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the uniter news October A Versatile Month thanks for a successful harvest, which falls a World Teacher’s Day is a joint initia- Canadian Cancer Society, a national com- A.P. (BEN) bit earlier in Canada due to our shorter tive of the United Nations Educational, munity-based organization of volunteers BENTON growing season. Scientific, and Cultural Organisation whose mission is to eradicate cancer and to Life Sciences Week is intended to (UNESCO), the United Nations enhance the quality of life of people living News Editor spotlight the biotechnology sector in Development Programme (UNDP), the with cancer, is spearheading the awareness Manitoba and to highlight the upcoming International Labour Organization (ILO), campaign. Breast cancer is the most com- It seems that October is Business of Science Symposium to be held and the United Nations Children’s Fund mon cancer in Canadian women. On aver- an action packed month. next week at the Fairmont Hotel. Doer (UNICEF) that celebrates the profession age, 407 Canadian women will be diagnosed Academically speaking it believes that this event “highlights the worldwide, and the important role that with breast cancer every week, but the dis- means that a number of assignments are province’s scientific and business expert- teachers play. "This year's slogan, Teachers ease affects men too. Since 1988, breast beginning to hit, and mid terms are looming ise…identifying business development - Opening Doors to a Better World, captures cancer incidence rates have risen by 10% for three credit hour courses. Aside from opportunities and generating further growth the essence of what education means to our and death rates have dropped by 19%, but that there’s thankfully a long-weekend in in the industry.” In two years, this sector quality of life in Manitoba, within Canada there’s still work to do. This year’s message there—aptly named Thanksgiving. Note to has seen a growth in excess of 40 per cent, and around the globe," said Education and is “Early Detection: the Best Defence.” keeners—you can’t get into the U of W on with approximately 37 firms employing Youth Minister Ron Lemieux. Call to all U In 1992, the then Honourable Mary the Thanksgiving long weekend. Premier approximately 3,500 people. For a province of W students—have you thanked a teacher Collins, minister responsible for the Status Gary Doer has declared October 5th- 11th with only about four percent of Canada's lately? of Women in Canada, declared October to Life Sciences Week in Manitoba, and did population, the province is home to ten per- This Wednesday at 7:15 a.m. in the be Women’s History Month. The purpose of you know that October is also host to World cent of national biotechnology activity. Faculty club the U.W.S.A. is hosting a pan- Women’s History Month is to recognize the Teacher’s Day (Oct 5), Mental Health Life sciences stakeholders come from cake breakfast to raise some funds, and raise achievements and contributions of women Awareness Week (Oct 6-10), Breast Cancer a wide range of sectors including business, awareness of Mental Health issues. Ian as a vital part of our Canadian Heritage. Awareness Month, and Women’s History academia, government, finance and invest- Krochak and Shannon McGunigal from the The month owes its origins to October 18th, Month? ment, research, technology innovation and Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Persons Day, which commemorates the Canadian Thanksgiving falls on the health care. Featured topics for discussion Service (EPPIS) will speak about mental ill- notorious “Persons Case” in which the same day of October every year—the sec- include biodefence, bioinformatics, biocom- ness awareness and the hope is that the “famous five” (Judge Emily Murphy, Nellie ond Monday of the month (this year the 13th posites, and functional foods and health and event will bring together staff, faculty, and McClung, Louise McKinney, Irene Parlby, for those of you who are, like me, chrono- will feature four streams: business develop- students to inform and interact. and Henrietta Muir Edwards) successfully logically challenged). Unlike the American ment, attracting investment, research and In Canada and elsewhere we’re being advocated to recognize women as persons tradition of remembering Pilgrims and set- development expertise, and careers in life encouraged to think about breasts. October under the law, thereby giving the vote to tling in the New World, Canadians give sciences. is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the women. Landmines Claim More than Lives: Action, Awareness and Aid Campaign

BY KARIN KLIEWER completed the 9-month YMAAP internship, and Landmines Iowa Action Workshop, and was event planning are also areas that need volun- many of them continue to work with other inter- able to provide ideas and resources to youth and teers. Getting involved with local humanitarian erhaps one needs close-to-home encoun- national development and activist organizations. other activists in the US. The following Youth organizations is an excellent way to foster self- ters to wake up from a comfortable, inac- Typical duties of a Mine Ambassador include: Ambassador, Meredith Daun, worked with vol- expression while working for a common good. Ptive dormancy in which international con- unteers to host the Winnipeg War Affected The Youth Mine Ambassador Program reflects cern fails to extend past the depressing drones of • Organizing fundraising events and presenta- Children Conference. Together, these two this, and is in itself proof that when any number world events, as provided by our faithful and tions in over 300 cities across Canada, which founded (and personally fund) the Manitoba of individuals become mobilized, excited and fear-fulfilling evening news. Many were perhaps reach over 100,000 directly, and countless oth- Campaign to Ban Landmines. passionate, peace is approachable and change is woken up on Friday, October 3 with news that ers through print, television and radio media Youth Ambassadors are not the only ones imminent. two Canadian soldiers were killed, and three hits. mobilized by this campaign. Following a school I have personally been enriched through were injured in Afghanistan when their IItis vehicle ran over a landmine. • Developing and delivering over 2,500 presen- presentation by an Ambassador, 11-year old the few times I have worked with this organiza- This incident garnered much media cov- tations and workshops to schools and the gener- Sierra Noble fiddled on the streets of Winnipeg tion. It is a pleasure to be a part of the passion erage, as those who lost their lives on a peace- al public. and organized school fund-raisers to support which the workers and volunteers express keeping mission should be honoured for their • Training and working with hundreds of volun- Song Kosal’s Toy Fund for Mine-Affected Kids through their event ideas and through their sto- commitment. What is often forgotten, however, teers who have contributed over 15,000 hours to in Cambodia. She has also written and hand ries. In the events leading up to and including is that landmine issues are prevalent throughout mine action in Canada illustrated a book about landmines that she is last year’s Night of 1000 Dinners, I saw the gen- many war-torn countries, and many civilian per- • Collecting tens of thousands of signatures for trying to publish. erosity of local businesses who donated food for sonnel are killed and injured each day by the Youth Against War Treaty. This year’s Ambassador, Paul Neudorf, this event; I witnessed a young fiddler give of antipersonnel mines. This type of violence will undoubtedly contribute to the list of her time and energy to entertain the guests; I draws particular concern, as landmines are not As the first program of its kind anywhere YMAAP achievements. As a graduate of Menno saw friends and strangers sharing a meal to learn designed to kill; rather, they maim the arms, in the world, YMAAP is geared towards build- Simons College’s Conflict Resolution Studies about a common cause, and I saw two men from legs, hands and feet of people. Civilians are ing a sustainable network of active and articu- program, Neudorf’s excitement and passion warring countries live out their desires for peace most affected by this weapon, as they must con- late individuals who seek to share their concern complement his interests in international affairs. and reconciliation by working together to pro- tinue to live and work in landmine-affected about international affairs. Although mine Along with a team of volunteers (which can mote dialogue and understanding. This year, I areas even after direct violence in an area has action is only one aspect of an enormous always be increased!), Neudorf is planning have been fortunate enough to be in a volunteer subsided. Fear of explosions hinders food pro- amount of worldwide peace-building needs, events which include multiple school presenta- group with a former child soldier who is now a duction, water and wood collection, recreation, focusing on this issue serves to build a deeper tions, an art show, and this year’s kick-off, the strong advocate for peace and justice issues, a and general freedom. understanding and awareness which will, ideal- Night of 1000 Dinners. This fundraising event is man from a landmine affected country who On December 3, 1997, Canada, along ly, be a springboard for further exploration, designed to enlighten and enliven those of us holds within himself countless stories of fear with 121 other countries, signed an agreement action, and public education. who might not normally be aware of landmine and hope, a grade 11 student whose drive and geared towards eradicating this form of warfare. YMAAP functions under the cooperative issues. Last year, over fifty people gathered in passions would put many of us to shame, a fel- This action made public these countries’ deci- partnership of the Mine Action Team of Tony’s Café in Wesley Hall to share a meal and low student who encourages us with her spirit sions to destroy landmine stockpiles, clear Department of Foreign Affairs and International hear from two international guests–one from and constancy, and a co-ordinator, adept at cele- antipersonnel landmines from within countries, Trade (DFAIT), Mines Action Canada, and the India and one from Pakistan–who were working brating the gifts which each of us offer. and provide financial support to mine clearance, Canadian Red Cross, with funding from the together to promote peaceful relations between Volunteering for this organization has been a education, and survivor assistance. In 1999, Mine Action Team of DFAIT. This joint initia- their respective countries. This year’s Night of pleasure, and I look forward to what this year these actions were made International Law tive is unique as it parallels international part- 1000 dinners will also be a “Night of 1000 will bring. when the treaty entered into force--those who nerships forged between government and non- Stories,” where a number of different people For me, volunteering has been the wake- had signed and ratified the treaty would have governmental organizations (NGOs) that advo- will share personal experiences related to mines, up call to help me out of my segmented student these obligations enforced. cate mine action initiatives worldwide. Host landmine survivors, and war-affected countries. life. This voice advocates for those whose lives As a response to its commitment, Canada organizations (in Winnipeg’s case, the Manitoba The place and time are yet to be determined, but do not have the option of dormancy, and whis- pledged its financial support to mine action Council for International Cooperation) play a we expect to have a final date soon. pers of potential change. It is here that incidents worldwide, and created the Youth Mine Action key role in the Program by integrating Youth There is, of course, much room on like Friday’s landmine explosion play a role, Ambassador Program (YMAAP) to work Ambassadors into their offices, and providing YMAAP’s small-but-effective volunteer team. causing us to look outside of ourselves and real- towards national education regarding landmine them with a home base. Involvement with YMAAP can take numerous ize that the security we generally experience issues. This program, designed to draw on the Winnipeg has been, and continues to be forms. For those interested in public speaking, should be felt by all. energy and passion reflected by so many very involved in the YMAAP. In January 2000, peace education and/or interaction with all ages For more information, please contact Paul Canadian youth, operates in thirteen different Darryl Toews represented the Canadian cam- of students, participation in school presentations Neudorf at [email protected] or visit cities across Canada. Thus far, 33 youth have paign at the United States Campaign to Ban is welcomed. Administrative assistance and the YMAAP website: www.dangermines.ca page 4 october 9, 2003

the uniter news New Women’s Studies Center to Embrace Community

BY SCOTT DE GROOT sion that feminism excludes men, but I hope Beat Reporter that the centre will take a very active role in including men in activities, even have groups After years of planning and preparation, where men can discuss their involvement in the University of Winnipeg Women’s Studies the feminist movement.” Program is finally realizing a dream. Amidst MLWSC’s namesake, renowned great fanfare, the Margaret Laurence Canadian author Margaret Laurence, made Women’s Studies Centre (MLWSC) is set to important contributions to women’s litera- open its doors on October 24th, 2003. With ture. Born in Neepawa Manitoba, Laurence hopes of building bridges between academia wrote the award winning novels The Stone and the downtown community, the centre Angel, A Jest of God, and The Diviners. She will work towards addressing the serious died in 1987. issues facing women in the core area within Fiona Green, coordinator of the Women’s a feminist framework. Studies Program at the U of W, believes The Margaret Laurence Women’s Laurence’s place in the centre’s title is well Studies Centre is located in a commercial deserved. “We wanted a woman who had a storefront property at 526 Sargent, a block strong presence in Manitoba, who had a and half away from the U of W. The site was strong connection with women’s issues. I selected to facilitate accessibility not only think later on in Margaret Laurence’s life, for students, but also women in the commu- she came to an understanding and wrote nity—an integral part of the centre’s man- about women’s issues. She’s a prairie gal so date. MLWSC has a contract to rent the to speak, and it seemed to me that she would space from Lazarus housing for a period of 3 not only capture our imagination, but it’s years, and was able to customize recent ren- Photo: Tamara Letkeman appropriate that the centre would be named ovations. after such a well known prairie woman,” said The centre’s philosophy is an innovative Green. one; it rejects the post-secondary ivory The centre’s grand opening, planned for tower mentality and fully embraces concepts Friday Oct. 24 at 2:30pm, will include a rib- of community participation, the reciprocal bon cutting, the unveiling of a wall artwork exchange of knowledge, and grassroots provided by the graffiti gallery, and musical activism—something the MLWSC’s first entertainment by the North End Women’s director, Jen Faulder, feels strongly about. people an idea of how to actually achieve it Street Connections, and Sage House, on the centre. Although dates and times are still ten- “There are social issues right here in our instead of just writing papers and talking health services available to sex-trade work- tative, more events are planned throughout immediate surroundings; we would like to theoretically.” ers. A community needs assessment is also the week. The film Killing Us Softly will be have a more active role in engaging with this Faulder, who graduated from the U of W planned. shown On Tuesday, Oct.28th, followed up by community, instead of having students com- with a BA in English and History last year, Feminist theory, an important component a discussion with Fiona Green. Thursday ing in, taking their courses, and returning to has been heavily involved in grassroots of the Women’s Studies Program, will play Oct. 30th will feature Telling the Difference, the suburbs,” she said. “University students organizations such as Sage House, where an important role in the centre’s praxis. “It is, a story telling circle, and on Friday Oct. 31st and faculty have a certain type of knowl- she gained considerable experience in and will be, a feminist organization that will at 12:30pm a belly-dancing workshop will be edge, and community members and organi- fundraising and organization. Under promote feminist work,” explains Faudler. held by Carol Puchailo. zations have a different type of knowledge, Faulder’s directorship, the centre will focus “For me, feminism is a belief that all human Faculty, students, and community mem- so we want there to be an equal exchange. In on community research. MLWSC’s first beings need to be treated equally regardless bers (both male and female) are welcome to women’s studies, we tend to talk about research proposal is a joint project with local of their gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity, etc. attend. Contact Jen Faulder at j.faulder@uwin- social justice a lot, but this center will give organizations such as Thunderbird House, I think that a lot of people have an impres- nipeg.ca for more information. Is Murray’s ‘New Deal’ a Good Deal? – Winnipegers Unsure

