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Lands deputy minister bashes Frame Lake MLA Department boss says he doesn't care if he gets fired over racially charged Facebook post attacking Kevin O'Reilly Online first at NNSL.com #NWTvotes2019 • Rent controls come up during debate • Constituency profile this issue: Yk Centre Volume 48 Issue 53 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2019 75 CENTS ($1 outside city) Terry Fox Run fun Commentary Science Sports Brett McGarry/NNSL photo Mayor Alty's Election Students get chance Yk brothers on same Watch: social issues to visit NASA staff B.C. hockey team $1.00 outside Yellowknife Publication mail Contract #40012157 "Cobbled together by carpetbaggers from Ontario and moustached-British expats in smoking jackets, consensus government produced a gazillion acclamations." 7 71605 00100 5 – Mike W. Bryant, managing editor of NNSL Media, in his column on the NWT style of government, page 9. 2 YELLOWKNIFER, Wednesday, September 18, 2019 feature news YELLOWKNIFER, Wednesday, September 18, 2019 3 Did we get it wrong? Yellowknifer is committed to getting facts and names right. With that goes a commitment to acknow- ledge mistakes and run corrections. If you spot an error in Yellowknifer, call 873-4031 and ask to speak to an editor, or email [email protected]. We'll get a correction or clarification in as soon as we can. NEWS Briefs Little Wiatt Moore was planting trees last weekend. Brett McGarry/NNSL photo Ezra Black/NNSL photo This kid can dig it Peter Griffith, an earth scientist with NASA, left, and Sir John Franklin High School student Aden Rylott in front Wiatt Moore got his hands dirty learning of a NASA Gulfstream jet at the Yellowknife Airport on Sept. 9. how to plant the saplings along with several other children and their families on Sept. 15. As a part of TD Tree Days, more than two dozen Yellowknifers went to the tennis club to plant 20 black spruce saplings to act as wind blockers for the courts. TD Tree Days is an NASA visits Yellowknife initiative that takes place in cities across Can- ada. – Brett McGarry Sir John Franklin students tour NASA jet that is studying the 27 foxes relocated this year effects of climate change on the boreal forest The GNWT's Department of Environment and Natural resources have relocated 27 foxes in by Ezra Black Yellowknife so far this year. Northern News Services None have had to be put down. He has dreams of visiting outer space but "Feeding foxes causes them to become on the morning of Sept. 9, the only place habituated to humans, which creates a public Aden Rylott was visiting was the lavatory. safety concern," said Meagan Wohlberg, spokes- The Grade 12 student at Sir John Frank- person for ENR. "When wildlife become habitu- lin High School couldn't stop vomiting. ated they lose their natural fear of humans and "I think I had gastro," he said. may potentially have to be put down." Not wanting to infect his classmates, Wohlberg said that live traps are used to Aden planned to stay home, but we all know catch the foxes before moving them outside of there are times when a kid really needs to the city. grab their backpack and go, even if they're ENR conducts public messaging campaigns not feeling 100 per cent. through signage, social media, workshop pres- This was one of those days. entations and direct communication through the "A bunch of my teachers called me and North Slave Regional Office. said NASA's in town," said Aden. "You've The public is reminded not to feed large- got to go." game or fur bearing animals as it is illegal. A NASA Gulfstream jet being used for an Systems engineer David Austerberry explained the workings of the Gulf- – Brett McGarry ongoing research project had been grounded stream's radar pod to assembled students, including Aden Rylott, who for maintenance. Aden had to get to the brought his NASA backpack for the occasion. City changes building code Yellowknife Airport where 13 of his peers were getting a tour of the aircraft and speak- vegetation comes back? What kind of chan- Call-sign Beef On Sept. 9, city council passed a bylaw that ing to a number of NASA scientists. ges happen to the permafrost? What are the The students spoke with a number of other will increase energy efficiency standards for His mother, Sara Rylott, obligingly gave impacts on the animals that are culturally NASA employees, including research pilot residential buildings. him a ride. and nutritionally important to the people of Trent "Beef" Kingery. The new bylaw will see energy efficiency "His dream is to work at NASA," she the North?" A systems engineer who enlisted in the standards raised 25 per cent higher than stipu- explained. "He wants to work in phys- To