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Copy & Style Editor Jacquie Nicholson » [email protected] Since 9/11, the Canadian and U.S. governments have NEWS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR Stacy Cardigan Smith » [email protected] collaborated on a number of intelligence-sharing initiatives. News Production Editor According to the CBSA Ksenia Prints » [email protected] website, www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca, COMMENTS EDITOR these include: Ben Wood » [email protected] • Dec. 2001, the Smart Borders Arts & Culture Editor Declaration – Signed in the wake of Whitney Light » [email protected] the Sept. 11 attacks, this declaration contained a 32-point action plan for Listings Coordinator identifying and addressing security Kristine Askholm » [email protected] threats, which included intelligence- sharing and enforcement cooperation Sports Editor measures. Kalen Qually » [email protected] • Dec. 2003, the Canadian Border Beat Reporter Services Agency – Amalgamated Jenette Martens [email protected] Canada Customs and Revenue Agency » Courtesy of Medea Benjamin with Citizenship and Immigration Beat Reporter Medea Benjamin is co-founder of Code Pink, a women-initiated grassroots peace movement opposed Canada and Canada Food Inspection Cameron MacLean » [email protected] to the War in Iraq, she was refused entry into Canada. Agency. Created in part to respond to criticisms Canada was not doing Beat Reporter enough to ensure the security of Dan Huyghebaert [email protected] North America. Adopted the Smart » NDP MP Olivia Chow wrote to the Canadian consul Cameron MacLean Borders Declaration, established In- general in Washington. Beat Reporter tegrated Border Enforcement Teams Beat Reporter “In Canada, peaceful protest is not a crimi- James Janzen [email protected] with the U.S. to develop a coor- » nal activity, despite how some U.S. agencies may dinated approach to identify and stop regard it,” she says. arlier this month, Canadian border officials the flow of high-risk travelers across According to the Council of Canadians, this detained two leading American peace activ- the border. ists as they attempted to cross the border incident is simply the result of a series of initiatives t h i s w e e k ’ s contributors E to attend a meeting of the Toronto Stop the War aimed at harmonizing Canadian and U.S. secu- • June 2005, the Security and Prosperity Coalition. Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright were rity policies as part of the Security and Prosperity Partnership – A trilateral initiative Laura Kunzelman, Marleah Graff, Joe Kornelsen, Partnership of North America. Under the SPP, Brook Dmytriw, Dennis Vrignon-Tessier, Curran Faris, refused entry to Canada because their names ap- between Canada, U.S., and Mexico which began in 2005, one key role of the CBSA is to Kenton Smith, Don Moman, David Alexander, Christopher peared on an FBI criminal database called the to increase security and enhance trade Harder, Sasha Amaya, Aaron Epp, Tom Llewellin, Dan Verville, National Crime Information Centre. “collaborate to establish risk-based screening stan- within North America, this agreement Cory Falvo, Daniel Falloon, Nicole Timko, Brittany Budzen The Canadian Border Services Agency is dards for goods and people that rely on technology, seeks to harmonize security and charged with the task of protecting Canadians information sharing and biometrics” to facilitate trade regulations between the three cross border trade and travel. countries and integrate security and The Uniter is the official student newspaper of the University of from external threats. However, in light of this in- Winnipeg and is published by Mouseland Press Inc. Mouseland cident, some are questioning the motives behind “The Security and Prosperity Partnership was intelligence systems. Press Inc. is a membership based organization in which students and community members are invited to participate. For more some CBSA policies. supposed to be about easing the flow of ‘low-risk’ information on how to become a member go to www.uniter. ca, or call the office at 786-9790. The Uniter is a member of the Medea Benjamin is co-founder of Code Pink, travelers across borders,” says Stewart Trew, re- Canadian University Press and Campus Plus Media Services. a women-initiated grassroots peace movement searcher and writer for the council. “If peace activ- SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES, LETTERS, GRAPHICS AND ists are ending up in the ‘high risk’ category, what PHOTOS ARE WELCOME. Articles must be submitted in opposed to the war in Iraq. Ann Wright is a retired Canadian consulates in several U.S. cities. Several text (.rtf) or Microsoft Word (.doc) format to [email protected], does that say about whose ‘security’ the SPP is trying MPs have invited the two to speak before a parlia- or the relevant section editor. Deadline for submissions is United States Army colonel and state department 6:00 p.m. Thursday, one week before publication. Deadline for to protect?” mentary committee about the issue. However, this advertisements is noon Friday, six days prior to publication. The official. She resigned in protest of the U.S. inva- Uniter reserves the right to refuse to print submitted material. sion of Iraq, and now works full-time as an anti- Repeated attempts by the Uniter to contact would rest on the CBSA granting them temporary The Uniter will not print submissions that are homophobic, misogynistic, racist, or libellous. We also reserve the right to edit war activist. Both women are outspoken critics of the CBSA were met with no response. amnesty to enter the country. for length and/or style. the Bush administration, and have been arrested a There has been an outpouring of support for “Our concern right now is not just us get- number of times on minor misdemeanor charges the two activists. An online petition on the Code ting into Canada for just one time,” says Benjamin. CONTACT US » Pink website has drawn almost 14,000 signatures, “Our concern is to change the policy.” General Inquiries: 204.786.9790 related to their activism. Advertising: 204.786.9790 Even so, they insist that they are not crimi- including the likes of country singer Willie Nelson, Editors: 204.786.9497 nals. “We have committed very minor misdemean- author Noam Chomsky, and Ben Cohen, co- Fax: 204.783.7080 founder of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream, as well as ac- Email: [email protected] ors, we have paid our fines…we don’t have any reason to be treated like criminals in the United tivists and average citizens. LOCATION » States,” says Benjamin. Benjamin and Wright say they will continue Room ORM14 to fight to be allowed into Canada, and to have their University of Winnipeg Rather, they say this move by the Canadian 515 Portage Avenue and U.S. governments is an attempt at “political in- names removed from the FBI list. As of press time, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9 timidation.” demonstrations were planned for Oct. 23 in front of There is a tradition in the U.S. and Canada of Mouseland Press Board of Directors: recognizing civil disobedience as a legitimate form Mary Agnes Welch, Rob Nay, Nick Tanchuk, Ben of political protest which has been undermined by Wickström (chair), Dean Dias, Daniel Blaikie, Vivian these actions, says Wright. Belik, Brendan Sommerhalder, Brian Gagnon “I think the message in the United States is CORRECTION a very chilling one, which is, ‘Don’t get involved in For inquiries email: [email protected] political activities; don’t get involved in anti-war activities,’” says Benjamin. The Bush administration, Wright adds, “is October 18,2008, issue no. 06, vol. 62, Cover Image saying, ‘If we can’t deal with you to our satisfaction p. 05 article entitled “ Government Legisla- through the U.S. court system, we’ll just…get some tion seeks to ease immigrants employment Cyrus Smith other countries to help make your life miserable.” woes.” The current head of the Ethiopian Untitled The move was met with swift condemnation Society in Winnipeg is called Mr. Amare from individuals and groups on both sides of the Shero, not Ali Saeed. For further informa-

from exhibit “Drawing Attention” border, including several Canadian MPs. tion, call or visit the Ethiopian Society showing now at the Graffiti Gallery “I am alarmed to learn that Canadian border Community in Winnipeg located at 595 Mixed media police are enforcing rules that have been deter- Notre Dame, Winnipeg, Manitoba. mined by the FBI and other U.S.-based agencies,” contact: [email protected] The Uniter October 25, 2007 NEWS 0 Saskatchewan makes headway on living wage: Manitoba remains undecided

Joe Kornelsen Frankel explains that an increase is impor- tant because minimum wage workers are often

single parents who lack the time or the mobility to ETERSON P

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ith the cost of living in Canada in- H creasing across the board, some prov- “Children are vulnerable with parents with- W inces are taking a proactive stance and out benefits, savings, [and who] can’t take days NATAS raising the minimum wage. Manitobans are off,” he adds. struggling to make a living on minimum wage, Although only one in 20 workers in Manitoba says the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg work at minimum wage, over half of these are stu- (SPCW), and it argues that the province should dents. be following suit. Victoria Moorby is a student at the University The Government of Saskatchewan recently of Winnipeg. Her hourly earnings surpass the min- announced that the minimum wage in the prov- imum wage only by a few cents an hour. She lives ince will be increased to match the Low Income at home and is able to save a little bit of money, Cut-off Level (LICO), with annual adjustments for but she says she would likely have to dig into those inflation. savings if her expenses were to increase. The SPCW believes the minimum wage in “I have been saving for years,” she says. “I Manitoba remains insufficient, and the province could maybe buy a cheap car.” should implement a similar policy. Megan Donald, also a student at the U of W, “Wages are one of the prime aspects in the tried living on her own, with less than satisfactory determinants of poverty,” says Sid Frankel, vice- results. president of the SPCW. “I was going to school and lived on my own,” Students working minimum-wage jobs are barely making enough to live on. The SPCW is a non-profit organization in- she recalls. “It was hunger, strife and greasy hair.” volved in community planning and providing rec- Donald says she was able to just keep up, but ommendations for government policies on social because she was unable to put any money aside issues such as poverty. she decided to move back home. since they were elected. and will have a negative effect on employment. The LICO is a measure of a person’s income Currently the province has no plans to in- Even those earning above the minimum However, recent studies show that based on their spending. A person is considered at crease the minimum wage to the LICO level or to wage in Manitoba are lagging behind. According to increasing the minimum wage has no effect the LICO level when they spend 20 per cent more index for inflation annually. Statistics Canada, the average wage paid to wage on unemployment. of their income than people in their community “We had a minimum wage board look at earners in Manitoba was $17.04 per hour in 2006, “The question is what you want to achieve,” do on the necessities of life. this,” says labour minister Nancy Allen. “Labour the second lowest wage in the country and far explains Townsend, “minimum wage is a blunt The wage a Manitoban would have to receive representatives and employer representatives behind the national average of $18.55 per hour. instrument, and it doesn’t necessarily target to be at the single-worker LICO level is $10.65 per have never come to a consensus.” James Townsend, an associate professor in who you want.” hour, states the Social Planning Council’s website. Although the government has never linked economics at the University of Winnipeg, says that Townsend adds it is usually more effective to Currently the minimum wage in Manitoba is $8.00 the minimum wage to increases in inflation, the economists tend to believe that an increase in mini- tax and then subsidize whomever you are trying per hour. NDP has increased the minimum wage every year mum wage would lead to a drop in labour demand to help.

