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3Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013 NEWS

This past summer the Mattamy Athletic Centre experienced a break-and-enter and multiple thefts.

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MAC hit by summertime thefts$20,000 worth of electronics and personal belongings were stolen from the Mattamy Athletic Centre

About $20,000 worth of equip-ment was stolen from the Mat-

amy Athletic Centre (MAC) overhe summer. The stolen propertyncludes two projectors, a laptop

belonging to the Ryerson women’shockey team and personal belong-ngs from various changerooms.

Toronto police media of-er Wendy Drummond told The

Eyeopener that a suspected break-nd-enter at the MAC was reported

o police on Monday, August 19,when staff noticed that technicalquipment had been stolen. Police

believe the thefts occurred betweenAug. 16 and Aug. 18.

An administrative staff member

who works at the MAC and didnot wish to be named said thathe projectors, which were ceiling-

mounted, were stolen from twoeparate meeting rooms: the Blue

& Gold Room and The Bunker.

The women’s hockey team lap-op, which was used for editingame footage, was stolen out of a

abinet in the coaches’ ofce space.A Ryerson coach who did not want

to be identied said that the cabi-net is usually locked. The door tothe ofce space is also locked afterbusiness hours.

“None of the door handles werebroken, none of the windows werebroken, so the person [who stole

the laptop] probably had a key.That’s what [security] told us,” thecoach said.

Ryerson has since bought thewomen’s hockey team a new lap-top.

Drummond said the case is stillunder investigation and that no ar-rests have been made.

Earlier in the summer, on July2, Toronto police received a callabout a theft from a MAC change

room. An arrest was made on July4. The suspect was charged withtheft, assault of an ofcer while re-

sisting arrest and possession.Other sources told The Eyeopen-

er that the thefts over the summerwere not the rst to happen at the

MAC.“I know last year there was a

problem with cell phones and iPods

being stolen out of player dressingrooms,” a Ryerson employee whowished to remain anonymous said.

“If I remember correctly last season

towards the end we were told not

to leave anything in the dressingrooms of value due to the thefts.”

Ryerson installed security camer-

as in the MAC’s hallways after thethefts. As well, some of the meet-ing rooms and ofce spaces now

require both a key and qualied

OneCard to unlock them, whereas

before, only one of those methodswas needed. The administrative as-sistant, coach and employee all said

that nothing else has been reportedstolen since August.

Ryerson’s manager of security

and emergency services Tanya Fer-

Former Rye Free Press editors speak outRift between Free Press masthead and CESAR brought publishing to a halt, former editors say

By Alexandra Bosanac

Opposing ideologies between the

Ryerson Free Press’ masthead andts publisher caused the paper’s col-apse last fall, according to a newly

eleased statement from two former

ditors.For the rst time since the news-

paper folded last October, formerditor-in-chief Nora Loreto andeatures and opinions editor James

Clark addressed the group’s quar-els with the Continuing Educationtudents’ Association of RyersonCESAR), the union representing

part-time and continuing educationtudents, in a lengthy editorial in an-

other campus newspaper.

“As the leadership moved right-ward, it increasingly questioned thenewspaper’s relevance to its readers

nd the wider membership,” it said.“Based on our own history with

The Ryerson Free Press, we can iden-ify both internal and external chal-enges that we believe contributedo the newspaper’s mounting prob-

ems…By its very nature, progres-

sive media challenges mainstreamideas, often attracting criticism and

generating controversy,” it said.According to Shinae Kim, CE-

SAR’s president, the union was un-

willing to foot the bill should thepaper nd itself in legal hot waterover its unapologetically left-wing

mandate, which tackled a range of social justice issues that extendedwell beyond the boundaries of Ryer-

son’s campus.“The nature of student publishing

is that it is vulnerable to legal ac-

tion,” Kim said in an email to The

Eyeopener.

Over the years, The Free Press

dealt with numerous threats of le-gal action, which Loreto and Clarkacknowledge became a growing

concern for CESAR following achange in leadership in 2009. Theunion’s fears materialized in 2012after a Toronto lawyer successfully

sued CESAR for defamation stem-

ming from a 2009 article written byClark.

In March 2012, Andrew Monk-house, a lawyer with a practice inToronto, sought $25,000 in dam-

ages over a 2009 photo that mis-takenly identied him in a leaeterat an event to protest the Canadian

Federation of Students.The Free Press issued a correction

online and in a subsequent issue, but

Monkhouse complained that the in-correct version of the story was stillbeing hosted on a digital publishing

site. CESAR eventually reached a

settlement with Monkhouse out-of-court, the details of which are being

kept condential.Another point of contention for

the board, Kim added, was that

masthead was not staffed exclusive-ly by Ryerson students.

Kim declined to speculate on the

likelihood of a re-launch, but saidthe board intends to raise the issuewith its members later this year, but

not without a few conditions.The new paper would be required

to adopt a new mandate whose fo-

cus would be on issues directly af-

fecting the community of part-timestudents. “If or when The RFP is re-

launched, the paper would need pas-sionate Ryerson students with com-mitment to student issues,” she said.

min-Poppleton said that students

and staffs should still feel safe inthe MAC.

“There is no reason to believe

that the athletes and coaches can’tleave their belongings in their ofc-es or changes rooms due to safetyconcerns,” she wrote in an email.

By Jackie Hongand Angela Hennessy

The Eyeopener Investigates:

Meanwhile, speculation contin-

ues to swirl around the sudden de-parture of Loreto’s successor, ClareO’Connor. O’Connor took the

reigns as editor-in-chief in July 2012but left suddenly after overseeing theproduction of only two issues.

“I know she didn’t have a good

time with the way CESAR treatedher,” said Loreto. “I can imagine

something happened but I’ve neverasked what happened so I can’tcomment.”

Since The Free Press’ mandate

barred it from publishing with-out an editor-in-chief presiding,O’Connor’s resignation sparked a

chain reaction that saw the depar-ture of all the other editors, Loretosaid in an interview.

No explanation was offered tocontributors either, according toKelsey Rolfe, a former writer.

“They’ve (CESAR) kept it [whatwas happening] under wraps. CE-

SAR doesn’t like to share any in-formation. It’s really weird, theykeep everything to themselves,” saidRolfe who began writing for the

Free Press in 2011.

The Ryerson Free Press hasn’t published an issue since September 2012.

