Metro Calgary - January 5, 2017

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The ex girlfriend of 24-yearold

Nazzareno Tassone, who left

Edmonton for Syria to fight
ainst Daesh but was killed

jon recently, said he was

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He also joined the live-
tion roleplay (LARP) commun-
ity, where he met Schlender in
early 2014

“He definitely tried to get my
eye,” she said. "He held open
doors, he made sure | was okay,
bought me a couple drinks. He
was an absolute gentleman.

The couple dated for about
six months and lived together
for four.

“He was also really kind to
his friends, he did whatever he
could for them.”

Schlender said Tassone par-
ticipated in a handful of LARP
events in the city, where he took
ona character she describes
as heroic.

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Mya Schlender,
who dated Tassone when he
lived in Edmonton.

On Dec. 21, Tassone wai
ing alongside Kurdish forces
when he was killed in the Syr~
ian city of Ragga, according to
a letter the Kurdish People's
Defense Units sent his family.

Tassone's family is asking the
Canadian government to help
recover his body for a funeral

‘Tassone worked in Edmonton
forthe Canadian National Rail
way and then Impark.

Mya Schlender

day, though she
said they broke
up before she
found out if he got in.

Of his death fighting Daesh,

Schlender said Tassone gave
ro hint of his eventual plans. He
was taking classes to eventually
teach English and planned to
fo Japan, she added.

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no idea, But looking back on it,
it seems like the sort of thing
he might have wanted to do.
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Henry says
ailing health
prompted
decision

The Calgary bishop known for his
hareline stanceson protections for
LGBTQyouth and the HPV vaccine
says he is leaving the role he has
held for almost two decades due
toailing health.

Inhis resignation letter to Pope
Francis posted Wednesday on the
Calgary Catholic Diocese website,
Most Rev. Fred Hemzy said he has
an incurable type of arthritis that
is also an autoimmune disease

‘Aspokesman for the Canadian
Conference of Catholic Bishops
says the church

Your essential daily news

Catholic bishop resigns
after nearly two decades

nent stoop and my feet are much
‘more familiar to me than the sky"

He said the inflammation from
the disease has alo affected his
eyes and lungs while his hearing
has been diminished.

“My condition cannot be re
versed. | have jokingly said that

‘pain is my best friend, we are

always together’ but itis wearing
‘me outand limiting my ministry”
Henry wrote,

The pontiffhas appointed Most
Rev, William Terrence McGrattan,
bishop of the Peterborough, Ont.
diocese, to succeed Henry.

MeGrattan, who is 60 and a
native of London, Ont, is to be
installed in Calgary on Feb. 27.

Henry, who oversaw 67 parish
es and missions with a Catholic
‘population of more than 435,000,
‘was one of three Catholic bish-

‘ps to criticize

‘usually requires the Alberta gov-
bishops to resign cemment last year
at, over its plans

Hemy, whois | have a permanent to protect LG-

73, said he stat: stoopand my feet B10 students in

ced writing the let
ter to the pontiff

are much more

schools, particu-
larly transgender

morethan three familiar to me than chiidren.
yearsagn. He said the sky. “Totalitarian-

‘when he was 35,

beeaatyt Bishop Fred Henry

with ankylosing
spondylitis, which has severely
reduced mobility in his spine
overtime.

can no longer turn my head
Sideways but must turn the whole
“upper body to look left or right.”
Hemy wrote. “In addition, [cant
really look up but have a perma.

ism is alive and
well in Alberta,”
Henry wrote in
a public letter to hs faithful last
‘year “This approach and directive
‘smack of the madness of relativ
ism and the forcefil imposition
of a particular, narrow-minded,
antiCatholic ideology and must
be rejected.”

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Mixed
reaction

Bishop Fred Henty was known
for striking an adversarial tone
when it came to LGBTQ issues
in the public sphere.

