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PROVINCIAL GOLD

FEDERAL FALLOUT

The Capilano Blues Men's Soccer Team heads to nationals after besting Douglas College in PACWEST finals.

How negative campaign tactics and new political lows in the USA will impact Canada's next federal election.

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GLAZED & CONFUSED

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A PIPELINE PIPE DREAM

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Features

Arts & Culture

Opinions

Humour

PAMELLA PINARD

BOYS DON'T CRY: MEN & MENTAL HEALTH

THE STAFF Andy Rice EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

editor@capilanocourier.com Carlo Javier MANAGING EDITOR

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CAPILANO TAKES CURRICULUM TO NWT

SUIT UP WITH THE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

COLUMNISTS

NEWS EDITOR

Jessica Lio OPINIONS EDITOR

opinions.capcourier@gmail.com Gabriel Scorgie

A CANADIAN'S ELECTION NIGHT SURVIVAL GUIDE

CONTRIBUTORS

Marissa Del Mistro Your favourite voice of reason is back, and this time, she’ll be a voice for the people and organizations making Vancouver the best Vancouver it can be. Titled “Reign Vancouver,” this column strives to inspire and challenge the meaning of happiness, community and inclusiveness with each individual interview.

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Fred Ulrich Jr. The irrepressibly bitter Fred Ulrich Jr. is back to spread even more of his angry, old-man observations. This time, he’ll be talking about all the crap he’s had to put up with from his wealth of experience travelling the world. This man has racked up his Air Miles, and that might be the only joy he’s gotten out of travelling.

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Justin Scott ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR

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Leah Scheitel Leah Scheitel understands your pain and frustrations. School can be tough and life can be even harder. So the ever-gracious Scheitel has dedicated her time to searching the Internet for the saddest and most laughably terrible events, all for the purpose of reminding you that no matter what’s happening right now, someone out there is always having a worst time than you.

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More wine! One of last year’s most popular columns is back to expand your wine pairing horizons. As always, Max Ley will be keeping his choices to a student-friendly budget, making the pairings ideal for your pre- and post-exam drinking sessions.

Bonus: this year, Max will also be touching on the world of beer and cocktail pairings.

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PHOTOS

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Leah Scheitel Lars Henrik Ahlstrom If you like the psychologically-provoking ways of Mr. Robot and the subtle social commentary of Woody Allen, then Lars Henrk Ahlstrom is your man. He’ll be taking you on a deep dive into the grim politics surrounding the educational system and hopefully, by the end, we’ll all come out feeling a little optimistic – or inspired.

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EDITOR'S DESK

ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION: USA EDITION Andy Rice EDITOR-IN-CHIEF As Canadians, we have a front row seat for just about everything that happens in America. That includes the 2016 Presidential Election. Sometimes I wonder if they even know that we’re up here, bingewatching this real-life version of the Jerry Springer Show in our maple leaf undies, waiting to see whether it’s going to be Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton who gets to call the White House home for the next four years.

The American political landscape is so popcorn-worthy right now it’s not even funny. But on November 9 when our bowl is finally empty and we’ve finished licking all the butter and salt off of our fingers, there are some big issues we’re going to have to face.

As the USA’s neighbour to the north, Canada is going to have to work closely with whoever gets elected as president, and there’s a strong possibility that we’re not going to end up liking either candidate all that much.

Over the past several weeks I’ve thought long and hard about this obligatory election-time editorial and the best way to hypothesize what things might be like in both permutations of the impending presidency.

In the end, with a little help and guidance from my Courier colleagues, I decided to look at this whole situation as if North America were a suburban street, its countries were houses and your new neighbour were about to be Clinton or Trump.

Take a deep breath, people – and remember to send all your hate mail to the Voicebox!

WHAT TO EXPECT IF TRUMP WINS

WHAT TO EXPECT IF CLINTON WINS

THE VOICEBOX with Carlo Javier

Is it disrespectful towards veterans if we set up Christmas decorations before Remembrance Day? Well, back home they start setting up for Christmas in September and don’t tear down until January, so I guess disrespectful is out of the question.

Hey are we collecting rain water right now?

We can sell Vancouver-based water to China like Alberta selling canned fresh air, you know?

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Thanks! We’re working on it!

Really! When’s the next one coming?

Hopefully before the semester ends.

The Voicebox is back! If you have any questions, concerns or any other bitchin’ to do, text it over to our boy Carlo at 778-865-2649. “Please text me,” he says. “No one else does.”

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On a sunny Saturday, just after noon, you’ll see a U-Haul pull up to the house next door. An older couple will get out and meet the landlord in the driveway to exchange the keys and cough up a damage deposit. Monica, the downstairs tenant, will be there to meet them too. She and the husband will really seem to hit it off. The wife won’t look too thrilled about that.

By mid-afternoon, the couple will have unloaded all of their boxes and started on the assembly of some new IKEA furniture.

Before long, they will be barbecuing steaks on the outdoor grill, looking so comfortable and settled in that you’d swear they’d lived in that house before.

That night, you'll take the opportunity to pop outside for a moment to introduce yourself. They'll seem friendly enough, though not as instantly likeable as the previous tenants.

Several days later, a crew of painters will arrive to freshen up the exterior. The couple has chosen a dark shade of blue, which looks quite nice, but then a month later they decide to cover it up with a crimson red colour. Soon, that too is primed back to a sterile white.

“Talk about flip-flopping,” you’ll say to your wife over coffee one morning.

“Hey now. A girl’s allowed to change her mind every once in a while!” she’ll quip.

And you’ll agree… because nobody has more respect for women than you do.

Over the next few months, you’ll start to see less and less of the folks next door.

You’ll never quite be able to tell what their deal is. You’ll be pretty sure the man of the house is retired, and his wife seems to be away a lot for work. On the rare occasion that she’s home, she’ll usually sit on the deck with a glass of sherry, typing away on her laptop. She doesn’t seem very computer savvy though. One morning, you’ll hear her ask Monica if she knows how to empty the Trash Can on a Mac. When she finally figures it out, the shuffling sound will go on for about five minutes.

A few hours later, you’ll see the house surrounded by dozens of armoured police cars. The woman will be taken away in handcuffs. No one will know why.

By Christmas, Monica will have moved upstairs. Everyone will know why.

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It’s 2 o’clock in the morning on a Wednesday. A big orange moving van will screech to a halt in front of the house next door. The hissing of air brakes will rattle your wife and daughter out of bed and soon the three of you will be staring through the living room blinds wondering what the hell is going on. “The landlord must have found someone,” you’ll say wearily. “Let’s get some sleep. Maybe we’ll meet them in the morning.”

No sooner will you have settled back in for the night and you’ll hear a knock on the door. Opening it a crack, you’ll see the shadow of a man in a business suit fiddling with what appears to be a red silk tie. He doesn’t look too happy. “Move your truck,” he barks. “You’re taking up the whole damned street.”

Shuffling awkwardly onto the porch, you’ll explain as diplomatically as possible that your truck is parked in your own driveway and that he has plenty of room for a moving van in his own yard.

“Wrong,” he says. “Don’t you know who I am? I’m going to call a tow truck right now.

They’ll be here in two minutes, they’re going to tow your ass, and you’re going to pay.”

The tow truck never comes.

The next morning, you’ll see a backhoe tearing through the property next door.

The man and his red tie are nowhere to be found, but there are a couple dozen workers haphazardly ripping out the rose garden and basketball court the previous tenants had put in. “What a shame,” you’ll say to your wife.

“Those changes really spruced the place up.”

A week later, the work will have suddenly and inexplicably stopped. The neighbour across the street tells you it’s because the guy refused to pay his bill.

You’re not surprised. Just yesterday, you could have sworn you heard him haggling with a Chinese Food delivery man over a fortune cookie.

As the months go on, it will become clear that you’re living next to the tenant from hell. In every way imaginable, he’ll make you wish you could go back in time and convince your great-great-great-great grandfather not to subdivide his acreage and put a road through it.

Eventually, the landlord will come to her senses and evict him – but only after he begins construction on a 45-foot cement wall without proper approval from the Strata Council.

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CAPILANO TAKES CURRICULUM TO NORTHWEST TERRITORIES Business and tourism instructor visit Inuit communities to host workshops Kevin Kapenda NEWS EDITOR

While the week leading up to Thanksgiving had most faculty and students preparing for mid-term exams, Tourism instructor Caroline Depatie and School of Business instructor Leighan Crowe spent that time teaching workshops in the Northwest Territories. This was the second time this year CapU sent instructors to the north for tourism businessrelated teaching. Tourism instructor Chris Carnovale and School of Business instructors Jorge Oceguera and Jane Raycraft went to Aklavik and Tuktoyaktuk in March.

“Last [semester], one of our instructors, Chris Carnovale, met with [program coordinator] Jackie Challis in March and they identified 10 different areas that could be worked on in six different communities in the Northwest Territories,” said Depatie. “We’ve reached four of these communities so far.”

From Sep. 26 to Oct. 3, Crowe and Depatie spent time in Ulukhaktok, NWT teaching local Inuit populations a wide variety of subjects and skills, most of which are meant to help them capitalize on increasing tourism levels in their community. “We taught five workshops,” said Depatie. “The training included a workshop in what we call opportunity readiness, another in introduction to tourism concepts, one in entrepreneurship, another in pricing and packaging, and the last one in e-commerce.”

After teaching in Ulukhaktok, Crowe and Depatie travelled to Inuvik on Oct. 4, where they administered similar workshops there until the Oct. 6. Inuvik is a much larger community than Ulukhaktok, with the former housing over 4,000 residents, 10 times more than the first place they visited. All of these workshops have been delivered in collaboration with the Inuvialuit Community Economic Development Organization (ICEDO), whose

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CSU LAUNCHES VOLUNTEER REGISTRY Service will pair members with opportunities that allow them to give back and gain exprience Kevin Kapenda NEWS EDITOR

If you are interested lending your time to a specific causes on campus or in your community, the Capilano Students Union has just created a service it hopes will make it easier for members to find their ideal volunteer opportunities. “The volunteer registry is a new service that the CSU has implemented in this past year,” said CSU vice president of university

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mission is to “provide advisory, administrative and advocacy assistance to Inuvialuit businesses, organizations and individuals in their endeavours, including but not limited to management advice and assistance, identifying funding sources and regulatory compliance.”

Perhaps one of the most important workshops they covered was the lesson on e-commerce. According to Crowe, many of the tourists aboard the Crystal Serenity cruise were under the impression Inuit craftspeople and entrepreneurs preferred cash payments, thus inhibiting their ability to buy more than they wanted. “Many of the tourists were incorrect in thinking that everything had to be cash based. Therefore, many of the tourists did not have their credit cards with them,” said Crowe. “That created a bit of a problem and impacted their sales.”

To fix this, Crowe administered an e-commerce course that specifically touched on mobile digital payment technology, so any local with a cell phone could increase their sales through credit transactions. “To deal with this, one of the topics that we covered under e-commerce was using Square,” said Crowe. “That means that anybody with a cell phone and data can then receive payments.

The workshop participants – every single one practiced using a Square, so they could all feel comfortable with it and really see the value of using it now, and in the future.”

WORKING WITH CAPU ALUM In terms of how Carnovale, Crowe and Depatie ended up in the NWT, much of it has to do with CapU’s Strategic Plan, the support of Chris Bottrill, dean for the Faculty of Global and Community Studies, and a lead from one his former students, Jackie Challis, who works for the ICEDO in Inuvik as a program coordinator. “Oddly enough, there was a student who graduated with a tourism degree a few years ago. She participated in the Vietnam and Paraguay initiatives, and she’s now working in Inuvik with the Inuvialuit Economic Development Corporation,” said Crowe. “[Challis] was asked to put on some business training and she thought of Capilano University since she graduated from here and had participated in similar programs.”

As Dean, Chris Bottrill has championed initiatives like the one Crowe and Depatie administered, in which Capilano faculty reaches beyond BC’s and Canada’s borders to deliver programming in indigenous relations, Jullian Kolstee. At its core, the CSU volunteer registry will serve as a door between students and volunteer opportunities. “Essentially, the registry is like a portal between volunteer opportunity providers and volunteers,” said Kolstee.

Furthermore, unlike most volunteer boards, such as those on websites like Craigslist.org, the CSU’s registry will match members with opportunities based on their specific interests, availability and skill-sets, a strategy that is both beneficial to students and their coordinators (people or groups with opportunities). “So the volunteers are our members. They essentially provide us with their skills, their interests and their availability. So they say that these are the opportunities I’m interested in, these are things I already have skills in and these are the times I’m available to volunteer,” said Kolstee. “On the other side, we help find them volunteer opportunities – both at the CSU, but also university-based opportunities

communities. “The tourism program has been connected with community development projects for many years,” explained Crowe.

“It started off with Vietnam, and there’s been one in Paraguay, from those two programs, which were also in the area of tourism and business development for communities.”

Much of the teaching that Carnovale, Crowe and Depatie have done in the NWT is also a strong example of CapU’s strategic plan in action, which lists working collaboratively with indigenous communities as a top priority.

Ironically, for Crowe and Depatie, their week in the NWT was not as cold as most British Columbians would assume. “I was expecting it to be much colder, but it hovered around zero [degrees] – some days it was even above that. It wasn’t that cold at all,” said Crowe.

“It’s a dry cold – and I always laugh because when we came back on Thanksgiving weekend, and I went up to Whistler it was like two degrees and I felt colder there, because of our wet, forest climate,” said Depatie.

The cultural experiences that were gained

by Crowe and Depatie include learning about traditional Inuit clothing, such a mukluks, and indulging in local delicacies. “We ate this! We ate muktuk!” said Crowe as Depatie pointed towards a picture of diced up whale.

“It’s beluga whale. First we ate it raw – then cooked.”

Like most workshops in remote communities, the education levels between the participants varies. We kind of knew that we would have a mix of people in these workshops because it’s open to everybody, from somebody who has a grade school education to somebody with a degree,” said Depatie.

However, the openness and hospitality shown to Crowe and Depatie by the local Inuit community members is what really opened their eyes during their week in NWT. “For me it was just their openness and their willingness to learn, and say things like ‘I kind of don’t understand the thing you just said.’

Another thing was the stories they shared with us about their own lives and upbringings.

As an instructor, I learned to just slow down a bit and really listen to people and their stories, which was really neat,” said Depatie.

through the school and off-campus volunteer opportunities, which are more like career or professional development roles.”

