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Nov.13 ­– Nov. 26
VANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITY STUDENT PRESS
Volume 45 – Issue 6
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DR. THIERRY VRAIN
TOURS CANADA TO
DISCUSS GE FOODS
MAKE MONEY
CHLY: A SOUND
CONSTITUTION CREW
Dr. Thierry Vrain will be giving a
presentation regarding genetically engineered foods and human
health on November 16.
Students are always looking for
ways to make money without getting an actual job and, preferably,
without leaving their house.
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by a group of nursing students
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FEATURES
ARTS
SPORTS
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Editorials
Make Money
Clippers starting
to find success
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English as a second language
on Vancouver Island
Arts and Humanities Colloquium revisits BC’s 1983
Solidarity movement
09
Surveillance Privacy
Education Workshop
VIBI Mariners wrap up fall
season
‘Tis the season to support
local artisans
On the Radar:
Sahara Shaik of VIU’s
International Chess Club
15
How much water does your
body really need to stay
healthy?
New report disputes grim job
prospects for youth
A lighter tomorrow
Letters
05
06
Decision to fund counselor at
UBC following attack
Film on dangers of smart
meter comes to Nanaimo
07
Dr Thierry Vrain tours
Canada to discuss GE foods
VIU students invited to
World Diabetes Day
Canada caught spying on
mining companies
in Brazil
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Street survey:
How safe do you feel
on VIU’s Nanaimo campus
20
Racing with time
to save our privacy
16
Raiders season
ends with defeat
CHLY programmer profile:
A Sound Constitution crew
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Buccaneers continue to sail
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Photos
Recipes:
Roasted vegetable Marinara
&
Coconut Nanaimo bartini
Odds and Ends
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Five and a half
years a cinema slave
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In the hoop
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Leah Myers
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Scarcity and
the impact
on cognitive
potential
Scarcity, and the state of being short on a resource, is a monumental problem in many aspects
of daily life, the two most prominent probably being money and time. CBC radio recently
broadcasted an episode on The Current: “Why scarcity shapes our lives in profound ways,”
and the guest speaker was Eldar Shafir, a psychology professor and the co-author of a recently
published book titled Why Having Too Little Means So Much. Shafir puts forward the idea
that having less money can impact cognitive intelligence—however, not in the sense of lowincome hindering one’s access to education, which probably would’ve been my first guess, but
more in an actual psychological sense, exploring where our energy, or mental “bandwidth,”
is being exerted.
Shafir used bandwidth as a metaphor for the human brain, and explained how we have
limited capacity to store and juggle information.
“There are three decades of research showing that if I give you a seven digit number to
keep in mind and not forget, you attend less to other things,” explains Shafir. “You forget
to pay your parking meter because your mind is busy remembering this information.” The
professor also says that when you’re so preoccupied with memorizing and keeping constant
check on your finances, you may budget decently but other important things in your life are
neglected as a result.
“We define it (scarcity) very behaviourly,” said Shafir. “No specific number. It’s a psychology that comes with feeling like you just don’t have enough of the things you feel you need:
food, friends, time, and money.”
As I was listening to the conversation, I noted the key words “feel you need,” and shortly
after the professor addressed my concern with the word “need.” He pointed out that, when we
consider what we need in the world, we need to put “emphasis on the time and place of where
you live.” Standards of comparison is probably the key point. “‘What do you mean the poor
in Canada?’” says Shafir, addressing the misconception that poor in a first-world country isn’t
really poor. “‘In India they would be middle class. Look, they have running water and shirts!’
But 300 years ago that was a luxury. As we progress, certain things that used to be a luxury
now have become what is acceptable to live in a modern day Canada or America.”
And I think it’s that expectation—from institutes, employers, and society in general—
that makes it difficult to live without some things commonly dubbed “first world privileges.”
Shafir goes on to explain how income can make the difference between an inconvenience
and tragedy for people. According to Shafir, studies show that when people of higher income
are told they will need, for example, a costly car repair, they are able to accept the information
and move forward. But when a low income individual hears the same news, their cognitive
abilities drop significantly, approximately ten IQ points, which is the equivalent to how you
may function the day after pulling an all-nighter.
So does being poor mean that you’re stupid? Obviously not, but if we consider Shafir’s
research on the relationship between low-income and cognitive intelligence, we could conclude that the mental energy exerted on problem-solving for financial stresses is sure as heck
time consuming. In other words, it’s hard to develop your potentially incredible cognitive
abilities when you’re using most of your mental bandwidth trying to figure out how to both
eat and pay rent. But these are the things that consume your mind when you’re poor.
At work a couple weeks ago, I worked out in my head how long I’d have to work if I
bought a slice of pizza for lunch. Minimum wage and over-priced pizza: about a half hour of
work for enriched-wheat flour dough and processed cheese. While it seems silly to use so much
brain-power over a few dollars, these are the kind of budgeting decisions people living with
low-income have to constantly make. Of course, I consider myself to be a broke student by
choice (I could take out a student loan, but choose not to), but many don’t have that luxury.
When the interviewer asked Shafir if lacking money is worse than being scarce in other
aspects of life, the professor pointed out that being poor isn’t usually a choice.
“If you’re dieting, it takes a lot of your mind, but if you have a very important test coming up, you can say ‘you know what, three or four days I’ll focus on the exam and go back to
dieting on Monday.’ When you’re poor you can’t say, “well, I’ll take a day off and go back to
being poor on Monday.”
I know it’s highly idealistic to say, but I can’t help wonder how struggling minimum wage
workers might thrive otherwise if their minds weren’t constantly consumed by flipping burgers and scouring for coupons to make ends meet.
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Drew McLachlan
Associate Editor
The Navigator
The
Ford farce
Rob Ford. No explanation or context necessary—we both already know what this is
about. I’m not about to bore you with trivial issues like the political structure of Canada’s largest city, or analyze the Toronto mayor’s public spending model. Fuck that. The
Ford fiasco has all the fixings of an HBO dramedy or Vice documentary—Somali gangbangers, belligerent drug use, political scandal—and it seems that most everyone in the
country has tuned in at one point or another. Across the globe, the media has latched
on to the story (whether or not they can justify it taking up space on their newspaper
or website), but who can blame them? These kinds of scandals are what readers want
to read, and under similar circumstances I’d surely be staking out Toronto’s city hall
too. Online media, like the aforementioned mayor, is addicted to the hits. The blizzard
of press coverage has left the story tree bare, and so I’ve foraged the earth for the most
stand-out coverage of the Rob Ford fiasco I could find.
“Iron Sheik, WWE legend, challenges Rob Ford to arm wrestle” (CBC News). While
visiting Toronto for an event, the 71 year old retired wrestler put aside some time to visit
city hall. While being carted in a wheelchair, the former heel told press that “[Ford] eats
the cheeseburger and smokes crack. What kind of mayor is he... What kind of role model
is he for Toronto.. I just want to know: is he a real man or no?”
The Iron Sheik challenged Rob Ford, who was not present, to an arm wrestle. He
also boasted that he would put Ford in a “Camel Clutch,” his signature finishing move,
which involves sitting on an opponent’s back while pulling him up by his chin. The
incident may have been inspired by an arm wrestle that took place in August, which saw
Ford defeating Hulk Hogan, who the Iron Sheik has had a vocal, one-sided rivalry with
since retirement.
“Regina restaurant creates Rob Ford-themed burger” (Metro News). Nicky’s Café,
a restaurant in Regina, Saskatchewan, has added the Crack Pepper Burger to its menu.
The burger contains mushrooms, onions, cheese, and is covered in cracked black pepper.
Owner Perry Mekris said the burger has become a best seller at Nicky’s and told reporters
that Ford has made Toronto “a laughing stock right now around the whole world.”
“Under surveillance: Rob Ford seen urinating in public, dumping liquor bottles
after Lisi meetings” (The Star). RCMP observed Ford driving in his Escalade with friend
and possible drug dealer Alexander “Sandro” Lisi. At one point, the pair exited the
vehicle and placed a paper bag into a garbage can. Police sifted through the garbage and
found two empty bottles of vodka and two McDonald’s receipts. Police seized and photographed all the items. Afterwards, Ford was observed urinating on a tree behind his
former school.
Even a Huffington Post editorial on hipster deer hunters in Alberta found space for
a shot at Ford’s drug habits. “It’s obvious, though, that hipsterism as it exists in Alberta
and, say, Toronto, are two solitudes. A dude with a rifle, dragging his antlered buck into
a Toronto coffee shop wouldn’t be admired at all, except maybe if Mayor Rob Ford happened to be there, surreptitiously exiting the washroom with a little white bag from his pal
Sandro. The mayor would be totally on side with shooting stuff, especially if it meant he
could get blitzed afterwards.”
Aside from gaining the attention of the media, Rob Ford has also gained attention
in the form of dubstep remixes of his speeches, a “Justin Bieber or Rob Ford” online quiz
game, and an animated .gif of Ford transforming into Game of Thrones hero Hodor.
The Ford fiasco couldn’t have been resurrected at a better time. Appearing only
days after the senate scandal, Ford has provided a smoke screen for Duffy and Harper.
Ford has also eclipsed the pipeline deal between BC premier Christy Clark and Alberta
premier Alison Redford, despite Clark’s promise during the election last summer to not
allow the pipeline to run to BC’s coast. Quebec’s controversial Charter of Values, which
would strip public workers of their right to religious dress, was tabled. Last week, emails
from oil lobbyists surfaced, showing they had successfully delayed new climate regulations in Ottawa.
In five years, when Ford has stepped down and been forgotten, his casual drug use
will most likely be forgotten outside of Toronto as well. The stories buried under Ford’s
burgers and arm wrestling record are the ones that will be affecting us, and then it will
be impossible to ignore them. Unless Gregor Robertson decides to take up the pipe.
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‘Tis the season to support local artisans
Stephanie Brown
Contributor
The Kris Kringle craft fair will be
celebrating their 20th anniversary
with a ribbon cutting ceremony to
commemorate their first year at a
new location in Nanaimo.
Historically the craft fair has
been hosted in Qualicum and
Parksville, and this year will mark
the largest fair yet. This year, the
fair boasts over 150 vendors and
will be held at the Beban Park
Centre from November 14-17.
The ribbon cutting ceremony will
take place on Thursday at noon
and will serve a large cake and
balloons for kids.
Door prizes will be drawn each
day for those in attendance. The
first 100 guests will also receive a
20th Anniversary Keepsake Kris
Kringle button.
Westjet is holding a contest,
sending the winners on a trip
anywhere the company flies. In
addition, daily resort prizes will be
awarded, as well as hourly $50 gift
certificates from Quality Foods. On
Thursday at 8pm there is a bonus
draw for a $1000 Kris Kringle
shopping spree. The winner will
have a time limit of 30 minutes to
pick out the gifts, and the staff in
attendance will carry the items to
the car.
It’s $10 per day for adults,
and $8 for seniors and students.
Children 12 and under can attend
for free. A four day pass, including
entry and multiple prize draws,
costs $14.
As in previous years, Kris
Kringle himself will be present to
take pictures with children. There
will be cookie decorating, carolers,
stilt walkers, and jugglers. There
will also be free carriage rides with
hot chocolate from 12-3pm, and
Farmer Vicki with Daisy the Cow
will be there on Saturday and
Sunday from 11-3pm.
For people and vendors
coming from out of town, the
Howard Johnson Harbourside
Hotel, Ramada, Travelodge, Inn
on Long Lake, and Port-o-Call Inn
and Suites will be offering a Kris
Kringle rate during the weekend of
the craft fair.
Any Salvation Army donation is
accepted at the door upon admission.
For
more
information
and operation hours, as well as
colouring pages for kids, visit
the Craft Markets web page at
<www.kriskringle.ca>. Some of
the previous craft fairs can also be
viewed at <tinyurl.com/okmphaz>
or <tinyurl.com/ogyjddz>.
New report disputes grim
job prospects for youth
Jane Lytvynenko
Canadian University Press
Ottawa CUP­
—The notion of
today’s youth being the “lost
generation” is being challenged
by a new report from TD
Economics. Published October
22, the study focused on the skill
mismatch and labour shortages in
the market over the last ten years.
It found the picture is not as grim
as it has been painted.
“The notion of a severe labour
market skills mismatch has topped
the headlines,” reads the report.
“With data in hand, we debunk
the notion that Canada is facing
an imminent skills crisis. At the
same time, there is some evidence
of mismatch across certain
occupations and provinces, but
the sparse data prevents us from
saying whether the situation today
is worse than in years past.
The report looked at three
key areas: the Canadian labour
market over the past ten years,
whether there’s a skills mismatch,
and what should be done about it.
It honed in on areas where there
are commonly perceived skills
shortages or surpluses, including
the trades and arts degrees.
