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I hate that I love to do this. 

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Volume XLIV, Issue 4 chronicle.durhamcollege.ca November 1 - 7, 2016 

Durham dominates page 22 

Photograph by Josh Nelson 

Pumped up for pumpkins page 9 

Rushing 

back to Oshawa 

page 19 

Photograph by Jenn Amaro 

WE work together page 14 

Photograph by Barbara Howe 

Photograph by Alex Debets

2 The Chronicle November 1 - 7, 2016 chronicle.durhamcollege.ca 

BACK 

of the 

FRONT 

DC journalism students look at Durham College and UOIT, 

and beyond, by the numbers and with their cameras 

Photograph by Dan Koehler 

Moore fun at the GM Centre 

Country singer Kip Moore got fans from all over to spend their 'beer money' at the GM 

Centre recently. The platinum singer-songwriter is travelling across North America on the 

Me and My Kind tour. 

Latin 

flavour 

UOIT student Gabriel 

Pizarro (left) teaches 

Vianney Nengue (right), the 

VP of college affairs, a few 

dance step during Latin 

night at E.P. Taylor's. 

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from around campus! 

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Photograph by Euvilla Thomas

Campus chronicle.durhamcollege.ca November 1 - 7, 2016 The Chronicle 3 

Pub endures dry spell 

Campus 

pub hopes 

to get both 

its alcohol 

licence and 

regular 

business 

back soon 

Erin Williams 

The Chronicle 

E.P. Taylor’s is a little quieter than 

usual lately. Students still come in 

to study or to relax after a long day 

of classes. They can grab a pop, 

coffee or food - but not a beer. 

E.P. Taylor’s is under a change of 

management and with the changes 

to the name on the liquor licence 

comes a whole host of issues. 

Meri Kim Oliver is vice-president 

of student affairs. She says 

the agency that oversees liquor licensing 

needs to be satisfied with 

the new operator and ensure that 

person has the necessary qualifications. 

“They’ve identified another person 

who has those qualifications 

and that new person’s qualifications 

have been sent to the AGCO 

for review. As soon as AGCO says 

whether or not that’s as acceptable 

person, then they are able to serve 

alcohol or not,” says Oliver. 

The Alcohol and Gaming 

Commission of Ontario (AGCO) 

is responsible for administering 

the liquor licence. All licenses are 

issued to individuals, business partnerships 

or corporations, for operation 

at a specific location. 

It’s unclear from the Student Association 

who is now in charge or 

who the person is under review for 

the license. 

Ray Kahnert is a spokesperson 

with the AGCO. He says changing 

the name on a licence can be a long 

process if all of the qualifications 

are not met. 

Meanwhile, many students are 

walking further south to St. Louis 

Wings on Simcoe Street to get a 

beer after classes. 

Bethany Nickoes manages St. 

Louis pub. She says a dry campus 

pub has had an impact on their 

business. 

“It does affect us because a lot 

of people who come in are bringing 

it up and telling us they come 

from E.P. Taylor’s or they usually 

go to E.P. Taylor’s but since they 

can’t drink there they come here to 

have drinks,” says Nickoes. “That’s 

how we found out was by word of 

mouth, from the students coming 

in.” 

The Chronicle has made several 

requests to the Student Association 

for clarification. The SA says it 

E.P. Taylor’s has seen a change in environment since losing its licence to sell alcohol. 

cannot comment at this time. 

Meanwhile, Oliver says E.P. Taylor’s 

is still a busy place regardless 

of the lack of licence. 

“Because they haven’t had an 

active licence right now, a lot of 

clubs and societies have been able 

to book their functions there in the 

day time and they’ve actually been 

busy as a result. It’s actually had a 

different outcome then expected,” 

says Oliver. Oliver says this is not a 

case of any infractions or rules not 

being followed. 

Photograph by Erin Williams 

She expects the pub will be back 

up and running with a licence by 

next semester. 

“It’s simply that there are very 

specific regulations and we have to 

follow those to ensure the licence is 

maintained,” she says. 

Yes or no? Cellphones’ role in class remains a debate 

Euvilla Thomas 


There is an ongoing wireless war 

about the use of cellphones in classes 

across Canada. 

On one hand Shahnaz Khan, 

a Toronto teacher, has publicly 

asked parents for their permission 

to confiscate student’s cellphones. 

Meanwhile, in Oshawa, many instructors 

at Durham College are 

incorporating the technology into 

their school content as a learning 

tool for education. 

Virginia Harwood, is an awardwinning 

law professor in the school 

of Justice and Emergency Services 

at Durham College. 

She uses Top Hart technology 

as part of her daily class. Top Hart 

is an app that can be used on a 

phone to respond to questions. It 

is a learner response system with 

many capabilities. 

A professor can ask students 

questions and they can respond 

immediately using their cellphones. 

“If I put up a question in a regular 

classroom, a student would have 

to put up their hands. In this case 

everyone can answer the question 

and know if they are actually 

understanding the material or not,” 

says Harwood. 

This can also provide shy students 

with the opportunity to take 

part in activities without having to 

speak out loud in class. 

“In a classroom of fifty students 

I can’t always gauge if everyone is 

understanding the material immediately. 

Sometimes I have to 

wait until a test, this way if 60 per 

cent of the class gets that question 

incorrect I can go back immediately 

and ask the class to do an activity 

around it,” says Harwood of 

the advantage of Top Hart. 

Durham College is not the only 

school using cellphones. School 

Boards in Manitoba and the Durham 

Catholic District School 

Board integrated BYOD (Bring 

Your Own Device) into their 

school curriculum for educational 

purposes. 

Students are allowed to use cellphones 

to have access to the tools 

and information necessary for 

Photograph by Euvilla Thomas 

Virginia Harwood, law professor at Durham College, sits in her office using her cellphone. 

learning. The school boards say 

BYOD improves student success. 

Gary Gannon, a Human Resource 

professor at Durham College, 

says the college encourages 

students to use cellphones if it’s a 

means for information. 

For him the problem is when it 

becomes a distraction in the classroom. 

“Personally I don’t have a problem 

with cellphones in the classroom, 

because at the college we 

now encourage people to utilize 

technology for learning,” says 

Gannon. 

But teachers such as Shahnaz 

Khan say they can be a big distraction 

for students. 

“It can be everything from not 

paying attention, just being really 

inattentive, and I find that particularly 

the kids who are vulnerable 

miss important information and 

are tuning out of class discussions,” 

she says. 

Khan says the quality of the 

classroom experience is less. 

The topic of technology has always 

been controversial. So students 

at Durham College were 

quick to give an input. 

“I personally use my cellphone 

to take notes,” says engineering 

student Stephanie Manser. 

Students such as Manser say 

their cellphones are important to 

their education, which includes 

note taking and finding information. 

Virginia Harwood says cellphones 

can be used as learning tool 

rather than a distraction. 

For Harwood it is all about making 

the technology educational. 

“I think if we can harness the 

mobile device as a learning tool 

it will help us in terms of student 

learning,” she says.


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Mo is more this Movember 

If you see an increase in strange 

and spectacular moustaches in the 

coming weeks, rest easy. 

November is known for the disappearing 

of leaves, the arrival of 

Christmas music and the growing 

out of facial hair. 

It’s Movember. 

Movember is a campaign centered 

around opening up talks 

about men’s health: something that 

hasn’t always been easily discussed. 

Consider the fact that eleven Canadian 

men die of prostate cancer 

every day. Prostate cancer is the 

third leading cause of death from 

cancer in Canada and more deaths 

occur if the cancer goes undetected. 

Early detection of prostate cancer 

alone can increase survival rate 

by 96 per cent. 

Movember has been more effective 

than any other men’s health 

campaign in history. It was started 

by a couple of regular guys and 

caught on as a trend among men. 

Given the success and money 

raised for prostate cancer, Movember 

has branched out to other 

health issues that men face, including 

testicular cancer and mental 

health. 

The foundation became official 

in 2003, and has since evolved beyond 

moustaches. Movember has 

changed the face of men’s health by 

creating a generation of men who 

aren’t afraid to talk to their doctor. 

In 2003, Travis Garone and 

Luke Slattery met over a beer in 

Melbourne, Austrailia and discussed 

fashion trends that have 

come and gone. They wondered 

if they alone could bring back the 

moustache, if even just for a month. 

They decided to convince others 

to spend the month of November 

growing out the best moustache 

they could. Thirty men took them 

up on the challenge. 

That first year no profits were 

made. It was the following year, 

2004, when enthusiasm for the 

stunt had grown so much they decided 

to start a charitable organization. 

Together they formed a foundation, 

but the question of where 

the money would go remained. 

Prostate cancer has always been 

something guys didn’t discuss even 

though it killed so many. 

Garone and Slattery approached 

the Prostate Cancer Foundation of 

Australia (PCFA), who agreed any 

funds raised would be accepted. No 

official partnership was formed. 

As of Nov. 1, 2016, the Movember 

foundation alone has raised 

over $300 million Canadian. In 

the spirit of opening up tough 

conversations for men, Movember 

has expanded its focus to include 

testicular cancer and mental health 

issues. 

The campaign has also brought 

about a renaissance of facial hair 

fashion. Men spend the month trying 

to outgrow their friends and enter 

December with a ‘stache they 

can be proud of. Some keep it as 

a permanent staple of their manhood. 

Guys, take this November and 

give growing your best Mo a try. 

It’s time to put this stigma about 

health to rest. 

Movember opens the discussion 

about prostate cancer, testicular 

cancer and mental health. If you 

can’t wear it on your sleeve, then 

wear it on your lip. 

Alex Debets and 

Travis Fortnum 

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chronicle.durhamcollege.ca November 1 - 7, 2016 The Chronicle 5 

Opinion 

Hey Apple, we want the jack back 

A classic phrase used by millennials 

when driving is “pass the aux cord.” 

This simple phrase lets the person 

with the auxiliary cord know another 

person wants to play music 

through their phone. This is not 

usually an issue, since all smart 

phones have audio jacks. At least 

they used to. 

The new iPhone7, released in 

September, has no audio jack. 

This is a bad idea. 

The new phone boasts two cameras 

that take a photo as one, a new 

and improved HD and a powerful 

new chip said to be the best in a 

smartphone yet, the cordless headphones 

come at an unreasonably 

Frank 

Katradis 

high price. 

Say goodbye to using other headphones. 

According to apple.com, if 

you want to hear music you have to 

pay $219.00 for AirPods: two cordless 

headphones to hear your music 

or talk handless. Now we can all 

look like the guy on his Bluetooth 

acting like he is busier than he already 

is. 

Apple likes to think about innovation, 

however, this is not innovation. 

