Rogue and other Vancouver drag performers weigh in on a new age of drag. P4-5
B.C. government is promising all public buildings to provide free menstrual products. P3
Artist Zhong Ren has his first Canadian art exhibit at Sun Zen Art Gallery. P7
Many students who commute to Langara by bus say they would have no alternative but to skip classes if strike action escalates to a full bus shutdown on Wednesday.
In an informal poll conducted by The Voice, a quarter of commuting students say they will be stranded at home if strike action escalates.
Another 21 per cent of students say they aren’t sure how they would get to class and don’t have a plan in place if the buses shut down.
In a statement posted on Langara’s website, the college said, “we recognize this escalation in job action will cause disruption.”
Classes will continue as normally scheduled and students are encouraged to contact their instructors if they are concerned about missing classes or arriving late.
Jimenez, a psychology student at Langara, said she will likely be commuting by cab to school. Jimenez said she takes the bus to drop her son off at daycare, before getting back on the bus to Langara.
“I’ll be relying on taxis, but even that’s probably going to be chaos,” Jimenez said. “It will be at least $30 or more, one way; probably more because I have to drop him off and come back here.”
Please see STUCK BY BUS STRIKE, page 2
Aformer Langara College student who was found dead Friday had failed to show up for her shift at work the day before, according to a co-worker.
The body of Prabhleen Matharu, 21, was found in a Surrey home Friday at the 14000-block of 102A Avenue. Another body, an 18-yearold male, was found on the scene.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said in a statement that Matharu is a homicide victim, but did not say if the male was also a victim of homicide. “We are not looking for further suspects,” IHIT
said in the statement.
“Although our investigation is in its early stages, at this time it appears as though one of the deceased was the victim of a homicide. We are working hard to gather evidence to identify the events surrounding this tragedy,” said Constable Harrison Mohr in the statement from IHIT.
After which, the statement said, "initial indications are that this was an isolated incident with no risk to the public."
Matharu came to Canada in 2016 and was studying business management at Langara College according to her co-worker.
Matharu was working full time at
DSV Solutions Inc., a global transportation logistics company. The co-worker has asked not to be identified because the company didn’t authorize her to speak.
“She was always smiling, she wouldn’t hesitate to help others at work, she was a very down-to-earth person,” said the co-worker.
According to the co-worker, Matharu had a work permit and
was no longer studying at Langara.
Mark Dawson, Langara College’s manager of public affairs, said there was a student by the name of Prabhleen Kaur Matharu studying at the college.
“Out of respect for student confidentiality and the privacy of the family, we cannot share any further information,” Dawson said, “our deepest sympathies are with her family or friends.”
Langara students have few options to get to campus during
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“We will have to skip. It's really expensive taking a cab here. So we're not going to do that.”
— SONALU DHINGRA, LANGARA STUDENT
“She was always smiling, she wouldn't hesitate to help others at work, she was a very down-to-earth person.”
— MATHARU'S CO-WORKER
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Sonali Dhingra and Shradha Oberoi, both second-year marketing management students at Langara, were commuting together, and said they will also skip class.
“We won’t be coming,” Dhingra said. “We will have to skip. It’s really expensive taking a cab here, so we’re not going to do that.”
Dhingra said she will still have to go to work and will have no choice but to take a cab, which will cost her $24 each day.
Unifor, the union representing the striking workers, said if an agreement isn’t reached, a complete bus and SeaBus shutdown will occur from Wednesday, Nov. 27 to Friday, Nov. 29.
TransLink CEO, Kevin Desmond, spoke to media at Waterfront Station on Monday morning
The first emergency responder on the scene of a traffic accident that killed a teenaged girl testified Monday that all he could see at the scene was a hand in front of a face and a body pinned underneath a car.
Fernanda Girotto, 14, an exchange student from Brazil, was killed after being struck by two different cars crossing the street at the 7200-block of Cariboo Road in Burnaby on Jan. 17, 2018.
“The predicament was dire,” said paramedic Wayne Mitchell, his voice breaking on the witness stand. “All I could see was a face and a hand. It’s embossed in my memory.”
On Monday in the Provincial
Court of British Columbia, the trial began for Paul Oliver Wong and Kai Man Cheu, the two drivers charged for driving without due care and attention.
