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02 actors strike for online pay
10 around the world in 893 days
13 Winnipeg celebrateS tom stoppard
20 penguins won’t be migrating north
will modern technology impoverish artists?
tim harvey makes it all the way on human power
theatre and film-the uniter covers stoppard fest 2007
winnipeg will have to wait for an nhl team
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producers pay the performer something more?”
tive. “The producers’ position is that they want
asks Macklin. If the internet broadcasts’ revenues
use on the internet for free, indefinitely… it just
do not suffice, he believes better license deals
won’t wash.”
should be negotiated with broadcasters and dis-
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tribution companies.
he internet is revolutionizing entertain-
and the present, and it’s becoming more promi-
Given Manitoba’s vibrant theatre and film
ment in many forms, in ways beneficial
nent for things to appear, sometimes exclusively,
scene, the strike could potentially have severe ef-
and negative to different players. Now,
on the internet,” says Jon Ted Wynne, an ACTRA
fects at home. “All across the country, it could be
the problem is hitting Canada in a new way, as
member since 1984. “It’s a huge issue at the
devastating for stripping away opportunities of
the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television
moment.”
employment,” Wynne warns. “If there’s no local
and Radio Artists (ACTRA) declared an indefi-
talent available, productions could decide not to
nite strike on Monday, Jan. 8, due to unresolved
shoot here at all.”
disputes over wages and royalties from internet
Macklin sees another country-wide danger.
viewings of productions. If the strike is successful,
“Producers may be hesitant to locate their pro-
Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Quebec, and applies to independent productions that do not
They want use on the
internet for free, indefinitely…
ductions in a strike zone” he explains, but believes
it is unlikely.
Despite the potential problems, Wynne
sees no reason to abandon the cause. “Whenever
it just won’t wash.”
have a special Continuation Letter from ACTRA.
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News Editor: Derek Leschasin
E-mail: [email protected]
Macklin, ACTRA’s Manitoba branch representa-
“The internet is the technology of the future
is similar to Napster’s shutdown.
STAFF Reporter
Ksenia Prints
Ksenia Prints
The strike currently encompasses Ontario,
PHOTO EDITOR
Senior Reporter: Derek Leschasin
Striking Actors Want Pay
for Online Productions
ACTRA could set a milestone in media history that
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Kenton Smith
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News Editor: Richard Liebrecht
principles are involved, you have to stand up for
The contested issue is between the Canadian
– Rob Macklin,
Film and Television Production Association,
ACTRA
Association des producteurs de films et de télévi-
[them]” he says. “When it comes to allowing yourself to be exploited while other people are profiting from it, it is an issue worth [putting your foot
down] for.”
sion du Québec, and ACTRA. The three groups
Punishments for ACTRA members who
have been negotiating the renewal of the
cross picket lines can range anywhere from severe
Independent Production Agreement since early
While internet usage remains free, coming
fines to eliminated memberships. “They would
November, but encountered a deadlock over the
up with payments for the actors might be a prob-
no longer have union status and protection, and
issue of paying actors for online viewings of their
lem. Furthermore, online portions of indepen-
union members will refuse to work with them in
productions.
dent productions are used to encourage viewers
the future,” Macklin warns.
“Our position is that should producers wish
to use a performer’s image and voice on a web
to pay for the full show, which eventually benefits the actors.
cast, the performer should be paid for that use
“If it encourages more sales, then the pro-
upfront, and later on for royalties,” explains Rob
ducers make more money, and why shouldn’t the
At the moment, the strike has no foreseeable
end. “It could be very short or very long; it’s really
up for the producers at this time to say ‘we’re willing to talk’,” says Macklin.
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January 18, 2006
NEWS
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Ambrose Out, Baird In as Federal Environment Minister
Conservative Policies to Change?
Julienne Isaacs
Volunteer Staff
W
hen a chunk of ice the size of 11,000
football fields snapped off the northern coast of Ellesmere island in
August 2005, nobody heard the sound or even
noticed the fissure until late 2006. But these days,
the sound of global warming is ringing in the
ears of Prime Minister Stephen Harper forcing
him to act. On Jan. 4, after a great deal of public
speculation, Rona Ambrose’ Environment portfolio was taken over by Ottawa West-Nepean MP
John Baird.
Ambrose is now re-appointed as Minister
of Western Economic Diversification as well as
Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs. She came
to the position of federal Environment Minister
in February 2006 with a wealth of experience
in international relations, foreign affairs and finance — but a dearth of experience in environmental issues.
The cabinet shuffle might be simple
Parliamentary housekeeping, or it could signal a
major shift in Harper’s priorities. The votes are in
and Canadians are more worried than ever about
the state of the environment. A recent Ipsos-Reid
poll showed that nearly thirty per cent of participants believed the environment should be the
government’s top priority — the highest figure in
over ten years.
The Conservative government’s stance
on Kyoto is at the heart of the issue. Ambrose
was heavily criticized for her unwavering insistence that Canada cannot meet its 2012 goals —
namely, to cut greenhouse gas emissions to at
least five per cent below 1990 levels.
“It is impossible, impossible for Canada to
reach its Kyoto targets,” Ambrose said last April as
reported by the CBC. Impossible or not, Canada
is committed to try. Countries that fail to reach
goals before the first commitment period (2012)
are required to make up the difference with an
added 30 per cent in the second period.
Harper’s Clean Air Act, introduced in
October 2006, is a shaky replacement for the previous Liberal government’s “Moving Forward on
Climate Change” plan to honour Kyoto commitments. Focused on industry emissions, the Clean
Air Act is intensity-based, meaning that though
emission targets for each unit of energy—barrel
of oil, for instance—have been reduced, if overall production increases, overall emissions will
also increase.
Under the ominous cloud of public unrest
over Kyoto, John Baird steps up to the plate with
a clean slate and a solid record in provincial politics. Baird is Ontario’s former Minister of Energy,
Community and Social Services, and Minister
Responsible for Children, amongst a host of
other rolls at the provincial level.
Baird has plenty of experience trying
to tweak Ontario’s welfare programs—as
Community and Social Services minister, he
fought for welfare fraud hotlines and drug and
literacy testing within the system. As Treasury
Board President at the federal level, Baird received acclaim last spring for heading the passage of the federal Accountability Act into law—
and stirred up controversy in September for announcing dramatic cuts to a multitude of federal
…The Conservative
government promotes GDP
growth, which doesn’t help
anyone but manufacturers….
Do the powerful ever give us
the chance to define what a
healthy community looks like?”
– Andrew Basham,
EcoMafia, University of Winnipeg
programs. Known for his bombast and zeal for
reform, Baird is ensconced in Harper’s elite priorities and planning committee, and already
wields more influence than Ambrose ever did.
But is he any more fit for the job? Danny
Blair, Director of the Global College’s Climate
U of W Offers Youth a Chance to Plan Their Winnipeg
contest are due Jan. 30. A panel of experts chosen
by the University and its partners, the University
of Manitoba, Red River College, and the Winnipeg
Free Press, will review the submissions and select
Derek Leschasin
on a grand scale or a very localized one.
News Editor
T
Change Institute at the University of Winnipeg,
is withholding judgment on that question. But
he has doubts about Baird’s appointment.
“It doesn’t seem that he has any real experience with environmental issues, as was the case
with Ambrose,” says Blair. “He couldn’t be any
worse, and his performance really depends on
what he is allowed to say or do.”
Indeed, it will depend on Harper’s priorities whether Baird can actually mobilize efforts
towards the honouring of Kyoto agreements.
Andrew Coyne of the National Post calls Baird
“the man sent to kill the issue,” arguing that his
role will be to neutralize the environment as an
election issue rather than bring it to the forefront
of Harper’s platform.
Closer to home, Andrew Basham, newly
elected leader for the Manitoba Green Party and
member of EcoMafia, believes Baird has little
to recommend him for the position of environment minister. “John Baird doesn’t have any credentials,” he says, echoing Coyne’s concerns.
“The most important thing is to look at growth…
The Conservative government promotes GDP
growth, which doesn’t help anyone but manufacturers.”
“Do the powerful ever give us the chance to
define what a healthy community looks like?”
With any luck, Environment Minister John
Baird will listen to Canadians and affect change
for the better in environmental policy—if he can
hear them over the sound of ice breaking up in
the North.
Winnipeg become.
finalists to present their projects at a “urban sci-
“It could be as small as renovating a street
“It came about really as a result of the City
ence fair” in March. Winners chosen from the final-
or a community center, to as broad as rethink-
Summit, and Lloyd (Axworthy) and others talking
ists, divided into categories based on age groups,
ing downtown…. We purposely wanted to leave it
about whether or not we really had enough youth
will receive cash prizes.
he University of Winnipeg, together with
open,” says Jino Distasio, Director of the Institute
represented,” says Distasio, referring to the high-
some high-profile partners, is offering an
of Urban Studies at the U of W.
profile conference on the future of Winnipeg put
But Distasio says the hope is the contest
won’t end there.
opportunity for youth with a vision for
The contest encourages submissions in mul-
on by Mayor Sam Katz earlier this year. “We felt
“We’re going to try and keep it hopefully fun,
Winnipeg to make their ideas known. The ‘Plan Your
tiple formats, from models, to videos, to songs, or
that something like a ‘Plan Your Winnipeg’ would
but the idea is… that we’re going to partner with
Winnipeg’ contest is an initiative for Winnipeggers
a more traditional written plan. Distasio says this
be an opportunity for youth... to really come up
some architects and some professionals... Maybe
from elementary school-age to 24 years to develop
is an opportunity for young people to be creative
with some innovative ideas.”
somebody’s idea is so good, that it actually gets
a plan to make Winnipeg a better place, whether
and to present ideas for what they would like to see
Initial submissions and proposals for the
built. Or maybe somebody picks up the ball and
says ‘wow, that is a great idea. I’m going to redevelop the Kapyong Barracks into a wave pool’. Who
The UN’s World Meteorological Organization kicked off 2007 by warning it will be the warmest year recorded,
ever. Canada has started off with abnormal and damaging weather, from plus side temperatures in Central
Canada to punishing storms on the West Coast. The media and an increasing number of citizens have
started putting the two together, explaining the environment’s new reign as the number one issue of
concern amoung Canadians. We ask if the automatic link is justified; is extreme weather an indicator of global warming, or is that a false assumption?
Nikita White, 2nd year Scholar of All
– “There’s no real proof either way, it’s just stuff
people are telling me. It’s a recent phenomena
and everyone is jumping on board. Better safe
than sorry, though.”
Lindsay, 3rd year Business and Communications – “Yes, I believe its an indicator. Haven’t you seen An Inconvenient
Truth yet?”
A.S., 5th year Biology and Religion
– “It’s a false assumption. It could be [true],
but you can’t always correlate cause and effect based on what the mood of the times is.
There’s been plenty of extreme weather in the
past. Weather is very ineffable.”
F.M., 4th year Business Administration
– “I think that it is. The most extreme weather
we have had has happened in the past 15
years. When did the ozone depletion start? The
1960s? So, it can be assumed.”
knows what it might be?”
For more information, check out
www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/plan-your-winnipeg
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NEWS
Bush Announces New Plan for Iraq: More Troops to Fight, and More Money to Spend
World
Graham Podolecki
News BriefS
Compiled by Brooke Dmytriw
ELLESMERE
ISLAND,
CANADA—
Scientists have determined one of Canada’s oldest
and largest ice shelves broke off the Artic island over one
year ago. The Ayles Ice Shelf, which measured about 66
square kilometres or the size of 11,000 football fields,
collapsed from Ellesmere Island Aug. 13, 2005. No one
was present to witness the event, but using satellite imaging, scientists monitoring the North remarked a new ice
island in the Artic Ocean. Within days, the broken shelf
had floated 50 kilometres west, leaving a trail of icebergs
behind it. According to the Associated Press, earthquake
monitors 250 kilometres from the collapse recorded the
seismic activity from the breakage. The collapse of Ayles
is the most historic environmental event in Northern
Canada during the last 30 years. Global warming is considered the cause. The Canadian ice shelves float on the
sea but remain attached to land; some contain ice from
the last Ice Age.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Defence
Department released a report asserting Canadian coins
were being used as surveillance and tracking devices.
The report did not explain how the defence department
identified the coins, how the surveillance functioned
or who might be using such technology. Technology
Collection Trends in the U.S. Defence Industry recorded
the currency discovery in its appendix. According to the
Associated Press, the report did explain that on three occasions within a 4-month time span, defence contractors
travelling in Canada found Canadian coins they were carrying contained radio transmitters. The Canadian Security
P
resident George W. Bush has admitted it’s time to change his strategy in
Iraq. In a televised address on Jan.
10, the president outlined his new plan to
win the war. The plan includes the deployment of over 20,000 new soldiers to Iraq,
and billions of dollars in new spending.
The President formulated the plan
after spending nearly three months debating a new strategy for the war with his leading generals. In his address, Bush acknowledged that mistakes had been made and
that the current situation in Iraq was unacceptable.
Bush feels that his new plan can work
saying that it addressed the mistakes of previous strategies. The plan includes the deployment of 17 500 troops to Baghdad, while
another 4 000 are to be sent to the turbulent
Anbar province. $6.8 billion more will be required to fund the soldiers and continue reconstruction efforts. And nine new provincial reconstruction teams will be added to
the ten already in existence, providing small
loans to businesses and other forms of economic aid.
Bush stated that the main two reasons
the troops in Iraq, and especially in Baghdad
were not succeeding was that there were too
many restrictions on the troops and there
were not enough troops to secure neighbourhoods cleared of insurgents. Bush feels
that increased troops “will have the force
levels we need to hold the areas that have
been cleared.”
University of Winnipeg Associate
Professor and expert in American politics
Ken Gibbons, feels the new plan is insufficient and will not stop the sectarian violence tearing the country apart. He suggests
that, “Increasing [the number of troops] will
only create more middle-men in a civil war.”
More troops, Gibbons argues, may continue
to wither American support from Iraqi civilians and embolden the insurgents.
Gibbons believes that the President is
pleasing no one. He feels that by increasing
the troops, Bush offends the Democrats but
the number is not sufficient to please those
who favour the plan.
The new plan attempts to restore
American confidence in a war that is becoming increasingly unpopular. An Ipsos
poll from December showed American support for the President’s handling of the war
at only 27 per cent. With death tolls rising
and no end to the fighting in sight, many
Americans are demanding a withdrawal of
troops from Iraq. In the November midterm elections, the Democrats won control of Congress mainly on an anti-war campaign.
Gibbons thinks the new plan will not
get the President much support. He believes
the plan recognizes the President’s low
public support by admitting that mistakes
had been made, but feels any rise in his approval rating will be slight.
The Democrats immediately expressed
their opposition to Bush’s plan. In a joint
statement, Democratic Party leaders stated
that, “escalating [American] military involvement sends precisely the wrong message and we oppose it.”
The Democrats want the Iraqi government to take more control of its own affairs
and “achieve a political resolution to the
sectarian problems in their country.”
The plan is even being opposed by
fellow Republicans, including Senator Norm
Coleman who stated, “that if Iraq is going to
fulfill its duty as a sovereign and democratic
state, it must act like one.”
With many Democrats and fellow
Republicans beginning to discuss the topic
of a planned withdrawal, the president contended that such a plan would be a “disaster for the United States” and would “force a
collapse of the Iraqi government.” American
withdrawal, he warns, would encourage the
insurgents and harbour terrorists who would
threaten the lives of everyday Americans.
It “would result in our troops being in
Iraq even longer and confront an enemy
that is even more lethal.” By committing
more troops to the war, Bush stated that
it can “hasten the day our troops begin
coming home.”
Gibbons is not convinced that increasing troops will be effective in stopping the
insurgents or terrorists or hastening the end
of the conflict. He believes that the terrorist
threat of Iraq was “created by failed policy
in the first place.” He points out that even
Saddam Hussein’s government never harboured terrorists, and that Iraq only became
a terrorist haven after the American invasion of March 2003. The distant threat of terrorist attacks on the United States, Gibbons
argues, “Is not worth the lives of more
American soldiers.”
Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the
war has cost the United States more than
$400 billion and has claimed the lives of
more than 3 000 soldiers.
Intelligence Service (CSIS) commented they were not associated with such espionage and not even aware of the
incidents. Since the report’s release, many espionage experts have said the accusation is baseless. A radio frequency transmitter, or identification device, which U.S
How Relevant is the Student Vote?
Defence claims was used, can be implanted into anything, varying from humans to credit cards. The transmit-
Sandy Klowak
ters send out a signal through radio waves. A radio frequency identification device embedded in a coin would
have a limited range would be a poor surveillance measure since coins are exchanged so often.
TOKYO, JAPAN— Police arrested a woman
who confessed to killing her husband, dismembering
him and scattering his body parts around the city. 32year old Kaori Mihashi admitted to bludgeoning her husband’s head with a wine bottle while he was sleeping. She
dismembered his body with a say and dumped pieces of
Yusuke Mihashi, 30, around metropolitan and suburban
Tokyo reported the Associated Press. Police discovered
Mihashi’s torso in a garbage bag in December. His legs
were found later in the month and the head was located
last week. The arms have yet to be located. Despite her
confession, Kaori Mihashi has only been charged with
abandoning a corpse, thus far. Mihashi told police her
husband was physically and emotionally abusive to her.
MINSK, BELARUS— The flow of crude oil
has resumed to central and eastern Europe after Russia
cut off supplies for three days. BBC News reported the
blockade was imposed after Russia accused Minsk of illegally siphoning off the Druzhba pipeline. Russia supplies oil to countries like Germany, Italy, and Belgium with
Hungary, Slovakia, Finland, Poland and Czech Republic
being the largest consumers. The blockade caused concerns from many EU countries who want to see controls
placed on energy suppliers like Russia. The European
Union Energy Commissioner requested the cooperation
of supplier states and transit nations, like Belarus. The
tension erupted after Moscow raised the cost of gas supplies to Belarus in late December. Russia followed up by
imposing higher duties on oil exports to the country after
it assessed that Belarus was costing Russia $4 billion in
lost income annually. Belarus responded by implementing a $45/tonne transit tax on Russian oil shipments. The
Druzhba pipeline works at full capacity, travelling 4023
km into Europe and pipes more than 1.2 million barrels
of oil daily to eastern and central Europe.
C
an elections change society? That
was the question of the hour at the
New Socialist Group’s public discussion last Thursday, and to say that participants are skeptical is an understatement.
It’s a common sentiment that
Manitoban voters, and young people in particular, are becoming increasingly discouraged and apathetic toward electoral politics — unsatisfied with the options presented, and doubtful that their vote carries
any weight. Do students feel that politicians
are not hearing their voices and concerns?
With both provincial and federal elections
expected in 2007, and recent civic election
voter turnout approaching an all-time low,
the question becomes increasingly relevant.
The New Socialist Group (NSG) is a left
wing organization that opposes capitalism,
which they feel is impeding the creation of
a “genuinely democratic, free, ecologicallysustainable society without poverty and
war,” as explained on their website, www.
newsocialist.org.
In his article Why Left Electoralism Isn’t
Enough, on which the discussion was based,
David Mandel, a Quebec-based Marxist academic, explains that due to the enormous
amount of power wielded by the capitalist
class, any party that comes into power—left
wing included—must maintain its support,
and thus is not in a position to effect any
real change that might harm the business
community’s interests. However, this idea is
only relevant assuming all students situate
themselves on the political left, and feel unsatisfied with current conditions.
Like several others at last Thursday’s
discussion, Adrie Naylor, a member of the
group and student at the U of M, is frustrated with existing electoral policies and
feels that there is virtually no point in voting
as nothing ever seems to change.
And how do U of W students feel about
the value of their voice, and their vote?
Opinions vary. Some students are contently
disinterested.
If I don’t vote, then
what’s the point of democracy?”
– Lindsay Chochinov,
Theatre student
“In my position right now as a regular
full-time student, as of late, nothing really
affects me,” says Mackenzie Lake, a Politics
student. Lake feels that the concept of voting
simply to exercise one’s civil right is silly.
Chris Janz, from the Department of
Education, feels that issues important to
students are being adequately addressed, as
far as he can tell.
English major Kelsey Clark has not
gotten around to voting. So far, no political
issues have sparked her interest. She does
feel that issues relevant to students, such as
tuition fees, should receive more attention.
Other students feel that voting has
value. “If I don’t [vote], then what’s the
point of democracy?” asks Theatre student
Lindsay Chochinov.
Rheal
Gauthier,
majoring
in
Communications, strives to be an example for others by voting, but feels that his
voice is not well represented nationally, and
would like to see the introduction of proportional representation.
Andrew
Basham,
Environmental
Studies major and newly elected provincial leader of the Green Party, enthusiastically supports the vote, and stresses the importance of citizen-based procedures, such
as the single transferable voting system, a
form of proportional representation. As a
party leader in his early twenties, Basham
hopes to serve as a role model, and encourages students to join political parties, allowing them to be directly involved in choosing
candidates and platforms. “Voting is not the
end of the line for democracy,” he advises.
The New Socialist Group would take
it much further than that—they feel that
voting does not play any part in effecting
real social change. Naylor says Canadians
need to be exposed to the idea that change
can happen outside of the existing political
structure.
“I think most people don’t even consider this,” she says. The NSG “promote[s]
the politics of socialism from below,” meaning that they focus on the importance of
grassroots social movements as the true
catalyst for social change. Naylor does not
count on her vote to make the difference.
However, interestingly, like several others
at the meeting who share her view, she still
votes.
In his article, Mandel stresses the essential balance between “parliamentary
struggle” and “extra-parliamentary political
mobilization,” for real change. And David
Camfield, another NSG member, agrees,
describing the balance as important in the
“process of building a truly revolutionary
force” that cannot be ignored.
