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National Aboriginal AIDS Awareness

Week hosted in Regina
Leaders come together to address high AIDS stats in Saskatchewan
P r es e n ta t io ns
Dec. 1: Special
Luncheon

Dec. 2: HIV/AIDS
Strategy for
Aboriginal women
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lauren golosky
contributor
What was on the table for the promi-
nent leaders that met at a special
presentation luncheon in Regina on
the first day of December? How to
address the high rates of HIV/AIDS
in the Aboriginal demographic, es-
pecially in Saskatchewan.
A weeklong event hosted by the
Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network
– or CAAN – brought together im-
portant members from the commu-
nity. Attendees included Don
McMorris, Saskatchewan’s Minister
of Health, and Guy Lonechild, Grand
Chief of the Federation of
“If you loved wine, and the best winemak-
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you know it’s going to be an amazing syn-
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Saskatchewan Indian Nations.
Members from international indige-
nous groups were also in attendance.
“On the first day, it’s various
speakers coming together and shar-
ing their knowledge,” said Shelley
Mantei, from the firm in charge of
the event. “What they want to do is
create strategy. It’s not scare tactics.”
Mantei believes that the power
of the event is the presentations of
the speakers and the collection of
knowledge.
“Anytime you get a collective of
that many people that are the
thought leaders of an issue, bringing
those people together in one room,
you know how dynamic that can be.”
“If you loved wine, and the best
winemakers in the world were com-
ing to one spot, you know it’s going
to be an amazing synergy of minds.”
The National Aboriginal AIDS
Awareness Week events, which
started on Dec. 1, take place until
Dec. 5. This year’s theme is “Respect
+ honor equals = healthy mother,
healthy child.” After a look at the sta-
tistics it’s clear this is a meaningful
theme. Almost 50 per cent of those
tested for HIV are female, and over
30 per cent are youth. This is how
CAAN was able to determine a focus
for the weeklong event.
The event happens annually. Last
year’s presentations were held in
Vancouver and addressed the AIDS
epidemic in the homeless-plagued
downtown eastside. This year,
Regina was selected to host the event.
The distinction came because the
high AIDS rates across the province,
specifically in First Nations commu-
nities, made the Queen City the most
effective place for the event to reach
its audience.
“The AIDS rates are back up to
Dec. 3: HIV/AIDS
Strategy for
Aboriginal youth
(hosted by Carrie
Robinson)
happening there,” Mantei explained.
“This is of interest nationally, but
very much so for what’s happening
in Regina.” Dec. 4: International
Part of the reason the rates have
climbed is due to the shame that
indigenous working
some associate with the disease.
“Aboriginal people deserve uni-
groups on HIV/AIDS
versal access and human rights, espe-
cially as it relates to Aboriginal living
with HIV/AIDS and those at risk,” Dec. 5: Research
explained Ken Clement, CEO of
Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network, presented from the
in a press release. “However, discrim-
ination, ignorance and stigma cause Canadian Journal of
serious road blocks – in our commu-
nities and in places where our people Aboriginal
receive health care – and challenge
our ability to meet these basic rights,
Community-based
which threatens the very integrity of
Aboriginal families.”
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The luncheon itself, first on the
agenda for the National Aboriginal
AIDS Awareness Week, brought to-
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URSU Tensions rise between

promoting North and South Korea
campus clubs Canada’s role in conflict uncertain
Student Union focusing as hostilities come to a head
on more than academics
lauren golosky
contributor
Campus clubs at the University of
Regina may soon find themselves with
increased enrolment numbers.
The University of Regina
Students’ Union has been focusing on
finding ways to promote clubs on cam-
pus and involve as many students as
possible.
One of the ways URSU is looking
at is through social media sites such as
YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and
Flickr. These sites offer help by featur-
ing events, informing as many people
as possible in this technological age.
Another means URSU is exploring is
using poster boards and TV screens to
get the attention of passersby.
Matt Steen, vice president of oper-
ations and finance for URSU, said that
students should join clubs because it
provides an experience that they don’t
find elsewhere.
“Extracurricular activities in clubs
and societies allow social, scholastic,
and professional development and we
hope that students take advantage of
the opportunities available to them.”
Steen added that clubs represent
students’ unique interests and is the
best way for students to engage and be
engaged in the community. He hoped
that this new focus on clubs would in-
crease participation at the university.
MacDonald of the U of R Debate
Society. MacDonald said his club could
really benefit from increased exposure.
“One of the hard things we strug-
gle with is trying to get our word out
there and trying to recruit people,”
MacDonald said. He added that a
higher number of people in the club
would really help them at competi-
tions against universities with more
members.
But, for MacDonald, being a mem-
ber of a club isn’t just about competi-
tions. “I think it’s really important to
get out there and experience the other
side of university”.
Clubs like the U of R Debate
Society get people out meeting others
with common interests. It helps stu-
dents make connections with all kinds
of people from different faculties,
something MacDonald really finds re-
warding. He likes the idea of promot-
ing clubs and giving students
something other than just academics to
think about during their university ca-
reers.
On campus, many students agreed
that social media would be a good way
to get people’s attention, but some of-
fered their own ideas as to how the
clubs can reach students.
Harmony, a second year geology
student, said, “They should have
workshops. Set up tables from differ-
ent clubs in the hallway and tell people
what they’re about.”
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That’s welcome news for Kyle First-year engineering student
Patricia said, “I like the idea of having
[speakers on behalf of student clubs]
go to classes, but they should put more
tables in the hallway.”
“One of the hard
Nathan, a second year geology
student recommends posters, and big
ones. “All you see is tiny ones that
things we struggle
don’t get much attention.”
with is trying to
With an increase in promotion,
URSU hopes that more students will
get our word out
be able to enjoy the benefits that a bal-
there and trying to
anced university experience brings.
For additional information, visit
recruit people.”
ursu.ca and check under the clubs sec-
tion. There, contact information, infor-
mation on how to start a club, as well
Kyle MacDonald
as different means of promoting the
UR Debate Society
club are found.
photo brief
Kent Peterson
“I’m what’s known as a lifer in this business,” Global TV sports-
caster Warren Woods told an audience of University of Regina
students and community members on Tuesday, Nov. 30. Woods’
lecture, “Building Networks,” focused on journalists’ need to
build a community of friends, colleagues, and sources in order to
gather stories.
ed kapp
news writer
Although the two Koreas, North and
South, have technically been at war
with each other since the Korean War
began in 1950, the two nations have
remained relatively conflict-free since
agreeing to cease hostilities in 1953,
despite never formally signing an of-
ficial peace treaty.
Unfortunately, it appears that
armed conflict is once again a realistic
possibility on the Korean peninsula,
as recent troubles between the two
nations – which, at the best of times,
could be described as tense – have
many fearing the worst.
On the morning of Nov. 23, South
Korea – which publicly announced its
plans one week earlier – prepared to
carry out military exercises on their
territorial waters off Baengynyeong
Island and Yeonpyeong Island, in an
attempt to sharpen its military capa-
bilities against North Korea. In March,
North Korea was deemed responsi-
ble for the sinking of a South Korean
warship, the Cheonan, after an inter-
national investigation, despite not
claiming responsibility.
The exercises, which mobilized
70,000 South Korean troops from the
air force, army, marines, and navy,
were allegedly viewed by North
Korea as a threat, and thus prompted
the North to send a faxed message to
South Korea. According to South
Korean Joint Chief of Staff Officials,
the message stated the North would
not, “just sit back while the South is
carrying out the live-fire exercise.”
Despite the North’s warnings, the
South carried on with their military
exercises.
Four and a half hours after South
Korea began their live-fire drills,
North Korea responded with artillery
fire from coastal artillery batteries in
Mudo and Kaemori, located in North
Korea’s Hwanghae Province.
The bombardment of firing,
which consisted of 180 shells and took
30 minutes each, landed on both a
South Korean military camp and on
the Yeonpyeong Island’s principal set-
tlement. Homes and shops were de-
stroyed, four were killed and another
19 injured.
In retaliation to this attack, South
Korean forces responded with ap-
proximately 80 shells of their own.
Although the conflict only lasted
a little more than two hours, United
Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-
moon, strongly condemned North
Korea’s attack, calling it “one of the
gravest incidents since the end of the
Korean War.”
In response to North Korea’s at-
tacks, US President Barack Obama
called the instigation “outrageous.”
To serve as a warning for the potential
repercussions of more North Korean
attacks, on Nov. 28, Obama also took
part in joint military exercises with
South Korea.
North Korea’s official Korean
Central News Agency said that the
naval operations are “no more than an
attempt to find a pretext for aggres-
sion and ignite a war at any cost.”
They further warned that the drills
“are putting the Korean Peninsula at
a state of ultra-emergency.”
As for what all of this means to
Canada, Prime Minister Stephen
Harper condemned North Korea’s ar-
tillery attack calling it “the latest in a
series of aggressive and provocative
actions by North Korea, which con-
tinue to represent a grave threat to in-
ternational security and stability in
northeast Asia.” Harper further urged
North Korea “to refrain from further
reckless and belligerent actions.”
However, if either party decides
to ignore Harper’s – and the over-
whelming majority of other world
leaders’ – pleas to refrain from more
violent actions, and war does break
out on the Korean peninsula, Canada
may be contractually obligated to be-
come involved, according to a brief-
ing note that was prepared for
Defence Minister Peter MacKay after
a nuclear device last year.
Canada, which was one of the 16
nations involved in the Korean War,
signed the July 27, 1953 armistice that
ended the three years of conflict. Due
to that, the country could be called
upon to provide support for South
Korea.
Paul Evans, the director of the
Institute of Asian Research at the
University of British Columbia, dis-
agrees. He doesn’t believe Canada
will be obligated to become involved.
“It’s a technical legal question,
rather than a political question. Not
an automatic reprise of 1950-1953,”
said Evans. “The technical legal side is
that Canada is a part of the commis-
sion, but it doesn’t commit Canada or
the UN – we’re not locked into any
role in the event that hostilities re-
sume.”
Regardless of which countries be-
come involved in a potential conflict
between the Koreas, the repercussions
of another fallout would likely be
even greater than that of the first
Korean War. During that war, there
were over two million casualties.
North Korea is currently one the
world’s most militarized nations, and
has shown with previous tests that
they are more than willing to show-
case their nuclear might.
“One of the hard
things we struggle
with is trying to
get our word out
there and trying to
recruit people.”
Kyle MacDonald
UR Debate Society
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Dec. 2, 2010 - Jan. 5, 2011 news 5

A joint battle
Columbia joins in to help free Jamaica from drug cartels’ grip
ed kapp
news writer
During a 12-hour official visit to
Jamaica on Nov. 19, Columbian
President Juan Manuel Santos
Calderon and Jamaican Prime Minister
Bruce Golding convened in an attempt
to curb the rapidly-growing narcotics
market throughout Jamaica.
At a signing ceremony at the
Prime Minister’s Office, Calderon and
Golding signed a Memorandum of
Understanding that will permit the
two nations to more effectively share
information, and increase collabora-
tion and joint action between
Columbia’s Financial Analysis Unit
and Jamaica’s Financial Investigation
Division.
The newly-signed Memorandum
of Understanding will be implemented
with the intention of fighting money
laundering, the financing of terrorism,
and connected criminal activities
throughout Jamaica.
November’s official visit by
Calderon was the second of two major
Columbian initiatives regarding
Jamaica in 2010. In August, eight high-
level Columbian National Police offi-
cials visited the Caribbean island to
capabilities.”
Although Columbia and Jamaica
have had diplomatic relations since
1965, their relationship has historically
existed more in word than deed.
With few examples of the two na-
tions cooperating, especially with the
magnitude of their recent announce-
ment, on record, Columbia’s actions
in the last six months have demon-
strated that they are willing and able
to help Jamaica curb their crime prob-
lems. Considering that a recent poll
showed that 64 per cent of Jamaicans
view crime as the most pressing issue
facing the nation, this is no doubt a
good thing.
“So far, there has been no real po-
litical will to go ahead. Now we have
the political will,” Calderon said. “The
Prime Minister and I have already
agreed, and we are going to go full
steam ahead.”
Unfortunately for both Columbia
and Jamaica, it appears that the two
nations are fighting an uphill battle by
trying to rid Jamaica of its prosperous
narcotics trade.
Jamaica, which lies 550 miles
north of the Columbian coast and 550
miles southwest of Miami, serves as an
ideal transit point for narcotics from
South America – where copious In a press conference in Kingston, prosper and rid itself of organized share, because this is a joint battle,”
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assess Jamaica’s Constabulary Force
for the nation’s Ministry of National
Security.
“The report is that the assessment
they did was very thorough and they
have identified some things that can be
done to improve the quality of our
counter-narcotics activities,” Golding
noted. “I expect we will be rolling out
those very soon.”
According to Calderon, Columbia
is also willing to give Jamaica more
hands-on assistance in policing.
“I came here with the two police
chiefs, the present and the former,”
said Calderon. “We are offering spe-
cialized help in intelligence, counter-
intelligence, and in specific areas
where Jamaica needs to improve its
amounts of cocaine are produced – to Calderon noted although Columbia in- crime. said Calderon. “No one country, how-
North America – where copious tends to help Jamaica, greater interna- “But not only you, Central ever powerful it is, can fight by itself
amounts of cocaine are consumed. tional help is still needed for the America and most of the Caribbean is- organized multinational crime.”
With a gross domestic product of 4,300 island, which is home to nearly three lands, and that is why we are telling
dollars per capita in 2009, and an un- million inhabitants, to legitimately the U.S. that they will have to put their
employment rate of nearly 13 per cent,
involvement in the cocaine business is
seen by many as one of the few ways
to make a decent living in Jamaica.
Aside from working with law en-
forcement to curb the island’s narcotics
“So far, there has been no real political will to go ahead.
trade, Calderon also made several of
his other intentions for Jamaica public.
Now we have the political will.”
This included efforts to stabilize the
island’s economy by financing a num-
ber of feasibility studies in hopes of
Juan Manuel Santo Calderon
finding oil and gas, and plans to fur- Columbian President
ther explore the Joint Regime Area, lo-
cated south of the Pedro Banks.

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Despite usually being synonymous with horri-
ble retail store tramplings, Black Friday looks
this year to be a sign of hope – at least on the
economic front. After the recession contributed
to a few years of bleak sales, America’s biggest
shopping day showed a bit of a bounce back.
The day saw over $45 billion spent in retail.
Reports say it sucked to be in customer service
that day.
National Opt-out Day was a success, according
to organizers. According to everyone else, not so
much. The protest set for the busy American
travel holiday, Thanksgiving, encouraged people
to decline controversial new body scans and in-
sist on a lengthier pat-down in order to cause de-
lays. Participation numbers were low, but the
planners say the point wasn’t the numbers, but
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Prince Chunk died Sunday of heart problems. to encourage overfeeding animals. Television RCMP officer. After watching a YouTube clip of RCMP’s Twitter page. Almost three thousand
Prince Chunk became famous after his humane spots on Regis and Kelly, MSNBC, and Fox News Cookie Monster petitioning to host Saturday comments later, the RCMP issued an apology
society claimed he was 44 pounds, going for ensued. Night Live, the officer hit the “like” button, or so with a promise to find the cookie culprit.

