Volume 49 Issue 4

Volume 49 | Issue 4 | September 30, 2014

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Leo Groarke is Trent’s new president!

What Students Want Meet the TCSA Fall in the Student Centre Election Candidates

Mayoral debates and Immigration

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Correction: Last week’s article “This shit just works� incorrectly stated that the Peterborough Poetry Slam Collective (PPSC) event held on September 25 had a five dollar entry fee. PPSC events are always ‘pay what you can.’ Also, Jon Hedderwick and Sally Que are members of the collective.

This Issue in History: Volume 30 (1995), Issue 4 The mid 1990s was a time of significant political upheaval in Ontario as many citizens and students actively sought to oppose the aggressive neoliberal agenda of Mike Harris and his conservative government.

On October 3, 1995, Arthur published a personal reflection written by Shelly Baker, a Trent student who attended a massive anti-Harris rally held in Toronto in front of the Ontario legislature at Queen’s Park.

The reflection describes how more than 5000 demonstrators, representing a multitude of ethnicities, classes, and backgrounds, gathered together to protest Harris’ “common sense� plans to cuts to social programs, health care, and education. “All age groups and economic classes are represented in the crowd,� wrote Baker. “‘Say No To the Harris Cuts’ screams the first pamphlet I receive at the rally. I am inclined to shout the words, them being representative of my own anger towards the Tory government.�

At the time, the Trent Central Student Association hired buses to ferry Trent students to and from the protest and Baker reported that “loads of people came from communities across Ontario including Ottawa, Guelph, St. Catherines, Sudbury, and, of course, Peterborough.�

The article noted that the one of the specific goals of the protest was to fight against the draconian cuts to the province’s higher education system. Baker wrote that students, including herself, were determined not to allow the gov-

ernment make post-secondary schooling attainable only to people of privilege. “We will not let [Harris] cut back education so that university again becomes an impossible dream for students in the lower classes.�

Almost twenty years after this courageous revolt against injustice, Ontario’s education system is no better off. In fact, one could argue that, if anything, the situation has become much worse.

A recent report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has stated that tuition in this province is now triple what it was back in 1995. Furthermore, average tuition costs will rise to an astronomical $9000 per student per year by 2017. This is not including the additional thousands that students are forced to spend on books, ancillary fees, and living expenses.

University education, it seems, has indeed become attainable only to those with significant financial privilege or those who are willing to load up on a lifetime of debt.

Despite these costs, as we at Trent can attest, universities remain strapped for cash, constantly charging more while at the same time cutting or diluting core programming and services.

While Baker’s article ended with the optimistic pronouncement that Ontarians would soon grow wise to Harris’ tactics and work restore and more equitable state of affairs, the province has only moved further away from that ideal.

Given this situation, it seems justified to ask: whither the outrage now?

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CampusNews New president discusses Trent’s future at installation

By Renzo Costa

On Monday, September 22, our recently appointed president, Dr. Leo Groarke, was officially invested with the powers and responsibilities of his new position.

Sadly, there was a low student turn out considering that this was an important and symbolically relevant ceremony.

President Groarke’s speech outlined his vision for the university and touched upon a wide range of topics. He dedicated an important amount of time identifying the main challenges Trent faces today.

Dr. Groarke eloquently linked his kayaking experience with the challenges that Trent University’s President has ahead.

He explained that kayaking involves dealing with threatening waves, which you have to face directly in order to turn danger into an accelerating experience forward.

The university is also facing threatening waves, which also must be addressed directly, he added.

One of the challenges that he identified was fiscal. He argued that the creeping debt crisis and difficulties in rising revenue, affecting not only Trent but also many universities in Canada, must be addressed if Trent is to become a sustainable institution.

Dr. Groarke paid special attention to the fact that it is great to guarantee good retirement pensions, but the university must find a way to pay for them.

Furthermore, he stated that financial problems are exacerbated by demographic trends. In order to make Trent a fiscally sustainable institution, he expressed, it needs to attract more enrollment by means of programming and other strategies.

If Trent is to focus on reforming the way enrollment is undertaken, the presi-

dent explained, one of the main challenges would be to develop programming that mediates between liberal arts and science oriented careers.

He expressed that there is a need for applied programs that also incorporate good communication skills, critical thinking and problem solving skills.

In addition, Dr. Groarke dedicated some time to reflect on the fact that the way education is delivered is being increasingly challenged.

He stated that the centuries old medieval system based on lectures and seminars has been increasingly questioned. In this regard, the president expressed concern about mediating the traditions and values that make up Trent’s identity with the new delivery methods based on the virtual world.

He then concluded with the thought that Trent should become an interactive university.

The president ended his speech in a very optimistic manner, and his eloquent and energetic delivery is evidence of his very action-oriented personality, something that Trent desperately needs in its leadership.

It is important to look more closely at his remarks. Trent is indeed navigating turbulent financial waters, and action is much needed if we are to directly face the threatening waves.

However, we need to question the extent to which an increase in enrollment, and the dimension of the programming changes needed to attract more students, is the answer.

Trent has already seen cuts in programs and courses, which follow certain criteria.

This criterion is often based on the finan-

cial problems the university is facing. Debt and financial challenges are used as buzzwords to explain a plethora of problems at Trent.

At this point it is worth asking if Trent is not undergoing an identity crisis. The traditional idea of Trent as a small, mainly liberal arts, university is increasingly being contested. Whether this is positive or negative rests on your own interpretation.

However, success will depend on having a clear vision.

The president advocates for consensus and favours attempting to find a middle ground between applied programs and the liberal arts. The nature of this middle ground, nonetheless, is still up for discussion.

Moreover, it is also relevant to ask if education as a whole is being challenged. The president does have a clear vision and did pinpoint the main challenges ahead for the university and for education as a whole.

Yet, it is imperative that we engage in conversations to debate what that expansion and strategic mix in programming would look like.

If enrollment is expanded, will the university’s infrastructure also change? If the delivery of education is also reformed to include more technologically oriented instruction mechanisms, will the interaction between faculty and small groups of students change, and in what ways?

These are important questions that need to constantly be up for debate.

One of the positive notes about the President’s words is that he does have a predilection for debate and discussion, which are indeed primordial to fruitfully steer the university into a future of academic, financial and educational success.

What Trent students want to see in the TCSA’s student centre

By Ugyen Wangmo and Christopher Thompson

Amidst all the talk and controversy over student centre, the fact still remains that with each passing day it only gets closer and closer to becoming a reality.

As it nears to being built, it has proposed promises to cater to the supposed student needs Trent is currently facing.

This article looks at the features proposed for the centre by the Trent Central Student Association (TCSA), and compares it with what some students actually want to see included, on the other hand.

TCSA President, Braden Freer, talked about the actual proposals that are to be included in the student centre.

“It has been proposed that the student centre include a variety of things, the vast majority of which is multi-purpose, open or bookable space for individual students and student groups, offices or spaces for student clubs and groups, and student controlled food services.

These spaces would allow students, clubs, and groups to have access to the physical resources to both study and complete extracurricular activities that the current sum crunch on campus will not allow for,” he said.

From the university’s perspective they are suggesting including a multi-purpose event space/lecture theatre, as well as at least one of the wellness suites or the academic skills and career centre.

“I think that this project will success-

fully alleviate many of the needs that the current structures on campus cannot fulfill, especially with regards to our clubs and groups, and the ability of students to have an accessible space during the busy study season,” said Freer.

as returning students to recognize who would best answer their questions. And thus the effort for information becomes time consuming and inconvenient.

though the Go Bus stops at Gzowski College, a Greyhound bus service at the centre would alleviate a lot of the inconveniences students face when travelling.

Maria Laura Burneo, Fourth-Year Nursing

Shayna Lindo, Fourth-Year Political Science

Leighann Gatzos, Fourth-Year Forensics

“ I would like the centre to have a information stand with key contact information and key locations of the city.” She would like to be able to know where to access off campus services and facilities, such as a clinic.

Talking about the on-campus clinic, the timings and hours are not the best, she says. So a clinic in a centre, one with better hours catering to the maximum number of students, will be good, she added.

Furthermore, the students use Greyhound bus services very often. Even

“I want the centre to be student run and not necessarily organized by officiators’,” she said. And it needs to be accessible 24 hours or stay open later than the library.

If it were going to be just another computer lab or a library then, “ I would say it is useless,” says Lindo.

She believes they should make sure that it offers an open space, used perhaps for a group study room, without having to go through the ordeal of booking, or even feeling like they are being watched over.

These services should however, in her opinion, be complimented with computers, Internet and Wi-Fi amenities, and essential resources and references.

Additionally, taking into consideration small details, such as providing couches instead of desks and chairs, will create spaces where students can relax and associate with friends outside of school, and will cater more to the greater student population, Lindo says.

“It would be great if student life can be represented and also promote things that students are doing - anything in their life.

Such as student entrepreneurs, poetry recital, music bands, car services, to name but just a few,” she suggested.

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Gatzos said that she doesn’t know enough about the Student Centre to give her opinion on what should be included. Besides, Trent already has everything that the students need.

However, she would like to see a central common information centre that will take care of student’s questions, or direct them accurately to get the answers.

Not having a common information centre makes it hard for new students as well

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Students feel uninformed about student centre proposal Continued from page three “It would be great to have a space that is representative of all fields of study in terms of resources and services, and not have to go to different locations, unlike the current situation that is spread all over,” she finished.

Emma Bullen and Madeleine Third Year, Anthropology Bata Library is packed most of the time so they would like to see another quiet place, to study or to finish off their assignments.

Or, just a casual hangout place besides the colleges, to relax with friends will be great.

In terms of academics, resources and means of help should exist within the centre instead of going to an academic advisor.

In terms of student experience there should be studio rooms for things such as rehearsals, practices, and performances, they said.

The sad truth however is that the greater population (more than 90 percent) of the students Arthur interviewed were either completely unaware or had only a vague idea about the student centre.

For instance, a third-year Biology student, Chantel feels very uninformed and has no idea as to what has even been proposed.

Even though the idea may intend to better student life, communication to students regarding the centre has been poorly executed.

