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LÖGBERG HEIMSKRINGLA The Icelandic Community Newspaper • 15 July 2014 • Number 14/ Númer 14 • 15. júlí 2014 Publication Mail Agreement No. 40012014 ISSN: 0047-4967 INSIDE Senator, amma, and now Honourary Chair of Women for Nature TWO BIRDS / RÚNAR RÚNARSSON PHOTO COURTESY OF GIMLI FILM FESTIVAL Jodi Joy, Director of Development, Nature Canada Upcoming Ottawa, ON celebrations he Board and staff of Nature Canada are honoured to have Senator Janis Johnson as the Honourary Chair of Gimli Film Festival, Manitoba Nature Canada’s Women for Nature Initiative. Senator Icelandic Festival, Hecla T Johnson has dedicated her career to serving Canadians in Island and August the Deuce politics, business and arts and has served in many prominent / pages 5 and 7 positions in her community and her country. Her passion for social justice and equality for women led her to study political science, graduate to a career working in politics, and run her own business. In the 1980s, Senator Johnson became the first woman to establish and chair the federal Progressive Conservative Women’s Caucus. Subsequently, she became the first female National Director of the PC Party of Canada in 1983. She was called to the Senate of Canada in 1990 and in addition to June 17 and this eminent role, has also been an active volunteer on social advocacy campaigns. Johnson served on the boards of two Kvennahlaup universities, the YM/YWCA, Special Olympics Manitoba and Canada, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and currently, the Royal More photos, more stories / Winnipeg Ballet’s National Advisory Council. pages 8 to 11 Senator Johnson raised a family, is an amma now and her greatest joy is taking her young grandsons on walks along Gimli Beach, where she has a home. Nature and the outdoors, especially Lake Winnipeg, have played a huge role in her life. ... continued on page 2 PHOTO COURTESY OF NATURE CANADA PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIIMEDIA COMMONS THE RISE, FALL AND RISE OF ICELANDIC BANKING Björk Hilmar Þór Hilmarsson On a rappers’ album and in the New York City Museum Elisabeth I. Ward, Director of the Scandinavian Cultural of Fine Art / page 13 Center, Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma, WA ver the last five years, and even before that, Iceland has been making international news in regard to its banking Osector: first for how impressively it was growing, then for how fantastically it collapsed, and now recently for how well it is recovering. This dizzying unfolding of events is the result of a peculiar set of economic decisions, public policies, and international politics. One scholar who is especially qualified to comment on all this is Hilmar Þór Hilmarsson, Professor at the University of Akureyri, School of Business and Science, who is a macro-economist with an emphasis on domestic public policy, and how that plays out in international arenas. PHOTO: HILMAR ÞÓR HILMARSSON Hilmar Þór Hilmarsson, macro-economist, spoke at ... continued on page 2 universities across the USA August 1, 2014 Links at the Lake Golf Course Gimli, MB Register online at www.lh-inc.ca In Support of Lögberg-Heimskringla or by phone 1-866-564-2374 Visit us on the web at http://www.lh-inc.ca 2 • Lögberg-Heimskringla • July 15 2014 Lögberg-Heimskringla • 15. júlí 2014 • 3 Icelandic banking ... continued from page 1 University of Alberta Kimberly Irwin awarded scholarship to study in Iceland I had the pleasure of meeting Hilmar Alicyn Goodman the coordinator Ásta Sól, and later by her cousins, the In 2006, Kimberly began studying Icelandic through while he was a Visiting Scholar at the Scandinavian program and Kimberly Irwin descendants of Hlödver’s sisters. During her stay in Háskóli Íslands Distance Learning program Icelandic University of Washington, in Seattle, Reykjavík, there were about 30 cousins who gathered Online Plus. In 2007, she returned to Iceland again to during Spring 2014. It was actually quite Winnipeg MB to meet Kimberly. They had many questions about visit her cousins, but still had a long way to go before a relief to meet a real specialist in this flourishing he Icelandic National League of North America who her family was, how many of them there are, what she could understand this man’s babble about food and field, someone who truly understood is pleased to announce that Kimberly K. Irwin they do and where they lived. However, Kimberly had boys. She wanted to be able to communicate beyond what had happened, since I have been has been awarded an Icelandic Government only known her first cousins, and realized that she the basic level of comprehension, so later set off to asked from time to time to comment Dr. Natalie M. Van Deusen, Chair, Canadian Initiative for T Scholarship in Icelandic Studies at the University of had a lot of research to do on her family. One cousin Winnipeg, MB in 2009 with the intent to study Icelandic on