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CAMPING OUTSIDE TO DROP FEES .................................................................................

BY ZACH MORGENSTERN After witnessing the start of the Ryerson Students’ Union (RSU)’s “Freeze the Fees” occupation On Monday the 17th of November, I returned on the protest’s fourth night.

Tents were set up, signs posted, and leaflets calling for reduced—if not free tuition— were distributed.

The cold kept the tent city from being a popular destination, but students stopped by to talk to the activists. A fourth year Ryerson business student, after a prolonged conversation about the history of tuition fees in Canada, encouraged the protesters to keep up the good fight.

That’s not to say that the occupiers lacked detractors. Shortly after the occupation began a photo surfaced of the occupiers in a meeting, inside a building right next to the tents. The image was used to argue that the occupation was fake. Leaders were able, albeit somewhat frustratedly, to dismiss the allegation; on the occupation’s first night, they were awoken in their tent to do a TV interview at 4:50 in the morning. That interview, they argued, should put to rest any notions of the occupation not being real. n

FOSSIL FUELS

FOSSIL FUEL DIVESTMENT .................................................................................

BY EMILY POSTERARO It was a chilly, windy afternoon in mid-November when a sizeable crowd of students carrying signs, banners and megaphones gathered at the corner of St. George and College. The organization: Fossil Free U of T. Their mission: to persuade the Governing Council to vote in favour of fossil fuel divestment at the university. There are divestment campaigns occurring in over 600 campuses around the world.

According to Sam Harrison, one of the Fossil Free Organizers, U of T invests tens of millions of dollars yearly in fossil fuels. While U of T was already officially considering divestment, a public demonstration of over 150 students marching through campus makes an impactful statement, which will perhaps help sway the Council when it comes time to vote.

Upon speaking to some of the participants, I found that many of them were not necessarily members of the Fossil Free U of T organization, but representatives from other student groups who also support divestment. Sydney Lang from the University of Toronto Students Union informed me that the UTSU voted to support Toronto 350. I spoke to a member of that organization, asking him if he knew of any groups at U of T that are officially against fossil fuel divestment. “I haven’t heard of it,” he said, “Maybe you could ask Rotman.” The anti-capitalism feel was pervasive throughout the crowd. I even spotted someone with a button pinned to their backpack that read, “CAPITALISM IS ORGANIZED CRIME.” The march stopped in front of Simcoe Hall in King’s College Circle, where a member of the Governing Council accepted a package of student-written letters from the Fossil Free organizers. The event concluded with brief speeches from a couple of the organizers, one of whom declared that U of T “can’t have an investment strategy that ignores what is happening in the world.”

Fossil Free U of T’s plea for divestment isn’t unreasonable, and the crowd’s chanting reflected this: “What do we want? Fossil fuel divestment! When do we want it?

Gradually over five years!” n

Ryerson students demand tuition decrease

Image: Ryerson Students’ Union

RACISM

BLACK LIVES MATTER! ...................................

BY ZACH MORGENSTERN

Image: Dave Thomas/Toronto Sun

FEES

PROTEST THIS

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Organized to fall within 24 hours of a grand jury’s ruling on whether to indict Darren Wilson for the murder of Michael Brown, Toronto’s Black Lives Matter protest had an incredible showing, that largely filled up the courthouse square across the street from the US conToronto protestors stand in solidarity with Ferguson sulate on University Ave. The protest mand, something that had only been alluded was distinctly well organized, with legal help, to in an earlier call for the city to listen to dea political therapist and an ASL interpreter mands from Jane and Finch Action Against among those present.

Poverty (JFAAP). Another speaker, La Tanya The rally began with a series of chants Grant, told the story of her cousin Jermaine including “black lives matter,” “the system Carby who was shot and killed by Peel reisn’t broken it was built that way,” and “being gional police on September 24th. The name black is not a crime.” Eventually, a speaker inof the officer who killed Carby has not been troduced a comprehensive list of demands released, and the location of Carby’s bullet including calls for the arrest of Wilson, inwounds suggest he had to have been shot vestigations into Ferguson’s general police with his hands up. operations, the end of the militarization of In another powerful moment, protesters police forces, direct rhetorical and monetary clumped towards the courthouse’s “Pillars of support from the city of Toronto towards the Justice Sculpture.” A non-black person briefFerguson protesters, recognition by Canadily stood towards the centre of the group and an politicians at all levels of the existence of was asked to move out of the way. When the systematic racism and white privilege and person did, the action was commended as compensation from the Toronto Police dea symbolic showing that black voices matter. partment for victims of police brutality.

The protest eventually wound down with As the rally progressed, it increasingly a moment of silence, the distribution of lit emphasized police racism in Toronto. One candles and an a capella singing perforspeaker added the end of unjust carding in mance. n the Jane and Finch Neighborhood as a de-

Astoria Felix: D.C DeMarse. Part of a pome I commissioned from him (he calls his work pomes. It’s from Ezra Pound). He is experimenting with the idea of being a machine, manufacturing pomes for clients.

NEWS-IN-BRIEF U OF T PROF. HEADS LEGAL FIGHT AGAINST ENERGY REGULATOR .................................................................................

Danny Harvey, a U of T geography professor, has launched a constitutional challenge against the National Energy Board for refusing to consider climate change as a factor in its decision on the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. The National Energy Board determined last fall that it would not consider either oil sands expansion or climate change as a factor in reviewing the project. Harvey argued that the expansion, which will triple the existing pipeline capacity from 300,000 to 890,000 barrels of bitumen per day, will “put future generations of Canadians at risk” and said it was “dangerous” to increase pipeline capacity. It is also expected to increase the current tanker traffic around the Burrard Inlet five-fold to 400 tankers a year. “The Charter guarantees that the government will not unjustifiably deprive Canadians of their health and well-being” said Harvey’s legal counsel, Joseph J. Arvay. With files from Vancouver Observer.

PIPELINE SPILL IN ALBERTA ..................................................................................

The Alberta Energy Regulator says close to 60,000 litres of crude oil have spilled in the province’s north. An incident report by the regulator states that a mechanical failure was reported Thursday at a Canadian Natural Resources Limited (TSX:CNQ) pipeline approximately 27 kilometres north of the town of Red Earth Creek. A cleanup has begun. Red Earth Creek is over 350 kilometres northwest of Edmonton. Carrie Rosa, a spokeswoman for the regulator, says officials have been delayed reaching the scene due to poor weather. “As soon as it’s safe for them to travel to site they will be there and they’ll investigate the incident,” Rosa said Sunday morning. No one from Canadian Natural Resources could be reached on Sunday for comment. With files from Global News.

DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY CHOOSES NOT TO DIVEST FOSSIL FUELS ..................................................................................

On November 25 the Dalhousie Board of Governors rejected a campaign to divest 200 top energy companies from its endowment portfolio. The university said it respected the need for action on climate change but decided the symbolic gesture was not worth alienating the companies. The vote was 15 to five with two abstentions. Students and faculty at Dalhousie University who rely on the oil industry are pleased with the decision. “The stakes were pretty high. If divestment did happen companies would likely divest from Dalhousie. We would lose a lot of funding,” says student Colin MacAdam. On Wednesday MacAdam and a handful of other future geologists were working at Dal’s basin reservoir research laboratory.

The expensive computer software was donated by industry. The instructor is a retired geologist from the Exxon-led Sable offshore natural gas project. “We rely on heavily on industry donations,” says MacAdam. In earth sciences, once known as geology, the energy industry funds faculty research and provides jobs for graduates. Marlon Lewis, chair of oceanography at Dalhousie, stated: “I appreciate what [the divestment plan] is trying to do but by and large in a mainstream sense [industry] are part of the research agenda and we treat them like partners.” says Marlon Lewis, chair of oceanography at Dalhousie.

The oceanography dept. is deeply involved in energy industry issues from marine geo-

physcis for exploration to modelling oil and gas spills offshore. “Funding from the oil and gas industry specifically is a very important part of our research portfolio. They sponsor both research that aids in exploration, but also they sponsor a lot of research into environmental remediation and environmental protection.” With files from CBC News.

ROGERS FAMILY DONATES BIG ..................................................................................

The Rogers family, of telecomunications fame, have made a gift of $130 million to the University Health Network, The Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto.

The donation will go toward creating the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research. It is the largest philanthropic gift in Canadian health care history. With files from UHN.ca.

ENGLISH FACULTY MOURNS SCHOLAR ..................................................................................

U of T Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam, who held the distinction of being the first Tamil professor of English in an English-speaking country, passed away in Montreal on November 23. He was Professor of English at the University of Toronto. He was recently awarded the highest literary recognition in the country, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a function was held at Montreal related to the award. After attending the function, while on his way to a dinner that followed the function, he suffered a massive heart attack. He was 62. His father was a distinguished Tamil scholar. Since 2005 he has been organising the annual Tamil Studies Conference at the University of Toronto, which was first of its kind in North America. His field of research was Postcolonial Literature. Dr. R. Cheran, who closely worked with Professor Kanaganayakam, had this to say: “A few months ago Chelva completed compiling, translating and editing a grand volume of Tamil literature since 1948 titled Uprooting the Pumpkin for Oxford University Press. He spent hundreds of sleepless nights working on this volume and it is so painful that he was unable to see the volume in print.”

