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UNB prez talks PSE in India

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Hilary Paige Smith News Editor The largest group of Canadian university leaders to travel to India returned from a seven-day trip on Monday. UNB’s Dr. Eddy Campbell was among them.

The university president was one of 15 university leaders who traveled to Dehli, India on the cross-cultural education information exchange.

Campbell said the trip was “absolutely” an eye-opening experience for him.

“It’s a huge country of 1.1 billion people, most of them young, with enormous challenges and equally large opportunities. We share our heritage as commonwealth countries and parliamentary democracies,” Campbell said, via email, en route from India on Monday morning.

In Dehli, Campbell and his fellow travelers met with various partner and potential partner institutions, also meeting with members of the Canadian High Commission and chief executive officers associated with the Chambers of Commerce in India.

The group also met with local politicians and high-ranking university officials, such as Kapil Sibal, minister for human resources development, and the university grants commissioner.

From Canada, the group was accompanied by Gary Goodyear, federal minister of state for science and technology.

The outlined purpose of the trip was to bring opportunities for Indian students to study in Canada through collaboration, exchange and networking to the forefront.

Campbell said the group learned how post-secondary education operates in India and “gained insight into the challenges and opportunities in this country.”

“India faces a significant challenge in addressing the post-secondary educational needs of the 570 million people under the age of 25. It is expected to become an economic powerhouse over the next ten or 20 years.”

The university president also said the visit to India helped him better his knowledge of post-secondary education institutions in Canada.

“It emphasized to me, once again, just how excellent our universities in Canada are by world standards, and how active we are internationally.”

For the university leaders visiting Dehli, the trip was an opportunity to showcase the high quality of post-secondary education in Canada to the rest of the world.

Derek Ness, a visually impaired student and differently-abled liason, says UNB campus can be difficult to navigate if you’re differently-abled.

See inside for Part One of Two in our campus accessibility series. Mike Erb / The Brunswickan

The Playhouse receives national honour Matt Belyea Arts Reporter The Canadian A rts Presenting Association/l’Association Canadienne des Organismes Artistiques (CAPACOA) has given this year’s Presenter of the Year Award to The Playhouse and its executive director Tim Yerxa.

The nationally recognized award was presented at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa Nov. 7. This year’s award pitted The Playhouse against prestigious venues such as Toronto’s Roy Thompson Hall and Massey Halls.

Yerxa has been with The Playhouse for ten years and during his tenure the venue has been named the Organization of the Year (2003) by the CAPACOA and Venue of the Year (2006 & 2007) by the East Coast Music Association.

Yerxa was nominated anonymously in mid-October before heading out

to Ottawa for the annual CAPACOA conference.

“I really didn’t expect to win, so I didn’t make a big deal about it. The voters are the members of the association, who are our peers which makes the award very special.”

Yerxa explains that his job predominately concerns selecting artists for The Playhouse.

“In addition to renting out the building we also present a flagship series called the spotlight series where we present touring artists in all disciplines, music, dance and theatre, and I’m the person responsible for selecting those performers.”

Yerxa is a Fredericton native and his affinity for the community is echoed in his ongoing participation in numerous organizations.

“In my adult life I’ve always felt that the performing arts have a way of con-

necting people and giving the community a sense of identity for people to come together to share experiences. So for me it’s just a big part of any community.”

Yerxa himself is a past president of CAPACOA. He explains that the Presenter Award is something that is given to a venue (and its chief executive) that has done an exceptional job in inviting performing artists to their community and contributed to community life.

“The goal of the presenter is to bring these artistic experiences and cultural experiences to their community.”

In terms of Fredericton (and national) venues The Playhouse has established itself as a prime locale for performers to visit.

The building, which is adjacent to the provincial legislator in downtown Fredericton, was a gift from Lord Beaverbrook in 1964. Since then the 709-seat venue has attracted dozens

of influential artists including, Stuart McLean, Leonard Cohen and Gordon Lightfoot.

Yerxa doesn’t hesitate to point out that The Playhouse only succeeds because of the people of Fredericton who have religiously showed their support and passion for and their interest in the arts.

“They’re everything, I mean it is fine to invite artists to your community but if people aren’t coming out and creating audiences for those performances what’s the point in doing it?”

The audiences who continue to buy tickets and take chances on things, things they’ve never heard of are what The Playhouse values. The people of Fredericton have come to know and trust the reputation of The Playhouse to bring quality artists and performers to the community and this award reflects that contribution in addition to The Playhouse’s own work.

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EWB raising awareness in Fredericton and away Hilary Paige Smith News Editor A dynamic group on campus is working to effect change in Africa; without borders.

Engineers Without Borders is a national organization made up of professional engineers, students and supporters with 50,000 members in Canada. UNB is home to one of EWB’s 35 chapters across the country.

Erin Flanagan, co-president of the Fredericton chapter, said the local branch has a mailing list of about 500 people, with 35 regular members.

“UNB, although a smaller school, actually has a medium-sized chapter, so we’re quite active in terms of our national presence. At our chapter we have about 35 committed members, kind of people who attend our weekly meetings on a regular basis,” she said.

The organization holds frequent outreach events, introducing members of the community to EWB through fair trade promotion efforts and social justice awareness campaigns. The group also works to engage engineering students.

“We’re trying to work with engineering students on campus and also with faculty members to make the UNB engineering curriculum a bit more progressive and also include a wider, more socially-minded and global focused engineering program. Right now, we’re talking to the civil engineering department and we’re trying to integrate some of EWB’s national global engineering content into a second year civil engineering class,” Flanagan said.

The co-president said EWB engages

students indirectly on campus through curriculum enhancement.

Though engineering students are encouraged to get involved with EWB, it is not restricted to the engineering faculty.

The organization has students from all disciplines.

On Halloween, the Fredericton chapter held a holiday-themed community outreach event to promote fair trade and treat city residents. The event, dubbed Trick-orTrade or Reverse Trick or Treating, involved a handful of local chapter members going door-to-door in the city and giving out miniature chocolate bars. The chocolate bars, manufactured by Cocoa Camino, are entirely fair trade certified. All of the EWB chapters across the country together managed to give out 70,000 Cocoa Camino bars.

Emma Sumner, vice-president of communications for the Fredericton chapter, said the event was a big success and the group reached more than 150 homes.

“It was really, really exciting for us to see how many people actually have already heard about fair trade. We actually came across one man who was already giving out fair trade chocolate. That was really cool for us to see,” she said.

For city residents with questions, Sumner said members going door-to-door were happy to share information.

“It seemed in a lot of cases, though some people may have heard of fair trade before, many of them didn’t have a clear understanding of what fair trade actually is or how it contributes to sustainable development and how it’s beneficial to the farmers.”

Members of the local chapter gather at their fall retreat earlier this semester. Ryan Brideau / Submitted One of the cornerstones of EWB is their Junior Fellowship program. This program allows one or two representatives from each chapter to travel abroad and work in developing African countries.

This past summer, Flanagan was a junior fellow and lived and worked in Ghana for four months.

EWB is also running a national campaign entitled the Perspectives Challenge.

Until Dec. 31, people can go online, read the perspective of an EWB member and if they support it, they can donate.

Proceeds support EWB’s work in Canada and abroad.

EWB at UNB meets weekly in Head Hall and runs sessions on advocacy, online

conferencing with EWB members abroad and discussing the experiences of junior fellows, among others.

For more information, visit them on Facebook at “Engineers Without Borders - UNB Chapter.”

Atlantic universities to share common data Jamie Ross CUP Atlantic Bureau Chief FREDERICTON (CUP) — Universities in Atlantic Canada are joining a national initiative to make institutional information readily available and easily accessible to the public.

The Association of Atlantic Universities recently launched an online common data set that gives a by-thenumbers look at the region’s universities, giving statistical information about indicators from library collections to university expenses in revenue.

