Contract 400119680 ESTABLISHED • MAY 1975 VOLUME 45 / NO 08, FEBRUARY 27, 2019 $1.50 (Tax included) Twelve teams to participate in the Gesgapegiag First Nations Hockey Tournament Gilles Gagné who played in the AHL Waswanipi Firehawks are reg- (American Hockey League) istered in Class B. Wendake is GESGAPEGIAG: – Twelve and in Quebec’s Major Junior located near Quebec City and teams from Quebec, New Hockey,” points out Aaron Waswanipi in situated near Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Condo. Chibougamau. Labrador will participate in A sum of $30,000 will be In Class C, Gesgapegiag the first Gesgapegiag First given in prizes following the has a team, the Chiefs, which Nations Hockey Tournament, tournament. “The largest will oppose the Indian Brook which will be held between prize, $10,000, will go to the Hawks, the Sheshatshiu SRT March 1 and March 3 at the winners of Class A, and the and the Diamants of Mani New Richmond arena. runner up team will receive Utenam. Sheshatshiu is lo- The tournament’s coordi- $5,000. The registration fees cated in Labrador and Mani nator, Aaron Condo, explains cover most of the prize Utenam, also called Maliote- that the goal of the tourna- money. Six months of nam, is situated near Sept-Îles, ment is to bring First Nations fundraising activities are cov- or Seven Islands. people together. “The Ges- ering the other fees. We “I’m proud to offer an in- gapegiag Chiefs participate in started those activities in Oc- terprovincial high caliber a few First Nations hockey tober,” explains Aaron Condo. hockey tournament in our re- tournaments each year. This The teams are regrouped in gion,” says Aaron Condo. He tournament will show other three categories, according to also mentions that much effort First Nation hockey teams their caliber. Class A, the is being put in place to ensure where the Chiefs strongest caliber that the event is beneficial to come from. We category, is com- the community “I want to hope to provide prised of the bring First Nations communi- teams with Pessamit Mon- ties together in a positive ex- an unforget- tagnais, the Indian perience and expose our table experi- Brook Indians beautiful Gesgapegiag to ence.” and the Elispogtog Oilers. other First Nation people from Photo: G. Gagné “It is our first Pessamit is located on the across Eastern Canada.” Gesgapegiag’s Aaron Condo wants people to discover the tournament. There are other North Shore, while Indian The organizers of the tour- high caliber hockey found in many Native communities. tournaments in New Brook and Elispogtog are re- nament are selling 300 tour- Brunswick, in Quebec, like spectively situated in Nova nament passes for $25 per Condo’s facebook page. entertainment featuring local Seven Islands. Few people Scotia and New Brunswick. pass. Additional details and During the tournament artists. There will also be Na- know that some Natives play The Wendake Expair, the updates about the tournament there will something for tive vendors on site with tra- at a high level. We have guys Listuguj Warriors and the can be found on Aaron everyone including nightly ditional handicrafts. Extension to the Saint-Majorique ecological corridor Nelson Sergerie ties have the particularity of offering a continuous forest GASPÉ: - With $150,000 cover, dominated by balsam from the federal and provin- fir, white spruce and red cial governments, the Nature maple. These woodlands and Conservancy of Canada is streams present an ideal envi- adding 26 hectares of pro- ronment for a wide variety of tected land in the Saint-Ma- animals such as the Canada jorique area near Gaspé. lynx, moose, black bear, This sector is 15 kilome- white-tailed deer, marten and ters from downtown Gaspé red fox. “Highway 197 is im- and 5 kilometers from Fox pediment on the movement of River, along Highway 197. large wildlife. By protecting With this acquisition, there is private properties along the now 170 hectares of pro- road, it is possible to have a tected area along Highway habitat more suitable for large 197, an area considered as an wildlife to cross on both sides important ecological corri- of the road. (...) These are dor near Forillon Park. This large animals that need large space represents the only ter- areas. It’s not enough for them restrial ecological link per- to stay in Forillon Park,” says mitting the movement of Project Manager for the wildlife between Forillon Gaspé Peninsula, Camille Park and the large public for- Bolduc. est further to the west. Photo: Nature Conservancy of Canada The two acquired proper- Cont'd on page 7 The territory protected by the Nature Conservancy of Canada near Gaspé. News briefs Murdochville deaths: the coroner releases findings Nelson Sergerie MURDOCHVILLE: - Roch Dunn and Claude Chouinard may Photo: courtesy of the Town of Bonaventure have died of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning