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We are tired of being oppressed by slutshaming; of being judged by our sexuality and feeling unsafe as a result. Being in charge of our sexual lives should not mean that we are opening ourselves to an expectation of violence, regardless if we participate in sex for pleasure or work. No one should equate enjoying sex with attracting sexual assault.”

-­ SlutWalk Toronto, 2011

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by Meaghan Kelly Someone commented that Arthur is really self-referential.

We italicize the shit out of Arthur, are constantly reflecting, while saying ‘this just in’. But Arthur isn’t our own. The elections proved that. Only four members of our 49-member staff collective didn’t vote. It was a packed room, and it lasted for hours.

It feels strange to write this editorial. As much as I have loved this job, the past few weeks have been a collection of countdowns and daydreams - a year of dream-drafting e-mails and seeing InDesign indexes on sidewalks. To be an editor of this paper is to be a constant site of public criticism or approval. This job is challenging, a little heartwrenching, totally absurd.... but forgive me for getting overly sentimental. It’s the time of year, and you don’t have to edit a newspaper and hand over the reins of it to feel it.

On my walk to the office, it felt like I was floating. The warm weather, the promise of the last late night here.

Sadleir House. It’s my home in a lot of ways. So how to reflect upon the paper when I am also packing up, moving out? Sadleir means so many things to so many people. It is a reminder of what can be accomplished when students, alumni, and community members come together. When your administration takes away something beautiful, what do you do?

Coordinate, buy it back, make it yours. Sadleir House isn’t just my home (I do pay rent elsewhere, though I may sometimes sleep here under my desk). It is a site of community-building, student organizing, comfort. Even though I work at a newspaper, I spend a lot of time saying, “I wish I had been writing all this down.�

I have loved hearing choir practice as I walk up the stairs, while students are working on a group project, people are knitting, or dancing, or sneaking into the Dining Hall to use the piano. It’s not weird for someone to walk into the office and say that they’re just about to attend a murder mystery dinner party, or that a sorority formed at Trent and decided to throw a party, or to see a bunch of kickass pre-teen girls lugging around guitars this summer at Rock Camp for Girls. It isn’t strange to read a sign directng

“Quakers-this way, mandolins- that way.�

Really, this place is so special and so strange, and it’s hard to disconnect Arthur from it.

Students, especially if they’re involved in activism or university politics, especially if they work for Arthur, get criticized for being too involved, for getting too worked up, but that’s what is so beautiful about this time in our lives. This participation isn’t motivated by cynicism. It comes from a sense of wonder, a passion for learning, and for realizing the education we receive isn’t so separate from the buildings we learn in, the bureaucracy the university is clouded in, the professors who teach us, and the livelihoods of everyone involved.

Like so many students, I am leaving Peterborough.

While there’s been a little bit of a love/hate relationship, I have fallen in love with this city so many times that it is hard to say goodbye. To the city, the university, the paper, Sadleir House. I am so comfortable in this strange old house of activity and history that I am not even afraid of the ghosts anymore. I was almost hoping for Little Queenie to come visit on the last night, prove the ghosts existed, speak to all the stories that are passed down from students who have spent time here about the glorious creepiness of working here late at night. Little Queenie is the girl-subject of a Victorian painting currently hiding out in storage, her name scrawled across in cursive.

On page 4, staff writer Chris Chang-Yen Phillips took the opportunity of his last article at Arthur to articulate his sense of wonder for our natural surroundings. Where does the water go, what is its story? That’s what Arthur is here for, in so many ways. Yes, to talking administrative policy, to writing about Trent news in a way that the newsfeed doesn’t. But it’s also a space to weave narratives of place into the articles we write and the issues we cover.

Our first co-op student, Kevin Elson, wrote this week (on page 7) on why we should save PCVS, the downtown integrated-arts high school, from closure. Living an hour away from Peterborough, PCVS was too far away for me to attend, much to my constant frustration. My parents

ď:LL `H Z\JRLYZ ĭ 1LHNOHU _V_V went to PCVS, and I grew up with the idea that that’s what high school was like. Granted it wasn’t an arts school and my dad was the captain of the rugby and wrestling teamsso, different times, but I grew up with the black and white yearbook images of an old, beautiful building teeming with history as the site of such important growing. Imagine walking downtown and not seeing those kids eating lunch in the park, playing music? It would leave this empty mark in the downtown. My cousin wrote and directed a play there, while my high school, like most in Ontario, required only one art credit. And I didn’t have a choice in the matter, because I didn’t have an arts school in my region.

Kevin writes about how those possibilities help to transform teenagers, help them believe that they are good for something, which is so sadly, quite rare.

My editorial, admittedly informed by nostalgia, was interrupted by Kevin, who came in with a friend. I told him what I am telling you, that the article made me tear up.

They talked about having an art collection in the building and how students respected it, never graffitied it. They talked about being right downtown, about arts education and different means of learning. They talked really caringly about this, because, as they said “it’s not just a school.� Like Trent isn’t just a school, a river isn’t just a river, and many buildings and bodies of water can substitute for ideas of home when they are lacking.

HUK ZV HYL [OL UL^ ,KP[VYZ PU *OPLM The day before Arthur’s Spring Elections, I attended “Right On! A Show in Support of Trans Rights in Canada.� The purpose of the event was to ask attendees to sign a petition in favour of Bill C-389, which would amend the Canadian Human Rights Act to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and gender expression.

By coincidence, the event also became an unofficial Queerlines launch party. Many of the people pictured in the supplement or who had otherwise helped to create it were in attendance, and when someone pulled a rolledup copy of the paper from a fold in their leather jacket, a crowd gathered, and grew.

Arthur’s mandate is to represent Trent and Peterborough communities, and the joyful possibility contained in this moment of self-representation was powerfully felt.

Sitting here in our office, Arthur staff have an abstract idea that distributing papers in public spaces has an impact on the discourse within and beyond that space. But as people in the room began to get text messages from other readers (“I love these photos! You look amazing!�) the reality of the power of publication began to sink in. By the time that Arthur’s distribution hero arrived at The Cannery to deliver the venue’s own stack of papers, people applauded. Everyone wanted their own copy to slyly show their friends, to clip out and stick on their fridge.

But, as this week’s letters indicate, it’s important to be mindful that no community, however it is represented, is totally unified. Queer and straight folks alike took issue with some of the Queerlines content. Though that supplement’s content was determined by the Trent Queer Collective, not Arthur itself, this response serves as a reminder to Miranda and I, as we look toward next September, to seek to include as many viewpoints as we can, not only

with respect to queer issues, but in all aspects of our coverage. There are readers out there who are frustrated by this publication because they never experience that feeling of accomplishment and recognition that surrounded me last Tuesday night. Their Trent university experience isn’t chronicled in our pages. Worse, some of the folks that we claim to represent shake their heads because, try as we might, we just aren’t getting it.

That’s not right. We’re going to work harder to get you involved, and to include you as meaningfully and honestly as we can muster. We take Arthur’s anti-oppression mandate seriously, but we also see the paper as a forum to convey a multiplicity of opinions and information, not an opportunity to force our personal opinions on a captive audience.

My Co-Editor, Miranda Rigby, tells me that she sees graffiti on copies of Arthur that she finds on campus. Someone wrote “cheesy� on one, and “Arthur doesn’t represent me� on another. We love your culture jamming. Now send us an email, write us a letter, come to our office, and tell us what we should be saying. In fact, you say it yourself. Your sharpie markers are awesome, but let’s get you published, too.

Last week, Arthur’s staff collective gathered to discuss the paper’s future and to decide on its direction. Miranda and I are proud and grateful to have been elected as CoEditors as one result of that conversation. Still, for us, the most significant part of that evening was the ability to hear everyone’s ideas about what the paper could be. Evan Brockest and Ki Alleyne’s ideas about web development and inclusive representation will provide a focus for what we do next year. Kama Maureemootoo’s staffing plan and volunteer engagement strategies will help us as we find

new and seasoned individuals to help us put out a paper each week.

It’s true that editors play a significant role in how the paper functions and what it publishes, but we’re facilitators, not dictators. In my mind, the most important thing I will do next year is find talented people, introduce them to important stories, and do my utmost to ensure that the result is relevant to the communities we serve and rewarding for the folks who read and contribute.

This task begins now. Arthur is seeking passionate and talented people who can help us this summer as we raise funds, plan events, connect with contributors, revisit our bylaws, develop staffing manuals, update our website, and much more. If you’re willing, we can set you up with a project that will play to your strengths and work with your schedule. Email us at editors@trentarthur.ca to get involved.

Incoming editors often take this opportunity to alert readers to developing stories or upcoming events that they should follow during the summer. This year, though, such prescriptive advice isn’t necessary. We’re not saying goodbye for nearly so long. Arthur’s print run is done for the academic year, however, we’ve created a new blog that will be updated throughout the summer. It’s entirely volunteerrun and actively seeking contributors, so we’ll count on you to decide what’s newsworthy and to help us report on it. We want your event photos, your event listings, your breaking news updates. Add us to your RSS feed, Peterborough! www.trentarthur.ca/blog. Submit at editors@ trentarthur.ca.

