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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.

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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 0

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. VATICAN CITY—Pope Benedict The report, titled Inner City Housing XVI spoke out against Canada's laws that Programs and Community Economic allow same-sex marriage and abortion, Development, says the push for single- saying they result from Catholic politi- owner housing in neighborhood renewal cians ignoring the values of their religion. does a disservice to the communities it at- According to the Toronto Star, the Pope ad- tempts to help by widening social gaps be- dressed a group of bishops from Ontario on tween those who can afford housing and Sept. 8. He said such laws were the result those who can’t. Rental housing, it suggests, of “the exclusion of God from the public is the better option. sphere”. He has defended traditional family “Home ownership has a huge class el- values, making them a focus of his papacy. ement in it,” says Ian Skelton, co-author of During a trip to Spain in July, he challenged the report and professor of city planning at the liberal reforms of that country’s Socialist the University of Manitoba. “Unless there’s government, such as gay marriage and fast- some sort of special arrangement, you need track divorce. Same-sex marriage was rec- a fair amount of equity to get into it, and you ognized by Parliament last year. Prime need a fair amount of cash equity to keep it Minister Stephen Harper has pledged to going. As an owner, if the furnace goes, then hold a vote in the House of Commons later you have to take care of that. If you are a this year to determine whether the issue renter, then that cost is spread among other should be revisited. renters.” The report adds that these costs demand too much from the budgets of low- VANCOUVER—The Dalai Lama income earners. was in Canada for a three-day visit to pro- Michelle Nyhof, media relations coor- mote an educational centre bearing his dinator for Habitat for Humanity Winnipeg, name. The Dalai Lama Center for Peace says her organization’s program is designed and Education, scheduled to open in 2009, to address the financial pressure on low- Photo: Natasha Peterson will be the first of its kind in the world. The income earners by capping mortgage costs Canadian government has offered to grant at 25 percent of their income, including util- the 71-year-old spiritual leader honourary ities and insurance. She says Habitat’s work, would live and draw their income from the sell, given the right opportunity. citizenship; he is only the third person to in fact, closes social gaps. immediate area. “You could go through the The ownership model’s momentum, receive the honour. The CBC reported that “The equity that our families earn by basis of power and oppression in society, says Skelton, comes from mid-90s’ govern- while in Vancouver, the Dalai Lama will par- making mortgage payments is the key to get- and see that those are represented in the ment spending decisions and public sup- ticipate in a series of public discussions ting out of that cycle of poverty, and it has a market. So, what we need to do is develop port of individualism in approaches to hous- about how to bring peace, tolerance and ripple effect on generations to follow,” says ways of relating to each other that doesn’t ing. “In a previous period, there were ongo- compassion into people’s daily lives. He Nyhof. “Our Habitat children are more likely embrace those relationships.” ing subsidies and there haven’t been for was last in B.C. in April 2004, as part of a to go to university, more likely to accomplish rentals…since the early 90s. It kind of made Canadian tour. the things that middle-class, upper-class sense to people in terms of budget cuts people take for granted.” Home ownership has and such that people were talking about GREAT BRITAIN—British Premier Skelton defends renting by focusing in those days, not that in itself social hous- Tony Blair has announced he will resign as on a larger picture of community wealth a huge class element in it” ing amounted to very much, but it was con- prime minister within the next year. Internal creation, seeing housing as part of a whole sistent with a sentiment that had a certain party criticism has forced the PM to re-eval- community approach called Community – Ian Skelton amount of widespread appeal that govern- uate his leadership. Until last Thursday, Economic Development. ment shouldn't be involved in social hous- Blair had indicated he would serve a full “CED is talking about building differ- ing…a turn toward neo-liberal thinking.” third term as prime minister, allowing a new ent kinds of relationships among people Nyhof gives examples, however, of The report does not call for specific party leader plenty of time to settle into the which prevail in the marketplace and pre- Habitat owners who contribute greatly to action, but Skelton says that only govern- position before the next election, likely in vail in other areas of life,” says Skelton. He their community and choose to stay there, ment can ultimately create social rental 2009. The Associated Press reported that suggests a socialist model of the community challenging the reports’ claim that home- housing, either through state-run programs two days of government turmoil and talk of that would create a micro economy; people owners in renewal neighbourhoods would or funding of community organizations. attempted coups pushed Blair to make the statement last week, after an intense power struggle with his primary rival, Gordon Brown, Britain’s finance minister. The battle, reminiscent of the Canadian one that pitted Paul Martin against prime minister Jean Chrétien, threatens to tear the government apart and ruin the Labour Party’s chances in the next election.

BEIRUT—Israel lifted the naval blockade on Lebanese waters Sept. 8, bringing two months of isolation in Lebanon to an end. The economic ravages of the bombings and the blockade are estimated to cost the Lebanese government $1 billion, according to the New York Times. Israel had formally lifted its air blockade late on Sept. 7, leading to a steady stream of commercial planes landing at Beirut’s international airport. French ships had already been stationed off- shore, and Greek, British, and Italian ships were expected to arrive within days to mon- itor Lebanon’s coast until German ships arrive and take over in mid-September. Photo: Natasha Peterson Photo: Natasha Peterson

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Fee increases are reasonable says U of W Admin association fees are up, ranging from $595 lease. “More federal inaction will only keep to $619. post-secondary education out of reach for Ksenia Prints talking about $3,000 for your tuition… $225 International students, however, seem thousands of students.” BEAT REPORTER is nearing on the cost of a full half-course”. to be the hardest hit. On top of compulsory Sjoberg holds the provincial govern- Stephen Willetts, U of W vice-president fee increases, they're “paying 125 per cent ment responsible. “We used to be the leader of Finance and Administration, disagrees. “I more than Canadian students,” says Sjoberg. and provinces were following along… and at n 2006, Canadian students shelled out At the U of M, she continues, “international this point we've fallen behind”. She believes an average of $4,347 for university, a rise students are paying 180 percent more than there is still much work left for the provin- I of 3.2 percent since 2005, reports Stats Full time students Canadian students, and there was the same cial government, such as freezing and elim- Canada. Last year’s 1.8 per cent increase was type of ancillary fee increase.” inating ancillary fees, freezing international the lowest in a decade. Since 2000 and the are paying $225 more than Willetts says international students' students' fees, decreasing tuition, and in- tuition freeze, the annual increase averages face higher fees because they don't pay creasing capital grants for schools. “We're at 3.9 percent – far less than the previous av- they did two years ago” taxes. “We have to consider the costs and waiting for the federal government to step erage of 15.2 percent. effects which all students are bearing, and up, but you never know when that's going to In Manitoba, the average tuition for – Kate Sjoberg look at a more equitable contribution from happen,” she says. 2006 is $3,338, up only 0.2 percent from last international students.” Willetts attributes the fee increases to year; it is the third lowest in Canada. In Nova But Amanda Aziz, chairwoman of the lack of funding. “One of the issues we face Scotia students are paying $6,571. think the rise is very small, and reflects the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), be- in Manitoba is the continuing lack of invest- Kate Sjoberg, UWSA president, clarifies policy of the government with regards to the lieves it is the federal government's respon- ment… [but] we are really appreciative for that the increase “hasn't been in tuition, but tuition freeze.” Ancillary fees, he says, “went sibility to avoid such rises. “The federal the level of funding we receive… from the in ancillary fees.” directly back to student services, which government was compelled… to freeze or provincial government”. “Full time students are paying $225 Kate well knows, and went into bursary and reduce tuition fees, but the prime minister Next year, Sjoberg plans to continue the more than they did two years ago,” she says, scholarship programs.” Campus security has failed to deliver… Prime Minister Harper fight. Willetts plans to “maintain a high qual- adding that she is unsure what ancillary fees initiatives also benefited from the money. must share the blame for every tuition fee ity of education”; whether that means more do. “Those are substantial increases if you're Nationally, compulsory fees such as student hike this fall,” Aziz said in a recent press re- fee increases remains to be seen. Campus & Community Layton: Afghanistan ‘the wrong mission for Canada’ Briefs NDP leader sits down with the McGill Daily

Civic election update whatever irrational motivation to take it How do you respond to this? Mayoral candidates Kaj Hasselriis and Drew Nelles out and shoot someone. I want to send a Ron Pollock will take on incumbent Sam Katz in The McGill Daily (McGill University) very strong message on that. JL: First of all, we were the first party Winnipeg’s upcoming civic election. to come out in favour of an unconditional Katz, who was elected in the 2004 by-elec- MD: During the Israeli invasion of ceasefire. We also expressed our concerns tion with 42 percent of the vote, is largely expected MONTREAL (CUP) -- Federal NDP Lebanon, some activists accused the NDP about not only the Canadians who were to win. His biggest threat is Hasselriis, a community leader Jack Layton was in Montreal to of being too slow in calling for a cease- there, but the civilians who were being activist and former CBC reporter who remains rela- prepare for his party’s 2006 convention, fire and, initially at least, only being con- attacked on either side. We continue to tively unknown to the electorate, despite a summer taking place in Quebec City from Sept. cerned about the safety of Canadians. hold to that view -- in fact, we called for of campaigning. 8-10. He sat down with the McGill Daily Hasselriis is gearing his campaign towards to talk about imperialism, accessible ed- youth; he opposed Katz’s cancellation of plans ucation, and why his party is relevant in for Bus Rapid Transit. In addition to reviving BRT, Quebec. Hasselriis’s platform includes eliminating the business tax, creating more green space, and revitalis- McGill Daily: Is Canada acting as an ing Winnipeg’s downtown. Hasselriis has a degree imperialist force in Afghanistan? in Women’s studies from the University of Manitoba, and a journalism degree from Ryerson. Jack Layton: I don’t know what ad- Pollock is a paralegal who has recently jective is appropriate, but I do know that come under investigation for allegedly practising it’s the wrong mission for Canada. It’s law without proper credentials. He hosted a cable not, in our view -- and I believe in many access TV show in the 80s with his sister, Natalie Canadians’ view -- the way to ultimately Pollock, who was a mayoral candidate in 2004 earn- achieve peace. Human rights and de- ing just over 400 votes. mocracy in Afghanistan? What you see Election Day is Wednesday, October 25. there right now is about as far from peace, human rights, and democracy as you can U of W finishes restorations find. We should be withdrawing [from This year’s returning students were greeted southern Afghanistan], and trying to use with a beautifully restored Wesley Hall after two our diplomatic abilities and influences to years in the making. The building has undergone ex- try to engineer a process of comprehen- tensive work, and now looks just like it did in 1888. sive peace in that whole region. Parking problems have also not gone unno- ticed. Ellice Street in front of Lockhart Hall now has MD: In the last election, you advo- a pick-up area and loading zone, after many near cated the use of mandatory minimum sen- accidents. Students awaiting a ride home can do so tencing for gun crimes -- a position similar near a small road segment that connects Ellice and to those of the other parties -- despite the Balmoral. fact that even Justice Department lawyers Changes abound at the back of Duckworth have warned that mandatory minimums on Young street. Plans were made early last winter have “no discernable benefits” for public to turn a small "no parking" area with two waste safety. Why did the NDP choose to forego dumps into a garden. Those plans were stopped, more progressive actions to combat crime however, and a temporary parking lot was paved. in favour of mandatory minimums? Now Spence and Young streets are connected via a one-way road, and the two waste dumps are back. JL: [Mandatory minimum sentenc- Last, a puzzling change in Lockhart Hall: the ing] was there, but we proposed a $100- graffiti covered cafeteria that served as a reading million, youth-at-risk investment an- room for many students last year has been covered nually. There’s no other party that came in brown wrapping-paper. Its windows are blocked close to that kind of thing. We wanted to and its doors are closed. Some snooping uncov- see investments in young people, but we ered that it is temporarily closed off and being used haven’t got a lot of patience and tolerance by the bookstore for storage. for someone who is going to walk down the street with a gun and be provoked by contact: [email protected] The Uniter September 14, 2006 NEWS 0

Jack Layton spoke with the McGill Daily last week in Montreal CUP FILE PHOTO

Parliament to be reconvened as a matter large vote. That’s more votes than we got of urgency. The Prime Minister wouldn’t in Manitoba and Saskatchewan com- respond. bined. So we’re certainly not anywhere close to being irrelevant. Are our policies MD: The NDP’s proposed in sync with how Quebeckers feel? I would Postsecondary Education Act would say, very strongly, yes. Are we communi- guarantee the provinces federal funding cating them effectively enough? I would for education in exchange for increased say no, but it’s changing. access and reduced tuition fees, but what exactly does “increased access” mean? MD: Activists, human-rights organizations and major NGOs have criti- JL: You need to have some flexibility cized Canada’s role in Haiti, where RCMP- on that because it’s a provincial respon- trained police forces have commit- sibility. What we’re suggesting is using the ted massacres and major human-rights federal spending power and some persua- abuses. Beyond a few concerns expressed sion to try to improve access. That incor- by Alexa McDonough in 2005, the NDP porates moving away from the solution has remained silent on these issues. Why? that seems to focus on loaning more and more money to students. How precisely JL: Our opinion now is that a simple that’s done in each province, I don’t think withdrawal form the situation would not the federal government should prescribe. be a helpful position for Canada to take, that it’s better to stay alert to the obser- MD: The NDP has consistently failed vations that are being made, raising those to gain seats in Quebec. Do you think the when it’s appropriate in either the House NDP is irrelevant in this province? or the Standing Committee [on Foreign Affairs]. We’re now in a context where JL: Well, 280,000 people in the last Canada ought to be able to play a positive election didn’t [think so]. That’s a very role there. September 14, 2006 The Uniter contact: [email protected] 0 EDITORIALS

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Divided we stand, sort of, we’re not really sure

bring some perspective to Canadians. He a room somewhere and talking about peace. Afghan people don’t perceive the United urged us last week to remember that insur- JO SNYDER It’s still not totally clear to me what that States Army as liberators of the country, gents were Afghani people too. MANAGING EDITOR means. How does that assuage the fear that therefore Canada shouldn’t be too closely If we think about the genesis of the the Taliban will increase the amount of area allied with them. war as far as popular opinion is concerned, that it has control over, and then the country But Harper has a different spin on though not the real beginning, it’s 9/11. This Over two different dinners this past will revert to the position it was in five years our allied involvement in the war. He pur- is an event that remains burned full of facts week with two different sets of people, one ago when children couldn’t go to school and ports that terrorism must be eradicated in in people’s minds and at the same time is young couple, one middle aged couple, all women weren’t entitled to any freedom at Afghanistan if there is to be any foundation susceptible to postmodern conspiracy theo- white and middle class (it has to be said) the all? And forget about democracy. How do on which to build a stable nation. Women ries adding further to our true lack of knowl- topic of Jack Layton’s five priorities came up. we prevent that from happening without an have more rights now than before, he says, edge and uncomfortable uncertainty. Are we The discussions were centred on whether army, said one friend, who, I’m pretty sure, children are going to school, and this is objectively able to determine facts? And, are or not Layton’s idea to pull troops out of still votes NDP. all due to our combined presence in the our politicians able to present them to us? Afghanistan is totally crazy, or exactly what However, in part I agree with Mr. Layton country. Will Canadian opinions slowly change as we Canadians need and want. when he says that there is too much of a This debate between people of the same feel the siege of terrorist attacks, as they hit Jack Layton’s position is essentially that focus on fighting insurgents and not enough political ilk says to me that we don’t actually closer to home, as plots incubate in our com- we should start pulling out troops now, and time spent on development and diplomacy. know or fully understand Canada’s position munities? Then what kind of people will we finish by February. The party largely sup- As argued by Malalai Joya, a member of the in Afghanistan. And though after a Harper be? Maybe the eternal struggle for a strong ports him, 92 percent. But the five percent Afghan National Assembly at the NDP con- speech it feels like the nation is slowly slid- Canadian national identity will override any who vocally don’t support him raised the vention last week, Canadian troops need to ing south of the border, we’re not totally will- unified position on the war. Or maybe Jack question that was on the minds of my dinner distinguish themselves from that of their ing to give up our uniquely ambiguous posi- Layton and Malalai Joya have a point. Maybe mates this week—then what? American counterparts. I’m assuming the tion and jump on board with Layton. the “them and us”, “face of evil”, or what Then what happens? way to do this would be to engage in the But maybe the problem is that we don’t Edward Said refers to as “false universals” Peace talks are at the heart of Layton’s kinds of peacekeeping activities that Layton have enough information. Maybe next week’s will obstruct useful thinking, so we should game plan, coordinating the warring sides in is alluding too. From Joya’s perspective, visit by Afghan President Hamid Karzai will forge our own path.

