Capilano Courier | Vol 55, Issue 7

CAPILANO COURIER

MARCH 2023

VOLUME 55 | ISSUE NO. 7

MATT SHIPLEY (HE/HIM)

Co- Editor in Chief matt@capilanocourier.com

Honestly, right now I’m just begging my parents to bless my decision to buy a car so I can live nomadically this summer. Most other things have been put on hold since work and school have been all-consuming, but hey, what else did I expect?

Q: Describe your role in the Courier in 3 words or less.

A: Email Guru

Q: What song would you add to the staff playlist?

A: Emarosa - Cautious

Q: Current Favourite colour

A: Cerulean

Q: Favourite Vancouver tourist attraction?

A: Lynn Canyon

Q: Favourite spring time activity?

A: Planning for summer

Q: If you could pick up a new skill with no stress what would it be?

A: Waterbending… but that aside, maybe cooking

Revolution is Imminent

I listened to a lot of Rise Against as a kid. Not because of their political standpoint — I was definitely too young and stupid to understand that — but because their music was featured in all of my favourite mountain bike films. Recently, I found myself going back through their discography and, strangely, began to draw some connections to my own work here at the Courier. Their music calls for revolution — a bottom-up restructuring of a broken system. Our system here may not necessarily be broken, but it sure as hell can be improved.

On the first weekend of Reading Week, the Courier Crew flew to Hamilton for the eighty-fifth NASH conference, the annual Canadian student journalism conference — appropriately named Revolutionize. If we learned anything from that weekend, it’s that it’s possible to do so much more with what we have, and the key that ties it all together is you. Yes, you, the reader, the contributor, the illustrator, the bystander picking this up from the Birch cafeteria for the first time. It doesn’t matter if you have any inkling of a desire to help us out; just the fact that you’re participating in this crucial time for student journalism is more than enough.

We’ll be introducing a slew of changes in the paper before September, many of which you won’t notice, and many of which you’ll see right away. You might not like all of it, but it’s all about helping the Courier grow and reach more of the campus community. In the end, isn’t that everyone’s goal?

Hugs, The Courier Crew

FREYA EMERY (SHE/HER)

Co-Editor in Chief Production@capilanocourier.com

Just recently got a new passport and started planning for a trip to Seattle this summer. All I can say is that I am more excited to start traveling and experiencing new sights! And of course, collect a few new tattoos and meet new artists along the way :)

Q: Describe your role in the Courier in 3 words or less.

A: Command-C Command-V

Q: What song would you add to the staff playlist?

A: Crave by Paramore

Q: Current Favourite colour

A: Poopy greenish yellow

Q: Favourite Vancouver tourist attraction?

A: VanDusen Botanical Garden

Q: Favourite spring time activity?

A: Photo walks

Q: If you could pick up a new skill with no stress what would it be?

A: Tattoo Design

GWEN PEMBERTON (SHE/HER)

Arts & Culture Editor gwen@capilanocourier.com

If I can guarantee one thing, it’s that I’ll never be doing fewer than two things at once. Recently I’ve tried to embrace the chaos. I’m running on caffeine, leftovers and not nearly enough sleep, but I’m loving it for now. Hopefully I look like I know what I’m doing.

Q: Describe your role in the Courier in 3 words or less.

A: Too much coffee

Q: What song would you add to the staff playlist?

A: San Luis by Gregory Alan Isakov

Q: Current Favourite colour

A: Royal blue. I feel like i could fall into it if I wanted to.

Q: Favourite Vancouver tourist attraction?

A: East Van Brewery. Don’t sleep on the lobster rolls!

Q: Favourite spring time activity?

A: Hiking!

Q: If you could pick up a new skill with no stress what would it be?

A: Be able to learn any language. I’d be unstoppable.

JAYDE ATCHISON (SHE/HER) Columns & Opinions Editor jayde@capilanocourier.com

I am the proof that there’s no age limit to chasing your dream – I altered my whole life at 30 to pursue a dream I’ve had since childhood, and thought I’d never be qualified for. As well, I have picked up a new language at 30 – there’s no timeline, it’s all a construct and I now know that when you put the work in, it’s all possible.

Q: Describe your role in the Courier in 3 words or less.

A: Supported and encouraged

Q: What song would you add to the staff playlist?

A: The entire ‘And That’s Why We Drink’ podcast library

Q: Current Favourite colour

A: Red

Q: Favourite Vancouver tourist attraction?

A: The seawall

Q: Favourite spring time activity?

A: Doing cold dips in the ocean

Q: If you could pick up a new skill with no stress what would it be?

A: Singing

BRIDGET STRINGER-HOLDEN (SHE/HER) News Editor bridget@capilanocourier.com

I’m so excited to be back! While I may be pursuing my Master of Journalism at UBC, CapU will always have a special place in my heart. Plus, the news never sleeps, and neither did I with that little voice in my head going “hey, this would make a great pitch, you know, if you still worked there!” in my mind at 1am…

Q: Describe your role in the Courier in 3 words or less.

A: Follow-up emails

Q: What song would you add to the staff playlist?

A: Hot Rod by Dayglow

Q: Current Favourite colour

A: Shamrock Green

Q: Favourite Vancouver tourist attraction?

A: Cleveland Dam

Q: Favourite spring time activity?

A: Crocheting cute little stuffed animals with a cup of warm tea or coffee!

Q: If you could pick up a new skill with no stress what would it be?

A: To be able to actually play barre chords on the guitar, although I think I need longer fingers

Contributing Writers

Featured Artists

Ren Zhang, Hadiya Ahmed, Maia Lomelino, Carmel Dear, Laura Morales, Mariana Sanchetta Lomelino, Andie Bjornsfelt, Livia Pica, Yaminah Veloso, EA Douglas, Mikaila Poirier, Mizuki Kinoshita, Jasmin Linton, Lea Krusemeyer, Emma Mendez. Sarah Harley, Lucy Benson, Tobin

Contributing Illustrators

Tanner McMahon, Valentina Kruglikovskaya, Hannah

Cover Art Staff Portraits

NEW ENTREPRENEURSHIP AT CAPU PROJECT TO SUPPORT STUDENT ENTREPRENEURS

Bridget Stringer-Holden (she/her) - News Editor

CapU students now have access to five free workshops about entrepreneurial thinking, dozens of work integrated learning (WIL) job opportunities, and guidance from entrepreneurs in residence—all through a new project called Entrepreneurship at CapU.

“There’s so much pressure on students to know what they should be doing, what their career should be, what they’re going to be doing after they graduate, and this kind of eliminates that pressure.” said Natasha Mrkic-Subotic. She is an instructor involved in the project through the workshops and reaching out to employers for the work opportunities.

Funding from the Business Higher Education Roundtable (BHER) was acquired last year, by Vice Chair, Academics and School of Business Instructor, Christine Sjolander, who has been working in WIL career development for many years.

There are also three students working on the projects, Vikas Harshadbhai Kabariya as project administration, Gaurav Khanna working on IT and Danial Alimadad on marketing and graphics.

One of the challenges of this project has been the lack of advertising budget. Mrkic-Subotic has been connecting with employers, but is finding it difficult to get the word out to students. However, job opportunities are constantly being added to the website, and she encourages students to check often, and apply as soon as they see an opportunity that interests them.

Mrkic-Subotic also stressed that these opportunities are not just for business students. “Usually when we say entrepreneurship, everybody thinks about business students first, but if you think about all the problems in this world that we need to solve, it’s a combination of different ideas, skills, people and disciplines,” she said, mentioning how all the workshops and WIL opportunities will expose students to different disciplines, allowing them to create solutions together. “I think when you combine different ways of thinking and different ways of knowing, that’s when your solutions and great ideas come about.”

Entrepreneurial Thinking Workshops

In total, five entrepreneurial thinking workshops will be held— each as a two-day intensive bootcamp.

Three instructors will be delivering the workshops: David Jones (Cyri) delivered the first two workshops, Jane Raycroft the third, and Mrkic-Subotic the fourth and fifth. Topics involve entrepreneurship, storytelling, accounting and legal considerations, marketing, sales and developing a business canvas.

Jacqueline Clarke is also working to prepare online versions of the workshops so that the material is accessible to all students.

The BHER grant is only available until the end of August, but so far, feedback on the workshops has been positive, and Mrkic-Subotic hopes that if students find value in the project, it can continue. “Students that are taking advantage of it are really appreciative and learning quite a bit,” she said.

Entrepreneurs in Residence

Five entrepreneurs are available to students who want to bounce ideas off of someone or who are looking for business advice. There is expertise in subject areas such as banking, consumer packaged goods, consulting, start-ups, product launches, strategic planning and corporate intelligence.

Meetings with them can be booked online.

Entrepreneurial Thinking Work Integrated Learning Opportunities

These opportunities include work experience that range from small projects to larger opportunities that can fulfill co-op and internship requirements. There are currently 44 opportunities, which can be found on the website.

All work between 40 and 420 hours—a full term—will be paid. However, smaller projects from 10 to 40 hours do not come with compensation.

“We always prefer students to be paid for any work that they do, because of the rising cost of everything, and because students pay for way too much as is,” said Mrkic-Subotic. However, she explained that the reasoning behind the smaller unpaid projects is to give first-year students without much experience a chance, or upper-level students who want to build a new skill or the chance to try out something new without a large commitment.