Girotto was allegedly struck down by a first car before being hit and dragged by the second car.
Mitchell was the first witness in the four-day trial being heard before Judge David St. Pierre. He testified Monday that he checked the victim’s neck for a pulse and then asked the driver of the car to slowly reverse the car while he and his partner held the body down to try to unpin it from
underneath the car.
The indictment against Wong said he failed to yield the right of way to a pedestrian crossing on Cariboo Road.
The indictment against Cheu said he was driving on the left side of the roadway and overtaking and passing another vehicle when it was unsafe to do so.
Crown prosecutor Geordie Proulx said in court that the Crown’s case against Wong is that he “failed to keep watch of pedestrians” and the case against Cheu was he “bypassed Mr. Wong’s car when it was unsafe.”
After Wong allegedly hit the pedestrian, Proulx said that Cheu’s car struck Girotto, dragging her 40 metres.
“He should have stopped,” Proulx said, adding that the driver should have known he had hit a large object.
Both Wong and Cheu pleaded not guilty.
In a Facebook post, after her daughter died, Rosana Girotto wrote that her daughter “left Brazil full of life, joy and dreams.”
She wrote that she hoped that her death would make authorities make changes in traffic signage.
According to Mitchell it was a dark day with heavy rain when the accident happened. A pedestriancontrolled light was installed at the crosswalk within two months of the fatality, Mitchell said.
about the planned transit strike. Desmond said both parties needed to return to the bargaining table, “without any preconditions.”
TransLink CEO Kevin Desmond spoke to media at Waterfront Station on Monday morning about the planned transit strike. Desmond said both parties needed to return to the bargaining table “without any preconditions.”
“The union’s planned strike, set to start Wednesday, will have a devastating impact on the people of Metro Vancouver,” Desmond said. “It will be especially felt by the 165 thousand people who use the bus every day.”
In a press conference held at Monday, Gavin McGarrigle, the western regional director of Unifor, said the union will continue to negotiate.
“We’re going back to the bargaining table tomorrow afternoon,” McGarrigle said. “We will reach a fair deal, or else we will take strike action on Wednesday.”
FACTS ON PAST TRANSIT WOES
This strike is the first time in more than 18 years where local unions have issued a strike notice.
Last time this happened was in 2001, and the strike lasted for four months.
On Oct. 10 of this year, the two Unifor local unions voted 99 per cent in favour of strike action.
Unifor represents more than 5,000 workers at Coast Mountain Bus Company.
SOURCE: UNIFOR.ORG
Defendants on trial after girl was struck by two cars, dies on road
“All I could see was a face and a hand. It's embossed in my memory.”
— WAYNE MITCHELL, B.C. PARAMEDICAn image of the crosswalk where a vehicle collision claimed pedestrian Fernanda Girotto's life early last year, taken in Oct. 2018, after pedestrian-controlled lights installed and the flower memorial on the side of the road. GOOGLE MAPS SOURCED PHOTO
have few
“[The strike] will have a devastating impact on the people of Metro Vancouver.”
— KEVIN DESMOND, TRANSLINK CEO
Some Vancouver stores are gearing up for Black Friday, but some local consumers don't believe those deals are all that.
According to a Retail Council of Canada survey taken earlier this month, almost 43 per cent of Canadians said they would likely be taking advantage of the Black Friday sales this year - something the big stores will be looking to cash in on.
“Black Friday offers amazing deals and Canadians love deals,”
Anne DeWolfe, a marketing instructor at Langara College said.
DeWolfe said Canadian companies saw this huge sales phenomenon south of the border and decided to jump on board.
Anjee Gill is the communications specialist for Best Buy Canada and said that there are more deals to be had this year than ever before, “We will have hundreds of items on sale.”
Best Buy first introduced Black Friday to its Canadian stores back in 2012 when they only had 30 items on sale, Gill said.
The RCC survey also showed that Black Friday in Canada has now surpassed the traditional Boxing Day sales as Canada’s number one sales event.
However, not all Vancouver customers are buying into the hype.
Anthony Kegaly, a marketing consultant for Salesmatter in Vancouver said he was surprised by the growth of Black Fridays popularity being that it was an exclusively a U.S. Thanksgiving pre-holiday sale, “[I] won’t be running out to purchase an item just because it’s Black Friday,” Kegaly said.
