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TRU launches new software engineering program Christian Varty NEWS EDITOR Ω All over our beautiful campus trees have started to drop their leaves and begun their annual amber and orange botanical decay. But between Old Main and The Clocktower there is a refuge of greenery. The evergreens still wear their lush green needles over the surrounding fields of grass.

Just after noon on Oct. 4 students started to fill up the interconnected sidewalks and pathways that run through the grassy knolls.

Tom Dickinson, dean of science at Thompson Rivers University, was there eagerly waiting the inaugural group of students that are the first to be enrolled in the software engineering program.

Thompson Rivers University has been trying to get an engineering program at the school for the better half of

a decade now. The new software engineer program is the first step to reaching that goal. The program will also have a mandatory co-op program in the third-year where students will have the opportunity to experience what it’s like to be a software engineer in the real world.

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TRU's new software engineering program proves that the university is well on its way to having a full-fledged engineering program, says TRU dean of science, Tom Dickinson. (Christian Varty/Ω)

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TRU students cook up new food delivery business Ready at Door aims to make food delivery from local restaurants more accessible in Kamloops Yasir Khan CONTRIBUTOR Ω Sachin Akula and Rajat Kadiyan, both computer-science students at TRU, took their love for food and launched a new food delivery business in Kamloops called Ready at Door. Readyatdoor.com is a website that allows the customer to order food from local restaurants regardless of where in Kamloops they may reside.

“The main focus of our business is on local restaurants and to deliver food to all the further sides of Kamloops such as Westsyde, Dallas and so on,” Kadiyan said.

“If you want food delivered in these areas and look for delivery options online, you’ll find that most food-delivery businesses are unwilling to deliver. That’s why we want to make sure all the local restaurants can deliver their food across Kamloops.”

The pair recognized the existence of competing businesses within the food-delivery industry and believed there is still a niche to be tapped into by focusing on better service and by promoting

restaurants that the average consumer in Kamloops may not have heard of. Ready at Door has partnered with 14 restaurants across Kamloops so far.

“We have seen that there is a lot of room for improvement in the food-delivery businesses when it comes to the service. We deliver the food to our customers ourselves and we believe good service is the core of our business competency,” Akula said. “There are lots of hidden gems in Kamloops and we want to make sure people not only get access to the food from these restaurants but get excellent service in the process.”

Akula and Kadiyan initially bonded over their mutual love for personal development books. They cite Rich Dad Poor Dad as one of the books that pushes them to act on their idea. It took months of planning to get the business off the ground and the pair feels confident with the response they have gotten so far.

Launching the business was no easy feat. There was plenty of negativity and discouragement to battle against when the business was in its planning stages.

“Most people have good ideas but they don’t take action because they think they’ll fail and they pass that mindset onto others,” said Akula. “Listen to people who have genuine advice and remember that a positive attitude will yield positive results.”

Kadiyan recognizes mentorship to be one of the most important factors contributing to the launch of Readyatdoor.

“John [Zubak] and Beth [Quirie] from Kamloops Innovation were one of the biggest helpers for our company. If we had any questions regarding budgeting, marketing, they would direct us to relevant resources,” he said.

Akula and Kadiyan hope that TRU students will see their initiative as inspiration to act on their own business ideas.

“TRU offers so many resources to its students to plan out and execute their ideas. Some of these ideas may be really good but if students hold them back, they may never see the light of day,” Akula said.

Readyatdoor hopes to partner with more restaurants in Kamloops in the near future.

Ready at Door co-creators Sachin Akula and Rajat Kadiyan (Yasir Khan/Ω)

Goodbye NAFTA, say hello to the USMCA

After 13 months of negotiations Canada, the U.S. and Mexico finally have agreed to an updated trade deal Wade Tomko EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Ω It has been 13 months of negotiating between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, but the three countries have finally reached an agreement to update the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

U.S. President Donald Trump announced the rebranding of the trade deal, aptly named the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), on Oct. 1, where he said he’d formally sign the deal by the end of the November. At which point it will then need to be approved by Congress.

While NAFTA hasn’t been necessarily scrapped, as Trump threatened last September, the 1994 trade deal has been significantly modified.

The deal, which has been praised by both Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is set to affect Canadians in a number of ways and not all of them are necessarily good.

American tariffs on both Canadian aluminum and steel will remain in force, despite Canadian industry leaders insisting they be lifted as part of the final deal. The U.S.’s 25 per cent tariff on steel and ten per cent tariff on aluminum originally came into effect back in June under the rarely used national security provision of section 232 in the 1962 Trade Expansion Act. At the time, Trump tweeted that these tariffs would be lifted if a deal was reached.

“Without tariffs, we wouldn’t be talking about a deal — just for

those babies out there that talk about tariffs,” said Trump when he announced the USMCA. The new deal also gives U.S. dairy producers more access to the Canadian dairy market, to the tune of 3.6 per cent. While this initially doesn’t seem like much, an earlier trade deal signed with the European Union gave foreign producers access to about 2.25 per cent of our market. Additionally, the Trans-Pacific Partnership opened up another 3.25 per cent of the market.

Though Canadian dairy farmers have decried that the deal to open up the market was simply a means to satisfy the U.S. president, Canada’s dairy industry has long come under scrutiny for its protectionist supply management system. Under supply management, provincial dairy marketing boards have a role in establishing local prices and the federal government helps monitor national production and demand.

Though the addition of competition in the Canadian dairy market may mean more options for the average consumer, when the exchange rate is factored in, prices will likely be not too different.

Under the USMCA, Canadians may also see the price of prescription drugs increase, as the deal will extend the minimum "data protection" period for biologics (used to treat a large range of diseases, including many cancers, arthritis and multiple sclerosis) to ten years, up from eight.

This realistically means that U.S. pharmaceutical companies will be able to sell their product for ten years before facing generic competition

Conservative leader Andrew Scheer has been particularily outspoken about the new deal, which he says limits Canada's ability to export goods, while not gaining anything significant in return. (Andrew Scheer/Flickr) from Canadian companies. This comes at a time when Canada has some of the highest prices on pharmaceuticals in the world, according to the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Canada will also have to be careful in securing trade deals with non-USMCA countries, namely China. Under section 31.1 of the deal, Canada will have to give three months’ notice before starting free trade talks with a “non-market country.”

However, not all of the deal is doom and gloom.

Both Canada and Mexico have largely avoided Trump’s incoming auto tariffs. However, starting in 2020, to qualify for zero tariffs, a

car or truck must have 75 per cent of its components manufactured in Canada, Mexico or the United States, this is up from the initial 62.5 per cent.

Another victory for Canada is the keeping of NAFTA’s Chapter 19, something Trump wanted scrapped.

Chapter 19 allows the three countries to challenge one another’s anti-dumping (AD) and countervailing (CVD) duties in front of a panel of representatives from each country. AD and CVD have been used to challenge the U.S. on its softwood lumber restrictions.

Finally, Chapter 11 has been mostly removed. The chapter previously gave investors and companies a special way to fight government

decisions, especially if there was a change of government.

