Cast your vote for the city’s next mayor on Oct. 26
Colton McKillop & Matthew Merkel, staff
Glen Murray
Glen Murray, who served as mayor of Winnipeg from 1998 to 2004, is running again because he thinks “the city is facing a number of challenges that need some real leadership and imagination to address.”
Murray highlighted climate change, rapid transit, walkability of the city and replacing the police helicopter with a fleet of drones as key issues his campaign is focusing on.
He argued that drones would be less expensive and could operate longer than the helicopter, which would free up resources for other uses, such as more beat cops.
Murray said that when it comes to environmental issues, “real change happens with the city,” and argued that providing alternatives to cars such as rapid transit and making the city more walkable is crucial to addressing climate change.
“Livability of the planet is best protected at the city level,” he explained. “We can change the way we move, we can change the energy and electricity and heating and cooling that we see.”
“It’s much easier to get large scale environmental change at this community level than it is at a national or even a provincial level.”
Murray said the city needs to make transportation and housing costs cheaper for students by building affordable housing for students near their schools, and hopes that universities can “become more of a complete community, so that the residential components and the transit and transportation systems down there work well for students.”
He said the city should work with the provincial and federal government, alongside universities and colleges, to annually monitor the income and debt levels of students to “ensure that the housing projects in those areas are priced at a reasonable level for students.”
Kevin Klein, city councillor for Charleswood-Tuxedo-Westwood and former chair of the Winnipeg Police Board, has highlighted crime and homelessness as key issues he would address as mayor.
He said the city does not have enough police cars, and that he would address crime by redirecting police officers from tasks such as watching detainees in emergency rooms back toward responding to 911 calls.
Klein said he understands the “helplessness and fear” that comes with homelessness because of his own experience growing up in poverty and living in government housing. He added that he spent a brief stint living in a Salvation Army shelter.
He said he would declare homelessness a crisis, which he argued would “allow us to pull levers with the federal government” to fund accommodation trailers for the homeless similar to those utilized by cities in British Columbia, Ontario and Eastern Canada.
“That allows them, every homeless person, to have their own room and have a key to that room, but it also gives them an official address,” he explained. “With that official address, they can then apply for the funding that’s available.”
Klein said the city makes it “far too difficult” for young people coming out of school to start a business, especially with high crime rates leading to higher insurance costs.
“We have to think about the future, and our future is within young people, so we need to make life easier for them to get connected in the city, easier for them to open a business in the city.”
Shaun Loney, a Winnipeg businessman and former director of energy policy for the Manitoba government, said his plan to address homelessness would involve enlisting housing providers to help reduce the workload of emergency services.
Loney also wants to improve the city’s entertainment options by implementing a “nightlife mayor.” He said the new position would be responsible for overseeing Winnipeg’s nightlife, entertainment and arts and cultural sector.
“The arts and cultural sector is really vibrant, creates lots of jobs, brings tourists to Winnipeg and most importantly I think, gives young people a reason to stay here rather than leaving for other cities,” Loney said.
Winnipeg Transit is an area Loney thinks can also become more accessible. He wants to implement a onefare system that would have smaller vehicles connect people to larger or more convenient transport hubs.
Loney said his experience in the social enterprise sector has prepared him to create opportunities for those who frequently have run-ins with the police, which he said when combined with his homelessness strategy should reduce police dispatches.
Loney wants to create jobs in the energy sector by increasing use of solar energy in homes, and adding gas pumps and public electric vehicle charging stations within the city.
Green infrastructure and the implementation of a tree trust, meaning that trees would be valued as infrastructure by the city, are also a key part of Loney’s environmental plan.
The Manitoban reached out to Scott Gillingham’s team three times, and was told to expect a call from him for an interview about his campaign promises, but did not receive one.
Gillingham’s website says that he has served as St. James city councillor for eight years, and is also a current co-chair of the Winnipeg Metropolitan Region board. Past roles of his include chair of the Winnipeg Police Board and City of Winnipeg finance committee chair.
Gillingham has new plans for transport in the city. He wants to improve city streets by repairing roads, adding more bike paths and increasing pedestrian safety. Gillingham also wants to add more buses on the city’s busiest routes.
As mayor, Gillingham wants to make crime prevention a priority by reinstating cancelled police task forces. He also aims to create more housing and shelter options for people experiencing homelessness.
“Patio City,” a proposal by Gillingham to grant all restaurants in the city the right to have a patio, is part of a larger plan to promote Winnipeg’s strongest industries.
Also, underused commercial areas would be rezoned to create more multi-family housing near transit services.
Gillingham’s platform lists the 311 service and city hall as things he would like to fine tune and reorganize. He also wants to create a new city agency that will “retrofit buildings and generate green power.”
Additionally, community recreation will see bolstering from tax revenue.
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To complete Sudoku, fill the board by entering numbers 1 to 9 such that each row, column and 3x3 box contains every number uniquely
In Hidato, fill the board by continuing the chain of numbers from 1 to 100 moving any direction or diagonally to the next number.
