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Fair trade challenge launches on Halloween

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The Bonaduces are back

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Dinos bite Bisons

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Bisons trounce Golden Bears

Gender discrimination: Two wrongs don't make a right

Toban Talkback

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Kaitlin Smith

Brett Thompson

Melissa Johnson

Muhammaed Khan

"I am going to a friend's for a small party. I have no idea what I'm dressing up as"

"I have a midterm this Saturday, so I won't be doing anything for Halloween.

"I am going to a bar. I am going to dress up as little red riding hood"

"I have no plans for Halloween"

Do you have any plans for celebrating halloween, and if so what do you plan to dress up as?

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Making noise to support prisoners

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Negotiation details between U of M and UMFA surface

Protesters gather at Winnipeg Remand Centre in light of recent prisoner wage cuts

Administration to include academic freedom protections for UMFA in new contract

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Kevin Linklater, staff

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n May of 2012, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced a plan of the federal government’s to implement changes to prisoners’ wages. At the time, Toews said the changes would save over $4 million each year. The government redirected 30 per cent of wages towards room and board.

The federal government has also increased the number of items that prisoners are required to buy for themselves. This includes hygiene items such as shampoo, soap, and deodorant. Costs for phone calls, stationary to write home on, or stamps to send a letter also increased.

Before the cuts, the prisoners were making below minimum wage in all provinces. The maximum amount that a prisoner could make was $6.90 per day. This amount was the leftover pay after a deduction for clothing, room, and board.

Most prisoners did not even make this amount, instead receiving, on average, three dollars per day for their labours. These jobs included work such as garbage collection, cleaning, and food preparation.

Prisoners may also take part in a rehabilitation program called CORCAN, an organization for prisons that provides incentive pay for its workers. The workers earn an extra $1.25-2.50 per hour for more specialized construction and repair work. If an inmate makes more than $69 every two weeks, he or she will see another 25 per cent deduction on their cheque for room and board.

This incentive pay from CORCAN will be removed.

Inmates often send home money left over after buying soap and shampoo to their families, as a substitute for the income they cannot earn outside the walls.

These limits are what a parliamentary committee determined to be reasonable 32 years ago. Since the committee set the rate in 1981, prisoners have not received a wage increase to account for the over 700 per cent

cost increase due to inflation.

Earlier this October, prisoners chose to take action.

Prisoners in Ontario decided to strike as a means of protesting what they saw as an unjust move by the government in lowering their wages.

The strike spread outward, landing these last few weeks in Manitoba.

On Oct. 8, federal inmates of Stony Mountain Institution walked off the job. On Oct. 23 a group of about 50 protesters gathered outside the Winnipeg Remand Centre with trumpets, bells, drums, and whistles.

They made as much noise as they could in the hopes that it would penetrate the centre’s walls and lend support to the strikers.

The centre itself was silent.

According to one protester, this was because the centre’s guards had “locked all of the prisoners down in their cells [due to the protest] otherwise they’d be up against the windows.”

Shelagh, a leader of the protesters, spoke of how her group, The Prison Strike Support and Solidarity Network, set up a fund for donations that can be made to those on strike.

Another organizer read from an email that discussed how the wage decrease would affect the children and family members of prisoners.

Ryan, another protester, told the Manitoban that he feels the government is restricting the rights of prisoners to be duly compensated for their work.

All protesters seemed to agree on one thing: the $4 million per year saved by implementing the wage reduction is, as Ryan said, “not worth the lives of the people it jeopardizes.”

Despite numerous requests, neither the Winnipeg Remand Centre nor the Manitoba Department of Justice was available for comment as of press time.

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n Monday, Oct. 21, a deal and consistent with the principles us to be able to be critical of the was struck at the 11th hour of academic freedom; administration and exercise our between the U of M administration Faculty amalgamations: assur- civil rights in public. We had to and the U of M Faculty Association ances that there will now be a more have a near strike to make that (UMFA), narrowly avoiding a transparent process; decisions at happen.” strike. Three points of contention faculty/school councils will now be Danakas told the Manitoban, between the two sides that led the clearly and completely communi- “The University of Manitoba is UMFA to call the strike were: cated to senate; and a provision for committed to protecting academic academic freedom, the potential secret ballot voting on any motion freedom and made it very clear that introduction of performance man- for amalgamation at faculty/school it was prepared to add language agement standards to the faculties, councils.” to current academic freedom poliand faculty amalgamations.

The email also stated that the cies. The differences over academic The UMFA has previously gone issue of mandatory retirement freedom were not over whether or on strike – once in 1995 and again was addressed in the negotiations. not to protect academic freedom in 2001.

According to the email, the policy but rather over what that language In three areas of this year’s has been dropped, “with the option would look like.” strike negotiations, the faculty was for current members aged 65 or Remaining issues such as faculty granted what they were asking for older to go on half time appoint- parking rates and “the privacy of at the last minute, and thus called ments for up to five years before faculty members and their work” off the strike. will be worked out through arbifull retirement.”

“We were as successful as we were According to John Danakas, trated settlement. in this bargaining only because we director of the marketing and “The administration wanted to got a strike vote and we had a strike communications office at the U of arbitrate on things like academic deadline,” said Robert Chernomas, M, “There is general agreement to freedom, and we don’t want to economics professor at the U of M. change the mandatory requirement arbitrate on things that are that “We had spent six months bargain- that faculty reduct to halftime at important. On matters like money ing with the Barnard administra- age 69, but the parties have not and other issues, arbitration is postion, and had gotten nowhere. In been able to agree on certain tran- sible. When it comes to academic 48 hours before the strike we got all sitional provisions.” freedom we needed a negotiated the things that we needed.”

University of Manitoba presi- settlement,” said Chernomas.

In an email from the UMFA dent David Barnard issued a memo The university administration circulated to the faculty at 11:37 on Oct. 17 saying that the admin- had offered the faculty a fourp.m. on Monday night, the three istration was not attempting to year deal, with an 8.9 per cent pay key sticking points were described impose a performance management increase, while the faculty wanted in detail. system, and was not attempting to 5.9 per cent over two years.

“UMFA has finished the first erode academic freedom at the The UMFA had contended that mediation phase of bargaining. We university. a four-year deal would have given have made gains in the following However, the U of M Faculty an undue amount of control to the key areas: Association was wary of any con- administration; giving it “a free Academic freedom: improve- tract that omitted language explic- hand to refashion the university ments to existing academic freedom itly protecting their right to speak without the approval of academic language, with the explicit right to out on matters of public interest staff [ . . . ] A two-year agreement criticize the administration, and and to criticize the university. By gives UMFA members another to exercise our right to free speech leaving out these protections, the chance to have an impact on these outside the university without fear faculty association feared that transformative processes through of reprisal; their right to free speech could be collective bargaining.”

Performance management: curtailed.

“All monetary issues were in assessing the performance of Chernomas said, “Most con- resolved with a new salary strucmembers generally, or in relation tracts in the country have language ture which will make the univerto tenure and promotion, and when protecting academic freedom, and sity more competitive in recruiting setting criteria for research, pub- they, [the administration], weren’t and retaining bright young faclication, and venue the university willing to give it. Why wouldn’t ulty members,” Danakas told the agrees to act reasonably, fairly, in a they allow us to have it in the con- Manitoban. non-arbitrary manner, in good faith, tract? It’s because they didn’t want

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Fair Trade Challenge launches on Halloween Local businesses support the cause Katy MacKinnon, staff

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eginning on Halloween, the Fair trade encompasses a Manitoba Council for International wide range of values, includCooperation (MCIC) is proposing a ing gender equity, workplace challenge: purchase fair trade coffee, safety, and the exclusion of child tea, and chocolate as much as you can labour practices. for the entire month. The Fair Trade “Fair trade is as it sounds,” Challenge runs from Oct. 31 to Nov. said Kanhai. “It’s the idea 29. of bringing global equity to The annual month-long challenge the work set that people are has been held for the last seven years. already doing. It is an alterThis year, four additional challenges are native to conventional trade being offered. Individuals can take part standards where producers in the office challenge, baker’s chal- may not be earning a fair wage lenge, school challenge, and the holiday for the work that they’re doing.” challenge.

Local business Green Bean Coffee Bakers taking part in the challenge Imports is well on its way to promoting have the opportunity to try new prod- fair trade in Winnipeg. ucts – such as fair trade cocoa, sugar, The business, owned and founded and dried fruit.

by Derryl Reid, has been established Larissa Kanhai, fair trade outreach for six years. The Manitoban spoke officer at MCIC, mentioned that some with Reid about his business and the individuals are already making a strong importance of fair trade. effort to purchase and use fair trade “We’re not a big company. It consists products. of myself and my daughter,” said Reid.

“This is just kind of a fun thing to let The company is a direct-trade company them get to feature that for a month – different from fair trade in the sense and be celebrated for it,” she said. that Reid has a direct relationship with

the farmers in Bolivia.

Reid tries to visit the co-operative once a year.

The beans his company uses

products can be up to 10 per cent more expensive than non fair trade products. The reason for the increase is that businesses and producers are asking for the market value.

However, Kanhai noted that, “more and more as fair trade is becoming more popular, for certain products it’s actually quite comparable to the other products that you may be purchasing anyways.”

Reid stressed that the 10 per cent are cost increase makes a significant sourced right from difference.

Bolivia and roasted at “We really need to be aware of the a roasterie just north impact of that 10 per cent; what it has of Winnipeg. on these economies and these farmers “When we started the – it has such a huge impact,” he said. company we wanted to be more “I think it’s really important [ . . . ] for than a just-for-profit entity. We wanted people to understand what the issues to be a local company. We wanted to are, and what fair trade really means make a little bit of a difference any way to farmers in the third world.” we could,” Reid added.

Asked of his favourite part of the According to Kanhai, fair trade job, Reid laughed: “Aside from drink-

ing great coffee every morning?”

He also enjoys being part of the fair trade movement, how much the movement is growing and changing, and working with the farmers in Bolivia.

Degrees Restaurant on campus is a proud supporter of Green Bean Coffee Imports, selling the company’s coffee in the restaurant. Thomas Blumer, food and beverage manager of Degrees, felt that the choice to sell fair trade products is a personal decision.

“It’s just having integrity and wanting to do the right thing,” said Blumer. Since the business is owned

by UMSU, Degrees has a mandate to price the products to break even as opposed to making high profits.

“The daily choices that you make everyday, they can make a difference.

It’s called purchasing power,” said Kanhai. illustration by heather kat cole

Financial reports delivered to UMSU Council Frosh Music Festival biggest expense Quinn Richert, staff

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niversity of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) councillors and students-at-large were allowed a glimpse of the fiscal state of the union last week, after council saw dual finance reports – one from vice-president internal Amanda McMullin on UMSU’s overall spending to-date, and one from Justin Paquin on September’s Frosh Music Festival expenditures.

Justin Paquin: Frosh Music Festival failed to break even Paquin, an event producer at Paquin Entertainment Group and former vicepresident internal for UMSU, was contracted by the executive to oversee the organization of Frosh Music Festival.