BY SCOTT DE GROOT “These large gaps in funding for mainte- goods and tax the social bads.” nance and capital projects demonstrate that While it’s clear the new deal would give ayor Glen Murray is proposing our current tax system will never be adequate Winnipeg greater financial autonomy—the LIST OF MEETING DATES & TIMES to build the kind of city we want or need,” city is currently dependent on the province for some major changes to Winnipeg’s Oct.6.2003 Mtax structure. The so-called “New explained Angus. “We require dedicated rev- transfer payments—the provincial govern- Deal” will attempt to break the city’s enue sources in order to pay for both the ment would have to relinquish control of cer- Location: St. James Civic Centre, unhealthy addiction to property taxes by repairs of bridges and the building of new tain jurisdictions. So far, the province appears 2055 Ness Ave. implementing new user fees and levies. It’s ones. This is why the proposal of the new deal to be taking a cautious, wait and see attitude, Time: 7-9 p.m. clear changes are needed; the Public Works is so timely.” perhaps to gauge public opinion. department released a report stating that it The new tax scheme would increase city When Murray announced his ambitious Oct.15.2003 would cost as much as one billion dollars to revenue by 120 million dollars, which would plan last month, he received fifteen minutes of Location: Fort Rouge Leisure Centre, repair and upgrade roads, sewers, public be immediately spent on a facelift for city fame in the national media. He was inter- 625 Osborne St. parks, libraries, and other infrastructure. infrastructure. Sixty million dollars of this viewed on CBC Newsworld, featured on radio Time: 7-9 p.m. Coupled with rising civic costs and shrinking would come from gasoline and sales taxes, call-in shows, written up in Maclean’s maga- revenue from property taxes, the current tax currently a federal and provincial responsibil- zine, and made the front page of newspapers Oct.20.2003 discourse is long overdue. But is Murray’s ity, as well as new hotel taxes for city visitors. across the country. Here in Winnipeg, the Location: Miles MacDonell New Deal Winnipeg’s magic bullet, and who The rest will be raised from user fees on response to the New Deal was one of caution, Collegiate, 757 Roch St. will the winners and losers be? As of yet, there garbage, utilities, a series of levies on liquor, if not cynicism. Time: 7-9 p.m. seems to be many more questions than 911 service, and water and sewer service for In the Winnipeg Free Press recently, answers. example. These charges will result in a 50 per- columnist Linda West argued that middle aged Oct.22.2003 Since it was announced last month, cent cut in property taxes (which currently and older Winnipegers will benefit the most Location: Glenlawn Collegiate, 770 Murray’s New Deal has proven to be a hot comprise 42% of the city’s revenue), reduc- from the New Deal as they are well estab- St. Mary's Rd. topic. Debate has raged across the city on tions in transit fare, and the elimination of the lished and already own homes. She also point- Time: 7-9 p.m. radio call-in shows, universities, and around business tax. ed out that young adults will be affected the water cooler—but many Winnipegers are According to Murray, these initiatives adversely by the new deal as they are more Nov.5.2003 simply left scratching their heads, waiting for are meant to encourage socially responsible inclined to buy cars, appliances, and homes, Location: Northwood Community the figures to be broken down and analyzed. behavior among Winnipeg consumers, while the cost of which will be raised by increases to Centre, 1415 Burrows Ave There has also been debate on city coun- improving Winnipeg’s tax structure. “We can’t the sales tax. Some concerns have also been Time: 7-9 p.m. cil; some councilors have expressed concern increase property taxes and we’re getting raised over the plan’s effect on the poor who over what the New Deal will cost more concerned about the environment,” said are the most vulnerable to increases to the Nov.19.2003 Winnipegers. Councilor John Angus, chair of Murray. “We’ve got to realize that non-renew- sales tax and utility costs. However, Murray Location: St. Paul's High School, the standing policy committee on public able resources are under-taxed and overused, acknowledges that some revisions to the New 2200 Grant Ave. works, feels differently—he strongly supports but we are overtaxing property. Fixed proper- Deal are inevitable and hopes to involve the Time: 7-9 p.m. the new deal. He has stated that the gap ty taxes are things you pay no matter how effi- public in a series of two-hour town hall meet- For more information on, visit the between what the city needs to spend and what cient you are. When you look at cities that are ings on the subject. Six meetings will be held City of Winnipeg’s website at it can afford is large, and will only increase more successful, they tax pollution, they tax at various locations across the city from St. http://www.winnipeg.ca over time if the city continues to rely on prop- crime, speeding, and they put taxes on landfill James, to East Kildonan. All Winnipegers are erty taxes. and garbage. They reduce taxes on the social invited to attend and voice their concerns. october 9, 2003 page 5

the uniter news Acclaimed Author and Food Activist Celebrates World Vegetarian Day in Winnipeg

BY JONATHAN TAN to say to the ones who ask, “are you one of those necessity is commonly accepted, but in our high 10 per cent of Alzheimer’s patients may be mis- V people?” tech times, telling someone that 40 per cent of diagnosed cases of CJD, many audience mem- Someone should tell George W. Bush that His appearance in Winnipeg marked both all cancers could be prevented by returning to a bers were visibly shocked. How in the midst of he’s wasting his money building advanced the tenth anniversary of the Winnipeg diet of fruit, vegetables and grains sounds a lit- the Canadian Mad Cow scare had thetr not been space-based weapons. According to Howard Vegetarian Association (WVA) and World tle far fetched. calls for mandatory testing for BSE of all cattle Lyman, ex-cattle rancher and world famous Vegetarian Day. Using both alarming statistics, The information provided about Bovine going to slaughter? Why had the Canadian food activist, “The fork is the most dangerous like that the city of Los Angeles alone grinds up Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or Mad Government continued to treat the issue as a weapon in the homo-sapiens arsenal.” 100,000 lbs of euthanized cats and dogs per year Cow Disease, and its human counterpart purely economic one? After hearing his address to a sold-out audi- to be used as animal feed, and personal stories, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) had many in Lyman’s personal stories of being con- ence at the Winnipeg Art Gallery on October 1st, Lyman attempted to educate the audience on the audience salivating for fruits, vegetables and fronted by ranchers at speaking events, only to many people in the crowd were inclined to agree. how to best use the 35 second window after grains. The recent discovery of a single case of have them find out from him that the “animal Lyman, who was made famous by his appearance being questioned to convince someone to BSE in Canada has brought the Canadian cattle by-product” in their feed bags was actually as a witness in Britain’s McLibel case, and his remove animals from their diet. industry to its knees and recently ranchers have ground up cattle, didn’t make the carnivores in subsequent appearance on Oprah Winfrey, spoke The title of his talk was, “Changing the become so desperate that they are shooting their the crowd feel much better. If the ranchers did- to the crowd in a plain no-nonsense manner. World, One Bite At a Time” and it included own cattle. Lyman spoke of how after the Mad n’t know that they were feeding animals to their Having been sued for his comments on the Oprah information about the way animals are raised, Cow disaster in Britain, when more than 4 and a animals, and the government isn’t testing for show, Lyman has been defending his approach to the risks to human and ecological health and an half million head of cattle were incinerated, the BSE, who would protect consumers from the the plain truth for years. underlying message of hope that there is still European Union began testing all slaughter aged dangers of their food? Half folk-storyteller, half evangelical time to save the animals, the planet and our- cattle for BSE. In the United States less than Lyman’s answer is that there are still 20 preacher, Lyman took the crowd from his child- selves. Lyman argued that the world is facing an 0.0001 per cent of its 37 million head of cattle per cent of people in the world who are thinking. hood on an organic dairy farm, through his ecological catastrophe and that we are in an are tested for the disease, and in Canada the The trick he said was to educate this 20 per cent paralysing tumour, successful surgery and life absolute crisis, noting however that the signals odds aren’t much better. When presented with on the health and ecological advantages to eating changing revelation. He claimed that while you of crisis and opportunity were the same. the possibility that CJD is actually much more an organically grown, vegan diet. The other 80 can’t tell people what to eat, you can have things Certainly the idea that invention is born of prevalent than the media would suggest, up to per cent would follow, “head to tail, like cattle.” High Times Planned for Chretien’s Retirement? committee, lashed out at drug would result in a Chretien still stands firmly behind the BY SCOTT DE GROOT Chreitien. “To suggest to fine. The legislation also decriminalization legislation, which he pon his retirement, and free from the our young people that you proposes harsher sen- views as keeping up with Canadian society. pressures of running the nation, can just start smoking tences for those caught “It is still illegal, but do you think Canadians UPrime Minister Jean Chretien will marijuana, and just pay trafficking marijuana, want their kids, 18 years old or 17, who have the opportunity to savor some of the the fine and be done with accompanied by an edu- smoke marijuana once and get caught by the finer things in life: rest and relaxation, week- it, is just irresponsible,” cational campaign to dis- police, to have a criminal record for the rest ends at the cottage, and sparking up a big fat said White. Heather courage its use. of their life? What has happened is so illog- doobie. Wait a second; what’s wrong with Forsyth, the Alberta solic- Both the Canadian and ical that they are not prosecuted anymore. this picture? itor general and outspo- international media So let's make the law adjust to the realities. Okay, maybe it was meant as a joke, ken critic of the proposed picked up on Chretien’s It is still illegal, but they will pay a fine. It is but in an interview with the Winnipeg Free legislation to de-criminal- comments and stories in sync with the times.” Press last week, after outlining his rationale ize marijuana also chas- were run on CBC Despite the political opposition, the for the decriminalization of Marijuana, tised Chretien. “I think it's National, in the Globe majority of Canadians agree with Chreitien, Chretien followed up by saying, “I don’t a terrible message to send and Mail, and across the according to recent polls. The national pub- know what is marijuana. Perhaps I will try it to our young people in Reuters news agency. lic opinion research firm Ipsos-Reid (for- when it will no longer be criminal. I will have this country. I think it's a Chretien has always merly Angus Reid) found that 63% of my money for my fine and a joint in the other terrible message to send to our young people maintained that he has never smoked mari- Canadians believe that fines, instead of hand.” period,” said Forsyth. juana, and was quick to defend his com- criminal charges, should be used to punish Needless-to-say, the official opposition Chretien was referring to controversial ments at a Liberal fundraiser at the Fairmont those in possession of 15 grams or less of and law enforcement officials were not legislation to de-criminalize marijuana. hotel in downtown Winnipeg. “I never said I marijuana. Statistics Canada reports that amused. Randy White, a Canadian Alliance Instead of a court appearance and criminal tried it—I said someday I might be able to nearly 2 million Canadians are recreational MP and chair of the House of Commons drug record, possession of 15 grams or less of the do it.” users of marijuana. Old Navy -New to Winnipeg