“This info has always been available,” said Peter Halpin, AAU executive director. “But the challenge was it wasn’t always easily accessible and it wasn’t found in a common place, from university to university.”

Now, anyone can visit the AAU website to find common data about 13 of the region’s universities.

Halpin said having the information out there would make it easier for prospective students and their parents to make informed decisions about

choosing which university to attend.

A complete listing of the data can be found at the association’s website.

Zach Daylor, national director for the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations, believes easy access to information is vital to the lobby work his organization does on behalf of students, and said with cutbacks in post-secondary related research, the common data is more important than ever.

“When we see things like the longform [census] disappear, and we see organizations like the Millennium Scholarship Foundation, that did a lot of research and published a lot of research and numbers related to education, disappear, it makes our job way more difficult,” he said.

“It’s been a recurring issue for us, making sure we can have comparable data that’s kind of calculated in a standard way across the country to kind of give us what a national picture would be of post-secondary education, accessibility cost and those sort of things,” he said.

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Student Employment Services underused on campus

Alex Kress News Reporter An untapped resource awaits students in Neville Homestead.

Student Employment Services (SES) offers a variety of options for students seeking employment, both on campus and with career-related employers.

Their website, www.unb.ca/employment, lists everything from dates of upcoming career fairs to job postings.

They also offer work-study programs and summer employment programs and provide access to job search sites. In addition, SES hosts employer information sessions that happen consistently throughout the year. Companies from all over Canada come to visit and students are invited to learn about them.

If students need help with interview skills, cover letters and resumes and job search strategies they can make appointments for one-on-one employment counselling sessions.

Suzanne Wood, manager of SES, said they’re seeing more and more students all the time.

“One of the things we’d really like to see is for them to come in sooner. We can help develop the skill sets through their university career, and their resumé can grow with them.”

Wood thinks many students dread creating cover letters and resumés and procrastinate as a result. She feels SES is here to help alleviate that.

“I think a lot of students don’t even realize what’s available,” she said.

She fears the resources available to students who could really use them go widely untapped because they just don’t know they exist.

Wood stressed the opportunity of attending employee information sessions, as companies coming in now are looking for summer students.

“You could concentrate on your studies for the year and know that when you’re done, you’ll be off to your summer job,” Wood advised.

SES is seeing an increase in employers back on campus this year likely because of post-recession growth.

There are three main career fairs throughout the year. The first one was at the end of September, and there are two remaining: the Education Fair on Jan.25, and the Summer and Graduating Student Fair on Feb.24.

Monique Hache, a third-year psychology student, landed herself a job as a Student Assistant to the SES. Last summer, Hache sought employment through the Federal Student Work Experience Program (FSWEP). She started the school year with a job with the federal government, but was laid off because of budget cuts. She needed to find a job as soon as possible to be able to continue paying rent and tuition, so she did some research through UNB and found out about the work-study program.

“I had no idea about most of the services on campus,” said Hache.

“The UNB website is a really great

Kaylea Germain got her job at the SUB store after applying to eight stores in Regent Mall and a handful of convenience stores. Mike Erb / The Brunswickan place to look. There’s tons of stuff that nobody knows about.”

Students can search positions online and apply with resumé and cover letter for up to eight positions. There is an accompanying description of the job with its job posting and includes the qualifications and skill sets the employer is looking for. Hache said she was surprised by how

quick the process was.

“From the time I applied to the time I had interviews and got a position, there were probably three or four weeks.”

Kaylea Germain, a second-year arts student at STU, is an employee at the SUB convenience store.

She got her job at the SUB store without much difficulty, but recalled having a

lot of trouble finding a job beforehand.

She handed out eight resumés at various places in Regent Mall and at a couple of convenience stories, but with no luck.

Germain speculated the reason she and many others have so much trouble finding a job, especially in the fall, is because people stay over the summer to keep their jobs to cover their longer leases.

Part one of two; Exploring accessibility on an aging campus Alex Kress News Reporter Accessibility on campus can be an uphill battle for many differently-abled students – literally.

The plain geographical make-up of the campus’s steep hills renders it troublesome immediately. Its historic buildings are outdated in terms of being wheelchair friendly, and they’re also affected by the steep hills; many of the buildings were designed on the hills so their floors don’t match up properly.

This year, Student Council is trying to address these issues by having a Differently-Abled Liaison on campus and elected third-year student Derek Ness to the position. Student Union President Shannon Carmont-McKinley said having a liaison is a “crucial and fabulous

addition to council.”

“These individuals are able to take advantage of the power of the committee and take some of these issues on, and make some positive change. They provide a voice at council when other student initiatives and student union conversations are taking place, to provide input from the lens of being in that demographic.”

She went on to say the campus is just not very accessible on the whole and suggested its age as a determining factor.

“We are a very old, old campus. It was built in the time where people in wheelchairs just didn’t go to university.

It wasn’t crucial in those times to make buildings wheelchair accessible.”

She also mentioned the sizable issues concerning budget. Without available funding, the large-scale renovations

briefs.

Helping students kick the habit.

Third year students in the nursing program will be holding a drop-in smoking cessation clinic today in MacLaggan Hall, Room 102 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

The clinic will be for people looking to learn more about effective ways to quit smoking and ask questions. Free snacks will be available.

necessary to making the campus more accessible are tough to carry out.

Derek Ness, Council’s DifferentlyAbled Liason, held his first meeting last Wednesday to speak with other students about their experiences and listen to their suggestions.

“I was very pleased with the ideas brought to the table,” Ness said.

They discussed pedestrian safety on campus, which Ness said is a key issue for students with sensory impairments, and how the environment could be improved for students making their way across campus.

Suggestions at the meeting included increasing lighting at crosswalks and potentially having Facilities Management install more speed bumps on campus, especially on the McKay Drive side of

campus where Ness said cars tend to speed down the hill.

He said they also discussed accessibility on campus in general.

“Each of us at the table tended to know of at least one building that was inaccessible for someone who might be in a wheelchair.”

“The more we talked, the more we realized a lot more of our buildings are inaccessible than we had ever imagined.”

Ness used an example to illustrate his point: if someone had a class in Tilley Hall and their next class was in Carleton Hall, they would have to leave the main Tilley entrance, come up around Singer Hall, go down through the parking lot on the opposite side of the buildings and go in through the Carleton entrance on the opposite side of the building. This is because

Go “around the world.”

The Centre for Property Studies, the International Relations Office, and the International Student Advisors Office are sponsoring “Around the World in 8 Minutes” and an “Amazing Race” from 1 to 4 p.m. on Thursday in the SUB Atrium. Representatives from these areas of campus will have information on hand pertaining to international travel opportunities, international student assistance, exchanges, internships abroad and work-study programs. Information will also be available on local cultural events. Both activities will be held in drop-in style.

there is a set of five stairs between the two buildings that the elevators of either building accommodate. Other buildings do not have elevators or wheelchair ramps to get in or out of them.

Ness said everyone at the meeting was concerned there isn’t a guidebook with resources available on campus explaining where to go and who to speak with about accessibility issues. He plans on organizing a committee of concerned individuals to create such a document.

“People generally don’t know who to talk to about their questions because they’re trying to get into transition mode.

When you add the fact they might be differently-abled it creates a set of all new barriers to overcome.”

“That type of awareness needs to be out there,” Ness said.

SUB balcony undergoing makeover.

Renovations on the balcony of the Student Union Building began on Nov. 8.This work is expected to last into the month of December.

Staging has been erected along the north sidewalk and near to each lower entrance to the cafeteria.There is also construction work being done to the steps heading to residences. Facilities Management is warning students that these renovations do interfere with pedestrian traffic and are urging people passing through the area to follow all safety signs and measures when traveling. If you have any questions or concerns, contact Facilities Management Work Control Center at 453-4889 or by email at fm@unb.ca.