This is about usability and 

customer satisfaction, and Apple is 

failing at satisfying their customers. 

People do not want to pay extra 

money for a specific pair of headphones. 

There used to be freedom 

of choice. If people wanted to 

use Skullcandy headphones, they 

could. If people wanted to use 

Beats by Doctor Dre, they could. 

If the person couldn’t afford expensive 

headphones, they could use a 

cheap dollar store pair. Now, if they 

want headphones, they must pay 

$219.00. 

The AirPods are two small, cordless, 

separate headphones that you 

could easily lose. If you do lose 

them, it will cost you $219.00 for 

your mistake. 

The worst part is the AirPods 

aren’t even out yet. According to 

apple.com the AirPods weren’t 

available till mid-October. Now, 

it’s looking like they won’t come 

out till late October. 

This means people who already 

have the iPhone7 can’t listen to 

music unless they are connected to 

Bluetooth. Now it’s official, we’re 

that “busy” guy on their Bluetooth. 

With previous models, the iPhone 

came with a set of headphones. 

The iPhone7 costs $1,029.00 or 

$1,559.00 depending on how many 

gigabytes you buy. Add another 

$219.00 to hear your music. 

Many Android phones range 

from $500 to $600, and they have 

the same features and come with 

headphones. If cost dictates, Android 

wins. However, Androids 

aren’t iPhones. 

AirPods are easy to lose, and 

not compatible with many devices, 

making the iPhone7 not compatible 

with many devices, especially those 

that require an audio jack. 

This is a major step down for 

Apple. 

The future seems rather pricey 

thanks to these jack apples, or 

should they be called jack-less. 

To help rape victims, let’s focus on the victim 

Even though it’s always in the news, 

rape is difficult to talk about. According 

to the Canadian Federation 

of Students-Ontario, half of all 

people in Ontario who are victims 

of sexual assaults are between the 

ages of 15 and 24. According to 

the Rape, Abuse, & Incest National 

Network (RAINN), 70 per cent 

of rape victims suffer moderate or 

severe distress and 33 per cent of 

women who survive a rape contemplate 

suicide. Seeing realistic 

examples of sexual assault in visual 

media can teach people about resources. 

It can also serve to validate 

victim’s experiences. Incorporating 

rape into a story can be beneficial 

to viewers, but only if done right. 

The way rape is portrayed in 

the media is poorly done. Instead 

of looking at how a rape victim 

copes and recovers from sexual assault, 

often the story shifts towards 

other characters. When stories 

about rape focus on the survivor, 

Kayano 

Waite 

and spend time with them during 

their recovery, it makes for a more 

rewarding viewing experience. 

While big screen works like The 

Birth of a Nation uses rape as a dramatic 

tool to poor effect. Other 

media such as Netflix original Jessica 

Jones and ABC network’s American 

Crime TV series are able to get 

to the heart of the issue by having 

a first-person perspective. 

The film The Birth of a Nation uses 

the rape of main character Nat 

Turner’s wife as the motivation for 

Turner to lead a slave rebellion. 

The film also includes a second 

rape of another slave, which leads 

to her husband helping Nat with 

the slave rebellion. Both of these 

scenes focus on the men’s reaction 

to these women being assaulted. 

While one of the women voices 

her pain over her assault, she is 

not given as much screen time as 

either of the two men. The problem 

with this is that it takes the abuse 

of female characters to make the 

male lead react to them. This becomes 

the main catalyst of conflict 

with the slaves and their owners. 

What’s also troubling about the 

film is even though it’s based on an 

actual person, the film’s writer and 

main actor, Nate Parker, inserted 

a rape that has not been historically 

documented. What this means 

is that the rapes in the story are 

there solely for plot convenience. 

Not out of necessity. Not out of history, 

as with the main plot points 

and themes. 

Other stories, like Netflix’s Jessica 

Jones, have been able to incorporate 

rape and expand on it in interesting 

ways. 

The original Netflix series focuses 

on superhero Jessica Jones, 

a woman traumatized by an abusive 

relationship. Jessica was raped 

and controlled by show’s villain. 

Though the show takes place in 

a superhero world, we see Jessica 

struggle in her daily life with depression 

and severe stress. Even 

though she is a superhero. 

While still in a relationship with 

her abuser, Jessica is suicidal. By 

the end of the story, she is able 

to confront her abuser and grow. 

While her story shows a more surreal 

take on a rape story, others are 

just as effective by looking at rape 

through a realistic lens. 

In ABC’s American Crime, main 

character Taylor is a male high 

school student who claims to have 

been raped by a male classmate. 

The show succeeds in its portrayal 

of rape and the culture surrounding 

it due to how the characters react 

to the assault. The show explains 

how a rape kit is used and reveals 

how uncomfortable adults are talking 

about rape, especially one that 

includes minors. American Crime 

also shows how people of varying 

ages, races, and sexual identities 

believe it’s impossible for a man to 

be raped. 

Media has the power to expand 

people’s views on important issues 

in society. But if writers are going to 

use rape in their stories, they need 

to avoid exploiting it. Nat’s does 

not need a rape to motivate him 

to freedom. To add a rape benefits 

no one in the story if unexplored. 

A character like Jessica Jones shows 

how trauma can stay with a victim 

long after assault despite superhero 

strength. A story like Taylor’s shows 

the result of questioning the truthfulness 

of an assault. 

A lot of truths can be fully realized 

in media when the focus is on 

the right character – the one fully 

affected by the issue. 

Trudeau one year later: Please get moving, Justin 

A little over a year ago, a wave of 

red swept the country. Justin Trudeau 

and his Liberals triumphed 

over Stephen Harper’s Conservatives. 

Despite conservative cries of 

“he’s just not ready”, the general 

consensus was Canadians wanted 

change and felt it would happen 

under Trudeau’s governance. 

Canada allowed itself to fall in 

love with its new leader, for a short 

period of time. The honeymoon is 

now over. 

Promises are partly how elections 

are won and Justin Trudeau’s campaign 

was full of them. Trudeau 

made promises he has yet to fulfill. 

Granted, it takes time to implement 

ideas and strategies, but many Canadians 

see their PM as a man who 

spends a lot of time travelling and 

Tommy 

Morais 

attending public events, and not 

enough running the country. 

One only need look at the Prime 

Minister’s Twitter account to notice 

the numerous places he visits: 

Washington, China and Ukraine 

among others. 

In between travels, Trudeau has 

made assisted death legal, brought 

31, 000 Syrian refugees to Canada 

and raised taxes for the rich to ease 

the burden on the middle-class and 

low-income families. 

A significant change to government 

has been the creation of an 

equal gender cabinet. Trudeau’s 

31-member cabinet is comprised 

of 16 men and 15 women. 

When pressed by the media 

about the equality in his cabinet, 

Trudeau said, “It’s 2015.” 

Some changes by the Trudeau 

administration haven’t been positive, 

however. 

For instance, senior citizens have 

seen their pensions cut, making it 

more difficult for them to get by. 

Many promises have yet to be fulfilled, 

such as the legalization of marijuana 

and changes to the veteran 

charter. 

The PM has been criticized for 

spending large sums of money, 

which from day one he made clear 

would happen. He has spent $69 

million for First Nations mental 

health issues here, $64.5 million for 

future humanitarian crises there. 

It all adds up quickly. We have yet 

to see results on the infrastructure 

and job front. 

During the 2015 campaign, 

Trudeau announced he was going 

to create jobs and infrastructure 

to boost the country’s economy 

by creating a deficit. And create a 

deficit he did. As expressed during 

the campaign, Trudeau and his Liberals 

aren’t expecting the budget to 

be balanced until 2019-2020. 

Nonetheless, in the public’s eye, 

the PM is certainly personable. He 

isn’t afraid to embrace traditions 

and heritage, even when they’re 

not his own. Trudeau has taken 

part in pride parades, prayed with 

Muslims in mosques and worn aboriginal 

regalia when he met with 

First Nations. 

“Sunny ways my friends,” said 

Trudeau upon being elected Canada’s 

new PM. “Sunny ways.” The 

clouds have set in. 

While competent on the surface, 

the Trudeau government has so far 

lacked production. It’s too early 

to tell how effective Trudeau has 

been or will be. Seeds have been 

planted, money has been spent and 

ideas have been thrown around. But 

Trudeau would be well-advised to 

put in a little more work at home 

and spend a little less time on the 

international scene. 

Oh and Justin, please be mindful 

of where the nation’s money goes. 

Thanks.

6 The Chronicle November 1 - 7, 2016 chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Campus 

Using technology in classrooms 

Jenn Amaro 


The digital craze in today’s society 

is almost unavoidable. Dr. 

Janette Hughes has been working 

for UOIT since 2006, researching 

how this advancement can be integrated 

into schools to help students 

learn and gain the skills necessary 

to succeed. 

Tell us what you do and how 

you do it. 

I am a Canada Research Chair 

in Technology and Pedagogy. I 

work in the Faculty of Education 

which means I can focus more on 

my research which looks at how 

can we use new technology and 

digital tools in schools. Mainly I 

work in K-12 education and am 

looking for new ways to use technology 

to enhance student learning. 

What makes your topic of research 

relevant? 

We live in a digital age and we 

need to understand how to use 

technologies, but we don’t want to 

just be users or consumers of technology 

we also want to be producers. 

Students in grades K to 12 

need the skills to be successful, not 

just in school but in life and their 

future employment. 

Can you tell us of your roots 

and how you ultimately arrived 

in Oshawa? 

to enhance learning 

This is one in a series of conversations with faculty experts at UOIT and Durham College 

Well, I was born in England. 

We moved to Canada when I was 

very young. I grew up from about 

grade three until I moved away 

for university in Oshawa. I went 

to Queen’s University and studied 

concurrent education. I did a 

degree in English literature and 

history and did my education degree 

after that. I taught at Donevan 

Collegiate Institute, where I was a 

student. When Sinclair opened in 

Whitby I moved there as an assistant 

head of English. Then in 2000 

we moved to London because my 

husband was taking a job there 

and I started working at Western 

University, which spiked my desire 

to work in the university environment. 

I decided to pursue a PhD 

and graduated (with) that in 2006 

and got hired here. 

It was really important to me to 

come back to Oshawa because I 

have roots here and I thought it was 

really amazing to have a university 

in this part of Ontario because I 

think it’s something that the community 

really needs. 

How and when did you get 

interested in this area of expertise? 

Dr. Janette Hughes standing in front of the 3D printer in one of the workshop rooms at UOIT. 

As a classroom teacher I noticed 

how engaged my students were 

when they were using technology. 

I wanted to know if it moved beyond 

just being a novelty. It can 

be used to enhance their thinking, 

collaboration and communication. 

Through all of that who inspired 

you along the way? 