“You get to see what it’s like working in marketing, or you get to see what it’s like planning an event, or in accounting,” she said, mentioning that it gives students an opportunity to try jobs like cold-calling to figure out what you actually enjoy before committing to something longer term.

For more information about the workshops, entrepreneurs in residence and work integrated learning opportunities, visit https://www.entrepreneurshipcapu.com. The deadline for the business plan competition has passed.

Students can attend workshops, enter a business plan competition, receive guidance from entrepreneurs and access dozens of work integrated learning opportunities

AZAE LOO

A celebration of Indigenous African music comes to the Blueshore stage

Ren Zhang (they/them)

Freya Emery - Illustrator

FEATURED ARTISTS

Anais Bayle @anaisbayle_art

“OYSTERCATCHERS”

- Writer

A beloved fixture of the Capilano Jazz Studies program, Dr. Kofi Gbolonyo is a professor, ethnomusicologist and expert musician who spends his time sharing his wealth of knowledge. He specializes in West African music that, in the scope of its definition, includes dancing and singing.

Everywhere he goes, Gbolonyo cultivates a passion for music and culture that comes alive in his brass bands and choirs. He has traveled and taught all around the world, giving clinics and leading musical groups.

On March 3 at 8:00 p.m., Gbolonyo will be at the forefront of Azae Loo, an event that translates to “celebration” and more specifically to the celebration of the performing arts.

“Azae Loo is a term that encapsulate[s] the essence of the traditional Ewe (Indigenous West African) knowledge and philosophy in its entirety,” said Gbolonyo.

The CapU West African Jazz Band and CapU Percussion Ensemble will be performing with faculty professors Jared Burrows and Dave Robbins, which will showcase the exciting and traditional music they have learned in the year. In addition, Gbolonyo’s semi-professional West African drumming and dance group, Adanu Habobo, featuring guests Awal Alhasan and Sheimawu Abubakari from Seattle and Ghana, respectively, will be sharing their incredible rhythmic knowledge that the audience are encouraged to get up and dance to. Lastly, esteemed professor and master drummer/dancer Dr. Sylvanus Kwashie Kuwor, ethnomusicologist and multi-instrumentalist Dr. Curtis Andrews and Dr. Greg Campbell from Cornish College will also be sharing their gifts in this effervescent medium.

“I am very excited that we have this opportunity to showcase and highlight not only some of the various African Indigenous musical traditions that [have] influenced jazz and other music of the African diaspora, but also how those African diasporic musical creations including jazz [have] in return, influenced modern popular music of and in Africa since the early 1900s,” said Gbolonyo.

He hopes that through this concert, the African Diaspora’s experiences in the Americas will be celebrated and placed in the main narrative of history where it belongs.

“I hope [the audience will] get to know or [be] reminded that the history, culture, philosophies, artistic and many other forms of knowledge and skills of people of African heritage have influenced much of global civilization and that those achievements and contributions of people of African descent deserve to be celebrated.”

Azae Loo will be on March 3 at 8:00 p.m. in the BlueShore Centre for the Performing Arts.

Tiffany Zhong @tiffzhong “ZERO DARK BLOOM”

Ink on paper, digitally compiled in Photoshop. Experimentation pieces that plays with the contrast of the delicate patterns and diversity of blooms against a black inky background.

Digital study of Corn Hill, illustrated in HeavyPaint. ‘This is a lighting study of a piece by one of my favourite artists, Edward Hopper. I was drawn to the warmth of the direct summer sunlight on this hill and these houses and how the whole picture feels vibrant yet eerily solitary.’

LOOKING BACK ON BLACK HISTORY MONTH

CapU hosted many events to commemorate this year’s Black History Month, in stark contrast to last year

Hadiya Ahmed (She/her) - Writer Sarah Harley- Illustrator

As February rolls around, Capilano University, along with many other institutions, celebrates and commemorates Black History Month. This year, the University is holding events that range from discovering different African cuisines at the Birch cafeteria, to a plethora of film and music events that highlight Black excellence in Vancouver and beyond. There are also discussion panels and collaborations with educators that allow for conversation surrounding Black resilience, disparities and success throughout African history. In short, CapU is hosting a total of 20 different events online and in person, as well as providing resources at the library and self-exploration opportunities over the reading break.

As we continue to enjoy these celebrations, however, one can’t help but notice the stark difference when compared to last year’s Black History Month events. So, what changed?

One difference is that during last year’s Black History Month, the University was just beginning to reintroduce in-person events; therefore only a small number of celebrations could be held in person. This year, the planning committee prioritized organizing events well ahead of time in order to ensure that this year’s celebrations were more thoughtful.

Kartik Bharadwa, VP People, Culture and Diversity at Capilano University, highlighted this when asked how events were planned this year. “A lot of what was put together last year was very reactive and not activity-based,” said Bharadwa. “This year, the planning team made sure to be purposeful about including voices from that community to make sure that the activities resonated and were purposeful.”

Another factor that equated to the success of this year’s celebrations is the addition of the Change Educators Committee by the Capilano Faculty Association (CFA). According to Bharadwa, this committee was created to accomplish more in terms of “leading and planning for the Change Education Event Series,” whose goal was to ensure that this year’s events were action-based rather than performative. The objective was to recognize that it’s not just a month, but rather an ongoing endeavour to create an environment of equity, diversity and inclusion.

Some event highlights that took place in February of 2023 included workshop sessions with CapU Jazz professor Kofi Gbolonyo that explored African diaspora music. These music workshops highlighted the tracing, intersecting and multi-directional movements of people, music and cultures between Africa, Europe and the Americas. There were also various movies and documentaries shown, some of which held discussion panels afterwards to ensure thoughtful

conversation and learning surrounding the information and experiences shown. Some honorable mentions include the showing of Ninth Floor, a documentary by Mina Shum that covers crucial moments in Canadian race relations, more specifically the Sir George Williams student riots. This documentary will be shown alongside Viper, a short film about Hogan’s Alley, the centre of Vancouver’s historic Black neighbourhood, by Raine Stephan LeMay, a CapU Motion Picture Arts alumni.

Bharadwa highlighted the importance of strengthening partnership with the Black community moving forward, as well as the Black Students’ Union, in order to get people’s voices heard. “I am trying to be very visible so that people can help me with planning in the future,” he reiterated.

THE (DOOMSDAY) CLOCK IS TICKING

Maia Lomelino (she/they) - Writer Lucy Benson - Illustrator

Almost forty years after Iron Maiden sang Two Minutes to Midnight to protest nuclear war, 2023 began with the alarming news that humanity is currently at 90 seconds to midnight on the Doomsday Clock - midnight representing annihilation on a civilizational scale. This is the closest the Doomsday Clock has ever been to midnight — but what does that mean for us?

The Doomsday Clock is one of the many leftovers from the Cold War. It was created in 1947 by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a consortium of scientists involved in nuclear weapons and climate science. The clock is a metaphorical and visual representation of how close humanity is to a human-driven global catastrophe, in the Bulletin’s opinion. At the time of its creation, the clock marked 7 minutes to midnight. By the end of the Cold War in 1991, however, the clock was set back to 17 minutes to midnight; the safest humanity had ever been since the Clock’s creation. New wars and climate change, however, have pushed the minute hand ever closer to possible self-annihilation. Notably, the creation of the Doomsday Clock as a measurement of humanity’s ability to self-destruct only became necessary after the atomic bomb’s invention and first use. Arguably, before that, there was no known way in which humanity could easily cause their own extinction as a species.

In the early days of its creation, the editor of the Bulletin would be the one defining the movement of the clock; however, since 1973, the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board has met twice a year to discuss global events and set the clock accordingly. On this board, scientists and experts in the fields of nuclear technology and climate consult with colleagues in other disciplines and even Nobel Prize laureates before deciding how to set the Clock. Throughout the Clock’s history, reports on its position were released concurrently with global events, rather than once a year. Since 2015, however, the Bulletin has released annual reports on the clock’s status, with or without movement. The complete reports are available on the Bulletin’s website.

One of the many issues taken into consideration when the decision was made to move the clock 10 seconds closer to midnight early this year is the war in Ukraine.

The risk of the conflict escalating to a nuclear war presents possibly the largest threat of nuclear annihilation since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. According to the official report, “Russia’s thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons remind the world that escalation of the conflict—by accident, intention, or miscalculation—is a terrible risk. The possibility that the conflict could spin out of anyone’s control remains high.”

Critics of the Clock maintain that it should be considered more of a cultural phenomenon than an actual measurement that the world community takes seriously. Although the predictions do not seem enough to bring the world to total nuclear disarmament, at least it generates debates and hopefully some awareness of how serious things can get if world leaders decide to flip the nuclear switch.

The scientists who maintain the clock hope that keeping its predictions as a piece of mediatic news draws attention to not to how imminent our doom is but to how world organizations respond to the possible threat of nuclear war. According to Bulletin Board member Prof. Robert Rosner, the clock is “the canary in the coal mine.”

(Louise Lerner, UChicago News) What is the world ready to do if it happens, and more importantly, how can it be prevented?

The answer, of course, is highly complex, as are humans and international relations. Perhaps it is necessary to bring the clock’s meaning back into the mainstream as more than a cultural parameter if there is a wish to gather global opinions on the complexity of the contemporary world and its conflicts. Moreover, the Doomsday Clock is a reminder that we are all in the same pale blue dot, as Carl Sagan used to say, and everything that happens on the planet pertains to all humans. The official report also states: “Finding a path to serious peace negotiations could go a long way toward reducing the risk of escalation. In this time of unprecedented global danger, concerted action is required, and every second counts.” So, here is no isolation from global climate collapse, as there is no escaping the “shards” that war, be it in Ukraine, Syria, or any other country, spreads throughout the globe.