It's time to get serious about secularism

BRAD HARTLE of the way private allegiances, such as faith, guished, then ripped from their backs. Manji, Salman Rushdie, Bernard-Henri Lévy, COMMENTS EDITOR manifest publicly. To embrace them, to hug them like a and others – state, When a religion propels its followers friend would a friend, would only enraged “We refuse to renounce our criti- to open a food bank, or a discount clothing them. For, it is in our tolerance of these pro- cal spirit out of fear of being accused of store, or an employment resource centre, we grams, our willingness to embrace a mul- “Islamophobia”, an unfortunate concept On the day when crime puts on the need not be all that concerned. The reason titude of difference, that these totalitarian which confuses criticism of Islam as a reli- apparel of innocence, through a curious being is these public manifestations of reli- programs find reason to kill us. gion with stigmatisation of its believers. reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence gion do nothing to threaten the fundamen- As the authors of “Unite Against Terror” We plead for the universality of free- that is called on to justify itself. tal freedoms, freedom of belief for instance, note, dom of expression, so that a critical spirit of those within a liberal democracy. People “These terrorists do not hate what is may be exercised on all continents, against Albert Camus – The Rebel can go to the food bank if they need, get a worst in the societies they attack, but what all abuses and all dogmas. meal, maybe hear a sermon, but in the end is best. They despise individual liberty, criti- We appeal to democrats and free spirits Last week, this paper printed an arti- their personal allegiances are up to them – cal thought, gender equality, religious toler- of all countries that our century should be one cle entitled "It’s Time to Get Serious About no coercion, no problem. ance, the rights of minorities and political of Enlightenment, not of obscurantism.” Religion and Society", written by my col- However, when public manifestations pluralism.” So, Mr. Liebrecht, you say my “logic isn’t league Richard Liebrecht. In the spirit of of religion find cause, through aggressive, And even though being critical of reli- seeing the value in a very strategic move back conversation, of debate, and of democracy, narrow, and dogmatic readings of religious gion is taboo in a society where private af- to boldly accepting and embracing faith.” I which is the very spirit of an editorial, I would texts, to obliterate the distinction between filiations are guarded for good reason, criti- say your desire to embrace religion uncrit- like to respond to his argument, which urges private and public, sacred and secular, cal scrutiny is all that a liberal society has to ically falls victim to the obscurantism cau- us to embrace religion in order to safeguard church and state, distinctions at the core weed out the totalitarians among us. tioned above, and that opening our arms to ourselves from terrorism. of any liberal democracy, and impose their The authors of the 2006 manifesto someone, simply because they wear the gar- Mr. Liebrecht argued that prior to 9/11 “immovable” viewpoint on a free political “Together Facing the New Totalitarianism” ment of faith, sets us up to be knifed in the Canada had “built a natural resistance to ex- society, then we have a problem. Think of capture this sentiment admirably. These au- back mid-embrace. tremism by doing something that may seem skyscrapers crumbling and passenger trains thors - who include Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Irshad strange to many: embracing religion and exploding if you think such an imposition is belief as legitimate and immovable view- of no concern. points in society,” and that this resistance is So, should such a political program no more because “[r]eligion is now the scary emerge, which would necessarily be a totali- element that threatens a liberal pluralist tarian one, then for the sake of our freedom, way of life: an entirely untrue assumption. the freedom which is at the heart of our sec- It is perceived as the illogic that is making ular, multicultural country, and for the sake the world seem so out of grasp for the logi- of the lives consciously not illuminated by a cal crowd.” God, a prophet or a saviour, we would have Whether or not Canada has ever em- every reason to be concerned with the reli- braced religion as an “’immovable” view- gion producing such deadly offspring, even point, whether or not a liberal democracy this concern for our infidel lives makes is even capable of embracing any viewpoint us…logical. as immovable, is not what concerns us here, However, we must make it explicit that not entirely anyway. What concerns us is the it is not religion in its entirety that we are scope of tolerance a liberal democracy, such concerned with. Rather, it is a political pro- as Canada, should show towards religion, gram clothed in the garment of faith, not and the reasons it may have for limiting the faith itself. Political programs like Al Qaeda, scope of that tolerance. Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Taliban, pro- Yes, of course, we should be tolerant grams sharing the characteristics of what has of religion; this is defined in the Charter of come to be known as Totalitarian Political Rights and Freedoms and defended by the Islam, are the ones hiding behind this ap- courts. However, we must always be critical parel; the ones who’s apparel must be distin- contact: [email protected] The Uniter September 14, 2006 COMMENTS 0

Managing Editor: Jo Snyder Comments Editor: Brad Hartle Comments E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Stepping on Winnipeg’s Spirited Energy Playing Strictly By Liberal Democratic Rules Are For Those Who Have Politicians’ Ears. Winnipeg’s Youth Are Not So Lucky

James patterson and youth cool personas to buy young votes day a month, to make a point about how our There is nothing violent about this. It is and manage internal fears than to actually roads, and not just the condition of them, active citizenship and the results are democ- address youth issues. have become one of the more problematic racy in action. lection is in the air and once we are To make a point I, begrudgingly, wish issues in our city. And to add to this civil dis- Despite Mayor’s Katz’s distain for the done debating about service issues to reflect on the well-flogged issue of critical respect they won’t take out a pass or show a tactics, critical mass participants have en- Ethe discussion will turn to the vision mass, this past summer’s ‘new black’ of civic map of where they are going. These, as well gaged issues in an election that could have for the future of our soon-to-be robust city. dialogue. This reflection is not because of as the previously mentioned celebrity cam- been mute. That would have been sad for But who is going to provide the vision to get issues like bicycle safety, or alternative trans- paigners, are in my opinion chicanery. Winnipeg in more than one way. Thankfully us there? The inclusion of youth and their portation are important (though they are). It Critical mass is a perfect indication that the inaction of our mayor helped to enact a perspectives are an integral part of the future is the perplexing public and political reac- Winnipeg’s youth are willing to step up and couple parts of his vision for Winnipeg, and of this city. It is inarguable. tion that was taken against these individuals be part of this city. It shows a vested inter- just in time for the election too. His vision in- This became an increasing central that tells a story about Winnipeg’s democ- est by youth for their community in a soci- cludes, “to put the immense energy and ide- discussion early this past summer at the racy and future. If the goals of critical mass ety that preaches that youth do not care, be- alism of our youth into action” and “youth Winnipeg Youth and Winnipeg City Summits. are bicycle safety, transportation issues, and cause they don’t vote. are the energy, vitality and future of our Mayor Katz made this assertion in a large inclusiveness then they are not at all egre- Civil disobedience is what liberal de- community. A strong and vibrant Winnipeg part of his last election platform and it’s sure gious to the concept of the healthy city en- mocracy thrives on, what created it, and what will harness this energy and give our youth to be included this time around as policy is visioned by our leaders. In fact our mayor made movements like the civil rights move- a sense of pride and ownership of their rolled out. said just the same thing in his last election ment so important to the fabric of nations. neighbourhood.” But early on in this civic election it seems pamphlets when he envisioned “Expanded The pitched nature of confrontations makes With a hype-filled civic election unfold- that the only youth perspective, at least seen, pedestrian and bicycle-rollerblade paths … it unclear if Winnipeg wants to listen to the ing and given that in the last three years the are the ones that market candidates. Those and ‘green paths’ for people to make their opinions of youth. A simple cursory look at city has gone from a sense of renewed opti- squeaky clean versions of a troubled inner- way home after work or to access major other movements shows that not having an mism to having to defend itself against Globe city youth turned Christian rapper and an public transit junctions.” I’m sure this posi- equal voice in society usually predicates this and Mail articles that portray Winnipeg neg- athletic female curler are nothing more than tion hasn’t changed. sort of disobedience. atively, it seems like a good time to real- PR tools, akin to sentinels of dialogue, that What makes the critical mass issue Despite its detractors, the rise of new ize that Winnipeg’s future is at a very real diffuse potential criticism. so perplexing is the fact that dialogue has ‘legitimate’ bike demonstrations like SPIN crossroads. The question is: Are our sup- After all, who would dare question a changed from discussion around these and a renewed public dialogue in broader posed leaders going to simply continue the candidate’s commitment to inner-city youth issues to the tactics of critical mass, to the society, these ideas are now on the agenda romantic prose of a dynamic, creative and when they have an inner-city success on detriment of civic dialogue. The PR ma- more than ever. This wouldn’t have hap- progressive city found in their think tanks, their team? Who would dare raise questions chines would make it seem like the police, pened without these youth taking the risks focus groups, branded idioms and elec- about an April incident involving female paramedics, traffic and the mayor have all that they did. These actions are simply the tion platforms or will they move to the hard Olympic athletes and a certain - feeling been held hostage by a small band of lead- product of leadership in Winnipeg’s liberal part? Action. The City’s youth have started like Hugh Hefner - comment when one has erless anarchists, and many who do not democracy. to figure this out. Hopefully our appointed a young successful female athlete on their consider themselves anarchists, who want Winnipeg’s youth want their voices leaders can find a way as well. team, diffusing any potential blowback? nothing more that to topple our civil lib- heard, and some are willing to risk personal, The funny thing is that these public relation erties because they have decided to take a physical and financial harm because they campaigns have more to do with hip-factors hour and fifteen minutes, on one planned believe in what they are trying to achieve.

losing their jobs. Really, all this nonsense and were purposely trying to go slow. I mean if an Letters to the Editor confusion over a few people on bikes. ambulance came down Portage it wouldn’t be Why there has not been more publicity and able to get though and much like critical mass public interest and inquest – if not direct out- these motorists were breaking the law all over Like Mr. Tanchuck, I too have been closely town area for one hour. Some people wear se- rage in Critical Mass’ allegations of police bru- the place. There were people not using turn sig- watching the events surrounding Critical Mass quins, masks and tutus. Some resemble my dad. tality, escapes me. It seems to me that the real nals. There were people speeding and racing. unfold over the course of this summer. I too get Some bring their cute-butt kids. Some wear issue at stake in this debate is the issue of how There were people trespassing on private prop- about Winnipeg via bike, arriving sweaty and patches or signs that say things like “Why can’t the City of Winnipeg is prepared to deal with cir- erty, in parking lots with their lawn chairs, just helmet-haired wherever I go (totally gross). I we be friends” and “Thanks for waiting!” Flowers cumstances of protest and dissent – not whether hanging around. I even saw a few drinking in am also “concerned with the political and eco- decorate some baskets. They smile. They wave. or not cars are the cause of global warming. public. There were even cyclists lots of them logical implications of my actions”. But unlike Most of them are really nice. All of them are Nick – your article was, in many ways, ex- riding down the sidewalk. If I road my bike Mr. Tanchuck, I am writing to you in hopes that committed to making Winnipeg a better place cellent: well written and sassy. But it is out down the sidewalk I would get a ticket but not you will publish my response to last week’s arti- to live. Ooooh… like, scary. Stay indoors and call of place with what I believe the real issue these guys because the police just drove up and cle (“Illiberal Cycling: Why You Won’t See Me at the guards. to be: the issue of politics, violence and down the street letting general lawlessness con- Critical Mass” September 7, 2006) and publicly Or… maybe turn that song on the radio up authority. I can’t wait to debate upon this issue tinue. When I got home, I looked up cars, Sunday display my support for Critical Mass. really loud, sing along, loudly, to like, “Boston” the next time we meet. You’re awesome and night and Winnipeg on the Internet and was sur- Frankly, if you don’t like Critical Mass, then or something and embarrass your kids; sit back, you’re my friend, but, buddy? I think you’re prised to find an organization called “Sunday don’t participate. If you find their costumes out- smile fondly and remember what it was like to wrong. Night Cruise.” It’s a lot similar to critical mass landish and their “socio-anarchistic” “moral believe in something. because these motorists and cyclists conspire to crux drive” politics confining, then please, by It is my belief that Winnipeg’s police are - Maria Bromilow gather together downtown on Sunday in the eve- all means, don’t go (though I doubt Councillor targeting the wrong group. Rather than posing ning and just drive up and down the street clog- Gerbasi could be considered a social anarchist). a threat, these individuals are some of the most ging up traffic for regular motorists like myself. However, if you believe that dissent – be it ro- creative and caring members of Winnipeg so- They make general nuisances of themselves for mantic and unabashed, or politically well orga- ciety. They are also remarkably motivated and whatever twisted reason. I guess just to show off Double Standard, Different Groups nized – is something that should be celebrated, committed: I’ve heard it from more than one their cars. It would be different if they would just and if not celebrated then certainly not punched mouth that receiving tickets (even five of them. I enjoyed Nick Tanchuk’s critical mass arti- apply for a parade permit and would tell police in the face or beaten with nightsticks – then we FIVE.) will not deter their cause. There didn’t cle in the last Uniter issue but I wish he would where they’re going. That way they can show should be lending our support to this voice, not need to be a winner and loser in this situation be less liberal in his analysis. These Critical Mass their cars and other motorists won’t have to be condemning it. but the reactions of media, politics, police and cyclists are criminals pure and simple but let impeded. But the fact is they continue to vio- Being familiar with the art of interpreta- the public have made the creation of one in- me inform your readers about another crim- late traffic laws. You’ve got to ask yourself why? tion, I can imagine how easily these words may evitable. The police cannot back down now for inal organization that’s hounding the streets Why aren’t the police taking this more seriously be twisted, so let me explain. In saying this, I am fear of losing face and authority; nor can Critical of Winnipeg. Last Sunday I was coming home and clamping down on it like they did with the not necessarily referring to Molotov cocktails Mass, for fear that this may hammer another from a movie at the Globe theater and I turned criminal masterminds behind critical mass? or direct action via bombs but, in this situation nail into the dissent’s coffin, contributing to on to Portage hitting a traffic jam. A Traffic jam! It’s really disappointing to regular law-abiding anyways, a group of people who get together one the rather depressing idea that “you can’t win”. On a Sunday night! It was wall-to-wall traffic. I motorists like myself. Friday a month during the months when it’s not Politicians have been reluctant to take a side for had to wait for lights and everything. It took for- snowing to ride bikes around Winnipeg’s down- fear of losing respect, losing votes, and therefore ever to get back home because the motorists - Kenneth LeValk September 14, 2006 The Uniter contact: [email protected] 0 COMMENTS Culture Matters. But, How Much?

BRAD HARTLE beliefs and traditions linking you to the non-aboriginals. According to the courts, University of Victoria. He argues, in his book COMMENTS EDITOR world, to the sun that shines and the river this relation is a territorial one rather than a Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of Action that flows, and it is within that system that proprietary one. The difference is that prop- and Freedom, a book being taught here in you will make sense of your life. erty is concerned primarily with ownership, Aboriginal Politics, that ulture is a delicate thing to talk about With that being the case, culture is whereas territory signifies something more, “To be Onkwehonwe (an original person and a hard thing to legislate. The always the paramount concern. It is for this something existential. Territory suggests the or native person), to be fully human, is to be Crecent blockade in Caledonia brings reason that when a private contractor in- attachment aboriginal peoples maintain to living the ethic of courage and to be involved both of these difficulties to light in frustrat- tends to build commercial housing on land the land is essential to the way they under- in a struggle for personal transformation ing and abhorrent ways. Racism is the first integral to a community’s understanding stand themselves socially and politically. and freedom from the dominance of impe- that comes to mind. of itself, that community acts with outrage. This constitutional arrangement pri- rial ideas and powers – especially facing the With officials from Caledonia suggest- For to use ancestral land with no regard to oritizes aboriginal culture at the expense challenges in our lives today. Any other path ing aboriginals should take down the block- the traditions associated with it strikes at of non-aboriginal cultural, political or eco- or posture is surrender or complicity.” ade and get jobs, and racial slurs thrown back the culture’s very heart and, by implication, nomic practices. This is why a controversy Or does it matter like it does to the and forth with the same ease as golf balls every human heart there entwined. concerning a 200 hundred year old land Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya and rocks, it’s little wonder this at times vio- On the other side, culture is ultimately transfer can cause Dalton McGuinty to buy Sen, who argues that, lent blockade has lasted almost six months. chosen. You are born into a culture, yes, but the land in question and hold it, like the “the importance of cultural freedom, For now tempers seem to have calmed you are not defined by that culture alone. hot potato it is, in trust until the dispute is central to the dignity of all people, must in Caledonia, negotiations commencing Because you are a rational, autonomous in- settled. be distinguished from the celebrating and with the intent of avoiding tragedies like dividual, you have the ability to think criti- Yet, for those like myself who under- championing of every form of cultural inher- Ipperwash or Oka. These negotiations, how- cally about the traditions you are brought up stand culture as something secondary to a itance, irrespective of whether the people in- ever, are taking place without any real dis- in, and the ability to decide what you want transcendent human capability to think crit- volved would choose those particular prac- cussion about why conflicts between ab- to believe in. ically, who believe cultural reasoning is akin tices given the opportunity of critical scru- original and non-aboriginal communities With this account, the freedom to to religious reasoning and should be left out tiny, and given an adequate knowledge of are happening with such frequency and choose comes before the choices that are of our political institutions all together, the other options…that actually exist in the so- such passion. Without this discussion, there made, and it is this understanding of indi- uniting of blood, land and culture for polit- ciety in which they live.” is no reason to believe that a resolution to vidual autonomy that must be protected ical and economic purposes contradicts all Either way, the path we are currently the Caledonia dispute will signal the end of above all else. To deny individuals the right notions of liberal equality. This arrangement on, a path laid by the Charter, led by the such conflicts. to choose their own affiliations is to deny is frustrating because a group of people are courts and frustrated by a clogged, cumber- If we want to understand what is at root this autonomy, and if we are without indi- being politically privileged for a choice they some land claim process, is one that leads here, we must understand there is more to vidual autonomy we are without equality. made about how to live; a choice many are to a place where these two takes on culture Caledonia than just a disputed land claim. It is between these two accounts of cul- excluded from making simply because the butt heads again and again and again. The The conflict in Caledonia can also be under- tural identity that the conflict originates. distant reaches of their bloodline do not nice thing about living in a democratic soci- stood as a conflict between two divergent However, in Canada, this conflict takes on originate on Turtle Island. ety like Canada, though, is that we can have understandings of culture, with each side of a unique form. Here, the Charter of Rights So, like I said in the beginning, cul- an open, free, rational discussion about why, the blockade representing one side. Here’s a and Freedoms, along with court decisions ture matters. But, how much so is the ques- and to what extent, culture matters to us. So, sketch: such as R. v. Delgamuuk, constitutionally tion? Does it matter in the way it matters to maybe the best thing we can do right now is On one side, culture is inherited and entrenched the idea that aboriginal peoples Taiaiake Alfred, the Canada Research Chair simply to discuss. So, let’s discuss… immovable. You are born into a system of have a different relationship to this land than in Studies of Indigenous Peoples at the contact: [email protected] The Uniter September 14, 2006 DIVERSIONS 0

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Cougar at O-Week Wreaks Havoc, Wrecks Shirts Student Union refuses to refund the free shirts Renee K. Kilburn Staff Reporter