@kKristopher Wells, with the
Institute for Sexual Minority
Studies and Services at Univer-
sity of Alberta, said he hopes
the tone will be different when
Bishop McGrattan takes over.

“Bishop Hency has certainly
been no friend to the LGBT
community and has been, |
think, constantly out of step
with progressive values of the
majority of Albertans,” said
the assistant professor at the
university. “I really hope that
anew bishop will seek to build
bridges and use faith as a way
to include rather than exclude.
Juliet Guichon, an assist-
ant professor at the Univer-
sity of Calgary who specializes
in bioethics, said she wishes
Henry well, but believes he
was misguided on issues such
as the HPV vaccine. Henry was
staunchly opposed to admin-
istering a vaccine against the
‘human papillomavirus, or HPV,
in schools.

“He lacked important in-
formation and he might have
engaged with the health-care
community, but he chose not
to despite requests,” she said.
@shannon Phillips, Alberta's
environment minister, speak-
ing on behalf of the NDP gov-
ernment, said Henry has been
a strong advocate for climate
change action and poverty re-
duction initiatives.

‘As for the LGBTQ issue, Phil-
lips said “he was to be account-
able to his folks and we have
to be accountable for safety of
children in classrooms.”

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The Calgary Fire Department
responded to a fire at the for-
mer First Baptist Church manse
Wednesday morning.

‘When crews arrived, smoke
and flames were visible and
the fire was upgraded to a two-
alarm fire

‘Although there was no one
in the building, fire crews
evacuated the church next
door as a precaution.

‘According to the CFD, the de-

The owner of two dogs involved
in a vicious attack on a four-
year-old boy Tuesday has been
ticketed and the canines have
been seized.

‘Emergency services responded
toa home in the Oto 100 block of
CCastleridge Way NE around 3:10
pam. When they arrived, they
found the boy had sustained mul
tiple bites after being attacked
by the dogs, He was transported

sign of the building hampered
their ability to fight the fire as
the flames travelled between
floors and behind walls. Crews

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said his injuries are not places to gain access tothe fire.
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‘on and 30,000 euros in fines
if'a guilty verdict is delivered
Feb. 10.

Herrou says he is doing his
civic duty and will keep help-
ing the migrants, who are
mainly from Eritrea and Sudan.

“The law is against me,
against actions to help people
in need, so we have to change
the laws,” he said

Lucia Palermo, a 36-year
old artist from the Italian bor-
der town of Vintimiglia, was
among several people demon-
strating in support of Herrou,

‘Tm concerned by the fact
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a European, there is no prob-
Jem. But if you show solidarity
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lem.

“This concerns me a lot,”
Palermo said

A French activist farmer facing
potential prison time defended
his aid to illegal African mé-
grants in court Wednesday,
calling it an act of humanity
and not a crime.

Helping someone is not
an offence!” read a placard at
a protest in support of farm-
er Cedric Herrou outside the
courthouse where he went on
trial Wednesday.

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ment and are offering food,
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as manhunt continues

since the attack on the upscale
club popular with local celebri-
ties, and on Wednesday resid
beat up aman said to resemble
the wanted gunman before hand-
ing him over to police, the Dogan
news agency reported.

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women, were taken into custody
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‘Anadolu agency said.

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The news of New Year's Eve at-
tack on Istanbul's Reina night-
club was sadly not unique in
2016. Similar attacks happen
seemingly every week in some
part of the world But Reina
holds a personal significance
fora number of Canadians and
a growing network of young
people across the globe.

Reina was one of the Is-
tanbul venues that hosted
hundreds of young entre-
preneurs from around the
‘world — including dozens
of Canadians — during the
2015 G20 Young Entrepre-
eurs’ Alliance Summit. The
Alliance Secretariat is based
in Toronto and traces its
origins to the 2010 G20 sum-
mit in that city, Each year,
the Alliance summit Brings
together young entrepre-
neurs to share ideas, build
new relationships and talk
about the world they want
to create.

