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Creston House groundbreaking marks beginning of The Reach Juan Cabrejo STAFF WRITER Ω The Cape Group, a Vancouver-based development company, has officially kicked off their endeavours at Thompson Rivers University with a groundbreaking ceremony for Creston House. This marks the first development for The Reach. Alan Shaver shared a few words on the project.

“Today, we're going to see the beginning of something that’s been done right and is going to benefit not only Thompson

Rivers University but also the city of Kamloops,” he said.

Creston House will be a 56-unit condominium building on one acre of land located on the north side of TRU’s Old Main building.

The building is the first of many planned for the TRU campus. Finlay Sinclair, CEO of the TRU Community Trust, said construction will include a variety of zoning areas all over.

“We’re going to develop mixed-use residential, retail and commercial areas up by the Subway entrance and Reservoir Coffee,” Sinclair said.

The Creston House groundbreaking ceremony took place at the TRU Lot A on Oct. 24, 2017. (Juan Cabrejo/The Omega)

Sinclair also shared why he thinks people should consider the campus development.

“I think the biggest attraction is that it’s right on campus – right where the education happens. And we’re building the environment for students. Instead of having to walk a kilometre to go to a coffee shop or to get groceries, it is going to happen all on campus.”

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TRU one of 11 universities searching for a president Jennifer Will NEWS EDITOR Ω TRU president Alan Shaver’s term expires in August 2018 and the university’s search for his successor is underway. Staff, students, faculty and community members gathered on Oct. 24 and 25 in the Grand Hall to provide their input on what traits and skills they’d like to see in TRU’s next president.

Jim Thomson, search committee chair, said that TRU is a unique institution and that the committee’s goal is to find a tailor-made candidate.

Thomson said they held these two open consultations for everyone to attend as it is important to hear from the people who will be most affected by the new leadership.

“We’re trying to get a grassroots approach, where it’s not from the top down and we listen to people,

and we engage with them, and we answer questions and we get their input,” Thomson said.

Along with the two consultations that were open to the public, the committee met with several other groups on and off campus. On campus, the committee gathered input from faculty associations, the students’ union and the alumni association. It also met with the Canadian Union of Public Employees, the Leadership Relations Alignment and Communication Committee, and the Association of Professional Administrators. The committee also held consultations with the TRU senate, the planning council for open learning, the president’s council, the First Nations community and the TRU board of governors.

During these consultations, Thomson said feedback shows desire for a good communicator, someone who is respectable and

intelligent, and someone who can lead a team with confidence.

“We’re looking for a strong leader with a vision, somebody who is a people person, somebody who will take the time to learn the unique aspects and the history of TRU and that will respect the culture that’s here,” Thomson said.

The wish list of attributes and skills the next president should have is long and Thomson said that the competition to find the perfect candidate may be stiff.

He added that, in Canada, there are 11 universities searching for a president right now.

“Will we find the perfect person who meets every requirement?

Probably not, but we’ll try and find the best fit,” Thomson said.

Competition from other university searches may not be TRU’s only challenge. The president’s current salary is frozen and capped at $200,000 per year, not

including expenses. This restriction may make it harder to attract candidates that TRU wants.

“We are doing what we can to lobby the government [to increase salary caps], because that could cause a failed search,” Thomson said.

Thomson says a failed search would cost the university money, resources and much more.

“There is a huge risk associated with a failed search,” Thomson said. “A lot of momentum lost and a lot of good things that are happening here may get stalled.”

TRU’s Presidential Search Committee is composed of 15 members, seven of which were appointed by the senate. This includes five faculty members: Lyn Baldwin from science, Judy Duchscher from nursing, David Hill from arts, Wendy Hulko from education and social work, and Marion Oke from student development. It also includes one

staff member, Evan Hilchey the director of student affairs and one student, Evan Choy from the school of business and economics.

The board also contains four administrators appointed by the president: Christine Adam, the dean of students, Baihua Chadwick, associate vice-president international and CEO global operations and TRU World, Matt Milovick, vice-president administration and finance and Don Poirier, senior director strategic partnerships and open learning.

