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Students striking in Quebec wear red to signal their student debts.

JuStin Giovannetti

transit move delayedCity transit’s move to Guelph Central Station delayed again

Lauren watson

on Apr. 20, Guelph Tran-sit announced its move from St. George’s Station to the new Guelph central Station would be delayed. originally set to move on may 6, the relocation was pushed to the 13th. once again, the delay is the result of unforeseen construction on underground water services at

the intersection of macdonell and Woolwich Streets.

operations were originally in-tended to be moved to the new inter-modal transit terminal back in November of 2011, how-ever, conflicting construction at the carden St. site intervened with plans. The inter-modal terminal was then scheduled to move for may of 2012.

Further changes such as minor route alterations and updated transfers will continue to begin on time starting may 6, however the main transfer point will remain

unchanged until may 13.“We had hoped that the con-

struction would be complete before may 6,” said Richard Henry, general manager, engineering ser-vices. “Unfortunately, the timing of the tendering process, con-struction permits, inspections and approvals conflict with Guelph Transit’s original plans to move in to the new station.”

The main purpose behind the further delay was to minimize fur-ther confusion for Guelph Transit riders.

u of g’s CsA expresses solidarity with Quebec studentsCentral student association sends letter to Charest government in support of Quebec protest

tom Beedham

The colour red speckles the hundreds of thousands of students occupying Quebec’s streets. pinned to coats and bags and pasted on street signs and other vulnerable surfaces, it is a visual pun on the French expression to be squarely in the red, or in debt. Some wear it to express the financial positions they currently face as a result of university and college tuition fees, others wear it as an omen of tuition hikes will bring about, and others still wear it simply to express solidarity with

those groups.on may 4, the U of G’s cen-

tral Student Association (cSA) addressed the Jean charest gov-ernment in Quebec with a letter expressing solidarity with Quebec students, letting protestors there know that they don’t have to wear their red alone. The letter was sent to urge a meaningful negotiation with students and an end to polic-ing methods that have resulted in hospitalization and mass-arrests of protesters as young as 15 and 16.

According to the letter, the gov-ernment’s proposed $1625 tuition increase over the next five years

“threatens students’ access to ed-ucation and will contribute to the increase of tuition fees across the country, including here in on-tario.” It cites a recent study by the Quebec student federation the FeUQ to point out that the me-dian income of Quebec students

is $12,200 per year, and that the hike in fees would require students there to work an additional 162 per year at a salary of $10 per hour to make ends meet.

The Ontarion spoke with cSA communications and corporate affairs commissioner Drew Gar-vie and academic corporate affairs commissioner Deaglan mcmanus about the group’s support of the Quebec protests.

“It’s hard not to take notice when you’ve got a quarter of a million people on the streets.” said Gar-vie. “It’s really inspired a lot of our membership.”

“It’s also important because what happens in Quebec doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It affects what’s going on across the country,” Garvie said. The protests began in February, but Garvie cited a media-freeze in english-speaking canada for

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“It’s been a challenge to co-or-dinate a number of inter-related construction projects in collabo-ration with cN, Rail America, VIA Rail and Go Transit,” Henry adds.

As part of Guelph Transit’s growth strategy, the new central station has been said to improve connections between Guelph’s local bus service and regional public transit systems including Greyhound, Go transit and VIA rail. The project is said to take advantage of $5.3 million in pro-vincial and Federal Infrastructure Stimulus Funds.

“It will be a major change for our operators and riders as our operations

have been based out of St. Georges Square for over 90 years” said michael Anders, also a general manager of Guelph Transit. “The major challenges have been the co-ordination of the parties and the communication of the changes.”

As for future development, An-ders stated that, “Guelph Transit will continue to refine its routes within the city and look for oppor-tunities to improve connections

with other service providers and expand our service to surround-ing communities.”

Back in January, when bus routes were changed, many

students were left confused and upset. Hopefully with the new inter-modal central station, the Guelph Transit Growth Strategy will run smoothly and provide the

benefits it intends to make for our community.

Guelph Central Station’s entrances are still blocked off as Guelph transit’s move from Quebec St. is delayed to May 13.