As of now, the volunteer registry is still in its infancy, after having just launched in early 2016. With that said, Kolstee has been encouraged by the membership’s response to it and is confident the service will realize its full potential soon. “We actually did a soft phase one launch in the spring, but that was just kind of the bare bones of the registry, laying down its foundation,” said Kolstee.

“Then in September, we did our phase two launch, with a real push to get members registered so that we could kind of get the whole program rolling. That’s sort of where we’re at right now. We’ve got some people registered, we’re trying to train them up, start matching them with opportunities.

We’re also starting to collect volunteer opportunities to offer [students].”

For Kolstee, the next steps are to keep spreading the word and register more

members, so the registry can sort of become its own student-run, standalone endeavour in the near future. “In phase three, which is kind of going forward, our hope is that we’ll have even more members registered, we’ll have even more volunteer opportunities and it’ll become something that is more selfrun or self-sustainable through the help of volunteers, who will run the registry,” said Kolstee. “It’ll become the first stop for community and university-based volunteer opportunities, so people who are looking for volunteers know that they can find skilled, interested people through the CSU Volunteer Registry. So we’re basically like the program of choice. That’s really phase three. We’re in phase two right now.”

The registry is currently being facilitated by services CSU coordinator Sarah Carrier and services assistant Kelsey Silk, who is also a student. To find out more about the registry and how to sign up, visit csu.bc.ca for more information.

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on tenant rights and what was organized in partnership with TRAC, the Tenant Resource & Advisory Centre. TRAC is a Vancouver based non-profit dedicated to promoting awareness and protection of tenant rights across British Columbia.

This event, according to Carrier, was created because CapU’s students either live with family, or rent housing from landlords, with the absence of residences on campus.

“Workshops like the ‘#adulting: Know Your Rights as a Tenant’ complement our already existing services, and in this case was our housing registry,” said Carrier.

Due to the large number of renters among its members, the CSU felt it was important to provide students with information regarding the rights they have as tenants. “For a number of years, the CSU has heard a number of complaints from students regarding issues that they have been experiencing with their landlords like poor living conditions, issues with damage deposit being returned, services not being provided, etc. We were looking to provide our members with the basic information that they need to know in order to protect their rights when renting.”

Other topics that will be explored through the #adulting series include workshops on

budgeting and personal finance, nutrition, fitness, as well as an overview of the health care system by Studentcare (CSU insurance policy provider), legal support presentation

by Access Justice and a seminar on how to do your taxes online.

As for why students should attend #adulting workshops, Carrier believes that it is important for students to know that there is support out there, as managing both one’s studies and adult life can occasionally be strenuous. “The #adulting series goal is to provide students with more tools for navigating life, as well as to educate, inform and empower them,” said Carrier. “We get that being an adult can be hard, and we are trying to make it a bit easier for our members. Plus, there's always free food and who doesn't like that.”

On Friday Nov. 4, the Capilano Students’ Union held a Board of Directors meeting, in which an upcoming town hall consultation with members regarding the construction of a new CSU building was approved, among other business.

The town hall on the new student union building (SUB) was slated to be hosted on Nov. 22 in the CSU Library Lounge.

However, due to conflicting events during that week, including the CSU Special General Meeting and unveiling of the university’s redesigned branding by CapU’s administration, the town hall has been postponed until a new date, most likely in January 2017, as decided by CSU vice president internal, Amina El Mantari.

In her planning tool the board, El Mantari has mandated the participation of at least 25 students from a wide variety of faculties and programs as the minimum benchmark for the town hall’s success.

This project dates back to February of this year, when the Board of Directors approved contracting company Stantec’s building proposal visioning for the CSU’s new SUB. Light lunch will be provided to members who attend.

at nearly all universities across the country, with 67 teams, and is committed to supporting young entrepreneurs who are committed to advancing the economic, social and environmental wellbeing of Canada.

Enactus Capilano would use the $650 to host a competition focused on providing team members with event planning and execution experience. The resolution to release the funds to Enactus Capilano was approved by the board.

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Among the other items on the meeting’s agenda included approving a resolution put forward by the Student Life Committee to release $650 for the Enactus Capilano “team”, of which half would come from the pool of funds devoted to clubs. Enactus Canada is an organization that is present

After having the planning tool (cost and logistical breakdown) for the Masquerade amended at the last Student Life Committee meeting, which is chaired by VP of Student Life Beatriz Miralles, it was recommended that the new amount of $4,952 be released from the budget for the event. The resolution

was carried by the Board.

Miralles had previously budgeted $4,492 for the event in the planning tool presented to the board last month, but extra rental time ($200) and liability insurance ($300) has seen the Masquerade’s cost inflate by $500. The Masquerade will take place at the Vancouver Art Gallery on Friday Nov. 25.

Only 100 students will be able to attend the soiree and tickets will cost either $15 or $20, depending on how early students purchase.

Reforming Governance Structure Also discussed at this meeting was a resolution to discontinue the Environmental Justice and Social Justice Coordinator positions and create a new executive post known as VP of Equity and Sustainability.

The resolution to create the new executive role was proposed by the Policy Committee, which is chaired by El Mantari, and would require consent from at least 75 members to

CSU kicks off #adulting series with tenant rights forum Kevin Kapenda NEWS EDITOR

On Monday Oct. 24, the Capilano Students Union hosted the first of seven presentations meant to help members navigate the various responsibilities that arise in their life off campus.

“The CSU spaces are often booked by different groups on campus to hold events, activities, and workshops,” said Sarah Carrier in a September report to the CSU Board. “To better use the space for the CSU’s own purposes, it is recommended that the CSU start holding regularly programmed events in its lounges. The focus of these workshops will be to provide our members with more information and tools to help them in their adult life.”

The first forum of the series focused

TENANTS’ RIGHTS During the forum, TRAC facilitator Emma Lazo discussed many issues that students and other vulnerable tenants encounter with aggressive landlords. Among them are the grounds on which landlords can come to the property during a tenancy.

According to Lazo, landlords must provide

24 hour written notice before visiting as per BC tenancy law, known as the Residential Tenancy Act, something they often neglect to do for intimidation purposes.

Another violation Lazo presented that landlords often use to scare off vulnerable tenants or prospective renters from disadvantaged groups, such as students, is to ask for personal information they don’t need, for credit checks or unreasonable compliance measures. Driver’s licenses, social insurance numbers, banking and credit card information as well as criminal record checks are all things Lazo hears being asked for too often, mostly as an intimidation tactic. Lazo also went on to state that the only information needed to carry out a third party credit check, which is legal for landlords to do, is a “date of birth and legal name”.

Lazo concluded her workshop by urging students in attendance to visit tenants. bc.ca, and take TRAC’s Renting it Right self-paced course, where they can learn everything they need to know about tenant rights. If you would like to learn more about TRAC and their resources for tenants, you can visit the website mentioned above or phone them directly at (604)-255-0546.

WHAT’S NEW WITH THE CSU? Board of Directors approves town hall consultation on new student union building Kevin Kapenda NEWS EDITOR

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The next CSU Board of Directors meeting will take place on Friday Nov. 18. If you would like to find more about any of the programs or events mentioned in this piece, you can do so by visiting http://csu.bc.ca/.

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be enacted. On Nov. 22, the CSU will host a Special General Meeting (SGM) to amend and add new bylaws, such as the creation of a new executive portfolio on the Board of Directors.

Jullian Kolstee, VP of university relations, spoke in favour of the creation of this position, as did resident and VP external Sacha Fabry. On the other hand, incumbent social justice coordinator Divya Nanray and newly appointed, non-voting environmental justice coordinator Owen Sigurdsson raised concerns regarding the impact discontinuation of their positions could have on the constituents they represent on campus.

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CAPILANO SCHOOL OF BUSINESS PRESENTS SUIT UP Annual student networking event to be held on Nov. 17 Rachel D'Sa CONTRIBUTOR

Making and sustaining quality connections has become a vital skill over the years, becoming just as important as attaining a business degree. Whether individuals are looking to work an office job or be the next Mark Zuckerberg, starting out as an entrepreneur can be challenging. Without connections or experience in the world of business to go on, it may be hard to land an interview straight out of university with no previous job experience to print out on shiny new copying paper, in the

form of a resume. With the competitive job market, attaining a career has become all about connections and inside passes into otherwise exclusive opportunities.

On Nov. 17, the annual School of Business event, Suit Up, will be held in the CSU Library Lounge (LB 195) from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The purpose of the event is to give Capilano University’s business students the optimal opportunity to further themselves while kick-starting their entrance into the competitive field of business, all to the sweet hip hop and r&b tunes of WE Day’s red carpet mixer, DJ O Show.

The largest networking event on campus is expected to bring in over 150 attendees.

Event-goers can expect to mingle and network with fellow students and business faculty in a comfortable and fun environment, with the chance to win raffle prizes including gift cards and Vancouver Whitecaps tickets.

Suit Up organizer and senior business and marketing student Shelby Stefaniuk

explained that through networking events such as Suit Up, CapU’s School of Business is giving its students the advantage of getting to further understand the program they are enrolled in and all of its benefits.

“It’s step one for people starting to network, and the School of Business understands that networking and having personality and pizzazz is a very important element,” she said. “And that’s what the business students at Cap are all about. That’s why everyone wants to hire Capilano graduates.”

According to Stefaniuk, for first and second year students the event is all about practicing networking, as it enables students starting out in the program to talk to faculty with one-on-one-attention outside of the classroom. For third and fourth year students, it is a great social event in an entertaining environment, where business students can chat with like-minded, driven and goal-oriented people.

“This year I would say Suit Up focuses

more on the practice of networking. This being Capilano’s only social networking event on campus, it lets students and staff mingle,” said Stefaniuk. With a new batch of students entering the program every year, there are always new people to network with. Some may even meet the right connection that could help them land an interview in the future.

Tickets to attend Suit Up can be purchased online through Eventbrite and on-campus. For exact times and locations of the ticket sales, be sure to check Suit Up 2016’s Facebook event page. The $10 ticket includes one free drink, food and a free headshot by Chris Critchley, an exceptional photographer and director of digital marketing for the CapU Marketing Association (CAPUMA). Students are encouraged to dress professionally and to put on their best-tailored frocks and shined up Common Projects. Admittance to Suit Up could very well be a golden ticket into the enthralling world of business.

more depth, before leading the group in a 20-minute meditation.

For Sohi, mindfulness is key, and meditation is just one way of achieving it. “With mindfulness, there [are] three essential ingredients: awareness, so noticing; the present; and the third one, which is huge, is acceptance. As I notice what’s actually happening right now, that’s mindfulness,” Sohi explained.

As a counsellor, she understands the importance of being mindful. On a daily basis Sohi listens to students at CapU who are struggling in their personal and academic lives.

Anxiety is a prevalent issue among students. The average student goes through a daily gauntlet of stress-inducing activities.

The anxiety caused by this only further

supports Sohi’s emphasis on mind-body connection. “When we’re worried about something, the signal we’re sending our body is danger, and so we respond in that way. So if somebody is having a panic attack, that’s fight or flight.” said Sohi.

Not only is anxiety a mental health issue, but according to Sohi, research now shows a connection between anxiety and physical illnesses like cancer and heart disease.

“We’re not going to be mindful all the time, that’s not how we’re designed,” said Sohi, suggesting that students should approach mindfulness at three levels: micro, macro and meta. On the micro level she encourages students to set aside time each day to be mindful. Sit quietly and have a moment to yourself to reflect, whether it’s a 20-minute

meditation with quiet music or taking an extra five minutes over tea in the morning.

The macro level involves scheduling a stressfree activity once a week, such as a sport.

“People who are severely depressed, if you compare giving them anti-depressants, doing therapy, or exercising, exercise actually consistently has better results,” said Sohi.

The meta level is much broader, a yearly schedule that takes into account vacation or down time.

Sohi will be conducting Mindfulness and Meditation workshops every Thursday morning at 11:30 am in BR 126 for the rest of the semester. There is also an upcoming seminar called Finding Happiness, which will be hosted by CapU counsellor Sue Wallster in LB 119 on Nov. 9.

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Sitting at the back of a classroom in Capilano University’s Birch building, head facing the ground, eyes closed and breathing deeply, meditation could easily be confused with sleep. But in fact, it leads to one being more cognitively awake than normal. This was the scene at one of the CapU Counselling department’s weekly Mindfulness and Meditation sessions. Around the room was an incredibly diverse selection of people. One woman wore a perfectly fitting power suit with another in full bohemian-chic. In between them was one of CapU’s Economics professors.

University can be one of the most stressful times in a person’s life. Many students are balancing a full course load, a job, social lives and other commitments. To top it off, Vancouver is an exorbitantly priced city, so you can bet money is usually on students’ minds.

While the student life may be overwhelming at times, Sukhi Sohi, a member of CapU’s Counselling department and one of the organizers of the Mindfulness and Meditation sessions, says that how one handles their situation becomes more important than the situation itself. “There’s research where they can actually see what’s happening in the brain. Through MRI’s, they’ll look at the brains of people who are meditating and they can actually see changes in the brain, in the grey matter,” she said. “If you’re thinking positive thoughts, different parts of your brain are being activated.

Different chemicals, different hormones, and so more and more that’s showing the mindbody connection.”

Each week, Sohi hosts a session discussing a different form of meditation. On Oct. 27 she discussed loving kindness meditation.

“We’re here to cultivate positive emotions,” she began. She ventured on, comparing the human mind to a garden that needs constant maintenance and attention to remain healthy. She went on to discuss the style in

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PHOTOS: THE BEST OF CAPILANO UNIVERSITY'S HALLOWEEN COSTUMES On Oct. 31, the Capilano Students' Union hosted a costume parade in the Birch Cafeteria for students and faculty alike to show off their Halloween flair. The catwalk was packed with contestants eager to show off their costumes to win a range of prizes. We encountered emojis, jet laggers and beloved cartoon favourites: Kim Possible, Sheigo and Frozen’s Anna and Elsa.

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THE GOLDEN GOAL Blues Men win second straight Provincial gold medal Carlo Javier MANAGING EDITOR

Storylines were abundant in the gold medal matchup between the Capilano Blues Men’s Soccer Team and the Douglas College Royals this past weekend at the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex West.

The Blues were coming off an undefeated season in the Pacific Western Athletic Association (PACWEST) conference – a record that is only smeared by two ties, both coming against the Royals.