Similarly, first-year Compressed Nursing student, Nasteho, had no prior knowledge of the Student Centre being built on campus.

After brief explanation, she said, “it’s okay in an altruistic sense” to fund the project even though she won’t be here to see it. But for the benefits of future students she would like to see a dental centre be adjoined in the student centre along with new health services.

She was completely stunned when informed that voting has already happened.

Thrid-year, Chemical/Physical Teacher’s Ed Double, Patricia, who knows vague details about the projected plan, hopes and feels that the end result will be worthwhile, despite the poor process of communication. “Not many students know about it,” she said, adding that the project is poorly organized.

Many others interviewed were of the same view that “the student centre project deficits proper communication with students and is thusly devoid of student voice and input.

“So, what does it mean to add bone and flesh to a student centr ‘for students’, only to be without the soul of the students’ voice?”

Melanie Sedge: Head of Champlain College is an explorer

By Ugyen Wangmo

Have you run into someone lately – who was wearing a friendly smile over a noticeably inviting face, hair pulled back in tight bun, donned in comfortable casual gear over a pair of comfortable flat shoes-either biking to Trent by the rotary trail path or jut strolling around drumlin area, during lunch hours?

Then, you have already met her, the new head of Champlain College, Melanie Sedge.

She is not your typical monotonous administrator, who will be caught sitting behind a desk only to organize work and give out instructions. Instead, she is everything unexpected for in a manager, but a perfect match for Champlain.

Sedge holds true to Champlain’s spirit of “adventure, discovery, and global citizenship.” She is an explorer, runner, eco-conscious, and mountaineer, loves paddling her canoe in the Canadian wilderness, and loves landscapes, exploring Canada and being outside and immersed in nature. She

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is also passionate about cross-country skiing and is a member of the Kawartha Nordic Ski Club.

As a child she lived in Alberta then landed in Mississauga, Toronto Area but spent the summer at a cottage near Peterborough. She holds an undergraduate degree in psychology from the university of Guelph and a postgraduate diploma in ecotourism management from Fleming College up in Haliburton.

After which she spent her time travelling the world, backpacking, and hiking, and camping. Hitchhiking around New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, Southeast Asia, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, are just the few of the places Sedge explored.

Before her Trent days, besides travelling she also worked as a mountain biking guide in British Columbia and Alberta. Then in Killarney Provincial Park as a sea kayaking guide, canoeing and hiking guide.

As new as she may be for the current job, Sedge is anything but a stranger to Trent University. She has been a member of Trent family for more than 14 momentous years.

Her legacy at Trent began when she started working in the Canadian Studies department for the experiential education program, called the ‘summer explorations in Canadian cultures’.

The program later on was handed over to the Julian Blackburn College to the continuing education program. She also ended up with a position in continuing education. She was responsible for running the general interest program noncredit course that was for community members, as well as ‘summer explorations in Canadian cultures’. After which she had been working with the athletics for the last five years, running campus recreation and intermural programs for students, as well as Trent’s summer sport camp. All the experience and knowledge she gained over the years opened a well-defined pathway towards her newest role at Trent, as the head of the college.

She looked at the current opportunity as having a combination of everything that she has done at Trent so far. In this job description, a lot of the pieces such as connecting with the faculty and programming, had been a big part of every role that she has had here. Providing programming for students at lots of different levels, working with students, leading student teams in the office, helping the cabinet, and also having a college advisory team, was something that she is already good at. The job really talked to her, making it hard for her not to take the position as much as she enjoyed her former job.

Now, as you walk through the Champlain College Head door, you will be greeted by a smile and energy that will instantly put you at ease to talk about anything, and

a feeling of optimism that there will be an answer in that room, no matter what.

Sedge is completely easy to talk to, and a very good listener who can easily empower and embrace students.

She enjoys the day-to-day opportunity and experience of her new position. Everyday is a new adventure with hardly five minutes to herself. It’s a revolving door through which students with different needs come in, and different things happening at the same time.

She hopes to make Champlain a place where students can call it their home while here at Trent, and also get the off-campus and upper year students more involved.

Her goal is to make sure that when students come back years later, they are able to say that this was their home, “where I was my supported and made my best friends, got all the inspirations for the things that I am doing in my life now” and be able to encourage students to seize all of the opportunities they have in front of them and make it possible for them to be engaged and connected.

The motivation she generates to multitask is from the look on the students’ faces after being able to help them. To interact, see and discover the potential and talents of students reenergizes her to perform her best.

She hopes that she is able to inspire Champlain students to be engaged in their college and be a contributing member of this family; what it means to be here at Trent University but also a part of Champlain College.

“I am really here to serve the students, support them, and make their university experience the best that can be,” says Sedge.

TCSA by-Election

Meet the candidates for the TCSA’s fall election

Calvin Beauchesne - Environment & Sustainability Commissioner I have felt passionate about environmental issues for as long as I can remember.

Long before I came to university, I knew I wanted to study in the environmental field, but I didn’t know where yet. When I came to Trent and looked at the campus and learned about the program here, I was set on coming here. I am now in my third year in the Environmental Studies program, and I am thoroughly enjoying it. When I started school here I really wanted to become a part of an environmental group.

After doing some research online, I ended up getting involved with Sustainable Trent in my first year and have stuck with that group ever since. This year I am the Coordinator of the group and hope to bring about a lot of change and influence within the school from our organization. One thing I have been working on through Sustainable Trent is the fossil fuel divestment campaign. The fossil fuel divestment campaign aims at getting institutions (in this case Trent) to get rid of stocks, bonds or investment funds that are invested in fossil fuel companies, and to reinvest that money in sustainable alternatives like renewable energy. This past Spring, previous Sustainable Trent member Julian Tennent-Riddell and I made a presentation to the Board of Governors to make the case for divestment.

The Board has told us they will research the issue further before making a decision to divest or not. If elected, the main thing I will be focused on will be getting the TCSA more involved in the divestment campaign and increasing student outreach and mobilization on the issue. The TCSA has a lot of influence on the administration and student body, and they can use that influence to their advantage to advance the divestment campaign. In addition to divestment, I would really like to see more student engagement with municipal politics. I want to make the environment an issue in the upcoming municipal election in Peterborough in October and get more students out

to the polls. I also would like to get more students organizing against the parkway and bridge through Jackson Park. The parkway is a local environmental issue, and I think students should more know about it and be more active in the fight against it.

Lastly, I would also like to see Trent’s new food service provider Chartwells to largely increase the amount of local food they provide, either from purchasing it from companies based in the Peterborough and Kawarthas area or by growing it on campus through a greenhouse or farm. I would also like to see healthier options in the cafeteria and more vegetarians/vegan options for those with dietary restrictions. Trent is ranked as a leader in Canadian universities for its commitment to the environment. As TCSA Environment & Sustainability Commissioner I promise to make sure this honorable reputation holds true. Let’s work together for a greener, more just Trent.

one thing and portray another but I can guarantee you that I am that individual that no matter how difficult or hard a job or task may seem, I do my utmost best to get it done and get it done right. As Abraham Lincoln once said, “Whatever you are, be a good one.” My aim is to become this year’s International Commissioner at the TCSA for the student body, and sorry Mr. Lincoln but I plan on being GREAT at it.

My organizational skills I have developed through past experiences of volunteering with Regional groups, my communication skills I have developed through my years of being here at Trent, my interest within the TCSA has developed due to one individual and that has me standing here today. He did a fantastic job last year and I would love the opportunity to carry on the Legacy of fighting for students and their rights, for educating them in a way that they can simply understand, and for helping them develop a drive and/or interest that will change their entire lives just by students helping students. All in all, Students help students to thrive and all I’m asking for is for you to help me, help you, and help us.

“Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, and working together is SUCCESS. – Henry Ford”

gained from these position to address issues surrounding Gender equality and will mechanize different techniques to ensure that a healthy approach towards gender interactions will be taken. Under gender equality I will address issues regarding employment equity by engaging in issues such as unemployment, address lack of resources towards training, career counselling and skills development. In addition, I will engage in addressing sexual assault, sexual harassment and gender based micro-aggression, through the utilization of service and campaigns offered by different organizations such as TCSA, Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre and more. Moreover I will tackle a healthy action towards gender interactions through creating accommodation that respects the beliefs and cultures of all genders and sexual orientations, promote positive space to meet the needs of women within the LQBTQ community, provide resources that allows for an active and balanced lifestyle through addressing issues such as lack of student space or activities that women feel safe and secure in, and provide resources that are geared towards encouraging women to further the process of creating sustainable environment and food systems. I hope to have gained your vote through the glimpse of the actions I would be taking to address issues faced by women at Trent and the Peterborough as a whole.

Jessica Rogers - International Students Commissioner My name is Jessica Rogers and I am a 4th year International Student from St.Maarten, completing my undergrad degree in a Joint Major in Business Administration and Economics. I am currently running for the position of International Commissioner at the TCSA for this academic year. One of my favorite quotes goes as follows, “No man is wise by himself!” and this is definitely true. We learn from one another on a day-to-day basis and I am asking for the opportunity to engage you with knowledge about the TCSA or even to help the TCSA learn about the Trent Community, in particular International Students, by using me as a channel to do so.

Many of you have seen me on campus playing some role or the other; for those that haven’t I would just like to say this: “What you do has a far greater impact, than what you say -Stephen Convey.” Let me show you what I am capable of doing rather than stating such. As humans we tend to say

Betty Wondimu - Womens Issues Commissioner My name is Betty Wondimu, I am a third year student pursuing a joint bachelor’s degree in Economics and International Development Studies, and I am running to be your Women Student Commissioner!

During the past two years I have managed to garner a vast amount of experience through my active participation in serving and representing the student body. I have served as a student representative on the Presidential Advisory Council on Human Rights, Equity and Accessibility and have served as the Ethical Standards Commissioner. In addition, I was a part of the executive group for a regional group named Trent African Caribbean Student Union.