ADVICE FROM YOUR PROFS

A deeper look into the dreaded exam season

Carmel Dear (she/her) - Writer

Tobin Eckstein - Illustrator

“Is there going to be a final exam?”

The first day of every class begs this quintessential question. Midterms and finals are often the most dreaded parts of any semester, synonymous with sleep deprivation, anxiety and burnout in even the most prepared of students.

“The end of semester is a natural point to examine knowledge,” said Dr. Sean Ashley from the School of Social Sciences. “On the other hand, the practice of scheduling all exams into a two-week period, alongside assigning papers that are due at the end of semester no doubt has negative impacts on mental health and wellbeing… Shorter, written pieces throughout the semester may well be more beneficial, though many instructors face structural constraints.”

Whether at Capilano University or at a larger institution, the system is largely designed for lectures and examinations, and it has been for long enough that it would be extremely arduous to change. Ultimately, there’s no easy fix to eliminate exam anxiety under this structure.

“The way we go about scheduling [exams] and the weight that is placed upon them makes them highly stressful,” said Ashley. “This is compounded today by the heavy work schedules that many students have.”

Between balancing school, a part-time job, rest and a social life, many first-time students underestimate the amount of time they need to spend on their courses to get the most out of them.

“I always feel that stress is relative to preparedness,” said Dr. Ted Hamilton of the School of Communication. “In my first year, I never went to class, did none of the readings, faked my way through assignments and was otherwise pretty disengaged from the classroom learning process. I attended my exams that year out of a misguided sense that I needed to complete something and was basically physically sick with anxiety for about ten days straight before realizing that it was pointless to even proceed.”

Often, students go to class with one goal: cram in enough knowledge to do well on (or at least pass) their exams. But should this really be the end goal of education?

It’s vital to be critical thinkers and have a strong foundational knowledge of theory and be learned but I also think it’s important to apply the knowledge gained and transform them into experiences,” said Grace Kim of the School of Communication, emphasizing that life isn’t all about academia and that the practical application of knowledge is just as important.

While this is a great idea, most people have experienced feeling out of control when their workload piles up. If exams aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, what’s a student to do?

Hamilton advises students to spend eight to 10 hours per week on each course. He counsels students to divide the maximum amount of hours they can spend per week on school (while balancing it with a job and social life) by eight for the number of courses to take in a semester. “This means your program will take longer to complete, but rushing through something so expensive and not getting the most of it… seems to be a real waste.”

On preparing better for assessments when they do take place, Grace Kim suggests joining study groups and to seek additional resources. “It’s always helpful to have a

sound board and different perspectives. Group studying is a great tool to foster peer support and build a community. It’s also great to go to the academic resources around campus to find studying tips like active reading. Personally, I like to doodle and make personal connections, so reflections are very helpful.”

Hamilton corrected his mistakes after his first year of university, determined to return with better habits.

“I knew I had to treat [university] like a job and not just as a break from reality,” said Hamilton. “I committed to doing the work from nine to five, five days a week.” He also religiously took notes, completed readings and attended office hours, finding that the professors he met with engaged much more deeply with his work. “[They] were able to help me more because they knew the kinds of questions I was asking and the things I was struggling with,” he said.

With the proper techniques and school-life balance, exams don’t have to be monsters. As students learn to navigate their education and how it fits into their lives, once-terrifying exams may pose less of a threat in the future.

EQUALITY FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

Are scholarships, bursaries and awards stained with the same inequality towards international students as tuition fees?

in further building international numbers.” The increase of these numbers, even throughout the pandemic, confirm that the recruiting efforts of the University are generating the desired result.

Consequently, in the Institutional Accountability Plan and Report for the academic year of 2021-2022, Capilano University presented their first internationalization plan, which is directed towards “achieving equity, diversity, and inclusion for, and amongst, our global learners,” and “ensuring integrity in what we promise and what we deliver,” among other principles.

The current Financial Aid and Awards policies that offer international students access to 7% of all the scholarships, bursaries and awards are not reflecting the University’s principles towards equality and consistency. On the other hand, the awards established by the Capilano Students’ Union (CSU) are opened to domestic and international students indistinctly; being a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing students’ interests, there is an implicit consensus on the part of the students in favor of equal opportunities.

There is a continuously growing gap between domestic and international students’ tuition fee; taking the Business Administration Diploma as an example–one of the most popular programs for international students–the international tuition is 448% of domestic tuition. The Canadian Government set a limit for fee increase to 2% for domestic students, but there is no limit for international fees. Capilano University set a fee increase limit of 2% for both domestic and international fees, but the percentage would mean–for a business student–an increase of $84.60 in the domestic tuition and an increase of $378.82 in the international one.

At the end of the last President’s Perspective event on February 2nd, Paul Dangerfield answered a question regarding the continuously growing gap between international and domestic tuition. He acknowledged that Capilano University is one of the best in the province in terms of that gap, but that the University must figure out how to “make it work with a lesser amount” through better management of fees.

“I’m hoping at some stage we can have that conversation at the provincial level,” said Dangerfield, “where it’s recognized that international students are going to be integral to the prosperity of the province going forward and that we need to actually bring them in […] So why on earth are we making them pay three times the amount?” This is the question that needs to be replicated in order to open the dialog and find possible solutions to this inequality issue.

Even though the tuition gap is recognized as a provincial-level discussion, there are policy changes that can have a positive effect towards equality without affecting the university’s funds, such as ensuring that financial aid options are reviewing students’ applications without taking citizenship status into account, which is a current practice that is reducing the opportunities for international students.

In the scholarships, bursaries and awards search interface, Capilano University displays a total of 336 options at the moment, between entrance awards, in-course awards for current and returning students, Emergency Financial Support, and Grant Fundings (Non-Government). International students are allowed to apply to approximately 7% of these awards, and about 1% are exclusively for them.

The minimum eligibility requirements for these scholarships, bursaries and awards include: “Canadian Citizen, Permanent Resident, or Landed Immigrant,” but the continuous growth of international student numbers is not being matched by the respective growth of Financial Aid opportunities.

Headcount reports from Capilano University show that the number of new international students has increased by approximately 113.7% from 2012 to 2022, while the number

of domestic students has decreased by 29.6% in the same time frame. In other words, the presence of international students has increased from 8% to 28% in the last 10 years. Being less than a third of the student population, the revenue from international tuition fees has already surpassed the revenue from domestic tuition fees, not only because of the tuition fee difference, but because about half of domestic students are registered part time, while international students need to be registered full time in a post-secondary institution as a requisite to obtain their study permit.

The decrease on domestic student numbers, according to Kris Bulcroft’s President’s Report from the year 2016, was due to “program cuts, negative press, and demographic shifts in the student-age population,” which led to allocating $1.4 million to marketing and recruitment work that year in order to “help alleviate the slump in domestic enrolments and to increase efforts

Laura Morales Padilla (she/her) - Writer Tanner McMahon - Illustrator

FEATURED ARTISTS

Arsheya Seraji @serajiart “GOBLINS FROM ABOVE!?”

A TYPEWRITER AT THE CROSSROADS

Meeting the human behind the typewritten poetry desk

Matt Shipley

(he/him) - Co-Editor-In-Chief

Lucy Benson - Illustrator

Surrounded by the typical dreariness of a Monday afternoon, Sheyanne Sundahl drops to her knees and unzips her leather typewriter case. The desk on which it will sit is already in place — it never moves — but her typewriter itself is far too valuable to leave alone. Its body is draped in pearlescent blue, the keys a radiant gold. In a diminutive inkwell on the corner of the desk, a feathered quill rests expectantly, completing Sundahl’s tiny slice of the past.

Before she’s even finished setting up, people magnetize towards her stand. Some are regulars and some are new, but they all share one thing — a curiosity for the new and unique, and an appreciation of the work Sundahl puts into every one of them.

“It all started at an art event,” said Sundahl. “Someone was typewriting poetry there, and I thought, you know what, that looks like something I’d love to do. So, I met them, hung around and watched their process for a while, and I started seeing wells of untapped potential in the idea. It was cool, for sure, but it could have been so much more.”

“I basically begged my parents for a typewriter for Christmas,” Sundahl laughed. “I must have gone through hundreds of pieces of paper in that first month, just to practice.” Sundahl began typewriting poetry in the library at Capilano University in late January after nearly a month of practice, and from her period outfit and deliberately dated machinery to the specific ink and paper she uses, her authentic glimpse into the past has quickly gained ground in an institution so focused on the future.

“People were starving for this,” said Sundahl. “They’re starved for — for real connection, for something tangible, something more than words on a screen. There’s so little uniqueness now, so little authenticity, where everything you get is just a copy of a copy of a copy. I think, when people see me and read the poetry I give them, it creates that

kind of connection. Poetry is one of the few things that worms through all the bullshit [sic] and reaches more deeply than anything, really.”

Sundahl likes to see her endeavour as a movement of realness in an increasingly false world. “It’s a hostile place sometimes, for a lot of people. And, to them, something like this is an escape, a reprieve. It’s something that means so little to me in comparison to the change I can make in them.”