BY JENNY HENKELMAN other parts being mid-priced Gap and high-end are $12.50 in the States. But you can get a nice Apparently, American retail chains find Banana Republic). The brand’s jeans, t-shirts and pair of jeans for $30.” Winnipeg pretty attractive these days. They’ve The first thing you notice when you walk kicky skirts have been at home in Canada for a Lanny McInnes of the Retail Council of got plenty of prime suburban real estate to choose in the store is the line. A queue fifty people deep, while in cities like Toronto, Calgary, and Canada’s Manitoba office says that existing from, such as Regent Avenue, Kenaston and lined up for the cash registers, selections draped Vancouver. Now, Winnipeg gets in on the action. Winnipeg retailers won’t suffer for the presence McGillivray, and St. Vital. Not only that, said over their arms. Mothers push toddlers in store- Winnipeggers are clearly enchanted with of larger-than-life Old Navy. “Overall the retail McInnes, believing that retailers like the fact that furnished strollers to up-tempo remixes of up- the new store. “It’s just like Toronto!” one pre- sector is very strong. The fact that other retailers Winnipeg isn’t a boomtown. “Manitoba has had a tempo Jennifer Lopez hits. Teenagers with belly teen girl says. Opening weekend, customers wait- have decided to come in proves that our retail steady and stable growth. You don’t have the rings and retirement-age couples all sift through ed 1 1/2 hours for a fitting room. “My friend sector is growing in strength.” Warren isn’t so peaks and valleys that you have in other mar- piles of “Performance Fleece” hoodies and wanted to come here after our volleyball game on unequivocal. He says Old Navy might steal some kets.” painter jeans, under flashing marquee lights. The Saturday and it was a thirty minute wait to get business from retailers like Winners and Retailers can also count on new Canadian staff hustles to return tried-on items to the into the parking lot,” says Marianne Bergmann, a Canada’s own Cotton Ginny, which also caters to markets being primed by advertising on shelves, sporting red t-shirts and headsets. It’s Glenlea high school student. the casual clothing market. American television. That worked in Old Navy’s Old Navy. And Winnipeggers did line up, for the store But Old Navy isn’t the first American retail favour, says Warren. “Old Navy’s got the cachet Part shopping trip, part pop concert and to make $200,000 in opening weekend purchases. chain to make a splash in Manitoba. Arts-and- in that it’s an internationally recognized brand. part exercise in patience. The line for the fitting That beats the previous Winnipeg record of crafts superstore Michaels and discount electron- People will want to buy it because of the brand rooms will cost you 20 minutes of your time. $180,000, says Robert Warren, Director of the ics shop Best Buy have also made recent debuts. name.” And in the case of Old Navy, that brand “There’s a lot of people here,” Marta Alphonso Asper Centre for Entrepreneurship at the The reason American retail is pouring in to status outweighs low quality. “The material they remarks as she waits in that line. “Shouldn’t these University of Manitoba. “Old Navy is a really Canada is simple, says Warren. “They’ve tapped sell isn’t the world’s greatest, but the fact that it people be working?” she says with a laugh, car- good fit for Winnipeg,” he says. “Winnipeggers out their markets in the US,” he says. “This is the was Old Navy was a big draw.” rying a hefty pile of corduroy pants and t-shirts. are very value oriented. Winnipeg is a blue-collar last of this particular wave. The next wave will be But not all Winnipeggers are sold on Old She and her mother are here on a Monday after- town, there aren’t a lot of well-paying jobs, it’s high-end retailers, but those will mostly skip over Navy. Marianne Bergmann dismisses the current noon. It’s 1:00 p.m. and there are no fewer than mostly manufacturing.” Winnipeg.” In other words, don’t expect to see a furor. “It’s because it’s new here. It’s a fad. It’ll 150 people in the store, though Alphonso is not Old Navy’s prices converted into Canadian Banana Republic in this town any time soon—it’s pass.” She also remembers another big retail skipping her classes at Balmoral Hall, she insists. dollars aren’t as low as they are in the States, but a little too rich for Manitoban blood. Although, opening from 2001. “The same thing happened They’re all at the Polo Park store to do what they so far that hasn’t deterred shoppers. “In the States Warren points out, a recent study found that the with American Eagle—everyone was, “It has to could only do south of the border before. Old it’s cheap,” says Alphonso. “Here it’s more like citizens of Halifax are, in fact, cheaper than be American Eagle, I want American Eagle.” But Navy is the lowest end of the Gap triumvirate (the regular prices. The t-shirts that are $16.50 here Winnipeggers. now everyone’s kind of over that.” page 6 october 9, 2003

the uniter editorial Just Income in the Global Race to the Bottom? your value as a Canadian Citizen is meas- wage, if you count tips, none of the readi- system later. JONATHAN ured more by your ability to be an ly available service industry jobs in the A regulatory change in the minimum TAN employed productive member of our soci- city offer significant training or career wage in Manitoba would likely improve Editor In Chief ety than by your nationalist loyalty or civic development opportunities. This creates a Winnipeggers ability to stomach, and pay engagement. situation where many workers work in the for the tax changes being proposed in From the New Deal for This focus on employability and the service industry simply because they have Mayor Murray’s New Deal for the city. the city, to the Paul reduction of access to EI benefits has no better options. Most pay minimum Meaning that the city would actually be Martin coronation, to the increased the available untrained labour wage and so a large focus of Just Income able to pay for the upgrades needed to our zoo like version of citizen initiated politics force in the country. At the same time, Week is on the level at which government crumbling infrastructure. Plus as far as in California, politics are occupying more Canada was integrating into the Global regulation sets minimum wage. policy instruments go, raising the mini- front page space than J-Lo lately. For all economy more than ever before, labour Currently the minimum wage in mum wage will cost the provincial gov- the attention that California’s new market competitiveness and worker pro- Manitoba is $6.75/hr , having been raised ernment nothing, they will receive more in Governor Arnold is getting, the politics ductivity levels became more of a central by $0.25 each year under the NDP govern- income taxes and the money earned by happening here at home are much more issue. Canadians watched as the Canada- ment. According to the Just Income minimum wage earners will be re-circulat- interesting, because they’ll affect us much U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and Coalition this level is not enough to allow ed in the economy. Of course, businesses more than the Terminator’s policy ideas. then the North American Free Trade minimum wage workers to live with digni- might complain, but there’s always some- During the week of October 2nd to Agreement (NAFTA) re-shaped the ty. It is especially hard on families and thing for them to complain about, if the October 10th, a coalition of groups repre- Canadian economy. Gone were the mostly particularly single mothers. A single par- New Deal goes through they won’t have senting faith, community, labour, unionized manufacturing jobs; lost to ent with two children would need to work the municipal business tax to pay any- women’s, Aboriginal and social welfare cheaper the Mexican labour market. The 85.31 hours per week just to reach the more, which may offset their increased organizations have come together as the service industry stepped in as the major poverty line. The idea that reaching the labour costs. Businesses who are required Just Income Coalition to put on Just employer in the Canadian economy. The poverty line, let alone surpassing it, should to invest more in their labour might also Income Week. problem as most students and anyone who be considered particularly repulsive in one see a benefit in investing in training to Just Income Week is a series of pub- has read No Logo will know, is that the of the world’s richest developed countries. make those workers more productive. lic forums, seminars and social events service industry provides hobby jobs, not The coalition also cites the increased Raising the minimum wage is about designed to raise awareness and lobby the real ones. usage of food banks such as Winnipeg giving working people dignity, so that they government for economic justice for low By hobby jobs I mean jobs that are Harvest by working families as an indica- are not in a constant state of desperation. income citizens. In my Canadian Politics mainly part-time with employees having tion that the minimum wage should be The arguments against this might be that seminar, the past week’s class focused on little input into how many hours they work raised significantly. An increase to a Just we will lose out on the competitive global the restructuring or retrenchment of the and when. Most are retail, call centre or wage is seen as offsetting the enormous market place, making investors skip over welfare state and a shift in focus in the cit- food service jobs here in Winnipeg. Retail social and economic costs associated with Winnipeg for a city with cheaper wages. izenship regime from universality to jobs often require employees to spend a high levels of the population living in Frankly though if what we’re going to lose employability. Essentially this means that good portion of their income on items poverty. Examples of this are easy to find, out on are more of the same crap minimum you’re a lot less likely to get employment from their employer to be used as uni- if you can only afford either food or rent wage jobs that offer little more than an insurance (EI) or family allowance bene- forms. While call centre and food service but not both, your health is sure to suffer, alternative to begging for change on the fits than you used to be, it also means that jobs usually have wages above minimum creating a bigger burden for the health care street, we’ll be better off for it. october 9, 2003 page 7

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them as open minded, accurate representations of the Letters To the Editor thoughts and feelings of the University demographic. I also question the integrity of a publication that denies Dear Editor, its readership a fair examination of a topic, with con- sideration for all sides, and presents a clearly biased I am writing to express my disappointment in a opinion to a student body who may not be aware of the cartoon published in the September 25th edition of publication’s bias and where to search for alternative “The Uniter”. The cartoon depicted a Catholic priest viewpoints. with his arm around a young boy impressing the Finally, I ponder why, on a subject that many con- “deviance” of homosexual marriage while in the same sider an issue of respect and acceptance, it is morally breath insinuating his desire for a less than holy rela- acceptable for “The Uniter” to degrade my views, my tionship with the young boy. As a practicing Catholic church and a very important part of who I am but were who is proud of my faith, I found the cartoon deeply I to express my views in the nature of the subject car- offensive. I, along with all other Catholics I know were toon, I would be called a bigot. I do not understand how saddened, ashamed and disgusted with the abuses that any real conversation can take place in the midst of took place within our church. But, I do not believe that such blatant prejudice. the actions of these select deviants is a fair commentary I would like to take the opportunity to remind on the Catholic Church’s teachings on sex, marriage “The Uniter” that it is meant to represent the entire stu- and family. To present Catholic teachings in such light dent body and challenge it to seek sources that give an is a disservice to “The Uniter’s” readership. accurate representation of all viewpoints so that all stu- If “The Uniter” is meant to be an open-minded, dents may see themselves in its pages. I also encourage safe forum for the ideas and topics of interest to a “The Uniter” to answer the call of the Golden Rule, diverse student population, I question why I, as a mem- ‘treat others as you would be treated’. A publication ber of the student body do not see myself accurately or founded on respect and true conversation would really Powered by fairly represented in this publication. I wonder if “The be something worth reading. Uniter” can truly be what it wishes to be when it bla- tantly makes biased value judgements and presents Courtney McGregor

Editor’s note: It is unclear to me how the Uniter denies its readership a fair examination of topics, and where the author of the letter gets her claim that our cartoon was presented as an accu- rate representation of the thoughts and feelings of a demographic I do not know. The Uniter provides a venue for all students to express their views and concerns, including that of the car- toonist. To characterize students as a demographic is also misleading as it assumes that all share common views, which is clearly not the case. The Catholic Church’s views on the same- sex marriage issue, and other issues receives far more attention in the mainstream press than does the posi- tion of gays and lesbians. Part of the Uniter’s mandate as a campus and community newspaper is to give under-represented views a forum. The Uniter is based on volunteer submis- sions so if a certain point of view seems under-represented in our pages it is not because we are refusing to print it, it is because it is not being sub- mitted. Finally, I would point out that your Golden Rule of ‘treating others as you would be treated’ when applied to the issue of same-sex marriage would mean that if anyone can marry, so too should couples of the same-sex be able to marry.

