5 October 2022

UMSU schedules federation referendum

The University of Mani toba Students’ Union (UMSU) has announced the dates for a referendum regard ing its membership in the Canadian Federation of Stu dents.

On Oct. 27 and 28, students will be able to vote on whether they are in favour of UMSU continuing to be a part of the federation.

Chief returning officer Eric Johnson, a neutral contractor entrusted with overseeing the referendum, is responsible for providing information to stu dents through social media, emails and posters, as well as making sure the referen dum is conducted according to UMSU’s bylaws and gov erning documents. He said that UMSU will be allowed to campaign leading up to the vote.

However, Johnson explained that as an external organization, the Canadian Federation of Students is not allowed to campaign on cam pus, as per UMSU’s governing documents.

Even so, Johnson stated that the federation will be allowed to recruit students who may be interested in cam paigning on its behalf.

Over the two day online vote, Johnson said that life on campus should look relatively normal.

There will be at least one polling station in University Centre where students who don’t have access to comput ers will be able to vote online. Neither UMSU nor the federa tion will be permitted to cam paign on campus during the voting period.

With the Canadian Federa tion of Students suing UMSU over nearly $1 million in unpaid fees, Johnson empha sized that while the outcome of the student vote could pot entially change UMSU and the federation’s future relation ship, the results will not dir ectly affect the lawsuit.

Second annual National Day for truth and

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Rally demands free international student health care Student groups say government is avoiding consultation meetings

Colton McKillop, staff

International students, student groups and oppos ition parties gathered at the legislature last Wednesday to demand that the province reinstate free universal health care for international stu dents.

According to representa tives from student groups, the provincial government has been avoiding meeting with them to discuss the issue.

In 2018, the governing Pro gressive Conservative party repealed legislation from 2012 that granted international students access to universal health care.

Now, international stu dents must pay $1032 per year for health coverage at the Uni versity of Manitoba.

UMSU vice-president advo cacy Victoria Romero said that UMSU was at least able to make contact with the govern ment last year, but that “com munication soured” since a cabinet shuffle replaced Wayne Ewasko with Jon Reyes for the position of Minister of Advanced Education, Skills and Immigration.

“This year, after the first kind of meeting that we had with Minister Reyes, all the willingness to change and to really show up for students has dissipated,” Romero said.

“We haven’t been able to sit down for a second meet ing with Minister Reyes, even though he’s promised us on multiple different occasions for one.”

NDP MLA and Critic for Economic Development and Training Jamie Moses said it’s “obvious” that the govern ment is not listening to stu dents.

“The students that I have met with have said very loudly and strongly that hav ing provincial public health care restored for international students is a major priority,” Moses said.

“It makes sense in terms of better health-care outcomes for international students, it makes financial sense in terms of the amount of eco nomic activity that interna tional students bring into our province,” he said.

“Quite frankly, public health care is just something that we pride ourselves on as Manitobans, as Canadians, and it’s simply the right thing to do.”

Opposition parties show support as Reyes skips rally

Moses called the repeal of free health care for inter national students “a terrible decision,” and said that rein

stating it would “definitely be a priority.”

Moses and other represen tatives from opposition par ties also attended the rally in solidarity with international students.

“A fundamental Cana dian value is universal public access to health care in this country,” said Manitoba NDP leader Wab Kinew in his speech at the rally.

“We see all post-secondary students, whether you are domestic students or interna tional students, as part of the future of this country, so yes, we are committed and we’re going to fight for health care for you.”

Manitoba Liberal Party leader Dougald Lamont echoed these sentiments in his speech, saying “international students have been taken advantage of by this province.”

“The whole principle of Manitoba and the principle of Canada is that anybody can be a Manitoban and anybody can be a Canadian,” Lamont said.

“Even if you’re not Cana dians yet, you are Manito bans right now. You are Man itobans right now, and our job is to make sure that every sin gle Manitoban is looked after,

and that’s not happening right now.”

According to Romero, Min ister Reyes said he was unable to attend the rally.

That same day, Reyes posted pictures of himself posing with international stu dents at the U of M to his Ins tagram account.

“I had the opportunity to speak with international students who stated how their post-secondary education was affordable,” one of Reyes’s captions read.

“It’s interesting to see him out posting, talking about how he cares about interna tional students and that the government is interested in improving our province so that we can offer high qual ity post-secondary education and experience along with that, when they can’t even talk to us,” Romero said.

International students share their stories

In addition to this rally, international student and UMSU international com munity representative Kunal Rajpal was present for a rally for international student health care held at the legisla ture back in May.

He said that just days before that rally, he had been in a car crash on Pembina highway and although he sustained only minor injuries, it made him worry about whether he or his parents could afford to pay for health-care costs.

“I’m in a potentially life-threatening situation and I’m thinking of hospital bills and money, and my parents going broke,” Rajpal said.

