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HOW HARD IS IT TO RECYCLE COMPUTERS?
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COVER IMAGE
Whitney Light
The Graffiti Gallery Presents “Archives” An exhibit Featuring
documentation of Canadian Graffiti by railway workers
and graffiti writers. Opening night January 26th 8-pm till
12am. Musical Performance by DJ Brace. Exhibit on display
till March 20th.The works are enlarged photographs taken
by local graffiti writers and Railway workers of graffiti that
no longer exists. The pieces only exist now in the photographs. Some of the photos were taken in early 1990s
when Graffiti in Winnipeg still just beginning to develop.
I
t’s a new year, and maybe you’ve decided
it’s time for a new computer. But what do
you do with the old one? It’s not broken,
really. Whatever you do, don’t take it to the dump.
Used computers are part of the
growing amount of e-waste that includes
everything from phones and TVs to fax
machines and monitors. With the rapid
advances taking place in the electronics
and information technology industries, the
lifespan of equipment is getting shorter
and dealing with these not-so-dusty techno
dinosaurs is becoming a pressing concern.
Environment Canada studies show
Canadians are generating over 140,000
tonnes of e-waste each year.
Fortunately, business, government,
and community organizations are banding
together to recycle as much as possible
and dispose of the rest in environmentallyfriendly ways.
One of the largest computer recycling
organizations in Manitoba is Computers for
Schools, a national, federal government-led
program, which collects and refurbishes
donations of used computer equipment for
use in public schools and libraries. On Dec.
22, Provincial Conservation Minister Stan
Struthers announced that the not-for-profit
organization would receive a grant of
$24,900 from the Manitoba government’s
Waste Reduction and Pollution Prevention
Fund to manage school computer waste in
an environmentally responsible way.
Karen Kerr, Executive Director of
Computers for Schools, said that when
it began 12 years ago, the program was
believed to be alleviating waste from
landfi lls by re-deploying equipment to
other organizations. “What wasn’t thought
out was the fact that (the computers) are
going to expire eventually,” said Kerr.
The program has evolved to
the environment. A poll conducted by
encompass safe recycling and disposal of
POLLARA in March 2005 reported that
computers that have reached the end of the
88 percent of Canadians are willing to
line. The WRAPP money will go in part
spend more for consumer electronics that
towards purchasing a weigh scale, to weigh
are energy efficient, produce less waste, and
and charge for donations appropriately,
and a baler, to shrink and bale plastic parts are made of recycled materials.
In Alberta, the Electronic Recycling
making them less costly to transport.
Association, a not-for-profit private
“To recycle 100 percent,
organization, has taken computer recycling
transportation costs are 95 percent of our
one step further by shipping good yet
costs,” said Kerr. While the organization
unwanted computers to third-world
tries to use local plastics and metals
countries. For people in those places it
recyclers as much as possible, parts that
might cost $500 to buy a new computer,
contain harmful heavy materials such
said Paduh, whereas the ERA can supply
as lead, cadmium, and mercury must
them for $5 a piece.
be shipped
“People always
to qualified
”The only reason we have this want the newest thing.
recyclers in
People can be very
Montreal.
industry is because Canada
inconsiderate of others
Currently,
is rich. In the third world,
and the environment,”
the province
said Boyan Paduh,
has no policy
computer recycling doesn’t
Director of the
or plan in place
exist.” - Boyan Paduh, Director Electronic Recycling
to raise the
Association (ERA)
funds necessary
of the Electronic Recycling
in Alberta. “You’d
to deal with
Association
be surprised by the
electronics
type of stuff you fi nd
recycling.
in Canadian and
However, a
American landfi lls.”
discussion paper by Green Manitoba
“The only reason we have this
Eco Solutions on the development of
industry is because Canada is rich,” said
an e-waste stewardship program was
Paduh. “In the third world, computer
released in October 2005 and followed by
recycling doesn’t exist.”
a consultation with industry stakeholders
It appears, however, that IT
to determine the best way to deal with the
manufacturers are becoming aware of
e-waste issue. Plans are moving forward
the e-waste issue. Electronic Product
across Canada to manage e-waste on a
Stewardship Canada (EPS) has the
provincial basis.
membership of 18 consumer electronics
In Alberta in February 2005, the
and IT manufacturers and is developing a
province began collecting a fee, ranging
national electronics end-of-life program.
from $5 to $45, on electronics at point-ofEPS anticipates that a handling fee for
purchase to fund recycling and disposal
electronics products will be embedded in
efforts. Policy Analyst for Manitoba
the price of products, collected nationally,
Conservation Rod McCormick said that
and redistributed to provincial and regional
Manitoba will not necessarily follow suit,
organizations.
though the effects of the policy in Alberta
“I think manufacturers are starting
so far have been positive. “We want to see
an industry-led solution, and that will entail to jump on board” the e-waste issue, said
some costs.”
Kerr. “But over the next ten years, it will
Most Canadians, it seems, will
get worse before it gets better.”
not need much convincing to part with
more dollars if it means less impact on
The Uniter
January 12, 2006
NEWS 03
Bolivian Election Brings Hope and Skepticism
photo by: Dustin Leader
“Village members listen to left-wing Presidential candidate Evo Morales, 46, of the MAS party (Movement Towards Socialism)
during a campaign stop over. Bolivia, Yungas region, 11/25/05
Vivian Belik
News Editor
M
edia coverage of
the mudslinging
tactics of Paul Martin
and Stephen Harper during the
lead-up to the Canadian election
on Jan 23rd, has overshadowed
a recent vote in South America
that may prove to have wideranging consequences for
Latin America and even North
America itself. Dec. 28 marked
the first time in Bolivian history
that an indigenous leader
was democratically elected as
president. Carrying more than
50 per cent of the vote, Morales’
win signals an increasing trend
towards left-wing populist politics
in South America.
With his electoral victory last
month, Morales adds his name
to the growing list of leaders in
South America who have moved
from grassroots labour struggles
to electoral politics. Morales joins
Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Nestor
Kirchner of Argentina, and Luiz
Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil among
others, who claim to represent the
needs of poor working class citizens
and who speak out against US neoliberal policies.
Morales began his political
career in the mid-’90s as the leader
of the Movement Towards Socialism
(MAS), a radical grassroots union
that aimed to secure political rights
for coca-leaf growers in the Chapare
region of Bolivia. As his popularity
increased, especially amongst the
indigenous people of Bolivia, he
gravitated towards parliamentary
politics.
However, his rise to power
has not been without controversy.
Morales has been labelled a “narcotrade unionist” and has been
publicly blasted for maintaining
relations with Cuban leader, Fidel
Castro. In his platform speeches
last fall he spoke of legalizing coca
production in Bolivia, challenging
the Free Trade Agreement of the
Americas, nationalizing the oil
and gas sector, and rewriting the
country’s Constitution so that it
better represented the Indigenous
people of Bolivia who comprise
almost two thirds of the country’s
population.
Reaction to Morales’ win has
been mixed; some see his election as
confirmation of the spreading axis of
socialism in the South while others
consider his policies and promises to
be mere rhetoric.
Wilder Robles, a professor
of International Development at
the University of Winnipeg who
specializes in South American
development, represents the first
category. Robles believes that the
election of Evo Morales in Bolivia
is indicative of a “growing level of
disenchantment with the status quo
in Latin America.”
Robles says neo-liberal policies
in South America have been unable
to create the social and economic
conditions that the US promised
in the ‘80s. In fact, he says, these
policies have had the adverse effect
of widening the gap between the
rich and the poor.
“The Washington Consensus
- [which is exemplified by] free
markets and electoral politics - has
not worked in Latin America for
the last 25 years…and this has led
to tremendously gross inequalities,
” says Robles. This failure is what
Robles believes to be at the heart of
the grassroots movements currently
sweeping across South America.
These movements, however,
are also representative of the longstanding tradition of socialism in
Latin American culture. Robles
points out that socialism has been a
part of the Andean culture for many
centuries. The Incas, who ruled the
Andean region before being wiped
out by the Spaniards in the 16th
century, were considered to be the
first socialist economy in the world.
Their communitarian economic
model was found not only in the
Andes but in other parts of Latin
America long before the Spaniards
colonized the South.
Robles is optimistic about the
growing tide of socialism in the
South and says that this movement
should not be compared to the
unsuccessful form of Socialism that
was found in the former USSR.
“I think there is a hope [among
the Latin American people] that
the models implemented by these
[left-leaning governments in South
America] will succeed.”
However, Dustin Leader, a
photojournalist currently stationed
in La Paz, Bolivia, is cautious
about Morales’ win and says that
“Bolivians in general view politics
with a remarkable scepticism” and
that they view this past election “no
differently.”
Leader says that Bolivians,
having been disappointed by
previous presidents, are hopeful
that Morales will act in the complete
opposite manner of past leaders.
However, Leader has had a few
people tell him “that if [Morales]
can’t fulfill his promises they will
have no more faith in politics.”
Jeff Webber, an editor of the
The New Socialist Magazine and
a candidate for a PhD in political
sciences at the University of Toronto,
has spent a considerable amount of
time in Bolivia and is also somewhat
sceptical about Morales’ election.
Although Webber concedes that
there is a “rising sense of hope and
optimism throughout Latin America
at the moment,” the optimism in the
case of Bolivia “is a little premature.”
Webber cites the drastic change
in focus of Morales’ party MAS as
one reason for his hesitant optimism.
“Since the 2002 presidential
elections in which Evo Morales came
very close [to winning the elections]
from Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada,
the party has moderated its demands
considerably.”
Even though the party
publicly claims to be looking out
for the needs of the poor and
underrepresented, Webber says that
the MAS party has been ambiguous
about the actual steps it will take
to attain such goals as land reform,
improved indigenous relations, and
more equitable tax policies.
Webber believes that at the
current moment “MAS is not
committed to socialism” and that
if radicalization of the system is
to happen in the near future, “it
will not be a consequence of the
benevolent leadership of Evo Morales
or vice president Alvaro Garcia
Linera.” Instead, he believes it will
be a cause of popular grassroots
movements that demand more
radical forms of government and
subsequently force the MAS to act on
the peasant population’s demands.
Jim Sanders, a local filmmaker
responsible for the acclaimed
documentary The Real Thing,
which follows the rise of the MAS
movement in Bolivia, is more
hopeful.
“[Morales] has no choice but to
follow through with his [platform
promises],” says Sanders, who
believes that as president, Morales
will become a “prisoner” to the
demands of the Bolivian people.
Sanders, who seems to brim
with optimism, also thinks that what
is happening in the South will have
a positive effect on people here in
Canada and the United States. In his
mind, the South American grassroots
movement “will be a source for our
liberation [here in North America].”
Jeff Webber will be at the
University of Winnipeg on Jan. 26
to speak about his experiences in
Bolivia. Catch him in room 1L04 at
7:00 p.m.
Jim Sanders and Dada World
Data will be re-screening their film
The Real Thing with a newly added
epilogue at the Cinematheque
onFeb.20
More of Dustin Leader’s
evocative photography can be found
at www.digitalrailroad.net/dleader
January 12, 2006
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Streeter: Did you give much thought to the upcoming federal election over the holiday
break? Who will you vote for and why?
Eric Peters – History Major
“I did a little reading on it and watched the news,
but I kind of took [the holidays] off. I’ll probably
vote for the Green Party because they could use
my vote - they’re not the lesser of three evils - but I
like their environmental policies the best. Actually,
as far as it went in the last election - the parties
getting money for each vote they got - I thought
that was a good idea.”
Eric Trimble – First Year Student
“No, but I ‘ve seen it in the papers and in the news,
I know that it’s coming up. Probably vote for Paul
Martin just because he’s been doing a good job
running the country right now. The only thing is
the crime rate that’s going on within Winnipeg
and Toronto - first day of the year, a murder in
Winnipeg and a murder in Toronto. We need more
police.”
Suzanne Lussier – 5th year Education Major
“I read the paper almost every day... just trying
to keep in touch with what the campaign
announcements were for the day. Apart from
that, not really seeking out information, just kind
of whatever was being given through TV or the
newspaper. And I’m going to drag all my friends
out [to vote], because you can only complain if
you vote. I don’t want to vote for the Liberals, just
because I’m tired of it, but I don’t really know what
the alternative is. I wish they had some new faces.”
Leslie Sawatzky – 5th year Education
Major
“I choose to abstain [from voting], because I
haven’t met a party that meets what I want. To
tell you the truth, [I’m looking] for some actual
honesty and some work done with our money,
besides spending it all on things we never see.
Delf Gravert – 2ND YEAR THEATER MAJOR
“I think over the last two weeks I’ve been thinking
about elections. No particular issues come to mind
really - I’m not very political per say, but as I’ve
been growing up I’ve seen the importance for it.
I am voting Green because they are more in line
with what I think is good for running a city. I’m
more interested in local politics and building from
there.
Chris Willsey – 1st Year Commerce Student
“I was before the holidays - but holiday time is not
politics time for me - I believe the holidays are a
time for family and not politics, so I haven’t really
got back into it yet. My mind is decided for my
riding, my vote only really matters there, and that
was decided before the election even started. I’m
going to vote for Brain Pallister [Conservative]. I
feel he’s already done a good job representing us...
he’s got things done for our riding, so let’s let him
continue to do that.”
The Cat is out of the Bag:
Canada in Haiti
Macho Philipovich
Recent weeks have shown a marked
increase in Canadian media coverage of
Haiti, poorest of poor countries in the
western hemisphere. Much of this coverage has been in response to three events:
On Dec. 1, long-time student activist Yves
Engler was arrested for shouting “Paul
Martin lies, Haitians die” at a Liberal
event in Montreal. Then, on Dec. 30, the
date of the Canadian-backed Haitian
national elections were pushed back for
the fourth time. Finally, two members of
the UN force in Haiti died. On Dec. 20,
ex-RCMP officer Marc Bourque was shot
and killed in Cite Soleil, one of the poorest
slums of the nation’s capital, Port-auPrince, and on Jan. 7, Reuters reported
that the commander of the UN mission,
Lieutenant General Urano Teixeira Da
Matta Bacellar of Brazil, had killed himself
in his hotel room.
For most Canadians, the biggest shock
was simply the realization that Canada
has soldiers and civilian police in the Caribbean nation in the first place. Canada’s
presence has been felt since February
2004, when they assisted U.S. marines
in removing democratically elected
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from the
country, as reported on CNN. U.S. officials
maintain that Aristide left of his own will,
but Aristide has consistently denied this,
claiming he was kidnapped in a coup
d’etat.
Critics were further outraged with two
other developments. The first was the uncovering of the Ottawa Initiative, a conference that had been held in Canada a year
before Aristide’s removal through leaked
information published in the Quebec
magazine L’Actualite. Canadian, French,
U.S. and Latin American officials had met,
without inviting the Haitian government,
to discuss the country’s future, specifically regime change. The attendees were
reported to have decided that “Aristide
must go.”
The second development was, after
Aristide’s removal, the installation of
an unelected interim government made
up of business elites, with ties to sweatshop owners, including, ominously, one
producing clothing for Gildan Activewear,
a Canadian company who have been the
target of anti-sweatshop campaigns in
the past. These ties were discussed in a
book co-written by Engler last year. This
new government is detaining hundreds of
political prisoners, including Amnesty International prisoner of conscience Girard
Jean-Juste, who has recently been diagnosed with leukemia, as well as 69-yearold folk singer So Anne, who was arrested
by U.S. marines. Members of the Lavalas
party, the previous elected government,
have been specifically targeted.
As of yet, Canada’s Liberal government
has not made an issue of the human rights
situation in Haiti. Minister of Foreign Affairs Pierre Pettigrew went so far as to say
that a report by the University of Miami
School of Law on Haiti was nothing more
than “propaganda” when a copy was presented to him by Engler in June.
Engler’s arrest last month in Montreal
marks the most recent escalation of the
clash over Haiti in Canada. Jean Saint-Vil,
a journalist and activist from the Haitian
diaspora living in Ottawa, has become
used to writing letters to Paul Martin on
behalf of arrested priests in Port-au-Prince,
but was surprised to find himself writing
on behalf of a fellow Canadian peace activist. “Apparently, Yves Engler’s crime was
to say too loudly and too clearly that the
Prime Minister’s Haiti policy is criminal,”
Saint-Vil said.
Engler’s bail conditions ban him from
communicating in any way with MPs or
the Governor General, which could be
interpreted broadly enough to include actions like chanting at demonstrations.
The reasons for the suicide of UN commander Bacellar are unknown. Bacellar’s
predecessor, General Augusto Heleno
Ribeiro told a congressional commission in
Brazil last year that “we are under extreme
pressure from the international community to use violence,” citing Canada,
France, and the United States. Barcellar
had expressed concern with what he called
the Haitian “business community’s” desire
to invade slums in Port-au-Prince, and
last Friday, Reuters reported that the UN
Special Representative for Haiti said that
future raids would claim further “collateral damage.” Bacellar’s duties have been
taken over by the Chilean General Eduardo Aldunate Herman, a graduate of the
School of the Americas who was involved
in the coup against Chilean President
Salvador Allende in the seventies.
In the last year, ten groups have sprung
up across the country to oppose Canada’s
role in what they are calling the occupation of Haiti, from Halifax to Vancouver.
Here in Winnipeg, the Canada-Haiti Action Network has demonstrated against
support for elections in an atmosphere
where they say political imprisonment and
extrajudicial executions are commonplace,
and against the UN force’s killing of at
least 24 civilians in July in Cite Soleil, the
same Port-au-Prince slum in which Marc
Bourque was killed last month. The UN
force had repeatedly denied that there had
been any civilian casualties up until this
international day of protest, but issued a
press release the following day stating that
they may have killed some civilians, and
that they would conduct a full internal
investigation.
The local group has organized a film
festival on Haiti that will take place
throughout the month of February at the
University of Winnipeg. Beau Burton of
the local group noted, “What are passing
as peacekeepers in Haiti are an occupying
army. As Canadians, we need to force our
government to let the Haitian community
decide their destiny instead of dictating it
to them.”
The Uniter
January 12, 2006
NEWS 05
Orgies at swingersʼ clubs on the rise following Supreme Court ruling
Family groups ask: If group sex with strangers is not considered indecent, what is?
By Jeremy Delman
The McGill Daily (McGill University)
MONTREAL (CUP) -- Owners
of Montreal swingers’ clubs say
that business is booming after
the Supreme Court ruled in
December to strike down a ban
on clubs hosting group sex.
The landmark decision,
which noted that orgies among
consenting adults in public
establishments do not pose a
threat to society, effectively
brought the clubs out of legal
limbo.
Bernard Corbeil, a lawyer
who has represented several
swingers’ clubs and is now
affiliated with Le 1082, said that
people can now go to the clubs
without fear of being arrested by
police.
“People were scared before,
but now the police can’t come
here,” Corbeil said. “As long as
there’s a sign that says people can
expect to see sex when they come
in, then there can be sex.”
Without the threat of legal
action against swingers, there has
been a marked increase in the
number of patrons at Le 1082.
Corbeil was a manager
and lawyer of the now-defunct
L’Orage, whose owner was
convicted in 2003 of running a
“bawdy house” and fined $2,500.
When the Quebec Court of
Appeal overturned a similar
club’s conviction, both cases went
before the Supreme Court.
Due to the favourable verdict,
Corbeil said that Le 1082 has
plans to expand its operations
with a new club on the South
Shore and another one in Laval.
Le 1082, which is recognized by
Tourisme Québec as a one star
hotel, will also be looking into
lifting the restriction on where
patrons can have sex, Corbeil
said.
Currently, patrons can meet at
the on-site bar and spa but must
take out a room if they wish to
have sex. However, according
to the new ruling, they don’t
Province by province, hour by hour:
New Brunswick decides to extend daylight savings time
New Brunswick to join in U.S. in Daylight Savings Time switch
By William Wolfe-Wylie
CUP Atlantic Bureau Chief
SACKVILLE, N.B. (CUP) - More Canadians will be getting
an extra hour of daylight as more
and more provinces move to extend
Daylight Savings Time by one month.
The province of New Brunswick
announced its intention to join
the U.S., along with several other
provinces, in extending Daylight
Savings Time from the beginning
March until the beginning of
November.
Prince Edward Island, Ontario,
and Quebec have already announced
that they will take part in the shift.
Currently, the Time Definition
Act states that Daylight Savings Time
is between the last Sunday in October
and the first Sunday in April. The new
bill would see New Brunswickers
move their clocks ahead on the second
Sunday in March and “fall back” on
the first Sunday in November. The bill
will come into effect in 2007.
But contrary to the environmental
reasons cited for the shift in the U.S.,
New Brunswick is moving ahead
with the change for more economic
reasons.
“Our first concerns are due to
our trading relationship with the
United States,” said Mathieu Picard,
a spokesman with the Office of the
Premier.
The U.S. introduced the change
in August as part of an energy bill
designed to cut the energy consumption
throughout the United States. With more
sunlight in the evenings, they argued,
there would be less need for electric
lighting in those peak hours.
The rest of the provinces are still looking at the possible impacts of the shift.
With major trade relations south of the
border and between provinces, however,
it is likely that more provinces will sign
on to the switch.
The province of Nova Scotia is
currently examining the impacts of a
change in Daylight Savings Time. But
since Nova Scotia premier John Hamm
is retiring from office next month, no
announcements will be made until after
the leadership convention scheduled for
February 11, 2006.
