“We will review all appeals by Canadians on the no-fl y list, limit Communications Security Estab-lishment’s powers by requiring a warrant to surveil Canadians, and require a statutory review of the full Anti-Terrorism Act every three years,” says Sgro.

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Judy Sgro is heading back to Parliament Hill.

The Liberal MP for Humber River-Black Creek has surged

with 67 per cent of the vote. Sgro has been re-elected for a seventh term as part of Justin Trudeau’s majority Liberal government elected Monday night.

Second place in Humber River went to Conservative candidate Kerry Vandenberg who managed 20.2 per cent. Darnel Harris, representing the NDP, eked out 10.6 per cent, with Keith Jarrett of the Green Party sitting at 1.6 per cent. Christine Nugent of the

Marxist-Leninist party took last place at 0.6 per cent.

Commenting on her victory, Sgro says it’s exciting to be part of an agenda aimed at helping people who need a “hand up.”

“They (voters) want to know they’ve got a government that’s going to care about them,” she says.

Sgro also spoke about youth em-ployment, saying the Liberal party hopes to boost youth employment over the next four years. Other than tuition fees and youth em-ployment, the topic of marijuana could not be avoided.

Sgro says models for legaliza-tion in the United States can serve as inspiration.

“I suppose that will be a basis for us to start to look at, but it sends a very strong message to the en-forcement areas in the city as well

that we’re heading toward an area where we’re going to legalize this,” remarks Sgro.

Despite what seems like move-ment on an infi nitely ba� ing issue, Sgro cautions the drug must be kept out of children’s hands.

“I think we’re going to start to look at how that (legalizing mari-juana) might happen,” she adds. “How do you go about legalizing it, and making sure that what we’re trying to do is protect kids from getting access to it.”

York West has been under the Liberals for 53 uninterrupted years. Although the riding has been a shoo-in for the Liberals for decades, Sgro struggled in 2011, putting up 47 per cent, the Liber-als’ worst result in decades.

Sgro, who is a former immigra-tion minister, is no stranger to

scandals. In 2005, she resigned, following accusations she aided a pizza shop owner avoid deporta-tion in exchange for delivering free pizza to her o� ces.

Although she’s kept a low profi le since then, Sgro is looking forward to tackling concerns left behind by the Conservative government.

“We will repeal the problematic elements of Bill C-51 and introduce new legislation that better balanc-es our collective security with our rights and freedoms,” says Sgro.

“Canadians know that in Canada, we can both improve our security while protecting our rights and freedoms.”

She says her party will introduce new legislation that will, among other measures, ensure Canadians are not limited from lawful pro-tests and advocacy.

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The Liberals’ national campaign appears to have resonated with many Ca-nadians, taking momen-

tum from the NDP throughout September as a result of what pundits think was the NDP deci-sion to compete with the Liberals for the centre, inadvertently revealing their left flank.

“The first thing that strikes me is that the number of seats that the Liberals won is far higher than any of the polls predicted,” says professor Derek Hrynyshyn, Department of Political Science and communication studies.

The extent of the Liberal sweep shows how voter intentions and popular support for specific parties gained momentum, adds Hrynyshyn. Once people start to see a party rise in the polls, and if they think that party can win, while if it matches their policy preferences, then more people tend to shift toward that party.

“There was of course a signifi-cant movement from the NDP vote to the Liberal vote, and I think that has to be the explana-tion for why the polls didn’t quite predict such a high turnout.”

“I think a lot of people voted Liberal because of the na-tional campaign, partly because Trudeau’s campaign appealed to a lot of NDP voters,” says Hrynyshyn. “Their campaign was

further left and more consistent with the policy preferences of traditional NDP voters.”

Terry Maley, political science professor, thinks the momentum shifted from the NDP to the Liberals partly because the NDP’s message changed in August, after Mulcair announced that they were going to balance the budget.

“I think in the last week of the campaign the tide began to turn strongly in favour of the Liber-als,” says Maley. “I think that was partly in favour of Harper’s relentlessly negative politics of fear on one hand, but also be-cause the NDP message became confused.”

The NDP were afraid of being labelled big spenders. According to Maley, the NDP overreacted and took that message to the right of the Liberals, promising a balanced budget.

“It was the next day that Trudeau came out and said, we’re going to spend money on infra-structure, housing and transpor-tation, and the stuff Canadians need. They outflanked the NDP to the centre-left.”

Prime Minister Trudeau's chal-lenge is to show that they are not just another corporate party with a nicer face, says Maley.

“All of the things Trudeau has said about openness and trans-parency is good, but is he really going to do anything about income inequality, precarious work, and a lot of the other

economic issues that Canadians are really concerned about? And not just favour Bay Street as blatantly as the Conservatives did?”

Maley says the election

showed that if the NDP can move to the centre-right with a balanced budget promise as one of the pillars of its election platform, and the Liberals can offer to go into deficits to pay

for their infrastructure plan, then the two parties really are not that different. They can switch places in the middle of the political spectrum.