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5Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013 NEWS

Mattamy Athletic Centre won the 39th annual Toronto Heritage Award.


MAC receivesHeritage awardSam sign advocates point out poor

timing for Ryerson’s award

Ryerson University and Loblaw

Company Limited received an

award of merit from Heritage To-

onto last week for its renovations

o Maple Leaf Gardens, transform-

ng it into a grocery store and the

Mattamy Athletic Centre (MAC).

Heritage Toronto has presented

he award to groups who renovate

and preserve historical buildings for

he past 39 years. However, some

activists nd Ryerson’s win ironicn the midst of the Sam the Record

Man sign controversy.

The Sam the Record Man store

was known for creating a central

meeting place for music-lovers.

“It’s both a tribute to the indus-

ry of the Yonge Street music scene

and of Sam the Record man’s store

and the man behind that store, Sam

niderman,” said Nicholas Jen-

nings, spokesperson for the Save

Our Sign (SOS) Group, an orga-

nization dedicated to the re-instal-

ation of the Sam the Record Man

ign on Yonge Street.

According to Jennings, anotherecognizable sign hung a couple

blocks away: Maple Leaf Gardens.

“Ryerson went to great lengths

o save the marquee sign that hangs

around the front of the [Mattamy]

athletic centre,” said Jennings.

“That to me is another iconic sign

and they saved that.”

The SOS Group believes that the

ame respect should be given to the

am the Record Man sign.

Canadian artists, such as the

Barenaked Ladies, The Tragically

Hip and Geddy Lee, lead singer and

guitarist of Rush, have spoken up

about the sign sending letters to

Toronto’s city council.

Jennings commended the efforts

hat Ryerson took with the design

lement of the Maple Leaf Gardens,

hanging it from a hockey rink to

By Devin Knill an athletic centre.

“All of that was very imagina-

tively done,” Jennings said.

The same seemed to be coming

for the Sam sign when in 2008

Ryerson signed an agreement to

remount the sign on the student

centre.

Ryerson president Sheldon Levy

has proposed an alternate com-

memoration in the form of a side-

walk replica of the sign, a plaque

and a website.

“Those things are ne and should

be encouraged but they shouldn’ttake the place of the signs,” said

Jennings.

“Mr. Levy should have gone

down the design route that com-

pelled the architects to come up

with a beautiful building design

which also incorporated the [Sam]

sign.”

City councilors, like Ward 22

councilor Josh Matlow, have also

been advocating on the Sam sign’s

behalf. Matlow believes Ryerson

could do better.

“To be fair, Ryerson should

be commended for their work to

preserve the Maple Leaf Gardensheritage but, they have done an

equally wonderful job in preserv-

ing the heritage as they have been

a disappointment in regards to

preserving the Sam sign,” said

Matlow.

Levy has said in the past that

Ryerson will uphold the original

deal and install the sign on Gould

Street if the city council does not

pass the amended proposal.

“There is a very, very big differ-

ence between Maple Leaf Gardens

and the [Sam the Record Man]

sign,” Levy said. “We restored it

for all the memories that the older

generation had, and we created

something that was for the future

generations of our city … That’s

why I think the Gardens has been

such an enormous success.”

Ryerson rought stress-relief dogs to campus Tuesday. The therapy pup room was open for an hour Tuesday afternoon and was apart of the Ryerson Mental Welleing Week. Other activities included a gaming session and free skating at the MAC.

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Adorable stress relief



6 Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013NEWS

Reading weekassault at Rye

News Bites

On Oct. 11, security and emergency

ervices responded to a call at ap-proximately 4:30 p.m. That eve-ning, a large male, approximately

18 to 20 years old, approached amale student in the Ryerson quad,aand asked or marijuana. The man

hen began struck the student’s aceeveral times and made violent ver-

bal threats, including a threatened

use o a frearm. The victim pulleda secuirty alarm station notiyingSecurity and Emergency Services.

Rye alum winsbook award

Snazzy new water bottle stationsByDylanFreeman-Grist

Blue water ountains, specifcally

designed to refll reusable water bot-tles, have begun to appear aroundcampus. It’s the latest move in the

Ryerson Students’ Union’s bottlewater ree campaign, meant to en-courage students to take on a more

active role at making Ryerson waterbottle ree. The cost or each o thetwo ountains is $7,000 with a por-

tion o that cost going to The CleanWater Foundation, a non-proft or-ganization dedicated to engagingindividuals in actions that preserve,

protect and improve water quality.

The cost o this work, plus the in-stallation o the unit was $11,550.

At the Architecture building, the in-stallation costs were lower as less in-rastructure work, including plumb-

ing and re-paving. The cost came to$8,150.

In 2009 at the Annual General

Meeting RSU president JermaineBagnall, CESAR president Moham-mad Ali Aumeer, and University

president Sheldon Levy pledged Sep-tember 2013 as the goal date to havephased out all plastic water bottles

on campus. “I think its a goodidea, beore the new water oun-

tains some people would have toget inside a building to fll up theirwater bottles,” said Gregorio Ja-son Nugroho, a frst-year interior

design student.

Ryerson alum Graeme Smith has

won the Hilary Weston Writers’Trust Prize or excellence in non-fction or his Aghan memoir, The

Dogs Are Eating Us Now: Our War

In Afghanistan. The prize, Cana-da’s richest award or non-fction ata total o $60,000, was presented

Monday at a ceremony in Toron-to. The award was given by Hil-ary Weston, ormer Ontario Lieu-

tenant-Governor. The book wasnominated with our other fnalists.

The new wate botte e station out-side of the Image Ats Cente.

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Ontaio pemie Katheen Wynne at the DMZ Monday. She xed the t ypo on he sign.

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Kathleen Wynne visits DMZ

Premier Kathleen Wynne an-nounced Monday at the RyersonDMZ the launch o the new “open

government” initiative.Still enguled in the controversy

ater the Liberal’s cancelation o

two gas plants, and sticking tax-payers with the bill o $1.1 billion,Wynne is trying to fnd ways to

make the government more trans-parent by making governmentdocuments available to Ontario.

“Problems get solved when peo-

ple weigh in,” said Wynne. “Wewant to consult people all alongthe way.”