World Food Day participants strive to feed the masses

Jenette Martens The conference, held at the Broadway Beat Reporter Disciples United Church, was organized by Winnipeg Harvest, The Manitoba Food Charter and The Canadian Food Grains Bank. or the participants in the World Food Jino Distasio, director of the Institute of Day conference last week, food is more Urban Studies at the U of W says, “From the Fthan a commodity—it is a human right. work we’ve done here it’s apparent that [the The Oct. 16 event brought together three of rights to food] aren’t being met right now.” Winnipeg’s main food-focused organizations He explains that the rising cost of housing and concerned residents to discuss solutions to in Winnipeg is forcing many families to take the lack of food in Winnipeg and the world. money out of their food budget to pay for rent. ARTENS M JENETTE

A student from Vincent Massy high school signs a giant postcard urging Stephen Harper to honour his promises.

tion to step in when someone doesn’t have to everyone as Medicare. enough food. “The gaps are growing bigger in Manitoba Paul Chorney, the community liaison for between the rich and the poor. Something the Manitoba Food Charter commented on needs to be done to reverse those trends,” how poorly food is distributed in the world says Glen Koroluk, the community organizer ARTENS

M and how we are ruining our ability to produce for Beyond Factory Farming Coalition and a food by damaging the environment. participant in the conference. “I think more and more people are be- To emphasize their point, conference JENETTE coming aware that we’re in a type of crisis in members signed a giant postcard addressed Jino Distasio believes much work remains to be done in Winnipeg and Canada to make food easily terms of food,” he says. to Stephen Harper. The postcard encour- available for everyone. “When everything’s gone, you can’t eat ages Harper to honour his promise to address money.” the issue of hunger in Canada and the world. At the conference, groups discussed who It was noted that in Quebec and New- “It’s an issue of relevance for all three in- “It’s hard to say we’re making a dent in was most vulnerable to hunger, and what foundland the political changes that im- stitutions in relation to food security and the things when food bank use has proliferated in needed to change in Canada to fix the situ- proved the problem of poverty started at alleviation of hunger,” says Meagan Peasgood, Winnipeg over the last decade,” Distasio adds. ation. Aboriginals, single parents, and stu- the grassroots level. Conference members the youth engagement coordinator for Canada The right to food would involve: respect, dents were three groups that were particularly were optimistic that their lobbying could Food Grains Bank. monitoring actions to ensure that no one is identified. make a difference. “The objective of the day is to engage a prevented from the right to food; protection, Some of the proposed solutions included The conference was a part of a two-day diverse group of people to think of World ensuring that no one deprives anyone else of educating youth about poverty, advertising celebration commemorating World Food Day. Food Day.” the right to food; and fulfillment, an obliga- food as a right, and making food as available October 25, 2007 The Uniter contact: [email protected] News Editor: Ksenia Prints E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 786-9497 0 NEWS Fax: 783-7080

Local Library woes not so dire, claims staff Dan Huyghebaert News Briefs Beat Reporter

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looking to set the record straight follow- NATAS Uing a Winnipeg Free Press article that painted a grim picture of the university’s library. According to Brian Stevenson, the universi- Liberal leader talks ty’s vice president-academic, the Oct. 10 Free Press to Winnipeggers after story left out a lot of important information. throne speech “It didn’t portray correctly the kinds of things A crowd of mostly Grit supporters grilled we do in the library,” says Stevenson. liberal leader Stéphane Dion last Saturday as The article, which relied on information from he took the stage at the Gas Station Theatre. a brochure sent to past University of Winnipeg Questions ranged from childcare and poverty Foundation donors, depicted a library with over- issues to the controversial Security and Prosperity worked staff, space shortages and empty shelves. Partnership and Canada-US relations. Stevenson opposes the article’s claim that the The roundtable discussion lasted an hour library is suffering from a dire lack of books. and a half and was also attended by a number of “No matter how big a library is, you could not fit all the info in the world [into it],” Stevenson Manitoba’s leading Liberal figures. The stop was The library’s lack of books and journals might affect students’ academic achievements. Dion’s third visit to Manitoba since becoming the says. official opposition leader and came days after a He notes that many students now are very throne speech which Dion rebuked, stating it was tech savvy and able to better access the library’s weak on poverty and environmental issues. resources elsewhere. While this may have contrib- student, says she was forced to use databases for Jackie Gudz, a second-year education stu- uted to a decrease in students’ physical appear- her research because there were no books that dent, avoids the U of W library altogether, electing ance in the library, the library is working on ways suited her needs. to go to the Millennium Library instead. to be more accessible and user-friendly. University of Winnipeg “I think they need to get new books,” “It’s quieter, and easier to find that special student wins eBay Stephanie Sydney, a second-year history she says. place (to study).” entrepreneurial award She says the public library’s computers are also easier to use. Whether you are in need of vintage games Stevenson confirmed the library’s Information or a new challenge on your Nintendo Wii, 21- Literacy Program has recently been forced to offer year-old Winnipegger Jade Pearce is the man fewer classes due to staff shortages. However, he ex- to call. The University of Winnipeg Business plains they will be hiring for the program shortly. Administration major started PNP Games, a busi- Stevenson adds the brochure sent out to pos- ness selling used games on eBay, back in 2005 sible donors also highlighted the positive things the from the basement of his parents’ home. Now, library was doing, such as hiring an external con- he is the winner of the Inaugural eBay Canadian sultant to do a strategic review and renovating the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. reading room with funds from private donations. “It started off as a hobby and it grew bigger For some, it may seem alarming that financial and bigger from there,” Pearce says. concerns about the library should arise at a time of Pearce plans to use the $3,000 award to increasing expansion at the university. buy additional technology for cleaning CDs and According to Jennifer Rattray, director of stra- increase his stock. tegic initiatives at the U of W, funds used in the uni- He encountered the competition the versity expansion are not spent at the expense of same way he started his business—through the library. blind luck. The library’s operation budget comes from “[I was] getting a little extra cash, it went the University of Winnipeg’s general budget, which well, and I enjoyed it.” is financed by provincial government grants and The “little extra cash” Pearce makes is not private donations, some of which are raised by the that small of an amount. To simply enter the com- University of Winnipeg Foundation. petition, applicants are required to be making at Rattray explains the Winnipeg Partnership least $1,000 per month. Agreement funds the expansion and campus reno- Encouraged by his virtual success, Pearce vations, and cannot be used for anything else. opened a brick-and-mortar store in Winnipeg. “Nothing that is being developed is being de- ”There’s not a whole lot of competition, veloped using any academic funding,” she says. which is why I kind of jumped on it now… A feasibility study examining possible before anyone else does it,” he says. changes for the library is planned for the late fall Pearce currently has two full-time and or early winter. It will address the possibility of ex- three part-time employees. For more info log panding the library over Bryce Hall, a concept in- into www.pnpgames.com. cluded in the original design of the building. Dan Hurley, executive director of external affairs, stresses the university library did very well Gulu walk raises in seven categories in the recent Globe and Mail awareness to the plight university rankings. While the library garnered a of Ugandan children B+ in the availability of journals and an A- in the availability of online resources, Hurley adds that This past Saturday, some 50 Winnipeggers rankings must be taken in context. braved the rain to participate in the annual Gulu “It is important to see how you are doing and Walk to raise awareness about the problems of how you can improve,” he says. children living in Northern Uganda. The walk, a grassroots volunteer-run event, was initiated by Adrian Bradbury and Kieran Hayward, two Canadians who saw first By Stacy Cardigan Smith hand the effects the 21-year civil war in Uganda What area should the university invest in next? had on its children. Not only are Northern Ugandan children victims and witnesses of daily violence, but as many as 40,000 are forced to escape their rural Scott McLeod, Jessica Locke, Kelsey Moeller communities for towns every evening to avoid 2nd year Biochemistry 3rd year Conflict Resolution 1st year, Pre-Physiotherapy abduction by the Lord’s Resistance Army or other If the university subsidized I’m satisfied with my faculty. A bathroom closer to the cafeteria, healthy options in the cafeteria, the bathrooms in general. rebel groups. I don’t think it would cost a This year’s Gulu Walk in Winnipeg started lot of money compared to the at the University of Manitoba campus and ended Duckworth renovations, but it would make a lot of people at the steps of the Legislature. Many of the par- happy. ticipants personally experienced the Ugandan civil war. Joel Murphy, Kome Mofedamijo, 3rd year Rheal St-Onge, The evening was concluded with a talk 1st year Education Business Administration 3rd year Linguistic studies from two Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief I hear the library’s really bad, Lower the tuition [for New Chairs. These chairs are representatives. The first Gulu Walk occurred I read it in the paper… It international students]. The all breaking and uncomfortable. doesn’t look like there’s a lot of health plan [fee] should Cafeteria food should be cheaper. in 2005 in Toronto. For more information go to librarians around. not be mandatory before www.guluwalk.com registration. News Editor: Stacy Cardigan Smith contact: [email protected] The Uniter October 25, 2007 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 786-9497 Fax: 783-7080 NEWS 0 SSMU and CASA remain in legal battle UMSU reaches a settlement with national student organization International Ksenia Prints lated at a rate of three per cent every 15 days. UMSU would be bound by them.” News Briefs SSMU and UMSU were both expected to SSMU withdrew from CASA in October News Production Editor Compiled by Brooke Dmytriw pay approximately $40,000 for their annual 2005, having paid $12,000 in fees. It was then membership. sued for the remaining $28,000. he Canadian Alliance of Student CASA’s claim states UMSU paid $12,346 Unlike UMSU, SSMU offered an $8,000 Associations (CASA) has settled its of its fees around May 12, 2004. After leaving settlement soon after the claim was filed, MP3s get taxed T lawsuit out of court against the CASA in February 2005, they were sued for states Max Silverman, vice-president external University of Manitoba Students’ Union the remaining amount. The amount of com- of SSMU. TORONTO, Ontario: After pressure (UMSU) over alleged backlogged member- pounded interest owed was not disclosed. The additional $8,000 would have com- from the Society of Composers, Authors ship fees. The two recently reached a financial According to CASA’s constitution, the or- pleted their payment to a half a year’s worth of and Music Publishers of Canada, the settlement. ganization’s fiscal year is May 1 until April 30, fees, despite the fact the association was not Copyright Board will impose a new tariff CASA will proceed with similar claims with 30 per cent of membership fees paid by with CASA for six full months. on downloaded music. CBC News reported the tax will give against the Students’ Society of McGill July 1. The remainder is to be paid in full by “[We] made an offer in good faith to put 3.1 per cent of each downloaded song University (SSMU), with a preliminary hearing October. an end to this conflict, and they rejected it,” from sites like iTunes and other download expected this fall. The constitution also stipulates that a Silverman said. sites to SOCAN. “It is very positive that we were able to withdrawing member will not be refunded any Silverman is critical of CASA’s constitu- SOCAN is responsible for collecting settle our dispute in an amicable way for both remaining fees, and is responsible for full pay- tion. fees from radio and television airplay, dis- sides,” Zach Churchill, CASA’s national direc- ment of next year’s fees if the notice of with- ”The second you leave an organization, tributing the profits to Canadian artists. tor, said of the UMSU agreement. drawal is given on or after March 15. you’re not bound by their rules,” he said. “The Out of every dollar a downloader typically Last week’s agreement followed extended “We’re a very small organization with a CASA bylaws could say the moon is purple, but pays for their song, half that fee goes to negotiations outside of court between the or- very small budget; any amount is vital to us,” it’s not true in reality.” the artist’s record label. ganizations’ lawyers. It includes a cash settle- Churchill explained. “We’re a flexible organization,” Churchill ment. UMSU responded to CASA’s claim on May said, “members are allowed to join or leave as Garry Sran, UMSU’s president, was out 25, 2007 with a request for particulars, stating they see fit… All they had to do was pay their Youth get two years of town and could not comment before press that if the fiscal bylaws on which CASA relied fees.” detention for stoning a man time. Other UMSU representatives declined to in its lawsuit were constituted after UMSU He remains hopeful an understand- LONDON, England: Five boys were comment on the agreement. joined, UMSU is not mandated by them. ing can be achieved with SSMU in the future, sentenced for manslaughter and violent CASA originally filed claims against CASA disagreed. claiming the union has not approached CASA disorder after they stoned a man to death. UMSU and SSMU in April 2007, demanding the “When all student unions joined CASA, after May. The victim, Ernest Norton, was play- remaining membership fees for the fiscal year they signed onto membership,” Churchill said. “We’re hoping they will take UMSU’s ing cricket with his son when he was at- of 2004-2005 plus compounded interest, calcu- “Our members made all of these decisions, so leadership example,” he said. tacked in February 2005. The BBC reported Norton, 67, set up a make-shift game of cricket on a tennis court when he and his 17-year old son were approached by as many as 20 Five student unions expected youths. The youths proceeded to throw stones, rocks and pieces of wood at the Nortons. to attempt defederation from CFS Two stones hit Norton’s head, and he later suffered a heart attack. The youths, now between the ages Angela Wilson see CFS winning any battles,” he says. Aziz defends the CFS’s involvement in of 12 and 14 were sentenced to two years CUP Atlantic Bureau Chief Lindsey believes that many of the ser- these proceedings, saying that neither situa- detention. Ksenia Prints vices offered through CFS membership can be tion has cost the CFS much in lawyer or court supplied by individual unions at a lower cost fees. News Production Editor to students, including student handbooks and “Since we only participated through in- Greenpeace activists mobbed health insurance policies. tervener status in Saskatchewan, and at Acadia for attempted tree theft Jacks disagrees, bringing up the issue of the process has mostly just been letter-writ- RIO DE JANIERO, Brazil: Eight WOLFVILLE (CUP) – The membership fairly traded merchandise. “An individual stu- ing…there has been very little money spent in Greenpeace members were mobbed by of the Canadian Federation of Students may dent union who wants the cheapest deal is these two proceedings thus far.” loggers and residents of Castelo dos drop significantly in the next year. Three stu- probably going to approach a company that In response to concerns expressed with Sonhos after the activists tried to remove dent unions have initiated the defederation uses cheap labour, [whereas] the CFS makes the effectiveness of lobbying, Aziz emphasizes a burnt tree trunk from the town. process and several others are examining their sure our bulk-buying comes from the best that the CFS’s strength is in its numbers. The activists were attempting to options. sources possible.” “Putting our issues forward as a united take the tree for exhibits on global warm- CFS national chairperson Amanda Aziz Derrick Harder, president of the Simon front is how we will get things done,” she says, ing in Rio de Janiero and Sao Paulo. Yet confirmed receiving requests for membership Fraser Student Society, among the first to file noting that tuition freezes in several provinces after failing to get the community’s per- referendums from three student societies at a petition for defederation, expresses similar like Manitoba and Saskatchewan are a sign mission and proceeding with it anyways, British Columbia universities: Simon Fraser, discontent with the quality and cost of ser- that the message is being heard. they were surrounded by irate community Kwantlen, and the University of Victoria’s vices offered by CFS, although his complaints Jacks believes it is CFS’s accumulated ex- members. Castelo dos Sonhos is located in the Graduate Association. focus more on internal politics and organiza- perience with many issues that makes it in- Southern Amazon state of Para. According Concordia University’s Graduate tional dysfunction. valuable. “Executive members of student to the Associated Press, this part of the Students’ Union and Cape Breton University’s “The CFS is not an organization that union often come in fresh, and they don’t rain forest has been devastated by logging students’ union are also expected to file peti- takes criticism well,” says Harder. “They seem know how to approach things… Having that and clear cutting. tions this year. to go into lock-down easily or, more specifi- larger strength in numbers really gives credi- The region has been very tense in The student societies who have initiated cally, groupthink.” bility.” recent years, with an American mission- the process of defederation share similar con- He is concerned about the apparent top- As several students’ unions have begun ary murdered in 2005 during a land dis- cerns about their relationship to the CFS, in- down approach to running the organization, to undertake the process of leaving the feder- pute and an ongoing conflict between the cluding a lack of lobbying success, expensive and accuses the CFS of influencing student ation, many student societies have expressed Brazilian government, loggers and envi- services, and internal dysfunction. union elections, arguing that the CFS assists frustration over the defederation process. ronmentalists. Yet the University of Winnipeg Students’ candidates who are considered pro-CFS. They claim that it is designed to make it more Association, which was one of the CFS’ found- Aziz flatly denies the idea, noting that she difficult to leave CFS. After an initial petition ing members in 1981, is baffled by the con- is “not sure where that rumor started from.” and referendum taking at least six months, an Return laptop, get free beer cerns. The UWSA is not free of CFS criticism. In application for withdrawal must be filed with WELLINGTON, New Zealand: The “Why would you want to remove your- February of last year, Devin King, the director the head office. The federation’s national ex- owner of Croucher Brewing Co. is offer- self from a national organization and from the of education at the association, resigned over ecutive then has three months to examine all ing a reward of beer for life for the return experience of other students across Canada?” frustration with the organizational structure documents and make recommendations to its of his laptop computer. asks David Jacks, UWSA’s president. at the CFS. He quoted their “top-down men- voting members about the legitimacy of the The laptop was stolen during a He believes the CFS provides a network tality” in his letter of resignation. process. The members of the federation vote break-in and contained his company’s fi- for individual student unions to learn from In addition to these issues, Harder ex- on accepting the application, which Aziz says nancial statements, marketing plans, and one another. “There are a lot of similarities presses concern over the amount of money would only be overturned if it was proven to contacts. in issues [between the campuses], but there’s that the CFS and its provincial chapters are be illegitimate. Paul Croucher said the lifetime supply of beer was likely worth $20,000, also a lot of very specific ones that other cam- willing to spend on litigation. The CFS is cur- Rumours surfaced in September that the reported the Associated Press. puses might have experienced.” rently involved with legal action against Acadia students’ union at Ryerson University was also Coucher Brewery is a microbrewery Ian Lindsey, president of the Cape Breton University over an attempt to defederate, and seeking to defederate, but according to Nora located on the North Island and exports its University Student Union, critiques the CFS’s acted as a defendant with the University of Loreto, Ryerson’s student union president, three beers to Oceania. national services and lobby movements. Saskatchewan when they were brought to a motion to that effect served to the union’s “Outside of [the Day of Action], we don’t court over an attempt to join the CFS. board on Sept. 27 was defeated. 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strong-minded and have a desire to be Sean McMullen: involved in campus activities and de- Working with the University’s Off- cision making. I have leadership skills Campus Housing Registry has given me and the drive to maintain a positive insight into the struggles faced by stu- and healthy school environment. dents renting properties. I am a theatre Based on the interest of many graduate working towards a BSC in biolo- students, I hope to start up an intra- gy. I like animals, video games, and coffee. mural or recreational soccer league. As well, I would like to work with the Together we bring with us a com- Wesmen to organize tailgaters (par- bined four years experience as resident ties before and after we play the U of assistants in the University’s Department M) to support our teams. As a board of Student Housing. We believe student member, I will strive to encourage stu- living concerns are the most important dent involvement in a number of di- part of our duties as members of the uni- verse clubs and liaise with student versity community, and feel the mainte- groups to ensure that the voice of nance of a friendly and enjoyable living Margaux Miller the student is heard. Stephen Milner & Sean McMullen environment is key to the success of resi- Here’s a little about me: I have dents both on and off campus. been playing competitive soccer since In this position we aim to generate Recreation and I was three years old and currently play Co-Directors discussion towards ways of diversifying for a division one women’s team. I have student life for a stable and more sus- Athletics Director coached volleyball and basketball and of Student Living tainable life-style through: have been a member of a badminton, • Bridging student social connec- My name is Margaux Miller, I am fencing and even curling team. I love Stephen Milner: tions on and off campus a second year student and I am run- acting and singing as well and am cur- I bring experience of communal liv- • Acknowledging inner city living, its ning for the position of recreation and rently recording as the voice of a car- ing through the Katimavik program for realities and expenses to these students; athletics director. I am personable, toon character. which I obtained a leadership certificate • Bringing about integration and for youth volunteerism. My interests in- awareness of our on-campus housing clude biking, social activities and I really services. enjoy relaxing with a cup of coffee.