“Nova Scotia is likely to adopt the
change,” said Hugh Fraser, with the Nova
Scotia Premier’s Office.
Saskatchewan is the only Canadian
province that remains on Standard Time
all year round.
necessarily have to move to a
room anymore.
“It doesn’t have to be behind
closed doors,” Corbeil said. “So it
is possible that there could be sex
at the bar.”
Brian Rushfeldt, the executive
director of the Canada Family
Action Coalition, thinks the
ruling will lead to a slippery
slope of lewdness and obscenity.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if
these clubs started springing up
all around the country,” he said.
Derek Rogusky of Focus on
the Family Canada, a Christian
organization, also lamented what
he sees as eroding social values.
“In essence, the court said
that as long as there are no
injuries, then anything goes,
so this decision opened up a
bunch of other issues that are
even more problematic,” he said.
“What stops live sex shows from
happening now?”
Particularly worrisome for
Rushfeldt is the wording of the
ruling, which he said strips the
power of local governments
to oppose the opening of sex
establishments.
“It’s no longer possible for
communities to strike down the
construction of these swinger
clubs,” he said. “They could be
next to high schools.”
Since there is no exchange
of money for sex at swingers’
clubs, the court disregarded the
initial argument that clubs were
essentially brothels, which are
illegal. Instead, the ruling was
based on whether swingers clubs
are indecent, and asserted that
this was not the case.
Rushfeldt mocked the
Supreme Court for reducing the
case to indecency.
“For seven judges to decide
what’s decent or not for all
Canadians is ridiculous,” he said
referring to the seven of the nine
judges who voted to lift the ban.
Corbeil, on the other
hand, said that, according
to polls he has done, a clear
majority of Quebeckers and
Canadians believe that group
sex establishments should be
legal. He further maintained that
swinging is a right.
“It’s a fundamental right to
enjoy life,” Corbeil said. “The
human being needs variety. You
don’t eat the same thing all the
time, or wear the same clothes,
why should it be different for
sex?”
January 12, 2006
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The Possibilities of Proportional Representation
As Canadians prepare to elect a
new government on Jan. 23, it seems
an opportune time to reflect on how
our electoral system will effect, and
to a certain extent has predetermined,
the outcome of the election. While
most analysts are predicting either
a Conservative or a Liberal minority
government, our electoral system and
our past voting behaviours also mean
that Canadians will probably get a
parliament that is vastly different
from the one they voted for (even
when strategic voting is taken into
account).
Canada currently employs a
single-member plurality system
commonly referred to as First-Pastthe-Post. It’s a system based on singlemember districts (called ridings)
in which the winner needs only to
receive more votes than any one other
candidate.
Since voting in elections is
the main way that we as citizens
participate in our democracy, it is
important that the electoral system
produces a result that reflects our
voting intentions as closely as
possible. But our current system is
biased. Among its many flaws is its
tendency to under-represent smaller
parties and groups, to over-represent
larger parties and groups, to reward
parties with regional concentrations
of votes, and to punish parties with
votes spread out across the country.
Among options for electoral
reform is a system of Proportional
Representation in which political
parties receive a percentage of seats
proportionate to their percentage
of the popular vote. The resulting
system would be much more
representative of the diverse interests
in Canadian politics and present a
voice for groups whose issues and
opinions are largely ignored by our
current system.
Perhaps the most noticeable flaw
of the First-Past-the-Post system is
that only a plurality (not a majority) of
votes elects individual members, and
therefore governments. This means
that a very large number of votes are
“wasted” and do not count towards
election of a representative. Majority
governments are “manufactured”
by the electoral system. In this case,
both the local representatives and
the national government do not have
the support of the majority of voters
but still claim a mandate from the
people. It is through this flaw that the
Liberals have governed our country
unopposed from 1993 to 2004 even
though they received much less than
50 percent of the popular national
vote.
Quite often, supporters of the
First-Past-the-Post system argue
that the exaggerated strength of
the leading party and the resulting
majority government is better because
it is supposedly more stable, more
capable of making tough decisions
and maintaining consistent policies.
But this stable government is not
representative of the wishes of the
majority of people and does not have
to give a single thought to opposing
views. It can effectively hijack control
of the country until the end of its
term. While the argument against
majority governments obviously
doesn’t apply to the current minority
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By: Nathan Laser
government (nor the one we are
likely to get after Jan. 23), it usually
does. Nevertheless, there are several
equally important reasons against the
First-Past-the-Post system that apply
in both majority and perhaps more
importantly in minority situations.
The First-Past-the-Post system
also systematically limits the
opportunity of smaller parties to
be fairly represented and in doing
so censors minority views. If, for
example, the Green Party has
votes spread thinly across a wide
geographic area but they still receive
3 percent, it is unlikely they will
ever receive a single seat. Because it’s
unlikely that these small parties will
receive any seats, few exist. Likewise,
since it’s unlikely that these parties
will receive any seats, voters often
do not cast votes for their preferred
party for fear of wasting them.
Instead, they vote strategically for
their next favourite party to prevent
a third from winning. This lack of
clear voter choice and chance for
effective representation can also lead
to depressed voter turnout.
Conversely, the First-Past-thePost system also rewards parties that
receive votes concentrated regionally.
In Canada, this phenomenon has
manifested itself in the Reform/
Canadian Alliance/Conservative
Party in the West, and the Bloc
Quebecois in Quebec. With the
resulting ‘balkanization,’ the FirstPast-the-Post system has accentuated
the perception that everyone in the
West is a Conservative and everyone
in Quebec is a separatist.
Although the emergence of
these parties has allowed the
representation of the Reform Party/
Canadian Alliance/ Conservative
Party and the Bloc Quebecois at
higher than proportional rates,
both the Progressive Conservatives
(now defunct) and the New
Democrats have received a less
than proportionate number of seats.
The result is that depending on
what party you vote for, your vote
may be worth more or less. If you
want to elect a New Democrat your
individual vote will be worth much
less to do it. If you want to elect a
member of the Greens, your obstacles
are almost insurmountable.
The over-representation of
regionally based political parties and
their ideological agendas caused by
the First-Past-the-Post system has
negative implications for the future of
the country. Current election polling
indicates the distinct possibility of
a near sweep of the Conservatives
in the West and of the Bloc in
Quebec even though a significant
majority of people will have voted
for other parties. This could lead to
the dangerous result of a minority
government with the decentralist
Conservative Party being propped
up by the separatist Bloc coalition
partner.
One of the main concerns about a
switch away from the single member
district is the weakening of votermember linkages. However, voters
may elect their representatives but
if members are lucky enough to be
a part of the government, they are
most often controlled by the strict
party discipline of the party whips.
Party discipline prevents the ability
of an elected member to hold the
governing cabinet responsible to
Parliament (responsible government)
and therefore the electorate. In
Canada, voters rarely vote for an
individual anyhow, but rather for that
individual’s party, their leader, or the
ideas of their party.
Another claim made in favour
of the status quo is that it’s simple
for voters to understand. Though
it is simple, the argument that
proportional representation would
be more complicated insults the
intelligence of the public.
If Canada were to adopt a
proportional representative electoral
system voters would vote for a
party rather than an individual
member and seats would be awarded
proportionate to a party’s share of the
vote. Voters would choose members
from a list of representatives
democratically decided by each
political party.
Many of the virtues of
proportional representation directly
address the problems associated
with single member plurality. For
example, fewer votes are wasted and
this positively influences political
participation. Most votes are counted
towards electing representatives
for a party. All parties (small, large,
and regional) would receive seats
proportionate to their national share
of the vote. Small parties would be
encouraged to form and provide
a voice for under-represented
minorities. Larger parties would
be encouraged to appeal to a wider
range of people in order to increase
their bargaining power in attempts to
form a working coalition government.
In either case, smaller parties would
have fair representation and large
parties with only a plurality of
support could not dismiss minority
views out of hand.
Proportional Representation
would eliminate the problems
associated with regional bloc voting.
Instead of being able to win most of
the seats in a province or region with
less than a majority of the votes, large
and regionally based parties would be
allocated seats based on their actual
(smaller) percentage of votes. As well,
smaller parties, such as the New
Democrats, and their voters would
not be completely under-represented,
actually electing representatives in
provinces like Alberta and Quebec.
Further, the Greens would stand a
chance of electing several MPs.
Opponents of Proportional
Representation argue that in the
process of forming coalitions, parties
would compromise party ideals in
a process that is not transparent.
However, Canada has a tradition
of brokerage parties in government
that do not have an ideology in
the strictest sense and the elected
members of these parties regularly
compromise party positions. The
necessity of building coalitions
among parties would only bring these
decisions into the spotlight, or at least
put them in the hands of people with
a wider range of ideas.
Under coalitions, cabinet
members would be held accountable
to the legislature because coalition
party members would not want to
compromise their values for fear
of alienating their voter base (since
party popularity is what they would
owe their election to). The cabinet
members would not be able to leave
behind their backbenchers, thereby
restoring some of the accountability
originally intended under
responsible government. Changes
and realignments in coalition
alliances and careful negotiations
and compromises would mean
that decisions would be made with
more of a view to consensus than
competition.
Voter turnout has steadily
declined over the years to an all-time
low of just over 60 percent in the 2004
election. Without reforms politicians
risk loosing legitimacy in the eyes of
the Canadian electorate and we risk
following our American neighbours
into that realm of less than 50 percent
voter turnout, a scary prospect for
any country wishing to call itself a
democracy. It is time we considered
Proportional Representation as a
serious option for Canada.
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Letters
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On the Town with No Poverty
It was with great interest that I read
your article entitled “Researchers
Examine the Town with No Poverty”,
published in the December 1, 2005
edition of the Uniter, concerning the
Dauphin part of the guaranteed annual income project.
I had worked on the project,
officially known as “Mincome
Manitoba”, for several years as a
Senior Researcher (Statistician) during
the 1970s, until 1979 when it was
terminated by Joe Clark’s minority
Conservative government. Even
though the Tories lost the election
which followed eight months later,
the returned Liberal government
failed to keep the promise which
they had made previously to analyze
the data, and if the analysis showed
that it was feasible to introduce a
minimum guaranteed income as a
replacement for most of the other
income support programs which
existed at the time. Unless the
analysis showed a large withdrawal
from the labour force, this would
result in large savings even with
generous income support levels;
and since incomes over and above
this minimum support would be
taxed at a certain percentage (also
to be determined by the project) it
was expected that this would result
in reduced welfare levels as well,
thus increasing the labour force
participation. It would be especially
helpful to the working poor who
refused to accept welfare payments
and continued to work for low
(minimum) wages. A guaranteed
annual income could also be thought
of as a negative income tax, whereby
households would receive tax
payments rather than make them,
and the whole program would be
administered by Revenue Canada.
What was the basic concept
behind the project, which made
it a necessary preliminary step
before introducing a guaranteed
income to Canadians? In order to
assess the cost of the programme
(as compared to other programs
at that time), the withdrawal from
the labour force (if any) had to be
estimated first since this would
have a direct impact on cost the
more households on a guaranteed
income the greater the expenditure:
and since the “generosity” of a
programme could also be expected to
influence programme participation,
it was necessary to conduct an
actual scientific experiment by
putting a selected random sample of
households on three income support
levels and three tax rates; “low”,
“medium”, and “high”. This was to
be the main part of the Mincome
experiment where 3,000 Winnipeg
households were enrolled (over time)
into the experimental group, with
Dauphin as a secondary “saturation”
site where anyone who wished and
lived in town would be enrolled.
Mincome Manitoba was the
first (and last) social experiment ever
attempted in Canada, made possible
by an agreement between the Prime
Minister of Canada (Trudeau) and the
Premier of Manitoba (Schreyer). By
the time it was shut down in 1979 this
attempt to improve the condition of
the poor in general, and the working
poor in particular, had cost almost
18 million dollars, a substantial sum
thirty years ago borne 80 percent by
Ottawa and 20 percent by Manitoba.
The project would also end in a
mystery. The vast quantity of data
which was gathered during the
1970s, stored on magnetic tapes, and
eventually housed at the University of
Manitoba would vanish mysteriously
without a trace, compared by some
to the vanishing of the Avro Arrow
fighter plane during Diefenbaker’s
Prime Ministership resulting in
a large waste of public funds and
leaving behind but shreds of evidence
and memories of the individuals
who participated in this progressive
venture. Hopefully, Dr. Forget will be
able to retrieve some evidence of the
impact the project had on people’s
lives in Dauphin.
Sincerely,
Alexander Basilevsky,
Professor, Department of
Mathematics and Statistics
The University of Winnipeg
Increasing Add/Drop
date, and patience
The winter semester has begun and
campus life is slowly returning to normal.
As usual, students faced long lineups to
pay tuition, change classes and buy their
new texts. The last day to drop and add
classes without financial penalty was
Monday, January 9th, and it came and
went incredibly quickly.
Considering the long waiting lists,
stress and financial crises that students
experience in the first week back, a six
day add/drop period is preposterous.
Students deserve at least 2 weeks to
attend classes, meet their professors and
determine if the course is right for them.
People who have a Monday night class
are at a notable disadvantage because
they must make their decision without
attending a single lecture.
The University of British Columbia
has a three week grace period for two
term courses and a 2 week period for
half year ones. The U of M withdrawal
dates were September 21st and January
16th. However, University of Winnipeg
continues to leave very little time for their
students.
Extending the add/drop period
would decrease waiting in line because
people would have the opportunity to
come back later. It would allow the school
to send a message that it hopes students
will find a class that’s enjoyable and
right for them. As university students,
we are willing to pay a great deal for
an education. A longer drop period
would help avoid wasting money on bad
professors and overpriced textbooks.
Ian Scott
January 12, 2006
07
The Elephant in the Room
Will we see accountability legislation after the election?
Matthew J. Mulaire
A
nother election eh?
Didn’t we just have
one? Frankly I find
elections really boring and kind of
irritating.
Far worse about elections, than actually
having to interact with politicians, is the fact
that the politicians aren’t really doing their
jobs. Politicians should be doing what they
get paid to do, legislating and governing,
but instead we are having another election
and important legislation is going to die on
the order paper. This begs the question, if
there is governing to do, why are we having
an election? Has anything really changed
since the last election? Canadians still care
about the same things: universal health
care, protecting the environment, a nonaggressive foreign policy based on foreign
aid and peacekeeping, keeping the budget
balanced, creating jobs, and tax cuts, if they
can be managed without seriously impacting
the previously mentioned priorities. Even if
there was a relatively large proportion of the
population that disagreed significantly with
the aforementioned statements, would these
people changed their minds? If I were a
betting man I would figure that this election
will largely be a game of musical chairs.
Seats may change hands but Canadians will
probably have roughly what they had before,
a Liberal minority government with a strong
Conservative/Bloc alliance forming the
opposition and the NDP holding the balance
of power.
So what has changed since the last
election that necessitates an election now?!
Three syllables that English Canadians
pronounce as two; Gomery (Gom-ree). The
Gomery report was damning condemnation
of the Liberal party and exposed criminal
acts and the blatant exploitation of
taxpayer’s money. In short, the Liberal
government fell not because of policy or
governance but because of moral issues
and accountability. The issue that should
be discussed before anything else in this
election isn’t healthcare or the environment,
we should be talking about accountability
and the moral authority to govern. We just
had an election to figure out where the
parties and the Canadian public stand on
these issues. So far this election has been
about restating points and arguments that
everyone has heard before.
I don’t want to provide a detailed
explanation because that would be long,
complex, and boring (if you are really
curious you can read the Gomery report
online at www.gomery.ca/en). The “adscam” was able to happen largely due to
the fact that accurate records were not
kept and excessive secrecy allowed massive
corruption.
The report’s summary noted two
key problems which allowed for fraud and
“culture of entitlement” to persist. First,
there was a veil of secrecy surrounding the
administration of the Sponsorship program
and the absence of transparency in the
contracting process. Second, there was
deliberate action to avoid compliance with
federal legislation and policies, including
the Canada Elections Act, Lobbyists
Registration Act, the Access to Information
Act and the Financial Administration Act,
as well as federal contracting policy and
Treasury Board Transfer Payments Policy
Accountability, and transparency
in particular, is my major issue as a
citizen watching this campaign, so I
did a quick survey of the major parties
websites to see where they stood on the
issue. The Conservatives hold this issue
at the centre of their platform, proposing
a Federal Accountability Act, but I have
to wonder if they are simply stealing the
Information Commissioner’s ideas without
considering the ramifications of what
they are proposing. The NDP also place
electoral reform high on their election
platform, but they are sketchy on details
of accountability, simply proposing to
“improve access to information” with out
suggesting what improvements need to be
made. The nomination of Ed Schreyer to
for Manitoba Interlake is interesting in this
context. Interestingly, the Liberals state
six major issues viz. the economy, cities
and communities, families, foreign policy,
the environment and universal health care
but not accountability. The opposition
parties all agree that the accountability and
transparency of the federal government
needs to be improved. Like wise, the Liberal
Party needs to address these issues in
some way shape or form because Ad-scam
happened under their watch. One would
reckon with this kind of consensus in the
opposition and necessity on the governing
party, accountability legislation would be
a sure thing after the election but when
it comes to enforcing citizen’s Access to
Information rights there is always reason for
pessimism.
Accountability and transparency is
the elephant in the room of this election.
Most Canadians are aware that the
Liberals have been very, very bad but
don’t understand intricacies of “ad-scam”;
precisely why the Liberals have been bad.
Likewise, Canadians have even less of
an understanding of the solutions to the
problems that the Gomery report exposed.
Very few Canadians know who the
Information Commissioner is and would
be surprised to fi nd out that he has long
been advocating against the encroaching
culture of secrecy that is eroding the Access
to Information Act and has allowed for
this fraud and corruption to occur. The
majority of Canadians probably don’t know
what the Access to Information Act is and
why it is important. Likewise, improving
transparency and accountability is never in
a government’s interest because all the little
screw-ups and inconsistencies that invariably
happen when running a nation-state
become exposed to the media and make
the government look bad. Ultimately this
election will accomplish little in changing
federal government policy.
I personally don’t care how the
election turns out. What I do care about is
what legislation is introduced immediately
after the election to deal with problems
of transparency and accountability in the
federal government. If we, as Canadian
citizens don’t get accountability legislation
after the election we should all become very
concerned. This election was called because
of a lack of accountability and transparency
in the Canadian government but it is
unlikely that this election will seriously
address these issues. At best, it will wake me
up on my days off when I could be sleeping
in.
January 12, 2006
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by Shane Gibson
pshunt.keenspace.com
By William O’Donnel
When a CD skips, it is
ever out of joy.
A friend of mine had his
house egged one month
ago.
I marveled at how well
he took it, even after
the culprits mysteriously
disappeared. He does act
kind of secretive about
these egg and “meat”
sandwiches he has
eaten ever since. What’s
even weirder is he yells
“Who’s laughing now?!”
after each bite.
Across
1. Snatch
4. 4 down’s
network,
abbr.
7. Vote in favor
10. Exploit
11. French St.
12. Sun god
13. Exact
15. US tax org.
16. Be sick
17. Steal
18. Team from
8 down
21. ___- Alai
22. Team from
8 down
26. Actress
Hamiltion
29. UPS colour
Down
30. Focused
32. Silent yes
33. Team from
8 down
36. Team from
8 down
39. Tiny bit
40. Bull fighter
yell
41. Cries of
horror
45. Pub order
46. Alias
letters
47. La. Sch.
48. Shade of 29
across
49. Cdn. Sports
channel
50. Get older
Straight Faced
By: Matt Cohen
Somebody commented
yesterday that the fact that I
write a weekly column likens
me to Carrie Bradshaw from
Sex and the City. The only
exceptions being that I’m male
and I don’t write a sex column.
Seeing as I’m not planning on
getting a sex change any time
soon, to bring some validity to
their statement, I’ve decided to
write a sex column this week. I
like sex and I feel comfortable
enough talking about it. This
being the case when I was
having a candid conversation
with one of my friends and he
informed me of the fact that he
had a nine-inch penis. That’s
one huge cock. I believe him.
He’d have nothing to gain from
lamenting about the troubles
that arise from this problem.
Condoms that don’t fit, women
that can’t handle the size,
and incredulous looks in the
1. Bolt’s partner
2. Fire left over
3. Honey maker
4. Ferguson of
late night
5. Injured
standing limb?
6. Espy
7. Columbus’s
intended
destination
8. Home of 18,
22, 33, 36
across and 31
down; with
New
9. Otherwise
14. ___ Antonio
17. Like Ivan
18. Wet weather
19. Aren’t, in
slang
20. Chest bone
21. P.Diddy’s ex
23. Less than
one
24. Low cards
25. Cell button
27. “___ of our
Lives”
28. “Fit ___
fiddle”
31. Team from
8 down
34. Sacred text
of Islam
35. Wind dir.
36. Castle
circler
37. Jazz’s
Fitzgerald
38. One aged
13 to 19
41. Had a seat
42. Montgomery’s
State, briefly
43. Venue for 18
across and 31
down, briefly
44. Take to court
shower room are just some
of his hardships. The great
debate does size matter eludes
me somehow. I can’t see how it
matters that much. Guys who
aren’t well endowed don’t have
to complain about the types
of problems listed above. You
rarely hear somebody with a
small penis complaining that
their lover gets hurt every time
they engage in intercourse. You
may end up hearing that, but
that’s usually from the woman,
and it’s referring more to their
competence in bed rather
than size. People with small
penises seem to be worried
about not being able to please
their partner because of their
shortcoming. This seems like a
cop out.
