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ON THE COVER MORE TIME Mary Black is an artist, activist and author of the poem “Quiet.” FOR TALK Fresh on the heels of our Indigenizing Media event with Red Rising Magazine on Feb. 4, we have another fantastic Speakers Series event in the works. On March 17, we’re partnering with the UWSA and Grass Routes Sustainability Festival to present Water and Indigenous Women’s Wisdom. The discussion will feature speakers Freda Huson and Chickadee Richard, as well as a water ceremony. Check out the back page for more details. There are many issues that we can cover in The Uniter, but there’s only so much we can say, even in a cover feature. And it’s important that these conversations continue beyond the page. As much as we strive to include as many voices as possible, we don’t know who we’re missing until we go out and meet them. During the Indigenizing Media event, we were lucky to receive the wisdom of not only the speakers, but of fellow attendees, those who took to the mic and shared their stories as well. We put faces to names and made new friends. While we hope that the stories told in these pages open up new worlds and perspectives, we can’t stop there. True learning happens in community, and through these events and partnerships, we’re working on extending our own community. And that community involves you. We prioritize events that are free and open to all, and to minimize barriers that our readers might encounter in attending these events. If we’re missing something, please do let us know. We’ve also got some exciting plans in the works for next year’s round of Speakers Series events. Yes, next September may seem like a long way away, but there’s a lot of legwork that goes into bringing exciting and innovative speakers to Winnipeg. If you have suggestions for events, there’s always room to join the Speakers Series Committee (which is part of the Mouseland Press). So if you’re excited about what we’ve been doing with Speakers Series, or have some ideas about what it could become, do join the conversation. In the meantime, watch for more details on Water and Indigenous Women’s Wisdom, and we hope to see you on the 17th.
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WHOSE HOUSE? MONA’S HOUSE
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Mona Faith Mousa takes a specific aesthetic approach to her Wolseley home. The spoken-word performance poet and community advocate says her white walls and sleek countertops are a necessity for her living space. “I was born and raised in Toronto,” 6 Mousa says. “I’ve always been a big city type of person. I’m not big into character houses. I lived in one on Furby, and it had so many problems. So my home is my own little metropolitan escape.” It’s impressive, especially when considering the house’s unsavoury 2 4 7 beginnings. “Do you remember the house in Wolseley that had 120 cats? That was this house. They tore it down and rebuilt it. My friend owns the house, so I got to choose the paint colours and backsplashes and stuff when they were rebuilding it, which you normally don’t get to do if you’re renting.” Mousa has been performing poetry for the past eight years, successfully touring North America with her art. It’s a passion 3 8 she found after losing another. “I used to play varsity softball,” Mousa explains. “But I developed juvenile arthritis, and they pulled me from the team for health and safety reasons. I’d already been writing, and one of our high school teachers had been encouraging me to write. I thought, ‘What if I gave this a shot?’ I took a bus from Windsor to Ottawa and I did a poetry slam there, and I’ve done it ever since.”
1) WALL OF FAME 3) SKETCHBOOK 5) RECORD PLAYER/8-TRACK 7) ALBUM COVERS “I have tour stuff everywhere. Everything on the “This is my first ever sketchbook. It’s from when I “It’s not really functioning. I got it from an “I used to book shows in Kingston, Ont. The Arkells walls is something from tour.” was living in an artist’s residency in 2010.” ex-boyfriend. I guess it’s kind of a metaphor for show was really cool. It was in a venue that’s not our relationship: the record player doesn’t work.” usually a concert venue. At one point the sound 2) STAG’S HEAD 4) PAINTING cut out and the audience carried the entire “I got one just like this in Minneapolis, but then “I painted this the last summer that Frame Arts 6) THUNDERBIRD COFFEE song. And Bedouin Soundclash, I used to go to our bag’s got stolen. I wanted one so badly that Warehouse was open. I had a studio space in “This is my favourite coffee shop ever. It’s in elementary school with their bassist.” I found the pattern online and used my friend’s there. The painting started out as one thing, but I Austin, Texas. If anyone’s ever in Austin they need table saw to cut it. I even found the exact got really frustrated and put gold wash all over it. to go to Thunderbird Coffee.” 8) WALK-IN CLOSET newsprint they used.” My friends said they liked it.” “I’m in love with my closet. You can see why.” ARTS THE UNITER // March 3, 2016 5 Madayag-Knazen featured characters on both sides of the spectrum, the coconut and “FOB.” Madayag-Knazen explains that FOB stands for “Fresh off the Boat” STANDING OUT, and her characters experienced lateral racism for being too Filipino and not FITTING IN Filipino enough. Chad Anderson, local comedian, has similarly been criticized for “not being The balancing act of racialized native enough” on stage, but writing jokes identities in the arts that relate to his background has been a gradual process. “It sounds shitty, but I didn’t think MELANIE DAHLING @SUGARDAHLING about race that often growing up,” Anderson says. ARTS AND CULTURE REPORTER Because he was raised by a white family and had predominantly white friends, he Though it’s true that art allows people to didn’t identify with his heritage until he share their worldviews in a creative way, got sober and turned to cultural rituals. for racialized artists, it can feel like a “Now I go to sweats and sundance and ILLUSTRATION BY ANGELA GODOY cautious walk between authenticity and it’s something I’m proud of,” he says. assimilation. He points out that often jokes about accent to somebody. Mine wasn’t fake When Primrose Madayag-Knazen, a race don’t do anyone any favours. enough. They don’t want it to sound Filipino-Jewish playwright and aspiring “Cheesy stereotypical jokes, it’s not authentic. Accents on TV are always very novelist, wrote and directed her first exploring anything new. Now when I exaggerated,” she says. Fringe play, Cyber in 2000, race was not write a joke that has anything to do with Taxis has decided to join artists like What is racialization? on her mind. race, I try to say, ‘Here’s a stereotype and Knazen and Anderson by making her “I just thought ‘these are cool ideas!’” here’s why it’s messed up.’” own work. The word “racialization” refers she says. Though racialized individuals often “There are so many stories that should to the “very complex and When Madayag-Knazen chose a face prejudice based on their visual matter,” she says. “Sometimes, there’s no contradictory process through diverse cast for the project, she did not differences, Polish actress Monika Thurn work for you because nobody wrote it yet. which groups come to be even realize she was doing it until the Und Taxis finds that her accent holds her You have to create a new world and say designated as being of a particular ‘race’ and on that basis subjected reviews made her colour blind casting a back in the audition room. ‘I’m not supposed to fit in.’” to differential and/or unequal focal point. She began to think about her “I’ve been told I don’t really fit Keep up with the artists on Twitter: treatment,” according to the race in relation to her art. anywhere,” she says. “It’s something I’ve Primrose Madayag Knazen (@PrimroseMK) website of University of Calgary’s “Everything I did was a statement,” been told a million times. You must have a Chad Anderson (@Chadillmatic) Anti-Racism Education. This term Madayag-Knazen says. standard American accent.” Monika Thurn Und Taxis (@MoniThurnUTaxis) is used to draw attention to the Though Madayag-Knazen felt she was She struggles with balancing a focus on fact that racial identity is not fixed, often interpreted as racial by white crowds, western culture and embracing the culture and that it changes according to different people’s perceptions. she’d been labeled as a “coconut” (a slur she came from. Read more at ucalgary.ca/cared/ meaning brown on the outside and white Taxis, too, knows the frustration of not racialization. on the inside) within her own culture. being enough. In her 2002 piece Shades of Brown, “I actually lost a part for a Polish
