Capilano Courier | Vol. 50, Issue 2.

VOLUME 50, ISSUE 2.

SEPTEMBER 18–24, 2017

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ART SHORTS

Our staff picks for best albums of the summer

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CSU campaigns against sexual misconduct

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CAPILANO ARSONIST GETS TWO YEARS OF HOUSE ARREST

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JOHN A. MACDONALD, ARCHITECT OF GENOCIDE

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THE TIPPING POINT

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"I know you scared. You should ask us if we scared too. If you was there.

Then we’d just knew you cared too,” – Chance the Rapper One of the most important courses that I took at Capilano University was Communications 132: Explorations in Media.

The class, taught by my idol Kym Stewart, is arguably one of the five hardest courses in the School of Communications – the other four being the other four Stewart courses. It’s a required first year course, and despite the multitude of communication and media theories that the class delves into, I think it would be tremendously important for other students to take the course, too. Not for the theories, but because of how it breaks down the way media operated then and how operates today.

For a time, media was a land ruled strictly by journalists, content creators and rich, old, white men who ran giant media conglomerates. Nowadays, everyone can have their slice of the media pie.

While levelling the field sounds like a fantastic and fair idea, it still has fangs to bear and venom to spit. The internet, particularly the several platforms of social media, has become the new wild west – and anyone with access can start spewing vitriol and hate. Dialogue has been both amplified and compromised. The everfickle notion of freedom of speech has just become confusing to some.

This week, readers will get to see our first batch of columns. It’s the section of the Courier that best captures how the wild west of the internet works. It’s filled with a wide variety of topics, going from articles about outdoor activities you can do on a budget, to stories about struggles with personal identity and social issues.

We also have a column about the altright and its leftist counterparts. It’s a series that I may not always agree with, but it’s a series that does merit conversation. In this issue, our columnist tackles the violent tendencies of the Antifa. He denounces the radical left’s behaviour, citing incidents like the forced cancellation of a conservative convention, counter rallies that interrupt and overturn “free speech” rallies and punching white supremacist icon, Richard Spencer, in the face. His argument is that the left’s delinquent behaviour won’t do anything to improve the current state of affairs, and that violence is never the answer.

The problem is violent delights have always existed for the alt-right. While we can and should condemn Antifa’s radical tendencies and operations, we can’t simply ignore the histories of lynching and brutality that white supremacists

have orchestrated. We can’t so quickly forget that it was white supremacists who plowed through peaceful protesters in Charlottesville, resulting in the death of Heather Heyer and that it was white supremacists who beat protesters with clubs. While the column can be commended for advocating for conversation, peaceful means and freedom of speech, it fails to hold both sides accountable by electing to hold only the Antifa’s feet over the fire – doesn’t seem like a dialogue to me.

Freedom of speech is a modern fallacy.

Sure, people should have the ability to express their views and beliefs, but when these ideologies come at the cost of dehumanizing other people, then I vote that freedom of speech gets revoked. It’s a privilege that has historically been inherited by an exclusive group of people, a long-established power. It’s only becoming contentious now, since that power is being challenged.

The most important thing we can do now is to be cautious of painting people with the same brush: not everyone who believe in rightist values are white supremacists, and not everyone who believes in leftist values are Antifa.

Conservatives don’t deserve to get punched in the face and their conventions and loafers blowout sales shouldn’t get overrun. But white supremacist demonstrations are entirely different.

A punch to the face may be a little too aggressive, but years and years of diplomacy and taking the high road brought marginalized people nowhere.

We’ve hardly moved. America took such a lethal step back this past election that even Steph Curry got jealous.

The rules of dialogue and conversation are changing. Counter-protests might be rude and offensive, but how are we to know, most of us just recently got free speech.

Keep it one hunnid.

NEWS

CSU LOOKS TO LAUNCH 'LET'S GET CONSENSUAL'

Sept. 5 she noticed that many students had a very basic or limited understanding of this fundamental concept.

“Yes means yes, but it has to be ongoing,” Japaridize said, referring to CapU’s Sexual Violence policy which defines consent as “an active, direct,

voluntary and conscious choice and agreement between adults to engage in sexual activity”. The policy also goes on to define sexual assault, which, in summary, is any type of sexual contact or threat of sexual contact that happens without consent. The policy also lists resources

for students who have experienced sexual violence.

Japaridze hopes the campaign will raise awareness about the reality of sexual violence on campus, educate students about consent and spotlight resources available to victims of sexual assault. CapU has on-campus counsellors that can be seen by appointment or for 30-minute drop in sessions. The CSU Lounge in the Maple building has free condoms, and the Women’s Centre in Library 137 is a safe space for female-identifying students to relax in.

The campaign is planned to launch at the end of September, but the CSU is still waiting to hear back from the UVSS about training dates. The campaign can’t be launched until the CSU receives proper training. Originally the CSU was going to be trained in August but it fell through due to scheduling issues. Once the campaign launches it will continue for the remainder of this semester at the minimum. While the launch date hasn’t been decided, there will be a sexual violence and misconduct workshop that anyone is welcome to attend on Thursday, Sept.

28 at 11:30 a.m. in the Maple Lounge.

Japaridize considers the campaign to be a first step. “Now that we have off-campus residence and it’s not really close to university, a lot of people might have to walk there so I feel like it’s essential to have some level of self defence classes on campus,” she said, adding that she hopes to eventually increase the resources available to women. Those include having selfdefence classes and a counsellor for the Women’s Centre who is trained specifically to handle sexual assault.

Students interested in future workshops and classes can contact Japaridize for more details at womens@ csu.bc.ca.

of Post-Secondary Educators of BC (FPSE) estimated that up to 35 per cent of students enrolled in education upgrading courses dropped out in under three years. “That $1,600 tuition a term was a huge amount compared to [costing] nothing in the past, and was really a barrier for students to get into post-secondary education,” he said.

According to the NDP, enrolment dropped from over 10,000 Full-Time Equivalents (FTE) during the 2013-14 academic year to under 6,700 in 201617. The same year that tuition was introduced, $6.9 million was transferred from post-secondary operational funds into Adult Upgrading Grants that covered tuition, books, UPasses and unsubsidized childcare for students with demonstrated financial need.

In 2015-16, the Ministry of Advanced Education set aside $10.3 million for these grants. The problem with the grants, as Don Bentley, an instructor in college and university preparation, noted, was that the cut-off was too low to help a lot of students. Single-income earners were only eligible if they had an annual income of below $24,144.

The FPSE started Open the Doors, the largest public campaign they have ever run, to advocate for public

post-secondary education. As they were getting started on the Open the Doors campaign, tuition was reintroduced, so they ran subsidiary ABE Matters and ESL Matters campaigns to highlight the importance of those programs. Davison noted that he thought the FPSE had run a great campaign since eliminating tuition on education upgrading programs became an election issue that both the NDP and Greens got behind.

The Capilano Faculty Association (CFA) participated in the Open the Doors campaign to push the provincial government to eliminate tuition on ABE and English Language Learning (ELL) courses. The fees students were paying only applied if they were taking these courses at the post-secondary level. However, students who did not finish high school or returned to the K-12 system to take the credits they needed were exempt from the fee.

ABE and other education upgrading courses are options for BC residents who haven’t completed high school, need to upgrade their high school education or are missing prerequisites for postsecondary courses. “Math would be the most common one,” said Bentley.

High school math for instance, is split

into three levels by the time students reach Grade 11: Apprenticeship and Workplace, Foundations and PreCalculus. “Some students graduated with Communications 12, they require English 12 to get into university. It depends on the program,” Bentley said.

When tuition was reintroduced, CapU’s ABE program saw a loss of approximately 25 per cent of its enrolment. The issue that the school faces now is capacity.

“The object there was to get the news out as soon as possible so that when students were looking to come back they’d know there’d be no more tuition for these programs,” said Davison.

Enrolment numbers have already increased at CapU after nearly three years of seeing fewer students return to upgrade or complete their K-12 education, and the University isn’t equipped for an influx of students.

Although Bentley added that CapU hopes to expand the number of classes they can offer to accommodate more students in time for the spring semester, they’re currently waiting for funding from the ministry of education to support tuition-free education upgrading programs. “We know we’re going to be funded to be fee-free,” he said, “the question is at what level?”

New campaign will address consent and rape culture Tia Kutschera Fox OPINIONS EDITOR

Capilano University students will see a sweeping, campus-wide campaign against sexual violence and misconduct this semester. Prepared by the Capilano Students' Union (CSU), the initiative is based on the school's new Sexual Violence and Misconduct Policy, and is an adaptation of the University of Victoria Students’ Society's (UVSS) successful Let’s Get Consensual campaign.

The UVSS campaign revolves around the six stages of consent, acknowledging that consent is more complex than “no means no” and involves ongoing communication.

Women Students Liaison Katie Japaridize explained the CSU wants to have the same success for their campaign. The CSU has asked the UVSS to train them to ensure they have a sensitive approach and learn the right terms and words as they move forward on their plans.

“I think it’s really important to educate women about sexual violence, as well as men,” explained Japaridize. According to the Sexual Assault Centre (SACHA), between 15 and 25 per cent of college and university-aged women will experience some form of sexual assault while attending school. Statistics like this make a sexual violence campaign more relevant than ever and Japaridize emphasized the importance of understanding consent. At their booth at the CapU Street Party on

CAPILANO REPEALS TUITION ON EDUCATION UPGRADING COURSES NDP rule in favour of province-wide free Adult Basic Education and English Language Learning Christine Beyleveldt NEWS EDITOR

Following a BC NDP ruling, Capilano University eliminated tuition on Adult Basic Education (ABE) and English for Academic Purposes (EAP). The changes are made as part of the School of Access and Academic Preparation, which went into effect at the start of the fall semester.

Tuition was introduced in January 2015 and students began paying up to $1,600 per term for courses. Enrolment has declined steadily since. George Davison, president of the Federation

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UNIVERSITY ONE FOR FIRST NATIONS STUDENTS POSTPONED UNTIL 2018 Low enrolment cited as main reason for delay of new program Jessica Lio ONLINE EDITOR

First Nations students looking to transition to post-secondary studies in a cohortbased foundation year will have to wait until September 2018 to enrol in Capilano University’s new University One (U1) program.

Following late approval of the program in July, which resulted in low enrolment, the university was not able to offer U1 in the 2017-18 academic year.

According to CapU professor Lorraine Argatoff, who specializes in adult education, the university will now aim to enrol a maximum of 16 students for the program’s September 2018 start.

Geronimo Alec, who is entering his third term as the Capilano Students’ Union (CSU)’s First Nations student liaison, explained that a key factor affecting enrolment was students’ inability to obtain band funding late in the year.

First Nations students wishing to apply for funding from their local band office must meet an annual deadline between January and the end of March, which varies by region. As a consequence of the university’s mid-July approval, students would not have been able to apply for funding in time to enrol in the U1 program.

Although CapU currently offers a College and University Preparation program for First Nations students, the eight-month U1 program was meant to serve as a coherent transition year. It features not only courses that foster critical thinking but additional support from in-resident elders, guest speakers, field trips and culturally rich

course content.

Following generations of trauma caused by residential schools and policies calling for the extermination of indigenous cultures, universities across Canada have implemented transition programs supporting students of Aboriginal, Inuit or Métis heritage as they navigate education systems within post-secondary institutions.

“We want a program where indigenous students can thrive in first-year university, and not just cope,” Argatoff explained, adding that U1’s engaging and culturally sensitive programming would foster a smooth transition to post secondary education.

First Nations learners can expect meaningful content and the chance to develop academic skills to confidently pursue the remainder of their chosen programs. Upon successful completion, students will earn 12 100-level credits that may be used towards degree, diploma and certificate programs at CapU. “It definitely will help First Nations students transition from a high school

level of doing assignments to a university standard,” Alec said. Whether students are interested in Business, Arts, Tourism or any other field of study, he believes U1 is a valuable program that will set students up for academic success.

In the meantime, students have access to support and tutoring at the Kéxwusmáyakn Centre. First Nations Advisor David Kirk and First Nations Community Engagement Facilitator Clay Little are also on campus to assist students with their transition to university studies.