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Sheldon Boucher An Opinion The recent critical acclaim of David Fincher’s new film, The Social Network, has been meteoric, but has left viewers polarized.

Most will admit that they enjoyed the film, but when they hear about its critical success they become sarcastic and dismissive of it. Why do so many people dismiss this movie simply because it is about Facebook? After all, I’m sure that most of them are among the 500 million of us who have signed up.

There was a staunch line of thinking before The Social Network opened which proposed that a film about Facebook could not possibly be good, and I think that was an attitude which persisted —despite peoples’ actual opinion of it.

I admit, I too was a sceptic during the film’s infancy, but the onslaught of positive reviews boasting the film’s greatness enticed me to make that trip to the theatre. After seeing it for myself, I was perplexed as to why so many people refused to take it seriously. I was left banging my head against the

wall, bemused at this stance people were taking, and eager to figure it out.

Most of us have not had the luxury of Facebook as an exclusive university network; a network which acted as a sanctuary for the private lives of students. However, we have witnessed a steady rise in its popularity amongst non-university goers over the past five years. It has evolved out of university campuses and into the homes of families across the world.

Since then, it has become such a pervasive force in our culture that it seems uncool for a lot of people. With kids and parents signing up and logging on more and more, the university demographic has begun to distance itself from it.

In our culturally addicted society, we demand fresh trends. When something has become canonized in culture and transformed into a movie, we see it as stale, as antiquated. Sure, we will all rush to see it, but that too is part of the game; being able to form opinions on movies is, paradoxically, as necessary to the machinery as dismissing something which has become culturally significant.

We watch, and enjoy, movies in myriad genres: drama, comedy, thriller,

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action, sci-fi, suspense, etc. However, in order for a movie to be great, it must conform to certain subject matter— usually in the drama category (just watch the Oscars). The Social Network is an oddball. Yes, it is a drama, but the overarching subject (Facebook) is not consistent with what we have come to expect from the genre.

Although all the tropes are in place—ominous lighting, betrayal, heartbreak, a brilliant but socially inept character, a major league director—the movie is still less palatable for people.

It is counter-intuitive for us to allow a movie about Facebook to enter serious conversation.

Among the film’s complaints, I have heard it being criticized for not ac-

curately portraying Mark Zuckerberg.

But is the acuity with which The Social Network depicts its non-fictional protagonist really what’s bothering people? This was just the easiest scapegoat. People needed something to point their fingers at so they wouldn’t have to admit they enjoyed The Social Network as much as The Hurt Locker.

OK, OK, I understand. At times, we all like to take a firm stance against trends. I was even one of “those people” who stubbornly resisted Facebook just to be contrary. But eventually the playful contrarian just becomes annoying and his efforts seem futile.

Resisting trends is tiresome. It’s OK to admit that you enjoyed The Social Network, I won’t tell anyone.

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letters to the editor.

Lost Canadians: Let the dialogue begin

It’s the wrong way for dialogue, but for the first time, Mr. Kenney, you’re communicating. Hopefully this signals a start.

Regarding your letter to the editor, I fully agree that the story contained many factual errors. After it was printed, I met with the writer to point out his mistakes, and he gladly agreed to print the corrections. That happened days before your letter accusing me of being “sensational” and “fear-mongering.” I did no such thing. Besides, when have you ever accepted every word in the press as being factual? Often reporters just get the story wrong. And then sometimes so do Citizenship Ministers.

To clarify, there’s nothing close to a million ‘stateless’ people. Of course not. However, there could be upwards of one-million ‘Lost Canadians.’ No one will ever really know the actual numbers, but last August your own department admitted that there were at least 750,000. You challenged me to tell you how I determined there being “hundreds of thousands of Lost Canadians,” saying the figure “cannot be substantiated,” here’s how I did it…

Last Mar. 8 during question period on the floor of the House of Commons, you spoke these exact words, as published in the Hansard, “This government, Parliament and the Liberal Party adopted Bill C-37 in the last Parliament to correct the Citizenship Act to welcome back to Canadian citizenship hundreds of thousands of lost Canadians.”

You, Minister Kenney, you are my substantiation.

Stateless babies. We know there were at least three, now at least two. Ireland, not Canada and certainly not you, came to the rescue for one of those children.

Lost Canadians: Minister gets it wrong Dear Editor: I was surprised, if not amused, to see the Letter to the Editor from Hon. Jason Kenney the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, which appeared in the Brunswickan last week in response to Colin McPhail’s feature “Lost Canadians: the biggest story you’ve never heard” (November 3, 2010).

Surprised, because it’s one of those rare occasions since Mr. Kenney became Minister of Citizenship in Oct. 2008 that he’s actually said anything on the Lost Canadian file. Amused, because he chose The Brunswickan as the place to make his stand.

Unlike his predecessor, the former Minister of Citizenship Diane Finley, Mr. Kenney has been eerily silent on the issue, refusing to dialogue with Don Chapman, who as leader of the Lost Canadians brought about significant and mostly positive changes to the Citizenship Act in 2009 with the introduction of Bill C-37, the Lost Canadian bill.

However, even Diane Finley had to admit when the bill was introduced in April 2008 that it did not embrace all the Lost Canadians, and that about five percent would remain “Lost,” their cases dealt with on an individual basis.

These five percent include the born out of wedlock children of War Brides and Canadian servicemen who married after the baby was born. It also includes the born-abroad children of Canadian women who cannot pass on citizenship because of gender and a new group of babies who have been made stateless since April 2009 due to a quirk of the legislation that creates statelessness in second generation born abroad Canadians.

This is the truth, but I don’t see men-

The point here is that under current law and under certain circumstances, immigrant Canadian citizens actually have more rights than Canadian-born citizens. I proposed a solution which would have respected equality of rights for all Canadians, would have avoided the stateless problem for these three Canadian families, and preserve the value of citizenship by not allowing ‘citizenship of convenience.’ Two years ago when I forewarned you of this, you refused to listen.

Regarding Senator Dallaire, just because CIC has no record of his citizenship problems doesn’t mean it did not happen. Senator Dallaire has agreed to go on record with me in a Voice America broadcast of In Discussion with David Gibbons later this month, where he will tell his own story of being a Lost Canadian. I invite you to join us.

You admit there are potential problems for Canadians and their pension benefits. I’m not suggesting that everyone who can’t prove their citizenship is not a Canadian. Most are, but if you won’t recognize them, what’s the point of being a citizen when the privileges that go with it are being denied, including hard-earned pensions? Will you correct the pension problem now or wait till Canadians are adversely affected, as you did with the stateless babies? And what happens to those people you deny?

Bill C-37 welcomed “hundreds of thousands” of Lost Canadians. That was for the most part a Conservative victory.

Diane Finley said it covered 95 per cent of the people. Put another way, it left out 5 per cent. As an airline pilot we’re never satisfied with leaving people behind - the heroics on the Hudson River a prime example. Everyone got rescued. Similarly, you have a wonderful opportunity to welcome back the last 5 per cent. Are there 1,000 or 10,000 people so affected? No one knows, but you are ignoring them

for the worst of reasons - maybe because they were born out-of wedlock, or before 1947 or because of gender discrimination against women. You knowingly allowed Guy Valliere to die without citizenship.

Guy was born, grew-up, lived, had a family and even fought for Canada in WWII. He did not deserve to go to his grave disenfranchised.

You did that Mr. Kenney, and you were wrong.

You’re also wrong in allowing any sort of discrimination to continue. Current citizenship law, as you interpret it, violates two Supreme Court decisions, three UN Conventions on human rights, our Constitution and our Charter of Rights and Freedoms. I challenge you to prove my statement wrong. I also challenge you to a public debate - the loser issues a public apology and the winner being the Canadian public.

