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♼ Sports Arts & Culture Comments Listings Features News L U ME 62 September 13, 2007 The Uniter contact: [email protected] 0 NEWS UNITER STAFF News Editor: Stacy Cardigan Smith News Editor: Ksenia Prints E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Managing Editor News Jo Snyder » [email protected]

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Copy & Style Editor Jacquie Nicholson » [email protected] hile the Bell Hotel closed down in late August, the Downtowner NEWS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR Motor Hotel on 300 Kennedy Stacy Cardigan Smith [email protected] W » is being given a new lease on life by its new owners, the Winnipeg-based chapter of News Production Editor Ksenia Prints » [email protected] Hostelling International Canada. “We wanted to be downtown,” says Bob COMMENTS EDITOR Summers, spokesperson for the HI board of di- Ben Wood » [email protected] rectors. “The building itself is unique for hostelling. It is an international, modern building Arts & Culture Editor with a good urban design.” Whitney Light [email protected] » The Canadian Hostelling Association of Manitoba was looking for a new facil- Listings Coordinator ity throughout Winnipeg, including in the St. Kristine Askholm » [email protected] Boniface area, but found it would be more ex- The new Downtowner will hopefully attract more travelers and more students. pensive to build from scratch, Summers says. Sports Editor Kalen Qually » [email protected] The Downtowner was built in 1958 in the midst of a downtown construction boom, with a Learning Centre for Peace, which would “We do want to see some students in the Beat Reporter a contemporary design and plenty of window make it the only hostel in Canada with that pub,” says Downtowner manager Mark Klassen, Jenette Martens » [email protected] space. Gordon Hotels were the building’s latest distinction. adding that he also hopes to decorate the pub owners, until the recent decision to sell it and “We’re optimistic about it,” Summers with paintings by local artists. Beat Reporter renovate other properties. says. Other changes at the Downtowner will Cameron MacLeod [email protected] » be new walls, floors and paint, as well as the Photo: Natasha Peterson addition of a walled-off prairie green space Beat Reporter Dan Huyghebaert » [email protected] so guests can have their own private patio. A common kitchen will be added where the park- Beat Reporter ing stalls are now located. James Janzen » [email protected]

t h i s w e e k ’ s contributors I’m excited to be a part

Renee Lilly, Sepher Cadiz, Julienne Isaacs, Aaron Epp, of the rebirth and revitalization Erin McIntyre, Tom Llewellin, Jonathan Villaverde, Steven Kotelniski, Dan Verville, Scott Christiansen, Brooke Dmytriw, of downtown” Ariel Whitehill, Conrad Sweatman, Graham Podolecki, Kelly Nickie – Mark Klassen

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LOCATION » Room ORM14 University of Winnipeg Which downtown building should be slated for 515 Portage Avenue demolition or renovation next, and why? Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9

Mouseland Press Board of Directors: Mary Agnes Welch, Rob Nay, Nick Tanchuk, Ben Jenny Henkelman Danny Reiser Ian Scott Wickström (chair), Dean Dias, Daniel Blaikie, Vivian (1st year Stylus editor): (2nd year Education) (4th year International Develop- Belik, Brendan Sommerhalder, Brian Gagnon “The Grey’s Auction building “Add more buildings where ment Studies/ Religious Studies) in the exchange. It has been excess parking lots are, “Renovate the Masonic For inquiries email: [email protected] empty for years, but it’s a and have more parking Temple. Businesses have cool building that could be underground. We need to been trying to in the past, renovated, although a lot of brighten up the area.” and it needs a facelift.” Cover Image money would be needed.”

Joseph Gerbasi Charlie Lefevbre Kandyce Jaska “Art Lover” (2nd year Philosophy) (2nd year Education) (2nd year Education) “U of W, because they “Build a bigger arena for an “Don’t demolish anything. Any building that has by Aleem Kahn didn’t use real pie for NHL team so Wpg will stop historical significance should be renovated and showing at Outworks Gallery, the pie throwing contest. whining about the Jets.” used for something new. Only get rid of places Third Floor 290 McDermont Ave. Show It says a lot about our if they are a health risk or safety issue.” closes Sept. 16 school – you only get the whipped cream.”

PHOTOS BY RENEE LILLEY contact: [email protected] The Uniter September 13, 2007 NEWS 0 City seeks public advice on choosing new chief The search has begun for Winnipeg’s next chief of police BEN WOOD

Jenette Martens Clive Wightman, the director of the Community Beat reporter Annitta L. Stenning, chief Services department, and Janet P. Schmidt and Administrative Officer for the city, Adrian Challis from Facilitated Solutions. hopes to find a chief Stenning assures community members that he City of Winnipeg kick-started the she is not taking her decision in hiring a new chief hiring process for Winnipeg’s new chief whose leadership would lightly, and says she hopes to find a chief “whose Tof police last Tuesday with commu- leadership would inspire confidence.” nity discussion forums and a session with one inspire confidence.” Cyril Keeper of the Spence Neighborhood of Winnipeg’s former chiefs. Association, says that “Where I live, it often feels Community consultation meetings were like a war zone.” held on Sept. 5 and 6, where community mem- was retired police chief David Cassels, agreed He stresses the importance of involving the bers were encouraged to describe what leadership that there must be a relationship between officers community with the police, and encourages the skills and characteristics they felt were important and community members. city to look for a police chief who has run a police in a chief of police. Cassels believes the lack of communication force and worked with the community before. The message resonating from the com- between police and the community is the main Tremaine Burrows, executive director of the munity discussions was that a chief committed problem in many neighborhoods. The traditional Osborne Village Business Improvement Zone, to community policing and preventive action is a model of policing is reactive and not proactive, echoes the desire for a chief who believes in com- David Cassels speaks at community panel. priority for the citizens of Winnipeg. he explains; it is a quick solution that doesn’t deal munity policing. He says there are various prob- Others supported stronger punitive measures. with the root problems in the community. lems in his neighborhood, such as petty drug deal- Glenn Stanley, a neighborhood watch captain for Community policing, on the other hand, is ing, aggressive panhandling, and vandalism. litical pressure. almost 30 years, thinks that the new chief should a proactive solution that assigns certain officers “Finding solutions to these problems requires Steek also feels strongly about the loca- enforce stronger discipline. He is calling for a chief to areas of the city. Officers talk with community someone who really has experience in our neigh- tion the new chief is hired from. “I think it is ab- with a bigger badge and a bigger gun. members and get to know the issues in the neighborhood,” Burrows says. He also expresses a desire solutely critical that we get a chief from our own “If the police can’t arrest the crook and keep borhood. for a chief who is not afraid of innovation. system,” he says. him in jail then we’re just going to keep going in Many members felt strongly about the ne- Garth Steek, former mayoral candidate Other speakers at the meetings disagreed, circles,” Stanley said at the Sept. 5 meeting. cessity of community policing. and president of the Manitoba Home Builders saying it doesn’t matter where the chief is from as The first panel, held on Sept. 4, discussed Members on the Sept. 5 panel were Annitta Association, says the city needs a police chief who long as he or she is a good fit. community policing. The panelists, one of which L. Stenning, the city’s chief administrative officer, is transparent and won’t bow to inappropriate po- Candidate interviews are set for the fall.

discourse,” says Plener. “I really do think that this is going to change the way that we do politics.” A Digital Appeal for Darfur On the same day, Canadian Students for Darfur, a student-run organization out of Videos replace letters in Darfur online campaign Roth), and authors (Samantha Power and Dave Vancouver, will participate in Global Day for Darfur Eggers). with the screening of “Darfur Diaries,” a documen- However, it is the messages from average tary presenting Darfurians which the filmmakers citizens that have Plener most excited. “[We have] met while traveling in the region. Cameron MacLean I really do think that this is people as young as eight and as old as eighty,” CFSD will be calling on all parties to the con- Beat reporter going to change the way that we he says. flict to end attacks against civilians, and for the de- do politics” With the advancement of technology and ployment of a joint African Union/United Nations the spread of online media and forums, ordinary peacekeeping force to the region. n Sept. 16, people from around the world – Benjamin Plener On Oct. 7, concerned Winnipeggers will will call upon their leaders to take action 24 Hours for Darfur’s people have unprecedented means to put their walk and run to raise awareness and financial to end the continuing violence in Darfur communications director messages out there. O support for those who have been affected by in a medium suitable for the 21st century. “I think people are developing new, more ac- cessible, more effective ways to engage in political the conflict in Darfur. Rather than receive a signed petition or a concern and their moral outrage,” says Plener. flurry of letters, politicians will actually see and “I think everyone who’s done a video agrees that hear the appeals of their constituents, along with this is one of the top issues on the international those of hundreds of other concerned global agenda…and that it is absolutely critical, it’s mor- citizens. ally imperative for the international community to 24 Hours for Darfur is a grassroots online take action now.” campaign, which collects video messages from Darfur is an impoverished region in west- people all over the world calling on the United ern Sudan. Since 2003, between 200,000 and Nations to end the conflict in Darfur. On Sept. 16, 450,000 Darfurians have been killed and millions more have been forced to flee their homes as a result of fighting between the Sudanese government and its Janjaweed militia along with arfur.org d various rebel groups. In addition to collecting mes-