Fardeen Zareef, an interna tional student who recently graduated from U of M, said that when his roommate was stabbed prior to the removal of international student health care, it was covered, while the current plan does not cover such incidentals.

“Just thinking about that makes me sick to my stomach to know that we don’t have the basic rights,” Zareef said.

“We’re only under the lever age of a private company.”

Harjinder Singh, an inter national student from India and vice-president external affairs of the RRC Polytech Students’ Association, said that other international stu dents he talked to described their student health insur ance as the “worst private insurance.”

“It is supposed to give us

benefits, but it is giving us grief,” Singh said.

He said some students go into debt to pay their bills while awaiting reimbursement for medical fees they are forced to pay upfront.

Rajpal said he missed two classes to attend the rally on Wednesday.

“I did that in May, I’m going do it again if I have to, but I don’t want to do that,” he said.

“I don’t want to stand here again and call on our govern ment to give us health care, to call on our government to give us a basic human right, some thing we deserve.”

Speakers highlighted the contributions that interna tional students make to the economy of Manitoba.

In 2018, Manitoba’s 18,275 international students con tributed more than $400 mil lion to Manitoba’s GDP.

The province cut health care for international stu dents in 2018 to save $3.1 mil lion a year.

photo / Colton McKillop / staff

“It is supposed to give us benefits, but it is giving us grief”

— Harjinder Singh, international student, RRC Polytechnic Students’ Association vice-president external affairs

Manitoba to raise minimum wage to $15 by October 2023

Critics say increase is not enough with recent inflation

Colton McKillop, staff

The Manitoba provincial government raised the province’s minimum wage from $11.95 per hour to $13.50 per hour on Oct. 1, with plans to further increase it to $14.15 per hour in April 2023 and $15 per hour by October 2023.

Local unions and policy think tanks have criticized the government, saying that the increase is not enough given recent inflation.

UMSU vice-president advo cacy Victoria Romero said that although she appreciates the government making this “long-awaited” change, it is not enough.

“A minimum wage increase is a good place to start, but it’s not enough, and they need to be working a lot harder to address the many financial burdens that stand in the way of students, particularly inter national students and margin alized students,” she said.

“This estimate of 15 dol lars being a living wage is a very old figure, and for the Manitoba government to have taken this long to have even made a change at all, let alone

one that is barely adequate, it says a lot.”

Manitoba still has one of the lowest minimum wages in the country, and Romero argued that many students’ lives have been made unaffordable by the current provincial govern ment.

“Students have always been a demographic that is very vulnerable to financial hard ship, and especially through the last couple years with the pandemic it’s become more apparent than ever that they are a demographic that needs support, and it’s not some thing that we’re receiving,” Romero said.

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), a policy think tank, has calcu lated that in 2022 a living wage for a family of four with two earners in Winnipeg would be $18.34 per hour, an increase of more than two dollars from its estimate of $16.15 per hour in 2020.

In the four year period from 2016 to 2020, the CCPA’s esti mate increased by just over $1.50.

The rate of inflation in Man

itoba as of August 2022 — the most recent month for which data is available — was eight per cent, compared to seven percent nationally.

“Our tuition is one thing, but again, adding the cost of textbooks, the cost of living which continues to rise, the cost of food, basic necessities, gas, all these things that have been impacted by inflation,” Romero said.

Romero noted that mar ginalized students and inter national students in particu lar struggle with financial bur dens, with international stu dents paying much higher tui tion rates than their domestic counterparts.

“They especially need a minimum wage that can support them working, even if it’s not full time, and still being able to support an edu cation,” she said.

She also pointed out that international students are only allowed to work 20 hours a week if they’re not working on campus.

“Currently as VP advo cacy, I’m doing an in-depth review into student employ

Two day online vote scheduled for Oct. 27 and 28

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“The vote is an internal ref erendum for UMSU to ask its members if they want to have continued membership in the [Canadian Federation of Stu dents],” he said.

“The lawsuit that’s happen ing is outside of that referen dum.”

“It may or may not affect the lawsuit, but they are pretty separate. This referendum that UMSU is holding is just about asking its members if they want to stay or leave.”

UMSU president weighs in on students’ role

UMSU president Jaron Rykiss said that he personally believes leaving the Canadian Federation of Students is in students’ best interest.

However, he said that there are no barriers for students who want to work with Can adian Federation of Students, or support remaining in the federation, as long as they have the appropriate number of signatures and students.

“We would rather that you come to us and ask for fund ing, and we would love to be that voice of support,” he said.

“But if they’re not following that and they don’t want to

work with UMSU, then there’s not much that we can do other than continuing to show that we’re here to support.”

Some stu dent clubs and associations are working with the Can adian Feder ation of Stu dents.

When asked if the vote will affect student groups’ fund ing, Rykiss said that UMSU has plenty of funding that clubs could receive, but claimed that the Canadian Federa tion of Students has “created

a wedge” between UMSU and the student clubs and associ ations that would rather work

ment at the UM and wages for how they compare per centage-wise to the minimum wage,” Romero said.