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Government
to shut down
Waiting to take the plunge
Welfare Rights Royal engagement mirrors real life relationship habits
Centre
CUPE angered at
decision to close
doors
cheyenne geysen
op-ed editor

Support for those who may be considered

less fortunate in the city of Regina will soon
become less.
The Ministry of Social Services intends
to close the doors on the Regina Welfare
Rights Centre, an agency which has pro-
vided advocacy and support for low-income
people in the city for more than 35 years. The
Centre helps those on social assistance find
affordable housing, manage finances, and
provides family support.
The centre was staffed by members of
CUPE 4973. On Nov. 25, they learned that
the centre’s funding would be cut in 90 days.
abc.net.au

No reason was given.
“It’s a decision that will hurt the most
vulnerable people in our community, those
most in need of services,” said CUPE staff
representative Guy Marsden.
CUPE 4973 president Pam Belanger is
frustrated with the latest blow for the union,
which has been facing threats and intimida-
tion from the government.
“We want the government to hold our
bound accountable for service delivery – but
abolishing our agency harms the people
we’ve worked so hard to help,” she said.
Lea Bage, centre staff and local union
secretary-treasurer adds, “It’s not fair to our
clients or to the staff who have served this
community for many years. Our clients and
core neighbourhoods need those services
and we need those jobs.”
CUPE wants the Ministry to reconsider
its decision, which may have stemmed from
a management change-over. The new man-
agement is supported by an inexperienced
volunteer board and has created a “corrosive
work environment” for staff.
“You don’t close the legislature because
of one bad MLA and you should not be clos-
ing the Welfare Rights Centre because of bad
management,” said Marsden.
iryn tushabe
news writer
They met in 2001, started dating in
2003, split up briefly in 2007, and
got engaged in 2010. They will be
married in the spring of 2011.
What can we learn from Prince
William and Kate Middleton’s eight-
year relationship? Possibly that giv-
ing a relationship time and space to
breathe will only make the bond
stronger between partners.
Dr. Alison Hayford, a professor
in the department of sociology and
social studies at the University of
Regina, explained why there is this
new trend of long relationships be-
fore marriage. In her opinion, it’s
because there is less pressure on
young people to marry than many
times in the past – for a variety of
reasons.
“Women as well as men are able
to support themselves. Thus neither
sex needs to marry for economic
survival. [There is] even childbear-
ing outside of marriage.”
Hayford says that even though
there are fewer pressures towards
marriage than there were histori-
cally, marriage rates remain high be-
cause people still place value on
weddings as public events, and on
marriage itself as an institution.
“There is some evidence that
common law relationships and mar-
riages that follow upon long com-
mon law relationships are less stable
than more ‘traditional’ marriages,
but I think we need to see what the
future will bring, since attitudes and
practices of common law relation-
ships seem to be changing,” she ex-
plained.
“Historically, in many parts of
western Europe, average ages at
marriage were in the late 20s for
women and early 30s for men. Only
the very wealthy could afford to
marry at younger ages. In historical
terms, the relatively low average
ages of marriage that characterized
mid-20th century Canada and US
were anomalies. Perhaps those of us
of European descent are just return-
ing to the practices of our ances-
tors,” she continued.
There were pressures involved
in William’s decision to get married,
even after waiting. For one, William,
unlike his dad, is certain to become
Britain’s future king, and the coun-
try will need a queen and, eventu-
ally, an heir. Secondly, their breakup
early in 2007 is rumoured to have
been caused by the Prince’s failure
to propose to Middleton. At the
time, it’s said he felt he was too
young to be tied down and
Middleton was frustrated by a rela-
tionship that seemed to be going
nowhere.
“I think we need to see what the future
will bring, since attitudes and practices of
common law relationships seem to be
changing.”
And there was, of course, the in-
famous British press that any future
princess would have to deal with.
Hayford said the fact that Kate is
the same age as her partner and
more educated than Diana was
might help her be better prepared
for the media frenzy that caused
princess Diana a great deal of detri-
ment.
“But on the other hand, look at
what happened to the well-educated
young woman who married the
Crown Prince of Japan – not a happy
story,” she added.
Dr. Alison Hayford

Charitable interactions
Salvation Army’s Kettle Campaign steps into the 21st century
kim elaschuk
news editor
Christmas can send people into the red
with piling bank fees from withdraw-
ing the green. Now, a holiday staple is
trying out a new technological
makeover to make one part of the sea-
son a little bit more convenient.
It’s not quite Christmas until the
Salvation Army Kettle Campaign vol-
unteers start appearing on corners and
in malls, ringing their trademark jingle
bells. Recently though, the tradition has
run into a new problem.
“People in Regina are ever so gen-
erous to the Salvation Army,” said
Captain Steven Cameron. “As time
goes on, though, less and less people
actually carry any cash.”
Cameron is in charge of the Kettle
Campaign this year, and is bringing it
into the digital age.
“Every year a number of people
have come up to us and said ‘we’d love
to make a donation but we have is plas-
tic. Do you have any way to do this?’
Up to this year we have not.”
That’s because this year the
Salvation Army will be equipping the
station at the South Albert Liquor Store
Danny Kresnyak
with a portable debit machine. Now,
the charitable organization will be able
to accept debit, Visa, and Mastercard.
Cameron hopes this new conven-
ience will inspire more passersby to do-
nate this year.
In 2009, the Salvation Army earned
$115,000, and they’re aiming to beat
that this year by another $5,000. The
money collected in the trademark red
bubble kettle goes not only to support-
ing their seasonal events, but also to
year-round programs like sending low-
income kids to camp, inner city music
programs, and free job training.
Unlike other debit machines, the
user doesn’t have to worry about the
typical dollar-fifty transaction hidden
fee. Instead, 0.05 per cent will be gar-
nished off the total donated amount.
“People in Regina are ever so generous to
the Salvation Army. As time goes on, though,
less and less people actually carry any cash.”
So, if someone donates 20 dollars, one
penny of that will go to the bank. This
is possible because all of the money do-
nated goes straight to the charity, not
the Salvation Army employees.
“None of the donation is going for
any overhead or any administration. It
goes straight to helping those in need
in Regina,” Cameron explained.
Some things are sacred, though.
Those worried about the beloved Kettle
Campaign changing too fast need not
fret.
“It looks exactly the same. There’ll
be the kettle. The red stand with the
plastic bubble on it,” Cameron said.
The only difference is now it’ll
have a small sign saying “Interac avail-
able.”
Steven Cameron
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Campaigns, little Getting to

controversy fill CFS business
meeting Referendum put on back-
burner at CFS national
Hundreds of delegates pass new general meeting
policies at national general meeting
john cameron
editor-in-chief
Tucked away in the back of the
Canadian Federation of Students’
(CFS) national executive’s report this
year was a mention of the University
of Regina CFS membership referen-
dum. The report, distributed as part of
the delegate binder given to the feder-
ation’s member locals at the CFS na-
tional general meeting that ran from
Nov. 24–27, contends that the voter’s
list for the referendum was “incom-
plete.” It then outlines the complexi-
ties of the voting process that have
contributed to the extensive delay of
the referendum’s results.
And that’s it.
“Not a whole lot came up specif-
ically about [the University of Regina
Students’ Union] itself,” URSU vice
president of external affairs Kaytlyn
Barber noted.
While Barber acknowledged that
several of the issues brought up over
the course of the weekend affect
Saskatchewan students – issues like
those surrounding the
Post–Secondary Student Support
Program (PSSSP), a financial assis-
tance program that helps fund educa-
tion for aboriginal students – she also
said that very little specifically about
Saskatchewan came up.
Antoine Trepanier
Association, did not attend.
“We felt it was important to have
a presence at the meeting, and to
show that we want and need results
from our referendum, and that our
members deserve to know,” Barber
explained. She then added that
URSU’s attendance was meant to
“show that we’re engaged in the
process and we’re willing to work
with CFS ... if the will of our members
is to remain members, we want to
make sure that we can establish a
working relationship.”
Addison agreed. “We wanted to
make sure URSU was adequately rep-
resented at both the AGM and provin-
cial meetings,” he wrote. “Secondly, it
is undecided if URSU will continue
or terminate their membership with
the CFS. With results being so close,
we can assume that there is a great
deal of students on campus who want
to be members, and a great deal that
don’t. But we do want to ensure stu-
dents that we are willing to work with
the CFS if we decide to remain mem-
bers.”
To that end, Barber and Addison
sat on subcommittees that reviewed
motions presented in opening plenary
and made recommendations about
those motions that would be taken to
the closing plenary. As well, they at-
tended a number of caucuses, includ-
ing the provincial caucus at which

And while URSU president Kyle they participated in electing a

Addison admitted via email that there Saskatchewan representative to the
Delegates from across Canada attended the Canadian Federation of Students' 29th national

were “countless awkward and un- CFS national executive, Laura Toth,
general meeting

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emma godmere
cup ottawa bureau chief
OTTAWA (CUP) –– Several hundred
students representing campus unions
across the country met in Gatineau,
Que. last week for the Canadian
Federation of Students’ national gen-
eral meeting.
On the docket for the national stu-
dent lobbying group’s 29th meeting,
held Nov. 24-27, were presentations
from speakers such as Council of
Canadians national chairperson
Maude Barlow and parliamentary
budget officer Kevin Page, and an
hours-long closing plenary where del-
egates passed decisions on CFS policy,
budget and campaigns.
Successful motions included
pledging support for the International
Day Against Homophobia and
Transphobia, a proposal to expand the
We Ride Transit campaign, a move to
collect loan and financial assistance
data from students to aid national stu-
dent debt campaigns, and a call to the
government to reinstate the long form
census, among many others.
All campaign-related motions
Premier Danny Williams “for his
long-standing commitment to stu-
dents and their families to increase
access to post-secondary student edu-
cation and reduce student debt.”
Current national treasurer and
newly-elected national chairperson
Roxanne Dubois – who will take on
her new role next spring – explained
one of the successful motions aimed at
updating an existing campaign.
“‘No Means No’ is our campaign
to end violence against women, and
there was a motion to revamp it – not
only the materials, but also the lan-
guage that we use to reflect harass-
ment online, and stuff like that,” she
said.
Among those motions that failed
were a handful proposed by the
University of Victoria students’ soci-
ety. Originally one motion that was
broken into multiple parts in opening
plenary, the proposals included with-
drawing any claims of outstanding
fees from the students’ union and
launching a referendum on continued
membership. In October 2009, union
members submitted a referendum pe-
tition to the CFS head office and have
since filed a court petition to validate
While the proposal to waive out-
standing fees was rejected, the refer-
endum-related portion was referred
to the national executive through a
motion that stated, “It would be
highly irresponsible for the member
local unions of the federation to en-
dorse a course of action that would re-
sult in the violation of its bylaws.”
A UVSS delegation was present
at the meeting, as was a small one
from the University of Regina, where
the students’ union is also currently
encountering referendum issues with
the CFS.
Student associations who have
previously encountered referendum
and legal issues with the CFS, such as
the University of Calgary graduate
students’ association and the
Concordia University students’ union
were not present at the national meet-
ing.
Additional motions that received
majority approval included produc-
ing materials that highlight “the victo-
ries students have won locally,
provincially and nationally through
years of activism through the federa-
tion” and seeking sports and recre-
ation-related ticket discounts for
weekend” related to the U of R’s ref-
erendum, neither URSU’s delegates
nor the CFS general membership
went into the meeting with the refer-
endum at the top of their agenda.
The issue was not far from the
CFS national executive’s mind, as ev-
idenced by its mention in the dele-
gate binder, and both URSU delegates
stated that they wanted to, as Addison
put it, “provide a presence in order to
put some pressure on getting results
for our referendum.” However, there
were other concerns that motivated
URSU’s attendance in a year when
several students’ unions that had also
attempted to defederate, like McGill’s
Post–Graduate Students’ Society and
both the Concordia Students’ Union
and Concordia’s Graduate Student
“... if the will of our members is to remain
members [of CFS], we want to make sure
that we can establish a working relation-
ship.”
URSU’s board of directors.
And both delegates were
adamant that URSU’s participation in
these meetings specifically and their
attendance at the AGM in general
were about helping to ensure that the
long–term goals of the CFS would be
goals that represented student inter-
ests, both in Saskatchewan and across
the country. As Barber explained it,
the AGM is about setting the direction
for the federation, and URSU felt it
was important to make sure
Saskatchewan voices were heard, re-
gardless of whether the U of R defed-
erated. Addison concurred.
“We attended the AGM to repre-
sent our members on all decision
making processes,” he wrote. “We ac-
complished just that.”

