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DEAD HEADS

AUTUMN ALES

Storefront windows on Granville Island have come alive for an artistic celebration of Mexico’s Dia de los Muertos.

The Capilano Courier editors put their livers on the line to find British Columbia’s best and worst in pumpkin beers.

OCTOBER 26 - NOVEMBER 01 | 2015

THE THINGS YOU’RE DYING TO KNOW

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NO PAIN, NO GAIN

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UPASS REFERENDUM IMMINENT FOR STUDENTS

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Cover Art

Editor's Desk

News

Cap You

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Opinions

Features

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Arts & Culture

SYD DANGER

RED OCTOBER

ITS A TRAP: HOW TO AVOID STUDENT LOAN SCAMS

ALL MEN MUST DIE

WHO YOU: NIGEL CHING

GIMME SOME SKIN: SCIENCE WORLD OPENS ANIMAL EXHIBIT

THE STAFF STAFF THIS ISSUE COURIER COLUMNISTS Andy Rice

Therese Guieb

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

EXECUTIVE NEWS EDITOR

Carlo Javier

Gabriel Scorgie

EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE EDITOR

FEATURES EDITOR

Kevin Kapenda

Mark Crickmay

OPINIONS EDITOR

ARTS + CULTURE EDITOR

FRED ULRICH JR. Fred Ulrich Jr. commonly known to the staff as F-U2 is a disgruntled alcoholic who once achieved his 15 minutes of fame playing the accordion for a now defunct band whose name we cannot publish due to, uh, standards. In this column, he’ll be talking about things that society just might be too caught up on. So he’ll be talking about a lot of things.

LEAH SCHEITEL

Christine Beyleveldt

Alva Tang

CAMPUS CORRESPONDENT

COMMUNITY RELATIONS MANAGER

Cristian Fowlie

Syd Danger

ART DIRECTOR

PRODUCTION MANAGER

Tianyi Bao

Brandon Kostinuk

BUSINESS MANAGER

WEB EDITOR

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CONTRIBUTORS MILANA BUCAN TIM HORAN KEARA FARNAN BRIANNA ENGLAND

VIVIAN LI ZED ALEXANDRA TAYLOR LEE KSENIA KOZHEVNIKOVA ANDREJ IVANOV TIM LADNER

Leah Scheitel is really quite the polymath. She flew under the radar as one of the top students in the CapU business program last year, was a former triathlon superstar and knows the histories of both Saturday Night Live and each of the American secretaries of state by heart. However, in this column, she’ll talk about the two things she loves best — politics and men.

SABRINA KUHN Props to Sabrina Kuhn for being the most eager columnist of the year! Bonus points for being the first one to apply! After spending some time last year writing for the Courier to fulfill the obligations of the Arts and Entertainment Management program mandate, Sabrina is now writing without the requirements of her professor.

HAROLD WILLIAMS This column will feature the members of Capilano University’s international education community. Each writer will come from a different culture and each of them will talk about their experiences being immersed in a society much different from where they came from. This week we have Harold Williams from The Bahamas.

TOMAS DANCO THE CAPILANO COURIER is an autonomous, democratically-run student newspaper. Literary and visual submissions are welcomed. All submissions are subject to editing for brevity, taste and legality. The Capilano Courier will not publish material deemed by the collective to exhibit sexism, racism or homophobia. The views expressed by the contributing writers are not necessarily those of the Capilano Courier Publishing Society.

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NO PAIN, NO GAIN Andy Rice EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Whenever I’m having a bad day, I stop and imagine the prospect of inanimate objects being able to feel pain. Yes, I know that’s impossible and ridiculous and kind of weird, but in the words of nearly every guest the Maury Show has ever had, “Shut up. Y’all don’ know me.”

If you think being a human isn’t very much fun, try living your life as a roll of toilet paper or one of those fake logs inside a natural gas fireplace. How about a zipper or a lightbulb. See? You and your $50,000 of student loan debt have it pretty good!

Call me crazy, but I get a certain sadistic pleasure from the idea that my mirror dies a little every morning when it catches a glimpse of my naked ass crawling out of bed. Or that my pillow has been choking beneath me all night, only to succumb to gallons of my drool before the sun comes up.

Seeing how this is the Courier’s special Death Issue, I think it’s as good a time as any to talk about the warped ways in which I cope with life’s misfortunes.

Trust me when I say that nobody is having a more devastating time on earth than a piñata. Those poor bastards chill out in a party store for weeks, candy rotting in their lonely cardboard bellies, only to be bought for next to nothing, shoved in the trunk of a car and beaten by a mafia of children

until they explode.

Most musical instruments are met with a similar fate — drums, microphones, you name it. Even the flute has kind of a raw deal. I mean, would you really want to be blown 24/7? (Don’t answer that…)

Sometimes I go into a Long and McQuade store just to picture all of the guitars getting annoyed by everything that happens to them. “Wait. Why are you pressing on me? No. No no no. Stop that. Ow, don’t pluck so hard! Good Lord, how long is this song?! Noooo, not Stairway to Heaven again.”

There are plenty of misfortunate examples to be found around our houses as well. As a thrice-daily vessel for scalding-hot liquids, my favourite coffee mug comes to mind. Now imagine if the tables were turned. Do you think you’d willingly pursue that as a career?

If you were a cooking spatula, how would you feel about that? Do you think you’d enjoy being a cutting board?

Sure, being the cutting board in a studio apartment might not be so bad, but what about at the Mongoli Grill?

Let’s just imagine that your buddy Ted is a cutting board there, and Chef Ming uses a gigantic cleaver to chop everything. Ted has seen and felt things you can’t even imagine. He doesn’t like to talk about them and although he continuously blames onions for his inability to stop crying, you both know those are real tears.

Here at the Courier office there are

plenty of Teds as well — and I don’t mean staff members who express their emotions freely. I mean stationary supplies. Think of a simple sheet of computer paper. One thumbtack is all you need to become a professional piercer. Run it through the printer and congratulations, now you’re a tattoo artist.

If scientists were to discover tomorrow that the items around us are covered in tiny nociceptors, we would all retroactively feel like terrible people. We’d have a ton of explaining to do to our keys, our nail clippers and our hoses. Most of us would be murderers. If you owned any sort of sex toy, you’d be a rapist. Every bus bench, every shower drain, every urinal and every running shoe would be a seething bundle of resentment waiting to exact revenge upon us all.

So the next time you get pissed off or bummed out, take my advice. Use your imagination and make the world your voodoo doll — before all the muzzled Canadian scientists realize Harper is gone and start telling us there are nociceptors in everything.

What are you guys giving away on Halloween?

THE VOICEBOX with Carlo Javier

Andy: used speedos

TWEETS OF THE WEEK #HALLOWEEN

Syd: probably what’s left of my dignity Is the fortune-teller Gabe the Babe?

What are you a psychic?

Therese: Church’s chicken

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What do you guys think about the election results?

Cristian: cold medicine

Kevin: a bunch of Stephen Harper memorabilia

Gabe: STDs Ask Kevin at opinions.capcourier@gmail.com or Christine at reporter.capcourier@gmail.com

What is Therese dressing up as on Halloween?

Mark: I don’t know but it’s gonna come in late

Alva: glitterbombs

I’m giving away McDonald’s coffee cards The Voicebox is back! If you have any questions, concerns or any other bitchin’ to do, text it over to our boy Carlo at 778865-2649. “Please text me,” he says. “No one else does.”

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Manny Pacquiao

Christine: Elizabeth May campaign buttons

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UPASS REFERENDUM IMMINENT FOR STUDENTS

CSU looks to poll campus regarding transit use Carlo Javier EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE EDITOR

Capilano Students’ Union (CSU) has passed a motion to hold a new referendum regarding Capilano University’s UPass contract with TransLink.

On Oct 29, the CSU hopes that its Board of Governors will approve its referendum recommendation. The Board will also take a position on whether to support the “yes” or “no” side of the poll. If approved, the referendum will be set for Nov. 17 to 19, with the mandate of at least five per cent student participation. If it so happens that the referendum is not approved, CapU students will become ineligible to use a UPass starting May 1, 2016.

CSU vice president of Internal Relations Zach Renwick is confident that CapU students will be active in participating in the potential referendum, considering the number of students who shared their opinions in the last campus-wide question, “I think it will go through, but again it’s totally up to students to decide,” he said. “I think the

past UPass referendum had like 750 students, which is more than 10 per cent.”

The current UPass agreement will expire in April 2016. Currently, TransLink and the province are looking to lengthen the UPass BC program by two years, renewing the initiative through to May 2018. The renewal will include standard rate increases, bringing UPass prices up from $38 to $39.50 for the first year, and up to $41 in its second year. “In terms of the prices, they are a bit of an increase, but I believe the increase is only tied to inflation,” Renwick said. All participating post-secondary institutions in the province will follow the same rate increases on the UPass.

As for the potential referendum, Renwick anticipates a high level of participation and support from the CapU community. “Obviously it’s in the hands of students, but I think traditionally, the UPass has been a really well-attended referendum question and it traditionally has had high levels of support,” he said.

Renwick is confident that the Board of Governors will approve the referendum recommendation. If approved, the poll will only discuss the student use of the UPass and no other transit-based issues.

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PROGRAM IN DEVELOPMENT FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS

Cap Year Experience hopes to attract more students to attend CapU by 2017 Therese Guieb

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On June 15, 2015, the Cap Year Experience (CYE) report by the CYE Committee was published. The intent of the report is to lay out the CYE’s systemic plan to be implemented in the 2017 academic year at Capilano University. The plan only concerns first-year students who will be attending CapU in 2017. Some of the plans include changes in curriculums and opportunities for students to participate in more school activities in order to create a more engaged student community on campus.

The CYE committee was created due to the objectives and goals that were stated in the University’s Academic and Strategic Plan for 2015 to 2018. The CYE committee members is comprised of Lorraine Argatoff, professor at the School of Education, Health and Human Development, Jean Bennett, dean of Faculty, Education, Health and Human Development program at CapU Sunshine Coast, Joanne Charley, professor at the School of Business and Professional Studies, Karen Matthews, professor at the School of Motion Picture Arts, Cheryl Schreader, professor at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Lydia Watson, professor at the Faculty of Global and Community Studies at CapU North Vancouver and Sunshine Coast campuses and Natahsha Prakash, Liberal Arts Studies student.

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CapU as well as the student body.

According to Watson, these members were appointed through an expression of interest in being in the committee. “The call went out for the faculty members through each dean to each faculty, and they asked for an expression of interest so people who were interested in working on this program could then submit an expression of interest,” said Watson. “I’m actually not sure how the students were selected. In fact there was another student on the committee before Natahsha. He was on it for a very short time.

I believe they were assigned, but then again I’m not sure.”

Richard Gale, vice president of Academic and Provost at CapU is the one in charge of developing the Strategic and Academic Plan.

Therefore, the CYE report was submitted to him as well as all elements that are under the implementation of the Academic and Strategic Plan are overseen by him.

The CYE report was developed in three months and the ideas that were stated in the report came from the research of the committee from other post-secondary institutions’ first-year programs in the US and Canada. The committee also consulted with the CapU Institutional Research Department Program. “The US has had these programs basically since the early 90s and they have the most programs, and they have done the most research,” stated Watson. “There is a research centre called the National Resources Center for First Year Experiences and Student Transition. That’s

where they do all of the research. Now it is international but if you go and look, a big part of it is from the US.” There are six program objectives that the CYE wants to achieve and bring in to the new program once it is implemented. These elements are simplified and explained by Watson and can be viewed at Capilanou. ca by searching “CYE Report.” According to Watson, it is important to note that the CYE is an optional program for first-year students, not mandatory and is a full-time program over the course of two semesters. “It’s cohort-based. There are continual opportunities for personal and academic growth through lots of experiential learning. We wanted to look at what we at Capilano do really well,” said Watson. “We know that we have small classes and interactive classes, we have engaging classrooms, which we strive to achieve,” she continued, “We also connect with the First Nations community, both in North Vancouver and Sunshine Coast campuses [to have intercultural understandings].”