My children and my students. I 

became a teacher because of my 

grade eleven English teacher, but 

in terms of who inspires my work 

it’s the kids that I work with in the 

classrooms and the students at 

UOIT, as well. At first I thought I 

would really miss making a difference 

in the lives of those students 

from K-12, but I find that if I can 

work with these teacher candidates 

and prepare them to be teachers of 

tomorrow then I’m still contributing 

and it still makes me feel good 

that I can do that. 

What is the most important 

thing in this field you think 

people should know? 

One of the most important things 

to me as a researcher is to ensure 

that all learners have access to this 

kind of technology. 

One of the things we focus on is 

how do we make [these resources] 

available to those who live in low 

socio-economic areas where there’s 

not as many resources or money to 

buy the equipment. 

Right now one of the things 

we’re investigating is how can we 

sometimes unplug activities so they 

still teach computational thinking 

or digital literacy but can be done 

on a lower budget. But how can 

we facilitate getting the resources 

allocated to the places that they 

need to be so that all students can 

experience this kind of learning? 

What is your favourite part of 

this research? 

I love working with the kids. I 

love seeing the enthusiasm of the 

teacher candidates. They want to 

be teachers because they’re passionate 

about students, and about 

learning themselves. They are so 


inspired to go out there and work 

with students so I love that. 

What is the toughest challenge 

that you have faced in 

this research? 

One of the things of working 

with cutting edge technologies is 

they work beautifully in your lab, 

but then moving them to a school 

you run into problems with the internet 

for example. So it’s a frustration 

but you always find ways 

around. You need to be able to 

problem solve and trouble shoot. 

This interview was edited for style, 

length and clarity.

Community chronicle.durhamcollege.ca November 1 - 7, 2016 The Chronicle 7 

War game draws vets’ ire 

James Bauman 


A recently released world war-related 

video game that is expected 

to sell 15 million units, has drawn 

the ire of some veterans and their 

families. 

Veterans are raising concerns 

about the developer and publisher 

of the game – called Battlefield 1 

- profiting from the experiences of 

veterans. 

Set during the First World War, 

Battlefield 1 is a first person shooter, 

developed by DICE, a Swedish 

video game company and is published 

by Electronic Arts. During 

the official release weekend of Oct. 

21 – Oct. 23, there were 749,189 

players in game during peak hours 

across PC, PlayStation 4, and 

XBOX One. 

Photograph by James Bauman 

Release copy of Battlefield 1. 

The use of war in popular forms 

of entertainment has existed almost 

as long as the formats, but to veterans 

and their families the commercialization 

and glamourization of 

war in the entertainment industry 

draws strong emotions. 

“I don’t think they should be 

profiting off of it… they glamourize 

a lot of it, to make people 

believe that war is glamourous, 

while it certainly isn’t,” said Arthur 

Boon, formerly of the Perth Regiment 

and the 19 th Canadian Army 

Field Regiment. “I was there from 

D-Day to VE-Day, I was wounded 

twice, and there is no glamour to 

it… it shouldn’t be done that way, 

I believe in having documentaries 

that tell what the war is all about.” 

Lorraine Longley, whose second 

husband John Longley served at 

Camp X in Oshawa during the 

Second World War, echoed a similar 

sentiment. 

“I don’t agree with that at all 

(using war as subject matter) profiting 

off of our soldiers who gave 

their lives, who were mortally 

wounded, coming back without legs 

and arms. I just don’t agree with it 

at all,” said Longley. 

Battlefield 1 engages players 

by having them take on the roles 

of six soldiers all fighting during 

the conflict under the command 

of different nation states that were 

involved in the First World War. A 

Royal Flying Corps fighter pilot, 

an ANZAC runner, and a Bedouin 

warrior under the command of 

Lawrence of Arabia are just some 

of the roles players can take on. 

Boon believes that the portrayal 

of war in books and films is also 

inaccurate when compared to the 

realities faced by the men who 

enlisted and served during both 

World Wars. 

“Some of our top writers weren’t 

born while the war was on, they 

have followed along and made 

money off of war. They go and get 

stories from generals and from the 

high command. They don’t tell it 

like it is on the ground. The way 

(war) happens is when the private 

soldier… is out there on the ground 

fighting that war. He knows what 

it’s all about,” said Boon. 

Battlefield 1 was released exactly 

three weeks before Remembrance 

Day. This Remembrance Day will 

mark the 97 th consecutive Nov. 11 

in which residents of the Commonwealth 

of Nations will pause, 

reflect, and remember. 

The game is a strong reminder 

of the First World War for a new 

generation that may be unfamiliar 

with that war. But to veterans 

such as Boon, there is no reminder 

needed. 

“My father served in World War 

One, one of my uncles served there 

and was killed at Vimy Ridge, my 

grandfather also served there, and 

I served over in Europe, and I also 

had four uncles who served down in 

Italy during the Second World War 

with the First Regiment, and one in 

the air force. So our entire family 

was involved in both of those wars. 

So I remember both of them (the 

First and Second World Wars),” 

said Boon. 

Photograph by James Bauman 

British serviceman, John Longley, served at Camp X. 

Second World War spy camp lives on in Whitby 

Rebecca Calzavara 


Some Durham College students 

are getting the opportunity to learn 

and be part of a significant part of 

this area’s history. 

Students in the heritage program 

have been involved in restoring the 

last remaining building from Camp 

X, located on the Oshawa-Whitby 

border by Lake Ontario, which was 

a training camp for spies during the 

Second World War. 

Lynn Philip Hodgson, who 

helped instigate local interest in 

Camp X, is working on a project 

with Durham College’s heritage 

program run by Ali Taileb. 

“Not too many people know 

its history,” Hodgson said about 

Camp X. 

Taileb was contacted by the 

Town of Whitby asking him what 

he could do in assisting with their 

project of making the remains a 

museum. The Ontario Regiment 

Museum wants to take the remaining 

Camp X building and relocate 

it near the museum on Oshawa 

airport property. 

Taileb teaches the course of restoration 

and renovation of historical 

buildings at Durham. 

“It’s a real situation, they wanted 

to create a Camp X museum” 

Taileb said, “and the students are 

involved in the design of the Camp 

X museum.” 

The students went to the museum 

and got some background 

on the camp and got to take a look 

at what the project was about. The 

students looked into the archives so 

they can restore the existing interior 

of the building. 

According to Taileb, this was a 

great way to get students in that 

program to use the skills they are 

learning in the classroom into the 

real world. 

“This site has a lot to offer in 

terms of being a historic war” 

Taileb said, “and it also fits very 

well with the course.” 

Camp X was built in 1941 and 

Photograph by Ali Taileb 

Before: Durham College view a model of the Camp X base. 

was a training camp for spies to go 

to Germany to fight against Germans 

in the Second World War. 

The camp opened on Dec 6, 

1941 and operated from 1941 to 

1945. 

A lot of important people have 

travelled through and attended 

Camp X, including Sir Ian Fleming, 

the creator of James Bond. 

According to a Heritage Evaluation 

Report created by Martindale 

Planning Services of Camp X, the 

only remaining Camp X building 

is a portion of one of the two ‘H’ 

shaped dormitories to house the 

After: the last remaining building of Camp X. 

agents who were training. 

According to Hodgson, the last 

remaining Camp X building was 

bought and saved by a woman 

named Muriel H. Sissons. Sissons 

was a cat lover and the dean of the 

Ontario Ladies College (now Trafalgar 

Castle School). 

She bought it for one dollar and 

approached the Ontario Humane 

Society to see if they would use it 

to house cats. 

The building was then moved 

to the Whitby Animal Shelter on 

Thickson Road but was never used 

to house cats. It was used as cold 

Photograph by Rebecca Calzavara 

storage and for holding dog food 

and equipment. After a few years 

the building was no longer used 

and was boarded up. 

For 40 years they have been trying 

to create a museum using the 

last remains of the camp explained 

Hodgson. 

Taileb explained that many 

people are not familiar with Camp 

X or what it is. When people find 

out about it they get excited and 

then start asking questions about 

the camp. 

“We can’t forget the past,” Taileb 

said.

8 The Chronicle November 1 - 7, 2016 chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Campus 

Going global is a priority for DC 

Durham group 

discusses 

Peru trip 

Dean Daley 


Travis Fortnum, a second-year 

Durham College (DC) web and 

print journalism student, describes 

his recent trip to Trujillo, Peru as 

“literally life changing.” 

DC’s Peru project was the 

school’s first international opportunity 

for students to go to another 

country through their program. In 

this case the opportunity was only 

offered to students in the journalism 

streams, video production and 

the culinary school. 

Through a two–year partnership 

that Durham has with Centro Experimental 

de Formación Profesional, 

a technical and vocational 

college in Trujillo, an opportunity 

presented itself. 

After a four-week application 

and interviewing process that Fortnum 

describes as “stressful”, three 

Durham students - Fortnum, Vik 

Panjawani and Kyle Rist - from 

the three different programs were 

chosen to go to Peru. They left 

Sept. 26 and returned Oct. 3. 

According to Danielle Harder, 

journalism professor at DC, the 

purpose of the trip was to “enhance 

the Peruvian school’s culinary 

management program through the 

expertise and curriculum of faculty 

from DC’s Centre for Food.” 

While in Peru, Rist shared some 

Canadian recipes with his new 

Peruvian colleagues and brought 

some Peruvian recipes back with 

him. Fortnum and Panjawani 

worked together as journalist and 

videographer to document the experience. 

According to Katie Boone, Durham’s 

manager of international 

projects and partnerships, the project 

was funded by the government 

of Canada, facilitated through Colleges 

and Institutes Canada and is 

part of its Education for Employment 

project. 

The focus of the project is to link 

graduate skill sets with industry demand 

and to make sure students are 

graduating with skills employers 

want and need. The whole project 

ends next March. 

Boone believes international 

opportunities, “build an incredible 

self-awareness when you are 

thrown into another culture, another 

community, with different 

expectations, different perceptions 

on who you are both from outsiders 

and from yourself that I think is a 

really great learning opportunity.” 

Boone isn’t the only administrator 

who believes in the importance 

of cultural opportunities. 

Elaine Popp, Durham’s 

vice-president academic (VPA), 

says one of her main roles as VPA 

is internationalization. Popp would 

like students to have opportunities 

to travel, study and learn abroad. 

Popp believes students who 

graduate from the programs at DC 

should have great cultural awareness, 

acceptance of different cultures 

and cultural diversities. 

According to Popp, our society is 

very interconnected and it’s quite 

often that companies communicate 

with other countries on a daily 

basis. 

“India’s not that far away anymore,” 

says Popp. 