Vancouver resident David Gao lives next door to the Best Buy on Granville Street, and said that while he always buys in store, he wasn’t planning on buying anything this coming Black Friday.
“I don’t see too much difference between Black Friday and the normal sales,” Gao said.
Gursewak Singh, a computer studies student at Langara College, said he also will not be buying anything, due to more applicable special sales.
The province is supporting a campaign that requires all public buildings, such as Langara College, to provide free menstrual products after passing a resolution this weekend at the NDP convention.
This new requirement is in addition to a grant of $95,000 given to United Way of the Lower Mainland to help low-income individuals access menstrual products.
Kiwassa Neighbourhood House is one of the 12 organizations in the Lower Mainland that was given money from this grant.
The Kiwassa organization said that before they were given the grant, they already had a free tam-
pon dispenser set up, but the difference between a dispenser that dispenses one tampon at a time and the option to get a month’s supply at a time makes a huge difference for people experiencing poverty.
“It[the grant] is a huge help and they [menstrual products] are expensive products,” Andrea Thompson, Kiwassa’s director of operations, said. “It can really help with promoting dignity. We have some folks who are living on or near the street who are accessing programs here, and these things
are expensive.”
“The cost and availability of menstrual products is a real concern for people experiencing poverty,” Parliamentary secretary Mable Elmore said.
“Tackling period poverty is one way we are trying to make a difference in ensuring no one is left behind.”
The Voice has reached out to Dwayne Doornbosch, the director of facilities at Langara who said he could not respond at this time, as he is still reviewing this update
with his team.
The Office for Student Engagement, also known as The Hub, offered products including tampons and pads that students can have for free as part of a customizable “wellness kit” during exam time.
The Hub’s department assistant Jennifer Riley said that menstrual products should be accessible to “all vagina bearing people.”
Currently, Langara has menstrual vending machines that cost 25 cents per tampon. Although the women’s bathrooms have these machines, they aren’t always convenient.
“There’s so many times where I’ll be going to the bathroom and it’ll just come and I won’t have any [money] on me,” Tiffany McKechnie, a Langara student, said. “It’s just an extra level of panic.”
Feb. 2018 NDP passes resolution to make feminine hygiene products in Canada free.
Oct. 2018
Women's Advisory Committee at the City of Vancouver passes motion recommending to council to work on getting free tampons in schools, government service centres and shelters.
Feb. 2019 New Westminster school board votes to supply free tampons in schools.
Mar. 2019 B.C. government reveals that schools are required to supply free tampons and pads by the end the year.
SOURCE: LANGARAVOICE.CA
“Tackling period poverty is one way we are trying to make a difference in ensuring no one is left behind.”
— MABLE ELMORE, PARLIMENTARY SECRETARY
LANDMARK MOMENTS OF THE MOVEMENT
“I'm more likely to buy something on Cyber Monday.”
— GURSEWAK SINGH, LANGARA STUDENTA woman uses the menstrual vending machine in the women's bathroom at Langara College. Each tampon costs 25 cents each, but the purchase requirement comes to the detriment of women in tight situations. MISSY JOHNSON PHOTO
Though the popular show RuPaul’s Drag Race revealed much about the underground world of drag, true drag culture remains misunderstood by many and “raw drag” culture will never be in mainstream culture, according to one local performer.
With a high concentration of performers in the city, drag is a huge part of the Vancouver nightlife. Yet even with the popularity of the show, a resistance to male femininity remains sticking points for some people, said one performer who calls themself Rogue when in drag.
They said when people have problems with drag, they usually also have problems with femininity.
“People have an issue with men putting on makeup and expressing femininity,” said Rogue, who was recently named by Vancouver Mag-
azine as one of the top 10 most influential drag performers in the city.
Another performer, who uses the stage name Boss, said RuPaul’s show is not inclusive of all drag. Boss is a hyper-queen — which refers to a woman dressing and performing in the style of drag queens.
“There aren’t a lot of female contestants on the show. I think that’s something RuPaul has to work towards,” said Boss, who added that the entire queer community is not fully represented in drag in general.
