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Volume XLIV, <strong>Issue</strong> 4 chronicle.durhamcollege.ca November 1 - 7, 20<strong>16</strong><br />
Durham dominates page 22<br />
Photograph by Josh Nelson<br />
Pumped up for pumpkins page 9<br />
Rushing<br />
back to Oshawa<br />
page 19<br />
Photograph by Jenn Amaro<br />
WE work together page 14<br />
Photograph by Barbara Howe<br />
Photograph by Alex Debets
2 The <strong>Chronicle</strong> November 1 - 7, 20<strong>16</strong> chronicle.durhamcollege.ca<br />
BACK<br />
of the<br />
FRONT<br />
DC journalism students look at Durham College and UOIT,<br />
and beyond, by the numbers and with their cameras<br />
Photograph by Dan Koehler<br />
Moore fun at the GM Centre<br />
Country singer Kip Moore got fans from all over to spend their 'beer money' at the GM<br />
Centre recently. The platinum singer-songwriter is travelling across North America on the<br />
Me and My Kind tour.<br />
Latin<br />
flavour<br />
UOIT student Gabriel<br />
Pizarro (left) teaches<br />
Vianney Nengue (right), the<br />
VP of college affairs, a few<br />
dance step during Latin<br />
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Campus chronicle.durhamcollege.ca November 1 - 7, 20<strong>16</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> 3<br />
Pub endures dry spell<br />
Campus<br />
pub hopes<br />
to get both<br />
its alcohol<br />
licence and<br />
regular<br />
business<br />
back soon<br />
Erin Williams<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
E.P. Taylor’s is a little quieter than<br />
usual lately. Students still come in<br />
to study or to relax after a long day<br />
of classes. They can grab a pop,<br />
coffee or food - but not a beer.<br />
E.P. Taylor’s is under a change of<br />
management and with the changes<br />
to the name on the liquor licence<br />
comes a whole host of issues.<br />
Meri Kim Oliver is vice-president<br />
of student affairs. She says<br />
the agency that oversees liquor licensing<br />
needs to be satisfied with<br />
the new operator and ensure that<br />
person has the necessary qualifications.<br />
“They’ve identified another person<br />
who has those qualifications<br />
and that new person’s qualifications<br />
have been sent to the AGCO<br />
for review. As soon as AGCO says<br />
whether or not that’s as acceptable<br />
person, then they are able to serve<br />
alcohol or not,” says Oliver.<br />
The Alcohol and Gaming<br />
Commission of Ontario (AGCO)<br />
is responsible for administering<br />
the liquor licence. All licenses are<br />
issued to individuals, business partnerships<br />
or corporations, for operation<br />
at a specific location.<br />
It’s unclear from the Student Association<br />
who is now in charge or<br />
who the person is under review for<br />
the license.<br />
Ray Kahnert is a spokesperson<br />
with the AGCO. He says changing<br />
the name on a licence can be a long<br />
process if all of the qualifications<br />
are not met.<br />
Meanwhile, many students are<br />
walking further south to St. Louis<br />
Wings on Simcoe Street to get a<br />
beer after classes.<br />
Bethany Nickoes manages St.<br />
Louis pub. She says a dry campus<br />
pub has had an impact on their<br />
business.<br />
“It does affect us because a lot<br />
of people who come in are bringing<br />
it up and telling us they come<br />
from E.P. Taylor’s or they usually<br />
go to E.P. Taylor’s but since they<br />
can’t drink there they come here to<br />
have drinks,” says Nickoes. “That’s<br />
how we found out was by word of<br />
mouth, from the students coming<br />
in.”<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong> has made several<br />
requests to the Student Association<br />
for clarification. The SA says it<br />
E.P. Taylor’s has seen a change in environment since losing its licence to sell alcohol.<br />
cannot comment at this time.<br />
Meanwhile, Oliver says E.P. Taylor’s<br />
is still a busy place regardless<br />
of the lack of licence.<br />
“Because they haven’t had an<br />
active licence right now, a lot of<br />
clubs and societies have been able<br />
to book their functions there in the<br />
day time and they’ve actually been<br />
busy as a result. It’s actually had a<br />
different outcome then expected,”<br />
says Oliver. Oliver says this is not a<br />
case of any infractions or rules not<br />
being followed.<br />
Photograph by Erin Williams<br />
She expects the pub will be back<br />
up and running with a licence by<br />
next semester.<br />
“It’s simply that there are very<br />
specific regulations and we have to<br />
follow those to ensure the licence is<br />
maintained,” she says.<br />
Yes or no? Cellphones’ role in class remains a debate<br />
Euvilla Thomas<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
There is an ongoing wireless war<br />
about the use of cellphones in classes<br />
across Canada.<br />
On one hand Shahnaz Khan,<br />
a Toronto teacher, has publicly<br />
asked parents for their permission<br />
to confiscate student’s cellphones.<br />
Meanwhile, in Oshawa, many instructors<br />
at Durham College are<br />
incorporating the technology into<br />
their school content as a learning<br />
tool for education.<br />
Virginia Harwood, is an awardwinning<br />
law professor in the school<br />
of Justice and Emergency Services<br />
at Durham College.<br />
She uses Top Hart technology<br />
as part of her daily class. Top Hart<br />
is an app that can be used on a<br />
phone to respond to questions. It<br />
is a learner response system with<br />
many capabilities.<br />
A professor can ask students<br />
questions and they can respond<br />
immediately using their cellphones.<br />
“If I put up a question in a regular<br />
classroom, a student would have<br />
to put up their hands. In this case<br />
everyone can answer the question<br />
and know if they are actually<br />
understanding the material or not,”<br />
says Harwood.<br />
This can also provide shy students<br />
with the opportunity to take<br />
part in activities without having to<br />
speak out loud in class.<br />
“In a classroom of fifty students<br />
I can’t always gauge if everyone is<br />
understanding the material immediately.<br />
Sometimes I have to<br />
wait until a test, this way if 60 per<br />
cent of the class gets that question<br />
incorrect I can go back immediately<br />
and ask the class to do an activity<br />
around it,” says Harwood of<br />
the advantage of Top Hart.<br />
Durham College is not the only<br />
school using cellphones. School<br />
Boards in Manitoba and the Durham<br />
Catholic District School<br />
Board integrated BYOD (Bring<br />
Your Own Device) into their<br />
school curriculum for educational<br />
purposes.<br />
Students are allowed to use cellphones<br />
to have access to the tools<br />
and information necessary for<br />
Photograph by Euvilla Thomas<br />
Virginia Harwood, law professor at Durham College, sits in her office using her cellphone.<br />
learning. The school boards say<br />
BYOD improves student success.<br />
Gary Gannon, a Human Resource<br />
professor at Durham College,<br />
says the college encourages<br />
students to use cellphones if it’s a<br />
means for information.<br />
For him the problem is when it<br />
becomes a distraction in the classroom.<br />
“Personally I don’t have a problem<br />
with cellphones in the classroom,<br />
because at the college we<br />
now encourage people to utilize<br />
technology for learning,” says<br />
Gannon.<br />
But teachers such as Shahnaz<br />
Khan say they can be a big distraction<br />
for students.<br />
“It can be everything from not<br />
paying attention, just being really<br />
inattentive, and I find that particularly<br />
the kids who are vulnerable<br />
miss important information and<br />
are tuning out of class discussions,”<br />
she says.<br />
Khan says the quality of the<br />
classroom experience is less.<br />
The topic of technology has always<br />
been controversial. So students<br />
at Durham College were<br />
quick to give an input.<br />
“I personally use my cellphone<br />
to take notes,” says engineering<br />
student Stephanie Manser.<br />
Students such as Manser say<br />
their cellphones are important to<br />
their education, which includes<br />
note taking and finding information.<br />
Virginia Harwood says cellphones<br />
can be used as learning tool<br />
rather than a distraction.<br />
For Harwood it is all about making<br />
the technology educational.<br />
“I think if we can harness the<br />
mobile device as a learning tool<br />
it will help us in terms of student<br />
learning,” she says.
4 The <strong>Chronicle</strong> November 1 - 7, 20<strong>16</strong> chronicle.durhamcollege.ca<br />
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Mo is more this Movember<br />
If you see an increase in strange<br />
and spectacular moustaches in the<br />
coming weeks, rest easy.<br />
November is known for the disappearing<br />
of leaves, the arrival of<br />
Christmas music and the growing<br />
out of facial hair.<br />
It’s Movember.<br />
Movember is a campaign centered<br />
around opening up talks<br />
about men’s health: something that<br />
hasn’t always been easily discussed.<br />
Consider the fact that eleven Canadian<br />
men die of prostate cancer<br />
every day. Prostate cancer is the<br />
third leading cause of death from<br />
cancer in Canada and more deaths<br />
occur if the cancer goes undetected.<br />
Early detection of prostate cancer<br />
alone can increase survival rate<br />
by 96 per cent.<br />
Movember has been more effective<br />
than any other men’s health<br />
campaign in history. It was started<br />
by a couple of regular guys and<br />
caught on as a trend among men.<br />
Given the success and money<br />
raised for prostate cancer, Movember<br />
has branched out to other<br />
health issues that men face, including<br />
testicular cancer and mental<br />
health.<br />
The foundation became official<br />
in 2003, and has since evolved beyond<br />
moustaches. Movember has<br />
changed the face of men’s health by<br />
creating a generation of men who<br />
aren’t afraid to talk to their doctor.<br />
In 2003, Travis Garone and<br />
Luke Slattery met over a beer in<br />
Melbourne, Austrailia and discussed<br />
fashion trends that have<br />
come and gone. They wondered<br />
if they alone could bring back the<br />
moustache, if even just for a month.<br />
They decided to convince others<br />
to spend the month of November<br />
growing out the best moustache<br />
they could. Thirty men took them<br />
up on the challenge.<br />
That first year no profits were<br />
made. It was the following year,<br />
20<strong>04</strong>, when enthusiasm for the<br />
stunt had grown so much they decided<br />
to start a charitable organization.<br />
Together they formed a foundation,<br />
but the question of where<br />
the money would go remained.<br />
Prostate cancer has always been<br />
something guys didn’t discuss even<br />
though it killed so many.<br />
Garone and Slattery approached<br />
the Prostate Cancer Foundation of<br />
Australia (PCFA), who agreed any<br />
funds raised would be accepted. No<br />
official partnership was formed.<br />
As of Nov. 1, 20<strong>16</strong>, the Movember<br />
foundation alone has raised<br />
over $300 million Canadian. In<br />
the spirit of opening up tough<br />
conversations for men, Movember<br />
has expanded its focus to include<br />
testicular cancer and mental health<br />
issues.<br />
The campaign has also brought<br />
about a renaissance of facial hair<br />
fashion. Men spend the month trying<br />
to outgrow their friends and enter<br />
December with a ‘stache they<br />
can be proud of. Some keep it as<br />
a permanent staple of their manhood.<br />
Guys, take this November and<br />
give growing your best Mo a try.<br />
It’s time to put this stigma about<br />
health to rest.<br />
Movember opens the discussion<br />
about prostate cancer, testicular<br />
cancer and mental health. If you<br />
can’t wear it on your sleeve, then<br />
wear it on your lip.<br />
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chronicle.durhamcollege.ca November 1 - 7, 20<strong>16</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> 5<br />
Opinion<br />
Hey Apple, we want the jack back<br />
A classic phrase used by millennials<br />
when driving is “pass the aux cord.”<br />
This simple phrase lets the person<br />
with the auxiliary cord know another<br />
person wants to play music<br />
through their phone. This is not<br />
usually an issue, since all smart<br />
phones have audio jacks. At least<br />
they used to.<br />
The new iPhone7, released in<br />
September, has no audio jack.<br />
This is a bad idea.<br />
The new phone boasts two cameras<br />
that take a photo as one, a new<br />
and improved HD and a powerful<br />
new chip said to be the best in a<br />
smartphone yet, the cordless headphones<br />
come at an unreasonably<br />
Frank<br />
Katradis<br />
high price.<br />
Say goodbye to using other headphones.<br />
According to apple.com, if<br />
you want to hear music you have to<br />
pay $219.00 for AirPods: two cordless<br />
headphones to hear your music<br />
or talk handless. Now we can all<br />
look like the guy on his Bluetooth<br />
acting like he is busier than he already<br />
is.<br />
Apple likes to think about innovation,<br />
however, this is not innovation.<br />
This is about usability and<br />
customer satisfaction, and Apple is<br />
failing at satisfying their customers.<br />
People do not want to pay extra<br />
money for a specific pair of headphones.<br />
There used to be freedom<br />
of choice. If people wanted to<br />
use Skullcandy headphones, they<br />
could. If people wanted to use<br />
Beats by Doctor Dre, they could.<br />
If the person couldn’t afford expensive<br />
headphones, they could use a<br />
cheap dollar store pair. Now, if they<br />
want headphones, they must pay<br />
$219.00.<br />
The AirPods are two small, cordless,<br />
separate headphones that you<br />
could easily lose. If you do lose<br />
them, it will cost you $219.00 for<br />
your mistake.<br />
The worst part is the AirPods<br />
aren’t even out yet. According to<br />
apple.com the AirPods weren’t<br />
available till mid-October. Now,<br />
it’s looking like they won’t come<br />
out till late October.<br />
This means people who already<br />
have the iPhone7 can’t listen to<br />
music unless they are connected to<br />
Bluetooth. Now it’s official, we’re<br />
that “busy” guy on their Bluetooth.<br />
With previous models, the iPhone<br />