A previous graduate of CapU’s Motion Picture Arts program, Sundahl returned for the Fall 2022 semester in the Creative Writing program. Her passion had always been for writing, and when the screenwriting business proved to be ultimately passionless, she turned to poetry. “These days, networks have so much control that the finished product had almost nothing to do with what I was writing. If I can’t be creative, if we’re all beholden to a network at the end of the day, there’s no authenticity in that.”

As the carousel of students whirls on by, some stopping for a chat or a poem, it becomes increasingly evident that Sundahl’s typewriter is not only a tool for processing, but one for deep personal change. Her poems slowly leave her desk in the hands of campus-goers young and old, and in each of the students blossoms a visible sense of belonging. People leave with the magic of her words in their steps, their grins, their eyes.

“That’s really the end goal,” said Sundahl. “We’re all so worried about what we don’t have, what we want, and we get so caught up within ourselves that we never slow down and appreciate what we have. What these poems do, what they’re meant for, is to instill the idea that the only way to have everything is to realize you already do.”

BEER IS SERIOUS BUSINESS

A tour of North Vancouver’s Brewery District

Mariana Sanchetta Lomelino (she/they) - Writer

Valentina Kruglikovskaya- Illustrator

Two things are true about the North Shore. The first is that it will probably be raining, and the second is that you can find amazing breweries there, especially in the Lower Lonsdale region.

East Esplanade Street alone is home to no less than five breweries, a cidery, and a distillery. Around the neighbourhood you can find enough breweries for any taste, be it the flavour, the price or the vibe.

For the sake of reliability, I took upon myself the arduous task of revisiting the Brewery District of North Vancouver to bring you my favourite breweries in the region.

La Cerveceria Astilleros -

226 Esplanade E, North Vancouver

The first brewery on our list is also the first one you find coming from Lonsdale Quay and walking along East Esplanade: the Mexican-inspired La Cervecería Astilleros. With cute yet minimalist Mexican-style decoration, La Cervecería Astilleros is home to delicious beer and food. On a wet Saturday night, all nine indoor tables, and the outside covered patio were quite full.

Order a soft-shell taco or a plate of fresh nachos with guac and pico de gallo; the beers on tap also have Mexican or Latin inspiration and change seasonally. The most popular beer is the Salted Lime Lager, described as the “original beer that started it all”, a classic Mexican Cerveza with Spanish salt and fresh Mexican limes. New on the tap menu is the Mexican Red Pilsner.

On the day I visited, I opted to try their Sangria Sour (a sour is a beer made with the incorporation of living bacteria instead of the traditional yeast, to achieve a tart, sour taste). It was definitely a tart drink, even for a sour lover such as myself. You can find a pint for $8, and a flight goes for $12; tacos are $4.95 each.

Braggot Brewing102-370 Esplanade E, North Vancouver

A little bit further down the same street, you will find a gem in the North Shore Brewery District. Braggot is a non-conventional brewery, with dim light and medieval-inspired decorations and ambiance. They serve “the oldest alcoholic beverage,” a mix of beer and mead made with grains and honey. The tap menu is relatively compact, and the rotation is not seasonal but by the batch. Each batch can be slightly different depending on the honey used or the time of the year.

Braggot is definitely worth the trip. Their big communal table, resembling a tavern, is a great place to interact with other beer lovers like Hannah Denevers. 26-year-old Denevers was brewery hopping with a friend when I spoke with her, (yes, the region has so many breweries close to one another that brewery hopping is a thing). Denevers recently discovered a love for beer, and according to her the best thing about the North Van breweries is that they are less crowded than the downtown Vancouver ones, and that the overall climate is way better and more friendly. She says Vancouver is more suitable for clubbing but prefers the North Shore for beer. I couldn’t agree more.

At Braggot, I recommend trying their flight ($10 for 4 x 4oz drinks) so you can taste all the delicious variations. If you think a flight is too much, try the Amber Stone, a dark red beer that is creamy and delicious.

Black Kettle Brewing Company720 Copping St, North Vancouver

If you are around the Shipyards and fancy a light walk, take the Spirit Trail from Waterfront Park to Mosquito Creek, where you can find one of the oldest breweries in the region. Black Kettle has been around for almost ten years and has the classic brewery feel and look. Big production tanks, plenty of seating, a screen for watching the game, and even a foosball table. The place also accepts pets on the outside patio.

With sixteen different types of beer on the tap menu, Black Kettle is the brewery with the most options. The menu changes seasonally, and the most popular beer among regulars is the Pete’s Creek ($7.5 for 20oz), a crisp lager as classic as the brewery itself. My hot tip here is to try the food, especially the poutine and the burgers; the Drunken Kettle Smash ($14.50) is definitely my favourite.

Streetcar Brewing -

123A 1st St E, North Vancouver

A little further up on Lonsdale and East 1st St is a brewery that has a special place in my heart, as it was the first one I went to when I moved to Canada. Streetcar Brewery is Lower Lonsdale in a nutshell, the typical neighbourhood brewery we all wish was just around the corner. Their small batch production ensures the tap menu changes weekly.

Streetcar has a small patio space with fire pits where pets are welcome, and their partnership with the fried chicken and donut shop next door (Cream Pony) guarantees your drinks will be accompanied by a great snack. Nothing beats a delicious beer and crunchy chicken nuggets on a Monday night.

Among the staples on the menu are the Lolo Lager and the Peach Radler, a drink that is half beer and half peach juice.

If you are a beer drinker, you should absolutely visit the North Van Brewing District, and if you do, let us know some of your favourite spots. Cheers.

*all prices are + taxes

CARRIE: THE MUSICAL

Go behind the scenes of CapU Theatre’s newest production

Andie Bjornsfelt (she/her) - Writer Hannah Bontinen - Illustrator

Pig’s blood, a small town, matriarch tension, prom queen and psychic powers — what do all of these things have in common?

After Capilano University’s production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in the fall, the theatre and costuming department have been busy this year with the adaption of the Carrie the Musical, coming to the stage in late March. The theatre department is working very closely with the costuming department to get a familiarly modern look perfected for the show.

Eve Partridge is the costume coordinator; a second — year costuming student and a jack — of — all — trades. Brian Ball is a set and costume designer extraordinaire, who works closely with the theatre and costuming team. Both of them shared some exciting tidbits about the coming production of Carrie the Musical.

The source material is familiar to many– Lawrence D. Cohen’s musical script is adapted from Stephen King’s classic 1974 book. The horror story centers around an isolated teenage girl who experiences religious abuse from her mother and is bullied at school by the popular kids. Her life flips when she develops telekinesis (the psychic ability to move things with your mind). When she is humiliated at the prom, she unleashes her powers with deadly results.

Instead of being set in the 70s, this time Carrie is taking place in 2015. “It’s very, very 2015. It’s a bit of a throwback for some people. All the prom dresses are being made and they’re all coming off of designs from 2015, so a lot of high — low skirts. That has been really fun to explore,” said Partridge.

Ball explained the time jump choice further. “We decided that we wanted it to be contemporary because many of the actors have said that they never had a prom because of COVID. But most of them can remember that year–maybe they had a sibling graduate then, or watched some older kids at school graduating– so they can remember the looks from 2015. It’s kind of nostalgic for them, but for us it’s still somewhat contemporary”. Clothes were easier to source for Brian and Eve (just dig in your closet and I’m sure you’ll find something from that year).

The crescendo of the story involves a bucket of blood at the climactic moment. To be safe, the costuming department has made many doubles of all the outfits, because it is bound to get messy when working with fake blood. “We’ll deal with the aftermath. That’s why we’ve got twelve different dresses for Carrie,” laughed Eve.

Two exciting aspects of the costuming for this production are the details in the clothing for the supporting cast and the 2015 clothing reflecting the characters unique personalities. “Sue is very preppy, very pink– think Betty from Riverdale. Tommy is a jock, so he has a letterman jacket, a very blue color palette and boy-next-door vibes. Chris wears a lot of leather, studded boots, black and purple. All the side characters have their own personas and it’ll look really cool on stage,” said Eve.

The costume department is busy making the prom dresses for the deadly dance. “We’re having everybody in their own separate color palette, while still being cohesive as a group. Carrie’s in her light pink dress and nobody else is wearing that color, so it’s going to really pop on stage from the audience’s point of view,” shared Eve. “There’s going to be a lot of bright colors. A lot of mint green, a lot of peach. Because it’s a musical, the more glitz, the more glam, the better”.

Don’t miss Carrie: The Musical, playing March 23rd to April 1st at the Blueshore Theatre at Capilano University.

Tickets are now available now:

Preview Night — Adult/Senior $15, Student/Child $11

Remaining run — Adult $22, Senior $15, Student/Child $11

Get your tickets here: tickets.capilanou.ca

TUMBLR REVIVAL AND THE RETURN OF THE ALT GIRL

More fashion trends are making their comeback. But is it too soon?

Livia Pica (he/she/they) - Writer Alina Sandu - Illustrator

To the joy of some and the horror of others, the early 2000s have officially come back in fashion. Low-rise jeans, baby tees, mini-skirts and loud accessories have been dominating Instagram and TikTok. Y2K was the undoubted main character of the 2022 Spring collection, Vogue reports. Now, we find ourselves in a bright, new 2023. Britney Spears is finally free, we have thoroughly explored all that scarf tops have to give, and it’s time to look forward. The new year will certainly introduce us to new concepts, and we are left wondering what they will be and how long they will last.

