Fight for Your Right the Skateboarding Coalition of Manitoba Advocates on Behalf of Skateboarders in the Province — and There's a Lot of Work to Do

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Fight for your right The Skateboarding Coalition of Manitoba advocates on behalf of skateboarders in the province — and there's a lot of work to do

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 Attacked for fun Will new initiative curb violence? news  page 2

Plus:  Shattered sounds Musician debuts new material at the U of W arts & culture  page 13 02 The Uniter October 8, 2009 www.Uniter.ca

"I love Disney World and Colonialism? What colonialism? Looking for listings? Cover Image have done it every year Campus & community listings and for the past 15 years." Harper gets by with a volunteer opportunities  page 6 Photograph of wind coil little help from hypocrisy Music  page 12, Film  page 18 sound flow, an installation by Meet local entrepreneur Galleries, theatre, Ken Gregory at Gallery 1C03, Daren Jorgenson dance and comedy  page 17 University of Winnipeg. literature  page 18 news  page 5 comments page 8 Photo by Cindy Titus

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Beat Reporter tus news assignment editor Andrew McMonagle » [email protected] Following a string of violent inci- news production editor dents linked to gang activity – such Cameron MacLean » [email protected] as the summer's grisly wedding reception shooting and the more re- arts and culture editor cent occurrence in Wolseley where Vacant » [email protected] a man was set on fire – pressure comments editor has been mounting on officials to Andrew Tod » [email protected] respond in some way to the issue listings coordinator of Winnipeg’s gang problem and J.P. Perron [email protected] youth-related crime. » In response, justice minister Campus beat reporter Dave Chomiak has announced a Courtney Schwegel » [email protected] one-year pilot project called "Gang beat reporter Awareness for Parents." This ap- Caitlin Laird » [email protected] proach has left some questioning whether this initiative and others beat reporter like it are merely a Band-Aid ap- Ethan Cabel » [email protected] proach to a deeper problem, like Beat reporter economic disadvantage. Samuel Swanson » [email protected] “Increased policing is useless un- The government's "Gang Awareness for Parents" program may only be a Band-Aid solution to a larger problem, critics say. culture reporter less you address the underlying eco- C. Jordan Crosthwaite [email protected] nomic issues at the local level. Our » state spends money on more police and new prisons which employ "The guy who street with another individual to arrested three weeks after the in- the middle classes. The sole biggest jumped us ... didn’t watch for the attacker and again cident, but the other one remains CONTRIBUTORS: predictor for crime reduction (in- they were jumped by the same in- free. cluding gang involvement amongst try to take anything dividual and another youth, armed Kim, who wishes to keep her last Maria Laureano, Kip Guenther, youth) is economic prosperity. from us. He attacked with knives. name private, has lived in Wolseley Jonathan Dyck, Alexander Kavanagh, More police and more prisons us for fun.” “People on campus need to be for eight years and was frightened Brooke Dmytriw, Karlene Ooto- does not create economic prosper- aware of how dangerous it is around when the fire incident made the Stubbs, Wesley Johnston, Brian Rice, ity,” Kristen Kramer, University of - Emil here. You never think it will happen news. She thinks that a paren- Aranda Adams, Sam Hagenlocher, Winnipeg sociology professor, said to you until it does,” he said. tal awareness-based gang strategy Mike Duerksen, Brandon Bertram, via email. Emil believes one of the factors "sounds like a lot of talk." Lee Repko, Amie Seier, Mark Reimer, University of Winnipeg science turned around to find the youth in youth crime is the media's glam- "If you have parents who don't Cindy Doyle, Adam Klassen, Timothy student Emil, who did not wish to repeatedly hitting his unconscious orization of a so-called “gangster care it won't make much of a dif- Penner, Lynnette McLarty, Will reveal his last name, was attacked friend with the bat. The youth was lifestyle” and gratuitous violence. ference ... I definitely don't walk Gibson, Sagan Morrow, J. Williamez, by an armed 19-year-old male mere also armed with a machete. Emil “The guy who jumped us seemed around here late at night," she Kathleen Cerrer. blocks from campus. Emil and his said he believed their attacker had to be trying to live up to that life- said. friend Derek were walking to meet the intention of killing his friend. style, in the way he was dressed Emil believes that tougher conse- friends at around 9:30 three Fridays Emil and Derek escaped to and the things that he said. He also quences for repeat offenders would The Uniter is the official student newspaper of the University of Winnipeg and is published by Mouseland ago, when Emil was hit in the head a friend's apartment after Emil didn’t try to take anything from us. help deter youth crime. Press Inc. Mouseland Press Inc. is a membership with an aluminum bat. rushed their attacker and exchanged He attacked us for fun.” based organization in which students and community Shocked and disoriented, Emil heated words. Emil returned to the Emil and Derek's attacker was members are invited to participate. 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Marika Prokash Mekala Wickramasinghe Sheilana de la Cruz Fifth year, English Fourth year, business Fourth year, sociology "For the most part, but it administration and psychology would be nice to see the "Daytime, yes. Nighttime, only "Yes, why not ... with a CONTACT US » area more populated." areas with cameras or if I am bunch of people ... I'm General Inquiries: 204.786.9790 with a group or SafeWalk." here everyday." Advertising: 204.786.9790 Editors: 204.786.9497 Fax: 204.783.7080 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.uniter.ca LOCATION » Room ORM14 University of Winnipeg Randy Adams Sam Engelking Roger Gaudry 515 Portage Avenue merchant, Jojo's Emporium owner, Casa Burrito reception/security, CBC Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9 (Vancouver Island) "I've never heard any is- Manitoba "From the newspaper it's not sues so I feel safe ... I think "Yes, I think security is safe to walk around Winnipeg, the UW campus is safe." pretty good around the but we've been here before university and CBC." and have not been troubled." Mouseland Press Board of Directors: Michael Rac (chair), Shawn Coates, Courtney Berthelette, Clayton Winter, Devin King, Alex Freedman, Shannon Sampert, Rob Nay, Brian Gagnon, Meg McGimpsey, Kelly Ross (UWSA representative). For inquiries e-mail: [email protected] News 03 www.uniter.ca October 8, 2009 The Uniter Local One great city after all News Briefs Winnipeggers Compiled by Kip Guenther may have an RCMP stepping up seat inferiority complex, belt enforcement During the month of October, Manitoba but there are Royal Canadian Mounted Police will be setting up check stops throughout the benefits to this city province in an effort to crack down on motorists not wearing seatbelts and not using child restraints. RCMP will be especially present during the Caitlin Larid weekend of Oct. 9 to 12. Beat reporter Check stops will include traffic units from detachments across the province. “Our aim is to remind the driving From tongue-in-cheek Simpsons ref- public not only that wearing a erences to The Weakerthans' iconic seat belt and using child restraints proclamation, “I hate Winnipeg,” reduce serious injury and death, at times it feels as though the joke but also that it’s the law,” said is perpetually on the residents of assistant commissioner Bill Robinson, this city. Add this to the fact that commanding officer, RCMP “D” Winnipeggers aren’t exactly quick Division. to rush to the defence of the sup- posed “one great city.” Residents Churches ban handshakes seem to have developed something To stop the spread of the H1N1 virus of an inferiority complex for a place and help curb fears, Catholic churches that is more akin to a prairie town that examined our feverish desire to the problem now is the economy. Toronto and attempt to duplicate have been advised by the Catholic archdiocese to take preventative than a bustling metropolis. score an IKEA outlet. When infrastructure is scrambling it. Winnipeg is very unique. There’s measures during church services. But this collective sense of “Winnipeg may in fact be one of to accommodate new communities definitely a positivity and beauty Instead of shaking hands during shame may be misplaced, espe- the least hard-hit areas in the world it can be hard to manage.” that comes out of it. Many cities the Rite of Peace, church goers are cially when the city is compared when it comes to the recession," he She also cautioned against the in Europe face similar slow-growth encouraged to give a simple "bow of to rapid-growth cities like Calgary wrote. "So slow growth isn’t a nega- boom envy Winnipeggers feel while issues and there is a sense there of the head." and Toronto. tive thing, it’s all in how it is man- looking at places like Alberta. embracing it.” A spokesperson from the “Winnipeg, as a slow-growth city, aged by policy makers.” “When growth is slow, changes U of W arts student Ashley archdiocese office of Winnipeg said compared to places like Calgary, Former director of provincial are incremental, whereas a big Gentes has lived in Winnipeg her the changes would only be in place has weathered the recession well planning Jacqueline East agrees boom can also mean a big crash,” whole life. She said that while she during the beginning of the cold and flu season. Dr. Joel Kettner from because we don’t have a boom with Leo that understanding the she said. definitely thinks there is an un- Manitoba Health said the changes were economy, based on one profitable benefits of slow growth will help While slow growth presents its derlying sense of resistance among voluntary and were not recommended resource,” University of Winnipeg the city embrace its identity and own set of challenges, East said it Winnipeggers when it comes to by Manitoba Health. politics professor Christopher Leo stop trying to emulate other cities. allows time for planning. celebrating their home town, she said. “We are sort of desperate to “We need to understand growth wouldn’t trade it for big-city life. Doer to attend global Leo suggested that Winnipeggers pull forms from other places and and development in a Winnipeg “People always say how much it climate summit suffer from a collective inferior- impose them on Winnipeg," said context and not always look to sucks here, but it’s also home.” Premiere Gary Doer is attending a ity complex on his blog in a post East. "With rapid-growth cities, what is happening in places like global climate change summit in Los Angeles, co-hosted by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and New York Gov. David Paterson, among others. Doer will be involved in panel discussions on national and regional co-operation featuring Nancy Sutley, chair of the New deal for young New Democrats White House Council on Environmental

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tus ber voted for either Selinger or from all over the world, will be there now vote directly Ashton, decreasing the likelihood to promote regional government of confusion and spoiled ballots, action on climate change. for their preferred said Clark. “We must continue to work together MYND receives one delegate per to shape global policy as we prepare candidate 10 members. With over 1,000 mem- for the international agreement bers, MYND will be represented by that we hope will be completed in Copenhagen later this year,” Doer Ethan Cabel "Obviously we are said. Beat reporter only one segment of Manitoba population growth a large party, but if best in nearly 40 years The youth faction of the Manitoba the race is close we Manitoba has experienced its best growth rate in 38 years, growing by New Democratic Party is mak- have the opportunity nearly 16,000 people during the past ing headlines over a decision that to play a very 12 months. The driving force behind has changed the group's delegate the population boom is people coming selection process for the Oct. 16 crucial role." from other provinces and countries. convention. – Devin Johnston, MYND member Statistics Canada reported Manitoba’s Initial party rules outlined that population grew at a rate of 1.32 per the selection of the Manitoba cent, which is much higher than the Young New Democrats (MYND) national average of 1.24 per cent. delegates would be similar to that 107 delegates at the convention. The Provincial Nominee Program was responsible for much of the seen at the riding level – a meet- Additionally, MYND members recent growth. Three-quarters of the ing where riding members vote for can run as delegates at the riding 13,000 individuals who came Manitoba delegates to represent them at the level, increasing youth representa- during the last 12 months were convention. The party recently cir- tion in a convention with 2,000 nominees of the program. cumvented those rules. MYND delegates. With an upsurge of over members will now vote for the 800 new MYND members, the Welcome Place gets candidate of their choosing (Greg group is confident they can make a new home Selinger or Steve Ashton), with del- a difference. The City of Winnipeg, the government egates being divided proportionally "In general I think the youth of Manitoba and the federal based on that vote. wing brings a lot of life to the governments are putting up $4.4 A meeting was held for Winnipeg MYND co-chair Emily Clark thinks the new voting system will make it less confusing for party, particularly during election," million for the construction of a members to vote for candidates young New Democrats. said Devin Johnston, a member of new 25,000-square-foot apartment this past Tuesday, Oct. 6, in the MYND. "Obviously we are only complex for Welcome Place. The University of Winnipeg Bulman [unlike a riding association] ... we "The system works fine in smaller one segment of a large party, but if agency provides newly arrived refugees with temporary housing Centre, while rural members cast were able to change the process for constituencies," said Emily Clark, the race is close we have the oppor- until they are settled. The complex mail-in ballots. the better." co-chair of MYND. "I believe the tunity to play a very crucial role." is currently under construction. "I think many people would MYND comprises any mem- decision was made to make it less The MYND has been advocat- Residents will be able to move in like to change the selection pro- ber of the party between 14 and 25. confusing ... they did not want to ing for increased access to post-sec- spring 2010. cess overall," said Sarah Zaharia, As such, the membership is spread disenfranchise any young voters." ondary education, greener policy “The Government of Canada is MYND co-ordinator for Greg across the province and makes a At the start of the campaign, initiatives and the creation of a working to provide Canadians a hand Selinger's campaign. "Because the province-wide selection meeting there could have been up to 400 minister to liaise with the youth of up so they can one day join in the MYND is an affiliate of the party unlikely. delegate hopefuls on a mail-in bal- the party. Canadian dream and own their own home,” said Steven Fletcher, Minister of State (Democratic Reform). 04 News The Uniter October 8, 2009 www.Uniter.ca Is anybody here a doctor (or nurse)? Province spends millions to retain and attract Manitoba doctors and nurses

