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Tuition Rebate On Dec. 6, 1989, Marc Lepine entered Montreal's Ecole By Michael [email protected] Polytechnique and opened fire on 14 female engineering students, Manitoba students will be receiving a 60 per cent killing them all. Before gunning rebate on their tuition fees, if they stay and work in the women down, he screamed, Manitoba. In what is likely to be his last speech from the throne before a possible spring election, Premier "I hate feminists!" This event has Gary Doer has promised a smorgasbord of tax cuts, come to mark a day of tragedy incentives and new spending. for 14 young women, but has also In reading the speech on Nov. 15, which com- become a day of mourning for menced the fifth session of the 38th legislature, Lt-Gov. violence against women across John Harvard said, "For the first time in Manitoba Canada. history, all post-secondary students who stay and work This year, on the 17th in the province will receive a 60 per cent tax rebate on anniversary of the Montreal their tuition fees." Massacre, seven University Though the details of the rebate have yet to be announced, Harvard said that it will begin in 2007, and of Winnipeg (UW) students that the tax rebate will be issued over a six-year period. are using art and their own This announcement is meant to reduce the brain-drain menstrual fluid to bring attention in the province and keep students living and working in to the continued violence against Manitoba. women happening around the Russell Ketcheson, a second year mechanical world everyday engineering technology student at Red River College's "We wanted to ask people Notre Dame campus, likes the idea of a rebate to help — you think this is disgusting? graduates deal with their student debt. "The rebate would be good...but I don't know How about what happened in if it would keep young people here. I think it's a good Montreal, and what continues way to help graduates deal with their debt while they to happen to women all the time?" start their career," said Ketcheson. says Kelly Ross, the UW Womyn's Center Ketcheson believes that Manitoba needs to attract co-ordinator. Ross is referring to 14 patches of fabric new industry and should help businesses get started that have been decorated by members of the Womyn's and expand, so they can offer better jobs to more Center with their own menstrual fluid. The 8"x11" "We wanted to ask graduates. pieces have been framed under glass and will be "Graduates will go where the jobs are, whether displayed at the UW for about a month. people - you think this that's here or somewhere else," said Ketcheson. Jeffrey Taniguchi, a third-year graphic design The display is meant to both surprise and alarm is disgusting?.. We are student at the Princess Street campus, believes that people. once students graduate, their concern isn't the tuition "We are doing it to be shocking," says Ross.' "We doing it to be shocking." they've paid but finding a good job to start their really want people to get the message, really understand careers. what's going on the world." "I'm not sure if it will really be effective in keeping The women decorated the fabric pieces by But one UW student isn't sure that the Womyn's students here," Taniguchi said. "If I were to leave the collecting menstrual fluid in Diva Cups (a reusable cup Center's methods will be effective. province, it would be for employment." that is inserted in the woman's vagina), or by wearing "They're just trying to bring attention to Dana Giesbrecht, a student at the Princess Street campus believes that if students want to leave the fabric/in their underwear during their periods. themselves," says Kasia Dolna. "Of course it's awful Manitoba, there's not much the government can do to "Some people have told us it's gross," continues that those women were killed, and attention should keep them here. Ross, "but some have told us it's a really cool idea." be brought to it, but this is only going to be about "I think'it's an interesting approach, but I don't The original plan had been to sew the pieces them using their own menstrual fluid, not about those think it'll be effective in the long run." Giesbrecht said. together into a quilt, but the group decided to go with women." The rebate program will also offer incentives for individually framed pieces instead. However, not everyone outside of the Womyn's students to continue their schooling into graduate stud- "The quilt seemed a little too shocking," admits center agrees. ies and professional programs. Ross. "We didn't want it to be so much that people "Okay, it's a little gross," says Sara Waters, a UW "While we have made progress in keeping our , young people, more work is needed," said Harvard. would only focus on the fact that we had used menstrual student. "But I get what they're trying to say. I think it "We will continue with policies that provide affordable, fluid to decorate it, rather than hear the message we are could be really effective in spreading a positive message accessible education opportunities and hope for the. trying to spread." about violence against women. Good for them for trying future." something bold." Will It Be Cold This Winter? Depends Who You Ask

By Daniel [email protected]

With daytime highs below the freezing Emerging Information Systems Inc., would like to forecasts. They're pretty secretive about it," says mark, a cold snap in October and snow on see EC's prediction come true. Shabbar. the ground, Winnipeggers can look to both "I hope they are right. I would rather have a According to the CFA release, it's forecasts Environment Canada (EC) and the Canadian mild winter with a lot of snow than a cold winter are based "on a top secret mathematical and as- Farmers' Almanac (CFA), for their winter with many weeks of temperatures reaching minus tronomical formula. Many who follow its predic- weather predictions. However, there are mixed 40," says Friesen. "It's fun to play in. I can go tions say they are 80 to 85 per cent accurate." feelings on which forecast is more accurate. snowboarding, four-by-four riding, snowmobiling G. A. Marshall, a technician at the University According to a story on CBC's website (www. - whatever." of Winnipeg, does not believe in the validity cbc.ca), EC says we can expect warmer tempera- However, not everyone agrees with EC's win- of the CFA forecast. "I put my trust in trained tures this year. "A broad swath of the country ter forecast. According to the CFA, temperatures scientific professionals any day over pedlars of from the St. Lawrence River extending north in Manitoba could get colder. "[Temperatures] folklore." and west to the Yukon is expected to experience could average as much as 10 C below seasonal According to EC's statistics, the normal day- temperatures that are warmer than normal," normals, or nearly 20 C colder than last winter." time highs for Winnipeg are -9.7 C in December, They credit the predicted mild winter to a Environment Canada does not release -12.7 C in January, -8.5 C in February, and -1.1 C strengthening El Nino- a warming of the tropical specific temperature and precipitation estimates in March. Pacific Ocean sea surface. with its' forecasts. Winnipeg also sees 19.8 cm of snow in Winnipeggers should also expect more Amir Shabbar, an EC meteorologist, says December, 23.1 cm in January, 14.2 cm in snow this year. EC's prediction calls for "more that the CFA's predictions are the very opposite of February, and 15.8 cm in March. These statistics precipitation than normal" for a large portion of what Environment Canada is forecasting. are based on observations taken over a period Manitoba. "[The CFA's prediction] is a contradiction from 1971 to 2000. Brad Friesen, a technical communicator for with what we're saying. I can't comment on their 4 4 4 V Red River College STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION -

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I love the mall at Christmas. protected cocoons of glowing, like there is a sort of collective For most people, shopping malls sparkling festiveness. togetherness among Christmas in December conjure up images I suppose I maintain a sense shoppers at the mall. We're like of long lines, pushy crowds of childish naivete about the a team all working together and associations with personal idea of buying gifts for people at towards a similar goal. bankruptcy. But for me, the this time of year. A gift for my I've never been one to get Christmas season hasn't really mom and dad is a small token stressed about this holiday; I've begun until the tree is up, and of gratitude for all the years they never seen the point. Christmas I've made my first trip to the spent raising me; a treat for my isn't a chore, and I think that's Even children in Quebec are not immune to politics. mall. friend is a chance to recognize why I can enjoy the mall at this I remember the day I walked to school and first Some of my first memories how glad I am to have them in time of year. My attitude towards noticed that every stop sign on my way had been spray of Christmas are of visiting my life. I do it because I want to, shopping for Christmas is the painted over with the word 'auk'. This was before Bill- Santa at the mall, and even now not because I have to. same one I have towards the 101, a provincial charter that made French the official when I walk past the Santa's I don't believe in spending entire holiday. It's a time of year language of the province. workshop, I get an overwhelming so much on gifts that I'm still that I get some time off work or After Rene Levesque was successful in enacting sense of nostalgia. It's the lights, paying for them in July, and that the bill, helpful citizens took it upon themselves to school, see my family, eat a lot precipitate the language change. Other vandalism decorations and tinkling music could be one reason the mall of good food, give and receive appeared around my neighbourhood, a mostly playing everywhere that get me doesn't represent some kind of presents and just enjoy. anglophone area known as the West Island, on stores into the merry Christmas spirit. trap for me. I buy what I can and street signs. Shopping malls are like cozy afford. As for the crowds — I feel My parents had two friends that were cops who would come over, and I'd overhear them talking EDITOR'S DESK about shifting crime patterns that were reminiscent of October 1970. On more than one occasion, during a hockey game, I remember hearing an excited parent I Hate Christmas screaming at his son on the ice to "hit that Anglo". In grade three I happened to have a girlfriend By Christopher [email protected] who the school bully also had a crush on. He was francophone, and the fact that I wasn't fuelled his hate towards me even further. For a year .I endured, let's say, You are a commodity, you complacent and feel fulfilled in a sung anti-shopping carols, a lot of duress from this boy. In grade four I shoved are traded, investigated, sold, world full of stuff (sorry, I meant handed out Buy-Nothing fliers him down a flight of stairs and he never approached segmented, researched, you gifts which really express your and consoled stressed shoppers. me again. I know it was wrong, but when push came to are loyal, analysed, invested, love). They are no threat to any They have been met by threats shove, I shoved. I have periodically wondered where he objectified, you are a 25 year- establishment, and this zombie- from store owners and security, is today. old-student-living-alone-you- like behaviour equals big bucks. who shepherd them out of I'd like to think he's serving five to ten in Joliette enjoy-new-music-you-watch- You see, the lie of the the mall. This sort of activity Institution. TV-for-3-hours-a-day-and- mall at Christmas is that it is does not fit into the guidelines Bill-101 made Anglo-Quebecers feel unwelcome subscribe-to-a-newspaper. You a friendly place for families to of zombie-shopping-related and uncomfortable, and led to an exodus of anglophones from Quebec, mostly to Ontario. I was can be persuaded to buy, and spend quality time together, activity; it threatens why malls one of them. you can be bought. and engage meaningfully in a exist and how people should The Parti Quebecois forgot to tell Quebeckers Mark Twain said, "It was a season of supposed giving and behave in them. about the looming economic downturn that would narrow escape. If the sheep had sharing. Nay fellow consumer, Don't allow yourself to be last almost 20 years because of it. The minority been created first, man would the mall is a place of strict herded and stressed by the mall anglophones would pull out and take their money have been a plagiarism." As uniform codes of behaviour and this season. Real democracy elsewhere - the same money that the province was built the shopping days wind down, subtle violence. I urge you to allows us to have some say in and run on. and a paranoid state of rabid, please leave your children within the way our society functions. Ironically, I moved back there in 1990 and again dogmatic consumer aggression the safe confines of your home Do you WANT to be a part of left after the second referendum in 1995, tired and springs to life throughout this during this time. bored of the same-old pull at your heartstrings, tired environmentally destructive and city The miracle of the free of the illogical move to succeed from Canada. Then, Local groups that oppose soul crushing consumerism? las before, I experienced the anger and frustration of a market leaves us empowered, the waste and destructive Then DON'T go to the mall new generation of separatists, lulled by the nationalistic content, and satisfied with bags nature of over-consumption this Christmas season. call of a free Quebec. One night I was followed by two full of holiday spirit, and I find have gone into shopping malls drunks who stalked me until I got home, because they myself agreeing with Mr. Twain to make them more lively and heard me talking to my dog in English. I suppose they more and more. fun places to be. They have didn't know I understood everything they were saying. Consumer dopes engaged shoppers about the Then on another occasion, I got into a fistfight at a bar wandering around shopping effects of their purchases and with two young separatists for no reason. malls gaping at plastic trees, encouraged them to look for Separate nation within Canada, separate nation awed by twinkling lights, jingling more meaningful gift ideas. outside of Canada. It's still a mute debate. Neither side bells and robotic elves are will ever be satisfied. Just ask the children of Quebec. They have offered free hugs, Teach English Overseas ssierpi „

