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By andrea connell The Guelph Farmers Market is on the move - temporarily. The City of Guelph is undertaking major renovations to the markets current home at 2 Gordon Street this summer. During renovations, the Farmers Market will be relocated to Exhibition Arena, located at 70 Exhibition Street. The market will be operating at the arena every Saturday from 7 a.m. until noon beginning June 15 through to August 15, 2013. The arena is approximately two kilometres north of the current market location. Exhibition Arena was identified
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Jim Hayston minds Sandis Kitchen herb stand at the Guelph Farmers Market on May 4, its first day outside due to the warm weather. The market will be moving to the Exhibition Park Arena from June 15 to Aug. 31 during renovations.
Exhibition Arena was identified as the most desirable alternate venue for the Farmers Market.
- Mario Petricevic, General Manager of Corporate Building Maintenance
To accommodate customers parking and transportation needs during the renovations,
the City is offering free parking at the Fountain Street lot and a shuttle service to and from the Exhibition Arena. There is also free onsite parking at the arena and on nearby streets. During a visit to the market on May 4, some patrons were asked what they thought of the temporary relocation. Shopper Betty Smith said, It might be a good move, we may get new people who have never visited the market before to make it a habit. Another patron had other concerns, I dont know about the shift even if it is temporary. ...see MARKET on page 3
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Jessica Avolio
On a sunny Sunday afternoon in April, close to 200 people gathered at Mariannes Park to participate in Guelphs first annual SlutWalk. As a sister event to the SlutWalk in Toronto, the group is set out to shift the stereotypes that surround sexual assault and make clear that those who encounter it are never at fault. The main message SlutWalk Guelph promotes is that ... society has taught dont get raped rather than dont rape so we want to change the language and teach people what it means to obtain consent. The SlutWalk Guelph Team consists of University of Guelph students Kara-Lynn Carder, Elsa Bagg and Alexandra Bogoslowski. Team member Kara became involved as a result of a class project to get outside the classroom and do something for the community. She had originally planned to invite the SlutWalk Toronto information-board to speak at the University of Guelph. But the following weekend, Kara and friend Elsa attended the Do So Much Conference where they had the opportunity to meet and speak with Heather Jarvis, the co-founder of the original SlutWalk based out of Toronto. This inspired the two to start discussing the creation of a SlutWalk based out of Guelph. If it hadnt been for Matthew Peacore of the CSAs ASAP committee, who overheard our conversation [...] about possibly creating a SlutWalk here in Guelph, none of this would have been possible. Peacore offered the CSAs assistance with the cause, which resulted in the CSA co-sponsoring this movement. The third member of the team, Alexandra, joined when she overheard the others discussing it since she too had planned on getting involved with the movement. It is said that the Guelph chapter came about ...very quick and sort of happened by coincidence. When the Ontarion asked about how SlutWalk Guelph differed from the original based out of Toronto, they spoke about not only being in solidarity with the original movement, but wanting to focus on specific issues based in the Guelph community. The original Toronto movement focused on the Toronto Police Services asking them to do better in their training and enforcement. While this is an important issue, it is specific to the Toronto community, said the team. With SlutWalk Guelph our mission is to question and end victim blaming, slut-shaming and sexual assault within the Guelph and Wellington area. They were also very pleased with the outcome as the crew had high hopes, but knew that many movements would take years to create a solid base of participants. We even joked at one point saying well, at least we have 20 volunteers plus family coming to keep ourselves from being disappointed. But this was not the case as Mariannes Park began to crowd with people on the afternoon of April 21. The team even positively states that they would have been satisfied if only a few people had shown up because even one person means that the
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At SlutWalk in Guelph on April 21, participants held signs that read Real men dont rape, No means no, and My clothes are not my consent in addition to shouting I shake my ass to smash the state not to make you salivate among other chants.
word is out and its important to people. Many discussions occurred on Facebook following the event and the SlutWalk team tried to address as many comments as possible. One major topic of discussion was the need for various permits from the police in order to hold this event. Some shared their thoughts about needing to obtain a permit from police in order to rally, and how they felt it impeded on their right to protest. While the SlutWalk Team understands these opinions, they state that the permit was obtained to ensure the participants safety in the event and allowed the city to work with us rather than against. Some of the Facebook commenters main issue with the permit was that they had to stay on the sidewalk, but they assured this isnt the case for all permits and will not be a restriction in next years events as we will have four months to apply for the permit. While many were opposed to the need for a permit, ... its use was the reason we pulled this event off successfully. Even though there was much controversy surrounding the name, its members believe the shock factor will begin important discourse on the issues of the march. Most criticisms were aimed at the reappropriation of the word slut: We understand the controversy surrounding the name SlutWalk, however we see many movements leave little impact with names such as End Sexual Violence. The name SlutWalk has a shock factor that creates an open and honest dialogue on issues that are normally stigmatized in our society. Although the team understand the criticisms, they stick by the original movement and want to keep the name. As members of the Guelph campus and community, the members of this team see the need to address issues surrounding sexual assault, violence and victim-blaming within the community. This issue is often talked about behind closed doors, or not at all, and we want to create a positive space for discussion. To get involved with SlutWalk Guelph, follow slutwalkguelph on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr for future updates.