The Uniter
January 18, 2006
NEWS
Metis Hold First Conference on
Post-Secondary Education at U of W
Renee Lilley
F
rom Jan. 11 - 13, the Manitoba Metis
Federation and its affiliate CAMPUS
group (Campus Alliance of Metis
Pioneering
Undergraduate/Graduate
Scholars) held their first annual 2007 conference on post-secondary education for
Metis students.
Held at the University of Winnipeg,
the conference was organized in order to
gain representation for Metis students in
Manitoba by developing partnerships, and
to gain a student database that will help the
MMF assist its students pursuing post-secondary education.
To begin the conference, a few inspiring words by conference coordinator Sioux
Ranville were spoken, then Metis Elder
Ted Chartrand gathered the audience in
prayer for the conference. Shortly following,
Premier Gary Doer spoke, and noted that
“the sky is the limit when you set your sights
on living the dream.”
Many other respected Metis spoke at
the conference, including Dan Hurley, the
Executive Director of External Affairs at
the U of W, as well as MMF president David
Chartrand. Chartrand discussed protecting
the future of our youth and talked about the
database of students he hoped to gain by
the end of the conference so he knew how
many Metis students to assist with funding.
He said the conference was not just a onetime event, meaning it was the start of many
to come in future years.
The conference held a theme of “making
connections”, in the hope for Metis students
to come together and find solutions to the
barriers that may come with getting a post
secondary education. Conference coordinator Sioux Ranville hopes the conference will reach students and bring them together. When asked what he hoped the students would take away from the conference
he stated that “relief, and knowing how the
funding works for the big machine of higher
education” was something he’d like to see.
The conference also discussed the
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meaning of being Metis, and many respected Metis people shared their life stories, including well-known author Beatrice
Culleton-Mosioniere, whose novel In
Search of April Raintree is taught through
out Manitoba high schools.
The conference had about 35 speakers
who dealt with many issues involved with
Metis students and post-secondary education. Issues like barriers, opportunities for
funding, the history of the Metis people, and
the varying problems that Metis face like
discrimination, racism and inequality were
mentioned. Friday night brought some fun
and tradition with a fiddle and jig contest
as well as musical entertainment. Saturday
continued on with keynote speakers and
closing remarks were given by MMF president David Chartrand and president of the
Metis National Council, Clement Chartier.
Each speaker and organizer was given a traditional sash handmade by Metis people in
respect for their contributions and dedication to the conference.
News BriefS
Compiled by Kristy Rydz,
Michelle Dobrovolny
City of Winnipeg Searching
for New Police Chief
The City of Winnipeg is looking for a new
police chief, but its politicians are officially staying
out of the selection of the new leader.
The vacancy was created when Winnipeg
police Chief Jack Ewatski announced that he will
retire this summer, ending his thirty four years with
the force, serving as Chief for the last nine. In making
the announcement, he has denied all claims that the
inquiry into James Driskell’s wrongful conviction, the
results of which are being released later this month,
at all impacted his decision. Driskell spent more than
thirteen years in prison for a first degree murder that
he didn’t commit, and was released in 1993.
Ewatski’s official retirement will take place in
September, leaving Chief Administrative Officer for
One-on-One: Kate Sjoberg
the city, Annitta Stenning, nine months to find a qual-
A look ahead with the UWSA Prez
ified replacement, either internally, nationally, or internationally, to fill the high profile position. Many
at City Hall have already spoken out about the kind
of leader being sought after, including Mayor Katz’s
need for someone familiar with a statistics-based
Michelle Dobrovolny
Beat Reporter
K
ate Sjoberg is entering the final
stretch of her two-year stint as
UWSA President. So what she
done in her time occupying the corner
desk of the UWSA office? The Uniter sat
down with the outspoken representative
of U of W students to get her reflections
on her second term, what’s coming up,
and the role of the UWSA.
When Sjoberg was re-elected last
spring, she promised to increase student services, including a U-Pass program that would provide discounted
transit for students. While some of the
tangible results of her election promises this year have been new services like
online access to the health plan and the
Petrified Sole bookstore, little mention
has been made of U-Pass over the year.
What happened?
“We are kind of waiting for the stars
to line up on that one,” says Sjoberg. “We
are in this interesting situation of wanting to save lots of students’ money by
providing a discounted bus pass, but
also being very aware of the impact of
an extra $250. That’s much further in the
future than I ever thought it would be,
but it is really kind of a long-term project.”
In the immediate future, Sjoberg says
she has been busy planning the National
Day of Student Action, the annual climax
of the Canadian Federation of Students’
campaign to eliminate tuition fees. The
Day of Action caused a minor debate
prior to the holiday break, when some
faculty members opposed academic amnesty for students. Academic amnesty
essentially grants a free sick day to students so they can participate in the Day
of Action rally. Without it, Sjoberg and
her protest would have suffered a severe
hit.
“It’s an interesting conversation because we’ve all had classes where tests
have been changed after the syllabus
has been set, or schedules get changed
for whatever reason,” she says. “Some
people see the syllabus as a contract between the professor and the student.
I suppose that’s fair, but I don’t think
in day-to-day practice that it’s actually
treated that way.”
Sjoberg was ultimately successful in
getting amnesty for students. However,
attendance at last year’s rally was estimated at a paltry 1000, despite the fact
that it was held in conjunction with the
University of Manitoba Students’ Union.
While the main cause for low-turnout
I think it’s pretty
destructive to tone down your
message. What gets more
people involved is being very
clear about what you stand for,
and what you don’t stand for.”
– Kate Sjoberg,
UWSA President
is undoubtedly apathy, in the tuition
debate, there is also the side that believes low tuition means low-quality education. So how does Sjoberg try to represent students who argue for quality
over accessibility?
“We try to have as much talk about
issues as possible,” she says, adding that
the UWSA has invited Dave Angus from
the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce to
speak at the university. “He has very specific views about the about the tuition
freeze that don’t necessarily line up with
the official position of the UWSA. I think
it’s important to keep having that debate,
and to keep talking about the issue.”
Of course, Sjoberg never hesitates to
add her own opinion to the debate, and
quickly adds her own views.
“Bottom line, the best way to increase access to post-secondary education is to lower tuition, from any perspective. You get, on the whole, more
funding for schools, more people get to
go, and that’s better for everybody. And
in the long term, that’s better for communities, and provinces, and countries.
That’s one area where we take a strong
stand.”
Though it’s not the only stance the
UWSA takes. Under Sjoberg’s reign, the
UWSA has become a voice not just for
students, but for a wide range of causes
ranging from fair trade to women’s rights.
However, she sees these issues as important to students, and thus issues the
UWSA needs to advocate.
“It’s really important that we talk
about a lot of different issues, because
we have a lot of students, and students
from different backgrounds,” she says.
“Specifically on feminist issues, the cuts
that organizations are experiencing are
important, and we are a voice for women’s issues that are not being impacted
by those cuts because our Womyn’s
centre is not funded by government, but
by student fees. In some ways, we have
an opportunity to speak very strongly on
something that’s really important, happening in Canada right now. Other organizations that have done that work in the
past are having their legs cut out from
under them.”
Sjoberg is open to the idea that not
everyone thinks the UWSA needs to take
on advocacy work for issues ranging outside the scope of students’ rights. But undermining all her work is her belief that,
well, you need to believe in something.
“I think it’s pretty destructive to tone
down your message. What gets more
people involved is being very clear about
what you stand for, and what you don’t
stand for. That raises a level of debate
that is important, and I think it encourages more people to participate in that
debate... I think that’s an important role
that we play.”
system called CrimeStat, in addition to the candidate
knowing the city, the force and being able to balance
the many facets of the job. Regardless, all city politicians, especially Katz, have made it clear that they
are going to allow Stenning to make the selection
without their direct intervention. Ewatski’s departure
means that there are now numerous executive position vacancies, including financial chief officer and
fire/paramedic chief.
New Vacancy on UWSA Board
The UWSA Board of Directors has yet another
vacant position. Arts Director Ian Scott handed in his
resignation at the Jan. 9 board meeting.
Scott has left to take a position as a social
worker in Gaborone, Botswana, which will fulfill part
of his course requirements.
The Arts Director position will remain empty
until the next election. Scott has had to leave behind
a number of duties, including his participation on
the selection committee charged with choosing the
new Dean of Arts. That spot will now be filled by
Recreation/Athletics Director Scott Nosaty.
There are now 4 vacant positions on the UWSA
board. Other vacant positions are both co-Directors
for Aboriginal students, as well as Vice-President
Advocate, vacated by Matt Gagne last summer.
Redrawing Riel’s History
A Métis organization wants Canadians to picture the life history of Louis Riel in a clearer, more colourful light by giving it the comic book treatment reported the Winnipeg Free Press this week.
The Union National Métisse Saint-Joseph du
Manitoba, Canada’s oldest Métis federation, will fund
the drafting of a 50-page hardcover comic along side
the federal Department of Indian Affairs. Once published, the book will find its way to every school in
Manitoba, part of the hope that young people will develop a positive view of Riel’s contribution to Canada’s
formation. A commercial run is also planned.
It will take Robert Freynet, the artist commissioned to write and illustrate the comic, about a year
to complete a draft. Three historians and a group of
editors will then review the creation before it reaches
shelves, or classrooms.
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COMMENTS
Editorials
Managing Editor: Jo Snyder
A space to go, a space to stay
Shorts & Clichés
Documenting the WRETCHED Land of
Political Punditry
Jo Snyder
Managing Editor
T
he imminent foreclosing of Kelvin
Community Centre is symptomatic of the current political climate
in Winnipeg’s municipal government. It’s a
cold one. There has been a huge shift within
the last four years in public management
principles. For example, the constant focus
on tax cuts necessarily implies cuts to services reinforcing the fact that you can’t run
a city like a business. Katz’s CrimeStat plan
puts money into surveillance rather than
citizen-powered community policing and
community mobilization strategies.
Much like the lack of consultation with
the community regarding the number and
placement of police in the city, the Mayor’s
office is also unilaterally making decisions
about the closure of community centres.
Admittedly, Kelvin Community Centre is not
perfect: the building is in disrepair; there is
an alleged lack of volunteers; not enough
people are using the centre. But these facts
do not trump the necessity of keeping its
doors open, and others like it, instead of
creating mega-centres that are few and far
between.
While giant recreation centres definitely have their good points — the YMCA
downtown, for example, is a great place to
go — the city should not underestimate the
importance of localized recreational centres. These places cultivate community, a
sense of belonging and they provide a safe
space for kids to go. A friend of mine said
that when she was a kid all she had to do was
cross the alley and turn the corner to get to
her local community centre. If it hadn’t been
that close, then she likely wouldn’t have
used it as often or as independently. The obvious problem with big centres spaced too
far apart is access.
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City Council will be meeting Jan. 24 at
9:00 a.m. to make the final vote on Kelvin
Community Centre. To be put on the speakers’ list you must register with the clerk’s
office by Jan. 22.
Send your well disguised leading,
kerning, and font jokes or your concernedcitizen-tirades to [email protected].
James Patterson
Business Manager
Give with the Left, Take away
with the Right
In the latest edition of Reagan-esque
pre-election media photo-ops, Federal Public
Works Minister Stockwell Day last week took a
break from his normal portfolio issues (border
security and impending passport biometrics)
and dropped by Winnipeg to address communities with at-risk youth.
The community funding arrangement of
$16 million over three years is geared to help
community programs that steer youth away
from crime and gangs. No doubt the programs
have received a well-needed hand helping kids
across the country.
While not looking a gift horse in the
mouth, the funding pales in comparison to
November’s announcement of $240 million
dollars for new prisons or the $40 million
annual price tag to administrate those incarcerated under the enactments of mandatory
minimum sentencing.
If actions say anything about true intensions, it seems that new Federal Justice
Policy of incarceration trumping prevention
is as fiscally irresponsible as it is lacking in
priorities.
“Vengeance has no foresight”
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The Trivial World of Monolith
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Again with the monolith projects! The
Aspers, fast becoming Winnipeg’s first family
of major structural projects, have struck again.
This time it’s the proposed planned purchase
of Winnipeg hallowed CFL football franchise,
the Blue Bombers, with a sweet plan for rebuilding the existing stadium.
Although there are few egregious problems with the concept of the team’s private
ownership, the replacement of the current archaic stadium, or the design of the new building, one may wish to question its proposed
(current) location.
The present site is often reviled for its
production of traffic snarls. Winnipeg, being
recalcitrant against the slightest traffic congestion (enough to make it a large political issue)
should take pause and imagine what awaits en
route when regular game-day capacity is increased by roughly 10,000 seats.
Secondly, given the current stadium’s
prime commercial location is already bursting
with near capacity retail development, questions arise about the ability to produce an optimized economic impact. The high land values
in the surrounding area (little of which can
be further developed) virtually lock out most
small businesses. Simply put, the current
location’s success may not be ideal to create
the all-important economic spin-offs for local
businesses, or community renewal.
Spin-off growth or the building of conditions (like increased foot traffic) for other economic revenues is often a strong consideration
in development associated with large commercial (and government sponsored) building
projects. This was the economic candy that
sold us the downtown arena, so why isn’t it being talked about now?
This isn’t just about sports folks, and it’s
not all bad, but perhaps more public discussion is warranted.
“When we build our landscape around
places to go, we lose places to be.“
-Rick Cole
The Uniter
January 18, 2006
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Comments Editor : Ben Wood
Image Games
Ben Wood
Comments Editor
P
erhaps the most frustrating part of
the invasion of Iraq lies in its longevity. With the recent announcement of
more than 20,000 troops being sent to secure
democracy, a U.S. Presidential term that has
its end peeking over the horizon, and declining
support around the world it would seem that
conquest is a tough game where image is everything. The longer this war lasts the harder it
is to maintain the proper image a superpower
such as the United States should have.
There is also a touch of irony in that a
country lacking in democratic values is attempting to establish democracy and sovereignty in a highly occupied and controlled
country. There are many motivators for this
war such as the control of oil, current enemies and future allies but I believe all of these
only work to serve the image the U.S. needs to
portray to the world. There were also the initial attacks of 9/11 that helped justify an invasion in the Middle East, which perpetuated
into the war we now witness. Most of this rage
has passed and the United States is left with
declining support at home and abroad about
their mission to “liberate” these people.
Why, then, is the United States committing more troops to a cause that only onequarter of the population supports? Surely
they cannot still be thinking in terms of winning this war. This is not something that can
be won or lost in conventional definitions of
these terms. How do you win a war on terror
(presented as an idea that can be killed) especially when you’re focus is concentrated on so
small an area? The symptoms diagnosed by
the Bush Administration to be terrorism are
found in places such as Sudan and Sri Lanka
to name a few. Such an ambitious war on such
a widespread concept cannot be won with
such a narrow focus; that is if such a war can
be won.
It has now become a matter of pride for
International commitments?
Kate Sjoberg
UWSA President
S
tudents are holding Canada accountable to a thirty-year-old promise that the UN is still crossing its fingers for. In 1976, Canada signed the UN
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, which dedicated us to the following nugget, among a host of other promises:
“Higher education shall be made equally accessible to all, on the basis of capacity, by
every appropriate means, and in particular
by the progressive introduction of free education.” Easier said than done.
To be fair, we are certainly not in the
worst shape out of the 149 countries that also
signed on. In 2003-2004, the OECD reported
that five of its other countries (the United
States, Chile, Australia, Japan, and South
Korea) had higher average annual tuition
costs than Canada. Yet, we’ve got a long way
to go till we’re in line with the full quarter of
OECD countries that don’t charge tuition fees
at all. Their students’ unions spend their time
working on year long O-Weeks, I imagine.
If only! Rather, the pull of living up to a reasonable, international public promise is losing
out to government choice for tax cuts among
other poorly drawn ‘priorities’ — in Canada
and most other places as well. Increasing
neo-liberalism means increased popularity
of user fees (for example, the recent federal
programme for childcare), decreased services
(Status of Women Canada just experienced
significant cuts to its funding and programming capacity), and more reliance on the in-
Bush and his Administration. To pull out now
would be to admit defeat. To appear weak on
the global stage is apparently worse than to
appear foolish. In their eyes, it would make
sense to place more troops in Iraq in order to
show the world that even though their original intentions may go unmet they will still be
a presence within the country.
Presenting themselves as such is very important upon the realization that the U.S. has
a lot to consider regarding the reality that this
occupation of Iraq will extend long past this
Presidential term. Even if the U.S. would pull
of out Iraq now, problems would not fix themselves and their past actions would not be
erased and forgotten. While an easy solution
isn’t at hand, it should be realized that the best
thing to do isn’t to insist to convert all Iraqis to
lovers of American democracy but instead to
deal with the problems they started.
Such problems have led to a very volatile future despite the “good” intentions attached to their imperialist actions. Recently,
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez
announced that they would finance projects
to stop U.S. imperialism. This money would
be used to help countries break free from U.S.
ties. Sharing a vernacular with Bush, Chavez
said these funds would become “a mechanism
for liberation,” a coalition of the willing for the
opposition, if you will.
With plans such as these surfacing,
image is everything. It is not about victory, democracy conversion rates, or the abolition of
terror. It’s about the image presented to the
world. The real issue is not the suffering that
would continue in Iraq, or the spread of violence in the Middle East if the U.S. were to pull
out, it’s about how weak they would appear.
How they would seem easily penetrable by
any foe.
With of all this it would appear that an
end does not loom over the same horizon as
Bush’s presidential term. It only seems that
this unfortunate game will continue until it
is replaced by a war on some other ominous
idea using these same pieces and images.
dividual for collective responsibilities. The
National Union of Students in Australia has
been fighting anti organizing legislation to
even exist, in addition to rising tuition fees and
intense private sector pressure for the privatization of the education system there. Though
part of the zero tuition fee club for a time, last
summer German students were found protesting the very new introduction of tuition
fees; publicly showing their opposition with
campus sit ins and even a disruption of the
autobahn during the World Cup. That move
followed closely on the heels of the UK’s 2004
move to user fees; which were implemented
this past year amidst student opposition
which continues today with their Admission:
Impossible campaign against top off fees.
The last published review of the UN
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights came out in 1998 and had this to say for
Canada: “… The Committee views also with
concern the fact that tuition fees for university education in Canada have dramatically
increased in the past few years, making it very
difficult for those in need to attend university in the absence of a loan or grant. A further
subject of concern is the significant increase
in the average student debt on graduation.”
It is tough to measure how close we and other
countries are to our international commitment. While tuition fees in Ontario are going
up, Newfoundland and Labrador recently reduced tuition fees by 25 per cent with talk
of doing away with them completely in the
not so distant future. While parts of Europe
are trying to protect what tuition fee policies
they had, Ireland recently wiped out tuition
fees as part of a national economic strategy,
and students in Scandinavian countries continue to pay only living costs to go to school.
Its encouraging not only that an international
body has encouraged our government to
make drastic improvements, but that its principles line up with those of students around
the world. Time to help Canada catch up.
Welcoming Al-Jazeera to Canada
Station brings much-needed point of view to media coverage of Middle East
Colleen Hale-Hodgson
Excalibur (York University)
TORONTO (CUP) – We are living in dark
times, with shady figures preaching attractive
philosophies, pushing their ideologies on unsuspecting citizens with ruthless disregard for
the truth. But enough about the mainstream
American media – it’s time to talk about the
new kid in town, English Al-Jazeera TV.
The illuminating 15 minutes of free AlJazeera television I was able to view through
their website (http://english.aljazeera.net/
news) may not have been enough to come to
a fully informed opinion on the station, but it
was enough to give me an idea of the channel’s
aim.
Its slogan, “All the news, all the time,”
says a lot about the scope of what the broadcast is attempting to accomplish. The idea that
a single news organization can cover the entire
world is something that’s arguably unattainable, at least in terms of the other stations that
market themselves as “global” news networks.
CNN’s coverage limits itself to stories that
affect Western residents only, while the BBC’s
established news coverage has a decidedly
Euro-centric viewpoint. The English Al-Jazeera
does seem to take its cues more from their
British counterparts than anywhere else, even
using one of their old anchors, Rageh Omaar,
for a show called “Witness”.
This was the first show that I saw when I
logged onto the website: a report on the debate
circling the world, but more specifically in
Eastern Europe, about wearing hijabs in public
places like school or in a courtroom. A young
Muslim woman was discussing the misconceptions that people have about Muslims in relation to the radicalism that has marred the religion for years. It is this misconception that appears to be at the root of the resistance to the
news network.
Most of the attention Al-Jazeera has
gained has not been positive. Donald Rumsfeld
has criticized the station for its “vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable” coverage of the Iraq war
when showing pictures of captured American
soldiers.
But how is that any different from pictures of Saddam Hussein gracing the cover of
the New York Post in his underwear or the prisoners at Abu Ghraib abused by American and
British soldiers? People get so caught up in defining the differences between Westerners and
Middle Easterners that they forget the similarities.
As for Al-Jazeera’s airing of the infamous
communiqués from Taliban leader Osama Bin
Laden, the station’s justification for them – that
they’re exclusives any news channel would run
– may sound harsh, but that’s journalism. I do
remember seeing the broadcasts replayed on
many American and Canadian channels while
talking about how offensive and shocking it is
to see them played after 9-11. If it sounds hypocritical, that’s because it is.
This brings us to what’s perhaps the most
important aspect the new Al-Jazeera, and
that’s their perspective. While American and
Canadian journalists lament about the vast
suffering that refugees in Darfur and ordinary
citizens in Iraq have to go through, it simply
doesn’t carry the same weight if we know the
journalist has only spent a few months or even
days there, with the promise of a warm and expensive home to return to.