See you on a sunny patio somewhere, Iris A. Hodgson and Miranda Rigby

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WHERE THE WATER GOES Text and photos by Chris Chang-Yen Phillips

When I first moved to Peterborough three years ago, there was a mystery I was determined to solve: where did the water in that creek downtown go after it disappeared under the car wash at Hunter Street? In time, I discovered that Jackson Creek’s route is actually not much of a mystery after all. Yet even as I’m about to leave, these cold and clear spring days make everything seem more lucid, and bring me back to the weaving of those waters through the city.

Meredith Carter is Manager of Environmental Services at the Otonabee Region Conservation Authority (ORCA), and published a history of the creek in 2005 that’s still available at Hutchison House downtown. A former Trent student who lived nearby, she was turned on to the project by an environmental history course with professor Stephen Bocking.

“Most people in Peterborough know Jackson Park, or at least know where it is,” she says, “but many people don’t equate the creek that runs downtown... to being the same one.” It’s not hard to see why. One is treated as a scenic centrepiece, the other is lined with pop bottles and fliers.

But Carter’s history shows that even the stretches familiar to most in the city are only a tiny part of its long journey along the path of the Jackson Spillway, carved by retreating glaciers millennia ago.

Far west of Peterborough, its headwaters lie around 155 kilometres away, where it starts off cold and fast. Fed by groundwater and dozens of smaller tributaries, it slows down and widens as it flows though the Cavan Swamp.

There, it is home to orchids and waterfowl, and as it warms up downstream it supports an incredible 17 species of fish.

Surprisingly, they have an unbroken route along its entire path. In the end, it gushes into Little Lake after its journey through the city.

“It’s such a diverse watercourse,” says Carter. “It changes so much throughout its whole length.”

“In the headwaters there are trout living in it. Further downstream you’ve got a whole range of warm water species using the creek, and then the wetlands have their own very healthy wetland ecosystems.”

Having sifted through buckets of invertebrates scooped from the creek’s bottom, I can attest that the emphemeroptera and caddisfly larvae tell the story of an improbably healthy stream as far along as Jackson Park. So what happens when it hits the retirement homes and parking garages where we push the creek not just out of mind, but literally underground?

Debates over burying and uncovering Jackson Creek go back almost two centuries, when the creek and the city had already begun shaping one another. When European settlers began displacing the Mississauga Anishinabe peo-

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ple on the city’s site, the creek’s final reaches were twisted and braided, looping back and forth around tiny islands before pouring through the fingers of a swamp south of today’s Dalhousie Street.

Scott’s Plains, as the future city was first known, was founded in the early 1800s with the building of a mill on King Street. As Irish settlers began immigrating in droves, industries looked to Jackson Creek and the roaring river for power. The present location of Peterborough’s central district is no accident. Those industries were located between the two bodies of water to take advantage of the creek’s slower, more manageable flow.

Even the layout of Peterborough’s streets bears witness to how central the creek was. You’ve probably noticed the blocks between George and Aylmer Streets are several times longer than those between others like Stewart and Bethune. This was done to accommodate the wending creek, which was eventually exploited for hydroelectric development. All the while, city planners were straightening it, building dams and ponds, filling in tributaries and dredging out islands.

Today the swamp is gone, and though you may catch glimpses of the creek in exposed concrete channels, businesses like the William English Canoe Company started a trend of building over it in the 1860s. The arrival of the automobile brought demand for paved roads above the creek, and now it mostly quietly observes the foundations of places like the Simcoe and Charlotte Street parking garages as it weaves its way toward the river.

Several times over the 20th century, debates arose over whether to uncover sections of Jackson Creek.

The most ambitious, according to Carter, was a proposal to “reclaim and beautify” its downtown stretch by City Planning Committee member Hubert R. Sills after a Master Plan’s development started in 1946.

“It was just really innovative,” says Carter, “that

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someone at that point in time was looking at Jackson Creek and saying, ‘Hey, why don’t we make this a showpiece downtown, why don’t we try to preserve it?’”

The final plan, however, left out Sills’ vision for walking paths and leafy spaces around a more exposed creek. A subsequent 1950s referendum and 1970s public consultation confirmed a general sentiment that the creek was, as Carter sums up, “something of a sewer and it would be better to have sewers hidden from view.”

Though only used for storm drainage now, it becomes clear that those feelings have some link to the shopping carts and scrap metal that get tossed in the water today.

Carter helps organize ORCA’s annual cleanup of the creek, and the 2011 edition will happen April 16, from 10-12. She says volunteers are welcome to meet at the Monaghan Street entrance of Jackson Park, and if they do they’ll help pick out the two tons or so of trash the crew collects every year. But the longer term work of renewing a sense of wonder in the stream probably begins with other activities, like their ORCA’s efforts at shoreline stabilization and habitat enhancements.

Meanwhile, Jackson Creek keeps running below the heart of this city, heavy in weeks like this with spring melt, rushing past room after room of families and friends gathered behind glass, leading separate lives. Peterborough and this creek only meet for a little while. But as it happens, they are both changed forever.

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TCSA to control Trent Express in September

By Matt Rappolt The Trent Central Student Association (TCSA) has scored a major victory in its dispute with the administration over the operation of the Trent Express. It became known to Arthur earlier this week that the administration has agreed to hand over control of the campus bus service to the student union effective on September 1, 2011. This means that when students return to Trent in under five months time, they can take their transit complaints, questions, and inquiries directly to the TCSA. This announcement came as a surprise to many, as barely two weeks ago TCSA president Sheldon Willerton stated to Arthur that he expected the takeover to occur at the end of the next academic year, in May 2012. Nonetheless, Willerton told Arthur on Friday that the TCSA is both “excited” and “ready” for the new arrangement.

“It’s really within the last week that it all came together,” he explained. “I brought a motion to Colleges and Student Services Committee (CASSC) to have transit transferred from the OSA to the TCSA. It passed almost unanimously... and now we are in the midst of hammering out the fine print.”

Willerton also credited the mid-March referendum, in which 69% of undergraduate students voted in favour of having the transit service administered by the TCSA, as being a major factor in the success of the takeover. “It was the strong mandate that we needed.

It let the university know that not only was the TCSA interested [in running the Trent Express], but that we also had the students’ support.”

This decision concludes a year long debate that arose when it was discovered that the Trent administration was taking a 6.6% administrative surcharge, representing about

$100,000, from the student-funded transit budget. In early March, the university revealed that the money was being used in part to fund free bus passes for administrators, a perk that is denied to faculty and staff.

The administration then agreed to drop the fee to 3.3% to more accurately reflect the cost of running the service before finally relinquishing control of the service last week.

Now that the TCSA is set to control the service, the administrative surcharge isn’t the only fee that the union has set its eyes on. According to Willerton, the TCSA will be reviewing the cost of snow removal, and estimates that it will be able to cut the $7000 that has traditionally gone to the OSA for salaries and administrative expenses by 50% through the creation of new student positions. Overall, Willerton is optimistic about the impact that this takeover will have on the Trent Express service and assured that “any cost savings will go directly into more buses.”

In the meantime, the TCSA has a busy summer ahead. Summer bus passes will be available in their office as well as in Blackburn College, and they have already posted a job notice for a student transit co-ordinator who will work to develop policies and contracts for the upcoming year.

In terms of immediate improvements to the schedule and the service, Willerton noted that during the 2011-2012 academic year, service would remain largely the same due to the fact that the budget has already been set. However, students can expect to see noticeable changes in the following year, 2012-2013.

For more information on the TCSA takeover of the Trent Express see Arthur Vol. 45; Issues 6, 10, 21.

Where do you really stand? Where do they?

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With federal elections looming, voters are being handed a compass

By James Smith Odds are you’ve heard of CBC’s new online feature for the current Federal Election, Vote Compass, which shows how the federal parties’ positions line up against your own. With over a million entries you may have even completed the survey yourself. Were you surprised by the result? Did the tool show that you align more with a different party than the one you normally vote for?

Vote Compass has created quite a stir and more than a few accusations of a built-in bias.

The majority of criticisms have come from conservative organizations and right-leaning publications. They assert that the survey unfairly favours the Liberal Party when users enter in more centrist answers. The Toronto Sun’s cover showed a CBC logo with the words “Full of Grit” beside it (‘Grit’ is a short-hand term for Liberal used by politicos much like ‘Tory’ is used for Conservative).

This controversy points to exactly what Vote Compass was trying to reveal. Where do you think you stand and where do your views on issues more firmly place you? Election campaigns almost always turn into a debate on the party leaders themselves. We are asked ‘who would do the better job leading this country?’ and the parties’ stances on actual issues are lost in fray. This is not an accident.

While most people think the issue of legal abortions isn’t on the table in this election,

Conservatives

many Peterboroughians have heard Conservative Candidate Dean Del Mastro’s views on the issue. Thanks to a YouTube video currently floating around on Facebook, you can now see Del Mastro calling abortions “crimes” and stating confidently “the laws will change in this country.” There’s nothing stopping Del Mastro from moving a private member’s bill from limiting or removing the right to choose (a move that would not require official sanctioning from the Conservative Party or Stephen Harper). And if the Conservatives do win a majority, an issue that was not seriously considered during the campaign could have serious implications in the lives of all Canadians.