The two major candidates are the two trends that followed Y2K. As the enthusiasm over the new millennium that had fueled the early 2000s ran out, people longed for a calmer and more introspective style. Enter twee, characterized by ballet flats, oversized collars, and colourful patterns. Feminine, delicate and retro, it represents the opposite of the loud, chaotic Y2K style. Zooey Deschanel (a.k.a. Jessica Day from New Girl) and Wes Anderson movies were the fundamental icons. Twee competed for relevance with the Tumblr-era alt girl. This second current was defined by ripped tights, messy liner and black-and-white stripes. The TV series Skins was its uncontested inspiration, together with artists like Lana del Rey, Marina and the Diamonds and Arctic Monkeys. Between the early 2000s and the 2010s both Twee and Alt fashion were widely popular, but what do people think about them now?

Public opinion here at Capilano University is divided. Some look forward to fashion trends whose fundamental pieces still lie somewhere in the back of a closet. Others cite how much clothing compatible with Twee sits in thrift stores, and what a feast it will be. Others grimace at the mention of Tumblr and point out the toxicity of the sad-girl aesthetic, a trend that started as simple sharing of hardship online, but became an unhealthy glorification of mental illness. These sentiments are complicated by a nostalgia for pre-COVID times which makes us yearn for when we had no idea what the years to come would bring. Even so, the conclusion of the pandemic has created a hunger for the future and innovation.

Among all of this discourse, a belief united all of the different voices: whatever happens, it’ll be over soon. Trends, by their very nature, are fleeting. Yet, the pace of the fashion world seems to be changing. We’re not even a decade away from the styles that we are reminiscing about as if long gone. Tumblr’s loss of users and the release of the last season of New Girl both happened in 2018.

Brian Raftery argued in Wired that cultural nostalgia — and, therefore, fashion — arrives in 20 year cycles. He explained that, “art-absorption metabolisms have been sped up by the web”. This phenomenon has escalated, and now 20 years is far too long to wait to rediscover old favourites. Instead of retracing the steps of the generation before us, we are imitating ourselves from five years ago. The culprits of this acceleration are TikTok and fast fashion. TikTok is a social media app based on short videos, rather than photos. It’s wildly addictive, presenting its users with a selection of content incredibly compatible with their interests. Eugene Wei, in 2020 wrote, “when you gaze into TikTok, TikTok gazes into you.” Its algorithm is built to make virality more accessible than with many other social media apps. TikTok creates and extinguishes trends in a matter of weeks, rather than years. Think of the strawberry dress or bucket hats or the infamous VSCO girl and her scrunchies. It’s also uniquely fitted for the promotion and advertisement of products, which benefits big companies that sell cheap, low-quality clothes.

The result is a rapid succession of trends that don’t establish the same social and cultural significance as the eras they are inspired by. Twee and the Alt Girl, therefore, might vanish before we even realize their presence. So, don’t worry too much if the idea of putting on either a pair of fishnets or patterned tights hurts your soul. All you need to do is to signal to your TikTok algorithm to sell you something else.

LOVE, DEATH, AND CAMERAS

Debates over new MAiD legislation are all over the news, but two CapU alumni are bringing a new perspective

Yaminah Veloso (she/her) - Writer

Tiffany Zhong - Illustrator

Content Warning: This article contains discussions about grief related to Medical Assistance in Dying

It was the summer of 2020 when 79-year-old Donna Jean Walton collapsed in the bathroom of her home. Her husband, Blake Walton, witnessed the collapse and called 911 shortly after. In the following hours, Walton was hospitalized at North Island Hospital in Comox Valley. She was suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, or COPD, a condition causing airflow disruption and breathing difficulties in the lungs. On Aug. 4, 2020, three weeks following her hospitalization, Walton passed away.

Walton’s COPD was terminal, yet nature wasn’t the one taking its course. Unlike most passings, ungovernable and untimely, Walton’s was different. For her, death was a choice.

Before passing, Walton made a request of North Island Hospital for a medically assisted death. Medical assistance in dying, or MAiD, is a practice where a patient can request and receive care from a practitioner which will intentionally end their life. It can also involve prescribing the patient medication which allows them to direct their death themselves.

With MAiD, the time and date of passing are fully determined by the patient and cannot be influenced by any other parties, including their family. But what does it mean for their loved ones? What does it mean to count down the days approaching their death?

“I knew I was going to create something that expressed what that situation was like, I just didn’t know in what form it was going to be,” said Sydney Doberstein, film director, and Walton’s granddaughter. Doberstein had stayed by her grandmother’s side in the weeks leading up to her death. In just a year following Walton’s passing, Doberstein, and her husband, Fraser Larock, pitched a story to Telus STORYHIVE. “I remember thinking, ‘oh God, I hope I don’t get this grant!’” she said.

Telus STORYHIVE is a funding program for content creators in Alberta and British Columbia. After Doberstein and Larock were given the grant, they began working with filmmaker Danie Easton, a CapU alumnus from the Motion

Picture Arts program. Their STORYHIVE series, Our End in Mind, premiered on Dec. 27, 2020, and is dedicated to Doberstein’s grandmother, Donna Walton.

“This is a direct story based off of what my experience was, what my family’s experience was with my grandma choosing medical assistance in dying,” said Doberstein. Our End in Mind also explores the historical contexts, complexities, and general awareness surrounding MAiD.

“It’s kind of a taboo subject,” says Doberstein in the film. MAiD was legislated in 2016, formerly known as Bill C-14. Since its legalization, several articles have shown Canadians’ complex standings. A poll by Angus Reid Group in 2020 revealed that 77 per cent of Canadians are supportive of MAiD, yet 48 per cent of that number are “Cautious Supporters,” wary of the complications MAiD could cause.

Initially, objections were concerned with the limitations of the reasonably foreseeable death requirement, which eventually led the Government of Canada to revise the MAiD law as Bill C-7 in 2021, enabling individuals whose deaths were not reasonably foreseeable, including cases in which mental illness and disability are the sole underlying condition, to request MAiD if they meet all eligibility requirements. Since its revision, new complexities have surfaced, such as debates

concerning the interference between MAiD and mental health improvement, mental capacity, and palliative care, for example.

“The main thing is to have a resource for somebody because I didn’t have one,” said Doberstein. The conversations encompassing MAiD generally center on controversies and debate, rarely focusing on the grieving process accompanying a MAiD death. For Doberstein, this absence developed an isolating mourning experience and became the inspiration behind Our End in Mind.

“Usually when something’s scary and exciting and there’s a lot of resistance — for me, it’s usually the right way forward,” said Doberstein. But to tell a story so intimate and personal, she knew she had to work with someone she could be openly vulnerable with. That was Danie Easton, whom Doberstein met and developed a withstanding friendship with during her time in CapU’s acting program.

Through Doberstein’s story, Our End in Mind ventures into an unexplored area of MAiD, aiming to be a comforting resource for those in the thick of their MAiD grief. “So, I say to my past 20-year-old self: your story is valuable and you will touch people’s lives in ways that you can’t even imagine,” said Doberstein.

THRIVING UNDERDOGS: HOW INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES ARE BUILDING COMMUNITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Vancouver’s independent bookstores are offering a refreshing change of pace

Gwen Pemberton (she/her) - Writer

Megan Barry - Illustrator

A bell dings softly as the door to Companion Books swings open, and Simona Powell looks up from her computer at the front desk. A gentle smile spreads across her face as she greets the new arrival. A middle-aged man in glasses and a well-loved green sweater enters, looking for a book, but all he has to go on is the author’s name.

After a few well chosen questions, Powell sets off down one of the aisles with the customer in tow, her eyes combing the spines with practiced precision. In no time at all they are back at the register, book in hand. The conversation eases into a comfortable flow. Powell laughs appreciatively. The bespectacled man, now with his newly purchased novel, is ready to head out. “Nice talking to you,” he says as he steps outside.

This is how things proceed at this small independent bookstore on the corner of Hastings and Gilmore St. in Burnaby, B.C. The soft crooning of The Pretenders, I’ll Stand by You mixes with the muffled footsteps of customers prowling the pristine, towering bookshelves. The care shown to each customer is sincere, and Powell knows how essential it is to her business continuing. “It really is genuine,” she says.

Whatever her recipe, there is something that keeps people coming back. Weston MacLeod, who has been working at the bookstore since early 2021, remembers working at the coffee shop next door before making the switch to Companion. “There were more regulars at the bookstore than there were at the cafe.”

The death of print has been a grim reaper hovering over the publishing industry for over a decade. Physical book sales declined steadily for years, as digital retailers like Amazon took up more and more of the market. When Borders, a popular bookstore chain in the U.S., declared bankruptcy in 2011, many saw it as the death knell for brick and mortar retailers. And yet, independent stores have kept their doors stubbornly open.

Not only have they weathered the apparent storm, the number of independent booksellers has increased by 33 per cent since 2012, according to the American Independent Booksellers Association. Amidst industry turmoil, a global pandemic, and an increasing focus on digital commerce, independent bookstores are offering something customers can’t get anywhere else: connection.

Recounting her first years operating the bookstore after leaving her corporate job in Vanouver’s financial district, Powell recalls bonds forged with other independent stores. “It’s funny, we kind of developed together,” she said. “A lot of us are women, that helps.” Owners of other local bookshops would gather regularly when they started out, sharing tips, and going in together on orders. They even worked together to produce a map of all the independent bookstores on the lower mainland.