The other myth involving
size is that there is a correlation
between your manhood and
how much of a man you are.
Fantastic, you have a huge
cock. That must mean that you
can grow a thicker beard than
the rest of us and are better
qualified to be a lumberjack.
Men, of all sizes are still men.
As for the reasoning that it’s not
the length but the girth, having
WRITE
sex with somebody shaped like
a jar of olives is going to be
uncomfortable as well.
The only truth in this
debate is that the grass is always
greener. You may feel that
you’re too small or too big, too
thin or too thick, either way
people feel like they’re missing
out. In the end though, no
matter what the size, if you’re
that pre-occupied with your
size, suck it up. Because really,
if you’re worrying about it that
much, you’re just acting like a
dick.
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The Story of Survival: One man’s account of surviving the
1994 Rwandan Genocide
By Leighton Klassen
Senior Editor
W
e sat directly
across from
each other
in a brightly lit room in the
University of Manitoba’s
student resource centre, our
hands placed comfortably on
the table.
Elonge Christian Butera
sported a dressy black
sweatshirt, dress pants, and was
clean shaven. We were strangers,
so we broke the ice by talking
about university – something
we’re both involved in. But I
was really there was so he could
tell me about something I, and
every other university student,
can’t imagine–running from
people armed with machetes
trying to slaughter him, literally.
Butera is a Rwandan
Genocide survivor – he was
ten at the time it happened,
back in 1994. His lazy smile
– showcasing his stark white
teeth – turned to a serious face.
He remembers the fi rst night
vividly.
“We were at home, less
than three miles from the
airport when the president’s
plane crashed,” Butera says in
a concentrated, severe voice.
“We couldn’t tell if it was a
plane crashing or just another
explosion so we just went to
bed.”
Butera says it was only a
few minutes after his mother,
father, brother, and sister went
to bed when they awoke once
again.
“We woke up because we
heard on the radio that they
were telling everyone to stay
inside because the president’s
place crashed.”
Shortly after, a distant
family member fi nished their
shift at work and arrived at
Butera’s home in a panic.
“He told my father that his
brother had been killed,” Butera
says, straight-faced.
And that was when Butera
and the rest of his family
experienced their fi rst tragic
loss of the genocide. But it
wasn’t the last – Butera says he
lost nearly 100 members of his
extended family by the end of
the event. That evening, April
14, 1994, was when the genocide
was brought to the doorsteps of
Butera and the rest of his family.
Within hours, members of the
Hutu militia – the Interhamwe
and the Impuzamugambi – were
out in full force in the city of
explains.
Kigali, slaughtering Tutsis and
And he remembers it all so
moderate Hutus with machetes.
vividly, especially one particular
Butera and his family knew
incident when he was crossing
they had to flee from their
the bridge to cross the city’s
house.
border.
“We left the house and hid
“We saw a family get
in the bushes, just downhill from chopped up,” he says, gesturing
our house,” Butera explains.
a chopping motion with his
He says he and his family
hand. “There was a girl who
spent the next three days lying
got hit in the head (with the
low, evading the military by
machete) and she just fainted
slowly moving through the
and fell down in the ditch. They
bushes en route to leaving the
didn’t throw her in the river.”
city. However, while spending
When the militants
a night in a catholic primary
travelled forward, Butera took a
school the
closer look at
inevitable
the woman.
happened.
“Her
“We were
face,”
he
“(The Hutu militia) are
stopped,”
begins,
empowered by an indif- squinting his
Butera begins.
“They started
ferent society,” he says. eyes at me.
shooting at
remember
“Bad things can happen “I
us, and then
looking at
the crowd
her and her
and you can’t repair
dispersed.”
face was cut,
this or the holocaust
The
the cut was
crowd included
or Rwanda – what was so clean, it
Butera’s entire
was white
lost was humanity.”
family and a
– like the fi rst
group of other
snowfall. I
people who were hiding out in
remember it looked like she was
the school.
actually smiling, but she had no
“Most ran back to the
face.”
church,” Butera says, adding
Butera takes his hand and
that his mother and sister were
brings it to his jaw.
included in the group that
“You could see all of her
returned to the school. “There
teeth,” he says, adding that
was about 10 of us taking cover
all the muscle and flesh had
by just lying on the ground.”
been cut off. “Every time I
Butera says while they w
think about that girl, I think
ere plastered to the ground, of her as the girl with no face,”
one of the military officers
he fi nishes, shaking his head
approached his father – Butera
timidly back and forth.
knew it would only be a few
But they moved on and
moments until his father would
moved into the city of Nyanza
be axed by the officer.
where his grandfather lived, but
“He approached us, and
soon learned the genocide wasn’t
they were going to kill my
confi ned to Kigali.
father, but then he said ‘I can’t
“My father was the fi rst to
kill someone that saved my life.’” go – my father got killed and
Butera’s father was a doctor then aunties, uncles,” Butera
– the officer armed with a
says.
machete was one of his patients.
Butera then moved to a
But then the threat of death hous he owned by a friend of
shifted from Butera’s father to
the family where he and his fivehis mother and sister, who both
year-old sister and brother hid
out. Like Jewish people during
ran back inside the school.
the Holocaust, they were subject
“They went back to the
to several inspections by the
school,” Butera says and pauses,
military. Butera says they would
his eyes grazing the floor. “The
hide in a small area just above
military went in there and were
the roof of the house.
killing everyone – we spent the
“We could see them
rest of the genocide knowing
looking,” he says. “We were so
that my mother and sister had
afraid because if they found us,
been killed.”
they would kill us, but not just
The way in which the
us – everyone in the house.”
people inside the church were
“You have to hold your
executed – and the primary
breath and not move a muscle
method of the militia executed
until they’re gone,” Butera says,
for all people – are arguably
explaining what it was like
barbaric. Butera says the
during the inspections.
military used machetes to kill
Butera and his brother and
people, in which they would
sister eventually moved out of
literally “chop them up,” as
the house and travelled into
Butera describes. And the rivers
the province of Gikongoro and
were used as burial grounds.
in August – four months after
“Bodies would be
swimming into the rivers, people the genocide started – Butera
experienced what he considers
were being chopped up, houses
to be the happiest moment of his
were being burned,” Butera
life thus far.
He looks at me with a smile
and tells me about the moment
in which he saw a person
walking up to him amongst a
group of people travelling by
foot – his mother.
“Time – everything stops,”
he says of the moment. “She was
crying, praying on the ground
on her knees and I just froze and
started crying and didn’t stop
crying. It was just unbelievable
and the happiest moment of my
life so far.”
Butera learned his mother
was one of the few survivors
during the catholic school
execution and following that
event, evaded the military for
months. However, Butera says
she was taken to the mass graves
on several occasions, but wasn’t
executed because they could not
determine whether she was a
Tutsis.
“They took her to mass
graves 12 times and she still
lived to the next day – she was
too short to be a Tutsis,” he says.
It was in August when
Butera’s family were reunited
and could live their lives without
the threat of being slaughtered
by the military. His family still
lives in Rwanda, but Elonge
moved to Canada four years ago
to pursue a university degree at
the University of Manitoba. He
says he’s learned a lot from the
experience, but still can’t figure
out how human beings can act
in such destructive and immoral
ways.
“There’s a lot that I learned
but I think ‘what was all that
about’ and I’m still trying to
figure that out,” he says. “I
believe I am happy, peaceful,
and I know that sometimes
things can be bad, but now I’m
cautious – I know what people
are capable of, but there still is
room for happiness and fun.”
One thing Butera does
know is that the Rwandan
genocide can never be repaired.
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MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD
ONE CAMPUS AT A TIME
WORKING ALONGSIDE PAUL RUSESABAGINA
By Leighton Klassen | Senior Editor
P
aul Rusesabagina is travelling
around Canada speaking
about his role in saving
hundreds of Rwandans during the
1994 Rwandan genocide, but he’s not
travelling alone.
Ryla Braemer is his partner in crime.
She travels alongside him, doing everything
from booking conferences to practically
ensuring his coffee has enough cream and
sugar in it.
The former Winnipeg resident now
resides in Toronto and is the director/
resource services for the National Jewish
Campus Life – a Toronto-based organization
that provides resources for Jewish campus
organizations across Canada.
It was only a week ago when she fi rst
met Paul Rusesabagina in a hotel in Toronto
where they were about to begin their tour,
which will visit Vancouver, Winnipeg and
Montreal.
“When we came into the hotel the
receptionist recognized him and said ‘oh, it’s
a pleasure to meet you’ and then he shook her
hand and said ‘it’s a pleasure to meet you too’
and then I just got all teary,” Braemer says of
her fi rst encounter with Rusesabagina.
The casual and nonchalant nature
of Rusesabagina interacting with people
is symbolic of his persona of being just a
Paul Rusesabagina is travelling around Canada speaking about his role in
saving hundreds of Rwandans during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He spoke
this past Monday at the University of Manitoba.
‘regular human being,’ Braemer says.
“He’s just so humble about saving
so many lives,” she said from the hotel in
Toronto last Saturday afternoon. “He truly
is a hero and he has such integrity, morals,
and is really how the movie (Hotel Rwanda)
presented him. He said he just acted like any
normal human being would act, as a father,
and husband.”
Braemer says Rusesabagina’s optimistic
attitude towards life was one of the fi rst traits
of his personality she noticed.
“He seems to have so much faith and
isn’t discouraged and he believes that there
is still good in everyone -- he still has such a
faith,” she says.
But Braemer’s job isn’t confi ned to
ensuring Rusesabagina makes it to every
conference on time -- she is also responsible
for ensuring university groups are working
together and furthermore educating students
on how to make the world a better place.
“On a professional level, this is a way to
educate university students on how to better
the world,” she says.
And she’s already on track to achieving
her goal -- she considers Winnipeg as a venue
of success.
“In Winnipeg, we have the Jewish and
the African (student groups) working together
and different newspapers as well, so everyone
is just really getting together for this project
which is important for the project and its
outcome,” Braemer says.
She also says that other initiatives
involving her organization have also allowed
student groups across Canada to work
together in educating both within the group
and outside, to other student bodies. In May
of last year, Braemer partook in organizing
March of the Living -- an event where 120
students from across Canada visited Poland
to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the
liberation of the Auschwitz Concentration
Camp -- in conjunction with a national
student group called Students Helping Others
Understand Tolerance (SHOUT).
“It was great because different student
groups who normally don’t work together do...
we used the (educating about) the holocaust as
a border for the genocide,” she says.
And these educating tactics can
influence people on taking more social action
that she says can prevent events like the
holocaust or the Rwandan genocide from
happening again.
“One of the challenges is that we can
talk the talk but can’t walk the walk,” she
says of today’s society. “I think this can be
rendered a success if people leave it and
join an organization...or write a letter to the
prime minister so people know that there are
problems and issues.”
Heroics from Hotel Rwanda
Paul Rusesabagina speaks to a full house at the U of M
By Avi Braemer
There is an old Rwandese
saying, that “God would move
around the world during the day
and come to sleep in Rwanda every
night.”
Over the last decade, though,
many people have begun to wonder
where God is, not only in Rwanda
but in all of Africa. To help answer
this question and to figure out a
way to begin to make a difference
in Africa, almost 1800 people
gathered in the University Centre at
the University of Manitoba to listen
to Paul Rusesabagina speak.
Rusesabagina is the man
whose actions were depicted in the
critically acclaimed movie Hotel
Rwanda. But more importantly,
he is the man who risked his own
life to save the lives of others.
In 1994 over 800,000 civilians
were massacred in Rwanda by
Hutu rebels and militia. At that
time, Rusesabagina was a hotel
manager in Kigali, the capital city
of Rwanda. He sheltered over 1200
people; saving them from certain
death.
When you meet Rusesabagina
and listen to him speak you realize
that he is an ordinary man thrust
into extraordinary circumstances.
This is what makes his story so
remarkable, this is why so many
people turned out to hear him
speak, and this is why he was given
three standing ovations - one before
he even spoke a word. He is an
ordinary man, who also happens to
be a hero.
Rusesabagina began his
speech with an overview of the
history of Rwanda. He told of the
thousands that lived in refugee
camps, parents without jobs and
children without education. He
used the old saying “If god does not
take care, the devil will handle the
case,” to explain how many of these
refugees became rebels. In 1990
these rebels began killing civilians
and the government responded
by creating a militia. However, by
1993 the militia had also started
killing civilians in the countryside
and in Kigali. Everyone was living
on edge, threatened by either
the rebels or the militia. Many
people fled, including many of
Rusesabagina’s friends. Eventually
a peace agreement was reached
and a United Nations force of
2500 came to Rwanda to maintain
that peace. Those who had fled
began moving back home and a
sense of normalcy returned to the
country. Rusesabagina attended a
hotel general managers meeting in
Brussels, and toured Europe with
his family, returning to Rwanda
on March 31st. Little did he know
that six days later his world would
change forever.
On April 6, 1994 he was
sitting at his hotel with his brotherin-law and sister-in-law when a
missile struck a plane carrying the
presidents of Rwanda and Burundi,
killing both men. Rusesabagina’s
wife called and asked him to come
home, so he said goodbye to his
brother-in law and his sister-in-law.
Unbeknownst to him, this would
be the last time he would ever see
them. He would later learn they
were gunned down in a mass grave.
At home the Rusesabaginas
could hear people being attacked
and butchered. Soon there were
26 strangers taking refuge in their
home. On April 9 militia men
climbed over his gate and entered
his yard. In what may have been
his fi rst act of courage, though it
certainly would not be his last,
Rusesabagina went out to greet
the armed men. They were there
to “escort” him to his hotel, which
had been commandeered by the
militia. Rusesabagina insisted on
taking with him all of the people
who were staying at his house. After
a harrowing drive, during which
they saw butchered bodies lying on
the street, they reached his hotel.
As Rusesabagina says, the hotel
became “a small island of fear in a
sea of fi re.”
Soon the hotel was fi lled
with refugees, innocent people
trying to stay alive. Many times
Rusesabagina found himself
speaking with the militia, pleading
for them to leave these people alone.
He watched as supplies dwindled,
wondering how many more days
they could last. Water was so sparse,
people began drinking the water
from the hotel swimming pool; he
said “a day felt like a month, and
a month felt like years.” Then on
May 2, Rusesabagina took action
that cemented his place forever as
a hero. The militia had agreed to
allow some people to be evacuated,
including Rusesabagina and
his family. However, hundreds
of people were told to remain
in the hotel, where the waiting
militia who had surrounded the
hotel, would surely kill them all.
Rusesabagina made the decision
not to be evacuated with his family.
“If I leave, I’ll be a prisoner of
myself forever,” he realized. He
loaded his wife and children on
the UN trucks, and prepared to
stay. Before they could even leave
the hotel compound, the radio was
announcing the names of those
being evacuated, including the
name of his son. The trucks were
attacked and forced to return to
the hotel. He went to get his wife,
and found her “lying in a truck full
of blood.” On May 26, the hotel
received a new list of people to be
evacuated, but again Rusesabagina
refused to abandon those that
would remain. This time he kept his
wife and children with him. Finally
on June 18, everyone in the hotel
was granted safe evacuation to a
refugee camp. Rusesabagina and
his family were reunited with the
children of his brother-in-law. As
they drove through Rwanda down
south, he found that “dead bodies
lined the roads...the whole country
was death.”
Paul Rusesabagina now
lives in Belgium, but he has never
forgotten the horror of what
happened in his country. He travels
the world telling his story, but it
is the message at the end of his
speech that is the most important,
“In Africa, everyday life is what
happened in Rwanda. Since war
broke out in the eastern Congo,
four million people have been
butchered. In Uganda 1.8 million
people have become displaced, lost
in their own country.”
He told the audience he is
thankful for what many Winnipeg
groups did to try and bring
awareness to the situation in
Darfur, but that it is not enough.
“Worry about all of Africa; it is a
shame for mankind,” he said. “So
many voices calling for your help...
answer them.”
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The marketing of cool
Teens through the ages
By Tom Peotto
Argus (Lakehead University)
K
ids talking on cellphones
and buying lattes. Twelveyear-old girls dolled up
like 16-year-old girls. The grade
eights of today are definitely a more
sophisticated bunch than the grade
eights of yesteryear—at least, that’s
the impression they want to give.
Suddenly social commentators
are throwing around phrases like
“tween,” 10-year-olds are buying Axe
body spray, and CBC Radio One is
playing rap. What the hell is going
on?
The First Teenager
The transition years
between childhood and
adulthood have been recognized
in some form or another by almost
all cultures, past and present, with
ceremonies, rituals, and initiations.
After this brief interlude however,
the youth was shuffled into an adult
role as soon as physical development
permitted: labour, community roles, and
property-ownership for men, marriage
and domestic duties for women. While
allowance might be made for youthful
inexperience and confusion by one’s
elders, the young man or woman was
now for all intents and purposes an adult,
with according responsibilities.
In the West, particularly postSecond World War North America,
the affluence and privilege of the
Baby Boom generation led to a sort
of institutionalization of youthful
rebelliousness, particularly among
middle-class youth with leisure time.
This acceptance of the “teen” years (from
thirteen to nineteen) – romanticized as
a period of self-discovery, transition,
and confusion – was so great that a new
phrase had been coined by the 1950s:
“teenager.” And with parental generosity,
economic prosperity, and part-time
jobs stuffi ng teenagers’ pockets with
disposable income, marketers sat up and
took notice.
It was noticed that teenagers got
a cheap thrill from questioning their
parents’ values: ideology, affi liations,
taste in clothing, music, and fi lm.
Teen-oriented versions of pre-existing
entertainment genres were launched,
like drive-in horror movies with youthful
protagonists whose monster sightings
were disbelieved by ‘square’ adults (such
as 1958’s The Blob) or teen pop songs
whose attractions were catchy melodies,
the plagiarization of African American
music and its repackaging by white
artists, and the disapproval of parents
towards either the unintelligible lyrics of
the song or the implication that it would
cause “racial mixing”.
In the 1940s, crooner Frank
Sinatra’s youthful fans had created the
distinctive fashion of combining poodle
skirts with socks rolled down to ankles.
These “bobby-soxers” were one of many
youth cultures (and countercultures)
which would be deliberately targeted
(if not created outright) by marketing
departments. In reaction to mainstream
acceptance of what had once been ‘edgy’
and ‘dangerous’, disaffected youth would
create new and shocking countercultures,
which would be abandoned once those
‘edgy’ modes of dress and speech had
gained mainstream acceptance and
corporate backing. This trend continues
to the present day.
Teen idols like Sinatra were eagerly
sought after, either by discovery or
creation. Elvis Presley, once a shocking
provocateur for his pelvic thrusts and
racially-ambiguous backwoods music
(part country, part blues), was tamed
down by his management to become a
sexually-non-threatening teen idol, as
evidenced by the following lyrics to his
song “Teddy Bear”:
Don’t wanna be your tiger, ‘cause
tigers play too rough,
Don’t wanna be your lion, ‘cause
lions aren’t the kind you love enough;
I just wanna be your teddy bear.
Other teen idols of the 50s
and 60s included Frankie Avalon,
Fabian, Ricky Nelson, Tommy Sands,
the Monkees, and (during the earlier
phases of their careers) the Beatles and
the Rolling Stones. The criteria for
male teen idols was that, to be attractive
to young girls, they had to be both
cute and sexually ambiguous. Female
teen icons, such as Annette Funicello,
were mainly selected for cuteness and
wholesomeness—in other words, the
approval of young girls’ parents in their
daughters’ media role models. However,
female teen icons were also the subject
of older men’s fantasies, a pop-culture
undercurrent which was never very far
away (an early Garfield strip from the
late 1970s has Garfield watching reruns
of The Mickey Mouse Club, in which the
punchline is him muttering, “Shake it,
Annette”).
I want my MTV
The next great change in teen
marketing-slash-pop culture was to come
with music videos, a sort of contraction
of the teen-oriented music movies such
as 1955’s The Blackboard Jungle. After
the success of the Beatles’ 1964 fi lm A
Hard Day’s Night, they began shooting
short promotional fi lms for their songs
which were to be used as fi ller on
American television. This practice had
been done since the 1950s (look up the
Snader Telescriptions), but now the
videos were incorporating storylines
and camera effects to communicate the
song’s message. This was copied by The
Monkees, The Doors, and repeated by
The Beatles with psychedelic videos for
“Strawberry Fields Forever”, for instance,
or their 1968 movie Yellow Submarine.
By the 1970s, entire segments
of TV shows—or entire programs,
like Top of the Pops or Australia’s
Countdown—were dedicated to music
videos. If a music video was too salacious
to be shown, it would gain a notoriety of
its own (like the video for “Relax”). And
by this philosophy—pushing the envelope
while providing a voice for youth
counterculture—MTV was born in 1981,
beginning with the tune “Video Killed
the Radio Star.” A moderately-talented
yet ugly artist could no longer get away
with a catchy radio hit.