Several students were caught off guard last Thursday when a cougar, apparently pissed-off about long registration lines, totally lost his shit during orientation celebrations. “I was going to cinch this shirt,” said one distraught student about the oversized baby blue t-shirts with the awkwardly placed graphic. The cougar had been spot- ted in the beer tent earlier in the day lap- ping up a “fuck-load” of beer, a witness told The Uniter. Cornell university zoologist and evolutionary biologist Esther Steele said that cougars are very volatile crea- tures when exposed to severe tedium and bad fashion. “The administra- Wine On A Dime tion should have known to export him to the front of the line,” she said in a phone interview. “Cougars can stew For people not into reds, about things for days. They’re a very Michael Banias but still love the grill, I would prickish species.” recommend a lightly oaked The UWSA refused to be inter- Chardonnay, or even a Fumé viewed regarding the situation but With summer quickly ending, it’s Blanc. A Fumé Blanc is a released a statement saying they would time to squeeze in that last BBQ. There Sauvignon Blanc that has been not be reimbursing students for the is nothing better than to light up that aged in oak, but they often sit ruined shirts or be ordering smaller "Aaaaaaaaah! A cougar!" grill and get cooking. Grilled fare def- in the $20 range, so they aren’t sizes next year. initely picks up a variety of flavours “Wine On A Dime” friendly. that are unlike any other, and there are Chardonnay, however, is many wines that are made to match. quite affordable, and will be If the Food channel has taught me lovely with grilled food. For anything, it’s that the Barbeque is every something refreshing, or just appliance mixed into one. It’s not only a pre-dinner grilling drink, a grill, but an oven, stove top, steamer, a dry rosé or even a grassy and smoker. This opens up a number Sauvignon Blanc is a nice idea too. of culinary possibilities such as grilled veggies, chicken breasts, shish kabobs, Today’s wines are two fabulous "Check this shit out! My shirt's totally broken!" Photos: Natasha Peterson and hamburgers. pairings for the BBQ-er in all of us. Grilled foods will usually pick up flavours of wood, earth, and smoke. Rio Alto Reserve Chardonnay Those unique flavours compliment 2004 ($11.99 at private wine shops) is a Gillette to Introduce a variety of wines that offer perfect stellar wine from Chile. On the palate, matches. Try Californian Zinfandels it has a big tropical fruit taste, hints for the meat on your plate. They are big of melon, and some citrus. The finish Mach 57 bodied enough to stand up to steak, has a touch of mineral with a light and but have plenty of other flavours that pleasant oak flavour. will compliment most side dishes such MATT COHEN as grilled veggies. The nice thing about Barefoot Zinfandel ($10.99 at pri- Zinfandel, and I mean red Zinfandel vate wine shops) is quite the little wine. not the pink stuff, is that it has both It has a great spicy pepper flavour, (Cincinnati, Ohio) Razor manufacturer earth and fruit flavours. A great “Zin” plenty of berries, and a healthy va- Gillette announced plans today to launch will compliment the taste of the grill, nilla finish. This is a big wine for such a 57 blade razor. “This is a first and we’re but add some nice contrast with its in- a small price, and is burley enough to pleased to be the company to bring this herent fruit. I would also recommend throw a steak or some ribs at it. product into the marketplace” said Douglas an Aussie Shiraz, but be weary of the Parsons, media spokesperson. “We tried the “fruit bomb”, and find one with a much Questions? Comments? E-mail: one, two, and three blade models, but testing more subtle fruit flavour. Too much [email protected] showed that the public wants more blades.” fruit can be bad. The launch was held at the Fairweather conference center to a packed house. Public opinion on a 57 blade variety razor is yet un- certain, but representatives feel that sup- proached to design port will be positive. Local media represen- a 57 blade razor, I was a little worried about tatives were asked on stage to test the prod- how compact it would be. We’ve managed to Real News Headlines uct in front of their peers. “I feel like I have get the weight down to 12.37 pounds. I think no more skin on my face,” reflected a Boston we can all agree that there is no other razor Brent jang reporter that asked to remain anonymous. with 57 blades on the market that weighs The globe and mail FOUND ON www.globeandmail.com “That’s what I call a close shave.” as little.” This has been a banner year for The product itself features a 39 blade the manufacturer. This is the 17th product shaving surface, 8 precision trimmers, 2 launched in as many months. Other prod- Pampered pooch, nose hair trimmers, 3 ear hair trimmers, ucts of interest include a children’s elec- and 5 special back and shoulder hair blades. tric shaver, vanilla flavoured shaving cream, say hello to the cargo hold “We’re really excited about the back blades, and a facial wax kit. The Mach 57 is due on or as we call them around the office, the shelves at the end of October. “The shav- double B’s,” joked Daniel Phillips, senior ing revolution has begun” affirmed Parson’s, tester for Gillette. “When I was first ap- “and we’re a cut above the rest.” September 14, 2006 The Uniter contact: [email protected] 10 FEATURES Features One on one with David Suzuki Scientist speaks about childhood, family, and the power of the people

William Wolfe-Wylie Indeed, in their young lives they have estab- CUP Atlantic Bureau Chief lished themselves at the top of their chosen professions. Tamiko, the oldest, graduated from David Suzuki: the autobiography McGill University with a degree in biology 2006 Greystone Books, Vancouver and is now a chromosome analyst with a children’s hospital in Vancouver. Troy, his only son, studied filmmaking at the Emily Since the early ‘90s, the environ- Carr Institute. Laura is a psychology gradu- ment has increasingly taken a backseat to ate from Queen’s University and an accom- the economy. Green initiatives need to be plished writer. Severn graduated from Yale proven economically viable before they are with a degree in ecology and evolutionary implemented, because the economy, not biology and has been working on a graduate the environment, drives the bottom line. degree in ethnobotany at the University of “Well this is nonsense, of course,” said Victoria. Sarika has a degree from Berkeley David Suzuki. in marine biology. Suzuki, world-renowned environmen- “They take education very seriously,” talist and scientist, is crossing Canada to said Suzuki. promote his recently released autobiogra- But for a man who has traveled across phy. Along the way, he’s taking the oppor- every continent filming, interviewing, fight- CUP FILE PHOTO tunity to tell Canadians about the origins ing, touring, promoting and fundraising, he of the David Suzuki Foundation, promote still finds time to spend with his family in sustainable living, and condemn the recent British Columbia. Every July and August are actions (or lack thereof) of Prime Minister reserved entirely for them. the economy is what everyone is talking Canada’s newly elected Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. “Sacred family time, we call it,” he said about. And we have no one to blame but Stephen Harper, has been less receptive to But Suzuki does not work alone, and in a phone interview. “It’s what we really ourselves. Blaming politicians is easy, he the document, however. this is one of the ultimate goals of both his look forward to.” said, but politicians take their cues from us. “He turned me down flat,” said Suzuki. autobiography and speaking tour, he said. Part of the goal in the early education “We begin to show leadership and they But this only re-affirmed his notion that People should realize that everything he of the children was to teach them all food will follow our example,” he said. change has to come from the people. “I has received credit for has been the result is seasonal. When cherries were ripening, With this in mind, he produced two don’t care who gets in the next election,” of dozens of people working in the back- the family would spend some time in B.C.’s programs to encourage individual action he said, noting that what matters is what ground: Tara, his wife, who organized all Okanagan valley and regularly ship some on a simple level and combined it with a people force politicians to pay attention to. the international paperwork and learned of the harvest to their aboriginal extended broad-based program to be taken on by gov- “We have to put climate and the environ- Portuguese for their trips to the Amazon; families (Suzuki has been adopted by a ernments and environmental organizations ment back at the top of the agenda.” writers and researchers at The Nature of number of First Nations peoples, including alike. Suzuki’s love of the environment began Things with David Suzuki; the film and the Haida in B.C.) on the coast. at a young age and he still believes that in- sound editors who make him look good; the And he has always been in near-con- troducing young children to the complexi- publicists who organize his speaking tours. stant contact with his wife, Tara. She often ties of the natural world will pay off. It’s all a team effort. travels with him as an integral part of the We begin to show He remembers collecting bugs from “It would be a terrible conceit for any foundation as well as a number of other a local swamp and how his mother would one person or organization to believe they projects. But when out filming The Nature leadership and they will swoon over his discoveries. He sees children are going to turn the ship around,” he said. of Things, this isn’t always possible. So they now whose parents yell at them for tracking Instead, he says, his greatest contri- phone each other every single day they’re follow our example” mud into the house and despairs. bution to Canada has been his children. apart. “The lesson is that nature is dirty and The tradition began while Tara was – David Suzuki disgusting or dangerous. And that is the in graduate studies and there were thou- wrong lesson.” sands of miles separating them for months After all, the apparent thesis of his book at a time. They vowed to make one phone The Nature Challenge is available is the importance of childhood’s formative call per day to each other, regardless of the through the foundation’s website (www. years for the development of the person. In expense, to stay in touch. Thirty years later davidsuzuki.org) and lists 10 simple chal- Suzuki’s case, it is the effects of racism, no- that tradition holds strong. So strong, in lenges, such as “not eating meat one day per tably time spent in B.C.’s internment camps fact, that Suzuki has had the expense of that week” and “encourage the use of alterna- during the Second World War, that still daily phone call written in to all of his con- tive transit.” The program requests that in- haunt him. tracts with the CBC. dividuals pledge to complete three of the 10 “I hated what I looked like and I do to And in a sense, this simple tradition challenges. this day,” he said. with his wife is an extension of his general Suzuki argues if he can show that one In his autobiography, he writes: philosophical approach to life. Suzuki be- million Canadians are willing to take chal- Over time, we acquire a veneer of per- lieves that people are defined by their action lenge, politicians will be forced by their elec- sonality that enables us to move among and and has been promoting a grassroots ap- torate to sign on as well, forcing real policy interact with others, but beneath it remain proach to promoting environmentalism. change. all the unremembered experience with He pointed out that in the late ‘80s and Sustainability within a Generation is family and the fears, hurt, and insecurities early ‘90s the destruction of the Amazon the other program. While the 62-page report of childhood, which others cannot see. For was on everybody’s mind. The planned log- was originally designed to outline concrete me, the alienation that began with our evac- ging of Clayoquot Sound in B.C. spawned steps that would move Canada toward sus- uation from the coast of British Columbia the production of dozens of documenta- tainability (goals which include “eliminating and continued through high school has ries and howls of outrage from the general perverse subsidies” such as those provided remained a fundamental part of who I am, public. The result was political action and to forestry and fossil-fuel industries), orga- all my life, despite the acquired veneer of the creation of a number of protected areas nizations in the United States and Australia adult maturity. CUP FILE PHOTO in old-growth forests. have already drafted their own versions of But times have changed, he said. Now the document based on Suzuki’s model. contact: [email protected] The Uniter September 14, 2006 FEATURES 11

Kenton Smith have gushed along the lines of, “It’s imagination, a goal which corresponds with STAFF REPORTER just wonderful!” Many people seem what Grande stresses as one of the overall proj- to see the work as a monument to the ect’s primary objectives – to beautify the down- Winnipeg Police Service. Others town core. s art one means to address – perhaps even seem to see not a sculpture but While the temporary nature of the pres- solve – some of the fundamental problems a real police officer. ent installation could beg the question of how Iplaguing efforts to revitalize downtown Saunders’ primary effective the project will be in revitalizing the Winnipeg? motivation, however, was core long-term, it must be kept in mind that This is the question presently posed, either to make an understated large-scale public art on Portage may very well explicitly or inherently, by a ten-foot police of- comment on what he sees become an annual event: although there has ficer, anthropomorphic birds, flying envelopes, as misguided views of arts been no formal surveying done on the public’s and a pair of disembodied, Dr. Suess-esque legs funding: “The hard-line reaction to the results, Grande tells me that “ev- on a skateboard, among others, which together view of public art is that you eryone we bump into seems to love the project comprise Art on the Avenue – Sculpture Walk, could spend the money on and the sculptures,” and goes on to hint that Photo: Natasha Peterson an installation spread between Main Street and more practical things.” Downtown BIZ has been emboldened to facili- “Monuments of Boosterism”, or True Public Art? Can art on Portage illuminate the social problems of our suffering city core?

Memorial Boulevard from now until October, This was the point stressed in one notable patterns – an elephant as City of Winnipeg 2007. exception from the local media: a column – il- Transit Bus. Circus elephants, Armistead ex- Engagement of the overriding question, lustrated by a caricature of Saunders’s sculpture plains, were workhouses, now outdated, much however, has been curiously lacking in both the – in the August 24th edition of Uptown maga- like our transit system, which is a “slower, media and public reaction to the installation’s zine, in which writer Jim Sanders confronts bigger, older elephant” that also needs to be ten component sculptures, created by students head-on the issues Saunders broaches. retired. of the University of Manitoba’s School of Fine Certainly Armistead’s point wasn’t lost on Arts, and sponsored by Downtown Business Winnipeg Transit authorities: prior to the in- Improvement Zone. volvement of Investors Group – which footed It’s easy enough for anyone to notice the Because they’re the bill for an additional $5,000 in funding attention the sculptures draw: as I admire Mark for the entire project – Armistead actually ap- Saunders’s The Right Stuff, a young woman, all not in a gallery, people proached Winnipeg Transit for support; how- smiles, snaps a photo of the stocky, mustached, ever, his particular zoological preference square-jawed caricature of a Winnipeg police hesitate to think, …not also seems to have been an issue with Transit officer, which appears chipped from a square authorities. block of granite. everyone’s going to want “’Does it have to be an elephant?’ was Yet the piece has also drawn reaction of their question,” Armistead laughs. the completely opposite sort. Some despise to take the time The relevancy of Armistead’s message is the image, and have acted on their feelings: doubly emphasized when one considers that The Right Stuff has suffered from more van- to analyze” the project’s unifying theme is transportation – a dalism than any of the other sculptures – four matter which, according to Stephano Grande, times in total. In addition to physical damage, – Jon Armistead Executive Director of Downtown BIZ, “is the the words “Big Pig” were scrawled on its leg. A future of downtown.” story in the August 28 edition of the Winnipeg In contrast to Armistead’s outspoken- Photo: Natasha Peterson Free Press was specifically devoted to chroni- ness, marked understatement characterizes cling the damage. “In all seriousness,” Sanders writes, “a Catherine Toew’s A Good Day, another piece in Saunders says the piece is a litmus test – well-funded city-wide art initiative involving which topical commentary is embedded. tate something “on the next level” for next year or even sociological experiment – of sorts: he youths would be light years more effective in The sculpture, which features a pair of – “something even more wonderful.” wanted to see peoples’ reactions to the image, reducing youth crime than [Mayor] Sam Katz’s cartoonish, oversized feet on a skateboard, Far more than simply adding surface which he tried to render in a relatively neutral plan for more police on our streets.” was conceived at least in part as a comment on colour to the downtown area, however, it was fashion. Indeed, Saunders tells me that it is art the skateboarding ban in the downtown area. the desire of many of the participating students, The results, says the artist, have been fas- which, in the long run, will far better solve such Unable to skate herself, Toews tells me that she as we have seen, to inject additional layers into cinating. There have been grandmothers who problems. When pressed, Saunders is still able wanted to, at one level, create an ode to what their work that would make the end products to see some irony in the situation: she sees as a graceful and joyous activity that, more than what Saunders calls mere “monu- If his sculpture is decimated he sadly, still lacks legitimacy in the eyes of many ments of boosterism.” says, then, hey -- maybe more as a form of personal transportation. Professor Gordon Reeve, who acted as a li- officers are needed on the beat And yet the artist’s official statement aison between the sponsors and the students, after all. points the viewer in a different direction: “Legs, in addition to providing the latter some tech- This is a sentiment that a board and the ultimate challenge - what else nical assistance, confides that if he encour- has some resonance when one is there?” ages anything on the part of his students, it is considers the vandalism visited Not all the sculptures, it must be noted, for there to be more to their work than meets upon not only Saunders’s work, stuck to the set theme. Perhaps the most con- the eye; if a work is to truly succeed as art, he but to Candice Lui’s Flying spicuous example along these lines Erica explains, it must resonate “for more than two Envelope and Adele van Gend’s Swendrowski’s Jellybean Park, which the seconds.” Critics, the media, and the gen- Taxi. artist says is “not really about transportation eral public, Reeve says, want a quickly digest- On the other hand, when at all.” Saunders cites his late involvement in ible explanation – they are reluctant to be chal- I ask him if he would like to see the project as the primary reason for his own lenged. On the same note, Armistead tells me more discussion of the issues, divergence. that he has generally held back when talking to Saunders takes a casual line. And to be sure, other sculptures which the media because he wanted to appreciate the “Just what we’re doing did connect with the set theme did not always work for itself. right now is great,” he tells me broach topics concerning local politics: Robert Sadly, Armistead notes that the public over the phone. Taite, sculptor of What comes ‘round, was more nature of the work inhibits the act of personal Alternatively, consider interested in simply taking an abstract ap- reflection: “Because they’re not in a gallery, Jon Armistead’s Elephant Light proach to the theme of transportation, while people hesitate to think,” says Armistead, la- Rail Transit, the official state- the aforementioned van Gend wanted to create menting that “not everyone’s going to want to ment for which cuts straight to something more fanciful in nature. take the time to analyze.” the point, and makes the art- “I didn’t just want to make a plane or a Armistead takes this as a given, however, ist’s hopes clear: “The anachro car or something like that,” van Gend tells me. noting that he and his fellow artists wanted to nistic presence of the elephant Instead, she imagined: what if birds were in- make the work accessible to the general public. as 21st century people-mover spired by humans in devising means of trans- Besides, he sums up, without a hint of dis- stimulates discussion about portation? The piece thus became a “light- satisfaction, it is difficult as an artist to really urban mass transportation.” hearted flipping of roles…humans with bird convey your intentions – people will always see Armistead’s sculpture ap- characteristics.” your work the way they will. pears as an almost robotic What most, if not all, of the participat- pachyderm riveted together in ing artists desired at some level was simply to Photo: Natasha Peterson alternating orange and yellow offer up something for the delight of the public September 14, 2006 The Uniter contact: [email protected] 12 ARTS & CULTURE