The framework for the program includes the following: theme, orientation, seminars, forums, advising, core courses, theme-based directed study and a capstone project. “Every Cap Year Experience will have a different theme, and all the courses, the seminars and others [parts of the framework] will be woven into the selected theme,” noted Watson. Themes range from democracy and diversity to creativity and culture.

Transferrable university credits is also one

of the discussions in the report. “Transferrable university credits are a must, and in the report it actually says six to 12. We [have] actually since updated that because of right now I’m in the process of consulting with both the University and external community and we’ve maxed it to about 18.

The maximum that a student could transfer would be 18 credits.”

Watson pointed out that one of the biggest pieces is in the CYE is mentoring. “So lots of support for students from faculty, from counselling and sizing, accessibility, really allowing them to explore and pick out what they want to do but with a real strong network of support,” she said.

Stakeholders of the CYE are students, faculty and staff members. As a result, the CYE Committee held a public forum on Oct. 19 to reach out to these stakeholders where they opened the floor for suggestions and feedback from attendees. Following the forum, Watson claimed to have sent out emails to North Vancouver and CapU satellite campuses faculty members, deans of programs, the Advisory Committee and the Capilano Students’ Union to share their feedback on the CYE.

By November, a proposal for the pilot program will be submitted and a decision for the acceptance of the pilot is expected to be delivered by Dec. 15. By spring 2016, the program will be developed and then implemented by the spring of 2017.

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REDESIGN GIVES MORE COURSE OPTIONS

CapU proposing to create new general education curriculum system Therese Guieb EXECUTIVE NEWS EDITOR

When the Academic and Strategic Plan for 2015 to 2017 was finalized last year, it stated many changes in Capilano University’s academic operations including one of the key aspects of every program available in the institution — general education.

The creation of a new general education curriculum is being led by Mary Giovanetti, instructor and convenor of the International Business program and Jocelyn Hallman, librarian at CapU. “There are three major reasons for the redesign — firstly, the Northwest Commission of Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) has been really clear about its recommendations that general education has to be identified and worked on at the institution,” listed Giovannetti. The NWCCU is an independent, not-for-profit membership organization that provides regional accreditation to postsecondary institutions and CapU has been accredited by the organization. “It’s [the general education curriculum redesign] part of our academic plan and strategic plan.

It’s also built into the documents and so now it’s time to implement general education,” continued Giovannetti.

General education is simply all electives that are outside of a student’s major area of study. “If you were a Business student, you would have all of your requirements for Business but

then you would have some electives as well. Some of them could be forced electives, some of them would be fun electives, and some of them would be electives that just fit in your schedule,” explained Hallman. “This [new general curriculum] would kind of be replacing that. It would be something that would be designed intentionally.”

According to Giovannetti, currently, in terms of a Bachelor in Business Administration as an example, students have 27 credits outside of their discipline which are classified as general education credits. By redesigning the current general education curriculum, students from any programs are given the opportunity to explore a course outside of their program in depth and allow them to link it back to their program requirements. “It gives you that broad base so you’re not just that person that has all of business but it would be nice to have exposure to Sociology and Psychology and the Natural Sciences and writing and critical thinking,” noted Giovannetti.

The current general education curriculum that CapU has is created under the Distribution Model. “I think what’s lacking typically from the distribution model is the fact that you have a lot of breadth, but you don’t have depth, you don’t have integration, and you don’t necessarily have intentional learning. If you want to study Sustainability, could you not somehow link courses together for general electives that would be valuable to you?” said Giovannetti.

Hallman adds that the model is miss-

ing coordination in timetable scheduling. “If we were to move forward with a set program or a couple of different paths a student could choose from, in course scheduling we would make sure all of the main courses you are studying will be at certain times, and all the ones that would be for the general education would be at a different time so you could actually get into the courses through the pathway,” explained Hallman.

More freedom for students to choose courses from other disciplines is one of the main goals for the redesign. This would depend on the model that CapU chooses to go through in fall 2017. “For example, if we went for a theme-based model, we are a small campus so [we] can’t offer hundreds of classes to choose from, we would probably have three themes in a given year, two themes to pick from,” said Hallman. “You’d pick what theme you wanted and the courses within that theme would be set. That’s how I’m imagining it, I don’t know if that’s really how it would work out.”

In terms of instructors changing their curriculum, Giovannetti stated that it would depend on which model is chosen and if it’s an elective or a required course. “I think one goal would be to identify where instructors are already teaching things that we think could be interesting to students in other areas, and to work with, at least to some extent with the courses we already have,” said Hallman. “It requires collaboration amongst faculty and that’s the whole idea, to get faculty working from

across disciplines to think about how they can present electives and link them together,” added Giovannetti. The new curriculum would only affect students in degree programs and first year students who will attend CapU in 2017.

As of today, there’s no set proposal for an implementation of a new general education curriculum. Giovannetti and Hallman are only in the consulting stage of soliciting students, staff and faculty on what they would imagine the curriculum would be like. In addition, they are also forming a general education curriculum committee who will be responsible in overseeing research and creating the drafts for the proposal.

They are encouraging students to join the committee as they claim that students are the biggest stakeholders of the curriculum. “This is the kind of thing that would an amazing booster for someone’s portfolio skills, their resume. It’s just a really cool opportunity if a student wanted to be part of that,” stated Hallman.

Committee members will be selected through evaluation from both Giovannetti and Hallman. The first public consultation for the curriculum redesign is on Nov. 12 from 11:30 am to 12:45 pm in LB 186. The event is called World Café.

For more information on the curriculum redesign and application to the General Education Curriculum Committee, email Mary Giovanetti at mgiovann@ capilanou.ca.

CSU TO SPEND $150,000 ON OFFICE UPGRADES

Annual General Meeting provides overview of past events and future developments Christine Beyleveldt

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CAMPUS CORRESPONDENT

Next, the Board presented their annual report. CSU vice president of External Relations, Taylor Wilson, reported on the success of the all-candidates forums, as well as the Get Out the Vote Capilano live federal election results party hosted on Oct. 19. CSU vice president of Student Life, Kate Phifer, reported on the success of the Welcome Back BBQ and Disorientation events that kicked off at the start of the fall semester.

Fabry informed the student body of Wi-Fi improvements across campus, as well as negotiation that secured Chart-

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the new facilities. Several students in attendance questioned the CSU on the need to upgrade their CSU office spaces, and where the funding would come from. CSU vice president of University Relations, Sacha Fabry, explained to the student body that the CSU was already in possession of the necessary funding and would require nothing from students in order to complete the renovations. The motion was carried, and the final phase of renovations, including construction and the purchase of furniture will be completed

by January 2016.

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On Oct. 22, the Capilano Students’ Union (CSU) hosted their Annual General Meeting (AGM). Geronimo Alec, First Nations student liaison representative, opened the meeting with the acknowledgement of the unceded Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples’ land with a traditional performance.

External auditor Jeffrey Dawes presented the financial statements of the 2014 to 2015 year, including revenue and expenditures. The CSU Board of Directors motioned to have up to $150,000 released for phase three of renovations to the CSU Administration offices. The first phase of renovations on the CSU Library Lounge took place in July 2012, and phase two, of the CSU Maple Lounge and Conference Centre were unveiled in March. Alysa Huppler-Poliak, third year Tourism Management student, questioned the Board on their proposed tactics to increase student engagement in

wells as the official provider of food and beverages. Fabry noted that many of the intended improvements, including more options for students such as Starbucks, Subway and an Indian restaurant, negotiated through the food and beverage contract haven’t been put in place yet, but they can be expected within the new year.

“One of our goals this year is to revitalize our collective and increase our presence,” said CSU Social Justice Coordinator, Taylor Smith. “We are seeking students who are passionate about global and local and international social justice events and causes.” The Social Justice Committee is making reappearance this year after an absence throughout 201415. Specifically, the Social Justice Collective is seeking students to help address homelessness among low-income students in the upcoming semester.

The meeting concluded with the introduction of newly-elected CSU members and the meeting was adjourned.

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COSTUMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE

CSU to hold Halloween party in collaboration with United Way Carlo Javier EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE EDITOR

This Halloween, Capilano University will eschew the usual zombie and sexy anything getup for the presence of superheroes — all for the celebration of positivity.

On Oct. 29, the Capilano Students’ Union (CSU) will be hosting a Spooky Superhero Soiree at the newly-rechristened CSU Members’ Centre in Library 195. The event will be done in partnership with United Way, with the purpose of easing the charity organization into the CapU community before their series of initiatives begin in November.

“We’re theming it superhero because we are teaming up with the United Way,” said Kate Phifer, CSU vice president of student life. “The United Way has a bunch of events that happen

all throughout the month of November, so this is kind of the launch for all of their events.”

Another reason for the theme is how the CSU, particularly Phifer, sees a superherolevel of work ethic within CapU students. “In my personal opinion, I think all students are superheroes — going to school, trying to have part-time jobs, trying to live in the expensive

country we live in is really, really challenging,” she said.

The Spooky Superhero Soiree also aims to break down some of the negative connotations that can come with Halloween.

Costumes have routinely been criticized for over-sexualization and many lambast the unofficial holiday as yet another corporate

marketing ploy. “We want to do something really positive and really highlight the fact that there are so many amazing people out there who are making differences in the world,” Phifer said.

Though the CSU is encouraging students to dress up in their superhero attire, costumes will not be mandatory. “We’re trying to make it as easy to access as possible, so nobody will feel like they couldn’t come,” she added.

The event will include four rounds of trivia that will be hosted by the CSU’s legendary outreach coordinator John Morrison. Each round will be based on different categories, namely superhero, United Way, CapU Blues athletics and an international subject provided by the Centre for International Education (CIE).

Prizes will include items such as CapU hoodies and thermos bottles donated by the Tourism department.

WHO YOU: NIGEL CHING

Exploring expression through different mediums — TIM LADNER

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Art is a form of expression.

Some artists choose to specialize in their chosen medium and dedicate their time to mastering their craft. Others, such as third year Liberal Studies student Nigel Ching, choose to split their work into multiple avenues.

Beyond his studies at Capilano University, Ching is also the cellist for local band, Jericho, an avid member of the burgeoning flatland skimboarding community and a painter.

Ching’s musical background began at a young age. It also prematurely and temporarily ended at a young age. “I come from a very musical family and my uncle started teaching me the cello when I was in kindergarten,” he said. At the age of five, Ching was already intensively studying the cello. However, he wound up veering away from the instrument at the age of 13, as he began to dedicate more of his time towards sports. Eventually, Ching would rekindle his passion for music, even admitting that his quitting of the cello was “kind of a loss.”

These days, Jericho serves as his main musical outlet. The group’s sound is noticeably eclectic and experimental, and Ching describes their style to consist of elements of psychedelic rock, blues-rock and gypsy rock among others. Jericho has played a dozen shows in the past eight months at venues such as the Railway Club and the Hindenburg.

When he’s not making music, Ching often finds himself behind a canvas.

Oftentimes, Ching works with acrylic paint, and for the most part he doesn’t paint with a visual reference. “I start with no pre-conceived idea of what I want to do and I just kind of paint based on what I’m feeling and what I

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think will be the next good step,” he explained.

When he does paint with a reference, Ching usually builds images of people or characters that he either admires or holds an interest in. His latest work is a depiction of the Faun in Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth. He’s also done paintings of Chicago rapper Common and South Park’s Eric Cartman, “He really irritates me, but he can also be one of the funniest characters of any movie or TV show,” he said.