Wynne wants the province’s en-gagement in the decision makingprocess, and to make “one Ontar-

io, where every voice counts.”Wynne’s plan includes three ma-

jor steps. The frst, making govern-

ment data available to the peopleo Ontario, improving the ow o that data, and using Ontario’s in-

put, resulting in a more meaningulimpact.

“It’s their inormation, it be-

longs to the people o this Prov-ince,” said Wynne. “I want to dogovernment dierently.”

According to the governmentwebsite, the inormation will beavailable to people like programers

and researchers to create visualiza-tions and programs so that the in-

ormation is easier to understand.Ultimately, the goal is to create

communication between the gov-ernment and the people by unlock-

ing data instead o archiving it.Wynne was backed up by her

Open Government Engagement

team, who will be fnding ways tomake government data more ac-cessible to Ontario.

The panel o experts, lead byOttawa Senior Associate at the

Public Policy Forum, Don Lenihanincludes other members such asNorm Sterling, a ormer conserva-tive MPP and Leslie Church rom

Google Canada.“I know people are cynical, I

know people question government

and question decision making pro-

cesses and this is exactly why this isso important,” said Wynne.

Ater the deletion o thousandso government emails with inor-mation about the gas plants, there

are people who see Open Govern-ment ironic, now Liberals wantmore inormation made public a-

ter hiding it.Unortunately, some o the im-

portance o Wynne’s announce-

ment took a back seat when a

spelling mistake was noticed on the

podium sign where she was stand-ing, reading “Open Goverment#OpenON.”

“Premier, will open governmentinclude spellchecking?” asked a re-porter in the crowd as others point-

ed out the error.

Conused, Wynne walked inront o the sign. “That is really not

good,” she said.Wynne laughed it o, and asked

or a pen beore she wrote in the

missing “n” on the sign hersel andcontinued answering questions.

The panel will come out with a

report by next spring, with waysto increase data ow and opennessalong with what costs will be in-

volved in the process.

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7Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013 FEATURES

Victoria* vividly remembers

the day her doctor rst pre-

scribed her the birth control

ill. She sat in the purple and yellow

waiting room lled with children’s

oys at her pediatrician’s ofce, ac-

ompanied by her mother. The doc-

or, who was in his early 40s, had

een her pediatrician since she was

orn. Victoria always thought he

was rude and that day he seemed es-

ecially cold and detached. He did

most of the talking while Victoria

at on the other side of the ofce,

ot really thinking about the pill.

At 15, she started using the pill to

egulate her cycle, and remained on

t as means of contraception when

he became sexually active.

Looking back, she feels that her

octor did not provide her with suf-

cient information about the pill

nd its potential side effects. After

aking Yasmin, a popular variant of

he pill, for ve years and suffering

rom extreme migraines, nausea andther symptoms, Victoria, now a

hird-year Ryerson student, decided

o stop taking the pill.

The birth control pill, rst intro-

uced to the North American mar-

et back in 1960, is a form of oral

ontraceptive that works to prevent

regnancy. It is one of the most

rusted forms of oral contraceptive

nd is 99.9 per cent effective when

aken correctly. That being said, it

s important to remember that the

ill doesn’t protect against sexually

ransmitted infections. The pill is,

n fact, a hormonal contraceptive

aken daily that contains small doses

f the hormones estrogen and pro-

estin, which work to stop the body

rom ovulating.

However, despite its popular us-

ge and the wide range of informa-

ion available, many myths about

he pill still prevail, especially

mongst younger users and univer-

ity students.

Recently, birth control pills have

een getting a bad reputation in the

ews. Last year Health Canada re-

eased a document linking 23 deaths

o the use of the pills Yasmin and

Yaz. These deaths were caused by the

evelopment of blood clots that trav-

lled to the lungs, resulting in a pul-monary embolism, or the blood clots

eing shot up to the heart, leading to

heart attack. There have also been

ecalls conducted on Alysena-28,

reya-28 and Esme-28, due to errors

n packaging and extra placebos. But

t’s not all bad news for prospective

sers.

Dr. Su-Ting Teo, Director of

the Ryerson Health and

Wellness Centre, hopes that

with increased information, people

will be more likely to sort fact from

myth. But it all depends on where

eople get their information.

“The question is of course wheth-

r people access the Internet or just

alk to their friends, and whether or

ot they access credible, unbiased,

ccurate websites,” she says. “Is it

ust a bulletin board where people

talk about things, kind of like an

expanded network of your friends,

or do you actually go to medically-

sponsored websites?”

Victoria actually found it helpful

to turn to group forums on-

line, where she started to lookfor people who were dealing

with the same side effects as

she was.

“I became really aggressive

and I have never been that way

before. I gured I was just ad-

justing to the pill because that’s

what you are told,” she says.

Emotional mood swings, ex-

tremely painful migraines and nau-

sea, combined with a low sex drive,

served as a wake up call for 19-year-

old Victoria.

“I started looking it up online be-

cause I thought this wasn’t normal.

I found this group discussion and it

pretty much described what I was

experiencing.”

Vernija*, a rst-year student on

the birth control pill to regulate her

cycle, had a very positive experience

with the pill. She did admit that al-

though she felt very informed about

the pill, she was confused and skep-

tical about its long-term effects on

the body.

“I have heard stories of girls who

were on birth control pills and when

they got older and tried to have a

child, they weren’t be able to,” she

says. “I think a lot of people hear

of the pill not on a medical basis

but on a social basis, so they under-

stand what they know of it through

friends and the media.”

So what are the actual potential

side effects of taking the birth

control pill?

Dr. Teo noticed that a lot of fe-

male students that walk into the

Health Centre are misinformed

about the pill. At the top of the list

are fears of weight gain, an increase

in acne, health concerns if the pill is

taken continuously and that if you

are on the pill for a long time

you will have trouble conceiv-ing later on.

Dr. Teo works on debunking

these myths as soon as possible.

According to her, it is all about

putting things in context and re-

alizing that many of these myths

are simply possible side effects

of being pregnant.

“All the side effects that anyone

gets from the pill are really the side

effects that you get from being preg-

nant, except less because the dosage

of the hormone is much less,” she

says.

This is why some women may

experience weight gain, while oth-

ers not, and why some may see their

acne clear up, while other we see an

increase in blemishes. Also similarly

to when you are pregnant, being on

the pill increases your risk of devel-

oping a blood clot, which is why it

is important to be honest about your

medical history with your health

care professional. If you are already

at risk of developing a blood clot,

then Dr. Teo advises that you should

not be taking the pill.