“I like to perform from the perspective of a lesbian because I don’t think our stories are being told enough,” Boss said.
Rogue said despite public interest in mainstream drag, the raw drag at your local bar is misunderstood.
“The drag you see in the mainstream is very clean, pristine and perfect,” Rogue said. “But raw drag culture is like getting ready
in the bathroom 30 minutes before the show starts and your beard is coming through.”
Local drag performer, Alma Bitches, who started performing drag nine years ago, said the crowds at her shows are getting bigger and more diverse.
She thinks drag culture has changed in Vancouver in the last few years because people are more accepting and more willing to express themselves.
“There is more progress, people have more awareness and represent different demographics,” Bitches said. “There is a lot more gender expression through drag and it’s a lot more artistic.”
Yet the crowds are not always there with realistic expectations, Rogue said.
“The problem comes from the crowds,” said Rogue, who began their journey of drag while study-
ing at Langara about four years ago. They were a design formation student but they stayed true to their interests in makeup.
They were also inspired by RuPaul’s Drag Race.
“[The crowds] are used to the glamourous side of RuPaul’s Drag Race, but raw drag is local performers hustling to make a name for themselves.”
Another Vancouver drag performer, Lamé, said that people may feel uncomfortable with drag due to a lack of understanding.
“Even if you don’t know about it, you can come to the show and try to learn about drag. There might be something that you might enjoy,” said Lamé.
Drag is performed throughout many clubs and bars in Vancouver, with some venues even offering a drag brunch where guests can enjoy brunch and a drag show.
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Becoming a drag performer isn't as easy as it looks and comes with its own challenges, according to one drag performer in Vancouver.
Rogue, a non-binary drag performer in Vancouver wasn’t just inspired by RuPaul’s Drag Race but saw themself in the contestants and started doing drag while in school. Being non-binary, Rogue is not confined in their performances to stick to a gender.
“I fell in love with this drag queen named Pearl, I really like the personality Pearl portrays because it was very similar to mine,” Rogue said.
Pearl is a Drag Race contestant and was a runner-up in season seven.
Inspiration for their drag also comes from nostalgic characters from their childhood, such as the genie from Disney’s Aladdin, and exploration with colour.
“I do a lot of mainstream pop like the Shawn Mendes songs. It’s perfect because it’s a market that everyone knows about. I love doing memorable characters that people grew up with,” Rogue said.
When realizing drag was their chosen career Rogue said the hustle became a lot more work.
“I was doing a little bit of drag when I was still in school. But I knew I wanted to do drag for a living. I had to hustle way harder and get better at doing makeup,” Rogue said.
According to Rogue, part of that “hustle” was all about joining a makeup contest last December where they not only improved their skills but created a name for themselves in the community.
Makeup however wasn’t the only challenge that Rogue faced becoming a drag performer.
“The biggest thing for me wasn’t to learn how to move well during a performance. It was how to perform in heels,” Rogue said.
“I would force myself to walk in heels from the beginning to the end of the night.”
Rogue has walked in both Vancouver and New York Fashion weeks.
They continues to improve their drag.
"The biggest thing for me wasn't to learn how to move well during a performance. It was how to perform in heels."
— ROGUE, DRAG PERFORMERBELOW: You can never have enough makeup when doing drag. Makeup is a huge part of drag culture and provides a great way to express ones art by serving face. A sample of the looks Rogue serves at their shows.
The debate to make menstrual products more available in all public washrooms has been ongoing in Canada for the last couple of years and it’s pretty obvious that, just like toilet paper, they should be free.
No woman or girl should have a fear of missing out because they don’t have the products their bodies need.
In March, Rob Fleming, the minister of education, announced that one in seven girls in Canada miss out on learning time due to a lack of menstrual products.
In March, the province announced that all public schools in the province would be required to provide tampons and pads for free to students.
Menstruation is a basic and normal bodily function that you can’t control and not being able to have access to these items means missing not only education but social activities as well.
Some colleges offer free tampons at the security office or health clinic, but you wouldn’t expect someone to run all over campus asking for toilet paper.
I can’t imagine living in a world where men would have to pay for toilet paper or ask their friends for it if they don’t have any.