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The Liberal’s campaign centre-left and govern centre-right, media pundits observe. Despite new

promises being made by Trudeau, and despite a new liberal image, those familiar with the history of broken promises and corruption within the Liberal party are less likely to ride with the red tide.

“Little will change if aff ordable post-secondary education is rarely, if ever, addressed on the campaign trail or in the legislature,” says Jessa McLean, president, Amnesty International at York.

“As Canadians, we shouldn't hold our breath for the real change now promised by Trudeau's Liber-als. This is the same party that voted alongside the Conservatives, fully supporting most of Harper's worst legacies. Bill C-51 being the most egregious.”

“We all know the implications of a majority government in Canada,” says McLean.

Carte blanche for four years, she adds.

Although students can hope that Trudeau will not employ the tactics of shoving all-encompassing om-nibus bills down citizens’ throats, the Liberals are now in a position to pass any legislation they please.

“One can literally only hope now that some time is spent on undoing

much of the damage Harper has done to our environmental regula-tions, global reputation, and indig-enous and government relations.”

Willem Hart, president, campus Conservatives, says the election result is not the worst-case sce-nario for his camp. Even in a defeat like this, the Conservatives cap-tured almost a third of the popular vote with 99 seats.

A sizable block of Canadians sup-port us and the Conservative party is still an active presence on the Canadian political scene, he adds.

“It was nice to see so many young Canadians get active in local campaigns to make a diff erence in the country and take their civic duty seriously. After all is said and done, we all love this magnifi cent country of ours and we are lucky to live in a country as free and democratic as Canada."

Steven Mulholland, fourth-year human rights and equity student, says the split between the Conser-vatives and Liberals is telling and will have an impact on this year’s student elections.

“Overall, I think most York students are better off under Trudeau as he has promised to invest in youth,” says Mulhol-land. “This remains to be seen in practice. Overall, I would say that I saw more participation and voter turnout than I have in any election I have been old enough to vote in.”

Mulholland hopes the youth spend-

ing program will become a reality. Trudeau said he is going to

invest a lot of money in job creation, though most of it is in sectors I am not involved in, says Mulholland. As well, he is going to increase student grants for low-income families, which I fall under.

However, his father Pierre cre-ated Katimavik, a youth job train-ing program, which was scrapped under Harper.

“I was one of the last people to be able to go on the program, which was a government paid nine-month cross-Canada volunteer experience which helped me land jobs after-wards. Justin wore the logo on his arm for the [Patrick] Brazeau fi ght. I do hope he will bring it (Katimavik) back as it positively impacted many young Canadians.”

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Israel-Palestine tensions re-emerge on campusYork students take campus rally to Israeli consulate and were met by Jewish Defense League

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altercations broke out in Vari Hall last week when Students Against Israeli Apartheid hosted a silent

protest alongside the Kurdish Stu-dents’ Association against attacks in Palestine and Turkey.

The purpose of the event was to raise awareness of the recent deaths in Israel and Palestine and promote a divestment campaign calling on York’s Board of Governors to divest the endowment fund from weap-ons companies.

“York has been making its scholarships by investing in arms manufacturers that are responsible for countless deaths and have af-fected the families of York com-munity members who come from diverse backgrounds,” claims Eman Alashkar of SAIA.

“We noticed that Hasbara was present at the protest, and if they agree with our message (weapons divestment), then we feel that is a step in the right direction for them.”

Pro-Israel students made their presence known by handing out literature and offering their side of the events currently happening in the Middle East.

Human Rights Watch has documented the latest escalation of violence, which began when two Israeli settlers were gunned down by terrorists in the West Bank on October 1.

“Midway through this protest activity, a third smaller group of approximately a dozen individuals attended the Vari Hall rotunda and engaged in a similar counter-pro-test,” says Aldo Altomare, director of York Security Services.

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The interaction between the groups was non-eventful except for a verbal argument between two individuals that became heated, adds Altomare.

A York security manager who was in attendance during this protest activity spoke with these individu-als in an attempt to de-escalate the situation, which was successfully accomplished.

“The protest activity and groups departed shortly thereafter without incident,” says Altomare.

Natalie Slavat, president of Hillel at York, says several members of their group went down to Vari Hall in order to monitor the event and provide an alternative perspective to students who were interested in engaging in respectful dialogue.

“To be clear, our students stood on the sidelines and did not inter-act or engage with the protestors in any way,” says Slavat. “The protest-ers, who were receiving no atten-tion from students, started yelling into the crowd. This was against the conditions to which they agreed when booking the space.”

The KSA partnered with SAIA to mourn the victims of the Ankara bombing in Turkey, a tragic event in which over 125 innocent people were killed.

“They held a rally to promote peace and unity in the region among all the chaos and unrest,” says Alan Joseph of KSA, who says they hope to establish friendly rela-tions with any student club or any person interested in learning about Kurdish culture and their struggle.

Hasbara at York says the KSA’s support for anti-Israel groups is a contradiction to the facts on the ground.

