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With Cops For Cancer nearly ready to ride off into the sunset, one well-known rider DANIELLE is planning his own way to POPE support the team. Smokin’ Joe news@ Liberatore, better termed as mondaymag.com one of the fastest and fearless racers of Western Speedway, has organized a Poker Run and Comedy Night on Sat., Sept. 8, for a day-long thrill ride of motorcycles, gambling, guffaws and adrenaline. After that, it’s back to Western Speedway on Sat., Sept. 15, for the annual fundraising head-shave to pair with demo racing, total destruction and tough trucks.

Liberatore is known around the community for his charity-focused events, but says this year’s fundraising activities have hit especially close to DANIELLE POPE home. In May, doctors found a tumour growing in Liberatore’s adrenal gland. Liberatore underwent Veteran Gordon Quan (left) stands with outgoing MP Denise Savoie to receive his Diamond Jubilee Medal. an operation on July 11, and is now in recovery.

“I know how many of my friends have been touched by this, and now personally seeing how well patients are treated by our medical system, it’s so Canadians of all ages for outstanding contribuimportant to me,” says Liberatore. “I’m a big guy, but tions to their community and country.

Best friends, Quan, 86, and Wong, 87, dediI was a scared baby when it came to dealing with all cated their lives to the Canadian military and war this — now I’m almost ready to race again.”

Liberatore hopes to raise $10,000 this year to efforts, and were stationed around the world in the Canadian infantry and merchant donate to the Cops For Cancer marine navy divisions in the ’40s. As program. Tickets for the Poker Monday reported in the Nov. 2 issue Run are $10, and participants “Remember Us: Victoria’s Chinese (both car and motorcycle) can Canadian soldiers tell of strugregister at Glen Lake Inn (2668 gle, racism and honour in the war Sooke) by noon. Ride travels to efforts,” both men fought proudly for Jordan River and back to the inn, their country through blatant racism, with card-playing stops along often for little more than $1 a day the way. Another $10 gives parand a bowl of rice to do the job. Quan ticipants access to the live bands and Wong are lifelong members of and the comedy show from 2pm the Canadian and Chinese Veterans to midnight, including door prizPROVIDED es and a 50/50 draw.

Smokin’ Joe is ready to shave. Association and legion, and have become highly decorated for their Check out WesternSpeedway. achievements. net for details on Liberatore’s “I am proud to recognize the contrihead-shaving and demo event. butions of these individuals who have helped make CHINESE VETERANS AWARDED Victoria the most liveable city in Canada,” Savoie Who says good deeds go unnoticed? said of the event, which also marked her last day in Monday’s favourite Chinese Canadian veter- office, and last activity as MP before stepping down. ans, Gordon Quan and Andrew Wong, were honOther recipients included Raging Granny oured recently with both receiving the prestigious Freda Knott, author Alan Cassels, community Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. activist Penny Tennenhouse, historic journalQuan appeared for a special award ceremony ist Audrey Scammell, Puente Theatre’s Lina de Fri., Aug. 31, at the Victoria City Council Chambers, Guevara and others. Awards were recommendwhere outgoing Victoria NDP MP Denise Savoie ed by an independent four-person panel who presented Quan and 24 other community members worked closely with Savoie on the selection of with the award. Wong, who is now recovering from the recipients. Each MP may award the medal to a surgery, was unable to attend the ceremony, but eligible constituents until the end of 2012. received his medal at an earlier date.

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I witness it every day from people who lash out on social media or make rash judgments about people based on one tiny sliver of information. Secure in our electronic cocoons, we’re becoming a generation that GRANT has completely forgotten how to act with decency and MCKENZIE empathy for others. We gobble up information by the terrabyte, and yet we no longer know how to offer a editor@ simple hello and be nice to someone in the lineup at mondaymag.com the local coffee shop.

At a First Aid seminar that my wife attended this past weekend, for example, not one person spoke to any of the others during the breaks. Without exception, every person pulled out their cellphone rather than make eye contact and strike up a conversation with anyone sharing the same experience. The hive is empty and the drones have become lost. What I fear most about this disconnect is what it is doing to our humanity.

This fear couldn’t have been more evident than the prank that someone pulled on the shores of Clover Point last week. In the middle of the night, someone decided to leave three running shoes by the water that contained a meat-like substance and bone. For those who have been following the bizarre news, numerous running shoes have been found along the west shore over the last five years that contain actual human remains. Although it sounds like something out of the X-Files, the coroner’s service is satisfied the remains separated naturally from bodies in the water without foul play.

(Two of the feet, for example, belonged to a suicide victim; another pair to a drowning victim.)

What upsets me most about this recent hoax is that the perpetrator went that extra sick mile and made the three shoes child-sized. Nothing sends a shock of horror through a community more than the thought of a child being harmed. I can’t imagine how anyone found this prank amusing in the slightest. It shows a sick and dangerous mind that has lost all connection with his/her community. We need to relearn what it means to be part of society, switch off now and again and raise our awareness to the people around us.

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Heroes are right here

Re: "Where are the heroes?" Letters, Aug. 30 - Sept. 5.

As a retired cop, I take offence to the letter writer’s comments.

I urge the writer to sit with any one of the men and women who police our communities and listen to what they have to deal with on a typical shift.

Better yet, if you can put your fears aside for a few hours, go for a ride along and you'll quickly find that Mason Street is probably not so bad after all. By the way, if your bike ever gets stolen, watch out. It may be returned to you by a hero driving one of those police SUV's.

RICK GONDER, OAK BAY

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But he said he was not out of politics. He was leaving a clear path to attack the next Liberal

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budget and use that excuse to jump to another right-wing party.

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is likely the plan. The injected party and the surviving Liberals can form another Wacky coalition.

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STREET SMARTS What would be your get-rich-quick scheme?

KIERAN REPORT

Northern bloc ready to flex its muscle o m et h i n g may be brewing in northern B.C. on the outer fringes of our political consciousness that could force election fortune tellBRIAN ers to go back to their KIERAN Tarot cards for anbkieran@ other peak ahead to mondaymag.com 2013.

The conventional wisdom about our near-term political destiny seems irrefutable. It has the New Democrats, at 50 per cent in the polls, mopping up in the May vote with the DOA Liberals counting their leftovers on two hands.

But volatile times like these are fertile breeding grounds for political schemers and my sources in the North suggest a movement is afoot.

Nominally, it would be called the “Northern Independent Party.” Its base would be the 10 northern ridings, a massive geographical block bordered on the north by Stikine and Peace River North, on the west by North Coast, on the east

by Prince George-Valemount, and on the south by Cariboo-Chilcotin. These rid-

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ings represent almost two-thirds of B.C.’s land mass and get about one-sixth of its attention.

The idea is to establish a northern bloc that would have enough clout to force the governing party to pay the appropriate level of homage to this wealth-generating region that historically receives the least attention from Victoria.

The conditions are certainly ripe for such a movement. The North, the birthplace of entrepreneurial spirit, is no longer the domain of the free enterprisers.

In the most recent Angus Reid poll, the NDP has a 63 per cent grip on the North while the Liberals and the Conservatives have just 16 and 17 per cent respectively.

One of the incubators for an independent northern voice may be the proposed Enbridge northern pipeline. The issue has defined the North for the past six months and will continue to dominate the landscape through May. Current polling by Abacus Data indicates that 54 per cent of Interior voters are strongly or somewhat opposed to the project. The way the Liberals and the NDP have been playing handball with the contentious issue simply reinforces northern alienation.

Upstart political movements seem to be in vogue these days. The grassroots Wildrose Party was poised to win the

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recent Alberta election until a few of its wacko candidates started sharing their ideas with reporters just hours before the polls opened.

A textbook example emerged in the Quebec election this week. The Coalition Avenir Québec — the Coalition for the Future of Quebec — was not even a registered party this time last year, and yet the centre-right coalition proved to be a game-changing influence.

In B.C., the resurging Conservatives under John Cummins were poised to become a natural new voice for disaffected northern free enterprisers fed up with Liberal lip service. But the dream has fizzled and Cummins has proved to be just another cranky old retired MP in search of a second coming.

Internal wrangling on his board of directors is bubbling into the news ahead of the party’s AGM this month and frustrated Conservatives are already whispering about a coup.

If there is to be independent political action in the North, it will most likely be home grown. There is a unique esprit de corps in this vast region itching to find political expression. There is absolutely no question that the North needs a new deal. The only question is whether or not its frustration has reached critical mass. M

SANDY PRATT, Victoria

I don’t believe in getting rich quick.

Even riches that look quick likely took hard work.

JORDON KROETSCH, Victoria

Aside from winning the lottery, which is not a good plan, I’ve got nothing.

PAUL REID, Victoria

To get rich and do it quickly?

Probably, rob a bank.

PAT MUIRHEAD, Victoria

CITY WATCHDOG

Fate of regional policing rests on humility ot much has changed in the years since Victoria and Esquimalt initiated what they thought would be regional police amalgamation, and the recent report by Jean Greatbatch and its subsequent acceptance as gospel by the Ministry of Justice has done little to end the current stalemate.

The Victoria Police Force will continue to SIMON serve the only municipality in B.C. that has NATTRASS been denied the right to decide who will snattrass@ patrol its streets. mondaymag.com There will be no debate, there are no alternatives; Minister Shirley Bond has made it abundantly clear that she could not care less about the will of Esquimalt’s duly elected mayor and council.

Hinting at problems to come, Esquimalt is casting doubt upon the information and recommendations presented in Greatbatch’s report. In a recent interview, Mayor Barb Desjardins rattled off at least a dozen ways in which she believes the report fails to present either an accurate picture of the situation to date or a clear process by which the current conflict can be resolved.

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Unfortunately, Desjardins also says Esquimalt was never given a chance to present its concerns to the ministry.

“We felt that we should be able to respond to that report to clear up those inaccuracies before any decision was made, and that wasn’t permitted.”

Despite being forced to salvage what’s left of their relationship with the Victoria police — even after a recent decision to sign a contract with the RCMP — Esquimalt appears to be taking the loss in stride. Desjardins confirmed that the municipality would not be challenging the minster’s decision, opting instead to broker the best possible deal for its residents.

“We’re prepared to sit down and discuss things with the Victoria Police Department and the City of Victoria and begin looking at the potential for an agreement.”

Esquimalt’s demands — featuring a return to the communitylevel policing model lost in the years after amalgamation, an overhaul of VicPD’s funding model and reimbursement for money lost courting the RCMP — are steep, and the police board’s refusal to meet its funding partner halfway borders on pathological. While the final recommendations of the Greatbatch report attempt to breathe life into Victoria’s long-held dream of regional policing, it is the hubris or humility of VicPD and its board that will decide our fate. M

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Connecting the DOTS of suicide SECOND-ANNUAL AWARENESS RALLY ASKS GOVERNMENT FOR SHARP CHANGE

By Danielle Pope news@mondaymag.com

ean Oliver cares a lot about suicide.

She knows what it’s like to think no one cares, and she’s sharply connected to the feelings of worthlessness that partner depression. She also knows what it’s like to survive suicide attempts — four, in fact, through cutting, alcohol and pills. Yet the three times she tried to check herself into the hospital (once, holding an X-Acto blade in her hand while asking the nurses for help) she was released after her consultations because she “didn’t fit the criteria” for someone suicidal.

That’s part of the reason Oliver is forging ahead with another rally to dot the path between the legislature lawn and emergency hospital services — and why she has created an entire organization around it.

The Society for the Development of Treatment Services for Mental Health (DOTS BC) will host the second-annual DOTS Mental Health and Suicide Awareness Rally on Sat., Sept. 8, 10am to 2pm on the legislature lawn.

In honour of World Suicide Prevention Day (Sept. 10), the group is asking all survivors, supporters and those affected by suicide to join hands to “connect the dots” in a human chain for better health care.

“I survived my suicide attempts, but if I hadn’t gotten pissed off enough at myself

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for what I was putting the people I love through, maybe I wouldn’t be there today,” Oliver, 53, says. “The rally is about celebrating survival, but we focus on the belief that things will get better.”

That better vision is specific. DOTS BC is asking the government to promote a national health strategy that would focus on four main components: a bed for all emergency psychiatric patients, self-referral resources for those who feel unsafe on their own, pediatric psychiatric services extended up to age 25 and publicly funded psychotherapy.

“The number one thing you can do for a person struggling with survival is just be there for them and ask that person what they need,” says Oliver. “But there’s so much more the government could be doing.”

Last year’s inaugural rally saw over 300 people line the streets from Royal Jubilee’s mental health ward toward the legislature, then march as a group the remaining way to the lawn. While Oliver is expecting a larger turnout this year, she is hoping the rally at the lawn will create more fervour in the message to the government. At the site there will also be a memory box, where people are invited to write messages to those lost, or words of hope to those who survived.