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24 specific demand to make to the five permanent member countries of the UN Security Council; the U.S., U.K., France, Russia, and China. It is requesting that each country sends full-time, high-level diplo- matic teams to the region to work on the peace process. By using digital video for their messages, organizers see themselves Author Dave Eggers and Sudanese memorist and author Valentino Deng appear on one of many videos in the campaign. as updating the classic letter writing campaign for the 21st century. “When you use video, the mes- as part of the Global Day for Darfur rally, all of the sage is much more compelling,” says Plener. “It’s videos collected will be edited together and played also much more meaningful for the participants. on a screen outside of the UN headquarters in New Instead of signing your name on a standard peti- York City. tion, you get to put your personal stamp on your Although the people who have submitted message, and say it in your own words.” videos speak with many different voices, accord- Many high-profile figures have submitted ing to communications director Benjamin Plener, videos, including politicians (former governor of they agree that the focus must be on protection for Virginia Howard Dean and presidential candidate the people of Darfur through peaceful political so- John Edwards), celebrities (actress Mia Farrow), lutions and not additional fighting. academics (dean of Yale Law School Harold Koh), “I think people are absolutely united in their activists (Human Rights Watch director Kenneth September 13, 2007 The Uniter contact: [email protected] News Editor: Ksenia Prints E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 786-9497 0 NEWS Fax: 783-7080 Haiti activist urges locals to think about Haiti International Dan Huyghebaert News BriefS Beat reporter Compiled by Brooke Dmytriw n front of a crowd at the Mondragon Cafe earlier this Iweek, human rights activist Roger Annis spoke of his experi- LABRADOR, Canada: Makivik ences in Haiti, a country he de- Corporation, an Inuit interests-based company, scribes as torn apart by corrup- is in discussions with Inuit from Nunavut, north- tion and foreign meddling. ern Quebec and Labrador to establish an Arctic cruise line. Annis was in town Tuesday Makivik Corp. runs Cruise North Expedition, as part of a cross-country trek with ships traveling through Nunavik and Nunavut to speak about the conditions during the summer months. in the Caribbean country and Representatives from the three northern advocate for increased fund- regions are attending the negotiations on one of ing for Haiti and the removal of Makivik’s cruises. The company is interested in foreign troops from the coun- developing Arctic tourism and arranging a three- try. His speaking tour has been way partnership in the operation of the cruises, re- sponsored by the Canadian Haiti ported CBC News. KATHMANDU, Nepal: Three people Action Network were killed in a series of bombings set off in Annis lives in Vancouver, Nepal’s capital. where he works as an aircraft as- ROGER ANNIS Officials suspect three small rebel groups sembler, and has been a social Roger Annis spoke in Winnipeg this week about his experiences in Haiti. are responsible for the explosions. activist all of his life. Earlier this According to BBC News two individuals summer, he took two weeks died on scene, while the third was a school girl off from his job to be part of a who died in the hospital. Approximately another human rights delegation to Haiti. Aristide fled the country into exile in the Haitian National Police, Annis says there 20 were injured. Annis reports arriving in a country in Africa after the US, Canada, and France sent are still 4,000 illegal detainees in the country. The explosions occurred successively with two directed at a minibus and the university. economic and social calamity, with an unem- in troops under a United Nations peace- “The HNP does not wish to be account- Authorities believe the bombings were orches- ployment rate as high as 80 per cent, and no keeping force. The country was then hit by able,” he says. trated by several groups seeking autonomy from running water service in most houses. Health Hurricane Jeanne on Sept. 17, 2004, adding Annis is also concerned with the dis- Neal’s Terai region in the south. care is rare at best and half a million chil- to the unrest. appearance of prominent Haitian political Kathmandu had not seen bombings since dren do not go to school. There is garbage and “The whole infrastructure fell apart that rights activist, Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, who 2006, when Maoist rebels signed a peace agree- sewage everywhere. day,” Annis says. “The country has never has been missing since August 2007 and is ment with the national government. “Everywhere I went I heard people say recovered.” considered kidnapped. Annis reports that EDMONTON, Alberta: The province that ‘people should not have to live like this The disaster led to mass looting, fol- appeals the delegation made to the Canadian will issue photo identification for Albertan youths 12 years and older. in the 21st century,’” Annis says. lowed by years of widespread armed gangs The ID cards are intended for adolescents Haiti has been in shambles since the and a weak rule of law. Today, nearly 9,000 traveling by air, and will be available at provincial February 2004 resignation of Jean-Bertrand UN troops are stationed in the country, work- registry offices for an annual fee of $6. Aristide. While democratically elected, ing alongside the Haitian National Police. Everywhere I went I Children under the age of 12 will continue Aristide was described by Colin Powell, “It is a dysfunctional justice system,” Annis using non-photo ID such as birth certificates and/ then American Secretary of State, as some- says, noting that no warrants are needed for heard people say that ‘people or health cards. one who “did not democratically govern or arrests. CBC News reported that after September govern well,” according to various interna- While there are currently 100 RCMP and should not have to live like this 18, the government requires all Albertans trav- tional media. Quebec Police personnel in the area training eling nationally by air to present government- in the 21st century,’” issued photo ID or two pieces of non-photo ID. VIENNA, Austria: A Viennese foren- sic pathologist is claiming the famous com- – Roger Annis poser Ludwig van Beethoven was killed by his human rights activist physician. The Associated Press reports that after months of research, Christian Reiter, head of fo- rensic medicine at the city’s medical university, Embassy for help in the matter fell on deaf published his findings in the Beethoven Journal. ears at the mention of Lovinsky’s nationality. Reiter concluded Beethoven’s doctor, Andreas Wawruch, killed the composer inadvertently by While an election was held in Haiti last lead poisoning in 1827. year to elect a new president, there are grow- According to the pathologist, Beethoven ing protests at the lack of progress and finan- suffered from cirrhosis of the liver and edemas cial mismanagement. Annis claims that most of the abdomen. Wawruch treated Beethoven for of the $600 million a year the government re- these with punctures to the torso, sealing the ceives from the United Nations is directed wounds with lead-laced poultices, but the poul- toward the military and police forces, and not tices only caused more harm to an already dam- to schools, roads and hospitals. aged liver. Also upsetting to locals is the presence of Ultimately it was the continued exposure to lead-infused balms that killed the composer French troops in the country’s North, the his- at age 57. torical location of Haiti’s last battle for inde- VALENCIA, Spain: An immigrant living pendence from the French. in Castellon set himself on fire in protest for his Annis advocates reevaluating Canada’s desire to return to Romania. involvement in Haiti, claiming there are many The man, who’s name was unreleased, non-governmental officials in Haiti meddling doused himself with gasoline and set himself into the country’s internal affairs. He wants alight while his wife and children watched. Police Canada’s police and military presence out of officers attempted to put out the fire, managing to Haiti. strip the man of his burning clothes and extin- guish the flames. Annis also wants the role of the Canadian The Associated Press reported the man suf- International Development Agency, which fered burns to 70 per cent of his body. sent $135.5 million in aid over the last year to Spanish television later interviewed the Haiti, to be investigated and exchanged for a 44-year old man’s daughter, who recounted the method of monetary aid that respects Haiti’s family’s troubles. The family was lured to Spain sovereignty. several months ago with promises of jobs and Finally, Annis urges Canadians to put housing, which turned out to be a sham. After col- pressure on the NDP caucus, which has thus lecting enough money to return to Romania, they far been silent on Haiti. were deceived out of their airfare. Social services is now handling the situ- Annis’ delegation was sponsored by ation. The family will stay in a shelter while the the US-based Fondasyon Mapou and Haiti father is treated in the hospital. Priorities Project. contact: [email protected] The Uniter September 13, 2007 NEWS 0 Literacy receives a month to call its own James Janzen Local JAMES JaNZEN Beat Reporter News BriefS Crack. C ompiled James Janzen, Ariel It’s the sound of a book opening. Whitehill, and Conrad Sweatman September marks a return to the literary world for university students, and Literacy Partners of Manitoba is urging the rest of the province to do the same during Manitoba’s Portage Commons Introduced to Literacy Month. Downtown Winnipeg This is the second year in a row that On the front lawn of Wesley Hall on Sept. 5, September is officially declared literacy month University of Winnipeg president Lloyd Axworthy and in Manitoba in an effort to raise awareness members from the three levels of government an- about the importance of a literate population. nounced $800,000 in funding towards the Portage “The fact is, there are 290,000 who struggle Commons project. to do everyday what we take for granted,” Lori Targeted towards neighbourhood residents and Apps, LPM’s executive director, said before the university students alike, this green initiative is hinted signing of the official proclamation. “Everything to be only one of many to come. This begins “a new chapter for the U of W and from reading your child’s report card and labels downtown,” says Steve Ashton, Manitoba’s Minister on your medication bottles to filling out job ap- of Intergovernmental Affairs, as the project is geared plications.” Lorri Apps, executive director, Literacy Partners of MB towards connecting the two communities. The signing was done by Diane McGifford, The soon-to-be finished construction of the Manitoba’s Minister of Advanced Education, new public space opens up an area with ample room and took place at a Sept. 6 LPM open house. employment inquiries are often returned in- 30 per cent to a province-wide $17 million. for events, demonstrations and pickup games of bas- “Improving literacy improves commu- complete because they can not be understood The minister hopes to pass the Adult ketball or street hockey. nities on a social and economic level,” says by the people filling them out. Literacy Act in the fall, a symbolic move and In an effort to create more green space and to McGifford. “These things need to be written at a grade sign of commitment that would outline a strat- promote ecological sustainability, 40 per cent more Apps stresses the importance of liter- seven or eight level, and not grade sixteen or egy to retain literacy among adults. The act, the grass was added to the area, trees were preserved and acy advocacy. It is estimated that “as many as seventeen like some of them are,” Apps says. first of its kind in Canada, would strengthen planted, and paving stones were reused. forty per cent of adult Manitobans sit at liter- Literacy problems not only affect individ- Manitoba’s clout as a leader in literacy issues “You ain’t seen nothing yet,” was repeated by Dr. Axworthy and each of the representatives. acy level that is considered low,” she says. To uals, but hurt society as a whole. According to awareness. Indeed, the Commons follows in the footsteps combat this, one service provided by LPM is the LPM website low literacy in the province With 40 per cent of adults struggling, of other downtown revitalization efforts and spear- the LEARN Line, which receives calls from the costs Manitobans $375 million a year in lost Manitoba sits in the middle of the road nation- heads a larger project due for completion by 2009. public regarding adult learning needs. Callers income. Of those adults struggling, only 2,700 ally. National numbers are at 42 per cent. The university plans to entirely shut down Spence are helped with immediate needs and directed were enrolled in provincially funded literacy When asked what can be done to decrease Street and build a downtown transit loop and a “green to appropriate literacy-related programs. LPM programs in 2006. these percentages, Apps says, “Learning is a corridor” that will stretch from Balmoral to Furby and receives such calls daily. McGifford also points out that health lifelong task . . . in both formal and informal sit- connect to the forthcoming Richardson College for the The association also provides grants and levels correlate with literacy levels, as an illit- uations. You want to encourage everyone you Environment. bursaries for families and individuals, and erate population is more likely to smoke more, meet.” U of W alumnus bikes to cure MS holds regular meetings with provincial min- eat worse, and exercise less. Manitoba’s Literacy Month coincides with isters to promote easy-to-read government- Since literacy was added to her ministerial the United Nations Education, Scientific and CKUW radio personality and University of issued printed and online material. Apps says title a year ago, McGifford has increased pro- Cultural Organization’s International Literacy Winnipeg alumnus Matt Hutchinson participated government applications such as tax forms or vincial literacy and adult learning funding by Day on Sept. 8. on Sept. 8 in the 2007 RONA MS Bike Tour Riding Mountain Challenge to help the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada raise funds for continuing research. This will be Hutchinson’s first time riding to fundraise for this event or any other, yet he bashfully Province, police team up to take guns off the street admits to having done only a little training. “I am a virgin, so to speak,” he reveals with Cameron MacLean Dennison, media relations officer for the Initiatives such as this have been tried in candidness. Beat reporter Winnipeg Police Service, it is hard to know the past. In 2005, a similar gun amnesty pro- After his partner participated in the same exactly how many weapons used in the com- gram fetched a total of 315 firearms. In 1994 event last year, he decided he too would strap his mission of a crime are stolen, because not all a gun amnesty program netted 285 firearms gear on and ride his buns off for this worthy cause. he government of Manitoba is teaming such weapons are recovered. However, he esti- over a five-month period. Hutchinson’s goal is to raise $1000. Hutchinson is just one of the over 10,000 cy- up with local police departments in an mates that most of the guns used in crimes in The 2007 Annual Report on Organized clists that the MS Society expects to ride in the 22 dif- effort to keep dangerous weapons out Winnipeg are acquired by theft. Crime in Canada, published by the Criminal T ferent tours occurring regionally across Canada, be- of the hands of criminals. A province-wide fire- “We’re not so naïve to believe that having Intelligence Service of Canada, states that ap- tween June and September. arms amnesty program will run throughout the a gun amnesty is instantly going to have an proximately 85,000 firearms were reported According to the Multiple Sclerosis Society impact on gun-related crime,” says Ballard. missing or stolen since 1974. Approximately month of September, under which gun owners of Canada website (http://www.mssociety.ca/), MS is “[Yet] it allows people who have guns in their 44,000 of them are classified as restricted— are encouraged to turn in any unwanted fire- most often diagnosed in persons aged 15-40, and can house that they don’t really want…to safely get handguns, for example—as recorded by the arms without fear of prosecution. affect hearing, memory, mobility and vision. The pur- “One of the major sources of crime guns rid of those guns.” Canadian Police Information Centre. pose of the research funded by the society is to im- in this province are residential and business By turning unwanted guns over to police, Anyone who wishes to turn in a firearm prove current management and monitoring of the dis- break and enters,” says Chris Ballard, media gun owners are not only taking those weap- should contact the non-emergency number of ease, repair the damage inflicted by MS to the ner- relations officer for RCMP Division-D. “So if ons out of circulation, they are also reducing their local police service. Police strongly warn vous system, and push forward the quest for a cure we can reduce the number of firearms that the possibility of that weapon accidentally dis- against bringing any weapons down to police for the disease. are unwanted by people and are available to charging and causing serious injury or death. stations personally. Those interesting in pledging Matt Henderson be stolen it will hopefully have an impact on can visit https://msors.mssociety.ca/bike2007/ crime.” Sponsor.aspx?L=2&PID=972077. The purpose of the initiative is not to Province host to annual environ- take weapons out of the hands of criminals, mental and resource ministers’ meeting but rather to prevent them from falling into On Sept. 10 – 12, Manitoba hosted the the wrong hands, either through carelessness National Ministers’ Environmental Conference at the or theft. Fort Garry Hotel. Unless the weapon has been stolen or The conference aimed to connect members used in the commission of a crime, gun owners of the provincial and federal governments to discuss can call their local police service to arrange for policy initiatives in areas like sustainable forestry, cli- any unwanted firearms to be safely picked up mate change, preservation sites, water and the envi- and destroyed. The amnesty will cover any of- ronment as a whole. fenses related to unregistered and prohibited Touting Manitoba’s reputation as having effi- or restricted firearms. cient energy strategies, Conservation Minister Stan “This initiative is aimed at prevent- Struthers said, “Our province is the ideal location for ing injury, saving innocent lives and sparing this year’s conference.” people from being the victims of weapons that Organizations involved with the confer- should not be in circulation in our province,” ence were the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Attorney General Dave Chomiak said in an Environment and the Canadian Council of Resource Ministers. Aug. 29 press release. The Council of Ministers of the Environment Gauging the effectiveness of these types includes Environment Minister John Baird as well as of programs can be difficult. According to Kelly Manitoba’s Conservation Minister, Stan Struthers. September 13, 2007 The Uniter contact: [email protected] 0 COMMENTS

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Jo Snyder ment, from voting to party participation. Low liter- Martel wrote this in an editorial to the Globe to keeping up the newspaper tradition of review- Managing Editor acy, in a sense then, equals a detached society. and Mail. You can check up on his progress on a ing literature for our readers, though this week our How much then of literacy is connected web site devoted to his project called whatisste- book review was pushed aside because of space to our cultural lack of enthusiasm for literature? phenharperreading.ca. His point is perfect, in my restrictions. Maybe that is a flaw in our priorities, Likely, a significant amount. opinion. The level of literacy he is talking about en- or merely we can understand that budget cuts can eptember is literacy month in Manitoba. Last April, Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi, gages citizens on a variety of levels, not just merely often mean cutting content that might be read less This new initiative, started only two years vowed to send Stephen Harper a book every two being able to open a book and enjoy a good story, frequently. However, we also recognize the impor- Sago, is an effort to raise awareness regard- weeks to encourage the Prime Minister to “retreat but also to exercise your mind. tance to such a column. I agree with Martel that ing low literacy levels in the province and work to- into stillness,” enhancing his own love of the arts. Martel would be disturbed I’m sure, and he reading literature stimulates our critical faculties. wards improving these rates. High literacy rates This was a direct response to Martel’s frustration is likely already aware, in the decline of book re- I agree with Dickstein that the reviews of movies are connected to better jobs and a higher qual- with the limited and shortsightedness of arts fund- views from newspapers across North America. In and CDs take much more president over that of ity of life. I was a little shocked to read that 40 per ing in Canada. He eloquently states: a recent blog post by Critical Mass a book critic’s books, whether non-fiction or not, and it’s much cent of Manitobans are sitting at a low level of liter- circle in the United States, Morris Dickstein worries more difficult to engage people in reading, than acy. When talking with a colleague, he said it’s sur- “I was thinking that to have a bare-bones ap- that as magazines and newspapers cut back their watching a film. Isn’t it sad then that in a busy life, prising how people can get by merely recognizing proach to arts funding, as the present Conservative back their book review sections we are loosing an time to read is always the first to go on our list of the shapes of words as symbols, rather than un- government has, to think of the arts as mere enter- important part of society, which is that of literary priorities. derstanding them phonetically. Low literacy in a tainment, to be indulged in after the serious busi- criticism. He worries that it’ll be increasingly dif- As Winnipeg’s International Writer’s Fest is person is invisible but its impact is all encompass- ness of life, that—in conjunction with retooling ficult for people to become engaged in literature, approaching, and we’re celebrating literacy month, ing. The Literacy Partners of Manitoba warn us education so that it centres on the teaching of em- if we don’t continue to discuss what we are read- people should talk stock of how much they read... that literacy levels affect everything from our jobs ployable skills rather than the creating of thinking ing, why it’s good and why it isn’t. It is more likely and read more. to our health. And, it’s often been argued that lit- citizens—is to engineer souls that are post-histori- in the case of a book that it’ll be picked up if it’s re- Send your letters to the editor to [email protected] eracy levels are related to all kinds of civic engage- cal, post-literate and pre-robotic;” viewed. It’s funny, the Uniter has been committed

