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Ottawa Citizen
17-05-2025
- Sport
- Ottawa Citizen
Greater Sudbury Cubs' Centennial Cup run comes to an end
With a three-goal lead heading into the third period on Friday night, the Melfort Mustangs held the fort handily against the Greater Sudbury Cubs to take a 7-1 victory and end the locals' historic run at the Centennial Cup national junior A hockey championship. Article content Noah Kohan had the lone goal and Noah Beaulne made 34 saves for the Cubs, who had become the first NOJHL representatives since the 2012 Soo Thunderbirds to reach the quarter-final round and the first from the Sudbury area since the 2000 Rayside-Balfour Sabrecats. Article content Article content 'Two last-minute goals at the end of the first and the second was the difference in the game for us,' Greater Sudbury head coach Darryl Moxam said later. 'It was just too big a mountain to climb. They are one heck of a hockey club, they've been there before and today we quite honestly just ran out of gas.' Article content Article content The Cubs finished their 2024-25 season with an overall record of 58-12-1-1, including regular-season, playoff and Centennial Cup action, while winning a second straight league championship and back-to-back berths at nationals. Article content With No. 1 netminder Karsen Chartier unable to play against the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League champions, Beaulne was tabbed as starter shortly before game time, with Matthew Vahramian serving as backup. Beaulne earned his coach's admiration for his performance, especially during a first period in which the Cubs were outshot 24-7. Article content 'Noah made some saves in the first period I don't know that I've seen in the last 10 years,' Moxam said. 'I'll be honest, he found out he was going in and we had had to get Matty dressed and he found out with about 12 minutes to go that he was starting the game. The job he did, I can't stress enough how proud I am of everyone in that room, but in particular today, what Beau did going in there was pretty special.' Article content Article content Melfort's Kaleb Binner finally opened the scoring off a giveaway at 6:41, before Cole Unger collected a loose puck late in the stanza and snapped a shot past Beaulne for a 2-0 lead. Article content Kohan put Greater Sudbury on the board when he lifted a feed from Alex Valade over Melfort's Kristian Coombs at 5:35 of the second, but the the SJHL reps responded with a power-play tally by Ashton Hutchinson, then an even-strength marker off the stick of Zac Somers in the final minute of the frame. Article content Beaulne denied Tristin Ziola on a breakaway early in the third, but Reilley Kotai made it a 5-1 Melfort lead midway through the period. Bryson Aikens added an empty netter and Ashton Paul tacked on one more power-play goal as the Mustangs clinched a semifinal spot against the Trenton Golden Hawks, champions from the Ontario Junior Hockey League, on Saturday evening. Start time is 9:30 p.m. ET.
CBC
22-03-2025
- Health
- CBC
Inuit-led child service project reaches major milestone in Nunavik
A project that aims to create Inuit-led child services in Nunavik has taken a step forward by signing an agreement with other institutions in the region. Signatories include Makivvik and the Nunavik Regional Health and Social Services Board. The two regional health centres also participated in the agreement, namely the Ungava Tulattavik Health Centre in Kuujjuaq, and the Inuulitsivik Health Centre. The project, called Nunavimmi Ilagiit Papatauvinga, would gradually adapt youth protection services to Inuit culture. "We must take back what has been taken from us: the ability to care for our children without fear that our children will be taken from their communities and lose their culture and language," Makivvik president Piita Aatami said in a statement. A long-term project Mina Beaulne, executive director of Nunavimmi Ilagiit Papatauvinga, said she's excited about the progress made by the project, which was first launched in 2017. "It's like a promise that we will work together to make it happen," she said. After working for the province's director of youth protection for 13 years, she said she understands the gap between Inuit values and the government's services. "I didn't like what I was doing. So I knew it was a system that doesn't work for Inuit," she said. The project aims to progressively take over some aspects of the youth protection department, including managing foster families. The heart of the project, however, lies in the implementation of new upstream services for families, which will prevent the removal of children from their environment. "We are not an alternative to the [director of youth protection]. We are building the continuum of services in each community to make sure that nothing falls in the cracks because there have been so many people falling into cracks," Beaulne said. Among its prevention services are family counselling sessions. These meetings will involve the families in managing crisis situations. In more difficult cases, an elders' council, consisting of community members with wisdom and experience to resolve family situations, will be used. It's a way of doing things that's closer to Inuit culture, rather than involving the province, including workers who generally aren't from the region. "That was mentioned so many times by elders, that it used to be the community elders that used to meet the parents whenever there was problems," Beaulne said. The program doesn't want to take over the work of the department entirely — some situations of serious neglect and physical abuse require state intervention, Beaulne said. "We know there will still be children that will need to be placed long term. But to make sure the long-term placement of those children is closely followed, to make sure that the child doesn't lose the language, the culture, and stay connected to families and to the community." Building services The project is currently expanding, with more people being hired to be part of it. It will launch its first tests in Inukjuak by the fall, as part of a pilot project called Pigiarviliutik. "The next step will be to go back to the community and to build the continuum of service with the service providers and then training components," Beaulne said. It's the first step in gradually building up services in 14 communities in Nunavik by 2030. The Inukjuak project will be a way to prove how effective these services are, before sitting down with the province to negotiate the sharing of responsibilities with the department, Beaulne said.