Throughout this academic year, Argatoff plans to maintain contact with lower mainland high schools and local nations to recruit students who are ready to thrive in U1.

“It really is a shame that [U1] is not running this year but we’ll push forward regardless,” said Alec, who will also be active in recruiting students for U1’s 2018 start. Working closely with Kirk, Little, Dangerfield and students in the First Nation Students’ Collective, Alec also plans to help increase the First Nations student population on campus.

convicted after he was identified and his DNA matched to that on a Sprite bottle found in the library that the suspect had been seen drinking from in the security footage.

Nendick was also implicated for two break-ins at an Esso gas station and Henry’s Convenience Store as well as for slashing more than 180 tires belonging to cars parked around campus, at the Holiday Inn and Park and Tilford on Dec. 4, 2014. The slashing spree amounted to $24,000 in damages.

CapU Senior Communications Advisor Cheryl Rossi commented that CapU respects the provincial court’s decision. The University has taken precautionary measures to make the campus more secure in the near three years since the incident occured. CapU completed a Crime

Prevention Through Environmental Design Assessment (CPTED) with the RCMP, a multidisciplinary approach to deter criminal behaviour that included reporting potential hiding spots and carrying out landscaping work to remove them. Rossi noted that additional security cameras were also installed around the campus and existing cameras were replaced with models that can capture high quality images.

Rodgers wrote that Nendick’s sentence was his “last chance”. At the time of the break-ins, Nendick was homeless and had a prior criminal record. Michael Fox, Nendick’s defence lawyer, pleaded for a lesser sentence based on his extremely low intellectual and cognitive functioning, which was ascertained by psychological assessments submitted to Rodgers. There appeared to be no motive

for Nendick’s break-ins. Although where CapU and the Esso station were concerned, Crown Counsel Arlene Loyst indicated they required premeditation.

Following his conditional sentence of just under two years, during which Nendick is compelled to undergo counselling, he will remain on a Probation Order and under community supervision for an additional three years.

“If Nendick is sent to the penitentiary it is unlikely that he will participate in counselling and there are no realistic means of compelling his participation,” Rodgers wrote.

Loyst requested a three to five-year prison sentence, which Rodgers wrote was reasonable. If Nendick fails to abide by his terms of Conditional Sentence Order and Suspended Sentence he will face incarceration.

MAN SENTENCED FOR STARTING FIRE AT CAPILANO UNIVERSITY Shane Nendick received just under two years of house arrest for crimes committed in 2015 Christine Beyleveldt NEWS EDITOR

Almost three years after lighting parts of the Capilano University library on fire, Shane Nendick has finally received an official court ruling.

In late August, Nendick was sentenced to just under two years of house arrest for three break-ins in North Vancouver, and multiple counts of mischief, theft and arson. All crimes were carried out between December 2014 and January 2015.

The break-ins alarmed the community at the time, with CapU suffering the most extensive damages. Emergency crews were called to the school on Jan. 2, 2015, after a sprinkler in the library was activated, dousing a fire that had been started inside a cabinet. A male suspect was implicated for the break-in, smashing a door to gain entry to the library and prying open a safe containing $1,200, as well as starting the fire. Although smoke damage was minimal, the sprinklers left extensive water damage to books and the surrounding area. Judge William Rodgers included in his reasons for handing down the sentence that the cost of the damages amounted to approximately $225,000.

The suspect was captured on security footage that was released to the public in an effort to identify him. Since the Squamish resident was arrested in January 2016, he has been living with his mother on bail and has complied with his terms of house arrest. Nendick was

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KEEPING UP WITH THE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION Campus organization kicking off the fall semester with two events Jessica Lio ONLINE EDITOR

Capilano University’s International Business Association (IBA) is gearing up for an exciting year, starting with two events in September and plans to recruit new members to the association.

According to Jamie Saad, IBA president, the association plans to kick off the academic year with a social mixer on Sept. 22.

“We’re inviting students to talk and make friends over food and drinks," said the fourth-year Bachelor of Business Administration student. "If people are interested in international business, they can talk about it.”

Taking place at Library Square Public House in downtown Vancouver, the social mixer is one of many activities planned this year as IBA endeavours to create awareness and increase engagement among the CapU student body.

While many student associations host networking events with industry professionals throughout the school year, this event will give students an opportunity to meet and learn from each other in a low-pressure social setting. In particular, first and second year students can gain insight from those who have taken upper-level International Business (IBUS) courses to determine if it’s a concentration they would like to pursue.

Following the mixer, on Sept. 28, the IBA will be inviting interested students to attend a tour of Neptune Terminals — one of North America’s largest multi-product bulk shipping terminals, located on the North Shore.

“Vancouver is an international city, but not a lot of

CSU OFFICE RENOVATIONS TO CONTINUE THROUGH OCTOBER Upgrades look to improve layout and add extra workstations Rachel D’Sa ARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR

Staff, executives and other members of the Capilano Students’ Union (CSU) will have to continue working in the conference room until office renovations finish.

The slated upgrades, which began in late August, are scheduled to finish in early October. The current administration office, located in Maple 116, has long needed important changes.

The scope of the project is not major and its focus is on changing the layout of the office to be compliant with privacy legislation. These changes will also create more room to introduce additional workstations in the future. “The renovation will allow us to increase our operational capacity by having a more productive workspace,” said Perry Safari, CSU president and vice-president, finance and services.

The cost estimate for the project is $170,654. Part of the amount will act as a float for a contingency fund of 10 per cent ($10,800), which provides the CSU with allowance in the case of unanticipated costs. Ideally, this will not be used. Another expense was set to address prior changes made to the building due to code requirements for sprinkler systems. This has led to the legal obligation of installing sprinklers which will cost $12,000.

people know what ports do. The purpose of the tour is to expose students to how goods move from point A to point B,” Saad explained.

Those attending can look forward to a guided tour of the facilities, in which Neptune Terminals reveals the logistics and infrastructure behind its daily operations.

In addition to these events, the IBA is also recruiting new students to join their team. For those looking to get involved, Saad encourages students in all faculties to apply for a position in marketing or external relations, or to join the association as a representative.

“Why not be part of an awesome group? We’re really fun to work with, but more importantly you gain real world experience,” Saad said, adding that students will benefit from the opportunity to exercise professional etiquette and form industry contacts.

Saad initially joined IBA to gain hands-on experience with marketing and expose herself to perspectives about business outside of the classroom.

As the association’s president this year, she hopes to inspire students to take an interest in international business and empower students to become community leaders, regardless of what faculty they’re studying in.

“International business is a part of every day life.

Everything you consume, purchase, read or listen to is actually related to international business,” she stated.

This past spring semester, the IBA hosted a sustainability panel in which industry professionals from ICBC, Teck Resources, and Climate Smart discussed their organizations’ approaches to sustainable business and social responsibility.

With students from Business, Tourism, Global Stewardship and other programs in attendance, Saad considered the spring panel a success, and hopes to create an equally impactful and relatable event in the school year to follow.

For more information please visit Facebook.com/ capuiba Interested applicants are encouraged to email resumes to info@capuiba.ca.

It has been at least a decade since the last renovation to the administration office space and the student union also has plans for a new CSU building. At this time, there is no information available regarding when the project will begin or how much it will cost, as the process of getting the plans approved is extensive. As of right now there are no indications as to where the new establishment will be placed with the already limited space on campus.

Safari spoke about the matter of the process stating, “We have a Joint Steering Committee in which designated CSU directors discuss with University administration on the terms and conditions of a student union building on campus," he said. "Our Joint Steering Committee must await the University administration to complete a final draft of their Campus Master Plan before we proceed in our joint meetings. Therefore, the construction of a student union building is dependent on when and how the masterplan draft is completed.”

Safari went on to say that the renovation is very valuable. The new office floor plan is imperative, playing an important role in the particular staff structure. He also mentioned that throughout the office renovation period, the staff have not at all been affected. Instead, they have been working in the conference room with little to no changes in work productivity.

This office refresher will provide a more efficient workspace while at the same time securing crucial safety and privacy concerns. Though seemingly unnecessary, due to plans for a new CSU building, the current renovation ensures continued success for the student union and its staff.

WHO YOU

Christine Witzike discusses her experiences as a Student, Mother and Cheese Smuggler Extraordinaire Tia Kutschera Fox OPINIONS EDITOR

University students deal with all kinds of stresses – tuition fees, grades, social lives, work and sleep deprivation.

Christine Witzike, an international student in the School of Communication deal with these too, on top of raising two boys and being the sole reason her family can stay in Canada. No pressure!

She and her husband Jesper decided to move to Canada from Denmark in 2015, and later that year, they did just that. Why? Well, besides her husband being a tree faller – a totally awesome lumberjack – with his own company who wanted to learn how to fell “real trees,” they would often go for a vacation in Canada and ultimately decided it would be a rad place to live.

It might be a little confusing to have Canada described as a vacation getaway, especially when most of us go on a vacation to get away from Canadian winters. Nevertheless, the Witzike family moved to Squamish and were happy as Danish clams in the picturesque city. The one catch – Witzike needed a student visa so that her whole family can stay in the country. So, she attended Capilano University.

As with most Danish people, Witzike learned English in school, but it’s one thing to speak English in Denmark, and quite another to study it. “I thought I was pretty good,” she said, explaining that the first semester of university was a stressful mix of listening to English in a Canadian accent, and then trying to actually learn from the professors speaking it. Her two boys didn’t have the same trouble at their schools. “They were fluent in a couple weeks,” she said.

She chose CapU because it’s an easy commute, but was pleasantly surprised by how supportive her professors have been in helping her with her education. Meanwhile, her husband searches for skilled work so he can apply for permanent residency. The Canadian government unfortunately doesn’t consider lumberjacking as a skilled work, which is like saying maple syrup isn’t maple-y enough.

Witzike needs to obtain her diploma within the two years before her visa expires, so there isn’t a lot of flexibility.

“I can’t skip [classes], I have a time limit. This is really important to me,” she said of the deadline.

The hardest part about moving to Canada is being far from family. “I did not know the pain of missing family until I moved here.” She also misses Danish bread and Gouda cheese, and always smuggles Gouda back from Denmark. With the current cost of good cheese in Canada, she really should be declaring $10,000 on her claims form.

But it’s not all pressure, gloom and duping airport security.

Witzike, her husband and her two boys, Fredy and Seb, like to explore the great outdoors of BC. Nature is Witzike’s favourite part of Canada, and when she and the family went back to visit family in Denmark she was surprised that she felt homesick for BC mountains. After getting her diploma, Witzike wants to work in her old industry, Information Technology, but this time with a communications twist.

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L'OREAL WANTS DIVERSITY UNTIL DIVERSITY SPEAKS OUT

L’Oreal UK announced the hiring of Munroe Bergdorf as its first black trans model on Aug. 28. When most media images are still exclusively of white women, hiring a model that is black and trans was a move that could shift the modeling industry. For an international beauty company to start including racially diverse and trans models allows people to see versions of themselves in a positive light. To have a black, trans model represent such a large brand created a hope that media could start to challenge the status quo. We should be able to see images that showcase the beauty of all people, something models like Munroe Bergdorf are helping to do.

That is why it was extremely discouraging to hear that Munroe Bergdorf had been fired on Sept. 1, only four days after she was hired for L’Oreal UK’s True Match diversity campaign. According to The Guardian, Bergdorf was fired over a Facebook post taken out of context that she wrote about the Charlottesville Riots.

L’Oreal shouldn’t have fired Bergdorf over this. As an activist and a person of colour (POC), in today’s environment and Donald Trump’s America where discussions on race are widespread, it is only natural for someone to express their view. We need people to stand up and create change, which is often done by stating the things those in places of power don’t want to

listen to. It’s unpleasant to hear that white people’s behaviour is racist, whether it is on purpose or not. But people need to talk about the ways our world is still based on white people’s privilege. Just as society needs to be held accountable for the ways in which it upholds other forms of privilege and bigotry.

