2 10 57 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/62030/archive/files/ee7480c69c769fa3ff483a1e98d09cb2.pdf?Expires=1787788800&Signature=Qwif2I7gw0xY78AM05sKxcuPQ548Rx0WU3iWqaVLc7kxAEyx1yc7JvEhyfYYa8K6OJr3I%7Epi1bTVwY3%7En8W0vvKzQVH5k%7Ehvpes1a7qeHqCvfmB40F7XZV%7E4h5SoJXMXnaP2yygDdP0tCV0WOQqwBGhi4d39C0jTlUel%7EraDvtlArJCq9IhrR9gnxcsgvcSNCKrbdSnz2uyitA%7EmzD1F%7E5%7E0tsn1W1DGEdY-8MqBNND5W31Qa6ZiVkk0M8EpoUKjV0FEv6ysCSSc5GFza83J7eL8ANet2r-ixVPcuRKu4z5PAQ2KQwvFkO5fdpvkimUihN7wGh-JB9D945lWKTr81g__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 8d4b6a3586609c0aad88b6105259adb4 PDF Text Text 8 features November 5, 2018 mcgilldaily.com | The McGill Daily “THIS IS NO LONGER A SAFE PLACE” HOMOPHOBIC POLICING IN QUEBEC, 2007-PRESENT GAY CRUISING Cruising refers to the practice of walking or driving around a public area in search of a sexual partner. This practice has historically allowed queers, especially men, to fulfill their sexual needs while at the same time circumventing the constraints imposed by homophobia. Cruising is largely non-verbal. Eye contact and body language are used to signal sexual interest and consent. HETEROSEXISM Heterosexism posits that heterosexuality is superior to homosexuality and that heterosexuality is the only valid sexuality. It also involves discrimination against queer people and internalized homophobia. BAITING Baiting is a common entrapment tactic used by agents provocateurs. It involves purposefully misleading individuals into committing a crime. Police use gay cruising codes, such as sustained eye contact, to provoke sexual encounters between themselves and queer men, leading the men from whom they have solicited a sexual act to technically violate sections 173(1) or 271(1) of the Canadian Criminal Code. BY ACAB content warning: homophobic slurs, targeted arrests n August 28 2017, the Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) officially apologized for “the events that took place during different police operations in gay bars and clubs during the ‘60s to the ‘90s.” Emphasis on bars and clubs. Purposeful omission of parks and public washrooms. Homophobic policing practices on the island of Montreal are far from over. With the collaboration of the Services des Grands Parcs, three neighbourhood police stations in Montreal have launched coordinated attacks on men who use the wooded areas and public washrooms of parks for the purposes of consensual sexual encounters with other men. Similar projects have been launched by the Service de Police la Ville de Longueuil (SPAL), the Service de Police de la Ville de Saguenay (SPVS), the Service de Police de la Ville de Québec (SPVQ), and the Sûreté du Québec (SQ). Using their knowledge of gay cruising practices, plainclothes cops continue to harass, ticket, and arrest men who seek out sexual companionship in places other O than those officially recognized and legally sanctified by heterosexist sexual norms. Having co-opted our shared understanding of location, plainclothes cops are able to exploit, in a discrete, and largely unforceful manner, our need for affection and sexual companionship. The number of arrests made within the context of these supposedly gender- and sexualityneutral “anti-indecency” operations is alarming. Together, the SPVM, the SPAL, and the SPVQ have arrested at least 300 men for cruising in public spaces since 2007. I say “at least” because the statistics obtained by filing access to information requests with these police services did not include statistics for certain projects or years. Equally as striking are the sums of money that the Service des Grands Parcs has spent trying to make parks on the island of Montreal less attractive to men who have sex with men. A conservative estimate suggests a sum of approximately 2.2 million dollars. Knowledge of gay cruising practices has made it remarkably easy for private security forces and police services to entrap men who have sex with men. Thwarting their ability to do so requires that we understand the tactics that police services use in order to entrap us while cruising. For reasons that will be explained below, police services in this province tend to make use of sections 173(1) and 271(1) of the Canadian Criminal Code when hunting down men who have sex with men. Criminal code accusations are not the only tactics currently being used by cops to harass men who have sex with men. In an underhanded attempt to mask the homophobic nature of their repressive operations, Longueuil police have started using a seemingly mundane municipal bylaw to crack down on men having sex with men in public spaces. MODUS OPERANDI Accusations under section 173(1) of the Canadian Criminal Code Currently, Section 173(1) is the most common accusation being made against against gay men in the province of Quebec. Section 173(1) makes illegal the wilful performance of “an indecent act in a public place in the presence of one or more persons, or in any place with intent to insult or offend any person.” Section 173(1) takes after its now repealed predecessor, �features section 157, which prohibited acts of “gross indecency” and was almost exclusively used for the purposes of persecuting homosexuals. Like section 157, section 173(1) is terminologically vague; the term “indecency” is (purposefully?) left undefined. This feature of section 173(1) has made it the weapon par excellence of homophobic police in the province. Drawing on an analysis of a homophobic police sting published in the December 1980/January 1981 issue of La Berdache, and on municipal court rulings describing these stings, we have done our best to expose the strategy of undercover cops who lay charges of “indecency” under section 173(1). The first step to any “successful” operation involves selecting a known gay cruising ground; however, in most, if not all cases, the selection process can be completely foregone thanks to a heterosexist public that actively reports sightings of men engaged in “indecent” activities with other men (or so police say). Once a cruising ground has been selected, the officer, now in plainclothes, picks a spot and loiters (sexily?). Though he is obviously not interested in any form of sexual exchange, the “success” of the operation depends upon his ability to convince other cruisers that he is interested in having a sexual encounter. To avoid being accused of entrapment, however, the cop cannot express this interest verbally (if he does, the courts are much more likely to see through his little game); instead, he expresses his interest by purposefully failing to object to the non-verbal sexual propositioning of other cruisers, as well as by staying put and taking on the role of the passive, voyeuristic observer. Let us recall that for charges to be laid under section 173(1), two requirements must be fulfilled. First, an “indecent” act must take place. Second, this “indecent” act must be committed in the presence of “one or more persons” or “with the intent to insult or offend any person.” Though “indecency” is left undefined, an examination of two recent court cases in which police laid charges of “indecency” against gay men suggest that police understand this term to mean exposure of one’s genital organs for the purpose of sexual gratification. For this reason, the undercover cop waits until the clothed foreplay is over and a sexual act begins to reveal his true identity. Once the cruiser has unclothed the lower portion of his body, the first requirement of the “crime” has been fulfilled. As we have seen, for the accusation to hold in court, the sexual act must have been committed in the presence of “one or more persons.” This is where the second undercover cop makes his appearance. After having November 5, 2018 mcgilldaily.com | The McGill Daily lurked unnoticed, he now appears to witness the sexual act. The second requirement is now fulfilled and a charge of “indecency” can be laid against his unsuspecting victim. “He moved slowly, in a 90 degree arc-like fashion, back and forth, all the while looking at me with interest...” —Anonymous In many cases, however, the requirement that the act be performed in front of “one or more persons” is given a lax interpretation both by police and the courts. In R. c. Martin, a 1997 court case involving a plainclothes cop and a cruiser in Parc Angrignon, Judge DENAULT slyly circumvents this requirement by arguing that the plainclothes cop was a member of the public at the time of the interaction (how convenient!). For the plainclothes security guard provoking a sexual encounter between himself and a cruiser in the washrooms of Montreal’s Eaton Centre back in 2017, on its own, the fact that other people “auraient pu voir le PRÉ se masturber” (could have seen the defendant masturbating) was seen as fulfilling the (seemingly?) more stringent criterion that the act actually be performed in front of “one or more persons.” Last year’s Eaton Centre arrest, though it was carried out by a private security firm rather than by state agents, is characteristic of the kinds of operations carried out by plainclothes cops in the province of Quebec for the purposes of laying accusations under section 173(1). For this reason, and for reasons that will soon become clear, this arrest it is worth dwelling upon a bit longer. According to the police report written by the arresting officer, the events surrounding the cruiser’s arrest happened as follows: “We arrived at the Eaton Center to meet [REDACTED], head of Eaton Centre security who informed us that the man was being detained after having masturbated in front of the urinals of the Eaton Centre. He began by explaining to us that such behaviour represents an important problem in the Eaton Centre. Since a few weeks, men have been showing up at the urinals in order to masturbate. They frequently make their way there in order to meet other men for the purposes of masturbating in front of the urinals. According to the security guard, seven men have been caught performing indecent actions in the washrooms of the Eaton Centre. In order to remedy [the ‘problem’ of consensual sexual encounters between men], [Eaton Center security] installed cameras in the 3rd floor washrooms of the Eaton Centre and a security guard works in plainclothes in order to catch individuals in the act.”