ONE IN THREE WOMEN ON THE PLANET WILL BE RAPED OR BEATEN IN HER LIFETIME
ONE BILLION WOMEN VIOLATED IS AN ATROCITY
ONE BILLION WOMEN DANCING IS A REVOLUTION
Participate in an inspiring GLOBAL ACTION, which unifies people worldwide to walkout and demand and end to Violence against women. This movement is growing daily with 197 countries and hundreds of communities rising. This means walking out of your place of work/study and DANCING!
Walk out at 2:20pm. Head towards the sound of DRUMS at the library, DANCE Rally starts at 2:30pm! It is important to SPREAD THE WORD and show up ON ...
Vancouver-based comedy website Nearly Robots has launched a nation-wide humorous essay competition in hopes of seeking out, and publishing, the next batch of the best comedy writers in Canada.
The competition is open to all Canadians, but is directed mainly towards university students. The deadline is Mar. 15 at 11:59 p.m.
Nearly Robots, created by several ex-editors of McGill’s humour magazine The Red Herring, is an online source for comedic articles, lists, letters, comics, videos, and more. With a readership that already extends across Canada and the U.S., the contest has been ...
For many of us, the nights of checking under the bed and looking in the closet are long gone and we no longer fall asleep at night half-terrified of a green-gooey beast lurking somewhere in the darkness. However, as Kathy Page revealed in the Malaspina Theatre on Jan. 18 in her lecture for the Arts and Humanities Colloquium Series, achieving adulthood does not mean our lives become free of monsters.
“The monster is a thing, not us, that will devour us,” Page says during “Living With Monsters,” her talk that revolved around the prevalent theme of the monsters—human and other—that exist ...
Western Edge Theatre presents Hosanna
The first production of Western Edge Theatre’s 2013 spring season is Michel Trembley’s Hosanna, the 1973 hit about the Montreal-living, Elizabeth Taylor-loving drag queen and the personal strife she faces after an eventful Halloween party. Blaine Nosworthy, who trained at the Vancouver Film School, plays Hosanna, and Rick Meyers, best known for his alter-ego Vikki Smudge, plays Hosanna’s biker boyfriend, Cuirette. The show is the Western Edge directorial debut for the organization’s artistic producer Eliza Gardiner.
Western Edge’s Hosanna runs ...
In mid-summer 2012 I was joking about the so-called apocalypse that the Mayan calendar predicted for Dec., and I said, “It’s okay if the world ends, I’ve already seen The Dark Knight Rises.”
You see, I’d been following the production of Nolan’s film since the premier of The Dark Knight, and I’d been following The Dark Knight production since I saw Batman Begins. It was a cycle of permanent anticipation that influenced me whenever I walked past the Batman section in Curious Comics, or wanted to debate some film trivialities with my friends. It didn’t consume my life, but it meant there ...
If you were thinking that two years is a bit soon to be making a film about the assassination of Osama Bin Laden, I have news for you: the film has actually been in production since 2009, two years before Bin Laden was killed.
Mark Boal won many accolades for the accuracy he brought to the screenplay of The Hurt Locker, and after he and director Kathryn Bigelow scored big wins at the 2009 Oscars they planned to work together on a follow-up. At that time, Boal, through his military contacts, was following a Navy SEAL team’s operations. As luck would have it that SEAL team ended up ...
Jan. was a strange month for the Nanaimo Clippers, and with six wins and four losses it’s difficult to predict how they will do in the month to come.
The Clippers started the new year with a tough matchup against the Victoria Cougars on Jan. 4. The teams have always shared a tight battle, but now with former Clipper coach Bill Bestwick as head coach for Victoria, the rivalry is a bit more personal.
Victoria had commanding 4–0 lead after two periods, with two goals scored on the power play. Nanaimo opened the third period scoring at 6:33 with a short-handed goal from Greg Fraser, ...
Every game is important in a shortened National Hockey League season and the Vancouver Canucks’ best hope of punching their post-season ticket could be in winning the North West division title. Vancouver’s next three games are against division foes and it’s never too early to watch the playoff race unfold.
So far the NW division is one of the league’s weakest, with Vancouver and Minnesota off to slower than anticipated starts. Edmonton and Colorado are rebuilding with young rosters and Calgary is still searching for its identity.
Still, as division leaders are automatically seeded ...
Just two weekends of regular season volleyball remain for the Mariners, and the men’s team is peaking at the right time. VIU is in a battle for second place in the PacWest standings, with the top two teams getting a quarter-final bye at Provincials later this month.
Mariners head coach Abe Avender says the team lost some jump over Christmas break and came into January playing rusty, but has looked much better the past few weeks.
“We always try to keep getting better all year and we’re starting to be a lot more consistent with our play,” Avender says. “Setters are starting to put ...
This spring, the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) hopes to succeed where others have failed, in establishing a professional female league to stay.
The brand-new league governed by the United States Soccer Federation features eight teams across the U.S. comprised of American, Canadian, and Mexican national team players. The clubs are located in Seattle, Portland, Kansas City, Chicago, Washington, New Jersey, and New York.
Canada contributed 16 national team players to the NWSL, including 12 from the 2012 Olympic bronze medal-winning roster. Captain Christine Sinclair was ...
SACKVILLE (CUP)—The walking distance between Evans, Georgia and the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) head offices in Ottawa is roughly 1,679 km. On Nov. 29, 2012, the foot of Simon Fraser University (SFU) men’s soccer player Carlo Basso sent a shockwave this distance in just a matter of a few seconds.