Bergdorf was bringing forward a point that white privilege and racism are still predominant today. Making an observation that racism still exists should not be a reason why a person gets fired. Especially when she was hired specifically for a campaign about diversity for L’Oreal. It sets a precedent that silences the exact voices we need to hear in regard to race issues. Our society needs to dismantle racism and the racist structures that still strongly permeate our everyday life. And by firing an activist from such an influential and large company, it counters the efforts to increase the voice and power of POC. Munroe Bergdorf was using her role and her voice to call out the racist systems that are still in place and should be congratulated, and it definitely should not have gotten her fired. The way in which race has played into the L’Oreal Diversity Campaign, and how it got Bergdorf fired, has larger social implications. It becomes a way to understand how there are still organizations in place to keep people quiet. In this context, it feels like instead of true, meaningful change, a person who tries to speak up will have their comments taken out of context, fired, and forced to stay in place.

Anti-racist allies need to work to create environments that allow the voices of people of colour to break through, be respected and fully listened to no matter how painful it might be to hear. Taking critiques like Bergdorf’s out of context belittles the concerns of marginalized voices, and leads to situations where people are reprimanded for raising valid concerns in the fight for equality and justice.

not without imperfections. The plight of First Nations peoples in Canada is unfortunately still an issue that requires some serious acknowledgement and hard work on the part of both the Canadian government and the rest of the country.

It’s easy to understand why some may have a problem with Macdonald’s still very public presence, taking into consideration his role as prime minister and his policies regarding Indigenous peoples during Canada’s earlier years.

“The aboriginal community is still healing,” said Clay Little, First Nations Community Engagement Facilitator at Capilano University. “I can understand why there is a movement to take these names away. But I can also understand that there are two thoughts here…

So it’s how do you find the balance to address what happened and move on as a whole, as a country.”

The man on our shiny, purple tendollar bill, often referred to as Canada’s founding father, was indeed far from perfect. On one hand, Sir John A. Macdonald is responsible for having united eastern and western Canada, as well as having a heavy influence in the creation of the transcontinental railway.

On the other hand, he supported the creation of residential schools and the implementation of the 1876 Indian Act. He also has a reputation for being a raging alcoholic.

In the end, a school is a place of learning, and learning comes with difficult subjects. It is important that we teach younger generations all parts of our history so that they may remember, and learn from even the most unpalatable parts of it.

It’s clearly not the objective of the ETFO, or any other social justice group, to erase history. Rather, the intention is to bring these issues to the foreground, and in a way that challenges our traditional thoughts and biases.

Only then are we are able to begin the necessary dialogue regarding our history as a country that is inclusive and respectful of all Canadians.

While his name carries with it a stark reminder of Canada’s imperialist past, will removing his name from public spaces, especially from public schools, bring with it the kind of change we as a country need? Probably not, but it’s the start of a much bigger, and long overdue, conversation.

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FOUNDING FATHER, ARCHITECT OF GENOCIDE Removing John. A Macdonald’s name from schools won’t bring the change we need Greta Kooy CAMPUS LIFE EDITOR

At its annual meeting on Aug. 14, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) called for, or rather demanded, the removal of Sir John A. Macdonald’s name from schools and other buildings across the province.

According to the ETFO, this motion was put forward to acknowledge Macdonald’s role as the “architect of genocide against Indigenous Peoples.” This, however, is not the most efficient or logical approach to decolonization in Canada.

Robert-Falcon Ouellette, a member of Parliament who is of English and Cree descent, agrees. In conversation with CBC’s

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The House host Chris Hall, Ouellette said, “When we start effacing completely that history, and not recognizing it, then people can forget very readily what occurred. And so for me it’s always important to have that anchor,” adding that keeping Macdonald’s name on public schools allows for reflection and understanding of Canadian history.

The move sparked immediate debate across Canada, creating polarizing opinions across the board. The ETFO’s motion does not come as a surprise in light of recent events in the United States, but confused many Canadians (of only about 25 per cent of whom are in support of this motion).

A little over two weeks after the ETFO’s appeal, the Colonialism No More (CNM) and Saskatchewan Coalition Against Racism (SCAR) held a rally at Victoria Park in Regina to petition the removal of a statue commemorating the nation’s first prime minister. While there is definitely support for the actions carried out by the ETFO, CNM and SCAR, not everybody agrees that Macdonald’s name should be viewed as a threat.

Canada is a young country, having just celebrated 150 years since confederation.

Its history is complex, and of course

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ENDING TOLLS FAIR FOR SURREY AND RIDGE MEADOWS COMMUTERS Negative response to policy shows individual benefit still trumps collective prosperity Kevin Kapenda CONTRIBUTOR

After years of tolling on the Golden Ears and Port Mann bridges, paid crossing finally came to a halt on Sept. 1. The response from BC’s centre-right news outlets like Global TV, The Province and Vancouver Sun was generally negative.

Most of those pundits questioned whether it was fair for the province’s taxpayers to collectively take on the debt of “regional” infrastructure projects. While the result of failed BC Liberal transportation policies comes with a hefty price tag, it is not just for a restricted number of commuters to pay tolls when the benefits of their consumption and productivity are felt across the province.

By the time both projects were completed, the Golden Ears bridge cost $808 million to build, while the Port Mann came in at $3.3 billion. The decision to scrap tolls won’t come cheap. It will add over $2 billion to our provincial debt. However, it’s not like tolls were working in the first place.

Indeed, the Golden Ears and Port Mann bridges were not doing as well as the BC Liberals projected they would. According to

an April 2017 piece in the Vancouver Sun, the Port Mann lost $407 million since its opening in 2012, while the Golden Ears has lost over $280 million since cars first crossed it in 2009.

When the NDP eliminated tolls, they argued that it was unfair to penalize motorists whose economic activity benefitted the entire region and city. It was also part of their promise to make life more affordable for working families and students, who are increasingly being driven further away from Vancouver.

Most of the media, as well as the BC Liberals, denounced the scrapping of tolls on the bridges. Those factions argued it was unfair for the rest of Metro Vancouver and BC taxpayers, whose tax revenue would now be tied to paying off bridges they may never use. This neoliberal worldview of public goods, in which no person should be required to pay for things they don’t directly benefit from, is why we are never able to invest in just about anything.

This conception of fairness is the same one that is repeatedly used to denounce almost any single-payer policy dedicated to equity and improving the quality of life for those on the margins. The backlash to the elimination of tolls is very much why our buses, classrooms, hospitals, and recovery houses remain overcrowded.

Furthermore, when Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows and Surrey residents cross the Port Mann and Golden Ears bridges to commute into or around Vancouver, their economic contributions are felt throughout the region. The gas taxes these motorists pay are spent across Metro Vancouver, while their consumption outside of their bedroom suburbs create and support

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jobs on both sides of those bridges. The idea that not all British Columbians should pay for the commutes of Metro Vancouverites working or living in those three communities defies the purpose of having a provincial government in the first place.

Tax revenue collected by the BC Government is spent throughout the province, regardless of who it is collected from and where they live. If you’ve worked

in BC, you may have paid for emergency services in Cranbrook, education in Prince George, highway improvements on the North Shore and liquefied natural gas development programs in the North.

For the first time in many years, we have a government that believes justice is bearing the cost of critical infrastructure together, rather than penalizing the few in the name of individual freedom and perpetually lowering taxes.

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A low-key star in the local food scene, Aki Guomundsdóttir is joining our roster of columnists to unveil the darkest secrets of your favourite restaurants. While his words may cut like the sharpest of knives, Aki aims to provide the honesty and truthfulness that some of Vancouver’s finest places tend to forget.

There's something terrifying about the growing appeal of food photography, chef documentaries and burgeoning foodie scenes. If we keep going down this road, we'll be carving chefs into marble statues.

We're in a trance believing that somehow there's a newfound respect for food, in tune with the environment, with the seasons, with the cosmos.

As an industry insider, I can't just hold my peace and watch that happen, so let me shine some light on the ordinary kitchen.

Not the Michelin-starred, trend-setting kitchen that begets mouth-watering documentaries. The ordinary kitchens, where you and I eat whenever there isn't a special occasion, are still – echoing Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential accounts – vortexes of drug use, mental illness, chronic underpayment, unsanitary practices and an ironic disregard (maybe even contempt) for food.

Sure, most chefs have internalized and memorized some garden-variety bullshit speak about working with “local purveyors” or “striving to use local organic ingredients whenever possible” or paying “competitive wages.” Many restaurants, including several I've worked at, falsely declare those same things on their websites or to local newspapers. Worse of all, the “all fresh, local, seasonal, organic” branding of so many cafes and smoothie bars that rely so heavily on tropical fruit is truly risible for anyone with a basic knowledge of nature.

I can't help but wonder what would happen if chefs were held to the same standards of truth as journalists. If fact checking became a reality, we would equate chefs with tabloid writers at best.

I've always loved cooking – but what's happening in most restaurants isn't cooking. We could call it capitalist cooking: turning raw materials (in this case raw food, the cheaper the better) into profitable commodities. False advertising then becomes essential, targeting the zeitgeist

and telling people what they want to hear, and it has become so widespread I can hardly recall working at a place that honestly sold what it said it was selling.

The most financially successful kitchens will also target our addiction to sugar, salt, fat and alcohol, without obviously declaring it. Likewise, when eating out, I can easily read, smell, or literally see the bullshit.

When a restaurant vaguely states that “we use local organic ingredients whenever possible”, what they really mean is that local organic ingredients are so prohibitively expensive and so frustratingly perishable that mostly, they buy the cheap shit from Mexico and California like everyone else.

Most chefs don't go to the farmer's market like you see in the documentaries: they order food through the phone or online.

When restaurants list ParmigianoReggiano on a menu (the super expensive, super amazing, protected designation of origin cheese from Modena, Italy), they probably mean some other knockoff or even Kraft Parmesan. When you order the mouth-watering day/feature soup, you could be ordering something, say, 12 days old(the most I've witnessed). Free-range eggs and chicken are often not. Homemade bread is often baked from frozen. All this could still happen at a beloved, super-busy restaurant sitting very highly on Tripadvisor, Yelp, or best of the city rankings. Any menu that never changes – or rarely changes – has no believable claim to be local. Because

nature changes, not only in four seasons, but in mini-seasons within the seasons.

Some “seasons” in the food world may only last a few weeks. And nature isn't perfectly predictable: sometimes you don't get what you're expecting.

Cooking truly seasonal, local, ecologically responsible food is hard as shit and even the best chefs in the world struggle with it. Some risk financial failure while attempting it and many of them have accomplished extremely admirable feats through persistence, risk bearing and an uncompromising passion for the raw ingredients and their natural environment.

Their feats should be lauded, but riding the wave of their success through outright lies, foxy branding and pretentious presentation of food is not only cowardly but also irresponsible, given the strains on our food systems.

Chefs can try to innocently claim to be forced by the “invisible forces of the economy” to purchase whatever's cheaper, to waste, to underpay workers on every step of the chain, to lie, and throw one's creativity and passion to the flames. But the burden of that re-education rests on them. They don't necessarily need to be outspoken activists, but if there's any hope of preventing the collapse of major ecosystems, they first need to stop lying. At the same time customers should strive to be less gullible and hold chefs accountable for their claims.

She also taught me how to hold a paddle and promised I’d figure out the rest as I went along. (That never happened.)

Meanwhile, the remainder of the team was still in the parking lot doing flamingo stretches in front of a busy pub. They continued to do this for much longer than I felt was appropriate… and that’s coming from someone who wasn’t even in the pub.

7:15 p.m.: After successfully boarding the boat, Ted, our steersman, began giving us a series of commands from the stern.

Before long, we had paddled out onto the open water and Lynette, our coach, took over with some commands of her own.

“We’re only going to take it up to 60 per cent tonight,” she said, as my glasses rode a waterfall of sweat down to the tip of my nose. “Aw, man,” replied the chorus of eager paddlers, ready to give her the extra 40 at the drop of a custom-embroidered Zunga Warriors hat.

To say they made it look easy would be an understatement. I was shocked at how high my elbows needed to be and how far my body had to lean toward the water in order to plunge the paddle vertically below the surface, backward, and then upward again in the span of a couple seconds. And don’t even get me started on the leg pushes and hip twists required to avoid fatigue and injury. This wasn’t just paddling, it was a full body workout.