Despite Trudeau’s faith in the new deal and its fairness, saying that it would help “expand the middle class,” not everyone is on board with the USMCA. Conservative leader Andrew Scheer recently said that the prime minister “backed down to Donald Trump” on multiple trade issues in the USMCA, while NDP leader Jagmeet Singh claims Trudeau “betrayed” Canada’s dairy sector.

Likewise, heavy industry and Canada’s dairy sector expected more out of the USMCA and blame Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs, for not doing enough to protect Canadian interests.

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Opinion: Quebec had an election and you should care Robert Wisla CONTRIBUTOR Ω Last week Quebecers went to the polls and made history. For the first time in 60 years, they went into the ballot box and didn’t even get close to thinking about the idea of independence. The federalist Liberal Party of Quebec were smashed at the ballot box by soft nationalist Coalition De Avenue Quebec (CAQ), which is a centre-right party in Quebec that advocates less immigration, a ban on face coverings by people in the public service, a French language and values test for immigrants and balanced budgets.

“Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I’m very touched by your confidence. My team and I are very anxious to get to work for you,” tweeted CAQ leader Francois Legault when the election results were announced.

Quebec’s Liberal Party leader Philippe Couillard, on the other hand, was far less positive.

“I had the opportunity to speak with Francois Legault to congratulate him,” Couilliard tweeted.

“I bequeath to him a Quebec in

financial health and ready to face all the challenges. I will contribute to a harmonious transition for the good of the people of Quebec.”

Couillard later resigned as leader of the Liberal Party of Quebec.

This election is historic for a few reasons and will have repercussions across Canada. First, this is historic because Quebec is the second largest province in terms of population and has the second largest economy in the country.

This is the first time Quebec has elected a solidly right-wing government since the Quebec revolution in the 1960’s which threw out the Union Nationale under Maurice Duplessis. For the second election in a row independence has been thrown out the window in Quebec, which is likely good news for Canada as a whole.

This election also represents something of a domino effect.

Quebec is just one of many provinces which were once a bastion of support for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but lately, Trudeau has been losing allies left and right at a rapid pace. It started here in British Columbia with the election of the Green-NDP Alliance which

quickly became a stalwart against the federally-endorsed and funded Trans-Mountain pipeline project.

In Ontario, Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives heartedly defeated Kathleen Wynne. The Ontario Liberals received their worst loss in the party’s modern history and subsequently another province against the carbon tax.

While even in New Brunswick the Liberals are failing and the Tories and upstart right-wing populist party the ‘Peoples Alliance’ are likely to set an accord against a possible Liberal-Green Coalition.

Plus, if polls are to be believed Jason Kenney’s new United Conservative Party is likely to wipe out the Liberals’ NDP allies in Alberta.

Does this mean Trudeau is going to lose the next election? Likely not given the weakness of the New Democratic Party’s leader and the Tory split which is ongoing. But if you’re a Prime Minister with only a handful of allies in the Maritimes, mainly Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland, while all the major provinces are against you, it’s a much more difficult road ahead.

Good luck Justin, you’re going to need it.

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TRU's new software engineering TRU Generator provides help for entrepreneurs program received funding from Startup workshops being held this semester aim to local industry and government help students who want to start their own business CONTINUED (COVER) Funds have been given to the school both from the government and from local tech businesses that want to see Kamloops upgraded into a player in Western Canada.

The Omega specifically asked Tom Dickinson about the history of engineering at TRU. While there has not been a full engineering program, TRU has been involved in a transfer program for over 30 years. This transfer program had been incredibly successful, with notable graduates being the dean of engineering at UBC, as well as the head of energy sustainability at BC Hydro.

“We’ve got a long list of very talented people, which is a testament to the fact that we’re small, and that it’s a very close connection we share to the professors. I think those qualities that we pride ourselves with at TRU translated very well when they went down to continue their studies,” Dickinson said.

While the first class to attend

the program is small, it is evident that the students feel a shared sense of belonging amongst each other. During the obligatory christening speech, the students were joking with each other and poking and prodding their peers, all the while with smiles on their faces.

It’s around a month into the school year and already everyone seems well-acquainted. The Omega had the chance to speak with some of the students enrolled in the new program. Most of the students were not in their first-year and had come from other programs. It seems that this new program has attracted attention from a wide background of students.

“It’s amazing to be the first generation of software engineers here. I’m excited to meet my new instructors, to have classes in the new labs,” said Antonio Patron about being in the first wave of a new cascade of engineers that will soon be graduating from TRU.

Robert Wisla CONTRIBUTOR Ω Attention would-be startup entrepreneurs – free expert help is here!

Have you ever wanted to start your own business? Perhaps you can see yourself being the next Elon Musk, Jordan Belfort, Kevin O’Leary or Liliane Bettencourt. If so, then Thompson Rivers University has good news for you.

On Oct. 9 from 5:00 p.m.

- 6:00 p.m., TRU’s Generator space located in the basement of the Brown House of Learning put on a workshop about accounting for startup companies. This workshop is the first in a series of startup workshops being held this semester.

“Our Startup Accounting workshop is part of our Startup Basics Series we’re running throughout the semester that is designed to help TRU students, alumni and faculty enter the world of entrepreneurship or

level-up their existing business and make their passion their paycheck,” said Beth Quirie with the Kamloops Innovation and TRU Generator Centre.

The Startup Basics Series is a relaxed classroom style program split into distinct topics that bring entrepreneurs and the startup-curious through the basics of forming a business plan and documenting their ideas. Sessions are presented by Kamloops Innovation staff, EIR, mentors, partners and alumni.

The Generator is the on-campus startup business accelerator providing students, faculty, staff and alumni with mentorship, workshops and events and a drop-in workspace. Powered

by Kamloops Innovation, TRU Generator has been mirroring the Kamloops Innovation Centre for the past 5 years with a focus on the resources and needs of the TRU campus.

“We believe that TRU is a vital source of startup company founders who are driving the startup economy locally and of

the talent those companies are looking to hire,” Quirie said. “I personally think these workshops are a great introduction to the world of entrepreneurship regardless of the stage you’re at with your business.

Not only are you getting practical skills like accounting, but more importantly you are becoming part of a vibrant community of startups and all the support, mentorship and resources that are part of it.”

Other startup basics workshops coming this semester include: • Startup Legal: October 23, 2018 • Resources for Startups: November 2, 2018 • Business Building: November 6, 2018 • Laws of Attractions: November 20, 2018 • Budget Building: December 4, 2018 All workshops start at 5:00 p.m. and go for 1 hour. Every workshop is free to attend and open to all students.

Giving voice to sexual violence survivors on campus TRU residence also shows support for survivors coming forward with their stories in both a confidential and comforting manner Justin Moore STAFF WRITER Ω Sexual assault stories have been a powerful force in the media for years now. Almost a month ago, feminists and survivors tweeted out a warning to those involved around the Jian Ghomeshi accusations. The warning? Stand tall and speak out, because it was leaked that an essay, Reflections from a Hashtag, was about to publish on the New York Books website detailing Ghomeshi's life since his firing from the CBC in 2014.

