2 November 2022

Student body votes to leave Canadian Federation of Students

T he University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) held an online referendum on Oct. 27 and 28, which asked students to vote on whether UMSU should remain a mem ber of the Canadian Federa tion of Students. Just over 54

Matthew Merkel, staff per cent of the 5747 members who voted chose not to remain a part of the federation.

UMSU president Jaron Rykiss and the UMSU board supported the “vote no” side. He said the vote no team’s goal was to provide students with objective information about why it was in students’

best interest to leave the Can adian Federation of Students.

Rykiss did not offer any opinions on the side advocat ing to remain in the federa tion, #yestoCFS, but he said he was happy to see that some students took up the “yes side” in the referendum pro cess.

The referendum results come as the Canadian Feder ation of Students sues UMSU over nearly $1 million in alleged unpaid membership fees.

Rykiss did not comment on how the referendum results might affect the lawsuit, but stated that under UMSU

bylaws, the union is officially no longer a part of the feder ation.

Rykiss said that UMSU will travel to Ottawa next week to present the referen dum results to the federation.

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U of M holds first in-person open house in 2 years

Both students and staff participated in event

Alicia Rose staff

The University of Manitoba held its first open house on campus since the start of the pandemic on Oct. 25. Booths from all faculties and study programs were at the event, where they showcased the dif ferent opportunities available to incoming students.

Additionally, current stu dents and professors at the university were there to help guide and inform parents and students that attended.

For the past two years, the University of Manitoba’s open house event was held virtually due to COVID-19 restrictions. However, now that the uni versity has resumed in-per son classes it was able to hold a hybrid version of the open house event, which accom modated students wanting to attend virtually or in person.

Faculty of arts communica tion specialist Amber Oster mann said that the event included a variety of under grad and graduate students as well as professors, who worked together to provide information to booth visitors.

“Hearing from current stu dents helps provide under standing of what things will really be like once a student begins at U of M,” Ostermann said.

She explained that the main booth was occupied by both academic advisors and student representatives, who greeted attendees and used handouts and QR codes to refer them to the U of M web site for additional informa tion.

Ostermann said that one of the main goals of the event for the faculty of arts was to pro vide potential students with resources and information to help them decide which courses to take in their first

year.

She also commented on how there were higher rates of attendance compared to the last in-person open house held before the pandemic, and added that the event remained busy throughout the night.

“Usually, what you find is that in the last hour or halfhour attendance starts to drop, and it still did a little bit this time, but there were people, students and parents, in visiting booths right up until 8 p.m.,” Ostermann said.

Charley Williams, a secondyear political studies student, was among the student volun teers who participated in the event. She explained that dur ing the open house, she talked to high school students about the benefits of being a polit ical studies major, as well as the potential opportunities available post-graduation.

The return of an in-person open house gives incoming students the opportunity to experience the U of M campus and university life, something that many first and secondyear students did not learn about until this year.

When asked about how her experience with in-person classes compared to learning online last year, Williams said that she felt like the year had been great so far, and that she

has felt a lot of support from both the faculty and her pro fessors.

“During COVID, it was a little bit more difficult to feel connected with my profes sors and with my classmates because it’s just obviously over a computer screen,” she said.

class. We can debate and dis cuss in person.”

The university is planning to have two more open house events this year. A virtual open house for international students is scheduled to be held on Jan. 18, while a second in-person event is set to take place Feb. 23.

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Scott Gillingham elected mayor in tight race

Election saw lowest turnout since 1989, Gillingham wins with 27.5 per cent

Colton McKillop, staff

Scott Gillingham won a narrow victory over front-runner Glen Murray in last Wednesday’s election to decide Winnipeg’s next mayor.

Gillingham won with 27.5 per cent of the vote, just 2.5 percentage points over Mur ray ’s 25 per cent. Gillingham, formerly city councillor for St. James, has experience on the Winnipeg Police Board, as well as on the finance com mittee and executive policy committee under mayor Brian Bowman.

Only 37 per cent of eligible Winnipeggers voted, the low est voter turnout since 1989, when only 34 per cent of the city turned up to the polls.

Aaron Moore, associate professor and department chair of political science at the University of Winnipeg, said he thinks Gillingham will not be “significantly different than Brian Bowman in certain respects.”

“ You’d probably put him centre-right, although I think he certainly has very progres sive views around dealing with a lot of the social issues that the city is facing, with particularly things like home

lessness and drug use in the city,” he said.

CTV News Winnipeg caused confusion during their coverage of the election by prematurely calling the race for Glen Murray at 9 p.m. The news station retracted their prediction half an hour later.

Moore said calls of that kind at news stations are usually made by staticians, adding, “clearly they made a poor decision.”

“I don’t really understand why they made that decision that early, or what they based that on,” he said.

Murray, who served as mayor from 1998 to 2004, maintained a lead in opin ion polls throughout the race. However, his support dropped from 44 per cent in July — a month after he launched his campaign — to 28 per cent in mid-October, follow ing allegations that he was forced to quit his job as head of the Pembina Institute due to mismanagement. He also faced allegations of physically harassing employees, which he denies.

Moore said early polls were deceptive because “the reality is, in the summertime, people aren’t really paying attention.”

He argued that although being the most recogniz able name among the candi dates gave Murray an early advantage, many people’s opi nions changed as the election played out.

“ When I saw the fact [that] they had all these undecided [voters], that to me sounds like a lot of people are either not paying attention or they’re really not comfortable with the leading candidates, so they’re looking for an alterna tive to that,” Moore said.

Turnout has consistently declined in every municipal election since 2014. That year, just over 50 per cent of voters cast a ballot, while over 42 per cent turned up in 2018.

Moore said turnout for municipal elections is typ ically low, and argued that having a large number of can didates with “actually recog nizable names with real plat forms” made it difficult for voters to choose.

“As a result, we’re less able to engage in politics or in vot ing this time around,” he said.

“I think normally we see higher turnout when it’s more competitive, but I think just the sheer number of strong candidates in this election

made it very difficult for people to access the infor mation they need to make informed decisions.”

With only 27.5 per cent of the vote in an election with only 37 per cent voter turnout, Gillingham only secured sup port from about 10 per cent of Winnipeg’s electorate.

Moore said this result did not surprise him, given the abundance of candidates and the vote-splitting they caused.

#YestoCFS campaign displeased with referendum process

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“The [Canadian Federation of Students] must accept our motion to withdraw, acknowl edge the results of our demo cratic and court-upheld refer endum, and then the [federa tion] membership must vote to approve our withdrawal,” he said.

Although Rykiss is ada mant that the federation must accept the referendum results, Canadian Federation of Stu dents bylaws state that votes to decertify may only be con ducted using paper ballots at voting sta tions.

W hile UMSU’s vote was conducted entirely online, the federation’s bylaws state that voting to decertify must be done on paper, and “cannot be done in any other manner.”