Three of the committee are board members Jim Thomson, Barbara Berger and Rick Heney who were appointed by TRU’s board of directors The final member, Fiona Chan, was appointed by both the alumni association and the TRU Foundation.

The university has also contracted executive search firm The Geldart Group to help it find a new president.

Who’s really to blame for TRU’s parking problem?

TRUSU shrugs off blame and points the finger back at the university NEWS EDITOR Ω

McLellan said that many of the conversations around parking now include pieces of this proposal, but many of these elements were never meant as standalone policies but rather a small part of a bigger plan.

“At the end of the day, no matter what we’ve been trying over the past three years, nothing has been

working. We have reached out to administration, we have sent them petition signatures, we have tried everything in our physical power to make some positive change happen. But realistically, at the end of the day, the people that are able to change parking is the administration,” Gilbert said.

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Each day, students, staff and faculty drive past a full Lot N in search for a parking spot.

They can’t afford a place in the premium or gated premium lots, and many are frustrated with the current system at TRU. But who is really responsible for the state of the university’s parking?

Glenn Read, TRU’s director of ancillary services, said TRUSU’s recommendation to open up staff lots to students played a part in the decision to do so.

“We decided to have a premium and a gated premium. That was – I don’t know if I can say it was specifically because of TRUSU’s recommendation – but they played a part in it, because they wanted fair and equitable access to parking.

They thought that staff parking wasn’t a fair way to go, so we took a look at it. We gave them equal access to the locations,” Read said in October during a public parking update and information session.

Alex McLellan, university governance coordinator at TRUSU, said that yes, TRUSU did make the recommendation to open up staff lots, but that’s not quite the full story. He said the student union first got involved in trying to improve parking in January 2014.

“Parking fees went up from $3 a day to $4 a day to $5 a day,” McLellan said.

This rise in fees created an incentive for students and others to begin paying attention to what was going on with parking.

“This [fee increase] was part of the TRU transportation demand management strategy, which was supposed to be a broad approach in how we were going to deal with transportation more broadly. But basically, TRU had only moved forward a strategy of increasing

This report provided TRUSU with evidence of students’ concerns. McLellan said issues around parking included affordability, use of revenue and a lack of rate options.

McLellan said he was told by senior TRU staff that no changes to parking would be made that didn’t maintain the same revenue generating system.

With that statement in mind, the 2015 student budget consultation made eight recommendations that attempted to maintain the revenue system and improve the parking system for students, staff and faculty. The recommendations included opening staff lots for everyone to use and creating flexible rate options.

“We included things in there like extending pay parking to evenings and weekends,” McLellan said. “Of course the student union didn’t actually want evening and weekend paid parking.”

TRUSU president Tatiana Gilbert said that specific recommendation was intended to be an alternative way to spread out the parking fee and make day rates cheaper.

“There’s no way student representatives would say ‘let’s increase parking, lets do something the student aren’t asking for.’ We’re students ourselves, why would we want to do anything like that.

It just goes to show that they pick and choose what they want, and they also choose to show the community what we have asked for in a different way,” Gilbert said.

McLellan said these recommendations were submitted in good faith and were meant as a starting off point.

“We make a submission intending for there to be a debate, a conversation and we just get a formal response,” McLellan said. “It might be good for students in some cases, might not, but it’s certainly not in the systematic approach of making parking work for everyone.”

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parking fees,” McLellan said.

TRUSU replied to the increases and submitted three recommendations to the university as compromises to the current transportation demand management strategy, which focused on sustainability and maintaining revenue. TRUSU’s recommendations included half-day rates in the central lots on campus and a carpool lot.

“TRU responded and said, ‘We will implement $4-a-day in Lot N,’ which is the origin of how that lot is cheaper now, and they said they would pilot the half-day rate in Lot E, which is the gravel lot right by the entrance,” McLellan said.

With this change, some improvement was made but not all of the recommendations were taken or implemented in the manner suggested. McLellan said that this should have been the first red flag.