Ethan Cabel assist their people at that [medi- Beat reporter cal] level," said advanced education minister Diane McGifford. Students who were once am- The Manitoba government re- bivalent about a post-secondary cently announced an investment education are now interested in of over $2.1 million to fund a large, university, particularly in the medi- multi-tiered strategy to recruit and cal field, she added. retain Manitoba doctors. The in- "If you can get high school stu- vestment has caused many to spec- dents interested in medical prac- ulate whether there is a shortage of tices early on then they are more medical practitioners in Manitoba likely to commit to a medical career and whether the province is doing in Manitoba," said Brenda Stutski, enough. director of nursing innovation and The scarcity of physicians is wide- research at the Health Sciences spread but far more noticeable in Centre. "And the programs in place rural and remote areas of the prov- for aboriginal students should be ince. Manitobans frequently expe- "We have adopted made more available for other stu- rience difficulties finding a family many different dents as well." doctor, said a registered nurse who A recent national survey con- requested anonymity. programs because ducted by Student Awards Inc., a The $2.1 million fund, an- it is important for free service to help students find nounced in late August, is divided aboriginal students scholarships and bursaries, found into several areas. Those areas in- that this year 91 per cent of nurs- clude a $90,000 repatriation fund to go into medical ing students are starting out with that would seek out and encourage practice in order to less than $5,000 devoted to their Manitoba medical students, study- assist their people at education. ing in other provinces or abroad, to "We do a lot of internship place- return to Manitoba. that [medical] level." ment for aboriginal students, but I The new strategy would also in- - Diane McGifford, Minister of think nursing students would ben- vest $500,000 for a physician re- registered nurses are not integrated result, there are continued short- Advanced Education and Literacy efit from good paying summer jobs settlement fund to create more with the records kept by employers, ages in rural areas, said the nurse. as well," said Stutski. incentives, covering moving and so it is difficult to track whether or The announcement of a physi- "What prevails in one province other expenses, for doctors to prac- not Manitoba nursing graduates are cian recruitment strategy comes Children of the Earth High School doesn't necessarily prevail in an- tice in rural Manitoba. leaving the province, or leaving the while the Manitoba government learn more about the possibilities of other," said McGifford. Manitoba There are also questions as to profession entirely. What is known invests $134,000 in a Medical a medical career. post-secondary education is among whether nurses are joining phy- is that the province is unable to Careers Exploration program (as "We have adopted many differ- the most subsidized in the country sicians in seeking employment compel nurses to stay in the prov- part of the government's Bright ent programs because it is impor- and any kind of national survey can elsewhere. ince, and further unable to control Futures program) that would see tant for aboriginal students to go skew numbers, she said. Human resources systems for where they seek employment. As a youth at the largely aboriginal into medical practice in order to illustration by Jonathan Dyck

World heritage site in question Our big, fat public sector after Doer announces 10-year delay Study shows paid and the average wage across the province,” Eisen said. Manitoba’s public The pay premium for Manitoba

G public administration employ- art sector bigger than ees is 50 per cent, a high percent- Other government L h e nz most, but still age compared to provinces such officials deny there as New Brunswick at 30 per cent overworked and and Alberta at 24 per cent. will be a delay “Just by trimming the costs to understaffed match Saskatchewan, which is a very comparable province … Samuel Swanson you save about 80 million bucks Beat reporter Samuel Swanson a year,” said Eisen. Beat reporter But are cutting costs to the province’s economy the best way The timeline for the establishment to keep a lean provincial budget? of a 4 million-hectare world heri- A recent study from the Frontier “Wage freezes or cuts, layoffs, tage site (WHS) on the east side Centre for Public Policy shows the involuntary extension of col- of Lake Winnipeg has been called that Manitoba’s public sector is lective agreements, back to work into question and unresolved since larger than other provinces and legislation and other restrictions mid-August, when Premier Gary that we’re paying more for it than of union rights have all become Doer said it will take another 10 other provinces. routine in the public sector,” said years for the WHS designation to The government insists the process for creating a world heritage site on the east side of “There are substantial differ- David Camfield, professor of la- be complete. Lake Winnipeg is moving along as planned. ences from province to province bour studies at the University of “It will take longer but it will be in terms of level of employments Manitoba. “As a result, the quality more sustainable for the people liv- convinced. and in terms of how much pub- of work life has deteriorated. Cuts ing in that area and more sustain- “The premier, on “The premier, on YouTube, in lic employees are paid,” said Ben to staffing levels and work reorga- able for our planet,” Doer told a YouTube, in a large a large public gathering, told the Eisen, policy analyst with the nization have made jobs harder.” New Democratic Party convention public gathering, told world it’d take another 10 years,” Frontier Centre for Public Policy. Staffing shortages and over- in Halifax on Aug. 14. said Gaile Whelan Enns, director Manitoba’s public service is worked staff have been recent Conservation minister Stan the world it’d take of Manitoba Wildlands. "There’s very large at the per-capita level complaints from public worker Struthers said this quotation is another 10 years.” some nasty questions here, like: compared to other provinces, ac- unions. Despite the high-rolling taken out of context and that the - Gaile Whelan Enns, director of Is the premier making policy and cording to Eisen. status of Manitoba’s public sec- delay is not real. making announcements when he “[Manitoba] has the largest pay tor, it’s unclear how the provincial “Things are moving along just as Manitoba Wildlands already knows he’s going to be the premium of any other province. government could justify any job they should,” he said. “The provin- ambassador to the United States? The pay premium is the difference or pay cuts. cial government, under the current “I don't think any of the com- between what public servants are premier, has been absolutely sup- munities, government staff, or portive of this site and that element once First Nations groups in the other partners in the WHS are of priority will remain there even area approve. aware of this decision, this delay,” after the leadership contests later “The documentation will be she added. this month.” ready to be submitted to UNESCO Struthers maintains that the The site will be recognized in- in 2012,” said Struthers. “We’ve heritage site is not looking at a 10- Check us out online at www.uniter.ca ternationally as part of the United been at this for 10 years, but it’s not year delay and that the work with Nations Educational, Scientific and 10 years on a go-forward basis.” UNESCO will be finished by Cultural Organization (UNESCO) However, not everyone is 2012. News 05 www.uniter.ca October 8, 2009 The Uniter More corn in your car International

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d News Briefs Manitoba first Ti y in turn be harnessed to heat the Compiled by Brooke Dmytriw province to tus very plants that are manufacturing “The gain on biodiesel. Though Cicek works with the mandate use of biodiesel is about Lebanese clerics byproducts of biodiesel produc- scuttle samba show biofuel five to seven times tion, he is not in favour of using TIRE, Lebanon: A Brazilian samba higher energy input food crops for fuel. show was canceled after local Muslim "I would much rather use waste clerics denounced the performance versus output.” products,” he said. as obscene. The troupe had been Alexander Kavanagh –Jim Rondeau, Minister of Science, Cicek said there is a benefit touring the country, performing at open-air venues. The clerics released Volunteer staff Technology, Energy and Mines for manufacturers to use waste products in the making of biod- a statement saying they support tourism but viewed the dancing iesel, such as deep fryer grease. and costumes as offensive. The Manitoba will soon be the first Approximately 80 per cent of the predominantly Shiite city council province in Canada to have man- value of biodiesel made from food- decided to cancel the show after dated the use of biodiesel. As of based crops will go towards paying they consulted with politicians Nov. 1, all fuel sold in Manitoba the farmers. Waste products can be and security, reported Reuters. will be required to contain two per obtained for little to no cost, since The Brazilian troupe performed cent biodiesel. the fryer companies are trying to in Beirut the week before without Energy minister Jim Rondeau get rid of it anyway, Cicek said. interference. said this new mandate will reduce When asked about the research greenhouse gas emissions by an es- into using waste sources for biodie- Ig Nobel Prizes for Irish timated 56,000 tonnes, which is sel production, Rondeau said, “I’m police, Zimbabwe banker, like taking 11,000 cars off the road pretty sure we’re the ones paying Icelandic executives annually. for that research. We’re funding a CAMBRIDGE, Great Britain: The Ig Nobel Manitobans will soon be pumping two per cent biofuel into their prizes were awarded, and winners “The gain on biodiesel is about tanks every time they fill up. whole bunch of new renewable en- five to seven times higher energy sources.” included the governor of Zimbabwe’s Reserve Bank (mathematics) and ergy input versus output,” said The Manitoba government Mexican scientists (chemistry), who Rondeau. “Biodiesel manufacturers are duction. One byproduct, glycerol, plans to continue seeking out alter- created diamonds from tequila, the Concerns have been raised by using off-grade canola which can can be converted into a natural gas native energy sources such as a pos- BBC reported. The awards recognize many that the use of food crops still be used as feed for livestock through a process called anaerobic sible bio-reactor landfill that has achievements that make people laugh could result in higher prices in once the oils have been removed,” digestion, said Nazim Cicek, asso- been proposed for the Brady land- and make them think. The humorous grocery stores. When asked if this he said. ciate professor in the biosystems fill, which could be used to provide accomplishments are presented by would be the case Rondeau said, There are also byproducts that engineering department at the heat to all of Waverly West. former Nobel laureates. “Of course not.” can be made from biodiesel pro- University of Manitoba. This can This year’s winners included the executives of the Icelandic banks for their successes in economics. The physics award went to researchers at the University of Cincinnati for calculating why pregnant women People Worth Reading About do not topple over. Literature was awarded to the Irish police for writing over 50 traffic tickets to the most prolific driving delinquent Prawo The multi-million dollar man Jazdy, which in Polish means “Driving Licence.” Gideon Gono from the national bank in Zimbabwe won for Local entrepreneur Daren Jorgenson is involved in just about every business imaginable mathematics by providing citizens with a wide range of numbers in the form of currency. Caitlin Laird sourcing of health care. Beat reporter Five more things you "I think our ideas about health Army commander caught may not know about drinking with the enemy care are right on," said Jorgenson. KINSHASA, DRC: An army officer was Daren Jorgenson "Especially when it comes to out- suspended after it was discovered Daren Jorgenson is the anti-ego- sourcing, like how we are send-  "I believe that marijuana he had been drinking with the enemy maniac. His business interests ing people to Cuba for treatment. that led a rebel attack against his men, read like a quilt: He owns the in- and prostitution should be le- No matter what universal health Reuters reported. According to the famous Royal Albert Arms – which galised, taxed and regulated." care system is created, adopted or United Nations peace keeping forces, has been called the CBGB’s of the "I drink too much." modified, no system will be able to Maj. Leon, the head of operations in North Kivu province, was accused of north – the award-winning and vi- "I like the Harper keep pace with funding of future sually stunning hair salon Vault and health-care advances. Thus, politi- drinking with Mai Mai rebels before government." they led an attack that killed six Four Rivers Medical Clinic. cians cannot state that they can 'fix' people. Government forces have Jorgenson first made it big as an "I love Disney World and universal health care or, as in the been battling Rwandan Hutu rebels Internet pharmacist. Yet any refer- have done it every year for the present U.S. political debate, create in northern and southern Congo. ence to his prodigious entrepreneur- past 15 years." universal health care without stat- Recently, 20 rebel factions halted their ship makes him uncomfortable. "I once spent three days in ing that what we create in terms of participation in peace settlements, “You have to be careful what you the Remand Centre." equality of access today will not be accusing the Congolese government say. People tend to attack you or ac- sustainable in the long-term." of failing to respect arrangements cuse you of having a huge ego," he "Daren is like a thorn in the side granting them command positions said. "The more visible you are the ment for a long time. Now, we have of the government because he is in the army. The Democratic Republic Daren Jorgensen came under fire in 2007 of Congo has been in a civil war since more this tends to happen. That’s an advocate outside of the commu- trying to change the status quo," the early 1990s. why I like to keep a low profile. I when he bought the Royal Albert Arms. nity in Daren." said Meeches. "They wonder what like to be involved with projects, Some Winnipeggers feared he would shut Meeches now works for to make of him." but I don’t put that out there for down the historic music venue. Jorgenson as director of aboriginal Jorgenson does little to mask his "Hitler" skull fragment the public, because it invites that health care and business solutions disdain for the political process. belonged to woman STORRS, Connecticut: Researchers kind of scrutiny.” "Internet pharmacy pioneer" is met with Four Rivers Medical Clinic, "Daren is an action man and have determined the skull fragment Jorgenson’s humility is disarming, with skepticism. which has expanded into providing anybody who wants to take ac- found in Hitler’s bunker, believed but somewhat unsurprising when "With the Internet pharmacy health care for urban reserves. tion over simply talking is bound to be the Nazi leader’s cranium, you consider his background. thing, anyone who was there at the Among his many interests, to butt heads," said Winnipeg belonged to a woman. The Associated “My parents were 16 when I was beginning just got lucky. I see my- Jorgenson is a staunch advocate for Harvest executive co-ordinator Press reported DNA tests showed the born. I grew up in public housing self as an average guy," he said. First Nations issues, particularly in David Northcott, who worked piece of skull, found with a bullet hole and moved to Winnipeg when I Jorgenson has since sold his regards to health care. with Jorgenson on a poverty reduc- and kept in Russian archives since was eight,” he said. pharmacy business, but at its high "I first met Daren before he was tion council. "But he is a very fair 1945, was that of a woman in her 20s Jorgenson credits his blue-col- point, the Jorgenson Group of very successful, when he came to person," he added, in reference to to 40s. Scientists at the University of Connecticut conducted the tests lar upbringing for fostering his Companies was pulling in $350 Sagkeeng to open a pharmacy," Jorgenson's sense of ethics within on the skull but could not ascertain ambition. million a year. said Phil Fontaine, former na- the world of enterprise. whether it belonged to Eva Braun, “In that situation you learn how Graciousness and good luck tional chief of the Assembly of First Jorgenson admits he has had to Hitler’s female companion who was to hustle. I stole some cars when aside, there is a certain tenacity that Nations. "He went on to open one scale back his ambition as of late, as found with him, dead from suicide. I was in the ninth grade and sold one must possess in order to rise to of the first pharmacies on a First a tendency towards over-extension The cranium is part of a collection drugs from Grades 9 to 12.” such stature without the backing of Nations community and he did it destabilized his finances over the of Hitler artifacts housed in Moscow Jorgenson eventually went to privilege. well." last couple of years. by the Russian State Archive. When university and after a few prover- "Daren is a very aggressive per- Jorgenson has developed a "The last two years have been the Soviets came upon the bunker bial bumps in the road – including son. Sometimes it's a good trait three-point plan for health care in the toughest yet. I have had busi- in April 1945, Braun and Hitler’s dropping out for a time in his first and sometimes he gets in your Canada, which involves univer- ness successes but also business fail- bodies were removed from a shell crater. An autopsy, conducted shortly year – graduated as a pharmacist in face," said Dennis Meeches, former sal health care with hard limits on ures," he said. "I don't think all of thereafter, allegedly recorded Hitler’s 1991. His career in the medical field chief of Long Plain First Nation. what is affordable, private health my ideas are correct. I've had stu- head was missing part of his skull. was how he eventually achieved "But he has a very powerful story. care with taxation to be funneled pid ideas." Officials supposedly went back in monolithic monetary success. He's an exciting person to work for. into universal health care, coupled 1946 and found the examined piece Still, any attempt to praise his Speaking for First Nations, we've with an independent watchdog of skull. ingenuity at being a so-called been head-butting with the govern- agency, and globalization and out- 06 The Uniter October 8, 2009 www.Uniter.ca