Reflections from a Hashtag went live and with it not a mention from Ghomeshi about the survivors, only insinuating that his difficult past sparked the #MeToo movement as a seeming attempt to make it back into the spotlight.

Across the Canadian border, activists and survivors have once again raised their voices, protesting the addition of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court of the United States, which was approved after a close vote on Oct. 6, leaving protesters feeling exhausted and disappointed, but still ready to fight.

Protests, media threads and activists all over have continued to fight for change in the media, politics and even universities when topics of sexual violence come to light. In British

Columbia, provincial legislation has passed requiring colleges and universities to create their own sexual assault policies, but requires consistent reform in partnership with survivors and educated persons on assault and harassment-related issues.

At TRU there are measures in place through the Wellness Centre and the Sexualized Violence Prevention and Response Manager to offer support and connections both on and off-campus for those that have survived any form of sexualized violence.

While similar and working in close proximity to the campus sexual violence measures, residences on campus also have measures in place to give survivors a chance to reach out to those that can help and provide further resources in such cases.

Residence RAs receive training in both Ontario and back on campus on how to help harassment survivors feel comfortable coming forward and direct them to the right resources on campus and in the Kamloops community.

"We went through TRU's policy and how it applies.

We went through preventing sexualized violence, consent and what that looks like. Then we went into the specifics of an RA if someone comes and reports to you, what does that look like as far as documenting it," said Meaghan Hagerty, TRU’s

Brett Kavanaugh was recently sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by a very narrow Senate vote of 50-48. This came after sexual assault accusations by Christine Blasey Ford. (Ninian Reid/Flickr) Sexualized Violence Prevention and Response Manager, on training RAs. Hagerty added that she had confidence that survivors could come forward to their RAs on residence and know that their information would be safe and passed forward to the right people quickly and respectfully.

"We really wanted to make sure that this looked

survivor-centred and respected confidentiality and privacy," Hagerty said.

As far as providing the information on where to come forward, the residence will often host Consent Tea events similar to the ones held on campus, such as the next event happening on Nov. 7. Hagerty mentioned that many RAs often visit her office to pick up more

information for their respective floors.

While sexual violence survivors take courageous risks to share their stories to fight for their rights and to stand with those that may not want to speak, survivors shouldn't have to hide in the shadows while resources close to home are offered in a safe and protective means.

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TRU opens the conversation on harm reduction In the wake of the opioid crisis, researchers bring cannabis to the table as a solution Cailyn Mocci ARTS EDITOR Ω The Kamloops Summit on Opioid and Cannabinoid Research opened the discussion on solutions and local research on the recent opioid crisis and the use of medical cannabis to ease those suffering from substance abuse.

The event was sponsored by TRU, as well as two faculty members; Nan Stevens, who has personal experience using medical cannabis with her 16-year-old son, and Florriann Fehr.

The evening opened with a territory acknowledgment and words from the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc elders, asking for open minds towards this new medicine entering into the mainstream.

The summit started with two emotional stories from mothers in Kamloops who were closely affected by the recent opioid crisis. Sherry Robinson and Sandra Tully, members of the harm reduction initiative Moms Stop the Harm, spoke personally about the sons they have lost.

Robinson, the Kamloops representative for Moms Stop the Harm, spoke about her son Tyler.

Tyler had struggled long and hard with substance abuse and later

passed away from an accidental overdose. Robinson spoke to the crowd, under the photo of Tyler, about the shame and stigma of her son’s addiction that silenced her before his death.

“Over the years I just didn’t realize how that shame and stigma silenced myself, because I had internalized it as a personal failure,” Robinson said.

Giving the summit a personal touch, the topic of conversation later turned towards the research that has sprouted into the medical community recently.

Philippe Lucas, vice-president and patient research and access personnel for Tilray, a medical cannabis company, brought to light the research that has been underway both by Tilray itself and other medical representatives.

Lucas aptly named medical cannabis as the “exit drug,” unlike the label that has been given to cannabis as a “gateway drug.”

Lucas believed that the use of medical cannabis would work tenfold for those suffering from the withdrawal symptoms they may experience after using opioids.

Tilray is working with the medical cannabis world for one reason; to improve the patient’s well-being and comfort of living.

Medical cannabis has been used for years as a method of medicating and easing symptoms for many chronic illnesses such as cancer, epilepsy, chronic pain and HIV/AIDS. Many have found that the use of medical cannabis has limited the dependency on other pharmaceuticals (under the supervision of a physician).

While Lucas has a positive outlook for the medical cannabis industry, he admitted that “we don’t have a crystal ball,” when guessing if medical cannabis products will have pharmacy access by the summer of 2019.

Every speaker from the evening’s summit spoke on one common point; medical cannabis

is a studied mode of harm reduction.

The evening was a warm welcoming to the new found medical field of cannabis. The research is young but those involved in the summit were hopeful that with the legalization on Oct. 17, the opportunities for research will grow.

Speakers from Moms Stop The Harm shared personal stories of how opioid-laced cannabis affected their lives and the steps they’ve taken since to fight for the decriminalization of the drug. (Aidan Grether/The Omega)

Support centre opens up for graduate students in education The Graduate Programs in Education Support Centre aims to serve as a writing centre for graduate students in the education program Wade Tomko EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Ω If you are a student who is taking a Masters of Education or a Graduate-Certificate in Education, then there is a new support centre on campus specifically for you!

The Graduate Programs in Education Support Centre, located in AE 305 and open Monday through Thursday from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. aims to help graduate students in a way similar to how the Writing

Centre on campus assists undergraduates and graduates in other programs.

“This is the first support centre for graduates. There is the Writing Centre for overall writing support on campus, but it is not discipline specific,” said Joe Dobson, a senior lecturer in TRU’s education department and a facilitator of the support centre.

Much like the Writing Centre, in which work-study students and volunteers provide peer-support, the Graduate Programs in

Education Support Centre also uses a peer-mentoring model. However, while the Writing Centre has proven a great resource for students on campus, Tory Handford, coordinator of graduate programs in education, says that it unfortunately just isn’t enough for graduate students.

“The Writing Centre is there, but what we regularly experience is that the writing centre is not quite structured in the right way for graduate students,” she said. “It is there and it is good support, but

Martin Schulte-Albert, Tory Handford, Giang Nguyen Hoang Le (Kevin) and Manjeet Gupta. (Wade Tomko/Ω)

graduate students need a different kind of support than, “What is your opening paragraph?” This is our effort to move it into a graduate writing space.”

In addition to this, the Graduate Programs in Education Support Centre is also more centrally located to many of the education program’s classes in the Arts and Education building.

Currently, there are two teaching assistants, Martin Schulte-Albert and Giang Nguyen Hoang Le (Kevin) and one research assistant, Manjeet Gupta, who assist students from thesis statements, citations, writing, developing ideas and everything in between.

While the support centre’s teaching and research assistants are also students themselves, they are all near the end of their program and as such have ample knowledge of the program's courses and assignments.