[...] “Using the cameras, they notice the defendant make his way to the urinals, around [TIME STAMP], located in the 3rd floor washrooms of the Eaton Centre. They therefore send their plainclothes security guard [REDACTED]. [...] The defendant exchanges a few glances with security guard [REDACTED]. About 2 or 3 minutes later, the security guard notices the defendant’s erection and that he is making thrusting movements while holding his penis, all the while looking at [REDACTED]. The security guard notices the man masturbating. [...] When security guard [REDACTED] notices the defendant masturbating, he exits the washroom and communicates with the security control centre in order to proceed to the arrest of the defendant” [my emphasis]. In order to exculpate the plainclothes agent, the arresting officer fudges the amount of time during which the cruiser and the plainclothes agent exchange glances. Video footage of the events show the plainclothes agent exchanging glances with the man for a period of five to six minutes – exchanging and holding gaze is a common way of determining interest and consent. On his way out of the washrooms, the cruiser is tackled to the ground by numerous security guards—a fact that is conveniently omitted from this incident report. The report continues: “Agent X then asks the defendant why he comes to do this at the Eaton Centre. The defendant responds by saying that the washrooms at the Eaton Centre represent an important meetup spot for homosexual people wishing to have sexual exchanges with men.” [...] “The Morality division of the SPVM is aware of the problem affecting the 3rd floor washrooms of the Eaton Centre. It has been a recurrent problem for many weeks.” At the beginning of this report, security head X claims that the “problem” of cruising is a problem that dates back only “a few weeks.” This claim is grossly misleading. The ninth floor washrooms of Chez Eaton, the now renovated and renamed mall after which Montreal’s Eaton Centre is named and beside which Montreal’s Eaton Centre currently stands, were used for cruising as far back as the early 9 ’80s. More upsetting, however, is the way in which, a few moments after the cruiser informs X that the third floor washrooms in the Eaton Centre are a well-known meetup spot, the officer writing the report reaffirms in his closing lines that the “problem” of cruising “has been a recurrent problem for many weeks.” The cops performing the arrest overlook the defendant’s attempt to historicize his action, choosing instead to reassert the narrative that has been fed to him by both security personnel and the SPVM’s morality division. To cast the defendant as a threat to public safety, security and police actively sought to dehistoricize the phenomenon of cruising. To do so, they tell tales of men suddenly flocking to public washrooms to engage in sexual behaviours. The phrase “since a few weeks, men have been showing up at the urinals in order to masturbate” is so much more scary than the phrase “since first opening its doors, Eaton Centre washrooms have served as a meeting ground for men seeking consensual sexual relations with other men.” By dehistoricizing the defendant’s act, security and police effectively polemicized the defendant’s act — an act that is otherwise common, mundane, harmless, and dare I say, hot. When security and police say that the “problem” of cruising is recent, what they really should be saying is that cruising is a phenomenon that they have recently gotten into the habit of problematizing. Accusations under section 271(1) of the Canadian Criminal Code Police in the province of Quebec continue to use charges of “sexual assault” to punish men who engage in consensual sexual relations with other men. Police documents reveal that between the years of 2012 and 2013, the SPVM was ready to make use of this section of the criminal code within the context of at least two “anti-indecency” projects — on that targeted Parc Angrignon (Opération Sentier) and the other that targeted Maisonneuve Park and le Boisé de Pères (Opération Narcisse), all of which are wellknown cruising grounds. The SQ is known to have made use of this article of the Criminal Code during its undercover operations that took place back in 2010 on Île Melville — another gay cruising ground. Accusations under section 271(1) are made in much the same way as those that are made under section 173(1). A plainclothes cop places himself in or around a known cruising ground and waits. This time, however, he is not waiting for an unsuspecting cruiser to show him his genitals, nor is he waiting for his accomplice to witness any exhibitionistic act. This time, he is waiting for the cruiser to touch him. Once the cruiser touches the cop, he �10 features November 5, 2018 mcgilldaily.com | The McGill Daily is arrested, and a charge of sexual assault is laid. The truth, however, is that plainclothes cops do not just “wait” for their victims to “fall” into their traps; they actively court them, misleading and manipulating them every step of the way. The following is the testimony of a man who was arrested for “sexual assault” on a plainclothes cop in the Parc de l’Île Melville back in 2010. It does remarkable job at highlighting the kinds of misleading foreplay that plainclothes cops actively engage in when trying to “catch” men who have sex with men. More than simply loitering around and waiting to be touched, the undercover cop purposefully maintains the gaze of his victim, adamantly pursues him through the woods, engages him in friendly conversation, conversationally suggests that he is gay, and finally, offers his victim his ass: “Before leaving the park, around [TIME STAMP], I returned to the first parking lot, for a few minutes, to see if there were any men [...] It was close to [TIME STAMP] and I was about to leave the area when I saw [PLAINCLOTHES COP Z] exiting the woods. He looked interesting. I therefore made my way towards him in a perpendicular fashion so that he could see me. He saw me. Once we had made eye contact, I turned around, retracing my steps telling myself that if he was gay and interested he would come in my direction. Which he did. We were about three meters distance from one another, standing up, without moving, looking at each other during a few minutes. He moved slowly, in a 90 degree arc-like fashion, back and forth, all the while looking at me with interest, but with a certain degree of reservation. This interaction lasted about 5 to 10 minutes. Because I was conscious of the fact that I was older than him, I interpreted his hesitation to approach me as a sign that after having seen me close-up, he was no longer interested in me and did not know how to leave without offending me. So, I decided to walk away from him in order to give him the chance to either part ways with me or to follow me if he was interested. In order to do this, I had to pass in front of him and he took advantage of this moment to speak to me, saying: ‘there [aren’t] many people.’ I answered in the affirmative, all the while making my way away from him and from the place where we found ourselves [...] In this way, I began a walk of almost one hundred meters south-west into the woods [...] to be certain that he was interested in me, and to, in this way, avoid any misunderstandings. At first, area was a known area for homosexual encounters and he responded in the affirmative. I asked him how he came about this knowledge. He responded by telling me that he had found this information online at gay411.com [...] There was a malaise between me his ass. I found his behaviour strange because I had only suggested that we embrace. In the context of gay cruising, though, there are ‘bottoms’ who are submissive, passive, and behave in this manner. I took one or two steps in his direction and put my right I thought that he had gone, because I no longer saw him, so I slowed my pace and finally, after a delay of about two minutes, I could see him starting to follow me. While walking, I looked behind myself many times to see if he was following me, which he was. [...] I stopped to drink some water and to let him catch up with me. Indeed, he caught up with me and we started a friendly conversation that lasted a couple minutes. We were a few feet from one another. [...] I asked him if he was aware of the fact that this us because neither one of us was making any moves and we were just standing there, waiting. Therefore, after a few minutes of conversation and of indecision, I asked him ‘what do we do now’ in order to determine what his expectations were. He answered by saying that he was‘ uncomfortable and didn’t know what to do in such circumstances’. I then told him that we could at least embrace one another. Strangely, he turned his back to me while continuing to face me, as if he was offering hand on his back, bringing him against me, gently, but firmly, all the while saying ‘no, come here’. We embraced one another, as one gives a hug [...] To show him that I took the interest that he had previously manifested seriously, I dared a more intimate caress, sliding my right hand down his body towards his sex— over his pants [...] But as soon as he felt the contact of my hand getting close to his genitals, he pushed me back and told me that I was under arrest for sexual assault, showing me his police badge on which I saw the name [COP’S NAME].” Accusations under article 4.08a of municipal bylaw no. 81-1923 (City of Longueuil) Unsurprisingly, the Canadian Criminal Code is not the only body of law currently being used to legitimize the mistreatment of men who have sex with men by state agents. Municipal codes and park regulations prohibiting “indecent” or “obscene” conduct, play an important role in this legitimation. The following testimony comes from a man who was ticketed by a plainclothes cop for having violated article 4.08a of municipal bylaw no. 81-1923 — a municipal bylaw that prohibits the performance of “obscene” or “indecent acts.” “I was cruising in [PARK NAME], in the parking lot close to [AREA NEARBY]. A plainclothes cop was waiting in his car. He tried everything to make me believe that he was gay. The tango lasted close to 30 or 40 minutes. Seeing as I wasn’t doing anything, he began to wander around my car, smiling at me. I was rubbing my inner thigh, never my genitals. Seeing that I was still not doing anything reprehensible (I was very much on my guards), he then approached the driver side door that I had left open (it was hot and this would allow me to more easily enter into contact with him if things took a turn in that direction) and pointed his crotch in my direction. I took this as an invitation to touch him. I touched his inner thigh just above his knee and he immediately took out his badge, telling me that I was guilty of committing an act of gross indecency” [my emphasis]. Though “gross indecency” — section 157 of the Canadian Criminal Code criminal — was repealed in 1988, Longueuil police continue to use this term to designate the charges they lay against gay men in parks. This systematic misnaming is no error. Municipal regulations, like the article 4.08a, serve the same repressive function that section 157 did before it was repealed: that of punishing the existence and expression of nonheterosexual desires. Longueuil police are not the only ones engaged in this systematic misnaming of charges. Last month, in an article entitled Parc Lafontaine: un «oeil magique» dans une salle de toilettes publique, the term was tellingly, but irresponsibly, tossed around both by Philippe Teisceira-Lessard, the La Presse journalist writing the piece and by Anik de Repentigny, communications director for the City of Montreal. �features Accusations under article 5.03 of municipal bylaw no. 81-1923 (City of Longueuil) In 2016, Longueuil police convinced city council to pass a law making it illegal to walk on unmarked trails in