Ching’s work on the canvas began in his high school years. Although he had already dabbled in art since the ninth grade, it wasn’t until the 12th grade where he truly began to focus on painting. At the time, one of his teachers motivated him to focus on painting as a medium of illustration. “He really brought me onto painting,” said Ching. “He taught me a lot, so it’s kind

of the inspiration from him that made me continue to paint.”

Like any artist, Ching also tries to find inspiration from the works of those that came before him. In the 12th grade, he had to do a project that required combining the styles of artists from the pre-19th century era, as well as the post-19th century era. “I chose Salvador Dali and Heironymus Bosch, and they’re probably the two painters that I most admire.”

Despite his dedication to the cello and painting, Ching doesn’t consider either of the two as his foremost passion. Ching has been an avid flatland skimboarder since his first encounter with the boardsport variation in the summer of 2009. The sport is described as a hybrid between skateboarding and surfing, using the user’s own running momentum to propel them onto gliding on a

thin film of water. Obstacles known as “features” are utilized to both challenge and accentuate tricks inherent to skateboarding.

He has participated in skimboard competitions such as the DB Pro/Am Skimboarding Contest held in Washington this summer and he has also received his fair share of injuries, including a few concussions and a rotated pelvis. Within the realm of action sports, Ching also takes part in skiing and skateboarding.

“I feel that skimboarding has done so much for me, I’ve met so many people through it and it’s given an outlet to express myself physically and also emotionally,” he said.

Currently, Ching teaches at skimboarding camps and hopes to one day start his own school.

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RED OCTOBER

Trudeaumania sweeps eight of ten provinces and all three territories in historic win Kevin Kapenda

On Oct. 19, Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada were elected to a majority government, defeating incumbent Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservatives.

This election was very much a referendum on Harper, whose foreign policy had become increasingly isolated on the world stage in a bid to win more support at home.

His obsessive micro-targeting of demographics failed him in the end, when Canadians felt that his policies were becoming much too divisive for a country that prides itself on diversity, whether we secretly “like it or not”.

Trudeau ran the best campaign from a communications perspective, that allowed him to position himself as the anti-Harper candidate — a leader who isn’t overly radical, but open to doing things differently from time to time.

Enter Justin Trudeau and his vague, unfocused progressive liberalism that plans, if not anything, to flip Canada and conventional Harperism on its head. His promise, largely distinguished by promising to go after the greedy and “well off” members of our society to provide more tax relief and benefits to average Canadians, allowed him to best embody the change vote in this country, which had been growing for the larger part of two years. The campaign is now over though, and it is time for Trudeau to get to work on delivering the change Canadians have been longing for, or face fiercer opposition from Greens and New Democrats four years from now.

Are Canadians left, centre or right?

After Monday, what we found out is that we weren’t Harper Conservatives. Canada is a country that is increasingly skeptical of private interests, paranoid that accountants

— ANDREJ IVANOV, THE CONCORDIAN

OPINIONS EDITOR

and financial advisors are no more than kingmakers for the wealthy and big on political correctness. The niqab, which was once denounced by scholars as a symbol of female oppression, has now become the exact opposite — a symbol of religious and expressive freedom. Canada is a country that no longer wants to be seen as interested in something, but instead disinterested in everything. Canadians have grown increasingly tired and in many cases, angry at Harper’s penchant for strongly defending causes or issues, like his unwavering support for counterterrorism, energy development and Israel of course.

While Trudeau has clearly demonstrated over the past few months that he is everything and anything but Conservative, he hasn’t been as clear on whether he’ll be more left-leaning like his father, or more moderate like his two most recent predecessors, Paul Martin and Jean Chretien. Free trade, specifically the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, is an agreement he hasn’t come out for or against, instead opting to criticize the out-

going government for masking a deal that’s not so secret. Ironically, it is this sort of hesitant, indecisive attitude that has allowed the Liberals to frame themselves as flexible policymakers in the eyes of voters, a brand that is neither wholeheartedly socialist nor conservative, but moderately progressive.

The environment is also a file that Trudeau will have to show more substance on, and quickly, since the UN’s climate change Conference of Parties will be taking place in just over a month’s time in Paris.

Trudeau has come under fire in the last couple weeks for his campaign co-chair’s relationship with TransCanada Corporation, a major oil sands player pushing a controversial pipeline project that would run bitumen from Southeastern Ontario to New Brunswick. Dan Gagnier, who is one of Trudeau’s most senior advisors, had already been doing consulting work for TransCanada, at the time when the Liberal leader hired him to oversee his campaign. However, recent emails from Gagnier to company execu-

tives reveal that he had gone as far as to give TransCanada Corp. advice on how to lobby an incoming Liberal government for project approval, should they win the election.

Warnings from NDP leader Thomas Mulcair about the Liberals signalling left on the environment and trade, than turning right are already starting to bear truth.

With that said, Trudeau has just won a historic swath of seats in Western Canada — 30 to be exact, with 18 of those in BC. If he wishes to keep the west red for the next decade, he will have to accommodate natural resource development one way or another.

Many people who want resolute climate action now, such as David Suzuki, could be out of luck if Trudeau opts to put politics before hints he has made to acting on the “environment”. This is largely because Trudeau’s future electoral success west of Ontario will depend on how much he allows energy to grow, not contract.

Whether he governs more conservatively like Martin and Chretien, or more progressively like his father, Trudeau will most of all return to governing this Canada openly, without being constrained by intense and at times vicious dogma and ideology. If I could tell you what the next four years are really going to look like, I would. What I can say is that it won’t look like the last four, in which everything the government enacted, kind of already looked like something another rightleaning one did elsewhere. Trudeau won the change vote, which had been rising like yeast for the last four years, and will now govern for at least that same amount of time. In what can only be described as an ultimate rebuke of Stephen Harper in relatively good economic times, the challenges of maintaining a coalition of moderates and progressive liberals, will once again be what ultimately defines our newest prime minister.

SCRATCHING THE SURFACE Preserving tattoos is an… idea Gabriel Scorgie FEATURES EDITOR

canvas, so suggesting that preserving tattoos is the next step in displaying the work of today’s great artists isn’t as big of a leap as one may have originally thought. What makes tattooing different from mediums of the past, however, is that once the artist is done with the piece, they no longer have any ownership over it. It literally walks out the door at the end of the day.

The idea of preserving tattoos is interesting. For those who can get past the fact that what’s on their wall is actually a piece of flesh, it could be a more meaningful way to remember someone than an urn. Most people would find hanging skin too weird for them, but there would certainly be a market for famous tattoos. As intriguing as the idea is, it’ll probably for the best if it ages like most tattoos do and fades into obscurity.

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The preservation of tattoos also means they could find their way into art galleries.

Imagine the Metropolitan Museum of Art opening a section of its gallery dedicated to the preserved tattoos of famous people.

Tourists walking into the exhibit and being surrounded by the dead skin of people they watched in the movies or saw at a concert.

Wait until it’s revealed posthumously that George W. Bush had a full back tattoo of a bald eagle flying over the statue of liberty, and that it’ll permanently be on display at the Met. People would be waiting in line for days to catch a glimpse of that beauty.

All jokes aside, tattooing has come a long way since the days of sailors giving each other tattoos with rusty needles behind dive bars. Their ever-growing popularity makes it hard to even consider them counter-culture anymore, and many of today’s best artists work with ink and flesh instead of paint and

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Every once in a while, an idea comes along that is so strange it becomes a lot of fun to imagine what could happen if the idea caught on. Charles Hamm, founder of the National Association for the Preservation of Skin Art (NAPSA), is the man behind one of those ideas. Thanks to Hamm, people with tattoos can now decide to pass them on to family members. By joining NAPSA, members will have the option to have the tattooed skin removed from their body, preserved and given to a loved one, who can hang it on a wall like any other piece of art.

Society has never been as heavily-inked as it is today with over 45 million Americans bearing at least one tattoo. In 50 years, there’s going to be a generation of grandparents with

some old-looking tattoos. Passing on a tattoo could change how people remember loved ones who have died. Imagine instead of your children cremating you and having your ashes stored in an urn placed on the fireplace mantle, you can leave them your half-sleeve of the Rocky Mountains, which in your final years started to sag and look like the pacific ocean instead. Or better yet, when grandma passes away you could get her bullseye tramp stamp bequeathed and hung in the games room.

It could create a booming market for the tattoos of dead celebrities. Imagine how much Justin Bieber’s sleeve tattoo would auction for after he inevitably dies while drag racing through the streets of Monaco. And who wouldn’t want one of Johnny Depp’s tattoos to show off at dinner parties? It could be yet another thing that weird, rich white people can collect to show off to other weird, rich white people.

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CEREAL KILLERS

Protesters wrong to denounce the gentrification of Toucan Sam Tim Horan CONTRIBUTOR

Across the pond in England, an unlikely business is under fire from anti-gentrification protesters. Patrons and staff of a small café located in the East End of London were holed up in its basement because “activists” from the anti-gentrification group “Class War” were holding demonstrations in front of the establishment with torches. One group member even went as far as to spray-paint the word “scum” on one of the windows. Why all the fuss? Because they sell bowls of cereal for what Class War deems an unfair price. While many would agree that £3 pounds ($4.50 Canadian dollars) for a bowl of cereal is a little steep, more are likely to think this group of concerned activists is going about protesting class inequity in the dumbest way possible.

A café that sells cereal is, in my opinion, one of the most innocuous business ideas possible. These days, there seems to be an infinite supply of Starbucks and other high end coffee shops, and no one seems to care about them, so it must be the cereal that’s got these protesters all fired up. But, to me, cereal is the epitome of comfort food. For most, it would be hard to think of someone they know who has strong negative feelings toward cereal. It’s a pretty neutral food for which everyone has their favourite type.

As long as it’s profitable, a café that sells cereal is a fantastic business idea that can be both affordable and fulfilling to run. It takes two of the best aspects of the most comforting meal of the day and combines them. It’s brilliant, as many of its users have probably said before. It is not offensive, nor does it embody class inequity. Is the café’s East London neighbourhood becoming increasingly gen-

trified? Yes it is. But that doesn’t give Class War the right to show up and harass hardworking business owners for selling comfort food at a price the market will bear.

Class War is currently protesting in areas of London they feel have already been gentrified to try and take the power back from developers and business owners. While many people agree with their argument that gentrification is leading to a less affordable housing options, the means employed by the group don’t justify or even help their end goal.

Local businesses, like coffee shops and cafés, should never be the target of protest unless they are personally responsible for some kind of wrongdoing. Showing up with torches, vandalizing property and forcing staff and patrons to seek refuge in a basement until the demonstrations die down is buffoonery, and totally undermines the

message of Class War’s protest. Finding it concerning that people are selling bowls of cereal for the same price as boxes in grocery stores is tolerable, but calling people “scum” for doing so is most certainly not.

Sure, gentrification is a problem that can lead to low-income families being unable to find affordable housing in their community, but showing up like a bunch of angry townsfolk on a witch-hunt is not the solution. If Class War really wants to prevent more private development in East London, to allow for more subsidized rental units, they should take the protest to the developers and politicians actually responsible instead of harassing independent business owners who create jobs for locals.

Simply put, cereal and coffee are delicious, and Class War can go fuck itself.

CANDIED TEETH

Parents must heed health risks of trick or treating Keara Farnan

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CONTRIBUTOR According to a recent National Post article published on Oct. 16, health experts in PEI are encouraging people to hand out fitness passes instead of candy on Halloween night. The city of Summerside, PEI has discounted its recreation centre tickets to $10 to promote healthy living and encourage physical activity. For many decades, Halloween has been known as the one night where everyone, regardless of age can go out and fill their faces with as much candy as he or she desires. Trick-or-treating may seem like a fun occasion and harmless to people’s health, however, some individuals go to extremes to obtain excessive amounts of candy, and end up eating twice their daily caloric intake all in one sitting.