PRIDE IN STYLE
People gather at Guelph Pride Weeks flag raising ceremony on May 6, hearing Mayor Farbridge and a representative of University of Guelph speak about the weeks upcoming events. Guelph Pride will continue to run until the end of the week, closing with the Annual Pride Dance on Saturday, May 11.
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One million students across Canada united in song on a very special edition of Music Monday this week. This countrywide celebration of music was a oncein-a-lifetime opportunity because it was led by International Space Station commander Chris Hadfield from his space station. Hundreds of Canadian schools all sung the song co-written by Hadfield and Barenaked Ladies singer Ed Robertson appropriately titled Is Somebody Singing. The song was translated into 12 different languages and was created to serve as Music Mondays theme song. Music opens doors and music stimulates the brain Its a wonderful, applicable skill that only makes you a more capable human, he explained. The sing along will be the last of Hadfields live broadcasts as his time in command will end when he returns back home on May 13. (CTV News)
Google may be on the verge of unveiling a model plan that would PHOTO BY WENDY SHEPHERD allow some video makers to charge a monthly subscription fee. This As of May 2, the City of Guelph is now offering a car share program. In conjunction with plan could be announced as early as this, the University of Guelph has added four reserved parking spots for these cars. this week and will affect as may as Sustainability agrees that This 50 YouTube channels. This change successful, could potentially downtown core. Being a member of a car share is an extremely convenient and would introduce more content reduce the need for us to build more parking lots. It can be used program may make economic efficient way for people to have for users and add a second source for everything from shopping sense for students. Owning a car the convenience they need in of revenue beyond the advertisetrips to visiting family and friends often involves a monthly pay- owning a car without having ments model. In the past 18 months out of town, and for much more. ment plus insurance, gas and to buy one, with the benefits YouTube has spent more than $200 The cars, all five-passenger maintenance costs. Estimating of lower costs and helping the million on starting up new channels automatics, will be parked in lots conservatively, these fees can environment. and has brought in one billion users For more information about who watch six billion hours of video P31 on South Ring Rd. and P23 on easily be a minimum of $350 per CarShare see College Ave. The City of Guelph month. Maurice Nelischer, Uni- Community each month. This huge audience will also reserve spots in the versity of Guelphs Director for www.communitycarshare.ca. has been prime for every single one of Ad Ages 100 largest brands to advertise on the site. The majority of videos on the website will remain free to watch but some specialist ...MARKET continued from page 1 neighbourhood for the summer. home will make it easy for her to can last a whole weekend. channels will be available for users Will a different location affect Dainard, a Guelph Museum volun- pop over on Saturday mornings. Frankly, the canned music that to subscribe to for as little as $1.99 the type of people that nor- teer, said Exhibition Park started As for concerns about parking the ballpark pumps out at high per month. (CNBC News) mally come to the market? Will its life as an exhibition ground for issues in the mostly residential volume during practices once or twice a week is more annoythey keep coming after it moves agricultural celebration and it neighbourhood, she has none. Amazing Race Canada Any additional demand for ing than extra cars parked on the was lovely that it gets to revisit its back? The stakes have been raised for market parking, only one morning street.And isnt that what a park the debut of The Amazing Race Exhibition Street resident Jus- history for a summer. The fact that the market will be a week, cant be any greater than is for?To be filled withpeople?Its Canada. The spinoff show will air tine Dainard said she was thrilled the market was coming to the right across the street from her summer softball tournamentsthat not a conservation area. July 15 on CTV and will feature Canadian scenery and huge prizes. The shows producers claim that the winner will receive the biggest prize ever awarded for a Canadian competition television series. The grand prize will include two 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingrays, as well as $250,000 cash or the chance to fly free in first class for a year to any location that Air Canada flies. The two-person teams will remain within Canadian borders in hopes of claiming the winnings. CTV has reportedly received thousands of applications but is keeping the contestants names, the hosts name and filming locations under wraps. Although not everything has been kept secret. Contestants were seen kicking off the show in the traditional manner of gathering knapsacks and sprinting towards waiting vehicles in Niagara Falls, PHOTO BY KEVIN GONSALVES Ont. The next day contestants were seen on a flight to Vancouver. (Front row from left) Laura Nanne, Emily Den Haan, Melissa Parkison, (middle row from left) Eamonn McGuinty, Elizabeth (Globe and Mail)
FINISHING STRONG
Stubbs, Jill Brown, Lucas Meyer, (back row from left) Robert Bos, Jeremy Fallis, all students from the Ontario Agricultural College had their best finish ever at the National Agri-Marketing Association student competition held in Kansas City, Missouri, April 17 to 18. The Guelph team placed second overall.