four Longueuil parks, at least two of which are established gay cruising grounds. Their idea was simple. Cruising requires that men who have sex with men be able to access the less visible wooded areas of parks. Accessing these areas requires men who have sex with men to make use of unmarked trails. Cut off access to these trails and the cruising will stop. The following “statement of offence” which details the events leading up the ticketing of a gay man in August of 2017 on Île Charron does a strikingly good job at highlighting the homophobic impetus behind this law. “Where I was: Undercover operation in plainclothes on l’Île Charron, a location reputed for sexual exchanges between men in the unmarked trails. What I saw: I find myself at the end of the parking lot, in the hairpin bend. The defendant looks at me, I look at him. He therefore parks his car immediately in the parking lot right beside. I then make my way through the green space nearby, he exits his vehicle and follows me, I enter an uncleared wooded area where the vegetation is dense. The city does not maintain this area, in order to gain access to this area, I have to clear a path with my hands. The defendant follows me into this area and says to me: the paths are not like they used to be. He circulates in the unmarked path for a period of five minutes before returning to his vehicle, intercepted while he was re-entering his vehicle.” As if the first sentence of his statement were not incriminating enough, the plainclothes cop then goes on to make explicit reference to his use of the gaze — a gay cruising practice that has been widely documented by, among so many others, Henning Beck and Mauriz Lenzoff. As the above excerpt makes clear, the current tactics used by undercover cops hoping to lay charges under article 5.03 of bylaw no. 81-1923 are near-identical to those used to by undercover cops hoping to lay charges of “indecency” or “sexual assault.” To listen to previously unreleased audio in which a plainclothes describes his weekly sting, tune into CKUT 90.3 FM tomorrow November 6 at 5pm. The audio will also be available on CKUT’s Soundcloud after the show has aired. November 5, 2018 mcgilldaily.com | The McGill Daily Accusations under other municipal by-laws and other hokey and violent tactics Longueuil police are not the only ones making use of seemingly unrelated municipal bylaws for the purposes of whitewashing their morality campaigns against men who have sex with men. In 2017, the municipal councillor of Saguenay, Marc Pettersen, had plans to pass a bylaw that would make it illegal to park one’s car near Parc de la Colline, a well-known cruising ground. This seemingly benign bylaw will make it possible for SPVS agents to harass men who have sex with men while simultaneously protecting themselves against accusations of sexual profiling. Following the much publicize nudity raids on Chutes SainteMarguerite (commonly referred to as the Gay Falls), the mayor of Saint-Adèle, Robert Milot, publicly announced his plans to limit access to the falls by means of a security checkpoint. To make his intentions less covert, Mr. Milot should equip the checkpoint with a sign that reads: “no faggots; no fucking.” To add insult to injury, at some point during the past decade, Longueuil police started delivering the tickets they issue to men who have sex with men directly to their victims’ home addresses in the hopes of wreaking havoc in the personal and romantic lives of those men who do not openly admit to being attracted to or to having extramarital sex with members of the same sex. Under certain circumstances, cruisers arrested under section 173(1) may be required by prosecutors to both register as a sex offender and provide a DNA sample. All cruisers arrested under section 271(1) are fingerprinted and are required to register as sex offenders and provide DNA samples. “The cop tried everything to make me believe that he was gay.” —Anonymous Imposing limits on freedom of movement is another tactic that police and private security agents use to discipline queer sexual desires out of existence. In R c. Major, a 1998 court case involving a cruiser and a plainclothes cop, Judge THEMENS ordered the cruiser to not find himself in or around Marie-Victorin Park. In the 2010 court case mentioned above, police ordered the cruiser not to find himself in the Parc de l’Île Melville between the time of his arrest and the time of his first court hearing. Again, in the 2017 court case mentioned above, mall security ordered the cruiser not to find himself in the Eaton Centre for a period of one year. By denying cruisers access to their preferred cruising grounds, security, police, and judges effectively deny cruisers the right to benefit from the presence and support of their fellow community members. Orders like these isolate individual cruisers from potential support networks, thus making it easier for authorities to subordinate them. Homophobic politicians, security personnel, police, and judges will go to extreme lengths to both enhance their ability to subordinate men who have sex with men and to mask the homophobic motivations behind their raids. The list of tactics above, therefore, is not comprehensive. Many are the undocumented and invisible means by which police purge public spaces of queer bodies and sexualities. COMPLACENCE AND COMPLICITY Accusations made against cruisers using articles 173(1) and 271(1) of the Canadian Criminal Code and under petty municipal bylaws involve a number of false representations, purposeful miscontruals, and homophobic rationalizations. Plainclothes cops make their way to gay cruising grounds with the intent of being touched and of having us show them our packages. They want to have their bodies caressed. To construe consensual sexual encounters like these as “indecent” or “assault” is nothing short of perverse. Despite this perversity, some of the most “important”“community” organizations in the province of Quebec—those whose voices the state is most likely to recognize—refuse to speak out against homophobic state initiatives. Community Organizations Cruisers are not the only ones who have been subject to repression within the context of anti-‘indecency’ operations. A couple of years ago, two of REZO’s outreach personnel were forced out of Maisonneuve park by cops while distributing condoms in a wooded area know to attract cruisers. Despite this, REZO has refused to share information about the raids with the community. More than just refusing to warn the community, REZO Communications Director Alexandre Blais immediately sought to depoliticize the incident by blaming it on a few ‘bad’ cops — this, immediately after having been presented with police documents revealing the existence of multiple state projects designed to purge parks of men who have sex with men. The response of the Conseil des Gais et des Lesbiennes du Québec is even more alarming. In 2011, the then head of the Conseil, Steve Foster, met with the head of PDQ 38, Stéphane Bélanger, to discuss the «problématique» of cruising in Parc Lafontaine. M. Bélanger arranged this meeting for the purposes of asking for the Conseil’s «collaboration en matière d’information à transmettre à la communauté gai». If the Conseil had taken on this task, PDQ 38 would have both absolved itself of the unsavoury (politically unwise?) task of ordering faggots not to fuck in the park and successfully pinkwashed its morality raids. This is not what happened. Rather than legitimizing the raids by accepting an underhanded request to act as the mouthpiece of homophobic brutes, Mr. Foster seems to have provided Mr. Bélanger with implicit support he wanted by failing to speak out loudly enough against this initiative. The current head of the Conseil Marie-Pier Boisvert has simply chosen to ignore our emails. Though seriously disappointing, the Conseil’s response — or lack thereof — is not nearly as troublesome as the response of MIELS-Québec, an organization that provides support services to people living with HIV-AIDS in the Quebec City region. In 2009, this “community” organization partnered with the Service de Police de la Ville de Québec for a two day operation called Opération RendezVous. During this operation, MIELS’ outreach worker, Philippe De Carufel, would “bait” cruisers, provide them with condoms and lube, and then suggest that they take their sexual activities elsewhere. Once De Carufel had identified a cruiser, police would arrive on scene and “inform” the cruiser of potential fines and criminal proceedings. During this two day operation, MIELS, using entrapment-like tactics, actively sought to make visible, and thus, policeable, the sexual population whose well-being it purportedly cares most about — a sexual population that was already vulnerable to illegitimate state intervention prior to this revolting collaboration. “Our association with police is interesting, because it will allow us to inform the men that there will be repression.” De Carufel’s statement to the press is chillingly similar to the instructions given to officers conducting arrests of men who have sex with men on the island of Montreal a few years later. Arresting officers performing “anti-indecency” operations in Angrignon Park back in 2011 were told to “inform offenders of the repression to come.” Rather than engaging in the kinds of solidarity work that would have contributed to the well-being of men who have sex with men, during this two-day operation, MIELS chose to exploit the relationship of trust it had previously built with men who have 11 sex with men in order to engage in precisely the kinds of threatening talk that police would soon identify as being key to purging parks of men who have sex with men — talk that can only be described as moralizing and disciplinary. For its part, Interligne (formerly Gai-écoute), has simply chosen not to respond to any of our emails. Depoliticized, these community organizations are of little help to those of us who inhabit the margins of the queer community, where non-compliance with heterosexist sexual norms continues to act as justification for police violence. CLOSING REMARKS Testimonies of men arrested or ticketed during stings reveal that cops actively court their victims by smiling at them, courting them while sporting full-on erections, staring at them for extended periods of time ranging from 20 to 50 minutes, and by approaching their victims and offering to engage in touching of a sexual nature by means of suggestive body language. The truth is that plainclothes cops play an active role in seducing their victims. The truth is that those of us who fail to conform to heterosexist sexual norms are continually made targets of illegitimate state intervention. The truth is that the morality raids never ended. Most of the names and badge numbers of the cops or security agents performing the abovementioned operations have been omitted to protect the identities of the men concerned. It is important to recognize the violence implicit in this silencing. In order to protect the identities of the men whose testimonies