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Grant Simpson, a longtime vaudevillian, discusses the form and its historical home on page 7. Make/ break the rules Many of the pieces you would usually find in The Uniter are, by most definitions, on the short side. Our average story aims to land around the 500-word mark. It’s a tough assignment, and oftentimes, a word count of 500 feels like it’s not possibly enough. Most of the time, though, we stay in that range. The Uniter is a learning paper, and creating a 500-word piece is a distinct skill set. It requires practice, as well as cultivating precision and discernment. Not everything can make it in – and that’s part of the joy of writing. The outtakes are like loose threads to be followed up another day. They can spring into new stories. Few pieces, once finished, give a writer the sense that they are, just as they are, enough. And often it’s this not-enoughness that spurs us forward, to tell more stories, to build a body of work that can incorpo- rate more angles, different perspectives, or simply the same story, revisited at a different time. This week, we have some notable excep- tions. One of the key elements of having a rule is knowing when to break it. On some weeks, a writer pitches a story that, from the outset, we can see will need more room to unfold well. Or as a story is developing, the writer might discover that it couldn’t possibly be contained in a shorter word count. Aside from our longer-form cover feature, we have two full-page stories in this week’s issue. We decided to break our own rules, because for some topics, all the words in the world may not be quite enough. But these longer bites are, at least, our contribution to growing conversations.

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Callie Lugosi @CALLIELUGOSI acquires trinkets and decorative pieces on an “intuitive level.” staff photographer “If that doesn’t sound so pretentious. I guess I’ve always loved homes and home and online content co-ordinator magazines, and the kinds of things that appeal to me are things that are super colour- ful and really mix-and-match. I love that aes- Carol-Ann Bohrn is known locally for work thetic of really kitschy and all over the place, as a dancer. She most recently appeared in The but with a certain type of harmony. So I just Threepenny Opera, put on by Sick + Twisted trust that the harmony is coming from my Theatre and AA Battery Theatre. own attraction to every object.” 1 Outside of her dance career, Bohrn has two part-time jobs to subsidize her art practice: barista-ing at Little Sister Coffee 1) plants Maker and working as a resident assistant ”I love them. I’m a new plant momma, like in the at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. last two years. Before that, I only killed them. I’ve “In a dream world, I would just be learned a thing or two.” doing art full time. It’s a tough act to really maintain with any sort of security. 2) max the cat I have these part-time jobs to help me feel “Did a book come out, Max? Did a book arrive? really happy, because I feel more secure Yeah, this is classic Max behaviour. I’ve had Max having a regular paycheque.” for seven years. I got him when he was a medium Bohrn says there are upsides to having kitten. My friend Lulu got him on Kijiji for $30, and several side-hustles. It allows her the free- then she moved to Victoria. He’s my best friend.” 4 dom to pursue longer-term projects like 2 Threepenny Opera without saddling her coworkers with extra shifts. 3) big gold dick “It feels quite unique, the level of team- “This is another gift from Lulu. She found it in like work that happens (at Little Sister),” Bohrn a Bed Bath & Beyond-type of store, so that’s why says. “I call it coffeemanship. Workmanship, she thought of me. It’s not that I had an obsession but with coffee. It’s like a little family that you with cock.” can depend and count on and that you are there for also. I feel super lucky and grateful 4) gold is good that I got to be invited into that family. It’s “Gold is so warm, warmer than silver. It has like a a small paycheque, but it has a big payoff in feeling of opulence ... Even the fake opulence is kind 5 interpersonal connections.” of a fun aesthetic. This was painted with screen Bohrn has been in her West Broad- printing fabric paint. This is an apple that you might way house with her partner Matt since recognize. It’s a Fisher Price Happy Apple.” November 2017, and they have chosen a few different names for the space. 5) dance books “Matt calls this place the ‘sluthole’ often, “I really like to nerd out on dance. If like the house and ‘lost in the barrens.’ He probably just was on fire, I’d probably grab all of these books, likes the sound of that. ‘Lost in the barrens.’ because I’ve been acquiring them over time. I think he uses ‘lost in the barrens’ most, but Bonnie Bainbridge is a fave, Peggy Hackney’s I’ve seen ‘sluthole’ a number of times. There’s Making Connections. This is just people who’ve the sluthole, and the slutclub.” looked at movement from a really unique In terms of decorating her home, Bohrn 3 5 perspective.” arts BRIEFS thomas pashko // arts and culture EDITOR @thomaspashko FACE | TIME with Labour Protest Winnipeg Comedy Shakespeare + Phantom International Day for Anita Lebeau Songs at the library Showcase’s 5th of the Paradise = true the Elimination of Racial Winnipeg filmmaker Anita Lebeau Winnipeg Folk Festival founder and Home anniversary Winnipeg weirdness Discrimination has worked in multiple movie media, Routes co-founder Mitch Podolak is an The regular Winnipeg Comedy Showcases Shakespeare in the Ruins (SIR) has performed March 21 is the annual Day for the Elimination but FACE | TIME, presented by MAWA expert on the history of folk music and hosted by Jared Story at the Park Theatre the Immortal Bard’s classic works for more than of Racial Discrimination, commemorating the and Cinematheque, will focus on her its connections to labour movements. have become an important keystone in the 25 years. Phantom of the Paradise is Brian De 1960 Sharpeville massacre in which white South animated films. This free event will On March 27 at noon at the Millennium local comedy scene’s resurgence in recent Palma’s 1974 pre-Rocky Horror rock opera horror African police shot and killed 69 people protesting include screenings of Lebeau’s films Library, he will host a drop-in discussion years. March 22 will celebrate five years comedy that was a commercial flop everywhere discrimination. Manitobans for Human Rights nc.I Louise and Big Drive, an artist talk and on the history of labour protest songs of great Winnipeg standup with a lineup except Winnipeg, where it was a massive hit. will host a panel discussion on combating racism Q&A moderated by local artist Diana as part of a lecture series held in featuring Ben Walker, Angie St. Mars, Benji As a fundraiser for SIR, the West End Cultural in Canada, moderated by CBC Radio’s Rosanna Thorneycroft and a sneak preview conjunction with the 100th anniversary of Rothman, Andy Noble, Tyler Penner and Centre will present Phantom of the Undiscovered Deerchild, featuring speakers Theodore Fontaine of her current work-in-progress the Winnipeg General Strike. The event is Dana Smith. Doors are at 8 p.m., and the Country, the “unofficial Shakespearean parody” (Stolen Lives, Broken Circle), Judy Klassen (MLA for animated film for the NFB. The event free. Participants may be inspired to write show begins at 9. Tickets are $10 in of De Palma’s film. Does that sound impossibly Kewatinook) and Nafiya Naso (Yazidi Community runs 7 to 9 p.m. at Cinematheque on a song protesting the Millennium Library’s advance or $15 at the door and weird? Yes. Could it happen anywhere other than of Manitoba). The event runs 6 to 9 p.m. on March. March 27. new security measures. available at myparktheatre.com. Winnipeg? Absolutely not. The show starts at 21 at Westminster Housing Co-op (145 Maryland 7:30 p.m. on March 27. Tickets are $25. St.). Adult admission is $5, and youth get in free. ARTS