Throughout the 1980s, youth
culture continued along the defi ned
trends of its 1950s origin. Teen-oriented
entertainment increased, particularly
in the movies; the intelligently-scripted
fi lms of John Hughes (Ferris Bueller’s
Day Off, Weird Science, The Breakfast
Club) never pandered to teenagers
or dismissed their concerns, while
a flood of derivative slasher
movies (Friday the 13th,
Halloween, A Nightmare
on Elm Street) were all
too happy to do so. Femaleoriented male teen idols were
still cute and sexually-ambiguous,
though male-oriented ones tended to
be either the traditional, ultra-macho
sports stars, or figures considered brash
and intimidating by their parents—Alice
Cooper, KISS, and Iron Maiden were all
the center of controversies surrounding
their allegedly-Satanic and defi nitely
suggestive music. Nor were the squeakyclean female teen idols immune: Tiffany’s
1987 cover of a 1967 song, “I Think
We’re Alone Now,” was assailed by
parents’ groups as encouraging teen
sex—specifically, their teenage daughters
having sex.
Marching to her own tune was
Madonna, who has to this day sold over
200 million records with a combination
of limited talent, skilled songwriters
and producers, catchy tunes, and
a controversial public image which
included banned videos. Thanks to
heavy rotation on MTV she became
a megastar, emulated across the world
by increasingly-younger girls. When
the controversies over Madonna were
considered alongside the controversies
over Iron Maiden, Ozzy Osbourne, and
Judas Priest (just to name a few), it was
clear: controversy is free publicity.
Also, the 1980s relaxation of
certain broadcasting laws—specifically
those related to advertising—meant
that entire television series could be
created with the express purpose of
selling toys, and not vice versa. The
fondly-remembered programs of our
youth (well, mine, anyway) fall into this
bracket of “half-hour commercials”: G.I.
Joe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and
Masters of the Universe. Interestingly,
the latter program was apparently
created after Mattel executives,
screening a preliminary cut of Arnold
Schwarzenegger’s 1980 Conan the
Barbarian, feared public backlash over
marketing action figures inspired by an
R-rated movie and thus changed the
character enough to avoid affi liation
with the fi lm. Action figures inspired by
R-rated movies are routinely marketed to
children today.
Birth of the Tween
The premanufactured popgroup formula of the 1960s returned
with a vengeance in the
early
1990s with New Kids
on
the Block. Throughout the
decade, non-threatening
boy bands
(specifically picked
so there was a
member to
appeal to
everyone,
from “the
tough one”
to “the sensitive
one”) exploded on
the music charts. Their
female counterparts of
about 1996 onward were still,
outwardly, the squeaky-clean
poppers of the 1960s: coiffed and
pretty. But while these young singers
professed wholesomeness—Jessica
Simpson, for instance, is the daughter of
Baptist-minister-turned-star-manager Joe
Simpson, while both Britney Spears and
Christina Aguilera co-starred with Justin
Timberlake on the Disney Channel’s The
New Mickey Mouse Club from 1989 to
1994—their outfits, lyrics, stage presence,
and music videos all had lurid, Lolitaesque undertones.
As Janelle Brown stated in a 2001
essay, “Sluts and Teddy Bears,” “…the
teenage pop starlet boom of 2000 has
given rise to a passel of virginal sluts
– navel-exposing divas who proclaim
that they are saving themselves for
marriage while they shimmy across
stages in second-skin white leather and
spangled sports bras and the tiniest of
belly chains. Crooning their come-hither
lyrics from behind bleached-out tresses
and blackened raccoon eyes, Spears,
Christina Aguilera and their ilk have
become style icons for a generation
of teenage girls who acquire – before
they’re even ready for training bras – a
somewhat misguided education about
fashion’s sexual message. The world
according to these painted pretties is a
place in which good girls can pretend
to be bad girls without having to worry
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about bad boys. And while these
dingy divas sport a lot of modern
“attitude”, their message is as old as
their mothers’ mothers: It’s all about
gettin’ yourself a man and, girls, he is
gonna looove what those stretch bellbottoms do for your butt.”
Big businesses have increasingly
focused on the young in recent years,
particularly attempting to build what
is called “brand loyalty”: if consumers
can be “hooked” while they’re young,
the company will have them for life.
In response to market research which
suggested Camel cigarettes were
“an old man’s” brand, the company
created Joe Camel to attract young
men age twenty and up. Controversy
then ensued when Camel was accused
of targeting underage smokers, who
supposedly requested Camels more
than any other brand. The campaign
was discontinued in 1997. Whether or
not the furor was accurate, it is clear
that advertising aimed at children has
steadily increased.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s,
concerned parents became aware
of the phrase “tween,” coined to
describe children aged eight to
12. Increasingly media-savvy
and self-aware due to a
steady diet of worldly
television and movies,
industry research has
determined that
many Western
11-year-olds
no longer
consider
Features
In 2003, Abercrombie and
Fitch became the target of parents’
groups when its summer collection
(aimed at 7- to 14-year-olds) was
found to include thong underwear
with messages such as “eye candy”
or “wink wink” written on the front.
Spokesman Hampton Carney told
The Milwaukee Journal that the
thongs were supposed to be a latterday version of Underoos, “cute,
fun, and sweet.” Critics dubbed it
pedophilic, and the “tween thong”
was discontinued under massively
negative publicity.
For decades, mothers have
watched their daughters for symptoms
of eating disorders. Now eating
disorders are on the rise in boys, too,
as is a new disorder dubbed muscle
dysmorphia or “bigorexia”;the belief
that despite constant exercise and
even use of steroids, the individual is
not muscular enough.
ʻEdgyʼ and ʻXtremeʼ
To remain “cool” is to remain
outside acceptable mainstream.
With traditional rock-and-roll
considered stale, Generation X
turned increasingly to alternative
rock with controversial and heavy
subject matter (war, suicide, and
alienation) as well as punk rock, or
hip-hop and rap. The recording
industry was quick to respond,
ignoring the better elements of those
musical genres (social criticism)
and emphasizing the most saleable,
controversial elements. On their
heels were lifestyle magazines, VHS
videos and DVDs, and sporting
events. For rap and hip-hop, it
was freestyle mixtapes, rap
battles, and streetball (i.e.
basketball with only a
token adherence to
rules). For punk rock,
it was skateboarding,
snowboarding, and the so-
called “Extreme” sports.
To retain its position as an edgy,
innovative force in media, MTV
embraced these new movements,
and began pushing programming
which emphasized crude behaviour,
abusive language, and self-abusive
or degrading pranks: The Tom
Green Show (bought by MTV from
Canada’s Comedy Network in 1999),
Jackass (and its spinoffs, Viva La
Bam and Wildboyz), The Osbournes,
Punk’d, and pioneering reality show
The Real World (viciously satirized
by Dave Chappelle). In 2001, two
14-year-old girls were unwittingly
showered with human feces during
the fi lming of the pilot for an MTV
prank show called Dude, This Sucks
and then sued the network in a
heavily-publicized case.
American cable television,
unhindered by many of the content
restrictions of the major networks,
has made great strides in seeking out
the elusive youth audience. Leading
the way have been such networks as
Comedy Central (with South Park,
the massively-popular Daily Show,
and equally-influential Chappelle’s
Show) and The WB (Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, Dawson’s Creek,
Felicity, Charmed, Gilmore Girls,
Smallville, and 7th Heaven). The
attractive teen stars whose careers
begin in these programs are then
hired by movie studios to give their
blatantly-derivative youth pictures a
chance at legitimacy—in particular,
remakes of old horror movies which
rely on stunt casting and ‘Xtreme’
scenes of torture and mutilation
(such as 2003’s The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre, starring Jessica Biel, or
2005’s House of Wax starring Paris
Hilton).
In case you, the reader, feel a
smug twinge of Canadian pride at
Hollywood’s recent crapshoot, let
me remind you that the CBC is
similarly attempting to pander to a
youth audience. As stated in a Nov.
14 editorial in the Montreal Gazette,
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“The CBC naturally feels pressure to
attract a larger rather than smaller
audience. This impulse is detectable
on television when our national
broadcaster disgraces itself by airing
one-star Kung Fu movies during
prime time . . . Of course the CBC
must operate in the real world as well
as within its understood mandate. To
drive its audience away with non-stop
esoteric programming would be folly.
But it is worse by far to alienate those
loyal radio listeners for whom CBC
functions an oasis of intelligence in a
desert of pop, rap, pap and crap.”
Questions & Concerns
In the pursuit of the youth
audience, marketers by necessity
must provide what the youth
audience seeks: something their
parents won’t like. But many
observers, and not just parents’
groups, are concerned for the
messages that are being sent to
children. Firstly, what message
is being sent to young girls by
the likes of Britney or even
the Drew Barrymore Charlie’s
Angels gang—that you can have
everything you want, but should
still dress and act a certain way
so boys will like you?
Secondly, what messages
are being sent to young boys by
boorish rappers or that Juicy
Fruit commercial—that women
are cattle, money is everything,
and the weak are to be attacked
without pity? Third, why are
parents tolerating their children’s
viewing of R-rated movies or
M-rated videogames without
analyzing them first? Fourth and
final, can parents be on the alert
for media’s mixed messages and
guide their children through
the intellectual and emotional
minefield of adolescence?
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children.
The Toy
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America have changed
their target audience
accordingly, from birth to
14
to birth to 10. Furthermore,
a 2003 Federal Trade Commission
report stated that Hollywood
screenings of commercials, trailers,
story concepts and rough cuts for Rrated movies are routinely evaluated
by tweens—some as young as nine.
To prove themselves to be
self-aware consumers, tweens must
therefore shop. And who’ll hype the
products? Why not discover or create
tween icons such as megastar Hilary
Duff (dubbed “the 2002 version of
Annette Funicello” by the New York
Daily News) or Raven Symone, who’ll
then preside over their own clothing
and cosmetics lines? And where will
advertisers draw the line at the selling
of sexualized clothing to children?
Short-shorts? Tube tops? Belly-baring
shirts? Lowrider pants which require,
and emphasize, a hairless pelvic
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The Uniter
014 Arts & Culture
Arts &
Canadian to the Core
On her new album, singer songwriter Karla Adolphe pays her respects
to Canadian icons, and our national game
Mike Lewis
Arts and Culture Editor
“You’ve gotta do it because you love
it,” she says as we exchange war-stories
of life on the road, and life in the music
world. Karla Adolphe has only been
at this a couple of years now, but she’s
learned the most important lesson in
music. Many have crumbled in the hands
of education as they fall short of full
comprehension of that lesson; it can leave
one bitter and angry and tired. Karla has
come through it all with nothing short of
boundless enthusiasm for her art and a
kind of optimism that leaves this writer
feeling good about life in general for
hours after the interview.
Karla began her journey in 2000,
when she began to write her own
material. She spent the following years
refi ning her work, distilling it down into
something she felt was worth sharing. In
early 2004, she began to play out to an
audience that has been steadily growing.
With a couple of small tours across
western Canada, and one well-produced
album under her belt, the singer feels
she is ready to go at this full-time and
that means more touring. This coming
February and March, Karla will be
hitting the road out west again, playing
headlining slots across the prairies and
the far side of the mountains on a tour
she’s booked herself. It sounds like a lot of
work, but, according to her, the only bad
thing is that the Olympics are on at the
same time that she’s out on tour.
“I watch every hockey game that
I can watch,” she proclaims. “I love
hockey. I’m hardcore! (laughs).”
Her passion for the sport is only
outdone by her passion for music. She
took formal music training in Edmonton
where she honed her chops, learned her
theory, and spent time singing in the
school’s gospel choir. She learned how to
lead a band while in the choir, including
how to improvise as a band. This
training has proved invaluable to Karla
as improvisation is one of the key factors
in her music and her live show where she
and her partner-in-crime, percussionist
Caleb Friesen, set about trying to have as
much fun as possible.
“Caleb and I change things up all
the time, just to try it,” she explains.
“Every show is different. That was the
point. When people come, they’re not
sure what to expect.” The live show is
always Karla and Caleb, but others do
get involved on a regular basis, with a
bass player joining them for most shows
around town, and a cello player by the
name of Sarah Hanan who played on the
album.
“We did a show in September with
accordion and banjo, and it was really
rootsy. For my album release party we
had more of a rock show; two guitars, big
sound. I like that. I like doing different
arrangements. It keeps us challenged and
interested. If I had a fiddle player come
in, I’d say this is the song, this is the key,
go nuts.”
Though Come Home is Karla’s fi rst
album, it sounds as though she’s been
doing this for years. The album as a
whole has a warm feel, and despite the
power coming through from the vocals, it
is not intrusive; just the opposite in fact.
Although her musical training is rooted
fi rmly in her church background, Karla
Karla Adolphe will be at the Park Theatre January 12, 2006
felt it necessary to step away from that
with her own music.
“I felt that the music I wanted
to record that was true to me, was
more general, lyrically more broad,
not necessarily a spiritual message,”
she explains. “I didn’t want it to be
something that people would only listen
to on a Sunday morning. I didn’t feel
comfortable with that.” Karla is able to
write in a folk style, but avoid the usual
clichés that come with the genre, focusing
less on story and more on emotional
content. It is this that helps her stand
out from many of the self-described
singer/songwriters that currently occupy
coffee houses everywhere. Come Home
has the kind of feel that suits highway
driving, or quiet afternoons at home. In
that way, Come Home sounds a lot like
Neil Young’s latest album, Prairie Wind,
though while the vocal delivery is closer
to Jann Arden than Young, it still carries
the sincerity of both aforementioned
singers.
It is this sincerity that seems to be
Karla’s greatest strength. She credits her
vocal coaches from school with helping
to understand the importance of sincerity
in music.
“I had an instructor who said ‘Karla,
if you don’t feel it and can’t communicate
the meaning of the number, I don’t even
want to hear it.’ A lot of times I’d be
singing in Latin or French, and so I had
to feel it based solely on melody.”
While on the subject of honesty,
Karla describes the theme behind the
album as being based on the “feelings
and thoughts behind the songs, but
not the music. It’s about returning to
something happier, more pure, peaceful
or restful. In your early 20s you’re forced
out into the world and that can be very
disheartening and very disillusioning. I
wanted to give something to people that,
when the shit was hitting the fan, they
could have an hour long break from it.
It’s not just peaceful music though, there
are aggressive moments.”
In every interview, the question
is asked, ‘Why do you do this?’ The
answers can range from simple ‘I don’t
knows’ to deep, ontological discussions
on the existence of God moving through
them in the form of song. Karla, however,
has a more interesting and unique theory
as to her motivations.
“Music, art, and the creative
aspects of our life, those moments are
transcendent; they take you out of your
life for a minute. That’s an addictive
feeling. To just bring that to people’s
lives for just a minute, to take them
out of a shitty situation, or to take
them beyond themselves, make them
think about something they’d never
thought of before, even just a moment,
is awesome. And if that moment lasts
all night, one song, or one line, that’s
great. I strive for that,” she answers.
“I think that was the original intent
of art. The original purpose for music
was structured around the spiritual and
social dynamic of a culture. They used
music and art to maintain the things
that aren’t tangible, like their spiritual
life or their relationships, those things
that can’t be spent. They used art and
music to transport that into the next
generation. I think it’s important and
valuable. You can put on a song and you
have a memory attached to it. It also
requires you to respect and honour your
audience.”
While that may seem more profound
than most answers, it is nonetheless borne
of a simple love of the art; something
Karla has in common with so many of
the musicians in this city. Karla loves
what she does, but she also loves the
people involved in the whole process. In
keeping with that, she’s hosting a show
at the Park Theatre, Thursday, Jan. 12,
where the inauguration of her street team
will take place. She’s even managed to
fi nd a way to combine her love of hockey
with the music: each member of the street
team gets a puck with her logo on it.
Odds are, there won’t be many left after
the show; she’s been selling out nearly
every show she’s played since September.
With the accomplishments of the last
two years behind her, Karla has modest
hopes for the future.
“I want to be respected for my
songwriting and playing,” she says. “I
don’t want to be on MuchMusic. I don’t
care about that sort of stuff.”
That having been said, even she
isn’t completely free of the trappings of
potential fame.
“I’d like to have the level of success
where I could have a pink tour bus,” she
muses. “Cherry Life Saver pink.”
For more information on Karla
Adolphe, visit www.karlaadolphe.com
and go check out the show at the Park
Theatre on Osborne, Jan. 12.
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January 12, 2006
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ARTS EDITOR: MIKE LEWIS
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A Mafia Trip to New York
Guys & Dolls comes to the MTC
TEDIOUS MINUTIAE
Or: Ineffectively Detailing One’s Cultural Consumption
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By Ben MacPhee-Sigurdson
By Ksenia Prints
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ramps, criminals, wild
chases, gambling, and
bustling night clubs.
Sounds like the credentials
for any good action movie,
doesn’t it? Combine all that
with heartfelt romance,
and composer as the play
was launched on Broadway
in 1950. It was a smashing
success, raking in over 1,200
performances, expanding
unto London’s stages and
even inspiring a 1955 movie
with Marlon Brando and
Frank Sinatra, the perfect
cast for a mafia movie. All
this, of course, was only a
preview for the musical’s true
goal – appearing live before
us Winnipeggers in freezing
winter. So without further ado,
let’s welcome the plot.
songs.
The story centres around
Nathan Detroit, an unlucky
petty criminal who runs the
oldest established permanent
floating crap game in New
York, and his attempts to
organize a gaming session
under the police’s watchful eye.
Apparently, a fleet of heavy
gamblers is coming to town,
and if Nathan does not get the
game on the go quickly, he
might miss a weighty amount
of cash.
In all fairness, MTC did
not invent Guys & Dolls. The
original was written in 1932
under the title of The Idyll of
Miss Sarah Brown by Damon
Runyon. A chap with an
extensive history of gambling
and drinking himself, Runyon
wrote often of New York’s
underworld, the colourful life
on Broadway and even various
sports events. Abe Burrows
was the one who adapted the
story into a musical, and Frank
Loesser became the lyricist
Alas, it seems as though
fi nding a place to play is now
virtually impossible, and the
only available venue requires
a thousand dollars in advance.
To earn that money, Nathan
decides to strike a bet with
Sky Masterson that there is a
gal the latter could not take to
Havana. Confident of his skills,
Sky agrees, but is quick to
regret his words when he sees
the ‘doll’ Nathan has picked,
Miss Sarah Brown of the
‘Save-Our-Soul’ mission. This
midnight trips to Havana and
missionaries, and you’ve got
yourself a healthy dose of
Manitoba Theatre’s newest
production, Guys & Dolls. Oh,
and we mustn’t forget the
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sparks an amusing courting
ritual between the two, the
ending of which we of course
shall not reveal.
In the meantime,
Nathan’s own attempts to
avoid romantic problems are
shown as he keeps trying to
elegantly squirm out of his
engagement to Adelaide, a
cabaret dancer. The couple
has been betrothed for the last
14 years, and this extended
period is not surprisingly
beginning to weigh on the
lady. All throughout, the play
is sprinkled with comical
interruptions by Benny
Southstreet and Nicely-Nicely
Johnson, two gambling crooks
who cause the audience to
burst with laughter upon each
appearance.
The play runs for about
two and a half hours, which at
times does seem like a bit too
much. Some parts, especially
the Havana dance, are bizarre
to say the least, but if taken
with humour they too can be
accepted. However, these sour
parts fade as you slowly sip a
cup of hot chocolate during
recess, looking at all the other
neatly dressed spectators,
and hum the musical’s
unforgettable tunes. And when
the performance ends, and you
leave the theatre into the cold
night, surrounded by centuryold downtown buildings, a
strange feeling of excitement is
bound to hit you too. After all,
New York is rumoured to be
fabulous in the winter.
Lamented:
Arrested Development
How was it that I came to start
watching Arrested Development?
I wish I could remember. It was
likely word of mouth, I suppose.
Regardless, once I had seen an
episode, I knew this show was
different than most.
First of all, an attempt at a
synopsis: Michael Bluth (played
with deadly timing by Jason
Bateman) is a man trying to hold
his family and the family company
together in the midst of criminal
investigations into the business
practices of his father (played by
Jeffrey Tambor) that may or may
not involve Saddam Hussein.
Corporate problems aside,
Michael’s siblings are problems in
and of themselves: a washed-up
magician (Gob), a pseudo-activist
(Lindsay) and her husband (Tobias,
portrayed by the hilarious David
Cross), and a panic-riddled grownup child (Buster). Their mother
Lucille is a frigid, pill-popping
alcoholic.
There is no laugh track,
which is by no means unique or
revolutionary, but at least gives the
viewers the benefit of the doubt as
to judging what is and is not funny.
It’s also shot in a documentary
style, with Ron Howard narrating.
Howard’s quips help ground the
viewer as to what exactly is going
on.
Admittedly, FOX took a bit of
a risk on AD, and in the fi rst season
the show followed the long-running
and incredibly popular The
Simpsons, which would seem like a
sure-fi re bonus. However, Arrested
Development wasn’t bringing in the
ratings the network hoped it would,
and by season two the show was
being shuffled and pre-empted like
nobody’s business.
FOX also reduced its
order from 22 to 18 episodes,
something the show incorporated
into its storyline when the Bluth
Company’s order for houses was
also reduced from 22 to 18. When
it appeared that the show might be
cancelled, viewers took to the good
old internet in an attempt to save
the Bluths (see www.the-op.com for
the most comprehensive fan site).