According to Popp, DC implemented 

the International Education 

office last year. Previously, the 

International office looked at getting 

international students to come 

and study at DC. 

The ‘rebranded’ International 

Education office also looks at 

ways for students and faculty to go 

abroad and find ways to have global 

experiences at home for students. 

Popp says “it is now a priority 

having international opportunities 

for our students and our faculty. It is 

now recognized as being a priority, 

so it’s going to be given attention 

and focus. It’s not something that 

will happen ‘boom’ overnight but 

we’ll work towards it and work towards 

providing more opportunities 

for these trips.” 

Popp explains the trips may be 

short, come in the form of internships, 

or field placement opportunities. 

She explains some trips may 

even be exchanges - programs 

where Durham partners with another 

institution in another country 

and DC accepts one of their 

students and a DC student gets the 

opportunity to go to visit the other 

institution for a year. 

With the new department in 

place, within the next five years DC 

will be looking at a different sort 

of program. According to Popp, 

the perfect example is a program 

where students focus and learn 

about global events and also get 

opportunities to go to these global 

events.


and the turnout was tremendous. 

Steeles Avenue was backed up with 

cars waiting to turn in and parallel 

parking happening along side 

streets. 

Police had to escort drivers in and 

out of the parking lot, according to 

Lilian Igel, the manager at Whittamore’s 

farm. 

The turnout was incredible in 

early October, but despite the cold 

weather, Igel says families are still 

making their way into the farm. 

Igel has been working for the 

farm for 24 years and says it’s a fun 

place to work. “It’s a great family 

farm. The Whittamores are great 

people to work for, the staff is great, 

I’m very lucky with my staff. The 

nice thing about working here are 

the families. The families come in 

with smiles on their faces and that’s 

all the gratification you need,” says 

Igel. 


Izabella, Antonia and Liliana Torcivia holding their pumpkins 

in the pumpkin patch. 

People pack 

pumpkin patch 

for family fun 

Whittamore’s 

has been a 

farm fixture 

in the GTA 

since 1804 

Jenn Amaro 


Despite lower temperatures, Whittamore’s 

Farm in Markham was 

still filled with children jumping 

on bouncing castles, swinging on 

the swings, and of course, picking 

their pumpkin. 

Parents were bundled in coats, 

scarves and mittens on Oct. 23 to 

hide from piercing winds, but the 

laughter and the fun their children 

were having in all the activities 

during the Pumpkinkand festivities 

made the cold weather tolerable for 

them. 

The Whittamore’s Farm, just 

north of Rouge Park, has been in 

the Whittamore family since 1804, 

and has become a traditional attraction 

for many families every year. 

With a 50-foot turbo slide, bouncing 

castles and jumping pillows, 

a corn maze, farm animals and 

wagon rides, families have been returning 

every year to join in all the 

fun activities before they proudly 

pick their yearly pumpkin. 

The mother of the Torcivia 

family has been coming since she 

was a kid and has always brought 

her own kids to the Pumpkinland 

festival. “I loved taking photos of 

them in the pumpkin patch when 

they were really little,” she said. 

Antonio Torcivia, one of the four 

children in the family, says his favourite 

part is the animals. 

The four children, amongst the 

dozens of children and families, 

searched the pumpkin patch on 

the way out of Pumpkinland, for 

their perfectly round and orange 

traditional Halloween decoration. 

It’s a great 

family 

farm. 

Elsewhere on the property, Lisa 

and Sandy Behrend watched their 

daughter, Lexi, play in the Sand 

Toylot. 

The family hasn’t been to the 

farm in quite a few years but were 

glad to return. 

“It would be nice if it wasn’t’ so 

cold though,” Lisa laughed with her 

hand tightly bundled in her pockets. 

But the weather was not going to 

stop the family from enjoying all 

the fun the Whittamore’s farm has 

to offer. 

The weather the previous weekend 

was completely opposite, 

with above seasonal temperatures

10 The Chronicle November 1 - 7, 2016 chronicle.durhamcollege.ca


Locals run for special needs children 

Everyone gets 

together on a cause 

like that. 

This was Zoey’s and her parents’, 

Jessica Santos and Ajay Virrey, first 

year at Run Ajax. Both hope to return 

every year to support Grandview. 

Santos has also started a blog, 

www.jessicarachele.com. 

She has written about her experiences 

finding out about Zoey’s 

diagnosis and her progress with 

Grandview so far. 

Ajax mayor Steve Parish was also 

in attendance. He says events like 

these are beneficial to the community. 

“They bring people together over 

a common cause, about helping 

kids who have particular medical 

issues, everybody sympathizes 

with that,” he says. “Everyone gets 

together on a cause like that.” 

Santos and Virrey hope to make 

their #TEAMZOEY group bigger 

in the coming years to support 

Zoey and to thank Grandview. 

Photograph by Kayano Waite 

Run Ajax had its annual 5K run on Sept. 25. 

Kayano Waite 


Several mini obstacles are spread 

across a large soccer field. Volunteers 

spread out layers of medals 

on a table near a large finish line. 

A stream of mostly blue-shirted 

runners prepare themselves to start 

their morning marathons. 

They are here for the annual 

Run Ajax event. 

More than $40,000 was raised 

for Grandview Children’s Centre, 

according to the agency’s executive 

director Bridgitte Tschinkel. 

The money raised will go towards 

the nearly 26,000 children in 

Durham on Grandview’s waitlist. 

Grandview is a not-for-profit 

pediatric treatment and rehabilitation 

centre with locations in Whitby, 

Port Perry, and most recently 

Ajax. 

Grandview offers many services, 

including speech-language pathology, 

audiology assessments among 

others. 

Zoey Virrey, 2, was born with 

cerebral palsy and was referred to 

Grandview by Sick Kids Hospital 

in Toronto earlier this year. 

She has received both occupational 

therapy and physiotherapy 

at Grandview. 

She ran in the 1K children’s event 

earlier that day. Zoey had several 

relatives there alongside her, many 

of them wearing #TEAMZOEY 

superhero T-shirts to support her.

12 The Chronicle November 1 - 7, 2016 chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Community 

Arts and culture in the city 

Trusha Patel 


Oshawa is making a name for itself 

in the arts and culture communities. 

That’s the message Oshawa mayor 

John Henry delivered at the 2016 

Cultural Summit, an annual event 

organized by the City of Oshawa to 

provide updates regarding the city’s 

activities regarding arts, culture, 

and heritage in the past year. 

“Oshawa has been in the shadow 

of Toronto for so long,” Henry 

said, noting 2016 has been a year 

of achievements for the city. 

Among the highlights, according 

to the 2016 Cultural Summit 

achievements and highlights guide: 

• More than 6,000 attendees for 

the 2016 Peony Festival, an event 

where 300 to 400 different types 

of peonies were displayed, along 

with live music, food, and gardening 

seminars. 

• More than 1,400 people attended 

Concerts in the Park, a free 

outdoor concert at Memorial Park, 

in which 14 bands performed. 

• There were also seven local organizations 

that partnered with the 

city for Culture Squared, an event 

that hosts an artists marketplace 

Photograph by Trusha Patel 

Oshawa Civic Band sets the mood with upbeat jazz to start off 

the cultural summit. 

at Civic Square for individuals 

and enthusiasts interested in arts, 

culture, and heritage. This year’s 

partners were Oshawa Museum, 

Oshawa Public Libraries, Living- 

Room Community Art Studio, Ontario 

Regiment Museum, Oshawa 

Senior Citizens Centre, Oshawa 

Little Theatre, and Oshawa Art 

Association. 

“We work with so many local 

organizations, almost too many to 

even speak about,” said Catherine 

Richards, Manager of Culture and 

Central Recreation Services. 

Culture Squared also had more 

than 30 performers, musicians, and 

bands this year, with 90 per cent 

being local groups. 

This year there were more than 

40 festivals and events held across 

the city. Eight city-run events included 

Oshawa Celebrates, Peony 

Festival, Canada Day, Culture 

Square, Concerts in the Park, 

Tree Lighting, Deck the Halls, and 

Doors Open. 

Nineteen sites participated in the 

2016 Doors Open event, including 

three new ones, which were Pine 

Ridge Model Train Club, Lakeridge 

Health Oshawa LHEARN 

Centre, and Science and spectacle 

– Walking Tour through Alexandra 

Park. 

Oshawa showed its support for 

art by displaying four new public 

art pieces, one community mural at 

Civic Square, and three pianos - at 

City Hall, Northview Community 

Centre, and South Oshawa Community 

Centre. 

Yolanda Beasley, an Oshawa 

resident who directed and acted in 

her own movie filmed in Oshawa, 

also screened her film’s trailer for 

the first time during the Cultural 

Summit. 

“The (Oshawa) city has definitely 

helped me a lot in my journey,” said 

Beasley. 

Durham College’s faculty of 

Media, Art and Design also teamed 

up with Cultural Collaborations for 

Civic Square collaboration, Arts 

Resource Centre (ARC) Window 

Installation, and a Civic Square 

Banner partnership with RMG. 

DC students and the city engaged 

the community to design and 

select a mural which is now located 

at Civic Square. Students will also 

be creating artwork to celebrate 

Canada’s 150th anniversary, and 

the artwork will be installed on 

the ARC windows next year May. 

There will also be an installation of 

five ‘Culture Lives Here’ banners, 

which lead up to Civic Square and 

RMG. 

The presentation also included 

a brief list of priorities that will be 

focused on in 2017. According to 

Richards, the collaboration with 

Durham College, 150th Anniversary 

of Canada, public art community, 

event planning guide, 

partnership development, and the 

collaboration with the cultural 

leadership council are some activities 

that will be worked on next 

year. 

'It's like a nightmare version' of a city like Oshawa 

Oshawa author comes back to 

the city for cultural summit 

Photograph by Sharena Clendening 

Author Andrew F. Sullivan. 

Sharena Clendening 


An author’s job is to make people 

care about the words that have 

been written. 

That was the message Oshawa 

author Andrew F. Sullivan brought 

to the city’s Cultural Summit held 

at the Arts Resource Centre Oct. 

19. 

The City of Oshawa holds the 

event annually to update people 

on the status of arts and cultural 

events in the community. 

As part of the summit, Sullivan 

spoke to some city staff, along with 

officials from UOIT and Durham 

College and Oshawa residents 

about his book, called ‘Waste’. 

“The first rule is that nobody 

cares, and you have to make 

them care, and it is up to you to 

make your work valuable to other 

people,” says Sullivan, 29, about 

the process of writing. 

Sullivan says the book is about a 

broke down industrial city in 1989, 

in the middle of a downfall. 

He says it is not specifically about 

here, but is a “shadow” of a city 

like Oshawa. 