7:29 p.m.: Not even fifteen minutes into the practice and my technique had already

regressed to the spastic level of a drunken canoer trying to fend off hornets. Helen was doing her best to get me back on track, but before long she fell silent. Initially I was worried I had drowned her in my wake, but I soon realized she was just saving her breath. The team had given up on me. They were going to throw me overboard or make me walk the plank - I just knew it. Good thing my mother was there. Surely, she’d talk them out of it… or would she?

As a point of reference, my mother was sitting towards the middle of this 40-foot behemoth, paddling ferociously with the athletic prowess of someone in her teens.

My two aunts were also on board, making it pretty much a floating family reunion.

When it comes to dragon boating, there’s a well-defined chain of command: people at the back of the boat are supposed to follow the mid strokes; the mid strokes follow the lead strokes, and theoretically everyone stays in time. For a while we did, but then the coach started getting fancy on us: “Just the women… Okay, now the even strokes…. Alright, how about odd strokes? …Great, now just the men…”

8:45 p.m.: I’m pretty sure I either blacked out or vomited after that last command, but I’m told I made it through the entire practice without incident. As we prepared to disembark, I couldn’t help but crack a joke in my usual selfdeprecating way… just in case.

“Well, that’ll be the last time I skip arm day at the gym,” I moaned.

“Wouldn’t that require actually going to the gym in the first place?” replied a familiar voice from the middle of the boat.

“Thanks, Mom…” “Love you,” she said. “But hey, maybe you could try out the gym for your next column?”

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Seniors’ mixed dragon-boating practice

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Move over, Try Guys! There’s a new guinea pig in town. We’ve convinced our Associate Publisher to step out of his comfort zone and walk to the precipice of humiliation for a different adventure every week. From the Grouse Grind to prolonged periods of veganism, his pain is our gain! Follow along all semester to see where he’ll turn up next – and don’t forget to text the Voicebox with your best suggestions!

Trying new things is rarely easy and I’ve been told it gets harder and harder the older you get. That’s why I decided to check a few items off my bucket list this year, rather than waiting until I’m too cynical, too busy, or too overwhelmingly fear-crippled to do them.

I even agreed to write this column as a way to document my new and unfamiliar adventures. Unfortunately, I didn’t explain the pitch very well, and now my editors think I’m on a mission to embarrass myself twice a month for your amusement.

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told that you can text the Voicebox with additional suggestions for my cruel and unusual punishment. Fantastic.

Over the next few months, I’ll likely be regaling you with first-hand stories involving everything from male body waxing to hot yoga classes – and for that I apologize in advance. But for now, let’s ease in with a little tale from Aug. 10, the night I joined my mother’s mixed dragon boating team for a practice. How hard could that be, right?

Let’s find out.

6:45 p.m.: I arrived at the Powell Lake Marina with absolutely no equipment whatsoever. Good thing there was a sketchy-looking tool shed full of paddles and life jackets waiting there. “Is this communal?” I asked. It was, and soon I had everything I needed. That is, except for the patience, endurance and core strength required to make it through a two-hour practice…

6:55 p.m.: After being introduced to the entire team, I realized very quickly that everyone there had about 30 or 40 years on me. They didn’t look the least bit worried.

Meanwhile, I hadn’t even seen them out on the water and I was already intimidated by their matching shirts, waterproof seat cushions and hand-carved paddles. The Zunga Warriors were the real deal.

7 p.m.: Someone named Helen took me aside to give me a crash course on how to climb in and out of the boat without dying.

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heterosexual woman contradicts the values that I preach. I worry that I am seen as a fraud.

A few months back, a new friend and I were out for drinks before attending a community event. The topic of the townhall-type-evening was intersectionality and equality, (so, obviously my jam) and I was excited to listen to the panel and get into an evening of meaningful conversation.

Prior to the event, articles that served as a didactic manual for feminism were posted on the Facebook page as pre-reading material that would breakdown what the panel would be delving into.

My friend and I dissected the material

over cocktails, and landed on the question of marriage versus feminism and if you can have both. I immediately arched my back in a knee-jerk reaction that derives from one: my sensitive nature, and two: because I haven’t quite pinned down how I feel about this question. I already felt personally attacked by the Jezebel interview with Jessa Crispin that basically deemed Beyoncé as a capitalist monster and my heart can only take so much.

The conversation did not come from a place of nefarious intent, but my ultimate response was to defend my man, who is, in my humble opinion, a male-feminist and champion of women’s rights. The night

moved on, we attended the panel, and went home. But the topic has clung to the basement of my mind since.

I’ve brought it up in conversation, and mostly I get the “Girrrlllllll, of course you can be a feminist and be married!” And while that reassurance massages my ego for a moment, I keep circling back. If I am engaging in a historically misogynistic ceremony at my own will, on a scale of Roxanne Gay to 10, how bad of a feminist am I? Am I hiding behind the cultural patterns of oppression while wearing a false-feminist cloak?

In mulling this over and over, I’ve learned that we cannot condemn ourselves for the blessings and curses we are given.

I am a white, able-bodied woman, but that doesn’t mean I get to beat myself up over my privilege. It means I need to continue showing up and fighting the good fight with my sisters who are, without choice, born into lesser privilege than I. It means I need to accept the humility in this learning process.

I chose to move forward in my relationship in a way that felt natural and celebratory for us: and that was in nondenominational matrimony.

If you so chose, I believe that you can have a marriage and eternal love, and still have your strength, identity and fundamental rights. If you are in my shoes, or ones similar, I encourage you to look within. To dig deep into the core values of your relationship and ask yourself: is my relationship built on a foundation of equality? Am I respected and uplifted in my relationship? Do I do the same for my partner? Am I truly, madly, and unequivocally happy? Do we recognize our privilege? Are we combating the historical and cultural oppressions of marriage by giving a kick-ass example of what a 2017 marriage can be?

If these answers are yes, then you, my friend, are saying “I Do” on a pedestal built by the foundations of feminism.

This column was first published on Looselipsmag.com.

basic concept and recently, the far left have formed their own violent coalition aimed at shutting down anyone who disagrees with them.

‘Antifa’, short for anti-fascists, is a group that recently has been trying its damnedest to take the spotlight away from the white supremacists and Nazis who align themselves with the alt-right. Videos of Antifa, adorned in all black garb, toting the hammer and sickle, have begun their circulation around Twitter, where they’re seen attacking anyone who gets in their path. Their relationship with violence has led to them being publicly denounced by many Liberals as disgusting and against their values.

The recent incarnation of Antifa is divorced from the original anti-fascists, a militant leftist organization that fought against Hitler in Europe during the Second World War. This modern incarnation has a simple motto: to hell with anyone who disagrees with them. Their goal is to stand up to fascists by any means necessary.

One infamous example of their ideals in practice was when white supremacist, Richard Spencer, was punched in the face during an interview.

No matter how much satisfaction we may get from seeing an avowed racist like Spencer getting hit in the face, it still sets a bad precedent. It leads to other examples that are less amusing to watch a 20-hour remix of, like when Antifa shut down the 82nd Avenue of Roses Parade in Oregon simply because the Republican Party was going to march in it.

It’s easy to understand why they wanted to stop the parade: Republicans would be in it. Donald Trump is a Republican. Trump is leading a racist and fascist government.

Republicans voted for Trump. Therefore, this would be a racist, fascist parade and it must be stopped by any means necessary.

Whether Trump is a racist or fascist isn’t the point. What matters is that no group should feel as if they have the right to prevent their opposition from being seen or heard.

None of this is to discourage a strong and relentless resentment towards white supremacists. A lot of people were proud of Boston when counter-protesters shut down a free speech rally. That was nothing to celebrate. Using your numbers to shut down a rally isn’t exercising your right to free speech, it’s suppressing the views of

the minority with the power of majority – precisely what other left organizations are trying to prevent with their anti-racism and equal rights rallies.

Antifa has shown that they’re willing to label anyone who isn’t a far left progressive as a racist member of the altright. In February 2016, conservative journalist Ben Shapiro had to be privately escorted by police to his speech at Berkley University due to Antifa protests outside the auditorium. Anyone who bought a ticket for the event had to be snuck in the backdoor by police. When they finally got everyone in safely, the fire alarm was pulled. This should be alarming to anyone who values debate and an open forum.

Shapiro is a not a racist or a fascist. He is merely a conservative.

Hitting people won’t make them less racist. Neither will suppressing their rights. Especially when the people you’re attacking aren’t racist. Instead it’ll alienate your movement and drive people to the other side. Both the altright and Antifa are driving members into the hands of the other. What people need is an open debate, not a punch in the face.

Feminism and Marriage: Can you have both?

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Back for another round is Brittany Tiplady, co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of Loose Lips Magazine. Continuing the criticallyacclaimed Dropping the F-Bomb column, Brittany will be tackling the issues that surround modern feminism. Look out for truth bombs!

Google feminist marriage. What do you find? Listicles on reasons to not get married, guidelines on how to have a feminist marriage, and endless opinion pieces on the lack of feminism in traditional matrimonies. The tug of war on this topic is a never-ending battle: Feminism and marriage, is it possible to have both?

Today, fewer women are taking their partner’s last names. Heterosexual, nondenominational, LGBTQ+, and interracial weddings are conducted traditionally and non-traditionally, and yet, for many, the ideologies surrounding monogamy and marriage are still deeply rooted in misogynistic and anti-feminist perceptions.

I’m a self-identifying female and intersectional feminist of privilege and I’m still learning. I’m filled with humility on this growing conversation, and I’m here to be better. To do better. In the past year, I’ve caught myself feeling sheepish about my own pending marriage particularly around my feminist cohorts. Usually, I read the room – to some, I flaunt my ring and gush about wedding plans, and to others, I play off my engagement as a minor detail. I have worried that being an engaged, white,

DIVIDED WE STAND How protests conflict people

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There aren’t many topics today that can beat the controversy that the alt-right and Antifa spews. With so much political content distributed on social media, we can often get caught amidst the opinionated wildfires that spread online. Thankfully, Gabe Scorgie is here to offer a different perspective on everyone’s favourite radicals.

On opposite ends of the political spectrum are two factions who clearly have forgotten the most fundamental lesson taught in elementary school: you don’t hit people just because you disagree with them. The far right has demonstrated throughout history just how much they’ve struggled with this

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hen Ian Kaart approached Cynthia Tran Vo about collaborating on his piece for the Vancouver Mural Festival, Vo naturally had a lot of questions.

None more pressing than, “why me?”

Both of the third year Capilano University students are part of the IDEA School of Design. As with every annual crop of students that get accepted into one of CapU’s most rigorous programs, Vo and Kaart’s batch grew to become a tightly bonded group of artists.

Except the two couldn’t have been more different from one another. “It was weird,” Vo said. “We weren’t as close because when it comes to the spectrum of IDEA students, we’re on totally different sides.”

A Tale of Two Styles

While both have excelled in diversifying and expanding their personal artistic philosophies, the roots from which their styles are founded upon are as far apart as any. Vo comes from a heavy digital background, having been exposed to Adobe suite and code during her high school years in Vancouver Technical Secondary. On the other hand, Kaart grew up learning fine arts. His portfolio, while increasingly varied, features a strong connection to traditional means, as evidenced by his proficiency with acrylics, oil and graffiti.

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to IDEA were also in stark contrast of one another. Described as “the baby of the class,” Vo applied to CapU straight out of high school. Then a 17-year-old artist, she initially felt daunted by the environment around her, reminiscing on a moment when she deduced the average age for the class couldn’t have been below 23. “It was so scary. I was so lost.” Even more intimidating were the portfolios that her cohorts were exhibiting. “Everyone had a portfolio style or had an idea on what they’re going into,” she said. Although her experience with digital tools gave her a leg up in the graphic design facet of their program, she found herself at a disadvantage when it came to illustration.

Essentially, Vo had to learn backwards. “I personally steer away from traditional art and traditional art mediums were my personal hurdle when joining the IDEA program.”

Kaart’s journey to Capilano took a little more trial and tribulation. After graduating from Rockridge Secondary, he attended the Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD) to study fine arts.