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says of their debut album. “That was surprising considering that we wrote it right A BIG LOUD BEAST before going into the studio. We’re way tighter now.” That oh-so-good tightness can Mothra O Mothra, if we were to call for help, over time, be heard on the bands new demos. They recorded a three-song demo as a follow up to over sea, like a wave you’d come, our guardian angel! the first full-length. The demo isn’t for sale, but simply to tide fans over. Those songs are out. “We were thinking about trying now available on the band’s myspace site. Mike LEWIS female vocals,” explains Byrant. “It worked The new stuff is still Mothra, but the perfor- ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR out better than we could’ve imagined.” mances are far more focused and refined. Karla’s haunting vocals provide a visceral The band has already started writing ma- contrast to Liam’s pissing-fire screaming. The terial for a second full-length and is even “Ladies and gentlemen if I could just have bass and synth go together in such a way that premiering some of it on this cross-Canada the expected guitar sound simply isn’t missed. tour. Bryant is looking forward to the tour. your attention for a moment: we seem to be It’s an unusual thing, but it works. One con- The first album is selling well, and audiences cern the band had in approaching guitarists out west are enthusiastic about Mothra. experiencing some moderate Godzilla-re- is that many simply want to be out front. Liam “Nerds seem to like us,” laughs Bryant. lated turbulence. He usually lets go around and Allan wanted it to be “one big thing”. “We’ve had good responses from prog-nerds That one big thing has since made and hardcore fans both young and old.” 35,000 feet. After that the only thing we waves throughout western Canada and Mothra play the Royal Albert on Sept. 16th. have to worry about is Mothra, but we’ve at the Canadian Music Week in Toronto. For more Mothra, visit www.mothralove- “We’ve gotten really good feedback,” Byrant syou.com. Mothra play the Royal Albert on Sept. 16. got reports that she is currently battling Gamera and Rodan. So please sit back and try to enjoy the flight.”

or the average person, the above quote from the Simpsons is all they’ve F heard of a creature called Mothra. Mothra: a giant lepidopteron from Japanese cinematic lore (and portrayed by The Cure’s Robert Smith in an early episode of Southpark), she uses her silken spray to im- mobilize her enemies, and assorted beam weapons to destroy opponents and the out- lying areas of Tokyo. Thanks once again to the wonders of environmental mutation, another Mothra has been let loose upon the world; this one originating from Gibsons, B.C. Having formed as a bass/drums duo two years ago, the band added Karla Millar on vocal/synth, released a self-titled mind-al- tering and rapidly-selling debut album, and are now embarking on their first cross- Canada tour. Taking a few moments out from a hectic day of packing for tour, bassist/vocal- ist Liam Bryant explains why they went with Mothra over some other obscure Japanese pop-culture reference like, say, Hello Kitty. “Mothra is a big loud beast, and I thought that described the sound of the band”. For those looking to categorize the band, you could call it progressive post-hardcore. The band sounds like what rough sex might feel like to a masochist. At times it’s like being hit over the head with an office building, at others a gentle caress. It varies at such a frenetic pace that it delivers one-two combos faster than an expert Teken player. So, how does something like that come out of a peaceful logging town with a population under 4000 that was once home to the Beachcombers? “We’re close enough to Vancouver that it’s not so isolated” says Bryant. “If it gets to you, you can get out. But we do have a lot of time to listen to music and play together.” The internet and TV, as well as a reasonable proximity to Vancouver helps to keep the musicians in Gibsons in the loop so to speak. The boys and girl in Mothra soak up as much as they can, resulting in eclectic tastes which include Tool, King Crimson, and PJ Harvey. As far as shaping their sound, Liam and drummer Allan Millar began looking for a third member after about 3 months of playing together. Allan’s wife Karla sang and played synth, and she expressed interest in trying contact: [email protected] The Uniter September 14, 2006 ARTS & CULTURE 13

Seeing Manitoba Through the Eyes of an Architect

WHITNEY LIGHT in Modernism - Mies van der Rohe, Eero NEWS PRODUCTION EDITOR Saarinen, and Louis Kahn. In addition to the civic and commercial architecture, the show also includes dis- What’s Modern is now antique. The plays about Modern living. Fashions, from aesthetic, a precise sense of design made the catalogue pages of Finnish design com- with new technology and inexpensive ma- pany Marimekko, and furniture, like the terials went out in the 60s. But while the plastic and leather barstools by Saarinen, lamps and toasters make their way to the will spark the interest of young viewers and trash bins and pawn shops, most of the ar- nostalgia in those who remember it. There chitecture, like that in Manitoba Modernist are also photos of homes that architects Architecture 1945-1975, still stands. The ex- built for their families. Understated, and de- hibition, at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) signed for the environment, the homes ex- until Oct. 29, features familiar buildings, emplify Modern notions of form and func- such as Winnipeg International Airport and tion: large windows put living space next Rae and Jerry’s Steakhouse. But through the to only loosely landscaped grounds; wood black and white photography of late local panel built-ins banish clutter and enhance photographer Henry Kalen, they are made the natural feel. new. Taken out of their everyday context, Serena Keshavjee, an art history profes- The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Gustavo Da Roza / Number 10 Architectural Group, 1972. Photo: HENRY KALEN each building is isolated as a unique and his- sor at the U of W, researched the show begin- torical work. ning six years ago after a move to Winnipeg The collection is strikingly arranged. from Toronto. The city’s abundance of Kalen’s photos are suspended between sheet Modernist architecture impressed her. At the furniture like that in the show. Selected right about the style. glass. Period furniture, sculpture, and tex- same time, she saw that it wouldn’t be long out of Kalen’s photographs, the furniture “We’re at a point now where we have to tiles complement them bringing colour and before it deteriorated. they gathered, in shades of red, brown, and determine which were the good buildings. life to what might otherwise have been a “Some buildings are ignored and aban- yellow, creates an inviting space despite the This exhibition is about showing people the sterile display. doned; others are renovated in a way that gallery disclaimers reading “please don’t sit”. ones that should be preserved.” The three decades between 1945-75 are doesn’t do them justice,” says Keshavjee. “I But the warm feel belies the negative With this beautiful and academic pre- divided, each marking a different phase of realized I had to do this research fast, before attitudes that Modernism has contended sentation, those negative attitudes could Modernism in Winnipeg. In the first are the everything disappeared.” with since the 70s. “People tell me it’s cold well begin to change, helping to dispel the beginnings; buildings like Elizabeth Dafoe And like the buildings, the architects and alienating,” says Keshavjee. “The WAG prejudices that stymie appreciation of the Library (1951-53) that clearly pay heed to were aging. [referring to the building itself], for example, city and the architectural styles it has em- International Modernism, a style recognized “I realized the human resource part of had positive press in the 60s. People liked it, braced over the years. by its flat roofs, strip windows, asymmetri- my research was becoming critical,” says now it is dismissed as impenetrable.” The Manitoba Modernist Architecture cal balance, open plans, and zero decora- Keshavjee. She and Kalen had been meeting Part of her research’s purpose, she exhibit runs until Oct. 29th at the Winnipeg tion. In 1956-65, regionally-attuned build- every two weeks to discuss the photos when says, is to get people thinking critically Art Gallery. ings like the Holy Family Ukranian Church he suddenly became very ill and passed (1962) emerge. And in 1966-75, the move away. towards overtly symbolic buildings and Research at various local archives Post-Modernism is stressed, exemplified by however, was convenient. It also gave some buildings like U of W’s Centennial Hall and of her students the opportunity to gain re- the WAG itself. search experience. Aldona Dziedziejko and It’s easy to see that the persuasiveness Jenny Western, both now graduates of art of the exhibition has much to do with the history at the U of W, compiled informa- quality of Kalen’s photography. He chose tion for the book that accompanies the ex- perspectives to make his subject special: the hibition, Winnipeg Modern 1945 to 1975. photos contain no people, the clouds are Western went painstakingly through jour- dramatic, and abstract patterns are carefully nals from the 30s to 60s to write its bibliog- captured in the foreground. All of the photos raphy. Dziedziejko contacted the architects caught Winnipeg in moments of prosperity or their families and wrote biographies. and cutting edge development. Design of the exhibition was led by Shaping the scene were young archi- Herbert Enns, a professor of architecture tects from the U of M School of Architecture. at the University of Manitoba. To create the The exhibition shares surprising informa- authentic Modern atomsphere, he sought tion about the success of the school. Under the help of Grant Marshall, an interior de- Dean John A. Russell, it became top-ranked signer once known as a local taste-maker. in Canada and students had the opportu- In the 50s and 60s, Marshall owned a store nity to learn from some of the biggest names in Winnipeg through which he imported

All IMAGES: Henry Kalen University of Manitoba Archives & Special Projects

Centennial Hall, University of Winnipeg / Moody, Moore, Duncan, Rattray, Peters, Searle, Christie, 1972. September 14, 2006 The Uniter contact: [email protected] Arts & Culture Editor: Mike Lewis E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 786-9497 14 ARTS & CULTURE Fax: 783-7080

The Politics Department requires 3rd or 4th year Politics Majors/Honours students, and ESPECIALLY MPA and Masters students, for positions as teaching/research assistants. A covering letter including a brief statement of academic interests, the name of a referee, and a timetable indicating your availability should be addressed to: Jim Silver, Chair, Department of Politics. Also, please attach Classifieds a student history (grades). Advertise your local Submit to: business here Jacqueline Côté, Secretary (6L20) The deadline for applications is Monday, September 18th, 2006 - NOON. Arts & Culture Editor: Mike Lewis contact: [email protected] The Uniter September 14, 2006 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 786-9497 Fax: 783-7080 ARTS & CULTURE 15

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Ksenia Prints Briefs BEAT REPORTER

or the tenth year in a row, THIN AIR brings to Winnipeg dozens of writers. Delivering Laughs to F They come in all shapes and sizes, the King’s Head Pub from all nationalities and parts of the globe, The King’s Head Pub is now hosting the with varying degrees of talent. In the book- King’s Head Comedy Hour, a weekly Tuesday night store they are spread in countless aisles, un- showcase put on by Stand and Deliver Productions. aware of each other. But for eight days in Local comedian and member of S&D Productions September they all become a part of a bigger Darcy Taves explains the decision to start a regu- experience – a large reader’s digest that lar showcase - “When I first started doing stand spreads all over the city and even reaches up comedy 5 years ago, there was a handful of into our university’s campus. people to fill it. Now comedians are being turned This year’s campus programme runs away and having to wait 2 months for their next from September 18-22. On its final day, it show. Hopefully we can give them a new stage.” serves willing students a hefty dose of grief, The showcase will take place on the newly reno- and two writers’ attempts at overcoming vated 2nd floor of the King’s Head Pub. According it. Five years after the day that terrorism Photo: MIKE LEWIS to S&D Productions member Ryan McMahon, each changed society as we know it, Rachel Vigier show will have a “unique angle and focus. There will and Jess Walter decide to bear it all by talking be stand up comedy, improv, sketch, and a whole about their own 9/11 creations. constantly wondering how events came to idea. Rachel Vigier has a personal connec- bunch of surprises.” The fun begins at 9 p.m. The Book of Skeletons is Vigier’s second pass,” Walter says. tion to Winnipeg – born and raised in Notre- poetry book. It is “a book about how events He, too, doesn’t believe it is too soon to Dame-de-Lourdes, Manitoba, some of her Jazz at the Centre Cultural in history impact individuals”, with the fall of write about the events. “This is not a glanc- relatives still reside in the province – it is still Franco-Manitoban the twin towers inspiring a big part. ing portrait in which the events of 9/11 exist very present in my life,” she says. How the The Canadian Jazz Concerts series has just “The subject sort of chose me,” she says, merely as a backdrop… It’s about how we al- pairing of the two works in the city of two entered its fourth season. The 2006/2007 season “I was working downtown and I was injured lowed ourselves to be… sleep walked through rivers will have to be seen and judged at the boasts four ensembles hand-picked by CJC director during the attack… I decided there were the last five years… Maybe we NEED to write event itself. Michelle Gregoire, and is guaranteed to entertain. things I needed to understand about that and talk and see movies about 9/11.” Featuring shows in November, December, February day.” However, it was not intended as a re- The two authors ended up on a panel Rachel Vigier and Jess Walter will pres- and March, the series will host such artists as the telling of personal experiences – “I wouldn’t together by sheer coincidence. Charlene ent their panel, Framing Ground Zero, at Toronto-based Murley/Braid quartet, bassist Alain say that I started out to write about personal Diehl, the artistic director of the festival, Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall on Friday, Sept 22 Caron, trumpeter Lina Allemano, and sextet Joel experiences, this just seems to be the way it simply contacted Vigier’s publicist with the at 2:30 p.m. Miller Mandala from Montreal. Tickets are on sale happened.” now, and can be purchased for individual perfor- In her often chillingly sorrowful poems mances or for the whole season. For more info visit Vigier draws inspiration from things she had the CCFM box office, or call 204-233-8972 seen, such as “stacked bones”, haunting experiences, sounds, or even “just a phrase Changes at the Royal from a newspaper report. Winnipeg Ballet “As I was repeating the events of the day The RWB has begun its 67th season with and thinking about them… I found there some line-up changes, including the promotion of was a series of moments from that day that Carrie Broda and Darren Anderson from second so- stayed with me; the sight of a man stepping loist from the corps de ballet. New members include through the rubble, helping a stranger adjust Armando Gonzalez Besa (second soloist), Yayoi to the dust mask… It’s in those moments that Ezawa (corps de ballet) and local Winnipegger I found words in poems that for me started Michael James (corps de ballet). James performed to make sense of the whole event.” with the Ballet British Columbia for one season, and To those who feel that it may be slightly the Alberta Ballet for two seasons before joined the too soon to write about September 2001, RWB. The season will open in November with Val Rachel believes that all events are “layers of Caniparoli’s jazzed-up version of A Cinderella Story existence that are still with us… some visi- accompanied by the Ron Paley Big Band. by the ble, some not visible”. Perhaps, writing about bookstore for storage. them is more than a form of personal cathar- sis – like Vigier’s panel, “writing after a tragedy, unimaginable events”, doesn’t “come out of the hugeness of the tragedy, but rather out of very small moments.” Jess Walter also writes out of personal experience in The Zero. He had been working in New York for several months before the attack, and returned home five days after it. “I was there as a ghost… that week, I wan- dered around Ground Zero like a lot of other well-meaning people, trying to help”, he says. The book was born right there on the spot, but was fully written only back home in Spokane, WA. To Walter, the events following 9/11 became a series of grotesque caricatures. “As a culture we punished dissension and hid behind a kind of commercial nationalism… None of it made sense. Our stunted grief was like the dissociate reaction I describe in the book.” Walter’s book deals with post 9/11 reality in an unnamed city as it tells the story of a man suffering from memory loss. In a noir- era styled novel, the protagonist quickly becomes engrossed in a fast-paced mystery tale whose main search focuses on finding himself. Remy’s “condition” is “a version of what I felt the last five years, lurching along, Arts & Culture Editor: Mike Lewis contact: [email protected] The Uniter September 14, 2006 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 786-9790 Fax: 783-7080 ARTS & CULTURE 17 cd REviews book REview

The Creepshow The Dears Iron Maiden The Endless Knot Sell Your Soul Gang of Losers A Matter of Life and Death Gail Bowen Stereo Dynamite Records Maple Music Recordings EMI 290 pages www.thecreepshow.ca www.thedears.org www.ironmaiden.com By Mike Lewis

