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THE STS STAR

October Edition
STS STUDENT NEWSPAPER 2022-2023

IN PHOTO, ADAM P
PHOTO TAKEN BY KAMRAN S

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Articles: Fun and Fiction:
Pg. 3-4 Pg. 12-13
National Day for Truth and The Innocent Boy
Reconciliation By: Jinjin L.
By: Hafsa C.
Pg. 14
Pg. 5 The Stories the Shores Tell
The Longest Reigning Monarch By: Hitanshi V.
By: Alec R.
Soduko & Comic
Pg. 6 Pg. 15
Pakistan Floods By: Ezinne N. & Kamsi O.
By: By Kamran S. and Adam T.
Arts & Jokes
Pg. 7 Pg. 16
The Criticality of Technological By: Darwyn P. & Others
Advancements in Medicine
By: Anonymous Newspaper Nook
Pg: 17
Pg. 8-9 By: Executive Editors
Remembering Sun Yat-Sen 97 Years
later
By: Kamran S. and Sarah C.

STS Community:
Pg. 10-11
Tweedsmuir's Tidbits
By: Chloe L.

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NATIONAL DAY FOR TRUTH AND

RECONCILIATION
BY HAFSA C.

Each year, September 30th marks the
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
The day honors the Indigenous children
who never returned home from residential
schools along with the survivors, as well as
their families and communities. National
commemoration of the tragic and painful
history and longstanding impacts of
residential schools is a vital component of
the reconciliation process.
Orange Shirt Day is an Indigenous-led
commemorative day intended to raise
awareness of the individual, family, and
community intergenerational impacts of
residential schools, and to promote “Every
Child Matters”. The orange shirt is a
symbol of the stripping away of culture,
freedom and self-esteem experienced by
Indigenous children over generations.

More than 139 residential schools operated

in Canada between the 1800s and 1996.
More than 150,000 Indigenous children,
First Nations, Inuit and Métis were forced
to attend these schools. Many of them
were subjected to physical and sexual
abuse, as well as harsh conditions. More
than 6,000 children are estimated to have
died in residential schools. Indigenous
people have long suspected that former
residential schools had unmarked
graveyards that hid their horrific human
cost. Hundreds of such graves were
reported in the summer of 2021 as First
Nations used ground-penetrating radar,
archival detective work and the help of
experts to find the remains of long-lost
loved ones. The burials touched off an
outpouring of support from Canadians.

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Last year, Sept. 30 was made a federal

statutory holiday in order to remember
children who died while being forced to
attend church-run and government-
funded residential schools, those who
survived the system and made it home,
and the families and communities still
affected by lasting trauma. The Strathcona
Tweedsmuir School Community
commemorated Orange Shirt Day on
Thursday September 29th.

However, Reconciliation must occur

year-round, it is a process without a
definitive end point. Every day, we must
resolve to stand with survivors and their
families. The process requires our deep
understanding, and empathy as the
event will always remain apart of the
Canadian Identity.

As students, staff, and faculty members it

is our job to be a part of conversations
around reconciling our role in it. We must
engage in continuous learning and
research on our own, and question and
reconsider our narratives. Starting this
year, we also have a Blackfoot Elder on
Campus who will be a part of our learning
process.

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THE LONGEST
REIGNING MONARCH
BY ALEC R.

Elizabeth Windsor was born on April 21,
1926, and crowned as Queen Elizabeth II on
February 6, 1952, when she was only 25
years old. She reigned as the monarch of
Great Britain for 70 years, making her the
longest reigning monarch in world history.
Throughout her 70-year reign, she was the
Queen regnant for 32 sovereign states, and
15 states at the time of her death. She was
the head of state for Canada, and upon her
death, her son, King Charles, ascended the
throne and became our sovereign.
Fun Facts About The Queen:
She was the only person who did
not require a licence to drive a
vehicle.
The Queen once “terrorized” the
crown prince of Saudi Arabia by
chauffeuring him around London,
as women are forbidden from
driving in Saudi Arabia.

Over her 70 year long reign, she installed

15 prime ministers into office, including
Liz Truss just two days before her passing.
The Queen passed away on September 8,
2022, at the royal family’s Balmoral Castle
in Scotland.

