- [Brunson] Tonight on "WPBS Weekly: Inside the Stories," cyberbullying is very real.

Discover how one local and one national organization are stepping up to help young folks overcome.

And Chef Natalia Machado shows us how to make duck carpaccio in a truly traditional way.

Also, Brasher Falls' country doctor Susan Badenhausen passed away in 2018.

We'll tell you more about the legacy she left behind showcasing artists and musicians from the North Country.

Your stories, your region, coming up right now on "WPBS Weekly: Inside the Stories."

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- Good Tuesday evening, everyone, and welcome to this edition of "WPBS Weekly: Inside the Stories."

I'm Stephfond Brunson.

Cyberbullying, it's the Digital Age version of harassing others to seek harm, and in some cases, the bullying is so severe, young people are taking their own lives.

Tonight, we talk to advocates knee-deep in change and share ways that these women are working to seek justice for our younger generation.

(audience applauding) - So, people take things like that for granted, but I knew that he had those thoughts in his head.

- [DesRosiers] Sherrika Myers is in her element, sharing the room with young children, spreading her wisdom nationally about how to combat bullying using her Every 1 Voice Matters platform, and if anyone knows what it's like to be bullied, it's Sherrika.

- I was laughed at, picked on, teased, ignored.

I got into a lot of fights.

- [DesRosiers] She had a stuttering problem, a big one.

It was perfect ammunition for other children.

- On the outside, people didn't see it because I hid it good enough, but on it inside, I still had low self-esteem.

I lacked self-confidence.

I did things to the bare minimum.

- [DesRosiers] It's one of the first signs of trouble in a bullied child: withdrawal.

They'll show up as little as possible, keep the things they experience to a minimum, and hide from the world for fear of further ridicule.

Today, thanks to various social media platforms, the world of bullying is even larger, and the faces of those presenting as virtual friends may not even be real, such as the case in St. Lawrence County, where in 2021, two teenagers took their own lives after being cyberbullied and extorted for money by users posing as people they weren't.

It put a community on guard fast.

- Last year, we saw that there were two very unfortunate circumstances where we lost two young youth, death by suicide because of extortion.

You know, it goes further beyond cyberbullying or bullying.

This was extortion, and I feel that we were put in a very reactionary place, and I think that so many of us agreed that we shouldn't have been in a reactionary spot.

We should always be proactive.

And so cyberbullying looks like a variety of different things.

It can be insults on physical appearance.

It can be insults on just comments that are getting made.

It has so many different faces, right?

And so we know that students are on a variety of social media platforms, from everything from Snapchat to Instagram and TikTok.

We're also, you know, finding that students are also using apps, newer apps that we don't know a lot about, right?

I feel like, you know, we see that bullying every single day online, and it's really, you know, how do we work through it?

How do we address this?

How do we coach our youth and teens to maneuver through this?

- [DesRosiers] Part of the county's reaction to the deaths of 15-year-old Riley Basford and 18-year-old Shylynn Dixon was a needs assessment, part of which gauged where the of gaps in online supervision were.

The results didn't look good.

- Close to 700 students completed this assessment, and, you know, I found it a little bit shocking that 67% of our students said that no one is monitoring their screen time at home, and I find that number shocking and extremely concerning.

- Parents aren't really paying that much attention to kids just on their laptops or on their tablet because they're just thinking that they're just on there doing their homework, but some kids are venturing off doing other things.

They are all these different challenges that kids are doing, and some of challenges are dangerous, and kids are falling right into that trap, you know?

And especially kids with low self-esteem and lacking self-confidence because they want to fit in.

- What happens when these kids take these challenges or do these actions and then get bullied?

There's some consequences that aren't good.

- Having people cyber-bullying them, they are causing themselves to become withdrawn, and then they tend to do things to themselves.

Bullying is resulting to suicide, and so we have to take a pre-approach, and we have to pay close attention, you know, 'cause you don't want your child to suffer in silence.

And then, you know, just by being picked on.

- [DesRosiers] Sherrika will tell you that even as an adult, the bullying she endured left permanent scars.

That's why when she realized that her grandson Herby also had a stutter and the potential to go down the same lonely path she did, she stepped up and stepped out in front of the world to combat the dangers and make change early on.

- I had to create a program to where it's though that I can help prevent it because I want to help stop it before it gets to the level, because I don't want no child to have to wait until they get to their thirties.

You know, I was just blessed to be able to get to my thirties, you know, with the low self-esteem I had and the challenges I had growing up.