we have shared, certain source documents have not been made public. To see notes and references, visit https://www.mcgilldaily.com. com/2018/11/this-is-no-longer-a-safeplace/ For a more detailed discussion of police documents off of which this piece is based, consider attending Cruise Control’s upcoming participatory talk (in French) Violence, sexualité, et surveillance, which will be held on November 6 at 12:30 within the context of UQAM’s Semaine Contre la Surveillance. For more information about the raids or to stay in touch, follow @ cruisecontrolmtl on Facebook. Tune into CKUT on November 7th at 6pm to hear Audio Smut’s coverage of the Mont-Royal cruising scene in the 70s and 80s. VISUALS BY NELLY WAT � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource ACAB Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The McGill Daily Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018/11/05 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF homophobia LGBTQ non-McGill police queer https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/62030/archive/files/3d865e01c6f938f2c63afe277e68af07.pdf?Expires=1787788800&Signature=ovtnF1hHdJJ0NbBrY2z8I%7ECFVDXkWDU%7EXL-XRnECzWv-Nbh0553Ws2LJHrDPqO3BVgQ%7ECi%7Em5UzNz5zvvEhg-l%7EHsKRdoKcB05PNVf9dkxhwyn3-cKuFKR3xhiaPfwYl2mkD8NRyiM%7EOm-Rjhpt8zLwn-pZeTj3Ti35fev2fB5qjYa4Us9OFHwgQjQkE4U-ZZl74oP1SIC2eL8djyxckjFQYsUUPW8UYJ9JHK6cYhX8LR5jz4RMeWk5bkzWxFclCA2DzI3etVv6LHi4bGSWn1SWrb48cbx6DZZZOiIxnVlDEzjqMMorq9FrSJBDc3R4BUd-GRRcNAg7m5wamQCgWdg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 7be130a1d3dac75e9b9ab657d522dc23 PDF Text Text Aller- mav shut down evenings by Linda Gyulai Ever been in the 'Alley' at night and felt the stare of a bartender who has nothing to do? Customers and money arc scarce commodities in the Alley lateIy, and so is conccns us on what to do about this. Last wcekthenumberofwaiters and waitresses serving the Alley, McGill's student cafe/bar/painfully 'cool' hang-out, was halved. Now there is debate as to whether or not the Alley should close down at night due to slow business. "We'd like it to be closed at night," admitted Deborah Mica, Assistant Director at CVC (McG ill's food and beverages service). "It won't be sudden," she said, "We can't close yet, we have to get together with the Students' Society to decide. Personally, I don't think it will be this semester." Students' Society (SSMU) councillor Chris Tramp said CVC director Ralph Waiters had men- tioned closing the Alley nights. Tramp also affirmed that the Alley would remain open nights at least until the end of the school year. "We [Tramp and Waiters] were discussif'!g the idea of groups using the Alley for a fee, but he talked constantly about the costs of operating at night. He hinted he didn't want to keep it open anymore at night," said Tramp. According to Waiters, "that's not true. It's business as usual, for the time being anyway." SSMU VP Internal Amanda Kalhok also denied that the Alley would be shutting down its nocturnal operation. "There arc no plans to do that all," said Kalhok. "We have looked at ways to make the Alley a better place. We have looked into music and entertainment. Butthere 's been no talk of closing it in the evenings," she said. "The Alley is very popular during the daytime," said Tramp. "My inclination is to believe that it's rea- :a ,5I .9 Q, _________R____ The Alley rakes In the bucks at night he pointed out. "People come in at11 o' clock, they sonably successful. There's still ing the But Mica said the lunchtime sit there with their feet up on the enough of a clientele spending continued on page 8 money. It's hard to find a scat dur- crowd docsn 't spend much. Secure on campus? C. Annau and H. Libraries Eric Ormsby, when asked by about the peeping tom found in a Noweii-Smith woman's washroom last week, said Several attacks which took place "I didn't know if it was a joke or this fall around the university and at not." Director of Residences Flo university related events have sensitized the student population to Tmcey, said although no statistics the problem of sexual assault at were kept by floor fellows, dons, or the residence directors, she McGill. comprehensive there were very few no keeps believed McGill Committee Management Joint by Scott Davidson statistics on sexual assault, incidcnccs of sexual assault. "It is a (JMC). At Friday's JMC meeting, Soci- although security is supposed to file small community. I would hear McGill Students' Society Councontinued on page 8 reports of all incidents. Director of about it. We talk to each other." cil approved a $995 grant last night to the Coalition Against Sexual Assault, currently conducting the Sexual Assault Awareness Week on campus. According to Clubs representative to Council Freya Kodar, the Coalition was formed last Novembcr"to increase peoples' awareness about the issues surrounding sexual assault." Kodar is also a member of the Coalition. The money will pay for the estimated S4 000 in Awareness Week films, self-defense classes, lectures, discussion groups, advertising and publications put out by the Coalition, and coordinators honoraria. The Quality of Student Life Fund, the Women's Union, and Students' Society have already contributed to the Coalition. But the Coalition says contributions fell short of necessary expenditures. At last week's Council meeting, Kodarappcaled fora$1515 grantto the Coalition. She asked for money from the "Society's Special Projects Fund," a resource which is drawn upon to fund necessary activities that are not scheduled at the time the Society's budget is prepared. The Fund's total budget is $30 000. $7638 was spent before DaUy photo by Hetdl HoUlnger the 1988-89 year began. Council granted $500 to the Last night the Coalition Against Sexual Assault organized a take back Coalition and left the remaining night, while vandals tore down their banner over the Arts building. the amount be decided by the Society's Assault coalition seeks funding from Council women march with candleli McGill Legal Aid Director Annettc Lefebvre says Legal Aid gets at least one case of sexual assault or harassment every week. Constable Serge Roi of Station 25, the precinct which covers the McGill area, confirmed seven reported rapes in theghettoin 1987. But police estimate only one in ten rapes is reported. This means the number of attacks could be as high as70. Visible, unifonned guards on campus are supposed to give students a sense of security. But according to SSMU VP University Affairs Maria Battaglia's September 21 report to Council, security guards can do virtually nothing in a volatile situation. They can only "attempt ... to identify the parties involve<\_ and have the participants surrender their McGill 1.0. cards, should the assailant be a McGill student. The inability of McGill security guards to effectively intervene in on-campus conflict was shown last week in the peeping tom incident. The same unwillingness was demonstrated last year when violent intruders interrupted the Gay and Lesbian Film Night. The security guard handed the phone to one of the organizers and told him to phone the senior officers himself. Another guard later complained to his union that he was asked to interfere. When faced with resistance, security guards are instructed to "never use a physical approach under any circumstances". According to the report, "local authorities will not be called in under any circumstances... without frrst consulting one of the Security Staff." Under these conditions, police inevitably arrive too late. continued on page 6 �6 • The McGill Daily, Wednesday, February 1, 1989 ... how safe is McGill? continued from page 1 In light of the ineffectiveness of existing security, the recommendations contained within the Student Society pamphlet "Security at McGill" are unsatisfactory. The pamphlet addresses problems of theft and vandalism, but fails to mention the more serious problem of sexual assault. Unfortunately it continues to advocate that students phone McGill security, who "will contact MUC Police if required". Odette COIFFURE Men- $20-$10 reg . Women - $35 - $22 reg. With Shampoo, Cut & 8/owdry tiOl F. l 01 Jt.lllE SAl SONS PlACE MONTREAL ;114!rtncno0. 2$18·5067 Tel: 499·9797 is increased." Several independent campus organizations have stepped in to fill the gap in security. In an attempt to find out how widespread the problem is at McGill, Legal Aid is establishing a special Sexual Assault and Harassment Committee in order to compile statistics. Even more ambitious, the Coalition Against Sexual Assault hopes to establish a Sexual Assault Centre on campus by next year. All MUC officers have received Formed immediately after the 5 hours of training to deal with attacks in the fall, the Coalition is sexual assault cases. Says Roi, "there are now 200 female officers hosting a variety of activities this week, including on the 4000 member strong force. placing infonnation tables in buildings There is however no guarantee that a female officer would necessarily around campus. The McGill Walkhome Service respond to a sexual assault call." A great deal of skepticicm about is starting up this week. Commencing Wednesday night, the ability of the police to react groups will be leaving the lobby of sensitively to of sexual McClennan Library at 10:45 p.m. assualt has existed in the past. Monday to Thursday. Coordinator Karcn Finley hopes to see the Jostcns Me Gill service expand to include more The Name University of Quality Bookstore departure times. Interested volunteers should attend a meeting on Thursday at 6 p.m. in Lcacock 321. In addition a Sexual Assault Spcakcr'sBurcau hasbeenfonned. Thursday, February 2nd, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Currently 12 volunteers arc being Bronfman Lobby campus Rep. trained by the Sexual Assault • Accepting VISA/MASTERCARD EYAL Centre of Montreal to speak • Faculties and Departments CaU for Croup Rate infonnatlon. BARUCH authoritatively about sexual assault • Private Individual Appointments 624.0593 with the aim to educate the McGill Community. Starting February 23, groups can call to request a speaker. Those interested should contact Val Moysey or Sherry Pielsticker through the Women's Union. And last but not least the arc introducing stricter security guidelines for their parties. We continue At tonight's Interfratemity Council ..... serve our award winning meeting a 17 point program is Steerburgers, fresh Suzie Q expected to be adopted, potatoes and Bar B.Q. Chicken. recommending amongst other Plus Free Fresh Salad with every meal! things that moniters be placed in every room. St. Catherine St. W 866-3233 Open Daily 11:00 am until Midnight. *Coffee* *Expresso* 486A St. Catberine St. W. 861-4471 Open Daily 11:00 am untillO:o·o P!D· AlLY PHOTOGCappucino * Constable Roi stated that the police respond to calls placed from the McGill campus just as they do calls from anywhere elsepromptly, and without waiting for a request from McGill security. "There is no special sexual assualt unit," he stated."A person placing a call, whether having witnessed an assualt or having been the victim of one, will deal with the officer on duty." According to Angcla Bolt of the Sexual Assault Centre, "the Montreal police force are variable to deal with. In general there has been an improvement over the last eight years. They arc much more sympathetic." Annette LcFebvre of McGill Legal Aid agrees. "The response of the officers is variable. The main difficulty victims encounter is the atmosphere of the police station. It often vcrv difficult smct ,humiliating for the victim to publieally state that an assault has taken place." Notwithstanding, she urges all victims of sexual assualt to contact the police immediately even if under the influence. Although alcohol or drug consumption complicates pressing charges, reporting the assault immediately demonstrates the serious nature of the event. 