“What we try to provide here is more catered to our own experiences in the course and the coursework. For us anyway, since we are senior students in the program, we’ve seen a lot of the projects that students have or are currently undergoing,” Schulte-Albert said.

“It’s a catered experience in that matter. Since we have walked that

same path, we can lead students in that regard.”

The support centre also aims to be a great help for international students too, as they face the most difficulty in graduate programs due to having to adapt to a Canadian writing style.

“For international students, most of them don’t know the writing style over here, it's all new to them,” Gupta said. “When they have to write long papers it's really helpful.

We know how to help, it’s like peer mentoring, we know what they are going through.”

Next week, the Graduate Programs in Education Support Centre will be holding their grand opening on Oct. 19 at 2:30 p.m. in AE 305.

Everyone’s invited and the centre is asking anyone who comes to bring cultural items from their home country to help decorate the space.

“We are so thrilled to have such great TAs and RAs as our inaugural group,” Handford said. “They have been so enthusiastic, so self-directed. They are innovative, they really understand what students need.

Because they are all these things, we can let this be student directed.

This reflects the actual needs of students than some administrative view of students. We’ve got three great people for this.”

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Policy Wanks: Bill C-46 The contentious Bill C-46 aims to revise Canada's impaired driving laws Christian Varty NEWS EDITOR Ω Bill C-45, the piece of legislation which will make marijuana legal has generated a huge amount of buzz amongst students. While Bill C-45 may be taking the spotlight it’s time that we talked about the sister legislation that was passed in tandem. Bill C-46 is the legislation that will put in place the new impaired driving laws.

The new bill has been the subject of contentions for a number of reasons. Starting off relatively benign is the tool that will be used to detect THC in the saliva. Developed in Germany

by Drägerwerk, the Dräger 5000 is the model that the RCMP have committed to using during roadside checks.

The Omega spoke to Kyla Lee, a criminal defence lawyer based in Vancouver specializing in impaired driving laws.

“While the Drager DrugTest 5000 has significant reliability

concerns, those could be mitigated by the use of immunity rules that permit it only to give grounds for an arrest and not as evidence in court,” Lee said about the new technology being used. “The powers granted to police, coupled with the elimination of disclosure and defences is worse, in my view.”

Lawyers and marijuana advocates have both criticized what new powers the police will have under this bill. Bill C-46 has essentially acted as a trojan horse for additional alcohol screening and regulations. The two biggest policy changes being the ability of the police to demand breathe samples at random and the lowering of blood alcohol content.

The most controversial policy change is undoubtedly the newfound power of police officers to draw blood from people being suspected of driving while impaired. RCMP officers are now able to do this either in the back of their cruiser or on the side of the road.

If one were to refuse these

blood tests, they would be found guilty of driving while impaired and face legal and financial consequences. This fundamentally undermines due process.

If you do not consent to the police drawing your blood on the side of the road, you’re now a criminal.

“It shows huge disregard for Charter rights, and will result in the unjust punishment of thousands of people plus hundreds or thousands of unlawful arrests before there is a ruling from a high enough level court to bind everyone,” Lee said about the precedent this bill is setting.

She also pushed back on how effective blood testing is for checking for impairment as well.

“There have been studies, including one here at Matsqui Institution, which found high concentrations of THC in the blood weeks after abstinence from cannabis products,” she said.

“THC also does not break down in a stable way. There are

dips and spikes in blood concentration over time and the way that it breaks down will also depend on the manner in which it is ingested.”

While everyone is celebrating

the seemingly progressive move of legalizing marijuana, we fail to mention the absolutely regressive legislation that passed under the radar. It’s time to give Bill C-46 the limelight.

The Cariboo Childcare Society wins provincial award for outstanding leadership The on-campus child care centre has been recognized for its role in facilitating early education Farrah Johnson CONTRIBUTOR Ω TRU’s on-campus child care centre has been awarded a provincial award for outstanding leadership in early child development.

The Cariboo Childcare Society are the recipients of the 2018 Child Care Award of Excellence from the B.C. government for their exceptional efforts in facilitating early learning.

The daycare centre is one of four child care providers in British Columbia that have been chosen to be the recipients of this year’s award.

According to B.C. Government, the award gives recognition to early

learning and care professionals (ECL) who exhibit excellence in “working collaboratively with others [and] creating cultural safety through culturally competent practice and inclusion of Indigenous language, culture and traditions.”

Additionally, the provincial award takes into consideration whether ECL professionals create an environment for inclusion and diversity to flourish while supporting local efforts and the further advancement of excellence in early learning.

“The Cariboo Child Care Society is receiving one of this year’s provincial awards, in part because of its innovative partnership with Thompson Rivers University,” said

Marian Hardy, director of the Caribou Childcare Society (Aidan Grether/Ω)

Katrine Conroy, Minister of Children and Family Development in a press release.

“This partnership allows students who are studying to become early childhood educators to gain real-life, hands-on experience with kids while learning from experienced child care providers,” she added.

Speaking to The Omega, Marian Hardy, executive director of the Cariboo Child Care Society, admitted that although they ran a good programme, she was still very surprised they won an award because the competition between child care centres in the province is “fierce”.

“I was really pleased on behalf of all the staff to receive this award.

The fact that it’s nice to get that actual provincial recognition—it's too bad every educator doesn’t get that,” she said.

Hardy said that currently there is a shortage in space in daycare centres and qualified educators in Kamloops and throughout the province.

“Our programmes are full, we have seventy-four children a day.

We have twelve infant spaces, twelve toddler spaces, then fifty spaces for children ages three to five,” she said. “We are full, so our waitlists were extensive even before we had the recognition from the province.”

Elaborating on the benefits of early child care, Hardy said there are mutual advantages for both parents and their children.

This is because parents can feel relaxed and secure to know that when they are working, their children are in a productive and safe

The Caribou Childcare Society provides daycare services to students, faculty/staff and the greater community area (Aidan Grether/The Omega) environment.

“The children come first. We nurture them, we watch them grow and they have experiences in outside play in different activities.

There’s also a lot of interaction and we really focus on the social and emotional development of children,” she explained.

Addressing the Cariboo Society’s relationship with TRU, Marian said the centre does receive some funding from student fees.

“We do receive some funding through the students' levy and that goes to support students,” she said.

“Like over the summer [children] can pull out when they’re not going

to school and it saves their space for September.”

She also mentioned the connection the daycare has with TRU’s Early Childhood Education (ECE) Department because the centre acts as a lab site for ECE students.

“They come over and get practical experience as well as our staff go to their classrooms and give them background information.”

Having served the Kamloops community for forty-five years, The Cariboo Childcare Society prides itself on providing support for early child development to the staff and students of TRU as well as families from among the local community.

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Behind the business: New Parallel Productions

A forgotten friendship rekindled through golf and drone filmmaking Juan Cabrejo BUSINESS EDITOR Ω Three years ago, BBA students Jared Putnam and Ian Brink saw the potential in commercial cinematography.