During my last visit to
Reina, | talked with young
people from countries as
diverse as the U.S., Poland,
Australia, Italy, Japan and
Brazil about their ideas. |
met young Turkish women
and men who were hungry
to meet others from around
the world. I heard from
Mexicans who were fight-
ing government corruption,
from Indians who were seek:
ing connections in Europe
and North America, from
Saudis who wanted to help
their society evolve in a new

Find new ways
totalkwitheach
other. Build
bridges across
cultures. Enjoy
life and dream of
abetter life for us
and for others.

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Istanbul's Reina
nightclub was (and is) a
symbol of a future that is
directly opposed to the
extremists’ divisive ideal
of a polarized world.

direction.
With the broad span of
the Bosporus bridge arching
overhead in the night sk
young people from incred-
ibly different cultures and

It would be too trite to
say terrorists do this be-
‘cause “they hate our way
of life.” The reality is a bit
more nuanced, Extremists
of all stripes want a polar-

Vietims of the New Year's Eve attack on Istanbul’ Reina nightclub

backgrounds met, danced
and talked about their fu
tures. It was a club full of
optimism and music and
dancing, fuelled by a belief
that tomorrow would be bet-
ter than today.

‘The contrast between
that happy memory and the
grainy footage of the gun-
man walking through those
same rooms on New Year's
Eve could not be more point-
ed, Indiscriminately spray-
ing bullets into the crowd.
Returning to the fallen to
shoot them again and again,
Casually committing incred-
ible violence against people
‘who merely wanted to cele-
rate and enjoy life.

‘were merely out celebrating and enjoying life. arcerrymexces

ized world where the divide
is clear between “us” and
“them.” The Reina that I and
hundreds of others enjoyed
represents a future that is
directly opposed to that div-
isive ideal

Our natural reaction in
the face of such violence
is to turn away from each
other. To raise the level of
‘our thetoric. To introduce
more barriers, more walls,
more ways to isolate each.
other. But if we truly want
to honour the more than
100 people who were killed
or injured in that attack, we
should redouble our efforts
to do exactly what I saw
young people doing in Reina

during the G20 Young Entre-
preneurs’ Alliance Summit.
Find new ways to talk with
‘each other. Build bridges
across cultures. Enjoy life
‘and dream of a better life
for us and for others.

I was reminded of an in-
cident in 2011, early in the
history of our G20 group.
Our French colleagues
hosted a summit in Nice,
bringing speakers such as
Mohammed Yunus to chal
lenge and inspire us at a
time when Europe was be-
ginning its fiscal crisis. One
panel discussion featured
French bankers, industrial-
ists and others who were
decidedly pessimistic about
the future of Europe.

Yet the young people
in the audience had other
ideas, They talked about
their dreams for a growing
and confident Europe, one
that could encourage more
young people to travel and
start companies no one had
yet thought of. With a mix.
‘ure of irritation and admir
ation, one of the panellists
responded by saying “Oh,
you young people and your
‘enthusiasm!”

‘And that is the point. That
is why we need a thousand
Reinas across the world.
‘That is why we need to en-
courage the bonds between
people and cultures that
only freedom, true person:
al and economic freedom,
‘can help create. Because
it is those new bonds that
‘will show those who think
problems are only solved
through violence and walls
that a better way is indeed
possible.

Alex Gills a Toronto-based
social entrepreneur and ac-
tivist who has moderated
the G20 Young Entrepre:
neurs’ Alliance since 2010.

Thursday, January 5, 2017

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Men are rebranding
their activities — and
women are helping

In the fight for equality, we
haven't yet levelled the play-
ing field when it comes to
being sick.