The two teams were also coming off starkly different paths to the gold medal game: the Blues had resoundingly defeated the Quest University Kermodes in their semi-final matchup, while the Royals pulled off an improbable upset against the higher-ranked Vancouver Island University Mariners in their own semi-final bout.

The gold medal match itself had no shortage of drama.

Just mere minutes after kick-off, a nasty fog quickly enveloped the field and rendered the game nearly invisible. Yet despite visibility issues, the Blues capitalized on their opportunities, with eventual Top Midfielder recipient, Edris Najm, finding the back of the net in just the second minute of the game.

The Blues continued to fare better than the Royals as the fog got heavier, with Top Forward recipient Keith Jackson heading in a goal off a corner kick in the 25th minute.

Just three minutes later, a brilliant play by Jackson and striker Kamyar Amini led to a laser-sharp goal by striker Kristian YliHietanen, extending the Blues’ lead to three.

All three goals were set up by eventual MVP Nicolas Morello, who found ways to delight the crowd with a dazzling array of moves, and maintain his poise and stout defensive play.

However, the game was far from over.

After the halftime break, the rejuvenated Royals returned to the field with vigour, flying from end to end and winning most 50/50 balls. Although they were down by three, the Royals’ physicality and chippiness kept the game relatively close. Multiple yellow cards were handed in the early portion of the second half, and the action was momentarily delayed after Blues midfielder Karoush Faritous hit the deck hard. “We’ve seen it in previous games this year when teams come out of the half trying to get under our skin and trying to make us crack but it’s not an easy task to do with the experience and skill we have,” Jackson said. “Their yapping and studs up tackles were annoying but not enough to throw us completely off our game.”

A header by striker Salah Hawsawi would have pushed the Blues’ lead to four, but it was ultimately ruled offside.

The Royals finally got on the scoreboard after a shot from the left wing by forward Devon Jones found the back of the net. Mere

moments later, a formation shift by the Royals confounded the Blues and forward Rajan Purewal managed to sneak a goal in to keep Douglas’s hopes alive.

Tensions flared even more towards the end of the game when Royals midfielder Jaskaran Minhas received a red card after an altercation with Yli-Hietanen. Minutes later, Minhas was banished from the park to the dressing rooms after continuing to jaw with the Blues’ bench from the spectator plaza. Although the tense nature of the game was palpitating, head coach Paul Dailly and assistant coach Steven Welle were keen on keeping the Blues’ composure together. Both team captain Devan Woolley and goalkeeper Hudson Nelles were also visibly working to keep the team focused on securing the win. “It speaks to the character and experience of our team to stay together and not get caught up in their amateur antics,” Jackson said.

At the 78-minute mark of the match, Jackson finally put an end to the Royals’ hope

with breakaway goal, securing the Blues their second consecutive provincial championship.

The Blues are now preparing for the second straight appearance in the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) Soccer Championships. Although the Blues dominated their way through the PACWEST, Jackson understands that the Nationals are an entirely different story, “We haven’t seen the teams from other provinces play this season which makes it hard for us to prepare and plan for,” he said. “Additionally, we’re heading to Fort McMurray in November which means it’s going to be very cold and possibly snowing, something we’re not used to here on the coast.”

Last year, the unheralded Capilano Blues Men’s Soccer Team managed to battle their way all the way to the national gold medal game. This year, the Blues are not only entering the national stage undefeated in their conference. They are also coming back with retribution in mind – they are coming for gold.

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Resiliency reigns supreme in team’s first postseason appearance in five years Carlo Javier MANAGING EDITOR

After nearly upsetting the top-ranked Douglas College Royals in the semi-finals of the Pacific Western Athletic Association (PACWEST) Soccer Championships, the Capilano Blues Women’s Soccer Team made sure they were not going home empty handed.

In the ensuing battle for the bronze medal, the Blues defeated the Langara Falcons 2-1 in a gritty match that saw the two teams trade shots during the penalty session. After three exchanges, rookie midfielder Dominika Paige finally found the back of the net, securing the bronze medal for the Blues.

The bronze medal win marks a roaring comeback for the Blues women’s soccer

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program. It has been five years since the team last made the postseason and during that time, the Blues have often found themselves dwelling in the PACWEST cellar. This year’s return and medal finish was made even sweeter after an off-season overhaul that left the team with just one player with at least three years of experience in collegiate soccer. “The bronze is very special to the team considering the fact that our team is made up of first and second year players,” said team captain Jessica Price.

“For us to get this bronze medal brings a lot of confidence to the team and will bring a new level of playing in the years to come.”

Price has exhibited much-needed

leadership over the young roster throughout the season and her work during the playoffs was no different. Her play on the defensive end is one of the cornerstones of the team’s identity, but her resilience is an even more permeating presence on the team.

“As captain you want to show an example to your team to keep on going forward no matter what,” she said.

The Blues also saw all star midfielder/ forward Taylor Einhorn continue her stellar play well into the playoffs. Einhorn has been the Blues’ unquestioned go-to-scorer this season. The second-year player finished fourth in the regular season in goals, and added another two during the playoffs. For

her efforts, Einhorn was named Player of the Game in the bronze medal match, as well as the tournament’s overall Top Forward at the culmination of the tournament.

Although the Blues may have faced the perils of youth this season, the experience they received in qualifying – and medalling – at the PACWEST Soccer Championships can only help the growth of a team that can be special moving forward. “I believe that this year was a great building year for the team and that next year if we have the same group of girls we will be able to go far in the league,” said Price. “We have finally gotten a taste for winning and I think that we will soon be holding up that trophy in years to come.”

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ONE ON ONE: BRITTANY WERTMAN Combo guard adds dynamic scoring to rising Blues Women’s Team Carlo Javier MANAGING EDITOR

A forgettable rookie year with the Langara Falcons had Brittany Wertman on the brink of leaving the game of basketball entirely. “I actually wanted to quit basketball because it wasn’t something that I was loving anymore,” said the combo guard. Fortunately for the Capilano Blues Women’s Basketball Team, the recruiting work by head coach Ramin Sadaghiani managed to persuade the talented guard to stay with the game – this time with a Blues jersey.

“I loved it,” Wertman said about her initial reaction upon joining the team this past off-season. “It was just so much more of a team, a family, everyone was together and supportive.”

The change in scenery has also been a welcome transition for Wertman, citing Capilano University’s openness and brightness to be a much more appealing environment than Langara’s oft-dark confines. Moreover, Wertman points out the community that the Blues program fosters. “At Langara, I wouldn’t stay at school and hangout. Here, I’m usually spending my days here with everyone, hanging out with a ton of people,” she said.

Even the class timeframes have been a positive shift for the student-athlete.

CapU’s one-hour and 20-minute classes pose a stark difference from Langara’s one hour and 50-minute lecture, and for Wertman, the shorter classroom time has allowed for her to be better focused in her classes. “I find I’m able to focus more in classes because I’m not in there for as long,” she said. “I’ve been taking school a lot more seriously. School’s my number one priority now.”

On the court, Wertman’s contributions are undeniable.

Her extensive experience playing both backcourt positions allows her to seamlessly transition in roles. Depending on the line up, the match up and the game plan, Wertman can smoothly shift from a facilitator to a scorer — an ability that has allowed her to mesh well with her new teammates. “She is going to have a significant role on our team because she can play the point guard and shooting guard position,” said Sadaghiani. “She played point guard most of her high school career so she has great basketball IQ and understands the game very well.

She also has the ability to score so her versatility makes her very valuable to the team.”

So far, Wertman has been just as advertised. In the Blues’ 66-57 season opener victory over the Douglas College Royals, Wertman played 33 minutes – second most on the team and despite coming off the bench. Although she shot a pedestrian 2/7 from beyond the arc, Wertman’s all-around play, particularly outside shooting, provides

the Blues with what potentially can be a dangerous backcourt rotation that includes point guards Ashley De La Cruz Yip and Reiko Ohama, as well as shooting guard Sherrie Errico. Her spacing particularly complements De La Cruz Yip’s game, who’s often tasked to be the team’s primary distributor. “In games, we’ve been on the court together and it’s been great,” Wertman said. “I just move to the two spot and be more of a scorer instead of being a distributor.”

There are still holes to fix, however.

Wertman understands that despite her advanced game on the offensive end, she still needs to work on her defence to help propel the Blues to the top of the Pacific Western Athletic Association (PACWEST). “I’ve been feeling slower than what I usually am so I want to improve my defence,” she said.

For now, the talented guard is looking to do what does best to help push the Blues closer to their championship goals. “I mean, I love the three-point line,” she said.

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Shame, self-destruction and the silent mental health epidemic

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Often when we speak about suicide, it’s already too late. We don’t allow ourselves to have those painful conversations until after somebody has taken their own life.

It was as if the internet let out a collective sigh of relief when Kid Cudi revealed to the world in a Facebook post that he was checking into rehab for his depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts. We felt relief because instead of finding out that it was too late; we had hope that things were going to be okay.

The hip hop artist’s admission prompted mental health advocates to create the Twitter hashtag #YouGoodMan, to create a space for black folks to discuss contemporary notions of masculinity, race and mental health. Cudi’s words resonated with hundreds of thousands of fans instantly.

He said what we usually aren’t able to tell ourselves: I deserve to have peace. I deserve to be happy.

Mental health is stigmatized, especially among men. As much as our generation wants to think we’ve gotten away from outdated, traditional gender norms, society has never stopped telling boys to man up. The narrative is not always explicit, but men hear it all the time. Don’t show pain, don’t show weakness. Internalize your feelings or you will be judged. To talk about them, even with close friends or family, goes against everything you’ve been taught.

Unfortunately this can lead to heartbreaking outcomes. Statistics Canada shows that suicide rates among men are three times higher than the suicide rate among women. A recent survey conducted by researchers at the University of British Columbia found that 23 per cent of Canadian men have considered or attempted suicide, while 57 per cent would feel embarrassed to seek help for mental health issues.

When it comes to ethnic minorities, the situation is more severe. Suicide and selfinflicted injury is the leading cause of deaths among First Nations people under the age of 44, according to an article in the Guardian, which also states that suicide rates are 10 times higher for indigenous young men and 21 times higher for

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indigenous young women than their nonindigenous counterparts.

Ciaran Healy knows that it’s far more common for people to struggle with mental health issues than we’re lead to believe. He recalled waking up in the hospital two years ago, seeing his arm covered in knife wounds and thinking I fucked up’.

“It’s easy to see that as a starting point, but I had to look back and do a lot of thinking in the hospital. It kind of felt like jail,” Healy said, reflecting on his behaviour patterns that had started with getting into drugs and drinking to cope with what was later diagnosed as agitated depression.

“I know people don’t like to talk about it. I see people looking at my scars all the time. It doesn’t bother me.

I would probably still be in the hospital if it bothered me,” Healy said. “I had to take a step back and build a support system with my friends and family.

That has kind of worked. I have my bad moments, but I don’t want to go back.”

Due to limited resources in health care, young men often feel no one takes their situation seriously unless they’re perceived as being highrisk for committing suicide. Without visible physical injuries that demand emergency attention, patients often are expected to wait weeks or months for proper treatment. BC’s current healthcare plans don’t adequately cover treatment for patients who are dealing with mental health issues. Healy feels that especially for young black men there are no easy ways to have a conversation about whether the government is doing enough to help people.

“Maybe why black men such as myself aren’t that comfortable right now is because of everything that’s going on in the States. It feels like some days we wake up, we watch the news and [think], ‘Is this 2016? Or 1962?’ We feel like it’s almost legal to kill a black man anyways, so how much value do they put on your life? Sure, we live in Canada, but I can’t lie to you and say that I haven’t been searched by cops before just because I look like someone.

There’s a mistrust of government.

Guys like me aren’t gonna go to the same arm that’s killing them and ask

for help,” said Healy.

Healy feels that if there were more men and people of diverse minorities working in mental health, it would help bridge the gap. He just doesn’t believe it would be easy for young men to seek help from a female counsellor.

He remembers putting on a brave act in high school because he felt the counsellors were out of touch, and it’s hard to be receptive to someone who looks like they have no idea what you’ve been through. He also reasons that the same resources should be available to everyone, regardless of whether someone grew up in the poorest part of the city or the wealthiest.

“I just thought, if I don’t have enough money for therapy, then I’ve just got to do without. There’s got to be a lot of impressionable kids out there who feel like if they don’t have the money then they must not feel like they’re not worth it. I was tired of going to high school and talking to people, you know… just being judged,” he said.

To help students achieve personal well-being and academic success, Capilano University’s counselling centre provides free resources, individual counselling and workshops. Keith Lam, the coordinator and one of six counsellors in the department, sees a need for society to normalize conversation about mental health among young men. He knows how harmful it can be to persistently teach them that nothing can or should cause emotional distress.

At CapU, it’s not uncommon for male students to seek support from counselling services. However, in society, there is still a sense of conflict between masculine identity and asking for help. Young men may feel that they are supposed to be the helpers, that they should be able to fix anything. If a person can’t understand or share how they are feeling, they won’t get the help they need. We’re more likely to think there’s something wrong with them, rather than realizing that something is affecting them. “The person is already suffering and they don’t get understanding, empathy or support,” Lam explained.

But there are still various ways in which young men can support

each other, even if they aren’t up for a conversation. Whether it’s playing sports, video games or going for a walk.

It can start with a simple, “Hey, let’s do something together.”

For Healy, writing a journal was a simple way to make sure he wasn’t internalizing negative thoughts. “A lot of the time, we don’t think we’re improving.

You could be making steps each day.

You’re not going to see it tomorrow, but you’re going to see it by the end of the year,” he said.

More than ever, our generation seems to be pushing for spaces in society where stigmatized issues are understood.

Artists are transcending the traditional boundaries of emotional expression, and they’re doing so more visibly than ever.

In music, film, art and media, audiences are open to vulnerability and exploring the inherent fallibility of being human.

Healy believes that the conversation is becoming prevalent in music, but he doesn’t see it carrying into other platforms. Hip hop has long been an outlet for black men to express their thoughts and emotions, but there has to be ways to continue the conversation.

Despite the positive response to #YouGoodMan, he hasn't seen a big change in perception on social media, or within black culture.

“Right now, everyone wants to be the coolest out there. Everyone wants to be on the block. It sounds sad, but right now what’s cool is either doing drugs or how many pairs of Yeezys you can cop,” said Healy. “If you’re not out here trying to have 10 girlfriends or $1,000 coats, you’re nobody. Every guy wants to be Kanye but no one wants to be themselves.”

