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Lettitor What do you mean this isn’t all made up? ’m blessed with the ability to walk and recently that I diverged onto the road less pleased to find that it was written in a way I’m hoping that Manson’s work was a Iread at the same time. travelled (by me, at least): Non-fiction. that didn’t sound too preachy, info-heavy, prime example of what non-fiction books While it took a few years of practice— I picked up The Subtle Art of Not or spiritual—it was just a guy telling it how can actually be if given the change, and and a few pole-to-head collisions—I can Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson because (he believes) it is. not just some outlier for the genre in that now do it with only a small degree of I’d finished a reread of Stranger in a More than a few anecdotes were it was, you know, extremely readable, concentration, and only the occasional Strange Land, was on vacation (away from thrown in to offer something of a story but either way I think I’d like to find out, comment from coworkers about how odd my bookshelf of well-worn (ahem half- from time to time, there was consistency because why not learn some stuff about it actually looks when they see me doing destroyed) favourites), and Manson’s work throughout the book—with multiple the world through straight facts and rather it (and that’s while being surrounded by had been laying around the house that I references to one rather shitty ex- than metaphors every now and then? people that are constantly walking around was staying in. girlfriend—and it all culminated in an … Or I could just read the Song of Ice with their eyes glued to their phones, but I I read the book in about two days ending that felt complete and deserved. and Fire series for the fourth time. Only digress). flat—I was on vacation, after all—and The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck time (and my next trip to Chapters) will All this is to say that I read. A lot. I while it didn’t quite follow the usual was the first non-fiction book I think tell. tend to stick to small paperbacks because “beginning/middle/end” plot progression I’ve ever completed, though that’s not to Cheers, they fit in my pocket and can easily be I’d come to know and expect, it was a lot say that I haven’t read my fair share of pulled out while on the bus, commuting more enjoyable than I ever thought a non- newspaper articles, textbooks, or billboard on the SkyTrain, or when I’m heading out fiction self-help book had any right to be. advertisements—I just never gave much for lunch. I won’t delve too deeply into exactly thought to the idea that real-world Chandler Walter I probably consume about three small what the book is all about, though the information could be taken in through the novels a month, though it wasn’t until title might offer something of a hint. I was form of a paperback book. O The Other Press has been Douglas College’s student newspaper since 1976. Since 1978 we have been an autonomous publication, independent of the student Angela Ho union. We are a registered society under Rm 1020 – 700 Royal Ave. theotherpress.ca Business Manager the Society Act of British Columbia, governed by an eight-person board Douglas College [email protected] Jacey Gibb of directors appointed by our staff. 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Photos by Analyn Cuarto Analyn by Photos The Science Behind Pixar news // no. 4 theotherpress.ca Town Centre Aboriginal Garden Park renamed flourishes at Douglas ööPublic space and corporate interests intersect ööTraditional plants bring people together Seaweed also mentioned Colten Kamlade people might not be bothered by Colten Kamlade this, but others are. It influences our that they are partnered with the Staff Reporter Staff Reporter experience of cities,” said McCann. Sol (sustainability, outreach, and He said that there are other, learning) Garden at the Douglas t was recently announced on the he Aboriginal Garden, which was likely more important issues that College Coquitlam campus. This Coquitlam City website that the planted with seedlings in April, has I should be discussed. These include the T garden was created as part of a name of Coquitlam Town Centre Park is fared well over the past few of months. control of public space. For instance, partnership between Douglas being renamed TD Community Plaza. The tobacco lies close to the who can enter the space, for how College and the Institute of TD Bank Group is sponsoring ground, towered over by the sage and long, and what they can do in it. Urban Ecology (IUE) in 2016. improvements to the park, totaling sweetgrass that blow in the wind. “Corporate funding of public Though there are no plans for $250,000. The park is used for sports, These plants are sacred to Indigenous spaces and amenities has potential future expansions to the garden, performances, and other gatherings. cultures, and according to David implications for control and decision- benches were just installed last Though Coquitlam City is clearly Seaweed, Aboriginal student services making in cities. Geographers Monday near the garden on the roof enthused about this new partnership, coordinator, the garden has, and will and other urban researchers have of the campus. The garden is open some have reservations about renaming be, the focus of numerous events. pointed to a general erosion of the for anyone to enjoy, and the seating public spaces after private corporations. “We actually did a planting lunch true publicness of public spaces in is certainly an incentive to visit the Eugene McCann, professor of in early April for a large number of recent decades as existing ones are peaceful spot. It is located on the geography at Simon Fraser University, college folk. We also had three more increasingly privatized,” McCann said. fourth floor of the New Westminster said there are clear reasons why the City dinner workshops in April for the According to McCann, there campus, near the Aboriginal Gathering might be tempted to accept such an offer. garden. We will probably try and are subtler ways that spaces Place, which is also open to the public. “Public spaces are crucial for urban incorporate the garden in one of can become less public. According to the Douglas life and for democracy … parks, plazas, our National Aboriginal Day events “Sometimes, the space is still College website, Seaweed said that squares etc, are places where people in June. The Advanced Student largely public, but it becomes more the placement of the two spaces come together to express their political Leadership Program also want to do and more reliant on private funding next to each other was an important opinions, for example … So, what might [an] event that they can also include from sponsors to be maintained and consideration when choosing be the implications of a public space the garden in,” Seaweed said in an for festivals, concerts, etc. take place the location of the garden. being funded and branded by a private email interview with the Other Press. in it. In those cases, city governments “We wanted the garden to go corporation? On the one hand, obviously, When it comes time, the might worry about not offending hand in hand with the Aboriginal a local government might be attracted harvesting of the plants will be funders when they make decisions Gathering Place, and we wanted to to such a funding arrangement because an event itself, Seaweed said. about how they should use ostensibly create a garden that would provide it means they can pay for physical “When the plants have grown, public spaces … so this is the second medicinal value as well as enhance improvements and also programming we will pick and process through way in which public spaces become the spiritual essence of the space,” that they might not have been able ceremony, and then re-plant,” he said.

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