The presence of media in the Middle East
will inevitably lead to accountability – that’s
what it’s there for. Why then should we discourage this area, which is so desperately in need
of stability, from fostering and supporting a resource that will only aid its fight for a strong independence?
The channel is available in English for
$5.95 per month, but its website is browsable
for free. It isn’t exactly the global news station
that it purports itself to be, but it provides a
point of view from a much disputed region of
the world, one we desperately need to begin
understanding.
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Diversions Editor : Matt Cohen
Straight Faced
MATT COHEN
DIVERSIONS Editor
A
s a culture we’re getting increasingly lazy. Of course, many people
won’t admit this and say that society is streamlining itself for efficiency. Take
the office chair for example. Do they really
need wheels? When your office is the size of
a small refrigerator box, does having wheels
on your chair really help increase productivity? What’s the harm in getting up to put that
stapler away? Apparently the fall of civilization.
We’ve always been taught look for
better solutions to problems. With a little ingenuity we can overcome any obstacle, but
we’re getting to the point where we’re fixing
things that aren’t even a problem. With the
rise of the internet, the new hurdle seems to
be words. They’re just too darn long. People
feel the need to shorten or abbreviate words
to make it easier to communicate. We even
abbreviate the word abbreviate. If the length
of the word is that much of a problem, use
another word. Don’t shorten it. I don’t know
what ‘lol’ means that ‘ha!’ doesn’t, but this
clearly illustrates my point.
The worst is the @ sign, or the ‘at’ sign. The
word is two letters long and we’re shortening
Michael Banias
it. It probably takes less time to write both letters than it does to make that symbol. I’d
love to meet the person who came up with
the @ sign. Sitting around their office with a
pencil in hand going, “a… t… a… t… there
has got to be a better way.” After a few illegible scribbles on a piece paper they come up
with a symbol that works as a substitute and
it’s adopted around the world.
This word shortening craze has a large
scope too. Look at fast food restaurants. If
you’re in a rush for food in the evening, you
would normally go into the late night drive
through. Instead, you’re forced to go into the
late nite drive thru. Why bother to change
two of the words? It doesn’t make things
more clear. People weren’t sitting in their
cars before the change going, “I just don’t
know what to do. I wish there were some
way to shorten some of the words to make
it clearer.”
With all of this said, I guess the only
thing to do now is sit back an accept it. So
stay tuned for next week’s Straight Faced
where I write the whole column as a giant
acronym. It may not make what I say funnier, but at least you’ll be able to read it in
half the time.
Mr. Smart
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dramatically. Hair after hair was mowed down
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in what was truly a gruesome and bloody battle
has grown and evolved, so too has his
(shaving cream having yet to be invented).
facial hair. Over time, men conspired to create
When the battle finally came to a halt, only
weapons to combat their furry foes with a tool
one strand of hair remained, alone and with-
that has stood the test of time: the sharpened
out hope. It is from this historical event that
edge. To this day we refer to any new top of the
the term “stranded” is derived. The lone chin
line developments as “cutting edge” technol-
whisker vowed to free its brethren with stub-
ogy. It was that historical achievement that
ble, and the war began anew. To this day, the
began the legendary “Follicular War.” The
war rages on with men rallying around a single
beards were unprepared, having gone unchal-
unifying slogan, “hair today gone tomorrow.”
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wines are kept in ideal conditions. They
are sealed in a room that is climate con-
L
trolled, lights are filtered, and are cared
ast year I wrote about
for and checked regularly by profession-
the common miscon-
als. The bottom of the ocean is not the
ception regarding the
most ideal space for wine. Humidity is a
age of wine. An older a wine is
little to high, the temperature is much to
not necessarily better. I also
low, and fish, though nice, are not worth
mentioned the romantic idea
their salt in being wine custodians.
of some explorer stumbling
Nothing is impossible however,
across a few bottles of wine at
and the wine may have somehow sur-
the bottom of the ocean in an
vived. Would I put money on it? Never.
ancient shipwreck, and those bot-
I think that those bottles are filled with
tles still being drinkable. Who knew that
vinegar and sea water, and if not, open-
this could be true?
ing the bottle would oxidize the wine so
A restaurant in Tampa Bay in fact
does have wine from a wreck off the
quickly that it would go bad right before
your eyes.
coast of Florida. The ship was sunk in the
Unfortunately, not too many wines
1800s, and they have the bottles hermet-
at or under the $12 mark are age-worthy,
ically sealed in a display case for tour-
but these are still damn good:
ists to see. The restaurant would even be
Kumala Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz
willing to let you taste this wine for the
2005 (Private shops - $10) – I just tried
small round sum of $10,000 a glass.
this South African wine a few weeks ago,
So what does The Uniter wine guy
and I was surprised. When I first tried
have to say about it? Wine can defi-
it, about six months ago, it was really
nitely be aged for hundreds of years, but
acidic, and closed off with rough edges.
there are many factors that determine
Now, it’s matured gracefully. The acid-
if they’re still drinkable at that time. For
ity has dropped a little, and plenty of the
wine to age a long time, it requires lots
fruit flavours have been exposed. A good
of tannins, acidity, and usually a big
touch of oak, and ripe juicy blueberries
body. As wine ages, it changes; the tan-
on the palette. Buy it soon.
nins begin to vanish, it becomes lighter,
Kumala Chenin Blanc Chardonnary
and the acidity declines. Fortified wines
2005 (Private shops - $11) – This is the
and other sweet wines are much dif-
sibling to the above Kumala, and is also a
ferent, and can last many decades due
great buy. The Chenin Blanc, also known
to the liquor that was added, or their
as Steen, softens out the Chardonnay,
copious amounts of sugar.
and adds plenty of citrus and apple fla-
Many of the Bordeaux houses in
vours. The Chardonnay provides a great
France have ancient wines in their cellars,
backbone, and the wine has a great
dating back to the 1600s. However, these
structure with a nice crisp finish.
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Crossword puzzles provided by
www.BestCrosswords.com.
Used with permission.
LAST PUZZLE'S SOLUTIONS
Across
Down
1- Rigid
6- Shut with force
10- Tennis matches are divided
into these
14- Capital of Vietnam
15- Hawaiian goose
16- Water, abroad
17- Wide-awake
18- Rectangular pier
19- Sect
20- Traditional knowledge
21- Generally
23- Spellbind
25- Dealer in cloth
26- Diving bird
27- Alloy of iron and carbon
29- Wild as wild ass of Tibet
32- Prophets
33- Tasteless items, junk
36- Yellow metallic element
37- Approaches
38- Fix up
39- Nevertheless
40- Give guns again
41- Intoxicating
42- Surmise
43- Idiot
44- Consented
47- Social worker in a hospital
51- Truckle bed
54- Wife of a rajah
55- Sharp to the taste
56- Ages
57- Wrong
58- 6th month of the Jewish
religious calendar
59- Structure for storing grain
60- Theatrical entertainment
61- Depend
62- Cut
63- Woody inhabitants of forests!
1- Oil-yielding rock
2- Claw
3- Inactive
4- Done in advance
5- Appropriate
6- Growl angrily
7- Grant temporary use of
8- Word that can precede war,
biotic and climax
9- Wanders
10- Of religious rites
11- Fit out
12- Silk fabric
13- Lustful deity
21- Cask wood
22- Greek god of war
24- Floor covering
27- Singes
28- Division of a school year
29- Soviet secret police
30- Acknowledgment of debt
31- PC key
32- Mariners can sail on seven of these
33- Leaves in a bag
34- Use an abacus
35- Plaything
37- Unnecessary
38- Reformist
40- Regretted
41- Thigh
42- Well-bred people
43- Advanced in years
44- Essential oil
45- Class
46- Rustic
47- Greek fabulist
48- Ingenuous
49- Result
50- Ascends
52- Ireland
53- Indonesian resort island
57- Singer Garfunkel
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FEATURES
Features
Green steam: Self-propelled around the globe in 893 days
CUP FILE PHOTO
Tim Harvey will publish a book with Harbour Publishing on his adventures travelling without fossil fuels
Kim Armstrong
The Martlet (University of Victoria)
VICTORIA (CUP) – In an attempt to
make it from Vancouver to Moscow without using a drop of fossil fuel, Tim Harvey
found himself cycling through Portugal at
night with one gear remaining on his bicycle, racing hurricane season to the Canary
Islands in a rowboat, and sitting in a South
American jail, waiting for his brother to
show up to pay his bail.
Harvey wanted to make it back home
using only human power, and after 893
days, he did.
“[The trip was to] encourage people
to get out of their cars and live a more
active lifestyle,” said Harvey, a University
of Victoria grad with a bachelor’s degree
in English. “Our planet is collapsing because of global warming, and scientists
these days are in absolute agreement that
human beings are causing climate change;
the only question is how bad it will be. The
irony is that the solution to climate change
is actually that we just adopt lifestyles that
are way better for us.”
Harvey thought undertaking such
an extreme trek would put the alternative
lifestyle in perspective “and make it seem
very manageable to incorporate cycling to
school or to work.”
He started the trip with fellow
Canadian Colin Angus, but the two went
their separate ways after successfully
reaching Russia, having crossed together
the Bering Sea in a rowboat and Siberia by
bike.
“It was as I got to Moscow that I got an
e-mail from a Turkish explorer, a guy based
in Seattle, who invited me to join him on a
rowboat, so I just kept riding and I thought,
‘OK, maybe I can make it home without
burning any fossil fuels.”
Harvey met up with rower Erden Eruc
in Portugal after a three-month cycle across
Europe. Although the change in plans allowed him to return home in a climatefriendly footprint fashion, it also doubled
the length of his journey.
“It was a lot longer than I thought it
would be,” said Harvey, who left in June
2004. During the course of his journey, he
travelled over 35,000 kilometres, averag-
ing between 100 and 150 kilometres a day
when cycling. Other means of transportation, such as the rowboat, a sailboat, skis
and good ol’ foot power, clocked somewhat
different speeds.
Eruk and Harvey had to abandon their
plan to cross the Atlantic by rowboat when
they got to the Canary Islands because their
boat needed extensive repairs.
“We also lost the timing to make it
right across the Atlantic to the mainland,”
said Harvey. “The farthest we would be
able to go on that boat before the hurricanes came up again was the Caribbean, if
we were lucky.”
So Harvey joined up with a crew of
young Swedish sailors who were travelling
around the world. Their engine happened
to be broken, so no emissions were burned
while they took him to Venezuela – the land
that would eventually lead him home.
On a bicycle again (this time a cheap
used bike picked up in South America)
and continuing to camp out or take advantage of the locals’ generous offers of a bed
for the night, Harvey faced the challenge
of making it through the jungle and the
Darien Gap – a section of Columbia without road infrastructure – without a map.
“Columbia wouldn’t give me detailed
maps of the region because I didn’t have
military permission and because there’s
a civil war going on, so they don’t want
people getting [a hold] of the maps.”
Harvey opted instead to navigate
Columbia’s waterways in a dugout canoe,
relying on friendly locals to point him in the
right direction. Unfortunately, that direction led him through the heart of Fuerzas
Armadas Revolucionarios de Colombia
(FARC) territory.
FARC translates as Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia and according
to the Federation of American Scientists
consists of “between 9,000 and 12,000
armed combatants and several thousand
more supporters, mostly in rural areas.”
In order to disguise his whiteness,
Harvey painted himself purple with the
juice of the Kipara fruit, a practice of the indigenous Embera people that protects the
wearer from the sun and repels insects.
Harvey learned the trick too late to
protect himself from a malaria-carrying
mosquito that infected him on his journey
through the jungle. Eventually he had to
abandon the canoe and hike to the Panama
border.
“As soon as I got to the border, I was
travelling illegally, because there was nowhere to get my passport stamped,” Harvey
said. There are legal ways to cross Panama,
but they involve using fossil fuels.
In the mountains, Harvey built himself a balsa wood raft with the help of locals
and travelled at night to avoid detection.
“One of the scarier moments of the trip
was going down this white water at night. I
had an illegal Peruvian on the boat with me
because we were sort of helping each other
stay alive,” said Harvey. “We were just rafting down this river, and we were slipping
by villages that were guarded by the military, just pretending we were a log and just
hoping they didn’t open fire on us.”
Unfortunately, the duo was spotted
and arrested. Harvey’s brother, who was
waiting to meet him at the border, was able
to bail him out.
The rest of the trip took place on a bicycle donated by Norco and, for some of
the way, in the company of his brother.
“It was interesting, because when I hit
Venezuela, I thought, ‘Wow, I’m so close. I’m
on land that touches Vancouver,” Harvey
recalled. Heavy rains and floods followed
him on the last two weeks on the road
through Oregon and Washington, where he
witnessed a house floating down the river.
Despite adverse conditions, Harvey
managed to make it home in time for the
reunion and press conference he had organized for Nov. 12.
In addition to various sponsors and
donations, Harvey funded the trip by
publishing articles in Victoria’s Monday
Magazine and with a Vancouver Sun contract that lasted until his arrival in Moscow.
The last half of the trip was funded by an
advance book contract with Harbour
Publishing.
“The focus of the book will be on Tim’s
many experiences on his journey around
the world, his reasons for doing the trip
and what he learns along the way,” said
Harbour Publishing’s Kathy Sinclair. “It’s an
amazing story filled with adventure. Tim’s
dedication to the environment and his perseverance are truly inspiring.”
Harvey’s focus now is on finishing the
book, to be released in 2007, and then putting together a film from the footage he
shot on his travels.
He said he has gotten a lot of positive
feedback about the message he is trying
to send regarding a healthier, lower-emissions lifestyle.
“I’m trying to just raise that call for
people to start living in a healthier way
that’s more satisfying and brings them
more happiness – and also do something
critical for the planet.”
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ARTS & CULTURE
Arts & Culture
Arts & Culture: Whitney Light
Staff Reporter: Kenton Smith
Lounge and learn at the Cinematheque
T
Ksenia Prints
wished to present, they were able to con-
creating, but I also always found a lot of sup-
gets down they tend to put more effort into
Beat reporter
nect with their subjects. “This enhances the
port… from organizations like the Winnipeg
their story,” he says.
work and gives it context,” says Dave Barber,
Film Group.”
Cinematheque’s programmer.
Aiken believes the notability of Canadian
Not only Winnipeg filmmakers will take
films lies in their gradual, laid-back pace, and its
hat movies go well with wine and good
“Winnipeg is well respected for the origi-
part in Cinema Lounge. Bill MacGillivray, one
focus on the breathtaking landscape. “It’s more
conversation is well known. Starting
nality of the films and videos that come out of
of Atlantic Canada’s most prominent filmmak-
like an investigative look,” she says. “Being from
Jan. 19, Winnipeggers will be able to
here,” Barber says proudly. He believes this is
ers, happens to be passing by Winnipeg just in
the prairies, I really see that same spirit in the
get two out of three through Cinematheque’s
partly due to the isolated nature of the prairies.
time to present his 1987 independent film mas-
distance, depth, and in taking the time to really
upcoming program, the Cinema Lounge
“We are not as influenced by the media as larger
terpiece Life Classes. John Paizs is a former
investigate something fully.”
series.
cities like Toronto and Vancouver. We have a
Winnipeger, while Jonathan Ball, who is pre-
Whether it is to enjoy the originality of the
long, cold winter, and people go into their imag-
senting Jeff Erbach’s The Nature of Nicholas, is
prairie artists that go beyond grain elevators, or
inations.”
currently studying in Calgary.
to gape at the shores of Newfoundland or the
The Cinema Lounge series combines insightful lectures from mostly local filmmakers with great Canadian independent films. Six
“Winnipeg really embraces a collabora-
“We try very hard to promote Canadian
speakers will present their favourite maple leaf
tive and diverse film scene,” says Coral Aiken, a
works, which often get dwarfed by Hollywood,”
Alberta mountains, Cinema Lounge has some-
picks, hoping to capture the audience’s interest
former local choreographer-turned-filmmaker.
says Barber. Canadian cinema is unique for the
and enrich their knowledge of film at the same
Aiken is the series’ first speaker, presenting
results it produces with relatively little money,
The Cinema Lounge series schedule can
time. It’s an old tack, but one that works.
Bruce McDonald’s Roadkill.
he explains. “Money can buy a visual look,
be found in the Cinematheque box office or at
thing for the Canadian in us all.
The lecture format adds depth and a per-
Being a Winnipeg filmmaker is no easy
but it doesn’t necessarily buy quality. Because
www.winnipegfilmgroup.com. Student admis-
sonal perspective to already acclaimed movies.
task. “Winnipeg artists are very inventive,” says
Canadian filmmakers, especially independent
sion is $5. General admission is $6.
Because each filmmaker chose the film he
Aiken. “I needed to trust my own instincts in
filmmakers, have to work hard to get their bud-
Wastelands through two lenses
Photo: EDWARD BURTYNSKY
such thing as throwing things away. There is
incredibly rapid rate of urban growth in China,
no away.” The film adds to, rather than replaces,
he opens up a debate about the cost of our
Burtynsky’s art.
comfort.
Burtynsky claims that his photographs are
what they are. But as he philosophizes in the
narration about waste, consumerism, and the
From Edward Burtynsky’s series China Recycling.
is one of the most incredible opening shots I
Dan Huyghebaert
have seen.
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Baichwal’s camera style is much like
Burtynsky’s. They linger on the geometrical
shapes that have been imposed on nature. From
Manufactured Landscapes
Directed by Jennifer Baichwal, 80 min
T
mines, factories, dams and cities, the film looks
at our waste and progress—all hauntingly beautiful. One example is the Three Gorges Dam, a
project that the government thought necessary
he
documentary
about
photogra-
enough to relocate whole cities, displacing over
pher Edward Burtynsky, Manufactured
a million people in the process. The filmmakers
Landscapes, is both a double entendre
document the people dismantling their homes
and a bit of a contradiction. Although Burtynsky
brick by brick while getting paid to do so.
claims that his photographs of a changing global
Nominated for a Genie award for Best
landscape through human alteration pass no
Documentary (the Canadian equivalent of
judgement, one can’t help but feel a haunting
the Oscars), Baichwal
loss from the progress of humanity.
detail that Burtynsky’s photographs can miss,
constantly shows the
Canadian filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal fol-
such as a factory foreman lamenting his crew’s
lows Burtynsky as he travels through China and
carelessness, or the minute computer parts
documents his philosophies and China’s grow-
that make up a massive land of e-waste. This
ing industrial revolution. The opening shot
can ruin the mystique of Burtynsky’s images,
seems to tell it all: a very long, slow dolly shot
which are striking in their scale. By plac-
along the interior of a factory floor from one
ing the viewer amidst the grandeur, how-
end to the other. It illustrates the extent and
ever, Baichwal reminds us of something
massiveness of this industrial landscape and
she told the Montreal Gazette: “There is no
Manufactured
Landscapes
Cinematheque Jan. 21-24 at 8:30pm.
plays
at
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Rosencrantz and
FILE PHOTO
Words speak louder than action in Stoppard’s witty cinema
Dan Huygebert
Volunteer Staff
Guildenstern are Dead
Written and Directed by Tom Stoppard
117 min
4 out of 5 mice
tempt at directing), may fall flat at times, as the
play within a play metaphor is all but lost. But for
those that enjoy word play the film is a teasure.
Not all movies have this kind of dialogue, but one
S
does come close.
ir Tom Stoppard is no stranger to film
Although he wasn’t the main creative force
work. He’s had a hand in screenplays like
behind Brazil, Stoppard’s verbal wit still comes
Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun (also play-
through. The brainchild of Terry Gilliam (that
ing at Cinematheque during Stoppardfest), and
Monty Python guy behind all those crazy ani-
won an Oscar for Original Screenplay for 1999’s
mations who also did Fear and Loathing in Las
Shakespeare in Love. But for me, the most mem-
Vegas), Brazil is a feast for the imagination. Mild
orable screen experience of his work is 1990’s
mannered Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) is cataRosencrantz and Guildenstern
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
After seeing the film for the first time, I
pulted from his boring bureaucratic government
job and knight in shining armor dreams into a
wanted to play its featured game, Questions. But
pointlessness. “Shouldn’t we do something con-
conspiracy involving waste engineer terrorists
it’s not as easy as it sounds. Stoppard’s two charac-
structive?” muses Rosencrantz. Guildenstern’s
(one of which is played by Robert De Niro).
Written by Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard
ters ask each other questions, to which they must
reply: “What did you have in mind? A short, blunt
As visual as the film is it makes some seri-
and Charles McKoewn
respond in kind with a question. The first to get a
human pyramid?” They meander through the
ous comments about fear, obedience, culture and
response in non-question form scores a point.
Brazil
Directed by Terry Gilliam
131 min
5 out of 5 mice
film without any purpose, playing games, flip-
society, all sculpted within a Big Brotheresque
and
ping coins, and asking questions of each other
framework that is just as potent today as it was
Guildenstern (Tim Roth) discuss two minor char-
about their scripted lives, and wait for their turn
back in 1985. It’s wondrous, nightmarish, and one
acters in Hamlet and consider the play from their
on life’s stage.
of the slyest, funniest movies you will ever see:
Rosencrantz
(Gary
Oldman)
point of view. Instead of having only minor roles,
Stoppard’s verbal wit is what’s front and
they figure front and centre. The film doesn’t
centre, and it’s his trademark. Puns, double en-
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
answer any of the important questions that
tendres, innuendo. Words are all the charac-
plays at Cinematheque Feb. 1 at 7 p.m. and
Hamlet raises, but that’s not the point. Or is it?
ters have, especially on stage. The film transla-
Feb. 3 at 2 p.m. Brazil plays at Cinematheque
Much like Waiting for Godot, it’s an exercise in
tion, also directed by Stoppard (in his only at-
Jan. 20 at 12 p.m.
