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Volume 49 | Issue 10 | November 18, 2014

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Clarification: The photo used with the article “Research Assistants at Trent seeking

to unionize with CUPE� in last week’s issue was for illustrative purposes only. The people photographed are merely working in a lab, and are not involved with the unionization movement. The photos were removed from the online article after concerns were expressed by those photographed. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

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Symons, in his speech, said the bridge would not only “aid the university but would also beautify the Trent Canal system.�

Champlain student, and founding co-editor of Arthur, Stephen Stohn, also gave a speech wherein he described the bridge as being the “symbolic and actual coming together of the two townships in friendship and love.�

Vice-President of Lady Eaton College Cabinet Ann Murray presented the two reeves with love-beads.

Today, Douro is in a committed relationship with the former Dummer Township, while Smith is in a polyamourous triad with Lakefield and Ennismore. The two remain friends, even though they no longer meet at the Faryon Bridge.

It’s now located in Peterborough officially, though it’s certainly not a wedding band for the university and the city either. Trent’s been a bit standoffish for the last 10 or 15 years.

We at Arthur say it’s time to bring out some dignitaries from the city and university to have another love-bead presentation, 1960s style. Just last year, Trent substantially repaired the Faryon bridge. Let’s repair some of our figurative bridges to the community as well.

The Faryon Bridge is very much a centre of campus life. It’s the most convenient way to get from one side of campus to the other without using a vehicle.

It’s where the two sides of Symons Campus come together, and a place that probably every Trent student experiences. For instance, we can all relate to being nearly frozen while walking across it in the winter.

It’s been this way since it was first opened 46 years ago.

Way back in November of 1968, Arthur reported on the official opening of the footbridge connecting Trent’s East and West banks.

Originally the bridge almost wasn’t approved for funding by the Ontario government. When the project was submitted as a bridge, the government felt it was too extravagant.

When it was rebranded and resubmitted as an “electrical conduit� (without any more substantial changes, mind you) they gave it the go-ahead.

Technically, we’ve just been walking on a lavish passage for wires this whole time. How shocking!

Of course, there was no hiding the intended purpose of what would be named the Faryon Bridge, after Reginald Faryon, former President of Quaker Oats, founding board member of Trent University, and the author of a 1959 Letter to the Editor that suggested Peterborough should spend its municipal surplus on a university.

The ceremony was short, but it included speeches from Trent President T.H.B Symons and the Reeves of the former Douro Township and former Smith Township.

Though it primarily benefits Trent students, staff, and faculty, the opening of the bridge was something the university wanted to involve the community in.

Douro Reeve Glenn Brown praised President Symons for inviting the general public to the bridge opening.

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CampusNews Blended Learning: The line between two worlds

The finale of our “Students and Media” series

Blended Learning courses are an innovative teaching technique that is just in its seeds of development at Trent University.

It features the replacement of certain components of face-to-face classroom learning, with digital or online elements. For instance, a classroom lecture could be replaced by a video lecture while students and instructors still meet for small group discussion. Or on the other hand, discussion and classroom participation may move online while classroom lectures still take place.

Mary Jane Pilgrim, Director of Trent Online, described the presence of blended learning at Trent as something that’s done without many people realizing it.

She said, “Lots of faculty are doing different components of blended learning within their courses without actually calling it a ‘blended courses’. Many faculty have elements that you need to participate in online, technically those are blended courses, but they’re not officially blended unless the seminar portion or the lecture portion don’t exist face-to-face.”

Full-fledged blended courses are still rare at Trent. The practice is still in its infant stages, with only a few professors taking it up in their courses according to their own preferences. Arthur met with a few of such faculty to discuss their specific strategies and any successes or failures they’ve met.

learning. In minimizing his lectures, Rafferty finds that a blended learning model provided a means for engaging with students more fully than standard lecturing.

Rafferty said, “For one of my courses, I wasn’t happy just lecturing because when you’re talking they seem to be paying attention, but when they write the test it’s clear that they just didn’t get it.”

To address this issue, Rafferty began having students solve problems that had been posted to the online course manager, Blackboard, during class time. He lectures briefly and then has students solve chemical problems relevant to the material in class. Then they can ask him questions, and work collaboratively or individually to solve the problems.

“I think it worked about better because I could see where people had problems with the concepts and I could address it directly, in a way that I couldn’t do with a lecture,” said Dr. Rafferty.

This method also allows for the integration of specialized technologies into the classroom. In Rafferty’s class, students learn how to use chemical analysis software that is built upon in later courses.

Rather than provide images of chemical structures, Rafferty has students download a free application to their laptops and in class they will explore chemical structures actively. The structure of the course encourages students to discover new features of the software and promotes self-directed learning in the classroom.

courses related to math education. Her courses feature a blended environment in which students are expected to prepare ahead of time to participate in seminar discussions. She is able to put a number of resources online relating to the material, which students can peruse at their discretion according to their comfort level with the topics. Bruce said, “It gives you an opportunity to front load some content that doesn’t need to be given face-to-face, and it gives you more time to do the harder learning in the classroom.”

Bruce also finds that this method lends itself well to different learning styles. “The ways that we learn are different, and different people are going to benefit from different parts,” said Bruce. Media that cater to certain types of learners (visual, aural, kinaesthetic, logical, etc.) can be put forward simultaneously and students can focus on whichever method they prefer. “The online is usually more reading intensive, while the face-to-face is usually more auditory intensive.”

Bruce said, “The interesting thing about learning styles is that we all possess a different mix of different ways of learning…

It’s not that we’re just one typified learning style, but rather a blend of all of them.

Sometimes we want to work on our weaknesses and sometimes we want to work with our strengths. I think the blended learning gives students even more options to push their areas of need and work on those, but also capitalize on their strengths.”

Dr. Steven Rafferty is an associate professor in the Chemistry Department, and he has recently been directing his courses away from standard modes of lecturing and toward more interactive activity based

Dr. Cathy Bruce is an associate professor in Trent’s School of Education and Professional Learning, as well as the Director of the newly founded Centre for Teaching and Learning. She conducts research and

Increasing numbers of departments and professors are incorporating technology into their classroom environment in different ways. Dr. Andrew Vreugdenhil of the Chemistry Department finds technology

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in his large first-year lectures to be a useful tool for class management and assessment.

One of the most useful online tools for Vreugdenhil is the deployment of online assignments.

Vreugdenhil has students complete online questions, which are graded immediately after submission. He feels that this motivates students to review problem areas if they got the question wrong. It does this in a way that paper assignments cannot, due to the extended timelines that paper assignments require to complete and grade. He said, “This is one of the reasons why I’m a big fan of using the online technologies. It allows students to answer the questions whenever they have the time, and also it gets the feedback back to them much more quickly.”

While currently blended courses that fully subscribe to the definition are of limited popularity among professors at Trent University, Trent Online and the Centre for Teaching and Learning are interesting in supporting instructors who want to move in that direction.

As the Centre for Teaching and Learning is only a few weeks old, their activities are nascent, but they are committed to encouraging innovation in the classroom and alternative techniques for imparting knowledge.

In an age of rising online media, blended courses are an avenue for instructors looking to incorporate the wealth of digital tools now at our disposal, while still stimulating the small group discussions that Trent is known for. Pedagogically, blended courses ride the line between the contemporary digital world and old school models for class-based face-to-face discussion.

Trent’s new lecture series’ celebrate 50 years of excellence

By Renzo Costa

Throughout the year, a number of lectures will take place at Trent commemorating the 50th anniversary. These lectures have been branded under the “Ideas Exchange” and also the “50 Talks for 50 Schools” campaign.

The idea behind the lectures is to engage the community with faculty and scholars in the effort of exchanging ideas, building knowledge and facilitating learning. They will explore a plethora of topics that will appeal to different academic and professional backgrounds.

Arthur talked with Dr. Jocelyn Williams, a professor in the Anthropology department and president of the Trent University Faculty Association (TUFA).

TUFA has been an important supporter and sponsor of these lectures. The association was funded in 1966, shortly after the university was established, and was later unionized.

Dr. Williams expressed that one of the association’s goals is to create and maintain a strong and collaborative relationship with the administration, where they work together towards fulfilling the academic mission.

This relationship with the administration is, in a way, key to executing a series of successful events.

Dr. Williams explained that the university had begun to talk about the sorts of

things they were doing to celebrate their 50th anniversary, and put out material asking for sponsorship. She added that as the executive committee of the membership, they decided that TUFA would want to sponsor an event.

Furthermore, Dr. Williams added that “we wanted to be prominent sponsors because we felt that as a university the faculty are first and foremost the backbone; so we really wanted to highlight our attachment to our belief in the academic mission: the idea that the goal of the university is to create and to foster engagement, both within the university setting and also within the community.”

TUFA is financially supporting the lecture series, which are divided into two main campaigns: 50 Talks for 50 Schools and the Idea Exchange.

As Dr. Williams expressed, the idea exchange was completely born out of communications. TUFA did not suggest the naming or branding, but they certainly advocated to make an effort to have really well thought out, interesting, engaging lectures involving faculty and visiting scholars.

She added that there were no conditions in the sponsorship except that TUFA did not want the events to go unnoticed; instead they pushed for strong and prominent events. TUFA advocated for events that would also celebrate and highlight the work done by faculty, staff, and librarians.

In terms of the Idea Exchange, specific department faculty choose the events’ topics. Some of them have been created for the 50th anniversary, whereas others are events that already took place and that

the communications office brought them under the ideas exchange umbrella. For instance, the David Morrison lecture is an annual lecture in International Development Studies, which this year was branded under the Ideas Exchange umbrella.