came with a set of headphones.<br />
The iPhone7 costs $1,029.00 or<br />
$1,559.00 depending on how many<br />
gigabytes you buy. Add another<br />
$219.00 to hear your music.<br />
Many Android phones range<br />
from $500 to $600, and they have<br />
the same features and come with<br />
headphones. If cost dictates, Android<br />
wins. However, Androids<br />
aren’t iPhones.<br />
AirPods are easy to lose, and<br />
not compatible with many devices,<br />
making the iPhone7 not compatible<br />
with many devices, especially those<br />
that require an audio jack.<br />
This is a major step down for<br />
Apple.<br />
The future seems rather pricey<br />
thanks to these jack apples, or<br />
should they be called jack-less.<br />
To help rape victims, let’s focus on the victim<br />
Even though it’s always in the news,<br />
rape is difficult to talk about. According<br />
to the Canadian Federation<br />
of Students-Ontario, half of all<br />
people in Ontario who are victims<br />
of sexual assaults are between the<br />
ages of 15 and 24. According to<br />
the Rape, Abuse, & Incest National<br />
Network (RAINN), 70 per cent<br />
of rape victims suffer moderate or<br />
severe distress and 33 per cent of<br />
women who survive a rape contemplate<br />
suicide. Seeing realistic<br />
examples of sexual assault in visual<br />
media can teach people about resources.<br />
It can also serve to validate<br />
victim’s experiences. Incorporating<br />
rape into a story can be beneficial<br />
to viewers, but only if done right.<br />
The way rape is portrayed in<br />
the media is poorly done. Instead<br />
of looking at how a rape victim<br />
copes and recovers from sexual assault,<br />
often the story shifts towards<br />
other characters. When stories<br />
about rape focus on the survivor,<br />
Kayano<br />
Waite<br />
and spend time with them during<br />
their recovery, it makes for a more<br />
rewarding viewing experience.<br />
While big screen works like The<br />
Birth of a Nation uses rape as a dramatic<br />
tool to poor effect. Other<br />
media such as Netflix original Jessica<br />
Jones and ABC network’s American<br />
Crime TV series are able to get<br />
to the heart of the issue by having<br />
a first-person perspective.<br />
The film The Birth of a Nation uses<br />
the rape of main character Nat<br />
Turner’s wife as the motivation for<br />
Turner to lead a slave rebellion.<br />
The film also includes a second<br />
rape of another slave, which leads<br />
to her husband helping Nat with<br />
the slave rebellion. Both of these<br />
scenes focus on the men’s reaction<br />
to these women being assaulted.<br />
While one of the women voices<br />
her pain over her assault, she is<br />
not given as much screen time as<br />
either of the two men. The problem<br />
with this is that it takes the abuse<br />
of female characters to make the<br />
male lead react to them. This becomes<br />
the main catalyst of conflict<br />
with the slaves and their owners.<br />
What’s also troubling about the<br />
film is even though it’s based on an<br />
actual person, the film’s writer and<br />
main actor, Nate Parker, inserted<br />
a rape that has not been historically<br />
documented. What this means<br />
is that the rapes in the story are<br />
there solely for plot convenience.<br />
Not out of necessity. Not out of history,<br />
as with the main plot points<br />
and themes.<br />
Other stories, like Netflix’s Jessica<br />
Jones, have been able to incorporate<br />
rape and expand on it in interesting<br />
ways.<br />
The original Netflix series focuses<br />
on superhero Jessica Jones,<br />
a woman traumatized by an abusive<br />
relationship. Jessica was raped<br />
and controlled by show’s villain.<br />
Though the show takes place in<br />
a superhero world, we see Jessica<br />
struggle in her daily life with depression<br />
and severe stress. Even<br />
though she is a superhero.<br />
While still in a relationship with<br />
her abuser, Jessica is suicidal. By<br />
the end of the story, she is able<br />
to confront her abuser and grow.<br />
While her story shows a more surreal<br />
take on a rape story, others are<br />
just as effective by looking at rape<br />
through a realistic lens.<br />
In ABC’s American Crime, main<br />
character Taylor is a male high<br />
school student who claims to have<br />
been raped by a male classmate.<br />
The show succeeds in its portrayal<br />
of rape and the culture surrounding<br />
it due to how the characters react<br />
to the assault. The show explains<br />
how a rape kit is used and reveals<br />
how uncomfortable adults are talking<br />
about rape, especially one that<br />
includes minors. American Crime<br />
also shows how people of varying<br />
ages, races, and sexual identities<br />
believe it’s impossible for a man to<br />
be raped.<br />
Media has the power to expand<br />
people’s views on important issues<br />
in society. But if writers are going to<br />
use rape in their stories, they need<br />
to avoid exploiting it. Nat’s does<br />
not need a rape to motivate him<br />
to freedom. To add a rape benefits<br />
no one in the story if unexplored.<br />
A character like Jessica Jones shows<br />
how trauma can stay with a victim<br />
long after assault despite superhero<br />
strength. A story like Taylor’s shows<br />
the result of questioning the truthfulness<br />
of an assault.<br />
A lot of truths can be fully realized<br />
in media when the focus is on<br />
the right character – the one fully<br />
affected by the issue.<br />
Trudeau one year later: Please get moving, Justin<br />
A little over a year ago, a wave of<br />
red swept the country. Justin Trudeau<br />
and his Liberals triumphed<br />
over Stephen Harper’s Conservatives.<br />
Despite conservative cries of<br />
“he’s just not ready”, the general<br />
consensus was Canadians wanted<br />
change and felt it would happen<br />
under Trudeau’s governance.<br />
Canada allowed itself to fall in<br />
love with its new leader, for a short<br />
period of time. The honeymoon is<br />
now over.<br />
Promises are partly how elections<br />
are won and Justin Trudeau’s campaign<br />
was full of them. Trudeau<br />
made promises he has yet to fulfill.<br />
Granted, it takes time to implement<br />
ideas and strategies, but many Canadians<br />
see their PM as a man who<br />
spends a lot of time travelling and<br />
Tommy<br />
Morais<br />
attending public events, and not<br />
enough running the country.<br />
One only need look at the Prime<br />
Minister’s Twitter account to notice<br />
the numerous places he visits:<br />
Washington, China and Ukraine<br />
among others.<br />
In between travels, Trudeau has<br />
made assisted death legal, brought<br />
31, 000 Syrian refugees to Canada<br />
and raised taxes for the rich to ease<br />
the burden on the middle-class and<br />
low-income families.<br />
A significant change to government<br />
has been the creation of an<br />
equal gender cabinet. Trudeau’s<br />
31-member cabinet is comprised<br />
of <strong>16</strong> men and 15 women.<br />
When pressed by the media<br />
about the equality in his cabinet,<br />
Trudeau said, “It’s 2015.”<br />
Some changes by the Trudeau<br />
administration haven’t been positive,<br />
however.<br />
For instance, senior citizens have<br />
seen their pensions cut, making it<br />
more difficult for them to get by.<br />
Many promises have yet to be fulfilled,<br />
such as the legalization of marijuana<br />
and changes to the veteran<br />
charter.<br />
The PM has been criticized for<br />
spending large sums of money,<br />
which from day one he made clear<br />
would happen. He has spent $69<br />
million for First Nations mental<br />
health issues here, $64.5 million for<br />
future humanitarian crises there.<br />
It all adds up quickly. We have yet<br />
to see results on the infrastructure<br />
and job front.<br />
During the 2015 campaign,<br />
Trudeau announced he was going<br />
to create jobs and infrastructure<br />
to boost the country’s economy<br />
by creating a deficit. And create a<br />
deficit he did. As expressed during<br />
the campaign, Trudeau and his Liberals<br />
aren’t expecting the budget to<br />
be balanced until 2019-2020.<br />
Nonetheless, in the public’s eye,<br />
the PM is certainly personable. He<br />
isn’t afraid to embrace traditions<br />
and heritage, even when they’re<br />
not his own. Trudeau has taken<br />
part in pride parades, prayed with<br />
Muslims in mosques and worn aboriginal<br />
regalia when he met with<br />
First Nations.<br />
“Sunny ways my friends,” said<br />
Trudeau upon being elected Canada’s<br />
new PM. “Sunny ways.” The<br />
clouds have set in.<br />
While competent on the surface,<br />
the Trudeau government has so far<br />
lacked production. It’s too early<br />
to tell how effective Trudeau has<br />
been or will be. Seeds have been<br />
planted, money has been spent and<br />
ideas have been thrown around. But<br />
Trudeau would be well-advised to<br />
put in a little more work at home<br />
and spend a little less time on the<br />
international scene.<br />
Oh and Justin, please be mindful<br />
of where the nation’s money goes.<br />
Thanks.
6 The <strong>Chronicle</strong> November 1 - 7, 20<strong>16</strong> chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Campus<br />
Using technology in classrooms<br />
Jenn Amaro<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
The digital craze in today’s society<br />
is almost unavoidable. Dr.<br />
Janette Hughes has been working<br />
for UOIT since 2006, researching<br />
how this advancement can be integrated<br />
into schools to help students<br />
learn and gain the skills necessary<br />
to succeed.<br />
Tell us what you do and how<br />
you do it.<br />
I am a Canada Research Chair<br />
in Technology and Pedagogy. I<br />
work in the Faculty of Education<br />
which means I can focus more on<br />
my research which looks at how<br />
can we use new technology and<br />
digital tools in schools. Mainly I<br />
work in K-12 education and am<br />
looking for new ways to use technology<br />
to enhance student learning.<br />
What makes your topic of research<br />
relevant?<br />
We live in a digital age and we<br />
need to understand how to use<br />
technologies, but we don’t want to<br />
just be users or consumers of technology<br />
we also want to be producers.<br />
Students in grades K to 12<br />
need the skills to be successful, not<br />
just in school but in life and their<br />
future employment.<br />
Can you tell us of your roots<br />
and how you ultimately arrived<br />
in Oshawa?<br />
to enhance learning<br />
This is one in a series of conversations with faculty experts at UOIT and Durham College<br />
Well, I was born in England.<br />
We moved to Canada when I was<br />
very young. I grew up from about<br />
grade three until I moved away<br />
for university in Oshawa. I went<br />
to Queen’s University and studied<br />
concurrent education. I did a<br />
degree in English literature and<br />
history and did my education degree<br />
after that. I taught at Donevan<br />
Collegiate Institute, where I was a<br />
student. When Sinclair opened in<br />
Whitby I moved there as an assistant<br />
head of English. Then in 2000<br />
we moved to London because my<br />
husband was taking a job there<br />
and I started working at Western<br />
University, which spiked my desire<br />
to work in the university environment.<br />
I decided to pursue a PhD<br />
and graduated (with) that in 2006<br />
and got hired here.<br />
It was really important to me to<br />
come back to Oshawa because I<br />
have roots here and I thought it was<br />
really amazing to have a university<br />
in this part of Ontario because I<br />
think it’s something that the community<br />
really needs.<br />
How and when did you get<br />
interested in this area of expertise?<br />
Dr. Janette Hughes standing in front of the 3D printer in one of the workshop rooms at UOIT.<br />
As a classroom teacher I noticed<br />
how engaged my students were<br />
when they were using technology.<br />
I wanted to know if it moved beyond<br />
just being a novelty. It can<br />
be used to enhance their thinking,<br />
collaboration and communication.<br />
Through all of that who inspired<br />
you along the way?<br />
My children and my students. I<br />
became a teacher because of my<br />
grade eleven English teacher, but<br />
in terms of who inspires my work<br />
it’s the kids that I work with in the<br />
classrooms and the students at<br />
UOIT, as well. At first I thought I<br />
would really miss making a difference<br />
in the lives of those students<br />
from K-12, but I find that if I can<br />
work with these teacher candidates<br />
and prepare them to be teachers of<br />
tomorrow then I’m still contributing<br />
and it still makes me feel good<br />
that I can do that.<br />
What is the most important<br />
thing in this field you think<br />
people should know?<br />
One of the most important things<br />
to me as a researcher is to ensure<br />
that all learners have access to this<br />
kind of technology.<br />
One of the things we focus on is<br />
how do we make [these resources]<br />
available to those who live in low<br />
socio-economic areas where there’s<br />
not as many resources or money to<br />
buy the equipment.<br />
Right now one of the things<br />
we’re investigating is how can we<br />
sometimes unplug activities so they<br />
still teach computational thinking<br />
or digital literacy but can be done<br />
on a lower budget. But how can<br />
we facilitate getting the resources<br />
allocated to the places that they<br />
need to be so that all students can<br />
experience this kind of learning?<br />
What is your favourite part of<br />
this research?<br />
I love working with the kids. I<br />
love seeing the enthusiasm of the<br />
teacher candidates. They want to<br />
be teachers because they’re passionate<br />
about students, and about<br />
learning themselves. They are so<br />
Photograph by Jenn Amaro<br />
inspired to go out there and work<br />
with students so I love that.<br />
What is the toughest challenge<br />
that you have faced in<br />
this research?<br />
One of the things of working<br />
with cutting edge technologies is<br />
they work beautifully in your lab,<br />
but then moving them to a school<br />
you run into problems with the internet<br />
for example. So it’s a frustration<br />
but you always find ways<br />
around. You need to be able to<br />
problem solve and trouble shoot.<br />
This interview was edited for style,<br />
length and clarity.