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Performer lineup for summer music festival announced
Stacey Aspinall
Music fans waiting for news of Hillside Festivals 2013 lineup can cast aside their curiosity and replace it with anticipation; the performer lineup was announced on April 22 and includes over 60 musical acts who will be performing from July 26 to 28 on Guelph Lake Island. Hillside Festival will be celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, and with this milestone reached attendees can expect an eclectic array of performers, ranging from experienced, established professionals to enthusiastic newcomers, according to the press release. Guelph favourites include James Gordon, King Cobb Steelie, Jim Guthrie and newcomer Sarah J. Felker. Fucked Up, Lee Ranaldo Band, METZ, The Pack a.d., Said The Whale, Sarah Neufeld, Wintersleep, and Yukon Blonde will also be performing, among many others. The full list of performers can be accessed on the newly revamped website. There were some artists who either have a long history going way back with the festival or [...] people that have been around for a long time and have started playing again in the last few years, said Sam Baijal, Artistic Director. For example, King Cobb Steelie has a local connection, and Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet is a group that goes way back, Baijal explained. Jim Guthrie, who has been out of town for a while, is also returning to Guelph for the festival. And also, there is a local artist that has been very, very popular in Guelph and has a history with Hillside going back into the late nineties, its House of Velvet. Theyre reformed specifically for this performance at the festival. And a lot of people are really excited about this, Baijal said.
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The Hillside Festivals 2013 lineup has been announced and includes over 60 musical acts who will perform over the July 26 to 28 weekend on Guelph Lake Island.
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succeeds on every level. Musically, the album is exciting, entertaining and could rival mainstream contemporaries Deadmau5 and Drake in both writing and production value. Politically, A Tribe Called Red have been able to direct their newfound attention to indigenous rights issues through movements such as Idle No More. But most importantly, Nation II Nation succeeds as a cultural piece, not just for members of the First Nations, but for Canadians as a people. A Tribe Called Red are proof of this countrys diversity, creativity, and ability to come together under one big umbrella and just dance.
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Its difficult to listen to Ottawabased indigenous-electronic fusion group A Tribe Called Red and not think, Why has no one
On May 4, many comic book fans and non-fans alike gathered at The Dragon to celebrate Free Comic Book Day. The event introduced many to the joys of reading comic books and thanked long-time comic book readers for their continued support.
pun on the phrase May the Force be with you. It is no surprise that their shop was fully stocked with free Star Wars comics, and guests were even paid a visit from Darth Vader and Princess Leia who were promoting the bestseller Vaders Little Princess. Some of the other free comic books included; World of Archie Digest, SpongeBob Freestyle Funnies, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Sesame Street and The Walking Dead. Considering this event is intended to introduce everyone to the joys of comic book reading, they seemed to have covered the spectrum offering comics for a variety of ages, genders and interests. Upwards of 4.6 million free comic books were expected to have been given away across North America that day.
In Bloom
It is one of the most bold and colourful times of the year. The University of Guelphs campus and Arboretum is bursting with buds and blossoms as spring makes its appearance in Guelph. Make sure you get out and see it before its gone, it will only be around for a short while before a scorching summer takes over.
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Laura Castellani
A new vaccine will aim to settle the symptoms of autism and alleviate gastrointestinal upsets disturbing more than 90 per cent of patients diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. While autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are a complex set of conditions involving altered immune and nervous system function as well as social and behavioural development, more than 75 per cent experience chronic bouts of diarrhea. In an effort to better understand this gastrointestinal disturbance
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Rachel Aubrey is a University of Guelph track and field runner who has earned herself a Woman of Influence award for 2013. This award honours female student-athletes who have excelled in their field of study or in their chosen sport.
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Leafs fans are voting to change this free-standing structure into the Worlds Largest Goal Light. The hope is that the CN Tower will illuminate red every time the Leafs score a goal.