Some NDP supporters have also raised a stink, saying Vote Compass favours the Green Party over the New Democrats. Once we take a closer look at the questions asked in the survey, we can surmise that perhaps some are assuming rather than researching the NDP’s stance on these issues. Take the question of a Carbon Tax. This was a hot issue last election with the Liberals and the Green Party calling for a new tax based on the amount of carbon used to produce any one good or service. The NDP came out against the carbon tax calling instead for a cap-and-trade program, their solution for lowering greenhouse gasses. By most accounts this was a tactic of wedge politics (picking a stand not for the position’s sake but because it differs from your competitor’s) but still, the NDP’s official platform remains against any carbon tax and Vote Compass reflects that.

The table attempts to lay out exactly where each party stands on a few big issues.

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Most NDP members support the LGR yet some rural MPs voted against

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$1,000/year for each student, $1,500 for low income, 4 years free for Veterans

Increase funding across the board

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No policies announced yet. Strong supporters of oil-sands

Shift taxes from incomes onto carbon. Shut down oil-sands

Cap-and-Trade, no direct taxing but end subsidies to oil-sands industry.

Would end oil-sands subsidy but no other policies announced

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Top up benefits for lowest 1/3 incomers

Increase modestly, supplant 1/3 of premiums with revenue from carbon tax

Gradual increases to benefits, enhance for low-income

Double all benefits by increasing premiums

Corporate taxes

Long-gun registry

Increase post-secondary funding

Tax-polluters and ending oil-sands

Increase Canadian pension plan benefits for Seniors

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Trent students challenge Darlington nuclear

By Zach Ruiter and Daniel Adaszynsky Ian Cameron, 2nd year mathematics student, prepares to launch a verbal volley at nuclear interests who are looking to expand their operations in Darlington. He joins a chorus of voices who have spoken out against the expansion and the nuclear industry outright.

Lambasting the surrogate mining industry’s “safety strategies,” dose limits and regulations are always set to be above whatever people are being exposed to.

Cameron traces blatant cases of racism in communities with uranium mining. After the fish became too toxic to eat at Cigar Lake, clean water from the filtration plant was given priority to white citizens over the Reserve community.

The notorious neglect of miners is compounded in the nuclear industry, where miners have the highest rates of lung cancer. The surrounding community, regardless of smoker/non-smoker status, contracted high rates of lung diseases themselves.

Standing in a field behind Gzowski college, Dr. Alicja Zobel told us, “Measuring depends on how the wind blows that day. If it is blowing towards you, you get a good reading. If not then not such a good reading.” Dr. Zobel was referring to low level radiation emitted from General Electric Peterborough’s production of “natural” uranium fuel rods. Just as the wind can take the smell of oatmeal from Quaker to your nose, low level radiation travels similarly but imperceptibly, unless like Dr. Zobel, you keep a Geiger metre handy at all times.

Dr. Zobel stated that Fukushima is exponentially worse than Chernobyl. Herself a Chernobyl survivor, Zobel explained how the radiation spread over land through the wind and contaminated much of northern Europe, while Fukushima however is on the sea, resulting in the singlecelled algae and plankton that have died in a 20km area surrounding the plant, which will mean subsequently that the organisms that do not die will mutate and then enter the food chain.

Supporting Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, a Toronto-based environmental justice advocacy group, at the hearings is Allie Kosela, a Trent graduate with a degree in biology and environmental science. Kosela informed us that Lake Ontario Waterkeeper was intervening due to concerns that the proposed new Darlington plant would have serious adverse impacts on Lake Ontario. Waterkeeper’s focus has always been to protect rights to swim, drink and fish in Lake

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Just as the wind can take the smell of oatmeal from Quaker to your nose, low level radiation travels similarly but imperceptibly, unless like Dr. Zobel, you keep a Geiger metre handy at all times..”

Ontario. In the case of the proposed new Darlington plant, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper is concerned with fish deaths and lake filling. In its current proposal, the new Darlington plant will destroy millions of fish, eggs, and larvae each year and threaten fish habitat.

Myra Crow, a retired nurse from Gores Landing Ontario who has been attending the hearings, says, “[I] have been reading the papers and their nuclear articles since I immigrated from England in 1969. I read them because I wanted to make sure my four kids were safe.”

“My question for the Darlington hearings – if I got to ask one – is, with all the dumping of negligible bits into the water, how many little bits make a big bit?”

Crow was referring to the leak on March 18 at the Pickering station of 73,000L of heavy water (“deuterium,” water with an extra hydrogen atom that carries cesium, tritium, and up to 200 different known isotopes).

Myra Crow was speaking to Trent Masters student Eva Duarte Walsh who was present to observe the Darlington hearings. Crow told her, “I wish there were more young people in these meetings, because they are the ones who have to be – and the ones most affected in the end.”

Helen Caldicott, a physician and anti-nuclear crusader from Australia told Arthur that if the nuclear regulators understood anything about biology, they would understand that “solution by dilution is fallacious when it comes to radiation.”

Peter Blow was invited by Jonathan Bordo to Bagnani Hall to screen his documentary on the first uranium mine in the world at Great Bear Lake. “Transported from Great Bear Lake to Port Hope, which had the only refinery outside of Nazi hands [during WWII], the only refinery where all the ores that went into the Manhattan Project, went into the first atomic bombs, the bombs that went on to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They were refined there.”

Blow remarked,“Canada was pivotal in the production of atom bombs. Canada sits at the top of the nuclear industry, in terms of expertise as industry leader for bombs for the cold war.”

Trent graduate and Concordia professor Peter Van

Wick’s book Highway of the Atom is a literary fieldwork that re-traced the route of the uranium used in the bombs in the Manhattan Project, following the itinerary from its scheduled stops to its transit intersections. Standing on an abandoned tennis court for employees of the Eldorado Mining Company, on the shores of Great Bear Lake, Van Wick writes: “I knew then that the highway of the atom was the story about ethical theory. It was the story about the aporias (cul de sacs) of responsibility.”

Blow said,“I just hope, pray is a rather sad word really, I say hope that if Chernobyl didn’t do it, Three Mile Island didn’t do it, let’s hope that the incident in Japan causes a major rethink in the industry that we can’t control nuclear power.”

Dr. Zobel said that unfortunately Chernobyl “had to happen” and asks that “if the reaction happens, do you need to repeat it how many times to ‘believe it’ for a pattern of standard deviation to be proven?”

A professor from Ryerson’s Documentary Media MFA also spoke to the crowd at Bagnani Hall. Blake Fitzpatrick is a member of the Atomic Photographers Guild, a group of photographers worldwide dedicated to making visible and known the aspects of the nuclear era.

One of the things Fitzpatrick photographed was the slipper that belonged to Marcel Bouchand, the chief chemist in the radio refiner at Port Hope. This slipper had radioactivity from walking around the floors of his house. Dusted with small amounts of radioactive material, Fitzpatrick says “the object itself became radioactively contaminated.”

When asked for his views on nuclear expansion in this province, Fitzpatrick stated,“Atomic power is dangerous power, and I wouldn’t be in any way supportive of expanding the Darlington station, although there are always reassurances, we only have to look over to Japan to know anything is possible, even here in Canada.”

The strength of Trent University’s institutional legacy continues to successfully intervene the forces of economic exploitation.

UPDATE:

Peterborough Student Co-operative

By Heather MacDonald The Peterborough Student Co-operative had their Annual General Meeting two weeks ago, March 23, at Sadleir House. About thirty people attended, including both members and non-members from the Trent and Peterborough communities.

Brea Hutchinson, the Site Planning Director for the Co-op, gave a presentation at the meeting on potential future locations for the Co-op and partnership opportunities the organization has been investigating. She presented three prospective sites the Co-op is interested in, and explained specific criteria deemed crucial to picking a location, including location and future expansion possibilities.

During the meeting general elections were held. Returning as President is Heather MacDonald and the previous Site Planning Director, Brea Hutchinson, is returning to the Board of Directors as Chair. The rest of the board consists of newly elected members, who are as follows: Stephanie Cann as Secretary, Heather Braund as Treasurer/Finance Director, Adam Butz as Operations Director, Matt Rappolt as Site Planning Director and Kate MacNeill as Community Relations Director.

One of the founding members of the Peterborough Student Co-operative and an active member in driving this initiative forward has been James Smith, who will be leaving the Board at the end of this school year.

James has been a pioneer in the housing co-op movement in Peterborough and his presence on the Board will be greatly missed.

Lastly, the Co-op will be hosting a party featuring live music on April 14 at ArtSpace. Everyone is encouraged to attend to learn more about this fast-paced initiative, and to enjoy a break from exam preparation. To learn more about the Peterborough Student Co-operative and to stay abreast of upcoming developments, please check out our website at www.trentcoop.ca.

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By Kevin Elson School is like jail. At least that is what my opinion was when I was ten just in grade five. I suffered some harsh discipline from a teacher for saying that aloud rather than keeping it to myself. Things quickly changed for me. As I moved into grade seven, I started to grow my hair for cancer - a passion that came from watching an inspirational Charlie Brown clip titled “Why, Charlie Brown, Why.” Because I was the boy with long hair, people ridiculed me. I remember too clearly the name ‘mullet boy.’ I was pushed physically as well as emotionally.