There are also health benets of

taking the pill, many of which are

still overshadowed by the myths and

negative side effects of the pill. Ac-

cording to the American College of

Obstetricians and Gynecologists,

positive long-term effects of the pill

include increased protection against

ovarian cancer, lowering the risk by

up to 40 per cent.

Dr. Teo agrees that Vernija’s con-

cern about not being able to actu-

ally conceive when the time is right

is one of the most common miscon-

ceptions women have. She says that

taking the pill will not affect your

chances of getting pregnant once

you are ready to conceive.

“It is not about the fact that youare on the pill, it is about the fact that

you are 15 years older,” says Dr. Teo.

It is also recommended to take

the pill continuously without breaks

for the placebo, unlike what many

women believe. Dr. Teo explains

that the pill was in fact designed that

way and that there is no need to stop

and take the placebo pills which in

fact lead to that “articial period”

you get each month.

Each woman may react differ-

ently to the pill, which is why

it is important to know what

to look for in terms of side effects.

Alex*, a fourth-year student, started

taking the pill two years ago. She

felt that her doctor had pushed her

to get on it and tried to convince her

that it was right for her body and

would regulate her hormone levels.

Feeling ashamed as she left the

doctor’s, she took the pill for a week

until the pain became unbearable.

Her body started to retain water and

she experienced problems urinating.

The pain and constant mood swings

became too much and she reached

her breaking point.

“I woke up one morning and I

was just bawling my eyes out, I was

so upset. So I called my mom and

she is the one who told me to stoptaking the pills,” she recalls.

For Victoria, her experience

served as an important lesson and

she hopes to keep the conversation

around birth control open and ac-

tive. She is condent that next time

around she will know to do the

necessary research so she’s well in-

formed prior to meeting with the

doctor.

Dr. Teo reminds female students

that the birth control pill remains an

extremely effective method of con-

traception, and recent recalls don’t

change that.

“There is nothing new or differ-

ent about the medication itself,” she

says. “There were some errors and

recalls, but that can happen with

any medication.”

*last names have been omitted

I became really aggressive.I fgured I was just adjust-ing to the pill because that’swhat you are told.

truth about the pill T h e

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Despite its popularity, the pill is still cloaked in miscon-ceptions and myths. Arielle Piat-Sauve took a look into

the hard facts of the controversial contraceptive



8 Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013SPORTS

After two miserable seasons, the new

bench boss of Ryersons’s women’s ho-

eky team is hoping to change the club’s los-

ng culture.The Rams have won only three of their

first 52 games and have finished last both

imes.

In his first four games with the Rams,

Pierre Alain, who took over as the team’s in-

erim head coach after head coach Lisa Haley

was named an assistant coach for Canada’s

Olympic women’s hockey, has led his team to

half as many wins as the team managed all of

ast season.

Although their 1-3 start has left much to

be desired, Alain believes his team has what

t takes to compete for a playoff spot.

“We can tell that this team is different this

ear,” he said. “We’ve already won our first

ame of the season and I can tell they are aim-ng for another notch, another step.”

Despite being new to Ryerson, Alain is fa-

miliar with the Rams’ style of play as both

he and Haley have coached Canada’s senior

women’s hockey team together and share

imilar coaching philosophies.

“The patience that we have in building

eams is very similar,” said Alain. “We know

hat this is a learning process and we are

both very patient in our teaching.”

In a season that will feature a lot of firsts

or the Rams, the team has added seven new

players to their roster including goaltender

Alex Armstrong, who was brought into

hore up last year’s spotty goaltending.

In two games this season, Armstrong has

backstopped the Rams to their only victory

while compiling a .902 save percentage andgoals against average of 3.03.

Last season, a goaltending tandem of

Emma Crawley, Brianna Tremblay and Dana

Carson posted a combined goals against av-

erage of 4.11— the second-worst in Ontario

University Athletics (OUA).

The recruiting class also included three

forwards who were brought in to help im-

prove an offence that scored an OUA-worst

35 goals last season.

“Alain gives the rookies really good op-

portunities to get on the ice and do some-

thing,” said first-year forward Claire Sabine.

“He’s an awesome coach just the way he

runs his systems and the way he runs his

teams [is] really encouraging.”Despite a plethora of new faces, third-year

forward Melissa Wronzberg doesn’t think the

team is in the midst of a rebuilding process.

“I think because of the rookies we’ve

brought in this year along with the group

that started and last year’s rookies, it’s no

longer a growing year,” said Wronzberg, one

of the team’s assistant captains.

Although the Rams went 6-3 in the pre-

season, the team has posted a pedestrian 1-3

record and have scored an OUA-worst four

goals.

But in a year with so much uncertainty,

Alain believes that he is up to the task of

leading the Rams to a successful season.

“They have confidence in me, that’s why

they hired me,” said Alain. “[They broughtme in] to be a good teacher, a good leader

and bring the team to another level.”

Despite having made the playoffs in each

of the past two seasons, Ryerson’s

men’s hockey team has yet to make it past

the opening round.

In an attempt to make a deeper playoff

push, head coach Graham Wise spent the off-

season improving the team’s weakest area.

Of the 36 teams in Canadian Interuni-

versity Sport (CIS), Ryerson ranked 29 in

goals against average at 4.89 and 30 in save

percentage.

Last year’s starting goalie, Troy Passing-

ham, who has played in all three games this

year, owned the worst save percentage and

the second-worst goals against average in

the Ontario University Athletics (OUA).“[What] we’re trying to improve on is try-

ing to get our goals against average down

[because] this hockey team has never been

on the plus side of goals, against goals for,”

said Wise.

In order to improve the Rams spotty goal-

tending, Wise added fourth-year veteran

Adam Courchaine, who has spent time in

the OHL, ECHL and AHL throughout the

last 11 years.

In 2012, the 24-year-old put up a spar-

kling 2.37 goals against average and .908

save percentage with the ECHL’s Alaska

Aces.

“With Adam, you’re getting an older kid.

Someone with maturity [and] someone withexperience that should be able to step into

this game and be able to contribute right

away,” said Wise.

Courchaine hasn’t been able to play yet

due to transfer eligibility rules, but he’ll be

clear to make his first OUA start on Oct. 24

against the Guelph Gryphons.