answer these questions, the U.S. Marine Corps right out of high school, lated in the 2015 National Building Code (NBC). ics. He loves physics." Gulfstream jet makes regular flights Kingery explained how a love of flying and an Residential buildings will now be tested Thanks to his mother's efforts, across the North, recording thaw academic focus on the sciences led to a career twice for insulation and airtightness require- Aden was able to join his schoolmates depth, soil moisture, vegetation struc- with America's space agency, and a memor- ments. and learn about a NASA project ture and a number of other variables able call-sign. Minimum insulation values have also been studying effects of climate change on using a belly-mounted array of instru- Call-signs have a storied history among removed and replaced with current standards the boreal forest. ments contained in the "radar pod." fighter pilots, he explained. They're bestowed for additions, alterations, repairs or upgrades in Climate change in the Arctic TRENT "It's where the radar lives," early in a pilot's career to promote camarad- the NBC. and boreal region is unfolding at "BEEF" explained Griffith. "And when they erie and are often the result of a screw-up. "By increasing the energy efficiency require- an alarming pace, state experts, and KINGERY repeat the measurements by flying "We had a guy that went off the runway ments through the building bylaw, we are might be resulting in more frequent every year, we can see changes in the into the grass on a landing so he got the call- simultaneously decreasing the cost of living and severe wildfires. surface." sign Baja," he explained. "We had one guy in Yellowknife and lowering GHG emissions," To learn more about how this is impacting According to the project's latest find- who forgot to raise his gear and he came fly- stated acting Mayor Shauna Morgan in a Sept. Northern ecosystems, NASA is conducting a ings, which were published last month, ing around at 500 knots and he was wondering 16 news release. project called the Arctic-Boreal Vulner- the increasing severity of wildfires in the why he couldn't accelerate, so his call-sign – Brett McGarry ability Experiment (ABoVE) in Alaska and boreal forest could be contributing to the was Drag." western Canada. The 10-year experiment is release of long-buried carbon stored in soil. "For me, Beef is because I'm a big guy," he Dene Nahjo to host forum now in its fourth year. The boreal forest has long been thought to continued. "It went through several iterations. Indigenous residents of the NWT will be The project is looking both at environ- store more carbon than it releases, which It was Stone, then Pebbles, then Shrek and getting their own opportunity to hear MLA can- mental systems and social systems in hopes makes it a carbon "sink," states the report. then Beef was the final one." didates discuss election issues. that its findings will help inform decision- However, if larger and more frequent He earned his first two nicknames because The Dene Nahjo organization will be facili- makers. fires become the norm, the forest could start he had kidney stones, he said. The med- tating three nights of questions for candidates Its relationship with the NWT began releasing more of the greenhouse gas than it ical condition kept him out of the running for with the constituencies split up over Sept. 22, in 2015, after the territory's forests were stores, which could affect the balance of the being an astronaut. 23 and 24. scorched by record-breaking wildfires in global carbon cycle and contribute to climate "Being in space and having a kidney stone The forum will be moderated by Indigenous 2014. Since then ABoVE scientists have change. can be a bad deal," he said. individuals and will cover the topics of land, partnered with the GNWT, Canadian sci- A more severe fire season could also Kingery explained how science, physics language and culture. entists and Indigenous governments, among change the nature of the boreal forest, said and engineering all go together to make the The first night will feature Tu-Nedeh - others. Griffith. ABoVE project possible. He also suggested Wiilideh, Great Slave and Yellowknife North "We're the first NASA project to have an "There's a lot of question and concern other aspiring NASA employees should do candidates. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. each intrinsic societal impacts component," said over what kind of forest grows back after what they can to stay in school and work hard. night at the Tree of Peace Friendship Centre in Peter Griffith, an earth scientist with NASA. severe burns," he said. "Research shows that After the tour, Aden said he was feeling "a Yellowknife.