Two years ago you became Canada’s Citizenship Minister and ever since have refused to meet with me. You’ve ‘challenged’ me very publicly and I gladly accept. Would you like to meet in Ottawa, at a public debate, In Discussion with David Gibbons, the newsroom of the Brunswickan? Just tell me where and when? My objective is to fix defective law to make citizenship more secure and your government more accepting. Let’s hope you feel likewise. Credit will go to where credit is due, meaning you can be the hero. Correct the law and I go away. It would also give true meaning to Stephen Harper’s words of a few weeks ago, “we believe that a government must work in the interest of its people, not the other way around.”

Minister Kenney, you and the Prime Minister have the power to put the Lost Canadian issue to bed. Why not just do it?

I look forward to hearing back from you.

tion of that in Mr. Kenney’s Letter to the Editor. Instead of setting the record straight, I get the feeling that the purpose of Mr. Kenney’s letter was to take a political jab at Don Chapman in a forum where his communications people thought he wouldn’t get much resistance.

Yes, Mr. Kenney is correct in saying there were some factual errors and typos in the original article (which were corrected last Sunday in consultation with the Editor and now appear in the on line version at http://thebruns.ca/articles/36728).

These are the kind of mistakes which happen when an enthusiastic young person tries to grapple with a huge subject like the Lost Canadians in one sitting. It’s not for the feint-hearted and I give credit to the writer for taking on the task.

But the fact is that much of the original article accurately reflected the issue of marital status and gender discrimination of these remaining five percent of Lost Canadians which is a violation of the Charter, two Supreme Court Decisions (Benner 1997 and Augier 2004), the Legitimation Act of 1921, three United Nations Conventions on Human Rights and the rule of law: you’ll notice the Minister makes no mention of those points in his letter.

Rather, he chooses to criticize Mr. Chapman and call him a fear-mongerer for telling the truth about the numbers of Lost Canadians 750,000 to one million, numbers which come from Mr. Kenney’s own Department) and the fact that pensioners should be worried if they can’t prove their citizenship. Well, it’s the truth. If they are among the five percent, their pensions could be at risk - even Jason Kenney agrees with that and I quote from his own Letter to the Editor: “A certificate that proves citizenship is required before benefits can be received.”

What makes the Minister’s letter even more interesting is how he chose to dispute Mr. Chapman’s statements about Lost

Canadians in a student run newspaper but has failed, time and time again, to challenge Mr. Chapman in other publications including the Vancouver Observer, which won the Canadian Online Publishers Award in September for best article - beating out the Globe and Mail and CBC mind you - for its 10 part investigative series on Lost Canadians. Why hasn’t Mr. Kenney written a Letter to the Editor of that newspaper?

Again, correct me if I am wrong, but it’s my understanding that Mr. Kenney also didn’t bother to dispute Mr. Chapman’s statements in newspapers, television and radio internationally and nationally, from Voice America, The Economist and the United Nations Refugee Magazine, to the Vancouver Sun, the Toronto Sun, the Montreal Gazette, CBC Television and Radio, the Tom Young Show, the Telegraph Journal and even locally, the Daily Gleaner, to name just a few of the media outlets which have covered essentially the same story that appeared in the Brunswickan last week.

I am left to assume that the only reason he chose to dispute the Brunswickan article is because his people at CIC thought they could bully a young university newspaper editor easier than they could the editor of any other newspaper in this country.

About the only good thing to come out of Mr. Kenney’s Letter to the Editor is that he opened the door to dialogue: I for one am looking forward to Mr. Kenney opening the door even wider and accepting an invitation to discuss the problems facing these five percent of Lost Canadians whose rights are being trampled on by the Department of Citizenship and Immigration.

Melynda Jarratt War Bride historian, author and supporter of the Lost Canadians melynda@canadianwarbrides.com

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Student

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Let everyone know whats on your mind.

What do you think of Movember?

“It’s got to be done.”

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Deja vu at The Playhouse

Jill Barber and Michael Kaeshammer will be kicking off their cross-Canada tour by gracing The Playhouse tonight.The idea for the tour actually came from the two’s successful, double header performance at last year’s Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival. Christian Hapgood/The Brunswickan.

Alison Clack Arts Editor Have you been feeling a little bit of déjà vu?

If news that Jill Barber and Michael Kaeshammer will be performing back to back tonight at The Playhouse has left you with a feeling of familiarity then don’t worry, you’re not going crazy.

The pair performed back to back shows at last year’s Harvest Jazz and Blues “Two in Vogue” concert.

In fact, it was at that concert that the two artists first had the idea to do a tour together.

“I mean, it’s so funny because it was that night that we were saying we must, must do this again as a full tour because we had such a great experience.

So, it’s kind of taken all this time to pull it together, but it’s fantastic. It was an idea that was born in Fredericton so it

seems appropriate to kick off the tour in Fredericton,” explains chanteuse Jill Barber.

Barber is no stranger to Fredericton’s Playhouse. The venue also marked the first stop on her Chances Tour supporting the album of the same name.

For that tour Barber picked all the venues she visited herself and said she picked the Playhouse for its great environment. Since then the singer has rounded herself up many more “great experiences at the Playhouse.”

In particular, Barber details a memorable experience that opening night for Chances.

“There was a crazy wind storm, and it’s probably the only time this has ever happened, but the show was cancelled that night. Thankfully, we didn’t have a show booked the next night and the theatre was free so we just did it the next night instead. So, it was a little bit of a false start but all’s well that

ends well.”

The night clearly didn’t leave Barber with negative feelings as she says it was actually one of her favourite memories.

“The night that the show got cancelled the theatre tried to contact as many people as they could to let people know that it was cancelled but a lot of people still showed up. My band and I stood out front of the theatre with umbrellas and greeted people. It was a silver lining to meet all the local people and everyone was super understanding and super friendly – as Maritimers are,” remembers Barber.

The Ontario native was a Maritimer herself, calling Halifax home for many years and even launched her career in the port city. However, a few years ago she moved back out West leaving her with a bit of nostalgia for the East Coast.

“I miss it a great deal and I’m terribly nostalgic for it. I feel like it’s a past

relationship that I grew so from and that I learned so much from. It feels like we’ve parted on really good terms and anytime I go back it welcomes me with open arms. Halifax and I will always be old friends that went through this period in my life together so a big part of my heart is reserved for Halifax,” reminisces Barber.

Old memories will never hold Barber back from evolving as an artist.

She’s grown immensely since her first few albums, changing from a ‘smoky folky’ sound to a more mature, classic songstress sound reminiscent of Billie Holiday.

“I feel like it’s been a really natural evolution in the same way when I look at my life personally I can see how I’ve grown and changed,” says Barber about her changing sound. “Inevitably as time goes on it changes who you are as a person, and hopefully who you are as an artist because otherwise what’s

the point?”

Barber still uses the past for inspiration. Whether it be from her own personal memories or classic films and music from the past Barber draws on them for inspiration. In fact, the artist recently tweeted that her new album’s inspiration is the classic movies Jaws and Wizard of Oz. “There are influences from both.

We just spent the past couple of days recording at the CBC studios in Toronto with a 10-piece section. So, it’s very heavily orchestrated and some of it is reminiscent of Jaws. I feel like I speak a musical language that requires a lot of tension, which is a bit like Jaws and then the relief comes in the more Wizard of Oz-y, Judy Garland, ‘Over the Rainbow’ type numbers,” explains Barber.

Barber’s new album will be released early 2011. Barber and Kaeshammer kick off their tour at The Playhouse tonight, Wednesday Nov. 17.

Is your stomach growling for some growlers?

Alison Clack Arts Editor ‘Opening soonish’ is getting a little closer to now.