Dr. Williams also stated that the 50 Talks for 50 Schools is almost exclusively faculty volunteers, who create the topics on their own. This is a good example of how willing faculty members are to share their research with schools, students, and different generations of scholars.

An important hope for the lecture series is to contribute towards understanding the purpose of universities, and specifically Trent, which is generating ideas and knowledge and creating global engaged citizens, Dr. Williams explained.

One of the main objectives of the lecture series is “showcasing the excellence that is happening at Trent on different levels, in research and in teaching, and that is evidenced by how Trent possesses well funded high-end researchers and excellent teachers that have won national teaching awards and are willing in engaging and giving back to the community,” Dr. Williams expressed.

These lectures are meant to commemorate and celebrate 50 years of knowledge exchange and creation at Trent University.

One of the main merits is the fact that these lectures are open to the public, furthering the democratization of education.

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Trent professor’s cancer drug research proving effective

By Ugyen Wangmo

Cancer drug research at Trent advances forward with consistent results showing that nano-silver particles are an effective chemotherapeutic agent for neuroblastoma.

The Drug Discovery program is a newly instituted research initiative at Trent University, based on the early stage research of Adam Noble, which focuses on using Medical Grade Nano-Particles to treat various types of cancer.

“The particle that we have developed has shown to be quite effective,” said the Environmental and Life Sciences, Ph.D candidate, Andressa F. Lacerda, the primary active researcher of the project. Further, “We found that drug dosage can be increased by about four times of what we would expect it to be toxic, and still remain to be nontoxic,” she added.

Lacerda explained that it is important to find the point where it will start to become toxic in order to be able to safely administer it as a potential drug without associated side effects.

According to her the findings are advantageous, especially when developing a potential treatment.

“It means that you can be very harsh on the problem, in this case neuroblastoma cancer, but without being too harsh on the body,” says Lacerda.

She said that they were able to show that nano-particles can be used as a chemotherapeutic agent, because sometimes it works in the first stage of the research, but as soon as one moves into the second stage it doesn’t prove viable.

Further, it was found to be more effective, not to mention it shortened therapy

time by at least half, than the current treatment for neuroblastoma, she said.

She added that there is a potential that what they are doing will be cheaper than what is available right now. “It looks very promising!” she declared.

More achievements since they started nine months ago are, a post-doc with years of experience in the area, Dr. Yuanxiang Zhou of SickKids hospital in Toronto, joining the team.

The addition will not only add credibility to the research, she said, but the fact that such an esteemed researcher like him is considering to join the team at Trent is a huge accomplishment.

Furthermore, they will soon be formalizing the role of head of Cancer Research at SickKids Hospital and the Canadian Research Chair for Cancer, Dr. David Kaplan, at Trent to strengthen the partnership with his labs.

An advantage of using nano-particles for cancer treatment is that they are more targeted, which means less side effects.

Patients potentially will not have to lose hair anymore, or lose their ability to have children, which is usually the case with regular chemotherapy, explained Lacerda.

The cancer they are focusing on is neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer that the child is either born with, or presents itself by the age of ten. Chemotherapy will stunt proper growth and development, but if treated with nano-particles, they will be free of the aforementioned consequences, said Lacerda.

She is proud that the research program has secured three main research laboratories.

The first is an open lab that contains cutting edge equipment to better understand

how the Medical Grade Nano-Particles kill cancer cells.

The next lab is the advanced Level Two Biohazard, where the Pre-Clinical Studies are housed to allow them to study human tumours.

The final research space is the Level Three Biohazard Laboratory. This is one of the few level three labs in Ontario, which allows them to grow cancer at a high level of containment such as what one would find at a research hospital like SickKids, she said.

The technology of the Medical Grade Nano-Particles has been further developed at the labs at Trent to now target the cancer cells even more effectively. This presents the potential for even higher efficiency of targeted treatment with Medical Grade

Nano-Particles, and also the potential to treat many types of cancer other than neuroblastoma.

The cancer cells that are either at Trent or soon will be at Trent include prostate, breast, colon, lung, and cervical cancers.

This exciting new advancement of technology is patented, and increases the market for Medical Grade Nano-Particle Therapy to most types of cancer.

Currently, Andressa Lacerda, assisted by two undergraduate students, is actively involved in the research under the supervision of Dr. Craig Brunetti, a biology professor at Trent University. Dr. David Kaplan is also supervising the research.

In the meantime they are hoping to prove the results, and get published in a year’s time.

Traill College Principal Profile: Dr. Michael Eamon I participate in events to be there for the students. However, this is not to say that everybody everywhere should follow this.

Is your current role, as Principal of Traill College any different than your former function as College head of Lady Eaton College?

In many ways no, which is why the transition has not been that difficult for me. I am still there; I still do events after hours, I am in my office as long as I can be, I always have an open door policy where people can drop by and talk. That is how I did things at Lady Eaton.

The big difference about me being at Traill is that I have been given extra responsibilities. I am also a part time Director of Continuing Education, which is a huge portfolio bigger than just being college head.

I am also a part time teacher besides, looking into heritage matters of the university.

Can you talk about your education and career that paved your path to Trent?

By Ugyen Wangmo

What, according to you, are the most important roles as a college head?

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It is important for a college head to do multiple things and be dynamic in their roles. University is predicated on scholarly pursuit; I try to be the best scholar, so I publish.

You also have to be exemplary as a teacher, so I teach. Being a role model in many ways to students is important, in addition to being a student life representative, so

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I have done four different degrees. I started off at the University of Ottawa, with a Bachelor of Arts honours in History. Then Queens University in Kingston for a Masters of Arts, but I also studied at the Royal Military College of Canada.

So I have a degree from Queens, but did a very strong component on military history. After which I worked at Parks Canada for a while before going to Cambridge for a Masters of Philosophy in History, and history of science. And that is where I first encountered the college system, which I valued.

I respect the idea of bringing people together from all over the world, for instance wherever there was a national or international event there was always somebody in the college who was part of their country.

The other thing I loved was the wonderful environment, such as where the scientist and humanists not only talk to each other but also appreciate each other, and contribute to one another’s ideas.

Then I worked for the federal government for many years. After which I got a grant from the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences that sent me back to school.

Such time has elapsed that my initial interests, which I still have, in the history of science, physicians, and military has lapsed a bit. Then I moved into culture, newspaper, technology of the press and more into those aspects.

So ended up in Queens doing my doctorate, which I finished in 2011. I actually started teaching at Trent before I finished my Doctorate, but I didn’t start at Lady Eaton until 2012.

What will be your advice to the new college heads?

I talk to them all the time. I understand that it is a difficult job, but what they are trying to do is bit different from the system I worked in.

So I would give them advice I would give to any historian, which is “Never assume you are the first to ever do anything; in fact we are all plagiarists in a way.” And, “We are all copying and continuing in lines of thought that existed before us.”

So, what you need to do is find out what happened before you. Don’t forget that the

past is not a bad thing; the past gives us lessons both good and bad.“Before you initiate new things or change, make sure you know what has happened in the past.”

What makes you passionate about Trent?

Trent has allowed me, especially as a principal, to communicate to students, and emphasize the importance of just being decent people and letting education make you a better person for the betterment of others.

Trent degrees are different. They teach you that being the smartest in the class is not important, but that using what you have learned to help others is more important. That is at the core of Trent, and at the core of the colleges.

The colleges are these small communities, not exclusive but inclusive, where we come together to help the wider world and ourselves. What Trent offers has something unique, which is powerful, and special.

There is this idea at Trent that education is what makes you better, and what makes others better. This is what makes me passionate about Trent.

What is special about Traill College?

Traill is the oldest college. It was an all female college to start off with, right down to the names of the halls. At the heart and soul of Traill there is a feminist voice, not to be an enclave separated from the boys, but where a source of empowerment for women could rise.

For me, Traill has the added soul, that feminine voice, but also has this alternative voice in the sense that it is an alternative and important space.

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From sports to scarves: Examining Trent’s unique traditions

Part two of the series “Trent University and the collegiate legacy”

By Dr. Michael Eamon

Fifty years ago, Trent opened as a collegiate university. Its founders, eager to have the institution enter the fray of higher education, did not have centuries to wait for their colleges to be built.

Instead, Trent was designed and executed as a fully-realized collegiate institution, unique in the 1960s where new, centralized campus universities were all the rage.

In the last article in this series, we saw how collegiate traditions formed the core of this new university. We explored why Trent has both a fall and spring reading week, and why we identify students by their matriculation (or first) year, rather than their graduating year.

We also talked about the ever-changing and sometimes controversial nature of the collegiate university. Not all traditions took root, such as the wearing of undergraduate gowns that fell into disfavour with students.

Today, we continue with an exploration of some of the collegiate traditions that surround rowing.

Rowing is synonymous with the collegiate university, conjuring up images of students gliding across mirror-like rivers in front of century-old brick and stone buildings. The sport was introduced to several English universities in the eighteenth century.

The popularity of the sport grew to such an extent that an annual race between Oxford and Cambridge universities was established in 1839. The Boat Race (no other description needed) continues to this day and is the premier university

sporting event in the United Kingdom.

The expansion of Trent University to the Nassau Mills area offered the perfect collegiate location where students could interact on, with, and above the river.

Even before the university officially owned boats, students were rowing the Otonabee along the newly constructed Champlain College.

In England, rowing is the “winter sport”, so the Canadian season is necessarily different in length. Trent’s very own regatta, Head of the Trent, is held in the early fall.

It was started in 1971. One year later, the Alumni Association decided to partner and host a concurrent homecoming event and one of Trent’s longest continuing traditions was born. From humble beginnings, Head of the Trent is now considered the largest single-day rowing event in the country.

