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The author touches a bit upon the environmental impact of the oil sands, but her focus is predominantly on the human impact of living in isolation and being expendable... all to make a decent wage. While I hadn't heard of this before, I doubt I'll be forgetting about it. If I'm rigorously honest with myself, I perhaps felt a twinge of disappointment that this doesn't play to some of her key strengths. Not to say that this is a humourless book – it isn't – but her sights are clearly set on different things here. It invites comparison not with her earlier history strips, but with other great comics memoirs of recent years like Fun Home or Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?. She's shown that she can absolutely produce that kind of work with the best of them, though to be honest what I liked about her stuff is that she always seemed to be trying things that were completely different from that. Top 25 Female Comic Book Artists #15-11 - Comics Should Be Good @ CBR". 25 March 2015 . Retrieved 20 August 2016.
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King Baby (New York, NY: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2016, ISBN 978-0545637541) I need to tell you this--there is no knowing Cape Breton without knowing how deeply ingrained two diametrically opposed experiences are: A deep love for home, and the knowledge of how frequently we have to leave it to find work somewhere else.’ Duration 10:23 Featured VideoFresh off her run on Jeopardy’s Tournament of Champions, Mattea Roach shares some secrets of her success at the iconic TV trivia game with The National’s Ian Hanomansing, while also talking about becoming a household name and the importance of LGBTQ representation. The Sunday Magazine 25:04 Mattea Roach reflects on life after Jeopardy! Featured VideoSince her historic 23-win run on Jeopardy! in the spring, Mattea Roach has been keeping herself busy. The 24-year-old LSAT tutor has returned to the popular game show for its Tournament of Champions, started hosting a political podcast and signed with a literary agent to work on ideas for a possible book. But even with all those accomplishments, Roach says she’s constantly being asked what she’s going to do next. She joins Piya Chattopadhyay to talk about life after Jeopardy!, and all the pressure that comes with her newfound fame. A comic book on Canada Reads? Yes, please
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Walking through the OPTI-Nexen camp at night, Kate hears a man playing guitar and singing a familiar maritime song alone in his room.
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a b c d "Doug Wright Awards: Past Winners". Archived from the original on 23 October 2020 . Retrieved 18 July 2021. After graduating from Mount Allison in 2005 Beaton worked at an oil sands mining project in Fort McMurray to pay off her student loans. [6] [7] a b c Armitstead, Claire (2022-09-15). " 'We had to leave home for a better future': Kate Beaton on the brutal, drug-filled reality of life in an oil camp". the Guardian . Retrieved 2022-11-07. In the afterword, Katie Beaton is incredibly generous sharing about her experience from working in the oil sands between the years 2005 to 2008–(for 2 years).Fifty men for every one woman, in an isolated setting. When we hear that, we know what it means. And Beaton does not skimp on any of the dark, ugly details and the toll they took. It is very firmly rooted in the time and place when Beaton was doing this work. The only revelations we encounter are ones Beaton herself had near the end of her time in the oil sands, and that includes about issues of misogyny, class, sexual harassment, and sexual assault that pertain directly to her, let alone things like climate change, environmentalism, colonialism, and Indigenous rights. I'm proud of how I did. To get to play Jeopardy! one time, one game, is such a huge honour and is a life highlight for most people who get to do it. So the fact I've now gotten to play, in total, 26 games of Jeopardy!, a 24-2 record is something I am pretty happy with," Roach told The National in November, shortly after their record-setting Jeopardy! run ended. "I had so much fun." This was a completely unique graphic novel for me—as strong in its narrative as it is in its artwork. The horrible part is how most of the men don’t see their actions as anything other than “how guys are” and find her frustration to be playful instead of actual disgust. Yet it is damaging and takes a huge toll. As Beaton writes in the afterword about the sexual assault that occurs ‘ I was nothing in his life but a short release from the boredom and loneliness endemic in camp life, but he was a major trauma in mine.’
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Similarly, she makes a convincing case for the damaging nature of the business. Hopefully things are different today with the proliferation of smartphones/wifi making boredom less of an issue, as well as the openness of talking about mental health possibly cutting down on the destructive behaviour of men who bottled it up until it exploded out of them. She watches a TV broadcast featuring a local Cree elder where the people suffer from a high cancer rate. " Everything is ruined; our lives around our lands are ruined, our water, air, everything. At the cost of our lives as long as they get their money. They don't care how many they kill." It doesn't evoke a sense of enjoyment, right? But I didn't know the details in any way. What I expected was to work for money that I should be grateful to have. And I never expected a corporation to treat me nicely, but I also didn't know exactly what I was stepping into." Thankfully, there is just one incident mentioned, and it's not very graphic (pun intended). Otherwise, I would have had to DNF this.I really dislike people like you who have nothing good to say about Fort McMurray. I lived there for seven years and my family still does. It has brought so many opportunities for my family and I. If you have not lived there and truly got to experience all the good things about Fort McMurray, then I pity you. Fort McMurray is a wonderful place and it’s definitely not an ugly place to live”. The highway, which links the Edmonton area to the oil sands plants north of Fort McMurray, has become infamous because of the high number of injuries and deaths on the narrow but busy roadway”. As soon as I heard Kate Beaton was working on a memoir detailing her time in Northern Alberta, I was counting down the days until I could read it. While I do not know Kate personally, we’re the same age, we are both from Cape Breton and we were both in Fort McMurray around the same time (I arrived in 2007 and left in 2009).
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Ali, Nyala (2022-11-03). "Beaton's graphic novel memoir chronicles two tough years working in Alberta oil sands". Winnipeg Free Press . Retrieved 2022-11-07. The graphics… OMG….. it almost doesn’t even need to be said how incredibly talented Kate Beaton is as an artist too. Filled with expressions and emotions!! Milligan, Mercedes (17 March 2022). "Trailer: Kate Beaton's 'Pinecone & Pony' Charges to Apple TV+". a b c d Salkowitz, Rob (2022-09-27). "Kate Beaton's New Masterpiece Just Rewrote The Standard For Graphic Memoirs". Forbes . Retrieved 2022-11-07. I love the way that Kate tells stories through her art and through prose," Roach said on Commotion. "One thing that graphic novels do so well is that they cut to the core of emotions, they cut to the core of storytelling because they have to present things in a way where they are not being too wordy and they are able to express really deep feelings through the artwork."
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The book is about big, complicated issues: economic exploitation, misogyny, the abuse and disregard of Indigenous land and people, class, education, upward mobility, labor, environmental destruction, sexual harassment and assault, toxic industrial waste, power, history, complicity, identity, loss, sacrifice, family, home. The ground the book covers is far too broad and in-depth to go into in one review. But Beaton touches on these myriad complex subjects gently. Everything is told through conversations she had or overheard. It's never didactic or ponderous. She lets us make the connections ourselves. Her central thesis is that the oil business is damaging to almost everyone involved. Particularly the workers who travel from all over Canada (and the world) to work in these remote locations in harsh conditions, all because the pay’s so good and there aren’t any lucrative jobs anywhere else. What’s not considered is the psychological impact of being separated from civilisation and loved ones, leading to extensive substance abuse, loneliness, mental health problems, and broken homes. A graphic memoir recounting 2 years Beaton spent working at the oil sands of Alberta, Canada, far from her eastern coastal home of Nova Scotia. The worst part for me about being harassed here isn’t that people say shitty things…The worst thing is that your heart breaks.’
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