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Comments Editor : Ben Wood Comments E-mail: [email protected] Knowledge as a base for effective policing

Ben Wood lutions in that same depth. It operates in a com- When one doesn’t understand the culture of a from the same location, leaving them no option but mand and control style, is highly internal, bureau- community, it becomes easy to rely on stereotypes or to apply “band-aid” solutions, only to have another Comments Editor cratic, and centralized, and structured with excessive racist assumptions in order to attempt to solve the set of officers come back upon receiving the next rules and policies that are strictly adhered to. This problem. This is in no way an excuse for such behav- call. The officers would not get to know the people method does not allow for any flexibility, something iour, but helps to explain why it occurs so often. in this neighbourhood and would have very little he persona the police have in the inner-city that is desperately needed when attempting to solve The alternative approach, and one I believe prior knowledge of the area or the problems being is, at first glance, a persona that is the result of problems in a city with areas as vastly different as would greatly benefit so many communities in our reported. inappropriate use of force, lack of knowledge T Charleswood and Point Douglas. In a word, the tra- city, is a community-based approach to policing. However, officers operating under a commu- of the community and the people who live there, ditional method of policing is reactive. However, it must become an accepted philosophy by nity-based approach would have the time to deter- and incessant use of stereotypes and racial profiling. As Cassels noted in his lecture, police are dis- the entire department; it cannot solely exist in a few mine the root of these problems and work with the While it may sometimes bring comfort to claim that patched to an area when either they receive a call select pockets of the city. The two different methods people in this neighbourhood to arrive at a sustain- all police are this way and that these people become and are sent to investigate, or when they are dis- of policing are not complementary. able solution and therefore, ideally, eliminating 48 police officers because this is their natural character, patched at random. In both of these instances, the A community-based approach involves the per cent of next year’s calls. I would like to offer another perspective. It is one that officers investigate at the surface level and attempt community at all levels. The police are no longer re- I think it is very important to constantly cri- was spoken about by David Cassels at a lecture put to solve the immediate problem. After which, they active but become very proactive. Officers become tique the motives and goals of the Winnipeg Police on by the Inner City Safety Coalition. The audience vacate the area only to return if and when another an integrated presence in the community, but not as Department in order to understand what an effec- was a group of inner-city residents, politicians, and call is received, upon which they repeat the same an occupying force. Instead they become more like tive police service would look like. Are their goals or members of the local media all concerned about the process. Constantly solving these problems on the citizens attempting to resolve the problems of the financial plans based on a certain set of values or are Winnipeg Police Department: its problems with the surface is not sustainable or meaningful, two quali- community, working with residents in a sustainable they based on the traditional method of policing, in- inner city, the lack of trust shown to it by citizens, and ties needed in a proper solution. and meaningful manner. effective as it may be? most notably, the selection of the future police chief The officers have a hard time gaining a proper This approach allows officers to gain knowl- Cassels constantly stressed the simplicity of of Winnipeg. understanding of the community when they are not edge of the community: the people who live there, the the community-based approach, claiming that the The above problems persist not as the result able to spend sufficient amounts of time there, es- cultures that are present, and the consistently prob- “things”—the colour of the cars, new uniforms, or of the personal characters of individual officers, but pecially in the inner-city where there are various dif- lematic areas. With this knowledge, officers would new gadgets—of policing have very little to do with rather are the result of the method of policing the ferent ethnicities, all with their own unique cultures be able to determine the root problems in order to quality, effective, and sustainable police work. Winnipeg Police Department operates within. There and traditions. For example, when a teenager is ap- arrive at sustainable solutions that are unique and Community-based policing is a problem- are two main problems with this method, both of proached by an officer and looks to the ground while created specifically for that certain problem in that solving approach and, as Cassels said, is “noth- which form the root of the majority of problems in speaking to them, the officer may assume they are certain neighbourhood. ing more than contact between one person and our current policing system. The problems are a lack hiding something, when in actuality the teen is look- As an example of the effectiveness of this another.” If this became the philosophy of the of knowledge of the communities within our city, ing at the ground out of respect while speaking to an method of policing, Cassels spoke of a 100sq block police department I believe we would start to and a lack of direct communication between police elder. This is a great example of how a difference of in Edmonton, where 21 addresses generated 48 per see a healthy relationship between the police and officers and members of a community. cultures, and a lack of knowledge of them, can cause cent of all calls in a 12-month period. Officers oper- the citizens of Winnipeg, a relationship where The traditional method of policing only views great misunderstanding and hurt both the police ating under a traditional method of policing would knowledge comes from contact and not from problems at their surface and attempts to find so- and the community. not be able to notice the regularity of calls coming stereotypes.

tactics like murder, rape and theft to suppress rebel African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force Darfur’s tipping point groups. of 26,000 to be deployed in the area. But before this The government justifies such actions (indis- decision proceeds into actuality, two crucial ingre- criminately directed at civilians as well as armed dients are needed—internationally-supplied troops Julienne Isaacs MySpace and other programs will help to lend the forces) as “self-defence,” though most of the world and sufficient funding—and collecting these could initiative necessary momentum. community views it, unofficially, as genocide—an take a year. Beyond driving desensitized UN workers up attempt by a corrupt government to rid Darfur of its Meanwhile, the gut-twisting screams of the s Malcolm Gladwell and every New York the wall with non-stop footage of thousands of black African population. There are only estimates of people of Darfur are echoing around the globe. Times bestseller junkie knows, sometimes people delivering the same careworn message come the death toll in Darfur—“safe” figures sit at 200,000, We all know real action cannot wait another year. small things can make a big difference. Sept. 16, what can 24 Hours for Darfur actually ac- while the bold are inclined to push the total to And we want to know what can be done, what we A complish? The hope of the “tipping point” forms the im- 400,000 and counting. There are 2 million internally can do. Enter grassroots advocacy groups, holding petus behind a growing movement to affect positive Darfur has become fixed in the iris of the inter- displaced persons in Darfur, living in camps that rely out nifty solutions packaged in shiny multimedia change in one of the world’s most conflicted regions: national eye, and with good reason. Darfur is about the entirely on international aid—aid that cannot be wrapping. “Your voice can help stop these atroci- Darfur, in Sudan. A recently launched 24 Hours for size of France, and occupies the west end of a coun- properly delivered because of continuing violence. ties,” grandly promises the 24 Hours campaign. Darfur campaign aims to amass 24 hours worth of try the size of Texas—the largest in Africa. Climate- It is obvious to everyone that the problem of Such promises seem empty, non-prescriptive, and personal, home-made video appeals to increase in- wise, it is arid and unfriendly, and the region’s inhab- Darfur is massive and extremely complex. What hopelessly vague. ternational pressure to stop the conflict. Besides itants—black Africans and Arabs—have long com- is not obvious is any kind of handy solution. And But just maybe, if enough voices chime in sending the videos to local politicians, campaign or- peted over the rights to grazing lands. But the conflict equally unclear is the amount of public pressure to the clamour, public opinion will snowball into ganizers plan to play the full 24 hours worth of foot- is far more than an economic squabble: rebel groups needed before the international community will ac- something significant, governments with drag- age continuously on a big screen at the UN head- cite governmental discrimination against black tually be able to act in Darfur. What is needed to mo- ging feet and misplaced priorities will wise up, and quarters in New York City on Sept. 16. The strategy? Africans and criminal neglect of the area’s basic hu- bilize the international community, to flood Darfur Darfur’s raw wounds will have the chance to heal. According to their website, this grassroots group manitarian needs. In 2003 the conflict spiralled out with blue-bereted troops? And even if there’s only a slim chance that such a aims to “strengthen Darfur advocacy by making it of control when rebel groups began attacking gov- Some argue that real progress is being made, campaign will have any kind of effect, perhaps we more direct, participatory and global.” These advo- ernment targets. The government-supported Arab and maybe it is, if slowly. Peace talks begin again owe it to Darfur to lift our voices and yell as hard cates are aiming the campaign especially at youth, militia, or Janjaweed, have since retaliated with a next month in Libya, and a mandate was issued by as we can, for as long as it takes, until we reach in hopes that online networking through Facebook, massive campaign of violence in the area, employing the Security Council this summer allowing a joint the tipping point.

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Sepher Cadiz young man has to climb up or fall down while pol- optimist monster. It’s back to seize new opportuni- School is back and it’s time to forget about va- luted on beautiful alcohol. Oh yeah, we’re all back! ties, new friendships, and new people. And back to cation. So be prepared to be the first one to put on Back from denying cherubic gypsy street kids’ money the place where everybody speaks the most beau- a dog collar, crack the whip, and torture yourself ’m back from it all! Back from being a witness to and the terrible dry crummy-crusted taste you get in tiful language in the entire universe—English! in weird academic ways. Sacrifice sounds famil- hosts of tall beautiful 6 foot 1 inch super model- your mouth after doing so. Back from accidentally So, we’re all back and ready to hammer through iar doesn’t it? Yes, you heard that right my fellow re- Iish women who bike their beautiful calories wondering off into the slums of a foreign country late another dent in the great stressful transformation ligious fans! We’re here to sacrifice like the sketchy off their beautiful faces every single ugly or beauti- at night knowing that you have a four hour window from amateur to professional. To hammer down, broad-shouldered showgirl on the red light district ful day while looking oh-so-scrum-sha-lescentally- before the next train arrives. Back from when you met the “five minutes of morning glory” to four flat! who role plays as a holy figure that we all know. Tell beautiful (if that’s even a word). And their hair! How the one person you finally decide to ask for help after Back here to prevent any sprouting hint of white me that you know of the holy figure who sacrificed it flows so beautifully as it contorts in oh-so-many- admitting that you can’t do this alone. And back from hairs in regions on our bodies that only a woman himself so his believers can all have bread and wine beautiful gentle jet angles through the cool air luring the quirky way it all worked out. Uh huh, we’re back with a beautiful gluteus maximus will find. Back every Sunday and so that humanity can experience any straight man’s focus onto the oh-so-beautiful and safe. It is just a shame that it’s back to school. to reduce the half-inch loss of perky apple bottom “PARADISE” after death. golden gluteus maximus. Sigh. I’m back all right. Whoopi beautiful f-bombingly-doo! We are tenderness in our gluteus maximus after cramming Yes, isn’t school the same thing? It’s torture with Back from the beautifully clustered vintage sky- back, mes Amies. It’s back to beautiful assign- hours upon hours of moot facts to only…. who are a beautiful long-term reward in the end, isn’t it? So, line that possesses f-bombingly old buildings that ments, crappy scenery, annoying construction de- we kidding? My gluteus maximus will always be after all the cramming and torture we can all have have stairs so beautifully broken in, to the point tours, sad fishbowl effects that cause sporadic tender! (Insert rim-shot here) and (insert explana- booze, food and white hairs. where you feel that they smile back at you from afar, spurts of agoraphobia. It’s back to terrible hand tion that informs public that “rim-shot” isn’t meant Make sense? Probably not, but that’s life! Or while you and your friends share a comical flask- cramps, frost bites, and student fees. And it’s back to be dirty). Ah, school is back! as they say it in Paris, “C’est la vie!” Either way, it’s session on how many steep spiral steps a beautiful to being the unpredictable two-headed pessimist- baaaaack! September 13, 2007 The Uniter contact: [email protected] 0 FEATURES Features In Caledonia, the land dispute becomes a battle for Canada’s conscience