I had no one for support, and everywhere I turned I faced a sternly closed door. I fell into a severe depression and made a weak attempt at life. Before I had delved any further into my upset, my father noticed the bruises. The police were called, consequences were implemented and I felt free from the oppressors and their fists for the first time in two years.

It felt like a short victory because I knew the next year I would continue with my bullies into high school - until I was accepted into Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School’s (P.C.V.S.) integrated arts program for visual arts (a passion I had developed since grade six).

The day I found out of my acceptance into P.C.V.S. was the happiest day of my youth. I remember clearly sitting on my bed in a state of euphoria holding the letter in my hands. I will be honest, because I don’t care about ridicule, I cried in that moment. I cried the happiest tears of my life, and I can say that I am proud of every drop. For me at that time, it meant a fresh start in an environment that fostered my true love:

art. It became a haven within a haven, a life inside a life, a community in the midst of a community.

P.C.V.S. is not a home away from home, rather it is a home in and of itself, where everyone becomes a part of the family.

I could argue on and on about the obvious positive things about P.C.V.S. How this school has the most unique and prolific arts program, with close ties to downtown businesses, galleries to showcase art, stages weaning its actors and dancers feet, and walls everywhere just waiting to vibrate in sweet delight of its choirs and bands.

The students of P.C.V.S. support the downtown and provide a constant flow of business during lunch and after school hours. The school community itself has arguably the most diverse clubs, programs and organizations from African Drumming to the G.S.A. to Link Leaders to Model United Nations.

It is now my fifth year as a Raider, and I have grown to know P.C.V.S. in a more passionate way. For those who attend the school, P.C.V.S. is the step to every students’ walk, the pulse in every students’ veins, the word on the tips of their tongues, the dreams of things to come, and most of all - the net that catches them when they fall.

P.C.V.S. is beautiful and unique. Our community and our children will suffer dearly from the loss of P.C.V.S., as much as they would the loss of a close family member. I am moving on next year to an arts college and I can only hope that when I return to the city, Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School will still be here for my children to attend.

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Thinking of Japan

By Helena Romano We are a group of students who launched a project to pray for Japan; it is called Thoughts for Japan.

Recently, Japan suffered a natural disaster and since then, fundraising actions have been undertaken to help the country. These efforts and actions are admirable, but material help alone is not enough; moral support is important too.

Pray for Japan is an image and logo that the Trent Japanese Association (TJA) put in their donation booth and we want to make that tangible. Regardless of our faith, regardless of what we believe or what we do not believe, prayer is an intention, a thought; writing those intentions down and making them visible will show Japanese people how concerned we are. It is a way to show our moral support. The objective is to reach the Trent community as well as the Peterborough community. This is a great opportunity to raise awareness about what is going on, what is needed, and the realities Japan is facing. Thoughts for Japan is covering all this.

Around the campus cafeterias, you’ll be able to see a banner with our title and a table with ribbons and buttons. There, you can write down a wish, a prayer, a thought that you may want to share with the Japanese community. We will give buttons to all the people who kindly donate their thoughts; the ribbons will be gathered and displayed as a Japanese flag around the campus and in Peterborough to show that we do care, despite the fact that we do not always know what to say to, what to do for, or what to ask any Japanese friend. As well, we are printing and gathering the latest news from Japan to keep us informed.

We are not asking for any monetary donation; this project is meant to raise awareness and show moral support. The flag will be handed in as a gift to the Trent Japanese Association. Trent has welcomed the project with open arms. Thanks goes out to Trent, TIP office, TISA, TCSA, the Cabinet offices, as well as all those people who already have shared their thoughts for Japan with us. Thank you for supporting us to run Thoughts for Japan.

If you care, if you have something to share, if you want to say something, to hold hands with Japan, come to one of our booths in any of the cafeterias from 12pm to 4pm until April 8. Good luck with the last week of classes!

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Comic by Dustin Johnson

Who Pays to Clean Up? Living Ocean Society recently hired the Environmental Law Clinic from the University of Victoria to undertake a study on the financial costs of an oil spill. The report, released in January, “Financial Vulnerability Assessment,� concluded that Enbridge is not legally responsible for any of the costs of a spill once the oil has been loaded onto tankers. “Enbridge won’t have to pay one dime to clean up a spill caused by an oil tanker loaded with crude from their pipeline,� says Jennifer Lash of Living Oceans Society. The liability will lie instead with the ship’s owner and is limited to $140 million. Canada is a member of an international oil spill fund which would cover some of the costs that exceed this limit. Canada also has its own domestic fund of $155 million which, when totaled with all the other monies, would provide $1.3 billion dollars for clean-up and compensation.

Introducing the

Enbridge Northern

This is a lot of money, but it’s not nearly enough considering that the Exxon-Valdez spill cost at least $3.5 billion and the BP oil spill of last June is being estimated at over $100 billion. In the event of a shortage of clean-up funds, Canadian taxpayers would be footing a bill as high as 67% of the costs.

Enbridge promotes the project as an economically lucrative one; promising 2.6 billion in tax revenue over its 30-year lifespan. This amount, in light of the ‘financial vulnerability’ report, wouldn’t even cover the cost of one major oil spill.

Gateway Pipeline By  Marianne  Pedretti

First Nations Opposition Photo: US National Transportation Safety Board.

Over a year ago, when I first saw the full-page ads in the newspaper for Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline Project, I thought, “This can’t be happening. What about the moratorium on offshore oil and gas projects?� As a former B.C. resident, it was common knowledge out west that the coast was ‘protected’ from oil and gas development.

But Enbridge’s ad gave the impression that the project had already begun; an actuality as opposed to a proposal. I knew that a project of this size wouldn’t have received approval without a lot of opposition.

Upon further inquiry, I found that Enbridge’s proposed gas pipeline project was definitely not approved yet and that it wasn’t at all popular. In fact, 80% of B.C. residents polled said that they were opposed to it.

In the last year, I heard reference to the project mainly in terms of the coordinated opposition to it. Groups of municipal leaders had signed petitions, First Nations people in the area had a consolidated and very strong opposition, and everyone, from environmental groups working on the coast to fisherman, outdoor enthusiasts, the tourist industry and many others, all opposed the project. It didn’t look to me like there was any way that this project could go through. Top government leaders from the NDP, Liberal, and Bloc Quebecois had come out in a historic motion to ban oil tankers from the north coast. In December, Liberal MP Joyce Murray tabled a bill which, if passed, would legally prevent oil tanker traffic on the coast. Only the Conservative Party’s support has kept the project in the running.

Back in February of this year, I had the opportunity to hear Dustin Johnson speak on the issue at the International Development Studies conference at Sadleir house.

Johnson is an activist from the Tsimshian Nation on B.C.’s north coast who moved inland to coordinate with others who are working to stop this project from happening.

According to Johnson, it’s all about the Alberta tar sands. He showed us graphs and charts portraying the tar sands' projected expansion. Presently, 1.3 million barrels per day are being extracted. By 2018, the plan is to extract 3 million barrels per day.

The main market for this increased production is Asia. A multitude of proposed pipeline projects snake in all directions. There are currently 6 pipeline proposals with the intended purpose of connecting B.C.’s coastal waters with the Alberta tar sands. Enbridge’s project (NGPP) consists of building 2 pipelines over 1000 km long, traversing the province to the port of Kitimat on the coast.

No to Supertankers!

In order to complete the actual transport of oil to Asian markets, super tanker ships would be loading up with oil in Kitimat at Enbridge’s proposed tanker termi-

nal. The plan involves over 220 tankers a year carrying between 700,000 and 2 million barrels of oil per year through some of B.C.’s most treacherous waters.

What about the moratorium?

Since 1972, there has been a moratorium on the B.C. coast banning oil tankers and preventing oil and gas development. Over the last 40 years, the issue of tanker traffic has been re-examined by the government but the conclusion has always been that the risk of an oil spill was too high. The last report on the matter determined that the likelihood of a spill was 100 small, 10 moderate and 1 major spill every year.

The chance of a catastrophic spill is once every 15 years. This data, last examined in 2003, had the scientists conducting the study conclude that the moratorium should stay in place.

Unfortunately, this is no longer the case. The Harper government’s position is that the moratorium is ‘voluntary’ and has already allowed tankers carrying condensate to travel through B.C.’s northern coastal waters and dock at Kitimat. Condensate is a hydrocarbon used to thin the bitumen from the tar sands, allowing it to flow. It is highly toxic and classified as dangerous goods. It kills marine life on contact.

As mentioned earlier, studies have already concluded that a major oil spill event is a matter of when, not if. The terrain, or in this case, ocean environment, is a major consideration. Hecate strait is deemed to be one of the most dangerous waters to navigate due to storms and high currents. The fact that tanker traffic is a year-round proposal makes the situation worse, as the winter weather in this region has intense storms sweeping through every 2 or 3 days. The average wind speed is 39 km/hr with gusts over 100 km/hr.

The Living Oceans Society organization studies, monitors and advocates to protect coastal ecosystems. On their website, you can view a number of different oil spill scenarios depending on certain factors considered in the model such as season and location of the spill. The results in all of their scenarios are devastating to coastal ecosystems with some scenarios more extensively damaging than others.