If you’ve walked down Queen Street anytime in the past few months you’re sure to have noticed the new Picaroons store waiting to open. The windows have been papered with signs saying opening soonish for months now but the wait is finally over.

Sean Dunbar, brewer/owner of Picaroons Traditional Ales, tells the Brunswickan that they have started working out of the store as of Nov. 15.

“It’ll kind of be open in varying degrees. I’m not exactly sure when we’ll be licensed to sell beer but it should

be shortly.”

Not only will the store be providing Fredericton with the freshest of Picaroons’s products and prevent customers from being “distracted by all that other beer,” as Dunbar puts it, but the store will also be introducing Frederictonians to a new ‘friend.’

“We’ll be able to sell kegs out of there - and bottles – and in the near feature we’ll have there is, of course, growlers.”

For those who’ve never seen or heard of the nearly two-litre bottles Dunbar explains what growlers are.

“Growlers are essentially fresh, draft beer poured directly into a re-sealable container. The bottle is reusable hundreds of times over if people want to

keep bringing them in.”

Not to mention the fact that they are much larger than your average bottle of beer. However, according to Dunbar growlers used to be somewhat of a standard.

“Growlers go way back in history.

You’d go to work in the morning, stop by the local tavern and they filled up your growler and that was your lunch beer. Then on the way home you’d get it filled up again and that would be your dinner beer. So, that’s the way growlers originated,” explains Dunbar.

If you’re wondering about the cost of these hefty bottles of beer, then you’re in for a pleasant surprise.

“I haven’t actually put a cost on

them yet, but because there’s no bottle or package involved – you just have to buy your growler first – we should be allowed to price it at the lowest allowable retail price in New Brunswick. I’m just waiting for word back on where that is at the moment.”

Beyond supplying growlers, the store will take on all the merchandise that was previously sold at the brewery as well as being a museum of sorts on artisan brewing.

“It’s also a part of the Economusee Network. The network is a group of artisans out of Quebec, Atlantic Canada and Europe who invite people to see how things are made. It’s a bit of an enhanced, but self-guided brewery tour. We’ll be on-site to talk about it,

but there will also be interpretative panels and, hopefully, a video display as well showing the brewing process,” explains Dunbar.

“It’ll hopefully be a place that people can see the beer is the product of artists as opposed to a factory.

There’s [beer] sampling too,” adds Dunbar.

Always moving forward, the brewery also introduced a new Harvest Ale available during the month of October which Dunbar hopes to bring back next year.

“We’ve had beers that we called harvest ales before but this was the

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kooking with karlie Karlie Hanoski

Homemade estrone

Although

Min-

Soup

the sun has been shining these past few days, winter will

rear its ugly head soon enough.

I

know nothing warms me up on a

chilly day quite like soup and this one is probably my favourite.

As an

added bonus it makes a ton so you won’t have to cook for at least a week. You don’t have to be intimidated by the long list of ingredients

Halifax bands Kuato and Quiet Parade joined Fredericton’s Duke Haiku this past Friday night at Gallery Connexion for a night packed with great music. Being Kuato and Quiet Parade’s first time playing in Fredericton, the gallery’s performance space saw a good turn out, and the bands certainly did not disappoint with their high energy and tight performances. Gallery Connexion offers a refreshing, intimate venue, which has the capabilities of hosting wet/dry events; something Fredericton hasn’t seen work efficiently in quite some time. Friday night’s turn out had a good mix of both 19-plus and under 19 attend the show. Ashley Theriault / The Brunswickan

thebruns.ca

either because this is super easy to make! So why not snuggle up with a

steaming bowl of this Italian classic?

2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil (or whatever cooking oil you have on hand) 1 onion, diced 2-4 cloves garlic, minced 2-4 carrots, diced 2 stalks of celery, diced ½ tablespoon of dried oregano ½ tablespoon of dried basil ½ teaspoon of dried chili flakes ¼ teaspoon of salt ¼ teaspoon of black pepper 2 cans of diced tomatoes 2 litres of vegetable broth 1 can of red kidney beans 1 can of chick peas 1 bag of baby spinach In a large pot on medium heat, sauté onions, garlic, carrots, celery, herbs, spices and salt and pepper until vegetables become tender. Sautéing dried herbs helps bring out their flavour better than adding them at the end.

Add tomatoes, broth, kidney beans and chick peas.

Add spinach just before serving. I sometimes like to add parmesan cheese to my bowl which is a tasty option you can try.

Buon appetito!

Bring

to a boil.

Fredericton would you like some sausage?

Mike Erb Staff Photographer Freddy gets fingered next week. Uhh...

I mean Tom Green makes a stop in Fredericton next Wednesday.

Green, most known for hosting The Tom Green Show and starring in such films as Road Trip and Freddy Got Fingered is embarking on a new venture in his life, standup comedy.

Green has been on the road for the past year performing stand up in such countries as the United States, Canada and Australia. Fredericton is Green’s only New Brunswick show and will be his first ever performance in the Maritimes. The tour also includes stops in Halifax, Truro and Sydney.

Green says he has never really been a standup comedian before beginning this world tour. His time and energy was spent mainly on his television show, as well as film and music. He grew up loving standup comedy and as a teenager he performed some stand up gigs, but nothing strenuous like an extensive world tour.

“I’ve always been looking for a real independent way to express myself and make comments on the world around me. I’ve done that through television, music and the internet. Stand up is a really great thing that I wish I had started doing sooner in my life,” said Green from his Los Angeles home.

“It’s a good time for me to do it, I’m starting to feel like I’m slowly approaching adult hood, starting to feel like this is a good thing to do and a new chapter in my life. I love it. I’ll be doing it for a long time.”

A lot of time and energy has gone into Green’s stand up act. He has been writing lots of different forms of comedy that creates a fun performance for everyone.

Green says that every show is an exciting experience. It’s a high energy, ridiculous and crazy show that is a lot of fun and interactive for the audience.

The tour is being filmed and video updates from the road can be seen on Green’s website. After the tour is finished, a documentary is going to be made about it. After the performance Green says they will be filming and

suggests you find a camera and stick your face in it and you may end up in the documentary.

Tom Green’s House Tonight is home to Green’s long-standing talk show that is filmed in his own living room, which began broadcasting in 2006. Previously, Green hosted a show on Roger’s Cable and MTV before making the switch to an online-based show, where the show is completely independent from corporate influence.

“You’re not working for someone else. It’s my own business so I don’t have to worry about getting cancelled or worry about being told what to do or play by the rules of some sort of mainstream corporation,” said Green when asked about making the switch from television to online.

“It’s amazing, it’s something that as soon as it was possible to do, I immediately embraced it and I am very excited about the future,” said Green.

Tom Green will be appearing at The Playhouse (686 Queen St.) on Nov. 24.

The show begins at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $37.

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Specialty store to fully open soon

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The long wait is finally over, the Picaroons speciality store on Queen Street has (somewhat) opened, the brewery has moved in and will be selling liquor (and growlers) in the near future. Mike Erb / The Brunswickan

FROM GROWLERS PAGE 7 first year that we were able to put something that was harvested in NB in it so, hopefully that will be something that will continue next year as the hop yard grows.”

The hop yard Dunbar is referencing is Happy Hopyard, a small but growing operation located in Anagance, a small town between Sussex and Salisbury.

Purchasing NB hops isn’t the only local crop Picaroons is looking into.

Dunbar is currently looking into potentially using barley crops grown in the province as well.

“I have no idea if it’s going to be good, because I haven’t tasted it yet but we’re going to devote considerable energy to making sure that we can get NB barley into at least some of our beers and probably develop some new beer styles just based on NB grown

barley. So next year, when the hop crop comes in next fall hopefully we can make a beer that’s been completely grown in NB.” The store opening is the result of steady growth and a whole lot of hard work from the Picaroons team.

