’m not one to doubt solid scientifically proven truths without good reason, but considering it’s been known for over a decade that every year on average, between 458 and 5,029 [CTV News] Migratory birds die from simply landing in these artificial cesspools, I highly doubt any of the Suncor executives will drink, swim or even water their lawn with this water. However, this column is about the value of print journalism and yesterday’s news, not the fact that the people of Mikisew Cree First Nation and Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation are at risk of, as ACFN chief Allan said, “basically losing [their] ecological system. Nor is it about how the Mikisew Cree First Nation “absolutely [does not] support the treatment and release of oil sands process water, including tailings,” MCFN director of government and industry relations Melody Lepine noted in Potkins’ article. As any vinyl collector knows, a wealth of music – an important part of our creative history – was lost when the music industry changed to the internet. The same is true when it comes to newspapers and magazines. Countless articles and photographs – telling snapshots of our journey to the present day – have also disappeared forever, following the great shift from print journalism to online journalism. Fortunately, a large number of these historic treasures are still out there, slowly wearing out at the bottom of a box at a yard sale or thrift store. waiting for us to appreciate what they have to offer our future.

title: “Yesterday S News Bancroft This Week Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-08” author: “Joseph Hill”

										August 30, 2022																			

By Nate Smelle THERE’S NOTHING like a stack of old newspapers or magazines to get my wheels turning. As soon as I lay eyes on such a pile, I immediately add investigating it to my to-do list. With our climate and geopolitical landscape changing so rapidly these days, for some, spending time researching yesterday’s news can seem like a waste of time. While it may be true that we should keep our ears steady when it comes to absorbing the daily news, for me, taking the time to understand yesterday’s news is just as important. Looking back, my appreciation of yesterday’s news began at the age of nine. When I visited my grandparents, there was a room that served as a library/office/art gallery that they called the den. I remember the place having a certain magic of its own. Where the walls weren’t lined with books, there were oil paintings, sculptures, strange houseplants and mysterious objects they collected from their travels. Being the most accessible, the bottom shelves were where I would start exploring. On the bottom shelf in the corner next to my grandfather’s reading chair, there was always a pile of newspapers and magazines from the previous week. Once I was left to my own devices, this is where I could be. Scissors in hand, I went through the old papers, cutting out the most interesting articles and photos, then pasting them into a scrapbook. Although I understood very little of what I read at the time, my grandparents try to keep me busy and planted the seed that grew into my active appreciation of yesterday’s news. To this day, I use the same cut-and-paste research method when working on a story. I recently came across a chest of vintage Rolling Stone records and magazines from the 1970s and 1980s that I picked up at a yard sale a few years ago. I have yet to dive into the magazines, however, on Sunday morning I decided to give some of the albums a spin. After indulging in Tom Waits’ Swordfishtrombones and Ween’s Chocolate and Cheese, I started flipping through the pages of Saturday’s Financial Post while listening to Schubert’s “The Unfinished Symphony, Symphony #5.” Immediately after picking up the paper, I dove into a story by Post reporter Meghan Potkins about the United Nations mission in northern Alberta. What is the UN doing in northern Canada? Basically, the people of the Mikisew Cree First Nation and the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation contacted the UN in an effort to protect their ancestral lands – also home to Wood Buffalo National Park, the site of one of the largest freshwater deltas in the world, and home to the endangered whooping cranes and the continent’s largest population of wild bison.” – from Suncor Energy Inc. plans. to release 1.4 trillion gallons of wastewater currently stored in the tar sands tailing ponds on the Athabasca River. Wastewater, or tailings as it is called by the industry, is a highly toxic slurry of sand, silt, clay and water that is separated from the asphalt during the refining process. Although the residual hydrocarbons, salts, organic compounds and minerals that make up this mixture pose a potentially deadly threat to any living thing that comes into contact with them, according to Suncor’s director of water and closure Ron Guest, the company claims they have “He’s done a lot of testing to know we can treat the water and get the chemistry in the acceptable range for aquatic organisms and the environment.” Now I’m not one to doubt solid scientifically proven truths without good reason, but considering it’s been known for over a decade that every year on average, between 458 and 5,029 [CTV News] Migratory birds die from simply landing in these artificial cesspools, I highly doubt any of the Suncor executives will drink, swim or even water their lawn with this water. However, this column is about the value of print journalism and yesterday’s news, not the fact that the people of Mikisew Cree First Nation and Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation are at risk of, as ACFN chief Allan said, “basically losing [their] ecological system. Nor is it about how the Mikisew Cree First Nation “absolutely [does not] support the treatment and release of oil sands process water, including tailings,” MCFN director of government and industry relations Melody Lepine noted in Potkins’ article. As any vinyl collector knows, a wealth of music – an important part of our creative history – was lost when the music industry changed to the internet. The same is true when it comes to newspapers and magazines. Countless articles and photographs – telling snapshots of our journey to the present day – have also disappeared forever, following the great shift from print journalism to online journalism. Fortunately, a large number of these historic treasures are still out there, slowly wearing out at the bottom of a box at a yard sale or thrift store. waiting for us to appreciate what they have to offer our future.

