Monthly Archives: February 2013

Our March issue is out!

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– Our front page stories

Our front page stories

Please note error in the TNs: Answers on page 1 of the TNs: “A Survival Story”
Answer to #2 “Six of the passengers survived.” In fact, six of them died; only four passengers survived.


Reading by: Nila Gopaul

Links for the March 2013 issue:
Video and podcast – remembering Kenojuak Ashevak (CBC)
National Gallery of Canada features Ashevak’s work
Demonstration video: pysanky on an ostrich egg
How to make Ukranian Easter egg wall decorations
B.C. Business Hall of Fame

An article on Easter will be posted online before March 29, Good Friday.

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Subway opens 400th restaurant in B.C.

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Manager Angela Alvano shows a Subway sandwich. Photo by Ric Ernst

Manager Angela Alvano shows a Subway sandwich.
Photo by Ric Ernst, The Vancouver Sun

Adapted from The Vancouver Sun and www.wikipedia.org

Level 2

Subway restaurants are successful in B.C.
Recently, the 400th Subway store opened in Vancouver.
The restaurant is near Rogers Arena.
An arena is an indoor sports place.
The Vancouver Canucks hockey team plays there.
It is a good place to put a Subway restaurant.
Many hockey fans are hungry before or after hockey games.
Subway stores are in 104 communities in B.C.
Subway hires about 4,000 people.


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Tracing fish

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A teacher in Kenya eats fish for his lunch. The fish was caught in the ocean next to a nearby city. Do you know where your fish comes from? Photo by Nancy Carson

A teacher in Kenya eats fish for his lunch. The fish was caught in the ocean
next to a nearby city. Do you know where your fish comes from?
Photo by Nancy Carson

Adapted from The Vancouver Sun

Level 3

People want to know where their meat comes from.
Some also want to know where chickens are raised.
Now you can find out where your fish comes from.

“This Fish”
A small Canadian website called This Fish can help.
Ecotrust Canada started a fish tracing tool in 2010.
This Fish is in 29 Thrifty Foods stores in B.C.
It is also used in Bruce’s Country Market in Coquitlam.

Read the PDF.
Tracing fish-PDF

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A cooking program opens doors for First Nations

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Local chef Andrew George, top center, and aboriginal students Eugene Crain, left, and Lawrence George show off their new dishes at the cooking school in North Vancouver. Photo by Mark van Manen, The Vancouver Sun

Local chef Andrew George, top center, and aboriginal students Eugene Crain, left, and Lawrence George show off their new dishes at the cooking school in North Vancouver.
Photo by Mark van Manen, The Vancouver Sun

Adapted from The Vancouver Sun

Level 2

Vancouver loves local food.
But there is little First Nations food in the city.
Chef Andrew George Jr. hopes to change this.
In early November, the Tsleil-Waututh Nation (slay-wa-tuth)
in North Vancouver celebrated.
The first class graduated from its own professional chef’s program.
And local chef George is the lead teacher in the program.
This first class had 12 First Nations students, ages 20 to 53.
Six were Tsleil-Wastuth and six were from outside B.C.
For the first time in years and years, people ate elk at the ceremony.


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Lonely elephant tries to “talk”

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Koshik the elephant mimics human speech. Zookeeper Kim looks at the Asian elephant at South Korea's largest amusement park Everland in Yongin. Photo by Kim Hong-Ji, Reuters

Koshik the elephant mimics human speech. Zookeeper Kim looks at the Asian elephant at South Korea’s largest amusement park Everland in Yongin.
Photo by Kim Hong-Ji, Reuters

Adapted from The Vancouver Sun

Level 3

Koshik is an Asian elephant.
He can imitate or copy human speech.
He puts his trunk in his mouth.
Then he mimics the sounds he hears.
These words are in the Korean language.
Koshik lives in a park in Korea.
And Koshik’s trainer is Korean.


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A new family law in B.C.

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Jennie Weeks, with her sons Oliver, 9, and Benjamin, 11, was living with her boyfriend. They lived together for about two years. Photo by Mark van Manen, The Vancouver Sun

Jennie Weeks, with her sons Oliver, 9, and Benjamin, 11, was living with her boyfriend. They lived together for about two years.
Photo by Mark van Manen, The Vancouver Sun

Adapted from The Vancouver Sun and Statistics Canada

Level 1

Every year, many couples think of love on February 14.
Many couples like Valentine’s Day.
They say it is romantic.
Some couples go to a restaurant.
Some men give women flowers.
Some women give men cards.

Different couples
Some couples are boyfriend and girlfriend, for example.
They do not live together.
Other couples are married.
Some couples are not married.
But they live together.
They are called common-law couples.
Some of these couples have children. Continue reading →

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Are winter snacks killing birds?

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Sparrow at a bird feeder Photo by Ed Hoskins, Public domain

Sparrow at a bird feeder
Photo by Ed Hoskins, Public domain

Adapted from The Vancouver Sun

Level 3

Bird feeders are not a good idea.
Other animals eat the food, also.
Squirrels can climb into them.
Rats and coyotes can eat the food that falls out.
Bears like bird seed, too.


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Nunavut’s first guide dog

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A guide dog helps a visually-impaired person find curbs, doors, stairs, and other landmarks. Photo courtesy of B.C. Guide Dog Services.

A guide dog helps a visually-impaired person find curbs, doors, stairs,
and other landmarks.
Photo courtesy of B.C. Guide Dog Services.

Adapted from CBC Radio
and information courtesy of B.C. Guide Dog Services
and Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind

Level 1

Noah Papatsie is a very happy man.
He lives in Nunavut in northern Canada.
Noah has a beautiful new dog.
The dog’s name is Xeno.
Xeno is a guide dog.
Guide dogs help people
who have a problem with their eyesight.
We say these people are blind
or visually-impaired.

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