With the help of a drone and some big ambitions, the two were able to establish a reputable video production company across B.C. The two had known each other

since kindergarten, however, after roughly ten years of not seeing each other, they reconnected during their time working at the Tobiano golf course; Putnam was in charge of their social media while Brink worked in customer service. They created a promotional video for the golf course which received tremendous feedback.

“We made a video for Tobiano with my dad’s drone and they were hyped on it,” Brink said. “At that moment we

knew we could make something from this.”

“Ian always wanted to start a business, I never really thought about that, I only saw an opportunity,” Putnam added. “I had done a little bit of video as a hobby beforehand which is why he talked to me about drone stuff.”

Brink had already big ambitions for the company by planning out their hypothetical work schedule and thinking of pitching their production

Ian Brink (left) and Jared Putnam (right) discovered a passion for videography, rekindled and old friendship and, not to mention, have had a lot of fun in the process of creating New Parallel Productions. (Juan Cabrejo/The Omega)

services to multiple businesses in the region.

“We were like, why don’t we reach out to every golf course and real estate agent in BC and do drone work for them,” he chuckled. “I was so ambitious, I was like ‘I bet we could make $100,000.’”

The two started looking at the broader picture and began putting figures together to account for additional equipment such as other drones, cameras and sound equipment. They fully invested all their savings into camera equipment.

“We literally took all the money we made at Tobiano, put it aside and bought all this ground gear, we were fully committed,” Putnam said.

Despite their eager ambition to make money quickly, the two discovered a passion for filmmaking in the process. Their business tunnel vision took a slight hiatus while the duo concentrated on building a portfolio and appreciating the art of filmmaking.

“We were really focused on trying to make money out of this thing and we realized we really enjoyed making videos; it was super fun for us,” Brink said. “We started making videos for our own branding and just making videos in general, not for money.”

“We barely had any knowledge of filmmaking, we just came up with the idea,” Putnam said.

“Usually most people make their passion into a business, ironically it

was the complete opposite for us,” Brink added.

Interestingly enough, much before the thought of New Parallel Productions, the two young entrepreneurs began with the concept of a practical yet stylish drone backpack for which they happened to earn a TRU student award and received mentorship from Kamloops Innovation. In times where business is slow, they are still very grateful for the skills they acquired from them. In the future, they may return to designing and selling products accompanied with their video services.

“I can definitely see one day going back to other opportunities and not put all our eggs in one basket,” Putnam said. “With a business like video production, it’s a great business to do while you’re young because you don’t have that risk of meeting a quota; you’re only overhead expenses are your cost of living and monthly small business expenses,” Brink added.

Featuring clients such as Mercedes-Benz Kamloops, Interior Health and Tourism Kamloops among others, the duo and the production company have bright futures ahead of them. In the long run, Putnam and Brink plan to finish their studies and fully realize the potential of New Parallel Productions, possibly while doing some more travelling as well.

U of Windsor Professor speaks on self-represented litigant initiative TRU part of BC Access to Justice Week debut among other universities in the province Juan Cabrejo BUSINESS EDITOR Ω As part of the first Access to Justice Week, Julie Macfarlane, a professor at the University of Windsor, spoke on the ever-changing climate of self-represented litigants and how her project, the National Self-Represented Litigants Project (NSRLP), is working towards understanding the needs, motivations and challenges of self-represented litigants (SRLs).

The project builds upon a research study conducted from 2011-2013, analyzing the experience and demographics of SRLs in three provinces, Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario. The study found that in urban family courts in cities like Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary, SRLs are approaching 80 per cent of total litigants at an alarming rate.

More of her findings can be found in her book, The New Lawyer.

According to Macfarlane, much of this phenomenon can be traced back to a complex affordability puzzle composed of legal costs, insufficient resources, the perceived value of legal services and the self-help culture.

“One of the things that’s been consistent with the research and the project is the criticism that the public makes of legal costs, not only the way time is charged, but simply the base rate,” she said. “I think it’s one of those nettles that we haven’t

yet grasped in the legal profession.”

Macfarlane mentions the generational shift in how people use their money and the proportional increase in disillusionment with traditional legal services. As a result, the public is turning to online resources for their legal needs.

Macfarlane noticed that more clients want lawyers to be more collaborative with them instead of instructing them.

“The thing that people, in particular, were starting to tell me was that they were very disillusioned with the idea that the lawyer would tell them what to do and wouldn't listen to them,” she said.

With the vast amount of information found on the internet often unreliable, Macfarlane agrees that there needs to be some trusted intermediary for self-represented litigants to ensure at least some degree of source quality.

“What you need to do is to try to educate people to be able to spot the signs of suspect legal advice,” she said. “I think if more lawyers or law firms would be willing to put information out on their website, that’s what people would use.”

In a changing environment of stepping away from the classic full representation model and into new legal models, it will depend on the lawyer to view this change as an opportunity or threat to their profession.

“I think for most lawyers there’s

always been a feeling of “if you step outside of the given model, you're disloyal to the tribe”,” she said. “For younger lawyers, they don’t see a problem with there being a particular model; they’re more concerned with ways to make a living.”

Access to Justice Week is an event series dedicated to raising awareness for access to justice issues in the profession and highlighting what is being done to address them. It featured guest speakers, panel discussions and legal clinic sessions for

law students and practitioners. The three BC universities hosting the events also held a hackathon event known as JusticeHackBC, where software developers competed to create solutions for barriers around family law issues.

Julie Macfarlane spoke on the self-represented litigant challenge at the TRU Community Clinic. (Juan Cabrejo/Ω)

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Kamloops Naturalist Club envisions a nature park on McArthur Island Naturalist club sees the old golf course as the perfect place for an interpretive nature park Tristan Semeniuk CONTRIBUTOR Ω To some, the nine-hole McArthur Island golf course was just that—a nine-hole recreational golf course; but to a great variety of different wildlife species like the great horned owl, they call it home. There is a number of both native plants and animals that live on the site of the old golf course and the fate of the property is still left undecided.

The Kamloops Naturalist Club envisions that the golf course on McArthur Island be turned into an interpretive nature park. The vision is that it would be an open space for wildlife to roam about, as well as for people to get outside and enjoy nature.

The director with the Kamloops Naturalist Club, Jesse Ritcey, told The Omega that the nature park would look somewhat like a normal park, except with educational signs with information about the natural plants and wildlife there, including “the deer, the painted turtles and wood ducks in the pond.”

According to Ritcey, there would also be “a lot of programming”.

“So this would be naturalist club members taking people around to learn about the area and some of the natural history, and then the Rotary West Club has an idea for a historical loop, to learn the history of Kamloops Tk’emlups and a peace park, which is a peaceful place to be in nature and to hang out,” he said.

Ritcey says that the younger generations are starting to lose touch with nature and that the nature park would be a great way to get them back into nature. The public schools, like NorKam Secondary School, could benefit from an interpretive nature park by bringing students there during class to learn about the natural environment.

“Being able to get younger people out there would, I think, improve the stewardship over the environment and improve their connection to the environment.

So I think having this here beside so many schools is a really good opportunity if we were to put the learning resources into it and design around the curriculum, work with SD73, I think that opportunity would be terrific.”