ARTS AND CULTURE BRIEFS CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS MEG CRANE // ARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR @MEGCRANE WRITERS WAC grants Pysanka eggs ILLUSTRATORS Applications for the Winnipeg Arts Council’s In time for Easter, the Wasylyshen Ukrainian Individual Artist Grant are due March 8. Artists Easter Egg Collection is being exhibited alongside PHOTOGRAPHERS of any discipline are encouraged to apply for artist David Wasylyshen’s pysanka mosaics at projects beginning after June 8. Emerging artists the Oseredok Ukrainian Cultural and Educational only 4 can apply for up to $2,000, while mid-career and Centre. The exhibit, titled New Dimensions of Issues left! established artists can apply for up to $5,000. Pysanka Art, is open March 6 to April 9. The Another round of grant applications will be egg collection shows the variety of styles accepted in September. Go to winnipegarts.ca for of the traditional folk art, including regional Writers, contact the Volunteer coordinator: more info. differences. Wasylyshen’s work deconstructs the Alana Trachenko >> [email protected] pysanka, creating a new work. You can also stop by The Uniter office (Room ORM14 in the Bulman Centre at the U of W) every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. for a volunteer orientation. Freeze Frame What if… We’ll cover the basics and give you more of an idea of what writing for The Uniter is all about, and after that you can get started anytime. The International Film Festival for Kids of All On March 6, an all ages story night will ask, “What Ages, Freeze Frame Manitoba, is taking place if?” Storytellers Darla Stewart, Edmund Machona, March 6 to 13. Films from 11 countries will be Carolina Vasilica and more will tell tales of their Illustrators, contact the creative director: screened at Centre culturel franco-manitobain journeys through defining moments in their Scott A. Ford >> [email protected] and Cinematheque. In celebration of the festival’s lives that left them asking that question. Tickets 20th anniversary, local filmmaker Brian Rougeau for The IF Word // A Storytelling Event are $10 in Volunteer illustrators are visual artists who provide some of the eye has created a new media installation which can advance through the Facebook event page or are candy that goes along with many of our articles. We’ll send you an outline be viewed in the Media Zone. For more info, go to $15 at the door. of technical requirements and a weekly list of possible assignments to freezeframeonline.org. choose from. This is a great way to build your portfolio! Poetry workshop Our own theatre awards Photographers, contact the photo editor: Poet Amber Dawn will be running a social justice Winnipeg is joining the long list of cities that Daniel Crump >> [email protected] poetry workshop on March 6. At 2 p.m. in Room host annual theatre awards. Winnipeg Theatre 2M70 at the University of Winnipeg, Dawn will Awards was officially launched on Feb. 29 If you’re looking for variety, our volunteer photographers cover events lead attendees through an exploration of their and the first ever event is being planned for as well as shooting fashion streeters, headshots and local landscapes. own lived experiences and values. The workshop Nov. 19, 2017. A nine member jury of Winnipeg We’ll send you the assignment list and help you connect with the will include writing prompts, sample poetry theatre professionals and arts supporters will subjects. Get ready to share your photos with the city! readings, peer-to-peer reflections, debriefing and select winners for a list of categories including a Q&A. Email [email protected] to register. performance, production and design. ARTS
make up the loss. The name of the show, which spawned at a party one night, is undoubtedly ACTING UNDER apropos, slurring the popular adjective smashed with masterpiece. The essence of Smashterpiece, THE INFLUENCE however, lies within its formidable group of performers, who will be attempting to Smashterpiece Theatre perform their scenes to the best of their ability despite being drunk. a beast of its own “It’s going to be wall-to-wall underdog stories,” J.D. Renaud, who is known for his stand-up and visual art, says. He will PATRICK CARTY be performing a scene from Star Wars with a partner. VOLUNTEER Partially inspired by Chantel Marostica’s series of drunken shows and Smashterpiece Theatre will bring together performances, Smashterpiece Theatre is actors, comics and improv artists for a quickly forging an identity of its own, night of sloppy, indulgent theatre. Renaud says. On March 9, Melanie Dahling, At first, Renaud says the idea of a comedian, and Angie St. Mars, a fellow fundraiser held some uncertainty, but writer and actress, will be co-hosting they’ve reached critical mass, with a full Smashterpiece as Wayne and Garth from night of acts from an incredibly willing Wayne’s World, which should be totally and talented crew.
excellent. At this point, there are 11 acts of all SUPPLIED IMAGE “As an audience member, you get to sorts. Unbelievable as it is, a song from go see all different types of theatre in Les Misérables will be attempted, drunk. one night,” Dahling says about the show. Two men will also perform a scene night you can bring anyone to. Well, “And, as a performer, you get to choose a from Showgirls, and University of maybe not your mom, depending on how different type of scene you wouldn’t get Winnipeg grad Johanna Burdon will get cool your mom is.” to do otherwise.” on stage with Christy Tarrono for a scene “It will be a borderline excessive night for It came about as a sort of fundraiser from The Room. unrefined theatre goers,” Erick Casselman, Smashterpiece Theatre is going for Dahling and company, after her most When asked just how inebriated she owner of The Park Theatre, says. down at The Park Theatre on recent venture with the Fringe, Biggest plans on getting, Burdon thinks there March 9. Doors open at 7 p.m. Little Child Star. Although the show was will be a limit to the booze, and she would and the show starts at 8. Tickets successful with Fringers, it did not work like to avoid falling asleep on stage. are $10 and available through out financially in her favour, so Dahling “This will be a great opportunity to ticketfly.com. is running this as a fundraiser to help bridge some gaps,” Dahling says. “A
SMOOTH SAILING Boats plays its last show
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Boats isn’t making many waves with its announcement that it’s ending a 15 year long career. The announcement came with a Facebook event called Probably The Last Boats Show, which is happening on March 4. “It’s probably the last show,” Mat Klachefsky, Boats guitarist and vocalist, says. Klachefsky recently got a new job that will take him out of the city for four SUPPLIED PHOTO months of the year. Soon, you might only be able to see Boats bandmates together in photographs. “Before I got this new job, Boats was my number one concern. Now it’s probably about number four,” Klachefsky says. The Winnipeg band’s first album, Wisconsin Dells) once,” Klachefsky says. “This is going to be our last good show He doesn’t want to eat up the other band Intercontinental Champion came out in “That was a career highlight.” worth going to,” Klachefsky says. members’ creative time with something 2007 and since they’ve released two more, Rory Ellis says there have been some Human Music and Beefdonut will be that he’s not putting all of himself into. Cannonballs, Cannonballs and A Fairway murmuring of people who are sad to see opening for possibly, probably the last “When Mat came up with this idea, Full of Miners. the band move on. Boats show. it kind of made sense to all of us,” Rory “It’s a brutal industry. Just failure at “Weird nerds are sad,” Klachefsky says. Ellis, who plays guitar and “other stuff” every turn,” Klachefsky says. “So we’re Boats bass player Louis Levesque- for Boats, says. going to take our accomplishments and Cote says no one seems to really care that He says Boats was the first good band run with them.” they’re packing it in, other than the band that he was in and that’s led to other Boats has gone on tour in Europe members, because so many bands break musical opportunities for him, which he and Klachefsky says there are few major up but still play reunion shows. will be putting more of a focus on, after cities in North America that they haven’t And that’s sort of what the Boats the last Boats show. played in. members will be doing. Probably The Last Boats Show is “This was the right time to kind of A highlight for Ian Ellis, Boats “We’re actually going to probably keep taking place at The Good Will Social bookend it,” Ellis says. drummer, was going to the waterslides in playing music together,” Klachefsky says. Club on March 4 at 9 p.m. Tickets are $10 and available through Klachefsky says they’ve accomplished a Edmonton, Alta. They also got to do an They’re going to change the name they’re Ticketfly.com. lot of things that most bands don’t get the artists’ residency at the Banff Centre. playing under and joke that the music chance to do. “We went to Wizard Quest (in won’t be good. THE UNITER // March 3, 2016 7 CKUW TOP 20