If elected I would utilize the skills I have

Asgiga Corriveau - Womens Issues Commissioner My name is Asgiga Corriveau; it is my third year at Trent. My experiences span from running various clubs in high school and volunteering with other organizations; such as Heart and Stroke. If I am elected my focus is on emphasizing on a safe and equal campus, being accessible to students, and be the voice you need. I would like to also do a project where in it would include the Trent community and Peterborough community. Please come out and vote!

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Campus Brief: Sadleir House breaks ground with grounds plan TMSA presents Unity is Key

By Jack Smye

By Hannah Collins

The Trent Muslim Student Association (TMSA) will be hosting Unity is Key this week.

Unity is Key is a competition between Trent and fifteen other universities to see who can raise the most money for charity.

The TMSA will be hosting different events like a bake sale and games.

They’ll also be taking up the Blue Bucket Challenge. If you see a blue bucket around campus this week make sure to donate; all the money will go directly to charity and help Trent win Unity is Key. If you want to keep up with The TMSA after this, you can check out they’re weekly Arabic classes.

They happen every Tuesday from 5-6pm in Gowski College room 108.

The historic Peter Robinson College is continuing to develop and grow in its new role as Sadleir House by taking the next step in its grounds development plan.

This step is part of an ongoing strategy that will allow Sadleir House to become an even more attractive area for students and the Peterborough community.

This particular project is focusing on the small hill that separates the upper and lower lawns. The hill has been assessed as a perfect place for a retaining wall.

Prior to the start of this step in the development plan, the area in question was home to exposed roots and little grass.

Further, the stairs that connected the two lawns were starting to fall apart after years of erosion.

According to Dwayne Collins, the steward of Sadleir House, the intent is to make the hill a focal point of the grounds. “We really wanted to clean that up,” he said. “One of the things we wanted to do was open up the lower area. It’s a really nice place.”

The wall itself will not only improve the look and prevent erosion, but it will also act as a perfect sitting area to accomodate everything that goes on outside of the house itself.

The lower lawn of Sadleir has become a mainstay for community events throughout the year, including concerts, weddings, barbeques, tea parties, and croquet.

It has basically everything you would

ask of an outdoor space. Situated between the Rotary Trail and George Street, it is an ideal area filled with shade, perfect for people to just sit and enjoy.

This phase of development is the next logical step after the project that kicked off the all-encompassing grounds plan.

In 2009, Sadleir House got funding from the Trillium Foundation to do accessibility upgrades.

The reassessment of the upper pathway is what led to the creation of the broader grounds plan.

“Shortly after we did the pathway, we had problems with the fence. It was deteriorating and had to be rebuilt from scratch,” said Dwayne. “We undertook an effort to plan for all of the grounds so when we were doing these types of projects, we had an an idea of what we were doing ultimately.”

It was this big picture approach that actually led to a monumental change in direction for the grounds of Sadleir House.

This new design decided to get rid of the fence entirely as a means of opening up the building.

“We didn’t want to seem like we were closed off, which is sort of what the fence did. It made it seem like we were separate,” says Dwayne. “The upper lawn is a nice place to welcome people into the building. The grounds really extend what we are. It is as nice and welcoming on the inside as it is on the outside.”

Following this stage of development, it’s unclear as to what will be coming next and when.

This is actually part of the strategy,

however, as there has been no timeline set on the overall plan due to the infrequent availability of money and resources.

According to Dwayne, “we’re doing the wall and steps now because we can afford to do so. Also, the stairs were falling apart and it was a little bit dangerous, which was one of the reasons we decided to move forward and take care of it.”

The master plan actually encompasses several other projects, such as cleaning up the parking lot and rebuilding the north courtyard, but they are not considered something as important as the retaining wall.

Ultimately, accessibility the is number one priority.

“Yeah we want to make the grounds as attractive as possible but we need to balance that against other more important things,” said Dwayne. “The building, between its age and architecture, presents a lot of unique challenges for accessibility and it slows the process down. Still, if we have to choose between an elevator or a nicer parking lot, it’s pretty clear the elevator is going to win.”

Dwayne continued, “The hill and wall are actually important, not as important as accessibility, but we’re not at a place where we have a clear idea on what we’re going to do about that. The wall is something we can do now.”

While it’s not clear how exactly the development process will proceed from here, it is quite clear that the building that students bought in 2004 continues to grow and become better able to suit the needs of the student population and the downtown community.

Who is eligible to vote in Peterborough? (c) is at least 18 years old; and (d) is not prohibited from votng under subsection (3) or otherwise by law. 2002, c. 17, Sched. D, s. 5 (2); 2005, c. 5, s. 46 (1).” “(3) The following are prohibited from voting:

By George Peregudov

In Peterborough, we also have a choice to make quite soon. The next Municipal Elections in Peterborough will be held on Monday October 27, 2014.

If you want to find out more about candidates, your municipal area or voters, you can go on Peterborough’s website.

There you can find a document titled, “Municipal Elections Act, 1996”. It sets up the procedure of voting in Peterborough.

So, who can vote?

“Qualifications (2) A person is entitled to be an elector at an election held in a local municipality if, on voting day, he or she, (a) resides in the local municipality or is the owner or tenant of land there, or the spouse of such owner or tenant; (b) is a Canadian citizen;

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1. A person who is serving a sentence of imprisonment in a penal or correctional institution.

2. A corporation.

3. A person acting as executor or trustee or in any other representative capacity, except as a voting proxy in accordance with section 44.

4. A person who was convicted of the corrupt practice described in subsection 90 (3), if voting day in the current election is less than five years after voting day in the election in respect of which he or she was convicted.”

To vote, you have to be registered. There are several forms of registrations including one available on the internet.

You can check whether you are on the list to vote online as well (‘Am I on the List?’ tab).

If you are not, you should contact your municipal office.

On the day of the elections, please do not forget your id.

LocalNews Election Focus: New Canadians and the municipal election

By Ayesha Barmania

Peterborough mayoral candidates have indicated an appreciation for the newcomers to Canada who call this city home.

Talk of their utility to an aging labour market, and their entrepreneurial spirit were listed as top benefits for the community.

Arthur spoke with mayoral candidates, Alan Wilson, Daryl Bennett, and Maryam Monsef about their opinions on this topic, as well as Peterborough Partnership Council on Immigration Integration (PPCII) representative Hajni Hos to speak to the immigrant perspective.

Peterborough has relatively low rates of immigration, less than 1% of the total population is foreign-born according to a 2011 Statistics Canada report. For this reason, Hos remarked, “immigrant related issues might not be on the top of the priority list of City Hall.”

Yet the benefits of immigration are noted for city development. Hos said, “The City is actually one of our main partners in the PPCII and they understand that the future social, economic, cultural and environmental prosperity of Peterborough depends on its ability to successfully integrate newcomers.”

Alan Wilson Alan Wilson is an immigrant from Ireland himself. His motivation for migrating was to escape violent conflict in Ireland during

the 1980s. He has first hand knowledge of the difficulties getting credentials recognized and the frustrations that come with it. In spite of this, he feels that immigration is highly rewarding and provides a “tremendous asset to the workforce.”

Wilson stated that his economic development plan for Peterborough would see benefits spill over to immigrant communities. “If there is money made available through the city, this will help new Canadians. They are not here to fail, they are here to succeed,” he said. He felt that Peterborians should also be taught skills for listening to migrants.

Maryam Monsef Maryam Monsef immigrated to Peterborough from Afghanistan as a child. Since migrating, Monsef has attended PCVS (a former local high school) and Trent University. She stated that her own experiences with the immigrant integration were very positive. “The New Canadians Centre (NCC) was instrumental in teaching me that immigrant integration is essential for our social, environmental, cultural and financial prosperity.”

At the mayoral debate on September 24, Monsef said, “One of our greatest assets in this community is that diversity… What we need to do to harness the benefits of that diversity is be proactive.”

She would see the City’s policies, plans, and programs change to welcome and attract diverse populations.

Daryl Bennett Incumbent mayor Daryl Bennett revealed in an interview with Arthur that his grandparents were of the first wave of Irish settlers to the region. “This community was built by the immigration process,” said Bennett. He sees immigration as a huge benefit to the community, especially regarding an aging population of professionals and business owners: he would see that immigrants fill these gaps in the economy.

Bennett stated that he thinks the community is doing well offering supports to new Canadians. He would like to see immigrants integrated into the community so that they can access all of the amenities that Peterborough has to offer. He stressed that, “each person needs to be looked at as an individual.”

Patti Peeters and Tom Young Patti Peeters and Tom Young were unavailable for interviews, unfortunately.

At the mayoral debate on September 24, Peeters stressed that the growth of the city would benefit all immigrants to Peterborough, including students. She stated, “I find it absolutely heartbreaking that… there was never an opportunity given for growth. And it started back with industry battling itself, there was the effect of not wanting those who immigrated to our community to be successful… It’s time for that to stop.”

Young, at the mayoral debate, spoke to the need for good jobs to attract and retain both students and immigrants to the area.

Terry LeBlanc was absent from the debate and unavailable for contact. *** Immigrant participation in the political process can be a rite of passage for some, as voting comes with citizenship. It is currently Canadian law that only citizens, and not permanent residents, are permitted to vote.

As PPCII representative Hos remarked, “Some newcomers treasure the right of voting as they come from a dictatorial country where they don`t have it.”

On the other hand, integration and understanding of Canadian political processes and language barriers may prove to be obstacles to some.

“Other newcomers are probably too busy with their lives and many might not be familiar with the election process (you need a certain level of language knowledge to understand the official documents),” said Hos. This is the third in a multiplepart series of articles detailing various local issues that student voters are going to be most interested in come voting day, October 27.

Next week’s article will be about the environment and greenspace.

Mayoral candidates address the nitty gritty in Sept 24 debates

By Ayesha Barmania

Leadership styles for sale Wednesday night saw a packed house of over 100 attendees listening to Peterborough’s mayoral candidates give their views on a host of hot topics.

Setting this debate apart from many others, candidates address questions regarding very specific issues: homeownership, plans for a casino, and job creation.

In attendance were Alan Wilson, Tom Young, Daryl Bennett, Patti Peeters, and Maryam Monsef (pictured left-to-right above). Terry LeBlanc was the only candidate absent from the debate.