“It’s not really about Oshawa, it’s 

like a nightmare version, a lithium, 

nightmare version of a city of this 

size in a post-industrial sort of landscape 

and it takes place in the 80’s,” 

he says. 

Sullivan says writers tend to 

write about what they know and 

he knows Oshawa because he grew 

up here, attending Father Francis 

Mahoney elementary school and 

St. Stephen’s Secondary School in 

Bowmanville until he moved away 

to London, Ont. to attend Western 

University in 2005. 

Sullivan started writing at a 

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In addition to his written work, 

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14 The Chronicle November 1 - 7, 2016 chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Community 

WE Day draws 

thousands of 

youth to make 

a difference 

Barbara Howe 


There were never any tickets for 

sale for one of the hottest events in 

Toronto. 

Nevertheless, 20,000 students 

and educators from more than 

1,000 schools across Ontario 

packed the Air Canada Centre 

(ACC) with enough energy to raise 

the roof at the ninth annual WE 

Day celebration Oct 19. 

WE Day is the culmination 

of the WE Movement which is 

a family of charitable and social 

enterprise organizations. Their 

goal is to empower young people 

to make a difference both at home 

and around the world. 

An ocean of students surged 

into the ACC to experience the 

‘greatest classroom in the world’ 

at a full-day live event. A series 

of world-renowned speakers and 

performers including Gord Downie 

of the Tragically Hip, Margaret 

Trudeau, the mother of Canada’s 

prime minister, and astronaut 

Chris Hadfield took turns to inspire 

the young crowd. 

“You can’t buy a ticket to WE 

Day. It’s a movement. When we 

come together, we create massive 

change,” said Craig Kielburger, 

as he pranced around the stage 

alongside his elder brother, Marc. 

The brothers co-founded the 

family of organizations in 1996 

when Craig was 12-years-old. 

The younger Kielburger was 

inspired to be an advocate for 

change after he read a newspaper 

article about another 12-year-old, 

Iqbal Masih from Pakistan. Masih 

was murdered for speaking out 

against child slavery. Kielburger 

took the newspaper to his Grade 7 

classmates the next day and started 

a group to try and make a difference. 

Since 2007 youth involved in 

the WE Schools program have 

raised more than $62 million for 


CFL legend Michael "Pinball" Clemons and mother Anna Marie Bryant rally the WE Day crowd. 

Jenn Amaro 


Getting lost in the long, twisty, 

turning hallways is a common 

fear for many students at Durham 

College. 

It can take a while into the semester 

before a pattern develops for 

first years to learn the easiest route 

to each class. 

Kierra Knight, who was visiting 

the school for the first time, said it 

did not take long for her to get lost. 

“I couldn’t find the Tim Hortons, 

and had to ask many people along 

the way how to get there. At least 

everyone was really nice and helpful,” 

she said. 

Even past first year, trying to 

find something at an unheard of 

section at Durham College, the fear 

resurrects about getting lost. 

Thankfully, Durham College has 

launched new interactive maps online. 

The maps allow users to easily 

navigate around the Whitby and 

Oshawa campus, with details about 

every major space in the buildings. 

They were made available just in 

time for the start of the 2016 school 

more than 2,500 local and global 

organizations. They have also 

volunteered 19.9 million hours 

and collected 7.6 million pounds 

of food for those in need. 

Students in the schools involved 

in the program earn the right to 

attend the event by taking action 

in one local and one global cause. 

Twin sisters Nivaal and Maryam 

Rehman, Grade 10 activists 

from Sinclair High School 

in Whitby, filmed the event for 

their own YouTube Channel, The 

World with MNR. 

The girls said they hope to raise 

awareness for issues such as gender 

equality, girls’ education and environmental 

sustainability. 

“It’s extremely inspirational, 

there’s lots of positive energy,” the 

girls said in unison about the event 

at the lunchtime break. 

The twins were born in Pakistan 

and moved to Canada in 

2006. They were inspired to become 

activists when their grandmother 

donated land in her village 

to build a girls’ school there to give 

girls the same opportunities as 

boys. 

Since then, the two 15-yearolds 

have continued to be involved 

in community and environmental 

issues in Canada, Pakistan and 

around the world. They participated 

in the WE campaigns, WE 

are Silent and WE Scare Hunger. 

In 2015 the sisters were awarded 

the Governor General’s Caring 

Canadian Award for their work in 

global and local communities. 


Thousands of students descended on the Air Canada Centre to celebrate WE Day. The annual 

event brings together performers and speakers to inspire and empower youth to make a 

difference around the world. 

year. 

The development of the interactive 

maps was led by James Myers, 

a 2015 graduate from Durham 

College. Myers is a junior 

web developer, and works with the 

Communications and Marketing 

department at Durham College. 

Myers understands that it is important 

for students to get to class 

quickly. “When I was a student at 

Durham College I spent a lot of 

time rushing around between classes 

and I wanted to make it easier 

for students to get where they need 

to go,” said Myers. 

After approximately five months 

of work, collaborating with other 

school employees as well as writers, 

multimedia specialists and 

designers, the site is up and running 

and ready for students, staff 

and visitors to use. 

It is also very easy to operate 

for everyone. Users click on the 

location that they wish to go to 

and there is information on that 

location and a navigation tool. 

The navigation allows the users 

to enter their start location and 

their destination and the map will 

assist on their journey to get there 

Tragically Hip front man, 

Gord Downie drove all night from 

Ottawa to perform at the event. 

His latest album, Secret Path was 

inspired by the plight of the indigenous 

communities in the residential 

school system, particularly 

12-year-old Chanie Wenjack. 

The stadium heard the story of 

Wenjack who escaped the Cecilia 

Jeffrey Indian Residential School 

near Kenora, Ont. in 1966. Last 

weekend marked the 50th anniversary 

of his death. The young 

audience watched in quiet reverence 

during Downie’s emotional 

performance of The Stanger. 

Downie, who was diagnosed 

with terminal brain cancer earlier 

this year, illustrated Wenjack’s 

final ordeal; a walk down a frozen 

railway track after he escaped 

from the school. Downie ended 

the song collapsed and crumpled 

at the front of the stage. 

Other speakers and performers 

energized the crowd throughout 

the day. High school student, 

swimmer and Olympic gold 

medalist, Penny Oleksiak spoke 

about the importance of motivation 

and dedication in achieving 

dreams. 

Margaret Trudeau, the mother 

of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, 

spoke of her struggles with mental 

health. 

WE Day has more stops scheduled 

this fall throughout Canada 

and next spring venues will include 

stops in the U.S. and London, 

U.K. 

Interactive maps help DC, UOIT students navigate around campus 

with the quickest route possible. It 

will show the estimated amount of 

time to walk there and the distance. 

The destinations include 

each building on campus, foods 

services, study areas, and transit 

stops. 

Icons for each location make it 

quick and easy to find exactly what 

the user is looking for without needing 

to know the name of each place. 

The maps are available on the 

Durham College website, the 

information kiosk in the Gordon 

Willey building, and on the mobile 

app for Durham College.

Campus chronicle.durhamcollege.ca November 1- 7, 2016 The Chronicle 15 

How to maintain a work-life balance 

Abbygail Donneral 

Special to the Chronicle 

“Oh, no! I have three assignments, 

two tests, a meeting, chapter readings 

and I have to work this week! 

How will I even begin to do it?” 

This is a common question most 

students have when faced with a 

large workload, including myself. 

However, almost always I make it 

through and succeed in what I am 

aiming to accomplish. 

For students going to school, balancing 

assignments, work, and a 

healthy lifestyle isn’t easy. Personally, 

I am in a condensed program, 

that allows little time to work due to 

the course load, but I have ensured 

that I made the time in my schedule 

(during my breaks) to work as a Career 

Development Student Assistant 

work study position. There are several 

things that I often follow that 

allow me to maintain work-life 

balance: 

1. Get Organized 

The first thing that I do is keep a 

schedule. Every year I maintain a 

dry erase calendar, and a planner. 

The calendar is on the wall by my 

door, so this way I can see it every 

morning before I leave. This calendar 

is colour coded by class. On it, 

I outline all my assignments, tests, 

and anything else that I have to do 

in that month. In the planner, I do 

the same thing, and every time I 

receive a new assignment or get 

notified of a test I add it into the 

calendar. 

2. Breathe 

The second thing that I do is taking 

the time to stop and breathe in 

between completing tasks. In order 

to be successful and not as stressed 

you need to take these moments just 

to take a breath and re-evaluate. 

During an especially busy day, I 

will always set aside the time to go 

to a quiet place, stop, breathe, and 

re-start. 

3. Talk with family and 

friends 

The final thing that I do to maintain 

the balance is that I make sure 

I put time aside in my week to communicate 

with my family. I don’t 

live at home so being away from 

my family is hard. I take the time 

to call them when I not so busy. 

It helps to give me a boost to get 

through my week, no matter how 

busy it is. 

Just remember to stay organized 

and breathe! 

For additional tips and resources 

on how to maintain a healthy 

work-life balance, please be sure to 

visit your career office; the Career 

Development office at Durham 

College or the Student Life Career 

Centre at UOIT. 

This column is courtesy of the UOIT 

Student Life Career Centre.

16 The Chronicle November 1 - 7, 2016 chronicle.durhamcollege.ca 

Entertainment 

Canadian icon 

Lee Aaron on 

music longevity 

Tommy Morais 


Her Bodyrock album went platinum 

in Canada. At just 22 she toured 

Europe opening for Bon Jovi. She’s 

known as the Metal Queen— a play 

on her album of the same name— 

a title she still carries more than 

30 years after the record’s release. 

These days the 54-year old Lee 

Aaron, juggles motherhood with 

life on the road. 

Born Karen Lynn Greening, 

Aaron is currently touring in support 

of her latest studio album Fire 

& Gasoline. The new effort is her 11 

career studio album and Tomboy is 

her first single in 20 years. 

The average mother might be 

grocery shopping on a Friday 

night, but Aaron sings her heart 

out onstage on top of her motherly 

duties. 

“What I’ve been doing is targeted 

pockets of dates rather than 

doing a full-cross Canada tour. I’m 

sort of breaking up the touring,” 

she says. “My husband is also a 

musician, it makes it easier to 

understand [for our two children].” 

For Aaron, touring is different 

now than it was in the 1980s. 

“The music industry is not what 

it used to be. It’s not the days of 

record companies putting $50,000 

in tour support. When you go out 

you have to figure it out and make 

it financially viable.” 

She remembers her early days, 

touring with Bon Jovi in Europe 

during the spring of 1985. 

Tyler Hodgkinson 


As the crowd roars and heavymetal 

music pumps through monitors, 

three quick dings of a bell 

signify the battle of titans at an 

independent wrestling show. 