According to Paquin’s report at council, the festival failed to break even, instead landing nearly $150,000 over budget.

According to Paquin, festival planning was running at its projected budget until a last-second ultimatum from headliner Childish Gambino forced a switch to a two-day format.

“The artist [Gambino] provided an option: ‘either I’m not coming, or I can come on Saturday,’” Paquin told council.

“The reason that this event was not able to break even was because of a cancellation by the headlining artist.”

Minutes from a Sept. 23 council meeting indicate that the Frosh Music Festival budget was not approved by UMSU Council as a whole, despite the fact that bylaw 2400.13 indicates that only UMSU Council can “approve expenditures of any value.” That same bylaw stipulates that the executive and finance committees can only approve expenditures of up to $5,000 and $15,000, respectively.

At last week’s council meeting, McMullin explained that the festival was projected to bring in $17,000 of revenue.

Because it was not projected as a loss, spending did not require the approval of council.

“In the future, the policies and bylaws do need to be looked at,” McMullin told the Manitoban on the day of the Frosh Music Festival report.

May - September 2013 UMSU finance report Following Paquin’s address to council, McMullin presented documents detailing the union’s overall spending.

While the operating budget appears to be doing well under some subheadings, it was shown that the union is over budget on legal fees.

Furthermore, the report showed that UMSU was sitting at upwards of a $269,000 net deficit as of Sept. 30.

Most of that stems from Frosh Music Festival.

Towards the end of her presentation, McMullin detailed the union executive’s plans to offset the costs of the festival.

According to McMullin, UMSU

is saving $140,000, or $10 per student, on Health and Dental Plan costs as a result of switching providers this past September.

“This was a huge initiative that myself and the executive worked on this summer with council. We made sure that we had a good provider, and that all the benefits students had are still being delivered – for a better cost,” McMullin said to council.

The union has also saved $10,500 on personnel costs, and hopes to generate revenue from an agreement with a company interested in using UMSU space.

Students-at-large asked for reports The two financial reports made to council last week have been anticipated since the Sept. 23 meeting of council, where students-at-large Kyle St. Godard (also a former UMSU councillor) and Gabriel Bako tabled a motion asking for a “full and up-to-date finan-

cial report to UMSU Council.” No such report had been given during the month of August, which, according to the motion, was required by UMSU bylaws.

That motion was subsequently passed to the finance committee for review, who recommended it for defeat.

McMullin, who sits on the finance committee, said at the Oct. 7 meeting of council that the motion constituted “an attack with unfounded claims against the finance committee and the executive.”

Furthermore, according to McMullin, August financial reports have not been presented to councillors for three years in a row.

On Oct. 7, St. Godard and Bako’s original motion was defeated. An alternative motion mentioning Paquin, however, was put forth by the finance committee and adopted by councillors.

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NDP seeks reset in cabinet shuffle

UMSU begins review of CFS relationship

Flagging support seen as reason behind move

Ad hoc committee will weigh in on whether CFS membership is worthwhile for U of M students

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reg Selinger’s NDP provincial government sought to reinvigorate things with a cabinet shuffle on Oct 18. The shuffle saw numerous changes, with three new ministers elevated from the backbenches, three dropped, and four veteran MLAs taking on new portfolios.

One of the biggest changes was to the Department of Finance, where Stan Struthers, the MLA for Dauphin, was dropped from the portfolio. Jennifer Howard, who formerly headed-up Family Services and Labour, will be the new finance minister in what is seen as a big promotion. Struthers will stay on in cabinet, but in the much less important role of minister for municipal government (excluding the City of Winnipeg).

Struthers was responsible for implementing the provincial government’s much-reviled PST rate hike, from seven to eight per cent.

The NDP has been suffering in the polls since the rate hike was announced earlier this year.

Legislation requiring a referendum on any new revenue-increasing measures was amended by the government, suspending the requirement.

Among the new appointees to cabinet was James Allum, MLA for Fort Garry-Riverview, who will be the minister of Education and Advanced Learning. That portfolio now includes higher education institutions in addition to primary and secondary schools – responsibilities previously allotted to a separate minister of advanced learning.

“A good education is key to a bright future. We are focusing on improving the quality of education in Manitoba, connecting young people to jobs, and keeping education affordable for parents and students,” read a statement from the province to the Manitoban addressing the portfolio amalgamation.

Minister Allum takes on the education portfolio at a time when tuition fees in the province are rising, although there is no plan to reintroduce the province’s tuition freeze.

The freeze was lifted in 2008, and fees have since risen more than 10

per cent.

“Under our legislation, university tuition fees can’t rise faster than the rate of inflation. This year, we have the third lowest university tuition fees in Canada and the second lowest college tuition,” said the province.

The three MLAs who were dropped from cabinet are Christine Melnick, formerly of Immigration and Multiculturalism, Nancy Allan in Education, and Jim Rondeau, who had headed-up the Healthy Living portfolio.

Allan was responsible for steering Manitoba’s new anti-bullying bill through the legislature. It is rumoured that she will not be seeking re-election.

Aside from Allum in Education, the other two new faces in cabinet are Sharon Blady, as the new minister for healthy living and seniors, and Erna Braun, who will take on the Labour and Immigration file.

Other changes include the merging of Conservation and Water Stewardship into a single portfolio, and giving the City of Winnipeg its own file, to be taken up by Kevin Chief, MLA for Point Douglas.

Chief is also the minister of Children and Youth Opportunities.

The size of cabinet remains unchanged – 19 sitting ministers.

Halfway through their fourth consecutive term, the NDP has seen its support wane, the Conservative party benefiting at their expense.

The Liberals, who have long languished as a distant third and currently only have one seat in the provincial legislature, have also seen their support rise. The party has just chosen a new leader, Rana Bokhari, and is looking to benefit from the NDP’s flagging support.

“My focus is on getting a strong foundation in place for the party so we can be in some kind of fighting form in the next election,” Bokhari told the Globe and Mail.

The Selinger government will lay out its vision to Manitobans on Nov. 12 with a throne speech. The next provincial election is expected two years from now, in October 2015.

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nother chapter has begun in ones available to our students,” said was clear that through the RFP prothe UMSU-CFS saga that has Pierce. cess that UMSU was not receiving been a major theme in the University CFS provincial chairperson the best and most affordable product of Manitoba’s student politics since and former UMSU president Bilan for our members. It is our responsithis past July.

Arte explained in a statement to the bility as executives and members of Last Wednesday saw the first Manitoban that officially, CFS had no UMSU to do these sorts of reviews.” meeting of an ad hoc committee, knowledge of the ad hoc committee’s He specified that the committee called at the request of the UMSU formation. will assess how U of M student fees executive earlier this year, to review Arte went on to say that UMSU are being used at the provincial and the relationship between the president Al Turnbull, who also serves national levels of CFS, as well as the University of Manitoba Students’ as a member of the provincial execu- efficiency of their services when comUnion (UMSU) and the Canadian tive committee for CFS-MB, has not pared with other providers.

Federation of Students (CFS). in his time as a liaison between the Pierce also responded to Arte’s The meeting, which will be the provincial branch of CFS and Local concerns regarding a lack of CFS first of many for the committee, was 103 officially reported any issues that representation within the commitnot open to the public. UMSU vice- U of M students or UMSU may have tee, saying that to bring in a CFS president external Christian Pierce had with the federation. employee would “undoubtedly bring explained that this is standard pracTensions arose between UMSU in an unwanted bias.” tice for UMSU committees. and CFS earlier this year over a conThe ad hoc review committee sits “Every committee meeting is tract signed by last year’s UMSU during a period of what some might closed unless the chair permits spe- executive, which committed the cur- call uncertainty for the federation. cial presentations to be made [ . . . ] rent executive to purchasing student This September, 15 student unions this is not an anomaly and it should day-timers with CFS. across Canada began circulating petinot be implied that this specific comTurnbull claimed that purchas- tions asking their members to support mittee is having [ . . . ] ‘closed door’ ing independently of CFS could defederation from CFS. have lessened the expense, which meetings,” said Pierce.

It remains to be seen just what In a statement to the Manitoban, worked out to a total amount of recommendations will result from Pierce said that UMSU formed the $60,000. Turnbull and his executive the committee. Even if UMSU committee as a means to objectively later removed all CFS promotional decides that CFS has failed in its assess the value of CFS membership materials from the day-timers in an duties to U of M students, the deciact of protest. for U of M students. sion to defederate can only be made “Our executive believes it is “The issue with the handbooks was through a public referendum as per important to make sure that all the possibly further confirmation as to the federation’s bylaws. organizations that we are members why it is important to regularly do of and do business with are the best these reviews,” commented Pierce. “It

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It’s official!

First Chinese-made vaccine given WHO approval Elizabeth Drewnik, staff

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Bone business New analysis of old skull opens controversy on human evolution Elizabeth Drewnik, staff

in time for Halloween, a Just controversy has erupted in the

scientific community over an early human skull that was found in a dig site in Dmanisi, Georgia.

In 2000, a jaw bone was discovered at the site and the corresponding skull was found soon after in 2005. A new analysis of this skull—the most complete adult skull of an early human that has ever been found—suggests that the history of early human evolution may have to be rewritten. The early humans—or hominins—are classified across three different species: Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis, and Homo erectus. With this new skull finding, the Dmanisi team, led by David Lordkipanidze and consisting of scientists from Georgia, Switzerland, Israel, and the United States, proposed in the journal Science that early humans all belong to the same species, Homo erectus.

The team also suggested that the differences attributed to the fossils are due to variations found within the species rather than speciation.

Four other skulls have also been uncovered at the Dmanisi site.

These skulls are known to belong to the same geological time period of approximately 20,000 years – very small, in evolutionarily terms, and thus not long enough to contribute to speciation. In this way, it can be strongly assumed that all five skulls belong to the same species of a single population.

This is where the controversy begins.

When the skulls were compared, the amount of variation observed was comparable to the variation seen in modern humans, as well as in chimpanzees. The researchers suggested that the variations across the different species of early hominins may in fact be variations of a single species. Thus, the proposal is that the Dmanisi humans represent a continuous evolution of the Homo erectus species, implying the potential for near-global genetic continuity. Not all scientists are in

agreement with the hypothesis.

Fred Spoor, paleontologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, called the skull “an absolutely fabulous specimen” that will help scientists “figure out what’s going on with the really early evolution of Homo erectus.”

However, Spoor disagreed with the one-species hypothesis, saying that an analysis based strictly on cranial shape “is clearly not adequate.” Instead, he says the team should have examined specific anatomical traits such as braincase height or eye socket diameter.

Bernard Wood, a palaeoanthropologist at George Washington University in D.C., also takes issue with the “one big species” idea. Although Wood acknowledges that “there’s no doubt that this is an interesting cranium,” he objected to “[bringing] the whole bloody house down” by lumping all three species of early Homo together based on a cranial analysis alone.