Library (in)security Waiting for public accountability, empathy and change at the Millennium Library

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Libraries usually limit economic interac- tions with patrons to late fees. There’s a price to be paid for a missing book. But the new security measures in the Winni- peg Public Library’s downtown location also have a price – which will be paid by the city’s poor. On Feb. 25, visitors to the Millennium Library were greeted with metal detectors and bag searches before being allowed to enter the library. A Feb. 15 CBC Manitoba article reported that Winnipeg Public Library manager of library services Ed Cuddy “said the safety of all visitors is a priority, and the boost in security comes after an increase in the number and seriousness of violent incidents and threats at the illustration by gabrielle funk library over the past four or five years.” The library has yet to present details or analysis of the cited incidents or research “I’m not sure that the kind of security reported Cuddy as saying, “We need to that the new security measures will have Security Theatrics measures adopted at (Millennium Library) get a locker system for people just outside a positive effect. Eskritt says whatever incidents have taken can meaningfully address the pervasive- the gates ... People who are homeless or Libraries deal in books, but for some, place at the Millennium Library are fun- ness of violence against marginalized bod- semi-homeless may have a lot of stuff, but the Millennium Library’s silence speaks damentally about poverty, not security. ies, and I fear that our legitimate concerns we want them to come.” (The Library louder than all the words it might house. “The crisis is that people don’t have for our bodily safety and integrity can be has yet to issue a statement on when or if enough to eat, they don’t have anywhere exploited by panic and anxiety.” these lockers will be installed.) Hammers and nails to live, and people are suffering hugely Ed Cuddy’s only explicit public state- Eskritt believes that while library lock- This silence began during the library’s under the burden of capitalism and all ment about why the security measures ers are a good idea, they do not address decision-making process. of the racism and classism and suffering have been implemented does not even the central issue of how people are being Ray Eskritt is a poverty advocate that comes with it,” she says. cite a threat to the general public. punished for their poverty in Winnipeg. working with a group of local activists Adele Perry is a University of Mani- ‘‘Our front-line security often have She says that many of her clients carry responding to the Millennium Library’s toba history professor and casual user of been the target of (violent incidents),” he weapons simply to protect their own new security measures. the Millennium Library who posted links told CBC. safety in a downtown that refuses to “We contacted Ed Cuddy ... and he said to studies of security in public places on ‘‘It’s a concern, and it’s something we invest in their security, (the city’s massive that there’d been no public consultation, her Twitter after the Millennium Library want to improve on, and we think this is investment in hiring more Downtown which is amazing, because it’s a public increased security. She says information the way to do that.’’ BIZ security in the years since the Win- space paid for with public money,” she says. on whether the sorts of actions the library nipeg Jets returned to Winnipeg is a “There also was not a consultation with has taken will have the desired effect Alternative measures recent example). the library staff ... He (said) that the only (regardless of the ethics or logic of this Eskritt says it’s time to rethink secu- “These people are meeting their needs people that were consulted were the Win- effect) is readily available online. rity. Uniforms and demonstrations of in the best way they know how,” she says. nipeg Police Service and the service that “There is published research on these authority are not effective, but training “They’re not looking for trouble most they currently pay to provide security at the kinds of security measures in schools, in conflict management, empathetic lis- of the time. They’re suffering.” library, GardaWorld. Surprise, they sug- especially in the (United States), that tening and local resources are. gested more security. It’s the old, ‘if you’re a indicates that they tend to produce chaos, Eskritt points to Winnipeg’s Bear Waiting for hammer, everything looks like a nail.’” delays and mistrust and don’t do a lot to Clan Patrol as an excellent example that accountability On March 14, Eskritt and her col- decrease violence,” she says. could be emulated at the library through The City of Winnipeg denied The leagues organized a public event at the Eskritt adds that the metal detectors community resource workers regularly Uniter’s request for an interview, and a University of Winnipeg to discuss the at the library don’t even seem to work making rounds (current security guards library spokesperson issued the following library’s security measures, to which properly. at the library tend to remain relatively statement: library representatives were invited. “They’re almost like dollar-store ver- stationary). “The City of Winnipeg Library Ser- During communications with the library, sions of a metal detector,” she says. Two community crisis workers vices is accountable for providing safe Eskritt says they were met with resistance. “We’ve had people go through and it are already employed by the library and welcoming environments for all “The library said ‘yes’ and then they not pick up the keys in their pocket or (although they’re currently located on residents and staff. Library Services has said, ‘Well, no, we’ll meet with (just two their belt buckle or jewelry ... They’re the second floor, on the other side of implemented new screening measures of the organizers) privately,’ and we said, not effective tools, but we’re still going to the security screening), so the structural at Millennium Library with the goal of ‘No, that’s not how this is going to go. subject you to it for the mental theatre of groundwork for this type of response is improving safety for everyone who visits This is a public problem with public con- appearing safe.” already in place. the library ... The Millennium Library sultation and a public solution,’” she says. Perry says that while danger in public “One of my favourite security things remains a welcoming place for all ... Staff For the organizers of what is so far the spaces is a real problem, the library’s that we’ve been doing recently in the non- and crisis workers continually reach out only public forum on the security mea- proposed solution is not only ineffectual profit world is hiring kookums, Aborigi- to social organizations to discuss ideas sures, the issue is not only a lack of trans- but insidious. nal grandmothers, to sit and be present on how to reduce harm and better reach parency in a publicly funded institution. “I think women, non-binary, queer, and just come up to people and be like, vulnerable people in the library." It’s also not just the violence and intru- Indigenous and racialized people all live ‘you look like you’re struggling, what can Who precisely the library is account- sion of privacy proposed as a solution. It’s with very genuine fear of violence, and we do? Talk to me,’ and meet them at the able to was not specified. confusion about what the problem to be this fear structures our lives and experi- level that they need,” she says. solved even is. ences in profound ways,” she says. A Feb. 25 Winnipeg Free Press article The Uniter // March 21, 2019 5