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Canadians launch birth control
class action suit
Complaints range from strokes and heart problems to
gall bladder removal
clear-acne.org
megan sarrazin
intercamp (grant macewan
university)
EDMONTON (CUP) — Two brands of
birth control pills prescribed to
roughly two million women in 2009
are being named in a national class ac-
tion lawsuit alleging serious health
side-effects to some of its prescribed
users.
Yasmin and Yaz, both products of
Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals,
are targets of the class action lawsuit
by Siskinds, a law firm based in
London, Ont.
According to Matthew Baer, the
lead council representing Siskinds,
pretty well fed up with this
semester since 1962
they receive several calls a week from
people noting injuries resulting from
the use of Yasmin or Yaz.
“It just started getting overwhelm-
ing, the number of people calling with
respect to this particular brand and so
we started looking into it and seeing
that there were a lot of issues in the
U.S. as well,” said Baer.
“We started researching it more
and it appears that there’s science
showing that the risks of serious injury
with Yasmin and Yaz is worse than
comparable contraceptives. But the
warning that’s given is that the risk is
the same,” said Baer.
Many of the reported side effects
include strokes, pulmonary embolisms
– a blood clot in the lung – various
heart problems and, what Baer calls
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the most overwhelming, is many
young women having to get their gall
bladders removed.
There have been about 4,000 indi-
vidual cases against Yasmin and Yaz in
the U.S., as well as most provinces in
the country filing class action lawsuits
against the drugs, according to Baer.
Siskinds has been receiving calls
for about a year, in which time they
have logged about 300 significant com-
plaints of side effects, but Baer says,
“it’s quite possible there could be
thousands of people.”
Before the case can go to court,
there are several steps it must go
through, including a certification hear-
ing, when lawyers will try to convince
the judge that it’s a suitable case to be
presented as a class action lawsuit
rather than individual claims.
This is the stage the lawsuit is cur-
rently in, with more people expected
to come forward once the case reaches
certification.
“We have to be very careful what
we choose and if we choose a case to
do it’s because we’re very confident
that it will be successful at the end of
the day,” said Baer.
Due to the overwhelming amount
of calls the law firm has received in re-
gards to Yasmin and Yaz, Baer believes
the case will be a success.
He is hoping for an outcome with
two major focuses.
“We want to try to get compensa-
tion for people who are injured from
using the drug and two, and just as im-
portantly, we want there to be a proper
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Dec. 2, 2010 - Jan. 5, 2011
warning,” said Baer.
“If it is true, as we allege, that
there’s a significantly greater increased
risk of health problems with people
using this drug as compared to other
ones, we want there to be a proper
warning in place so that people can
make informed decisions about what
they’re putting in their bodies,” he
added.
Although they are nine or 10
months away from seeing any signifi-
cant progress with the case, Baer is
confident that there will be a settle-
ment.
Since these oral contraceptives are
widely prescribed in Canada, he ex-
pects more people to come forward
once the case reaches the settlement
stages.
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On the road
National Film Board commissioner
looks to engage Canadians
nfb.ca
A still from Norman McLaren’s 1952 short film Neighbours
john cameron
editor-in-chief
Here’s an experiment.
Go to the National Film Board
(NFB) Screening Room, nfb.ca. The
menu at the top has an option to
“Explore All Films.” Do so. Sort the
results by popularity.
Now look at what comes up: The
Log Driver’s Waltz, The Cat Came Back,
Oscar-winning computer-generated
short Ryan, Roch Carrier’s The
Sweater, The Big Snit, Neighbours.
Feel some nostalgia? NFB com-
missioner Tom Perlmutter hopes you
do; if you don’t, he hopes you feel a
sense of novelty and excitement in
discovering the rich body of work
that the NFB has archived online.
Perlmutter is on what he de-
scribes as a national tour, taking a
week at a time to visit communities
across Canada in an attempt to make
the NFB contemporary in a way that
even a sophisticated online archive
can’t. The Montreal-based organiza-
tion, he said, wants to remind
Canadians that it exists, and to itself
be reminded and informed about
what matters to those Canadians.
And Perlmutter is convinced
that the NFB is the institution that
can help tell them.
“Our mandate is to reflect
Canada to Canadians,” Perlmutter
said in an interview on Nov. 25, a
day after his tour stop at Regina’s
Nouveau Gallery. “And we cannot
do that just sitting in an office and
reading about it, or even connecting
“Our mandate is to reflect Canada to Canadians ... And we cannot
do that just sitting in an office and reading about it, or even con-
necting in a virtual way. We need to be out across the country do-
ing that.”
in a virtual way. We need to be out
across the country doing that.”
The idea behind the tour, accord-
ing to Perlmutter, is that the NFB
should be accessible to Canadians.
In one sense, that means letting peo-
ple access the works themselves,
whether it’s the 1,000-plus stream-
ing videos on the organization’s
website or the popular late-2009 NFB
iPhone application that Perlmutter
said resulted in over a million view-
ings of NFB films since its release.
But another part of that is re-
minding Canadians that they are not
only the audience of NFB films,
they’re the source material as well –
Perlmutter said he was interested in
the way Canadians think and feel
about their country and their place in
the world.
“Many of them [have] issues
around marginalization, feeling left
out, feeling somehow that there isn’t
a focus on them,” he explained. “So
for someone to come and say, ‘You
matter,’ which is really true, it opens
doors.”
As a result, Perlmutter charac-
terized the NFB’s mission – not its
short-term mission of accessibility
that the tour represents, but its long-
term aims – as a twofold project. The
first is to do what the NFB has histor-
ically done, which is represent
Canada and Canadian film as places
where the boundaries of the form can
be pushed, keeping up the organiza-
tion’s reputation both nationally and
internationally as a notable institu-
tion. But the organization’s second
goal, highlighted by the diverse
range of interests, beliefs, and con-
cerns that Perlmutter has encoun-
tered over the course of the tour, is to
preserve Canadian culture and en-
sure that the broad, sometimes con-
tradictory views of Canadians are
represented in the material that the
NFB produces and presents.
Saskatchewanians are not ex-
empt from having those concerns ei-
ther; Perlmutter said that citizens he
spoke with expressed anxieties about
Saskatchewan’s role in the national
and global communities as its stature
as a “have” province has grown. And
that’s part of the reason the NFB is
planning on opening an office in the
province in 2011 – to give filmmak-
ers a place to take films that are
“rooted in place, that have the speci-
ficity of Saskatchewan.”
While Perlmutter cautions that
the NFB can only do so much – they
can’t release every film brought to
their doorstep, for example, and their
mandate is to release films, not solve
the social problems addressed by the
films they release – he nevertheless
maintains that the organization’s
mission is important to Canadians,
giving them an opportunity to en-
gage with the world that, with luck,
will continue to change and meet
their needs.
For residents of Saskatchewan
wondering how the NFB will ap-
proach giving residents of this
province that opportunity, however,
Perlmutter had just two words.
“Stay tuned.”
Tom Perlmutter
Arts & Culture Editor: Christian Hardy
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Sask Book
Awards Showcase
Local Literati
2010 nominees announced
roxanna woloshyn
contributor
You probably already know this, but
Saskatchewan has a talented writing
community. However, you may be
wondering “Where are these talented
writers?” and “What are they writing?”
Well, I found the answers to these
questions in one room. On the night of
Saturday, Nov. 27, Saskatchewan’s
literati gathered together to eat, drink,
and celebrate the province’s writing
community at the 18th Annual
Saskatchewan Book Awards. The event,
hosted at the Conexus Arts Centre by
CBC Radio host Sheila Coles, began
with a cocktail hour where guests had
the opportunity to mingle with fellow
writers, prominent members of the
community, and award nominees.
The Saskatchewan Book Awards
celebrates excellence in writing and
publishing. It began in 1993 with Peter
Gzowsky as the first guest speaker. The
award event has expanded to include
fourteen awards and is recognized as
an important literary event envied by
other provinces and territories. Award
winners are determined through a jury
process by jurors from outside of the
province who have expertise in each
award category. More than 400 people
attend this event annually.
After finally getting everyone
seated at their tables, the program be-
gan. Along with Liberal MPs Bob Rae
and Ralph Goodale and Minister of
Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport Bill
Hutchinson, Lieutenant Governor of
Saskatchewan Dr. Gordon Barnhardt
was in attendance. As a self-professed
reader and writer, Dr. Barnhardt gave a
charismatic greeting offering his utmost
support for the province’s literary com-
munity. Following dinner,
Saskatchewan’s Poet Laureate, Robert
Currie, presented his poem “Honour”
to mark his last appearance at the
Saskatchewan Book Awards as Poet
Laureate. This is an honourable distinc-
tion and one wonders what talented
writer will fill this newly open posi-
tion.
Perhaps one of the greatest treats of
the night for both nominees and guests
was the speech given by guest speaker
and critically acclaimed Canadian au-
thor Steven Galloway. Galloway
reached international critical acclaim
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for his novel The Cellist of Sarajevo.
Fittingly, before Galloway graced the
podium to give his speech, guests en-
joyed a musical selection performed en-
tirely by cellists.
Galloway expressed his apprecia-
tion for the Saskatchewan writing scene
and discussed how fortunate the
province is to have such wide-spread
support for writing via The
Saskatchewan Writer’s Guild and The
Saskatchewan Arts Board. In his
speech, dotted with humour, Galloway
discussed the elitism awards events are
often condemned for. However, he sug-
gested that events like these are neces-
sary because writers and publishers are
able to celebrate and acknowledge each
other’s hard work.
The Saskatchewan Book Awards
did an excellent job of rewarding the
hard work Galloway mentioned. The
award categories range from fiction,
non-fiction, and publishing awards to
the Prix du Livre Francais and the First
People’s Writing Award. Among the
nominees were several University of
Regina professors (i.e. Dr. Kathleen
Wall, Dr. Andrew Stubbs, Dr. James
McNinch, and Dr. Mitch
Diamantopoulos). The Book of the Year
award went to David Carpenter for A
Hunter’s Confession (Greystone).
I was lucky to sit at a winner ’s
table. I sat with the partners of Purich
Publishing Ltd. who won two of three
awards for publishing.
One of the highlights of the night
was the opportunity to speak to
Saskatchewan Book Award nominees
for 2010 and have them sign your
books.
The University of Regina bookstore
supplied the books for sale. A list of the
2010 award nominees and recipients is
available online at bookawards.sk.ca.
“This is an hon-
ourable distinction
and one wonders
what talented writer
will fill this newly
open position [of
Poet Laureate].”
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A human touch Making old styles

Four Shadows theatre company
presents a unique performance
piece
new again
Jill Barber and Michael Kaeshammer
make The Exchange cozy

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selves, is not a play; it’s got no charac-

paul bogdan
a&c writer
Joshua Newman is a long way from
home. Along with the other members
of Four Shadows, the York, England
theatre student has spent the semester
here in Regina studying Theatre at the
U of R.
As Newman describes it, Four
Shadows is “a performance company
ters; there’s no script ... we found it
liberating to be a part of that. Due to its
lack of character it is just us. It’s not me
playing someone else; it’s me playing
me. It’s Josh on stage.”
How can a theatre performance
function without characters? “It’s an
aggregate of several cross-disciplines.
The way we’ve made it probably has
more ties to dance than theatre, but
when you watch it, it’s got more links
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that was formed early this year as a
result of finishing our first year of uni-
versity in York. We did our final per-
formance for the year and then were
asked if we wanted to put it on at the
end of every year. Originally, it was an
entire class ensemble piece [with] six-
teen students [that] whittled down to
eight by the final performance, and
from that three of us have come [to
Regina] and decided that we want to
carry on that work.”
The remaining members of Four
Shadows teamed up with two students
here at the University of Regina, and
wrote the performance, Out in the Cold.
“[Writing Out in the Cold] came as a re-
sponse to a couple of workshops we
did ... based as working as an ensem-
ble. We started to work with images
that we had in mind, and played
games as well. A lot of it came from
games, which is evident in the per-
formance. We were also looking into
the conflict that happened in Sarajevo
during [the Bosnian War]. [Out in the
Cold] came from that mixed with
games and playing around in a space.”
During his stay here in Regina,
Newman has found some differences
between theatre performance here and
in England. “The approach is much
more traditional here; it’s very much
plays and scripts. The piece we’re per-
forming, [which] we devised our-
“I guess it’s our response to how everything
nowadays is electronic; it’s all text mes-
sages, Facebook, and things like that.”
to visual arts and sculpture. It’s a lot of
fun to play with.”
Despite not having scripted lines,
the performance features strong
themes. “There’s a big theme on hu-
man contact. As we’re actors, perform-
ers, and artists working with what
could be called a dying medium ...
with the internet, and television, and
film, and everything now, the perform-
ance of live bodies in a space is becom-
ing less and less frequent.
In that respect, we’ve gone in the
opposite direction and focused more
on human contact. I guess it’s our re-
sponse to how everything nowadays is
electronic; it’s all text messages,
Facebook, and things like that. We’ve
focused on people actually coming into
contact which is why when we set up
the space, the audience seating is very,
very close to the performance; it’s quite
intimate in that respect.”
It’s going to be interesting to see
audience reactions to the performance,
Newman said. “I’m not really sure
[what the audience should expect] be-
cause I’m not sure what we expect as
performers from the piece.”
However Out in the Cold turns
out, it promises to be intriguing as it
bridges the gap between different areas
of art. Out in the Cold will be per-
formed Saturday, Dec. 4 in RC 176.
paul bogdan
a&c writer
What’s more awesome than one
Canadian artist touring across the
country? Two awesome Canadian
artists co-headlining across Canada.
On Saturday, Nov. 26, Michael
Kaeshammer and Jill Barber stopped
here in Regina on their way from one
coast to the next. Jill Barber’s blend of
folk and traditional pop music of the
’40s and ’50s and Michael
Kaeshammer’s mix of boogie-woogie
piano and improvisational jazz prom-
ised and delivered an intuitive and
engaging evening to a full-house au-
dience at the Exchange.
Jill Barber opened the evening
with a set of romantic love songs
dominated by a heavy six-eight feel.
One couldn’t help but feel the urge to
leave their seat – if one was lucky
enough to find a seat – and dance to
the easy-going rhythm of the music.
Audience members were encouraged
to dance at a space near the front of
the stage.
Her use of a ten piece orchestra
on record seemed no problem to
recreate in a live setting as she was
backed by a band comprised of a pi-
anist, guitarist, upright bassist, and
violinist who played clarinet on a few
numbers. The band was spot-on and
provided beautiful accompaniment to
Barber’s splendid vocals.
Even though the band was there
to back Barber, there were moments
for some of the members to solo.
There was nothing overly flashy or
flamboyant, but it was nonetheless
tasteful and meant more to serve the
motif with the audience that had the perience.
entire crowd singing by the end of Moreover, they were a very dy-
the song. Barber received a boister- namic outfit. They could be pounding
ous standing ovation from the crowd on their instruments with all their
as she left the stage and as might and then bring it down to a
Kaeshammer prepared to follow. whisper so soft that the drummer re-
Michael Kaeshammer’s song sorted to playing his kit with his
arrangements were nothing overly hands.
spectacular, but what was truly amaz- The man who really stole the
ing was the unscripted part of the set. show was Kaeshammer, the piano
His and his band’s performance was prodigy. There were moments when
almost more of a jam than a rehearsed he would play trills at speeds one did-
set. The performance relied heavily n’t think was physically possible.
on extended improvisation with Occasionally, he would be playing a
sparsely placed lyrics. At times, sim- walking bass line with his left hand,
ple three-minute tunes became thrice and playing polyrhythmic solos with
their length. right; his hands were nothing more
The level of musicianship be- than a blur fluttering up and down all
tween Michael Kaeshammer and his eighty-eight ivory keys.
band – consisting of a bassist, drum- The two artists complemented
mer, and featuring trumpet, trom- each other’s performances exquis-
bone, and sax players on a few songs itely: Jill Barber’s structured orches-
– was nothing short of sensational. trations contrasted with Michael
A lot of the songs were nothing Kaeshammer’s fearless improvisa-
more than simple twelve-bar blues, tions, and it all culminated at the end
but the band made each one unique of the evening with a gorgeous duet
with imaginative solos from each of “Moon River.” It was a perfect way
member of the band, which were al- to end two brilliant performances in
ways played flawlessly. genres that tend to be overlooked in
Watching and listening to the the present, but Jill Barber and
band paint an aural picture off the Michael Kaeshammer proved to their
tops of their heads in accordance to audience that older genres are time-
how they were feeling at that particu- less.
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second opinion video game review