- [DesRosiers] The likes of her grandson became the mascot of Every 1 Voice Matters.

As a speaker, Sherrika is able to travel the country and spread awareness to both students and school officials.

Meantime in St. Lawrence County, Alexa's working with other organizations there to ensure students have a safe place to go and share any trouble they may be dealing with.

- And I feel that it is our responsibility to become more of that safe person for our teens in St. Lawrence County.

So, right now there are opportunities for students to report bullying at their schools.

You know, often students have student portals that they're signing into every day for their classes and so forth, and there are options for them to report bullying through their schools.

Approximately five years ago, our area school district started offering cyberbullying classes and training to be able to address the concern.

In St. Lawrence County, we also have other programs and initiatives.

- [DesRosiers] For a full list of programs, contact the St. Lawrence County Youth Bureau, and for more on Sherrika Myers, visit her website at every1voicematters.org.

Until then, stop and ask your child one simple question today.

- You know, how was your day?

And that can change your child life.

That can change the difference from your child sitting there and deciding if they gonna go and commit suicide or not.

- [DesRosiers] In St. Lawrence County for "WPBS Weekly," I'm Joleene DesRosiers.

- He had those thoughts in his head, and that he wanted to say it, but he just couldn't say it.

- Tonight, we bring you an update from Parliament Hill.

Certainly, Ottawa has seen its share of headlines since the protest over COVID restrictions earlier this year.

Tonight, we look back at the occupation of Ottawa and Trudeau's use of the Emergencies Act during the protest.

From the newsroom at "The Hill Times," here's the latest.

(bright music) - Hello, everyone.

I'm Peter Mazereeuw.

- And I'm Charelle Evelyn, and welcome to "The Hill Times" office in Ottawa, where the view outside our windows was much more chaotic not too long ago as the so-called Freedom Convoy occupied city streets.

So, it's quiet now, Peter, but it wasn't for quite a while, right?

- That's right.

As you may remember, back in February, the city of Ottawa was the subject of international attention.

There were headlines blaring about freedom, chaos, and karma.

Outside of these windows, the streets were filled with big rig trucks and other vehicles, people walking around carrying Canadian flags and signs, inflatable bouncy castles.

This was the Freedom Convoy, or as it was known locally, the occupation of Ottawa.

Charelle, how did it get started?

- Well, the first trucks got rolling from Prince Rupert in northern British Columbia on January 22nd.

It moved its way east across the country, picking up support and more vehicles, and the first rigs rolled into town on January 28th, but this had been simmering for quite a while before then as people grew frustrated with vaccine mandates and other public health measures related to COVID.

It all found a new flash point when the government said in January that a vaccine exemption for truck drivers would no longer be in effect as of the middle of the month, and you know, a group called Canada Unity, they latched onto this and they brought their memorandum of understanding, which among other things called for the overthrow of the federal government.

They took that on the road, and extremists, as so often happens, latched on, and it became a national crisis and an international story.

- That's right, yeah.

It started, really, with the city of Ottawa, where traffic was completely blocked from getting around in the downtown.

The noise was constant, was driving people crazy, these air horns going hour after hour, day after day, right outside where they were living.

There were reports of people being harassed by the protestors just trying to get around in their own city, wearing masks on public transit or on the streets, of soup kitchen workers being bullied for free meals.

That kind of thing.

The 911 emergency line was even jammed up by people who were sympathetic to the protests calling in, and there were also protestors aligned with the convoy who set up blockades across key border crossings between Canada and the United States, causing millions of dollars of economic damage to both countries every day.

Copycat protests spraying up in places like France and New Zealand, and in the United States, U.S. media pundits and politicians took notice, and some of them chimed in declaring their support for the convoy, which spurred donations to roll in to help fund the protestors.

Police were able to clear the blockades at the border, but for some reason, police in Ottawa were unable or unwilling to confront the protest head-on, and eventually the police chief had to resign.

That's when the Emergencies Act came into play.

So, Charelle, can you explain what that's all about?

- Yeah.

So, the Emergencies Act was something of a Valentine's Day gift.

It was invoked for the first time in its 34-year history on February 14th.

Now, this is legislation that gives the government extraordinary powers, and it did things like allow banks to freeze the accounts of people who are involved in the occupation, and it also let police forces from outside of the city jump in and help to enforce local laws.

Unlike its predecessor, the War Measures Act, which the prime minister's own father used during the October Crisis of 1970, the Emergencies Act, it doesn't suspend civil liberties, and it also has parliamentary oversight.

