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NOVEMBER 2013 The Calgary FREE JOURNAL Reporting on the people, issues and events that shape our city MY BODY AS ART Calgarian inked from head to toe PAGE 10 S TARVED FOR SPACE Food trucks take over Calgary PAGE 26 CHEF, MODEL, DESIGNER 7 jobs that make our city special PAGE 22 Loosening the Bible Belt Pam Rocker liberated by affirming church PAGE 18 THIS ISSUE NOVEMBER 2013 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Outdoor concerts: JENICA FOSTER music or noise? Wheelchair Page 7 PHOTO EDITORS basketball PAULINE ZULUETA Page 28 MICHELLE THOMAS DESIGN EDITOR RIAD KADRI FRONT OF BOOK EDITORS KYLE NAPIER COURTNEY TAYLOR COPY EDITOR LINDSAY DOUGLAS CITY EDITORS COLIN MCHATTIE ALEXANDRA RABBITTE ASHELY ALCANTARA Body of work OPINION EDITOR Page 10 ANNA BROOKS ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR JASMINE HAN Top left photo by Justin Wilson/CJ PROFILE EDITOR Top right photo by Michelle Thomas/CJ Bottom left photo by Pauline Zulueta/CJ DANIELLE SEMRAU LIVING & TRENDS EDITOR Calling her Bluff 40 SHANNON GALLEY City Page 14 | Actress explains the depth in producing her own show fruits, herbs FOOD EDITOR Veteran reintegration DEVON JOLIE Page 4 | Examining programs and vegetables and policies available to thriving on down- LENS SPORTS EDITOR Canadians returning from town rooftop COURTNEY URBANI service Faces of Calgary garden Page 16 | A look to the neighbours in SUPERVISING EDITORS Soldier profiles our own backyard Page 25 Page 6 | The meaning of JANICE PASKEY PH: (403) 440-8744 Remembrance Day PROFILES (PRINT AND CITY HALL) sports OPINION Keeping faith SALLY HANEY Page 18 | Pam Rocker finds a Olympic bonds Page 30 | Calgarian Daria O’Neill, (ONLINE) church welcoming to her sexuality 16, follows family footsteps 10,000 PRODUCTION & ADVERTISING Caribbeans TRENDS BRAD SIMM celebrate culture Where we work PH: (403) 440-6946 in Alberta Page 22 | 20-somethings amid FOR THE RECORD | 12.9% unemployment The name of photographer Kenneth Locke was misstated Page 8 in the photo credits of the $428,649 article “Food truck owner The Calgary Journal reports on dishes on his ‘demanding the people, issues and events that home cost shape our city. It is produced by Dinosaur Porn likely causing mistress’” published October journalism students at Mount Royal Page 9 | Popular literature style 2013. The Calgary Journal University. viewed as a cheap money maker Calgarians to apologizes. Kenneth Locke’s A&E photography can be viewed leave at at https://www.facebook. Page 24 com/pages/Kenneth-Locke- Gun hush abuzz Photography/135981099816044 Page 12 | New tattoo gun renowned FOOD FOLLOW US ONLINE: for silence @calgaryjournal facebook.com/CalgaryJournal Food trucks find home calgaryjournal.ca November events Page 26 | Mobile restaurants Page 13 | Fun things to do allowed a temporary place on Cover design by Riad Kadri CONTACT THE JOURNAL: around Calgary private properties Cover photo by Pauline Zulueta [email protected] 2 N CALGARYOV 2013 JOURNAL.CA THE FRONT Groupon of the November alert: Local latte art: Dragon The most collisions in Calgary this time last year were: Bumpy’s A) Deerfoot Trail and 32 Ave N.E. Cafe offers month B) Glenmore Trail and Crowchild Trail fun latte C) Deerfoot Trail and 16 Ave N.E. art. Toe fungus removal ollisions, mostly rear-ends] mostly ollisions, c PH OTO BY CHELSEA BARCLAY/CALGARY . with 28 28 with . E Some 250 Groupons for toe fungus removal at N. Ave 16 and Trail Deerfoot [Answer: the Calgary Laser Health & Beauty Centre were JOURNAL purchased ($199 instead of $600) by our press deadline. Our suggestion? Wear your shower shoes next time you’re in Back to work Calgary municipal the locker room. Our new City Council election highlights meets Nov. 18 Upsets John Mar concedes after unexpected upset. Warning! Burning issues: Evan Woolley is the new face in Ward 8. Noise from outdoor concerts; food truck licensing; the nasty $8,400 per home subsidy in “My chapter is over and it’s time to pass the the ‘burbs and cleaning out Dale Hodges’ papers torch to someone else. Whether or not this is after 30 years. my preference, this is the people speaking,” Mar said. “When the cards turn against you, democracy isn’t pretty.” “He was kind Ward 4 incumbent Gael MacLeod was defeated by Sean Chu. enough to text me everything and Landslides In Ward 3, Jim Stevenson was re-elected with gave me very clear an overwhelming 81 per cent of the votes. instructions. I got Ward 10 incumbent, Andre Chabot was re- elected in his east-central ward once again. out safely.” He took an early lead and stayed ahead of the RYTCH NEWMILLER opposition all night. on police officer texting him after a car accident Squeakers A tight race in Ward 11 saw incumbent Brian Anti-union propaganda in downtown Full story about