best to have both genders representing the field and both are eager to contribute and make a difference. As your Directors of Science we My name is Jonathan Niemczak, would act as representatives for you on and I want to be your LGBT direc- issues brought to the UWSA board meet- tor. Why? Because I want to repre- ings, voicing concerns, opinions, or new sent the LGBT community here at the ideas relating to the student body. We University of Winnipeg and promote would also act as liaisons between the our diverse culture. UWSA and current student groups. If elected I will promote LGBT As project ideas of our own, we events and fundraisers, raise aware- wish to revitalize activity and aware- ness about LGBT outside of the ness among the current student groups University, create networks with other and revive some inactive clubs and LGBT groups in other universities some new ones (such as a Biology club). and around the city and boast respect Furthermore, we wish to bring in speak- and banish stereotypes about the Chelsea Duszak & André Tardiff ers to discuss post-degree career and/or graduate opportunities for various facul- LGBT community. ties; particularly currently enrolled stu- The LGBT community here at the dents in medical trades (i.e. medicine, University of Winnipeg is strong and Science Co-Directors dentistry, physiotherapy, pharmacy, etc) Jonathan Niemczak diverse, we need a leader who is just to share personal experiences and advice as strong and diverse - I am that Hello! We are Chelsea Duszak and in their selected field. leader. Together we can build on our André Tardiff and we are running as Together we feel we have the energy, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, success and improve on our oppor- Science Co-Directors. We are both in our passion, and dedication to accomplish Transgendered and * tunities. So join me on election week 3rd year of studies majoring in biochem- great things for both the science students Director and vote for strength. istry, and biology respectively. We felt it and the student body as a whole.

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Comments Editor : Ben Wood Comments E-mail: [email protected] Who wants an election?

Ben Wood Throne Speech. So, while it may be that environmental but numbers (which are meaningless unless Comments Editor All the recent polls tell us that the major- concerns seem to be on the minds of every you understand the science behind them ity of Canadians do not want an election. To Canadian, these are not really the kinds of pol- and what they represent), lower taxes can be many it has seemed that over the last while icies that win elections or maintain support. seen on paychecks, grocery receipts, and bal- Canadians do not want an election. too much of their time has been spent being Sure, you would be hard pressed to find some- ance sheets. They are more than just num- This familiar echo from Parliament, how- forced to think about elections: campaigns, one who admits to enjoying destroying the en- bers; essentially, they are money in the hands ever accurate, represents just how success- promises, support and financial contribu- vironment. We all like to think we do our own of Canadians and votes in the pockets of the ful the reigning Conservative party has been tions. In short, it has been an interruption in part (because after all, “we’re all in this to- Conservatives. in shaping not only the opinions of the gen- their daily lives. gether”) to preserve the land we live on, but The mass appeal approach to policy and eral public, but more importantly, those of the The Conservative party has understood the problem is, we don’t get anything from it. politics seems too obvious to be used. Other Official Opposition Party. They have not done this and they are playing the game accord- Once again, the Conservatives have un- parties have seemed to overestimate the ded- this through scare tactics, a constant parade of ingly. They tailored their policies to fit the av- derstood this and have tailored their policies ication or interest of Canadians to important propaganda, or through manipulation. They erage, un-political Canadian. They have not to say so. They have dismissed Kyoto and have issues. They have attempted to project upon have done this by simply appealing to the gen- concerned themselves with the academics or introduced a new made-in-Canada plan, fit us responsibilities that the majority of us do eral public. the unions. They have realized the un-tapped for Canadians precisely because the general not care to have. In the end, all the majority of The Conservative Party have prepared ‘market’ of voters: the ones who revel in the public does not want the government to waste Canadians want seems to be the easiest thing themselves for a possible election (that can be status quo. People do not want their newspa- our tax dollars on a non-binding international the Conservatives can give them: a minimal caused by a vote of non-confidence over the pers and TV programs to be bombarded with agreement. In these types of policies, all that decrease in taxes and empty dialogue in many Throne Speech) by focusing on policy that ap- election coverage, broken promises, or parlia- needs to be presented is dialogue; results are other policy areas. peals and effects the majority of Canadians— ment scandals. On top of the stress of work, not necessary so long as the public can see Now this fact is taunting Official the one per cent deduction of the GST, for ex- their families, and their growing debt, they that a plan, however vague, is in the (indeter- Opposition leader Stephane Dion. Faced with ample. With the Bloc and the NDP openly con- do not want to have to keep tabs on politi- minable) future. declining support, the Liberal leader is now demning the speech, it is now up to the Liberals cians. It would almost seem like they do not To maintain current support and gener- forced to repeat, in response to the recent to decide its fate. However, being quite aware want follow politics. What they want is simple: ate new support, the Conservatives have un- throne speech, the very same line Stephen of the amount of support the Conservatives to continue living their lives the way they did derstood that the public needs tangible rea- Harper has been publicly declaring: hold, the Liberals realize it is not in their in- the day before—except with lower taxes, of sons to vote for them. Whereas environmen- “Canadians (read: Liberal Party) do not terest to force an election by voting against the course. tal success is hard to measure in anything want an election.” Funding seized buildings?