Romero noted that UMSU jobs pay more than minimum wage, and said she is looking into ways to improve the sup ports available to students working on campus.

She said she hopes the gov ernment’s move to increase minimum wage is “the start of something new,” but added

that she won’t let her hopes get too high.

“Overall, it’s good that there’s something being done, but it’s long overdue. People have been calling on this for a long time, and again 15 dollars still is not even enough to be a living wage.”

with the federation.

He said that because of this “wedge,” UMSU has been unable to meet with student groups about funding, specif ically pointing to the Arts Stu dent Body Council (ASBC) as

an example.

“ASBC and UMSU, for the last very long time […] we’ve had a separ ated relation ship, but only recently have we been able to sit down with them and say, ‘please tell us what’s going on in your association, tell us what we can do to support you and tell us what kind of funding you need,’” Rykiss said.

“UMSU has the resources, as every other student union across the country does, to

support its clubs and associ ations, and we would love to continue being that support for our student clubs. We’re the one they register through, we would love to be the one that’s helping them put on their events and initiatives.”

Rykiss encouraged stu dents to engage with the refer endum, and to contact John son at CRO@umsu.ca if they have any questions.

“At the end of the day, the student voice is what’s most important.”

photo / Ebunoluwa Akinbo / staff

“At the end of the day, the student voice is what’s most important”

— Jaron Rykiss, UMSU president

photo / Ebunoluwa

Akinbo / staff

Mayoral candidate refuses to abide by U of M mask rules

Jenny Motkaluk opts to go maskless at U of M-hosted forum despite mandate

Gillian Brown, staff

t a mayoral forum held on the U of M Fort Garry campus, mayoral hope ful Jenny Motkaluk chose not to wear a mask despite the campus’ mandatory mask policy.

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The forum, centred on the candidates’ environmental platforms, was held on Sept. 26 in the Robert B. Schultz lec ture theatre.

Out of the 10 candidates present at the forum, Motka luk was the only one not wear ing a mask.

She commended the fed eral government’s decision to end the COVID-19 preven tion mandates and restric tions in place for those travel ling by plane, saying that “at some point, this thing’s got to be over.”

“Quite frankly, I’m done

wearing masks,” she said in her opening remarks. “I’m done social distancing. It’s time for us to recover, and I’m really looking forward to doing that.”

The statement was met with boos from the audience.

Motkaluk and her team did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Motkaluk’s campaign plat form includes promises to cancel photo radar, to pro tect the city’s urban forest by planting two trees for every tree lost and to ensure that there are no road construction barriers while active construc tion work isn’t taking place, with the goal of making Win nipeg a “city of opportunity.”

At the University of Mani toba, the mask mandate is enforced 24/7. U of M spokes person Myrrhanda Novak

said in an email statement to the Manitoban that for stu dents, non-compliance or dis ruption of academic activities may result in an investigation under the student discipline bylaw, and could lead in disci plinary action.

Instructors can remove their masks when teaching if there is a distance of more than two metres between them and their students, and masking is not required for those alone in closed spaces, outdoors or consuming food or beverages in a designated area.

Novak said that the event’s organizers and all partici pants were made aware of the mask policy. She said that since the forum was not a uni versity event, it was the role of the organizers to enforce the policy.

“It is very disappointing to see a community leader attend an event on campus and then fail to adhere to the policies that help to keep our community safe,” she said.

“Those who do not wish to

U of M takes part in Orange Shirt Day

Community continues truth and reconciliation process Matthew Merkel, staff

In honour of the second annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, students and faculty members alike hosted and took part in a number of different events.

UMSU Indigenous students community representative and University of Manitoba Indigenous Students’ Asso ciation (UMISA) communi cations co-ordinator Ishkode Catcheway said that UMISA chose not to schedule any thing on Sept. 30 in order to avoid interfering with other groups’ events.

UMISA hosted a couple col laborative events through out the week. Orange Shirt pins were created at a bead ing workshop held last Tues day night, and an Orange Shirt Day mural in Migizii Agamik was also created.

Catcheway also highlighted UMSU’s Truth and Reconcilia tion panel on Sept. 29, which featured Order of Canada appointee John Morrisseau, former UMISA vice-presi dent Julie Albert and writer and television host Ivana Yel lowback. The speakers shared their perspectives on truth and reconciliation for the Indigenous community.

Catcheway was comforted to see so many events for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation hosted on cam pus. She said that for many Indigenous students, it is dif ficult to come from their com munities to a colonial space

like the U of M.

Catcheway also pointed out that it is important for non-In digenous students to take part in these events so that they learn about Indigenous hist ory and understand their pos itionality in present-day Win nipeg.

“For me, it really makes my heart full,” she said.“It’s just a nice way to heal your spirit.”

Other groups also held events on campus.