They look like a parent’s On this release, On their 14th studio worst nightmare, but the Montreal’s The Dears album, the mainstays of A whodunit set in the music of The Creepshow offer up the thoughtful, the NWOBHM are show- exotic locale of Regina, has more in common melodic, and emotional ing no signs of slowing Saskatchewan, The Endless with bands like No Doubt but not aggressive artsy up. That said, the album and the Offspring, than rock they are known for. also shows a band that Knot is the tenth novel in say, The Cramps and Noticeably absent is the has fallen into a rou- the Joanne Kilbourn series. Necromantix. Lead singer Jen “Hellcat” Blackwood does pretension or cynicism that seems to haunt today’s “indie tine; one that has lasted since Bruce Dickenson rejoined the This story reads like a her best Gwen Stefani impression with the song “Cherry rock” world. Each track on this disc offers something new band for 2000’s Brave New World. The songs are good, and white-bred, politically-cor- Hill”, easily the most commercial rockabilly tune made in to notice on every play. Synthesizers are often over-used the performances are excellent, but the album overall feels the last 20 years, and the disc is chock full of this com- by bands of this type, but the Dears manage to utilize them like it’s waiting to explode. The songs contain passion and rect high school girl’s mid-afternoon fantasy. Our bination of mild rockabilly, high energetic punk and B- to great effect, complementing singer Murray Lightburn’s energy, then they seem like they’re waiting for something. main character, Joanne is a middle-aged woman, horror movie inspired lyrics. Most of the tunes have this powerful vocals and Patrick Kief’s riffs. Lightburn’s lyri- It’s likely that these songs would go over stunningly well in mother of three successful and talented children, predictable blend of genres, but there is no denying their cal talents shine through particularly on “Hate Then Love”, the live environment where the band can pick up the tempo and luckily for her, her first husband died leav- energy, and that makes up for their lack of variety. The with the stirring lines, repeated pleadingly: “I believe! I if they want. Still, there are a couple of soon-to-be clas- exception to this rule is the bare bones moody track “The believe! I believe in love!”. “Whites Only Party” is another sics on this album that will most certainly have audiences ing her millions of dollars in the bank. On top of Garden”, where Hellcat’s smoky, sensual vocals shine. The standout track, written in dialogue form. As a whole, Gang in Europe and South America chanting along. “Brighter than that, she is the most compassionate and talented Creepshow are all about scaring your ass onto the dance of Losers is a satisfying listen - a passionate, sincere a Thousand Suns” and “The Longest Day” are two of the best woman in Canada, with friends relying on her floor and making sure you have a ton of fun while you’re work. It will never be thought of as iconic, but to say so songs the band has put out in a while. The album is not mas- advice every minute, and with news-show pro- there. In that endeavour, this Ontario quartet will proba- takes nothing away from the band’s ability to stir the lis- tered, so it plays a little more quietly than most. For Maiden bly succeed. They are also on a cross country tour with tener and strive for such status. fans, it’s worth picking up. For the uninitiated, go pick up any ducers hinging their careers on Joanne’s skills. the Matadors so look for them at a scary venue near you! of their live albums; that’s where Maiden really shines. Joanne always has the answers to everyone’s -Derek Leschasin problems, and has no problems of her own. On -Dan Huyghebaert -Mike Lewis top of that, she’s dating the most powerful lawyer in Regina, who is also in a wheelchair though he’s apparently still spectacular in bed, so that answers that question, doesn’t it? Joanne and her boyfriend spend much of the book flirting, fucking, and planning their dream home together, living their days in their idyllic little TEDIOUS MINUTIAE bubble. Oh, and there’s an at- Or: Ineffectively Detailing One’s Cultural Consumption for the Uncaring Installment 2.2 tempted murder that needs solving. But that can wait because there’s flirting to be done. Every single chapter or sub-section of a By Ben MacPhee-Sigurdson and forehead undoubtedly stem from the My Bri’ish (think phonetic) friends tell me chapter ends with some of the most vomitous of [email protected] rampant scowling he unleashes on a regular there has been Ramsay-saturation on their side romantic dialogue. One could classify this novel basis (he also seems to enjoy changing from of the pond, and that they’re now annoyed by as a pseudo-Harlequin-murder-mystery; it’s like his street clothes into his chef’s jacket in front his persistent presence all over their telly. We Final Score: Ramsay 1, Lee 0 Danielle Steele but with slightly more violence. of the camera). have yet to witness The F-Word, a Channel 4 And just to make things interesting, the sus- The TV lag between us in the north-est of Then I watched this latest season of Hell’s program, and his numerous cookbooks have pect in the attempted murder is none other North America and the UK is reciprocal; while Kitchen, which ramps up the drawn-out real- yet to dominate our city’s book stores (he now than an ex-hippie-folk-singer-turned-right- they slowly discover just what programs are ity-TV-paced drama. It’s good, but not nearly has his own line of tableware as well). wing-politcal-figure-religious-zealot-father- rotting our brains away on this side of the pond, as piercing as Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares; Over here, I think it’s safe to say we’ve seen we are as late in the game to see just what it is behind his venomous tongue exists a real enough of Tommy Lee to last us many lifetimes of-a-trasgendered-man-turned-woman. that makes Britons park themselves in front of concern for the failing restaurants, that pivotal (excluding his, uh, “home videos”). On that note, Yep. their televisions. humanity that a made-for-American-TV Ram- is it possible for Rock Star: Supernova co-host But there’s flirting to be done. And paints to be For example, they have no clue how say can’t impart. Dave Navarro to wear a shirt? I saw him play on selected for the walls in their dream home. And disturbed we all when Tommy Lee, cowering Ramsay’s not just some bully chef either; Conan O’Brien’s show once and he was shirt- floral arrangements for birthday parties to be under a hat and sunglasses, grunts flippantly he’s one of only three British chefs to hold less, noodling away on his cheesy guitar. Uh, picked out. And a creepy boy that keeps coming at a contestant on Rock Star: Supernova (name three three-star Michelin restaurants (the dude, you’re on the 8th floor of an office build- around to see the youngest daughter, who only pending legal settlement with seminal ‘90s European guide’s top honours); Pétrus, named ing, filming a song in the middle of February at wants to be his friend but he keeps making alt-rock band). Likewise, we aren’t privy to the after a famous red wine from Bordeaux, gained 4:30 p.m. Cover your ugly tattoos up, for crying comics for her anyway. And the father of the media saturation of footballer-turned-malevo- notoriety when a group of businessmen, high out loud. Thankfully I never have to watch either trans-gendered girl is being represented by the lent chef (or is it Chef?) Gordon Ramsay. on a successful business deal, dropped about of these dudes cooking; my stomach ain’t what boyfriend of Joanne, the mother of the youngest Last year’s Hell’s Kitchen brought Ramsay $44,000 on wine alone. If you spent that much it used to be. daughter being stalked by the creepy teenager. to us (via the bumbling Fox network) on a grand on wine anywhere in Winnipeg you would end It goes round and round like this for 290 pages. scale for the first time; in an Apprentice-type up in intensive care or rehab. Heck, you could ***** The story is sadly accurate in its depic- show, a dozen or so chefs competed for a dream buy yourself a modest house for that price. tion of how everyone in a small city knows ev- job in a fancy restaurant. Ramsay, bleeped con- After playing with Oxford United and the I’m really going to try and stay up to speed erybody. It’s one big incestuous ball of flirt- stantly, had final say as to who stayed and who Glasgow Rangers, he dropped professional on the blog this year; feel free to drop me a line ing and almost-killing and court-room left. I didn’t watch it. football and studied under prestigious Euro- and let me know anything you’d like to hear me drama and birthday parties and dog-walking. I was scouring FOODTV one Sunday night pean chefs before working his way up to his ramble about, wither in print or online. Do it! In Bowen’s defense, on a technical level the writ- when I came across Ramsay’s Kitchen Night- current superstar status (he now owns over mares. I watched as Chef Gordon Ramsay (I’m a half-dozen restaurants, mostly in the U.K., Apéritif: [email protected] ing is good and the pace is such that, were it a sure now, it should be capitalized) invaded a with inroads into Asia and the United States). Side dishes: tediousminutiae.blogspot.com good story, it would have been tough to put down. failing British restaurant, and in a week whipped While his devilish personality might sour some That said it’s not a good story. On the back of the the kitchen and serving staff into shape, using people’s interest in his maliciously-veiled culi- book it says that this is the best of the Kilbourn a string of un-bleeped profanities to drive his nary rescue efforts, to others it is nothing less series. This is hard to believe unless that is points home. The deep wrinkles in his cheeks than a culinary aphrodisiac. intended as a warning. 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TAKE BACK THE NIGHT The GEOFF BERNER September 19 West OUT LOUD is an open mic oppor- SEPTEMBER 14 ONWARDS Womyn’s Centre is one of the organis- ANNOUNCEMENTS End Cultural Centre, 8pm. Tickets $10 THEATRE, DANCE & tunity for you to give your words voice. ers of the Take Back the Night March at WECC, Music Trader and Into The PERFORMANCE Every two weeks a special guest will and annual event to express women’s Music. kick off the evening after which the mic determination to struggle against the DO YOU LIKE WORKING WITH is open for your words of any genre in ON CAMPUS sexism and violence that affect our NEWCOMER CHILDREN? Do five minutes or less. Third Thursday of you believe you can change our com- MONEEN SILVERSTEIN W/ THE GRIND First Thursday of the communities. Septmeber 21. month at Ellice Café & Theatre (585 the month. Sign up is at 7pm. Open mic munity? If so, consider volunteering with UNDEROATH, HE IS LEGEND at 7:50pm. Free. some of our programs. The Citizenship September 19 The Venue at the Ramada Ellice Ave) The Grind, a venue to CLIFF EYLAND’S SOLO Council of Manitoba Inc. International 6:30pm. Tickets $25 in advance, $30 at encourage and develop performers and ONGOING EXHIBITION ‘CAMERAS, Centre is looking for student volunteers the door. All ages. their ideas through the presentation of AD LIB is an evening of improve-style CELLPHONES AND HARD to help new arrivals to Canada learn scenes, sketches, monologues, spoken word games. Every night is guaranteed word, short film, stand-up and music to be different and full of laughs. From DRIVES’ RECEPTION at Gallery English and feel welcome in our coun- NATHAN September 21 Old Market 1C03 on September 21st from 4-6pm. try. Opportunities exist for volunteers in front of a live audience. 7pm, $4 per round stories to fridge magnet poetry, ENGLISH LANGUAGE PART- Square 12noon. Bedford Investments person. Next event: October 4. from opening lines to creating new end- Artist’s talk: Friday, September 22nd at to give their time and support to the Music in the Market, to coincide with NERS needed in the Language 12:30 pm. Known as a prolific producer Centre’s Immigrant Children and Youth ings, there’s no limit to the places these Partner Program, U of W Continuing the Exchange District Farmers’ Market. of miniature drawings, paintings and Programs including Sports Activities games – or your writing – can go. First Education Campus, 294 William Free. MANITOBA THEATRE CENTRE sculptures that emerge from 28 catego- for Newcomer Kids, Empowerment for Tickets available at 942-6537. Season Thursday of the month at 7:30pm. Free. Avenue. Language partners are native ries, Eyland maintains his standard 3” x Newcomer Youth, Newcomer Buddy starts October 12 with Shakespeare’s (or fluent) English speaking volunteers 5” file card-size format for these lushly- Welcome Program and our After Class THE WAILIN’ JENNYS W/ The Tempest. who give ESL (English as a Second THIN AIR 2006: WINNIPEG coloured, sensuous objects. The artist Education Program. If you’d like to help NDIDI ONUKWULU September 22 INTERNATIONAL WRITERS’ Language ) students an opportunity to incorporates plastic gum packages, out, contact Si-il Park at 943-9158 ext Pantages Playhouse Theatre, 8pm. Tick- practise speaking English outside of ets $21.50 plus taxes at Ticketmaster, MANITOBA THEATRE CENTRE FESTIVAL September 17 - 24. Ex- cosmetic cases, discarded cameras and 285 or 688-1941. pect to enjoy some of the programming the classroom and to learn more about dollar store bric-a-brac. WECC and Folk Festival Music Store. WAREHOUSE Tickets available the Canadian way of life. The day and at 942-6537. Season starts October that has made us such a dynamic pres- time partners meet is flexible. The time WII CHIIWAAKANAK LEARN- 26 with Nicholson’s The Retreat from ence each fall: the evening mainstage commitment is 1-2 hrs/week. Contact RECEPTION - THE WOMEN’S ING CENTRE VOLUNTEER CELTIC FROST September 25 Moscow. presentations at the CanWest Global Rina Monchka, 982-1151; r.monchka@ STUDIES CENTRE FOR RE- OPPORTUNITIES Do you need Royal Albert Arms 8pm. Tickets $22 at Performing Arts Centre, the lively Book uwinnipeg.ca. SEARCH, COMMUNITY OUT- volunteer hours on your resume? Ticketmaster. Chats at McNally Robinson Booksell- PRAIRIE THEATRE ers, stimulating presentations on our REACH & ACTION September 25, Do you need volunteer hours for a EXCHANGE Call 942-5483 or visit campuses, and the always imaginative 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. in 2M70. Meet and class? Come and volunteer in the Wii BILLY BRAGG September 26 Ra- UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG www.pte.mb.ca. Season starts October programming of Foyer des écrivains, greet the staff of the Women’s Studies Chiiwaakanak Learning Centre. The mada Conference Centre, 8pm. Tickets TOASTMASTERS Meetings are 11 with Vern Thiessen’s Apple. our French-language stream. And get Centre for Research, Community Out- Community Learning Commons is $32.50, plus fees at Ticketmaster. held regularly on Friday mornings at ready for a few of our innovations: 7:15 a.m. with the first meeting of the reach & Action. located at 509-511 Ellice Ave. Please submit your resume to: Christine Boyes, WINNIPEG’S CONTEMPO- Opening Night at Oodena, a Saturday year to take place Friday, Sept. 8 in Room AMY MILLAN W/ MAYOR matinée reading at the Manitoba RBC Community Learning Commons RARY DANCERS Rachel Browne’s 2M70. Students, faculty, and members STUDY ABROAD INFORMA- McCA September 27 West End Children’s Museum, a new noon-hour of the community are welcome. It’s Coordinator, Wii Chiiwaakanak Learn- Legacy and Lineage: September 28th TION SESSION Wednesday, Octo- ing Centre, The University of Winnipeg. Cultural Centre, 8pm. Tickets $12 at series at the Millennium Library. Visit an opportunity to improve confidence – October 1st, 8pm Thursday, Friday, http://www.winnipegwords.com/. ber 4th, 12:30- 1:30 p.m. lunch hour in Phone: 789-1431; Fax: 786-7803; Ticketmaster, WECC, Into The Music Saturday & 2pm Sunday. WCD Studio in public speaking and writing, share room 1L06. To register please contact and Music Trader. your creativity, meet a diverse group Email: [email protected]. Theatre, 204—211 Bannatyne Avenue. Emina Cingel at 786-9093 or e.cingel@ Tickets $22 Adult, $18 Senior, $15 Stu- of people, and become a leader. Come uwinnipeg.ca. and be our guest! For more info call THE WRITERS’ COLLECTIVE dent. WCD @ 452-0229 or TicketMaster GALLERIES & 284-5081. is always looking for contributions COMEDY @ 780-3333 or email. [email protected]. VIRTUOSI CONCERTS presents for our bimonthly journal, The Col- EXHIBITIONS Sonia Chan, piano in “The Colour Of lective Consciousness. We publish GROUNDSWELL CONCERT Elegance” Saturday, October 7, 8 p.m. poetry, short fiction, short non-fiction, TOAD IN THE HOLE / THE SERIES September 22, 8pm at the EVENTS Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall, University of screenplays, plays, articles, interviews, ACE ART INC. 290 McDermot St Winnipeg. Tickets: $29 adults / $27 CAVERN 112 Osborne St – Comedy Winnipeg Art Gallery. Guest Ben Reimer book reviews, and more. All submis- will perform an eclectic concert of music 944-9763 Tues-Sat 12-5. Until Septem- seniors / $17 students. 786-9000 or sions should include a brief (roughly at the Cavern. September 20 – Stand ber 30: Rebecca Belmore, ‘Architecture visit www.virtuosi.mb.ca. Up. October 18 – Stand Up. for mixed percussion featuring work by UWSA DO IT YOURSELF 3 lines) personal biography. We prefer international composers John Cage, For A Colonial Landscape’. WORKSHOPS All workshops are email submissions to avoid Iannis Xenakis and Kevin Volans, and inaccuracies in retyping text for the free; contact Vivian Belik at uwsavpss@ WII CHIIWAAKANAK LEARN- THE KING’S HEAD PUB 120 Canadians Inouk Demers and Emily ADELAIDE MCDERMOT GAL- uwinnipeg.ca to sign up. Cooking: ING CENTRE offers Elder’s Teaching journal. Submissions should be King St – King’s Head Happy Hour Doolittle. Also with new work by emerg- emailed to writerscollective@uwinni- Weekly Comedy Night, Tuesdays at LERY 318 McDermot Ave 987-3514. Wednesdays until October 4 at Magnus Circle on October 24th from 6:00 - 8:00 ing composer Eliot BrittonCurated by September 20 – October 4: ‘Diverse Im- Eliason Recreation Centre, 5:30pm. p.m. at 509-511 Ellice Avenue. Please peg.ca with “Collective Consciousness 9pm. September 19: Jack ‘Um and At- Therese Costes. For information on submission” in the subject line. By tack ‘Em Improv. September 26: Alterna- ages III’ by John and Carol Mills, Peter Basic Bike Repair: September 22, register by calling 789-1431 or email- single tickets and season subscriptions Von Kampen and Jean Wiens. 12:30-2:30 p.m. in the Bulman Student ing [email protected]. mail: mark as Collective Consciousness tive Comedy Lounge – Variety Comedy. call 943-5770 or visit www.gswell.ca. Centre. submissions, and sent to: The Writers’ October 3: Original Comedy of the King’s Collective, 4th Floor Library, University Head – Stand Up. October 10: Red River THE ANNEX GALLERY 594 Main of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue, Win- Comedy Spotlight – Stand Up. MANITOBA CHAMBER OR- St 284-0673 Tues-Sat 12-5. Contempo- UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG nipeg, MB R3B 2E9. CHESTRA Call MCO at 783-7377 or rary art. DOWNTOWN JAZZ BAND In- WORKSHOPS AND pick up tickets at McNally Robinson or formational meetings for potential new SEMINARS Ticketmaster. players. September 13, 12:30-1:30 p.m. ART HISTORY STUDENTS’ FILM ARTBEAT STUDIO INC. 4-62 in room 2M74. September 14, 12:00- ASSOCIATION All students are Albert St 943-5194. Community-based 1:00 p.m. in room 3M64. Email jazz@ welcome at our meetings, Tuesdays at VIRTUOSI CONCERTS presents contemporary art. uwinnipeg.ca for info. 4:00 p.m. Meet in the History Common, its Gala Opening Night Concert featur- THE UNIVERSITY OF Room 3rd Floor Ashdown. If you want CINEMATHEQUE 100 Arthur St ing Shauna Rolston, cello & Heather WINNIPEG CAREER to discuss arts & culture and meet new Sep 15-19, 7pm: Sketches of Frank Schmidt, piano. Co-presented by ART CITY 616 Broadway Ave 775- ABORIGINAL CULTURAL RESOURCE CENTRE friends, check us out! It’s also a great Gehry by Sydney Pollack. Sep 15-19, The University of Winnipeg and CBC 9856 Mon 5-8 ,Tues-Fri 4-8, Sat 12-4. CELEBRATION Come learn about opportunity to get involved in student 9pm: The Confederate States of America RadioTwo on Saturday, September Featuring high quality artistic program- different traditional aspects of some Ab- projects, from arts writing to campus by Kelvin Wilmott. Sep 17, 2pm: Video 16, 8pm with greetings on behalf ming for kids and adults. original cultures. This year’s showcase Career Fair 2006 Through our services, socials. Works Films by kids from Art City. Free of the University of Winnipeg from you will have access to thousands of will feature a powwow demonstration, admission. September 20-23: Murder Dr. Lloyd Axworthy, President. At THE EDGE ARTIST VIL- highly motivated and qualified students City/Media City Conference. Various throat singing, and some fiddling. Sep- Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall, University of LAGE AND GALLERY 611 and alumni. We can arrange and venues and events including films at tember 14, Everything happens in the Winnipeg. Tickets: $29 adults / $27 Main St. Inviting artists to join schedule on-campus interviews as well Cinematheque. See Community Events quad. Chili and Bannock Sale at 12:30. seniors / $17 students. Free Parking Winnipeg’s newest artist collective. as organize and promote on-campus infor additional details or visit http://www. available in the CBC Lot, accessed via Call to arrange a visit to our newly-reno- formation sessions and booths. During imaa.ca/pages/AGM2006.htm. Sep 20, AROUND TOWN Young Street. Call 786-9000 or visit vated location beside MAWA. Space is UW MATH / STATS STU- the academic year, we will also be host- 9pm: Walk for Art Animated Works by www.virtuosi.mb.ca. limited. Applications are now being DENTS’ ASSOCIATION upcoming career and recruitment fairs - great Amy Lockhart, free. Sep 22-28, 7pm: accepted. For more information, please ing event: Meet and Greet on Friday, networking opportunities for students Who Killed The Electric Car? by Chris call 947-2992 or email the Director at Sept 15, 12:30-1:20 in room 1L06. A and employers. October 4, Duckworth Paine. Sep 22-28, 9pm: An Inconve- WINNIPEG SYMPHONY OR- [email protected]. chance to meet your professors and Centre, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. nient Truth, by Davis Guggenheim with CHESTRA Concerts almost weekly fellow students. FREE PIZZA!!! CONCERTS Al Gore. during the fall. Call 949-3999 or visit Volunteer Recruitment Fair Volunteering the WSO box office at 555 Main Street. FLEET GALLERIES 62 Albert St LITERARY 942-8026 Mon-Thur 8:30-5:30, Fri VIRTUOSI CONCERTS presents is a great way to gain experience in a WINNIPEG SKA & REGGAE its Gala Opening Night Concert featur- field you may be interested in. The Vol- 8:30-5, Sat 9:30-4:30. Until Septem- unteer Centre of Winnipeg is holding a FESTIVAL September 14-16 Various McNALLY ROBINSON BOOK- ber 28: ‘’Painted Passions’ by Manju ing Shauna Rolston, cello & Heather Venues around downtown Winnipeg. Schmidt, piano. Co-presented by Volunteer Recruitment Fair on campus. SELLERS – GRANT PARK: Sep Lodha. October 4 & 5, Riddell Atrium and Visit www.myspace.com/wsrf for The University of Winnipeg and CBC detailed info. 14: Phil Hall, reading & signing his RadioTwo on Saturday, September 16, Centennial Foyer, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. latest book of poetry, An Oak Hunch, GALLERY 1C03 Centennial Hall, 8 p.m. with greetings on behalf of the which was nominated for the 2006 Grif- University of Winnipeg 515 Portage Ave University of Winnipeg from Dr. Lloyd The University of Winnipeg Career Ser- ROMI MAYES September 14 Old fin Poetry Prize. Sep 18-22: THIN AIR 786-9253 Mon-Fri 12-4, Sat 1-4. The Axworthy, President. At Eckhardt- vices is offering a series of Free Career Market Square 12 noon. Bedford Invest- Winnipeg International Writers Festival Gallery provides the campus community Gramatté Hall, University of Winnipeg. Workshops, open to all students at the ments Music in the Market, to coincide Special Events, 7pm each evening. Sep and general public with opportunities to Tickets: $29 adults / $27 seniors / University of Winnipeg and the Colle- with the Exchange District Farmers’ WALK FOR ART 21: Thinking Out Loud book discussion learn about visual art, thereby reinforc- $17 students. Free Parking avail- giate. The workshops will be held in the Market. Free. Amy Lockhart's animated program hosted by Terry McLeod on ing and emphasizing the educational able in the CBC Lot, accessed via Career Resource Centre (0GM09). To work 'Walk for Art' is showing Harry Frankfurt’s On Bullshit. mandate of the University. September Young Street. Call 786-9000 or visit sign up, stop by the Counselling Services DANNY MICHEL W/ LULLABY at Cinematheque on 21 – October 21: Cliff Eyland’s solo www.virtuosi.mb.ca. office(0GM06), email careerresource@ BAXTER September 14 West End September 20 at 9pm. McNALLY ROBINSON BOOK exhibition ‘Cameras, Cellphones And uwinnipeg.ca, or phone 786-9231. Cultural Centre, 8pm. Tickets $12 in SELLERS – PORTAGE PLACE: Hard Drives’. Opening reception Sep 21, BROWN BAG LECTURE Sept 22: Career Exploration, 12:30-1:20 advance WECC, Ticketmaster, Into the Sep 18: THIN AIR Book Chat: Debra 4-6pm; artist’s talk Sep 22, 12:30pm. SERIES with Dr. Eliakim Sibanda, p.m. Music, and Music Trader. Anderson and Dennis Bock, 2:30pm. Department of History. September 18, Sep 19: THIN AIR Book Chat: Barry ELLICE CAFÉ & THEATRE 585 12:30 p.m.-1 p.m. in 3C01. Each year, Sept 25: Resume Writing, 12:30-1:20 p.m. RONNIE BAKER BROOKS W/ Demster and Denise Roig, 2:30pm. 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(first Monday of each month, $4.99 at 169 Lilac GALLERY LACOSSE the door) starts October 2. TRE Ellice Ave @ Sherbrook St. See St 284-0726 Tues-Fri 10-6, Sat 10-5. Concerts for details. Sep 14: Danny Mi- GETTING TO KNOW YOU 2 CRITICAL MASS September 29, Small neighbourhood gallery. Until chel. Sep 16: Mikey Dread w/ JFK & the presented by Virage Dance Company. 2006. Meet at 4:30pm in Central Park September 27: Jim Corbett’s ‘Assault on PLUG-IN ICA GIO’S 155 Smith St. Wednesdays: Conspirators. Sep 17: The Duhks. Sep Come and get to know your fellow danc- and the Mass leaves from Central Park the Ordinary’. 