Not all collegiate traditions have proven popular in Peterborough and this can also be seen in the case of rowing.

Today, in Oxford and Cambridge, most individual colleges have their own competitive, intramural boat clubs in addition to the existence of a larger university team. Twice each year there are collegiate “bumps” regattas where multiple college crews enter the river and try to win by overtaking the teams in front and

tapping or “bumping” them.

Considering the size and speed of the Otonabee (compared to Cambridge’s River Cam or Oxford’s Isis) it is probably a good thing that this particular tradition hasn’t taken root here!

It should be mentioned that the origins of college scarves can be traced to the collegiate rowing tradition as well.

College, or academic scarves, date back to nineteenth-century England.

Rowers originally wore scarves and jerseys of a uniform colour that represented their respective college. Often this same colour would be painted on the blades of their oars.

The origins of the current, colourfullystriped academic scarf is said to be a product of wartime shortages. Some say an increase in the use of wool during the Great War (others say in the Second World War) to produce soldiers’ uniforms led to rationing of the material.

This meant that scarves could only be made from the strips of material that were left behind. After the War, the new patterns continued and became popular with students outside of the rowing community.

By the 1950s, the tradition of striped scarves was here to stay and the scarf became another symbol synonymous

with the colleges. Currently, there are over 60 different universities in the United Kingdom and North America with academic scarves that follow this style.

The scarves of Trent University were created in 2009, utilizing colours and designs traditional to its colleges.

Champlain’s scarf is navy blue and red; Lady Eaton incorporates navy blue and yellow in its design; Otonabee is midnight blue and gold; Gzowski is yellow and burgundy and Traill utilizes a garnet and grey colour scheme. Scarves for two former colleges, Peter Robinson and Julian Blackburn, were also created using the colours green and white, and green and yellow respectively.

Trent University is one of the few Canadian institutions that embraces the tradition of unique college scarves.

Both practical and symbolic, a simple scarf can embody the multivalent nature of the college system.

Ideally, colleges should encourage inclusion and never exclusivity. Scarves offer a means to exhibit subtle pride for one’s college, while acknowledging the diversity and breadth of the larger university community.

They are a tangible reminder of a core collegiate ideal: that students can be a part of a small and meaningful community, while at the same time make important contributions to a greater scholarship and to humanity at large.

All this, and they can keep you warm while waiting for Trent Express.

Dr. Michael Eamon is a Trent University professor and serves as the Principal of Catherine Parr Traill College.

International Education Week puts a spotlight on global engagement

By Lauren Miller

November 17-21 is International Education Week in Canada! The Trent International and Study Abroad Program are celebrating with great events.

Trent students are invited to learn more about international education opportunities and meet students who have gone abroad as part of their degree, as well as students currently here on exchange.

To kick off the week, we encourage all Trent students to attend the carbon conversation “Sacred Seeds” lecture by Dr. Vandana Shiva, on Sunday in Wenjack theatre.

According to the Kawartha World Issues Centre website, “Dr. Shiva is a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award and holds a PhD in Quantum Theory from the University of Western Ontario. In 1991, she founded ‘Navdanya’, a movement to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources, especially seeds, and to oppose the aims of the World Trade Organization agreement, which would have all seeds susceptible to genetic modification patents and becoming intellectual property.”

Monday will mark the first day of our photo contest. Check out the beautiful photos taken by Trent students during their exchanges in the Gzowski College cafeteria and on the Study Abroad Facebook page.

The photo with the most “likes” wins

the people’s choice award!

Thinking of studying abroad but don’t want to miss out on any time at Trent?

Come to our Summer Opportunities Panel on Tuesday to learn more about our internship programs, archaeology digs in Belize, Indigenous Studies with Mexico, language programs in France, Germany, and China, and more!

Do you like food, drinks, games or movies? Maybe studying abroad isn’t your thing, but everyone is welcome to join us Tuesday night at the Ceilie for Study Abroad Game night, or Wednesday night for the Modern Languages Department’s free film at 7pm in the Bata Film Library.

If you’re thinking of going abroad or curious about learning more, don’t miss the Study Abroad Expo on Thursday in the Great Hall From 10am-4pm.

Meet all of Trent’s international organizations such as OXFAM, KWIC, WUSC, and the careers office. Get information about the universities you could study abroad at, and meet exchange students from those universities, or Trent students who have gone there. Free fortune cookies for all!

So come one, come all to celebrate international education, and learn about all the opportunities you have here at Trent.

For more information, times, and locations please see the Study Abroad website, or the Facebook event.

Also, see page 14 for an advertisement.

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Writer’s Reading: K.D. Miller brings all her saints to Traill

By Caleigh Boyle

On Tuesday November 11, K.D Miller was the guest writer at the English Department’s Writer’s Reading Series.

Lewis Macleod, of course, began the evening by making everyone who attended feel (as they should) as though they were the elite of our society, stating, “If you think the grass is greener somewhere else, you are wrong, it is greener where you are.”

And with that, Miller took to the podium thanking Peterborough and Trent for hosting her first night in this great (and elite, of course) community and introduced her book to us. “I wrote a book about a church and it took off, I don’t know,” laughed Miller. “Maybe only in Canada.” And without further ado, Miller began to read to us.

All Saints is a collection of short stories recently written by Miller, and also, as Macleod found, a very successful all girl band from the 1990s (we concluded that there is no relation between the two).

The first of the short stories in All Saints, titled Barney, is the one that Miller read. Barney tells the story of a man quite simply building a room. However, as the story goes on we learn that though he is “simply” building a room, there is nothing simple about it.

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For anyone who has ever taken on a project that is as mammoth as building a room, we know that we will never finish it. This is the impression we get about Garth’s room; he is never going to finish it, and the beautiful thing is that he doesn’t need to.

Miller has created this project and this room as a means for Garth to escape his mind and memories because sometimes remembering is just too hard. This room becomes therapy for Garth, and is a way of showing readers the struggle that veterans endure trying to reintegrate into society.

The Peterborough Red Cross turns 100

By Ayesha Barmania

This year, the Peterborough branch of the Canadian Red Cross is celebrating its centennial. The organization has devoted 100 years of service in Peterborough to humanitarian efforts worldwide, nationally, and locally.

The international organization has existed for over 150 years and is founded on the basis of seven principles: Humanity, Impartiality, Neutrality, Independence, Voluntary Service, Unity, and Universality. There are 187 national organizations that provide humanitarian support to those in need.

The Peterborough branch was founded in 1914 as an extension of the Canadian Red Cross. At the time, they were participating in national efforts to support Canadian soldiers fighting in the First World War. Local volunteers would knit socks that were shipped to war front and dispersed amongst soldiers.

Since that time, the Red Cross has been a staple community organization and charity of the community.

Since 1983, they have been located at an historical mansion called The Harstone House that provides a hub for much of the organization’s activities.

The knitting program that founded the

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brance Day, Garth—the man telling the story—is a war veteran. We learn that after 60 years, he is building this room for his best friend Barney, with whom he fought.

What Miller does though is very interesting. With a completely captivating reading voice, Miller pulls her audience and readers into the mind of Garth as a way of understanding that even after 60 years since the war, life is not the same, and some people don’t come back as the same person who left. For Garth this room really is a hobby, and he tells his wife: “We can rent it out.”

This is a challenge that is perhaps sometimes forgotten. Barney is a beautiful story

by Miller, with nine more compelling stories to follow it. All of the stories in this book are connected as they follow the lives of people who belong to an Anglican congregation, All Saints.

Having Miller read for us was absolutely wonderful. Being able to ask questions is such a neat way of getting inside a writer’s head, and being allowed in is a great privilege.

Every writer has a process and it was so lovely to hear Miller’s; where she had to go in her mind to create the stories that she has. Absolutely wonderful.

It cannot be said enough how amazing these readings put on by the English Department are, and there is only one more left.

On Wednesday November 19, writer Jonathan Bennett will be reading at Traill College. These events are free with an amazing reception afterwards at BE at The Trend with many, many, many tasty treats.

If you haven’t been able to make it out yet, or are just hearing about the series now, you have one more chance to participate.

To be able to listen to and chat with successful writers is like a dream come true, and is always a great reminder that you can do it too!

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branch is maintained today in the Winter Warmth program, in which volunteers knit mittens, hats, and scarfs for partner organizations in the region that distribute these articles to men, women, and children in need.

Other programs that the Red Cross offers locally are First Aid courses, healthcare equipment loans, RespectED (an education program that combats abuse),

and fundraising for the International Red Cross operations. Key to national and local operations of the Red Cross is the disaster management program that mobilizes when there are regional disasters to provide support to victims of disasters.

In 2004, Peterborough saw the local disaster management team mobilize when the city was hit by a severe rainstorm and much of the city flooded. Evacuations

A display at the Peterborough Red Cross’ centennial gala. Photo by Ayesha Barmania

were organized promptly and over 200 local residents were supported by the Red Cross. The Red Cross set up shelters and provided personal necessities to those displaced.

Last year, several students at Trent organized to extend the reach of the Peterborough branch to campus. As one of the first years that the student group has organized, executive members are looking to define what role the group takes on campus. They have been successful in organizing fundraising campaigns for Typhoon Haiyan last year with UNICEF Trent, and hope to continue this fundraising work in the coming years.

The Red Cross offers a number of ways for community members to get involved.

Whether that is as a front-desk volunteer, a volunteer knitter, or as an organizing member of the student group, they are welcoming of all contributions.