“Some have been labelling the
current youth generation as the
lost generation,” said Sonya Gulati,
senior economist at the TD Bank
Group who co-authored the report.
“For us, while we determined the
unemployment rate is higher, part
of the reason for that is where we
are in the economic cycle.”
According to StatsCan, in
2012 the youth unemployment
rate was 14.5 per cent, compared
to six per cent for workers aged
25 and up. However, the rate is
historically low for those aged
15-24 not only in Canada, but
across the globe.
“Occupations widely thought
to be in shortage have recorded
considerably lower unemployment
rates than their counterparts in
the surplus camp,” reads the TD
Economics report. “Still, vacancy
rates outside of some pockets (e.g.,
trades) are not significantly higher
than the national average. They
also have not accelerated over the
past few years.”
Gulati explained one example
as graduates with arts degrees.
“What we found in terms of
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the arts degrees is typically people
graduated with a lower labour
market outcome in terms of salary,
and it usually takes them a longer
time to get a position, but overtime
that difference between specific
fields begins to narrow,” she said.
The TD Economics report
gives a number of recommendations
for governments, employers, and
potential employees. It says job
training is not happening at the
same rate it used to be. While the
Conservative government’s newly
introduced Canada Jobs Grant is a
step in the right direction according
to Gulati, more can be done to
improve Canada’s job market.
“[Employers can] provide
incentive to a worker for taking
on the job training,” she says. “For
instance, you may get a tax break
if you seek training above and
beyond what you already have. You
can give employers incentives to
make sure the skills workers have
are aligned with what the needs of
the general labor market are.”
Students need to look for
prospects before they enter a field
of study to make sure they can
get employment after graduation.
Despite prospects not being as
bleak as predicted, both Canada
and its citizens should take steps to
safeguard their employment.
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NEWS
Decision to fund counselor
at UBC following attack
Film on
dangers of
smart meter
comes to
Nanaimo
Blake Deal
The Navigator
Photo courtesy of: https://twitter.com/VanRapeRelief
Molly Barrieau
Contributor
UBC’s Sauder School of Business,
the department blamed for the
September “rape chants” during
frosh week, has put to vote whether
to fund a position to provide
counselling services to students.
An overwhelming decision
was made earlier this month, with
over 70 per cent voting no to
funding during a referendum by
commerce students.
The full-time sexual assault
counsellor will be provided regardless
of the vote, with the school of
business contributing $200k.
The vote came just after
media coverage of the university
increased due to the attacks on
women. With six assaults since
April, UBC is doing everything
they can to inform and offer
support for all students.
The attacks occurred on
September 28, October 13, and
October 19. On Wednesday,
October 30, UBC students rallied
together in protest in a “Take Back
the Night” (TBTN) event that has
been around North America for
over 40 years. UBC and Vancouver
have held such events since 1978.
TBTN brought together over 200
male and female students, while
the Facebook event page boasted
950 to attend.
Beginning at 5pm, the
group of both men and women
gathered outside the Museum of
Anthropology in the rain, holding
placards and megaphones as they
walked a designated route around
campus. The goal was to show
solidarity and to go against the
current media’s approach to inform
female students “not to walk alone”
rather than addressing the problem.
“We’re here because we
are drowning in a culture of
rape—a culture that ignores rape,
condones rape, and therefore
normalizes rape,” said Kiera Smith
with Vancouver Rape Relief,
an organization that provides
counselling and services to victims
of sexual assault and sexual abuse.
CBC News reported that
the string of attacks may be
connected, as they all happened
late at night or early in the
morning and all six women were
grabbed from behind.
They
suspect the perpetrator knows the
university’s campus well and may
be a former or current student.
The
president
of
the
university, Stephen Toope, held a
press conference on October 29
regarding these events and said the
police presence on the campus is at
its highest and campus security is
looking to enhance safety.
“I want to reassure all of our
community that we will do all in our
power to increase a sense of security
on the campus,” said Toope.
UBC’s location near Point
Grey in Vancouver has made it
one of the safest in North America,
with a forest separating the campus
from the rest of Vancouver.
The campus is so large that the
RCMP has yet to find the suspect.
BC Mounties have released a
sketch of the attacker they believe
to be involved. The sketch is of a
Caucasian male with short dark
hair, a broad forehead, and a tan or
olive skin tone. He is between 5’8”
and 6’2”.
While there have been several
persons of interest identified, there
is no definitive suspect. The RCMP
is hoping the broader community
will view the sketch and contact
RCMP tip lines: 778-290-5291 or
1-877-543-4822.
A local group going by the name
Friends of CST (Citizens for Safe
Technology) is hosting a viewing
of the documentary Take Back
Your Power.
Take Back Your Power is a
documentary by Josh del Sol, a
filmmaker from Vancouver. The film
is 90 minutes, showing the risks and
consequences of smart meters.
Del Sol travels the world to
find “the truth” about smart meters
and the negative effects they have
on hydro bills, the causing of house
fires, health issues, and more.
After the film, questions can be
asked, and there will be information
on how to join the class action
lawsuit against BC Hydro.
“There have been many
people reporting sickness of all
sorts immediately after smart
meter installation in their home
or apartment building,” said Kim
Goldberg, one of the organizers.
Goldberg said BC Hydro
has done nothing to prevent the
damage they are causing. “If BC
Hydro were to now admit the
damage to human health caused
by smart meters, the corporation
would be on the hook for
millions, if not billions, of dollars
in personal injury claims.”
Goldberg said the thing she
liked most about this film is that it
shows a multitude of downfalls of
the smart meters before touching
on the health problems that come
with them.
“It is hard for me to imagine
any person still feeling alright about
the smart meter on their home after
watching this film,” said Goldberg.
“Fortunately, we do have some
recourse through the class action
lawsuit against BC Hydro, and
even through actions as extreme
(but legal) as purchasing your own
safe analogue meter online and
replacing your smart meter with a
safe meter, since BC Hydro will not
do this for you.”
The next two screenings of
the film are Thursday, November
14 at Eagles Hall, 920 First Ave in
Ladysmith at 1:30 pm, and Sunday,
November 17 at the Harbourfront
Library, Nanaimo at 1pm, .
For more information on CST,
visit
<citizensforsafetechnology.
org> and for more on the film visit
<takebackyourpower.net>.
theoxypub@outlook.com
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Dr. Thierry Vrain Tours Canada to discuss GE foods
Blake Deal
The Navigator
Dr. Thierry Vrain will be giving a
presentation regarding genetically
engineered foods and human
health on November 16.
Dr. Vrain moved to Canada
from France when he was 25 and
went on to get a PhD in Plant
Pathology. He went on to work for
Agriculture Canada for 30 years—
until retiring in 2002.
Dr. Vrain said this tour is not
about speaking against genetic
engineering, but rather the bursting
of the “North American bubble.”
The last six years of Dr. Vrain’s
career was spent in the Okanagan,
where he publically spoke to
reassure people that genetic
engineering of foods was safe.
After retiring, Dr. Vrain settled
in Comox, where he bought a farm,
started gardening, and became an
organic gardener.
The general belief was “organic
was a cult,” said Dr. Vrain. He
stumbled across some scientific
documents that explained organic
gardening and genetic engineering
in a way that he could understand.
Dr. Vrain said he was never
taught that synthetic fertilizers
were, or even could be, bad.
While working in his
own garden, Dr. Vrain started
documenting himself and found
that what he had been reading
about organic gardening was
making a lot of sense.
Dr. Vrain said one of the big
myths is that genetic engineering is
making it possible for higher yields
in crops. He said this is not true,
and in some cases it is the exact
opposite.
The corporations and industrial
farmers are saying everything is
fine despite the discrepancy in the
soil quality between industrial and
organic.
Dr. Vrain said there is a food
safety aspect to genetic engineering
that people need to be informed of.
There are multiple studies showing
there is something wrong with
the food being produced. He said
the people who try to bring this
information forward are labeled
as activists, or spreading misinformation.
The big argument that
comes up is that without genetic
engineering “we can’t feed
everyone.” Dr. Vrain said that is
not the case. The problem, said
Dr. Vrain, is the big corporations
that used to be in the chemical
industry are now in the biotechnology industry.
Dr. Vrain said over 90 per
cent of all engineered plants are
made to resist herbicide. This
allows for a greater sale of Round
Up. By engineering plants to resist
herbicides, the big corporations
are able to sell more pesticides and
have them used more.
Dr. Vrain said the industry
will keep speaking postiviely
about pesticides because they are
making a huge profit from selling
a chemical.
In 1996, said Dr. Vrain, the
technology came and was great for
farmers and weed control. Now,
he said, it is the reason that any
products in your local grocery store
that contain corn, soy, canola, or
others, contain noxious chemicals.
Dr. Vrain said what the
industry is doing is “irresponsible
and dangerous.” His goal is to raise
the alarm and have people become
more conscious and aware of what
they are eating.
As far as what people can do
individually, Dr. Vrain said the first
step is to switch to organic food.
Although it is more expensive, it is
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better for you. He said “you need
to make a sacrifice” to be able to
afford better food. Being organic is
a choice people need to make.
Documenting yourself and
reading material is the best way
to truly understand the difference,
said Dr. Vrain.
Photo courtesy VIU Disability Awarness Club
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Dr. Thierry Vrain can be
seen across Canada starting
November 14. He will be at VIU
on November 16 in building 356
in room 109 at 1pm.
You can follow Dr. Vrain on
Facebook under Thierry Vrain.
Canada caught spying on
mining companies in Brazil
Danilo Barba &
Karen Nickel
The Dialog
Alex Kask
Contributor
World Diabetes Day marks the
birthday of Dr. Frederick Banting,
the Canadian co-discoverer of
insulin. This discovery has saved
millions of lives worldwide.
November 14 is celebrated as World
Diabetes Day in over 80 countries,
with landmarks around the world lit
up blue in support. November 14,
2013, has been proclaimed World
Diabetes Day by Mayor John Ruttan
for the city of Nanaimo.
In
Canada
there
are
approximately nine million people
with either diabetes or pre-diabetes.
Of those, about 90 per cent are
type 2 diabetic. First Nations are
3-5 times more likely to develop
type 2 diabetes than the rest of the
Canadian population. In 2012, there were an estimated
17,000 diabetes-related deaths in
Canada for people of the ages 2079. Diabetes is now considered the
leading cause of death by disease in
Canada. Canada is number one in
diabetic research worldwide.
Events will be held at the VIU
Nanaimo campus in the upper
cafeteria, building 300, from 112pm. There will be information,
draw prizes, and the Canadian
Diabetes Association will be
receiving donations for their
Clothesline fundraiser project of
used clothing, so if there is any old
clothes hiding in your closet, please
donate. The events are sponsored
by VIU Disability Awareness Club
and the VIU Indigenous Students’
Course Union. Participants will be
wearing blue.
Photo courtesy of Thierry Vrain
Toronto (CUP)—The mining sector
in Brazil is estimated to bring in over
$1.5 billion for Canadian mining
companies per year according
to the Canadian International
Development Platform, which
tracks Canadian investments by
commodity and country.
This might be one good reason
the Communications Security
Establishment Canada (CSEC)
office would keep its “ear” on
Brazil’s Mining and Resources
Ministry, but no one is saying that.
On October 6, American
journalist
Glenn
Greenwald
reported on the Brazilian television
station, Globo, that Canada spied
on the Brazilian mining and
resource ministry under a program
called Olympia. Olympia entailed
the collection of metadata around
calls, faxes, and emails originating
from or going to Brazil’s mining
ministry.
When questioned about
spying, Prime Minister Stephen
Harper was quoted by CBC saying
he was “very, very concerned
about the story.” Pushed to answer
further by a CBC reporter, he said
he couldn’t comment on national
security operations.
Meanwhile, John Foster,
director of CSEC, claims that
spying isn’t illegal under Canadian
law. “Due to the confidential
nature of our work, I am sure
you will understand I can not say
much,” he said during a technology
conference in Ottawa.
“We have not targeted
Canadians, at home or elsewhere
in our intelligence activities abroad,
or anyone in Canada. Indeed, it is
prohibited by law. Protecting the
privacy of Canadians is our most
important principle,” he said.
A bizarre explanation came from
Ray Boisvert, ex-deputy director of
the Canadian Security Intelligence
Services (CSIS), who told the
Globe & Mail that he believed what
Snowden released was a “war game”
exercise, and said “I have got a funny
feeling that is all Snowden has—is
just that exploratory war game piece
saying ‘OK, what would we do, boys
and girls, if we had to do this?’ ”
Greenwald claims this isn’t a
one-time thing.
“There is very substantial
evidence that the spying Canada
was doing for economic reasons
aimed at Brazil is far from an
aberration.” Greenwald said he will
be publishing further documents
on CSEC’s spying soon.