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Wesmen volleyball star on A tight squeeze originally cut from S am S Juice journal found of behind-the-scenes work with wa n high school team funding just in time [the editors] and a lot of liaising s on with other services on campus for funding.” Syvixay approached Neil Besner, Sarah Reilly Courtney Schwegel vice-president students and inter- Volunteer staff Campus beat reporter national, and Brian Stevenson, pro- vost and vice-president academic, and asked them to provide funding Today, watching Wesmen volley- A communal sigh of relief ac- for Juice. After a series of meetings ball star Justin Duff, it’s hard to companied last Friday’s launch with Syvixay and the Juice stu- believe that in Grade 9 he was cut Justin Duff is in his fourth year with of the ninth edition of Juice, the dent editors, Besner and Stevenson from his junior varsity team. The the Wesmen. University of Winnipeg’s student agreed to split the remaining fund- six-foot-seven middle hit a growth creative writing journal. This year, ing for the journal’s publication. spurt during Grade 9 and tried out called the CanWest quarterfinals the journal, which in the past re- “I just said, ‘Listen, I don’t care; again in Grade 10. last season. The Wesmen faced ceived the majority of its funding I am going to find a way to fund it This time, he made it. the CanWest number two ranked from the UWSA, scrambled to se- this year,’” Besner said, adding that When the season ended, Calgary Dinos, who beat the cure funds from other sources to cuts had to be made to their respec- Juice editor Kelly Nickie speaks at the Wesmen head coach Larry McKay Wesmen twice during the regular cover publishing costs. tive department’s budgets in order Juice 9 launch on Sept. 25. The journal invited Duff to try out for the Strike season. Duff described the three- “We were really scared for the to accommodate Juice. almost wasn't published this year. Volleyball Club, where Duff’s vol- game series as “five-set marathons.” future of this publication,” said “We just kind of scraped the leyball career took off. The Wesmen lost the first game to Kelly Nickie, one of the journal's money together,” he said. Duff graduated from Maples the Dinos but came back to win Although Besner said he and important lesson was learned in the Collegiate in 2006 and joined the second. “I just said, ‘Listen, I Stevenson were happy to contrib- process. Team Canada right away. Last sum- By the last day, Duff was so ex- don’t care; I am going ute this year, they will not be able “What is good about the whole mer, Duff returned to the National hausted he stopped jumping in to find a way to fund to provide ongoing funding for process is upholding Juice account- B team, which placed sixth at practice, thinking, “If I jump now Juice. able for their business plan,” he the World University Games in I won’t be able to jump in the it this year.’” Nickie said the Juice editorial said. “They started looking at ways Serbia and second in Mexico’s Pan game!” - Neil Besner, vice-president board is working to secure a long- to reduce the cost of their publica- American Cup finals. This year, Duff is happy to have students and international term source of funding for future tion.” He added that Juice cut their Duff loved the experience. his younger brother Bradyn join publications of the journal. publication costs this year by about “Just to play that much volley- the Wesmen men’s basketball team. Juice is now a registered char- $1,000. ball, six hours a day, every day of Wesmen fans can look forward to ity through the University of Nickie said she is grateful the the week, it was great.” watching both Duffs in action in student editors. Winnipeg Foundation, giving stu- UWSA helped them find more Now in his fourth year with the coming weeks. Although the UWSA was not dents, alumni and the public a funding to ensure the journal con- the Wesmen, Duff has been to the able to cover the entire publish- chance to donate funds directly to tinued to be published. Canadian Interuniversity Sport The next home game for men’s ing cost, UWSA president Jason the publication. “It was really great that they National Championship twice. He basketball will be at the Pembina Syvixay said that along with a Nickie hopes this will provide helped us connect with these peo- was a part of the national champi- Chrysler Invitational on Friday, $500 contribution, they commit- some of the funding for the jour- ple on campus and to discuss ways onship winning team in his first Oct. 23 (time TBA). The Wesmen ted themselves to helping findJuice nal, but said they are still seeking to get funding through them,” she year and the silver-medalist team men’s volleyball team plays at home other sources of funding. more secure sources of funding. said. in his second year. Friday, Nov. 13 at 8 p.m. against “We didn’t recognize it as a lost Syvixay is pleased with the out- When asked to share his favou- cross-town rivals, the University of cause,” Syvixay said. “We did a lot come of the situation and feels an rite Wesmen memory, Duff re- Manitoba Bisons.

campus and community listings Master Composter COMMUNITY EVENTS ON CAMPUS On Saturdays until Nov. 7 attend a mandolin work- SMART START, a study skills workshop series, helps shop with JAXON HALDANE at the Folk Exchange. students improve their study skills and succeed in university level courses. Mondays and Wednesdays, Training and Volunteer Program Challenge your brain with host ACE BURPEE at the 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. in room 1L04. Register in advance first annual ANIM TOBA LOTTERIES TRIVIA CHALLENGE by calling 786-9863 or emailing [email protected]. in support of the Alzheimer Society of Manitoba on Thursday, Oct. 22 at Stereo Nightclub. 7 p.m. Every Thursday evening until Nov. 26 you can attend the NEUROSCIENCE LECTURE SERIES where experts BEGINNING EXPERIENCE, a non-profit peer support discuss their work in the field of neuroscience. group for the recently separated, widowed or di- Register with [email protected]. vorced persons, is holding a retreat weekend Oct. 23 to 25. For more information call 275-3090 or visit The UWSA SAFEWALK PROGRAM is looking for vol- www.winnipegbe.ca. unteers to walk students, faculty and staff to their cars, bus stops or residences within a reasonable Learn about composting FREE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS CLASS. An oppor- distance. Each four-hour shift will receive an $18 tunity to meet with other students and Canadian honorarium. and teach others friends while learning English and the Bible. Takes place on Sundays from noon to 1:30 p.m. at Elim Every Wednesday from 12:30 to 1 p.m. there is an Chapel, 546 Portage Ave. For more information call interfaith university chapel service in the Carl Ridd Applyin the community! now space is limited Val & Veda Chacko at 257-1670. Sanctuary in Bryce Hall. All are welcome. Deadline is October 19th! VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

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Campus News Briefs When it's more than just stress... Compiled by Karlene Ooto-Stubbs and Courtney Schwegel W esle from full-blown disorders, talking

Beginning university John y Attention winter wait listers! with friends often isn’t sufficient. If you are on a wait list for a Winter can bring out st Claire Penner, a nursing student Term course, you are being advised on from the University of Manitoba, to check your iam.uwinnipeg.ca mental illnesses in was diagnosed with bipolar disor- email account for notifications on der in 2001, at the age of 22. seat openings. Until Thursday, Dec. 17, students She went on medication, but the wait list processing program will the side-effects forced her to stop be run every Monday and Thursday taking them. In 2005, her symp- morning to identify open seats. These Wesley Johnston toms returned and she was forced days are the best times to see if you have an available spot. Once notified Volunteer staff to withdraw from classes, after the you have 72 hours to claim your voluntary withdrawal date. reserved seat. If you do not respond “The school was very fair to me you will be dropped off the wait Mental Health Awareness Week … they allowed me retroactive list. So don’t hesitate to check your is Oct. 4-10 and students across VWs ... They treated it just like account. Canada should pay attention. it was a real illness, or maternity “From age 15 to age 20, it took me leave, or surgery,” she said. Qualitative research five years to finish what would take “Universities, in general, are in- group available most people two years, in terms of Lana Stark, a peer support volunteer, understands the difficulties some students go stitutions that try to be very under- The Qualitative Research Group at high school," said Lauren Janson, a through because she has gone through them herself. standing," said Hinton Bradbury, the University of Manitoba focuses first-year University of Winnipeg a psychology professor at U of W. on interdisciplinary collaborations student. "[Afterwards] I spent my However, he also noted “if you’re a between U of M faculty and local and last two years [from 20-22] trying or event in your life could bring it “I think that every student, and you miss eight weeks international research communities. to get my symptoms under control out,” said Hilary Fast, a peer sup- period of life will out of 12, obviously that can’t be If you are a student who conducts focus groups, manages open-ended and trying to find the right medi- port co-ordinator at U of W. have stress. And if accommodated because you aren’t interviews, uses historical documents cations. Finally I registered for uni- Lana Stark, another peer-sup- you’re predisposed to a part of the class.” or actively contacts a data-collecting versity, and just before I started my port co-ordinator, recalled an epi- Janson raised another problem: site, then you are welcome to join. first week of class I had to be hos- sode when her own mental health a mental illness, for even if the school is accommodat- The goal of the group is to assist pitalized, and again had to have my took a turn for the worse. example anxiety, then ing to a student's needs, it can be students engaged in qualitative meds changed. So I literally first “I would go to my room and hard to seek help. and mixed-method research around started attending classes as an inpa- spend the entire weekend studying. any major change “They’ll give you the opportunity the world. Close to 100 participants tient on pass from the psych ward I didn’t go out to see friends ... I’d or event in your life to write a test in a different room from varied disciplines help to build … Not cool.” obsess over details, things the profs could bring it out.” and stuff like that … But there still the resources, with monthly emails Janson suffers from post-trau- would never test us on. I started to is the issue of having to ask. And announcing conferences, findings and discussions. To receive the monthly matic stress disorder (PTSD). think the professors wanted to fool - Hilary Fast, there still is a lot of stigma.” peer-support co-ordinator email newsletter, email Kerstin at Janson's illness can cause episodes me.” [email protected]. of anxiety and depression. When Stark began talking to Any student needing help can “I think that every period of life friends about the specific thoughts and returned to her friends; her contact Counselling and Career will have stress. And if you’re predis- that were producing these anxiet- mental health improved and so did Services at 786-9231 or visit peer Gallery 1C03 hosts wind coil sound flow posed to a mental illness, for exam- ies, she realized they were irratio- her grades. support in room ORM13. Ken Gregory’s exhibition wind ple anxiety, then any major change nal. She cut her study time in half Unfortunately for those suffering coil sound flow will be on display in Gallery 1C03 for the month of October. Described as an “acoustic electromechanical system,” the exhibition aims to find out what the wind would say if it could speak to Security in numbers us. Translating wind vibrations into harmonic frequencies, the display is based on the principles of the Aeolian UWSA SafeWalk service starts next week harp. Gregory’s interest in human Cin interaction with technology led him d Courtney Schwegel Tuesday, Oct. 13. Ti y to a five-year study of kites with a Campus beat reporter Andrea Sokal, a third-year his- tus view to creating wind instruments. tory student, is one of many stu- For more on Gregory’s work visit dents who feels vulnerable walking www.cheapmeat.net. The UWSA SafeWalk program is to her vehicle alone. gearing up for another year by re- “I am a young female who car- U of M jazz student cruiting volunteers to escort stu- ries her car keys ... and cell phone wins national award dents, faculty and staff to their car, around,” she said. “I am a prime Luke Sellick, 19, won the Oscar bus stop or residence at night. Six target to be mugged.” Peterson Grant for Jazz Performance volunteers have been hired, with the Sokal, who used the SafeWalk worth $10,000. The award is given hope of hiring one or two more. program last year after a weekly to one Canadian jazz student every year by the Hnatyshyn Foundation. The program, which provides night class, said although her park- The bassist said he was up against service Monday through Thursday ing spot in the bus depot parkade stiff competition and was surprised from 7 to 11 p.m. and Friday from was not a far walk from the univer- he won. 5 to 9 p.m., provides a sense of se- sity, she felt a great sense of comfort “The judges are listening blindfolded curity for students who do not feel with the SafeWalk volunteers. basically. They’re just listening for comfortable walking alone in the “Downtown is scary at night quality and for a bass player to downtown at night. It will start by and there is safety in numbers,” she win, jeez ... He’s competing against said. “Having some more people pianists, drummers, saxophonists, around is always nice.” all these melodic instruments that Chris Rarick, supervisor for  SafeWalk get your attention first. So for a bass player to win, that says something security services, agreed with co-ordinator Vanja Tubin said the huge,” said Steve Kirby, Sellick’s Sokal that the program is success- instructor and the director of the program is a great ful at increasing people’s comfort Jazz Studies Program. level in the area surrounding the way for volunteers A student from the two-year-old university. While Rarick doesn’t to make some program won this award last year, advise students to walk alone at extra cash. too. night, he said the downtown is not as dangerous as many people Reappointment of CFS perceive it to be. the university, a SafeRide service is evenings a week volunteering and Local 8 representative “Reports from students re- available. getting compensated in a way.” University of Winnipeg Students' garding issues in the neighbour- SafeWalk coordinator and for- Tubin strongly encourages stu- Association former president Vinay hood are very seldom,” he said. mer volunteer Vanja Tubin said dents, faculty and staff to take ad- Iyer was removed from his position Volunteers free up time for that volunteering for SafeWalk is vantage of the program once it as liaison director for the Canadian security workers, who provide not only a good opportunity to begins next week. Federation of Students Local 8. The motion was passed at the UWSA a 24/7 SafeWalk service in the become familiar with the area sur- “It is created to be there for board meeting held on Monday, Sept. area surrounding the campus. rounding the university. It is also a them,” he said. “We do want to 28. Iyer was not in attendance. For students needing to be es- great way to connect with students stress that people use it as much as Iyer failed to fulfill his duties as corted to areas further away from and staff. they want.” liaison director as outlined in the Volunteers receive an $18 hono- UWSA bylaws. According to the rarium for every four-hour shift UWSA board meeting minutes, Iyer’s “Downtown is scary they work. For more information regarding attendance at UWSA board meetings at night and there is “It’s a good opportunity for stu- SafeWalk, email safewalk@theu- was infrequent and he did not attend any CFS provincial meetings. safety in numbers.” dents to make a little money,” said wsa.ca. Tubin. “If someone doesn’t have a - Andrea Sokal job ... they can spend one or two 08 The Uniter October 8, 2009 www.Uniter.ca Comments Stephen Harper, denier of colonialism Fresh off criticism of Iranian leader, PM contradicts himself again