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Who Wants to TASTE VEGETARIAN WINNIPEG! Celebrate World Vegetarian Month and WVA’s 10th anniversary. Tour Winnipeg’s four Slaughter a Turkey for vegetarian restaurants at their finest this October! All meals are 100% vegan. VEG NIGHT AT Wednesday Oct. 15. TICK- homemade salsa ETS: $9 WVA members, DELICIOUS • Garden Salad, with home- $11 nonmembers. Thanksgiving? made balsamic vinagrette We begin our tour at a Purchase/reservation perennially favourite haunt • Black Bean & Corn Salad (997-9997 or 633-1600) for connoisseurs of mals are useless or anything, but it’s an undeni- deadline: Oct. 13. • Double Chocolate BY JACKIE WEST meatless Chinese cusine. able fact that, in order to survive, we need to Brownie with Berry Coulis WHERE: Delicious Vegan Buffet Holidays are a time when we generally take other lives. It’s the circle of life. That being Vegetarian Restaurant, • Organic Fair Trade Tea or want to try to minimize our differences and said, though, the way we take those lives is a • Alu Palak (spinach & 1467 Pembina Hwy. Coffee come together in as much harmony and unity as huge profession to our loss in the ‘human’ traits potato curry) WHEN: 7 PM, Thursday possible. It sounds great in theory, but is a dif- I just described. It’s for that reason that I’m Oct. 9. TICKETS: $15 • Dal Tarka (lentil cooked ficult task for someone who chooses to go going veggie. There’s no way it’s sinless to eat WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 29 WVA members, $17 non- in tomato, onion & garlic) against tradition and skip the main dish of con- meat acquired inhumanely.” members. Purchase/reserva- VEG NIGHT AT ventional feasts: the meat. To the vegetarians What stops many people from giving up tion: (477-1530) • Sabat Masala Alu Gobhi AFFINITY around the table this year, the big dead bird meat is the health factor. Liz Goodman, a stu- (spicy cauliflower & pota- deadline: Oct. 6, 9 PM. Last stop on our veggie centerpiece just isn’t appealing. dent at the University of Manitoba, and a for- to) For many people Thanksgiving is the mer vegetarian, explains why she went back to Vegan Menu tour of Winnipeg takes us • Channa Masala Curry occasion to show appreciation for freedom, the carnivorous side, “I came to the conclusion to the Chinese vegetarian • Tofu with Tomato Soup (chick peas & spicy curry) happiness, comfort and life. What doesn’t make that it wasn’t actually a healthy decision for me, restaurant that made even the Winnipeg Free Press’s sense is why it is accepted to deprive animals of and that the whole purpose of animals in the • Spring Roll • Mixed Vegetable Curry these same tenets. “I find it very sad and ironic world was for consumption. You see the food meat-loving restaurant crit- • Vegetarian Mock Duck that we are being thankful to our creator or to chain in the natural environment, and since • Salad, Basmati rice ic Marion Warhaft come dangerously close to a nature, when one of the key aspects of this is humans are animals we are part of it. So why • Eggplant w/Black Bean • Dessert: Exotic Vegan dietary epiphany. WHERE: slaughtering a turkey,” says Syd Baumel, a deprive yourself of something that is natural Sauce & Tofu Sweets! vegan and board member of the Winnipeg and needed?” Affinity Vegetarian Garden, Vegetarian Association (WVA). But is it needed? Research shows that • Filet with Szechuan Sauce • Beverages: order separately. 208 Edmonton St. WHEN: 7:00 PM, Wednesday Oct. Most vegitarians live on a plant-based vegetarians, who are eating properly, are gener- • Straw Mushroom and 29. TICKETS: $15 WVA diet, free of all animal flesh while. Lacto-ovo ally a very healthy group of people. They are at Tofu, stir-fried with Diced TUESDAY OCTOBER 21 members, $17 nonmem- vegetarians avoid all animal flesh, but do use lower risk for heart disease, cancer and dia- “Shrimp” eggs and dairy products, while vegans avoid all betes. The truth is, no nutrient essential to VEG NIGHT AT bers. Purchase/reservation products of animal origin. human life is found in meat that is not also • Shanghai Noodle with MONDRAGON (943-0251) deadline: Oct. 27. So why do people choose vegetarianism found in diets composed of entirely plant foods. Vegetable Sauce Moving right along to in the first place? There are a variety of rea- Some nutrients just take more effort to get. “I • Brown & White Rice Winnipeg’s one-of-a-kind Vegan Menu sons. Andrew Caufman, a student at the don’t see there’s any reason for us to eat meat, vegan organic restaurant University of Winnipeg says, “It’s unhealthy it’s not a necessity,” says University of • Tea, Dessert & Fruit and countercultural centre. Appetizer: Daikon Cake for you, it’s unhealthy for the environment, and Winnipeg student Sarah Laing. WHERE: Mondragon Wonton Soup And if you’re still looking for the taste of I disagree with many of the practices that go WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15 Bookstore & Coffeehouse, into producing meat.” meat, it’s not hard to find. There are huge selec- 1-91 Albert St. WHEN: Garden Special Chow Mein The state animals live in before they tions of veggie meats that taste like the real VEG NIGHT AT 7:00 PM, Tuesday Oct. 21. Crispy Veggie Balls are slaughtered is a common motive for giv- thing. Good news for vegetarians and turkeys is APNU PUNJAB TICKETS: $14 WVA Curry Soyapork w/ Potato ing up meat. The road to becoming the nice- the tuforkey, a mixture of tofu and stuffing, sea- Finally, an East Indian veg- members, $16 nonmem- Tomato w/ Beancurd Skin ly wrapped packages you see in grocery soned to taste like turkey. Plus, it’s shaped like etarian restaurant in the bers. Purchase/reservation Layers stores is full of misery. The vast majority of a turkey! Organza Foods gets them in for ‘Peg! WHERE: Apnu (946-5241) deadline: Oct. thanksgiving. And for side dishes? “There are farm animals in Canada are subjected to Punjab Sweet House, 86 & 18. Stir Fried Gai Lan severe confinement, unnecessary injury, and lots of substitutes, like mushroom gravy instead 88 Mandalay Dr. (off Vegan Menu are exposed to severe hot or cold tempera- of flesh juice,” says Laing, “and you can still Inkster, west of White & Brown Rice make stuffing without a turkey, and that’s the tures. Federal regulations allow farm ani- McPhillips). WHEN: 7 PM, • Oven Roasted Vegetable Tea, Fruit mals to be transported to slaughter without most important part!” & Tofu Fajitas, topped with food or water for up to 72 hours, and many For a full vegan meal, the Winnipeg die along the way. Vegetarian Association (WVA) is the place to Even if you believe that we are meant to go. This month they’re holding four weekly being World Vegetarian Month. On October 1st world this month, it’s an ideal time to consider consume other animals, you can oppose the vegan feasts, open to non-members (see side they celebrated World Vegetarian Day along adopting a more conscientious way of life. As cruel way that it’s done. Blake Fisher, a first bar). For those who are interested in becoming with their tenth anniversary. October 2nd was Baumel concludes, “any movement towards year student at the University of Alberta says, a member, the price for students is impressive- World Farm Animals Day and November 1st is following a more compassionate diet is good “It’s my belief that humans are, in fact, placed ly cheap, only five dollars for the year. Plus, World Vegan Day. All of these veggie-friendly for all parties concerned: animals, the environ- above animals. We have the ability to be aware members can receive discounts at different veg- festivities occuring during the season of turkey ment, even farmers.” This thanksgiving is the of ourselves, to grow as a society in under- etarian restaurants and stores in Winnipeg. It’s dinners is surely no coincidence. perfect occasion to start a new tradition of hav- standing and knowledge. I’m not saying ani- an important time for the WVA, with October With all that’s going on in the vegetarian ing a celebration without suffering. Vegetarians Will Love 'Affinity'

in Winnipeg, says Cynthia Cho, restau- BY JEANNE FRONDA rant manager. “We like to provide The words vegetarian, shrimp, fish, healthy, but also delicious food. We hope and ribs usually don’t belong in the same more people could be vegetarian.” sentence, but at Affinity Vegetarian The restaurant’s appeal is also con- Garden Restaurant they do. nected to its décor and the owners’ choice The restaurant, which is almost a of instrumental music. The chairs are a year and a half old, lists vegetarian mock warm red, which make the restaurant con- goose, vegetarian shrimp, sweet and sour ducive for selecting and consuming food. veggie fish, and sweet and sour veggie And for each seat there lies a paper place- Photo: Tamara Letkeman ribs as its specialties. mat that has the symbols from the David Chen, Joseph Chen, and Chinese horoscope. The restaurant has Susan Cho, who are all vegetarians, own one private room for parties that seats the restaurant, which specializes in vegan about twenty people while the main room and Taiwanese cuisine. One reason the seats forty-four. Reservations are unnec- owners decided to open a vegetarian essary. restaurant is because there weren’t many Continued on next page october 9, 2003 page 9

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FOOD POLITICS Is the Stigmatization of Meat-Eating Waning? Organic meat producers offer best cuts

can get B12 in nutrional yeast but would have affected because consumers stayed away from CHERYL to consume large amounts to be on par with a beef for awhile, which has resulted in a sub- Photo: Tamara Letkeman GUDZ person who eats meat. stantial backlog of processing. "Everyone suf- Features Editor "It is the B12 that always causes that fered," says Dickson, "the organic producer as deficiency," says Gerry Dickson, owner of well as the conventional producer.” If you're like me Organza Foods. "Between protein and B12, Despite lingering BSE concerns in and you eat meat, you that's what [vegetarians] always have trouble Canada, Julie Fine, co-coordinator of the have probably felt bad sustaining in their bodies…[which] can do a Organic Food Council of Manitoba (OFCM), about it at some point. lot of damage." says that organic products are catching on in Dave Brophy You may feel bad about Dickson recalls a person who came into Manitoba. "We're at the very beginning of a the conditions animals are exposed to on con- his store whose skin was discoloured blue and huge boom." The OFCM has a mandate to lifestyle where you have to adjust your con- ventional farms, or the mass quantities we as a white from not having enough B12. In these educate the public and farmers about the bene- sumer habits. "If you're going to consume culture consume. But guilty meat-eaters take cases, Dickson and staff will recommend eat- fits of organic farming. Fine says a directory organic products you have to make a conscious note, there are alternatives and changes you ing bison meat, which many doctors instruct as will be released in early spring listing where decision to do so," he says. Instead of selling can incorporate into your eating habits. well. For the health-conscious, bison is a lean you can buy organic meat and which restau- beef at $11-$13 per pound, they sell 30 pound Meat eaters are long overdue for a little choice and an excellent source of iron. But rants (although few) are serving it. packages which cost about $170. The package respect, and ironically, some are finding theirs unfortunately there is no certified organic Until then, here is a sampling of places will include choice cuts of meat such as ham- in the organic food movement. It is now quite bison in the province. where you can buy certified organic meat or as burger, t-bone steaks, and roast, but customers common for the health conscious and ecologi- Organic meat is the product of humane- otherwise specified. A1 Nutrition sells organic can tailor their package based on their prefer- cally-aware to reconsider meat as an important ly treated livestock, raised in low stress open pork and free range bison, while Organza and ences. Schettler's product is government addition to one's diet. air facilities and pastures, and fed certified Vita Health sell organic chicken, beef, pork, and inspected and comes with a certificate of Some people like Dave Brophy, an envi- organic grain. Organic meat producers will not turkey. As far as restaurants go, only the down- authenticity. ronmental studies Master's student at the not use synthetic chemicals and antibiotics, town Sheraton Hotel restaurant serves an organ- Dave Brophy thinks North Americans University of Manitoba, are eating meat again animal by-products or proteins, or growth ic Rib-eye dinner with the fixings for $27. Urban eat too much meat and are too picky about after being vegan for a number of years. stimulants in the animal water and feed. Ojas, located in Osborne south, serves free what parts. He notes that in other cultures, the Brophy used to belong to a vegan group in "In order for it to qualify as organic range, forage-fed chicken and beef products, but entire animal is used. Brophy has spent sever- Montreal called EarthSave where he met meat, it has to be raised [as such] from birth, they are not certified organic. The steak sand- al months in the Peruvian Andes living in Howard Lyman, a reformed cattle rancher and even the mother of that calf, has to be fed wich sells for an affordable $13 which includes small agricultural towns. The first time he turned vegan who recently spoke in Winnipeg. 100% organic product in her third trimester of soup and salad. Some places might have grass- went to Peru he was a strict vegetarian, but "After I started to learn some of the nuances of pregnancy," says David Schettler, an organic fed beef products, a second best alternative to soon realized that it wasn't right in that con- the issues, I realized what we were preaching meat producer near Arborg, Manitoba. "That organic, so do your homework. text. After being invited to dinner by local res- with EarthSave was pretty simplistic and pro- calf, for its lifetime, has to have certified Gerry Dickson of Organza can't under- idents, he didn't have the nerve to refuse meat. pagandist, and there's really a lot more to it," organic feed as well as the milk that comes stand how restaurants, like the Sheraton, use Since the food they ate was all grown or raised says Brophy. "I think the vegetarian movement from the mother." certifed organic meat since the price is up to in the community, abstaining just wasn't logi- has really fallen into this indulgent, expensive Schettler is also the second vice-presi- three times the price of conventionally pro- cal in his mind. "I still think animal welfare is form of supposedly ecological eating." dent of the Organic Producers Association and duced meat. Even though he sells a fair important, animals shouldn't be [handled] the Brophy says it is not ecological to be a certified organic inspector. He runs 480 acres amount of beef, especially ground beef, he way they are here in the factories, but I don't vegetarian or vegan in the prairies because of or 3/4 sections of land and has been raising thinks retail is a difficult arena. "The beef think in principle it's wrong to kill animals to our climate and industry. To adhere to a plant- livestock in organic ways since 1992. Schettler tends to be quite expensive….if people are eat. I think that it has to be done in a certain based diet, vegetarians and vegans must rely says that organic operations must abide by serious about it, they'll tend to go and buy way" he says. on exotic foods produced in developing coun- strict regulations. Every year there is a farm direct from producers." Dickson sells chicken, If you can't afford to buy organic meat, tries. Brophy argues that many countries turn inspection, where an inspector audits the pro- pork, beef, and occasionally wild turkey. "It's but want to eat meat responsibly, then try eat- their fertile lands into cash crops for the first ducer's records and inspects all the fields. still an issue of sourcing a lot of this stuff. It's ing regular meat less often. Our meat-devour- world, with not enough land to cultivate their Because of the strict regulations, Bovine not easy to get locally." ing culture demands producers process as own subsistance. His solution is to eat local. Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) -- also David Schettler's business thrives on much as they can. If more people were to cut Although a dutiful vegetarian can find known as "Mad Cow Disease" -- could never selling direct to consumers --over 90% of their down their intake, then conventional produc- many required nutrients in foods other than strike livestock since they would never be fed product is sold in this way. He says that busi- ers would likely modify their scope, and meat, even if they enrich their plant-based diet animal by-products. “It’s virtually impossible. ness with retailers is difficult because they maybe even their methods. A result desirable with vitamins and other supplements, many They have to feed them certified organic feed," often won't have enough freezer space or dis- to vegetarians and conscientious meat-eaters still lack sufficient Vitamin B12. A vegetarian says Dickson. Organic producers were still play room. But eating organic meat is a alike.

