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THE LONGEST GAME GETS LONGER

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Sexual assault policy inaugural meeting

WolfPack plays 100 innings

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University to issue call outs to students affected by sexual assault • Page 2

Team plays an extra long game to fundraise for its Arizona trip • Page 7

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Fashion Speaks event focuses on missing and murdered Aboriginal women

Transit changes frustrate

Bus routes juggled around to make up for lost hours, students left frustrated Changes to the transit system have changed the way TRU students and staff ride the bus to the university. The changes most relevant to students are the removal of Number 8 Battle Street route and the changes that have been made to the 7 and 9 buses to accommodate the lost route. The 7 will serve the Sahali-Bestwick and Battle neighbourhoods, as well as its normal route through Aberdeen.

This significantly lengthens the travel distance of the route.

According to City of Kamloops engineering manager Deven Matkowski, all decisions regarding route adjustments are jointly decided between BC Transit planners and the City of Kamloops. • CONTINUES page 4

Mrs. Universe Ashley Callingbull-Burnham walks on stage during last week’s fundraiser/awareness event • Page 5

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Forget hockey – football is king

Care aide program gets $275,000

How football won over The Omega’s sports editor, and why he hates Canada • Page 7

Health care assistant certificate program benefits with addition of 32 seats • Page 4

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Sexual assault policy task force holds inaugural meeting Jim Elliot NEWS EDITOR Ω A further step has been taken in the process of forming a sexual assault policy at TRU. The task force formed earlier this summer, held their inaugural meeting on Sept. 17.

The task force formed following the publishing of an article written by TRU student Jean Strong about her experience being turned away by a counselor when reporting being sexually assaulted in 2012.

According to dean of students Christine Adam, the role of the

task force will be “to advise TRU’s president and senior administration.” The 27-member task force has members from staff, faculty and students. The task force has been divided into four smaller working groups: policy and procedure development, reporting and response, educational programming and communications.

Adam said that the inaugural meeting was mainly focused on organizing the objectives and responsibilities of the working groups. The education group, for example, would be deciding how it would be delivered, whether or not it

would be mandatory, if it’s delivered online or in person, and whether it’s consent education, or bystander education, as well.

The task force also discussed how other institutions were approaching development of a sexual assault policy.

“We’re all at different stages and we’re all trying to work collaboratively – sharing information like policy language – there’s no sense in us spending a lot of time working on policy language if another institution has put a lot of effort into that and is willing to share,” Adam said.

She went on to say that other

universities, particularly the University of Winnipeg, were further ahead of TRU in developing a dedicated sexual assault policy and could serve as an example going forward.

TRU student Jean Strong was not invited to attend the opening meeting but said that she would be called in if the task force had any questions for her.

“I would say that I’m glad to see that there are efforts being made on campus to create change. I hope that as the task force moves forward I will be included in decision making about what the best options are

for TRU to educate students to prevent assault and especially in what an appropriate response from the school constitutes,” Strong said.

Adam said that the working groups of the task force will be issuing call-outs for input from students who have had direct experience with sexual violence.

“It would be inappropriate for us to not be hearing those voices,” Adam said, adding that students who would like to participate in the process can come to her directly.

The task force meets next on Nov. 19.

Kamloops doctor shortage worsens Campus Medical Centre still healthy, but appointments must be booked far in advance Wade Tomko NEWS EDITOR Ω Earlier this month, Aspen Medical Centre on Tranquille Road lost two of their physicians.

Doctors Arshad Mahmood and Ambreen Bushra said they would be relocating to somewhere else in the province, leaving more than a handful of Kamloops residents without a doctor. Aspen is still in business, but is now being run by just one physician: Dr. James Howie.

To make matters worse, the closure comes right after Ashcroft lost one of its family physicians. With Logan Lake lacking any general practitioners as well, many residents in the Thompson-Okanagan are being re-routed to Kamloops. The Thompson Region Division of Family Practice, an organization that seeks to improve local residents’ access to health care, has been unable to confirm if more doctors will come to fill the void.

Here on campus, the Campus Medical Centre offers students access to a general practitioner, even if they don’t already have a family doctor. As long as you are a student, faculty or staff, you are welcome to use the services provided by the centre. Students

who already have a family physician can book appointments as well, but are discouraged from doing so, as it would further strain on the university’s medical system.