However, after a year, he reconsidered his options, doubting his decision to pursue a degree so soon. He took some time off from his studies, bounced around a few odd jobs at a handful of restaurants and even tried going into other career paths. A four-month trip to Europe later rekindled his love and passion for the arts, ultimately motivating him to reconnect with one of his high school teachers, who in turn recommended the

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IDEA program.

Unfortunately, Kaart’s initial application to the notoriously tough program was rejected. Instead of seeking out other schools, he chose to work on his portfolio and try a second time. “It’s where I’m at now,” he said.

If Vo was intimidated by traditional fine arts, Kaart’s challenge came with digital.

For first year IDEA students, their initial semester tends to be dedicated to working on foundational and traditional fine arts skills – exercises and styles that Kaart already had experience with. But it was the second semester shift to digital media that truly turned the tables against him.

“That was quite a learning curve,” he said.

There are many circumstances that could beg the question of why Kaart would approach Vo about collaborating.

There are plenty of other talented artists in IDEA, some of whom might even be closer to Kaart on both a professional and personal level. Despite the many factors that would have to be accounted for when finding a partner for such an endeavour, Kaart valued one attribute above all else: work ethic – particularly regarding projects outside of the IDEA program.

Anna’s Hummingbird

Drew Young is inarguably one of the more recognizable names to have come out of the IDEA program. He’s had his work exhibited in galleries and shows around the world, became the youngest teacher for the Federation of Canadian Artists and the

Visual Arts curator for TEDx Vancouver.

In the local scene, Young famously created and curates Snag, a weekly live painting raffle that features some of the finest artists in the Lower Mainland. Two summers ago, he helped launch what has become one of the city’s most popular annual celebrations: the Vancouver Mural Festival (VMF).

Kaart met Young through Snag, and over the years developed a relationship with the renowned artist and curator. Early this summer, Young approached Kaart about an opportunity to paint a wall for the VMF, but with some important caveats: the wall, located on 876 Cordova Diversion, doesn’t have the best exterior for painting – making it rather difficult and unappealing for many artists. The other was that time was in short supply.

Before it was time to paint, Kaart had only a week and a half to find someone to work with, create a design and get everything submitted. Accounting for the restrictive schedule, he analyzed and pondered about which of his classmates he could best work with, but he wasn’t looking for someone whom he was necessarily close to. It was about punctuality and dedication. “Cynthia has always been someone in the class that is passionate about her work, she is always doing something new, bringing new ideas to the table and she’s very graphic in her approach, and at the time I was very illustrative,” Kaart said. “I thought that relationship would be very useful, and it turned out to be the best relationship

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ever.”

The design that they ultimately submitted is an amalgamation of elements that contribute to Vancouver’s eclectic identity.

They selected Anna’s Hummingbird as a subject, to commemorate its selection this past May as Vancouver’s official bird. The building, located right where Cordova and Powell meet, inspired the design’s Japanese essence. Powell Street is noted for its once bustling community of Japanese immigrants, and the cherry blossoms that flicker across the mural are meant to pay respects to the Japanese-Canadian soldiers who served in World War II. The mural’s geometric style represents origami, which has become one of the most iconic symbols in Japanese culture.

“Ian and I wanted to have meaning behind our work,” Vo said. “In our design projects, we’re always taught that it's good to have a rationale about why you’re doing this.”

Conveniently, the geometric look of the design allowed the artists to orchestrate a paint-by-numbers type of system. The painting process involved the help and contribution of 17 other IDEA students, and as project lead, Kaart needed a way to manage numerous artists and keep them on task.

As with most projects, everything that could go wrong did go wrong. The surface of the wall was far too rough for even a simple paint job, much less a complex, geometric mural that required

the straightest of edges. “It was like corrugated stucco,” Kaart described. “So, it’s like the worst kind of wall surface you could ever imagine to paint on.” To counteract the problem, Kaart planned to strictly use spray paint for the entire wall, which would help ensure that the lines get as crisp as possible. After placing a massive order, Kaart found out that there was a limited supply of spray paint available at the time – in the entire country. He ended up receiving just 30 per cent of the full order, which forced the team to use latex paint for the rest of the wall. The order fiasco ultimately delayed their painting start by an entire day.

Midway through the project, Kaart and his team was hit with another blow. “About halfway through painting the mural, the lift broke,” he said. A repairman was called in to fix the issue, but ultimately found that the team would be better off getting a replacement lift. As fate would have it, getting a truck to replace the broken boom lift rendered the wall inaccessible, costing the team even more precious time off their project.

Oh, and there was an infernal summer heat, too. “It was blaring hot,” said Vo. “Our mural wall was in direct sunlight the whole day and we’re up on this lift and the sun is hitting your back.”

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Despite being quietly sheltered in the Arbutus Building, IDEA has become

one of the most renowned programs at CapU. “Our graduates have a longstanding reputation as coming out of school ‘studio-ready,” said Pascal Milelli, illustration instructor and co-coordinator of the program. “They [the graduates] know how to work in a professional setting, they conduct themselves as professionals and they produce work to industry standards. Our illustration curriculum – both traditional and digital – has always set us apart from other programs, certainly out west.”

While Kaart argues that it ultimately depends on the work ethic of the individual, and not the institution – he also admits that IDEA’s boot-camp-like system certainly factors in tremendously.

“The school definitely does hammer into you and that is a big aspect and that’s how it is in the industry.”

In just two summers, the VMF transformed Vancouver neighbourhoods with the collective work of some of the finest artists in the country. Calls for more room to help prosper public art has echoed all over the Lower Mainland for years and Capilano happens to be one of the best incubators of artistic talent in the province. So, it’s a wonder: must CapU buildings always be so spartan and stone grey? Vancouver has taken the step in decorating its walls with illustrations and designs that are both meaningful and consequential, who’s to say that a domino effect can’t lead to new colours adorning the CapU walls.

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A look behind the curtain of university funding and how CapU is working to get more out of it.

By Helen Aikenhead Illustration by Maria Centola

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ith the semester just picking up, the daunting task of course planning is still fresh in the minds of students everywhere.

While waiting out three-hour breaks between classes or sitting through that one elective you swore you would never take, the words play over in your head – “This course is not available this term.”

In the frustration that follows the discovery that your carefully planned semester is no longer attainable, students often forget the complex facilitation that goes into organizing and providing thousands of students with what they need to successfully navigate the requirements of their diverse programming.

But of course, nothing comes for free. Of the many parts of one greater system at play in university upkeep, most any issue can be traced back to one thing: money.

Think of the game of Jenga – if the goal is to maintain a sturdy, upright structure, the perpetual question is which block can be removed and relocated responsibly before everything comes crashing down? This is a question that can be similarly placed on budget allocation. Capilano University is only provided with a certain amount of funding determined by a set formula from the provincial government – specifically, a little over 40 per cent. Another approximate 40 per cent comes from student tuition.

That leaves just under 20 per cent left, made up from other sources. At CapU, some of these sources include parking fees, the childcare centre, the University’s own investments, the theatre and donations.

Now, if one of the blocks at the base of the tower is affordable tuition and another is a non-negotiable figure provided by the province, careful decisions must be made with the other blocks in play in order to keep those two support beams in place.

Unfortunately, and despite the huge inconvenience this places on a students’ schedule, some of the moves the University has found to be the safest and least overall damaging are made in course cutting.

But before we can understand why this drastic move is truly one of the better solutions and begin looking at the actions being taken to keep every block where it belongs in the future, it’s important to first understand the problems. While money is certainly a constant, co-chair of the School of Communications, Ted Hamilton notes that there is a “chicken and the egg paradox” to consider before placing all the blame of course cutting on government funding alone.

Capilano University is underfunded.

That’s been known since as early as 2008 when the then-college was granted its university title and had to absorb the costs of this transition without receiving any additional government funding.Later, starting in 2013, a series of major program cuts revealed some of the financial issues CapU was still facing. Now, with funding said to be consistent since 2012, the University hasn’t experienced any cuts to the same scale as the closures in 2013.

The block transfer fund provided by the BC government to a university is calculated by the number of Full Time Equivalent (FTE) students the university had registered in the previous year. This is not to be confused as a simple headcount of students enrolled in full-time courses – FTE’s aren’t necessarily individual students – but are

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also inclusive of groups of students enrolled in fewer classes, collectively earning a total of 15 credits in a semester. This way, every student is considered in the FTE total. For the purposes of this particular calculation, only a 15-credit course load (that is five, three credit courses) garners FTE eligibility, meaning five students taking one three-credit course each, together, would count as a single FTE. This brings us to the chicken and the egg paradox – short of the provincial government declaring a province-wide funding increase per FTE, that base funding is wholly dependant on enrolment numbers; numbers which Hamilton says are largely dependant on promotion extending well beyond the campus grounds.

But of course, the large-scale promotion necessary to significantly boost enrolment, which would in turn increase CapU’s base funding, has a hefty price tag.

Past administrations at the CapU did not prioritize marketing and there are reminders of this all over the city. When you see a poster for Kwantlen Polytechnic University at a bus stop or for Douglas College on the back of the newspaper of the person sitting across from you on the SkyTrain, you are reminded that CapU is not nearly as prominent in the subconscious of students across Vancouver as other institutions. Hamilton said that marketing is something the University is most definitely working on. “Our new president has been really proactive in terms of emphasizing that dimension so I’m hopeful that things will improve on that score.”

President Paul Dangerfield confirmed this hope while describing the latest operating plan the University has been working on for the past 12-18 months, ensuring that student attraction, and retention, are currently two of the top priorities of the school. He further acknowledged that promotion plays a vital role in achieving these goals. Dangerfield promises the rise of Capilano is in motion, with rebranding already having started with the new logo unveiling and the launch of an, “active outdoor campaign – it was the first outdoor campaign that the University had done in a long time.” Dangerfield continued to explain that this rebranding was recognized as the best worldwide in higher education in the past two years.

While this is a huge accomplishment for CapU and an impressive leap in the right direction, the next step would be plastering that logo all around the city.

Clearly, and with good reason, Dangerfield is extremely hopeful about the future of CapU. He doesn’t see the future involving further cuts, but rather increasing programming to an extent the University has never seen before. He provided an explanation of the credential map developed over the span of the new operational plan, which would bring about more degree programs to the students of Capilano within the next three to five years. Then, looking forward to the next five to 10 years, there are plans in “doubling the number of degrees that we have here.”

Dangerfield explains, “that’s what we’re working on, and those will be in the areas where you see where we have diplomas… and then we’ll work on brand new degrees.”

Degrees and degree development are essential to the future of CapU. Not only

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in terms of academic expansion and the benefits and opportunities they bring to students, but in terms of funding, more degrees are hugely profitable. One reason is the attraction value alone – more degrees means more students, which all goes back to the FTE count and the size of the block transfer fund. Of course,

one of the rules for access to this funding is that we have to have a certain percentage of students enrolled in degree programs,” a percentage which is of course difficult to reach with such a limited number of degree programs available. However, should the University stay on track with its current operational plan, there won’t be a problem

an increase of students on campus also means filled classes, which would reduce, if not eliminate course cutting. Then there are also more complex benefits connecting increased degree credentials specifically to financial gains. As Hamilton explained, CapU has long been excluded from an opportunity to receive additional government funding by way of access to Federal Research Grants. These grants would be resources previously unbudgeted by the awarded university, which then allows money that would have previously been used in one area to be shifted and utilised in other areas – such as increased classes and course sections – essentially, expanding the reach of the initial base funding. As Hamilton described, CapU is disadvantaged when it comes to granting council provided funding, “mostly because

with reaching that percentage in the future.

Despite their strength in that regard, even the success of increased degree programming ultimately goes back to promotion, because you could have all the programming in the world, but you need people to know that you have it. Or as Hamilton puts it, “regardless of weather advertising works, not advertising surely works to promote ignorance.”

Similar to research grants, there are other opportunities within reach for CapU that have come about with the new NDP government. Minister of Advanced Education, Skills and Training, Melanie Mark recently announced several initiatives that will work to improve accessibility to post-secondary education for many British Columbians. First,

Mark announced reinstating a tuitionfree policy for domestic students in Adult Basic Education (ABE) as well as English Language Learners (ELL), which started at the beginning of this month. This move will reverse the implementation of fees that were placed on the programs in 2015 by the BC Liberals, which made it more difficult, if not impossible, for some students to continue to pursue their post secondary education. Following this announcement, Minister Mark then additionally revealed that under the new NDP government, people in or aging out of foster care would now have access to free tuition in order to enrol in undergraduate programs.