Until now. When my body
started heating up with a fe-
ver, I didn't realize | was mak-
ing a feminist breakthrough.
(mostly realized I didn’t have
‘any medicine in the house.)

don't just have any regu-
Jar flu. I Kave manélu,

Manflu is when men are
cold and have a lot of feelings
about it, she says derisively.
‘Actually, it's a pejorative used
to describe how men behave
when facing a mild illness
like the common cold. There's
‘an Intemet meme that shows
a woman in the middle of giv-
ing birth juxtaposed next to a
man in bed with a thermom-
eter in his mouth. The caption
reads, "During labour, the
pain is so great that awoman
can almost imagine what a
man feels like when he has a
fever.”

Tknow I'm afflicted with
‘manflu because I have sent
several allcaps texts to
friends and family. At 1 a.m,
in our family group chi
Imay have sent a message
about feeling like there are a
thousand knives in my throat.
Thave claimed such despond-
ency that my mother deliv
ered a week's worth of food to
my house, lost my voice for
two days and wrote, “I feel so
powerless” on my bedroom
mirror. No one of any gender
haas ever had a case of the flu
this bad.

Because it’s 2017 (aka. the
future) and Iam a feminist, I

can get anything a man can
get. Including the flu virus
and the attendant dramaties
about it,

Feminism — if you squint
hard at the fine print — says
women can now do things
that men have been doing for
‘ages. For example: wearing
pants. We do that now.

‘We also still wear skirts but
that is because modern skirts
have pockets — another fem-
inist breakthrough.

But just as we're scaling
the heights of gendered op-
pression, men are rebranding
their special activities, You've
seen itll over the place. Take
‘a regular bar of soap and put
it in a black box. Now its ‘guy
soap’ That delicious light-
with-hintsofpear blush wine?
Stick a motorcycle on the
label, dudes: we're drinking
rosé,

Being the wonderful crea
tures we are, women are
helping with this branding
effort. When a man explains
‘woman's expertise back to
her, we don’t call it patron-
izing, condescending and
wholly unnecessary. We call
it mansplaining. There are
more variations: manter
rupting (when men interrupt),
‘manspreading (when men
spread their legs), manboxing,
(OK, I made this one up but it
means when a man is a box)

Naturally, the next step in
the fight for equality will be
‘when women take over being
systematically rude.

ve done my part by con-
tracting manflu. I did it for
the cause,

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Author says
arguments
can improve
relationships

Dealing with opposition, be it
froma bossy co-worker, a messy
roommate or a nagging partner,
is among the most stress provok.
ing experiences in life. In his
new book, Resolve: Negotiating
Life's Conflicts with Greater Con-
fidence, Hal Movius argues that
conflict actually produces bene
ficial outcomes and makes our
relationships better — but only
ifit is dealt with wisely.
Offering tips to identify and
handle tough negotiating tac-
tics, secrets to managing (and
maintaining) poise when emo-
tions flare and mastering the art
of conflict, Movius spoke with
Torstar from Charlottesville, Va

Why do you believe thatbe-
comingabetternegotiatoris
‘good new year's resolution?
One is that conflict is inevit-
able, We seem to be entering
atime globally where there's
more conflict in public and
politica life but, even if that
‘weren't the case, to have rela
Hlonships (and) to work effect
ively with others, we are going
to encounter disagreements.
Most of us improvise our way
through it or avoid it. Think-
ing like a negotiator and learn-
ing key moves can help you to
be more proactive and to nor-
maize the idea that conflict is
‘an overlooked opportunity.

Are there any pitfalls yousee
‘when people engage with
conflict? Whatdo you think
‘we should be trying this year?
What | tried to do in the

book is look at how each of

us might fall prey to different

Fight

better

this year

Conflict resolution tips
if your plan for 2017 is to
stop being a pushover

pitfalls and how to use specific
lactis to counter those but, if
Thad to generalize, | would say
that people don't see how a
conflict can become a negotia
tion. Seeing conflict as a part
of leading a good life and an
‘occasion for better outcomes
rather than a headache would
be the thing I would wish for
most people to do. That's also
what the research tells us: You
can do conflict better but you
have to treat it like other dif
ficult tasks, or a practice that

you develop over time, You
don’t just become a good ten-
nis player or cook by having,
the sudden urge to do it—it
takes work. There are ways
of practising negotiation that
makes you better