In Straits, like Sudoku, no single number can repeat in any row or column. But rows and columns are divided by black squares into compartments. These need to be filled in with numbers that complete a “straight.” A straight is a set of numbers with no gaps but can be in any order, eg [4,2,3,5]. Clues in black cells remove that number as an option in that row and column and are not part of any straight. Glance at the solution to see how “straights” are formed.
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Anthropomorphic beasts, poetry and where to find them
Joint exhibition at MAWA a contemplative walk through queer imaginaries
Jessie Krahn, staff
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ing to discover novel art on a budget will find that Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA) has lots to offer throughout October. In collaboration with the U of M institute for the humanities, MAWA has just opened a free exhibition entitled We Hold Your Gaze_Remix by Like Queer Animals (LQA).
The exhibition is the collaborative effort of a creative duo — Chicago-based artist Jessie Mott and French-Québécoise queer scholar Chantal Nadeau. The works pair Mott’s illustrations of anthropomorphic hybrid beasts with scrolls of Nadeau’s poetry.
Nadeau explained in her
Truly, the creatures defy easy description and are often — literally — cheeky and fantastical
First Fridays lecture launching the exhibition on Oct. 7 that the collaboration was central to the project. While describing how the two artists met, Nadeau explained her first encounter with Mott’s work and identifying with the creatures as “this is me.”
We Hold Your Gaze is the result of Mott and Nadeau building on each other’s work, and that act of collaboration was, for Nadeau, a form of translation. Not only does their project involve translating language, but working together requires them to translate their emotions and methods of expression — Mott refines Nadeau’s English grammar and Nadeau verifies when Mott has captured emotions in the creatures which, in turn, reflect their own emotions.
Inspired by what Nadeau calls their “sick fascination” for medieval bestiaries — illustrated texts that detailed the religious meanings of different animals — Mott’s watercolour anthropomorphic hybrid creatures are set against hazy backgrounds.
The creatures reflect Nadeau and Mott’s reactions to what gender and queer studies scholar Roderick A. Ferguson calls “the single-sexuality narrative.” The phrase refers to the whitewashing of queer history and the tendency to erase the complicated parts of historical events, such as the Stonewall riots, to cast them in a light
that is more acceptable to the mainstream.
Because the creatures blend the anthropomorphic with multiple animal forms, they are impossible to describe as a single species. In this way, they capture the complexities, textures and gradients of queerness outside of those narrow permutations which mainstream culture has grown more tolerant towards.
Nadeau described this in the First Fridays lecture as a way to “invite audiences to reimagine how we see, feel, hear, touch and are touched by non-normative bodies,” adding that the artists refer to this as creating “a queer bestiary of emotions.”
Truly, the creatures defy easy description and are often — literally — cheeky and fan-
tastical
One piece features a multibreasted fox-deer almost twerking energetically as zigzags emanate from its rear into the background. Another image shows a cat or deer-like creature reclining against a dreamy blue and gold backdrop with glittery pink wings reaching towards the edge of the frame.
Nadeau explained that the bestiaries the team was inspired by came with their own limitations. The creature designs in We Hold Your Gaze needed to evolve past the old bestiaries for LQA’s project.
Mott and Nadeau experimented with placing the creatures in images of Chicago. The locations they chose ranged from local landmarks to sites of historic events,
including the site of the memorial for Fred Hampton of the Black Panthers.
In fact, the artists want these creatures to propel audiences into imagining “both personal and public” virtual environments.
The team has nearly finished a new project, The Hungry Ones, which will be a printed collection of Nadeau’s poetry and Mott’s illustrations. Beyond print, Mott explained that the team is seeking funding to develop an augmented reality (AR) project “very grand in scale.”
them. Each poem gives voice to the otherwise indecipherable creatures.
As the team pursues funding for its future experimentation with AR, the indistinct backgrounds raise questions about where these creatures are headed next.
We Hold Your Gaze_Remix runs until Oct. 28 at MAWA at 611 Main Street. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday to Friday.
As for the current exhibition, each creature is mischievous and mysterious. They encourage slow consideration as they take time to fully take in, and the accompanying poetry humanizes arts@themanitoban.com
photos / Jessie Krahn / staff
Bisons men’s basketball season preview
Bisons men’s basketball looks to improve on last season’s struggles
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Kieran Light staff
he University of Manitoba
Bisons men’s basketball team will play their first game of the 2022-23 season on Nov. 4, where they will face off against the University of Alberta Golden Bears. The team is hopeful to see growth and improvement over last season’s second-half collapse, and have good reason to think they will.
At the beginning of last season the Bisons caught lightning in a bottle, winning six of their first ten games. However, the lightning soon escaped them. The Bisons finished last season losing six of their last seven games, and finishing with a 7-9 record and a sub-.500 winning percentage — not the end to the promising season they had set themselves up for.