On Sept. 27, U of M student researcher Kathleen McKen zie and scholar Sean Carleton presented their research on Dr. Peter Bryce’s 1907 Report on Residential Schools.

The next day, Indigenous Engagement and Communi cations hosted a virtual shar ing circle with Elder Carl Stone, and later had an in-per son beading session in Migizii Agamik.

The Nursing Students’ Association and the college of nursing held their annual Orange Shirt Day walk Sept. 29. Participants walked from the Helen Glass Centre for Nursing to the National Cen tre for Truth and Reconcilia tion, where a ceremony took place.

Catcheway said students who may be interested in future Indigenous cultural events can keep updated by checking out the UMISA Instagram account (@umisac ouncil).

Instructor in the U of M department of Indigenous

studies Shauna Mulligan said that the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation brings up a medley of emo tions. She thinks of residential school survivors that are close to her, as well as the hundreds of Indigenous children found in unmarked graves.

According to Mulligan, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is inspired by the story of Phyllis Webstad, a young Indigenous girl who arrived at a residential school wearing a new orange shirt. Webstad’s shirt was immedi ately taken from her, an act that Mulligan said illustrated the stripping away of Indigen ous culture by the residential school system.

“It was one of those things that people kind of gravitated towards as that symbol of ‘this is what has happened,’” she said.

Mulligan explained that as a result, Orange Shirt Day was created “to increase the visibility of Indigenous sur vivors of residential schools and to continue that discus sion.”

Mulligan believes that there is still much more work to be done. She said that more rep resentation and supports for Indigenous students and staff should be available across the university, something out lined in the 2015 to 2020 Uni versity of Manitoba Strategic Plan.

Mulligan said it is also important to recognize the

cultural elements of students within policies and course structures.

She emphasized the import ance of continuing to have conversations about residen tial schools and colonial hist ories, not matter how uncom fortable they may be.

For Mulligan, it is impera tive to better understand Indigenous people’s suffering in the past and present, so that all people living in Canada can move forward together toward a better future.

“Be open, be willing, because people are going to hear stuff they don’t want to hear, especially from sur vivors who may have a lot of sadness, a lot of guilt, a lot of trauma,” she said.

“It is healing and meaning ful for the survivor to know that they are believed, but also it helps the survivor on their healing process as well. So if people, non-Indigenous peoples, want to help surviv ors, believe them. Acknow ledge that they have gone through these experien ces, and when they are reliv ing that trauma, be gentle, be

follow campus policies should avoid attending events on campus and may be prevented from doing so in the future.”

kind.”

Mulligan highly recom mends the Indigenous Stu dent Centre as a resource. They offer spiritual, mental health and academic support.

Indigenous Student Centre

Email: (isc@umanitoba.ca)

Phone: 204-474-8850

(Migizii Agamik - Bald Eagle Lodge) 114 Sidney Smith St.

Indigenous student groups: University of Manitoba In digenous Students’ Associ ation

Métis University Students’ Association

University of Manitoba In digenous Commerce Students Manitoba Indigenous Law Students’ Association

Supporting Aborigin al Graduate Enhancement (SAGE)

University of Manitoba In digenous Concerns on the En vironment

photo / Ebunoluwa Akinbo / staff

graphic / Dallin Chicoine / staff

A fight against breast cancer

U of M professor furthers breast cancer research

Elah Ajene, staff

Approximately one in eight cisgender women will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their life.

In 2020 alone, over 2 mil lion were diagnosed with breast cancer and 685,000 died from the disease. In the past five years, there were 7.8 million people living with breast cancer, making it one of the most prevalent types of cancer worldwide.

The impact of breast can cer is a growing issue, prompt ing research organizations to encourage independent aca demic research projects with the aim of ensuring a better future for affected individ uals. This has brought about increased breast cancer innov ations in recent decades.

Among those lead ing innovative research to enhance our understanding of breast cancer development is Yvonne Myal, University of Manitoba professor and asso ciate head in the department of pathology, as well as senior scientist at CancerCare Mani toba Research Institute.

The bulk of Myal’s studies focus on the prolactin-indu cible protein (PIP) — a small secreted protein found in tis sues within the body, includ ing the breasts. She worked on this research for several years as a graduate student at the University of Manitoba.

According to Myal, high levels of PIP are found within the breast, and PIP is over produced in benign breast cystic disease. She noted that evidence of PIP is found in up to 90 per cent of breast can cers

“It seemed to be associ ated with abnormalities and it must play a role in breast can cer,” she said.

Myal has been involved in pioneering work on this secre tory protein, including clon ing the PIP gene, identifying its chromosomal position and generating the first genetic ally modified mouse models used in studying the PIP gene.

Her lab studies have deter mined that PIP plays some immune defence roles within the body.

Myal explained that PIP is being used clinically in iden tifying breast cancer cells that have spread through the body.

According to Myal, previ ous studies suggested that the presence of PIP in the early stages of breast cancer was a good thing, as tumours were more responsive to treatment.