Early in the book, you write
that people don’t see good ne-
‘gotiation modelled enough.
So what does good negotia-
tion look like, say,ina per-
sonal relationship?
Partners who have “good

a

fights” tend to pick their mo-
ments, They don't push and
say, “we need to talk about

X right now” or start by in-
sisting, The second thing is
they start with a constructive
frame and a specific complaint
abouta thing that happened
‘and not a criticism about the
character of the other person.
Don’t start an important cor
versation after a busy day ora
few beers. Another tip is that,

if you have to talk through
something as a couple, it helps

ifyou take a walk together
instead of sitting across the
Kitchen table,

What aboutin the workpla
Effective leaders, more than
anything else, tend to imagine
how the other side might see
a situation and the issues. The
big misconception in conilict
is that you have to convince
the other side that they have
to care about the same things
you do. What great negotiators
do is aska ton of questions at

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the front end about what the
other party really cares about.
IE can figure out what is most
important to you and to me
and notice those differences,

I can craft a proposal that ex
ploits them without just com-
promising

Youwrite that learningto
navigate conflict within close
relationships strengthens the
bond. Can youexplain?

So the frst thing is that if
am not afraid to enter into
conflict and I have a repertoire
of helpfil moves to navigate

it, Pm more likely to get more
of the things that I want while
preserving the relationship 1

curiosity about
yourself and the
other personisa
powerful move.
Hal Movius, a psychologist
and negotiation expert

have. The second thing is that
if lean about some of the
pitfalls or the behaviours that
aren't helpful I can learn to
recognize them. When couples
recognize those patterns, they
can also then ask: “What can
we do about it?” There are
things we can do to contain
conflict and steer the conver:
sation ina direction that can
take it away from the rocky
places where we can do dam-
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BIRDS ART LIFE

Memoir takes flight
uncovering nature

i.

Kyo Maclear's memoir, Birds Art Life, is out now. 1oes1a2

Kyo Maclear was at alow point —
shaken by her father's faltering
health and feeling ike she hada
"broken paut” —Wwhen she found
uplift nan unlikely source: birds.
Itwas 2013 and Maclear’s dad,
the journalist and documentary
filmmaker Michael Maclear, had
recently suffered two strokes. AS
the children’s author and novel
ist helped tend to her father in
drab hospitals and rehabilitation
facilities, she struggled to write it
seemed an “overly complicated,
dubious effort’), found her soli-
tury time fragmented by care-
taking duties as both daughter
and mother, and failed to find
enduring distraction in art les
sons or other outlets
Then she watched Alan
‘Zweig's documentary 15 Rea-
sons to Live, which her composer
husband was scoring, and found
resonance in the story of Jack
Breakfast, a Toronto musician
who found unexpected peace
photographing birds. Maclear
arranged to meet the musician
and soon a project took flight:
she would shadow him on his
birding sojourns for one year
and document what she found.
‘Maybe in my fantasy Va like
tobea grand expeditionary writ
er,” Maclear said one morning
recently from a booth in High
Park's Grenadier Restaurant,
"and this guy seemed to be do-
ing grand expeditions in the city
and seeing incredible things.
“It just seemed amazing,
magical and spacious, and [didn't

feel my life was very spacious at
the time. | felt very squeezed and
‘grounded in my lif. felt maybe
that I wanted something tran-
scendent, Birds gave me that.”

‘The result of Maclear’s year
is her new memoir Birds Art
Life, an incandescent explora-
tion of beauty, inspiration, art,
family and freedom that seems
to leave no topic out of its bin-
ocular scope. The book shares
obvious appeal to fans of Helen
Macdonald's 2015 bestseller H
is for Hawk.