Gilliam’s masterpiece.
Mom’s the word Kid Koala brings the party to the Peg
packages are like the loot bags! Remember back
when we were kids how much fun it would be to get
“It depends what I find in the Yukon. That’s
where I’ll be playing the day before.”
loot bags at the end of the party? It’s like the party
goes on even after your mom picks you up to leave!”
I do remember that. It was great. What’s in
FILE PHOTO
store for Winnipeggers next week?
Kid Koala
sorts of genres, movies, and spoken word, one might
imagine that San’s record collection numbers in the
Whitney Light
thousands. In actuality, “Around 20,” he says. “The
Arts Editor
rest are on loan!”
Before he learned to scratch, San picked up
E
the pencil. Not to write stories, but to draw them. He
ric San has ridiculous animated characters
hasn’t put the pencil down. Scratchy graphics, often
partying in his head, always. At least that’s
caricatures of those partying characters in his head,
how he, a.k.a. Kid Koala, describes the inspi-
accompany San’s musical releases. One time the re-
ration for the personalities scratched into his quirky
verse happened. San released a comic book, Nufonia
turntable music. Next week, he’s bringing the party
Must Fall, accompanied by a soundtrack.
to Winnipeg.
Through music the limited existences of San’s
Currently San is riding on the success of his
characters are fleshed out. Moments of jazz, hip-
latest album, Your Mom’s Favorite DJ, released in
hop, blues, and rock bring them to life. The latest
2006 on the UK’s seminal indie electronica and hip
album features southern blues, some gospel, with
hop label, Ninja Tune. San was picked up by the label
piano, harmonica, and slide guitar. It’s playful and
in 1996 when he wasn’t even of age to attend night-
entertaining.
clubs. But he played there anyways.
One might dare call San a multi-media perfor-
The Kid is all grown up now. Kind of. “Actually,
mance artist rather than a musician. For example,
I got ID-ed at a few clubs on the tour last month,” he
he’s been at work on a puppet theatre. “It’s going to
says. That’s not surprising. San has a youthful face, a
be a puppet musical about a robot at a cookie fac-
sense of humour, albeit sarcastic, and a Peter Pan-
tory. The music will be performed by a turntable or-
esque air of defiance — exactly what you’d expect of
chestra pit.”
an artist who can maintain fresh and funky creativ-
There’s nearly always something extra to be
ity for over a decade. He’s not bored yet. Why? “My
expected from a Kid Koala release or performance.
friends dare me to do things.”
San had an early introduction to music. “My
His first full length, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, came
with a videogame and a comic. Some of My Best
first records were given to me when I was about
Friends are DJs came with a comic and a chess
three,” he says. Likely they were jazz records be-
game. Is turntablism not enough to stand by itself?
cause that’s what his parents were listening to: Louis
Even reviewers have taken to calling these releases
Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. Now, with a discog-
“packages.” San explains:
raphy chock full of music featuring samples from all
“The albums are like the birthday party, the
You can catch Kid Koala performing at The
Collective on Jan. 23. Tickets are $20.
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Aaron Epp
Volunteer Staff
A
sk Winnipeg’s DADADADA:
Lazers how they formed, and
they’ll tell you of J.D. Salinger,
a burning bush, and MySpace.
“Sometimes exciting things are
misinterpreted, and sometimes great
things can happen from false goals,”
says Julia Razor (synthesizer). “That’s
how we think of the band.”
The band was formed in April
2004 by Razor, Conrad J.D. Dueck
(vocals), Thomas Lazer (bass) and Sex
Hitchhiker (drums), none of whom
had played in a band before. The trio
ARTSBriefs
Compiled by Jo Snyder
We’re all going to jail
Who hasn’t burned a CD or taped their favourite movie from the television? New changes to
Canadian copyright laws may better protect artists
and media companies, but the consumers could be
prosecuted. CBC reported last week that unless the
Conservative government makes the necessary tweaks
to the law, people copying music could be in trouble.
The Canadian Recording Industry Association says that
Canada is behind the United States in these kinds of
aggressive copyright protection measures, and that it’s
time the country step up. Canada is in the hot seat as
it is with its neighbours to the south. The Globe and
Mail reported this week that almost 50 percent of video
piracy comes from Canadian camcorders in mainstream movie theatres. Century Fox is very upset. It’s a
good thing stripes are still fashionable this season.
Too cool for MySpace
DJ Shadow just doesn’t have time for MySpace,
reported BBC Radio 6 this week. “I don’t have time to
look at pictures of cats jumping around and then email
it to all my friends,” he said to a reporter. The famous
electronic artist has been influencing music and art all
over the world for over a decade. He’s one of the most
well known DJs of this generation and people want to
know him, in a MySpace-y way. But the guy has got a
good point: he has over 78 000 friends and MySpace
can get a little frenetic, annoying, and visually overstimulating while intellectually under-stimulating.
Besides, DJ Shadow is too busy recreating our childhood to bother. His Nintendo video announced this in
December. What more do we want from the man?
That’s a pricey piece of paper!
Hen-scratched lyrics on a piece of paper are to
be auctioned off in Arizona next week. Event organizers anticipate fetching anywhere between $500 000
and $800 000 for this piece of memorabilia. I suppose
it makes a difference that the lyrics belong to former
Beatle George Harrison, his song “While My Guitar
Gently Weeps.” CBC online reports that the lyric sheet
contains some words and phrasing that didn’t make it
into the original song, which was on The White Album,
making it all the more valuable to crazy Beatles fanatics. Apparently these particular lyrics reveal some interband tension that eventually led to their break-up.
initially got together to write novels.
Instead, they “read Franey and Zooey,
and then started a rock band,” says
Razor. A series of basement shows
happened in the following year,
before Dueck quit the band to study in
Montreal.
“Conrad was my roommate,”
says Razor. “He burned down my lilac
bush, caused a bunch of damage, and
then left to be a librarian.” But before
Dueck could leave for the land of poutine and The Arcade Fire to learn the
finer points of the Dewey Decimal
System, the band decided to record a
demo.
Enlisting the recording expertise
of Craig Boychuk (Electro Quarterstaff,
Big Trouble in Little China), the quartet recorded and released a self-titled
demo in October 2005. Dueck left for
Montreal, while the remaining members thought the band was finished.
They received new life, however, after
Razor created a MySpace webpage for
the band. Other musicians would hear
DADADADA:Lazers on MySpace and
ask the band to play shows with them.
The trio happily obliged, with Razor
now singing the occasional lead vocal
over the band’s mostly instrumental
music.
The band released their second
collection of songs, Whims of Fantasy,
this past December. DADADADA:
Lazers’s music is synthesizer-based
and hard to categorize. “There aren’t a
lot of bands doing what we do,” says
Lazer. “When we started, there was no
manifesto regarding how we would
sound. We just started playing, and
then we would find things we liked,
and try to replicate them.” Videogame
music and T.V. show theme songs are
more often influential than any particular bands, he says.
Though their music isn’t guitarbased like most Winnipeg groups,
Razor says the band still feels like a
part of the music community in the
city. “Everyone knows each other in
the scene in Winnipeg,” says Razor.
“Everyone has this desire to do something to not be bored.
“We play with a lot of bands from
out-of-town, and bands from Toronto
all sound and look like Toronto. Bands
from Montreal all sound and look like
Montreal. It has to do with the culture
there, the bigness—there’s something
going on there. It’s an easy place to
be an artist in. Whereas in Winnipeg,
people form bands because there’s not
a lot to do in this city, and the weather
is brutal. Every season is brutal in its
own way.”
In an attempt to help Winnipeggers
escape the current brutality of winter,
DADADADA:Lazers—who
recently
added Throbert Velour on guitar and
Spaceship on drums—are playing
a show Saturday night at The Royal
Albert with a tropical island party
theme. The Albert will be decorated,
and people are encouraged to wear
swimsuits, hula skirts and sunglasses.
The Gorgon, Red Blanket and Lviv are
on the bill as well. The show starts at
9:45 p.m. sharp. “It’s going to be a big,
fantastic summer fling in the middle
of winter,” says Razor. “It’ll be fun.”
And having fun is, after all, the
band’s goal. “I’ve never played a show
that wasn’t fun. When it stops being
fun, we’ll stop playing,” says Lazer. He
pauses, before adding, “Of course, we
PHOTO: MANDY MALAZDREWICH
Lazer treatments are fun
DADADADA: Lazers play their unique brand of art-synth-pop at the Albert this Saturday
do have to adhere to our marketing
plan and take a good look at fourthquarter earnings.”
See DADADADA:Lazers play at
The Royal Albert Arms on Saturday,
Jan. 20. Whims of Fantasy is available at Into the Music, Music Trader,
and from the band. You can visit them
online at www.myspace.com/dadadadalazers.
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Arts & Culture Editor: Whitney Light
Phone: 786-9497
Fax: 783-7080
January 18, 2006
ARTS & CULTURE
cd REviews
Scars of Tomorrow
Polyvinyl
Victory
Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
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BOOK REview
Of Montreal
The Failure in Drowning
By The Time You Read This
Shawn Lee’s Ping
Pong Orchestra
By Giles Blunt
Voices and Choices
Random House Canada (308 pages)
Ubiquity
the
This album is a
Shawn Lee re-
band’s stripped down
heavy metal fan’s wet
turns with Voices and
sound from their last
dream, but everyone
Choices, his first album
Continuing
The Uniter
studio release, Satanic
else will be bored. The
to come complete with
Panic in the Attic, Kevin
album, however, seems
vocals. Lee’s lounge-in-
Barnes and company de-
a huge step for a band
fused electronica sound
liver an up tempo, elec-
still in its infancy, having
has been used for ev-
tronic feast for the senses. Described as a modern homage to
formed in 2000. The first track, “Lost in the Moment,” is a
erything from BMW ads to the film The Break Up, with Vince
The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper album, the new disc provides rousing
thrashing, arena anthem that displays the bands growth
Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston. This album will be no exception
melodies and a lyrical voyage that outdoes any of the band’s
since their previous disc, The Horror of Realization in 2005.
with tracks such as “Kiss The Sky,” in which his label mate
previous work. With a wide range of beats including an ex-
The band has downplayed the raw brutality in favour of a
Nino Moschella joins him on vocals. Lee’s songs are perfectly
tremely funky midtrack titled “Gronlandic Edit” and a Gnarls
studio-friendly sound that is more polished and well pro-
suited as backing tracks to everyday life, and this time around
Barkley-esque “Faberge Falls for Shuggie,” the band suc-
duced than their previous works. While they lose some of
the songs become stand-alone favorites worthy of attention by
cessfully navigates through various genre territories to arrive
the uniqueness in their progression, Scars of Tomorrow
more than just movie producers. Stand out tracks include the
at a soaring final track that stands out as the best on the
is now quickly becoming one of the major players on the
beautifully sculpted “Glass Act,” as well as the down-tempo
album. At times they sink dangerously close to the style of the
metal scene. The fault with this album, however, is that it
instrumental “Perculator.” The album stands out as perhaps
latest Killer’s release, Sam’s Town, and even the new Scissor
seems to lack anything unique. Heavy bass drums and
the best Lee has ever produced and will no doubt be featured
Sister’s disc, but Of Montreal’s songwriting is far and above
screaming lyrics sound familiar and tired.
on many television and film soundtracks this year.
Reviewed by Whitney Light
anything put out by those bands thus far.
3 out of 5 mice
2 out of 5 mice
4 out of 5 mice
Liam Brennan
Liam Brennan
-Liam Brennan
A woman jumps off of a building. Suicide, clearly.
But Detective John Cardinal can’t believe that his wife,
a talented photographer, teacher, and loving mother,
would end her depression-tainted existence with such
haste. Despite past bouts of hospitalization Catherine
TEDIOUS MINUTIAE
was happy, getting better. Medication and weekly meetings with a psychologist were helping. Is Cardinal in
Or: Ineffectively Detailing One’s Cultural Consumption for the Uncaring Installment 2.15
denial?
Long time crime writer Giles Blunt aims to solve
this mystery in his fourth novel about Cardinal. The previous three each won a different award for crime and
The Post-op issue
fiction writing. The latest does not disappoint. Blunt has
written a page turner. The plot thickens steadily, with
high school students in order to educate them
while the lady and Frances, our daughter, were in
about sexuality, etc. When I was a teenager there
The story takes place in Algonquin Bay, Ontario,
there. Everyone at Women’s Hospital in the Health
weren’t any manuals for me. Instead, I fumbled
a small town several hours north of Toronto. Blunt him-
Sciences Centre was great, especially Dr. Mark
through those awkward, confusing years alone.
self grew up in North Bay; he has modelled the novel’s
Bernier, the guy who grabbed Frances by the legs
(unconfirmed) and pulled her into the world.
Frances Grace MacPhee Sigurdson,
anti-Pork Rib-B-Q advocate
[email protected]
The one major complaint I had about the
experience at the hospital was the food: it is
setting on that experience giving an easy description of
the town’s lifestyle and its community. But Blunt keeps it
brief. Nearly everything is whittling down to the villain.
absolutely abysmal. If you’re going to encourage
Catherine did not commit suicide. That much we
sent home the next day; no wonder the common
women to recover and regain their strength, a
can be sure of as Cardinal, a sensible fellow, wins our
feeling is that parents feel like they don’t know
sensible, edible meal program seems like a given,
what they’re doing. We ended up staying at the
especially if you’re going to promote breastfeed-
mail, suggesting that his wife’s death has been sweet
hospital for three and a half days, and a nurse
ing. One meal consisted of microwaved chicken
revenge for someone. Without approval from the head of
would come by every three hours or so to check
nuggets and fries, while another proclaimed itself
police, Cardinal launches his own investigation.
on mom and baby. As forays into bonding, feed-
to be “Pork Rib-B-Q,” a rubbery orange thing on a
ing and sleeping continued, we could always ask
bun. Bon appetite, ladies!
I heard a story from one of the lady’s friends
sympathy. But he’s got nothing — no witnesses and
no evidence. Then a cruel series of letters arrive in the
At the same time, a colleague is assigned a child
pornography case. From photos discovered on the internet, Detective Lise Delorme must find the victim and
perpetrator. The only clues are what can be seen in the
photos’ backgrounds.
I realize Manitoba’s health care system is
about a man who had major heart surgery. To
strained at best and porous at worst, and that the
ensure a low-fat diet on his road to recovery, he
beds are badly needed for other expectant moth-
received half of a greasy old hamburger instead
case to the other, the story never gets lost. A connection
ers. I think a step in the right direction would be
of a whole one. I wish I was lying.
between the stories two victims turns out to be the key.
Hi! Look at me! I am alive! I survived the
to create some sort of comprehensive manual
Well, I’m going to keep it short this week in
frustrating, exhilarating, incomparable experi-
that outlines almost every problem parents might
hopes that the editors will include a picture of the
ence that was the birthing process. As already
encounter, and then send it home with everyone.
cutest baby in the entire world
mentioned, I didn’t really have to do much, but it
After all, you don’t know how many times I
Blunt takes these two seemingly divergent threads
and braids them together. Despite hopping from one
And enough detail about police procedures and evidence
handling helps the story read with convincing depth.
When the villain is revealed, he is one so vile and
despicable that one wants to question his motive. But it
is human, full of loss and loathing. A kicker of an ending,
heard “babies don’t come with instruction manu-
Huggies: [email protected]
Unlike vaginal labour and delivery, c-section
als, you know.” Well, maybe they should. After
Pampers: tediousminutiae.blogspot.com
moms and babies are kept in the hospital for a
all, we’re giving out those little black books to
was still pretty harrowing stuff.
pages.
I can’t imagine having a child and then being
questions and get an immediate answer.
Ben MacPhee-Sigurdson
new twists unfolding right down to the last twenty-five
few days—I actually stayed over every night
and it made sense. By The Time You Read This will satisfy even an infrequent mystery reader. Its vividness and
pressing tone will surely make the time fly by.
January 18, 2006
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The Uniter
ARTS & CULTURE
It takes a community to raise a Stoppard Fest
Kenton Smith
Staff Reporter
M
Photo courtesy of the AMERICAN conservatory theatre
anitoba Theatre Centre’s Stoppard
Fest 2007, which opens tomorrow,
is a tremendous collective venture
on the part of the theatrical community in
Winnipeg. Seven different professional companies are contributing to the festival’s total of
ten scheduled plays.
Such a cooperative gathering of Winnipeg
stage talent is unmatched by any other occasion save the Fringe Festival. Among the ranks
of the featured players are various alumni of
the University of Winnipeg’s theatre program,
as well as retired Professor Reg Skene, who is
directing The Dog it Was that Died.
Productions by current students are a
defining element of the effort. The University
of Manitoba’s Black Hole Theatre Company
is performing Stoppard’s most famous work,
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,
while the University of Winnipeg Students’
Association is producing Enter a Free Man,
Stoppard’s earliest play. Chris Johnson, coordinator of the U of M’s theatre program, and
co-director of Rosencrantz, says that it has
been a challenging undertaking for his students.
“The language is very demanding,”
Johnson says. “Stoppard demands a precision
in language that we as North Americans are
not used to producing.”
“I’d like to say there’s no challenges,”
laughs Erin Shortridge, stage manager of
Enter a Free Man. She explains that it is ultimately up to the students to pull things off.
Everything, however, is “quite on schedule.”
“It’s going to be fantastic,” she says.
“The level of performance is on par with
anything else in the festival. It’s a great
representation of what students are
capable of.”
Secondary school students are also performing this year: 15 Minute Hamlet, which is
exactly what the title says, will be performed in
busker-like fashion by theatre students from
Westwood Collegiate.
Singling out 15 Minute Hamlet as a unique
show in the festival, Executive Producer Nick
Kowalchuk explains that to present a “broad
range” of Stoppard’s work festival programmers have included some offbeat selections.
The Dog it was that Died, and Teeth and A
Separate Peace, were first produced for radio
and television, respectively. The production of
The Dog it Was that Died will reflect its origins,
with elements of a radio play, such as sound
effects, being created in plain view in the same
way that they would be produced in an audio
broadcast room.
“I have been personally fascinated by the
work that has been produced here,” Kowalchuk
says, adding that he has gained a much stronger grasp on the work and styles of the various playwrights that have been featured over
the years.
“This festival is so remarkable,” says After
Magritte player Nancy Drake: so much of one
playwright’s work is being performed at one
time in one city. “There are not many places in
the world where you can go do that.”
Tom Stoppard
Tom who?
Stoppard Fest 2007 celebrates playwright’s humour, virtuosity, and wit
Kenton Smith
Staff Reporter
S
ince 2001, MTC’s annual Master
Playwright Festival has better acquainted Winnipeggers with such
theatrical giants as Samuel Beckett, Bertolt
Brecht, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee,
Michel Tremblay, and Eugene O’Neill. And
Nick Kowalchuk, Executive Producer of
Stoppard Fest, says that the Czech-born,
British-knighted Stoppard “has been on
their list” for years.
But why should the general public be
interested in this Stoppard chap?
Theatre Incarnate’s Brenda McLean,
director of the Stoppard Fest 2007 production of Arcadia, answers by referring to
her show’s promotional graphic: an erotic
scene evocative of Grecian vase paintings.
“It’s about sex,” she says. And attitudes towards the subject “haven’t changed in all
that time.”
In other words, Stoppard tackles subjects that have been around for millennia,
and demonstrates their contemporary relevance.
Initiating the uninitiated is a priority for festival organizers. A free introductory lecture titled “Stoppard 101 – Tom
Who?” is being offered at Cinematheque
on Saturday, Jan. 20. One likely FAQ: How
could one sum him up?
“Funny,” replies actor Nancy Drake of
the local theatre co-op Dancing Hen on a
Tuba, which will perform After Magritte.
Take Arcadia, for instance, which is
mostly about the lighter side of sex, and
how sexual attraction has a tendency to
throw a monkey wrench into human affairs. “People are always fancying someone
they shouldn’t be,” McLean says, suggesting the farce.
But Stoppard doesn’t simply deal in
broad comedy: he is perhaps most admired
for the wit, rhythm, and turn of phrase in his
language, which Drake describes as “musical and poetic.” Stoppard plays with style,
affording actors and directors “great opportunity to be theatrical,” says McLean.
In Arcadia, the action is split between
the present day and the year 1809, with
characters in the former period trying to
piece together events that took place in
the latter. “The audience is often ahead
of the characters,” McLean explains, and
the comedy lies in the dichotomy between
what the present-day characters hypothesize about past events, and what the audience is allowed to see of what really happened.
Drake promises that if it’s a good time
that you seek, you’ll certainly get your money’s worth.“It’s pure entertainment. If that’s
all you want, you won’t be disappointed.”
At the same time, Stoppard is up to
much more than mere farce. His carefullyconstructed scenario is posing a classical philosophical question: What can we
know?
“Stoppard loves questions…and things
that you can’t quite explain,” says Drake.
After Magritte centers on the characters’
confused discussion about some curious
paintings of tubas. While on one level the
play is about art’s potential to baffle, it is
also an epistemological puzzle about in-
terpreting and trusting what we see. “It’s
about eyewitness reporting,” Drake says.
“The Big Question [in the play is], is what
we see truth?” Those Big Questions “never
do go away….The point is, do you ever
really solve anything? No.”
When asked why Stoppard was chosen,
Kowalchuk above all cites the intellectual
rigour of his work, which consistently examines topics from a variety of perspectives. He also covers a variety of subjectmatter. For Kowalchuk, Stoppard’s plays
are a fascinating way to learn about everything from physics to history.
“Not many playwrights can offer
an audience what he has to offer,” says
Priscilla Yakielashek of Dimestore Watch
Theatre Works. “Stoppard makes sense out
of senseless questions that we all ask, and
makes them easier to understand.”
