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Global Citizens of Newfoundland a Ll Pho T Os on His Page by G Il S Hocha SUMMER 2013 ISSUED ONCE A YEAR BY, FOR AND ABOUT THE WILLIAM SOUTHAM JOURNALISM FELLOWS OF MASSEY COLLEGE A Global citizens of Newfoundland LL PHO T OS ON T HIS PAGE BY G IL S HOCHA T THE BUSTLING HARBOUR OF ST. John’s, capiTAL OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR, NOVEMBER, 2012 GIL SHOCHAT men and businesspeople. Tom Best was wrong. Rather than victims marooned on ting corporate tycoon thought they in- a fisherman based in the working cove a hunk of granite on the eastern edge of vented the concept. They were the original Free thinkers and poachers and of Petty Harbour. Tom was an old salt North America, the fish harvesters in the international seafaring people, and some scoundrels,” is how John Crosbie, Lieutenant- whose stories gave us a taste of what the old pictures were the ultimate survivors, Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, cod fishery was like in its heyday. Danny global citizens long before any globetrot- ... CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 described people from ‘The Rock.’ Williams, the retired premier who now “Every Newfoundlander believes it’s his owns the American Hockey League team, goddamn right to shoot or kill anything the St. John’s Icecaps, spoke with relentless that he goddamn well wants to,” he told us. optimism about the future of his province. Crosbie, the retired Conservative Cabinet (Alas, the game for which we sat in his Minister famous for his off colour comments, private box at the Mile One Centre had had his tongue planted firmly in his cheek his team losing 2-1 against Montreal’s farm when he described the pluck and resolve team, the Hamilton Bulldogs.) Throughout, that set Newfoundlanders apart. we were struck by how random it was for I always knew that Newfoundlanders a group of journalists from all over Canada, were different, and it wasn’t just their Malawi and Venezuela to find themselves accents. This was clearly a distinct society, here on the Rock, Canada’s easternmost tied to land and place with its own special province and in many ways, its most exotic. history. But though I thought I knew That night, in our hotel room at the something about this province, I soon Quality Inn St. John’s, perched at the realized that many of my preconceptions mouth of St. John’s harbour, with the cold were mistaken. November wind whipping against the win- VISITING GOVERNMENT HOUSE, ST. John’s, NOV., 2012. GIL SHOCHAT, MURRAY WHYTE, TERESA The journalism fellows took our first trip dow we looked at the ships passing back TEMWEKA CHIRWA, LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR JOHN CROSBIE (IN A SEALSKIN BOWTIE), PETER in November, flying out to Newfoundland, and forth through the opening of the port. KUITENBROUWER, MARY TRINY MENA, MARY AGNES WELCH a place that only one of us had ever visited. We tried to figure out what might con- The late November trip was not the typical nect us to this place, when the conversa- time to be visiting the place, with the tion turned as it often does, to food. Where constant biting wind and cold crisp air were we going to have dinner tomorrow? keeping most tourists away from this Someone suggested we go to Bacalao, for picturesque spot. On the plus side, the lack ‘nouvelle Newfoundland cuisine’ (a funny of visitors makes us feel like we had the run idea in a place that had been so poor that of the province. at one time more than half the women in Crosbie met us at the august Gov- the province wore underwear made from ernment House, his place of residence Robin Hood flour sacks). And while I bedecked with dark wood, lots of local snickered Teresa Chirwa, the African radio art, chandeliers and high painted ceilings. journalist said excitedly, “bacalao! That’s the Among other things, Crosbie is famous for word for salt fish in Malawi.” “Bacalao is telling the then thirtysomething Liberal also the word for salt cod in my country!” Member of Parliament Sheila Copps in Par- Mary Mena, the fiery Venezuelan investiga- liament that her behaviour reminded him tive journalist said excitedly. of the song lyric, “Pour me another tequila, Well this was just plain weird. I had Sheila, and lie down and love me again.” If hardly heard of salt cod or ever even tasted this was how the Queen’s representative in it for that matter. I did though vaguely re- Newfoundland spoke then this was going call some black and white pictures from my to be a very interesting trip. We were very grade nine Canadian history book of burly far from staid, Loyalist, a little out-of-date fishermen in overalls drying cod in the sun. and polite Upper Canada. They were doing it somewhere remote. We met with former politicians, fisher- Ok, so maybe I got Newfoundland all THE CRAGGY ROCKS OF THE EAST COAST TRAIL, AVALON PENINSULA, NEWFOUNDLAND SUMMER 2013 2 • Global Sightings of Scotopelia at Massey College Those who have wondered why this TREVOR citizens of annual