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filmmakers keep it. ROOM FULL That mystique is why Wiseau’s absence from Room Full of Spoons helps the movie rather than hurting OF SPOONS it. As much as fans may want THOMAS PASHKO @THOMASPASHKO Wiseau to sit in front of the camera and tell us everything we want to FEATURES REPORTER know, the fact that he’s an enigma is what makes him so confusing and hilarious. I don’t want to know why Playing March 3 to 5, 10 to 13 and 17 at he invented a fake assistant named Cinematheque Jon, maintaining a fake email even These Old Fangs when all his collaborators know he’s The Demo really Tommy. Just knowing that he Independent The ability to transcend many different musical styles while does this is enough. It’s worth noting maintaining a common sound is very difficult for a band to do. Anyone who loves bad movies is that Wiseau, while initially giving Local rock band, These Old Fangs, manages to do this on their familiar with The Room. The 2003 the documentarians his blessing, has first EP simply titled “The Demo.” This demo was released in brainchild of the mysterious writer/ since condemned Room Full of Spoons January as a collection of four fast paced songs that showcase director/producer/star Tommy Wiseau, in a series of bizarre YouTube videos. the band’s unique sound and ability to seamlessly mix folk, was an unseen disaster upon its initial Whether these videos are sincere, or reggae, blues and modern rock. An early sixties bluegrass feel release. meant to drum up publicity for the is present through the first track, while reggae style vocals over It has since become a cult documentary, is unclear. hard rock guitars take dominance through the rest of the EP. This phenomenon, famously called “the The absence that does hurt the film, is a great first taste of a Winnipeg band with potential. You will Citizen Kane of bad movies,” and has however, is Greg Sestero, Wiseau’s enjoy this if you like Sublime, Wide Mouth Mason, or Sloan. The inspired books, films, video games and co-star and line producer. Sestero has Demo is available on These Old Fang’s Band Camp site. thousands of midnight screenings. been the public face of much of the cult - Alex Roberecki The new crowd-funded documen- carnival surrounding The Room, and tary Room Full of Spoons looks into the his book The Disaster Artist became a bizarre production of The Room,its critical smash. He’s as big a piece of the evolution into a beloved piece of trash film’s production as Wiseau, but he’s Trampoline There are many different ways to create a song. Countless cinema and the complicated mythol- capable of shedding light on things in artists have decided to play it safe and write in basic forms ogy surrounding the film. Most of The a way that Wiseau isn’t. In addition to Sometimes a Song is Just a Cigar or styles, running the risk of sounding the same. Winnipeg Room’s cast and crew appear in inter- character absences, there are curious Independent band, Trampoline, does not have this problem. On their first views, with a few notable exceptions omissions of information. At one point, EP titled, Sometimes a Song is Just a Cigar, the four piece, (more on that later). But much like The the filmmakers reveal documents self-proclaimed ‘anti-rock band,’ creates a hodge podge of Room itself, Room Full of Spoons is less detailing a fraud lawsuit filed against cool melodies, exciting guitar licks and fun background noises. about the onscreen product than it is Wiseau by his financier’s spouse, only These complement the witty and intelligent lyrics that play on about Wiseau himself. to abandon that thread entirely. everyday thoughts and phrases. There are many times when you’ll think lead singer, and lyricist, Michelle Lenick, is speaking Room Full of Spoons’ greatest One other misstep is the onscreen directly to you. On first listen Lenick’s raw voice will catch you strength is its approach to The Room’s presence of the documentarians off guard, but give it a few seconds and you will be thoroughly and Wiseau’s mythology. Much of themselves. While their creative enjoying the unique tone. Musically, Trampoline combines many The Room’s appeal comes from the process and relationship to Wiseau different melodic ideas and sounds adding harmonic layers to questions it raises: Who is Tommy is key to revealing truths about their each recording. Their experiments with fun tones and crazy Wiseau? Where is he from? How subject, it’s handled clumsily. The background voices sound like something Frank Zappa would put did he get $6 million to make this sleekness of the film feels like it’s being on one of his albums. Once you are finished listening to this EP movie? Is it supposed to be funny? interrupted by a DIY effort every time of four songs you will probably want to listen to it again. A set of The documentary manages to answer the focus shifts. It’s possible to consider definite head bobbing tracks that you will never grow tired of. many of the most perplexing Room these inconsistencies and loose ends as - Alex Roberecki questions without erasing any of its loving tributes to The Room. But that’s mystique. It’s a tricky balance, but being way too generous. even when presenting key revelations about Wiseau’s illusive identity, the ARTS directly, they will likely have connections with someone who can. “The support is really important all through your career. Not just in those A GUIDING very first times that you’re venturing out and showing somebody something. You LIGHT FOR need support to believe in yourself or this is just plain difficult,” Chafe says. “But everything becomes so much easier if WRITER’S you’re going along the path with others at the same time.” Patricia Robertson, the current writer- EYES in-residence at the Winnipeg Public Library, says a big part of her job is The Writer-in-Residence getting people to let go of their first draft, which many are attached to and believe programs is ready to go. “I’ll say I can see that you see it, very CHRIS BRYSON @CHRISBRYGUY clearly, but it’s not here on the page yet,” Robertson says. At that point, the writer’s VOLUNTEER STAFF job is to rework the pieces so that other readers can enter their world. “It’s very much about being able to see Writer-in-residence programs are what you have,” Robertson says. supportive environments for writers of Ultimately, what writer-in-residence all experience levels. programs do is help the writer better Rick Chafe, the 2016 Carol Shields their work and, in the process, better Writer-in-Residence at the University of themselves as writers. Winnipeg, says he can give feedback to “It’s like any discipline,” Robertson writers who submit work that follows the says. “It’s like being an athlete or a ballet ILLUSTRATION BY GABRIELLE FUNK submission guidelines. dancer. You have to keep practicing. And “I can also be giving a writer who may there are days you won’t want to.” University of Winnipeg and Winnipeg or even by direct information, you gain have less experience than me a whole lot The personalized contact and feedback Public Library, says that the lack of some knowledge of what it’s like to work of feedback and techniques and ideas are accentuated because there is no grading is a huge luxury. in the arts,” Sweatman says. about where they could be going with grading. Writers are given feedback that’s “They can work with you,” Sweatman Chafe, Robertson and Sweatman their writing with a particular piece and intended to be constructive and oriented says, opposed to working to give writers agree that the benefits of the writer-in- how to make it better.” towards their personal goals as writers. a mark. residence programs bring confidence and Chafe has found many seek out advice Margaret Sweatman, an associate “I think you also get a dose of a guiding light to writers seeking consult, on career paths, schools and choices professor in the University of Winnipeg professional development because you’re but that writer has to be willing to take writers can make to develop their work. English department who has also been dealing with someone who is working and use feedback. If a writer-in-residence is unable to help a past writer-in-residence at both the freelance and you kind of by osmosis,