Community chronicle.durhamcollege.ca November 1 - 7, 20<strong>16</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> 7<br />
War game draws vets’ ire<br />
James Bauman<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
A recently released world war-related<br />
video game that is expected<br />
to sell 15 million units, has drawn<br />
the ire of some veterans and their<br />
families.<br />
Veterans are raising concerns<br />
about the developer and publisher<br />
of the game – called Battlefield 1<br />
- profiting from the experiences of<br />
veterans.<br />
Set during the First World War,<br />
Battlefield 1 is a first person shooter,<br />
developed by DICE, a Swedish<br />
video game company and is published<br />
by Electronic Arts. During<br />
the official release weekend of Oct.<br />
21 – Oct. 23, there were 749,189<br />
players in game during peak hours<br />
across PC, PlayStation 4, and<br />
XBOX One.<br />
Photograph by James Bauman<br />
Release copy of Battlefield 1.<br />
The use of war in popular forms<br />
of entertainment has existed almost<br />
as long as the formats, but to veterans<br />
and their families the commercialization<br />
and glamourization of<br />
war in the entertainment industry<br />
draws strong emotions.<br />
“I don’t think they should be<br />
profiting off of it… they glamourize<br />
a lot of it, to make people<br />
believe that war is glamourous,<br />
while it certainly isn’t,” said Arthur<br />
Boon, formerly of the Perth Regiment<br />
and the 19 th Canadian Army<br />
Field Regiment. “I was there from<br />
D-Day to VE-Day, I was wounded<br />
twice, and there is no glamour to<br />
it… it shouldn’t be done that way,<br />
I believe in having documentaries<br />
that tell what the war is all about.”<br />
Lorraine Longley, whose second<br />
husband John Longley served at<br />
Camp X in Oshawa during the<br />
Second World War, echoed a similar<br />
sentiment.<br />
“I don’t agree with that at all<br />
(using war as subject matter) profiting<br />
off of our soldiers who gave<br />
their lives, who were mortally<br />
wounded, coming back without legs<br />
and arms. I just don’t agree with it<br />
at all,” said Longley.<br />
Battlefield 1 engages players<br />
by having them take on the roles<br />
of six soldiers all fighting during<br />
the conflict under the command<br />
of different nation states that were<br />
involved in the First World War. A<br />
Royal Flying Corps fighter pilot,<br />
an ANZAC runner, and a Bedouin<br />
warrior under the command of<br />
Lawrence of Arabia are just some<br />
of the roles players can take on.<br />
Boon believes that the portrayal<br />
of war in books and films is also<br />
inaccurate when compared to the<br />
realities faced by the men who<br />
enlisted and served during both<br />
World Wars.<br />
“Some of our top writers weren’t<br />
born while the war was on, they<br />
have followed along and made<br />
money off of war. They go and get<br />
stories from generals and from the<br />
high command. They don’t tell it<br />
like it is on the ground. The way<br />
(war) happens is when the private<br />
soldier… is out there on the ground<br />
fighting that war. He knows what<br />
it’s all about,” said Boon.<br />
Battlefield 1 was released exactly<br />
three weeks before Remembrance<br />
Day. This Remembrance Day will<br />
mark the 97 th consecutive Nov. 11<br />
in which residents of the Commonwealth<br />
of Nations will pause,<br />
reflect, and remember.<br />
The game is a strong reminder<br />
of the First World War for a new<br />
generation that may be unfamiliar<br />
with that war. But to veterans<br />
such as Boon, there is no reminder<br />
needed.<br />
“My father served in World War<br />
One, one of my uncles served there<br />
and was killed at Vimy Ridge, my<br />
grandfather also served there, and<br />
I served over in Europe, and I also<br />
had four uncles who served down in<br />
Italy during the Second World War<br />
with the First Regiment, and one in<br />
the air force. So our entire family<br />
was involved in both of those wars.<br />
So I remember both of them (the<br />
First and Second World Wars),”<br />
said Boon.<br />
Photograph by James Bauman<br />
British serviceman, John Longley, served at Camp X.<br />
Second World War spy camp lives on in Whitby<br />
Rebecca Calzavara<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
Some Durham College students<br />
are getting the opportunity to learn<br />
and be part of a significant part of<br />
this area’s history.<br />
Students in the heritage program<br />
have been involved in restoring the<br />
last remaining building from Camp<br />
X, located on the Oshawa-Whitby<br />
border by Lake Ontario, which was<br />
a training camp for spies during the<br />
Second World War.<br />
Lynn Philip Hodgson, who<br />
helped instigate local interest in<br />
Camp X, is working on a project<br />
with Durham College’s heritage<br />
program run by Ali Taileb.<br />
“Not too many people know<br />
its history,” Hodgson said about<br />
Camp X.<br />
Taileb was contacted by the<br />
Town of Whitby asking him what<br />
he could do in assisting with their<br />
project of making the remains a<br />
museum. The Ontario Regiment<br />
Museum wants to take the remaining<br />
Camp X building and relocate<br />
it near the museum on Oshawa<br />
airport property.<br />
Taileb teaches the course of restoration<br />
and renovation of historical<br />
buildings at Durham.<br />
“It’s a real situation, they wanted<br />
to create a Camp X museum”<br />
Taileb said, “and the students are<br />
involved in the design of the Camp<br />
X museum.”<br />
The students went to the museum<br />
and got some background<br />
on the camp and got to take a look<br />
at what the project was about. The<br />
students looked into the archives so<br />
they can restore the existing interior<br />
of the building.<br />
According to Taileb, this was a<br />
great way to get students in that<br />
program to use the skills they are<br />
learning in the classroom into the<br />
real world.<br />
“This site has a lot to offer in<br />
terms of being a historic war”<br />
Taileb said, “and it also fits very<br />
well with the course.”<br />
Camp X was built in 1941 and<br />
Photograph by Ali Taileb<br />
Before: Durham College view a model of the Camp X base.<br />
was a training camp for spies to go<br />
to Germany to fight against Germans<br />
in the Second World War.<br />
The camp opened on Dec 6,<br />
1941 and operated from 1941 to<br />
1945.<br />
A lot of important people have<br />
travelled through and attended<br />
Camp X, including Sir Ian Fleming,<br />
the creator of James Bond.<br />
According to a Heritage Evaluation<br />
Report created by Martindale<br />
Planning Services of Camp X, the<br />
only remaining Camp X building<br />
is a portion of one of the two ‘H’<br />
shaped dormitories to house the<br />
After: the last remaining building of Camp X.<br />
agents who were training.<br />
According to Hodgson, the last<br />
remaining Camp X building was<br />
bought and saved by a woman<br />
named Muriel H. Sissons. Sissons<br />
was a cat lover and the dean of the<br />
Ontario Ladies College (now Trafalgar<br />
Castle School).<br />
She bought it for one dollar and<br />
approached the Ontario Humane<br />
Society to see if they would use it<br />
to house cats.<br />
The building was then moved<br />
to the Whitby Animal Shelter on<br />
Thickson Road but was never used<br />
to house cats. It was used as cold<br />
Photograph by Rebecca Calzavara<br />
storage and for holding dog food<br />
and equipment. After a few years<br />
the building was no longer used<br />
and was boarded up.<br />
For 40 years they have been trying<br />
to create a museum using the<br />
last remains of the camp explained<br />
Hodgson.<br />
Taileb explained that many<br />
people are not familiar with Camp<br />
X or what it is. When people find<br />
out about it they get excited and<br />
then start asking questions about<br />
the camp.<br />
“We can’t forget the past,” Taileb<br />
said.
8 The <strong>Chronicle</strong> November 1 - 7, 20<strong>16</strong> chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Campus<br />
Going global is a priority for DC<br />
Durham group<br />
discusses<br />
Peru trip<br />
Dean Daley<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
Travis Fortnum, a second-year<br />
Durham College (DC) web and<br />
print journalism student, describes<br />
his recent trip to Trujillo, Peru as<br />
“literally life changing.”<br />
DC’s Peru project was the<br />
school’s first international opportunity<br />
for students to go to another<br />
country through their program. In<br />
this case the opportunity was only<br />
offered to students in the journalism<br />
streams, video production and<br />
the culinary school.<br />
Through a two–year partnership<br />
that Durham has with Centro Experimental<br />
de Formación Profesional,<br />
a technical and vocational<br />
college in Trujillo, an opportunity<br />
presented itself.<br />
After a four-week application<br />
and interviewing process that Fortnum<br />
describes as “stressful”, three<br />
Durham students - Fortnum, Vik<br />
Panjawani and Kyle Rist - from<br />
the three different programs were<br />
chosen to go to Peru. They left<br />
Sept. 26 and returned Oct. 3.<br />
According to Danielle Harder,<br />
journalism professor at DC, the<br />
purpose of the trip was to “enhance<br />
the Peruvian school’s culinary<br />
management program through the<br />
expertise and curriculum of faculty<br />
from DC’s Centre for Food.”<br />
While in Peru, Rist shared some<br />
Canadian recipes with his new<br />
Peruvian colleagues and brought<br />
some Peruvian recipes back with<br />
him. Fortnum and Panjawani<br />
worked together as journalist and<br />
videographer to document the experience.<br />
According to Katie Boone, Durham’s<br />
manager of international<br />
projects and partnerships, the project<br />
was funded by the government<br />
of Canada, facilitated through Colleges<br />
and Institutes Canada and is<br />
part of its Education for Employment<br />
project.<br />
The focus of the project is to link<br />
graduate skill sets with industry demand<br />
and to make sure students are<br />
graduating with skills employers<br />
want and need. The whole project<br />
ends next March.<br />
Boone believes international<br />
opportunities, “build an incredible<br />
self-awareness when you are<br />
thrown into another culture, another<br />
community, with different<br />
expectations, different perceptions<br />
on who you are both from outsiders<br />
and from yourself that I think is a<br />
really great learning opportunity.”<br />
Boone isn’t the only administrator<br />
who believes in the importance<br />
of cultural opportunities.<br />
Elaine Popp, Durham’s<br />
vice-president academic (VPA),<br />
says one of her main roles as VPA<br />
is internationalization. Popp would<br />
like students to have opportunities<br />
to travel, study and learn abroad.<br />
Popp believes students who<br />
graduate from the programs at DC<br />
should have great cultural awareness,<br />
acceptance of different cultures<br />
and cultural diversities.<br />
According to Popp, our society is<br />
very interconnected and it’s quite<br />
often that companies communicate<br />
with other countries on a daily<br />
basis.<br />
“India’s not that far away anymore,”<br />
says Popp.<br />
According to Popp, DC implemented<br />
the International Education<br />
office last year. Previously, the<br />
International office looked at getting<br />
international students to come<br />
and study at DC.<br />
The ‘rebranded’ International<br />
Education office also looks at<br />
ways for students and faculty to go<br />
abroad and find ways to have global<br />
experiences at home for students.<br />
Popp says “it is now a priority<br />
having international opportunities<br />
for our students and our faculty. It is<br />
now recognized as being a priority,<br />
so it’s going to be given attention<br />
and focus. It’s not something that<br />
will happen ‘boom’ overnight but<br />
we’ll work towards it and work towards<br />
providing more opportunities<br />
for these trips.”<br />
Popp explains the trips may be<br />
short, come in the form of internships,<br />
or field placement opportunities.<br />
She explains some trips may<br />
even be exchanges - programs<br />
where Durham partners with another<br />
institution in another country<br />
and DC accepts one of their<br />
students and a DC student gets the<br />
opportunity to go to visit the other<br />
institution for a year.<br />
With the new department in<br />
place, within the next five years DC<br />
will be looking at a different sort<br />
of program. According to Popp,<br />
the perfect example is a program<br />
where students focus and learn<br />
about global events and also get<br />
opportunities to go to these global<br />
events.
