SPORTS // REDS HOCKEY DOMINATES OPENING WEEKEND ACTION>> pG. 12 Volume 143 · Issue 7 • October 21, 2009
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Red Bombers get first win
CANADA HAS GREEN POTENTIAL: MAY
Colin McPhail The Brunswickan
Under the Friday night lights at Chapman field, the UNB Red Bombers defeated the Moncton Raiders and celebrated their first home victory of the inaugural Atlantic Football League season. High scoring and entertaining football has the AFL off to a great start. “All the games have been exciting!” said Head Coach Mike Dollimore. The upstart Atlantic Football League has many doubters; however, Dollimore is seemingly very proud of the league and UNB’s team so far. “It’s an opportunity for local kids to stay home and play if they aren’t good enough or ready for the CIS.” With Moncton opting to receive the opening kickoff, Friday night’s game began with a Raiders possession and a Raider two and out. Moncton kept the ball when UNB fumbled the punt. From the home side’s red zone, Moncton scored the game’s first touchdown. When the Red Bomber offense finally got their hands on the ball, they kept their play-calling conservative and showed off their impressive ground game. UNB marched down to the Raider red-zone without passing the ball once. The running-back combination of Josh MacArthur and Tommy Broad carried UNB down field by taking delayed hand offs and running well executed misdirection plays that confused the Moncton defense. Running well in the open field but falling short in close, they could not find the end zone and UNB’s Zac Cann missed a chip-shot field goal. In front of a disappointing turnout, in comparison to the 2300 fans at first game of the year, the Bombers didn’t get much support when it came to crowd noise. As the game drew to a close and the cold began to force people to head home before the final whistle, most verbal encouragement for the Bombers came in the form
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Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan
Elizabeth May is the federal leader of The Green Party of Canada. She visited UNB recently to give a talk about the potential for a green democracy, and sat down with the Brunswickan afterward to talk about her move from Nova Scotia to Sidney, British Columbia.
Sarah Ratchford The Brunswickan
Moving from the Maritimes to Sidney, BC was the hardest thing Elizabeth May has ever had to do. May spoke to about 40 people in room 356 of Marshall d’Avray Hall on Friday, Oct. 16, where she gave a talk on the potential for a green democracy. After her talk, May gave 25 minutes of her highly demanded time to talk to the Brunswickan. The leader of the Greens moved to Sidney this past month, and she will reattempt what she tried to do in the last election: unseat a long-standing Conservative candidate. “Once you’ve been dealing with politics for a little while, you’re going to get attacked no matter what you do. Well, I’m still convinced I could have won there and we did really well. We got 32 per cent of
the vote, and came in second,” May says. May says she took her time deciding that Saanich Gulf Islands was her best bet. She says what ultimately made the decision for her was the fact that the area provided the best support for the greens in the polls. May has also spent time in BC working on campaigns, and got to know the area fairly well before she made the move. “It’s different to consider moving to a place because of politics. It felt very odd to me,” she says. The federal leader of Canada’s Greens says it was painful leaving her home in Nova Scotia. “I’ve lived in the Maritimes since 1973,” she says, “and my family still lives in Margaree Harbour. My dad, my brother and sister- in-law are still in a little village on the Cabot Trail in Cape Breton, and my home base for years has been New Glasgow.” Politics in BC, she says, are different from anywhere else. “The electorate in BC is much more volatile. Politics there do tend to be a little different. The biggest difference I see there is that people are wide open to change.
“I used to describe my boss when I worked in the Brian Mulroney government as a genetic Tory. I couldn’t figure out why he was a Conservative at all; we seemed to agree on everything. If you grow up in the Maritimes you find that certain families are Liberal families, certain families are Conservative families.” She says this attitude is not prevalent in her BC riding, as many people have moved from other places; their families haven’t grown up in the same place for generations. “Because the politics in BC can be so volatile, it means voters do move around. Which is good for us,” May laughs. Having lived in Nova Scotia, May has specific advice to increase greenness in the Atlantic region. “For the Maritimes, we’re looking at energy efficiency, expanded renewables and a long term future for our natural resource industries—for fisheries, forestry and agriculture.” She says that none of the “current industrialized, globalized business models” will keep our natural resource industries afloat.
The current Department of Agriculture, May says, is too focused on cheap food and globalized agribusiness. She says if nutritious food is made the number one goal, policy could be changed in such a way that local agriculture would be supported. May says that we need to “make sure that Canada has the ability to grow enough food for Canadians, and export on top of that.” She also focused on the importance Maritimers attach to community, suggesting that we use the sense of community to support local farmers. In her talk, May mentioned the need for bus service in the rural areas of Atlantic Canada, as well as the need for implementation of high-speed rail across the country. “The technology [for high speed trains] is too good for us to continue to pass it up,” she says, “and it’s Canadian technology. Somebody is going to have the smarts, the way Sir John A. Macdonald did in 1867, I mean…that we’re going to have a train that links us east to west; we’re going to have a fast train that’s low-polluting that links us east to west.”