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ISSUE 02006/09/14 VOLUME2 61 INSIDE 02 News 06 Comments 09 Diversions 10 Features 12 Arts & Culture uniter.ca 18 Listings » 21 Sports N THE WEB O [email protected] » E-MAIL E 02 U SS I L. 61 L. 61 vo 2006 14, SEPT DENT WEEKLY U BEEFED-UP BIZ 02 DOWNTOWN PATROLS GRANTED MORE POWER INNIPEG ST INNIPEG W O-WEEK SHIRTS SHREDDED! F STUDENTS NARROWLY ESCAPE FELINE FASHION CRITIC O 09 CATALYTIC COMMENTARY OR CONCRETE COMPLIANCE PUBLIC ART ON PORTAGE IS EITHER BOTH, OR NEITHER ERSITY 11 V NI U THIN AIR TURNS TEN A SNEAK PREVIEW OF Winnipeg’s best-KNOwn writer’s festiVAL HE 16 T ♼ September 14, 2006 The Uniter contact: [email protected] 02 NEWS UNITER STAFF NEWS EDITOR: RICHARD LIEBRECHT SENIOR REPORTER: DEREK LESCHASIN NEWS EDITOR: WHITNEY LIGHT E-MAIL: [email protected] E-MAIL: [email protected] E-MAIL: [email protected] MANAGING EDITOR News Jo Snyder » [email protected] BUSINess MANAGER James D. Patterson » [email protected] Beefed-Up BIZ Patrol to Hit Downtown this Fall NEWS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR Richard Liebrecht » [email protected] DEREK LESCHASIN in the downtown,” says Helgason. “These vide training for the Outreach Patrol in en- News PRODUCTION EDITOR SENIOR REPORTER people would have more time than police forcing the IPDA, says Joyal. Whitney Light » [email protected] officers who would tend to deal with things as emergency crisis situations all the time.” COMMENTS EDITOR tarting this fall, Downtown BIZ Patrol The Social Planning Council, a think-tank Brad Hartle » [email protected] members will train for community and advocacy group for urban Winnipeg I don’t know how outreach and be granted the power to issues, is one of the partner organizations in DIVERSIONS EDITOR S Matt Cohen » [email protected] enforce the Intoxicated Persons Detention the initiative. accountable police are. Act (IPDA) in a bid to increase safety in As it stands, the BIZ Patrol can only ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR Winnipeg’s downtown. remove intoxicated people from the street if The BIZ... have shown Mike Lewis » [email protected] The six to eight patrol members in- the individuals in question ask them for as- volved in the program - called Outreach sistance. Joyal argues that this is a problem, themselves to be sensitive LISTINGS COORDINATOR Patrol - will have special Constable status to not just for the safety of passers-by, but for Nick Weigeldt » [email protected] deal with intoxicated people. The status in- the safety of street people as well. He cites to community issues.” cludes the power to detain troublemakers the extreme temperatures in winter and SPORTS EDITOR Mike Pyl » [email protected] and deliver them to shelters or police when summer, and the fact that “when you leave – RICK JOYAL appropriate. But Rick Joyal, Manager of them there, they’re prone to being victim- COPY & STYLE EDITOR Safety and Development at the Downtown ized by others as well. That’s sometimes Brendan Johns » [email protected] BIZ, says the program will be geared more what people forget to take into account.” The Outreach Patrol also has the sup- towards building relationships with and pro- Joyal also notes that in some cases, port of Mayor Sam Katz, and will receive PHOTO EDITOR viding support to street people who may be street people have expressed a preference to funding from all three levels of government. Natasha Peterson [email protected] » alcoholics or drug users. deal with the Patrol rather than the police. “We have serious problems in our city, and “Part of our outreach program... is to “We haven’t heard of… any of the out- it takes serious people to solve those prob- SENIOR REPORTER also work with them to see if we can help reach people agressing or beating people lems,” said Katz in an interview last month. Derek Leschasin » [email protected] them some way, get them to a place that can up,” says Helgason. “I don’t know how ac- He noted that the new initiative by the BIZ STAFF RepORTER get them back into employment,” says Joyal. countable police are. The BIZ... have shown complements the Aggressive Panhandling Kenton Smith » [email protected] “How can we connect them to housing, how themselves to be sensitive to community By-Law, which was passed by City Council can we connect them to employment or issues. Police, not so.” last year. Federal, Provincial and Municipal BEAT RepORTER health services?” If a case of alleged abuse from an government will provide over $1 million for Ksenia Prints » [email protected] Joyal believes the BIZ can lessen the Outreach Patrol member arises, Joyal says the Outreach Patrol through the Winnipeg strain on the city’s emergency crews if the that the police would be brought in, depend- Partnership Agreement. BEAT RepORTER Patrol can deal with individuals passed out ing on the allegation. And in other cases, the The initiative is a pilot project and will Michelle Dobrovolny » [email protected] on the street instead of making 911 calls. Patrol is ultimately accountable to the Board