“serious” acting because of the turn the story has theme park as a forced captivity for the Wisps,
taken. As a result, the character development of and plans on using their powers for his own gain.
Harry Potter & the Sonic Colors
Harry, Hermione, and Ron is big in the film. Sega has been trying to make 2010 the year of
Deathly Hallows Sega
Overall, the film is great. How can one really Sonic’s revival, from stripping their least popular
Pt. 1
judge the Harry Potter films individually? They games from shelves to – finally – hiring a brand
Wii
must be critiqued as a whole because of the over- new voice cast. Their attempts, as usual, have
Directed by David
arching storyline. This can be difficult because of been hit and miss. For example, Sonic Adventure
Yates
the multiple directors the films have gone was ported to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation3 in
through. There wouldn’t be so much work on September, which was met with a near-universal
Starring Daniel
the audience’s part to connect the storylines from panning.
Radcliffe, Rupert
film to film if there had only ever been one direc- However, Sonic Colors seems to be the best
Grint, Emma
tor. Based on quality of the past three films, I Sonic the Hedgehog game we’ve seen in a long
Watson
would have nominated David Yates for the job. time.
It has been almost impossible for anyone in Over time, various video game titles and consoles
Even with the significant amount of genuine Although there is a copy for the Nintendo
Generation Y to avoid the pervasiveness of the receive updates, expansions, revivals, and se-
comedy it contained, The Deathly Hallows Part I is DS, which contains different features, I’ll be cov-
Harry Potter franchise. It started with a modest quels. But Sonic the Hedgehog is one that desper-
filled with a pervasive sense of melancholy. ering the Wii’s version. The game play in Sonic
fantasy story for young adults and has evolved ately needs to die.
Perhaps it was because of the viewer’s awareness Colors literally blends that of every past Sonic
into this mega money brand. I mean, I’ve totally Even those out of the gaming loop know
that there is only one film left until the franchise game, often switching from first-person to side-
referred to myself as a “muggle” in conversation who this speedy blue hedgehog is. Sega’s poster
is complete. Or maybe it is just an unavoidable scrolling views, and referencing some classic
before and after a few drinks I’ve probably tried critter was one of the biggest crazes in the early
consequence of the cinematic coolness that dom- scenes and moves as well. Some of the Wisps, like
to convince someone that I was a character in the ’90s, releasing several acclaimed games and two
inates the film. As a self-proclaimed Harry Potter cyan, really enhance the game, while others can
series. So, why was I so surprised to arrive at the popular ABC cartoons shortly before it entered
fan, I would say that in order to fully appreciate quickly become an annoyance.
theatre for the midnight screening on Nov. 20 of redundancy.
the film, you would have to have grown along But as you progress, you gradually unlock
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I and The series was expected to fade out until
with the series or seen the previous films. It is not more Wisps, which makes for some serious re-
be shocked to see fans actually dressed up as Sega shocked everyone with 1998’s Sonic
a film you can just step into uninitiated. play value.
characters from the films? Adventure, and again in 2001 with Sonic Adventure
2. In a perfect world, Sega would’ve ended Sonic Then there’s the graphics, which are without
Maybe it was because I had forgotten how a doubt some of the best we’ve ever seen on the
powerful the Harry Potter stories are from hav- on a high note, but instead they chose to repeat
history: Two more bizarre cartoons and a slew of Wii. The levels are colourful and absolutely stun-
ing been exposed to knock-offs of the series like ning, and the theme park designs range from a
Percy Jackson and the Olympians? embarrassing games. Once again, we anticipated
an upcoming end for Sonic, but at this year’s trippy space station to a mountain made of cakes,
As soon as the first scene ends, it is clear that candies, and hamburgers. In other words, you’re
director David Yates isn’t going to waste any of Electronic Entertainment Expo, Sega revealed
other plans: Sonic Colors. going to have a lot of fun.
the audience’s time. He knew he had a lot of plot Unfortunately though, you’ll be crossing
to cover and ensured that from the very opening As the story goes, Sonic’s notorious archen-
emy, Dr. Eggman, has apparently repented his some painful difficulty spikes in later levels, suc-
of the film that the audience is aware of the im- cumbing to the ever-annoying “cheap death.”
pending doom that Lord Voldemort’s rise to evil ways. In an attempt to convince us, he’s built
the single most epic theme park the gaming Basically, your first play-through will be your
power brings. worst, but that can be said for any game.
More so than any other in the franchise, the world has seen in recent years.
However, Sonic and his pal, Tails, are one Depending on your sense of humour or nostalgia,
central characters Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), you may find the dialogue amusing or embar-
Hermione (Emma Watson), and Ron (Rupert step ahead, and faster than Sonic himself, we un-
ravel Eggman’s “secret” plan. Sonic Colors intro- rassing; the game really is geared towards
Grint) are relied upon to carry the film. The film younger kids. Still, even if you’re not a big Sonic
takes place entirely away from Hogwarts School duces us to a new race of aliens called Wisps.
They are cute, mostly squid-like creatures that fan, the game is definitely worth a rental.
of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and the three actors
are often the only ones on screen. Unlike in the harness a different ability depending on their

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12 a&c
End hits
The top 5 movies and albums of 2010
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Movies
christian hardy
a&c editor
To be perfectly honest, I missed out on seeing a
lot of “big” movies of the past year. I missed out
on Iron Man 2 and Toy Story 3 this summer, and I
spent more time at the Rainbow watching cheap
dreck than actual cinema. If I were to pick the
best film that I had the opportunity to see this
year, my pick would be Lars Von Trier’s
Antichrist but unfortunately it was released in
2009 and simply didn’t make it to the RPL Film
Theatre until late last winter. Likewise, despite
how much I enjoyed Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows Pt. 1, I felt that I couldn’t rightfully put
it on this list, since it’s only one half of the final
film – the other half of which is due to be released
this summer.
In a review I wrote earlier this year, I wrote
that The Social Network was the best film I had
seen all year. In retrospect, I’d have to say that
that honor belongs to Banksy’s debut film Exit
Through the Gift Shop, with Christopher Nolan’s
Inception following closely behind it. Hubble 3D
was the first movie to bring me to an IMAX in
years, and I was glad to see gory exploitation
movies like The Expendables and Machete make a
small comeback this summer. Now if only Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 wasn’t still
months away. Damn cliffhangers.
1. Exit Through the Gift Shop
2. Inception
3. The Social Network
4. Machete
5. Hubble 3D
paul bogdan
a&c writer
2010 was a solid year at the movies. There were
some of the most comical, imaginative, and en-
gaging movies that I had seen in a while this
past year. The concept and writing for Inception
was fascinating to see. Get Him to the Greek was
one of the funniest movies I’d seen in a while.
Watching a film about Mark Zuckerberg that he
didn’t condone was informative. The machete-
wielding Denzel Washington starred in another
totally bad-ass role, and She’s Out of my League
was just a solid date-night movie.
It doesn’t get much better than a year filled
with movies that were about going into people’s
dreams, “doin’ shots o’ absinf from the eighteen
‘undreds,” Facebook, the end of the world, and
that girl who’s way too attractive for your sorry
ass.
1. Inception
2. Get Him to the Greek
3. The Social Network
4. The Book of Eli
5. She’s Out of My League
megan narsing
contributor
This year left me freaking broke after all the
amazing films that were released. The year got
off to an amazing start after I skipped 2 days of
work just to see Jake Gyllenhaal kick ass and
look extremely sexy doing it in Prince of Persia.
This summer, Toy Story 3 made me cry, laugh, and
then cry some more. I remember watching the
first one in grade one and now I’m in university
just like Andy (insert tears and sobbing here).
Although almost half the world’s population
hated The Last Airbender, I loved it. Seriously, I re-
ally did. I know that’s surprising but I thought
the graphics were neat and the acting was fitting
for the type of movie. Not that I can really change
your opinions on it but whatever: haters gonna
hate. Harry Potter doesn’t even need to be ex-
plained as to why it’s on the list: it’s Harry Potter.
’Nuff said. Scott Pilgrim was definitely not some-
thing I was looking forward to, but my mind
was immediately changed once I saw it for the
third time on opening weekend. I hope 2011 isn’t
as amazing as 2010 was: I honestly don’t think I
could afford it.
1. Toy Story 3
2. Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World
3. Prince of Persia
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows Pt. 1
4. The Last Airbender
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Dec. 2, 2010 - Jan. 5, 2011
kelly malone
contributor
I really have not seen many movies this year, so
this list mostly involves me trying to remember
if I have even seen five. Let’s see: Inception had
Leo drowning in his own subconscious mind in-
stead of the Atlantic Ocean. Also: Joseph Gordon
Levitt is a total bad ass. Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World
was based on an awesome graphic novel and
was adapted fairly satisfactorily. Plus, it is set in
Canada. To satisfy my craving for a spin-off to
Forgetting Sarah Marshall and the need to eat an
entire box of Glossette raisins while doing it, I
watched Get Him to the Greek. It turned out to be
pretty funny and wasn’t a waste of thirteen dol-
lars. It was also a fresh take on the characters
with memorable moments we all can certainly re-
late to, e.g. rubbing the furry wall. Apparently I
was sold on Leo this year, because Shutter Island
also makes my list. I think everyone has probably
seen this, but it’s a psychological thriller and it’s
actually done very well. You have to give that
fuzzy-browed Scorsese some credit because I
honestly had no idea that he had it in him with-
out DeNiro. Lastly, there’s Kick Ass: another
movie based on a comic book.
1. Inception
2. Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World
3. Get Him to the Greek
4. Shutter Island
5. Kick Ass
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Dec. 2, 2010 - Jan. 5, 2011 a&c 13