Brazilian President Dilma
Rousseff, who recently damned
the NSA for allegedly monitoring
Brazilian
online
activities,
announced via Twitter that Brazil
will host an international summit of
government, industry, civil society
,and academia in April 2014.
“Without the right of privacy,
there is no real freedom of speech or
freedom of opinion, and so there is no
actual democracy,” she said in a speech
at the United Nations in September.
“Without respect for [a
nation’s] sovereignty, there is no
basis for proper relations among
nations. Those who want a strategic
partnership cannot possibly allow
recurring and illegal action to go on
07
Make money
Kelly Whiteside
The Navigator
Students are always looking for
ways to make money without
getting an actual job, and, preferably, without leaving their house.
Here’s a list of some easy ways to
make money:
Microjobs
“Microjobs” are short-term or onetime only jobs. They can either
be silly or professional. Examples
include sending someone biscuits
and tea, or editing someone’s essay.
There are tons of sites you can offer
such services on.
The first, most popular, option
is fiverr.com. Paying rates for services start at $5. You make a profile stating your qualifications,
and your profile also shows your
rating, how long you’ve been
there, your responsiveness, and
your recent deliveries.
Fourerr.com is similar, except
services are $4 instead.
Other sites, many with the
option of choosing your price,
include errund.com, mturk.com,
freelancer.com, odesk.com, elance.
com, and gigbucks.com.
Tutoring
Tutoring has always been a popular way of making money, but living in a smaller town or city limits
you. However, sites like tutordoctor.com help match you with people in your area that you may not
have found otherwise, and sites like
instaedu.com allow you to tutor
people worldwide through Skype
or Facebook.
Surveys
Companies, sites, etc. are always
looking for people to do surveys
for free, but some will pay for your
thoughts. It only takes a few minutes to complete most surveys.
Paidviewpoint.com,
cashcrate.
com, and palmresearch.com all pay
you with cash. iPoll.com gives you
options; you may ask to be paid
in gift cards, airline miles, magazine subscriptions, through Paypal,
etc. Toluna.com gives you points,
which you can then redeem for
cash, prizes, or gifts.
Selling
If you’ve received unwanted gift
cards for your birthday or Christmas, cardpool.com will buy them
from you. You can exchange them
for other gift cards or be given up to
92% back in cash. Although many
gift cards on there are American, the
website offers Canadian ones as well.
There are plenty of sites for artsy
people. If you’re a photographer,
try selling your photos on society6.
com. You can make t-shirt designs
on spreadshirt.com. Deviantart.
com can be used to sell photography, paintings, drawings, and
crafts. Etsy.com gives you many
artsy options—basically, if you
made it, you can sell it there.
If you’ve turned your house
upside down looking for items
you no longer want, you can
sell them on Craigslist, Kijiji, or eBay, but there are other
options. You could create your
own store on ecrater.com. If you
have some more unique items,
you can try bonanza.com.
Almost anything you have can
be sold on Facebook. There are
Facebook groups made for sell-
ing, and they’re incredibly popular. There are general ones, like
Nanaimo Super Swap & Shop and
Nanaimo New and Used Items
Swap and Shop, but there are also
more specific ones, like Nanaimo
Women’s Clothing Swap and Shop
and Nanaimo House & Home.
If you have the right selling skills, you can make tons of
money. DHgate.com is a business-to-business online trading
marketplace for China wholesale products. You can find practically everything on there and
buy it in bulk. Then, you’re free
to sell it yourself. Depending on
what you’re selling, though, you
may need to consider a permit
or license.
Advertising
You may already be aware of making money from ads on your YouTube videos and your blog, but
you can also be paid to place ads
on yourself and your car.
Most people wear clothes every
day, and some people don’t care
much about what they wear, and
if you’re one of those people, then
check out iwearyourshirt.com. You
could be paid to wear t-shirts!
If you have a car, then you can
get advertisements placed on it
from myfreecar.com. Depending
on the size of the ad, you can make
up to $400 a month. Advertisers
choose you based on your car and
driving habits. As a student, you’re
an ideal candidate for many advertisers, because thousands of people
see your car in the parking lot.
There are terms and conditions.
The Navigator
The Navigator is what you’re reading right now. It’s VIU’s studentrun newspaper. If you submit an
article to us, we’ll pay you! Don’t
be intimidated if you don’t know
how to write an article or don’t
think you’re a good writer. It’s our
job to make your article look good.
So just write what you want to see
in your newspaper and submit it.
Comics are also welcome. And
if you know how to write horoscopes, then go for it!
English as a second language on
Vancouver Island
Brian Hough
Contributor
Literacy Central Vancouver
Island (LCVI), located on Commercial Street in downtown
Nanaimo, is currently looking for
volunteers for its English as a Second Language (ESL) programs.
LCVI offers two programs, both
in partnership with VIU­—English
as a Second Language Settlement
Assistant Program (ESLSAP) and
English Practice Group-Conversation (EPG). Volunteers act as
facilitators and tutors and receive
mandatory training before starting.
The ESLSAP works with
immigrants who have spent less
than five years in Canada and are
learning English for the first time,
while EGP offers conversation
practice for those who already
have some English abilities but
are looking to improve on them
through facilitated practice.
While volunteering can be a
rewarding experience in general,
volunteering for the ESL programs
at LCVI can be a useful stepping
stone for VIU students graduating
in the near future, as teaching ESL
overseas has become an increasingly attractive option for new
08
graduates looking to find work in
a tough job market.
One of the more popular destinations is South Korea. Speaking to
a number of different South Koreabased recruiters (agents and companies that pair applicants with
private and public schools), almost
all of them recommended ESL
volunteering (and participating in
the training program) as valuable
experience to have on your resumé
when applying for ESL jobs.
While almost all the recruiters
were quick to point out the job
market for ESL teachers in South
Korea is becoming increasingly
competitive, they were equally
quick to point out that the kind of
experience that LCVI was offering
would give an applicant a number
of advantages in the hiring process
as well as actual teaching.
Richard Slezak, having lived
in Korea for more than a decade
before co-founding the recruiting
agency Topgun Consulting based
out of Daejeon, said “volunteering can help build a new teacher’s
confidence in the classroom and
give an applicant an edge over the
people applying without any experience or training at all.” James
Cranshaw, a citizen of the UK who
founded TeachKoreans.com six
years ago, echoed Slezak’s remarks
and added “it probably won’t help
get a higher salary, but certainly
during interviews candidates can
draw on the experience they have.”
The first step of the process is to
apply at the LCVI downtown.
The applicant will fill out a
tutor registration form. The forms
are then given to the tutor coordinators and they will contact the
person to set up an interview. The focus in the interview will
be on the applicant’s experience
with teaching, specifically ESL.
In addition, they will require a
criminal record check if applying
to the ESLSAP program. Once
accepted, the applicant will begin
the training session.
There are two VIU sanctioned
programs—a nine hour Abbreviated Volunteer Tutor Training for
those tutors who have a TESOL
certificate and/or teaching degree
,and a 30 hour Volunteer Tutor
Training Course for people interested in tutoring, but do not have
certified teaching experience.
According to the director of the
program, Judith Miller, “we accept
applications at any time, however
the volunteer tutor training courses
are scheduled with flexible timing.”
LCVI also accepts volunteer applications for its literacy programs as
well as in the bookstore.
Photo by Drew McLachlan
Nov. 13 – Nov. 26 / Issue 6 / Vol. 45 / THE NAVIGATOR
FEATURES
On the Radar: Sahara Shaik of VIU’s
International Chess Club
Drew McLachlan
The Navigator
VIU’s International Chess Club
began last September as a space for
both international and domestic
students to learn the game or hone
their skill. This year, Sahara Shaik,
an Indian immigrant who grew up
in Toronto, is taking over as club
president, and hopes to share her
passion for chess with Nanaimo.
Navigator: When did you first discover chess?
Sahara Shaik: When I was a kid,
around seven years old, I got
introduced in school. There were
different games, but they actually
taught chess. It’s a very strategyoriented game, so it was hard to
grasp at first.
N: What do you enjoy so much
about it? What made you choose
chess instead of another game?
SS: It’s more enjoyable because it
involves strategies among both
players. It’s not just about what
you think—you have to think
a step ahead of the other player.
Sure, there are other games that
involve something similar, but
with this one, I would say there are
more pieces to integrate in order to
establish yourself. It’s a more critical and analytical game, which separates it from other games.
N: I’ve talked to other players who
have spoken to certain aspects of
the game being carried over and
improving their student lives. Do
you find that holds up for you too?
SS: Definitely. I’m currently doing
a business program where we have
to analyze what our competitors—
in terms of business companies—
are doing. Chess integrates that
into play as well. It involves problem solving skills and brings more
critical skills into play. It’s not just
what you think, but what the other
person might think as well.
N: Has there been a lot of support for the club? Is VIU a big
chess campus?
SS: I think there is a lot of support.
The only thing it needs is more
awareness on campus. There are a
lot of students who may be interested in it, but because of overlapping schedules it’s not that big yet.
It’s really hard to incorporate all
students’ timing and make them
come to play. And a lot of students are interested in chess, but
it’s hard for students to come out
every week. The club has a lot of
students who just want to learn the
basics, but also many students who
are champions and have played
across Canada, and international
students who have been established
idols in their respective countries.
It could become really big, but currently we have about 20 members.
On our Facebook page we get a lot
of comments and messages from
non-VIU students or parents who
would like to come out.
N: Do the players get very competitive?
SS: Yes, they do. There are a lot
of great games; and people love
to compete, so we were thinking
of holding some small tournaments—which we might do next
month—and start giving out some
sort of prizes for winners. Just some
small competition to keep the spirit alive.
N: Do you ever play against other
universities or clubs?
SS: Not really. There are other
clubs, like the video game club,
which were set up next to us at the
club fair who we were talking to
about some kind of tournament.
There are many students who are
interested. When they come to
play chess they do ask if there are
any other chess clubs on VIU campus that they’re not aware of.
N: Who is the chess club for,
mainly experts?
SS: Not at all. We try to target all
kinds of players, even students who
just want to learn. Even if you don’t
have any clue about it, the club carries instructors—usually around
three—who can help you learn as
a beginner. Even if there are champions in there, they’ll help you
learn—they enjoy that. There’s a
big scope for beginners and experts
to sit and play together. More
than the game, they come to make
friends and learn chess.
N: What do you tell people when
you want to encourage them to
check out the club?
SS: Basically, we tell them how
cool the game is. Most people have
this assumption in their mind that
it’s for students and people who
are really strategically-oriented
and know a lot of math and scientific stuff. It’s a really basic game
depending on how you play. So
we tell students that this is a very
simple game. Beginners, most of
the time, are afraid to even come
out and watch. We basically tell
them they have the option to learn
the game with a beginner or play
against an expert.
N: What does the club provide
aside from just a place to play?
SS: We try to offer things like fairs
and workshops, but because our
executive members are all in different programs, scheduling can
be difficult. This month, we’re
thinking of having a fair or joining another club’s fair to recruit
students from there. We had a cool
idea of just sitting in the cafeteria
and playing a few games, nothing
fancy, so students could see what
the game is about.
N: Now that you’re president of the
club, are you planning on doing
anything differently this year?
SS: Definitely. Last year, there
weren’t many events, and a lot of
people weren’t aware of the club,
but this time we’re actually spreading the word out and trying to get
in touch with students on an individual basis and letting them know
when the events take place. We’re
trying to attract as many students
as possible this year and retain the
membership—getting them to
come back for every event.
Cleanse consultations
Molly Barrieau
The Navigator
“I can’t stop eating chocolate!!!”
tweets Toni Jonell, adding the
hashtag “#givesmestrength.” Jonell,
20, has just finished the 12 day Wild
Rose Cleanse; and no, you do not
eat wild roses. The Wild Rose College of Natural Healing is located in
Calgary, Alberta. The cleanse, like
many others, dictates that while you
can eat as much as you would like, it
must be on the list found on the college’s website, wrc.net.
“I’ll tell you, now that I’ve
been eating regularly, but still
healthy, certain foods are making me feel like crap,” says Jonell,
with a smile, adding that she
almost wanted to “cleanse again”
just days after finishing.
Cleanses of all varieties have
been quickly gaining interest all
over the western world, as women
and men look to the newest way to
shed fat while detoxifying the body
with natural supplements added
to pure water. Cleanses have been
around for centuries. For many
indigenous groups, they are a cultural and religious tradition that is
still carried on today, namely the
Native American sweat lodges created to cleanse their spirits. Nowadays, popular cleanses, such as the
Master Cleanse, are constantly
being tested and reviewed for the
public, leaving many with a bad
taste in their mouth.
For Jonell, the 12 days came and
went with many ups and downs.
“The first five days are the hardest,”
she says. Jonell had to alter her diet
for those 12 days using a chart.