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Now in its third season, the
show has been in fourth place in
its Monday night time slot, and
once again FOX has reduced their
order, this time from 22 to 13.
Thanks to the most boring sport
on Earth (yes, baseball), the show
wasn’t on the air for over a month.
It appears the show is in its fi nal
days, with (if my math is correct)
four episodes remaining. Again, the
show reflected its current reality,
and the episode that aired on Jan. 2
(“S.O.B.,” or Save Our Bluths) had
the family organizing a fundraiser
for themselves.
A plethora of stars have made
cameos on the show; regulars
include Liza Minelli, Henry
Winkler, and Scott Baio, as well as
sporadic drop-ins by Julia LouisDreyfuss, Ed Begley Jr., Charlize
Theron, Dave Thomas and Martin
Short. In “S.O.B.” guests included
Judge Reinhold, John Laroquette,
Ben Stiller, Zach Braff, Andy
Richter, and others. Each in their
own way has been self-deprecating
and hilarious.
Hollywood loves the show.
Critics love the show (it won five
Emmys at the 56th installment of
the awards show). Why isn’t this
show absolutely gigantic?
Fans blame the network.
Critics blame the viewing public
(the show is fast-paced and clever—
by their accounts, maybe too clever
for the average viewer). The show’s
writing is self-referential and the
pace is nothing short of breakneck,
so someone tuning in for the fi rst
time could, in theory, be left in the
dark as to just exactly what the hell
is going on.
Now it appears as if the show
will, by some reports, move to
either Showtime or ABC, if it can
survive at all. An ideal pairing for
this show would be with The Office
on NBC, as the humour and style
of the shows would complement
each other brilliantly.
I only watch two television
shows on a regular basis (if you
don’t include hockey), and it
appears as if one of them is in
serious trouble, and the other (The
West Wing) has an uncertain future
(R.I.P. John Spenser, who played
Leo McGarry on the White House
drama). If both of these shows are
not long for this world, I may sell
my television in February.
If you don’t watch Arrested
Development, start now. Both
the fi rst and second seasons are
available on DVD. This show may
go the way of other greats like My
So-Called Life, Freaks and Geeks,
and Firefly and end up as cult faves
whose chances were cut short by
the bottom line.
In the meantime, I’ve got a
great mix of dry comedy, parody,
self-deprecating slapstick and
political intrigue to keep me
busy—the federal election!
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television. Serious inquiries only:
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You’re all I ever think about. . .
Photographer Meera Margaret Singh shares the spotlight with her subjects
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By Mike Lewis
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By Kenton Smith
T
he first exhibition of 2006 at Winnipeg’s
Platform Gallery, you’re all that I ever
think about, a series of 12 large-scale
colour photographs, is the first solo exhibition by
Meera Margaret Singh, whose roots and close ties
to Winnipeg have compelled her to make it the
stage for her one-person debut.
Although she currently resides
in Montreal and is attending
Concordia University’s Master of
Fine Arts photography program,
Singh obtained BAs in Anthropology
and Fine Arts from the University
of Manitoba, and was recently
involved in a MAWA mentorship with
ceramicist Grace Nickel. She first
submitted her proposal for the present
show to the Platform Gallery a yearand-a-half ago.
Since its initial inception,
however, the content and nature of
the show has undergone considerable
change, as Singh experimented with
different photographic styles in the
interim. She began looking more
towards painting, especially the
work of Caravaggio, with its harsh
lateral lighting and stark chiaroscuro.
Whereas she had previously used
strobe lights to replicate daylight,
Singh started photographing at night,
using spot-lighting to focus upon
her human subjects. This tendency
merged with the Caravaggesque
influence when trying to simulate
the strong, high-contrast look of car
headlights. The look of the lighting
from fi lm noir was another influence
in the mix.
Singh also mentioned recently
watching the DVD of the fi lm
Jacob’s Ladder, and being struck by
a statement the writer, Bruce Joel
Rubin, made on the commentary
track: “The greatest adventures are
the ones that take place in the dark.”
“The dark,” Singh tells me,
“facilitates a turn inward.”
To this end, Singh has
deliberately left much of the space
in several of her large-format
compositions as empty -- even dark
-- voids. While on the one hand the
empty space serves an expressive
end, suggesting the tension and lack
of fulfi llment that can be involved in
human relationships, it is also a void
that is meant for the viewer to fi ll
themselves, with the raw material of
their own emotional experiences.
Singh had been photographing
friends and family during the first
term of her Master’s program at
Concordia during the fall of 2005,
and many of the final photographs
were taken only in the past few
months, using a large-format process
that is also new to Singh, but has
allowed her to achieve pleasingly
tactile results. The final images for
you’re all that I ever think about were
Meera Margaret Singh’s “ I Knew you Were A Truth”, seen above,
will be showing at the Platform Gallery until Feb. 17. See listings
ultimately selected on a consistent
thematic basis, with the titles taken
from songs, poems, and movie
dialogue.
Singh says that her overall
style has changed considerably
since she first started doing serious
photographic work: whereas she
began as a street photographer, now
her work involves far more controls,
and she feels that to a far greater
extent she now makes, rather than
takes, pictures.
When she first started visiting
people’s homes to photograph
them, Singh tells me, she’d touch
nothing, and her images were nearportraitures. Over time, however, she
began to incorporate more external
elements such as costumes and
props, and “direct” subjects as if they
were actors playing a part. Singh’s
degree in anthropology figured into
this equation. She is interested in
exploring aspects of material culture
through the way people express
themselves through their possessions.
It was this approach that she took
in taking the photographs featured
in the present show. It allowed her
to play with the balance between
truth and fiction – how much is
honest portraiture and how much is
contrivance? -- with the ambiguity
created being central to the intended
effect for the viewer.
Some of Singh’s subjects are
literally strangers she has encountered
on the street and subsequently
approached. She says that this
has occurred based purely on gut
reaction, and that she tries not to
analyze such reactions too closely. It is
from the gut that Singh says her work
originates: she wants to thematically
explore a given emotion or emotions.
Working with her subjects,
however, has produced surprising
results, with the x-factor of any given
individual human subject adding
so much unexpected content to
the final image. Whatever initial
conception Singh may have had may
end up going right out the window
or significantly altered in situations
that have demanded improvisation
to head off contrivance. But Singh
views this as a gift, not a pity: “I like
to surrender control. I think that
makes better images…I don’t feel
like I actually have control until I’m
printing.”
When I ask Singh if there is
anything she would like people
to take away from this show, she
takes a long pause, and then finally
replies: “I may direct my subjects,
but I don’t want to direct my
viewers as much.” Singh definitely
has an expressive goal in mind and
seeks to provide the viewers “clues”
as to what she had in mind when
constructing the image but she
doesn’t want to divulge too much
about the intended narrative. “It’s
too much like guiding the viewer,”
she says, “and it ruins some of the
mystery of encountering the images
on one’s own.”
Singh’s compositions behold
open-ended mystery that suggests
situations and latent actions without
spelling out the backstory, like a
painting by Edward Hopper. This
can be seen in pieces such as You
Can’t Begin to Get It Back, where
Singh’s aforementioned use of empty
space is used to suggest the presence
and influence of another person,
even when only one figure is present
within the composition. But Little
Did I Try, featuring Singh’s own
mother, presents us with a lone
figure apparently lost in thought,
with whatever preoccupies her
remaining undisclosed.
Or consider the couple
pictured in So Will We Endure, a
personal favourite of Singh’s. Note
the ambiguous gaze of the female
subject, which, as does that of many
of Singh’s other subjects, directly
engages the viewer. What does her
gaze reveal about the relationship
between them? Defensiveness?
Affirmation? Possessiveness?
Manipulation?
You will have to decide for
yourself.
You’re all that I ever think
about is showing at the Platform
Gallery until February 17.
Telling a story without dialogue
is difficult. Telling a story without
clearly defined imagery is even more
difficult. Yet somehow, the films
presented in Alone on the Landscapes
of Forever seem to tell stories that
sit in your psyche, etching away at
a meaning in the grey walls of your
brain.
Presented by Sol Nagler, this
collection of work features short fi lms
whose focus is on hand processing.
The images are processed in chemical
baths that leave each frame tinted and
discolored, haunting yet beautiful. Each
image is carefully placed to create a
sort of ambience that is rarely achieved
in fi lmmaking. Each scene is like a car
crash victim, disturbing and alluring all
at once.
The fi lmmakers presented are from
Saskatchewan, Winnipeg, and Montreal.
Their works have been shown at festivals
around the world. Each fi lmmaker was
taught by Sol, or by his successor, Mike
Maryniuk, to use fi lm itself as art and
creative expression.
The fi lms from the Winnipeg
contingent of the showcase are simply
stunning.
Embowered, by Danishka Esterhazy,
is the most disturbing. Using 16mm, the
fi lmmaker provides a brief glimpse into
the tortured mind of a woman. The effect
is unsettling, and will leave you jumping
at shadows in your own home afterwards.
Why Are You So Sad? by Heidi
Phillips is a stroll through the realms of
regret and resolve to try again tomorrow.
The fi lm has the effect of watching the
world dissolve and coalesce repeatedly
while you try to come to terms with
regrets you didn’t even know you
had.
Cecilia Araneda, current
president of the Winnipeg Film
Group, provides a few moments of
suspense in her short film Memory.
We see the life of a woman flash
before her eyes as she lies dying in
a field. The concept of memories
being what and how we choose to
remember a certain event or person
our way instead of what is actually
reality is well represented with the
use of tinting, over-exposure, and
other effects. This film begs to be
watched again and again.
Rob Hancke’s Bahley Kehley is
like a video travelogue from Africa.
The only sound coming from hand
drums, the film depicts daily life
in an African village with dancers,
workers, markets, etc. The colors are
distorted throughout in such a way
that it seems like computer animation
rather than real, live, honest hand
processing.
The impact Sol Nagler had on
these film-makers is huge. Known for
his own work the world over, Nagler
is in town to host this event and to
pay tribute to some of his former
students and contemporaries at the
Winnipeg Film Group. These films,
plus several more, will be presented
by Nagler at the Cinematheque on
Jan. 14, at 7 p.m. He will be on hand
to introduce the films and to
answer questions about the process
involved in making the films.
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The Rebel Sell
Joseph Heath & Andrew Potter
Harper/Perennial
374 pages
Reviewed By Mike Lewis
Arts & Culture
So, have you
ever ‘stuck it to the
man?’ I bet it felt
pretty good. But have
you ever stopped
to think about why
it felt good, or why
you felt the need to
do it? As a student
attending a fairly
liberal campus, one can be bombarded
with left-wing ideologies almost nonstop; some make sense, others do not. It
seems as if counter-culture has become
the standard against which it was once
rebelled. This is the central theme to
Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter’s book
The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can’t
be Jammed.
Inspired by Adbusters editor Kalle
Lasn’s decision to use his magazine’s
popularity amongst the counter-culture
to sell his brand of running shoes, The
Rebel Sell examines in great depth the
‘co-opting’ of the beliefs and values of
today’s rebels. What happened to the
seemingly boundless enthusiasm for
change that erupted in the ‘60s?
Heath and Potter go step by step
through the numerous aspects of
counter-culture, exploring its origins,
its evolution, and ultimately its death
at the hands of the very people who
created it. The authors argue that
counter-culture has become the
standard of today. The hippies of the
past who rallied against capitalism have
changed sides.
The heart of counter-culture is
the desire to be different, to stand
out as unique. But for every so-called
left-wing politically active youth who
buys an anarchy t-shirt or wrist-band,
another dollar is fed into the corporate
machine. Corporations have taken the
ideals set out 40 years ago and used
them to sell the idea of counter-culture
to our generation under the guise of
individuality. Heath and Potter go on to
explain that this need for individuality
is what is doing the greatest damage in
western society today, and that the race
for individuality does in fact achieve
the opposite effect. For every person
who wants to be different or unique,
then others must go without. This goes
against one of the primary ideas in
hippie culture that no one should have
more than anyone else. It would seem
that the hippies and punks and goths
are in fact the biggest hypocrites on the
planet.
The authors single out Naomi Klein
on a regular basis, citing her work
in No Logo as the basis for what is
wrong with counter-cultural thinking.
Klein complains about the fact that her
neighbourhood, once deemed ‘cool,’
is now becoming a haven for yuppies
with too much money. Klein is upset
because she is no longer special. That’s
funny coming from someone who
is frequently heralded as one of the
‘leaders’ of counter-culture in North
America. This is the same person who
endorsed the socialist idea of factories
without managers as seen in her movie
The Take.
While all this must seem
depressing to anyone currently on a
campus somewhere, waving a placard
indicating their distaste with the
current state of whatever, it’s not that
bad. There is hope. Change can happen.
Heath and Potter simply want to show
you that there is a far more sensible
way to go about initiating it.
It sounds crazy, doesn’t it? Pick
up a copy and find out for yourself.
This book should be required reading
for all first-year university students
throughout North America.
January 12, 2006
Arts & Culture 017
CD Reviews
Controller.Controller
X-Amounts
2005 Paper Bag Records
I became curious about Torontogroup Controller.Controller when I
heard a quick interview with lead singer
Nirmala Basnayake on CBC radio 3.
Her quirky, playful personality hooked
me as did the supercharged song,
“Poisons/Safe” from their second album,
X-Amounts. I couldn’t get enough – I
had to listen to their CD. Enough I got,
however, when I spun the CD more than
a couple of times around. At first drop
I could hardly believe my good luck at
finding such a danceable indie-pop album
but soon found subsequent listening
experiences to be not as kind. Only a
couple of the songs really jumped out at
me (“Poisons/Safe, “Straight in the Head”
and “Magnetic Strip”) - the rest seemed to
run together into one soupy dance-punk
medley. Not as spectacular a CD as I once
thought but still a decent listen. (www.
controllercontroller.com) -Vivian Belik
Sometimes
City and Colour
2005 Dine Alone Records
Dallas Green, most recognizable
as the mild-mannered vocalist and
guitarist for the post-hardcore band
Alexisonfire introduces his alter ego with
the release of Sometimes. The record is
a collection of 10 songs that reincarnate
Green’s character to that of a lovelorn
poet. Comparable to the early work
of Chris Carrabba (a.k.a. Dashboard
Confessional), the album essentially
features a single guitar accompanied by
Green’s soft unmistakable voice as he
bares his soul in song while wearing his
heart on his sleeve. Some will inevitably
label Sometimes as emo, while others
will simply describe it as depressing,
but it is what it is-- beautifully crafted,
well-written songs that will undoubtedly
speak to a generation of people who can
relate on some level. Although, it remains
to be seen if it will spark a similar
movement as Dashboard Confessional
once did. However, die-hard fans of
Alexisonfire can find reassurance in the
fact that this is only a side project for
Green and he will continue to perform
his duties within AOF. (www.myspace.
com/dallasgreen) (www.myspace.com/
dinealonerecords) -Brett Hopper
Blackalicious
The Craft
2005 Quuannum Projects
I was first introduced to Blackalicious
about three years ago after seeing an
uncharted video on Much Music. The
video in question was “Make You Feel
That Way” off of 2002’s Blazing Arrow.
It was the first time in a long while that
I had seen a hip–hop outfit rhyme about
something other than money, or “bitches,
hoes, and pimps.” I was a little awestruck
at the fact that Much Music would even
play something of this genre that had a
little more of a conscious mindset than
the norm. Fast forward to 2005. After
a three-year hiatus from each other to
pursue solo projects, Blackalicious (rapper
Gift of Gab, and producer Chief Xcel)
collaborate once again on The Craft, a
darker, more musically complex record
than their previous works. A heavier
beat, mixed with lighter musical cues
dominates the upbeat opening track:
“World of Vibrations,” which sets the
tone for the rest of the album. Exploring
themes of monetary corruption, breaking
free from certain stereotypes that are
visible in our society, and living life to
the fullest extent, Blackalicious continue
to attempt to shed the negative attention
rap/hip-hop has garnered over the years
with this latest release. If you’re a fan of
the group and the genre, I recommend
picking this one up. Gab and Xcel
continue to break ground both musically
and lyrically without bringing too much
attention unto themselves, perhaps to
uphold some integrity in the hip-hop
culture and preserve the music they’ve
created for what it’s worth. (www.
blackalicious.com)
January 12, 2006
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January 20th at 7pm, January 21st at
Admission $10. Call 952-1533.
are welcome. Next get-together
is on January 14th. ideaExchange:
THE ANNEX GALLERY 594
MANITOBA CRAFTS COUNCIL
2006, Eugene O’Neill: A Glory of
PRAIRIE THEATRE EXCHANGE
Aqua Books, in conjunction with
Main St 284-0673 Tues-Sat 12-5.
EXHIBITION GALLERY 214
Ghosts by Peter Miller Adato, 1986.
presents ‘Girl in the Goldfish Bowl’
St. Benedict’s Table, is pleased to
Contemporary art.
McDermot Ave 487-6114 Tues-Fri
Jan 21st – 26th at 7pm: Manitoba-
by Morris Panych. Winner of the
present our award-winning monthly
produced documentary Seeds of
2004 Governor General Literacy
conversation series dealing with
ART CITY 616 Broadway Ave 775-
Change: (Farmers, Biotechnology,
Award for Drama. Until January
issues of faith, life, theology and pop
9856 Mon 5-8 ,Tues-Fri 4-8, Sat
and the New Face of Agriculture) by
29th. Tickets $22.47 - $32, or $18.19
culture. Come early as seating and
12-4. Featuring high quality artistic
MARTHA STREET STUDIO 11
Ian Munro, Stephane McLachlan and
on Wednesdays (rush seating). Call
parking will be limited. Admission
programming for kids and adults.
Martha St 772-6253 Mon-Fri
Jim Sanders. Jan 22nd – 26th at 9pm:
942-5483 or visit www.pte.mb.ca.
is free. January 21st at 8pm: ‘In
12pm: As part of MTC’s O’Neillfest
Michael Astil Drums Exhibit.
10-5. Showcasing the fine art of
Through The Wardrobe: Why C.S.
CREAM GALLERY 944 Portage
Lewis Created Narnia, and What He
Ave 957-7367 Tues-Fri 10-5, Sat
printmaking.
DANCERS present former WCD
Found There’ - Rev. Jamie Howison,
11-5. Emerging and mid-career
MEDEA GALLERY 132 Osborne St
PARK THEATRE 698 Osborne St
dancer Christine Medina and
St. Benedict’s Table.
contemporary art.
453-1115 Mon-Sat 10:30-5, Sun 1-4.
478-7275 Neighbourhood theatre
C.Medinadance and her solo ‘Long
and venue. Daily U-Pick Matinees
Dis/Tanz’ on January 12th – 14th
STORY TELLING/STORY THEATRE
GALLERY 1C03 Centennial Hall,
Artists. A Community Outreach
at 1pm and 4pm. $2. Films: Jan 13th
at the WCD Studio Theatre, 211
at Bread & Circuses 238 Lilac St.
University of Winnipeg 515 Portage
Project featuring the Original Art
8:30pm, Jan 15th 3pm, 7pm, 9pm:
Bannatyne Ave. Tickets available
Audience participation in creating
Ave 786-9253 Mon-Fri 12-4, Sat
of six emerging Artists with ties
‘Side Effects’, a film about love
by calling 452-0229 or email wcd@
characters, finding costumes and
1-4. Non-profit public gallery
to Osborne Village. January 15th
and the American pharmaceutical
mts.net.
getting involved in the action.
providing everyone opportunities to
– 28th: ‘Small Works for Those
6:30pm Friday evenings.
learn about visual art. January 19th
Tiny Places’ Paintings, Photographs
– February 18th: David McMillan
and Sculptures by Gallery Artists.
– ‘Mexico’.
January 29th - February 11th:
industry by Kathleen SlatteryMoshkau starring Katherine Heigl.
MANITOBA CHAMBER
WORDS PERFORMED A monthly
ELLICE CAFÉ & THEATRE 585 Ellice
Daniel Bolshoy with the orchestra
event of Spoken Word where
St 975-0800 Neighbourhood theatre
on January 17th at Westminster
open-mic and slam poetry are
GALLERY LACOSSE 169 Lilac St
Watercolour & Pastel in the Colours
and restaurant. Monday, Tuesday
United Church, 745 Westminster
re-invented. Calling all Spoken
284-0726 Tues-Fri 10-6, Sat 10-5.
of Winter by Maureen Johnson.
and Wednesdays – free movies. On
Ave, 7:30pm. Tickets $23 for adults,
Word artists (and those that love
Small neighbourhood gallery. Closed
weekends, local musical acts.
$21 for seniors and $7 for students,
them). Spoken Word is: * theatre
until January 15th.
plus GST. Call MCO at 783-7377 or
pieces * monologues * story telling
pick up tickets at McNally Robinson
* performance art * group pieces *
GALLERY ONE ONE ONE Main
8th: Text Art 2006 - The Millennium
or Ticketmaster.
rap * poetry *. Words Performed
Floor Fitzgerald Building, School of
Library presents a visual arts show
is a monthly event where open mic
Art U of Manitoba 474-9322 Until
THE GRIND Every second Thursday
WINNIPEG SYMPHONY
and slam poetry are re-invented.