One of her first notable acts was before

she was even queen; she became the first
female member of the royal family to serve
in the military. The Queen signed on to the
Auxiliary Territorial Service during World
War Two, where she became a vehicle
mechanic. She spent most of her service in
the Mechanical Transport Training Section
in Camerey, Surrey, England, as women
were prohibited from serving on the front
lines during World War Two.

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PAKISTAN FLOODS
BY KAMRAN S. AND ADAM T.
Pakistan has remained under a state of
destruction due to recent flash floods. It
has left 1000 people dead and 33 million
displaced. The death toll was confirmed
after prime minister Shehbaz Sharif
pleaded for international assistance
against the deadly floods. Over ⅓ of
Pakistan remains underwater.
The prime minister continues to keep
Pakistan under a state of emergency as
the situation continues to rapidly
develop. Just last week, the National
Disaster Management Department of
Pakistan confirmed that over 1033 people
have officially passed away as a direct
result of the flooding. An extensive
portion of Pakistan continues to remain
inaccessible to even rescuers and
emergency crews.
The two biggest provinces, Balochistan
and Sindh remain to be the worst
affected areas. As a result, intense
protests continued to block the Indus
Highway, a highly used area, blaming
lawmakers. Protesters said that
government officials put their lives at
risk by trying to divert flood water in the
wrong directions, with greater risks,
which could go further downhill.
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Multiple dams have been damaged
nationwide, as well as the added
pressure of climate change overall has
never affected this drastically in a the
disaster to much more of an extent. In
northern provinces, landslides and
large-scale flooding are gonna remain
the problem, with landslides killing
dozens.
Online, information about the Pakistan
floods remain quite recent, with
videos of bridges, hotels, roads,
houses, and entire streets being swept
underwater in a matter of seconds.
With people constantly running from
floods, and constantly displaced from
one place to another, the army has
been deployed to provide relief for
people across the nation.
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THE CRITICALITY OF TECHNOLOGICAL

ADVANCEMENTS IN MEDICINE
BY ANNONYMOUS

Technology is evolving faster than the
human race, revolutionary technological
advances in medicine are occurring with
the potential to change the course of
medicine and save lives. Technological
integration into medicine saves lives,
improves health, and makes it easier for
the health system to function more
efficiently and sustainably. Thus, medical
technology is advantageous to the
economy, the individual and the collective.
In the health field, any technological
innovation is focused on improving the
lives of patients at the same time as
facilitating the work carried out by medical
specialists. For this reason, when we talk
about new technologies in the health
sector, we can mention everything from
mobile applications to big data, through
medical software that changes the way of
doing science as well as developing
medicine.
On the other hand, the great economic
advantages of technology in the field of
health should not be overlooked. In
addition to making the health system more
efficient, another great advantage of
technological innovation in health is that it
is a financial asset with great potential to
generate economic benefits.
During the pandemic, we have seen how
the health field has taken an important leap
to digitise medicine and be able to care for
patients even when confined. 2020 has been
the year of telemedicine, the impetus that
the sector lacked to take its digital
transformation one step further.

In recent decades there have been great

technological advances in medicine thanks
to which, among other things, it has been
possible to offer and obtain diagnoses of a
patient much more quickly and accurately,
to Develop much more effective and
personalized medical treatments and to
facilitate research and conduct of more
complex clinical studies.

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REMEMBERING SUN YAT-SEN,
97 YEARS LATER
THIS WEEK’S COMMEMORATION REMEMBERS SUN YAT-SEN
BY KAMRAN S. AND SARAH C.
Sun Yat-sen is often overlooked in the
eyes of the western world. His immense
courage, the difficult life he pursued in
hope of a better world, and him being
one of the best examples of success in
persistence are some of his applaudable
traits. Sun relentlessly and fearlessly
never took anything for himself; instead,
he devoted his entire life to developing a
better, modern, and sophisticated world.
While his name remains unheard of in
many parts of the world, he paved the
way from Imperial Qing ruled China, to
overthrowing the government, repelling
the west, and establishing the grounds
for modern China.
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Known as the father of modern China,
Sun Yat-sen single-handedly changed
the entire course of Chinese governance
in just over 30 years. Going from poor
farmers in Xiangshan to overthrowing
2000 years of the Qing-ruled
government, he serves as a reminder
that dedication and perseverance can
lead to the greatest of accomplishments.
Born in 1866 to a poor farming family,
his opportunities to rise in the ranks
were limited. Sun and his brother were
brought to Hawaii as labourers, where
he attended a British Missionary School
and was educated for only 4 years of his
entire life.
In the eyes of Sun, the school’s lessons
on democracy, ways of government, and
teachings of the Chinese way of
governance were troubling. As the Qing
government clung to their traditional
clothing and refused to adapt to modern
technology, Sun felt humiliated by the
conservative practices. With the
government’s refusal to change, Sun
returned to Hawaii and founded the
Revive China Society.
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After publishing news articles,