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six-year-old suspended for sexual harassment after quoting lMFAo at schoolDenver, colo. first-grader D’Avonte meadows was sent home for three days after allegedly saying, “I’m sexy and I know it,” to a female classmate. A line from electro-pop duo lmFAo’s single “Sexy and I Know It,” D’Avonte’s mother Stephanie says that the school’s allegation went too far and that her son was merely singing in a lunch line, and not to anyone in particular. After meeting with officials at her son’s school, Stephanie was told that they would consider changing their findings from “sexual harassment” to “harassment” because of his age. It is still uncertain what the allegation’s change might mean for D’Avante. (Huffington post)

$10k worth of unique skate shoes stolenThieves ran away with a trailer packed full of $10,000 worth of one-of-a-kind Vans skateboarding shoes intended for michigan-based nonprofit group Nibwaakaawin. An organization dedicated to empowering Native youth creativity, courage, pride, cultural identity and healthy physical activity, Nibwaakaawin intended to sell the shoes as a fundraiser for its annual All Nations Skate Jam in Albuquerque. Because the shoes were created out of an exclusive collaborative effort between Vans Shoe company and pendleton Woolen mills, anyone caught selling them can be easily identified for trafficking in stolen merchandise. (KoAT Albuquerque)

Judge rules ip addresses are not enough to identify guilty partiesAttorneys defending makers of intellectual property are being told to come into court with more than lists of Ip addresses. Judge Gary Brown of U.S. District court for the east District of New york recently ruled that an Ip address “provides only the location at which one of any number of computer devices may be deployed, much like a telephone number can be used for any number of telephones.” The ruling became necessary upon recognizing that intellectual property attorneys are using Ip addresses that exhibit engagement in copyright infringement to bully account owners of said Ip addresses into out of court settlements. Brown says the ruling was necessary because the lawyers –especially those defending pornographers–can cause defendants that might be completely innocent to pay settlements just to escape the potential embarrassment a court proceeding might bring. (TorrentFreak)

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putting a hold on the spread of the message behind the students’ so-cial unrest, offering that now that the information is making its way into english-speaking canada, it should start being disseminated as widely as possible.

“I would say if we were in their position, we would want them to do the same thing. To have support from students in another prov-ince would be a great boost to your morale,” said mcmanus. “And it’s happened before on the Guelph campus. Solidarity has come from other places in canada and across

the world, and it’s been helpful to some of the movements that have taken place here.”

Garvie and mcmanus are par-ticularly hopeful that a meaningful negotiation will be reached be-tween the charest government and Quebec students for the example Quebec–where tuition remains the lowest in North America–serves the rest of the continent.

“Here in ontario we’ve been able to point to Quebec as a more ac-cessible system and if their fees are raised to approximately what ours are, then it really puts us at

a disadvantage. Also it’s a posi-tive example of what students can do when they’re mobilized and when they stand up,” said Gar-vey. Quebec’s tuition has remained the lowest over the years because of generations of student protest.

As of the time of publication, po-licing costs associated with crowd control at the Quebec protests is approaching the value of the tuition increase charest’s gov-ernment proposed in February, and montreal’s tourist reputation could face a hit.

“What happens in Quebec

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Frolicking in the bluegrassBlack River Brothers cap off tour with double set at Biggies

nick mcFarLand

Guelph was treated to a night of traditional bluegrass on Sun-day, as the Black River Brothers capped off their recent tour with a two-set show at Biggies down-town. The Halifax-based group has been playing shows between their hometown and here—mostly on the east coast and in ontario—and living out of a van for the past 10 days.

The band is comprised of vi-olinist carmella Farabakhsh, guitarist-vocalist Tim mailman, chris Tamasi on banjo, and An-drew Balfour playing upright bass. Their performances consist predominantly of covers of old bluegrass, country and east coast songs.

“We’re all ‘struggling artists,’” says Farabakhsh, only half-jok-ingly. The tour is concluding so that she can return to her day job.

The show was opened by Fara-bakhsh’s younger brother Isaiah.

Accompanying himself on the cello, he offered up a folksy set of songs that emanated warmth. Using a looping pedal, he was able to masterfully build up each piece to sound like a full string section by seamlessly layering together bass lines, arpeggios, and smooth long tones. While he performed well, it seemed as though he had yet to gain full confidence in his own ability to sing while playing cello—something that is sure to develop as he continues to perform.

As the Black River Brothers took to the stage, it was apparent that mailman’s twangy croon was per-fectly suited to the task at hand. Singing over the steady banjo-plucking and bass lines of his band mates, he stopped on occasion to allow Farabakhsh the opportunity for a spirited fiddle solo. Kick-ing and jumping as she went, her heart-and-soul playing resulted in a completely ruined bow by the end of the night.