'Unlearn' yourself at Plug-In Karaoke. Thursdays: Bump n’ Grynd. 19: Geoff Berner. Sep 22: The Wailin’ ers of all levels, whether you just started at 5pm Sharp! Fridays: DJ daNNo dance party. First or if you’ve been dancing for years. Fea- ICA until November 18 with Jennys with Ndidi Onukwulu. Sep 27: Saturday of the month: Womyn’s night. turing Latin, Salsa and World dancing. Main Amy Millan with Mayor McCA. FOLLOWING DERRIDA: LEG- GALLERY ONE ONE ONE this collection of international Q-Pages Book Club, 5pm. September 17, 7-11pm at Ted Motyka Floor Fitzgerald Building, School of Art artists' takes on pop culture Dance Studio, 460 Main Street. Tickets ACIES CONFERENCE October U of Manitoba 474-9322. Showing and and its symbols. $7 in advance, $10 at the door. Call 4th-7th, at the University of Manitoba. collecting contemporary and historical HEMP ROCK CAFÉ 302 Notre 293-3757 or visit www.viragedanceco. An international, interdisciplinary con- art at the U of M. Until October 13: KC Dame Ave. Local and touring acoustic com for more info. ference commemorating the life and Adams solo exhibition. and punk shows. Sep 15: TBA. Sep work of Jacques Derrida, hosted by URBAN SHAMAN 203-290 Mc- 16: The Mothra, Atrophy Manuscript, Mosaic, a journal for the interdisciplin- The Kettle Black, The Mantra, 4th Floor, ART FOR LUNCH – Winnipeg Art 109 Higgins Dermot Ave 942-2674. Contemporary ary study of literature. Free registration GRAFFITI GALLERY Colors in Midnight, Not Forsaken, Face Gallery. September 20, Outdoor Walk- Ave 667-9960. A not-for-profit com- Aboriginal art. Until September 30: for grad students until September 15th. Your Destroyer. ing Tour (weather permitting) Manitoba munity youth art center, using art as a Rebecca Belmore, ‘The Named and Visit www.umanitoba.ca/mosaic/derrida Unnamed’. Until Sep 30: ‘Dacian Flags’ Modernist Walking Tour, with Exhibition for details. tool for community, social, economic guest curator Serena Keshavjee. Sep- and individual growth. by Adrian Gorea. Meet the artist Sep 14, HOOLIGAN’S NEIGHBOUR- 7pm. THE DUHKS tember 27, Exhibition Tour of ‘Manitoba HOOD PUB 61 Sherbrook St. Modernist Architecture 1945 – 1975’. DANIEL MCINTYRE WARD HIGH OCTANE GALLERY, OS- Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays: Karaoke. Acclaimed local folk/roots group Take a closer look at Manitoba Modern- CITY COUNCILLOR DEBATE BORNE VILLAGE CULTURAL VIDEO POOL MEDIA ARTS Wednesdays: The Perpetrators. Thurs- The Duhks celebrate the release ist ephemera, photography, drawings, between the candidates vying for a spot CENTRE 300-100 Arthur St 949-9134. days: Andrew Neville and the Poor of the 'Migrations' CD on Sep 17 interior design, and city plans with on Winnipeg’s City Council. Wednesday, CENTRE 445 River @ Osborne St Choices. Sundays: Blues Jam with October 11, 6:30pm at Robert A. Steen 284-9477. Local community art gallery. Contemporary media art. September 20, at the West End Cultural Centre. exhibition guest curator Herb Enns. 9pm: ‘Walk for Walk: Animated Works Scotty Hills and Curtis Newton. Community Centre, 980 Palmerston by Amy Lockhart.’ Avenue in Wolseley. KEN SEGAL GALLERY 4-433 CYCLING IN THE CITY: THE LOCAL / MASH 112 Mar- WHERE TO NEXT? We want to River Ave 477-4527 Tues-Fri 10-6, Sat ket Ave. Tuesdays: Open Blues Jam. WINDSOR HOTEL 187 Garry St. 10-5. Showcase of original contempo- WAH-SA GALLERY 302 Fort St hear what you would like to see change 942-5121. Aboriginal artwork. Septem- Saturdays: Gasolina Saturdays feat. Tuesdays: Jam with Ragdoll Blues. and improve for cycling in Winnipeg. rary art. Until September 30: ‘The Global Reggaeton, meringue, salsa, hip-hop, Wednesdays: Jam with Big Dave ANNOUNCEMENTS & Village’ featuring 10 Contemporary ber 21 - 30: Leland Bell. How can we make cycling safer and bet- dancehall. McLean. Sep 14-16: Slo-Mo from ter? Let’s get cycling on the agenda for OPPORTUNITIES Artists from Serbia & Montenegro. Portage. Sep 21-23: Big Deal Band. WAYNE ARTHUR GALLERY the civic election. We cycle and we vote! KING’S HEAD PUB 100 King St. September 20, 7-9:30pm in the Bulman LA GALERIE at the CENTRE 186 Provencher Blvd 477-5249. Gal- lery for Manitoba-based artists. Until Tuesdays: The Original Comedy of the WOODBINE HOTEL 466 Main St. Centre, University of Winnipeg. DO YOU LIKE WORKING WITH CULTUREL FRANCO-MANI- September 27: ‘Ubiquity’, a Collection Kings Head. See Comedy for details. Historic downtown hotel bar. Sep 15th NEWCOMER CHILDREN? Do TOBAIN 340 Provencher Blvd 233- of masks, heads & other faces by local Sundays: All The Kings Men. Sep 14- & 16th: Mark Conroy Band. Sep 22nd & DOCTORS WITHOUT BOR- you believe you can change our com- 8972 Mon-Fri 8am-10pm, Sat-Sun 16: Winnipeg Ska & Reggae Festival. artist Peter Dumans. 23rd: Fat Chance. DERS / MEDECINS SANS munity? If you said yes, consider vol- 12pm-10pm. Until Oct 1: ‘Fox River Sep 22: Ego Spank. Sep 23: Rubber unteering with some of our programs. Diaries’ by Suzanne Gauthier. Soul. FRONTIERES SPEAKERS THE ZOO / OSBORNE VILLAGE The Citizenship Council of Manitoba WINNIPEG ART GALLERY 300 SERIES For vulnerable populations Inc. International Centre is looking for Memorial Blvd 786-6641. On now: INN 160 Osborne St. Thursdays: New around the world, access to health care student volunteers to help new arriv- LA MAISON DES ARTISTES Masters of Inuit Sculpture. Until Sep 22: McNALLY ROBINSON BOOK- Band Showcase – No Cover. Sep 15: is decreasing and marginal at best. On 219 Provencher 237-5964 Mon-Fri 9- als to Canada learn English and feel ‘Situation Comedy: Humour in Recent SELLERS – PRAIRIE INK The Ruffnecks, Tall, Dark & Hammered, September 20, Doctors Without Borders, welcome in our country. Opportunities 5. Until November 7: ‘untitled’ by Diane Art’. Until Oct 22: ‘Manitoba Modernist RESTAURANT GRANT PARK: Port Amoral. Sep 16: X Engine X w/ the world’s largest independent medical Lavoie. exist for volunteers to give their time Painters: Head, Leathers, Lochlead, All music at 8pm. Sep 15: The Dorothy guests. Sep 21: 12:34 w/ The Panic emergency aid organization, will hose a and support to the Centre’s Immigrant Tascona’. Until Oct 29: ‘Manitoba’s Dyck Trio. Sep 16: A Taste of New Or- and guests. Sep 22: In Transformation special recruitment information evening. Children and Youth Programs including LABEL GALLERY 510 Portage Ave Modernist Architecture: 1945-1975’. leans. Sep 22: The Andrew Frolich Trio. w/ Dia Dolor, Recently returned volunteers will share Sports Activities for Newcomer Kids, 772-5165 Tues-Sat 12-5. Volunteer PORTAGE PLACE: All music at 6:30pm. their experiences of being in the field, Empowerment with the Girl Guides, artist-run non-profit art centre show- WOODLANDS GALLERY 535 Sep 15: Three Blind Mice. and questions will be answered about Newcomer Buddy Welcome Program casing works of community artists. On Academy Rd 947-0700. Sep 21 – Oct volunteering. 7:30pm in the White Lec- and our After Class Education Program. now: ‘Beyond the Front Lawn – A 21st ture Theatre, 2055 Notre Dame Ave, on 7: ‘View of Crops and Table Tops’ New MONDRAGON BOOKSTORE Devoid, Pornocracy. If you’d like to help out, contact Si-il Century Landscape Art Show’. paintings by Tom Sutton-Smith. the Red River College campus. No cost Park at 943-9158ext 285 or 688-1941. AND COFFEEHOUSE 91 Albert COMMUNITY to attend and those with and without a St. Political bookstore and vegan medical background are welcome to MANITOBA CRAFTS COUNCIL restaurant hosting readings, speakers join. THE LATE LUNCH SHOW Atten- EXHIBITION GALLERY 214 Mc- and concerts. Wednesdays: Wobbly tion independent artists and producers! Dermot Ave 487-6114 Tues-Fri 11-5, BARS, CAFES & VENUES Wednesdays. Sep 16: Lisa Hoffman and Beginning September 15, 2006 at Sat 11-4. Contemporary arts and crafts. Kyra Shaughnessy. EVENTS ART AFTER DARK – Winnipeg 1:00 pm Arts and Cultural Industries Art Gallery. Thursday, September 21, Manitoba (ACI) presents the Late Lunch 7pm: Panel Discussion: Architects on ACADEMY BAR & EATERY 414 OSBORNE FREEHOUSE 437 Os- Show, a series of 9 fabulous workshops MARTHA STREET STUDIO 11 Academy Rd. Sept 15: Playing Cards. Architecture. Modernist architecture Martha St 772-6253 Mon-Fri 10-5. borne St. Mondays: The Cool Monday designed specifically for the self- Sep 21: Paul Viera book release. Sep EXCHANGE DISTRICT FARM- is often criticized for its sterility, its employed. With topics ranging from Showcasing the fine art of printmaking. Night Hang, 8pm. First set followed by ERS’ MARKET in Old Market “institutional” anonymity, and its lack 22: Darryl Brunger Band. Sep 23: Grace a jam session. Sep 14: Lindsay Jane, Healing Through the Arts to Financial September 23: Mixed Media Printmak- Murillio Band. Sep 26: Matt Epp, $5. Square on Thursdays, 10am-2pm and of ornament. A panel of local architects ing Workshop. Artist in Residence, Lisa 9pm. Sep 19: A Breath of Fresh Air. Sep Management, each hour-long session Saturdays, 9am-2pm speaks informally about the Modernist provides an opportunity to connect Tognon will be holding a one day bilin- 21: Jacob and Lily, 9pm. landscape in Winnipeg,shedding light gual workshop exploring dry point and BAR ITALIA 737 Corydon Ave. with professionals, network with other until September 30, 2006. Find Mani- on this misunderstood movement. independent artists/producers, and Chine Colle printmaking techniques. No Mondays: Student Night. Wednesdays: THE PARK THEATRE 698 Osborne Audience Q and A to follow. previous experience necessary. 1-5pm, DJ Scientific. Thursdays Bounce. toba-grown produce, herbs, baking, arts gain valuable knowledge about the St. Mondays: Monday Night Football on & crafts, and more. cultural industry. Registration is $5.00 $40 for members, non-members add Fridays: Good Sound. Saturdays: My the big-screen, free admission. Sep 14: price of membership. de-Generation feat. DJ Harry Chan. HOSTELLING 101 Thursday, and includes a delicious lunch, so call All Ages Show. Fast Human and guests. September 21, 7-8 pm. Hostelling 101 927-2787 to reserves your spot today. $7. Sep 15: 8pm - Rebel in Tuxedo, PROTECTING REFUGEES, IS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE is back again starting this fall. Hosted MEDEA GALLERY 132 Osborne St THE CAVERN / TOAD IN THE folk concert. $8. Sep 16: 3pm - Kids by Hostelling International – An experi- 453-1115 Mon-Sat 10:30-5, Sun 1-4. HOLE 108 Osborne St. Third Wednes- Concert, starring Alphabet Soup and JUSTIFIED? Presented by Amnesty MANITOBA WRITERS’ GUILD enced traveler will be here to answer all INC. Celebrating the 25th Anniver- Until Sep 16: ‘Prairie Skies’, acrylic and day of the month: Comedy night. friends. 8pm - The Sean Brown Trio, International. Janine LeGal will share of your travel and hostelling questions. pastel works by Marlene Campbell. Sep Katie Murphy and J.D. Edwards live on- her experiences as an advocate for sary of the MWG, ‘Friends: A Contest for McNally Robinson Booksellers, Portage Writers’ Tell us what it means to you to 17 – 30: ‘Collection of Pastels’ by Ruth stage. $8. Sep 17: 7pm - All Ages Show, refugee claimants. She has been Place, 7pm. Chodkiewicz. CENTRE CULTUREL FRANCO- with Entrophy and Six Pack (a.k.a. Big supporting the Raza family who have be a friend. Your original, unpublished MANITOBAIN 340 Provencher Johnson Railroad). $7. Sep 20: 5:30pm sought sanctuary at a local church. Sep- writing should demonstrate the impor- Blvd. Tuesdays: Le Mârdi Jazz. Sep 19: - Laughter Yoga. It’s the best medicine. tember 14, 7pm. Orientation to Amnesty MURDER CITY/MEDIA CITY tance of friends. Fiction and non-fiction: MAWA - MENTORING ART- Michel Paré. Sep 22 9:30pm - Six Vynyl Penguins International for newcomers 6:30pm INDEPENDENT MEDIA ARTS max 5000 words. Poetry: max 25 lines. ISTS FOR WOMEN’S ART 611 live onstage. Sep 23: Supernova.com, Welcome Place, 397 Carlton Street. ALLIANCE ANNUAL NATION- Submission forms may be downloaded, Main St 949-9490. Supporting women Battle of the Bands. Free, open to Public, everyone wel- AL CONFERENCE AND AGM, and more information obtained, from artists at their new home on Main CLUB DESIRE 441 Main St. Thurs- come. For more information call Louise September 20-23. Winnipeg is known www.mbwriter.mb.ca. $15 entry fee; Street. September 21 – October 28: days: DJs United w/ DJ Wizzard and at 475-4565. to be the murder capital of Canada. Deadline: December 31, 2006. Mail ‘Grrls, Chicks, Sisters & Squaws: Les guests. Fridays: House Underground PYRAMID CABARET 176 Fort St. However, this coming September, Win- entries to 206-100 Arthur St, Winnipeg, Citoyennes du Cyberspace’ curated by Series w/ DJ Wizzard and guests. Satur- Thursdays: The Mod Club. Sep 14: After nipeg’s arts community will attempt to MB, R3B 1H3. Skawennati Tricia Fragnito. days: Open until 4am w/ DJ Wizzard. Beat, Rebel Force. Sep 15: Vitamins For EDUCATION AND THE ENVI- You, Blundersrepublik, Suz, DJ Co-op. RONMENT: ARE WE DOING kill this horrible nickname by saturating the city with film, video, and new media, Sep 16: Ronnie Baker Brooks w/ South ENOUGH? Guest Speaker: Dr. David 2006 PRAIRIE FIRE PRESS - 3rd Floor COLLECTIVE CABARET / DIE turning Winnipeg from Murder City to OUTWORKS GALLERY Thunderbird. See Concerts for details. James Chapman is a senior lecturer at MCNALLY ROBINSON WRIT- 290 McDermot Ave 949-0274. Artist- MASCHINE CABARET 108 Media City.At the Ramada Conference Massey University College of Education ING CONTESTS (Bliss Carman run studio and exhibition space in the Osborne St. Thursdays: Good Form, Centre, with other venues at Artspace in Palmerston North, New Zealand. Poetry Award - Judge: Lorna Crozier, Exchange. We are looking for artists Indie Club Night, $3. Hosted by DJ REGAL BEAGLE 331 Smith St. – 100 Arthur; MAWA – 611 Main; Plug His research interests focus on envi- Short Fiction - Judge: Sandra Birdsell, to join our studio program. One spot Font Crimes and Rob Vilar. Fridays: Tuesdays: Hatfield McCoy. Wednes- In ICA – 286 McDermot; Urban Shaman ronmental education and curriculum Creative Non-Fiction - Judge: Stan is available now and another spot will Punk/Hardcore Night w/ Fat Mat & Scott days: Open Mic Nite. Weekends: Blues. Gallery/aceartinc. – 290 McDermot; integration. September 14, 7:30-9pm, Dragland). $5,250 in prizes. Deadline: become available late in the fall of 2006. Wade. Saturdays: Goth/Industrial Night. Sep 15-16: Brent Parkin. MASH – 112 Market. Call 788-4301 for Room 224, Education Building, Univer- November 30, 2006. For information Please contact Jordan by phone at 510- Sep 8: KENmode 2 LP Release Party w/ more info. sity of Manitoba. Everybody Welcome. contact: Prairie Fire Press, 423-100 1623 or by email at info@outworksgal- Port Amoral, Of Human Bondage, $3. ROYAL ALBERT ARMS 48 Albert Free Admission. Arthur Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B lery.com. Until Sep 16: ‘Take This, You’ Sep 9: AMF, Still Village, Infraction, Inwolven, Broken Amry, …The Attack St. Sep 14: The Raygun Cowboys. Sep 4th ANNUAL LATIN AMERI- 1H3. Phone: (204) 943-9066, E-mail: curated by Cliff Eyland. October 3 – 14: 15: Quagmire, Nailbrick, Raiden. Sep [email protected], www.prairiefire.ca. ‘A Land That Buries Its Children’ new Of. Sep 15: Red Shag Carpet, 12:34. LIVING SIMPLY FOR THE CAN FESTIVAL September 23. 16: Punk Rock Shower! With Daikon, Concert/Recital: Traditional Dances, work by Mia Feuer. EARTH WORKSHOP Voluntary Mothra, Shrimp. Sep 19: Fun 100. Sep Music, Poetry, Cultural Display, Simplicity is a powerful, personal way REEL PRIDE CALL FOR SUB- ELEPHANT & CASTLE PUB 22: Igor & The Skindiggers. Sep 23: Traditional Food. 1-5pm, Ukranian we can reduce our ecological footprint, MISSIONS Winnipeg’s Reel Pride, OSEREDOK GALLERY 184 350 St Mary Ave. Thursdays, 8pm: Farewell to the Quiffs! Last Show! Labor Temple, 591 Pritchard Ave. (@ while saving money and increasing well- the only gay and lesbian film festival in Alexander Ave E. 942-0218. Until Oct PubStumpers. Sundays: Student night McGregor). Everybody Welcome. Free being. This workshop surveys consumer Manitoba, invites film and video produc- 7: ‘Avramenko: A Legacy of Ukrainian with live entertainment. Sep 17: Western Admission. Latin American Dance fea- SALSA BAR & GRILL 500 Por- culture’s “big footprint” on our personal ers to submit original works to our third Dance’ States. Sep 24: Doug McLean turing: Salsa Explosion, Ballet Folklórico tage Ave. Thursdays: Urban Hip Hop. lives, families, and the environment. It annual film competition, taking place Nicaragüense, Latin Motion, Folklore de Fridays: Salsa/Top 40. Saturdays: Salsa. will also explore the key elements of November 12, 2006. Films must be in mi Tierra, DJ Memo, Jorge Leyton and PLATFORM (CENTRE FOR ELLICE CAFÉ & THEATRE 587 Sundays: Reggae and Calypso. simple living and review a simple list the office by 5:00 pm, September 29. Mi Proyecto Band. 8pm-1am, Ukranian Ellice Ave. Neighbourhood café and of strategic lifestyle changes that ac- Full details are available at http://www. PHOTOGRAPHIC AND Labor Temple, 591 Pritchard Ave. (@ theatre showing films and showcasing count for nearly 90% of our individual reelpride.org/. For more information, DIGITAL ARTS) 121-100 Arthur SHANNON’S IRISH PUB 175 McGregor) Tickets: $10.00. For more local talent. Sep 15: Scarlet Halo CD environmental impacts. September 16, please contact Zanna Joyce, Festival St 942-8183 Tues-Sat 12-5. Photo- Carlton St. Sep 14: 80s night with DJ information, please phone 261-0935, Release, w/ Damascus, Moria, Triumph 9am-4pm (register at 8:30am) at R.A. Coordinator, at 204-775-6457, or by based media. Until October 20: ‘The Brian St.Clair. Sep 15: Nastic. Sep 16: 942-8313, or 779-3893. at Sea. Sep 22: Jordan Ashlin CD Steen Community Centre, 980 Palmer- email at [email protected]. End of Scanning’ by Richard Dyck with Release. Hot Little Rocket and Paper Moon. Sep Flower and Leaf Arrangements by Susie 17: Nate Bryski. Sep 18: J. Williamez. ston Ave. $50 includes handouts and Rempel Sep 19: Chris Moise. Sep 20: Jeff refreshments. Call 475-4233 or email ARTS AND CULTURAL AGEN- NSI FILMEXCHANGE CANA- FINN’S PUB 210-25 Forks Market Driedger of Steeplechaser. Sep 21: 80s [email protected] to register. CIES OF MANITOBA (ACI) DIAN FILMMAKERS: Call for Rd, Johnson Terminal. Tuesdays: Ego night with DJ Brian St. Clair. PLUG-IN ICA 286 McDermot Ave HOSTS PD DAY 2006: 4 Direc- Submissions: 2007 NSI FilmExchange Spank, 10:30pm. Wednesdays: Guy THE 26TH ANNUAL TERRY tions, September 26. PD Day is ACI’s Canadian Film Festival Is your film 942-1043. Until November 18: ‘Unlearn’ Abraham Band. – international range of emerging and TIMES CHANGE(D) HIGH AND FOX RUN AT THE FORKS will annual signature event that brings project ready for the big screen? NSI together cultural workers for top-notch established artists, curated by Steven LONESOME CLUB Main St @ St. be held on Sunday, September 17th. FilmExchange Canadian Film Festival, Matijcio. Sep 30: ‘Critical Condition: A Registration starts at 9:00am and the training, discussion of current issues Canada’s Coolest Film Festival, is Mary Ave. Sundays: Blues Jam with and networking. Taking place at the Forum for the Dissenting Voice’. Big Dave McLean. No cover charge. Run begins at 10:00 until 2:00 pm. This looking for the best Canadian dramatic is a non-competitive 10 km family event Inn at the Forks, this exciting one-day Sep 14: Friday Morning’s Regret with event will feature more than 50 present- LSistieptemberngs Coordi 14, n2006ator: NickT heW eigeUniterldt contact: [email protected] Want to submit your listing to Uniter Listings? Email your listings to [email protected] Listings Coordinator: Nick Weigeldt E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Deadline for submissions is Wednesday, eight days before the issue you’d like your Phone: 786-9497 Phone: 786-9497 @ listing to first appear in. The Uniter publishes on Thursdays, 25 times a year. 20 LISTINGS uniter.ca Fax: 783-7080 shorts and features to screen February 28 to March 3, 2007 in Winnipeg. Submission deadline: November 1, AWARDS & FINANCIAL AID: INFORMATION 2006, 4:30 pm. Care Program, Marymound School, all $750 each, may be awarded to the un- The Datatel Scholars Foundation online GALLERY 1C03, UNIVERSITY EXTERNAL AWARDS Marymound community group homes or dergraduates who write the best essays. scholarship application process is as OF WINNIPEG Call for Submissions UNIVERSITY closed unites, the Sexual Abuse Treat- To be eligible for an award, applicants follows. for consideration in 2007-08 and 2008- ment program and Marymound North. must either be enrolled in a postgradu- 09. Deadline: September 15, 2006. OF WINNIPEG NATIONAL ABORIGINAL 1. A student attending an eligible Datatel ACHIEVEMENT FOUNDATION: ate program (M.A. M.Sc or Ph.D.) or For further information, please contact -Be under the age of 30 years at the time undergraduate program (B.A. B.Sc) at a client institution may apply via the online University Art Curator Jennifer Gibson of application. application form between September 1, NAAF scholarship applications for 2006- Canadian university or have completed [email protected], or telephone INTERNAL AWARDS: 2006 and January 31, 2007. (NOTE: ap- 2007 are now available for students in a degree in such a program no earlier (204)786-9253. -Show proof that he/she has been ac- plicants must submit their completed Fine Arts Programs. Programs consid- than December 2004. Detailed instruc- U OF W Scholarships for cepted to an education/training program application with two letters of recom- ered: visual or media arts, music, the- tions can be obtained in the Awards at an accredited learning institution. mendation by January 31, 2007 in order FELDENKRAIS METHOD Continuing Students: atre, dance, and other creative pursuits office located in Graham Hall. Deadline: Applications are available at the Awards to be considered for nomination.) - AWARENESS THROUGH Approximately 650 scholarships and that support fine arts activities such as October 15, 2006. office located in Graham Hall, or at MOVEMENT Relax, move better prizes are awarded each year by the arts administration, stage management, 2. The scholarship administrator from website www.marymound.com Deadline and live better with Feldenkrais Method University of Winnipeg to undergraduate sound engineering, marketing studies each participating Datatel client institu- date: October 1, 2006. classes at the Manitoba Conservatory of students. These awards range in value or other studies that promote the self- DENNIS FRANKLIN CROMARY tion reviews, evaluates, and nominates Music & Arts. This renowned therapy from prizes of $100 to major scholarships employment and entrepreneurial skills MEMORIAL FUND: applicants between Feb. 1, 2006 & Feb. uses awareness of movement and teach- of the arts. of over $8000. In order to be considered BRIDGET WALSH SCHOLARSHIP The purpose of the Dennis Franklin 15, 2006. es correct body movement through light for undergraduate scholarships, students stretching andexercise. Ease tension These scholarships are available to all FOR SINGLE PARENT IRISH Cromarty Memorial Fund is to financially 3. Nominated student applications must have completed at least 30 credit after work, with this 10-week course, Canadian resident Aboriginal Students assist others in fulfilling their aspira- are forwarded to the Datatel Scholars hours and must have an overall minimum WOMEN: starting Thursday October 5 at 5:30pm (First Nations, Metis and Inuit) who are tions. Decisions are not based solely on Foundation review committee for final grade point average (GPA) of 3.00. Most at the Conservatory, 211 Bannatyne Av- enrolled in full-time post-secondary The Bridget Walsh scholarship is on the academic records. evaluation and award determination in undergraduate scholarships are awarded enue. Space is limited - register today. studies. basis of academic merit or promise as the spring. For details or to sign up, call 943-6090 without the necessity of students having well as financial need. It is awarded to Criteria: to apply for them. These include: Applications available at www.naaf.ca or visit www.mcma.ca. low-income, single-parent Irish women -recipient must be a member of Nish- For more information go to their website or at the Awards Office in Graham Hall. in Canada who wish to pursue their or email scholars@datatel •Department Scholarships Applications must be postmarked on or nawbe Aski. education at university or college levels. DEADLINE: submit online at www.datatel. •Academic ProficiencyS cholarships before September 30 to be eligible. -the University student candidate Scholarship values vary from year to com/dsf by January 31 2007. year depending on royalties. Contact: must have completed one year of post NOTICE OF •General Undergraduate Scholarships Deadline: September 30, 2006 Mary Broderick, Chairperson, Bridget secondary education with a consistently NOMINATIONS Students are sent scholarship offers as Walsh Scholarship, 205 Mountainview successful academic record, and be SURFING FOR MORE DOLLARS? assessments are done and/or nomina- FOUNDATION FOR THE Road North, Georgetown, ON, L7G 4T8, confirmed as continuing the program. Tel: (416) 873-0873. Deadline: October Try these websites for more possibilities! tions are forwarded to the Awards Office. ADVANCEMENT OF ABORIGINAL -Applicants should provide the follow- UWSA By- Election 2006 15 , 2006 These two sites will lead you through This process begins in June but contin- YOUTH (FAAY): ing: ues throughout the summer and into the Canadian based scholarship searches. Important Dates for elections: fall. Most undergraduate scholarship FAAY is operated by the Canadian (i) a three page essay on the topics www.studentawards.com www.scholar- offers are sent to students in August and Council for Aboriginal Business and is NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE mentioned below shipscanada.com Informational meeting 12:30 p.m., September. dedicated to developing future gen- BLIND: (AEBC) SCHOLARSHIP September 20, 2006. erations of Aboriginal leaders through PROGRAM: (ii) a letter of reference from a current higher education. 85 scholarships teacher, or an elder or mentor. 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Sports Editor: Mike Pyl Sports E-mail: [email protected] “Farm team” to complement Wesmen men’s basketball Jr. Wesmen announce 18-25 collegiate team