Community chronicle.durhamcollege.ca November 1 - 7, 20<strong>16</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> 9<br />
and the turnout was tremendous.<br />
Steeles Avenue was backed up with<br />
cars waiting to turn in and parallel<br />
parking happening along side<br />
streets.<br />
Police had to escort drivers in and<br />
out of the parking lot, according to<br />
Lilian Igel, the manager at Whittamore’s<br />
farm.<br />
The turnout was incredible in<br />
early October, but despite the cold<br />
weather, Igel says families are still<br />
making their way into the farm.<br />
Igel has been working for the<br />
farm for 24 years and says it’s a fun<br />
place to work. “It’s a great family<br />
farm. The Whittamores are great<br />
people to work for, the staff is great,<br />
I’m very lucky with my staff. The<br />
nice thing about working here are<br />
the families. The families come in<br />
with smiles on their faces and that’s<br />
all the gratification you need,” says<br />
Igel.<br />
Photograph by Jenn Amaro<br />
Izabella, Antonia and Liliana Torcivia holding their pumpkins<br />
in the pumpkin patch.<br />
People pack<br />
pumpkin patch<br />
for family fun<br />
Whittamore’s<br />
has been a<br />
farm fixture<br />
in the GTA<br />
since 18<strong>04</strong><br />
Jenn Amaro<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
Despite lower temperatures, Whittamore’s<br />
Farm in Markham was<br />
still filled with children jumping<br />
on bouncing castles, swinging on<br />
the swings, and of course, picking<br />
their pumpkin.<br />
Parents were bundled in coats,<br />
scarves and mittens on Oct. 23 to<br />
hide from piercing winds, but the<br />
laughter and the fun their children<br />
were having in all the activities<br />
during the Pumpkinkand festivities<br />
made the cold weather tolerable for<br />
them.<br />
The Whittamore’s Farm, just<br />
north of Rouge Park, has been in<br />
the Whittamore family since 18<strong>04</strong>,<br />
and has become a traditional attraction<br />
for many families every year.<br />
With a 50-foot turbo slide, bouncing<br />
castles and jumping pillows,<br />
a corn maze, farm animals and<br />
wagon rides, families have been returning<br />
every year to join in all the<br />
fun activities before they proudly<br />
pick their yearly pumpkin.<br />
The mother of the Torcivia<br />
family has been coming since she<br />
was a kid and has always brought<br />
her own kids to the Pumpkinland<br />
festival. “I loved taking photos of<br />
them in the pumpkin patch when<br />
they were really little,” she said.<br />
Antonio Torcivia, one of the four<br />
children in the family, says his favourite<br />
part is the animals.<br />
The four children, amongst the<br />
dozens of children and families,<br />
searched the pumpkin patch on<br />
the way out of Pumpkinland, for<br />
their perfectly round and orange<br />
traditional Halloween decoration.<br />
It’s a great<br />
family<br />
farm.<br />
Elsewhere on the property, Lisa<br />
and Sandy Behrend watched their<br />
daughter, Lexi, play in the Sand<br />
Toylot.<br />
The family hasn’t been to the<br />
farm in quite a few years but were<br />
glad to return.<br />
“It would be nice if it wasn’t’ so<br />
cold though,” Lisa laughed with her<br />
hand tightly bundled in her pockets.<br />
But the weather was not going to<br />
stop the family from enjoying all<br />
the fun the Whittamore’s farm has<br />
to offer.<br />
The weather the previous weekend<br />
was completely opposite,<br />
with above seasonal temperatures
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Community chronicle.durhamcollege.ca November 1 - 7, 20<strong>16</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> 11<br />
Locals run for special needs children<br />
Everyone gets<br />
together on a cause<br />
like that.<br />
This was Zoey’s and her parents’,<br />
Jessica Santos and Ajay Virrey, first<br />
year at Run Ajax. Both hope to return<br />
every year to support Grandview.<br />
Santos has also started a blog,<br />
www.jessicarachele.com.<br />
She has written about her experiences<br />
finding out about Zoey’s<br />
diagnosis and her progress with<br />
Grandview so far.<br />
Ajax mayor Steve Parish was also<br />
in attendance. He says events like<br />
these are beneficial to the community.<br />
“They bring people together over<br />
a common cause, about helping<br />
kids who have particular medical<br />
issues, everybody sympathizes<br />
with that,” he says. “Everyone gets<br />
together on a cause like that.”<br />
Santos and Virrey hope to make<br />
their #TEAMZOEY group bigger<br />
in the coming years to support<br />
Zoey and to thank Grandview.<br />
Photograph by Kayano Waite<br />
Run Ajax had its annual 5K run on Sept. 25.<br />
Kayano Waite<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
Several mini obstacles are spread<br />
across a large soccer field. Volunteers<br />
spread out layers of medals<br />
on a table near a large finish line.<br />
A stream of mostly blue-shirted<br />
runners prepare themselves to start<br />
their morning marathons.<br />
They are here for the annual<br />
Run Ajax event.<br />
More than $40,000 was raised<br />
for Grandview Children’s Centre,<br />
according to the agency’s executive<br />
director Bridgitte Tschinkel.<br />
The money raised will go towards<br />
the nearly 26,000 children in<br />
Durham on Grandview’s waitlist.<br />
Grandview is a not-for-profit<br />
pediatric treatment and rehabilitation<br />
centre with locations in Whitby,<br />
Port Perry, and most recently<br />
Ajax.<br />
Grandview offers many services,<br />
including speech-language pathology,<br />
audiology assessments among<br />
others.<br />
Zoey Virrey, 2, was born with<br />
cerebral palsy and was referred to<br />
Grandview by Sick Kids Hospital<br />
in Toronto earlier this year.<br />
She has received both occupational<br />
therapy and physiotherapy<br />
at Grandview.<br />
She ran in the 1K children’s event<br />
earlier that day. Zoey had several<br />
relatives there alongside her, many<br />
of them wearing #TEAMZOEY<br />
superhero T-shirts to support her.
12 The <strong>Chronicle</strong> November 1 - 7, 20<strong>16</strong> chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Community<br />
Arts and culture in the city<br />
Trusha Patel<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
Oshawa is making a name for itself<br />
in the arts and culture communities.<br />
That’s the message Oshawa mayor<br />
John Henry delivered at the 20<strong>16</strong><br />
Cultural Summit, an annual event<br />
organized by the City of Oshawa to<br />
provide updates regarding the city’s<br />
activities regarding arts, culture,<br />
and heritage in the past year.<br />
“Oshawa has been in the shadow<br />
of Toronto for so long,” Henry<br />
said, noting 20<strong>16</strong> has been a year<br />
of achievements for the city.<br />
Among the highlights, according<br />
to the 20<strong>16</strong> Cultural Summit<br />
achievements and highlights guide:<br />
• More than 6,000 attendees for<br />
the 20<strong>16</strong> Peony Festival, an event<br />
where 300 to 400 different types<br />
of peonies were displayed, along<br />
with live music, food, and gardening<br />
seminars.<br />
• More than 1,400 people attended<br />
Concerts in the Park, a free<br />
outdoor concert at Memorial Park,<br />
in which 14 bands performed.<br />
• There were also seven local organizations<br />
that partnered with the<br />
city for Culture Squared, an event<br />
that hosts an artists marketplace<br />
Photograph by Trusha Patel<br />
Oshawa Civic Band sets the mood with upbeat jazz to start off<br />
the cultural summit.<br />
at Civic Square for individuals<br />
and enthusiasts interested in arts,<br />
culture, and heritage. This year’s<br />
partners were Oshawa Museum,<br />
Oshawa Public Libraries, Living-<br />
Room Community Art Studio, Ontario<br />
Regiment Museum, Oshawa<br />
Senior Citizens Centre, Oshawa<br />
Little Theatre, and Oshawa Art<br />
Association.<br />
“We work with so many local<br />
organizations, almost too many to<br />
even speak about,” said Catherine<br />
Richards, Manager of Culture and<br />
Central Recreation Services.<br />
Culture Squared also had more<br />
than 30 performers, musicians, and<br />
bands this year, with 90 per cent<br />
being local groups.<br />
This year there were more than<br />
40 festivals and events held across<br />
the city. Eight city-run events included<br />
Oshawa Celebrates, Peony<br />
Festival, Canada Day, Culture<br />
Square, Concerts in the Park,<br />
Tree Lighting, Deck the Halls, and<br />
Doors Open.<br />
Nineteen sites participated in the<br />
20<strong>16</strong> Doors Open event, including<br />
three new ones, which were Pine<br />
Ridge Model Train Club, Lakeridge<br />
Health Oshawa LHEARN<br />
Centre, and Science and spectacle<br />
– Walking Tour through Alexandra<br />
Park.<br />
Oshawa showed its support for<br />
art by displaying four new public<br />
art pieces, one community mural at<br />
Civic Square, and three pianos - at<br />
City Hall, Northview Community<br />
Centre, and South Oshawa Community<br />
Centre.<br />
Yolanda Beasley, an Oshawa<br />
resident who directed and acted in<br />
her own movie filmed in Oshawa,<br />
also screened her film’s trailer for<br />
the first time during the Cultural<br />
Summit.<br />
“The (Oshawa) city has definitely<br />
helped me a lot in my journey,” said<br />
Beasley.<br />
Durham College’s faculty of<br />
Media, Art and Design also teamed<br />
up with Cultural Collaborations for<br />
Civic Square collaboration, Arts<br />
Resource Centre (ARC) Window<br />
Installation, and a Civic Square<br />
Banner partnership with RMG.<br />
DC students and the city engaged<br />
the community to design and<br />
select a mural which is now located<br />
at Civic Square. Students will also<br />
be creating artwork to celebrate<br />
Canada’s 150th anniversary, and<br />
the artwork will be installed on<br />
the ARC windows next year May.<br />
There will also be an installation of<br />
five ‘Culture Lives Here’ banners,<br />
which lead up to Civic Square and<br />
RMG.<br />
The presentation also included<br />
a brief list of priorities that will be<br />
focused on in 20<strong>17</strong>. According to<br />
Richards, the collaboration with<br />
Durham College, 150th Anniversary<br />
of Canada, public art community,<br />
event planning guide,<br />
partnership development, and the<br />
collaboration with the cultural<br />
leadership council are some activities<br />
that will be worked on next<br />
year.<br />
'It's like a nightmare version' of a city like Oshawa<br />
Oshawa author comes back to<br />
the city for cultural summit<br />
Photograph by Sharena Clendening<br />
Author Andrew F. Sullivan.<br />
Sharena Clendening<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
An author’s job is to make people<br />
care about the words that have<br />
been written.<br />
That was the message Oshawa<br />
author Andrew F. Sullivan brought<br />
to the city’s Cultural Summit held<br />
at the Arts Resource Centre Oct.<br />
19.<br />
The City of Oshawa holds the<br />
event annually to update people<br />
on the status of arts and cultural<br />
events in the community.<br />
As part of the summit, Sullivan<br />
spoke to some city staff, along with<br />
officials from UOIT and Durham<br />
College and Oshawa residents<br />
about his book, called ‘Waste’.<br />
“The first rule is that nobody<br />
cares, and you have to make<br />
them care, and it is up to you to<br />
make your work valuable to other<br />
people,” says Sullivan, 29, about<br />
the process of writing.<br />
Sullivan says the book is about a<br />
broke down industrial city in 1989,<br />
in the middle of a downfall.<br />
He says it is not specifically about<br />
here, but is a “shadow” of a city<br />
like Oshawa.<br />
“It’s not really about Oshawa, it’s<br />
like a nightmare version, a lithium,<br />
nightmare version of a city of this<br />
size in a post-industrial sort of landscape<br />