title: “Yesterday S News Bancroft This Week Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-13” author: “Marie Witham”

										August 30, 2022																			

By Nate Smelle THERE’S NOTHING like a stack of old newspapers or magazines to get my wheels turning. As soon as I lay eyes on such a pile, I immediately add investigating it to my to-do list. With our climate and geopolitical landscape changing so rapidly these days, for some, spending time researching yesterday’s news can seem like a waste of time. While it may be true that we should keep our ears steady when it comes to absorbing the daily news, for me, taking the time to understand yesterday’s news is just as important. Looking back, my appreciation of yesterday’s news began at the age of nine. When I visited my grandparents, there was a room that served as a library/office/art gallery that they called the den. I remember the place having a certain magic of its own. Where the walls weren’t lined with books, there were oil paintings, sculptures, strange houseplants and mysterious objects they collected from their travels. Being the most accessible, the bottom shelves were where I would start exploring. On the bottom shelf in the corner next to my grandfather’s reading chair, there was always a pile of newspapers and magazines from the previous week. Once I was left to my own devices, this is where I could be. Scissors in hand, I went through the old papers, cutting out the most interesting articles and photos, then pasting them into a scrapbook. Although I understood very little of what I read at the time, my grandparents try to keep me busy and planted the seed that grew into my active appreciation of yesterday’s news. To this day, I use the same cut-and-paste research method when working on a story. I recently came across a chest of vintage Rolling Stone records and magazines from the 1970s and 1980s that I picked up at a yard sale a few years ago. I have yet to dive into the magazines, however, on Sunday morning I decided to give some of the albums a spin. After indulging in Tom Waits’ Swordfishtrombones and Ween’s Chocolate and Cheese, I started flipping through the pages of Saturday’s Financial Post while listening to Schubert’s “The Unfinished Symphony, Symphony #5.” Immediately after picking up the paper, I dove into a story by Post reporter Meghan Potkins about the United Nations mission in northern Alberta. What is the UN doing in northern Canada? Basically, the people of the Mikisew Cree First Nation and the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation contacted the UN in an effort to protect their ancestral lands – also home to Wood Buffalo National Park, the site of one of the largest freshwater deltas in the world, and home to the endangered whooping cranes and the continent’s largest population of wild bison.” – from Suncor Energy Inc. plans. to release 1.4 trillion gallons of wastewater currently stored in the tar sands tailing ponds on the Athabasca River. Wastewater, or tailings as it is called by the industry, is a highly toxic slurry of sand, silt, clay and water that is separated from the asphalt during the refining process. Although the residual hydrocarbons, salts, organic compounds and minerals that make up this mixture pose a potentially deadly threat to any living thing that comes into contact with them, according to Suncor’s director of water and closure Ron Guest, the company claims they have “He’s done a lot of testing to know we can treat the water and get the chemistry in the acceptable range for aquatic organisms and the environment.” Now I’m not one to doubt solid scientifically proven truths without good reason, but considering it’s been known for over a decade that every year on average, between 458 and 5,029 [CTV News] Migratory birds die from simply landing in these artificial cesspools, I highly doubt any of the Suncor executives will drink, swim or even water their lawn with this water. However, this column is about the value of print journalism and yesterday’s news, not the fact that the people of Mikisew Cree First Nation and Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation are at risk of, as ACFN chief Allan said, “basically losing [their] ecological system. Nor is it about how the Mikisew Cree First Nation “absolutely [does not] support the treatment and release of oil sands process water, including tailings,” MCFN director of government and industry relations Melody Lepine noted in Potkins’ article. As any vinyl collector knows, a wealth of music – an important part of our creative history – was lost when the music industry changed to the internet. The same is true when it comes to newspapers and magazines. Countless articles and photographs – telling snapshots of our journey to the present day – have also disappeared forever, following the great shift from print journalism to online journalism. Fortunately, a large number of these historic treasures are still out there, slowly wearing out at the bottom of a box at a yard sale or thrift store. waiting for us to appreciate what they have to offer our future.