Continued from previous page average woman pays like six dollars (for lunch) and for men it’s around eight or Texture plays a key role in how the nine dollars.” food tastes. The sweet and sour veggie The lunch buffet also offers a mini- ribs feel like the real deal—sans meat, of mum of ten different dishes from which course. Who knew that sticking taro root you can choose. In addition, if you go to inside a Chinese long donut could look the buffet more than once a week the and taste like a rib? dishes are likely to be different from If the meat-free cuisine doesn't Monday to Friday. One way the restaurant interest you , the restaurant also gives decides what food to add to its more than discounts. They offer a 10% discount to 80 item-menu is to introduce a dish dur- students who have a Student Saver Card ing the lunch buffet. If the dish is popular and a 15% discount to members of the it will be added to the regular menu. Winnipeg Vegetarian Association. The restaurant offers several dishes The restaurant has a unique lunch high in protein, which have tofu, soy, and buffet not only because of the vegetarian wheat gluten as their main ingredient. cuisine, but because customers pay by Only two of the dishes, the corn soup and weight. Each time a customer fills his or egg fried rice, contain eggs. Some of the

her plate with food, an employee weighs most popular dishes are the crispy black Photo: Tamara Letkeman it to calculate the cost. “Most people like mushroom, colorful bean curd skin lay- that idea,” says Cho regarding how cus- ers, and most of the chow mein dishes, tomers only pay for what they eat. “You says Cho. don’t waste food. Sometimes you just like The cooks have no formal training, to taste the flavour of the food.” so the employees learned to cook food the “Some people think it’s expensive,” old fashioned way—watching and learn- says Mary Wu, one of the cooks, “But the ing from their elders. page 10 october 9, 2003

the uniter a & e A Portrait of the Artist as a Busy Man An interview with Martin Tielli

JEFF and help me out and there was a lot of experi- ROBSON menting going on.” Arts Editor That experimentation led to Operation Infinite Joy, an album that is a complete 180- For the past 13 degree turn from his first solo CD. The album years, Martin Tielli has is very diverse and challenging, and is full of been a member of one of interesting sonic twists and turns. But it’s not Canada’s most creative the kind of thing that will likely get much main- and innovative bands, stream radio attention, to which Tielli says, “I Toronto’s Rheostatics. They’re widely praised don’t really think about it. I guess a couple of by critics and fellow musicians, yet their music times, I’ve written songs that were sort of is so different and challenging that they’ve straight enough to the point that they’ve shown never had a huge mainstream audience. But promise that they might get played on the radio, they’re a band that refuses to bow down to the but those instances were chance. We make most wants of the masses, and instead they make of our money selling records anyway, whether music that’s interesting and creatively satisfy- it gets played on mainstream radio or not it ing. They’ve done almost everything across the doesn’t seem to matter much.” map, they’ve got a straight ahead rock album, a So this CD has been marketed in a very children’s CD and book project, a movie innovative way, it’s not only being sold in soundtrack and score, and even a soundtrack to stores and at concerts, but it’s the first in a sub- the paintings of the infamous Canadian Group scription series, which will include three other of 7. CDs this year that won’t be available in stores. And singer, songwriter, and lead gui- All of the subscription series CDs come in a tarist, Martin Tielli, has been at the forefront of metal box that is hand numbered and signed by much of that diversity and innovation. That’s Tielli. Folks who buy OIJ in stores won’t get why it seemed so odd that his first solo CD the special packaging or the two bonus tracks would be all solo acoustic guitar and voice, but included on the subscription edition. When in the land of Tielli and Rheostatics, the only asked who thought up such an interesting way rule is to expect the unexpected. That album, of marketing music, Tielli explains, “My record 2000’s We Didn’t Even Suspect That He Was company, which is the wonderful Shauna De the Poppy Salesman, was a beautiful and inti- Cartier [of Six Shooter Records.] I just said mate affair. But when it came to do the follow there’s got to be a way to put out more than one up, he says, “This time around, unlike the last record in a year, because I’ve got a lot of catch- time I did a solo guitar and voice, that time I ing up to do. I wanted to do a lot of recording had a pretty solid idea how it was going to and she came up with this neat idea to facilitate sound, obviously, [but this time,] I just wanted that.” to see it unfold and let everybody get in there All of the CDs also come with elaborate

booklets full of Tielli’s original paintings and the subscriber CDs and the accompanying drawings. His beautiful paintings have graced work, Tielli has already begun recording anoth- the covers of most of the Rheostatics’ CDs, and er album with his Rheostatics band mates. “We formed the illustrations for their children’s recorded bed [tracks] for about 8 or 9 new book, The Story of Harmelodia. Tielli explains songs over the last few months. [Singer, gui- that painting and drawing has been a big part of tarist, and author Dave] Bidini’s working on his life since even before he began to make another book, just finishing it up. We’re recon- music, but that the two art forms are definitely vening in November for our Horseshoe run. My interconnected. “ dream for the future is to do that kind of thing, They affect each other. Doing the artwork but to have one in Winnipeg, one in Vancouver, for the record kind of clarifies it for me and one in Halifax. I love the notion of us doing gives me ideas about how to finish songs. The that, you set up, and the sound in the club is act of going out into the world and sketching perfect. You play a lot of nights to a smaller things and drawing is one that influences both number of people. You don’t have to travel things, definitely, although the actual physical between shows, so it’s fresher and more cre- pursuit of both is different. Painting and art is ative sometimes.” very solitary and playing music is quite the The run he’s referring to is the band’s opposite, and each has its own quite compli- now annual marathon of shows, which is held mentary joys and pitfalls. You can become a at The Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto. This year, little too isolated drawing, and when you play they’ll be playing for 13 nights in a row, last music you can lose yourself a bit, I find, in year it was 12, 11 in 2001. The concerts will be other people.” held November 10 – 22, and they’ve got an Combining the two artistic ventures was extra special night planned for November 13. extremely gratifying, but time consuming, for That night, twenty or more other singers will be Tielli. The release of Operation Infinite Justice asked to become their favourite Rheostatic for was pushed back a number of times as he a night, and get up and be the lead singer for a laboured over the artwork until it was perfect. song. But Winnipeggers will have to wait a “That one [OIJ] was quite a bit of work. I real- while to see the band, which has a loyal and ly dug into the art,” Tielli says, “I plan to go devoted following here. In the meantime, further and further with the subsequent ones. Martin Tielli will keep busy recording and tour- The one that’s currently being mailed out is the ing his solo projects, and creating intricate art- smallest one, but the third one is going to be work for his subscribers to enjoy, all while try- bigger, I can’t wait to sink my teeth into that ing to stay sane and get a little sleep once in a one.” That second CD, which is now finished, while. again moves in a completely different sonic direction. He explains, “[it’s] more of an EP, Catch Martin Tielli and Operation Infinite it’s four songs. We were commissioned by a Justice with Christine Fellows and Monica classical pianist to perform these cabaret songs Guenter, October 15 at The West End Cultural by Arnold Schoenberg that he wrote around the Centre. Tickets are $12 at Ticketmaster, Music turn of the last century. It was neat having such Trader, and the West End, and $15 at the door. a thing like that presented to you that you For more info on the show, visit www.wecc.ca, would never think of doing.” and for more info on Martin Tielli, visit And in between finishing up the rest of www.martintielli.net. october 9, 2003 page 11

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BY JEFF ROBSON that you would call true showmanship, they’re pretty basic and to the point, and they The Weakerthans’ John K Samson is the dress in casual normal clothes, but something SETLIST most unlikely rock star I can think of. He’s about them makes them idols to many. achieved almost mythical status in this city, yet Often, the crowd drowned out Samson he’s the most down to earth guy around. That on the quieter numbers, and it seemed as if myth has been built almost solely on the everyone in attendance knew all of the words. Psalm for the Elks Lodge Last Call strength of the lyrics Samson writes. And in They reacted to the very first strains of their the crowd at their recent Winnipeg concert, favourite songs, by cheering and applauding you could see legions of nerdy pseudo intel- madly. This kind of got a bit awkward during lectuals like me mouthing every one of those the encore, when Samson strode out alone Aside beautifully crafted lines, along with girls who and said, “This song, I don’t feel much like love Samson playing tonight, because he’s so but I sort of do, so sensitive and REVIEW I will,” before Our Retired Explorer (Dines with Michel Foucault in Paris, 1961) smart, nerds like launching into the him because of the THE WEAKERTHANS misunderstood highbrow literary with The Paperbacks and Albatross anthem, “One Pamphleteer references and Great City!” I got clever turns of SATURDAY,OCTOBER 4 the feeling he was phrase, and then a bit put back by there’s another UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA’S the way the more

Photo: Jonathan Tan group of fans who MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM boorish audience This is a Fire Door Never Leave Open come because The members so loudly Weakerthans real- joined in with that ly know how to song’s refrain, “I Uncorrected Proofs rock out. These fans are mostly baseball cap hate Winnipeg,” but I guess it was to be wearing drunken loogans who look like they’d expected, considering the large amount of know the lyrics to “New Orleans is Sinking” crappy beer that was being consumed before- much better than any of the Weakerthans’ hand. I knew it wouldn’t be long before us Reconstruction Site songs. You take over 1,000 of these very dif- nerdy lyric lovers had to share the band with ferent characters, glue them together with a the masses. It’s not often that a band is able to common love of one band, throw them into please such a wide cross-section of society, unnaturally close quarters, and you’ve got an and sooner or later, they have to become big- (Hospital Vespers) interesting cultural and musical experiment. ger stars and gain an even bigger variety of Samson’s such an everyman that while fans. But until then, we nerds will feel the opening bands played, he could be seen strengthened by the fact that we caught on wandering through the crowd and hanging first, and we take pride in the fact that Plea From a Cat Named Virtute out with old friends and acquaintances we know that Samson doesn’t as if he were just another fan. You really hate Winnipeg. could tell that there were many in Besides, who cares if attendance who were in awe, those Tragically Hip The Reasons and dying to talk to him, but fans in the audience nobody bothers him or treats him don’t get it; if they like a rock star. Then, when The did, the band would- Photo: Stu Reid Paperbacks were done n’t be nearly so cool Elegy For Elsabet their amazingly for being so intelli- energetic gent and down to and earth. melod- Left and Leaving ic set, he casually made his way to Watermark the stage to help set up. The Prescience of Dawn The show started off simply, as you’d expect. Without Mythologies Samson strode onstage without any fanfare or introduction and E N C O R E the rest of the Photo: Jonathan Tan band followed, John Sutton on bass, Jason Tait on drums, and Stephen Carroll on guitar. One Great City! Samson’s demeanour onstage is no different than it seems to be offstage. He’s quiet and humble and never puts on an act, there’s no rock star poses or faces, he mere- My Favourite Chords ly stands centre stage with a playful smirk on his face. He says very little between songs, other than to repeatedly thank the audience for coming and for their Diagnosis applause. The most animated Weakerthan has to be Carroll, who moves around and waves his guitar in the air playfully, while Sutton Everything Must Go! kind of stomps back and forth, and Tait holds it all together banging away on the drums. He provided the night’s funniest moment Photo: Stu Reid (Manifest) by donning a huge black mascot head during “Left and Leaving.” There’s not much Photo: Jeff Robson page 14 october 9, 2003

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BY CRAIG WATSON Maybe you’re the type that needs to be a fan of an artist before going to see The last time I saw a Hawksley them live. Right after the show at the Workman show he was touring to promote WECC I went out and bought both of his Delicious Wolves album. To tell the Hawksley’s albums. Both albums are truth, a few of my friends dragged me very similar with the influences ranging down to the West End Cultural Centre from rock to opera, folk to pop and telling me that it was a show that I couldn’t everything west of hip-hop. I have to say miss. At the time, I had had very little expo- that I’m not the type to be fanatical and sure to Mr. Workman’s art and was admit- Hawksley, being as good as he is, still tedly not very excited to go to the show. So, doesn’t bring this out in me. So, I haven’t to say the least, I purchased every- really wasn’t PREVIEW thing Hawksley expecting to see Workman has the best HAWKSLEY WORKMAN ever put his singer/songwriter name on, but performance I’d & THE WOLVES have been more ever seen, never than satisfied mind one of the SATURDAY,OCTOBER 11 with everything most passionate BURTON CUMMINGS THEATRE to which I’ve performances been exposed. I’ve ever seen. He released an Needless to say, I’m very excited to see him album of Christmas songs which isn’t again this Saturday at the Burton really chalked full of the Yule tide jolly Cummings Theatre. carols that we are used to, but songs If you aren’t planning on going to the about family and drinking. I think this show this weekend and you haven’t seen a idea gives good insight into the type of Hawksley Workman show, I think you performer he is. It’s really different… should know what you are missing. Just like Hawksley. He has also lent his Remember the last time you bit your talents to producing. He has been very tongue or stubbed your toe? You know how involved with Calgary locals Tegan and you get that feeling of extreme pain mixed Sarah as well as producing his own with that feeling that you are so stupid yet albums. His latest release Lover/Fighter, you are really surprised by the whole has received mixed reviews with most of thing… Well, seeing a Hawksley show has the negative reviews criticizing his over- all the intensity and all the surprise, but production whereas the fans of the album replace the pain and the stupid with elation regale in how it grows on you. I haven’t and lucky. Seeing Hawksley live is like a yet purchased the latest album, but I’m hug from your very large aunty that smells certain that after his show this weekend, like cinnamon buns topped with the gooiest I will be. icing. If that doesn’t make it clear that this is a show you don’t want to miss, I guess Hawksley Workman will be appearing you’ve never stubbed your toe, bit your Saturday, October 11th at The Burton tongue, had a big old aunty or enjoyed a Cummings Theatre. Tix $18 in advance @ cinnamon bun. Ticket Master or $20 at the door. Poison The Well Proves That Florida’s Not So Fruity