have been shot. Dave Alexander There are quite a few non-profit or-

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he plan to deal with the number a ing in Winnipeg. These organizations are D of abandoned buildings in the city the target recipients of these seized build- can work—but only if the city is T ings and will use them in this way. If we get willing to pay to renovate them. Under the non-profit organizations that are al- the Vacant and Derelict Buildings bylaw, ready doing excellent work involved, it’ll people are having the buildings they own work out well. But one must look no further taken from them and sold at lower than than our inner-city for an example of the cost to improve access to low-cost housing follow-through our government has towards in this city. The property owners, mean- these initiatives. while, are angered. After all, don’t they own The photo for this article is a build- the buildings, and can’t they decide what to ing funded by the government. In 1995, the do with them? Wellness Centre board of directors was facing The problem is that the property owners a financial emergency. Membership was fall- aren’t doing anything with them, leav- ing and almost $500,000 was needed just to ing them unused. From condemned apart- bring the facility up to health standards. In ment blocks to abandoned banks and facto- addition, a long-term subsidy was needed to ries, Winnipeg has a dearth of places in dire fund day-to-day activities. The money never need of repair. The only use that anyone has came and on Oct. 31 of 1995 the centre shut been able to find for them has been filming Black mould-filled water flooded theS herbrook Pool down for good. movies inside—like the Metropolitan theatre This is what happens when the money downtown, where two films in the past year

doesn’t come. Seizing these abandoned the page. It was obvious that the $3 mil- buildings downtown is the first step, but lion had never come. The pool had sprung when the government doesn’t fund a project a leak, and black mould-filled water they start, no one does. Seizing the buildings flooded neck deep into the basement— will make it less likely that future developers thankfully not corroding into the electric will want to buy them if this happens. wires or the heating system, which were still The Wellness Centre continued to turned on. sit vacant until the 2004 election. Politics The building was only recently came into play, and the Liberals prom- demolished and to this day nothing stands ised a $3 million subsidy to finance the re- on the site of the former health, pool, and furbishing and renewal of the facility. I en- daycare facility, like a gaping hole in the tered the building late in October 2006—11 already-frayed fabric of the North End. years after it was shut down. It had not been Who will repair these condemned build- touched, aside from vandalism, since 1994, ings, and who will fund the repair, even if the and it was showing signs of mould even on buildings are sold for pennies on the dollar? the outside. As I entered, I found out why. Surely, low-income housing is a priority, but The mould covered almost all of the walls if there’s no money, and the Wellness Centre and ceilings in many rooms and especially is a good example of how the prior govern- in the basement. The walls, once sheetrock, ments have treated services for the North now looked like crayon rubbed on paper, End, how do you think this new program will done entirely in black and filling most of turn out? Denis Vrignon-Tessier October 25, 2007 The Uniter contact: [email protected] 0 COMMENTS

Hail to the artist Why Radiohead’s label free release deserves only reluctant praise

by letting the public decide how much the labels open doors that otherwise remain artists a swift kick in the ribs. Curran Faris new album is worth. Some may pay nothing. closed. Here’s hoping that Radiohead’s ini- What kind of message does “pay what- Volunteer Staff Real fans of the band, I hope, will pay more. tiative will help change this. ever” send to the record buying public? Some I paid three British pounds (roughly seven Despite that hope, I find one facet of the might argue it says music, or art, should be Canadian dollars). Yes, I could have got it for In Rainbows release really unsettling. Most free—a service accessible to everyone. The adiohead had record executives ner- free. But the money went directly to the band, artists like to think their art is worth some- problem is that most artists have to make vously pulling at their ties as the band not a corporation; good music is worth it. thing. Find me a group of musicians who sacrifices (financial and otherwise) to make Rrecently made their seventh studio This likely isn’t going to have iTunes spend all their spare time practicing, writing their art. They have bills to pay. Music should album, In Rainbows, available for down- shaking in its boots—at least until the num- songs in some crappy rehearsal space, work- be accessible, but few are going to create it if load exclusively through their website. That bers come in. Pitchfork Media reported that ing dead-end jobs to pay for studio time, mas- it means empty fridges and eviction notices. is, without the backing of a record label. The roughly 1.2 million people downloaded In tering, and album art, and when the album is Radiohead have clearly shaken things price? You decide. Although that may sound Rainbows, though this figure is unconfirmed finished say, “No, it’s cool. Pay me whatever.” up. But they could have used their unique great to fans, it’s less-than-great news for by the band. It’s unknown how many people By giving fans the option of paying nothing, position more responsibly—by encouraging emerging artists. downloaded for free. Radiohead seems to send these independent people to pay for music, to support artists. The band chose not to re-sign their Many will be quick to praise Radiohead contract with EMI Records after their 2003 for sticking it to the record industry. But album, Hail to the Thief, fulfilled the group’s let’s get real; very few bands could get away contractual obligations. A physical release of with what Radiohead have. Keep in mind, In Rainbows is available (a posh “disc-box” Radiohead can reach so many people be- which includes the album on vinyl and CD cause they’ve had commercial success— Letters to the Editor as well as bonus material) but no label is credit due in part, though it pains me to say behind this either. it, to their record label. Where did you first Why is this such a big deal? When a hear your favourite band? Whether it was on Take back the feminism

band records an album, their record label TV, the radio, or in a mom-and-pop record I stand in support of the arguments was too early, too short and had too many distributes it for promotion with a glossy store, chances are you should be thanking a made in Bronwyn Jarrett-Enns’ article on-duty police escorts. press kit. Eventually someone, somewhere, label. leaks it. This is why you could download the Meanwhile, underground artists have “Why feminism is a dirty word.” It is true I call for a ‘take back the feminism’ new Arcade Fire album long before you could been independently releasing records for de- that feminism, an ideological standpoint in the “feminist movement”—a “move- buy it. But because Radiohead are not under cades. And since the Internet made the world that can be extremely radical, has been ment” that appears to be on smoke break. contract, they avoided this whole process smaller, it’s been easier for small bands to distorted and highly watered down by This current era of feminism is terrified of and “leaked” the album themselves. What’s get heard. But would following Radiohead’s sensationalist media and loud-mouthed being radical; it is even scared of being po- more, the band has added an ethical element lead pay off? Not likely. The sad fact is, record liberals. As Jarrett-Enns writes, “Feminism litical. But feminism, as I love to admit, is has failed to grasp the hearts and minds politics; and politics is “dirty.” In the words of women in our generation.” The Uniter, of Christina Aguilera (and in the spirit of a newspaper that presents the news Emma Goldman) “[I] wanna get dirty. Its Crossword #7 and views of “our generation,” is a per- about time that I came to start the party.” fect case-in-point for her argument: they did not even cover this year’s Take Back Kelly Ross the Night, which is a traditional and im- portant event of the women’s movement Read something you don’t agree with? in Canada, the United States, and much Have something to say? of Europe. Although Jarrett-Enns’ criti- Write a letter to the editor! cisms of Take Back the Night are a tiny email: [email protected] bit over the top, I do agree that the march

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Arts & Culture Editor: Whitney Light Arts & Culture E-mail: [email protected]

is that you simply “wait for the Muse to flow through Emotional truths you and out your finger- Chandra Mayor tells how it’s painful to write the real tips and you don’t really Kenton Smith be an extraordinarily painful process,” Mayor says. “I tions. She finds that a useful maxim, in any case, is have to do have to force myself to sit down and actually do it. anyone’s story “can break your heart.” Getting Volunteer anything - if “For me, writing is a process of feeling things as inside such stories and helping the reader experi- you’re inspired H

intensely as possible, and really trying to find ways to ence them from the inside out, from the charac- T enough, it’ll MI S

ters’ perspectives, is what Mayor strives for: Her handra Mayor cannot tell a lie. communicate that bare-bones, honest feeling.” just happen.” first novel Cherry, for instance, which is about But that doesn’t make telling the truth Finding the “kernel of truth” at the heart of a But finding ENTON

Winnipeg’s early ‘90s punk and skinhead scene, K any easier. story is one of Mayor’s main goals. For example, one those elu- C of her stories focuses on how “many young women examines why some women stay in abusive Mayor is the poetry co-editor of Prairie Fire Winnipeg writer Chandra Mayor sive words is relationships and others abuse drugs. magazine, the 2006/07 Winnipeg Public Library long for a connection with other women,” but that helped launch Between Interruptions a craft. It’s a This approach can facilitate empathy, Mayor Writer-in-Residence, and a contributor to the essay women of different generations “don’t connect with set of skills says, and help us better understand one another. anthology Between Interruptions: 30 Women Tell the each other, don’t talk to each other.” (This theme a writer can A prime motivator for Mayor is her own “desperate Truth about Motherhood (launched last Thursday also predominates in a short story collection Mayor and must work at, simply by writing and writing. All the Pretty Girls.) Mayor need to communicate with other people, and say at the Millennium Library), and she says that she is presently working on, “Nobody’s first poem is any good, no matter thus turns private observations into public, even `this is how it is for me.’” On others’ writing, Mayor works very hard as a writer to simply “tell emotional how inspired they are,” Mayor says, “but their 200th universal, truths. says that the works she really loves “are the ones truths.” poem will probably be pretty good.” So how does she find such stories? Mayor says where I recognize something, and I find that some- The process “of really telling the truth can they can come from anywhere. one has expressed something in a way that I haven’t Between Interruptions: 30 Women Tell the sometimes be painful and confusing and upset- Ideas can come from things you read, watch, quite been able to put words to myself.” Truth about Motherhood is the first Canadian col- ting, but I feel that that’s how you really connect with or observe, Mayor says. Sometimes she transmutes That’s the tricky part of the writer’s art—put- lection of its kind, compiling true experiences of readers,” she says. episodes from her personal life for her purposes, ting into words that which is extremely difficult to ar- motherhood from across the Canadian geographi- It’s not easily done. “I actually find [writing] to while retaining the resonance of her own real emo- ticulate. A misconception about writing, Mayor says, cal, socio-economic, ethnic, and cultural spectrum.