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a calm and unobtrusive woman, sat on a con- EAN D TORONTO (CUP) – “Wanna see where I crete barrier near the entrance to the pro- play?” test site, speaking with the small gaggle of An aboriginal girl tilts her head and kicks reporters who made the trip to Caledonia one sneaker-clad foot in the dirt beside a half- from nearby Toronto. On that very spot, she constructed house. A small dust cloud forms claimed, “We were attacked last year by the from her efforts and she, filled with delight, OPP several times. I was also attacked right skips down the dirt driveway, disappearing here by a drunk non-native [counter-protes- behind the large, rambling structure. Later, tor]. I’ve even had death threats placed upon she ducks in and out of holes in the house’s me. But here we are.” interior and pulls at the pink insulation and Moments later, a black SUV edged past Styrofoam guts of a wall. the barricades and parked beside the plywood The house is one of half a dozen partially building that served as the impromptu head- constructed buildings that were intended to quarters of the protest. About a dozen aborig- be part of a residential subdivision, Douglas inal protesters are seated outside the build- Creek Estates. It is now a symbol of indige- ing, chatting with each other and sharing nous struggles against colonialism. cigarettes. Mohawk activist Dawn Smith, 33, Its construction came to a halt last year limped out of the vehicle, favouring her left when a small group representing the Six leg, and climbed onto the porch. Clutching a Nations Iroquois Confederacy camped out at copy of the pamphlet that served as the pro- to convince Ontario authorities that the land Sidney L. Harring, a law professor at the site, asserting Native land rights. Now, the testers’ media guide, she spoke with an ex- was legally aboriginal territory. the City University in New York, chron- protesters are slowly dismantling the houses, pected air of defiance. When the houses began to go up, the Six icled contradictory government prac- board by board. “We’ve accomplished something here Nations took the action that has kept them tices toward aboriginal communities in his June 29, 2007 seemed no different than that our ancestors were unable to do. If we on the site to this day. In May of last year, the 1998 publication, “White Man’s Law: Native any other day since the Six Nations’ occupa- didn’t have a legitimate claim [to this land], government of Ontario bought back the land People in Nineteenth-Century Canadian tion of the development site began. Over the we’d have been out of here in a day,” she said, of Douglas Creek Estates from Henco for an Jurisprudence.” White loyalists who fought preceding 16 months, the reclamation has suggesting that Canadian authorities have not undisclosed sum, removing the private third and lost territory during the American continued unabated. been able to legally prove that land on which party from the dispute. M Revolution, he wrote, were awarded similar The dispute in Caledonia, a small com- she now sits belongs to any party other than munity in Southern Ontario, is viewed by the Six Nations of the Grand River. EY L some as yet another rancorous dispute be- The 40 hectares of Douglas Creek Estates D RA

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inal inhabitants. More than a year of protests years ago, the Haldimand Grant: 833,333 EAN D have been characterized by rail blockades, hectares of territory — six miles (9.6 kilome- frequent, and sometimes violent, encoun- tres) on each side of the length of the Grand ters with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), River — awarded to Chief Joseph Brant counter-demonstrations from Caledonia res- and the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy idents and intermittent attempts at negotia- in 1784 by then-governor general tions involving local, provincial and federal Sir Frederick Haldimand. The land served as levels of government. compensation for native territory in New EY L D RA B EAN D

Blockades in Caledonia

The National Day of Action, a premed- York state that was lost during the American itated, though unscripted, day of protest Revolution as a result of their military service and awareness organized by Canada’s First and loyalty to the Crown. Nations, was a serious moment. Though Henco Industries Limited, a develop- somber and circumspect, the protesters in ment company, then purchased the 40 hect- Caledonia demonstrate an undeniable sense ares from the province of Ontario in 1992. of empowerment by their small success, a Construction of homes didn’t begin until feeling that can only emerge from a nothing- 2005, when Henco received official title to the to-lose state of desperation. land after a lengthy lawsuit filed by the Six If Caledonia can be resolved, they be- Nations against the province in 1995 failed More than a year of protests in the area have yeilded intermittent attempts at negeotiations contact: [email protected] The Uniter September 13, 2007 FEATURES 0

land rights by the British Crown and protected in fact invested to help Canada’s First Nations plementation of the Kelowna Accord, a doc- the rest of Canada’s aboriginal disputes. against other white settlers. Indigenous tribes is still contested. ument forged by the previous Liberal govern- “The AFN,” bristled Dawn Smith, “is an received no such protection. For two years, the tribe protested and pe- ments, in consultation with First Nations rep- arm of the white government. [Our confed- An 1809 resolution, he noted, listed white titioned against the surrender of the land, re- resentatives, to address the root problems in eracy has] been protesting every day the fact settlers and their violations toward indige- stating that their original agreement was to aboriginal societies. In the days before the that [the Canadian government] thought they nous land claims. The resolution was ignored lease, not to sell. In 1843, the Crown offered National Day of Action, Harper announced had the divine right to take our land.” by a government ruling, citing lack of capac- the Six Nations 19,000 hectares of the 22,000 he would establish an independent commis- Beyond money, laws and the land itself, it ity. Meanwhile, similar claims made by whites they had petitioned for (excluding other land sion to resolve aboriginal land claims expedi- is something altogether more abstract that the resulted in the government removing settlers tracts that the tribe requested to lease). The ently, and would earmark $150 million specifi- protestors hope to achieve here. from their land. Six Nations chiefs accepted this offer, and ever cally to resolve the Caledonia dispute with the “A responsible society challenges its gov- In the two centuries since the Haldimand since have been confined to the Grand River Six Nations. ernment,” Smith said. “And a responsible gov- Tract was awarded to the Six Nations Iroquois reserve. The AFN under Fontaine has been in- ernment listens to its people.” What she and Confederacy, controversy regarding its own- An 1844 document signed by 47 Six volved in these negotiations with the federal the other protestors here are advocating is a ership has raged. In 1792, Lt.-Gov. John Nations chiefs appears to authorize the sale government, applauding the latter’s increased history lesson — or, more accurately, a truth Graves Simcoe considerably reduced its size of the Haldimand Tract land to the Crown. But role alongside the government of Ontario. lesson — for all of Canada. to 111,000 hectares. Four years later, the Six ever since that day, dissenters have disputed To the participants in the Six Nations’ “The truth is being censored,” Smith said. Nations granted Joseph Brant power of attor- the legitimacy of the document, claiming it to protest at Douglas Creek Estates, though, “Many [white] people here in Caledonia, the ney to sell off portions of the land and invest be in violation of earlier agreements with the the efforts by the federal and provincial gov- ones that have been here for generations, un- the profits. Then, in 1825, the Six Nations con- Crown. ernments, and even the AFN, only accentu- derstand the history of the agreements with ceded to lease parts of their property to the A century and a half later, on the National ate the disparity in perceptions of Caledonia the confederacy, that our land was never to be Crown, resulting in the Crown’s allegedly ille- Day of Action, the expressions of dissent from and other disputes. Ottawa is willing to throw sold, that [our rights] are sacred. Others must gal sale of that property to third parties, de- members of Canada’s First Nations take a va- money and legal commissions at the prob- know this too.” spite Native protest. riety of forms. On that day, Assembly of First lem, while the protestors speak of rights and In many ways, the National Day of Action For the next century, the Crown struggled Nations chief Phil Fontaine marched in a justice. Chief Phil Fontaine urges law-abiding was conceived for just this very purpose: to call to maintain ownership of the land while the Six peaceful demonstration in Ottawa next to dissent, while protestors such as Shawn Brant the attention of all Canadians to the causes of Nations attempted to reclaim what they called NDP leader Jack Layton and Liberal leader and Dawn Smith believe that the dire situation desperation felt by the communities of this their own. The Crown sold portions of the land Stéphane Dion. Fontaine told the Toronto Star of Canada’s aboriginal people demands more country’s original inhabitants. They wanted to other parties and recommended, in 1840, before the march that Canada’s First Nations visible action as opposed to quiet marches on people to know about the poverty, neglect, al- that 8,000 hectares be used as a reserve for the have “worked very hard to reach agreements Parliament Hill. coholism, high suicide rates and depression — tribe and the remaining land sold. in a peaceful an honourable way.” Mohawk Chief Allan MacNaughton, also the injustice — omnipresent in their commu- The Six Nations dissent was mixed. In contrast, supporters of Mohawk dis- involved in the negotiations, told the Hamilton nities. It’s not just about land, they say, not just Although the tribe asserted the power to lease, sident Shawn Brant in Deseronto blockaded Spectator that Ottawa’s current strategy is “not about money. not resell, the land was granted to the Crown. Highway 401 near Belleville, Ontario, claiming going to apply to us. We already have a differ- “Every day the sun rises,” Smith said, “we Documents referred to by the Crown state that that they cannot, in good conscience, be law- ent process going.” do something here.” Somewhere in the dis- in 1841, the Six Nations council agreed to have abiding when the laws in question do not sup- He believes, as Maclean’s reported, that tance, the two little girls continued to scamper the land outside of the reserve sold, on the port their rights as indigenous people. only by resolving the Caledonia dispute will in and out of a slowly decaying house. condition that the proceeds be reinvested on Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Ottawa and Queen’s Park find the basis for leg- behalf of the tribe. Whether the proceeds were Conservative government has opposed im- islation that will help illuminate the way for September 13, 2007 The Uniter contact: [email protected] 10 ARTS & CULTURE

Arts & Culture Editor: Whitney Light Arts & Culture E-mail: [email protected] Colour commentary Whitney Light pearance of their works is very different. The works Arts Editor are mainly abstract, though Khan has included some graphic Pop Art inspired pieces, and both artists have clearly thought out the ideas their works olour rules at Finlay Khan, the current represent: the nature of truth, reality and freedom. exhibition of recent works by Clyde Finlay, a recent fine arts grad (he studied at C Finlay and Aleem Khan at Outworks U of M for 13 years while maintaining a full-time Gallery. Both artists’ vivid works boast bold reds, day job as a juvenile counselor), has developed a yellows and blues on large canvases. It’s an eye- sophisticated painterly style. Finlay paints from catching show that lingers in your thoughts past his experience of Western Canadian landscapes, the initial wow. Ontario, cities and architecture, as well as emotion. Finlay and Khan have more in common than Foothills, trees, valleys, and farmland are some of just an affinity for paint. That said, the surface ap- the things suggested by the various textures and impasto. A 7 by 8-foot work on canvas on the back wall is titled Blue Persuasion. Rapidly-applied The End of a Chapter by Clyde Finlay paint in a strong blue near the top edge, and strong oranges, yellows and greens applied in rough Khan, whose background is architecture and It’s a play on words. In black and white, a sensu- and overlapping patches through- graphic design, takes a different route to exploring ous woman with arched back and hair flowing is out, create what clearly feels like a “rules.” A self-described relativist, he explains his nearly centred on the vertical rectangular canvas. landscape. three-step process of abstract painting. He starts She extends an arm in front of herself to em- Near the bottom is a thick with a completed mash-up of colour to represent brace an electric cloud of colour and black sparks. and precise horizontal black line. reality. Dripped black lines of paint are next, rep- Pyschedelic circles of turquoise dots radiating These horizontal bands appear in resenting ideas. Finally, Khan shades and distorts away from the woman’s back, add to the hypnotic most of Finlay’s work. For him, they some lines: knowledge, he explains, is only an in- attraction of the piece. represent a key idea in his think- dividual’s edited selection of ideas. These concepts Khan also shows two works that are en- ing about the way life is. The loose, aren’t explicitly communicated, Khan is quite tirely digitally-generated; manipulated photo- emotional parts of the painting, he aware. Nonetheless, the works, such as Poetic graphs that have been rendered as bright and il- says, are about the freedoms that Muse, are visually striking and, yes, poetic. lustrative giclée prints. West Hawk Heine depicts a we want to explore. Rules, from the In contrast to his abstract paintings, Khan high view of the Whiteshell’s West Hawk Lake. On political to the social, tend to get also shows some graphic works, executed entirely the rock ridge in the bottom foreground, a can of in the way of what we want to do; differently. He first designs a graphic on his com- Heineken is superimposed on the landscape and they are the lines. The viewer’s path puter, then transfers the design to canvas to be me- overwhelms it. to the expressive free space is visu- ticulously coloured. This is a show that has colour, wit and humor, ally barred. It’s a metaphor, I think, His largest work in the show, Art Lover, the graphic and the abstract, emotion and ideas. that most viewers can relate to. uniquely combines the pop and abstract styles. What else could you want? Magnificent Gesture by Aleem Khan Diverse prints, Diverse Realities Kelly Nickie Volunteer

iverse Realities, a traveling exhibition curated by Victor Sloan now at Martha D Street Studio, displays some of the most breathtaking works of printmaking Ireland has to offer. Several contemporary Irish artists from the Belfast Print Workshop, including Struan Hamilton and Terence Gravett, approach a variety of subjects that seem to well fit with the show‘s theme—different, mainly political, realities seen through the eyes of the artist. Abstract as well as figurative works are encompassed in what is intended to be a broad look at Irish printmaking today. Victor Sloan is a renowned curator from Ireland, widely admired for not only creating powerful art, but for organizing collections to stand out in the same way as the individual works. Walking up the stairs inside Martha Street Studio, my eye was quickly caught by the first few works I spied, including Struan Hamilton’s Foundation. It captures a somber, yet uplifting feeling through the intermingling of lines through deep blues, pur- ples and vibrant red. It’s a great invitation into the Fallen Bust by Terence Gravett, courtesy of Martha Street Studio show that sets the tone for the complicated prints that follow. Other works also exhibit great vibrancy of look as simple as Terence Gravett’s Fallen Bust ac- their individual expres- color and attention to the greatest detail. Still tually goes through many stages of metal plate en- sion and choice of tech- others are more subdued, with simplistic details graving, inking different colors into the engraving, nique. It is difficult to that are, nonetheless, visually striking. What makes and transferring the image engraving onto a silk decipher what some this collection of prints diverse is not skill level. screen. Sometimes this process can take numerous of the works may rep- What is diverse, is the subject matter and the inter- repeats, depending on the number of color tones resent, as much is ab- esting techniques each artist brings. Some prints the artist wants to use. Printmaking is an art form stract. It’s enough, how- De Formata Foetu by Robin Cordiner, courtesy of Martha Street Studio you would swear were paintings. that viewers can appreciate on an artistic, as well ever, to enjoy the prints The process of printmaking is fascinating to as technical front. simply for what they say learn about. It requires great attention to detail and Of course, the gist of this exhibit is not only about the medium. What each artist shows through Diverse Realities is on display at Martha rigorous stages of creation. Something that may printmaking appreciation, but how Irish artists their print is as diverse as the process of printmak- Street Studio, 11 Martha Street, until Sept. 17. depict the reality that is around them through ing itself. contact: [email protected] The Uniter September 13, 2007 ARTS & CULTURE 11