Seeing prominent black artists like Kid Cudi, Frank Ocean, Kendrick Lamar and Chance the Rapper use their music to shed a light on mental health issues has been inspirational to so many young men who look up to them. But he knows that change will take time.

“The one thing you learn is that the fight is never over. Everyone’s gonna have a different healing process because no one has the same brain as anyone else. You’re gonna learn every day. The best thing you can do is keep an open mind and keep trying.”

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DONALD TRUMP Hassan Merali CONTRIBUTOR

On June 16, 2015, Donald J. Trump, the real estate tycoon, reality television star, celebrity, and noted Obama birther, announced his candidacy for President of the United States of America. At the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the big red button that says “In Case of Emergency” was pushed: this was not a drill.

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In his announcement that he was running for president, Trump outlined his simple policy to deal with securing the southern border against illegal immigration: build a giant wall. In that section of his speech, he said Mexican immigrants were, “Bringing drugs.

They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.

And some, I assume, are good people.”

It’s because of these generalizations that people on both sides of the political spectrum accuse Trump of being racist and xenophobic.

CNN set up the Republican primaries like a wrestling match, flashing each candidate’s mug with a pre-fight expression on their face as a voice-over actor said dramatically: “17 go in. Only one will emerge.” The foreshadowing was all too accurate. During the debates against the more experienced, qualified and serious contenders on the Republican side, Trump was loud.

He was brash. He played the roll of the blue-collar billionaire. Republican primary voters ate it all up. They loved him. Trump made fun of people, called them weak, got down in the mud and dragged his opponents with him.

Senators, governors, a former Fortune 500 company CEO and a prestigious neurosurgeon were all bested by the media savvy, bombastic business man.

For Capilano University political science professor Ed Lavalle, the Trump phenomenon is representative of a bigger movement. Lavalle is more interested in Trump’s supporters than he is Trump’s erratic and unusual behaviour. Lavalle explained that after the economic downturn of the 1990s, the Republican party tried to rid itself of its elitist connotation by recruiting lots of working class white voters and Evangelical Christians. This makes up the core base of Trump’s supporters today, many of whom have felt the economic recessions the hardest and feel like the system is rigged against them.

Just like Bernie Sanders did on the left, Trump has taken advantage of this sentiment and eschewed a populist message that’s contradicted traditional Republican policies, like support for free-trade agreements. Trump’s attacks on the financial elite, of which most

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would count Trump a part of, given his vast fortune, were more similar to Bernie Sanders’ platform than they were most Republicans. “He’s a bit of an enigma,” said Lavalle, who also said that the reason why some of Trump’s supporters stick by their candidate through all the scandals is because of his populist message.

To his supporters, Trump’s sticking up for them by going against the establishment in Washington and the financial elite; in return, they are a little more generous with what they allow him to say. However, not all have been able to defend some of the scandals that have afflicted the Trump campaign.

just 17 per cent saying they’ll vote for him and nearly 70 per cent saying they’ll cast a ballot for Clinton, according to a poll conducted by Latino Decisions.

In 2005, Trump was talking to Access Hollywood co-host Billy Bush and he thought his microphone was off. It wasn’t. On the tape that leaked just days before the second presidential debate, Trump can be heard saying the following about women: “Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.” As if the disturbing revelation that Trump

SCANDALS Few could have predicted how Trump would launch a brazen campaign with broad populist appeal that has broken through established political norms and taken Washington by surprise. From the beginning of his candidacy he has been involved in too many scandals to name, but here are a couple big ones.

After Republican nominee Mitt Romney lost to President Obama in 2012, the party did a post-election autopsy report and laid out some recommendations for how to win presidential elections in the future. At the top of the list was: becoming more diverse through outreach to minority communities, especially Hispanics, and comprehensive immigration reform. In a hilarious twist of irony for the GOP, their 2016 nominee has offended the Latino community at large and won the nomination mostly by his hard stance on the USA-Mexico border. He’s disparaged many minority communities, but especially Muslims and illegal Mexican immigrants. Even though Trump insists he’s talking about Mexican immigrants who come into the country illegally, his attacks have felt like a broader attack on Latinos and immigrants in general.

This has led Trump to poll at record lows with Hispanic Americans, with

basically said that sexual assault is okay if you’re a celebrity wasn’t enough, a total of 11 women came forward to accuse Trump of sexually assaulting them. So not only was he caught on tape bragging about how he touched women without their consent, 11 women confirmed he’d done just that. This is in addition to Trump going on trial later this month for allegedly raping a girl who was 13 at the time. Trump clearly didn’t start out with a sterling reputation among women, but these allegations have made it even worse.

In addition to that, Trump has also referred to the menstrual cycle of a debate moderator. He’s openly questioned why the USA can’t water-board enemies, use nuclear weapons and target the families of terrorists. Trump has criticized a Gold Star family, a huge no-no in American politics. He’s used his Twitter account quite controversially, retweeting tweets from White Supremacist accounts, and retweeting unflattering pictures of a candidate’s wife. The list could easily fill a whole edition of the Capilano Courier by itself. But, as Ed Lavalle noted, he’s built up quite a following, and whatever happens on Nov. 8, that following will still be there on Nov. 9.

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HILLARY CLINTON Tia Kutschera Fox CONTRIBUTOR

Nov. 8 is Election Day in the US, and practically the whole world is holding its breath to see who will be elected the next president. Those supporting Hillary Clinton seem to be split into two camps; either, “first female president!” or, “anyone but Trump!” The first group sees Clinton as a strong, qualified candidate while the second group views her simply as the lesser of two evils.

But is Clinton either of these things? Is she both? To answer, we need to take a closer look.

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qualified than Trump in this capacity, but what if she had to run against a different opponent? Professor in Political Science, Thomas Heilke, of UBC Kelowna, weighed in on the matter. He said Clinton is, “without a doubt smarter than Trump, and a legitimate candidate in her own right.”

But if compared to a more conventional candidate such as Mitt Romney or Jeb Bush, “My prediction is that she would be in a great deal of trouble. She’s not the best candidate the Democrats have put forward.” This was demonstrated back in 2008 when Clinton ran for the Democratic nomination in the primaries, and lost to a relatively unknown politician against all expectations. Despite Clinton’s experience and credentials, Barack Obama became the Democratic nominee and the 44th POTUS. A contributing factor to this, Heilke explained, is due to Clinton’s “woodenness” and lack of a vision. Charisma and likability are just as important as one’s qualifications when running for public office.

Heilke goes on to say that, as president, Clinton would probably be “a predictable, fairly decent president.” It’s not exciting, but boring is better than crazy. Basically, Clinton has been presented with a window of opportunity unlike any other in presidential history. Compared to Trump, she’s the clear and solid choice. If asked why she should be POTUS, Clinton could simply point to Trump and say “Because I’m not him”, and it would be a pretty effective argument. If Clinton were running against a stronger opponent, her chances of winning wouldn’t be nearly as high. One advantage Clinton holds is that any scandal she is connected to still looks better than anything Trump does. But voters shouldn’t look at them through the lens of Trump insanity. Scandals need to be scrutinized, especially when the highest public office of the USA is at stake. There have been three main scandals surrounding Clinton during her campaign.

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During the Benghazi Senate Committee investigation it was discovered that Clinton was using a private email server for her official communications, rather than using a government server. Many of the emails were retroactively marked as classified, and by having a private server Clinton had complete control over which emails she turned over to the government. Critics point out she could be potentially hiding emails to avoid freedom of information laws.

This scandal was investigated by the FBI and after a year, on July 5, Director James B. Comey stated, “In looking back at our investigations into mishandling or removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts.” The Department of Justice decided to comply with the FBI’s recommendation and Clinton was not criminally charged.

However, the case was recently reopened on Oct. 28, 2016 due to Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin’s estranged husband Anthony Weiner being caught with emails connected to Clinton’s investigation. This is months after the claimed closed case, and only weeks before the election. Emotions and accusations are running high and at the moment not a lot of information has made it to the public. It is possible that Clinton was let off too easy the first time, but by the same token many other politicians have been caught inappropriately using private email addresses while in public office. Jeb Bush and Colin Powell were both caught doing this. It doesn’t excuse Clinton as much as demonstrate that Clinton isn’t evil — she’s just similar to many other politicians.

There’s also a story floating around social media claiming that Clinton volunteered to defend a rapist against a 12 year old girl.

While working the case, Clinton allegedly blamed the girl and laughed about the case later. The story is partly true — the rape victim is Kathy Shelton, who made her name public last year in an interview saying she “Cannot forgive Clinton for defending her rapist.” However, this scandal has been shown to be false. A previous interview Shelton gave anonymously in 2008 during the democratic primaries records her saying Clinton was “just doing her job.”

The truth is that Clinton was appointed to be Thomas Taylor’s defense lawyer.

She asked not to be on the case but was refused and after being appointed she did everything she could to fully represent Taylor in accordance with the sixth amendment. She did indeed laugh about a very specific part of the case in an interview later. It was regarding a polygraph test that Taylor passed even though he pleaded guilty, which Clinton said, ”forever destroyed my faith in [polygraphs].” At worst, Clinton laughing was in bad taste. Not exactly scandal worthy. At best, Clinton was upholding the sixth amendment and doing her best in an unfortunate situation.

Clinton’s scandals could without a doubt undergo more rigorous scrutiny, but it doesn’t change the face that Clinton is still a decent candidate. For Clinton, she has to know this is the best chance she’s ever had to become president.

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On Sept. 11, 2012, the US Diplomatic Compound in Benghazi, Libya, came under attack and four Americans were killed. As secretary of state at the time Clinton was accused of not properly protecting Americans and also accused of having foreknowledge of the attack as a terrorist operation. Clinton provided a now infamous soundbite during the first round of inquiries regarding the committees’ fixation of the attacker’s motive, “What difference, at this point, does it make?

It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again,” she said.

In Oct 2015, the House Benghazi Committee interrogated Clinton again for an unprecedented 11 hours, spending $4.7 million in taxpayer’s money to pay for the inquiry. Clinton stayed steady the entire time, repeating her position that she had relied on the judgment of the State Department’s security professionals.

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Clinton was involved in politics as early as 1964, campaigning for presidential nominee Barry Goldwater.

She graduated from Yale University with a law degree, married Bill Clinton in 1975, and became First Lady in 1993.

When she became senator in 1999 she was the first, First Lady to run for public office. In 2008 she decided to try for another first — first female president.

She lost the democratic nomination to Barack Obama, but was later appointed Secretary of State by (now president) Obama. In 2015, Clinton again ran to be the Democratic Party’s nomination and won against Bernie Sanders. If elected, Clinton will not only be the first female president, but the first First Lady to be POTUS. This would give her unique perspective and experience in the position that previous presidents haven’t had.

It’s easy to say Clinton is more

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traditional cooking. I learned about them years ago, and had forgotten about them for a while. When I was trying to make doughnuts, they were all tasting like cupcakes, just cake doughnuts. I remembered that I learned how to make Yorkshire pudding years ago, and I fooled around with the recipe for a while until my stepdad got hold of my grandma for the recipe. It just took a lot of practice.

GLAZED AND CONFUSED DOUGHNUTS A Yorkshire Pudding twist on the Classic Milana Bucan CONTRIBUTOR

Sheena Botelho is the owner and operator of Glazed and Confused Doughnut Company.

It was established in 2015 with the intent of spreading the love of doughnuts through Vancouver in a unique way. Glazed and Confused doughnuts are based on a classic English Yorkshire Pudding recipe, made from the most basic ingredients and then baked – yes, baked – which means that they are a healthier version of a deepfried doughnut. With a soft, squishy inside and a crispy outer layer, they are topped with fruit glazes or simply smothered in cinnamon and sugar, to keep you coming back for more.

CC: What made you start your own doughnut delivery business?

SB: It was an idea that was encouraged by my business partner, Ben Knight. He told me to get involved with the YMCA Grant program. It was Youth Means Business, and the idea came from a $10-a-week doughnut budget that I started when I lived in Toronto. When I moved to Vancouver, I realized there weren’t many gourmet

THE TIMES ARE A CHANGIN’, OR ARE THEY? Who knew that awarding the Nobel Prize for Literature to Americas premiere singer and songwriter would be so controversial?

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Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie loved it, and so did Canadian recording artist Leonard Cohen; Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh hated it, as did British poet Glyn Maxwell. Awarding the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature to iconic American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has opened a cultural can of worms, with the argument centring on whether or not he is a literary figure and whether his musical work should be considered as literature.

Dr. Gisele Baxter is an English professor at the University of British Columbia and a longtime Dylan fan. The older works are her personal favourites, specifically the album Highway 61 Revisited and the song “A Hard Rains Gonna Fall.” Baxter has been studying Dylan’s work throughout her academic career, recalling how as a child she used to sing “Blowin in the Wind” in her music class and continued to study his lyrics in her literature class in junior high school.

Baxter’s examining of Dylan’s work in academia continued all the way to her

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CC: How many varieties do you have?

What is your personal favourite?

doughnut shops. There were only a couple and they were quite expensive, so I was trying to invent a doughnut that was my own take and was affordable.

CC: How did you come up with the name?

SB: Glazed and Confused was the perfect name. It came from a brainstorming session with me and a few of my friends. It’s a play on the doughnuts being Yorkshire puddings. They’re oven baked, just milk, eggs and flour – really simple, made with fresh fruit glazes, or are salty and sweet. So they’re either glazed or confused doughnuts themselves.

CC: Is it your own recipe that you created for the doughnut?

SB: I learned about Yorkshire puddings from my grandmother, on my stepfather’s side. She was adopted by a Yorkshire woman, so she knew a lot of really

undergraduate studies when she took a course called Contemporary Literary Forms. ”Highway 61 Revisited was one of our set texts; we analyzed the lyrics as narratives, and in terms of their referentiality and rich use of metaphor, also their structure,” she said.

Baxter believes that Dylan’s work should be considered literature, while acknowledging that certain challenges do exist in applying literary status to songs. “The assumption is that the lyrics seem incomplete without the music,” she said. However, Baxter herself disagrees with this premise, noting that it is not uncommon for the reverse to happen, where traditional poems are sung or performed with musical accompaniment.

“Dylan’s classic “The Times They Are a-Changin'", starts in a way very common in traditional British and Celtic ballads, the so-called "come-all-you" or "come-allye" songs,” she explained.