“There is no reason that the audience
should not get all of this, and if they don’t,
it’s totally our fault.”
Stoppard Fest 2007 runs Jan. 18 - Feb.
4. For more information, call the MTC Box
Office at 942-6537, or visit www.stoppardfest.com. Student discounts are available
for most shows.
Listings Coordinator: Nick Weigeldt
Phone: 786-9497
Fax: 783-7080
January 18 ONWARDS
ON CAMPUS
ONGOING
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PARTNERS needed in the Language Partner
Program, U of W Continuing Education
Campus, 294 William Avenue. Language
partners are native (or fluent) English
speaking volunteers who give ESL (English as a Second Language) students an
opportunity to practice speaking English
outside of the classroom and to learn
more about the Canadian way of life. The
day and time partners meet is flexible.
The time commitment is 1-2 hrs/week.
Contact Andres Hernandez at 982-6631
or email [email protected].
UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG
TOASTMASTERS Meetings are
held regularly on Friday mornings at
7:15 a.m. with the first meeting of the
year to take place Friday, Sept. 8 in
the UWSA Boardroom in the Bulman
Centre. Students, faculty, and members
of the community are welcome. It’s
an opportunity to improve confidence
in public speaking and writing, share
your creativity, meet a diverse group
of people, and become a leader. Come
and be our guest! For more info call
284-5081.
EVENTS
UWSA D.I.Y. WORKSHOPS
Contact Vivian Belik at uwsavpss@
uwinnipeg.ca for more information on
these free workshops. Space is limited
so register early. PHOTOGRAPHY: Jan.
19 in the Photo Club, Bulman Centre.
HOW TO MAKE WINE: Jan. 19. TANGO:
Jan. 31, Feb. 8 at the Salsa Club. USING PHOTOSHOP: Feb 21 in the Photo
Club, Bulman Centre. HIP HOP: Feb. 22
in the Bulman Student Centre. BUYING
A HOME: Feb. 24, 1-3 p.m. at Freight
House, 200 Isabel. YOGA AT LUNCH:
Every lunch hour in March, Bulan
Centre. HOW DO I COOK: Easter Feast
March 7, Matzo Ball Soup and other
Holiday Goodies March 14. WEN-DO:
March. TAX WORKSHOPS: TBA.
ABORIGINAL
WOMEN’S
TEACHINGS LECTURE SERIES
Sponsored by the Religious Studies
Department & Funded by the Erica and
Arnold Rogers Teaching and Learning
Fund. Every Wednesday (except Feb.
14) until March 28 in room 3D01 from
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Honouring the voices
of Aboriginal women and women’s
teachings, Aboriginal Women have been
invited to the University of Winnipeg to
share their traditional knowledge regarding women’s teachings. A new guest will
be featured each week. Refreshments
will be provided. All are welcome and
encouraged to attend! For more information contact Mark F. Ruml at m.ruml@
uwinnipeg.ca or 786-9204.
GALLERY 1C03 EXHIBITION
OPENING Don Reichert: ‘On the
Rocks’ with the opening reception on
Jan. 18 from 4 -6 p.m. and an artists’
talk in the gallery on Jan. 19 at 12:30
p.m. Free and open to the public.
CLIMATE OF FEAR COMMITMENT TO PEACE Sponsored by
the Thomas Merton Society of Canada
and the University of Winnipeg Faculty of Theology. Jan. 19, 7:30 p.m. in
Theatre A, room 4M31. Keynote address by Donald Grayston, theologian,
spiritual director, pilgrim. Jan. 20, 9
a.m. – 5 p.m. in Theatre A, room 4M31.
Plenary talks: Ron Dart, Professor, Dept.
of Political Science, Philosophy &
Religious Studies, University College of
the Fraser Valley. Concurrent sessions:
Clyo Beck, Ron Dart, Donald Grayston,
Judith Hardcastle. Cost is $25 (included
lunch and refreshments on Saturday).
Friday evening only: $10. Saturday
Want to submit your listing to Uniter Listings? Email your listings to [email protected]
Deadline for submissions is Wednesday, eight days before the issue you’d like your
listing to first appear in. The Uniter publishes on Thursdays, 25 times a year.
only: $20. For more information, contact
Sandy Peterson, U of Winnipeg Faculty
of Theology at 786-9320 or toll free at
1-800-679-8496.
SNO WEEK Presented by the UWSA.
Jan. 26 – Feb. 2 Events include free
Wesmen volleyball games on Jan. 26,
a daily heated beverage tent, daily live
bands starting at 11 a.m. on Jan. 29
with Vav Jungle & DADADA: Lazers and
River City Hum; Jan. 30 with Absent
Sound & Blunderspublik; Jan. 31 with
The Paperbacks & Katie Murphy; Feb.
1 with Peanuts and Corn Crew, John
Smith, Pip Skid, DJ Co-op. Feb. 2:
UWSA Talent show, sign up at www.
theuwsa.ca.
FILIPINO STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION General Meeting on Jan.
29 at 12:30 p.m. (free period) in room
2C16.
ANAK BEGINNER CONVERSATIONAL TAGALOG WORKSHOP (Developed in cooperation with
the University of Hawaii) Classes are
suitable for those who do not have any
Tagalog background or those who would
like to practice some of their vocabulary.
Jan. 30, 6 - 9 p.m. in room 3M61.
Theme: Autobiography—learn common
phrases, how to introduce yourself,
describe yourself and your interests.
$20 workshop fee (includes materials).
Email the University of Winnipeg Filipino Students Association at uw_fsa@
yahoo.ca for more information.
WORKSHOPS AND
SEMINARS
MATH
PROBLEM-SOLVING
WORKSHOPS by Dr. J. Currie. Every
Monday, 1:30-2:20 p.m. in room 3C29.
For students planning to try either of the
upcoming math competitions or for students simply interested in learning some
techniques for solving interesting math
problems. Presented by the Math/Stats
Students’ Association.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
CLASS At Elim Chapel (546 Portage
Ave at Spence Street). Enter from the
rear parking lot. Sundays 12 noon -1:30
p.m. Improve your English by conversing, speaking & reading and learn about
Jesus and Christianity; meet new Canadian friends. For information call Val &
Veda Chacko - 257-1670.
WRITERS’ COLLECTIVE presents
two writing workshops: ‘Help, I’ve fallen
into a children’s story and can’t get up!’
on Jan. 20 from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Join
Anita Daher for a closer look at opportunities available, and how to best turn
your writing interests into publishing
success. Room 2C10, University of
Winnipeg. Cost is $30 for WC members,
$50 for non-members. On Feb. 10 from
1 - 4 p.m.: ‘Submitting a Manuscript’.
Increase your chances of publication by
finding the perfect publisher, and presenting your manuscript in an appealing, professional way. Room 2C10, U of
$30 for non-members. To register for
one or both workshops contact the WC
at [email protected] or by
calling 786-9468.
COUNSELLING AND
CAREER SERVICES
Friday, Jan. 19, 12:30-1:20 p.m. Time
Management
Wednesday, Jan. 24, 12:30-1:20
p.m.
Successful
Interviewing
Wednesday,
Jan.
31,
12:301:20 p.m. Career Exploration
*All students, alumni and staff are welcome to attend and must pre-register by
calling 786-9231.
SUMMER JOB FAIR 2007 2nd
Annual Summer Job Fair will take place
on Thursday, Jan. 18, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
in the Duckworth Centre (West Gym).
Network with over 40 recruiters looking
for students to fill great summer op-
portunities! Plus enter to win an IPOD
Nano, USB drives and other great prizes
/ give-aways! Visit www.crc.uwinnipeg.
ca for employer profiles and more information.
INFORMATION SESSION: Jan.
18, 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. BC Ministry
of Transportation, Room 2M70: All
students and alumni (especially Geography, Environmental Studies, Institute for
Urban Studies) are welcomed to attend
and find out more information on their
Technician Entry Level Program. Free
refreshments.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
DO YOU LIKE WORKING WITH
NEWCOMER CHILDREN? Do you
believe you can change our community?
If so, consider volunteering with some of
our programs. The Citizenship Council
of Manitoba Inc. International Centre is
looking for student volunteers to help
new arrivals to Canada learn English and
feel welcome in our country. Opportunities exist for volunteers to give their time
and support to the Centre’s Immigrant
Children and Youth Programs including
Sports Activities for Newcomer Kids,
Empowerment for Newcomer Youth,
Newcomer Buddy Welcome Program
and our After Class Education Program.
If you’d like to help out, contact Si-il
Park at 943-9158 ext 285 or 688-1941.
KAPATID IN-SCHOOL MENTORSHIP PROGRAM Partnering
university students with Filipino new
comer high school students as in-school
mentors. Weekly Mondays to Thursdays
from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Learn how
to become eligible for the UWFSA Bursary. To volunteer email the University of
Winnipeg Filipino Students’ Association
at [email protected] for more information.
WII CHIIWAAKANAK LEARNING CENTRE VOLUNTEER
OPPORTUNITIES Do you need
volunteer hours on your resume?
Do you need volunteer hours for a
class? Come and volunteer in the Wii
Chiiwaakanak Learning Centre. The
Community Learning Commons is
located at 509-511 Ellice Ave. Please
submit your resume to: Christine Boyes,
RBC Community Learning Commons
Coordinator, Wii Chiiwaakanak Learning
Centre, The University of Winnipeg.
Phone: 789-1431; Fax: 786-7803;
Email: [email protected].
THE WRITERS’ COLLECTIVE is
always looking for contributions for our
bimonthly journal, The Collective Consciousness. We publish poetry, short
fiction, short non-fiction, screenplays,
plays, articles, interviews, book reviews,
and more. All submissions should include a brief (roughly 3 lines) personal
biography. We prefer email submissions
to avoid inaccuracies in retyping text
for the journal. Submissions should be
emailed to [email protected] with “Collective Consciousness
submission” in the subject line. By
mail: mark as Collective Consciousness
submissions, and sent to: The Writers’
Collective, 4th Floor Library, University
of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, MB R3B 2E9.
ART HISTORY STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION All students are welcome
at our meetings, Thursdays at 12 p.m.
Meet in the History Common, Room 3rd
Floor Ashdown. If you want to discuss
arts & culture and meet new friends,
check us out! It’s also a great opportunity
to get involved in student projects, from
arts writing to campus socials.
JUICE JOURNAL The deadline for
creative writing submissions for juice 7,
a University of Winnipeg creative writing
journal has been extended to Feb. 15,
2007. Send us your fiction & creative
non-fiction: 10 double-spaced pages
maximum; poetry: 6 poems maximum,;
and drama: 20 script page maximum. All
submissions must include: your name,
U of W student #, complete mailing address, phone number and email address.
All submissions must be in 8 1/2 x 11
format, numbered & include the author’s
DIANA POPS Jan. 26 The Folk
Exchange. Tickets available for $15 at
the Festival Music Store (211 Bannatyne
Ave) or $17 at the door.
STEPHEN FEARING Jan. 27 West
End Cultural Centre, 8 p.m. Tickets $17
in advance at WECC and Ticketmaster.
THE UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG ART HISTORY STUDENTS’
ASSOCIATION is accepting submis-
COMEDY
GALLERY 1C03 CALL TO
ALUMNI ARTISTS Gallery 1C03
at The University of Winnipeg is seeking
submissions of interest from practicing
professional visual artists who are
alumni of the University. A group exhibition of selected works exploring notions
of “home” and “place” will be presented
in Gallery 1C03 September 13 - October
21, 2007. The exhibition will take place
in conjunction with the University’s
40th anniversary and in tandem with
associated homecoming celebrations.
Submissions of contemporary work in
various media are sought. Interested artists must contact University Art Curator
Jennifer Gibson NO LATER THAN Feb.
1, 2007.
TOAD IN THE HOLE / THE CAVERN 112 Osborne St – Comedy at the
Cavern. Every second Wednesday. Next
evening of laughs: Jan. 24.
THE KING’S HEAD PUB 120 King
St – King’s Head Half Pint Variety Hour,
Tuesdays at 9 p.m. Jan. 23: Improv.
LAUGH RIOT Local comics take a
crack at breaking the ever-cynical crowd
at Mondragon.
FILM
CINEMATHEQUE 100 Arthur St.
Jan. 19, 7 p.m.: Cinema Lounge: Coral
Aiken on Roadkill. Jan. 20, 12 noon:
Brazil, 1985, Gilliam. As part of StoppardFest 2007. Jan. 21, 2 p.m.: Cabin
Fever: Free films for kids: Jason and the
Argonauts. Jan. 20, 7 & 9 p.m. and Jan
21-24, 7 p.m.: Wal-Town, Kirby. Jan.
21-24, 8:30 p.m.: Manufactured Landscapes, Baichwal, 2006. Jan. 25, 7 p.m.:
Empire of the Sun, Spielberg, 1987. As
part of StoppardFest 2007.
ELLICE CAFÉ & THEATRE 585
Ellice St 975-0800 Neighbourhood theatre and restaurant. Free movie nights
Monday – Wednesday.
PARK THEATRE 698 Osborne
AROUND TOWN
CONCERTS
ART’S BIRTHDAY Presented by
Video Pool Media Arts Centre Jan.
19 at Club Desire, 8 p.m. $2 with Art’s
Birthday costume or $10 without. In
honour of Art’s Birthday 2007 Video
Pool will celebrate 100 Years of Radio
Broadcast with live art, a sound buffet,
a vintage video game lounge and radio
broadcasts on CKUW 95.9 FM.
LES LOUIS BOYS Jan. 19 Centre
Culturel Franco-manitobain, 8 p.m. With
guests Les Vieux-Loups, La Bardasse.
Tickets $20/$10 students at Envol 91
FM or call 233-4243.
ECHOCITY II with Philia, Fletcher
Pratt, J. Chords, Nathan Zahn, Cam
Johnson, The Lonely Vulcans. Jan. 20
Graffiti Gallery, 109 Higgins Ave., 10
p.m. $5 or $3 with non-perishable food
item.
MATT MAYS WITH THE MUSEUM PIECES Jan. 23 West End
Cultural Centre, 8 p.m. For “When
Angels Make Contact” Tickets $15 in
advance at Ticketmaster, WECC, Into the
Music, Music Trader/$20 at the door.
HINDER W/ FINGER 11, BLACK
STONE CHERRY Jan. 23 Burton
Cummings Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Tickets
$29.50/24.50 through Ticketmaster.
KID KOALA Jan. 23 Collective Cabaret, 9 p.m. With DJ Font Crimes, DJ Rob
Vilar. Tickets $20 through Ticketmaster.
SERENA RYDER Jan. 25 West End
Cultural Centre, 8 p.m. Tickets $15 in
advance at WECC.
THE WESTERN STATES CD
RELEASE AND BAKE SALE Jan.
26 West End Cultural Centre, 8 p.m.
Tickets $10 at Ticketmaster, Into the
Music, Music Trader.
January 18, 2006
LISTINGS @ uniter.ca
name on every page. Submissions
must be in.doc, .rtf, or .txt file format.
NO EXCEPTIONS. Drama submissions
must be in script format. Email you
submissions as digital attachments
to [email protected]. PLEASE
NOTE: we only accept submissions as
digital attachments via email.
sions for its first annual art auction, Feb.
22, 2007 at The Edge Artists’ Village and
Gallery, an evening of art and live entertainment TBA. The event is a fundraiser
for the AHSA’s annual local arts publication, Gesso. Artists may set their reserve
bids. The AHSA asks for 20 percent of the
winning bid price. Sell your work, enjoy
the party, and help emerging arts writers
add to the dialogue about Winnipeg’s
vibrant arts community! We are looking
for fresh work in any medium from local
emerging artists. Submission deadline
is Feb. 01, 2007. Space is limited. Reply
early. Contact [email protected] or
Lisa Kehler at 283-1880.
The Uniter
St 478-7275 Neighbourhood theatre
and venue. Jan. 19: Dirty Harry Series
starting at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 22: Reservoir
Dogs. Jan. 24: The Good Thief.
THEATRE, DANCE &
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
THE GRIND First Thursday of the
month at Ellice Café & Theatre (585
Ellice Ave) The Grind, a venue to
encourage and develop performers and
their ideas through the presentation of
scenes, sketches, monologues, spoken
word, short film, stand-up and music in
front of a live audience. 7p.m., $4.
BLACK HOLE THEATRE For
tickets and reservations call 474-6880.
Jan. 18-21, 23-27: Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
for the MTC Master Playwright Festival.
CERCLE MOLIÈRE 340 Provencher
Blvd.Tickets available at 233-8053 or
visit www.cerclemoliere.com.
MANITOBA THEATRE CENTRE
174 Market Ave. Tickets available at
942-6537. Until Jan. 27: The Rocky
Horror Show.
MANITOBA THEATRE CENTRE
WAREHOUSE 140 Rupert St. Tickets
available at 942-6537. Until Feb. 3: The
Real Thing.
PRAIRIE THEATRE EXCHANGE
Third floor, Portage Place. Call 942-5483
or visit www.pte.mb.ca. Starting Jan. 25:
Daniel MacDonald’s Macgregor’s Hard
Ice Cream and Gas.
STOPPARDFEST 2007 featuring
the works of Tom Stoppard. Running
at various locations until Feb. 4. StoppardPass is on sale now for $59, call
942-6537.
WINNIPEG CONTEMPORARY
DANCERS 204-211 Bannatyne Ave.
Tickets available at 452-0229. Jan. 2527: Susie Burpee with original music by
Christine Fellows and John K. Samson.
Tickets $22/18/15.
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MANITOBA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Call MCO at 783-7377 or
pick up tickets at McNally Robinson or
Ticketmaster. All concerts begin at 7:30
p.m. at Westminster United Church.
Next concert is on Feb. 7.
WINNIPEG CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY International Artist
Concert Series: Thibault Cauvin solo
recital Jan. 27 at 8 p.m. at The Manitoba
Museum, Planetarium Auditorium. Tickets $15/10/5 and available in advance at
667-5250 or 775-0809 or at the door.
THE WINNIPEG SINGERS Call
989-6030ext1 or visit www.winnipegsingers.com.
WINNIPEG
ORCHESTRA
SYMPHONY
Concerts almost
weekly during the winter. Call
949-3999 or visit www.wso.mb.ca.
LITERARY
McNALLY ROBINSON GRANT
PARK Jan. 18, 8 p.m.: Pamela Leach
and Cate Friesen sign and talk on The
Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as
a Map. Jan. 22, 8 p.m.: Editor Dorene
Meyer launches Prairie Writers. Jan. 24,
8 p.m.: CV2 Evening with Claire Foster
hosting readings by contributors to
Contraverse. Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.: Thinking Out Loud hosted by Terry McLeod.
Topic: The God Delusion by Richard
Dawkins.
MCNALLY ROBINSON PORTAGE PLACE Jan. 18, 12 p.m.: A.P.
Fuchs signing Axiom-man. Jan. 18, 7
p.m.: Hostelling 101. Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.:
Open Mic Night.
SPEAKING CROW OPEN-MIC
POETRY First Tuesday of the month at
Academy Bar & Eatery.
AQUA BOOKS 89 Princess St The
Stone Soup Storytellers’ Circle, veteran
Winnipeg storytellers, meets for storytelling once a month on Saturdays at
7:30 p.m. Next get together is on Feb.
10. All are welcome. ideaExchange:
Aqua Books, in conjunction with St.
Benedict’s Table, is pleased to present
our award-winning monthly conversation series dealing with issues of faith,
life, theology and pop culture.
OUT LOUD is an open mic opportunity for you to give your words voice.
Every two weeks a special guest will kick
off the evening after which the mic is
open for your words of any genre in five
minutes or less. Third Thursday of the
month at the Millennium Library at 251
Donald. Sign up is at 7 p.m. Open mic
at 7:50 p.m. Free. Jan. 18: Poet Sally
Ito reads.
AD LIB is an evening of improve-style
word games. Every night is guaranteed
to be different and full of laughs. From
round stories to fridge magnet poetry,
from opening lines to creating new endings, there’s no limit to the places these
games – or your writing – can go. First
Thursday of the month at the Millennium
Library at 251 Donald at 7:30 p.m. Free.
WRITERS’ COLLECTIVE presents
two writing workshops: ‘Help, I’ve fallen
into a children’s story and can’t get up!’
on Jan. 20 from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Join
Anita Daher for a closer look at opportunities available, and how to best turn
your writing interests into publishing
success. Room 2C10, University of
$50 for non-members. On Feb. 10 from
1 – 4 p.m.: ‘Submitting a Manuscript’.
Increase your chances of publication by
finding the perfect publisher, and presenting your manuscript in an appealing, professional way. Room 2C10, U of
$30 for non-members. To register for
one or both workshops contact the WC
at [email protected] or by
calling 786-9468.
LJanuary
istings Coordinator: Nick Weigeldt
18, 2006
The Uniter
18
Phone: 786-9497
GALLERIES &
EXHIBITIONS
IN PLAIN VIEW Winnipeg Studio
Tour 2006 A group of Winnipeg artists
have organized two weekend self-guided
studio and gallery tours to take place
on the weekend of Dec. 2 & 3 from 12
noon to 6 p.m on these days. Visit www.
inplainviewwinnipeg.com for info.
ACE ART INC. 290 McDermot St
944-9763 Tues-Sat 12-5. Until Feb. 24:
‘Episodic’ featuring three major works by
Donican Cumming.
ADELAIDE MCDERMOT GALLERY 318 McDermot Ave 987-3514.
Contemporary art.
THE ANNEX GALLERY 594 Main
St 284-0673 Tues-Sat 12-5. Contemporary art.
ARTBEAT STUDIO INC. 4-62
Albert St 943-5194. Community-based
contemporary art.