The University of Toronto's flag at Simcoe Hall went to half-mast in his memory. His colleague Nick Mount stated it was a “terrible loss” of “a gentle man and a first-rate scholar.” With files from TamilNet. U OF T RESEARCHERS WIN PRIZE ..................................................................................

Two University of Toronto researchers, Andrea Charise and Rahul Deb, have won esteemed Polanyi Prizes. The Polanyi Prizes were created to celebrate U of T chemistry professor John Polanyi’s 1986 Nobel Prize and are awarded to young researchers Ontario. The areas of research they recognize mirror those of the Nobel Prizes. Winners are awarded $20,000 by the Ontario government. Charise is an assistant professor of health studies at U of T Scarborough. Her research focuses on how today’s generational identity and intergenerational conflict were represented much earlier in literature. Deb is an assistant professor in the department of economics. He developed a theory to determine whether firms involved in competitive bids for business are genuinely competing, or whether they are secretly colluding. It can help keep prices low for consumers. Along with the two U of T researchers, three others won Polanyi Prizes. With files from U of T News.

CAMPUS GROUP WORKS TO DETER ISIS ..................................................................................

A nationwide campaign that aims to counter ISIS from recruiting students is under way.

Stop the CrISIS was initiated by members of Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA). The campaign includes efforts at Ryerson, University of Toronto, and York University, among others. “We want to condemn ISIS and let people know it does not represent Islam,” said Blawal Aleem, president of AMSA at Ryerson University. “As youth, students are vulnerable so we want to educate them before ISIS reaches them,” he said. Over the past few years, several Canadian youths have left the country and joined the jihadist movements. ISIS jihadist Mohammed Ali took to social media last month to say he is a former Ryerson student. “I just found out that Abu was actually expelled from Ryerson,” said Aleem, a fourth-year student studying business technology management. “These are troubled individuals and if he is depressed and finds ISIS, he’ll say ‘ah, now I have something to belong to.’”

CrISIS will host events, presentations, and speakers talking about issues of extremism and knowledge of the Quran. With files from Metro News.

U OF T AFFILIATED GROUP PUBLISHES LARGEST HUMAN PROTEIN MAP ..................................................................................

A group made up of international researchers has published a systematic map of how 13,000 proteins, each produced from a different gene, connect to one another. If genetics was like a car, then decoding DNA gave scientists the genetic blueprints for the human body, and decoding protein interactions are helping to write the manual of how the parts work together. This increased understanding of protein interactions could lead to better avenues for targeted cancer therapies. U of T professor Fritz Roth, who belongs to the group, said, “We’re starting to see how the pieces encoded in the human genome physically come together.”

The team estimates that no more than fiveto-ten percent of the direct connections between proteins are represented on the map. The next phase of the study will expand the project to one protein from each of 17,000 genes. Many genes provide plans for additional alternative proteins, often with different interactions. The ultimate goal is to map interactions among all proteins from the 20,000 genes that encode proteins in the human body. With files from Utoronto Medicine.

Auction Features CIA’s Osama Bin Laden Devil Doll ..................................................................................

A CIA prototype for an Osama bin Laden doll — showing the terrorist leader with a red face and green eyes — has been sold at auction.

The doll was created as part of a secret CIA psy-ops project called “Devil Eyes”, and the CIA intended to distribute the dolls across Afghanistan to scare Afghan children into rejecting al Qaeda. The spy agency turned to Donald Levine, the creator of the GI Joe doll.

One of three in existence, the doll sold for $11,879. With files from CBS News.

U OF T’S OIL MONEY

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The University of Toronto owns shares in over 200 companies that have oil reserves. These are four of U of T’s largest fossil fuel assets.

Rio Tinto BP

$5.8 million

$7.8 million

Royal Dutch Shell

$9.8 million

VICTORIA COLLEGE OWNS GAS WELLS

Victoria College owns natural gas wells on a donated property near Weyburn, Sask..

RAF

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I told him to “write about a man who has a computer surgically fused to his body and in order to stay alive, he must have a constant feed of porn”. A portion: He was burnt at my feet / crippled, he

THE WAR ON DRUG TREATMENTS New clinic facing backlash for harmreduction methods The community of Bloordale, a small village stretching from Lansdowne Ave. to Dufferin St. just around Bloor St., has recently seen the addition of a methadone clinic. Whether it is welcome or not has been a part of a heated debate for many weeks within the community.

“It takes a long time to build a sense of community, where neighbours will talk to each other,” a local resident said on the topic of the new clinic. “That process of community-building, though, is not completed yet…and I think the gains that have been made in the last eight years could be at risk, and that the community could slip back into its waves of problems.

The clinic, run by five doctors, opened its doors on November 10th, moving from its location in Parkdale-High Park to its new locale at 1290 Bloor St. Just after the clinic opened to the public, Bloordale residents were invited to a meeting scheduled for November 13th in order to express their concerns.

MPP Cristina Martins mediated the panel, which was held at the Wallace-Emerson Community Centre. Along with Martins were Councillor Ana Bailao of Ward 18, a constable from Toronto Police 11 Division, representatives from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), and the doctors of this newly situated clinic.

“A local McDonald’s

even installed needle depository boxes so as not to have used needles in the immediate environment.”

Martins, who hoped the panel would provide an “educational session” on the topic of Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT), opened the meeting with a few words about the evident stigma that plagues issues of drug dependency. “Sometimes when people think about MMT, they have a vision of what that person looks like,” she said. However, this hypothetical person is “classless,” and can be almost anyone.

Image: Yevgeny Thompson

by Norma Zminkowska

One resident brought up the example of the methadone clinic at Dufferin St. and St. Clair Ave. W., which has suffered backlash in the recent years. The people of St. Clair have claimed to feel uneasy when out in the neighbourhood due the drug users that surround the clinic, a Toronto Star article reported back in 2012. A local McDonald’s even installed needle depository boxes so as not to have used needles in the immediate environment.

Stephanie Venneri, an Addiction Therapist with the Toronto Opiate Support Team (TOST), attended the meeting, and explained that there were factors missing in the Dufferin and St. Clair area that have contributed to that unease. “It is a very different experience in that neighbourhood and a very different experience at that clinic,” Venerri commented. “Let’s not assume that the problems in that neighbourhood are because of that clinic. There are a lot of problems in that neighbourhood. There are not a lot of services—there’s absolutely no services for people who use drugs or who have mental health issues along that strip, so that’s why I think it congregates in that area.”

These kinds of ser-

vices can start at the clinic.

Dr. Angelo Stamadianos, one of the The eyes of stigma doctors of the new “Yes, clinic and one of the it can be that doctors present in the panel, person who is addicted commented on the steps he takes to to an opioid, to heroin, it can also mean—and better the lives of the people that visit him. “I it often does mean—the person who is addictpride myself in establishing a non-judgmental ed to a painkiller.” practice, mutual respect for the patients and Opioids are drugs that reduce the pain in a building on a relationship to foster growth in person. They can range from over-the-counter the individual to better their lives.” Although pain medication, to morphine used in hospinot a formal mental health service, this type of tals, to “harder” drugs such as heroin. Methabonding can reduce the fears some people may done is a synthetic opioid, which, in medical have when seeking treatment. settings, is used to ease and even prevent opioid Although the community’s fears have put withdrawal. It should be noted, however, that, the clinic’s status as a methadone dispenser into as per the CAMH methadone guide, methafocus, the clinic will act as a regular pharmacy, done is only part of a larger treatment of drug dispensing medications for things like heart abuse and not a cure in and of itself. disease and diabetes. Councillor Bailao stated Dr. Andriy Samokhvalov, a clinician at that Bloordale was zoned for a medical clinic, CAMH present at the meeting, offered more and since MMT is allowed in Canada, the details on what methadone is, saying it does methadone detail passed without legal review. not give the individual a high, and that when “At the city we don’t regulate. This is just one is on methadone they do not have to like a family clinic and that’s why, for example, take any other type of opioid. “This program my office wasn’t notified,” Bailao said. “The usually provides people with a quite organized, city has no say. The area is zoned for a family structured treatment, [allows them] to add clinic so they can open a family clinic.” structure to their lives,” he said.

Individuals who have attended the meeting With the reduction of risky needle usage noted that other clinics in the area have not and with added structure to people’s lives, dealt with this kind of commotion. Jill Parsons, MMT can, the doctors assured, reduce the risk a Registered Midwife of the Midwives Collecand spread of infectious diseases such as HIV. tive of Toronto, has commented on the lack of Fears persisted, however, as was noticepublic shock when the Collective moved into able once the floor opened to some unhappy 1203 Bloor St. W. “Nobody had any issue with residents. The most prevalent fear was what our clinic when it opened up,” Parsons said. this clinic might do to the safety and security However, a midwife clinic is different than of the community, a community that has been a clinic that dispenses methadone. The latter worked upon and strengthened over the past serves those who are struggling with drug couple decades. addictions and may have mental health issues.

