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Totem pole

Totem pole

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Sep 22, 2026

Saul ThompsonHOST
38:01
It was some guys who used to work in the Department of the Interior.
Saul ThompsonHOST
38:05
And he texts back immediately, Mary Maxim pattern number 415 totem pole.
Saul ThompsonHOST
38:10
And I was like, what the fuck? Jesus.
Michael SmithHOST
38:12
Oh, those kind of, yeah.
Andy StefanovichHOST
16:05
That was one.
Andy StefanovichHOST
16:06
You have something called the totem pole, right? The totem pole.
Andy StefanovichHOST
16:09
This has helped me think about Yeah,
David WilkieHOST
16:11
I rank ordered all my, the ways I could spend my time personally and I ranked ordered them all the way I could spend my time professionally.
Andy StefanovichHOST
17:02
We're looking for entry points.
Andy StefanovichHOST
17:04
easy kind of constructs and ideas that help us frame and organize our thinking.
Andy StefanovichHOST
17:09
And so the Totem Pole, Devin Matthews' Big Ass Calendar, we have another member who has more of an algorithmic kind of spreadsheet approach to it.
Andy StefanovichHOST
17:17
But they really helped me think about how to think about orienting to my busyness.
Kayla HounsellCORRESPONDENT
26:19
Kayla Hounsell, CBC News, Halifax.
Salimah ShivjiHOST
26:22
And finally, it was the world's tallest totem pole, recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records, but now it lies flat in the community of Alert Bay, just north of Vancouver Island, a victim of time and decay.
speaker_25SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
26:36
The simple or sad reality was that at some point it was gonna fall, or portions of it were gonna fall, and, uh, potentially injure s- in- injure somebody or injure things, you know? Or that was something that, uh, we couldn't let that happen.
Salimah ShivjiHOST
26:52
That's Dan Svanvik, hereditary chief and elected chief counselor of the Namgis First Nation.
speaker_25SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
27:40
So this was a time when that was all coming back, coming back into the forefront of things.
Salimah ShivjiHOST
27:46
William Wasden Jr. is another Namgis hereditary chief.
Salimah ShivjiHOST
27:49
He says many people were emotional watching the totem pole being dismantled, but he sees it another way.
speaker_25SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
27:56
That cedar t- totem pole, it, it's had its day.
Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
106:42
That won't happen again.
Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
106:43
The next time you shop, you look for the special Totem Pole display and Totem Home Plenty Ballantyne beer.
Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
106:47
That's right.
Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
106:47
Totem Home Plenty and Smile.

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