OPINION
An anti-gentrification rant
Owen Rosser
While staff and councillors at City Hall trundle away approving millions of dollars in grants for multi-million dollar corporations in order to socially cleanse Guelphs downtown core and beyond, our citys social assistance recipients, working poor, migrants, artists, QUILTBAG folk and political radicals toil ceaselessly just to exist in the face of constant pressure to vanish, assimilate, or die. We work through sexual harassment, physical assault, police surveillance, and a general deficit of tax-funded outreach programming. We keep working in spite of malnutrition, unsafe work environments, and illnesses caused by poor housing. We suffer severe depression, addictions and other mental illnesses that many of us see no point in medicating because we cant afford treatment, because the wait lists are daunting in size, or because we know of someone else in greater need of the limited help available. We work the jobs those with more power and privilege will pay to not do. We sell food and clothing we cant afford to buy. We clean the windows, floors and toilets of commercial spaces and then go home and do it all again. We serve drinks to student suburban transplants and other party people who come downtown and act like the city is their maid while threatening violent rape or calling us sluts, bums,
A construction project takes place on the corner of Gordon St. and Waterloo Ave. This condominium development is part of the urban gentrification that is taking place in Guelph.
theyll get home alive, regardless of the precautions they take. Some are thieves or street dealers, reduced to an unspoken truce that amounts to Rat me out and youre dead. It fuels a culture of antipathy towards the police that facilitates violence against women and children going unreported. Worst of all, enduring this interminable wave of callous methodical bigotry rarely earns us five figures, let alone a living wage, and when we assemble to protest for social justice, we are beaten, blamed, ignored, insulted, or told to get a job. I suggest that our only option is to organize. If those with power and privilege dont want us to beg, busk, deal, steal, scrounge, selfmedicate, or perform sex work, yet will not invest funds in offering us supportive alternatives, then we band together our workforce to fill our collective needs, rather than working individually for those who profit from our poverty. The over ten thousand Guelph residents living below the poverty line must somehow produce whatever shortfall they have on 15 billion calories of nutritionally adequate food annually, make thousands of pairs of shoes, repair hundreds of leaky faucets and nurse and console our own sick and mourning. They provide themselves with the security that food banks, churches, the medical establishment and the police cannot provide without rubbing their noses in rationales about individual self-sufficiency that ring false in the face of our social repression. We are capable of accomplishing this. However, in the face of the city-assisted wholesale corporate purchase of brownfield sites and disused buildings that we might have been given using finances from which we might equally have benefited. Plus the intensification of state hostility to a Peoples Occupation, the only real question is: where?
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Sunday May 12 Guelph Historical Walking Tours -Tour IV: Altar and Hearth in Victorian Guelph. Meet 2pm at 25 Waterloo Ave., corner of Dublin St. Cost: $5. (Fee does NOT include admission to Guelph Museums). For more details visit: www.guelpharts.ca/guelphartscouncil. Monday May 13 Guelph Hiking Trail Club Hike: Arkell Research Station. 4 km. Level 2. Speed Moderate. Enjoy the best views over Guelph. Meet at 6:30pm at Meghan Crescent and Clair Rd., one block west of Victoria S. Contact: Bill Mungall wmungall0809@rogers.com. OR visit www.guelphhiking.com. Tuesday May 14 Guelph Youth Dance Training Program Spring Show: Showcasing works by both professional artists and those created by students. 6:30-9:30pm, Cooperators Hall at the River Run Centre. May 14-15. Tickets $15/general; $5/Children under 10. Tickets: www.riverrun.ca, or 519-763-3000 or 1-877-520-2408. guelphyouthdance.ca Relaxation & Stress Management Skills Training. A 12 session program at 7:30 pm to decrease anxiety, headaches, insomnia and muscle tension. Details at www.uoguelph.ca/~ksomers. Canadian Society of Zoologists free public lecture Sudden and swift: extreme movements in biology, with Dr. Sheila Patek, University of Massachusetts at 6-7 pm in Rozanski Hall at UofG. Admission and parking are free of charge. For further information visit http://cszmeeting.ca/2013/. Buddhist Meditation Class- Simple, practical methods to improve the quality of our life and develop inner peace. This weeks topic: Learning to cherish others. Drop in class 7-8:30pm at St. Matthias Anglican Church, 171 Kortright Rd. W. $10. www.kadampa.ca Wednesday May 18 Storytelling audience and tellers wanted. Main Branch of the Guelph Public Library, 7pm. Call first if your story is over 5 minutes. www.guelpharts.ca/storytellers Wednesday May 22 BETTER SLEEP PROGRAM begins at 7pm. Learn how to decrease insomnia and fall asleep more easily. Details at www.uoguelph.ca/~ksomers.
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Thursday May 24 Guelph Little Theatre presents Calendar Girls by Tim Firth, based on the Miramax film. Directed by Trevor Smith Diggins. Recommended for mature audiences. May 24-June 8. Tickets: $19, available online at www.guelphlittletheatre.com or by calling the box office at 519-821-0270.