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Nowell-Smith Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The McGill Daily Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989/02/01 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF campus safety McGill Coalition Against Sexual Assault (MCASA) McGill Security police Sexual Assault Centre of the McGill Students' Society (SACOMSS) SSMU Walksafe https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/62030/archive/files/11a01f18ca1eefac116422df98907bfe.pdf?Expires=1787788800&Signature=Q0KDWCEMk5jbxgIjcZZJHnyeXvA087kHlb63XPDcHwe9iXE93iASu5FaqQYnqV%7ECMolXk%7EwJb4S185qaIw1mnTezq8xZKn9-64Q5hXg%7ExIXziLxN1zLtEmtiu0NUe8pPT7mvSFj1QKa7raW7uNYkrpjmNPjJZuvcmF7MAeCW7S1lAD%7EK7cJevZXWFMA6XYXdD7v2Zr7OGqzyghw89222x7zOoeTphkwQOYBH1vsRJFBzYEq%7EAYSxBTSb7byLeO4C3ttUAUL3ACSFeY4TKQl0iOIciOHCrFbcXcT1tkxSa4DwN%7EJZJTUoiqxSXdkB2tOqhX4YdqKYRiufLt7Znp8IoQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM a3367b03f057e597e0015d069a88cd0d PDF Text Text · · par Jetfrey Edwards La .dlklslon de la· Cour d'Appel d6clarant lnconstitutiondu nelles des dispositions fiscales de la Lol 57 aura, semble-t-11, des effats radicaux au projet de du gouvernement de le Cour Suprame jugement dissident du.Juge et . alnsl Vallerand sera le jugemeht de _ premibre Instance. 11 y a plus qu'une question de fiseale en jeu. Le dossier est a · · sulvre. Le jugement ren.du en fin 1983, renversant le jugement de la Cour avolr de au tout A fait , :projet de tal 40. "A cause ·du ralsonnement du • jugement · majorilalre de la Cour d'Appel rendant ultra ylres des ar, ticles de la "Lot sur. la munlclpale.. (Lol 57)," toute la By Karen Bastow After telling Senate in early du syst6me dans ce Projet ·40 de December that there was no need for a inquiry Into the DeVoe-HoJbeln Camllle Laurln est en p6ril. Ce dernier. jugement conctualt ' affair, McGIII Principal ·oavld que tes limltes de taxation lm- . Johnston set up. an Investigation after a heavy Big-time hippie leader Pierre '"the cool chameleon" Trudeau. Pictured nere, himself during the holiday break. aux comrrilsslons . camP.,algn. Pat· peace-chanting appointed global Johnston pre6falent .57 Lol la dans ' garantlspar terson a.c, to'conduct an lndepen· judlclables a un 1; Acto ·constitutionel '(1867), dent Investigation into .the condlscret!on- · troversy surrounding an. le - In the Mlcroblo!ogy taxe nalre de .. . Another Investigation which has · En effet t'artlcle 93 de la Con. Crois16res autour du monde, O'.autres plus Oulch_otesques stRution, tout en d$Ciarant 1'6<fuca- been In the works longer ·became par Astrld Buclo. en lieux salns et mains. rivaient leu rs ambitions vers · Me plan la ass janvier L ent Pnf. public December 28. The Quebec Ion un domalne 6 6 ._Vegas, la cote I'Unesco et s'imaginalent prenant (Las salns de millions lourlsi pes aur:it Issued has Commission Securities prlf. drolts queJes 11 vlnclal, 6 conf6res relatlve- a cease trading order against the raves avalent pu se chlffrer en D'Azur... ), dons humanitaires a Ja. rel6ve des. Etats-Unis non tucratives et ·6'vldemment le doll de veto. (fes ,· menraux 6coles confesslonnelies" . company licenced to, '!larket pro- kilos . . sans aucun doute cadeaux sympetits des sOr blen tous a permlse 'tabulation La e ne peuvent atre enle'Jt)s mame par - fessors, lrvlng DeVoe s.and Bruc_ romantiques enLes assur6e: ) ... bollques sans ce et billets de tenteurs d les , . Holbeln s la 16glslature provlnclale. . 6 de marlage a cadeau un voyalent qui ce voici amls, et parents aux ou Articles In various news media ·. dl 1 ti d .., . d L•aspe·ct contralgnant au 0 payaient pacifiques tes Carolina, des 6 majc:irit_ la constltuait cl ons st · · 1 Minlst6re de !'Education est la 'this fail reported 1 0 une serre d'oelllets .ATrudeau, les largesse de I' Interpretation donn6e c:Ontraventions.of academic ethics, . (le religion. ue ga ran sme. niythlques 6rlgealent un te11Jple a . .. · A cot article·. Sites trlbunaux sont mistreatment of gr.aduate et les royalistes f.. . prftts A6tendre la proteetlon de cot and staff, and misuse of. governvacances a Buck· leurs passaient by gr.ants articte-au SIIT)ple pouvolr. de taxa- ment • . ingham. . ·. . • . tlon des commissions confession- and Holbeln after: they discovered a collective, cerfibvre cette Dans . • .,. . Invention: . • p_otentlaJiy .. · nelles, 11 est fort probable par lour dlstlngu6s sont se talns assaults ·reporting womep 'two the Goldenberg suzy by eau for pubDc lnqu!ry . s'6tepdra A prot6ger ces commis. •attrape-nlgaud• cet pour m6prls their give to unwilling were then· Community Urban Montr6al called Union Faculty McGIII The camslons de l'abolltlon complbte Ja contradiction a man names. Rostalng said·the suspect Pour these pQiice tiave dans le Projet de lol for an open Inquiry . me WOJ1len In received a repr!mand from a court ·6tait 6vldente pulsque d'une part allegations In Noyembe.r. On suspected of .40, "Lol sur judge and was Immediately releas· on tente fant blen que mal de trafilibrary.: McLennan tne primalre et secondaJre public'. · OeCember'7tH quer les lmpOts pour router l'in. The suspect, 'claiming to know ed: L'Intentlon de ce projet de lol est . was put to Senate formally re· questing an !nqulry • l.nto ·the palmistry arid offering to predict "This year has been speclal ..lt's ' satiable .sansue et d'autre part, via d'abollr le n\gime actual de· had repetitions la toterle: on engraisse de son pleln · missions sc61alres confesslonneJJes Microbiology depar:tmen.t..Johnston people's future, aP.proached 'two the first time • added , gr6.1es poches de I'Etat: oi . kind this of. secreference library· women "ttle meeting (cathollques et protestmtes) en les said at this Des·statlstlques pertlnentes rappar les nouvelles cam- ty has Grievance committees for. tlon Friday. One woman accom- Rostalng. · missions lingulstlques.'(francalses statrand.students and he was not panted him to·a quieter area of the According to Rostalng, the In· portalent qu'll 6talt plus· probable of library where - he assaulted her, crease In reports .of harassment de mourlr frapp6 par la foudre aware of. any et anglalses) mains pul,ssantes. said , Superlntendant of Campus. cannot be aHrlb.uted to the rise in plelne rue Ste-Catherlne ou de votr Inquiry an for motion The. Le partage de pouvolr se feraJt facts." McGIII population_. Six Incidents les 6tudlants· de McGIII falre une Securlty_Andr_ew Rostalng. • et le, was rejected almost _plutOt entre 1'6cole a une quantlt6 Professor Mlctlael Brecher -said ' Stie alerted the library porter were reported last semester: no gr6ve en De plus Mlnlstbre ·de que de travail de surhumalne 1982·83 the In filed e r we' reports security. campus· contacted who be to · des parents s'occuperalent d'une Senate must not allow Itself perr6allsme Le lot. gros le gagner · ·. • • year. academic Security and Parking of Supervisor action." Into "stampeded gran de gestlon de However on December 23rd, Jean Riendeau, who Is also a police "Our ratio (of security personnel cutant des savants calculs de pro. L'ironle de ce .jugement est que n'a pas ou tr6s peu lnlower sa plus'gr,ande vli:time', le Projet de 'Johnson appointed Pa«erson to officer, arrested the man and 'turn- to campus populace et la lol du·bon la fluenc6 haye didn't We time. a upon once 14h30' at 25 Station to over him ed, "undertaKe a review of facts.lnto lol40, a6t6 concu deux ans place Acello de t:espolr. fait sensa all." at Incidents any day. hat have may which or occurfng events aJt re judicial !'action que aprlls occure'd In the 'Departmel]t - of - The woman he assaulted has Selvaraznani ·Thordlsamy, age un dollar permettalt d'appllquer un commenC6 au prlntemps de 1980. agreed to Identify herself as.. a vie- 25, of·Sherlirooke street, will ap- baume Jllusolre sur uno bourse exLe projet de lol40 est depuls mal· Microbiology lnvqlvlng de sangue apr6s ce«e to lm and·slgn a police statement of pear In court Bruce lrvlng DeVoe and 1982 en d6pot A la commission et gourmarrde mats courte peudeur la a "attelnte of· charges fit· person a Although Incident. the cam· for unavailable was Johnston a · I'Mucatlon sur parlementaJre pas n'ont qui ceux lng the ·same description as the .(attack on decency), said Sergeant rares sont rnent yesterday. . nationale. lta pqe a, Asked whether the appointment suspect was'arrested In November, Jean Desmarals of Station .25. 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Title A name given to the resource Cops snare assailant Description An account of the resource After a series of sexual assaults in the library, Montreal Urban Community (MUC) Police apprehend the perpetrator. 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' ,·:• <.-:,· .<:'V · 1Qp ,riort.iy th_e pat4Wf-Y · are,.bn3:rne9' out, -o..s)t� ,i!VUBff\ V8'J!IVll!oien . , 'li!<E l\!l,GJLL DAILY 1+<1ri-.cin:-S:0Jin H�L-Ditv_ctor 1"1Ym$_ : Wyatt Sdkir� is ldb!,yi.og thi siry · . . -: , Hention Sohn- sturlents: it to remedy. i-."�fr� trying · t� - &�t:th�Ji-ght5:: . �g�•t .?e· tirt1�,t9 � �way b�ck-: a, ' �',_ a :Jl'. ty i -�he,,�. J)�t d��d�. . e· c roaand' _, , ·r9"ur "Yhistles - . , After · ·a" student -a.fl-cl three log,'-' said -se1kirk, -_, �oine of__ the ◊f�e-t-, �pti_oru; ft1,e'nds were_ mugged at kn:ifupo int •in N�vel)lber; sc.udent:-gi-ot1p:S and _hej0,t;- Co�_�i4et-¢d· by :stµcfe:!lt'& a1.14 uriivers.ity: .ad1n10-is rra1.m:·.S:, hav e 3:Q.�inistrators �re in_ in���s.eQ t,-etn w_qfkit:1g �p. a,p:lan .t,o niake police p�esenc_e .in the. heis)lbor-' a, _1-SO-metre path-Jroiµ the -!-,L-Onel h�od.+_ : 4_ _ .secµri_ty c3m�tq�..-, seH­ _training, .a:n<l ,, a-'<S.qli_n,. Gro ulx. • Metro sratio.ll to Solin .defens� ba.se.d divj.&fo11 of t!>e, McGill Halisait, Junaid Subhan, president of Walksafe program . T� c:U�rent �a1.ksa'fe pr9gp1m Fii:�t ' Yeil,r · Co-t:1nci1 Comfllin�e{fYCC}i has-. �een in co�nmnica� ,, Joe_s_ " ,e.x�end to S-oliti H�,, bµt · don with -:,�oth r�idents, o(Solin some students,. £eel tb-3t ;th:er�-is, lit� Hall '.a� the• - •.adminiSuatiort, - JO--- Jie ]Joint · in µSing_ 'WAl�s-�fe: : to id�utify t�e security tiski.:and:l'!o- ,a�compi.u;iy, _t½em 'f�r_', on-9' .150, �,res, ' pose a ·�Oh,J.tiQt)..,' --. ."J, ' don't iie.f unCo�fori)oie "The · l!Csid�rs ·,�oll Ole ..Safety ..,.,.,_.,;+",-i,fr¼6�+' _ w�s a \:OI_).