This was the scene at Rocktoberfest, 

a card full of body-thumping 

bouts put on by Oshawa-based 

promotion Pro Wrestling Eclipse 

(PWE). The event, which took 

place at the Royal Canadian Legion 

Hall, attracted an audience 

of about 100. 

International wrestlers like former 

Total Nonstop Action (TNA) 

star Johnny Devine and Extreme 

Championship Wrestling (ECW) 

legend Shane Douglas headlined 

“I knew we had made it when 

we came back to these same places 

and we were now headlining,” 

With success came pressure from 

record labels for more of the same. 

“There would be a hit song by 

a new artist and the record label 

would say you have to write something 

like that.” 

Aaron and her band decided to 

forgo record company demands 

and made the album they felt they 

should make instead. The resulting 

work, 1989’s Bodyrock, was a commercial 

success. 

“Of course when you have success 

everyone takes credit afterwards,” 

she admits. 

In the early 1990s the musical 

landscape shifted and Aaron, like 

many musicians at the time, felt the 

repercussions. 

“In pop-culture, grunge hit like 

a tsunami and it pretty much annihilated 

the careers of everybody 

that was doing classic melodic 

rock,” she explains. “I’m not the 

only person who felt a victim of 

that. I continued on.” 

She soldiered on, but the waves 

just kept coming. 

“I showed up one day in Vancouver 

and these banker boxes were 

on my doorstep. I discovered I was 

almost half a million dollars in debt 

that I wasn’t aware of and I had to 

declare bankruptcy in 1996.” 

Although she is best known for 

anthems like Metal Queen, Hands On 

and Watcha Do To My Body, Aaron 

experimented with jazz and blues 

following her bankruptcy. 

the talent. Devine has wrestled at 

multiple events for the promotion, 

but it was the first time Douglas 

stepped foot into the PWE ring. 

He says he would love to return 

to Oshawa. 

“I went to my roots and started 

singing jazz and blues never expecting 

that to be successful.” 

A second career was not an option. 

“I can’t ever remember not 

thinking I was going to be a singer; 

I always knew what my passion 

was.” 

The singer was recently inducted 

into Brampton’s Walk of Fame. 

“If my agents can make sure my 

schedule allows for it, I want to be 

back in November,” he proclaims 

to the packed house. 

Douglas has been in the business 

since the early 80s, and been under 

“I think in a weird way it meant 

more to my parents,” she says of 

the induction. 

“All those years of screwing up 

and piano lessons...they invested 

in me. It’s really more of a payoff 

for them.” 

To Lee Aaron, it represents more 

than just another award. 

“At home I have Toronto Music 

Awards and a Canadian Music 

contract to World Championship 

Wrestling (WCW) and World 

Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) 

in the past. However, he is arguably 

best known for a promo turning the 

NWA championship into the ECW 

championship in 1994. 

Douglas took on Jake O’Reilly 

and hometown hero Cody Deaner 

in the main event. 

Deaner, who has found success in 

TNA and now Global Force Wrestling 

(GFW), has the moniker “King 

of the ‘Shwa.” He is a fan-favourite, 

and received a warm welcome from 

the rowdy crowd. 

Other combatants, including 

Buck Gunderson, Phil Atlas, Kat 

Von Heez and Cat Power also wrestled 

at Rocktoberfest. 

WWE Hall of Famer “Hacksaw” 

Jim Duggan was scheduled to appear 

at the event, but was unable 

to attend. 

Roddy Untereinter, a long-time 

supporter of PWE and attendee at 

Rocktoberfest, says he likes PWE 

because it has something big-time 

Publisher Association songwriter 

award, this one has the significance 

of a lifetime award achievement”. 

Judging by her youthful appearance, 

you’d never know she’s been 

in the music business for more than 

three decades. 

“I resist the temptation of feeling 

old, I probably would feel [age] if 

I wasn’t continuing to be an artist 

and doing records,” she laughs. 

Rocktoberfest a slobber-knocker for Oshawa fans 

Hometown 

wrasslin’ 

show a hit 

Photograph by Tyler Hodgkinson 

Cody Deaner (left) and Shane Douglas in the main event. 

Lee Aaron is currently on tour promoting her new Fire & Gasoline album. 

Photograph courtesy of Faithful Productions 

promotions don’t have: a good roster. 

“I like PWE because it has the 

best talent,” Untereinter says. “My 

favourite wrestler is Rage.” 

According to PWE founder and 

owner Sean “Dr. Mask” Morley, 

without dedicated fans like Untereinter, 

the company would not be 

where it is today. 

“The fans have supported me 

very much, through every up and 

down,” he says. “I appreciate them 

and wrestling is all about the fans.” 

“I had an event here, I don’t 

know how many years ago, I think 

it was a fundraiser for Parkinson’s, 

which my mom had. We had a 

problem with the ropes where they 

were all breaking, it was a horrible 

night, but the fans came back.” 

He says Rocktoberfest is a big 

event for him and PWE, but every 

show is just a promotion for the 

next. 

PWE returns to the Royal Canadian 

Legion Hall for November 

Bash ‘16 on Nov. 26.

Entertainment chronicle.durhamcollege.ca November 1 - 7, 2016 The Chronicle 17 

Photographs by Dean Daley 

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. 

Miss Peregrine novel stands above movie 

Film 

adaptation 

doesn’t 

live up to 

the hype 

Dean Daley 


If you haven’t read the book “Miss 

Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar 

Children”, then the movie might 

have been good. But if you did 

read the novel then the movie is 

a letdown. 

Both novel and film are focused 

on the lives of peculiar children. 

What makes these children so peculiar 

are their special abilities. The 

children’s abilities include super 

strength, the ability to create fire 

and levitate. Both novel and movie 

are set in the present and during 

World War II, with the inclusion of 

a time loop, which allows certain 

peculiars to take a day and restart 

it over and over again. In both film 

and novel, the time loop day happens 

during World War II. Both 

stories also feature themes related 

to the holocaust. Like the Jews in 

World War II, the peculiar children 

are being hunted. Furthermore, 

the book and film have the same 

villainous characters: the hollowgast 

and the wights. Hollowgasts 

and wights were once peculiars, 

turned into monsters by an experiment. 

To regain their human form, 

hollowgasts eat peculiars then they 

become wights. Hollowgast seems 

to be a play on words with holocaust 

as wights is with white. 

While the book and movie have 

quite a few similarities, there are 

also many differences; the biggest 

difference is the way the children 

find out the wights are Nazis in 

the book. This was left out of the 

movie. 

When comparing the book to 

the movie, it becomes apparent the 

movie version of “Miss Peregrine’s 

Home for Peculiar Children” does 

not have the level of detail or the 

hard hitting plot points the novel 

had. The novel explores emotional 

ties between characters, while the 

movie shows brief connections. The 

novel showed internal struggles that 

Jacob, the main character, had to 

face throughout the story; however, 

the movie lacked most of the internal 

strife present in the novel. 

The movie and novel had different 

climaxes. The movie’s climax 

was purely for cinematic drama, 

while the book builds on crucial 

plot points and heartfelt moments. 

The book’s climax also leads to a 

sequel. The movie’s does not. 

The cinematic version of “Miss 

Peregrine’s Home” showed a glimmer 

of the emotional and psychological 

ties displayed throughout 

the book. In the movie, Abe, 

Jacob’s grandfather, tells bedtime 

stories about his stay at Miss Peregrine’s 

home. After Jacob finds his 

grandfather dead in the woods, 

Jacob needs therapy to deal with 

his loss. Another watered down relationship 

in the movie is between 

Abe and Emma, one of the children 

at Miss Peregrine’s Home. Abe’s 

relationship with Emma seems very 

shallow and one-sided in the movie 

but not in the book. 

In the novel, there is a deep relationship 

not just between Abe and 

Emma but also between Abe and 

Jacob. 

The first chapter in the novel 

builds on pictures and stories 

shared between Abe and Jacob. 

Jacob is confused by the stories 

of real life monsters. Jacob comes 

to believe Abe created monsters 

out of Nazis because they killed 

his family. The novel also shows 

the deep pain Jacob felt when his 

grandfather died and how it affected 

him mentally. Jacob went to a 

psychiatrist for several months and 

had vivid nightmares of the night 

Abe died. This shows the profound 

attachment he had to his grandfather. 

The novel also reveals the 

relationship of two lovers, separated 

from one another because of the 

war. Even though Abe and Emma 

loved each other he decided to join 

the war. Abe and Emma sent letters 

to one another constantly and when 

the war was over Abe promised 

Emma he would find them a new 

home to live in North America. 

Throughout the years the letters 

became less frequent. Finally, Abe 

sent Emma a letter with a picture 

of him holding a baby: his baby. 

The picture broke Emma’s heart. 

Abe and Emma’s relationship 

was well developed in the novel. 

However, Jacob’s internal struggle 

was not developed in the film. 

In the movie, Jacob’s inner demons 

seem to be hidden and not 

important. His main issues are trying 

to understand what happened 

to his grandfather and what his 

grandfather said with his dying last 

words. Jacob also barely struggles 

with whether to stay with the peculiar 

children or return home at 

the end of the movie. 

In the novel though, Jacob struggles 

with his thoughts, with his love 

of Emma, and with his dreams 

about the night his grandfather 

died. Jacob was seeing the monster 

and his grandfather in dreams for 

months while seeing his psychiatrist. 

Lastly, Jacob struggles with 

whether or not he should stay with 

the peculiars or if he should go back 

home. He realizes he didn’t have 

much to go back to, and the peculiars 

needed his help. So he stayed. 

If you read 

the novel then 

the movie is a 

letdown. 

Not only were Jacob’s struggles 

done in more detail in the novel 

than the film but the climax also 

had more detail. 

The climax in the movie and 

the novel both feature hollowgasts 

and wights. The movie had many 

wights and hollowgasts fighting 

against the children while Miss 

Peregrine, the peculiar who protects 

them, was locked away. The 

Baron, the villain of the movie, 

used his team of hollowgast and 

wights to attack Jacob and the 

peculiar children, who end up defeating 

the wights and hollowgasts 

and their leader. This victory is the 

climax of the movie. The movie 

climax also added a very random 

love interest between two peculiars. 

This side story was unnecessary, 

and did nothing for the plot. 

The novel of “Miss Peregrine’s 

Home” has a very different climax. 

The children are put against the 

one wight who had been Jacob’s 

psychiatrist and the one hollowgast 

who killed Abe. 

The children manage to defeat 

the hollowgast, but the wight pulls a 

gun on the children and steals Miss 

Peregrine and one of her friends. 

Afterwards the wight shoots Millard, 

one of the peculiar children. 