the banking crisis in Iceland. As a PHOTO: ELISABETH WARD Nordic Studies (CINS) Iceland. She is a most worthy recipient, but the Icelandic offered Kimberly sheep and potatoes to fatten her up, at the University of Manitoba. Kimberly has since then specialist in the Icelandic sagas and the Hilmar Þór Hilmarsson, guest lecturer at Pacific Canadian community will miss her many contributions and insisted that she should learn Icelandic, he was obtained a B.A. in Icelandic Language and Literature Viking Age, all I could ever comment espite the financial wrote my doctoral dissertation Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA to organizations such as the Sólskríkjan choir, Icelandic even certain he could find a boy her age if she stayed. in 2013, and has recently been awarded the Icelandic on was the mis-use of the term Viking difficulties facing on the Old Norse-Icelandic Canadian Frón and the Lögberg-Heimskringla Kimberly laughed and kindly declined these gifts, Government Scholarship in Icelandic Studies at the as it had been applied to Icelandic Canadian universities in legend of Martha and Mary D newspaper to name a few. We look forward to hearing but promised she would learn Icelandic and return. University of Iceland. bankers during the boom of the early EU, Iceland has focused on bilateral relationships recent years, the Scandinavian Magdalen. I have published of her adventures in Iceland. Since moving to Manitoba, Kimberly has been an 2000s. Hilmar’s far more in-depth analysis looks and then even acted unilaterally during times of program at the University of several articles related to this active member in the Icelandic Community. She is a board at how a small nation operates in the international crisis. Hilmar stated during his talk at the Nordic Alberta continues to grow and legend, and have also written on Kimberly’s Saga (so far) member for the Snorri Alumni Association, and helps banking sector. Though it is not unusual for a Heritage Museum, “During the 2008 economic thrive. This is due in no small medieval and modern Icelandic There was a man called Hlöðver Águst Árnason, promote the program each year at Íslendingadagurinn. small nation to have an oversized banking system and financial crisis the government of Iceland part to the tremendous support literature more generally. I son of the farmer Árni Sveinbjörnsson and Arndís This year she gave a presentation for the Snorri Program in comparison to its GDP, Hilmar notes what is contacted major central banks bilaterally to rescue we have received from the spent a year doing research at Jónsdóttir of Oddstaðir in the Lundarreykjadalur Valley at the INL of NA convention. She also assists Brad unusual is how unilaterally Iceland acted, in both its banking system but found itself isolated and Scandinavian community in the Arnamagneean Collection at of Borgarfjörður. Hlöðver went to Canada and lived Hirst in organizing the Annual Snorri BBQ and other building up that system, but more especially in without friends. Then a unilateral action was taken Edmonton and elsewhere in the University of Copenhagen in Riverton, Manitoba. He married Anna Halldora gatherings, and has worked with Julie Summers to how it has responded to the crisis since then. with an Emergency Act. Its three largest banks fell Alberta. The position I occupy in 2009-10, and also studied in Thorvaldson, daughter of Sveinn Thorvaldson, a man of put out the Snorri Alumni Association newsletter. In During his visit to the United States, he and its currency depreciated sharply. After the fall was made possible by the Iceland for two summers. I am good family and his first wife Margret Sólmundsdóttir addition, Kimberly is a board member of the Icelandic was primarily occupied with writing several of the banking system Iceland had a dispute with many generous donations to currently working on turning of Riverton. They had six children: their eldest was Arni Canadian Frón, a member of the Sólskríkjan Kór and has articles and making contacts with colleagues the Netherlands and the UK over the so-called the Scandinavian Professorship my dissertation into a book, and Gregg Arnason, an accomplished musician, teacher, volunteered at the Scandinavian Pavilian at Folklorama. in North America. But he also devoted a great ICESAVE accounts, and again ended up acting Endowment Fund established am collaborating with Professor pilot, and Captain. Arni married an Irish woman, In 2013, Kimberly became a volunteer at the amount of time to speaking about his research unilaterally. Although the government of Iceland by the Scandinavian Studies Kirsten Wolf of the University Marjorie Gleason and eventually settled in British Lögberg-Heimskringla, cataloguing and organizing on the economic and financial crisis in Iceland at twice reached a settlement on ICESAVE, in both Association-and in particular, of Wisconsin-Madison on a Columbia.

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