and it takes place in the 80’s,”<br />
he says.<br />
Sullivan says writers tend to<br />
write about what they know and<br />
he knows Oshawa because he grew<br />
up here, attending Father Francis<br />
Mahoney elementary school and<br />
St. Stephen’s Secondary School in<br />
Bowmanville until he moved away<br />
to London, Ont. to attend Western<br />
University in 2005.<br />
Sullivan started writing at a<br />
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writing became more than just a<br />
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Currently, he has two other<br />
books that are written and awaiting<br />
publication and is about to start<br />
work on a third.<br />
In addition to his written work,<br />
Sullivan works at an urban design<br />
company in Toronto.<br />
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14 The <strong>Chronicle</strong> November 1 - 7, 20<strong>16</strong> chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Community<br />
WE Day draws<br />
thousands of<br />
youth to make<br />
a difference<br />
Barbara Howe<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
There were never any tickets for<br />
sale for one of the hottest events in<br />
Toronto.<br />
Nevertheless, 20,000 students<br />
and educators from more than<br />
1,000 schools across Ontario<br />
packed the Air Canada Centre<br />
(ACC) with enough energy to raise<br />
the roof at the ninth annual WE<br />
Day celebration Oct 19.<br />
WE Day is the culmination<br />
of the WE Movement which is<br />
a family of charitable and social<br />
enterprise organizations. Their<br />
goal is to empower young people<br />
to make a difference both at home<br />
and around the world.<br />
An ocean of students surged<br />
into the ACC to experience the<br />
‘greatest classroom in the world’<br />
at a full-day live event. A series<br />
of world-renowned speakers and<br />
performers including Gord Downie<br />
of the Tragically Hip, Margaret<br />
Trudeau, the mother of Canada’s<br />
prime minister, and astronaut<br />
Chris Hadfield took turns to inspire<br />
the young crowd.<br />
“You can’t buy a ticket to WE<br />
Day. It’s a movement. When we<br />
come together, we create massive<br />
change,” said Craig Kielburger,<br />
as he pranced around the stage<br />
alongside his elder brother, Marc.<br />
The brothers co-founded the<br />
family of organizations in 1996<br />
when Craig was 12-years-old.<br />
The younger Kielburger was<br />
inspired to be an advocate for<br />
change after he read a newspaper<br />
article about another 12-year-old,<br />
Iqbal Masih from Pakistan. Masih<br />
was murdered for speaking out<br />
against child slavery. Kielburger<br />
took the newspaper to his Grade 7<br />
classmates the next day and started<br />
a group to try and make a difference.<br />
Since 2007 youth involved in<br />
the WE Schools program have<br />
raised more than $62 million for<br />
Photograph by Barbara Howe<br />
CFL legend Michael "Pinball" Clemons and mother Anna Marie Bryant rally the WE Day crowd.<br />
Jenn Amaro<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
Getting lost in the long, twisty,<br />
turning hallways is a common<br />
fear for many students at Durham<br />
College.<br />
It can take a while into the semester<br />
before a pattern develops for<br />
first years to learn the easiest route<br />
to each class.<br />
Kierra Knight, who was visiting<br />
the school for the first time, said it<br />
did not take long for her to get lost.<br />
“I couldn’t find the Tim Hortons,<br />
and had to ask many people along<br />
the way how to get there. At least<br />
everyone was really nice and helpful,”<br />
she said.<br />
Even past first year, trying to<br />
find something at an unheard of<br />
section at Durham College, the fear<br />
resurrects about getting lost.<br />
Thankfully, Durham College has<br />
launched new interactive maps online.<br />
The maps allow users to easily<br />
navigate around the Whitby and<br />
Oshawa campus, with details about<br />
every major space in the buildings.<br />
They were made available just in<br />
time for the start of the 20<strong>16</strong> school<br />
more than 2,500 local and global<br />
organizations. They have also<br />
volunteered 19.9 million hours<br />
and collected 7.6 million pounds<br />
of food for those in need.<br />
Students in the schools involved<br />
in the program earn the right to<br />
attend the event by taking action<br />
in one local and one global cause.<br />
Twin sisters Nivaal and Maryam<br />
Rehman, Grade 10 activists<br />
from Sinclair High School<br />
in Whitby, filmed the event for<br />
their own YouTube Channel, The<br />
World with MNR.<br />
The girls said they hope to raise<br />
awareness for issues such as gender<br />
equality, girls’ education and environmental<br />
sustainability.<br />
“It’s extremely inspirational,<br />
there’s lots of positive energy,” the<br />
girls said in unison about the event<br />
at the lunchtime break.<br />
The twins were born in Pakistan<br />
and moved to Canada in<br />
2006. They were inspired to become<br />
activists when their grandmother<br />
donated land in her village<br />
to build a girls’ school there to give<br />
girls the same opportunities as<br />
boys.<br />
Since then, the two 15-yearolds<br />
have continued to be involved<br />
in community and environmental<br />
issues in Canada, Pakistan and<br />
around the world. They participated<br />
in the WE campaigns, WE<br />
are Silent and WE Scare Hunger.<br />
In 2015 the sisters were awarded<br />
the Governor General’s Caring<br />
Canadian Award for their work in<br />
global and local communities.<br />
Photograph by Barbara Howe<br />
Thousands of students descended on the Air Canada Centre to celebrate WE Day. The annual<br />
event brings together performers and speakers to inspire and empower youth to make a<br />
difference around the world.<br />
year.<br />
The development of the interactive<br />
maps was led by James Myers,<br />
a 2015 graduate from Durham<br />
College. Myers is a junior<br />
web developer, and works with the<br />
Communications and Marketing<br />
department at Durham College.<br />
Myers understands that it is important<br />
for students to get to class<br />
quickly. “When I was a student at<br />
Durham College I spent a lot of<br />
time rushing around between classes<br />
and I wanted to make it easier<br />
for students to get where they need<br />
to go,” said Myers.<br />
After approximately five months<br />
of work, collaborating with other<br />
school employees as well as writers,<br />
multimedia specialists and<br />
designers, the site is up and running<br />
and ready for students, staff<br />
and visitors to use.<br />
It is also very easy to operate<br />
for everyone. Users click on the<br />
location that they wish to go to<br />
and there is information on that<br />
location and a navigation tool.<br />
The navigation allows the users<br />
to enter their start location and<br />
their destination and the map will<br />
assist on their journey to get there<br />
Tragically Hip front man,<br />
Gord Downie drove all night from<br />
Ottawa to perform at the event.<br />
His latest album, Secret Path was<br />
inspired by the plight of the indigenous<br />
communities in the residential<br />
school system, particularly<br />
12-year-old Chanie Wenjack.<br />
The stadium heard the story of<br />
Wenjack who escaped the Cecilia<br />
Jeffrey Indian Residential School<br />
near Kenora, Ont. in 1966. Last<br />
weekend marked the 50th anniversary<br />
of his death. The young<br />
audience watched in quiet reverence<br />
during Downie’s emotional<br />
performance of The Stanger.<br />
Downie, who was diagnosed<br />
with terminal brain cancer earlier<br />
this year, illustrated Wenjack’s<br />
final ordeal; a walk down a frozen<br />
railway track after he escaped<br />
from the school. Downie ended<br />
the song collapsed and crumpled<br />
at the front of the stage.<br />
Other speakers and performers<br />
energized the crowd throughout<br />
the day. High school student,<br />
swimmer and Olympic gold<br />
medalist, Penny Oleksiak spoke<br />
about the importance of motivation<br />
and dedication in achieving<br />
dreams.<br />
Margaret Trudeau, the mother<br />
of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,<br />
spoke of her struggles with mental<br />
health.<br />
WE Day has more stops scheduled<br />
this fall throughout Canada<br />
and next spring venues will include<br />
stops in the U.S. and London,<br />
U.K.<br />
Interactive maps help DC, UOIT students navigate around campus<br />
with the quickest route possible. It<br />
will show the estimated amount of<br />
time to walk there and the distance.<br />
The destinations include<br />
each building on campus, foods<br />
services, study areas, and transit<br />
stops.<br />
Icons for each location make it<br />
quick and easy to find exactly what<br />
the user is looking for without needing<br />
to know the name of each place.<br />
The maps are available on the<br />
Durham College website, the<br />
information kiosk in the Gordon<br />
Willey building, and on the mobile<br />
app for Durham College.
Campus chronicle.durhamcollege.ca November 1- 7, 20<strong>16</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> 15<br />
How to maintain a work-life balance<br />
Abbygail Donneral<br />
Special to the <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
“Oh, no! I have three assignments,<br />
two tests, a meeting, chapter readings<br />
and I have to work this week!<br />
How will I even begin to do it?”<br />
This is a common question most<br />
students have when faced with a<br />
large workload, including myself.<br />
However, almost always I make it<br />
through and succeed in what I am<br />
aiming to accomplish.<br />
For students going to school, balancing<br />
assignments, work, and a<br />
healthy lifestyle isn’t easy. Personally,<br />
I am in a condensed program,<br />
that allows little time to work due to<br />
the course load, but I have ensured<br />
that I made the time in my schedule<br />
(during my breaks) to work as a Career<br />
Development Student Assistant<br />
work study position. There are several<br />
things that I often follow that<br />
allow me to maintain work-life<br />
balance:<br />
1. Get Organized<br />
The first thing that I do is keep a<br />
schedule. Every year I maintain a<br />
dry erase calendar, and a planner.<br />
The calendar is on the wall by my<br />
door, so this way I can see it every<br />
morning before I leave. This calendar<br />
is colour coded by class. On it,<br />
I outline all my assignments, tests,<br />
and anything else that I have to do<br />
in that month. In the planner, I do<br />
the same thing, and every time I<br />
receive a new assignment or get<br />
notified of a test I add it into the<br />
calendar.<br />
2. Breathe<br />
The second thing that I do is taking<br />
the time to stop and breathe in<br />
between completing tasks. In order<br />
to be successful and not as stressed<br />
you need to take these moments just<br />
to take a breath and re-evaluate.<br />
During an especially busy day, I<br />
will always set aside the time to go<br />
to a quiet place, stop, breathe, and<br />
re-start.<br />
3. Talk with family and<br />
friends<br />
The final thing that I do to maintain<br />
the balance is that I make sure<br />
I put time aside in my week to communicate<br />
with my family. I don’t<br />
live at home so being away from<br />
my family is hard. I take the time<br />
to call them when I not so busy.<br />
It helps to give me a boost to get<br />
through my week, no matter how<br />
busy it is.<br />
Just remember to stay organized<br />
and breathe!<br />
For additional tips and resources<br />
on how to maintain a healthy<br />
work-life balance, please be sure to<br />
visit your career office; the Career<br />
Development office at Durham<br />
College or the Student Life Career<br />
Centre at UOIT.<br />
This column is courtesy of the UOIT<br />
Student Life Career Centre.