Lee Berger, a palaeoanthropologist at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, also acknowledged the significance of the find, but told CNN that the Dmanisi team is “taking the available evidence too far.”

Commenting on the one-species hypothesis in an article in the Independent, Chris Stringer, head of human origins at the Natural History Museum in London, England, said, “we need similarly complete African fossils from 2-2.5 million years ago to test that idea properly.” Stringer suggests that some, but probably not all, early Homo fossils could belong to H. erectus.

Regardless of what the current opinions on the published study may be, Lordkipanidze said that “Dmanisi is a snapshot in time, like a time capsule,” and praised the site’s “enormous potential to yield new discoveries.”

hina has received approval The Chinese-developed vac- 50 active pharmaceutical ingredifrom the World Health cine against JE is expected to sell ents – the raw materials purchased Organization (WHO) for a live at 30 cents per dose. The price for by other biotech manufacturing attenuated vaccine against Japanese an Indian-manufactured vaccine companies to generate medical encephalitis (JE), a viral brain against JE was already considered compounds. There is also a bright infection transferred by mosqui- low locally in the Indian market, at outlook for China’s future with toes that causes 10-15,000 deaths $2.60 per dose, but with the WHO respect to potential prequalificaper year, mostly in children under prequalification of this Chinese tion for other vaccines.

15 years old. The vaccine, called SA vaccine, that price has fallen much The Chinese-made vaccine 14-14-2, will now be readily avail- lower. against hepatitis E (called Hecolin) able for global distribution.

In addition to the cost, there has been placed on the WHO The vaccine, manufactured by prequalification priority list for Chengdu Institute of Biological 2013-14. Other vaccines, such as “China’s entrance Products Co., had been used those for the flu, polio virus, and locally in China since 1988, but rotavirus, are also being considinto the global now that it has been added to the ered for the WHO prequalification WHO’s list of prequalified medi- vaccine marketplace application. cines, it will be more accessible; The Chinese JE vaccine was has the potential organizations like UNICEF and developed in collaboration with the GAVI Alliance can now pur- to fundamentally PATH, which ran the clinical trichase it. China ranks first in the als to establish the vaccine’s safety shift how vaccines world in terms of vaccine producand effectiveness. The project was tion capacity, so this prequalifica- are made, delivered supported by US $39 million tion can have great effects on the from the Bill and Melinda Gates and priced for the availability of the vaccine.

Foundation.

“China’s entrance into the global “Today’s prequalification means developing world” vaccine marketplace has the potenthat all communities in JE regions tial to fundamentally shift how —Steve Davis, will have access to a safe, affordable vaccines are made, delivered and vaccine,” said Dr. Kathleen Neuzil, PATH president priced for the developing world,” director of PATH’s Vaccine Access said Steve Davis, president of and Delivery Program. “We’ll now the global health organization are other benefits of the vaccine. work with our global health and PATH. SA 14-14-2 is the first vaccine to be in-country partners to accelerate The WHO’s prequalification approved for pediatric use. It can the delivery of this vaccine to chilsends a message about the vaccine’s be administered as a single dose, dren in low-resource settings who quality to countries that are inter- which is more efficient. are most vulnerable to the disease ested in it. This means that counThis is the first time a Chinese and its severe consequences.” tries where JE is endemic could vaccine has been prequalified by get greater access to the vaccine the WHO. In the past, China at a lower price. has received WHO approval for

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Gender discrimination: two wrongs don’t make a right Prejudice against men is real and harmful Meg Bergeron

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any feminists think misandry isn’t real. Not even my spellcheck thinks misandry is real. But it has become painfully obvious to me, as I pay closer attention to today’s social issues, that it is.

Women have been hurt – a lot. This is not news. But amidst all this hostility,

men are being hurt, too. I once read an article arguing that misandry couldn’t possibly exist because women have been hurt so much more, so it must be that discrimination against men just doesn’t count. This is absurd; it’s not a contest.

I find it incredibly hypocritical that women wishing for equality in

ingrained part of our culture that we of men, the opposite can be said of often don’t even recognize it. I was modern sitcoms. taught from a very young age that Husbands on television are so often “boys only want one thing.” It made placed in the “idiotic fat guy” trope me terrified of them. They became with the smart, sexy wife that it has “the other”: people to be extremely wary become almost a rule. Does this make of. I still struggle with this idea to this it okay that women aren’t properly day. Clearly this represented in notion has been the movies? Not I find it incredibly damaging to me, in the least. But but it has also been I feel that men’s hypocritical that hurtful to the men roles in this type women wishing in my life who’ve of programming deserved more of are nothing more for equality a chance than I’ve than a misguided in the world allowed myself to attempt at overgive them. compensation. think it’s okay So what needs It’s reflecting our to change? What society in saying, to perpetuate exactly is the “women have been negative male problem here? put down for so Well, the discuslong by being stereotypes. I’m sion around rape represented as here to tell you, culture is as good being less intela place to start as ligent that now it doesn’t help any. I wouldn’t be it’s men’s turn to the first person to be portrayed as illustration by caroline Norman comment that as much as we need to idiots.” A little respect on both sides destroy the hell out of rape culture, we would go a lot further than this naive the world think it is okay to perpetuate need to be mindful that some people tactic. negative stereotypes of men. I’m here to are going around implying that men Elsewhere on television, you’d tell you, it doesn’t help. Discrimination are beasts bound by their biological swear by the commercials that housecan’t be used to fight discrimination; impulses, unable to control themselves. hold chores were 100 per cent “women’s this makes us look petty at best and My dad has trotted out the same old work.” I can’t remember the last time I snowballs the issue at worst. line that “a woman wearing provoca- saw a man on television use dish deterJust like misogyny, prejudice tive clothing around men is like wear- gent or a mop. But while this view is against men has become such an ing a meat suit in a shark tank.” archaic and disparaging for women, I’m all for caution and responsibil- it also emasculates the men who do ity, but come on now. He was unaware take on their fair share of chores. It’s a of what a sexist statement that was. It relatively small thing to be concerned blatantly compares men to animals. about, sure. But it does have a way of Let’s at least give them enough credit reflecting the bias with which society to think of them as actual human views stay-at-home dads. beings. Men are no more inherently Feminism is about choice, so while animalistic than women are inherently some women are comfortably choosbait. Everyone needs to have some ing to live their lives in this way, the common sense in terms of their own men making the same choices are safety, but to think of people purely being made to feel as though they are in terms of their potential for evil somehow inadequate as men. Men are is to enter a bottomless pit that will instead put under so much pressure to drive you crazy. Let’s come up out of be the providers for their families that the dark and see people for who they when they can’t or choose not to, for really are: good and evil, men and whatever reason, they may feel like women, all of us equal and yet each failures. We need to stop separating of us different. contributions to the household based And, yes, men can be raped too, on gender, not just for the benefit of by people of all genders. The very women but for that of men as well. idea that they can’t is in itself a horLook: it doesn’t really matter that ribly misandrist statement that does a women have had it worse. It’s not a world of hurt to male victims, who are childish game of boys versus girls. This sometimes even more afraid to come is not about who gets hurt the most; forward than women due to the stigma it’s about leading by example, becomthat goes along with it. Not only does ing the change we want to see in the this idea undermine the experiences world. We all have a very long way to of men, but it perpetually places them go, and it’s an important part of being into the role of the perpetrator. Always treated with equality to treat others the rapist, never the victim. You can the same way in return. We need to just imagine the psychological damage show compassion towards men and this can cause. most definitely towards each other.

Okay, let’s take it down a notch. We need to be mindful that what hurts When it comes to movies, men get us as women often also hurts men. the choice roles. They get to be comLet’s stop blaming each other and plex. They get to be interesting, deep, just heal. We cannot let our guard multi-dimensional, and they get to be down completely, not yet, but keephuman. Women? They’re often the love ing it up a little too high is preventing interest, the quirky underdog who just us from seeing the good on the other wants to find a man, or the ass-kicker side. in a sexy outfit, and it rarely gets any Remember, feminism is about more complicated than that. I share equality. these grievances with many feminists.

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he city we live in is often the last place we think to explore. This is especially tragic in Winnipeg at this time of year. Myriad sites, both magical and macabre, are waiting for vict . . . ummm . . . intrepid explorers. The following pages offer a sampling of local treats. Have no fear (or have lots); tricks abound and abide within.

If bug-eating, bloodletting, haunting, hanging, skull scraping, screaming, and banging are up your alley, you’ve stumbled across the perfect passages.

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horrors, jumping out of your skin, ailurophobia (def: a fear of cats), or are generally a soft-hearted creature better suited to bright lights than frightful nights, beware.

Welcome to Winnipeg’s Scariest. This feature will take you around the compass, back in time, through the woods, a cave, and a basement or two. If you’ve visited all the places we mention and have tried all the things we suggest, we of the Manitoban would like to take a moment to express our condolences.

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here’s a different kind of scary – fearsomeness that comes not in the frightful facts of a moment, but through turning our gaze into the vastest of any unknowns, the future. There is a complementary terror, also rooted in the certitude of decay rather than the chaos of violence. The past lines our faces and marks our bodies,

opens our eyes and reveals the fragility of our flesh.

There are faces in Boisdes-Esprits. They inlay the dead wood of the forest.

There’s a story there, and a more literal tale on a sign beside the largest of the carvings in the wood: “As each eye was opened by the sculptors, the forest became completely silent, until the outline of the eye was

complete.”

I’ll let you frequent the forest of faces yourself; let you find the mournful eyes, the unmoving owl, and the growing collection of faerie doorways. Go read the story of the place, and do some rooting around. But keep your wits about you; there may or may not be more than meets the eye.

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Death for Riel

Or is he still hanging around?

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wenty policemen stood guard in the chilly morning under a clear sky. Their ghostly breath was visible as they waited for the prisoner to ascend to the gallows.

It was shortly after eight o’clock in the morning and a firm, hemp rope hung without stirring in the calm air. Although there was a small crowd gathered at the police barracks near Regina, the loudest sounds were the prayers, guided by members of the clergy, from the man under sentence of death.

A constrained form of undulating muscles, like waves lapping at the edges of otherworldly reality, trying to break free The prisoner’s feet were kept warm in moccasins and his upper body clad in a woollen shirt and collar and a black coat, with grey tweed pants between his feet and torso. The convict mounted the wooden platform to meet his executioner, whose visage was concealed behind a mask. Intoning continuously “Je me confie en Dieu,” the condemned man’s arms were tightly bound, and he then proceeded down six steps to stand upon hell’s trapdoor, whereon his own face was covered with a white hood.

Before his life force was jerked violently into oblivion, Louis Riel asked forgiveness from all men, and forgave those who wronged him.

Deputy Sheriff Gibson later destroyed the noose to prevent opportunists from trying to seduce would-be disciples of the condemned resistance leader. Although the true rope may have vanished, Annie Soule, the daughter of an architect in the locale of the execution, told of a man going door-to-door to sell pieces of that same rope. Nearly a century and a quarter later, residents of the city of Muddy Waters find themselves paying for talismans that call on the power of a man alternately seen as a hero and as a traitor.