So, the force of the act, we saw it pretty quickly.

There was a massive police operation to clear the streets, which happened over the weekend of February 18th.

Meanwhile, just a few hundred meters away in the House of Commons, MPs were debating on whether or not the emergency order was even necessary.

The government eventually did win the vote on that, but within 10 days of invoking the act, they pulled the plug.

They said the emergency itself was over, existing laws could handle the aftermath, and it was no longer necessary, and this was done before the senate even had a chance to really dig into and finish debating and vote on the emergency order itself.

But this all leaves, Peter, a bunch of questions.

- Yeah, that's right.

There's still a lot of anger out there.

There's going to be pressure on Canada's political parties, particularly the Conservative Party, to deal with and digest that anger, how they're gonna confront it.

We don't know if there're gonna be more copycat protests in the future trying to jam up cities or what's going to happen the next time protestors sympathetic to this or any other cause decide to blockade, say, a railway line or a border crossing.

And we don't know the next time the Emergencies Act is going to be invoked.

There are some people arguing that the bar for its use has been set too low here by the prime minister.

- Yeah, so these are all questions that we are going to keep covering very closely at The Hill Times," but until next time, goodnight from us.

I'm Charelle Evelyn.

- And I'm Peter Mazereeuw.

- From "One World Kitchen" tonight, it's all about duck.

Chef Natalia Machado shows us how to make duck carpaccio in a truly traditional way.

Take a look.

(bright music) (energetic music) - Sure, Argentinians love to grill, but we also love our cured meats.

Duck breast, I love them.

So, I want to make a duck carpaccio, or like I like to call it, a duck prosciutto.

Very simple.

To cure my meat, I want lots of sugar and lots of salt.

(upbeat music) This is going to cure my meat and throw moisture out of the meat.

But now, for flavor.

I chose licorice anise seeds, woody, smoky peppercorns, citrusy coriander seeds, and a couple of cloves.

They're just gonna add a little kick.

And now my favorite: sweet, smoky, woody cinnamon.

My favorite part, a little blitz.

(bright music) (spices grinding) There you go.

A little tip, just a few slices on the fat side, and all that sugar and salt mixture's gonna go right through it and is gonna cook it on both sides.

(bright music) I'm making a little bed, and here comes the star.

(bright music) I just want to make sure the duck is all covered up.

Cozy.

But I'm really not done curing.

Onions, red onions.

My favorite.

They have a really light, sweet touch to it.

Amazing.

Here, I want to add similar flavors to the duck so it goes really well together.

Brown sugar and a little kick of white wine vinegar.

You can use any flavors that you want, your favorite oils, or your favorite vinegars.

If I have a balsamic vinegar or if I have a red wine vinegar, I use them, as well.

The vinegar and the sugar are going to loosen all the juices from the onions and are going to cure it, as well.

Just a little massage, (upbeat music) and ready to go in my fridge.

(upbeat music) When you do this at home, you want to leave them in the fridge for at least 24 hours.

(upbeat music) And what goes great with duck?

Lemon curd.

Super simple.

Lemon juice, sugar, egg yolks, and a little butter.

(upbeat music) My little tip: always had a little bit of lemon zest.

I love using the lemon zest because it has so much more flavor than the juice.

And now to the cooktop.

The secret to this is to cook it, but not let it boil.

Stirring it constantly, even better.

(bright music) You know it's ready when it's all nice and thick, it covers the rack of the spoon, and when you slip your finger, it doesn't run.

(bright music) So, this is what duck should look like when it's been curing for 24 hours.

I'm just going to give it a little rinse because I want to get all of that extra salt and sugar out.

(upbeat music) It looks so good.

Dark on the outside, and the texture is so much more firm.

It has cooked.

I love how my knife goes through the meat.

Nice and firm.

It has changed color all in the border.

It has a beautiful, different dark color outside.

It shows the curing, and the texture, I can't wait to try it.

This is a fun bite.

(bright music) The citrus of the curd with that kick of the zest, the earthiness of the cinnamon, and the really nice bite of the clove, and to finish, tartness and sweet, and a little bit of crispiness with that red onion.

Ah, unbelievable.

I don't say unbelievable on camera 'cause everything I say is believable.

- [Crew Member] Thank you.

- This is how you plate it for a party, though.

(upbeat music) And there you have it, fabuloso.

(upbeat music) - Dr. Susan Badenhausen of Brasher Falls was a country doctor, likely one of the last of her kind.

This is because she continued to make house calls to patients even in the dead of a North Country winter.