City councillor Donovan Cavers, who is running for school board as well as city council, agrees that

the school board should get more involved in the project.

“The school board has invested money into things like the McQueen Lake Education Centre up there, so I would like to see the partnership grow beyond the city and include the school district,” Cavers said. “So even have classes and stuff, and actually design it with outdoor education in mind.”

Cavers also mentioned that the

Mariella Avila CONTRIBUTOR Ω Tragically, an estimate of 3.5 deaths per day occurred in British Columbia in May of 2018 due to opioid overdoses. 71 per cent of those dying in 2018 were between the ages of 30 to 59.

Overdoses happen frequently in the streets, but also behind closed doors. As a matter of fact, addiction is a tribulation that can affect anybody in any walk of life.

In British Columbia, the crisis has caused a ripple of tragedies and St. John Ambulance, leading first aid and safety charity, has been committed to fighting this calamity since 2016.

Recently the organization launched the Opioid Overdose Response Training program, which is a free program that trains people on how to assist a person suffering from an overdose.

This vital training is being offered in Kamloops and a number of other locations across the province. The program was created to help bring awareness, reduce stigma and discrimination, and help bring life-saving tools to those who need them.

The course is extremely thorough and ensures that those receiving the training become comfortable providing first-aid assistance. Through the program, individuals will learn how to administer naloxone, a life-saving drug that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose. St. John Ambulance also partnered up with the BC Central for Disease Control to supply participants with a free naloxone kit.

Another main focus of the course

passive spaces like that, where people can just kind of go for a wander and clear their head in that sort of recreation, which I think we could have more of," he said. "We could invest a bit more in that.”

No specific date has been set yet to decide what will happen to the old golf course, but the decision will be made by city council sometime this winter to ensure there is a plan in place before next spring.

The wood duck is one of many species to be found in McArthur Island and its surroundings. (Tristan Semeniuk/Ω)

St. John Ambulance offers free naloxone training to help combat the opioid crisis is teaching how to give artificial respiration, which is key to keeping someone who's having an overdose alive. Finally, the course also covers an area that many similar programs often miss: ongoing care. This is crucial since most people do not even deliberate on what the next steps are to take after aiding someone suffering from an overdose. It is also critical to consider the complications an individual could face in the aftermath of an overdose when they’re attempting to recover.

This admirable initiative of St. John Ambulance is already having a strong positive impact. As of August 15, 2018, British Columbia had distributed 114,170 take-home naloxone kits.

Alas, without the proper training not everyone is confident or willing to dispense injections or give artificial respiration to someone in need of it. This is an issue the program aims to solve and it's proving highly

interpretive nature park could attract lots of tourists and that it could be good for people that live in Kamloops.

“I think it could be a big tourist draw, but specifically just for the people of Kamloops itself, we have a lot of manicured landscape-like parks, but having naturalized parks like Kenna Cartwright or, this getting re-naturalized, I think there’s a lot of benefit to having

effective. In fact, the willingness to intervene in an opioid overdose increases from 15 per cent, before taking the course, to 98 per cent after completing it. Furthermore, the number of overdose deaths is steadily decreasing compared to last year, this accomplishment can be attributed to the notable work that is being done across British Columbia to combat the crisis.

At the present time, the Opioid Overdose Response Training is available and will continue to run at least until the end of the year.

Anyone interested in learning more is encouraged to visit the website https://www.startsavinglives. ca/ where there's a calendar showing all the dates of the upcoming courses.

Hopefully, organizations across the country will take action and create similar programs, where hundreds of individuals can receive the knowledge and the tools to help save a life.

Naloxone kits can help you safe a life. Though St. John Ambulance offers thorough training, instructions can be found on the kit. (FILE PHOTO)

The USMCA and you Here is how the new agreement is set to affect you as a student Robert Wisla CONTRIBUTOR Ω How will the New Nafta agreement affect you as a student?

The new North American Free Trade Agreement, or the United States of America-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) as President Donald Trump likes to call it, just got the approval of Canada and the United States in principle. This new deal has massive implications for people in Canada, but as students how will it affect you personally?

More Wine First thing that you might notice directly with the new free trade agreement is how it will affect your options at the grocery store. Now wine on our shelves will be full of alcohol from our friends to the south, especially from states such as Washington, Oregon and California.

So you’ll have more options, but this may hurt B.C. wine makers as previous regulations made it so only B.C. wine could be sold in grocery stores.

Road Trips If you’re planning on going on a road trip to the U.S. with some friends you can bring way more American merchandise back with you. Duty-free limits will be raised from $20 to $150. You can also now purchase more items online and have it shipped to Canada from the States for less due to this regulation

change.

Cheaper Pizza Food may go down in price, especially poultry, eggs and dairy, as the U.S. has negotiated a larger (around 7 per cent) share of the Canadian market. So watch for deals in the grocery stores soon as the U.S. can produce way more eggs and poultry thereby undercutting local more expensive producers.

Cheese, another dairy product, may also go down in price. So everything that goes on pizza may get cheaper.

“In the past, pizza dealers have complained about the high price they pay for their cheese due to marketing boards,” said TRU economics professor Derek Pyne.

Higher Canadian Dollar According to TRU Economics Professor Belayet Hossain the Canadian dollar will rise due to a more stable market. This is good news for domestic students planning on doing study abroad, but international students will be negatively affected by our rising dollar especially in relation to the Indian Rupee and Nigerian Naira.

“The Canadian dollar is going to be strong (CAD already appreciated with this news). As a result, international students will be affected negatively; they need to bring more of their home currency to pay tuition and living expenses,” Hossain said.

This agreement still needs to get the approval of Parliament as well as the approval of Congress in the States.

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Album review: india eliot Christian Varty NEWS EDITOR Ω Cotton candy is an immensely overrated treat. It’s sticky, awful sugar floss. Even letting it melt on your tongue and in your mouth gives it that uncomfortable texture. It’s a good concept, a light sugary snack to carry around the fair, but the execution is completely different. india eliot’s self-titled sophomore record, for the most part, is overproduced, not in the same way post-grunge and mainstream rock were chemically castrated through compression and dynamic manipulation. But this

record is overproduced seemingly by design. eliot tries to shove too many conflicting ideas into her songs together. It’s a brave venture, but it comes off as nauseatingly contrived and ill-fitting.

Take for instance the song Manifestation Manifesto. Instrumentally, it’s an interesting blend of hollow synthesizers and manipulated samples. But eliot’s multi-tracked singing style clashes with the beat in such a way that it makes me wonder why she thought that they would ever work together.

When the mixture works best, it’s still mediocre. Popcorn has a great funky beat flushed with synth jabs

and eliot’s dreamy vocal delivery. But it’s not anything amazing. It’s boring. eliot is strongest when she’s bringing forward new ideas, particularly in her instrumentation.

The album is a dichotomy between alternative R&B and experimental electronic music. At times it’s vivid and lush synth layers embraced by eliot’s hushed vocal delivery like on the album opener, All Day. The track is fresh and influenced by high paced electronic dance music, as much as it is woeful R&B. But on the other side of that coin, it’s vapid experimentation that falls short of anything substantive.