By switching to juice for three days, CONCENTRATING the idea is that a person can hit the refresh button on their gut. Gerren McDonald, a member of the ON FACT kinesiology and applied health faculty at the University of Winnipeg, isn’t sold on How healthy is a juice cleanse? the idea. “Our physiology is very effective at keeping us clean,” he says. MELANIE DAHLING @SUGARDAHLING McDonald says research to support cleanses is not reliable. ARTS AND CULTURE REPORTER “They typically don’t do a randomized control group with a placebo, making It’s that time of year again – all the holiday it hard to sort through,” he says. “Most dinners have been eaten, the February people make the comment that they chocolate consumed and people are left feel better, but if that’s because of the feeling in need of a change. nutrients or more psychological… it’s a One tempting offer is the juice cleanse. big unknown.” “Initially I was completely against the Fish doesn’t know if it actually cleansed idea,” Adrienne Fish, a Toronto based her body, but she did have results that she comedian says. “I thought it sounded didn’t anticipate. cruel to treat your body like that.” “You become way more in touch with After speaking to a friend, she decided your metabolism,” Fish says. “When it’s to try it out. at its height and when it’s at its low.” There are variables as far as cleanses Fish has made changes to her diet go, but typically while on a juice cleanse according to the discoveries she made a person will spend one to three days about her metabolism while on the cleanse. drinking liquids made up of highly Though this may be a great option for concentrated fruits and vegetables. some, it can trigger eating disorders in The concept is a controversial one with a others. lot of conflicting information behind it, but According to an article published in more and more people are giving it a try. Marie Claire magazine, there are people Fish had a positive experience on her using these detoxes as a way of masking cleanse after being persuaded by her an eating disorder. Others develop friend to try it. destructive eating patterns after finishing “She was saying that it takes three days a cleanse. for your body to rid itself of whatever is “Our body needs a certain amount of in your intestines, so it in fact gives your calories,” McDonald says. body a break from always breaking down For consumers who are looking for foods,” Fish says. a dramatic way to jumpstart a healthy This is the main concept behind a lifestyle, he remains wary. juice cleanse. “I’m sensitive toward the idea of doing According to a 2013 study by the U.S. ‘something big,’” he says. “There are ways National Institute of Environmental to slowly build into the lifestyle we’re Health Sciences, it takes 24 hours or looking for. There’s no one big piece for that, more for food to go from mouth to colon. though people always have that hope.” ILLUSTRATION BY GABRIELLE FUNK WHY IWD? International Women’s Day marks 106 years of fighting for women’s rights
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or many years women have been fighting for gender equality, and even though they’ve come a long way, the battle is still far from over. F In 1910, the Socialist International meeting in Copenhagen established an International Women’s Day (IWD) to recognize the movement for women’s rights and to strengthen the idea of the women’s equal right to vote. That notorious moment triggered numerous events, such as rallies for the right to vote and protests against discrimination at work. The consequences of those struggles played a major part in forming society as we know it now in 2016. IWD is celebrated on March 8 across the world. This is the day when women celebrate how far they’ve come and the trail that is still to be walked. The right to vote, work, get an education and have an income are things that weren’t available for women in the past. These are things they had to fight for, and the things that they’ve acquired with their own hands. But even with those wins left behind, women still have many issues they have to face everyday. The right to work, for example, is clouded by inequality and workplace harassment. IWD is an important day to not only commemorate past achievements, but also to take pause and look into the future. And, of course, to have fun.
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of years with a push for the inquiry for the past year brought some big changes. working in areas where they’re poor, there IWD in Winnipeg murdered and missing women as well as the “In Canada this year has been is still a lot of exploitation happening and I reality that globally, women are often used tremendous in terms of having something think we don’t have to look very far outside This year the celebration of IWD in in conflict. We’ve decided that it’s the right like (Justin Trudeau’s) ‘because it’s (2015)’, of Winnipeg to see that.” Winnipeg will have a lot of variety. time to focus on that theme.” because we have half the women in Sharing stories is a vital ingredient for The traditional annual march is once As part of the cabaret, Mary Black will Parliament federally,” Ruprai says. “Rachel making changes for indigenous women. again organized by a group of volunteers perform her poem Quiet, which went viral Notley is the first premier, woman premier “Using our voices in something that is called the IWD planning committee. Kelby after she posted a video of herself reciting provincially in Calgary. It seems like really vital to our healing,” Black says. “We’ve Loeppky, the status of women director at the poem on Facebook. Black wrote the big moments happening. We also have (the) carried that shame and that guilt. It’s not the UWSA, is a part of the committee. She poem as a rant, a response to trauma, to inquiry into the missing and murdered ours to carry. It’s time to move forward.” says that the march is a great way for people sexual abuse and to growing up in care. indigenous women.” “Unfortunately the common ground of all ages and genders to get involved. She performed a live, extended version of (for women) that we have right now is that “For us to march is kind of a way to the poem for the first time on Feb 29. It is women are still at a disadvantage,” McIntyre celebrate, to make noise, to bring attention longer than the Facebook video, Black says, The fight is still not over adds. “When we talk to women, they’re to women’s issues and also to celebrate and more positive; she planned to “turn it able to share experiences of being treated as together,” Loeppky says. around and say, ‘How are we going to fix But despite those changes, there are still sexual objects and the common experience The march is open for everybody and that?’” many issues that women have to face. of being underpaid or undervalued in the will start at Portage Place and will take a The Women-Trans Spectrum Centre They have to deal with racism, workplace workforce.” route ending in the Bulman Centre in the (WTSC), a resource centre for women and harassment and access to health and safety, Another question that comes with IWD University of Winnipeg (U of W). trans students at the U of W, will also host according to Ruprai. nowadays is how we define woman. “There is Apart from the march, there are many multiple events throughout International McIntyre also says that there is the no one single woman’s story or experience,” other events designed to celebrate IWD. Women’s Week. misconception that the work is already McIntyre says. Sarasvàti Productions, a theatre that “To me (IWD exists) to challenge the done. She believes that while women don’t Gruwel says that this is one of the presents significant social issues and oppression towards women, all forms have economic security, they will continue questions they’re facing yet. She states engages in community collaboration, holds of oppression and how other forms of to be exploited. that it shouldn’t depend on the physical the International Women’s Week Cabaret oppression intersect with being a woman “When it comes to equality, women are appearance. of Monologues: Stolen Sisters. The goal of – racialized, misogyny, and class,” Marieke still only making 70-some cents to a dollar “Something we start to work on, but we the event is to honour women by telling Gruwel, the coordinator of the WTSC, that men are making in North America. still have a lot of work on doing, is making their stories, as well as tackle the topic of says. In theatre our experience is that less than sure that we’re celebrating all women. That gender-based violence. “There is a lot of sexual assault that 30 per cent of plays produced in Canadian goes back to saying that we celebrate those Hope McIntyre, the artistic director happens on campus and it’s very, very theatres are written by women,” McIntyre who identify as women.” for Sarasvàti Productions, says that lots of underreported.” says. So moving beyond a simplistic artists felt like the issue of murdered and Dr. Sharanpal Ruprai, an assistant “And certainly the stories we’ve heard understanding of biological sex, IWD is missing women should be addressed. professor in the Women’s and Gender from indigenous women and women for anyone who identifies as a woman, “It’s been so important in the last couple Studies department at the U of W, says that working in the sex trade, women who are according to Gruwel.