Nearing the end of the climax a 

fight between Emma, Jacob and 

the wight occurs. 

The fight ends with Jacob killing 

the wight. Then he and Emma 

jump off the lighthouse they were 

fighting on. They survive the jump 

and a Uboat arrives. They then 

realize some Nazis are wights. This 

establishes Nazis as monsters for 

peculiars and Jewish people further 

cementing the underlining theme 

of WWII and the holocaust in the 

story. 

While the movie and the book 

have a similar theme and setting of 

WWII, the movie would have been 

better if given a different name. 

The movie lacked significant plot 

points and development the novel 

had. The novel showed character 

attachments, internal struggle, and 

a heartfelt climax. 

If you’ve read the novel “Miss 

Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar 

Children” by Ransom Riggs don’t 

bother with the movie. If you haven’t 

read the book and don’t plan 

on it, then give Tim Burton’s adaptation 

a try.


Entertainment chronicle.durhamcollege.ca November 1 - 7, 2016 The Chronicle 19 

Celebrating 20 years of Pokemon 

Tyler Searle 


From handheld games to android 

phones, you’ll find people 

playing and connecting over Pokémon. 

It has been that way for 20 

years. 

The successful role-playing 

game about capturing monsters 

to use in battle has gone on to become 

a $46 million franchise. The 

success of Pokémon can be attributed 

to good marketing, strong 

game design, and the existence of 

the Pokémon anime. 

“Most people didn’t know 

about it [Pokémon] until they saw 

the TV show, then they went out 

and bought a Game Boy,” said 

Becca LeClerc, the assistant manager 

at EB Games, Whitby North. 

For their 20th anniversary, 

the Pokémon Company has gone 

full force in marketing to old and 

younger fans. From branching off 

into new games, airing new seasons 

of the anime, and making 

new plushies and trading cards, 

there seems to be something for 

everyone. 

“It’s not just a handheld RPG 

(role playing game),” said LeClerc. 

“It can be a fighting game, it can 

be a photography game, it can be 

many things not just associated to 

Pokémon.” 

On Nov. 18, Pokémon Sun and 

Moon, will be available for purchase. 

Fans were able to get a taste 

of the new games through a demo 

released on Oct 18. These games 

Photograph by Tyler Searle 

A collection of Pokemon games and memorabilia from over the last few years. 

will be bringing several changes to 

the formula, including getting rid 

of the long running gym-systems 

that serve as the game’s boss battles. 

“It breathes a bit of fresh air 

into the franchise,” said LeClerc. 

Though the games have only 

begun to branch outside of their 

traditional RPG formula, 2016 

has seen the franchise experiment 

with a variety of games outside of 

handheld. 

“I think that one of the best 

things about Pokémon is its ability 

to expand,” said John Goodwin, a 

professor and program coordinator 

of video game development at 

Durham College. “Pokémon Go 

was immensely successful, even 

though it wasn’t made by Nintendo 

or the Pokémon company.” 

Released in July, Pokémon Go 

is a game for Android and iPhone 

developed by Niantic that allow 

players to catch Pokémon while 

walking utilizing augmented reality 

(AR). 

“There’s something insidiously 

cool to take Pokémon and use it 

to introduce players to AR,” said 

Goodwin. “Pokémon Go brought 

attention to the franchise. It did 

exactly what Nintendo needed it 

to do.” 

Alongside Pokémon Go, the 

Pokémon company also released 

Pokken Tournament in July. The 

game, which was made with the 

help of Bandi Namco Entertainment, 

places classic Pokémon 

characters into a fighting game 

similar to the Tekken series. It is 

a game that Pokémon fans had 

been curious about ever since seeing 

Pikachu among the roster of 

Nintendo’s fighting game, Super 

Smash Brothers. 

“That [Pokken] would have 

been much more of a risk if they’d 

never tested the formula,” said 

Goodwin. “Nintendo is very good 

at marrying different franchises.” 

In March 2017, Nintendo will 

release its newest mobile console, 

the Nintendo Switch. Many Pokémon 

fans are hoping that, with its 

ability to be played at home or on 

the go, they will finally get a console 

Pokémon game. 

“From a technology standpoint, 

the franchise has long legs,” 

said Goodwin. “Because it is the 

second most lucrative franchise 

owned by Nintendo, it’s a flag ship. 

I wouldn’t be surprised if a new 

Pokémon game were to come out 

for the Nintendo Switch.” 

The strength of Pokémon has 

always been its ability to bring 

people together. By trading with 

other players to collect all 721 

Pokémon, a strong community has 

formed that has remained standing 

these 20 years. 

“I see the franchise as being 

valuable because there are 

so many people connected to it,” 

said Goodwin. “It ‘sambassador 

for new technologies and innovations.” 

Crown Lands 

bring new flare 

to Oshawa 

Alex Debets 


When Cody Bowles and Kevin 

Comeau started bonding over 

their mutual interest in legendary 

Canadian rock band Rush just over 

two years ago, a new band, and a 

critical partnership was born. 

They call themselves Crown 

Lands. They actually met at a tryout 

for another band, and after 

jamming for two-and-a-half years, 

the group has returned from one 

of their most ambitious tours to 

date. 

It was a tour that saw the Oshawa 

duo playing 14 shows in 17 

days, covering much of the Canadian 

east coast. 

Their first EP, Mantra, has 

a nostalgic sound, a sound that 

should be familiar to fans of Led 

Zeppelin or Rush, the influences 

are clear. “Mantra comes from 

many different places,” Bowles explained. 

Comeau added: “Yeah it’s 

like Zeppelin, Rush.” 

The duo is working on a new 

EP, with a new, fuller, sound. “The 

new stuff I’m incorporating more 

keyboards, and just a bit more bass 

and different sounds. Just trying 

to fill out the low end. Just trying 

to change,” said Comeau. Bowles 

said the duo added the new sound 

“because it’s always healthy to 

change.” 

The band is not saying much 

about the unannounced EP, but 

they have confirmed it will be recorded 

at the Chalet Studio in 

Uxbridge. Chalet Studio was also 

responsible for recording Roll the 

Bones by Rush. 

No formal release date has 

been set for this yet unnamed project, 

but the band expects it to be 

done by next summer. 

Photograph by Alex Debets 

The group Crown Lands, 

Cody Bowles (left) and Kevin 

Comeau, mesh together 

elements of blues and 

psychedelia.


Entertainment chronicle.durhamcollege.ca November 1 - 7, 2016 The Chronicle 21 

Oshawa arts community bands together 

Members of Spoken 

Weird share at open mic 

night run by EPEC 

Jessica Stoiku 


“A lot of the stories I just came 

in for really…connected with me,” 

says Heather Ballantyne, guest to 

The LivingRoom. “I have been a 

nomad my whole life. I have never 

come across this space where there 

is so much acceptance and love and 

understanding and [a] genuine feeling 

of community,” she says. 

Kathleen Finely shared The 

Goose Story by Dr. Harry Clarke 

Noyes. Finely connected the story 

of teamwork and belonging to the 

dynamics of The LivingRoom. 

I have never come across this space 

where there is so much acceptance. 

Through open mic performances, 

members of Oshawa’s arts community 

were able to experience “a 

love and a connection that is overwhelming.” 

That’s the opinion of Cora Reid, 

host of the open mic event and 

founder of EPEC (Experience Pure 

Energy Connections), who says she 

made those connections with artists, 

including members of Spoken 

Weird, at The Living Room Community 

Art Studio last month. 

The small studio in downtown 

Oshawa was filled with a couple 

dozen poets, musicians, storytellers 

and members of the community. 

Throughout the evening performers 

shared their personal 

stories and struggles through song 

and poetry to a room of complete 

strangers. Despite the different 

walks of life stepping through the 

door, the room held a sense of unity 

and belonging. 

Sid MacIsaac, founder of the 

spoken word poetry group Spoken 

Weird in Oshawa, became addicted 

to the adrenaline of performing 

his poetry. 

“It’s like dancing with just your 

chest and just your heart. I feel so 

anxious when I’m up there. I hate 

that I love to do this,” he says. 

Through Spoken Weird, MacIsaac 

hopes to provide an outlet for those 

to express their hardships. 

“This says so much to me about 

what this space is, about the community 

that it offers all of us,” she 

says. 

“I always wanted to fly with the 

flock. I was always falling to earth. 

[I] wanted to be found…to be guided. 

All I ever wanted was to be in 

the group. So I’m here in this space, 

and maybe I will find it.” 

Reid believes the world would 

not thrive without artists. 

“We’re world changers, we’re the 

ones that…are able to express what 

people are afraid to say, afraid to 

feel and afraid to think,” she says. 

“When you embrace that, you 

realize how special and unique you 

really are.” 

Witnessing the raw performances 

brought tears to Reid’s eyes. 

“I didn’t intend to be emotional. 

Every person’s story has touched 

me on a level…I just thought I was 

the only one,” says Reid, her voice 

Cora Reid singing along with guests to Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds. 

cracking. 

Reid used to go through life 

thinking she was the only one to 

have ever felt abused, mistreated 

and marginalized. The connection 

she felt to each performer was unreal. 

“Here’s a group of artists, 

beautiful people, that have all 

been through the same thing. I’m 

feeling you on such a level that it’s 

overwhelming, and I’m feeling a 

love and a connection that is overwhelming,” 

says Reid. 

Reid hopes to see the art community 

having a greater impact in 

Photograph by Jessica Stoiku 

Durham Region. 

Reid wants to show “the politicians…the 

police officers… the 

teachers that this is what it’s all 

about. It’s about being inclusive; it’s 

about accepting people. There’s a 

lot our community can learn from 

this.” 

Photograph by Jessica Stoiku 

A guest to The 

LivingRoom paints live 

as fellow community 

members perform.


Sports 

'Bigs' bode well for Lords 

Christopher Jones 


The Durham Lords men’s volleyball 

team is confident, talented and 

ready to win. 

Their drive and passion could be 

seen in the way they played when 

they hosted the Adidas Cup Oct. 

7-8. They didn’t win – Fleming 

claimed the title with a win over 

Algonquin – but the Lords did post 

a record of 4-1-2. 

With an emphasis on defence, 

the Lords held their own against 

strong teams, such as Algonquin 

and Conestoga, and even beat the 

winner of the tournament, the 

Fleming Knights, to start day one 

of the round robin. 

On the second day the Lords won 

their first game against Cambrian, 

but were unable to carry that success 

forward, tying Conestoga and 

losing to Algonquin. 

While the Lords didn’t win, the 

team showed a lot of promise for 

the season to come. Head coach 

George Matsusaki and fifth year 

players, Braydon Rodgers and Mike 

Harper, all emphasized the importance 

of defence. The three of them 

believe their ability to defend will 

serve Durham well this season. 