on July 25, 2017 in the underground gallery of the Murdochville Copper Inter- The new Bonaventure arena should be completed in May 2020. pretation Center. These are the findings of the coroner Andrée Kronström, whose reports were released on 19 February. BONAVENTURE ARENA: Mr. Chouinard, then 50, was commissioned by the centre's board of directors to remove the water from the gallery in an- ticipation of the reopening of the tourist site. Since there was no No opposition electricity, a pump that ran on fuel was installed outside the tun- nel. To speed up the process, Mr. Dunn, 60 at the time of the tragedy, helped install an extra pump in the tunnel. Mr. signatures on the register be $2,713,000,” emphasizes New Carlisle arena but there Chouinard remained on site the entire night. In the morning, Gilles Gagné Mayor Roch Audet. is more to it, including family Mr. Dunn wondering about Mr. Chinard’s whereabouts went in BONAVENTURE: – The A consortium formed by skating activities and a and did not come back up. It is an employee who found the two Saint-Omer’s LFG Construc- hockey skills program for men inanimate. town of Bonaventure will get a new arena, a $7.3 million tion and Honco, a firm from youths. Hockey tournaments CNESST concluded that the pump's exhaust gas production project. A register was made Lévis specializing in steel are also organized. and unsafe work practices were the causes of the accident. Al- structures, won the Town of Approximately 10 adult though the evidence indicated possible CO poisoning, the coro- available by the municipal ad- Bonaventure call for tenders hockey teams use the ner wanted to ensure that no other poisonous gas could have ministration in order to verify in October. Bonaventure arena every contributed to the deaths by consulting a chemist from the Tox- if the number of opponents justified a referendum. That “The total cost of the loan week, as well as many minor icology Center at Quebec’s National Institute of Public Health. will be $8,375,000 but we hockey teams. The schools "Given the material evidence, the most likely cause of the register was available on Feb- will get sponsorships for the are also using the arena spo- worker's and volunteer's death is CO poisoning," the coroner ruary 14 and it received no cost exceeding $8,146,000,” radically. There is no hockey says in his report. signatures. 0 The municipal council will says Mayor Audet. program in the Bonaventure likely give the green light to The demolition of the old schools. The committee in an $8,146,000 loan at the arena will start at the end of charge of the new arena is A Child Prostitution March monthly meeting. That the current season, once all planning a multi-sport use of amount includes the construc- the hockey and other ice ac- the new building but the de- 0 0 0 0 tion of the new arena, for $7.3 tivities will be finished. tails about that option will Commission? 0 0 0 0 0 million, some expenses for “The construction stage only be released later. Thierry Haroun the plans and technical speci- will start in June for a deliv- Roch Audet praises the CAQ Repentigny MNA, Lise Lavallée intends to ask the Na- fications, the demolition of ery in May of 2020. We have work of the local committee tional0 Assembly 0 0 to create a special0 0Parliamentary Commis- 00 0 0 0 the old arena for $210,000, started discussions with the driving the arena project for sion on Child Prostitution. “This phenomenon concerns and a piece of art representing neighbouring towns where the good results obtained over adolescents aged 14 and 15 and even 12 and for those who fi- 1% of the total ($81,460,) there are other arenas, mainly the last months mainly, and nally get out of that terrible world some are infertile and which is the rule for projects Paspebiac and Caplan be- over the last years. He stresses marked for life. Something has to be done and I intend to in- receiving a majority of public cause there are already agree- that the initiative has been on- vite all organizations concerned by this issue, such as, the funds. ments in minor hockey for going for a decade. Calacs Sexual Assault Prevention and Aid Center,” Lise Laval- “The Bonaventure arena’s those arenas. New Richmond “The work was well done. lée told Spec. “If such a Parliamentary Commission is set up funding is divided in three is also open to talking with us. Two consultations were con- I’ll be the first one there to speak out and to shed light on this equal parts of 33.33%, one As for New Carlisle, we hear ducted over the last ten years, major problem that also exists here in the Gaspé,” Annick third for the town’s taxpayers, that the arena is mainly used and three information meet- Bouchard-Beaulieu, Executive Director of Calacs Gaspésie one-third from the Quebec for curling but there is a pos- ings were held during that pe- confirms.