Survivors be aware: the rally honours life, loss and survival, and remembering emotional events can trigger strong feelings. DOTS BC asks that you only attend if it is safe for you to

Jean Oliver leads the first-annual DOTS rally, which saw 300 people join hands in 2011.

do so, and plan for support in the days following. While there will be emergency services on hand, no counselling services will be present.

“The rally provides a safe space for the people behind the statistics to come together,” says Oliver. “This is a place we can use for healing … the people who think about ending their lives and the people who need to relearn life after losing a loved one.”

According to the 2012 Canadian Mental Health Commission report, suicide is the second-leading cause of death in youth, and the third-leading cause of death in adults.

Approximately 55 suicides occur per day in Canada, according to a 2009 National Blue Print Study, though those numbers could be higher now. Oliver hopes the rally can let every survivor see how many people care about this issue, in an effort to change those stats.

“Personally, I get an even deeper sense of my commitment to life now that there are so many people out there relying on me,” she says. “I don’t feel invisible anymore.” M Learn more about DOTS BC and the rally at dotsbc.com.

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Angel With A Bullet PART 4 OF 4: LOCAL AUTHOR M.C. GRANT'S NEW NOVEL BEING RELEASED ON SEPT. 8 Monday’s Editor-in-Chief, under the pen name M.C. Grant, will be releasing his latest mystery novel across North America and the UK on Sept. 8. Through a special arrangement with his publisher, Midnight Ink, Monday is giving readers a special sneak peek at the opening chapter over four weeks. Today is Part 4 of 4. Grant will be signing Angel With A Bullet at a special book launch at Chapters on Douglas St., on Sat., Sept. 8 at 2 p.m.

CHAPTER 1 CONT'D Dixie’s Tips #3: Vomiting at a crime scene, although often times warranted, is not recommended. You only have to blow chunks once to be forever looked upon as a girly sidekick to the “real” journalists. If necessary, swallow.

Beyond the door waits a headless body, pale and oozing atop polished hardwood floors.

Geesus.

I brace myself against the doorjamb as my legs unexpectedly tremble.

Surrounding the body is a sticky carpet of burnt crimson edged in black. The ruby carpet also grows on walls, glistening in the light like a human lung — alive and breathing.

I look away, digging deep within myself to unearth roots for my bravado. I’m no stranger to blood. What woman is? But on my beat, death is rarely gentle and one’s first and most human reaction is often to flee.

As part of the night crew — reporters, police officers, firefighters, hookers, junkies, paramedics, undertakers, pimps, dealers, coroners, nurses and bartenders — I learned how to survive by detaching from the humanity of the dead. I trained myself to look at death as the introduction to a story with the body serving as merely the hook beneath my all-important byline.

It sounds morbid, but it’s surprising how oddly automatic it becomes. Then again, I usually don’t know the corpse on an intimate level. And, truth be told, most of the night crew also drink too damn much.

Pulling my gaze from the body, I scan the room. Diego has come a long way from the one-bedroom he rented in the building I still call home. He moved in directly above me, except for a brief three weeks when he shared my bed.

We lived a year in those 21 days and parted on difficult terms. We didn’t hate each other per se; we just couldn’t stand the sight of ourselves in the other’s presence.

Beyond the lake of blood, two uniformed officers — one saggy in the seat; the other bakery fresh — stand with their backs to me. Their focus is a large picture window and the empty street below. The slump of shoulders and heavy air of silence says all they want is for a detective to show so they can report what precious little they know and book off.

Careful not to disturb them, I check the main door.

It proves even more sophisticated than I first guessed. A steel bar hidden in the core of the door could slide into brass-finished iron plates on the floor and ceiling, making it practically impenetrable when locked. Try to kick that sucker in and you would end up flat on your ass with a broken ankle.

When ready, I inhale deeply and return to the meat of the matter.

The corpse is male, shirtless, with a firm, muscular stomach. I kissed that stomach. Not now, but then. My fingers traced sharp, square-cut muscles. Diego hated to be tickled. The loss of control. Naturally, that made it impossible to resist.

The bloodless skin still holds a bronze pigment and I have to dam a sudden dampness in my eyes.

Focus, focus. Come on, Dix. It’s been a year. Do your job.

There are no tattoos, which surprises me. Even though Diego didn’t sport any when we were together, I always suspected he was just itching to ink his own skin. The body is bent awkwardly over two large cushions, legs splayed wide with bare feet pointing in opposite directions. A single-barreled shotgun is laying a few feet away with something small, red and meaty stuck in its trigger guard.

OK, stop. Don’t look.

I have to. Geesus, I have to.

The head, or what is left of it, is a burst melon — everything from the mouth up, gone.

The thought that immediately enters my head is that I miss his eyes. The light that was Diego had glistened within those eyes like an erupting volcano. The orbs were so bright that I often wondered if he could see in the dark.

No point taking a photo, I tell myself. It would never make the press. Can’t have our readers gagging on their Sunday morning Corn Flakes.

The skull’s jellied contents are what carpets the walls, but there is also an abnormally symmetrical shape at its epicenter. Stepping closer, I stifle a gasp as the shape takes threedimensional form.

Positioned directly in the path of the volcanic spatter stands a large, rectangular canvas.

The stretched canvas, anchored firmly to a heavy easel, is covered in tiny fragments of shattered bone, pummeled brain matter and at least a bucket of congealing blood.

Within the gore, however, Diego has painted an intricate pattern in what I can only guess is some form of clear wax.

While the raw canvas soaks in the blood, the pattern repels it.

Without the wax, the canvas would have been just another mess to clean up, and without the blood, the pattern would never have been revealed.

I move closer, mesmerized. As my eyes relax, shapes flicker within the pattern, but the blood has yet to set and the final message eludes me.

Once you look past the gore — an easier chore I assume once the canvas is removed from the scene and allowed to dry — the power of the piece is palpable.

Unexpectedly, almost spiritually, I feel this could become Diego’s greatest creative achievement: a complete and personal sacrifice to art and a single-barreled Fuck You to the world.

But that is also what bothers me. The Diego I had known was far too narcistic and money hungry to conceive of something so self-sacrificing.

To me, it looks more like murder.

We hope you've enjoyed this sneak peek at the opening chapter to Dixie's adventure. To continue the story, pick up a copy of Angel With A Bullet at your favourite book store. Grant will be happy to sign it for you.

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Drop us a line at editor@mondaymag.com with your opinion.

From Angel with a Bullet: A Dixie Flynn Mystery by M. C. Grant. © 2012 by M. C. Grant. Used by permission from Midnight Ink Books, www.midnightinkbooks.com.

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t’s the highest stakes poker game in Victoria, and it is strictly illegal. The problem is the “rake.” See, the buy-in is $5,000 (hundred dollar bills only, please), but that only buys you $4,250 in chips. The $750 “rake” taken by the house is what makes the game illegal.

“It’s an organizing fee,” says Dave, who agreed tangible intensity in the room. to allow Monday behind the gambling curtain on It’s a lot of money and the game is serithe condition of anonymity. Dave and his associ- ous. Dave’s security staff also handles the cash, ates have been hosting the game for over two removing it from the premises as soon as the years now. “We game starts. The actual cash is paid out to the TIM COLLINS find and check winning player(s) later that day at an agreed out the players upon location. news@mondaymag.com and provide the “If we’re ever raided here, there’s no cash anylocation for the game, plus all of the equip- where,” says Dave. “All that anyone would find ment and dealers. We also provide security. We is a friendly tournament being played on private wouldn’t want anyone getting the idea that they property. There’s no law against that.” can just come and take the money.”

David runs a similar game in Vancouver, but They also provide drinks and snacks. he has agreed with his partners to say no more The game is held in a second-storey space about that operation. “It’s a bit different from in downtown Victoria and is by here and I really don’t want to invitation only. Each game is give too much away,” he says.

“I won the whole limited to 24 players and there So what sort of person plays are no re-buys. Once you’ve this game? thing about four lost all your chips, you are out.

“It really ranges all over the months ago and As players are eliminated, the map, but obviously they have took the cash tables are combined until only to love poker and have enough one table remains. Eventually, money so five grand isn’t going to right into the it might be only two players left hurt them too much,” says Dave. bank to my box. playing heads-up poker for all Most of the players are at It’s my stake and the money. least middle-aged and about two an insurance Play starts at 8pm, although thirds are male. “We’re getting players start drifting in an more and more women trying to policy against hour earlier. They move over get in, though,” Dave says. life; my secret.” to a small table at one side of Dave likes the older players the room where they buy their best. “They’re calmer and it’s not chips and eye up the competias likely they made their money tion. “There are some really good players here,” through drugs or some shit like that. Anyone says one participant. “These are guys, and girls, who broke the law to get the money in the first I guess, who are really serious about the game. place might think about doing something stupid You have to be good to play here.” to keep it or use the information to get out of The game will run no later than 6am, although trouble if they get busted for something else. it most often will end long before that, with one These are honest people,” says Dave, gesturing player having captured all the chips. No one can at the room. cash-out early, and withdrawing from the game In fact, his choice of players is one of the drawbefore 6am means you forfeit whatever chips you ing cards of the game. may have. If there are two or more players left at “I like the fact that just about everyone in here the end of the game, they share the $102,000 pot knows how to play,” says one. “You don’t get these in relation to their chip share. guys who will go all in on a seven/three draw just As players are eliminated, some choose to because it’s suited. Playing guys like that is like tryleave, but not many. Most will stay until the ing to reason with a crazy person. You can’t read morning to see who has won the biggest part of someone that crazy, all you can do is try to get out the pot. They watch the play intently, trying to of their way and not let them take you with them as gauge the players for future games. There is a they self destruct. There are no morons here.”

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That’s also the reason that many beverages from the bar where the of Dave’s clients are willing to pay game is held. That makes it a win/ the rake. win proposition. The players get a “I can find a casino to play at, place to play, and the bar makes but the other guys in the game money from 50 or so patrons who might have no clue how to play the wouldn’t ordinarily be there if not game. They can be real dangerfor the poker game. ous,� says another player. “It’s like “Not all games are big money running an Indy race with half the out there,� says Weeds. “And guys on the track not knowing how most aren’t illegal. There are hunto drive.� dreds of home games going on Aside from that consideration, for money, but mostly the stakes one might get the sense that the are pretty low; 10 bucks or 50. slightly illegal nature of the game It’s nothing that’s going to hurt is an enticement. anyone. There are only a couple of “This is private. I sometimes see big games, but they’re pretty hard a guy I’ve played against in a resto locate.� taurant or on the street. We smile Weeds’ players play for points at each other, but that’s it,� says a that are meticulously recorded by final player. “I won the whole thing Weeds. Those points are used in about four months ago and took tournament play for prizes at the the cash right into the bank to my end of the season. box. It’s my stake and an insurance It’s all good fun and a great policy against life; my secret.� place to learn the game.

Reminiscent of Fight Club, the What does Weeds think about most important rule is that you the illegal games on the Island? never talk about the game; not to “It’s sort of the dark side of the anyone. If you think you may have game,� he says. “There’s no legal TIM COLLINS a candidate for the game, you rec- Rob Weeds runs his own — legal — poker games in a variety of locations around Victoria.

[Texas hold ’em] game at our casiommend the person to Dave who no, and that’s a mistake. Some will vet the candidate and contact people want to play for money the British Columbia Amateur Poker League (check out and if they can’t do it legally, they’ll find a way. It’s an them for a meeting and perhaps an invitation.

Still, the turnover is very low. Dave says he has a group their website at BCAP.ca). unnecessary evil. They should have it in the casino.�

The league operates out of a couple of bars and one of about 60 players on the Island (many do not live in Still, Weeds loves the game and is thrilled that he Victoria, but are willing to travel to the game). He rarely Canadian Legion, and boasts hundreds of players. In gives his clients a chance to play, socialize and learn fact, Weeds estimates that he’s had some 2,500 players the game. finds himself unable to fill the 24 player slots. involved over the past eight years. “A lot of our players end up going to Vegas to play and NOT ALL GAMES ARE ILLEGAL Weeds’ games are strictly legal, as no money changes what they learn here really helps them.� hand and there is no charge to play; no rake for the Weeds got married this spring. For his honeymoon, Rob Weeds makes a good living running his own house. Weeds makes his money from the hosting ven- he travelled south to, you guessed it... Vegas. poker games in a variety of locations in and around ues. They pay him to bring his game to their location.

As for Dave, he doesn’t gamble.

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Boustead has played in some money games as well, but is a little coy about how much she’s won.

She started the Lady’s Poker Club in 2007 and has about 30 members who gather in private homes to play. “It’s great to socialize and get to know people,� says Boustead.