However, she pointed out that it works differently when found in metastatic can cer, possibly serving another

function.

“It’s like a double-edged sword, in that it’s protective in the early stages of breast cancer development, but in the later stages when there is metastasis, it seemed to be facilitating the progression,” Myal said.

Claudin-1 and small breast epithelial mucin (SBEM) — both associated with breast cancer — are two additional molecules Myal has focused on in her research career.

Myal’s current research focuses on using mice mod els to understand PIP involve ment in triple-negative breast cancer — an aggressive form of breast cancer that accounts for 15 to 25 per cent of all breast

cancers. Those diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer on average survive for about 10 months post-diagno sis

“These cancers are hard to treat,” she said. “They are resistant to current treatment and chemotherapy.”

When using these models in mice with a normal immune response, Myal explained that “in the tumours that express PIP, their growth is delayed compared to the tumours that, our control, do not express PIP.”

“In the immunocompe tent mice, when we check the metastasis in the lungs, the presence of PIP seemed to make the tumours more

aggressive and more meta static,” she added.

On the other hand, when looking at mice with com promised immune systems, Myal found that it makes no difference.

“This is important infor mation, because we’re trying to find out what works in the metastatic state and how we can, as researchers, identify those things that would lead to clinical enhancement and treatment,” she said.

Research — facilitating the further expansion of breast cancer research.

“I have many collab orators,” Myal said. “Collab oration is key to success and moving ahead with research answers.”

Myal has also mentored many students who have gone on to work across a wide range of professions.

“You see me, but I repre sent a team,” she said. “I truly believe in teamwork, I truly believe in mentorship.”

Myal’s work currently is funded by organizations such as the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Can cer Research Society and the Canadian Institutes of Health research@themanitoban.com

“Collaboration is key to success and moving ahead with research answers”

— Yvonne Myal, senior scientist at CancerCare Manitoba Research Institute

Fast fashion cannot exist in a sustainable environment

Our consumption patterns must change drastically

Elah Ajene, staff

The environmental damage done by the fast fashion industry on our planet is severe. However, this phe nomenon has been building for a long time.

Currently, the industry accounts for close to 10 per cent of total global carbon emissions and 20 per cent of global waste water.

Over 200 million trees are being cut down annually to make fabric, contributing to deforestation. Waste genera tion is high within the indus try, with textiles contributing 92 million tonnes of waste to landfills and making up close to 10 per cent of all microplas tics that end up in the ocean each year.

The facts are everywhere, and these statistics are alarm ing.

Big retail brands have begun to face criticism and public scrutiny over their unethical production means and mass contribution to the climate crisis, with overproduction in the clothing industry high lighted as a major problem. In 2018, H&M reported over 4 bil

lion dollars of unsold inven tory.

Nonetheless, overproduc tion is fuelled by overcon sumption. The problem is, this rigorous production model is supported by demand.

Fast fashion consists of cheap clothing that pulls from ever-changing trends, creat ing new pieces to meet con sumer demand at a rapid pace. New styles are churned out as fast as possible, only to be dis carded by consumers once trends change. This cycle of overproduction and overcon sumption has resulted in the fashion industry becoming one of the world’s largest pol luters.

The accessibility and affordability of fast fashion keeps the industry afloat, and the industry will continue to overload consumers thanks to online media creators who

further push fast fashion within the capitalist system.

As the fashion indus try continues to move at an unprecedented pace and trends engulf the social media scene, fast fashion has sup ported shoppers’ increased consumption patterns.

CEO of online consignment company thredUP James Reinhart described fast fash ion as the “next big tobacco,” and he isn’t far off.

Even if a piece of cloth ing is manufactured from high-quality organic material, an avid fast fashion enthusi ast would not fathom spend ing over $50 on a top when they could get a replica for less than $10 on Shein. Plus, free shipping!

I am not exempt from this. I find myself plagued by re-wear anxiety and the need to treat myself at every minor

inconvenience to a Zara haul.

However, my personal relationship with clothing changed over the course of the pandemic. I had a sudden, obvious realization that I do not need this many clothes!

Many of our beloved clothing items are linked to environmental degrada tion and the climate crisis, so adjusting our consumption behaviours and making more conscientious fashion choices is a must.

A global shift away from fast fashion to more ethical and sustainable fashion is necessary.

By thrifting second-hand clothing, or supporting local artisans or brands who use ethically sourced fabrics in clothing production, we can easily curate our personal style without costing the environment nearly as much. When we acquire clothing made from higher-quality, eco-friendly materials, we can reduce the amount of clothes we throw out.

Shopping sustainably looks different for different people.

As consumers, we have the responsibility of researching

and finding ethical brands that work for us.

Also, our consumption pat terns matter. It’s easy to be swept up by the huge variety of options while shopping, but understanding that less is more is key.

Awareness is great, but unaccompanied by action, it is futile.