“Israel is one of the only coun-tries in the world who supports the establishment of a Kurdish state and condemns the killings of Kurd-ish people,” says Ariella Daniels,

president of Hasbara. “SAIA's protest is misinforming

students on the current issues in Israel,” says Daniels. “SAIA is hu-manizing and victimizing terrorists. By mourning the death of terrorists, they are justifying the recent deadly attacks against Jews in Israel. Their stance on the situation completely undermines the role the Palestin-ian Authority plays in inciting their people to execute such attacks.”

The Israel Student Association at York met with students and the campus rabbi outside Vari Hall to pray for the victims of the recent wave of terrorism, along with the well-being of family members living in Israel.

“We felt as though it was impor-tant for us to come together as a community and express our sorrow and pain for the victims of terror in our country as one in unity,” says Shelly Yachaev, president of ISA.

“In these times of sorrow, we felt it was important for us to com-memorate the victims of recent terror attacks in Israel and to give our students a safe place to express their grievance and show their solidarity with our people.”

Later in the week, York students in partnership with McMaster University students organized a massive rally outside the Israeli consulate downtown to condemn Israeli policies where they found the Jewish Defense League waiting for them.

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york professors look to blow the lid off of

federally funded science Over 4,900 letters sent to scientists across Canada

Matt DIonnecontributor

how the newly elected Lib-eral government will deal with issues of transpar-ency and access to infor-

mation has yet to be determined, despite election promises.

In the run up to the election, York professors continued to be concerned with government muz-zling of scientists. To that end, faculty members came together in a campaign dubbed Write2Know, aimed at popularizing scientific knowledge among the public.

Currently, the public is kept in the dark regarding how govern-ment funding is allocated, or the kind of research being done.

Write2Know includes people writing letters to scientists and asks questions about the kind of research being done and how it impacts them. The goal is to raise awareness of Canadians not know-ing how their tax dollars are being spent when it comes to scientific research.

Natasha Myers, anthropology professor, says the campaign is concerned with public outreach.

“We want to help the public see the injustice that is going on regarding lack of information

available to them,” she says.“The second part is to show the

government that we care about science, that there is an informed public that cares about science, and how our tax dollars are being spent in that regard,” she adds.

According to Myers, over 4,900 letters were sent to scientists across Canada. Copies of the let-ters have been forwarded to minis-ters and parliamentarians.

“We are trying to send the mes-sage that we value federal science and that we value public access to information, especially regarding publicly funded programs.”

“We feel that the Canadian public should be able to direct the focus of future research and that the government should reconsider how we regulate certain industries.”

This is the second awareness cam-paign launched before the federal election. Myers feels the issues being raised are relevant to everyone.

“Some of the questions we’ve been asking are, what’s in the water I’m drinking? What’s in the air I’m breathing? What’s in the soil my food grows in?” she says. “These kinds of things affect every-one, students included.”

York security stepped in and engaged in peaceful conversation with protesters, successfully de-escalating the situation.

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York alumni from the political left and right react

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Voters wailed after Justin Trudeau’s Monday night sweep to power.

The tide came in the Atlantic provinces, which then led into the swamping of Ontario, before washing up on the shores of British Columbia.

York alumni were vocal about the election results.

First time voter Chris Longley was gleeful about Harper’s loss, terming a re-election of the Con-servatives a worst-case scenario.

“While a Liberal victory has seemed increasingly likely over the past couple of weeks, I am sur-prised by just how much the party came out on top,” says Longley.

The Liberal triumph is more palatable for Longley, as an NDP faithful.

“The Liberal party has more in common with the NDP and even the Green Party compared to [pre-vious election cycles],” he adds. In fact, it has been suggested the elec-tion outcome is at least partially attributable to strategic voting from disgruntled voters eager to maintain unity within the left vote.

Harper’s departure is the end of an era and Longley is opti-mistic. Although he hopes for a more transparent and less divisive government, he urges voters to get their act together.

“People often put up the cry for better politicians and I'm inclined to add that another crucial com-ponent is a better electorate,” he states. “While we must continu-ously strive to encourage better turnouts and informed votes, I was impressed and encouraged seeing my social media sites abuzz with political discussion in a way I haven't seen before.”

Frenzied debate on social media continued as Facebook added an option for users to indicate their intention to vote in their status updates.

Despite the Liberal party having swept Toronto, including Keele and Glendon campus ridings,

Conservatives at York made their views known.

“Under Trudeau’s Liberal major-ity government, students from all parts of Canada can expect to lose jobs,” says York alumna Victoria Sparrow-Downes.

“Canada needs a government with principled foreign policy, disciplined fiscal management, and the grit to defend Canadian values here and abroad,” she adds.

Sparrow-Downes claims the incoming Liberal government will hurt provinces, negatively impact trade, manufacturing, agriculture, fishing, and resource extraction.

In particular, Saskatchewan will be short-changed by protection-ist policies impeding trade in the potash sector, while Manitoba will suffer as fewer military contracts are signed, she claims.

“Ontario manufacturing will decline from uncompetitive labour and energy policies.”

“Poor fiscal management in On-tario has already led to significant job losses and Trudeau’s plan will exacerbate this dire situation,” says Sparrow-Downes.

Sparrow-Downes and Longley are surprised at the extent of the Liberal’s success.