Why are so many women interested in the game? “Poker isn’t just about cards or luck,�

Boustead explains. “You have to be able to read people. There was this one woman I played in a cash tournament. I noticed that she blinked faster when she didn’t have a hand. After that, it was all over for her.�

Boustead will often plan vacations around poker tournaments and, although her husband plays a bit, he is not “as fanatic about the game� as Boustead. “I’d love to go into the World Series and win a bracelet,� says Boustead. “It says to the world . . . ‘I’m a poker player’.� M — Tim Collins

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Both women are over 40 and do not fit the image of the gambling girls you see in the movies. They have solid day jobs, families and social lives that have nothing to do with poker.

Still, they have a love of the game. Both play Texas Hold ’Em and have won some money in tournament play. “The first time I ever played was in 2004,� says Zimmel. “I started playing in Rob’s [Weeds’] league (the BCAP) and I ended up winning the season and got this great leather jacket as a prize.�

Since that time, Zimmel has participated in a number of tournaments on the mainland and has won over $10,000. Her eyes sparkle as she talks about her first big money win. “We’d been playing for 14 hours straight and I was at the final table. My adrenaline was pumping like crazy.� She goes on to recount the winning hand, recalling every card and every bet. She remembers every part of that game.

Zimmel’s passion for the game goes beyond just playing. After taking a few

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Some cultures celebrate the pleasure of preparing and eating food more than others and Valerie Sovran Mitchell would probably agree. Raised in an Italian family, Mitchell is a published author who also loves to cook. She established and operated the greatly missed Moss Rock Cafe in Fairfield before creating Antichi Sapori, in order to share traditional Italian cooking methods.

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Scheduled classes for $65 feature subjects such as homemade ravioli with a butternut squash filling and a pair of sauces, or something of your own creation. You can learn to create gnocchi like Nonna used to make — pillowy, melt in your mouth fresh potato gnocchi with a homemade tomato and basilico sauce, so easy to make that you will never consider picking up a package at the store again.

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In addition to group lessons and catering, Antichi Sapori offers private cooking classes for individuals or groups — a great gift, or alternative night out. Simply organize a group (of between 8-12) people, and Mitchell will help you to design a menu to be prepared in your home (or hers) for an unforgettable evening of learning, laughing and eating. Email antichi.sapori.catering@gmail.com for more information.

on and Bonnie Bradley founded the successful Bowen Island Brewing Company in the mid 1990s, then sold it before the decade was over and moved on to a vineyard in the interior. When they decided to open their next business in Victoria with nephew Ron Bradley, their previous success would have guaranteed them the financial backing to support a prominent loca-

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Envisioning a craft brewery with an English-style pub attached, the Bradleys borrowed both the name and characteristics from a post-war Orwellian essay in which the author described his ideal boozer. The formula was simple: good ale, served in the right vessels, at a location off the beaten path with no unnecessary noise, along with homecooked food and staff who like the customers enough to take an interest in them.

Though Orwell’s vision called for Victorian decor, you won’t find it here. It resembles a sound stage more than a boozer, but it’s interesting. If your vision of an English pub has a faux Tudor facade or snug seating, you’re in for a disappointment, but the more important things that define a good pub are here. There’s a merciful lack of canned music, though there is live acoustic music Continued on next page

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PUBLIC HOUSES Continued from previous page on Saturday nights from 8pm onward. There’s an impressive bar where you can sample the ale brewed mere feet away before you make your selection, and a separate room that houses a pool table and TV. Food is made on site. As in England, you order at the bar, though they do have (friendly) servers to bring things to the table.

Fortunately, the Bradleys didn’t take all of Orwell’s recommendations to heart. This is an adults-only venue, so you won’t find the prams parked near the entrance that George spoke of, or a menu limited to dishes such as liver-sausage sandwiches or a cut off the joint with two vegetables and a boiled jam roll. Instead, you can snack on beer-battered onion rings, chicken wings (salt and pepper, spicy whiskey glaze, sweet soy and ginger, blue cheese and hot sauce, lemon pesto) or, if you want something to share, the nachos are loaded with banana peppers, tomatoes, spiced black beans, corn, Kalamata olives and green onions. You could also try the ploughman’s, with your choice of cheeses served with house-pickled beets, fruit chutney, a hard boiled egg, smoked sausage and grapes, with toasted rye bread or rice crackers.

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Several ample burgers can be customized with toppings like beer braised onions, cheddar, Swiss or goat cheese, bacon and mushrooms, served with your choice of side dishes. Pub or not, this is the west coast, so salads include baby spinach leaves tossed with blue cheese, bacon, roasted pear, candied walnuts and a rosemary cider vinaigrette. If you’re after something more traditional, try the beer-battered Pacific cod and chips with fresh homemade coleslaw and tartar sauce, a beef and mushroom pie, or a roast beast dinner with all the trimmings — available on Saturday nights from 5pm.

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f you weren’t one of the lucky people to get tickets for the Great Canadian Beer Festival, first held in 1993, it’s no surprise — the festival has blossomed into a truly international event. However, you can take some consolation in the fact that you can try some great local craft beer here anytime, without going broke in the process. Visit The Moon Under Water for true 20oz pints: $5.25-$6, or take home a 64oz option from the brewery for as little as $10.50.

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EAT HERE NOW he Victoria Downtown Public Market Society is hosting the third annual harvest festival that showcases local famers, processors and small businesses contributing to food security in our region.

This free, family-friendly event offers “twoonie-a-taste” food sampling from some of the area’s top restaurants, locally roasted coffee and tasty tea beverages, an interactive kids zone and a speakers series hosted by the Wayward School called “FoodShed: a Food Soverignty Speakers Series” as part of their ongoing Town Council series.

The event takes place from 11am to 3pm, Sun., Sept. 9 in the Market Square inner courtyard.

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ARTLANDIA OPENS hree art shows are opening at Rifflandia headquarters (517 Pandora) Friday (7pm), including the fifth installment of Live!Stock — an exhibition of 15 screenprinted posters created by local artists celebrating this year’s lineup. Artists include Shawn O’Keefe, Aimée van Drimmelen, Joey MacDonald, Ryan Thompson, Luke Ramsey, Laura Bifano, Caitlin Gallupe, Tim Huesken, Sean Brookes, Evan Pine (who designed the above Dan Mangan poster), Morgana Wallace, Chris Campbell, Ahmed Sidky, Charmaine Verhagen, Carlin Bennett & Mike Deas.

Also on display will be a few pieces from Headspace — fanciful characters painted on board with a cut-out for your face — and three cars from the all-new R&A Line, a five-car, quarter-scale train comprised of installations by the Woodpile Collective, Luke Ramsey, Sean Brookes, Mikhail Miller and more. M

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Oh my God, we love Victoria,” he says. “We get to take a boat over there, we put our butts on this big-ass boat and we get to eat on it, it’s crazy ... this ferry is hardcore.

“Victoria is always special. We get to stay overnight and we party so hard. The ride over is wonderful, but the people are what we love, swear to God.” Show Tech N9ne some love Thurs., Sept. 6 at Club 9ONE9 where he’ll be playing tracks from all his hit records alongside Mad Child of Swollen Members fame and local heads the Scale Breakers.

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A new Canadian country star LINDI ORTEGA BRINGS NEW ALBUM ON TOUR WITH K.D. LANG

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ove over Shania Twain, there’s a new Canadian country star illuminating the horizon.

But this sweet singing sensation isn’t a “new country” pseudo-pop princess.

Lindi Ortega’s roots are firmly planted in traditional, outlaw country — but her hard-hitting lyrics set to seductively sugary melodies make for a contemporary take on a classic sound, giving her extraordinary crossover appeal.

Ortega’s debut album Little Red Boots (with Last Gang Records) was met with critical acclaim, two Juno nominations and the honour of a spot on the long list for the prestigious Polaris Music Prize.

Her new album Cigarettes and Truckstops (also on Last Gang) is being released Oct. 2 (You can listen to her new single “The Day You Die” here: soundcloud. com/lastgangentertainment/lindi-ortega-the-dayyou-die).

Raised in Toronto by her Irish mother and Mexican father, Ortega recently relocated to Nashville to follow in the footsteps of her heroes.

“A lot of my musical heroes were either born in Nashville or came through here at some point and I thought it would be a great place to do a sort of historical survey of my heroes and absorb all that history.

I read a lot of biographies and so it’s cool to read about where Hank Williams went and retrace his steps and actually go to those places and not just read about them, but be there,” says Ortega.

“I also like the feel of Nashville. It’s a city with a small-town feel. I like the pace of the city and I find it inspiring. There are a lot of musical people here.”

On top of a new location, Ortega also got a new producer, Colin Linden (Blackie and the Rodeo Kings) for the new album.

“Colin’s a bit of a household name in Canada. I’d heard of him and when names were being thrown into the hat as far as producers to work with, I looked him up on YouTube and there was this awesome clip of him playing dobro and I just loved the sound of it.

Something really struck a chord with me and I just wanted that sound all over my next record.”

When Ortega discovered Linden’s experience playing the blues, she wanted to work with him even more.

“I was reading the Hank Williams biography and I learned that he had been influenced by a man named Teetot who was a blues player and started to see the connection between early blues and early country and then I started to get heavily involved in listening to the blues. I wanted to inject a sprinkle of blues into what I was doing and I learned that Colin was really a blues guy and has the background and knowledge, which we applied to my music. It’s subtle, but it’s there if you listen.”

A trip to New Orleans to film a music video for “Black Fly” also infused her music with the sounds

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of the deep south, she says.

Ortega and her trademark little red boots are coming to Victoria in support of another female Canadian country legend, k.d. lang, Sun., Sept. 9 at the Royal Theatre.

“I’m so excited,” says Ortega. “She is a voice. One of the true, pure voices out there that are so inspiring to someone like me. It will be amazing to watch her up there ... It’s rare, too. I haven’t toured Canada with anyone who’s had any country connection at all.”

After the tour with k.d. lang, Ortega will tour the U.S. with Social Distortion.

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nstead of celebrating 150 years of incorporation, the seventh-annual Victoria Anarchist Bookfair is celebrating “150 Years of Colonialism, 150 Years of Resistance.”

“The City of Victoria is celebrating 150 years and within their propaganda, they’re using the language of colonialism ... We think it’s grotesque. It’s a celebration of genocide,” says Comrade Black, member of the Anarchist Bookfair Collective.

“We always put on a bookfair, but this time we’re centring it around anti-colonial resistance, the history of colonialism in B.C., resource extraction and the effects of colonialism today ... We’re responding to the city’s celebration of genocide. We’re saying 150 years of colonialism and 150 years of resistance to it. Indigenous people never quit living here and they never quit fighting — they’re still fighting. ” The Victoria Anarchist Bookfair welcomes more than 50 booksellers, presses, zine makers and artists from all over North America and abroad to a free, twoday, all-ages event at the Fernwood NRG Community Hall (1240 Gladstone).

The event also features 15 free workshops ranging in subject matter. Friday’s workshops include: Basic Legal Workshop for People Engaged in Resistance Activities, Satanic Mills by Stefan Morales (Wayward School), Baby, I’m a Manarchist (with Lab Rat), Transcending Rights (with Mel Bazil), Too Cool for School: Learning Without School (for ages 10-18 with Matt Chirstie from The Underground Curriculum), Closed but Not Over: Understanding the Impacts of Residential School (with Sage Armitage), Decolonializing Medicine (With Ga Ching Kong), 150 Years of Colonialism, 150 Years of Resistance (With Gord Hill), The ASARO Collective in Mexico (with Kay and Mikhail from the Ministry of Casual Living) andThe True Story of Canada’s War with

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The Bills are back? Yes, please NEW ALBUM BRINGS DEEPER GROOVE AND DANCEABILITY

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hat did fans of The Bills say when who’s available (Smith will be playing the Victoria they heard the two-time Juno nomi- show). nees were making a new album?