Andrew Tod Ahmadinejad when he speaks of Comments editor the Holocaust as “a lie based on an unprovable and mythical claim.” Denying deliberate attempts to Stephen Harper has a nasty habit of eliminate a population is abhor- hypocrisy. If his political career thus rent, regardless of the situation or far can be typified by anything, it is the country in question. his eagerness to surrender his values But the question which remains to the throne of power. to be asked of our dear leader – so Examples abound. For instance, far unasked by a silent Canadian

though he fervently advocated for Jon media – is how Harper can justify

the creation of an elected Senate – at such a blatant lie as Canada having

a c both as the leader of the National Dy n no history of colonialism given his Citizens Coalition and as a leader residential school apology of 2008? of the official opposition – as k While the residential school sys- Prime Minister, he has instead en- tem was only one part of Euro- gaged in a deluge of recent Senate Canada’s attempt to solve “the appointments. Indian problem,” it nonetheless For the majority of his public was an explicit expression of the life, Harper has celebrated the vir- belief that aboriginals were a pop- tues of the uninhibited free mar- ulation to be coerced into subser- ket without waver. Yet, when the vience to the Canadian state. We coalition axe threatened to come see the modern day expression of down on his government last win- this belief with the continuance of ter, a brazen PM emerged from the the administration of aboriginals rubble content to lecture the rest through the reservation system and of the world’s capitalist economies The Indian Act. on the necessity of sensibly regu- front of the leaders of the 20 rich- of 2008, he endlessly reiterated that termination of Canada’s aboriginal As Harper himself said in his lated banking systems – almost as est countries in the world, Harper the attempted seizure of power was peoples, a blue believer might have residential school apology, the goal though they had been his idea to attempted to doctor Canada’s his- undeniably unconstitutional. As chalked such a dim-witted com- of the school system was to “isolate begin with. tory by claiming that “we [Canada] constitutional experts and everyday ment up to Harper’s apparent pref- children from the influence of their And then there was Harper at have no history of colonialism.” Canadians with some knowledge of erence of opportunism over truth. homes, families, traditions and cul- the G20 Conference last month in Come again? how a parliamentary government After all, he was in the company tures, and to assimilate them into Pittsburgh. Fresh off reprimand- This claim would be laughable operates began to refute his absurd of the most economically powerful the dominant culture.” ing Iranian President Mahmoud if it did not display a disturbing claim, the PM switched tactics to- nations in the world, so why not If Harper’s own residential Ahmadinejad at the United Nations cleansing of Canadian history, by wards the more familiar drumming trumpet Canada? school apology alone does not for, amongst many other things, its elected leader no less. up of a “socialist and separatist” The trouble is that his de- admit Canada’s history of colonial- Ahmadinejad’s reputation as an Now, Harper has proven him- scare. nial of the systematic expulsion, ism, I don’t know what does. eminent Holocaust denier, Harper self to be ferociously inept at read- So when Harper chose to deny denigration and dispossession of then uttered perhaps the most hyp- ing Canadian history before. Once centuries of the sequestering, thiev- Canada’s original inhabitants is in Andrew Tod is a University of ocritical decree of his career. In again, during the "coalition crisis" ing, attempted assimilation and ex- league with the filth spewed out by Winnipeg student.

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to wind down. The United States dren faced in having to not only American was implementing its "manifest Upon their arrival to these schools, in which have their hair cut off – hair being destiny" policy, begun in 1845. they were subjected to harsh discipline, the sacred to many Native American prison gave rise Basically, the policy held that it was peoples – but also forced to wear white America’s predetermined des- children would have their hair cut off and the uniform of the soldiers who in to residential tiny to take over the lands of Native would be dressed in military. many cases had killed members of Americans, to resettle them with their families. school model people who were Christian by reli- The Canadian connection to the gion and of European descent. cerate what they considered to be only be redeemed from savagery if story occurs in 1879 when Flood As western Native Americans the worst of the Native American caught young enough, convinced Davin was sent by the Government Brian Rice began to submit to the superior leaders, beginning in the 1830s with and probably coerced some of the of Canada to report on the suc- Volunteer American forces, there was the a Seminole named Osceola. By the leaders to give up their children. cess of these schools. American question of what to do with those 1870s, Native American leaders Pratt created boarding schools for boarding schools like Carlisle and who had led the battles against the were being handcuffed and shack- these children where they would Haskell became the template for As U.S. President Barack Obama U.S. military. The solution was to led, then shipped by train in cattle learn to be civilized and educated the residential schools in Canada begins the process of closing down cart them away to prisons. In all, cars to the prison where they spent in the white man’s ways. The two where thousands of young aborig- the prison at Guantanamo Bay over 175 Native American lead- years of deprivation and torture at most famous schools were known inal Canadians were subjected to Naval Base, in part due to alle- ers were arrested and incarcerated, the hands of the guards. Only after as Carlisle and Haskell. the worst kind of sexual and phys- gations of the illegal torture and including Chief Spotted Tail of they had been pacified were they al- Upon their arrival to these ical abuses perpetrated by their abuse of prisoners, it reminded me the Lakota and Geronimo of the lowed to return to the reservations schools, in which they were sub- overseers. These schools lasted for of a similar situation that involved Apache. The most notable of these that were being set up for their jected to harsh discipline, the chil- 90 years. Native American leaders during the prisons was Fort Marion in St. people. dren would have their hair cut off 19th century. Augustine, Florida. One of those in charge of over- and would be dressed in military Brian Rice is an associate profes- In the 19th century, the wars Years before, the U.S. had con- seeing the prison was Colonel attire. Pratt referred to it as killing sor of education at the University of between the U.S. and Native verted this old Spanish fortress into Richard Pratt. Colonel Pratt, be- the Indian to save the man. Winnipeg. Americans were just beginning a prison. Its purpose was to incar- lieving the Native American could Imagine the trauma these chil-

For those who hate Planting the seeds of victory Liberals should want to legalize taxes and love weed marijuana, not criticize it New group claims to ing with him. He also told me he ciety are exempted from Canadian smokes a quarter-ounce of weed a law. This is a real thing, and it be your avenue to day. Really. seems to be at least partially true in Alexander Kavanagh further, just imagine the revenue That was one of the few things this case. Ask him how he did it, if Volunteer staff the government could generate living above the law in our conversation that I un- you can understand him. if they regulated and distributed derstood. The rest of the time he On their Facebook group page, pot. Likely, they could gener- talked so fast that a humming- Bessette (under the name Marc Canada’s marijuana laws have long ate enough to solve many of the Andrew McMonagle bird would get dizzy, all the while Zurawell) mentions talking with been controversial in Canadian major issues facing Canada today, News assignment editor his eyes bugged open eerily. They the Winnipeg Police Service re- politics. Due to the stigma of being such as healthcare funding. Not weren’t even red. cently. I contacted WPS and asked labelled "pro pot," politicians are to mention the numerous jobs Bessette told me that PMS is a if they were conducting an investi- often reluctant to advocate for the that could be taken away from If the answer is marijuana, the sovereign, self-governing society gation. Terry Kolbuck, WPS Public legalization of marijuana. Yet, the the illegal drug trade and created unification of North America and distinct from Canada who are also Information Assistant would only legalization of marijuana could be within already existing govern- good spelling, then the question is: trying to save the country. While tell me that they weren’t. So far, so the issue to tip the scales for the ment organizations. What does the Peace Maker Society their literature lists legal marijuana good, PMS-ers! Liberal party, should they advo- For instance, Manitoba's Liquor like, not like and not practice? as their passion, Bessette says their Also on the Facebook page is a cate entrusting government with Control Commission could easily I found out about PMS (a mem- main focus is to prevent a North small debate sparked by a potential handling Canada's marijuana be adapted to handle the increased orable acronym if I ever heard one) American Union. member questioning some of the market. demands of government through by coming across one of their cards This is the idea that Canada, confusing information. Bessette Marijuana was first criminal- legalization by simply adding discarded on the ground. I love the U.S. and Mexico will erase got tired of defending himself after ized in Canada in 1923, but was an extra C, to read Liquor and finding cards and this one proved their borders. Bessette says this will two responses and said, “You are still allowed to be used for medici- Cannabis Control Commission. to be a real gem. happen within a year without the no longer welcome in our soci- nal purposes until 1932. It has been As it stands, astronomical The card starts out with the am- interference of the PMS. Never ety... so good luck to you.” He goes theorized that full criminalization amounts of money are already biguously English sentence “100% mind that the U.S. is still building on to say, “I get tired of explain- was imposed due to the fact that being spent by Canadians on the Legal 4 Green,” then goes on to list that fence to keep the Mexicans ing to people that are too stupid to it was too effective as medicine, purchase of a recreational sub- an affidavit number and misspell out and it’s getting harder every understand." rendering wealthy pharmaceutical stance which is no more harmful Stephen Harper’s name (giving year for Canadians to travel south Who says weed makes you companies unable to compete. than alcohol. Why let all that rev- him the francophone-sounding of the border without copious unsociable? Shouldn’t this tell us something enue fall into the black market? Stephan). It’s also typeset so badly identification. PMS seems to be onto some- about Canada’s pot laws? If phar- Our current federal govern- that the text is abruptly cut off at He told me that within a year, thing really interesting, but it’s maceutical companies are wor- ment is far too “anti-drug” and the bottom. he will have opened satellite offices hard to take them seriously with ried that marijuana could replace “tough on crime” to ever consider This was just my first impres- in “every Canadian city” and will their far-fetched goals and manic many of their high-priced pre- putting the will of Canadians be- sion of the group and I immedi- have gathered the signatures of 51 drug use. scription drugs, maybe it really is fore their own punitive political ately wanted to learn more. I met per cent of the entire country to I look forward to being banned that good – medically speaking, of agenda. To make matters worse, with PMS founder Marcel “Marc” protest this union. from joining. course. the only major political party who Bessette a few days later. Whoever said stoners were lazy? Ontario's courts ruled in 2000 seems to have any real interest in Bessette told me with pride that Acting under a claim of right, Andrew McMonagle is a University that pot laws in this country were seeing proper action taken in this he has an IQ in the 130s and that filed on Sept. 3 of this year, Bessette of Winnipeg student. unconstitutional and ordered matter – the NDP – will probably he has several “geniuses” work- believes he and anyone in his so- that they be reviewed to allow for never be elected to power. the use of medicinal marijuana. This leaves the Liberals, who are Additionally, a report issued by looking for a way to distance them- the Canadian Senate’s Special selves from the Conservatives. Committee on Illegal Drugs Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff in 2002 stated that pot should should promise to legalize pot, as be legalized for recreational use it would probably be the issue that and called for amnesty for previ- tips the scale in his favour, and ous small possession convictions. land him the long-sought major- Opinion polls done by Angus ity government. Reid in 2007 showed that 55 per Many NDP voters would likely cent of adult Canadians polled vote Liberal if they made this issue were in favour of legalization for part of their campaign, while recreational use. many pot-smoking Conservative If the story told by polling is supporters would likely do the correct, out of an estimated 33 same. million Canadians, over 18 mil- So I’m calling on you, Michael lion think marijuana should be le- Ignatieff, and your Liberal Party, galized. To put those numbers in to put legalization on the bill in other terms, that’s almost four out the next federal election. of every seven Canadians. With It might just be what puts you this in mind, how can it be that in power. only three out of seven Supreme A ra Court justices voted in favour of Alexander Kavanagh is a n A da legalization in 2003? University of Winnipeg student. dams To take this argument even 10 The Uniter October 8, 2009 www.Uniter.ca Arts & Culture

Pick a pop Inaugural festival celebrates all Block rockin’ beats manner of pop music If Send + Receive: A Festival of Sound isn't really your thing, Moses Mayes pop and dance of the ‘80s with the don't fear: Pop! Et Cetera is here. more modern French house move- The brand new music festival, masterminds mix it ment, is indeed something fresh in which began on Wednesday, Oct. Winnipeg. 7, runs until Sunday, Oct. 18 at up with LeBeato The live show is a visual extrav- a variety of venues across the aganza thanks to their frequent city. collaborator Skot Deeming, a In addition to performances Sam Hagenlocher Winnipeg visual artist, whose pro- by local acts like LeBeato, The Volunteer staff jections make the live experience a Lytics and Royal Canoe, the stunning feast for the eyes as well festival includes performances as the ears. by Montreal's Young Galaxy, Public notice to all dance floor LeBeato’s first audio offering, Edmonton's Shout Out Out Out occupants: There's a new beat in titled Cherry Mix Vol. 1 and re- Out, Vancouver's Minto and town. leased this summer, is more of a Regina's Library Voices. For nearly a decade, Moses mix tape than an album. The 16 “The initial concept for Pop! Et Mayes has not only been this city's tracks included are a handful of the Cetera 2009 was to launch hum- dance floor bread and butter, but threesome's many influences and bly with a weekend of events also a vital component in Canada's provide listeners with a sample of and build on it the following funk fusion revolution. things to come. year,” co-ordinator Mike B ex- But after two Western Canadian For months the trio has been plains on the festival's website, Music Awards, hundreds of live earnestly grinding through songs, PopEtc.ca. shows across North America and preparing for their upcoming full- LeBeato loves MacBooks: thousands of records sold, found- length album. Penner expects it to The Uniter swears that we do “Well, one weekend turned into ers DJ Grant Paley, guitarist Mark be ready for release early next year. not get paid by Apple every two, which tumbled into approxi- Penner and keyboardist Nathan “We're dealing with a consider- time one of their products mately 12 nightly shows.” Reimer have a new groovy vision: able number of songs,” he said. “It's appears in our publication. With popular pop music festivals LeBeato. a matter of reinterpreting them so already established in places The project has been building that they work with the album.” photos Courtesy of Grant Paley like Montreal, it's about time since MM wrapped its third re- Fans hungry for a new Moses Winnipeg got in on the action. cord, Second Ring, in 2007. Mayes album, though, may be in “2010 will see more bands, more After playing with Mayes' ever- for a long wait. Now that LeBeato  See LeBeato on Tuesday, Oct. 13 at the Pyramid Cabaret (176 Fort St.) venues, all-ages shows and vari- rotating band roster, guitarist is the trio's primary focus, with ous other components,” Mike B Penner disclosed that LeBeato will the project becoming increasingly  The band will open for Shout Out Out Out Out. Not Animals will also promises. be a much more concise effort. draining creatively, the future of perform “We [Paley, Penner and Reimer] Moses Mayes is uncertain. “This is only the beginning [so]  Tickets are $13 in advance at please stay tuned.” became tired of always having to “LeBeato is definitely taking Kustom Kulture, Into the Music and find new players [for the band], and over,” Penner confirmed. “We're the Pyramid, or $15 at the door For more info, a complete sched- really wanted to start something not really sure what will happen.”  LeBeato also plays the Lo Pub ule and a free sampler of some fresh, just the three of us,” Penner So you dance floor junkies out (330 Kennedy St.) on Saturday, of the bands taking part, visit said over the phone last week. there, don't panic. LeBeato has Oct. 31 www.popetc.ca. The band's sound, which Penner your fix.  Visit www.myspace.com/lebeato described as a melding of the rap, Arts & Culture 11 www.uniter.ca October 8, 2009 The Uniter New dogs, old tricks Co Saskatoon rockers urtes y o y play music Ry f a n G n inspired by the ulle era of rock ‘n’ roll n they like the most