ART CITY 616 Broadway Ave 7759856 Mon 5-8 ,Tues-Fri 4-8, Sat 12-4.
Featuring high quality artistic programming for kids and adults. Art City
Fundraiser from the Heart. An evening
of jazz with Bonnie Gerbrandt & special
guests. Feb. 24, 8 p.m. at Academy Bar
& Eatery. Tickets $10 and available at Art
City at 616 Broadway, 775-9856.
THE EDGE ARTIST VILLAGE
AND GALLERY 611 Main St. Contemporary art.
McDermot Ave 487-6114 Tues-Fri 11-5,
Sat 11-4. Contemporary arts and crafts.
MARTHA STREET STUDIO 11
Martha St 772-6253 Mon-Fri 10-5.
Showcasing the fine art of printmaking.
GALLERY 1C03 Centennial Hall,
University of Winnipeg 515 Portage Ave
786-9253 Mon-Fri 12-4, Sat 1-4. The
Gallery provides the campus community
and general public with opportunities to
learn about visual art, thereby reinforcing and emphasizing the educational
mandate of the University. Until Feb. 18:
Don Reichert: ‘On the Rocks’.
GALLERY 803 - 803 Erin St 4890872 Local artists featured. Until Jan.
27: Winnipeg Group Show.
GALLERY LACOSSE 169 Lilac
St 284-0726 Tues-Fri 10-6, Sat 10-5.
Neighbourhood gallery.
GALLERY ONE ONE ONE Main
Floor Fitzgerald Building, School of Art
U of Manitoba 474-9322. Showing and
collecting contemporary and historical
art at the U of M. Until Mar. 9: Kathleen
Fonseca.
GRAFFITI GALLERY 109 Higgins
Ave 667-9960. A not-for-profit community youth art center, using art as a
tool for community, social, economic
and individual growth.
HIGH OCTANE GALLERY, OSBORNE VILLAGE CULTURAL
CENTRE 445 River @ Osborne St
284-9477. Local community art gallery.
GALLERY
264
McDermot Ave 943-2446. A non-profit
gallery promoting handmade art, crafts,
pottery, cards and more.
KEN SEGAL GALLERY 4-433
River Ave 477-4527 Tues-Fri 10-6, Sat
10-5. Showcase of original contemporary art.
453-1115 Mon-Sat 10:30-5, Sun 1-4.
Until Jan. 20: ‘Collection of Works’ by
gallery members. Jan. 21-Feb. 3: ‘The
Rural Scene’ by Gerry Hamilton.
COLLECTIVE CABARET / DIE
MASCHINE CABARET 108
MAWA - MENTORING ARTISTS
FOR WOMEN’S ART 611 Main St
949-9490. Supporting women artists at
their new home on Main Street.
OUTWORKS GALLERY 3rd Floor
290 McDermot Ave 949-0274. Artistrun studio and exhibition space in the
Exchange. Until Feb. 3: ‘Transition’, new
works by the Outworks Collective and
friends.
ander Ave E. 942-0218. On now: ‘Simply
Serendipity’.
ELLICE CAFÉ & THEATRE 587
PLATFORM (CENTRE FOR
PHOTOGRAPHIC AND DIGITAL
ARTS) 121-100 Arthur St 942-8183
Tues-Sat 12-5. Photo-based media.
Until Feb 23: Jennifer Vosacek’s ‘Hole in
Amsterdam’.
PLUG-IN ICA 286 McDermot Ave
942-1043. Until Feb. 17: Sarinder
Dhaliwal’s ‘Record Keeping’.
ridor, 264 McDermot Ave 943-2446.
Until Jan. 20: ‘Power to the Artist’ by
Paul Butler. Jan. 26-Feb. 16: ‘Initiative’
by Natsuko Yoshino.
UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG’S
ARCHIVES AND HAMILTON
GALLERIA 4th and 5th Floors,
Ellice Ave. Neighbourhood café and
theatre showing films and showcasing
local talent.
FINN’S PUB 210-25 Forks Market
Rd, Johnson Terminal. Tuesdays: Ego
Spank, 10:30 p.m. Wednesdays: Guy
Abraham Band.
FOLK EXCHANGE 211 Bannatyne
Ave. Traditional Singers’ Circle (third
Monday of each month, $2 at the door).
Drumming Circle (fourth Monday of
each month, $2 at the door. Folk Club
(first Monday of each month, $4.99 at
the door). Tickets for all Folk Exchange
concerts are available at the Festival
Music Store (231-1377), or at the door.
Jan. 19: Dan Frechette. Jan. 26: Diana
Pops, $15/$17.
Centennial Hall, University of Winnipeg.
Until Jan. 26: Photographer Tyrrell
Mendis captures the history of places of
worship in his solo exhibit ‘Testaments
of Faith: Manitoba’s Pioneer Churches’.
GIO’S 155 Smith St. Wednesdays:
URBAN SHAMAN 203-290 McDer-
HEMP ROCK CAFÉ 302 Notre
Dame Ave. Local and touring acoustic
and punk shows.
mot Ave 942-2674. Contemporary Aboriginal art. Until Mar. 3: Linus Woods’
solo exhibition.
VIDEO POOL MEDIA ARTS
CENTRE 300-100 Arthur St 949-9134.
Contemporary media art. Until Feb. 16:
‘…and I thought Guy Debord was dead”
by Garth Hardy. Experimental audio
installation and performance. Until Feb.
16: ‘Personal Soundtrack Emitters’ by
Darsha Hewitt and Stephanie Brodeur.
Handcrafted personal listening devices.
WAH-SA GALLERY Johnston
Terminal, The Forks. Aboriginal artwork.
Until Jan. 31: David B. Williams solo
exhibition.
WAYNE ARTHUR GALLERY 186
Provencher Blvd 477-5249. Gallery for
Manitoba-based artists. Until Jan. 27:
‘Through Fixed Eyes’ – the photography
of Dan Harper.
WINNIPEG ART GALLERY 300
Memorial Blvd 786-6641. Wednesdays:
Art for Lunch. 12:10 p.m. – 1 p.m. Until
Jan. 21: Peter Winkworth Collection of
Canadiana: Vast New Lands – Canada’s
Northwest. Until March 25: Mammatus
– An Installation by Max Streicher. Until
Apr. 22: Antler Into Art. Until Apr. 22: In
the Blink of an Eye, video exhibition.
WOODLANDS GALLERY 535
BARS, CAFES & VENUES
772-5165 Tues-Sat 12-5. Volunteer artist-run non-profit art centre showcasing
works of community artists.
ELEPHANT & CASTLE PUB 350
OSEREDOK GALLERY 184 Alex-
Mon-Fri 8am-10 p.m. Sat-Sun 12 p.m.
- 10 p.m. Until Jan. 21: Brigitte Dion,
‘Virage’.
LABEL GALLERY 510 Portage Ave
Osborne St. Thursdays: Good Form,
Indie Club Night, $3. Hosted by DJ
Font Crimes and Rob Vilar. Fridays:
Punk/Hardcore Night w/ Fat Mat &
Scott Wade. Saturdays: Goth/Industrial
Night. Jan. 19: None the Wiser. Jan. 20:
Valhalla. Jan. 26: The Tups, Putresense,
Cunt Punisher, Beyond Betrayal. Jan.
27: Hollow Ground, Infraction, 1920.
St Mary Ave. Thursdays at 8p.m.: PubStumpers. Sundays: Student night with
live entertainment. Jan. 21: Half Mast.
Jan. 28: Guy Abraham.
Academy Rd 947-0700.
Provencher 237-5964 Mon-Fri 9-5.
CENTRE CULTUREL FRANCOMANITOBAIN 340 Provencher Blvd.
Tuesdays: Le Mârdi Jazz.
LA GALERIE at the CENTRE
CULTUREL FRANCO-MANITOBAIN 340 Provencher Blvd 233-8972
LA MAISON DES ARTISTES 219
THE CAVERN / TOAD IN THE
HOLE 108 Osborne St. Tuesdays:
Three Piece Madness. Second Wednesday of the month: Comedy at the Cavern.
Jan 20: National Monument w/ English
Moccassins.
MEDEA GALLERY 132 Osborne St
SEMAI GALLERY Basement Cor-
FLEET GALLERIES 62 Albert St
942-8026 Mon-Thur 8:30-5:30, Fri
8:30-5, Sat 9:30-4:30.
KEEPSAKES
MANITOBA CRAFTS COUNCIL
EXHIBITION GALLERY 214
ACADEMY BAR & EATERY 414
Academy Rd. Jan. 20: Doug Edmond.
Jan. 23: Open Mic.
Karaoke. Thursdays: Bump n’ Grynd.
Fridays: DJ daNNo dance party. First
Saturday of the month: Womyn’s night.
Q-Pages Book Club, 5 p.m.
ROYAL ALBERT ARMS 48 Albert
St. Jan. 20: The Gorgon, Red Blanket,
DADADA: LAZERS. Jan. 26: Minority
Justice League, Raiden, Hot Live Guys.
SALSA BAR & GRILL 500 Portage Ave. Thursdays: Urban Hip Hop.
Fridays: Salsa/Top 40. Saturdays: Salsa.
Sundays: Reggae and Calypso.
SHANNON’S IRISH PUB 175
Carlton St. Sundays: Nate Bryski. Mondays: Jeremy Williamez. Thursdays: 80s
Night. Jan. 19: River City Hum. Jan. 27:
B-Man & The Chicken Hawks.
TIMES CHANGE(D) HIGH AND
LONESOME CLUB Main St @ St.
Mary Ave. Sundays: Blues Jam with
Big Dave McLean. No cover charge.
Jan. 19: Andrew Neville and The Poor
Choices, Stonypoint. Jan. 20: The
Perpetrators and The D-Rangers. Jan.
21: The Whisky Awards hosted by Big
Dave McLean, John Scoles and special
guests. Jan. 26: Drek DAA CD release
plus Righteous Ike. Jan. 27: Andrew
Neville and the Poor Choices.
WEST END CULTURAL CENTRE Ellice Ave @ Sherbrook St. See
Concerts for details. Jan. 20: Lost In
Transmission CD Release with Blue Sky
Addicts, Mike Bernard. 8 p.m., $8/$10.
Jan. 23: Matt Mays with The Museum
Pieces. Jan. 24: University of Winnipeg
Collegiate Coffeehouse, 8 p.m. Jan. 26:
Western States CD Release. Jan. 27:
Stephen Fearing.
WINDSOR HOTEL 187 Garry St.
Tuesdays: Jam with Ragdoll Blues.
Wednesdays: Jam with Big Dave
McLean. Jan. 18-20: J.P. LePage. Jan.
25-27: South Thunderbird Band.
WOODBINE HOTEL 466 Main St.
Historic downtown hotel bar.
THE ZOO / OSBORNE VILLAGE
INN 160 Osborne St. Thursdays: New
Band Showcase – No Cover. Jan. 19:
Torn Into, Damascus, Downfall, High
Five Drive, Asado. Jan. 20: Igor & The
Skindiggers. Jan. 26: The Fabulous
Kildonans, Hot Live Guys, Flaming
Whip. Jan. 27: Kildare, Tall, Dark &
Hammered, Lick My Feedback.
KING’S HEAD PUB 100 King St.
Tuesdays: The Original Comedy of the
Kings Head. See Comedy for details.
Sundays: All The Kings Men. Jan. 19:
Guy Abraham Band. Jan. 20: Rubbersoul. Jan. 26: The Afterbeat. Jan. 27:
Celtic Way.
MONDRAGON
BOOKSTORE
AND COFFEEHOUSE 91 Albert St.
COMMUNITY
EVENTS
(see also On-Campus Events)
SKYWALK CONCERTS & LECTURES 2006/07 Wednesday Lec-
borne St. Mondays: The Cool Monday
Night Hang, 8 p.m. First set followed
by a jam session. Acoustic Night every
Tuesday and Thursday evening beginning at 8 p.m.
tures: Leading teachers and researchers
from the University of Winnipeg will
inform, engage and challenge you on
topics of broad historical, political and
scientific interest. Thursday Concerts:
We present a showcase for some of
Manitoba’s finest musicians - from jazz
to folk and classical to contemporary.
Free admission, Carol Shields Auditorium, 2nd Floor Millenium Library
downtown, 12:10-12:50 p.m.
THE PARK THEATRE 698 Osborne
COCKTAILS WITH NAWL: Brav-
Political bookstore and vegan restaurant
hosting readings, speakers and concerts.
Wednesdays: Wobbly Wednesdays.
OSBORNE FREEHOUSE 437 Os-
St. Mondays: Monday Night Football on
the big-screen, free admission. Fridays:
Riverview Club, 5 p.m. Jan. 21: Hand
Drum Rhythm, 7 p.m. Jan. 25: 3D
Ladies Cinematic Society. Jan. 26: Suss
live in concert. Jan. 27: Councilor Jenny
Gerbasi Fundraiser featuring Hillbilly
Burlesque, door prizes, finger foods and
a cash bar. $20.
PYRAMID CABARET 176 Fort St.
Wednesdays: New Wave w/ DJ Rob Vilar. Thursdays: The Mod Club. Sundays:
Search 4 RA NRG. Jan. 26: Xplicit with
Malice and Dia Dolor.
REGAL BEAGLE 331 Smith St.
Tuesdays: Hatfield McCoy. Wednesdays:
Open Mic Nite. Weekends: Blues. Jan.
26-27: Slidin’ Clyde Roulette Band.
HOSTELLING INTERNATIONAL
Jan. 18 at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson Portage Place. Join us for Hostelling 101, an
informative evening hosted by Hostelling
International. An experienced traveller
will be here to answer all of your travel
and hostelling questions.
DOCUMENTING
SOCIAL
CHANGE: Processes and Outcomes
from 16 Years of Study of the Winnipeg
Family Violence Court. Guest Speaker:
Dr. Jane Ursel, Sociology Dept., U of M.
Jan. 24, 12 noon, Private Dining Room,
University Club, University of Manitoba. Everybody Welcome. Admission
$4.00 (includes lunch). Registration is
required. To reserve your seat, contact
Kimberley at 474-9020.
WHEN ABORIGINAL TREATY
RIGHTS ARE NOT ENOUGH
This talk will address the need to move
beyond Aboriginal and treaty rights discourses to an understanding grounded
in
Indigenous
constitutionalism.
With guest speaker Dr. Kiera Ladner,
Canada Research Chair in Indigenous
Politics and Governance, U of M. Jan.
24, 12:30-1:20 p.m. in Room 129, St.
John’s College, University of Manitoba.
All welcome, free admission.
PANEL DISCUSSION ON MENTAL HEALTH IN MANITOBA
An opportunity to hear panel members
speak on a recently released discussion paper on mental health: “The Way
We See It: A Discussion Paper which
examines Perspectives of Families and
Clients within the Current Mental Health
System in Manitoba”. The Discussion
Paper is available at the PCWM web
site: http://www.mts.net/~pcwm/. Jan.
25, 7-9:30 p.m. Balmoral Hall School,
630 Westminster Ave. All welcome, free
admission.
ANNUAL CANADIAN DIMENSIONS BENEFIT With Guest
KEEPSAKES GALLERY 264 McDermot Ave. Musical Keepsakes: Live
music every Saturday evening.
violence and brutality in our city.We are
creating a database of police misconduct so we can begin to hold the police
accountable. Come out and share your
story with us! Saturday, Jan. 20, 12 – 4
p.m. at Mamawi Centre, 94 McGregor.
Join us for a Potluck and Story-Telling
Sharing Circle! All information will be
kept confidential unless you request
otherwise. For more information contact:
[email protected].
ing the Anti-Feminist Backlash in 20062007 Get the skinny on: recent cuts to
Status of Women Canada; constraints on
feminist advocacy in Canada; December
10, 2006 Rally and March in Ottawa.
Most importantly... NAWL wishes to
hear from young women (young in
age and/or young to feminism) about
their priorities and hopes for feminist
advocacy in Canada in 2007. Join us
for (virgin!) cocktails & snacks. Jan. 19,
4:30 p.m. in C-FIR Boardroom, Centennial Mezannine, University of Winnipeg.
For more information contact Jackie at
[email protected] or visit www.
nawl.ca.
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN A
VICTIM OF POLICE MISCONDUCT? Copwatch Winnipeg is a group
of community volunteers concerned
about incidents of police harassment,
Speaker: Roland Penner, noted lawyer,
politician and law professor, will be
speaking on the topic “Growing Up Red:
A Socialist Remembers.” Tickets: $35;
Students $25 (Student I.D. Required).
Tickets are available at the University
of Manitoba (Answers), the University
of Winnipeg (Infobooth), Mondragon
Bookstore and Coffeehouse (91 Albert
Street), and the Canadian Dimension office (Ph. 957-1519). Admission includes
refreshments and a free 1-year subscription to the magazine. Jan. 27, 6:30 pm,
Eton Ballroom, Ramada Marlborough
Hotel, 331 Smith St.
GIANT BOOK SALE University of
Manitoba Libraries Book Sale Feb. 7
from 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. in the Manitoba
Room, second floor, University Centre,
65 Chancellors Circle, Fort Garry Campus. Books added throughout the day.
Thousands of books in the bargain section: biographies, academic and popular
non-fiction, and literature in a wide
range of subjects. Individually-priced
section: collector, fine art books, etc.
For more information: www.umanitoba.
ca/libraries/booksale/.
ANNOUNCEMENTS &
OPPORTUNITIES
DO YOU LIKE WORKING WITH
NEWCOMER CHILDREN? Do
you believe you can change our community? If you said yes, consider volunteering with some of our programs. The
Citizenship Council of Manitoba Inc.
International Centre is looking for student volunteers to help new arrivals to
Canada learn English and feel welcome
in our country. Opportunities exist for
volunteers to give their time and support
to the Centre’s Immigrant Children and
Youth Programs including Sports Activities for Newcomer Kids, Empowerment
with the Girl Guides, Newcomer Buddy
Welcome Program and our After Class
Education Program. If you’d like to help
out, contact Si-il Park at 943-9158ext
285 or 688-1941.
LOOKING FOR WAYS TO GIVE
BACK TO THE COMMUNITY,
develop new friendships, make a positive
impact and lasting influence in people’s
lives, and volunteer within a multicultural community? The Immigrant
and Refugee Community Organization
of Manitoba (IRCOM) has exciting
volunteer opportunities for you with after-school programs for kids who live at
IRCOM with the purpose of developing
healthy friendships and exposing them
to new experiences in Canada. Criminal
Record Check and Child Abuse Registry
Check required before beginning volunteer work. Contact Evelyne Ssengendo at
943-8765 or email at evelynes@ircom.
ca if you are interested in volunteering
or have any questions.
THE HEART AND STROKE
FOUNDATION OF MANITOBA
needs 6,300 volunteers for its annual
door-to-door campaign during Heart
Month in Feb., 2007. HSFM hopes
to raise almost $800,000 and warm
hearts all over Manitoba during the
month-long event. Much of the funding
HSFM receives comes from volunteerbased events like Door-to-Door. Ninety
percent of funds raised stay in Manitoba
to support the Foundations mission “to
improve the health of Manitobans by
preventing and reducing disability and
death from heart disease and stroke
through research, health promotion and
advocacy.” To volunteer for the door-todoor campaign, or any other Heart and
Stroke Foundation event, visit www.
heartandstroke.mb.ca/ or call toll free
1-888-473-4636.
THE LATE LUNCH SHOW Attention independent artists and producers!
Beginning September 15, 2006 at
1:00 p.m. Arts and Cultural Industries
Manitoba (ACI) presents the Late
Lunch Show, a series of 9 fabulous
workshops designed specifically for
the self-employed. With topics ranging from Healing Through the Arts to
Financial Management, each hour-long
session provides an opportunity to connect with professionals, network with
other independent artists/producers,
and gain valuable knowledge about the
cultural industry. Registration is $5.00
and includes a delicious lunch, so call
927-2787 to reserves your spot today.
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN A
CAREER IN FILM? Manitoba¹s
growing film industry is looking for
people who are hard working, self-motivated, and have strong communication
skills to become members of Manitoba¹s
film crew. To learn more about working
in Manitoba¹s expanding film industry,
attend a free Monthly Information Session the first Wednesday of every month
from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at Film Training
Manitoba, 100-62 Albert Street. For
more information call 989.9669 or visit
www.filmtraining.mb.ca.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Artists Pages in Aceart’s annual PaperWait
(Volume 8) The Winnipeg Folk Festival
and Folklorama are two of the largest
festivals of their kind in North America,
making Winnipeg the folk capital of
Canada. With this in mind, PaperWait
Volume 8 will have a series of artist’s
pages that explore the impact of folklore on the contemporary visual arts
scene. In particular, Aceart is looking
for artists whose work engages in the
theme of contemporary urban myths.
Works should articulate a search for
modern-day allegories and narratives,
with respect to rethinking or imagining
contemporary folklore. lease submit
electronic submission. Please include:
up to 10 jpeg images of proposed work,
CV (max 2 pages), and 250 word artist
bio/statement. Send submissions to
[email protected]. Deadline Jan. 31.
Listings Coordinator: Nick Weigeldt
Phone: 786-9497
Fax: 783-7080
The Awards and Financial Aid staff of the University of Winnipeg provides our student body with
current information on award opportunities. This information is updated weekly.
UNIVERSITY
•Completed application
•A detailed study or research proposal indicating objectives, duration of the proposed
stay, methodologies etc.
•Two letters of reference from university
professors or other academic personnel
•Academic transcripts
•A certificate of degree.
OF WINNIPEG
INTERNAL AWARDS:
BURSARY APPLICATIONS:
Application forms are now available in the
Awards office located in Graham Hall or at
Student Central in Centennial Hall. Bursaries
are small, supplementary financial assistance awards, normally $300 - $750 in value.