The Metro Vancouver region relies on its bus system so much and if there are no buses, there will be total chaos.
If no deal is reached between Unifor and Coast Mountain Bus Company before Wednesday, buses will not be running on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Many Langara students take the bus to school like myself. If the buses aren’t running how are we going to get to and from school?
This is an important part of the semester as major assignments are due and exams are coming up. With the buses not running, many students might as well stay home.
Aiding in providing access to these items means we are helping to provide dignity and reduce the stress and anxiety that is associated with not knowing where to get your next tampon or pad.
In a study done by Plan International earlier this year, women and men overwhelmingly encourage making menstrual products free in public spaces.
The bottom line is men and boys have everything they need in public washrooms and women and girls deserve the same, especially if it means by not having these items they are socially and economically put at a disadvantage.
These products should be available in men and women’s washrooms to ensure no one is left out.
OPINION
JOSHUA REY
Not everyone can drive. Taxis are expensive and unreliable and we will probably have high speed rail to Seattle before Uber and Lyft come to Vancouver. If there were no buses on the roads even for a day, it would be total chaos. Could you imagine the traffic? It will be a gridlock. Good luck trying to get to your 9 a.m. office meeting when you are stuck in
traffic bumper to bumper on the Granville Street Bridge. There are better ways to strike. For instance, the drivers haven’t been wearing their uniforms but are still operating the buses. I’ve seen drivers wear T-shirts and jackets instead of the uniforms. I have no problem with the drivers not wearing uniforms as long as I can get to school on time.
Here is another way to strike
without ruining commutes. In Japan, when the bus drivers went on strike, they refused to take fare from people. That meant free bus rides for everybody. It would be much better if the drivers in Vancouver did that instead of a complete shutdown. Shutting down the system will just cause pandemonium all over the city and there are much better ways to strike. I just hope they resolve this soon.
Black Friday is coming and retail employees don’t need the added stress.
Many students work retail and are currently juggling studying for exams, the end of the term, personal lives and their jobs. With the looming possibility of a transit strike, employers are reminding their employees that they “are responsible for [their] shifts” post-
secondary institutions aren’t planning on cancelling classes, students who work in retail are feeling the pressure.
Now with the general end of semester stress, the added question of “how am I going to get to class and work” is stressing me out, and my coworkers.
A Retail Council of Canada survey published earlier this month stated that nearly 43% of Canadians will be going to a black Friday shopping trip.
Unless Black Friday is a good opportunity to get Christmas shopping out of the way with an incredible savings there isn’t a point.
November and December are
busy months for retailers. There will always be sales before Christmas.
The only difference between Black Friday and other sales is the hype.
But Black Friday is an American tradition, happening after American Thanksgiving, which is over a month after Canadian Thanksgiving.
Apart from the fact that it is noted to be a day of sales, Black Friday holds no context in Canada.
Much like Boxing Day, Black Friday has morphed from one day of deals to an entire weekend, oozing into Cyber Monday, giving consumers endless possibilities to submit to the retail overlords.
So that after the Black Friday frenzy has worn off they can work extra shifts to pay off their credit card bills. Christmas is coming, Boxing Day is coming, you don’t need more stuff, but you do need to save money to buy other people more stuff.
“We will probably have high speed rail to Seattle before Uber and Lyft come to Vancouver.”
LAUREN GARGIULO
"Apart from the fact that it is noted to be a day of sales, Black Friday holds no context in Canada."Students rely on buses to get to and from school. They will be greatly affected by the bus strike. CHRISTINA DOMMER ILLUSTRATION
“No woman or girl should have a fear of missing out because they don't have the products their bodies need.”
There is Truth Here: Creativity and Resilience in Children’s Art from Indian Residential and Day Schools is on view at the Museum of Vancouver and “has quite a history of survival itself,” said Dr. Andrea Walsh, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Victoria
Dr. Walsh has worked with the museum and the Osoyoos Indian Band for almost 20 years on just the Inkameep Day School portion of the exhibit. The rest of the exhibit was done in collaboration with survivors and their families from the Alberni Indian Residential School, and the MacKay Indiant Residential School in Manitoba. The sec-
tion of St. Michaels art was on loan from the U’Mista Cultural Centre in Alert Bay.