U of M Bison forward Cieran O’Hara said that he expects the team will find success offensively this season. He noted that this year, the Bisons are a fairly young team, and said they will benefit from playing at a fast pace.
“I think a lot of it has to do with just coming out, starting our game with a high tempo,” O’hara said.
“Last year I think we strug-
gled with keeping our energy levels high throughout the game and going into the second half. So, I think coming off the bench, it will be important for everyone to stay engaged.”
When asked about the makeup of this year’s team, O’Hara said that the squad looks like a “good group” with strong veteran leadership. He added that the entire team is having fun so far, and that now is “the closest the team has been in a while.”
Tying back to the team’s camaraderie, O’Hara said that the team’s bond makes them more motivated to be “accountable for each other,” which he said propels the team to do better than the previous year.
The Bisons ended this past pre-season with a 2-3 record. Within those three losses, the largest deficit was a mere eight points, and the teams’ final pre-season game featured a 20-point blowout victory over the Western University Mustangs.
The team will not let last season’s disappointments deter them from moving forward. O’Hara, when speaking of his expectations for this upcoming season, said “I
think a lot of what will come this season is just a lot of growth and learning.”
Bison briefs
Kieran Light & Grace Anne Paizen, staff
Bisons sweep Cougars at home
After beginning the season 0-2, the Bisons women’s hockey team returned for their home opener and rattled off two straight wins over the University of Regina Cougars.
In the first period of game one, the penalty box saw more action than either team’s net. There were a total of six penalties in the opening minutes, without a single goal to show for it.
This would change immediately in the second period, when Regina’s Paige Hubbard opened scoring. However, the Bisons responded with an unassisted power-play goal from Rachel Gottfried. The Bisons finished the game off with another power-play goal in the third period from forward Kylie Lesuk.
U of M Bisons — Women’s Hockey
Regina Cougars @ Bisons Oct. 14 — Final: 1 – 2
Regina Cougars @ Bisons Oct. 15 — Final: 2 – 3
Trinity Western Spartans @ Bisons Oct. 21 — 7 p.m.
Trinity Western Spartans @ Bisons Oct. 22 — 2 p.m.
Bisons @ Trinity Western Spartans Oct. 21 — 2:15 p.m.
Bisons @ Trinity Western Spartans Oct. 22 — 7 p.m.
sports@themanitoban.com photo / Matthew Merkel / staff
The Bisons have a great mix of youthful energy and veteran experience with players like third-year guard Mark Tachie and fourth-year forward Wyatt Tait. The team is aware of their issues and have worked to fix them.
Sports teams’ schedules
Last season began with hope and excitement, but ended with disappointment and frustration. This season is different and brings new challenges to face, only this time with past lessons to help guide the way.
U of M Bisons — Men’s Volleyball
Bisons @ Trinity Western Spartans Oct. 21 — 10 p.m.
Bisons @ Trinity Western Spartans Oct. 22 — 9 p.m.
U of M Bisons — Cross Country
Chris McCubbins Provincial Championships Oct. 22
U of M Bisons — Swimming
St. James Seals Invitational Oct. 22–23
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Blue Bombers @ BC Lions Oct. 15 — Final: 32 – 40
BC Lions @ Blue Bombers Oct. 28 — 7:30 p.m.
Winnipeg Jets
New York Rangers @ Jets
Jets @ Dallas Stars
Jets @ Colorado Avalanche
Jets @ Vegas Golden Knights
Toronto Maple Leafs @ Jets
St. Louis Blues @ Jets
Oct. 14 — Final: 1 – 4
Oct. 17 — Final: 1 – 4
Oct. 19 — 7 p.m.
Oct. 20 — 9 p.m.
Oct. 22 — 6 p.m.
Oct. 24 — 7 p.m.
* All times CDT
Game two was all Bisons. Defender Chloe Snaith scored the game’s opener. The Bisons found the net a second time, just twenty-nine seconds into the second period with a power-play goal by thirdyear forward Kate Gregoire. Regina followed up with a goal of their own to make the score 2-1, however Kaitlyn Chatyrbok put the game away with the game-winning goal. The Bisons women’s hockey team must be happy to get into the win column, and are sure to be looking to build off this momentum for the upcoming game against the Trinity Western University Spartans this Friday.
Bisons women’s soccer
The Bisons women’s soccer team went 1–1 over the final weekend of the regular season, but had much to celebrate.
In Saturday’s game against the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns, the Bisons triumphed with a 1–0 victory, with forward Tabata Bravo netting the lone goal.
In the second game of the Alberta-based final weekend, the Bisons fell to the Mount Royal University Cougars 0–2. However, the Bisons have finished fourth in the Canada West Prairie division, and will go on to the first round of the Canada West Championship playoffs this weekend.
The first round, which is the play-in round of the playoffs, will see the Bisons take on the number five seeded University of Regina Cougars this Saturday, Oct. 22 at 5:30 p.m.