“It’s like an overnight success in the music business with someone who’s been around for 10 years,” laughs Dunbar. “We didn’t hire a bunch of people to rush stores with sales representatives and we didn’t spend any money, it’s been an organic sort of growth. It’s the culmination of 10 years of making good beer and just being there.”

With popularity on the rise you’d think that Picaroons would look at expanding its borders, but Dunbar says they don’t want to push their limits too much.

“We have to make sure that we can satisfy the NB market first. We do ship a little bit to Nova Scotia. We’ll see how that goes. Not all jurisdictions

are as friendly to outside breweries as NB seems to be so sometimes there are trade difficulties. We don’t want to build a big brewery, spend a lot of money and search out markets, we’d rather they find us.”

As far as plans go for once the store is up and running, Dunbar says they just plan on doing what they have been doing.

“There’s always stuff in the works.

The big plan is just to expand the capacity of the existing brewery, work on new beers and drive the speciality beer industry forward.”

In the past several years Picaroons seems to have been building steam like a train barrelling downhill, but Dunbar, who doesn’t want to get ahead of himself, is happy to be where he is now.

“We’re a brewery that right now is in a good place at a good time. We’re enjoying the fact that so many people are figuring out that beer with taste is a good thing,” chuckles Dunbar. “We’re just enjoying the ride.”

Changing the ‘tits and ass’ model Nick Spector The Eyeopener (Ryerson University) TORONTO (CUP) — Phil Adrien and Gavin Seal were tired of all the “tits and ass” they saw in men’s lifestyle publications.

Frustrated with the lack of real and down-to-earth coverage of men’s lifestyle topics, the Ryerson University graduates launched The Modern Gentleman instead.

Since this past spring, TMG has catered to an audience of young men; some are students, others are professionals and many are transitioning from the former to the latter. Though there are plenty of women’s lifestyle websites for the younger crowd, TMG targets a niche market that conventional lifestyle publications like GQ and Esquire tend to ignore.

“It just seemed like everything was catering towards these guys that went out and had wild sex every night,” said Adrien, TMG’s founder and CEO. “They drink the most expensive champagne, wear the most expensive suits, drive the most expensive cars and it’s like, when you graduate and you’re making a salary for the first time in your life. Those are not realistic expectations.”

What sets TMG apart from big publications like GQ, Esquire and Details is more than just its younger demographic, but also the way it approaches its audience.

“I think with TMG, we wanted to create a site where people who didn’t know what to do or what that end goal was or how to get there could come and just have a conversation,” Adrien said.

And so the website lives up to its name, informing the young, chivalrous man on how to deal with situations he’ll encounter during the transition from student to young professional — all while looking affordably stylish and up-to-date with the most recent technology.

“We met up and started talking about things we were experiencing in that stage of our life; that transitional period between education and the real world; between studying and working,” explained Seal.

The pair focused on less obvious issues, like whether or not to add your boss on Facebook or how to develop professional relationships. As a result, TMG has grown from 1,000 visitors per month at launch to the 6,000 it’s averaging now.

Although there is some competition, it pales in comparison to what’s available

for female audiences. Women’s lifestyle sites are a fast-growing market, but there are few options for men and even fewer still for the younger crowd.

“I think women are much more open about their feelings and are much more apt to share that in an online space,” Adrien said. “I think it’s much more challenging for a guy to go, ‘Let’s have a real conversation about money,’ which is a very taboo subject, but it’s something that we all think about right?”

But most importantly, it’s the open nature of TMG’s contributors that has helped it stand out from other men’s lifestyle websites. In an age where every publication has a Twitter feed and a Facebook page, Adrien and Seal said that appearing connected only goes so far; an actual connection is what makes the difference.

“What we feel is our greatest accomplishment is the user response. We’ll go to sites like Ask Men or GQ and we’ll see articles that have no re-tweets or no comments and with our site we are getting some incredible feedback,” said Seal.

“To us that’s the difference between people that just skim your articles and people who are actually dedicated readers.”

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Men’s basketball sweep opening weekend

Sean O’Neill Staff Writer Since the 2006-07 season, the Varsity Reds and Memorial Sea-Hawks have been anchored to the bottom of the AUS men’s basketball standings.

If either was to end its four-year playoff drought this season, an opening weekend sweep of the other would be essential to grabbing one of the six playoff tickets.

The V-Reds did just this, but it wasn’t easy.

After taking a slim 37-33 lead to the half on Saturday, UNB took over the second half, rounding out a 90-65 victory.

The second game of the doubleheader had a similar look at halftime, but Memorial didn’t go away.

The Sea-Hawks cut the Reds halftime lead of 12 to five by the start of the third quarter.

With 53 seconds left in the game and the Reds holding a two-point lead, UNB guard Antwann Parks nailed a clutch three late in the shot clock to give the Reds the lead that wouldn’t vanish. Alex DesRoches’ layup on the next possession clinched an 82-80 win.

“I was open for the shot,” said Parks. “I knew if I made it, it was gonna put us ahead by five. So I just let it go. I actually got hit on the head, but my concentration was there and I just made the shot.”

UNB head coach Brent Baker said that at times in the first half Parks was overcomplicating the game and was trying to do too much. The fact that he hit such a huge shot

was not a shock to the coach.

“When we’ve had some wins here, he’s hit some big shots down the stretch of games before,” said Baker of Parks. “So that’s not new for him.” “[Jason] Sheppard hadn’t shot all first half and he got hot and Antwann had guarded him better over in Newfoundland last year and he says, ‘Can I guard him?’

And I said, ‘Yep, let’s go.’ When he gets engaged defensively he tends to do a lot better on offense.”

Baker credits Memorial for getting back into the game, but is happy that his team fought off the complacency that may have set in during the game.

“It wasn’t that we weren’t getting good shots or good attempts or not executing,” said Baker. “It is just that we weren’t converting and that’s the toughest thing to watch because it starts building and that snowballs on guys.”

“The one thing that we take from it is this team made a step today and that step is that we fought that complacency.”

Baker knows that if the V-Reds are to clinch their first playoff appearance with him as coach of the team and the program’s first since 2006, these two wins were essential.

“It’s big in this league,” said Baker.

“We haven’t made hay here and we had an opportunity against a team that we’re competitive with to get two wins. And that’s a step.”

Parks echoed Baker’s sentiment.

“It’s very important because it’s a tough

the panel voice your opinion

The Varsity Reds men’s basketball team opened up their season with two wins at home against the Memorial University Sea-Hawks with 90-65 and 82-80 wins. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan league,” said Parks. “The AUS the last two years it had two teams go to nationals, so this is a tough league. And if we get a good start we have a chance to make the playoffs this year.”

UNB travels to Charlottetown for its first

road games of the conference season against UPEI. The Panthers lost its first game of the year at Dalhousie 85-68, after getting its first scheduled game at Acadia postponed.

This is another good test for the Reds to see where they stack up in the AUS. UPEI

Does the men’s volleyball team have enough talent to win the AUS title this season?

Christopher Cameron

Colin McPhail

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Yes they do. Unfortunately it is consistency that is killing them right now. The team when firing on all cylinders is one of the top teams in the nation. The problem is every individual is not playing at the top of their game at the same time and that is where Dal can pick them apart. Stronger team play and there’s your ticket to the CIS finals.

When healthy, they have enough talent to be a top team in the country. Unfortunately, there’s a slew of other talented teams out there, including Dal. The Reds are caught in mental mind-trap when facing Dal. If they can finally manage to get over that hump and take down Dal in the regular season, they’ll have a shot at both the AUS and CIS titles.

I’m what you call an optimist.

Despite the talent the Reds have on the court, I can’t see them dethroning Dalhousie. The Reds have good size, but Dal is just at another level. Another second place finish for the Reds should be in order.