Rykiss said that UMSU has attempted to put forward a motion regarding online voting twice, but that both attempts were ignored by the Canadian Federation of Stu dents.

He said that although the

federation’s bylaws do not allow online voting, the ref erendum was conducted according to UMSU bylaws, a process that Rykiss claims was “protected by the UMSU Act.”

The UMSU Act states that UMSU must affirm member ship in external organizations by a majority vote of its coun cil every two years. If UMSU does not affirm membership in an organization, it must take all required steps to end that membership.

At the same time, feder ation bylaws stipulate that

Before the referendum went to a vote, an injunction by the Canadian Federation of Students threatened to cancel the referendum.

On Oct. 14, the injunction was filed in an attempt to stop the referen dum from hap pening, which temporar ily suspended campaigning on both sides.

The Manitoba Court of King’s Bench ruled that the referendum would proceed as planned.

tactics during campaigning.

He claimed that early in the campaign, #yestoCFS was forced by the chief returning officer (CRO) — a neutral con tractor tasked with overseeing

“Coming in with only 27 per cent of the vote doesn’t really give him a strong argument to say he’s representing the interests of the city,” he said.

“I think he’s going to have to work hard over the next four years to convince the majority of residents that he’s the right mayor for everyone.”

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“The [Canadian Federation of Students] will either accept the results or they won’t,” Rykiss said.

“Our student body [has] made it very clear what they want.”

Judge Jeffrey Harris wrote in his decision that the feder ation’s attempt to stop the referendum would “silence the voice of UMSU’s mem bers.”

Nathan Dueck, a represen tative from the #yestoCFS side of the campaign, said that he did not know why the Cana dian Federation of Students attempted to stop the referen dum with an injunction.

Dueck said he was “taken aback” by the vote no side’s

the referendum — to remove its previously CRO-approved signs that featured dark green lettering from campus. This occurred after the vote no side complained that it had already been approved to use the colour green for cam paigning.

According to the campaign rules, neither side is allowed to create materials that could cause a reasonable person to confuse one side with another. Dueck does not disagree with the rule, but in his opinion, the campaign materials did not look alike.

Dueck said that this com plaint about the colour green also forced #yestoCFS to rede sign all of its online con tent. UMSU also initially refused to play CRO-approved #yestoCFS TV advertisements

on campus screens.

Rykiss said that the dispute over #yestoCFS’s colours was a matter of policy, and claimed that the initial TV advertise ments put forward by the opposing side were not dis played because they contained inaccurate information.

In Dueck’s opinion, the UMSU-created referendum rules disadvantaged the vote yes side. He emphasized that he does not fault the CRO, but is “unhappy with the rules he has to enforce.”

“I am disappointed with the fact that UMSU is clearly trying to disadvantage the pro-[Canadian Federation of Students] side as much as pos sible,” Dueck said.

“When it comes to the refer endum, they should look past their own preferences about whether to stay in [the feder ation] and primarily work to ensure that both voices are given an equally fair hearing, and I think they failed their student body by failing to do so.”

photo / provided “I am disappointed with the fact that UMSU is clearly trying to disadvantage the pro-[Canadian Federation of Students] side as much as possible”

— Nathan Dueck, #yestoCFS side representative

“The [Canadian Federation of Students] will either accept our results or they won’t”

— Jaron Rykiss, UMSU president

The impact of war on Ukrainian researchers

Ukrainian academics emphasize language, culture in the face of Russian erasure

Robert Moshe Thompson, staff

The Ukrainian commun ity is one of the largest European diasporas in Mani toba — arriving in multiple waves of immigration begin ning in the late-nineteenth century.

Today, the diaspora main tains its connection with Ukraine. For example, the community has a cultural centre in Winnipeg called Oseredok, which is dedicated to preserving and transmit ting Ukrainian culture, lan guage and heritage.

During Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian-Manitoban com munity has been supporting its fellow Ukrainians both in Canada and abroad.

Iryna Konstantiuk, a sen ior instructor at the U of M’s department of German and Slavic studies, said that what she is observing at this moment is “consolidation.”

“The whole Ukrainian community is consolidated around Ukraine and the war in Ukraine,” Konstantiuk said.

“And we’re talking about

humanitarian aid, about financial assistance, we’re talking about political advo cacy and a general fight.”

Last Tuesday, the depart ment of German and Slavic studies hosted a round table discussion with Ukrain ian research scholars Olena Gordiyenko, Olga Khame dova, Tetiana Sorokina, Myr oslava Svitlyk and Mykola Zhurba.

The five scholars arrived

on a visa known as the Can ada-Ukraine authorization for emergency travel (CUAET). This new travel measure allows Ukrainian nationals and their family members to come to Canada to work, live and study until they can safely return to Ukraine. Sev eral individuals have arrived in Winnipeg from Ukraine via the CUAET.

Supporting Ukrainian aca demics, particularly those

teaching Ukrainian lan guage, is especially necessary because the Russian govern ment has targeted Ukrainian educators. Many of these edu cators are from the eastern Kharkiv oblast.

Kharkiv, the capital city of the oblast, is the second-lar gest city in Ukraine. Ukrain ians refer to Kharkiv as “the student’s city,” because it has so many academic institu tions.

According to a QS univer sity ranking, Kharkiv is home to the number one university in Ukraine — V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, often known as Kharkiv Uni versity. The university alone has a botanical garden, four education and research insti tutes and three museums.

As a result of the Febru ary 2022 invasion, many of Kharkiv University’s science laboratories ceased oper ations.

Losing some of the coun try’s best labs has been a major loss for Ukrainian aca demia. Even though many Kharkiv professors were able

to continue their research in western Ukraine, the facilities are not as advanced as they are in Kharkiv.

The motivation for the Rus sian government to erase Ukrainian identity is to under mine Ukrainians’ right to self-determination — impos ing a similar ideology on its Indigenous minorities, who are forced to learn Russian and adopt a Russian identity.

Supporting Ukrain ian development as well as Ukrainian cultural and aca demic institutions helps to counter the myth that Ukraine has no culture or life of its own.

“Ukraine is, right now, in a state of a terrible, horrific war and it needs all the help pos sible, in any area you take,” Konstantiuk said.

“And every life matters. Every life of a student, of a scholar, matters a lot.”

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Olena Gordiyenko (from left), Tetiana Sorokina, Myroslava Svitlyk, Mykola Zhurba, Olga Khamedova, Iryna Konstan tiuk participated in a round table discussion last Tuesday.

How to ruin a cyber criminal’s day

U of M Information services and technology department raises public awareness

Elah Ajene, staff

We exist in a digital world, with techno logical advancements com pletely transforming the way we live.

From online banking and GPS systems to social media, technology is heavily incor porated into our everyday lives.

As society becomes more dependent on digital tech nology and the bulk of our data is stored online in the cloud environment, the risk of cyberattacks increases.

Cybersecurity involves protecting and safeguard ing networking systems and digital devices from cyber attacks — malicious thirdparty attempts at comprom ising data on computer infor mation systems and networks.