Seven years ago, Brendon Ehinger, a graphic designer in Winnipeg, made a personal homage to the Father of Manitoba by adorning a t-shirt with the face of the man as well as the words “Keepin’ it Riel.” Spurred on by the encouragement of others, Ehinger mass-produced the face with the most famous moustache in Manitoba and the slogan. Today he has sold over 2,000 copies, and has product for sale at Le Musée de Saint-Boniface Museum

and the Festival du Voyageur store.

Sew Dandee in Osborne Village has a variety of clothing with images of the rebel, including designer Dan Phelps’ image of the man who signed the Keystone Province into Confederation consuming a Slurpee.

Comic book artist Chester Brown solicited the appearance of Riel’s spirit with Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography. The work, which first appeared in serialized form between 1999 and 2003, was published as a book in 2003 and re-released this year.

Various songs, an opera by the deceased Harry Somers, and a CBC television movie, which aired in 1979, have invoked the ghost of Riel. Even the Front de libération du Québec, in the 1960s, called upon his memory as a resistance leader when they named one of their cells Louis Riel.

Could any charms be more spiritually suggestive than the attempt to contain the grandiose sculpture of Riel as a constrained form of undulating muscles, like waves lapping at the edges of otherworldly reality, trying to break free? This statue can be found at the Université de Saint-Boniface, where it was moved in 1995 after spending about a quarter-century behind the Legislative Building on the banks of the Assiniboine River. This controversial piece by Marcien Lemay and Etienne Gaboury was replaced on the legislature grounds by a more socially-accepted statue by Miguel Joyal in which Riel, wearing moccasins, a ceinture-fléchée, and a greatcoat holds the paper on which the Manitoba Act, which brought the province into Confederation, was authorized.

And never mind all the physical paraphernalia that can be used to summon the power of a Catholic who thought he was a prophet for his god, who alternately affirmed his sanity and wanted to be tried as an insane man: in 2007 the province of Manitoba marked a yearly day of remembrance for Riel on the third Monday in February, to be begun in 2008. Additionally, at least a dozen bills have passed through parliament since 1995 in relation to the Father of Manitoba, including bills to see his conviction as a traitor overturned.

If you want to get closer to the essence of this great leader/folk hero/insane criminal/cultural icon/misunderstood schoolteacher, travel to 330 River Road in St. Vital and visit the home where Riel lived. Approach the dead man’s own clothing, on display at the Le Musée de Saint-Boniface Museum (494 Tache Ave), or chant prayers at his graveside at the St. Boniface Cathedral Roman Catholic Cemetery (190 Rue Cathédrale).

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Teeming with life, history Winnipeg’s Brookside Cemetery Bryce Hoye, staff

over the creek is where it all began Just roughly 135 years ago. Standing over a sea

Winnie-the-Pooh—is buried at Brookside, in Canada. “[The Stone of Remembrance] is as is Sgt. Tommy Prince (Manitoba’s most here to mark the high number of commonof some 11,000 chalky white clonal tomb- decorated Aboriginal veteran), as well as wealth war dead that are here,” said Saxby. stones in uniform rows, the indistinct buzzes northender and NHL great, Billy Mosienko, Manitoba had the highest number of and hums from the adjacent airport and famously known for scoring three goals in volunteer war recruits in Canada during the industrial park permeate and corrupt an oth- under 21-seconds. first and second World Wars, many of whom erwise serene autumn cemetery scene. Geese Brookside is also the final resting place returned only to succumb to illnesses or are dabbling and landing on the creek’s calm for 24 of the 31 casualties of the Dugald train injuries sustained while at war, said Saxby. surface waters; a great grey owl can be faintly disaster of 1947. heard, hooting from the canopy of a gnarled, “One of the most devastating train wrecks Not to fear knotted, nearby ash tree in the semidarkness in Canadian history [ . . . ] Only seven of the “The one thing I would say to people, of dusk; and a lone red fox nonchalantly hops victims could be identified and the remain- because it is coming up to Halloween, is and weaves through those very same rows, ing 24 were buried in a mass grave at the that the cemetery is not a place full of the directionless, as snow begins to fall and melt, Brookside Cemetery,” states the Manitoba dead – the cemetery is a living place,” Saxby dampening its thick coat.

Historical Society’s website. told the Manitoban.

It is a rare day indeed when we consider On top of the wildlife species previously a visit to the cemetery in search of a good Historically speaking mentioned, Brookside is seasonally home to time; whether to learn something about its Brookside has been owned and operated mating pairs of great horned owls, ducks, permanent residents – dead or otherwise; or by the City of Winnipeg since 1878. “The squirrels, skunks, raccoons, deer, many how the place factors into the greater history first burial that we have on record is just migratory songbird species, and even otters of our city. Enter: Brookside Cemetery. recorded as the infant son of George Smith,” and beavers on occasion.

Located at 3001 Notre Dame Avenue, said Jane Saxby, cemeteries administrator at “Last year we had something like 14 beawest of Red River College and Route 90, the City of Winnipeg. vers in the creek. [We had to get trappers in Brookside is one of the City’s most historyMoving ahead to 1915, a military field to take them away] because the trees were rich cemeteries, and has a distinct park-like of honour was erected at Brookside, now vanishing,” said Saxby. “I can’t express this feel with some of the best wildlife viewing considered by some to be the most signifi- to people enough: [ . . . ] this isn’t a place to opportunities on offer locally. It is the largest cantly designed Field of Honour in Canada. fear, this is a place to come and sit and enjoy cemetery in Western Canada and employs There are over 11,000 internments marked the geese and ducks on the creek.” the majority of the City of Winnipeg’s with upright military monuments mounted municipal cemeteries’ branch staff. on beams.

The City of Winnipeg is offering guided All markers in the field of honour face tours of the Field of Honour to the public The buried famous east, save for the teardrop section, which as well as to schools from Nov. 4 to Nov. In terms of notable grave sites, major contains approximately 150 of the very first 8. For more details, call 311 or visit and Harry Colebourn—who donated the black monuments of the field, as well as the Stone click the “Remembrance week tours” icon bear “Winnipeg” or “Winnie” to a London of Remembrance – the only commonwealth at http://www.winnipeg.ca/interhom/ zoo in World War I, later inspiring the book war graves commissioned stone of its kind

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Brookside Cemetery 3001 Notre Dame Avenue, west of Red River College and Route 90 Brookside is one of the City’s most history-rich cemeteries, and has a distinct park-like feel with some of the best wildlife viewing opportunities on offer locally. It is the largest cemetery in Western Canada. It has one of the largest, most significantly designed field of honour sites in Canada, with 11,000 internments marked with upright military monuments mounted on beams.

Lower fort Garry St. Andrews, Manitoba, 5925 Highway 9 The old Hudson’s Bay Company fort. It served as a trading post before going through minor transformations. It has been a correctional facility, a hospital for people living with mental illness, and a golf course/motor country club. The fort has been transformed into a haunted experience, catering to visitors in search of a spooky step into the past.

Trappist Monastery Provincial Heritage Park St. Norbert, Manitoba, 100 Rue des Ruines, Erected by members of the Trappist Order hailing from Bellefontaine, France, the monastery suffered significant damages just five years following its completion in 1978. Its ruins serve as a historical symbol to the contemplative lifestyle sought by its monk founders. beams.

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St. Boniface City Hall 219 Boulevard Provencher The city hall was built in 1905. The building, however, is not the spooky highlight of the lot. The sculpture garden to the east contains works ranging from the disconcerting to the horrifying. No tour of Winnipeg is complete without a glimpse of the ghostly children or flame red wolf prowling there eternally.

Saint Boniface Cathedral 190 Avenue de la Cathedrale The cathedral’s graveyard is home to Louis Riel’s grave. The building itself is complicated, a modern smaller church housed in the ruins of a burnt out stone cathedral constructed at the beginning of the 20th century. There has been a chapel on the spot since 1918. formed into a haunted experience, catering to visitors in search of a spooky step into the past.

Bois-des-Esprits Near South St. Anne’s road in the Royalwood area A network of trails runs through the Bois-des-Esprit Forest. Throughout the park there are faces carved into the dead wood. A careful observer may also spot animals and tiny mysterious portals. A massive carving, called Woody, graces the center of the forest.

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Under the fur and skin

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witness to, rest assured that I will err in rugs) and given the aesthetic touches—eyes, he scent of meat is great, when the my recall and/or description of some of the teeth, darkening paint touchups to overly meat is cold or cooked. When the aspects of this multifaceted pursuit. bleached exposed skin—necessary to get flesh is warm and raw I experience a heady There’s the painting of fish moulds; the as close to life as possible. high, my body telling me something of moulds are suited to the size of the fish I was witness to a bear being prepared. import is occurring. Or caught by the person who orders the trophy, Ron Chascewski was working under the maybe it was the mould then painted with unerring pre- tutelage of David Baxter, current owner the lingering cision, to match the dappling of the speci- of the shop, possessor of 48 years of taxipheromones of men (nowadays often released after caught) dermy experience. The owner mentioned an apex preda- whose photos and measurements provide the that he hoped Chascewski would be the tor, triggering my template. The old method of drying the fish one doing the tutoring a few decades down f light and more and stretching its skin over a mould is used the road. The business is close-knit. Baxter f light response. sparingly now, though Telesky Taxidermy recently bought the shop from his brother Whatever the cause had a box full of just such skins, salted to Jim, who had purchased it from the origiof my giddy headed- dry, in the basement. nal owner, Ron Telesky. Jim and David ness, I held myself Mammals are a much gorier (read: both got their taxidermy starts at Hawkins together until I exited “suited to this feature”) endeavour. The tech- Taxidermy (which is no longer operating) the Telesky Taxidermy niques of removing the flesh while keeping nearly five decades ago. David Baxter noted shop, at 545 Arlington. the skin of an animal intact are myriad and that he could not think of anyone locally Then I took a moment demanding. Difficult parts of animals may who had been at the craft as long as he and to recuperate, and sev- be hung by what bodily parts have already his brother. eral days to think. been freed to allow the hide’s weight to After some time in the basement Baxter I went into the experi- gently part it from the muscle, tendon, and took a break, clearly at home in his shop ence expecting to be wit- other fleshy bits I can’t identify. Hides are and proud of his wares, and explained the ness to an art form. I was planked, spread over a board, and painstak- pieces he found most interesting as I toured witness to many. The craft ingly stripped of flesh. A skin may then be the storefront of the shop. From polar bears of taxidermy is so skilful that cleaned with small knives; precision is the and wolves to ducks and fish, the trophies I’m sure to butcher the description (that’s call of the day for the finicky bits, like inner lining the shelves, walls, and ceiling attested why they call making an inaccurate mess eyelids. Skins are dried using salts. The final in their still (un)lives to the artistry of their “butchering,” not “taxidermying”). product is stretched over plastic and foam (re)creators.