Baxter uses works of theatre as another example. “Plays are written to be performed, and yet are routinely studied as literature,” she said. “Shakespeare did not write his plays to be studied in high school and university, he wrote them to be performed by actors with a live audience.

While Baxter considers Dylan to be a literary figure, and therefore eligible for the award, she does take issue with honours such as the Nobel Prize becoming the new benchmark for artistic merit. “I have an increasing problem with awards as some sort of cultural status signifier,” she said. “Like all awards, the Nobel comes in for criticism of its selection criteria and lack of diversity. Increasingly the criticism is of its Eurocentric nature.

SB: The flavours are mostly seasonal. I would say there’s two different confused flavours, Cinnamon Girl and Stairway to Butter Sugar Heaven. For the glazed flavours there’s probably a rotation of 12 different fruits I use. I have a few different categories: there’s roasted fruits, citrus fruits or just fresh berries, generally. I usually try to use as much local as possible, but usually whatever’s fresh and inspiring.

My personal favourite is the Homer J, strawberry glazed with sprinkles.

CC: Where can people find you to get some doughnuts?

SB: The cafés are Roost Cafe, Renzo’s Coffee, Platform 7 Coffee and Hi Five Grilled Cheese Window. I’m not doing events for this winter, November through December, and the doughnuts will be back at Eastside Flea in January, so we’ll have them there as well.

CC: Tell us about the doughnut cart.

SB: The doughnut cart was a trade item with The Standard bicycle and repair shop. They traded me the cart for a box of doughnuts to help me start my business; which allowed me to start doing mobile events and deliveries. I was doing doughnuts on the cart for a full summer, two summers ago. I had a parking lot where it would be chained, and then it got stolen. That pushed me towards doing more morning deliveries and cafés, and pushed me into my new kitchen at 1222 Frances.

CC: What would you say is the most important characteristics or skills to have to run a business?

SB: It has to be for the right reasons, and the passion has to be there. I started the doughnut company to feed people. The doughnuts are by donation, and I always encourage people to pay what they can afford. It’s always a fighting skill. If they’re not able to pay it, we have a pay it forward program. I don’t want to be the world’s biggest doughnut shop, but I would like to be a doughnut shop that changes things. With any of the boxes purchased through the company, there’s a pay it forward doughnut. So there’s a free doughnut for anyone who can’t afford the minimum, or is hungry. Lately I’ve been doing community reach, where I bake a dozen and go hand them out to some of the people I know in the community who could use something to eat in the day. I try to donate all the leftovers.

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So I'm fine with Dylan winning the award, but I find the nature of awards themselves frequently worth questioning.

“Ideally, the award needs to rethink itself, and its committee needs to be more aware of what literary and cultural production and study are, and can be now, globally,” she continued. “Since we're moving right along in the 21st century, it needs to rethink its committee.”

Recognizing the stubbornness of awards and award committees to change or conform, Baxter hasn’t set her hopes too high. “I am not optimistic it will change,” she said. “Just look at how tough it is to shake up the Academy Awards from the narrowness of their perspective in terms of race, gender, and genre. The

Nobel Prize is even more entrenched in its traditions.”

Regardless of one’s stance on Bob Dylan winning a literary award, or one’s opinions on the award in general, an interesting precedent has been set. A musician winning the Nobel Prize for Literature has opened the door for more current and past artists to be considered. Artists such as Kendrick Lamar and Arcade Fire, who release deeply detailed conceptual albums and demonstrate an ability to intertwine different poetic devices and styles into their pieces, are beginning to be seen in a new light. Pop culture has changed drastically since Dylan’s time – perhaps this recent kerfuffle is merely a sign of literary conception catching up.

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THE BODY OF ART Vancouver artist brushes away her insecurities using paints and portraits Keara Farnan CONTRIBUTOR

When Langara College graduate Tori Swanson arrived back home from New York City, she began to fall into a deep depression. As she began to isolate herself from her friends and family, she developed both anorexia and bulimia.

“I had no sense of balance in my life and continued to push myself to make ends meet,” she recalled. “I chose to come home, because I could no longer live by myself in such a lonely city.”

Her deepest, darkest days were filled with body hate, starvation, and purging.

She used to calculate her features in front of a mirror every day—multiple times in a day. Swanson never believed that she was good enough. As a result, she examined all her imperfections, ate less and exercised more. She also bought nice clothing, which she hoped would measure up to what she thought was perfect.

“I only ate certain foods. I knew they were low in calories, or I just didn’t eat.

I was slowly killing myself and every piece of bone that protruded through my skin was gratifying," she said. "It gave me more motivation to continue deteriorating my zest for life.”

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to know how my clients felt standing in front of me,” she said. “My anxiety was at its highest. I hired a photographer to take nude photos of me. Originally, the pictures were to go into an album in order for me to be able to take a look whenever I was at my lowest.”

She picked them apart at first. “My photos were very unsexy. Specifically, the photos of my stomach rolls when I sat in a chair,” she recalled. “However, I wanted to capture honesty and how my body really looked. I ended up putting them into a show, which had 300+ attendees. That was a pivoting moment in my life. It was also the start of my surrender and the release of my anxiety”.

The weeks leading up to her first show were the hardest weeks of her life. She recalled having panic attacks, fears, temper tantrums and screaming fits. “Before going through this process my thoughts were: I am fat, I am ugly, and I am going to be judged. I

am not beautiful. I am going to lose my job. My boss is attending. My exboyfriends will be there,” Swanson said.

But in the end, she says that going through with the show was the best decision of her life. “I felt a huge sense of relief," she recalled. "I was happy. I felt seen and heard. I had a huge boost of confidence and realization”.

Presently, Swanson is a keynote speaker. She often talks about her experiences with anorexia and bulimia.

Swanson believes that others who suffer from similar conditions should do the same. Sharing her stories has helped her to recover from her body issues.

“It’s been a long journey, but my body is a temple. I must take care of it. I need to listen to my body. I am still struggling with body image – yet, I choose [for it] to be positivity and self-love. I view my body as a whole. It propels me forwards,” said Swanson.

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apparently a strict Mormon,” she said.

At the time, St-Cyr sported pink and blue hair, had a fascination for spiked clothing and had recently decided she was an atheist. “Needless to say, we did not get along at all,” she added.

"I decided it would be funny to convince her I was a Satanist. I bought the Satanic Bible and left it on my bedside table. I convinced her that my friends and I were holding rituals in our room and would blast Tyga’s “Make It Nasty” whenever she would pray out loud. I obviously wasn't the most respectful teenager in the world. I thought I was really funny and that she had no idea that it was a joke,” St-Cyr recalled.

However, their relationship completely turned around on one particular evening.

When St-Cyr arrived home, she saw that her door had been covered with ripped out pages of the Mormon Bible and images of Jesus had been vandalized with crude drawings. As it turns out, St-Cyr’s roommate had been playing a prank to try and freak St-Cyr out – in reality, the two shared a common sense of humour when it came to religion. “She ended up becoming an agnostic after three years of us living together. I guess I gave her a lot to reconsider,” St-Cyr said.

The world of post-secondary studies offers an endless amount of bizarre roommate stories, but this one is definitely one of the more memorable ones. In the end, the lesson might simply be to choose wisely when committing to a roommate – after all, it’s just like a relationship.

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a constant mess. Oftentimes, having an understanding of divisions of labour and boundaries can alleviate issues with cleanliness, “Division of work is often a source of tension and conflict. One roommate has spent half the day cleaning, and then the other cooks dinner and leaves dirty dishes and pots in the sink,” Waters said. “This is not a pretty picture.

Everyone has to do their share of the cleaning to a mutually agreed standard and all that needs to be hammered out and stuck to.”

Communication is absolutely vital to an arrangement between two or multiple people. Roommates are no different.

“Roommates often have different unspoken expectations. Not to go as far as Sheldon Cooper’s famous ‘Roommate Agreement,’ but it is very helpful to clarify rent, other expenses, and other things too, like visitors (especially overnight guests) and cleaning responsibilities, ahead of time,” Waters said.

However, some roommates can work very well together and happy endings do, in fact, exist. Living on your own can be lonely for some, and having another soul to talk to can be fulfilling. There are some cases where roommates become best of friends and this can happen even under the most unusual circumstances.

Veronic St-Cyr, a former Arts and Entertainment Management student at CapU, has quite possibly one of the best roommate stories that anybody will ever hear. St-Cyr attended an arts boarding school in California when she was 15, and before she was even able to move into her room, she already had people warning her about her new roommate. “They said she was super religious, clean cut and

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One of the truest aspects of collegiate life is living with a roommate, particularly in Vancouver, where exorbitant housing prices make it damn close to impossible to fly solo in the city. Love them or hate them, roommates are a near-inevitable ingredient in the university life – and with roommates come testy relationships.

Janet Waters is a psychology professor at Capilano University and in her 30 years of experience as a therapist, she’s had her fair share of cases dealing with frustrations between roommates. “If roommates have very different personality traits, such as a party animal extrovert and a quiet introvert, they may have difficulties getting along,” she explained.

Though Waters said that differing personalities could be a problem, it doesn’t necessarily spell doom to a partnership.

“It can work, but being aware of the differences and being sensitive to the other person’s different personality can help that a lot,” she said.

Other traits can cause difficulties too. A neat and tidy individual may find differences with someone that’s comfortable with disorganization and

Swanson turned to art to as a way to cope with her suffering.

“When I came home, I naturally gravitated towards my paint brush and sketches,” she said.

After Swanson’s first art show, she began to receive recognition for her work. People were drawn to her art, particularly her sketches. “It wasn’t until a year later that I was contacted to host my first commission piece,” said Swanson. “That’s when I saw my work start to transform. We all want to be seen in some form, and crave vulnerability.

“This was an avenue for me, and a way to appreciate people are willing to bare it all in front of strangers,” she added.

It’s a completely different experience every time Swanson interacts with a new client and hears their life story. She admires their openness and willingness to expose their favourite body part, as well as their least—providing an explanation as to why.

“My clients talk about what they are working on personally. It’s all offered up to me. I have encountered people who were quite uncomfortable. The experience was a total release for them. Some people book me and have no idea as to why. It seems that they have a gut desire to go through with their decision. I leave each session completely energized.

I feel connected to someone in a very meaningful way. It’s what motivates me to continue hosting these portraits,” she said.

To further put herself in her clients’ shoes, Swanson has spent time on the other side of the canvas as well. “I wanted

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THE LETTER O Dame D.O.L.LA. Carlo Javier MANAGING EDITOR

When it comes to music, the track record of NBA players crossing over and dropping rap albums is not exactly the best. In fact, an NBA player doing a rap album i s u su al l y a re ci p e fo r r i d i cu l e , e n d l e s s me m e s a n d a l i fe t i m e o f r e g r e ts . Ju s t d o n ’t c o u n t P o r t l a n d T r ai l bl az e r s s t a r p o i n t g u a r d Da m ia n L i ll ard in the list of NBA players who failed at their attempts at a rap career.

The Letter O, which Lillard released under the moniker Dame D.O.L.L.A is fiery rap album that has the bars to back up Lillard’s name, bars so hot that you might even mistake Dame

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Inevitably, Nick Valensi’s new band CRX will unavoidably draw comparisons to his other rock outfit, The Strokes, but CRS’s debut album, New Skin, is just that, a new skin for the guitarist and now lead singer.

Produced by Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, New Skin has a more decidedly heavy sound than any of The Strokes’ efforts. Valensi has said that CRX was originally formed as a way for him to get back to touring – which makes sense seeing as their first release sounds like an album crafted to be played out to small and sweaty rock venues.

Opening track “Ways to Fake It” is a gateway drug for the rest of the album. It starts light, more like a pop-rock song, and discusses faking

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D.O.L.L.A as some burgeoning new rapper that’s bound to make his way on the covers of XXL and Complex.

Lillard’s passion for rap is welldocumented. The guard spat a now infamous impromptu freestyle on Sway Calloway’s radio show, which prompted the well-respected radio host to applaud Lillard for “spitting better than these rappers.”

In The Letter O, Lillard showcases his full arsenal of bars, and despite some repetitive and subdued production, he succeeds in the most important part of a rap album: rapping.

In album-opener, “Bill Walton”, Lillard exhibits his mellow-paced and vivid rhyming flow, showing off an ability to seamlessly coalesce his rhymes with shifting tempo. In album highlight “Loyal to the Soil”, he impressively goes toe-to-toe with the increasingly reinvigorated Lil Wayne.

Although The Letter O succeeds in establishing Lillard as a bona fide rapper, it does lack in creativity and innovation. Beyond “Loyal to the Soil”, the album features no real stunners, and nor does it feature any other memorable music. Lillard also falls for one of the many pitfalls of young rappers – token and terribly clichéd love songs like “Plans” and “Pillow Talk”.

Despite its shortcomings, The Letter O still makes for an impressive hip-hop debut, particularly from someone who spends most of the year shooting hoops.

BONITO GENERATION Kero Kero Bonito Cristian Fowlie ART DIRECTOR

Kero Kero Bonito (KKB) is a small UK act with a widely international sound made from a mash-up of J-Pop, UK electronica and American hip-hop. The most obvious example is their bilingual MC Sarah Midori Perry, a Japanese expatriate and former girl group member. She spends equal amounts of time singing and rapping in Japanese and in English. KKB’s regional influences are mixed with the cross-cultural sounds of nerd culture. 8-bit synths and sound effects are sampled from video games, anime and cartoons. Producers Gus Lobban and Jaime Bulled harmonize these diverse inspirations into a pristine electronic-pop package.

Bonito Generation is a fully-fleshed out album of KKB’s unique positivity-pop. It’s

emotions to keep those around you happy. This sentiment however, does not last long. Second track, “Broken Bones”, immediately takes a turn for the darker and heavier sound of the learn more thecdm.ca album. “Picking the scab and watching it bleed,” sings Valensi, as he croons of his self-masochistic actions. From this point on, the guitars on the album are loud, heavy and electrifying. “Walls” Is this innovative program the offers riffs reminiscent of a Velvet graduate degree for you?

Revolver-era Slash, while “Unnatural” sounds as if its rhythm was inspired Industry-Focused Master’s Degree by a chopped Harley flying down an Graduate from 4 Major Universities empty highway late at night.