Treating yourself in moderation is fine to some extent, but filling your face with candy, eating too many high-calorie treats and not watching your diet will only worsen your health. There's a reason why children end up with diabetes at a young age — they either cannot control their sugar intake or their parents have spoiled them with too many sugar-filled foods. Candy-lovers and individuals who eat high-calorie, sugary sweets, should consult with a dietician, or doctor if they find that their poor eating habits are taking a toll on their health.

"I think of Halloween as the holiday when we test market new fears,” said Lenore Skenazy, of the blog Free-Range Kids and reality show World’s Worst Mom, in a National Post interview. “We first came up with the idea that your neighbours could be psychopaths who wait patiently for the one day of the year to poison your children.”

The rate of child obesity continues to rise annually due to poor nutrition offered in elementary schools, restaurants and

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grocery stores. Parents can also have an impact on whether or not their child develops unhealthy eating habits, especially if they constantly spoil him or her with high-calorie, sugary foods.

Although parents do not intend to cause their child to gain excessive weight through candy-highs, trick-or-treating and other junk foods, it can be difficult to say no to a child, even when the parents know they have their best interest at heart. Parents are mostly the ones who encourage trick-or-treating on Halloween, even though they themselves are too old to join in on the fun. Instead of letting their kids go candy-crazy in the days following Halloween, they should divide their sugar consumption into portions for that week and store extra candy in their pantry for the rest of the month.

"To turn Halloween into such a seductive, dangerous night that children might get a taste of candy and go buck wild… strikes me as overkill,” added Skenazy.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with giving a kid a free bowling game, but the idea behind it is that children should have no exposure to a lot of candy because they will get fat.”

Not only is eating too much candy fattening to the human body, it can also rot one's teeth due to the development of cavities, which begin to erode your teeth and leave nasty black spots on them. Children should not be faced with the painful consequences of cavities and gum disease, especially when their pain tolerance is not very high to begin with. Being told by their parents that the dentist is going to have to drill a hole in their tooth to make way for a filling will freak them out even more — they

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"We take anything that has any kind of fun and independence in children’s lives and turn it into danger,” exclaimed Skenazy.

Parents who plan on taking their children out for Halloween trick-or-treating should be advised that it is okay to say no to their kids if they feel as though they have had too much candy for one night.

Children may act up at times, or demand too much from their parents, but they should sit back and listen. Parents, for the most part, know what's best, because they have already experienced numerous Halloweens themselves. It should not be that difficult to say no to your child if you

do it on a regular basis. The key is to be stern, without attempting to be overly controlling.

Let your kids have their freedom and fun when necessary. However, when it comes to their health, be sure encourage nutritious options. If you teach your children how to eat properly at an early age then you break down the barriers of child obesity in your family, maybe even future lineage. After all, why wouldn’t you want your children to grow up to be healthy human beings with little to no health problems?

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IT’S A TRAP

How to avoid student loan scams Milana Bucan CONTRIBUTOR

“If it’s too good to be true, it usually is” — an old adage that, like most of them, has survived to this day largely due to the fact that it’s almost always right. If there is something wrong with the saying, it would be that it’s been used so often that it sounds meaningless, but with more students falling victim to debt forgiveness and consolidation scams each year, it’s a piece of advice students might want to pay more attention to.

Scammers and professional hackers know a thing or two about grabbing people’s attention and attaining their personal information. Unfortunately, many students rely solely on student loans to get them through their education. With limited financial resources, going in debt to graduate is the only solution for many.

According to the Canadian Federation of Students' website, “since the federal funding cuts of the 1990s, an increasing proportion of the cost of post-secondary education has been passed on to students. Government grants used to cover up to 80 per cent of an institution’s operating budget nearly 30 years ago, they now cover roughly 50 per cent, with tuition fees making up the difference.” In addition, “skyrocketing tuition fees and the prevalence of loan-based financial assistance have pushed student debt to historic levels. This past year, almost 425,000 students were forced to borrow in order to finance their education.”

Stats Canada also reported that “Canadian full-time students in undergraduate programs paid 3.2 per cent more on average in tuition fees for the 2015/2016 academic year this fall than they did the previous year. The

increase is slightly lower than the 3.3 per cent rise observed in 2014/2015. On average, undergraduate students paid $6,191 in tuition fees in 2015/2016.” Due to the current state of education funding and how desperate students are to get out of debt, more people are seeing student debt forgiveness scams as a viable way to part people from their money.

ON THE LOOKOUT What the problem boils down to is students not being educated about their loans. Before signing any contracts, students are advised to do their research and make sure to read through the fine print and know exactly what they are signing their name to. It is at times when students are most vulnerable and desperate to get rid of their loans that they become susceptible targets, whether that means minimizing payments, deferring a payment or even saving on the interest rates.

To keep finances simple, Max Nomad, author of Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse: Safer Computing Tips for Small Business Managers and Everyday People, suggested to “start off with the university and keep it simple.” If the students do have specific questions, it is best to go straight to the lender company, not a third party. More often than not, a legitimate lender will not reach out to the students offering better interest rates, or provide options to completely forgive their loans for a one-time fee. One popular method is to ask for hundreds of dollars for government forms that are widely available for free online. Scammers are smart enough to exploit graduates by using logos that mimic government seals and having URLs that end in .ca, making the student believe they are a legitimate service.

“If they’re coming to you… skip it,” said Nomad. “Sometimes they’ll go so far as to go

online and google information and use the information that is publicly available. They will then give it back to you to make it sound like they’re an official person or authority figure.”

Students who run into a problem need to contact the lender company firsthand. It’s only a phone call away, and they can usually offer other routes to help students, such as getting a different repayment plan, deferring a payment, or forbearance plans.

“The government of Canada and most provincial or territorial governments work together to deliver federal and provincial student loan and grant programs,” explained Lindsay Tiemer, Financial Aid and Awards supervisor at Capilano University.

“Residents of BC can access these programs through Studentaidbc.ca. Also, online applications are a fast and secure way to apply for a government student loan.

“Financial Aid advisors at CapU support students in their search for financial assistance and in helping them make the best use of their resources,” she continued. “Our advisors are here to help students with money management strategies such as budgeting and goal setting, and we offer a number of free workshops each term that provide information and resources to help students make sense of students loan and understand student loan repayment.”

Federal student loans can only be consolidated through the Federal Direct Consolidation Program. Students can do it in 20 minutes, and there are no fees attached. Legitimate companies take a percentage when the student loan is paid off, and there are never any fees to be paid up front. Student scams are serious operations and often teeming with professional con artists. “They’re not trying to take your estate and everything else that you own. They’re just trying to get $50-100 dollars

out of you,” explained Nomad. “If they get a 100 people that is sufficient for them, they’ll close their PO Box and go somewhere else.”

HOW TO AVOID SCAMS Students should invest some time in doing research and getting advice from a professional financial advisor. Taking the time to find out and understand the different loan options can save you a lot of time in the long run. Knowing exactly when the payments are due, how much they are and what the interest rate is ensures that there are no surprises down the road. Additionally, making extra payments whenever possible decreases the principal amount owed, which is guaranteed to knock the interest down. Tiemer suggested students should be “starting repayment early to reduce the debt load after graduation because payments are applied directly to the outstanding principal balance. Making interest and principal payment during the six month grace period will support paying off student debt more quickly.”

After graduating, a few years of hard work and sacrifice are going to be required to pay off those loans. Even if it means moving back with the parents and saving on rent, or picking up extra shifts at work and even getting a second job, it will definitely be worth it in the end. Nobody ever said it will be easy, but if planned and done right, chances are graduates will have an easier time in the future getting a loan for a new car, even applying for a mortgage. Best of all, starting out with a clean slate and worry free is the best feeling.

CapU is offering a workshop entitled Understanding Student Loan Repayment on Oct. 26 and Nov. 5 in Birch 263.

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THE MORBID AND BEAUTIFUL DETAI Carlo Javier EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE EDITOR Getting some air wasn’t the reason why all the windows were open in a palliative care unit in Victoria. One of the subtle lessons that third-year nursing student Jennifer Kanai has learned throughout her studies at Camosun College is that nurses can be superstitious. In her first encounter with a dying patient, the nurses made sure that every window in the vicinity of the body was open.

The reasoning, as Kanai explained, wasn’t purely medical. It was belief — “So that the spirit can escape.”

Kanai’s first experience of having someone die right before her eyes wasn’t entirely a shock. The patient was in palliative care and the nurses’ mission was to ensure that that the patient was as comfortable as possible. Death was a given. For Kanai, she didn’t just see it coming. She heard it.

‘Death rattle’ is a term used in hospitals to describe the sound patients make when they’re no longer able to clear the fluids in their lungs through coughing or swallowing.

As the name implies, it’s also a sign of impending doom and hearing the proverbial death rattle didn’t just bring the eerie ambience of palliative care to life — it also brought death.

During the first year of her practicum, Kanai found herself posted in a long-term care facility in Victoria where she happened to be in the same station as a patient whom her instructor personally knew. The patient’s death rattle had grown so loud that the ambient sounds of the space were overshadowed by the chilling noise.

The hurried steps of nurses speeding from one place to another seemed less frequent and the

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“Most patients, from her experiences, they try to hold on to life while their family members are there… it’s almost like a gift for someone to do that in front of you. To let themselves go, to feel that comfortable that they can move on just like that.”

strenuous beeps of heart rate monitors grew less noticeable.

Despite the macabre vibes that a death rattle oozes, it doesn’t at all bother a patient. For the most part, nurses take care of it simply to comfort a family’s worries. Kanai and the other

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nursing students in her practicum stood and watched as a registered nurse administered hydromorphones to slow down respirations, and thus quiet down the noise. According to Kanai, the nurse had told her that the significantly diminished breathing of the patient is not an unusual reaction to hydromorphones, and that in her four years of work in palliative care, she had never seen someone pass away.

The slowed breathing summoned cold air into the room as Kanai and the other students began to count the seconds in-between respirations. “It got to about 30 seconds between each breath, and then at one point there was no breathing at all,” she recalled. “We were still counting and we got to about a minute-and-ahalf and we were like, ‘I think he’s gone’ so we had to go grab one of the nurses and it was really a weird feeling knowing that the person you were just with — they were no longer there.”

Kanai’s immediate reaction wasn’t of shock or fear. She panicked for a moment, but not because of the patient dying. It was because that patient was acquainted with her instructor. She had to let her know. “It didn’t actually hit me that I had witnessed someone passing away until I got home,” she said. “I phoned my parents because I wanted to talk to someone about it, and I just like cried because it was really shocking. You almost don’t realize what had really happened until you go home and think about it a bit more.”

In the ensuing days, Kanai spoke to friends, co-workers and family members about the experience. As expected, people offered their condolences. Not only was this experience uncommon, but for some people it can also be difficult. It was her aunt, who was also a nurse, who provided her with a different take on her experience. “She said, ‘Wow that was amazing, that’s unbelievably lucky,’ and I didn’t quite understand what she was saying,” Kanai recalled. “Most patients, from her experiences, they try to hold on to life while their family members are there, so rarely a patient will pass away in front of their family, but she said that it’s almost like a gift for someone to do that in front of you. To let themselves go, to feel that comfortable that they can move on just like that.”

STUDYING DEATH FOR A LIVING Deaths of natural causes are often straightforward. After a few medical procedures and the grieving period, families can move on to arranging their desired funeral services with little to no obstacles. “We basically go in there and kind of clean up the body, we make sure all the IVs are taken out, anything medical we take out,” Kanai said. In the case of a seemingly-unnatural passing, or an untimely and unexplained death, coroners like Barbara McLintock step in and take the lead.