CKUW top 30 March 11—17, 2019 TW = This Week // LW = Last Week // ! = Local content // * = Canadian Content Christie Pits TW LW c Artist Album LabeL 1 1 ! Sean Burns And Lost Country A Night Of Country Music CKUW 95.9FM thomas pashko @THOMASPASHKO 2 9 ! Housepanther And Wrecker Homewrecker Self-Released 3 2 ! Trampoline Happy Crimes Self-Released arts and culture editor 4 ne ! The Electric Cows Wheatfield Fuzz Dub Ditch Picnic 5 15 * Homeshake Helium Royal Mountian / Sinderlyn 6 7 ! Monday-Friday Idiots Who Done What Now? Self-Released Jamie Michaels & Doug Fedrau, 7 3 * Fucked Up Dose Your Dreams Arts & Crafts / Merge 144 pages 8 ne Mark Masters Our Metier Capri Dirty Water Comics, March 2019 9 ne ! Tunic Complexion Self Sabotage 10 ne ! living Hour Softer Faces Kanine Writer Jamie Michaels and artist Doug supplied photo 11 5 northern Haze Siqinnaarut Aakuluk Fedrau’s graphic novel Christie Pits uses 12 ne ! 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Neighbourhood buildings are 20 22 X Los Angeles Fat Possum potent warning while telling a story of as pockmarked with visual minutiae as triumph against oppression. a craggy cliff-face, while the interior 21 21 * n0v3l N0v3l Flemish Eye The book is a fictionalized recounting of the local boxing gym is a dark void 22 ne adrian Younge Produced By Adrian Younge Amazon Original of the 1933 Christie Pits riots in Toronto, housing a lone fighting ring. 23 ne ! Flying Horses Reverie Bonsound where local fascists clashed with Jews The dialogue between characters 24 ne The Brian Jonestown Massacre The Brian Jonestown Massacre a and immigrants in what has sometimes about the struggles of living under 25 20 Th' Losin Streaks This Band Will Self-Destruct In T-Minus Slovenly been called “Canada’s worst race riot.” oppression in their daily lives injects 26 ne Royal Trux White Stuff Fat Possum Michaels and Fedrau explore the Christie Pits with even more detail. 27 12 ! Dinner Club Paid In Change Self-Released weeks leading up to the riot as tensions But it’s when the conversation moves 28 14 ! confuschia Quit In Moderation Self-Released simmer in neighbourhoods populated from the personal to the political and 29 RE * les Louanges La Nuit Est Une Panthere Bonsound with Jewish and Italian immigrants. philosophical that Michaels falters. 30 ne i Dont Know How But They Found Me (iDKHOW) 1981 Extended Play Fearless / Concord The main characters are an extended A small handful of conversations family having recently escaped anti- read more like Facebook comment Semitic violence in Germany. It’s the threads debating “is it okay to punch second such migration for the parents in Nazis?” than actual conversations. Not the family, who escaped pogroms in Kiev that a graphic novel requires kitchen- decades earlier. The younger generation sink dialogue, but the characters and are siblings and cousins (the cousins’ events are strong enough to inspire parents are still trapped in Germany). these conversations in readers without Whether these characters are entirely actually having them themselves. fictional is a little unclear. The writers Anti-Nazi comics are nothing new. explicitly state, “This book is entirely From Hitler getting punched in the face fictional,” but an asterisk suggests this on the cover of Captain America #1 to might be more about avoiding a lawsuit Gord Hill’s recent graphic novel about than an appraisal of the book’s veracity. the history of anti-fascism, the topic is Either way, Christie Pits has been nearly as old as the medium itself. meticulously researched, with a firm But the ways in which Christie Pits grasp on the Toronto neighbourhoods, examines the depth and depravity of workplaces and cultural moments anti-Jewish racism in 1930s Canada (such as the Baer vs. Schmeling boxing does feel new. And at a time when match, the Toronto Star’s reporting Canada’s right-wing political parties on Nazi Germany and the anti-Hitler are rife with white supremacists and strike) which grace its pages. the leader of the opposition refuses to Those pages are also graced with apologize for giving speeches alongside Fedrau’s black-and-white artwork. His literal neo-Nazis, that self-examination characters are drawn with an elegant is necessary. simplicity that evokes the Warner Bros/ “Triumphs and failures will rock your boat / wave after wave, Anchorless DC cartoons of the early 1990s, opting storm after storm / you've been a sailor since the day you Logan McKillop were born” conclude the lyrics, epitomizing the overarching Independent hopefulness of the album.

Anchorless (March 2019) is the sophomore album by Logan “Days of My Demise” has a darker tone, and with the addition McKillop, a singer-songwriter from Onanole, Manitoba. of drum set and electric instruments, it’s the most epic and rocking song on the album, a nice change of pace at the McKillop sings in a straightforward tenor, clear and direct halfway point of the 10 tracks. “Days” is the only song to above a variety of stringed instruments, bringing sincerity feature an extended guitar solo, where McKillop alternates to his lyrics. His articulate fingerpicking on the acoustic fluidly between rhythmic jabs and ornamental lead lines. guitar embellishes his vocal melodies and provides a strong TRADE IN rhythmic backbone, especially significant on the many songs With twangy electric guitar and warbling pedal steel, “Out of YOUR STUFF without drums. the Blue” is the record's most overtly country song. Lines like “as we said goodbye / you were the only one to cry / until WE: The overall mood of the 10 tracks is mellow, the tempos slow you went walking out that door” have the authentic ache of a or medium but refraining from bleakness with the optimistic classic country ballad. BUY SELL TRADE worldview of the words. BOOKS MUSIC VIDEOS Anchorless is impressive in its cohesiveness: the hopeful The title track “Anchorless” is a highlight, opening with themes of the lyrics, the unadorned sincerity of Logan's voice intricate guitar over atmospheric bowed strings. Though a and the musical arrangements that bring subtle variety to simple, repeated folk melody for the bulk of the song, interest the set of reflective folk songs make Anchorless a gratifying RED RIVER BOOK STORE is sustained through a deliberate arrangement, each verse listen from start to finish. 92 ARTHUR STREET layering vocal harmonies, while various guitars and stringed instruments pass pieces of the melody back and forth. By Jesse Popeski The Column feeding diaspora Recipes as love letters

christina hajjar last couple of years has been a wonderful way to ground my work in lived experi- columnist @garbagebagprincess ence and intergenerational inheritance. It has been a way to open dialogue with my mother and family and importantly, a “Food is a time machine.” These words by jumping-off point for further research. Suresh Doss have been echoing in my mind My world opens when I record one of since listening to Episode 63 (“Eating our my mother’s recipes. I feel secure in know- way through Toronto”) of the Racist Sand- ing that I will be able to recreate her dishes wich Podcast. “It’s a conduit to a certain in my own home, offer loved ones the gra- time and place,” he says. cious hospitality that I have learned from Food is story. Every Lebanese recipe I her and continue to make those dishes for learn from my mother is distinctively hers. my own children one day. My eagerness to record her recipes – and in Art and culture writer Aruna D’Souza a way, to archive her body memory – is also wrote about food and memory in an Edible my longing and curiosity for her Lebanon. Hudson Valley article. “We ate our parents’ It wasn’t until my final year of women’s translations of their memories of childhood; ILLUSTRATION BY GABRIELLE FUNK and gender studies that I picked up work from our children eat our translations of our par- Chandra Talpade Mohanty in Dr. Sharanpal ents’ memories, translations twice removed. This is the pleasure of diaspora. Recipes and recipes communicate. Food is a love lan- Ruprai’s class. Feminists talk a lot about As a consequence, we change the places we are love letters in the way that they carry guage of the body. Cooking then, is the ritual the politics of identity and locating oneself. arrive at as we grow our new roots. And as history and intention, but also a willingness of both a planned and spontaneous symbi- Mohanty’s concept of social location and the time passes, a curious thing happens: the to be imbued with new meaning – time- osis between ingredients, places, bodies and temporality of struggle furthered my under- places we come from change in reality, even stamped, but ever-shifting. intentions. It is always inherently connected standing of identity as the tangible crossroads as they stay the same in our memories, just “Food is how the dead talk to the liv- to identity. It is always inherently relational. between history, geography and time. as a parent looks at her grown daughter and ing,” Armenian-American journalist The food knowledge and cultural knowl- sees the child she once was.” Liana Aghajanian says in her blog Dining Christina Hajjar is a first-generation Leba- edge passed down to me is time-stamped. D’Souza probes us to understand recipes as in Diaspora. Recipes are love letters passed nese-Canadian pisces dyke ghanouj with a What this means as someone who has translations. In doing so, we are both honour- down through generations. They are an splash of tender-loving rose water and a spritz never visited my homeland and is discon- ing the recipes’ roots and acknowledging their attempt at translating a body archive or of existential lemon, served on ice, baby. nected from the Arab community locally, is malleability. This grounded fluidity is open to muscle memory for the sake of another’s Catch her art, writing and organizing at that my cultural identity felt even narrower interpretation, but even with an attempt at nourishment, connection and pleasure. christinahajjar.com or @garbagebagprincess. with Mohanty’s concept in mind. rigidity, authenticity will always be unachiev- The translation of body to page, and back Basing my arts practice in food the able. This doesn’t have to be bad news. to body, is the crux of how both love letters halfway to somewhere Some feelings don’t have names