In the next coming weeks, the Red Cross is organizing a few events that are open to the community. On December 5th, there is a film screening at the Harstone House (565 Water St.) of It’s a Wonderful Life. Refreshments will be provided and entrance is by donation.

The Trent Red Cross will be hosting a knitting workshop on campus for 12pm2pm on December 3.

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Local Tunes: Trent alumnus Tom Eastland

By Brian Hough

In the past three decades, local resident and Trent alum Tom Eastland has established himself as a mainstay in Peterborough’s folk music scene, with a career that has spanned ups and downs and everything in between.

In fact, his first paying gig was in the Soviet Union. His father had set up a cultural exchange program called ‘the Peace Train’ through the Canadian Embassy and after arriving was greeted by then Canadian Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Peter Roberts. After meeting with the ambassador he was invited to perform at a local club populated with other diplomats, their friends and guests in what was an appreciative and truly multicultural audience. Says Eastland, “I got paid in American dollars and Russian vodka”.

Before that, however, he had arrived in Peterborough and Trent in 1983 as an aspiring poet, still struggling to learn the guitar, a skill he learned through the best way possible– by just getting on stage and doing it.

Says Eastland, “At the time it didn’t matter if you were good or not– if you were up there spilling your heart out there was an audience at Trent, at the Ceilie and The (Jolly) Hangman (the student pub formerly located at Peter Robinson College), that would get into it.”

Until 1987 he was very active in the Trent scene, working at The Hangman and meeting musicians, artists and activists and contributing poetry to Arthur.

He remembers The Hangman and its audiences fondly, as a lively and exciting scene to be a part of, recalling those times Eastland remarks, “It wasn’t like today, with the kind of stellar home entertainment options that people have now. As students most of us didn’t have cable, just one small TV with a fuzzy Chex station

so you just went out and caught a band, whoever was good or known or just sometimes whoever was playing.”

On the character of the scene at The Hangman and Peter Robinson itself Eastland adds, “All the creative and politically active people at Trent were there, it was multicultural and multisexual, a place where you could just be yourself and not be judged– it was very empowering and encouraging, one of the most amazing places I’ve ever been at.”

Before recording his first CD in 1996, he spent years cutting his teeth on the production end thanks to his involvement with Trent Radio, where he hosted his own local and independent music show “There Are Jams In The Kitchen”.

At the time Trent Radio had a 4-track recoding system that he was allowed to borrow, which he used to record local bands and shows and later himself, recording in his kitchen. “I dreamed of having access to the kind of recording tools that professional studios had, and it’s amazing that we can have those now.” he adds. In fact his latest album was recorded at home.

His first album, “Thanksgiving Day”, was produced by Canadian folk and blues hero, William P. Bennett, who Eastland calls “One of the most underrated Canadian musicians and a great guy.”

As Eastland tells the story, “It was 1995 and I had just moved into a new apartment. I was trying to adjust the lighting and saw a ladder in the window across the street, so I went over to see if I could borrow it, not knowing if anyone was home.”

It was then that he made a discovery.

“As I approached I saw all these guitars and mandolins and other instruments in the window, and as I looked at the mailbox it had the initials ‘WPB’ on it. So when the guy answered, I sort of sheepishly asked “Are you William P Bennet?”

and when he said “Yes” I gushed at him.

We sort of hit it off and I played some of my recordings for him, and he really liked it. He invited me over to play with him and jam and took me under his wing for about a year, teaching me about music and musicianship and then offered to produce my CD.” It was that kind of fortuitous collaboration that is sprinkled throughout his most recent release, 2012’s Saving Graces an album which has no less than 14 of his friends on it including the Weber brothers, Bridget Foley, Washboard Hank, Fiddlin’ Jay Edmunds and many more. The album grew over a number of years as he did all the recording, mixing, and mastering himself.

The album was written in what Eastland calls a “trying and angsty time” as he was struggling to take care of his mother who was suffering from dementia, while he would wile away his time in the basement writing songs.

Drawing from that experience and liv-

ing up to its title, Saving Graces comes with what Eastland calls his main message in both music and life– “I wanted to stress that there was more to life than money.

When you have money and you spend it, pass it on, it’s gone– you don’t have it anymore. But music, love, knowledge when you share those things, two people have it and it multiplies. We should know how rich we are and share that wealth.”

While he plays many shows locally and in Toronto, he hasn’t had the opportunity to tour as much as he would like, something he hopes to change.

He is also already planning a future recording but is looking to embrace the current trends in the music industry “There will be another one for sure but… I’m not sure if I will record it into a CD or if I’ll try a digital platform. There are so many ways and options for reaching people now that it’s amazing what you can do.”

He has also been playing a lot at local café Carpe Diem on Armour, where he hopes to diversify Peterborough’s already nascent and robust cultural offerings. “I really want to develop the culture around the 6pm-9pm timeslots, when you look at the scene almost everything goes until 2am. It’s sometimes hard to get people out when you tell them that you go on at midnight.”

Yet despite the arrival of the digital age, Eastland still refers back to what got him into music in the first place as his main source of inspiration and opportunity, “To me, it’s the live performance. There’s always that excitement about manifesting the music in the moment, as its happening, the live show, the live entertainment element– that feeling of a bunch of people in a room together experiencing something that will never happen in quite the same way again.”

You can catch Eastland again on Jan. 24 at Carpe Diem from 6pm-9pm.

Movie Review: Birdman - Michael Keaton just broke the word meta

By Brian Lukaszewicz

Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton) is an aging action star whose days in the limelight dwindled 20 years prior, when he left his starring role in the comic book franchise Birdman.

He’s desperate to earn the acclaim he’s never been able to find in Hollywood by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway play adapted from the short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” by the late author Raymond Carver.

Riggan has a (literal) dark twisted voice in his head that taunts and mocks him for ever thinking that he’s anything more than a washed up movie star. He also has the power to levitate and move objects with his mind.

So yeah, Birdman, the latest offering from Academy Award nominated director Alejandro González Iñárritu, isn’t shying away from the whole quirky label.

In fact, with Birdman, quirkiness is basically embedded in every shot. Or should I say shot, singular, because for the bulk of the movie González Iñárritu manages to tell his story— even while jumping forward in time— without ever making a cut.

And you know, for the most part it all works pretty well. There’s nothing worse than gimmick for the sake of gimmick, but González Iñárritu’s sturdy hand keeps the focus off the camera work and

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on the actors.

Birdman is a thoughtful examination of the artistic process– what it means to leave one’s mark on the world, whether we can ever reinvent ourselves, and if any of that matters in the end anyway.

Or, to put it another way, it’s a mishmash of characters who embody all these ideas. Mike Shiner (Edward Norton), an uncompromising actor who can only find truth on stage. Sam (Emma Stone), Riggan’s daughter, looking for her place after a stint in rehab. Lesley (Naomi Watts), in

her first stint on Broadway just wanting to catch her first break.

Each of them have their own way of sparking one aspect or another of the discussion as they duck in and out of Riggin’s path, or in rare instances break off on their own.

It leads to some pretty memorable scenes, like Sam expressing to Riggan just how inconsequential he might be, or Lesley lamenting about whether she’s made it or not. (Honourable mention to Riggan’s run-in with a theatre critic played

by Lindsay Duncan, which has managed to make writing this review a tad more self-reflective).

Birdman is challenging at times, and perhaps overly so. All the philosophizing can leave it feeling a bit scattered.

There aren’t any weak characters, but the spotlight is first and foremost on Riggan, which means that people tend to exit at odd points to never be heard from again.

Riggan’s powers can also be a problem as they just get more and more bizarre as the movie drags on. I’m sure there’s some sort of metaphor in all of it, but truthfully the point was lost on me.

The lack of focus means that Birdman has a lot of great scenes, but maybe not a cohesive whole.

None of this is the fault of the actors however, who, given how difficult a process it must have been to film these long takes, deliver some truly amazing perfor-

mances. So often with these star studded casts there’s not enough material to go around. In Birdman, everyone takes what they’re given and finds something interesting in it.

None more so than Keaton, who shows just how good he can actually be when given the chance. I’m not an actor myself, but I’d imagine one of the hardest things to pull off is to have your character “acting” too.

Riggan is called to perform the same scene of his self-written play several times in Birdman, and on each occasion Keaton manages to add some subtle nuance to his performance to match whatever Riggan’s mindset is at the time.

And if acting out a stage play in a movie designed like a stage play wasn’t enough, Keaton— an actor who was the star of a comic book franchise in the 90s — ends up playing an actor who was the star of a comic book franchise in the 90s. That’s pretty damn meta. I’m not a physicist, but I’m sure there’s a tear in the fabric of spacetime somewhere.

Nevertheless, Birdman is compelling.

Darkly funny when it wants to be and never letting itself stray too far into the realm of parlour trick, even with its oneof-kind scene blocking. In short, director Alejandro González Iñárritu has delivered something truly unique.

OpinionPages Editorial: Shop local, save money. Editorial: Downtown’s not dead

By Matthew Rappolt

As much as it pains me to write this, given that I’m penning this editorial a full five weeks before Christmas, it now seems impossible to deny that the holiday season is firmly upon us.

And with the first real snowfall coming last week it’s only a matter of time before this city wakes up one morning to find itself flush with the joyful stress and bustling merriment that characterizes the twelfth, and arguably best, month of the calendar.

Over the past few years, and especially around Christmas time, I have been pleased to see how successful the ‘shop local’ movement has been, especially in Peterborough.

As my co-editor correctly states, in his own editorial space to the right, Peterborough has a unique and vibrant business culture that offers citizens a wide variety of interesting, high quality, and above all affordable goods.