The closing track Tires is almost an insult to the listener. This style is much more aligned with eliot’s first album which was merely a collection of songs. It’s a cacophony of distorted electronic samples that evolves and envelopes new ideas. This is the methodology she really excels at. Sample heavy wonky dance music that finds a way to be engaging through developing instrumentation and original forward-thinking ideas. eliot is a great producer and a great vocalist. But sadly, the styles she attempts on this new album don’t work together. It’s frustrating to listen to because if the vocals were replaced with vocal chops like on her first album, it would be a fantastic experimental electronic record.

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Movie review: A Simple Favor Morgan Hunter CONTRIBUTOR Ω A Simple Favor is a well-acted, intelligently written drama that has the effect of holding the audience with every twist it takes them through.

A Simple Favor is about Stephanie, a small town mother who becomes best friends with another mother, Emily, whose mysterious ways leads Stephanie to look into Emily's entire life after her sudden disappearance.

The core strengths of the film itself are its acting, its mystery, suspense and the style in which it continuously shifts through effortlessly.

Anna Kendrick who stars as Stephanie is instantly likable with her high energy dedication towards her son, her wit and her dark sense of humour that is appealing to the viewer, causing them to empathize with the character all the more. It then blends beautifully with Blake Lively’s character, Emily, whose dark side is her leading attribute, showing compassion in very few aspects which will leave people loving to hate her.

The mystery of Emily herself never becomes truly clear until half-way into the movie, yet it never gives anything away, only leaving breadcrumbs for a viewer to collect. This style can be done very poorly with movies

like The Happening or very well like Gone Girl. A Simple Favor does it in the way of Gone Girl with far more humour so that it is appealing and allows the audience to connect with the characters.

The humour itself is very well placed, it leaves space to breathe but still keeps the pace and tension on track. It's far too common to add humour and destroy the suspense as of late due to the success Marvel movies have had using this tactic.

Though the director Kevin Feig doesn’t fall into this trap and keeps moviegoers on the edge of their seat until a satisfying conclusion.

The one flaw that the film had was the character of the husband, who played an integral part in the plot, though continuously feels like an afterthought in the grand scheme of the film. Henry Golding himself does appear to be giving his all though, but unfortunately feels under-shadowed due to the performances that were given by the two leading women.

A Simple Favor is a fun, modern, noir-styled show that gives viewers a suspenseful ride that carries through from beginning to end. It's strong acting, well-executed directing and general intelligence lead to one show that leaves the films that could be considered this year's Gone Girl.

Kamloops’ writers festival back with a fresh name The Kamloops Society for the Written Arts revamps the successful writers festival for their 2018 year Cailyn Mocci ARTS EDITOR Ω The Kamloops Society for the Written Arts is at it again with their annual writers’ festival with a new name and wider focus.

Formerly known as the Kamloops Writers Festival, Words Alive Kamloops is set to offer a wider variety of workshops for readers and writers alike.

Words Alive Kamloops is one of the only events in Kamloops that provides a place for readers and writers to meet on common ground.

“Without writers we don’t have readers, without readers we don’t have writers,” said JP Baker of the Kamloops Society for the Written Arts.

This year, Words Alive Kamloops has added more workshops for attendees to take part in.

Newly added, the festival will now offer workshops in songwriting with Vancouver based Juno-nominated songwriter and recording artist Tariq Hussain.

Words Alive 2018 will welcome the writing expertise of Sam Weibe, Corrina Chong, Dennis Staginnus, Tariq Hussain and Kerry Gilbert. The festival will also offer grammar workshops facilitated by educator and

writer Matthew Stranach and writer, editor and consultant JP Baker.

This year, the Kamloops Society for the Written Arts has added an increase in the emphasis on the readers. The festival has always pushed the idea that this festival is a huge learning tool for readers, just as much as their writing counter-parts.

The festival’s workshops will include Dynamic Characters and Convincing Dialogue with Sam Weibe, First Line to Last Chord with Tariq Hussain and Crowdfunding Your Creative Work with Dennis Staginnus.

While this weekend event is by ticket, festival planners are working their hardest to provide as much to the public for free as possible. Words Alive Kamloops will be hosting a Music and Readings Night at the Smorgasbord on Saturday night. Anyone is welcome to join to hear live readings from the festival’s authors and live music from Tariq Hussain. There will also be a variety of community events all over town on the Friday afternoon.

The event is a great opportunity for students and there are ways to hack the price! Words Alive Kamloops has volunteer opportunities for students who

wish to help out in exchange for a free day at the festival. If you are interested, you can contact info@kswa.ca for a time that works best for you.

For the second year, the festival will be awarding the Richard Wagamese Memorial Award to honour the memory of beloved author Richard Wagamese, who graced the stage of the 2016 Kamloops Writers Festival. The award provides one full festival pass to Words Alive Kamloops for an aspiring Indigenous author.

"The works of Richard Wagamese have a universality with Indigenous creators that can only be explained by the nuanced emotional effects of a shared history. Being a recipient of the bursary award in his name symbolized a tangible foothold in my own creative journey.

The experience helped me find healing and reassurance as an emerging writer and the lessons I learned helped not only grow my skills but also myself," said Geraldine Jules, recipient of the 2017 Richard Wagamese Memorial Bursary.

Words Alive Kamloops runs Oct. 19 to 21 at the Hotel 540.

Festival passes are available online at wordsalivekamloops. com.

WORDSALIVE Kamloops A festival for readers and writers (formerly the Kamloops Writers Festival)

October 19 to 21 Downtown Kamloops

Community events Workshops Readings

Featuring

Sam Wiebe

Kerry Gilbert

Dennis Staginnus

Tariq Hussain

Corinna Chong

October 19: Word Walk and Author Panel October 20: Workshops, Music and Reading Social October 21: Workshops

For tickets and info: www.wordsalivekamloops.com

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Welcome back to Ies Pet Store. I forgot about the wing where we have birdies, mousies, and wallabies.

1) The numbers of each animal type all multiplied together is less than 1000, and this number is as big as it can be.

2) The number of each animal type is prime, and all are different.

3) All of the digits in the numbers of each animal type are odd and different across all of the numbers.

4) There are fewer wallabies than birdies and fewer birdies than mousies.

How many each of wallabies, birdies, and mousies are there?

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.