The simple truth is that fast fashion cannot exist in a sus tainable environment, and we need to make a collect ive effort to move away from it. Influencers need to abol ish the thousand-dollar You Tube hauls and instead use their platforms to spread more awareness.

Our consumer habits need to change drastically, and until active steps are taken to address the detrimental impact our wardrobes are hav ing on the environment, we cannot truly move forward as a society.

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Why we wear our ribbon skirts

“I’m Anishinaabe from Pinaymootang First Nation with Métis ties.

“Orange Shirt Day is a day of reflecting, learning and healing. I’m proud of the activism and advocacy that is being done by the Indigenous community to ensure that Turtle Island’s truths are being told, but most importantly, are heard. This is a day that brings awareness to the impact of residential schools, and the atrocities that have occurred in Canada’s history, a day that rightfully honours our survivors, the children who attended those harmful institutions and didn’t return home, and the strength they hold in person and in spirit.

“Ribbon skirts connect me to earth and to my culture. To me, ribbon skirts symbolize matriarchal power. My auntie made me the skirt I’m wearing which was brought to fruition with love and good medicine. I wear my skirt with pride.”

— Winter Traverse

“My grandparents are residential school survivors, and I have lost a lot of my culture through residential schools.

“One of my friends actually helped me make my skirt, and we went through the process of picking fabric and picking ribbons. I don’t have significant col ours, I just chose ones that made me really happy

“I think Orange Shirt Day is remembering the residential school survivors and all the kids who never made it home, and also the trauma that’s been brought, so I wanted to make my skirt bright and colourful to acknowledge the kids, just to try to make them feel bright and happy, even though it isn’t a very happy time.”

photos / Ebunoluwa

Akinbo / staff

—Talia Tumak

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TDJ — ‘SPF INFINI 2’

Alex Braun, staff

4/5 Stars

TDJ is the pseudonym of Montreal-based producer and artist Geneviève Ryan-Martel. Specializing in a retro brand of Eurodance and trance, her music is glossy but nostalgic in a sort of eerie, hypnagogic way.

Despite the music’s high tempos and rave-friendly structure, there’s a through line of real melancholy. She cites the influence of Tiësto and Taking Back Sunday in the same breath, if you catch my drift.

To my mind, TDJ is part of the long lineage of internet-y electronic music that explores how the information age has flattened time and genre boundaries, leaving us in an eternal state of nostalgia for pasts that never existed, and free to combine influence in idiosyncratic ways.

Recently, TDJ has worked

in series. First, in her num bered self-titled EPs, recently collected as TDJ123, and now with her second audio/visual DJ mix in the SPF INFINI series.

It’s a summery title evoking endless time under the sun, but one that has a strange con notation when applied to this mix.

The set itself is an intoxi cating, high energy, noctur nal assortment that runs the gamut from trance to Ita lo-tinted hyperpop, to down tempo balladry to sharp techno. The bulk of the mate rial consists of tracks and col laborations from TDJ herself, alongside mixed tracks from artists from around the world.

The visualizer meanwhile is a grotesque parody of a social media collab house. Set in Tulum, Mexico, we see TDJ performing for and hang ing out with a group of come dically disfigured plastic sur gery victims who constantly

film themselves pouting and posing for their phone cam eras.

It’s a sweaty, gross, hyper real spectacle — like watching Love Island while having a ter rible acid trip.

The film mixes the twisted aesthetics of TikTok-reality with a hip y2k retrofuturism — a motif that I think is often misappropriated these days — but one that TDJ nails in her music. It conjures a lost, shiny future of endless parties and pre-9/11 American innocence.

Standout tracks like the fknsyd collab “Blow Away (In My Arms)” and “Sway (The Places She Goes) (Vocal Trance Mix)” have a weight lessness to them, with airy synths floating above the pounding trance beats.

Other tracks like “Saw Love” and “Future4000” have a hyper, semi-ironic Euro dance sleaze factor. The mix is remarkably consistent while remaining engaging and emo

tional throughout, navigating BPM and vibe shifts with ease.

on Youtube, or purchased as a DVD at tdjmusic.bandcamp. com

TDJ’s SPF INFINI 2 is avail able on major streaming ser vices. The video can be viewed arts@themanitoban.com

UMFM show spotlight: The Sample Set

Host Ambrose Moncrieffe presents a history and defence of sample-based hip-hop

Alex Braun, staff Campus radio host Ambrose Moncrieffe is big into audio and digging under the surface of the music he loves. His show The Sample Set, which airs Thursdays at 11 p.m. on 101.5 UMFM, is a mix of sample-based hip-hop that goes into the samples them selves.

“What I’m pursuing currently is becoming an audio engineer or somebody who works within the audio field,” Moncrieffe said.

“Stemming from that, I am a nerd in terms of audio.”

“I like making music, I like making beats and I also just like everything to do with audio. So when I’m watching movies or listening to music, I’m always kind of listening to the dynamics of the audio,” he continued.