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It’s often said you shouldn’t live in the past – but that old adage doesn’t hold true for Saskatchewan rock “As far as looks, that outfit The Sheepdogs. That’s because the four mem- goes with the music. bers look like The Allman Brothers I guess we all just with their shaggy hair and grubby want to look the part.” beards, sound like CCR with pop overtones and choose to indulge in - Ryan Gullen, musician records their parents grew up with in the earlier days of rock ‘n’ roll. “We all like the music produced between 1964 and 1974 – the rock, pop and soul of that era. That’s the The Sheepdogs might stick out from the other guests if you invite them to a garden party, but boy do they sure rock! music we listen to, so that’s the kind of music we like to make,” bass player Ryan Gullen said by Ewan Currie, guitarist Leot Hanson in the ‘60s and ‘70s had a lot more ence. Not just a couple of singles “These kids are in the back of phone last week, moments after and drummer Sam Corbett, the character, so that’s the style we were and a few shitty b-sides,” Gullen the cruiser and the cops blast our pulling the band’s tour van into band first formed four years ago in going for.” said about the stock the band puts CD as they pulled away,” Gullen Toronto following a long trip from Saskatoon out of a common love To achieve that sound, the band into a record. laughed. New York. for old music and a desire to create uses old recording techniques such The band has released two full- “They not only got arrested, “As far as looks, that goes with their own. as using only two mics to record the lengths and earned a nomination but they also had to listen to our the music. I guess we all just want “We wanted a sound different drums. for best independent album of songs all the way down to the po- to look the part.” from music out there today. New And for their latest outing, the year at the Western Canadian lice station.” Having finished recording music is just so over-produced, they employed mix engineer Bill Music Awards for last year’s The their third full-length album one over-compressed and over-analyzed Moriarty, who is known for his use Sheepdogs' Big Stand. day before leaving on tour, The to the point where they’re taking of vintage analogue gear and pro- The didn’t win, but the week-  See The Sheepdogs on Saturday, Sheepdogs are playing 17 shows in every piece of music and making ducing warm ‘60s-noir sounds. end wasn’t without any excitement. Oct. 10 at the Times Change(d) (234 Main St.) 19 days. They’ll stop in Winnipeg it so that every instrument is per- The Sheepdogs have also proven Gullen witnessed two teenagers  The band’s third CD comes out later this Saturday, Oct. 10 for a show at fect,” the 25-year-old Gullen said. to not only posses a knack for break into Winnipeg singer-song- this fall the Times Change(d). “Every snare hit sounds the same heartfelt, old-time southern rock writer Romi Mayes’ van.  Visit www.thesheepdogs.com But life wasn’t always as hectic over and over again, and the gui- songwriting, but also a steady work When police arrived on the for The Sheepdogs. tars are processed through the com- ethic. scene, Gullen gave the officers a Rounded out by singer-guitarist puter. We thought music recorded “An album should be an experi- couple of Sheepdogs CDs. Stepping off the sidelines into the spotlight Better known as a side-person for other people's musical projects, Julie Fader strikes out on her own with Outside In J M ames Aaron Epp “It was really important that tering is John K. Samson. I know

Managing editor ej Graham and I recorded this album he's working on a solo project right i a together,” Fader said. “Because we now – that's the word on the street started it together, because we live – and I would love to play some You may not be familiar with the together, because the songs were shows with him. I'm such a fan, name Julie Fader, but chances are so personal and because it was sort and he's the best guy and the best you're familiar with the bands she of my first time putting myself out lyricist, and I'm hoping sometime plays with. there.” I could maybe come to Winnipeg The 30-something, Toronto- Harmer, VanGaalen, GLS' Tony and play a solo show with him. based musician is a touring mem- Dekker and Erik Arnesen, Holy “But right now, that's just wish- ber of Sarah Harmer's band, a Fuck's Brian Borcherdt, Justin ful thinking.” member of Great Lake Swimmers Rutledge, A Northern Chorus' Pete An accomplished visual artist, and appears on Chad VanGaalen's Hall, Hey Rosetta's Erin Aurich Fader is hoping to spend the win- latest release, Soft Airplane. and Apostle of Hustle's Dean Stone ter painting and recording her next That means she performed on all showed up to help out. album. not one, but two of this year's The result is a gorgeous, warm, She's also looking forward to more Polaris Prize-nominated recordings bewitching, multi-layered record shows with Great Lake Swimmers, – the aforementioned Soft Airplane Julie Fader is a multi-instrumentalist who plays the guitar, Wurlitzer, flute and melodica. that's earned Fader the moniker Harmer and VanGaalen. and GLS' Lost Channels. “spectral singer-songwriter” from “I'm looking forward to my fu- “I was a little nervous [at the one music critic. ture as a side-person,” Fader said. “I award ceremony] about the fact [Great Lake Swimmers' and Chad a smattering of her own solo shows “It's a really, really exciting feel- don't want to stop playing with the that I was performing in two bands VanGaalen's] tables were side by in support of her debut solo CD, ing to have the record out there. people I love, whose songs I love.” that were nominated – I felt a lit- side, it was pretty sweet. It was a Outside In. The support I'm getting from peo- tle strange about that,” Fader said very friendly night.” A multi-instrumentalist who ple is overwhelming.” recently by phone from a diner in Fader is currently on tour as plays the guitar, Wurlitzer, flute She hasn't scheduled a solo show  See Julie Fader play in Chad Revelstoke, B.C., where she had part of VanGaalen's backing band, and melodica, Fader recorded the in Winnipeg, but Fader is hoping it VanGaalen's band this Friday, Oct. 9 at the Park Theatre (698 Osborne St.) just ordered a breakfast of potato which includes a stop this Friday, CD at home over the past few years won't be long before she can come  Castlemusic will also perform pancakes. Oct. 9 at the Park Theatre. with her boyfriend, Graham Walsh to the city to share Outside In live.  Visit www.juliefader.com and www. “But once I was there and The cross-country trek includes of electronica quartet Holy Fuck. “You know who I've been pes- chadvangaalen.com 12 Arts & Culture The Uniter October 8, 2009 www.Uniter.ca

MUSIC LISTINGS THE THRASHERS at the Standard. I've got FRIENDO in lo-fi places FEEDING THE HUNGER is a Winnipeg Harvest fundraiser CD REVIEWS featuring QUINZY, SONS OF YORK and THE PAPS at the Calgary's FRIENDO is not afraid to attempt new things. Having Park Theatre. played drums in WOMEN, guitarist Mike Wallace recruited his buddy Henry Hsieh, who plays bass in BEIJA FLOR and MONKEY, VERSUS THE NOTHING at the Zoo. THE PAPS to handle the stick duties. With Nicole Burnell of PUBERTY also THE OMEGA MEN at the Cavern. Not Looking for Romance playing guitar, they are set to release their debut album on cas- Elska Music SHEER JOY play at McNally Robinson Grant Park, 8 p.m. sette only (!). If you haven't got a tape deck, don't fret – they The Paps are playing the Park Theatre this Saturday, will hook you up with a download instead. Thank you, modern DJ GABE REALITY at the Academy. Oct. 10. The four girls in the band, who formed under world. Check them out as part of the POP! ET CETERA festi- SUNDAY, OCT. 11 the ballsy moniker The Papsmears when they were in val when they play with MINTO and JICAH at the Pyramid on Grade 8, are now adults. Perhaps this is why going in, Listen to the song Cut N Paste Girl Saturday, Oct. 10. You can see them do an earlier performance THIS CITY DEFECTS and SO HOLY HEADCASE play at there was a slight expectation that the girls may have at www.uniter.ca that same day at Music Trader. Ragpickers. matured since their formative high school years. This is DUDE, WHERE'S MY GEAR? ALL THE KING'S MEN at King's Head Pub. not the case. Admittedly, their sound is as tight as ever and the album's producer, Brandon Friesen, deserves due credit. Don't get me wrong: DJ CO-OP has been energetically doling out good times BAD COUNTRY at The Standard. throughout Winnipeg for years, but with the recent theft of his The Paps can play their instruments well. It's just that the music sounds like it should MONDAY, OCT. 12 turntables audiences may become grooveless. Fortunately, we be featured in a teen comedy, not a rock club. This band has potential to be rock stars, all have the opportunity to attend a fundraiser/dance party to METALLICA at the MTS Centre. but the songs, lyrically as well as rhythmically, need guts. Guts is what made other brash get him some new equipment. A bunch of his DJ buddies are riff-rockers, from the Clash, to Blondie, to Sleater-Kinney, great. So Paps, show us you've VINYL DRIP WITH JAMES BROWN at the Cavern. already showing their support by rockin' the party alongside got guts, we know you've got them in you. Co-op on Friday, Oct. 9 at Ragpickers. DJ's include FUTWERK, TORNGAT plays a free in-store concert at Music Trader, - Sam Hagenlocher HUNNICUTT, D-LO JAMALL KNIGHT, MAMA CUTSWORTH, L. LON 8 p.m. HUBBARD, DOW JONES, MIKE B and RPG. TUESDAY, OCT. 13 THE DUST POETS THURSDAY, OCT. 8 POP! ETC. presents SHOUT OUT OUT OUT OUT, LEBEATO and World at Large Saskatoon's DEEP DARK WOODS takes the stage at the Park NOT ANIMALS at the Pyramid. Productive Apathy Theatre with MAYOR MATT ALLEN AND THE LITTLE BUDDIES RODNEY DECROO at the Times Change(d), 7 p.m. The Dust Poets’ fourth album is a masterful collection opening. of folk and country songs commenting on such subject DEFLATED EGOS at Shannon's Irish Pub. POP! ET CETERA presents the LYTICS and TWENTYTWENTY as matter as homelessness (World at Large) and love and well as your regular GOODFORM DJ's at the Lo Pub. Soul night with THE SOLUTIONS at the Cavern. technology (Skeletons in Your Inbox). While the musician- ship and songwriting is solid right from the beginning, CHEERING FOR THE BAD GUY at Degrees. TONY BENNETT at the Centennial Concert Hall. the album really hits its stride with the cover of Woody BRAVE NEW WAVES at the Pyramid. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 14 Guthrie’s Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key. The Dust Poets’ range of musical instru- READYMIX with DJs DAN L and DIAL UP at Ozzy's. MARK BERUBE AND THE PATRIOTIC FEW at West End ments from guitar and mandolin to saxophone and clarinet, and their ability to play their Cultural Centre. instruments well, make for eclectic, bluegrass-inspired country-folk pop songs. Codeine Oh no! It's KENNY G at Club Regent. Dreams sounds like a Gram Parsons inspired alt-country ode to addiction and the desire USO PROJECT + SELFISH, MARK TEMPLETON and EZEKIEL BILLY SHEARS at the Academy. “to be normal again,” while I Won’t Set Down is a bluegrass number about restlessness HONIG play in Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall, 7 p.m. and longing. The striking lyrics and honed playing make it easy to see that these folks ROUTE 59 at the Cavern. LITTLE BOY BOOM at the King's Head. have been playing together for quite some time. KENT MCALISTER plays the Times Change(d) High and Lonesome - Brandon Bertram ANDREW NEVILLE AND THE POOR CHOICES at the Standard. Club. J.WILLIAMEZ at Shannon's Irish Pub. DALE BROWN at Shannon's Irish Pub. Chill night with FERRO MONTANINO at the Academy. CHAD VANGAALEN FRIDAY, OCT. 9 Soft Airplane B-Sides THURSDAY, OCT. 15 Indie hero CHAD VANGAALEN plays at the Park Theatre with Sub Pop openers CASTLE MUSIC. SECONDS FROM DISASTER, THE INSIDES and MILDESTONE It’s odd to attach a rating to a free, downloadable col- at the Pyramid. lection of b-sides. Releases like this usually get ignored LIBRARY VOICES, IN-FLIGHT SAFETY and OLDFOLKS HOME play for good reason, but Calgary musician Chad VanGaalen's the Lo Pub as part of POP! ETC. CAMPFIRE NIGHT at the Times Change(d) High and extraneous material – songs left over from 2008's Lonesome Club. DUDE, WHERE'S MY GEAR? a fundraiser for DJ CO-OP with a Polaris Prize-nominated Soft Airplane – deserves to be plethora of local DJs at Ragpickers. GOODFORM at the Lo Pub. heard. VanGaalen has offered fans nine straightforward F/ACION launch party with musical guests OAK TREE, THAT DAMN FRANCISCO LOPEZ performs as part of the Send + Receive gems that play to his strengths: grungy folk-pop with an air of mischief and an eerie CASH BAND and DJ INCOGNITO at the Rudolf Rocker. Doors 8 p.m. Festival at the Urban Shaman Gallery, 8:30 p.m. fascination with death. VanGaalen kicks things off with an ode to winter biking (Stuffed Animal), and before long, he's spouting off some of his most ridiculous lines: "I wish I was DJ EUPHORIA at Academy. READYMIX with DJs DAN L and DIAL UP at Ozzy's. a poltergeist, moving through solids and spying on lesbians" (I Wish I Was a Dog). This DOC WALKER countrify the Pantages Playhouse. ROUTE 59 at the Cavern. collection features VanGaalen at his most carefree and immature, and that gives it the staying power of his best work. Download it now at www.softairplane.com and see him There is a BIG AL BENEFIT at the Pyramid. THE WIGGLES at the MTS Centre. live this Friday, Oct. 9 at the Park Theatre. THE MAGNIFICENT SEVENS play some tunes at the Times The CHRIS CARMICHAEL BAND at the Standard. - Jonathan Dyck Change(d) High and Lonesome Club with STEW CLAYTON. ENJOY YOUR PUMAS, IN REVERSE and THE EARDRUMS at WHITEMOUTH and DJ ZAHORE at the Royal Albert Arms. the Academy. WE ARE THE CITY DITCHPIG play a reunion show at the Cavern. In a Quiet World NARWHALS at the Studio Gallery. Independent “In a quiet world … I used to have my health but now I DAVINPORT at Shannon's Irish Pub. am ill,” Cayne McKenzie sings on Intro from this Kelowna THE BLUE MAN GROUP Friday, Oct. 16 at the MTS Centre. DJ EUPHORIA at the Academy. trio’s debut long player. Then they spend the next 37 YOUNG GALAXY and BEND SINISTER Sunday, Oct. 18 at the HELEN WHITE DUO at McNally Robinson Grant Park, 8 p.m. minutes healing themselves with a hook-strewn pop Pyramid. buffet as piano and guitar play off a backbeat that is SATURDAY, OCT. 10 AMY MILLAN Sunday, Oct. 18 at the WECC. almost impossible to resist. You will undoubtedly marvel STYLUS' 20th BIRTHDAY bash at the Lo Pub, with NOVILLERO, at guitarist David Menzel’s singing into his pickups on MUM Friday, Oct. 30 at the Pyramid. VAV JUNGLE, MAMA CUTSWORTH, HAUNTER and DJ ROB VILAR. Time, Wasted and the cheery gang vocals on ...Big Lights in the Sky. Tom Dobrzanski (Said NOMEANSNO Friday, Oct. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 31 at the the Whale), a man that understands piano, recorded this disc. It’s orchestral pop, in the MEISHA AND THE SPANKS release their album MMMADE FOR Royal Albert. vein of The Carpenters or Jools Holland-era Squeeze. Fans of Coldplay or Ben Folds Five ME with guests HOT LIVE GUYS, DOMENICA and HOT BLOOD BOMBERS at the Albert. THE MISFITS Friday, Nov. 6 at the Pyramid. will easily find a home here. Catch their gorgeous tones twice on Thursday, Oct. 15 at Music Trader (1 p.m.) and Sam’s Place (159 Henderson Hwy. at 8 p.m.). MINTO, FRIENDO and JICAH play the Pyramid. DINOSAUR JR. with THE PINK MOUNTAINTOPS Tuesday, Nov. - Lee Repko 17 at the Pyramid. SHEEPDOGS take the stage at Times Change(d). GWAR Saturday, Dec. 5 at the Garrick. JOHN PEEL DAY at Into The Music with DJ's all day. PINHEAD GUNPOWDER Kick Over the Traces Recess Records Chances are you have never even heard of Pinhead Gunpowder. Who can blame you? This retrospective is 23 tracks in 43 minutes. Raw pop-punk rock: snotty delivery, double-time jaunt and real melody. With great lyrics (from Crimpshine’s Aaron Cometbus) delivered by Green Day’s Billie Joe, Kick Over the Traces is a great re- minder of just how awesome he was before Warner Bros. turned him into a poster boy for a Hot Topic fashion punk generation. Songs of love and life and struggle delivered with grit and sincerity that span 18 years and 10 releases. This is classic mid-'90s pop punk that is refreshing to rediscover. Three new tracks from their 2008 7” West Side Highway also make the cut. I guarantee that you will be shredding to this well into next summer. - Lee Repko Arts & Culture 13 www.uniter.ca October 8, 2009 The Uniter Shatter it and pick up the pieces Edmonton musician brings his beautiful, electro-acoustic experimentations to the University of Winnipeg Co