CFBX TOP 30 CFBX 92.5 FM, 350 Watts Kamloops, BC Music Director: Steve Marlow Charts to October 4, 2018 * indicates Canadian Content ** indicates a local artist Artist - Album (Label) 1) Basement Revolver* - Heavy Eyes (Sonic Unyon) 2) Lie* - Hounds (Mint) 3) Dizzy* - Baby Teeth (Royal Mountain) 4) Lex Plexus** - Gadget Babies (Ulusulu) 5) Major Love* - Major Love (Latent) 6) Kellie Loder* - Benefit of the Doubt (Independent) 7) Yukon Blonde* - Critical Hit (Dine Alone) 8) Sandro Dominelli* - Here and Now (Chronograph) 9) Quinn Pickering* - Baby Blue (Independent) 10) Sky Parallel* - Sky Parallel (Independent) 11) Tiki Collective* - Muse (Independent) 12) Momma - Interloper (Danger Collective) 13) Curse of Lono - As I Fell (Submarine Cat) 14) Dead Girls Academy - Alchemy (Victory) 15) Brigitte Purdy - Still I Rise (Independent) 16) Emmanuel Jal and Nyaruach* - Naath (Gatwitch) 17) Winchop - Look Who's One! (Independent) 18) Ooluu* - Antediluvian EP (Independent) 19) Jory Nash* - Wilderness Years (Thin Man) 20) Old Man Flanagan's Ghost* - Far from Shore (Independent) 21) Joyfultalk* - Plurality Trip (Constellation) 22) Museum Pieces* - Plain Sight (Independent) 23) Sons of Rhythm* - Sons of Rhythm (Independent) 24) Uni - Uni (Chimera) 25) vonReason** - Boughs and Eros (Independent) 26) Hot Lettuce* - Hot Lettuce EP (Independent) 27) The Ault Sisters* - Sisters in Song (Independent) 28) Matthew Chaim* - Homemade (Independent) 29) Id Guinness* - Lost Language (Rapid Transformation) 30) Plains Apparition* - Adrift (Independent)

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WolfPack men's soccer won't be making playoffs

MSOC won one and drew one over the weekend, killing their playoff hopes for the 2018 season Alvin Mutandiro SPORTS EDITOR Ω The men’s WolfPack soccer team have had a frustrating season.

They have played well in large parts but after having a slow start to the season, have been unable to convert their chances of qualifying for the playoffs.

To add to their problems, key playmaker Mitch Popadynetz has been injured and has missed

four straight games this season.

This past weekend they hosted the UNBC Timberwolves in two entertaining games that featured ten goals and two penalties.

In the first game played on Oct. 6, TRU beat UNBC 3-1. This game marked the return of Mitchell Popadynetz who made his presence felt with an assist for James Fraser 76 seconds into the contest.

The ’Pack then doubled their lead fourteen minutes in as the always reliable Justin Donaldson

scored a second.

The Timberwolves held tough and despite TRU being in control of the game, they equalized in the thirty-sixth minute. Conrad Rowlands scored a header of a set-piece.

The second half wasn’t lacking in drama as UNBC had a penalty in the seventy-ninth minute which Coby Gysbers failed to convert. A costly error.

The penalty could have easily changed the final result, but it was not to be for UNBC and a

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disaster was avoided for TRU. Going into the break TRU led the contest 2-1. TRU put the contest to bed 89 minutes into the game, Koffi Nyavor was the goal scorer.

TRU was the more aggressive team in front of goal registering 23 shots to UNBC’s seven.

“Definitely a win that we needed,” John Antulov told TRU athletics, “Our confidence was a little fragile. Even in the second half, it was a little hectic. The guys battled hard and ended up getting the result.”

The following game was even more dramatic, which may be hard to believe given the previous game; TRU secured a 3-3 draw with UNBC at hillside stadium on Oct. 7.

Early in the game, Khalifa Fanne had a chance to open the scoring, but his shot went wide of the left post of the UNBC goal.

UNBC like TRU in the first game, took the lead as Abou Cisse scored a set-piece in the thirtieth minute.

Lantmeeters then equalized for the ’Pack in the thirty-sixth minute, he was assisted by French-midfielder Khalifa Fanne and shot from 25 yards out straight into the net.

The score going into the break was 1-1.

Finlay McPhie then scored a header of a set-piece to put TRU ahead 2-1. The lead was well deserved, TRU had dominated the contest for most of the second half up to that point.

Unlike the previous day when UNBC failed to convert, Gysbers made no mistake and sent the keeper the wrong way.

The game was tied at 2-2 and at that point it appeared that was how it would end but, little did the crowd in attendance know what was in store.

Justin Donaldson scored a good goal off of a counter attack, James Fraser started the attack with a good pass and Donaldson used his pace to beat the right fullback and hit a thunderous shot that the keeper couldn’t stop.

At that point, it seemed TRU had stolen a victory but UNBC struck back at death as Emmanuel Drame equalized of a loose ball from the throw-in.

“A little disappointed we let the game slip, two goals in injury time is not something we are looking at doing,” said a downbeat Antulov.

Despite the disappointment of missing out on the playoffs, Antulov was pleased with the overall performance from his team.

“We didn’t get those early results, in tight games like this little things can happen and not getting results early cost us,” he said.

Antulov maintained a positive attitude as he stated that the team will look to continue playing well and hopefully give the fifth-years in the squad something to cheer about in their final season at TRU.

Slow start to the 2018 season for TRU cross country WolfPack beaten by UBCO Heat in first competition of the year Alvin Mutandiro SPORTS EDITOR Ω The WolfPack cross country team lost their first event of the year in competition against the UBCO heat. The event took place on Sept. 29 in Kelowna, B.C. The competition was a relaxed, early season preparation for the ’Pack who have added a lot of new personnel to the women’s roster.

UBCO won the men’s competition 14-22 and the women’s competition 12-22.

Mike Mitchell (UBCO) won the overall competition with a time of 29 minutes and 28 seconds.

The men’s team placed very close to one another, Kamloops native Calum Carrigan finished fourth with a time of thirty minutes and forty-nine seconds, he was the best performer for the men’s team.

Troy Morgan finished fifth with a time of 30 minutes and 50 seconds, Sam Dick finished sixth with a time of 32 minutes and 14 seconds, Etienne Lavigne finished seventh in a time of 32

minutes and 29 seconds.

Liam Mcgrath finished ninth with a time of 33 minutes and 27 seconds, whilst Jasper Martin finished tenth with a time of 34 minutes.

On the women’s side, Kendra Murray was the best performer with a time of 27 minutes and 2 seconds, she placed fourth overall. Zoe Painter finished fifth in a time of 27 minutes and 33 seconds.

Brooklyn Higgs finished seventh with a time of 29 minutes and 59 seconds, Eric Johnson finished ninth with a time of 30 minutes and 12 seconds.

New assistant head coach, former head coach and firefighter Conlan Sprickerhoff was in attendance and was in a very good mood when he spoke to TRU athletics.

“Today marked the first true test for both the men’s and women’s teams,” Sprickerhoff said, “It was a gorgeous day and we even had a bit of a delayed start to the race from a black bear wandering around on the course.”

Sprickerhoff also had lots of

positive things to say about the men’s and women’s sides and gave the impression that the team is still finding its feet and improving.

“On the men’s side, both Calum and Troy worked together throughout the entirety of the

race as they were near the front of the pack. They got gapped by the top UBCO men but in the future, we will be looking for them to continue working together to push the pace and be faster,” he said.

“On the Women’s side, we had

four women race with Kendra Murray being our best finisher.

Kendra is a strong runner with lots to give and will look to continue to lead the team from the front this season as the year moves forward,” Sprickerhoff added.

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