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DECEmbEr 6, 2012 | Volume 67 issue 14 30 ThirTy young MAniTobAns you need To reAd AbouT righT now speciAL feature pAges 7-15 Top Ten LisTs: A Look at The pop culture yeAr That wAs ArTs pAge 16 Beauty The Beast We all need to manage the waste we create. If you’re like 90% of Manitobans, you already recycle. But one third of us admit we still throw into the trash some items that could be re-used or recycled into useful materials. Let’s manage to do better! More than half of all household garbage can be recycled. Are you recycling all you can? 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So goes the logic behind the Sons of Ita- “For a lot of people new to Canada and to ly’s Christmas Eve Feast, a free annual dinner Winnipeg, this is one of their first stops,” he for West End community members, which says. “It’s definitely somewhat of a hub for is sponsored by Italian business owners from any new community coming here.” the surrounding neighbourhood. The event is organized by Garibaldi “It gives us a lot of pleasure Lodge, a local joint chapter of the Canadian to give back to the local Italian Business and Professional Association and Order Sons of Italy - the latter of which, community as much as we according to lodge president Tat-Liang can, especially to those who Cheam, is North America’s largest and oldest are new living here.” organization representing Italian heritage. - Gerry lomonaCo, owner, sorrenTo’s While the seventh annual feast, taking place Monday, Dec. 24 at X-Cues Billiards and Café on Sargent Avenue, is expected to Attendees of the feast also receive gift bas- draw 300 neighbours of all stripes from the kets donated by community members, which area, Cheam says reaching out to lower-in- include age-appropriate toys and warm come families and new immigrants is a pri- clothes for children, and food, hygiene and ority. clothing hampers for adults and their fam- “We’ve all been in the same boat,” he ilies. explains, noting many members of Winni- For younger guests, the event is often a peg’s Italian community are first or second SUPPLIED memorable one. generation immigrants to Canada. Volunteers serve food at the sons of italy’s 2011 Christmas eve Feast. The annual feast has served around 125 “There’s nothing quite like seeing a kid John Giavedoni, a board member of the turkeys to some 1,800 guests since 2006. from another part of the world meet Santa Sons of Italy and co-chair for the annual for the first time and get their picture taken feast, says the event, which relies on close Sorrento’s, a West End institution for Ital- are new living here.” with him,” Infantino says. “For a lot of them, to 40 volunteers and donated contributions ian cuisine since 1975, donates labour to pre- To Sal Infantino, who owns X-Cues, the it’s a really exciting thing.” from other Italian businesses across the city, pare the feast every year. feast is a great way of fostering a sense of has served around 125 turkeys (plus a lot of Gerry Lomonaco, who owns the Ellice community in one of the city’s most diverse The first of three meals is set for 11:30 a.m. pasta) to some 1,800 guests since 2006. Avenue restaurant, says helping out has neighbourhoods. on Monday, Dec. 24 at X-Cues Billiards and “It’s such a feel-good event - a true Ital- become a holiday tradition in its own right. “We’ve been in this area for 43 years,” says Café at 551 Sargent Ave. Reservations are still ian dinner,” Giavedoni says. “Everyone goes “We love it,” he says. “It gives us a lot of Infantino, who grew up around the pop- available. To learn more about the feast and home with a full stomach.” pleasure to give back to the local community ular gathering place after his father opened other charitable events organized by the Sons Full stomachs indeed. as much as we can, especially to those who the establishment in 1969. “In that span of of Italy, visit www.sonsofitaly.ca/events. Canadian Senate proposes massive seal slaughter experts say federal Conservatives putting politics before science a lex paterson meaning that - even in the aftermath of the Beat reporter seal cull - it will be nearly impossible to deter- mine a definitive correlation between the cull A Canadian Senate committee recently rec- and an increase or decrease in cod stocks. ommended the termination of 70,000 grey Jeff Hutchings, a marine biologist who seals in order to benefit the country’s cod testified before the Senate committee, argues fishery, raising the ire of scientists and envi- the real problem lies in over-fishing and slack ronmentalists from coast to coast. regulations - not grey seal predation. “Seals are a scapegoat,” said Gretchen Fitz- The Government of Canada has consis- gerald, an Atlantic representative from the tently allowed fishing to take place before Sierra Club of Canada, a prominent environ- the cod population was able to recover from mental organization opposed to the seal cull. overfishing, he said. In late October, the Sierra Club put out a Hutchings’s research and DFO modeling scathing media release, claiming the federal show current cod stocks are only 10 per cent government is ignoring science in order to of where they ought to be to ensure sustain- subsidize a dead sealing industry. able fishing. “The majority of Northwest Atlantic cod “Among industrialized fishing nations, stocks in Canada are endangered with no the status of Canada’s marine fish stocks is recovery plans - but instead we are focusing among the worst in the world,” Hutchings on culling seals,” Fitzgerald said, adding there wrote in a 2011 report, recommending that is little evidence to suggest a definitive cor- Canada establish proper recovery plans. relation between grey seals - who prey on cod Norway has instituted a cod recovery plan - and vastly reduced stocks of the endangered SUPPLIED that protects 100 million square kilometres of fish. ocean. Since 2009, the federal Department of els,” said Denny Morrow, a leader and repre- that shows us exactly - there’s questions on As a result, the country is able to set their Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has argued the sentative of east coast fishers in a 2010 meet- both sides,” he said, adding the seal cull will 2013 cod quota at one million metric tonnes, seal population in the Gulf of St. Lawrence ing of the now disbanded Fisheries Resource be an experiment to determine the effective- well above Canadian levels. is responsible for a 0.6 per cent rise in mor- Conservation Council. ness of such mass slaughters on the cod pop- Isabelle Côté, a marine biology professor tality rates among an already endangered cod The senate report recommends a cull ulation. at Simon Fraser University, cites the federal population. despite acknowledging large data gaps in how This uncertainty by the government is Conservatives’ consistent endorsement of the In response to this, the Senate committee the seal population impacts cod stocks. turning heads among animal conservationists sealing industry as a potential motivation for report states they were persuaded to exper- Conservative Senator Fabian Manning, and environmentalists, who argue an exper- putting science on the backburner. iment with a seal cull because they hope it speaking to the Canadian Press in late Octo- iment in slaughtering seals will generate no “I’m convinced this is a political and not will measurably increase cod stocks and help ber, conceded the cull - which will happen scientifically verifiable results. a scientific decision by the senate,” she said. Canadian fishers. over a four-year period - is on shaky scientific “The results won’t be measurable scien- Representatives from the DFO were “... We will never rebuild cod stocks in this ground. tifically or reproducible,” said Boris Worm, unavailable for comment before press time. region at the current grey seal population lev- “There’s no really solid research anywhere a biology professor at Dalhousie University, 04 Letters The uniTer D ECEmbEr 6, 2012 www.Uniter.ca this is the last issue of Cover Image t he year’s best music, the uniter for 2012. This year’s edition of The Uniter 30 Looking for Listings? includes (from left to right) Lyzie movies and more We’ll be back with a new Burt, Jonathan Torchia, Thom Fougere, They’re all oN page 18 Vanessa Kunderman and Mike Green. issue on stands Jan. 10, 2013. PhoTo By DyLan Hewlett aTSR page 16 happy holidays! 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