I want to specifically highlight affordability because it seems that this has become the defining marketing characteristic in our postrecession commercial reality.

While local business associations and community groups have been very successful in promoting the idea that people should shop local in order to find high quality products unique from those mass produced goods, there remains embedded in the public consciousness the unfortunate and untrue narrative that shopping local means that you’ll have to either spend more or get less.

There have been many frustrating instances in which I’ve heard friends, students, or community members say that while they would love to do more of their shopping at local businesses, they just can’t afford it.

It’s not hard to see where the equation of

big box = affordability originates, nor is it hard understand see why it remains so pervasive.

Multinational chains spend millions upon millions of dollars buying online, print, television, and radio advertising space, all to try to sell the public on the idea that their brand should be associated with the lowest prices.

In reality, however, these elaborate marketing campaigns are actually only selling the myth of low prices. The companies count on this brand association and the customers’ desire for one-stop-shopping to get them through the doors and spending their money.

As for actual affordability and low prices, since when has big box advertising ever told the truth?

In most cases local businesses offer comparable and, in many instances, lower prices than those at big box stores simply because they don’t have the resources to sell the myth of affordability, so they have to actually be affordable in order to stay competitive.

In writing this editorial I was reminded of a story I heard from a local hardware store owner back in my hometown. When asked if he was worried about the new Home Depot that was just built down the road, the owner replied that it was actually the best thing that could have happened to him. “I was able to raise my prices and still be cheaper than that place,” he said.

Shopping local doesn’t just have to be about supporting the community, it can also be about getting the best value for your dollar.

In the past decade or so society has become increasingly skeptical to the marketing ploys of big business. It’s only a matter of time until this myth of affordability is similarly debunked.

By Pat Reddick

On Monday November 17 the local store Things From Mom’s Basement officially moved from a basement storefront to a larger, street-level location just upstairs.

The new location is very much an expansion. Store owner Erin Knowles said (in a release from the Downtown Business Improvement Area) that the new store would allow the business to show one third of its stock, up from one fifth.

Things From Mom’s Basement is more or less a vintage “stuff ” store. If it’s an object from your childhood you have fond memories of, they’re likely to have it or something like it there.

The move is an exciting conversation changer for the downtown. Rather than having to talk about all of those closing businesses (something it seems Peterborough’s been talking about since the 80s), we can point towards a counter example: a business that appears to be rather thriving.

People are quick to jump to hyperbole when it comes to discussing downtown Peterborough. More often than not I hear people saying that it’s a dying place, that everything is going out of business, or that there isn’t anything to do.

I wonder how these people are going to react to the news that a downtown business is expanding, filling a storefront left open by another downtown business when it too expanded to a larger location.

Having come from a city of a similar size, I can say with certainty Peterborough’s downtown is still a healthy one. No doubt it’s had setbacks and challenges in the wake

of the expansion of big box retail stores, online shopping, and the 2008 recession, but which downtown hasn’t?

There are many cities that simply do not have stores like Things From Mom’s Basement in the downtown. They don’t have arts and culture hubs like The Spill, Artspace, Showplace, or Market Hall.

They don’t cater to niche interests like the Darkroom Project based out of Gallery in the Attic, or the two stores that carry vinyl records (Moondance Music and Bluestreak Records).

The downtown in the city I come from certainly doesn’t do any of these things.

If these stores exist, they exist in different parts of the city and aren’t centralized in a way that facilitates travelling by foot between them.

The sheer amount of performance space in this city is incomparable to similarly sized locales.

It’s easy to take on a negative attitude and point towards an empty storefront as being indicative of the downtown’s sure demise. But this negative attitude some people have serves only to hurt it by discouraging people from actually checking out what it has to offer. I think a far more useful approach would be to emphasize what great stuff does continue to exist there.

If you want to see a truly dead downtown, they’re out there, and I have a few suggestions as to where to go to find one.

Peterborough isn’t one of them, and the success of businesses like Things From Mom’s Basement is proof to me that it won’t be any time soon.

Comment: Ryle Lecture: Freedom of speech or speech of oppression?

By Brian Hough

The Gilbert Ryle Lecture Series is one of the Trent Philosophy Department’s biggest annual events. Every year an important philosopher comes to Trent to deliver three lectures within a week and take questions from students, faculty and members of the community.

The speaker for this year, however, made some startling claims that raise the issue of where should universities, and Trent in particular, draw the line as to who gets invited to speak and who shouldn’t.

The speaker this year was Oxford scholar Dr. Richard Swinburne. Prof.

Swinburne made his career in areas such as Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology and Ethics. He came to Trent to deliver a series on ‘God and Christian Morality’ and the relationship between faith and reason.

While the first two lectures went by without too much ado, eyebrows were raised on the third when he argued that homosexuality should be considered a disability and that society has a duty to prevent or cure disabilities.

According to his published works, Dr. Swinburne has asserted that since homosexuals are unable to enter into a loving relationship in which the love is procreative they should therefore be considered disabled.

He has then stated that procreation through surrogates or medical procedure is a “poor substitute for the normal means of procreation’” and that “the resulting pregnancy would not be the result of a lov-

ing act of the parents.”

He also claims, without really defending the statement, that “disabilities need to be prevented or cured,” an issue that is hugely controversial in the neuroatypical community. People who have these conditions often don’t want to be cured but rather accommodated, included, and helped with the management of the negative side effects of these conditions.

Swinburne argues that society “should seek to prevent the spread of homosexual desire by seeking to change the general climate of approving the practice and by seeking to deter solicitation, as well as by promoting scientific research into how genetic or other biological intervention can change sexual desire.”

He adds that “one thing which the past century’s medical advances have taught us is surely that no disease (or deficiency) is beyond the possibility of cure; and it would again be quite extraordinary if homosexuality was the unique exception to this.”

Swinburne advises that homosexuals should “help to prevent the spread of homosexuality and help cure others by setting an example of not indulging their inclinations and of seeking a cure.”

The question of whether or not he should have been brought to Trent and paid an honorarium is not a question of his freedom of speech, but rather of our judgement as a university: at what point does the ratio of offensiveness-to-lackof-substance hit the tipping point and we pass for the sake of bringing someone else instead?

While some might suggest that bringing

Dr. Swinburne here creates an opportunity for a robust exchange of ideas for students, I’m not sure that’s the case. According to Philosophy Chair Kathryn Norlock, no less than 25 Philosophy students raised objections to his position and did so with sustained and thorough arguments.

The problem, I think, with this argument is that you assume that he’s debating in good faith and that his mind could be changed with good arguments. In so many ways, one gets the impression that this is not the case.

Between this and the fact that he gets to walk away with a cheque, it’s hard to imagine that, however good Trent’s students’ arguments were, that Swinburne actually left thinking ‘well I guess I flubbed that, I should probably stop promoting my book now.’

There is, and always should be, the freedom to offend, but if you’re going to say something so discriminatory, there should at least be some degree of substance behind it.

Swinburne proceeds in his arguments with astounding degree of ignorance on the subject matter, both in terms of the prevailing research (from multiple fields) and of the needs, wants and experiences of the communities which he mischaracterizes in his attempt to shoehorn his argument together.

However, as I talked to Prof. Norlock and asked why he was even brought to Trent in the first place, she noted that Swinburne actually didn’t make his career ‘gay-bashing.’

Rather he has established himself as one

of the leaders in other areas of philosophy, and in a world in which we often bemoan the dearth of famous living philosophers, Swinburne is a bit of an anathema- he’s regarded as the real deal.

Moreover, the subject matter in question, was only really brought up on the third and final lecture of the series, and while it did take up most of the question period it was not the sum total of his subject matter.

This makes it difficult to say with sledgehammer certainty that under no circumstances should he be brought to Trent, or that the entirety of his body of work be tossed out.

Which is why I’d like to leave the question to you: where should we draw the line? What’s the balance between potentially offensive speech, the quality of argumentation supporting that question and academic freedom, given that we can always just say pass and get someone else?

It’s at once a question of moral/social responsibility and best use of funding. If someone were to come to Trent and argue that Islam has no place in the West or that black culture brought on police brutality, would that disqualify someone? Should it?

What’s the value of engaging this line of reasoning in direct debate, and what’s a greater motivator to hold or disavow such views: the quality of rebuttals or the paycheque that comes with promoting them?

Finally, to what extent can you really invite someone to speak at a university and say, “Yeah, just talk about the stuff from your early books but not your most recent?”

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Comment: Tortured and forgotten - Omar Khadr’s plight for justice

By Daniel Martin

Afghanistan, 2001. President Bush declared “Operation Enduring Freedom”— also known as the “Global War on Terror”— to combat the perceived threat of terrorism and insurgency.

A different kind of war has since emerged, one that is instead being waged against those innocents wrongly convicted of war crimes. Throughout the war, the US paid their proxy army, the Northern Alliance, to fight for them and offered substantial $5000+ bounties for any terrorists they captured.

However, the Northern Alliance exploited this and instead ended up capturing a vast array of people who, for the most part, were caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. The US played their role too, fighting and capturing suspected terrorists.

Omar Khadr, now aged 28, was born in Scarborough, Toronto to Egyptian and Palestinian immigrants who later became Canadian citizens.

In 1996, Khadr’s father Ahmed moved his family to Jalalabad, Afghanistan. In early 2002, Khadr was living with his mother and younger sister in Waziristan before accompanying the Abu Laith al-Libi group, associated with al Qaeda, aged only 15.

This was, however, shown to be a bad move, as on July 27 2002, the US received a tip-off about a group of terrorists in a compound near Ab Khail, located near the Pakistan border. What ensued was a firefight that is heavily disputed to this day.