The chart includes long lists of
foods you can eat under headings
titled “protein foods” and “starch
foods.” However, at the very bottom, a “not recommended at any
time” foods list includes cake, fruit
juices, flour gravy, and sugar. Suggested by her boss, the Wild Rose
Cleanse offered a simple change
in eating habits and choice with
just the addition of pure water and
lemon taken daily.
This modern twist on the historical detox became apparent when
just this year, Academy Award-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow went
on the record about the Master
Cleanse, a liquid-based recipe that
includes lemon juice, maple syrup,
and cayenne pepper. According to
mastercleanse.org, the juice fast
happens in three steps: easing out
the processed foods a couple days
before you begin, ten days drinking the water-based cleanse, then
easing the more complex foods
back into your diet. This regimen,
claims the company, “provides a
healthy amount of calories and
nutrients specifically suited for
weight loss and cleansing” and has
been around for over 60 years.
Paltrow did not give Master
Cleanse the rave reviews many
were expecting. Paltrow, who used
the formula back in her 20s, told
the UK’s Telegraph that after the
ten days she found herself hallucinating and dizzy. “Be aware: a juice
detox can crash your metabolism
and lead to future weight gain,”
concluded Paltrow.
In April, appearing on The Doctor Oz Show, Paltrow said she has
replaced the Master Cleanse with
an elimination diet, which, aptly
named, involves removing many
inflammatory foods from your
regular diet. Among these are coffee, sugar, and all processed foods.
“I think it’s all about balance,” Paltrow told Dr. Oz.
Due to the increased attention
to cleanses in Hollywood and
around the world, the pros and
cons are being weighed. Jezebel.
com is trying to do just that with
their article explaining why many
people are using cleanses to cover
up other food-related disorders.
“It’s not hard to see that the structure of a juice fast would necessarily appeal to a person who is
predisposed to eating disorders,”
Jenna Sauers, the author, writes.
She and many others are beginning to find the dirt on cleanses.
THE NAVIGATOR / Vol. 45 / Issue 6 / Nov. 13 – Nov. 26
As more and more cleansing
options appear in the media and
the local shelves, what are people in Nanaimo doing about the
cleansing fad?
Dr. Clare Craig, a naturopathic
doctor from Island Optimal provides an annual cleanse through
Moksha Yoga in Nanaimo. This
is the third year for the cleanse,
which is “quite comprehensive”
according to Craig, who is participating in the cleanse along with
everyone else who purchased the
kit and signed up in late September. The kit, provided by Moksha
Yoga, includes a cookbook, recipes,
and instructional handouts, along
with an herbal tea and a journal.
“I feel it is extremely important
that I participate fully along with
everyone else,” says Craig. “It helps
me reset myself, listen to my body,
and re-establish healthy habits.”
According to Craig, and traditional Chinese medicine, spring
and fall are the most appropriate times to do a cleanse. Many
want to shed the unwanted weight
from the winter months, and both
spring and fall are healthy times to
detox your body. As the seasons are
changing, so will your diet.
Craig attributes the current
popularity of cleanses in Western
cultures to word-of-mouth. More
become curious themselves, with
many who are concerned about
the chemicals and toxins in our
environment looking towards its
detoxifying effect.
“I don’t believe cleanses are a
quick fix for anything,” Craig says.
Her advice to those interested in
beginning a cleanse is to speak to a
naturopathic doctor who can learn
your health history, and someone
who can modify the cleanse to fit
your specific needs.
“A boxed cleanse can’t replicate
a unique protocol made by a practitioner,” Craig says, adding that
when she is providing information
she wants “people to feel supported
and guided through the process,
rather than just following guidelines that are generic.”
It all comes down to finding
what works for you—including
drinking water with detoxifying
supplements, and finding a menu
that provides all the necessary
nutrition for your body. Cleanses,
in the end, should “help set up
those healthy habits and isolate
problem foods,” says Craig. When
you are eliminating those foods,
your body can then perform at its
best. “Rather than waiting until we
are sick, we are trying to get and
stay well. We are seeking optimal
health, not adequate health.”
09
FEATURES
Street Survey
Alexandria Stuart
Contributor
How safe do you feel on VIU’s Nanaimo campus?
Mitchell Simpson:
Kailin Wachter:
Alex Robert:
Viktoria De Koning:
“I feel pretty safe. I just kind of
go from class to class and chill
in the library, and I know there’s
people around, so I guess I feel
pretty safe. I’m not concerned
with safety or anything.”
“I feel really safe. I work here
too, so I walk alone at night all
the time and have no problem
at all. I have never heard of any
incidents happening or anything like that, and it’s really
well lit. I’ve talked to security
and they’re really good people,
so I feel pretty safe here.”
“I feel pretty safe most of the
time. I don’t ever meet people
that I would not feel safe to
be with. I don’t see any suspicious activities that would
make me feel insecure.”
“None of my classes are that
long, so I don’t need to walk
at night, so I’m feeling pretty
safe here.”
Roasted
vegetable
marinara
Erin Petereit
Contributor
2–3 zucchini, chopped
4–6 cherry tomatoes
4–5 garlic, roughly chopped
1-2 red onion, chopped
Fresh basil and oregano
Olive oil and balsamic vinegar
•Place all ingredients on a baking sheet
•Drizzle olive oil and balsamic to cover
•Roast at 350°F for 20-25 minutes
•When finished roasting, blend into sauce
Photo by Erin Petereit
Coconut Nanaimo bartini
Denisa Kraus
The Navigator
10
1oz vanilla vodka
½ oz coconut vodka
½ oz dark crème de cocoa
1 tsp quality instant coffee
½ tsp brown sugar
2 oz coconut milk
Ice cubes
•Shake all ingredients in a
shaker until coffee and sugar
dissolve.
•Strain into a chilled martini
glass, garnish with shaved
coconut or chocolate.
Photo courtesy of sageatelier.com
Nov. 13 – Nov. 26 / Issue 6 / Vol. 45 / THE NAVIGATOR
FEATURES
Five and a half years a cinema slave
Logan Vanghel
The Carillon
Regina (CUP)—There’s plenty of
evidence to suggest we’re living in
a resurgent era for television. Critics and viewers alike constantly
sing the praises of Breaking Bad,
The Walking Dead, and Game of
Thrones. It’s hard to deny that it’s a
wonderful time to be a TV fan, but
personally I don’t give a shit—I’m
not a TV guy.
I’m of the belief that you get one
true passion in your life—the one
thing that consumes all of your
thoughts, and pounds with every
beat of your pulse. And mine is not
so dissimilar to television, especially what television has attempted to
become in recent years.
But TV is not for me, because
I prefer my character arcs and
plots to be contained in neat
120-minute packages. I don’t
have 120 hours to commit to a
single show, I’m sorry.
No, I am wholly and completely
addicted to movies.
“Oh, yeah, I watch a lot of movies too!” you may think as you read
this. I’m not a casual watcher. I’m
not a “smoke a joint with friends
on the odd weekend” user. I’m a
passed-out-stone-cold-in-the-alleyway-on-a-winter-night-bloodshoteyes-and-track-marks-lookinglike-sleeves type of movie addict.
It struck me in 2008. Five and a
half years I’ve battled with the compulsion. In June of that year, I began
collecting my theatre ticket stubs,
placing them in albums alongside a
4×6 print of the movie poster and
keeping a word document full of
statistical proof of my insanity.
Since attending the University of
Regina—two years down, two more
to go—my statistical record keeping has fallen off, unfortunately, but
my movie watching has not, despite
the establishment’s best efforts both
financially and in terms of free time.
I’ll dispense some of the statistics
here, to assert my true position as the
sick, compulsive cinematic psychopath that I am.
Between June 6, 2008, and
October 22, 2013, I have watched
469 movies in theatre. That’s only
in theatre; I unfortunately haven’t
kept track of DVDs, movies on
TV, and Netflix, and I regret that,
but such as it is.
469 movies in theatre. 129 of
those were on opening Friday, a
Thursday sneak peek, or a onetime-only showing. That’s 28 per
cent of everything I’ve watched.
111 more movies I caught on
opening weekend, that is to say
the Saturday or Sunday following
its release, which amounts to 51
per cent of everything I’ve seen.
And 63 more were watched within
7 days of it being release. So that
means 65 per cent of the 469 movies I’ve seen in theatre in the past
five and a half years I got to before
they were a week old.
The longest I’ve gone between
two movies in the theater since
June 2008? 26 days. And that’s an
oddity. The average amount of time
between two shows is closer to seven or eight days. At my peak I was
seeing (mathematically) 2.23 movies per week. My current number is
closer to 1.5 movies per week.
Between November 6, 2010 and
January 22, 2011, I had my best
spree of opening weekend viewings, seeing 21 movies within two
days of release. I’ve seen approximately 15 movies outside of Canada. Because I keep the tickets in
an album, I prize those tickets that
don’t come from my usual haunts.
The most common question,
and the one I’m sure you’re asking
is, “Boy, how much dough have
you injected directly into Hollywood’s veins?” And I can give you
that number: $3949 on movie tickets alone. That doesn’t include concession, which would likely double
that number at least. And I don’t
regret a single penny. I relish every
single cent and minute I’ve spent
in a movie theatre, I really do.
I bet a couple of you are saying
“You sure are a sad, lonely man,
Logan Vanghel. I pity you and
everything you stand for.” But the
truth is, 75 per cent of my 469
movies I’ve seen with friends, family, lovers, or casual encounters.
That’s the upside to my addiction! Like alcoholism, I can imbibe
among acceptable company on
weekends as well as alone in a dark
room on a Wednesday.
For a long time, my friends said
to me, “you should work at the theatre, man! You’re there enough, you
may as well get paid to be there.” I
laughed and told them, “don’t shit
where you eat.” But in October
2012, I finally broke down and got
a job at the Galaxy. And you know
what? I highly recommend shitting
and eating in the same spot. Simultaneously, if the whim strikes!
In the year I’ve worked there,
I’ve snagged 44 free movies. Double that, because I get to bring a
friend. Multiply that by 12 (the
cost of a movie ticket) and I’m saving $1000 every year I work at the
Galaxy. Best decision I ever made.
So that’s the numbers, mostly.
But any sports fan knows numbers
aren’t the whole story. So I’ll give
you some anecdotes, too, like how
my addiction has affected some of
my personal relationships.
Back in December 2010, I was
dating a girl. We’d been together
maybe a month and half. It was my
first real, even semi-serious relationship. On the 20th and 21st of
the month, I planned to see four
movies in theatre: Tron: Legacy, The
Fighter, How Do You Know, and
Black Swan. Well, she texts me on
the morning of the 20th wondering
if I want to hang out. I said “sure!
Come to the theatre!” She declined
and asked about the next day. I said
“sure! Come to the theatre!” It was
at this point she accused me of caring more about movies than I did
about her. And it was at this point
I realized that was the truth. We
broke up a couple weeks later.
A month after that, I started
bringing different girls to the
movies. It was this unfortunate
turn of events that led me to see
such terrible excuses for movies as
Gnomeo & Juliet and Mr. Popper’s
Penguins. I see pretty much everything, but I sure as hell wouldn’t
have seen those.
I was able to use my powers
for good once, after watching
Street Fighter: Legend of ChunLi. A critic once said of Chris
Klein’s performance as Charlie
Nash: “The first time I’ve seen an
actor unconvincingly walk into a
room.” That’s just the beginning
of the movie’s problems.
Anyway, a day after seeing it, I
overheard a Street Fighter fan talking to his friend about seeing it,
and I strongly advised him not to,
for the sake of his inner SF fan, and
for his sake as a thinking human
being. I’m still proud of robbing
that movie of 11 bucks.
So that’s pretty much my journey. Movies, both great and terrible, separated by countless mediocre films—that’s all I ask for. These
days my current girlfriend, thankfully, loves the theatre almost as
much as I do (and loves me almost
as much as I do), so that makes
feeding the addiction easier. It’s
been an interesting ride—one
that’s led me to majoring in film
production here at the University
of Regina so that someday maybe
I can bring joy to the unappreciative masses texting in their seats at
the Cineplex, and maybe recoup
that $3949 I’ve pumped into the
studio system.
I’ll leave you with one last anecdote, to prove just how insane I
am. In late 2009, I found out my
brother and his wife snuck into
Brothers (with Tobey Maguire and
Jake Gyllenhall) doing a “double
feature” as it’s called. I was so outraged (the movie deserved their 20
dollars, dammit) that the next day
I went into the theatre and purchased two tickets for Brothers and
tossed them in the trash.