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emplet output, being in sounds. such a vibrant Templeton's works have been on commissioned by organizations city. But that's the of contemporary dance, film and thing, I think: It's audiovisual disciplines. At times, easy to take in a Edmonton-based experimental filmmaker aAron Munson's vi- lot and coast, and suals have accompanied his live not [create] a lot performances. yourself in a city like Earlier this year, the duo's ongoing collaboration resulted in Montreal.” the release of M. Templeton & aA. -Mark Templeton, musician Munson: Acre Loss on CD and DVD. The project features visuals the campus radio station's 10th by both men, set to music created anniversary. by both men. He first garnered attention with “Acre Loss and Inland are both his debut release, 2007's Standing kind of foreshadowing the direc- on a Hummingbird. tion I'm moving into,” Templeton Using acoustic instruments like said. guitar, banjo and violin as the basis “I'm interested in seeing what Edmonton musician Mark Templeton will incorporate music he's never played live before into his set in Winnipeg at Send + Receive. of his songs, Templeton records happens in the next couple years various parts before chopping them – what recorded works will sound up and splicing them together on like and how they relate to Acre Loss his computer. The result is beau- and Inland – because I feel it will be Aaron Epp ate,” Templeton said by phone last Point. The album features three tiful, atmospheric music that has a balance of the two.” Managing editor week. songs from his latest CD, Inland, as been described as “pastoral” but “I was a little surprised by that well as three new songs. also “painterly.” because I kind of expected that I Templeton will use those new “On Hummingbird I chose to  See Mark Templeton Wedneday, Oct. When Edmonton-based musi- would have more creative output, songs for the first time ever as the hide the sources a little more,” 14 at the Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall at the U of W cian Mark Templeton moved to being in such a vibrant city. basis of an improvisational live per- Templeton said of the difference  USO Project + Selfish I( taly) and Montreal for a year-and-a-half, he “But that's the thing, I think: It's formance when he appears at the between that release and Inland. Ezekiel Honig (U.S.) will also perform thought he would make a lot of easy to take in a lot and coast, and University of Winnipeg's Eckhardt- “After it came out, I was a little  Tickets are $12 music while living in the French not [create] a lot yourself in a city Gramatte Hall on Wednesday, Oct. more comfortable with allowing  Doors open at 7 p.m., show begins city. He was wrong. like Montreal.” 14 as part of the 11th annual Send + the instruments and the sound at 8 p.m. “My time in Montreal was great, A renowned, experimental, elec- Receive festival of sound art. sources to breathe and come to the  Visit www.fieldsawake.com but at the same time, I found tro-acoustic musician, Templeton's The University of Winnipeg's surface.”  Send + Receive: A Festival of Sound it a little more difficult, person- latest release is a 12” record he put CKUW 95.9 FM is co-presenting Another difference is the use of is on Oct. 13-17 ally, to become motivated to cre- out this past summer called Sea the performance in celebration of voice on Inland. Templeton would  Visit www.sendandreceive.org

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www.mgcc.mb.ca tus i t y d in c 14 Arts & Culture The Uniter October 8, 2009 www.Uniter.ca Skateboarding is not a crime

With the construction of the skate park at the Forks and the formation of the Skateboard Coalition of Manitoba, skateboarding has come a long way in this province – but there's still work to be done

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the Forks in plus-30 degree e soon became more popular i Hweather late last month to mer New magazine than the latter. participate in Skate 4 Cancer, an showcases “The big names in vert and all-day skateboarding event aimed ramp of the '80s couldn’t sell at raising awareness about the talent from boards come the early '90s,” disease, Winnipeg's Haugen says of the increase in The scene will most likely be skate- popularity at that time of rid- similar this Saturday, Oct. 10 when ing the streets instead of big The Plaza, the skatepark at the boarding ramps. Forks, hosts a skating competition community In the early '90s skateboard- called Sk8204. ing still hadn’t reached the level With many people skateboard- of popularity it’s at in Winnipeg ing throughout Winnipeg, the Winnipeg's skateboarding scene today. skateboarding community has is booming and a University of “When I started skateboarding changed dramatically over the past Winnipeg student has created a [in 1994], it wasn’t big,” says Bill 40 years. It’s grown in popularity to magazine to document it. Acheson, the 29-year-old spokes- such a degree that there’s even a co- Justin Schafer, a 20-year-old person for the skateboarding alition in place to give skateboard- Bill Acheson is the spokesperson for the Skateboard Coalition of Manitoba, a group that communications and theatre coalition. ers a voice. advocates on behalf of skateboarders in the province. student, launched Winnipeg “Growing up, you would hear Formed in 2006, around the Skateboarding this past April. about Johnny Skater and the spots same time The Plaza was being C am Printed on full-colour, glossy he skated, and it would be almost

constructed, the mandate of the ikk paper, the magazine showcases mysterious. Back then everything