Albums Five Bob

Marley
Joints

christian hardy paul bogdan megan narsing kelly malone

a&c editor a&c writer contributor contributor

For me, 2010 will go down in his-

tory as the year that I loved one of
my favorite Canadian bands:
Calgary, AB’s Women. Barely two
weeks after the release of their
sophomore LP, Public Strain, the
band canceled the remaining dates
of a tour after a tumultuous gig in
Victoria, B.C. where the band mem-
bers reportedly broke out into a fist-
fight before storming off stage. This
band has so much potential, and
hopefully us amateur Can-rock his-
torians won’t soon have to pine for
the days of dissonant-as-fuck indie
noise-rock.
For me, 2010 lacked a lot of
memorable records, although Love
King is probably the best R & B
record of the new decade, and Titus
Andronicus makes a great case for
emo in the 21st century with the
Civil-War-inspired record, The
Monitor. And despite not living up
to Demon Days, Gorillaz’s Plastic
Beach was pretty much the feel-
good record of the summer. Lastly,
though it took me a while to warm
up to it – and I’m aware that some
will cry foul at my inclusion of a lo-
cal act on this list – Library Voices
released one of the best pop-rock
records of this year when they
dropped Denim on Demin last
spring.
1. Women - Public Strain
2. The-Dream - Love King
3. Library Voices - Denim
on Denim
4. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
5. Titus Andronicus - The
Monitor
My favourite albums of 2010 were
the ones that not only had intelli-
gent and well-written songs with
solid hooks but were works of art
themselves. The albums I chose
range from the synthy neo-psyche-
delia of MGMT to the simple
acoustic pop songs of Matt Costa.
As different as these albums may
be, they all share the fact that they
flow without effort. To really enjoy
them, they should be listened to in
full, from start to finish. Like each
chord or guitar riff contributes to
the song, each song contributes to
the album as a whole. Instead of be-
ing a collection of songs, these al-
bums seem to be works of artist
merit themselves.
All of these artists took some
brave steps in new directions and
expanded they way their unique
sounds can be described. Some fans
get upset when their favourite band
puts out an album that’s completely
different than their older material,
but I think it’s a necessary aspect of
being a musician. I don’t think an
artist can be that legitimate if they
end up turning into a cover band of
themselves.
MGMT became even weirder,
yet more awesome with songs like
“Flash Delerium” or the twelve-
minute epic “Siberian Breaks.” The
Roots were on fire and released two
of their best albums in less than
twelve months. Matt Costa’s youth-
ful pop tunes took a slightly more
serious turn, and Kanye West
seemed to take a reflective look at
his career and combine the aspects
of his past albums that worked well.
1. MGMT –
Congratulations
2. The Roots – How I Got
This year has been pretty spectacu-
lar for music. The best CD – by far –
in my opinion was the reissue of
the Korean band Shinee’s album
Hello. By mixing contemporary hip-
hop with R&B and Korean pop this
group blew me away with their title
track “Lucifer” and their newest K-
pop single “Hello.” My next fa-
vorite CD also is from South Korea
– BEAST’s Lights Go On Again. The
band released three albums this
year and they were all amazing,
though my favorite has to be their
latest one. Lights Go On Again shows
a new side to their music and I per-
sonally love it. Kanye hit up third
place with the recently released al-
bum My Beautiful Dark Twisted
Fantasy. Lets face it: everything
Kanye puts out there is freaking
gold. Enrique really set the mood
for summer with “Baby I Like It”,
and I let his sweet voice take me
away in “Heartbeat”. Angels &
Airwaves’ powerful lyrics and
unique sounds really set the mood
for 2010 and started things off right
with their album, Love.
1. Shinee – Lucifer
2. BEAST – Lights Go On
Again
3. Kanye West – My
Beautiful Dark Twisted
Fantasy
4. Enrique Iglesias –
Euphoria
5. Angels & Airwaves –
Love
I had trouble narrowing down this
list to a Top 5. It’s been an excellent Jamaican reggae legends Bob Marley and
year for music all around, and slim- the Wailers have had more than their fair
ming my picks to just 5 was a har- share of hit records.
rowing experience. It seem that this Formed in one of the nation’s most no-
year was the pressure year for many torious slums, the Wailers rose from the
of the bands on my list. ranks of Jamaica’s poorest to eventually be-
Deerhunter’s previous albums were come one of the world’s most revered reg-
exceptional, and Halycon Digest was gae bands.
a pressurized follow-up. I had the The following are five of the group’s
biggest expectations for how amaz- most important tracks.
ing it was going to be, and after
hearing the pre-released tracks on
the website I knew it was going to
be awesome. Although I honestly
have to say it is not my favourite
Deerhunter record, it is certainly my
favourite album of this year.
Next up is Big Boi’s Sir Lucious
Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty. Big
Boi takes you through the life of a
5 “Simmer Down”
Recorded in late 1963, this was the Wailers’
DJ a drug dealer and a pimp, but he first national hit and effectively turned the
does it all with a creativity and group into overnight sensations. “Simmer
swagger that is intoxicating. When Down” was the first popular Jamaican record
you start opening your gifts on to speak directly to and for the emerging
Christmas, put this album on and I rudeboy culture, reminding them to
guarantee that even your grandma “Simmer down/Oh control your temper.”
will be unable to stop her “shutter-
bug” groove. Caribou’s Swim made
use of mathematical formulas, and
if the wave of energy I receive when
listening to this epic album is math-
based, I may just give math a little
more credit. No Age’s Everything in
Between was a disappointment.
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Rock”
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this album, but lately I have been charts for five months in 1971. The track,
listening to it continuously. And which praised the virtues of slum living and
lastly, when I heard that there was portrayed the poor as the righteous, was the
an album coming out by Wu Tang
first popular song in Jamaica to speak for
members Ghostface Killah, Method their marginalized lower class.
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Leader-Post
Maybe the third time will be the charm
autumn mcdowell,
ed kapp, dietrich neu,
edward dodd, colin
buchinski
this week’s roundtable
What sports at the University of
Regina will you be following next se-
mester?
Autumn McDowell: Definitely men’s
hockey. Although the team isn’t ex-
actly the top dog right now, I still love
watching hockey. Also, the women’s
basketball team is probably our best
chance at a CIS championship, so I will
be keeping tabs on them.
Ed Kapp: Honestly, probably none of
them. I’ve got quite a few different
things to focus on these days and uni-
versity sports aren’t exactly a priority
for me. I’m happy for the teams when
they win and everything, but U of R
sports don’t really mean much to me.
Dietrich Neu: The Rams, football and
MMA are probably the only sports that
I follow intensely. If I were to spend
any time watching U of R sports next
year, it would be the Rams. Unless the
university decides to start putting on
cage fights (do it!).
Edward Dodd: I probably won’t be
following any university sports, con-
tinuing my trend from this semester.
However, if there is some intense curl-
ing action, I might have to follow that.
Oh and intramural soccer is always
entertaining.
Colin Buchinski: If anything, it'll be
women’s basketball. The women's bas-
ketball team is 9-1 and are currently
tied for first in Canada West. This team
has a definite championship shot.
The Montreal Alouettes defeated the
Saskatchewan Roughriders 21-18 in
the 98th Grey Cup in Edmonton last
weekend. Thoughts on the loss?
McDowell: After the game my brother
texted me and said, “I hope the Riders’
plane crashes.” That may be a little bit
harsh, but I think he summed up what
everyone was feeling quite nicely.
Kapp: It’s too bad, but they really did-
n’t play that well when it mattered.
The Roughriders are a pretty youthful
team, so another off-season under the
belts of these younger newcomers will
only help Saskatchewan. At least there
are probably a lot of happy people in
Montreal.
Neu: That loss was tough to swallow.
To be so close and still come up short
is frustrating for any fan. It would
have been great to get revenge on
Montreal, but it just wasn’t meant to
be. We’ll have to wait until next year.
Dodd: It was tough. I think Montreal
deserved it, though, since their offence
actually showed up for the third quar-
ter. Montreal’s missed field goals were
really exciting, but the Riders’ failure
to do anything in the second half killed
all my hope. I can only thank God
there was no 13th man call, or heads
would have to roll.
Buchinski: It definitely hurt a lot leav-
ing that stadium on Sunday night, but
“When [Anthony Calvillo] finally leaves, sure it
will be a little easier [for the Riders]. Or a lot
easier. I wouldn’t go as far as to say Montreal is
‘that good.’ Maybe Calvillo is ‘that good’or just
‘that lucky’ and ‘that annoying.’ ”
there is much to be proud of. We have
a great young team with a bright fu-
ture. We will play in many more Grey
Cups in the future. Remember,
Anthony Calvillo went 1-5 in Grey
Cups at first.
This is the third Grey Cup the Riders
have been to in four years. They have
only won one. Do you view this as a
disappointment or do you celebrate
the fact that they’ve been to so many
Grey Cups?
McDowell: Well, on the one hand, it’s
unreal that we have been producing
such good teams these past few years.
But, on the other hand, I will never
“celebrate” a losing effort. Ever.
Kapp: It’s always disappointing to
lose, but we’ve been blessed to have a
lot of really great teams and I don’t
think our one Grey Cup win is a fair
indication of how good these last few
seasons have been. Although we
haven’t won as many championships
as a lot of us would like, this current
team is light-years ahead of any squad
the Roughriders fielded for many,
many years before Eric Tillman ar-
rived.
Neu: On one hand, it’s awesome to
see the Riders do so well. It gives fans
something to rally behind and it’s al-
ways better to watch a team that suc-
ceeds. But, losses in the big game are
more heartbreaking than any other
and they take their toll.
Dodd: I celebrate the fact that the
Riders have been consistently success-
ful these past few years. I mean, we
could repeat the awful failures that
Autumn McDowell
Sports Editor: Jonathan Hamelin
the carillon, Nov. 25 - Dec. 1, 2010
marked the time after we won the
Grey Cup in 1989.
Buchinski: I've been a season ticket
holder for 16 years. I remember the
days of leaving the stadium after a 10-
point loss to Hamilton and just being
happy we kept it that close. This is a
great chance to celebrate. The Riders
are a premiere franchise in this league.
Thanks Jim Hopson.
Both of the Green and White’s losses
have come at the hands of the
Alouettes. Is Montreal simply that
good? Will Saskatchewan have a
much easier time when Montreal
quarterback Anthony Calvillo finally
retires?
McDowell: I mean, when the MVP of
the league finally leaves, sure it will be
a little easier. Or a lot easier. I would-
n’t go as far as to say Montreal is “that
good.” Maybe Calvillo is “that good”
or just “that lucky” and “that annoy-
ing.”
Kapp: Montreal is a top-tier organiza-
tion. There’s no denying that. But, the
last few times the Roughriders have
played them, the Riders didn’t give
them nearly their best game. Calvillo is
an unreal signal-caller, maybe one of
the best ever, so I’d be happy to see the
Roughriders line up against a less ac-
complished quarterback in the future.
Neu: Montreal is very good, but the
Riders could have very conceivably
won both meetings. And yes, once
Calvillo leaves Montreal the Alouettes
are done for. Everyone will have more
success against them once he leaves.
Dodd: I don’t think Montreal is that
good. I think the Riders offence this
year was just not good enough. Our
defence did really well for hardly get-
ting a rest in the third quarter, and,
when the offence showed up in the
fourth, it didn’t maintain the momen-
tum necessary to pull out the victory.
In this regard, even once Calvillo re-
tires, Saskatchewan will still have is-
sues. Also, by that time, Brett Favre
will probably be playing for Montreal
after being kicked out of the NFL, so
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there’s something else to worry about.
Buchinski: The Riders and Alouettes
are two very evenly matched teams.
Anthony Calvillo was one of the major
differences in this game. When he re-
tires, the Alouettes will not be nearly
as strong. They have the best QB in
the league and will no longer walk
through the East once he is done.
Will the Roughriders be back in the
Grey Cup next year? This time, will
their season end on a winning note?
McDowell: I would like to think yes
on both accounts. Barring some
tragedy or major trade, the roster
shouldn’t look a whole lot different
and Luca Congi and Rob Bagg will be
back in action by then. If the Riders
can develop a run defence and maybe
get a half decent player to return punts
they should be set.
Kapp: I’m not sure. I think that the
Riders are going to be essentially the
same team they were this past season,
with a few exceptions, so it shouldn’t
be too much of a stretch for us to be
back in the Grey Cup. As for if we’ll
win, maybe. I hope so.
Neu: It’s so hard to say because there
are so many factors. As we have seen
this season, the Riders can be fairly in-
consistent. But, to say that they will
be in the Grey Cup next year would
just be blind optimism, I think, since
they almost didn’t make it this year.
Dodd: The Roughriders will probably
make it again, which is encouraging.
Of course, we’ll be against Montreal
again, and that will probably prompt
TSN to ask “Is the CFL really only
about Montreal and Saskatchewan?”
This time, we will win, no doubt.
Buchinski: Next year, the West will be
a lot more competitive. The Lions will
be a force once again, the Eskimos will
improve and the Stamps will be good
as always. It is very tough to say if the
Riders will be back. Let's wait for free
agency before making a prediction.
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Dec. 2, 2010 - Jan. 5, 2011 sports 15

The lord of the lanes

Pineau looks to turn Cougars swimming team into winners
jonathan hamelin
sports editor
Sylvain Pineau and his family are still
getting used to life in Regina.
Pineau, a 38-year-old swimming
coach born in Sherbrooke, Que., last
coached in Scarborough, Ont. During
the summer, he decided to make the
move to Regina. He is now primarily the
head coach of the Regina Optimist
Dolphins Swim Club, but is also the
head coach of the University of Regina
Cougars swimming team
“We’re freezing ... just kidding,” said
Pineau with a laugh. “September was a
bit difficult. However, I like the size of
the town – I like the people.”
For his wife, Aletha, Pineau admits
the move has been a “culture shock.”
“[Aletha’s] been in Toronto for 31
years, so it’s been a bit different for her,”
Pineau noted of his wife, who is a
teacher. “She’s going to go back to
Toronto and will spend a couple of
months here and there.”
It has been a more positive experi-
ence for Pineau’s two-year-old son
Noah.
“He’s loving it,” explained Pineau,
whose wife is pregnant with their sec-
ond child. “He didn’t really feel the dif-
ference. He wants to go outside all the
time. He always wants to go play in the
snow.”
So far in his career, Pineau has been
building winning swimming program
after winning swimming program.
Coaching since he was 18, Pineau has
found success coaching in Quebec and
Ontario. He is also a certified Level 4
coach, which is the highest position in
the Coaching Association of Canada.
What has been the key to Pineau’s
success?
“My philosophy is fair and very
straight forward,” noted Pineau. “I try to
make it extremely simple in this new so-
ciety where everything is fast. I like to
break things down, so each swimmer
can grab something daily they can im-
prove on. Fitness and commitment are
very important. My background in sci-
ence helps a lot, because I can back up
what we do in the water with some sci-
ence behind it.
“I think that every year I coach I
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in the country and that’s OK,’” observed
Pineau. “I can’t stand that. I’m either go-
ing to quit the Cougar project or we’re
going to make a statement and start
beating some teams along the way. We’re
aiming for six or seven swimmers com-
peting at the Canada West
Championships and I’d like to have at
least three at CIS.”
To start making some statements,
Pineau is expecting a better effort from
each swimmer.
“I’m still not happy with [the com-
mitment level],” admitted Pineau. “For
most of them. it’s their past experiences
– their past habits that they’re still fight-
ing. I come from a swimming back-
ground where you will never train hard
enough and my demands in terms of
hard work were a lot higher than what
the kids were willing to do off the start.”
While Regina fields a relatively inex-
perienced squad – seven of the nine
swimmers this year are in either their
first or second year – Pineau does have a
strong veteran presence to work with in
fifth-year swimmer Maggi Pettit.
“So far, she’s buying into the new
regime,” assessed Pineau. “She’s train-
ing very hard and is as fit as ever. Now,
we’re slowly getting into the competi-
tion season and we’re trying to get her
faster. Hopefully, she’ll make the CIS
Championships for the first time in her
five years swimming with the Cougars.
It’s unfortunate that she’s done after this
year because she loves it.”
Having a swimmer like Pettit makes
the loss of Linda Duarte to graduation
easier for Regina. Duarte had a success-
ful career with the Cougars. Pineau did
not work with Duarte, but knows of her
accomplishments.
“That would have been nice if she
had an extra year, that’s for certain,” said
Pineau. “You want to start a new project
with as many good swimmers as you
can. There are a couple of recruits that
have talked to me for next year, so I think
the future is bright. This year is defi-
nitely a transition year.”
Between both of his coaching jobs,
whether he is spending time on deck or
doing paperwork, Pineau spends
around a total of 60 hours a week. That
amount of time would seem crazy to
some, but you do not get to be a success-
ful swimming by taking it easy.

should be better than the year before. I “It’s not overwhelming,” explained
Sylvain Pineau brings an impressive coaching resume to the University of Regina Cougars

always said I was going to retire if I don’t
swimming team
learn anything one year and I’m still
here, so that means I’m still learning a
few things.”
“Right now, the swimmers feel like, ‘well, we’re only the Cougars. While he is always learning new
things, it will be Pineau who is hoping to
teach the Cougars squad a valuable les-
We’re 32nd in the country and that’s OK.’ I can’t stand that. ”
son this season: any team can have suc-
cess, regardless of their past.
“Right now, the swimmers feel like,
Pineau. “I’ve done tough jobs in Toronto
in the past and I’ve been building clubs
before. I don’t go to work thinking its go-
ing to be difficult. It’s just time consum-
ing right now because there’s a lot of
rebuilding.”
Time trials for the Canada West
Championships run on Dec. 18 at the
Lawson Aquatic Centre in Regina. The
time has yet to be determined.