“The way TRU has responded to suggestions on parking is to pick and choose the pieces they want to implement and to do that according to their own logic,” McLellan said. “We contributed an idea that was built into a larger plan about how parking could work better for all stakeholders.”

McLellan said that once TRU received the union’s proposal there was no debate or further discussion. For example, their recommendation for half-day rates was piloted in a lot that was far away from the centre of campus, rather than in one of the central lots.

“They pick the items that they are willing to do, and they move them forward in the way that they want to move them forward,” McLellan said.

TRUSU followed up these initial recommendations by conducting the first student budget consultation and surveyed the student body to discover their key priorities. Parking was one of the top three priorities students identified.

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Despite these being properties sold at an unrealistic price point for students, Reisa Schwartzman, president of Cape, assures that the project is intended for all types of buyers, due to the way the building is designed.

However, she acknowledges this is not an affordable option for everyone.

“We offer one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments and we are already seeing buyers such as staff, empty nesters, and investors who will rent out and students,” Schwartzman said.

At Creston House, buyers are looking at a starting price of $239,000 for a one-bedroom suite roughly 600 square feet in size. A two-bedroom suite with

universities in the province. The a den will start at $335,000 and University of British Columbia, will be approximately 980 sq. ft. for example, has rules forcing in size. The penthouse suite will a developer to add a certain be about 1,900 sq. ft. and starts percentage of a building’s units at $749,000. as affordable housing for the “This is not affordable university community. housing. This is a beautiful apartment, and there are people who need to live in beautiful apartments.”

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Law students will meet with Trudeau's LGBTQ advisor Kirsten Folvik CONTRIBUTOR Ω Grace McDonell and Lauren Coles got the news last week that they will be given the opportunity to meet with Randy Boissonnault, an MP and special advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on LGBTQ issues.

McDonell and Coles are leading members of the TRU chapter of the advocacy group OutLaws, and are slated to travel to the Supreme Court of Canada in late November. They are acting as intervenors in Trinity Western University’s case to instate an accredited law school, which has been hindered by its controversial “community covenant,” which stipulates students not engage in sexual intimacy outside of marriage between a man and a woman.

Prior to meeting with Boissonnault, Coles and McDonell will be speaking to another member of parliament, Pamela Goldsmith-Jones, over the phone. In both of these engagements, the third-year law students will discussing government outreach with the LGBTQ community and exploring ways that LGBTQ law students can be supported.

“For us to be able to have that voice and give that voice to people is incredible, and it’s not something that either of us fathomed having the opportunity to do when we came to law school,” Coles said of the upcoming conversations.

On getting the news about these meetings, Coles and McDonell reached out to other equity groups in the area, including TRUSU’s Pride club, the equity committee and Kamloops Pride.

“We are just two individuals.

We want to make sure that all of TRU and Kamloops are throwing in their ideas,” McDonell said. “It’s not only the law school level. It’s the TRU level and now we feel like we are branching out to the Kamloops level.”

The pair is hoping that the meetings with members of parliament and the court case itself will shine more of a light on the importance of diversity within the profession of law.

“To have a decision in our favor would be a huge step towards diversity in the legal profession,” Coles said. She added that losing the case would be “heartbreaking,” but that there are always things that can be

done outside the courts.

Coles was referring to other efforts taken to improve diversity in their ranks. One such example is the leading role that the TRU OutLaws have taken on the case, although they are in a coalition with the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria. Another is the equity committee, which McDonell sits on.

“You look at the lack of diversity for LGBTQ individuals or even women on the bench, and there’s a huge problem there as well,” McDonell said. “So, it starts at ‘who can go to law school’ and those are the first steps.”

Ensuring that LGBTQ students have equal access to a law education is a key part of why some organizations chose to deny Trinity Western’s proposed law program accreditation. It is also the reason some organizations applied to intervene on the case.

According to McDonell, an intervenor is a third party that joins a lawsuit to ensure their own rights and interests are protected. For the OutLaws, this means intervening to ensure the rights and freedoms of LGBTQ law students are upheld.