That moment was the lone goal scored by SFU in a 3–1 semi-final loss to Saginaw Valley State at the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) Division II Men’s Soccer championship, held in Evans this fall. SFU’s success in men’s soccer and other sports this year, as the ...
Many of you have noticed such headlines as, “Father with two young sons spend the night out after skiing out of bounds…” or “A snowboarder was located this morning after spending a cold night outside…”
It seems like every weekend there is another report of a young snowboarder or skier who ducked under the ropes to access untouched power, only to find themselves dealing with the impossible task of retracing their route up slope or to keep heading down into the unknown. Most of the time the unknown is steep, rocky, and committing terrain in the form of a creek bottom.
These are ...
VIU is setting an environmentally friendly fashion statement this Feb. Now into its third year, VIU’s “Ugly Sweater Week” will run from Feb. 4 through 8 on the Nanaimo campus. Everyone is encouraged to sport their ugliest, zaniest, and above all warmest sweaters as the University turns the heat down by two degrees.
According to VIU’s Office of Environment and Sustainability website, 56 percent of all the energy the institution uses goes towards heating. “It’s really important to take some responsibility for your own environment and if you’re cold put on a sweater and stay warm,” says ...
VIU’s Sustainability Office is reaching out to cyclists, and hoping that students and staff alike will choose their bicycles over their cars.
VIU’s Sustainability Office aims to “reduce [VIU’s] environmental footprint and foster a strong sustainability ethic in the VIU community,” according to the VIU website.
“The more students and faculty we can encourage to bike to campus,” Margot Croft, administrative assistant of Environment and Sustainability at VIU, says. “The less of an impact the University will make on the environment.”
In order to encourage cycling, the Sustainability ...
It’s 11:30 AM, Thursday Jan. 24, at VIU. My stomach is growling abominations at me because I haven’t eaten lunch yet, and there’s a daunting essay in my backpack that needs to be finished by Friday morning. I’m also supposed to go to dance class later. I ask myself if I seriously have time to attend this “Time Management” workshop. The workshop website reads: “Learn how to move from ‘I don’t have enough time’ to ‘I have plenty of time for what matters.’” Ah, what the heck. I grab a sandwich from the cafeteria and head over to bldg. 255, where I meet VIU counsellor, Ycha Gil, who will be ...
Risotto is always touted as an elaborate dish, but it’s actually really easy to make. This version of the recipe calls for white wine, but if you have already gone through your bottle, simply use the last of your cheap vodka, and it will be wonderful. Furthermore, if the high cost of pine nuts is eating into your coffee budget, substitute them for a (slightly) more affordable nut, such as almonds or hazelnuts. The only thing you can’t substitute in the risotto is the rice—it requires short-grain rice, such as Arborio, which can be found in almost any grocery store.
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Connecting with our natural world is something inherently human, but also something we are doing less of in this technological age. In this time of email, smartphones, Skype, and busied schedules it is such a relief to me to step off the pavement and into Colliery Dam Park to enjoy some quiet time with nature. It is incredibly tranquil under those trees, with meandering paths, wildlife abound and, of course, the waterfalls and lakes. The sound of that running water is the backbone of the park and a delight to everyone who visits, as has been the case for over 100 years. However, City ...
Last week a prominent American religious leader tweeted, “Praying for our president, who today will place his hands on a bible he does not believe to take an oath to a God he likely does not know.” My facebook feed exploded with religious friends denouncing what he had said: “What an arrogant statement! Not only is that statement disrespectful, but it’s foolish to judge people like that.” “[That religious leader] is a tool.” Yet, there were some who agreed with the tweet: “President Obama swears and takes an oath on the bible and its teachings, yet one hour later in his [sic] ...
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Imagine stepping out into a red vista, no blue sky, no trees. Just you with a bulky suit between you and the red planet. Imagining is where things are somewhat stalled. There have been space-related stories over the past few weeks about the beginning of construction on the new CHIME telescope in Penticton, B.C. This radio telescope will be used to construct a 3D map of the universe that will look back 11 billion years. At Christmas, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station (ISS) recorded the first song in space and uploaded it to YoutTube. In a few ...
Cari Burdett, director of Lila Music Centre in Duncan, uses her connection with music to give back to the community.
Burdett has over 16 years of musical training, with a Bachelor of Music in Opera Performance from McGill, and Master’s degree in Voice Performance from the Royal Academy of Music in London. After teaching and training across both Europe and Canada she moved to B.C. and, along with her husband Massimo Pintus, opened Lila Music Centre in 2007. As director of the Duncan-based organisation, she gives vocal lessons, leads vocal improvisational workshops, and conducts two ...
You don’t have to be born in B.C. to understand why our slogan is “Beautiful British Columbia”—the lichen-padded solitude of our forests, the drizzly dreaminess of our wild coastline, the sharp and breathtaking contrast of mountain and sea, these are the things that make us fiercely defend our pacific northwestern home to anyone who suggests otherwise, the things that make us stick around through the (many) rainy months. In his debut EP, appropriately titled Saltwater, Alberta-born and Montreal-based Noah Cebuliak has proven that he understands the solitary spirit of the Canadian ...
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“We weren’t rewarded for good behaviour. We were only disciplined for bad behaviour, and it took its toll on me... I became withdrawn, painfully shy, and I just couldn’t communicate with anyone. I couldn’t receive love or show anyone love. I didn’t even love myself.”
– Brenda Cardinal, Indian Residential School Survivor
Painful stories such as that shared by Ms. Cardinal are now increasingly coming to light. Yet, until recently, most non-Aboriginal Canadians knew little, and thought even less, about the experience of First ...