The centre also receives a large number of international students. “Since it’s easier and less time consuming to use the Campus Medical Centre instead of walk-ins, we see quite a few international students up here,” Turnbull said. “Plus we know the internationals better than anyone else in town, making it easier on both us and them.”

The centre deals more often with common cases rather than chronic care patients like a regular family practitioner might.

They also play a large role in vaccinating students in the nursing and animal health tech programs against a number of maladies they may encounter, as well as doing physicals for all of TRU’s athletic teams. Come flu season, the Campus Medical Centre also organizes flu clinics in conjunction with the community. But with only three doctors, who alternate full-time shifts, most appointments are quick and only deal with the most severe cases.

However useful, the centre isn’t

without its own problems. They have recently seen a large influx of patients and expect more in the coming months.

“We used to do walk-ins, but in the last two years we have definitely seen a large increase in students using the medical services here,” Turnbull said.

With roughly 50 patients being seen each day, and sometimes upwards of 400 in a week, it has been years since the centre offered walk-in services.

Currently, the centre is completely booked for the next month.

As such, they have been turning away a larger amount of students this year.

With the updated College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C.’s standards regarding walk-ins taking effect earlier this year, more B.C. residents are finding it harder to see a health care professional. The updated standards, which made it easier for patients to declare a walk-in

as their primary care provider, could have the effect of making walk-in clinics obsolete as they start to allow appointments to be made instead of working on a first-come-first-serve basis.

As such, the province has already dealt with several walk-in closures, most of them in the Lower Mainland. If students and staff already lack a family physician and can’t get into a walk-in clinic, the centre may find itself much busier in the future.

TRU’s Campus Medical Centre in Old Main is booking one month in advance. (Wade Tomko/The Omega)

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In support of a Kamloops Performing Arts Centre Sean Brady EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Ω The “No” side in the Kamloops Performing Arts Centre debate needs to be fueled by more than cynicism and economic doomsaying for it to be taken seriously.

A performing arts centre in Kamloops has been a long time coming. In 2011, then-incumbent mayor Peter Milobar voiced his support for the centre, saying that he was hoping to get constructed started within three years.

Obviously that didn’t happen, but project supporters have been persistent and we’re closer than ever to having a performing arts centre in town.

The closure of the Kamloops Daily News provided an

opportunity for the city: it purchased the lot in 2014 for $4.8 million. Other ideas floated around before the eventual decision to use at least some of the Kamloops Daily News lot, such as building the venue right here at TRU. As good as an idea that might have been, the downtown site is one the city has been eyeing all along.

Last year I spoke with BC Living Arts artistic director Alan Corbishley, who summed up the situation by saying there was a “venue crisis.” Judging by others I talked to for the same story (a class project), there’s evidence that’s true. Current venues are either too big or too small or otherwise unaccommodating.

If the business case is to be believed, the centre won’t just be good for performers and audiences

alike – Kamloops itself stands to benefit with an annual economic impact of $11 million. But first, it’ll have to convince the taxpayers that it’s worth borrowing up to $49 million to undertake the $91million project. That might be hard to do with something like a performing arts centre, which doesn’t exactly cater to all taxpayers.

Some of the opposition is quick to point out that Canada is currently in a recession, and that now is no time to be borrowing money – but that seems like shortsighted thinking to me. For those the “Yes” campaign can’t lure in with a wider variety and frequency of performances, it should try to make a positive business case, instead.

Reading through the methodology of the study released by the City of Kamloops, it appears as though the

group did its homework. But as the cynics and “No” campaigners point out, these things can cost more than their initial budget. That might be the only valid “No” point I’ve read so far.

It seems hard to accept cynicism in the face of the group that put the report together, especially from

An early rendering of the proposed centre. (City of Kamloops)

Study abroad: avoiding health scares Marlys Klossner ARTS EDITOR Ω Knowing how to take care of your health while travelling is extremely important. We’ve all heard some horror stories. Our own copy editor Annie Slizak had to cope with both pink eye and a damaged root canal in Quebec and France respectively, which was a nightmare for her all on its own, but the worst health scare story I’ve ever heard came from a girl who had questionable decision-making skills.