Trinity Western’s case for accreditation was denied by three provincial law organizations, which called out the university’s compulsory “community covenant” as discriminatory against LGBTQ individuals.

The covenant states that students must agree to abstain from “sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman.”

The TRU OutLaws have been involved in the case for a few years, and appeared as an intervenor in both the B.C. Supreme Court and the B.C. Court of Appeals. The hearings at the Supreme Court of Canada will begin Nov. 30.

Until then, McDonell and Coles are thankful for the support they’ve gotten from their professors and peers at TRU. “It’s very much a community thing,” Coles said. “I don’t feel like Grace and I are the only ones going to the Supreme Court of Canada. I think the whole school is going with us.”

For more information or to follow McDonell and Coles’ journey to the Supreme Court of Canada, email truoutlaws2017@gmail.com or follow @tru_outlaws on Instagram.

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Thompson Rivers University will host the first ever university-run TEDx event. Scheduled for March 2018. The event’s talks will centre around a general theme of “growing through our truths,” and hopes to open the eyes of Kamloops residents to the realities society faces today.

TEDx events differ from TED Talk events in that they are independently-organized.

Event organizer Aanchal Mogla said the goal is to gain an acceptance of the realities of our society and to look at the tools we have within us, our community and our networks to help grow forward towards a more sustainable society.

The event will follow the complex challenges and battles Kamloops presently faces: the Ajax mine, the affordable housing crisis, the homeless population and safe injection sites. In addition to some of these issues, which are common in many areas of the province, the TEDx event will tackle other problems faced by interior communities.

Mogla aims to create a collective space for thinkers to share their ideas and flesh out possible solutions to help grow the community further.

“There’s a lot that’s going on here that I don’t think is being as addressed as it needs to be,” Mogla said.

Two speakers have been selected from TRU’s faculty: Michael Mehta, a professor of geography and environmental studies, and Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour, a sessional lecturer

for the school of social work and human services.

Mehta has worked closely with the the solar panel installations on campus and is heavily invested in sustainable energy. McNeil-Seymour will speak to Indigenous issues and the challenges that come with reconciliation.

Planning for the event is currently underway. The executive team is in place and the timeline plans to have all eight speakers committed by mid-December.

Potential speakers are not limited to professors or other intellectuals.

TEDx encourages any student with an idea to apply. The event looks to incorporate perspectives from all lifestyles to express their realities.

Those interested can email tedxtru@ gmail.com to apply.

TRU tourism professor and Canada research chair Courtney Mason with Kelsey Boule, one of his students doing her master’s thesis on the end of the hunt. (Wade Tomko/Ω)

Experts and TRU researchers weigh in on end of Grizzly Hunt Wade Tomko CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Ω As we get closer to the Nov. 30 deadline for the NDP government’s regulation banning grizzly bear trophy hunting, guide outfitters, ecologists and other B.C. residents have been weighing in on the debate.

While the end to trophy hunting grizzly bears is in sight, it is less certain whether or not the bears can be hunted for food. Activists have long since argued that only a complete ban on grizzly hunting in the province will keep the bears from being killed.

On the other side, hunters want to be able to take home mementos of their kills and they argue that bringing conservation officers bear parts afterwards is critical to furthering research on the animals.

One thing is clear, however.

Voices on both sides believe the most damage done to grizzlies stems from resource extraction and habitat loss.

B.C. auditor general Carol Bellringer specifically called out the expansion of B.C.’s oil and gas industry as the number one detriment to bears in the province.

"We found the greatest threat to grizzly bears is not hunting, rather it's the human activities that degrade grizzly-bear habitat,"

Bellringer said at a news conference last Tuesday.

A similar sentiment is echoed by Mark Worthing, conservation and climate campaigner for the B.C. Sierra Club. Though Worthing is by no means a supporter of trophy hunting, he believes hunters have taken the brunt of the backlash as compared to heavy industry.

“I’m of the opinion that bears, grizzly bears in particular, are struggling from death from a thousand cuts, and amongst those thousand cuts there are quite a few bullets as well,” Worthing said.