Hope McIntyre, the artistic director for Sarasvàti Productions. Kelby Loeppky, status of women director at the UWSA. Dr. Ruprai also adds that the important thing is that the celebration should be all- inclusive. “One thing (that) has been fantastic for women’s movements is a choice. You get to choose your pronouns that you use. And I would fully embrace men to celebrate IWD, because, as our prime-minister has already said, feminist is not a dirty word.” — With files from Meg Crane
IWD March - March 8, 12 p.m. Starts at Portage Place, ends in the Bulman Centre at University of Winnipeg; W(h)ine and Crime - March 8 at 7 p.m. at The Knndy; Sarasvàti Productions’ Cabaret of Monologues: Stolen Sisters – Doing It For The Fame & QUIET - March 9 at 12:30 p.m. at the Hive (U of W); DIY (Do It Yourself) Fest – March 10 at 11.30 a.m. at the Hive (U of W); International Women’s Week Cabaret of Monologues: Stolen Sisters March 12 at 4 p.m. and March 12 at 8 p.m. in the Asper Centre for Theatre and Film (U of W). Mary Black performs her poem “Quiet” in front of an audience of teachers at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
Kelby Loeppky, status of women director at the UWSA. Mary Black delivers a powerful message with the performance of her poem “Quiet.”
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This means that Winnipeg is criss- crossed by corridors of relatively untouched space known as riparian MIDDLE OF zones. These 30-metre buffers between where “civilization” ends and water begins are the closest thing we have to NOWHERE wilderness within the city limits. Winnipeg’s riverbanks may be WITH TIM RUNTZ @TIMRUNTZ protected by developmental regulations, but they are far from uninhabited. It’s not uncommon to encounter a fellow RIVERSIDE ENCOUNTERS mammal near the water, yet in many SHOW THE IMPORTANCE OF cases the distractions of thick foliage and WILD SPACES wandering minds mean these encounters come as a surprise. When I think of rivers, I think of the two I’ve run into yuppies, puppies and crust months I spent travelling alongside them punks alike, all of them oddly bound by a in Europe. Their banks formed a network shared decision to stray from sanctioned of cycling paths removed from traffic and trails and into the meandering routes linking village to town to city. Slowly through riverside brush. pedaling along these waterways gave me These are vulnerable but humanizing a sense of the connectedness of places, encounters, unlikely to occur on city the upstream-downstream relationships sidewalks. There’s a shift that takes of neighbours becoming explicit as I place when we enter spaces seemingly followed the current. unmanaged by municipal or corporate Returning home, I began spending interests. As the line between deer- time along the Red, Seine, and trail and bike-trail blurs, we forget our Assiniboine, and I saw that Winnipeg’s cultured habits like avoiding eye contact
riverbanks hosted a complex ecosystem and rushing to our destinations. ILLUSTRATION BY GABRIELLE FUNK of prairie plants and animals, washed-up These riverside routes are organic in a refuse, and humans of the bike-riding, way, the perennial cycle of freeze, thaw, per kilometre, stabilizing the city’s 100 impracticality of building on fragile land dog-walking, fish-catching, beer- flood and heat revealing new paths one kilometres of riverbank is a massive, and and the convenient utility of allowing guzzling, and pot-smoking varieties. season, then covering them up the next. largely underfunded, endeavour. natural vegetation to do its work. According to a provincial planning But each year the riverbanks also recede, While issues like potholes and tax We will soon have to realize that when regulation, new developments in clumps of earth falling into the Red and rates get officials elected, maintaining it comes to investments in infrastructure, Manitoba must be set back at least 30 Assiniboine like melting icecaps. the integrity of our riverbanks seems Winnipeg’s riverbanks can’t stay out of metres from natural bodies of water, and So of course Winnipeg’s riverbanks to be a neglected priority, despite the sight and out of mind. riverbanks and shorelines “are best left can’t be entirely wild. Riparian zones must biodiversity, property values, and long- Tim Runtz is the Comments editor at The Uniter, in their natural state, undisturbed,” so be carefully monitored and managed to term fiscal nightmares on the line. an associate editor at Geez magazine, and an as to prevent erosion and maintain the prevent erosion, and the city allocates The untouched nature of Winnipeg’s occasional bicycle mechanic. natural water-filtering properties of trees about a million dollars per year to do riverbanks results not from the inherent and shrubs. just that. But at a price tag of $2 million value of wild spaces, but from the mere
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As part of the Leap Manifesto started by writer On Feb. 27 and 28, the Winnipeg Wesmen Naomi Klein, the Winnipeg Raging Grannies men’s wrestling team won three medals and for Social Justice showed up at Polo Park three individual awards at the Canadian on Monday to demand that Canada adopt Interuniversity Sport (CIS) Wrestling a 100 per cent renewable energy platform Championships. Gold Medal winners and by 2050. The Leap Manifesto movement is National Champions include Finn Higgins an environmental campaign endorsed by and Aleksandr Sofronov while Kyle Nguyen David Suzuki, Neil Young and other notable captured the bronze medal in the 120 kg weight Canadians. class and was the recipient of the Community Service Award. Higgins was named the CIS Most Outstanding Male Wrestler.
100 Women sought Arctic 2045
A group of Winnipeg women are recruiting On March 9, the U of W presents the Arctic 2045: more women with the aim to raise $10,000 Three Scenarios, a lecture from the University of in one hour for local charities four times a London’s Dr. Klaus Dodds, who considers cultural year. The group, called 100 Women Who Care geopolitics and possible futures in the changing Winnipeg, are seeking 100 women to each bring circumpolar north. The lecture runs from 12:30 to a cheque for $100. The one-hour idea is geared 1:30 p.m. in room 5L24. toward busy women who want to help.