�rn. _so w� are looking _ eno,ug�_, �p ,us.� :W.al��fi. ,: l · ri}aliy building's Aei:uri!Y; syste;rr witlri'!, =��....,,-�,,,...-8��~�-,.;.-,,-..;fur .ways to m.;ke dxe path more d<>n't feel likewwi!i,iJl'.·!P.r half an. the. c��iji� �9'11���·�·-/ , . . __':: _ i_ : , McGm Slude,-,t,;; 'l'ou ,in: 01,e1e.1 for eye • • am� and ,�Th bi; a camtta er1cwil! set l l P· $ {5 COV"'!'dll;e . tow,u,;!s C'\H!'/l;las�<Hi ,�r s:or:-,lclS with ',<lli.U Health 1 tis�•tr.ll1Cs'J ho�r> foe ·,s�;-mebn�,.- to w�lk me safe," Su�han said. · A main-comp!aint,'�ttrong -sw.� h�rm:/' said .McGill' . F;d_ucation o� rl>e buildinflookirtg dowri tire . , a pad,, • s id $elkirk. ' · . , dents Was the lack uL proper . stud!,ni �ridt<;Y llaillaig'°n; •. An, exclusively . Sotm-1,;i,sed < Ahother- ��ea heing 9iSGus��-!S .��: "' ·· lighting a!o.ng the . P•th.way, •� o . 1\n . fl •ll ;;.;lf.,J •fe rtse el• ••. ' , .' )I, . jngi\u� was W.alksafoprpgram VP accord,ing ;:t,o ;SSM!,J'. ."A self,defense.dass . . tscutttntc: . .· ••• . . . . Commu,iicy &.GW�t�r Nick .in .the pasi, but was s<;rapi,ed due ly in the w(>rks," said Sell<'irk. The �(? Iaik' of interes� accot.dipg.�to Vikartder� , '.. , ' · ."-, ,' ' · .a�a-7un�i�g I: cl�. s s should be up e "'There is 31� - the i,dea of get- S �kirk . end,of fe6rttaiy; · '�!�P½:/�r�n.,.t.j:i��·ous- enQ.U&h­ the' ting the. �in,-t.0):!1!_ in-hetter,. :J?o.re, . . Subhan: 'IU!ded that the FY, api,r-0ptia1>t;,h'§�rng, t.het<>M poi>- ' .!P use Walksafe. [1.1> tn� .P'*li' would �ike t· o hear from stud e said.' pfe. will feel 'safei;.,:-: ,sa;t<fc Vik antler. was .nev: r once, tpsed, " _ -��e -Sev�ra:! of the' streetlights. a-long , ,Selkitk s_ai� dia� - �. . �eCUricy who · a.re -cmrCerlletl ibour r camera would be added •<> the isSt\e cf safety ll't S-cilin 'i'.di.de�c A J C L :, � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coverage from The McGill Daily Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Paper Volume 92 Issue 30 Page Number(s) 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Solin Safety Made Top Priority Description An account of the resource Update on safety measures implemented at the Solin Hall residence following a mugging nearby. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Adam Verwymeren Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The McGill Daily Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2003/01/30 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English assault campus safety police Walksafe https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/62030/archive/files/7a5800c2ef65d9e993409ef4a1297327.PDF?Expires=1787788800&Signature=lmYve4O8NL2eeCAsgibfFbPy1pvpdCkK%7E1bqPi0wFUhCCU5PJLbZM8ZPAjBffFDbZSPVnMbFSFzAqKDQoZ0lUaZu6VUIEmJIuSdQJVL%7EQBvAgIUnyaINj7whck950FWTtvAfDQQSiVRucAuM8JnHhePQ7ZVE69Wq9bqyNEjUQaKBjEWLKkHk451-DW429pjxojO33KRMi38OgCwwShHndU9JmUQm2TGgK%7ECr8X3omTy7KPf3YpLVvJKcswfj4c0PpQBTeU9P5Xg8CA1Qe3KaaC1zQfmXoppPTfLDsktyxB2F%7EPoZO8OQK7JA5XG4phcUsJ23pXsEGo3V-8jBg%7Ez38Q__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 4bf4a24a0918b735e6b0fbb5b66e512e PDF Text Text 2 THe McG Dairy * OcToBER II, 2001 News jeddery soym News: Its like spoonted truth News Meetings: Mondays at 4:30 in the 2nd floor shatner caf Tg STE Eye Exam OO : Eye Glasses + Contact Lenses "20% off on all frames." (VALID WITH THIS AD) Dr. David Kwavnick,O.D. 1535 Sherbrooke St. W. (corner Guy) oo” Students are covered for ey coverage towards eyegia rote with th iat thd aM rer ele-lete 933-8700 GREAT SEAT SALE SSMU Safety Commissioner Vincent Esconlar rime Wave Hits ~ Campus Area Book before October 15th, 2001 and take advantage of our great rates with regular airline companies! _ Regular _ Special PARIS Lost 5850 LONDON Res =—s«45549$ BRUSSELS. es 589$ FRANKFURT Lie ~~ -589$ ATHENS 12438 819 ROME Loses-..- 619$ SSMU is using the internet to fight rising crime BY fas ounting ‘numbers of students“have been. victims of crime-as the incidence of break-ins and assaults ‘has climbed in the McGill Ghetto. According to. police, 45 home For departures between October Ist and Decembe r 18th, 2001. Some conditions apply. Tickets must be booked and paid'by October 15th, 2001. << VOYAGES CAMPUS break-ins. 3480 McTavish 398-0647 284-1368 (Shatner Building) (Corner Sherbrooke) www.voyagescampus.com ue eae ut LUC ae Cad oes a re window. team Ua am (REE | hour free pool! esr RC eucg Pe nein nen CELE Se aL CL — September, It was pretty scary,” © @ © Vincent Escanlar, . the SSMU Safety “Commissiofier, and the Station 19 Police Department are helping students do just that. Working together: to: deliver a message of safety and security to McGill students, Vincent and_ his rend fants a between PCO Guat Ne ‘in recalled McLeod. Even after witnessing the attack, she still feels that the McGill community is a safe place to live. “T think it’s safe, but you’ve still Bot to watch out,” she said. And ry “occurred up from*39 in the month of August. Car’ break-ins rose even higher during that period, reaching 76 in September, up from 64 in August. There were 40-cars stolen in September 2001, as opposed to. only 27 in September 2000. |. Nicole: Macleod, «a: first -yéar : Arts student, had only been attending McGill for three weeks when she witnessed. an assault in’ the McGill Ghetto. “Lsaw a guy get kicked through The only agency for student travel 2085 Union BELL News Writer a) ®@ 6@ of safety commissioners, along with community Officer Nelson Marshall, have. recently launched a website. The website intends to ‘promote’ safety within the community by reaching as many people as-possible. “Basically the point is to make Sure that everyone is communicating better to help promote safety in the community,” Escanlar said. The website:is accessed through the SSMU homepage and offers safety tips, crime reports, alcohol; noise and fire regulations for events, as well as contacts and links to the police and other safety institutions within’ the McGill community. Escanlar says keeping safe involves a lot of common sense. = “Basically, keep your eyes and ears open,” said Escanlar. “The McGill ghetto is our community to look out for. It’s just.a matter of maintaining communication links with campus security and the city police, People shouldn’t hesitate to _bring reports to the attention of the authorities,” he said. site as a valuable initiative, but said it might not be the most effective method'of communication. “Their website isn’t one that everybody Knows about. If you ask most people they’re not going to ‘know who the safety commissioner is,” said Marquez. Melanie Falzon a_ first-year management. student agrees. She doesn’t believe the website iisvisible enough. “We don’t receive information about security at McGill. It would be better to have something you can hold in your hands because not everyone is going to see the website,” Falzon said. “We don’t receive information about Security at McGill. Escanlar says he is addressing the problem of visibility, and that a It would be better to have something you can hold in your hands because ‘not everyone is going to see the website.” poster campaign is on the way. “Once those are out, that will be the biggest step towards making safety a more visible issue on campus,” said Escanlar. Until then, Escanlar encouraged McGill students to visit the website and take initiative ensuring their safety. A brochure containing safety facts and regulations was. issued by the Station 19 Nelson: Marshall also advocated Police Department under the building stronger community links. © direction’ of Officer Marshall. “Let people around: you’ know Students can also have the local what's going on so we can developa police and Tandem, a Montrealtype of neighborhood watch,” said based crime prevention initiative, Marshall. conduct a» safety assessment. of Marshall believes students are their home. especially easy targets because they Escanlar added that improving have a lot of expensive equipment safety in the McGill community is such as sound systems, and coma long-term project. puters in: their homes. “Five years from now, the safe“Many times you can see right ty commissioner will -be a much into studénts’ apartments and these more visible role on campus. You items are in plain view. _ People will see safety:commissioner activishould be aware of this,” Marshall ties wherever you go,” he said. said. “Hopefully these events will Viadimir Marquez, buble relareduce the amount of incidents, and ‘tions coordinator: for McGill’s more importantly how safe stuwalk-safe program lauded the webdents really feel in this community.” � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coverage from The McGill Daily Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Paper Volume 91 Issue Unknown Page Number(s) 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Crime Wave Hits Campus Area Description An account of the resource An article summarizing responses to a rise in assaults and break-ins around McGill's downtown campus. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Chris Bell Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The McGill Daily Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2001/10/11 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English assault campus safety police SSMU https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/62030/archive/files/90672bf38b016128614c5e3ffd8fa7f8.pdf?Expires=1787788800&Signature=F3NA1TnVoS40Zbig5lzboQuabiG%7EAAH0YLLPleY1B0-5UjAwrZECUjhcb1o%7Ej0xDPmx7fAdXwwudN3PKOBN2SMoi7GXYGPjb-%7ExDIBwn2cHw4JrW8fBFIqmaQrzgqTVstUgVjlSuz3CEeY100PHUMUeXbQJBnqb2UK4FASekrV5OK8GvGGaQ2bzvYBUOngJQlMmELmD5RXfZnImYINiBBoiAzMrL9N8MJy2b4zguicsEbc-hIQ8TtR1aw0cF5wJbI902WFquhywdnIwiHGOLawfHLeggbazS3ppRU4RaCTUAhj4BG0lbzJa%7ESJgqKZaKRcRDJckZTQRyazxKvje5TA__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM ee27747ea2ef3c18cceecbe7ac81ca99 PDF Text Text News The McGill Daily, Thursday, October 8, 2009 5 Miranda Whist for The McGill Daily Choose Life protest ends in arrests “Echoes of the Holocaust” called off following disruptions Erin Hale The McGill Daily M cGill students Fred Burrill and Elise Eisenkraft-Klein were arrested by Montreal police and charged with mischief Tuesday night while protesting the Choose Life sponsored event, “Echoes of the Holocaust.” The students were part of a larger group of about 15 protesters who attempted to disrupt the event. Despite police intervention, protesters persisted in interrupting the speaker, Jose Ruba of the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform, until Choose Life’s reservation on Leacock Room 232 expired at 9 p.m. and club president Natalie Fohl called off the event. Ruba attempted to link the process of dehumanization used to justify historical genocides to what he viewed as the dehumanization of unborn children used to justify abortion. Last Thursday, SSMU Council voted in favour of a resolution to censure “Echoes of the Holocaust.” The resolution also called on the University to prevent the event from taking place, and rescinded Choose Life’s ability to gain SSMU funding in the future, in case the event ended up taking place. At