“Tory support is typically un-derestimated in polls,” she says. “Tories typically have high voter-turnout and undecided voters often vote for the incumbent.”

“Based on this combination of facts, I was expecting a Liberal minority.”

Minority or majority aside, Jihadis must be stopped, says Sparrow-Downes.

“The Liberal’s soft immigration and refugee policies render me skeptical of their ability to prevent Jihadists from entering Canada and to stop terrorism in its tracks.”

The Liberal party have pushed for Canada to accept more refu-gees and proposed amendments to Bill C-51. However, the party voted together with the Conser-vatives to pass the bill, angering progressive voters.

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awaiting the national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women 5.5 million Canadians voted to maintain the Conservative status quo

Palak Palakcontributor

Justin Trudeau has promised to implement a national inquiry into the missing and murdered

indigenous women and girls, provide clean drinking water to indigenous communities, and honour treaties, among a long list of other promises to the indigenous community.

However, given the Liberal’s track record, many remain skeptical.

Following the Liberals’ landslide victory Monday night, Excalibur went digging into York’s political science department to figure out what the results mean.

Gabrielle Slowey, director, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, expressed concerns regarding murdered and missing indigenous women.

As one of the key promises made by Trudeau, she believes a national inquiry into the murders and disappearances is important for all Canadians, regardless of their status in the

country.Despite the NDP’s

popularity among indigenous peoples in western provinces, Slowey believes indigenous Liberal candidates like Jody Raybould-Wilson in British Columbia will be a strong voice for indigenous people.

She believes the newly-elected Liberal government has “a lot of potential” to improve its relations with indigenous people.

Political economy professor Greg Albo finds the Liberal majority and the consequent anti-Harper vote “unexpected.”

He says it’s clear that the NDP attempted to shift to the centre. Previous attempts to do so included Olivia Chow’s campaign for mayor and Kathleen Wynne’s victory over Andrea Horwath, provincial NDP candidate.

The NDP’s collapse was particularly devastating in Toronto, with a few key policy positions outflanked by the Liberal party.

However, Albo is skeptical of the change promised by the

Trudeau government in Ontario, predicting this could just be “neoliberalism dressed in less abrasive garb.”

Others were surprised the Conservatives retained the number of seats they did.

Jessa McLean, president, Amnesty International at York, says 5.5 million Canadians voted to maintain the status quo, with 5.5 million being the number of

Conservative voters.“As a whole, we did not reject

the racist, xenophobic, and patriarchal attitudes expressed during this election and over the past 10 years,” she says.

It’s troubling to see 99 seats under the Conservatives, says McLean, in light of the party’s poor record in terms of indigenous rights, environmental protection,

women’s issues, and government spending.

Although McLean chides Canadians for being selfish at the polling booths, she hopes most voters were swayed by appeals to their wallets as opposed to wedge issues like the niqab.

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facing young Canadians, there is hope for the future.

Politics still responds and holds power for those who organize and show up.

Unfortunately, mainstream media tends to only high-light political mishaps and scandals and are meant to distract us from other more important issues.

Don’t let your frustration with senate scandals and other wrongdoings make you tune out of politics.

Because when we tune out, that’s when politics marches forward, spends money, and makes laws in their best interest rather than ours.

Now that the grueling election days are over and we have a winner, hold your local elected repre-sentative accountable.

Make yourself known, ask them questions, ask about your financial reali-ties, ask about what they’re going to do about precari-ous employment, and ask how they’re going to help you take your first step toward a career and not just “a job for tomorrow.” Take up their time; make yourself important to them.

Talk about changing our voting system to ensure propor-tional representation, so that next election we can spend more time discussing major issues instead of having distracting and demoralizing debates about strategic voting. We could actually focus on the issues, the platform, and the candidates at hand.

In this democracy, citizens are essentially the bosses of the government. Our job is to hold politicians accountable and have the gov-ernment working for us. Our civic engagement can make or break their careers.

Go out there, sign petitions, join protests, talk to your MPs, and remind them of their campaign promises. Ensure that they stick to their word because the fate of Canada lies in your hands. Change happens because one person at a time decides it needs to.

Be one of them.

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TaTiana Prisiajnyfeatures editor

Finally, it’s all over.The 78-day long federal

election campaign has come to an end.

and while there’s been a voter increase of five per cent, the overall turnout was relatively low among our youth cohort, the millennial generation.

This past election, we saw par-ties attacking their opposition’s candidates based on years-old social media posts. We saw parties tackling issues that affect less than two per cent of the population, such as the niqab. We saw parties playing divisive politics by trying to appeal to “old stock” Canadians rather than unifying people toward the common goal of prosperity.

In fact, candidates from the riding of Humber river-Black Creek, where York’s Keele campus is situated, didn’t even show up at the candidates’ debate that York hosted.

Not only is this a riding with one of the lowest voter-turnout rates in the country and with a large student population, but this riding is also home to many of the issues that the election platforms cover.Excalibur went out on campus

to talk to students about whether they were voting or not, and for whom.