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grabbed the last playoff spot last season, but still only won four games. Baker knows it’s another huge weekend for his team.

“We want to go over there and do a good job next weekend. It’s just baby steps with these guys.

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In short, yes. But pure talent doesn’t guarantee big numbers in the win column (think Miami Heat). The team has the talent, but they need to put together a team effort to win games. Talent isn’t the real issue here. I think the real issue is whether or not we have a team that can win the AUS title this season.

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Men’s hockey team suffers second loss of the season Christopher Cameron Sports Editor After defeating StFX and SMU handily last weekend, the same result was expected this weekend, but SMU had something to say about that.

Last season’s CIS Champions played host to UNB Saturday night looking to avenge the two loses at UNB this season 10-3 in the pre-season and 5-2 last weekend.

SMU Head Coach Trevor Stienburg says the trashing in the pre-season helped his team get where they are now.

“We’ve been doing the little things right,” said Stienburg. “Since they thrashed us 10-3 (Fall Classic) that was the best thing

that could have happened to our program.

Completely embarrassing us was the best thing that ever happened.”

Opening up the game early, SMU’s Chris MacKinnon found the back of the net 3:44 into the first on the power play.

UNB looked to get back in the game, but midway through the first, Reds goaltender Travis Fullerton left the net to play a dump-in by the Huskies. As the puck came around the boards it took an unfortunate bounce out in front of the net right to Brad Smith who buried it to put SMU up 2-0.

The Varsity Reds were able to get back in the game with a late first period goal by Lachlan MacIntosh.

After the high scoring first period, both teams remained scoreless until SMU put the icing on the cake with a last minute empty net goal to win 3-1, handing UNB its second loss of the season.

UNB Head Coach Gardiner MacDougall knows the 13 penalties they took against SMU were too much after a high energy game the night before at StFX where they won 6-1.

“We brought a lot of energy and played another good opponent tonight,” said MacDougall. “We just had a lot of energy tonight, but used that energy to kill penalties. We have to be way better disciplined than we were tonight. That is too good

Women’s basketball split doubleheader Sean O’Neill Staff Writer The UNB Varsity Reds women’s basketball coach said he believes the AUS is seven-deep this season.

The league has six playoff berths, which makes the opening weekend split against Memorial more frustrating for the coach.

“You’re not supposed to split at home,” said head coach Jeff Speedy, “you’re supposed to sweep at home.

I’m disappointed and frustrated.”

UNB took care of the home opener 80-65, powered by 25 points from rookie Claire Colborne and 12 points from Amanda Sharpe.

In the second game of the doubleheader UNB took a 53-47 lead into the fourth quarter. Memorial scored a whopping 30 points in the final quarter to win the game 77-71.

“I think we dictated the tempo,” said Speedy, “but they dictated who wanted the game more in the fourth quarter by the way they ran their offence and the way we didn’t do things defensively. They had an 8-0 run, we scored, then they got a 6-0 run, so it became a 14-2 run.”

“We got a little complacent there and we took our foot off the gas and let them back into the game and it was a dogfight the rest of the way.

The V-Reds defence killed the team in the fourth, and Speedy plans on spending the week getting it fixed.

“We’re gonna emphasize defence on Tuesday, defence on Wednesday, and then on Thursday we’re gonna emphasize defence again; all week.”

The essential part of getting defensive stops for UNB is that it’s directly tied to scoring. The Varsity Reds want to be a fast break team that turns turnovers from the other team into quick points.

“If we don’t get stops we’re not

The Varsity Reds were at home in the weekend of the regular season beating MUN 80-65 in the first game followed by a loss in the second game of 77-71.They are on the road at UPEI this weekend for doubleheader action. Sandy Chase / The Brunswickan gonna score,” said Speedy. “I don’t think it’s really a problem with our offence I just think our defence made us not able to score.”

Even in the loss, Colborne continued her great start to the season.

She scored another 29 points in the loss against UNB, and Sharpe had 19 points and 10 boards for her first double-double of the season.

Even with the input from Colborne she got into foul trouble early in the game, which kept her on the bench.

While she wanted to help the team more, she had faith in the rest of the squad.

“I believe in my teammates,” said Colborne. “They’re all great scorers,

great players. But I wish I was out there to contribute and to try to make something work and get the lead.”

UNB will take on UPEI twice in Charlottetown this weekend. The Panthers are coming off a winless season and dropped its opener to Dalhousie 79-59.

The Reds know these are four points that must be grabbed because they believe many games in the league are going to be hard-fought.

“If we learn from this and play better in the fourth quarter in the future, we’ll take advantage of those opportunities and we’ll be fine,” said Speedy. “We just got to learn from this one for sure.”

Reds move into first place Christopher Cameron Sports Editor The women’s volleyball team may not have been slated as the top team in the conference going into the season, but they proved this is a team that cannot be taken lightly.

Going into the weekend the Varsity Reds had two of their toughest AUS opponents standing in the way of wins, not to mention they were on the road.

Friday night UNB took on the Dalhousie Tigers with UNB opening up with a first set loss, 25-22.

From there the Varsity Reds brought back their offensive power winning the second set 25-21 to tie the match 1-1.

They followed up with a tight 25-23 third set win and a fourth set 25-17 win to drop the Tigers at home.

Head coach John Richard was pleased with his team’s effort aside from the early stages of the match.

“I thought with the exception of the first 10 minutes or so on Friday night we put together a really good effort,” he said.

“Our blocking wasn’t very strong, however our serving was ... which compensated somewhat. I thought Emma Hunt was a real spark for our team and scored some big points at critical times.”

After winning the opening match of the weekend, the V-Reds took on Saint Mary’s on Saturday.

Struggling early on they lost the first two sets 25-21 and getting slammed 25-13 in the second set to trail the Huskies 2-0.

“We got thumped pretty good in that second set,” said Richard. “It’s funny actually we changed our uniforms after the second set. Jill Blanchard had some blood on her uniform because she was cut. We went out in the third set with new uniforms and were a different team. Erica and Jill weren’t at their best in the first couple sets

and they’re so important to us. They got better as the match went on as did everyone else around them.”

“We didn’t make any adjustments, we used the exactly the same lineup. The only change was the uniform tops.”

The Reds bounced back winning the third set 25-23, followed by another tight set winning the fourth set 25-23 to take the match to the fifth and final set.

They were able to defeat SMU taking the fifth set 15-12 to improve their record to 5-1 and first place in the conference.

“On Saturday I didn’t think we played as well but did just enough to steal it,” said Richard. “We got more diverse and started playing some defence as the match progressed. Obviously I’m really happy with these two road wins and real proud of our group.”

Next weekend the team will travel to Quebec for the Interlock tournament.

a hockey club to take that many penalties against.”

Although the allusion may be there that UNB did not play well, Stienburg believes they did, but his team played them well.

“I think they did play ‘UNB hockey’,” said Stienburg. “I think they’re going to go back and not think they played well. I’m not going to take anything away from our guys.

I thought our guys played very, very well.

We kept them to under 20 shots I believe.”

He continued saying that since the loss to UNB in September it has been a slow process, but the team is reaching a point he wants it to be.

“I would say after we got beat it has been a slow process. We haven’t won every game we’ve played since then. Our best players

didn’t necessarily get on the scoreboard, but made the big plays when it mattered tonight.”

Although UNB did lose, MacDougall knows this game was not only a good lesson for SMU but for the Varsity Reds themselves.

“The good thing about the AUS is it is parity packed and every night you have to bring it. In the big picture it is going to be a benefit to our hockey club. The details, the shifts, one shift can be a difference of two points.”

The Varsity Reds are still in first place in the AUS (8-2), with games this weekend against the fourth place UdeM (5-4-1) on Friday and the last place STU Tommies (1-6-2) on Sunday.