“We helped each other when we really needed it,” she said. As business and life has gotten busier, and as the COVID-19 pandemic made meeting in person more difficult, regular meetings fizzled out, but the spirit of unity remained. “We all help each other, it’s quite an open community,” said Powell.

Of course there were, and are, many challenges that come with maintaining an independent shop. Though there is demand for the physical and social experience they offer, establishments like Powell’s have a lot of competition. “It was a steep learning curve,” she said.

A mix of new releases and used books at reduced prices help to get people in the door. Powell estimates that around 95 per cent of the store’s inventory is used.

Price is obviously a factor, especially for students on a limited budget, but more commonly the browsing experience was itself the motivator. “Sometimes you get books with people’s notes in them,” said one patron. There is also a genuine desire to support local businesses. “F**k big brands,” said another customer, not to put too fine a point on it.

Companion Books has very low turnover, and Powell said that’s not uncommon in the industry. “I’m very fortunate, I have great employees, so I feel that responsibility towards them, and to make sure that this carries on.” Powell knows the power of story, and understands well its ability to shape people. In fact, her love for stories is inked directly on her skin. On the inside of one wrist is a symbol that any fantasy reader will recognize immediately. The initials of J.R.R. Tolkien, exactly as they appear on every issue of The Lord of the Rings.

Powell wants stores like hers to remain, as a communal space for people to meet, share, and connect. “When you walk into a bookstore you see lots of ideas, not just beautiful stories and awesome places to visit. That’s why it says on my door, ‘Come on in and live a thousand lives.’ “

GOING HUNGRY

Unmasking food insecurity at Capilano University

EA Douglas - Writer

Natasha Lee- Illustrator

The empty hallway echoes with every step Avery Nowicki takes. It’s the middle of the semester, but the day’s classes are done, and the usually lively Library building feels barren. The thick rubber soles of their Doc Martens lay down a heavy thunk as they turn into the darkly lit room, crossing over the floor’s green decal which reads, “Welcome to the Members Centre.”

Another student, tucked into the benches across the room, quickly looks up, spooked by the sound. Seeing Nowicki, who today is dressed in a brown corduroy pinafore with a thick smudge of black eyeliner, the student goes back to their computer. The CSU’s Information desk is shuttered with the plastic folding divider protecting two computers and a trove of COVID tests, but the kitchenette is fully accessible.

As they pass the wall of cupboards, Nowicki stops at the end. Two wooden doors sport lime green stickers reading: “CSU Community Ztheir thin arms out, a layer of bracelets tinkling as they pull open both of the doors at once, revealing the contents inside. It has been freshly restocked — food items line both the bottom and top shelves.

In their head, Nowicki takes inventory: four packs of no name Mac ‘n Cheese, three cans of Chef Boyardee Beef Ravioli, tens cans of assorted Campbell’s soup and two large bags of no name quick oats. After a moment, Nowicki reaches for a large bags of oats, tucking it under their arm the way a child would a

stuffed animal. Closing the Community Cupboard’s doors, they pause to read a paper notice that has crinkled with age: “Sharing is Caring. Please save some for those facing food insecurity.”

Food insecurity, or the inability to consistently secure enough food to live a healthy and active life, is an issue that is often overlooked, especially on campuses where the trope of being a “starving student” is as old as time. This continues even while studies have shown that going hungry not only increases the risk of mental health issues but also impairs one’s ability to learn.

In 2021, the Canadian Campus Well-Being Survey reported that 28 per cent of Capilano University students experienced food insecurity. Since then, the price of food in Canada has risen by 9.7 per cent. Combine this with the high cost of living in Vancouver and living on your own for the first time and it’s clear to see that CapU students’ worries about food are more than bellyaching.

“I work part-time and make minimum wage,” Nowicki explains, “so my paycheque is usually between $450 and $500 bi-weekly. All of that goes to rent.” They twiddle with their bracelets while they talk. “I use my tips for my groceries and going out. I try to budget $100 a month for groceries — like $20 to $25 dollars a week — and supplement with the stuff I can get from school.”

Along with the CSU’s Community Cupboard, there are other options available for CapU students facing food insecurity, including the Food Security Table at Student Affairs.

“The Food Security Table was created by the Student Affairs team when the campus transitioned back to in-person learning, as a way to provide a sense of community and low-barrier support for students accessing services through our office,” says Shiayli Toni, the Sexual Violence Prevention & Well Being Facilitator at Student Affairs. “During times of crisis or distress, peoples’ capacity to navigate day-to-day survival needs can be greatly impacted, so providing accessible food is an act of community care that aligns with our commitment to providing trauma-informed and accessible support.”

The recency of the Food Security Table’s creation reflects British Columbian’s increased use of food banks throughout 2022, which is up more than 30 per

cent in the past year. “While we don’t track the number of people the Food Security Table supports, we have had to replenish its contents on an increasingly frequent basis,” said Toni.

Still, despite knowing they’re in need and that there is food available, students may struggle with using the resources provided. “I think sometimes I feel guilty for needing to take food from the Community Cupboard,” says Nowicki, “I know it was created for students who need access to food, as an able-bodied person, I should be able to work and provide for myself. Not that I feel unentitled, but like, what if someone else needs that food more than me?”

It’s a fair question, but Student Affairs is working hard to make sure it becomes one that doesn’t get asked often. The Food Security Table was inspired by the effectiveness of the CSU Community Cupboard and created with the intention of providing another option for students accessing support. As Toni explaineds, “The food we provide comes from a newly created food security budget that Student Affairs advocated for after reviewing the data from the 2021 CCWS. We’re also working with the Capilano Students’ Union in the pursuit of an ongoing partnership with the Greater Vancouver Food Bank in hopes to be registered as a Community Agency Part-

ner.” The partnership would ensure a greater level of support for students experiencing food insecurity in 2023 and beyond.

On top of the Community Cupboard and the Food Security Table, there are several other options for students facing food insecurity. The CSU offers referrals to Quest Food Exchange, a low-cost grocery store that uses partnerships with food producers and distributors to increase food accessibility. Quest operates one of its not-forprofit storefronts on the North Shore, in the Lower Lonsdale area, but a referral is required to access its services, so students are encouraged to email the CSU directly to get the process started.

Back at their apartment, Nowicki makes the quick oats in a small pot on a white enamel stove, mixing in two large lumps of Great Value peanut butter and a handful of frozen berries. When it’s ready, they

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scoop a third of the purple- and blue-streaked beige mush into a bowl and drizzle a quick stream of almond milk on top. It barely encircles the mass in the bowl.

There is someone living in the dining room to help pay the rent, so Nowicki makes their way to their bedroom, using an old textbook as a tray table as they pull YouTube up to watch while they eat. Once settled, they look down at the bowl and say, “I love oats. They’re so yummy. I could eat them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.”

Here’s hoping they won’t have to.

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JUST BURN THE CANDLES

Beauty is a basic human need… so why do we treat it like a luxury?

Mikaila Poirier (she/her) - Writer

Tara Asadi - Illustrator

For my sixteenth birthday, my best friend gave me a candle infused with my two favourite scents; lavender and vanilla. More than just a quick and affordable gift – it felt like a symbol of the consideration we held for each other. It came as a surprise, then, when she spotted the candle over a year later sitting on my desk, unburned.

I had to explain to her that I really do love her gift, but I just feel this need to save nice things for the perfect moment; when everything in my life is in its place and I can breathe with ease. It wasn’t until I expressed this thought out loud that I realized how ridiculous it sounded. If in a whole year I had never experienced a single moment that was peaceful enough to justify me lighting this candle, then that moment probably wasn’t going to come. Rather, it was something I had to learn to create for myself.

Upon further exploration, I soon came to realize that this was not a unique experience. In fact, plenty of people in my life have since expressed a similar dilemma to me. My sister will only watch corny comedy films, as anything with emotional resonance feels like it has to be earned; my mother has allowed her closet full of nice clothes to collect dust until she achieves a level of beauty that, in reality, she’s surpassed since birth. So now I must ask: Where does this notion come from? Why would we willingly deprive ourselves of the few joys that this world has to offer?

Short answer: Capitalism.

Long answer: Inhabiting a society where labour is the centerpiece in every room and all other things just serve to complement it, of course we’re going to equate our value with our productivity on some level. Naturally, we’ll only reward ourselves with pleasurable activities if we feel ‘deserving’ of them. The problem is that, as we know, capitalism is an insatiable beast. If we require constant external validation for the great work that we’re doing to feel worthy of rest and relaxation, then these celebratory moments will be few and far between. Once we stop trying to meet a standard that doesn’t exist,

we’ll realize that peace and pleasure have been in our hands all along.

Isn’t it ironic, too, that by continuously postponing our intake of beauty, we’re actually robbing the beautiful thing of getting to live out its purpose. For me, this manifests as some strange puritanical dance. As if an object untouched can maintain its full value; narrowly avoiding any contamination caused by my energy. But the truth is that the beauty of an object is irrelevant until we interact with it. Allowing nice things to enhance our lives is a mutually beneficial practice, yet we’re conditioned to believe that wasted beauty is somehow better than indulgence. How boring! Nobody should have to perform everyday to be occasionally rewarded with one of life’s simple pleasures. Beauty is your reward for simply being alive. And who are we to try and argue with that?

So, please, burn that candle, watch that movie; wear those low-rise pants, listen to that album on repeat until you’re sick of it. And do not question yourself for even a second.