The format of the evening saw the five candidates speak to four issues: legal accessory apartments, property taxes, transportation plans, and high paying jobs.

A large part of the evening was devoted to citizen questions, which elicited some interesting off the cuff responses.

The realty questions showed a passion for income equality and the promotion for home ownership from Wilson, Young,

Peeters and Monsef. These four expressed a desire to create more affordable housing in the city.

Bennett spent his time stressing current councils move toward legalizing duplexes and the importance of maintaining single dwelling homes.

Transportation questions turned to a debate of the current City Council’s priorities. Wilson and Bennett acknowledged that citizens have expressed a need for more efficient arterial roads from the North to the South of the city.

Young, Peeters and Monsef questioned the need for new roads when current roads need repair and alternative methods (public transportation, cycling, walkways, etc.) deserve more consideration.

The recurring question of jobs was brought up again at this debate.

Wilson stressed that the city should give incentive to local businesses to stimulate job growth, and proposed an arrangement with the township of Cavan-Monaghan to trade industrial land for city services.

Bennett rebutted this point, saying that city services are expensive and carefully calculated for the city’s needs and budget.

On the other hand, Young suggested that the climate for work in Peterborough must change, “There is work out there to be done, but there are not enough people who want to pay for them… Volunteering does not pay the rent or put groceries on the table.”

Peeters and Monsef were highly critical of the placement of economic development responsibility outside of City Hall in the GPAEDC. Both would like to see development management placed back in City Hall completed in a guided and fiscally responsible way.

Monsef would like to see business retention and attraction to Peterborough, by stimulating collaboration, utilizing postsecondary graduates, and drawing new consumers to the city.

Question Period Questions of the casino were brought up several times.

This issue has been controversial since 2012, when Peterborough was listed as one of OLG’s potential sites for a new casino.

The City expressed support for the casino without appropriate consideration of the community’s needs, says No Casino Peterborough. Representatives of this organization challenged the candidates on their positions for the casino.

Overwhelmingly candidates responded to the issue negatively. Patti Peeters spoke to the negative consequences of a casino that would be felt by the city for generations. All candidates supported alternative modes of development.

However, incumbent Mayoral Darryl Bennett stressed that the benefits of the casino would be seen in off shooting businesses like hotels. These economic gains in dependent businesses, he said, would be felt for generations.

The evening was characterized by lively yet polite debate. Audience members listened attentively and respectfully to all candidates and in turn, the candidates addressed each other in the spirit of camaraderie. The overall tone was hopeful but critical for the city.

As Young articulated: “There is nothing wrong with Peterborough that cannot be fixed by what’s right with Peterborough.”

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Arts Focus:

Erroneous Monk

(aka Danny Taro)

by Simon Semchuck

To meet Danny Taro, current moniker

Erroneous Monk, I arrived at Black Honey atrociously early, a whole 10 minutes before I could even expect him to arrive.

Once there, I realized that as a Peterborough musician, it was quite possible that he’d be running on the timing that seems to pervade the music scene in this town, and so I’d be left sitting awkwardly for an unestimable period.

But this was not to be the case, as just around 11, I overheard a peaceful voice respond to someone’s inquiry that “I’m actually here to get interviewed.”

We were soon introducing ourselves, and my first impression was of a soft demeanoured man with a bright personality. Sure enough, Taro continuously smiled throughout our interview, and frequently broke into self-effacing laughter.

We moved to the back of Black Honey to sit in the soft yellow glow of the table lamp and talk about Taro’s imminent mixtape release.

Coming out “in a week” from the week prior to this being published, the mixtape marks the initial release of Taro’s four part mixtape series. The first part is “Erroneous Autumn,” performed under his stage name, Erroneous Monk – a play on the name of one of Taro’s inspiring forces, Thelonious Monk, the improvisational jazz pianist and composer.

The name comes from his idea of “someone who’s always in error. It’s a mixtape about the learning experience”. Taro also qualifies the mixtape itself as a learning experience and that he will “learn from those errors.”

This week also marks an event that Taro’s planned and will also perform in as Erroneous Monk. Colour Upwards, a local arts collective Taro founded, is hosting back to back shows October 3 and 4, the weekend of Head of the Trent. The shows start at 9pm and are held in the Gordon Best Theatre, situated above The Only Café on Hunter Street.

“It’s a venue that a lot of people, specifically students, haven’t heard of,” said Taro, explaining the impetus of playing there being that “it feels like a new space for people.

So it’s a place where we can facilitate our own culture.”

The weekend includes Friendlyness and the Human Rights and Grand Analog, two Toronto-based bands who will headline Friday and Saturday night respectively, in addition to The Token Players, Spanish Dub, Chris Collins, Smalltown Vernacular, Dub Trinity, StatiK, and of course Erroneous Monk himself, with musical genres ranging from hip hop, reggae, turntablism, electronic dance music (EDM), and a little bit of rock and roll.

“It’s nine acts over two days, so it’s like a festival; it’s the first festival I’m doing.”

To contextualize, I then inquired into Taro’s personal life, and he smilingly admitted: “I’m actually a Trent university dropout”. However, he was recently contacted by the university, and “without taking another class I will be graduating in the Spring somehow. So I went from dropout to alumni!

“I also work and live above Karma’s Café, so I spend all my time on Hunter Street,” Taro explained, expressing his love for the street.

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In fact, his sense of location figures heavily in his music. “A big part of hip hop is being proud of where you’re from… Everything is local, everything is fresh. Even the raps and the beats,” he said laughing.

In terms of his trajectory as an artist, Taro admits he’s come from a more limited point of view. “I think I started by imitating what I would now consider rap stereotypes, which is just a symptom of growing up in Mississauga,” he remarked, owning up to a past that included the emulation of the ‘gangster’ aesthetic. “I hope all of those songs I’ve made have been burned.”

Now, Taro takes inspiration from his experiences facing adversity and using rap as a medium to channel anger.

“Really it was my friend Vanilla Jon, who plays saxophone, that got me involved in the first band I was in.” The festival, he explained, will actually facilitate a sort of reunion of that band, called Bears Beats, as Vanilla Jon now plays in Token Players and other members are DJs Spanish Dub and StatiK. The final member of the original band will also be present, attending the event as part of the audience. “For us, it is a very meaningful Head of the Trent weekend. Our group is doing amazing things and we get to show off to all our old friends!”

In terms of rap as a genre, Taro explained that he’s more interested in the political value it can offer versus rap as purely entertainment. “But at the same time, I consider deeply what it means to bridge the gap between what I’m saying and the people listening.”

As for his own style, he maintains that it’s not vulgar and that positivity is key: “What I try to do is almost not address things. Rap culture sucks, let’s create culture [instead, show how to] not be oppressive. A lot of our culture is ‘oh, let’s criticize what’s going on,’ like the media attention to pop culture,” Taro explained, citing the media’s tendency to focus on the negative aspects of society.

“If I completely look the other direction, you’re just changing the conversation to something that’s positive. I’m really trying to be the alternative – I think I might drop one curse in the whole mixtape; the language is also positive.”

Taro has also been known to do spoken word in town, and my own curiosity on the distincitions between different artistic forms getting the better of me, I asked about whether there was a link or boundary between spoken word and rap.

“For me there is a distinguishing line between what is rap and what is poetry,” he

replied, “Mostly it’s if I perform [a piece] without a beat will people still like it? Some sound good both ways, some are better as a spoken word piece, some need the beat underneath.”

Referring to slams (spoken word poetry competitions), “it’s simply just the format of all styles of poetry pitted against each other. So if I bring a rap, I’ll probably lose, because people in Peterborough are not interested in the style of hip hop or rap. I’m hoping to changes people’s minds about what hip hop is and can be.

“Something I learned at Trent actually from my professor, Neal McLeod in a creative writing class, is that rap has a unique opportunity to say so much more in a song.

The word count in a rap song versus [other types of] songs, it’s at least triple. If you can say a lot in a short time, I think that’s where rap has its true value: in getting a message out.”

As I asked generally about rap as a genre, Taro replied, “To me, it is a way to express myself honestly and to release my energies.

It’s my release. It prevents me from taking perhaps other actions with my feelings. It keeps me real; it keeps me balanced.”

Making me feel better about my philosophical artsy questions, Taro admitted, “I even kind of address ‘what is art?’ in this mixtape. It’s kind of addressing the place, ‘Peterborough, what you got?’”

Talking about the first mixtape itself, Taro explained some of his various influences: “I do a song called ‘Taro’ – it’s about myself but also my three biggest influences: Nujabes, a Japanese hip hop artist,” who did one of the beats Taro uses on the mixtape; “Bruce Lee, who’s been a positive force in

my life with his philosophy of honest expression; and Tupac Shakur” - or 2Pac - “ with his idea of ‘thug life’ as staying true to yourself. Honest expression and thug life, that’s my motto,” he laughed.

In creating “Erroneous Autumn,” “the driving force was to be a leader – an artistic leader – in our community. It’s been just over a year since I started Colour Upwards,” Taro remarked.

As a series, Taro explained that “the mixtapes will change with the seasons.... I won’t say too much about the other ones, but ‘Continuous Winter’ is the next one under a different rap moniker – Continuous Lee.” The goal of the series in general is to demonstrate Taro’s ability as an MC, with music styles ranging from “mellow hip hop to electronic to heavy hitting gangster shit – politically driven gangster shit,” he said with a smile.

And as for Taro’s future? “The tentative plan is to release the four mixtapes as part of a series. And with the connections I’m making, I’d like to make an album. Honestly, if it went nowhere, I would be happy to live on Hunter Street and keep doing it.

But I guess my real dream would be to go to Japan and perform.”

Taro also mentioned a contest he’s doing with Flavour Fashion. All you have to do is hashtag #ErroneousAutumn and follow Danny Taro and Flavour Fashion on instagram or twitter, and you’re entered “to win something sweet.” The contest is underway until Taro reaches his goal of 100 unique hashtags bringing attention to the mixtape.

“If I get those hashtags I’ll release the mixtape early!” he added.