In order to be considered, you must prove
financial need and you must be making satisfactory academic progress (i.e. maintaining
a “C” average). Because funds are limited,
not everyone who qualifies will receive a
bursary. Many of our University of Winnipeg
bursaries are available to our students in
any year of their program. Return completed
applications to the Awards office in Graham
Hall. Deadline date: Jan. 31, 2007.
GRADUATE & PROFESSIONAL
STUDIES EXPENSES BURSARY:
This bursary assists students with respect
to the high costs associated with applying
to Graduate and Professional Schools. Applicants must meet the following criteria:
1) have a minimum GPA of 3.55 in the
previous academic year
2) be registered in the final year of an
honours or four year degree program in
Arts or Science, or in the final year of the
Integrated B.Ed program.
3) have documented financial need: a
Canada Student Loan/Provincial Loan
or a Student line of credit at a banking
institution.
4) both full-time and part-time students
may apply.
Applications are available in the Awards office located in Student Services. Applications
will be evaluated on a first come, first serve
basis, and as funds allow.
EXTERNAL AWARDS:
CANADIAN BUREAU FOR INTERNATIONAL
EDUCATION (CBIE): Export Development Can.
International Business Scholarships
EDC created these scholarships through
its Education and Youth Employment Strategy, because international trade is critical to
Canada’s economic prosperity. EDC will offer
25 scholarships to undergraduate students
enrolled in Canadian universities. Selected
applicants will receive a $3000 cash award
and a possible four-month work term with
mentoring from leading industry experts at
EDC’s head office in Ottawa, worth approximately $10,000. To be eligible:
• be a Canadian citizen or permanent
resident
• enrolled in full-time studies at a Canadian
university
• be in 2nd or 3rd year of an undergraduate
business or economics program
• returning to full-time undergraduate
studies in business or economics for the
2007-2008 academic year
• keenly interested in international business
and considering a career in this field
• evidence of leadership potential,
competency in teamwork and academic
achievement
Complete the on-line application. Go to www.
edc.ca/cbie.
Deadline date: Jan. 22, 2007.
MANITOBA CITIZEN’S BURSARY
FUND FOR NATIVE PEOPLES:
Aboriginal students may apply for this award
if you meet the following criteria:
•aboriginal student ( First Nations,
Métis or Inuit)
•have documented financial need
•satisfactory grades
•involved in extra-curricular activities
Applications are available in the awards
office located in Graham Hall and Student
Central. Return completed application form
to the awards office in Graham Hall.
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2007.
The Soroptimist Foundation of Canada annually offers several $7,500 grants to female
graduate students in Canada to assist them
with university studies that will qualify them
for careers that will improve the quality of
women’s lives. Examples include but are
not limited to: proving medical services,
providing legal counseling and assistance,
counseling mature women entering or re-entering the labour market, counseling women
in crisis, counseling and training women for
non-traditional employment, and positions
in women’s centres. To be eligible you must
meet the following criteria:
•A female
•Canadian citizen or landed immigrant
•Accepted registrant in a graduate studies
program (Masters or PhD) or professional
program at a similar level (medicine, law)
in an accredited Canadian University, at the
time of the application deadline (Jan. 31).
•Pursuing a course of studies which will
lead to a career mainly of service to women.
•Intending to spend a minimum of two
years in such a career in Canada.
•Intending to use the award for academic
studies in the academic year following
receipt of it.
•Contributing to your community through
volunteer service.
•Needing financial assistance.
Applicants may apply in either English or
French. Applications are available in the
Awards office located in Graham Hall. For
more information contact Heather Menzies,
1204 – One Evergreen Place, Winnipeg MB,
R3L 0E9. Deadline: Jan. 31, 2007.
THE DATATEL SCHOLARS
FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS:
The University of Winnipeg is a new Datatel
client institution and as such, Datatel is offering unique scholarships ranging in value
from $1,000 to $2500 to students from our
institution.
•Datatel Scholars Foundation Scholarships
– for outstanding students currently
attending eligible Datatel client instituitions.
•Returning Student scholarships – for
outstanding students currently attending
eligible Datatel client institutions, who
have returned to higher education after an
absence of five years or more.
•Nancy Goodhue Lynch scholarships
– for outstanding undergraduate students
majoring in Information Technology related
curriculum programs at eligible Datatel
client institutions.
Application Process:
The Datatel Scholars Foundation online scholarship application process is as follows.
1. A student attending an eligible Datatel
client institution may apply via the online
application form between September 1, 2006
and Jan. 31, 2007. (NOTE: applicants must
submit their completed application with two
letters of recommendation by Jan. 31, 2007
in order to be considered for nomination.)
2. The scholarship administrator from
each participating Datatel client institution
reviews, evaluates, and nominates applicants
between Feb. 1, 2006 & Feb. 15, 2006.
3. Nominated student applications are
forwarded to the Datatel Scholars Foundation
review committee for final evaluation and
award determination in the spring.
For more information go to their website or
email scholars@datatel. Deadline: submit
online at www.datatel.com/dsf by Jan. 31,
2007.
CANADA-CHINA SCHOLARS’
EXCHANGE PROGRAM:
Graduate Studies
Under the auspices of China-Canada Scholars’ Exchange Program a number of graduate
awards are offered to Canadian scholars
and students who wish to study and/or do
research in subject areas related to China
in the Chinese universities that are open to
Chinese Government Scholarship recipients
for the academic year 2007/2008.
The value of the award will consist of a basic
living allowance, payment of tuition fees, oncampus accommodation, medical insurance,
and teaching and resource materials.
Applicants should have a certain level of
Chinese language proficiency in both speaking and writing. However, candidates that
only speak English or French may be selected
as long as their Chinese host universities are
willing to accept them.
Applicants should submit five copies of each
of the following:
Applications can be found at www.scholarships-bourses-ca.org or in the Awards office.
All materials must be received by the Education Office of the Chinese Embassy in Canada,
80 Cobourg Street, Ottawa ON K1N 8H1
Deadline: Jan. 31 2007.
MARITIME DAIRY INDUSTRY
SCHOLARSHIP
Students who have completed at least two
years of post-secondary education and are
currently enrolled in a program that has
application to the dairy industry are eligible
to make application for this scholarship. Two
scholarships of $2000.00 will be awarded.
For more information email mroy@dfc-plc.
ca. Applications are available on-line at www.
dairygoodness.ca. Deadline: Jan. 31, 2007.
CANADIAN HARD OF HEARING
ASSOCIATION:
The purpose of this award is to offer financial
assistance and recognition to hard of hearing
and deafened students registered in a full
time program at a recognized Canadian college or university, in any area of study, with
the ultimate goal of obtaining a diploma or
degree. Two awards of $2000 each will be
granted. Applicants are requested to read
the criteria for eligibility and to provide all
the information required to complete the application. Applications are available either in
the U of W Awards Office located in Graham
Hall, or on-line at www.chha.ca/. Deadline:
Jan. 31, 2007.
MENSA SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
2007 ESSAY CONTEST:
By writing your career plan and describing
the means you undertake to achieve your
goals, you may earn a scholarship of $750
or $1000.
To apply, all you need to do is to submit a
250 word essay. You must meet the following
criteria:
• be a Canadian citizen or landed immigrant
• enrolled in a full-time program at a
Canadian post-secondary institution during
the 2006-2007 academic year
• 18 years of age or older as of Jan. 31,
2007
Essays can be written in English or French.
Only one essay will be accepted per applicant. Applications must be sent in by email to
[email protected] 250 word maximum
in TXT or RTF formant under the title “Essay”. Do not identify yourself in the essay.
Instructions are available in the Awards office
located in Graham Hall.
ROYAL BANK ABORIGINAL
STUDENT AWARDS:
Value: Five students will receive $4,000 for
education expenses to a maximum of four
years at university. Eligibility:
•a status Indian, Non-status Indian, Inuit or
Metis
•you are a permanent resident/citizen of
Canada
•you can provide proof of acceptance (with
transcript of marks)or are already attending
a university or college listed in the Directory
of Canadian Universities, in a discipline
relevant to the banking industry (e.g.
business, economics, computer science)
•you maintain a full course workload
leading to a recognized degree, certificate
or diploma
•you are in need of financial assistance to
pursue your education
Process: An independent committee of
aboriginal academics reviews all applications
and makes its final selections based on each
individual’s financial need. In addition, recipients who indicate an interest in pursuing a
banking career are considered for summer
and postgraduate employment at RBC.
Apply on-line at www.rbc.com and send your
documentation to:
RBC ROYAL BANK ABORIGINAL STUDENT
AWARDS RBC Royal Bank 330 Front Street
West, 10th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5V 3B5
Fax: (416) 348-6455
Deadline: Jan. 31st 2007.
YOUTH LEADERS IN ACTION
SCHOLARSHIP: United Way
Leaders are everywhere in Winnipeg and
the United Way wants to recognize the contributions of young community leaders and
encourage them to keep up the good work.
For 2007, four scholarships of $500 each will
be awarded to young people under 30 who
have made a difference in their communities.
Criteria consideration will include:
•Academic potential – demonstrated
commitment to your education
•Leadership – challenge yourself to influence others and address local community
issues.
•Community involvement – committed
and connected to your community at a
neighbourhood level.
•Connection to a United Way funded
organization – volunteer or work at a
non-profit organization that is funded by
United Way of Winnipeg.
•Financial need – demonstrate you need
for financial support.
Apply today online at www.unitedwayyouth.
mb.ca/scholarship or call United Way’s
Manager of Youth Programs at 477-5360.
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2007
UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA
GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS:
Application forms for University of Manitoba
Graduate studies are available on the web
www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/graduate_studies. You can fill out the necessary forms
directly on-line. Applications must be
received in the Faculty of Graduate Studies
by Deadline: Feb. 1, 2007.
MACKENZIE KING
SCHOLARSHIPS:
MacKenzie King Scholarships are open to
graduates of any Canadian University who
engage in postgraduate study in any field, in
Canada or elsewhere.
Open Scholarship: One scholarship of
$9,000.00 is awarded to a graduate of
any Canadian University who engages in
postgraduate study in any field in Canada or
elsewhere.
Traveling Scholarship: Four scholarships of
approximately $10,000.00 for graduates of
any Canadian University who engage is postgraduate study in the United States or the
United Kingdom in the field of international
or industrial relations.
You must provide your home university with
the following items by their deadline date:
•a completed and signed applications form
•three letters of reference from persons
who have an intimate knowledge of your
record and ability and are able to give
a critical evaluation of your plans for
postgraduate study
•certified copies of official transcripts of
marks and other academic records from
each university you have attended.
Applications can be downloaded from
website www.mkingscholarships.ca or can be
picked up from the Awards office in Graham
Hall. Return all completed applications and
required documentation to the awards office
located in Graham Hall.
TERRY FOX HUMANITARIAN
AWARD PROGRAM:
Terry Fox Humanitarian Awards are open to
graduating secondary level students and
those currently studying towards a first
university degree or diploma in a Canadian
post-secondary institution. Award recipients
must meet the following criteria:
•involvement in voluntary humanitarian
work
•be a Canadian citizens or landed
immigrants
•be an undergraduate student studying
towards their first university degree or
diploma at a Canadian post-secondary
institution in Canada
•maintain a satisfactory academic standing
•continued involvement in voluntary
humanitarian and community work
The value of the award is $7,000 per year,
renewable for a maximum of four years or
until a fist degree is obtained. It is subject
to satisfactory progress, and is tenable at
any Canadian university or college. Approximately 20 awards are granted each year. The
field of study is open and at the discretion
of the successful candidate. Consideration
for a Terry Fox Humanitarian Award requires
students to submit an application form and
January 18, 2006
AWARDS & FINANCIAL AID: INFORMATION
SOROPTIMIST FOUNDATION OF
CANADA GRANTS FOR GRADUATE
STUDIES
The Uniter
three referee forms from the past two years
of schooling - no other forms are required.
Applications are available on their website,
www.terryfox.org
Deadline date: Feb. 1, 2007.
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF
MANITOBA INTERNSHIP
PROGRAMME:
The Manitoba Legislative Assembly Internship is open to individuals studying in any
discipline at one of the Manitoba universities
and permanent residents of Manitoba studying outside the province who have graduated
or will do so before September 2007. Six
Interns will gain first hand experience of
the legislative process and provide research
assistance to Members of the Manitoba
Legislative Assembly and their caucuses.
The program includes a 10 month Internship,
bi-weekly stipend of $1053.43, study tour or
the House of Commons, Ottawa, study tour of
the Minnesota State Legislature, and regular
special interest seminars. Applicants should
meet the following criteria:
•have a university degree with academic
excellence in any discipline by the time of
the start of the internship year
•have facility in written and oral
communication in English
•knowledge of written and spoken French
will be considered a strong asset
•show ability to conduct independent
research and write reports
•applicants invited for interview will be
asked to do a short written assignment
following the interview
•demonstrate evidence of involvement in
extracurricular activities.
A complete application must include 7 copies
(1 original) of each of the following:
•a completed application form
•a statement of motivation of not more
than 250 words
•three letters of reference from academics
•copies of the university transcripts of the
applicant
•one page résumé
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THE ROBIN COSGROVE PRIZE:
INNOVATIVE IDEAS FOR ETHICS
IN FINANCE:
This prize worth $20,000USD is open to
young people, aged 35 years or younger,
from throughout the world. It will be awarded
for creative papers setting out projects or
proposals for innovative ways to promote
ethics in finance and banking, especially in
emerging markets. Entries for the Prize are
invited to address the subject of Innovation
Ideas for Ethics in Finance. Submit your paper
electronically in English or French. Further
details can be found at www.robincosgroveprize.org
Deadline Feb. 28, 2007.
GE FOUNDATION SCHOLARLEADERS PROGRAM IN CANADA:
A $4000 per year scholarship for the 2nd,
3rd, and 4th years of your undergraduate
program is available to students who meet
the following criteria:
1) a Canadian resident
2) a first-year full-time students from an
eligible institution.
3) be a Aboriginal person, or a person with
a disability
3) studying engineering or business/management
4) have high academic performance, as
demonstrated by first semester university
results and high school transcripts.
5) demonstrate financial need.
Supporting documentation will include an
essay, high school transcripts, first semester
university results, two letters of reference,
proof of aboriginal ancestry, medical/disability documentation from a qualified doctor (for
applicants with disabilities only). Incomplete
applications will not be considered after Feb.
28 2007.
Applications are available in the awards
office located in Graham Hall, or download
an application on-line at www.iie.org/gefoundation
Deadline date: Feb. 28, 2007.
Applications available on line at www.gov.
mb.ca
Surfing for more Dollars?
You will have to go to the About the Assembly
– Internship programme link
Try these websites for more possibilities!
These two sites will lead you through Canadian based scholarship searches.
Deadline: Feb 14, 2007.
TALK ABOUT CANADA
SCHOLARSHIP QUIZ:
Operation Dialogue is a Canadian non-profit
organization with a mission to get students
interested in learning about Canadian history, politics, geography and popular culture
through an online quiz with scholarship
opportunities. Students who participate in
this quiz will be eligible for scholarships. The
quiz will take place from Jan. 15 – Feb. 19,
2007 and will be entirely online. It is multiple
choice and each answer has a link to information on the web. Over $45,000 in scholarships to be won: 1@ $5000, 20 @ $1000,
40@ $500 Go to www.talkaboutcanada.ca to
participate.
Deadline: Feb. 19, 2007
ROBERT E. OLIVER
SCHOLARSHIP:
Advertising Standards Canada (ASC) will be
awarding up to five scholarships of $1500 to
full-time post secondary students who are
enrolled in an undergraduate advertising
and/or marketing program at a Canadian
University or community college and committed to pursuing a career in advertising or
marketing.
To apply, go to www.adstandards.com or pick
up an application in the Awards office.
Deadline: Feb. 23, 2007.
EXPLORE BURSARY TO STUDY
FRENCH:
Come to Trois-Pistoles French Immersion
School and receive a credit in French from
The University of Western Ontario. Choose
between one of two five-week sessions.
• Spring May 14-June 15, 2007
• Summer: July 9 – August 10, 2007
You qualify if you are a Canadian citizen or
permanent resident and enrolled as a fulltime student (minimum 60% course load).
Applications available on the web at www.
myexplore.ca
More information can be found at tpistole@
uwo.ca
Deadline: Feb. 28, 2007.
www.studentawards.com
www.scholarshipscanada.com
Manitoba Student Aid Program (MSAP)
SECOND DISBURSEMENT:
When you receive your Manitoba Student
Loan document in the mail, the University of
Winnipeg will have electronically confirmed
your full-time enrollment and deducted fees
that you owe to the University of Winnipeg.
Bring this document to the Manitoba Student
Aid office located on the fourth floor of 1181
Portage Ave. for processing. You will need to
bring the following documentation:
• some photo ID with your signature
• bank transit information
If you have reduced your course load, these
changes will affect your Manitoba Student
Loan assessment.
DID YOU KNOW..... you can check the status
of your student aid application, find out what
documentation is still outstanding, update
your address information and much more on
line? Go to www.studentaid.gov.mb.ca Link to
MySAO to log into your existing account.
DID YOU KNOW.... Manitoba Student Aid staff
can be on campus on Fridays from 1 - 4p.m.
To meet with them, you need to set up an
appointment time. Come to student services
and book an appointment, or phone Tanis at
786-9984.
The Awards and Financial Aid staff at the University of Winnipeg will continue to keep you
informed of available awards, scholarships
and bursary opportunities. Please direct your
questions regarding awards and scholarships
to Tanis Kolisnyk. [email protected]
January 18, 2006
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The Uniter
SPORTS
Sports
Sports Editor: Mike Pyl
Local Bids to see the Fleury of Crosby and Malkin Staal-ed
Don’t expect to see Peg City Penguins anytime soon, locals advise
Volunteer Staff
The fledging Pittsburgh Penguins franchise will likely
not land in Winnipeg, JetsOwner.com founder Darren Ford
concedes. However, the dream of scoring an NHL franchise
remains very much in Ford’s sight.
“[T]he Pens are a great fit for Winnipeg,” writes Ford
on his website. “Any hockey team is.”
Uncertainty for the Penguins presented itself last
month when the Pennsylvania gaming board denied a
gaming license to Isle of Capri Casinos, which has promised
to build a new arena had it received the license. Days earlier,
Canadian businessman Jim Balsillie, owner of Blackberryproducer Research In Motion, withdrew his offer to buy the
team. Combined with the lease at 45-year-old Mellon Arena
expiring at the end of the season, the end of the Penguins in
Pittsburgh may draw nigh sooner rather than later.
The situation proves unfortunate for Penguins fans,
and the NHL as a whole. Though the Penguins were deadlast in attendance in 2003-2004 before the lockout—and
Sidney Crosby—the team climbed to 20th spot in 2005-2006
and have kept up that position this season, where they have
played to 94 per cent capacity, reports ESPN.com. Perhaps
even more importantly, the Penguins have played to an average of 17,349 fans on the road, good for fifth in the league. To
remove a team from the metropolis that is the northeastern
US and isolate it in one of Houston, Kansas City or Portland
not only places a team in another out-of-the-way city, but reduces potential geographical rivalries as well. Honestly, the
Battle of Missouri over the Battle of Pennsylvania?
According to Randy Turner of the Winnipeg Free
Press, the NHL feels strongly about keeping the Penguins
in Pittsburgh.
Turner wrote in an e-mail: “If a team can’t make it
work in Pittsburgh, what does that say about the future of the
NHL in places like Miami, Phoenix and Atlanta?”
All told, however, Pittsburgh’s unfortunate loss could
well end up another town’s gain. It’s increasingly unlikely,
however, that the town will be Winnipeg.
While Moose owner Mark Chipman did inquire about
the Penguins when they were originally put up for sale, inciting local excitement, the Penguins reported asking price of
$150 million US scared Chipman off, according to Turner.
“No way could any Winnipeg ownership group afford
to pay $150-$170 up front, then hope to buy a team that
MIGHT break even, if they’re lucky,” wrote Turner in an email. “Chipman has long said that with the MTS Centre, it
could be possible to run an NHL team. But they could only
afford about a $75-million price tag to begin with. At least,
that’s what they’ve been saying on the record.”
However, the original furor with which Chipman’s inquiry was met comparatively makes local reaction to news of
the Penguins’ potential demise look like a whimper.
According to Turner, less optimistic than Ford, this is
because “there has been little local coverage on the situation
because nothing’s changed in terms of Winnipeg’s position.
The asking price is out of the question, barring some deeppocketed owner stepping forward. Besides, if the Penguins
do move, it looks highly probable that they’ll go to Kansas
City, which has a brand new arena opening in October. Also,
Bettman would rather poke needles in his eyes than see a
team return to Winnipeg, thereby ending his all-American
dream.”
failing to draw at the gate, their time could soon be up, and
Ford admitted that he thought the Penguins had a fair
the Sun Belt could soon be removed from the NHL’s loops.
chance of staying put, but should they not, downplayed the
Too bad the pants were already down.
values of the Kansas City option.
“They’ve got a brandspanking new building, but what
are the chances that they’ll fill
that building year after year?”
asked Ford rhetorically. “After
the Chiefs, after the Royals, after
[college sports], how much of
the entertainment dollar is left
for hockey?”
In order to make the
Winnipeg an attractive option
for NHL teams looking for homes
down the road, Ford suggested an
offer similar to the one Kansas
City put forward, which included
free rent for thirty years.
In the end, Ford says that
the city does not have much of
a shot with the extremely attractive Penguins, but could potentially score upwards of the
Central Division-leading Nashville
Predators.
“The price tag was high
with Pittsburgh being the first
team on the market,” said Ford.