This past October was Cyber Security Awareness Month — an internationally recognized campaign ensuring public knowledge of the importance of staying secure and pro tected in the digital age.

The Communications Sec urity Establishment — Can ada’s national cryptologic agency — launched this year’s campaign with the theme, “Fight phishing: Ruin a cyber

criminal’s day.”

Phishing is a cybercrime that involves using counter feit communications through email or direct messaging to get an individual to share their sensitive information.

This is one of the biggest cyber threats that Canadians face today.

Univer sity of Mani toba director of information security and compliance Patrick McCarthy said on the topic that the month “heavily set on phish ing and protection mechan isms to protect the data at the university.”

McCarthy highlighted that the University of Manitoba receives an average of 30 mil lion suspicious emails on a monthly basis.

“It’s basically seven by 24, 365, including holidays,” he said. “The hackers do not go to sleep.”

Of those 30 million emails, 93 per cent are blocked by a hygiene software product called IronPort. This filtering software detects, blocks and denies suspicious emails com

ing into the recipient’s email block.

McCarthy further explained that the information services and technology (IST) depart ment also does phishing

promises, if it was a real phishing email from outside the organization.”

U of M chief information officer Mario Lebar explained that the U of M community has an obliga tion to exercise good judge ment in poten tial phishing incidents.

errors. As with all technol ogy, humans are the weakest link. Empowering people and ensuring public knowledge and awareness safeguards the community from these forms of cyberattack.

“That’s why that’s import ant,” he said. “Your best defence is actually the people in your organization.”

simulations — a cybersecur ity training measure to help members of the U of M com munity recognize and avoid phishing incidents, as these types of cyberattacks tend to target the end user and their credentials.

In these simulations, the IST department reported that an average of 3.5 per cent of people entered their creden tials. This significantly dif fers from the industry aver age when there is no program in place, which is about 30 per cent.

“At 3.5 we’re still good,” McCarthy said, “but it’s still about 300 people that are entering their IDs and pass word with potential com

Along with the IST depart ment provid ing a strong technical framework, Lebar added that raising awareness and educating individuals is crucial when it comes to ensuring all around security.

“Cybersecurity cannot be successful by just building a moat around your organiza tion,” he said. “That will not work.”

“The issue is twofold,” Lebar explained. “You need a good technical base, and you need people in your organiza tion to recognize when some thing’s happening that looks amiss, and to respond appro priately.”

During October, aside from the phishing simulations, the IST department had cyberse curity information booths in University Centre at the Fort Garry campus, and held inter active learning activities such as scavenger hunts and online quizzes for students, staff and faculty members to help spread awareness.

McCarthy also urges stu dents to reach out to the IST department via the abuse@ umanitoba.ca email address if they are ever in doubt about a suspicious email, or have any security related questions.

Ultimately, Lebar high lighted phishing as a form of social exploitation, which takes advantage of human research@themanitoban.com

“Cybersecurity cannot be successful by just building a moat around your organization”

— Mario Lebar, chief information officer, U of M

Living in the North Insights into Canada’s vast Arctic frontier

Over the past six weeks — and for the next six and a half months — I have embarked on a co-op work term placement through the faculty of architecture in Iqaluit, Nunavut as a facility planner with the territorial government.

As the title suggests, I help with the planning stages of all government-owned and operated facilities through out Nunavut. This includes, but is not limited to, assisting with any new builds being constructed or existing build ings that require renovations, and providing feasibility stud ies or business cases on how to approach or prioritize any facility requirements within the other branches of govern ment.

Throughout my brief time here, I must say that this area is truly its own little corner of the world. It certainly offers similarities to other southern Canadian communities, but the paradigm shift in the cul ture is immediately notice able and quite pleasant in its own way.

Right off the bat, one of the major differences I noticed was the local dialect and lan guage. Unlike most of the other Canadian Provinces and Territories that have French and English as official lan guages, Nunavut has Inuktitut as one of its official languages as well, which is perhaps the most prevalent.

Everything from sign age to public communica

tions are first listed in Inuk titut, then English and then French. Occasionally there is the inclusion of a fourth lan guage, Inuinnaqtun, another local dialect spoken in certain communities.

The territory of Nunavut was established in 1999 with the implementation of the Nunavut Land Claims Agree ment, an unprecedented achievement which allowed the Inuit culture to establish their own independent gov ernment.

As a result, Inuit culture is strongly embraced through out Nunavut. They have done well in combatting the effects of colonialism and main taining their cultural and gov

means “serving and providing for family and/or commun ity.”

After that is Aajiiqatigiiniq, which translates to “decision making through discussions and consensus.”

The fifth guiding prin ciple is Pilimmaksarniq or Pijariuqsarniq, which means “development of skills through observation, men toring, practice and effort.”

Sixth is Piliriqatigiinniq/ Ikajuqtigiinniq, or, “working together for a common cause.”

Qanuqtuurniq follows, which means “being innova tive and resourceful.”

surrounding territory do not come without downsides.

I suppose one of the greater social issues I’ve encountered while living here is the lack of accessible and higher-quality education.

least three times more expen sive than anywhere in the southern provinces. Addition ally, rent, water, power and fuel are all priced higher than other provinces.

erning independence within the largest landmass in Can ada.

As per the territorial gov ernment, all its decisions are founded upon and informed by the eight guiding princi ples of Inuit Quajimajatuqan git (Inuit traditional know ledge):

The first is Inuuqatigiits iarniq, which is “respecting others, relationships and car ing for people.”

The second is Tunnganar niq, or “fostering good spirits by being open, welcoming and inclusive.”

Third is Pijitsirniq, which

Finally comes Avatittinnik Kamatsiarniq, which trans lates to “respect and care for the land, animals and the environment.”

The local geography of Nunavut is quite vast, rocky and dry. It’s very desert-like — aside from the snow, of course. There is little to no noticeable vegetation of any sort that grows here aside from some small shrubs and grasses.

Though, what the region lacks in vegetation it makes up for with picturesque views of its bays and northern lights, which can be seen on almost any clear night so long as you’re away from town lights.

As thrilling as it is living in Iqaluit, the community and

That’s not to say that there isn’t education provided throughout Nunavut, cer tainly there is. But after hav ing talked with many locals, it seems as though a lot of the people working in high er-paying, more specialized jobs were able to achieve such positions having gone “down south” — as many Nunavum miut refer to it — to com plete their high school and post-secondary studies.

One of the major factors propagating this issue is the sheer cost of building in the Arctic.

There’s no available infra structure to provide access ible transit or delivery to Nunavut aside from ship access and small air runways, especially in the northern most communities. There fore, all the building materials have to be flown in or trans ported by cargo ship — if the waters have not yet frozen for the winter.

These high costs also affect daily commodities. Due to the complicated shipping capaci ties, groceries can easily be at

Quite frankly, it’s a miracle anyone can afford to live here.