The Uniter Fashion Streeter is an ongoing documentation of creative fashion in Winnipeg inspired by the Helsinki fashion blog www.hel-looks.com. Each 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]

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“I usually wear lots and lots of layers. I can almost always be seen in trouser socks and tights. I like to shop everywhere from Osborne Village to the Bay, which is where the boots are from.” September 13, 2007 The Uniter contact: [email protected] 12 ARTS & CULTURE Are you ready? Ska & Reggae Fest begins

Aaron Epp He has worked with such diverse artists as Jimmy Volunteer Staff Cliff, The Wailers Band, and Burning Spear, and is best known for “Armagideon Time,” a 1978 hit song he wrote and recorded at Jamaica’s famed Studio innipeg ska and reggae fans rejoice—the One. The song was later recorded by The Clash and second annual Winnipeg Ska & Reggae released as the b-side to “London Calling.” WFestival begins tonight. Boasting a roster The festival’s line-up is rounded out by an that includes 12 bands playing at five venues over array of Canadian acts, including Winnipeg’s own two-and-a-half days, this year’s festival promises to Greg Milka Crowe, JFK & the Conspirators, Subcity be even better than the last. Dwellers, The Afterbeat, Grand Analog and Calgary’s “We’re looking forward to it,” says Nathan Guerrilla Funk Monster. Terin of Sidelined Productions, one of the festival’s As part of the festival’s events, Guerrilla Funk organizers. “Last year went well. It was something Monster will be playing a free show at the University different. There are other reggae festivals in town, of Winnipeg tomorrow. They last played in the city but they’re more the dancehall-type stuff, [whereas] during the 2006 Western Canadian Music Awards, we kind of dipped into the ska, to funk, to reggae— and are excited to return. kind of mixed it up a little bit more.” “I really like the quality, the caliber of the per- Matt Henderson of Winnipeg’s Bacteria Buffet formers and the musicians [in Winnipeg],” says Records is also one of the festival’s key organizers. GFM bass player James Musulak. “[The city’s] a little He says that ska and reggae aren’t given the same re- bit smaller than Calgary, but I think people are used spect in this city as a lot of other musical genres. to a little bit more quality in Winnipeg than maybe “I think there’s a lot of stigma attached to ska in Calgary, for some things, you know?” and reggae in Winnipeg,” he says. “I think a lot of Although the quartet mixes rock, blues, funk, people think it’s, you know, sort of for band geeks… punk and world music influences into its music, I’m not sure what [that’s] about. I don’t think there’s people who come to their show should expect a lot really a scene.” of reggae. Although he questions whether or not there is “We do a lot of stuff, but it is a reggae festival, a ska and reggae scene in the city, he does believe and that’s what we’re coming to do,” says Musulak. people are interested in it. “It’s going to be a lot of fun. I mean, it might divert a “There’s just a desire amongst Winnipeggers to little bit from that, but I think for the most part we’re go see interesting cultural [events], and that’s sort of really excited, and it’s going to be a good time.” the mandate of our festival: to bring Jamaican folk The 2nd Annual Winnipeg Ska & Reggae music from Jamaica, and from Manitoba, to people Festival begins tonight. See Guerrilla Funk Monster in Winnipeg. So whether there’s a scene, I don’t know. play with Mello Man at the U of W tomorrow at But, based on last year, people want to see it.” noon. For more information, visit www.winnipegs- This year’s headliner is Willi Williams. Born in kaandreggaefestival.com. Jamaica, Williams has been writing, producing and performing reggae and dub music for over 35 years. Danish office comedy inspires a lot of head nodding

bear-ish but sly owner Ravn (Peter Gantzler) and in the middle of a live theatre produc- The film works because it doesn’t rely too much has a chance to sell his small software com- tion. Most of the sycophantic employees ques- on expressive and lengthy dialogue, but on the pany for cash to a temperamental and xenopho- tion Kristoffer with only rolled eyes and con- stumbling and scheming that happens between bic Icelandic investor, at the cost of his six most fused glances. Viewers will grow to feel sorry for the lines, and the sensation that everything senior employees’ jobs and the copyrights that his impossibly messy situation. Kristoffer man- Kristoffer does is contributing to a massive car- they each hold. ages to screw up almost every crucial moment wreck of a transaction. As to be expected, there But Ravn is a tricky beast. Over the years, he has attributed all distasteful decisions to the absent “boss of it all” from the US, whom no one has ever met and who has existed only through emails penned by Ravn. Thus, Ravn has to hire Kristoffer (Jens Albinus), a shaken-looking and bumbling out of work actor, to play the part of the fictional president with gusto and take the OIS L fall for the sale, as well as its consequences, as ANG

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A been out of work for quite a while and is like a D fish out of water in almost every aspect of his new position. He knows virtually nothing about software, IT or selling businesses. THE BOSS OF IT ALL Director Lars von Trier’s sparse, no-frills shooting style anchors the film. It cuts from take (Direktøren for det Hele) to take very roughly, causing Kristoffer’s pain- Directed by Lars von Trier fully awkward presidential lines to come off as something between an interrogation and a con- fession. He jumps from expression to expres- Still from the film The Boss of It All sion, driving home just how inept he is at his job. Tom Llewellin “So what is your name exactly?” ask the employ- Volunteer ees. Thanks to Ravn’s somewhat conniving failure to provide any background on the charac- in the company’s sale in a way that seems fright- is plenty lost in translation, but the film itself ter, Kristoffer stumbles for two minutes to think eningly convincing. The glazed eyes and skepti- can’t be blamed for this. The cast is very ex- his deadpan Danish-language office of one, while the hum of the fluorescent lights is cal glances of the office workers as their doom is pressive with their mannerisms, and the film is comedy, which premiered at the absolutely deafening in the background. sealed lend a bold and witty authenticity to the thoroughly enjoyable, albeit without many TCopenhagen Film Festival last year, is a Ravn’s snake-oil qualities are realized story that most “office” films don’t come close to laugh-out-loud moments. It is certainly tread- crowd pleaser. “Director Lars von Trier has made brilliantly, and as the situation gets worse and matching. ing on familiar territory, but the sheer amount a comedy about a computer company,” pro- worse, he gets stranger, offering to have frantic Fortunately for us non-Danish speakers, of completely believable dry wit makes The Boss claims the opening credit. The company’s teddy meetings with his “boss” on a merry-go-round the film is subtitled and translated very well. Of It All worth a watch. Arts & Culture Editor: Whitney Light contact: [email protected] The Uniter September 13, 2007 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 786-9497 Fax: 783-7080 ARTS & CULTURE 13

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Shrunken opportunity The Breakfast Classic

Online festival won’t fill the void left by FilmExchange Vivian Belik

Whitney Light does. “The reality is that films are still meant to be ’m not going to lie; I’m a breakfast snob. Ever since I Arts Editor made and seen in a cinema. It’s a different kind had the good sense to learn how to cook my own break- of thing that is intended to be seen online, and I Ifast, I have snubbed my nose at runny eggs, spat upon don’t know if one replaces the other.” burnt toast, and looked the other way from greasy meat. Breakfast is a meal to be championed: it’s a comforting hen the National Screen Institute Millican is optimistic about the online initia- friend after a restless night of sleep, an undemanding date, announced the retirement of the tives. “I think our participants are totally hooked and a loving nurse after a long night of partying. And so W annual FilmExchange on Aug. 27, into online,” says Millican. And with the efforts I have decided to look off the eaten track for the best in disappointment fluttered through parts of the of the Winnipeg Film Group, Cinematheque and Winnipeg’s downtown diner scene, and have enlisted the local film industry and left some wondering if it the Globe Theatre, in addition to numerous other help of the Uniter’s very own Natasha Peterson. was the right move. local film festivals (WNDX, WIFF, Gimli Film Fest “Ultimately, when showing these (local, in- and others), Millican thinks Winnipeggers will Chapter #9 – The Zoo, 160 Osborne Ave. ERSON dependent) films it was an opportunity to wit- still have many opportunities to see Canadian T have to admit, I was on the verge of shelving E P

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our culture,” says Stephan Recksiedler (aka A major reason for the NSI’s shift of activi- AS I became all soft and weepy, realizing that there T Kick Jaxon), recent recipient of the Manitoba ties, says Millican, had to do with the organiza- is still much breakfast territory in this city to be NA Emerging Filmmaker award. His current film tion’s reputation. “We’re the oldest training in- explored. project was supposed to have its debut at the NSI stitute in the country for writers, producers and So, what better way to reintroduce greasy the shock of inhaling the smell of Chinese buffet eggs and stale toast into my system than to go to a FilmExchange. directors in film and television and we have a first thing in the morning choked my appetite. diner that I imagined would serve some of the most Indeed, it took almost all of my faculties to convince NSI has presented two new initiatives, an reputation as the best training school in the gut-wrenching food in the city? Natasha and myself to venture further in. country. The way we’ve maintained that reputa- industry website and a quarterly online film fes- Anyone who has been inside of The Zoo or But one look around the kitschy interior— tival. Up to 100 short films will be featured online tion is to stay current and adapt and meet indus- Ozzy’s for one of its many classy nights of entertain- the green vinyl booths, the fake hanging plants, the each year, says Susan Millican, CEO of NSI. “So, try needs,” says Millican. “We’re confident that ment knows that this place should never even be Coors Lite clock hanging on the wall, the wooden whispered in the same sentence as food. This is a in fact, we’ll be showing more films.” [the new initiatives] will offer filmmakers even shutters covering the great big windows—and I place where you come in contact with food mainly found myself softening up to the place. In truth, I But will Winnipeggers log on to seek out more information, education and exposure.” when it’s on its way back up. was tipped off to this restaurant by some friends But online videos are still very small and local films? Recksiedler doubts it. “The only When I entered the Osborne Village Motor who swear by it. positive of the online fest is it is a great way to poor quality, points out Recksiedler, whose new Hotel I didn’t even know where I was supposed to The all-day breakfast is one of its key selling get cinema to a big market,” he says. But since film is shot in HD. The craft of filmmaking, he -ex go for the breakfast. My first instinct was to rush points. So is the woman who serves breakfast and into the basement, half expecting the food to be Canadian films already receive relatively lim- plains, won’t be done justice on the internet, and comes around with copious amounts of coffee. As served up on the beer drenched tables. But when for the food, well it’s not bad: two thick slices of ited play in theatres, wrote Recksiedler in a draft the loss of FilmExchange could have wider im- I asked, the woman at the front counter looked in- Texas toast, delicious but heart-attack-inducing plications. “I fear that perpetuating the market statement, “it may be just like emptying the local credulously at me, as if I should turn around and deep-fried hash browns, and pretty great-tasting well to fill an international ocean.” with low-res work only degrades viewer expecta- run away. eggs (as long as you look past the eerily plastic-like Cecilia Araneda, Executive Director of the tions,” wrote Recksiedler. “The end result is that “Breakfast?” she said with a bit of a drawl shine). And the coffee is actually dark and tastes like and hair styled like Courtney Love circa 1996. “Yeah, Winnipeg Film Group, points out that some of the the gap between multi-million dollar Hollywood more than just hot water dyed brown. I guess that would be right over there.” She points The price for the meal, $7.08 including taxes, larger film festivals, like the Toronto International projects and the independent low-budget proj- me in the direction of the Canadian-Chinese res- was more expensive than I expected for a place ect will increase.” Film Festival, are incorporating online content in taurant on her right. that has Amateur Strip Night in the basement. addition to theatre screenings. “I think that’s a If new programming develops in light of the As if the smell of the motor hotel wasn’t As Natasha put it, you may as well throw down a great approach,” she says, acknowledging that void left by FilmExchange, it will depend on what enough (think dirty boy socks soaked in beer and couple more dollars and walk your way a little left left to marinate inside of a hockey bag for a month), not every festival has the resources that TIFF funders want, says Araneda. or a little right. 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Virtuosi Concerts presents : Minsoo Sohn, piano Saturday, Sept 15 THE HONENS WINNER—First Laureate of the 2006 Honens In- ternational Piano Competition, Minsoo Sohn is… “an artist who will cre- ON CAMPUS AROUND TOWN ate a life in music” (The Boston Globe). Winnipeggers will be amongst the first in Canada to hear this exceptional virtuoso. Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall: 8:00 p.m. Tickets: $ 29 adult/ $27 seniors / $14.50 students (204) 786-9918, 786-9000 www.virtuosi.mb.ca

Richard Hines, Untitled, 2006 Lectures & Seminars The Page Turner

WINNIPEG INTERNATIONAL WRITERS FESTIVAL EVENTS Poetry reading by Brian Henderson Mon, Sept 24, 4-5 p.m. in Room 2M77. Poetry reading by Janice Kulyk Keefer Thurs, Sept 27, 10-11 a.m. in Room 1L08. “Writing Through Race,” a literary panel with Paul Yee, Lawrence Hill, and David Chariandy, Fri, Sept 28, 2:30-4 p.m. in Eckhardt-GrammattéHall. “A Sip of Juice,” readings by UW student writers Fri, Sept 28, 4-5 p.m. in Eckhardt-Grammatté Hall. These events are free and open to the public. Presented by the WIWF and the UW English Department Sponsored by The Canada Council for the Arts.

The Perpetrators FILM Cinamatheque, Sept 14-20, 7 p.m.

CINEMATHEQUE 100 Arthur St. Sept 14-20: The Page Turner, 7 p.m. The Boss of It All, 9 p.m.

GLOBE CINEMA Portage Place Now playing: Becoming Jane, Mr. Bean’s Holiday, The 11th Hour. Call 69-GLOBE for details.