McLintock was a journalist, and for many

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friends who may be among the last people who have hadcontactwiththedeceased,thevictim’snextofkinas well as clinics, nurses or doctors in order to find out the victim’smedicalhistory.

The completion of the Investigative Triangle doesn’t always lead to a concrete conclusion.

Post-mortem testing can call for autopsies and toxicology tests. For example, victims deemed to have died in car accidents often undergo tests for

“It was really a weird feeling knowing that the person you were just with – they were no longer there.”

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The North Vancouver Cemetery rests peacefully adjacent to Capilano University. It’s an interesting juxtaposition. The campus is a vibrant community brimming with educators and learners. Students have frequently described its location to be among its brightest factors. After all, schools don’t usually have a forest resting right in the heart of campus.

Just across the hill is where the dead rest. It’s undoubtedly and rightfully quiet. The fitting ambience of the place doesn’t make the graveyard seem eerie or unsettling – it’s peaceful, it’s almost quaint. This is where people remember and this is where they grieve.

Gravediggers from Mountain View Cemetery have seen it all. The cemetery is the oldest in Vancouver after all. For Dave Dowsett and Drew Fabbro, some of the most interesting experiences came from witnessing and partaking in various families’ respective cultural ways of grieving. In an article written in the Vancouver Sun, Douglas Todd taps the minds of veteran gravediggers and explores some of the many cultural traditions that they’ve seen during funerals. Rituals such as the geometrically-driven grave digging done at the behest of a Muslim family, who wished for their loved laid facing the Mecca and Serbian families who insisted that the gravediggers have their wine in honour of the dead stand out as among the most memorable.

No matter how unusual or how emotional, people’s way of grieving is something that those who work in the field of death have to get used to. “One of the things you learn is that everybody grieves in their own way,” said McLintock.

“There are some people who grieve extremely angry, there are people who are grieving quite hysterically, people who seem kind of calm and have it all together only to break down later, people who work their way through it, and it depends on the circumstances obviously.”

There are also times when the process of grieving is simply overcome by acceptance.

One of McLintock’s

most memorable cases involved a 100-yearold woman who died on a bus during one of her weekly trips to the casino. The bus driver knew the woman well, and when the driver noticed that she hadn’t gotten off her stop, he knew something was wrong. “Then there she was. The family said that it was really and truly okay, she was 100 years old and she died happy,” McLintock said.

Eight years ago, a massive storm hit Western Canada around the New Year. A couple of visitors from Ontario had decided to go stormwatching at the Esquimalt Lagoon for New Year’s Eve. Little did they know that on that night they would run into the one case that’s haunted McLintock, the RCMP and the Coroners Service for years. A body had washed up on the beach. McLintock knew it was recent as the man’s clothes were in good shape. He was also dressed well, indicating that he couldn’t have been a homeless who may have fallen into the water. That night, the assumption was that it was going to be an easy investigation.

They never found a match with a missing persons case. Not in BC area and not in the Washington state area. It’s a case that’s been lingering in the back of McLintock’s mind to this very day — eight years later.

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any substances that might have been in their system. Post-mortem work won’t always signal the end of the case. Though it’s not a fault-finding agency, BC Coroners Service is a fact-finding agency, and for McLintock, completing the steps don’t always mean the job is done. “Follow where the investigation leads at that point,” she said.

McLintock’s second career as a coroner wasn’t driven solely by interest in the macabre.

Rather, it was a brain teaser. “I love solving puzzles,” she said.

However, being a coroner isn’t among everyone’s dream jobs. Responsibilities include making sure that no death in their respective communities is left overlooked or ignored, investigating deaths that aren’t driven by natural causes and providing their communities with tips and recommendations on how to prevent future deaths that fall under the same circumstances. Coroners classify their cases into multiple categories: natural, accidental, homicide, suicide and undetermined.

They work to identify victims and are also responsible for documenting all child deaths that occur within the province. Simply put, coroners, find themselves around a lot of dead bodies.

As McLintock explained, one of the harder tasks for the BC Coroners Service is finding recruits and getting them to stay. “Personally I never had any trouble being around dead bodies. Some people really freak out around dead bodies and we have people who join the Coroner Service and think they can do this and they go out for about two shifts and say ‘It was really nice knowing you, I think I’ll go find a different career,” she said.

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years she served as the Victoria bureau chief for The Province. After a comfortable buyout that led her to a semi-retired life working as a writer and consultant, a new opportunity presented itself.

McLintock came across an ad looking for a part-time coroner in a local paper in Victoria. She had already gained some form of understanding of how coroners operate through her career as a journalist and decided that the position might be worth a shot.

These days, McLintock primarily handles administrative and communication duties as the BC Public Service’s coroner, strategic programs, but after 1,400 cases that she personally investigated, the coroner’s life in the field remains vivid in her mind — every single step of it.

“The first thing is, the coroner’s only called once it’s been determined that there definitely has been a death,” McLintock began. She emphasized that coroners can be called by anyone, from the RCMP, the ambulance service or the emergency ward.

Families who remain suspicious of a perceived natural death can also call a coroner to provide a second opinion. In the case of an unnatural death, such as a possible accident or homicide, a coroner’s first task upon arrival at the scene isn’t all too different from other first responders — secure the area. The scene can have several occupational hazards. There could’ve been a fire and structures within the place could be prone to collapse, it could be a chemically-sensitive drug lab that may react to many and any forms of interaction and there could be sharp objects lingering in the place that could either harm the responders or contaminate the corpse. “Make sure the scene itself is safe to enter,” said McLintock.

From there, like most coroners, McLintock preferred to start her investigation with what’s called an Investigative Triangle, a formula that combines findings from three major components: the scene, the history of the deceased and the body. “What you want is all three of those sides, essentially, to match up so that you have a nice equilateral triangle, and it all points to the same direction,” McLintock said.

Investigating the scene requires questions regarding the state of the area in which the body was found in. Coroners would start outside and work their way in, looking out for any detail of the place that could potentially have played a role in the death of the victim, “What state is the [place] in? Is it clean? Is it well organized? Are there things that can causehealthproblemssuchasmould?”McLintockexplained. While understanding the details of the scene requires visual work, finding clues from the body calls for more hands-on activity. A coroner would begin the check up with a head-to-toe examination, looking for signs of trauma, old and new injuries and nosebleeds (a sign of drug overdose). Coroners would also proceed to check the corpse’s pockets for any clues and, possibly, identification. Another common part of the checklist is tolookforsignsofusedneedles.Oncethebodyiscleared, the coroner would proceed to talk to anyone who may have been at the scene, particularly people who saw thedeath.Coronerswouldtalktofamilymembersand

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Apparently there are enough die-hard Simpsons fans in Vancouver to warrant a semiregular trivia night. Teams of six or less will compete to answer 50 questions about anything from seasons one to nine (a.k.a. the best ones!) Everyone is welcome but organizers are very specific about the need to bring your own pen.

ROGERS ARENA 7 PM • $99.25 - $368.25 + SC

The Montreal Canadians have won the Stanley Cup 24 times. The Vancouver Canucks have not. Not even once. To make matters worse, the Habs also have us beat when it comes to hockey riots, which are…like…Vancouver’s claim to fame. Quite frankly, I think the price for lower bowl tickets is cause for a riot unto itself.

Every Wednesday I get another automated email from Mark Crickmay, our arts editor, inviting me to join him on LinkedIn. The problem is, I already have LinkedIn, I just refuse to tend to such a high-maintenance garden of bullshit. This is a workshop called Getting To Know LinkedIn. Frankly, I’d rather get multiple colonoscopies.

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Yay, a 90s themed genre-specific karaoke event with an added Halloween twist! If there’s ever a time to wear that ‘Slutty Tupac Shakur’ costume you bought online, I think this might be it. Hosts Flipout and DJ Seko will keep the beats going and be giving out prizes for the best 90s rap costumes. There’s even a ‘rappy hour’ with drink specials.

GAME OF THRONES TRIVIA NIGHT

VENUE 6 PM • $10

Test your knowledge to become Protector of the Realm (a.k.a. huge nerd) and win 500 Gold Dragon coins in the process! I can’t remember which member of the Courier staff is a Game of Thrones fan, and I honestly don’t care. Getting to know your co-workers creates a severe lack of productivity in the office and I will have none of that.

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CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: KOOZA

CONCORD PACIFIC PLACE 8 PM • $45

At first, when I heard everyone talking about Kooza I thought it was just another discount cellular phone provider. I was wrong. It’s actually the newest production from Cirque du Soleil. Kooza “uses acrobatics and clowning to tell the story of a loner in search of his place in the world” — something I never had when I was growing up.

EARTHWORKS INVASIVE PLANT PULL

This is the largest environmental film festival in North America — and it only has seven films! It also has raffle draws and door prizes. Proceeds will benefit the BC chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, an organization dedicated to keeping the province’s parks, oceans and wilderness areas on fleek.

I believe there’s already a food truck with the slogan “You weed, we feed” parked outside the Marc Emery headquarters, but CapU seems to have stolen it for their annual invasive plant pull on campus. Show up, eat a few snacks, pull a few weeds and keep the campus gardens looking great. RSVP to gardenpatchworks@capilanou.ca.

THRILLER CHOREOGRAPHY WORKSHOP

HARBOUR DANCE CENTRE 6:30 PM • $16

Fun Fact: Although Michael Jackson’s Thriller album was released in 1982, the iconic “Thriller” dance video wasn’t shown until a year later. That’s about how long it would take me to learn the choreography if this workshop wasn’t a thing. Thankfully, Moe Brody will be there to help me find my footing in under an hour.

CLUE HAUNTED MANSION

THE BELMONT BAR 7 PM • $20

A HALLOWEEN SPECTACULAR

This is a special occasion for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Maestro Bramwell Tovey has the night off and John Morris Russell will be conducting in his place. Local tenor (and CapU Jazz Studies grad) Carman J. Price will join the ensemble for an evening of spooky songs, including selections from Harry Potter and Phantom of the Opera.

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HALLOWEEN PARTY CRUISE

450 DENMAN ST. 8 PM • $30

I’m pretty sure the Capilano Students’ Union is due for another boat party, but I just checked and this one has nothing to do with them. Spirit Cruises is hosting a costume party aboard their Pride of Vancouver vessel. Does anyone want to go with me? I’m going to dress as a pirate and make drunk people walk the plank.

THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER

SCOTIABANK DANCE CENTRE 8 PM • $22 TO $30 + SC

Okay, get this: Some crazy Belgian choreographer has decided to troll his entire dance troop by making them jump for 70 minutes straight. There are a few different configurations allowed, of course, but the jumping never stops. The teaser describes it as “a repetitive bruising battle that demands extraordinary stamina, coordination and concentration.”

AFRICAN ART SALE

OCEAN PARK COMMUNITY HALL 8:30 AM • $ FREE Consider this an opportunity to get some Christmas shopping done early! Unique paintings, art pieces, trays, craft items, fabrics, baskets, tablecloths and beaded ornaments will be on display, all handmade by Zimbabwean artists. Proceeds will support widows and orphans through the Zimbabwe Gecko Society, based in Surrey of all places.

BIKE SHORTS

PACIFIC CINEMATHEQUE 1:30 PM • $10 TO $15

This event is going to be wheely, wheely cool — it’s an afternoon of short films about bikes!

Many are recent winners and finalists of the 2015 VeloBerlin Film Awards. As presenting sponsor, HUB (formerly the Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition) has promised that new members will get their first beer free, along with “sweet cycling prizes.”

YOUR THROBBING HANGOVER

SOME RANDOM LOCATION ALL DAY • $ HALF A PAYCHEQUE

It’s the day after Halloween, which means you should be flat on your back, hating your life and severely regretting your decision to slam shots of Bacardi 151 with some dude dressed as Dracula that you met on a porch. Your neighbour’s fireworks display was nothing compared to the explosions at the base of your skull this morning.