Several students said they wouldn’t be voting because sup-posedly, the economic state of Canada doesn’t matter to them until they start paying taxes.

last time I checked, we all paid a sales tax. Most of us work a part-time job and file income taxes.

and when we finally do land that full-time career, the typical university grad will make thou-sands of dollars less for full-time work than the same-aged person did in the 1970’s.

These days, youth devote an average of three years more to post-secondary education and take on way larger student debts than ever before.

and after going to school for so long, grads get jobs that pay less than the previous generations have ever earned.

In the past, hard work paid off and you had something to show for it.

Nowadays, young people are burdened so much with student debt and the rising cost of living that owning property and building toward a stable future has become a far-fetched dream.

While there’s a fundamental socioeconomic deterioration

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York students intern at the heart of today’s world confl ictsAlexia Lawson and Ksenia Paliczak share their experiences in Ukraine and Hungary

that a Canadian passport holds.However, regardless of govern-

ment mandates and inhumane treatment of migrants, Lawson observed that this was not an accurate refl ection of Hungarian society, hospitality, and its people.

“Ordinary civilians would come with groceries to distribute to the migrants staying at public spaces like the park,” she says. “A local church did outreach by bringing blankets, toiletries, and sandwich-es to these people.”

Despite the government’s hostile response, communities of locals were coming together to help out the refugees.

“Since Canada is geographically so far away from these confl icts, we aren’t really aff ected by them and our reaction is slower. If more people witnessed what was hap-pening, things would be diff er-ent,” says Paliczak.

“If you talk to these refugees, you’ll realize that they’re people, just like everyone else. Regardless

of what the government tries to paint them as, that’s what

we need to remember if we’re going to work

toward solving any confl ict.”

TATIANA PRISIAJNYfeatures editor

When two York students decided to intern abroad, they didn’t expect to wit-

ness international news happening right before their eyes.

For 12 weeks, Alexia Lawson, a communications student with a minor in international devel-opment, and Ksenia Paliczak, a health policy management student, worked at organizations outside of Canada.

Lawson was in Hungary, which has become a transit country for refugees fl eeing war-torn Syria and surrounding countries. Paliczak was in Ukraine, which has had regions annexed and invaded by pro-Russia insurgents.

Since 2014, 5,665 people have been killed due to nuclear Rus-

sian weapons attacking Ukraine, causing an estimated 5.2 million people to be currently living in confl ict zones.

“Walking around the city square was surreal,” recalls Paliczak. “The trees had bullet holes in them.”

As the confl ict began to uproar, an emergency meeting was held because one of our organiza-tional o� ces was located in the non-government controlled area, where people could get arrested for displaying the Ukrainian fl ag and only Russian currency was accepted, she adds.

In Hungary, emergency anti-migration laws were introduced in response to the record number of

refugees and migrants crossing the country’s border.

Most migrants in Hungary are only trying to pass through in order to get to Germany. It’s the European version of the American Dream, says Lawson.

“And yet there were protests outside of the main international train station in Budapest, protest-ing against these very same people who are fl eeing war.”

According to Lawson, there was a lot of xenophobic propaganda from the government that was directed at migrants. “If you come to Hungary, don’t take the jobs of Hungarians” one poster read.

“If you come to Hungary, you

have to keep our laws,” read another.With European nations being

in such close proximity to one another, Paliczak took a trip to Vienna, Austria where she also witnessed aggression in relation to the migrant crisis.

“The train operators were pro-fi ling people of colour and they approached a Syrian woman and her son sitting in front of me,” recalls Paliczak.

They demanded her passport and when she didn’t give them anything, her child started crying as the train operator aggressively grabbed her and kicked them both off the train.

Basically, if you don’t look Eu-ropean or white, they (regulators) demand a passport, says Lawson.

Being abroad made me realize the power

and privilege

“Walking around the city square was surreal, the trees

had bullet holes in them.” Ksenia Paliczak, interned at Terre des

Hommes in Kiev, Ukraine

When two York

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A quick comment or two on the politics of social statusThe several ways that your surroundings could have very well influence your visit to the ballot box

bone of the ideological battle-ground between the different mind-sets. While being cautious about making sweeping gener-alizations, it could be assumed that a left-of-centre voter would accept that certain personal attri-butes had impacted the way they vote more than a conservative voter would.

This is because modern leftist thought tends to embrace “identity politics,” arguing that our experi-ence of life is inevitably shaped by factors such as gender and ethnic-ity, whereas a conservative mind-set emphasizes individualism and self-determination.

“Members [participating in identity politics] reclaim ways of understanding their distinctive-ness that challenge dominant oppressive characterizations,” said Cressida Heyes, associate chair in the Department of Political Sci-ence at the University of Alberta.

As well as the traditional left-right divide, the authoritarian-libertarian spectrum would also produce similar results.

We have all come from some-where and our unique set of cir-cumstances and experiences have left their mark on us. Likewise, the correlation could be argued to

be positive, since identifying with a certain group is such a natural social phenomenon. It infinitely amplifies the voice of the lone individual, giving rise to many civil rights movements throughout history.

However, the tendency of our surroundings to influence our political views is something we should all be cautious of. Though there are exceptions to this rule, such as the anarchist activist who was brought up in a family of staunch conservatives.