Finally, Taro gave me the exclusive opportunity of listening to a demo of one of the songs he’s releasing. Called “Autumn Rain (Colour Upwards Remix)” and produced by Freddie Joachim, the song is an open invitation for Peterborough residents to get creative.

The song itself starts off with a smooth, mellow, almost old-fashioned piano melody, added to with a sweet beat and the lyrics themselves. It flows with elegance and ease, the melody moving with a serene simplicity that becomes even more enjoyable in off-balancing the content of the lyrics. I, for one, am certainly excited for “Erroneous Autumn” and Taro’s upcoming projects.

Tickets for Colour Upwards’ weekend shows are available from The Only cafe and directly from Danny Taro, costing only $10 for one night and $15 for the weekend when purchased in advance, and $15 purchased at the door.

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Speculating the Queer: An LGBTQ2 Speculative Fiction Reading

By Hannah Collins

Peterbrough’s Pride week featured the usual staples of drag queens, club nights, marches, and family friendly brunches.

But this year a different event was held at Sadleir House on the Thursday night.

Speculating The Queer: An LGBTQ2 Speculative Fction Reading paired up Pride with ChiSeries Peterborough, our branch of ChiZine Publications that showcases speculative fiction readings that take place across Canada.

Speculative fiction is the blanket term that covers anything fantastical. Great genres such as sci-fi, horror, and fantasy fall under the spec-fic name. And even though brazen lesbians, catty drag queens, and small town gays in the big city for the first time all very much exist in our world, these three Canadian authors mixed their blend of real world queerness with elements of fantasy, magic, and horror.

Author Tanya Huff started the night off.

Huff is an Aurora Award winning fantasy author known most for her Blood Books series.

She kicked things off by reading excerpts

of her book Swan’s Braid and Other Tales of Terizan, about the exciting adventure and romantic tension between a thief and a mercenary.

Don Bassingwhite is known for writing novels in the Dungeons and Dragons series.

He treated us to a perfect Pride themed spin on fantasy.

Reading one of his Darby Cavendish stories, the tales of a gay supernatural investigator, Bassingwhite had the whole room laughing as he told us about a drag queen’s performance taking a turn for the worse due to some ill-willed fairy magic.

The last reader of the night left Peterborough in the Halloween spirit. Michael Rowe, who’s won the Lambda Literary Award, the Randy Shilts Award, and the Gaylactic Spectrum Award, treated us to a much scarier tale, reminding everyone to always be wary of talking to strangers, and even more wary of trusting them.

The whole night was hosted by Peterborough’s own Dereck Newman-Stille, an Aurora Award winning PhD student here at Trent who runs a popular spec-fic review blog called Speculating Canada.

The next ChiSeries will be happening on October 16 at 8pm back at Sadleir House.

Movie Review: The Equalizer

By Brian Lukaszewicz

In an early scene in The Equalizer, Denzel Washington’s character Robert McCall explains to a teenage prostitute (played by the always great Chloe Grace-Moretz) the plot of Don Quixote. It’s about a knight who lives in an age where knights no longer exist, he tells her. He may as well have been describing himself.

In truth, the scene almost seems like an explanation for why this aging film property was dug up in the first place. That is unless the fan pressure for a big screen reboot of The Equalizer, originally a TV series that ran on CBS in the 80s, was simply too much for Columbia Pictures to handle. Though something tells me that’s probably not the case…

Either way, I can see why writer Richard Wenk (and the film’s marketing department) tried to drudge up the comparison to Don Quixote. Personally, I’ve never seen a single episode of the ‘80s series but film characters have changed so much over the last 25 odd years that without the allusions to that iconic character Washington’s McCall would have stood out like a sore thumb.

In fact, in the early going of The Equalizer that’s exactly what happens. We watch as McCall glides through his life as a simple hardware store employee, helping his young friend Ralphie (Johnny Skourtis) lose enough weight to become a security guard and encouraging Alena, the aforementioned teenage prostitute, to pursue her musical aspirations.

There are times where all of it is just so overly earnest that McCall comes across more like a wannabe motivational speaker than a real human being.

Before long though, Alena gets beaten up by her handlers and McCall is finally compelled to action, showing off his other, more interesting, side. In the process, he makes an enemy of the Russian mob and the movie finally kicks into gear.

The action itself is ripped straight from the Bourne movies, with McCall demonstrating the same super soldier like prowess of that other character.

For the most part, it all plays as very intelligent and well scripted. McCall (and Washington for that matter) is never better than when he’s improvising his way out of a tight bind.

Of course, that’s not to say everything passes the smell test. Much of the time those binds are due in part by McCall’s rather distracting aversion to guns. For a guy who seems to love stirring up trouble with the wrong kind of people it seems as though he could make his life a lot easier by just carrying one of them around, even if watching him negotiate his way without is part of the fun.

Still, that same Bourne mentality that starts to wear around the edges. McCall is perhaps just a little too good at what he does. There’s never any real consequence.

To touch back on that same analogy, Don Quixote suffered all sorts of humiliation and defeat in his quest to bring back chivalry. McCall never quite seems like anything’s out of his control and the result is that The Equalizer can feel lacking in depth.

Still, the movie focuses enough on character that it beats out half of the other wannabe Bourne movies in the genre.

This sort of material is right in Denzel Washington’s wheelhouse and he plays McCall with enough internal friction to give him at least some dimension.

Likewise, the film absolutely nails its villain, played in fine form by actor Marton Csokas. McCall may be a tad old fashioned, but his nemesis is every bit the sociopath that modern audiences have come to expect. That contrast alone adds weight.

The Equalizer is bound to be polarizing.

It’s clunky at times, tends to drag out scenes and overuse slow motion, and its sense of good and evil is a little too clear cut.

These are flaws that I’m sure have been touched on previously by more than a few contemporary action critics, but with at least some attention paid to its characters, tense, intelligent action sequences, and a slew of solid performances, you could do a lot worse in a popcorn flick than The Equalizer.

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OpinionPages Editorials: Student centre project Give students a reason to vote requires meaningful consultation

By Pat Reddick

By Matthew Rappolt

The Trent University community is certainly no stranger to bureaucratic mismanagement, controversy, and general administrative unpleasantness.

From the fiasco that was the 2002 closure of Peter Robinson College, to the widely unpopular conversion of Traill College from am undergraduate to graduate college, to the recent ordeal of the Water Street private residence, no one can blame Trent students, faculty, and community members for harbouring a well-founded cynicism towards administrative regimes and their plans.

This is why it is crucial that the Trent Central Student Association (TCSA) not follow in the footsteps of former university president Bonnie Patterson and work diligently and continuously to make sure that the new student centre is a project that accurately reflects the desires and aspirations of the student body at large. To date this has not been done.

The referendum on the student centre happened at the end of the 2012/2013 academic year. Following this logic, half the students who would have voted for this project are no longer even at Trent.

And since that time the TCSA has made little effort to inform students about the frequent changes, setbacks, and issues that have plagued this project virtually since day one.

Last week in this space, I noted that there are still many important questions that remain unanswered with regards to the student centre proposal. However, the most important question of all is: does the student body still want to proceed with this project?

This is not just few dollars here or there, rather, we are talking about more than $10 million of levy money that will be charged

directly to Trent undergrads over the next thirty years. The student body at large deserves to be well informed of all the details of this proposal before it is taken to the Trent board of governors for approval.

The recent TCSA annual general meeting, at which President Braden Freer delivered a brief update on the project, should by no means be mistaken for an instance of meaningful consultation.

The meeting was poorly publicized, it just barely scraped by the minimum quorum restrictions, and every single member in the room was either directly affiliated with the TCSA board of directors or was covering the meeting for this newspaper.

The TCSA executive has a responsibility to find out whether they still have the broad support of their members for this project before taking it any further.

During the general meeting, Freer said that the union would not go ahead with the proposal if it was met with widespread resistance within the membership.

However, how can there be any semblance of meaningful debate, let alone resistance, if many (if not most) current students aren’t even aware of the issue in the first place?

Last year, the Trent administration, aided by the TCSA leadership, undertook a comprehensive and thorough process of community consultation in the run up to selecting a bidder for the university’s foodservice contract.

In this case, the TCSA should follow the administration’s example and be sure that it is still acting out the wishes of the student body.

Meaningful community consultation is crucial so that this project avoids becoming just another chapter in the history of Trent University’s recent bureaucratic misadventures.

Letters to the Editors Parkway is good for city City Council. This document was the subject of protracted hours of public hearings (re: issues 0 and 2) before Council.

As an active environmentalist since the first Earth Day 44 years ago, I applaud the activities of Sustainable Trent. However, I am disturbed by the one-sided and outright misinformed statement of this group’s opposition to the City’s plan to build the Parkway on land set aside expressly as a transportation corridor more than half a century ago.

The “green space” in question is NOT pristine wilderness, but the least disruptive and harmful route of the many repeatedly studied to solve very real local transportation/traffic problems.

In the absence of this route, an army of heavy commercial vehicles is presently crumbling our existing neighbourhood road network on its way to and from the noose of subdivisions choking the city.

The purpose of The Parkway has nothing to do with saving minutes of travel time for motorists. Nor will its construction interfere with welcome improvements in public transportation and bicycle facilities.

Mobility for everyone depends upon a mix of all these modes which have been analyzed and evaluated in a professional Environmental Assessment approved by

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The bulk of opposition centred on outrage over a road bridge to be built OVER (not THROUGH!!) Jackson Creek Park, which is already traversed by the Parkhill Road bridge without harm.

The alternative to the proposed bridge would be a considerably more disruptive option involving the right-of-way taking of more than two dozen houses. Please note that NOTHING in the approved Parkway route conflicts with the stipulation that the land gifted to the City for the park “is to be used as a public park and recreation ground and for no other purpose”.

In sum, the statement that “the bridge would effectively ruin the urban park in the city” is hyperbole of the worst sort and unworthy of an otherwise respected organization. Peterborough abounds in green space and parks, and the Parkway land being maintained for cyclists at city expense is certainly not wild.

The adverse environmental consequences of NOT building the Parkway are just not acceptable under any open-minded analysis.