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16 sports
Unsatisfied in Settling for the
victory split
Cougars women’s basketball
team not happy despite
sweeping Calgary at home
sportsshooter.ca
The Cougars, who are tied for first in Canada West with a record of
9-1, feel they need to play better at home
autumn mcdowell
sports writer
The University of Regina women’s bas-
ketball team wanted to finish off their fi-
nal Canada West home games of 2010
with a bang. However, it wasn’t exactly
the performances that the team had
hoped for.
Although the Cougars came away
with the win over the University of
Calgary Dinos on Friday night at the
Centre for Kinesiology, Health and
Sport, it was by a score of 66-64. The
game came right down to the wire.
“Well, first off, it was by no means
our best performance,” said Cougars
forward Lindsay Ledingham, who was
the game’s leading scorer with 19 points.
The score was a little too close for
comfort in the game for Regina, which
got off to a bit of a slow start and were
left trailing the Dinos by a score of 19-15
after the first quarter. However, Regina
was able to battle back through the sec-
ond and held a slim one-point lead
heading into the half.
The Cougars looked to come out
strong after the break, but their efforts
only resulted in them being locked at
47 with Calgary after three quarters of
play.
In a back and forth final quarter, the
drama really began within the last
minute of play. With 41 seconds left on
the clock and the score tied at 62,
Ledingham was fouled and was sent to
the line to shoot two free throws. After
hitting both free throws, the Cougars
were holding on tightly to a two-point
lead as the clock seemed to take forever
to tick down.
Ledingham was sent back to the
foul line yet again with just 13 seconds
left, going one for two at the line and ex-
tending the home team’s lead to three. It
was then Calgary’s turn to go to the line
and Alex Cole was perfect on both at-
“This is our home court. We want to play
well here. That was one of our goals going
into the season and we didn’t do that this
weekend. ”
tempts. With just 12.4 seconds left,
Regina called its final time out with their
lead now at one.
Calgary would go on to foul one
more time, sending Cougars guard
Carly Graham to the line. Graham was
able to push the Cougars lead to two
and with 1.7 seconds left on the clock.
Ledingham was then able to intercept a
pass for the Cougars, which allowed the
team to hang on to the victory.
No one on Regina’s bench was
pleased with the performance, but as
Ledingham admitted, “All we can do is
take what we learned tonight and apply
it to the game tomorrow.”
The only problem was that the
Cougars ending up in an almost identi-
cal spot Saturday night.
Regina got off to an even slower
start in the game, scoring a measly seven
points in the first quarter. Their trou-
bles didn’t stop there. The Cougars
needed to crawl back from a 17-point
deficit, but a big third quarter was able
to narrow the gap. Regina scored 13
unanswered points, nine of which came
from point guard Joanna Zalesiak.
Once again, with about a minute left
in regulation, the two teams were dead
locked at 64, but a few desperate shots
and steals caused the Cougars to once
again come away with the W. This time,
it was by a score of 72-67.
Although the Cougars were able to
go 2-0 on the weekend and pick up four
points, they were still unhappy about
their performance.”
“This is our home court,” said
Ledingham “We want to play well here.
That was one of our goals going into
the season and we didn’t do that this
weekend.”
Regina is tied for first in the confer-
ence with the University of Alberta
Golden Bears at 9-1. The Cougars take
on Alberta on the road this weekend in
a battle for first place. The games will be
their final regular season games of 2010.
Lindsay Ledingham
Dinos steal one victory from the Cougars
men’s hockey team last weekend
Marc Messett
Sitting sixth in Canada West at 6-10-0, the Cougars have some work to do after the break
autumn mcdowell
sports writer
The University of Regina Cougar
men’s hockey team went on the
prowl for some much needed points
last weekend at the Co-operators
Centre.
With two wins, they would
surely be back in the Canada West
playoff race, but two losses would
make the hill that much steeper for
the team to climb. In the end, Regina
managed a split.
Regina’s opponent, the
University of Calgary Dinos, sat
fourth in the conference at 6-4 head-
ing into the weekend and was pre-
pared to go to war with the Cougars,
who were sixth at 5-9.
On Friday, even though both
teams wanted a back and forth bat-
tle, the performance was a little lack-
luster by each team to say the least.
Calgary downed Regina 3-0.
“It just didn’t go our way, and
we couldn’t get any bounces,” noted
Cougars forward Ryan Sawka of the
team’s effort Friday night.
Regina did not play terribly,
though one would think so judging
solely by the score sheet. The
Cougars were held off of the score-
board and handed Dinos goalie
Dustin Butler his first shutout of the
season. He made 27 saves. Cougars
goaltender Adam Ward made 23
“The boys played strong. We played well all weekend actually, but
on Saturday the effort was there and we were rewarded for it. ”
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smanging it since 1962
saves. As a result of his strong per-
formance, Butler is now the top
goalie in the division with a 1.74
goals against average and a .947 save
percentage.
With two points already out of
their hands, the Cougars knew that
they would have to come out firing
on all cylinders Saturday night if
they were going to settle the score
with Calgary.
The end result was a 6-5 victory
by the Cougars.
Regina jumped out to an early
two-goal lead on Saturday off of
goals from Adam McPherson and
Tyler Penny. Calgary replied barely a
minute later to cut Regina’s lead to
one when Breyden DeCock sniped
one past Ward, who made 26 saves in
the game.
The Cougars came out big in the
second and were able to get three
goals past Calgary goaltender Kris
Lazaruk. Dillon Johnstone added a
full strength goal as well as a power
play goal and Sawka was right be-
hind him, adding a shorthanded goal
to Regina’s resume. Calgary’s Joel
Eisenkirch was able to light the lamp
in the final minutes of the second to
help out the Dinos, but the Cougars
were carrying a 5-2 lead heading into
the final frame.
It appeared to most fans that the
Cougars had this one in the bag, es-
pecially after Terrance DeLaronde
added his fourth goal halfway
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Dec. 2, 2010 - Jan. 5, 2011
through the third period. The
Cougars were just 10 minutes away
from skating to a dominating victory
and picking up two points. However,
the Dinos were able to kick their per-
formance into another gear and came
back by scoring two goals just a
minute apart. The score was now 6-
4 and the Cougars were starting to
grip their sticks a little tighter to try
and hold on to the victory.
In a desperate attempt to even
the score, the Dinos pulled the goalie
and were actually able to sneak one
past Ward with just 35 seconds left
on the clock. As the time slowly
ticked down, Calgary was never able
to force overtime and handed the
Cougars the victory and the impor-
tant two points.
“The boys played strong” said
Sawka. “We played well all week-
end actually, but on Saturday the ef-
fort was there and we were rewarded
for it.”
The Cougars are done regular
season play for 2010, though they
will travel to Ontario to battle the
Lakehead University
Thunderwolves this weekend in
non-conference play. Regina sits
sixth in the conference at 6-10-0.
During the break Sawka admits
that the team will just “need to work
on being more mentally alert.” If the
team is able to work on this, then the
second half of their season should be
a successful one.
Ryan Sawka
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Dec. 2, 2010 - Jan. 5, 2011
U of R Sports Roundup
Cougars men’s basketball team snaps four-game losing streak
Marc Messett
Paul Gareau, seen here driving to the net, racked up 59 points and 16 rebounds in two games for the Cougars
jonathan hamelin
sports editor
Men’s basketball
Thanks to some huge numbers by for-
ward Paul Gareau, the Cougars swept
the University of Calgary Dinos in a
pair of Canada West games at the
Centre for Kinesiology, Health and
Sport last weekend.
Regina snapped their four-game
losing streak in the process.
Gareau pilled up 59 points and 16
rebounds over the two games and was
named the Canada West male athlete
of the week. Regina topped the Dinos
88-70 on Friday and followed that up
with an 80-58 triumph on Saturday.
On Friday, Gareau scored 42
points, which was a career-high and
second highest single-game total in
school history, and added six rebounds
for Regina, which got 12 points from
Sterling Nostedt and 10 points from
Jeff Lukomski. The Cougars main-
tained a double-digit lead throughout
the second half.
Lukomski led the way for Regina
with 27 points, six rebounds and five
assists on Saturday. Also chipping in
for the Cougars was Gareau with 17
points and 10 rebounds and Marek
Downarowicz with 13 points and
seven rebounds.
The victories bumped the Cougars
two games ahead of the Dinos. Regina
now sits at 6-4 in the conference and
Calgary is 4-6. The Cougars are tied
for fifth in the conference. Regina
wraps up their 2010 regular season
scheduled with a pair of road games
against the University of Alberta
Golden Bears this weekend.
Wrestling
Gilbert Musonza and Steven Schneider
both finished first for the Cougars as
the team placed second at the
University of Saskatoon Huskie Open
last weekend.
Regina finished 17 points behind
the first-place Jamestown College
Jimmies.
Musonza, competing in the 54-
kilogram division, won all three of his
matches, while Schneider won all four
of his matches in the 57-kilogram divi-
sports 17
sion. had 11 kills for Regina, which got again had eight kills and eight digs for
Cory Horsburgh (second, 65kg), seven blocks from Joel Colter. the Cougars, which got 25 assists from
Men’s volleyball
Gaelan Malloy (second, 72 kg), John The Cougars remain tied for last in Tiffany Herman and 11 digs from
Lendvoy (third, 82kg) and Jimmy Two weekends ago, the Cougars the conference at 1-7, while Calgary is Rebecca Rink.
Levesque (fifth, 90 kg) also performed picked up their first victory since 2009. undefeated at 8-0. Regina is tied for seventh in the
well for the Cougars. They were not able to build off conference at 3-5.
The Cougars women’s team fin- that success last weekend, dropping a
ished fifth in the standings, with pair of Canada West road games Women’s volleyball
Jasmine Slinn (second, 51kg) notching against the Dinos to finish off their Track and field
the top performance for Regina. 2010 regular season. Calgary won 25- Regina dropped a pair of Canada West
This week, the men’s team com- 15, 25-18, 25-16 on Friday and earned road games to Calgary last weekend to The Cougars competed at the Cougar
petes in Minnesota, whereas the a 25-18, 25-19, 27-25 decision the next finish up their 2010 regular season. Intrasquad Meet last weekend at the
women’s team is off until January. day. On Friday, in a 25-21, 25-14, 25-23 Regina Fieldhouse and CKHS.
Brody Waddell led the Cougars loss, the Cougars got 11 kills from Results of the event were unavail-
with eight kills on Friday, while Matt Solveig Nilson and eight kills and able as of press time. The Cougars are
Cross-country Hender pitched in 12 assists and Joel eight digs from Meagan Onstad. back in action this weekend, hosting
Legasse notched five kills. On Calgary bested Regina 25-21, 28-26, 25- the Friendship Games on Saturday, 1
Cougars runner Kelly Wiebe finished Saturday, Waddell and Jamie Wilkins 16 the following day. Onstad once p.m., at the Fieldhouse.
fourth in the senior men’s division at
the 2010 AGSI Canadian
Championships last weekend in
Guelph, Ont.
Wiebe finished the 10-kilometre
course in 30 minutes 10 seconds.
Thanks to his strong performance,
Wiebe could run for Team Canada and
the NACAC cross-country champi-
onships in Trinidad and Tobago this
February and also the IAAF World
Championships in March.
The other Regina athlete who
competed in the senior men’s division
was Iain Fyfe, who placed 19th with a
time of 31:40. Cougar rookie Matt
Johnson finished 15th in the junior
men’s division, clearing the eight-kilo-
metre course in 25:27.
Women’s hockey
Regina ended their 2010 Canada West
regular season on a sour note, drop-
ping a pair of games in Calgary last
weekend.
The Cougars allowed seven goals
in each contest, getting shut out in the
first game and putting up only three
goals in the second.
In Friday’s 7-0 loss, Lisa Urban
and Naticia Leskun combined to make
20 saves for the Cougars. Paige
Wheeler, Kelcie McCutcheon and
Kaitlin Sherven scored for Regina in
Saturday’s 7-3 loss. Urban made 31
saves.
Heading into their break, the
Cougars are fifth in the conference at
5-7-2.
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18 sports Dec. 2, 2010 - Jan. 5, 2011

Five Rider
consolation
prizes
The comeback fails
Montreal Allouettes out-coach, out-play
Riders to win 98th Grey Cup

For almost every fan of the Saskatchewan

Roughriders, a second consecutive Grey
Cup loss to the Montreal Alouettes has en-
sured that it will indeed be a long and
dreary winter. While Rider fans have every
reason to be depressed, here are some rea-
sons to remain optimistic:

5 Getting to the Grey

Cup is a huge
accomplishment
The Green and White, along with the
Alouettes, are the only two teams that have
made three Grey Cup appearances in the last
four years. That’s a huge accomplishment.
Keep in mind, Saskatchewan also won the
Grey Cup in 2007. The Hamilton-Tiger Cats,
who haven’t won since 1999 and the
Winnipeg Blue Bombers, who last won in
1990, must definitely envy Saskatchewan
trips to the Grey Cup. Fans should celebrate
the Riders’ accomplishments, not focus on
the losses.

4 The future is bright

Seeing that Darian Durant has bought a home

in town, the Rider pivot clearly is content to
stay in Regina. This means fans can expect at
least ten more seasons from Durant. If
Saskatchewan is able to keep their core play-
ers and maybe upgrade some positions, this
won’t be the last trip they make to the Grey
Cup in the near future. Soon, Alouette pivot
Anthony Calvillo will likely be done with the
game. When he is gone, there may be no team
capable of stopping the Riders.
cfl.ca
Montreal has defeated Saskatchewan in the Grey Cup two years in a row
colin buchinski
contributor
For the second year in a row,
Saskatchewan Roughrider fans are
heartbroken. Last Sunday, the
Montreal Alouettes captured the
98th Grey Cup in Edmonton by a
21-18 count.
Early in the first quarter, it was
all Montreal. Avon Cobourne
by the Als in the third quarter. They
got the first down and continued
driving down field to score points.
They tied the game and never
looked back. Special teams have
cost the Riders all year and it came
back to bite them when it mattered
most. In 2011, the Riders will need a
complete overhaul on special teams.
Jim Daley likely won’t return as
special teams coordinator.
Two offside calls and a pass in-
seconds off every play clock. You
need to be quicker than that. Miller
also ran 11 seconds off the clock be-
fore calling a timeout in an attempt
to ice Duval late in the fourth.
Duval missed the kick, as he was
struggling all night. The timeout
was unnecessary and may have had
an outcome on the game if Durant
had not thrown the late intercep-
tion.
There were also positives in this
still has no Grey Cup ring. He’s def-
initely shown this year that his ca-
reer is almost over.
Despite the loss, the Green and
White had a fantastic year and there
is much to be proud of. Ten years
ago, Montreal began the decade
with a loss in the Grey Cup. They
then went on to appear in eight
Grey Cups in 10 years. The Riders
are a young team now and the
Alouettes are aging. The Riders

3 Rider fans rock

During the regular season, Rider fans consis-
tently fill the opposition’s bleachers. At the
Grey Cup, it looked like a home game for
Saskatchewan. Simply put, fans of the Green
and White are the greatest in the league.
Being around these fans makes games more
enjoyable. This passionate fanbase is the driv-
ing force that will continue to push the team
towards greatness.
Saskatchewan
rushed for the game’s first touch-
down and things were not looking
good for the Riders. Near the end of
the first, Alouettes kicker Damon
Duval missed a 43-yard field goal
and the momentum seemed to turn.
Running back Wes Cates, kicker
Warren Kean and punter Eddie
Johnson added points and the
Riders looked sharp in all facets of
the game. They took an 11-8 lead
into half time.
In the second half, everything
changed. Quarterback Darian
Durant and the Riders could not get
terference call in the second half
also had a huge effect on the out-
come of the game. Rider linebacker
Byron Bullock intercepted a pass,
but was called for pass interference
on the play. The Alouettes scored a
touchdown on the same drive to in-
crease their lead to ten. Some Rider
fans were crying foul about the call,
but it was legit.
Certain players needed to step
up in this game for the Riders and
did not. Slotback Andy Fantuz was
double covered for the most part
and Chris Getzlaf missed a key pass
game. Cates played fantastic. He’s
played fantastic all year and this
year was one of his best as a Rider.
At times, the Riders have put him in
poor situations, but he has excelled
for the most part and he was a big
part of getting to this year’s Grey
Cup. On defence, Keith Shologan
registered two sacks and two tack-
les and was named the most valu-
able Canadian. On Montreal’s side,
former Rider Jamel Richardson was
named the game’s most valuable
player. He had eight receptions for
109 yards and ran all over corner-
have a bright future. Expect to see
them in many more Grey Cups in
the future. Durant is one of the best
young players in the game. If you
had to choose one guy to build a
team around, it would probably be
him. Remember, Calvillo went 1-5
in Grey Cup games until winning
two in a row.
Rider fans need to be patient,
Durant will get the job done. We
may have just witnessed the best
five years in Saskatchewan
Roughrider history: Three Grey
Cup appearances, four home play-

