Pan Am Games 2015 Hedley: Wildlife Is school a competition? Toronto as a host city, page 3 New Canadian album, page 15 Our real motivation, page 8 the student newspaper of thornhill secondary school issue two winter 2014 EYE OF THE TIGER #WeAreWinter The Winter Nation: Canada has proven at Sochi that we are indeed winter. BY SHANE SUKERMAN dian flag among her hundreds its four year slumber. The Cana- ning for even a top 10 position. game started, social media erupt- OPINION COLUMNIST of fellow athletes. Wickenheiser, dian women surged back, scoring This disaster only served to unite ed with cheers and support that ack in 2010, I remember along with the rest of the Cana- two goals in the dying minutes of us further, as we stood by our would not end until long after the sitting at home a lot, eyes dian Women’s Ice Hockey team, the game to send it to overtime. athletes and took pride in their game had finished. Bglued to the television was aiming for a gold medal once Then, just as the nation had re- efforts. We understood what it Jonathan Toews, two-time screen, cheering for Canada as again. gained hope, the girls playing meant to train for three years and Stanley Cup winner and a mem- they competed in Vancouver. The The first few days of the hockey out in Russia with a maple eleven months, and then to have ber of the Vancouver 2010 Olym- Winter Olympics in 2010 had a Olympics looked good for Cana- leaf on their chests reminded us all that training feel wasted be- pic squad, tipped in a pass in number of big moments: Alex- da, as we won 4 gold medals after that hockey is our game. An over- cause of a split-second decision. front of the net to give Canada a andre Bilodeau won Canada its the first week. However, our med- time winner sent the Canadian We were proud to call those bob- 1-0 lead. In the second period, first gold medal on home soil, al count soon began to slow, and Olympic machine into overdrive. sledders Canadians, and we were Sidney Crosby made the most of the Men’s Ice Hockey team re- at one point Canada sat as low as In the days that followed, Ca- proud to call them our brothers. a Swedish turnover at centre ice covered from their defeat in 2006 eighth in the medal rankings. And nadians were joined together in And then the moment came and scored on a breakaway. Final- and came back to win gold, and then the nation woke up. almost every aspect of being. The that our country has been wait- ly, Chris Kunitz snapped another Canada finished the Olympics It started in earnest when spark in our hearts had been lit, ing four years for – the semi-finals past Henrik Lundqvist in the third with more gold medals than any the Women’s Hockey team made and the last few days of the Sochi and finals of Men’s Ice Hockey. to give Canada a 3-0 lead. The other country. It was pretty clear it to the gold medal game against Winter Games were easily Cana- In the semi-finals, Canada gold medal was won, and it was that the Vancouver Games were the United States. Since Women’s da’s best. faced off against the United States, because of the effort put in by going to be hard to live up to. Hockey was introduced, every We continued by support- the very team we had barely beat- each member of the team – not Now, before the Olympics gold medal game has been played ing our Women’s Curling team en back in the gold medal game in to mention a special performance in Sochi began, there was a lot between Canada and the United as they triumphed over Sweden Vancouver. But our team was dif- from goaltender Carey Price, of media attention given to Rus- States. The U.S. brought home the in the gold medal game. Then, ferent this time, and new heroes who has been nothing but stellar sia, mostly because of its anti-gay first gold in 1998, and Canada has we watched as the Men’s Curling like Carey Price and Jamie Benn while wearing the maple leaf on legislation. This resulted in an won every Olympics since then. team lived up to their predeces- gave us the advantage over our his chest, going back to the World outcry from the western world, Having already beaten the U.S. sors, beating Great Britain for an- bitter rivals. We fought hard for Juniors in 2007. ranging from clever advertise- in a preliminary game, Canada other gold medal. our 1-0 victory over the U.S., and Canada was brought closer ments against the legislation to was shocked when the Women’s During the four-man bob- we advanced to the gold medal together by these Olympics than the boycotting of the entire Olym- Team went down 2-0. It took until sled event, however, the Canada game against Sweden. we have been since, well, the last pic Games. Needless to say, most the last four minutes of the game, 3 team experienced a devastating This game was the only one Olympics. And while it might not of the attention was not on the with the score still 2-0, for Cana- crash. None of the athletes were of Canada’s to be broadcast at have lived up to the intensity and athletes until the games actually dian patriotism to awaken from seriously injured, but the loss in an odd hour, as Canadians from aura of Vancouver, Canada’s final began. time put Canada out of the run- coast to coast set their alarm medal count of ten gold, ten sil- During the opening ceremo- clocks for 6:30 a.m. to wait for ver, and five bronze has reminded ny, Hayley Wickenheiser, a female puck drop at 7:00. The second this the world that when it comes to hockey legend, carried the Cana- the Olympics, we are winter. page 2 EYE OF THE TIGER news newswinter 2014 EYE OF THE TIGER What happened to MH370? A sticky situation Our new favorite jackets The plane that didn’t return, pg. 4 Oil problems, page 7 The fate of Canada Goose, page 3 The life of Nelson Mandela A history of the life and legacy of the beloved One to be deeply remembered leader Nelson Mandel. BY MAX LI NEWS CONTRIBUTOR elson Rolihlahla Mandela, a beloved South African NPresident and anti-apart- heid revolutionary, died December 5 at his home in Johannesburg. He was 95 and had been suffering from respiratory infections for most of his twilight years. The son of a local chief and councillor to the monarch, Mande- la was only nine when he witnessed his father succumb to lung disease. Later on, he would say that he had inherited his father’s “proud rebel- liousness” and “stubborn sense of fairness.” After his father’s death, his mother took him to the household of Chief Jongintaba Dalinyebo, who was to be Mandela’s new guardian. His new family took him to church every Sunday, making Christian- ity an important part of his life. At his school, he engaged himself with African history and was influenced anti-imperialistic beliefs, although he still considered the European colonialists as allies and not op- pressors. During his adolescence and progression into adulthood, Mandela completed his Junior Certificate at Clarkebury Boarding Institute, a Western-style school for Africans in Thembuland, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Mandela spent most of his free time running and boxing, and af- ter two years of school he became a prefect. When an anti-imperialist movement rose up, Mandela didn’t The South African activist and former president Nelson Mandela helped bring an end to apartheid and has been a global advocate for take part. Instead, he used his time human rights. After nearly three decades of being imprisoned for protesting against the oppressive regime, he became the first black to found a first-year students’ com- president of South Africa, forming a multicultural government to oversee the country’s transition. After retiring from politics, he has mittee that boycotted against poor remained and will always be remembered as a devoted representative for peace and social justice in his own nation and around the world. food quality, which got him sus- pended from the university. After- ing this time, he organized many nearly two decades at this prison. In running for President of South Af- seeking a quiet family life, but he wards, Mandela didn’t continue his peaceful protests, following Gan- 1982, Mandela was moved to Polls- rica. In the end, the ANC won with ended up spending most of his time studies at the institution. dhi’s example. By 1956, he had al- moor prison, where he was permit- a 62% vote, four percent away from with global leaders, celebrities and At 22 years old, Mandela’s ready received a third ban on pub- ted 52 letters a year and maintained being able to rewrite the constitu- the Nelson Mandela Foundation to guardian had arranged a marriage lic appearances. It was then that his his own roof garden. Outside of the tion. In 1995, Mandela divorced combat HIV/AIDS. Many founda- for him. Unhappy with the situa- marriage began to fully break up. prison, violence was growing to an Winnie for violating human rights tions in the name of Mandela were tion, Mandela left to Johannesburg, Two years later, Mandela filed for uproar, and many feared a civil war.