jase falk

columnist ful responses I’ve had to being in crisis are when someone asks me over and over: The other day I called a crisis line. A vol- Just tell me what you’re feeling right now? unteer answered: Hi, how are you doing? I don’t know. I sometimes think and How can I help you? feel things that don’t have any rooting in I sat, legs crossed on my bed in tense reality. Fragments of thought will appear silence for a whole minute. Tears silently in my mind like apparitions and wreak trailed down my cheeks. I thought to havoc on my mental health. Articulating myself, How can I possibly talk about what myself in these moments often serves to I’m feeling right now? How can I share legitimize these spectres – they grow less with a stranger what I can’t explain to my opaque, closer to me and more ready to closest friends? cause harm. Barely audible, I whispered, I’m sorry It can be hard to know how to be there and hung up. for a friend who experiences something ILLUSTRATION BY luis mamani rojas I’ve been blessed with a large commu- like this. I’m only speaking for myself, nity. There are many people who care and each person has specific needs and vice and fix every problem because, from offered to let me press my tear-streaked about me, who I know I can reach out ways that they process difficult feelings. a distance, another’s pain makes more cheek onto their shoulder, staining their to in times of need. But often when I do, Unlike me, some people are much more sense than my own. If I can focus on fix- white shirt with my black lipstick. Their I’m confronted by a strange feeling that verbal processors who find talking to cri- ing something for someone else, then I arms swaddled me in silent comfort. I can’t express myself. There simply are sis lines extremely helpful. can avoid confronting myself. Later, there was follow-up, but in this not words to translate perfectly what one The only overarching advice I can give I have found it is not helpful to moment, there was no expectation for person feels to another. All my attempts is to approach a friend who is hurting approach a friend in need assuming you me to explain myself. This was a moment with language feel awkward and incom- with humility. Do not assume that they can fix things, or that you somehow have where care was expressed in a way which plete, and I become hyper-aware of this can’t take care of themselves. Adjust your answers that they don’t. All that can be felt safe for me. when I feel in crisis. The inner worlds of expectations of what care looks like based done is to offer your presence, offer kind- others, even our most intimate friends, on what they ask of you. ness and affirmation and also trust them Jase is a queer, non-binary student and are unknowable to us, and this can be a Even though I am a person who often enough to leave them alone if they ask writer who lives on Treaty 1 territory. difficult thing to accept. needs space or a silent presence for get- for it. I want to learn how to be more open, ting through these feelings, I have a At a concert, the day before New Year’s how to share and express parts of myself tendency to overcompensate when I see Eve, overwhelmed by how impossible to others, but some of the most unhelp- others hurting. I try to offer every ser- and hostile the future seemed, a friend Feature Words by Thomas Pashko Arts and culture editor @thomaspashko

The Maria Zankovetska Educational and Dramatic Society, in Winnipeg in 1914

When the City of Winnipeg announced in 2018 that it was selling the roots in the vaudeville era of live theatre. An art form that flourished from Pantages Playhouse Theatre, it wasn’t the first time that the fate of an the 1880s to the 1930s, vaudeville defined pop culture until it was eventu- iconic local building was left to the whims of developers. But unlike the ally supplanted by radio and talking pictures. old airport or arena, which were neither the first or last of their kind in Winnipeg was a major stop on the vaudeville touring circuits, with Winnipeg, the Pantages is the last irreplaceable remnant of an era that many of the biggest stars of their day playing here, as well as performers shaped the city into what it is today. who would later go on to become major stars. Winnipeg’s status as a cultural hub for music, dance and drama has its

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A show you could theatres opened in 1912. The Dominion, bring your parents to Bijou and Walker theatres had all been Grant Simpson is a musician, com- in operation since the previous decade, poser and producer specializing in while the Princess Opera House, Grand vaudeville-style performance. He per- Opera House and Winnipeg Theatre formed with and co-owned the Frantic had entertained the city in the 1880s Follies vaudeville show in Whitehorse and ’90s. for nearly 40 years before moving to On any given day in the 1910s, Win- Winnipeg in October. Simpson defines nipeggers could see Buster Keaton at vaudeville as “a variety show.” the Pantages, the Marx Brothers at “Variety theatre has been around the Orpheum, a production of British since the early 1800s,” Simpson says. playwright W. Somerset Maugham’s “But in the 1880s, (theatre impresa- Manitoba-set play The Land of Prom- rio) Tony Pastor began using the term ise at the Winnipeg Theatre or the ‘vaudeville.’ Before (Pastor), it was pri- Winnipeg Political Equality League’s marily a male-oriented audience. He production of How the Vote was Won was the first to include families, women at the Walker, each for well under and children in his audiences. The idea a dollar. of vaudeville was that it was so clean that a child could take their parents to Winnipeg o’ My Heart a show without fear of embarrassment.” While the headliners were typically out- Many of the theatres in which of-town acts making tour stops, some vaudeville was performed were chains: Winnipeg artists did manage to make theatres in multiple cities through- a name for themselves through the out the US and Canada owned by the vaudeville circuit. same company, who would book acts to One example is Marjorie White, travel from one theatre to the next. who began her onstage career sing- One such chain was the Pantages. ing and dancing in 1908 at the age of Founded by Alexander Pantages, who four. She toured with the children’s opened the first Pantages Theatre in troupe “The Winnipeg Kiddies” until Seattle in 1904, the chain arrived in 1921, when she and American actress Winnipeg with the 1914 construction Thelma White (no relation) formed of the theatre on Market Avenue. Win- the comedy duo “The White Sisters.” nipeg then became the first stop of the She eventually signed a deal with Fox Pantages circuit, with the final stop in Film (later Twentieth Century Fox). Los Angeles. Her first screen role was as the star of The Pantages was far from Win- 1929’s Happy Days, the first feature film nipeg’s only major vaudeville house. shot and released entirely in widescreen. Competing chain Orpheum already She made 15 movies in Hollywood, had a theatre on Fort Street by 1911, including with major directors Mervyn while the first of Winnipeg’s two Strand LeRoy and Raoul Walsh, before dying