The official story is that Khadr threw a grenade that eventually killed Sgt. Christopher Speer, who was evacuated. However, the US attacked the compound with such ferocity that much of the building and adjacent outhouses collapsed, and Khadr was found buried under rubble, heavily wounded.

Khadr was reluctantly saved by medics despite himself calling out to be killed, he was then initially transferred to Bagram Prison for treatment, where he endured psychological torture.

On October 29, he was transferred to Guantanamo Bay. Omar had only turned 16 a few weeks prior. His treatment there was nothing short of torture, it was barbaric and a testament to a lack of recognition the US has for human rights.

Subject to forced nudity, extreme temperatures, sexual humiliation, isolation, and abuse, he told his lawyers he was shackled by his hands and feet to a bolt on the floor and left for five to six hours a day.

This is in addition to being used as a human mop – Khadr was forced to urinate on himself before being subject to US guards pouring cleaning fluid on him.

However this is unfortunately nothing new where Guantanamo Bay is concerned, as the US has a history of abusing prisoners at the facility and at many other locations across the globe.

Very little justice is ever served to those individuals, and indeed many are forgotten. The US, through the CIA, ran many blacksites, secret locations in which extraordinary rendition would occur before the detainee would be tortured.

There exists today many individuals who cannot be traced, whose names exist only on paper. Khadr was one of the lucky few to be repatriated, many cannot due to concerns of torture by their government who refuse to accept them as innocent, and instead brand them traitors of the nation.

Indeed Khadr is by no means the worst case of torture seen at Guantanamo Bay; many men are still held there for a multi-

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tude of reasons, and it is arguable Khadr had a relatively tame experience. Some individuals have died in US custody whilst others have been sexually assaulted and water-boarded, to name but a few methods.

Justice for these men and for many others requires pressure to be placed on the state, and for solutions to be found.

Despite this, Guantanamo Bay cannot be closed overnight. President Obama stated it would close in 2009, but this did not happen and the abuse continued.

A solution requires finding suitable homes and dealing with the legal implications that arise, which will take many years.

Canada and its Terrorism Laws On October 27, Canada introduced Bill C-44. The Bill, entitled the “Protection of Canada from Terrorists Act”, gives the state greater powers to protect the country, both domestically and abroad.

Furthermore, in July last year the government passed The Combating Terrorism Act that made it an offence to leave or attempt to leave the country after being engaged with terrorists.

This all seems fine and good policy making. However, Khadr’s case highlights a fundamental problem with the state’s terror laws. Khadr’s lawyers argue that the Canadian government acted illegally by sending interrogators to Omar in 2002 and 2004 whilst held in Guantanamo Bay, before then refusing to hand over documents that would prove his innocence.

In August 2009, Canada’s Supreme Court ruled in a 9-0 vote that Canadian officials had violated his rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. On October 25, 2010 Khadr pleaded guilty for a catalogue of crimes including, conspiracy, spying, providing material support for terrorism, and murder in violation of the laws of war. Under this plea deal, Khadr would

be to serve one more year in Guantanamo Bay before being repatriated.

Finally on September 29, 2012, 9 years and 11 months after this ordeal began, Khadr was finally returned, and is now serving an eight year sentence in the maximum security prison Millhaven Institution near Kingston, Ontario.

On February 11 of this year, he was transferred to a medium security facility of which the location cannot be confirmed.

Khadr penned a letter to the Ottawa Citizen on October 28 from his cell in which he slams Canadian officials for both delaying his repatriation and for vehemently opposing his request to not be held in a maximum security facility upon his return.

Furthermore, he criticizes the government’s inability to prevent human rights violations occurring. Indeed this issue seems even more pertinent with the Country’s recent terror attacks.

There is a global inability to account for actions taken in the War on Terror and even more so when those actions are actions of torture. Terrorism laws need to be redefined and then upheld, and the rights of the individual need to be further enshrined.

Perhaps the most telling aspect of Khadr’s case is the response to his repatriation. The government reluctantly accepted him back much in the same way the Australian government halted on repatriating David Hicks.

The Hicks case echoed Khadr’s fate, as in both cases, although more explicitly with Hicks, the only reason they accepted a plea deal was because otherwise they would still be in Guantanamo Bay, or equally, they would be dead. To be seen as doing your duty and upholding human rights is to be seen as deviating from your duty of prosecuting those in violation.

Neo-liberalism has therefore died; it died when US Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld claimed in a February 12, 2002 news briefing that there exist “known unknowns”.

This speech put into the eyes of many the view that there exists a threat in the shadows, something as a nation we must fear without knowing what it truly is.

This proved to be a catastrophically stupid move that has resulted in decades of human rights abuses and suffering at the hands of not only the US and Canadian governments, but many governments across the globe.

Ethics and State Surveillance Long gone are the times of living in a completely free society, of living in a world in which neighbours can greet each other with a nod and morning remark on the weather.

Instead, the current situation is something much more bleak and worrying. We

are told to fear everyone and everything to such an extent that even your neighbour is a potential enemy. I have some news, this is not only catastrophically wrong, it is the band-aid remedy of a paranoid government that fears that its citizens will gain too much power.

Echoing therefore Michel Foucault’s famous Panopticon prison, we live in an increasingly surveyed state. Every action we take, everything we say and write is recorded.

The obvious question to be posed is this: is it really necessary that society lives out George Orwell’s 1984 for the sake of protection? The simple answer is no. The paradox is bitter-sweet, we cannot now claim we live in the ‘land of the free’ when it is the very state that tells us we are free.

We are living in the gutter days of neoliberalism, policies have failed, national security has been taken too far and the roots of the conflicts have been perpetuated.

What therefore is to be said of a solution?

I am reminded by what post-modernist Philosopher Slavoj Zizek claimed would happen, that society would reach as he called it “a certain zero-end point”, in which everything would have to be restructured.

A radical claim and perhaps one that we should take seriously: When will the Harper government learn that capitalism can no longer function?

When this is realized (admittedly it will be when unicorns descend from Mars), only then can a new structure and subsequently a new form of state ethics arise.

The onus is not only on the individual, that much is clear, but also on the state— it has historically fallen to the individual to raise plights, to highlight the suffering and to demand that action be taken.

When will Khadr’s calls for human rights to be taken seriously be enacted by the government and by the people? It is a failure on our part and one that must be rectified immediately.

The assumption that human rights are something that only certain groups can have should be thrown into the cellar. Any individual in any society and country can experience human rights abuses.

However, it has become too idealist to suggest a government be completely accountable and transparent in their actions.

It is a dream that many hold but that unfortunately none will likely ever see. Accountability has increasingly become the plight of fringe groups such as internet group “Anonymous” in the wake of their recent global march.

Work will continue by social justice groups and campaigners across the globe to ensure human rights issues are pursued and are not forgotten, it is therefore up to us as members of society to demand our government recognize and take action on these issues, even more so now than before.

Clubs&Groups Memories of Trent Radio

By James Kerr

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

By Pei Hsu

For the final two weeks of TFS fall program, we are turning our attention to Japan during WWII with two films significantly distinct from each other in many aspects.

This week we are showing Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983), a wartime drama directed by Nagisa Oshima.

Next week is the long-awaited screening of Studio Ghibli’s animation film, The Wind Rises (2013), which is rumoured to be the farewell piece from the legendary Hayao Miyazaki, who announced his retirement earlier this year.

Both addressing individual experience of the devastating war, the two films take very different approaches to reflect on issues of guilt, conscience and freedom.

Based on novels by South African writer Laurens van der Post, who served in the Allied Forces in South East Asia and survived as a war captive, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is a fictional story mixed with the writer’s personal experience in Indonesia during Japanese occupation.

The director Oshima once again takes up a disturbing and controversial subject, which he is no stranger to. Back in 2012, TFS screened his other film Boy, which deals with a dysfunctional family

in the Japanese society.

On the casting side, the film is a rare collaboration from Japanese and British talents in pop culture.

First of all, the film is one of the most important screen performances from British rock star and actor David Bowie.

His presence alone makes the film worth a watch.

Ryuichi Sakamoto, who both acts and composes the soundtrack for the film, later went on to compose film scores for Japanese and foreign directors.

Takeshi Kitano, who is now an iconic Japanese director and actor, makes his debut in this film.

With the theme of prisoner of war during WWII, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence takes us from the female struggle in the patriarchal society in last week’s Lemon Tree, to the oppression within a predominantly male society.

Whether it is in unusual circumstances like prison camp, or in boy school, masculinity, defined in a very narrow and essentialist sense, is a significant source of oppression and pressure. In the film, for instance, homosexuality is seen as scandalous and necessary to repress to maintain order within the military and the prisoner camp.

Sexuality is not the only thing that is suppressed in extreme conditions like war. For Japanese soldiers like Yonoi

(played by Ryuichi Sakamoto), individual will and emotion are also wiped out so that he as a soldier can devote his life for the causes of the Japanese Empire. However, everything changes with the arrival of Jack Celliers (played by David Bowie), who is eccentric yet charming, like Bowie himself.

His rebellious attitude towards order and authority plants a seed in Yonoi, unintentionally seducing him to break away from collective madness of war and face his own desire and emotions.

Some scenes in the film can be puzzling and uneasy to watch, as the cultural shock between Japanese and British soldiers erupts.

The clash between two different conceptions of life, death, and nation has tragic consequences as the tension builds up on both sides, with the chaotic development of an intensified war.

Nonetheless, the film concludes with an endnote of reconciliation, revealing a ray of hope drawn as the characters reflect on the war, when humanity is caged by a void commitment to national glory.