Despite the upbeat nature of most of the band’s material, the surprisingly young crowd seemed reluctant wto stomp and dance along. That changed in the sec-ond of the band’s two sets, when

the hoedown really took off as the audience’s hillbilly-styled dancing rattled the rafters with a sudden and infectious enthusiasm.

Farabakhsh says the band has been relatively well-received wherever they go, adding that she

feels bluegrass music is a trend that is starting to pick up again.

“Thank goodness we aren’t play-ing hair metal,” said Farabakhsh.

She added that the band is learn-ing as it goes. After an earlier tour stop in Wolfville, NS, an audience

member invited them back to his house where he “Jedi-taught” them a whole host of tricks of the bluegrass trade.

toronto DJ Josh Raskin, a.k.a. Kids & explosions, quickly received comparisons to Greg Gillis’s mash-up project Girl talk when Shit Computer dropped in 2010.

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More than kids & explosionsJosh Raskin on Girl Talk, sampling, and multitasking

tom Beedham

In the time leading up to the march 2007 premier of I Met the Walrus, director Josh Raskin spent a lot of time listening to a half-hour-long interview John lennon once did with a 14-year-old canadian named Jerry levitan in 1969. Tasked with turning the half-hour of audio into a five-minute short, Raskin also animated and provided computer illustrations for the project, editing the sound of the interview as well. Still, that interview accounted for anything but the only audio on his playlist.

In the process of piecing together I Met the Walrus, Raskin started a DJ career that saw him mixing and mashing together the likes of Sigur Rós, Radiohead, Notorious B.I.G., Destiny’s child, Justice, and more.

With I Met the Walrus still taking up most of his time in his beginning years as a DJ, Raskin had to hold back on dropping his first album, but in 2010 he churned out Shit Computer under the handle Kids & explosions. offering the album to listeners at a pay-what-you-can rate, the project took off quickly, earning

him critical acclaim.even though he took away an

emmy and was nominated for an oscar for I Met the Walrus, Raskin has proven that he is well adept in areas outside of animation and film: he’s displayed a general proficiency in the art of turning a superabundance of material into a compact and amusing prod-uct.

prior to a show at the Jimmy Jazz on Apr. 21, Raskin opened up to The Ontarion about his multi-faceted career.

He said that while he has been recognized for his artistic endeavours in formal settings before, that isn’t how he defines success.

“Honestly I feel like if you love what you’re doing that is success. you don’t make things expecting to get awards or trying to get into festivals. And if you do, you’re probably doing it for the wrong reasons and it likely won’t be great,” Raskin said. “I think you need to just make sure that you care about what you’re making and then if you can actually finish something–I think if you finish something at all, that’s a pretty good measure of success for me. I’m a perfectionist; it usually takes me a long while. But loving it is a bonus.”

Because of his broad and rapid sampling, a common comparison

Raskin has faced is with mashup DJ Greg Gillis, a.k.a. Girl Talk. Raskin explained that while he felt the comparisons were inevi-table, what he sees himself doing to samples is more in the tradi-tion of sample-based production artists like DJ Shadow, prefuse 73, or Squarepusher.

“I kind of think of Girl Talk as like a DJ with a thousand arms that is perfect for making a dance

party go off,” Raskin said. “I think I go about it in the way of writing a song rather than mixing stuff to make people dance.”

Despite admitting that he has difficulty completing projects that he picks up, Raskin hasn’t given up on the kind of multi-tasked occupation he involved himself with when simultane-ously DJing and working on I Met the Walrus in 2007.

Along with another record on the way, Raskin explained that he’s currently writing a film, working on a commercial, put-ting together a couple of music videos, and he has a video game on the go.

“[A video game is] something I’ve never done before and it’s sort of thoroughly confusing me.”

Halifax-based bluegrass outfit Black River Brothers played a double set at Biggies on May 6.

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pop Machine: hulk smash!tom Beedham

Despite a record setting $200.3 million opening weekend at the box office, not all were entirely impressed with director Joss Whedon’s The Avengers. In particular, critics didn’t find opening scenes involving Bruce Banner (a.k.a. Hulk) exception-ally smashing.