But as Jenna Robertson, a Registered Midwife of the Association of Ontario Midwives, pointed out, midwife clinics may need to provide the same services as a methadone clinic. Both types of clinics attend to adults, and “midwives meet people who struggle with depression and addiction,” she stated.

The worries of the Bloordale residents may be legitimate, though not all community mem-

“People need to go somewhere, and at least they will be on methadone and taking control of their lives.” bers share them. The news of a methadone clinic even came as a surprise to some. “I didn’t know there was one,” Kim, a local resident not at the meeting, has said. When asked if the clinic is bothersome and poses a threat to the neighbourhood she replied, “I’ve been living here for 20 years. It’s going to be better than it was before. People need to go somewhere, and at least they will be on methadone and taking control of their lives.”

One such example of someone taking control of their life by way of MMT is Bryan, a former resident of Toronto who once suffered from intravenous drug use from the age of 18.

“I left home at 13 years of age because of family of origin issues, and drugs were my means to cope with the pain,” he said. “I yearned to be free of the pain my drug addiction brought, but could not cope with the withdrawal symptoms associated with opiate addiction.”

Due to this addiction, that Bryan terms as a “mental, physical and spiritual malady,” has plagued his life in quite a few ways. “My addiction caused me to contract HIV at age 23 and suffer a heart attack at age 29.”

At this age, Bryan was offered a chance to change his life. MMT had been offered to him at CAMH, where he had to undergo a drug test, answer a few questions about his addiction, and visit a therapist before being put on methadone.

Dr. Stamadianos, who attended the meeting on November 13, was only the third methadone dispenser Bryan had visited, though he found him to be one of the best. “He treated me with dignity and made me feel as though I truly did have worth, which eventually afforded me the ability and strength to move forward with my life drug-free.”

When asked if methadone is merely another opiate people can become dependent on, Bryan answered that he was under the supervision and care of doctors, and, after close to 12 years and a 12 step program, was able to wean himself off of methadone.

While the stigma surrounding MMT prevents people from seeking this type of treatment, it does in fact help. As mentioned, MMT can prevent risky behaviours. “Even for the indefinite user it is of benefit as it prevents drug seeking, crime, IV drug sharing (and its related health risks), and allows them to get on with their life,” Dr. Stamadianos explained via email.

Bryan has been drug-free since 2003, and since that time he has earned two degrees and lived in Australia for two years, where he has worked in mental health. He currently resides in Texas, where he is an active member of a recovery program, working with others that are suffering from addiction.

“This program really did change my life, I hope a few bad people don’t ruin what has been incredibly life changing for me. I no longer dwell in the realm of hungry ghosts but thrive in a spiritual realm and know relevance.” n

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Raphael Elkabas-Besnard: The Miles Davis autobiography: the whole bebop crew were all just such

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Pinches of Intimacy, Color and Sadness Diversity abound at the ROM’s wildlife photography exhibit

by Zach Morgenstern taking this picture Maitland both explored his fascination with structure, and the challenges of getting good microscopic lighting.

Bernardo Cesare’s kaleidoscope is another abstract-like piece, that used a sample from a Kerula, (India) quarry, quartz and a microscope, to create a stunning image of microscopic colors.

The collection also includes finalist and winning children’s photographs; however, at least to my amateur eyes, these photographs might as well have been taken by seasoned professionals. Eight-year-old Spaniard Carlos Perez Naval won in the 10 and under category for “Stinger in the Sun,” a double-exposure photograph of a basking yellow scorpion.

Amongst the youth photographs I was most stunned by Edward Sahlin’s “Snowbird,” which caught a Siberian Jay mid flight with it’s wings open, and Marc Montes’ “Snake Eyes,” which shows a grass snake staring directly at the camera. I was surprised that the exhibition’s winning photographs did not have the same intimate feeling as these photos, though that’s not to say that the winners were undeserving.

Other images in the exhibit stood out for how they brought the “natural” and “human” worlds together. Sam Hobson’s “Feral Spirits” depicts a flock of ring-necked parakeets flying over a London graveyard. If one did not know that this Afro-Asiatic species of birds are now

Images: ROM

Wildlife Photographer of the Year began its second year as a visiting exhibit at the ROM on November 22, and will remain open until March 23, 2015. The gallery of 100 pictures is selected from around 43 000 entries and features a plethora of styles of work.

The first photographs one sees in the exhibit look more like abstract art than traditional nature photography. One such image is David Maitland’s “The Tracheal Tree” is a photograph of a microscope slide of a silkmoth caterpillar’s respiratory system. These caterpillars do not have lungs, but instead receive oxygen through chitin-protected, tracheal passages that branch out throughout the body. In

The Antagonist in Student Politics is Invisible

The Canada Not for Profit Corporations Act,

an external force, has led to internal tension

by Zach Morgenstern If you’ve vaguely followed student politics this past year, you’d know that in April the UTSU board of directors passed a motion calling for board restructuring. Much anger ensued, as the new proposal did not include currently established board representatives for college and professional faculties, and did include representatives for various constituencies including racialized students, LGBTQ students and women. In October the motion failed to win a two thirds majority at the UTSU’s annual general meeting, and was thus defeated.

Those who voted against the bill largely did so to save college and professional faculty representation. Meanwhile, many of those who supported the bill, including Ben DW of LGBTOUT and Dylan Chauvin-Smith of ASSU, were also inspired by the question of representation, passionately making cases at the AGM for the importance of having an equitable board structure. Ryan Gomes, a moderate opponent of the bill, made the case in a Varsity op-ed that with the AGM

over, both sides can be brought together involve polarizing debates. While the UTSU to produce a bill that considers equity and has found a way to overcome that particular college/professional-faculty representation.

CNCA hurdle, the example still shows how While the question of how students are arbitrary bureaucratic decrees are an invisrepresented is no doubt an important one, ible oppressive force in student politics. the most illuminating comment I heard at Others argue that new not-for-profit the AGM was from a student who asked me, legislation is an unfair threat even to small “so it’s Stephen [Harper]’s fault that we’re corporations. Stephen Hazell, a former Sihere?” The question was a wry reference to the erra Club director, argues that many volunfact that the UTSU has to change its board teer-based corporations might not have the structure not because of concerns about equity time or resources to comply with new laws. or colleges, but because the new Canada Not He also argues that as the new legislation for Profit Corporations Act (CNCA) largely is based around the notion of shareholder requires that all members of a corporation empowerment, it could make politically-opbe able to vote for all of its board positions posed corporations, such as environmental (which is not really compatible with our groups, vulnerable to ideological takeovers. current systems, where college and pro-facThe Conservative government has also ulty members have the exclusive right to been accused of using the Canadian Revenue vote for their college or faculty’s directors).

Agency to disband not-for-profit corporations It is for this reason that, while I respect the and charities, such as Physicians for Global positivity and even the substance of arguments Survival that challenge its political program. like Gomes’, I noneWhile these charges theless find them alone do not suggest disengaging. Student “The most illuminating comment that the CNCA was union members, created specifically to as Gomes posits, undermine student I heard at the AGM was from should not be dividunions, they do show a student who asked me, ed over this issue, how bureaucratic but not because the reform can uninten‘so it’s Stephen [Harper]’s forms of representationally (or intention they desire are tionally) undermine fault that we’re here?’” reconcilable, but beactivist organizations cause the reason for like the UTSU. the debate in the first place is an external piece Indeed, the debate about the UTSU of legislation that imposes arbitrarily specific board reform has rarely paused to ask the requirements on organizations like the UTSU. question of why the CNCA is so strict in its The UTSU’s plight with the CNCA is requirement, but it has also never stopped partly due to bad luck. A contact within the to ask an even more meta question—why student movement who wishes to remain is our student union legally recognized as a anonymous emphasized that the CNCA is corporation? In 2011, the CFS tried to resolve designed for small non-profits, with memberthat discrepancy by working with MPPs Yasir ships that might indeed be empowered by the Naqvi and Rosario Marchese to draft a piece new CNCA regulations. One of the CNCA’s of “right to organize” legislation for Ontario new requirements is that elections be held at student unions, known as the CUSA act.

AGMs, something that may make sense for Similar legislation already exists in Quebec and small organizations with politically like-mindBritish Columbia. The legislation, which fell ed memberships, but not for an organization from discussion following the 2011 election, like the UTSU which has elections that often would have protected the right of student

well established in London (as the descendants of escaped pets), one could confuse the scene for a piece of dark psychedelia.

The final leg of the exhibit features photographs that consider the consequences of human action. Perhaps the most amazing piece in this segment is Ian Johnson’s “Where’s My Forest,” which shows a Rwandan mountain gorilla walking out into a cleared area with what looks like a genuinely perplexed expression. “Take action” is one of three kid-oriented themes of the exhibit, along with “wildlife” and the art of “photography.”

In this last section, for instance, panels are present to encourage kids to adopt pets from shelters rather than from the wild-animal trade, which has threatened species such as the fennec fox.