Illustration by Rio Trenaman
THE NAVIGATOR / Vol. 45 / Issue 6 / Nov. 13 – Nov. 26
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In the Hoop
Drew McLachlan
The Navigator
Cora Schiller is well-traveled, educated, and healthy. She owns an aesthetics and boutique store in Qualicum
Beach, BC She also has an addiction. She describes this addiction as “magical” and says that for the past four
and a half years, it has had a huge effect on not only her mind and body, but her soul.
“It affects my life in every way,” says Schiller, 45. “It makes me happy, it lets me be creative, and it’s
becoming ridiculous. All I do is think and dream about freaking hooping.”
Hoops are often mistaken as toys. In the 1950s, they were introduced to the mainstream by
Wham-O, a California toy company, and directly marketed as toys—made in small sizes with light, vibrantly coloured Marlex plastic. Hooping dates back much further than the previous century, though. In 19th century
England, children would spin metal hoops around their body. In the 1400s, First Nations tribes used similar
hoops made of reeds in order to tell stories, similar to modern interpretive dance. And as early as 500 BCE, hoops
were being used as exercise tools in Ancient Greece. Now, hooping has come full circle and is used all around the
world in order to hone body, mind, and spirit.
“It’s the new yoga,” explains Schiller. “Whatever someone is into, they’re incorporating it into hooping.
Hoop exercise, hoop meditation, hoop performance art. It used to be seen as a ‘hippie thing,’ but now it’s mainstream. People are doing it in offices to relieve stress. It’s literally for everybody; the hoop is just a prop.”
Hoopers tend to start out with simple waist movements, but can move onto more complex, offthe-body movements like spinning, twirling, or throwing the hoop in the air, and often start incorporating
intricate dance movements into their routines as well.
“It’s a lot like interpretive dance,” adds University of Victoria student Katrina Tutty. “Once you
become comfortable with it, it becomes a really great way to express yourself. Some people start hooping to
get fit, and some treat it like an art. For me, it’s an amazing ability to take a simple object and create whatever you want out of it.”
Tutty discovered hooping during a yoga retreat at Yasodhara Ashram in Nelson, BC, and was curious enough to give it a whirl.
“I picked up hooping as a challenge for myself,” says Tutty, “to try and do something new and unconventional. When I started, I couldn’t even keep it around my waist.” Tutty soon fell in love with hooping, and upon returning home, decided to share her love of hooping with others.
In 2012, Tutty founded UVic’s Hula Love Club, which hosts weekly drop-in classes on the UVic
campus where hoopers can try out new moves and research different styles. “I’m trying to attract more
people to hooping,” says Tutty. “It’s a little intimidating to do in public, so we’ve set up a private setting
complete with music.
“You never know who can do it until they pick up a hoop,” says Tutty. “Some people came to the
club day, people who had never hooped before, and they absolutely killed it. Others were more like I was:
rough, but intrigued.”
Schiller says that hooping is not only used to connect with others, but to connect with one’s self.
“It really balances your chakras. Once you get the basics, then you’re not thinking of keeping the hoop up
and you can let go and turn inward. A lot of people who can’t get into traditional meditation get into hoop
meditation, and it’s really exciting to teach because you get to see so many people connect and lighten up.”
Hooping has become a subculture—one which Schiller has heard compared, perhaps a bit too
enthusiastically, with the peace movement—and many communities have opened up within the hooping
world. For ravers, there is firehooping; for fans of burlesque, there is hooptease; and for couples, there is
tandem hooping. A certain testosterone-laden sub-group, however, has been reluctant to give it a try.
“It’s a fairly feminine hobby,” admits Tutty, “so the club is always trying to encourage more guys to
come to the classes. Men tend to go more for off-the-body movements (holding the hoop with their hands),
and anything that uses the upper body—emphasizing the shoulders more than the hips.”
Tony Carter, 20, is the club manager of Tutty’s Hula Love Club, and the only male member.
“Hooping is fun, and a good way to learn how to dance,” says Carter, “something I’ve always been terrible at. I figured that bringing a hoop to a rave and showing off your moves would be a great way to meet
people. But, just like dance, not a lot of guys are interested in it. I think a lot of guys see it as a ‘girl thing’
since girls are supposed to play with hula hoops and jump ropes and that sort of thing growing up.”
Although most hoopers are female, the hobby still has its own roster of male icons: Californiabased architect, Rich Porter, discovered hooping in the underground clubs of Los Angeles, California.
Something about the plastic circle resonated with him, Porter says on his website, Hoop Technique, as he
related the movements of the hoop with his architecture. A year later he moved to San Francisco, California, and started the fire arts performance group Fluid Luminescence. Jonathan Baxter received
a shoulder injury while in college, and took up the hoop (one which he received from an
ex-girlfriend) as a cheap rehabilitation. He found that it also relieved him of the
depression he had been facing since childhood. Baxter now teaches
hooping classes in Carrboro, North Carolina, and around
the world.
In recent years, hooping events
have cropped up
all
over
the globe.
Hoop Convergence, a fiveday festival of hooping workshops and classes
in North Carolina, has been running annually since May 2008.
Sacred Circularities, a Bali-based hooping group, holds a one-week retreat based
on healing and meditation through hooping in Sedona, Indonesia, every year. Even music
festivals, like Burning Man in Nevada and Gathering of the Vibes in Connecticut, are welcoming more and
more hoopers every year.
“There’s a global hooping community that’s popping up all over the world,” says Schiller. “I’m
welcomed with open arms whenever I go to Hawaii or Bali for a hooping retreat, and it feels great to be able
to connect with people through the hoop.”
Tutty and her troupe hope to make a pilgrimage to Burning Man next year. In the meantime,
they’re focusing on their first public performance. Two weeks before I spoke to her, she confirmed a
timeslot in the Victoria Flow Art Society’s festival in January 2013, where her and her partner, Nadia
Hamdon, were to perform their visually-enhanced, semi-improvised, narrative hoop dance. She had
been spending her study breaks in the park, perfecting her movements, and her evenings at home,
putting together reflective hoops specifically for the performance, which tells the tale of two women
creating a spontaneous friendship through hooping—a story she hopes resonates with the audience.
“Hooping really has changed my life,” confesses Tutty, “it has helped me connect with myself, it’s helped
me connect with friends, and it’s helped me connect with the world. It’s a connection that grows every day.”
Arts and Humanities Colloquium
revisits BC’s 1983 Solidarity movement
Dr. Timothy Lewis
Contributor
In the summer and fall of 1983,
British Columbia was engulfed
in political turmoil. The Social
Credit government of the day
had introduced a tough financial
restraint program aimed at curbing
public spending, and the left
in British Columbia, always a
significant force, came together
to challenge the government. The
confrontation lasted almost four
months. There were marches in the
street, rallies across the province,
strikes, and filibusters in the
legislature. New organizations were
set up to coordinate the protest,
bringing together unions, political
parties, human rights groups, and
anti-poverty associations, among
others. The left was on the march.
This was the Solidarity movement
of 1983.
On Friday, November 22
Dr. Gordon Hak from VIU
Department of History will reflect
on the turbulent events described
above as he presents “BC’s 1983
Solidarity Movement 30 Years
On: Something for the Left to
Celebrate or Best Forgotten?”
Dr. Hak’s illustrated presentation
is the concluding session of
the Fall 2013 VIU Arts and
Humanities Colloquium Series. It
is admission-free and will be held
at the Malaspina Theatre from
10-11:30am. Refreshments are
available before the lecture, and a
time for discussion and questions
will follow the talk.
Dr. Hak was drawn to revisit
the BC Solidarity movement
because, despite its early promise,
it ended in a most unsatisfactory
manner from the perspective of
those on the left. Many of the
constituent groups felt they had
been let down. Recriminations flew
back and forth. Hak notes, “many
blamed trade union leaders for
looking only to their own interests,
selling out community groups,
and undermining the possibility
for a new reinvigorated leftist
movement in the province.” But he
adds that “labour leaders defended
themselves, arguing that further
protest or a general strike would
have done more harm than good.”
Drawing
on
material
contained in his soon-to-bereleased book, The Left in British
Columbia: A History of Struggle,
Dr. Hak will use the Colloquium
forum to argue that there was more
to Solidarity than just a debatable
conclusion. “From a historical
perspective, it was a moment
when the British Columbia left
rather remarkably, if temporarily,
came
together,
overcoming
a longstanding tradition of
division.” Hak also classifies the
Solidarity uprising as “a militant
stand against the ascendant
New Right and neo-liberalism,
an attempt by the left to turn
back the immense economic and
political change that swept across
the western world after the 1970s,
creating the world in which we
now live.”
The Arts and Humanities
Colloquium Series highlights
the impressive research being
done by VIU faculty through the
presentation of admission-free
public lectures open to students
and the general public. The Series
continues on Friday, January 24,
when Professor Sasha Koerbler,
VIU Department of Music,
presents “One Bird, Two Notes:
Bird Painting in Music.”
For more information on the
Arts and Humanities Colloquium
Series, contact Dr. Timothy Lewis
at 250-753-3245, local 2114, or
<Timothy.Lewis@viu.ca>
Photo by Dr. Gordon Hak
Surveillance Privacy Education
Workshop
Digital Media Literacy students shooting the intoductory video for the workshop
Photo by Denisa Kraus
Denisa Kraus
The Navigator
Online privacy is one of the most
controversial topics in today’s
digital environment. Protecting our
online data is not only becoming
increasingly important, but also
difficult and even discouraged by
the governments. According to the
Electronic Frontier Foundation
(EFF), “the NSA’s spying has
spread, and more and more
ordinary people want to know how
(or if ) they can defend themselves
from surveillance online. But
where to start?”
Working with these ideas,
Digital Media students, in
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collaboration with the Media
Research Lab at VIU, will be
hosting a Surveillance Privacy
Educational Workshop (SPEW)
on Monday, November 18.
The workshop is designed
to inform the public about the
current state of online surveillance
and provide hands-on support
and tutorials to visitors interested
in securing their smart phones,
tablets, and computers.
Doug Stetar, Project Supervisor
and Faculty Sponsor, says the
ultimate purpose of the workshop
is to spread public awareness about
surveillance and privacy. “The
more people informed and secure
the better,” he says.
He says the project was
inspired by the EFF, which lobbies
for a limit on digital surveillance.
As a group project within the
Digital Media Literacy course,
it will be produced and hosted
exclusively by the students. Caitlin
Norman, the project manager, says
teaching others how to protect
their data will also be a learning
opportunity for her and the rest of
the class.
The group will divide the
workshop into five sections, where
they will focus on individual
tools such as The Onion Router
(TOR), Pretty Good Privacy
(PGP), Android, and iPhonebased security, browser extensions,
and shared wi-fi vulnerabilities.
Drawing on EFF’s tutorial 10
Basic Steps You Can Take Right
Now to Protect Your Data Online,
each section will provide allround information about the
programs—how to obtain them,
use them, and what precautions to
take with them.
Max Conrad, the SPEW
publicity team leader, says his main
concern about data protection is
that our personal information is
stored on foreign servers.
“If you look at Google and
Facebook, all their data is stored on
US servers, not Canadian,” he says.
“My data and my Facebook profile
exist in America. It doesn’t exist in
Canada. Even at VIU now, in most
classes where you use Facebook
or Twitter, they ask you to sign a
waiver that VIU is not responsible
for your data.”
Conrad says he became
interested in the topic after the
Snowden Leaks affair, which
exposed that the NSA was collecting
data. “Although there have been no
similar leaks in Canada,” he says
“the country’s data sharing policy
with foreign bodies, mainly the
US, would give them pretty heavy
reliance that Canada is collecting
data and sharing them willingly.”
Aside from the technical
aspects of surveillance, SPEW also
wants to spread awareness about
the importance of protecting one’s
online privacy. Norman says the
NSA plays on the idea of “having
nothing to hide.”
“They claim that if you haven’t
done anything wrong, then you
have nothing to hide,” she says.
“But, you know, privacy is a big
thing. You shouldn’t have to have
something to hide to want to keep
things away from other people.”
Conrad and Norman believe
the NSA reinforces its policies
regardless of this public opinion.
“The NSA does not want people
to use TOR,” Conrad says. “They
claim that if you use TOR, it can
be considered a crime and used
against you, because it is proof
that you may be hiding something.
But trying to be private online
shouldn’t be illegal. It should be a
right. We should have the right to
go online, do what we wish, and
not have that information recorded
and stored on servers.”
Conrad
admits
that
surveillance could in some cases
prevent crime—for example,
scamming of the elderly—and
understands that people may have
various reasons to be complacent
with internet surveillance and
data tracking. Norman, however,
adds that “some people are just
not properly educated and don’t
understand why they need to know
this. So the education is big, that’s
why we are doing [the workshop].“
“Others said we can’t do
anything about it,” she says,
“because it’s already happening
and just going to keep getting
worse, so why bother. But we
have to do something. Of course
nothing will happen if people
don’t care, so we are trying to
spread the word so it gets further,
and then we can do something.”