that get cut (from the varsity team) because The team will compete in a 26-game motivational tool for those players wishing to you might see something. You might get that schedule in the Central Plains Athletic make it to the CIS. Mike PYL one rookie that might be good enough, but Conference, which include teams from The idea for the team was initiated by SPORTS EDITOR just because there’s no more spots, they can Red River College, Canadian Mennonite Dr. Michael Weinrath, a sociology profes- still stay in touch with basketball instead of University, and Providence College. They will sor at the university involved with other Jr. quitting all together.” also play games against American opponents. Wesmen teams in the past, who wished to he Wesmen men’s basketball team is Given the potential developmental value A year in the CPAC will exhaust one year of start up a development team. His idea, how- set to benefit from a huge boost this Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) eligibil- ever, was not as novel as it might have ap- T year – the establishment of a farm ity for eventual Jr. Wesmen student athletes. peared. Rather, it represents another stage of team to help develop potential Wesmen. Joining Vasallo on the bench will be head the team’s maturation process. This incarna- This summer, the University of Winnipeg You get those kids coach Luc Buller, a former Wesmen stand- tion of the Jr. Wesmen was initially a division athletic department announced they are ex- out from 1997-2000. Vasallo, a former team- one senior men’s team, who competed as re- panding its Jr. Wesmen club program – bas- that are almost there, that mate, recalls Buller’s tremendous intensity he cently as last year. ketball and volleyball teams for both boys exhibited during his playing career, an attri- “We had something like this in place and girls aimed at developing its athletes in just don’t have something. bute he feels will benefit the development of when I was playing,” said Vasallo, who also grades six through 12 to, as their website de- his players. played from 1997-2000, “who would just scribes, their “full potential” – to include a (The hope is that) maybe “Sometimes we used to think this guy compete in division one senior men’s. Now, it new college men’s team for 18-25 year olds. was a jerk because he was just so intense,” has evolved into something more team-like, While it presents an opportunity to con- they’ll pick it up in this said Vasallo, “but that’s what you need, espe- where they compete against real teams.” tinue competing at a high level for former cially for a development team. You want to The Jr. Wesmen staged two identifica- high school players now attending the development league.” teach every player that this is how you gotta tion camps in August, and will be holding try- University of Winnipeg, it also carries signifi- compete. You can’t take this as ‘oh, this is just outs Sunday, September 17th from 4:00-6:00 cant implications for coach Dave Crook’s var- – Sherwin Vasallo a club team’, especially when you want to de- pm, and Monday, September 18th from 8:00- sity Wesmen team, as it offers them with a velop these kids and then become a feeder 10:00 pm. Prospective players must be turn- valuable tool to develop its players. program.” ing 18 years of age this year, be a full-time stu- “You get those kids that are almost of this team, the Jr. Wesmen will remain in Buller also figures to draw from his time dent at the University of Winnipeg (minimum there,” said Sherwin Vasallo, assistant coach close contact with Crook, and vice versa. with the Wesmen in applying it to the CIS 18 credit hours from September to April), and of the Jr. Wesmen and a U of W athletic ther- “We plan on, especially with ones that hopefuls on the roster. Initially cut after his be able to travel to the United States. For more apist, “that just don’t have something. (The we feel might be ready for the next level, there rookie year, he rejoined the team the next fall information, contact Dr. Michael Weinrath at hope is that) maybe they’ll pick it up in this being close communication with the head to play three more seasons – a case very rare [email protected], or Doran Reid at development league.” coach,” said Vasallo, a former Wesmen point among Canadian university athletes. There is [email protected]. “You don’t want to discourage the kids guard. little doubt his experience will be used as a