The effects are so dramatic because oil, once spilled, is extremely difficult to clean up. The industry considers 15% recovery to be a successful clean-up. Emulsification is the process where oil and water mix. This usually happens by the second day of a spill but can happen more quickly in rough waters. The situation on the northern coast of B.C. would make clean-up efforts difficult because the terrain has few access roads and the weather can make the waters very rough. Clean-up crews would need to be flown in and the basic equipment used for oil clean-up, boomers and skimmers, become ineffective once emulsification begins. Emulsified oil can increase 10 times in volume.

“Our nations have declared a ban on oil tankers through our waters because a spill would kill our livelihoods and wipe out our culture,� says Art Steritt of Coastal First Nations, an alliance of nine First Nations on the north coast.

The alliance shows no interest in Enbridge’s project and remains the strongest opposition to the project as the pipeline crosses their territory.

Enbridge has continued to pressure these communities by offering economic incentives to sign agreements. On Feb. 11 2011, $1 billion in ‘profits’ was offered to communities willing to sign on. This offer included a 10% ownership stake along with various other benefits such as trust funds, marine business plans and construction jobs. “We’re just looking at the whole package as a buy off and a little bit of desperation to get First Nations on [their] side,� said Terry Teegee, vice-chief of the Carrier

Sekani Tribal Council.

On Feb. 15, at the public meeting in Prince George, B.C., five First Nations of the Yinka Dene Alliance told Enbridge’s NGPP President John Carruthers that they categorically reject the company’s revenue-sharing offer. These First Nations territories cover approximately Âź of the pipeline route. “Our Nations will not be turned. We won’t trade the safety of our rivers, lands and fish that are our lifeblood,â€? said Chief Jackie Thomas of Saik’uz. “Enbridge knows it can’t guarantee there will be no spills in our rivers. Their promise and their money are no good to us.â€?

It’s reassuring to hear these words and know that there are people voicing the need for sustainability. Now let’s do what we can to support these communities and put a stop to this disastrous project and others coming down the tar sands pipeline.

What’s at risk?

The ecological integrity of B.C.’s north coast is still pretty well intact. Biodiversity is high, with surveys showing: ‹ ‹ ‹ ‹ ‹

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Many other coastal industries are reliant on healthy ocean ecosystems; boating and marine recreation, whale watching, ecotourism, diving, paddling, tourist lodges etc.

For more information: www.livingoceans.org www.notankers.ca www.ienearth.org

Don’t Forget Exxon Valdez In 1983, 11 million gallons of crude oil were spilled in Prince William Sound in Alaska. The death toll is recorded as: ‹ ‹ ‹ ‹ ‹

If you’re interested in getting involved in ‘Stop Tar Sands’ campaigns, contact Canadians for Mining Awareness.

over 300,000 birds 2,800 sea otters 2,000 harbour seals 22 orcas and 25 gray whales 1.9 billion herring

canadianminingaware@hotmail.com

The oil spread along hundreds of miles of coastline home to juvenile salmon. The following season saw the collapse of the pink salmon runs. Ten Indigenous communities in Alaska lost their traditional food sources and suffered long-lasting economic and social impacts.

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LETTERS

queerlines: All piss and vinegar? *Editors note: While we love getting letters (the tired, the scorned, the outraged), we’d like to remind our readership that last week’s Issue 23 featured Queerlines, which is in fact a submission-based supplement produced by the lovely folks of the Trent Queer Collective.

re: Untitled I, along with everyone I was with last wednesday night, was appalled at the substance (or lack thereof) that you are willing to publish in your newspaper. I shall refer in particular to an unnecessarily vulgar piece entitled, “Untitled” by “not a nice girl”. This was basically pornography/ erotica. What was the intended outcome of placing this piece in the Arthur?

As far as I can tell, there was no logical outcome; other than to of course get people talking about ‘that risqué article in the Arthur’. This is a tactic that is commonly employed by cheap gossip magazines and Cosmo to get issues off the shelves. Just because someone is a homosexual, does not mean that they are vulgar or feel it appropriate to explicitly retell their sexual experiences; think about how you are representing those with non-heterosexual preferences by publishing this article in the Queerlines edition.

I believe you have a responsibility to your readers, the Trent student body, who PAYS for the Arthur through student fees (by the way please stop advertising that you are ‘free’), to publish something that is at least a few steps above pornography. There is a difference between publishing a tasteful article about sexuality and publishing smut merely for shock value.

You represent this school Arthur, next time do us all a favour and keep it classy, not trashy. Save the erotica for pornographic magazines, and keep it OUT of what should be a tasteful and articulate school newspaper.

Alex Lavasidis

re: Untitled To the editors and whomever are responsible for Volume 45, Issue 23, March 29, 2011 issue of the Arthur.

I just want to write and say how disgusted I am with the article entitled "untitled" by not a nice girl posted in this weeks' Arthur. I am pretty sure you have violated obscenity laws by publishing that article in the paper.

The Arthur is not the appropriate forum with which to publish that kind of article.

I would like to know what the point of the article was. In what way did that article add anything of value to the Arthur or to the Queerlines issue? I would like for those responsible to answer and explain how they felt the publishing of the article was justifiable in any way possible.

I know I am not the only person who has taken issue with that article and I urge other readers who were offended to take action.

Kemi Akapo

Hey! Thanks.

I truly appreciated last week’s edition of Arthur, and I have to say that as a queer person I feel very grateful to have a student newspaper which is so dedicated to this annual (and delightful) publication.

Queerlines is self-representative and doesn’t censor the content that people choose to submit, and I am glad for this.

I think that the whole point of having a special edition of Arthur is to make more space for marginalized people to make their voices heard. To me, being queer means that I am a girl but I don’t shave my armpits. It means that I can have kinky, consensual, non-normative sex and then talk about it with my friends over dinner. It means I can crush on boys and girls and everyone who exists in between those two genders.

It means that I am constantly struggling to make space for myself in a world that exudes a stifling amount of heteronormativity. Unfortunately being queer also means that I get harassed and bullied; that I don’t get to see people who look (or act, or love, or fuck) like me or my lovers on TV or in ads or in newspapers; it means that people often think I am intrinsically wrong or broken or gross, and that I do not deserve the same rights as heterosexual people.

Queerlines is a space for me and my fellow queers to talk about all the things that mainstream society never wants to hear us talk about, and we are so lucky to have it. I want to personally thank everyone who made Queerlines possible this year, consequently allowing me to represent myself and my sexuality in the ways that I saw fit.

Claire Ryan

A response to Not a Nice Girl To begin, after having read your tasteless one page spread (calling it an article would be offensive to journalism) I nearly fell over. Had it not been for a strong sense of humor, I, like others would have either had a heart attack, or vomited, luckily had the latter occurred, I’d at least have your page to wipe it up. Now as a comedian, I can understand the purpose of shock value to get your point across, I really do. However, this publication goes too far, hell I think comedians like Carlin and Hicks would agree with me on this one.

Oh, and before I continue I would like to clarify that by no means am I religious, or a member of the conservative party (incase the writer or editors think I’m just another biblethumping, right-winged asshole) What I am in fact, is a person sick and tired of seeing some of the garbage, like this, published in the Arthur.

In first year, a cartoon depicting two men giving each other oral in a car was published, I figured “well hey! it can’t get much worse than this, right?”, well here I am, 3 years later, proved wrong. Though I am bothered by the content published last week, what bothers me more is the forum in which the author felt was acceptable to publish his or her sexual exploits and fantasies in. Moreover, what bothers me even further is the fact that the editor(s) of the Arthur let this

shit fly. Look, if you wish to write about your real, or imaginary sexual exploits, write Penthouse Letters, or post in an online forum dedicated to such material.

Oh, I nearly forgot! If, you the reader are a fulltime Trent student, you pay $9.50 each, towards the newspaper levy, as stated on the Arthur’s website. Why do we pay this levy you ask? Well let’s check the Arthur’s website, shall we?

“Arthur’s goal is to produce a weekly newspaper that gives informative, interesting and accurate accounts of events and issues relevant to Trent students.

Arthur exists as an essential component of the student community. Arthur should be accessible to and representative of the communities it serves” The key words in these statements are: relevant and representative, so if I understand this correctly, and put it into perspective, then we may come to the conclusion that in some strange way, the tale of a woman being micturated upon, is informative, interesting, and an accurate account of events and issues relevant to Trent Students. Moreover this tale is also an essential component of the student community, and that it is representative of said community.

I realize that “Queerlines” is published annually, and that its intent is to be edgy and over the top, I get that, I really do. Now, having said that, Christmas too, comes annually, does that mean I pull a Chevy Chase in Christmas Vacation and go ape-shit decorating my house so that it is visible from space? The answer; no.

Though I do realize some people find immense pleasure in decorating their house so exuberantly, I also recognize only a small minority do so. And that is my point; this publication caters to such a miniscule minority of students here at Trent, thus not reflecting the overall feeling and spirit of the student body. In closing, if you are amongst the students who felt their sexual exploits and experiences were accurately detailed in this passed weeks paper, that’s fine, and cool by me, I would hope everyone’s sex life is fulfilled, so long as they don’t break the law. However the Arthur is not the forum to discuss such exploits, and if you feel the need to expand your sexual horizons, take a trip to an adult video store, though I must warn you, they might not have Christmas Vacation in stock.