I met this girl in a hostel in Chiang Mai, where she told me about the real life nightmare she endured in Cambodia. She had met a guy there who she developed an instant connection with. When they later attempted to have sex, however, she started bleeding an unnatural amount from her vagina. They were

both concerned, so he helped clean her up and put her to bed with some water and food. In the morning she had stopped bleeding but was feeling a little lightheaded. They decided to go through with their plan to visit the Killing Fields, but along the ride she started bleeding again. Their trip ended with her lying on the ground, bleeding and in pain, while the guy tried to find someone who spoke enough English to call an ambulance. She told me people were taking pictures of her lying there, and that she had never felt more humiliated.

Finally an ambulance showed up. They put her on a bare metal stretcher and began a long, bumpy trip to the hospital. At the hospital she was rushed into surgery while the guy frantically called her parents and her insurance provider.

Afterwards, she recuperated in a room in the hospital where another

Cambodian family was living. No one in the hospital spoke English, and when someone was fiddling with her IV drip, she couldn’t tell if it was a nurse or just one of the family members. Eventually she and the guy decided that she would be safer in a hotel room than the sketchy hospital. At the hotel, she urged him to continue with his planned travels while she focussed on getting better, and they could meet up at the end of their travels or back home in the U.K. She told me that she now felt much better, but would still wake up lightheaded and had bad circulation.

Here’s the kicker: because no one at the hospital had been able to speak English, she was not able to find out what was wrong with her in the first place, or what the mystery surgery she had performed on her was.

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My reaction was somewhere along the lines of “How about missing out on the rest of your life!?”

The moral of the story is, have a plan. Buy insurance. Know which hospital you’d prefer to go to in an emergency. Before you leave, make a doctor’s appointment. Call your dentist about that filling you’ve been putting off. Most of all, value your own health and safety more than you value crossing off an item on your bucket list, especially if you want to live long enough to complete it.

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MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS Daniel Hicks CONTRIBUTOR Ω My name is Daniel Hicks and I have decided to write a mental health column for The Omega.

I have been mentally ill for over 26 years and decided to share my experiences with you.

Now, the reason that I am writing is to introduce you to the Canadian Mental Health Association Clubhouse. The clubhouse provides services to assist the mentally ill to maximize their independence in the community. It is also there to encourage confidence and wellness. It’s a place where mentally ill people can go to make friends, to learn and to have fun.

The clubhouse was there for me when I needed it and it helped me out a lot. It has changed a lot in the past 20 years when it was first open.

Before the Canadian Mental Health Association, it was called the Nicola Achievement Center and on a house on Columbia Street. After it moved to Seymour Street, it turned into a bigger place than the house.

Part of the reason the clubhouse got better were the changes that happened during the move.

Now, the clubhouse provides personalized services and education in things like leisure, education and work and helps people living with serious and persistent mental illness stabilize their lives, educate themselves, boost their self-esteem and participate as fully as possible in the community.

The clubhouse is open Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is located at 657 Seymour St. They can be reached at 250-374-0440.

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TRU care aide program gets $275,000 in funding Wade Tomko NEWS EDITOR Ω

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Transit changes leave some students annoyed with new system Jim Elliot NEWS EDITOR Ω CONTINUED (COVER) “BC Transit planners provide recommendations and options for schedule and route changes. City of Kamloops ultimately chooses which recommendations and options to implement,” said Matkowski via email.

Opinions on the route changes amongst TRU students have been divisive.

“My opinion of the changes is that they have overall been good to me at my location in Sahali. For others, maybe not so much,” said Geena Johansson.

Maxine Dafoe, on the other hand, said that “it definitely makes it slower to get places. The buses don’t run quite as smoothly as they used to, so it’s been harder to get to school sometimes. As for getting up to the mall or something, it’s been a lot better if you’re coming from the university.”

Despite ample signage at the bus stops around TRU, some students

said they were confused by the new schedule.

“It was confusing at first. I didn’t look at the schedule online so I got on a bus and it was going the wrong way,” said Jason Mcfarlane.

Confusion over the new schedule has also caused problems for Brianna Huit.

“Last night I tried to get home and two buses just didn’t show up, then I missed my transfer at TRU and then I was just stranded.”

The lengthening of the Number 7 route to accommodate the loss of the Number 8 route seems to be the biggest problem for students.

“I feel like the 7 is a much longer bus ride,” said Kelsy Torres.

Duncan Kennedy said “I take the Number 7 and I’ve been late to almost every single one of my classes since the semester started because buses are late and there is construction.”