From Skye Meaker’s “Vanishing Lions” to Francisco Negroni’s “Apocalypse,” the Wildlife Photographer of the Year gallery will entertain you without overwhelming you and is absolutely worth a visit. n

unions to exist and collect fees, opening the door for student unions to have a legal status more like labor unions, and potentially not subject to not-for-profit corporate regulation.

In the long term, a fight to revitalize the CUSA act is a better priority for student unions than bickering internally about how to best comply with the CNCA and what to call directorship positions (though of course the latter is a short term necessity). While it is true that there could some student political opposition to such a move (some UTSU opponents insist on referring to the organization by its legal name “Students’ Adminstrative Council (SAC),” a subtle suggestion that they are uncomfortable with being involved in a union), I believe most students could be won over to such an approach if they are simply encouraged to think outside of the student political box.

I could support a UTSU board structure based around college/pro-faculty representation, one based around equity, or some sort of hybrid. What matters to me, however, is not what the UTSU nominally looks like, but what it is empowered to do. I didn’t run for office to spar with students, I ran to spar with our school’s administrators and our governments.n Zach Morgenstern was elected as an independent to be one of the UTSU directors for Victoria College in 2014-15. He is also an op-ed writer and comment editor for the newspaper. His views do not necessarily represent the views of the rest of the editorial team. The newspaper is open to publishing ideas from a vast array of perspectives.

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Olivia Chow spent the last few weeks in Tunisia as part of an international observation mission ensuring democracy during the Tunisian election, the nation’s first free vote since independence from France in 1956.

Tunisia, one of the nations involved in the Arab Spring, saw the toppling of its former strongman regime of Ben Ali in January, 2011. With files from the Globe and Mail.

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beautiful people. There’s a part where Miles is in a taxicab with Charlie Parker, who’s just done a phat shot of heroin – he’s holding a bottle of whisky with one hand and eating a chicken leg with the other while this girl is giving him a blowjob. Man, that’s w

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George Neish goes book shopping with Anne Dondertman, director of U of T’s Rare Books Library

by George Neish The Toronto antiquarian book fair is a pretty strange place to spend a Saturday evening, but some people spend all year looking forward to it.

Anne Dondertman is one of these people. As I caught up with her, she was unpacking some of the Fisher Rare Book Library’s most recent acquisitions. You know the Fisher Library: attached to one corner of Robarts, you probably walk pass its nondescript revolving door all the time.

On the inside, the place is like a modernist cathedral, the walls hidden behind bookcases, and with quiet, scholarly types traversing its corridors and walkways. Anne is obviously proud of the place, as she is of the small brown book that she is unwrapping as I arrive: “from the sixteenth century, the one of the first medical documentations of Syphilis.”

Held annually at the AGO, the fair where she picked it up is organised by the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. The library has an annual $200,000 budget for new purchases. This year some of that went on an assortment of beat generation writers, to go with a donated box full of Allen Ginsburg’s personal photographs. But Anne’s favourite buy is a woodcut poster, itself advertising a bookseller in 1856 Oshawa–“Huzza for Oshawa!” proclaims the headline–”it looks like whoever made it had probably never done a woodcut before,” she says, “I had to have it!”

“ Whether I talk with a

well-to-do lady about her Victorian clock chart; or discuss the homoerotic

over some Mapplethorpe coffee table books with an elderly aficionado, I

encounter the same enthusiasm.”

The book fair itself is a space for weird juxtapositions and strange reconciliations. At one stall, dedicated to ‘50s Americana, yellowing William S. Borroughs first editions and Kerouac paperbacks are offered up alongside lurid tie-in pamphlets for the film Reefer Madness.

Rows of great leather-bound 19th Century imperial histories occupy the shelves of one stand; post-colonial fiction, counter-cultural critique and negritude take their place at another. Elsewhere, Lenin lies down with Lennon.

The most striking (and most expensive) of these comes from even further back in literary

history. Reviewing a book by the some-time poet and amateur scholar Sloame Jenyns, Samuel Johnson was driven to ask, “Why he, that has nothing to write, should desire to be a writer?” Here and now, I see the same book in a glass case next to Johnson’s own collected works. Its price tag reflects its famous association.

Walking around the the fair, it is actually quite hard not to spend time thinking about Johnson’s question. Most of the things which catch your eye–aside from the real A-list stuff: early editions of ‘Ulysses’ and so on–are hopelessly obscure works about very-very-local history or niches within niches of specialized scholarship. These books are never forgotten because they never become known. They are testaments to cherished obsessions, and to the desire of their authors for even the tiniest share of literary immortality. This kind of writing does not get digitalized, it exists there in your hands and in a few other places but nowhere else. The aura of print exists in these books if it does anywhere, and maintaining this aura is a big part of the sellers’ job.

The sellers themselves are a clique, everybody knows everybody else in the rare book world. But once you get them talking about their favourite topic the distance closes and they become nearly evangelical. It’s a quality shared across range of different specialisms–and believe me, it gets very specialised. Whether I talk with a well-to-do lady about her Victorian clock chart, which gives the time in the different counties of England in seconds from GMT; or discuss the homoerotic over some Mapplethorpe coffee table books with an elderly aficionado, I encounter the same enthusiasm.

These are people who just know that all of it, from sturdy classics to cute ephemera, is interesting and worthwhile. A visit to their little corner of reality is an illumination. The Book fair is over for this year. In any case, you have to pay to get in–it is, after all, a trade show. But all of this stuff is already available, free, in the middle of campus. Anne wants more students–more of anybody–to come in and have a look. You are absolutely allowed to. You should. n

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Lame Lectures Lose Lustre Active Ones Assist In Academic Achievement

by Kristina Knox Have you ever come out of a lecture and wondered why you went in the first place? You are not alone. Various studies have proven that the traditional stand-and-deliver method of lecturing is slightly boring and out-dated. In the last 10 years, two professors have explored various teaching methods to find the most effective.

Biology professor Scott Freeman of the University of Washington analyzed 225 studies testing different teaching methods in science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) courses. Freeman found that the active learning method—which is any instructional method that directly engages students in the learning process and critical thinking—is most effective. He reported that by engaging students in their learning, exam grades can increase by approximately six per cent.

Like Freeman, Chemical Engineering professor Michael Prince of Bucknell University, believes that active learning is most effective for teaching STEM courses.

Prince explored three methods of active learning when students are engaged with the material: collaborative, cooperative, and problem-based learning.

In one study Prince analyzed, 72 students were split into two groups; one attended a 45-minute lecture that was interrupted three times with two-minute breaks, where students could discuss the material presented in groups of two or three. The other group attended the same lecture uninterrupted. The results showed that the students in the interrupted lecture had a better short-term retention rate, recalling 108 correct facts in comparison to the average of 80 recalled by the students in the other group.

The study also tested long-term retention of the lecture material, by assessing students on at 65-question multiple-choice exam. Students who attended the lecture with periodic interruptions scored an average of 89.4 per cent in comparison to 80.9 per cent scored by the stu-

dents who attended the uninterrupted lecture.

Prince believed that adding this simple activity to a traditional lecture promoted collaborative and cooperative learning by allowing students to work together to pursue a common goal. This type of teaching relieves isolation and competition between students, which can reduce stress and foster the development of effective teamwork and interpersonal skills.

Furthermore, Prince went on to explain that problem-based learning can be introduced to the traditional lecture by using a real world context problem as a focal point of the lesson.

This type of teaching motivates students and increases involvement by encouraging students to think about what they are learning.

Essentially, the research shows that the most effective way to teach is to engage.

Human interaction—discussing, collaborating, and innovating—encourages learning and critical thinking, which amplifies academic success. If U of T wants to remain a relevant and worthwhile institution, they must find a way to implement these findings. n

what America is all about. Anyways, they’re in this cramped taxicab so young and impressionable. Miles is obviously uncomfortable, then Charlie Parker turns around and is like “is something bothering you?” Hahah what crazy guys, but they were geniuses.

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HURON STREET CAMPUS SCENE

by David Stokes

by John Hitchcock In combing through Google I could not find a single female firefighter portrayed in either the movies or television. I contacted Ottawa firefighter Louise Hine-Schmidt and asked her about her thoughts on the challenges faced by female firefighters and the lack of female role models. This is what she had to say: the newspaper: What inspired you to become a firefighter?

Louise Hine-Schmidt: I did not think women were allowed to become firefighters. I knew several firefighters in Ottawa and was always intrigued by the stories of their job and I knew there were no women on the Ottawa Fire Department. I was listening to the radio and heard an interview with the Ottawa Fire Chief and he was saying he had come from a department with several women and didn’t understand why Ottawa didn’t have any. I jumped at the opportunity to apply and went through two separate recruitments until I was hired 3 years later in April 1999.

One of three women, the first 3 in Ottawa. tn: What challenges are commonly faced by women in firefighting?

L H-S: In my experience, being part of the non-dominant group tends to make women stand out more. Real or perceived, the feeling can be that women are under the microscope and in some cases (but not all) are made to feel like they are held to a higher standard. tn: What are your thoughts on the lack of female role models for women who may be interested in this job? Do you think this has an impact on the smaller number of women in the service?