Online comics are Comics into the future where it’s at

Don Moman “As long as they don’t try to fight it in the same way that the music industry has been trying to Volunteer Staff fight it where that just makes everybody angry,” says Sokoliwski, the industry won’t alienate its fans. Marvel, for example, has put back issues on their innipeg’s comic book community is website, free, since 2004. Wowio.com, the site that alive and well, as the scale and hosts Sokoliwski’s Selig, follows a format that he W scope of the Manitoba Comic Con calls “comics as TV.” That is, the reader downloads makes clear. October 27 and 28 will see 150 dealer comics in .pdf format, which includes two pages of tables of wonderfully produced comics fill the advertising, at no charge. Unfortunately, at this time, Victoria Inn for what promises to be a massive Wowio only allows downloads from users who have comic convention. an IP address from the United States. But in this age of Internet entertainment, from Will comics in electronic format replace comic YouTube to online art networks, how can the lowly books? “Whether or not the single issue comic books comic book survive? Comic artist Ian Sokoliwski, will always be around, I’m not sure, [but] at the very who has been working in the comic industry for ten least there will always be graphic novel collections years, has a few theories. available in bookstores, which is a huge trend right Sokoliwski is primarily a colourist, a role he now,” says Sokoliwski. filled for several Conan issues. He has also done On another recent trend, comic book movies, pencils and inking, as well as the comic book artist he says, “I think it’s a good thing.... anything that in- mainstay, commissioned artwork. And he has en- creases the exposure of comics is a good thing, es- tirely created two comics, Selig: The Second Coming pecially the quality the movies have been lately.” He and Battlewitch, a story about some women who are adds that comic book readership has been up be- the only humans able to resist the psychic assaults A pin-up of Skygirl by Ian Sokoliwski for Colour by Ian Sokoliwski. A James Bond-style pinup cause of movies and that as a result, the quality of Greg Waller’s series Magnitude of Iron Man and his supporting cast, circa 1965. of alien demons who live between the stars. Both the artistry in comic books is also on the rise. comics are available on the Internet. Ian Sokoliwski is one of the hosts of “The The Internet, according to Sokoliwski, is basi- History of Comics in Winnipeg” panel at Comic Con cally the only reason that a comics industry can exist, ers DC and Marvel. The Net also provides an oppor- the Net also poses some problems for the future of on Oct. 27, 3:30-5:00 p.m. in the Carlton room of the at least to the degree that it does, in Winnipeg. Prior tunity for those who want to break into the comic in- comic books. Of the three industries, however, comic Victoria Inn, 1808 Wellington Ave. His work will be to the rise of the Net, most people working in comics dustry. Sokoliwski’s advice: “Start a webcomic.” makers seem to be taking the most proactive and available at the convention, and is also available at had to live in New York, the home of major publish- But as with the music and movie industries, fan-friendly approach. Imagine Games and Hobbies at 246 McDermot.

genre. And it definitely wasn’t an ego. It was an ide- punk history called Let the Tribe Increase to be re- ology that allowed him to keep perspective on why leased on AK Press. P ATTERSON

making art and music is of value, even when record The exploding message and punk boards and ES Lance Hahn M

sales were low, vans were breaking down, and cup- the kilometre of comments on the J Church myspace JA boards were empty. Because of this, J Church out- page are no doubt only a fraction of those affected 1967-2007 lasted everyone. Through line up changes and per- by this death. Though his trips to Winnipeg were sonal tragedies, Hahn kept it going. Even his illness few, the hue he left in our community is still thick By Jo Snyder didn’t deter him from planning the next show, the enough to see. Hahn inspired a countless number next tour, or the next record. This year J Church re- of people; He is a punk icon in the truest sense. leased The Horror Of Life, a haunting prediction of Lance Hahn (Hawaiian-born) lived his last Last week punk rock lost one of its most iconic what many of us are now feeling. years in Austin, TX. He collapsed Friday October figures of our generation. Over the past few years Hahn contributed more than his fair share over 12 during dialysis and had been comatose until his J Church front man Lance Hahn has been strug- his life. In addition to the bursting J Church cata- death last Sunday. gling with heart problems and kidney failure. His logue, Lance played with Hawaii-based Cringer chronic illness kept him in constant pain, debt, and during the ‘80s, the first documented and likely He was 40. occupied much of his mental space. After a particu- most-talked about project on the island. In 1994, he larly bad year, Lance Hahn lost his life last Sunday, accompanied Beck on guitar. He owned and oper- He will be deeply missed. Our hearts are broken. October 21, 2007. ated Honey Bear Records, contributed to Maximum J Church formed in 1992 and shook our ideals Rock ‘n’ Roll magazine, and put out a zine called with their challenging lyrics, pop-hooks, and punk Some Hope and Some Despair. Over the past few www.myspace.com/jchurch rock truism. For Lance, punk wasn’t a fad or even a years Hahn was working on a book about anarchist www.j-church.com Lance Hahn in Braunschweig, Germany 2004 October 25, 2007 The Uniter contact: [email protected] 10 ARTS & CULTURE A bloody horror picture show

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his Friday, the Winnipeg Short Film Massacre will unlock the gates of hell to Tlet thousands upon thousands of imps, demons, and devils out into the world. Either that Still from HIZ, by Matt Kennedy and Conor Sweeney Still from Sebastian & Alan, by Adam Brooks Still from Insanophenia, by Steven Kostanski or they’re hosting a Winnipeg-made horror film festival—I can’t tell the difference. The non-profit Winnipeg Film Group’s festi- val gives local filmmakers a chance to exhibit their filmmakers. Obviously, the eight 10-minute horror dubbing easier). Without spoiling the ending, like I said, perspective is everything. Clearly Brooks short horror films. Annually since 2004, the films films aren’t up to Hollywood production values. it’s certainly great to see claymation making a knows how to handle a camera. The cinematog- have played to a sold-out crowd, or a standing- Nonetheless, they promise a terrific night of enter- resurgence. raphy and lighting of “Sebastian and Alan” set the room-only group of cultists. The 2007 festival will tainment with friends and are hilariously fun. Another film you’ll see at the fest is Adam film’s atmosphere well. Especially well done is the take place at Cinematheque on Oct. 26 at 9:00 p.m. The festival standout is Stephen Kostanki’s Brooks’ “Sebastian and Alan.” It’s a horror film shot use of a long lens in a car scene, which builds the Be sure to bring your black robes and ceremonial “Insanophenia.” The writing is superb; Kostanski from an unusual perspective, with an altogether claustrophobia inherent in the situation. daggers. certainly has a way with dialogue. It’ll remind you a predictable, but very interesting, twist near the If you’re looking for a good scare and a Given the opportunity to preview this year’s bit of Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, which seems end. We wonder how much of what the two title good time, not to mention to support Winnipeg films, I can say they’re very well done, especially very much intentional. The film is about two exter- characters were saying is false, and how much is filmmakers, the Short Film Massacre is the bloody considering the time and budget restraints on the minators and their boss, all of who wear facemasks true. The storyline is straightforward, a story we’ve place to be. for the duration of the film (presumably to make likely all heard and seen countless times before. But

A van, some men The Nods give me the shakes and much lunacy

Christopher Harder OT solo, jump off stage and onto an occupied table, H S Volunteer horrifying the patrons, nearly spilling their bever- O

M ages, and almost killing himself. These and other RO P shenanigans have snowballed into a lingo unique to met the Nods in the parking lot behind the the band. One of their phrases is “beastin’ it.” Asked Royal Albert, helped them load up their stuff, what it means, John answered, “Beastin’ it is just I and then took a position in the captain seat beastin’ it.” Isaac Simonson expanded: “It’s giving of their van. They had just played a show and now every last inch that’s in your soul.” they were about to begin a different one: the night Immediately I heard, “Wow, that was deep,” itself, and what a spectacle it would be. from one of the other members, just as Serge pro- The Nods have been dishing out their hooky, duced his lighter and ignited my notes. I yelled abrasive rock for about two years now. Prior to a with surprise, then threw my notes to the ground name change they were known as Castrati, and outside the van and poured a sip or two of my before that, Collateral Jammage, a cover band. beer on it. As my boots hit the ground, I turned to The boys are preparing to release their new see Braun with his personal member kissing the album, Static Pop, on Oct. 26 at the Garrick Centre. post-show air. He was attempting to urinate in his Static Pop is filled with tasty guitar sections, own mouth. Sadly, this was not too surprising. He symbol-crashing drums, and tuneful vocal har- missed horribly. monies, a sound that’s evolved much since their “I pissed in my eye,” he laughed maniacally. earlier work, and seems to continue to do so ev- “I have tears of urine.” eryday. Among their influences, the Nods count “Can I print that?” I asked. the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the White Stripes, “Print it. Paint me as naked as I can possibly Queen, and a plethora of other performers. The Nods play at the Garrick Centre Friday October 26th. be painted,” he replied. This, better than any literal At first, whisking through the incoherence answer I could of hoped for, was the definition of was an issue. But eventually we got down to the “beastin’ it.” hammer, set aside our madness, and discussed Having overcome the image, I squeezed out issues, including the state of modern music, and rupted. “There’s emo bands, there’s punk bands, the Nods discussed recording their new album. one last question: what’s in store for the CD re- the dishonesty that latches itself to it. there’s metal bands, there’s rock n’ roll bands. We “The recording process was much differ- lease party? It will be “Chariots of fire,” predicted “For the most part it’s a bunch of ingenuine just try to make music that we feel.” ent,” explained John. “This time we knew what we drummer Jeff Bruce, “or chariots on fire.” I, for one, pieces of shit!” blared guitarist Micah Braun, before I questioned the Nods about the benefits of wanted.” That confidence seems to echo in every- would like to see both scenarios untwine. The show taking a long pull of his cheap beer and throwing recently added rhythm guitarist, Serge Broeska. thing they do. will most likely be a Halloween costume party as his butt out the window. I felt this statement was “I think he brought a more cohesive tone to the Euphoric stage antics and fiend-like outings well. So bring your finest apparel and some danc- worth being said; there was truth in it. “But I think band,” said singer John Broeska. are what the band has become known for. I remem- ing shoes, because “it’s gonna be a monster of a there’s some good music out there,” he later inter- The conversation slid to the new album as ber once seeing Braun, during a face-melting guitar good time.”

Courtesy of Spencer Duncanson dent and music teacher before he turned to psy- chology and counseling at Sisler High School. “A Séance and song lot of our singers are finishing their music degrees at the University of Manitoba.” The Little Opera Company presents The Medium This year also marks more active involve- ment in the LOC by the University of Winnipeg. tion. The Medium is a story about beliefs and what U of W student Jamie Butler is on board as The Sasha Amaya drives humans and how, when these beliefs become Medium’s set designer. “She’s really very talented,” Volunteer shaken, it can take apart our entire world.” Duncanson says. “They’ve come up with a really If you’re usually put off by the pomp and cir- interesting set; I think it will be fascinating.” cumstance that surrounds opera, don’t dismiss In its 13th year, the LOC company is not only garnering more internal attention—from perform- ot even a year has passed since the death The Medium just yet. There’s a distinction in opera Back Row: Jonathon Talbot, Jennifer Sproule, ers, artists, students and crew—but is succeeding of composer Gian Carlo Menotti. Best between ‘grand opera’ and ‘chamber opera,’ and Kim Lapatha, Beckie Edler. Front Row: Lacey Eagle, with audiences, as well. known for his operatic work, Menotti The Medium is the latter. Grand opera is the fare Elizabeth Rotoff, Jennifer Carter N John Greer, the Winnipeg-born composer wrote over 20 operas (most in English) as well as you’ll see everywhere from the Manitoba Opera who tailored the LOC’s spring production of The countless other compositions, poems, scripts and to the Metropolitan Opera. Chamber opera, how- Magic Flute, retains not only the essence of the librettos. The music of this Pulitzer Prize winner, ever, is quite another thing. With as few as one per- accessible. “We do all of our operas in English, original work in The Medium, but some of the roommate of Samuel Barber, and schoolmate of former, chamber opera is designed for intimate and our mandate is to reach out to the commu- more challenging arias, too, so that both young Leonard Bernstein is featured in the Little Opera settings, an audience of a few hundred, and is con- nity. They’re short: if you’re a novice, it’s not pain- and old should come away impressed. Company’s production of The Medium, which siderably more succinct. ful. It also allows us to provide an opportunity for “The Manitoba Opera, you can’t beat them,” “Because chamber opera is not as glitzy opens this evening. young artists or emerging artists to get their feet says Duncanson, “[but] I think the two styles of as grand opera, it’s hard to get people out,” says The Medium centers on the fraudulent wet, and for experienced artists to do roles that opera compliment each other. Chamber opera Duncanson. “But for the most part we have people Madame Flora, who is besieged one night while they’ve wanted to try out.” is more intimate, sometimes challenging, and come to shows and say they love it and that they’ll conducting a séance. She is unable to identify the The LOC tries to keep most of its artists, as it speaks to the individual more. Whereas grand be back again!” perpetrator, and the line between reality and illu- well as its crew, locally-grown. “We want to ser- opera is meant to be larger than life; grand opera sion becomes blurred. vice Manitobans, and what has really been good The Medium runs Oct. 25-27 at the Collège takes you to another place.” “We like [Menotti’s] music,” explains ar- recently is that we have been able to use some of Universitaire de Saint-Boniface. More information can The Medium is chamber opera, Duncanson tistic director Spencer Duncanson, “because his the emerging artists from the universities,” says be found at www.littleopera.ca or by calling 452-1017. stresses, and, like all of the LOC’s productions, is music speaks to our time and to the human condi- Duncanson. He himself was once an opera stu- Tickets available at McNally Robinson Booksellers. Arts & Culture Editor: Whitney Light contact: uniter uniter.ca The Uniter October 25, 2007 E-mail: [email protected] @ Phone: 786-9497 Fax: 783-7080 ARTS & CULTURE 11 The art of energy Exhibit explores yoga practice and Zen philosophy