Jan 27th: An exhibition of the 1970s
and sculpture will be accompanied
at Ellice Café & Theatre (585
ORCHESTRA January 13th-14th
The first half of the evening is
work of Gordon Lebredt. This
by poetry and prose created by the
Ellice Ave) The Grind, a venue to
at 8pm: WSO Special at the
open-mic style, where participants
exhibition will include paintings,
writers and artists themselves. The
encourage and develop performers
Burton Cummings Theatre Silents
can ‘sign-up’ prior to the event via
drawings, prints and three-
show features works by Winnipeg
and their ideas through the
with Orchestra – The Mark of
email or at the door the night of
dimensional pieces borrowed from
Public Library Writers’ Circle
presentation of scenes, sketches,
Zorro. January 20th-21st at 8pm:
the event. If you want to use props
the artist, the Canada Council Art
members Brenda Sciberras, Sandra
monologues, spoken word, short
Masterworks/Choral Series ‘Voice of
or read/perform pieces written by
Bank, the Winnipeg Art Gallery
Stechisen and Ron Romanowski,
film, stand-up and music in front of a
the Prophet’ Mandelssohn’s ‘Elijah’.
someone other than you, go right
and the collection of Gallery One
with special guest Writers’ Circle
live audience. 7pm, $4 per person.
January 26th at 7:30pm. Musically
ahead. Anything Spoken Word is
One One that were produced in
alumnus Agatha Grant. Check it out
Speaking – Go for Baroque. January
possible within 5 minutes (for longer
the 1970s, and will be the first
at the main floor Reader Services.
MAGIC N’ MIRACLES ‘Illusions’
27th-28th at 8pm, January 29th
pieces contact the organizer). The
critical examination of Lebredt’s
featuring North America’s premier
at 2pm: WSO Pops Salute to the
second half of the night is feisty,
early attempts to deconstruct the
OSBORNE VILLAGE CULTURAL
Illusionists. Jan 13th at 2pm, 5pm
Oscars.
competive original Spoken Word!
grammar and syntax of the visual
CENTRE 445 River @ Osborne St
The time limit is three minutes and
image.
284-9477 Now showing: Works by
and 8pm. In aid of the Winnipeg
‘Winter Pastels’ Paintings in
MILLENIUM LIBRARY 251 Donald
St 986-6450 January 12 - February
with a twist! Photos, drawings
Yisa the Artist.
Firefighter’s Burn Fund. Tickets
MUSIC ‘N MAVENS SERIES January
you can use props. There are no
$10-$20, with family pricing available
19th Klesmer on the Fringe, an
score cards or time penalties, but
8-piece band led by Eli Herscovitch.
there is still a prize and a ‘winner’!
Ave 667-9960 A not-for-profit
OUTWORKS GALLERY 3rd Floor
January 24ht: Good Sax/Crazy
Prizes sponsored by Sugar Vintage,
community youth art centre, using
290 McDermot Ave 949-0274
THE BLACK HOLE THEATRE CO.
Sax featuring Shane Nestruck.
Winnipeg’s newest vintage shop.
art as a tool for community, social,
Artist-run studio and exhibition
presents, as part of O’NeillFest
January 26th: Jazz Demystified, a
There will only be one round
economic and individual growth.
space in the Exchange.
2006 ‘Ah, Wilderness!’ by Eugene
whirlwind musical tour of jazz in
so come prepared. For more
O’Neill January 19th – 21st, 24th
the 20th Century with Steve Kirby
additional info or to ‘sign up’ for
KEN SEGAL GALLERY 4-433
PLATFORM (CENTRE FOR
– 27th at the Black Hole Theatre,
and students from the U of M Jazz
either half of the evening, contact
River Ave 477-4527 Tues-Fri 10-6,
PHOTOGRAPHIC AND DIGITAL
basement of University College
Studies Program. All shows 2-3pm
[email protected] or
Sat 10-5. Showcase of original
ARTS) 121-100 Arthur St 942-8183
at the U of Manitoba. The classic
at Rady Jewish Community Centre,
[email protected].
contemporary art. Until January
Tues-Sat 12-5. Until February 17th:
coming of age story: high school
123 Doncaster St. Tickets $5/$7
21st: Remembering Ernie Wilson
Meera Margaret Singh – ‘You’re All
senior Richard Miller toys with
available at 477-7510 or www.
OUT LOUD is an open mic
(1933-1987), Paintings and Drawings.
That I Ever Think About’. Opening
communism, love and alcohol on
radyjcc.com.
opportunity for you to give your
the Fourth of July. Directed by Dr
William Kerr. Tickets $11 adults
LITERARY
GRAFFITI GALLERY 109 Higgins
January 6th with an artist talk at
words voice. Every two weeks a
LA GALERIE at the CENTRE
special guest will kick off the evening
CULTUREL FRANCO-
7pm and Reception at 8pm.
after which the mic is open for your
MANITOBAIN 340 Provencher
PLUG-IN ICA 286 McDermot
474-6880 or visit www.umanitoba.
McNALLY ROBINSON
words of any genre in five minutes
Blvd 233-8972 Mon-Fri 8am-10pm,
Ave 942-1043 Until Feb 11th:
ca/theatre.
BOOKSELLERS (GRANT PARK)
or less. Runs every second Tuesday
Sat-Sun 12pm-10pm. January
’VOLCANA Icelandic Panorama’
January 12th: Maria Harden will read
at the new Millenium Library after
12th – February 2nd: ‘Nature
Drawing upon his frequent travels in
THE CERCLE MOLIERE THEATRE
and sign from Chicken Soup for the
that. Sign up is at 7pm. Free.
Morph’, recent works about the
Iceland and the relationships he has
SEASON The dramatic comedy
Grandma’s Soul, 8pm. January 16th:
transformations nature goes through
cultivated here, guest curator Kevin
‘Visites à M. Green’ by Jeff Baron.
Drew Hayden Taylor will present
AD LIB is an evening of improv
over the year, by Don Reichert.
Kelly explores lingering traces of
January 13th – Feb 4th at Theatre
Me Funny, a far-reaching exploration
style word games. Every night is
de la Chapelle 825 Rue St Joseph.
of humour and wit among the First
guaranteed to be different and full of
LABEL GALLERY 510 Portage Ave
five female artists dividing their lives
Tickets $11-29.50. Call 233-8053
Nations people of Canada, 8pm.
laughs. From round stories to fridge
772-5165 Tues-Sat 12-5. Currently:
between Reykjavik and New York.
or email reception@cerclemoliere.
January 17th: Orion Alexander
magnet poetry, from opening lines
Snaps: an exhibition from disposable
com.
and Kristin Gebhardt launch their
to creating new endings, there’s no
cameras. Snaps is a two-part
URBAN SHAMAN 203-290
and $9 students and seniors. Call
this mysterious land in the work of
children’s book The Adventures of
limit to the places these games – or
photography show. One part is a
McDermot Ave 942-2674 Until
MANITOBA THEATRE CENTRE
Captain Sox, Book I: Mysterious
your writing – can go. Runs every
display of photos from 12 disposable
January 13th: ‘Land as History, Land
presents one of the greatest
Stranger, 7pm. January 18th: Launch
second Tuesday, alternating with
camera that where handed out
as Power’, a photographic exhibition
musicals of the 20th century,
of Robert L. Peters’ book on
Out Loud. 7:30pm. Free.
to unsuspecting Winnipeggers
exploring the unique landscape
‘Guys and Dolls’ directed by Robb
designers Worldwide Identity, 8pm.
to shoot snapshots. The second
and history of the Prairies. Arthur
Paterson. Until January 28th. Tickets
January 19th: Stephanie Staples
part is a collection of Winnipeg
Renwick. January 20th – March 3rd:
available at 942-6537.
presents and autographs Your Life
photographers showcasing their
‘Sacred Feminine’, a photographic
skills. Together the exhibitions show
testament to the ancestral lands of
the Dakota people by Lita Fontaine.
GALLERIES &
EXHIBITIONS
Unlimited: A Guided Journal at 8pm.
ACE ART INC. 290 McDermot St
the accessibility of snapshots and
WAREHOUSE presents, as part
SPEAKING CROW OPEN-MIC
944-9763 Tues-Sat 12-5. January
the quality of a good eye. The goal
of O’NeillFest 2006, ‘Long Day’s
POETRY First Tuesday of the month
20th – February 25th: Brian Flynn
of Snaps is to encourage people
VIDEO POOL MEDIA ARTS
Journey Into Night’. January 19th
at Academy Bar & Eatery. 8pm. Free
uses carpet underlay and his fingers
to share what they see behind the
CENTRE 300-100 Arthur St
– February 4th. Tickets available by
admission.
to produce these huge portraits by
camera.
949-9134 Contemporary media
MANITOBA THEATRE CENTRE
calling 942-6537.
art. January 14th: Art’s Birthday.
removing the black bits in ‘Belfast
AQUA BOOKS 89 Princess St The
PARK THEATRE presents, as part
Stone Soup Storytellers’ Circle,
of MTC’s O’NeillFest 2006, ‘The
veteran Winnipeg storytellers,
Classifieds
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11-5, Sat 11-4. Until January 15th:
WINNIPEG CONTEMPORARY
Deborah Garcia’s 2004 documentary
The Future of Food.
January 12, 2006
Portraits’.
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organizations around the world in
452-5350 Mon-Fri 11-5, Thursday
celebrating creativity, collaboration,
Room & Board for female
students in a Christian
Faith and Vocation House
of Discernment in Windsor
Park; $450.00 per month;
negotiable according to
computer, phone and
related needs. Easy access
to public transportation
downtown Wpg & to U
Manitoba. No pets, no
alcohol, clean, non-smoking environment, Call Sr.
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(W) 474-9784 or email
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The Uniter
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community and the generative
BELLA VISTA 53 Maryland St
the Poor Choices. Sundays: Blues
with Danny Kramer. Thursdays:
Saturday morning in the Ski Dept.
photography for the beginner or
power of art. Featuring a hands-on
Wednesdays: Scott Nolan.
Jam with Scotty Hills and Curtis
Power Thursdays – various bands.
Find out how to prep, wax and
intermediate photographer. Part I
Newton. Jan 14th: River City Hum,
Jan 12-13th: The Attics. Jan 14th:
maintain your x-country skis from
will cover photographic equipment,
installation of early video editing
technology, streaming performances
BILLABONG AUSTRALIAN BAR
Funk Dubois. Jan 21st: Trouveres,
The Perms. Jan 19-21st: Telepathic
our knowledgeable staff. Call the
with an emphasis on digital cameras
from networked centres around the
& BISTRO D-121 Osborne St. First
The Reception, Castrati. Jan 28th:
Butterflies. Jan 25th: Robbie Burns
Member Services Desk at 943-4202
and technology. Also included
world, the Cake Cam live web cam,
Monday of the month: Open Mic.
Banchee’s Wail, B.Sc.
Day with the Dust Rhinos. Jan 27th:
for more info. Saturday mornings,
will be security and care for your
The Dust Rhinos. Jan 28th: The
9am at MEC, 303 Portage Ave.
equipment while traveling. Part
contests for the best Real & Surreal
Cakes, dancing with DJ Bikini, and
CENTRE CULTUREL FRANCO-
INN AT THE FORKS – THE
selected artists performing a new
MANITOBAIN 340 Provencher Blvd
CURRENT LOUNGE 1 Forks
concept in DJ-ing ... DJ 5 Records.
Mardi Jazz, Tuesdays in Salle Antoine
Market Road Thursdays-Saturdays:
Gaborieau (2nd Floor) at 8:30pm.
WAH-SA GALLERY 302 Fort St
II will cover creative aspects of
Wind-Ups.
SKYWALK CONCERT SERIES
photography including elements of
TIMES CHANGE(D) HIGH AND
AND LECTURES Co-presented
a good photo, and tips for shooting
January 12th-14th: Jodie Borlé.
LONESOME CLUB Main St @ St.
with the University of Winnipeg,
people, landscapes, nature & wildlife,
Free admission. Upcoming shows:
January 17th-19th: Rosmarie
Mary Ave Sundays 9:30pm: Jam with
the Skywalk Concerts and Lectures
cityscapes, special events and
942-5121 Contemporary Aboriginal
January 17th: Keith Price. January
Tomaschuck. January 24th-26th:
Big Dave McLean. Jan 19-22nd: 5th
series is held every Wednesday for
more. The seminar will conclude
art.
24th: Jay Harrison. January 31st: Paul
Jodie Borlé.
Anniversary Celebrations with Matt
lectures and Thursday for music
with a short session on storing,
Monsoon and the Riff-Riders CD
from 12:10 until 12:50pm at the
cataloguing and showing your images
Balcain. Every second Thursday:
WAYNE ARTHUR GALLERY 186
Keith Price Trio and Invitees jam
KING’S HEAD PUB 100 King
Release (Jan 19th), Sue Foley (Jan
Carol Shields Auditorium, 2nd floor,
back at home. Part I: Photographic
Provencher Blvd 477-5249 Manitoba-
session, 8:30pm. January 12th: Paul
St 1st three Wednesdays of the
20th), Righteous Ike, The D.Rangers
Millennium Library. Bring your bag
Equipment for the Travel
based art gallery. Until Jan 24th:
Balcain. January 26th: Zandra Cross.
month: Filliment Funk, 8-11pm. Last
(Jan 21st), and “The Whiskys”
lunch and be informed, entertained
Photographer Wednesday, January
Wednesday of the month: Papo
hosted by Big Dave McLean
and enlightened! Free admission.
18th & Part II: Creative Aspects of
COLLECTIVE CABARET / DIE
Mambo Latin Jazz Night. Sundays: All
and guests (Jan 22nd). Jan 26th:
Seating is limited. Upcoming events:
Travel Photography January 25th,
MASCHINE CABARET 108
The King’s Men. Jan 13th: Godspeed.
Righteous Ike. Jan 27th: Stony Point
January 12th: Concert: Bolero
both at the Sport Manitoba Building
WINNIPEG ART GALLERY 300
Osborne St Thursdays: ‘80s and
Jan 14th: The Original Painkillers.
Bluegrass Band and Romi Mayes. Jan
Dance Theatre – From Flamenco
200 MainStreet 7-9pm. Advance
Memorial Blvd 786-6641 Until
‘90s Night. Fridays: Goth/Industrial.
Jan 20th: Jodi King. Jan 21st: Rubber
28th: Andrew Neville & The Poor
to the Tango. January 18th: Hinton
registration is recommended. The
Mar 5th: Selected Works 1980-
Saturdays: WinnipegJungle.com
Soul. Jan 26th: Men In Kilts. Jan 27th:
Choices.
Bradbury, U of W Psychology.
2-part series is just $15, or $10 per
2004 of Nancy Edell, including
presents DJs Dexx, Whupass,
Guy Abraham Band. Jan 28th: D.
Lecture: Clever Malice: Couch
individual session. This seminar,
rug-hooking, paintings and prints.
Krisco, Gumby Buzblaze and guests.
Rangers.
TOAD IN THE HOLE / THE
Cartoons That are True to Their
and others, is Free to Hostelling
Until Mar 19th: ‘Aliyah Suite by
Jan 13th: Of Human Bondage,
CAVERN 108 Osborne St Sundays:
Source. January 19th: Concert:
International Members. (Two-year
Salvador Dali. Commissioned to
Nagasaki, Skull Fuck, Sleipnir, and
McNALLY ROBINSON
Vinyl Drip w/ Uncle Albert.
Romanian Inspiration – performed
memberships are available at
commemorate the 20th anniversary
more. Jan 27th: The Ruffnecks.
BOOKSELLERS – PRAIRIE INK
Mondays: Improv Supper Club
by the Winnipeg Duo, violin &
the door for $35.00). For more
RESTAURANT: Portage Place Jan
hosted by Steve McIntyre. Jan
piano. January 25th: Jeff Martin,
information, call 784-1131.
‘Paintings of love of the garden’ by
Walter Veito.
of the independence of the State
of Israel, these works combine
DYLAN O’CONNOR IRISH
13th: Rik Leaf, alternative music,
12th: Little Buddies. Jan 13th: The
UW Physics. Lecture: People Are
biblical texts with references to the
PUB 2609 Portage Ave Mondays:
6:30pm. Jan 27th: Celtic fiddle with
Adventures. Jan 14th: The Afterbeat
Strange. January 26th: Concert:
MANITOBA NATURALISTS’
Second World War, creating images
Open mic night w/ The St. John’s
Eric Ross, 6:30pm. Grant Park: Jan
CD Release Party with JFK & The
Canadian Mennonite University
SOCIETY INDOOR PROGRAM
at once both tragic and hopeful.
Jammers. Tuesdays: Pat Alexander.
13th: Those Two Guys, folk/easy
Conspirators. Jan 17th: Trivia w/
Student Classical Guitar Ensemble.
“The Digital Naturalist: Global
Beginning Jan 14th until April 2nd:
Wednesdays: Guity Pleasures. Jan
listening, 8pm. Jan 20th: Jennilee
Spencer the Sound Guy. Jan 18th:
‘Early Masters’ a collection of Inuit
12th: Michael Jones. Jan 13th: After
Martineau, a bluegrass quartet, 8pm.
MAC’s Improv Players. Jan 19th:
HOSTELLING INTERNATIONAL
Conservation” with Dr. David
Sculptures. January 27th – Mya 14th:
All These Years. Jan 14th: Dust
Jan 21st: Soft Rock & Blues with
Love City Overdose. Jan 20th:
MANITOBA PRESENTS Travel Talks
Walker (Asst Professor, Clayton
‘supernovas’, an eclectic explosion
Rhinos. Jan 15th: Scott Place. Jan
Dem McLeod & Jan Smith, 8pm. Jan
The Rowdymen. Jan 21st: National
2005/06. Slide show presentations
H. Riddell Faculty of Environment,
of art by Winnipeg’s emerging new
19th: Jenn Joziawk. Jan 20th: Jodi
27th: Jazz with Eddie Goertzen.
Monument. Jan 24th: Dringo. Jan
and travel talks featuring a world of
Earth and Resources, U of M).
artists--performance, video, audio,
King. Jan 21st: The Black Aces. Jan
26th: D.Rangers. Jan 27th & 28th:
travel opportunities. January 12th:
January 23rd at the Pauline Boutal
installation, sculpture, painting,
22nd: The Hamsteaks. Jan 25th:
OSBORNE FREEHOUSE 437
The Perpetrators. Jan 31st: Trivia w/
‘Pub to Pub in Ireland’. Travel Nights
Theatre, Franco-Manitoban Cultural
drawing, and craft. Thoughtful
Funk Dubious. Jan 26th: Joanna
Osborne St Mondays: Jazz Hang
Spener the Sound Guy.
are held at the Sport Manitoba
Centre, 340 Provencher Blvd,
and provocative with a distinct
Colledge. Jan 27-28th: Quinzy. Jan
Nights with Steve & Anna Lisa
Building, 200 Main Street 7:30-
7.30pm. Admission $2 for members
Winnipeg sensibility. January to
29th: Scott Place.
Kirby and various other artists,
WEST END CULTURAL CENTRE
9PM. Everyone Welcome! FREE
with valid membership card and $6
8-11pm. Wednesdays: ‘Why Not
Ellice Ave @ Jan 13th: Subcity
Admission. Donations gratefully
for non-members. For information
call MNS office at 943-9029.
March: Ione Thorkelsson ‘Arboreal
Information Systems in Species
Fragments’. Manitoba’s leading glass
ELEPHANT & CASTLE PUB 350 St
Wednesdays?’ Live local and touring
Dwellers w/ the Farrell Bros. and
accepted.For more information call
artist, positions familiar objects in
Mary Ave Fridays: Jazz guitar and
music. Jan 18th: The Attics. Jan 25th:
Dead City Disease.
784-1131.
unexpected contexts, thus removing
vocals by Lawrence Patzer. Sundays:
Mystery Formula.
8pm, Tix $8 @ Into the Music. Jan
the familiar and suggesting new
Student Night. Jan 15th: Jo Snyder.
possible meanings.
Jan 22nd: Sean Buchanen & Doug
McLean. Jan 29th: Jenn Jozwiak.
WOODLANDS GALLERY 535
BOLIVIA IN REVOLT On December
15th: The Afterbeat CD Release. See
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
18, 2005, Evo Morales, the leader
PARK THEATRE 698 Osborne St
Concerts for more details. Jan 19th
is holding a public meeting on
of the MAS (Movement Towards
Jan 12th: Karla Adolphe Street Team
and 20th: The Duhks. See Concerts
“Prisoners of Conscience in Eritrea”.
Socialism), was elected president
Kickoff Party feat. Caleb Friesen,
for more details. Jan 21st: Doug &
Two families from Eritrea will be
of Bolivia. The election of an
Academy Road 947-0700 Jan 12th
ELLICE CAFÉ & THEATRE 587
Sarah Hanan, Mike Gavrailoff. 8pm,
Jess CD Release. 8pm, Tix $10/$13
presenting their experiences. Please
indigenous leader as president has
– Jan 28th: Featured Artist Hugh G.