Andrew Carlson

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Food Grows : Spoon’s roots

By Ben Laurie The story of food at Trent University is as old as the university itself. A new chapter of that story emerged, however, with the opening of the Seasoned Spoon Café in 2003. Since then, students, faculty and staff have worked together with the support of the colleges and university administration to grow, cook and serve this academic community food that reflects the values and aspirations of “…making a world of difference.”

Over the last eight years, the work and commitment of many people to this student-initiated project has brought us an organization that provided $46,305.12 worth of on-campus employment between September 2010 and February 2011! Remarkable numbers such as these were presented at the Spoon’s Annual General Meeting on Thursday, March 31.

As an organization, the Seasoned Spoon is more than a café, celebrating the success of 17 workshops open to the general membership, which provided opportunities in learning how to garden, brew beer, sprout seeds and eat raw! Nine students received academic credit for 2 TCCBE projects this year with the opportunity for many more projects to be explored next year (seek out the Trent Centre for Community Based Education if interested).

Three new board members were elected by the general membership to serve two-year terms. Tyler Vanermolen, Bennett Bedoukian and Benjamin Prowse have been welcomed to the body that makes the decisions that direct the Spoon on its remarkable path.

Trent’s food story is becoming even more unique this

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As an organization, the Seasoned Spoon is more than a café, celebrating the success of 17 workshops open to the general membership, which provided opportunities in learning how to garden, brew beer, sprout seeds and eat raw!”

July as the result of hard work from the Seasoned Spoon Board and active membership in acquiring the finances to build an earth-bag root cellar near Champlain College where the café is located.With financial support from the Co-operators insurance Impact! Fund, Carrot Cache, GSA, TCSA, and next year’s one-time student levy, fundraising efforts have totaled $28,000.

This amount of work and financial achievement is significant; however, the support of Trent’s Physical Resources Department and Administration demonstrates a continued commitment to the work and responsibility that these motivated people undertake. It is fitting that the Spoon is now able to both cook and store local food year-round, as the recently announced Bachelor of Arts or Science in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems begins this fall. In fact, the program webpage nearly names the Seasoned Spoon by noting that Trent has “A community of like-minded students running an on-campus organic café with locally-sourced produce.” The emergence of this program is certainly timely and very exciting with the possibility of deepening the food systems on campus, as we work towards ecological food as the norm, not the exception.

As the food story at Trent continues to unfold, maybe this academic community will look to places like the University of Toronto as a leader in shaping progressively

innovative food systems. Through institutional food service contracts, service providers like Aramark agree to source a percentage of food that has been certified by Local Food Plus (LFP). Through this certification system, institutions such as universities and hospitals are able to demand that local and ecologically grown food be a part of their food services agreement. As stated on their website, “LFP is committed to creating local sustainable food systems that reduce reliance on fossil fuels, create meaningful jobs, and foster the preservation of farmland – and farmers.”

I am intrigued by the prospects of the coming years as the emerging Sustainable Food Systems program develops, food production increases on campus, and vegetables are stored through winters in the new root cellar.

Faculty, staff, students, administration and community members continue this work from the generations before, and you too can become involved by contacting: seasonedspoon@trentu.ca.

Involvement may include for-credit TCCBE projects, filling earth bags in the building of the root cellar (July), sitting on committees, or developing policy. We encourage you to be part of the exciting work of creating innovative change at the local level, as part of the work happening on campuses across Canada. We’ve come a long way, we’re doing good work, and there’s more good work to be done!

The spectrum of a rainbow is broader than we think

By Caitlin Currie I am not a person of colour. As I write this, I am granted countless privileges as a person of European descent. I debated writing this piece because the experiences I am referring to are not my own. However, I feel as though this is an important piece to write and as a queer person I feel I should be active in both understanding and eliminating the experiences of marginalization faced by other queers and to end the use of queer identities being used as a means to perpetrate other forms of violence.

Our lives are complex, our identities intersect to make us complete beings, and in doing so, our sexual and gender identities become racialized. This means that to be in solidarity with queer struggles globally, we must be in solidarity with all queers in all forms of marginalization we face. At the same time, this also means that to access rights and privileges as queer people, we must fight for rights for all people from diverse backgrounds –We are not free from sexual and gender oppression if others are not free from oppression as racialized people.

Secondly, queer identities have been used as a tool for colonialism. This happens in two ways. The first is the way in which queer rights have been used to justify racism. Take the case of Israel; in painting the country as a “queer oasis” in a sea of queerphobia, Jasbir Paur of the Guardian explains,“Stand With US, a self-declared Zionist organisation, has been quoted in the Jerusalem Post as saying: “We decided to improve Israel’s image through the gay community in Israel.” This “pinkwashing”, as it is now commonly termed in activist circles, has currency beyond Israeli gay groups. Within global gay and lesbian organising circuits, to be gay friendly is to be modern, cosmopolitan, developed, first-world, global north, and, most significantly, democratic.” Israel justifies the occupation and the atrocities experienced by Palestinians perpetrated by the state of Israel. In turn, Israel promotes hatred of Arab communities, particular Palestinians, on the basis of their alleged intolerance toward sexual and gender diversity.

In reality, queerphobia exists everywhere, including Peterborough. The term “homonationalism” has been adopted by some to describe this disgusting trend of the global north to close boarders to people of colour on the basis of their home state being classified as queer intolerant.

The second way in which queerness has been used to perpetuate structural racism and colonization is through justifying racial hierarchy because of gender fluidity and sexual fluidity within racial minority communities. When settlers first arrived in North America they were disturbed by the queering of gender roles and sexual & gender diversity that existed within indigenous communities. This sexual and gender difference was used to ‘other’ the indigenous communities of Canada and ultimately justify stripping them of their land, resources, and culture. Both of the above examples use queer bodies and identities to justify the blatant racism experienced by these marginalized communities. Not to mention they also make invisible the fact that queer people exist across all cultures.

Lastly, racism is a queer issue because it exists within the queer community. We have to be critical of whose voices are heard and whose experiences are represented.

The LGBTIQQ2SA movement’s history has mainly consisted of white queers in positions of leadership. This is racism. Many queers of colour have expressed experiences of invisibility within and outside the queer community. This is racism.

Many times, queer organizing fails to address the intersection between being queer and being a person of colour. This is racism. Even the use of the word “queer” in this column as an umbrella term to represent all LGBTIQQ2SA people is racist. By using the word “queer,” I intended to be inclusive, however it is a culturally specific term and therefore its use as an umbrella identity is problematic. My aim of this piece is not to speak on behalf of queers of colour. As individuals and communities they have their own voices. My intentions are to call for the recognition of racism

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as a queer issue and for both white queers and non-queers to take accountability for the racism existing within our communities. And remember, the spectrum of a rainbow is broader than we think, the closer we look, the more colours we see.

Thanks to everyone who read the Centre for Gender and Social Justice’s column this semester. If you’re interested in getting involved with the Centre email us at centreforgsj@ gmail.com

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Radio

Your Voice at 92.7 FM, Trent Radio

Classes end April 8, but Trent Radio keeps going. Among campus-community radio stations, we are considered strange for what we do to our schedule. Twice a year, it is destroyed utterly. Once, going into the summer, then again in the fall, we wipe the slate clean of all programming and start fresh with an entirely blank schedule. Then, we solicit programming from Trent University students and the Peterborough community to build it back up again.

This takes a huge amount of organizing! But it also has many advantages. First, it gives our student programmers the opportunity to do things like go home for the summer and come back to do their show again the next fall, or a different show. It is not necessary to hold on to your programming until you are sick of it – instead, you can grow, expand, or shrink your commitment as your schedule and passion allows.

Secondly, this format allows first-year students and new programmers the same opportunity to get the spot on the programme schedule that is best for them as community members who have been here for years. It does not matter if someone has been here year upon year, everyone has to fill out a Programme Proposal, everyone has to hand it in, and then we try to schedule everyone according to their needs, not according to some elitist sense of seniority. The point is, there is always a new opportunity to get involved just around the corner, and it is in a very real sense open to all.

Our Fall to Spring 2010-11 Season is ending soon. Our brand-spanking-new Summer 2011 Broadcast Season will begin Monday, May 2. So, if you are sticking around this summer and would like to get involved in radio, even casually, all you need to do is hand in a Programme Proposal to us at Trent Radio House by April 17 at noon.

Here is the process: Take yourself, a pen, and your good idea, and get a Programme Proposal. They are available at Trent Radio House (715 George Street North) or online to download and print off from our website, trentradio.ca. I know many of you have a general fear of forms… alright, to be honest, I, myself, have a general fear of forms. Tax season causes a cold sweat to come over me, and I freeze and stare-blankly in the course

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of numbers and fill-boxes. But, a general fear of filling out forms aside, the Programme Proposal is not an intimidating thing - it’s just one step up from a “Hello My Name Is...” sticker. It explains WHO you are, WHAT that great idea of yours is, and WHEN you want to do it. “Ahhhh, it’s terrifying, I can’t believe there’s so much to fill in! Ahhhh!” you may say, but really it is fine. Don’t Panic.