If all else fails, just remember this: Doing nice things for yourself is an anti-capitalist act… and anti-capitalism is hot.

WASTE NOT, WANT NOT

How to reduce food waste and save money

Mizuki Kinoshita (she/her) - Writer Jasmine Linton - Illustrator

Food waste is a huge problem facing the world, and it has economic and environmental effects for individual consumers and the global population. According to the United Nations, “About a third of all the food produced for human consumption each year – or roughly 1.3 billion tons – is lost or wasted”. Food waste releases a lot of greenhouse gas, so it affects and is progressing global warming. A separate piece from the United Nations states, “food loss and waste is responsible for about 7% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions”. Making food uses a lot of resources, money, and labour. A waste of food is a waste of these resources. In addition, there are a lot of people around the world who deal with food insecurity. For these reasons, now is a good time to face and reduce food waste in order to positively impact the world and environment. It can seem insurmountable, but there are a few ways individuals can make a difference.

First, buying food in quantities that can be used reliably is really important. Making a list of your needs and bringing it to the market with you is one of the best ways to reduce waste. Also, after grocery shopping, freezing ingredients helps them keep longer than they would in the fridge, and less will be spoiled.

Second, a common experience at the grocery store is finding new and exciting ingredients and thinking, ‘Wow! This vegetable is unique. I want to taste it, so I should buy it!’ In many of these cases, that food goes to waste because of a lack of a plan for how to cook it, so avoiding impulse buying is another way to cut down on waste. If you find food that is unusual and still want to buy it, search for a recipe before buying.

Third, use as much of your ingredients as possible, even the part of the food that you would usually throw away. One example is the broccoli’s core. You can stir-fry the core and other vegetables or meat.

It is very tasty. You can reduce food waste and find some new recipes. This is really enjoyable, and valuable for the environment.

Fourth, if you cannot finish your meal at a restaurant, don’t waste it; get a box to bring it home, so guests and restaurants do not need to waste food. In addition, order food that you think you can finish. This way is not only beneficial for the environment but also good for restaurants and customers because if they waste their dishes, they also waste money.

In some cases, you may find that you have more food than you can eat before its expiration date. At that time, don’t throw it away. If these items are sealed food and still edible, bring them to donation boxes, which can be found in some grocery stores. For example, Superstore near Capilano University and Capilano Student Union’s Community Cupboard are available to donate. It is a good way to give back to people who need food. If food is spoiled and cannot be eaten, put it into the organics, where it will be composted. Proper waste disposal decreases the environmental impact.

Actions shape the world. If we do not think about the effects of food waste, we lose food, money, and negatively impact the environment.

YOU’RE PROBABLY DATING THE SAME GUY

Are these Facebook groups helping or hurting?

Anonymous - Writer

Sol Yoon - Illustrator

Right before Christmas, my best friend told me that she needed to show me the things people were saying about one of the guys she had gone out with a year prior. She came over and showed me posts from a group on Facebook filled with women that posted their matches from dating apps or their current boyfriend to see if anyone else is seeing them, or if there are any red flags to look out for. After my brain finished exploding, I asked my friend to invite me to the group because, obviously, that is the drama I live for.

I have been single for the last five years, so the fear of cheating is not in the forefront of my mind. However, as a serial dating app user I would like the chance to see if I am about to waste my time on someone that is already in a relationship, or someone that’s the next Tinder Swindler. While I may have been hibernating under a rock for too long, it seems like these Facebook groups have blown up across the globe. Women have warned men, on TikTok, that going forward women will not be letting anyone get away with anything shady.

There are strict rules for joining and maintaining a spot in the group. There are no screenshots allowed (to bring back to the men in question), there is no body shaming/shaming based on appearance or performance allowed, and there is no personal information such as last names or phone numbers allowed to be shared. Though these rules seem to be enforced, there is always going to be a rule breaker or two. I have been having an entertaining time reading about the lighthearted bad dates, and the drama that comes along with the dating scene – but there is a darker side to dating that I didn’t actively think about before joining.

Most women opt to post anonymously to avoid being called out, by other women, or the man himself if the post somehow gets to him. The horrific stories of assault, abuse and dangerous interactions that women have shared gives insight to why women would prefer to remain nameless. It makes me question everything that I have ever known about the dating world in Vancouver. I am scared to date again, but I am thankful that the women in this group are doing what they can to keep other women safe.

I find myself looking for every guy that I match with online on this group now. While I may be wading safely into the dating pool, I am also leaving out a lot of the mystery and excitement that comes with getting to know someone for the first time. The intention of these types of groups is not to bash men or bring them down, but instead the intention is to protect fellow women, and ensure we look out for one another.

At the end of the day, there seems to be a moral ambiguity that revolves around groups like this. If the people in the group stick to the rules, it’s a fantastic way to stay away from love-bombing narcissists that take advantage of you. However, it only takes one person to lie about someone to make a man less desirable, or defame someone because they might be bitter after a breakup. When I asked my friend if she thought we woWuld be posted in the men’s version of this group, she initially said there was no way that group would exist, but sure enough a quick search showed that there was not only a Vancouver group, but groups around the world. I want to believe that men have the same strict standards, are not bashing women for looks or performance and are simply keeping fellow men safe in the dating scene.

AVATAR: THE WAY OF JAMES CAMERON

The second installment of this blue franchise is worth a watch

Jasmin Linton - Writer

Sophia McGill - Illustrator

It seems like all anyone has been able to talk about these days is James Cameron’s new film Avatar: The Way of Water. Even three months later, we are still being bombarded with Avatar filters, the dreaded Papyrus font, and TikTok’s of Jake Sully set to “Big Boy” by SZA.

But if we strip away all the popularity and notoriety it has gained, is it worth all the hype? Though Avatar: The Way of Water has some issues with plot holes and story progression, it is a film that brings the world of Pandora to life through heartfelt characters, incredible worldbuilding and has set the bar high for the future of visual effects.

Since the first Avatar movie in 2009, it’s no surprise that movie watchers have been waiting to see how the level of CGI has improved, because that was sure to come with the sequel. Since its release, some criticism has touched on The Way of Water falling into the black hole of action movies, where the breathtaking effects take precedence over plot or character development. I argue that when looking at the whole movie, despite all the bombastic scenes with crazy special effects, there is also plenty of breathing room — not only for the characters to shine through, but the world of Pandora itself. Considering the length

of the movie, action scenes are actually well balanced with slower scenes showcasing a wide variety of interpersonal relationships.

However, there is no denying that Avatar had a rocky start. The film opens with an incredibly dense prologue, which creates a bit of whiplash for the viewer. We are thrown back into the world of Pandora and have to scramble to keep up with the distracting ten year time jump. We do get an introduction to the Sullies’s growing family, but it’s nothing but a whirlwind of new faces and trying to remember names for the next fifteen minutes — props to you if you weren’t confused. Despite the fast beginning, the rest of the film slows us down and we get to catch up with old characters and learn to love the new ones.

When the story begins to even out and the pacing of events improves, relationships become more complex and dynamic, especially when the setting shifts to focus on the Metkayian Clan. Cameron also takes an interesting approach to how character experiences are conveyed through the film. Rather than expanding Pandora through characters’ in-

dividual experiences, Cameron uses a collective approach, which we see through the Avatar world being amplified through cumulative experiences (usually plot driven) in order to add emotional moments and fully immerse the watcher into the world of Pandora.

Since its release, Avatar: The Way of Water has been on the top of everyone’s watch list and for good reason. It is a beautiful display of how far motion graphics has come, with a noticeable difference between the first movie, and works incredibly hard to absorb the viewer into the avatar world — it’s even crazier in 3D. Despite the dizzying introduction, Cameron has created an ever growing world of possibilities and I, personally, can’t wait to see where the story goes next.

MESSAGES FROM THE ISS –INTERNATIONAL STUDENT SUPPORT

Finding a balance between living life and overworking yourself. What should you focus on, when everything seems so important?

Lea Krusemeyer (she/her) - Writer

Have you ever been at work and barely able to focus because all you could think of was that one assignment for school that was due at midnight? Or did you ever skip a class because work gave you a shift and there was no way you could switch it or call in sick? I am sure most students who also work have experienced at least one of those situations before, they are stressful but it seems like they are unavoidable sometimes.

International students often have to work while studying to support themselves through their time at university. We often do not have the option of living at home rent-free or for a reduced rent so there has to be a budget for rent, groceries, utilities and more. More than once I have heard from friends at school that they were struggling to balance the responsibilities of work and school.

Missing class, because you have to work to afford rent, is something that can happen every once in a while but if it becomes a regular situation, professors and the school will begin to notice. Your grades might drop, your attendance suffers and it is harder to connect to other students because you are never there. Is this really what you came to Canada and CapU for?

Ask yourself if that outcome is the best way to handle your studies with a look into the future. It might seem like a good option at the moment but let me assure you that it is a temporary solution to a much bigger problem, the price of life in Canada. While I do not have a solution for inflation and our economy, I can suggest a few ways that might help with the anxiety of money.

First, Capilano University offers scholarships every semester and a few of those are open to international students as well, just Google CapU and scholarships and scroll through the results until you find a good match.

Second, there are scholarships outside of school that you can get through your bank, for example, or through social institutions. If you Google scholarships and B.C. there are a bunch of options to be found.

Third, you can apply for a line of credit with your bank. This is basically like a loan but international students do not often get the chance of applying for a loan, so this line of credit might be a good option — it can be paid back in the future when you hopefully have a well-paying job in the field of your studies.