Grant Simpson, vaudeville actor

in a car accident in 1935. sion to do so. tions like the Women’s Musical Club not being very smart,” he said. “That However, for Winnipeg performers But the arrival of Harriet “Hattie” of Winnipeg and for performers like wasn’t my experience.” who weren’t hitting the road on vaude- Anderson (spouse of C.P. Walker) in Helen Bokovski to flourish. “I thought, ‘I guess dancers used to ville tours, there was also a vibrant Winnipeg drastically changed the the- be way different than they are now?’ local drama scene. Winnipeg’s earliest atrical landscape of the city. Anderson "I don't like vaude- So I started to study, and it was totally dramatic companies in the 1870s and began writing theatre criticism under ville, but it likes me" not that way. I learned how much ’80s mostly brought in performers the pseudonym “Rosa Sub” in the Greater representation for women editors bashed (women performers) from out of town and were subject to weekly newsletter Town Topics. in theatre in the vaudeville era was unfairly. A lot of these dancers were public scrutiny due to the treatment of Her writing redefined public per- part of broader cultural trends of the empowered, astute businesswomen their actors. A lawsuit by actress Nellie ception of theatre in Winnipeg as a time, with first-wave feminism in full managing huge careers and extended Fillmore revealed that theatre owner respectable activity for women, both swing. It’s something Grant Simpson families while touring. But they were Dan Rogers forced women perform- as audience members and perform- encountered in conversation when bashed in the press because of the ers to coerce male patrons into buying ers. She went on to produce live plays, people would invoke old jokes mock- misogynistic paradigm of the 1800s.” drinks after shows, fining actresses musicals and comedies in Winnipeg, ing vaudeville dancers. Simpson’s time in the Yukon also who left before he gave them permis- laying the groundwork for organiza- “They’d always reference (dancers) led to him studying “Klondike Kate” The Uniter // March 21, 2019 9

Rockwell, a notorious Dawson City human beings may be possessed of.” performer, who in the 1890s had a Local performers made similar chaotic love affair with a pre-theatre strides toward representation on Win- chain Alexander Pantages. At the nipeg stages. Comedian Noah Wit- time, while Rockwell was a theat- man graced Winnipeg stages before rical professional, Pantages was a making the transition to local radio struggling bartender. and, eventually, television. In 1954, he Pantages “married a violin player in started a weekly Yiddish radio show, one of his shows behind (Rockwell’s) which was credited with keeping the back and really screwed her over,” language alive in Winnipeg. Simpson says. “She ended up tak- Winnipeg’s diasporic Ukrainian ing him to court and getting a lot of community also kept their the- money.” atrical traditions alive with local performances, but historian Orest Variety Lights Martynowych says it took longer for Vaudeville stages were diverse among their performances to be shown in ethnic lines as well. While plenty of proper theatres. objectionable material still made its “The first (Ukrainian) plays (c. way in front of audiences (blackface 1904 to 1911) were staged in church and other pre-vaudeville forms of rac- basements and community halls,” Auditorium of Ukrainian Labour Temple (upper gallery not visible), in Winnipeg, c. 1928 ist caricature continued well into this Martynowych says. era), vaudeville stages showcased per- “By (1911 or 12) several permanent, formers from Black, Yiddish and other well-organized dramatic and cho- never went away. renaming it the Pantages Playhouse. forms of traditional theatre together ral societies had emerged. As they “The way I describe it, the vaudeville It was sold to a new owner in 1943, for the first time. grew in strength and popularity, and industry collapsed with the Depres- but the City seized it again two years Winnipeggers saw acclaimed Per- tackled increasingly ambitious stage sion, the war and the advent of TV later for tax reasons. formers of Colour like Aida Over- projects, the new drama societies and radio,” Grant Simpson says. “Peo- It’s unclear why, after nearly 75 ton Walker or Jue Quon Tai on the abandoned the church basements and ple could stay home and get the same consecutive years of City owner- Orpheum or Pantages stages. Audi- ramshackle halls on the side streets of variety of entertainment through their ship, councillors on the property and ences were hungry for entertainment the North End and began to perform radio. Nobody had money, so that was development committee felt the need that reflected the diversity of ear- in real theatres on Main Street and a good answer for people who couldn’t to sell the theatre for $530,000 (a frac- ly-20th century life, and conversations Selkirk Avenue.” afford to go to the theatre. tion of the more than $8 million in about representation were hashed out Martynowych says early Ukrainian “It really was just a method of public money Winnipeg awards to on and around the vaudeville stage. productions in Winnipeg were mostly getting entertainment to the people. True North annually). On the week of Jan. 11, 1915, a hus- of classic plays from Ukraine, but as Radio and TV was a more effective According to the Winnipeg Free band-and-wife duo performing under the scene developed and flourished, way (of doing so). The vaudeville Press, the Winnipeg Symphony the name Mr. and Mrs. Robyns took local performers and playwrights industry changed into the movie and Orchestra operated the theatre from to the Pantages stage performing their emerged. He points to husband-and- radio industry.” 2011 to ’18 at no cost to the city, and comedic play, David Berg, or 100 Cents wife actors Matthew Popovich and Famous performers made that only after the WSO offered to buy the on the Dollar. The play’s title charac- Liza Sladkaya, playwright Semen same transition. Bob Hope, Jack theatre did city hall consider selling ter was Jewish, and the Robyns were Kowbel and “especially” playwright Benny and the Marx Brothers are the Pantages to the highest bidder. aware of the long history of Jewish Myroslav Irchan. among the many performers who Those bidders were development stage characters being depicted as rac- Irchan “wrote with compassion graced Winnipeg’s vaudeville stages partners Alex Boersma and Lars ist caricatures. and insight about the oppressed and before making the move to films Nicholson. While the duo insists Wanting to ensure that their por- downtrodden,” Martynowych says. and T V. they want to keep the Pantages in trayal was respectful to Winnipeg’s He points to a 1929 article in a con- Many remembered the city fondly. operation as a theatre, some have Jewish audiences, the Robyns corre- servative Toronto newspaper, which Hope claimed to have golfed in Win- expressed concern that the City nipeg for the first time (a sport he declined to sign a development agree- became so passionate about that he ment with Boersma and Nicholson, wrote an entire memoir about it), and which would require them to hold Marx quipped in the first chapter of true to that promise. So as it stands, his 1959 autobiography, “I don’t know the future of the Pantages is still in anything about cooking. On those limbo. frequent occasions when my cur- But the spirit of the vaudeville per- rent cook storms out, shouting, ‘You formances it once housed is still alive, know what you can do with your whether in the present-day perfor- kitchen!’ only the fact that I have a mances of Grant Simpson, or in the fairly good supply of pemmican left big-name entertainers still working in over from my last trip to Winnipeg vaudeville formats. saves me from starvation.” “Take someone like Stephen Col- bert,” Simpson says, “a real political ”Things ain’t what commentator. In the vaudeville era, they used to be, and we had (political satirist) Will Rogers, never were” who was saying some powerful stuff But Winnipeg’s theatres weren’t on behalf of First Nations treatment. as lucky. All but the Pantages were (Rogers was an outspoken member permanently converted into movie of the Cherokee Nation.) That polit- houses. The Winnipeg Theatre, ical aspect we see in today’s comedy Orpheum, Dominion and Bijou were world was in vaudeville. all either demolished or burned down “There’s an argument to be made in 1926, ’48, ’57 and ’79, respectively. that if the vaudeville industry was Playwright Myroslav Irchan, in Winnipeg, around 1925 The Walker became the Odeon still alive, we’d have people like Col- movie theatre in 1945. It finally bert as headliners. So it wouldn’t reopened as a live performance venue really change that much.” sponded with a number of American referred to the leftist Irchan as “the in 1991, changing its name to the rabbis who consulted with the couple. most popular and influential author Burton Cummings Theatre in 2002 Grant Simpson will host a talk at the The Winnipeg Tribune printed the let- in the country,” despite the fact that and was bought by Jets owners True Winnipeg Public Library titled Grease- ters on Jan. 9, 1915, in which Minne- he wrote exclusively in Ukrainian. North Sports & Entertainment in paint on the Prairies: The Story of apolis rabbi Samual Deinard praised 2014. Only the Pantages remains Vaudeville in Winnipeg on Saturday, their “refreshing” depiction of “my Stage to screen intact in all its turn-of-the-century March 30 at 2 p.m. Register at wpl. own idea of the Jew – difficult though While the vaudeville scene in Win- splendour. winnipeg.ca or 204-986-6450. I find it to convince non-Jews of it – is nipeg faded away with those of other That is, until the City announced that he is just a human being with all cities, the performers and comedy that the theatre was up for sale. The the faults and all the virtues that other styles pioneered on vaudeville stages City purchased the theatre in 1923, SUPPORTED BY:

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ILLUSTRATION BY GABRIELLE FUNK Working in the aftermath … It doesn’t make any sense. It doesn’t is enough from police brutality here in add up, what they said to the media.” Winnipeg against indigenous” (enough Four people have been killed by Winnipeg police this year. Members of the South Sudanese is enough) say that while marginalized, This is what happens afterward. community held the rally six days after especially racialized people, in Winnipeg Madut was killed. are very aware of the police department’s “A lot of the leaders of the South problem with unaddressed lethal bru- alexandra neufeldt find a time to help people figure out what Sudanese community in Winnipeg were tality, privileged and white people and course of action they would like to take. there, and everybody had their piece on mainstream media groups have failed to City REPORTER @alexejneufeldt If a person wishes to file a criminal what, unanimously we knew, what was grasp the extent of the issue. complaint, they have to go through the done, which was not right,” she says. Williams, who is white, says that police department, and if the depart- “(We) condemned the actions of the while “enough is enough” says that while There are very few official options for the ment decides their complaint is worthy police of using deadly force on some- “there are really good hearts in Winni- families and communities of people shot of investigation, they pass it on to the one that’s been struggling with mental peg,” in his experience, “you gotta do by the police. While those who knew the IIUM. Members of the public cannot health issues and has a language barrier things on your own. That’s how people deceased may seek justice through offi- access the IIUM directly. and just being in this country trying to treat you.” cial channels, there is a lot of work that The friends and families of victims of adjust, and on top of it, the whole sce- Williams’ son, Chad Williams, who is often happens outside of governmental people killed by police often have dif- nario about the call being an attempted Indigenous, was killed by police on Jan. bureaucracies: organizing, supporting ficulty getting real justice, and though break-and-enter with a hammer,” 11, 2019. families of the victim and countering they may eventually take the police she says. He says the police misrepresented the pro-police rhetoric. department to court, in the immediate Deng organized a GoFundMe to pay circumstances of Chad’s death and mis- When Sandy Deng, a member of the aftermath of tragedy, it is their com- for the travel costs of Madut’s family in characterized Chad as a criminal when Council of South Sudanese Communi- munities, and not the government, that attending his funeral and to raise funds he was actually co-operative and fully ties of Manitoba (COSSCOM), heard often steps in. for Madut’s family to seek justice for the aware of his rights. about the shooting of Machuar Madut Deng says the first thing the South killing and an apology for the police’s “We were all there when this hap- on Feb. 23, she was with members of Sudanese community thought to do was slanderous characterization of Madut in pened,” Williams says. Winnipeg’s South Sudanese commu- rally. She says they began organizing the the press release. Williams says the local Indigenous nity at the home of the President of the very next day. She says the community has received community has been supportive of his Council, Martino Laku, whose mother The day after the news broke, other support and solidarity from several family in this tragedy, but that white had just passed away. community members sent out a press Indigenous leaders, Black Space Winni- people have failed to provide support in “Everyone went into a shock. It was release and condemned the actions of peg and a local lawyer. the same way. just one of these things where we didn’t the Winnipeg Police Service. The same She says she hopes to see solidarity “People do not understand what it is expect him to be the one this sort of day, the police issued their statement from more marginalized communities to be below the poverty line,” he says. thing would happen to,” Deng says. on the shooting, which mentioned they in the city, and that white Winnipeggers Williams also says he has witnessed The Law Enforcement Review Agency were responding to a break-and-enter. need to use their privilege to help mar- contempt and ridicule from police at (LERA) oversees conduct complaints “We were very infuriated that they ginalized people and to provide financial past rallies. about police officers, which does include said this,” Deng says. and emotional support to grieving com- He says that “enough is enough” is police brutality, and the Independent “Some of the members were saying munities if they are able. a group where people “calm each other Investigations Unit of Manitoba (IIUM) that we shouldn’t do the rally right away, Deng says people need to understand down,” so that they can focus their investigates criminal complaints against because we need to wait for the police that the victims of police brutality often energy on organizing against police vio- the force. LERA is the only public-fac- and what they’re going to say, and my are not criminals and that racial profil- lence. ing organization of the two. response was that they’re not going to ing by the police has a profound effect He says they plan to hold a rally when Duane Rohne, the commissioner for say anything positive, so it doesn’t mat- on marginalized people’s ability to the weather warms up. LERA, says figuring out whether an ter how long they wait,” she says. feel safe. “We have plans to go down to the incident would be better investigated as ”When they came up with that story “That’s something people need to be police centre and shake that building” a criminal or conduct complaint is “not that they concocted, it was just a devas- sensitive to and be aware of, and know and confront Manitoba’s justice minis- an easy decision to arrive at,” because tating blow to the community, because that we’re not making a big deal out of ter, he says. those filing the complaint often are not at least we thought they were going to nothing,” she says. super familiar with the system. say something else,” she says. “When it’s Both Deng, and John Williams, He says LERA is always willing to his own apartment that he was killed in who runs the Facebook group “enough CAMPUS the two spirit collection Archival collection could spark more recorded history of Two-Spirit movement and correspondence. There is a photo- ryan haughey graph collection which illustrates Two- Spirit people at gatherings, conferences campus reporter @ryanshares and other events within the Two-Spirit community.” The collection also includes art, The University of Winnipeg (U of W) T-shirts and other non-traditional forms library houses a collection of recent of archived media, Lougheed says. historical artifacts that shed light on a Lougheed notes the collection was movement that advocates for the rights of initially donated in 2013 but has been Two-Spirit individuals. Dancing To Eagle periodically added to over the years. photo by keeley braunstein-black Spirit Society describes a Two-Spirit indi- “The renaissance of Two-Spirit is rel- Elder Albert McLeod (left) donated the Two-Spirit collection to the U of W archives, which is headed by Brett vidual as a person who carries the spirits of atively new,” Lougheed says. “We have Lougheed (right). both male and female identities. some records documenting . . . the first Brett Lougheed, the university archi- Indigenous LGBTQ+ gathering in Min- Both Baisch and Lougheed believe Baisch says the collection, though vist and digital curator at the U of W, neapolis in 1988.” that the Two-Spirit collection is an small, has a lot of potential. says that Two-Spirit identification is Lougheed says the oldest records date important piece of history for Indige- “It helps to highlight a historically often equated to LGBTQ+ structures of back as far as the late 1970s and ’80s. nous communities and LGBTQ+ com- ignored group of people,” she says. “It identity, but it has a spiritual connota- “These are all contemporary records munities alike. is important to do it in a respectful way tion as well. (belonging to) Albert McLeod. That’s “Records created by Two-Spirit that leaves the collection in the hands of The Two-Spirit collection was origi- when he started becoming active people are largely absent from both those it represents. nally donated to the U of W archives by as a Two-Spirit advocate and in the LGBTQ+ and Indigenous archival col- Baisch and Lougheed indicate that Albert McLeod, Lougheed says. LGBTQ+ community,” he says. lections,” Baisch says. the U of W has developed a Two-Spirit “McLeod is a Two-Spirit advocate Coral Baisch, a history master’s stu- “I hope that the Two-Spirit collection archives advisory committee that will pro- in the city but also has an international dent, interned over the summer of this here at the UW archives and our efforts vide guidance on how the collection can reputation as a cofounder of Two-Spir- year as an archival assistant. to ensure that it is led by Two-Spirit be further developed to serve students at ited People of Manitoba,” he says. “My focus was to work with the Two- people encourage other archives to reach the university and to meet the needs of the “The materials (in the collection) are Spirit collection and help lay the ground- out to their local Two-Spirit communi- Two-Spirit community as well. records documenting Two-Spirit peo- work to grow the collection and research ties and let them know that their stories ple in Manitoba and in the Two-Spirit ways in which we could make sure that and histories are valued, and that the More information on the Two-Spirit col- movement,” Lougheed says. “This con- the collection was led by Two-Spirit peo- archives can be a trusted steward for lection can be found at main.lib.umani- sists of textual records like newsletters ple in the community,” she says. those records,” Baisch says. toba.ca/two-spirited-collection. 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2019 Graduation Pow Wow Supporting Indigenous 17TH ANNUAL