Aaron Steele Volunteer

undalini Rising refers to the awakening and handling of your natural energy. It’s K also the title of the current exhibit at Vault Gallery. The idea for the exhibit was inspired by the Ashtanga-style yoga class that is held regularly at the gallery; artistic expression seemed like a natural extension. Admittedly, I’ve attended only a few yoga classes in my time, but when I did, I Teapot by Alan Lacovetsky felt open (though usually pretty sore too). This ex- hibit generates the same feeling (minus the aches and pains), capturing the concept of Kundalini— your spiraling energy. Much of the art is by Manitoba artists but some represents artists from New York, Toronto and Vancouver. Abstract painting, contemporary photog- raphy and ceramics are just some of the types of work on show. By the diversity, it’s clear that each artist has a unique relationship with the theme. And although not every piece conveys its intention as well as it might, the exhibit on the whole explores the idea of Kundalini well. There is a minimalist, Zen-like quality to all the work, which thrives in its simplicity. And because of its Wilful Vestiges by Debbie Danelley pared down style and lack of subtext, it seems a rela- tively easy exhibit to connect with. The ceramics by painter-turned-ceramic artist, piece comprises a series of colour field paintings Alan Lacovetsky, were inspired by his experience of a with a meditative quality and movement reflective Buddhist Tea Ceremony. Lacovetsky is now a professor of energy. of ceramics at the University of Manitoba. His work is Then there’s Debbie Danelley’s work, which uses well crafted and elegant. tea stains and bags as mediums to communicate about Chrissy Wood is a stylistic painter who also adds the cycle of existence. well to the exhibit. One of her paintings is a simple ver- In these varied ways, Kundalini Rising speaks like tical line, but the movement in its aesthetic enthralls. a Haiku—profound, serene, and calm. Whether you’re What you won’t see here are smiling Buddhas or yogic interested in art, Zen, or just want a little peace away figures, but a general congruence of subject matter from the noise and haste of the day, this show is worth there is. Energy, for example, is captured in several dif- your reflection. ferent ways. Curator Charles Johnston is also a contribut- Kundalini Rising runs until Nov. 3 at Vault Gallery, ing artist. One of his pieces is titled Prana, which is a 2181 Portage Avenue. See fineartamerica.com/pro- concept that has to do with the breathing cycle. The files/vault-gallery.html for more info.

The Style Beat: Green scene The Uniter Fashion Streeter is an ongoing documentation of creative fashion in Winnipeg inspired by the Helsinki fashion blog www.hel-looks.com. Each Holly Rose week will feature a new look from our city’s streets and bars in an attempt to encourage individual expression and celebrate that you are really, really good looking. Want to show off your style? Contact [email protected] t’s official. The sun has gone south and fall has arrived. Some might say burnt orange, chocolate brown and grey Iare among the hottest colours for fall fashion. But the truth is everyone’s going green. With concern for the environment on the front burner, Augusta Stobbe the fashion industry has caught onto the eco-friendly trend. Clothing and accessories made with organic cotton, bamboo, “My style is influenced by ETERSON my personality, which is milk, soy and corn are being made without the use of toxic pes- P A

H loud and enthusiastic. I’ve ticides, chemical fertilizers or genetic engineering. This means traveled quite a bit, so I your next new garment could be a product by the world’s best NATAS like things that are ethnic; designer (and Folk Fest favorite), Mother Earth. my dress is from Mexico. From sweaters and jeans to delicate dresses, the main- A reclaimed seatbelt bag by Morden’s USED I’m stimulated by new streaming of eco chic has proven that you can do good and things and ideas.” look good at the same time. H&M, Levi’s Jeans, Lululemon,

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P impact is associated with its transportation.” A H To ensure that you are not `faking’ the new green look, try out these stores, which carry eco-friendly clothing made lo- NATAS cally or under fair trade practices: Shout Clothing, 202-99 Osborne St. The funky sister of popular fashion boutique Hush Clothing carries American Apparel’s sweatshop free “Sustainable Edition” of environ- mentally friendly fabrics including thongs, tanks, and tees. Silver Lotus, 111 Osborne St. Carries the Montreal- based Matt&Nat line of chic vegan bags and wallets. Stulka, 105 Osborne St. Famous for its EMK line, Stulka A 100 percent vegan bag by Matt&Natt. Available at Silver Lotus. also carries locally made clothes as well as re-worked and pre- picked vintage items. Brave New World, 141 Sherbrook St. With funky cloth- Roots, American Apparel, Mountain Equipment Co-op, La ing, jewelry and gifts imported from Nepal and Thailand, Brave Senza and even Wal-Mart’s George line have gone ‘green,’ of- New World carries a number of fashionable and affordable or- fering some eco-friendly clothing. ganic and fair trade items. But just how `green’ is this trend? Eco-friendly does not Unlimited Supplies from Everyone’s Discards necessarily mean worker-friendly. It’s great that sustainable (USED), These bags from Morden, MB are made from recycled ETERSON

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are still in unfair labour conditions. For more information on eco-friendly clothing, visit The H “My advice is to buy second-hand whenever possi- Manitoba Eco Network website at www.mbeconetwork.org NATAS October 25, 2007 The Uniter contact: [email protected] 12 ARTS & CULTURE

Annual General Meeting No. 2 November 7, 2007

Scheduled time: 12:30pm – 2:30pm Location: UWSA Board Room, ORM06

• all members have the right and responsibility to attend the meeting. • all members have voting and speaking rights. • The election of members to the Mouseland Press Incorporated Board of Directors will take place at this meeting. • The deadline to for nomination to the Board is October 24, 2007. please see Article 10 of Mouseland Press Inc By-Law No.1 for the procedures of the Election of Directors. • all nominations of members for election must be provided to the Chair by the nomination deadline. • motions concerning changes to Mouseland Press Inc. By-Law No. 1 will be debated and voted on at this meeting. • all motions to amend the By-Law must be submitted to the Chair by October 17, 2007. • all questions should be directed to the Chair of the Board of Directors, Ben Wickström, at [email protected] or by phone at 801-4271. Arts & Culture Editor: Whitney Light E-mail: [email protected] contact: [email protected] The Uniter October 25, 2007 Phone: 786-9497 Fax: 783-7080 ARTS & CULTURE 13

cd REviews ARTS BriefS Compiled by AARON EPP THE WEAKERTHANS AS I LAY DYING ROBERT WYATT Reunion Tour An Ocean Between Us Comic Opera Epitaph Metal Blade Domino

Church launches “United for What more can An Ocean Multi-instrumen- Peace” campaign be said about the Between Us is the talist Robert Wyatt has Weakerthans? These follow-up to met- been flirting with jazz Winnipeg’s Sortie Rèal, Kram Ran, and Winnipeg natives alcore quintet fusion ever since his Broken Orchestra will be joined by touring have taken their so- AILD’s 2005 break- time as the frontman of British cellist Bela Emerson for a concert at phisticated and intel- through album, influential ‘60s psych- Crescent Fort Rouge United Church this coming ligent indie-rock across North America and built a Shadows Are Security. The band produced the rock band The Soft Machine. His latest solo album, Sunday. Visual artists Christian Worthington, dedicated fan base. Their previous two albums, Left new disc along with Killswitch Engage guitar- recorded mainly at his home in Louth, England, is an Andrew Milne and others will display their and Leaving and Reconstruction Site, offered some ist/metalcore producer du jour Adam Dutkiewicz. eclectic jumble of mellow but not melancholy, laid- artwork. CFRUC’s JUST Alternatives program of the most important alternative rock in years— The result is an album that features cleaner back jazz fusion backed by Wyatt’s ethereal voice. is using the concert to introduce United for Canadian or otherwise. Fans will likely not be disap- vocals and more piano and synth than Shadows. He brings along a small army of contributors, includ- Peace, a national United Church campaign ad- pointed with Reunion Tour. Still present are John K. Don’t think that AILD have softened up though. ing Roxy Music’s Brian Eno and Phil Manzanera. “Be dressing the need to work toward just peace in all parts of the world. JUST Alternatives brings Samson’s beautiful and clever lyrics; Samson once Guitarists Phil Sgrosso and Nick Hipa still shred Serious” is a sarcastic finger-snapping take on con- social justice issues together with contempo- again takes the point of view of a housecat, with like it’s 1989, including virtuoso leads that would flicts between religions that manages, somehow, to rary music and art. Sunday’s concert starts at heartbreaking results, on “Virtue the Cat explains make Eddie Van Halen proud. The rhythms pro- channel barbershop influences. A“ Beautiful War” and 8:00 p.m. and admission is $7.00 at the door. Her Departure.” After a few listens, however, the vided by drummer Jordan Mancino and bassist the instrumental “Anachronist” are also standouts, the The church is located at 525 Wardlaw Ave. at album left me unfulfilled. Reunion Tour is not a bad Josh Gilbert lock in tightly with the riffs, and on top latter featuring Wyatt’s mellow trumpet playing. Wyatt’s Nassau St. album by any stretch. It’s just that it sounds familiar. of it all, Tim Lambesis uses a deeper, fuller growl voice is a wonderful, versatile instrument, able to take I wanted to hear the boys take some bigger chances. than on Shadows to shout lyrics about redemp- on a multitude of different characteristics and ranges Gallery 1C03 presents Nonetheless, Reunion Tour rocks pretty hard and will tion, grace, and learning from past mistakes. Still, that merit a raised eyebrow. Overall, the album sounds publication launch for stick in your head for days, and that has to be worth it’s hard to say whether or not An Ocean Between very laid-back and lazy, but lacks the confidence that two exhibitions something. Us is better than its predecessor. Either way, it’s a would turn those qualities into strengths. It seems a worthy follow-up, and a fine offering from one of little half-done in parts, but if you’re a Wyatt or Pink On Nov. 1, the U of W’s Gallery 1C03 Curran Faris the more exciting bands in the genre. Floyd fan, or would just like to explore the strange hosts a free reception from 4-6 p.m., launch- 3.5 out of 5 waters of jazz fusion, it’s worth a listen. ing publications for two of its most recent ex- Aaron Epp hibitions: Casualty and Show + Tell: Notions 3.5 out of 5 Tom Llewellin of Home and Place by Alumni. Casualty deals 3 out of 5 with the ongoing social, intellectual and emo- tional losses that are an effect of everyday 21st century North American life. Show + Tell, cur- rently on display at the gallery, includes work in various media by 13 U of W graduates, all on the theme of home or place. One of the artists, Glen Johnson, will deliver his faux lecture per- formance “You CAN Go Home: Thomas Wolfe Was Wrong” during the reception.

Lessing wins Nobel for literature

Persian-born author Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for literature earlier this month. She is the author of dozens of works, including the 1962 feminist classic The Golden Notebook. Lessing won the prize just two weeks short of her 88th birthday, making her the oldest winner in the prize’s more than 100 year history. The Swedish academy that awards the prize was not able to reach Lessing before announcing her win. She found out two hours after, from reporters gathered outside of her house. The Associated Press reported that Lessing later told them, “I thought you were shooting some kind of television series.”

Is this the future of music?