And Frye says the songwriting on this record is at “Yes, please.� a higher level than ever before, with a much deeper After eight years of waiting, fans of groove and more percussion that adds a level of the freewheeling roots phenoms are rejoicing because danceability to what they do. the waiting has come to an end. The Bills new album, “There’s a quality control thing in The Bills. We Yes Please, was released Sept. 4, really shoot for what we think is great and Marc Atkinson, Adrian Dolan, song-craft, great lyrics, really hot licks, THE BILLS Richard Moody and Chris Frye are great arrangements, so you come in Thurs., Sept. 6 hitting the open road to bring their a bit daunted by that standard we Alix Goolden Hall new music to eager ears. keep, but it’s great to have that stan7:30pm “We went for quality over quandard because we don’t let anything Tickets $20 advance tity starting in about 2008, where slip through,� says Frye. or $24 at the door we just honed it down to key festi“The key to the final product, I available at vals, mostly in the U.S. and Europe think, is Joby Baker. Not in terms of rmts.bc.ca and spending the rest of our time the composition, but in terms of realwith other projects, so everyone izing the potential of the composiis excited to bring it back together tions.� and focus our energy back on The Baker produced, recorded, mixed Bills,� says Frye. “We’re a very busy and mastered the album at his Saanich group of people and somehow the stars aligned this studio, and he also played upright bass and percusyear, and it all came together and I think it’s the best sion on many of the tracks. music we’ve ever made. It’s the right time to do this “You go through all that hard work, and then you again because the songwriting, the playing and the go see Joby,� says Frye. “He’s magic in the studio and excitement is at the highest level it’s ever been.� helps it all come together. He’s like the sixth member There is a very high level of collaboration between of the band for sure.� the four core members, with each sharing the songBaker will be playing percussion at the Victoria writing duties, either on their own or as a team. show and Frye says to keep your eyes open for other “We each bring our best ideas to the band, then special guests who may make an appearance on it goes through The Bills filter, and out comes these stage. M songs,� says Frye. “Most are collaborative, so it’s a very challenging process, but when it works, it brings FIND THE M AND WIN out something that I think is greater than the sum of A PRIZE FROM MONDAY MAGAZINE its parts.�

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Moody Quidam marvels DARKER CIRQUE DU SOLEIL SHOW EXPLORES HUMAN EMOTIONS

By Mary Ellen Green

— although it is clear, through the change to tattered, grey costumes — that they have been through something traumatic, even apocalyptic. tep into a fanciful and melancholy All colour has been stripped away and the world with Cirque du Soleil’s Quidam moody music, performed live by a six-piece (Key-dahm). band of immensely talented musicians, sets the This feast of human strength, agil- scene for the “Hand Balancing” act, with a single ity and artistry is unlike any other female performer precariously perched over tiny Cirque du Soleil show, in that instead of taking platforms just big enough for one hand (or one place in a fantasy world, it takes place in the foot) to hold on to. She twists, bends and lifts her human imagination, exploring a range of emo- body into increasingly intricate poses, displaying tion unique to the human experience. incredible feats of balance and strength for someQuidam tells the story of Zoe — a restless one with such a small, lean frame. young girl completely ignored by her distant and Next, five aerialists climb 30 feet into the air apathetic parents. With the help of a mysterious on large ropes hanging from the telepherique individual, Zoe retreats into an imaginary world in “Spanish Web.” Wrapped in rope like boa full of interesting characters who encourage constrictors, the aerialists let go and unravel her to free her soul. It is within as they plummet towards the this world that the Cirque really ground without a safety net. comes to life with displays of Next, they clip on to the rope QUIDAM staggering dexterity, beauty, balby a small loop attached to an Quidam is playing ance and strength. ankle or wrist and are spun Sept. 5 to 9 at the At the centre of the circular around so quickly they end up Save on Foods stage is a revolve, which gives the horizontal.

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The last act, a blend of dance, acrobatics and This act begins gracefully slow before picking cheerleading called “Banquine” was my favouup to a frenetic pace, making for a perfect tran- rite. There’s so much going on in this 15-person sition into the “Skipping Rope” act with a large, ensemble number that it’s hard to know where upbeat ensemble. Although the act had the feel to look. At the end of the banquine act, the perof a school-yard double dutch party, these acro- formers are stacked four-high! batics were much more intricate and sophistiWhile Quidam has a more of a moody, melcated than you would find in any playground. ancholy feel than some of the other Cirque The last act of the first half is the “Aerial shows I’ve seen, it does offer moments of joy Hoops,” featuring a trio of elegant bodies twirl- and amusement, with the biggest laughs coming through the air high above the stage, liter- ing during the clowning scenes interspersed ally hanging onto the hoops by the skin of their throughout the show. necks, or the tips of their feet.

Audience members are pulled up on stage After a short intermission, the audience is and become some of the most entertaining and brought back into the same imaginary world light-hearted parts of the show. M arts@mondaymag.com

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mbitious almost to a fault, Lawless is an epic account of the true-life war between a clan of Virginia moonshiners and some corrupt cops who greedily demanded too big a cut of the profits. Set when Prohibition overlapped the Depression, this is essentially a hillbilly western lifted up by a great cast and impressive production values.

Tom Hardy (most recently seen as the villainous Bane in Dark Knight Rises) plays Forrest, the indomitable patriarch of a harsh and hard-bitten backwoods family of good old boys whose moonshine is the tastiest in the county. The bootleggers and the local cops are getting along and things are running smoothly — until a special deputy named Charlie Rakes (Guy Pearce) rides into town. Connected to cynical political interests, Rakes demands a large cut of the profits from all of the area’s moonshiners. Scary and vicious, Rakes has no trouble getting everyone to capitulate . . . except for the Bondurant clan. The result is an escalating series of brass knuckle beat-downs, razor fights and shootings that slowly builds to the inevitable blood-soaked climax.

Thanks to great period detail, an evocative soundtrack, and an excellent cast that includes Gary Oldman as a Tommy gun-toting bootlegger, Jessica Chastain as an ex-exotic dancer under the protection of the Bondurants and Shia LaBeouf as the reckless younger brother with too much to prove, Lawless is an absorbing and notably violent drama. There are a few whiffs of self-importance and some stagy scenes, but overall this movie is a tough-as-nails portrait of some impressively hardassed hillbillies. M

e jump-cut from Depression-era history to a life lesson set in the near future in Robot and Frank, one of the most interesting cinematic misfires of the year. Frank Langella stars as Frank, an ex-jewel thief who lives by himself in a small northeastern town and struggles with dementia-related memory loss. After spending many years in jail, Frank is estranged from his son (James Marsden) and is resentful when the son shows up one day with a “robot butler” to help his dad look after a house that is getting messier by the week. Frank’s disdain for Robot is transformed when he realizes that this smart and programmable creation can be customized to become a burglary accomplice.

Suddenly, the bored and embittered septuagenarian is re-energized with the prospect of a return to a life of crime — and his first victims are a patronizing yuppie couple who are spearheading plans to digitize the local library that Frank loves to visit.

Although Robot deserves points for not going the “cute” route and being a quirky caper comedy, it really doesn’t know how to delve convincingly into the film’s real themes — aging, loneliness and family estrangement.

The performances are strong, but the script and direction are — let’s be kind — a bit on the wobbly side. The police scenes are procedurally ridiculous and there is a big reveal near the end of the film that is jaw-droppingly improbable. Sometimes funny and sly, Robot is more often dull, morose and unfocused. M

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CONTINUING ★★★½ THE AMAZING SPIDER–MAN -(Caprice) Littleknown actor Andrew Garfield suits up as everyone's favourite webslinger in a super hero movie that's smart enough to be a great coming-of-age story. Co-starring Emma Stone.

THE APPARITION -(Capitol) In what looks like a standard-issue fright flick, a couple is haunted after an evil spirit is unleashed during a college experiment. ★★★½ THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL -(Caprice) A diverse group of British seniors seek out an affordable retirement hotel in India, only to find it in shabby disarray.

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This heartfelt comedy-drama has a sensational cast that includes Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson and Judi Dench. ★★ THE BOURNE LEGACY -(Odeon/SilverCity/Westshore) The hyper-kinetic spy series gets a flaccid and disappointing reboot with a new director and new actor (Jeremy Renner). Co-starring Rachel Weisz and Edward Norton.

★★★ BRAVE -(Caprice) Billy Connolly and Emma Thompson provide the voices for Pixar's animated tale that is set in ancient Scotland and tells of a headstrong young princess who must rely on her courage to undo a beastly curse. Decent entertainment, albeit occasionally a bit plodding. ★★½ THE CAMPAIGN -(Odeon/ SilverCity) A veteran congressman (Will Ferrell) who is used to running for office unapposed is shocked to find himself facing an inexperienced but effective challenger (Zach Galifianakis). This gleefully crass comedy does a (mostly) good job of skewering obvious targets like political corruption, hypocrisy, and smug media participation in a shameless circus. ★★★ CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER -(Odeon) People bored with standard rom-com fare will savour this quirky, funny and insightful account of a divorcing couple who are still best friends. Is she really breaking up with him? Starring Rashida Jones (Parks and Recreation) and Andy Samberg (SNL). ★★★ THE DARK KNIGHT RISES -(Capitol/SilverCity/Westshore) A diabolical terrorist named Bane poses a terrible threat to Gotham, as Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy comes to an exciting but rather bloated conclusion. With Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman and Anne Hathaway.

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: DOG DAYS -(Caprice) Greg is totally ready for summer when suddenly his plans all fall apart. What's the poor guy gonna do now?

★★½ THE EXPENDABLES 2 -(Odeon/Westshore/SilverCity) Expect lots of manly mayhem as a group of aging mercenaries (played by aging Hollywood mercenaries like Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris and Bruce Willis) go up against a very nasty adversary. This is good, cheesy fun. ★½ HIT AND RUN -(Capitol/ SilverCity) This action-comedyromance features a former getaway driver who risks his Witness Protection Plan status in order to get his girlfriend to L.A. In pursuit are the feds and members of the guy's ex-gang. Other than for a few glimmerings of wit and style, this is a mess. ★★★ HOPE SPRINGS -(Odeon/ SilverCity/Uni 4) Meryl Streep can't endure her marriage any more and drags her reluctant husband (Tommy Lee Jones) off to intensive couple's counselling to try to revive intimacy and romance. Although the trailers make this look like a comedy it's really a dramedy that does a good, although sometimes heavy-handed, analysis of a dying marriage. ★★★½ LAWLESS -(Odeon/ SilverCity/Uni 4) This extremely violent, western-flavoured drama set during the Depression features a clan of Virginia moonshiners who don't appreciate it when the new special deputy rolls into town demanding a big cut of their profits. Starring Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf and Guy Pearce.

Based on a true story. See review. ★★★ MAGIC MIKE -(Caprice) Channing Tatum stars as a male stripper who takes a protege under his wing, then eventually has to rethink his lifestyle. Directed by Steven Soderbergh.

THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN -(Uni 4/SilverCity) Disney Studios produced this rather fantastical family-friendly tale about a childless couple who end up with a young boy under distinctly magical circumstances. Starring Jennifer Garner. ★★½ PARANORMAN -(Capitol/ SilverCity/Westshore) In an amusingly morbid slice of family animation, a misunderstood boy who can talk to the dead is the only hope to save his town from an army of zombies and ghosts activated by a centuries-old curse.

THE POSSESSION -(Capitol/ SilverCity/Westshore) And this week's less-than-original horror flick features a young girl who buys an ornate box at a yard sale, unaware that it contains some form of Ancient Evil that's about to put the hurt on her big time. ★★★ PREMIUM RUSH -(Capitol/ SilverCity/Westshore) The always interesing Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception, 500 Days of Summer) stars in a zippy, low-tech thriller about a bike courier in NYC who picks up a mysterious package and starts getting chased all over the city by a dirty cop. This is a kinetic and fun night at the movies. ★★½ ROBOT & FRANK -(Odeon) Set in the near future, this unusual comedy features an aged ex-jewel thief (Frank Langella) who gets a "robot butler" from his son. Initially indignant, the dad soon decides to go back into business — using his programmable robot as an obliging accomplice. Although almost really clever, this is an unsatisfying and surprisingly tone deaf movie. See review.

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ll Signs: the Latin proverb: Astrolog y “Before supper walk observes a little, after supper mathematido the same.” cal cycles and draws conclusions from CANCER JUNE 21which it makes predicJULY 22 tions. The cycle of the You’ll be laughSun is 24 hours; the ing next July when cycle of the Moon is lucky Jupiter enters 29 days. However, the your sign for the cycle of Saturn, which GEORGIA first time since NICOLS is about 29 years, can 2002. It will boost yield much informayour good fortune in tion about where 2013-14 and then boost your we’re headed. It describes our earnings and financial scene in lives in practical terms in two 2015. Meanwhile, many of you to three-year segments. Right are wondering what you really now, we’re at the brink of change want to be when you grow up. as Saturn enters Scorpio next You want purpose in your life. month. Here’s a peek at what Perhaps this is why some of our future holds. (Hey, you’re you will enter a love affair with going to spend the rest of your someone of an age difference life there.) (mentor/student). Others will ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19 Relationships have been challenging in the past few years.

Many of you have undergone separation, divorce or lost a friendship. Others have made adjustments to existing relationships. All this is because you’ve been taking your powah! And by doing so, you upset the balance of how things were. Surviving relationships accepted the “new you,” whereas finished relationships couldn’t handle your demands, your increased recognition, your confrontations and focus on your external world.

This is why you’ll get less support from others in the next few years. This is also why you’ll be standing on your own two feet, getting stronger every day.