What matters above all is to document the intent of your good idea, and then talking to me so that I can help you realize it on the air. This idea does not need to be fully developed before it gets to me - many great ideas are never fully developed - and it is all right to come in with only passionate disinterest driving you, an urge to be creative and active with your time, and like a laser gun of the future to be aimed out onto the airwaves and fired. We are by definition amateurs, and we’re not looking for fancy polished wolf-man monster-truckadvertising “Hey, hey, hey!” radio gurus. We’re just looking for you.

Our goal is to get people involved. The summer is a very light-hearted but exciting time around Trent Radio, and a great opportunity to get your feet wet broadcasting. I’ve been writing articles this year in Arthur as consistently as my own schedule and passion allows because I want Trent University students to be educated about what is going on at their radio station, and how they can take advantage of it, or simply celebrate the participation of their fellow students. We are a student-owned and student-operated space, working in the community to strengthen ties and bring out creative potential. If you’re having trouble filling out your Programme Proposal, or you’re just not sure what all this is about – that doesn’t make you uncool or not good enough for radio - just call, or stop by and you’ll get all the involvement and help you need.

Visit our website at trentradio.ca. Charmingly, it looks like something from 1997, because, darn it – we’re function over fashion. No one cares what you look like on the air – no one will be checking you out, looking you up and down, evaluating your attractiveness or your coolness, your clothes or your posture, the size of your hair or how well you dance.

Visit Trent Radio House, 715 George Street North, to pick up a Programme Proposal or just to come in, have a coffee, look around and say: “Wow, I’ve never been in here, before,” because, that is awesome. Getting people in, getting people involved, is awesome. That is why we’re here, and that is why you should get involved in the 2011 Summer Broadcast Season.

Important Dates: New Event Day: April 12 will be an all-day programming event, “Captain Beefheart Day,” celebrating the life and times of musician Captain Beefheart.

Programme Proposals are due at Trent Radio House by Sunday, April 17 at NOON. Summer Broadcast season starts Monday May 2, with your help.

Listen all summer at 92.7 FM in Peterborough or online at trentradio.ca James Kerr Programme Director Trent Radio CFFF 92.7 FM Peterborough, ON www.trentradio.ca

opinion

Convenience vs. Sustainability

By Sarita Worravitudomsuk Last week I received an email from my friend Hwemi Oh, an exchange student from Kansai Gaidai University in Japan, who came to Trent three years ago. Hwemi wrote: “The Japanese Government is trying their best, they said. I think that they would be criticized for whatever they do because people are really uneasy about the disaster and have sympathy towards those living in the devastated area.

They could try to do a better job, but I don’t know how. The Japanese Government said that this is the worst situation for Japan after WWII. Ironically, Japan, the only country bombed and devastated by the nuclear weapons, is now harming its people because of its own nuclear power plant.

Nobody thought about the possibility that this terrible disaster would occur and damage the plant.

“People, of course including me, finally realize the danger of the nuclear power plant. It is believed to be very convenient, but it is really harmful and horrible. I realized that we should not depend on convenient but harmful things too much. We live on the Earth, so we must not oppose it, but we must live together with the Earth.”

Her last sentence was echoing in my head and it got me thinking about two concepts: convenience and sustainability. To me, they seem to be a trade-off. For example, carrying a travel mug is not the most convenient thing and many times, we just don’t. Coffee shops always supply disposable cups, so we do not worry too much about it. We take it for granted that they will be available to use with no additional cost. Should we really use this resource just because we can afford it and it is available?

We have to choose between the two in almost all decisions we make in everyday life. What choice do you often go for, convenience or sustainability?

One story that came into my mind after I read this email is a story about a Thai monk, Buddhadasa, who was known for being economical and always putting materials to their best use. He never tore apart wrapping paper or packages that he received. He used a fork to untie string, so that he

could reuse it. He never bought material for wrapping, and always reused materials he already had. He said that it is unnecessary to buy, and it is a waste of time and effort to do so. The specialness does not lie in the fancy paper and glowing ribbon we use to wrap a gift, it is in the thought behind the action, the intention to stop exploiting the Earth for things that are not necessary.

I think that one skill that we need to develop these days is to bring out the best in available resources and do no harm to the environment without compromising the intention to provide the best for others. We can also give the best that we can as friends, coworkers, housemates etc.

This idea does resonate with the core concept of economics: “to allocate resources to its best use, to maximize the utility.” To me, utility and sustainability are the same concept in the long run.

Coming back to Buddhadasa’s story, his secretary usually typed his letters for him. After typing, Buddhadasa usually asked him to read and review it again. When there were parts that needed to be changed, his secretary offered to type a new copy for him, but Buddhadasa usually told him not to worry. He said it was a waste of paper. It has been typed, so no worries. His secretary would insist on typing a new one for him, but with no success. Buddhadasa said, “Let it be wrong like this. People may think that I am stupid, but it is better than wasting paper, energy, resources.”

The questions that we should keep in mind are: What would be appropriate? What would be effective? What is the best thing to do here and now? We need to think with feeling, and to feel thoughtfully to figure it out.

Buddhadasa used the same table for working and eating.

After he finished his meal, he wiped water on the table with a napkin and left the napkin on the table. A student once asked him if he wanted to throw it away, but he said there was no need – it is not dirty because it was just water. I will use it again. This is indeed economical, unlike many people who use lots of paper to wipe and throw away, wipe and throw away.

Keeping wet napkins to reuse it might sound ridiculous,

but I really feel that there is some important lesson we should learn that could help us reflect upon our own actions.

There is so much room for us to be more sustainable in each step in everyday life. It is not a bad idea at all to start taking action and challenge ourselves to be sustainable.

This is the only way to battle with global crisis, such as climate change, shortage of resources, materialism, consumerism (plus internal problems such as unhappiness, dependence on materials, low self-esteem and self-worth) that trap us in delusion, luring us to consume more with the hope to gain more satisfaction, happiness and acceptance from others. Is it the lack of something inside that drives us to consume more?

What we need now is action, bit by bit. It does not matter where we are at right now as long as we move forward at our pace and capability. We need collective collaboration.

Not to judge others, but to reflect, challenge and work on ourselves. By challenging, I mean doing something that people do not find very easy for the most part, but that is possible to do!

These ideas all tie back to our needs and wants. Linking it back to the incident in Japan, my friend from Ohio, Daniel Keck, commented that, “If we’re going to reduce our dependence on oil and coal, I think we need nuclear power. It’s hard to see nuclear power as safe in the wake of Fukushima, but it’s actually much cleaner and safer than anything else we can rely on. And the world can’t reduce power consumption enough for purely renewable sources to work, at least for the time being. But it would be nice to do without it.”

I want to end this note again with Hwemi’s words: “Please imagine if you were in this disaster and lost everything, home, properties and even families. Please imagine that you would have to leave your home because of radioactivity and you or your families and friends could be victims of atomic power. I think now is the time to reconsider how we live our lives. I’m finding the answer how we can improve it.”

Market Hall re-opens its doors accessibly, elegantly, eagerly By jes sachse Around this time, precisely one year ago, I wrote to inform our dismayed readership of the closing of Market Hall’s doors as the building, nearly 120 years old, underwent some much needed and much anticipated construction.

Home to performers, dancers, musicians, artists and purveyors alike, the grand re-opening has arrived just in time to greet Emergency #18.

A mix of contemporary dance, dance-theatre, clown, video, storytelling and performance art from within the Peterborough community, the ecletic troop invites you this Friday and Saturday (April 8 & 9) at 7:30 and 9 p.m., and Sunday April 10 at 2 p.m. and 3:30p.m. to experience one to all three of the scheduled performance programs.

I had almost forgotten the city without its Charlotte and George Street cornering landmark. Afterall, the big clock read a quarter past nine a whole calendar long enough for me to buy a watch and mimic those loud chimes myself to make my bustling editor’s schedule.

But on one afternoon, it chimed noon, loudly and cleary. I realized I was late getting to work before I realized that Market Hall was alive again, after a long and luxurious hibernation.

If I didn’t waltz into the sexy new hall expecting immaculate, I was certainly Chanel-suit swatted in the face with it after riding a multi-acessible elevator to the performance level. As my Co-Editor Meaghan and I stumbled about the space bewildered (and quite fashionably late for a tour), we excitedly imagined the millions of possibilities now resting comfortably in the cushioned aisled seating, complete with cup-holders. Dressing rooms, green rooms, gender-neutral and physically accessible facilities abound, I may be the young gup once quoted as saying ‘Toronto can keep the Four Seasons Performing Arts Centre.’

So wheel, walk, limp and dance your way inside, Peterborough, and catch a show. Or play one! Let’s break in the new walls together.

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National

Strutting toward slut-­pride

Thousands step out to oppose rape culture at SlutWalk Toronto Text by Hazel Wheeler Photos by Holly Norris Based on the crowd that gathered at Queens Park in Toronto on April 3, you wouldn’t think that SlutWalk was just six weeks old. The idea was born between a handful of people who had had enough of pervasive rape myths and decided to do something about it. While this particular movement is a new one, unfortunately the cause is not, as recognized

by Sonya Barnett, co-founder of SlutWalk, during her initial address. Nor is the cause contained to Toronto, as is clear from the satellite SlutWalks being organized throughout North America, with global interest building. The issue of slut-shaming, where victims of sexual violence are held accountable for the crimes against them because their attitudes, dress, or behaviour are assumed to imply consent, is common in all aspects of society, from bars and clubs to formal courts. This was made painfully clear in a comment made by an officer with the Toronto Police Force (TPF) that served as the catalyst for SlutWalk: If you don’t want to be raped, don’t dress like a slut.