This underlines that people are individuals and we should never make assumptions about someone’s views before we have heard from them. We should also be careful of succumbing to “group-think.”

Ultimately, we do not have to be limited by our surroundings and the world would be a much better place if we all took a moment to consider how others have formed opinions different from our own. Greater awareness of how we came to acquire our views will encourage us to question our own predilections and prejudices, and in future, check the box against the name of the candidate we have chosen for less superficial reasons.

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it is often remarked upon that everybody becomes a socialist at university. Students come from a wide variety of educa-

tional and social backgrounds, yet it is generally a pervasive phe-nomenon that left-of-centre views tend to dominate campus political discourse.

In fact, when Excalibur conduct-ed a student vote poll prior to the 2015 federal elections, a meagre 14.7 per cent out of 400 students surveyed said they’d vote for the Conservative Party of Canada. The rest of the 85.3 per cent was distributed amongst leftist parties on the spectrum.

Is this because students already have a certain set of attributes in common, which correlate to their political views, or is something more potent happening? And how much is this to be encouraged?

Winston Churchill allegedly observed that “anyone who was not a liberal at the age of 20 had no heart, while anyone who was still a liberal at the age of 40 had no head,” suggesting that age is a factor which influences your political orientation.

Other, and at times, controversial factors found by reputable studies that affect voting patterns include ethnicity, religion, and gender.

Every profession has been shown to be influential: common observations show that academ-ics tend to sway more towards the NDP, whereas businesspeople prefer the Conservatives.

Last week, the Canadian Public Affairs blog published a letter on behalf of academics on why they support the NDP. “As progressives committed to fundamental rights and to the health of our democ-racy, we believe that the New Democratic Party is currently the best alternative,” reads a line.

Presumably, natural predispo-sitions towards one side of the political spectrum are reinforced through contact with one’s par-ticular social group.

Interestingly, this question of where our political preferences came from actually cuts to the

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69.49% voter turnout

61.1% in the 2011

federal election

GOODBYE STEPHEN HARPERHELLO JUSTIN TRUDEAU

NATIONAL VOTER TURNOUT

HUMBER RIVER-BLACK CREEK

ETOBICOKE NORTH

elected

Ali Ehsassi24,431votes

conservativeChungsen Leung 17,036ndpPouyan Tabasinejad 3,226greenJames Arruda 1,021

WILLOWDALE

elected

Michael Levitt20,109votes

conservativeMark Adler 18,893ndpHal Berman 3,148greenConstantine Kritsonis 794

YORK CENTRE

ndpMike Sullivan 13,203conservativeJames Robinson 8,394greenJohn Johnson 887

THE NEWS WORLD AND WHO THEY ENDORSED

Many newspapers in Canada stood their ground and supported a specifi c party in this election. Here’s how some of the major news

outlets turned the page on this election

STUDENTNEWSPAPERS

MAJOR NEWSPAPERS

While many student newspapers in Canada have encouraged their readers to get out and vote, many suggested things like strategic voting or simply endorsed

one side of the political spectrum.

Simon Fraser UniversityAnti-Conservative

Humber CollegeLeft-wing endorsement

McMaster UniversityConservative and Liberal

endorsements

University of TorontoAnti-Conservative

York UniversityNo endorsement

A look at the ridings and student-centric numbers

that matter to you

Compiled by Michael Burton and Ryan Moore

Liberal majority elected

CANADA-WIDE RESULTS

ConservativeStephen Harper

NDPTom Mulcair

Bloc QuébécoisGilles Duceppe

184seats

39.5%

99seats

31.9%19.7%

10seats

4.7%

3.4%

44seats

LiberalJustin Trudeau

GreenElizabeth May

1seat

CANADA’S HISTORIC 2015 FEDERAL ELECTIONBY THE NUMBERS

17,599,353 ballots cast

LOCAL RIDINGS RESULTS

conservativeToyin Dada 10,075ndpFaisal Hassan 5,220greenAkhtar Ayub 524

elected

Kirsty Duncan26,281votes

YORK SOUTH-WESTON

elected

Ahmed Hussen20,091votes

elected

Judy Sgro23,925votes

conservativeKerry Vandenberg 7,223ndpDarnel Harris 3,798greenKeith Jarret 578

liberal win

liberal win

liberal win

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liberal win

CONSERVATIVE SUPPORTERS

The entirety of Postmedia Network: Calgary Sun, Calgary Herald, Edmonton

Sun, Edmonton Journal, London Free Press, Montreal Gazette, National Post,

Ottawa Citizen, The Globe and Mail, The Province, Toronto Sun, Regina Leader

Post, The Suburban, The StarPhoenix, Vancouver Sun, The Windsor Star

LIBERAL SUPPORTERS

Burlington Post, Charlottetown Guardian, Gastown Gazette, Guelph

Mercury, Hamilton Spectator, La Presse, Northern Life,

Oakville Beaver, Toronto Star, Waterloo Region Record

NDPSUPPORTERS

Now, Prince Arthur Herald

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Liberals win and so do the Canadian artsSo what does this majority win and their proposed budget mean for the art communities in Canada?