This doctor gave over 30 years of service to her patients.

When she passed away in 2018, she left a legacy that continues to give, showcasing many of the artists and musicians of St. Lawrence County.

Director of Production Tracy DuFlo explains.

(people applauding) - [DuFlo] Dorothea Susan Badenhausen was born in 1935 in New York City.

She started out her medical career as a researcher, but after a while, she realized she wanted more.

She decided to go back to school, and in 1971 at age 36, Susan Badenhausen received her Doctor of Medicine from Boston College.

She set her sights on the North Country, moving to Brasher Falls in 1975.

- Susan had already done her internship at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn.

She was looking for something different.

She didn't want to open a private practice in the city.

She wanted to use her education to go where she would really be needed.

St. Lawrence County, New York is such a place.

I think the towns, the tri-town region, Brasher and Stockholm and Lawrence, advertised for a physician, a community physician.

She saw it, checked out the place, saw that it was pretty low on the income scale, saw that the majority of her patients would be Medicaid or Medicare patients.

They didn't have a lot of private insurance.

And she said, as she said to me later, "That's the place I want to be."

She was one of those doctors who made house calls, and she did that all through her practice.

She kept her black bag at the ready.

She could go as somebody needed her.

She was called, she went.

Was there a payment involved?

Sometimes she would be paid in chickens, sometimes in bread, sometimes in canned goods.

She prided herself on bringing home canned peach jam because when the harvest comes in, that's what the women do.

They make preserves for the long winter here, and it is a long winter here, so she was happy with that.

She was happy with the bread, happy with the chicken.

She would prefer it plucked, but that's the way it was.

- [DuFlo] Upon moving to the town of Brasher, Dr. Badenhausen bought an old rundown farm, approximately 300 acres.

There, she pursued another of her passions: organic farming.

- Dr. Badenhausen was never a proselytizer.

She never told anybody, "You're going to die if you don't do this," She simply recommended good foods, good nutrition, exercise, fresh air.

She wanted people to get off their chairs and move.

She herself got off her chair and moved when she wasn't working.

She worked long hours at the hospital, but she emphasized nutrition.

She emphasized making sure that there were proactive measures taken for families here.

- [DuFlo] Dr. Badenhausen was a patron of the arts, as well.

She especially loved classical music and opera and enjoyed concerts at the Crane School of Music, as well as the occasional trips to the Met in New York City.

Dr. Badenhausen passed away in 2018 at the age of 83.

Through the Northern New York Community Foundation, she was able to leave a lasting financial legacy supporting two of her greatest passions: health and the arts.

She also left a fund to start the Badenhausen Library in Brasher Falls, now the Badenhausen Reading Room and Business Center.

- Susan was one of four children.

She came from money and that's why she had some to give.

Her family were Ballantine beer brewers, and she was one of those people who issued money.

Didn't care about it.

Didn't want it.

Didn't want what her grandmother left her.

Didn't want anything to do with it.

She didn't want new clothes.

She wore my clothes when I was done with them, or if we went out someplace, I would say, "Here, put this on.

It's decent and clean.

Put this on."

And she would.

We were the same size people.

I think she would be shocked, frankly, that we're talking, that we are making her into something that she never thought she was.

And I thought she was exceptional.

I thought she was the kind of person that doesn't come along very often.

Quiet, shy, all about business.

She moved from her farm into Brasher Falls because she could no longer manage the large area.

Didn't change her attitude.

She was still herself, but they don't come along often.

And all of a sudden, at the end of life or even in death, their purse is open and something wonderful happens.

So, that's why I'm here, and that's what I hope to continue doing for her.

- That does it for us this Tuesday evening.

Join us next week for a fresh look inside the stories.

Juno College in Toronto has moved its staff to a four-day workweek with no shift in pay.

Are they setting a new post-pandemic precedence?

And what's in a web?

Discover the various silken components that serve a different purpose in the web of a spider.

Also, take a trip with us to Tibbetts Point Lighthouse in Cape Vincent.

The lighthouse was first built in 1827.

Meantime, if you have a story idea you'd like to see us explore or you are a poet or musician and would like to be featured, email us at wpbsweekly@wpbstv.org.

Until then, goodnight, my friends.

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- Sometimes, she would be paid in chickens, sometimes in bread, sometimes in canned goods.

She prided her herself on bringing home canned peach jam because when the harvest comes in, that's what the women do.

They make preserves for the long winter here, and it is a long winter here, so she was happy with that.

She was happy with the bread, happy with the chicken.

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