Volume 56, Number 13 [email protected] Grenfell Student Union sacks president BY SHEENA GOODYEAR "The president's behaviour was twice, and was then accused of ha­ So, I refused to give an apology. That's "According to common sense and improper and inappropriate," said rassment by council. why people try to bring me down to the way you were brought up, there Just before the holiday break, the Leavers. "We saw no resolution of the "I did not harass her. I do not ha­ my knees," he said. is an average way a guy shows emo­ Grenfell College Student Union vot­ problem, and council felt that the un­ rass anyone. Not people. And ifl do, Brown and Leavers both refused tions, which is [to] sit down, frown, ed to fire President Imuetinya Igho­ resolved issues were preventing things I didn't in that case," he said. "It's just comment on the issue as of press time break something up," he said. "There Osagie. from running efficiently around here a case oftwo people arguing, and one due to a council decision to wait un­ is [also] an average way a lady shows VP Internal Erika Leavers brought and getting work done." person can't take it anymore, and one til the release of the official meeting emotions, which is to make it obvi­ forward the motion on Dec. 5 to re­ However, Igho-Osagie says he person starts screaming at the oth­ minutes before public discussion. ous, and stuff like that. move Igho-Osagie based on inappro­ was impeached because of personal er person." "I don't want to say anything that "I made that statement and every­ priate behaviour. This was followed problems he had with VP External Igho-Osagie says the council asked would be degrading to [Igho-Osagie] one said that I was being sexist. Based by a non-confidence vote in which Jennifer Brown. him to apologize, but he refused. as well," said Leavers on that again, people decided to vote Igho-Osagie was the only person to He says he had an argument with "I didn't want anybody to think Igho-Osagie says council also ac­ against me." vote against the motion. Brown in the office, yelled at her that I harassed anyone when I didn't. cused him of being sexist. SEE 'PRESIDENT SAYS' ON p AGE 2 Mudslinging reigns in Liberal, NDP adored, Greens Conservative camp.aigns abhorred in NL BY KATIE HYSLOP BY ALEX BILL nee in St John's East. "What you also find is that when you have a strong The two most prominent politi­ In a campaign highlighted by a tight NDP caucus that is ready to fight for cal parties are fighting dirtier than race between the Conservatives and Newfoundland and Labrador- even ever in their efforts to win the Jan. Liberals, the New Democratic Party in this case, when we didn't have a sit­ 23 election. and Green Party are doing every­ ting member - you get results." The Liberal party has been in pow­ thing they can to ensure the voters The positive atmosphere the lo­ er for 13 years, one ofthe longest terms know they still matter. cal NDP candidates have adopted in Canadian history. But, their minor­ Although the NDP picked up five does not follow in the Green Party ity government was defeated by a non­ seats in the last election and almost camp. The party is likely to lose votes confidence vote on Nov. 28. doubled their total number of votes, in the province after they came out The Conservative party, a fusion of they lost a number of close races to with an anti-seal hunt stance, an es­ the former Progressive Conservative Conservatives in Western Canada, pecially devastating move consid­ and Canadian Alliance parties, is seen particularly Saskatchewan and ering their weakest showing in the by some as the only alternative to a British Columbia. last election was in Newfoundland corrupt government, but by others as The Green Party is looking to elect and Labrador. a party that practices American-style their first MPs following an excep­ The seal hunt platform was an­ conservative politics. tional 2004 campaign. The Greens nounced during Harris's campaign "We have to make sure that we finished with 4.3 per cent of the stop in the province. He used a sim­ don't have an American-style gov­ vote in that election and are poll­ ilar tactic by waiting until his ap­ ernment, and that's one of the issues ing over five per cent so far in this pearance in Calgary to declare that that we have with the Conservative campaign. the party supports the abolition of party is that they do have a lot of the However, not all is well in the oil subsidies. American-style values and tax relief," Green world. Party leader Jim Harris The seal hunt announcement met said Siobhan Coady, Liberal candidate has come