The workshop will take place
on November 18 from 12-2pm in
the foyer of the Malaspina Theatre.
Both Mac and Windows users are
welcome. Admission is free.
For more information, contact
Doug Stetar at <doug.stetar@
viu.ca> or Caitlin Norman at
<skittlesmarie@hotmail.com>
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Racing with time to
save our privacy
interview with media studies
professor doug stetar
Denisa Kraus
The Navigator
Navigator: Why should people
care about their privacy on the
internet?
Doug Stetar: People should care
about their privacy on the internet
for a number of reasons. Probably
the most important and pressing
reason is that in the history of
the planet, short of revolution,
no government has ever stopped
using
surveillance
practices
once they’ve been established.
What this means is we have a
very short window to push back
against the rapidly expanding
surveillance infrastructure that
our governments—US, Canadian,
and British chief among them—
are constructing. In other words,
the time we have left to save our
privacy is dwindling.
Of course, many people say
“I don’t have anything to hide,
so I’m okay with all this online
surveillance.” Whenever someone
says this line to me, I immediately
say, “fine, then give me your wallet
and let me look through it. Or,
better yet, I’ll come over to your
house tonight and take down your
doors, curtains, and windows. If
you have nothing to hide, then
why do you need them?”
But we do need our privacy. It’s
not a luxury we can live without.
We all need a level of privacy to
function as healthy human beings.
I don’t believe we can live healthy
lives if we are being constantly
watched, or constantly worrying
about who knows what in relation
to our lives. Research shows the
attitude that we don’t need privacy
unless we’re doing something
wrong is widespread, and I think
it’s very dangerous.
N: What is your personal opinion
on online surveillance?
DS: Well, as is probably clear
from my answers, I think online
surveillance is a pernicious activity
that should only be allowed with
proper legal oversight. And I’m
not talking about secret courts
and hidden agendas—online
surveillance should not be
happening unless the government
has gone to open court and secured
a legal search warrant.
N: You have mentioned the
possibility of people’s data being
used against them, even after a
long time. Is this the main aspect
of online surveillance we should
be concerned with? For what other
purposes can the data be used?
DS: The thing we need to remember
is that we are still in the very early
days of the internet, and we are
online toddlers. We like to think
our understanding of the internet
is sophisticated, but it is not. The
internet hasn’t been around long
enough for us to have developed a
really deep understanding of what
changes this networked digital
data will bring to our lives. Right
now we’re thinking about next
year, or maybe, if we’re lucky, the
next decade. We should be asking
what our culture will be like in 100
years if we keep putting everything
about everyone online—even
they needed right from the start—
if they didn’t have to ask anyone
anything. What if they already
had surveilled those meetings
and it knew exactly who was at
each meeting? They could just
jump right to the part where they
blacklisted and punished theirown
citizens in an extra-judicial way.
When I talk about this, people
will often say to me, “well we’re not
going to go back to McCarthyism.
We’ve learned our lesson.” But I
tell people I’m not so sure. What
exactly is the no-fly list? It’s a list
of people whose civil liberties
have been curtailed because the
government has accumulated data
on them, and the government
believes they might do something.
And remember, no court has
reviewed these decisions, because
this is an extra-judicial process. If
what if, in the future, they take
all your data and determine that
you are a very high risk to one day
declare bankruptcy. I can imagine
a future where it’s then permissible
for the government to disallow you
from engaging in certain financial
activities to protect everyone else.
N: How do you personally protect
your data?
DS: I do a number of things
to protect my data, and, more
importantly, my privacy. And
for that reason, I’m not going to
publicly discuss them. Suffice it
to say that I encourage everyone
I know to think seriously about
this issue and decide what level
of security they believe is right
for them.
N: The workshop will include
controversial programs such as
TOR, infamous for its use on a
The thing we need to remember
is that we are still in the very
early days of the internet, and we
are online toddlers.
worse, what if we entrench the idea
that the government can look at
any of this information.
One of the important things
we have learned about the internet
is that almost nothing goes
away. This means the data that is
collected about you when you’re
ten or 20 can easily be used against
you when you’re 40 or 50. What’s
to prevent it? If we think back to
the McCarthy era and the anticommunist witch hunts in the
US, one of the important things
to remember is that the primary
thing the government was trying
to do was to have people inform
on each other. This is what they
spent most of their time doing—
trying to find out who did what.
The government didn’t know who
had been at those Communist
meetings in the 1930s, so they had
to blackmail people to rat each
other out. In the end, it was this
more than anything that I think
turned people off of McCarthy.
Now, stop for a moment and
imagine how that whole thing
would have played out if the
government had all the information
the government believes they have
enough evidence to put you on the
list, you’re on the list. What’s going
to happen when they start building
these types of lists based on what
you did 20 or 30 years ago in your
youth? Suppose they decided that
if you ‘liked’ certain Facebook
pages, then you should go on a nofly list or a no-enter list to public
buildings…or something else.
I think it’s very important to
be aware that we’ve crossed a
civil rights Rubicon when the
government can limit your civil
rights based on the belief that you
might pose a risk of breaking a law.
One of the real dangers of so-called
“big data” is that governments and
corporations believe they can use
this data to predict the behavior
of people. If they are not already,
I’m sure they will soon be running
sophisticated algorithms to take
all the data they have on you and
looking at what the “big data” tells
them about you. Once they have
this, who’s going to limit what they
can do with this information? Right
now it’s all centred, so we are told,
on the so-called War on Terror, but
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black market website. How will
you justify it in the workshop?
DS: Well, TOR is an interesting
case in point, I think. Some people
have argued that TOR has no
legitimate uses—that it’s really
only a program that is used for
illegal activities. But I would argue
that is not true. I think there are
a number of circumstances, such
as whistle blowers, or reporters
from repressive regimes, where the
individuals need to protect their
identity. Just because some people
use TOR for illegal activities,
does that mean using it should be
illegal? Some governments have
certainly argued that simply using
TOR is a sign that you are engaged
in criminal activity, but I think
that’s a very dangerous position
to take. Basically, the argument is
that if someone wants privacy, then
they must be doing something
wrong, and we should be able to
assume as much. Even the NSA has
admitted in court that TOR has
legitimate uses, though the NSA
also admits that using TOR will
likely put someone on their radar,
so to speak.
N: The NSA apparently claims that
the use of TOR can be considered
a crime since it’s proof that you
may be hiding something. How
are you going to handle this issue
in the workshop?
DS: Well, the NSA doesn’t make
the law, though they do appear to
play fast and loose with the law. In
the US, using TOR, as far as we
know, is not a violation of the law.
However, the NSA has indicated
the use of TOR is something
they consider suspicious. What
that means in terms of what
they are actually doing is hard to
know. Some security experts have
suggested the use of TOR probably
flags a user for the NSA and other
national security agencies. This is
precisely why EFF and other groups
advocate that people use TOR. It’s
kind of a Spartacus moment—you
know, in the film, when everyone
says, “I am Spartacus.” It’s a way of
showing that many of us who are
regular law-abiding citizens don’t
agree with the NSA and other
national security agencies and their
attitudes and behaviors regarding
surveillance and privacy. If more
and more people use TOR, then it
becomes harder and harder to claim
that it is only used by criminals.
It’s an important way to send a
message about what we believe is
important. I would reiterate what
I said earlier—the only thing that
is going to stop governments from
continuing to encroach on our
privacy and freedom is if we stand
up and say no. I also believe that
we need to demonstrate that we are
willing to fight for, and therefore
value our freedoms. As Franklin
said, “Those who would give up
essential liberty to purchase a little
temporary safety deserve neither
liberty nor safety.” For me, this
sums up my position on the socalled War on Terror’s intrusions
into our basic civil liberties. If we
aren’t willing to fight for them, we
don’t deserve them. As someone
who studies online resistance
towards governments in various
countries around the world, I can
assure you and your readers that it
will be a lot harder to regain these
freedoms once we lose them than it
will be to fight to keep them.
Doug Stetar is a professor of
Media Studies and the director of
the Media Research Lab at VIU.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
CHLY programmer profile:
A Sound Constitution Crew
Interview with the hosts of A Sound Constitution Crew, a weekly student nurse-produced health promotion radio show
From left: Roxanne Marsh, Tetiana Haist, Mike Johnson, and Shaunna Downey spell out CHLY in sign language
Photo by Denisa Kraus
Denisa Kraus
The Navigator
Navigator: Why A Sound
Constitution?
Shaunna Downey: A Sound
Constitution was created by a group
of nursing students who wanted a
unique practicum, so they took the
idea from Brian Goldman’s White
Coat, Black Art CBC podcast,
and it has been successful enough.
It is in its fourth season. I learned
about it in my first year—the
same year the show started. I’ve
always struggled with the rigidity
of the [nursing] program, so I saw
an opportunity for something to
embrace my personal creativity
and do short little projects that will
keep my interest. It’s so different
from any other practicum we do.
Roxanne Marsh: The third
and fourth year [of the nursing
program] is focused on community
health promotion, so this is a really
cool and unique avenue for us to
promote health to the community.
We have an idea of who our show
is geared towards, and we are trying
to be mindful of our listeners’
health information needs and
produce shows that can be of use
to them.
Tetiana Haist: I heard of the show
in my first year and got really
interested. At that point, I and two
other students in my class group
needed to do a project involving
a community health promotion
nugget. We were excited to create
that, but when we heard back from
the students who were doing the
show, they told us the nugget can
only be two minutes. We thought
it was a very short time limit, but
when we started working on it,
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we realized how much time it
takes just to process and sort out
the information, and to make the
nugget engaging and interesting
while informative. I also believe
that any radio show as a media tool
is very powerful and we can make
a difference.
Mike Johnson: In our third year,
we had numerous options of
community placements we could
choose. I think you are better at
doing something you enjoy and
feel passionate about. So I went
through all the options and decided
this would be a really fun thing to
do as well as an opportunity to
make a difference. For me, it is
about doing something I want and
something that has value.
RM: We are all very excited to be
participating in the show. There
aren’t many nursing radio shows out
there. In fact, this is the only nursing
student-produced health promotion
radio show in North America.
N: How do you prepare for each
episode?
RM: When we started, we were
told it takes 30 hours to produce
a one hour show. Because we are so
diligent in our research and make
sure we use only peer reviewed
articles, it really adds to the amount
of time we invest in the show to
make sure it’s professional and
high quality, and we are presenting
accurate health information. We’ve
scaled it back a little this semester,
because it is a lot for us to do on
top of our regular studies—it is
one of five courses.
MJ: One of the things we do for
the show is editing interviews.
People have different ways of
speaking, and most of them say a
lot of “and” or “erm,” and we edit
that out, but it takes a lot of time,
especially if you want to make
the recording sound natural. We
are very diligent and thorough,
so when their friends and family
listen to them, they’ll say “wow,
you sounded great on the radio!”
So that’s another aspect of making
our show a really good product.
TH: When I started, I had no
idea how much time it would
take in terms of being technically
professional. I realized that nursing
education prepares you for this
kind of work, such as sorting out
the information. Our knowledge is
at that level where we can be experts
in the area we explore. That’s
why it’s so important for us to be
professional. We are responsible for
the information we provide. Being
in the centre of the radio show and
a community agency for nursing
practice and combining these two
things together, you need to have
the vision and understanding of
where the boundaries cross. You
don’t need to limit your creativity,
but you have to stay with your
professional scope of practice.
N: Who do you hope to approach
with your show?
SD: I think we want to approach
everybody. We have the potential
to reach two million listeners. I
think it is a deep seeded desire in
all of us to know that everybody
will magically tune into the radio
or their podcast to listen to our
show in which we put hard work
and a lot of research. We are very
passionate about it as a group,
and we have a great chemistry
among all of us whether we’re onair or not. We want to spread the
passion for health topics and get
people curious.
MJ: I’d like to approach our fellow
student body. The students are
stakeholders in CHLY, and I like
the idea that students are listening
and paying attention, and we can
affect them as well as reach more
than them.
TH: I hope to approach those
people who, for various reasons,
do not have the time to read
something, go to the internet, or
lack the skill or resources. I hope
they at least turn on the radio. We
don’t get many calls that say “hey,
I listen to your show and this is
exactly what I wanted to hear.”
N: Which part of hosting do you
enjoy the most?
SD: The hot seat! Putting
everybody in the hot seat! (laughs)
MJ: That’s funny. I actually like the
part of being in the hot seat.
SD: Usually, the host of each show
comes up with a topic and leads
everybody through the discussion.
We go through different nuggets
we feel will supplement the
learning and the desired outcome
of what we wish to present as
far as information goes in the
show. Sometimes when we’re all
contributing the nuggets to each
other and we listen to them and
flash out that dialogue, I’ll go
ahead and send out a group email
with specific questions I will ask
on the show and give them time
to think about the topic and
prepare a one minute response.