BY BRETT HOPPER of it. Somehow through the years we have worked and worked and turned the band into Most people wouldn’t associate alter- our lives.” In 1999, while still in high native music with the state of Florida, a school, the band signed with Trustkill place that is more often than not connected Records and released their first album, The to its vast amounts (and varieties) of Opposite of December, which was placed in oranges, local sports teams, and well… old Guitar World’s “Top Ten Screamo Albums people. Let’s be honest, the sunshine state of All Time” list within the “Top 100 isn’t really known for its musical stylings at Albums of All Time” issue. The next year, all. At least not for us up here in the middle the guys had all graduated from high school of Canada, where in the winter there is a and were ready to tour full time. good 50 degree difference in temperature. 2002 became a pivotal year for the The five members of the Florida hard- band, as it was the year that Tear From the core band Poison The Well, however, would Red, the highly anticipated follow-up to like to see that all change. Having just their first album was released, and they released their third studio full length, You became regulars on the Vans Warped tour, Come Before You, the band feels that this is gaining both underground and mainstream the most accurate representation of them- fans. How did this all affect the band? “It selves to date. “Our one and only concern is baffles us to look back and think ‘wow we creating music. We don’t claim to move just wanted to have someone sing along at a mountains with our songs or change lives, local show,’ ”. but I can tell you that every fucking note we Now, in 2003, with the release of You play or sing is honest. We mean every word Come Before You, the band is still a touring of it. No tricks or ulterior motives, just 100% machine sacrificing job security, relation- Regina, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Calgary, and Poison the Well will be in Winnipeg on honest expression,” explains PTW guitarist ships, and financial stability. Most recently, Vancouver. High among PTW’s priorities October 11 as they and Autopilot Off open Derek Miller. PTW has hooked up with California natives for this tour will be to make a little more for AFI at The Convention Centre. Tickets For PTW, it’s always been that way Autopilot Off, and AFI halfway through noise for themselves and for alternative are $21 plus fees at Select A Seat outlets. dating back to when they first started in their North American Tour for a Canadian music in Florida. The hardcore scene is in For more info on the band, visit www.poi- 1997. Miller says, “We got together because leg that starts in Winnipeg on October 11th that state somewhere, probably underneath sonthewell.com. we love music...listening to it, playing it, all at the Convention Centre, and heads west to all those oranges. october 9, 2003 page 13

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CD REVIEWS

Earlier this year, two of Canada’s finest roots labels, Borealis and Northern Blues combined forces to release the all-star Johnny’s Blues, a tribute to the bluer side of Johnny Cash. Well, as good as that record was, they’ve already outdone themselves with this tribute to Gordon Lightfoot. It’s hard to believe that nobody’s thought of a tribute to old Gord sooner, so the choices of songs and artists to pull contributions from was pretty well unlimited. And what a diverse combination of artists it is that pays tribute. Big names like Blue Rodeo, The Tragically Hip, and Bruce Cockburn all step in, but listeners should find themselves with far more interesting tracks to spend time on. Cowboy Junkies start the disc off in fine fashion with “The Way I Feel,” which leads nicely into Jesse Winchester’s beautifully funky “Sundown.” It’s contributions like these that take Lightfoot’s originals and add something new that are the biggest winners. Others try to stay true to the original, as on Connie Kaldor’s “If You Could Read My Mind,” which, outside of the change in the singer’s gender, doesn’t change much at all. One has to wonder why someone would think she could do the original one better by staying the same course when the classic is so darn good. Also questionable is the CD’s closer, an original composition by Aengus Finnan, which is a nice enough effort, but I’d much rather hear another Lightfoot song, personally. Stand out tracks include those done by Ron Sexsmith, Terry Tufts, and Harry Manx. This is a great VARIOUS ARTISTS tribute to a truly great songwriter. Beautiful (Borealis Records/Northern Blues, www.borealisrecords.com www.northernblues.com) BY JEFF ROBSON

Now, I gotta be honest, I’m a big fan of that gorgeous Emmylou Harris voice. I love hearing that voice backing up other artists, and I’m a huge fan of her records also. But, I’m a big time record reviewer here, so I have to be critical. Stumble Into Grace is a pretty mellow and laid back record, and some of the moments can be a bit sleepy, but this is Emmylou Harris we’re talking about, so that shouldn’t come as a surprise. She made a comeback of sorts and gained mainstream praise and acceptance with her 1995 masterpiece Wrecking Ball, which perfectly matched her glorious vocals and some amazing songs by some great songwriters with the pro- duction genius of Daniel Lanois. The follow up, Red Dirt Girl, produced by Malcolm Burn, was a return to songwriting for Harris, who didn’t write one by herself on WB. This new one follows along those lines again, with Harris doing the bulk of the songwriting and Burn producing. But one can’t help but hear Lanois’ influence all over this CD, even though he only contributes to two EMMYLOU HARRIS songs on it. Other notable guests include Jane Stumble Into Grace Siberry, Linda Ronstadt, Colin Linden, Gillian Welch, and of course her frequent collaborators BY JEFF ROBSON and back up band members, Buddy and Julie Miller. With all of that talent and history, the record can’t go wrong. Before I start raving again, I’ll admit that not all of the songs are home runs, but, come on, with such obvious talent and a voice like that, what more do you need? (Nonesuch, www.nonesuch.com)

If you’re a fan of Saves The Day, the first thing you’re going to notice about this album is how different it is from their previous album Stay What You Are. That 2001 release had all the catchy choruses and melodies of a pop record that could have you singing the tunes for weeks on end. It was fast-paced pop rock with lyrics that left you in awe of their complexities. Fast- forward to 2003 and you get something com- pletely different. In Reverie has a little bit slow- er tempos, and the vocals are significantly soft- er. The musicianship is more intricate on a whole, and maybe the most astounding part of all is the fact that it is lyrically more complex. I for one, didn’t believe that anyone could be SAVES THE DAY more expressive than Chris Conley on Stay What You Are, but leave it to Conley to top him- In Reverie self. Sure, one could say that In Reverie is a pro- BY BRETT HOPPER gression, but this latest work from Saves The Day is so different from any of their other releases you wouldn’t know it was the same band, except for Chris Conley’s distinctive voice. (DreamWorks/Vagrant www.savestheday.com) page 14 october 9, 2003

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his monologues in True Romance and Pulp BY JAMES PASKARUK Fiction (one of the greatest monologues ever), & DAN HUYGHEBAERT and now he can’t escape from it. Every movie he is in now has a patented monologue that To: [email protected] Film Forum This week our resident film critics saw a couple of movies that only he can do - the roles themselves have From: [email protected] become secondary, but I still got a kick out of really had the keyboards tapping and the inboxes busy. And, like him in The Rundown. His role in Dead Zone is Being a chick magnet is a full-time the evil overlords we are, The Uniter once again hacked in and my personal favourite, and it would make a job. That’s why when I buy movie tickets, I thought it would be much funnier if their rants went public. great Halloween costume. use movietickets.com… Good lord! The crap Harrison Ford is a great action hero, we are putting up with in theatres nowadays is not just as Indy, but as Deckard in Blade more shocking than any movie. I cringe when- show our appreciation, we are doing away it’s just sad. Runner. Blade Runner capitalizes on Ford’s ever I walk in now, knowing full well that I with the advertisements and reducing conces- Let’s talk action heroes. There is humanity and vulnerability, which is central to will be subjected to the Ludivico treatment of sion prices from the current 1000% profit mar- only one: Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. I’m the main theme of the film, although the mon- commercial HELL. At least we were lucky gin to a more modest 500%. Enjoy the show, tempted to invoke a very tired metaphor otone narration, which thankfully disappeared enough to miss that horrible piracy commer- which will be preceded only by previews.” involving a well-known brand of cheap watch- in the director’s cut, was awful. I’m just hop- cial with that painter guy. The internet and As for the feature itself, well, I es - he wasn’t an indestructible machine like ing Scott’s cut of Alien doesn’t follow his slide technology have the media companies in a dunno... it’s amazing how little I have to say Arnold or a self-caricature like Rambo - he downward. Hey, aren’t they making ANOTH- tizzy over copyright infringement, and my about Matchstick Men, really. I enjoyed it was a college professor who went to exotic ER Indiana Jones movie? Harrison Ford may Catholic guilt is working overtime every time more than I expected to, but I must reiterate locales and dug up cool stuff. He was tough, be a cool hero, but he’s stepping into Roger I turn on my computer. Mind you, it is very that even a pretty damn good movie gets but not in that cartoonish way - he got the crap Moore territory here. rare for something to come out nowadays demoted to simple mediocrity when it comes beat out of him on a regular basis, but like that’s worthy of my burner’s laser. from Ridley Scott. If you can’t get enough Buster Keaton he’d just stoically get back up, To: [email protected] Take Matchstick Men, for example. Nick Cage, go see Matchstick Men. roll up his sleeves and soldier on. Arnold and From: [email protected] I know director Ridley Scott has talent - hell, Let’s talk about The Rundown. I was Rambo were living, breathing GI Joe action he made Blade Runner and Alien - so I did dismayed twice over by this flick. First off, I figures, but Indy was a Tonka tractor - not so Dan: You need to re-watch The Deer have some hope. The film stars Nicolas have to admit that as action heroes go, The deadly, but dogged and capable. Hunter and The Dogs of War. Kevin Spacey ‘Twitch’ Cage and Sam Rockwell as con Rock is alright. At the beginning of the movie, Maybe I’m just curmudgeonly doing a caricature of Walken on SNL was artists and business partners running a scam he’s walking into a party and Arnold because I’m coming down like a crackhead funny. Walken doing a caricature of himself in selling water filter systems. Things get a bit Schwarzenegger is walking out, presumably from the rapture of watching American a real movie gives him as much credibility as complicated by the arrival of Cage’s daughter, heading for the California Republican primar- Splendor last week. Now we’re back to the Arnold - and a great deal less than the wrestler played by Alison Lohman. The movie ies, and he tells Rocko to “have fun” – and so shallows and misery of business as usual, and (!!!) he’s co-starring with. descends into three clichéd movies: The Con the torch is passed, with The Rock anointed, a it’s only gonna get worse - Oscar season is just On Ash, I agree - while Harrison Man movie, The Parent and Estranged Child new generation of Guys Who Like Movies has around the corner. Ford is the model for a realistic action hero, Movie and The Twitchy Nick Movie. The act- a hero all of its own. Whatever. Bruce Campbell as Ash is every action hero ing was good, especially from Alison Lohman The second reason The Rundown To: [email protected] cliché taken to extremes, from the distended who magnificently pulls off acting well short left me mortified: Christopher Walken. Once From: [email protected] machismo (“Gimme some sugar baby.”) to the of her age. The story kept switching gears, upon a time, Walken was intensity personi- witty banter (“Alright you primitive screw- sometimes lingering on one aspect of it too fied. His eyes could convince you that he had Actually, Arnold was just fleeing heads, listen up!”) to the bona fide catch- long, but most often it kept the three storylines walked into the deepest bowels of Hell just to from yet another sexual misconduct episode, phrase (“Groovy!”), they’re all done to hilari- well balanced. Maybe the Alien director’s cut collect five bucks from some deadbeat and hoping to escape with his credibility intact. ous effect. Ford and Campbell would make a will restore Ridley Scott to his former glory. If walked back out, cool and nonchalant. He was Oh, wait a minute - he had none to begin with. great pair of comedy and tragedy masks. you want to see a really good con man movie a man you didn’t fuck with, plain and simple. Let’s face it, Arnie is made of Teflon and is As for the new Indiana Jones movie, check out The Nine Queens or The House of Exhibit A: The Deer Hunter. This is THE larger than life because he is such a cartoon. I I disagree. If Sean Connery can pull off Allan Games. Walken role. If you haven’t seen The Deer remember a scene in the movie Commando Quartermain at 73 (and he DID pull off Allan Hunter, you don’t know Christopher Walken. where he crashes a sports car into a telephone Quartermain, the train wreck of the rest of To: [email protected] That intensity lingered in numerous roles for pole during a ridiculously high-speed chase LXG notwithstanding), there’s no reason that From: [email protected] years to come, but Nick in The Deer Hunter is and even before I can say “Inconceivable!” he a 63 year-old Indiana Jones can’t take a few the role for which Walken will go down in jumped out of the car without a scratch and beatings and uncover some treasure. First off, I echo your rant on the film history. then set off on a foot chase against the baddie. parade of recriminations and insolence that There are a few decent roles in And every action hero, regardless of the crap To: [email protected] precedes a major motion picture these days. recent years too, like the papa in Catch Me If he goes through, comes through with teeth as From: [email protected] What I find most revolting about it is that the You Can, and his face off with Dennis Hopper white as a baby’s bottom. Watch Army of folks down in Hollywood are not just preach- in True Romance was as intense as any Sergio Darkness and you will notice Bruce The Deer Hunter is definitely an ing to the converted, but beating them over the Leone climax. But it makes me want to cry Campbell’s teeth never fray from perfect. Ash amazing movie, and Walken deserves every head. People who have placed their butts in when I see him today - too much hosting SNL is one of my favourite heroes - he goes from a bit accolade for that role. You need to check theatre seats have, for the most part, paid their and dancing in Fatboy Slim videos has seem- snivelling wimp in the first Evil Dead to chau- out Abel Ferrerra’s The Addiction. I have no way in. The people who are taping the screen ingly robbed him of the ability to take his vinistic antihero incarnate in the third, and still doubt that Harrison Ford can pull off a Sean are few and far between, and a hackneyed career or himself seriously. This role, the psy- has the best one-liners in movie history. Connery, it’s just that I keep thinking about script read by a guy who is way too old for a chopathic capitalist, is one he’s done before Walken has become such a legend in Roger Moore and his atrocious stunt doubles blue goatee is not going to change their ways. with panache (AView to a Kill), but he’s his own time that it doesn’t surprise me that (what’s with the hair?) in View to a Kill, the If they really want people to go to the movies become nothing more than a caricature of directors just want him to do his schtick. This only Bond movie where I was rooting for the more, they need to replace the painter with himself, and while it was funny at first, now is probably thanks to Quentin Tarantino and villain (Walken, if you haven’t guessed it). “Thank you for coming to our theatre. To october 9, 2003 page 15