As a result of the difficulty getting funding and planning in place for new and updated builds, the timelines for actual completion are greatly increased.

This unfortunately has a great impact on communities that require these new facili ties and programs, and further irritates many of the existing social issues already preva lent such as homelessness, poverty, addiction, inaccess ible education and healthcare, among many others. Simply put, it creates a vicious cycle.

That being said, the terri tory of Nunavut is still young and in its early stages com pared to elsewhere in Can ada, and the strides made thus far have been effective, to a degree, as well as unpreced ented.

I have the utmost confi dence that with continual symbiotic efforts from both the community and the gov ernment, and a strong empha sis and consideration placed on Inuit values, an effective territorial evolvement is in the works.

In time, I believe that Nuna vut will one day be a thriving Arctic hub on the world stage.

Dallin Chicoine, staff

photo / Dallin Chicoine / staff

I believe that Nunavut will one day be a thriving Arctic hub on the world stage

Women’s bodies continue to be policed

Recent movements around hijab call for greater conversations on bodily autonomy

Dina Hamid, staff

S ince September, Pro tests have erupted across Iran and the world following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman who was found dead in police custody three days after being arrested by Tehran moral ity police for donning an “improper hijab.”

According to eyewit ness testimonies, Amini was attacked in a police van shortly after being arrested. Police claimed that Amini died of a heart attack, and they have denied any respons ibility for her death. Amini’s family, however, have publicly stated that Amini had no hist ory of health issues.

The suspicious and sinis ter circumstances surround ing Amini’s death have fuelled protests in Iran for weeks, with protestors demanding the end of the morality police and the compulsory hijab. As of Oct. 28, the estimated death toll from these protests has reached 253 people, as Iran ians continue the fight for change.

Conversely, in India, pro tests against a hijab ban in

Karnataka state-run educa tional institutions date back to January. It’s been reported that 17,000 Muslim school girls in India skipped exams following the newly imple mented rule.

The ban was challenged in India’s supreme court on the basis that it was discrimina tory and violated the right to freedom of expression and religion. The judges in the case reached a split decision on hijab prohibitions in schools after months of deliberation. This left Muslim schoolgirls in Karnataka with no real solu tions other than choosing between their religious beliefs and an education.

Both incidents, despite their apparent differences, are examples of the policing of women’s bodies by oppres sive and patriarchal governing bodies. In both these cases, women have been stripped of their right to make a choice regarding their bodies, and have been subject to severe repercussions when they do not comply with the choice made for them.

I have seen a recurring theme brought up during con

versations about each of these movements. There is a hyper fixation on the hijab contro versy alone, as opposed to the resistance of oppressive policies. This manifests itself into the notion that there is a “right choice” in debates sur rounding the hijab, and that one must pick a side.

It is the idea that you must denounce the hijab com pletely in order to show your support for Iranian women in their fight against the compul sory dress code, or that you need to stay silent about the mandatory veiling in Iran in order to protect and support Muslim schoolgirls facing hijab bans by preventing fur ther negative publicity for the headscarf.

This is not an issue around the hijab, but around the acute policing that uses the hijab as a mode to oppress, whether it is compulsory or banned.

Without mentioning the various intersecting oppres sions that sparked these pro tests for freedom of choice, both movements are reduced to discussions about veil ing or unveiling. These sim plistic narratives further pro

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mote Islamophobic rhetoric that continues to harm Mus lim communities around the world.

Nevertheless, choosing silence on either of these issues is doing a great disser vice to both of these groups, who equally need our help to gain their freedom to choose.

It is not contradictory to support bodily autonomy for all women.

Whether women wear the hijab or not should be their choice. We should not have to pick between supporting

women in Iran protesting the mandatory hijab or women in India fighting for their right to wear one. You can choose to support all women in their right to have a choice.

In doing so, solidarity can be used to further amplify the voices of both Iranian protest ers and Muslim schoolgirls in Karnataka.

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In mid-October, I wrote an article about a tweet posted by known rapper and influen cer Kanye West, now legally known as Ye.

The tweet in question was antisemitic, meaning it dis played hostile and preju diced sentiments toward Jew ish people. Even though it has since been removed, the lan guage he used in that tweet and in other public state ments since has incited vio lence and antisemitic speech toward Jewish people.

I said that his language was dangerous. I did not realize how dangerous it was.

Since that tweet, two things

have happened: many of Ye’s affiliations have been termin ated, and followers have been given a platform to express and act on their antisemitism.

Let me put this into per spective.

MRC, a production com pany about to release a docu mentary about Kanye West, cancelled the project last week. They also published a statement with a powerful quote that I could not put into better words, which reads, “Kanye is a producer and sam pler of music. Last week he sampled and remixed a classic tune that has charted for over 3000 years — the lie that Jews

are evil and conspire to con trol the world for their own gain.

“This song was performed a cappella in the time of the Pharaohs, Babylon and Rome, went acoustic with The Span ish Inquisition and Russia’s Pale of Settlement, and Hitler took the song electric. Kanye has now helped mainstream it in the modern era.”

I hope that you as readers think about that statement and how serious the situation is. I understand that Ye is a great musician. I am not tell ing you to stop listening to his music, just know that he is creating a platform for and encouraging hatred.

How do I know that is what’s happening? On Saturday, Oct. 22 a group of masked individ uals hung signs from an over pass on the California Inter state 405 — one of the busi est freeways in Los Angeles — that promoted the antisemitic organization Goyim Defense League and read, “Kanye is right about the Jews.” They also cited the Bible verses Revelations 3:9 and John 8:44, which can easily be inter preted as deeming the Jewish

people to be liars belonging to the devil.

There were nine other documented instances of antisemitism in the same sev en-day period. Speaking with friends and peers across the world who share my Jewish lineage, I have heard stories of their personal experiences of antisemitism. These incidents have involved the presence of neo-Nazis on school cam puses, threatening messages and even physical attacks.

CNN also reported on Oct. 27 that Ye wanted to name his 2018 album “Hitler,” out of his infatuation with the Nazi lead er’s use of propaganda. His antisemitic agenda is nothing new. Continuing to allow Ye so much power and influence in the publish sphere is going to end terribly.

The world’s Jewish popula tion stands at approximately 15 million people. That is about 0.18 per cent of the total world population. How ever, Jewish people are resili ent and even though we are few in numbers, the commun ity is strong and will never be silenced.

Thankfully, companies and

organizations have since cut ties and ended partnerships with Ye. Since his tweet, he has lost his talent representation from Creative Artists Agency, his lawyer Camille Vasquez and his bank J.P. Morgan Chase have both dropped him as a client and both Balen ciaga and Gap have cut all ties with him.

Most notably, Adidas, a company established by a member of the Nazi party, ended its relationship with Ye on Oct. 25, concluding his bil lionaire status, citing zero tol erance for antisemitic behav iour. His non-accredited Los Angeles private school, Donda Academy, also suddenly closed its doors on Oct. 26.