In the film, Bruce Banner (mark Ruffalo) is taking refuge in the slums of Kolkata, the capital of India’s West Bengal. A man on the lam, there, he uses his medi-cal aptitude to treat lepers.

Bengali actor Riuparna Sen-gupta responded to the film’s exclusive magnification of the city’s slums.

“Kolkata has a rich culture and heritage, and a filmmaker should respect that,” said Sengupta.

The city is recognized as West Bengal’s capital because it is the nucleus of east India’s

commercial, cultural and educa-tional enterprise. It does not exist in a vacuum apart from moder-nity as The Avengers depicts it.

While some were perturbed with the film’s exclusive depic-tion of Kolkata’s slums, others took issue with the film’s colonial appeal.

“calcutta looked cramped, squalid and leprous, as in City of Joy from 20 years ago. Then, pat-rick Swayze was saving lepers. This time around, mark Ruffalo is Dr. Bruce Banner, keeping his inner Hulk under control by saving eternally ill slum-dwellers.

“This is not the reverse migra-tion story about the West coming east in search of the future. […] It is a throwback to a much older idea of India: a black hole, all slumdogs, no millionaires, waiting to be saved by a foreign do-gooder.”

While the complaints are com-pletely valid, it is not entirely

unheard of that the Kolkata scenes–filmed in New mexico–represented slum environs exclusively. It continues a theme already established in the con-nected Hulk franchise; in 2008’s The Incredible Hulk Banner is in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro slums learning to control his anger. But Banner’s not just managing stress, he’s in hiding. pursued by US military intelligence helmed by General Thaddeus e. Ross and the Strategic Homeland Interven-tion, enforcement and logistics Division (S.H.I.e.l.D.)–the latter of which can tap into any mobile device if it wants extra eyes or ears–environments that thrive to the pulse of modernity generally don’t work for him.

Still, the critics have a point. The continued Hollywood tra-dition that magnifies points of cultural weakness is both unfor-tunate, entirely unbalanced, and in a time where cGI is at its peak

and set design can be utilized to make New mexico look like a city in India–especially when the film in question had a production budget of roughly $220 million–entirely unnecessary.

Whedon could have easily

dollied/tracked/zoomed in through India to Banner or from a hyper extreme aerial shot above Kolkata into the slums. It might have even helped empha-size the degree of Banner’s self-sequestering.

Album review: The Men, Open Your Heart◆ 4.8 / 5 ◆

nick mcFarLand

The men simply have no regard for genre barriers. While many bands find themselves confined to a singular sound with slight experimentation amongst various albums, the men do everything by their own rules and impart a refreshing bombardment of sound and creativity in tightly bound packages. last year’s release of the critically acclaimed Leave Home was a stunning dis-play of brash noise punk, jumping through sonic hoops and pum-meling with effects and reverb at every turn. It was heavy and it was very, very loud.

Fast forward to this year and

they’ve taken almost a complete leap in every direction with their third lp Open Your Heart. Still very evident is the unbridled en-ergy of their previous releases, but with a new spin on just about everything. No influence is left unchecked as they charge along effortlessly with a heavy repertoire of hardcore, garage rock, country, shoegaze and enough pop sensibil-ity to put phil Spector to shame. laden with hooks and atmosphere, Open Your Heart is an experiment in ambition and a successful one at that.

From the opening song “Turn It Around” it becomes increasingly evident that this is a far different beast to tame than Leave Home. most noticeable is the addition of vocals as a prominent feature in

the songs and the ease at which the men write catchy lines amidst the swirling surroundings of re-verb drenched guitars that pound out intricate riffs and leads. From there they take it up a notch with the appropriately titled “Animal,” a wild display of hardcore paired with surf-rock leads and harmo-nious backing vocals of “he’s an animal.” And then it all comes to a halt with the six-minute instru-mental “country Song,” which is as much atmospheric and calm as the previous two songs were hec-tic and loud.

The rest of the album carries on with the same sense of un-predictability and disregard for normalcy. With no fear of writing long, twisting songs packed with musical prowess and keen writing

abilities, the men do everything they can to stamp out boredom and trudge along at a frighteningly quick pace. No song seems out of place as each track flows into one another under a blanket of cohe-siveness and endless sound. even the acoustic-driven “candy,” which wouldn’t be out of place among the radio’s catchiest sum-mer tunes, is delivered with the same ingenuity along with lines like “I’ve been to the darkest plac-es; I’ve been a total mess.”