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The Usual Suspects present... Come Forth and Break Belt Ben Wieler and William O’Donnell Straight Faced

BY M D COHEN

ell, fall is here again and that along. We need only look to that Charmin can only mean one thing: trees toilet paper commercial. The rivalry Ware getting stupid. Nature has a explains itself. Trees are nature’s pissing way of preparing itself for the colder posts and they resent it. Who wouldn’t? months. Animals gain weight and grow You can’t fight back. Your parents extra fur. Animals that fly usually go always told you to walk away from a south to warmer climates. Even humans fight. What is the olive tree supposed to bundle up with a couple more layers of do? They represent peace but they still The Characters Live! E-mail them at [email protected] clothing. Why then, do trees lose their get peed on. They can’t take matters into leaves instead of getting more? It’s not their own hands… or can they? I believe like they are getting any warmer when that the true reason trees are “stupid” is Out of Time? Out of Talent! the snow falls. I started to think about that they are nature’s rebels. James Dean, this and I began to get mad. It doesn’t Fonzy, the Birch: they are all one in the with those tight skirts and high heals. Good make any sense. It would be like us wear- same. If you ever come across a maple BY KENT DAVIES morning Charlie. As for the action? Well, the ing shorts and Hawaiian shirts when the with a switchblade and a leather jacket, Out of Time is the latest and definitely not closest we get to a car chase is a race to the fax snow starts to fly. Like I said, trees are don’t say I didn’t warn you. They are the greatest Denzel Washington film to come machine. One could say the only thing truly stupid. Now I know that not all trees lose tired of following the rules. I bet it start- about in last while. The thriller (if you can call enjoyable in this thriller is the comedic relief their leaves. Pine trees, for example, keep ed out with one tree deciding to be dif- it that) is the very meaning of cut and dry. A played by John Billingsley. John plays Chae the their needles. In my eyes, they are the ferent. Pretty soon the others around the respected police chief played by Denzel is in a lovable, drunken coroner. Although for a coro- Einsteins of the arboreal spectrum. This neighborhood started following suit. race against time to find a killer, the only catch ner, we actually never see him in a morgue. is survival of the fittest in its purest form. They are an army of one, shedding their is all the evidence is pointing to him. I.E. He’s Appropriately, at the half way point half They are truly nature’s wonder. However, leaves in unison, a group of card-carrying being set up. Unfortunately for the audience, we the audience had wandered off. Maybe they humans still end up on top. We celebrate members of the revolution. I don’t think see the set up a good mile away. This should were smarter then most. This might not have trees’ achievement by cutting them down the cards will be made of paper though. have been a TV movie with Lorenzo Lamas or been as absurdly laughable as “The Glass by putting them in our homes for Instead, they would be made of some an episode of Murder She Wrote, not a movie. House” but it’s close. In this age of epic battle Christmas; complete with garland and kind of plastic composite, Tupperware, Contrary to successful thrillers such as scene’s (lord of the rings) and tight crime capers blinking lights. So what is the reason for perhaps. Anyways, they’ve taken to the Memento and Seven, this one doesn’t even have (Matchstick men) this is bound to either upset or this mass stupidity? Is it a missing link streets. We see them on every street cor- a smidgen of originality. Right from the begin- bore audiences. So I’m pleading you, run don’t on a molecular level? Do they know ner and front lawn: the mighty Elm, the ning we’re hit with a sex scene with dialog as walk from the theaters or better yet go see something that humans don’t? Whatever noble Dogwood, the reflective Cherry. corny as James Bond and as poorly acted as something else, except Underworld. the true reasoning behind it is, I still The time may come when you will have Days of our Lives. The characters are cookie blame bears. It has been well established to take up arms against them. Will you be cutters from an abusive hard drinking husband Out of Time that bears and trees have never gotten ready? Vive la revolution. to the sexy hard ass female detective. I wonder Playing: St. Vital, Grant Park, Polo Park. if she had a hard time, running and shooting Rating: * Out of five

Tales From a Muirite What are the BY M.D. COHEN AND KENT DAVIES students saying...... In the Halls?

Time: 12:45 Place: Ashdown Female: Sorry about your uncle. Male: Rectum! Damn near killed him.

Time: 12:28 Place: Bulman Female: Got to drop the kids off at the pool. Male: Ya gotta pitch a quick duce? Female: The Cleveland browns are playing at the superbowl, and I’ve got tickets.

Yes, Dr. Muire is a real doctor.Unlike that shifty Dr. Phil. Time: 12:35 Place: Manitoba Female: The worst date I ever had ended in me puking on him. Stream of Consciousness Male: Did he ask you out after? Female: No, it was awkward. BY J.J.S.MCLEOD

The popular phrase “You fool! You’ve doomed us all!” was actual- hero, to carry him off to glory and a great feast. But the warrior was Time: 3:27 ly coined by Dr. Antilles, when his assistant Floyd accidentally dead, he’d had a heart attack when the jaguar first appeared, and Place: Duckworth activated the doomsday device while looking for a place to heat his crapped his warrior raiments. The tree grew ever strong after that. Male: Does your shirt say “sheep microwave burrito. And that was how the Incan people, famed farmers of ancient days, pimp”? discovered fertilizer. The reason daredevils and other people who show off with impres- Female: Yes sive stunts are sometimes called “hot dogs” is because wieners are It occurs to me that true happiness can be found only in under- Male 2: Are you Scottish? such notorious exhibitionists. standing and enlightenment, which can be reached only through Female: No The brave warrior just stood there, casually leaning against a tree long and deep meditation and strict discipline. Also, I don’t think Male 2: Well what’s with the shirt? as the large jaguar moved ever closer. The people of the village disco’s going to make that comeback after all. Female: It’s my boyfriend’s looked on in horror as the jaguar moved right up to the unflinching warrior and bared its teeth. The warrior was stone still, not a trem- Sometimes late at night, I wonder, with the vastness of the uni- Male 2: Is he Scottish? ble to be seen. The jaguar sniffed him a couple of times, and still verse, how we could be the only intelligent life out there? And Female: He’s a prick sometimes I wonder if I could hit the toilet without getting out of the warrior would not be moved. The jaguar then turned and saun- Male 2: So he’s Scottish? tered away. The village people cheered and ran to their fearless bed. No matter how many times I try, I just can’t make that corner. page 16 october 9, 2003

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QIVIUQ: A LEGEND IN ART Drama LLOYD AXWORTHY Words Drama SILVERADO'S Winnipeg Art Gallery COOKIN' AT THE COOKERY: THE Reading of Navigating A New HEATHER ROBERTSON COOKIN' AT THE COOKERY: THE (CanadInns Garden City - 633-0424) (300 Memorial Blvd. - 786-6641) MUSIC & TIMES OF ALBERTA World: Canada's Global Future Launch of Magical Mysterious Lake MUSIC & TIMES OF ALBERTA Thurs: Live Country Mezzanine Gallery HUNTER - MTC Mainstage McNally Robinson Grant Park, 8pm of the Woods HUNTER - MTC Mainstage Fri/Sat: 2 Clubs 1 Cover (174 Market - 942-6537) McNally Robinson Grant Park, 8pm (174 Market - 942-6537) Drama Tix $10.70-$49.22 @ 942-6537 Drama Tix $10.70-$49.22 @ 942-6537 TIJUANA YACHT CLUB COOKIN' AT THE COOKERY: THE COOKIN' AT THE COOKERY: THE Drama (CanadInns Polo Park - 775-8791) MUSIC & TIMES OF ALBERTA ALADDIN MUSIC & TIMES OF ALBERTA COOKIN' AT THE COOKERY: THE ALADDIN Mon: Jaret's Juice Jam HUNTER - MTC Mainstage Fantasy Theatre for Children HUNTER - MTC Mainstage MUSIC & TIMES OF ALBERTA Fantasy Theatre for Children Thurs: Ladies Night (174 Market - 942-6537) (2nd floor 319 Elgin - 944-0581) (174 Market - 942-6537) HUNTER - MTC Mainstage (2nd floor 319 Elgin - 944-0581) Fri: Lingerie Love Jam Tix $10.70-$49.22 @ 942-6537 Call 944-0581 for tix Tix $10.70-$49.22 @ 942-6537 (174 Market - 942-6537) Call 944-0581 for tix Sat: DJ Steve Adams Tix $10.70-$49.22 @ 942-6537 NOBLE SAVAGE, SAVAGE NOBLE Tuesday October 14 ALADDIN UP IN THA CLUBS VERTIGO by Bob Armstrong Fantasy Theatre for Children ALADDIN (291 Bannatyne - 943-3979) PTE Fenwick Hall - Portage Place Sights (2nd floor 319 Elgin - 944-0581) Fantasy Theatre for Children BLEACHERS Thurs: Hip Hop/R&B (989-2400), 2pm, Pay What You Can HALYCON Call 944-0581 for tix (2nd floor 319 Elgin - 944-0581) (308 Fort - 942-4010) Fri: Shared Cover w/Empire by Megan Vun Wong Call 944-0581 for tix Sun: Rock Jam Sundays SNOWFLAKE Main/Access Gallery Wednesday October 15 ZEN LOUNGE Manitoba Theatre for Young People (121-100 Arthur - 956-2089) Thursday October 16 BLUE AGAVE (253 Portage - 944-8881) (CanWest Global Performing Arts Sights (335 Donald - 943-5538) Thurs: Rinsed Drum & Base Centre) Tix $11 @ 942-8898 FAMILY BUSINESS HALYCON by Megan Vun Wong Sights Thurs: Keep It Thuro feat. 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Swivelhip STATES OF BECOMING Galleries 6/7/8 Winnipeg Art Gallery TOM THOMSON (2280 Pembina - 261-4808 Thurs-Sat: Live Bands Winnipeg Art Gallery, Galleries 2&3 (300 Memorial Blvd. - 786-6641) Winnipeg Art Gallery, Galleries 6/7/8 Wed-Sat: Top 40 (300 Memorial Blvd. - 786-6641) QIVIUQ: A LEGEND IN ART Galleries 6/7/8 (300 Memorial Blvd. - 786-6641) Winnipeg Art Gallery PHARAOH'S (300 Memorial Blvd. - 786-6641) QIVIUQ: A LEGEND IN ART QIVIUQ: A LEGEND IN ART (CanadInns Windsor Park - TOM THOMSON Mezzanine Gallery Winnipeg Art Gallery Winnipeg Art Gallery 474-2582) Winnipeg Art Gallery (300 Memorial Blvd. - 786-6641) (300 Memorial Blvd. - 786-6641) Wed: Elite Urban Wednesday (300 Memorial Blvd. - 786-6641) Words Mezzanine Gallery Mezzanine Gallery Galleries 6/7/8 M.G. VASSANJI SAFARI CLUB Reading of The In-Between World Sounds Words (CanadInns Transcona - 474-2582) QIVIUQ: A LEGEND IN ART of Vikram Lall BIG SUGAR LEANNE BRODIE Monday Night Football Winnipeg Art Gallery McNally Robinson Grant Park, 6pm Colosseum - CanadInns Reading of The Vic Wed/Fri/Sat: DJ Jess (300 Memorial Blvd. - 786-6641) Windsor Park - 253-2641 McNally Robinson Grant Park, 8pm Thurs: DJ Chuck & PWR 97's Mezzanine Gallery Tix $20 @ CanadInns Wheeler page 18 october 9, 2003