Since September, the museum has seen upwards of 25,000 visitors, including 2,000 students. Dr. Walsh estimates that the numbers have risen since then.
For There is Truth
Here, MOV’s Curator of Indigenous Collections and Engagement, Sharon M. Fortney, PhD., “incorporated pieces from the MOV collection” and “added a section about schools that local First Nations attended.”
One piece from the Alberni Indian Residential School, “Pulling out Hair”, hangs with a bundle of traditional white sage above the frame. This dried plant is considered sacred in many cultures and is thought to have protective properties in ceremony. Curators took the advice of Tsleil-Waututh community members when dealing with the children’s art. “One of
Famous Chinese painter Zhong Ren has 38 pieces on display at the Sunzen Art Gallery.
The pieces can be viewed from Nov. 22 to Feb. 21 in downtown Vancouver. Ren is known for his gonbi paintings. Gonbi is a Chinese painting technique where the artist uses ink, colour, and meticulous brush strokes to create detailed works of art.
“I have admired Ren for almost
20 years,” Dashan Pan, the curator at Sunzen Art Gallery, said. Sunzen Art Gallery was originally established 17 years ago in Qingdao, China. The Vancouver location showcased Ren’s work in its grand opening.
Lu Wang, the director of operations at Sunzen, has worked at the location in Shandong China for years. She helps to communicate with Ren and his studio team.
Wang said that Ren became famous in his early 20s, and “always seeks to challenge himself and break through the challenge, again and again.”
The co-curator, Viahsta Yuan, said that they represent Ren’s paintings as four seasons.
“My job is to basically create an exhibition that could easily communicate to the audience why his work is important,” Yuan said. Yuan said the idea is that when people walk in the gallery, they will feel that they are emerging into another realm with nature, which is totally different from a modern city.
Part of Ren’s fall section was done on silk, using a technique known as taoran. Taoran means “leaving the blank space,” on empty areas as well as the highlighted area on the branches of the bamboo.
“If you see this snow on the leaves, the bamboo as the highlighted part, it all reveals the true color of the silk, instead of using any dye to paint in afterwards,” Yuan said.
whom brushed down the gallery with cedar before we installed the artworks”, Fortney said. This would have prepared the museum space to hold the art, which may harbour negative energy from these notorious schools.
One attendee, Julia Harrison, knew of the primary Inkameep Day School in Okanagan, but didn’t know of the other collections from Alert Bay, Vancouver Island and Manitoba. “It was really exciting to see those and to learn how this has been such a community effort in terms of integrating the community voice back into the exhibit," Harrison said. There is Truth Here is on exhibit until Jan.5, 2020.
RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS IN THE LOWER MAINLAND
» St. Paul's North Vancouver, 1899 - 1958
Roman Catholic
» St. Mary's Mission, 1863 - 1985
Roman Catholic
» St. George's Lytton, 1901 - 1979
Anglican
» Coqualeetza Chilliwack, 1861 - 1940
Presbyterian
SOURCE: HTTPS://BCTF.CA/HIDDENHISTORY/EBOOK.PDF
“It was really exciting to see those and to learn how this has been such a community effort.”
— JULIA HARRISON, EXHIBIT ATTENDEE
“[Ren] always seeks to break through the challenge, again and again.”
— LU WANG, DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS SUNZEN
The Vancouver Canucks have two games left in their current six-game road trip. December is right around the corner, and the Canucks can shake things up with a few home games to make their November schedule and results easily erasable.
The Langara Falcons won a high-scoring performance beating Columbia Bible College by 32 points at home on Nov. 23.
Last Saturday was the final basketball game of the term for the Falcons before their inter semester break. The Falcons won the game 115-83.
“It was a big win for us, we were tied with that team. We had a tough loss last week, so it’s very good for our confidence. Our boys played very well today,” said head coach Paul Eberhardt in a postgame interview with The Voice Eberhardt said that the team has 11 new players on the roster, which is very rare for a team.
“With 11 returning guys, I think
the guys are starting to know each other a bit better now. So I’m pleased that our chemistry has gotten quite good,” Eberhardt said.
Eberhardt said that he’d like to improve on his team’s defense after
Falcons guard, Luka Lizdek, largely contributed to his team victory with 29 points. He said he got a taste of exam stress while studying at the University of Ottawa for two years prior coming to Langara.