There was a plan by the city and province to offer an additional 6,000 hours to Kamloops city transit, but the plan was scrapped when the province did not come through with the necessary funding.

No Number 8 in the new BC Transit map for Kamloops. (BC Transit)

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Corporate accountability the focus of group that involves members of TRU Jim Elliot NEWS EDITOR Ω A recent Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) decision will allow an Ecuadorian court decision demanding damages against the Chevron corporation to be enforced on Canadian soil. The case has a connection right here at TRU. Charis Kamphuis, TRU Law professor and active member of The Justice and Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP), was a part of the legal team that drafted arguments for the case.

The judgement, which was passed down on Sept. 4, is the Canadian phase of a decades-long legal battle in the United States and Ecuador.

The SCC ruling will allow the Ecuadorian plaintiffs to bring legal action in Canada against Chevron in an effort to collect a portion of the approximate $9 billion in damages awarded by the Ecuadorian courts.

According to Kamphuis, because Chevron has no assets

in Ecuador, the plaintiffs are forced to seek enforcement of the judgement in another jurisdiction, such as Canada, in order to collect their compensation.

Chevron has alleged that the Ecuadorian verdict was obtained through corruption and fraud and Kamphuis said that it is “not inclined towards settling.”

A lengthy legal process in the Canadian courts seems likely before any damages are paid.

JCAP is a transnational, volunteer-driven legal clinic that focuses on holding corporations and states to account by offering legal knowledge to communities that are negatively affected by extraction of natural resources.

JCAP works with Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto through Professor Shin Imai, as well as TRU. While no TRU law students were involved with the Ecuadorian case, Kamphuis has started to involve them in other JCAP cases of similar scale.

“A number of TRU students have done work related to JCAP in the last twelve months,”

Kamphuis said. Kamphuis went on to describe a number of JCAP projects which share the theme of holding Canadian corporations responsible for their conduct in other countries.

“Last year, a couple of TRU students contributed to a research project studying instances of violence in conflicts between Canadian mining companies and local communities in Latin America,” she said.

According to Kamphuis, TRU Law students are also working on access to information requests with the goal of identifying how Canada is responding to instances of conflict with Canadian mining companies.

“Those two projects relate to Guatemala,” Kamphuis said.

Allegations of violence surrounding Canadian mining operations in Guatemala are well documented. A shooting, several rapes and the murder of a community leader at the hands of police, military and private security from the Fenix nickel mine are all alleged to have taken place, as documented

by three lawsuits filed with the Ontario Superior Court in 2013.

In June 2014, a separate set of plaintiffs filed suit in a Vancouver court related to an alleged shooting at Tahoe Resources Escobal Mine. None of the allegations have been proven in court.

Other TRU law students have worked on JCAP initiatives ranging from supporting a Peruvian community’s legal action against an American mining company to research on behalf of communities concerned by a Canadian company’s oil exploration in Kenya.

“This summer we were very busy, so I don’t think we’ll really expand. I definitely see it becoming more and more established.

“It’s definitely something that I’m going to continue with. I’ve been doing it for many years, and continue to involve TRU students as volunteers or as research assistants,” Kamphuis said when asked about the future of JCAP collaboration with TRU.

The B.C. government will provide $275,000 in one-time funding to TRU’s health care assistant certificate program.

The announcement was made

by Kamloops-North Thompson MLA and Minister of Health Terry Lake on Tuesday, Sept. 15.

The funding will provide the program with 32 new openings for students and will also be issued alongside any regularly-funded health education spaces at TRU. “[This] is our government responding to the need for more health care assistants to work with an increasingly aging population in the region,” Lake said.

TRU was B.C.’s only university to be awarded this one-time funding, which targeted programs up to one year in length.

This came after the province’s call for proposals from public post-secondary institutions, when the Ministry of Health cited the need for more professional care aides.

TRU president Alan Shaver was in attendance at Lake’s announcement for the funding.

“One of our top priorities is increasing student success and serving our community. Our students need short-duration training that is affordable, close to home and that will help them serve the needs of their community,” Shaver said.

Donna Murnaghan, dean for the school of nursing, said she was happy that the province continues to recognize the health care assistants as key components in B.C.’s health care system.

Health care assistants are used in a variety of settings, from acute care and residential care, to independent and assisted living care. TRU’s health care assistant program takes 27 weeks to complete and strictly adheres to the B.C. health care assistant curriculum. As such, graduates of TRU’s care aide program are highly respected throughout the province.