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Aiden Enns, a former member of Adbusters and current publisher of Geez magazine, agrees. "I was working at Adbusters in 2001 and was excited about the high level of participation in Buy Nothing Day; I thought we should roll out this campaign over the whole Christmas season. I associate shopping with death. I know I feel more dead every time I enter a mall or warehouse store. That can't be right." From this conviction Enns organized a campaign called a Buy Nothing Christmas, which follows the lines of BND, but emphasizes alternate gift ideas which don't require spending large amounts of money on products we ultimately don't need. Enns emphasizes the lie of our consumer age; a concept which he believes is alienating and crushing to the spirit. "I just think it's weird that we go on a consumer binge at the time of the year when, supposedly, we are to celebrate the joy of life," he says. This year, Enns and his entourage plan to have a portable 'inter-faith chaplaincy that travels to shopping malls across Winnipeg and offers care to wounded consumer souls languishing in the aisles. Another activity which some activists participated in on BND It's a simple idea: choosing not to shop for Kim, asked shoppers to fill out a 'consumption was quizzing shoppers how much they spent over the Christmas one day of the year. It's a fast from the consumer reduction pledge form'. season. shopping frenzy, an island of stress and debt free "I think this is a very good day, we have to tell Some shoppers were hesitant to share this information, but calm at the beginning of the Christmas consumer people that buying things is not the most important some with rolling eyes and deep sighs proclaimed, "A lot, too binge. This is the message of Buy Nothing Day thing. For Christmas, all I really want is to see my much!" (BND). family," she says. One shopper said she spent over-$2000 on gifts alone, and On Friday, Nov. 24, a group of fun-loving anti- Buy Nothing Day is an initiative which grew another said he usually budgeted `around $1500: ' consumers gathered at the University of Winnipeg out of the anti-consumer movement, but the day This is the sort of information that concerns the World to mark this special day. Equipped with a scavenger itself was made into an international and annual Wildlife Fund (WWF). In October of this year, the WWF - released hunt list, the activists hit Portage Place Mall for an event by the Adbusters Media Foundation. a study entitled The Living Planet, warning that the world's evening of awareness, consumer sympathy and joy- Kalle Lasn, co-founder of Adbusters says, population will be using twice as many resources as the planet can ful rebellion. Teams were committed to making the "Driving hybrid cars and limiting industrial emis- produce within 50 years. atmosphere of the shopping mall uplifting as they sions is great, but they are band-aid solutions if In the study, WWF director general James Leape says, "We engaged consumers and store owners in construc- we don't address the core problem: we have to are in serious ecological overshoot, consuming resources faster tive dialogue about the products they purchase and consume less. This is the message of Buy Nothing than the earth can replace them; the consequences of this are sell. Day" predictable and dire." • One team made a sign offering free hugs to Some may question the effectiveness of one Each person occupies an "ecological footprint" equivalent shoppers, and surprisingly, they gave out quite day of refraining from shopping. The huge environ- to 2.2 hectares (5.4 acres) in terms of their capacity'to pollute or a few Another group asked stores where their mental destruction caused by rampant over-con- consume energy and other resources, including food. The planet, products were made and whether they had overseas sumption, a culture focused on materialism and however, can only offer them 1.8 hectares each; says the report. labour policies. increasing influence of multinational corporations The BND and Buy Nothing Christmas initiatives are fun and In an amusing twist of environmental law surely requires more than one day to bring aware- constructive ways to educate ourselves and Others about the wider enforcement, one group made up fake $17,000 ness of the ramifications of 'First World' consump- global impacts of over consumption. They also help to remind us parking tickets and planted them on gas-guzzling tion. that sometimes the best things in life really are free. SUVs surrounding the mall. If you are interested in taking this ethical stand and reducing There was only one brief your consumption this shopping season, visit vvww.buynothing- confrontation with security, in christmas.org, or see Nisha Tuli's helpful article on alternative gift which one group was asked ideas. to leave a store for disrupting shopping. Introducing The Valerie Cobb-Friesen, an activist who participated in BND activities, stood beside the Santa Princess Grill Breakfast 8c. Ltirich Daily Monday to Saturday Claus display in tlle mall and offered free hugs to weary looking shoppers. "I think this is a great, fun way to bring attention to this issue," she says. "It's future sustainability that I'm worried about, and that in the future our children will have an environment which we haven't completely destroyed today." Another activist, Hanna

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On Nov. 10, Vic Toews, the federal Sudbury believes the proposed bill will assist in making justice minister, proposed Bill C-16, Manitoba's roads even safer. an amendment to the Criminal Code "It'll allow police the ability to do the type of screen- targeting drug-impaired drivers. It is ing that can detect drug-impaired driving. There are a lot supposed to make drug-impaired driving of people, cops, employees of the Addictions Foundation as unacceptable as drunk driving, but of Manitoba or Driver and Vehicle Licensing, who some are saying that it will not be passed. suspect people are driving drug-impaired, but [right now] Chris Mason, 21, whose car was hit police have no means for detecting that," says Sudbury. last winter by a drunk driver, thinks the Without legislation regarding drug-impaired drivers, bill is a good idea. The accident caused it is easier to prove someone is driving drunk than it is to $4,000 in damage to Mason's car, but prove they are driving high. In the case of drunk driving, luckily he was not hurt. police can execute alcohol-screening with breathalysers, "[Alcohol and drugs] impair your but there is no equipment presently available for drug- driving. They make your body unfit to screening. drive," says Mason. Ken McDonald, a constable with the Winnipeg He thinks the bill can make a posi- Police Service, thinks the bill has the potential to be use- tive difference. ful. "It can make roads safer. After "If they properly train the people who are supposed there's been a few examples...people to enforce the laws, and if there's a viable way of testing being caught high and arrests, stuff like [for drug-impaired drivers], then it would take a lot more that." will improve the safety of our roads," says Sudbury. people off the mad," says McDonald, adding that there Rod Sudbury, president of Mothers Against Drunk MADD recently recognized Manitoba as the best are, "not enough [cops] trained to do the roadside alert Driving (MADD) Winnipeg and former impaired-driver province in Canada for its initiatives to deal with drunk for the liquor tests." co-ordinator for the Winnipeg Police Service, also believes driving. While McDonald believes Bill C-16 could be a good if the bill is passed, it will help police officers detect "One of the main reasons is the provision for zero idea, he has doubts it will be passed. people who are driving while high. blood alcohol for novice drivers for the first five years," "I bet [the bill] gets thrown out. It's just an opinion, "I think it's great. It's a step in the right direction. It Sudbury says, crediting our graduated licensing system. and opinions get thrown out in court." Doer Woos Voters The Trouble With Fort Roug Youth Crime By Brent J. [email protected] By Casey [email protected] Premier Gary Doer was Doer's speech was marked in full campaign mode for the by a brief downtown power This October, Winnipeg ten) randomly beat 34-year- youth crime wave and whether expected spring election at the outage that left the church saw a rash of violent crimes NDP Fort Rouge nomination basement in the dark and old Audrey Daphne Cooper to or not they approved of meeting held on Nov. 22 at the forced the premier to read his committed by youths, leaving death in the north end. A few Toews's plan. Broadway Disciples Church. notes by candlelight. In good parents and members at hours later; a 12-year-old girl Rob Townsend, a father Two hundred and fifty humour, Doer used the outage all levels of government was stabbed in the back at a of two young children, party members, along with to joke that this was the reason wondering what needs to be party nearby. thought the government volunteers, observers and the he was pushing ahead with his done to remedy the situation Recently, while visiting should deal with what he saw media, filled the church base- government's $5-billion plan to before it gets worse. Winnipeg, federal Justice as the root of the problem: the ment to capacity. Doer paid build the massive Conawapa tribute to retiring MLA Tim hydroelectric dam in northern On Oct.14, a group of Minister Vic Toews suggested parents. Sale, and got his supporters Manitoba. kids locked Brian McKay, that the youth criminal code "Punishing an eight fired up as he tries to become With the Fort Rouge a 14-year-old boy with a be changed so children under year old isn't going to get you the first NDP premier in riding comprising areas rich disability, in a shed that they 12 could be convicted of anywhere; these kids have no Manitoba history to win a third in student populations such as then set on fire. All of the crimes. He said this would parents - no one looking after consecutive mandate. the downtown Broadway area, suspects were under 10-years- hold kids accountable and act them. It's the parents that Jennifer Howard, the ex- Osborne Village and Corydon's old. as a deterrent. should be going to jail, not the ecutive director of the Women's Little Italy, all three candidates Health Clinic, was elected to used their speeches to highlight In the early morning A group of parents at the young kids." carry the NDP colours in Fort their plans for education in the hours of Oct. 21, a group of Riverview Community Club Karen Bach, who used Rouge by a slim margin over province. youths (some younger than had a lot to say about the to be a teacher in the United James Allum, the president Howard and Allum both States, agreed. of the provincial party. Shane praised the Doer government's "By putting a troubled kid tuition-freeze and his plan for Nestruck, a party dissident, ran in jail you're taking him out of a distant third. student tuition rebates, with one bad situation and putting "Since 1999 we have Howard promising that she worked and succeeded in ac- would be a voice in caucus him in another. The kid needs complishing our goals for this for universal free tuition, and to get the love and guidance province, but we still have a Allum stating that, "We need they're not getting at home." great deal to do and will soon to look beyond just tuition and Linda Arniel, however; be asking for the opportunity to start making progress with the thought Toews's plan was continue that good work which other barriers that Manitobans good, but that it wouldn't solve we have started," said Doer. face when they want to access the problem. He used his speech to education and training pro- attack provincial Tory leader grams." "The kids need more Hugh McFadyen, character- Nestruck used his speech to than a slap on the wrist...but izing him as a "neo-conserva- attack the Doer government for they also need more to do in tive, Mike Harris clone", who abandoning the NDP's social- schools or sports so they're not if elected would "turn back ist roots and urged the young just wandering." the clock in Manitoba," and people and students in the room Whether it's tough-love, engage in "a reckless pursuit to to vote for him in order to send privatize Manitoba Hydro and Doer a message that the NDP after school programs, or reward his friends." cannot take their support for holding parents accountable, Doer outlined his promises granted. all of the interviewees agreed from the recent throne speech, With Fort Rouge consid- something had to be done, including a moratorium on ered one of the NDP's safest and fast. hog barn expansion, a plan seats in the province, the nomi- "It's awful, and it makes to clean up Lake Winnipeg, nation meeting was expected to us look bad to the rest of the targeted tax relief, and a plan to be Howard's toughest challenge offer Manitoba post-secondary in getting to the legislature. The country" said Townsend, graduates economic incentives Liberal Party and Progressive "Hearing stuff like that makes to stay in the province after Conservatives have yet to nomi- me scared to send my kids out completing their education. nate Howard's opponents. into the world."