The crowd, an estimated 3000 people (including approximately 70 Trent students, thanks to free buses arranged by Trent’s Campaign Against Sexual Assault), was enthusiastic as Barnett reaffirmed the reasons that we had gathered: “We’re doing this because we have the power to change things.” The changes that SlutWalk hopes to generate are three-fold: better sexual assault education and training within the TPF, external reviewers to evaluate and make recommendations on that training, and better community outreach to educate on healthy sexuality and consent. These requests were sent to the police in the weeks leading up to SlutWalk in an effort to create an open dialogue, though TPF representatives declined invitations to participate in the demonstration, except in the capacity of crowd control.

Following the initial address at Queens Park, protesters marched on the Toronto police headquarters. Escorted between lines of officers on bikes, participants were galvanized to the cause, but peaceful and respectful. It was a varied group of all ages and genders; some were dressed to the nines, others were sporting jeans and sweatshirts, but from everyone there was an air of solidarity and acceptance. Within this heartening unity, however, there were also heartbreaking reminders of the serious issues that we had gathered to address. One woman in particular caught my eye: she had a quiet manner, a big smile, and carried a placard that read, “Xmas 1985. 14 years-old. Bundled in layers. How did I deserve it?”

First to address the crowd was Deb Singh from the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape, who spoke of the victim-blaming attitudes of the current legal process, where the victim is the first to be investigated when a claim of sexual assault is made. “Her credibility as a witness comes under the microscope,” said Singh, who was worked extensively as a counselor for rape

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survivors. “Her sexual and medical history, her mental health, her presentation, her actions on the night in question, and even what she wore.” According to Singh, these are the issues that cause 94% of rapes to go unreported in Canada.

Other speakers included Michael Kaufman of the White Ribbon Campaign (a global effort of men working to stop violence against women), who spoke passionately about the need for better education in sexual consent, and urged men to speak out against sexual violence in whatever form it takes; as well as SlutWalk organizer Alyssa Teekah from York University, who challenged the York administration and security force in their manner of handling sexual assault on campus. In one of the more rousing moments, Jane Doe, a rape survivor who in 1998 won a civil suit against the TPF for irresponsible and negligent behaviour in investigating a serial rapist in Jane’s neighbourhood, spoke of her first-hand experience and frustrations in monitoring

TPF sexual assault training, where misogynistic and racist attitudes were common. The crowd responded with loud cries of “shame,” while accompanying police officers stood stoic at the sidelines.

Through all the excitement and emotion of SlutWalk, what was perhaps most amazing and poignant was the honesty that so many in attendance brought with them; sexual assault survivors stepping forward to dispel rape myths, challenge the issues in current systems, and demand change. In a culture where explicit female sexuality is viewed largely with scorn, SlutWalk not only proved the power inherent in a group of people who coalesce on an issue, but also created a space for people to speak out against unfair judgment. Does owning your sexuality, or wearing a low-cut top mean a woman is “asking for it”? Heather Jarvis, SlutWalk co-founder, put it succinctly in her final address at the close of the rally: “We are sluts and we are allies, and as a slut, all I’m asking for is consent.”

In a culture where explicit female sexuality is viewed largely with scorn, SlutWalk not only proved the power inherent in a group of people who coalesce on an issue, but also created a space for people to speak out against unfair judgment.”

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Listings Stitch and Bitch!

Every Monday at Sadleir House Senior Common Rm (201). Bring your knitting, crochet, or needlepoint. Beginners welcome! 6:30-9pm.

AK 47 Band, Komi Olamifahan. Advance tickets $10. Tickets available @ Only cafe (216 Hunter St), Benevolent Stranger (212 hunter st) and Have you seen Video (321 Aylmer st).

*H[ÄZO >PSSPL HUK ;OL )\JRSL )\Z[LYZ play hot Western Swing and Hillbilly Jazz at The Black Horse Pub (George St N) every Wed in April. 8:30 start. No cover. Dial in to Trent Radio, 92.7FM, ;\LZ (WY ! HT [V OLHY *H[ÄZO Willie and The Buckle Busters Live on ¸*H[ÄZO >PSSPLZ :^PUNIPSS` 9V\UK\W š the last episode of the semester.

;OL *Y\UJO PZ VU Feeling a little bit like a paper-writing, one-person assembly line? An Academic Skills appointment offers you the opportunity to discuss a paper you are currently working on with an experienced instructor who can provide support at all stages of the writing process - from picking a topic to revising your draft - by offering guidance and suggestions for improvement.

Call 748-1720 to make a 45 minute appointment or come by Mondays for KYVW PU Ă„YZ[ JVTL Ă„YZ[ ZLY]LK minute sessions). You can also submit essays or questions online by going to www.trentu.ca/academicskills/service_ online.php.

MASIA ONE to Kick Off KWIC Youth Spring Conference, Finding Your Voice: Art & Activism 101, April 15 at Market Hall. Registration in advance at www. kwic.info or via Facebook. Informative and inspiring keynote and participatory workshops for youth 14-25 years. More info at Kawartha World Issues Centre: 705-748-1680.

(MYPJ]PSSL WYVK\J[PVUZ WYLZLU[Z! A Night of Music, Poetry and Dance. April 9. Featuring: - The Resolutionaries Marimba Band, Yardsteppa and Culture Mix Reggae Band, Balam Santos,

-\JR [OL -HJ[Z (from ottawa), Legion DCLXVI (from toronto) and G.O.D. (from peterborough). Pappas Billiards. $6.

April 9. 19+

Year Olds: Helping your Child Become a Competent Eater with Staff of the PRHC -HTPS` HUK @V\[O *SPUPJ PU Ă„LSKZ VM U\[YPtion, psychology & social work. Thursday, April 7 from 7 to 9 p.m. Peterborough Public Library, 345 Aylmer St. N. The workshop will be of interest to parents and care providers of children ages 4 and over. Workshop Free. No registration required. For more information call 705-742-3803 or 1-800-386-6561. :\ZHU )\U[PUN MVY [OL 7L[LYIVYV\NO ,UNSPZO *V\U[Y` +HUJLYZ Saturday, April 16, 2011. 8 to 10:30 p.m.Peterborough English Country +HUJLYZ OVZ[ [OLPY Ă„UHS JVTT\UP[` KHUJL VM [OL ZLHZVU H[ :[ 1VOUÂťZ (UNSPcan Church, 99 Brock St, Peterborough.

Join the dancers for a lively evening of English and American style dancing, from historic to modern. Live music and all instruction provided. No need to bring a partner, families (8 & up) are welcome.

Admission $8 adults, $5 students. For more info 705-745-1630

VZZPH SPZ[PUNZ thur 7 : Tame the Young :LJVUK :WYPUN /LHS[O` -HTPSPLZ fri 8 : Sly Violet, and Sam Ferguson >VYRZOVW! All about Eating in 4 to 12 sat 9 : drum and bass

sun 10 : weird mic with group (a) 6\Y :[VYPLZ Students in 3rd and 4th year indigenous creative writing will be presenting their contribution to a self published chapbook of short stories and poetry at the gathering space, Thursday April 7 at 7:30pm sharp. Copies of the book will be available to purchase along with light fare. ;OL :LHZVULK :WVVU is looking for OWSP eligible students to work from September to April 2011/12, 7 hours/ week at $10.25/hour while classes are running. Send cover letter & resume to seasonedspoon@trentu.ca by Friday April 15 at 4pm. See website for more details: www.trentu.ca/seasonedspoon.

-LKLYHS ,SLJ[PVU ,]LU[Z! April 6: 2pm, Lions Centre-All Candidates Debate for COGECO. April 7: 3pm, Trent University Champlain Campus Great Hall- All Candidates Debate. Audience Questions Encouraged. If you have questions regarding how to get in touch with your local candidates, email to capp_peterborough@live.ca.

5V\YPZO 7L[LYIVYV\NO! A celebration of community, food security, and social justice at the newly renovated Market Hall of Performing Arts (336 George Street North) Wednesday April 13, 2011 from 6pm to 9pm. Come out for an evening of local food, music, theater HUK KVJ\TLU[HY` Ă„ST +PUULY WYV]PKLK

by Food Not Bombs and Come Cook with Us. Enjoy a community meal to the sounds of Newmarket based traditional folk musician Roseanne Speckert, and Toronto based folk/indie artist Abigail Lapell. Local legend Gillian Turnham presents her all new theatrical performance exploring the themes of frontier, seeds, development and fertile spaces.

The evening will conclude with a presentation of the much anticipated Nourish Peterborough H KVJ\TLU[HY` Ă„ST [OH[ follows ten unique community groups from Peterborough who are advocating for food security and sovereignty.

1Haa +\V pianist Biff Hannon and vocalist Donna Collison at Curry Village, 306 George St. on Saturday April 9, 2011 from 6pm to 9pm 742- 1432.

Issue 24 is our last issue of Volume 45!

Thanks, everyone.

If you want to participate in Arthur’s summer blog or want more information about Arthur, email our new editors, Iris and Miranda, at editors@ trentarthur.ca.

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