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FINAL STANDINGS This Is Our House! Men’s Final Standings Wesmen 4-0 Wesmen Volleyball Teams Dominate On Home Turf Calgary 3-1 Manitoba 2-2 The final proved to be a seesaw match ter make-over, I don’t know what the heck LEIGHTON Dalhousie 1-3 KLASSEN posting scores of 14-25, 25-19, 25-20, 14-24, coach Larry McKay did to these guys, but 16-14, and a match where Regina seemed to they came out to the track with their tires a Regina 0-4 Sports Editor out-muscle the Wesmen in repeated back and smokin’. Regina- downed in three. Calgary- forth battles. But despite the heartbreaking downed in three. It wasn’t until Saturday ver- Women’s Final Standings The Duckworth loss, the team proved they had some big guns sus Dalhousie where the Wesmen pulled out 1) Regina Center may not be pulsat- stored in their bunker. Third year veteran the beach chair, took their shoes off, and 2) Winnipeg ing with same intimidat- Jocelyne Roy set up camp on the spiking sipped ice tea, while surrendering their first 3) McGill ing charisma that exists grounds for much of the tournament where loss in a single set. But unfortunately for in venues such as Lambeau Field, the old she delivered more spikes than a porcupine Dalhousie, it was only a mere tease, the Chicago Stadium, and Joe Louis Arena, but it has on its back- one of them which chalked a Wesmen slapped them in the face for the next did prove to be the stomping grounds for the win in the second match versus McGill on three games, clinching their third straight TOURNAMENT Wesmen Men’s and Women’s volleyball Friday afternoon. Another standout perform- game victory. ALL STARS squads this past weekend at the Bob FM ance was 4th year veteran Andrea So there it is, a good old-fashioned butt Tournament. Charbonneau, who spiked, digged, set, slid, kicking at the Duckworth to break into the Laura Grubert - University of Manitoba The Wesmen teams combined for a total jumped, dived, cart wheeled. Well, maybe not new season with. It was unfortunate that the Anne Robitaille - McGill University of 26 match victories, while only allowing a cart wheeled, but she was a poignant threat Wesmen couldn’t pull off the double gold, but Kristin Armstrong - University of Regina total of 7 matches to seep into the loss depart- from every square inch of the court, both nonetheless, both teams proved to be promis- ment of their records. offensively and defensively, chalking up 17 ing performers in a tournament that was her- Jocelyne Roy - University of Winnipeg It was business as usual for Diane kills and 11 digs in the final game. Both girls alded as showcasing the top ten teams in the Andrea Charbonneau - University of Scott’s foot-soldiers who ended the tourna- were crowned with tournament all-star CIS. And when the dust settles, and the last Winnipeg ment wearing their familiar colours: silver. awards. fragment of confetti plummets to the ground, The Women’s volleyball team fell short in The Men’s team, on the other hand, our opponents will be retreating to their MVP - Falin Schaefer Sunday’s final to Regina, a team who they began the tournament on the hopes of bolster- respective cities, beaten, battered, bruised, University of Regina demolished in their first game of the tourna- ing themselves out of the gutter from last sea- and dreading the next time they lay foot on the ment by scores of 19-25, 25-19, 25-15, 25-13. sons disappointing record. And besides a ros- floors of the Duckworth Center. Wesmen Women Bring Out The Broom

BY SHERI LAMB Third year player Jocelyne Roy closed out the second set by spiking the Andrea Charbonneau captained ball down between the McGill defend- the women’s volleyball team to an ers (see photo), as the crowd roared impressive straight set win Friday night with appreciation at her effort. Roy fin- versus the University of McGill ished with 10 kills in the match. Marlets, recording three aces in the The Wesmen built themselves a third set, two of them being back-to- nice cushy lead in the third set, leading back in helping her team jump out to a by 11 points at one juncture, only to commanding lead that resulted in a have the Marlets come back to make a sweeping three match victory. contest out of it when coach Scott Having chalked up two set wins in decided to substitute players to give the the first two matches, the lead in the bench players some game action. The third set allowed coach Diane Scott to Marlets pounced on the incoming play- feel comfortable putting in players who ers and took advantage of several don’t get a lot of game action in order to unforced errors to close the gap to with- give them a chance to play without the in two points before the Wesmen pulled pressures of a close match. out the victory. “It’s a good test for the players, The Wesmen went on to defeat the giving them a chance to have some McGill University Marlets, 3-0, for experience without the pressure of the their second win of the BOB FM game being on the line, so they will be Challenge. Earlier in the day the prepared in the future when they are put Wesmen defeated the University of into a game that is close,” says coach Regina 3-0 (25-23, 25-16 and 25-17). Scott. Leading the Wesmen was 4th year A close first set was blown wide veteran Andrea Charbonneau, who had open when the Wesmen recorded seven an amazing 7 kills, 4 stuff blocks and 15 straight points behind the serving of digs alongside her 3 aces in the 25-17, Manon Paquin, cruising to victory in 25-23, 25-22 Wesmen Victory. the opening set. Coach Scott was Despite the Wesmen’s ability to impressed with the play of the 3rd year shut out McGill, the sets were closer veteran. then coach Diane Scott would’ve liked “She played a solid match, pass- them to be, but she credits McGill for ing well, making good blocking deci- playing a good match and challenging sions and communicating well with her her team to step up their game in order teammates at the net.” Said Scott. to win. A tightly contested second set Overall coach Scott was satisfied went back and forth until an exciting with the defensive performance of her team. extended rally pumped up the sparse, Photo: Leighton Klassen but enthusiastic crowd. The Wesmen “The team responded well to the succeeded in capturing the point from defensive system that they wanted to the rally, allowing them to tie up the use and the girls did a good job in sup- game at 18 and go on to collect four Wesmen’s Jocelyne Roy porting and communicating with each more consecutive points with third year Delivers A Thunderous Spike other,” she said. To Win The Second Match Kristin Brisebois serving. october 9, 2003 page 19

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BOB FM VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT Cougars Maul Wesmen In Final a quick match. Jocelyne Roy helped the BY SHERI LAMB Wesmen out of the gate with three kills and 6 The Wesmen came out guns a blazing,, digs in the first set. looking to quickly take care of business in the The Cougars came out in the second set women’s volleyball gold medal game versus with a changed line up and a new attitude, pil- the Regina Cougars, but despite a valiant ing up the points before the Wesmen knew effort, they couldn’t maintain that fiery atti- what hit them. Cougar coach Sanford felt that tude throughout the match, eventually going her team was firing on all cylinders going into down in flames. the second set. The University of Regina Cougars stood “I think we refocused our attention on our tall and fought back after a disappointing first team and what we had to do to win. We changed set to win the women’s portion of the our attitude and had more confidence.” University of Winnipeg’s BOB-FM volleyball That new attitude helped the Cougars challenge last weekend. After dropping the even the match at a set apiece by downing the first set, the Cougars clawed back to take the Wesmen 25-19 in the second set. Wesmen match 3-2. team captain Andrea Charbonneau chalked up Head coach Melanie Sanford was five kills, three digs and her second service pleased with her team’s efforts after losing ace of the match in trying to keep the Wesmen their first two games on Friday. The team evi- close. The Wesmen managed to creep closer dently turned around and came back to win to the Cougars late in the game thanks in part three straight contests to take first place. to the play of Charbonneau and the insertion “We didn’t have a good start, but we of Aynsley Laluk into the line up. worked hard and finished strong,” said Regina After losing a tightly contested third set, head coach Melanie Sanford. the Wesmen came out and dominated the While one coach was satisfied and fourth, taking it 25-14, as they fought back to Photo: Leighton Klassen pleased with her team’s performance at the force a fifth and deciding set. Once again close of the weekend, the other coach was dis- though the Wesmen put themselves behind the appointed with the lack of consistency her eight ball and were forced to play catch up in Head coach Diane Scott gazes in team showed throughout the tournament. the final set. Coach Scott was impressed with dissapointment just moments after her team Wesmen coach Diane Scott was frustrat- the boldness of Regina’s play after the first set. lost the gold medal game to Regina ed with her team’s performance. “They played a very good, disciplined “I thought we played tentative. We match and didn’t get down on themselves team, coach Scott was pleased with the play of whelming position as starting setter this year played too tight, like we were losing. It wasn’t after we dominated that first set. They were third year Manon Paquin who is starting to and is doing a decent job for the team thus far. a solid performance,” she says. tenacious in wanting the victory, more so then look more comfortable on the floor in her The next action for the Wesmen is on The Wesmen started strong in the first we were,” she said. starting role with the team this year. Coach Thursday, October 23 when the ladies take on set, jumping out to a 9-2 lead at one point and While overall disappointed with the Scott also praised second year Christa cross-town rivals Manitoba Bison in the first closing out the set 25-14, in what looked to be lack of consistency she received from her Desrochers, who was thrust into the over- game of league play. Wesmen Wesmen Win Ugly

women broke away from the opposition at 16- led the squad in the back row, and fourth year Extinct BY MIKE PYL 13, taking the game 25-18. Andrea Charbonneau overcame a shaky start It wasn’t the prettiest exhibition of vol- “We’ve already played a tournament, to carry the load in the middle. Her powerful leyball, but the women’s volleyball team, and we won two matches in this tournament,” hitting and suffocating blocks at times gave Dino nonetheless, escaped with a notch in the win Scott said, dismissing the notion that early- Bisons’ coach Ken Bentley fits. As for Laluk, column. she came in for LS Lauren BY SHERI LAMB Left side hitter Aynsley McKenzie halfway through the Laluk provided the spark off first game to will her team on to Pounding out three hard fought sets the bench, igniting the victory. on Friday night the Wesmen men’s vol- Wesmen to a gritty, four-game “Aynsley Laluk coming in leyball team found a way to beat the win over their cross-town off the bench was very good,” Calgary Dinos for the first time in the last rivals, the Manitoba Bisons 3- Scott said. “I thought she four meetings between the teams. 1 (25-21, 25-18, 23-25, 25- played really well when she The Wesmen defeated Calgary in 18). With the win, they hasn’t played a whole match straight sets, 25-22, 25-22 and 25-18 to improved to 3-0 in the presea- yet this season.” open the BOB-FM Volleyball Challenge son BOB FM Volleyball “It was good to see Andrea with consecutive victories. The victory Challenge at the Duckworth fight through, though, as she was the second of the day. The first was Centre. However, despite the was struggling a bit early. She established versus Regina Friday after- win, coach Diane Scott was came back and played a solid noon. less than thrilled about her finish.” Head coach Larry McKay was satis- team’s performance. Notwithstanding the

fied with his team’s impressive outing, Photo: Leighton Klassen “I don’t think we played a below average showing, the especially with how well they played on great match,” said Scott. “I outlook for the Wesmen looks defense. The play of captain Cam Dobie think we played pretty lethar- good. This was, after all, only was outstanding considering he was play- gic and a step behind a little preseason, and the girls are ing a new position, right side, which he bit. However, we still found a already demonstrating a knack hadn’t ever played before. way to win.” for overcoming adversity. Early “Cam Dobie had an impressive The Wesmen set up on the front lines The first two games of on, these types of games make match playing the right side position for the match saw the Wesmen fall for great tutorials. us tonight,” says coach McKay. behind early to the Bisons each time, thanks in season jitters were to blame for a sub-par per- “It’s definitely something to build off According to McKay, the two teams part to sloppy serve receiving and many errors formance. “Coming into today they should of,” says Scott. “When you play like that it are evenly matched and he considers the committed by the home side. However, they have been pumped and excited, one, to have a tells you what your weaknesses are and what Dino’s as one of the Wesmen’s toughest displayed perseverance and heart in staging chance to win another match, two, you’re you need to work on. You have to go through conference opponents. Steven Ens, in his timely runs, taking the first two sets. The third playing the Bisons, and three, if you want to games like that. We were lucky enough to win fifth year with the team, had 14 kills and set was a tight, seesaw battle highlighted by win the big games you have to show up every the match, but we didn’t win in our graces, we Jarrod Small played a good game with 10 excellent defense on both sides that the single time.” had to fight and scratch and claw. It’s always kills and four stuff blocks. Wesmen let slip away. And in the fourth, the Third year left side hitter Jocelyn Roy a good lesson.” page 20 october 9, 2003

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