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To the cat cave Quinn Richert, staff

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am lucky to have a friend who walks along the banks of the Seine River.

One year ago, he took me to see one of his discoveries.

Up on the mucky riparian zone, somewhere in south St. Vital, a wedge is worn out of the concrete slab of an apartment’s parking garage. We were there at midnight, of course, and my friend had his flashlight with him.

When he turned it on, there were about 50 pairs of eyes glowing in the beam’s periphery.

He insisted we get closer. I insisted we leave.

My fear at that time stemmed partially from the cats, and partially from the awareness that someone could be looking down at you from the top of the concrete pad. I have a deep-rooted fear of confrontation, and I didn’t want to have any kind of conversation with the crooked-fingered old woman that supposedly cares for the animals.

Now I confess that part of the reason I’m calling this one of Winnipeg’s scariest places is to come to grips with

it. Last week, I thought I’d return for a better look.

If you’re quiet when you walk from the top of the parking lot to the banks of the Seine, you’ll hear cats running away from your approaching footsteps.

You’ll see one or two dart past the dumpsters and the pallet of rusty old propane tanks.

Some other things to notice: the urban cave’s surface is almost entirely covered with graffiti. There are dirty margarine containers filled with cat food placed strategically around the space, and filthy old blankets have been laid out all over. People are here, and I doubt they would be receptive to the presence of outsiders.

The creepiest sensation is seeing the glow of cats’ eyes from the cracks and crevices in front of you, simultaneously hearing one run by behind you.

It becomes obvious you’ve crossed a line. You’re not on the border. You are crouching in the middle of a feral cat colony.

The deeper you go into the space, the more you are forced to crouch, and the

farther you move from the only viable point of exit. If you’re claustrophobic, don’t visit.

My second journey into the cat colony was productive. I clarified why I don’t like going there in particular, and was also able to draw some fairly broad conclusions about what generates fear for me.

The first time, I would have said there was something scary about the cats themselves. The fact that you’re on their territory and vastly outnumbered is uncomfortable. Exposure to all of those disease vectors is also troubling for an irretrievable hypochondriac.

But that is not all. The second time, even though the cat count had diminished significantly, the fear was more or less the same. The place makes you hear your own heart beat because it feels like somewhere you’re not supposed to be.

I have worried about being cornered in the wrong place my whole life, and that is why the cat cave gives me a good scare. If you’re the same, look for that this Halloween. Wherever you go, just make sure you have a brave guide.

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Are edible insects the food of the future?

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there will be a small chance or the average of them hopping away.

Canadian, coldGrasshoppers can usually blooded crawly crea- be found at the edges of fields tures may be feared or on roadsides. Brady Road or revered. If you fall would be a good place to start into the “I barf at the your hunt. thought of eating spiWinnipeg’s Insect Control ders in my sleep” camp, lists caterpillars as tree pests, it’s time you got a little but did you know that these closer to and more pests can be pecked at? Caterpillars are comfortable with your extremely diverse, and they’re a great critter friends. source of protein, too. The collection of Before you turn these fuzzy guys for eats is an important the page at the mere part of some African cultures. thought of putting a The mopane caterpillar can be dried, beetle in your belly, preserving its edible nature for months consider the fact that at a time. But first, it must be degutted insect species make up (perhaps the most fun part) and boiled in over half of identified salted water. living organisms on Earth. Many are loaded The dirtiest of the edible insects may be with protein, calcium, iron, and zinc. When the dung beetle, who truly lives for dung – they’re used as a food source, insects require in other words, cow poo. Cow patties are much less land space and feed than tradi- dung beetles’ home and food all in one tional livestock such as cows and pigs.

– talk about economical.

Investing in insect harvesting could be Dung beetles might actually reduce the beneficial to poor segments of society, as methane from cow patties by as much as a result of the low technology and capital 40 per cent. The beetles’ process of digrequired in the process. They can be har- ging through cow feces creates spaces for vested by people in rural and urban areas. air to flow, lowering the production of Plus, their exoskeleton gives them a satisfy- methane. ing crunch between your teeth.

So, the next time you’re searching for Have I convinced you yet? that comforting crunch from a bag of chips, If you’re an early riser, maybe you’d like why not hunt for a grasshopper, caterpillar, to try grasshopper. They’re easier to catch or beetle instead? If you cover the bugs in in the morning when the temperature is chocolate, you might not even notice their cooler. Since grasshoppers are cold-blooded, antennae flossing between your teeth. their bodies will be mostly immobile and

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Uneasy Winnipeg: Lit and film to dread Carlyn Schellenberg, staff

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Moloney told the Manitoban.

Moloney regularly uses Winnipeg as a foundation for settings in her novels. The majority of The Thirteen takes place in a neighbourhood similar to the East Kildonan area she spent 13 years in raising her Scary novels by son. “There’s a scene in The Thirteen Winnipeg authors that takes place on Logan Avenue.

The grocery store in the book is the Gethsemane Hall (2012) Sobeys on Henderson Highway. The

by David Annandale mall where a terrible thing happens Dav id A nnanda le’s pub- is on Academy. I named a character lished works include The Death of after my accountant. The Thirteen has Antagonis and The Valedictorians, but Winnipeg as its blood source.”

Gethsemane Hall is his first horror novel. Beginning with an ominous Scary movies/television tone, the book follows Richard Gray shows filmed in Winnipeg as he finds that his inherited home is haunted, and he lets others into the Curse of Chucky (2013) house to see for themselves with all The sixth of the 15-year Chucky/ their preconceptions.

Child’s Play franchise can be seen on Annandale says that while it takes DVD as of Oct. 8, and director Don place in England, the novel has an Mancini told the Winnipeg Free indirect connection to Winnipeg. “It Press this month that Winnipeg is set in the same fictional universe as helped bring life to another sequel. my Jen Blaylock novels, which have scenes set in Winnipeg (especially the Father’s Day (2011) second, Kornukopia).”

I’m not sure I’d recommend even Annandale—a senior instructor for watching the gory and disturbing the University of Manitoba’s depart- trailer for this film. Father’s Day is an ment of English, film, and theatre— exploitation film about a man out to told the Manitoban: “What I hoped get revenge on the serial rapist/killer to achieve was a creeping dread, cul- who murdered his father years before. minating in outright terror, with the It was shot partly in Winnipeg and hope, as a bonus, of the reader being directed by local filmmaking group left with extremely disturbing reflec- Astron-6. tions. So, you know, fun.”

Gethsemane Hall, says Annandale, Keyhole (2011) is “a stab at the classic trope of the Screenwriters Guy Maddin and investigating team in a haunted house. George Toles—who both teach film at I wondered what would happen if the University of Manitoba—present both the skeptics and the believers the story of Ulysses, which draws parwere both wrong. So the book is suf- allels from Homer’s Odyssey. Ulysses fused with themes surrounding ques- must strangely find his way through tions of faith – religious, scientific or his house after coming home. otherwise.”

While this may not fall within the traditional parameters of the horror The Thirteen (2012) by genre, this black-and-white thriller’s Susie Moloney eeriness alone warrants a mention.

Susie Moloney is no stranger to the Director Guy Maddin recently spoke horror genre, having Bastion Falls, A to the Manitoban about Keyhole.

Dry Spell, and The Dwelling—whose haunted house is based on her friend’s The Manitoban: Can you describe house on Lilac Street—to her name. the overall tone of the film?

Her latest, Things Withered, a short story collection centering on “suburban Guy Maddin: We tried for a darkness,” comes out later this year. dreamy murky sad nostalgia that was The Thirteen is about a woman who, so unrelenting that it almost suffoby moving into the suburban Haven cates. There’s a plot in Keyhole, but it’s Woods with her daughter, enters a faint, or rather, there is so much plot, world of human sacrifice and demon WAY TOO MUCH PLOT, that it’s rape. “The Thirteen is a dark, sometimes actually hard to find the story somecomic, often violent look at a group of times, strangely, so there is also the suburban housewives in a small neigh- extremely terrifying danger of getting bourhood in a very nice, very proper lost inside this maze-like movie, and city, who just happen to be witches,” therefore bored. So if you’re scared of ave horror in mind? Here are some locally shot films and television shows, and novels by local authors to pick up in time for Halloween.

being suffocated or bored I guess this is a scary movie.

M: Can you describe the main themes within the film?

GM: I’d rather not talk about the themes screenwriting collaborator George Toles and I worked on.

Instead, we put into the movie the stuff that haunts me most – and that’s a bunch of stuff from my past, from my strange childhood, from my earliest relationships with family, from the home in which I lived a long time ago. It’s a haunted house movie where I, the filmmaker himself, is the one haunting the house. I just keep going back, over and over and over, to that first emotionally charged home – in my dreams, in my movies, and, unfortunately, in slightly too loud conversations with strangers on the bus.

M: What was the scariest place to film?

GM: My mother’s womb, without a doubt. We couldn’t use the real thing for a bunch of insider moviemaking reasons, so we built a stylized bog featuring chest-deep water, lots of bulrushes, and slippery mossy rocks.

And then our characters just dived in.

It was dark, it was cold, it was scary.

The actors didn’t understand why they were going in there at all, and I wasn’t sure either, which didn’t help at all – and they couldn’t quite tell what was on the bottom.

M: Did Winnipeg influence the dark tone of the film? If so, how?

GM: Winnipeg put me in a toxic trance the day I was born. I’ve spent my entire adult life trying to put that trance on the screen.

Todd and the Book of Pure Evil (2010) This two-season Canadian television show is about a “stoner metalhead” who finds a demonic spell book. Todd and his friends try to benefit from these spells, but they inevitably backfire and create pandemonium at school. The show was filmed at Silver Heights Collegiate, Tec Voc High School, and the former Deer Lodge Junior High School.

An Indiegogo campaign was launched for the third season. Over $100,000 was raised, which will be allocated to a Todd and the Book of Pure Evil animated film next year.

“Winnipeg put me in a toxic trance the day I was born” – Guy Maddin

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Unlimited gags at Gags Unlimited

Balloons, and costumes, and props, oh my!

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Fright at the Fort Lower Fort Garry’s new Halloween programming in review Kara Passey, staff

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lose to two decades have passed since the last time I went to Lower Fort Garry. I definitely remember having an awkward mushroom cut and sitting on one of those sticky grey seats on a yellow school bus on the way there. This time I drove myself—along with my buddy Sam who serenaded me with Patsy Cline the entire way—and instead of going on a tour with a costumed interpreter, we were there to look for ghosts.

The Hudson’s Bay Company built the fort—located just over 30 km outside of Winnipeg—in 1830 in response to an 1826 flood that destroyed Fort Garry (now Winnipeg). The finished fort included a fur loft, Big House (where the governor and other high-ranking officials lived), warehouses, a store, and a men’s house.

It served as post to a small amount of fur trading, and was primarily used as a supply depot for the Red River Settlement and nearby Cree, Anishinaabe, Métis, and European residents. Over the years it has had many uses, including being a correctional facility, a hospital for people living with mental illness, and a golf course/ motor country club.