L H-S: As women we need to make an effort to seek out those role models, even if they are not in firefighting. American astronaut Sally Ride stated: “You can’t be what you can’t see. Young women need to see role models in whatever career they choose just so they can picture themselves doing those jobs someday.” This is one of the main reasons behind Fire Service Women Ontario (FSWO), so women who are aspiring to become firefighters, those who are attending a Pre-Service Fire program at a college, or new female firefighters can meet women who are already working their way up the ranks in their fire departments. FSWO is launching a new mentorship program in 2015 to line up women considering a career in the fire service with someone who has already been through the process. FSWO and several departments have launched Camp FFIT (Female Firefighter in Training) which is a summer camp for young women aged 15-19 to give them the experience of a week in the life of a firefighter. This camp allows the participants to decide if firefighting is a career for them. The camps are run primarily by women, which allows the young women exposure to women in the fire service. n

One of the great things about U of T is the awe inspiring sight of brilliant people exercising incredible curiosity and passion in subjects you know nothing at all about. Suddenly, a world opens up, as it did for me last Thursday on the fourth floor of the Earth Sciences building, when I stumbled on a presentation given by the students of LIN458, Revitalizing Languages, a class about endangered languages.

The topic was Huron-Wendat, the language of the people who lived in the Toronto region before the coming of the Europeans. Early records speak of the Huron language as alternatively “sweet and harmonious,” and “majestic and noble.” It once covered this land in its music. Look outside: yaronhia was their word for sky. Öndienhta their word for snow.

Coco Lee, a student in the class, told me that the language is currently classified as dormant, meaning that the “people who spoke it from birth have all died, in the 1970s.”

The language might not be active, but the ghost of it’s presence remains. In fact, you already know some of it and use it everyday.

“Toronto is a word from the Huron civilization,” Lee told me, and, in a happy coincidence, pointed that “we are on Huron Street right now actually.”

Another coincidence, much less happy, in fact downright eerie, is that the bones of thousands of Huron ancestors—taken from their graves years ago by archaeologists - were stored in crumbling cardboard boxes in the basement of the anthropology building next door, also, terrifyingly, on Huron Street.

The Huron people believe the bones of the dead contain their souls. So a room in a U of T basement probably had the most Huron souls anywhere, ever. The living ancestors of the Huron didn’t know about this situation until the information was leaked to them a few years ago, and they launched a legal challenge to have their ancestors returned. The remains were repatriated and reburied last year, with apologies from U of T, who have stated, in effect, that it happened in a different era, and they won’t do that kind of thing again.

According to Lee, cultural sensibilities around how languages are studied have also changed. “In the past it was linguists coming in to communities and being like, ‘you must revitalize your language!,’” but this is changing now, and linguists and anthropologists are also trying to be much more respectful of the intellectual property of the people whose words and language they use. The students working on this project are putting their work online for use by those who are trying to learn the language. Definite progress is being made on that front: In the Huron community of Wendake, the language is currently being taught in the local elementary school.

I was then surprised to learn that the only fluent speaker of the Huron language was currently in the room. Anthropologist John Steckley, a striking figure with a totally bald pate but great shocks of frizzy grey hair that would put even Allen Ginsburg to shame, was

wearing a lightly stained black Ecko hoody, and is the only speaker of Huron Wendat in the world. He is, in addition to being the only Huron speaker, one of the most voluble speakers of English that I’ve met. Steckley is not Huron—though he was adopted into the tribe in 1999—but he has made the Huron tongue and Huron history his focus for more than 30 years, “and every year I think of how little I knew the year before.” Regarding the student presentation, he said it was nice to hear other people talk about the language for once.

Talking to Steckley is like being alive back at the strange and fateful rupture that is the start of European Canada. The people of 16th century Canada are alive in his mind and thought. They lived through an era of upheaval never before been seen in this land, and one that has never been equaled since. We are still dealing with the impact of their lives. It is due in part to his commitment to understanding the role of the past in the life of the present that Steckley has become a respected figure amongst contemporary Huron Wendat, and was given the honorary name Hechon—a name that had previously been given to Jean de Brébeuf (1593–1649), the first Jesuit priest fluent in Huron, who was later famous—and canonized—for his stoic calm while being tortured at the stake and scalped.

Hechon—after the Huron’s attempt to pronounce the ‘Jean’ of Brebeuf’s name— became, after his death, the word meaning an “outsider who is gifted in the Huron language.” Steckley, John, not far from Jean, even bears an uncanny resemblance to Brébeuf, and he seems to be an excellent hechon. Steckley’s Huron-English dictionary is apparently the first in over 250 years, though the only converts he aims to get are people who recognize the beauty and necessity of native languages.

As Steckley has said in a TEDx talk, “the Huron language has no term for guilt and no word for innocence.” Thinking the way the Huron did would have profoundly beneficial effects on our society—their’s is a society aiming solely for restorative justice.

The language also has “no word for obey” and “the Huron language also does not have superlatives. There’s no ‘better,’ no ‘best,’ no ‘worse,’ no ‘worst.’” Another revolutionary notion that our culture would be wise to consider. As Steckley says, paraphrasing the Huron, “What if there is no ‘best.’ What if ‘the best’ is a dumb-ass concept?”

There are, according to Steckley, so many the remaining mysteries, so much stuff in the language that hasn’t been found and translated. Like the bones that waited in secret for so long right across the street, so much more about the Huron awaits rediscovery, in places unexpected. Steckley gets excited, and with a mischievous grin, says, “I like to think that somewhere in France is the Neutral dictionary that Brébeuf wrote. I always said I’d kill three people to get it and I don’t care who.” Only three? He smiles: “I’m not a violent person.”

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Emily Posteraro: The Graduate. An instant favourite. Ben’s character; so likeable and relatable; his youthful recklessness to his adolescent-like confusion and anguish. His boredom of the present

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and apprehension of the future. I just want to say that it’s good—and that’s coming from someone who can’t stand Simon & Garfunkel.

Sticks, Brushes and Bare Hands

THE MYSTERIOUS

MORPHOLOGY

by Tanja Velickovic

OF ICICLES We visit U of T’s icicle expert Stephen Morrison

Image: Stephen Morrison

“The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth

by Emily Posteraro living.” – Henri Poincaré It takes about six hours for an icicle to form (as seen on Prof. in the laboratory of Professor Stephen MorMorrison’s U of rison and graduate student Antony Szu-Han Chen. The icicle’s nursery is a foam-insulated T web page.) box, within which the air temperature is kept at a frigid negative eight degrees Celsius. Water comes out of a dripper and there is a mechanism that keeps the budding icicle rotating. A camera that’s inserted into a tunnel attached to the machine captures 16 images per rotation, totalling in 32 measurements being taken every five minutes. But why grow icicles and bother with all these measurements? According to Prof.

Morrison, there’s a lot about icicles that we don’t know, and studying their formation “can have profound physical implications.”

Prof. Morrison is particularly interested in morphogenesis, or the emergence of shape. His lab is currently working on the emergence of ripples in icicles, but they’ve also studied such phenomena as ripples in roads and cracks in mud. This field of study is called pattern formation, which is a branch of classical physics and applied math. As of now, Prof. Morrison’s lab is the only one in the world that is seriously examining icicle formation. The icicle project began around seven years ago, and is mainly the work of Szu-Han Chen, who constructed the icicle-growing machine himself. Prof. Morrison acknowledges that “some think it’s trivial,” but when it comes down to it, icicle formation is intriguingly mysterious.

For starters, current physics theory can’t explain the ripples that form in icicles. The lab has made some headway in seeking the answers by experimenting with different impurities being added to the water that they use to make their icicles. So far they’ve tried using tap water, distilled water, salt water, and water with polymers added to it. As it turns out, the water that makes an icicle needs to have dissolved salts in it in order for ripples to form; this discovery violated the theory that was used up to that time.

Ice formation is sensitive to even the smallest amounts of impurities. Distilled water, which is nearly pure, can form an icicle that doesn’t have

The machine Prof. Morrison uses to create icicles is far more sophisticated than this measuring device. But we think this is cool too. The photo above is upside down.

ripples.

Perhaps the most mind-boggling aspect of ripple formation is the fact that, no matter how large the icicle, the ripples will consistently be one centimetre in wavelength. The speed at which the ripples form can vary depending on the amount of water and other external conditions, but the size of the ripples stays the same.

Always. And we have no idea why.

Another project that has stemmed from this study is the Icicle Atlas, an online open source database. By early 2015, this database will contain all of the experimental data from this study, in accordance with Prof. Morrison’s belief that he “shouldn’t have exclusive rights to the data.”

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David Stokes: “The more he thinks about a thing the less likely he is to know

When I asked him if the ultimate goal was for others around the world to re-create his experiments, he answered, “I’m hoping that people will do surprising things with it.” There are many pictures of icicles that he’s grown in the lab already available online. He suggested that people could use those images for Christmas cards, or perhaps even print out 3-D plastic renditions of them. He told me about Continuum, a musical ensemble that conceived a project involving original music and media art that draws inspiration from science, including the Icicle Atlas. Prof. Morrison calls the Icicle Atlas “a sort of performance art in itself.” And here we were thinking that icicles are boring. n

U of T’s Percussion Ensemble, directed by Mark Duggan, put on a free concert at Walter Hall on November 23rd. Exploring Timbre was an all-percussion series of pieces performed by U of T students that explored experimental elements in an instrument group not traditionally featured on its own.