All are welcome at the University of Winnipeg’s 17th human rights Annual Spring Pow Wow on Saturday, March 23 from Join Romeo Saganash, the sponsor of Bill C262, GRADUATION 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the David F. Anderson Gymnasium musicians Fred Penner, “Coco” Ray Stevenson, elder in Duckworth Centre. The pow wow is hosted by the Gramma Shingoose and expert panelists Paul Joffe, Aboriginal Student Council and the Aboriginal Student Jennifer Preston and Leah Gazan to show support POW WOW Services Centre, and the event honours UWinnipeg’s for Bill C262. The event will take place on March 26 Aboriginal graduates. and 7 p.m. at CMU Marpeck Commons.

Celebrating the Land at 373 Preview of Pısim¯ Finds her Langside Miskanow app The Langside Learning Garden team invites the public to This year, The University of Winnipeg is pleased to SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2019 a celebration on the land at 373 Langside St. on March hold a number of events in honour of ndigenousI 28 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. There will be a bonfire, stories and languages to help preserve them and safeguard the Pipe Ceremony 11:00 am activities. Snacks and warm apple juice will be provided. rights of those who speak them. All are welcome to Grand Entry 12:30 pm Bring a friend and dress for outdoor weather. Langside attend a special preview of the newPısim Finds Her Feast 6:00 pm Learning Garden is a partnership project between Miskanow¯ storybook app, followed by an ninimowinI Spence Neighbourhood Association and the University reading on March 28 at 12:30 p.m. in the Aboriginal Duckworth Centre, 400 Spence Street of Winnipeg. Student Services Centre.

Mental Health, youth, Blanket Exercise for MB This annual traditional Pow Wow provides us an opportunity addiction & town hall panel small farms community to honour the work of our students, staff, faculty, and the community that has made it possible for our students to be Join the Mood Disorders Association of Manitoba on On March 23 at 1 p.m., Fort Whyte Alive is hosting a successful. We invite all dancers, singers and spectators to April 2 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Seven Oaks Hospital Wellness blanket exercise, which is held to gain perspective on Institute in room 4 to discuss mental health, youth, Indigenous law, culture and spirituality, and the role join us to celebrate the achievements of our graduates. addictions and town hall. There will be four panelists, and farmers and food businesses can play in decolonizing this is a free event open to the public. Registration is not the food system. The exercise typically takes around required, but seating is limited. four hours. Many spots are on a first-come, first- served basis, and the exercise has a maximum of 25 participants. To reserve your spot, please email [email protected]. The Uniter // March 21, 2019 13 congrats, grad University resources and support after graduation

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Campus REPORTER @ryanshares demic advisor at the U of W says gradu- ation can be overwhelming after having a set plan working toward a degree. For some students, after all the exams “Once you leave the womb of the insti- and final papers comes graduation. Stu- tution, things are a lot more open-ended, dents who feel nervous for what comes and you have a lot more choices. That’s next in their life can find support from something we can help with,” she says. the University of Winnipeg (U of W), England says that U of W Career Ser- even as alumni. vices offers supports to alumni through Patricia Navidad is a U of W student job search tools, interview preparation who is about to graduate this spring after and resumé and cover letter review. five years of working toward a degree in “There’s a whole section on our web- Rhetoric, Writing and Communications. site that focuses on ‘what can I do with She says she is excited to be finished her my degree’ ... that’s something that’s a

