C/D Blocks Social and Environmental Sciences - All morning with Benton...YAY!
With Benton you'll be working on a Pacific Herring dissection lab looking at anatomy with some questions to address. Like the foundation of your house, Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) form the foundation on which the Great Bear Rainforest is built. This small silver fish plays a major role in the lives of nearly every coastal species on land or underwater in British Columbia. Like other forage fish, herring are an important link between tiny plankton and larger animals, from humans to whales, wolves, fish, and birds.
There's a cool virtual cod dissection from Ocean School in case you're a bit squeamish. For more on herring you can check out the Ocean School Herring Handbook and you can review a timeline of the Haíɫzaqv struggle to regain the management of their herring fishery, for their own selves.
Next, you'll look at shellfish, particularly oysters. We're taking a look at shellfish harvesting in Baynes Sound (the water between Vancouver Island and Denman Island).
While DFO (Department of Fisheries and Oceans - Federal Government) licenses aquaculture production, the BC government is responsible for approving sites. Pre-approved locations are called “tenures” From the BC Government...
This shellfish reserve is located in Baynes Sound between Denman Island and Vancouver Island. Baynes Sound supports some of the most productive clam beaches in British Columbia and it is from this area where the majority of all commercial harvesting occurs. Much of Baynes Sound is under commercial tenure for shellfish aquaculture.
So who is involved in the commercial tenure? Most of you know Mac's Oysters and Fanny Bay Oysters but it is important to note that the First Nations Fishery Council is involved with shellfish harvesting and has good resources on Traditional Ecological Knowledge . In 2004 the K'ómoks First Nation incorporated Pentlatch Seafoods Ltd. and brought it under the banner of Salish Sea Foods which they bought in 2013. For their story check out pages 21-28 of the Cultivating Change to Preserve Tradition document.
Benton will have some sciency things for you to do today. Here are some links he may or may not use...
A Block Legal Studies - Today we'll take a look at Insane Automatism or NCR. The defence of mental disorder is codified in section 16 of the Canadian Criminal Code which states, in part:
Defence of mental disorder
16. (1) No person is criminally responsible for an act committed or an omission made while suffering from a mental disorder that rendered the person incapable of appreciating the nature and quality of the act or omission or of knowing that it was wrong.This provision only applies where the individual has a guilty verdict entered. Section 16 will have the effect of avoiding a conviction being entered and a penalty being imposed.
The government of Canada passed Bill C-30 in 1992, which made the NCRMD defense (not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder or NCR for short) lawful. A person is not found Not Criminally Responsible just because they are suffering from a mental illness at the time of the commission of the crime; it must also be proven they:
- did not have the capacity to appreciate their actions,
- know right from wrong at the time of the offence,
- or if they were not in control of their behaviour because of their mental illness.
So today we'll look at the murder of Timothy Richard McLean who was stabbed repeatedly by Vince Li on Greyhound bus No. 1170 travelling from Edmonton to Winnipeg on the Trans Canada Highway.
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B Block Human Geography - Today we'll look at the Key Question: Why Do Religions Organize Space in Distinctive Patterns? We'll look at places of worship, organizational structure, holy places, calendars, and cosmogony. Generally speaking universalizing religions are more likely to consider places holy that are associated with key events in the founder’s life, whereas ethnic religions’ holy places are tied to physical features present in their hearths, such as mountains, rivers, or rock formations. So here are a few things to consider:
from PBS Sacred Journeys Six stages characterize every pilgrimage:
- The Call: The opening clarion of any spiritual journey. Often in the form of a feeling or some vague yearning, that summons expresses a fundamental human desire: finding meaning in an overscheduled world somehow requires leaving behind our daily obligations. Sameness is the enemy of spirituality.
- The Separation: Pilgrimage, by its very nature, undoes certainty. It rejects the safe and familiar. It asserts that one is freer when one frees oneself from daily obligations of family, work, and community, but also the obligations of science, reason, and technology.
- The Journey: The backbone of a sacred journey is the pain of the journey itself. In India, pilgrims approach the holy sites barefoot. In Iraq, they flagellate themselves. In Tibet, the more difficult the trip the most merit the pilgrim acquires. In almost every place, the travelers develop blisters, hunger, and diarrhea. This personal sacrifice enhances the experience; it also elevates the sense of community one develops along the way.
- The Contemplation: Some pilgrimages go the direct route, right to the center of the holy of holies, directly to the heart of the matter. Others take a more indirect route, circling around the outside of the sacred place, transforming the physical journey into a spiritual path of contemplation.
- The Encounter: After all the toil and trouble, after all the sunburn and swelling, after all the anticipation and expectation comes the approach, the sighting. The encounter is the climax of the journey, the moment when the traveler attempts to slide through a thin membrane in the universe and return to the Garden of Origin, where humans lived in concert with the Creator.
- The Completion and Return: At the culmination of the journey, the pilgrim returns home only to discover that meaning they sought lies in the familiar of one's own world.
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