Celebrating young athletes
While COVID-19 may have disrupted many athletes' spring and summer seasons, their achievements are still being marked by their schools, clubs and by SaltWire journalists across Atlantic Canada.
Here are a few examples of young East Coast athletes you should meet.
Dante Isadore, an 18-year-old track star from Wagmatcook First Nation, and a group of young coaches led by 20-year-old Fraser MacLeod are launching a track and field club in Cape Breton, N.S.
The Chronicle Herald's George Myrer brings us the story of the new Baddeck Beacons.
“It’s not that bad but it would be better to have people around to motivate you,” Isadore tells Myrer.
Myrer also spoke with Ava Vial, a Nova Scotian swimmer who plans to go to the U.S. to compete for Bowling Green in September.
Vial had a tough season even before it was cut short by the pandemic because of a coaching change and illness, and then she missed out on a chance to swim in the (cancelled) Canadian Olympic trials and national championship.
“I think all the challenges I faced this year was good was good for me,” Vial says. “I learned to rely on myself a lot more and that will help me because you have to be prepared to move away.”
The Guardian's Jason Malloy introduces us toNolan Ryan, a multi-sport athlete on Prince Edward Island.
Nolan followed in the footsteps of his dad and brother as Charlottetown Rural High School’s male athlete of the year.
“I have been looking forward to it since Grade 10, knowing that my brother and my dad won it, so I was hoping I would win it this year as well,” Nolan said. “It means everything. It’s a big accomplishment for me. I am honoured to receive the award after Dom and Joe got it as well.”
'Our story is your story'
After being closed for months, the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre near Shelburne, N.S., has reopened to educate the public about the journey of Black Loyalists and their contributions to the history of Nova Scotia and Canada at large.
In the midst of worldwide protests and demonstrations in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, the centre couldn't be reopening at more turbulent, yet opportune time.
Site manager Cynthia Dorrington tells the Chronicle Herald's Noushin Ziafati that the centre is seeing increased interest, with an influx of calls in recent days and people booking guided tours through to early August.
Cultural concerns
If the name Brian Sinclair doesn’t sound familiar to you, it should.
One early afternoon in September 2008, Sinclair - and Indigenous man and double amputee - arrived at the emergency room at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre and requested help.
Thirty-four hours later, he was found dead in his wheelchair.
That kind of tragedy is what Jennifer Shea and her colleagues aim to prevent, reports the Telegram's Peter Jackson.
Shea is an assistant professor of Aboriginal health in Memorial University’s faculty of medicine, community health division who says making sure health-care providers understand and respect the cultural concerns of Indigenous people is a goal.
Find out more about how Sinclair's story and Shea's work are intertwined through this week's CAPO conference, which is also exploring themes of sex after cancer, nutrition and transgender care.
A mural makeover, and a mystery
The large Coca-Cola advertisement that adorns the historic Blanchard Building in Windsor, N.S., has been looking a little lacklustre as of late, so Sean Arthur and Markus Gallant are hard at work revitalizing the iconic mural.
But as SaltWire's Carole Morris-Underhill reports, the refurbishment has also enlivened a bit of a mystery.
According to an article on Coca-Cola’s website, the company’s first advertisement was in 1886 and featured the words "Delicious and Refreshing"— a phrase used until the late 1920s. Those same words were incorporated into the Blanchard Building mural, which dates back to the late 1800s or early 1900s.
Do you remember if the Coke logo was ever green?
There's also a map of other murals around downtown Windsor with the story.
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