run for up to four years. Training is scheduled Wayne Helgason, Executive Director of Directors, which includes local business to begin in late October, with the Outreach PRODUCTION MANAGER & GRAPHICS EDITOR Sarah Sangster » [email protected] of the Winnipeg Social Planning Council, leaders as well as Councillor Jenny Gerbasi. Patrol tentatively planned to hit the streets agrees. “Police times… are lacking especially The Winnipeg Police Service will pro- in November, according to Joyal. THIS WEEK ’ S CONTRIBUTORS Dan Huyghebaert, Ben MacPhee-Sigurdson, Jennifer Sacco, Mykael Sopher, Daniel Fallon, Brooke Dmytriw, Better late than never: Mission Off the Streets Michael Banias, Renee K. Kilburn, Dustin Addison- Schneider, Thomas Asselin, Kalen Qually, Dan Verville JENNIFER SACCO The Uniter is the official student newspaper of the University of Winnipeg and is published by Mouseland Press Inc. iloam Mission and Downtown Biz an- Mouseland Press Inc. is a membership based organization nounced they will team up to provide in which students and community members are invited to participate. For more information on how to become a an initial six homeless people with member go to www.uniter.ca, or call the office at 786-9790. S The Uniter is a member of the Canadian University Press and employment and skill development to help Campus Plus Media Services. them integrate into society. SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES, LETTERS, GRAPHICS AND In Winnipeg there are approximately PHOTOS ARE WELCOME. Articles must be submitted in text (.rtf) or Microsoft Word (.doc) format to [email protected], 2000 homeless people; Mission off the or the relevant section editor. Deadline for submissions is 6:00 p.m. Thursday, one week before publication. Streets (MOST) is an attempt to gradually Deadline for advertisements is noon Friday, six days prior to reduce this number. publication. The Uniter reserves the right to refuse to print submitted material. The Uniter will not print submissions that are homophobic, misogynistic, racist, or libellous. We also reserve the right to edit for length and/or style. Dan Ingalls from CONTACT US » General Inquiries: 204.786.9790 Siloam Mission has as- Advertising: 204.786.9779 Editors: 204.786.9497 Fax: 204.783.7080 pired to create a program Email: [email protected] LOCATION » for some time, but lack of Room ORM14 University of Winnipeg 515 Portage Avenue resources caused delay.” Siloam Mission works to provide people with not only beds, but life skills PHOTO: NATASHA PETERSON Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9 The program’s total cost of $65,000 will various tasks such as gardening, cleaning up are essential in order to keep them integrated be spread over next the four months; $45,000 garbage, and removing or installing signs. in society, adding that “if you send them off COVER IMAGE is allocated for management salaries, and the The process is gradual; the hours increase into the workforce too quickly, it will only COVER ART BY BOJAN OTASEVIC remaining $20,000 will be spent on salaries with time in order to ease the transition into result in a burn-out, and then they're back on to employ the six homeless. Ingalls intends the work force. the streets.” Partnering with the Downtown The printmaker from Kragujevac focuses his massive lithographies on the human face and its direct to increase the number of employees by four In addition to employment, MOST Biz is not only beneficial to the program fi- communication with the viewer, thus opening the field for psychoanalytic critics who wish to explore the times over the next year; this would increase works on developing the person as a whole nancially, he says, but it also provides con- phenomenon of an artwork returning the gaze of the the program’s cost to at least $260,000. by teaching many skills that are essential in nections for future employment. audience. His work, along with several other artists, can be viewed at the Ken Segal Gallery’s exhibit: The Global MOST is a lifestyle change more than every day life. They include financial man- Ingalls also added that many down- Village” until Sept 30th. anything else it provides homeless people agement, behavior, hygiene, and communi- town businesses have been calling following The Ken Segal Gallery is located at 433 River Ave. with employment in the downtown by cation in the work place. the media release on September 5, however paying them minimum wage to complete Ingalls feels that the tools they will learn nobody has committed yet. contact: [email protected] The Uniter September 14, 2006 NEWS 03 Inner city housing better rented than owned, says report ASSUMPTIONS DRaw CRITICISM FROM HABITAT Canadian RICHARD LIEBRECHT & World NEWS PRODUCTION EDITOR NEWS BRIEFS report released this summer by the COMPILED BY BROOKE DMYTRIW Manitoba branch of the Canadian A Centre for Policy Alternatives that spurns housing programs that lead to home ownership is drawing criticism from Habitat for Humanity.

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