2 owned the West

While the Riders didn’t hoist the Grey Cup
anything going on offence. At the
same time, the defence was strug-
gling. The Alouettes were running
short screen passes and quick hits
the Riders could not stop. Calvillo
on first down when the Riders
needed it most. On the next play
itw was a Montreal blitz that ended
up turning in to a QB sack. The
Alouettes gained huge momentum
back Omarr Morgan all night. You
have to feel for Morgan, because in
his 11th season with the Riders he
off games and a Grey Cup win.
There is more to come.

this season, they eliminated the Edmonton

and the Alouettes were driving the
Eskimos, British Columbia Lions, and Calgary
ball at will.
Stampeders. That’s no easy feat. Of course,
The Riders trailed by 10 points
nothing feels better than beating Calgary. The
in the fourth quarter and needed a
cocky Stampeders thought they would easily
miracle to win. It didn’t materialize
cruise to the championship game and win.
as Durant tossed an interception in
the final minute, sealing the win for
the Alouettes, who are the first team
to win back to back Grey Cups since
on the play. Durant passed for only
215 yards and at one point, the
“The Riders made some questionable
Riders punted eight times in a row.
Saskatchewan was out-coached
on Sunday, plain and simple. The
calls. They rarely attempted to pass
Riders made some questionable downfield, something that brought them
calls. They rarely attempted to pass
downfield, something that brought much success versus the Als in the regu-
them much success versus the Als in

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photo courtesy of cfl.ca
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Dec. 2, 2010 - Jan. 5, 2011
Durant has a My Grey Cup
promising future experience
Despite the Grey Cup loss, Rider fans can
breathe easily knowing Durant is under
centre
cfl.ca
Durant already has 10,000 passing yards and 49 touchdowns in two seasons as a starting quarter-
back for the Saskatchewan Roughriders
ed kapp
news writer
Last week, when Saskatchewan
Roughriders head coach Ken Miller
told reporters that Darian Durant
could go down as one of the best
quarterbacks in the Canadian Football
League’s storied history, he raised
more than a few eyebrows, mine
among them.
Although I always thought that
Durant could, over time, mature into
one of the best quarterbacks in the
league, I never seriously considered
the idea that he could go down in his-
tory as one of the all-time greats – that
is, until now.
Though the Riders lost 21-18 to
the Montreal Alouettes in the 98th
Grey Cup at Edmonton, the future is
bright for Durant. As a pure, drop-
back quarterback, Durant has proven
that he has the skills to be one of the
best in the league.
Durant’s passing statistics alone
are jaw-dropping – nearly 10,000
yards and 49 touchdowns in two full
campaigns, but the South Carolina na-
tive’s statistics certainly don’t tell the
whole story.
While Durant hasn’t consistently
been given the good fortune of being
able to drop back and set his feet dur-
ing the majority of his time with the
“Although I always thought that Durant
could, over time, mature into one of the
best quarterbacks in the league, I never se-
riously considered the idea that he could go
down in history as one of the all-time
greats – that is, until now.”
Roughriders, when he has been able
to do so, he’s proven that he throws
one of the hardest, fastest balls in the
CFL and can easily bomb it down the
field without a problem.
Although it seems that the Green
and White may try the long, deep,
towering balls a little too often,
Durant has shown that he can throw
the deep ball arguably as well as any
quarterback in the CFL.
Fortunately, I would imagine that
Durant will become more discrimi-
nate in who he targets with his passes
as he develops as a quarterback –
nearly all passers eventually do – and
in the future he will probably be bet-
ter at finding some of his extremely-
talented receivers elsewhere on the
field when the deep pass isn’t the best
option.
While most signal callers excel
when they can drop back, set their
feet, find an open target, and wing it
in there, Durant has shown to be al-
most equally proficient when he’s
flushed out of the pocket and on his
horse, trying to extend the play with
his feet, even throwing across his
body and across the field.
Of course, this isn’t advisable in
many cases and, oftentimes, Durant
seems to be too desperate to make a
big play – although mistakes are mis-
takes. It’s difficult to blame Durant
for trying to let his potent downfield
targets make a big play.
Once again, I believe that this is
essentially a mental issue and, over
time, it shouldn’t be a problem.
Although Durant isn’t the speed-
iest of ball carriers, he is deceptively
quick and very hard to bring down,
either in the pocket or when he’s run-
ning for extra yards downfield.
One of the knocks on most run-
ning quarterbacks is that they are
more prone to injuries, but Durant has
done a very nice job of remaining
healthy during his two years as a
starting quarterback in the CFL.
Fans should remember that al-
though the Riders offensive line had
two West all-stars in Gene Makowski
and Jeremy O’Day, who played well
for the majority of the season, this of-
fensive line is a unit that really strug-
gled during parts of 2010. Because of
their woes, Durant had to work very
hard to avoid incoming defensive
players while still remaining poised
and on the lookout for ball catchers
downfield.
I honestly believe that if the
Roughriders had any other quarter-
back in the CFL working behind
Saskatchewan’s offensive line, this of-
fence would be absolutely dreadful.
So yes, Durant has made mis-
takes, and no, these problems proba-
bly won’t disappear overnight, but
Durant has the natural skill-set to
overcome present challenges. More
importantly, the unquestionable work
ethic to further refine his skills and
develop into a more acute passer in
the future.
In Riderville, we’re very, very for-
tunate to have a player of Durant’s
character – both on the field and off. If
we give him a couple off-seasons to
mature as a ball player, I don’t see
why the already-proficient Durant
won’t develop into one of the all-time
great passers in the CFL.
Some fun celebrations before the
game and only pain afterwards
the 13th man
jonathan hamelin
sports editor
For the Saskatchewan Roughriders,
Grey Cup appearances are becoming
almost routine. The team has made
three trips to the big game in the last
four years.
Trips to the Grey Cup have be-
come a recurring feat for me as well.
This year, when the Riders battled the
Montreal Alouettes at the 98th Grey
Cup in Edmonton, I made my second
consecutive trip to the Grey Cup.
With a wide range of fans, some
exceptional entertainment and stellar
seats, it was another memorable week-
end.
I departed for the Grey Cup early
Friday morning – if my Spanish
teacher is reading this, though, please
note that I was actually bed-ridden
with a serious disease.
As is the case with any long drive,
my family and I were exhausted upon
the conclusion. We arrived at my
Grandma’s house in Edmonton
around 6 p.m. their time. It was much
more relaxing not having to stay in a
hotel.
I’ll admit it, the first night of Grey
Cup festivities was a bit of a disap-
pointment. All of the main street at-
tractions were closed by the time we
got downtown. So, our only choice
was to line up to go to one the differ-
ent CFL fan parties. Seeing as it was
the only free option, we decided to go
to “Spirit of Edmonton”: The
Edmonton Eskimos fan party. Big mis-
take. After at least an hour wait, we got
into the pre-party room. Sounds prom-
ising, but it would have taken another
hour or so to get into the actual party.
We decided to call it a night.
On Saturday, we didn’t make the
same mistake. We headed downtown
early in the afternoon and checked out
some of the street festivities. For the
most part, there was nothing excep-
tional to see. Most of the booths were
either selling food or providing cheap
entertainment. There was a zipline, but
we didn’t go on it. I guess if you’re a
fan of filling out CFL sponsor surveys
it was fun. Quickly after we arrived
downtown, we lined up for an hour
and a half at Riderville: The
Roughriders fan party and one of the
most popular events. Once we got in,
we were able to mingle with plenty of
diehard Rider fans and listen to cover
band Wonderland.
As pre-game festivities go, hang-
ing out in Riderville was the most fun.
With thousands of fans packed in
cheering for the Riders, it really got
you into the mood for the game. Of
course, many consumed plenty of
beer: a fact evident by the fact that
there was a tower of empty beer cans
in Riderville that ascended to the roof.
Also, the drunker fans (presumably)
braved the dance floor.
Then came game day, the whole
reason we and countless other fans of
the Green and White travelled to
Edmonton in the first place. After ar-
riving at the Commonwealth Stadium
early, only to find out the pre-game
tailgate party cost $60 (the same event
“Rider fans epitomize what’s so great
about this game: passionate fans. That’s
something to celebrate even when enduring
the cruel pain of defeat.”
sports 19
at Calgary’s Grey Cup last year was
free), my dad and I headed into the
stadium a good hour before the game
started.
Last year, we had fairly good tick-
ets around the 35-yard-line. This year,
we were able to snag tickets around
the 45 to 50-yard-line, only three rows
up. It was an amazing view. As an
added bonus, we got to sit by some
spirited Roughrider fans. One woman
right below us took off her shirt to re-
veal a Rider bikini when
Saskatchewan was doing well. Just
saying.
For my dad and I, who own sea-
son tickets in Regina and sit by mostly
old bums, this was a welcome change.
Getting a chance to see a quality sta-
dium like Commonwealth was also
enjoyable.
Despite the slow start to the game,
we and the Rider fans around us re-
mained confident. I’m not sure how it
sounded on TV, but the estimated
45,000 Saskatchewan fans crammed
into the stadium made lots of noise
whenever Montreal took the field.
Sitting behind the Alouette bench, we
all made sure to heckle them relent-
lessly, especially Montreal kicker
Damon Duval, who played another
terrible game.
Unfortunately, all of the cheering
in the world couldn’t lead the Green
and White to victory. As Rider fans at
the game, we couldn’t have asked for
a better scenario: Darian Durant get-
ting the chance to lead Saskatchewan
on a game-winning drive.
Unfortunately, no magic transpired.
Like last year, a green mob trudged
out of the stadium while 10 Montreal
fans stayed behind to celebrate.
All in all, Edmonton hosted a stel-
lar Grey Cup party. There was decent
entertainment and accommodations.
Plenty of fans from different teams
conglomerated at the Grey Cup, show-
ing again why the CFL is such an
amazing league. For the most part,
Eskimo fans supported the Riders and
wished us good luck. Of course, there
were some fans too bitter to do so,
some who even came to the game just
to boo the Riders. If the Grey Cup ever
comes to Regina again, let’s show the
league how it’s done, Rider fans, and
fully support the team from the west.
As for the Grey Cup loss, the sec-
ond in a row for Saskatchewan, there
are really a couple of ways to look at it.
Of course, you could view it as a com-
plete failure. Rider fans will probably
call the Green and White’s Grey Cup
loss a disappointment to some extent.
However, even with the loss, I think
it’s still a pretty amazing thing to be a
Rider fan. For two years in a row,
we’ve filled up the Grey Cup with so
many Rider fans it has looked like a
home game.
Ask a fan of any other team and
they’ll likely tell you that Rider fans
epitomize what’s so great about this
game: passionate fans. That’s some-
thing to celebrate even when enduring
the cruel pain of defeat. It’s a fact that
can help us fans rise above tough
times.
And besides, there’s always next
year.