$ , ".:'•:; NEWS DECEMBER 4 2006 THE PROJECTOR Remembering Why It's RRC KEGGER Important To Laugh PHOTOS BY JAMES TURNER

By Chris [email protected]

For the past two years in usually do. a row, the Just for Laughs Officer Cadet comedy festival has Donna Riguidel landed in Winnipeg on of 38 Canadian Nov. 11. Remembrance Brigade Group Day is a sacred day attended Remembrance reserved for solemn Day ceremonies at reflection. Schools and the Valour Road government offices are Commemorative Plaza. closed, store hours are After the ceremony, limited, and it is the she was careful with her only day of the year in which real- words when discussing the comedy estate agents are legally not allowed festival playing that evening. to work. So is a comedy festival "Remembrance Day is sacred, appropriate? but it's crucially important for people Leisa Lee, director of public to be able to laugh and enjoy their relations for Just for Laughs, points - freedoms," she says. out that organizers treated the Riguidel is of the opinion that Winnipeg show date as a delicate if we pay our respects to those who situation. serve and appreciate the lives we live "It's certainly not something because of others' sacrifices, then we we intended. This is a 24-city tour should celebrate the freedoms they across the country — everything has fought for us to have. to fit in," she says. "It's not just any other day," says Lee asserts that it's pure Riguidel. "At the same time, should coincidence the show has landed in we spend the entire day in sadness Winnipeg on Nov.11 two years in a and in mourning? No. Life is for row living." "It wasn't done as a sign of Chris Watson, a political disrespect. We would never book studies student at the University something that was disrespectful," of Manitoba, acknowledges that a she says. comedy festival on Remembrance Lee says Just for Laughs Day could be considered a touchy doesn't do anything different for subject, but he agrees with Riguidel. Remembrance Day, and that there "The comedy show represents is no official protocol on the matter. the type of free thought and freedom However, each individual performer of activity that was the ideal behind has the choice to say something to our troops going off and fighting commemorate the day, and most wars in the first place."

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"Your Own Terrorism Is Terrorism

By Saad Sayeed Excalibur (York University) TORONTO (CUP) - Known in academic circles for his contribution to the field of linguistics, MIT professor Noam Chomsky is widely recognized as one of the most influential political dissidents of our time. In this interview, Chomsky talks about the roots of terrorism and the • role of the intellectual in society.

Excalibur (E): How important is an understanding of the role of states such as the U.S. and the U.K. when examining the question of terrorism?

Ch omsky (C): It depends on whether we want to be honest and truthful, or whether we want to just serve state power. We should look at all forms of terrorism. I have been writing on terrorism for 25 years, ever since the Reagan administration came in 1981 and declared that the leading focus of its foreign policy was going to be a war on terror. A war against state-directed terrorism; which they (the Reagan Administration) called the plague of the modern world, ■ - 41.4 because of their barbarism. That was the centre of their foreign policy, and ever since I have been writing about terrorism. But what I write causes extreme anger for the very simple reason that I use the U.S. government's official definition of terrorism from the official U.S. code of laws. If you use that definition, it follows very quickly that the U.S. is the leading terrorist state and a major sponsor of terrorism. Since that conclusion is unacceptable, it arouses furious anger. But the problem lies in the unwillingness to recognize that your own terrorism is terrorism. This is not just true of the United States, it's true quite generally. Terrorism is something that they do to us. In both cases, it's terrorism and we have to get over that if we're serious about the question.

E In 1979, Russia invades Afghanistan. The U.S. uses the Ziaul Haq regime in Pakistan to fund the rise of militancy. This gives Ziaul a green light to fund cross-border terrorism in Kashmir. Now we allegedly have some of those elements setting off bombs in Mumbai. Clearly, these groups are no longer controlled by any government.

C The jihad movements in their modern form go back before Afghanistan. They were formed primarily in Egypt in the 1970s. Those are the roots of the jihad movement, the intellectual roots, the activist roots, and the terrorism too. But when the Russians invaded Afghanistan, the Regan administration saw it as an opportunity to pursue their Cold War aims. So they did with the intense co-operation of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and others. The Reagan administration organized the most radical Islamic extremists it could find anywhere in the world, and brought them to Afghanistan to train and arm them. Meanwhile, the U.S. supported Ziaul Haq as he was turning Pakistan into a country full of madras- sahs and fundamentalists. The Reagan administration kept certifying to Congress that Pakistan was not developing nuclear weapons, which of course they were; so that U.S. aid to Pakistan could continue. The end result of these U.S. programs was to seriously harm Pakistan, and also to create the international jihad movement of which Osama bin Laden is a product. The jihad movement then spread-- they may not like it much but they created it. And now, as you say, it's in Kashmir. Kashmir though, is a much more complex story. There are plenty of problems in Kashmir and they go way back, but the major current conflicts come from the 1980s. In 1986, when India blocked the election, it actually stole the election, and that led to an uprising of terrorist violence and atrocities; including atrocities committed by the Indian army.

E The colonial legacy is generally dismissed by the media. What role does this legacy play in the emer- gence of home-grown terrorists in countries such as the U.S., the U.K. and Canada as well as to the cre- ation of terrorism as a whole?

C It's not brought up in the West because it's inconvenient to think about your own crimes. Just look at the major conflicts going on around the world today: in Africa, in the Middle East, in South Asia, most of them are residues of colonial systems. Colonial systems imposed and created artificial states that had nothing to do with the needs, concerns and relations of the populations involved. They were created in the interests of colonial powers, and as old-fashioned colonialism turned into modern neo-colonialism a lot of these conflicts erupted into violence, and those are a lot of the atrocities happening in the world today. How can anyone say colonialism isn't relevant? Of course it is and it's even more 'directly relevant. Take the London bombing in 2005. British Prime Minister Tony Blair tried to pretend that it had.nothing to do with Britain's participation in the invasion of Iraq. That's completely ridiculous. The British intelligence and the reports of the people connected in the bombing, they said that the British participation in the invasion and resulting horrors in Iraq inflamed them and they wanted to do something in reaction.

E What is the role of the intellectual when dealing with imperialism, and are the intellectuals doing their job?

C Unfortunately, intellectuals are doing their historic job. The historic role of intellectuals if you look; unfortunately, as far back as you go, has been to support power systems and to justify their atrocities. If you go back to the Bible, there's a category of people who were called prophets, a translation of an obscure word, they were intellectuals. They were what we would call dissident intellectuals; criticizing the evil king, giving geopolitical analysis, calling for the moral treatment of orphans, decent behaviour. Were they treated well? They were imprisoned and driven into the desert and so on, they were the fringe. The people who were treated well were the ones who centuries later, like in the gospel, were called false prophets. So it goes through history. The actual role of the intellectual has been supportive of power. Should they do that? Of course not, they should be searching for truth, they should be honest, they should be supporting freedom and justice and there are some who do it. There is a fringe who do it, but they're not treated well. They are performing the task that intellectuals ought to perform.

E And what keeps you motivated?

C I'll just tell you a brief story. I was in Beirut a couple of months ago giving talks at the American university in the city. After a talk, people came up and they wanted to talk privately or have books signed. Here I was giving a talk in a downtown theatre, a large group of people were around and a young woman came up to me, in her mid-20s, and just said this sentence: "I am Kinda," and practically collapsed. You wouldn't know who Kinda is, but that's because we live in societies where the truth is kept hidden. I knew who she was. She had a book of mine open to a page on which I had quoted a letter of hers that she wrote when she was seven years old. It was right after the U.S. bombing of Libya, her family was then living in Libya, and she wrote a letter which was found by a journalist friend of mine who tried to get it published in the United States but couldn't because no one would publish it. He then gave it to me, I published it. The letter said something like this: "Dear Mr. Reagan, I am seven years old. I want to know why you killed my little sister and my friend and my rag doll. Is it because we are Palestinians? Kinda". That's one of the most moving letters I have ever seen and when she walked up to me and said I am Kinda, and, like I say, actually fell over; not only because of the event but because of what it means. Here's the United States with no pretext at all, bombing another country, killing and destroying, and nobody wants to know what a little seven-year-old girl wrote about the atrocities. That's the kind of thing that keeps me motivated and ought to keep everybody motivated. And you can multiply that by 10,000. ARTS & CULTURE DECEMBER 4 2006 THE PROJECTOR A FUSION OF SOUND THE ELEMENT SIRCUS, FEATURING FUBUKI DAIKO December 22 The Pyramid Cabaret

By Shannah-Lee [email protected]