<strong>16</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> November 1 - 7, 20<strong>16</strong> chronicle.durhamcollege.ca<br />
Entertainment<br />
Canadian icon<br />
Lee Aaron on<br />
music longevity<br />
Tommy Morais<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
Her Bodyrock album went platinum<br />
in Canada. At just 22 she toured<br />
Europe opening for Bon Jovi. She’s<br />
known as the Metal Queen— a play<br />
on her album of the same name—<br />
a title she still carries more than<br />
30 years after the record’s release.<br />
These days the 54-year old Lee<br />
Aaron, juggles motherhood with<br />
life on the road.<br />
Born Karen Lynn Greening,<br />
Aaron is currently touring in support<br />
of her latest studio album Fire<br />
& Gasoline. The new effort is her 11<br />
career studio album and Tomboy is<br />
her first single in 20 years.<br />
The average mother might be<br />
grocery shopping on a Friday<br />
night, but Aaron sings her heart<br />
out onstage on top of her motherly<br />
duties.<br />
“What I’ve been doing is targeted<br />
pockets of dates rather than<br />
doing a full-cross Canada tour. I’m<br />
sort of breaking up the touring,”<br />
she says. “My husband is also a<br />
musician, it makes it easier to<br />
understand [for our two children].”<br />
For Aaron, touring is different<br />
now than it was in the 1980s.<br />
“The music industry is not what<br />
it used to be. It’s not the days of<br />
record companies putting $50,000<br />
in tour support. When you go out<br />
you have to figure it out and make<br />
it financially viable.”<br />
She remembers her early days,<br />
touring with Bon Jovi in Europe<br />
during the spring of 1985.<br />
Tyler Hodgkinson<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
As the crowd roars and heavymetal<br />
music pumps through monitors,<br />
three quick dings of a bell<br />
signify the battle of titans at an<br />
independent wrestling show.<br />
This was the scene at Rocktoberfest,<br />
a card full of body-thumping<br />
bouts put on by Oshawa-based<br />
promotion Pro Wrestling Eclipse<br />
(PWE). The event, which took<br />
place at the Royal Canadian Legion<br />
Hall, attracted an audience<br />
of about 100.<br />
International wrestlers like former<br />
Total Nonstop Action (TNA)<br />
star Johnny Devine and Extreme<br />
Championship Wrestling (ECW)<br />
legend Shane Douglas headlined<br />
“I knew we had made it when<br />
we came back to these same places<br />
and we were now headlining,”<br />
With success came pressure from<br />
record labels for more of the same.<br />
“There would be a hit song by<br />
a new artist and the record label<br />
would say you have to write something<br />
like that.”<br />
Aaron and her band decided to<br />
forgo record company demands<br />
and made the album they felt they<br />
should make instead. The resulting<br />
work, 1989’s Bodyrock, was a commercial<br />
success.<br />
“Of course when you have success<br />
everyone takes credit afterwards,”<br />
she admits.<br />
In the early 1990s the musical<br />
landscape shifted and Aaron, like<br />
many musicians at the time, felt the<br />
repercussions.<br />
“In pop-culture, grunge hit like<br />
a tsunami and it pretty much annihilated<br />
the careers of everybody<br />
that was doing classic melodic<br />
rock,” she explains. “I’m not the<br />
only person who felt a victim of<br />
that. I continued on.”<br />
She soldiered on, but the waves<br />
just kept coming.<br />
“I showed up one day in Vancouver<br />
and these banker boxes were<br />
on my doorstep. I discovered I was<br />
almost half a million dollars in debt<br />
that I wasn’t aware of and I had to<br />
declare bankruptcy in 1996.”<br />
Although she is best known for<br />
anthems like Metal Queen, Hands On<br />
and Watcha Do To My Body, Aaron<br />
experimented with jazz and blues<br />
following her bankruptcy.<br />
the talent. Devine has wrestled at<br />
multiple events for the promotion,<br />
but it was the first time Douglas<br />
stepped foot into the PWE ring.<br />
He says he would love to return<br />
to Oshawa.<br />
“I went to my roots and started<br />
singing jazz and blues never expecting<br />
that to be successful.”<br />
A second career was not an option.<br />
“I can’t ever remember not<br />
thinking I was going to be a singer;<br />
I always knew what my passion<br />
was.”<br />
The singer was recently inducted<br />
into Brampton’s Walk of Fame.<br />
“If my agents can make sure my<br />
schedule allows for it, I want to be<br />
back in November,” he proclaims<br />
to the packed house.<br />
Douglas has been in the business<br />
since the early 80s, and been under<br />
“I think in a weird way it meant<br />
more to my parents,” she says of<br />
the induction.<br />
“All those years of screwing up<br />
and piano lessons...they invested<br />
in me. It’s really more of a payoff<br />
for them.”<br />
To Lee Aaron, it represents more<br />
than just another award.<br />
“At home I have Toronto Music<br />
Awards and a Canadian Music<br />
contract to World Championship<br />
Wrestling (WCW) and World<br />
Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)<br />
in the past. However, he is arguably<br />
best known for a promo turning the<br />
NWA championship into the ECW<br />
championship in 1994.<br />
Douglas took on Jake O’Reilly<br />
and hometown hero Cody Deaner<br />
in the main event.<br />
Deaner, who has found success in<br />
TNA and now Global Force Wrestling<br />
(GFW), has the moniker “King<br />
of the ‘Shwa.” He is a fan-favourite,<br />
and received a warm welcome from<br />
the rowdy crowd.<br />
Other combatants, including<br />
Buck Gunderson, Phil Atlas, Kat<br />
Von Heez and Cat Power also wrestled<br />
at Rocktoberfest.<br />
WWE Hall of Famer “Hacksaw”<br />
Jim Duggan was scheduled to appear<br />
at the event, but was unable<br />
to attend.<br />
Roddy Untereinter, a long-time<br />
supporter of PWE and attendee at<br />
Rocktoberfest, says he likes PWE<br />
because it has something big-time<br />
Publisher Association songwriter<br />
award, this one has the significance<br />
of a lifetime award achievement”.<br />
Judging by her youthful appearance,<br />
you’d never know she’s been<br />
in the music business for more than<br />
three decades.<br />
“I resist the temptation of feeling<br />
old, I probably would feel [age] if<br />
I wasn’t continuing to be an artist<br />
and doing records,” she laughs.<br />
Rocktoberfest a slobber-knocker for Oshawa fans<br />
Hometown<br />
wrasslin’<br />
show a hit<br />
Photograph by Tyler Hodgkinson<br />
Cody Deaner (left) and Shane Douglas in the main event.<br />
Lee Aaron is currently on tour promoting her new Fire & Gasoline album.<br />
Photograph courtesy of Faithful Productions<br />
promotions don’t have: a good roster.<br />
“I like PWE because it has the<br />
best talent,” Untereinter says. “My<br />
favourite wrestler is Rage.”<br />
According to PWE founder and<br />
owner Sean “Dr. Mask” Morley,<br />
without dedicated fans like Untereinter,<br />
the company would not be<br />
where it is today.<br />
“The fans have supported me<br />
very much, through every up and<br />
down,” he says. “I appreciate them<br />
and wrestling is all about the fans.”<br />
“I had an event here, I don’t<br />
know how many years ago, I think<br />
it was a fundraiser for Parkinson’s,<br />
which my mom had. We had a<br />
problem with the ropes where they<br />
were all breaking, it was a horrible<br />
night, but the fans came back.”<br />
He says Rocktoberfest is a big<br />
event for him and PWE, but every<br />
show is just a promotion for the<br />
next.<br />
PWE returns to the Royal Canadian<br />
Legion Hall for November<br />
Bash ‘<strong>16</strong> on Nov. 26.
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Photographs by Dean Daley<br />
A fan of the book Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Kaylee McMann (left) standing in front of the movie poster and reading the book.<br />
Miss Peregrine novel stands above movie<br />
Film<br />
adaptation<br />
doesn’t<br />
live up to<br />
the hype<br />
Dean Daley<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
If you haven’t read the book “Miss<br />
Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar<br />
Children”, then the movie might<br />
have been good. But if you did<br />
read the novel then the movie is<br />
a letdown.<br />
Both novel and film are focused<br />
on the lives of peculiar children.<br />
What makes these children so peculiar<br />
are their special abilities. The<br />
children’s abilities include super<br />
strength, the ability to create fire<br />
and levitate. Both novel and movie<br />
are set in the present and during<br />
World War II, with the inclusion of<br />
a time loop, which allows certain<br />
peculiars to take a day and restart<br />
it over and over again. In both film<br />
and novel, the time loop day happens<br />
during World War II. Both<br />
stories also feature themes related<br />
to the holocaust. Like the Jews in<br />
World War II, the peculiar children<br />
are being hunted. Furthermore,<br />
the book and film have the same<br />
villainous characters: the hollowgast<br />
and the wights. Hollowgasts<br />
and wights were once peculiars,<br />
turned into monsters by an experiment.<br />
To regain their human form,<br />
hollowgasts eat peculiars then they<br />
become wights. Hollowgast seems<br />
to be a play on words with holocaust<br />
as wights is with white.<br />
While the book and movie have<br />
quite a few similarities, there are<br />
also many differences; the biggest<br />
difference is the way the children<br />
find out the wights are Nazis in<br />
the book. This was left out of the<br />
movie.<br />
When comparing the book to<br />
the movie, it becomes apparent the<br />
movie version of “Miss Peregrine’s<br />
Home for Peculiar Children” does<br />
not have the level of detail or the<br />
hard hitting plot points the novel<br />
had. The novel explores emotional<br />
ties between characters, while the<br />
movie shows brief connections. The<br />
novel showed internal struggles that<br />
Jacob, the main character, had to<br />
face throughout the story; however,<br />
the movie lacked most of the internal<br />
strife present in the novel.<br />
The movie and novel had different<br />
climaxes. The movie’s climax<br />
was purely for cinematic drama,<br />
while the book builds on crucial<br />
plot points and heartfelt moments.<br />
The book’s climax also leads to a<br />
sequel. The movie’s does not.<br />
The cinematic version of “Miss<br />
Peregrine’s Home” showed a glimmer<br />
of the emotional and psychological<br />
ties displayed throughout<br />
the book. In the movie, Abe,<br />
Jacob’s grandfather, tells bedtime<br />
stories about his stay at Miss Peregrine’s<br />
home. After Jacob finds his<br />
grandfather dead in the woods,<br />
Jacob needs therapy to deal with<br />
his loss. Another watered down relationship<br />
in the movie is between<br />
Abe and Emma, one of the children<br />
at Miss Peregrine’s Home. Abe’s<br />
relationship with Emma seems very<br />
shallow and one-sided in the movie<br />
but not in the book.<br />
In the novel, there is a deep relationship<br />
not just between Abe and<br />
Emma but also between Abe and<br />
Jacob.<br />
The first chapter in the novel<br />
builds on pictures and stories<br />
shared between Abe and Jacob.<br />
Jacob is confused by the stories<br />
of real life monsters. Jacob comes<br />
to believe Abe created monsters<br />
out of Nazis because they killed<br />
his family. The novel also shows<br />
the deep pain Jacob felt when his<br />
grandfather died and how it affected<br />
him mentally. Jacob went to a<br />
psychiatrist for several months and<br />
had vivid nightmares of the night<br />
Abe died. This shows the profound<br />
attachment he had to his grandfather.<br />
The novel also reveals the<br />
relationship of two lovers, separated<br />
from one another because of the<br />
war. Even though Abe and Emma<br />
loved each other he decided to join<br />
the war. Abe and Emma sent letters<br />
to one another constantly and when<br />
the war was over Abe promised<br />
Emma he would find them a new<br />
home to live in North America.<br />
Throughout the years the letters<br />
became less frequent. Finally, Abe<br />
sent Emma a letter with a picture<br />
of him holding a baby: his baby.<br />
The picture broke Emma’s heart.<br />
Abe and Emma’s relationship<br />
was well developed in the novel.<br />
However, Jacob’s internal struggle<br />
was not developed in the film.<br />
In the movie, Jacob’s inner demons<br />
seem to be hidden and not<br />
important. His main issues are trying<br />
to understand what happened<br />
to his grandfather and what his<br />
grandfather said with his dying last<br />
words. Jacob also barely struggles<br />
with whether to stay with the peculiar<br />
children or return home at<br />
the end of the movie.<br />
In the novel though, Jacob struggles<br />
with his thoughts, with his love<br />
of Emma, and with his dreams<br />
about the night his grandfather<br />
died. Jacob was seeing the monster<br />
and his grandfather in dreams for<br />
months while seeing his psychiatrist.<br />
Lastly, Jacob struggles with<br />
whether or not he should stay with<br />
the peculiars or if he should go back<br />
home. He realizes he didn’t have<br />
much to go back to, and the peculiars<br />
needed his help. So he stayed.<br />
If you read<br />
the novel then<br />
the movie is a<br />
letdown.<br />
Not only were Jacob’s struggles<br />
done in more detail in the novel<br />
than the film but the climax also<br />
had more detail.<br />
The climax in the movie and<br />
the novel both feature hollowgasts<br />
and wights. The movie had many<br />
wights and hollowgasts fighting<br />
against the children while Miss<br />
Peregrine, the peculiar who protects<br />
them, was locked away. The<br />
Baron, the villain of the movie,<br />
used his team of hollowgast and<br />
wights to attack Jacob and the<br />
peculiar children, who end up defeating<br />
the wights and hollowgasts<br />
and their leader. This victory is the<br />
climax of the movie. The movie<br />
climax also added a very random<br />
love interest between two peculiars.<br />
This side story was unnecessary,<br />
and did nothing for the plot.<br />
The novel of “Miss Peregrine’s<br />
Home” has a very different climax.<br />
The children are put against the<br />
one wight who had been Jacob’s<br />
psychiatrist and the one hollowgast<br />
who killed Abe.<br />
The children manage to defeat<br />
the hollowgast, but the wight pulls a<br />
gun on the children and steals Miss<br />
Peregrine and one of her friends.<br />
Afterwards the wight shoots Millard,<br />
one of the peculiar children.<br />
Nearing the end of the climax a<br />
fight between Emma, Jacob and<br />
the wight occurs.<br />
The fight ends with Jacob killing<br />
the wight. Then he and Emma<br />
jump off the lighthouse they were<br />
fighting on. They survive the jump<br />
and a Uboat arrives. They then<br />
realize some Nazis are wights. This<br />
establishes Nazis as monsters for<br />
peculiars and Jewish people further<br />
cementing the underlining theme<br />
of WWII and the holocaust in the<br />
story.<br />
While the movie and the book<br />
have a similar theme and setting of<br />
WWII, the movie would have been<br />
better if given a different name.<br />
The movie lacked significant plot<br />
points and development the novel<br />
had. The novel showed character<br />
attachments, internal struggle, and<br />
a heartfelt climax.<br />
If you’ve read the novel “Miss<br />
Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar<br />
Children” by Ransom Riggs don’t<br />
bother with the movie. If you haven’t<br />
read the book and don’t plan<br />
on it, then give Tim Burton’s adaptation<br />
a try.