More recently, the fort has offered ghost tours in the fall months, but this year they tried something new, something they’re calling Fright at the Fort.

Sam and I were greeted by some very friendly staff in the visitor centre and handed spooky maps. We walked down a dark path and came to a bonfire where we caught some stories about Wendigos— demon creatures of Algonquin folklore— and were promptly scared by a dude in the bushes wearing a black cloak. We hustled over to the fort entrance just to run into some other costumed actors who screamed and ran into the darkness.

“Traditionally, the programs have been more family-friendly, but this year, Parks Canada is trying to attract more young adults to Lower Fort Garry. To do that, we have revamped the program and increased the ‘scary factor’ to appeal to

a more grown-up audience,” says David Lavallee, public relations and communications officer of Parks Canada – Manitoba Field Unit.

“The majority of the staff are Parks Canada interpreters [and we] also have some additional volunteers added to the mix and support staff assisting. The summer interpreters are trained to bring history to life by playing figures from Lower Fort Garry’s past, all while in historic costume. [ . . . ] For this program, they are diverging from the norm to bring some little-known facts and fiction to visitors.”

We wandered through the haunted fur warehouse, visited the general store where ghosts threw things off the shelves onto the floor, and attended a show in the prison about a murdering adulterer.

I was glad to have Sam with me – not because I was scared, but because he was way better at being a participating audience member than I. After warming up in the tavern over a Fort Garry Pale Ale and root beer, we checked out the best part of the fort: the haunted Big House. We wandered through rooms filled with décor hinting at cannibalism, talked to a creepy man butchering humans in the basement, and ended up in a drawing room with a man drawing pictures in blood threatening us with a knife. At one point, Sam claimed he saw a woman walk by a doorway wearing a white dress, but I didn’t see anything.

“There are many stories about ghostly sightings and experiences at Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site, many of which were experienced by both visitors and staff. For example, it is said that a lady in a white dress has been seen fleetingly in the Big House,” says Lavallee. “Other sightings and strange noises have been seen and heard in the fur loft, and in the warehouse building, which at one point in its history served as a prison.”

Also, there was a cute cat named Wiggles that wanders around the fort.

corn; ghostly wisps brushed my that the water could as easily n my quest for scary I visited shoulders. Masks were strung have been blood. Reassuring. a store that elevates haunt- across most of the available ceilI got a glimpse of an eerie ings and transformations to a ing space. Peering, leering, jeer- basement: innumerable manprofessional level. Though open ing faces angled disconcerting nequins were strewn about and year-round for the party needs gazes to all corners. tropical trees offset cardboard of any season, Gags Unlimited The place was packed for the boxes along the walls. More is a superb source for scarifying entirety of the visit: staff hur- storage space was pointed out when the spookiest time of year riedly and efficiently moved to me: the upper floor, the trailer looms implacably on the calendar. between customers, dealt with in the back. Inventory must be a The business began with the sell- deliveries, and peopled the tills. nightmare, indicative of the guts ing of balloons and now boasts My guide, Katrina Murray, made required to run such a shop. a trailer, basement, storefront, several apologies, as the demands Owner Kerry Hogan has and second floor full of mer- of the business drew her atten- brought Gags Unlimited to a boil chandise cycling into the hands tion. There was, of course, no this Halloween season. From of Winnipeg’s best costumed and need for such polite amends; I inexpensive props and getups dedicated party enthusiasts. suffered from no loss of mate- to $1,500 costumes (Boba Fett I had visited in the past, to rial to process. I was fascinated of Star Wars was recently sold, grab balloons for birthdays, and by the variety of viscera, guises, the Red Knight of Todd and the I’d gazed upon some of the won- and bones. The almost haphazard Book of Pure Evil currently stands ders the shop had to offer. This display of merchandise enhanced guard), Gags Unlimited has been was my first trip inside the store the chaotic excitement, the fright bringing a blast to Winnipeg in October and the macabre factor. parties and holidays for over 30 material was waxing.

“Step back.” years.

I meandered over a zombie I obeyed. One of the displays baby and was prodded by a uni- spat at me, and Murray explained

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Dildos, art, and DJs The Boutique on Albert Street provides a new space to exhibit art Lukas Thiessen, staff

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repare yourself for Winnipeg’s kinkiest art show ever.

“We are keeping art and sex accessible to people, and keeping it fun.

We’re exposing people to stuff they may not have seen before.”

Sarah Bertnick, local artist and employee at the rebranded Exchange District adult shop The Boutique (formerly Fantasy Boutique, a spinoff of Discreet Boutique, which closed in 2012), says the store’s upcoming event The Halloween Hangover is a place where people who have never been to a sex shop and people who have never been to an art show will feel comfortable.

Although there is a cliché of embarrassed men in sunglasses and caps with upturned collars surreptitiously dashing into shops with blacked-out windows to grab an artwork by quite frankly item and rushing away without a word after making their purchase, be adorned with steel grating. The ladies.” Lemon’s work follows along this event makes coming incognito grates will be hung with darkly sexual a similar vein. not a cliché but an opportunity. It’s works by local artists: including Ken Malodomini—another artist who a costume party, with prizes available P. Smooth, Quite Frankly, Maxx uses a moniker and is actually named from the store.

Red, Malodomini, Cassidy Lemon, Devin Reimer—works large, and After opening for their first event Raeisaman, Rodrigo Pradel, Dany makes abstract oil paintings based on at this year’s Nuit Blanche, co-owner Reede, and Roch. photographs of self-made dioramas.

Holly Dagenais realized Smooth is a steampunk she wanted to host more. artist whose weaponsThe Boutique is remodelling During the annual arts grade sculpture will be on and cultural celebration, display. Red’s pieces will their unfinished basement to the adult store welcomed include pen and ink works look like a dungeon for the event between 700 and 800 of the chaotic and surreal patrons and party-goers. macabre. Raeisaman creThe Boutique is remodates collages, Pradel works elling their unfinished basement to Frankly is an artist’s moniker for with a modernized style of pinup girl look like a dungeon for the event. Bertnick, who works with acrylic art, Reede is an illustrator that could The walls, made of rough stone, old paint as well as pencil; her works be considered a 90s fanzine revivalist, wood, and corrugated metal, will depict, as she says, “creepy, sexy and Roch is flying in from Calgary to

The ABCs of S-E-X: sexual preference Jodie Layne, volunteer staff

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elcome, sexual voyagers, to only familiar with three categories: this, the above mentioned, limited another edition of The ABCs gay, straight, and bisexual. The understanding demands that we cateof S-E-X! very common—and gorize our attractions These columns are an attempt to oversimplified—unto people in a concrete Sexual cover important material that your derstanding is that way, whereas research gym teachers might have neglected in we’re either attracted suggests that our sexpreference high school. We talked about gender to members of “the ual identities are fluid last time; gender and sexuality often opposite gender,” and ever-changing. doesn’t have get mixed together in discussion, so “the same gender,” or D r.

A lfred anything to it made sense to venture to sexual “both genders.” This Kinsey was the first preference next. becomes implicitly to research this condo with your To make it clear, gender is about problematic when cept and found that own gender how individuals perceive themselves, we operate under the humans of all genders whereas sexual preference doesn’t knowledge that there are rarely 100 per cent have anything to do with your own are more than just hetero or homosexual; gender. It’s all about the gender—or two genders; there’s a whole spec- rather, he found that their sexual lack thereof—of others. trum! It also leaves out those who preferences were somewhere between There is a good chance you are aren’t attracted to anyone. On top of the two.

artwork by malodomini and maxx

showcase pen and ink works. and possibly some acid techno, while There will also be group works by DJ sELF will be laying down proformer students of the University of gressive psytrance.

Manitoba’s fine arts program. Frankly, The shop will be open for business Red, Malodomini, and Lemon were that night, where you can buy some of part of the same program at the same the most exciting products that range time, and still work together, just as from condoms and simple vibrators, the former local group the Royal Art to amazingly unique kinky items, Lodge once did. including a dildo made from black When you descend the forebod- moonstone and labradorite. They ing staircase into The Boutique’s sell other unique products, includfantastically-lit dungeon, you will ing locally-made fare, and Dagenais be met by DJs in a cage suspended is always looking for more local profrom the ceiling. Colony Collapse ducers, so get in contact through their will be playing his own darkly elec- website at http://fantasyboutiquetoys. tronic music, while Asher Moai will blogspot.ca. be spinning upbeat works in a 1980sThe Halloween Hangover will open disco throwback. DJ Grudge and DJ on Saturday, Nov. 2 from 6 p.m. until Squid will be playing drum and bass 1 a.m.

Although still relevant and ever open relationship can look (that will helpful, this research was conducted be saved for another column). People earlier on in our understanding of who are monogamous are only in one human sexuality and we know now relationship at a time. Some people that there is a much wider array of naturally identify as being monogaways people experience their sexual- mous and make a conscious choice ity. In fact, some of us experience our to do so. romantic and sexual feelings sepaAlternatively, there are folks who rately. For example, someone who feel no sexual attraction at all: those identifies as a woman could desire who identify as asexual/apasexual. to be in relationships with only mas- People who are demisexual are people culine people but enjoy having sex who are only attracted to someone if with women and men. She would be they have an emotional attraction or heteroromantic and bisexual, or vice connection to them. versa; already we have so many possiFinally, there are people who idenble variations of sexual orientations. tify as pomosexual and people who Then, there are people who iden- identify as questioning. Pomosexual tify as pansexual, meaning they’re people reject the notion that sexualattracted to specific people and not ity can or should be limited to labels. specific genders. They aren’t bisex- Then there are people questioning their ual, but they don’t just have sex with sexuality and exploring the myriad people of one or two genders. They’re options without committing to anyopen to everyone in the spectrum and thing as part of their identity yet. base their decisions on the individual So, as you can see, the topic of person and what’s attractive about sexuality is a lot more complicated them. than most of us have language to To even further make “gay, straight, explain. Learning more about difor bi” seem ridiculously confining, ferent sexualities can be an important there are people who identify as and empowering step towards discovpolyamorous and people who iden- ering your own sexual identity and tify as monogamous. People who are better understanding others’. polyamorous are able to be in multiple You can confidentially subrelationships at one time. There are mit a question or topic many different ways that a poly or to jodie.m.w.layne@gmail.com.