appearing on television, and
conducting mass campaigns for his
society, the Qing took quick notice
and sent spies and assassins after
Sun. Whilst their war against Sun
made little progress, China lost its
other war with Japan. Hearing the
Japanese were establishing a new
government, Sun went to Hong Kong
in 1895 and began establishing his
government with other rebel groups.
With no support from the failing Qing
or the Japanese, Sun’s government
failed, and he began a 16-year-long
period in exile.

Hidden in London for years, Qing

spies eventually found Sun and
captured him in the Chinese
Legislation of London. Sun had
been informed he was to be taken
back to China for a silent
execution; however, as soon as
Sun stepped out of the legislation,
The British Foreign Office
demanded Sun’s release, as per
British Law. The Qing captured
Sun in the hope that he would
disappear from the public and be
executed in shame; however, once
Sun was released, his story made
international headlines.

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STS COMMUNITY
Tweedsmuir's Tidbits
BY CHLOE L.

Hello and welcome to Tweedsmuir’s Tidbits,

your monthly newsletter of upcoming
events, updates, and community posts.
When the leaves begin to change colours and
we settle into school, there are a few
important dates to remember for October.

The Thanksgiving Day long weekend is

coming up on October 6th, so be ready for
pumpkin pie, turkeys, and plenty of stuffing.
Marti McKay Week, from the 17th to the 23rd,
is also bringing festivities to celebrate Marti
McKay, an STS alumnus and poet who
passed away in 1981. This week is meant to
give a splash of creativity and arts into an
already colourful fall and celebrate the gifts
that she brought to the world. During that
week on the 19th, and the following week on
the 25th and 27th, the first Parent-Teacher
Conferences will be held. Be sure to mark
your calendar and book appointments to
speak to your teachers
To spend more time with mother nature,
there are several upcoming OE trips for both
middle and senior school.
Today, October 3rd, 10C will be the last class
to return from their first backpacking trip.
10A and 10B will be packing to go on their
second trip from the 21st to the 23rd.
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TAKEN BY KAMRAN S
10C will be following suit from the
28th to the 30th, just in time for
Halloween. Similarly, the grade 9
classes will also head out to Little
Elbow Trail for their backpacking
trip. 9A and 9B will be gone from the
13th to the 15th, then 9C and 9D from
the 16th to the 18th.
Three senior school students will be
heading out to Boston,
Massachusetts, for International
Independent Schools Public
Speaking Championships.