Before the tournament, Matsusaki 

was confident in his team 

despite the fact they had lost an 

exhibition game to the Mohawk 

Mountaineers in three straight sets. 

“The defence aspect of our game 

is in pretty good shape, and yeah, 

for this time in the season we’re in 

pretty good shape,” he said. 

Matsusaki said while the team 

wanted to do well in the Adidas 

Cup, they were going to treat it as 

more of a pre-season warmup. 

“I expect that when all is said and 

done, we’ll be battling for the top 

two spots, top three spots.” 

We have some 

new, big recruits 

coming in, and 

it seems like 

the guys are 

meshing. 

Matsusaki showed a lot of confidence 

in his players, and when fifth 

year players, Braydon Rodgers and 

Mike Harper were asked about the 

upcoming season, they returned 

the same level of confidence. 

On what’s different this year 

from last year, when Durham 

finished tied for first with a 16-4 

record in the East, but ultimately 

failed to maintain that pace in the 

playoffs, Rodgers pointed to additional 

size and teamwork. 

“We have some new, big recruits 

coming in, and it seems like the 

guys are meshing more this year 

than they were last year to start off,” 

Durham players gather between serves at the Adidas Cup. 

he said. 

Harper pointed to the old but 

accurate sporting cliché about the 

importance of defence. 

“I believe our team brings more 

of a defensive aspect that we’ve 

been lacking the last four years I’ve 

been here,” he said. “We still have 

the offensive power, but defense is 

what wins you championships in 

every sport.” 

With a newfound emphasis on 

defence, Durham team seems confident 

and ready to go for the 2016- 

2017 season. 

The confidence that they’ve 

shown both on and off the court 

is astounding; with players like 

Photograph by Michael Welsh 

Jordan McFarlane showing an unbridled 

passion that can only help 

his team’s confidence. 

The team’s first regular season 

game took place against the Canadore 

Panthers Oct. 23, where they 

won in five sets. Their next is on 

Nov. 3 against the Georgian Grizzlies 

in Barrie, Ont. 

Durham Lords women dominate Algonquin Thunder 

Joshua Nelson 


The Durham Lords women’s 

basketball team cruised to a win 

over the Algonquin Thunder in 

their home opener. 

The Lords won 75-59 over the 

Thunder, Oct. 21. 

The Thunder, traditionally a 

strong team in the OCAA, jumped 

out to a 14-10 lead, but Durham 

dominated from that point on. 

Heather LaFontaine, Durham’s 

head coach, was ecstatic after the 

win. 

“That’s Algonquin! Algonquin 

has typically been the number one 

team in the east for years, and I 

think we handled them very well 

tonight, like that wasn’t a fluke 

win…we handled them right across 

the board, so it was huge for us,” 

said LaFontaine. 

The Lords battled back after 

the first quarter, led by Brittany 

Walters, who scored 10 points in 

the quarter and pulled the Lords 

ahead 31 - 25. 

But, in the second half, it was all 

Lindsey Panchan who accumulated 

15 of her 23 points in those two 

quarters alone. 

Panchan has high hopes for Durham 

after the decisive win. 

“I am expecting our team to 

make it to the OCAA (Ontario 

Colleges Athletic Association), to 

become number one in the east, 

I am expecting us to really just 

buckle down and have extreme 

focus on our offensive sets,” said 

Panchan. 

Panchan, a back-to-back CCAA 

Photograph by Joshua Nelson 

Durham's Brittany Walters (left) battles for control of the ball against an Algonquin player. 

(Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association) 

all-Canadian awards 

winner. 

She has personal goals she would 

like to achieve in her final year 

competing with the Lords. 

“(My) personal goals this year are 

to be a little bit more fit, pick up on 

my strength and conditioning and 

be a little bit more versatile, and 

get to the hoop, I was relying a lot 

on my jump shot,” said Panchan. 

Panchan’s personal goals also 

involve motivating her team and 

fellow teammates. 

“Personally I’m expecting just 

to keep lifting the team up, keep 

helping the team, working with my 

teammates, passing the ball when 

there’s an open player,” said Panchan. 

The Lords’ win confirmed 

the high hope the team had of 

improving defence from last year. 

“We worked really hard this past 

pre-season…we stayed determined, 

we came in with a goal of how we 

were going to play defence,” said 

Dakota Kirby, a Durham guard. 

The coach agreed with Kirby. 

“We’re playing better defence, 

there’s no comparison between the 

defence we are playing now and the 

defence we played last year, it’s a 

whole other team,” said LaFontaine. 

The Lords hope to use this win 

as a stepping-stone for moving forward 

to becoming number one in 

the east.

Sports chronicle.durhamcollege.ca November 1 - 7, 2016 The Chronicle 23 

Coffey supports good cause 

Nicole O’Brien 


Have you ever wanted the chance 

to play alongside some of National 

Hockey League’s biggest legends to 

hit the ice? What if you could have 

that chance and raise money for a 

great cause? 

Easter Seals, a charitable organization 

that assists children and 

adults with disabilities and special 

needs has teamed up with the NHL 

for five years now to make this very 

dream come true. 

One of their most popular fundraisers 

are the celebrity hockey 

classic series that occur in six cities 

across Ontario. 

Paul Coffey 

is huge. I was 

nervous to 

just be in his 

presence. 

Paul Coffey lends his name to 

his own series for Easter Seals in 

Vaughan, Ont. Coffey is ranked as 

the second best defencemen of all 

time and played for teams such as 

Edmonton Oilers, Pittsburgh Penquins 

and the Boston Bruins. 

“They asked me four years ago 

to chair this event,” said Coffey. “I 

say every year and it’s true, I said 

sure I’ll do it for a year and now it’s 

our fourth year.” 

Coffey kicked off the tournament 

with the annual Captain’s Breakfast 

in early October. This year 

J.D. Smith & Sons, a competing 

team in the November tournament, 

hosted the breakfast at its Vaughan 

warehouse. 

Captains from each of the competing 

teams gathered to pick up 

their tournament jersey and have 

the chance to meet Coffey himself. 

A select few J.D. Smith employees 

were also invited to the breakfast. 

Terry O’Brien, a trucker and 

self-proclaimed hockey super fan, 

was one of those lucky employees. 

“Paul Coffey is huge,” said the 

49-year-old driver. “I was nervous 

to just be in his presence.” 

Games in your backyard 

Photograph by Nicole O'Brien 

Paul Coffey (fourth from the left) gathers with participants at the Easter Seals hockey classic. 

In these series tournaments, each 

team raises a minimum of $300 per 

player to qualify to play. Each team 

gets to draft a confirmed NHL 

player for their team. Past players 

have included Wendal Clarke, Eric 

Lindros, and Rick Natress. 

Last year, the Paul Coffey series 

raised around two hundred thousand 

dollars. 

Myke said the goal this year will 

be well above that. 

“Everybody has a great time and 

a lot of fun,” she said. “And a lot of 

dollars are raised.” 

All tournament proceeds go towards 

Easter Seals. The charity 

provides financial assistance to 

help purchase essential mobility 

equipment such as wheelchairs, 

ramps and lifts. 

Easter Seals also owns and operates 

a summer camp for children 

with disabilities. 

Easter Seals holds many special 

fundraisers in an effort to raise 

money for their very understaffed 

charity. 

“We are only 47 full-time staff 

all across Ontario, and we are less 

than 3 per cent administration 

management fee,” said Charlene 

Myke, development manager. 

“That includes our CEO, our services, 

our camps, our IT and our 

communications.” 

She says it is a once in a lifetime 

opportunity for hockey fans while 

supporting a great cause. 

To find out more about the 

Easter Seals’ hockey classic, go to 

their website EasterSeals.org. 

Teenager races to NASCAR title in Peterborough 

Tyler McMurter 


The 2016 NASCAR Pinty’s Series 

season wrapped up in early September 

in Peterborough. Cayden 

Lapcevich ends the year with a 

second-place finish and becomes 

the youngest NASCAR champion 

in history. 

The 16-year-old son of former 

NASCAR racer Jeff Lapcevich 

won three races, earned nine Top- 

5 finishes, and finished inside the 

Top-10 in all 12 races. 

Lapcevich finished third or better 

in all seven events held on oval 

tracks. It was a year drivers dream 

about. 

The number 76 team clinched 

the championship after finishing 

third in the second-last race. 

While title contenders like Alex 

Tagliani and Andrew Ranger had 

trouble at Canadian Tire Motorsport 

Park, Lapcevich salvaged a 

podium finish. 

The two biggest concerns in the 

final race for him were taking it 

easy and not damaging the race 

car. 

Drivers speed by at the Kawartha Speedway as part of the Nascar Pinty series. 

“Today, we were just going to be 

conservative and not push ourselves 

too hard,” Lapcevich says. 

“You know, just make everything 

right. I think that’s what we did. We 

came out with a clean race car. No 

Men’s Basketball: Nov. 3, Durham vs. Georgian, 

8 p.m., Campus Recreation and Wellness 

Centre (CRWC) 

Nov. 5, Durham vs. Canadore, 6 p.m., CRWC 

Women’s Basketball: Nov. 3, Durham vs. 

Georgian, 6 p.m., CRWC 

damage. We could go race again 

tomorrow if we wanted.” 

The Lapcevich family has been a 

racing family for generations. They 

did not plan to fund Cayden and 

run the full 2016 season. Having 

Photograph by Tyler McMurter 

no primary sponsor for the entire 

season made it difficult to travel the 

country and race. After a few Top- 

5 finishes, they decided to pursue 

the championship. 

The 54-point difference between 

Men’s Badminton: Nov. 6, IUCC Ridgeback, 

CRWC 

Women’s Badminton: Nov. 6, IUCC Ridgeback, 

CRWC 

Cayden Lapcevich and secondplace 

Andrew Ranger is the largest 

spread since 2011. 

While some careers are just beginning, 

for Jason Hathaway, his 

career came to an end at Kawartha 

Speedway. 

Hathaway told media that 2016 

will be his final full-time season 

and the Kawartha 250 might be 

his final race. 

Hathaway shocked the racing 

community by winning the event. 

It’s his ninth NASCAR Pinty’s 

Series win. 

After the race, Hathaway told us 

what his future plans are. 

“I’m probably going to build a 

late model and run a few races,” 

Hathaway says. 

“I may come back and run a 

few of these, maybe just at CTMP. 

Maybe not. We’re going to buy a 

boat as a family. We’re going to 

celebrate and have fun at the beach 

next year. For sure.” 

For more information about your 

favourite NASCAR Pinty’s Series 

drivers, visit http://hometracks. 

nascar.com/series/pintys-series.

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