“I just like to hear how things are done.”

Keeping with Moncrieffe’s audio obsessiveness, the show’s production value is quite high, featuring admir ably smooth transitions.

But beyond just showing listeners how hip-hop produc tion works, Moncrieffe is also trying to present a sort of hist ory of hip-hop itself.

“Hip-hop started as some body taking records from a different genre and playing them in a manner that almost created a new genre, similar to

reggae or whatever else pro ducers spun.

Recent episodes featured tracks from legends like A Tribe Called Quest, The Ava lanches, DJ Premier and The Alchemist that mixed with music from Ohio Players, Isaac Hayes and The Gap Band.

Though the show’s concept of musical dis section may make it sound dry, the show itself is above all else a vibey mix of classic rap and thrift store gems.

drum and bass and things of this nature,” he explained.

“Something that I like to express on my show is that hip-hop is a sample-based genre, no matter if it’s new hip-hop, old hip-hop, what ever sort of hip-hop.”

Genre-wise, The Sample Set features lots of old school boom bap music, along with newer tracks that share the sensibility. But alongside these tracks are the songs that went into their production, meaning the show features a healthy dose of funk, soul,

Moncrieffe hopes the show will help demystify and destigmatize a longheld belief among music fans about sampling.

“There’s a stigma unfortu nately that sampling’s lazy, because people say, ‘well, you lack creativity musically,’ that’s why you’re sampling” he said.

“But when you really ana lyze the art, which I do on my show, you can see that it’s actually very intricate and very difficult to sample music.”

Moncrieffe acknowledged that “there are lazy ways to

sample, where you just lit erally grab a quick chop from a soul record and throw it on some drums and call it a day.”

But Moncrieffe sees the art of flipping a sample as “people that are carefully choosing sections of art, to stitch them together and create a whole other art piece.”

Much in the same way, epi sodes of The Sample Set weave together rap songs and their sample-sources to create a recontextualized work that

frames the music in a new light.

The Sample Set airs Thurs days at 11 p.m. on 101.5 UMFM, and an archive of past episodes can be found at https://umfm.com/program ming/shows/the-sample-set

image / Ambrose Moncrieffe / provided

image / TakeAim Media / provided

“That’s something that I like to express on my show is that hip hop is a sample based genre”

— Ambrose Moncrieffe, host of The Sample Set on UMFM

Sports teams’ schedules

U of M Bisons — Women’s Preseason Basketball

Helen Campbell Memorial Tournament:

Bisons @ Cape Breton Capers

Sept. 30 — Final: 75 – 78

Bisons @ UNB Varsity Reds Oct. 1 — Final: 76 – 96

Bisons @ McGill Martlets Oct. 2 — Final: 67 – 53

CJOB Tournament:

Bisons @ Lakehead Thunderwolves

Oct. 7 — 8 p.m.

Bisons @ Brandon Bobcats Oct. 8 — 6 p.m.

Bisons @ Winnipeg Wesmen Oct. 9 — 1 p.m.

U of M Bisons — Women’s Preseason Volleyball

Bisons @ Lakehead Thunderwolves Sept. 30 — Final: 3 – 0

Bisons @ Briercrest College Sept. 30 — Final: 3 – 0

Bisons @ Regina Cougars Oct. 1 — Final: 3 – 0

Bisons @ Winnipeg Wesmen (Red) Oct. 2 — Final: 3 – 0

Bisons @ Winnipeg Wesmen (White) Oct. 2 — Final: 3 – 1

U of M Bisons — Men’s Preseason Basketball

RBC Classic Tournament:

Bisons @ Brock Badgers Sept. 30 — Final: 85 – 82

Bisons @ Ottawa GeeGee’s Oct. 1 — Final: 77 – 85

Bisons @ Dalhousie Tigers Oct. 2 — Final: 70 – 73

U of M Bisons — Men’s Preseason Hockey

Bisons @ UND Fighting Hawks

Oct. 1 — Final: 1 – 5

Bisons @ Bemidji State Beavers Oct. 2 — 2:30 p.m.

UBC Thunderbirds @ Bisons Oct. 7 — 7 p.m.

UBC Thunderbirds @ Bisons Oct. 8 — 3 p.m.

U of M Bisons — Men’s Preseason Volleyball

Bisons @ Brandon Bobcats

Sept. 29 — Final: 3 – 2

Bisons @ Saskatchewan Huskies Sept. 30 — Final: 1 – 3

Bisons @ Winnipeg Wesmen Oct. 1 — Final: 3 – 1

Bisons @ Fraser Valley Cascades Oct. 2 — Final: 3 – 0

U of M Bisons — Women’s Preseason Hockey

Bisons @ UBC Thunderbirds

Oct. 7 — 7 p.m.

Bisons @ UBC Thunderbirds Oct. 8 — 2 p.m.

