Windsor on Bikes

Turn To page 2 Turn To page 7 Turn To page 9 Slut pride hits Windsor Windsor regiment goes to Borden Fratmen fight for playoff spot Volume VIII I ssue II www .conVergedcITIzen .com sepTember 28, 2012 e H T CONVERGED CITIZEN TD Canada Trust goes green Photo by Rick Dawes Ryan Rusich, 36, holds his bike inside of St. Clair’s Ford Centre for Excellence in Manufacturing, on Sept. 21. Rusich commutes 10-12km daily and clocks nearly 1,000 km a season on his bike. Rusich has been a crib technician at the college for six years and has been a dedicated bike commuter for the last three. Windsor on bikes Rick Dawes Because of a growing interest Citizen Staff Reporter in riding rather than driving, Photo by Madison Jean the Wellness Committee Jahn Essex Region Conservation Authority employees teach volunteers how to properly plant a tree In response to growing sits on identified this clinic as along the manmade lake off Florence Avenue in Windsor Sept. 15. cycling culture, the city’s post- a need. Along with organizing Madison Jean and it was fun doing it with to the community and help the secondary institutions are “Lunch and learns” Jahn’s job Citizen Staff Reporter people we work with,” said environment, said Trehan. encouraging faculty and stu - includes promoting health and Synnott. ERCA helps manage the nat - dents to make the change from wellness among staff. cars to handle bars. “If employees want to bike TD Canada Trust employees Manish Trehan is a financial ural resources of the Essex St. Clair College and the the college wants them to be are giving back to the environ - advisor with TD. He said the region. They helped TD by University of Windsor held safe and aware of laws per - ment one tree at a time. experience was great and he supplying all 388 trees that are informational day clinics on taining to bicycles,” said Jahn. On Sept. 15, 55 volunteers, enjoyed giving back to the indigenous to the area, as well their respective campuses. The The City of Windsor website including TD employees community. Trehan is also act - as a truck load of mulch. college held its event Sept. 21, reports a drop in total vehicle across Windsor, family mem - ing as a green co-coordinator ERCA has many events and and the university had a three kilometres around town from bers, friends and customers for his branch. education classes that help the day event, Sept. 18-20. Topics 2.4 billion in 2007 to 2.3 bil - got together and planted trees. “I make sure that the branch community get out and make covered at both campuses lion in 2010, and a survey con - With help from the Essex adheres to TD's policies and the environment healthier. included Highway Traffic Act ducted by the Odette School Region Conservation commitment towards various Their goal is to achieve a sections pertaining to bikes, of Business shows nearly Authority, participants planted environmental initiatives. As a balanced environment by road safety, bike maintenance three-quarters of those sur - a total of 388 trees along the green co-coordinator I am also 2020. They will do this with and a helmet fitting check by veyed want to see more bike manmade lake off Florence responsible for organizing the help from healthy watersheds, Bike Safe Windsor Essex. paths. The 2010 survey Avenue. annual TD (Friends of the emphasized by clean creeks Personal fitness, financial sav - included 200 participants over Nancy Synnott, manager of Environment) Campaign and rivers, growing natural ings and reducing pollution the age of 15. financial services, was accom - which raises money for vari - areas and agricultural lands. were common reasons to pick The University campus’s two wheels over four for three-day event was sponsored panied by her husband Norm. ous green initiatives within Brooke Wilson, a volunteer attendees. by the Centre for Studies in Synnott said they planted Windsor (and) Essex County,” and employee of TD Canada Linda Jahn, a registered Social Justice and the around 20 trees together. said Trehan. Trust, said she’s never experi - nurse at St. Clair’s main cam - Womyn’s Centre, both located “The best part of the tree With help from the FEF, TD enced anything like this, pus, has organized previous planting is that we were doing Canada Trust is trying to where a “bunch of people get “Lunch and Learns” for staff, something good for the envi - become known as the “Green together and make the envi - but never on bike safety. Turn To page 4 ronment and the community Branch” where they give back ronment a better place.” CONVERGED CITIZEN sepTember 28, 2012 NEWS page 2 .. Slut pride hits Windsor designer Justin Forsyth said there is a lot of history to com - pete with to change this mean - ing and suggests a different approach. “A parade of strong, well- Photo by Rick Dawes