“I think the hunt question is an interesting one because it’s so viscerally moral. But what I think is far more insidious, is the impact of logging, mining and fracking.”

Despite the adverse effects resource extraction has on bear habitats, Worthing believes that hunting the bears isn’t sustainable either. Though the NDP have since said that the grizzly population in B.C. is sustainable for the time being, other than Alaska and the Yukon, nearly everywhere else in North America considers the bears to be endangered.

To Courtney Mason, a TRU tourism professor, part of the blame lies on the B.C. Liberals gutting conservation in the province when they were in power.

“Conservation in B.C. is pathetic,” Mason said. “There is a real

connection between the Liberal gutting of conservation and also the basic free-for-all growth in resource extraction economies. To me those things are not disconnected.”

Mason, like Worthing, isn’t a supporter of the hunt either, but understands the impact that its end may have on rural economies that rely on guide outfitting businesses.

While he believes that many rural outfitters may lose their livelihoods, the end of the hunt is a chance for bear viewing operations to grow.

“We are seeing in the great bear rainforest [that] affluent people are paying a lot of money to view and take pictures of grizzly bears and be a part of these new eco-tourism businesses,” Mason said.

“We have a long history in this province of outfitters being entitled to land and to animals, which are not theirs to own. No one owns those resources, they are publicly owned resources.”

Kelsey Boule, a student of Mason’s who is doing her master’s thesis on the topic, has a slightly different opinion. She believes that hunting can be sustainable, yet requires more dialogue between hunters and activists.

“I think that is the key with this, bridging this gap between the rural and urban understanding of what hunting is and where it can be good,” Boule said. “There is a lack of communication that is happening.”

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Kamloops Writers Festival opens their doors to readers and writers alike ARTS EDITOR Ω Kamloops will welcome back the annual Kamloops Writers Festival, held Nov. 3 to 5 at the DoubleTree Hotel in downtown Kamloops. Invited authors include Alix Hawley; TRU faculty member Karen Hofmann; local artist, writer, filmmaker and musician Chris Bose as well as TRU alumni Patrick Blennerhassett.

This three-day festival is jampacked with workshops and panel discussions. The four authors will read from their most recent book releases and share key scenes with the audience.

This year the festival aims for a conversational feel to shift away from the conference vibe that these events often give off.

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festival 20 years ago. I think that I would have been so far ahead from where I am now,” Baker expressed.

With many different workshops available there is something to interest everyone. Hawley is set to speak about the craft of researching for writing. Bose will host a “wild and fantastic” workshop, according to Baker, and Blennerhassett will speak to the art of marketing your work.

The festival also established the Richard Wagamese Memorial Bursary in honour of this beloved author who graced the stage at last year’s Kamloops Writers Festival.

The bursary is awarded to an aspiring Indigenous writer. The 2017 recipient was Geraldine Jules, a TRU student and aspiring poet and screenplay writer.

Tickets can be purchased online for the entire three-day event or for separate events at the Kamloops Writers Festival website.

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opens with “In Conversation With…”, a panel discussion with the authors. Moderated by TRU’s Alicia Ashcroft, the audience will hear about their writing process and the books themselves. An open question session afterwards offers the audience an opportunity to get the answers they need.

While many may find the Kamloops Writers Festival intimidating, event organizer JP Baker insists that this is an event for writers and readers alike. The festival holds both entertainment and education value for the general public.

“I highly recommend new writers to go and get connected,” Baker said.

Attendees will get the chance to mix and mingle with the panel of authors and learn a thing or two about the craft. “Beginner” writers are encouraged to come and partake in this great learning opportunity.

“I myself wish I went to a writers

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Puzzle of the Week #8 — Hugs and Kisses Having survived the zombie apocalypse of last week, you are sending auntie Lucinda a card to let her know you are sort of OK. You have a limited supply of hugs and kisses: two O’s and three X’s. You will send her at least two. If the order does not matter—XXO and OXX would be considered the same—how many possible combinations do you have to choose from?