U of M Bisons — Women’s Soccer

MacEwan Griffins @ Bisons

Oct. 1 — Final: 1 – 0

Alberta Pandas @ Bisons Oct. 2 — Final: 2 – 0

Winnipeg Wesmen @ Bisons Oct. 6 — 6 p.m.

Bisons @ Winnipeg Wesmen Oct. 8 — 12 p.m.

U of M Bisons — Men’s Football

Bisons @ Saskatchewan Huskies Sept. 30 — Final: 22 – 43

Bisons @ UBC Thunderbirds Oct. 15 — 4 p.m.

U of M Bisons — Men’s Golf

Canada West Championships Oct. 3 – 4

U of M Bisons — Cross Country

Stewart Cup Oct. 15

Valour FC

Oct. 2 — Final: 1 – 2 Valour @ Edmonton Oct. 8 — 2 p.m.

Valour @ Cavalry

Winnipeg Blue Bombers

Saskatchewan Roughriders @ Blue Bombers Sept. 30 — Final: 13 – 31 Edmonton Elks @ Blue Bombers Oct. 8 — 6 p.m.

Winnipeg Jets — Preseason

Ottawa Senators @ Jets Sept. 27 — Final: 3 – 5 Jets @ Montreal Canadiens Sept. 29 — Final: 4 – 3

Edmonton Oilers @ Jets Oct. 1 — Final: 3 – 2 / SO

Calgary Flames @ Jets Oct. 5 — 7 p.m. Jets @ Calgary Oct. 7 — 8 p.m.

Dinos left extinct by Bisons

Bisons run freely over Dinos with 46-4 win

Kieran Light, staff

The University of Mani toba Bisons football team hosted the University of Cal gary Dinos on Sept. 24.

Coming off a much-needed win against the University of British Columbia Thunder birds, the Bisons trampled the Dinos, this time primarily using their rushing attack.

The run game was led in force by second-year running back Breydon Stubbs with 169 rushing yards out of the team total 352 rushing yards. Alongside his yardage, Stubbs notched his first touchdown of the year.

The game itself started out with a 48-yard return by Bison kick returner Kai Madsen, fol lowed by a 17-yard rush by Stubbs. But it was the second

quarter that truly started the action.

After three punts at the start of the second quarter, a barrage of points soon fol lowed. The Bisons scored their second field goal of the night to put them up 6-0, and the Dinos responded with a field goal of their own.

for the Bisons.

While the Bisons were forced to punt after the safety, they rebounded with an inter ception from linebacker Dolan Hills. The Bisons capitalized off the Dinos’ turnover with

The second half began with five punts from both sides.

The Dinos notched a sin gle point, making the score 25-4 and marking their first answered point since the 10:10 mark in the second quarter.

The game’s score was meteoric for the Bisons and gave them a second straight win, as well as their second win of the season

The Bisons soon added to their lead with a nine-play, 75-yard drive resulting in a touchdown. An extra point later, the score was 13-3 for the Bisons.

The next drive by the Dinos was a disastrous series of pen alties that culminated in a safety and another two points

a touchdown from De Shawn Le Jour putting themselves in a comfortable 22-3 lead over Calgary.

The Bisons would finish the half with a Niko DiFonte 30-yard field goal that brought the score to 25-3 for the home side.

Three drives later, the Bisons once again found themselves in the end zone following an eight-play, 81-yard series capped off by a Jackson Tachinski goal line push, upping the Bisons lead to 32-4.

In the fourth quarter, the Bisons tacked onto the score with a second touchdown from Tachinski, pushing the score to 39-4.

The Bisons would later close off the game by way of an eight-yard touchdown rush from Tachinski. The final score was 46-4.

This game’s score was mete oric for the Bisons and gave them a second straight win, as well as their second win of the season.

While the Bisons lost this last weekend 43-22 to the Sas katchewan Huskies, they will have this fabulous win against the Dinos as motivation for the future.

The Bisons’ next game is a rematch with the UBC Thun derbirds in Vancouver on Oct. 15.

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Orange Shirt Day on campus

Ebunoluwa Akinbo, staff

Every 30th of September in Canada is set aside as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day. This day recognizes the survivors of residential schools, the chil dren who didn’t survive resi dential schools and the past harms and unjust treatment of Indigenous people in Can ada.

The process of reconcilia tion was made official in Can ada in 2008, when the Truth and Reconciliation Commis sion was launched to not only record the effects of residen tial schools on Indigenous peoples, but also to perma nently establish reconcilia tion efforts across Canada.

The Nursing Students’

Association (NSA) hosted its annual Orange Shirt Day walk event in recognition of Truth and Reconciliation Day. The event was held on Sept. 29.

According to nursing stu dent and president of the NSA Vivian Umeohabike, it is important for nursing stu dents to be involved in recon ciliation so that they can bet ter practice holistic care when healing Indigenous people.

Umeohabike, who is an international student from Nigeria, emphasized that it is important for international students to be aware of the land they are on to learn about Indigenous people’s history.