Passersby have gotten used Daiko thrives on a live perfor- precision. "Not only do you have to the thundering sounds coming mance. to think about hitting the drums from St. Luke's church in Osborne "A lot of times we're lucky properly, but you also have to make Village. For the past 10 years, this because what we do is so unusual sure that your angle is correct," he has been the unofficial homestead and so visual that it's an instant says, "we don't have anyone sitting of local Taiko drumming sensation attention-getter," says Guilbert. "I down writing the score." Fubuki Daiko. Lately, they have always find that whenever we're Fubuki Daiko has been moved their rehearsals from the playing in front of kids, that's together for roughly 11 years. basement daycare into the upstairs sort of the ultimate test. If it's Koshiyama and Guilbert have auditorium, as they practice for a something that will keep 60 or been there from the start, with unique, upcoming show. 100 or 200 little kids' attention ex-San Franciscan Robertson and On Dec. 22, Fubuki Daiko then it's probably working," she Guilbert's sister, Kimi, signing on will bring their Japanese-fuelled says. "They're very honest, and if slightly later. Koshiyama first met sound to the Pyramid Cabaret, as something's not interesting, they're Guilbert when she did Taiko train- part of The Element Sircus. The going to go walk away or talk to the ing in San Francisco. event, which happens twice a year kid beside them." "It's been really easy working on each solstice, is organized by Koshiyama believes the with Naomi," he says. "You get a avant-garde instrumental band the appeal is universal. "The drums few arguments here and there, but Absent Sound. are like the heartbeat, and so it rarely do we ever argue much." "We wanted to create an event really reaches out to everybody Guilbert says that, "this is the to draw in a lot of different kinds and through all walks of life, all ultimate group project because you of people, as opposed to one crowd backgrounds," he says. Fans of the can't drum alone." Although she or scene," says Absent Sound gui- band range from small children to feels that having family members tarist, David Fort. "That includes senior citizens. "I think since we've in the band has made it easier, she age and race." been around for such a long time, says "like in any band, our relation- Both artists are signed to we've kind of built up a pretty ships have been smooth and rocky." local music label No List Records. strong fan base," he says. "We've However, things always get resolved Although Fubuki Daiko's, Zanshin never gotten anyone to leave or to in the end. "We're all very diplo- - Leaving the Heart Behind, and tell us to be quiet or anything." matic people for the most part," Absent Sound's, Its All True, are When Guilbert composes a she says. on opposite ends of the musical piece, she thinks of the theatrical The Element Sircus will also spectrum, they have come together component first. "The visual, like feature Mahogany Frog, Sortie, to create some dynamic and eclec- the movement, what's happening Ham, plus a few others yet to be tic music, which they will unveil at with the bodies on the stage is one announced. The evening is all The Element Sircus. of the most important elements. about stepping outside of oneself "It's kind of different, and that And I'll fit the music into what's and letting go, which is why Absent makes it interesting and challeng- possible with the body," she says. Sound has declared the show to be ing," says Hiroshi Koshiyama, 41, "In a way [you] lose yourself and a costumed event. of Fubuki Daiko. Bandmate and at the same time connect univer- If you have no costume, and wife, Naomi Guilbert, 38, agrees, sally to the audience and to the no time to make one, Ragpickers "I'm surprised myself how well air, the ground, and to everything Antifashion Emporium & Books it's working, because so many times around you." is offering 50 per cent off costume collaborations, especially cross cul- Koshiyama and band mate rentals with the purchase of a tures, end up having a cheesy feel Bruce Robertson do the opposite. ticket. Advance tickets are $10 and to them," she says. "From the very "They'll think of the rhythm of the can also be picked up from Into first time we got together really, we music and come up with a move- the Music. Bear in mind that you'll just started to play together and it ment to fit it later on," Guilbert have to pay $12 if you show up at started to sound pretty good." says. "We end up creating different the door without a costume. With their matching costumes kinds of music." and enormous drums, Fubuki For Koshiyama, it's all about ▪

PROJECTING THINGS SINCE 1968 DECEMBER 4 2006 ARTS & CULTURE Sexsmith Returns In Good Time

By Doug [email protected]

There are literally hundreds of songs about life To match the stripped-down sound of the new on the road and all the trials and tribulations that album, Sexsmith is also entertaining the notion of a go along with it. And right now, as troubadour Ron solo tour. "Touring with the band is expensive, so I Sexsmith sits in his Toronto home, recharging his thought it would be cool to do a bunch of solo shows batteries after a challenging overseas tour, he can in theatres and just play piano and guitar." It would relate. Heck! He might even write a road song of also give him the flexibility he's looking for with his his own. set lists. "If it were up to me, I wouldn't have a set Sexsmith and his band are returning to Canada list; I would just come out and start playing. But with after two testing months of shows across Australia a band, you have to make sure the songs are tight. and Europe in support of his tenth studio album: Sometimes the songs I write down aren't the ones I Time Being. He's an old hat in the touring game, want to play" having been around the world many times since his For the time being, Sexsmith will complete the first album was released in 1995. What made this Canadian leg of the tour supporting his latest effort, one different was a streak of bad luck. Time Being, ending here in Winnipeg Dec. 9. He "It was a good tour, but a really strange one, I hinted at what fans can expect from the upcoming had some bad luck. I had my computer and my show bag with all my documents in it stolen from me in "We're playing seven songs from the new record, Amsterdam. And when you're in Amsterdam, the five from Retriever, and recently we've been playing last place you want to be is going to the embassy," a lot from the first record. You build the set around says Sexsmith. "It was kind of scary at times, but ev- your new album, and you try to pick songs that fit ery night we would get on stage and the fear would around that. On Time Being there are a lot of stories, kind of disappear." like Snow Angel, so I try to pick songs from previous Losing his computer also made it hard for records that also tell stories," says Sexsmith. Sexsmith to keep in touch with his fans. He often Sexsmith says he is excited to come back. "I'm posts on his website's message board, allowing fans mostly excited about playing the Burton Cummings to request songs for upcoming shows and comment Theatre, because all the past shows have been at the on the good, the bad and the otherwise about recent West End Cultural Centre. I love the West End but shows. the theatre will be nice. I hope we get a big turnout, "The fans have been really supportive this tour. and put on a good show" There are those who will point out that a show was disappointing to them because they didn't hear their favourite song. I appreciate that just as much as the positive comments," says Sexsmith. Amsterdam, having trouble with sound in Munich, and He notes that writing up the set list before a show going to some places that Sexsmith says he never wants to each night was a challenging task. "The first bunch of play again, the 42-year-old songwriter and his band were shows we were trying to find our feet, finding the right ecstatic to return to Canada. bunch of songs. You look at the venue you are playing. If "We practically kissed the ground when we came you are playing a theatre, you don't want to come out with back home. It was such a rough ride that Canada could SHOWS GOING ON a rocker," says Sexsmith. only get smoother. There is a weird sense of pride that "You just hope that people who pay to come see you we'd done all that, and it was relatively successful," says get their money's worth and hear their favourite song. I Sexsnaith. FOR THE HOLIDAYS: write a lot of short songs, so I can do 25 to 30 songs in a Sexsmith has also recently been penning new songs 90 minute show. I'm always going to play songs like Secret for his next release, focusing on piano-based pieces instead of writing on guitar. "I've written a lot of new songs on Heart, Strawberry Blonde, and Gold in Them Hills. Not DECEMBER 21 necessarily singles, but songs I am best known for. And the piano. I'm not very good on it, but I would like to try • Academy Bar & Eatery - Alex McCowan, in some countries, some records are more popular than it out. I'd like to do something a little simpler. The last Katie Murphy others. bunch of records have a lot of production on them, and • West End Cultural Centre - Blue Sky For some reason, in Germany they would be happy if I'm looking for a bit more stripped down sound this time," Addicts + 2 more TBA I did nothing but play songs from Retriever all night." says Sexsmith. "I have a piano in my house, so I usually sit • The Zoo - The Populars + Guests TBA Sexsmith made note of stellar shows, like those in down there before I pick up a guitar because I'm trying to London, Dublin and Oslo. But after being robbed in get better on the thing." DECEMBER 22 • The Collective — X-mas Spectacular w/ The Revolts, The Crackdown, The Fabulous Kildonans, The Farrell Bros., & The Savants • King's Head Pub - The Perpetrators • The Pyramid Cabaret - The Element Solstice Sircus Tune in for the holidays • West End Cultural Centre - A Very Merry Quinzmas w/ Quinzy, House of Doc XMAS SHOWS • The Zoo - The Maroons + Guests TBA DECEMBER 23 By Daniel [email protected] • King's Head Pub — Rubbersoul • The Royal Albert - Xmas Metal Bash w/ Port Amoral, Damascus, Dia Dolor It's a complaint you hear from release, and follow up to 2004's sary bash at the West End Cultural young Winnipeggers around the city Retriever. You can expect soulful Centre. all the time: melodies and intelligent lyrics from "It's going to be a party and DECEMBER 29 "There's nothing to do in the 2004 Juno songwriter of the year. we're gonna go off. You can expect • The Cavern - Rock with a capital Winnipeg!" says Samantha Misurka, Tickets are $27.50, and the show some melodic music that would nor- OCK!!!! w/ American Flamewhip, Hot 19, a University of Winnipeg starts at 8 p.m. mally be found in the punk section at Live Guys student. But is there really nothing to If dancing and hip-hop are the record store, but is still something • King's Head Pub - Mr. Pine CD Release do, or are they just not looking hard more your thing, then head down everyone can enjoy," says Sick City w/Guests TBA enough? to The Vibe Nightclub on Dec. 15 front man Josh Youngson. Well, with Christmas break at 10 pail. One of Canada's most Dubbed "a formidable force" coming quickly upon us, we here at experienced and well-respected DJs, by Uptown Magazine's John Kendle, DECEMBER 31 • the Projector have taken the initia- DJ Baby Yu, will be taking to the Sick City was -recently signed to New Dylan O'Connors - Ten Too Many, Dust tive- rolled up our red and green turntables. DJ Baby Yu has per- Jersey based label Trustkill Records Rhinos • sleeves, and found three great shows formed with huge rap acts such as and will soon be heading to Atlanta Dylan O'Connors Pembina Location that should please you all. Whether Snoop Dogg, The Game, and Juelz to record their first full length studio - American you prefer folk, hip-hop, or rock, Santana, and will be in Winnipeg album. Expect some new songs at Flamewhip, Hot Live Guys, Fabulous Winnipeg's got it on cue and at after making his way through a the Dec. 15 show, and make sure to Kildonans + 2 More TBA • ridiculously reasonable rates. European tour. Bring $10 with you get there early to check out opening King's Head Pub - JFK & the Folk/Roots artist Ron Sexsmith to the door. acts, The Knockarounds, Subcity Conspirators, The Tarbenders will be at the Burton Cummings For the rockers out there, who Dwellers, and Port Amoral. The • Shannon's Irish Pub - Subcity Dwellers, Theatre on Dec. 9. The Winnipeg prefer a good mosh pit to a raised show starts at 8 p.m, and tickets The Afterbeat • show will be the last show of dance floor, Winnipeg's own Sick are $8 at SK8, Into the Music, and Times Change(d) - Andrew Neville & the Sexsmith's cross country tour in City will be headlining Sideline Salon Venator. Poor Choices + Guests TBA support of Time Being his tenth full Productions' second anniver-

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CUP DECEMBER 4 2006 THE PROJECTOR YouTube: Your Handy Pocket Procrastination Companion

By Ryan Hardy and Jackie Linton and Jackie Linton, The Strand (Victoria College, University of Toronto)