Courses are offered throughout the fall and winter semesters, at both the Williams Lake and Kamloops campuses, and through Open Learning as well. Focussing on assisting older adults in meeting their basic physical, emotional, environmental and social needs, health care assistants use a person-centred approach to help maintain their clients’ maximum level of care and independence.

Although there are already some 50,000 health care assistants registered with B.C. Care Aide and the Community Health Care Registry, many communities throughout B.C. still require more health care assistants.

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Speaking loud and clear Fashion benefit focuses on missing and murdered aboriginal women Marlys Klossner ARTS EDITOR Ω “It shouldn’t be dangerous to be a First Nations woman in this country,” said Ashley Callingbull-Burnham Wednesday afternoon.

Callingbull-Burnham is Mrs. Universe 2015, and the first Canadian and first Indigenous woman to hold the title, which is given to winners of Mrs. Universe, a pageant similar to Miss Universe, but for married women.

Callingbull-Burnham spoke at Fashion Speaks BC, a day of music, fashion and presentations at Thompson Rivers University to raise awareness and funds for missing and murdered aboriginal women.

According to a study by the RCMP, in November 2013 there were 105 unsolved cases of missing aboriginal women for over 30 days. There were also 120 unsolved homicides of aboriginal women

between 1980 and 2012. A whopping 38 per cent of the unsolved missing cases and 30 per cent of said homicides are from British Columbia alone.

Among the many heart-wrenching stories told at the event was Callingbull-Burnham’s own report of childhood physical and sexual abuse. Her mother, Lisa Ground, who holds the title of Mrs. North America Globe Classic, also spoke briefly at the event, and both walked in the fashion show.

Musical acts included Kasp, Young Medicine, Enter Tribal and Kelly Derrickson.

Butterflies in Spirit, a dance troupe made up of family members of missing and murdered aboriginal women, performed following Callingbull-Burnham’s talk. Lorelei Williams, the group’s founder, spoke about an aunt who has been missing since the 70s, another aunt who was pushed out a window by her ex-boyfriend, a cousin whose DNA was found on Robert Pickton’s farm and another

cousin who was raped by a serial killer. The day was full of stories like these, told by family and friends of victims.

The event had a political tilt with Callingbull-Burnham criticizing Prime Minister Stephen Harper for not making the issue a priority. Callingbull-Burnham had previously criticized Harper in a tweet, and she stood by her actions.

“I feel like the government has failed us,” she said, urging the audience to vote him out of office. “It’s not just a First Nations problem. It’s a Canada problem.”

This sentiment was later echoed

by Tracy Leost, a 16-year-old girl who ran 115 km to raise awareness for the cause.

Callingbull-Burnham called for a national inquiry and plugged Who Is She, a fundraising campaign by the Chiefs of Ontario assembly with the goal of conducting their own inquiry. She called on people to learn more and to donate by visiting WhoIsShe.ca.

LEFT: Mrs. Universe Ashley Callingbull-Burnham hits the catwalk for a cause. BOTTOM LEFT: Triple threat Jamie Medicine Crane. BOTTOM RIGHT: Shevani Nall’s Rasa Clothing collection.

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100 innings deep to raise money for Arizona trip Cameron Doherty SPORTS EDITOR Ω Sunday, Sept. 20 was a day the WolfPack baseball team spent doing exactly what they like to do best: playing a lot of baseball.

A normal CCBC baseball game is 7 innings long and takes anywhere from 2 to 3 hours to complete. The game that the WolfPack played on Sunday was substantially longer. Starting at 9 a.m. and finishing just after 4

p.m., the 100 Innings Fundraiser is a marathon that the WolfPack undertake each and every year in the hopes of raising money to go on their annual February trip to Arizona.

The team invites members of the business and baseball communities to come out to the field and pledge anywhere from $25 to $500. The money can either go to an individual member of the team or to the team in general to be dispersed amongst the players. Each player is expected

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A close game through 99 of the 100 innings game on Sunday, Sept. 20. (Cameron Doherty/The Omega) to raise $800 to attend the 10-day-long trip, during which they will play games against community college and college teams from Arizona.