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Celebrating 20 years of Pokemon<br />
Tyler Searle<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
From handheld games to android<br />
phones, you’ll find people<br />
playing and connecting over Pokémon.<br />
It has been that way for 20<br />
years.<br />
The successful role-playing<br />
game about capturing monsters<br />
to use in battle has gone on to become<br />
a $46 million franchise. The<br />
success of Pokémon can be attributed<br />
to good marketing, strong<br />
game design, and the existence of<br />
the Pokémon anime.<br />
“Most people didn’t know<br />
about it [Pokémon] until they saw<br />
the TV show, then they went out<br />
and bought a Game Boy,” said<br />
Becca LeClerc, the assistant manager<br />
at EB Games, Whitby North.<br />
For their 20th anniversary,<br />
the Pokémon Company has gone<br />
full force in marketing to old and<br />
younger fans. From branching off<br />
into new games, airing new seasons<br />
of the anime, and making<br />
new plushies and trading cards,<br />
there seems to be something for<br />
everyone.<br />
“It’s not just a handheld RPG<br />
(role playing game),” said LeClerc.<br />
“It can be a fighting game, it can<br />
be a photography game, it can be<br />
many things not just associated to<br />
Pokémon.”<br />
On Nov. 18, Pokémon Sun and<br />
Moon, will be available for purchase.<br />
Fans were able to get a taste<br />
of the new games through a demo<br />
released on Oct 18. These games<br />
Photograph by Tyler Searle<br />
A collection of Pokemon games and memorabilia from over the last few years.<br />
will be bringing several changes to<br />
the formula, including getting rid<br />
of the long running gym-systems<br />
that serve as the game’s boss battles.<br />
“It breathes a bit of fresh air<br />
into the franchise,” said LeClerc.<br />
Though the games have only<br />
begun to branch outside of their<br />
traditional RPG formula, 20<strong>16</strong><br />
has seen the franchise experiment<br />
with a variety of games outside of<br />
handheld.<br />
“I think that one of the best<br />
things about Pokémon is its ability<br />
to expand,” said John Goodwin, a<br />
professor and program coordinator<br />
of video game development at<br />
Durham College. “Pokémon Go<br />
was immensely successful, even<br />
though it wasn’t made by Nintendo<br />
or the Pokémon company.”<br />
Released in July, Pokémon Go<br />
is a game for Android and iPhone<br />
developed by Niantic that allow<br />
players to catch Pokémon while<br />
walking utilizing augmented reality<br />
(AR).<br />
“There’s something insidiously<br />
cool to take Pokémon and use it<br />
to introduce players to AR,” said<br />
Goodwin. “Pokémon Go brought<br />
attention to the franchise. It did<br />
exactly what Nintendo needed it<br />
to do.”<br />
Alongside Pokémon Go, the<br />
Pokémon company also released<br />
Pokken Tournament in July. The<br />
game, which was made with the<br />
help of Bandi Namco Entertainment,<br />
places classic Pokémon<br />
characters into a fighting game<br />
similar to the Tekken series. It is<br />
a game that Pokémon fans had<br />
been curious about ever since seeing<br />
Pikachu among the roster of<br />
Nintendo’s fighting game, Super<br />
Smash Brothers.<br />
“That [Pokken] would have<br />
been much more of a risk if they’d<br />
never tested the formula,” said<br />
Goodwin. “Nintendo is very good<br />
at marrying different franchises.”<br />
In March 20<strong>17</strong>, Nintendo will<br />
release its newest mobile console,<br />
the Nintendo Switch. Many Pokémon<br />
fans are hoping that, with its<br />
ability to be played at home or on<br />
the go, they will finally get a console<br />
Pokémon game.<br />
“From a technology standpoint,<br />
the franchise has long legs,”<br />
said Goodwin. “Because it is the<br />
second most lucrative franchise<br />
owned by Nintendo, it’s a flag ship.<br />
I wouldn’t be surprised if a new<br />
Pokémon game were to come out<br />
for the Nintendo Switch.”<br />
The strength of Pokémon has<br />
always been its ability to bring<br />
people together. By trading with<br />
other players to collect all 721<br />
Pokémon, a strong community has<br />
formed that has remained standing<br />
these 20 years.<br />
“I see the franchise as being<br />
valuable because there are<br />
so many people connected to it,”<br />
said Goodwin. “It ‘sambassador<br />
for new technologies and innovations.”<br />
Crown Lands<br />
bring new flare<br />
to Oshawa<br />
Alex Debets<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
When Cody Bowles and Kevin<br />
Comeau started bonding over<br />
their mutual interest in legendary<br />
Canadian rock band Rush just over<br />
two years ago, a new band, and a<br />
critical partnership was born.<br />
They call themselves Crown<br />
Lands. They actually met at a tryout<br />
for another band, and after<br />
jamming for two-and-a-half years,<br />
the group has returned from one<br />
of their most ambitious tours to<br />
date.<br />
It was a tour that saw the Oshawa<br />
duo playing 14 shows in <strong>17</strong><br />
days, covering much of the Canadian<br />
east coast.<br />
Their first EP, Mantra, has<br />
a nostalgic sound, a sound that<br />
should be familiar to fans of Led<br />
Zeppelin or Rush, the influences<br />
are clear. “Mantra comes from<br />
many different places,” Bowles explained.<br />
Comeau added: “Yeah it’s<br />
like Zeppelin, Rush.”<br />
The duo is working on a new<br />
EP, with a new, fuller, sound. “The<br />
new stuff I’m incorporating more<br />
keyboards, and just a bit more bass<br />
and different sounds. Just trying<br />
to fill out the low end. Just trying<br />
to change,” said Comeau. Bowles<br />
said the duo added the new sound<br />
“because it’s always healthy to<br />
change.”<br />
The band is not saying much<br />
about the unannounced EP, but<br />
they have confirmed it will be recorded<br />
at the Chalet Studio in<br />
Uxbridge. Chalet Studio was also<br />
responsible for recording Roll the<br />
Bones by Rush.<br />
No formal release date has<br />
been set for this yet unnamed project,<br />
but the band expects it to be<br />
done by next summer.<br />
Photograph by Alex Debets<br />
The group Crown Lands,<br />
Cody Bowles (left) and Kevin<br />
Comeau, mesh together<br />
elements of blues and<br />
psychedelia.
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Entertainment chronicle.durhamcollege.ca November 1 - 7, 20<strong>16</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> 21<br />
Oshawa arts community bands together<br />
Members of Spoken<br />
Weird share at open mic<br />
night run by EPEC<br />
Jessica Stoiku<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
“A lot of the stories I just came<br />
in for really…connected with me,”<br />
says Heather Ballantyne, guest to<br />
The LivingRoom. “I have been a<br />
nomad my whole life. I have never<br />
come across this space where there<br />
is so much acceptance and love and<br />
understanding and [a] genuine feeling<br />
of community,” she says.<br />
Kathleen Finely shared The<br />
Goose Story by Dr. Harry Clarke<br />
Noyes. Finely connected the story<br />
of teamwork and belonging to the<br />
dynamics of The LivingRoom.<br />
I have never come across this space<br />
where there is so much acceptance.<br />
Through open mic performances,<br />
members of Oshawa’s arts community<br />
were able to experience “a<br />
love and a connection that is overwhelming.”<br />
That’s the opinion of Cora Reid,<br />
host of the open mic event and<br />
founder of EPEC (Experience Pure<br />
Energy Connections), who says she<br />
made those connections with artists,<br />
including members of Spoken<br />
Weird, at The Living Room Community<br />
Art Studio last month.<br />
The small studio in downtown<br />
Oshawa was filled with a couple<br />
dozen poets, musicians, storytellers<br />
and members of the community.<br />
Throughout the evening performers<br />
shared their personal<br />
stories and struggles through song<br />
and poetry to a room of complete<br />
strangers. Despite the different<br />
walks of life stepping through the<br />
door, the room held a sense of unity<br />
and belonging.<br />
Sid MacIsaac, founder of the<br />
spoken word poetry group Spoken<br />
Weird in Oshawa, became addicted<br />
to the adrenaline of performing<br />
his poetry.<br />
“It’s like dancing with just your<br />
chest and just your heart. I feel so<br />
anxious when I’m up there. I hate<br />
that I love to do this,” he says.<br />
Through Spoken Weird, MacIsaac<br />
hopes to provide an outlet for those<br />
to express their hardships.<br />
“This says so much to me about<br />
what this space is, about the community<br />
that it offers all of us,” she<br />
says.<br />
“I always wanted to fly with the<br />
flock. I was always falling to earth.<br />
[I] wanted to be found…to be guided.<br />
All I ever wanted was to be in<br />
the group. So I’m here in this space,<br />
and maybe I will find it.”<br />
Reid believes the world would<br />
not thrive without artists.<br />
“We’re world changers, we’re the<br />
ones that…are able to express what<br />
people are afraid to say, afraid to<br />
feel and afraid to think,” she says.<br />
“When you embrace that, you<br />
realize how special and unique you<br />
really are.”<br />
Witnessing the raw performances<br />
brought tears to Reid’s eyes.<br />
“I didn’t intend to be emotional.<br />
Every person’s story has touched<br />
me on a level…I just thought I was<br />
the only one,” says Reid, her voice<br />
Cora Reid singing along with guests to Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds.<br />
cracking.<br />
Reid used to go through life<br />
thinking she was the only one to<br />
have ever felt abused, mistreated<br />
and marginalized. The connection<br />
she felt to each performer was unreal.<br />
“Here’s a group of artists,<br />
beautiful people, that have all<br />
been through the same thing. I’m<br />
feeling you on such a level that it’s<br />
overwhelming, and I’m feeling a<br />
love and a connection that is overwhelming,”<br />
says Reid.<br />
Reid hopes to see the art community<br />
having a greater impact in<br />
Photograph by Jessica Stoiku<br />
Durham Region.<br />
Reid wants to show “the politicians…the<br />
police officers… the<br />
teachers that this is what it’s all<br />
about. It’s about being inclusive; it’s<br />
about accepting people. There’s a<br />
lot our community can learn from<br />
this.”<br />
Photograph by Jessica Stoiku<br />
A guest to The<br />
LivingRoom paints live<br />
as fellow community<br />
members perform.