Please join us for a FREE screening of Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Wednesday November 19, at 8pm @ ARTSPACE, 378 Aylmer Street (between Hunter and Simcoe).

All are welcome!

Trent Radio means different things to different people. Here are some memories that were shared with us: Caileigh Morrison: In 2010, Radio on the Lawn was being held on Canada Day. As a federal employee at a National Historic Site, I didn’t have the day off to hang out and watch the performances, so I snaked the cord of my ear-buds through my uniform shirt and around my ears so I could furtively listen to the radio while serving the public. Then I was in such a rush to get to the tail end of the event that I fell onto my bike while attempting to dismount. I was okay though! I made it!

Alissa Paxton: That time at a party when a stranger told me they listened to my show.

It was equally exhilarating and terrifying.

Jess Grover: Once, I sat in Studio A, alone and afraid. I turned up the remote* accidentally, and all I could hear were my own words. It was scary, but once I figured it out and turned it all the way down, I realized I sounded okay. Reassurance comes in unpredictable ways. *The Remote fader on the soundboard is a copy of the recording of everything that goes out, but is delayed a few seconds. Jess would have heard her voice talking back to her from a few seconds ago. That is pretty creepy, but requires a bit of Trent Radio technical backstory.

Stephanie Cann: In the sweltering summer of 2005 a whole troop, a band– “The United Steel Workers of Montreal”– came to Trent Radio in their big sweaty van. It was about two hours until their interview and they didn’t have anywhere to be, so I made them coffee and showed them how to make an origami paper balloon. They said I should be a TV children’s entertainer. Then, I made the mistake of hosting all seven of them in the studio for the interview. Although it was really awesome and challenging, it was also really hot and sweaty. I learnt never again to interview seven people at once.

Do you have a memory of Trent Radio you’d like to share? Send them to me, Programme Director James Kerr at jkerr@ trentradio.ca.

UCycle Trent: Help us win money for cycling advocacy on campus

By Thomas Willington

This fall has seen the roll-out of an energetic and positive bicycling advocacy program targeting university students.

The UCycle pilot program, which has been run on eight different campuses across Ontario, has brought together community, university, and student stakeholders in a broad campaign to encourage students to cycle more.

Whether it’s for commuting, fun, health, or shopping, the program has centred around many on and off campus events and promotions, as well as two major initiatives: a bicycle friendly business district in downtown Peterborough, and an online cycling contest.

With less than two weeks left in the contest (ending November 30), we’re looking to get as many Trent students registered as possible so we can win $500 towards a cy-

cling initiative on campus!

So, why should you care?

Well, firstly, you’ll be entered to win one of our four awesome prize packages filled with gift certificates and cycling swag.

Secondly, it’s free and super easy to reg-

ister.

Thirdly, as I write, Trent is in second place in the contest, but neck and neck with the current leader, meaning we can totally win if we pull together!

We’re even in conversation with the

TCSA to match the $500 if we do win, although that’s not been confirmed yet.

Finally, if all those reasons aren’t enough, finishing first in the online contest will help build momentum for cycling at Trent in the years to come, and help make our campus an even more awesome, more exciting, more positive place!

So whether you’ve cycled all semester long and just haven’t gotten registered yet, or are simply a cycle-curious student with three minutes and an internet connection, go check out UCycle’s online contest (www. ucycle.ca), register yourself, and help Trent win some funding!

Other than being entered into the raffle draw (which is sweet), there’s no other catch or follow up!

To check out prize details and get a sense of how the campaign has played out, like us on Facebook at “UCycle Trent”. Until next year, cycle on!

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Trent men’s rugby coach voted coach of the year in OCAA

By Zachary Cox

In addition to their silver medals, the Trent Men’s Rugby Team picked up several additional Ontario Colleges Athletic Association (OCAA) accolades on Saturday, November 8.

At a banquet that evening, the team’s head coach, David McCully, was named the OCAA men’s rugby coach of the year, player Hayden Ryan was named the East Division Rookie of the Year, and Spencer Sheffield and Allen Vo were listed as Rugby All-Stars.

The certificate awarded to McCully is an indication that other coaches in the league felt he did a respectable job coaching. “It’s voted on by the other coaches,” said McCully, “That’s about all the background we get on it to be honest. You choose who you thought has done the best job with their team in that given year.”

This is not the first time McCully has received the award, having been named coach of the year in 2012, the last time Trent made it to the OCAA finals.

McCully is adamant that he is not solely responsible for the coaching of the men’s team. “Really, it’s about the coaching team. I am the head coach, yes, but we’ve got a coaching team of four or five strong people,” he said, stating that the award belongs equally to the assistant coach Mike Bubyn, the team manager Ryan Gentles, the athletic therapist Daila Zairns, and the strength and conditioning lead Garth Myles. “I’m happy to accept the award on behalf of the coaching team,” he said.

Another impressive award that was presented that night was Hayden’s East Division Rookie of the Year.

This means that Hayden, who plays as a winger, was recognized as the best first-year player in the Eastern OCAA division. Sheffield and Vo were recognized as some of the best players in their positions, scrum half and prop respectively.

Given Trent’s strong showing this season, it’s no surprise that coaches and players alike won awards.

Additionally, with few players graduating, the men’s team is on track to have another successful season next year.

Trent Excalibur men's rugby coach David McCully was awarded coach of the year at the OCAA annual awards. McCully skipped the Trent team to a silver medal, their second in the past three seasons. (Photo by Keila MacPherson)

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Varsity Standings

as of November 15

Women’s Volleyball - OCAA East Team

Wins

Trent

5

Canadore

Losses

Draws

Points

0

0

10

5

1

0

10

Georgian

4

1

0

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Seneca Durham

3 3 2 2 1 1

2 3 2 3 4 4

0 0 0 0 0 0

6 6 4 4 2 2

0

6

0

0

Wins

Losses

Draws

Points

Loyalist Algonquin George Brown La Cite Fleming Men’s Volleyball - OCAA East Team Durham

5

Fleming

0

0

10

4

1

0

8

Seneca

3

1

0

6

Algonquin Canadore Trent

3

2

3 2 1

2 3 3

0 0 0 0

6 6 4 2

1

3

0

2

George Brown

1

4

0

2

La Cite

0

4

0

0

Georgian Loyalist

Upcoming Matches Sport Women’s Volleyball

Home

Away

Date/Time

George Brown

Trent

November 22 @ 1pm November 22

Trent

N/A

Women’s Volleyball

Trent

Seneca

November 29 @ 6pm

Men’s Volleyball Women’s Volleyball Men’s Volleyball

Trent

Seneca

Trent Trent

Loyalist Loyalist

November 29 @ 8pm December 3 @ 6pm December 3 @ 8pm

Curling

Arthur likes to be recycled.

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Clubs & Groups Theatre Trent Logo Contest. That’s right, Theatre Trent needs a new logo. The old one has served us well, but it is time to search for a new one. Are you a Trent student or alumni and think you have what it takes to design the new Theatre Trent logo, then we want to hear from you! Send your logo designs to: Theatre Trent, c/o P.R. Community & Student Assn., (Sadleir House), 751 George St. N., Peterborough, ON, K9H 3T2 or visit our new website: http://theatretrent.wordpress.com/ Deadline for logo submissions is: December 31, 2014 Weekly Open Mics EVERY Thursday evening at 8pm at the Trend pub in Traill college!

Hosted by the Trent University Music Society. Bring your instruments or just come to listen for a night of good music and good company. Free admission, all welcome! More info: trentumusic@gmail.com.

Come learn basic to advanced Arabic! Our classes cover reading, writing and speaking. Weekly Arabic classes every Tuesday from 5-6pm at GCS 108. Absolutely free!

Visual Artist Needed ... Trent Fashion Show is a student-run charity event raising money this year for Peterborough’s YES Shelter and UNICEF Canada. They are in need for a visual artist to design the event posters and advertisements. If this could be you, please contact us at trentfashionshow@gmail.com Trent Writers Society NaNoWriMo Wrap-up.

There will be an All Night Write at Whistle Stop Restaurant on Thurs. Nov 27 to Friday Nov. 28 (9pm to 9am) and we welcome all writers to bring their computers and spend their time finishing their NaNo novels or any other projects. There will be coffee, wifi and snacks provided! On top of this we will also be holding our weekly meetings on Thursdays from 7-9 that usually take place in CC M2. Find us on Facebook, or email trentwriterssociety@gmail.com Latin American Cooking. As part of International Education Week , The Spoon will be hosting a Latin American cooking workshop with HOLA (Organization for Latin Awareness). Come learn from expert chefs as we prepare traditional Venezuelan dishes together. Be ready for your senses to be soaring and taste buds sizzling for this sensational international cuisine. Don’t worry, there will be lots of time for tasting as well as learning. Bring a few friends with you and lets make it a fiesta!

Thursday November 20 5–7pm @ The Seasoned Spoon, $5 or pwyc. For more info email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com

Sadleir House BABE–LESQUE Tuesdays until Dec 2, 6-7pm in Hobbs Library (room 101) wheelchair accessible. Presented by Burlesque in PTBO and the TQC. Get in touch with your inner babe with this fun 6 week class! Learn the fundamentals of burlesque, develop a stage persona, craft your own props and costumes, fall back in love with your beautiful body! No dance experience is necessary and this class is open to any-BODY. $60 for 6 weeks, or $15 drop-in. Contact

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burlesque.ptbo@gmail.com to register now!