Council, Clubs and Services Representative Corey Omer noted that he had received petitions from several SSMU clubs, including Hillel McGill, who feared that Ruba’s reference to the Holocaust was an inappropriate comparison. Ruba had hardly finished the first sentence of his lecture when a protester near the front of the room stood up and announced that she believed he had no right to deliver his speech at McGill. The protesters proceeded by singing various songs, at one point completing an entire rendition of “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall.” Protesters held their arms, jackets, and signs in front of Ruba’s video projections, which included photographs from biology textbooks, videos of the early stages of an abortion, and images of the Holocaust. McGill Security personnel were on site from the event’s beginning, but when they were unable to stop the protest, the protesters were warned that the police would be called. Sometime around 7:30 p.m., three officers arrived. Speaking on behalf of the officers, Sergeant Baccardi informed the students that if they continued to be disruptive, they would be arrested and charged with mischief and possibly obstruction of justice. “You’re going to have a criminal record, and I’m serious about this. I know your cause [is] a valid one, but I don’t think doing this is where you want to go with this,” Baccardi said. “I will call backup and they will come here and physically remove you. If it comes to that you will be identified, either by force…and fines, tickets, jail time will come with that,” Baccardi added. Arts Senator Sarah Woolf, who is a vocal opponent of Choose Life, stepped in and demanded that Principal Heather Monroe-Blum or Deputy Provost (Student Life and Learning) Morton Mendelson be contacted by phone before the police forcibly removed anyone from the room. “Many students here at McGill do not believe that this [presentation] is in accordance with the law,” she told Baccardi. Fohl said she was disappointed by the demonstration and felt the protesters’ behaviour limited dialogue. “I think it’s really unfortunate it had to come to [calling the police],” she said. “In a perfect world we’d be allowed to have an event [which] people are free to come to or not, free to disagree with or not, and there would be respectful dialogue on both sides, and people would allow that to happen. But that’s not the case at the moment.” The protesters accused Choose Life of trying to hold their event in secret, claiming Fohl had misled The Daily on Friday when she said the event would be cancelled “We were told the event was cancelled on Friday. Why? Because Natalie Fohl called The Daily and told them. She didn’t say that to SSMU! She just told them she wasn’t sure. That sounds like a lie.” said protester Darrah Teitel. Audience member Sarah Rohoman, U2 Arts, said that while she felt the contents of Ruba’s discussion were offensive, she also did not approve of the methods used by the protesters. “I don’t feel like what they’re doing is correct. I believe everyone should have their say. I appreciate what they have to say, but the way they’re doing it is not correct,” Rohoman said. Ruba told the protesters he was open to discussion, and that Choose Life had asked for a pro-choice speaker to engage in debate. Protesters, however, said that the presentation did not lend itself to dialogue. “The problem is you trick people into debating you, and then you show graphic images to scare them instead of using actual facts,” one said. “You pride yourself on scaring people out of having abortions.” “This event goes against the McGill Charter, SSMU’s Equity Policy, [and] Canada’s Charter of Rights, which protect my body and me from the harassment that you are trying to show in this video. We have no desire to see you speak because we don’t want the women in this room to suffer your harassment,” said Teitel. In the midst of the confusion, Ruba explained to The Daily why he felt it was important for protesters to hear his message. “A vagina is not public space. A uterus is not public space,” said Teitel as Ruba tried to resume his speech. Some of the audience members then began heckling protesters. “Why don’t you just shut your mouth!” a woman said in response to protesters’ complaints. Eventually, at least ten officers, two squad cars, two minivans, and two motorcycles arrived on McTavish. Officers waited outside the room as comments flew back and forth between protesters and the audience. Ruba attempted to deliver his lecture, while displaying photos of the Serbian, Armenian, Cambodian, and Jewish genocides. Baccardi and other officers, as well as Ruba, stayed to take questions from bystanders following the event’s abrupt ending. Outside, two students attempted to approach the squad cars containing Burrill and Eisenkraft-Klein. One of the students was pushed by one of the officers, while the other’s arm was bent back by another officer who warned him to keep his distance from the vehicles. “I will call backup and they will come here and physically remove you” Sergeant Baccardi, Montreal Police “[The protesters] have accused us of all these things, and frankly they haven’t heard this presentation yet. When people pre-judge someone based on heresy and rumours, that’s called prejudice,” Ruba said. “We don’t mind protests; that’s what free universities and free societies do. But they don’t censure people simply because they disagree or prevent people from sharing their ideas. That’s no longer what protests should be about. That’s censorship.” As Ruba attempted to begin his presentation for a second time, police escorted Burrill and Eisenkraft-Klein to waiting squad cars. Within a short time, disruptions resumed as protesters began to sing, shout, and ring their cell phones. In response to yesterday’s events, the SSMU executive issued an open letter Wednesday condemning the University’s refusal to cancel the event, which they felt violated the SSMU Constitution and Equity Policy. The executive, representing council, the highest governing body of SSMU, also asked the University to respect the decisions made by Council concerning its clubs. “Vulnerable students tried to communicate their concerns to the University through the available channels: the SSMU executive, SSMU Council, AUS Council, the McGill Tribune, and The McGill Daily. There were no other avenues through which to stop this event, which they deemed as victimizing, offensive, and stifling of educated debate, from happening,” the letter read. “Furthermore it is unfair to expect these student protesters to calmly watch a presentation and engage with a speaker when such a presentation would make them feel violated, demonized, and silenced,” the letter continued. “This event created a hostile environment and should not have been permitted. It is possibly most disappointing that when students peacefully engaged in a public response to this hostile environment, they were removed through a police intervention.” But Mendelson defended the administration’s actions. Following the event, he said that McGill chose not to intervene because the University did not see the SSMU censure as a reason to limit debate. “We want to foster debate, we do not want to restrict the expression of ideas.... As I said to SSMU when I was asked to intervene and cancel the event, I said ‘Look, debate free of constraint is important as long as the discourse remains civil, does not violate a law, or McGill’s code of conduct and disciplinary procedures’,” Mendelson said. “[The event] was scheduled in a room that was not a public space [and] not in an open public area. The publicity of the event advised individuals of the nature of the graphic imagery, and the graphic imagery was confined to the room. So in that sense, I felt the event was an appropriate event.” According to SSMU Equity Commissioner Jonathan Hann, only one equity complaint has been submitted this year against Choose Life, but he noted that he has received many informal criticisms of the club. “I’ve had a lot of students express concerns to me, not necessarily in terms of a complaint, [but] when it comes to [Choose Life] holding events, they feel that maybe it’s a violation of their rights as a student to walk through campus and be confronted with these signs and images they don’t necessarily find appealing while walking about doing their everyday business,” Hann said. Hann also noted that he had received complaints from the protesters, “They feel their right to assemble has been violated, and they were treated unjustly and unfairly because of it,” Hann said. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coverage from The McGill Daily Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data PDF Volume 99 Issue 11 Page Number(s) 5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Choose Life protest ends in violence Description An account of the resource Discussion of a protest outside of a Choose Life event and police intervention. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Erin Hale Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The McGill Daily Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2009/10/08 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Antisemitism Choose Life events police protest reproductive health reproductive justice SSMU https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/62030/archive/files/52fea60000214790546534730392531f.pdf?Expires=1787788800&Signature=c6J12qbVU4t2f7iL-5wCk-h3Ch6Yd24%7EIOuEQDcZ6C-PQ2vhbh7kbjP7grq18FuXWUmwJSEuf4eHhPaQrwWiNMe5m2A8bk-BoqvYFTUNCT2egzKh3yaBilwl3x1HSiczOR419YX5dLgZ%7EJTLUsZe19TX3%7EX-TDdDYWMB7Td7sJ5r0aa2SQcfnU0Znu5eEtLlcJxV8k%7E21GHAdxXwulco8tdGCWjz-A5MGZtwCukaF1%7EXhhokxMewP7yI0bCwAH6fgotqmmMwel39JQK8YhjTWmYW5JyozTayJtvOb2veMcE57Z-8ncogwoUV4wMZAR7vQFXP-V4c4ga4ZCZRpUuo4Q__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM adccb2b6f589d6e8635e8a9cdf0c922a PDF Text Text 16Commentary Miranda Whist for The McGill Daily The McGill Daily, Thursday, October 8, 2009 HYDE PARK Choose Life digs its heels in Natalie Fohl and Richard Bernier W Choose Life’s event in Leacock 232 on Tuesday was disrupted by protests. OPEN LETTER SSMU responds to Choose Life event Ivan Neilson T he SSMU executive is incredibly concerned and upset about the response of McGill University to the recent “Echoes of the Holocaust” event, hosted by the SSMU club Choose Life. We feel that McGill University has not only disrespected the rights of the SSMU as the accredited representative body of all McGill undergraduate students, but also failed to protect students’ rights. McGill University has not respected SSMU Council and the SSMU executives as representatives of the McGill undergraduate student population. When the SSMU Council passed a resolution officially and publicly censuring the event “Echoes of the Holocaust”, the SSMU Council clearly stated that for Deputy Provost (Student Life and Learning) Morton Mendelson to permit it to go forward would disregard the desire of the Council. In response, Professor Mendelson argued that this resolution is a tyranny of the majority. Firstly, this