Ellice Ave. Neighbourhood café
$5. January 22nd: ‘Seize the Day’
@ Ticketmaster. Jan 27th: Bluebird
call Louise at 475-4565 for more
raised hopes for radical change. Will
Rice, ‘Flatness of the Prairie’. Feb
and theatre showing films and
Musical Cabaret featuring songs
North Tour. See Concerts for more
information. Thursday, January
Morales fulfill popular hopes? What
2nd – 18th: Art works by emerging
showcasing local talent.
from ‘Little Women’. An original
details. Jan 29th: Sick City w/ The
12th, 7 - 9 pm. Welcome Place,
lies ahead for the social movements
Canadian musical by Jim Betts.
New Aesthetic and the Alibi. 8pm,
397 Carlton St. Free admission, all
that drove the two previous Bolivian
FINN’S PUB 210-25 Forks Market
January 24th: Bob Watts Live on
Tix $7 @ the door.
welcome.
presidents from office in less than
Rd Johnson Terminal Tuesdays: Ego
Stage.
WINDSOR HOTEL 187 Garry St
U OF MANITOBA DEPARTMENT
of New Socialist, returned in late
artists from the University of
Manitoba School of Art.
BARS, CAFES &
VENUES
ACADEMY BAR & EATERY 414
Spank – Jazz w/ Murray Pulver, Marc
two years? Jeff Webber, an editor
Arnould, Gilles Fournier, Daniel Roy,
PYRAMID CABARET 176 Fort St
Mondays: Jams with Tim Butler.
OF RELIGION COLLOQUIA ‘The
August 2005 from his fourth visit to
10:30pm-2am. Wednesdays: Open
Thursdays: The Mod Club w/ DJ
Tuesdays: Latin Jazz Night featuring
Act of Writing and the Myth of
Bolivia. Jeff’s talk will be followed
Mic w/ Guy Abraham.
Sean Allum and the Invisible Man,
Jeff Presslaff, Rodrigo Muñoz, Julian
Narcissus’ by
by presentations by local activists
doors at 8pm. Jan 13-14th: 2006
Bradford, 10pm. Wednesdays: Jams
Samantha Pascoe, Chair: Dr. Lisa
reflecting on indigenous oppression
Academy Rd Mondays: Student
Night. First Tuesday of the month:
GIO’S 155 Smith St Mondays:
Freezer Fest – Nine Pound Hammer.
with Big Dave McLean. Saturdays:
Alexandrin. January 13th, 2:45PM,
and resistance in Bolivia and Canada.
Speaking Crow poetry night. Jan
Student Night. Wednesdays:
Jan 20th: Lynch Night: David Lynch
The Perpetrators. Jan 12 – 14th: JP
111 St. John’s College in the Quiet
Open discussion to follow. January
12th: Academy Idol playoffs with
Karaoke. Thursdays: DJ Perry.
Birthday Celebration w/ Querkus,
Lepage. Jan 19-21st: B-Man and The
Room.
26th, 7pm in Room 1L04 at the
Keely Xavier and Philly and the
Fridays: DJ Chris. 1st and 3rd
Zublotnicks, Smallgirl, Slattern, and
Chickenhawks. Jan 26-28th: Big Dave
Blunts. Jan 13th: MB Songwriters
Saturdays of each month: Womyn’s
many more. $4.99, 9pm. Jan 21st:
Mclean.
Circle. Jan 14th: The Church Choir.
Night. 2nd Saturday of each month:
The Morning After CD Release
DISAPPOINTMENTS: Anglican
IS THERE A PLACE for Aboriginal
Jan 15th: Funday Night. Jan 16th:
live lounge music. 2nd Sunday each
Party. Jan 25th: Jordan Knight, $15
WOODBINE HOTEL 466 Main
Missions to the Inuit - Reading Inuit
Traditional Knowledge In Native
Mike Gavrailoff. Jan 17th: Tim Butler
month: Prime Pages book club, 5pm.
through Ticketmaster. Jan 27th:
St Tuesdays: Karaoke and 3Ball
Agency Through Missionary Texts.
Studies? Dr. Rice will talk on his
jam night. Jan 18th: Jason Bernstein
Jan 19th: Mardi Gras Cruise Night.
UMFM Party featuring Novillero,
Tournament. Jan 13th & 14th: D.
Dr. Chris Trott, Department of
experiences as an Aboriginal person
Quartet. Jan 19th: Academy Idol
Jan 21st: Bad boys fashion show
American Flamewhip and guests. Jan
Rangers. Jan 20th & 21st: Billy Joe
Native Studies will speak on the
who taught in a Native Studies
Finals. Jan 20th: Ashley Carter. Jan
plus the Underwear or Hot Buns
28th: Ham 10th Anniversary CD
Green. Jan 27th & 28th: Cal Richard
Anglican Missions to Cumberland
Department for six years. Upon
21st: The Monty Yanks. Jan 22nd:
Contest.
Release Party.
& The Big Stone Band.
Sound 1894-1913. He will consider
graduating from an Aboriginal
how, from the missionary point of
Traditional Knowledge Doctoral
Funday Night. Jan 28th: Arbra Hill.
University of Winnipeg.
THERE HAVE BEEN GRAVE
HEMP ROCK CAFÉ 302 Notre
REGAL BEAGLE 331 Smith
THE ZOO / OSBORNE VILLAGE
view, the mission was a disaster.
Program, he lost his position in
BARCA CLUB 423 McMillan
Dame Ave Jan 21st: Liberte,
St Tuesdays: Hatfield McCoy.
INN 160 Osborne St Tuesdays:
Nevertheless Inuit became
Native Studies. Since then, he has
Mondays: Live hip hop/R$B/soul &
Senseless Destruction, The
Wednesdays: Open Mic Nights.
Heavy Metal & Draft Night. Fridays
Christians in their own terms and
never been short listed for a Native
open mic with Breeze and the Nu
Exception, No Hope, FTS, Lacka,
and Saturdays: Stripfest. Jan 14th:
their own way and expanded the
Studies position outside of the
Funk Federation. Wednesdays: Back
Johnny Sizzle, Angel Lust. Feb 3rd:
ROYAL ALBERT ARMS 48 Albert
Saucerman w/ Tommy (from
mission themselves throughout
University where he once taught.
to the Lab DJ Night.
Attire Optional, Public Fallout,
St Mondays: Karaoke. Saturday
Edmonton) and guests. January 21st:
the region. January 18th 12:30-1:20
This is in spite of having written
Cunt Punisher, TNF, Ab-Negative,
Afternoons: Blues Jam, 4-7. Jan
Pretty Train Crash w/ guests. Feb
pm, Room 125 St John’s College,
numerous peer-reviewed articles,
BAR ITALIA 737 Corydon
Best Foot Forward, The Manhattan
178th: Castrati, Katelyn and Callahan
4th: Domenica, Devoid and TMF.
University of Manitoba. Everybody
manuals and books in the area of
Wednesdays: Joints & Jam w/
Project.
(Vancouver). Jan 27th: Misanthropik
Feb 18th: F*ck Winter Reunion and
Welcome. Free Admission.
Native Studies. January 27th 12:30-
Deity, Igor & The Skindiggers.
Dinner Bash. Tickets $7.
Hot Sauce Duo. Thursdays: D-
COMMUNITY EVENTS
1:20 pm, 307 Tier Bldg., University
A TWO-PART TRAVEL
of Manitoba. Everybody Welcome.
PHOTOGRAPHY SEMINAR
Free Admission.
LO. Fridays: DJ TwentyTwenty.
HOOLIGAN’S NEIGHBOURHOOD
Saturdays: My Generation featuring
PUB 61 Sherbrook St Mondays,
SHANNON’S IRISH PUB
djharrychan. Sundays: Sindays
Tuesdays, Fridays: Karaoke.
175 Carlton St Sundays:
MOUNTAIN EQUIPMENT CO-OP
Hostelling International and Don’s
featuring Spitz and ICQRI of Mood
Wednesdays: The Perpetrators.
fascade@137dps. Mondays: Patrick
SKI WAXING CLINICS Join us for
Photo have teamed up to bring
“TOAST AND ROAST” EVENING
Ruff.
Thursdays: Andrew Neville and
Keenan. Wednesdays: Live Karaoke
free in-store waxing demos every
you a two-part seminar on travel
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A fun-filled evening intended to
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honour Nick Ternette and his life
contacts and meeting interesting
long commitment to making the
people. Please call the Immigrant
world a better place. Entertainment
Women’s Association of Manitoba’s
will be provided by Danny Schur,
office at 989-5800 or email iwam@
Hugo Torres-Cereceda and others,
uwinnipeg.ca.
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who are interested in improving
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available in student services
applicants must complete and
Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil,
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Ternette Trust Fund. January 27th,
skills. All meetings are led by a
located in Graham Hall, and at the
submit an application in order to
Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica,
2006.
7pm, The Winnipeg Press Club,
trained ESL volunteer from the
Student Central Kiosk located in
be considered for nomination.)2.
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331 Smith Street (lower level of the
International Centre of Winnipeg.
Centennial Hall. Bursaries are small,
The scholarship administrator from
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supplementary financial assistance
each participating Datatel client
Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti,
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value. In order to be considered,
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$9,000.00 is awarded to a graduate
Winnipeg Public Library, in
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you must prove financial need and
Feb. 1, 2006 & Feb. 15, 2006.3.
Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia,
of any Canadian University who
you must be making satisfactory
Nominated student applications are
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,
engages in postgraduate study in
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CONVERSATION CIRCLES Practice
also be a number of chances for
speaking English, make new friends
you to win wonderful prizes in
and visit the library. The Library’s
various raffles. Tickets for the
English as a Second Language (ESL)
raffles will be available at the event.
Conversation Circles program
Tickets: $25.00, available at the
returns this winter. The program
Winnipeg Press Club (Ph. 957-1188)
partnership with the Simplicity
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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY
academic progress (i.e. maintaining
forwarded to the Datatel Scholars
Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago,
any field in Canada or elsewhere.
invites you to discover the principles
Manitoba Artists in Healthcare
a “C” average). Because funds are
Foundation review committee
United States, Uruguay and
Traveling Scholarship: Four
and practices that increase our
is looking for musicians willing to
limited, not everyone who qualifies
for final evaluation and award
Venezuela. Please note that a
scholarships of approximately
quality of life while reducing debt,
volunteer to play in hospitals. For
will receive a bursary. Many of our
determination in the spring.
permanent resident of Canada is not
$10,000.00 for graduates of any
stress, rush, and environmental
details please call Shirley Grierson
University of Winnipeg bursaries are
Submit your application online at
eligible for a scholarship tenable in
Canadian University who engage is
damage. Find out how less can be
at 475-8085 between the hours of
available to our students in any year
www.datatel.com/dsf
the country of which he/she is still
postgraduate study in the United
more. Buchwald Room, Millennium
noon and 6pm.
of their program. Return completed
DEADLINE: January 31 2006.
a citizen.
States or the United Kingdom in the
Apply on-line at website, www.
field of international or industrial
SOROPTIMIST
scholarships.gc.ca
relations. Applications can be
FOUNDATION OF CANADA:
Deadline: January 27, 2006
downloaded from website www.
applications to the Awards office.
Library. January 30th at 4:30pm. To
register call 986-4294.
FRONTIER COLLEGE There are
Deadline date: January 31 2006.
one-hundred and sixty-eight hours
mkingscholarships.ca or can be
PASSIONATE CONNECTIONS
in a week. We are asking for one!
UNIVERSITY OF
Grants for Women The Soroptimist
presented by the Alliance for Arts
Frontier College is a non-profit
WINNIPEG GRADUATE &
Foundation of Canada provides
INTERNATIONAL SPACE
picked up from the Awards office in
Education in Manitoba. Explore
literacy organization that recruits
PROFESSIONAL STUDIES
several grants of $7500 to female
UNIVERSITY 2006:
Graham Hall. Return all completed
connections and passions in the arts
volunteers to act as tutors to work
APPLICATION EXPENSES
graduate students in Canada to
The Canadian Foundation for the
applications to the awards office
with visual artists, dancers, poets,
with children, youth and adults who
BURSARY: This bursary assists
assist them with university studies
International Space University
located in Graham Hall by Deadline:
film makers, musicians, dramatists,
want to improve their literacy skills.
students with respect to the high
that will qualify them for careers
(CFISU) is a private, non-profit
January 31, 2006.
teachers and students through
Frontier College aims to strengthen
costs associated with applying to
that will improve the quality of
charitable organization, which
workshops, performances, panels
communities by enhancing the pride,
Graduate and Professional Schools.
women’s lives (Masters or PhD).
promotes the International Space
TERRY FOX
and stimulating conversations.
self-esteem, and confidence in
Applicants must meet the following
Examples include but are not limited
University Program in Canada.
HUMANITARIAN AWARD
Featuring keynote speaker Buffy
individuals and their families. We run
criteria:1) have a minimum GPA of
to: providing medical services,
Typically, 10 Canadians receive
PROGRAM:
Sainte-Marie, renowned singer/
a variety of fun literacy programs in
3.55 in the previous academic year.
providing legal counselling and
sponsorship each year, in whole or
Terry Fox Humanitarian Awards
songwriter/artist. At the Caboto
various Winnipeg neighbourhoods
2) be registered in the final year
assistance, counselling mature
in part of this program. Eligibility is
are open to graduating secondary
Centre, 1055 Wilkes Avenue.
and schools. Programs are one hour
of an honours or four-year degree
women entering or re-entering
as follows:•be a Canadian citizen or
level students and those currently
Thursday evening February 16th
once a week and run from October
program in Arts or
the labour market, counselling
permanent resident.•be proficiency
studying towards a first university
and all day Friday, February 17th.
through to December and January
in the final year of the Integrated
women in crisis, counselling
in English and at least conversant
degree or diploma in a Canadian
Luncheon and refreshments
through to April. Training and on-
B.Ed program. 3) have documented
and training women for non-
in a second language, preferably
post-secondary institution. Award
provided. Fee for members: $125;
site support are provided. For more
financial need: a Canada Student
traditional employment, and
French.•completed an undergraduate
recipients must meet the following
fee for non-members $140 (includes
information please visit our website
Loan/Provincial Loan or a
positions in women’s centres.
degree at the time of the application
criteria: •involvement in voluntary
membership). For more information
at www.frontiercollege.ca or contact
Student line of credit at a banking
More information can be found
with the exception of students who
humanitarian work •be a Canadian
contact Sylvie Cottee at scottee_
us at 253-7993 or wpgcoordinator@
institution.4) both full-time and part-
at www.soroptimistfoundation.
are currently in Medical or Law
citizen or landed immigrant•be an
[email protected].
hotmail.com.
time students may apply.Applications
ca Applications are available in the
School and were accepted without
undergraduate student studying
are available in the Awards office
Awards office.
first obtaining an undergraduate
towards their first university
BHAKTI YOGA: Kirtan and
located in Student Services and will
Deadline: January 31 2006.
degree, but have at least completed
degree or diploma at a Canadian
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be accepted beginning October
four years of university.•the
post-secondary institution in
11 Alloway Avenue. For more
15, 2005. Students may apply
ROYAL BANK ABORIGINAL
competition is open to university
Canada•maintain a satisfactory
BECOME A MENTOR at the
information phone Vrinda at 947-
any time during the Fall/Winter
STUDENT AWARDS:
graduates and practising
academic standing•continued
Immigrant Women’s Association of
0289 or email [email protected].
academic year, providing that
Value: Five students will receive
professionals are eligible provided
involvement in voluntary
funding is available for this bursary.
$4,000 for education expenses to a
they have not been in the workforce
humanitarian and community
ANNOUNCEMENTS
& OPPORTUNITIES
Manitoba. Being a Mentor will entail
Science, or
speaking to a variety of audiences
CALLING ALL SILVER HEIGHTS
Applications will be evaluated on a
maximum of four years at university.
longer than six years.•have a
workThe value of the award is
on how being a first or second-
COLLEGIATE GRADS! 50th
first come, first serve basis.
Eligibility: If you are a status Indian,
minimum cumulative average of 75%
$7,000 per year, renewable for a
generation immigrant has impacted
Reunion is being planned for
Non-status Indian, Inuit or Metis,
at the time of application Value:
maximum of four years or until
your life, along with your personal
September 2007. Send your contact
you are eligible to apply for a RBC
Tuition, travel, room and board on
a first degree is obtained. It is
challenges and choices. Advantages
info, including email address, mailing
Royal Bank Aboriginal Student
campus (approximately $26,000)
subject to satisfactory progress,
of being an IWAM Mentor include
address, and if applicable, married/
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT
Award provided you meet the
Duration: July 3 to September 1,
and is tenable at any Canadian
receiving a generous honorarium,
maiden names, to silver.heights@
AWARDS: Countries – Chile,
following qualifications:
2006 Location: ISU Central Campus,
university or college. Approximately
hotmail.com.
Colombia, Korea, The Philippines
•you are a permanent resident/
Strasbourg, France
20 awards are granted each year.
and Russia Awards are available
citizen of Canada•you can provide
Applications can be found at www.
The field of study is open and at
to Canadian citizens for graduate
proof of acceptance (with transcript
auca.ca Contact Michelle Crawley
the discretion of the successful
studies or research abroad at the
of marks) or are already attending
for more info.
candidate. Consideration for a
master’s, doctoral or post-doctoral
a university or college listed in the
Deadline: January 27, 2006.
Terry Fox Humanitarian Award
ARE YOU A LOCAL ARTIST? PHOTOGRAPHER? ILLUSTRATOR? GRAFFITI
ARTIST? DO YOU RUN A GALLERY?
level. For most countries, applicants
Directory of Canadian Universities,
must have completed a first degree
in a discipline relevant to the
THE DATATEL SCHOLARS
application form and three reference
or, for post-doctoral fellowships, a
banking industry (e.g. business,
FOUNDATION
forms from the past two years of
THE UNITER, AS A STRONG SUPPORTER OF THE LOCAL ARTS COMMUNITY,
IS LOOKING FOR COLLABORATION ON COVER ART FOR EACH ISSUE. WE
WANT YOUR ORIGINAL WORK, STILLS OR PHOTOS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN
SENT OUT WITH PRESS RELEASES TO OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS. WE WANT
OUR COVERS TO BE AS UNIQUE AS YOUR ART! FOR FURTHER INQUIRIES,
PLEASE EMAIL SEBASTIAN POSIADLO AT [email protected], OR
CALL US AT 786-9790.
Ph.D. by the beginning of the tenure
economics, computer science)
SCHOLARSHIPS: The University
schooling - no other forms are
of the award. Apply on-line at
•you maintain a full course load
of Winnipeg is a new Datatel client
required. Applications are available
website, www.scholarships.gc.ca
leading to a recognized degree,
institution and as such, Datatel is
on their website, www.terryfox.org
Deadline: January 27, 2006
certificate or diploma •you are
offering unique scholarships ranging
Deadline date: February 1 2006.
the governments of Italy, Japan,
in need of financial assistance to
in value from $1,000 to $2500 to
The Netherlands and Spain also
pursue your education Process: An
students from our institution. •
KIN CANADA BURSARIES:
offer awards to Canadian graduate
independent committee of aboriginal
Returning Student scholarships
HAL ROGERS FUND:
students. The embassies of these
academics reviews all applications
assist current outstanding students
Kin Canada Bursaries, a program of
countries in Canada are responsible
and makes its final selections based
who have returned to higher
for the administration of their
on each individual’s financial need. In
education after an absence of five
respective scholarships.
addition, recipients who indicate an
years or more.• Nancy Goodhue
CALL FOR COVER ART:
EXTERNAL AWARDS:
Note:
requires students to submit an
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Fund, provides financial assistance to eligible
•show ability to conduct independent
persons in their quest for higher learning.”
research and write reports
Applicants to the Kin Canada Bursaries must
•applicants invited for interview will be asked
be Canadian citizens or landed immigrants.
to do a short written assignment following
Also, applicants must be full-time students in
the interview•demonstrate evidence of
the process of graduating from high school,
involvement in extracurricular activities.
or currently studying or registered at a
A complete application must include 7
post-secondary institution. All applicants
copies of each of the following: •a completed
for a bursary must complete the current
application form •a statement of motivation
application form and submit it to a Kinsmen,
of not more than 250 words •three letters
Kinette or Kin Club nearest your permanent
of reference from academics •copies of the
residence. 2006-2007 application forms are
university transcripts of the applicant •one
available at www.bursary.ca Additional
page résumé Applications available online
information is available at 1-800-742-5546
at www.gov.mb.ca . You will have to go to
ext. 215 Deadline: February 1st 2006.
the Legislative Assembly link: About the
By Mike Pyl
Assembly – Internship programme. Deadline:
CIBC YOUTHVISION
Feb 14, 2006.
SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM:
Candidates must meet the following
EPILEPSY CANADA SCHOLARSHIP
criteria:•be enrolled in an approved
AWARDS: These $1000.00 scholarships
mentoring program with Big Brothers/ Big
are open to students aged 16 to 29 years
Sisters of Canada. •maintain a minimum
of age who are Canadian citizens or who
of 60 percent average until and including
have landed immigrant status and who are
graduation• must be Canadian citizens or
currently under a Canadian physician’s
permanent residents. The values of these
care for the treatment of epilepsy. Please
30 awards are $4,000 or actual tuition fees,
note that visa students are not eligible
plus paid summer employment with YMCA
for this award. The application form will
Canada. You are eligible if you attend
also require a resume, and a 600-1200
any approved post-secondary Canadian
word essay, Theme: “How I can personally
educational institution in recognized
help increase epilepsy education in my
programs. The duration of this award is
community”. Applications forms at www.
four years or until first degree/diploma
epilepsy.ca toll-free 1-877-734-0873 or
is obtained, whichever occurs first.
email Epilepsy Canada at epilepsy@epilepsy.