That’s what the preparation of an Environmental Assessment is all about: proof of need for a project plus evaluation of all

Students should understand how important it is to vote this municipal election. They should also not have to suffer another poorly thought out, paternalistic, and unilluminating “Vote or Die” style campaign.

No level of government impacts everyday life more than municipal. Given that there are less than 60,000 voters in Peterborough, your vote means a lot more than it would in any other election.

Municipal elections frequently suffer from low turnouts, which further amplifies each voters’ voice.

Trent students would make up a sizeable portion of voters if we all got out to the polls.

Let’s just hope that no well-intentioned but ultimately alienating “get out and vote” campaign pops up between now and October 27.

When it comes to convincing students to vote, there are ways to do it well and there are ways to irritate and annoy everyone until we all just wish the damn election was over.

Most “get out and vote” campaigning falls into that latter category. It does little more than make people who aren’t voting feel badly about themselves—their ineffectiveness at increasing the number of student voters is a testament to this.

They often don’t even bother telling you how to vote, just that you should be voting. These campaigns would be improved significantly if they even slightly demystified the process.

If it’s truly important to get out and vote, any campaign about it should explain why, or give people some resources to help them understand why.

Furthermore, these campaigns, and the people who run them, never really address the reasons why young people are less inclined to vote in the first place.

It’s not hard to make the case that most

reasonable alternatives, including social and economic impacts.

The public discussion is over, the vote taken and this train has left the station.

Anyone running for local office for the sole purpose of overturning a democratically made decision needs to think again. Council has made the most responsible decision in approving the Parkway.

-Joan Reeves Friends of the Parkway

James Kerr makes Trent Radio a great experience There is a person who I enjoy being with because he means a lot to me in my life. I enjoy working along with him too because we are working brothers of Trent Radio.

This person is special because he always takes time to talk to me. His name is James Kerr.

Any time I work along with James Kerr it is a great experience because he’s my working brother and that makes him so special to me.

Now let’s go behind the scenes of the Country Cousins. James Kerr puts the magic touches on each show of the Coun-

candidates don’t really care about students or our issues.

In June’s provincial election, student issues barely factored into any party platforms. At the party leaders’ debate, post-secondary issues were discussed a grand total of zero times.

If an election doesn’t seem to concern anything that impacts your life, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to expect you to vote in it or care about who wins.

Thankfully this municipal election is much different.

Almost every candidate in the ridings I’ve been following (including the mayoral race) has at least paid lip services to us.

Many more have been working directly with student groups. That’s true of candidates across the political spectrum.

Furthermore, the Generation Vote campaign the TCSA is taking part in does exactly what it should—it suggests reasons why voting is something you should do.

The posters pose a question, raise an issue, and tell you how to solve it: by voting for candidates who see eye-to-eye with you. Imagine that; a campaign that empowers voters.

Raising examples in that way suggests these are issues we should be talking about.

With the plethora of debates and allcandidates meetings taking place in October, voters have plenty of opportunities to ask candidates how they will address them. The TCSA’s done half the work for you by giving you the language to ask with.

Of course, the effectiveness of the campaign will depend on how well it is advertised. To reference the posters, I’ll admit, I had to do a bit of searching. If their brand ambassadors are as effective as they were with respect to the general meeting, we might be in some trouble.

If you give people a reason to go out and vote and let them know how to do it, they will. Let’s hope the campaigning at Trent, whether it’s put on by the TCSA or otherwise, does exactly that.

try Cousins. It’s not up to me or my cousin Hank Fisher, it’s James Kerr who should be thanked for putting Country Cousins on the radio.

The shows that we’re going to do: We are going on a journey with Daniel O’Donnell; we’re going to take him to Santa Claus Village, then go to Salzberg, Austria, to meet up with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer and sing with them on stage, and finally we take him on a boat cruise with Stompin’ Tom Connors and Jeffery Stewart on their boat, The North Atlantic Squadron, around the Peterborough lift locks.

-Jeffrey Stewart Trent Radio Historian

Do you have something to say about something you read in Arthur or about something going on at Trent or Peterborough?

Bust out a .doc, then send it to editors@trentarthur.ca 500 words or less, due Thursday

Opinion

Comment:The elephant that nobody cares about

By Jack Smye

Am I the only one who doesn’t think this is funny? There seems to be a genuine phenomenon occurring at every level of democratic process that continues to make an absolute mockery of the one value we’re supposed to uphold.

What I’m talking about is this ignorant complacency when it comes to very real and very incredible political occurrences.

It’s amazing how apathetic we are to truly unbelievable stories, and it’s amazing that they’re simply not a big deal.

It’s almost ironic that nobody seems to be aware of this desensitization towards the surreal.

It’s as though we’ve succumbed to the normalization of the abnormal and we’ve allowed it to become nothing more than a humorous dialogue at the water cooler.

Did you hear about that racist and homo-

phobic mayor that smokes crack and runs the largest Canadian city? Ha ha ha ha ha.

It’s amazing that nobody seems to realize how incredibly ridiculous this apathy is. It is the occurrences that everybody’s aware of and everybody knows are intrinsically wrong, but everybody also knows there’s nothing you can do about it.

At Trent, for instance, it’s the decisions being made by the few that should be made by many (yes, I’m looking at you Trent Central Student Association). It’s the voices that are supposed to be held to a level of public accountability but only seem to be accountable to those within their circle of interest (still looking at you TCSA).

It’s the loaded votes that will take even more money from students so that the administration can build its desired student centre (I feel like it’s obvious who I’m critiquing at this point).

Maybe I’m the naive one for not real-

izing that this is just the way it is here at Trent.

More broadly, it’s the fact that it’s an acceptable political strategy to play dance around an issue rather than face it head on (pretty well every politician is guilty of this).

It’s the fact that when someone is the prime minister of a country and they don’t like what kind of questions the media are asking, they can just ignore them all together and avoid any non-scripted question.

It’s the event in the House of Commons last week that should have induced vomit in every Canadian that considers their country democratic (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, google “house of commons Iraq exchange”).

It’s our blind Israel support. It’s missing aboriginal women. It’s pipelines. It’s neocolonialism. It’s neoliberalism.

It’s our barking and humiliating Prime Minister. It’s first-past-the-post politics.

It’s obvious yet denied mission creep.

It’s ebola misinformation. It’s abandoning those who need social assistance. It’s homelessness. It’s individualism. It’s apathy and it’s ignorance. It’s what you know is there but for whatever reason isn’t considered important enough to get mad about.

I’ll stop here because the examples I could list are endless and I’m not really offering any advice on how to proceed.

I’m not really offering anything, actually, it just amazes me that nobody seems to acknowledge how far this apathy epidemic has gone. It amazes me that these trespasses are the status quo and that’s just the way it is.

If I were to offer anything, it would be this one piece of advice. Take the blue pill, step down the rabbit hole, and ask yourself this What the fuck is going on?

You can see the world in this place: The Trent Temagami Colloquium passing through, and it feels like a tiny community. Environmental Studies student Alana MacLean is going to miss that.

“It’s refreshing being in a place without phones and social media. When you take those things away, people are so friendly and social”. She mentions that she isn’t looking forward to leaving Temagami and heading back home. “I’m going to miss that feeling when we go back to school and everyone is glued to their smart phones or avoiding eye contact on the bus”.

By Lindsay Thackeray

Get on the bus at Trent University. Head north. Continue north for about six hours.

Turn left on Red Squirrel Road. Drive carefully. Arrive at the parking lot, and grab your gear. Hike through the woods until you’re greeted with the breathtaking view of Lake Temagami. Congratulations, you’ve made it to Camp Wanapitei.

Last Thursday, about 50 Trent students and faculty completed this very journey to participate in the 42nd annual Trent Temagami Colloquium at Camp Wanapitei.

This traditional event began in 1972 and was originally initiated by Professor John Wadland, a renowned Canadian Studies professor at Trent.

It’s a weekend dedicated towards understanding the land. What is wilderness?

What is ‘Canadianness’? What is our relationship with the land and all the beings living on it? What better way to find out than to go to a place steeped in Canadian history.

Once you get to camp, you’ll need to sign up for a cabin. Try to get one with a wood stove, it looks like a cold weekend. May I suggest Trespassers X or Red Squirrel? If you choose Red Squirrel however, be forewarned. It’s traditionally the musical cabin, so don’t be surprised if everyone is belting out Wagon Wheel at two in the morning.

The schedule of the weekend consists of activities out on the land during the day, such as canoeing or hiking, and listening to lecturers present their work and research in the evenings.

The idea is to become immersed in the environment first-hand, in order to better understand the academic discourse of the weekend from being on the ground and experiencing it.

Lecturers this year included Trent professors Stephen Hill, Neil Emery, and Dan Longboat, with other guests including Julia Anderson, Paul McCarney, and David Welch.

The talks covered a wide range of topics, from the history of Temagami, to Indigenous environmental studies, to community-university collaboration.

Lectures took place in the main room of the Wanapitei Chateau, a cozy hunting lodge equipped with squashy couches,

armchairs, and a large wood stove.

If you’re still awake at 1am, go outside and look to the skies. The stars are unbelievably clear out here. The Northern Lights are also out tonight. They bend and contort in eerily beautiful green shimmers. Everyone stands to watch them in silence, thinking of the thousands of generations who may have stood here doing the same thing.

What does the concept of ‘Canadianness’ really mean? Do we take the astonishing beauty of the Canadian landscape for granted? Eric Lede is a recent Trent graduate who grew up in Australia. “I was surprised to hear my peers mention how desensitized they were to this intrinsic beauty that I was privileged to see for the first time. It was one of the most beautiful, breathtaking places I’ve ever seen”. He feels that Temagami was an unexpected life changing experience for him, and can’t wait to do it again. “Hearing about the connection of the land and the people really brought a new lens to Temagami. Learning of the history that is embedded in the land really enriched my experience”.

‘You can see the world in this place’.

These were the words used to describe the area by Professor John Wadland. Temagami is home to one of the largest stands of old-growth pine forests in the world. It is also home to the site of the Red Squirrel Road blockade of 1989, a peaceful resistance to the planned logging of this forest.