Show + Tell at Gallery 1C03 PARK THEATRE 698 Osborne St. 478-7275 Sept 13-15: Movie pre- EVENTS miere of “On the Edge of Crazy” by Ryan Souter with live musical guests Arbra Hill.

GALLERY 1C03 Show + Tell: Notions of Home and Place by Alumni Sept 13-Oct 27. Opening reception: Thurs, Sept 13, 4-6 p.m. Live performance by Glen Johnson at 5 p.m. Organized in conjunction with the University of Winnipeg’s 40th anniversary, Show + Tell features art in various media by 13 UW graduates. New work by Steve THEATRE & DANCE Bates, Richard Dyck, Richard Hines, Leah Fontaine, Allan Geske, Glen Johnson, Blair Marten, Kegan McFadden, Solomon Nagler, Freya Bjorg Olafson, Paul Robles, Donna Szoke and Racheal Tycoles. Gallery hours: Mon-Fri: noon-4 p.m. Sat: 1-4 p.m. MANITOBA THEATRE CENTRE 174 Market Ave 942-6537. Oct 18- Nov 10: Our Town. THIN AIR 2007 Sept 23-30: A literary celebration, an annual week- long festival of readings, panel discussions, school shows, book PRAIRIE THEATRE EXCHANGE Portage Place 942-5483. Oct 17-Nov signings, and professional development opportunities. It engages Old Market Square at noon 4: Chimera. new and established writers, and is enjoyed by thousands of CONCERTS Manitobans of all ages and backgrounds. These events are held across the city, a few specifically on the U of W campus. For the schedule and more information visit www.winnipegwords.com or pick up the paperback program for a complete guide to the fes- Shauna Singh Baldwin FREE CONCERTS AT OLD MARKET SQUARE Thursdays at noon. Sept tival. 13: The Perpetrators. Sept 20: The Sub City Dwellers. Sept 27: Little Boy Boom. ENGLISH DEPARTMENT EVENTS All students are welcome. Fri, Sept 21: Grad School Information Session, 3M57 12:30-1:20. Fri, MANITOBA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA James Ehnes per- Sept 28: MA & Scholarship Proposal-Writing Workshop, 3M57 12:30- forms all five of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s violin 1:20. Fri Jan 11, 2008: Applying to MA Programs Info Session, concertos. Sept 13 & 14: Western Manitoba Centen- English Common Room 12:30-1:20. nial Auditorium, 205-20th St., Brandon. Shows at 7:30 p.m. LINDSAY JANE Sept 28, The Folk Exchange, 211 Bannatyne Ave Doors 7 p.m., show at 8. Tickets at the Festival Music Store 231- 1377 $10 advance/$12 door.

AN EVENING WITH MARTIN SEXTON Sept 29, Garrick Centre. Doors OPPORTUNITIES 7 p.m., show at 8. Tickets $30 and $35 at Ticketmaster or the Festival Music Store 231-1377.

K’NAAN Oct 4, West End Cultural Centre. Doors 7 p.m., show at 8. Tick- ATTENTION POLITICS STUDENTS The Politics Department requires ets $25 and $30 at Ticketmaster or the Festival Music Store 231-1377. 3rd or 4th year Politics Majors/Honours students, and especially MPA and Masters students, for positions as teaching/research as- sistants. A covering letter including a brief statement of academic interests, the name of a referee, and a timetable indicating your avail- ability should be addressed to: Jim Silver, Chair, Department of Poli- tics. Also, please attach a mark statement (grades). Submit to: Jac- queline Côté, Secretary (6L20) The deadline for applications is Mon, Sept 17 at noon. LITERARY Thin Air book chats, Prairie Ink Cafe 2008 STUDENT ENTREPRENEUR COMPETITION celebrates the commitment, determination and achievements of student entrepreneurs. Through this annual program, ACE and CIBC create a platform for young business leaders to network with like-minded students, showcase their business on a regional and national stage to top OUT LOUD Season kick off featuring award-winning Manitoba novel- executives and leading entrepreneurs, receive relevant training and ist Wayne Tefs. Mon, Sept 17, 7 p.m. at the Millennium Library. Each leverage valuable mentorship opportunities to accelerate the growth month, Out Loud features a different Manitoba author reading from of their business. Nominations and self nominations are being ac- their work. After that it’s your turn to take the mic and share your cepted through the ACE website, www.acecanada.ca, and will close creative spirit. Each reader gets 5 minutes and can read any of their on Dec 7. The competition is open to full-time students at Canadian original works regardless of genre. Poetry. Fiction. Non-fiction. We universities or colleges who are running their own businesses. want to hear it all! The event is free. Sign-up for the open mic, 6:45 pm; Wanye Tefs, 7pm; open mic, 7:20pm. COMMUNICATE IN NEW LANGUAGES for business, travel or personal interest. Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, 2007 PRAIRIE FIRE PRESS – MCNALLY ROBINSON WRITING CON- Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and ESL (TOEFL, TESTS Bliss Carman Poetry Award - Judge: Barry Dempster, Short pronunciation, conversation, and grammar & writing). Register by Fiction - Judge: Bill Gaston, calling 982-6633 Division of Continuing Education, 294 William Ave. International Language Courses start Sept 17. September 13, 2007 The Uniter contact: [email protected] Want to submit your listing to Uniter Listings? Email your listings to [email protected] Deadline for submissions is Wednesday, eight days before the issue you’d like your 16 LISTINGS @ uniter.ca listing to first appear in. The Uniter publishes on Thursdays, 25 times a year.

Creative Non-Fiction - Judge: Mark Anthony Jarman. $6,000 in Opening Thurs, Sept 20, 7:30pm. Other exhibits: Into the Collection: THE ZOO Osborne Village Inn 160 Osborne St. Sept 14: The Ripperz, prizes. First prize in each category $1,250, 2nd prize $500, 3rd prize Will Gorlitz, until Nov 8. Around Here: Scenes of Manitoba from the Chainfire (Edmonton), with guests. Sept 15: Igor and the Skindig- $250. Deadline: Nov 30, 2007. For information contact: 943-9066, Historical Collection, until Nov 10. Inuit Games, ongoing. Into the gers, C*nt Punisher, with guests. [email protected], or check out our web site for guidelines at www. Collection: Highlights of Historical Painting From 15th century panel prairiefire.ca. paintings to Post-Impressionism, ongoing. TIMES CHANGED HIGH AND LONESOME CLUB 234 Main St. Sept 13: Romi Mayes, Jaxon Haldane, Andrew Neville, Adrian Sala, Vince THIN AIR BOOK CHATS Mon, Sept 24 to Sat, Sept 29, daily from WOODLANDS GALLERY 535 Academy Rd. Until Sept 22: New paint- Andrushko. Sept 14: Shrimp, The Wind-Ups. Sept 15: The Jake- 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Enjoy a coffee in the Prairie Ink Cafe (McNally ings by Michael Bromley. Gallery hours: Tues-Sat 11-6. brakes, Marty Green. Sept 16: Jam with the Swag. Robinson Portage Place) and check out some behind-the-scenes talk about the writing life. Mon, Sept 24: Shauna Singh Baldwin and WEST END CULTURAL CENTRE 586 Ellice Ave Sept 15: Willi Gil Adamson. Tues, Sept 25: Lois Braun and Jim Nason. Wed, Sept Williams. Sept 21: A Double Barreled CD Release Party feat. 26: Janice Kulyk Keefer and Susan Juby. Thurs, Sept 27: Michael Scott Nolan & Gurf Morlix with Special Guest C.R. Avery. Winter and Kathleen Winter. Fri, Sept 28: William Gibson. Sat, Sept Romi Mayes Community Events 29: Trisha Cull and George Ellenbogen.

MCNALLY ROBINSON GRANT PARK EVENTS Sept 17, 7 p.m. George Shillington, launch of An Introduction to the Study of Luke Acts. Sept 18 7:30 p.m. Carol Matas, double launch of The Freak and Visions. Sept 19 7 p.m. Maureen Osis, reading & signing of Your VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES Aging Parents: Arriving at Shared Solutions for Housing, Health and Relationships.

FREE WRITERS’ GUILD WORKSHOP The Manitoba Writers’ Guild’s first Ad Lib session of the season, the free monthly improv writing workshop, takes place on Mon, Sept 24 at 7pm at the downtown Mil- Painting by Desmond Raymond lennium Library. Ad Lib is full of fun discussion and writing games, each session will focus on a topic that will take your writing where it has never gone before. All you need is your imagination and a healthy sense of humour. This month’s theme: “The view from here: using perspective in writing.” For more info, call 942-6134.

WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? Discover the 5 W’s of your family history. The Southeast & Winnipeg Branch of the Manitoba Genea- logical Society is hosting the MGS Seminar 2007 Oct 19-21 at the Viscount Gort Hotel in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Please visit our website at www.mbgenealogy.com for details.

WRITING GROUP FOR NEW IMMIGRANTS Every other Wed beginning Sept 5 at 7 p.m. in Meeting Room 1 at the Millennium Library, 251 Donald Street. To register call 986-4294.

BE A VOLUNTEER LITERACY TUTOR WITH FRONTIER COLLEGE! Work with children, youth and adults in schools and community cen- GALLERIES Wayne Arthur Gallery tres around the University of Winnipeg. The commitment is one hour per week through the school year. Call 253-7993 or email cgartside@ frontiercollege.ca for more information. Literacy is an essential skill in today’s world. At Frontier College, we believe it’s a fundamental right. 42% of adult Canadians have trouble with everyday tasks that ACEARTINC 2nd floor, 290 McDermot Ave 944-9763 The Winnipeg involve reading. Through a network of thousands of volunteers, Trash Museum: An Exhibition of New Art by Frieso Boning Sept 14- BARS, CAFES & VENUES Frontier College is helping people to realize their potential and seize Oct 13. Opening reception Sept 14 7:30 p.m. Artist talk Sept 19 7 the opportunities that come their way. See www.frontiercollege.ca. p.m. Times Changed High and Lonesome Club, Sept 13

GRAFFITI GALLERY 109 Higgins 667-9960. Not-for-profit community youth art centre. ELLICE CAFÉ & THEATRE 585 Ellice Ave Sept 18: Healing Service 6:30 p.m. KEEPSAKES GALLERY 264 McDermot Ave 257-0374. Non-profit art gallery. Handmade art, pottery, candles, cards, paintings, photog- raphy. FINN’S PUB Johnson Terminal at The Forks. Sept 15: The Freaky Circles PLUG IN GALLERY 286 McDermot Ave Scratching the Surface: The Post-Prairie Landscape feat. 19 Winnipeg artists. Sept 14-Nov 17. KING’S HEAD PUB 100 King St. Every Sunday: All the Kings Men Curated by Steven Matijcio. Public Opening: Fri, Sept 14, 8 p.m. MCNALLY ROBINSON PORTAGE PLACE MUSIC Sept 14: URBAN SHAMAN 203-290 McDermot Ave 942-2674. Until Sept 15: Burton Trio (jazz). Sept 21: 3 Blind Mice (folk). Sept 28: Shelley Niro – almost fallen. Neufeld & Kidder (blues). All shows start at 6:30 p.m. MCNALLY ROBINSON GRANT PARK MUSIC Sept 14: Katie Murphy (roots/soul/pop). Sept 15: Bob Watts (jazz & blues). Sept 21: James VAULT GALLERY 2181 Portage Ave “The Colours I Have Seen....” Harrison (standards). Sept 22: Nightfall (New Orleans jazz). Sept 28: New paintings by Argentinian artist Debora Cardaci. Until Sept 29. Marguerite’s Mood (jazz & pop). Sept 29: Knut Haugsoen Trio (jazz). Hours 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues-Sat. All shows start at 8 p.m.

WAH-SA GALLERY 130-25 Forks Market Rd Sept 20-30: Solo exhibit PYRAMID CABARET 176 Fort St. Sept 14: Mike Relm. $12 in ad- by Rick Beaver, an Ojibway artist from Rice Lake, Ontario. Opening vance/ $13 at the door. Sept 18: Th’ Legendary Shack*Shakers. Tick- reception Thurs, Sept 20, 7-9 p.m. ets $9. Available from Into the Music, Kustom Kulture, and Kitsch on Broadway. WAYNE ARTHUR GALLERY 186 Provencher Blvd. The Prairies, the Mountains and the North, new Paintings and Photographs by Des- REGAL BEAGLE 331 Smith St. Wed at 9 p.m. The Marlborough mond Raymond. Sept 4-26. Hours Tues to Sat 11-5. New web site: Men. Thur at 9 p.m. Shandra and Jason. www.waynearthurgallery.com.