Open Your Heart is as much a call for freedom as it is an expres-sion of it. In a misguided industry of stagnant tediousness, the men have produced an artistic and am-bitious album to release among the wildlife. on the title track, sur-rounded by walls of garage punk

intensity and energized drum fills, “there are no mirrors here, do what you want, be who you want to be!” is yelled with urgency and desperation. There’s no doubt the men have no issue practicing what they preach.

Artifacts of the everyday: northern memoriesseamus ogden

Our time is coming. Breathe deep-ly this Spring and Summer. Taste the intoxicating danger of beauty. She will ask for a sacrifice: per-haps a sunburn, a multitude of bug bites, or a bee sting.

“Come up, thou red thing.Come up, and be called a moon.The mosquitoes are biting tonight.like memories.Memories, northern memories.”

The moon I’ve seen is rarely red. Her colour is the pale shining sur-face of northern skin in a dark bedroom. But D. H. lawrence

justly sees the red in everything. Whatever the moon’s colour, mos-quitoes will bite. And northern memories too, this time of year. yes, “up north” we all go in the coming months; one to shed her worldy shell in nameless woods, another to revel in his worldy shell in a palace over lake Joseph. Northward ho, regardless.

We Southern-ontarion Homo Sapiens are migrators. Something within us explodes in late Spring. The local birds are just settling down, forgetting their wild days, just as we start to crack, to anx-iously twiddle our thumbs, and then – the sudden homelessness. like fall birds our bodies pull us

elsewhere, to something famil-iarly unfamiliar.

Remember those days to come? When the plans are in place but the sun has yet to rise? When fi-nally we roll out of bed, fog-eyed and stupid (our hearts still wake-ful in their wanting)? When we pack our cars before dawn, hop in and buckle up, lean our heavy heads against the nearest window or shoulder? When we embark on that drive north, in and out of sleeping and waiting, clarity and silence, while Gord Downie and Neil young sing from our stereos? Songs about desire, about a town in North ontario, about the lake fever, about the stars of Algonquin,

about our land – that archaic won-der, lost amid the greyness of civil canada’s streets. Remember how wide our eyes will be?

Northern memories... The canoe–the play of paddle and water, re-united by our hands. The straw mess of unwashed hair. The bonfire–a dancing light that leaves some mystery. The smell of your smoked clothes. The taste of warm whiskey, drunk from the flask, passed about. The silence of the unelectric night, occupied only by life and starlight. A pipe passed and yet another swig from a bottle. The drunken sway and stumble, from the fire to the dark woods. There’s a brief solitude

there. The late Al purdy, Northern ontario’s poet of the everyman, knows it. His poem Attempt has the last word. In a handful of words he articulates our northern longing, our condition:

“Man’s sole gesture of defianceat a hostile or indifferent universeis standing outside at nightafter the requisite number of beersand with a graceful enormous parabolatrying to piss on the starsfailing magnificently.”

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The 17th Annual YMCA-YWCA Women of Distinction Awards took place at the River Run Centre on Thursday, May 3rd. The gala was hosted to honour the outstanding accomplishments of 30 women from Guelph and Wellington County, nominated for

their participation and phenomenal contributions to different sectors of the community: Arts and Culture; Business, Labour, The Professions and Entrepeneurs; Education and Training; Public Sector; Science, Technology and Research; Voluntary Community

Service; Wellness, Health and Recreation; and Young Woman of Distinction.

(From left) Kate Vsetula, Helen Edwards, Raechelle Devereaux and Melanie Bowman were acknowledged for their outstanding contributions in the Wellness, Health and Recreation sector. Vsetula, a University of Guelph

International Development graduate, was selected as the winner of the award for her extensive list of community involvement. This includes volunteering for Guelph Women in Crisis, as well as her position as Co-Chair of the Guelph Wellington Food Round Table where she oversees working groups that deal with creating a sustainable

The nominees for Public Sector included (from left) Anita Macfarlane, Heather Kerr and Rosslyn Bentley. Bentley received the award for her extensive involvement in Health Services Management. She has worked as the Executive Director of the Upper Grand Family Health Team, an

organization she herself developed, the Director of Client Services at Community Care Access Centre of Wellington Dufferin, and has held many Health Management positions in the United Kingdom.