TORONTO (CUP) - It's that time of year: Missy Elliot - "Gossip Folks" but which successfully reproduces the power and magnetism of his you've got assignments, and of course you don't When I'm older, I hope I have three daughters like live act. The video offers viewers a young Courtney Cox and a close- up of Bruce at his most iconic and charismatic. want to do them. Well frankly, neither do we. the three girls in the video; they're the cutest things A great way to avoid the inevitable is to spend ever. The video as a whole was an important step in countless hours on YouTube (wwwyoutube.com), Missy's weirdness and funkiness driven rise to rap reliving your teens watching music videos instead of David Banner - "Play" mega-stardom. It also includes one of the best of I hope my mom doesn't read this. "Play" stands, along with that one doing your homework. This was our exact approach Ludacris's many excellent guest spots. to this article, and we had little time to commit to Nelly video where they swipe the credit card through the girl's ass, much else. So allow us to guide your procrastination as pretty much the filthiest rap video ever. At the same time, before with a careful selection of some of our favourite Blur - "Coffee and TV" anyone calls this video sexist (which that Nelly video obviously is) we music videos. While some choices may seem more Picking this is kind of hard for me. First, because I should remember that, for David Banner, it's really all about the girl. Sensitive dude, David Banner. obvious than others, we still got a huge kick out of guess I sort of look like Graham Coxon, and most seeing some of these for the first time in awhile. We Coxon-looking guys (read: geeks) would pick it. hope you'll feel the same way. Second, when I was like 13 it made me cry Call me The Replacements - "Bastards of Young" a wuss if you want, but I say this video dramatizes Most of us are too young to remember, but from what I've read man's alienation from his fellow human beings and Alcazar - "Crying at the Discotheque" there was a time when people were really against music videos. the doomed search for love and companionship. For diehard independent musicians like the Replacements, the Nobody will ever watch hockey with me again after Yeah . . . I'm a wuss. this. This video is 'gay' in all the right senses of that music video was synonymous with everything they hated about the word. It's fun, fresh, campy, stylish and exciting. recording industry. This bleak video was the band's characteristically Mercifully, for me at least, the two girls are also Beyonce - "Naughty Girl" ambiguous concession to that industry; one of many concessions that eventually tore them apart. A Pretty amazing video though. babes so "it's OK for me to enjoy this." But as much There are better Beyonce songs, but no better as I like the Swedish girls, I also like the dancers videos. Like Madonna in "Material Girl," this is with animal heads, the tortured romantic subplot, Beyonce growing into her role as a sex symbol, and Bjork - "Bachelorette" and the cameo by gay Zoroastrian Swedish pop then totally owning it. One of the best things is how Life can be complicated. I can't tell you how many times I've found legend Alexander Bard. she turns the whole "video chick" idea on its head myself looking back on the past, reliving it over and over in my mind by putting Usher in the video as little more than eye as the future just gets crazier and crazier. I start looking at myself candy and then more or less jerking him around. All Three 6 Mafia - "I Gotta Stay Fly ,, looking back at myself, and then outside of that I begin to look at the people who worked on this video, especially hair, my act of retrospection. . . . It gets really self-reflexive. It's easy to You should try to live like this: Problems with your Make-up and the D.O.P., deserve awards. girl? Walk out on her! Old white people in your get caught up in that kind of shit. I'm glad that directors like Michel hotel hallway? Scare 'em! Smoke all night, drink all Gondry really "get" that part of me. day, wear sunglasses inside the club, etc. Most rap Lillix - "Sweet Temptation" videos are basically aspirational, but nobody has Don't call it a comeback. Actually, do. Lillix weren't Aaliyah - "Rock the Boat" done it this opulently since the glory days of Biggie, much their first time out, but their reincarnation Not only is this the best Hype Williams video to date, it's the best Puff and a seemingly endless number of boat- as moody dance-punk auteurs is amazing. In this "gone Caribbean" video still standing. As with any Aaliyah video, themed music videos. No boats in this one, but they video Lillix are the ultimate girl group, with each the clothing, choreography and setting were totally unique to her, managed to work it pretty much everything else . . . member representing a different archetype and even now at a time when fresh young and hot R&B chicks are except their Oscar. each being given equal billing (like the Donnas, but, totally commonplace. Considering that the editing here deliberately you know, babes). I also like the contrast between reinforces the fact that we lost an icon in the making of this video, I their detached coolness and the idiotic dancing of honestly can't watch it without getting the chills. David Bowie - "Let's Dance" the hipster rent-a-crowd, and the way the crowd's A lot of people really hate this video, but I think it's enthusiasm eventually wins Lillix over. great. Even though this was the most commercial Jamelia - "Something about you (Mr. Oizo Remix)" phase of his career, Bowie still has the panache and I wish this was the original video for this track, but as a remixed wit to set this video in the Australian outback (as version, I'm surprised to see it better than the first. If I saw some opposed to a nightclub or something), and to use it Bruce Springsteen - "Dancing in the Dark" new talent pop off with this glitched-out, washed-out version of as a forum for calling attention to the plight of the This video is often criticized by diehard Bruc e what seems to be reminiscent of a Vogue fashion centerfold, I'd Australian Aborigines-- one of the first music videos fans for being too slick (it was directed by Brian be floored. But I'm still pretty into Jamelia as a new artist, and to be political without being obvious about it. DePalma). 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PROJECTING THINGS SINCE 1968 DECEMBER 4 2006 ARTS & CULTURE Kives Calculates Success

By Erin [email protected]

In Winnipeg, selling we are looking forward this book was terrible it 3,000 local travel books to further success in still would have sold." in six months is an the upcoming holiday Shoppers were impressive feat, and season," Strang says. continuously stopping journalist Bartley Kives's Kives is well known to compliment Kives on first book, A Daytripper's in Winnipeg for his years his writing. Something Guide to Manitoba: spent reviewing music for he claims was not a Exploring Canada's the Winnipeg Free Press. common occurrence - to C St as Undiscovered Province, Currently he reports when he was a music has just gone done that. on City Hall and writes reviewer. "I'd get more I started writing this column a while Maybe I need to kick my own ass The first run of a Saturday column on hate mail than anything, ago, but of course I can't find it now and get on with it - head to the Sally Ann At that time I had been Bung ho about and buy my fakey, used tree and some Kives's book, having outdoor adventure. so whenever I get Christmas, claiming that instead of neon, non-flammable spray paint and get nearly sold out, has gone The idea for the somebody actually giving trying to fight it like I usually do, I was this show on the road. Maybe once I do into a second reprint, book came from the me positive praise I am going to embrace it. My reasoning had that, my enthusiasm will return. and for Kives, it was a publisher Great Plains very pleased," he says. been that I'm a bit stressed right now, But this enthusiasm, I remind you, calculated success. Publications who This success doesn't and it would give me something to look will not be accompanied by a trip to the "I'm a mercenary approached Kives. He mean his by-line will forward to. It would be a midpoint in mall. the midst of a cold, cruel winter, which I get panic attacks in malls on a journalist, if I write quickly hopped on board. vanish from the paper. I think might be reasoning for a lot of regular basis, never mind the holiday something I want it to be "I realized there At this point Kives has people in colder climates to go nuts over season. The BUY, BUY, BUY sense of purchased, I want people wasn't a comprehensive no plans to ditch the this holiday. anxiety and consumerism is much too to read it," Kives says. travel guidebook in journalism career that Normally I declare an anti- overwhelming. And generally, malls to At a promotional Manitoba for the has been his bread and Christmas stance mostly due to the me, are reminders of how we have gone signing at the Grant Park entire province," Kives butter. barrage of advertisement and the wrong in our development as a human McNally Robinson on explains. As far as his future placement of value on love and caring race in North America. But then again during the holiday season. I don't mind if I had my way we'd all be living in Nov. 22, Kives chatted On his way to a as an author goes, Kives . the drinks, the friends, the family and mountain villages in houses carved out of amicably with passersby poetry reading in the isn't short of ideas and the food. I just hate the expectations stone. Or something like that. There are and autographed store, CBC Radio's strategies to implement of having to spend so much to have a so many things you don't need in a mall. copies of his full colour weekend morning show them. good holiday and prove that you care by The snow has fallen and the guidebook. host, Ron Robinson, "I have an idea for a wasting amount of hours in a mall. holiday break is almost here. I am sure According to Krista stopped by the table to fiction book, but not until My enthusiasm that I had sported I'll feel pumped up again sometime Strang, an event host at congratulate Kives on the I get a bigger name for two weeks ago has since started to fade. really soon. But remember, there is no I made great plans for a girly Christmas point in sending me that detailed list of McNally Robinson, the reprint. myself. Nobody really party and a neon pink Christmas tree, what you want, what colour you want store has sold 766 copies "You really beat the cares about fiction from but I am procrastinating both. I am it in and where I can buy it, because if of the book since it came odds," Robinson praises. somebody who's not a feeling broke and a little busted but I you're getting anything from me - it's out on June 2 of this year. Modestly, Kives fiction writer." hope my holiday pizzazz kicks in soon. my charm and possibly a sample of my "The book has replies, "I knew there was My artsy Christmas tree won't cost me stellar holiday hosting skills. been very popular, and a hole in the market. If much and drinks with friends should never be procrastinated. the Ox and Mercantile

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The Sport of Poker

By Raymond [email protected]