While Courchaine is expected to make an

immediate impact, Wise said he will stick

with the hot hand on any given night.

“If someone’s playing well and coming up

with the big saves when we need them and

leading us to victory, then that’s how we’r

going to operate,” said Wise.

Though the Rams won two of their firs

three games, early success hasn’t alway

worked out, as the team went 4-1 to star

their 2010-11 campaign but only managed

to win four of their next 23 contests.

The Rams move to the west division wil

have them playing rivals University of Toronto and York University as well as Brock

Laurier and Waterloo — providing mor

rest and less travel.

Though the level of competition is com

parative in both divisions, the Rams can

now avoid facing the Université du Québec à

Trois-Rivières in the first round of the play

offs, the team that has ousted them in the

opening round the last two years.

The defence will add three right-handed

shooters from this year’s recruiting class

something that the Rams had none of com

ing into this year.

“If we’re doing set faceoffs we should b

able to run them on both sides of the ic

[now],” said Wise.Brought in to add more scoring to a mid

dling offence is former Kitchener Range

Dominic Alberga, who already has seven

points in three games, including the over

time winner in a 3-2 victory over McGill in

the season opener.

“He’s been great for us,” said Wise. “I

takes some time to adjust to this league, bu

so be it. Alberga’s fitting in really well.”

The Rams first line, led by graduating cap

tain Andrew Buck, will provide solid two

way play while the second line, led by las

year’s top goal scorer Jamie Wise, will pro

vide lots of skill.

“We’ve definitely shown that we can pu

the puck in the net, and I know that w

can compete with anybody in this league so

we’ve just got to put it together for 60 min

utes every night,” said Buck.

By Daniel Morand

With the 2013-14 c

The Eyeopener tak

at a number of Ryer

By Harlan Nemerofsky

Women’s Hockey

Men’s Hockey

PHOTOS: CHARLES VANEGAS

GRAPHICS: JESS TSANG



Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013 9SPORTS

t season was a disappointment for

yerson’s men’s basketball team as they

to go to the Ontario University Ath-

(OUA) Final Four after a dominating

tart to the season.

expectations are high once again forationally-ranked Rams, as head coach

Rana has his sights set on making the

Final Four this time around.

nce we get to the Final Four, then the

tep is nationals, but we’ve got to get to

nal Four first.”

order to get back to nationals, Rana

significant additions from last year’s

— most notably six-foot-nine centre

m Green, who transferred from the

University Bobcats of the NCAA.

en joins six-foot-eight Bjorn Michaelsen

x-foot-eight Juwon Grannum to form

ongest frontcourt the Rams have had in

s five-year tenure as head coach.

makes our job a hell of a lot easier,”hird-year guard Aaron Best on the ad-

of Green. “As a guard you love driv-

the lane because you know you can

ump [the ball] to a big [forward], and

now they’re going to finish it every

time.”

Rams will have one of the best back-

in the Canadian Interuniversity Sport

with Best, Jahmal Jones and Jordon

ier, who shot an efficient 43 per cent

the field in his three years with the

h Jones and Best were named OUA all-

ast year, tied for number one in team

g averaging 15.3 points per game and

d amongst the top 20 in the OUA.

wever, the season doesn’t come without

s shooting guard Ostap Choliy, one of

am’s best shooters off the bench, will

miss the entire season after tearing his ACL

in the offseason.

“Ostap will affect our depth but we

brought in a few new pieces this year so I

think we’ll be good,” said Rana. “Obvious-

ly losing him hurts, but injuries happen so

we’ll have to move forward.

“I think we’ve added more depth up front

and I think we’re going to get more offence

from the post position so we won’t have to

rely on Michaelsen as much as we have in

the past,” said Rana.

If the pressure to get back to nationals

wasn’t enough, the Mattamy Athletic Cen-

tre will once again host the OUA Final Four.“Last year we got ahead of ourselves,

some guys in the locker room saw getting to

nationals as the goal, but this year we’re tak-

ing it one game at a time,” said Jones.

However, the Rams have their work cut out

for them if they hope to live up to the hype.

Rana called the OUA east division “easily

the toughest division in country by far,” as

the Rams share the OUA east division with

perennial powerhouse Carleton Ravens –

who have won nine of the previous 11 CIS

titles — and Ottawa Gee-Gees, who elimi-

nated the Rams in the quarterfinals.

Only three teams from the OUA will

reach the national championships (Carleton

already qualified as the host) and only twoteams from the OUA East will reach the Wil-

son Cup.

“We just need to be consistent,” said

Rana. “This is a make-or-miss league and to

be successful you just have to be good at the

right time.”

The rookie of the year is gone.

A year after first-year point guard

Cassandra Nofuente was named as the On-

tario University Athletics (OUA) east rookie

of the year, Ryerson’s women’s basketball

team find themselves in the midst of an un-

expected rebuilding year.

In addition to being named a second-team

OUA all-star, Nofuente, who transferred to

Humber College this offseason, was second

on the Rams in scoring.“We [lost] a pretty solid ball-handler and

go-to person,” said second-year head coach

Carly Clarke. “Someone who wants the ball

in their hands at key times and can create

for herself and her teammates...those are big

shoes to fill.”

In addition to Nofuente, the Rams lost

much of their veteran presence, as co-cap-

tains Angela Tilk and Kelcey Wright switched

schools in pursuit of their master’s degrees.

Wright was Ryerson’s top scorer last year

averaging 13.8 points per game, while Tilk,

who missed all of last year due to injury, post-

ed a career high eight double-doubles in 2011.

“Anytime you lose veteran leadership, you

look for new people to step in and pick up

where they left off,” said Clarke. “Certainly

Tilk’s presence in the locker room and her ex-

perience meant a lot to the team.”

To fill the void left by Nofuente’s departure,

the Rams will turn to second-year point guard

mpaign upon us,

an in-depth look

n’s varsity teams

Chloe Mago, who despite being highly tout-

ed out of high school, missed nearly all of

last season due to injury.

During the off-season, the Rams added

five new recruits to their roster, including

five-foot-ten guard Mariah Nunes. Nunes

spent the last season-and-a-half at Farleigh

Dickinson University, a Division one NCAA

school in New Jersey.

Due to transfer eligibility rules, Nunes

won’t be able to play an official game withthe Rams until January 2014.