The first piece, titled “Woodwork” and written by Jan Bach, was an eerie, aqua-like xylophone composition that featured each performer standing in front of another rather than side by side. The music built up and came down in waves, and the performers moved side to side to create a visual wave to compliment the musical one. Like the name of the piece suggests, wood instruments like wood blocks and temple blocks were a key element to the piece. “Woodwork” was performed by Branden Kelly, Patrick Lynch, Jacob Mannion and Kevin Mulligan.

Using drumsticks, brushes, and bare hands, or sometimes just their own voices, the performers of Werner Helder’s “Gong Game” used both traditional and non-traditional ways of playing the gong. AJ Fisico, Branden Kelly, Michael Murphy and Anson Wong entered the stage one by one and each travelled through the gongs until finally reaching their positions, adding a visual component that felt almost like a board game.

John Luther Adams’ “Deep and Distant Thunder” (the second movement of Three Drum Quartets from Earth and the Great Weather) played around with tempos and volumes. It was a thundering and satisfying performance by Branden Kelly, Kevin Mulligan, Carol Wang and Anson Wong, and it added a uniquely dark and roaring episode to the concert.

“The Golden Age of the Xylophone” was an upbeat and amusing closing piece. It was an arrangement of popular jazz, ragtime and dance tunes from the early 1900s, which was considered to be the golden age of the xylophone. Alongside Sam Kim, Jay Mannion, Derek Ou and Anson Wang, John Rudolph–who is one of Canada’s leading percussionists–gave a mind-blowing yet effortless solo to end the evening.

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it as it really is; for as soon as he begins to acquire for him any of the qualities that his conceptual faculty is ready to impose upon it, his intuition and love of it are lost.” Daniel Glassman: Whiplash. Neiman

Images: Tings Chak

Image: Katarina Mucke

Toronto’s Invisible Injustice

Heckling, Screaming, Dancing, Sex Poetry at Outrageous

by Astoria Felix

by David Stokes This short book by Tings Chak, a U of T architecture student, and lecturer at Humber College, mixes the aesthetic of architecture schematics with those of the graphic novel. The book consists of hand-drawn illustrations that illuminate some of what goes on in-and-around the buildings used by the Canadian government to house people awaiting deportation.

Undocumented begins at ten detention facilities in Ontario, and draws everything around them upside-down. As Chak states in the text: “These spaces are where people without status are expelled to, to buildings and landscapes so banal, that they can go by unnoticed. Just as the people detained are without papers, so too are the buildings, without photos or drawings... they, too, are undocumented.” Her quirky drawings refocus and reframe these buildings, literally drawing our attention to them. Indeed, the stuff that happens in those buildings should turn out understanding upside down.

Chak’s book offers a schematic atlas of the conditions detainees are forced to endure. She speaks of detainees who experience “a sense of spatial haunting–feeling the presence of someone else in the cell, or in the walls, who you can never catch glimpse of.” For us on the outside, these detention centres haunt in much the same way.

There are three active detention facilities in Toronto: the Toronto East Detention Centre (with five detainees), the Toronto West Detention Centre (with 73 detainees), and the Toronto Immigration Holding Centre (with 125 detainees, including children). None of these facilities are more than a TTC trip away.

The detention centres are documented in an intimate way, with lovingly drawn images. Chak’s evocative closeness pictures how those buildings are grotesque homes to those inside. The artist describes these spaces as operating like a perverse Goldilocks scenario: “a space becomes too small or too big, too bright or too quiet–too blank, impossible, violent.”

The drawings of the inside are bare and schematic, visualizing the cold-headed logic of the deportation machine and the claustrophobic, inexpressive soullessness of these brutal maze-like buildings. Chak recounts that “Prisoners held in prolonged segregation speak about the feeling of merging with the walls.”

The rooms are precisely labelled with their dimensions and the materials of their construction.

Detainees live behind bullet-proof glass, under recessed fluorescents hanging from ceilings of exterior-grade gypsum, on floors of sealed concrete, within walls of reinforced masonry and metal doors. (Imagine living in Robarts, but remove the books, have someone lock you into a study room, soundproof it, and make it impossible to escape.)

Welcome to Canada.

Imprisonment without trial

Drawn in monochrome, the book can serve as a presentation of “white blindness,” a condition detailed in the book as the result of “a long time staring at white walls no more than six feet away and 24/7 exposure to fluorescent lighting.” Sometimes, sufferers go blind altogether.

Although out of sight, Canadian deportation is a truly mammoth operation. “Last year, 13,000 people were deported from Canada.

8,838 people were detained. 289 of them were children. Adding to nearly 100,000 migrants who have been detained and deported since 2006.” The most egregious part of the system is the detainees who have been held in indefinite detention—imprisoned without trial—for nearly a decade.

Chak’s book isn’t the place to get a comprehensive factual overview of Canada’s detainee scandal, in spite of the statistics. For that, one is better suited to read newspaper reports and activist websites. From such sources, we discover that detainees are kept at a cost of $239 a day; that Canada is in violation of international law, which limits immigration detention to 90 days. A Red Cross investigation found numerous shortcomings at Canadian facilities, including triple-bunked cells, detainees sleeping on the floor, a lack of support for detained children and inadequate mental health care.

In addition, because there are no dedicated immigration cells in many parts of the country, an estimated 3,952 immigration detainees are held in provincial jails or police facilities alongside suspected gang members and violent offenders. This is extremely stressful, to say the least, for newcomers who have experienced armed conflict, torture, and other traumatic experiences. Without adequate facilities to accommodate a family unit, many families are separated.

Since there are very few publicly released photographs of Canada’s detention centres, without her book it would be very difficult to experience these spaces. The book is an incredible critique of such brutal realms, constructed by architects who train at humanist institutions like U of T. Chak is painfully aware of the hypocrisy of her discipline. “Architecture inflicts violence on human bodies and minds,” she notes.

One of the book’s anecdotes, drawn from a real account, tells of one detainee eventually released. “The first thing she said: take me to the sea, or the next biggest thing. Inside they never let you see the horizon. Instead it is a sequence of fragments, you can never wholly grasp it.

Inside you lose your spatial bearings and markings. You lose identity, and subjecthood.”

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I walked into the Central, dimly lit with white christmas lights, the venue forming the background of Outrageous, a poetry show that is the nemesis of the Art Bar Series. Outrageous encourages heckling, swearing, and grabbing the mic just to have a chat. This series is unorganized, inexpensive, and ridiculous. I was attending the closing show for Outrageous, but the host, Elizabeth, told everyone not to be sad - there will be a revamp (Outrageous 2.0) in the new year. For now, they let the clusterfuck of poetic tears out, as people laughed, screamed and danced. The tone was set early when Elizabeth screamed out “FUCK ART BAR!” We were informed that the show is pay what you want, not what you can.

We are then welcomed by the other host, Jay, screaming behind a curtain. At first, the feeling was uncomfortable, partly due to the loud music beforehand and partly due to the tight knit community of writers around me, none that I knew personally. But as Jay and Elizabeth screamed out jokes and amazing poetry was forced out of each poet’s mouth, the night grew more and more comfortable, as if every person in the room was now connected through the traumatic experience that is Outrageous.

Outrageous has an “I dont give a fuck” attitude, that allows for a looser environment.

Many people came on stage claiming this was the first time they read at the series, and one even said it was his only the second time reading his poetry in front of an audience at all (followed by “FRESH MEAT” and “one of us, one of us” cheers). All of the poets had one thing in common, their love for the community created by this series. Every poet that came on stage had a glowing face, showing their love towards those in the room around them.

One of the poets which are a staple of the series is, J.C. Bouchard, who came on stage after being fed tequila shots and being teased about his teenage daughters. He got on stage, with a brown notebook that matched the rest of his earth tone outfit and started to read.

Jay then emerged from behind the curtain with his shirt twisted, showing off the perfect amount of nipple spillage, and started to bust out the 9th grade drama tableaus behind J.C., reenacting his poetry. Lots of giggles came from the audience, J.C. finally noticed Jay, and was relieved that the laughing wasn’t directed at his actual poetry. After being found out

by J.C., Jay ran behind the curtain and came back out with Elizabeth, crawling from behind the curtain and eventually coming together to twist their bodies on top of each other, emulating sex under J.C.’s legs. J.C. continued to read, unfazed, the two performers took it a step further, taking off Jay’s belt when they were interrupted by a blonde in the front, who yelled out about how distracting this

A poet, a pantsless poet

was, and how she just wanted to pay attention to the actual poet. Elizabeth and Jay agreed and stayed off to the side, cuddling. As J.C. left the stage, Elizabeth commented that they had made J.C. into a sex symbol, followed

by Jay joking that they are allowed to molest J.C., as the crowd broke out in laughter.