Applications forms are available from Big
ca Deadline: February 25, 2006
Brothers/ Big Sisters of Canada member
agencies or by phoning the toll-free number
ROBERT KAUFMAN MEMORIAL
1-800-263-9133. Deadline: Feb 1, 2006.
SCHOLARSHIP: These 20 undergraduate
scholarships are valued at $250.00
POST SECONDARY
- $5,000 for students studying in the area
AMBASSADORS:
of accounting, attending a recognized
The Millennium Foundation is interested
accounting program. Selection is based on
in employing post-secondary ambassadors
monetary need. For more information
starting in September 2006. PSA’s will
contact: Independent Accountants
be compensated with an honorarium of
International Educational Foundation, 9200
$3,000 per year, paid out in installments.
South Dadeland Blvd. Suite 510, Miami FL,
Applicants should already be enrolled in at
33156 Deadline is February 28, 2006.
least the first year of their post-secondary
Surfing for more Dollars?Try these websites
program of study within Manitoba. Travel
for more possibilities! These two sites will
within the province will be required. A
lead you through Canadian based scholarship
strong sense of work with adolescents and
searches. www.studentawards.com
a committment to pursuing post-secondary
www.scholarshipscanada.com
education are paramount. For an application
form and more information go to www.
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE:
futuretodiscover.ca Deadline date:
February 3, 2006.
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GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS:
MANITOBA STUDENT AID SECOND
Application forms for University of Manitoba
DISBURSEMENT: When you receive your
Graduate studies are available on the web
Manitoba Student Loan document in the
www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/graduate_
mail, the University of Winnipeg will have
By Josh Boulding
studies You can fill out the necessary forms
electronically confirmed your full-time
directly on-line. Hard copies are available
enrollment and deducted fees that you owe
in the Awards office. Applications must be
to the University of Winnipeg. Bring this
received in the Faculty of Graduate Studies
document to the Manitoba Student Aid
by Deadline: February 10, 2006.
office located on the fourth floor of 1181
Portage Ave. for processing.
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
OF MANITOBA INTERNSHIP
You will need to bring the following
PROGRAMME:
documentation: •your SIN card
The Manitoba Legislative Assembly
•some photo ID •bank transit information
Internship is open to individuals studying
in any discipline at one of the Manitoba
Please note: if you have reduced your course
universities and permanent residents of
load, these changes will affect your Manitoba
Manitoba studying outside the province
Student Loan assessment.
who have graduated or will do so before
DID YOU KNOW..... you can check the
hand experience of the legislative process
status of your student aid application, find
and provide research assistance to Members
out what documentation is still outstanding,
of the Manitoba Legislative Assembly and
update your address information and much
their caucuses. The program includes a
more on line? Go to MySAO to log into your
10 month Internship, bi-weekly stipend
existing account. Go to www.studentaid.
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Surely, the game played out
like any other big brother-little
brother relationship.
The little brother comes
out scrappy and fi ring on all
cylinders, hoping that this
could fi nally be his day. In
turn, the older brother relishes
his enthusiasm and naivety,
but as the outcome starts to
come into question, he quickly
leaves no doubt in affi rming his
superiority.
The Winnipeg Wesmen fell
quickly behind to the Brandon
Bobcats, who were led by the
freshman tandem of Neil Shaw
and Joel Small, the younger
brothers of Wesmen Trevor and
Jarrod respectively, in losing
the fi rst two sets of the match.
Ultimately, though, no. 5-ranked
Winnipeg eventually emerged as
the national power that they are,
toppling the Bobcats 3-2 (26-28,
22-25, 25-18, 25-15, 15-11).
With the win, the Wesmen
improve to 7-4 on the season,
good for second in the Great
Plains division of the Canada
West Conference. Meanwhile,
fourth-place Brandon drops to
3-7.
Despite their opponents’
underwhelming record, head
coach Larry McKay was still
cognizant of the talent on the
Bobcat roster, who are in their
fi rst season of CIS play.
“Brandon is a good team
and we knew that coming in,”
said McKay. “But you make
that many mistakes against any
team and you’re going to be in a
tough situation.”
To say the Wesmen made
mistakes, especially early on,
would be an understatement.
After staking claim to an
early 10-3 lead in the fi rst set
that saw the Canada West assist
leader, setter Dustin AddisonSchneider, effectively distribute
the ball to all of his hitters,
some strong serving by Joel
Small and excellent defense by
Riley Philips brought the score
to a tie at 16. By the 21st point,
however, a Wesmen net error,
missed attack, and a poor serve
receive saw Brandon reach set
point. Even though Winnipeg
fought through six Bobcat
set points, it was to no avail,
dropping the fi rst set 28-26.
The second set played
out similarly to the former, as
the Wesmen saw an early lead
evaporate as a result of their
own errors. After Al Hart, who
led Brandon with 15 kills, put
the set away 25-22, a visibly
dejected Winnipeg squad were
in desperate need of a boost.
Enter Alan Ahow and Paul
Kjos.
The decision to insert the
two, who had played sparingly
up to that point, for Marty
Rachon and Richard Wiebe
paid immediate dividends.
The crispness of the Wesmen
performance was clearly visible
upon their inclusion. McKay
insisted he had no reluctance to
dip into his bench.
“They’re good players,”
he said of the two second-year
players. “I have no hesitation
in putting those guys in there.
They are excellent players who
would be starters on most other
university teams.”
Kjos quickly caused
Brandon some problems soon
after entering the third set with
his unorthodox serve. Standing
nearly against the back wall of
the Duckworth Centre, his float
serves seemingly dipped as soon
as it crossed the net, reminiscent
of a baseball pitcher’s slider. He
also provided the offense with a
boost from the middle, fi nishing
with six kills. Ahow chipped in
with four himself.
However, McKay insisted
their contributions extended
beyond the stat sheet.
“They brought a new
energy. They hadn’t been
playing and they had seen that
the game was more as a result
of our own errors and if they
played relaxed and with some
excitement then they would be
fi ne. And they did that.”
The next two matches
would see Ben Schellenberg and
Jarrod Small begin to assert
themselves offensively, notching
18 and 17 kills respectively.
Brandon had no answer for
Small in particular, who was
seemingly the hitter of choice
for Addison-Schneider during
clutch situations. He fi nished
with an impressive .727 kill
percentage.
By the fi fth set, momentum
had swung so radically that the
outcome was never really in
doubt, with Winnipeg going on
a 7-3 run to end it at 15-11. The
difference in experience between
the veteran-laden Wesmen and
the Bobcats, whose four of six
starters are in their fi rst year,
was palpable.
“Experience defi nitely
played a role,” said McKay.
“Experience gets you to relax in
difficult situations if you’ve been
in those situations before.”
Top of Form
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September 2005. Six Interns will gain first
Youthful Bobcats no match for savvy Wesmen
1
How did you spend your
New Year’s Eve? Perhaps a social,
or maybe with family, right?
Wouldn’t you have liked to spend
it in Disneyland, with the Wesmen
men’s volleyball team?
That’s a fair reward after
traveling over 3000 kilometres
and playing two exhibition
games against the University of
California–Los Angeles Bruins and
the University of California-Irvine
Anteaters. Unfortunately for the
Wesmen, they were swept in both
games 0-3.
“It was a great time,” said
Trevor Shaw, a veteran of the
Wesmen team who has switched
positions this year, from left side to
libero.
The head coach, Larry McKay,
said their experience was a good
one, despite the losses. In the first
game, against UCLA, the team was
defeated in successively shorter
spans, 30-18, 30-25, and the third set
31-29. The next day they were again
swept by Cal-Irvine 3-0 (26-30, 2030, 19-30).
“They competed pretty hard,”
said McKay. “They wanted to do
well and there was plenty of effort.”
The two biggest errors
mentioned by McKay were timing
and contact with the ball. The
month without practice during
exams hurt the team’s ability, but in
displaying a tremendous amount of
effort, they managed to finish their
final set within two.
“It’s something you can’t
rush,” he said on the team’s
performance during the games.
“You need reps, you need training
time, and we just didn’t have that.”
Just being down in the States,
though, was exciting for the team.
Few teams from Canada travel
down to play exhibition games.
McKay said it was not difficult to
arrange, and that it seemed odd
that more teams don’t take the
opportunity.
“They were very
accommodating,” he said.
Previously, McKay had
traveled with teams to Chicago,
Indiana, Utah and Santa Barbara for
exhibition matches. The experience
has never been the same twice.
“The experience is not
so much more difficult as it is
different,” he said, referring to the
play against an international team
versus a team from the Great Plains
division or even from another
part of Canada. If it had been a
team from Canada, they may have
expected to meet them in Nationals
at some time. With that in mind,
there would have been a little more
on the line, rather than a simple
exhibition game.
The games were made
more difficult in that both a
different ball and a different court
were used. Nevermind the fact
UCLA is perennially an NCAA
powerhouse, having won numerous
championships on their home court
before. Nevertheless, McKay felt
that, with proper preparation, the
Wesmen would stand a fair chance
at winning one or both of the
games they had played.
The Wesmen were led
by Richard Wiebe and Ben
Schellenberg in the game against
UCLA. Each garnered 14 and 13
kills for the Wesmen, respectively,
in the loss. Against Cal-Irvine,
Schellenberg led once more with
12 kills.
Merit should be handed out
to Dustin Addison-Schneider, too,
for his performance while nursing
the flu. The setter played very well
for being under the weather, not
showing his ill-fated circumstance
during either game.
Of note was that coaches at
UCLA and UCI expressed interest
in travelling north in the future.
The Uniter
SPORTS EDITOR: MIKE P YL
PHONE: 786-9497
FAX: 783-7080
Sports
January 12, 2006
023
Uniter Sports Sits Down with CJOBʼs Bob Irving
By Thomas Asselin
I
n November of 2005, Bob Irving,
CJOB’s voice of the Winnipeg Blue
Bombers, stopped by the CKUW
studio for an interview for the Ultra
Mega Sports Show. While there, he was
kind enough to take extra time out of his
always busy schedule to answer some
questions for the Uniter. Please note that
the interview took place before Doug
Berry was named head coach.
Uniter: You’ve clearly spent a
lot of time with the team. Did it ever
feel, by the end of the season, that the
Bombers had given up on Jim Daley,
that all of his “rebuilding” talk wore on
them, like so many fans believe?
Bob: In the last two or three games
it felt like maybe a few of the players
had given up to some degree. I don’t
know if Jim Daley’s rebuilding talk got
to them or not - I know it certainly got
to some of the management people and
they’ve said that since they let him go…
but I’d say that after a losing season like
this, it doesn’t matter if it’s the Bombers
or any team, the players are just fed up.
They’re fed up with everything, that
includes the coach, the management
everybody else, even their teammates.
Uniter: Did rebuilding become an
excuse for Daley?
Bob: I don’t think Jim designed
it to be an excuse. I think he started
using it fairly early in the season when
it became obvious to him that the
turnaround was not going to be as
easy as maybe he though it was going
to be, and that’s when he started using
the word “rebuilding.” I don’t believe
he initially used it as an excuse, but it
certainly started to sound like that as
the year went on.
Uniter: Can rebuilding be done
without having to throw obscene
amounts of money?
Bob: Sure it can. Let me give
you an example. In 1997 and ‘98,
the Bombers were brutal under Jeff
Reinebold. In 1999 - Dave Ritchie’s
first year - they were 6-12, ok? Then
they found Charlie Roberts, Arland
Bruce, they acquired Khari Jones in a
trade, they acquired Dave Mudge in a
trade, they acquired Doug Brown in a
trade, and there’s many more players
who became the core of that team,
none of whom were purchased with big
free agent money. Drafts picks, trades
and fi nding guys in the States, there’s
no science behind that, that’s a matter
of getting down there. Charlie Roberts
is a classic example of just getting
down there and fi nding them. And that
Bomber team went on to win more
games than anyone else from 2001 to
2002. And that was not a team built
on big money free agents. Brian Clark
is another player who was a free agent,
nobody wanted him. The point is you
can put a good team together without
putting up big money in the CFL free
agent market. It’s been done before...
it was done by this team just five years
ago.
Uniter: Is the talent there in the
secondary, and is it simply a matter of
continuity?
Bob: I don’t think it’s all there.
I think there’s three or four players
back there though who are good
enough to play. And then it’s a matter
of continuity and coaching. I think
they do need to add a couple defensive
backs but they have some players back
there who can play, they just need to be
properly schemed up.
Uniter: In five years time, where
do you think Kevin Glenn will be? Do
you think he will evolve into an elite
QB like an Anthony Calvillo, or will
he fall into the journeyman mould of a
Marcus Crandell?
Bob: I don’t know if he’s going
to become an elite quarterback. I’m
not sold on that. He’s got some innate
talents, though, that the really good
quarterbacks have, you can see that.
But at 26, to predict that he’s going to
be one of the greats… no, I couldn’t do
that. I’m not convinced of that - I hope
I’m wrong, but I’m not convinced of
that.
Uniter: Why do you feel as
though Khari Jones was never truly
embraced as the starter in Winnipeg?
It seems as though fans were always
making excuses for his success, saying
things like “it’s only because he had
great receivers; any QB could succeed
with those weapons.” Given that a
Most Outstanding Player wasn’t fully
embraced, what is it going to take for
Bomber fans to truly get behind their
quarterback? Has it happened in the
history of you covering the team?
Bob: Well they loved Tom
Clements. Tom was only here for
four or five years and I think the fans
were not universally, but fairly close
to universally, behind him. There’s a
common denominator here and that is:
if you’re winning, the fans are behind
you in every respect. Now, they would
get down on Khari whenever he had a
bad moment, and I thought unjustly so.
But my theory on that was this and I’ve
said it many times. Khari Jones was
not a pleasing quarterback to watch.
He didn’t have the big arm, he’s not a
great athlete, he’s kind of clumsy and
he’ll stumble around sometimes, and
he just did not look athletically pleasing
when he went about his business. And
I think it always came back to that
with the fans. “Yeah he threw for 375
yards, but God, he didn’t throw any
spirals…” Khari just never looked like
a thoroughbred athlete. All he ever
did was throw touchdown passes and
throw for yards and win games. That’s
my theory on why he was never fully
appreciated.
Uniter: You had more of
an insider’s perspective; were the
Reinebold years really as much of a
circus as it appeared?
Bob: Not initially, but very early
in his tenure, yes it was a circus. I don’t
know what more to say about it than
that. Jeff was not very well organized;
he did some very unorthodox things,
but they just didn’t work. He didn’t
have a quarterback, too, which in
fairness to him, is one of the major
reasons why he never had a chance at
success. You can’t win in this league
or come close to winning without a
good quarterback and he never had
one. Yeah, it became a circus, no doubt
about it.
Uniter: How did the players
perceive him?
Bob: Well most of them liked him!
They were very fond of him. I found
very few players who didn’t like Jeff.
Jeff was a charismatic guy and it was
hard not to like him, he had a way
about him that just won you over very
quickly. I think a lot of his players to
this day still swear by him and feel he
was just a victim of bad luck here.
Uniter: Late in his tenure, it
appeared as though the Bomber locker
room began to tune Dave Ritchie out.
Do you feel this assumption is justified,
and if so, why did it happen?
Bob: Yeah, I think some of them
did tune him out, and that’s just a
natural evolution, I believe, in pro
sports with a coach who’s been with
a team for five or six years. It doesn’t
always happen, but there’s all sorts
of examples of it where, for whatever
reason, the coach in question loses the
ability to get the best out of his players.
Maybe it’s just that the message gets
old or his methods become ones that
the players no longer buy into, I don’t
know. It happened here with Dave and
it’s happened in all sorts of sports with
all sorts of teams and managers. All
coaches have a shelf life, they have a
shelf life in my view, and some it’s a lot
longer than others.
Uniter: Of all the Bomber players
you’ve ever been around, who would be
the most naturally, freakishly athletic?
Bob: Alfred Jackson, who was a
receiver here and then went to BC, was
a phenomenal athlete. Perry Tuttle,
who was a receiver for the Bombers
during the ‘80s, was a first round draft
pick for the Buffalo Bills of the NFL
and it didn’t work out for him down
there. He was just a terrific athlete.
Man, the moment he stepped on the
field up here you could see the first
round athletic ability that he had. He
wasn’t tough enough to play down
there and he was the first to admit it
but on this wide open field up here,
it was easy for him to excel. Those
are two that stand out with their pure
athletic ability. Leo Lewis, who was, I
don’t want to say before my time, but
I grew up watching Lewis as much as
you could watch back in the ‘60s on
TV. As a matter of fact, Bud Grant
called him the best football player he
ever coached, and this was when he
was with the Minnesota Vikings in the
NFL. I don’t know if there’s been a
better athlete on the Bombers than Leo
Lewis. Milt’s up there too but in terms
of pure natural athletic ability, I would
rate Lewis, Tuttle and Jackson ahead of
him. Milt’s got a mental toughness to
go with his athletic abilities that’s pretty
special.
Uniter: Had the most eccentric
personality? The biggest clown?
Bob: They’ve had lots of eccentric
guys. Rod Hill was eccentric; you’d
never call him a clown. Biggest clown?
Probably a guy named Pete Catan
who was a defensive end who played a
few years here in the early ‘80s. Lots
of characters… Chris Walby was a
great character - the word eccentric
doesn’t apply to him, but he was a real
character and an entertaining guy. I
would just basically sum that question
up by saying they’re too numerous to
mention because there’s been a lot of
them.
Uniter: The most valuable to his
team?
Bob: Well, Tom Clements would
rank up there, when he came here to
quarterback the team in ‘83 and then
led them to the Grey Cup game in
‘84. You have to look at quarterbacks
when you talk about that, you really
do. That’s the most important position
in football, that’s why they get paid ten
times more than everyone else (laughs).
Dieter Brock in the time he played was
very valuable, when he wasn’t in there
it was a completely different team. So,
I think if I had to pick one it would be
Clements.
Uniter: The biggest “Terrell
Owens” (biggest locker room
disruption)?
Bob: (Laughs) On the Bombers?
Well they had nobody that I can recall
that was in Terrell Owens’ league in
that regard. There’s been some players
over the years that maybe were not
the most popular in the locker room
but I can’t think of one off the top of
my head that fits into that category. I
suppose back in the early ‘70s Mack
Herron and Jim Thorpe got into all
sorts of legal trouble. As a matter of fact
Mack Herron went on to spend many
of his latter years in jail; I think he’s
still in jail. Those guys were bad apples.
Uniter: The one player you would
give anything to watch?
Bob: I’ve said this many times,
but I think we in Winnipeg have
been blessed to have the chance to
watch Charles Roberts play. He’s a
phenomenal player, you know, he’s
defied all the odds with his size. He lifts
you out of your seat. You’re asking me
what players would lift you out of your
seat and there’s not that many of them
in any sport but he’s certainly one of
them. Milt Stegall’s always been one
of my favourite Blue Bombers. You’re
asking for one, I’m gonna name three
or four. Leo Lewis was a player who
would lift you out of your seat, he was
that good. I think those three would
be at the top of my list. Lewis, Charles
Roberts, and Milt Stegall.
January 12, 2006
The Uniter
SPORTS EDITOR: MIKE P YL
PHONE: 786-9497
FAX: 783-7080
024 Sports
Fact
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BY SARAH HAUCH
BY SARAH HAUCH
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The following article was not written
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that I just had to share it with you. I
hope that it helps and that you all
can accomplish your health goals.
Courtesy of S.N. Blair of the Cooper
Institute for Aerobic Research.
Week 1 - Getting to Know You and
Physical Activity History
Objectives:
(1) Learn the name of another person hoping to change their exercise
behaviours.
(2) Recognize what factors have
kept them from being more active.
Week 2 - Barriers to Being Physically
Active - “Understanding the Barriers
for Physical Activity”
Objectives:
(1) Identify personal barriers to being
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on removing (ex: not enough time)
(3) Recognize that two-minute walks are
an easy way to begin accumulating physical activity
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Objectives:
(1) Discuss different methods for measuring physical activity (ex: fitness journal)
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Week 4 - Social Support - Enlisting Aid
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Objectives:
(1) Recognize that asking for help is not
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this support. (ex: ask your friend Sally to
go walking with you) (3) Solicit support as
needed. (4) Know how to provide support
to others.
Week 5 – Self-Satisfaction - Getting Confident
Objectives:
(1) Identify techniques that have increased feeling more confident about being physically active in the past (ex: when
you kept up a program last year) (2) Learn
how to use the strategy of considering
the other point of view to become more
confident. (ex: If you’re shy - do an exercise program at home first until you feel
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Week 6 - Relapse Prevention
Objectives:
(1) Learn the difference between a lapse
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Objectives:
(1) Identify new ways to become more
active.
(2) Enlist friends and family to help you
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strategies that got you active before.
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(1) Learn the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic rewards.
(2) Identify rewards that would motivate you to continue being active (ex:
get a pedicure for every two weeks that
you stay on your exercise program)
(3) Identify the reasons that being active will be beneficial for the long-term
future. (ex: by improving strength I will
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