While these announcements are beneficial province-wide, for CapU specifically, they are welcome news. “What we’re assuming from that,” Dangerfield says, “is that they have a real focus on increasing access for post secondary, and we will benefit from that because we provide those opportunities here at the University.” It’s safe to assume, then, that with these new means of accessibility, Capilano can expect an increase in future FTE counts.

Recently, Mark spent an afternoon with the president to discuss CapU. On that, Dangerfield was happy to announce that the minister and her team, were "receptive to Capilano University – to our programming, our diverse set of programming and also the initial ideas that we’ve been sharing with her around the credential map. So I’m very positive about where we can go.”

The final aspect of the current operational plan has to do more with the goal of retaining students – that is, to enhance the experience here on campus and supporting student success in doing so. According to Hamilton, this is important for the University because, “if you provide people with an environment that is comfortable and that facilitates the learning process in some way…the reputation of the university will be enhanced because it’s recognized by the people who go here as a good place to go.” Ways in which Capilano is working on this enhancement are in providing new services like housing, and starting work on a new and reorganized Student Success Centre. The centre, Dangerfield explained, would be a “learning commons for all the students in one place and that would allow them to have all of the resources they would need in one place” including tutors, peer mentors and career advising.

To Dangerfield, building a space where students want to be in, particularly in terms of housing, means the school won’t have to cancel classes and has the potential actually increase classes. “So, I think, you know if I look at it, government, industry, the local community - they’re all helping us together and I think that’s really the solution going forward,” said Dangerfield.

Of course, missing out on a course you really wanted or needed at a specific time is frustrating - incredibly frustrating.

But looking at it from the perspective of the people making the decisions about what gets cut, they really do have a lot to consider and try to balance out. When it becomes a question of what to move around to keep that vital supporting beam of tuition prices in place, while maintaining an overall sturdy tower, we may just have to wait for the rest of the pieces to come into play.

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ALBUMS OF THE SUMMER FUNK WAV BOUNCES VOL 1.

Calvin Harris

FREUDIAN Daniel Caesar Carlo Javier

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PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Nearly a year after the majestic, Kali Uchis-assisted “Get You” took streaming platforms by storm, Daniel Caesar is showing once again why he’s Canada’s next R&B standout.

Released late August, Freudian marks the singer’s official debut album. The record sounds almost antithetical to the lush and effervescent tunes that summer albums get associated with, instead opting for a firm gospel foundation, while weaving in elements of quiet storm that would do Maxwell proud.

While “Get You” and “We Find Love” will certainly reap most streams and accolades, tracks like “Best Part (feat. H.E.R.)”, and the Charlotte Day Wilson-assisted “Transform” are gems that suggest Caesar as a true star in the field, not just a passerby with one dope hit.

He might not have the sizeable catalogue yet, but don’t be surprised if Caesar’s name gets routinely mentioned among the Ocean’s, Miguel’s and Solange’s of the industry. He’s that good.

Picking an album of the summer was stiff competition as many of my long-time favourites released great new albums.

The winner however was one I wasn’t expecting. SZA floated in the background as just another hazy R&B singer, but Ctrl arrived with such clarity and confidence.

SZA proves herself a powerful singer and songwriter with her distinct voice, raw confessional lyrics and a knack for switching flows and melodies like a rapper.

While many of the tracks share the same faded R&B vibe of SZA’s older music, Ctrl also sees her step effortlessly into other genres. “Prom” is pulsing indie-pop in the vein of HAIM, while “Drew Barrymore” and “20 Something” are folksy and stripped down. The standout hit is “The Weekend”, a shimmering R&B jam about time-sharing men, but every one of the 14 tracks on the album is a gem.

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Despite the criticism he received for his latest album, Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1, Calvin Harris has undoubtedly released one of the best summer-perfect albums we’ve seen in a while.

Sure, there isn’t a single song that doesn’t rely on the support of other music superstars. And it’s true there’s very little, if any, real substance in this album.

It’s also not especially diverse sounding.

These things aside, the Scottish singer, songwriter, DJ and producer’s most recent album is exactly what summer 2017 needed.

With hints of psychedelic, disco, G-funk, pop and reggae, Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1 is the ultimate feel-good album. It’s easy summer listening that borrows a concoction of popular vocals from artists like Snoop Dog, Jessie Reyez, Big Sean, John Legend, ScHoolboy Q and Ariana Grande, just to name a few.

Harris’ fifth solo album might not be incredibly deep and soul satisfying, but it’s the kind of record that’s tropical vibes won’t leave you feeling miserable.

Honourable Mentions: Kendrick Lamar – DAMN. Tyler the Creator – Flower Boy Young Thung – Beautiful Thugger Girls Leikeli47 – Wash & Set Lil Yachty – Teenage Emotions

TI AMO Phoenix

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Honourable Mentions: Lana Del Rey – Lust for Life Leikieli47 – Wash & Set Mount Kimbie – Love What Survives Hercules & Love Affair – Omnion LCD Soundsystem – American Dream

EVERYTHING NOW Arcade Fire

VILLAINS Queens of the Stone Age

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Phoenix’s sixth studio album, Ti Amo, was released this summer on June 9, and it has since rocked the synthpop genre. The album delivers Italian disco like no other – and not in a “my mom made me listen to this” type of way, but more like a “I want to paint the town gold,” Italian disco. Ti Amo, which has been in the making for three years, is themed around love, desire, lust and innocence. It connects punchy pop backing tracks, with Phoenix's signature dreamy vocals. Ti Amo is summer in a bottle, and it’s the only drink I want to savour this fall.

Having spent my summer in Europe, I only really got to listen to albums when travelling between cities on trains or buses. While all these albums, and many more, provided my trip with a soundtrack, Everything Now by Arcade Fire was by far the most played. It's cinematic qualities and rich sounds provided the perfect accompaniment for the passing landscapes.

Having said that, what a summer it was for music. We got our first Jay Z album worth listening to in a while, Sinjin Hawke released his debut full length offering and Kacy & Clayton reminded us of a 1960's San Francisco with a small-town Saskatchewan touch.

People keep saying that Rock and Roll is dead and if that’s the case, then surely Josh Homme and the other lads of Queens of The Stone Age didn't get the memo.

Rock and Roll is alive and well for those who know where to look, and it’s an easy search – just go listen to Villains which was released Aug. 25. The new release from the desert rock deities is as potent as Rock and Roll can perhaps get. The band is known for self-producing its albums and keeping things in-house, but for Villains, the group brought famed British hitmaker Mark Ronson into the fold. The result is an album which is noticeably more upbeat and dance floor friendly then the last Queens release. Tracks such as “Fortress” and “Feet Don’t Fail Me” are swinging and hit worthy. In the hands of Homme and his hombres, Rock is far from dead.

Honorable Mentions: Father John Misty – Pure Comedy Gorillaz – Humanz San Cisco – The Water The National – Sleep Well Beast Queens of the Stone Age – Villians

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Honourable Mentions: HAIM – Something to Tell You Alvvays – Antisocialite Amber Coffman – City of No Replies Benjamin Booker – Witness Tyler, The Creator – Flower Boy

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Honorable Mentions: A$AP Mob – Cozy Tapes 2 Kacy & Clayton – The Sirens Song Sinjin Hawke – First Opus Mac Demarco – This Old Dog Jay Z – 4:44

Honorable Mentions: Laura Marling – Semper Femina Death from Above – Outrage is Now

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PROHIBITION CITY DOWNTOWN AND CHINATOWN WALKING TOUR CATHEDRAL SQUARE EVERY NIGHT AT 7 P.M. / $22 FOR STUDENTS

According to the website, you’ll be told stories about blind pigs, and corrupt mayors. They’ll also show you first hand evidence of opium dens. I think you could probably do this tour for free by walking down a few East Hastings alleyways, but if you want to eliminate the risk of stepping on a needle, this sound like an excellent option.

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TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION WEEK CAPILANO UNIVERSITY ALL WEEK / FREE

There are so many events happening around campus that it would require a herculean effort to attend most of them. The goal of the week is to inform and educate people about the history of residential school and to acknowledge those who went through them and made it out.

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SALMAN RUSHDIE IN CONVERSATION WITH HAL WAKE

ORPHEUM 8 P.M. - 10:15 P.M./ $19 - $95

CHAN CENTER UBC 7:30 P.M. / $15 - $45

You can be certain that none of the pianos used here were bought from the aforementioned piano sale. This season will be Maestro Bramwell Tovey’s last at the VSO, so it’s only fitting their first performance will be of the Maestro’s own collection of orchestral themes from his opera, The Inventor. It’s a bit self-indulgent, but who am I to judge?

As per usual, in order to see any guests or speakers of interest CapU students must leave their campus and go to either SFU or UBC. This year appears to be no different as UBC will be hosting award-winning author Salman Rushdie. For the low price of $15, these events are almost always worth attending.

PIANO SALE

MAGIC MIC OPEN MIC NIGHT

BOSA CENTER - STUDIO A 10 A.M. - 6 P.M. / ENOUGH TO FINANCE

THE JUNCTION 8 P.M. - 11 P.M. / FREE

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As a rule, it’s advised that you don’t use the same word twice in a title. This should be especially true in cases like this, where their clever attempt at a headline manages to be more confusing than helpful. This is not a magic show. This is not an amateur male strip show - those are Thursday nights at my house. This is an amateur comedy night hosted at the Junction. Hopefully the talent will be far better than their copywriter (and ours).

MAIN STREET STATION FARMERS MARKET MAIN STREET 2 P.M. - 6 P.M. / FREE

One thing Vancouver needs more of is farmers’ and night markets.

I can just never seem to find a good source of organic fruit and homemade hand soap. This particular market is right next to the Main Street SkyTrain stop and showcases just how quickly an area can be gentrified.

If you’ve ever looked around your 400-square foot apartment and said to yourself, “you know, I bet I could fit a piano in here,” then this event is for you. Every year CapU teams up with Kawai Pianos and puts some of their old pianos up for sale. I’m not sure what possible need a university student has for a piano, but you’d be a fool to pass up on the savings.

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CYCLE CITY RENTALS AND TOURS 11 A.M. / $104

A craft beer tour might’ve been the only way we could’ve gotten our beloved, former editor-in-chief to try riding a bike. The cost of the tour includes drinks at each brewery, so it’s recommended you practice your drunk biking for at least a week before booking tickets.

GENEALOGY: TRACE YOUR ANCESTORS WITH FAMILYSEARCH

VANCOUVER WHITECAPS VS COLORADO RAPIDS

This is much more interesting than you think. It should be mandatory for everyone to get their genealogy traced at least once.

You can find out exactly who you’re related to and just how far your lineage has come. Who knows, maybe you and your partner will find out you’re related!

Vancouver’s second most expensive and underwhelming sports team takes the pitch against Colorado this Saturday. I’ll be honest, I prefer watching the English Premier League over the MLS. I did go to a Whitecaps game once. We got drunk and everyone yelled at the other team’s goalkeeper. Other than that, I don’t think anything else happened the whole game. But if you’re a soccer fan who wants to see a live match you might enjoy this.

VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY 7:30 - 9 P.M. / FREE

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CYCLE CITY TOURS PRESENTS: VANCOUVER CRAFT BEER CYCLE TOUR

COSMIC NIGHT: SATURLINA AT THE SPACE CENTER H.R MACMILLAN SPACE CENTER 6:30 P.M. TO 10:00 P.M. / $20 - $25 (19+)

This event has everything a space nerd could hope for. 20 years ago, the spacecraft Cassini launched to travel to Saturn and investigate it’s ring. Now the mission has ended and the Space Center wants to share some of its discoveries with you. There will be drinks, games, exhibits and a planetarium show.

BARD ON THE BEACH PRESENTS: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE VANIER PARK 1 P.M. / $21.00 - $59.00

It’s never a bad idea to watch some Shakespeare, and what better way to do it than at Vanier Park? Showcasing local talent, Bard on the Beach usually puts on fantastic shows all summer and this year was no different. Their season is starting to wind down but there’s still a month or so left to catch their productions.