The beer is chilled; the nachos and salsa are wait- Back at the table, there are only two players left. ing on the table. Someone turns on a hockey game and Minter is trying to stare down Andrea Rhynard. mutes the sound. Someone else loads a stack of CDs In the past, poker has been associated with into the stereo and hits shuffle. People chat and drink Hollywood masculinity. Groups of cigar-chomping while waiting for the guy with the metal briefcase full of men would bitch about their wives as they gambled shiny playing cards and plastic multi-coloured chips to away their meagre assets. But times have changed; arrive. Then the game will begin... tonight there is an even split between men and women Over the past decade poker's popularity has in the room. exploded. Emerging from the back rooms of Las Vegas "It's fun," says Rhynard, "but I get really competi- casinos and bachelor pad basements, it has now gained tive when I play. I like to win." widespread popularity and gets extensive coverage on As she faces her opponent, Rhynard flips her hair. major sports networks. Events like the World Series of Does this mean she has a good hand or a bad hand? Poker generate massive interest, and some professional Part of the thrill of poker comes from trying to get into players, like Toronto's Daniel Negreanu, have achieved the minds of other players. Great players are great superstar status. observers, who look for slight changes in behaviour that hand. There is a round of betting (starting with the guy While poker can be played at local casinos and may give them insight into the mind of their rivals. They to the left of the two who posted the blinds), before three several Winnipeg nightclubs, many people are happy to are like human lie detectors that can see through even the communal cards, the "flop", are laid out on the table. just gather together with friends, coworkers or classmates sternest poker face. Anyone can use "the flop" in combination with their own for a casual home game. Fortunately for Rhynard, Minter can't decipher what two cards to form a five card poker hand. Sean Minter, blessed with a large house and a good her action means. Minter bets high and loses big. The There's another round of betting before a fourth beer fridge, often hosts poker nights. "It's just a great way chips are swept up by the victor; the cards are collected communal card called "the turn" is dealt. Again, there is to socialize with your buddies," he says, "there's no high and the patient losers totter back to the table for the next more betting. Then, after the final communal card, "the stakes. We might get competitive and get right into the round. This ritual will go on until the beer fridge is dry, river", is dealt. There is now one last opportunity to bet, betting, but mostly we're just joking around and talking." and the sleepy, sluggish players start making outrageous before players (those who haven't folded) show their cards. Tonight, the group plays Texas Hold'em. Dubbed bets that quickly bankrupt them. Then the plastic cards Many players in the group quickly fold with crappy the "Cadillac" of poker, Texas Hold'em is currently the and coloured chips will get neatly packed back into the hands. They wait for the round to finish, grabbing more most popular variation of the game. metal briefcase to await the next call that brings a gang of beer, snacking on chicken wings and playing video games. Minter deals out two cards to each player around would-be-gamblers together. No one is concerned about losing a couple of dollars. the table. In poker lingo these are called the "pocket "It doesn't matter if I walk away with any money," cards". The two players to his left put in "blind" bets; a says poker player Garth Erikkson, "If I lose twenty or mandatory predetermined amount of money to get the thirty bucks, well, I've had a good time. It's worth it." pot started before everyone gets a chance to look at their

Poser Winnipeg Winter Cycling By Billy Elias Tourna Tient At first glance, winter cycling tires," says Geisel, "Studded tires gets particularly rough, the bikes sounds like a frigid proposition. are really wide and heavy, and the keep going. Why would anyone be inclined to wider tires are going to float in "I've couriered on days where continue riding his or her bicycle turns. The thinner tire will push there was a lot of snow and the Its Ca npus after the temperature drops well down towards where the traction cars kept getting stuck," says below freezing? Well, for com- is." Geisel, "I did more work that day muters and bike couriers, their Hughes adds that front and than any other because I had to fly Marc Guzzi jobs depend on it. rear fenders are a good idea for cover for the cars that couldn't get Graeme Nieminen, an insur- slushy days. He also suggests around. A bike can go through a On Thursday Nov. 16, cheers and jeers ance adjuster who commutes taking the time to keep your bike lot of unpacked snow" could be heard at the Princess Street Campus, as by bike to his job, says the hard- clean, "The salt and sand that For more information on 79 hopefuls went all-in at the Red River College est part is not dealing with the gets in there will mess up your winter cycling go to the Manitoba Students Association's (RRCSA) Texas Hold'em weather; but the road conditions. gears and crank." Cycling Association's website at poker tournament. "The cold is really second- The benefit of winter cycling, www.cycling.mb.ca or check out The event, attended by students from both ary to the actual skill of biking besides the obvious physical Natural Cycle at 91 Albert Street campuses and outsider guests, was well orga- on ice. Once you get started, you exercise, is that when the going (below the Mondragon). nized by RRCSA Program Director Michael don't notice the weather. When Blatherwick. Players paid five dollars to enter the you get the blood flowing, as long tournament, and were all assigned to pre-selected as you're wearing decent clothes tables. This covered the hot pizza and cold soft you'll be fine," says Nieminen. drinks that the RRCSA provided for the partici- For others, like David Geisel, pants. a cyclist for Natural Cycle courier Prizes for the tournament included gift service, the weather isn't an issue, certificates, a beer cooler, an Apple iPod Shuffle, as he notes, "couriers don't really Manitoba Moose and Grey Cup tickets. have a choice. They have to cycle The format of the tournament was different all the time no matter what." this year, with each table shrinking into one final Geisel isn't concerned about table-- unlike previous years, where each of the getting up the courage to venture winners from the ten tables would join into a final out in the cold on a bicycle. He table. compares it to a more widely ac- "It went better than last year," said Jason Permanand, a second year Creative cepted winter past-time, saying," Communications student and winner of this year's It's almost like dedicating to a tournament, "I felt satisfied when the last card was cross country ski trip. You can Travel CUTS Gift Certificates turned." ski in all sorts of conditions and The grand prize was two tickets to the Grey biking is really no different." Ask your parents. Tell your friends. Cup, four tickets to a Manitoba Moose game, Toby Hughes, another some Coke products and various other items. Natural Cycle cyclist, says the A casual poker player, who just plays with key to successful winter cycling is On sale in store, online at buddies once in a while, Permanand said, "I'm to dress right and have the right more excited to win than to get prizes." bike. Hughes suggests bundling www.travelcuts.com or The champ of the tournament wasn't the only up your face and hands, and 1-888-FLY-CUTS one who had an enjoyable time. With some people also recommends using warming grabbing three or four slices of pizza and a couple packs for hands and feet. of drinks, winning the tournament seemed second- As for the bike itself, both 473 Portage Ave. TRAVEL CUTS ary to supper for many. Hughes and Geisel stress the 783-5353 Canada's Student Travel Experts importance of proper tires. www.travelcuts.com • . "I ride really narrow , knobby 4 t a I PROJECTING THINGS SINCE 1968 DECEMBER 4 2006 ARTS & CULTURE \a,,g -ty or \Ice? Snoopy Dogg is Coming to Town Penny Pinching By Sara Atnikovsatnikov©hotmaii.com Present Ideas Chances are you will always dedication to the likes of Snoop, remember the first song you slow Dre, and Eazy E. We'd do everything ; By Nisha bliSendnishamailOgmail.com danced to. The song that might have stoned and then pile into the car. It ; been playing as you got intimate was Snoop all the time. We knew all • with that special (or not so special) the words and we'd all yell and get •. It's almost Christmas how to make pretty, cheap construction paper to make someone for the first time. And excited and sing along. We'd take • and you're a poor starving ornaments. everyone has their staple track for turns playing Tony Hawk, listening to . a frame. Make it look like student — how are you going the dreaded, but very necessary, pity Snoop, and taking bong hits. Yeah, I ; something they could hang up to buy presents for everyone party. was a productive 18 year old," Janey ; on the wall. on your list? They say that the For Dad: Get your camera out, set Depending on what was playing added. • best gifts come from the , heart, at your school dance, you could have "My friend and I went to see • the automatic timer, and take and it's probably true, but the They say the way to a man's had that awkward her-hands-on-his- Snoop when he was here in 2003 and some Christmas photos of cheapest gifts are the ones that heart is through his stomach, shoulders, his-hands-on-her-waist first it was insane," said Melissa Dziedzic. . yourself wearing nothing but a you create with your hands. so bake dad some cookies or slow dance to Marvin Gaye or All 4 "I have never seen that much smoke ; Santa hat and a smile. So this year, instead of any other treat he loves. One. in my life. A person would get stoned ; succumbing to the humiliation Go to Canadian Tire * * * You could have had that nervous just sitting there. People were throw- of playing one of Santa's elves and put together packages first time sex to Barry White or Boys ing bags of weed onto the stage, and at the mall in order to earn with small items of stuff he 2 Men. Based on your musical tastes, I'm talking bags. We had the worst . There is no limit when it a few bucks, conjure up your enjoys. If he's a car buff, then you might sit and cry alone in the seats in the house and you could still : comes to making homemade imagination and undeniable try some accessories like new dark to Dashboard Confessional or see the dope being flung. There was ; gifts, only your imagination powers of creativity and try windshield wipers, a-steering Peter Gabriel. It's all very subjective. the weed being passed around in the ; and creativity. Think of items these gift ideas for your loved wheel cover or floor mats. If There is one artist who breaks all arena. I wasn't even smoking pot at .• that you know the person ones. he's a handy man, try packs of musical boundaries; one artist who the time, but you just couldn't say • would really love, and you nails, a screwdriver or a new will be sure to please this seems to reveal himself at one time no. Joints were being passed from all •. hammer. And if he's king of or another in everyone's life, whether directions. It was one big party. It was : Christmas. the grill, try BBQ utensils, an And for any gift you make they like to admit it or not. Who a good time, and. I'm pretty sure I : For Mom: apron or an igniter kit. could this musical maven be? Snoop was still stoned the next day" • — try and make your own wrapping paper, cards, bows Dogg, that's who. Head off to the drugstore With his return to our fair city For your boyfriend or and other personal decorative and put together a mini- touches; don't buy boring red this January, two people wax nostal- pampering pack of bath salts, girlfriend: gic about the good times had while and green wrapping paper lotions and bubble baths. with cheesy Carlton cards. listening to `Tha Doggfather'. Offer to help with Put together a mix CD of So, lay back with some gin and songs, with your favorite, their Using a little imagination Christmas dinner. Chances in the way you package and juice because these stories are tha are it's mom who's going to favorite, love songs, Christmas shiznit songs, etc on it.. wrap your gifts, you can make be running her feet off with any homemade present look "I think my hearing is perma- preparations. Why not offer Put together something nently damaged from listening to romantic, such as a basket like you bought it at an expen- to do the grocery shopping for sive boutique. Snoop in the back of a car with giant her. Or better yet., cook dinner with massage oil, scented J111., subs," said Jancy M. for the fainily this year. candles, bubble bath and "My best friends were a group of Handmade Christmas maybe some racy underwear. stoner guys who, though being white ornaments: look online or go Write a love poem. Write boys from the country, had an intense to a craft store for ideas on it out on fancy paper; use •A•A•A•A•A• • •A.A. .A•A.A.A. .A.AA • , A. A • A • A • • R, • • • Convocation Ceremony Wednesday, January 17, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. in the North Gym Notre Dame Campus • Convocation Attire must be worn if attending the ceremony. *7: If you have not received your Convocation information package

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Jonestown Survivors And American Hardcore By Shawn [email protected]

The People's Temple Cult American Hardcore (2006) Directed by Paul Rachman, based on the book by Steven Blush By Shawn [email protected] Cinematheque December 1 - 7