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AWARDS & FINANCIAL AID The Awards and Financial Aid staff of the University of Winnipeg provides our student body with current information on award opportunities. This information is updated weekly.

or part-time basis. Complete and sign the the memory and spirit of Bill Mason is - be a Canadian citizen or person DID YOU KNOW... you can check the application form so the Awards & Financial vibrant. Environmental studies students domiciled in Canada status of your student aid application, find Aid Office can confirm your status in terms are good candidates for this bursary. - born between Oct 2, 1983 and out what documentation is still outstand- UNIVERSITY of being a war-affected student. Applica- You will have to provide a statement of oct 1, 1989 ing, update your address information and tion forms are available at the University of philosophy regarding your beliefs with - except for medical students, have much more on line? Go to www.manito- Winnipeg Awards Office located in Graham reference to the environment, to outdoor received an undergraduate degree bastudentaid.ca MySAO to log into your OF WINNIPEG Hall and at Student Central in Centen- education and to how it pertains to the before taking up this scholarship. existing account. nial Hall. Return the completed application ethics of land and water. You must also forms to the Awards Office in Graham Hall. have an academic standing of B+ or Applications are available in the U of W DID YOU KNOW... Manitoba Student Aid Deadline: Oct 1, 2007. greater. Applications are available on line Awards office located in Graham Hall staff is on campus on Fridays from 1 at www.paddlingcanada.com. Deadline: or from the provincial secretary Hedley - 4p.m. To set up an appointment time, INTERNAL AWARDS: September 30, 2007. Auld [email protected]. Further informa- phone Tanis at 786-9984. tion and applications forms may also be MARYMOUND BURSARY PROGRAM: obtained from: University Registrars from CONFIRMATION OF ENROLMENT & UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG SCHOLAR- EXTERNAL AWARDS: the office of the General Secretary for the SHIPS FOR CONTINUING STUDENTS: RELEASE OF DOCUMENTS: The Marymound Bursary Program aims to Rhodes Scholarships in Canada, Suite assist students financially with their educa- 3910, P.O. Box 142 Toronto-Dominion AUCC AWARDS: Before a student loan document will be Approximately 650 scholarships and prizes tion and training goals. Award values range Bank Tower, Toronto-Dominion Centre, are awarded each year by the University Toronto ON M5K 1H1 (416-361-3117) issued to you, you must have submitted all from $1000-$2500. Applicants must meet the documentation requested by the Mani- of Winnipeg to undergraduate students. The Association of Universities and Col- NOTE: to obtain a letter of recommenda- the following criteria: toba Student Aid Program to the MSAP These awards range in value from prizes of leges of Canada provides 150 scholarship tion from the President’s Office, make office, and you must be registered in the $100 to major scholarships of over $8000. programs on behalf of the Federal Govern- appointments prior to October 5, 2007 by - presently or in the past have minimum course load required for student In order to be considered for undergradu- ment, domestic and foreign agencies, phoning 786-9214. Applications should received services at Marymound for loan eligibility. ate scholarships, students must have and private sector companies. Check out be sent to Provincial Secretary- Hedley at least a six month period of time. completed at least 30 credit hours and website www.aucc.ca. Look under the Auld, 360 Main Street Floor 11, P.O. 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MANITOBA LOTTERIES CORPORATION: 85 scholarships of $2000 - $4000 will be A small number of undergraduate scholar- 24, who exhibit excellence, dedication, Your document will be sent to the National EMPLOYMENT EQUITY EDUCATION awarded to aboriginal (Status, non-status, ships do require application from students. and leadership in their activities. Fourteen Student Loan Service Centre where they AWARDS Métis and Inuit) students enrolled full-time The Awards & Financial Aid Office sends awards are available in the following cat- will transfer the fee payment portion of the in a university, college or technical insti- applications to all students who were egories: loan directly to the University and deposit- tute. Award funds can be used for tuition, registered for courses in the previous year, The Manitoba Lotteries Corporation is ing any balance into your account. 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Return To be eligible for a scholarship, you must can be found in the MAYAA Nomination completed applications to the University Guide at www.mayaa.ca. Deadline: Sept of Winnipeg Awards office, 515 Portage have an overall GPA of at least 3.00. To be MANITOBA STUDENT AID PROGRAM Surfing for dollars? 17, 2007. Avenue, Wpg, MB R3B 2E9. Deadline: eligible for a bursary you must be making (MSAP) Try these two websites: satisfactory academic progress (maintain- October 1, 2007. ing a “C” average GPA 2.0). Preference HOLSTEIN CANADA EDUCATION DID YOU KNOW... You can still apply for a www.studentawards.com will be given to students whose financial AWARDS 2007 MANITOBA HYDRO: EMPLOYMENT 2007/2008 government student loan online need assessments exceed the maximum EQUITY BURSARY at website www.manitobastudentaid.ca www.scholarshipscanada.com financial assistance available through the Six bursaries of $750 will be awarded government student aid program. across Canada: one in Western Canada. Manitoba Hydro offers 11 bursaries of $1500 to Note: LOUIS RIEL INSTITUTE BURSARIES Criteria: students who meet one - University of Winnipeg Métis students or more of the following can apply for this bursary. You must also - be a regular or junior member of criteria: complete and submit the attached Louis Holstein Canada, or a son/daughter of a member enrolled at a recognized Riel Bursary application to the Louis Riel - Women entering university or college Institute. This will permit verification of Engineering, Computer your eligibility for this bursary. Please note Science or Commerce - submit an official, original transcript that it is your responsibility to provide the programs and a copy of your resume required information in sufficient time for it - Aboriginal peoples of - be returning to school within the to be processed. Bursary application forms Canada (First Nations, Inuit calendar year can be picked up in Student Central (Cen- or Métis) tennial Hall) and Student Services (Graham - Members of a Hall). Deadline date: Oct 1, 2007. Submission must be typed on paper ap- visible minority who are plication available via Holstein Canada’s non-Caucasian in race or NORMAN J. AND GWEN AXWORTHY website, www.holstein.ca. non-white in colour. PEACE EDUCATION FUND BURSARY - persons with disabilities 2007-2008 The completed application along with all required documents must be sent to Pick up application forms These bursaries of approximately $350 Kim Leblond, Holstein Canada Education at the U of W Awards of- are to assist refugees and war-affected Awards, 20 Corporate Pl., P.O. Box 610 fice located in Graham Hall students attending the University of Win- Brantford ON, N3T 5R4 Deadline: Septem- and return your completed nipeg who have financial need. In 2007-08, ber 28, 2007 4:00 p.m. application to the Univer- bursaries will be directed at registering or sity of Winnipeg, Awards registered students who are also part of the CAL CALLAHAN BURSARY: PIPELINE & Financial Aid office, 515 Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan community. CONTRACTORS ASSOC. OF CANADA Portage Avenue, Wpg MB In subsequent years, it will be directed to R3B 2E9 Deadline October all refugees and war-affected students. Ap- 1, 2007. This award is available to sons, daughter, plicants must satisfy the following criteria: or legal wards of persons who derive their principal income from the Pipeline Industry RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS - a member of the Lost Boys and and whose employers are members of the FOR 2008: Girls of Sudan community in Pipe Line Contractors Assoc. of Canada. Winnipeg Each year, this association offers a bur- Three scholarships will be - show academic promise and sary or bursaries totaling $6000 to eligible awarded to The Western potential for success at the students enrolled in undergraduate studies Region of Canada (Mani- University of Winnipeg at recognized University or Colleges in toba, Saskatchewan and - demonstrate financial need, as Canada. Applications are available in the Alberta) and are tenable at assessed by the University of Awards office in Graham Hall. Deadline the University of Oxford, Winnipeg Awards & Financial date: September 30, 2007. England. They are granted Aid Office for two years with a pos- CANADIAN RECREATIONAL CANOEING sibility of a third year. To be eligible, applicants must be admit- ASSOCIATION: BILL MASON MEMORIAL Scholars are required to ted to the University on regular status in SCHOLARSHIP FUND go to Oxford in October any year of a degree or pre-professional 2008. To be eligible for this program. All recipients must be registered This memorial scholarship of $1,000 is to scholarship you must meet for courses in the 2007-08 academic year. assist with the education of tomorrow’s the following criteria: Registration may be on either a full-time environment stewards and to ensure September 13, 2007 The Uniter contact: [email protected] 18 SPORTS

Sports Editor: Kalen Qually Sports E-mail: [email protected] Canadian students ‘on a cloud’ after winning medals at Pan Am Games the 2012 Olympics, if not “It’s not often that you get to represent your then their buddies go, so there’s a big group of us sooner. He said it can be a country in this form,” she said. “Racing for Team there. It’s a good time.” tough juggling act for the Canada for Canoe/kayak Canada is a lot differ- Byers will be joining them this fall in Ottawa, athletes to train full-time ent than racing as Team Canada for the Canadian deciding that the timing is right for her to make while studying for exams Olympic Committee.” the move from her beloved Saskatchewan. She’s and most of the athletes D’Alessio also jumped two spots higher on going to put her studies on hold for the time being, see school as a priority. the podium thanks to a victory in the women’s K- though, since she wants to go to law school and “Sport careers don’t 1 500 metres, an event in which she won bronze at will neeed to put her efforts into getting good last forever and paddling the last Pan Am Games. grades. is not exactly very lu- “I remember looking beside me to the girl Byers studied for one semester at the crative to say the least,” who came first (in 2003) and saying to myself, ‘I University of Saskatchewan last fall and a full year Creamer said. “Once their want to win gold the next time,” D’Alessio said. at the University of Regina before that. Last winter, career is done, they’ll

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back on.” P. U Several of the C youngsters, though, are setting off warning flares that big things may well lie ahead in their careers. The team of won several medals against a Pan Am field composed of the best senior athletes from all of the other Pan Am countries — except the United States, which also sent a University students went to Florida last winter to train in unfrozen waters development team. Leading the way for Canada with one gold

a and two silver medals “I knew that I wanted to stand at the top of the like the rest of the national team members, she c P.

U was Angus Mortimer, podium. The fact that I did it makes me really went down to Florida to train in unfrozen waters. C who studies at Carleton happy.” The training routine varies depending on Kia Byers, a University of Sasaktchewan student, sports her Pan Am medal University. Jill D’Alessio On the men’s side, Mortimer won two indi- the time of year, but national team members can (St. Mary’s), Marie- vidual medals – a silver in the K-1 500 metres and expect to paddle 11 sessions per week along with Christine Schmidt (CEGEP a gold in the K-1 1,000 metres, where he beat weights and cross-training. The Athletes only get a Maisonneuve) and Regina Olympic veteran Sebastien Cuattrin of Brazil, day and a half of break per week. But that doesn’t Dan Plouffe native Kia Byers were also by more than three seconds. bother Byers, especially when she gets to experi- SPECIAL TO Canadian University Press top performers, each winning a gold and a bronze. “The race went according to plan,” Mortimer ence something like the Pan Am Games. “I’m ecstatic; we were very slow off the line said. “At the 750-metre mark, I switched gears and “I’m kind of awe-struck when I go around. We but we got it back together quickly,” Byers said of had a great finish. I was a bit surprised by the lead went to track and I saw Perdita Felicien racing. For RIO DE JANEIRO (CUP) – All 14 ath- the final event of the regatta, the women’s K-2 500 I had at the finish line. I thought the Brazilian pad- me, she’s so good and such a high-profile athlete letes who competed for Canada’s canoe/ metres. She and her partner, Schmidt, overcame dler would be right behind me.” that it’s kind of weird that I’m in the same place she kayak team from July 25-28 at the 2007 a deficit of .87 seconds after 250 metres to win by Mortimer seems to be the under-23 group’s is,” Byers said. “I’m like a little kid: “Woah! There Pan Am Games are students at Canadian post-sec- about the same margin over Cuba, to bring the best shot to participate in the 2008 Olympics. she is! There he is!’” ondary schools. Coincidence? Not entirely. Canadian medal total to seven. He’ll have to be chosen to be in one of the K-2 or Benjamin Russell, a former Carleton student “The World Championships [were] the next “I’m just so excited,” added Schmidt. “When K-4 boats, though, since his mentor, Adam van now studying at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, weekend, so the senior team [was] in France for we crossed the line, I said to myself, ‘Is this really Koeverden, will surely be back to defend his K-1 won Canada’s only medal in the canoe portion of a training camp,” explained Team Canada coach happening?’ I have been on a cloud ever since.” Olympic title. the flatwater event, grabbing a bronze in the men’s Michael Creamer. Only a day earlier, their boat had finished Mortimer trains at the Rideau Canoe Club, C-1 1,000 metres. “We’ve been trying to develop the young ath- third behind Cuba and Venezuela. The crew, with run by his mother in Ottawa, and studies only a Mortimer’s third medal came from the men’s letes a bit more, so our association decided to send D’Alessio and Camille Tessier-Bussières (CEGEP stone’s throw away at Carleton University, where K-4 1,000 metres, where he won silver along with an under-23 team and give these guys an extra op- FX Garneau) also on board, had only been work- his father is a professor of mathematics. Chris Pellini (McMaster), Mark de Jonge (Dalhousie) portunity to see some higher-level competitors ing together on-and-off for about a month before “It’s a pretty sweet setup I’ve got,” said and Jeremy Bordeleau (St. Mary’s). that they normally might not get to see as they try the competition. Mortimer, noting that there are about 10 national Also competing for Canada at the Pan Am to bridge the gap to make it to the senior World Byers said the Pan Am Games were the high- team members with the same training and study Games were Jamie Andison (Carleton), Colin Championships.” light of the season for the under-23 paddlers, most arrangements. “Carleton and the Rideau Canoe Corbett (Dalhousie), Wesley Hammer (Dalhousie) Creamer said that most of the Canadian Pan of whom also took part in a European tour earlier Club are so close that it’s a perfect venue. It’s just and Mark Klevinas (Carleton). Am paddlers have aspirations of competing in this summer. gotten popular — some people start going and