ViCtoria GoLdberGarts editor

it’s no secret, arts and culture are not the highest priority for politicians. During the cam-paign trails, issues like foreign

policies, the Trans Pacific Partner-ship, Bill C-51, and the niqab were hot issues that people were talking about. Canadian arts is not usually a big topic for federal elections because so much of Canadians’ concerns regarding arts and culture are addressed in municipal and provincial elections.

In fact, when looking for differ-ent political parties’ stances on arts on a federal level, clear answers are difficult to find. The Canadian Arts Coalition, a collaborative non-partisan organization that push for more financial support from the federal government, contacted the major parties that ran in the 2015 federal elections to get their stance on the arts and culture status of Canada. Three out of the four major parties responded.

Justin Trudeau leads the Liberals in a majority federal government, promising increased funding for Canadian arts and culture.

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Now that a Trudeau is back as prime minister, it’s time to reassess the party’s view on arts and culture.

The Liberal Party responded to Canadian Arts Coalition’s ques-tionnaire, unlike their competi-tors, but with such vague answers, they might as well not have said anything. Their 88 page platform pro-vides a three page detailing of their plans to reinvest in culture and creative industry, insisting on reversing the budget cuts of Harper’s government to the Department of Canadian Heritage.

It includes proposals to invest $150 million in new annual funding for CBC/Radio Canada,

essentially reversing the cuts made by Harper in 2012. This would be a graduate increase of $75 million in 2016-2017, then $150 million through 2017-2020. Trudeau also plans to double the current investment in the Canada Council

for the Arts up to $360 million per

year, increase the funding to Telefilm Canada and the National Film Board to $25 million per year, and a combined in-vestment of $6 billion to social and cultural infrastructure over four years.

It’s difficult to say if Trudeau will

change the direction of Canadian arts and culture, especially when looking back on previous adminis-tration and their views on the arts.

As Harper said in 2008, ordinary folks don’t care about the arts. In a 2008 re-election campaign stop in Saskatoon, Harper, who just cut the overall budget at the Depart-ment of Canadian Heritage by eight per cent, said “I think when ordinary working people come home, turn on the TV and see a gala [...] all subsidized by taxpay-ers, claiming their subsidies aren’t high enough [...] I’m not sure that’s something that resonates with ordinary people.”

Galas and fashion shows might not justify overspending on a federal level, Canada is not so deep into an economic crisis to stop supporting the arts.

According to the Canadian Arts Coalition, the cultural sector gen-erated approximately $25 billion in taxes for all levels of government in 2007, an estimated three times more than what was spent on cul-ture by the government. According to their findings, 87 per cent of Canadians believe that arts and culture help us express and define

“I think when ordinary working

people see a gala [...] subsidized by taxpayers, claiming their subsidies aren’t high enough [..]

I’m not sure that’s some-thing that resonates with

ordinary people.”Stephen Harper, re-election campaign in

2008, regarding the arts.

what it means to be Canadian, a direct reflection of the CBC man-date. The 1991 Broadcasting Act states that the CBC should provide radio and television services that offer distinctively Canadian programming and reflects the lan-guages, values, and cultural expres-sions of Canadians. While funding for museums and performers is a great bonus, the biggest issue here is to support Canada’s distinct voice, the CBC.

Time will tell what will happen next.

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The art of improvisationExcalibur chats with music professor Casey Sokol

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improvisation is not a word commonly used in our lexicon.

We hardly think of what it means, let alone in what con-

text or setting. Likely mentioned in some acting class or while pre-paring for a presentation, we don’t actively participate in improvisa-tion, at least not consciously. As associate music professor Casey Sokol brings out, we often partici-pate in improvisation.

Let’s say, one day, you’re walking and dodging through campus with your lunch in one hand and a cup of coffee in another. You arrive at a door. What do you do? Through improvising your body movement, you twist your elbow and spine in a way that manages to push down the door handle.

Sokol, however, utilizes improvi-sation in his career.

“In music improvisation, ap-propriate responses are not only practical but are also aesthetically relevant, emotionally communica-tive, thoughtful, and executed with intention,” says Sokol.

For musicians, the act of im-provising is not so foreign, as it is often referred to as jamming out. For visual artists, sketching is a form of improv. And for the self-proclaimed non-creative type, doodling in our notebook when we should be taking notes, is also a form of improvisation.

As Sokol believes, “Spontane-ity is central to improvisational behaviour but it’s tricky because acting in-the-moment, with-out thinking, also invites the participation of automatized behaviour, which is riddled with association and habit.”

The art of improvising is a diffi-cult one, as it requires quick think-ing, a creative mind, and passion for your craft. Many think that improvisation is a nerve-racking performance, but Sokol believes it is also innate.

“Creative action does depend on a certain degree of ready-mades and an inventory of deposited knowledge, improvisation requires that the artist remains alert to that whole landscape of response,” he adds.

The improv that many would

first imagine is that of acting, a performance art that many are scared or shy to pursue.