20 sports
One of Canada’s
finest mixed
martial artists
Joe Doerksen works hard
to say on top
topmmanews.com
Doerksen will be taking on Dan Miller in his next bout in Montreal
ed kapp
news writer
A true pioneer of Canadian mixed
martial arts, Joe Doerksen is one of the
sport’s most seasoned veterans. At this
point in time, he shows no signs of
slowing down.
Since making his professional de-
but over 11 years ago at the first Bas
Rutten Invitational tournament, the
one they call “El Dirte” has amassed
nearly 50 career victories, including a
staggering 33 wins by way of submis-
sion, and has established himself as
one of the top Canadian MMA of all
time.
Doerksen has fought across North
America and Japan and has competed
for many of the sport’s biggest promo-
tions, including Rings USA, King of
the Cage, the International Fight
League, DEEP, the WEC, and Sengoku.
Doerksen is feeling confident for
his upcoming bout in Montreal, Que.,
where he will be taking on Dan Miller,
a legitimate contender despite losing
three of his last four bouts, in front of
a very enthusiastic Canadian crowd.
“I’ve always liked fighting at
home in Canada – whether it’s
Ontario, Manitoba, or Quebec, it
makes no difference,” explained
Doerksen. “It’s just always great to
fight in front of Canadian fans. I’m go-
ing to be really comfortable in
“It is a job you
have to take seri-
ously. You have to
go into work each
day, but it’s really
easy to go in and
work hard when
you love what you
do. ”
Joe Doerksen
the carillon
Dec. 2, 2010 - Jan. 5, 2011
A shot at redemption
fulfilled
Michael Vick is back on top
Montreal. I’ve fought in that city a few
times before, and being the Canadian,
I think I’m just going to be very com-
fortable going in there. I feel really con-
fident and I think it will help me
perform really well.”
Born in New Bothwell, Man.,
Doerksen has long been aware and ap-
allphiladelphiasports.com
preciative of Canada’s passionate fan- After spending 21 months in jail, Vick has made the most of his second chance
base.
with no money, a huge debt growing imously voted for the Ed Brock
“Canadians are a tough breed, and
by the day and legions of people call- Courage Award by his teammates.
dietrich neu
we like our entertainment to be a little
ing for his head. His world was crum- This season, Vick got his shot at
rough,” offered Doerksen, “For some
contributor
bling down around him and it starting quarterback duties with the
reason, Canada seems to have a high
In April 2007, football was the last appeared to many onlookers that his Eagles after Kevin Cobb went down
concentration of fans. I think it’s just
thing on Michael Vick’s mind. career was over and his life would with injury and he hasn’t looked back.
great. They’re really enthusiastic fans
He entered the NFL in 2001 as the never be the same. He proved that he not only still had
as well. It’s always a treat.”
first African-American quarterback to Clearly distraught and desperate his youthful athleticism and main-
Doerksen appears to genuinely
be drafted first overall and quickly to reclaim the pieces of shattered glory tained his throwing arm, but actually
love his life as a mixed martial artist,
turned himself into one the best all- he once had, Vick proclaimed his de- had developed his passing skills in
and he is acutely aware that mixed
around players in the league. But, all termination to return to football at a his time off out of nowhere. Vick has
martial arts is his livelihood, approach-
that changed in 2007. After taking the press conference before his incarcera- become an efficient pocket passer –
ing his preparations as such – although
Atlanta Falcons to the playoffs, earn- tion, “I offer my deepest apologies to so efficient, in fact, that he currently
he has no problem taking a bit of time
ing several trips to the Pro Bowl and everyone. And I will redeem myself. I leads the league in passer rating with
off to decompress after his bouts.
basically becoming the face of Atlanta have to”. 106.0, something that he would have
“It is a job you have to take seri-
football, Vick experienced a brutal When the smoke cleared 21 never achieved before.
ously,” noted Doerksen. “You have to
drop from the limelight, going from months later, a new man emerged After three years away from the
go into work each day, but it’s really
top-shelf quarterback to incarcerated from the Leavenworth Federal game of professional football, Vick is
easy to go in and work hard when you
felon within the span of a few months. Penitentiary, ready to work for his re- playing the best football of his career
love what you do. There are days that
Vick’s situation is no secret; he be- demption. and is even in the running for the NFL
I’d like to go out for a beer with my
came arguably the most hated man in When Vick was finally released most valuable player award, some-
buddies rather than staying at home,
sports when he pleaded guilty to fed- from prison, after almost two years, thing that the old Vick couldn’t do.
but in the long run I know I’ve only
eral dog fighting charges just before the public had mixed reactions. No He has paid his debt to society, lost al-
got six weeks of hard training, having
the start of the 2007 NFL season. The one had forgotten what he did; many most everything, and, in the face of
to behave myself and then I can have
standout Falcons quarterback was left people weren’t satisfied with Vick’s tremendous adversity, has turned his
some time off afterward.”
without a job and the Falcons were time behind bars and wanted the NFL life around for the better. Through
When asked how much longer
left without a quarterback with the to continue punishment by banning hard work and dedication, he has be-
Doerksen would like to compete as a
NFL season under a month away. him from playing forever. come a better player and a better man
mixed martial artist, “El Dirte” insisted
Vick messed up, big time. However, Vick was not banned than he ever was before. A truly amaz-
he has no plans on leaving the “fight
Reaching professional sports is some- from the NFL, and through the tute- ing turnaround, by a truly amazing
game” any time soon – but at the same
thing that almost all athletes dream lage of beloved former Colts head athlete.
time he does not hold the delusions
about, but only a few can accomplish. coach Tony Dungy and several meet-
that seems to be a fairly common trait
Even fewer manage to stick around ings with NFL commissioner Roger
among many of Doerksen`s peers.
for any length of time. Then, there are Goodell, Vick was approved to play
“I still feel like I’m improving as a “Through hard
the elite few who make it to the top of football again.
fighter,” said Doerksen. “I still feel
their sport and achieve greatness. Vick The odds were still stacked
very healthy and strong. From right
against him. In high-level professional
work and dedica-
was part of that elite group. He shat-
now, I’d guess I could do another 45
tered a golden opportunity beyond sports like the NFL, the game changes
years, but it really depends on how
tion, [Michael
so quickly that players and coaches
repair, or so we thought.
my body holds up. It also depends on
Because of his actions, Vick was need to constantly study and practice
how much fun I’m having. If anything
Vick] has become
sentenced to 21 months in a federal to maintain their form. Several weeks
changes, my career might change as
prison. Since major jail time meant away from the game is usually
a better player and
well. For now, I’m willing to go out,
that Vick wouldn’t be taking the field enough to make players rusty, but a
work hard, and do my best every
two-year absence seemed insur-
a better man than
anytime soon, the Atlanta Falcons suc-
time.”
cessfully sued him for 19 million dol- mountable, especially for a quarter-
Regardless of how much longer
he ever was be-
lars as reimbursement for not being back.
“El Dirte” plans on competing,
able to play. Michael was also stripped Vick’s comeback, however, has
Doerksen will no doubt be remem-
fore. A truly amaz-
of all his endorsements, which were been nothing short of amazing. Vick
bered as not only a pioneer of the sport
already on shaky ground before the would eventually sign with the
ing turnaround, by
in Canada, but also as one of Canada’s
dog fighting charges surfaced. Philadelphia Eagles, and although he
finest mixed martial artists.
a truly amazing
Vick, who had developed a lavish had a minimal role in his first season
and luxurious lifestyle, was now left with Philly, it was enough to be unan- athlete.”
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Smoking on
campus
So I’ll admit, at one time I fully sup-
ported the smoking ban on campus.
That’s not to say I don’t support
the idea now, but it is clear that the
way the ban has been implemented is
not effective in the least. At first, I
would have blamed this ineffective-
ness on the smokers who walk
around campus while smoking, bla-
tantly defying the new ban that
forced them into ‘designated smoking
areas’ around campus. Not to men-
tion I don’t have much sympathy for
people who smoke. I understand it’s
an addiction, but a lot of people man-
age to quit. There are lots of programs
in place to lend support, and expen-
sive nicotine patches and gum you
can buy to ease the cravings. Why
people still choose to smoke baffles
me, but hey, to each their own.
But my misunderstanding of
smokers is not why I am writing this
article. It is to question the effective-
ness of the smoking ban.
First, there is no enforcement.
The people that implemented the
plan had no real strategy to enforce it,
besides hoping that non-smokers
would shame smokers into standing
in designated smoking areas. I can
only imagine how such a conversa-
tion would go:
Student one, looking like a
dweeb: “Hey, would you mind smok-
ing in a designated smoking area?”
Student two, exasperated: “Screw
that, this is a free country. I’ll smoke
where I want.”
I don’t mean to generalize all
smokers as rude, because they aren’t.
It’s just that who can be bothered to
find a marked smoking area when
they have to run to a class or if they
are taking a quick break? I know I
would probably ignore the smoking
ban if I smoked, and I would react
like student two from the above ex-
ample. But despite this poor system
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of enforcement, this is not the greatest
failing by a long shot. That would
have to be the location of the smoking
areas.
If you haven’t seen them or
smelled them, you obviously don’t
go outside very often. Sure, it’s great
that they were moved at least six feet
from doorways, but unfortunately,
they were left on the main paths.
During the fall and spring, people
could walk around on the grass to
avoid the smoke, but with the lovely
confines of a foot of snow, people
need to stay on the cleared path. This
means that instead of walking
through a cloud of smoke as I enter
the door, I now walk through it ten
seconds before I make it to the door.
So, as you can see, I am still inhaling
all the carcinogens; the only differ-
ence now is that smokers had to walk
a little further before they lit up.
Most importantly, I discovered
that smokers are human beings with
feelings. They are having a tough day,
they are taking a break to relieve
some stress in the way that they want
to, and it just so happens that their
once socially applauded activity
(we’ve all seen pictures of a doctor
smoking a cigarette while examining
a pregnant woman) is now frowned
upon and oppressed.
I would honestly prefer it if
smokers only smoked while walking
around between classes. The smoke
smell is way less obvious this way.
The only problem with this is when
the butts are just dropped wherever.
This makes a mess, it looks terrible,
and it’s disgusting. I remember last
year it was especially bad around
doors with snow banks, which were
very convenient for putting out ciga-
rettes. A quick flick of the fingers and
the snow took care of cigarette butts.
Unfortunately, come spring time,
there is a giant, ugly, gross pile of cig-
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arette butts left sitting in a soggy pile
where a snow bank once was.
So I propose a deal: Smokers, you
can smoke wherever you want to out-
side. It’s obvious the designated
smoking areas are not going to save
me from having to walk through a
cloud of smoke when I enter the uni-
versity, so I don’t expect you to stand
in them to smoke your cigarettes. In
return, I would like you to stop
throwing your cigarette butts all over
campus. Use the ashtrays. If the ash-
trays are full, use them anyway and
then find some administrator to com-
plain to about getting them cleaned
out more often. I think this is a rea-
sonable compromise.
The smoking ban might as well
be repealed. It is not changing any-
thing on campus. Those that smoke
are made more stubborn in their re-
sistance to quitting, and those that
don’t smoke are not getting any ben-
efit out of the ban. The initiative has
failed. It’s time to tear it down and
move on.
edward dodd
contributor
Op-Ed Editor: Cheyenne Geysen
the carillon, Nov. 25 - Dec. 1, 2010
Three long
months later
After almost three months of construc-
tion, the work is finally done in the
College West Residence. After being
woken up at 7 a.m. every morning (af-
ter staying up late trying to study),
having no water for the third time since
I’ve moved in, and being constantly
unable to stay in my dorm until con-
struction ended around 4:30 p.m.
everyday, I’m more than happy that
it’s over – but still not satisfied.
The students who live in the resi-
dences were informed of having con-
struction until mid-October. But we
were not informed that it’d go on until
late November, and I find that very in-
considerate.
While construction was going on
through the day the noise level was so
high one could not sleep, study, or do
anything without getting a pounding
headache. Not having any water some
days was extremely aggravating, espe-
cially because we were given very little
notice about two of the shut downs.
When I got the little letter in my
mailbox telling me they were going to
take away our garbage bag privileges
because we weren’t putting our
garbage bags in the bins it finally
tripped the last of my patience. From 7
a.m. – 5 p.m., if you needed to put your
garbage in the bin you had to go
through the construction workers.
How many people are going to really
try and put it in the bin when it’s not
safe to do so? And no – we can’t have
the garbage stinking up our dorms till
after 5. Do you have your garbage just
sitting in your hallway for hours and
then put it outside? No. You don’t. It’s
unsanitary.
So instead of threatening to take
away our garbage bag privileges why
didn’t they make it safer for students to
put away their garbage?
I didn’t pay over $2,000 this semes-
ter so that I could store my belongings
for a good portion of the day in a room
that I can’t even use. I don’t think that’s
right. Just because we live in an older
building that needed construction
op-ed@carillonregina.com
doesn’t give you the right to charge us
full price for something we’re not get-
ting the full benefits of. When I had
asked one of the residence staff at the
South Tower they simply told me they
had nothing to do with the construc-
tion and they didn’t know when it was
going to end.
You are our landlords. It’s your re-
sponsibility to notify your tenants of
what they’re moving into and when
the things that disrupt them are going
to be over. Sure, you have no control
over the construction being done.
That’s the university’s doing. But you,
our landlords, never informed us it
would go on longer. And the notices
we received regarding water shut-offs
were extremely short. How would you
like waking up one day to a sign on
your door saying “no water due to
maintenance from 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.”?
I would really like to see some of
our money refunded to us. Every single
person in College West should get at
least his or her initial damage deposit
fee back. Construction may not be un-
der your control but the way you han-
dled the situation was. And you failed
terribly in informing students living in
residence and making it easier for them
to live there.
I don’t think our treatment is fair in
the slightest. Just because those of us
who live in College West pay less and
live in a rougher building does not
mean we should be treated differently
than the students who live in other res-
idences on campus.
I’d like to see a refund of some of
the money we spent to every College
West resident.
If we paid full price for our rooms,
we shouldn’t have to be forced out of
our rooms most of the time. We want to
see something done about this, and not
just a letter of apology.
megan narsing
contributor
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Dec. 2, 2010 - Jan. 5, 2011
I’m dreaming of a
secular Christmas
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Every year, the same battles get fought
about whether there is a “secular war
on Christmas” or if Christians are forc-
ing religion on others. This holiday sea-
son, though, let’s remember the true
meaning of Christmas – consumerism.
Holiday shopping usually accounts
for as much as 40 per cent of a retail
store’s annual revenue and as much as
75 per cent of its annual profit. On aver-
age, North Americans do a quarter of
their personal shopping during the
Christmas season. Throughout the
months of November and December
there is a doubling of profit in book-
stores and an increase of 170 per cent in
jewellery stores.
In the United States, the first Friday
after Thanksgiving officially kicks off
the shopping orgy with huge sales. It
has earned its name of Black Friday not
because of the trampling deaths of Wal-
Mart employees but because it’s the
first profitable day of the year for most
retailers – hence, getting out of the red
ink of debt and into the black.
The Grinch’s conclusion that
Christmas doesn’t come from a store
and that “Christmas, perhaps, means a
little bit more,” was correct – Christmas
means $485 million in tree sales col-
lected by U.S. farmers.
Yet, this wonderful tribute to capi-
talism has been criticized in recent years
for becoming increasingly secular. Both
religious groups and conservative pun-
dits claim that the secular left has an
agenda that entails removing the
“Christ” from “Christmas.” Apparently,
this phenomenon occurs in the month
of December when retailers greet their
customers with “Happy Holidays” in-
stead of the time-honoured “Merry
Christmas.”
In 2005, the retail chain Lowe’s got
its chestnuts roasted by these organi-
zations after changing the name of their
Christmas trees to “Holiday trees” in
flyers. The department store has since
learned its lesson and reverted back to
good old Christmas trees.
Schools throughout North America
are also subject to this Yuletide anger.
Most public elementary schools have
stopped singing overtly religious
Christmas carols, which is understand-
able. Children receiving public educa-
tion shouldn’t be singing the praises of
any one religion. However, a primary
school in Ottawa received criticism for
its plans to have students sing an ap-
proved version of “Silver Bells” that re-
placed the term “Christmas” with
“holiday.”
It seems like somebody has been
spiking the proverbial eggnog. The
term “Christmas” as well as the holiday
itself has become secular. After all, the
most salient image of Christmas is
Santa Claus: A fat man who uses flying
reindeer to commit home invasions
every Dec. 25. Our current understand-
ing of Santa as a jolly gift-giver in a red
suit was more or less created by Coca-
Cola as an advertising campaign that
began in the 1930s.
Actually, if Christmas purists were
really concerned about celebrating the
“true” origins of the holiday, they
would have a feast for the pagan sun
god Mithras on Dec. 25 instead. When
Rome began converting from Paganism
to Christianity, leaders at the time kept
many of the same holidays in order to
make the transition as smooth as possi-
ble.
So in 350 BC, Pope Julius I simply
declared that the birth of Christ, instead
of Mithras, would be celebrated on Dec.
25.
The notion that “Merry Christmas”
needs to be replaced with “Happy
Holidays” so as not to offend non-
Christians is ridiculous. It’s political
correctness run amok. Saying “Merry
Christmas” to somebody in a shopping
mall doesn’t mean that you endorse the
Christian faith. Instead, it’s the shared
understanding that you’re both there
to indulge in consumerist tendencies.
I’m not saying that the Baby Jesus-
Christmas is dead; those seeking the
manger myth can easily hear it at any
Christian place of worship. But the hol-
iday has become a secular one, which
means that Christians shouldn’t be
looking for their version of Christmas in
shopping malls. And the Scrooges that
are offended by a “Merry Christmas”
need to find a new issue to “Bah, hum-
bug!” about. I’ve got a Santa-sized sack
full of problems with organized reli-
gion, but the term “Merry Christmas”
isn’t in it.
mike aguiar
sputnik (wilfrid laurier
university)
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President’s
report
Dear Students, on Dec. 4, is definitely something I
would encourage all students to at-
This week is definitely a week to tend. The event is a great way to
look forward to, since the Regina learn how to get involved not only
Public Interest Research Group in the U of R community, but also
(RPIRG), UR Pride, the U of R in Regina and the surrounding
Women’s Centre and the area.
University of Regina Students’ If you would like more infor-
Union will officially kick off the mation about all of the events that
first annual 16 Days of Activism are happening on campus, please
campaign. It is pretty cool we will visit URSU’s website at ursu.ca .
have the opportunity to take part in
such a great worldwide event – the
U of R will be one of the many uni- Sincerely,
versities taking part in the cam-
paign.
Although each one of the
events are equally important, I
would like to highlight some of the
days that are sure to spark every-
one’s interest. On Dec. 1, the
Women’s Centre will be putting on
a fundraising dinner for World
Aids Day. The event takes place at
the Fainting Goat, which is defi-
nitely a place that I have been look-
ing to go to for a long time.
The Facilitation Training for
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