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I’ve certainly enjoyed seeing posters for this production around town. It’s an Olivier Awardwinning play about a man named John. “John has been in a relationship with his boyfriend for seven years. But when they take a break, he accidentally falls in love with a woman…

Cock brilliantly questions where sexuality and identity intersect.”

CEDAR BUILDING COURTYARD 10 AM • $ - BACK PAIN

ORPHEUM THEATRE 8 PM • $18.75 TO $95 + SC

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COCK

PERFORMANCE WORKS 8 PM • $10

HR MACMILLAN SPACE CENTRE 6:30 PM • $15

This place used to be called The Cellar Nightclub but then it went back to its roots, given that it’s in the basement of what used to be the Hotel Belmont. This particular event has a murder mystery theme, with special guest DJs and a giveaway from Beefeater for everyone in the door before 9 pm. Hah. Beefeater… sounds funny.

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WEST VANCOUVER LIBRARY 10:30 AM • $ FREE

CANUCKS VS. CANADIENS

GETTING TO KNOW LINKEDIN

90S EDITION HIP-HOP KARAOKE

Lunchtime Jazz is a thing that happens most Tuesdays and Thursdays at CapU. I’ve been meaning to tell you about it. On this particular week, you’ll find two student groups — Capital Jazz and “C” Band — playing their hearts out in Fir 113. I was in both of those groups once upon a time. And now I feel old.

Pilates is a form of precise physical exercise that demands intense focus and concentration in order to control every aspect of every movement. Fun fact: up until the year 2000, it was taught exclusively in New York at the studio of its founder, Joseph Pilates. I guess he liked controlling that too. But now he’s dead and West Van is picking up the slack.

VPL CENTRAL BRANCH 6:30 PM • $ FREE

FORTUNE SOUND CLUB 9 PM • $10

LUNCHTIME JAZZ

FIR 113 11:30 AM • $ FREE

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BARENAKED LADIES

Oct. 21, Queen Elizabeth Theatre Andy Rice EDITOR-IN-CHIEF When the Barenaked Ladies took the stage at Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Oct. 21, the first two lines out of lead singer Ed Robertson’s mouth were “I'm a little bit worse for wear / Got a little bit more grey hair…”

By the time he’d finished singing the song (“Get Back Up” from their new album Silverball,) it was apparent that only one of those things was true.

Like fine wine… er… fine maple syrup, the members of BNL have matured with age.

After 27 years of being a band — and more importantly a Canadian band who has found success south of the border — they are none the worse for wear, even after electing to “mutually” jettison founding member Steven Page back in 2009.

There’s still plenty to love about the foursome as they are now, and if anything his absence has given keyboardist Kevin Hearn, bassist Jim Creeggan and drummer Tyler Stewart more room to show their talents.

“Old Apartment,” the band’s first entry on to the Billboard Hot 100 chart, was a trip back to 1997 with Robertson covering Page’s original vocal.

Newer songs like “Odds Are,” “Gonna

Walk” and “Matter of Time” soon followed before a tip of the hat to the band’s 1992 classic, “Brian Wilson.” Forgoing the intro and first verse, Robertson came in on the chorus, doing his best Page once again, and Creeggan and Hearn slayed the outro like their lives depended on it. Whenever Creeggan unbuckles his Fender Jazz Bass and switches over to his stand-up, you know he’s about to blow your mind.

Whether it’s a newer album cut or an old favourite, BNL manages to make each song sound fresh and inspired even after all these years of performing together. They don’t sound tired and they don’t sound bored. They certainly don’t sound 45.

They also happen to be four fantastic instrumentalists. Hearn switched back and forth between a variety of keyboards and guitars the entire night and although he’s not the band’s lead guitarist on paper, he played every solo in the set.

Opener Alan Doyle of Great Big Sea fame was no slouch either, and the band brought him back out to sing Bruce Cockburn’s “Lovers in a Dangerous Time,” a song BNL covered back in 2006.

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After getting the crowd on their feet with “Falling For the First Time,” Robertson paused to recall BNL’s long history of playing shows in Vancouver. “I was in Gastown yesterday trying to find remnants of the Town Pump,” he said, referring to the 66 Water Street address where Rain Ultraclub now stands. “We got robbed there back in… like… 1991.”

By their own admission, BNL has played just about everywhere in Vancouver over the years, from the Railway Club to the Commodore and even Rogers Arena earlier that morning for We Day. All night long, their banter was easy-going and involved everyone on stage equally.

While that seems like a simple concept, it’s not every day that a band can converse freely between songs and chat with the audience of 3,000 as if everyone is together in a living room or small club.

Following a story about how Stephen Harper awkwardly introduced them to the queen a few years back, BNL played several more tunes from Silverball and 2013’s Grinning Streak. And then, wouldn’t you know it, the hits started coming — “Pinch Me,” “Big Bang Theory Theme,” “One Week” and “If I Had $1,000,000” all in a row. Considering the set was rather light on older material and noticeably lacking gems like “Hello City,” “It’s All Been Done” and “Be My Yoko Ono,” it was the least BNL could do.

With the crowd hungry for more and a curfew looming, the band had to leave things there.

After a rap-fuelled ode to Vancouver that included snippets of “I’m Not the Only One”

by Sam Smith along with Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk,” Rihanna’s “Four Five Seconds,” Hozier’s “Take Me to Church” and Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” (sung by Stewart in the style of Meatloaf,) BNL headed for the wings.

After a few seconds, the foursome eagerly re-emerged and Robertson made a beeline for the drum kit. Stewart replaced him at centre stage, delivering a frenzied rendition of “Drawing,” from 2008’s Snacktime, which he soon morphed into Led Zeppelin’s “Rock and Roll.”

The dude is hilarious, possessing an inner frontman persona that’s a perfect mix of Robert Plant and Chris Farley. The band couldn’t have picked a more memorable way to end their show.

It’s no question that the Barenaked Ladies are Canadian rock ’n roll royalty but these days, it seems as though all four of them are getting the chance to be king.

STATE CHAMPS Around The World and Back Brianna England CONTRIBUTOR

Over the past year, State Champs have blown up in the pop-punk music scene. Despite forming in New York in 2010 and signing to Pure Noise Records in 2012, it wasn’t until the fivepiece toured with All Time Low and 5 Seconds of Summer earlier this year that their audience grew. On Oct. 16, they released their much anticipated second album, Around the World and Back, and it does not disappoint.

Without straying too far from the sound of their first LP, The Finer Things, State Champs have brought a fresh addition to the pop-punk world. With a good mixture of fast-paced songs and a few slower ones, like the title track featuring Ansley Newman of Jule Vera, the band proves that they’re well-rounded and deserve all the recognition they’re about to get.

With tracks that explore romance, heartache and independence, the band provides relatability with their lyrics along with catchy beats and memorable melodies. “Secrets,” the first single, is an introduction to the sound of the album. A personal favourite, “All or Nothing,” slows things down without going into full acoustic mode.

There’s no doubt that Around the World and Back is “poppier” than the band’s last release but the music and lyrics have a lot of growth.

Because of that, the album is fun and easy to listen to in any mood, which isn’t easy to come by these days. If you’re a fan of Neck Deep, Fall Out Boy, or just plain good music, this is an album you should definitely not miss.

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PUMPKIN BEERS

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EVERY FALL, THE CREATIVE MINDS BEHIND BRITISH COLUMBIA’S CRAFT BEER SCENE TRY TO OUTDO ONE ANOTHER WITH NEW AND OUTRAGEOUS PUMPKIN-THEMED COMBINATIONS. FROM SURREY TO SQUAMISH, HERE ARE THE PROVINCE’S BEST AND WORST IN AUTUMN BREWS.

BOMBER BREWING I, BRAINEATER PUMPKIN ALE 650 ML • 5.8% ABV • $6.80

RUSSELL HAPPY JACK PUMPKIN ALE 650 ML • 5.5% ABV • $6.80

HOWE SOUND PUMPKINEATER IMPERIAL PUMPKIN ALE 1 L • 8% ABV • $8.75

PARALLEL 49 SCHADENFREUDE 6 X 341 ML • 5% ABV • $11.29

APPEARANCE: Caramel colour with minimal head.

AROMA: Fall spices and roasted pumpkin sweetness.

TASTE: Light and sessionable, if not a little on the watery side. A touch of citrus and hoppy bitterness bolsters a subtle and authentic pumpkin flavour. Notes of allspice and cloves.

PALATE: Lighter and less creamy than you might think.

APPEARANCE: Dark toffee colour with dense head.

AROMA: Fresh-baked pumpkin pie.

TASTE: Well-balanced malty spice flavour and subtle oakiness. Dark but not too dark with a sweetness like pumpkin pie filling.

Molasses notes up front fade into slightly metallic aftertaste.

PALATE: Creamy mouth feel. Perfectly balanced.

APPEARANCE: Dark mahogany colour and thick head.

AROMA: Strong and boozy with deep spice.

TASTE: Toasty malts and dark cinnamon/ clove flavours hit hard up front. Big-bodied with a brown sugar/chocolate finish. Slightly unbalanced and lacking pumpkin flavour.

PALATE: Creamy and well-carbonated with an excessively boozy aftertaste.

APPEARANCE: Coppery caramel colour with minimal head.

AROMA: Roasty pumpkin and sweet spice TASTE: Easy-drinking and sessionable with grassy hops and a malty body. Notes of butterscotch, cloves, ginger and vanilla on the finish. Light on the pumpkin side, but wellbalanced overall.

PALATE: Crisp carbonation, light creaminess.

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FERNIE BREWING PUMPKIN HEAD BROWN ALE 650 ML • 5% ABV • $6.50

CANNERY BREWING KNUCKLEHEAD PUMPKIN ALE 650 ML • 5% • $6.75

STEAMWORKS BREWING CO. PUMPKIN ALE 650 ML • 6.5 % • $7.25

APPEARANCE: Nut brown colour with dense head.

AROMA: Maple syrup and spices.

TASTE: Tons of cinnamon up front with a savoury roasted pumpkin flavour and hints of malt throughout. Deep flavour that could even benefit from more pumpkin and a bit of sweetness.

PALATE: Smooth and well-balanced.

APPEARANCE: Copper cinnamon colour with light head.

AROMA: Banana cream pie and janitorial disinfectant.

TASTE: Very limited in the way of pumpkin flavour, bearing a taste more like that of lightly-spiced roasted root vegetables. Banana flavours overwhelm, lacking any tangible balance.

PALATE: Crisp and well carbonated with minimal aftertaste.

APPEARANCE: Amber colour with minimal head.

AROMA: Toast and candied ginger with a hint of apple pie.

TASTE: Soft pumpkin and subtle spice flavours. Lots of ginger up front, but a burnt toast aftertaste overpowers all else. Slight sweetness and creaminess quickly fade to bitterness.

PALATE: Light, crisp body with a bready aftertaste and remnants of toast.

PATRICK O’PUMPKIN IMPERIAL PUMPKIN ALE

650 ML • 8% ABV • $6.00

APPEARANCE: Dark mahogany colour with thick head.

AROMA: Roasty pumpkin with hints of bourbon and oak.

TASTE: Notes of spiced molasses and rich roasted pumpkin flavour throughout. A sweet bourbon kick at the finish and a light oakiness that doesn’t overpower.

PALATE: Creamy and very well-balanced.

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GIMME SOME SKIN

Body Worlds exhibition explores the issues beneath our tissues Andy Rice EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

entific safari. Body Worlds: Animal Inside Out opened to the public on Sept. 2 with his wife, Angela Whalley, in attendance.