For their contributions to Voluntary Community Services (from left) Lynda Slater, Jessie McConnell, Theresa Brickell and Imelda Porcellato received the honour of being nominated for a wide range of efforts including Leadership Volunteer with the Heart and Stroke Foundation (Brickell), Co-Founder and Coordinator of the Italian Canadian Senior’s Group (Porcellato), and creating the first “Pre-Flight” transition

program for students with Learning Disabilities entering their first year at the University of Guelph (Slater). However, McConnell was given the award for her impressive resume which includes volunteering for Food and Friends through the Children’s Foundation of Guelph, the St.

Elizabeth Dent was the sole nominee for her sector, Arts and Culture, yet her acceptance of the award was well deserved. Dent has been the Executive Director of Ed Video Media Arts Centre since 2005. Having restored Ed Video’s funding by the Arts Council

and overseeing its relocation, Dent virtually saved Ed Video’s existence and nursed it back to one of Guelph’s key arts organizations. In her thank you speech she acknowledged her parents as having raised her to be a “Yes, and…” person, someone who always agrees

to an idea and finds a way to make it even better, promising the audience to continue to be a “Yes, and…” leader.

In honour of the 30 women nominated for their roles of excellence, a ceremonial dragon dance was performed during the awards ceremony. The dragon was referred to throughout the night as a representation of direction and a master of authority, according to Eastern philosophy. James Bonk, Chief Executive Officer of the YMCA-YWCA of Guelph, incorporated into his welcoming speech the classification of a dragon as being colourful, gifted, confident, full of energy and irrepressible, having extreme ambitions and continuously successful, beautifully comparing the

dragon to the women of distinction

Gracen Johnson (center) received the award for Young Women of Distinction amongst her fellow nominees Shireen Noble (left) and Olivia Borkosky (right). Johnson was widely recognized during her undergraduate years at the University of Guelph for her social activism in Guelph and worldwide communities, having received multiple awards between 2007-2011 such as Most Outstanding Venture, Be The Change Award, and the University of Guelph Student Life Award. She has been the Co-Founder of Tradyo, Co-

Founder of Vote Mobs, and Founder of C-Day: Fill the Hill, as well as Co-Organizer of TEDxGuelphU.

In the Business, Labour, the Professions and Entrepeneurs sector, Roxanne Foreman received the award for over 25 years of business experience and her success within the Consumer and Pharmaceutical industry

in Canada. She is currently the Vice President of Quality Assurance for Johnson & Johnson, Inc. at McNeil Consumer Health in Canada. She also works as a global Process Excellence business examiner and sponsors the Women’s Leadership Initiative for Johnson & Johnson Inc., Canada. Fellow nominees

included Leanne Ballard and Lucie Dubé.

Renann isaacs Contemporary art opened its doors Saturday, May 5 to introduce its latest exhibition, Painter Printmaker. The show consists of master printmaker and painter Stu oxley, in collaboration with the work of one of ireland’s most recognized artists, neil Shawcross (left). This is the first time that Shawcross has exhibited in Canada. The exhibition has been well received and the opening reception brought out an abundance of Guelph art admirers. The works present masterful techniques in printmaking while mirroring energetic mark-making principles of painting. Both artists’ work compliment each other nicely, together creating a dramatic sea of red, white and black. The show will run until June 16 and is well worth a visit.

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going retroTeams employing outdated elements in their images want to be recognized for successes of old

Lauren watson

These days the big trend in the sports world is retro-stylized jer-seys that bring back old and classic sports organizations’ logos. Teams such as the Toronto Blue Jays, Van-couver canucks and many more are coming out with retro-inspired jerseys that bring back original franchise logos. most NHl teams are using a retro-stylized jersey as an alternative, and a plethora of NBA and mlB teams are recre-ating this type of jersey in order to makeover their franchise as a whole.

Recently, the Toronto Blue Jays rid of their dull black and grey jerseys in leeway for the original blue and white, holding the Blue Jay bird as the face of the franchise. Numerous baseball caps sporting the retro Blue Jays logo can be

spotted not only in the streets of Toronto, but throughout canada, symbolizing a great canadian bond.

Some say this recreation was meant to bring hope for new be-ginnings to the Blue Jays’ baseball team, harkening up the glory days of the championships in ’92 and ’93. Already, an excited buzz re-laying from the growing fan basis of the Jays reminds us of the pos-sibility of change that could arise this season.