Skateboard Coalition of Manitoba el local skating, writing and pho- was a little more legendary – a big is to speak on behalf of skaters in tography talent. difference from now, where every- the city. “I started the magazine pretty thing is in the spotlight,” Acheson “[Politicians] pretty much forced much because the content was says. us to do this,” says Cliff Heide. already there,” Schafer says. Haugen agrees that there’s been a “Some skateparks were made “There are already a lot of peo- change in attitude in recent years. poorly and skateboarders were sad ple taking photos and whatnot, “Now that [The Plaza] is built, to see that money wasted.” so I really wanted to give the kids people who hadn’t skated since the In addition to being the director the recognition they deserve.” '70s or '80s are coming out and at The Edge, an indoor skatepark skating the bowls and transitions in the Exchange District, Heide Schafer published the second they used to see in the magazines is one of three founding coalition issue in August. Including inter- [when] they used to skate,” he says. members. views with Johnny Skater and Erhart thinks skateboarders Today, the coalition is made up local skateboarding pro Mike should realize how lucky they are of 10 members and five standing McDermott, all 1,000 copies to have so many options in the city committees aimed at improving Schafer distributed to places like when it comes to skateparks. conditions for skateboarders in the Bar Italia and local skate shops “It’s funny to see the kids com- city. Bob Somers (left) and Jason Kun are on the board of directors for the Skateboard are now gone. plain about what they’ve got. If “[Winnipeg was] 15 years behind Coalition of Manitoba. “The magazine's probably gonna only they knew,” Erhart says. places like Vancouver and people grow pretty soon,” says Schafer, He also marvels at how far tech- began to notice and wanted some- a native of East Kildonan who's nique has come in terms of the thing done,” Heide says of the co- able activity for kids to do.” It wasn’t until the invention of been skateboarding for nine tricks people are doing today. alition’s formation. The city’s changed a lot when it the polyurethane wheel by Frank years. “That would have been mind- In the three years since it was comes to skateboarding. Nasworthy in the early ‘70s that “We’ve got a lot of interest from blowing back in the day.” constructed, The Plaza has become “A few years ago there were more skateboarding made its comeback. advertisers recently and all the a world-renowned skatepark where lawn bowling sites than skateparks,” “It didn’t come back to Winnipeg money we make goes into the A community the likes of champion skater Tony Heide recalls. until around 1976-77 and got really magazine. The more money we and a culture Hawk have tested themselves. It’s a positive change because the big around 1978,” Haugen says. get, the bigger the magazine’s “Six years ago skateparks like demand is out there. There were two private indoor gonna be and the more issues Bob Somers, acting chair of [those in] East St. Paul and St. “Skateparks are always being skateparks at the time, Skywave we’re gonna make.” the Skateboarding Coalition of Vital were made on a modular style used, unlike baseball and football and Paradise, both with teams. The next issue of the quarterly Manitoba, started skateboarding at and stuff was built that couldn’t be fields that are often empty.” “Those teams would come out publication is set to hit news- the age of 10 in 1984. used,” Heide explains. and do demonstrations and were stands in December. What began “There were a couple of older Modular-style skateparks are Back in the day even sponsored by companies like as Schafer's vision now includes guys down the street [who were built like a puzzle – the various Pepsi and Coke.” a group of seven people that skateboarders] and we looked up to components are poured and made Skateboarding in Winnipeg has its Some of those demonstrations help create each issue. Schafer them,” he says. elsewhere, then brought to the site roots in the same decade as the first would include slalom, ramps, 360s says he's always looking for In 2006, Somers was invited and put into place. Skateparks built moon landing and Woodstock. and high jumping. more people to get involved. along with Cliff Heide and Sk8 in this manner are less than ideal. “In the '60s, skateboarding With skateboarding an accepted Skates owner Genico Aiello to sit "The design of a lot of skateparks, was more like a fad – something activity in the '70s, skateboarders “The more people the better, I down with Roller Sports Manitoba, like how St. Vital uses asphalt, that's like a yo-yo or hula hoop,” says would go out to national contests always say. The more people that an organization associated with terrible for skateboarding," says 31-year-old Darren Haugen, a co- to compete, with Winnipeg send- help out, the easier it is to run Sport Manitoba, a not-for-profit 18-year-old skateboarder Wayne alition member and creator of ing their own representatives. this thing and get an issue out.” entity dedicated to the development Truong. WinnipegSkateparks.com, a site Around 1980, “skateboarding fell of amateur sport in the province. Harsh Winnipeg winters cause dedicated in part to document- off the face of the earth again” in Visit www.winnipegskateboard- Skateboarding in Manitoba falls the skateparks to shift and crack, ing the history of skateboarding in Winnipeg, says Haugen – but five ingmagazine.blogspot.com or under RSM’s umbrella and they making them look something like Manitoba. years later, it was back. e-mail winnipegskateboarding@ were hoping one of the three men city roads in the springtime. “It came from kids cutting up “Parents and teachers didn’t want gmail.com. would become its spokesperson for The Plaza, on the other hand, roller skates and putting them to- you to skateboard. It had this rebel- skateboarding. was poured on site and built with gether. They were archaic and not lious, fuck-you attitude,” Haugen “We realized there was a lot of granite – something that will make user-friendly at all, with metal or says of that period. media going on around skateboard- it more durable and longer lasting. clay wheels.” It wasn’t just parents and teach- you see the jocks wearing the skate ing and we were concerned about “It was a big step forward and By Christmas 1965, skateboarders who didn’t understand, though. clothes.” not having a voice,” says Somers, a huge turning point when [The ing had all but died off. Even skateboarders’ peers were at Better known in Winnipeg’s a landscape architect who helped Plaza] was built,” Heide says. “It died out mainly because of times against them. skateboarding community as design The Plaza. Ultimately, how- “[Skateboarding] was accepted by-laws and injuries. City council “Jocks used to come down Johnny Skater, Erhart first stepped ever, Somers and his colleagues felt – people saw that the money was put bans on them so overnight it and beat up skateboarders,” says on a board in 1987 at the age of 12. it wasn’t a good fit. donated and [it] became an accept- basically died out,” Haugen says. 34-year-old Johnny Erhart. “Now He skated both street-style as well They didn’t want skateboarding Arts & Culture 15 www.uniter.ca October 8, 2009 The Uniter J “Jocks used to err y G y come down and beat rajews up skateboarders. ki Arts Briefs Now you see the Compiled by C. Jordan Crosthwaite jocks wearing the Getting off when the skate clothes.” stock market crashes –Johnny Skater, Puma has a new iPhone application Winnipeg skateboarder available as part of a new advertising campaign for the brand’s underwear line, Slate reported this week. to become something monopolized While it seems like everyone has by tracking records and statistics, their own iPhone app now, this app setting up coaches and practices is noteworthy for its practicality: it and holding events where the em- reports the stock market progress while phasis was on one person being the advertising Puma underpants. When the best. Dow Jones drops a few points, a model “Skateboarding is more of a cul- drops her sweatpants, revealing Puma ture than a sport,” Somers says. “I underwear. When the stock market’s on think competition in skateboard- the up, the pretty young lady (or man ing is more about independent – users can choose the model) starts growth than it is about becoming piling on apparel. the best at it. The racy ads are shown in tandem “I say that knowing full well that with a stock market ticker, so Wall there’s competitions in the world Streeters can get their rocks off while that are very different from that losing millions. The overtly sexual ads and are very much about being the take advantage of steamy content that number one skateboarder in the couldn’t be advertised in more public world. But, that is a whole other places. level than what we envisioned for skateboarding in Manitoba.” Manson contracts H1N1, That’s not to say skateboarding continues to bore audiences in the province couldn’t go in that Marilyn Manson is a recent victim of direction, but for now, skateboard- swine flu, according to MTV. Manson ing competitions are more about also pre-empted any witty remarks bonding. commentators might attempt by posting “It really is about a lot of peo- on his Facebook page, “I know everyone ple hanging out and having a good will suggest that fucking a pig is how time. There happens to be money this disease was obtained.” and prizes, but it’s [mainly] some- The shock-rocker was recently on tour, thing that brings the community spreading H1N1 germs through Canada together,” Somers says. and the U.S. He and his colleagues eventually Manson’s promoters, the Gillett decided to form the coalition in- Entertainment Group and Live Nation, stead of affiliating with RSM. Even have issued a press release denying still, Sport Manitoba has been very his claim. His tour will continue, gracious. unfortunately. “Sport Manitoba was really sup- Fascism vs. Socialism: portive of us – and still is to this The Chess Game day – and gave us a lot of informa- A 1909 etching, apparently depicting tion to start,” Somers says. Hitler and Lenin battling each other In addition to speaking on beat a game of chess, will be at auction half of skateboards, the coalition at Mullock’s Specialist Auctioneers & puts on a variety of skate contests Valuers in England. The etching, made and tries to get more kids involved by Emma Lowenstramm, is expected to in the culture. get bids close to $100,000 US, despite Somers hopes that skateboard- Pipe dream come true: Bill Acheson rides a wave of concrete. The 29-year-old started skateboarding in 1994. claims that it misrepresents its content, ers can even develop skills in the Artinfo.net reported. scene that they can take with them The depiction – Lenin with a full head as they move on in life. The future of hair and Hitler appearing gentlemanly “[We want to] make it so that really like Manitoba to become a mate to the skaters,” Somers says. and intellectual – has drawn cries of skaters in Winnipeg can feel that The coalition’s next big project is real skateboard-friendly province.” “Skateboarders over time have fraud. In 1909, Hitler would have been there is some sort of future for changing the bylaw in Winnipeg The challenge isn’t only in get- always stayed the same. It’s just 20 and living his pre-Führer hobo life, them here, whether it be [learning that prohibits skateboarding on the ting non-skateboarders to side the community around them that and Lenin would have had his familiar skills] as a photographer or videog- street. with the coalition, but even some changes.” doorknob-bald head. rapher,” Somers says. “Right now, it’s technically il- skateboarders. It’s quite a nice picture, otherwise: A “There is a ton of potential legal to skateboard to the Forks. I “It’s been the hardest thing as a For more information, visit www. battle of brains over a chessboard in a for what skateboarding can be in think that’s a problem. It doesn’t coalition to ride that crest between skateboardingcoalition.mb.ca and dimly lit room that romanticizes early Winnipeg.” make sense,” Somers says. “I would being organized and being legiti- www.winnipegskateparks.com.  20th century intellectual life.

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by readers in China N ikk A Chinese translation of Da Vinci Code el author Dan Brown’s latest muddle of a novel is being released chapter by chapter by an online pirating source. In China, where the official translation of Brown’s The Lost Symbol won’t be released until 2010, Internet pirates are collaborating on translation of the work. A website called Yeeyan facilitates web- users in working together to produce a translation of the book. According to PSFK.com, popular Western books are often translated this way, including the Harry Potter series. The feat of large-scale translation like this demonstrates new ways that the Internet is being used for collaborative information sharing in ways that continually evolve. Fine art contraceptives The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid is producing a line of prophylactics packaged in wrappers featuring famous images from the museum’s collection, the Guardian UK reports. The condoms will go on sale in the museum gift-shop, Skateboarder Craig Dueck attacks a big ramp. where visitors can collect a Rodin to Although it's grown in popularity, it's still keep in their wallet. One wrapper will illegal to skatebaord on Winnipeg streets. feature British football superstar David Beckham, who is the subject of a recent video-art installation at the museum. 16 Arts & Culture The Uniter October 8, 2009 www.Uniter.ca Notes from the underground Cin two-page CKUW program guide of music, but so many others.” for establishing Stylus, along with d y

t insert in The Uniter. Turner confirms Stylus hasn't Chuck Molgat now in Toronto. i tus In 1991, current University of changed much in 20 years. Meanwhile, Henkelman cred- Winnipeg Students’ Association “That's the beautiful thing about its Stylus' continuing success to its outreach and sponsorship co-ordi- it, it’s just grown. It still covers local publisher, the UWSA. nator, and then CKUW manager, and national, independent and un- “If we didn't have them backing Ted Turner, saw potential in Stylus. derground music. That's what the us up, a tiny mag like Stylus could He approached the Winnipeg Free magazine does, just larger, better never have survived,” she said. Press’s Bartley Kives, then a sociol- and in a more beautiful way,” he “UW students should be really ogy student at the university, to be- said. “Although, I love the way it proud that a unique publication come Stylus' new editor and Stylus looked backed then. There is just so like Stylus is put out by their stu- returned to a magazine format. much soul the way we literally had dents' association.” "Stylus' goal is to Turner attributes much of the to scotch tape it together. We built write about stuff magazine's early success to Kives. it with our hands.” Celebrate Stylus’ 20th anniversary that doesn't get “Bart was so instrumental and Stylus has also been the start at the Lo Pub (330 Kennedy St.) on passionate about it. We had no of many journalistic careers. Like Saturday, Oct. 10. Doors open at 8 written about much budget and had to beg and find a the aforementioned Kives, former p.m. and the show starts at 9 p.m. in the mainstream." magical way to get things going,” editor Jill Wilson works for the Admission is $5. The magazine’s –Jenny Henkelman he said. Winnipeg Free Press, while Stylus' October/November is on newsstands That year, Stylus put out four is- original editor, Karla Hilton, re- now. Preview it online at www.sty- sues with a circulation of 3,000. ports for CBC Radio in Ottawa. lusmagazine.ca. Today, Stylus is published bi- Kives credits all of these people  Jenny Henkelman monthly and continues to print is the current editor 3,000 copies per issue. At one point of Stylus. the magazine did go monthly but found the bi-monthly schedule a 95.9 FM CKUW Campus/Community better fit. Radio Top 10 CD – Albums Kives recounts a gap in the media September 30 – October 6, 2009 Local music magazine of Winnipeg’s campus radio sta- for showcasing underground and ! = Local content * = Canadian Content celebrates 20th tion, will celebrate at the Lo Pub alternative music scenes. on Saturday, Oct. 10 with cake and “We were all listening to Sonic tw Artist recording label anniversary with musical performances by Mama Youth and Nirvana, but [main- Cutsworth, Vav Jungle, Haunter stream] radio was playing Poison 1 *Black Mold Snow Blindness is Crystal Antz Flemish Eye party at the Lo Pub and Rob Vilar. and hair metal.” 2 *Gruesomes hey Ricochet Sound “Stylus' goal is to write about Stylus filled that gap. stuff that doesn't get written about Local artist Eve Rice, also known 3 Dinosaur Jr. Farm Jagjaguar much in the mainstream. And if as Vav Jungle, believes that through 4 Sonic Youth the Eternal Matador Cindy Doyle we are writing about mainstream the magazine's innovative cover Volunteer stuff, it's to write about it in a dif- art and music coverage Stylus has 5 neko Case Middle Cyclone Anti ferent way,” current editor Jenny always been a positive outlet for 6 vieux Farka Toure Fondo Six Degrees Henkelman said, adding that the many independent talents, includ- A local music magazine that was party at the Lo Pub will be a fun- ing herself. 7 !SubCity Where’s the Noise Transistor 66 once a two-page insert in The Uniter filled affair. “They were a great support, es- 8 wilco Wilco the Album Nonsuch is celebrating its 20th anniversary Stylus printed its first two issues pecially when the chips were down, this weekend. as a magazine in 1989, but funding and I mean down, on electronic 9 *Metric Fantasies Last Gang Stylus, the program guide of was scarce. In 1990 its third issue music in Canada. They had the 10 !Other Brothers Points of View Independent CKUW 95.9 FM, the University became a folded, black and white, sense to examine not only my style 40Crk_Uniter_Aug09_fin:Uniter - 4.875x7.5 b&w 07/08/09 10:52 AM Page 1

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GALLERIES & MUSEUMS graphic portraits by YOUSUF KARSH. Some theatre preview of the famous faces include Muhammad Ali, RABBLE ROUSERS by PAUL ROBES has an open- Winston Churchill, Audrey Hepburn, Grey ing reception on Thursday, Oct. 8 at Gallery Owl and Pierre Trudeau. Exhibition runs until 803.The exhibition runs until Saturday, Nov. 21. Sunday, Jan. 3. A mass of facts and myths F/ACTION, a Winnipeg-based art collective, is 15 MINUTES is a showcase of local art hap- hosting a one-night exhibition at the Rudolf pening the first Thursday of every month Ch