“When [improvisation] involves art, the level of intention becomes very strong, and the demand for a true integration of all our main functions, thinking, feeling, sens-ing, and moving begins to feel like a real responsibility,” says Sokol, a self-professed shy performer.

But that shouldn’t discourage the timid from pursuing improv.

“I feel my anxiety as a positive experience, because it reminds me that I still care about the quality of communication with listeners. An adjustment of attitude can some-times be the quickest and most effective remedy,” he adds.

Sokol leads the monthly Improv Soirée, an event organized by the Faculty of Arts, Music, Perfor-mance and Design. The event is open to all audiences and perform-ers alike, and there is no obligation to perform.

All art expressions are welcome, including dancing, storytelling, or comedy. The informal, relaxed environment is meant to priori-tize authenticity rather than rigid performance rules. The ritual of being oneself is the most impor-tant thing, says Sokol.

The next Improv Soirée event will begin October 22 at 8 p.m., room 235 of the Accolade East building.

theatre

and on your left, you’ll see a sole actor talking about ashleyPlaywriting and dramaturgy students put together a

tour of monodramas about a single character

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Fourth-year theatre students stepped outside the box, and outside the stage, to per-form a series of short plays

entitled, The Ashley Plays. With the help of third-year students acting as the support network such as site managers and ushers, the monodramas were performed at different sites throughout the Centre for Film and Theatre by these drama-turgs, the name for the people within a theatre that deal with research and development of plays.

“It’s an important part of training for playwrights to understand how their work is interpreted by an actor. It’s also vital to learn how work, when performed, impacts an audience,” says Judith Rudakoff, the instructor of the Playwriting and New Play Drama-turgies courses, and coordinator of this event.

Audience members were asked to arrive early in order to be split up into groups called pods. Each pod was then guided by a “pod wrangler,” or leader, who is a stu-dent from the THEA 3290 course, throughout a predetermined route. The pods would stop at dif-ferent sites throughout the Centre for Film and Theatre to view the different monodramas.

Students of the THEA 4290 course enacted a different narra-tive about one central character named Ashley. The non-gender-specific character doesn’t neces-sarily get named or appear, but the central figure is the guiding force and unifying theme behind all these plays.

“The format of site-specific, col-laboratively delineated profile of a central character gives playwrights the experience of creating within parameters, of finding individual inspiration from shared given circumstances,” says Rudakoff.

The event was free to attend,

but donations were accepted to raise funds for the organization Walking With Our Sisters. This year’s theme for the theatre de-partment’s productions and events was selected as “indigeneity.”

“We wanted to offer support to the extraordinarily moving commemorative exhibition they are touring, honouring missing indigenous women,” says Ruda-koff. Walking With Our Sisters is a collaborative art piece made up of over 1,763 pairs of moccasin tops

to represent the growing number of missing and murdered indigenous women and children in Canada. The organization is currently touring across the country,

with an expected stop in Toronto in the fall of 2016.

“It’s an important part of training for

playwrights to understand how their

work is interpreted by an actor. ”

Judith rudakoff, instructor of the Playwriting and new Play dramaturgies

courses and coordinator

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The state of the cineSiege, jury dutyYork students showcase short films in CineSiege’s 13th year

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lights. Digital camera. Action.

With the Toronto In-ternational Film Festival

casting a shadow as stars and masters leave us behind, bud-ding filmmakers from York’s De-partment of Cinema and Media Arts are filling in that gap at CineSiege 2015. CineSiege, in its 13th year, is an annual showcase of York student films that are selected and presented by a jury of industry heavyweights.

CineSiege presented 32 student films shortlisted by the jury from 137 projects at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema on October 20.

Ranging from fictional cre-ations, documentarian inves-tigations, and experimental projections, CineSiege gives York film students exposure to the media industry and allows them to present and celebrate their

work. The awards are just icing on the cake. Aside from the se-lection of student submissions, the juries are just as deserving of some attention.

Leading jury duty is director, producer, and cinematographer Nicholas de Pencier. Having been a producer and director of photography on the TIFF and Berlin certified documentary Watermark, and the adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s Payback, de Pencier has earned himself a slew of awards.

Gisèle Gordon has carved her-self a unique place in the indus-try, in her collaborations with famous Canadian Cree artist Kent Monkman and experimen-tal video installations presented around the world including Nuit Blanche. Charlotte Mickie is president of Mongrel Inter-national, one of Canada’s film distributors. Having worked as a managing director in the sales department for several years,

Mickie knows how to sell a good film. Jason Ryle is an executive director and programmer at imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival, which promotes Canadian and international Indigenous media artists.

Rounding out the jury is York alumnus and MFA graduate from the film department, Keith Lock. Toronto-born Lock worked as an assistant with Claude Jutra, director of the Canadian master-piece Mon Oncle Antoine.

Lock is an artist and director in his own right, with films like Small Pleasures and A Brighter Moon lighting up the screen.

Having films shown at TIFF, Taipei International Film Festival, and having presented works at the Art Gallery of On-tario, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the BFI Southbank in London, Lock knows competi-tion and success.

Audience members are guided through a predetermined route to view the monodramas.

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