TAURUS APRIL 20-MAY 20 The next few years will be the culmination of something you began around 1998-99. It will have challenges, which is why you might feel fatigued. (Respect your need for rest.) You’ll also feel challenged by relationships because for the first time in 14 years Saturn will be above the horizon in your chart, which means you will focus more and more on your outer world.

(Those who are close to you might think, “What am I? Chopped liver?”) Meanwhile, you think they’re whining.

(Sheesh!) It’s important to be clear about the expectations of your partnerships: What do they expect from you? What do you expect from them and do they know this? (“Hand over all your money.”)

GEMINI MAY 21-JUNE 20 You’re entering an interesting cycle where the next three years will be unusually fortunate in personal terms as well as financial gain. (We like!) In part this could be because you’re entering a time where you will work very hard to achieve something. You will be motivated because you sense all your hard work leads to a “reward” in a few years.

(And it will.) Nevertheless, your effectiveness as a human being will be tested. Conserve your energy, respect your diet and get exercise because you need to be in shape! You’ll be using your body more or putting demands on it so take care of it. Heed

experience increased responsibilities with children. You want to redefine your life in a meaningful way. You want it to count for something. Winston Churchill said, “It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time” (Hey, I’m looking forward to dinner.)

LEO JULY 23-AUG 22 All Leos will feel a call to arms to put their house in order in the next few years. Some will make a residential move because you want a better home or you want to own a home. What you seek is a warm feeling in your tummy about where you live. For those of you who don’t move, you will do serious renovations and repairs in the next few years so that you feel solid and secure about where you hang your hat.

In addition, many of you will have increased responsibilities with family, especially parents. (My parents turned out pretty good, how about yours?)

Meanwhile, your popularity continues to soar this year and next. Relax, it’s all good.

VIRGO AUG 23-SEPT 22 The winds of change are blowing! In the next few years, many of you will change residences, jobs or both. Since around 2008, you’ve been reinventing yourself. In a few years, the new you will be finished but, before this happens, you need to hone and refine how you communicate and think, which is why you will put yourself in a new, fresh setting in order to provoke new ways of looking at life. Right now, you’re enjoying increased respect from others, especially those in authority, because you’re doing a great job getting promotions, perhaps a raise and certainly, accolades from your peers. And if you have Leo in you (and most Virgos do) then even false flattery is nice because you know they care enough to fake it.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) Many of you feel you’re preparing for something. You love travelling and exploring opportunities in publishing, higher education, the law and the media, but you know you want to get your ducks in a row because next year will boost your professional

reputation. That’s why you want to know what you want. (You don’t want to put your money on the wrong horse.) Saturn represents what you want in life and will help you get it. You want to get the best use of what you own, perhaps even by sharing it with others. You’ll want your possessions to make your life easier. You certainly don’t want to become a slave to your “stuff.”

(But if it’s really nice you might consider it.)

many, your cherished dreams will come true. However, harvest is also a time where you see what fails. Do not dwell on these losses (in the next few years).

Just take them in your stride and move on. You will continue to have lots of responsibilities but you’re definitely entering a time of great achievement.

Meanwhile, this year continues to offer fun with romance, vacations, the arts, sports and playful times with children. Ole!

SCORPIO OCT 23-NOV 21 All Scorpios are approaching a huge turning point. (Perhaps the biggest since 1999 or the mid-80s.) You’ve been downsizing and giving up what was no longer relevant in your life (and many will continue this) but now you are ready to begin the process of reinventing yourself. This is thrilling! You are stepping into a fresh, unknown world where nothing is predictable. This takes guts. (On the other hand, you have no choice.)

You’re going to give a lot of thought about who you really are and what you really want.

You might take on increased responsibilities (like boot camp) to get ready for your new path.

Fortunately, others will help you.

In fact, you will benefit from their resources. Ka-ching!

PISCES FEB 19-MARCH 20 Around 2001-02, you had a strong sense of who you were and who you were not. And until 2008, you worked hard to create a world for your new identity. But in the last four or five years, you’ve given up a lot and most recently, you have had to live with less because you no longer had the support (practical, financial, emotional and psychological) from others that you used to have. This sense of loss and deprivation will slowly start to fade in the next year as you enter an exciting time of preparation. Many of you will go back to school. Others will travel more or encounter situations that open new doors for you. (Yes, you will need those ‘Troopa’ boots.)

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SAGITTARIUS NOV 22-DEC 21 Older Sagittarians can recall the mid-80s to get a hint of this new cycle. Basically, you will be letting go of people, places and possessions to free yourself of everything that is no longer relevant in your life. Don’t think of the next few years as a time of loss but rather a time of becoming lighter and freer. (And hey, freedom is your middle name.)

Ultimately, this is a time of preparation because in 2013, you’ll be entering a whole new sandbox. And in the same way that we get rid of the old fridge in our kitchen before we bring in a new one, you’re cleaning house. Bigtime! (Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.)

CAPRICORN DEC 22-JAN 19 This month romance is sweet and affectionate. And you’ll continue to find opportunities to improve your health and your job. But in the next few years (and you are a plan-ahead kind of person), you will strive to find a healthy balance between how much you contribute to your community, friends and groups and yet, at the same time, not completely lose yourself! After all, no matter how usefully involved you get with others, you don’t want to lose your integrity and your personal freedom. It’s so tricky.

You will also become more conscious of what your hopes and dreams for the future are in the next few years. No more wishywashy.

AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 You’re entering a time of harvest where whatever seeds you’ve planted in the past seven years (possibly 14) will now bear fruit.

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EAT HERE NOW HARVEST FESTIVAL - Take part in Victoria’s third-annual Harvest Fest, featuring some of the best farmers, fishers, butchers, bakers, processors, brewers, coffee roasters and restaurants in the region. Plus, interactive kids area, “toonie-ataste” samplings and ”FoodShed: A Food Sovereignty Speakers Series.”

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HOPE AS ACTION - WORLD SUICIDE PREVENTION DAY Join NEED2, Camosun College and UVic in holding a remembrance gathering. On Vancouver Island, 100 people will take their lives over the next year. Reach them before they do. 4-6pm at NA’TSA’MAHT First Nations Gathering Place, Camosun College Lansdowne (3100 Foul Bay).

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WORDS FRI. SEPT. 7 DROP-IN MATH - Learn the basics through high school, along with English/editing help through at Camas Book's FreeSkool. FRIDAYS Noon1:30pm at Camas Books and Infoshop at (2590 Quadra). Free. 250-381-0585.

GALLERIES FRI. SEPT. 7 VANCOUVER ISLAND SCHOOL OF ART - See Art Incognito, a cocktail reception and students' art auction.

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DALES GALLERY - See The Future, or this is what happens when you rub two sticks together, paintings by Lee McClure and photography by Big Tiny Smalls. 7-11pm at 537 Fisgard.

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AUDITIONS- Peninsula Players is holding auditions for its upcoming production of Cinderella, a Christmas pantomime. Auditions are THURSDAY and FRIDAY at 7pm and SATURDAY at 1pm at Mary Winspear Centre.

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EUROSMASH! - Die Roten Punkte returns with an all new concert, Eurosmash! WED and THURS, 8pm at the Metro Studio (1411 Quadra). $20 at ticketrocket.org.

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We’re discussing her latest “D,” and she confesses she’s pulling Ds in first-year sciences, too. I ask about her career plans.

“I’m going to be a doctor!”

Her parents are doctors, and no other career has been suggested. The problem is, she’s not going to make it. So I ask what floats her boat. After a tragically long pause she smiles: “I love flowers!”

“Well then,” I enthuse, “maybe you should become a florist or get a horticulture diploma and—” “No. I have to be a doctor.”

Her parents have set her up for failure and misery. After a hard slog and buckets of bucks, she’ll likely scrape her B.Sc., but she’ll never make med school. She’d probably HILARY KNIGHT make a great florist. news@mondaymag.com That’s one kind of sad case, the Deluded. More common are the Bemused. First-year — and sometimes fourth-year — classrooms are packed with students lacking any realistic notion why they’re there. They typically take the cushier courses that might lead to entry-level management or post-grad professional studies. But many will end up as baristas, not barristers, and they’ll be paying off their student loans for years. Now there’s a recipe for bitterness.

You have two good reasons for attending university: a passion for ideas and knowledge, and career preparation. If the former applies, you’ll be happy and you’ll gain the philosophical maturity to weather a stormy job market. If the latter, now’s the time to get real. What will this degree do for you?

You might get a terrific education from inspiring teachers, meet memorable people, and springboard into the perfect career — or you might be unhappy for four years and emerge

Knowing why you’re in school can hold key to your success

with a useless degree and massive debt. Campus counsellors are overwhelmed by students suffering depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and addictions. The National Student Loan Centre says average repayment time is 9.5 years: a loan of $20k will cost you over $10k in interest.

Youth are in a real bind. First, most employers expect post-secondary qualifications because high school diplomas no longer guarantee literacy, numeracy, and critical thinking skills.

Second, micro-managing parents ignorantly or snobbishly consider university the only option. And if they’re paying the piper, they can call the tune, to the detriment of their kids’ integrity and independence.

Third are the universities themselves. It’s all about the money. Time was, inadequate students got their B.A.C. (Bounced at Christmas). Now, almost nobody fails. In “Failure to Fail” (The Walrus, April 2008), Jay Teitel concludes that students can repeat courses until they pass because universities need their cash cows. The unofficial motto of every college and university is “recruit, accommodate, retain.”

Again, universities are resources of brilliant research and stellar teaching, but you weren’t put here to fund them. If you’re not sure why you’re going to university, don’t go. At least, not yet, unless you’ve won scholarships and can’t defer.

Some students try an experimental year (“I’ll figure it out once I’m there”). Bad move. My daughter Kirsty, who’s just finished up a year as president of McGill’s undergrad student union, explains: 1. Freshman year isn’t typical: huge classes, sometimes bizarre prerequisites, and a distracting new social life. 2. Once you’re in, there’s pressure to stay. 3. Employers sometimes prefer people who never went to university over those who dropped. 4. This experiment is costly.

Others worry that, if they don’t enrol immediately, they’ll never go (and end up freezing to death in a dumpster).

Wrong. My best students were disproportionately mid-twenties or older — focused, perseverant and responsible, every prof’s and employer’s dream.

“When you’re out supporting yourself at a crap job, you’re motivated to get a better education,” says Kirsty. “If you pay your own way, you work harder. I saved money, so I’m graduating debt-free, and I’ve already got a solid employment record.”

And remember, “post-secondary” doesn’t necessarily mean academia. Check out the alternatives: technical colleges, trades, and entrepreneurship (Google “successful people who dropped out”). Canada is screaming for tradespeople while tens of thousands of social sciences (etc.) grads mill around job centres.

My neighbour replaced early-retiring tool and die makers (averaging $80k/yr) with Europeans because she couldn’t find any in Canada. Then there’s the electrician who bagged his dream job of servicing Whistler ski lifts. At 23, when his debt-burdened university friends were graduating jobless, he’d already bought a house. And he gets to ski every day.

Some folks are ideal university material, on track to create the lives they want. Too many are underemployed or unemployed, in debt, and angry because they bought the lie that everybody needs university.

My friend Danny, who’s walking into a well-paid job after finishing an environmental technologies diploma, says several of his cohorts enrolled after getting nowhere with their university degrees.

This is your life we’re talking about. As they say, if you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Ignorance of the best education choice for you can cost too much. M Hilary Knight taught university English for 21 years. Check out her website at parodiesfound.ca.

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How to make your summer job work THE TRUE VALUE OF CO-OPS AND INTERNSHIPS graduated with an honours BA in philosophy, with distinction. It sounded good when they handed me my degree, but now that I’m living in the world of rent, bills and student loans, it means nothing without one little addition: co-op.

I don’t really remember why I chose to be a journalist — probably some romantic fantasy that had me sussing out corruption or reuniting stolen babies with their parents. Whatever the reason, I picked it. So when it came time to start thinking about my future, I saw myself holding a notepad while scratching down quotes of a fraught-lookELIZABETH HAMES ing politician. news@mondaymag.com Although I hadn’t actually met any reporters, I knew most of them didn’t stumble into their careers without first having attended a few news briefings. So I looked around for places I could do that, and in the process discovered UVic’s Co-operative Education Program.

My five terms in co-op are what transformed me from a good student to one with applicable skills. Because of the summer jobs the program afforded me, I was able to walk out of my (stereotypically useless) degree and straight into a career — and you can, too.

Most colleges and universities around Victoria offer programs like these. They’re meant to flood participants with so many resources (human and otherwise) it’s nearly impossible for you to start the summer without an amazing job, and probably one you’ll remember forever.

Co-op advisers will deconstruct your cover letters and tell you how you can improve them, give you job search tips and take you through mock interviews, and they’ll also give you access to hundreds of exclusive co-op job postings from employers looking specifically for you. One of the papers I interned at, the Whitehorse Star, had hired only UVic Co-op students every summer for the past 30 years. Talk about your leg up.