r Rocker Cultural Centre on Friday, Oct. 9 at 8 at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Local artists i Acclaimed one- st in p.m. can submit their work for the series to art- Ri a [email protected]. person play le The University of Manitoba's Gallery of y Student Art hosts BLOODLINES, a sculp- ART OF MUSIC at the Folk Exchange is draw- explores the life tural essay of genetic impurity, by JOSHUA ings, paintings, photographs and sculptures PEARLMAN, until Friday, Oct. 9. inspired by music. The show runs until of Winnipeg guitar A LANDSCAPE RECLAIMED by KAREN WARDLE Friday, Oct. 30. legend Lenny Breau opens Friday, Oct. 9 at Outworks Gallery. The PLATFORM Centre for Photographic and artwork will be on display until Saturday, Digital Arts is pleased to present the group Oct. 17. exhibition AS THE SIDEWALK BLEEDS, on dis- Adam Klassen DAVID GARNEAU will be in attendance at the play until Saturday, Oct. 24. Volunteer opening of his show MÉTIS/SAGE on Friday, THEATRE, DANCE & COMEDY Oct. 9 at 8 p.m. The exhibition runs until Saturday, Nov. 14. Winnipeg Jewish Theatre is proud to pres- Pierre Brault in 5 O'Clock Bells. HORROR FABLES brings an eerie atmosphere ent David Gow's drama CHERRY DOCS. The Writer/actor Pierre Brault and di- show runs until Sunday, Oct. 18 at the Berney rector Brian Quirt are about to to Ace Art. HOWIE TSUI draws upon traditional Asian ghost stories for his paintings and an Theatre in Asper Jewish Community Campus. bring a legend back home with “It was the most natural, inspir- 5 O'Clock Bells provides the true There will be no performances on Oct. 12 and their highly acclaimed one-person ing, honest music I'd ever heard.” events of Breau's life through the installation that resembles traditional kabuki theatre. There will be an artist talk on Tuesday, 13. For more information, visit www.wjt.ca or play 5 O'Clock Bells. Brault became interested in different perspectives of key fig- call 477-7478. The play opens the Manitoba Breau's story. What he found was ures. Through this, the play also Oct. 13. The exhibition runs until Friday, Nov. 13. FIVE O'CLOCK BELLS, a play about Winnipeg Theatre Centre 2009/2010 sea- a mass of facts and myths. forces the audience to create opin- The 11th edition of SEND + RECEIVE kicks off its celebration of sound art at Ace Art on guitar legend Lenny Breau, will be person tonight (Thursday, Oct. 8). It’s Brault wanted to focus on the ions on these events, bringing them formed in the Tom Hendry Theatre in the about the life of one of the all-time whole of Breau's life, not just the into the story. Tuesday, Oct. 13 at 5 p.m. There is an artist talk with HERIBERT FRIEDL of the University MTC Warehouse from Thursday, Oct. 8 to great jazz guitarists, Winnipeg's huge dramatic moments. Brault Brault and Quirt are excited Saturday, Oct. 24. own Lenny Breau. says that the drugs and mysterious to bring their play to a Winnipeg of Manitoba's Faculty of Architecture on Breau was an innovator and death are just a part of who the art- audience. Wednesday, Oct. 14 at 12 p.m. FRIEDL has also Funny-man RUSSELL PETERS tells jokes at pioneer in the world of jazz gui- ist was. He was a man as complex “There is a love for the arts in impregnated the walls of Ace Art with a scent the Centennial Concert Hall on Sunday, Oct. 11 and Monday, Oct. 12 at 8 p.m. tar. He had unmatched technical as his music, and Brault wanted to Winnipeg that is lively and invit- that gets released when you touch the surface. KEN GREGORY's WIND COIL SOUND FLOW Groundswell's season opener THE and improvisational skill. Today, show that. ing,” Brault said. at Gallery 1C03 also continues in conjunction his praises are sung by the likes Director Quirt worked with Quirt said that they always REHEARSAL'S THE THING is a chamber opera with the Send & Receive Festival runs until at the West End Cultural Centre on Tuesday, of Randy Bachman and Leonard Brault throughout the writing pro- hoped to bring 5 O'Clock Bells to Oct. 31. Cohen. cess. They found that Breau could Winnipeg. Oct. 13 at 8 p.m. Beau's personal life is as interest- speak the most through his music. He added that “one of the great The Cre8ery hosts ENCOUNTERED SOULS, a GOTTA LOVE THAT FRENCH brings HELENE ing as his music. He was a seem- He became an unseen presence, treats” is when someone who knew painting and sculptural exhibition by ANDREW NICOLE RICHARD to schools throughout ing innocent who became involved with the audience only catching Breau comes up to them after the MAREK, until Saturday, Oct. 10. Manitoba from Oct. 13-16 to inspire children in drugs. Then his life was tragi- glimpses of him. play and tells them their story. Paintings in the exhibition CITY, TOWN AND to use Canada's two official languages. cally cut short when he was mur- 5 O'Clock Bells circles Breau, fo- “There is so much of Breau's his- COUNTRY will be on display at the Woodlands FREYA BJÖRG OLAFSON opens the Winnipeg dered and thrown in a Los Angeles cusing on seven people who were tory [in Winnipeg] – a lot of peo- Gallery until Saturday, Oct. 24. Featuring art- Contemporary dancers 2009/2010 season swimming pool. The case is still most important in his life. ple who knew him are still around,” ists RICK BOND, JOHANNE DUCHAINE, GERALD with performances of AVATAR at the Rachel unsolved. These people each represent a Quirt said. LAPOINTE and ALEX SUPROWICH. Browne Theatre. Performances occur at 8 The idea to write a play came string on Breau's instrument of ROBOTS + US has taken over the Manitoba p.m. nightly on Oct. 15, 16 and 17, with a 3 p.m. to Brault after picking up a choice, the seven-string guitar. See 5 O’Clock Bells from Thursday, Museum throughout October. matinee on Oct. 18. Lenny Breau album in a second- When played together, they create Oct. 8 until Saturday, Oct. 24 at The Plug In Gallery is hosting MICHEL DE The Prairie Theatre Exchange presents the hand record store. He put it on a harmony that is Lenny Breau. the Tom Hendry Theatre. Visit BROIN's exhibition DISRUPTION FROM WITHIN world premiere of SOUVENIRS by MICHELE and had what he calls his "Lenny “We are not dealing with facts as www.mtc.mb.ca. until Saturday, Nov. 21. RIML. Engagement runs from Thursday, Oct. Moment." much as events,” Quirt said. The Winnipeg Art Gallery displays photo- 15 to Sunday, Nov. 1. Protect yourself and your family from the flu

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t ALBERT ARMS HOTEL will be screening at said o legendary venue Thursday, Oct. 8 at 8 p.m. THE ONE TAKE SUPER 8 EVENT SCREENING features over three dozen Winnipeg Super 8 films at the Gas Station Theatre on Sunday, Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. GREAT EXPERIMENTS! JUST FOR KIDS is part of Pale Blue Hope: Death and Life in Asian the film to keep the lovers apart. WNDX festival, airing Manitoba shorts for chil- New film about poet John Keats dren. Plays at Cinematheque at 2 p.m. FREE! Peacekeeping However, this frustration seems to drive Ronald Poulton runs the risk of falling into clichés Keats forward and ultimately becomes the THE REEL PRIDE FILM FESTIVAL runs from 224 pages, Turnstone Press, 2008 but is ultimately crafted like a catalyst for some of the greatest poetry of the Tuesday, Oct. 13 to Saturday, Oct. 17 at Imax Romantic Era. and Cinematheque. Featuring short and full- Lynnette McLarty well-written poem The film runs the risk of falling into the far length movies, it's Manitoba's only LGBT film Volunteer too familiar clichés of the common romance festival. and at times nearly trips on that precarious Opening with the words “A prostitute with her Timothy Penner ENLIGHTEN UP, a skeptic's journey into the and extremely thin line. Yet Campion crafts legs spread wide” is an effective attention grab if Volunteer staff world of yoga, plays at Cinematheque, along- her film like a well-written poem, gently guid- nothing else. side POE: LAST DAYS OF THE RAVEN. ing us through the tumultuous emotional It could also be a metaphor about being stuck Bright Star landscape of love. in something deep, likely a familiar position for Directed by Jane Campion, 2009 The beauty of the film is unmistakable and a United Nations human rights lawyer in the 119 minutes at times breathtaking. Campion manages to LITERATURE Middle East. Now playing at the Globe capture photographically both the immense In Pale Blue Hope, Toronto-based Ronald splendour of a pastoral painting and the ex- JOHN BARTON reads from his new book of poetry Poulton candidly and shamelessly describes his quisite nature of Keats’ best poetry. HYMN. The evening also features local authors experiences in both Tajikistan and Cambodia, Films centred on historical figures often tend Interestingly, for all the evocative and ex- Clarise Foster and Ariel Gordon. McNally Robinson investigating political murders and peace nego- to keep audiences at a distance, owing to the pansive cinematography, the film is essentially Grant Park on Thursday, Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. tiations amidst UN bureaucracy. fact that the average filmgoer may not be fa- one of entrapment. Campion constantly pho- This scrap-the-shit commentary is structured miliar enough with the characters to care. Winnipeg's ROBERT STERMSCHEG launches his tographs her characters surrounded by door- translation of MARABOUT'S SECRET: HUSSAR'S by the events surrounding the murder of Team This is not the case with the latest film from ways, framed by trees or pushed to the corner Garm, a UN observer force consisting of four Jane Campion, the Academy Award-winning LOVE PART 2 on Thursday, Oct. 8 at McNally of the frame in order to express the oppres- Robinson Polo Park, 7:30 p.m. UN officials. director of The Piano. sive nature of a society that insists on the im- Though the foreign content is daunting, Bright Star, playing this week exclusively at possibility of these two desperately in love The launch of WAYNE TEFS new collection of short Poulton’s vivid and personal details make even the Globe, immortalizes the short-lived (and characters ever consummating their ill-fated stories, METEOR STORM, is on Tuesday, Oct. 13 at totalitarian regimes and extremist Islamic oppo- extremely chaste) love affair between the great relationship. McNally Robinson Grant Park at 8 p.m. sition surprisingly understandable. romantic poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw In a bold move, Campion gives Keats the G.E.M. MUNRO is giving a reading and signing of At the very least, the mere premise of the of I’m Not There) and Fanny Brawne (Abbie final statement of the film by having Whishaw SOUTH ASIAN ADVENTURES WITH THE ACTIVE POOR book is fascinating. Beneath vague and confus- Cornish). recite the words of “Ode to a Nightingale” at McNally Robinson Grant Park on Wednesday, ing peace negotiations is a Canadian UN lawyer The two meet and fall in love as Keats is over the credits. Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. bluffing about UN jurisdiction and its ability to struggling to make a name for himself in the The final refrain of the poem, “Was it infiltrate Cambodian prisons. world of 19th century literature. The pressures a vision, or a waking dream? / Fled is that Also at McNally Robinson Grant Park on Poulton also witnesses a civilian grenade at- of society, most notably the seemingly inex- music: – do I wake or sleep?” is the perfect Wednesday, Oct. 14, SHANDI MITCHELL is reading tack, describing what it feels like to still be trans- haustible objections from both Keats’ best benediction for a film so wrought with ethe- and signing her acclaimed novel UNDER THIS porting wounded bodies two hours later, with friend Charles Brown (Paul Schneider) and real beauty, so troubled by the temporality of UNBROKEN SKY at 8 p.m. the honesty to admit enjoying the strange sensa- Fanny’s mother (Kerry Fox), plus John’s lack life and so hopeful about the redemptive and CHRIS HEDGES launches his latest book EMPIRE OF tion of hands sticky with congealed blood. of substantial income, conspire throughout eternal power of great art. ILLUSION at the Rudolf Rocker Cultural Centre on Not entirely death, gore and principles, Wednesday, Oct. 14 at 7:30 p.m. Poulton writes from a somewhat detached per- spective. With an ideal of having no one to an- PAULETTE MILLIS presents her book, EAT AWAY swer to, enough money to live on and the ability ILLNESS, about healthy diets on Thursday, Oct. 15 to move, change jobs and remake himself count- at McNally Robinson Polo Park, 7 p.m. less times, Poulton’s remarks are a sharp con- ALL OUR CHANGES: IMAGES FROM THE SIXTIES trast to those you might hear from “poorly paid, GENERATION is a collection of photographs taken highly motivated zealots.” by GERRY KOPELOW in Winnipeg, Ottawa and Considering most UN human rights morale Toronto from 1968-1970. The collection will be comes from rejection of status quo, statements launched on Thursday, Oct. 15 at McNally Robinson can easily become ironic, such as those from mor- Grant Park at 7:30 p.m. alist Richard Rorty, that "unlike us, those people are used to being raped and castrated." Though On Thursday, Oct. 29, McNally Robinson Polo Park Rorty's sarcasm is poignant, such comments is holding a GRAVEYARD BOOK PARTY in hopes of from Poulton are rarely found in the book. winning NEIL GAIMAN's North American Graveyard Occasional simplistic generalizations like Book Party Challenge, which could bring the au- “Americans will do anything, anything at thor to Winnipeg. The party runs from 7-10 p.m. all, if they hate your guts” and “to punish the Vietnamese, the U.S. policy on Cambodia allowed the Khmer Rouge to flourish” are bold stances that hint of bias. 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Local company shows  Winnipeg-based clothing company Unorthodox Clothing mixes streetwear culture such as hip hop style and substance and and skate style into a continually evolving brand. through clothes Photos courtesy of Unorthodox Clothing

see different age groups and people we don't Kathleen Cerrer know personally wearing our clothing out Staff writer of the fact that they like it as well,” Johann said. The fashion scene in Winnipeg has moti- Winnipeg-based clothing company vated them to work hard as they’ve received Unorthodox Clothing mixes streetwear cul- positive feedback. They’ve met talented peo- ture such as hip hop and skate style into a ple in the process who they consider mentors. continually changing and evolving brand. They also feel fortunate people are support- Edward Generao, 22, initially brought up ing their movement. the idea of starting a clothing company and “People look at Winnipeg as late in fash- added Johann Generao, 28, Frendell Cano, ion, but there’s tons of people doing original 27, and Glenn Generao, 27, to take on dif- and amazing things.” ferent duties of the business based on their Currently they are in the works develop- individual talents. ing their fall/winter line, and are collaborat- “Frendell Cano on the business end, ing with Lennard Taylor. Edward Generao on customer relations, Paying closer attention to the women’s line Johann Generao on marketing and devel- is something the guys from Unorthodox are opment and Glenn Generao on art design. cism ensues but is all part of the business of Glenn said. concentrating on, as it’s an area they wanted We’re all family and equal partners,” Edward coming to an agreement. Although their biggest customer group so to further establish. stated during a recent interview. Their inspirations derive from culture and far has been younger people, being able to “Expect to see the unexpected,” is what Glenn and Johann design the clothing everything around them. cater to an array of styles and people of all they said when asked about the upcoming after having discussed ideas and designs as a “We're individually inspired by music, ages is extremely rewarding. line. team. Being a family affair, arguing and criti- art, digital media, subcultures and design,” “It’s been amazing and humbling to also They would like to step out of their usual designs and try something different that people aren’t anticipating. It’s also important to them for people to see growth in their clothing and art. They have learned a lot from running a business and the guys of Unorthodox say that the highs outweigh the lows. “It is very tough; we as a team take care of everything from the daily operations, designing and manufacturing, to deliv- ering and distribution, to the financial aspect and promotion, while having daytime careers,” Edward said. “We like the fact we’re given opportunities to inspire and make a difference in our lives and others' around us.” As for future goals, they aim to ex- pand throughout Canada and North America, creating new designs and acces- sories as well as meeting more people in the industry. “To grow as a company and continue supporting causes and giving opportunities to others we believe in" is something they always would like to continue doing, Frendell said. Unorthodox clothing is constantly looking for new ideas and ways to design and make their dreams into reality. “Our main goal is to eventually have people on their toes wondering what we will do next,” Edward said.

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