On Nov. 18, 1978, Jim Through the testimonies of tions with the mayor of San A subdivision of a subdivision of a subdivision - this is how Jones orchestrated the largest former members of the Peoples Francisco, and the Guyana gov- hardcore punk faded out in the grand scheme of rock and roll. It was mass suicide in history, leaving Temple, the hidden personal- ernment; leading to questions loud, it was violent, but it made its mark, and it sure was fun while it over 900 face-down in the dirt. ity of Jones is revealed — a life on how Jones could lasted. But chances are, you were These dead people were consumed by paranoia, drug really build such a only diapers when it all went once part of an organization abuse, rape, deception, and a successful political, down. known as the People's Temple; god-like need for total control economical, and Inspired by Steven Blush's a brainchild of Jones. Jones co- of his followers. religious self-con- book, American Hardcore: A erced and brainwashed his cult By the mid '70s, the tained community in Tribal History, a new documen- followers to systematically end People's Temple had grown Guyana. tary by director Paul Rachman, their lives by drinking poisonous from a few dozen to a few But without aptly titled American Hardcore, Kool-Aid. thousand. And through video narration, Nelson chronicles the fast-paced years of Director Stanley Nelson's footage and interviews, Nelson lets the emotionally- the underground hardcore punk new documentary, Jonestown: follows the journey that took scarred survivors tell scene. The Life and Death of People's Jones, a self-proclaimed god their own unique Through the late '70s to the Temple, recreates the events at this point in the film, out of experiences in "initial flameout in 1986" — as leading up to the horror of Indiana to the flower-powered Jonestown. Including Blush describes in his book - 1978 by using never-before-seen state of California; as well as the one survivor who witnessed the hardcore punk thrived. It infected footage, photographs, and audio church's eventual relocation to suicide, and goes on to say: "I small pockets of Reagan-raised American youth who collectively at- collections of Jones's sermons; Guyana. can't believe in Heaven any- tempted to curb-stomp disco, sending first-wave, non-threatening punk including his very last. As well, While the interviews are more." bands like The Ramones hiding for cover. there are interviews with the informative, powerful, and Phil Hall of filmthreat. Stephen Holden of the New York Times described the scene survivors and decedents of adequately describe the events corn, describes the attempt that grew from the suburbs of Southern California as "a spontaneous Jones's People's Church. leading up to the mass suicide in of the documentary to, "shed expression of disgust by an alienated fringe with the ascendance of The doc begins innocently Guyana, and the assassination some much-needed truth Ronald Reagan, along with all things preppy." enough, showing Jones as a of Congressman Leo Ryan, who on the warped world of Jim "This underground culture...was more than a new generation's child trapped with a drunken fa- was in Guyana to investigate Jones... [providing] lethal style of hormonal eruption," Holden writes. "Too many of the musi- ther in the poor, oppressive, and the Peoples Temple. The doc evidence of what becomes of cians who fondly remember the wild old days when the bands and their conservative state of Indiana. lacks direction. It jumps around those who deposit their sincerity audiences melted into a delirious mass of flailing, diving bodies. It had Through his own struggles, chronologically, using recycled into the command of a religious to mean something more than just letting off steam." Jones gains sympathy for the footage, and with no narration, lunatic." To find meaning, the film chronologically and geographically suppressed African-American the audience is left to fill in the Jonestown is no longer follows the anthem-movement of hardcore punk throughout the States culture. Leading to his adult blanks of the missing story. playing at Cinematheque, but and Canada, showcasing the dissident legends of hardcore, including years, when he establishes the Significant aspects of can be rented when released on bands such as the Circle Jerks, Bad Religion, and Black Flag, led by Peoples Temple, a religious Jones's life are rarely mentioned, DVD. poster-child and poet Henry Rollins. gathering for all races. including his political connec- "They had a shaved head or a crew cut, a threatening demeanor, and a hatred of the mainstream," Blush writes, "[And] a vague political consciousness and a vigilante-like do-gooder streak." A Christmas Story In the aftermath of the years of cookie-cutter and softcore punk rock substitutes, Rachman catches up with the middle-aged heroes The strangest and observers, including testimonies from Flea of the Red Hot Chili Christmas I ever had - phonograph Peppers, letting those "of a doomed ideal of middle-class utopia" was spent in Brighton, - Blush writes - tell' the tale of when hardcore was king. When the bot- England. My flat- tom-feeders of the music scene broke free, had their moment in rock mates had left for the history, and when "punk juiced their nihilism." holiday, gone north to American Hardcore moshes and stomps its way into Cinematheque see family and such. itooffill1) and will be playing December 1-7 every night at 9:00 p.m. I remember how 11)1 much I was looking forward to being alone, a strange Christmas wish for someone with not much more than a backpack full of clothes. Maybe I was instinctively asking for something I was already going to get. The house was mine for a few days. The cold sea "Works for weather smothered everything in grey gloom. I liked it. Christmas Eve, I volunteered to work at this place called the Funky Buddha Lounge — it was a dance club with a capacity of about me" 150 people — located in the arches along Brighton Beach. If you saw the film Quadrophenia then you might be familiar with the brick arches on the beachfront. The Buddha is small and dark, and its patrons are usually quite classy. On this intimate Wednesday everyone was infectiously merry, but still I embraced solitude as it came to me. When the dancers left and the club was clean, the few staff that Now Hiring Research Interviewers remained started having a few drinks. Ellie, the manager who almost kissed me twice, handed out presents, trinkets and booze. I drank and drank and drank. So did everyone else. In a place so far away from family, so distant from any holiday ritual, I felt at home. 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Sexy outfits, smouldering cluice moves, and seduc- three or four years everyone wants to learn the dance." been salsa dancing ever since. tive music are the basis for Winnipeg's relatively new, but says Kartika. "It's infectious," she says, "the people and the music. increasingly popular pass time; salsa dancing. Salsa classes are now offered through the leisure It's way more exciting than going to the gym, and it's When salsa classes were first offered to Winnipeggers guide, or at one of the many dance studios situated quite the workout!" through the leisure guide in 1999, very few people around the city. There are now many places to watch Kartika agrees_that the recent explosion of salsa jumped at the chance to try something new But since salsa dancing and be exposed to this growing trend, such dancing on television and the movies has really helped 2002, the number of people signing up for classes has as at the Pony Corral (1700 Pembina Hwy) on Thursday boost awareness and inspired people to try it out. increased every year. nights from 9pm-2am. There is even a website, salsaex- "I've had students that were 10 years old, and Natasha Kartika, one of the two salsa instructors at plosion.ca, which lists available classes, upcoming perfor- students that were 60," says Kartika. She says her main the Ted Motyka dance studio at 460 Main Street, started mances in Winnipeg, and salsa events around the world. clientele is from ages 20-35; although, Salsa dancing is salsa dancing as a child in Indonesia where she grew up. Susan Johnson says she never considered taking salsa clearly not just for the younger portion of the population. When she arrived in Winnipeg as a young adult, she took classes until she saw the dance appear increasingly in "At least a third of my class is over 40 years old," says a few classes at the studio and decided she wanted to movies such as Shall We Dance, which was fihned here in Johnson, "sometimes they're the best dancers!" teach. Winnipeg. She decided to give it a chance, taking her first At first there wasn't much interest, but in the past class through the leisure guide three years ago, and has

served to send those without a fiercely loyal French After 94 Years, You'd Think relative searching for their remote. Of course, the CFL's other major problem is The CFL Could Run A their poor marketing. More than any other major sport in Canada, the CFL relies on die-hard, middle- Decent Grey Cup aged fans. There's a reason Jackie Parker's death war- ranted such big coverage in Edmonton newspapers: the people who saw him play are the Journal's biggest By Paul Owen, The Gateway (University of Alberta) readers. They are also the people who frequent Commonwealth Stadium. Beyond these folks, the EDMONTON (CUP) -- Leave it to Nelly Furtado CFL's market is university-aged males; the people the to ruin a perfectly enjoyable football game. The only NFL attracts with the Madden video game franchise. entertaining part of the B.C. Lions' 25-14 win over Nelly Furtado is about the second-least likely the Montreal Alouettes in the 94th Grey Cup Sunday halftime act to appeal to this demographic (the only was listening to my Quebec-born mother rant about worse choice would have been the Black Eyed Peas, how shitty the Ms were playing. In fact, a terrible last year's halftime performers). Nubile young women halftime show led by Furtado was simply the icing won't draw male viewers when those ladies are on the cake of a championship game that displayed wearing parkas, toques and mittens. Additionally, rap many of the CFL's problems. and R&B music doesn't jive with the CFL's classic It's clear that the divisions in the CFL continue rock or country loving audience. The last memorable An Open Letter To to be blatantly unbalanced. Montreal has come out Grey Cup halftime performance was when the Guess of the East five times in the past seven years, and Who's reunion tour made a stop in Calgary for the Whoever Picks The Games won only once. While they've had some success, the 2000 game. Ms have hardly been a dynasty; rather they've merely Instead of insisting on whatever Canadian act is been the best of a bad bunch. The East hasn't had hottest at the time, the organizers need to stick with a For Hockey Night In a truly dominant team since Doug Flutie left the classic rock group that bridges the generational gap, Argos to be Rob Johnson's backup quarterback in or else embrace the country music scene that domi- Canada (HNIC) Buffalo eight years ago. This lack of balance is even nates the Prairies and bring in a popular country more evident when watching the interdivisional group for a change of pace. Dear Sir or madam, games. The three playoff teams in the West went Finally, as if Furtado's style being entirely a combined 18-6 against the East Division. Only wrong for the CFL audience wasn't enough, her Like many other Canadians, I've grown up on a Edmonton didn't have a winning record, going a performance was just bad. Shouting Portuguese into steady diet of beer, Kraft Dinner, and of course Don pathetic 1-7. a microphone and screaming, "Who's your MVP?" Cherry and Ron McLean. HNIC is an integral part The Grey Cup game itself also proved how doesn't count as music, in my opinion. If that weren't of being Canadian. It's been around since 1933, when much better the West is. Unlike last season's double- enough, the girl from Victoria, B.C. answered Foster Hewitt took to the airwaves and captured the overtime thriller between Edmonton and the Ms -- a her own question, naming Montreal quarterback nation's love for the game. As far back as I can remem- game that was only exciting because the Eskimos Anthony Calvillo, despite the fact that the Ms were ber, Saturday nights were the special nights I spent didn't 'deserve to be anywhere near it -- this year's losing 19-3 at the time. I wonder if she even under- sitting on my dad's lap watching hockey. We all have a game was never really in doubt. The dominance that stands football. place in our hearts for HNIC, and it's not about to go B.C. displayed on offence, especially in the first half, away anytime soon. Having said all that, I still have a bone to pick with you. Maybe you can help me, or maybe you can't, but I Are you a full-time student really need to get this off my chest... Every week we are forced to watch the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first game. Why? Yes, there are only who is also a parent? six Canadian teams in NHL. Yes, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver typically play in the later game. But still, show me the Montreal Canadiens, or show me the Ottawa Senators. I need you to spice up my hockey life Mommy-Daddy Award -- fast. Here's a scary anecdote to put things in perspective -- every one of my friends, since they were young, has Evan Krahn, who turned six years old last spring decided that, in lieu of always aligned himself with a certain team. Once a guy birthday presents, he would like to collect donations. He wanted to offer an does that, it's his job to know that team inside and out. award to assist a parent who is attending a post-secondary program as a full- People have different favourite teams, from Montreal to time student at Red River College (where his own mommy goes to work every Buffalo to Detroit. But ask any of these people to name day). half of Toronto's team, and they still can! Because the Leafs are all we ever see. It's not that Boston versus Toronto is always a Two awards of $350 are available this year. If you would like to be sleeper. I mean, even sometimes you have some great considered in the selection process, please submit an application form rivalries; like Toronto versus Montreal. But it appears, accompanied by a "letter to Evan". This letter should be addressed to Evan (over the last two months anyway) all you have time for is Toronto. It's not Hockey Night in Toronto; it's and include information regarding your involvement in the community and the Hockey Night in Canada! Canada has more to offer message you would like to pass on to Evan and his friends about the than the Air Canada Centre and Sundin. importance of education. HNIC is about Coaches' Corner. It's about Bob Cole and Harry Neale. It's about the theme song that Application forms are available from the Red River College website gives you goose bumps-- well, me anyway. It's about hockey in Canada. Not just the Toronto Maple Leafs. (www.rrc.mb.ca) or from the Student Service Centre, Room D101 at the Notre Dame campus or Room P104 at the Princess Street campus. If you have any Sincerely, further questions, please contact Darlene Funk in the Student Service Centre (phone 632-3979). Dan Verville