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Looking beyond MASKulinity Open forums spark conversations about masculinity, violence, and positive change Anastasia Chipelski, staff

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The Bonaduces are back After 15 years, an “Armadillo” emerges (and promises to bring friends) Anastasia Chipelski, staff

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hile they haven’t officially feeling the enthusiasm for this new released anything since 1998’s upswing in music production. People Democracy of Sleep, the Bonaduces were singing along with the new song, haven’t been entirely dormant. which, according to McLean, was a They’ve played “about 10 times total diverse crowd of fans. since the 90s,” says lead vocalist/gui“Obviously lots of old faces, some tarist Doug McLean, and getting younger brothers/sisters of old faces, back together is never a challenge. and then a smattering of new to new“It really is the easiest thing in ish faces. Basically the fact that there the world playing with Mike, Bob, were faces there at all was great for and Chris. We could probably have us.” picked up 15 years later, cold, and it The Bonaduces are hoping to would be the same,” says McLean. release another track in December They promised to release new or January, and potentially release the music—“a small amount of music, album in April, though it’s too early approximately one to two cups”—for in the recording process to set any their show on Oct. 20 at the Park dates for certain. They’re definitely Theatre, as a teaser for an album not anticipating a long, drawn-out to follow sometime in 2014. These recording process. one to two cups came in the form of “[It’s] not like we make the most the single “Armadillo,” which they complicated songs in the world, and released via their Facebook page on we trust each other to do what we all Oct. 19. do. There’s a real minimum of fuss in “Armadillo” is, not surprisingly, the whole process,” says McLean. a classic Bonaduces track, true to But, given the enthusiasm they’ve form. While there’s more certainty in seen from every prior reunion show, McLean’s voice, the driving guitars and the reaction to “Armadillo,” this and energetic backing vocals have, if is bound to be a widely-anticipated anything, increased in intensity. release by fans and the band alike.

“We all voraciously listen to so “[The] reaction that this band gets much new music, but when we get is really quite different than anything together with instruments, all our else I’ve been involved in [ . . . ] it musical awareness is filtered down gets us more visceral and emotional and it still comes out basically onstage. I personally love watching sounding like the Bonaduces,” says the Bonaduces, the part that occurs McLean. outside of my head. [ . . . ] The other They’ve been throwing the idea people in the band are all so amazof another album around for the last ing and engaged. I forget I’m playing five years. sometimes and just watch the chaotic “This year, everyone’s collec- stuff going on around me.” tive enthusiasm levels definitively trumped all of our collective adult Listen to the new single “Armadillo” schedules.” at http://thebonaduces.bandThe Bonaduces aren’t the only ones camp.com/track/armadillo.

aving a much different opin- pation in a culture that creates and ion from your peers can be condones a certain level of sexual challenging, intimidating, and violence,” says LaRosa.

The video brought together a sometimes downright isolating.

David Lampert, co-founder of the diverse cast of men from the comManitoba Men’s Network (MMN), munity: football players, musicians, will often hear men around him university students, and educacommenting that sexism is not a tors spoke about messages they’ve problem anymore, and while he received about masculinity and has been threatened and asked to healthy manhood. They also considleave town for challenging this idea, ered the various issues that keep men he’s not the only one who thinks from speaking out about violence this way. against girls and women, and how On Oct. 19, Lampert par- they can be part of the solution. ticipated in the first session of The full video, as well as the indian ongoing series of community vidual interviews with the video parforums called “MASKulinity: ticipants, will be posted on YouTube, Truth, Lies, and Fairytales” at on Project MEND’s Facebook page, Klinic Community Health Centre. on Klinic’s website, and will also be The forums are co-sponsored by promoted through Status of Women the MMN and Project MEND: Manitoba. LaRosa hopes that other Males ENDing gendered violence, groups can also use this as a starting which works within the Sexual point to have similar conversations Assault Crisis Program at Klinic among younger and older men. to “engage men and boys to take a While gender roles and stereostand against male violence against types seem to be “the exact same, women and girls and to mobilize everywhere you go,” an individual’s action that fosters equality, respect own ideas about masculinity—and their influences—are more nuanced, and solidarity.” “[My] hope was that the major- says Ian Neufeld LaRue, who was ity of those in attendance would part of the video and also spoke on be men and secondly, that this the panel on Oct. 19. event would spark discussion and LaRue found his own role models engagement as well as provide some “acting outside of [their] own gender sort of momentum for action,” says roles” in a counterculture punk and Project MEND coordinator Nadia skater community as a teenager.

LaRosa. “[I] was blown away by not havBringing men together to talk ing to be tough,” says LaRue. He about their experience is key to inspir- also credits his parents’ support, and ing a sense of personal responsibility, hopes that more parents can support which can lead to larger systemic their kids in this way. “[Allow] them to be who they are; change, according to Lampert.

Lampert remarked that see- that’s really important.” ing more young men speaking up Panelist Jeremy Zloty, a student is “exciting, encouraging… It takes at the University of Manitoba, also spoke about his own experience courage.”

“Men are isolated, they’re loners [ seeking out role models. When he . . . ] We learned from the women’s was eight or nine, he started looking movement. They said, ‘you need to up to other young black men. get together, you need groups.’” “[They were] maybe a few grades The forum on Oct. 19 also up [ . . . ] I saw them as sort of a beamarked the first screening of a video, con of what I would become.”

“Mending Voices,” created by Project “That’s how I would need to act, MEND. the way I would need to dress, the “‘Mending Voices’ is a video proj- way I would need to talk,” says ect aimed at capturing the thoughts Zloty.

And for him, the stereotypiand feelings of men in our community about masculinity, sexism, cal masculine roles were narrowly violence, and ways to resist partici- limited to rapper, football player, or

gangster. He hoped that by speaking out as part of this forum, simply as a young person, and less professional than the other panellists, he could inspire more young men to do the same.

Other audience members could also relate to Zloty’s struggle to find healthier role models.

“A consistent idea of what a man is doesn’t really exist anymore [ . . . ] it’s just so confusing [ . . . ] it’s a total mess,” says Robin Bryan.

In order to clear up some confusion, the last half hour of the event was spent in smaller groups, seeking answers to the question: “What are some concrete actions that men can take on an individual level, in our relationships, in our communities, and in the broader world to end men’s violence against women?”

The forum organizers hoped that every man in the room could leave with at least one tangible action that felt possible for them. By the end of the afternoon, there was a wide range of possible solutions posted across the walls, including: start with ourselves, seek out positive people, ask for help, read books written by feminists, confront homophobia, educate ourselves about gendered violence, learn how to deal with emotions, and take violence out of the equation.

And above all, LaRosa hopes for more conversations on this subject.

“There is something very powerful about having the messaging come from other men [ . . . ] I feel pretty hopeful that the folks that attended will bring the video to their respective groups and begin the conversation there.”

The conversation continues with a second forum in the MASKulinity: Truth, Lies, and Fairytales series, to be held at Klinic on Nov. 20 from 7-8:30 p.m. Check out Project MEND on Facebook and YouTube.

For more information about the Manitoba Men’s Network, email manitoba.mens.network@gmail. com. For more information about what men can do to stop gendered violence, visit http://www. jacksonkatz.com/wmcd.html.

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Bizarre-o-tainment Local art centres get ready to show off their TALENTS! Michelle Saromo, volunteer staff

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s part of their fundraising efforts flexibility between the organizations’ for the United Way of Winnipeg, projects and helps to cover administhe multi-talented people of Graffiti trative and operational costs, which Art Programming (GAP) and Art aren’t covered by project grants. Being City are teaming up for the fifth year a United Way agency also gives the in a row to put together their annual organizations more credibility.

“The United Way has a rigorous talent showcase. The TALENT! Variety Show isn’t your run-of-the- system for agencies to apply. When mill talent show. There will surely someone sees that you’re a United Way be the usual musical acts, of course, agency, it tells them that you’re finanbut you can also cially responsible, that the work expect to see—as that you do is Josh Ruth, manBeing a United Way successful, that aging direcagency also gives you meet the tor at Art City criteria of the puts it—some the organizations United Way, and unconventional, that you have “bizarre-o” more credibility that sustainable entertainment. funding. So it “[In the past] we’ve had people do tightrope walk- really allows [our organization] to ing, acrobatics, poi [a style of per- raise more funds [for our projects],” formance art originating from New Ruth explains.

Likewise, Louise Waldman, direcZealand], circus acts, [and] we’ve had tor of communications at the United puppetry [and] performance arts.”

The list is endless. Some artists Way of Winnipeg, says that supporthave put their skills to the test, creat- ing non-profit organizations like Art ing art in front of the audience within City and GAP is important to them because of their ability to connect with a short time span. “[We’ve had] a sort of dress that the community by providing services someone made out of clay during the and programs that help people to be all that they can be. The organizations event,” says Ruth.

They’ve even had staring contests. provide accessible art programming for the community, allowing youth “It’s a real mixed bag,” he admits.

Art City and GAP are happy to to develop their creativity in a safe collaborate in fundraising for the environment.

“We’re proud to support organizaUnited Way. “Graffiti Art Programming and Art tions [like Art City and GAP] with City are both United Way agencies, stable funding so that they can focus and we’re friends with each other. We on delivering the incredible and innodecided it would be fun for us to put on vative programs and services they do,” an event where we could have fun and says Waldman. we could hang out and get together and do something interesting. And The TALENT! Variety Show is we’re putting the talents that we have an 18+ event and will be held at to use, and we can give back to the the Regal Beagle Pub, 331 Smith United Way with the money that we Street on Nov. 2. It will be hosted

by Virgin Radio personality Ace raised from the events,” says Ruth.

Being a United Way agency means Burpee. Doors open at 9:00 p.m. a lot, says Ruth, because the United Tickets are available at either Art Way provides operational funding. City or Graffiti Gallery for $5.

This type of funding allows for more

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event Listings The arts events to attend this weekend

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Friday, Nov. 1 – 13 Stratascape: An Exploration of Surface Layers by Rachael Kroeker The Edge Gallery and Urban Art Centre

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Friday, Nov. 1 until Dec. 7 The Darryl Nepinak Show Urban Shaman Gallery

Friday, Nov. 1 Kvik / Greenhouse / Solar Coffin / Crabskull The Purple Room at FRAME

Thursday, Oct. 31 The Thrashers / Kids & Heroes / Electric Soul The Park Theatre

Saturday, Nov. 2 KEN mode / FULL OF HELL / WITHDRAWAL The Windsor Hotel

Friday, Nov. 1 LoveHoldLetGo puppet show with Mulligrub and Violent Screech 131 Selkirk Avenue

Monday, Nov. 4 ARKONA / VATHEK / PENTAPUSS / QUOTH THE SUN The Zoo

Friday, Nov. 1 NAILBRICK / SOLANUM / BEAST / IGNORANCE The Zoo

Friday, Nov. 1 The Unbelievable Bargains / Surprise Party / David Bowie (???)

The Rose n’ Bee Pub

This example is far more stripped Station Blues II compilation album, of the best videos this city has ever down and aggressive.

Surprise Party has created a visual produced. His work with American Gone is the—wink, wink—cam- work that would be right at home on Flamewhip, Pip Skid, and Smoky eos and overarching story that tied the Winnipeg Babysitter DVD that Tiger are the gold standard that all their first collaboration together. In the Winnipeg Film Group released acts should aspire to when putting their place we are treated to a black- a couple years back. Tripped out pictures to their music. The man and-white performance video, com- changes in hue, a practical bathroom knows how to make every frame posed of frenetic jump cuts and an mirror kaleidoscope effect, a man-on- count; his videos are jam-packed incredibly narrow depth of field. This man balaclava clad make-out session, with action and intriguing visual work trades the endearingly gim- and a kinky little slap for good mea- techniques. micky nature of their previous work sure make up this video.