journal is called “The Owl”: wonder no more! In April The Owl sent P LIN out the following appeal on the Massey listserv: Newfoundland T “Word is that a real owl has been hanging around the quad this year and even decapitating goldfish. If anyone has time to put together a few words about this owl, consider them published. “ We got back this response: Novel hunting behaviour FIGURE 1: IMAGE SHOWING DECAPITATED GOLDFISH (*CARASSIUS AURATUS AURATUS*), CAUGHT AND PARTIALLY EATEN BY A LESSER MASSEY QUAD OWL (TENTATIVELY IDENTIFIED AS *STRIGIFORME observed in *Strigiforme MASSIENSIS RECTILINEARUS*) massiensis rectilinearus* land immediately afterward. Interestingly, in observed flying east towards Trinity Col- this case only the head was eaten, leaving the lege, known habitat of the less agile and T. G. Plint, L. E. Klaiber, M. Rotenberg, meaty rest of the body (Figure 1). less observant Strachan’s Squirrel (*Sciurus TERESA TEMWEKA CHIRWA, MARY TRINY MENA tremulus undergraduidae*). We therefore AND GIL SHOCHAT, CAPE SPEAR, NFLD Fishing owls (of the genus *Scotopelia*) It is hypothesized that due to the unusu- posit based on rigorous statistical sampling are well known to the scientific community, ally elevated Owl IQ (OIQ) of the species ... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 (n=1, p=0.05) that this species subsists on a but to date have been observed primarily (n=1, p=0.05), their diet requires a much mixed diet including both mammalian and of their forefathers fished the Grand Banks in central Africa. To date, there has been higher concentration of neurotransmitter fish components. It is not currently known even before Samuel de Champlain and John relatively little evidence to support fishing protein precursors (2013, J. Anderson). In whether this species enters into competi- Cabot. The hard men in the old pictures behavior in their North American counter- the minutes following decapitation, the tion with that other great Massey night owl, probably shared more historically with their parts. We report the first direct observation body of the goldfish was abandoned in *Strigiforme fraseridae*, but the authors Irish, English and European cousins than of “live-catch” fishing behaviour in *Stri- order, apparently, to pursue tastier game in hope to shed light on their interactions in they did with many in central Canada. They giforme massiensis rectilinearus. *A casual the form of a Greater Black Quad Squirrel a subsequent study. were the sharp edge of the globalization survey of existing footage of Blakistons fish- (*Sciurus vulgaris rectilinearus*). In spite of knife. This was at a time when most Cana- ing owl (*Bubo blakistoni*) indicates similar a half hour’s painstaking observation in low The authors gratefully acknowledge the dians and Europeans were subsistence farm- fishing technique; observation from a fixed lighting conditions, the authors observed no editorial contributions of world-renowned ers venturing but a few miles from home. position, a slow gliding approach, followed by successful kills made (n=1, p=0.05). Ap- owl expert and web journalism pioneer Glimpses of this life could still be seen in a sort of fluttering “hover,” while the capture proximately forty-five minutes after the P. Kuitenbrouwer in the publication of St. John’s harbour where fish cargo vessels is made, with the kill being made on dry initial fish kill was observed, the owl was this study. registered “the Baffin Islands – Iqaluit” sat next to massive boats registered to Monro- via, Liberia whose job it was to service the Hibernia oil platform. It was pluck and drive that seemed to Congratulations! imbue its people with an ability to adapt that gave it an edge over other parts of winners of the the continent. As a 2003 Newfoundland and Labrador Royal Commission report William Southam points out, people from The Rock were the ultimate survivors. “When the need for 2013 – 2014 employment dictated they should leave this place, they did so….Our people became Journalism sailors and fishers under American skippers. Fellowships They became first-class riggers of steel, Amara Bangura Véronique Morin Jody Porter oil field workers, miners, road-and home BBC Media Action, Freelance, Québec CBC/Radio Canada builders….They had learned well how Sierra Leone Webster McConnell Fellow Thunder Bay to adapt…. They were people who were Gordon N. Fisher Fellow CBC/Radio Canada Fellow capable of successfully undertaking almost In association with Canadian anything.” Journalists for Free Expression, If adapting meant doing as John Cros- Journalists for Human Rights bie put it “whatever they goddamn well and the Canadian Journalism pleased” this free spiritedness was what Foundation, Massey College allowed them to survive. is grateful for the generosity As we journalism fellows walked around of CBC/Radio-Canada, the the moonlike landscape of Cape Spear, and Alva Foundation and the Fisher saw for ourselves the rugged beauty, and Family, the estate of St.
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