WolfPack assistant coach Alex Reid spoke about how some players find it difficult to raise the funds required. “For players from Kamloops it’s easier, but there are some guys who don’t have the connections [in the Kamloops business community] who have struggled with it.”

The game is just one of many

fundraisers that the team puts on throughout the year and Reid says that “Most of the actual fundraising is done closer to [the trip to] Arizona, this is more just to create connections between the players and people who are considering donating.”

The family-friendly atmosphere down at the park was the perfect spot to do that kind of connecting as the WolfPack team split up into two squads and played with members of the Kamloops Minor Baseball

Association, people from TRU and other members of the closeknit Kamloops baseball community. The turnout of about 40 or 50 people was “about what we usually get,” according to Reid.

For the 22 new players suiting up for TRU this year it was a crash course in just how integrated the team is in the community as the players spent seven hours hanging out with young ball players who one day hope to be pulling on the white and orange jerseys of TRU baseball.

On the weekend Women’s soccer and volleyball both drop weekend road games Cameron Doherty SPORTS EDITOR Ω

An on-the-bench shot from Morgan Kolasa (TRU Athletics)

Kindra Maracle goes for a header against TWU (TRU Athletics)

Women’s soccer and volleyball were the only two WolfPack teams that played over the weekend. The soccer team wrapped up their six-game road swing with two games in the Lower Mainland, while the volleyball team opened their exhibition schedule with a tournament in Edmonton.

Women’s soccer dropped both games they played over the weekend and their record now sits at 2-3-1. It was an even affair in Abbotsford Friday night as the WolfPack deserved a better result than the 1-0 loss that they were handed by the University of the Fraser Valley Cascades.

Unfortunately for TRU, Saturday’s game was a little less even as the Trinity Western University Spartans defeated the WolfPack 3-0.

Women’s volleyball finished an exhibition tournament in Edmonton with one win and two losses. The WolfPack got the tournament started off on the right foot with a three sets to one win over the University of Saskatchewan Huskies. That would be the highlight of the tournament for the WolfPack however as they would go on to lose their last two games to the Mount Royal University Cougars and the McMaster Marauders respectively.

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Forget hockey – football is king Cameron Doherty SPORTS EDITOR Ω This may surprise you coming from someone who grew up in small-town Canada, learned to skate when he was four and proudly admits to having watched all 26 editions of Don Cherry’s Rock’Em Sock’Em Hockey, but as far as I’m concerned, football is king. It wasn’t always this way.

Up until this year I would have definitely toed the country line like a good Canadian and said that hockey is the best sport to watch, but now that we are three weeks into the 2015/16 NFL season I have to say that there is no sport in the world as captivating as football.

It all starts with the length of the season. With only sixteen games on the regular season schedule there is a sense of urgency to each and every game that is lacking in other professional sports. This isn’t baseball, where a ten game losing streak is something that can be bounced back from in the other 152 games. In the NFL every game

has the intensity of a playoff game.

Another positive that can be found in the way that the NFL’s games are scheduled is the awesomeness that is an NFL Sunday. All but two of the games in a week, one on Thursday and one on Monday, take place on a Sunday. This leads to a jam-packed lineup of games that begins at 10 a.m. and continues up until the last game ends at around 9 p.m. That is almost 12 hours of non-stop football: something that any sports-loving, procrastination-prone university student should be able to appreciate. The week-long break between games also allows just the right amount of time for me to forget that weird combination of pride and self-loathing that is felt after spending 12 hours refusing to leave the couch.

Another factor that puts the NFL at the top of my weekly viewing list is the absolute circus that surrounds the game. For a sport that only runs from September to February, the NFL manages to dominate the headlines of the sporting world almost all year

long. Whether it is deciphering just exactly what difference .03 psi of air pressure could really make, or getting a weekly update from J.J. Watt’s remote cabin summer escape, this summer is when it finally hit me that football is now just as much about the personalities involved and what happens off the field as the actual football season. The sport has become akin to a soap opera, and like any soap opera, it is absolutely necessary to watch each week’s episode so that you can spend the entire week discussing and deciphering what just happened.

So with week four of the season fast approaching, it is important to remember that as long as those Sundays spent watching football may feel, the season itself will be over all too quickly. So take advantage of all the lazy Sundays you can get, and enjoy the best league to watch in the world, because all too soon we will be stuck back adrift in the horrible time that most people call spring and summer, but what football fans know as the off-season.

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