Shriners hospital closing Multicultural dialogue
After nearly seven decades of operation, On March 10, the U of W presents the Dialogue the Rehabilitation Centre for Children on on Policing in Multicultural Communities, a Wellington Crescent. will close in the next few workshop exploring the perspectives and weeks. The centre, formerly known as the experiences of community members and police Shriners Hospital, will move to a new home at officers. The talk runs at 7 p.m. in Room 2M70, Specialized Services for Children and Youth on as part of the Global College Igbo Educational Notre Dame Avenue, at the site of the former Lecture Series (IELS) on peace-building in a Christie Biscuit factory. The hospital was in multicultural society. operation since 1949 CITY
after five years, population is down by about 70 per cent.” “We’re at nine years now for the index colony on Craig Street, and it’s down 90 CATS IN CRISIS per cent.” These colonies are also calmer places. Charity and city clash over “When you do comprehensive Trap- Neuter-Return, the nuisance behaviours population control stop almost overnight. The spraying, the yowling, the fighting.” SARA ARENSON @SARAARENSON However, CSC only manages 500 cats. That’s because colony management NEWS REPORTER is illegal under the City of Winnipeg’s Responsible Pet Ownership By-law, As Craig Street Cats gears up for its spring which considers it ‘harbouring’ animals. spay and neuter drive, the organization Kailey Barron, a communications believes that more must be done to control projects officer with the City of Winnipeg’s feral feline population. Winnipeg, confirmed that its current On March 5, Craig Street Cats will strategy is limited to funding TNR for hold its annual Spay-Ghetti Dinner to individual cats. raise funds for its upcoming season of “This programming helps prevent the Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR), when street birth of unwanted cats, which could lead cats are humanely trapped, sterilized, and to increased feral populations. The City returned to their colonies. of Winnipeg has no direct programs Lynne Scott, the organization’s founder aimed at management of existing feral and executive director, estimates that SUPPLIED PHOTO cat colonies.” Winnipeg has at least 100,000 community Scott believes the city’s reluctance to cats. Of these, 75 to 80 per cent are feral – Winnipeg has an estimated 100,000 community cats. Of these, up to 80 per cent are feral. change the by-law is short-sighted. not socialized for human contact. “There’s no way that just doing a cat “Those are the cats you never see,” she Unaltered males spray on garbage cans they were found. In fact, volunteers keep here and a cat there will ever be helpful says. “You’ll see a flash of movement out and doors, and whatnot. And unaltered tabs on cats, through a comprehensive to the overall picture.” of the corner of your eye. Typically you male cat urine is very pungent.” colony management approach. They She says that more people would don’t even know the cats are there until Currently, the City of Winnipeg keep records of population numbers, feed manage colonies if they weren’t afraid of you find kittens.” provides funding for individual spaying/ the animals on a schedule, remove any neighbours calling Animal Services. After two or three generations, there neutering of feral cats, in a program that new cats to be spayed and neutered, and “Basically, if the city just removes may be 20 or 30 animals. Life near the Winnipeg Humane Society refers to rescue kittens and strays for adoption. harbouring from the by-law and gets unfixed felines is not fun. as Trap, Neuter, Release. “When you do that, you can expect a out of the way, then there are citizens “It’s smelly. It’s loud. You might find sick However, CSC practices Trap-Neuter- dramatic drop in numbers in the first two prepared to do this work without costing or dead cats with abscesses from fighting. Return, bringing the felines back where years,” Scott says. “And then typically the city anything.”
FOODBANK RELIANCE 20,000 more Winnipeggers using food banks than in 2005
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The number of Winnipeggers relying on food banks has increased significantly in the past 10 years, according to the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). The organization announced 20,000 more Winnipeggers rely on food banks now than in 2005. The Peg, an IISD website that measures the health of communities by tallying studies on various topics, explains that this trend reflects “the efficacy of the food SUPPLIED PHOTO bank system in reaching a large number Volunteer Kerry Weyman checking kits in Winnipeg Harvest’s Emergency Food Room. of people in need, and the number or proportion of people within a population with the need for food, usually due to they are less likely to get assistance with. volunteer there,” Temmer says. afford their lives. The cost of living forces poverty.” The food bank is a temporary solution The University of Winnipeg Students’ students to have to make sacrifices.” While this report helps to give a better to the immediate need for food but they Association (UWSA) runs a food bank She explains that increases in the costs picture of Winnipeg’s population that is also provide services that help food bank every Friday. Emily Epp, the vice- of textbooks, rent and tuition have made in need of food, it is also an indicator of users to move away from this reliance. president internal affairs of UWSA, it difficult for students to manage their income inequality in the city. Temmer points out that food banks are a oversees the implementation of the food expenses over the past 10 years. Jennifer Temmer, a project officer central hub for other resources. bank. She confirms that the UWSA food “(Students) are not able to cope with with IISD, explains that while wages Winnipeg Harvest, a founding bank has experienced an increase in use that. We’re happy we’re able to provide and salaries have remained the same, member of Food Banks Canada, not only by both students and the community. this service, but work needs to be done other costs of living – such as housing, distributes food to more than 63,000 “We’ve certainly seen usage of the food to enable students to afford getting an electricity and transportation – have Manitobans each month but also provides bank increase exponentially,” she says. education and also be a functioning increased, leaving people in a position training services in computer courses, She says that in 2005, only five per citizen.” where they have to make sacrifices. administration and food handling. cent of food bank users were from the People can register for the food bank Since there are services that can help “Winnipeg Harvest does a good job of student body, though she now estimates online at theuwsa.ca/foodbank/ or drop Winnipeggers with basic needs, at times making its services available to people. that students make up for 60 per cent of into the UWSA office. people are forced to forego those expenses People don’t feel stigmatized. People who their users. in order to pay for other necessities that benefit from Winnipeg Harvest will also “It tells me that students aren’t able to THE UNITER // March 3, 2016 15
momentum with a push towards CUTTING increased design excellence in Winnipeg. By looking at our city centre through the lens of innovative design, under-utilized EDGE URBAN spaces will be transformed this summer with unique and playful landscapes,” Syvixay says. GARDENS Eric Plamondon, from La Maison Des Artistes, was on the jury for selecting Cool Gardens offer summer the finalists. He says the jury looked for projects that best answered the question, complement to warming “In spaces we know well, how can you huts recreate interest and re-engage space?” They also looked for interactive projects. “Contemporary art is meant to be SAM DUERKSEN @SAMDUERKSEN experienced,” Plamondon says. An example of one such project is VOLUNTEER STAFF 2°. This Provencher Boulevard garden features cow forms and cubes symbolizing This summer, keep your eye out for some greenhouse gas emissions that move in a contemporary urban gardens in downtown timeline along the history of agriculture Winnipeg. Cool Gardens, presented by into the future. StorefrontMB, The Forks and La Maison “The fact that it is very close to a Des Artistes, is the summer complement main artery, if not the main artery of St. SUPPLIED IMAGE to the winter Warming Huts that are Boniface, to throw it back a bit into our An artist’s rendition of the 2016 competition winner, 2°, by LADR Landscape Architects. found on the frozen rivers in Winnipeg. rural connection/roots and explain rural It is a series of projects installed from landscape in a very urban setting, it forces Main Street to Provencher Boulevard, us to understand space in (a new way),” “Much of landscape is in the public underutilized spaces in Winnipeg, that we The Forks, and Waterfront Drive, as Plamondon says. realm so we all