Another option might be to get a job at CapU directly. There are a variety of jobs offered to students each semester and most of them have their working hours during the hours CapU holds classes. So when CapU classes end, your job ends too — not to mention, the weekends are free as well. Getting a job at CapU could mean a stable source of income while also not having to worry about late night shifts or getting scheduled during your classes. The school works around your schedule.

On the other hand, I would like to urge professors and the school to understand the situation international students are in better. Classes with mandatory attendance often cause problems in the student’s life that the school is not considering, at least it seems like that from a student’s perspective. Offering the course material online on eLearn might be another temporary solution to the bigger problem of rising rent and rising tuition. Still, it would ease the minds of students struggling to balance work and school. Hard deadlines are another issue that I see students struggle with, sometimes the schedule at work just does not allow for an essay to be done at midnight, but the professor will not allow submissions in the morning anymore.

This is not to say that all international students face these struggles, but it is important to address them and find solutions. Reach out to the university, professors, the student union and see what options are available. We’re all in this together, and when we combine our voices there’s more chance to be seen and heard. We are many and we are loud, let us use our voices for the better.

BROKE BUT BOUJEE

France for the frugal

Jayde Atchison - Columnist

If someone were to approach me three years ago and say “everything happens for a reason,” I would have furrowed my brow and cursed them silently. When I was ensnared in the dark, I refused to look for the sliver of light that was around the corner. I firmly sat down and decided the bad news was going to be my new identity. It took a lot of growing up, a whole-a** pandemic and some great friends to help me see that nothing is for nothing. Travelling through Europe with only a carry-on and a handful of French sentences, solidified this ideology.

Europe was a 2020 pipe dream that I had to let go of, and I hadn’t planned on resurrecting. In September 2022, I was meant to go frolicing through Disneyland with a friend for a week. I had the time off work, the flight loads looked good — but as the time came to book, her vacation request was denied. I had to think quickly and come up with a plan to not waste my week off sitting in my apartment. One of my neighbours was planning on going home to France to spend two months with her family, and I jumped at the opportunity.

I asked if I could join her in France for a few days, as I knew I could get on a flight to Paris and find my way down to wherever she was staying. She agreed without hesitation and suddenly a few days in the south of France turned into planning out a night in Paris, a night in Amsterdam, four nights in Lisbon and several nights in different cities throughout France. We kept getting more enthusiastic about where we wanted to explore and revisit. It was not only an opportunity for me to revive my dusted dream of gallivanting through Western Europe, but it was also a chance for us to get to know each other.

It was not just a gamble of seeing if me and this neighbour would get along while travelling, it would also be the first time that we would hang out just the two of us. Before hopping on the plane to Paris, I would have considered her a friend, but not a close one — because we hadn’t had much of a chance to learn about each other. It was simultaneously a risky move, and a safe bet. We both are honest women who don’t agree to things unless we truly want to do them. Deep down I knew that we would flow well together, even 7,916 km away from home.

My gut was right because when I landed in Paris, I was greeted with a warm hug and an excited travel buddy. What truly tested our travel compatibility was when we

were faced with an unplanned second night in the city of love. When we checked out from our Airbnb, we brought our luggage to a rent-a-locker station so we had less to drag around the cobbled streets before our red-eye bus to Amsterdam that evening. It was cheap, convenient and located close to our apartment (meaning we would remember how to get back to it). What we didn’t factor in was that the metro system is tricky when you’re running late, and Parisians are not flexible on time stamps.

This was proved when we were sprinting past Notre-Dame, trying to get to the locker station before 10pm, yelling motivational chants as we looked down at my watch to see that the time was 9:55. We realized our cardio was in need of improvement and we were losing steam in the final stretch. We got into the room at 9:59 and when we were trying to punch in the code for the locker, we got rejected and the PA system started to threaten us in French — we left dejected, and concerned because all of our clothes, documents, and medication were unavailable to us. However terrible we initially were frustrated that we couldn’t make it to our next location the way we planned, we quickly wiped the tears (me) and started contacting the bus company and hotels in the area (her).

We both agreed that it was no one’s fault, and that this hiccup was not for nothing. Maybe we weren’t meant to be on the night bus for a variety of possibilities. We chose to look at it as a positive situation that we were happy to adapt to, instead of harping on a negative. Paris isn’t the worst place to get stuck in, and it taught me to be ready for anything while away from home. I also learned the hard way, that if you are short on time, grabbing a macaron on the Champs-Élysées isn’t the best idea.

When things don’t go your way, it’s hard to see the benefit immediately — but plans being cancelled and changed: rejection is redirection. Take everything for what it might bring you, and make sure you have an “oopsie” fund ready for your trip.

READ, REVIEW, REPEAT

Sorcery of Thorns, by Margaret Rogerson

Matt Shipley - Culture & Communities Editor

All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery — magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, the books transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power.

I’ll admit this right away — I read this as an audiobook. I’ve done a bunch of research since, just to make sure I’m spelling everything correctly, but forgive me if I let my assumed spellings slip through once or twice. The narrator had a wonderfully character-accurate voice, but it still took me over a week to consume because of the sheer length of the audiobook. In book form, it’s a medium-length read — not an afternoon jaunt, but doable in a day. Its world is inventive, its romance interesting, and its characters are, for the most part, round and unique.

So, let’s tear it apart, shall we?

First off:

This was one of the more interesting fantasy worlds I have ever come across. The magic system seems at once incredibly complicated and bafflingly simple. Sorcerers summon demons and bargain away their lives for the gift of sorcery — seems easy enough. The way that Great Libraries and their grimoires fit into that system was never really made clear, though, and I found that side of Austermeer’s magic to be far more intriguing. I mean, books that can turn into city-destroying, ink-bleeding monsters if they don’t receive daily compliments? That’s cool.

The Good:

As I mentioned before, the world and magic system are what makes this book unique. The fact that we don’t understand how a summoning works until over halfway through the book means that it leads us in all sorts of unexpected directions, but in my eyes, that’s a good thing, and I’ll get to why in a minute. The prose was scintillating, if a bit too simile-infested. The descriptions were especially powerful — not too lengthy, but enough to

draw me into the world and hold me there. The place names were, in my mind, near-perfect — not obtrusively Welsh, yet still very fantasy-ish. I must admit though, when I looked at the world map and found out that Somerschal was actually spelled Summershall, I was a little miffed.

The Bad:

I only have a couple of talking points here, but they’re big ones. Firstly, the romance was better suited to a small-time swoon novel than a fantasy book. The “of course” moments were just too common — of course, the Evil Sorcerer that Elisabeth is so afraid of turns out to be a normal, cute guy around her age. Of course, he’s under immense pressure to find a partner. Of course, everyone calls him the world’s most eligible bachelor (sigh.) There were more moments like this outside of the romance, but those were the main ones. Secondly, the book didn’t give nearly enough credit to the reader in some places. The fact that it took Elisabeth multiple chapters to realize that Ashcroft was completing a pentagram, when I knew it as soon as the possibility was introduced (on a crowded bus, having never seen the world map or a single word on a page) felt a bit disrespectful to the reader.

All in all, this book was enjoyable. I definitely don’t regret my time listening to it, but it wouldn’t be my first recommendation to anyone who wouldn’t relate to its main character on a spiritual level. Honestly, as an author, it’s worth reading just for the newness of the magic system and the inventive ideas that come with it. If you’re bookish, and more into swoon-worthy romance stories than fantasy, this might be the grimoire for you. It’s possibly the best halfway point between the two genres that I’ve ever run into. 7/10

JUSTICE (REVERSED)

Justice is always a powerful card to get in a reading, but even more so reversed. Although not always an easy card, and most definitely not a light card, Justice reversed for this month or whenever it finds you, speaks of a revival of past realizations and actions. Often we will have powerful realizations, plans, insight, goals, etc. that people around us may sabotage or unknowingly bury with their judgement, simply because they don’t understand. Justice in reverse urges us to look at these relationships with wiser eyes and mental clarity to determine if these people and environments are ones we want to stay in.

Additionally for some, Justice reversed simply indicates the need to acknowledge how you’ve held yourself back from much needed truth and clarity. The truth isn’t often something we willingly look for because it calls us to take accountability or hold others accountable who we love, or at one point loved. It may seem unnecessarily harsh, but the truth of the matter is mostly far better found within than without. Meaning, we can not depend on others entirely to give us the answers we need because some are not capable of giving them to us at the moment, or may never be able to. A difficult fact to accept, but a necessary one.

This month take it upon yourself to re-think your understanding of justice and how it can be achieved in your situation. We have been taught to view justice a certain way, to view truth as always clear cut. But is there perhaps room for nuance? Is there perhaps a new understanding and definition of justice that is emerging for you at this time? Allow yourself a moment to connect with your own feelings and also with others who can hold space for you during this time. This doesn’t have to be so heavy and it doesn’t have to be carried alone.

Emma Mendez (she/they) - Tarot Reader Kelsea Vance - Illustrator

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3. An instructor involved in the Entrepreneurship at CapU project

4. The incorrect spelling of a Great Library

6. Avstar’s classic font

8. Avery Nowicki could eat these for breakfast, lunch and dinner

9. The precentage of CapU students affected by food insecurity

10. The rough fraction of total food product wasted around the world

12. Ex-coffeeshop worker, now at Companion Books

15. Canada’s bill on MAiD

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