“I come here and try to organize my school work first. We have the whole December off and we’re going to try and win the league for sure,” Lizdek said.
Assistant coach Joey Dhillon said that the staff doesn’t put any pressure on players to prepare for the competition, because they know that players have exams coming up.
said he’s recently been able to balance athletics and education.
“I’ve always tried to balance it with my classes and make sure I’m on top of them.”
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the inter semester break.
“We have moments where we give up too many easy baskets, we don’t defend as well. That’s something that’s going to be a point for emphasis to get ready for January,” said Eberhardt.
“We just try and keep everything simple for them, especially with exams coming up. There’s a reward after this game, just go hard, enjoy this game and after that it’s all about school,” Dhillon said.
Falcons forward, Ronan Reid,
Luka Lizdek: 29 PTS
Tyler Anderson: 25 PTS
Moeiz Athaya: 22 PTS
SOURCE: PACWESTBC.CA
Having fun and making friends she can depend on while exercising are just some of the reasons why the world’s oldest active curler makes the game more than just a hobby.
Lola Holmes of Vancouver is still curling at the age of 101.
“I do it to stay active and make friends. For those feeling lazy during winters, it’s a great game to socialize,” Holmes said
Richard Brower, membership services coordinator at the Vancouver Curling Club said that the sport is especially popular during the winter.
“January is nearly fully booked,” Brower said.
“Not many sports are as great,” said curler Gail Lepore talking
about the limited sports options during winter.
Mental performance consultant,
Dani Wilson, said the holiday season has increased social and financial demands. Doing athletic activities in the winter can bring health repercussions.
“A lot of things can happen like
tighter muscles, stiffer limbs, shortness of breath,” Wilson said.
Wilson also said people with asthma have increased risks during the winter, such as dehydration.
Curling is a great choice for people to stay active during the winter.
“For those looking to battle the winter blues, I would advise to keep
a daily log, and have a routine, while setting daily goals,” Wilson said Holmes does just that.
She makes a schedule of what she plans to do the next day, every night before she goes to bed.
Her advice for new players is to just go out and do it.
“Keep playing, don’t give up.”
Chris Faber, contributor for CanucksArmy and host of Canucks Conversation podcast, says that the things that seem to stand out to him compared to last season, would be the depth of the team, especially the change in defense.
“Just the availability to have new guys come in like Tyler Myers, Quinn Hughes and Jordie Benn being able to play consistently. You look at what options they had last year, Michael Del Zotto, Erik Gudbranson and Derrick Pouliot, the defence has changed so much,” Faber said.
Rob Williams, sports editor for Daily Hive, said that a lot of people have been making the parallels of November this season and how they’ve fallen off in recent years in the month.
“It’s been different this year, they haven’t won very much, so there’s that similarity. If you look at how this team has been playing, they haven’t been that poor,” Williams said.
Matthew Zator, contributor for The Canuck Way and The Hockey Writers, said that December can be a month the Canucks look forward to with their upcoming homestands.
“December has a lot of home games. If they can get rolling at home, it can erase this November pretty quickly,” Zator said.
Williams said that the two new key additions, J.T. Miller, and Tyler Myers, have both played better than expected. Miller was acquired via a first-round pick trade with the Tampa Bay Lightning and has gelled himself with Elias Pettersson and Brock Boeser on the first line. Myers, who was signed as a free agent on a five-year contract worth an average annual value of $6 million, has stapled himself as a first pairing defenseman alongside Alex Edler.
“There was a lot of pessimism when both players were acquired. Most people recognized that they were good players but the cost in which to get both players was high,” Williams said.
Williams also said that the Canucks this season are a lot more fun to watch compared to last year.
“They’re a young team, they’re a team that fans are excited at what they might become in the future,” Williams said.
Faber said that if the Canucks make the playoffs this season, it will give a huge boost to the squad, already having a young core.
“If they’re given the opportunity to go to the playoffs and see what’s it’s like, and just keep adding more young players into the roster, that’s kind of how you turn into a dynasty.”
“We have the whole December off and we're going to try and win the league.”
—LUKA LIZDEK, FALCONS GUARD
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