Another performer read from the Now classifieds, mixing in sexy milfs with sweaty and wet “bods.” He then went into a rant about Tinder (“the straight Grindr,” Jay yelled out, “gays did it first!”) and mesh American Apparel body suits before finishing with a story about him fucking while someone yelled out about his Dane Cook-like routine. Other performers took off various pieces of clothing during their reading, flashing some thigh to the crowd.

Dalton Derksen, referred to as the other J.C., made a joke about how it feels to go to other series dressing as he did, big glasses, backward black cap, shaved head and an oversized leather jacket with a skull printed in the back. He is from Saskatchewan and had an amazing performance, the kind of cheeky voice that demands attention.

When the poetry series ended, a DJ took over to finish off the night, and although no one could pronounce his name, they were more than happy to continue getting drunk as fuck and dancing to his music.

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One of the poets, J.C. Bouchard, came on stage after being fed tequila shots and being teased about his teenage daughters.

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the audience that the one thing she wants us all to get out of this experience is to create something. She challenged us: “If you think this show is so shitty, then go make your own!” Although she made it clear that, obviously, you couldn’t be a better host than her. She promised that Outrageous would return, probably not in the same version, but as something new, and if we know any weird theater kids - to give them this connect.

Shows like these are essential for the poetry scene. They give an alternative to the more grant driven, stuffy, cliquey and mastubratory poetry series in Toronto. Here, anything goes. Keep a look out for Outrageous 2.0. n

pushes himself. I’m fascinated with how much physical and verbal abuse he can sustain, and how far he is willing to take himself to gain the approval of his severe and violent teacher. Is violence necessary

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DIRTY COPS? Toronto Police are suspect at SlutWalk Toronto police agents are going to protests deliberately trying to sabotage them.

That’s the premise of an explosive new work now on show at Hart House’s Justina M. Barnicke Gallery. Wendy Coburn’s Anatomy of a Protest is easily one of the most commanding critiques of power in the Canadian art world.

The curators of the Barnicke deserve high praise for presenting such a bold statement.

The work takes the form of a video centring on the Toronto SlutWalk. Founded by Heather Jarvis, the SlutWalk march is now a global phenomenon originating in Toronto on April 3, 2011 when 3,000 protesters walked from Queen’s Park to Toronto Police Headquarters.

The stimulus was Toronto Police Constable Michael Sanguinetti’s remarks, speaking at York University in the wake of a string of sexual assaults, stating “I’ve been told not to say this–however, women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.” The response was SlutWalk, a feminist and nonviolent protest against victim-blaming, survivor-shaming, and rape culture.

On the surface, the movement was an unqualified success. It garnered national and international media attention and launched a global movement that has led to three years of SlutWalks in two hundred cities worldwide.

The movement did more than any other to reclaim the word slut and stand in solidarity with those victimized by sexual violence.

Wendy Coburn was at that seminal protest, who, as queer and a feminist, says she supported its sex-positive and anti-shaming message. But she also saw something else. It started innocuously enough; she noticed some protesters holding weird signs. Then a larger conspiracy same into view. Speaking in the video, Colburn notes, “Signs that on their own might merely be confusing had a very different meaning when read as a constellation.

Something was happening, meant to fan the flames of controversy and confuse the public.”

The protest was being hijacked, likely by police-affiliated infiltrators, or as they are known in activist circles, ‘agent provocateurs.’ They try to blend in with the crowd and confuse its message, thus marginalizing the voices of authentic protesters. An agent provocateur’s purpose is to undermine the respectability of resistance movements, and ultimately, the rights of citizens.

Colburn is no stranger to activist politics, and no stranger to infiltration. She states in the piece how once in her youth she infiltrated a white supremacist organization. At SlutWalk, after realizing what was happening, Coburn, armed with a camera, identified and filmed a group of about ten people working in tandem to derail the SlutWalk message. They all carry signs made with badminton racket handles, and at different points in the video, some of them change clothes, and swap signs. They keep regrouping at the same black van too, parked directly across from the police station, without a ticket in a no-parking zone.

Image: Wendy Coburn

by David Stokes

There’s something happening here, but what it is ain’t exactly clear.

The true protesters carry signs calling for equality and dignity: “I was wearing pants and a sweater. Was it my fault too?/Stop calling us sluts and we’ll stop calling you pigs/We’re taking Slut back/Blame Rapists for Rape” But the infiltrators’ signs are giant colour-paper boards with non-sequitur, illogical, misspelled, and offensive slogans: “Chitty Chitty Bang Slut!/Slutty is what Slutty Does!/Sluts Say Yes!/Proud SIUT.” Authentic protesters walk with respectful solidarity; while the infiltrators are singularly animated, blaring horns during speeches, jumping all over, and trying with all their might to stay directly in front of the media’s lens.

And they’re incredibly successful. Pictures of the infiltrators and their apolitical and frivolous signs become the lead images depicting “protesters” for the SlutWalk stories on CBC, CTV, the Star, the Globe, the Guardian, all the way to India’s Hindustan Times, among hundreds of other outlets. Coburn understands their method all too well, stating that, “in the eyes of the public, it’s not fact but images that fuel the spectacle.”

While her video feels as much journalism as art, there is certainly a sculptural investigation into in the objects and costumes used by the infiltrators. The work also communicates with recognizable film genres. The artist edits the film in such a way to mimic Hollywood tropes, thrillers and spy movies, at once drawing the reader in through something unpretentious and accessible. There’s also excellent original music and sound design, even a soundtrack, with Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth” used to chilling effect, and at one point the Mission Impossible theme plays, connoting both the police’s tactics of espionage and the apparent impossibility of demonstration free from political sabotage.

Anatomy of a Protest offers a murky, unnerving look into the state of contemporary grassroots activism. As Colburn confesses, the process of making the work “made me feel crazy, paranoid, and really, really angry.”

The video is a sobering close up of activism in the twenty-first century. It is also a hard knock to any naive beliefs about our freedoms of speech and protest; freedoms which are supposed to be inalienable, and incorruptible.

Right from the beginning, the police were at the centre of the protest’s aims. Toronto’s main police station was where the protest ended. The police knew the route of the march from the protest permit, required for every demonstration. As the artist poignantly asks, “Who else but our security forces had a stake in deflecting attention away from police and protesters’ demands for police reforms?”

The accusations tie into the video’s damming subplot, the G20 summit, where police cars were suspiciously abandoned and set on fire, burning without any police intervention at all, the better to paint protestors as hooligans.

There was likely never a day that had more undercop cops, and yet, as Coburn states, despite the hundreds of police undercover, “our streets were never more dangerous.” There were more people beaten on that day than ever before in Toronto history.

They were beaten by police. The video also has dramatic denouement when Coburn yells “Are you with the police?” at the infiltrators, who disappear almost immediately, allowing Coburn to pull additional signs—“The Big Slut After Party”; “Sluts Love Vans”—off the van windows.

Toronto police chief Bill Blair stated that he hoped SlutWalk would be a learning opportunity for some of the young officers, though one may question what exactly that may mean.

We may also wonder in dismay why a dozen people were employed to damage a protest of women’s empowerment, and yet police couldn’t bring themselves to go undercover even once to investigate the disappearance and murder of up to 67 women—many of them sex workers—on B.C.’s “Highway of Tears.”

If Toronto police were responsible for disrupting SlutWalk, there was nothing illegal about it. We must demand that this changes.

There are no laws in Canada banning the provocateur tactics of those servants of the public, who are employed as our protectors – whose very motto is “to Serve and Protect.”

Anatomy of a Protest is on view at Hart House’s Justina M. Barnicke Gallery until December 19th. Wendy Colburn was Assistant and Associate Dean at OCAD University’s Faculty of Art. She teaches there in Sculpture Installation and Art and Social Change. n

“Stop calling us

sluts and we’ll stop calling you pigs”

by Dean McHugh The Green Beet just opened in September, making it the newest location on the U of T eating scene. Located in Gerstein’s basement, it stands out as the only exclusively vegan and vegetarian restaurant on campus. In terms of services, the Green Beet’s only rival is Robarts Cafeteria and Sid’s Cafe, as all three are the only places on campus with pretty much everything: coffee, snacks, hot meals, Kosher and Halal foods, microwaves and flex dollars.

The Green Beat is the best place on campus for gluten free food, although here you’ll have to pay premium for your latest wheat-free detox, or genuine celiac disease. For around $6 you can get half a wrap, and for a loonie more you can get the whole thing. For the vegetarian and vegan, the soups and homely meals are the best thing about the place.

The Green Beet also scores well for the creativity of its food, offering paninis, heat-toorder wraps, pizza slices and a hefty chickpea soup. Their grab-and-go food is pretty comparable to other locations, but in one of the most comfortable and modern dining areas campus, you might not want to. The coffee is supplied

by Marley Coffee, founded by the son of Bob. The “menu highlights” mean there’s always something new to try. To get a taste of their variety, their menu highlights this week included tricolor bean ragout, Mexican lasagna, ratatouille with quinoa, baked penne with artichoke, and spinach rigatoni. The Italian focus is one thing you can count on.

Sure, you can get equally filling, and most importantly, cheaper meals from the food trucks along St. George, but food-truck cuisine is definitely not what the Green Beet is going for. Whole food is the Green Beet’s staple fare.