“It was a whirlwind, I must say,” said curator and Science World program specialist Friderike Moon. “They know exactly how everything has to be positioned and they were really quick at that.”

The plastination process itself isn’t quite as fast.

“Each specimen can take from three months to more than three years for the larger specimens to fully plastinate,” explained Saunders. “The larger animals are certainly the most difficult and timeconsuming to dissect and also to fully preserve through plastination.”

Viewers will find its smallest specimen — a snail — right at the exhibit’s entrance, before the path leads toward an ostrich skeleton, two leaping deer and the trisected head of a horse. Further down the maze is a gigantic bull with its muscles bulging and horns at the ready.

“That plastinate came in one piece,” recalled Moon. “It is the heaviest one that we have in the exhibition.”

A full-grown giraffe stands nearby, almost 20 feet in height and towering among the lighting trusses above. Its heart sits

on an adjacent table, measuring almost two feet across.

“We’ve got a camel and a little baby camel and a slice through an elephant which is also very interesting,” said Moon, “And we’ve got a bunch of ostriches in different forms — a skeleton of an ostrich and the muscles and the blood vessel network.”

The latter specimen was created through a process called corrosion casting, which dissolves everything but the animal’s capillaries. A dog, rabbit and pig are all displayed in this manner. A human body and several detached parts are also included for reference along the way.

Full of dark partitions and dimly-lit display cases, the exhibition space is brimming with death, yet somehow it feels alive. The skinless figures have an artistic appeal beyond their scientific form and morbidity is kept to a minimum, despite the subject matter.

According to Moon, the response from the public has been overwhelmingly positive thus far. “I’ve been surprised to see so many different people coming in,” she said.

“It’s really a huge variety of different people who are interested in this exhibition.”

Hundreds of high school students have visited Science World this month as well, using Body Worlds as a rare means to see

their curriculum in 3D. Even von Hagens and his team have learned something from the project. “I think it’s been quite a process for the Institute of Plastination to learn about animal anatomy,” said Moon. “The humans are all kind of the same underneath the skin but with the animals it’s really different.”

For those who are worried about ethics, Moon assures that no animals were harmed in the making of this exhibit. “No animal has been killed or harmed for the purpose of plastination,” she said. “They have all been donated, all from Europe actually, either from zoological societies or veterinary programs or even private donors.”

“Everyone is really excited to get a closeup look,” she continued. “You never get to see animals like that unless you are a veterinarian.”

For more information on Body Worlds: Animal Inside Out at Telus World of Science, visit scienceworld.ca/animal. Tickets are $29.50 for non-members.

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For the third time in under a decade, Body Worlds has returned to Vancouver. The cutting-edge exhibit fleshes out Science World’s regular offerings at Telus World of Science, for a limited engagement that runs until March 28, 2016.

Over 100 specimens have been carefully preserved through a technique called plastination, developed in 1977 by German anatomist, Dr. Gunther von Hagens.

While his past exhibits have typically featured human bodies exclusively, this latest display puts the focus on wild animals.

“A couple of animal specimens were included in the earliest Body Worlds human anatomy exhibitions in the late 1990s,” said Pamela Saunders, a media official for the project. “The public showed a lot of interest in them, and at the same time zoos, veterinary schools and universities with animal specimens began to donate them to the Institute for Plastination. It took until 2010 to have a full collection of animal specimens ready for display.”

That collection was on loan to the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa prior to its arrival in Vancouver at the end of September. In just six short days, von Hagens’ crew from Germany turned 10,000 square feet of exhibition space into a sci-

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TERRIFYING TOURS

A glimpse into the eyes of Vancouver's past

FORBIDDEN VANCOUVER LOST SOULS OF GASTOWN Christine Beyleveldt CAMPUS CORRESPONDENT Vancouver is a city of obscurity, even to its own residents. That was until Will Woods, a man who longed to tell Vancouver’s history through theatrics, founded Forbidden Vancouver in 2012. The first tour – Prohibition City – was created in February, and Lost Souls was added to the roster in October.

Secrets of the Penthouse was another tour created earlier this year, and War for the Holidays will be made available closer to the holidays. “Audience members will be invited guests to the Gregson holiday Christmas party in 1915, so you’ll go there, interact with the Gregson family, eat plum pudding… and hear all about their stories,” said Tiffany Anderson, a graduate of Capilano University’s Musical Theatre program who leads several haunted tours through Gastown. Each tour is lead by an actor taking on the persona of a fictional Victorian character who has witnessed many of the iconic moments in Vancouver’s early history. Anderson plays the part of the elusive Sarah Briars for Lost Souls— saloon girl who worked in Dawson during the Klondike Gold Rush.

The tour starts after dark just outside the Holy Rosary Cathedral and leads guests through the dark and dirty back alleys of the Downtown Eastside. Along the way, guests visit the Victorian Hotel, the oldest hotel in

the city, built in 1898. From there, they take a trip down Water Street, revisiting the site of the catastrophic fire that burned Vancouver to the ground in just under 20 minutes.

Forbidden Vancouver describes Lost Souls on its official website as a gothic Halloween adventure — “[a] frontier town of hustlers and thieves, vagabonds and bawdy girls.”

“I love finding out more,” said Anderson, “and looking at the city in an entirely different way.” Colourful figures Vancouverites may or may not recognize are brought out of obscurity. Guests will learn about Gassy Jack Deighton and William van Horne, but also John Bray, Birdie Stewart and Kitty Rockwell, known as Klondike Kate in her saloon days.

VANCOUVER’S MOST HAUNTED RIDING THROUGH THE GRUESOME TALES OF VANCITY Alva Tang COMMUNITY RELATIONS MANAGER Behind the extremely polite people and stylish hipsters of Vancouver, a haunted past seems like it would be rather out of place.

However, the Haunted Vancouver Trolley Tour proves that the pristine reputation Vancouver has gained isn’t all that there is.

Going back in time as early as the 1800s, the tour guide delves into more than 20 stories about mysteries, murders, supposed suicides, sacrifices and criminal cases. These includes the infamous tales of the Castelanni

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Milkshake Murder, Babes in the Woods, the Axe Murder and more are all explored and many details are learned.

Upon boarding the spookily decorated trolley, the guide and driver greet you in their eerie costumes and welcome you aboard. The journey begins at Canada Place, and takes you throughout the likes of Vancouver hitting the most visited areas of downtown, Stanley Park, English Bay, UBC, Mount Pleasant, False Creek and Gastown. A house on the corner of Cambie and King Edward was revealed as Vancouver’s most haunted abode, though it was torn down and rebuilt in attempt to shake the lost spirits. Supposedly unsuccessful, the lights are never turned off even during the day to ward the ghouls away and monks live there now as to bring an essence of peace to the house.

Within this two-and-a-half hour adventure, a stroll through the Mountain View

Cemetery and a visit to the Vancouver Police Museum (Vancouver’s first city morgue) really tops off the tour. Being in the presence of an area where more than 300,000 bodies have been interred overall and a room where over 15,000 autopsies have been performed instills a ghostly atmosphere and hits home as one is left with a creepy feeling throughout their whole body.

While educational, the tour is quite a good source of entertainment as well. Stories told on the ride, though slightly exaggerated to be more theatrical, are all true and remind people that Vancouver’s haunted past does exist within the picture-perfect landscapes.

For more information, please visit Vancouvertrolley.com/tours/seasonal/haunted-halloween.

SUGAR SKULLS AND LOLLIPOPS

Cultures coming together to celebrate the Dead Milana Bucan

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Dia de los Muertos is a national Mexican holiday celebrated on Nov. 2 by families and friends to commemorate the lives of their loved ones. Initially celebrated during the summertime, the Day of the Dead — in translation — was moved to the autumn season to coincide with the Roman Catholic Festival of Allhallowtide: All Saints Eve, All Saints Day and All Souls Day, also known as Halloween.

For the first time in British Columbia, Granville Island is hosting the Day of the Dead Exhibit from Sept. 27 to Nov. 8. The festival is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, making it accessible to the whole public to view at no cost.

Karina Eva, an organizer of the International Day of the Dead Exhibit, explains that each of the skulls was brought in from Mexico, made by indigenous Mexican artisans. Acting as a blank canvas, the skulls were then given to local Vancouver artists who used them to create their own unique designs, portraying how they see death through their own per-

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sonal stories and experiences.

The main creator and one of the featured artists of the International Day of the Dead Exhibit is Ari De La Mora. Born and raised in Mexico, she has always been mesmerized with art and could spend countless hours honing her craft. Her featured skull is one of the more elaborate ones displayed. A white skull with detailed stencil blue flower designs based on a mini tree stump, enveloped with various flowers and branches protruding that have mini butterflies placed on them. White pearls and mini framed pictures of the ones that passed are delicately secured on the tree stump.

With many people of different cultures and traditions living in Vancouver, this is a communal way to bring people together where the theme of death is a common denominator.

“We are all very different, and yet similar in fundamental ways,” said Eva. “It is a day when we remember the people that have passed away, our ancestors. A tradition that goes back hundreds of years,” explained Mora.

“We wanted to learn more about other cultures that we live with. I wanted to do something that is very real. When you talk about

death you can’t hide anything. It’s one of the most real things,” she continued. “We wanted to share this with the community in Vancouver because it’s something that we all have in common, death that is, and the best way to approach it is through art. Art is for everybody. Art is a necessity,” explained Mora.

Some people wouldn’t necessarily go to an exhibit to see skulls and talk about death, but through art and creative ideas the conversation comes with ease. “Some people have a more intimate approach to death, and the purpose of the Day of the Dead exhibition was to make it accessible to everyone,” explained Mora.

Administrators of the Granville Island Cultural Society suggested the exhibit’s format, ensuring it is structured in such a way that it is appealing to the public, and not limited to a single enclosed space. The Day of the Dead holiday is usually celebrated with family, friends and neighbours, a community party that everyone is invited to, and that is exactly what society wanted to replicate.

A map of the whole exhibit can be found on Dayofthedeadexhibit.com, leading through the whole tour around Granville

Island. Arranged in the windows of various stores, skulls are displayed in such a way to capture the eyes of a person walking by, with a full descriptive story about each.

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ALRIGHT, HEAR THIS The political hangover Leah Scheitel COLUMNIST The 78-day political party has finally ended, and it ended with Justin Trudeau doing a keg stand next to Stephen Harper and Tom Mulcair’s passed out bodies. Election Night was the perfect party for everyone in the country that was wishing for Harper’s demise, but now we’re left with this hangover – was Trudeau the right choice for the country, or was he just the least shitty choice? Will he do even half of the things he promised to do during the campaign – electoral reform, restoring relations with First Nations, tax cuts to the middle class – or will he just silently ignore them, hoping that we just forget and resettle into the mundane, less-political life?

Trudeau is not even a week old as a prime minister, but it appears that he has already made steps to alter some of the policies and structure of government. He has promised to compose half of his cabinet with female MPs, said he would immediately pull troops from the coalition against ISIS, opting for more of a peace-keeping mission and will attend the

environmental summit in Paris later this year.

That is something that the Harper Conservatives weren’t prepared to do, just like how I’m not prepared to date anyone named Todd.

Right now, Trudeau is basking in the attention and conquering the conversations. He’s also been able to conquer his social media demons, making his strip tease and his falling down the stairs party trick look sadly cool. Trudeau definitely won the party, and people are still talking about how awesome he is.

But this is usually how most political reigns – and relationships for that matter – start, with a honeymoon phase, where we are just so excited to have a new partner that we neglect to think that the new lover is anything less than perfect. Obama had probably the most historic political honeymoon of any recent politicians before his party got decimated in the mid-term elections in 2010 and he lost the democratic majority in the House, basically blocking him from doing anything cool for the rest of his time in the White House. There was even a political honeymoon phase when Margret Thatcher rose to power in the 70s, albeit it was probably a little shorter than most.