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Men’s volleyball still struggling in AUS

brunswickansports Behind the Bench: John Richard Christopher Cameron Sports Editor

The men’s volleyball trend in the AUS continued over the weekend.The Dalhousie Tigers dropped the Varsity Reds in both matches of their doubleheader. Christopher Cameron / The Brunswickan Christopher Cameron Sports Editor The trend in the AUS continues. Dal wins and UNB loses.

In their first meeting since last season’s AUS playoffs, the Dalhousie Tigers dropped the Varsity Reds in a weekend doubleheader 3-2 and 3-1.

Since the beginning of last season, the Reds have played 33 sets against the Tigers, winning only six.

Although there are only three men’s volleyball teams in the AUS, UNB will have to eventually defeat Dalhousie if they want to make it to CIS. Varsity Reds head coach Dan McMorran knows both teams are struggling right now.

“Shows both Dal and UNB are struggling, to find consistency, just to find leadership on the floor sometimes,” said McMorran. “We’re having consistency issues as well as some motivational issues

at times. I think we’re by times playing a good level ball and then we seem to take personal timeouts while we’re out there.

Mentally we’re not activated for an entire match right now.”

The V-Reds are improving from last year as they have already won as many sets against the Tigers as last season, but McMorran believes they should have taken both matches.

He believes being predictable on offence was a huge downfall for the team against Dal. “We become predictable,” said McMorran. “Offensively we became predictable today. We became predictable in the fifth set at our 7-3 lead last night. We stop running options that are going to force their block and defence to see something different. We have a right side player hitting out of the back row and we only set him three balls today. We didn’t use him. Three times is absolutely nothing.”

Although both matches were lost,

McMorran believes there is no team that stands alone as the top team.

“There is no clear cut favourite here right now,” he said. “If you look at the 3-2 and 3-1 ones you may think so, but if you’re sitting in the stands like you were you can see there was no clear cut favourite in the matches. It is what team is going to show at a particular portion of the game and unfortunately we were not there when we needed to be.”

Although the Reds have to improve, they are still without fifth year middle Jacob Kilpatrick, still recovering from dislocating his shoulder.

McMorran said they will see how the pain goes this week, going day-to-day, but will not bring him back until he can take blocks that put the most stress on his shoulder.

The Tigers now sit at 4-1, while UNB sits at 1-4. Next weekend both teams will travel to Sherbrooke for the second QSSF-AUS Interlock Tournament.

Alex Wickwire The Brunswickan The Atlantic Football League will be awarding the Moosehead Cup to a new team this season.

The reigning champion UNBF Red Bombers were defeated on Saturday night 33-21 by the Dalhousie Tigers.

The game kicked off in front of a small crowd with the Tigers receiving the ball to start. Dalhousie’s offence fizzled on their opening drive and they were forced to kick the ball away, the punt was fumbled and the Tigers recovered the ball inside the UNB twenty-yard line.

Dal scored the game’s first touchdown on a 19-yard screen pass from quarterback Andrew Adamczyk to running back Greg Pelly.

UNB’s first possession was at midfield and the Bombers marched into Dalhousie territory with help from Jeff Madsen’s arm and Eric Smith’s legs. A 30-yard pass from Madsen to Pat Forbes set up a Smith touchdown.

After the game head coach Mike Dollimore praised his offensive players, “We moved the ball well.”

The Tigers responded with a 71-yard catch-and-carry from receiver Brendan Poupore to bring them deep into Bombers territory, but Jory Smith stopped the Tiger threat with a red zone interception.

In the second quarter, Jeff Madsen took the lead for the Bombers by running in a touchdown himself on a quarterback bootleg.

The Tigers evened the game at fourteen on a 65-yard touchdown run from Pelly.

“They hurt us on big plays,” commented coach Dollimore.

The second half started slowly, until

midway through the third quarter when Pelly caught a short screen pass and ran 54 yards to score the go-ahead touchdown.

UNB responded with a long drive that ended with a Forbes touchdown catch as the third quarter ended.

In the last frame, UNB kept the Dalhousie runners in check, limiting the gains from Pelly.

While the Bombers kept the Dalhousie ground game in check, they forgot about the Tigers passing game. Aaron Wolf ran a standard post pattern and hauled in the winning touchdown grab midway through the quarter.

Despite some late scoring and gritty offensive production, the Red Bombers came up short.

Coach Dollimore discussed his teams play and the disappointment in the fourth quarter.

“We were down on the four yard line, we had a chance and they came up with an interception with four minutes to go in the game,” said Dollimore. “We had the opportunity tonight and we just didn’t seize it, and they turn around and hurt us on three or four big plays.”

The final words from the coach were, “They’re a fast team, and you can’t defend speed.”

Tigers defensive captain Bryce Wade had a similar mindset about the game.

“UNB is a lot bigger and stronger than we are and we had to match their physicality with speed.”

Dollimore seemed pleased with his team’s success and the AFL as a whole.

“Overall the team had a good year, we got off to a slow start,” he said. “This league is incredible, the games are so exciting and they’re back and forth. It is extremely entertaining football and I’m looking forward to another great season next year.”

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Entering his 13th season as head coach, John Richard holds down the fort behind the women’s volleyball team bench, while also being the Assistant Director of Athletics.

Prior to becoming the head coach he was a volunteer assistant coach for three years and a student-athlete for three years.

Richard brings knowledge to this program that is valued by his peers. This year he has shown he can work with players being injured and help coach his team to a 5-1 record at this point in the season.

Brunswickan: What experience do you have as an athlete yourself? Where did you play and for how long?

John Richard: I am originally from Nova Scotia where I played high school, club and provincial team volleyball. Then I came here (UNB) to play and do my undergrad. I basically had the same decision that most male volleyball players have in Atlantic Canada, which is DAL or UNB; I played for three years and haven’t left since.

B: What do you look for in a player when deciding on your roster?

JR: One of the first things is physical attributes. Some people may say they want someone for personality or their behaviour.

For sure that is front and centre for me as well, but they also need to have the physical attributes to play certain positions at the CIS level. The close seconds would be commitment, attitude, behaviour, how they act with their teammates. I like to see when recruiting how they interact with their teammates when they’re challenged or losing a match. I also look for leadership qualities as well.

B: What is your fondest memory as a V-Red coach?

JR: I would say hosting CIS Nationals here at the Aitken Centre for two years.

Some may expect me to say winning a conference championship and that was pretty high for me too, but bringing that level of volleyball to this end of the country as CIS women’s volleyball nationals hadn’t been in Atlantic Canada for 25-plus years, so being the host for two years was pretty special.

B: Prior to a game what do you do to get your players prepared for the matchup?

JR: I’ve always believed you need to eliminate as many distractions as possible.

You try to be as prepared as possible.

We try to paint the picture of what the atmosphere is going to be like, what the other team may do, so we try to prepare them as best as we can. I am not a big rah-rah guy. I pride myself on getting my team prepared and then hope that our athletes and other coaches can be there to give them the push motivation-wise. We have been fortunate to have real motivation driven athletes, so usually we have two to three people in the room that do that in the room.

B: How do you gauge the success of your season separate from the wins and losses?

JR: We sit down as a team and have team goals, academically, athletically and in the community. Achieving those goals would probably be first and foremost for us. The goals a lot of times aren’t drive by wins and losses, even the athletic ones are driven by getting a bye in the first round.

Another goal we have this year is to be playing Sunday, Feb. 20, which is the day the AUS final is being played. If we’re playing on Sunday we have a chance to win. In the community we have the goal of doing one community outreach program, non-UNB per semester. We buy into their stuff too, but this semester our whole team participated in Run for the Cure this term and next semester we are doing the Think Pink Weekend for breast cancer weekend with the women’s basketball team.