under fire from other par­ immediate disapproval from the lo­ for St John's South - Mount Pearl. ty insiders, including several promi­ cal population and prompted the "I think most Newfoundlanders nent members of the party who have resignation of campaign organizer are very much in favour ofsocial pro­ resigned. One of the most commonly Lori-Ann Martino and Labrador can­ gramming, they're very much in fa­ cited concerns is that Harris is mov­ didate Jane McGillivray. vour of human rights, and you're not ing the party to the right. '] think any Newfoundlander seeing that from the big-C conserva­ "These are not the Greens of would look straight at [that] and be tives in Ottawa. They're not progres­ JANVATC H ER Europe," said St John's South - Mount able to see that this party does not sive, and I think that's a huge differ­ Liberal candidate Siobhan Coady campaigns on campus before the Young Pearl NDP candidate Peg Norman. represent them," Martino told the entiation for people to make around Liberals debate night at The Breezeway. Fellow Liberals Paul Antle and The NDP are trying to emphasize CBC. the province." Ken Dryden also attended the event. the point that Jim Harris is a former Five of the seven candidates in According to the parties, the big is­ Conservative and has surrounded the province for the Green Party do sues in this campaign are childcare, "Canada may elect the most pro­ duced jobs in Newfoundland and himself with former Conservative not even live in Newfoundland and healthcare, the military, party corrup­ American leader in the Western Labrador by moving federal jobs to and Reform Party staffers. Regaining Labrador and will not campaign. It tion, gun violence, and tax cuts. These world. Harper is pro-Iraq, anti-Kyoto, other provinces and decreasing mili­ some of the votes lost to the Green makes sense for the Greens to leave are outlined in both parties' nation­ and socially conservative. Bush's new tary presence in the province. Ifelect ­ Party in the last election could be them on the ballot, however, as the al ad campaigns, which have shift­ best friend is the poster boy for his for­ ed, Conservatives promise to create crucial for the NDP, especially in rid­ party receives $1.75 for every vote cast ed styles from outlining the party's eign leader." jobs by increasing military representa­ ings like the Northwest Territories in their favour. The party is using this strengths to exploiting the opposi­ Loyola Hearn, Conservative can­ tion in the army base of 5-wing Goose where the NDP lost by only 54 votes technique across the country. Their tion's weaknesses. didate for St John's South - Mount Bay, returning federal jobs to the prov­ in 2004. candidate in the Yukon will be in Conservative television ads feature Pearl, defends his party's negative ince, and reopening the weather of­ In Newfoundland and Labrador, New Zealand for the entire election repeating sound clips from Liberal campaigning. fice in Gander. neither party stands much chance campaign and election night. leader Paul Martin saying "the Liberal "Sometimes people have to be re­ But, the Liberals say they have cut of stealing a seat from the Liberals For the NDP, the challenge will party is not corrupt," actors portray­ minded not only why they should unemployment, eliminated the na­ or Conservatives, with the excep­ be preventing their voters from get­ ing disgruntled Canadian voters, and vote for you, which we did in previ­ tional deficit, and put Canada at the tion of Norman in St John's South. ting scared of Stephen Harper, who Conservative leader Stephen Harper ous ads, but why you shouldn't con­ top of the G8 countries in terms of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians currently holds a lead in the polls, criticizing the Liberals. tinue to support the party or the gov­ its economy. traditionally vote Liberal outside St and voting Liberal to ensure the Liberal ads use newspaper ernment," said Hearn. "When we took over from the John's and Conservative within the Conservatives do not take power. quotes to bolster their opinion "The main reason this government Conservatives in 1993, it was horrif­ city, something Jack Layton has en­ They have done this so far by that Conservatives would practice was brought down was because the ic," said Coady. couraged voters not to repeat. pointing out that the NDP, not the American-style governing. Their most proof that was given from the Gomery "The International Monetary Fund "It turns out that you can have Liberals, were often the second-place recent ad features menacing portraits condition ..