This is ridiculous. Why is it that now, in 2022, there is still hatred for marginalized groups? We have been living together as humans for hun dreds of thousands of years and still, at a time when we are the most virtually con nected we have ever been, we are more separated than ever.

Ye’s antisemitism sent him on downward spiral, enabled hate

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Winnipeg not past troubled history with Métis people

Attack on Louis Riel’s grave reminder that anti-Métis sentiment still harboured

Braden Bristow, staff

Louis Riel’s headstone, located in St. Boniface Cem etery, was defaced on Oct. 17. The vandal made numerous cuts into the image of his face and the name on the head stone.

Riel was a powerful fig ure in Manitoba’s history. He led a Métis provisional gov ernment to found the prov ince of Manitoba during the Red River Resistance of 186970, and was later found guilty of treason and hanged for his actions during the 1885 North west Resistance, which took place in what is now known as Saskatchewan.

To make a very long and interesting story short, follow ing these events Riel became something of a martyr for Métis people.

Rather than an act of ran dom vandalism, the deface ment of Riel’s headstone was an outright act of racism

against the Métis people of Manitoba, though this is hardly a surprise. The hatred of the Métis, and by extension its leaders, has a long history in Winnipeg.

Only a short drive from Riel’s headstone is Elzéar Gou let Park, a Winnipeg attrac tion named after another Métis man.

Following the Red River Resistance, Goulet was assaulted by a mob. On Sept. 13, 1870, he was chased by the mob from Portage and Main to the Red River. Fearing for his life, Goulet dove in and was pelted by rocks while he swam until he fell unconscious and died.

The deaths of Riel and Gou let were extreme acts of vio lence, and the infamous dis placement of the Métis living in Rooster Town was yet one more.

An entire neighbourhood of Métis people, known as

Rooster Town, was displaced by the City of Winnipeg in the 1950s, many of them forcibly relocated to the North End. This event shows that the vio lence against Métis people was structural as well as physical.

Acts of violent racism or outright displacement against Métis people rarely make the news today, but that does not mean that racist senti ment toward Métis people is gone. The 2019 General Social Survey on Canadians’ safety, administered by Sta tistics Canada, found that 24 per cent of Métis people had experienced discrimination within five years of the survey.

I, as a Métis person, have personally experienced num erous acts of racism within Winnipeg. I have been fol lowed in multiple businesses and even escorted out of estab lishments. I have received racist comments from nonMétis people, such as being

asked why my people “do not have to pay taxes” or why we “get free stuff all of the time.”

The only time I have ever been stopped and escorted to an entrance to remove my bag was at our very own Uni versity of Manitoba Book store while on a field trip with other Indigenous students in 2018. I have been in the UM Bookstore dozens of times, but that was the only time I was ever asked to remove my bag. I only realized I was being discriminated against when I watched my white friends enter the store without being stopped.

There have also been indi viduals who have referred to me with outright slurs, such as “half-breed,” a term referring to the nature of the Métis as a blended ethnocultural group. While my experiences have ranged from innocent ignor ance to outright verbal racism, I have thankfully never experi

enced an instance of violent or physical racism.

The defacement of Louis Riel’s grave sends a message to the people of this city, espe cially the Métis.

On one hand, it provides a glimpse to non-Métis and non-Indigenous people into the world that Métis people are well aware of. On the other hand, it serves as an uncomfortable reminder of what Métis people and racial ized groups in general already know.

It can be easy to live as though racism in Winnipeg is a thing of the past, but that is only a fantasy.

Halloween is over but drag never ends

Drag queen brunch fundraiser takes over VW Social Club Nov. 5

Damien Davis, staff

A drag brunch fund raiser hosted by Rainbow Pride Centre and the U of M Nursing Students’ Association (NSA) will be taking over VW Social Club at University Cen tre on Nov. 5 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Organized by NSA 2SLG BTQ+ student co-ordinator Mikaela Canda and UMSU 2SLGBTQIA+ students’ repre sentative Alex Rana, the $28 ticket gets you performances by four drag queens, a drink, buffet brunch and a dona tion to a charity supporting asylum seekers who now call Winnipeg home.

The proceeds will be donated to Reaching Out Winnipeg (ROW), a volun teer-based organization formed in 2012 that promotes the resettlement of 2SLG BTQIA+ newcomers in Winni peg.

The idea for the drag brunch started with an Instagram post that Canda had read about an individual’s experience get ting kicked out of their home due to their gender and sexual identity.

“That kind of just inspired

me to do something for a cause for an individual like that,” they said.

When asked why ROW was their organization of choice, Canda told the Manitoban that they were “looking for an organization that supports exclusively 2SLGBTQIA+ indi viduals who are homeless.”

After doing some research into organizations within Winnipeg that support indi viduals struggling within this parameter, they discovered ROW.

“This is an organization that supports asylum seekers and refugees here in Winni peg that are part of the sexual identity and gender identity minorities, and as well as all over the world,” Canda said, adding that they did not just want to give ROW money, but publicity as well.

Putting a spotlight on a rela tively lesser-known organiza tion like ROW is a benefit not only for the group, but also for the wider U of M student body, as students may discover that resources are available to them if they fit ROW’s criteria.

Meanwhile, Scout Coffee + Tea — which calls itself “Win

nipeg’s only play cafe” and hosts a multitude of familyfriendly events for children — announced a Drag Queen Story Time event which was met with backlash online.

Scout Coffee + Tea has defended its decision via social media and high lighted the support they have received.

“I’ve been frequently told by those against this event that it’s a fetish, strippers, sex ual, etc.,” the cafe’s manage ment posted in an Instagram story on Thursday, adding that “drag at its core is enter tainment.”

Canda said that along side fundraising for ROW, the event is also about promoting drag performance and show ing representation.

“That’s to normalize those kinds of performances as well with kids, so that they grow up to be as inclusive as possible and when they see a drag per former out there, they don’t have any negative thoughts about them or associations with them,” Canda explained.

The representation does not just end with drag, how ever. An emphasis on having

diverse performers has been put into this event. The per formers come from various backgrounds, and one of them is even a U of M student.

“We encompass not only Caucasian people, we’re also encompassing people of color and Indigenous identity and that lineup of performances as well,” Canda said.

“So not only are we includ

ing sexual and gender identi ties, we’re also including other ethnicities as well.”

Tickets for the Drag Queen Brunch Fundraiser are avail able at eventbrite.ca/e/dragqueen-brunch-fundraiser-18only-tickets-444461394997.

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Love in the time of climate crisis

U of M alumna Chimwemwe Undi’s poetry balances love and climate grief

Jessie Krahn, staff

The past three years have turned the phrase “unprecedented times” into a platitude. To say the global climate is in crisis has become such a banal statement, many of us are as numb to it as we are to a comment about traffic or Mondays.

One U of M alumna, Chim wemwe Undi, searches for joy in dreadful times through two poems recently published in Canthius, a feminism and lit erary periodical.

