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3Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013 NEWS
This past summer the Mattamy Athletic Centre experienced a break-and-enter and multiple thefts.
PHOTO: CHARLES VANEGAS
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.
PHOTO: NATALIA BALCERZAK
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5Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013 NEWS
Mattamy Athletic Centre won the 39th annual Toronto Heritage Award.
PHOTO: CHARLES VANEGAS
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.
PHOTO: NATALA bALCERzA
Adorable stress relief
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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.
PHOTO: CHArlS VAS
Ontaio pemie Katheen Wynne at the DMZ Monday. She xed the t ypo on he sign.
PHOTO: SIrrA BI
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.
By Sierra Bein
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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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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.
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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
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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.”
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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.
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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.
PHOTO: CHARLES VANEGAS
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.
About 150 frefghters battled the
ames or several hours, and roughly
600 people, including at least one Ry-
erson student, were orced to relocate
or were let homeless.
ByStephanieHughes
PHOTO CORTES O DONC NAHR
Dominic Nahr, a 2008 RyersonSchool o Image Arts graduate,
snapped this photo o a dead Su-
dan Armed Forces soldier in 2012
while traveling with South Sudan
soldiers. The picture won him the
third-place general news prize or
a single photograph in the World
Press Photo Contest, which held a
gallery o all its prize-winning pho-
tos at Toronto’s Allen Lambert Gal-
leria earlier this month.
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Listening to the sounds of breast cancer
By
BadriMurali
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
more resources for DreamQii Inc.
and more networking for Freire.“It’s easy to be able to con-
nect with people in any industry[through the DMZ]. If you talk
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
a basement test facility,” Freiresaid.
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.
For now, the product is still inits beta phase, testing for aws.Freire said that the Intelli Quad
One will be on the market withinsix months.
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