BC PLACE 7 P.M. / MORE THAN YOU’D EXPECT

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ROOKIE NIGHT

THE IMPROV CENTRE 7:30 P.M. / $15.50 (INCLUDES ONE DRINK)

The Improv Centre is among the best places in the city for a date night. Located on Granville Island, for the low price of $15 you can watch an hour of comedy, have a few drinks and then meander around talking about the show. They usually ask for audience member to participate so if you’re feeling extra brave you can try and woo your date with quick thinking improv skills.

WALK FOR RECONCILIATION CAMBIE AND GEORGIA STREET 9:30 A.M. / FREE

If all the truth and reconciliation around campus really got you worked up, then throw on your best activist shoes (literally) and head downtown and join over 50,000 people as they go on this three to four kilometre trek around the city. It’s scientifically proven that each block walked reduces your personal guilt by at least two per cent or your money back..

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WRITING YOUR DREAM ROLE How one CapU student and her sister decided to make a place for themselves through their web series Helen Aikenhead FEATURES EDITOR

Madison Long is looking to combine the powers of sisterhood and the internet.

The Capilano University third-year Acting for Stage and Screen (ASAS) student is teaming up with her sister, Taylor – also an acting student at Langara College’s Studio 58 – to create their own comedy web series.

The series, Birdie + Bee, welcomes viewers into the fantastical, but very real world of two 20-something best friends, navigating the world in a comedic coming of age story with the added twist of childhood nostalgia. Long credits the whimsical nature of the show to influences ranging from The Wizard of Oz, to Broad City, to the colourful and storybook visuals of a Wes Anderson film.

Long wants to make it clear, however, that despite these influences, Birdie + Bee is by no means an attempt to recreate anything. The show is its own unique depiction of two very different young women discovering who they are in the backdrop of a modern-day fantasyland.

The sisters play many roles in the production of the series. They act as show creators, writers, producers and, of course, actors. They also recruited local actors from around Vancouver along with fellow CapU students, Nathan Mayes and Braeden Saucy of ASAS. Mayes acts as a co-producer and part-time director, while

BLUESHORE THEATRE CELEBRATES ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY Looking back on the history of CapU’s foremost performing arts venue Carlos Ascencio CONTRIBUTOR

This year, Capilano University’s BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts is turning 20 and it’s going to celebrate it the only way it knows how – with an amazing program. To celebrate the monumental year, the theatre is bringing the likes of Antonio Sánchez performing Birdman Live, The Donny McCaslin Quartet. and Sarah Slean among many others.

Even if it was built primarily as a resource for the performing arts programs, the theatre instantly recognized that bringing professional artists to work with the students was going to benefit everyone – the faculty, art lovers in the audience and of course, CapU’s host of student performers. In fact, this is one of the most

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Saucy appears on-screen as the evil witch.

For many acting students, Long explained that creating a web series is an incredible opportunity to flex their own creativity. “We’re told a lot at Cap ‘create your own content,’ because at the end of the day, it is something you have the power to do and a way to get yourself out there.”

As this generation is constantly on the hunt for exciting new content online, the web series format lends itself well to artists carving out their own space in the industry and can greatly increase their exposure. With what started as quick sketches clocking in at around five minutes a piece, the pilot episode of Birdie + Bee, which is about 80 per cent wrapped, is reaching almost 20 minutes. It’s in that format flexibility that also makes the web series route an attractive one to creators.

The sisters took advantage of this freedom when writing the episodes, one of the many things Madison lists as a unique feature of

this project is that while the heart of the series stays constant, the episodes aren’t afraid to bend genres. From a musical episode to a horror episode, the series will ultimately include six instalments, which will keep viewers entertained and on their toes.

Despite all its freedoms and the ease of access of a web series, Madison promises there is nothing easy about the project. On why despite all the benefits, not many people peruse creating their own web series, Madison says, “A block is how much work it actually is…what I think stops people sometimes maybe is that its time and money [and] you’re getting no returns besides getting it made until it’s out there.”

That’s why the Long sisters turned to crowdfunding, setting up an Indiegogo earlier this summer.

Due to the prop-heavy nature of the show in addition to the high costs

of equipment, location bookings and other costly set demands, turning to an arts-friendly site like Indiegogo is a great option. But they aren’t stopping there, putting their show to the test, the Long sisters have also put Birdie + Bee in the running to be one of 30 StoryHive finalists.

The competition seeks out new talent from across BC and Alberta, in hopes of helping artists like Madison and Taylor to help produce, and continue building on their projects. As well as $10,000 in production grant money, StoryHive finalists are given a platform in which their shows will be hosted, “I think that’s what StoryHive’s all about, kind of giving everyone a chance to just show their stuff.”

The Birdie + Bee Indiegogo and StoryHive pages are open. Find Birdie + Bee on their Facebook page at: Facebook. com/birdieandbeetv.

important criteria at the moment for programming – they want artists that are going to be pedagogically interesting for the students, so they organize workshops, showcases and master classes.

Fiona Black has been the director of programming at the BlueShore Theatre since its inception. Eventually, she and many others transformed the theatre into the heart of CapU. Sometimes, the process of bringing the artists her audience expects to see can take time, but over the years she has been able to build quality relationships and connections with different agents and managers, making the process easier.

“I’ve been exposed to a lot of music and I’ve set the bar pretty high, but they must be special too,” she said. “I’ve seen very technically brilliant artists, but they don’t move me. The authenticity must be there.”

What began as the Folk and Roots series has developed into the successful Global Roots series. “It’s incredibly satisfying to bring artists from around the world to Cap. I think it reflects Vancouver, it reflects our community,” said Black. “I want to showcase the diversity, and it’s a fabulous experience for people to hear artists from the source.” Another series carried out is the North Shore Jazz series, which has worked alongside the Jazz Festival each year in June, for the last 16 years.

Commercial artists tend to not make appearances in the musical series, as the theatre looks for opportunities to showcase talent they feel truly suits the show and its environment. The theatre had soldout shows right from the beginning, but artists were not chosen simply because of big names. Working the program out and gaining an audience takes a lot of hard work and effort, especially with the vast amount of entertainment for audiences to choose from. Social media has been helpful in this aspect. “You can put YouTube clips, people can really check out an artist before.

Listen to Spotify and see if they like their music, people really can do their own research, they don't have to go out and buy a CD and listen to the music before, there's so much available that's free,” said Black.

The world was a very different place when the BlueShore Theatre first opened in 1997. Over the years, social media has replaced local newspapers as the couriers of entertainment options in the city. The world has also changed in the grander scheme.

Joe Lovano, a well-known New York saxophonist and one of the Centre’s early jazz artists, was programmed originally on Sept. 11, 2001. Prior to the attacks on New York, his manager changed the date to Sept. 18, before the world suddenly and

drastically changed forever. “The world was crazy and [the] internet was not as advanced as it is today so I was watching his website, all of his dates started to get canceled except for us and I almost felt disrespectful even contacting him about something as insignificant as a date when their city had been attacked,” said Black.

Lovano decided to start his tour at the BlueShore Theatre after finally getting a flight booked. “It was amazing, Joe really wanted to talk about what had happened and he was very happy to get back to work. It was one of the few times I remember when the audience gave standing ovation before he even played a note,” recalled Black.

This year, Black and her team tried to reach out to Lovano to bring him back for the 20th anniversary, along with Dee Daniels, one of the theatre’s first leading jazz artists. Daniels will be performing with her own trio, as well as with Nite Cap, the vocal jazz chorus of CapU. 20 years is a long time, but with CapU’s bustling performing arts programs, it wouldn’t be a surprise to see the BlueShore Theatre host some of the best artists for another 20 years.

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WHATEVER THE COST Stunt performers run the risk all the time, but what happens when the risk becomes reality?

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It takes a particular kind of person to want to do stunts. “They can’t usually sit down. They can’t sit in class. They might be intellectual, but they’re an applied intellectual,” said Motion Picture Arts (MOPA) alumnus Logan Quinn. The film stuntman will be running workshops for Vancouver Circus School this fall. “They want to be able to use their body and think about what they should be doing in terms of a performance,” said Quinn. He notes that many stunt performers come from similar backgrounds like martial arts, parkour, or circus and that they fall into stunt work because it’s “what their body needs to do.”

There is also an understanding among stunt performers of the inherent risks associated with the job. Quinn acknowledges that sets in Vancouver

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are “top notch in terms of safety” and they hire the best stunt coordinators and directors to minimize risk, but regardless, injuries still happen. “The more you use your body for dangerous stuff, the more the mathematical chances that there’s something that will go wrong at some point,” he said.

In the rare and catastrophic instance of Joi “SJ” Harris, a stunt performer who died on Aug. 14 on the set of Deadpool 2 in Vancouver, the greatest risk of all became a reality. Harris was performing a stunt that involved driving a motorcycle through the open doors of a building, across a concrete pad and down a ramp that had been placed overtop of stairs, finally bringing the bike to a stop on the stair landing. She had successfully performed the stunt four or five times before as part of rehearsal, but the moment the cameras rolled, Harris lost control of the motorcycle and sped up past the planned stopping point. She hit a curb, which resulted in being tossed off the motorcycle, and crashed through the plate glass of the Shaw Tower.

“It seems like something simple went very horribly wrong,” said MOPA instructor John Penhall. Though he has not worked on the set of Deadpool

2, Penhall has worked with many stunt performers and coordinators over his lifetime, as a first assistant director.

He explains the safety standards in place for stunt performers on a production like Deadpool 2. When a new movie is greenlit, everyone involved with the script reviews the stunts over the course of months filled with meetings, trying to figure out if the stunts can be safely performed. On the day of shooting, there is a mandatory safety meeting for the whole crew. Before the stunt itself is shot, the stunt coordinator rehearses it with the performers, first by miming it, then escalating from half to full speed rehearsals until everyone is comfortable.

Only then do the cameras roll.

After having successfully carried out the rehearsals, Harris’ stunt still managed to go up in smoke. What could have been done differently? “To be honest, I don’t know,” said Penhall, adding that the matter was still under investigation.

Though Harris had a background in motorcycle racing, after her incident, it became known that she had no prior experience working on film sets.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, some members of the stunt community believe that inexperience played a major

factor in her death. The Hollywood Reporter’s anonymous sources also claim she was hired despite the inexperience, because her skin tone was a better match for Zazie Beetz, the actress cast as the character Domino in the film, for which Harris was the stunt double.

Quinn believes there is a low likelihood that stunt performers on a big production would be inexperienced. “Even if they [stunt performers] haven't worked on that many sets before or done that many show stunts, if you're working on a big show like Deadpool they'll have rehearsal for it, and you'll probably also have time to work on it before you get to set with the stunt choreographer.”

For Penhall, Joi Harris' tragic death could potentially fuel conversatioon about changes in the stunt industry. “There’s some things, [safety regulations], that have become industry standard unfortunately, because of accidents that have happened. So maybe there will be something around this,” he said.

While the industry fallout remains to be seen, one thing remains certain: for those who understand the risks and still need to do it, the appeal of performing film stunts is rock solid.

everything mixing related. It's an endless learning experience.”

Although Nashlyn has toured with FRANKIE and other bands before, this will be her debut as a solo act. “The first time I ever toured was with my first gigging band Emberfield about five years ago. We played at a couple of the same spots this time, so it was fun to bring it all around full circle,” recalled Nashlyn.

She was able to carry out a successful tour with the help of fellow musicians and tour bookers, The Burn Ins, and Amelie Patterson. “I'm still learning but I booked us a small gig at Skinny Fat Jack's that

ended up being a highlight show at the end of our tour,” she recalled.

Though Nashlyn still has a few concert dates left with another band, VERSA, she noted that the tour couldn’t have been more fulfilling. “A highlight was discovering Waterton, Alta. It was a beautiful national park I had never heard of with towering mountains and a deep blue lake,” she said. “We played a couple nights there and it felt like a Canadian dream vacation. We even stopped at the haunted Prince of Wales hotel to see if we could find the ghost who smells like cigars.” During the tour, Nashlyn and one

of her bandmates found I stray cat they fully intended to adopt, only to learn that it was no stray cat after all. “She definitely had a home,” she said. “We miss you, Dina.”