Competitive Scholarship Opportunities The work is not without lighter tracks. “Anything” is probably the closest CRX gets to The Strokes. “Slow Down” and “One Track Mind” both offer breaks from the guitar assaulting sound of the album – but cuts like the a collaboration between near-punk “On Edge”, or closing track “Monkey Machine”, remind listeners of what this album is about. Valensi has taken this platform to show who he is learn more a musician, and makes it clear what music inspired him.

full of energy and enthusiasm from start to end, only slowing down halfway for welldeserved rest on “Break”.

Their sound can come across as childish.

Perry’s vocals often take on the sing-song cadence of a kids’ show host. Her lyrics can be simplistic as well – songs like “Waking Up” or “Trampoline” are about exactly what they sound like. While KKB’s music is earnestly light-hearted, there are moments that reveal a mature worldview. “Graduation” is about a graduate dissatisfied with their education and struggling to find work. “Picture This” praises the power of selfies and social media in developing self-identity and building community.

Bonito Generation represents a generation that has grown-up with easy access to pop culture, technology and a global community through the Internet. It is also a generation that is often criticized as being shallow, self-centred and spoiled. Rather than becoming jaded, KKB is unabashedly optimistic, embracing pop and technology as means to experience and change the world.

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PARALLEL 49 HOLIDAY TAP TAKEOVER ST. AUGUSTINE CRAFT BREW HOUSE & KITCHEN 6 PM TO 10 PM / FREE In collaboration with Central City Brewing, Parallel 49 will be releasing their advent-style selection to celebrate the always joyous Christmas season. The event coincides with the actual beer package that features 12 beers from each of the two breweries. I was going to get this for Andy for Christmas but he said $20 max for the staff Secret Santa so never mind.

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CHICAGO AND EARTH, WIND & FIRE

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THE UNITED STATES ALL DAY / FREE This is it. The most important night in American pop culture history since Kanye stormed Taylor Swift’s MTV VMA acceptance speech nearly seven years ago. Two of America’s most polarizing celebrities, greatest hair icons, and most importantly, two of America’s most recognizable memes will be facing each other for the last time. By the end of the night, one of them will be the President of the United States of America. What a time to be alive.

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QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE 8 PM / $ - A SMALL FORTUNE Lauryn Hill has really made the most out of nostalgia. The acclaimed singer/rapper is known as one of the best artists to have only ever released one solo album and nearly 17 years after her legendary work, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Ms. Hill is still reaping the cash from the exorbitant ticket fees she’s charging. Sure “Doo-Wop” and “Nothing Even Matters” are classics but $125 after she just charged another $150 from the jazz fest not too long ago? C’mon now.

UNITED WAY BOOK SALE BIRCH BUILDING, LOBBY

9 AM TO 4 PM / “FREE” The book sale is for a good cause, and it’s a shame that it takes a good cause for people to buy books. You know what would be a good cause? A United Way CapU Textbook Sale! Where students like myself can buy our class textbooks for a fraction of the price! Maybe that’s too much of a good cause though.

The three-day annual pop culture extravaganza is the closest thing that Vancouver has to San Diego’s Comic-Con. Look out for the best cosplays you’ll see in the city, some nerd-world celebrities like the legend Carrie Fischer, Tom Felton and Caity Lotz and them some nerd-world celebrities I’ve never even heard of. Watch out for the Courier’s own Syd Danger – she might come in as the Three-Eyed Raven.

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Lapsley is another one of the many gems from Cristian Fowlie’s ever-exciting playlist. Her smoky and almost ethereal vocals make her an ideal mainstay in ambient and electronic r&b playlists so expect this show to be all about the mood and the vibes. $24 plus service charges isn’t so bad either!

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BURNABY CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR BONSOR RECREATION COMPLEX 10 AM TO 4 PM / BY DONATION I love when events are described as “by donation” because in my immoral heart that means free. Eighty per cent of the goods sold in the Burnaby Christmas Craft Fair will be hand made and the other 20 will be made by “consultants”, whatever consultants means.

BLUES VOLLEYBALL VS. CBC BEARCATS SPORTSPLEX 6 PM TO 10 PM / $2 Another set of home games for the Capilano Blues Volleyball Teams, that means another plea for more students to come out and chill. I used to think that CBC was the actual CBC but it turns out that it stood for Columbia Bible College, which seems a little more exciting to be honest. Speaking of bible colleges, did you know our very own Therese Gueib used to play volleyball too?

MEC NORTH VANCOUVER SNOWFEST 212 BROOKSBANK AVE, NORTH VANCOUVER

10 AM TO 3 PM / FREE Capilano University’s events calendar is left blank for this day so I figure a nearby event by everyone’s favourite outdoor gear provider would appeal to, well, everyone. Also, you might have noticed that I have been putting up quite a bit of MEC events here. Hey MEC! Would you like to sponsor the Courier? Holla at your boy!

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2 PM / $30+ Straight out of Russia comes the Great Russian Nutcracker, presented by the Moscow Ballet. This is billed as the original production of the storied performance and is often one of the more popular events during the Christmas season. There will be a 60-foot growing Christmas tree and magical props for the whole family to enjoy. Can you tell that I’ve run out of events to list?

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CCAA NATIONAL SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP 3 PM / FREE The Capilano University Men’s Soccer Team are making their second consecutive appearance on the national stage after they recently won their second consecutive provincial gold medal, which is coming off the heels of an undefeated season. I bet you didn’t know that. These guys are super talented and have a legitimate shot at the national gold. I bet you didn’t know that either.

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ROGERS ARENA 7:30 PM / $45+ This calendar spot was a toss up between Rae Sremmurd and this poised-to-be electric team up between legendary groups Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire. This team-up has happened before but what I really want to see is the manifestation of one of Twista’s finest bars ever: “Put my Earth in the Wind smokin’ Fire. Let me get your sheets wet listening to Keith Sweat.”

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Course Planning workshops must be super handy. I’ve never gone to them but it seems very likely that next semester, I’ll have to be on campus for 13 hours every Monday, just so I can take the right courses I need for what should be my final semester.

Goddamn.

SPORTSPLEX 6 PM / $2 You know what gets the people going? Sports. You know what the CSU have tried to get going, but have fallen short of doing so, nearly every time? The people. So maybe why not tap into this athletics market that CapU has, get some people attending the games and give away a prize at halftime or something? Isn’t that what universities with actual “student communities” do? Hi Beatriz!

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HOW THIS AMERICAN ELECTION WILL INFLUENCE CANADIAN POLITICS Negative campaign tactics are sure to impact our next federal election Kevin Kapenda NEWS EDITOR

After 18 months of tireless campaigning and the withdrawal of 20 major candidates from the 2016 presidential race, America has narrowed their list of candidates down to two, one of whom will be elected this week on Tuesday, Nov. 8.

While many Canadians have only been tuning in since both Clinton and Trump became their parties’ presumptive nominees, our country better hope that even a fraction of us have been following this race for the better part of two years.

Because, whether we want to admit it or not, most of our political traditions and ideologies originate from the US, not from across the pond.

These days, the US’s most important export to Canada isn’t pop culture or anything that is traded on the market.

In recent years, America’s biggest token to Canada has become their politics, as

in the dominant ideologies we ascribe to, and the ways in which our parties campaign and behave. Even though our political institutions were inherited from the UK, the way in which our democracy manifests itself is all too American.

Take the current prime minister and the past four Canadian governments as cases in point. Since Pierre Trudeau, our entire political engine, from party operatives, to the media, has begun to concentrate power in the hands of the prime minister, by continuously overstating the importance of leaders and equating them to the presidency of the US. Throughout the 2015 federal election, this was evident as ‘horse race’ coverage dominated the news and party leaders’ personalities were increasingly overemphasized.

This accumulation of power in the hands of the prime minister and his staff has led to a misconstrued view of the Canadian executive branch, and the idea that MPs are subservient to their leaders, rather than the opposite.

This Americanization of our political system peaked in 2015 after 16 years of White House wining tactics. Instead of emphasizing our MP contra MP system, Canadians were treated to a US-style grudge match between Harper, Mulcair and Trudeau for the title of prime minister. Constant attack ads, a summer long campaign and the fact that we had a set election date of October 19

for almost eight years (coincidence?) all screamed "U-S-A." Never has it been harder to get up close to politicians, with fewer opportunities for journalists to ask questions and campaign events reserved for only supporters and donors to attend. Why return to our riding-byriding, parliamentary roots, when we can bombard Canadians with television and YouTube advertisements instead?

What has fascinated me the most about our Americanized political system is our newfound reliance on polling, trustworthiness and the non-political attributes of party leaders. Gone are the days in which the only things that matter are the issues. Work experience, looks, tone, oration, educational background and temperament are all things that are becoming too important in Canada thanks to the US. Instead of being surveyed on what policies they like, Canadians are polled on who they choose to negotiate a contract on their behalf (Harper) or who they would invite to their family barbecue (Trudeau).

All of the Conservatives’ electiontime knocks on recent Liberal leaders, such as Stéphane Dion not being able to speak good English, or Michael Ignatieff being too academic to understand what experienced political columnist Susan Delacourt refers to as “Tim Hortons voters”, are tactics that have been inspired by populist republicans to belittle visionary progressives such as

Michael Dukakis and “climate deluding”, “eye-rolling” Al Gore. The Liberals and the NDP have exchanged jabs by claiming the former are just establishment, compassionate conservatives, while the latter are radical, erratic unionists (Angry Tom Mulcair, Crazy Jack Layton) who can’t be entrusted to govern wider (corporate) society.

Indeed, we could easily imagine an East Van NDP candidate and a Bay Street, downtown Toronto heavyweight competing the way Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton did in the battle for the Democratic Primary.

Since it is evident that our politics are extremely influenced by the US, it’s important that we remain vigilant and guarded against practices that we don’t wish to see in Canada, such as widespread voter suppression, the vilification of certain minority groups and assertions that our political system is rigged by a so-called political establishment or the political party currently in government. Unfortunately, many of those practices have already come to Canada in very minimal ways, with laws requiring address-bearing picture IDs to vote and memes wanting to “Make Canada British Again.” But if we are to ensure that vile phrase never becomes the slogan of a mainstream party leader, Canadians must find a way to pay attention to American politics – despite how torturous it can be.

WHEN WILL THEY EVER GROW UP? Canadian kids might not want kids, but we’re going to need them Andrew Yang

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What’s holding back young Canadians when it’s time to start a new family?

Is it the rising cost of childbirth and daycare? The increasing number of women succeeding in the workforce?

Or simply because the generation gap between our parents and their Millennialaged counterparts is causing significant changes in the housing environment and in social customs? Believe it or not, Canada is facing a potential crisis in the form of insufficient pensions and work force.

The aging population is a major concern for the Canadian government due to young people having babies at a slower rate. Many Millennials are either not interested in having children or they’re placing such a priority on the back burner.

Since government programs like CPP (Canadian Pension Plan) depend on legal workers of all ages contributing, pensions and funding will be cut in proportion to the lower number of the working population.

So how should the Canadian government mitigate this lingering issue?

There are programs such as the CCB (Canada Child Benefit) that grant incentives to low income families. Yet it can take as long as four months for families to receive reimbursements.

How can working Canadian families support both children and elders when

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their average income does not match in proportion to inflation? Even though the recession has subsided in Canada, many young Canadian workers still feel the strain of higher costs of living. Plus, our planet is populated with over seven billion (and counting) people, yet we don’t have the answer to world hunger and child poverty. Why should we add more mouths to feed and more landfills made by our consumerist lifestyles? Can you imagine the amount of dirty diapers we would have to change to satisfy the quota on population adjustments?

But without future generations to replace the old workers, we simply can’t run a massive country when there are barely enough people supporting its local economy. We have grandparents that were far worse off than our generations

(if you factor in the Great Depression).

Yet, they managed to struggle through every day just to make ends meet. With enough determination and tenacity, the era of Baby Boomers made it through.

It’s true that economic uncertainty plays a major factor in paralyzing our decisions in making children. However, Canada isn’t the only country facing potential backlashes in low birth rate.

Developed countries such as Singapore and Japan have their fair share of troubles when it comes to the declining birth rate. In Singapore’s case, their population planning from the 1960s involved sterilization after having a second child. Unfortunately, this backfired as the “Stop at Two” campaign proved to be too effective, leading Singapore to replace the

propaganda with “Have Three Or More (If You Can Afford It)” back in 1987.

As for Japan, the aging population (thanks to a combination healthier diet and moderate exercise) cannot be fully accommodated in healthcare centres or retirement homes due to drastically low birth rates. With Japanese men turning to the Hikkikomori (Japanese for shut-in) lifestyle and Japanese women seeking career opportunities at the cost of starting a family, it’s no wonder that Japan resorts to mass production robotics to replace its missing work force.

If Canada wants to make sure that our old folks will be well taken care of, and that our economy stays strong throughout the next generation, we’re going to have to make parenthood a lot more appealing to young Canadians.

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A PIPELINE PIPE-DREAM Can closing your TD account help stop the Dakota Access Pipeline?

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In September, aboriginal and environmental activists occupied TD Bank branches in Vancouver and asked people to close personal bank accounts in protest of the company’s financial interest in the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) Project. This was done in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North Dakota, who are currently the most directly affected by the pipeline project, as it runs directly through their lands without permission.

In the two months since, the protests in Standing Rock have garnered more national attention, with prominent news networks, politicians and public figures drawing attention to the arrests and treatment of peaceful protestors.

But did protestors’ calls for the boycott of TD actually make an impact?

Following a report from Ricochet Media, revealing that three of the 17 banks providing funding for DAPL were Canadian banks TD, RBC and Scotiabank, protestors took action.

However, while it is admirable that people in Canada were making a stand for their American brothers, closing a bank account doesn’t have a financial impact on its own. TD has roughly 11 million accounts over 1,150 branches in Canada, and to even bring down their income by one per cent, about 110,000 accounts would have to be closed. But lack of financial impact shouldn’t deter people from closing accounts if they disagree with TD. Customers can influence the bank through media coverage.

In June of last year, BC Premier

THE NOT-SO-IMPARTIAL MEDIA What ever happened to ethics in reporting?

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responsible energy development?

According to the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), in 2015 in the USA alone there were 708 pipeline accidents, basically two a day, with 12 deaths and 49 injured and over $338 million in costs. So the risk of a pipeline spill isn’t a joke. It’s practically a statistical certainty. The fact that TD

is willing to ignore the potential harm to an entire community who didn’t want nor allow the pipeline to be there in the first place in exchange for wealth shows the company’s true colours. Now that pipeline protestors have finally gotten the attention of more people across the US and Canada, maybe we can change banking into spanking and remind TD Canada that money isn’t everything.