Another team that has restored to its former logo is the Vancouver canucks. once again bright retro colours take the place of drabber shades in an attempt to make over their franchise. Straying slightly from their previous jerseys, the franchise decided to dawn a retro logo on their alternative jerseys, consisting of the classic “stick-in-rink” illustration last seen in the ‘70s.

The renewed shades of blue and green have become a symbol of the

Vancouver canucks, not only on the streets of Vancouver, signi-fying unity and belief, but in the league as a whole, posing a threat to competing teams. last year, the canucks swept the NHl, taking home the presidents trophy, the conference championship, and second place in the Stanley cup playoffs. The best the team has done in decades, it is safe to say the retro jerseys are here to stay.

For many teams exiting a tough year in results–or worse, a few bad

years–may look to reestablish fans’ trust. Along with shedding old ruts and making new beginnings, the goal of the retro jersey is to bring light to the past winnings or cham-pionships each team once held.

Retro jerseys will continue to grow in appearance in the sports world. perhaps Toronto fans will see their own maple leafs sport-ing retro jerseys in the near future?

The toronto Blue Jays abandoned elements of recent years’ team logos in favour of something more retro this year.The toronto Blue Jays abandoned elements of recent years’ team logos in favour of something more retro this year.

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From left: Reid Coolsaet, eric Gillis and Dylan Wykes.

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Hungry Guelph locals dig into some steamy poutine.

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guelph runners to compete in olympic marathonLocal running club members to compete at London’s Olympic games this summer

tom Beedham

canada is generally pretty weak when it comes to the Summer olympics’ athletics category. A specific event of no recent con-quest is the olympic marathon. It has been 12 years since the country has even sent athletes to compete in the event. This July, things will change. Announced on Apr. 26, this summer, canada will be send-ing a marathon team to compete in london, including two runners with ties to the University of Guelph.

The 2012 men’s canadian olym-pic marathon team will include U of G graduate Reid coolsaet and eric Gillis–both elite members of Guelph’s Speed River Track and Field team.

considered to be the most suc-cessful running club in canada,

the Speed River Track and Field club’s appeal attracted the cana-dian olympic committee as well as Athletics canada to make the official introduction of the 2012 marathon team on Guelph turf.

It is not the first time coolsaet and Gillis will have competed alongside each other. In 2002, coached by Dave Scott-Thomas, the head coach of U of G’s track and field and cross-country teams, the two represented canada in Spain at the World Student Games.

The london games will mark Gillis’s second chance at an olym-pic medal. In 2008, he ran the 10-kilowmetre race in Beijing.

coolsaet and Gillis’s three-man team will also include Vancou-ver-based runner Dylan Wykes, originally of Kingston, ont. and a graduate of providence college and Queen’s University.

According to Scott-Thomas, Wykes is a friend of the Speed River program.

more members of canada’s olympic track and field team are

expected to be announced in late June. Scott-Thomas anticipates

adding more Guelph athletes to other events.

Adwatch: wendy’s “poutition” is more than a little cheesytom Beedham

If the word “poutition” has entered your vocabulary, you probably know by now that Wendy’s recently started serving poutine.

Introduced alongside the res-taurant’s announcement of its newest dish, the cheesy port-manteau is wrapped up as a call for canadians to “Help make poutine our national dish.”

more realistically, it probably doesn’t signify much more than the company’s informed effort to hop on a hot and steamy gravy train.

launched in tandem with Toronto ad agency maclaren mccann, the Wendy’s campaign consists of online, radio and TV ads, a Facebook page, a youTube video, in-store graphics, and a promotional merchandise line.

The so-called “poutition” urges Wendy’s customers and interested bystanders to “like” Wendy’s canada on Facebook and sign a petition to urge parliament to declare poutine as canada’s national dish.

my first concerns with the campaign involved the public-ity Wendy’s would receive for their new dish, and what the fallout would be for the indepen-dent poutineries that conduct entire businesses around the steamy fare. might the corpora-tion’s decision to buy into the poutine game wash independent

distributors down a mudslide of cheese curds, gravy and salt?

To see if my concerns were felt elsewhere, I reached out right away, tweeting poutini’s (a small poutine shop thriving on Toronto’s Queen St. West). They responded with another question.

“Do we need parliament to tell us poutine is our national dish?” poutini’s tweeted.