“She’s a great athlete and very dynamic,

she’s going to make us a team that is much

tougher to defend when she is on the floor,”

said Clarke. “She is going to take our de-

fence to another level when she’s out there.”

Other recruits include six-foot-two forward

Shannon McInerney, who brings needed size

to a small Rams team and guard Nicole Dido-

menico, who was one of only 20 players in all

of Canada to participate in the All Canada

Classic national high school all-star game.

“We don’t see it as a rebuilding year [be-

cause] I think we have some seniors that

have some experience,” said Clarke. “Is it

realistic that we’re going to win the OUA

this year? We’re not talking about that.

We’re focusing on the process and getting

better day-to-day.”

By Charles Vanegas

By Devin Jones

en’s Basketball

Women’s Basketball

PHOTOS: CHARLES VANEGAS

GRAPHICS: JESS TSANG



10 Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013SPORTS

After being eliminated in a

heartbreaking four-set match

o the Western Mustangs in last

ear’s Ontario University Athlet-

cs (OUA) quarterfinals, Ryerson’s

men’s volleyball team is entering

he 2013-14 season with a chip onts shoulder.

Last season the Rams were seed-

d seventh out of 10 teams in the

OUA, which was enough to make

he playoffs.

However, with the OUA imple-

menting a new system this season

hat will now see only the top six

eams make it into the playoffs,

the Rams know they will have to

step their game up to another level.

“Making the playoffs is a goal,

but making the Final Four is our

ultimate goal,” said Rams head

coach Mirek Porosa.

Ryerson has a largely revamped

roster this season, with a huge re-

cruiting class that included middle

blocker Jeff Ardron. As the prizeof the recruiting class Ardron has

represented team Ontario as an

18-year-old at the under-21 Canada

Summer Games this past summer.

“Sometimes it’s tough to mesh

newer guys with veterans, but the

guys have been great, they’re real-

ly eager to learn,” said fourth-year

setter Stefan Ristic. “As one of the

captains on the team, I hope to

help mentor some of the younger

guys into the whole rhythm of the

varsity athletics scene.”

However, this season doesn’t

come without loss, as the Rams

lost former OUA rookie-team set-

ter Aleksa Miladinovic, who left

Ryerson after being accepted to the

University of Toronto’s prestigiouspharmaceutical program this off-

season. Miladinovic was second in

the OUA in assists last year.

“Losing Miladinovic to Toronto

is a difficult hit for the team, but

our new setter, Adam Anagnosto-

poulos, is an exceptional player,”

Porosa said.

In addition to Miladinovic, the

Rams lost Luka Milosevic to grad-

uation. Milosevic was named to

the OUA second-team all-star in

his fifth and final season with the

Rams when he finished fifth in the

nation in solo blocks, with 28.

“When you’re losing all-starplayers, it creates holes in certain

positions, but Jeff Ardron has the

size (at six-foot-eight), the expe-

rience and has been showing that

he can step up and fill this hole,”

said Porosa.

Anagnostopoulos is coming to

Ryerson with an impressive re-

sume, having captained the On-

tario Volleyball Association’s KW

Predators the past five seasons. He

was also named to team Ontario’s

under-18 team in 2012.

“[He will] most likely get the

starting job, but [the OUA] it’s a

whole new level that’s faster and

more intense,” said Porosa.Offensively, the Rams will be

led by third-year outside hitter

Robert Wojcik, who led the team

with 220 kills, which was good

enough for third in the OUA and

eighth in the nation.

“I see a lot of potential in this

team. They are showing signs of

brilliance,” said Porosa. “My goal

is to create whatever is necessary

for them to grow.”

By Luke Galati

Last year, Ryerson’s women’s

volleyball team had only one

player with playoff experience.

Now, following a lengthy play-

off run that saw them place fourth

in the Ontario University Athlet-

ics (OUA) Final Four, head coach

Dustin Reid has no doubt that his

new veteran team is poised for an-

other championship run.

“We think we’re a more talent-

ed team than we were last year,”

said Reid. “We want to get back

to the Final Four and compete for

a championship.”

As one of Ryerson’s most suc-

cessful teams — they placed third

in their division and made it to the

OUA Final Four for the first time

in school history — the Rams are

ready to face the new pressures

of living up to and exceeding last

year’s success.

“We have acknowledged that

there is pressure to do well this

season, but that’s not going to

take us where we want,” said fifth-

year outside hitter Chelsea Jensen.

“Take one game at a time and do

our best in those and the rest willwork itself out.”

Unlike past seasons, the Rams

will face stiff competition as the

OUA’s recent realignment has

landed them in a division with all

of last year’s Final Four teams—

the York Lions, the Toronto Varsi-

ty Blues and the Ottawa Gee-Gees.

“It will definitely make it hard-

er to reach the Final Four,” said

third-year libero Krystyna Ng. “It

all comes down to who plays bet-

ter the day of competition.”

This season, the Rams return to

the court with their core group of

Jensen, Chelsea Briscoe, VeronicaLivingston and Emily Nicholishen

all returning to the court after fuel-

ling much of last season’s success.

Briscoe and Livingston placed

fourteenth and fifteenth in points

per game average last season while

Jensen and Nicholishen both

placed in the league’s top 25.

In addition to their veteran core,

the Rams expect newcomers Em-

ily Betteridge and Kristina Vicek to

make an immediate impact in their

first year with the team.

Vicek, a recent York University

graduate, brings a wealth of expe-rience to the team after three years

of OUA volleyball for the Lions.

“Vicek is the oldest and most ex-

perienced newcomer,” says Jensen.

“She adds intensity and focus to

our team atmosphere, which will

contribute to our success.”

Betteridge, a transfer from Syra-

cuse University, brings much need-

ed passion and enthusiasm to the

court despite not being eligible to

play in a league game until Nov. 14.

In spite of their undoubtedly high

expectations, the Rams are hungry

to prove that last season’s success

was no fluke. “I really want a goldmedal,” said Livingston.

“Personally I feel the only pres-

sure is the pressure we put on our-

selves and I know a lot of the girls

feel the same way.”

By William Brown

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English was not Philip Van

Martin’s rst choice. After

high school, the actor had

his sights set on a French-

anguage university theatreprogram.

“Initially, Toronto wasn’t

eally on my radar, because

was very much a Franco-

phone,” says Van Martin.