I’ve heard it’s normal for students to forget what fruit tastes like. Others can’t tell whether their vision impairment is more to do with the blizzard or a Vitamin-A deficiency. It you’re one of those students, the Green Beet (or your GP) might be worth a visit.

The cutlery appears plastic but is made of corn starch; a lesser-known fact on the Green Beet’s sustainability agenda. While the newspaper doesn’t condone eating cutlery, if you decide to try, please report your findings. n

“‘Trust me, the world is run on a shoestring.‘ / He flashed a mouthful of aluminium teeth there in the darkness.” – John Ashbery

Image: Ubisoft

Canadian game company profits from the Nepalese civil war

by Jesse Beatson

First-person shooter Far Cry 4 was released

by Montreal-based Ubisoft on November 18th. Marketing for the game has been drawing heavy parallels between the game’s fictionalized location of “Kyrat” and the country it is based on, Nepal. Alex Hutchison, the creative “Shoot that holy site up, bruh.” director of Far Cry 4, reported,“If we were going to have a story about going to a Nepal-like “needed to find somewhere that had a history rebels and the king’s army. This conflict didn’t environment in Kyrat, then we needed to be of conflict–somewhere that could be politically receive much media attention in the West, as truthful as possible.”A quick scan of gaming unstable–the kind of place that you would go despite claiming over 16,000 lives and causing review sites indicates an overwhelmingly posto that was on the edge of the map…Places far-reaching effects on Nepal’s political system. itive response so far. Ubisoft cleaned up at the that are referred to as ‘failed states.’” So it was Certain parts of the country were caught 2013/2014 Canadian Videogame Awards and about enhancing the game’s sense of realism? between armed forces and local communiwith Far Cry 4, they are looking to continue Then in response to early criticism of Far Cry 4, ties were often terrorized by both sides.

Ubisoft employed the “we are just making art” dominating in sales and critical acclaim. Their What about the people who lived this argument. Mark Thompson says: “We’re makapproach with this latest addition to the Far conflict or are connected to the people it has ing a video game. It’s about escapism and fun.”

Cry franchise is to further heighten the felt affected? What would they think about painful So much for being “as truthful as possible.” “realism” of gameplay while ramping up the recent history, perhaps even traumatic personal Describing one of their treks in Nepal, sense of risk and danger by putting the player experiences, being turned into entertainment?

Thompson reported: “I felt like I was in Kyrat. in increasingly ethically dark situations.

Ram Sapkota, a PhD student at McGill, pointThe landscape was perfect. Everything looked Ubisoft has made the “exotic” flavour of ed out to me that while Kyrat might be a made Nepal an important part of its North American up place, the word is taken from the name of like the game I’d been playing. We left civilimarketing strategy. In Montreal and Toronto zation behind.” This blatant orientalism (and the “Kirat” or “Kirati” people, an indigenous they have commanfactual inaccuracy: Nepal was never, in fact, ethnic group of the deered bus stops and classified as a ‘failed state;’ and Nepali culture Himalayas. Having “In Montreal and dressed them up in goes back thousands of years) show that the a Kyrati protagonist the architectural style game creators were primarily attracted by their engage in multiple vioToronto they have of Nepalese holy sites. lent massacres through- notions of Nepal as a violence-steeped place on commandeered bus the extreme periphery; a place far from home Below the decorative out the game may roof and Tibetan where violence can be effectively framed as “reflect badly on the stops and dressed harmless entertainment. For all Ubisoft’s rhetprayer flags (ubiqKirati people.” Sapkota them up in the oric, their attraction to Nepal seems little more uitous in Nepal), an also spoke to me about than callous voyeurism along with an opporad poster depicts the architectural style of the message the game tunistic ploy to generate hype and boost sales. game’s villain, Pagan sends. “How do you Nepalese holy sites.”

Nir Prakash, chairperson at the Nepal Min, surrounded by solve social problems?

Mental Health Foundation (NMHF) based deadly weapons and Take up a gun, when in Kathmandu, has simply said “the game sitting casually against there are hundreds is disgusting.”

Coming from his context, a Buddha-statue amid a Himalayan mountain of other ways”. This concern might be more advocating on behalf of people with menscene. The game’s main character, Ajay Ghale, easily addressed if it were not for the fact that tal health challenges in Nepal, he is paris an Americanized Nepali man returning to many survivors of the conflict in Nepal are ticularly upset that a Canadian company the country of his birth who “gets caught up in still struggling to cope. Though the impact of is profiting off of a conflict from which a rebellion to overthrow the oppressive regime.” the civil war in Nepal has been complex, and people are still feeling the aftermath, inAs this ad campaign shows, Ubisoft has some positive new changes have emerged, the cluding widespread psychological trauma. hijacked Nepal’s landscape and ritual life as a notion in Far Cry 4 that violence solves the Far Cry 4 comes too soon after the close of kind of marketable exoticism. What’s more, the kind of problems Nepal has faced is naturalthe Nepalese Civil War, which remains an open game’s narrative is based on a civil war in Nepal ly going to offend and hurt some people. wound for many. Critics of it are not simply that ended only recently, in 2006, and from It’s important to remember that the game conveying the oft-repeated condemnation of which people are still suffering. This conflict is designers of Far Cry 4 had the benefit of all “violence as entertainment” in video games. being cynically exploited by Ubisoft to sell the the information they had could have reasonRather the ethics of this game’s appropriation ‘realism’ of their game, in itself nothing new for ably gathered. They went on a field trip to of Nepal’s civil war, including the experiences first-person shooters. Far Cry 4 merely continNepal and even interviewed conflict survivors. of conflict survivors, needs to be seriously ues this recent trend of blurring lines between Gaurav Thapa, a former U of T student, told examined.

There is little justification for the simulated and real life violence, a formula that’s me that some of his friends were initially excitmarketing of this game as an “authentic” been highly successful for video game compaed when they heard about the game coming representation of Nepal or its recent history. n nies as they compete to offer the most “edgy” out. However, one of the biggest issues that and “exciting” player experiences. Far Cry 4 was immediately apparently with the fiction100 YEAR OLD WOMAN GOES SKYDIVING game play includes sneaking up behind people al Kyrat kingdom was its language. Ubisoft ......................................................................... and killing them with a Kukri (traditional used Hindi as the language of choice rather After kissing her 7-month-old great-great-grandGurkha blade), using elephants as weapons, than Nepali. Whether this was done out of ziplining on strings of prayer flags, detonating ignorance or was a cost-saving measure is undaughter before boarding the plane, Eleanor Cuntemples, overhearing acts of torture, stabbing known, but many Nepalese are very upset and ningham of Howes Cave, New York, went skydiving various other animals to harvest organs as bait, there is currently a petition with over 3,000 to celebrate her 100th birthday. It was her third and (spoiler alert) using a pistol to execute signatures attempting to have this changed. jump; she first tried the sport at age 90. Her doctor a woman who “betrays” the rebellion.

Why was Nepal such an appealing choice signed off on the skydiving expedition since her The Nepalese Civil War was a decade to Ubisoft as the setting for Far Cry 4? In nargood health means she is more than capable of takof conflict (1996 –2006) between Maoist rative director Mark Thompson’s words, they ing the trip. With files from CP24.

JOHN HITCHCOCK’S

KUBRICK QUIZ

TIFF has a Kubrick exhibition going on right now. Can you match the description of the prop to the movie?

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A three foot rubber baby

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Carefully crafted 18th-century garments

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A typewriter on which the phrase “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” has been typed endlessly 4

A cane used to beat several people up

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Unnerving figures in strange masks

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A giant ape costume

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An axe used by a deranged writer to break down a door 8

A spacesuit worn on the moon

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Remote controlled marine helicopter

10 Erotic statues of nude women and a sculpture of a man’s genitalia

(1. 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2. Barry Lyndon,

Reality

3. The Shining, 4. A Clockwork Orange, 5.

A Far Cry From

Strip Club Hosts Church Services .................................................................................

A strip club called The Manor in Guelph, Ontario has Saturday nights full of tits and booze, but early Sunday afternoons it hosts a church service with a four-piece worship band. Jack Ninaber, a non-denominational Christian pastor, was first given the idea to run a church service in a strip club by his wife when they were driving past The Manor in 2013. They’d been hosting a church service once a week at their home nearby, but their crowd had grown to about 35 people—leading them on a search for a new venue. The posters of scantily clad women on pillars had to be covered up with images of Jesus, the pole had to be sanitized; the mirrors embossed with images of strippers were covered with curtains and a pool table was covered and decked out with mini-sandwiches, Bundt cakes and oranges. A guest speaker takes the stage, playfully swinging around the stripper pole before he says anything. Dancers started coming in around 7 PM, their weekly gift from the ministry was waiting for them—a vase of flowers in their change room. With files from Vice Media.

Eyes Wide Shut, 6. 2001: A Space Odyssey,

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7. The Shining, 8. 2001: A Space Odyssey, 9.

for success? Mastery of your craft? This film says yes.

Full Metal Jacket, 10. A Clockwork Orange)

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