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Sports<br />
'Bigs' bode well for Lords<br />
Christopher Jones<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
The Durham Lords men’s volleyball<br />
team is confident, talented and<br />
ready to win.<br />
Their drive and passion could be<br />
seen in the way they played when<br />
they hosted the Adidas Cup Oct.<br />
7-8. They didn’t win – Fleming<br />
claimed the title with a win over<br />
Algonquin – but the Lords did post<br />
a record of 4-1-2.<br />
With an emphasis on defence,<br />
the Lords held their own against<br />
strong teams, such as Algonquin<br />
and Conestoga, and even beat the<br />
winner of the tournament, the<br />
Fleming Knights, to start day one<br />
of the round robin.<br />
On the second day the Lords won<br />
their first game against Cambrian,<br />
but were unable to carry that success<br />
forward, tying Conestoga and<br />
losing to Algonquin.<br />
While the Lords didn’t win, the<br />
team showed a lot of promise for<br />
the season to come. Head coach<br />
George Matsusaki and fifth year<br />
players, Braydon Rodgers and Mike<br />
Harper, all emphasized the importance<br />
of defence. The three of them<br />
believe their ability to defend will<br />
serve Durham well this season.<br />
Before the tournament, Matsusaki<br />
was confident in his team<br />
despite the fact they had lost an<br />
exhibition game to the Mohawk<br />
Mountaineers in three straight sets.<br />
“The defence aspect of our game<br />
is in pretty good shape, and yeah,<br />
for this time in the season we’re in<br />
pretty good shape,” he said.<br />
Matsusaki said while the team<br />
wanted to do well in the Adidas<br />
Cup, they were going to treat it as<br />
more of a pre-season warmup.<br />
“I expect that when all is said and<br />
done, we’ll be battling for the top<br />
two spots, top three spots.”<br />
We have some<br />
new, big recruits<br />
coming in, and<br />
it seems like<br />
the guys are<br />
meshing.<br />
Matsusaki showed a lot of confidence<br />
in his players, and when fifth<br />
year players, Braydon Rodgers and<br />
Mike Harper were asked about the<br />
upcoming season, they returned<br />
the same level of confidence.<br />
On what’s different this year<br />
from last year, when Durham<br />
finished tied for first with a <strong>16</strong>-4<br />
record in the East, but ultimately<br />
failed to maintain that pace in the<br />
playoffs, Rodgers pointed to additional<br />
size and teamwork.<br />
“We have some new, big recruits<br />
coming in, and it seems like the<br />
guys are meshing more this year<br />
than they were last year to start off,”<br />
Durham players gather between serves at the Adidas Cup.<br />
he said.<br />
Harper pointed to the old but<br />
accurate sporting cliché about the<br />
importance of defence.<br />
“I believe our team brings more<br />
of a defensive aspect that we’ve<br />
been lacking the last four years I’ve<br />
been here,” he said. “We still have<br />
the offensive power, but defense is<br />
what wins you championships in<br />
every sport.”<br />
With a newfound emphasis on<br />
defence, Durham team seems confident<br />
and ready to go for the 20<strong>16</strong>-<br />
20<strong>17</strong> season.<br />
The confidence that they’ve<br />
shown both on and off the court<br />
is astounding; with players like<br />
Photograph by Michael Welsh<br />
Jordan McFarlane showing an unbridled<br />
passion that can only help<br />
his team’s confidence.<br />
The team’s first regular season<br />
game took place against the Canadore<br />
Panthers Oct. 23, where they<br />
won in five sets. Their next is on<br />
Nov. 3 against the Georgian Grizzlies<br />
in Barrie, Ont.<br />
Durham Lords women dominate Algonquin Thunder<br />
Joshua Nelson<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
The Durham Lords women’s<br />
basketball team cruised to a win<br />
over the Algonquin Thunder in<br />
their home opener.<br />
The Lords won 75-59 over the<br />
Thunder, Oct. 21.<br />
The Thunder, traditionally a<br />
strong team in the OCAA, jumped<br />
out to a 14-10 lead, but Durham<br />
dominated from that point on.<br />
Heather LaFontaine, Durham’s<br />
head coach, was ecstatic after the<br />
win.<br />
“That’s Algonquin! Algonquin<br />
has typically been the number one<br />
team in the east for years, and I<br />
think we handled them very well<br />
tonight, like that wasn’t a fluke<br />
win…we handled them right across<br />
the board, so it was huge for us,”<br />
said LaFontaine.<br />
The Lords battled back after<br />
the first quarter, led by Brittany<br />
Walters, who scored 10 points in<br />
the quarter and pulled the Lords<br />
ahead 31 - 25.<br />
But, in the second half, it was all<br />
Lindsey Panchan who accumulated<br />
15 of her 23 points in those two<br />
quarters alone.<br />
Panchan has high hopes for Durham<br />
after the decisive win.<br />
“I am expecting our team to<br />
make it to the OCAA (Ontario<br />
Colleges Athletic Association), to<br />
become number one in the east,<br />
I am expecting us to really just<br />
buckle down and have extreme<br />
focus on our offensive sets,” said<br />
Panchan.<br />
Panchan, a back-to-back CCAA<br />
Photograph by Joshua Nelson<br />
Durham's Brittany Walters (left) battles for control of the ball against an Algonquin player.<br />
(Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association)<br />
all-Canadian awards<br />
winner.<br />
She has personal goals she would<br />
like to achieve in her final year<br />
competing with the Lords.<br />
“(My) personal goals this year are<br />
to be a little bit more fit, pick up on<br />
my strength and conditioning and<br />
be a little bit more versatile, and<br />
get to the hoop, I was relying a lot<br />
on my jump shot,” said Panchan.<br />
Panchan’s personal goals also<br />
involve motivating her team and<br />
fellow teammates.<br />
“Personally I’m expecting just<br />
to keep lifting the team up, keep<br />
helping the team, working with my<br />
teammates, passing the ball when<br />
there’s an open player,” said Panchan.<br />
The Lords’ win confirmed<br />
the high hope the team had of<br />
improving defence from last year.<br />
“We worked really hard this past<br />
pre-season…we stayed determined,<br />
we came in with a goal of how we<br />
were going to play defence,” said<br />
Dakota Kirby, a Durham guard.<br />
The coach agreed with Kirby.<br />
“We’re playing better defence,<br />
there’s no comparison between the<br />
defence we are playing now and the<br />
defence we played last year, it’s a<br />
whole other team,” said LaFontaine.<br />
The Lords hope to use this win<br />
as a stepping-stone for moving forward<br />
to becoming number one in<br />
the east.
Sports chronicle.durhamcollege.ca November 1 - 7, 20<strong>16</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> 23<br />
Coffey supports good cause<br />
Nicole O’Brien<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
Have you ever wanted the chance<br />
to play alongside some of National<br />
Hockey League’s biggest legends to<br />
hit the ice? What if you could have<br />
that chance and raise money for a<br />
great cause?<br />
Easter Seals, a charitable organization<br />
that assists children and<br />
adults with disabilities and special<br />
needs has teamed up with the NHL<br />
for five years now to make this very<br />
dream come true.<br />
One of their most popular fundraisers<br />
are the celebrity hockey<br />
classic series that occur in six cities<br />
across Ontario.<br />
Paul Coffey<br />
is huge. I was<br />
nervous to<br />
just be in his<br />
presence.<br />
Paul Coffey lends his name to<br />
his own series for Easter Seals in<br />
Vaughan, Ont. Coffey is ranked as<br />
the second best defencemen of all<br />
time and played for teams such as<br />
Edmonton Oilers, Pittsburgh Penquins<br />
and the Boston Bruins.<br />
“They asked me four years ago<br />
to chair this event,” said Coffey. “I<br />
say every year and it’s true, I said<br />
sure I’ll do it for a year and now it’s<br />
our fourth year.”<br />
Coffey kicked off the tournament<br />
with the annual Captain’s Breakfast<br />
in early October. This year<br />
J.D. Smith & Sons, a competing<br />
team in the November tournament,<br />
hosted the breakfast at its Vaughan<br />
warehouse.<br />
Captains from each of the competing<br />
teams gathered to pick up<br />
their tournament jersey and have<br />
the chance to meet Coffey himself.<br />
A select few J.D. Smith employees<br />
were also invited to the breakfast.<br />
Terry O’Brien, a trucker and<br />
self-proclaimed hockey super fan,<br />
was one of those lucky employees.<br />
“Paul Coffey is huge,” said the<br />
49-year-old driver. “I was nervous<br />
to just be in his presence.”<br />
Games in your backyard<br />
Photograph by Nicole O'Brien<br />
Paul Coffey (fourth from the left) gathers with participants at the Easter Seals hockey classic.<br />
In these series tournaments, each<br />
team raises a minimum of $300 per<br />
player to qualify to play. Each team<br />
gets to draft a confirmed NHL<br />
player for their team. Past players<br />
have included Wendal Clarke, Eric<br />
Lindros, and Rick Natress.<br />
Last year, the Paul Coffey series<br />
raised around two hundred thousand<br />
dollars.<br />
Myke said the goal this year will<br />
be well above that.<br />
“Everybody has a great time and<br />
a lot of fun,” she said. “And a lot of<br />
dollars are raised.”<br />
All tournament proceeds go towards<br />
Easter Seals. The charity<br />
provides financial assistance to<br />
help purchase essential mobility<br />
equipment such as wheelchairs,<br />
ramps and lifts.<br />
Easter Seals also owns and operates<br />
a summer camp for children<br />
with disabilities.<br />
Easter Seals holds many special<br />
fundraisers in an effort to raise<br />
money for their very understaffed<br />
charity.<br />
“We are only 47 full-time staff<br />
all across Ontario, and we are less<br />
than 3 per cent administration<br />
management fee,” said Charlene<br />
Myke, development manager.<br />
“That includes our CEO, our services,<br />
our camps, our IT and our<br />
communications.”<br />
She says it is a once in a lifetime<br />
opportunity for hockey fans while<br />
supporting a great cause.<br />
To find out more about the<br />
Easter Seals’ hockey classic, go to<br />
their website EasterSeals.org.<br />
Teenager races to NASCAR title in Peterborough<br />
Tyler McMurter<br />
The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
The 20<strong>16</strong> NASCAR Pinty’s Series<br />
season wrapped up in early September<br />
in Peterborough. Cayden<br />
Lapcevich ends the year with a<br />
second-place finish and becomes<br />
the youngest NASCAR champion<br />
in history.<br />
The <strong>16</strong>-year-old son of former<br />
NASCAR racer Jeff Lapcevich<br />
won three races, earned nine Top-<br />
5 finishes, and finished inside the<br />
Top-10 in all 12 races.<br />
Lapcevich finished third or better<br />
in all seven events held on oval<br />
tracks. It was a year drivers dream<br />
about.<br />
The number 76 team clinched<br />
the championship after finishing<br />
third in the second-last race.<br />
While title contenders like Alex<br />
Tagliani and Andrew Ranger had<br />
trouble at Canadian Tire Motorsport<br />
Park, Lapcevich salvaged a<br />
podium finish.<br />
The two biggest concerns in the<br />
final race for him were taking it<br />
easy and not damaging the race<br />
car.<br />
Drivers speed by at the Kawartha Speedway as part of the Nascar Pinty series.<br />
“Today, we were just going to be<br />
conservative and not push ourselves<br />
too hard,” Lapcevich says.<br />
“You know, just make everything<br />
right. I think that’s what we did. We<br />
came out with a clean race car. No<br />
Men’s Basketball: Nov. 3, Durham vs. Georgian,<br />
8 p.m., Campus Recreation and Wellness<br />
Centre (CRWC)<br />
Nov. 5, Durham vs. Canadore, 6 p.m., CRWC<br />
Women’s Basketball: Nov. 3, Durham vs.<br />
Georgian, 6 p.m., CRWC<br />
damage. We could go race again<br />
tomorrow if we wanted.”<br />
The Lapcevich family has been a<br />
racing family for generations. They<br />
did not plan to fund Cayden and<br />
run the full 20<strong>16</strong> season. Having<br />
Photograph by Tyler McMurter<br />
no primary sponsor for the entire<br />
season made it difficult to travel the<br />
country and race. After a few Top-<br />
5 finishes, they decided to pursue<br />
the championship.<br />
The 54-point difference between<br />
Men’s Badminton: Nov. 6, IUCC Ridgeback,<br />
CRWC<br />
Women’s Badminton: Nov. 6, IUCC Ridgeback,<br />
CRWC<br />
Cayden Lapcevich and secondplace<br />
Andrew Ranger is the largest<br />
spread since 2011.<br />
While some careers are just beginning,<br />
for Jason Hathaway, his<br />
career came to an end at Kawartha<br />
Speedway.<br />
Hathaway told media that 20<strong>16</strong><br />
will be his final full-time season<br />
and the Kawartha 250 might be<br />
his final race.<br />
Hathaway shocked the racing<br />
community by winning the event.<br />
It’s his ninth NASCAR Pinty’s<br />
Series win.<br />
After the race, Hathaway told us<br />
what his future plans are.<br />
“I’m probably going to build a<br />
late model and run a few races,”<br />
Hathaway says.<br />
“I may come back and run a<br />
few of these, maybe just at CTMP.<br />
Maybe not. We’re going to buy a<br />
boat as a family. We’re going to<br />
celebrate and have fun at the beach<br />
next year. For sure.”<br />
For more information about your<br />
favourite NASCAR Pinty’s Series<br />
drivers, visit http://hometracks.<br />
nascar.com/series/pintys-series.
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