The deadline for applications is December 15. P.S. I understand this is probably all to do with Completed applications scheduling and what not. So if you can't fix it, don't should be submitted to the Student Service Centre, Room D101 at the Notre worry about it. It's still hockey I guess, and that's better Dame campus (fax 697-0584). than nothing.

HEALTH, SPORTS & LIFESTYLES DECEMBER 4 2006 THE PROJECTOR

A Christmas Story

"My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Last week an old high became real life. He wanted teachers in corduroy blazers school teacher of mine was to go for lunch or have a sip do, he quoted Leonard Cohen coming to Winnipeg for a of coffee while he was on this and wandered away. visit. It's been 8 years since side of the country. I've known a few others I've seen him; since life For the better part of like Rick. People I idolize, high school, Rick and love, imitate and grow by. I possessed a sacred Words can never express relationship. The enough gratitude, and I've NOW HIRING kind that wasn't quite never stopped wanting to Graphic Designer/Layout- Meltdown Week Guide 2007 friendship, but wasn't make them proud. quite parental. He I doubt now that I'll get Rate of Pay: $500 honorarium To Apply: Email [email protected] was my mentor. In the a chance to catch up with sweet, calming and Rick before he returns to hate-ravaged years Nova Scotia in two days that were my teenage — I'm so afraid I won't. He CRAM NIGHTS existence, Rick broke left a message a week ago, but through the anger I've been battling with other Free Coffee & Donuts and soothed me with things under the theory that respect. He treated I'll make some time later. Monday, December 11 Tuesday, December 12 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm me like an adult, and He'll understand, I said. Library Hallway P110 (Atrium) I allowed myself to It's busy during the last two Notre Dame Campus Princess Street Campus learn. weeks of school. He always wore If my teenage years were the same corduroy the age of painful awareness, blazer. When I told my twenties must be the era somebody's mom of joyful ignorance. Not only on the SafeGrad am I certain I possess the committee to "eat magical kind of breasts that Present shit," as any good, won't sag, I truly believe I clean Full House- have all the time in the world raised young woman to thank people like Rick. would do in a similar That I'll have time just as situation, Rick soon as the dishes are done. convinced me to Maybe next weekend, or next rigIME$ apologize. year, or in the summer. When While I was smart I travel... the enough to recognize So eight years later, I'm that she was a smart enough to recognize narrow-minded-bible- the value of people like Rick. thumping-prejudiced Apparently I'm still not smart OM* rt Or cow; Rick was smart enough. enough to point out that I'd meet a For Kristin Butcher, Dawn Friday, December 15, 2006 thousand more people Bohonas, Rick Wilcosh, like her in my lifetime, Kathleen Venema, Kim Formal Dress Code: Robes, Bunnies, and inviting every Monson and Hugh Grant. one of them to sit on For gifts that go beyond and Santa's Little Helpers it and rotate wasn't Christmas. ever going to go over Tons of Presents and Prizes! well. Then, as English

Tickets on sale now, at the front desk It Only Takes 4 Hours to Save a Life of Canad Inns - Polo Park, Advance Tickets "The Ox" at Red River College are only Help fight heart disease and stroke. Notre Dame Campus, and "The Mercantile" at Red River College Princess Street Volunteer for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Campus. Manitoba's Door-to-Door Campaign this February and help save a life.

We are looking for approximately 4000 volunteers to help with our campaign in Winnipeg this February 2007. Help in your neighbourhood by being a Zone Chair, Area Coordinator or door-to- door canvasser. This is a great opportunity to build ST. MATTHEWS AT EMPRESS your resume and get involved in your community. To sign up or for more information please contact Kristin Clapperton, Program Manager at 949-2011. PROJECTING THINGS SINCE 1968 DECEMBER 4 2006 HEALTH, SPORTS & LIFESTYLES SAVOUR THIS Christmas Eat, Drink and Make Sure We're All Merry Dinner in 1685

and good food. This season is the to oil's ability to provide light in the By Joanna Fultz, News Editor According to the The Accomplisht Cook, pivotal time for aspiring chefs, dedicated darkness during the historical eight days. foodies and anyone who likes a good 1685 edition, a Christmas dinner consisted of: Since I started school in September, Perhaps the most crucial convention seasonal snack to relish in the making present during this holiday season, now pardon me, late August, time has been. 1. A young lamb or kid. and consuming of home-baked delights and throughout history, is the tradition going by in a messy blur. Suddenly, 2. Two couple of rabbits, two larded. and handmade delicacies; putting to use of giving. Regardless of what cultural the glowing warmth of late summer is 3. A pig souc't with tongues. annually dusted-off recipes steeped in tradition one is a part of, the holidays extinguished, the crisp array of autumn 4. Three ducks, one larded. family tradition. bring out something in people that tips colours has spun to the ground, and now 5. Three pheasants, 1 larded. Everything from sugar cookies to their hearts, pouring out the generosity the bare black spines of pre-winter trees 6. A Swan Pye. sour cream slathered potato latkas are that has been brewing there all year. are shivering, encircled in a furious whirl 7. Three brace of partridge, three part of holiday fare, and many are not Food is an essential part of any Of white flakes. larded. only rich in taste, but also family and celebration, bringing people together to I was snapped back into this frost- 8. Made dish in puff paste. cultural history. enjoy homespun culinary and familial covered reality somewhere between my 9. For example, gingerbread people customs. Bolonia sausages, and anchoves, first near fatal slip n' slide through an icy mushrooms, and cavieate, and pickled are a typical Christmas treat-- even if The sad reality is that not every- intersection, and the nightly pipe pangs oysters in a dish. a slightly barbaric one (you've seen the one can afford all the ingredients of a and sizzling noises escaping from my 10. Six teels, three larded, people who bite off their little sugary holiday feast, and during this season it is renaissance-era radiator. School does 11. A Gammon of Westphalia Bacon. parts with a little too much enjoy- so important that each of us do our part keep us busy, and I know that even on 12. Ten plovers, five larded.

ment). These spicy cookies originated to make sure everyone gets a chance to my best days I may neglect to eat any 13. A quince Pye, or warden pye.

in Germany, and were thought to be experience a brimming belly and full org solid food until after dark — simply no 14. Six woodcocks, 3 larded. inspired by the Brothers Grimm fairytale heart. time to invest in its consumption (unless 15. A standing Tart in puff-paste, line.

Hansel and Gretel, about a witch with There are many organizations in me coffee counts). But soon, soon, it will preserved fruits, Pippins &c. child predator tendencies — doesn't Winnipeg that accept donations year- dti be that time again — time to eat, drink 16. A dish of Larks. sound too merry to me, but a tradition round, but especially during this season foo and be merry, and actually be able to 17. Six dried neats tongues. none the less. is when they need your help most. appreciate it. 18. Sturgeon. www. Shredded potato latkas (also known Check out Winnipeg Harvest at 982- The holiday season is upon us, and 19. Powdered Geese. Jellies. with it comes some time away from as potato pancakes) are served along 3663, and the Christmas Cheer Board at with other fried traditional tidbits during 989-5680 to see how you can easily help school and work; replaced by a much Wow needed reconnection with family, friends Hanukah. The presence of fried foods in someone have a merry holiday season, such celebratory recipes has been related with plenty of food and drink.

Dear Meghan & Brant: I'm having the worst problem. I keep having nightmares that my boyfriend is Harder -toTake cheating on me. I don't understand why it's happening because I know he's not. with I love him very much, but because of the nightmares I haven't been able to have Meghan Brant an orgasm in a long time. It was never like this before the nightmares. I've tried everything. You're my last hope. Frustrated in the Village Dear Meghan & Brant: I like to stay healthy, but lately I've been finding myself bingeing on fast food. Brant: Meghan: I'm starting to crave it everyday! Is there a good solution to stop eating out? Hmmm. That's a new one. Not sure if From 1 to 10 on the easy scale, this you should try to cure the nightmares or is a about a 4. I feel there is only one Not so Healthy in Linden Woods the climaxing first. simple solution, picture yourself doing Easy one first: Don't eat before bed. it with someone else. Mean? Possibly That tends to give me all kinds of damaging? Not really. Just don't get Brant: Meghan: nightmares. caught, and don't use Brant as the The solution is to make a little extra supper I know what you mean...McDonalds...I'm Onto the hard one: Try getting to the substitute, or you'll never get rid of the the night before. That way you can pack craving it right now A seasoned patty, with end, without your boyfriend. After so nightmares. it in a lunch for the next day. Meghan's lettuce, cheese, pickles on a sesame seed much time, there is a constant pressure right about snacking; just bring healthy bun, so tempting But really, now that I'm on both of you. Perhaps alone, you snacks like carrots and celery. If you can't half way through your advice, and you're won't feel the pressure. find time to cut that stuff up, put some probably half way through the drive-thru, nuts or crackers in a bag Just make time it's time to get serious. Be reasonable, fast to eat healthy. And stay away from the full food everyday is not a good diet for anyone. meal known as Guinness; at least during Start bringing healthy snack foods with school hours. Meghan tends to think it can you wherever you go, and when you feel a substitute as a breakfast. craving coming on, snack on that. Save the fast food for a treat. crossedwords

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