Is 62 the new 73? Phillies’ slugger Howard chasing Maris’ mark

By Daniel Falloon to steroid use, though he has been accused, and was also found using a corked bat in a 2003 game. Quick! Which player owns Major League While Howard may not be any purer Baseball’s single season home run mark? than the record-holders, Verducci gives him If you said Barry Bonds, who hit an as- the benefit of the doubt. Since steroid allega- tonishing 73 in 2001, you’d be correct. Mark tions rocked the baseball world with the Bay McGwire, who shattered Roger Maris’ 37 year Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) trial, old mark in 1998, with 70, would also have involving Bonds, Major League Baseball has been a good guess. However, in a September instituted some testing, as well as banned 5th article, Sports Illustrated’s Tom Verducci more substances. Basically, according to makes a case for reinstating Maris’ record. Verducci, Howard has never taken part in a This argument is timely not only in that the Major League game “in which he could be steroid debate is heating up, but in that Ryan fully confident of using steroids without any Howard is heating up as well. repercussions.” The name may not currently ring a bell, While some fans argue in favour of strik- but it may soon enough. Howard is a first ing the tainted records, thereby reinstating baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies, who Maris as the record holder, this is not realis- are often buried in the NL East by this time tic. It is hypocritical to strike statistics for the of year. While the New York Mets are running sake of the record books, which does not take away with the division, the 27 year-old St. into account the effect the statistics had on Louis native has kept Philadelphia in the Wild the games in which they were recorded. It is Card hunt. As of September 9, 2006, Howard not feasible to go back and take away home had hit 56 dingers, six short of eclipsing Maris, runs, many of which could have had an effect with 20 games remaining, while the Phillies on the outcome of the game. If large numbers were 1.5 games back of the Wild Card-leading of players were doping, as has occasionally San Diego Padres. been suggested, it is possible for some past Verducci argues that the three play- games to have ended in 0 - 0 draws. Ryan Howard's season is calling into question the handling of Steroid Era. www.the700level.com ers ahead of Maris - Sammy Sosa, who also The fortunate part about the Bonds, surpassed 61 in 1998, McGwire, and Bonds McGwire, and Sosa saga is that their record- - accomplished the feat in a tainted era. breaking seasons did not affect the playoffs in Sosa have been called out by the MLB for any most storied records in sports, no small feat McGwire has admitted to using androstene- any significant way. Bonds’ Giants missed the wrongdoing during their respective seasons, in itself. And if Hammerin’ Howard can help dione, which was not banned during the 1998 playoffs in 2001, as McGwire’s Cardinals did the records cannot be stricken. Even if the ev- usher the Phillies to the postseason for the season, while Bonds has admitted to using a in 1998. The Cubs, under Sosa’s leadership, idence is overwhelming, until proven guilty, first time since 1993, and to their first cham- cream given to him by a trainer, but claimed made the 1998 postseason, but were swept by the accused remain innocent. pionship since 1980, then Bonds’ record will he did not know he was taking steroids. Sosa, the Braves in three straight games. Therefore, Howard will have to take con- be no more than an asterisk-shaped glint on meanwhile, has not come forward admitting Also, since neither Bonds, McGwire, or solation in attempting to pass one of the his World Series ring. September 14, 2006 The Uniter contact: [email protected] Sports Editor: Mike Pyl E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 786-9497 22 Sports Fax: 783-7080

SPORTS THE PANELISTS NFL Picks Dustin Addison-Schneider is the starting setter for the Wesmen men’s volleyball team.

Thomas Asselin is co-host of the University of Winnipeg’s only sports radio talk show, Every week hundreds of thousands of fans Briefs the Ultra Mega Sports Show, broadcasting every Monday at 4:30 on CKUW 95.9 FM. Compiled by Mike Pyl spend hours scrutinizing the week’s most pivotal matchups. They scour websites, watch the sports Mike Pyl is Sports Editor for The Uniter and founder of the paper’s NFL Picks. Zinedine Zidane (right) was networks’ tickers at the bottom of the screen, dial allegedly responding to an Kalen Qually is a regular contributor to Uniter Sports, and NFL Picks defending champion. insult about his sister. pricey 1-900 numbers, all in search of the particular insight that will guarantee them a big payday. Dan Verville is a columnist with Red River’s Projector, as well as a regular voice Well, look no further. on the Call-Ups, which can be heard Wednesdays at 7pm on 92.9 Kick FM. Each week we preview five of the league’s chinadaily.com.cn Nick Weigeldt is The Uniter’s very own Listings Coordinator. juiciest matchups of the week. If NFL football is Zizou Antagonist Comes Clean your Sunday religion, Uniter Sports will be your Marco Materazzi, the Italy defender infamous Bible. Our crack team of analysts will show you for provoking France star Zinedine Zidane’s red card the way. during last July’s World Cup final, revealed what was said that prompted the Frenchman to head butt (As to which way is anybody’s guess.) Game #3: NY Giants @ Philadelphia Game #4: Arizona @ Seattle Materazzi, leading to his sending off in extra time of that game. Materazzi told the daily Gazzetto dello Sport Game #1: Buffalo @ Miami “One of the league’s greatest rivalries is renewed “With both teams coming off big wins after Week that he responded to Zidane’s provocation. again in Week 2, but bragging rights aren’t going to be the 1, albeit very different wins, expect to see some high “I held his shirt but don’t you think it is a provo- “Heading into the regular season opener last only thing on the line this time: in one of the NFL’s toughest offensive output. After the Lions choked the Seahawks cation to say that ‘if you want my shirt I will give it you divisions, the NFC East, the winner of this game will running game last week, Shaun Alexander will be look- afterwards’?” said Materazzi. “I replied to Zidane that Thursday night, there were several publications who hold an early advantage in the race for the division ing to rush for more than only 54 yards. Also, watch for I would prefer his sister, that is true. I brought up his were predicting the Miami Dolphins would be the first sister and that wasn’t a nice thing, that is true.” team to play a Super Bowl on its home turf. Apparently championship. So, after all of that, who’s going to win? Kurt Warner trying to build on his impressive 301 yards Zidane’s dismissal left France down to 10 men. those that did had forgotten Daunte Culpepper’s woeful Away from the storylines of the brother-vs-brother passing outing last week.” – Dan Verville They would later lose in penalty kicks. 2005 prior to his season-ending injury. In his first in the opener, Eli Manning - who played quite well - Materazzi later added he hopes the two can put should be able to step up. Meanwhile, the Eagles the incident behind them. game for his home state Fins, the Central Florida prod- “If peace can be made after terrible wars can uct threw two untimely fourth quarter picks that sealed looked like they were having fun in their 24-10 win over Asselin says: Seattle Zidane and I not make peace? A peace between men, the win for Pittsburgh. Two years ago, he would have the Texans with constant storyline Terrell Owens thank- Pyl says: Arizona without much publicity, certainly yes.” (courtesy been the league MVP were it not for Peyton Manning’s fully moving on. It’s hard to imagine the Giants going 0- Qually says: Seattle SI.com) 49 TDs. Now, he seems to be little more than an un- 2 to start the season, so I’m going to say that they take Verville says: Arizona reliable QB with a curiously suspect running game to a very, very close one from the Eagles. And that NFC Weigeldt says: Seattle NCAA Champion Gators East? No closer to being solved...stay tuned for that.” Feast on CIS Badgers back him up.” – Nick Weigeldt The University of Florida Gators men’s basket- – Mike Pyl ball team, fresh off their national championship last April, walloped the Brock University Badgers 107-51. Game #5: New England @ NY Jets Brock’s marquee opponent highlighted a week of ex- Asselin says: Miami Asselin says: Philadelphia hibition games played between NCAA teams and their Pyl says: Buffalo Pyl says: Philadelphia “Partially in awe of the fact I am being Canadian CIS counterparts. Florida was led by senior guard Lee Humphrey, Qually says: Miami Qually says: Philadelphia asked to pick a winner in this game, and mostly who finished with 14 points on 4-of-7 from three. Verville says: Miami Verville says: Philadelphia offended, I feel no reason to explore the overall NCAA tournament MVP Joakim Noah finished with ‘Suck’ that is the New York Jets. The Patriots will seven points and nine rebounds. Weigeldt says: Buffalo Weigeldt says: NY Giants In other games, the UBC Thunderbirds nar- win this game. Most likely in an embarrassing rowly missed upsetting the Wichita State Shockers, a fashion. I say good day.” – Kalen Qually Sweet Sixteen team in last year’s NCAA tournament, falling 72-66. Meanwhile, four-time defending CIS Game #2: Carolina @ Minnesota champions Carleton Ravens split their games, defeat- Asselin says: New England ing the La Salle Explorers 76-75 in overtime, a day “A tough pick considering the prediction is being Pyl says: NY Jets after falling 67-66 to coach Rick Pitino’s Louisville made before anyone’s had a chance to see the Vikings’ Cardinals. Across town, the Ottawa Gee-Gees also Qually says: New England finished with a 1-1 record, defeating La Salle 89-88 final roster on the field together (Minnesota played on Verville says: New England and losing to the Cardinals 77-69 (co. of BrockU.ca, Monday, prior to our Sunday night deadline). So to Weigeldt says: New England UniversitySport.ca). solve this problem I will base this week’s pick off of the play witnessed by Carolina versus Atlanta in Week “Pink Taco Stadium” 1. The Panthers came out flat at home against a key Reportedly a No-Go divisional rival, having been hurt by the absence of The Arizona Cardinals, having recently opened their #1 receiving threat Steve Smith. Without Smith, a new $455 million stadium in Glendale, AZ, rejected a bid offered by Mexican restaurant chain Pink Taco the Carolina offence is very easy to defend; with him to control naming rights to their new facility. being out for a few more weeks, expect a low-scoring Harry Morton, president and CEO of Pink affair with the edge going to the home side Vikings. Taco, as well as the founder of Hard Rock Cafe and Minnesota 13, Carolina 6.” Morton’s Steakhouse, said the company offered a ten- – Thomas Asselin year, $30 million deal to name the state-of-the-art facility Pink Taco Stadium. The organization, however, immediately dismissed the offer. “There is zero chance of this hap- Asselin says: Minnesota pening,” said Mark Dalton, director of media relations Pyl says: Minnesota for the Cardinals. “We are in serious and legitimate naming rights discussion with several companies, Qually says: Carolina this is not one of them.” Verville says: Minnesota Pink Taco, whose name is also slang term for Weigeldt says: Carolina a vulva, recently caused a stir in nearby Scottsdale when the chain opened its second location. Several complaints, including one from Mayor Mary Manross, were issued, citing its name was offensive to women (co. AZcentral.com, Wikipedia.org).

Demoted Juventus Struggles Early Following its involvement in a nation-wide game-fixing scandal which broke this past spring, Italian soccer powerhouse Juventus sputtered to a 1-1 tie in its first Serie B game against Rimini. Despite gaining a 1-0 advantage with a goal by Matteo Paro in the 60th minute, and with Rimini player Domenico Cristiano having been sent off nine minutes later, the underdog Rimini club, who finished 17th in the country’s second division last season, rallied to tie the game in the 74th minute, as Adrian Ricchiuti rocketed a goal past Italian national keeper Gianluigi Buffon. “Of course, we were also very tense, especially in the first half,” said Rimini coach Leonardo Acori. “But in the second half, we loosened up.” The relegation was the first in the club’s 109- year history. As well, Juventus was assessed a 17- point penalty in the league standings, severely ham- pering any possibility of moving back into Italy’s elite Serie A division. The club has appealed to the Italian Olympic Committee to have its penalty reduced. Juventus has won 27 Serie A and two European Champions Cup titles in its history. Heading into this year the club, owned by the founders of automobile giant Fiat, transferred half of last season’s starting lineup (co. ESPNSoccerNet.com). Sports Editor: Mike Pyl contact: [email protected] The Uniter September 14, 2006 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 786-9497 Fax: 783-7080 SPORTS 23 September 14, 2006 The Uniter contact: [email protected] 24 Sports Busts and Bargains Weighing the NHL’s Overpaid and Underpaid All-Star Team of the 2006 Off-Season

By Mykael Sopher complete sense. In reality, Chara is a good defen- Coyotes. A two-year deal worth $1.2 million a the Oilers’ power play specialist and log the most seman with long reach and the ability to score season is a lot to pay for a player who averages ice time. By signing him to a one year deal worth goals from the blue line, but he’s no Lidstrom or five minutes a game. Sure Laraque has more abil- $1.625 million, Tjanqvist needs to perform if he The NHL off-season was typically chaotic Niedermayer in terms of overall hockey sense. ity than the common enforcer, but he’s prone wants a raise next season, and who doesn’t want with a flurry of trades and lucrative contracts This was too much money for to make bad decisions under a raise? thrown around left and right, as general managers just an above-average defen- pressure - such as the hit Left Wing - Mark Bell, San Jose Sharks. attempted to buy players with hopes of making seman, and the Bruins or- from behind in last year’s Bell scored 25 goals on the rebuilding Chicago their team a legitimate Stanley Cup contender. ganization will regret this playoffs - and these actions Blackhawks last season, proving he is gifted With a salary cap set in place, each signing must move. normally lead to a few games enough to play on San Jose’s top line with be carefully planned at the risk of ending up like Defensemen #2 - Pavel on the bench for Georges. Thornton and Cheechoo. At $2 million dollars the New Jersey Devils, who have both Vladimir Kubina, Toronto Maple Leafs And the bench is no place for a season, Bell is a bargain, considering his pres- Malakhov and Alexander Mogilny counting $7.1 (ETC…). Signing Kubina to a someone making $1.2 million ence will give the Sharks the deadliest top line million dollar against their cap while playing in four year/$20 million dollar a year. and power play in the league. the AHL. contract has to be the most Honorable Mentions: Center - Jan Bulis, Vancouver Canucks. Bulis Despite the presences of a salary cap and lu- questionable move - and there have been loads J-P Dumont, Predators - two years, $4.5 million; has the talents to play with either the Sedins or dicrous past mistakes, some players still received - of John Ferguson Jr’s tenure as Leafs’ GM. Five Marc Savard, Bruins – four years, $20 million. with Naslund and Morrison, making his addition absurd amounts of money for their talents this million dollars for a player who scored only 38 THE UNDERPAID ALL-STAR TEAM: to the team for only $1.3 million dollars one of the off-season, while others were tragically under- points last season -with the majority occurring Goalie - Marc Denis, Tampa Bay Lightning. few good moves GM Dave Nonis has ever made. paid. Here are my picks for the NHL off-season on the power play - is simply too much for a third Playing for the lowly Columbus Jackets for years Right Wing - Owen Nolan, Phoenix Coyotes. Overpaid and Underpaid All-Star Teams. defensemen, who simply won’t see much power was unfortunate for Denis, as he is a quality goal- There’s no denying Owen Nolan’s past achieve- THE OVERPAID ALL-STAR TEAM: play time. The Leafs desperately need help up tender who has never had a decent blue line in ments in the league, so signing him seems a no- Goalie - Martin Gerber, Ottawa Senators. front, and this does nothing to solve that. front of him. This will change with the Tampa Bay brainer. Except for, well, the injury situation. After a disastrous showing in this year’s play- Left Wing - Brendan Shanahan, New York Lightning. Reaping only a $2.8 million dollar pay- Nolan failed to play a single game last season, offs, Gerber lost his starting job to eventual Conn Rangers. At 37 years old, Shanahan left Detroit check next season, Denis will pay dividends for and has a history of injuries which brings down Smythe trophy winner Cam Ward, and it was for a one year/ $4 million dollar contract. Sure both the team and their payroll. his worth considerably. However, he is reportedly clear Gerber was done with the Hurricanes. This he scored 40 goals last year, but do not count on Defence #1 - Joe Corvo, Ottawa Senators. At in top shape and raring to go, so signing him to a poor performance however, was of no concern to that this year, as age will finally catch up with $2.625 million, Corvo was an excellent pickup for one year / $1.225 million dollar contract is worth Ottawa’s GM, John Muckler, who awarded Gerber Brendan. the Senators who were looking to replace Chara the risk. If he plays more than half a season and with a three year/$11 million dollar contract. Sure Center - Doug Weight, St Louis Blues. What’s on the point. Not only will he score as many scores at least 50 points, he will be the biggest he had a good regular season, but aren’t the play- better than being a rental player for a few months points as Chara this year, he’ll score the budget bargain of the off-season. offs what really matter in the NHL? and winning the Stanley Cup? Returning back to an extra $5 million dollars. Honorable Mentions: Ryan Miller, Sabres - Defensemen #1 - Zdeno Chara, Boston St Louis for $7 million over two years. Weight is Defence #2 - Daniel Tjarnqvist, Edmonton three years, $8 million; Eric Lindros, Stars – one Bruins (ETC…). If salary were based on height, starting to fade, and it is signings like this that will Oilers. The much depleted Oilers’ blueline has year, $1.55 million plus incentives; The team that then signing the 6’9” Chara to a five year con- keep St. Louis in the bottom of the West. plenty of opportunities for players to make picks up Anson Carter for $3 million or less. tract worth $7.5 million a season would make Right Wing - Georges Laraque, Phoenix names for themselves, so look for Tjarnqvist to be

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