title: “Yesterday S News Bancroft This Week Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-01” author: “Garrett Lazarus”

										August 30, 2022																			

By Nate Smelle THERE’S NOTHING like a stack of old newspapers or magazines to get my wheels turning. As soon as I lay eyes on such a pile, I immediately add investigating it to my to-do list. With our climate and geopolitical landscape changing so rapidly these days, for some, spending time researching yesterday’s news can seem like a waste of time. While it may be true that we should keep our ears steady when it comes to absorbing the daily news, for me, taking the time to understand yesterday’s news is just as important. Looking back, my appreciation of yesterday’s news began at the age of nine. When I visited my grandparents, there was a room that served as a library/office/art gallery that they called the den. I remember the place having a certain magic of its own. Where the walls weren’t lined with books, there were oil paintings, sculptures, strange houseplants and mysterious objects they collected from their travels. Being the most accessible, the bottom shelves were where I would start exploring. On the bottom shelf in the corner next to my grandfather’s reading chair, there was always a pile of newspapers and magazines from the previous week. Once I was left to my own devices, this is where I could be. Scissors in hand, I went through the old papers, cutting out the most interesting articles and photos, then pasting them into a scrapbook. Although I understood very little of what I read at the time, my grandparents try to keep me busy and planted the seed that grew into my active appreciation of yesterday’s news. To this day, I use the same cut-and-paste research method when working on a story. I recently came across a chest of vintage Rolling Stone records and magazines from the 1970s and 1980s that I picked up at a yard sale a few years ago. I have yet to dive into the magazines, however, on Sunday morning I decided to give some of the albums a spin. After indulging in Tom Waits’ Swordfishtrombones and Ween’s Chocolate and Cheese, I started flipping through the pages of Saturday’s Financial Post while listening to Schubert’s “The Unfinished Symphony, Symphony #5.” Immediately after picking up the paper, I dove into a story by Post reporter Meghan Potkins about the United Nations mission in northern Alberta. What is the UN doing in northern Canada? Basically, the people of the Mikisew Cree First Nation and the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation contacted the UN in an effort to protect their ancestral lands – also home to Wood Buffalo National Park, the site of one of the largest freshwater deltas in the world, and home to the endangered whooping cranes and the continent’s largest population of wild bison.” – from Suncor Energy Inc. plans. to release 1.4 trillion gallons of wastewater currently stored in the tar sands tailing ponds on the Athabasca River. Wastewater, or tailings as it is called by the industry, is a highly toxic slurry of sand, silt, clay and water that is separated from the asphalt during the refining process. Although the residual hydrocarbons, salts, organic compounds and minerals that make up this mixture pose a potentially deadly threat to any living thing that comes into contact with them, according to Suncor’s director of water and closure Ron Guest, the company claims they have “He’s done a lot of testing to know we can treat the water and get the chemistry in the acceptable range for aquatic organisms and the environment.” Now I’m not one to doubt solid scientifically proven truths without good reason, but considering it’s been known for over a decade that every year on average, between 458 and 5,029 [CTV News] Migratory birds die from simply landing in these artificial cesspools, I highly doubt any of the Suncor executives will drink, swim or even water their lawn with this water. However, this column is about the value of print journalism and yesterday’s news, not the fact that the people of Mikisew Cree First Nation and Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation are at risk of, as ACFN chief Allan said, “basically losing [their] ecological system. Nor is it about how the Mikisew Cree First Nation “absolutely [does not] support the treatment and release of oil sands process water, including tailings,” MCFN director of government and industry relations Melody Lepine noted in Potkins’ article. As any vinyl collector knows, a wealth of music – an important part of our creative history – was lost when the music industry changed to the internet. The same is true when it comes to newspapers and magazines. Countless articles and photographs – telling snapshots of our journey to the present day – have also disappeared forever, following the great shift from print journalism to online journalism. Fortunately, a large number of these historic treasures are still out there, slowly wearing out at the bottom of a box at a yard sale or thrift store. waiting for us to appreciate what they have to offer our future.