“Auto-epithalamium” and “Epithalamium Ending in Death” are companion poems published side-by-side in the 10th issue of Canthius. An epi thalamium is a poem or song which pays tribute to a mar riage.

The first poem, “Auto-epi thalamium,” is close to the tra ditional style of this form. The speaker of the poem reflects on falling in love with their paramour quickly, remark ing on their beloved’s quirks and charms. The poem imag ines two people joyfully fall ing into each other’s patterns.

In contrast, “Epithalamium Ending in Death” is, as its title suggests, more morbid. The speaker struggles with cli mate grief, a consequent and impending sense of doom and

an uncertainty about what being together “forever” with their lover really means in light of those anxieties.

Despite the poem’s grav ity, it ends on a hopeful note, as the speaker prom ises to remain faithful to their beloved and treasure the fini tude of their relationship.

Undi’s love poems avoid overly romantic language, in spite of generic conventions. They inhabit a textured and varied point-of-view which finds solace in love but does not look away from the grim realities that surround the relationship.

The poet explained that she is drawn to poetry that is realistic or “clear-eyed,” that acknowledges the fact that “we live in complicated times and that love can exist and does exist despite that.”

Even with this preference, Undi believes love poems can offer refuge in much the same way that fantasy can.

“I think there is a space for escapism through whatever kind of fantasy suits you,” she said.

“So, if that’s magic and orcs and wizards, that’s fine, and also if there is imagining a sort of perfect and unperturbed love, that’s fine too.”

Undi’s pair of poems are

structured using couplets, which are two typically rhym ing lines.

“I’m really drawn to the couplet,” she said. “I like the stanza as a little room. I love a room of just two lines next to each other separated from anything else.”

As a poet with a flock’sworth of feathers in her cap, Undi is a graduate of the U of M’s department of linguistics, York University and the U of M’s own Robson Hall. Now a lawyer practicing on Treaty 1 Territory, Undi does not just write poetry, she performs spoken word too.

Considering what a poem sounds like to the ear is an important part of Undi’s cre ative process. Even though most readers will engage with her poems silently, Undi recites her poetry before she finalizes it.

“I read the poem aloud a lot,” she said. “If it feels odd for me to read aloud, that is a sign to me that something needs to be shifted. Even if the reader who the poem reaches never reads the poems aloud, I need to know that when they do, it won’t be awkward and [they won’t be] stumbling over [it].”

Undi hopes her poems will help readers feel less alone.

“I am startled at how often I encounter myself in poems by people that I think I have nothing in common with, or would assume I have nothing in common with, who notice the same small, odd things and feel the same joys and griefs that I do,” she explained.

“I hope that the sort of tiny details that I collect through out my day and then that coalesce into poems resonate with people too and comfort them, even if the comfort is just knowing you’re standing

next to somebody else and not all by yourself in your feel ings.”

Undi is in the final stages of writing her first poetry collec tion, which will be published through House of Anansi in 2024.

Canthius is available at McNally Robinson or through canthius.com

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On her first album, Juli anna Riolino is already entering her blue period, look ing at her past and the musical past with a newfound clarity.

Up until this point, Riolino has been known as the fire cracker sideman to Daniel Romano in his Outfit.

The Outfit is, by my esti mation, the best live rock band playing right now, per forming hyped-up classic rock reappropriations with a fran tic, ecstatic energy — equal parts religious fervor for the past greats and punkish desire to rip the throats out of the audience.

In my eyes, the closest ana logue to Daniel Romano’s Out fit is Rolling Thunder-era Bob Dylan due to its coked-out intensity and eccentricity, with Riolino playing the role of the wild-eyed frontwoman dashing around the stage. But her own debut record All Blue

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is distinctly slower, dreamier and more reflective.

It’s evident that Riolino has a lot of reverence for the classics, but she seems more interested in the lush, cosmic

country of the Laurel Canyon scene than the nerviness of late ’70s rock. Her vocal prow ess and undeniable charisma remain, but these powers are mostly used to bring the lis

tener into a warm embrace, rather than tearing their head off like the Outfit does.

Much of the Outfit appears on the record, shredding when required but mostly stay ing restrained, foreground ing their propensity for deep groove. What really shines here is Riolino’s voice, often double-tracked in harmony with itself. She is by turns sweet and soulful, yet biting and powerful.

Second track “Isn’t It A Pity” lifts a hook from the George Harrison song of the same name, and moves in hypnotizing waves, slowly lift ing off into soaring choruses before cycling back around to a labyrinthine verse.

Elsewhere the Nashville influence is more apparent, like in the charming old coun try waltz “Queen Of Spades,” which sees Riolino spinning one-liners and sly similes before wailing her way into the chorus.

Lyrically, there is a shade

of mysticism that ties things together. In songs like “Hark!” Riolino reflects on the meta physics of relationships, call ing her love “a dream, celes tial beaming” and describ ing her image reflecting back to them in blue. The ach ing “Archangel” further over analyzes a personal relation ship, to the point where Rio lino questions her own sanity and pleads with God.

All Blue is a very impres sive debut. The songs are lush and thoughtful, the perform ances deeply passionate and the vibe is unified and intro spective.

All Blue is available on ma jor streaming services

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Julianna Riolino — ‘All Blue’

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Canadian artists wow in Venice

Canadian artists and their showstopping work at the Venice Biennale

Lindsay Inglis, volunteer

T he Venice Biennale provides a place for art lovers from all over the world to congregate and see an incredibly diverse range of art.

Several Canadian artists are displayed this year in the main exhibition, The Milk of Dreams. Taking its name from the title of a children’s book written by surrealist art ist Leonora Carrington, the exhibition focuses on artwork that often reimagines the world we live in.

The Canada Pavilion at the Venice Biennale also exam ines the world through four photographs by Stan Doug las, which recreate pivotal moments from riots that hap pened around the world in 2011.

The images blur the line between fiction and reality, forcing the viewer to question the information that’s fed to them in the news. Titled 2011 ≠ 1848, it draws parallels and contrasts to the revolutions of 1848 against European mon archies, beginning in Sicily and spreading throughout the Austrian Empire, Germany and France.

The riots from 2011 included in this exhibition are presented chronologically. The first broke out in January in Tunis, Tunisia marking the start of the Arab Spring.

In June of 2011, compara tively frivolous riots filled the streets of Vancouver, B.C. after the Vancouver Canucks hockey team lost to the Bos ton Bruins in the Stanley Cup finals.

In August of the same year,

riots broke out in London, England following the police shooting of Mark Duggan, an unarmed black man in north London.

And in the following Octo ber, protesters involved in New York City’s Occupy Wall Street, a movement that pro tested corruption on Wall Street, were trapped and arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge.

2011 ≠ 1848 is comple mented by the other half of Douglas’s exhibit titled ISDN, a two-channel video on an offsite location at the Maga zzino del Sale. One screen shows musicians TrueMen dous and Lady Sanity, and the other Yousef Joker and Rap tor. These artists represent the grime and Mahraganat genres respectively, which are often associated with youthful revolt.