upcoming upgrade to 911 Pincott beat out James Maxim. Calgary. Aren’t these good things? telephone service online at calgaryjournal.ca PH OTO BY COURTNEY TAYLOR/CALGARY JOURNAL Hotly contested Ward 1 ended in a recount on election night, the final count was in favour of Ward Sutherland by just 86 votes. Injured veteran forum on Nov. 27 Brian Bradley and other Admission is free. Mayoral race veterans will discuss their The FDA Public Forum on There may have been some close races, big experiences dealing with the Injured Veterans and the VRAB upsets and huge landslides but the mayoral Veterans Review and Appeal is hosted by the Foundation race played out how many would expect with Board, or VRAB. This will follow Mayor Nenshi receiving 73.7 per cent of the the scheduled release of a for Democratic Advancement 47-page case study of Bradley and Mount Royal University’s votes. Jon Lord, his closest rival, received 21.4 and the current review pro- Faculty of Communication per cent of the votes, but felt his campaign was cess, expected to be available Studies. a success. Nov. 4. The Nov. 27 forum takes “Little old me, doing my bit for democracy. place at Mount Royal Univer- sity’s Moot Court, with the first I will be laughed at and scorned as a fringe of two hour-long information candidate, but since day one, I felt the wind at sessions beginning at 6:30 my back,” said Lord, adding his efforts ensured p.m. PHOTO COURTESY OF STEPHEN GARVEY/FDA Nenshi wouldn’t simply be acclaimed. calgaryjournal.CA NOV 2013 3 City From soldier to civilian Canada’s veterans struggle to reintegrate KYLE NAPIER [email protected] round Remembrance Day on Nov. 11, Doug Boyd, the branch manager and past pres- Scott Maxwell, executive director for Wound- millions of Canadians will don signature ident of the #285 Royal Canadian Legion, has met ed Warriors Canada, says that Veterans Affairs replica poppies, attend ceremonies and veterans from every generation between World programs meant to compensate these veterans services, and otherwise honour Cana- War II and Afghanistan. Boyd says veterans who aren’t fair or accessible. Ada’s veterans. suffer most are the ones left alone. “Is it wise to dangle a cheque for $125,000 in Beyond this public respect, some veterans are “The veteran, in many cases, still feels that he’s front of someone that is having mental health calling for more accessible and equitable support the only one,” Boyd explains. “They went through issues?” Maxwell asks. systems — arguing that the current compensa- the same thing, and they’re all trying to treat it Both Maxwell and Toussaint say these cheques tion from Veterans Affairs Canada and the Cana- by themselves, which is a bad thing — they feel are intended to cover operational stress injuries dian Forces isn’t enough. alone.” endured by the soldier in full. Although some- Jean Guy Toussaint has served in five military times over $100,000, Toussaint says this compen- ISSUES FELT BY CANADA’S VETERANS conflicts, touring Golan Heights, former Yugosla- sation is difficult to access and is paid as a one-off Nearly 5,000 Canadian soldiers return as ci- via, Afghanistan and Cyprus twice. He now stud- — with some veterans not realizing the full scope vilians each year. Though valiant in service, ies social work at Mount Royal University, spend- of their injury before accepting compensation. some of Canada’s returning soldiers are ing his downtime finding help for veterans who Toussaint describes a veteran who had lost a seen as neglected, broken and undervalued. are often homeless or without adequate social leg, causing unforeseen damage to the rest of assistance. his body over time. These complications added “For the first time in their life, there’s no fire up, leaving the veteran needing a ramp to access team partner for them,” Toussaint says. “But even his own house. more than that, there are very few other people As Maxwell primarily assists veterans living with like them.” PTSD, he says, “There is no single solution to post- Both Boyd and Toussaint see a demand for traumatic stress, which is very complex.” better compensation to soldiers returning with physical or mental operational stress injuries. ASSISTANCE TO VETERANS BY VETERANS Both argue that a soldier should be cared for — It seems as though those who have already “at least to the condition that he was in before.” served are the ones creating reintegration pro- Discussing residual psychological issues, Boyd grams. says he has heard of a soldier returning to Canada In 2007, Toussaint was asked by a friend to help and digging a trench in their front yard to prepare locate two veterans — both were regimental ser- for war. geant-majors in Afghanistan. Their wives had left “That means he’s not mentally prepared to be them, their families had broken up and their lives back here.