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Co-op seems like a lot of work at first. Advisers make you go to information sessions and fill out countless forms. But when you consider you’re accessing hundreds of companies looking for people short on experience but long on enthusiasm, it’s nothing compared to the reward. Still, UVic Co-op tells students to expect to apply to as many postings as they can. From that, they can hope for maybe one or two job offers, but those stats vary — some students are snapped up right away by employers, while others may not find a job until they’re well into final exam season.

Students willing to move for their four-month internship will see their odds improve. This strategy worked well for me. Knowing I was the greenest of green reporters (I’d written just a few articles for the UVic’s student paper The Martlet) I rightly guessed my chances of being hired at a local paper were nil. So, I looked up Island for work. After an intimidating interview, Black Press hired me to work at three of its community papers that summer. With a base in the beautiful village of Cumberland, I spent three to four weeks at a time writing for weeklies in Courtenay, Parksville and Port Alberni.

The experience gave me skills I couldn’t have learned in the classroom, and it lent me enough cred to apply for a position at a daily the next summer — this time, in the Yukon.

The editors and reporters at the Whitehorse Star treated me as one of their kind. They had me writing copy and snapping photos from day one, and every morning brought new and interesting stories across my desk. I liked it so much, I went back the following year. The second summer was even more valuable than the first.

With their justice reporter on leave, my editor entrusted me with her beat. Every day, I literally ran down the block to the courthouse, where I listened in on hearings that would change the lives of everyone involved.

Without these summer jobs, my degree and all the money I spent on it would have made no sense at all. Studying philosophy prepared me to be a thinker, an essayist and a researcher — not a career woman. But I learned enough from my co-op jobs to start a career in this unstable world of journalism. M

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Fiscal disconnect: Why am I so broke? veryone wants your money. Tuition fees are due, your biology text is $139, food and utility costs keep rising, and your mouldy basement suite is $550 a month.

Part of your job as a student — and it is a job — is good money management. If you’ve left home without budgeting skills, here’s a crash course.

I’ve heard students moan about loans, fees, and textbook costs while wearing designer jeans, swigging HILARY KNIGHT Starbucks lattes, and news@mondaymag.com packing the latest technoglitz. And let’s not forget the tattoos and piercings and those spring breaks in Whistler and Mexico. Ka-ching!

I’ve seen students toss good food, new clothing, housewares, unused stamps, bus tickets, and — wait for it — money. The manager of a student apartment block reports similar discards and a big jar of coins in the dumpster.

What happened to “Waste not, want not” and “Take care of the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves”? Why do we live so extravagantly and get into such life-restricting debt?

We’re as brainwashed as anyone. Today’s propagandists are corporations. As T. Boone Pickens, former CEO of Allied Stores, told stockholders, “Our job is to make people unhappy with what they have.” They do. New stuff, lots of it, is what we want. And the credit card companies will come onto campus to sign you up so you can get it. Right now.

Problem is, there’s later. Later is a big bill, which gets bigger — a nasty reality brought to you by the miracle of compound interest. If you don’t want to be paying for those lattes and jeans 10 years from now — through credit cards or student loans — it’s time to separate the wants from the needs.

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HOUSING Residence is pricy and sometimes a major pain in the psyche. For example, depending on your room and meal plan, UVic charges anywhere from $813.50 to $989/ month. You can do better. Check out (carefully) shares and room-and-board. Seek reduced rent for yard work or similar. If you have references, try house-sitting.

Furnish your room or house from garage sales and second-hand emporia like the glorious Oak Bay United Church Thrift Store. Investigate on-line bargains and freebies. Haggle.

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Avoid the centre aisles (processed stuff) when possible.

Buy discounted meat — it’s fine — and stew it with lots of beans. Fleshy fish bones are great for chowder. Pack food and drinks to school, and always have food to come home to.

Make batches of soup and stew and freeze them for busy times. Form a bulk-buy club and have a divvy-up party. Visit bulk food and ethnic stores — in Victoria, try Ingredients, Mexican House of Spice, and Seven Valleys downtown, and the Indian Food Market at Quadra and McKenzie. Jubilee Pharmasave has brilliant food specials.

Carry healthy snacks so you won’t buy something stupid if your blood sugar tanks. Never shop when you’re hungry.

Eat simply. And when you’re celebrating, avoid restaurants and throw potlucks. Learn three fabulous dishes.

Living low off the hog is good for your health, your bank account, and life on this planet. Neither you nor the earth can afford a car or too much techno-crap. Farmers’ markets are fun and provide the best nutrition. Support local microbreweries and drink at home — cheaper, and you can fall quietly into your own bed. Take your empties back. Reduce, re-use, recycle. Seriously — it’s your future.

CLOTHES AND GROOMING Go for garage sales, thrift and consignment stores, swaps. Dye old clothes and sew on different buttons. Learn to mend (ask Grandma). Do the French thing: a couple of good outfits and varied accessories. Ask for clothes for Christmas and birthdays. Read There’s Lead in Your Lipstick and you won’t want to use any cosmetics you can afford, so that’s easy. Soaps like Dr. Bronner’s will keep you clean and healthy.

Hilary Knight taught university English for 21 years and lives well on a laughable income. Check out her website at parodiesfound.ca

FUN Forget retail therapy. Find cheap and free local activities like ball games and private gallery openings. Walk in the park with a borrowed dog. Take a thermos and cookies to the beach. Stroll through ritzy hotels. Ride around on the bus and stop anywhere interesting. Take full advantage of campus amenities and public libraries.

People love personalized cards and presents. Recommended: a board game of your friend’s life, a glitzed-up, tiedyed t-shirt, photocopies of newspapers printed the day your friend was born (go to Microforms at your university).

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Don’t work so many hours at a job that your grades suffer. If you find a job you like, it’ll help you decompress from classes, but don’t work more than 15 hours a week. It’s a lot smarter to take a couple of years off, live frugally, and stash away every penny you can. (See my article “Reality 101: The Big Picture.”)

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Employment: A necessary evil BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT CAN'T BE UNIQUE s I’m heading into my fourth year as an and after the Stampede, she estimates she made undergraduate student, I’ve learned $6,800. Not bad for selling cowboy hats. many things. Most importantly, that I’m But work at the Calgary Stampede isn’t necesterrible at personal finance. sarily easy, she says. “It’s this tough situation where Normally, I balance my summers per- you want to stand up for what you believe in terms fectly between two part-time jobs and an active of the rodeo or the sheltered history of the exploitasocial life in the sun. But when last May came tion with ethnic minorities, but you can’t do that if and I sat down to you’re making that much money.” budget, I found It can also be trying physically. In the six weeks, KAROLINA KARAS that would not Cerminara worked every single day, usually between news@mondaymag.com be possible. 13-15 hours.

Instead, for the Cerminara also saved money by renting out her past three months, I’ve worked three part-time suite, which normally costs $600 per month. While jobs and worked as an unpaid intern. I had to pay at Stampede, she used to stay on a friend’s couch. tuition somehow, so the part-time jobs balanced “I always couch surfed in May for a few weeks, off the internship I desperately wanted to boost but then you feel bad because you’re mooching off my resume. I did this gladly since I’m currently try- your friends. You always feel like you have to pay ing to graduate univerthem back but it’s never sity debt free — and it’s enough.” working. So far.

This year, she borBEST LINES TO USE WHEN It hasn’t been easy. rowed her parents’ Ford CALLING HOME FOR MONEY Tuition costs in British Windstar and slept while Columbia are someparked on quiet neigh“I flushed my wallet down the toilet. “ what in the middle bourhood streets or in “My roommate broke my microwave and I compared to the rest of friends’ driveways. She need to replace it.” the country, according was scared at first, but to Statistics Canada, learned to love it.

“The weed is really good out here.” and I’ve noticed small “It’s cheap. I don’t increases each year. drink and drive. I “I’m just… really hungry. All the time.”

While B.C. tuition is worked out constantly not as high as Ontario’s because it’s the only “I’m buying you a great Christmas average of $6,640 per chance I had to shower. present… I just need a little help paying it year for a full-time stuPlus, you’re never bored off.” dent, it is still not the because who wants to “I’d love to come visit you, but I can’t shockingly low average live in a van all day?” afford the trip home.” of approximate $2,500 Cerminara’s only in Newfoundland and downside to sleeping in “I love you. You’re the best parents ever.

Labrador or Quebec. a van? You constantly The responsibility of living on your own is Instead, tuition in BC eat out and don’t save huge and I appreciate everything you did is nestled in the $4,862 money on food. “I don’t in raising me… got an extra $40?” range. have a kitchen, but Cost of living is also other than that, I’m all And the foolproof way to convince your an additional burden. for it.” parents to loan you some cash: Make any Student Aid BC and the Arno Marchand, story you casually tell from your daily life University of Victoria 23, studies Industrial incredibly pathetic. The conversation will predict that off-camDesign at Carleton naturally progress to finances afterwards. pus housing will cost University, but worked approximately $8,960. multiple jobs over the This doesn’t include summer to keep up with textbooks, school supplies, food and the endless an unpaid design internship with Fugitive Glue in amounts of caffeine students need to pull those Toronto. all-nighters.

When not working in a restaurant — or even With this in mind, it’s no surprise there are at his parents’ business when he was visiting them students like myself working multiple jobs not only in Victoria at the end of his summer break — through the summer, but also during the school Marchand and his girlfriend picked up free furniyear. Many also rely on their parents and student ture and bicycles off sidewalks and re-sell items on loans. But when it comes to paying tuition, some websites like Craigslist, UsedVictoria, or Kijiji. students are more adventurous in their moneymakOften, Marchand would make a $25-$50 profit, ing and saving ways than others. depending on the item. He was once lucky enough Meet Alina Cerminara, 24, a recent graduate to stumble upon an authentic Herman Miller chair from UVic with a bachelor of arts in theatre and that was put out for free. He ended up making $180 creative writing who funded her education in two off it. unique ways: becoming temporarily nomadic in “My last name is Marchand … so, I guess somethe summer months and working the Calgary where in my family’s line we were merchants and Stampede.

I’m honing in on that,” he jokes.

Cerminara worked at the Stampede for Lammle’s Marchand has no regrets about working as many Western Wear and Tack for nine years, including jobs as he has during the summer. “You need the this past summer. When she first started at the age life experience for your future careers, even if those of 15, she was a sales associate, but after returning part-time jobs don’t relate to your ultimate goals,” every year, she worked her way to a supervisor posi- he says. Marchand adds that he has learned a lot tion. After nine years, Cerminara says she doesn’t working landscaping jobs in Ottawa and Toronto always want to go back, but the money is good. and he relates that knowledge to his studies at So good, in fact, that in six weeks of work during Carleton and his internship. M

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There’s just one problem: your new friends already assume you know the college lingo, and will show up adorned with the appropriate attire.

The first thing to know about college parties is that they happen for no reason. University is the time of your life when Halloween, Christmas, even Father’s CLARE WALTON Day, are excuses to news@mondaymag.com drink yourself silly. Whether at the bar home, theme parties are where it’s at. Here are the top themes you may find yourself attending and how to prepare.

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At this party, the classic ’70s toy becomes your colour palette for outfit ideas. Each guest must arrive wearing six items of clothing that represent a colour of the cube.

Once there, guests must trade articles of clothing until everyone is one solid colour.

Get ready for a complicated good time.

REALITY TV Whether your crowd likes celebrating Jerseyday every Thursday or secretly loves The Real Housewives series, these parties are a fun way to mock choice TV tastes.

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The Anything But Clothes party is at the top of popular. Guests must show up sporting a costume made of — you guessed it — anything but clothes. Costumes are commonly made from bubble wrap, tape and garbage bags. Expect fellow guests to get creative, and discover how to cover your naughty bits with weird materials, fivedollar bills or maybe even cotton candy.

Social butterflies will want to plan ahead for key nights during the school year.

Halloween: Don’t make Cady’s gory mistake in Mean Girls and show up to the party as something scary or bloody. Halloween in university is all about sex appeal and the hotter the costume the better.

St. Patrick’s Day: The world wide day of drinking is a favourite of the university student. St. Paddy’s just gives the excuse to wear crazy amounts of green while simultaneously doing Jell-O shots and beer.

Cinco De Mayo: Originally a holiday for the people of Mexico to commemorate their defeat of the French at the Battle of Puebla in 1863, Cinco De Mayo is now a day of tequila shots and Coronas amongst university kids.

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A Bring Your Own Beer/Booze party is the most common party you will attend, during or after university — after all, students can’t afford to fund each other’s bad behaviour or drinking games. BYOB parties are a good way to party on the cheap and avoid any drunken fights over who drank the last of your favourite import.