The two screens face each other as though the musi cians are in conversation, with viewers watching in the middle. Continuing with the themes of 2011 ≠ 1848, then, ISDN presents the frustrations of the current social and polit ical norms, and the musicians’ drive to make a change.

2011 ≠ 1848 will also be avail able for viewing throughout Canada, where it is currently on display at the Polygon Gal lery in Vancouver until Nov. 6. The exhibition will then travel to Saskatoon, Sask. and Ottawa, Ont.

Canadian artists whose work is part of the main exhib ition, The Milk of Dreams, include Shuvinai Ashoona, Elaine Cameron-Weir, Jes

Fan, Allison Katz, Kapwani Kiwanga, Gabrielle L’Hiron delle Hill and Tau Lewis.

Fan, an artist from Ontario who is currently based between Brooklyn, N.Y. and Hong Kong, created sculp tures that simultaneously look paleolithic and futuristic. Fan frequently injects melanin, testosterone, estrogen and even his own mother’s urine into handblown glass. By mix ing art and science together, he highlights the connection between identity and biology.

Fan’s sculptures included in The Milk of Dreams — “Wounding,” “Apparatus” and “Fragrant Harbour” — contain prolactin, the hormone that lets people with breasts pro duce milk, communicating the interiority of the body and the changes it goes through to feed a newborn child.

“Divine Giants Tribunal” is comprised of three monu mental masks by Lewis, a New York-based artist ori ginally from Ontario. Each mask measures three meters tall. These show-stopping creations are made from found materials that have been handsewn as a study of women’s labour.

Kiwanga, a Paris-based art ist from Ontario, created an architectural colour gradi ent in her work “Terrarium.” Interspersed throughout the space are sculptures created from glass and sand. Kiwanga considers sand to be a political material due to its association with oil extraction, as well as a reminder of the potential for an arid planet due to climate change.

While it is an examina tion of colonial power sys tems, “Terrarium” also pro vides a tranquil section of the exhibition for viewers to relax and rest their eyes, acting as a much-needed place to breathe among a building packed with art.

The Biennale exhibits an incredible range of art ists with diverse areas of focus. The works are united by their examination of the world we live in, both pol

itically and culturally. This year, Douglas took a global approach to the Canada Pavil ion that questioned the real ity of media, just as The Milk of Dreams examines reality through a dream-like gaze.

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Sports teams’ schedules

U of M Bisons — Women’s Basketball

Alberta Pandas @ Bisons Nov. 4 – 6 p.m.

Alberta Pandas @ Bisons Nov. 5 – 5 p.m.

Bisons @ Fraser Valley Cascades Nov. 11 – 8 p.m.

Bisons @ Fraser Valley Cascades Nov. 12 –7 p.m.

U of M Bisons — Women’s Hockey

Bisons @ Mount Royal Cougars

Oct. 28 – Final: 2-3

Bisons @ Mount Royal Cougars Oct. 29 – Final: 0-4

Alberta Pandas @ Bisons Nov. 4 – 7 p.m.

Alberta Pandas @ Bisons Nov. 5 – 2 p.m.

Bisons @ Calgary Dinos Nov. 11 – 8 p.m. Bisons @ Calgary Dinos Nov. 12 – 4 p.m.

U of M Bisons — Women’s Volleyball

Thompson Rivers WolfPack @ Bisons

Oct. 29 – Final: 0-3

Thompson Rivers WolfPack @ Bisons Oct. 30 – Final: 0-3

Bisons @ UBC Okanagan Heat Nov. 4 – 7 p.m.

Bisons @ UBC Okanagan Heat Nov. 5 – 5 p.m.

U of M Bisons — Men’s Basketball

Alberta Golden Bears @ Bisons Nov. 4 – 8 p.m.

Alberta Golden Bears @ Bisons Nov. 5 – 7 p.m.

Bisons @ Fraser Valley Cascades Nov. 11 – 10 p.m.

Bisons @ Fraser Valley Cascades Nov. 12 – 9 p.m.

U of M Bisons — Men’s Football

Bisons @ Regina Rams Oct. 29 – Final: 44-30

Conference Playoffs Hardy Cup Semifinal: Bisons @ Saskatchewan Huskies Nov. 5 – 1 p.m.

U of M Bisons — Men’s Hockey

Mount Royal Cougars @ Bisons

Oct. 28 – Final: 4-0

Mount Royal Cougars @ Bisons Oct. 29 – Final: 7-2

Bisons @ Alberta Golden Bears Nov. 4 – 7 p.m.

Bisons @ Alberta Golden Bears Nov. 5 – 7 p.m.

Calgary Dinos @ Bisons Nov. 11 – 7 p.m.

Calgary Dinos @ Bisons Nov. 12 – 3 p.m.

U of M Bisons — Men’s Volleyball

Thompson Rivers WolfPack @ Bisons

Oct. 29 – Final: 3-1

Thompson Rivers WolfPack @ Bisons Oct. 30 – Final: 0–3

Bisons @ UBC Okanagan Heat Nov. 4 – 9 p.m. Bisons @ UBC Okanagan Heat Nov. 5 – 7 p.m.

UBC Thunderbirds @ Bisons Nov. 11 – 7 p.m.

UBC Thunderbirds @ Bisons Nov. 12 – 6 p.m.

U of M Bisons — Cross Country

Canada West Championships Oct. 29 U-Sports Championships Nov. 12

U of M Bisons — Swimming

College Cup Nov. 5–6 Bisons Sprint IM Invitational Nov. 12

Winnipeg Blue Bombers

BC Lions @ Blue Bombers Oct. 28 – Final: 9–24 Western Final: TBD @ Blue Bombers Nov. 13 – 3:30 p.m.

Winnipeg Jets

Jets @ Los Angeles Kings Oct. 27 – Final: 6–4 Jets @ Arizona Coyotes Oct. 28 – Final: 3–2 / OT Jets @ Vegas Golden Knights

Oct. 30 – Final: 1–2 / OT

Montreal Canadiens @ Jets Nov. 3 – 7 p.m. Chicago Blackhawks @ Jets Nov. 5 – 2 p.m. Dallas Stars @ Jets Nov. 8 – 7 p.m. Jets @ Calgary Flames Nov. 12 – 9 p.m. Jets @ Seattle Kraken Nov. 13 – 7 p.m.

Bisons swim team makes splash

Quinn Mayhew, staff

Bisons football

It was an exciting finale to the U of M Bisons foot ball regular season on Satur day. With the Alberta Golden Bears winning their game in the Canada West confer ence earlier that day, the herd needed a win against the second-seeded Regina Rams to advance to the postseason.

The Bisons got ahead early, putting up two touchdowns from running back Breydon Stubbs and receiver AK Gas sama, as well as two Niko DiFonte field goals.

The Rams stormed back in the second quarter and even snagged the lead heading into halftime.