But he ended up at Ry-

rson. His conclusion: “It’s

one of the best schools in

he English language in

Canada and I was very for-

unate to be able to train

here.”

Now, Van Martin is set

o co-star in Le Théàtre

rançais de Toronto’s pro-

duction of Le Fa Le Do,which opens at the Berkeley

treet Theatre on Oct. 23.

Even though he looks

back on his education

ondly now, his rst year

didn’t go as smoothly as he

hoped.

“I was politely asked to

ake some time off after the

rst semester,” he said. “I

ook a year off, I travelled

he world and when I came

back, I was much more

eady to do the work.”

There have been no ma-

or speed bumps since. In

his second year, Van Mar-

in had a role in the His-

ory Channel lm Storm-

ng Juno, a role he says

ave him a huge condence

boost as a young actor.

“The experience helped

me gain some perspective

and understand the profes-

sional environment.”

Since graduating in 2012,

Van Martin has netted roles

in three major productions.

Contacts he made at Ryer-

son led to his rst role, af-ter which he was invited to

audition for Le Fa Le Do.

Van Martin stars as Ju-

lien, a young scientist ob-

sessed with his work who

makes a huge discovery.

The production encom-

passes several genres, in-

cluding suspense, lm noir,

comedy, drama and politi-

cal intrigue.

“I’m the most techni-

cal part of the play — the

science in there,” says Van

Martin. “There’s a kind

of dark secret about thischaracter that you discover

throughout the play.”

The scientic jargon

was a challenge for Van

Martin, who stressed the

importance of making his

character believable. “It’s

been sort of a challenge

wrapping my mind and

my speech patterns around

some of these sentences.”Van Martin says being

a young artist in a big city

comes with its share of

distractions and anxieties,

whether it’s money or com-

petition. He stays grounded

by remembering why he got

into acting in the rst place.

“I’m doing this because I

love it, not because there’s

any huge promise of money

or this resounding, immedi-

ate success of any kind...

It’s important to remember

what you’re doing it for,

and I think that’s the truthof any profession.”

11Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013 ARTS & LIFE

Philip Van Martin, a Rye theatre grad, will play Julien in Le Fa Le Do.

PHOTO COURTESY OF JOSéE DUREU

Dancers perorm at Ryerson Theatre on Oct. 19 during the Toronto International Flamenco Festival.PHOTO: EVET ERUTkU

ByLeahHansen

Alumnus to star in new play

Organizers and participants flled Ryerson’s Rogers Communications Centre on Sat-urday, Oct. 19, or the frst Canadian DIY Days, a day o worshops and speaers.

PHOTOS: RObY bE

Broadcasters, directors, design-

rs, writers and entrepreneurs

hared their visions, ongoing

projects and accomplishments at

DIY Days on Saturday, Oct. 19,

t Ryerson’s Rogers Communica-

ions Centre.

Toronto’s rst DIY Days — a

athering focused on storytelling,

ollaborative design and social

ood — consisted of speakers,

workshops and interactive ses-

ions with focuses ranging from

limate change to experimental

torytelling to game design.

“This is an event that has beenrowing and happening in ten

ities worldwide,” said Richard

Lachman, director of the RTA

ByLaraOnayak

Transmedia Centre, which hosted

the event. “I wanted to work with

stories and become part of this

organization.”

DIY Days has been held in cit-ies such as Los Angeles, New

York and Warsaw in the past.

“Toronto is an amazing city,”

said Lachman. “There are televi-

sion people, digital people, app

people, educators, youth work-

ers and so many projects going

on. We really wanted to make an

event that would bring these peo-

ple together.”

The theme of the event was

Wish for the Future, chosen by

Lance Weiler, director of Lyka’s

Adventure, a lm that tells the

story of a robot scientist who

comes to earth to collect data onthe environment.

Weiler said Wish for the Future

is one of DIY Days’ “fundamen-

tal foundations… We’ve used it

all over the world.”

One of the event’s most popu-

lar workshops was Wish Zone, in

which participants wrote downtheir wishes for the future. The

wishes were then rendered into

stories and prototypes with Play-

Doh by others at the event.

Another workshop, Open Talk

Sessions, allowed attendees to

speak about their own projects in

ten-minute intervals.

Charles Falzon, chair of the

RTA School of Media, hopes to

make DIY Days an annual event.

“This movement is really the

beginning of the future,” said

Falzon.

“It’s about shifting, changing

how we think, sharing, evolvingand a new way of being who we

are as individuals and as a soci-

ety.”

Ryerson hosts its frst-ever DIY DaysProjects, workshops and dreams shared at inauguralCanadian event held by the RTA School of Media

Flamenco festival touches down at Ryerson Theatre

The other TIFF

On Ryerson Theatre’s stage,a woman stands alone fac-

ing a quiet crowd of peo-

ple. She makes a move,

gliding through the air. Be-

hind her, three people sit:

one starts to clap, another

sings and the last person

strums a guitar. The music

ows around the woman

as she moves; unlike most

situations where the danc-

er moves to the music, the

music follows the dancer.

These movements are none

other than amenco, a type

of Spanish folk music and

dance.

The Toronto Internation-

al Flamenco Festival, which

visited Ryerson Theatre on

Saturday, Oct. 19, is now

in its seventh year. The

festival’s goal is to educate

those unfamiliar with a-

menco through workshops,

movies and performances.

But it’s not only for new-comers — the festival also

helps local amenco artists.

“We contracted interna-

tional artists to teach our

local artists so that they

can keep improving,” says

Lionel Félix, the festival’s

founder and producer.

The festival included acts

like Triana Project, Rie

Ishizuka, Renka and head-

liner La Lupi, a amenco

performer who hails from

Malaga, Spain.

For many of them, it’s

more than a job or hobby.

“Flamenco to me is my life

passion,” says Iryna Gor-

don of the Triana Project.

“It’s a way for me to ex-

press my artistic ideas.”

Flamenco originated in

the south of Spain and

nds its roots in Polish,

Arabic, Gypsy, and Hindu

culture. It combines music,

percussion and dance, anduses very few instruments.

Though the guitar and ca-

jon (a hollow box that you

sit on and use like a drum)

are common, the most

widely used “instruments”

are performers’ hands.