All light bulbs at this party are replaced with blacklights and guests wear white or florescent clothing that will glow under the lights. Remember your highlighters to write on fellow guests, and don’t forget the antidandruff shampoo.

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The key thing to remember in a Blacklight party is that white is a MUST.

This is the perfect party for singles and those looking to hook up. Guests wear

green, yellow, or red to show their relationship status. Green means single, yellow means complicated or casually dating, while red means taken.

TOGA Always the stereotypical college movie party, Toga parties are both fun and common. Expect to see bed sheets wrapped around your friends, and lots of red wine.

SOBER SATURDAYS

How to party hard without a drop to drink tephanie Wray carries a tray of whisky sours to waiting guests at the Upstairs Cabaret. Looking at this experienced server, you would never guess she doesn’t drink. Yet Wray is among a growing minority of university and college-age students that choose not to drink without sacrificing a great nightlife.

Although it may seem an uncommon choice for someone who doesn’t drink, Wray enjoys her job. Working in the clubs gives her a place where she can party with friends, while still making money and going to school — the best of both worlds.

“It doesn’t bother me,” says Wray of being sober in a crowd of drunks. “I really like working in the industry because I am still getting to see all those people I would be going out with, except I get paid.”

A major factor in the decision to remain sober is remaining in control. “It’s fun, drama free and safe,” says Tasha Sandii, a UVic exchange student from Chicago. “It is much better than ending up messy.”

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And some just don’t like drinking.

“I don’t like the taste of alcohol,” says Olga Andino, a Camosun student. “I don’t understand how people can drink it so fast. I am usually the one slowly sipping my shot.”

Because of this, Andino feels there is a divide between her and her drinking companions. They get upset when she is not drinking, she says, so advises other sober partiers to be as outgoing as possible.

Sadie Evans, a UVic student, sympathizes. “You have to make a bit more of an effort, be high energy and also know when to leave,” says Evans. “It will always get to that point where you are the sober one and everyone else isn’t.”

The great thing about being “the sober one” is that you are in control of how your night goes. You can still drive, and can leave anytime you want. However, the ability to make sure your friends get home safe is an added bonus.

The key to keeping up with the drunk crowd is remaining in a legal high. Evans, for example, uses sugar, caffeine and some-

times a little candy to keep her energy up into the wee hours of the morning.

Sandii, Evans, Wray and Andino agree that the key to achieving bar-star status while sober is a combination of high energy, confidence and great social skills.

“Sober parties can be just as fun as nonsober parties,” says Sandii. “It is all about the energy in the room.”

A highlight of the sober party life is watching the hilarious things others do, says Wray. Being the sober person in a crowd gives you the opportunity to view the bar or club differently. Take the time to check out some of the crazy dance moves. Maybe you will notice the guy with the strobe light superman shirt or the girl doing the funky chicken.

Remaining sober on a Saturday night is still a minority choice but, as Wray points out, the idea of being sober is growing. “It is becoming more normal and it’s really cool for people who do drink to be able to see we are still able to have an awesome time and not be drinking.” M

STRAIGHT-EDGE FUN If you choose to participate in the sober bar scene, here are three things every sober partier should know: 1. Put your Coke in a fancy glass.

Putting your juice, pop or Red Bull in a sleeve, wine glass or martini glass works to keep the drunks off your case and trick people into thinking you are drinking.

2. Be outgoing.

The bigger your smile and dance moves the less people are going to feel the need to hassle you.

3. Don’t apologize.

Stand firm in your choice. Your reasons for not drinking are totally yours. Don’t feel pressure to drink.

You can have just as much fun sober as you can drunk.

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The nobel pursuit of confidence JEAN OLIVER

oner to anxiety and panic attacks, a chance meeting at Camosun College led to an unexpected lifeline, as though someone hree years ago, I was more toast than was saying: hang in there and we’ll show Toastmaster. you how to open up your life and let some Completely burned out and a pris- light in. But talk about your stage fright: ‘Hello, my name is Nervous Nelly, and I am Toast.’

We don’t get to a state of misery by accident. When I was nine, my mother entered me in a singing contest.

Contest day arrived and there I was on a large stage, facing an auditorium filled to capacity. I looked out at the crowd and opened my mouth — nothing happened. All I could do was stand there, eyes blinking, feet planted on the ground. I saw one judge shake her head and bend to write something down. The next memory I have is of mom offering me ice cream. Two things came out of that miserable day: ice cream remains my favourite comfort food, and I can’t sing a note. Luckily, confidence comes in more ways than one.

My first meeting at Toastmasters was pivotal. There is a standing item on a Toastmasters agenda called Table Topics, where you get two minutes to Stream Shows on Demand talk on a subject without preparing ahead of time. When the meeting topDan Mangan himalayan bear Check out ics were announced, my hand shot up Adam & the Amethysts podcasts of live SlaM Dunk freak Heat and I was up at the front in a flash. performances waves Open relationship My body shook so hard I had to grip the podium to keep my knees from buckling. I opened my mouth and, to my horror, nothing came out. There

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Jean Oliver (left) used Toastmasters to build her confidence. She stands with friend Marguerite Gayfer after planning the Victoria Human Chain D.O.T.S. Rally for Suicide Prevention in 2011.

I was again, eyes blinking, feet planted.

This time, no one shifted or looked down to mark an “F” on a piece of paper. They just waited, and one or two nodded in encouragement. Then, something in me fired to life, the words flowed from me and I filled up my two minutes, then some.

It hit me: there was a formula for public speaking and all I had to do was learn it. I’ve been hooked on the pursuit of confidence ever since.

Whether you are facing a lack of confidence, an in-class presentation or have ever wanted to hold your ground through conflict, get to a Toastmasters meeting. Those zingers you always think of later will be on the tip of your talented tongue from now on.

The take home message is this: you cannot fail as a Toastmaster — you can only progress.

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Going Green on campus atching the green thumb in college and university is becoming a growing part of the post-secondary experience.

“It is not only important to reduce your personal carbon footprint, but to get involved in the on and off-campus community to make a difference bigger than your individual acts,” says Miranda Maslany, a UVic sustainability intern.

Kelsey Mech, a leader of UVic’s environmental club Common Energy, agrees. “When you’re in an environment like a university, you have the ability to have an impact on how a larger institution works.”

If you are just starting out and want to reduce your carbon footprint (the amount of CLARE WALTON carbon emissions news@mondaymag.com you contribute to the atmosphere) there are many ways to get involved.

Rita Fromholt, UVic’s sustainability coordinator, says students should, “think of sustainability as three broad areas: transportation, waste and energy.”

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CONSERVE ENERGY “The main thing for students that don’t live on campus is to turn off the lights when you leave the classroom or study space,” says Fromholt.

Living on campus presents students with other ways to conserve energy. “In residence there is usually a sustainability themed building,” says Maslany.

“You don’t have to be in that building to be sustainable, there is just a stronger culture within that building.”

BE ALTERNATIVE Choosing alternative forms of transportation is both an encouraged and effective way to make an impact on the environment.

“Use the UPASS, take the bus around,” says Fromholt. Nannette Plant, Camosun’s executive assistant at the Strategic Development Division, adds that more students are definitely choosing alternative transport from biking to walking depending on their campus.

Both Camosun and Uvic have facilities for students who want to bike. UVic has showers for bikers and special lockers, while Camosun has bike fix -it stations and secure bike parking. UVic also provides students with a borrow-a-bike program called SPOKES and has a Bike Kitchen, where students can maintain bikes.

GET POLITICAL Get politically active, join a club, get engaged, says Fromholt.

One of the best ways to make a positive change within the community and the country is to advocate for better environmental polices and initiatives.

Whether it is joining a club on campus that advocates for environmental issues or writing a letter to your local member of parliament, anything helps.

WASTE NOT Reduce your waste creation by taking advantage of your campus’ waste reduction plan. Whether your school has implemented a three-bin system (compost, garbage and recycle bins) or has put in a plastic bottle ban, you can do your part.

BE A TOURIST Take an environmental tour of your new campus to get acquainted with what green tools and resources the campus offers you. “Take a green tour of your campus,” says Plant. “If you’re really interested in knowing what green things are being done on campus, ask, don’t hesitate.” M

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Surviving with your youth intact s a kid, I spent my summers at a camp in the Okanagan with friends, sun and texturized vegetable protein. It was a simpler time. We still had VHS players. I didn’t have an internet dependence yet. And I could still carry a juice box through airport security. Flash forward to toBRAD MICHELSON day, where I’ve graduated university with an expennews@mondaymag.com sive piece of paper and an embarrassingly thorough knowledge of which childhood drinks mix best with what alcohols.

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HOW TO KEEP THAT ZEST ALIVE WHEN YOU’RE TOLD TO GROW UP be able to reflect on my changes in perspective between the adolescence of the milk-stache and Decembeard. I realized this last month when I took a job at my old summer camp in the Okanagan as an in-house photographer.

I spent my days snapping pictures of kids as they learned things for the first time — the first experience of mild independence, learning about themselves as individuals outside of their parents’ eyes, and discovering girls.

Then I realized there is a real parallel between that experience and the one you receive as a university freshman, moving into residents for the first time and learning how to pretend to be an adult.

You need to know how to have fun, while keeping in mind the reason you’re there in the first place.

Now that I’ve graduated, I’ve been able to look back and assess what works and what doesn’t. I’ve had friends who were horrible students in high school excel in post-secondary. But I’ve also had friends who were at the top of my class drop out and replace education with substance abuse.

The trick to university is finding that perfect medium between the library and the bar.

The thing that I took out of the first two years of university was time-management skills. It’s probably the most important thing you can teach yourself.

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and come back to it after dinner.

The second important thing I learned is finding a place where you can actually do work without distraction. For some, it’s in your bed. For others, it’s on the kitchen table.

But for the rest of us who are likely to be distracted by the slightest stimuli, the library is the safest bet. Bury yourself in the basement or a distant corner on the top floor, grab some headphones, and dig into your work.

As distracting as your social life can be, you have to make time to put it out of your mind and concentrate on your studies. Grab a coffee and a muffin. Leave Facebook on in the background if you need to. Find some relaxing instrumental music and let it be the soundtrack to your intellectual enlightenment. It’s a lot easier than you think if you apply yourself to it.

Lastly, don’t stress out. That sounds like a stupid thing to say, seeing as university is the place where many mental illnesses surface, but it’s important not to take your studies too seriously. I’ve had friends start to grey or lose hair due to school. Remember — all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. By the time most people start university, they’re 18-19 years old. They’re still young, invincible, and naïve.

It’s important to take advantage of those things to learn about yourself.

Like the kids I worked with at the summer camp, your first year at university is a completely new and life-changing experience. Homework is no longer just writing between the lines, and you’re finally starting to realize that your favourite childhood pop songs are completely inappropriate for your age group. You’re expected to start acting like an adult, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun in the process. Enjoy yourself, but don’t overdo it. Concentrate on school, but don’t lose sleep over it.

These are the three principles that got me through university. It may sound too simple to be true, but it really is that straight forward. These skills allow you to create time for yourself and to concentrate on why you’re there in the first place.

Professors always told us to look at our post-secondary studies like a fulltime job, encouraging us to spend 40 hours a week on our studies.

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Freedom means making adult sexual decisions here is nothing better than first love away from home. You see that new person across the courtyard with the cute smile. He/she seems to be looking only at you. Are they in engineering or psychology? Are they a writer or history major? The world is your oyster, but suddenly you’re thrust into a world of making adult sexual decisions.

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Most people act like idiots when they are drunk and are not being genuine. So don’t go to a party looking for a date and expect to meet someone to bring home to your parents — it’s probably not going to happen. And if you’re drinking, you probably will be one of those idiots. You may think you are charming, but in reality you are

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probably not. Drinking and doing drugs is not the way to meet new people.

2) I am still a virgin and I’m embarrassed. I just want to get it over with! I think...

I cannot count how many friends have told me stories of their “first time” and how much they regret it. I certainly didn’t wait until I was in love, but I waited until it was with someone I trusted.

I’m probably one of the few in my peer group who is proud of my first time. Think it through, don’t just fall into bed with someone you are never going to talk to again. That shouldn’t be the story of your first time or even 20th time! Chances are you will regret having sex for the first time if it’s with someone you barely know rather than waiting another few months or years to have sex with someone you care about and who cares for you.

3) Condoms, birth control pills, IUDs ... there are so many different kinds of birth control out there, how do you know what to use?

Everyone is different, but no one is immune to STDs. No matter your lifestyle, condoms are your best bet when having sex (oral and penetrative) with new partners. Not everyone will be honest about who they have been with, so play it safe and use a condom. However, I also advise people to double up on their birth control and also use the pill or IUD (intrauterine device) to protect against pregnancy in case a condom breaks.