For now, Nashlyn plans to continue down her musical path, while focusing on getting back to her writing roots. “I feel like I barely scratched the surface with this EP,” she said. “I'm hoping I can spend a few months in Powell River hunkering down and writing away.”

Work It Out can be streamed on services including Spotify, Apple Music and Google Play. Find Nashlyn at Nashlynmusic.com.

GO YOUR OWN WAY Nashlyn rediscovers her artistic orientation with release of solo EP Rachel D’Sa ARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR

After finding success as part of Vancouver-based dream-rock band, FRANKIE, Nashlyn is looking to expand her horizons on her own. The singer and multi-instrumentalist is embarking on her first solo tour to support the release of her debut EP Work It Out. While FRANKIE’s bio page cites instant and undeniable chemistry as among the foundational factors of the group’s success, Nashlyn states that the artistic liberty a solo record provides is a fulfilling endeavour she couldn’t pass up. Moreover, juxtaposing her experiences in a band and on her own has given Nashlyn a better perspective on the life of a musician. She argues bands are fantastic blends of creativity through constant compromise, bringing out deep artistry in the process. On the other hand, she sees that her solo career is giving her an outlet for her own personal creative ideas, relieving her of inner pressure to push her bandmates closer to her personal tastes. This push and pull environment is also what excites Nashlyn for FRANKIE’s future, as she never knows where it will lead them due to the lesser control.

While FRANKIE’s music rests closer to folk because of the lack of effectsbased sounds from pedals and triggers, Nashlyn’s solo efforts venture towards the electronic territory – combining her knack for songwriting and production talents.

“I’m very interested in production and like writing within Ableton or Logic to play with sound,” she said. “I find it freeing as a solo artist to be able to play all the instruments and blend them together however I want.

I like learning about plugins, effects and

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CAN THE NEW LOOK BLUES COMPLETE A HISTORIC PROVINCIAL THREEPEAT? Big roster shift can make or break the men’s soccer team’s title defence Carlo Javier EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

You could be forgiven for having some initial doubts about the Capilano Blues men’s soccer team. After all, the back-toback defending provincial champions enter the year with 10 new players – all of whom are rookies. Despite a huge roster overhaul, long-time head coach Paul Dailly remains as stoic and as prepared as ever. “It’s a transition every year, but the new guys we brought in – I have the utmost confidence that they’ll do a good job for us.”

For Dailly, one of the biggest factors to maintaining their level of play is the consistency of their defence. While the Blues did lose several key players across the board, they managed to retain some core defensive players. Led by the Morello brothers, Nicolas and Daniel, the Blues

EXTRA EXTRACURRICULARS Revisions and additions to CapU’s Athletic Department programs take place this fall Rachel D’Sa ARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR

Having fears of the terrifying prospects of Fresman 15 or the Sophomore 20? If so, look no further than the Sportsplex.

Each year Capilano University's Athletics Department offers a variety of amenities to students and members of the school's community. These include drop-in sports, fitness classes and access to a full gym – all at little to no cost.

Various styles of yoga classes have been offered in previous years, proving itself quite the popular activity, explained

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look primed to carry over their stifling and stalwart defence from last season – an aspect of their game that carried them to an undefeated record in 2016. “They’re still definitely very strong defensively,” said Dailly. The return of the Morellos also ensures last year’s team MVP, Nicolas, gets a shot at being one of the team’s leaders. The elder Morello is the only fifthyear player on the team, and Dailly fully expects him to both be a role model and a calming presence on the field for the rest of the players. Also returning to bolster the back line are second-year defenders Andres Romo and Stephane Obergfell, two highly skilled players who not only improve the team’s defensive depth, but also allow the Morellos to take more attacking opportunities.

One roster change Dailly specifically addressed during the recruiting process is the departure of forward Kristian YliHietanen. Despite playing just two seasons for Capilano, Yli-Hietanen leaves the Blues as one of its most prolific goal scorers. “We knew we had a void for some goal scoring,” Dailly admitted. To alleviate the loss, the Blues added rookies Kaveer Brar and Adrian Sahagun, two forwards that he expects to immediately contribute in the scoring department.

While much will be expected of the two rookies, the Blues’ offence will be led by returning forward Keith Jackson. The

fourth-year student-athlete led the Pacific Western Athletic Association (PACWEST) in scoring last season, finding the back of the net 11 times in 12 contests. For his efforts, Jackson reaped numerous awards in 2016, including the Capilano University Blues Male Athlete of the Year, the Top Forward award from PACWEST and a selection to the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association’s (CCAA) Academic All-Canadian honours. “Pre-season was a bit different for me this year as I was entering training camp as one of the more veteran players on the team,” Jackson said.

“Training camp had its ups and downs, we had to train through smoky days as we worked to get our conditioning back up to form.” The smoke and haze seems to have had no ill effects on rejuvenating the teams conditioning however, as Jackson showed up with a hat trick in the 4-1 season opener victory against the Langara Falcons.

Now one of the more experienced players on the team, Jackson fully understands the expectations for veterans like him, Nicolas Morello and fourth-year goalkeeper Hudson Nelles. “The example our veterans set for our rookies is based around the word trust,” he said. “Each home game we tap a banner reading trust as we exit our locker room heading to the field… You’ll also see the word printed across all our warm up gear. Our team’s ability to trust our coaches, trust our system, trust our

teammates and trust ourselves has played an important role in our team’s recent success.”

As with every season, starting off on the right foot is a primary goal that the Blues set for themselves. After making quick work of the Falcons, the Blues faltered in a 1-2 loss against the Douglas College Royals on Saturday, Sept. 16. They then followed the game with a resounding 2-0 win over the Vancouver Island University Mariners on Sunday, Sept. 17.

It’s completely understandable for Dailly and the team to take this season one game at a time, but it’s also hard to ignore that the Blues are entering a potentially historic season. Winning the title would firmly entrenched this program’s generation in Capilano’s already legendary soccer lore.

Jackson himself is venturing into record book status. After the Falcons game, the high-scoring forward leaped past Milad Rahmati for the second spot in the Blues’ all-time goal scoring leaders. Now sitting at 24 goals, Jackson is inching ever closer to the top of the book. “That’s news to me,” he said about his achievement. “It would be a great honour to accomplish that, but right now the only thing on my mind is a National Championship.” The window is open, and this could be the season that the Blues finally reclaim the CCAA trophy.

Athletics and Recreation Officer CJ Pentland. “We have fully-trained teachers leading classes that are a fraction of the cost of a class at a yoga studio, and they’re a great way to relax and recharge during the day,” he said.

Adding to the variety this fall semester, the department is offering a new style of yoga that aids in removing emotional and mental blocks while awakening practitioner senses. The new Forrest Yoga course is scheduled from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. every Tuesday - right when minds and bodies typically start to tire out due to the day’s stresses.

Athletics is also offering an energypacked cardio and strength training class through High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). These exciting classes are scheduled to take place on Wednesdays from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.. You may recognize the instructor's name, as the classes are led by Andrea Eby, a marketing professor in the School of Business.

Both classes take place in the Sortsplex's

exercise room.

The strong turnout for drop-in sports has also continued. “The gymnasium has been well-attended each afternoon so far this week,” said Pentland. He noted that basketball seems to have a slight edge in popularity with the students.

Since the large renovation last summer, the Sportsplex weight room has also seen its share of active students through the afternoons and evenings.

Additionally, the department plans on organizing a one-day Ultimate Frisbee or Flag Football tournament on campus.

Pentland encourages students to give feedback and leave suggestions for the department so they can provide them with tournaments and events that fit their interests. “We’ve been gauging student interest throughout the start of the year and have received positive feedback, so this is something we’re hoping to grow,” he said.

The best part of all of this? Students don’t need to worry about bringing any

equipment besides a pair of gym shoes and their student ID. For racquet sports, the facility attendant sets up badminton nets and ping pong tables, while IDs get students the access to rent out whatever equipment is needed for any of the offered drop-in sports.

Students of all athletic backgrounds are encouraged to attend drop-ins and intramurals as it’s a chance to maintain and improve their abilities while making new connections in the community.

Sports help increase teamwork skills and mental health and wellness, while reducing stress levels. Pentland stated the department wants to get all students involved on campus by taking advantage of all free or low-cost amenities. “As a department, we really want to promote health and wellness across campus.”

Whether it’s before, in-between or after classes, it’s important to take the time to work on personal health, and with the Athletic Department, it couldn’t be easier or more affordable.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM READY TO TAKE THE NEXT STEP Blues aim to build on last season’s promise Carlo Javier EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Last year’s provincial bronze finish ended a near decade-long medal drought for the Capilano Blues women’s soccer team. This season, they’re looking to strike gold.

The team has already started the year on a high note, going undefeated in the preseason for the first time in Dennis Kindel’s three years as head coach. The flawless preseason record included a 3-0 victory over the Thompson Rivers University WolfPack of USports. The positive start builds off last year’s finish – a conclusion that hinted towards a promising future for the long struggling program.

Last season, the Blues weathered inconsistent play and heartbreaking crunch-time defeats on their way to their first podium finish in nine years. For Kindel, things are most certainly looking up. “My biggest thing this year is [to] definitely make the finals,” he said. “I believe we should win the league if we put our minds to it.”

Though winning the Pacific Western Athletic Association (PACWEST) championship just a year after reclaiming relevancy seems like a lofty goal, the Blues are entering the 2017-2018 season with as dangerous a team as any. For starters, the Blues get to reap the benefits of continuity.

Of the 22 players listed on the roster, 12 are returning student-athletes from last season. Of those 12, five have at least three years of PACWEST experience under

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The returning veterans are led by midfielder Dominika Paige, whom Kindel selected as captain prior to the kick-off of the regular season. “She’s a very outgoing, very positive person, which is something I definitely look for in a captain,” said Kindel.

“She plays centre-mid and is a very good holding midfielder who likes to get forward and keeps everyone from panicking.”

Paige’s poise on the field is an attribute that she herself acknowledges as her best.

“I know when to keep it calm and composed, I can visualize the field very well and I know when to switch the field and where to be without rushing and getting distracted in the heat of the game,” she said.

Other key midfielders include Mehar Waraich, Natalie Leclerc and Marsha Chessire. Minding the net this year will be the returning duo of Brittney Roussy and Nikki Gerbrandt. Both second-year goalkeepers excelled in their roles last year, with Roussy memorably coming through in the penalty against the Langara Falcons to claim the provincial bronze medal.

Also returning will be defensive stalwart Jessica Price and forward Jaimi MacCara.

While the Blues retained much of their core, they did lose some key members of their roster, including their last two team MVPs: Taylor Einhorn and Juliana Manella. Einhorn led the team in goals scored last year and was honoured by the PacWest as both an all star and a top forward. Although the departure of the two seems to create a void in scoring, Kindel has the utmost confidence in some of the players he’s brought in this past off-season.

“We were definitely looking for some speed up front, which we got,” he said.

The coaching staff also looked for rookies who would be ready to contribute immediately, and some of the new players on the Blues have already shown the impact they can make. Forward Catrina Olstrom

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was described by Kindel as, “probably the fastest player in the league.” Midfielder and forward Adrianna Babinski has also impressed early on, slipping in a clutch corner kick in the 48th minute of the season opener against the Falcons on Sept. 10. Babinski’s late goal put the Blues on the board and ultimately staved off a loss, as the Blues and the Falcons played to a 1-1 tie.

One rookie to keep an eye on for the season is multi-skilled defender Claire Ye. The first-year student-athlete led the Blues in goals during the preseason and exhibited the ability to play multiple

positions effectively. “She’s definitely one of our best players as a first year,” said Kindel.

With a promising 1-2-0 start to the season the Blues look poised to continue on their exciting finish from last year.

For Paige, the luxury of having terrific coaches could really be the key to their success, “We have a very good coaching staff and from there it comes together and forms a great team,” she said.

Kindel, meanwhile, has the utmost confident on their play on the field. “Win the league, I really think we can, for sure.”

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