This way, they can bring in more
of a personal opinion instead of
sticking to a professional siding—
more like a humanistic perspective.
I think having this hot seat reaches
a broader demographic, because we
are able to create relatability.
MJ: I like it because you ask us a
question, and we are now informed
and have done research, listened to
professionals, and looked at data.
We are now capable of expressing
valued opinions on that matter.
I like that feeling of being an
informed person and that my
opinion matters.
TH: I like everything. I like
the flow of the show, and the
unexpected things. I learn a lot
from those. We have to make sure
we are mindful when the mics are
on, and handle the time right.
We had some glitches. When you
think about your experience, you
always remember the unexpected
things and your ability to find a
solution within a timeframe and
under pressure.
RM: The show is so different
from everything else we do; it’s
a really cool experience to be live
on air and navigate the issues that
come up.
MJ: You should see everyone’s
antics when somebody forgets to
turn the mic off.
SD:
The
non-verbal
communications—we’re very good
at that.
TH: We’ve actually created our
own body language. I like that
part, too.
N: Where on campus do you go for
inspiration?
(Everyone laughs)
SD: I go to the Stall Street
Journal. They sometimes have
good information on stress, diet,
or nutrition. They have their little
highlights, and I always think “oh
yeah, that would be neat to flash
out on the radio.” (laugh)
RM: They do their own research
to identify what the students’ needs
are, so in a certain way, they help
us identify the areas we want to
expand on the show. And we also
go to the Health and Wellness
desk. They do great work on the
campus as well.
TH: The library. It is my best
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place, and it will be for the rest
of my life. I was head of the
school library for 15 years. When
I come in and see the shelves full
of books and people studying, it
is so exciting for me. I love to go
through the rows of books and be
a part of that huge information.
MJ: I don’t know if inspiration is
the right word, but I utilize the
counseling services at the school.
They’re quite good and you don’t
necessarily need to have anything
wrong. They’re there to talk to,
even about the simple things, like
stress from school or dealing with
the pressure of your work load.
If you need someone to talk to,
they’re right here.
SD: And if all that fails, there’s
always the pub.
N: What was the most life-altering
thing you’ve learned from hosting?
SD: We apply the show as a
nursing process. We go out and
do our ‘word on the street.’ We
take an inventory of where our
community’s at. We take a small
sample and ask those people some
questions about what they know
about a certain topic such as “what
do you know about getting into the
hospital?” or “do you know what a
physiotherapist does?” That kind of
stuff. Then we can potentially either
bridge the gaps in the information,
or bolster that information and
provide a deeper level of learning
for it. In one particular show, with
the “hospital” question, I had some
friend who had been admitted to
the hospital and they stayed there
for four months, so they had
a pretty solid understanding of
what it means to be admitted to
the hospital. I asked them to share
their experience, because they did
not have a good experience, and I
wanted to let people know how to
avoid that and make it as positive
as possible. When we were done,
people were so thankful and said
that was a cathartic process for
them. They did not want to lay
blame, they just wanted to have
that platform of sharing their
experience. They did not actively
seek it until I randomly came to
them. That was a healing moment
for them, just talking about it.
And for me, providing that sort
of nursing, when I’m not even in
the nursing frame of mind, was
quite magical. That five minutes of
air time goes a long way. It makes
my cheeks blush again just talking
about it.
TH: The whole experience of
this radio show and the huge
responsibility we carry for people
we interview. They give us their
trust and open up to us. We can’t
make them feel betrayed or think
“oh, I remember that interview,
that was not well done.”
MJ: It is important to ensure
that what you say when people
are talking to you is factual and
research-based.
RM: For me, it’s learning about the
different ways of being a nurse, and
what that means. We do similar
roles, but not all nursing jobs take
place in the hospital and are about
giving people their medication.
It’s much broader and reaches into
the community setting. When we
do the radio show, it’s almost like
the art and science of nursing. I am
interested in health promotion and
different determinants of health,
and this is where that aspect of
nursing can come out.
N: When you’re not hosting A
Sound Constitution…
MJ: I like to go for walks on the
seawall or Piper’s Lagoon to destress. I am busy with school
and work. I play. I go to drop-in
volleyball on Monday nights at
Longwood. I try to do something
fun every day, even if it’s just a chat
with friends or a hot tub. If I don’t,
I feel like I’ll go nuts.
TH: I’m studying and researching
constantly. On occasion, I have
fun. One of our instructors told us
once, “everybody has a life, but you
do not have lives! You do not have
lives for four years!” She said that
as a joke, but there is always only
about five percent of joke in a joke.
But I try to have a life on occasion.
I like to go hiking. I went hiking at
Mt. Washington recently, and that
was a great experience.
RM: I, too, try to do something
every day, but I am a terrible
procrastinator. I try to do other
research—for classes or personal
interests. I plan trips quite a bit,
even if they’re a year ahead. I’m
that always-one-step-ahead type of
person. I try to spend my time with
friends and family.
SD: I work two jobs and am a
bubble bath aficionado.
N: If you could have your dream
show…
TH: I would like to interview
BB King. He was here last year
and played at the Port Theatre.
My dream was to speak to BB
King and ask him, “please tell our
listeners how you manage to tour
and perform across Canada when
you’re 88 years old” But my options
were limited and I couldn’t get to
him through the security. I should
have made connections ahead of
time. But I keep this dream for
next time.
MJ: I’d like to do a live show on
campus with interaction with
students and our peers. That would
be really cool.
SD: In my dream show, I’d
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Nov. 13 – Nov. 26 / Issue 6 / Vol. 45 / THE NAVIGATOR
Clippers starting to find success
Ben Chessor
The Navigator
After a tough couple of weeks,
the Nanaimo Clippers appear to
be finding their stride. Nanaimo
rebounded from tough losses with
some very strong efforts during
these last few weeks of the British Columbia Hockey League
season. The Clippers have won
three of their last four games and
have climbed to third place in
the BCHL’s Island division, four
points behind the second place
Victoria Grizzlies.
On October 25, the Clippers traveled over the Malahat
to take on the Victoria Grizzlies.
The Clippers opened the scoring, as Sheldon Rhemple was
able to beat Victoria starter Alex
Dillon 11 minutes into the first
period to give Nanaimo the 1-0
lead. Rhemple’s goal seemed to
spark Victoria, as Stefan Burzan
tied the game at 12:27. Clipper
killer Gerry Fitzgerald beat Jayson Argue at 16:59 to give Victoria their first lead of the game.
The Grizzlies extended their lead
to 3-1 less than two minutes
later with a goal by Jay Mackie.
Nanaimo cut the Victoria lead
to 3-2 early in the second period on a goal by Korey Morgan
at 1:18, but Victoria took their
two-goal lead back less than two
minutes later on a Brandon Egli
power play goal that made the
score 4-2. The game stayed that
way until the third period. In the
third, Mark Mclellan and Brandon Taylor traded early goals, but
Nanaimo couldn’t manage any
sort of comeback, falling to Victoria by a score of 5-3. This was
the fourth time these two teams
have met this season. Victoria has
won all four games in regulation
time.
Nanaimo hit the ice Sunday,
October 27, for a home game
against the Trail Smoke Eaters. Nanaimo was looking for a
rebound performance after their
loss to Victoria two nights earlier. Taylor Grabowski opened
the scoring for the Clippers at
16:11 of the first period, when
his wrist shot from long range
beat a screened Riley Corbin to
give Nanaimo the lead. Nanaimo
stretched that lead at 2:39 of the
second period on another long
wrist shot, this time by Clipper
defender Austin Dick. The score
remained 2-0 at the end of the second period, with Nanaimo holding a commanding 30-18 lead
in shots on goal. Jacob Hanlon
scored a shorthanded goal 4:49
into the third to give the Clippers
a 3-0 lead. Devin Brosseau and
Captain Scott Prior added power
play goals in the last ten minutes
to give Nanaimo the 5-0 Victory.
Jayson Argue stopped all 29 Trail
shots he faced for his league leading third shutout of the season.
The first weekend of November was a big one for the Clippers. On Friday, November 1,
the Clippers played their first of
back-to-back games in Powell
River against the league leading
Kings. Nanaimo had the board
just 3:53 into the game with a
goal by Jacob Hanlon, who managed to beat the Kings goalie Jeff
Smith,to give Nanaimo the early
lead. Jarid Lukosevicius tied the
game on a power play at 9:32
of the first period, firing a wrist
shot past Argue. It looked like
the game would go into the first
intermission tied, but with 26
seconds left to go in the first, Bo
Brauer slammed a rebound past
Smith to give the Clippers back
the lead at 2-1. Korey Morgan
extended the Clippers lead just
1:04 minutes into the second
period as he beat Smith to put
the Clippers up 3-1. At 6:09, the
Clippers took a 4-1 lead thanks to
Brauer’s second goal of the game.
Jonah Imoo replaced Smith in
net for the Kings after Brauer’s
second goal. Before the end of
the second period, Powell River
made it a 4-2 game at 14:40 with
a goal by Drew Dorantes. But the
Clippers maintained their twogoal lead heading into the third
period. After spending most of
the third period in the Nanaimo
zone, Powell River was finally
able to cut the Nanaimo lead to
4-3 on a goal by Jarryd Leung at
12:42 of the third. The Kings had
several opportunities to tie the
game in the last seven minutes,
but were unable to solve Argue a
fourth time. When the final buzzer sounded, Nanaimo came away
with a 4-3 road victory, despite
being outshot 30-24 that evening.
Less than 24 hours later,
Nanaimo returned to the ice
in Powell River for a rematch
against the Kings. This time, it
was Powell River who scored an
early goal, as Curtis McCarrick
managed to slip the puck past
Nanaimo starter Liam McLeod
to give the Kings a lead just 1:28
minutes into the game. Powell
River stretched their lead at 6:40
of the first as Trevor MacLean
found a loose puck in the slot and
beat McLeod to give the Kings an
early 2-0 lead. Nicholas Gushue’s
first goal of the season on a shot
from the blue line at 17:58 cut the
Powell River lead to 2-1 and gave
the Clippers life heading into the
second period. Early in the second period, with the Clippers on
the power play, Jarryd Leung stole
the puck from Nanaimo’s defense
Photo by Ben Chessor
and beat McLeod to give Powell River a 3-1 lead. An empty
net goal by Kings forward Ryan
Scrafo with less than a minute left
to play rounded out the scoring
in the game. Powell River took
the victory in the second game
between the two teams by a score
of 4-1.
The Clippers finished off their
weekend on Sunday, November 3,
with an afternoon game on the
road against the Cowichan Valley
Capitals. The game was a tough,
penalty-filled contest. Cowichan
opened the scoring on a power
play at 11:19 of the first period
with a goal by Dane Gibson, who
took a perfect pass from Myles
Powell and beat Argue to give
the Capitals a 1-0 lead. At 14:32
on a Clippers power play, Austin
TEAMS
Dick found a rebound in front of
the net and pushed the puck past
Capitals goalie Robin Gusse to tie
the game. Adam Moody responded for Cowichan on another Capitals power play as he beat Argue
through a screen to put the Capitals up 2-1. The score stayed at
2-1 through the first period. The
Clippers tied the game early in
the second period, as Mason
Mitchell entered the Cowichan
zone with the puck and drove
hard to the net. Mitchell managed to get off a shot that found
its way through Gusse’s legs to tie
the game again. The game stayed
tied until 9:11 of the third period,
when Mitchell struck again, firing
a shot from the faceoff circle past
Gusse to give Nanaimo their first
lead of the game. Cowichan pres-
sured for the equalizer on a power
play in the final two minutes of
the game, but an empty net goal
by Clipper forward Corey Renwick at 19:14 gave the Clippers a
4-2 lead and the win.
Nanaimo’s victory against the
Capitals moved Nanaimo into
third place in the five team BCHL
Island division, ahead of Cowichan
Valley. The two teams have the
same number of points, but Nanaimo has one less game played than
Cowichan and therefore sits above
them in the standings.
The Clippers’ next home
game is Wednesday, November 20,s when they will face off
against the visiting Powell River
Kings. Puck drop is 7pm at Frank
Crane Arena. GP
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Cowichan Valley
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SPORTS
VIBI Mariners wrap up fall season
Ben Chessor
The Navigator
With October over and winter
fast approaching, the Vancouver
Island Baseball Institute Mariners
wrapped up the fall season with
their annual Halloween game. The
fall season was interesting for the
Mariners, who have 19 new players
on their 34 man roster.
The Mariners only managed
to play eight games during their
fall season, as the weather refused
to cooperate with their schedule. The weekend series against
Douglas College and the Langley Blaze Baseball Club were
both rained out. Still, the team
managed to put together a 4-4
record during the eight games the
weather permitted. Those eight
games included two wins over the
Nanaimo Coal Miners and a 2-4
showing in six games the team
played in Kelowna during the
annual fall tournament.