Most Republicans are afraid to even voice their opinions lest they be accused of racism or sexism.

The rules of journalism have evolved, but just because it was once acceptable to print personal biases doesn’t mean it should be acceptable today. In the early history of Canadian press, it was commonplace for individual editors and publishers to take a stance in politics.

From the 1850s to the early 1900s in an era called the Nation Building Period, editors began to establish a common view of Canadian society. This remained the norm for the better part of a century until outside interests began to infiltrate the sanctity of the modern newspaper, which we have become accustomed to today.

Journalism already has a bad name, but unfortunately this election cycle has seen a complete breakdown in journalistic integrity. The mainstream media has made a switch from attempting to accurately represent and scrutinize both candidates to endorsing DNC presidential candidate Hillary Clinton by painting GOP candidate Donald Trump as the devil incarnate.

According to a recent poll in Business

Insider, only six per cent of Americans trust the mainstream media, so is it any surprise that more and more people are looking to alternative news sources?

When NBC’s Matt Lauer interrupted Hillary Clinton during a live forum, but gave Donald Trump a chance to answer questions, he was accused of bias against Hillary Clinton and even sexism.

Moderator Martha Raddatz interrupted Trump a total of 26 times throughout the second presidential debate on Oct. 9 while he was trying to answer questions that focused on the comments he had made 10 years prior rather than his electoral platform. Several times she cut off Trump supporters when they applauded the GOP nominee, but not once did she silence anyone in the audience who cheered for Hillary Clinton. “Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz should be ashamed of themselves for starting the debate with this trash. Disgraceful to my profession,” videographer and journalist Andy Poulton remarked on Twitter after the debate. Lauer was condemned for letting Trump speak without jumping in to question him, but when he probed Hillary Clinton about her email scandal,

Democrats were up in arms.

When Donald Trump spoke of heightening border security and vetting immigrants, he was quickly labeled a racist and an Islamophobe. Nobody batted an eyelid over Bill Clinton’s 1996 White house address about the need to tighten border security and clamp down on illegal immigration, despite being incredibly similar in tone and content.

Look, I don’t like either of the candidates America has to offer its voters. I do think that the media has lost touch with its priorities and has lost all credibility in their coverage of the election campaign.

The media owes it to its viewership to deliver true and impartial accounts.

What they have been doing instead has been rigorous campaigning for the DNC. A reporter for Politico was even found to have emailed his story to the DNC for review prior to publication. For a long time, the media has been left of centre, and we have forgiven them for it. Almost a third of the American population identifies as Republican. They are not bad people, but they have been cast in a very bad light and they have as much right to fair representation as anyone else.

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The first priority in journalism is the truth. While not everyone appreciates the truth, we owe it to the public to tell it, not to cover it up in order to appear to be on the right side of politics. I think it’s fair to say that the 2016 US election campaign has brought out the worst in everyone, and not only in the candidates and those who would vote for them, but more alarmingly in the journalists who have covered it over the past year and a half.

The American press is so vehemently enthusiastic about a Hillary Clinton presidency that campaign coverage has transformed from what should, in theory, be impartial reporting on the strengths and weaknesses of both candidates to a witch-hunt out to crucify Donald Trump and all of his supporters.

Christy Clark and Lululemon were criticized big time on twitter for planning to celebrate International Yoga Day on the Burrard Street Bridge, which would cost taxpayers $150,000 while blocking the bridge for seven hours. The criticism grew loud enough that Lululemon rescinded their support and the event was then cancelled. It was fear of a sullied reputation that motivated Lululemon, not any direct financial threat. In this way, if protestors were able to have enough reach and coverage, they could directly impact the decision of TD Bank.

Don’t forget that TD works hard to maintain a particular reputation. They have had many campaigns over the years that present the company as a caring, personable business. Their most recent campaign, called #TDThanksYou “Turning Banking into Thanking”, has many videos showing the bank giving travel tickets or college fund cheques to deserving customers. While it’s almost heartwarming, it doesn’t address the fact that thousands of lives are in danger and TD Canada has a part in it.

This pipeline would run through several states carrying hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil, risking the health and safety of nearby communities in the event of a spill.

To make matters worse, the DAPL project deliberately destroyed aboriginal sacred land after it had been declared and reported by the Standing Rock tribe. Yet, the bank gave a statement to a reporter at Ricochet in response to the protests, stating “We employ due diligence in our lending and investing activities relating to energy production. TD supports responsible energy development. We also work […] to better understand key issues of concern, and to promote informed dialogue.” But really, can TD Canada Trust honestly make a claim to support

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SPECIAL EDITION: WINGS + BOMBER BREWING

Wings. You love them. I know you love them. Who couldn’t absolutely adore those delicious little morsels of meat that are so ubiquitous in every bar, restaurant and frozen food aisle. They are dirt cheap (usually on Wednesdays at most bars), and come in so many different flavours and options that there could be a style of wing for everybody! In honour of this bar food staple, I decided to feature three delicious beers from one of my all time favourite craft breweries, Bomber Brewing.

Bomber has been making wellbalanced, approachable and damn good beers since the winter of 2014. Their pervasiveness in liquor stores, bars and restaurants across three provinces is proof of the brand’s quality and popularity. I did today’s tasting with two guests, Andy Rice, editor-in-chief of the Courier, and my partner Victoria.

But, enough chit chat, we have a lot to get through so let's get started!

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Bomber’s Pilsner is a thing of beauty.

Winning gold for Best Pilsner in the Vancouver Beer Awards of 2015, this Czech style beer is a triumph of easydrinking deliciousness. Done with Polish, Czech Saaz, and a touch of Northwest hops, the Pilsner is light, crisp, flavourful and clean. Its spice forwardness is what I love about this beer, giving it a certain level of complexity as opposed to most forgettable lagers out there. Light citrus notes and a lingering hop bitterness give it a long, pleasant and thirst-quenching finish.

We decided to pair this sharp and tasty Pilsner with the hot wings we picked up, thinking that the light acidity of this beer could clean and freshen our mouths after consuming these palate-destroying wings.

Sure enough, this pairing was an absolute success. If anything, the maltiness of the beer became more prominent after a bite of the hot wings. The Pilsner managed to cool down the inherent burn of the wing, making them a bit easier to consume. We all agreed that this was a prime pairing, bringing out a lot of the clean citrus and fresh flavours of the beer while managing to keep the wings fresh and less painful spice-wise.

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The next beer on the list just happens to be my favourite beer of all time.

Bomber’s Blood from a Stone Red Rye IPA was the beer I was just totally and completely obsessed with when it first came out, and to this day it still has all the elements that I truly want in a beer.

I affectionately call it my “Desert Island” beer, meaning I'd be more than happy to only drink the Red Rye IPA for the rest of my life, if I had to.

This collaboration with Stone Brewing of San Diego was first released about two years ago, and I was absolutely thrilled to hear it would be making a comeback this fall. It has aromas of bright raspberries and peaches amidst its beautiful floral quality. It is a touch creamy once sipped, hop forward, and I got some flavours of unripe peaches and berries. It is a beautifully approachable beer with some nice complexity. We decided to try to pair the Red Rye with some barbecue wings. In fact, as a special experiment, we tried the beer with both the bar-bought wings, and a store-bought frozen variety. With the bar wings, this beer unfortunately wasn't a go.

Fact of the matter is, the Red Rye had too much going on flavour-wise and absolutely demolished the flavour of the bar wings.

However, with the store-bought wings, the IPA worked tremendously well. Being a bit fattier meat-wise, and having a heavier garlic flavour to the sauce, the store-bought wings had a lot more to stand up to the beer with. It was a fantastic matchup. The Red Rye cleaned the palate well, and its flavours were further amplified when paired with the wings.

PORTER Finally, we attempted to pair Bomber’s super popular Choqlette Porter with the wings. I am admittedly not a big fan of darker beers, but this Porter is a very delicious exception. Made with French Aramis hops and a whole ton of chocolate, this Porter is very drinkable. It has aromas of dark chocolate with a slight minty note.

Once sipped, it is decadent and delicious with notes of tart chocolate and a more pronounced mint character. It finishes nice, clean and dry with no lingering sweetness or chocolate on the palate. We decided to try something a bit different in pairing this dry, chocolatey Porter with salt and pepper wings. We were hoping to achieve a kind of “mole” type of pairing with the savoury salt and pepper paired with the chocolate goodness of the Porter.

Unfortunately, the chocolate flavours overpowered the saltiness of the wings.

We attempted to add a bit more pepper so that the wings had a bit more to go with against the beer and sure enough, the extra seasoning helped enormously. It wasn’t the best pairing in the world, seeing as we had to add a bit more seasoning so we only got a touch of the “sweet/savoury” balance that we were going for – but then again, nothing was going to top the Pilsner/ hot wing combo that began our night.

All in all, the three beers were fantastic, and trying to pair them with these bar classic staples was a ton of fun. Keep updated on all my posts through @sipsiphurray, both on Twitter and Instagram, and be sure to send us your questions or suggestions!

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NEWS TO MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD And the worst costume goes to….

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Halloween has reared its bloody head for another year, leaving people with just one thing to be terrified of: the results of the American election.

However, there were some costumes that left a worse aftertaste than some moldy candy apples in people’s mouths for their ability to be horribly offensive.

Even if you had 30 shots of Crown Royal, lost your phone in the sewer, slapped a minister and woke up with your underwear in a puddle of your own pee on a strangers’ floor – unless you did it in one of these costumes, you still wouldn’t have had the worst judgment on Halloween.

SECOND WORST-OF-THE-WORST: Comedian Jenny Johnson called it on Twitter first. On Oct. 30, she tweeted, “I love this time of year where we wait to see which celebrity dresses in a racist costume for Halloween then issues a forced apology.” By Monday morning, she had not one but two winners.

Hillary Duff and Chris Hemsworth both issued awkward apologies for dressing in Native American costumes: Duff was a sexy pilgrim (this sexifying un-sexy things for Halloween concept needs to die, by the way) while her new beau Jason Walsh was her Native American dinner guest.

Hemsworth costume was also that of a Native American, but his Instagram post featured him standing with others in similar outfits behind a wanted poster. Just for the record, appropriating someone else’s culture is not a costume, but it is an easy way to see who amongst your friends is slightly racist.

NEXT WORST-OF-THE-WORST: The runner up goes to a group of girls from London, who combined their

REIGN VANCOUVER The Sanford Sound Marissa Del Mistro COLUMNIST

Whoever thought this was a witty idea is likely the original pussy-grabbing genius that mentored Donald Trump.

The man, who looks to be in his 60s, also had the bright idea of putting “unlimited refills” on the prescription, to make his disturbing costumes a tinge more repulsive.

Photos of the costume were uploaded to Jim Lohmar’s Twitter feed, who was in the same bar that evening. Lohmar said the pill-popping enthusiasts got into arguments with nine different women before being escorted out of the bar. He was a bottle of pills that induced vomiting.

Although you might have endured a bout of embarrassment dressed up as a sad clown or a sexy ballot box (it happened), at least you didn’t dress up as a date rape drug and then argue with the very people it offended – women.

in pop production and performance in the hub of electronic dance music (EDM): London.

Sanford began her singing career as a solo artist. “There was a lot of control, but it’s hard to be well rounded,” she explained. “I realized I needed to be working with other talented people.” For her new project, Not You, she serenades with her vocals and writes majority of the lyrics for the duo. “I have been a little fed up with the world lately,” she admitted.

Listeners can expect honest and current poetic lines that highlight assorted struggles. There is a focus on identity seeking, feminism and contemplation of the madness of the current situation and events going on in the world. “There are different levels of vulnerability,” Sanford explained. “It can be scary to share my intimate thoughts but music and writing helps me to explore emotions and figure out what I am feeling and why.” Sanford enjoys creating a wall with her tracks through harmonizing and the layering of her voice, which has become a distinctive

feature on the duo’s tracks.

Sanford finds inspiration to be emblematic of her sounds. She romanticises the wild and withdrawn side of Vancouver, sharing, “Vancouver has a reclusive, lonely, grungy side – it doesn’t pretend to be something that it’s not.” She enjoys the secret spots that lead to nowhere and the green spaces hiding throughout the city where she can go to seek solitude. Sanford believes the need for space and independence is a product of Canadian culture and identity. She thrives off the city’s rainy weather, finding it liberating and encouraging. “Sometimes we don’t realize how lucky and beautiful it really is here,” she explained.

In terms of a dream collaboration, Sanford immediately regarded Canadian rapper Drake. “It may be cliché,” Sanford said “But I would like to get more Canadian identity within music. I think [Drake] should rep being Canadian way harder!” Sanford is certainly a

proud Canadian and expresses the vast differences between American and Canadian music. “You may notice subtle Canadian identity within some of my lyrics,” she explained.

Life can be confusing, alternating and full of unexpected twists. Sanford is a firm believer in humans finding their piece of peace. “For some people, that [outlet] is golf,” Sanford laughed.

“Finding that place where you as a human being can relax and be honest, that is unique to your identity is so important.” Imperative to Sanford is balance: she promises herself permission to have breaks from creating. Given, she could never imagine her life without music, but acknowledges that it too can be stressor as she is constantly learning and trying to improve.

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THE ABSOLUTE WORST: The winner for the worst Halloween costume of 2016 – and potentially ever – goes to a man in Charleston, South Carolina

who dressed up as a bottle of Rohypnol.

Dressed in an orange poster board with a large, white cap glued to his baseball hat, the man was reportedly surprised he pissed people off in the bar he was in. The man had directions written on the front and back of his prescription pill bottle costume, telling people best how to use the drug to sleep with women.

The disgusting directions read: “1. Give two tablets to an attractive, unaware girl. 2. Await drooling, drowsiness or unconsciousness. 3. Take home, bring friends and enjoy the show.”

That was just the directions on the front of the bottle. The back had a warning for users: “1. No more than 15 guys per girl. 2. Exceeding 165 lbs. recommended dosage 4 tablets or more.

3 Not for use near video equipment. 4.

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Self-described as the “emotional half” of electronic duo Not You, Sophie Sanford’s moody wisdom is an invigorating blend of poetic and make-you-want-to-dance beats. Harrowing from the isolated island of Texada with two artist parents, Sanford’s artistry, creativity and singing seems to be truly intrinsic to her identity and simply, a part of her genetic makeup.