experience it, whereas want to get people to start thinking and well as one in Brandon at the Riverbank Despite the name “Cool Gardens” other design environments, buildings and seeing the value of it.” Discovery Centre. The installations many of the projects are far from the interiors, etc. are much more limiting. In Some projects will change with time are designed by architects, landscape conventional understanding of the word that way landscape has a greater effect based on audience interaction. For architects and creative visionaries both “garden.” The term is used quite liberally, on how we see ourselves and our city. instance, the “Big Red” project at The local and international. and taken to encompass a contemporary The projects are meant to call attention Forks is a red X created out of movable red Jason Syvixay, managing director with form that still brings attention and to the landscape and the potential for sandbags. Plamondon says transformation the Downtown Winnipeg BIZ, one of interaction to landscape and culture, but landscape,” Penner says. is welcome. the project stewards, supports the Cool in a 21st century way. Plamondon hopes this attention might “It’s fun to let the public influence Gardens initiative and its potential for David Penner, an architect and inspire people, and possibly bring about what it will become, and how they take attracting visitors. co-founder of StorefrontMB, hopes more long-term projects in Winnipeg. ownership of public art,” he says. “This international design competition the projects will challenge people’s “I think the whole importance in builds on our city’s current architectural conceptions about landscape design. the project is that we have some great
SILENT STORIES Traveling picture books build empathy for migrants
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PHOTOS BY KEELEY BRAUSTEIN-BLACK The Winnipeg Public Library is temporarily home to an exhibit that’s Sit and read a Silent Book. Silent Books: Final Destination Lampedusa is on exhibit at the Millennium Library. inspiring local kids and refugees across the sea. together, and have different ideas from Silent Books: Final Destination the images that they see in the pictures,” organization founded in the wake of the Lampedusa, a collection of 111 picture Opar says. Second World War, after Jella Lepman books from 23 countries, is at the Mariella Bertelli, a Toronto storyteller started a children’s library in Munich. Millennium Library until March 12. The and the coordinator of the Canadian leg “And we all believe that we can books are touring the world as part of of the book tour, sees it as a way to start a change the world through children’s a project by the International Board on difficult but necessary conversation. books,” Bertelli says. “By selecting good Books for Young People (IBBY) to create “That’s the purpose of the exhibit, to literature, and by sharing and reading it a children’s library on the small Italian bring attention in a soft, gentle way to with children and providing them with island of Lampedusa, a gateway for many this problem of the migrants and the access to these books. And by having migrants from Africa and the Middle refugees and the people that are needing the children read those similar books East. help as they are being relocated, as they around the world, then we will be able Also called “wordless books,” silent are relocating.” to overcome our differences, and create a books tell a story entirely through When she was in Winnipeg for the better world.” pictures. In the exhibit, visitors can flip launch on Feb. 9, Bertelli ran programs Originally, Silent Books: Destination through the collection, draw their own with Grade 5 classes from Sister Lampedusa was only slated to visit silent books, and write postcards to MacNamara and R. F. Morrison schools. Vancouver, Edmonton, and Toronto, Create a Silent Book, or send a postcard. Lampedusa. Ten honoured books are She vividly remembers a boy who had but Italian Cultural Institute of Toronto displayed in a glass case. immigrated from Ukraine. director Alessandro Ruggera agreed For Tamara Opar, section head “I said to the kids, ‘So how do you feel? to fund extra stops when three more modest operation out of an office twice for children and teen services at the How would you feel about leaving your cities requested it. Local resident Flavia a week. Millennium Library, these works of art place?’ Some of them said, ‘frightened’, Fernandez Fabio was instrumental in “But the kids are very, very excited are accessible and inspiring. ‘scared’, but then he said, ‘Sad.’ Then bringing it here. about having a library,” Bertelli says. “There are no boundaries – no other people said, ‘Lonely.’” After touring, the books will belong “They really want it.” boundaries of language, culture, even “At the end of the presentation to Lampedusa’s new library. Although Silent Books: Final Destination reading levels.” afterwards, the classes left, but he went the town has donated a building, there Lampedusa runs until March 12 in “Every time it’s a different experience back to hug me.” have been unforeseen delays. These days, the Children’s and Teen’s area at the as (families) go through the book IBBY is an international voluntary youth trained by IBBY are running a Millennium Library. CAMPUS Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland attempted to use diamond-based detectors to discover new particles but DIAMOND gave up because the technology was too new. DEVELOPMENT Martin and his collaborators from University of Manitoba and American institutions were willing to experiment U of W physicist with technology that was not fully develops diamond-based mature. “We needed something that would particle detector sense the radioactive particles, but not die when exposed to large amounts of LUKE REMPEL @LUKE_REMPEL radiation,” he says. They adopted the technology that VOLUNTEER STAFF researchers at the LHC had invented, and then took it to the next level by actually using it in an experiment. SUPPLIED PHOTO The possibility of being involved in a Martin sees the potential for diamond groundbreaking experiment is what detectors to be used in the future. The University of Winnipeg physics professor Dr. Jeff Martin. attracts many physicists to their field. research is important for other fields that This is certainly true for University of need detectors or electronics that can questions, the kind of questions that you hooking them up to electronics to study Winnipeg (U of W) physics professor Dr. survive in intense radiation. answer with these kinds of experiments,” how they behaved and how we could Jeff Martin. Diamonds have a very high thermal he says. transform this into useful technology for Martin and his team developed a capacity. Because of this, the research Two U of W students who have since the experiment,” Storey says. particle detector that uses synthetic could be used in medical imaging, or to graduated played a large role in the It’s a fitting time for the experiment diamonds grown in a lab. It is the first detect radiation in space, and it could study. Both were undergraduate students results to be released as students are detector of its kind used in a particle open up new uses of diamonds in such working at summer jobs in the physics applying for summer lab jobs. One physics experiment, which was conducted things as computers. lab. of those summer jobs could involve at the Jefferson Lab in Newport News, “Maybe we will one day have all our For Doug Storey – now a graduate being part of the next groundbreaking VA. The innovative results earned computers made not of silicon, but student at University of Victoria – experiment. publication in the prestigious physics diamond instead,” he says. working on this project has set him on Martin and three other U of W journal Physical Review X. Martin’s project is an example of how the career path that he is on today. physicists are now leading a major “That’s my motivation when I do an the U of W can be at the forefront of “I could tell it was something big right experiment searching for the neutron’s experiment, I want to discover something physics research. from the start. My role in the project was electric dipole moment. Physicists from totally new, and I want to have that “Even a smaller university like the U of to help develop the diamond electron Canada and Japan are collaborating on opportunity for physics students here as W can have people involved in big physics detector. This meant we were taking the project. well,” Martin says. projects and thinking of those big science diamonds, coating them in gold, and then
WITH BATED COMMENTS BREATH Late release of grades frustrates some students