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This is a public speaking competition
for independent schools from all
corners of the world. They will each be
competing in three events from one of
the four categories.
They have the choice between impromptu
speaking and extemporaneous speaking in
Category 1; radio newscast and
parliamentary debate in Category 2; after-
dinner speaking or persuasive speaking in
Category 3; and dramatic interpretation,
interpretive reading, or cross-examination
debate in Category 4. Being a fairly
prestigious competition, there will be many
experienced and talented speakers.
However, there is no doubt that STS will
perform well.
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For some remaining exciting
events, Grade 7 band students will
be celebrating their first concert
on the 26th with pizza and
performing a few brilliantly
selected pieces by Ms. Roy. Best of
luck to them as they progress in
their musical journey. The SV
girls' volleyball team will be
heading to Vancouver for a
tournament on the 12th; best of
luck to them. Last, but certainly
not least, casual dress day will be
on the 28th.
That is it and that is all, see you
next month.
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FUN & FICTION
The Innocent Boy
BY: JINJIN L.
Sweating profusely, the boy frantically
scrammed to open his computer and typed
in his password. He had accidentally
signed up for the late bus! He sighed in
defeat, desperately wishing he could
reverse time and save himself from the
terrible mistake.
This grade eight student is the most boring
person you’ll meet. He has no hobbies,
plays no sports, and is constantly average
in all of his classes. He struggled at first,
his vision dimmed, alas he clicked on
internet explorer and the first thing that
popped up on his screen shocked him.
“ESCAPED CRIMINALS IN ALBERTA,
BEWARE!”
The boy shrugged, he was nowhere close
to any busy area. With no friends, he lives
in a remote part of town and attends
school far away from the cities. Jumping
from his chair, he heard a creek. For a
moment his soul left his body, expecting to
see those escaped Albertan criminals. But
when he turned around and saw nothing
but an empty corridor, he reluctantly got
back to his computer and opened the
google document he was previously
working on.
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He worked, procrastinated, and rick rolled
people for twenty minutes before his
stomach started growling.
Heading towards the cafeteria, he closed
the lid of his computer and stuffed it into
his bag.
“The cafeteria staff are probably at home,”
he thought to himself.
Making his actions as fast as possible, so
that no one would know, he snatched a
cookie and two muffins from the cafeteria.
He ate as quickly as possible in the
bathroom, making no noise to alert the
janitors.
After returning from the bathroom stall
leaving no evidence, he sneakily stuffed
the wrappers into his hair.
Then, a faint boom went off in the
distance. He stepped outside the bathroom
to investigate what had happened.
Smelling a thick, dense bog, he peeked
outside the door, and to his absolute
horror, the school was glistening red with
fire. He burst out of the bathroom in a
mess. He pulled the fire alarm as quickly
as he could. Nothing happened. He
pondered in a moment of disbelief.
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He slapped himself in the face just to make Okay, now the situation is looking bad. He
sure he wasn’t dreaming so he wouldn’t found a heavy book and shrugged. No one
run into the fire thinking it would wake would notice the disappearance of one
him up. book during a fire, right? So he tossed that
old book toward the fire extinguisher’s
The fire was near the front doors of the cage. The glass broke and he took out the
cafeteria, where he had just been minutes fire extinguisher just in case the fire
ago. With no idea of what to do, he decided reached him. But he didn't think about
to race down the hall and climb to the next who set the fire. Because the person who
floor, in hopes of a safer retreat. The started the fire is just as dangerous as the
sound of the sirens finally rang in his ears fire itself.
unbearably, tempted to break the bells.
“Only ten or twenty minutes until the This story is dedicated to a student in
firemen arrive,” he told himself, but to no grade 8 named Jeet. We owe it to Jeet for
comfort. “The fire would spread across at daily laughs and for bringing a positive
least half of the school at this pace.” He light every day at school.
couldn’t just run into the deserted deserts
outside, pitch black darkness would be as Thank you Jeet
dangerous as the fire itself. The bears,
coyotes, eagles, and other wild animals
roaming the desert would not prove to
help him.

Seeing his memories of getting animals are

afraid of fire, he decides to stay near the
building. He then realized that the fire
could just reach him if he stayed close to it.
The school also covers a larger area of
grass that is connected to the ravine. This
means this could lead to a whole forest fire
and leaving him stranded in the middle of
a burning building surrounded by more
fire.