It's worth pointing out that
preexisting bird knowledge is
definitely not a prerequisite to
reading Birds Art Life. Certainly,
Maclear didn't know anything
about birds before her yearlong
aviary apprenticeship and she
‘was perhaps an unlikely candi-
date for the pastime.

‘A lifelong Gity-dwveller, Maclear
‘was born in London and raised
in Toronto.

When Maclear began her ad-
ventures in birding, though, she
discovered nourishment in na-
ture. She began to notice the
beauty of the birds, their joyful
music and the helpful level of
patience the practice demande.

‘As she scrutinized birds for
the first time, she also took joy
in their lack of “special regard
for humans.”

The book's reach is expan-
sive, spanning philosophy, art
love and cities, specifically the
importance of finding beauty in
‘drab urbanity.rorsraRnevs service

Affectionate squabbles
in Fisher-Reynolds doc

Debbie Reynolds holds Carrie Fisher is the HBO documentary
Bright Lights, set to premiere on the network on Jan. 7.1.100ut

BRIGHT LIGHTS den death on Dec. 27 of Fisher,
Struggles with | 2,: hori wer tnt
asiisinanic auccnkeua

yw rept the role for
depression the fist fl a thenew tlogy,

highlighted Siar Wars: The Force Awakens

Debbie Reynolds, best known
HBO has released thetrailerfora for her roles in films like Singin’
documentary on thecomplicated in the Rain and The Unsinkable
‘butloving relationship between Molly Brown — which earned
mother and daughter, Holly- _heran Oscarnomination for best
‘Wood stalwarts Debbie Reynolds actress —was 84 when she died
and Carrie Fisher. ‘a day later on Dec. 28.

The documentary, titled USAToday described the docu-
Brights Lights: Starring Carrie mentary, which had its world
Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, premiere at the Cannes Film
will premiere on the network Festival ast May, as “an intimate
on Jan. 7. portrait of Hollywood royalty”

Clips show the pair affec- told through interviews, home
tionately squabbling over an movies and other material
outdated cell phone as well as People Magazine has rey
discussing Fisher's struggle with a memorial wil be held for Fish-
manic depression, now known er and Reynolds on Thursday,
as bipolar disorder, as well as Jan. 5.
the difficulty of aging. Mother and daughter, who

“Age is horrible for all of us were next-door neighbours in
but she (Reynolds) falls froma a Hollywood compound. will
‘greater height,” Fisher observes. _ be buried on Friday, Jan. 6 atthe

lts original March release date Forest Lawn Memorial Park in
\was moved up following thesud- Los Angeles, sorsran news seavice

‘TRUMP

Reality star to join White House

Omarosa Manigault is getting
hired.

‘A memorable contestant in
the first season of The Appren-
fice, Manigault is expected to
join President-elect Donald
Trump's White House staff, ac
cording to two people familiar
with the decision. Her job is
expected to focus on public en-
‘gagement.

“Manigault was one of Trump's
most prominent African-Amer-
ican supporters during the cam-
paign and has been working
with his transition team, Her

‘effusive praise of Trump has at
times drawn criticism.

“Every critic, every detract-
or, will have to bow down to
President Trump,” she said in
an interview fora PRS Frontline
‘documentary about the presiden-
tial campaign. “It is the ultim-
ate revenge to become the most
powerful man in the universe.”

Manigault, who prefers to
use only her frst name, made it
through nine weeks of The Ap-
prentice before Trump directed
his infamous tagline, “You're
fired,” at her. She was portrayed

asa cutthroat contestant dur
ing the season. She returned to
‘Trump's Apprentice franchise
several times and has appeared
on other reality TV shows.

Manigault said she has stayed
close to Trump over the years
‘and served as his campaign's
director of African-American
outreach,

This will be Manigault’s
second season at the White
House. She worked in the of
fice of Vice President Al Gore dur
ing the Clinton administration. Omarosa Manigaul. cousroo

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