dressed, conservative and A City of Windsor parking powerful women calling enforcement worker issues a ticket Sept. 27. Fines for park - themselves sluts would be a ing violations will increase feat heard loud and clear,” said Oct. 1. Forsyth. “That would be tak - ing actual steps to re-appropri - ate the word properly by giv - ing it a more positive inflec - Parking tion.” Forsyth said as politically incorrect as Sanguinetti’s fines set remarks might appear they do Photo by Maciejka Gorzelnik hold some truth and value. He A group of protestors led by Jacqueline St. Pierre marches down Wyandotte Street East Sept. 22 said just as someone who in support of Windsor’s second annual Slutwalk. to increase leaves valuables in their car is Maciejka Gorzelnik against them when persecut - First year travel and tourism not asking to have their car Rob Benneian Citizen Staff Reporter ing rapists,” said Wildwood. student and Slutwalk support - broken into, a scantily clad Citizen Staff Reporter “A secondary goal is to stop er, Natalie Diamante, says the woman is not asking to get For years women worldwide slut shaming which is shaming term slut should be embraced sexually assaulted. To avoid Fines for parking violations have feared being called a women about their sexuality.” and double standards be done someone doing something bad in Windsor are set to increase “slut” but recently many have While giving a speech at away with. to you or your property, Oct. 1, marking the city's first been wearing that badge with York University in January “People aren’t comfortable Forsyth said precautions fine increase since 2004. pride. 2011, Toronto Police Const. calling themselves a slut or should be taken. Fines will increase from $15 Windsor’s second Slutwalk Michael Sanguinetti said really accepting the slut cul - The Sultwalk is still a fairly to $17 for parking violations at meters and in city lots. The was held Sept. 22. A group of “Women should avoid dress - ture,” said Diamante. “They new concept. St. Pierre said increase is part of the 2012 about 50 men and women ing like sluts in order not to be see being a slut as a negative the message is clear to some budget established by the city. marched through downtown to but not to others. As the cause victimized.” A few months thing whereas we’re trying to Four violations will be raise awareness for their grows, it will also evolve but later the Slutwalk was born. show people there’s nothing affected by this change: park - the bottom line will remain the cause. Organizers Mag With chants such as “My wrong with being a slut and ing with a fee payment in Wildwood and Jacqueline St. dress is not a yes” and “No there’s nothing wrong with same default, parking at a meter Pierre said the Slutwalk’s means no,” it would seem the promiscuity.” “It’s really quite simple,” where time has expired, park - main goal is to initiate change. message was clear and con - The term slut pertains to a said St. Pierre. “If someone ing at a meter that is out of “A woman’s sexual history cise. But the terminology and sexually promiscuous woman doesn’t want to be touched, order and shows "FAIL" and or perceived sexual history subject matter are not without and dates back approximately don’t touch them.” parking at a meter that has no should not be used as evidence controversy. 600 years. Local graphic display or reads blank. Windsor's manager of traffic operations, John Wolf, said the city issued its greatest number Modernizing downtown is priority one of tickets for parking offences in 2003, prompting the fine Adam El-Baba plished. versity and college students. government, according to an increase in 2004. Citizen Staff Reporter "These ideas were not With the addition of the article on the university’s "(Tickets issued) have administrative driven . this University of Windsor’s website written by one of their steadily decreased (since With two years left in the was us sitting down, identify - music, visual arts and social students titled “Moving 2004)," Wolf said. "Last year “Six Pillar Program,” council ing our priorities, and getting work programs downtown, Downtown.” we issued around 85,000 tick - it done." said Francis. council expects another 2,000 Possible ways of connecting is now focusing on connecting ets. In the mid-2000s, they The six pillar plan targets job students in the along the university, college and the riverfront to the downtown were issuing around 110,000 and economic diversification, University Avenue area in other local facilities to the core. tickets (per year)." encouraging regional coopera - addition to the 1,000 students downtown core were also dis - Windsor’s Executive Wolf said the city collected tion, establishing the cultural from both St.

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