Many participants in this blockade were arrested and fined, including Trent faculty and students.

around you. You may not have been able to walk in this forest if no one had resisted its destruction. Here was the site of an internationally significant issue, and in being here you can see the world.

After the lectures on Saturday night, the long-established square dance commenced in the dining hall for the last night of the trip, complete with a band and square dance caller. These dances are a Camp Wanapitei tradition, going back for many years, and participants are usually left pretty exhausted by the end. You might be able to hike all day and never feel a thing, but you’d be surprised at how a few minutes of square dancing can wipe you out.

Since Camp Wanapitei is a children’s camp, it’s set up almost like a little town.

Everyone greets each other as they are

Sunday morning, last day at camp. Pack up your things and do a last minute check of the cabin to make sure you didn’t forget anything. Tote your gear back along the trail out to the bus. Begin the lengthy ride back to Peterborough. Hopefully you can get some shut-eye along the way.

The bus arrived back at Trent last Sunday night, and everyone headed home for hot showers and a good night’s sleep, perhaps to take some time to reflect on everything that took place during the four-day trip.

When we first got on the bus on Thursday morning to begin the trip, Professor Hill passed out blank sheets of paper and asked us to “draw our route”.

This might have meant the literal roads taken to get to the camp, but it seemed to be a little more than that. The Trent Temagami Colloquium is a journey, and everybody comes back a little bit different from when they left.

Be sure to visit the site of the blockade, and walk up to the gate. Observe everything

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Clubs&GroupsPages The Archives at Trent Radio

By Calla Durose-Moya

Our program director James Kerr may have introduced Trent Radio and its wonderful inner workings in the first three or four issues of Arthur this year, but I have more to say about Trent Radio!

I’d like to introduce myself first. My name is Calla Durose-Moya, and I’m the incoming music archivist at Trent Radio.

This is my second year both at Trent University and doing this job. The basic itinerary of my job is receiving and archiving the music we receive at Trent Radio, and everything that falls in between those duties.

This means that I know a fair bit about new music— specializing in local and regional Canadian music of many genres.

Although I try my best, I don’t know everything there is, and our archives are only limited to what we receive.

That is why I have started an initiative for this year: to ask our programmers and seek what else is out there.

Furthermore, in this position, I strive to promote this music. I want to reiterate what a big deal supporting local and Canadian artists is. Our archives provide a great opportunity for our programmers to encounter an assortment of sweet music.

The point I’m trying to convey with this article is that, even if you are not a programmer this year at Trent Radio, I think that you (yes, you!) should make an effort to check out and support local and independent Canadian music.

If you are a programmer at Trent Radio who might be mystified or are curious about anything archives related, I encourage you to get in touch with me.

I’ve been waiting for the day when someone will seek me out and ask me to give them a big archives spiel, or to give me some feedback on what they would like to see in our archives!

That’s all for now.

Don’t despair, though. You will also see my name on future Arthur articles, reviewing new albums we have received or going over local music shows.

TQC: I just wanted to see Roboteyes

Trent Film Society Presents:

By Quinn Ferentzy

I Saw the Devil

By Nathan Prendergast

Few films in the past decade successfully balance brutal violence with calm, aesthetically pleasing scenes quite like Kim JeeWoon’s 2010 masterpiece I Saw the Devil.

Starting as a familiar revenge tale, I Saw the Devil quickly develops into something much darker. When Detective Kim Soohyeon’s wife is kidnapped and murdered, Kim (played by Byung-hun Lee) makes it his mission to find the sadistic psychopath responsible and make them suffer. While on the hunt for his wife’s killer, Kyungchul (played by Min-sik Choi), Kim begins to blur the lines between right and wrong with his attempts to exact revenge.

The movie delves deep into the moral repercussions of revenge as well as the emotional impact of anger and trauma. Far from sentimental, this movie is ruthless in its execution, offering little chance for the audience to turn away.

It is not an experience for the faint of heart. For the more daring of you movie goers, it is one not to be missed.

Join us for our first of four instalments on Wednesday, October 1 at 8pm @ Artspace for our Shock-tober film series, in which we will be exploring horror cinema with the objective of sharing with you what it is that makes them both culturally significant, as well as how/why you may be (un)naturally attracted to having chills sent down your spine.

Responsible for Korean films such as the ghastly horror A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), Western-style The Good, The Bad, and The Weird (2008), as well as the American action film The Last Stand (2013), Kim Jee Woon has a diverse range of filmography, which leaves us not knowing what to ex-

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pect going into his movies.

I Saw the Devil is no exception. It holds a strong tension throughout the film and has scenes of brutal violence no less terrifying than a slasher film. Its high level of shock and anxiety, as well as its disturbing content, makes it a nightmare-inducing, horrifying thriller.

Differing from other movies with similar degrees of graphic violence, there are many scenes that are surprisingly calm and beautiful. These scenes, however, offer no solace. If anything, these scenes increase the impact that the horror has.

Actor Min-sik Choi, who plays the antagonist Kyung-chul in the movie, delivers yet another stellar performance, capturing the madness and haunting nature of a serial killer.

Some of you may remember last year’s screening of Oldboy (2004), also starring Choi (again playing the victim of someone’s revenge). Min-sik Choi offers a very physical performance, enduring multiple beatings throughout both films. He also has an amazing ability of conveying a wide range of emotion as his character is thrown from one confusing and hostile situation to another.

Byung-hun Lee equally offers an emotionally complex performance as Kim Soohyeon, shifting between the vulnerability of someone who has suffered a great loss and the coldness and anger of someone wanting nothing other than revenge. Their combined performances are not to be missed.

Please join us for a free screening of Kim Jee-Woon’s I Saw the Devil (2010) on Wednesday, October 1! The screening starts at 8pm at Artspace (378 Aylmer St N), and is open to everyone, not just students.

“No, Roboteyes.” I said to my charming market hall show-watching companions.

“And the Lonely Parade.”

“No. ROBOTEYES.” I clarified. Not to hate on a great band, I’ve just seen them several times.

While the Lonely Parade is normally a fun, high-energy show, I had never seen Amy Jan Von Purr, Dixie Q, or Roboteyes.

I was pretty excited to expand my horizons or something.

I was really sorely disappointed. The show at Market Hall… was confusing.

Dixie got one song, and probably had to run off to Shots to perform there. Amy got one song. The Lonely Parade, a favorite among the young and the queer, also played a fairly short set. Each poet did one piece. It seemed as though they were trying to fit too much, and ended up shortending the performers.

And then there was Moonfox. Or Fox on the Moon. In the moon? Fox and the Moon. Whatever. An out of town band playing for what felt like longer than it was, and was clocked at about an hour.

(My friend informed me as we hid in an alcove to chat.)

To be fair, the crowd seemed to like them. To be fair, the crowd seemed pretty drunk.

They could play their instruments, of course. They’re pretty good at playing them. But when I go to a showcase of queer talent, I don’t go for a group of kids playing the same sort of repetitive, popfolk thing I’ve heard so many times before.

It seemed odd to me that the longest set

was for an out of town band that did not read as queer. Where was the playful subversion? Where was the fun?

And, on a more serious note, the lack of gender neutral bathrooms made my lovely companions feel weird and alienated. And no, a single stall accessible toilet does not count. It just doesn’t. If you need to know why, it should be reserved for people who need the hand-holds and the extra room, and more to the point it further singles out those who could have have bad experiences with gendered peeing.

Gender neutral bathrooms are part of my wayward youth in gay bars in Toronto, and to me, a queer event isn’t a queer event if I must pee under a dress.

I didn’t stay for Roboteyes. I found the host unprofessional, off-putting, and her sense of humour went to pot after her first haiku. Which was actually quite funny.

The show was simply too long, and the focus was off point. I want to see more of Dixie Q, Amy, and… most of the other bands in future. But mostly, I want to see Roboteyes.

It felt as though the later acts got cheated, playing to a near-empty cavern while everyone ran off to Shots (which I’ve heard from many people was a good party), and having a certain band play a shorter set would have created less overlap.

I was determined to see Roboteyes, and even I couldn’t sit through the whole thing.

Afterwards, I headed out to Glasspool’s Great Gay Gala at the Garnet, had a cosmo and caught up with some people. It was nice, and it seemed as though everyone had an opinion on the show, even though it hadn’t ended yet.

Tennis @ Trent

SportsPage Varsity Standings* Women’s Soccer

By Matt Douglas

It was a cool night underneath the Hunter St. Bridge. You could see your breath in the air, but still twenty-some Trent students endured the cold to whack balls around Quaker Park Tennis Clubs’ five clay courts.

So many Trent tennis players showed up that the club president, Hiten Dave and vice-president, Gianni Salluzzo-Lombardo were forced to watch the action while they waited for a court to open up. Dave and SalluzzoLombardo are international students, who are trying to maintain their passion of tennis here at Trent.

Trent’s Tennis Club gathers to play on Friday nights from 7-9pm at Quaker Park Tennis Club. Dave says there are over 60 students signed up for the club, but only about 20 show up on any given Friday night. “It’s just recreational play. We are open to beginners or experienced players. We just come here and you can play a match, or do some training” Dave said.

As they wait, Dave and Salluzzo-Lombardo talk about their ambitions for Trent’s Tennis club. “Fleming has an intramural league and we’d like to get one going at Trent too,” Dave said. Salluzzo-Lombardo suggested that with an intramural league at Trent, the two schools could even have a showdown.

“There are no courts on campus. It’s strange; you think of Trent as this outdoorsy school and we don’t even have tennis courts,” said Dave. “We need to encourage Trent to treat tennis as a main sport.”

For now though, Dave and Salluzzo-Lombardo are focusing on growing the club. “We could use people with managing experience to help [in executive positions of the club],” said Salluzzo-Lombardo.

As a self-funded club they have had to rely on Quaker Park Tennis club for some assistance. “I always want to take the opportunity to thank Quaker for reasonable prices, supplying us balls and extra racquets. It would be impossible without them,” Dave said.