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THE STORIES THE SHORES TELL
BY: HITANSHI V.
All the light from the sun seemed to fall on
me, kissing my bare arms. Everyone was
high-spirited, dressed in rainbows, hauling
picnic baskets and umbrellas you’d see in
cocktails. Crowds of people dispersed
themselves onto the soft sands of the beach,
their multi-coloured towels sprawled like
bits of confetti. Children played as bright
blue waves crashed against the beige sand
and fell back foaming at the tips, catching
the light and glowing sea-green. I had an
excellent view of it all sitting on my tall,
white lifeguard chair clutching a pair of
binoculars. Everyone was so content, so
free, with no worries even if it was just for
an afternoon.
Looking far out, I saw a boy. He was
floating, dancing with the waves like a piece
of driftwood across the sun-speckled
surface. His long ginger hair rose to the
surface rippling like seaweed in the choppy
currents. I wished I had seen the oncoming
fury in the sky sooner. Clouds from the
strongest grey to the softest white, tainting
the sunny skies commanding thunder and
lightning. Crying fresh tears into the ocean
as angry waves rose to the heights of
mountains.
The people were caught up in their fun, so
free, so happy, they didn’t see. They missed
the little boy who’d started treading faster,
caught in the waves of Zeus and Poseidon's
childish squabbles.
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I couldn’t move, glued to my chair and
heart pounding. The sea I treasured was at
war, an innocent boy put into the middle
yet here I was, a soldier and utterly useless.
Then the unimaginable happened, my body
melting and moving, legs free and fingers
unfroze. I leapt off the chair and dived into
the war, head first with no hesitation.
That’s all there was, that’s all there will ever
be. We won’t ever know if the boy made it
back to the shore if the soldier protected
and served because the artist ran out of
ideas.
Now the painting hung in an old museum,
dressed in a layer of grime that the
caretaker saw no purpose in cleaning. Many
eyes gaze at it in passing and that’s all it’ll
ever be because the stories the shores tell
are bitter and grey, woven with salt and
drenched in frost, too difficult to
understand, too deep to uncover. Yet the
shores hold the stories we cannot tell, lost
at sea they stay, trapped in the sands they
lay until another child with a brush decides
they like blue more than grey.
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SUDOKU & COMIC

BY: EZINNE N. & KAMSI O.

A sudoku puzzle beings with a grid in

which some of the numbers are already in
place. A puzzle is completed when each
number from 1 to 9 appears only once in
each of the 9 rows, columns, and blocks.
Study the grid to find the numbers that
might fit into each cell.

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ART & JOKE

This month's spot for Joke of the month:
the best drawing goes
to Darwyn P. “A bad limbo player walks into a
bar”

...

Joke authored By: Kamran S.,

Ibrahim T., Adam P., Adam T.,
Kirtveer M., Oscar J., Shayan K.,
Tiego K., Dan L., Noah B., Gabriel
A., Lucas W., Nathan C., Zik D.,
Abdur-Rahman A., Uzo N., Mes
U., Agam S., Andrew P., Deon B.,
Jonathan T-J., Jonah P., Anders
R., Keaton R., Noah F., Alvin L.,
Masimo G., Raphae S., Jasmeet S.,
Ava G. Armaan A., Nathaniel H.,
Caden M., Brooke C., Lily, Heidi,
Matthew, Harry A., Darwyn P.,
Timi T., Rayne P., Brenna P., Jena
K., Sarah C., Ms. Burnham, and
Mr. Race.

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NEWSPAPER NOOK
Newspaper Announcement: Acknowledgement of Staff:

Hello everybody! The newspaper club is We could not have put together this
excited to say we are back again for amazing edition without the assistance
another year! Thank you so much for of our fantastic team. Thank you to our
reading this edition, and we hope you teacher supervisors and support Mr.
enjoyed it! Petersen, Ms. Anderson and Ms.
Morrison. Thank you to our editors,
As a part of our new expansion project, Uzonna N, Jinlin L, Ezinne N, Kameron S,
we are hoping to keep the newspaper as Kirtveer M, Kamran S.
a hub for an explosion of creativity,
Also a thank you goes out to Ms. Reid for
news, advertising, and so much more.
helping us print this edition. Lastly, we
We would love to host your
could not have done this without our
participation! Meetings are bi-weekly on
readers, and we hope to see you next
Mondays during Middle/Senior School
edition!
lunch in the library break-out room.
Here is the solution to the sudoku:
If you would like to submit anything to
the newspaper, or otherwise join as a
writer, editor, graphic designer,
advertiser, or photographer, please join
the ManagBac STS School Newspaper
Group (STS STAR).

Senior School meet in the same break-

out room during Monday lunches.

QUESTIONS? COMPLAINTS? INQUIRIES?

CONTACT US AT SHUKOOK@STS.AB.CA, NWACHUE@STS.AB.CA, CHOUDHH@STS.AB.CA

Published By the C0-Executive Editors Kamran S, Ezinne N, and Hafsa C

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