Sea ice on Hudson Bay...

Sea ice on Hudson Bay..., originally uploaded by Arctic Annie.

.. at Repulse Bay, Nunavut... the first flickr photo from a friend of mine who is a Nurse there...

Buy Nothing Day Poster

Buy Nothing Day Poster, originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.

George's Christmas Gift Exemption Certificate

George's Christmas Gift Exemption Certificate, originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.

Buy Nothing Day posters are available to download. A printer is all you need to support BND and give your friends and family permission not to buy you gifts. To get your own blank copies, just visit http://www.adbusters.org/metas/eco/bnd/

The Metis Sash

The Sash is a finger woven belt made of wool approximately three metres long. Traditionally it was tied at the waist to hold a coat closed, including being used as a scarf or rope.
Each colour of the sash represents:
Yellow - Prosperity
Blue _ The depth of the Metis Sprit
White - The connection to Mother Earth
Red - Blood shed
Green - Fertility
Dark Blue - The dark period of repression and disposession.
This display was part of a presentation at Aurora College's Thebacha Campus the week of November 15th, 2004.

For more information on the Metis Sash, click here

NorthernMost Hosts Training Program Course

NorthernMost Hosts, originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.

A training program given Rosanna Strong (3rd from left) of "Strong Interpretation PO Box 2671, Yellowknife, NT X1A 2R1 Ph./Fax 867-873-554 at Aurora College (Ft Smith) November 18 & 19 2004

Link to my Flickr Pictures

George Lessard's pictures

Calypso belbosa - Fariy Slipper

Calypso belbosa - Fariy Slipper, originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.

Taken in June of 2004 at Fort Smith Northwest Territories Canada 60°00'N, 111°58' W

The Dog River

The Dog River, originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.

A tributary of the Slave River... just over the border in Alberta from Fort Smith... Francois Paulette was kind enough to invite me on a very nice boat trip to the Dog river with his family.

When is a "security" deposit a "cleaning" deposit?

Livingroom from main enterance, originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.

See how the landlord of 426 Calder Ave. Ft Smith arranges to keep $669.32 of a $1,000 "security deposit" on this 3 room basement apartment in Fort Smith

Click here to see the full set of pictures as I left it on September 30... click on the individual pictures to see more detail... see if you can see anything that was damaged and in need of repair.

To see a slide show of the pictures... click here
Take a look at the pictures and decide for yourself if $669.32 is a fair price to charge for the "repair" of this basement apartment.

If you are renting in the NWT or are about to rent one.. you need to read this information from the Rental Office of the Northwest Territories, by clicking here
This note on the "Security Deposit" is taken from the above page..

What is a security deposit?
A security deposit is money given to a landlord by a tenant. The money is held by the landlord until the end of the tenancy at which time the security deposit may be used for rental arrears or tenant damages.

How much money can a landlord request as a security deposit?
In the case other than a weekly tenancy, the security deposit may not be greater than the amount equal to one (1) months rent.(Section 14[1]

You can download a PDF version of the official Residential Tenancy Agreement of the NWT by clicking here.

Hal Logsdon, Rental Officer for the NWT
Rental Office
3rd Floor, Panda II Mall
PO Box 1920
Yellowknife NT X1A 2P4
Telephone: (867) 920-8047
Fax: (867) 873-0489
Toll Free: (800) 661-0760
can be reached via e-mail at via Kim Powless

You may choose to leave your opinion on this... or telling us about your experience with landlords in the NWT by clicking on the little pencil just below this....

Pictures of China Daily

Click here for display of images of China Daily
This link will display the same set of pictures as a slide show

Myself, photographing the Great Wall

One of the things one learns at the wall... is that if one visits the tourist sections of the wall... one sees a rebuilt Wall... that's evident if one visits the orther sections... as they are quite delapidated and crumbling..

My photos of people and places in & around Fort Smith, NWT

An archive of my photos that I've been taking in and around Fort Smith... on the shores of the Slave River... just north of the Alberta border... on the 60th degree of north latitude.

Professional Memberships

Canadian Association of Journalists
Canadian Artists Representation / le Front des artistes canadiennes
Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective

Some of my online work

My weblogThe MediaMentor's Blog
E-mail lists I moderate....
Creative-Radio
MediaMentor
Journalists for Human Rights
Nunavut Circumpolar List
The Thebacha List
Nunavut CAP Sites

Remembrance Day 2004 in Fort Smith

Images of Fort Smith's 2004 Remembrance Day ceremonies are online.
Remembrance Day Montage 2004
The following link will bring up up a slide show of the pictures I took of the ceremonies and the parade to the cenotaph in Fort Smith.
This link will take to see the full set of pictures. Click on any picture to see the full size version.

SOME ABORIGINAL VETS YET TO BE COMPENSATED
After years of being denied compensation, some Aboriginal veterans in the Yukon have finally received a financial settlement from the federal government. But for others, the stuggle continues.
FULL STORY

TASSS bake sale buyers...

TASSS bake sale buyers..., originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.

On October the 30th, 2004... TASSS (The Artists of the South Slave Society) of Fort Smith had a bake sale and raised about $350,,, These are some of the folks who supportted the arts by buying some of the goddies.. I manned the table and recorded these faces as a way of saying thanks to them.

Daynee Paulette Benefit Concert Images online

Our hearts go out to Jerry and Jamie Paulette in their time of crisis. Funds raised at this concert will go to assisting them and their family while they are staying with their daughter in Edmonton. They and their family thank you all.

We pray that, God willing, Daynee will recover soon.

The Daynee Paulette Benefit Committee would like to thank the following for their kind and generous support to this concert.

Fort Smith Metis Local
Northwestern Air Lease http://www.nwal.ca/
Uncle Gabe's Friendship Centre
Keaser's Store
Northern Store
Gallery Restaurent
Gartal Holdings http://www.gardtal.com/

And all the volunteers and performers too!

Here is a slide show of the images I took at the concert that I've put online for Daynee, Jerry and Jaime to see in Edmonton. To see them too, just click here.

Stone dragon stair carving... Beijing

ths carving cried out to be photographed... such a wonderful dragon...

Another stone dragon carving

All the work at the Summer Palace was great... but the stone carvings were by far the most intricate I have seen... they even surpass IMHO the temple carving I saw in Orissa, India.

The old gods eye the new god in Beijing

The first weekend I was in Beijing... one of the other Foreign Experts took me to the Beijing antiques fair... reall just a large field where folks were standing around next to their goods... Funny thing... the next week the authorities closed it down... to clean up the city for the International Women's Conference that was held later that year.