This contest is sponsored by the Mathematics and Statistics department. The full-time student with the best score at the end of the year will win a prize. Please submit your solution (not just the answer but also why) by noon next Wednesday to Gene Wirchenko (<genew@telus.net>). Submissions by others are also welcome. The solution will be posted the Wednesday after that in my blog (http://genew. ca/). Come visit the Math Centre (HL304): we are friendly.

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SPORTS

WolfPack men's soccer team earns first ever Canada West playoff win Alvin Mutandiro SPORTS EDITOR Ω TRU played its first ever Canada West playoff game on Oct. 27 against the University of Saskatchewan Huskies in Saskatoon.

It was a dominant win.

The ‘Pack led 2-1 at the half, after goals from Mitch Popadynetz (fourth year, midfield, Nelson, B.C.) and Ryan Glanville (fifth year, midfield, Williams Lake, B.C.) 15 and 30 minutes in respectively. If coach Antulov and TRU thought that was a great first half, things only got better in the second as they scored three unanswered goals.

Forward James Fraser (Penticton, B.C.) did what forwards do best. He scored two in the second half at the 81- and 90-minute

marks. Thomas Lantmeeters also got in on the action with a goal in the 86th minute. “[I’m] very happy with our first Canada West playoff win,” said coach John Antulov when speaking to TRU athletics.

Antulov expressed his delight at the performances of subs, Koffi Nyavor (third year, Lethbridge, Alta.) and Anatoli Leville (first year, midfield, Winnipeg, Man.) who came on in the second half.

Antulov also had high praise for forward James Fraser.

“James Fraser was our ‘man of the match’ and had an excellent performance from start to finish.”

TRU moves into the Canada West final four. Coach Antulov and his team will be hoping that the good times roll on in what has already been a historic season for TRU.

TRU's James Fraser, the "man of the match." Photo Josh Schaefer/Huskie Athletics

Women's basketball team starts season strong with wins over MacEwan Alvin Mutandiro SPORTS EDITOR Ω

TRU's Michelle Bos was a point leader for the 'Pack during Saturday's game against MacEwan. (TRU Athletics)

The WolfPack women’s basketball team started their regular season with two victories over the MacEwan University Griffins.

In their season opener the ‘Pack beat the Griffins 72-58 on Friday Oct. 27 here in the Tournament Capital.

It was a game where TRU started slowly but ultimately dominated.

The ‘Pack had three players who scored eleven points, Emily Vilac (fourth year, forward, Kamloops), 11 points, 6 rebounds, Chelsea Hoey (third year, forward, Parksville, B.C.), 11 points, 6 rebounds, and Maddy Neuman (third year, guard, Calgary, Alta.), had 11 points.

Coach Scott Reeves was happy with his team’s performance and felt his team played with a lot of energy and excitement.

Reeves also expressed his desire for his team to have greater concentration, especially in the fourth quarter where TRU faded a little bit before closing out the contest and securing the win.

TRU managed to beat the MacEwan University Griffins once again on Saturday, Oct. 28,

at the Warner Rentals Courts in the Tournament Capital Centre.

The ‘Pack won a nail biter, 65-61.

TRU led 32-25 at half-time.

The Griffins came back stronger in the second half to take a 52-51 lead in the fourth quarter, from that moment on the game was back and forth with the teams exchanging leads, like two heavyweight boxers exchanging haymakers.

Tensions were high at that point, as both teams new a mistake could cost them the game.

TRU came up with a big play with eight seconds left in the contest, Shenise Sigsworth made a block when MacEwan attempted a three-point shot.

TRU was led by Michelle Bos (fourth year, guard, Surrey, B.C.), 15 points, 8 rebounds and Leilani Carney (third year, guard, Burnaby, B.C.), 15 points and 3 rebounds.

“They were a very scrappy team,” said assistant coach Chuck Ferguson “They came here to leave it at 1-1.”

And coach Ferguson also continued saying his team needs to put pressure from the start of the game, as they started slowly in the first quarter in both games.

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