As Dave and Saluzzo-Lombardo stand on Quaker Park’s balcony their eyes follow tennis balls back and forth on the court. They are far from home, but you wouldn’t know it.

Team

Wins

Losses

Draws

Points

Ottawa

7

1

0

21

UOIT

6

0

1

19

Queen’s

4

2

1

13

Carleton Toronto Laurentian

4 4 3

2 2 4

1 1 1

13 13 10

Nippissing Ryerson

2 2

5 5

1 0

7 6

Trent

1

5

1

4

Men’s Soccer Team

Wins

Losses

Ryerson

8

0

Toronto Queens

5 5

2 2

Carleton

4

Nippissing Laurentian

Draws

Points

0 1

24 16

1

16

1

3

15

3 4

3 2

9 8

UOIT

2 2 1

4

3

6

Trent RMC

1 1

6 7

1 0

4 3

Men’s Rugby Team

Wins

Losses

Draws

Points

Fleming

2

0

0

8

Trent

1 1

1 1

0 0

6 5

1 1 0

1

0 0 0

5 4 0

Algonquin St. Lawrence Seneca Loyalist

1 2

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listings. where and when things happen.

Local Clubs & Groups interested or for more info.

The P.R. Community & Student Association invites you to 751 George Street North to explore what Sadleir House has to offer. Saturday, October 18, 10am-4pm.Take a tour, learn about our tenant offices, explore our library and sign up for a borrower’s card, support the library at our book sale, take in a free class or workshop (TBA). Free refreshments will be served!

For more information, contact Alissa Paxton at apaxton@prcsa.a or 705-742-3686 The Centre for Gender & Social Justice, OPIRG Peterborough, the Trent Queer Collective with the support of Mysterious Entity Theatre present for one night only “Transgender Seeking” by Sunny Drake Directed by Gein Wong. Saturday October 4 at 8:00pm (doors at 7:45pm). George St United Church Auditorium at 534 George St N. Cost: $5-10/PWYC **no one turned away for lack of funds** Access info: Venue is wheelchair accessible. No alcohol will be served at the venue.

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!

Charity week: September 29 - October 3, 11am-4pm at BATA. Charity week is a whole week where TMSA will be raising money for charity through various games, bake sales, and activities! Come ok out and help us support orphans and needy children around the world!

TISAlympics are happening on October 11 at the Athletics Centre from 10am -3pm. Come and join a regional Group, TACSU, TUCSA, TSEAO. SAAT, HOLA, TURSA and compete in all the most favourable sports. Basketball, Soccer, Volleyball and much more.

Prizes to be won and Food and snacks will be provided all day.

Thanksgiving Dinner will also be that night. October 11 @ Sadlier House from 7pm - 10pm. Tickets are $2.00 dollars, com wine and dine with TISA as we reveal the winners of TISAlympics.

Seasoned Spoon Volunteer Call-out Exiting Opportunity! THE SEASONED SPOON IS LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS! It’s that time of year again when Spoon kitchen is firing back up and fresh organic produce is pouring in from the gardens. We need lots of extra help to keep things in check and maintain optimum kitchen flow.

We are seeking out new volunteers with keen interest in food issues, a desire to learn kitchen ninja skills and an inspiration to contribute to community building. Please email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com if you are

The Seasoned Spoon and The Trent Vegetable Gardens Present: Canning 101. It’s that time of year again! Time to start putting away for the winter and preserving all that summer garden veg. Never canned anything before? Well not to fret because in this Canning 101 workshop you will learn the basics of hot water bath canning and pickling with Rachelle Suave from Food Not Bombs.

We will be canning some green tomato relish and pickled beets using produce strait from the Trent Vegetable Gardens. You even get to take some home with you! With these canning skills you can continue to eat local food all winter long! Wednesday Oct 1st, 4:30pm - 7:30 pm at The Seasoned Spoon Café. $5 or pwyc. Email: spoonvolunteers@ gmail.com for more info The Seasoned Spoon Café is grateful for the support of Trent students. Refundable levy requests by registered students will be accepted until Friday, October 17th, 2014. We serve delectable, local and organic food Monday-Friday from 8:00-3:30 in Champlain College. For more information about the Spoon and our programs go to www.seasonedspoon.ca

Trent 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: 7 p.m. to 1 a.m., Saturday & Sunday: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. 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: 7 p.m. to 1 a.m., Saturday & Sunday: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Call us 705- 748-1748 or email walkhome@ tretnu.ca to Prebook a walk.

Academic Skills Centre Appointments – Are you ready to tackle your first assignments, but don’t know where to begin? The Academic Skills Centre is here for all of your assignment needs! The instructors can help you organize your thoughts, help jump grammar hurdles and develop your time management skills. All our services are free of charge. Come see us at Champlain College, Suite 206, call us at 705-748-1720 or book online using our new system!

Trent University’s 50th Anniversary Community Parade and Celebration. Saturday, October 18, 1pm. Parade: Along Rubidge Street from Simcoe to Sherbrooke. Ceremony: Outside Rubidge Retirement Residence.

Join us along the parade route and stay for the official ceremony at Rubidge Hall, Trent’s first home. After the ceremony, bring your event program to a participating restaurant and enjoy a special Trent discount. The Community Parade & Celebration is generously sponsored by the City of Peterborough. To mark Trent’s milestone anniversary, we are thanking our founding partner – the community – and inviting everyone to this exciting FREE event! Wear your Trent green and join us downtown as we re-create the original opening ceremonies.

Sister In Spirit Memorial March, Vigil and Community Gathering. Saturday, October 4 at 3pm at Confederation Park. We will be marching down George St and finishing at Millennium Park where the vigil, water teachings and community feast will take place. We invite Staff Carriers, Big Drums, Jingle Dress Dancers, Elders, Children, Men, 2-spirits and, of course, women and those who are impacted by systemic violence against Indigenous women and girls.

Please bring your banners, flags, signs and any other materials to demonstrate your support!

Sister In Spirit Volunteer Meeting. Friday, October 3 at Niijkiwendidaa (1097 Water St, bus stop at Marina). 3pm. Come and help us with SIS preparations! Everyone welcome.

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 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 wonderful 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) Oct 8-9, 15-16, 21-22, 29-30. Weekends(8:30-4) Oct. 4-5, 18-19, 25-26. sjapeterborough@bellnet.ca, 705-745-0331, sja.ca St. John’s Ambulance CPR Recertification (Weekdays at 6:30 pm) Oct. 14, Nov. 4, 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

Arts Scottish Country Dancing, The Gathering Place, Peter Gzowski College. No partner necessary and please wear soft shoes. For information please contact jfreeves@sympatico.ca The Kawartha Strings and Kawartha Community Orchestra welcome new members as they begin a new season. If you play a string or wind instrument, please contact conductor Auriel Creighton at acrate1@hotmail.com.

All ages, all skill levels welcome, with no auditions.

Friends in Music Invite You to Come and Play. We are a community orchestra/concert band who play great music to have fun and to learn. We welcome all levels of ability, all ages, all instrumenta-

This Week in Live Music: presented by ElectricCityLive.ca Tuesday Wednesday Thursday t Bobby Watson and The Crown Royals @ The Puck and Pint (8pm) t Open Stage @ The Pig’s Ear Tavern (9pm)

t Josh and Cale Gontier @ Riley’s Pub

t Guest performers @ Riley’s (8pm)

Friday

tion! Under the baton of music director , Marilyn Croteau Chalk, you are sure to enjoy lots of dynamic music. Her diverse experience conducting bands from young to retired folk with energy and enthusiasm brings a smile to all who play with her.

We share and we care for the love of music and want you to be a part of this exciting group where the brass and woodwinds play along with strings, piano, and percussion.

Come on out and join us Thursdays 5:30-7:30 at Edmison Heights Baptist Church, Marina Blvd., Peterborough. For further information please contact lorick@cogeco.ca or call 705 874 5311 or - Visit us on Facebook 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 The Theatre on King is happy to announce the 2nd Annual “small dance for a small space festival.” TTOK is looking for dancers and choreographers in Peterborough and the surrounding areas to submit proposals for this upcoming event based on the following criteria: the piece must be less than ten minutes long and it must be able to be presented within a ten foot by ten foot performance space. Please include a cover letter with contact info and a synopsis of the piece. Selected entries entries will be given rehearsal time in TTOK and will be presented in December. Deadline for submissions is October 15. Send to: contact@ttok.ca or: The Theatre on King, 159 King Street, #120, Ptbo. ON, K9H 2K8 The Theatre on King is proud to present a new work by David Bateman, “destiny in the park,” one of the co-winners of last year’s Playwright’s Festival. This short one-act play, made up of two conversations, reflects the nature of HIV transmission, disclosure and casual social/sexual interaction. “destiny in the park” runs Thursday, October 30th - Saturday November 1 at 8pm. $10 at the door.

PUPPETEERS NEEDED! - WE TRAIN! CMHA Peterborough is recruiting volunteers to join the Kids on the Block educational puppet troupe. Puppetry is used to educate children (in schools, mostly) about mental health issues. We perform, free of charge, to children in Peterborough and surrounding areas. Call Ryan at 748-6687 x1016 or email kob@cmhahkpr.ca

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Saturday

t Graham Norman @ The t Highwaters Band @ The t Tom Middleton @ Carpe Diem Cafe (6pm) Tankhouse (4pm) Tankhouse (5pm) t Kim Doolittle @ Show- t Dala @ Market Hall t Dan Hill @ Showplace (8pm) place (8pm) (8pm) t TUMS Open Mic @ the t Chris Koster @ The Gar- tChelsea Bennett Band @ The Black Horse Pub Trend (8pm) net (9pm) (9:30pm) t I, the Mountain @ t ELMS w/ AWA, and The The Spill (9pm) Idle Crow @ The Spill t Grand Analog, Erroneous Monk w/ guests @ (9pm) The Gordon Best Thet Your Wake @ The Red Dog (10pm) t Television Rd w/ Ti- atre (9pm) anamen Square Dance, and The White Crowleys t Money Money @ The Red Dog (10pm) @ The Red Dog (10pm) t Indictable Mischief w/ Police Funeral @ The Garnet (10pm)