“Toot Your Own Horn” mixes for a darker tone that put the charisThis video looks like it was filmed animation, film, and video flawlessly matic MacPherson at the forefront in in an afternoon by a couple of wasted to capture the group’s kinetic, infeca way that captures the vibe of videos madmen, but it is infinitely watch- tious energy. My favourite part is how that were being made when the song able and more honest than anything Maryniuk uses cracked and scratched G-Mac is teaming up with local is set, 1995. someone with a film degree could painted leader to frame shots of the filmmaker and managing editor of ever make. group performing in front of the The Uniter Nicholas Friesen for the Surprise Party – “Jealousy” Nutty Club building, in a way that second time. In their first attempt we You don’t get more lo-fi than this The Lytics – “Toot brings to mind a funky hip hop verwere treated to the brilliant, bubble little gem of a video.

Your Own Horn” sion of Stan Brakhage. gum, animated epic, “Party at Greg’s.”

Using a song off of the Beach Mike Maryniuk has made some

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ey Winnipeg, Here are three local groups that made their mark on YouTube.

Greg MacPherson – “1995” This video is notable because

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VOL. 100 NO. 11 October 30, 2013

Dinos bite Bisons One win in four games for the Bisons Mike Still, staff

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Manitoba dominates Bison volleyball season opens with wins in Duckworth Challenge Marc Lagace, staff

Penalties were the difference in this one, as Calgary scored three times with the man advantage

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he University of Manitoba men’s hockey team dropped two close games against the undefeated Calgary Dinos over the weekend in the Wayne Fleming Arena at the Max Bell Centre. On Oct. 25, a back and forth game ended with a heartbreaking 4-3 overtime loss.

The Bisons came out with a ton of energy to start the game Friday night, generating a number of quality chances and outshooting Calgary 11-8 in the first frame.

Their persistence paid off 16 minutes into the period, as veteran forward Luke Cain notched his first goal of the season from close photos by beibei lu range.

Manitoba’s defence, led by captain Dane Crowley, did a great job times with the man advantage. final minute. The Dinos dictated limiting the third-ranked Dinos’ Despite the loss, head coach the pace, outshooting the Bisons chances in the first, as the Bisons Mike Sirant was happy with how 33-24 in their 5-3 victory. his team responded in the third. took the early momentum.

With the pair of losses, The Bisons ran into penalty “We showed a lot of resiliency com- Manitoba falls to 2-6-0 on the trouble late in the second, which ing back twice after being down. I season, while Calgary remains seemed to take the wind out of did see us take a step forward as a undefeated at 8-0-0. The Bisons their sails. Calgary tied the game team in the third period, and we’ve will go into their conference bye up at 17:44, on a goal by forward got to build on that for tomorrow next weekend, and will not play Adam Kambeitz, just over two night.” until Friday, Nov. 8 in Regina. minutes after the first Manitoba The following evening, the Bisons suffered another tough loss, Bison women split penalty.

The visitors were able to capital- falling 5-3. series in Calgary Manitoba got things going ize on a five-on-three advantage Manitoba produced all three with less than a minute left in the early: Paradis scored his first of of their goals in the first period period, as defenceman Cory Pritz two goals at 10:47 on the power and held on the rest of the way blasted a slapshot from the point, play. Calgary answered with 2:54 for a 3-1 victory against Calgary giving Calgary a 2-1 lead heading remaining, as Cory Pritz, a thorn on Oct. 25. Scoring for the in the Bisons’ side all weekend, Bisons were Meagan Vestby at into the third.

The action heated up in the notched his third goal of the 1:04, Kyleigh Palmer at 17:51, and final 20 minutes, as the teams went season.

Brenley Anderson at 18:34. The The Dinos took the lead dur- lone Calgary goal was scored by back and forth. Manitoba forward Dylan Kelly started things off just ing a double minor penalty to Janelle Parent at 10:01 of the sec1:12 in, scoring off a brilliant pass Bison forward Jordan DePape, as ond period. from assistant captain Jesse Paradis. defencemen Giffen Nyren scored The rematch the following eveCalgary retook the lead at 15:52, with just 14 seconds remaining in ning produced far less successful as defenceman Davis Vandane the first period. results for the Bisons, as they The Dinos built on the momen- were outshot 28-21 and outscored notched the Dinos’ second power play goal of the night. Manitoba tum from the late goal and ran with 3-0. Scoring for Calgary were persisted, however, tying things it, scoring twice in the second. The Stephanie Zvonkovic at 18:23 of up on a Crowley breakaway goal goals came from forward Walker the first, and Janelle Parent, who with 2:35 remaining. The late goal Wintoneak, at 6:25 and 19:22. netted a goal in both the second The Bisons showed determina- and third. Amanda Tapp got the forced overtime.

Calgary dictated the pace tion in the third, closing the gap to shutout for the Dinos. in the extra session, ending the one goal, as forward Paul Ciarelli After taking one out of two Bisons’ chance at an upset with a tallied his first of the year at 5:32, games, the Bisons’ record stands four-on-three power play goal by followed by Paradis’ second of the at 4-3-1, while Calgary stays just defenceman Dryden Dow at 4:14 evening at 18:28. behind them, at 3-4-1. Manitoba of overtime.

Manitoba’s comeback fell short, will face the Regina Cougars next, Penalties were the difference in as Calgary forward Blake Clement playing on Nov. 1 and 2 at Wayne this one, as Calgary scored three scored an empty net goal in the Fleming Arena.

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hanks to the inclusion of soccer in the 2013 Duckworth Challenge, the University of Manitoba clinched the 23rd annual sporting challenge over the University of Winnipeg Wesmen.

The volleyball portion of the challenge was played at the Duckworth Centre in downtown Winnipeg on Oct. 24. The Bison women won 3-0 (25-21, 25-16, 25-19), while the men won 3-1 (22-25, 25-18, 26-24, 25-22).

In the women’s game, Taylor Pischke led all players with 13 kills as the Bisons dominated the Wesmen in straight sets. After a tight first set, the Bisons took full control of the match.

Staunch blocking by Manitoba stifled any hope of a Winnipeg comeback, but some sloppy play as the game went on let the Wesmen creep back in the third set. With the Bisons sitting on match point, Winnipeg rallied to within six points, but the Bisons soon put the match away.

The Wesmen men, looking to even the score, were strong coming into the game. They won the first set, but could not overcome the Bisons for the match victory. After trailing through most of the first set, the Bisons attempted to rally for the set point. A pair of errant serves proved costly, however, as

Manitoba dropped the first set 25-22.

The Bisons bounced back in the second set, as they capitalized on 11 Winnipeg attack errors. Manitoba clinched the second set 25-18, setting up an intense showdown in the third.

The two teams went shot for shot in the third as the lead changed four times. Devren Dear had four of his game-high 17 kills in the set as the Bisons won 26-24. Manitoba put the match away in the fourth, winning 25-22.

The volleyball victories, combined with the Bisons’ 2-0 soccer victory over the Wesmen in September, mean the Bisons have won the Duckworth Challenge ahead of the basketball games still scheduled to be played on Feb. 13, 2014.

The teams played a second game on Friday (men’s) and Saturday (women’s). The Bison men dropped their home opener 3-2 (22-25, 19-25, 31-29, 25-22, 15-10) after the Wesmen won an extended third set and battled back for the match victory. The following day, the Bison women continued their domination of the Wesmen winning the rematch 3-0 (25-22, 25-19, 27-25).

Bison volleyball hits the road for a series of matches against UBC in Vancouver on Nov. 1 and 2.

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Bisons trounce Golden Bears Football team secures home playoff game at IGF Mike Still, staff

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he Manitoba Bisons secured a home playoff game for next weekend and finished second in the Canada West conference after a 60-18 thumping of the Alberta Golden Bears on Oct. 26.

with running back Anthony Coombs connecting with Nic Demski from on a 38-yard touchdown pass. Alberta 15 yards out. The passing touchdown was not going down easily, though, as was Yantz’s fifth of the game, a career returner Tylor Henry took the ensu- high for himself. After a team safety ing Manitoba punt, burst things wide given up by the Golden Bears, the open, and never looked back – run- Bisons found the end zone again, ning it 106 yards to the house for the this time on a three-yard touchdown TD. Heading into the second, this run by backup running back Alex one was close at 14-7.

Christie, who had a strong game in The Bisons will host After a Stephen Fabian field goal just over a quarter and a half, tallying Saskatchewan Friday, for Alberta, Manitoba scored 20 111 yards on 11 carries. unanswered points in the second The Golden Bears put their first Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. in the quarter.

Yantz tallied up two more points of the second half on the first half touchdowns with throws of board in the last play of the third first Canada West 60 yards to Matt Sawyer and 22 yards quarter, as fifth-year running back playoff game at to Nic Demski. The final touchdown Smith Wright punched it in from Investors Group Field of the first half by Manitoba was the one yard out. most exciting play of the game, as Manitoba kept pouring it on with Anthony Coombs blazed all the way their backups in the game. After a down Alberta’s Foote Field for a 107- Fabian missed field goal resulted in an Bison quarterback Jordan Yantz yard touchdown. His phenomenal Alberta rouge, Alex Christie bolted was brilliant all night long, and got touchdown broke the Canada West 34 yards for his second touchdown the scoring started on Manitoba’s first record for longest rush and was just of the game. Nick Boyd rounded drive of the game, hitting receiver one yard short of the CIS record, set out the scoring for Manitoba on a Andrew Smith on a 12-yard touch- in 1967 and tied in 2004.

29-yard field goal with 2:26 left in down pass. The Bisons cracked the The Bisons picked up where they the fourth. scoreboard again with 3:42 left in the left off to start the second half. Yantz The Bison offence was electric all opening frame, as Yantz connected orchestrated another scoring drive, night long, putting up 790 yards on

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the evening. Jordan Yantz had one of his best games of the season, going 17 of 22 for 370 yards, with five touchdowns and one interception, as well as seven carries for 51 yards in just over three quarters of play. Yantz finished the season with a phenomenal 2,474 yards passing, and a CIS-leading 25 passing touchdowns.

Anthony Coombs led all players in rushing on the night, with 13 carries for 175 yards and one touchdown, along with five receptions for 122 yards and one touchdown. He put up an eye-popping 1,015 rushing yards in

just eight games this season, with a total of five rushing touchdowns to go with over 500 receiving yards, and six touchdowns.

With the win, the Bisons finish the regular season with a 5-3 record and Alberta falls to 0-8. The Bisons will host Saskatchewan Friday, Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. in the first Canada West playoff game at Investors Group Field. The two teams split their regular season series, with Saskatchewan winning the first game 36-34, and Manitoba responding in the second, with a 33-26 victory.