It was a surprisingly com-fortable response. While the indie poutine shop didn’t seem remotely concerned with the notion of a major restaurant chain launching a broad cam-paign that is wearing its politics on its sleeve (sort of) and their shrug of a response momentarily comforted me, I haven’t dropped my concern altogether, for two main reasons: (first) because my sample didn’t even answer my question in full sentence form and it was too minute to be con-sidered remotely representative of an entire market anyway, and (second) more importantly, because while the Wendy’s effort to have parliament approve of poutine’s patriotic integrity might seem superfluous, it’s not unlike the method Tim Horton’s has used in its marketing–and that chain enjoys some success that cannot be ignored.

In fact, I argue that Wendy’s seeks to establish itself as the site-and-source of canadian identity just as patricia cormack says Tim

Hortons does with its “True Sto-ries” ad campaign.

In her 2008 article, cormack explains that because it’s so dif-ficult to articulate canadian identity, when companies like Tim Hortons juxtapose their products alongside images of established canadiana, consum-ers become willing to buy in. even though the only really singular things about the Tim Hortons franchise are its availability of a product called Timbits (which are really just relabeled donut holes) and the fact that it was founded by a hockey player, buying their

product became a canadian thing because the franchise’s market-ing originally featured people doing canadian things with Tim-mies cups in hand.

With its “poutition,” Wendy’s is using the same basic formula.

A dish that is well known for its Quebec origins, market-ing poutine as a canadian thing is no new marketing strategy. everyone already understands consuming poutine as a canadian thing. The Wendy’s campaign goes a step further though. By urging consumers to vote pou-tine in as canada’s national dish

and purchase a line of t-shirts, bumper stickers, mugs, yard signs and buttons that bear messages riffing on the canadian national anthem (“oh poutine! We stand in line for thee”), Wendy’s can be identified as a corporation that is trying to purchase its appeal as a facilitator of canadian identity by convincing the public that its business is actually more cana-dian than those that have been in the grease and curds business for generations.

can you hear the curds squeak-ing yet? This “poutition” is more than a little cheesy.

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save katimavik! Dear editor, So far, 2012 has been a very bad year for young canadians from coast to coast to coast: an alarming unemployment rate of 13.9%, the shutting of the Service canada youth Job centers across the country, and a youth-criminalizing crime Bill. Now the conservatives have cancelled

canada’s outstanding national youth volunteer program, Katimavik. Since 1977, Katimavik has enabled over 30,000 young canadians to volunteer for local charitable and non-profit organizations like ymcA-yWcA of Guelph and Guelph lake Nature centre. In addition to learning a second language and

exploring canada, Katimavik fosters citizenship, leadership, and cooperation, by giving experience and opportunity to our youth. Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that for every dollar the organization spends, $2.20 is generated in our neighbourhoods. With enough pressure, we can still reverse the conservatives’

decision. youth need the tools to succeed; let’s make sure they have them. We must not allow the Katimavik house in Guelph to close. Yours sincerely, Justin P.J. Trudeau Liberal Party of Canada Youth Critic

to Quebec, with loveenglish-speaking canada is beginning to announce its soli-darity with the quarter million students protesting against the charest government and spread word of the cause itself. As the University of Guelph’s indepen-dent student newspaper, The ontarion is obliged to weigh in on the issue.

The issue of accessible post-secondary education is always ripe for debate. There are always sides that will argue over the

extremes–one side claiming that the quality of education suffers in countries where schooling is offered for free, while the other points to the high tuition rates of Ivy league institutions as set-ting up an exclusive advantage for a demographic that is already afforded some of the world’s greatest privileges.

If you have been paying attention to media coverage of Quebec’s student protests (or if you read our coverage of the U of

G’s cSA’s expression of solidar-ity on our front page), you might have noticed that Quebec enjoys North America’s lowest tuition’s rates. It does because of gen-erations of student protests that argue in favour of neither extreme previously mentioned, nor with the expectations that their rejec-tion of a tuition hike proposal will be pleased in full. Although the student protests in Quebec are concerned with keeping student fees where they are, they are less

concerned with money than they are with protecting the ideal of maintaining an open, honest, and safe dialogue with their ruling governments. And for that, they should be commended.

The ontarion wishes to express its solidarity with the student protestors in Quebec, and to request the charest government do everything in its power to facilitate a safe and civil dialogue its community.

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