Growing up, Sanford filled her days with sounds. As a young girl, she admitted to always have been around any music-based activity: whether it was joining choir, playing the piano or getting vocal lessons. To further her artistic identity, she enrolled in a jazz program in east coast Canada, later transferring to the United Kingdom to finish her studies

costumes to replay the Kim Kardashian robbery story. The trio all had played a part, with one dressing up as a sexy robber (seriously), pointing a toy gun at her two friends that were tied up.

One was dressed as the concierge while the other was Kardashian herself.

While topical issues have a way of morphing into Halloween costumes – remember 2012, where multiple people went as “binders full of women” thanks to Mitt Romney – this specific costume was stupidly insensitive. Glorifying a recent traumatizing event, where Kardahsian herself said she feared for her life, doesn’t make you creative. It makes you kind of an asshole.

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OH, THE PLACES YOU’LL NO I Mexican’t do this anymore Fred Ulrich, Jr. COLUMNIST

When most people think of Mexico, they think of beautiful tropical beaches and all-inclusive resorts. Mexico City, however, is pretty much the complete opposite of that image. My obligatory nod to the city’s good aspects goes to the food, but I don’t think I can say anything else nice about this filthy hellhole.

First of all, the air is nearly unbreathable. I’m not going to pull any punches for this article. When access to the most basic necessity for life is an issue, you have a goddamn problem.

The Mexico City metropolitan area is a mind-bogglingly enormous urban jungle holding over 21 million people.

Most countries in the world don’t even have that many people, and yet in Mexico City, they’re all crammed into one giant cesspit of humanity.

Located in a natural bowl between the mountains, there is nowhere for all

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Like many avid readers who owe everything to the wealth of public libraries, I fear that a decline in reading and the seemingly inevitable transition to electronic books will soon change people's appreciation of physical buildings that house as many books as a tiny hard-drive can. In short, I fear for the future of libraries.

The neoliberal approach to education has created a debt-burdened generation, and has applied a suicidal profit motive to schools: Run it like a business or suffer the consequences. Fiscal austerity has also begun to target public libraries as burdensome on tax dollars without providing much of a “benefit” – after all, they are non-profit. Declining usage will be used to justify budgetary cuts, reducing opening hours and staff, possibly instituting usage fees, and in worst case scenarios, causing branch closures.

A collapse of libraries would be far more severe than a collapse of universities: it would effectively narrow access to free information and entertainment, especially for people who are only able to access it through the library – not a luxury, but a basic, essential public service.

An “education”, as we understand it, is supposed to provide us with legitimate credentials, rather than just knowledge. And credentials are nothing but a hollow yet powerful guarantee to prospective employers that you are equipped and trained to do a certain job.

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the car emissions and other pollutants to blow away to. Breathing the smoggy haze there feels like sucking on the end of a tailpipe – you can taste the crap in the air. To make matters worse, the city sits at a pretty high altitude. Not high enough to induce full-on altitude sickness, but just enough to make you feel short of breath during any kind of physical exertion. Everything put together, it was enough to make me perma-sick for the entire tour and legitimately wishing that I could buy cans of fresh air like the ones they have in Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs.

Additionally, everything else tends to be just super dirty and gross. The washrooms often wouldn’t have a sink for washing your hands, and you were lucky if the toilet even had a seat. Forget about toilet paper. I started popping Imodium every day in an ironically preventative fashion, as it was very clear that having to take a dump anywhere that wasn’t my hotel would be the certain cause of me acquiring some horrendous fecal-bourne illness.

The second-worst thing in Mexico is probably the traffic. Maybe it’s not the worst in the world, but it’s certainly by far the worst I’ve ever seen. Half the time, it is an absolute, non-hyperbolical gridlock. Park your

car and settle in for a nice long sweat, because you are not going to budge for the next hour. When things are moving, driving in Mexico is basically an exercise in lawless chaos where right of way, lane lines and even the direction of traffic mean nothing. It’s an ongoing competition to see who can cut off who first, completely Darwinian in nature.

The only time that “time” seemed to matter was when stores stopped selling beer after 5 pm on Sundays, prompting my alcoholic bandmates to undertake a super sketchy adventure.

They wanted to take a cab to a bad part of town where they had heard about a secret window where you could buy illegal beer after hours.

The cab driver flat out refused to go until one of our Spanish-fluent friends talked him into it, and even then, he set some stern conditions: “If we don’t find this place right away, we are not going to circle around looking like we are lost. We are getting the fuck out of there immediately.”

There are neighbourhoods in Mexico City that are so dangerous that not only do taxi drivers avoid them – the police do, too. Mexico City is a labyrinth, and having to worry about

accidentally wandering into one of these no-go zones as a clueless tourist is kind of a terrifying concept. What makes it suck more is that staying in the “safe” areas can be expensive.

I never thought I would ever have to bribe a cop, but when a couple of them decided they wanted a bonus for the month and gave me a choice between a 2,000 peso undocumented “fine” and a Mexican jail cell they kind of made that choice for me. I wasn’t even doing anything that illegal.

It's like spending a lot of money and a lot of time just to get a password that lets you through this gate into a safe, stable place for the rest of your life.

Universities, with their “prestige” and “ranking”, are expected to give you a short cut, an upper hand to get better jobs. If it didn't, well, you'd feel cheated.

Imagine for a second if anyone could challenge those credentials and prove that, still without a formal education, they are just as knowledgeable and competent, if not more, than those who went through the system. Wouldn't that be a true meritocracy?

It is true: there's only so much you can learn from books. But in an age begging for a redefinition of methods of learning, teaching and sharing knowledge, libraries should be revisited for their vastly unused potential for free, public, curiosity-driven education. They are not only digital and physical spaces where free, open knowledge exists in volumes far larger than you'll ever be able to consume in your lifetime.

They are also community spaces where a variety of services co-exist to share passion and knowledge without the pressures and fear-mongering of schools: Computer classes for seniors, resume workshops, employment services, services for new immigrants, socializing groups, film clubs, book clubs, book readings, lectures and public debates... And librarians, rather than awkward-looking clerks, are highly trained professionals and often possess a terrifyingly broad knowledge of multiple disciplines and numerous databases.

The digital age will continue to change what libraries used to be, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. Most libraries have adapted and now provide a wealth of e-books and online resources.

Online databases encompass a realm never before imaginable: all books in

the public domain, digitized newspapers going back decades or sometimes even centuries! Not to mention that search engines are far more efficient than leafing through dusty indexes at the library. The Vancouver Public Library, for example, has had a recent reduction in staff, but also adapted into creating the Inspiration Lab, democratizing access to what are often expensive services and equipment.

An education should not end when a diploma is issued – it shouldn't be just a means to an end. Every student, regardless of area of study, should be educated and equipped with the knowledge to do research, to get to the bottom of any issue they do not fully understand without pulling quick “facts” out of their asses, or blindly buying into absurd demagogy from politicians or media pundits. This is the Age of

Trump – with or without Trump – and voluntary ignorance is an open call for totalitarianism.

Libraries have an immense potential to fill the gaps left by our inept schooling. Whether complementary or supplementary of our traditional schooling, libraries are a toolbox for the most severe problems we need to fix.

Don't let it gather dust in a forgotten corner. Use it. Walk up and down the aisles of your local library, and fathom the sheer amount of knowledge available and within reach. Weigh that against the narrowness of any university degree.

Compare the costs of each. And when the time comes that the same people who have turned you into a paying consumer for credentials come to tear your library down, take the affront for what it is: an attempted blow at the pillars of free access to information.

FRED’S LOCAL SUBSTITUTE: Take some laxatives and refrain from using toilet paper or a sink all day. I don’t know how, just get creative. Then, sit with the heat cranked in an idling car that has a faulty exhaust line while drinking Corona and not wearing a seatbelt.

Attempt to bribe the cops when they come to deal with this. They probably won’t take your money because Canadian cops tend to be better that way, but they will help you out with being super late for everything else you need to do for the next few days.

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A CANADIAN’S ELECTION NIGHT SURVIVAL GUIDE Leah Scheitel ETERNAL OPTIMIST

For the love of everything that is good in this world, the 2016 American election is coming to an end, and it has been less appetizing than watching Stephen Harper eat raw seal meat. From up here in Canada, the election has been nothing short of perplexing, like trying to understand Rubik’s Cubes or the female anatomy. Apt, as the most pussy-grab-worthy election is coming to its climax on Nov. 8, with most polls hedging bets for a Hillary Clinton victory.

Even from our cozy little bubble and our somewhat stable political landscape, some necessities are required for Canadians to be able to survive this final push into the 45th presidency. Here are the top five things you will need on election night:

1. A FULLY CHARGED PHONE Events like election nights are when the bowels of the Internet truly shine. Twitter was made for this, and will provide an abundance of commentary, insights and insults. Your phone is like a wand into that magical world, and as Harry Potter once said, “A wizard is only as good as his wand.”

In lieu of a power bursting battery, at least have a charger at the ready to revive the phone. While your sanity, faith in the world, composure, and will to live might all be exhausted by the end of the evening, at least your iPhone will be fully charged and ready to party.

Fancy people love politics for one simple reason: it is full of fancy words, like “electorate college”, “birther movement”, and “well-fitting pantsuit”. It provides an ideal opportunity to sound more intelligent than their peers. A cheat sheet is nothing to be ashamed of, especially if it will help decipher what Wolf Blitzer is mumbling about for six hours on CNN. Must know jargon: 1. Battleground state: A state that can’t decide if it likes donkeys or elephants more, meaning either candidate has a chance of winning.

2. Electoral college: The 538 lucky pricks who actually elect the President of the United States.

3. Gerrymandering: When people mess with the maps so they can get more votes in a certain area where it’s needed.

4. Wedge issue: a campaign issue used by candidates to split factions within their own voter base – think of the “pussy-grabbing” comments as a wedge issue.

3. A BUFFET OF STOMACH AIDS:

4. A STEADY STREAM OF ALCOHOL:

Nights of entertainment, such as these, are best matched with a basket of deplorable foods: KFC (a Trump favourite) and cheap Mexican food (also a Trump favourite) will be nicely matched with the varieties of cheese, sushi and pizza you’ll also engulf. However, this is a marathon of pundits shouting opinions that might nauseate you. Keep a buffet of stomach aids, including Pepto Bismol, Gravol, ginger ale, green tea, and, if you can get it, Percocet.

It will relieve the pain of a stomachache and a shitty election result. However, use it sparingly. It will make you so happy you start swiping right to everyone who resembles Donald Trump on Tinder. Also, be sure to have a plethora of food and medicines ready for all the Americans that will be looking for refuge in Canada once the results are in. Either way, we will have a flood of new immigrants to care for.

While you might think you can get through the evening on grape pop alone, you will find yourself mistaken. Research shows that wine sales shot up three quarters of the way through the third debate, which gave nasty women around the world a full glass of wine to cheers to. Think of this like a bad date: the more you drink, the cuter, and hopefully more capable, the candidates will look.

Whatever makes you happy, surround yourself with it: books about baseball, pornography, the entire collection of Game of Thrones novels, iPhone cords to make into a noose, Gilmore Girls reruns, economics homework – whatever is your fetish, get it around you and in ample amounts. While Obama’s 2008 campaign was built on hope, you won’t find that in either of Clinton’s or Trump’s rhetoric. In Clinton’s, you will find a desperate need to be validated, loved and in control. In Trump’s, you will find misogyny, wall talk and an extreme hatred for facts and anyone who can remember what he said in previous speeches. Find your optimism, and hold onto it for life. You are not going to need it for one night; you are going to need it for four years.

Things that will help provide optimism: 1. Cats (more than one may be needed, depending on severity) 2. Replays of Game 7 of the World Series, to show if the Chicago Cubs can win, anything is possible 3. Re-runs of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 4. Books by Chuck Klosterman 5. A reminder that you live in Canada, and this election will likely have little effect on your daily life

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American-themed foods to have on election night: 1. Hot dogs 2. Macaroni with hot dogs in it 3. Pizza with hot dogs on top 4. Baked potato with a hot dog wiener baked into it 5. French “freedom” fries, splattered amongst hot dogs

When someone says one of these words, you must drink: 1. Wall 2. Emails 3. Pussy 4. Scandal 5. “No one has more respect for women than I do”

5. OPTIMISM:

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Top five Twitter feeds to follow: 1. Samantha Bee @FullFrontalSamB 2. Dan Savage @fakedansavage 3. Brian Stelter (CNN Reporter) @brianstelter 4. Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt 5. Bill Maher @billmaher

2. THE COLE’S NOTES ON THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM:

CABOOSE

HOROSCOPES

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IF YOUR BIRTHDAY IS THIS WEEK:

Poor timing. Everyone’s already busy celebrating the Cubs winning the World Series.

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What’s the worst-case scenario that could come out of the US Elections?

“World War 3.”

LIBRA (SEPT. 22 - OCT. 23):

ARIES (March 21 - April 19):

The Trainspotting 2 trailer was a little too relatable for you.

Getting a job is tough, but not as tough as trying to justify living with your parents at 35.

SCORPIO (OCT. 24 - NOV. 21):

TAURUS (April 20 - May 20):

Please stop talking about having nothing left to live for. You never had anything to begin with.

You may consider alcohol a food group, but your slowly shutting down liver disagrees.

Shilah Karius, first year Global Stewardship

“Depending on who wins, if Canada’s economy goes down the toilet.”

Cody Hubbard, second year Kinesiology

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22 - DEC. 21):

You can see love on the horizon. Too bad that restraining order keeps you from getting too close.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20):

By the time you read this, Trump could be president.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22 - JAN. 19):

CANCER (June 21 - July 22):

“I guess I can’t go see my brother in the states anymore.”

Teddy Wu, second year Kinesiology

Your new apartment is nice. So was that liver you had to sell for the first month’s rent.

Don’t complain about the rain as if you had plans outside.

“I think they’re fucked either way.”

LEO (July 23 - Aug. 22):

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20 - FEB. 18):

Eighty per cent of Canadians feared a Donald Trump presidency. 100 per cent of them fear being alone in a room with you.

Everyone can hear in your voice that you’ve given up on your dreams.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 21):

PISCES (FEB. 19 - MARCH 20):

There is, in fact, somebody watching you.

You’re not dead yet. If you were, you wouldn’t be in such agonizing pain.

Laura Lyall, first year Acting for Stage and Screen

“There’s another four years before I can run.”

Kanye West, future nominee

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