With teams such as the
Any chance of seeing Sid the Kid as a Jet certainly appears slim
Predators, Capitals and Coyotes
CBC.CA
Scott Christiansen and Daniel Falloon
The Uniter
January 18, 2006
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Wesmen Win…Again and Finally!
Town goes to town on the Pack; Dirks adds to her kill count
Volunteer Staff
For the men, the 4-4 Thompson Rivers squad served
as a nice respite after running a gauntlet of difficult competition in the first half of the season. For the women, it represented a chance to get back to their winning ways after a
rocky 1-10 start.
The Wesmen rolled over the WolfPack last weekend,
finishing with 2-0 for the men’s team and an amazing 1-1 for
the women. The men displayed their expected dominance on
both Friday and Saturday nights, walloping the visitors first
3-0 (25-21, 28-26, 25-22), then 3-1 (18-25, 25-14, 25-17, 2511). The women, on the other hand, snapped a ten-game regular season losing streak, winning 3-0 (25-19, 25-22, 25-23)
on Saturday after falling 3-1 (17-25, 25-17, 25-22, 25-19) the
night before.
Saturday evening started a little differently for the
Wesmen men’s team as they began the early match of the
men’s-women’s doubleheader against the WolfPack. Head
coach Larry McKay felt enough confidence to go with some
players a little lower on the depth charts to start off the
match, but once again, Thompson Rivers proved to be a tough
opponent and put the Wesmen a little off balance by making
a 7-0 run to beat the Wesmen to the first technical timeout 87. The home team couldn’t regroup sufficiently despite some
subs and rotations and fell 19-25 to the WolfPack.
“We had a breakdown after the first six points,” said
McKay. “We regrouped well between the…sets and played
well after that.”
However, McKay fell back on his reliable core group
of athletes in the second set. Ben Schellenberg had a couple
of early plays along with Andrew Town to bring the Wesmen
to the first technical timeout seven points ahead of the Pack.
Despite a few changes in the line for Thompson Rivers, the
Wesmen powered through the rest of the set, wrapping it up
quickly 25-14.
Thompson Rivers came back with a new vigor in the
third set of the match, staying within a two-point deficit of
Winnipeg until the first technical timeout. After, there were
short bursts of brilliance from the Wesmen mostly as Andrew
Town took the Wolfpack to town scoring a couple of his 11 recorded kills of the night to help bring the set to a 25-17 finish
for the Wesmen.
It was nearly all Wesmen in the final set. Once again,
the Wesmen pulled up to an 8-2 lead at the first technical timeout. The visitors tried multiple subbing routines,
but none of them had any effect on slowing the Wesmen’s
charge. With the set well in-hand, McKay gave Alan Ahow,
Justin Duff and Dan Lother a few minutes and plays on the
court, allowing each a chance to touch the ball a few times.
Nearly holding Thomspon Rivers to single digit points, the
Wesmen closed off the match with a pair of well-placed service aces from Schellenberg, winning comfortably at 25-11
and giving the Wesmen fourth spot in the heated races of the
Canada West division with a 6-3 record.
Even more surprising Saturday night was the newfound
teamwork and execution from the women’s side of Wesmen
volleyball after facing the same British Columbia school
for the second time in as many days. Despite the loss the
night before, the Wesmen started off very much the same
way, except that something was different on this particular
Saturday evening.
“[We were] a little more disciplined in controlling our
emotions and staying relaxed and ready,” commented women’s head coach Diane Scott after the 3-0 sweep. “To come
back the second night and to win in three is a big deal.”
For those who haven’t followed the women’s volleyball
closely, the season came to a crashing halt after losing key
talent in Marlee Bragg due to a knee injury that has removed
her from play for the remainder of this season. A young team
being led by fourth-year Nicola Dirks struggled against the
tough Canada West division and couldn’t regroup for even a
single win since Bragg went out.
However, the game proved to be a nail-biter for the
fans in the stands watching the Wesmen struggle for every
point they could get. Execution was the priority and it showed
Love and Basketball
Raptors need To(can) Sam
Patrick Faucher
Every 3rd week, Patrick Faucher brings you Love
& Basketball, a breakdown of all that is NBA. E-mail
him (love or hate) at [email protected].
Alas, everything is right in the NBA. The classic leather ball was reinstated on New Year’s. Atlanta
is near the bottom of the East. Dallas and Phoenix
are going on double-digit win streaks. Vince Carter
is being criticized for lack of effort. The 76ers have
realized CWebb isn’t worth $20 million a season and
have bought him out, leaving him to shop his chokeunder-pressure skills around to competitive teams
who need dependable closers (word is, he’s returning to Michigan, where his infamous crunch time ineptitude began). The Mile High City has two of the
league’s top three scorers. And finally, Toronto is at
the top of the Atlantic after beating on already beatup teams like Milwaukee (without Redd, Simmons,
Villanueva or Williams) and Boston (sans Pierce or
Szczerbiak), while losing to the league’s aforementioned elite, the Suns and Mavs, by a combined three
points… Okay, so it’s getting a little weird.
24-second drill: Minnesota’s 109-98 victory
over New Jersey marked the first time this season
that the 19-16 T-Wolves won a game by more than six
points… An Adrian Wojnarowski column from Yahoo!
Sports suggests the West Virginia Mountaineers’
coach and offensive guru, John Beilein, would thrive
in the new offence-oriented NBA, citing the new internationally flavoured Raptors as the perfect project
for him. I, for one, can only cry out YES! in every language known to man. And if you’ve ever watched WVU
tear through March Madness, you’d be hard-pressed
to disagree. The Raps have the drive, the chemistry,
the killer instinct and the talent to be a top-five team
in the East. They just need some fruit loops (to can
Sam)… Bosh is currently second in All-Star votes
amongst East forwards, meaning three starters from
the East could be from the class of 2003. Seeing as
the game will be played in Vegas, let’s take a moment
and reflect on just how bad a gamble Darko was in
that draft…
Lines of the Month: Dirk Nowitzki, on Toronto’s
21-year-old rookie Andrea Bargnani, who has been
compared to the Maverick’s star—”He’s a better
player than when I was at 19 or 20. He’s going to be
a heck of a player. He’s a little more athletic than I
even was back then.” (Yahoo! Sports)
“Webber has always been an excellent passer,
a good mid-range jump shooter (except in clutch
situations), a poor defender and an accumulator of
mostly uncontested rebounds,” —Charley Rosen of
FoxSports. Tell us how you really feel.
Game of the Week: Feb. 3, Utah at Phoenix at
8 on Rogers Sportsnet West and Pacific. Utah has
claimed the last two games between these Western
powerhouses, 108-104 on Nov. 4 and a 120-117 OT victory on Nov. 19. Be ready for another high-flying exposition of the new 100 points-or-bust NBA.
with a .448 kill percentage in the
first set. Nicola Dirks led once
again, not leading to any doubts
why she is leading the CIS in
kills with a total of 18 for the
Wesmen on Saturday evening.
Along with her 9 digs,
Dirks has proven to hold the
team well through the troublesome losing season.
“[Dirks] has done a
phenomenal job in these two
months in terms of…not just
leading but carrying the team…
and not getting upset about it,”
praised Scott about her best
player.
After finishing a 25-19
leading set, the Wesmen struggled a little through the second,
though still holding a 2-point
lead over the WolfPack. Even
though Thomspon Rivers bulled
through to come up with a 40 run late in the second set to
lead 22-21, the Wesmen (notably) did not fall apart and
along with a spectacular overthe-bench save by libero Shanti
Plett, the Wesmen came back and
repeated the WolfPack’s run to lock Andrew Wiebe (5) and Ryan DeBruyn attempt to block the WolfPack attack
in the numbers at 25-22 for the
home team.
The morale boost carried over as the Wesmen took the
spirits. Perhaps that is the biggest part of the sweep as
final set to an early lead even widening the gap to 6 at the
their record still sits at the bottom of the barrel with 2second technical (16-10). Jamie Menzies assisted in the win
11 while Thompson Rivers falls to 4-8. Hopefully for both
with eight kills total and 12 defensive digs, many in the third,
teams the wins carry weight into next week as they travel to
that helped put the match away in a tight 25-23 victory.
Saskatchewan to face the Huskies across the line.
The win comes with all the perks of brightening the
PHOTO: NATASHA PETERSON
Josh Boulding
January 18, 2006
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SPORTS
How I Watched the World Juniors
Raptors need To(can) Sam
blog.sportscolumn.com
Kalen Qually
Volunteer Staff
Provided she subscribes to her own logic, where
does her firing leave Etheredge (above)?
T.O. fires publicist
Embattled Dallas Cowboys’ wide receiver Terrell Owens fired his publicist, Kim
Etheredge, last week.
Etheredge is best known for her comments following Owens’ pain medication
overdose last September. Following his night
in hospital, Etheredge refuted rumours he had
attempted suicide.
“Terrell has 25 millions reasons why he
should be alive,” she said, alluding to Owens’
$25 million, three-year contract with the
Cowboys.
“I’m sure she wished she could have
retracted or say something different at that
time,” said Owens in her defence. “It was a
new situation for her. ... [It’s] very uncomfortable to be in front of the camera getting
drilled with a lot of questions. I wouldn’t say
that it was the most ideal thing to say.”
The publicist was also the one who originally called 911 following his overdose.
Etheredge, a former San Francisco
TV production coordinator, had worked as
Owens’ publicist since 2005 (Canoe.ca,
DallasNews.com).
Brainy Beavers end 207-game
losing streak
The longest current losing streak in
NCAA basketball was finally ended at 207
games.
The Division III Caltech Beavers defeated
Bard College (NY) soundly 81-52 early last
week, marking their first NCAA victory since
1996. However, they have beaten a non-NCAA
opponent as recently as 60 games ago.
“It was a combination of a sense of relief
and happiness for the kids. They were euphoric,” said head coach Roy Dow.
“We expected to win a game,
but not like this,” he said in regards to the 29-point margin of victory.
The California Institute of Technology is
widely renowned for its academic prowess in
science and math, boasting 31 Nobel Prize
winners and Albert Einstein as faculty alumni.
However, they do not award athletic scholarships, and they place extremely high admission standards and academic standards on
its 850 students. Many of the team’s players
did not even play varsity basketball in high
school.
Despite now having improved their
record to 1-207 in their last 208 NCAA
games, the Beavers are still looking for
their first conference win in 22 years.
“We still have to get that other streak,” said
Dow of his team’s 245-game losing streak
in the Southern California Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference. “It will be difficult. We
lost a lot of players from last year’s team.”
(SI.com)
Abusive coach charged
What is the capital of Thailand? If you
were a basketball player on Gregory Burr’s
Monument Academy Charter School (Co.)
team, it’s best you keep your mouth shut.
Burr, 28, is alleged to have hit players in
the groin with his fist, basketballs and tennis
balls, having showed his players pornography, and to have poured water on them before
driving in the cold with the windows down.
He is charged with 39 criminal counts, including sexual assault on a child by a person
in a position of trust, child abuse resulting in
serious bodily injury, crime of violence, obscenity and child abuse.
Ted
Belteau,
executive
director of personnel for the Lewis-Palmer
School District, said Burr is “no longer
being considered for the coaching job.”
Records say that one player alleged Burr
would approach them and ask, “What is the
capital of Thailand?” Upon answering, he
would hit them in the groin.
Burr frequently drove several players
to and from games in his car. In addition to
pouring water on them and then driving with
the windows down, on one occasion he asked
a player to get out of his vehicle naked and
run around a highway rest stop.
“It wasn’t fun,” said one player, who felt
Burr considered his actions a game. “I hated
it, and it got out of control and was abusive.”
(DenverPost.com)
It is the true challenge of any dedicated sports fan.
Plans, school, or your job will inhibit you from seeing THE
GAME. “You could just watch the highlights,” as pleaded by
anyone with half the mental capacity of you, the sports fan.
Not on their life. What kind of fan would you be? A casual
one? Hardly. You have been forced to (shudder) tape the
game. Then you enter an alternate universe where THE
GAME still hasn’t happened. Out of sight, out of mind. You
become oblivious to reality, where your team has already
won or lost. Communications shut down. No one will ruin
this for you and you will watch the game live…in your alternate universe.
Like an episode of Sliders, I constantly jumped back
and forth from this alternate universe trying to “enjoy” the
World Junior Championships. The only game I was able
to witness, in reality, was Canada’s 2-0 victory over the
Swedes. After that Boxing Day blowout, I depended on a
DVD recorder and my especially loyal (and aware) family.
Game dates and times were sticky noted on the television
and scrawled across the phone message board. No one
could make a call without being harassed by the World
Juniors schedule. I believe it was out of fear and not love
that I found every game recorded. So where was I while
my human TiVo, or “Mom” as she usually responds to, was
busy recording the games?
Well, I was ice fishing when Canada beat the States
6-3, with Darren Helm netting a pair. No worries though, I
watched the game the following night. A 3-1 victory over
Germany? I was on a forklift, but I watched the game after
work. I was asleep and remedying a hangover at 6am as
Canada scorched the Slovaks 6-0, but there was no way
I was missing this rout. I woke up at noon and saw it. I
made it through the round robin with my super fan ego
unscathed.
But again, those were just “round robin” games. I
could have lived with missing them but I rose to the challenge. On Wednesday came the semifinals - do or die. And
as sure as Pierre McGuire is bald, I was busy. There was no
getting out of work and Canada-U.S. was a morning start.
Curse you, Swedish time zone. The situation was under
control though as the game was being taped. However,
as I was leaving work I answered my cell phone when a
friend called (a cardinal sin in the alternate universe). No
“hellos” were exchanged, just “Did you see the shootout?”
HANGUP. My universe collapsed and I now had two and a
half hours of inconclusive hockey waiting for me at home.
Thanks, bro. Although the shootout did make it all worthwhile. Jonathan Toews scored on all three of his shootout
chances and Canada was headed to the gold medal game.
I’d survived to this point, but I hardly felt like a
super fan anymore. I pleaded with my supervisor to let
me have Friday afternoon off but my hopes were left shattered. Apparently he couldn’t relate to my crisis; “Hockey
fan, eh? I couldn’t even tell you one of the teams playing.”
Needless to say my respect for him dropped down a peg or
two after that comment. I knew I couldn’t make it through
the whole day without someone blowing it for me, so my
lifeline became a 60-year old man in the warehouse listening to the game on the radio. Not quite a TiVo, but Ivan
was good for updates.
Canada won 4-2! The domination continues with
Canada’s third consecutive gold. So the world does keep
turning if I don’t see the game live. I suppose I should have
listened to my human TiVo.
Now for your benefit, some of my WJC afterthoughts:
-“Philadelphia Flyers fans, get excited about Steve
Downie!” “Chicago Blackhawks fans, get excited about
Jonathan Toews!” Hockey fans, get excited about the fact
you don’t have to listen to Pierre McGuire talk for a while.
-Sure, you’ll cheer for Steve Downie now. Just wait
until he turns into Darcy Tucker in a Flyers uniform.
-Did anyone notice the cool red wooden horses players received for being named to the tournament all-star
team? That’ll look great in the trophy room, right next to the
porcelain rhino Carey Price got in a peewee tournament.
-How about the f-bomb Jonathan Toews dropped
in the post-gold medal game interview on TSN? Did they
mention he’s from Winnipeg? Represent!
Sports Editor: Mike Pyl
Phone: 786-9497
Fax: 783-7080
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SPORTS
NFL Picks
Every week hundreds of thousands of
fans spend hours scrutinizing the week’s
The Score
THE PANELISTS
Dustin Addison-Schneider is the starting setter for the Wesmen men’s volleyball team.
most pivotal matchups. They scour web-
Thomas Asselin is co-host of the University of Winnipeg’s only sports radio talk show, the
Ultra Mega Sports Show, broadcasting every Monday at 4:30 p.m. on CKUW 95.9 FM.
sites, watch the sports networks’ tickers
Mike Pyl is The Uniter's Sports Editor and founder of the paper’s NFL Picks.
at the bottom of the screen, dial pricey 1-
Kalen Qually is a regular contributor to Uniter Sports, and NFL Picks defending champion.
900 numbers, all in search of the particu-
Dan Verville is a columnist with Red River’s Projector, as well as a regular voice
on the Call-Ups, which can be heard Wednesdays at 7pm on 92.9 Kick FM.
lar insight that will guarantee them a big
payday. Well, look no further.
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Men’s Volleyball
(6-3, 5th in Canada West,
no. 3 CIS Coaches’ Poll)
Friday, January 12
Wesmen 3Thompson Rivers 0
(25-21, 28-26, 25-22)
Saturday, January 13
(18-25, 25-14, 25-17, 25-11)
Nick Weigeldt is The Uniter’s very own Listings Coordinator.
Each week we preview five of the
league’s juiciest matchups of the week.
If NFL football is your Sunday religion,
Uniter Sports will be your Bible. Our crack
team of analysts will show you the way.
(As to which way is anybody’s
guess.)
would have even made the playoffs. Because
of Seattle’s awful execution, Chicago’s now
a Super Bowl favourite? The league’s most
schizophrenic QB Rex Grossman can look
half-decent against bad teams, but he simply
can’t be trusted to lead his otherwise-talented
squad in a quality matchup (Bad Rex’s Week
12 triple INT stinker against New England
comes to mind). A remake of the Super Bowl
Shuffle will have to wait another year, which is
unfortunate, as I’d love to see Tank Johnson
assume the William “Refrigerator” Perry role
(‘I made be large but I’m no dumb cookie’).”
offensive showcase in their win over the
Ravens. This game will be very interesting as
neither team really blew the doors off their
opponents last week (although the Colts
defence certainly stepped it up a notch versus
the Ravens), and furthered by the recent playoff history between theses two teams. I believe it’s time for Peyton Manning to exorcise
some demons and put together a solid performance against the team that’s given him
nightmares in recent years. I may change my
mind after next week... but the winner of this
game should be the favourite to win the Super
Bowl. Indianapolis 27, New England 21.”
—Mike Pyl
—Thomas Asselin
Addison-Schneider says: Chicago
Asselin says: Chicago
Pyl says: New Orleans
Qually says: New Orleans
Verville says: New Orleans
Weigeldt says: New Orleans
Game #1: New Orleans @ Chicago
“So the Saints’ storybook season continues. Somehow. After a miserable .188
winning percentage last season and a hurricane the Saints have risen from the ashes
like the phoenix. (I’ve been waiting so long
to use that - forgive me.) The Saints need
this. The city needs this. Heck, I’m not sure
anyone in America can really begrudge the
Saints this. Except maybe the Chicago Bears
and all those fans at Soldier Field this coming
Sunday. But here’s why the Saints will win.
Rex Grossman had a decent game this weekend. Da Bears defense showed up too. But
the fact is, they’re still stumbling around like
a boxer in the 10th round. Watch the Saints
deliver the knockout blow this Sunday.”
“The AFC matchup featuring the Colts
and Pats is the dream game for NFL fans. It
highlights two of the NFL’s biggest stars in
Peyton Manning and Tom Brady. After a huge
road win against the Chargers last week, the
Pats are on a high. However, in my opinion, this won’t be enough to outshine Indy at
home. It will be time for Peyton manning to
exorcise his demons and finally beat the AllAmerican boy Tom Brady in the post season.
I will choose the Colts by a touchdown in this
matchup.”
—Dan Verville
“Here we go again, New England and
Indianapolis facing one other in the playoffs.
The Pats have to be considered the favourites
after their huge upset win over the San Diego
Chargers and MVP LaDainian Tomlinson.
The Colts on the other hand hardly put on an
Friday, January 12
Alberta 84 Wesmen 77
Saskatchewan 86
Wesmen 76
Men’s Basketball
(5-9, 2nd in Great Plains,
unranked)
Friday, January 12
Alberta 90
Wesmen 85
Saskatchewan 77
Wesmen 74
Women’s Volleyball
(2-11, 9th in Canada West,
unranked)
Game #2: Indianapolis
@ New England
—Dustin Addison-Schneider
“Last week, the Bears beat—no wait,
barely held on—against a mediocre 8-8
Seahawks team whose inconsistencies would
have made them a nice first round Patriot
speed bump in the AFC, assuming they
Addison-Schneider says: Indianapolis
Asselin says: Indianapolis
Pyl says: New England
Qually says: Indianapolis
Verville says: Indianapolis
Weigeldt says: New England
Women’s Basketball
(8-6, 1st in Great Plains,
no. 8 CIS Coaches’ Poll)
Friday, January 12
Thompson Rivers 3
Wesmen 1
(17-25, 25-17, 25-22, 25-19)
(25-19, 25-22, 25-23)
PLAYOFF MATCHUP #1
(Margin of victory in parentheses):
Asselin: Chicago (3), Indianapolis (6)
A-Schneider: Chicago (3), Indianapolis (7)
PLAYOFF MATCHUP #2
Pyl: New Orleans (10), New England (3)
Verville: New Orleans (7), Indianapolis (3)
COMING UP
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL
Away – Saskatchewan – Jan. 19 & 20
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
2006 Uniter NFL Picks Playoff Bracket
Away – Saskatchewan – Jan. 19 & 20
A-Sch ndr (5 )
MEN’S BASKETBALL
We igeldt (4)
A-Sch ndr (5 )
PLAYOFF RULES
Asselin (1)
Pyl (2)
1. Winners will be determined based on record.
2. Margins of victory to be used as a tiebreaker.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Home – Fraser Valley – Jan. 19 (6:15)
Home – Thompson Rivers – Jan. 20 (6:15)
Verville ( 3)
Verville ( 3)
Qu ally ( 6)
Home – Fraser Valley – Jan. 19 (8:00)
Home – Thompson Rivers – Jan. 20 (8:00)
January 18, 2006
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