In the same month that Radiohead re- leased an Internet-only album and Led Zeppelin made their entire catalogue available online, UK rock band Fightstar announced they would release their next single on a disc that is vinyl on one side and a CD on the other. “Deathcar” will be a 3,000-copy limited edition. Germany’s Optimal Media Production created the two- in-one disc, which can hold roughly three minutes of music on the vinyl side and 70 minutes on the CD side. No one knows how the public will respond, but one thing’s for certain: the vinyl-disc should confuse the digital vs. analogue debate for hipster music store clerks everywhere. Arts & Culture Editor: Whitney Light October 25, 2007 The Uniter contact: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 786-9497 14 ARTS & CULTURE Fax: 783-7080

95.9 FM CKUW Campus/Community Radio Top 10 CD – Albums OCTOBER 17-23, 2007 ! = Local content * = Canadian Content RE=Re Entry NE = New Entry

LW TW Artist recording label

1 1 !Weakerthans Reunion Tour Anti/Epitaph

2 2 !Scott Nolan Reciever/Reflector transistor 66

3 3 !Paperbacks An Illusion Against Death Parliament of Trees

4 4 !Details Draw a Distance Parliament of Trees

8 5 gaudi + Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan dub Qawwali Six Degrees

7 6 *Stars In Our Bedroom Arts & Crafts

6 7 *Emily Haines/Soft Skeleton What is Free… Last Gang

9 8 Caribou Andorra Merge

nE 9 *Sadies New Seasons Yep Roc

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SKYWALK CONCERTS & LECTURES A co-presentation of Wpg Public Library, the U of W and Virtuosi Concerts Inc. All events take place from 12:10 to 12:50 SOAP SCUM PRODUCTIONS presents Space Quest, an improvised space p.m. in the Carol Shields Auditorium, second floor of the Millennium Library, comedy on Mondays at the Park Theater 698 Osborne St. at 8 p.m. Tickets 251 Donald St. Admission is free. Oct 25: Guitar/Contrabasso Synergy, with are $5 and available at the door. Ryszard Tyborowski, classical guitar and Nenad Zdjelar, double bass. Oct 31: Athar Ata, U of W Chemistry, on Nature as a Source of Medicine. Nov 1: Music of The Americas, performed by La Clave del Sol (The Key of the Sun) REGIONAL CALL FOR ARTISTS The Winnipeg Arts Council invites artists to submit Expressions of Interest to create a permanent Gateway and Transit- GALLERIES related public art project developed in conjunction with The University of Win- nipeg/Spence St. Redevelopment. The selected artist will develop a proposal in consultation with City of Winnipeg, University of Winnipeg and Winnipeg Arts Council staff that will include a transit shelter for the Ellice Ave transit stop and associated public art elements at the Ellice Ave and at the Portage Ave stops. ART TOMORROW: FORUM ON THE FUTURE OF CONTEMPORARY ART Hot Live Guys Interested artists must submit a complete application package. Please visit INSTITUTIONS Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art presents a forum ex- www.winnipegarts.ca for full details. Deadline for application is Oct 26. ploring the future and role of contemporary visual arts institutions in Canada. All welcome to attend discussions with local and international guest speakers BARS, CAFES & VENUES ATTENTION ARTISTS OF ALL DISCIPLINES AND COMMUNITY GROUPS The at the Fort Garry Hotel on Nov 2 and 3. An opening reception will be held Winnipeg Arts Council Public Art Program invites applications for WITH ART, a on Nov 1 at Plug In and a Cabaret on Nov 2 at the Fort Garry Hotel. For OCT. 25 AT THE CAVERN program for collaborative art projects between community groups and artists in more information and registration, contact Plug In at 943-1043 and visit our Winnipeg. Artists working in all art forms such as visual, performing and literary website www.plugin.org. arts, and community groups from diverse sectors who have a history working together are welcome to apply. Please see our website for full eligibility criteria A LABEL FOR ARTISTS is currently accepting submissions for our next ACADEMY BAR & EATERY 414 Academy Rd Oct 25: Contrakt with Grubbs and application requirements and for any further information. Deadline is Dec 3. exhibition Homage to Picasso. We are looking to salute Pablo Picasso by Oct 26: The Ruffigans Oct 27: Halloween with the Fo!ps and Friends Oct Call Tricia Wasney at 943-7668 or visit www.winnipegarts.ca. for full details. showing works by you that have his influence. This can be collages, paint- 28: Keith Macpherson with Greg Neufeld Nov 1: Kim Reimer and Inna Riddim ings, drawings, sculpture or photos. If you wish to participate please email Nov 2: The Playing Cards with Richard Brilliant Nov 10: Bill Dowling, Brenda GORDON BELL HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI CHOIR Practices are Monday evenings [email protected] or phone 772-5165 to make drop off arrange- Neiles and Marcel Desilets at 6:45 in the Gordon Bell Music Room. Contact Don Askholm at 489-5584 for ments. We ask that all works be labeled with name, title, and contact info. more information. Paper works should be framed. ACADEMY FOOD DRINKS MUSIC 437 Stradbrook Oct 25: Greg Lowe Trio 8-10 then 90s dance party Oct 26: Arbra Hill Oct 27: The Haste Halloween Oct 100 MINUTES WITH AN AUTHOR The Writers’ Collective and the Millennium ACEARTINC 2nd floor, 290M cDermot Ave 944-9763 29: Open Mic with Little Black Dress Oct 31: Halloween with Those Rooks Library are pleased to offer Tuesday night lectures with different authors. Oct THE CAVERN 112 Osborne St. Downstairs Oct 25: Hot Live Guys Oct 26: 30: Non-Fiction author Chris Rutkowski. All events are free and open to the GRAFFITI GALLERY 109 Higgins 667-9960. Not-for-profit community youth Ex-Girlfriends, Ex-Boyfriends, Wife Oct 27: Halloween Bash with The Upsides public and are being held from 7-9 p.m. in the Carol Shields auditorium at the art centre. Until Dec 6: Drawing Attention. (theme is Super Heros & Super Villans) Millennium Library. Call 986-4294 for more info.

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Nov 2: Jodi King (acoustic pop). Nov 9: Adley (contemporary & day to remember and commemorate those who have been killed because of folk) Shows at 6:30. Arthur St (Artspace) 942-8183 their gender expression. Following the Candlelit Vigil, there will be refreshments and a celebratory Gender F*#! Dance Party! This is a free all ages event. All are OUTWORKS GALLERY 290 McDermot Ave 949-0274. Totem: a member MCNALLY ROBINSON GRANT PARK MUSIC Oct 26: Marie-Josee Clement welcome! and friends’ exhibition featuring artists’ varied responses to the concept of (Jazz trio). Oct 27: Martha Brooks (jazz) Nov 2: The Burtons (jazz). Nov 3: totem. Opening Reception Fri, Nov 2 at 7:30 p.m. at Outworks Gallery, 3rd Floor Dive Knows Best (jazz). Shows at 8. NEEDS CENTRE FOR WAR AFFECTED FAMILIES is looking for volunteers 290 McDermot Ave. Runs Nov 2-24, open Wednesday to Saturday 12-4 p.m. to work with immigrant and refugee children and youth. The Needs Centre or by appointment. 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Dreadnaut, Damascus, Still Village, Coda - Advance tickets $15 4:30 p.m. Due to confidentiality concerns you must be 18 to apply. Life, until Jan 6. John Hartman: Cities. Into the Collection: Will Gorlitz, until Nov Oct 27: They’re Dead & They Live in The Zoo feat. The Waking Eyes, Texas 8. Around Here: Scenes of Manitoba from the Historical Collection, until Nov Blood Money (Edmonton), TDH - Advance tickets $10 or door $10 (with LOOKING TO WORK WITH CHILDREN/YOUTH? The International Centre (406 10. Inuit Games, ongoing. Into the Collection: Highlights of Historical Painting costume) and $15 (without costume). Oct 31: Halloween Extravaganza feat. Edmonton St) needs volunteers to work with recent newcomer children and From 15th century panel paintings to Post-Impressionism, ongoing. Damascus, Perdition, Igor & The Skindiggers, C*nt Punisher, The Cruelty. youth from the inner-city in the following programs: 1. 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Sports Editor: Kalen Qually Sports E-mail: [email protected] Hits to the head in minor hockey WMHA starting to get it

Dan Verville the feeling of delivering an open ice hit; or You can’t take headshots out of hockey. Association I saw more hit to the head calls Volunteer staff taking one for that matter. We’ve all seen the Sometimes shoulders and elbows will get than ever, letting players and coaches know play before: the pass to the centre is just a little up above the shoulders and do what they that it won’t be tolerated and they will be behind, he looks back for that half a second, will. But you can educate players and offi- punished. ike most Canadian kids growing up, I and by the time he looks up—impact. Now, cials about headshots and take the neces- In the end I guess all we can do is edu- was immersed in the world of hockey the physics of the play are simple. The shoul- sary actions needed to prevent them. And be- cate new players and punish those who over- L at a young age. I can remember being der of the guy delivering the hit should hit lieve it or not, it has been getting better. In step the limits. In the meantime, I guess all six or seven years old, watching the older kids the other guy in the chest. The crowd cheers my final year in the Winnipeg Minor Hockey we can really do is keep our heads up. play and feeling unable to wait until I could and both players get up and keep going. start hitting like them. When I finally turned When both players get up you know it was a O 12 years old, my dream of playing “like the clean hit. But sometimes, they don’t always V FAL pros” finally came true. And, despite attend- both get up, especially when the shoulder or

elbow hits the other guy in the head. ORY ing hitting clinics, I spent the majority of my C Y first few seasons laying on the ice and star- Everyone who’s played hockey has

ing up at the ceiling of the arena. But, as you seen a variety of versions of headshots. I re- PHIC B

learn to play a physical game, you learn how member my friend getting the worst suicide GRA to take hits and roll with them. Another thing pass ever and everyone screaming heads up happens when you get a little more comfort- before the defenseman jumped up at him at able with body checking. You start looking for the red line, elbowing him in the head. He the big hit. went down hard. Even though minor hockey Now hockey is innately a physical game. throughout Manitoba is played with manda- You need to separate the man from the puck. tory cages, those hits still rattle your brain. By And while rubbing out an opponent on the the time we got him onto his feet, he didn’t boards and stealing the puck from him may know where he was, who he was, or what he help your team out, there’s nothing quite like was doing.