The Mariners also held their
annual five game VIBI World
Series in mid-October. The five
inter-squad games are a great
chance for coaches to see how
their players handle high pressure
situations before the regular season
starts in March.
“I am excited about what
we saw as a group during the
World Series,” said Mariners
Head Coach Jordan Blundell. The
competition level rose with each
game. It was great for our players
to experience games with a playoff atmosphere in the fall to prepare them for the spring.”
The Mariners also hired offfield personnel to assist with
some of the off-field work. The
team has hired fourth year Digital
Media student Ryan Peppin as
Digital Media Specialist. Peppin has already produced a team
Halloween video that can be
seen on the team’s Facebook and
Twitter pages. Peppin will also
provide photos and video highlights from the team’s games
during the spring season, as well
as assisting with advertising and
event promotions.
“The addition of Ryan
is a major boost for our program,” said VIBI Communications Director Jonathan Hodgson. “His versatile talents have
already shown themselves this
fall with his photography and
video production work. Ryan has
wholeheartedly bought in to what
we are doing, and to have someone of his skill and passion will do
wonders for our image.”
The VIBI Mariners will
begin preparing for their spring
season after the Christmas break.
But just because the team isn’t on
the field doesn’t mean nothing is
going within the organization.
The team is working on developing a newsletter to keep fans
up to date with everything that
happens during the spring season. The Mariners will begin their
spring season at the beginning of
March, and the pre-season starts
for the team during reading week.
Until then, follow the team on
Twitter @VIBaseball and look for
a series, player, and season preview features on the team’s website <vibaseball.ca>.
Photo by Ryan Peppin
How much water does your body
really need to stay healthy?
Célina Boothby
The Argosy
Sackville (CUP)­­
—You may be
hearing more and more about the
“8 x 8” fad or rule of thumb when it
comes to ingesting enough water so
that we don’t shrivel up into prunes.
The ubiquitous idea that eight
glasses with eight-ounce volumes
of water should be our consumption is a rather arbitrary concept to
me. Where did this concept originate? What is the true biological
importance of water? And is water
our only option?
There appears to be very little
documented evidence on where
number eight originated. The
1945 Food and Nutrition Board
of the National Research Council
protests that individuals should
ingest one millilitre of fluid per
calorie consumed. This has been
debunked time and time again,
and we are continuously sent
back to the drawing board on that
number eight.
In my research, I found the
“8 x 8” rule only applies to healthy
adults in temperate conditions
who exercise moderately. This
appears to include most students
here at Mount Allison. However,
we all differ greatly in body stature, weight, height, metabolism,
medical issues, and overall health.
Naturally, a physiological
breakdown will greatly assist in
appreciating this concept. Our
bodies are made up of 50-70 per
cent fluid. More specifically, our
blood is 85 per cent water, muscles are 80 per cent, the brain 75
percent, and bones are 25 per cent
water. But everybody is different,
and a random number like eight
will not suffice for every body
type or way of functioning.
Now, is water the only fix for
this quench? No! I found evidence
that milk and juice count toward
this magic number eight. Moderation is key here, and more than
half of this intake should be clean,
crisp H2O. Remember, beverages
with high amounts of caffeine will
perform the opposite affect and
dehydrate you significantly.
If you exercise vigorously for
more than one or two hours a day,
physicians recommend a higher
fluid intake, if not a “sports drink”
that contains electrolytes for optimal hydration restoration.
The most important thing
to remember is to drink when
you are thirsty. This does not
necessarily mean you are already
dehydrated, but it is your body
letting you know some important information. Try adding
lemon, lime, or cucumber if you
struggle with water intake, as
this will keep things tangy and
will also detoxify. Even if this “8
x 8” rule is just a passing fad, I am
very impressed with the amount
of water intake around campus
already. Water has always been
an important aspect to human
life for millennia.
Whether or not the “8 x 8” rule
is here to stay or not, it is important
to make drinking water an essential
part of your daily routine. Keep it
up and your body will thank you.
Stay healthy, folks!
Raiders season ends with defeat
Ben Chessor
The Navigator
The VI Raiders’ quest for the
2013 Canadian Junior Football
League championship fell just
short November 9 in Regina.
The Raiders played hard until the
final whistle, but ultimately lost
the 2013 Canadian Bowl 55-26
to the host Regina Thunder. The
Raiders managed to take the initial 3-0 lead early in the game on
20
a 41 yard Ryan Jones field goal.
But Regina scored a 7-3 lead
before the end of the first quarter.
The Thunder added to their lead
throughout the second quarter,
taking a 28-6 lead into half time.
After another Thunder TD early
in the second half made the score
35-6, the Raiders began to mount a
comeback cutting the score to 38-20
early in the fourth quarter. But the
Raiders couldn’t complete the comeback, eventually falling 55-26.
The loss marks a bitter end to
what was a successful 2013 season
for the Raiders. The team started
off the season 1-2 but managed
to win its last seven regular season games to capture the British
Columbia Football Conference
regular season title with a record
of 8-2. The Raiders continued
their winning streak in the playoffs, defeating the Kamloops
Broncos in the first round of the
playoffs 63-7 before defeating
the defending champion Langley Rams 48-37 at Caledonia
Park to capture the teams seventh Cullen Cup in eight years as
BCFC champions. The Raiders
then routed the Ontario Football
Conferences champion Windsor
AKO Fratmen 50-3 to become to
the 2013 Jostens Cup champion.
The Raiders also received
some individual honours at the
2013 CJFL Jostens Banquet of
Champions. Quarterback Jamie
Ybarra picked up Rookie of the
Year honors. Meanwhile head
coach Matt Blokker received the
Gord Currie Coach of the Year
award in recognition of the team’s
success. Blokker and the Raiders
now turn their attention to next
season, where the team hopes to
build on yet another solid season
of Raiders football
.
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SPORTS
Buccaneers continue to sail
Photo by Ben Chessor
Ben Chessor
The Navigator
The Nanaimo Buccaneers suffered their most lop-sided loss of
the season on October 31. Nanaimo failed to find the back of the
net in a 3-0 loss to the visiting
Comox Valley Glacier Kings in
front of 170 fans at the Nanaimo
Ice Centre. The game was scoreless through the first period. The
Glacier Kings held the edge in
shots 13-4 after the opening period. Ali Gotmy opened the scoring at 12:48 of the second period,
firing a wrist shot past Nanaimo
starter Alex Mastrodonato to
give Comox the 1-0 lead. In the
third period, Gotmy scored his
second of the game on a 2-on-1
to extend the Comox lead to 2-0
with Nanaimo on the power play
at 9:33. Nanaimo tried to mount a
comeback in the last ten minutes,
but was unable to solve Comox
goalie Michael Hails. Liam Shaw
added an empty net goal in the
final minute to finish the scoring.
Hails picked up his first career
shutout in the victory, stopping all
23 Buccaneer shots he faced. For
Comox Valley, the win was the
team’s fifth victory in a row and
seventh in the last eight games.
Fresh off the 3-0 defeat,
Nanaimo was back on the ice the
next night on the road against the
Campbell River Storm. Brayden
Taekema opened the scoring for
the Storm at 9:11 minutes into
the first period, beating Nanaimo
starter Ryan Waldhaus to give the
home team an early lead. The lead
was short-lived though, as Riel
Gibson tied the game 56 seconds
later. The Buccaneers took a 2-1
lead at 11:35, as Lyndon Eddy
took a pass from Jordan Levesque
and beat Storm goalie Jack
Surgenor. Eddy wasn’t finished,
though, as he scored his second
goal of the period on the power
play at 13:41 to give Nanaimo a
3-1 lead. Gaven Rauser cut the
Nanaimo lead to 3-2 with less
than a minute left in the first.
Shots in the first period favoured
the Storm 18-9. Campbell River
tied the game at 3-3 on the power
play at 1:20 of the second period
on a goal by Brendan DeVries.
But once again, Nanaimo was able
to answer quickly, as Chad Bell
found a way to beat Surgenor just
53 seconds after DeVries scored
for the Storm, giving Nanaimo
the lead once again at 4-3. Campbell River pressured Nanaimo for
the rest of the second period, outshooting the Buccaneers 17-5 in
the period. It looked like Nanaimo would be able to escape the
second period with the lead, but
with 25 seconds left in the period,
Jordan Kamprath finally managed
to get the puck past Waldhaus to
tie the game at 4-4 heading into
the second intermission. Campbell River continued to swarm
Nanaimo in the third period,
trying desperately to regain the
lead. But despite being trapped
in their end for a majority of the
third period, it was Nanaimo
who took the lead. 9:03 minutes
into the third, Dayton Boutiler’s
shot managed to find its way
past Surgenor to give Nanaimo
the 5-4 lead. Campbell River
pressured Nanaimo for the rest
of the period, but they couldn’t
beat Waldhaus, who stopped all
19 shots he faced in the third
period. Nanaimo held on to
the win 5-4, despite being outshot 54-20 the game. Waldhaus
stopped 50 of the 54 shots he
faced in the victory.
Saturday, November 2, was
the third game in three nights
for the Buccaneers. This time, the
Buccaneers traveled down the
road to Parksville to take on the
Oceanside Generals. Oceanside
opened the scoring at 17:09 of the
first period. Chase Gaudreault
fired a shot past Alex Mastrodonato on the power play to give the
generals the lead. Early in the second period the Buccaneers tied
the game with Jordan Levesque
scoring his eighth goal of the season at 6:03. But Oceanside retook
the lead a minute later at 7:03 as
Greg Johnson beat Mastrodonato
to give the Generals a 2-1 lead.
Lee Orpan put the Buccaneers
back on even terms at 12:54 of
the second, beating the Generals
goaltender Evgueni Makarski to
tie the game. The game remained
tied at the end of the second period. The teams traded goals in the
third period. Nate Fitzpatrick
scored for Oceanside to give them
a 3-2 lead at 11:35, but Lyndon
Eddy scored his third goal in two
games just over a minute later
to tie the game at 3-3. The score
remained tied at the end of the
third period, and the two teams
prepared to faceoff in overtime.
It was the first overtime of the
season for the Bucaneers. The
period lasted 43 seconds. Jordan
Levesque scored his second goal
of the game on the first shot of
overtime, giving Nanaimo the
4-3 victory.
On November 7, the Buccaneers returned home for the first
time since their loss to Comox Valley. Nanaimo’s opponent was the
Westshore Wolves, who defeated
the Buccaneers 2-1 the last time
these two teams met on October
16 in Westshore. A power play goal
by Jayme Jackson gave Westshore
the 1-0 lead just 4:46 minutes into
the game. Jordan Levesque tied the
game for the Buccaneers at 12:23 of
the first period, firing home a loose
puck in front of Westshore goalie
Matt Chestor. A few minutes after
the Levesque goal, another scramble in front of the Westshore net
resulted in Chestor getting awkwardly tangled up in a mess of
players and injuring his leg. Westshore backup goalie Nick Dueck
was brought in to replace Chester. The game remained tied at
the end of the first period; shots
favoured Westshore 9-7 at the
end of the period. Nanaimo captain Noah Russi gave his team a
2-1 lead at 1:49 on the second
period as he wired a wrist shot
past Dueck. Westshore tied the
game at 12:25 of the second period, but less than three minutes
after Westshore tied the game,
Shane Dial banged a loose puck
past Dueck to restore the Buccaneer lead. Lee Orpan scored
at 19:44 to extend the Nanaimo
lead to 4-2 at the end of the
second period. Already leading as they entered the third,
four different Buccaneers scored
goals in the period. Meanwhile,
Spencer Preece scored the lone
third period tally for Westshore.
When the final buzzer sounded,
Nanaimo picked up the 8-3 victory over Westshore.
With three consecutive wins,
THE NAVIGATOR / Vol. 45 / Issue 6 / Nov. 13 – Nov. 26
Nanaimo now has a record of
17-3 through the first 20 games
of the Vancouver Island Jr Hockey League season. Nanaimo’s 34
points gives them a nine point
lead over Comox Valley for first
in the VIJHL South Division.
Nanaimo has also passed the
North Division leading Victoria
Cougars (14-2-1-1) for first place
NORTH TEAMS
in the entire VIJHL. The Buccaneers’ next home games are Thursday, November 14, against Comox
Valley, and Thursday, November
21, against the Campbell River
Storm. The Buccaneers play their
home games at the Nanaimo Ice
Centre, below the university. Puck
drop for both games is at 7:15pm.
GP W
L
T OL TP
Nanaimo
21 17
4
0
0 34
Comox Valley
23 14 8
0
1
Campbell River
20 11
7
1
1 24
Oceanside
22 2
18
1
1
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