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A late release of grades from the fall term has some students questioning the university’s process. On Jan. 25, grades from first semester were released to students following a final exam date of Dec. 21. The release date PHOTO BY DANIEL CRUMP fluctuates yearly depending on the date of the first term’s final exam; in 2015 all grades The reception area of the University of Winnipeg Student Services Centre at 491 Portage Ave. were accessible to students by Jan. 19. After the final exam, professors and instructors have 10 working days to faculty have 10 working days after the without fee.” is necessary for students who may be submit final grades to WebAdvisor. end of the exam period to submit their Tracy Whalen, an associate professor studying a new discipline. Whalen also “For me personally it’s more of a grades,” Russell says. in rhetoric, writing and communications, believes students must be proactive and nuisance,” Louise Oborne, a student This means that as a result of winter believes that the release of grades must be email professors if they feel like they majoring in biochemistry, says. break, grades were not submitted until consistent. need assistance in a course. Oborne says that she would prefer to Jan. 14. “Institution rules must be for She states that flexibility in making know her grades sooner than later. With “Senate has oversight of the grades, everyone,” Whalen says. revisions as well as thoughtfulness when official grades being released well into the that is done through the academic As a result of the exam schedule, marking are important factors that winter term, she worries that students standards committee,” Russell says. professors have a responsibility for professors must consider in setting a who may want to retake courses will not Russell explains this has reduced the consistency and thoughtfulness when student up for success prior to the release be able to register in time. previous timeline. Regarding the issue it comes to marking and submitting of grades. “Maybe you want to retake it and get a of prerequisite courses, he explains official grades. For these reasons, Whalen Professors have a responsibility to keep better mark,” Oborne says. that students will be notified and not believes that the 10-day timeline is students up to date on their grades, and Colin Russell, the University of financially penalized if they fail a course necessary for professors. students have a responsibility to ask for Winnipeg Registrar, has the role of needed for courses in the winter term. In order to better prepare students for support before the end of term. keeping student records, collecting “In terms of prerequisites there is not the release of grades, Whalen says that The risk for an undesired outcome in a and releasing grades. Russell says that a problem. After the grades are finalized professors must give feedback to students. course can be reduced with considerations the Senate and the academic standards the student records office looks at “I like students to know where they made by both professor and student. committee play an important role in the everybody who’s in a course in the next stand,” she says. release of grades. term that required a prerequisite and As a professor of rhetoric, Whalen feels “The main issue for the timeline is that will be dropped from the winter course strongly that feedback on assignments THE UNITER // March 3, 2016 17 The PROFile - JEFF BABB ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
PALMER FRITSCHY “Chess is an analytical game. A lot of my development as a chess player NEWS EDITOR occured when I was in junior high and high school.” Jeff Babb, an associate professor in “Some of the type of thinking you do the department of mathematics and in mathematics and theoretical statistics statistics, has taught nearly every is somewhat related to chess thinking.” class in math and stats available at the “That would be my best result,” Babb University of Winnipeg since joining laughs. the faculty in 2000. Babb admits he’s not that “Lately I’ve been doing a lot of competitively active any more but has collaborative work in mesolithic won the Manitoba Grand Prix in 2004 archaeology and anthropology,” he says. and 2006, and has had moves from Babb is also a master-level chess some of his games published in books. player, “but just barely in the category,” He has an M.Sc. in Mathematical he laughs. “I usually lose to grand Statistics from the University of Alberta masters.” and a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the When he was 16, he tied for first in the University of Winnipeg, and has served Manitoba Open men’s championship three times as president of the Statistical and tied for third in the Canadian Association of Manitoba and twice as Open in 1979. vice-president. PHOTO BY SIMEON RUSNAK
AREA OF RESEARCH: Statistical climatology, statistical anthropology, WORST TEACHING MOMENT: I had a root canal in the morning and tried to spatial statistics, multivariate analysis, linear and nonlinear models, history of lecture mathematical statistics in the afternoon. I’m not sure how coherent that mathematics and statistics, statistics and social policy. lecture was. NUMBER OF PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS: Twenty-three, and one FAVOURITE THING ABOUT WINNIPEG: I was born in Winnipeg… I’m very more that should be coming out very soon, in a book for a conference I spoke at comfortable in Winnipeg, I feel like I’m at home. I’m at home at the University of in Germany in 2013. Winnipeg cause I was student here. BOOK RECOMMENDATION: Timescape by Gregory Benford. COMMENTS NO JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE Parliament’s condemnation of BDS relies on a fallacious Western narrative that enables Apartheid
PHOTO BY GREG GALLINGER GREG GALLINGER @GREGGALLINGER Protestors march in Winnipeg during the 2014 Gaza war. VOLUNTEER STAFF worldwide boycott of the only Liberal Paul McLeod notes, it’s because Canada Palestinian statehood, to condemn Israel’s democracy in the Middle East, while already has sanctions against Iran. unilateral control of the Holy City of No issue is more controversial than simultaneously exempting some of Housefather and MPs from both Jerusalem, and to investigate war crimes Israel-Palestine, and none is more the worst human rights offenders in sides of the aisle would have us believe committed during the 2014 Gaza War. representative of Western hypocrisy. the world from equivalent attention,” that we ought to be looking elsewhere to Because of this unwavering support for The recent Parliamentary motion Clement said. “It is clear that the intent engage in critique about human rights, the State of Israel, Palestinians continue to condemn the Boycott, Divestment of those in favour of this movement is not but in essence they’re pointing off to an to live with the occupation and ongoing and Sanctions movement would have to resolve the conflict but to single out indistinguishable point in the distance, ethnic cleansing. Palestinians have been Canadians believe that Canada is Israel and contest the Jewish state’s right perhaps where a straw man is having its effectively erased from the conversation. standing up to anti-Semitism and those to be treated with fairness.” rights abused. Their lives do not matter in the context of who seek to single out Israel. Whereas To hear Clement lob accusations of They’re certainly not calling upon Western discourse and attempts to stand in activists who are acting in solidarity racism and selectively care about human us to question our own contributions solidarity with them must be discredited. with Palestinians seek to boycott and call rights is simply jaw dropping given to global suffering, otherwise Canada’s Though the blame is being placed on attention to the corporations that profit the trade deal the Conservative party unconditional support for Israel may supporters of BDS, Western powers are from Israel’s occupation of Palestine. made with human rights abusers, Saudi actually be worth examining. After all it actually the biggest obstacle to peace in Tony Clement, MP for Parry Sound- Arabia, and rumors Clement defended is because of Western support, through Israel-Palestine. We may not all agree Muskoka, who brought forward the Apartheid South Africa during his time votes at the United Nations and free on the tactics, but it should not be up motion, fallaciously equates criticism of at the University of Toronto. Not to trade deals, that Israel can continue to to politicians to establish the scope of the State of Israel as anti-Semitism. The mention the Islamophobic and anti-Arab build separation walls, annex territory, acceptable resistance. assertion is both grossly dismissive of rhetoric that was thrown around during break international laws and commit war Greg Gallinger is a freelance photographer, the wide spectrum of opinion within the the last election. crimes with impunity. vegan food enthusiast, purveyor of half-witted Jewish community, while also ignoring MP for Mount Royal, Que., Anthony Canada, under the direction of Prime commentary and reluctant citizen of the global that Palestinians have the right to be heard. 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