On today’s show:
- Today is Superman Day, so keep your eyes out for people in capes.. It’s also Peanut Butter Cookie Day and International Falafel Day, so we will eat well today!
- Saturday is Sewing Machine Day, and right now, it is the instrument of our times.. Or maybe you need to get outside? It’s also Worldwide Knit In Public Day, so salute all those people bringing the threads together.
- Sunday is World Blood Donor Day, so consider how you might be able to share some of your life, to save another’s. It’s also International Bath Day, Cupcake Day, and Bourbon Day, so sounds like it’s time for a spa (maybe at home).
- Service New Brunswick would like to remind you that you were only given a limited-time extension to renew your licence, registration, certificates and other permits. It’s time get your documents up to date, and fortunately you can do a lot of it online at snb.ca.
- Remember that the new displays of artworks in UNB’s working collection will be presented by the UNB Art Centre at 5pm on Friday. In Revelations, they hope to show works of many well-known and lesser-known New Brunswick artists, including works that are rarely seen. Visit their Facebook page for more details.
- This Saturday, the City will be doing a special curbside cleanup to collect the debris of the severe thunderstorm of last week. Have your materials bundled or bagged and at the curbside by 7am on Saturday. This is for smaller debris and yard waste only.
- Theatre New Brunswick has announced that it is doing Summer Theatre Camps. It has worked out safer ways to do it with respect to COVID-19, and will give kids (and parents!) a much-needed relief from being at home all the time.
- The Boyce Farmer’s Market will open on Saturday this week. While they have reduced capacity and vendors, it’s important for all of us to find ways to support them with patience and patronage. The market opens at 8am on Saturday and runs until 1pm.
- This Saturday at 1pm, there will be a Healing Walk in Memory & Justice for Chantel Moore, starting at City Hall downtown. Friends, family and allies are asked to join, but are also asked to respect the protocols established for the event.
- “All are welcome, but we ask that you take careful consideration of the details described in the Healing Walk Protocol, and follow the protocols earnestly. We acknowledge Dr. Imeda Perley (Opolahsomuwehs) for the composition of this Healing Walk Protocol.Chantel Moore’s Healing Walk Protocols
Brothers and Sisters, Elders and Youth, let us join our heavy hearts, our furious minds, our gentle spirits to follow the ancient tracks of our people to stand up for justice, to sing our songs of healing, to invoke all our spirit helpers to guide us towards our peaceful perseverance during this tragedy and pandemic.
We will walk in both silence and chants to honour our emotions and heal both our historical and contemporary agony of injustice.
We will carry our gifts of language to bless our purpose and refrain from using profanity that does not belong to our language.Our women will carry our gift of compassion in a bowl of water to be brought to a designated sacred place.
We will wear our ceremonial skirts and shirts to honour our nations colours and pride
Our voices will echo love not hate.
Our Smudging will help us to comply with our Wampum Laws of peace and to minimize displaying acts of anger that may disrespect our cause
Our Healing Walk should never be called a “protest”, this is not our traditional word, we instead use “Ikatomone”(eek-gut-moh-neh) which translates to “let’s guard” our way of life, our languages, our ceremonies, our rights to declare justice.
Our Sacred Drums will soothe our shared anguish as we converge our thoughts to healing Chantel’s family and her memory.
Our Sacred Pipes will invoke our power to connect to our ancestors who are walking with us within our DNA
Our Red Shawls will be a symbol for all MMIWG and their families.
Our Moccasins will allow us to walk with stamina a gift from our four legged relatives and mostly to leave our sacred tracks to honour those who went before us and to leave behind for those yet to be born!
Please keep in mind to follow our safety precautions of social distancing, hand sanitizing and wearing masks to remain safe from Covid-19.
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Regardless of race or background, we ask that you follow the protocol. The protocols keep us safe, and maintain our intention. We encourage you to remember Chantel in these ways:
- Wear gold and yellow. Chantel’s catchphrase was, “stay golden!”. We honour her by wearing gold and yellow
- Wearing rainbows. Shortly after Chantel’s life was tragically lost at the hands of the police officer, a rainbow emerged in the sky.
- Wear your Indigenous regalia
- Bring your drums, shakers, art, and signs
- Show compassion, care, and courtesy in your expressions”
- “All are welcome, but we ask that you take careful consideration of the details described in the Healing Walk Protocol, and follow the protocols earnestly. We acknowledge Dr. Imeda Perley (Opolahsomuwehs) for the composition of this Healing Walk Protocol.Chantel Moore’s Healing Walk Protocols
- Today, we revisit two artists who use art to help understanding of marginalized or misunderstood groups. Natalia Sappier is an indigenous multi-disciplinary artist who joined me in 2019 to talk about her theatre-and-music project while in residency at the UNB Art Centre. Alex Rioux is involved in multiple aspects of theatre in the city, and joined me in 2018 to talk about the production of Fruit Machine.
News:
- Two staff members from the Campbellton Regional Hospital are New Brunswick’s latest cases of COVID-19.
- The City of Fredericton has planned a photo trail for high school graduations after COVID-19 impacted prom, graduation ceremonies and safe grad events.
- Fredericton police arrested 28-year-old William Vrolyk on Tuesday after connections to several outstanding crimes.
- 34-year-old Peter Thomas Poirier now faces additional charges about a robbery and not stopping for police in Moncton and Dieppe.
- The New Brunswick Social Work Association is calling for mental health professionals to be involved in police wellness checks.
- The federal government is taking action to support and stabilize the economy by promising New Brunswick $45 million from the Gas Tax Fund.
- And Canadian Blood Services hopes people across the country will consider donating blood or plasma despite COVID-19.
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