A: The biggest thing is nutrition. It’s really great for your upper body and your endurance. people think about treadmills and broccoli and Blake breaks it down easy to forget about nutrition because of our Q: The secret is out: I’m a little out of shape. I’m think that’s the only way. Find a sport you love. Saying goodbye to summer great summers. People are barbecuing and casual going to be getting into hockey soon, so what should I It can be a social thing, too. Join a recreational drinking a lot more, checking out the patio. What’s be concerned about? How do I keep from embarrass- league of some kind. better than sitting on Corydon having a drink ing myself when I hit the ice? Q: We’re getting back into school and some of with your buddies? I wouldn’t say that anything A: Your cardio. The first thing you need to us have part-time jobs on top of that. I know it just Kalen Qually and Blake Wood gets neglected; most people just don’t watch the build back up is your cardiovascular capacity, takes 30 minutes a day, but sometimes it’s just really calories. which is the ability of your lungs and heart to hard to find the time. How can we stay active when Q: In summer you have baseball, soccer, biking supply oxygenated blood to the body. You should our schedule doesn’t allow for it? Blake Wood works at Effectus: Athlete and lots of other outdoor activities. As it gets too cold be running outside while you can. Or you can A: Fair enough, it can be hard to fit every- Development in Winnipeg. He has a degree in for these sports, what activities should people start hit the bike or treadmill. Other areas to work on thing into your day. But half an hour is not very Kinesiology among other certifications and has looking into? before hockey season starts are your upper body much time. It comes down to making excuses. worked with many elite athletes, including the A: One fun winter activity to check out is and leg strength. Anyone who’s skated before It’s much easier to make an excuse than it is to go national men’s volleyball team and high level skate skiing. You can rent skate skis and go to knows leg strength is very important. But cardio work out. Then it just becomes a chore. No one junior hockey players. Every couple of weeks we Windsor Park. You skate rather than push your- is something you should keep on all year long. wants that. You need to find that hobby that you discuss a topic of fitness for the benefit of our self like cross-country skiing. You can play Q: Sometimes it’s just not easy to stay motivated look forward to every day. If you can’t find the readers. hockey, obviously. Winter leagues start up right to hit the treadmill. What can you recommend? reward in just working out, then you have to find away. Also, if you haven’t tried yet, take up snow A: Be active. It’s that simple. It may sound something to enjoy. A game of racquetball isn’t Q: Some people, like myself, tend to take the sports like snowboarding and downhill skiing. cliché, but just find a hobby that’s active. That that time consuming and it’s a lot of fun. It also summer off. What areas of fitness really get ne- Snowmobiling too, believe it or not, is a great doesn’t mean you have to be on the treadmill all helps to find someone to work out with. It’s easier glected when I’m enjoying the holidays? workout. Depending on how you ride, it can be a the time. Find something that you’ll enjoy. Some to just convince yourself not to do something. contact: [email protected] The Uniter September 13, 2007 SPORTS 19

Super Series = Super Bust Russia fails to generate any excitement as Canada dominates COMPILED BY Kalen Qually Jonathan Villaverde the hype of the famed Summit Series. Canada growing up. They must have watched Bure and Volunteer Staff brought their A game expecting Russia to do Fedorov and thought, “I want to be just like the same. But they didn’t. Far from it. To be fair, them!” Those players, in their prime, had heart Russia’s star players were hurt for much of the to play the game. A player can draw a lot of moti- Russian Rocket mistaken wasn’t alive in 1972, but I heard there was series, but as one of the world’s perennial hockey vation just thinking about what their hero would for English Hooligan this big hockey thing that went on. Some powerhouses, you would think they would at do during a clutch moment. Someone on the Former NHLer, Russia’s Pavel Bure, was I sort of series between Canada and Russia. least compete. Throughout the whole series the Russian team needed to step up and take that awarded 67,000 rubels (just over $2,400 Cdn) I don’t know; must not have been that impor- Russian coaching seemed abhorrent. Especially role. Clearly, no one did. I saw the Russian bench, in damages after British Airways prevented him tant. Apparently they decided to try and rec- during the game in Winnipeg, when they failed beaten up with their heads down, and no one from boarding a flight in October of 2006. Bure reate the series for the young kids like myself. to make any adjustments to even slow down the seemed like a leader to me. A few times I saw dif- had been seeking damages of 20 million rubels. However, this new version played with the Canadians, let alone stop them. ferent Russian players leaving their teammates The airline pilot had mistaken Bure for a soccer juniors was a joke. This series is making the Russian pro- behind as they selfishly tried to skate through hooligan and disallowed him from boarding the The 1972 Summit Series was one full of in- gram look like a joke. It isn’t even just that they Team Canada by themselves. That’s not how you flight from London to Moscow. Dmitrey Ragulin, trigue and excitement. Just watching documen- are losing every game; it’s that they are not even step it up. You don’t try to do everything your- Bure’s lawyer, compared the Russian Rocket to competing! Canada is outplaying them in every self. The Russians simply were not a team. In my taries of it makes me shiver. Russia was amaz- England’s mega-star soccer player: “If David ing. Canada was amazing. It was intense. It was aspect of the game. In the game in Winnipeg, the opinion, they didn’t deserve to be on the ice. Beckham, the British idol, had been thrown off a a series down to the end. It was the definition only highlight for the Russians was the goalten- I don’t want to take away the credit that plane by a Russian airline then what size of com- of a “classic.” Conversely, the 2007 version has ding in the first period. Sergei Bobrovsky stood Team Canada, and coach Brent Sutter, clearly pensation would he have got?” A question which simply been ridiculous. Russia doesn’t even look on his head! But after letting in a couple of goals deserve. Sutter is going to do an excellent job will likely remain unanswered, as the interna- like they want to play. during the second period, the floodgates opened. in the NHL as the new coach of the New Jersey tional star is now more recognizable than Ronald I was fortunate enough to attend the game You would think, as the Canadian offence just Devils. If you include the two junior champi- McDonald reports espn.com. played here in Winnipeg and the Canadians kept coming after them despite the score, that onships, his record is 19-0-1 with the national made the Russians look like pylons with sticks. the Russians would be inspired to fight back. junior program. That is ridiculous when you Don’t get me wrong, the experience and the at- You would think they would have some pride consider that he has had to train new players to And they swear it mosphere were great. It wasn’t quite like when in a sport their country is known for. You would fit his system every time he did it. This guy just wasn’t the drugs the World Junior Championship was being think the Russians would do anything! However, wins. Canada has worked, just as every Sutter played here. But it did feel awesome to cheer they seemed content to just be there. It was em- team in the past, as a cohesive unit throughout Many have suffered the discomfort of ath- “Ca-na-da! Ca-na-da! Ca-na-da!” with the whole barrassing, not only for the Russian players, the whole series. So with that in mind, I’m going lete’s foot, but how many have reaped the ben- crowd wearing red and white. It just proved, fans, or coaches, but for fans of hockey in gen- to put some money on the Devils this year to win efits of athlete’s heart? According to espn.com, once again, how much pride Canadians take in eral. People are coming out to these games to at least a few games. researchers have found that the hearts of former their hockey players. see competition. They are out there to see goals I just hope Russia can find some real participants in the Tour de France range from The original Summit Series was impor- on both sides. Perhaps if the Russian team had coaching. Maybe by the 50th anniversary of the 20-40 per cent larger than average. Athletes tant to us Canucks. Actually, it meant every- stepped up we could have seen a 5-4 game, in- Summit Series we will have some real hockey to who train rigorously in aerobic activities such thing to Canadians. It was a defining moment stead of the 8-1 drubbing the team received. watch. as biking, swimming, or long distance running for Canada, establishing that hockey was our One can only assume the players on the tend to have larger hearts, allowing them to have game. So far the Super Series has not lived up to current Russian team must have had heroes a greater flow of blood throughout their bodies. The condition is referred to as “athlete’s heart.” Dr. Francois Carre of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Rennes in France conducted a Game #2: Seattle Seahawks Game #4: San Diego @ New England study on seven former cyclists. His research also @ Arizona Cardinals “San Diego is capable of winning this game. found that following their retirement from profes- NFL Picks “With their stellar week-one victory over the New England’s defense will be missing Richard sional cycling, the subjects’ hearts shrank nearly 2007 Gridiron Gurus Buccaneers, Seattle seems to be regaining the of- Seymour and Rodney Harrison, two of its finest a quarter in size. Of course, all this research fensive prowess that helped them win 13 games in run defenders. That bodes well for the best run- leads one to believe it was professional cycling, 2005. With Shaun Alexander and Matt Hasselbeck ning back in the league, LaDainian Tomlinson, and not Christmas cheer, that allowed the Grinch Tom Asselin is the co-host of the Ultra finally healthy, the Arizona defence, which was and the San Diego Chargers offence. New England to save Christmas. (espn.com) Mega Sports Show and is also the defending ranked 29th overall last season, won’t stand much has characteristically done a wonderful job of fill- NFL Picks champion. of a chance. Granted the Cardinals are an im- ing gaps in their defence (especially in the back- Kalen Qually is the Sports Editor at the proving bunch, and some experts are calling for field). I trust Head Coach Bill Belichick to have the Ohio State pours salt Uniter, appears regularly on the Ultra Mega a breakout season, but all of their young talent makeshift defence prepared as they usually are into the wound Sports Show, and is a former NFL Picks champ. needs more time to develop. The more experi- and Tom Brady to keep the Patriots offence rolling Steven Kotelniski is a regular contributor enced Seahawks will grind down the Cardinals against a weak San Diego secondary. I am picking How sweet it is to bathe in the failure of a to Uniter Sports, a rookie to NFL Picks, and a defense with inside running and their always-pre- New England to win their home opener.” rival. When NCAA football powerhouse Michigan former Fantasy League Champion. cise passing. And the sometimes spotty Seattle –Steven Kotelniski Wolverines fell to lower division underdogs Jonathan Villaverde is a long time foot- defense should withstand the Boldin-Fitzgerald Appalachian State Mountaineers, Michigan’s rival ball player, first year NFL Picks member, and one-two punch if they continue the play that held Tom picks: Patriots school, Ohio State, suddenly became the coun- regular contributor to Uniter Sports. Tampa Bay to a couple of field goals. I’m predict- Kalen picks: Chargers try’s biggest Mountaineers fan club. Just hours Dan Verville is a contributor to Uniter ing that Seattle will spoil the Cards’ home opener, Steven picks: Patriots after the game, Mountaineers gear was flying off Dan picks: Patriots Sports and is making his first appearance in and start the season 2-0.” the shelf, primarily to Ohio residents. Two men NFL Picks this season. –Scott Christiansen Scott picks: Patriots who wanted a large order of Mountaineers T- Scott Christiansen is a rookie to NFL shirts had to be turned down by the bookstore on Picks and is also a contributing member of Tom picks: Seahawks Game #5: Washington Redskins the Appalachian State campus due to their policy Uniter Sports. Kalen picks: Cardinals @ Philadelphia Eagles Steven picks: Seahawks of only selling merchandise to students, faculty, Dan picks: Seahawks “The Eagles’ fans don’t take well to losing, and alumni. However, many have found a way Scott picks: Seahawks and they certainly don’t take well to losers. With around this policy by claiming to be an alumnus Game #1: Indianapolis Colts that in mind, the Eagles are going to be fully moti- of the school. “If people call and say, ‘my uncle @ Tennessee Titans vated to win in their home opener. You don’t lose is a graduate’ or whatever, we really don’t have a Game #3: New York Jets to the Packers and escape criticism. Special teams way to verify that,” Lorraine Childers of the book- “The defending Champs (and my money @ Baltimore Ravens ticket from last season) started the season on a were costly to the Eagles, losing the ball twice on store explained on SI.com. high note—to the tune of a 41-10 beat-down on “Despite the fact the Jets got stomped in returns. That can be fixed in the span of a week so a Saints team that many are picking to be a major their opening game (38-14 for those of you keep- don’t expect a repeat in that department. Finally, force and a favourite to represent the NFC in the ing stats at home) I wouldn’t count them out just let’s be honest. McNabb is McNabb—one of the One crazy birdie Super bowl this year. The Titans eked out a win in yet as they were simply victims to the Randy Moss league’s elite quarterbacks. And Jason Campbell is Golfers have always appreciated the appear- Jacksonville with Vince Young playing less than & New England Patriots coming out party. That Jason Campbell—frightfully outmatched.” ance of feathered friends on the course. They inspirational football. The Titans will hope for a being said, they’ll be in tough when they visit –Kalen Qually love the occasional birdie or eagle, and espe- repeat performance by Chris Brown (19 carries for McNair and the rest of Ravens. I’m taking the Jets 175 yards) against what was the leagues worst-run in a bit of an upset here as they’ll hopefully hit Tom picks: Eagles cially the rare albatross. But what do they make defence last season. For the Colts to be success- their stride during the second game of the season. Kalen picks: Eagles of the emu? In Elma, Washington, an emu found ful they’ll need Peyton Manning to be himself and If they can only escape the clutches of Ray Lewis Steven picks: Eagles its way onto the Oaksridge Golf Course, says do what he did versus the Saints (18/30 288 yards and the rest of the Raven’s stingy defence...” Dan picks: Washington espn.com, where it was first spotted by course 3 Tds). The Colts have had The Titans number in –Dan Verville Steven picks: Eagles employee Jeremy Behm while in the pro shop. recent years; expect that trend to continue. Colts “I heard a noise and this crazy bird was stand- 31 Titans 17.” Tom picks: Ravens ing right there,” offered Behm of his confronta- Kalen picks: Ravens –Tom Asselin tion with the bird. The “crazy” tower of a bird pro- Steven picks: Ravens Standings ceeded to follow a pair of golfers for seven holes. Tom picks: Colts Dan picks: Jets Tom A 4-0 1.000 One of the golfers, Sue McMeekin, commented, Kalen picks: Colts Scott picks: Ravens Jonathan V 4-0 1.000 “It was strange. She’s awful big and she made me Steven picks: Colts Steven K 4-0 1.000 nervous.” (espn.com) Dan picks: Colts Scott C 4-0 1.000 Kalen Q 3-1 .750 Scott picks: Colts dan V 3-1 .750