classes but feels slightly anxious about good idea to check out, regardless of supplied photo what will happen after graduation. what stage you’re at,” she says. Graduation is one goal, but what comes next? “I have two part-time jobs, so I’m Students and graduates can access U going to work at those, and I also have of W Career Services for help with find- an internship that I do online. I’m hop- ing possible jobs within the field that our alumni to keep them in touch with figure out what works for you, because ing I can learn some skills that I can use they’re interested in pursuing as a career, what is going on at the university, with not everything that works for the major- to go intern abroad next year in Singa- England says. their faculties and with students and ity of the (student) population is going pore,” Navidad says. “Our job is not simply to prepare peo- other alumni,” she says. “We aim to to work for each individual.” Though she has a specific plan, she ple for getting a job. We can also talk encourage alumni to maintain a lifelong She says students should not compare says she is still slightly nervous about about additional career development relationship with the university and the themselves to others in terms of building what is to come, much like many of her (and continuing education), because university community.” a career upon graduation. peers who are also set to graduate. learning is a lifelong process.” Alumni Affairs offers graduates from “You shouldn’t feel you have to get a “I think it’s because once you’ve been in Helen Cholakis, the manager of U of U of W opportunities to volunteer, give job right after you graduate just because school for a few years, you know what to W’s Alumni Affairs office, says graduates and attend guest lectures and receive everyone else is. It could be totally differ- expect (from university), but all of a sud- are a valued part of the U of W com- discounts at places like the Bill Wedlake ent for everybody, so I’ve just learned to den, you’re going to enter ‘the real world,’ munity. Graduates of the U of W are Fitness Centre, Cholakis says. accept and follow my own pace.” and now you have to find a job, and it feels encouraged to keep in touch with the Navidad says through the years in her like it’s all happening so fast,” she says. institution through Alumni Affairs. university experience, she has learned Deanna England, a career and aca- “In a nutshell, we communicate with “you’ve got to go at your own pace and COMMENTS

wax on, wax off When removing body hair first means accepting it

danielle doiron @dmdoiron ing, slathered on depilatory creams and tried just about anything else I could get copy and style editor my hands on. In my second year of uni- versity, I tried a home waxing kit on my cheeks and accidentally removed a few Last month, I paid a stranger to rip hair layers of skin in the process. Trust me – off my body. At least, that’s what I told my beauty isn’t worth that much pain. partner when he asked what I did that day. So when a friend recommended sugar- After a decade and a half of shaving as ing, I jumped at the chance and booked much of my body as those little pink drug- an appointment. After all, it could be an

store razors could reach, I took the plunge out: hair removal I only had to commit to supplied photo and decided to try sugaring. once a month instead of every few days. Before the sugar, one must face the scraggle. Hiring a professional to rub a mixture What I didn’t realize was that sugaring of sugar, lemon juice and water across my would force me to face my shaggy legs and skin and remove all my hair brought me scraggly underarms all over again. ’stache and unruly eyebrows this weekend. thereof isn’t quite a political statement. It’s one step closer to achieving something To remove hair by sugaring, you first But now that spring is (at least offi- just something my body naturally does I’ve longed for since before I hit puberty: a need to grow it out to about the length cially) here, my days of hiding behind and my attempts to (temporarily) change baby-smooth body. of a grain of rice. That meant letting it all long sleeves and pants might soon the course of nature. So please, let me As a French-Canadian with brunette hang out and reliving those insecurities of be over – and with my next sugaring bask in my insecurities and feel the breeze hair so dark that it’s almost black, I had my youth. As an adult woman with ample appointment still two weeks away, that blow through my moustache. After living my share of hair-related body-image access to razors, tweezers and wax strips, I honestly scares me a little. together for a few weeks, I’m slowly start- issues throughout elementary school. I felt compelled to explain myself whenever Last year, body-care company Billie ing to hate those little hairs less and less. still remember my little third-grade self someone got a glimpse of my body in all made headlines when they launched locking my bedroom door so I could use its unkempt glory. Project Body Hair and aired razor com- Danielle is a Winnipeg writer, editor and safety scissors to try and trim my arm hair I couldn’t leave my Pap test appoint- mercials that showed women shaving marketer who’s relishing in all the extra time without anyone barging in. ment before explaining to the nurse prac- their hairy legs – a first in the gendered she has to get ready in the morning, now And no, this isn’t one of those stories titioner that I was growing everything out beauty community that rarely acknowl- that shaving isn’t a priority. Those extra few where I stood up to the sixth-grade bullies for the purpose of sugaring it all away, and edges the fact that women do, in fact, moments of sleep are almost worth the dis- who made fun of my (albeit dark) peach- I’m already rehearsing what to say to my grow body hair. comfort. Almost. fuzz moustache. Instead, I took up shav- makeup artist when she comes across my Likewise, my upper-lip hair or lack 14 The Uniter // march 21, 2019 Across 1. Sleeveless jacket 22. Right you ____! 40. Calm 58. "The Texas 5. Eden man 23. Before, to poets 41. Long tale Chainsaw ____" 9. Beauty shop 24. Make coffee 42. Top card 60. Urban's opposite 14. Division word 25. Infrequently 43. Circular current 61. Satisfied 15. Gaming cubes 27. Choir voice 44. Walk in water 62. Cease-fire 16. Hangar occupant 31. Mast 45. Walk leisurely 63. Impulse 17. Declaration 35. Vane letters 49. Recipe measures 64. Watch over 19. Rocker ____ Cooper 36. Benefit (abbr.) 65. Searches for 20. Broadcast 37. Dalai ____ 51. ____ de Janeiro 66. Youth 21. Revered 38. Judged 52. Certain grain 67. Don't go 55. Off the path Down 1. Sight 11. Dragon's home 31. Whole bunch 52. Eight musicians 2. Come in 12. One time only 32. Mama's husband 53. Coliseum 3. Like old bread 13. Necessity 33. In the middle of 54. ____ bear 4. Carry 18. Preceding nights 34. Horse course 55. Fine ____ 5. Respect 21. Carrying a weapon 38. Hoarse 56. Free of doubt 6. Certain engine 24. Skeleton part 39. Behaves 57. Factual 7. Skin woe 26. Hinder 46. Juice fruit 58. Additional 8. Encountered 28. Noisy 47. Hear 59. Picnic crashers 9. Digging tool 29. Related 48. Forfeit 61. Slice 10. Permissible 30. Just 50. Bargain events

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PUZZLE 08 a puzzle series by Justin Ladia /10 pts.

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A friend of mine and I were talking one day when the subject of my puzzles came up in our conversation. “You know,” he started gingerly, “I’ve always enjoyed your puzzles but it definitely shows something about your character.” When I asked him to elaborate, he handed me a note and said that “it’s probably more fun for me to explain and for you to figure out what I mean through a puzzle, so here you go!” What exactly is he trying to tell me?

1. Precedes tale, order, or grass • To bring up a feeling of suspicion 2. Queen Mary I’s people • State, with “toast” 3. What Seal got a kiss from (2 wds) • Shuffles down a booth or bench 4. Low-ranking individual • To inventory or count or game piece • Describes a garment that has one or 5. Damaging and extreme anger more folded details 6. A coward needs to grow one • Official who looks into causes of death 7. Follows kitty; diagonally opposite • Moving rapidly or suddenly 8. Arranged or served food on a dish • Shrimp-like animal 9. Steeped drinks from dried leaves • Underpopulated or thinly dispersed 10. Fearless or brave • A word in this puzzle 11. A terrible person • To miss someone dearly 12. A Greek island • To make or produce

+5 points if you figure out all the clues. +5 points if you find the message.

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