But Manitoba punched back in the second half with three touchdowns — two, again, courtesy of Stubbs and Gassama — and another field goal. The final two touch downs came in the last ten minutes of the game, includ ing a thrilling leaping touch down run by running back Vaughan Lloyd.

By defeating the Regina Rams 44-30, the Bisons stam peded their way into the Hardy Cup playoffs.

The Hardy Cup semifinal will be a rematch of last year’s cup final, with the Bisons set to square off against the Sas katchewan Huskies in Saska toon, Sask. on Nov. 5.

With a win, the herd would

advance to the Hardy Cup final to compete for redemp tion after last year’s loss.

— Grace Anne Paizen, staff

Bisons hockey

Following a 4-2 start to the regular season, the Univer sity of Manitoba Bisons men’s hockey team has fallen to 4-4 after facing off against the Mount Royal University Cou gars in a two-game series this past weekend. The Bisons would drop both games 4-0 and 7-2 respectively.

The Bisons struggled immensely in game one, and were inevitably swept by the Cougars. Bisons goalie, Ross Hawryluk, made 46 saves with

T

he Bisons swim team started the year off strong at the St. James Invitational, bring ing in nine first place finishes and testing the wat ers for the upcoming swim season.

The competition took place the weekend of Oct. 22 and 23, and consisted of multiple races.

The Bisons men and women were well repre sented in the meet, achieving personal bests and improving racing tactics throughout the event.

Despite this being the first meet of the season, the newcomers stepped up to the occasion.

The Bisons started the first session of the meet off strong, with both Cameryn Carlos and rookie Ella Howe achieving personal bests in the 100-metre backstroke and the 50-metre butterfly respectively. In the second session, Carlos managed a personal best in the 200-metre backstroke as well.

Regarding her strong showings in the two back stroke events, Carlos said “we’ve been putting a lot of work in [during] practice focusing in on tactics, and I think I swam them really well,” further add ing, “if I were to swim those events again, I would swim them the exact same way.”

Rookie Brayden Stacey had another notable per formance, who achieved a personal best in the 50-metre freestyle and placed in second in the event.

With long-time swimmer, Kelsey Wog, no lon ger eligible to compete as a varsity swimmer, it remains to be seen how the Bisons will go about putting points on the board throughout the sea son. The herd missing such an instrumental swim mer in relays and individual races will make for an interesting season to see how the team will prevail.

When asked about how Wog’s departure has affected the team, Carlos said “I think her aging out gives us all the opportunity to step up and all kind of take over, and I feel like we can place the same if we all race super well.”

Team unity is essential to achieve success in this competitive swimming year and with spirits high after the season’s first meet, unity will play an essential role in the performance and execution of racing this season.

Carlos added that “the team, we’re all super close, we’re all really good friends and I think that plays a huge part in how we all perform at our next meet.”

With the continuous momentum and personal bests that the team has found this early in the swimming season, fans can hope that the herd will continue to impress at the upcoming College Cup, which takes place Nov. 5 to 6 in Vancouver, B.C.

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a 92 per cent save rate. Despite Hawryluk’s herculean effort, the Cougars attack would prove to be too much for the Bisons.

Game two was heartbreak ing for the herd. Despite net ting two goals this time around including the game’s first, the Cougars unleashed an onslaught of scoring that over whelmed the Bisons defence. The Bisons were locked down offensively and only got off 13 total shots, a stark contrast to the Cougars’ 47.

The Bisons women’s team didn’t fare any better against the Cougars squad, also losing both games.

Going down 2-0 in the first period of game one, Bison

forwards Kate Gregoire and Norah Collins stormed back to tie the game 2-2 with a goal apiece in the second. How ever, the comeback would fall short as the Cougars would score late in the third to win the game 3-2.

Game two was worse with the Cougars sweeping the Bisons 4-0. After this week end, the women’s squad fell to 3-5 on the season.

This weekend, the Bisons will face off against the Uni versity of Alberta.

— Kieran Light, staff

sports@themanitoban.com

Rollercoaster home openers

Bisons volleyball teams host exciting up and down weekend

Kieran Light, staff

T his past Saturday, the University of Manitoba Bisons men’s and women’s volleyball teams both hosted their first home games of the year against the Thompson Rivers University WolfPack.

The women’s team domin ated, securing its first win of the season after a stellar per formance by left side Light Uchechukwu, who was named player of the game.

The first set began with both teams going back and forth on quick scoring runs. However, the Bisons side would find its groove, making an 18-3 run and finishing the set with a score of 25-14.

The following two sets were nothing short of domination for the Bisons. The WolfPack was unable to score more than twice in a row for the entirety of the second and third sets.

The Bisons won both, 25-18 and 25-11 respectively, to com plete the three-set shutout.

Uchechukwu led the team with 12 kills along with four assisted blocks, an outstand ing performance for which she was awarded player of the game.

“It’s so nice to have a home game,” Uchechukwu said in an interview after the game. “There was a really good crowd.”

would eventually take it 25-23.

The fourth and final set of the game was by far the most exciting, going into overtime. The set began with the Bisons once again jumping ahead to an early lead, however the WolfPack stormed back to tie the game.

The remainder of the set was packed with quick scor ing runs, with each team los ing and reclaiming the lead, and the Bisons tying the game 24-24 forcing overtime play.

A couple rallies later, the Bisons had the lead 26-25, only needing one more point to win the set, and possibly extending the game. Unfortu nately for the herd, the Wolf Pack reclaimed the lead for a final time and on a thrill ing final volley, took the game with a kill by Rylan Ibbetson.

Service errors were the Bisons downfall, with 20 to Thompson Rivers’ 15.

After the game, head coach Arnd Ludwig said that the missed serves restricted them offensively, not allowing the team to do what it does well.

When asked about what put the WolfPack over the edge in close sets, Ogaranko stated that the Bisons’ inconsistency resulted in the loss of close sets, adding that the team’s energy was “up and down.”

The Bisons men seemed to take their coaches feedback to heart after the home opener as they stormed back on Sunday to beat the WolfPack in three straight sets, matching the women who once again stam peded over Thompson Rivers with another three-set stomp ing.

However, the men’s team could not replicate this suc cess, losing to the WolfPack in an exciting and close four sets.

It took some time for the men’s team to find a rhythm, beginning the first set down 11-6 and ultimately losing 25-16.

In the second set however, the Bisons managed to keep up with the WolfPack, with outside Eric Ogaranko netting three kills and a service ace to give the Bisons the set 25-22.

The following sets would spell heartbreak for the herd, unable to win in each despite having leads in both.

The Bisons began the third set going up 10-5. Unfortu nately, the WolfPack went on a five-to-one run to cut the lead to one. The set remained a tight race all the way to the end, where the WolfPack

The women’s team has improved to 2-2 on the season, and the men’s to 1-3 after the weekend.

Both teams are set to meet with the UBC Okanagan Heat in British Columbia Nov. 4th and 5th.

photos / Matthew Merkel / staff