Félix says that, as a-

menco spreads across the

world, “many artists are

now using the violin, the

piano and other inuences

from different parts of the

world.”

Back in Ryerson Theatre,

La Lupi concludes her solo

performance and the clap-

ping stops, but only mo-

mentarily. Seconds later,

the crowd rises in a stand-

ing ovation.

ByRoderickFitzgerald



12 Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013ARTS & LIFE

he phoenix mural, which is bright shades of pink, yellow,urple and blue, spans 32 storeys of 200 Wellesley St.


World’s tallest mural painted on building where fre broke out in 2010

Rising from the ashes

A new mural o a brilliantly aming

phoenix could fnd itsel in world re-

cord books soon.

The artwork, which spans 32 storeys

o the 200 Wellesley St. apartments,

was designed in response to the fre

that broke out in the building in 2010.

The mural was created by more than

50 young people rom the St. James

Town community, including residents

o the building and a handul o Ry-

erson students. It’s the tallest mural

in the world, according to the STEPS

Initiative (Sustainable Thinking andExpression on Public Space), the lo-

cal organization behind the mural that

promotes art as means o connecting

people with public space.

While most o the artists involved

were high school students rom Jar-

vis Collegiate Institute, STEPS youth

leader Aniqah Rahman is a psychology

student at Ryerson. Steven Song, Sara

Ayub and Benjamin Jones — engineer-

ing and urban and regional planning

students — also contributed.

“[They] were involved in various ca-

pacities in the planning and outreachor this project,” said STEPS represen-

tative Alexis Kane Speer.

The fre that inspired the mural start-

ed around 5 p.m. on Sept. 24, 2010.

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ames or several hours, and roughly

600 people, including at least one Ry-

erson student, were orced to relocate

or were let homeless.

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PHOTO CORTES O DONC NAHR

Dominic Nahr, a 2008 RyersonSchool o Image Arts graduate,

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dan Armed Forces soldier in 2012

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soldiers. The picture won him the

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a single photograph in the World

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When people think of drones,lso known as unmanned aerialehicles (UAVs), faceless assassins

n wars come to mind. Second-ear electrical engineering student

Klever Freire hopes to change the

perception with Intelli Quad One,multi-rotor UAV that can scan

nvironments and landscapes in

D.Freire is the chief executive of-

er and lead designer at DreamQiinc., a recent DMZ startup that

reates software and hardwareproducts, combining articialntelligence and robotics.

While drones are mostly asso-iated with military destruction,

Freire said that this is not the pur-

pose of the Intelli Quad One.“We’re promoting our units as

ndustrial and commercial appli-

ations. At rst, we will be target-ng this to photographers and lm-makers who want to take shots

nd clips from the air. This can bexpanded for more humanitariannd agricultural work, by helping

armers look at crop conditionsrom above, and can also help in

potting landmines from conictones,” Freire said.Before taking electrical engi-

neering, Freire graduated Ry-

rson’s aerospace engineering

A DMZ startup will bring drones to Canadian skies

ByHania

Ahmed

A bet over a beer has led a Ryerson

professor to crowdfund a projecthat may change how breastancer patients are treated.

Physics professor MichaelKolios and his partner GregoryCzarnota, a radiation oncologist

t Sunnybrook Hospital, havedeveloped WaveCheck, anultrasounding technology that

detects if chemotherapy is workingn one to four weeks, much lesshan the four to six months

patients currently have to wait.

The research for WaveCheckbegan two decades ago whenKolios and Czarnota, both

raduate students at the Universityof Toronto, attended a seminarwhere they argued with a fellow

tudent about whether or notultrasound, the painless technology

Ryerson physics professor Michael Kolios crowdfunds for breast cancer detection technology

Profeor Mchae Koo’ WaveCheck e raondng o deec brea cancer.illustti: Jss ts

used on expectant mothers, could

detect programmed cell death,also known as apoptosis.

When cells go through

apoptosis, they leave behind tracesthat ultrasounds can detect. It isthis signature that WaveCheck

uses to identify if chemotherapy isaffecting cancer cells.

About 60 to 70 per cent of

patients do not respond tochemotherapy. WaveCheck couldsave patients from unnecessaryrounds of chemotherapy, which

has side effects like nausea, hairloss and weight loss.

“The ultimate goal is to switch

the approach when you knowit’s not working,” Kolios said.WaveCheck would save patients

from side effects and give themmore time to nd alternativetreatments.

While the Canadian BreastCancer Foundation and Terry FoxFoundation have both funded this

project, more money is still neededfor test trials.

The WaveCheck team begancrowdfunding this month to raise

nearly $100,000 for the project.So far almost $30,000 has been

raised on Indiegogo, a websitethat accepts online donations. Thecampaign ends Nov. 27.

“Unless you nd the funds, it

can’t get across [the country],”Elizabeth Monier-Williams said,co-director of the WaveCheck

campaign.Almost $700,000 is needed to

run four studies across Canada.

A total of 180 women willparticipate.

Should WaveCheck not make

the money through crowd-funding, researchers will try to getthe money through government

grants.According to the Canadian

Breast Cancer Foundation,

breast cancer affects one in nineCanadian women and is thesecond-most deadly cancer.

Kolios hopes WaveCheck will

be in clinics worldwide.

program in 2008.An interest in intelligence and

robotics inspired Freire to makehis own UAV.

“I started working on a UAVin August 2008. That meant thatI had to nd the parts myself,assemble it, program it and receive

training for it all by myself,” Freiresaid. “I’m interested and havea background in this, so I kept

going, but I want to provide theout- of-the-box solution for thosewho want to know more about

this, but don’t have the back-ground in it.”

As of Aug. 17, the Department

of National Defence passed lawsallowing civilian aviation agenciesto y drones and other UAVs in ci-

vilian areas. This is creating a new

market for the use of these devicesfor commercial purposes, such as

the Intelli Quad One.Working in the DMZ means

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and more networking for Freire.“It’s easy to be able to con-

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to the right person, you’re imme-diately connected. Before, we didthis out of a two-bedroom condo,and now, we have eight desks and

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Freire also says that it is impor-tant for the Intelli Quad One to be

as Canadian as possible.“We want to make sure that all

the materials are manufactured

and put together in Canada. It ishard to say no to lower manufac-turing and development costs, but

we want to bring those jobs backto our manufacturing industry,”Freire said.

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