Facebook: Burlesque in PTBO Barefoot Flamenco. Explore the roots of flamenco without the heavy stomping or foot technique. Develop better rhythm, concentration, balance, and strong posture, and enjoy the beauty and passion of flamenco without feeling limited by the technicality and precision of the footwork. Nov 25, 7:30-8:30pm at Sadleir House. $15 per session. For more info or to register call Jess at 705-977-2709 or just show up!

Trent Kenneth Kidd Lecture Series, 2014 Department of Anthropology, Trent University Dr. Marie-Cécile Soulier Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Anthropology, Trent University. Early Modern Human Exploitation of Mammals in Southwest France 35,000 Years Ago. This talk will present an integrated analysis of alimentary refuse, bone tools and items of personal adornment. The evidence suggest that these three spheres were strongly interconnected, which has implications about the evolution of alimentary practices during the early Upper Paleolithic some 35,000 years ago. Thursday, Nov. 20, 5-7pm Gzowski College 115. All Welcome.

Trent International Education Week – November 17-21. Celebrate International Education Week with the Study Abroad department. Learn about summer opportunities, join us for food, drinks and games at our game night at the Ceilie, watch a foreign film, visit our Study Abroad Expo and more! Come discover all the wonderful possibilities to internationalize your Trent degree. Please see trentu.ca/studyabroad for more details.

Study in Mexico! Spring Offering – Three weeks in Mexico. Bursaries Available through the Trent International Program.

Information Meeting: Tuesday November 25, 7 pm in FPHL/GCS Room 320. Full year credit; open to all disciplines and students from all universities. Invite your friends and relations! For information contact Indigenous Studies: Don McCaskill dmccaskill@trentu.ca or Chris Welter cwelter@ trentu.ca ext 7610.

Walkhome—Trent’s safe walk service. Late class? Working in the lab? Call us for a walk; 25 minutes from Symons or Traill (downtown) Hours of operation: Monday to Friday: 7pm to 1am, Saturday & Sunday: 9pm to 1am 705-748-1748 Walkhome—Pre-book your safe walk. Do you regularly have practice Monday night, work in the Library Tuesday night or go downtown Friday night? Our team of volunteers walkers can meet you, on campus or downtown. Monday to Friday: 7pm to 1am, Saturday & Sunday: 9pm to 1am. Call us 705- 748-1748 or email walkhome@tretnu.ca to Prebook a walk.

The Academic Mentoring Program is recruiting! Need help with course concepts or effective studying? Apply as a mentee and request an upper-year student mentor. Want to aid another student in a course you’ve taken before? Apply as a mentor to help out and gain valuable experience. Visit http://www.trentu.ca/academicskills/peermentoring.php for more information.

Wednesday

t Earl Wilfong @ The Tankhouse (4pm) t Jazz with Noctem @ The (9pm)

listings

Carpe Spill

t Mark Martyre, I the Mountain, and Caitlin Currie @ The Garnet (10pm)

send yours to listings@trentarthur.ca

Too busy with assignment deadlines to fit in an Academic Skills appointment? Let the Academic Skills Centre come to you! You can submit questions about academic or writing skills or submit a draft of your writing at any stage of the process. An instructor will offer comments and answer your questions on any of the following: structure, organization, clear writing (grammar and style), documentation, narrowing a topic, developing a thesis and effective research. Our goal is to get back to you within 72 hours (excluding weekends). For more info or to submit an assignment or ask a question, go to http://www.trentu. ca/academicskills/appointmentsol.php

Local Warren Miller Ski Film Night and Fundraiser. Rick Storey of Devil’s Elbow Racing Club is planning a fundraising event, with a portion of the proceeds to benefit our not-for-profit ski racing club which operates at nearby Devil’s Elbow Ski Arena.

Following a successful fundraising event last year, the goal this season is to raise $2400 for the purchase of additional B-net safety systems for our club. The event will include a screening of Warren Miller’s 65th Annual Ski & Snowboard Feature Film “No Turning Back”. It will take place Nov 28, 7pm, at Showplace Performance Centre.

Tickets are $15 and can be purchase online (deracing.ca), Wild Rock Outfitters, and Devil’s Elbow Ski Services. There will be door prizes and auction items.

Jamaican Self Help is hosting its 8th annual Artisan Show and Sale on Saturday, Nov 22, 10am–4pm and Sunday, Nov 23, 11:30am– 4pm at Mark Street United Church, 90 Hunter St. East, Peterborough. Over 20 local artisans will present a diverse selection of quality art, craft, and food. 15% of sales go to support Jamaican Self-Help education and community development project in Jamaica. The event will include a silent auction featuring items donated by artisans.

Admission is free but donations at the door are greatly appreciated. Debit, Visa and MasterCard accepted. For more info, visit jshcanada.org Public Health Care Rally and March at Queen’s Park to challenge Ontario’s For Profit Private Clinics, Fri, Nov 21, free bus leaving Evinrude Centre, 911 Monaghan Rd at 9 am. Students are most welcome to join. Peterborough Health Coalition, contact 705-745-2446, rbrady1@cogeco.ca “Education is a Right” is the focus of this year’s dinner presented by the Peterborough chapter of Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan Sat, Nov. 22 at 6 pm at St. John’s Anglican Church, Brock St. Guest speaker is Trent PhD. student and research and teaching assistant Shegufa Merchant.

Afghani crafts for sale; silent auction; Middle-Eastern dinner. Tickets $15 for students, available at YWCA at Simcoe, New Canadians Centre on Romaine and Ariyana Restaurant at George and Hunter, or call 705-748-6251 for info.

Volunteer Tutors Needed at the New Canadians Centre. Do you have one or two hours a week available to help a newcomer to Canada improve their English language skills and become more confident and connected in their new community? No previous experience is required. For more information or

Thursday

t Brian Haddelssey @ t Graham Norman @ The The Black Horse Pub Tankhouse (4pm) (7pm) t Dinner & Improv @ The t Jesse Brown & the Venue (6:30pm) Black Divine (Vinyl Tour) @ The Spill t The Boxcar Boys with (9pm) Jay Swinnerton @ The Garnet (10pm)

This Week in Live Music: presented by ElectricCityLive.ca

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an application form, please contact: Anne Elliott, Community Coordinator, 705-7430882 or anne@nccpeterborough.ca St. John’s Ambulance Standard First Aid Our Standard Certificate is valid for 3 years! Includes CPR and AED training! This course provides a certificate in Standard First Aid & a CPR/AED certificate. 13 to 14.5 hours of instructional time (2 days); includes 435-page First Aid/CPR/AED book. **This course is required by the WSIB if your place of work employs more than 5 employees per shift.** Upcoming sessions: Weekdays(8:30-4) Nov 19-20, 26-27. Weekends(8:30-4) Nov 22-23, 29-30. sjapeterborough@bellnet.ca, 705-745-0331, sja.ca St. John’s Ambulance CPR Recertification (Weekdays at 6:30 pm) Dec. 10. Call for additional dates, or organize your own group at a convenient time at any location--discounts for groups! sjapeterborough@bellnet.ca, 705-745-0331, sja.ca Travel/ Teach English - TEFL Certification with The TESL Trainer at One World ESL School. Free info & registration Open House. www.tesltrainer.ca Contact: tesltrainer@sympatico.ca ESL Help & Editing - Contact: worldeslschool@sympatico.ca

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Arts The Peterborough Storytellers usually meet on the third Wednesday of the month, from 7 to 9 at the Peterborough Public Library.

Our next meetings will be on Nov 19 (Tales of the Wee Folk), Jan 21 (Troubadours), Feb 18 (Personal Storytelling) & March 18 (World storytelling day. Theme “Wishes”).

There is no December meeting.

Yacht Rock Party at the Spill. Dave Tough and Kelly McMichael have put together a backing band of some of the finest musicians in Peterborough to perform the smooth and sophisticated hits from the 70’s and 80’s associated with the genre “Yacht Rock”. Covered artists include, Hall and Oates, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, and The Doobie Brothers. Come out and dance in your best boating clothes. Wed Nov 26, 8:30pm til midnight. $10, $5 for students.

Kawartha Youth Orchestra’s “Winter Tales” concert. Come join the KYO for their season premiere concert “Winter Tales” at 3pm on Sunday, November 30 at Market Hall. See and hear our region’s talented youth perform some of the greatest music ever written.

Tickets are available by phone from the Market Hall Box office at 705-749-1146 or online by visiting MarketHall.org.

November is National Novel Writing Month!

Take part in a fun writing challenge.

Writers worldwide unleash their creativity each year with the goal of writing a 50,000 word novel in November. Visit nanowrimo. org for details and to sign up. Join us in writing at the Peterborough Public Library each Saturday from 1-5pm in November.

Dance Your Bones: Move freely to DJ beats from around the world. no steps, no alcohol, just the freedom to move the way you want in the company of like-minded others. $10. Every Thursday 6pm-8pm at 235 Rubidge St. in Peterborough until December 18. www.danceyourbones.com

Saturday

@ The t Kevin Siena & Robyn Cunningham @ Gallery in the Attic (8pm) t Jen Gilmore @ Carpe t Nika Klimash @ The Diem (6pm) Garnet (8pm) t The Beaches w/ Bestie and roboteyes @ The Red t Surinum, Sun Rarara, Slender Loris, The VenDog (9pm) isons, and Monoblock & t Rae Spoon and Geoff Sunn @ The Spill (9pm) Berner @ The Spill t Ill Scarlett @ The (9pm) Red Dog (9pm) t #SJEHFUU 'PMFZ BOE the Pocket Kings @ The t BA Johnston w/ Vandeleur and Cross Dog @ Black Horse Pub (8pm) The Pig’s Ear (10pm) t The Namedroppers @ The Garnet (10pm) t Live on Fire Tankhouse (5pm)