What I’m trying to caution is to not get

too comfortable with Trudeau at the helm of the country. Just because he and the Liberal team were able to oust the Conservatives in a small sweeping majority doesn’t mean that the country is going to run with the ease of a Canadian moose. To ensure that the country operates how we want it to, it takes the public to pay attention and hold the government accountable. Nothing scares politicians more than an educated public, especially when they write poignant yet vulgar letters.

Most people are bandwagon politicos, paying attention at the right times, kind of like how most people are with the Blue Jays right now. They don’t care until the payoff is more rewarding and it’s not so depressing. Social media feeds, mine included, were bursting full of the equivalent of political junk mail spouting the views of specifics parties while concurrently slandering any other party. And John Oliver’s 15-minute rant about Canadian politics was probably the most attention that it ever received, even up here in Canada, and it aired the day before the election. While his rant was on point and a piece of comic genius, it made me a little sad that the most aware people were of the election came from a Brit-

ish comedian who makes his living in the States and it came the day before the election.

I guess it’s better than the alternative, where people didn’t care at all, sinking deep into apathy, but this isn’t a binary situation. There are other options. We can pay attention, mock it and humour ourselves with it anytime. Politics isn’t only interesting when people are vying for your vote – Canadian politics is a classic Canadian shit storm, filled with apologies, odd scandals and photos of prime ministers doing stalefishes on snowboards, which is worth a night of Google with a bottle of wine.

Paying attention to politics is pretty fun.

Start by watching Power and Politics on CBC with the badass Rosemary Barton, and make it a drinking game – every time they have Paul Calandra or Michelle Remple on as a Conservative mouthpiece, you have to drink whiskey. Every time someone tried to interrupt Barton, it’s one drink and every time Barton interrupts someone with facts, you double down for two drinks. By the time the episode is over, you will be back into the honeymoon phase, loving politics and excited to know more. That’s why I’m politically educated and perpetually drunk.

WHAT IF I LEAVE THIS TOWN? One way to ruin a favourite day Sabrina Kuhn COLUMNIST

adults get dressed up in skimpy costumes and go out. Halloween got all too real. The fake blood wasn’t fake in the slightest and screams of anguish weren’t forced. The family returned, Jessie, her boyfriend and I returned to her room as we were before. I put on the CD of our favourite band and the one I knew would soothe her, and I let her take all the space she needed.

“I just flushed my twins,” she said, “I couldn’t even tell if it was them, or if it was just another blood clot or a piece of my womb or what.” Her miscarriage felt like the worst period of her life, and Halloween hasn’t been the same for any of us since.

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I had never found someone who loved Halloween as much as I did until I became best friends with Jessie Sawyer. She walked into junior high and was everything I wanted to be – her hair was died unnatural colours, her eyeliner was thick, her clothes were black and her hair was styled like the scene kids on Myspace. I knew looking at her that I had two choices, I could become her friend or I could hate her and wallow in my asinine jealousy.

Thankfully, I chose the former.

In the ninth grade, we started a new tradition of taking her little sisters trick-or-treating. Her youngest sister was still a toddler at the time and so really, it meant that we could take a cut of the candy with very little interference. This continued all throughout high school, but in the 11th grade things changed.

One thing that Vancouverites will probably never experience is trudging through ice and snow in minus-35-degree weather, plus the windchill, just to go door-to-door on Halloween. I can’t count the times I’ve tried to pad a princess dress with a winter coat and had a meltdown because princesses don’t wear winter coats under or over their dresses.

This evening was no different, but thankfully I didn’t have to dress up. We were just going to take the girls up and down a couple blocks and then turn around home.

Jessie was pregnant with twins, and had been since the summer. It had been intense at first – all her family and friends reacting, people constantly weighing in on how she was

going to manage and most intense of all was just listening as she tried to make a decision for herself and for her kids on how to proceed.

Sometimes in life, our choices are made for us.

When I walked into the house, the girls were in their room and everything was too quiet. Jessie’s mom told me what was going on and my heart sank and broke. This was such an unfortunate turn for the night to take.

There were no guts and fake blood for me that Halloween, I opened the door and saw a pile of discarded towels, underwear and bedsheets that couldn’t keep up with Jessie’s bloodshed. Her boyfriend sat cross legged, leaning against the wall. He either didn’t have the words or couldn’t share them because he was silent most of the night.

Jessie, meanwhile, was a wreck. She was weary of being a patient in a hospital and resisted going until her mom and I finally convinced her that she absolutely needed to get checked out and confirm what was actually happening. We all knew, but we didn’t want to say the words.

Trying to keep some semblance of normality, I dressed her sisters up with mittens and scarves and we went trick-or-treating. We went up two blocks before turning around and going back home, the houses we had visited had been generous and it was too cold to continue. When we got back I sorted out the candy to make sure it was safe, set the girls up in their room with a movie and cleaned up the common areas of the house as much as possible. I knew no one would have the energy to.

Halloween is shock full of creepy ghouls and dead people, usually in the form of zombies. Ill-advised folks mess around with Ouija boards, people prank or scare their friends,

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INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF PANCAKES The Canadian experience Harold Williams GUEST COLUMNIST

As a 21-year-old aspiring aviator and engineer from The Bahamas, pursuing a college education in Canada is probably the most ambitious move I’ve made so far. By the time I finished high school, I knew what I wanted to do with my life, I just didn’t know how to do it. I saw many different paths leading to the same goal — so many paths that it took two years of working for an airline before I would eventually plan how I would accomplish my goal.

It wasn’t until 2014, the year I started my journey, when I decided to consider Canada as the destination of my studies.

Before, I was focused entirely on studying in the US, simply because of proximity and familiarity. However, I felt Canada had so much more to offer, including but not limited to the fact that it is a truly multicultural society with an excellent education system and a safe place to explore some of the world’s most beautiful wonders. At this point the choice was obvious as I packed my bags, prepared my documents and set foot in British Columbia in August 2014.

Adjusting to Canada wasn’t particularly hard, especially as I became involved with the International Leadership and Mentorship Program within Capilano University’s Centre for International Experience (CIE). Through this program, I was exposed to various cultural, social and edu-

cational events and workshops as well as other resources that facilitated my smooth transition into Canadian society. I also was surprised at the resources the government provided to new immigrants in making integration much easier. Easy as it seemed, there were some differences I would have to resolve on my own – one of them being the sheer size of the country. You must understand that coming from an archipelagic country of no more than 300,000 inhabitants, I was surprised by the amount of land I would have to navigate and people I would have to interact with. While navigating is straight forward, I find the latter to be an ongoing challenge. Although the Canadian populace as a whole is extremely friendly, it doesn’t quite compare to the closeness and sense of family that accompanies a much smaller population of 300,000. Frequently do I reminisce about the times I enjoyed – the laid back friendly atmosphere, the lively cultural Junkanoo Festival, the alluring beaches complete with transparent turquoise waters and coral pink sands, topped off with the perfectly balanced yearround weather you would only find on the islands located in the tropics. Sometimes I ask myself if it was all worth it, although I have yet to find a definitive answer and I’m hopeful that one day it will all pay off.

Compared to the limited tertiary educa-

tion offered in my home country that focuses primarily on tourism and finance, Canada, and CapU in particular, provides a diverse education system I would describe as second to none. Don’t misunderstand, tourism and finance careers are exciting and especially lucrative in The Bahamas. However, my passion didn’t quite fit within these industries, coupled with the fact that technology-driven industry is practically non-existent.

As a result, pursuing a degree abroad was inevitable.

All things considered, I have lived experiences others can only dream of and made friends whom others could only wish for. Life in Canada and at CapU has been splendid up to this point with no signs of changing and although I have a long road ahead until I reach my destination, I am too grateful for having Canada become a part of my journey.

— TAYLOR LEE

WHY YOUR FAVOURITE THINGS SUCK Living in Vancouver Fred Ulrich Jr.

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COLUMNIST You probably think you like living in the Lower Mainland, but have you ever considered reexamining your situation here with a more critical eye? Is this place really all that awesome, or do you just try to convince yourself of that in an attempt to justify the financial crunch you constantly endure in order to survive?

Vancouver’s hype is like a housing bubble.

Everyone is convinced that investing in it is a good idea because everyone else is convinced of the same thing. Big world-class cities that enable world-class lifestyles come with big price tags, but Vancouver falls short when you stack it up against the competition. I’ve taken the liberty of listing all the best things about Vancouver and telling you why they’re not worth the exorbitant price of living here.

Vancouver’s biggest claim to fame is its natural beauty, but can you really afford to splurge on what is essentially just an expensive backdrop to your life? If you’re really into skiing or snowboarding, you should probably look someplace else because Vancouver’s mountains haven’t been too reliable

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in recent winters. If you love the beach, go somewhere cheaper where the beaches are nicer, the weather is warmer and the cost of living is significantly less. The seawall sounds cool if you like narrow, crowded places full of tourists proving beyond a doubt that you can indeed forget how to ride a bike. The Grouse Grind is fantastic if you’ve been struggling with the ennui of regular stairs. Unless you’re going hiking often enough to make the abundance of prime trails and backcountry routes worthwhile, you are very much fooling yourself about how many of Vancouver’s natural assets are benefitting your day-to-day life. In fact, the only feature you’ll probably experience on a regular basis is the dreary, unending rain that haunts the short, dark days we experience for a full half of every year.

If you’re not here for the nature, maybe you think our unique independent food spots are what make our city special. Start your day with a too-small, overpriced cup of fancy organic pour-over coffee – roasted and ground in-house, of course – followed by a side of artisanal sourdough bread. Then take a trip to Starbucks because that wasn’t enough coffee and a grown adult needs more than bread for a meal. Once you’re done spending the day tracking down the best currywurst or hand-

made ice cream in town, finish the night off with a plate of soggy nachos in a vegetarian restaurant that features equal measures of terrible service and food poisoning. Vancouver has enough hipster eateries to keep any foodie as happy as their wallet is empty. The thing is, cool local food joints aren’t just a Vancouver thing. Sure, the ones we have are unique, but so are the ones everywhere else. I’ve travelled a fair bit throughout both Canada and the States, and I have yet to find a city that lacks the same quality of cool eats Vancouver has. Even some smaller towns give us a run for our money. Plus, if you move south of the border you can get real Mexican food, and that on its own is almost reason enough to get out of here. I promise you, there’s nothing inherently special about our local craft beer or handmade pizza or whatever else you think you love. The grass is equally green on the other side of the fence.

How about just the Vancouver lifestyle in general? I must say, nothing really compares to starting off every day fighting the worst traffic congestion in North America outside Los Angeles. You might try to let off some steam with a friendly “so how about that traffic” commiseration with some fellow citizens, but if they’re not your friends

already, they’ll probably avoid eye contact and silently shuffle away because we apparently take the “stranger danger” message a little too far here.

This is turning into a pretty shitty day, isn’t it? Anyone could probably use a drink after dealing with that on a regular basis. Bad news. Thanks to our province’s archaic liquor laws, that’ll cost you way too much and you won’t be able to enjoy it at the park or the beach, so I hope you like drinking home alone in your shitty apartment waiting for the big earthquake to just hurry up and hit us already. Welcome to the Vancouver lifestyle.

I hope it’s become clear to you now that you’re grossly overpaying for a name-brand city that fails to deliver on quality, while the reliable store-brand cities are sitting just out of sight on the lower shelf for half the price.

Sure, they might taste a little different, but think of the savings! Calgary, Montreal, Hamilton, the list of more affordable options that don’t sacrifice any substantial qualities goes on and on. Everyone who takes my advice and gets out of here will be a lot happier for it. Plus, you’ll have plenty of spare cash to fly back and visit me whenever you want to feel nostalgic.

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