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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 an- nounced, 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.