Hits to the head in THE NHL More needs to be done

Nicole Timko Volunteer Aside from curbing the number of hits to the head, the NHL can also soften the hits that do happen. The NHL needs to disallow he recent actions of Steve Downie and equipment companies from producing hard Jesse Boulerice of the Philadelphia Peer Support’s Take 5! capped plastic products. The amount of con- Flyers have the NHL finally crack- T cussions would go down with softer elbow Quick tips for your mental health and wellness ing down on hits to the head. Unfortunately, and shoulder pads. Although you may see a this is not going to stop unless more is done. rise in other types of injuries, most of those Even 20-plus game suspensions just aren’t injuries are nowhere near as life threatening 2. Don’t dwell on things you can’t enough. as a brain injury. Does a player have to die Brittany Budzen change. Freaking out over an exam The NHL doesn’t take prior junior hockey date won’t cancel it or push it back a before the equipment is made differently? Peer Support incidents into account when determining week, so accept the facts and go with it. Don Cherry has said many times on Hockey suspensions. Both Downie and Boulerice had Night in Canada, elbow and shoulder pads discipline issues in the OHL, and this should tress is an unavoidable part of our lives, 3. Take care of yourself! This means need to be softer. have affected the NHL’s decisions in disci- and with midterms lurking everywhere exercise, eat right (put down the junk food Regardless of what the NHL does or plining them. While playing for the Plymouth Syou turn, it’s not always easy to deal and go eat carrots!), and get plenty of sleep. doesn’t do, players also need to take some re- You’ll feel less stressed, and your mood Whalers of the OHL, Boulerice swung his with. A little bit of stress is fine, but according sponsibility for their own protection. Why do to the Canadian Mental Health Association, and energy levels will increase as well. stick like a baseball bat at a player’s head and players turn their backs when they’re about to chronic stress may lead to depression and can was suspended for the entire season. Then be hit? People will say Downie and Boulerice activate anxiety problems. Twenty-five per 4. Don’t procrastinate. If you know in the Ryan Kesler incident, Boulerice used this is an issue for you, start studying early are stupid, but turning your back to someone cent of us will suffer from an anxiety disor- both hands to crosscheck Kesler across the der at some point in our lives, (Source: Anxiety to avoid cramming and stressful late nights. who is about to hit you can be pretty stupid face. In both instances, it was clear Boulerice Disorders Association of Manitoba), so let’s in itself. Mathieu Roy of the Edmonton Oilers intended to injure the other player. It was work hard to keep you in that other 75 per 5. Laugh! Laughter is a sure way to get was in hospital after turning his back to the not a reactionary act of stupidity like some cent, shall we? rid of stress. Watch a funny movie, or the Vancouver Canucks’ Rick Rypien right before hockey analysts have said. The NHL needs Colbert Report, or spend 10 minutes doing Rypien hit him. The NHL does nothing to something stupid. to look at prior offences in junior leagues be- stop players from doing this. When you learn cause players need to know the NHL will not 5 tips on dealing with stress: how to body check in peewee you also learn Good luck with exams everyone! The University offer a clean slate to players with a checkered how to receive a hit, and this doesn’t involve 1. Breathe! When you feel over- of Winnipeg Career and Resource Services are offering past. The AHL recognizes NHL suspensions, a workshop on managing exam anxiety on Wed, Nov. turning your back to another player about to whelmed, stop and deep-breathe. Stretch so why shouldn’t the NHL recognize suspen- 21 at 12:30. For more information or to pre-register, hit you. your arms straight up above your head sions from the OHL and other junior leagues? and breathe in through your nose. Slowly call 786-9231 or email [email protected] The NHL is clearly trying to send a mes- The NHL needs to do this in order to keep exhale and bring your arms back down to If anxiety is a serious problem for you or someone sage with lengthier suspensions. One would players like Downie and Boulerice in check, your sides. This will clear your mind and you know, contact the Anxiety Disorders Association hope the players are listening, but the league and at least try to prevent them from con- allow you to better focus your thoughts. of Manitoba at 925-0600 or www.adam.mb.ca must also learn how to deter these dangerous tinuing their dangerous actions. hits before they happen. contact: [email protected] The Uniter October 25, 2007 SPORTS 19 NHL early season predictions Our take on the 2007-08 season COMPILED BY Kalen Qually Nicole’s take: massive trades The ______will win the cup. and the end to Iggy and Kipper Dan’s take: Montreal Canadiens (Carey Price will have in Cowtown. seven shutouts and win the Conn Smythe) Dan’s take: SUCCESS! Keenan Steven’s take: Ottawa Senators has fired up the Flames dor- Jo’s take: New York Rangers (they just might Therma Blades will buy it, literally) mant offence. “revolutionize the Kalen’s take: some kind of nu- Kalen’s take: San Jose Sharks game of hockey” clear reaction. Either way it Nicole’s take: Ottawa Senators isn’t good. A new skate blade technology claims to Steven’s take: play- improve performance by melting the ice. The offs and early exit “Therma Blade” maintains a temperature of 5°C Surprise team of 2007-08 THE TICKER with a rechargeable battery and a micro proces- GRAPHIC BY CORY FALVO is the… sor in the skate. The warmer blade increases the Nicole’s take: Philadelphia thickness of the water layer between the blade Flyers and the ice surface. Therma Blade Inc. says that Daniel Falloon Kalen’s take: Minnesota Wild Men’s Basketball Volunteer staff tests have shown this reduces gliding friction Steven’s take: Montreal Canadiens October 19th @ Mcmaster Dan’s take: Philadelphia Flyers. Can you say Broad and starting resistance for skaters. According Street Bullies? Wesmen 77 to TSN.ca, a select few NHL players will begin pparently we can’t all be as smart as paid NHL Jo’s take: Los Angeles Kings…Anze Kopitar is the man! Mcmaster 78 trying the new skate blade, developed by the analysts (like Nick Kypreos?!) but that doesn’t Nick Lother: 21 pts, Verdun, Quebec based company. Wayne Gretzky mean we don’t know the NHL inside and out. Jonathan Toews is… A 10/11 free throws has invested in the company, and after testing It may be a month into the season, but the Uniter’s Kalen’s take: Joe Sakic reincarnate. the blades three years ago, was thrilled with the hockey prognosticators already have the rest of the Dan’s take: the future captain of the Hawks, a dura- October 20th @ Guelph season solved. See for yourself as Steven Kotelniski, ble, Trottier-esque player. product, saying that Therma Blades will “revolu- Nicole Timko, Kalen Qually, Dan Verville, and Jo Steven’s take: the best player on the worst team. Wesmen 60 tionize the game of hockey.” (tsn.ca) Villaverde break it down for you: Nicole’s take: Chicago’s dream come true. Guelph 84 Jo’s take: the future captain of the Mike James: 16 pts The most underrated player Jets when they return. Tiger one step in the NHL is… closer to world Steven’s take: Niklas Backstrom The Leafs will… Women’s Basketball domination Nicole’s take: Mattias Ohlund Nicole’s take: continue to think they’re good and Kalen’s take: Zach Parise miss the playoffs. AGAIN! October 20th @ Brandon Likely inspired by Michael Jordan’s “Special Dan’s take: Paul Stastny Steven’s take: blow it like they always do. Wesmen 91 Stuff” in Space Jam, Tiger Woods will soon have Jo’s take: Saku Koivu (and Tim Thomas) Dan’s take: have another terrible year, Royal Military his own sports drink. According to golf.com, like they always do. Gatorade is launching a line of sports drinks Calgary Flames Jo’s take: do nothing, like they always do. College 51 called Gatorade Tiger. Woods even picked out + Mike Keenan = Kalen’s take: get no love from the Uniter sports team. Randie Gibson: 22 pts Jo’s take: sinking ship + fall guy the flavours, which unfortunately will not include “Tiger’s Special Stuff.” Woods is already the face of Nike, Buick, Gillette, and EA Sports’ bestsell- ing golf video game, and with this new project will expand his career endorsement earnings to over $700 million. Gatorade will pay him $100 Scott C 21-9 .700 million over five years, according to Golfweek Jo V 20-10 .666 magazine. (golf.com) tom A 19-11 .633 NFL PICKS Kalen Q 18-12 .600 Steven K 17-13 .567 Toronto to host Dan V 15-15 .500 2007 Gridiron Gurus Bills’ game

Looking to expand beyond their western Tom Asselin is the co-host of the Ultra New York market and into the strong Canadian Mega Sports Show and is also the defending Game #4: Buffalo Bills football market, the Buffalo Bills are seeking ap- NFL Picks champion. Game #2: Pittsburgh Steelers @ Cincinnati Bengals @ New York Jets proval to play a pre-season and at least one reg- Kalen Qually is the Sports Editor at the Uniter, appears regularly on the Ultra “Oh, well here’s a classic: offence versus de- “The Jets are in desperate need of a bye week. ular season game in Toronto. The team plans to Mega Sports Show, and is a former NFL Picks fence. The Bengals are coming off their second They’re sitting at 1-6, and to put it lightly, they’re play a pre-season game next summer and hopes champ. win of the season and Pittsburgh lost a game spiraling out of control. The Bills, coming off an to play a regular season game in Toronto as Steven Kotelniski is a regular contribu- against a Bronco team they should have beat. impressive win against the Baltimore Ravens, are early as 2009. The team needs to gain approval tor to Uniter Sports, a rookie to NFL Picks, and There are a lot of possible scenarios for this only 2-4 but have lost to New England, Pittsburgh, from their local county and state to play outside game; it’s almost a coin flip. I think though, Ben Dallas, and Denver (combined 20-6). They’re a a former Fantasy League Champion. of their home Ralph Wilson Stadium. There has is a long time foot- Roethlisberger has a breakout game against this much more competitive team than their record Jonathan Villaverde been speculation about an eventual relocation as ball player, first year NFL Picks member, and lowly defence while I feel bad for Carson Palmer indicates and will always show up for a division regular contributor to Uniter Sports. as he is trying SO HARD to win games for his rival like the Jets. Whether it’s J.P. Losman or Troy owner Ralph Wilson, 89, has no plans of keeping Dan Verville is a contributor to Uniter team. Steelers win 31-24.” Edwards at QB, the Bills will get it done.” the franchise in the family, and Toronto has been Sports and is making his first appearance in —Jo Villaverde —Kalen Qually a rumoured destination for the team. NFL Picks this season. The Bills will also require permission from Scott Christiansen is a rookie to NFL Tom picks: Steelers Tom picks: Jets the NFL to play in Toronto, which is almost Kalen picks: Bills Picks and is also a contributing member of Kalen picks: Steelers guaranteed considering the 2005 regular season Uniter Sports. Steven picks: Steelers Steven picks: Bills game between Arizona and San Francisco. Also, Jo picks: Steelers Jo picks: Bills Dan picks: Steelers Dan picks: Bills on Oct. 28 the Miami Dolphins and New York Scott picks: Jets Game #1: Philadelphia Eagles Scott picks: Steelers Giants play at Wembley Stadium in London, @ Minnesota Vikings England. (espn.com) “Neither of these teams look very good at Game #3: Jacksonville Jaguars Game #5: Detroit Lions @ Chicago Bears the moment. The Eagles are in the cellar of the @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers Paying big for NFC East and lost a heartbreaker last week at “I’m not too sure about this match-up, to “You have got to like the Lions’ spirit, hold- public urination home against the Bears. The Vikings are in the be totally honest with you. Even though the ing off the Bucs last week at home. But their im- cellar of the NFC North. Last week they put up a Bucs are coming off a great game against the pressive run should come to an end as they head Baylor University has suspended an assis- fight against the Cowboys in Dallas but couldn’t Lions that saw Garcia throw a minty 37 of 45 into Soldier Field to play Chicago on Sunday. tant football coach after he was cited by police keep up for four quarters. I like Minnesota’s and help the Bucs generate 422 yards of of- The Bears, with Brian Griese now their quarter- for public urination. According to espn.com, Eric chances of limiting Brian Westbrook better back, seem to be a hungry team that still has a fence, they still managed to lose the game. If Schnupp urinated on the bar of Scruffy Murphy’s, than Philadelphia’s chances of limiting Adrian that doesn’t you make you nervous, I don’t know chance to make the playoffs at 3-4. Detroit has a tavern in Waco, Texas, Oct. 14 at 2:20 a.m. He Peterson. The Vikings with home field advantage what does. The Jags have quietly looked good lost their last two road games by a combined 66 was given a citation that included a small fine, should win this one.” all year (4-1 going into MNF against the Colts) points. This could be a breakout game for the —Steven Kotelniski and should make quick work of the Bucs.” Bears, a chance for them to salvage their season, but was not arrested. According to bartender —Dan Verville and I can’t see them passing up that opportunity. Danny Severe, the incident occurred during Tom picks: Vikings Chicago by a whole bunch.” closing when security was moving patrons out Kalen picks: Vikings Tom picks: Buccaneers —Scott Christiansen of the building. Schnupp apparently didn’t think Steven picks: Vikings Kalen picks: Jaguars anyone was looking and began relieving himself Jo picks: Vikings Steven picks: Buccaneers Tom picks: Bears against the bar. A staff member spotted him and Dan picks: Eagles Jo picks: Buccaneers Kalen picks: Bears Scott picks: Eagles Dan picks: Jaguars Steven picks: Bears informed police, who were present for an unre- Scott picks: Jaguars Jo picks: Bears lated incident. Baylor, for whom Schnupp is a Dan picks: Lions first-year offensive line/tight ends coach, is the Scott picks: Bears world’s largest Baptist university. (espn.com)