4) I’m stressed out at school, I want to let loose and go to a party! And a cute guy/girl offered me a drink, what do I do? I want to meet someone new, possibly have sex, possibly just get a number.

First, never, NEVER leave your drink alone with someone or accept a drink! Not even from a friend. Always keep your drink with you, always know what is in your drink, and if you can’t bring it to the bathroom (or somewhere else) with you, toss it and don’t look back. This may sound cliché, but young girls (and guys!) get drugged very easily at parties. And most people aren’t going to drug someone just to sit down and chat with them. It is very likely that you will be coerced into bed with either the person that drugged you, or even someone else.

But if this does ever happen to you (or someone you know), tell someone you trust and go to the police. You cannot consent to having sex with someone when you’ve been drugged (or are drunk), so it is not your fault. Even if you are dressed promiscuously and flirting, if you tried to say no, or even just gave the impression of wanting to have sex, that is not consent.

5) Above all, know you are not alone This is your opportunity to expand your horizons. Meet new friends and lovers. They will sometimes even be your biggest support. Just be safe and realize that if you are feeling anxious there is a good chance the person sitting next to you in class shares some of those feelings. So take a chance, talk to them and who knows what the future will hold. M

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HAVE YOUR CAREER WITHOUT GIVING UP TRAVEL wake up to the bright sunlight streaming through the wicker slats of our simple hut on the island of Koh Phi Phi, Thailand. Brushing back the mosquito netting, I pull on my bikini and slip into my sandals. With a bottle of water and my laptop I head down the dirt path to the beach. It’s mid-morning and the air is already warm, but the sandy shore is almost deserted. I spread a towel, stretch out my bare legs and dig my toes into the sand. Then I flip open my netbook, tether a smart phone WiFi connection and get to work.

I’m a freelance writer and today my office overlooks the turquoise waters of the Andaman Sea.

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YOU DON’T HAVE TO SACRIFICE I’ve heard so many students say they wish that they could travel the world once they graduate, but they just can’t afford it and need to focus on their career instead.

KELLY DUNNING Listen; If your news@mondaymag.com heart skips a beat every time you are walking through the SUB and you pass the student travel agents, don’t hold yourself back from travelling the world because you think you need to get a “Real Job” as soon as you graduate.

The truth is there are so many ways that you can travel the world and build your career at the same time.

WORK FROM ANYWHERE Google the words “digital nomad” and you will come across a slew of inspiring blogs from people who have unplugged from the traditional cubicle and are working from exotic locations all over the world. A Digital Nomad is someone who uses portable technology to do their work with no obligation to any particular location.

I can write whenever I want, wherever I want, which gives me the freedom to travel the world for long stretches at a time while still earning an income. I didn’t quit my day job right away; it took me almost a year of building up my writing business on the side until I was able to make the leap into doing it full-time.

Since then, I’ve never stopped moving for long; writing from cafes, hostels, public libraries and even once writing an article in the backseat of a stranger’s car while hitchhiking. At the moment,

my boyfriend and I are backpacking around Southeast Asia, a very financially sustainable place to travel because the money I earn goes very far. A dinner for two costs as little as five dollars and one night’s stay in a decent hotel or guesthouse costs around fifteen dollars. Believe it or not, I’m actually saving money while having the time of my life snorkeling, sunbathing, hiking, touring ancient temples and eating spicy street food.

Writing isn’t the only profession you can take on the road with you; there are many other digitally nomadic jobs including web design, graphic design, SEO consulting, photography and much more. Check out websites such as Odesk.com and PeoplePerHour.com to find freelance work.

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GO ON A WORKING HOLIDAY You don’t even have to work online to travel the world, as there are so many careers that you can take abroad.

Doctors, nurses, teachers, childcare providers and other professions will always be in demand all over the world. Any country that has a significant tourism industry will be hiring bartenders, chefs, tour guides, hotel staff and other hospitality specialists. Teaching English abroad is a popular choice and most positions pay a wage which ensures that you not only have a decent standard of living in the country you are teaching but can also save money to pay off your student loans.

You’re already at university working towards a career, so start researching and find a way you can do that job in your dream destination. Why not consider a working holiday visa, which allows young people between the ages of 18-30 to work and travel for up to 12 months in another country?

There are working holiday visa opportunities for Canadians in many countries, including Australia, the UK, Chile, France, Ireland, Belgium, Austria, Holland, New Zealand, Japan, Italy, South Africa, Norway, Spain, Sweden and so many more. All you need to do is to apply for the visa, book your flights and search for jobs in your country of choice. It takes some time and effort to make it happen, but there are plenty of online resources out there to help you along the way.

Don’t give up those dreams you have of seeing faraway places. When you take the initiative to create your own working adventure, your dream destination will be closer than you think. M

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emember bumping into your teacher in the supermarket back in Grade 2? You thought: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s real!â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Your profs and TAs (teaching assistants) have a life just like everybody else.

Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the main difference between students and instructors: all profs have been students, but few students have been profs. Instructors can sympathize with the student condition, but they also know all the excuses and scams.

Their grandmothers died five times in one term, too.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll likely encounter all levels, from TAs through sessionals to full professors. In terms of ability, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t generalize. TAs usually have little experience and are preoccupied with their research, but some are stellar.

Some of the higher ranks of professors can be hopeless instructors or might resent having to teach at all; sometimes theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re fabulous â&#x20AC;&#x201D; godlike and mesmerizing. But almost every post-secondary teacher at one time loved his or her field and probably still does. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be disappointed THINKSTOCK if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t share their enthu- If you want respect from your profs, be respectful and respectable. siasm, but they want to like you, so make it easy for them.

If you want respect, be respectful and respect- your respondentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s job easier by making your query able. Forget the obnoxious voice-mail message, focused, concise, polite, and literate. Find a nontrashy email address, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Porn Starâ&#x20AC;? T-shirt. Arrive classmate to check it. at class on time with the necessary materials and WHEN ATTENDING OFFICE HOURS without the earbuds, eggburger and bubblegum.

1. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be put off by a closed door. Knock and Have your assignments prepared and be ready to engage. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t text or chat during lectures or use wait.

2. Remember that your instructor has many your laptop for irrelevancies. Even if your teachers arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allowed to reprove rude students, bad man- students and may not at first know you. Introduce ners will annoy them. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re only human, and yourself, indicate which class you attend, and ask they have power over you. (And your more mature specific questions.

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If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re forced to take a course you hate, If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re partly to blame, admit it. Pick your battles. one which may also be genuinely useless, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t And donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t whine, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I totally need an A.â&#x20AC;?

4. Discuss your mental health only if the instrucblame your instructor. Suck it up and/or talk to tor has previously received a letter from counselling. your student union.

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Value of Education A REAL WORLD VIEW FROM ACCOMPLISHED VICTORIANS ducation is a process that has been both revered and reviled by mankind. Mark Twain described it as the path from “cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty” and Oscar Wilde weighed in with his opinion that “nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

With the new school year starting it isn’t surprising that the debate about the value of education continues in classrooms, camTIM COLLINS puses and café’s news@mondaymag.com around Victoria.

Given the cost of education these days and the state of our economy, is seeking a solid, formal education still as valuable as it once might have been?

It may be that an undergraduate degree no longer carries the level of respect that it once engendered. In a tough economy we know that there are many graduates who find themselves underemployed or, in fact, unemployed.

To make matters worse, we have the anomalies.

A quick web search will confirm that hundreds of the world’s wealthiest and most successful men and women achieved their status without finishing any post secondary education at all.

Wolfgang Puck, of restaurant fame, quit school at the age of 14. Steve Jobs, one of the founders of Apple, never finished college, and Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates is a Harvard school dropout.

Still, it may be that we would be wise to avoid the trap of minimizing the value of education based upon those exceptions. In truth, according to Statistics Canada, university graduates will earn an average of $30,000 per annum more than those individuals with only a high school education by the time they are 50 years of age. So although the impact may not be immediate, the financial benefits are still there.

It may also be that the other benefits are more important. To get an insight to those positive factors, we talked to some of Victoria’s better known individuals for their attitudes toward education.

The results are fascinating. Not one of the individuals interviewed minimized the role of education in their lives. On the contrary, they are the biggest proponents of learning.

Here are a few of those comments.

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ELIZABETH MAY Elizabeth May is the leader of the Green Party of Canada and the first Green Party MP in the House of Commons. She has also been an author, activist, environmentalist and lawyer.

But Elizabeth spent most of her 20s working as a waitress and cook in her family’s restaurant, never having finished an undergraduate degree.

Still, she has always had a love of learning and when she discovered an equivalency program that allowed her to vault into law school without an undergrad degree, she jumped at the chance. “For me, returning to school after waitressing was like gulping oxygen after years without air,” she says.

“Education and learning has always sustained me,” says May. “I kept my mind in a place of inquiry even when I couldn’t afford snow boots and trudged through winter with wet feet, and I was happy.”

“Developing the skills of critical thinking, of intellectual curiosity and a discerning intellect are far more valuable to happiness and well-being than merely money in the bank,” she says.

MAYOR DEAN FORTIN Mayor Dean Fortin has always loved learning.

“My favorite quotation is one from Isaac Newton,” says the mayor. He said that he had seen further by ‘standing on the shoulders of giants’. That’s what education gives you; the ability to learn from the experience and wisdom of others.

We are foolish to ignore those lessons.”

Fortin has always had a love of learning and has continued to seek knowledge and education throughout his life.

However, he sees the role of schools changing. “There is so much information out there today, and it is far more accessible than it once was,” he says. “It was once the case that education had a ‘Sage on the Stage’ approach wherein professors stood in a class and gave students information. That isn’t valid any longer. Today’s education has to be modeled on the ‘Guide on the Side’ approach. Educators have to help you discover information and develop critical thinking skills to allow you to succeed.”

Does Mayor Fortin still love learning? “Every day of my life,” he says.

D’OYEN CHRISTIE D’Oyen Christie isn’t all that well known on the streets of Victoria, but his work is legendary. He’s executive pastry chef at the Fairmont Empress, and the genius behind the world renowned afternoon tea at that historic hotel.

He arrived in Victoria in 2002 and has been responsible for serving the prime minister, the Queen and more celebrities than you can imagine.

Was education important in achieving this success?

“It was the single most important factor in my life,” says D’Oyen.

“It formed the foundation for my life. Without the foundation of education, you have nothing to build on.”

D’Oyen got his undergrad degree at George Brown College in Toronto and studied at Valrhona in Paris to round out his education.

“People don’t realize that my position requires the knowledge of chemistry and mathematics; a knowledge of business and financial management; all of these things as well as a knowledge of the craft.

“There is always more to learn and with a good foundation in education, you can be a success at whatever you try to accomplish.”

HEATHER LINDSAY Heather Lindsay is a recent arrival in Victoria.

She came from Vancouver to assume the role of general manager of Intrepid Theatre Company.

Heather got her education at Simon Fraser University’s School for Contemporary Arts, and has pursued further training with the National Screen Continued on Page B18

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Cmdr. Peats received his education at the Royal Military College in Kingston where he earned a degree in history.

He followed that up with a master’s degree in defence studies at the college in Toronto.

“I was very fortunate. My father was in the Air Force and I watched him get his education through night school classes,” says Peats.

“My education has been the single most important factor in achieving any success I’ve had.”

And he knows that the education he provides to our future naval officers will be just as important.

“The historical aspects of their training are very important.

History tends to be circular and we can learn from the decisions of great men who have come before us. If we learn from them we can duplicate their successes and avoid their failures,” he says.

“A military education should be a consideration for anyone coming out of high school,” says Peats. “It teaches discipline and structure.

There have been a lot of graduates who leave the military and put those skills to use in civilian life with great success. The secret is to keep learning all your life.”

If there’s anyone who knows about the value of education, it’s Commander Bradley Peats.

He’s the commanding officer at the Naval Officer Training Centre at Maritime Forces Pacific Headquarters. It’s his job to impart naval skills and knowledge as well as a sense of the Navy’s history to new officers.

So it seems that today’s students might be wise to take a page from Albert Einstein who said: “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”

These successful men and women in Victoria agree and have modeled their own lives and successes on that advice. M

Continued from Page B17 Institute in Toronto.

“That education was crucial for my career,” says Lindsay. “My goal was always to work in theatre. I set my goals and then got the education I needed to make it a reality.”

But the education wasn’t all about learning the craft of theatre.

“I took courses in economics and business as well,” Lindsay says. “In this business you have to know how to create and manage a business; how to write grant proposals and business plans. The craft is at the heart of it, but without the business side of it, the craft can’t continue.”

Heather still draws upon the mentorship of her professors at Simon Fraser.

“They are lifelong friends and supports to me and they’re beyond value to me in my life. They are friends as well as mentors.”

“To succeed you have to learn, and keep learning,” she says.

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