is an offensive misrepresentation of the purpose of SSMU Council. The SSMU Council was acting on behalf of all undergraduate students, both in its representative capacity and in reaction to many conversations with students. Secondly, it is worrisome that the Deputy Provost interprets a large percentage of students being outraged and appalled at an event to be a tyranny of the majority. SSMU had hoped that Mendelson would consider the impact as well as content of the presentation instead of ignoring the formal intervention of students’ representative body by using the rhetoric of academic freedom. By ignoring the SSMU Council’s decision, McGill acted as an enabler for a group attempting to violate SSMU’s governing documents. The resolution regarding “Echoes of the Holocaust” was passed because the subject and format of the planned presentation violated the SSMU Constitution and Equity Policy. Council did not pass judgment based on individual opinions, but on the constitutionality of the event overall. SSMU did not censor Choose Life’s opinions, but the offensive format within which those opinions were being presented. Moreover, the SSMU Council, as the highest governing body of SSMU, has ultimate authority over SSMU clubs. McGill University must respect the right of SSMU to govern groups under its jurisdiction according to its constitution, by-laws, and policies. SSMU is also disturbed by McGill’s callous disregard of its need to protect students. The Deputy Provost has argued that the behaviour of the protestors was disappointing and appalling. SSMU understands that the disruptive behaviour of the protestors impeded on an event that the University had permitted to happen. However, the University has failed to address the concern that all other formal avenues had been exhausted, but to no avail. Vulnerable students tried to communicate their concerns to the University through the available channels: the SSMU executive, SSMU Council, AUS Council, the McGill Tribune, and The McGill Daily. There were no other avenues through which to stop this event, which they deemed victimizing, offensive, and stifling of educated debate, from happening. Furthermore, it is unfair to expect these student protestors to watch a presentation calmly and to engage with a speaker when such a presentation would make them feel violated, demonized, and silenced. In his February 27, 2009 article in the McGill Reporter, “Free and Open Expression on Campus,” Mendelson said that free speech should be permitted as long as “we do not create a hostile environment for members of our diverse community.” This event created a hostile environment and should not have been permitted. It is possibly most disappointing that when students peacefully engaged in a public response to this hostile environment, they were removed through a police intervention. Administrators did not intervene at all during the height of the event, even after requests from the SSMU executive to do so. Students felt entirely abandoned by the McGill administration upon seeing fellow students removed from the safety of the downtown campus and handed over to the Montreal police and the public media. SSMU has continually tried to serve and represent McGill undergraduate students in this situation, and will continue to do so. We will continue to engage in a conversation with the McGill administration concerning their respect for SSMU and our students’ rights. We will provide impartial information and guidance to any student defending any action to McGill or initiating a grievance with McGill. Most importantly, as the representatives of all undergraduate students, we will hold ourselves to the highest standard of accountability to our students and to the SSMU constitution, by-laws, and policies. We hope to work with McGill to address these concerns and formulate constructive solutions. If any students would like to discuss these issues with the SSMU executive, please do not hesitate to contact us. Ivan Neilson is president of SSMU and is writing on behalf of SSMU’s executive. Write the executive at pres@ssmu.mcgill.ca. hat are the features that define genocide, and can any of them be meaningfully applied to the phenomenon of abortion – or is that simply an unhelpful, even inflammatory suggestion? Are there any parallels between the language used to depersonalize victimized peoples during the Holocaust, and the language used today in legal and social discourse regarding the human fetus? How can we address the question of the human rights of the unborn in ways that do not jeopardize the rights of adult women? These are some of the questions that Jose Ruba wanted to discuss in his October 6 talk, “Echoes of the Holocaust,” organized by Choose Life. These questions are controversial. Some of them even divide members of the pro-life community. The event was attended by the curious and the questioning, by supporters of Ruba’s position, by opponents (pro-life and pro-choice) who came to listen and raise real objections and concerns. In the end, none of these questions were discussed, as a group of protesters drowned out all dialogue with a tiresome farce that lasted two hours. Despite polite and repeated invitations to leave or raise objections during the open discussion following the talk, despite the patience of those in attendance who came to engage with the issues and calmly waited for the lecture to proceed, the evening was entirely consumed by the churlish antics of a few. The title of the talk was controversial, and unquestionably open to debate. Concerns about the content of the talk were based on hearsay and innuendo, and Choose Life has been implicated by insinuation with any number of opinions that we explicitly repudiate. Despite intolerable and slanderous suggestions to the contrary, Choose Life does not believe and will never support the claim that Canada is like Nazi Germany, or that post-abortive women are in any respect like Nazis. Choose Life is committed to defending the dignity of human life from conception onward, and we will not be cowed by insults into keeping quiet, as long as a portion of the human family is marginalized by depersonalizing language and unjust actions. There are many pro-life students at McGill, completely committed to raising awareness about the oppression of the human person in the fetal stage. There are many others who are firmly pro-choice, who wish to hear what the other side has to say, or make the most of opportunities to change the minds of their opponents through rational discussion. A third constituency is the cohort of students who aren’t sure what they believe about the rights of the unborn but who want the chance to craft their own informed opinion. For these reasons, for these students, Choose Life isn’t going anywhere. We will not go away, no matter how often our right to engage in civil conversation is disrupted and violated.
 Choose Life appreciates the professionalism of McGill University’s administration, which made every effort to allow the event to proceed peacefully. We are vividly aware that some students feel nervous about the discussion of abortion, and are sensitive to the fact that some members of the McGill community feel unsafe or harassed by the presence of certain kinds of pro-life discourse on campus. Choose Life is absolutely committed to transparency and to respectful, civil discussion, and we welcome any suggestions or dialogue that will help us to occupy our place on campus in as constructive and non-threatening a way as possible. That civil, courteous, safe dialogue is possible and desirable, we have no doubt at all; we passionately desire peace of mind and a safe space for every single student. This is our commitment.
This is our commitment because we are here, and here to stay. We will not sit down and shut up. We will not allow others to decide before listening to us whether our contribution is legitimate or not. We will not try to drown out those who disagree with us. We will not be silenced. Natalie Fohl
is a U3 Biology and Political Science
student and the president of Choose Life. Richard Bernier
is a PhD IV Religious Studies student. Write them at natalie.fohl@mail.mcgill.ca. Reader, I still haven’t heard from you. Please – please – write soon. Desperately, letters@mcgilldaily.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coverage from The McGill Daily Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data PDF Volume 99 Issue 11 Page Number(s) 16 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SSMU responds to Choose Life event Description An account of the resource The president of SSMU writes about a controversial Choose Life event. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ivan Neilson Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The McGill Daily Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2009/10/08 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Admin Antisemitism Choose Life events police protest reproductive health reproductive justice SSMU https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/62030/archive/files/791f2a2f0efdc3e3b2f651bb487aa939.pdf?Expires=1787788800&Signature=rj3AyhscadOXpde7SKDFzf2OpdpzlzWNpPI4aZf%7ETrNDKPWz1fCnP2HIz7czfPjfMTSf%7EDK-AjZxXJO%7EaEU3mPsxoh-S-efcn5uNp0MZ4La%7EKqaiGZpdGVCNOgZRSTfca1BO7%7EY2AC3q8cLZ5JDdZc1y5xTBIYk7eVMqiGMzC0pjLEjvQC%7EmxrfmPCf%7Em6VTTFPofxLTlYiyttAWJ-GFVixPcTrLmylzn0YPij2L3GFMANHZtBRSLcuP558Fs3a8Fgj0YLgl93kYMa%7EAxlJykK9pX8BAkRZqGobhJJ8EEUnZ6KhlLawpciUmvqATwZ5R7Gp5jE37N0NwM8Ozpym0rg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 673da59933e0811b31e233dbd15c4ea2 PDF Text Text Commentary The McGill Daily, Monday, October 19, 2009 7 “Don’t get arrested” The perils of police interaction when you’re trans Binary is for computers I was at Choose Life’s event two weeks ago. But I don’t want to write about “Echoes of the Holocaust” or Choose Life or abortion. Instead, I want to write about a text message my girlfriend sent me during the protest. It read, “Don’t get arrested.” Now, I wasn’t doing anything that would call for my arrest – I wasn’t even protesting. And the text message, knowing my girlfriend, was probably a joke. However, I hadn’t fully considered the implications of what would happen if I got arrested at this point in my life. First, I’m not a Canadian citizen; I’m not even a permanent resident. I’m an American citizen on a study permit. This puts me in a rather precarious position, since the Canadian government can deport me if I violate the terms of my study permit. That would mean leaving McGill, having to explain my situation to another university, and finding it difficult, if not impossible, to enter – let alone live in or immigrate to – Canada for the foreseeable future. Second, I’m a trans person. This is, astoundingly, even more significant than my nationality. As a trans person who has not changed any legal documents, any interaction I have with the state involves denial of my identity. The state doesn’t recognize the name I’ve chosen for myself and use in daily life; it doesn’t recognize any sex or gender for me other than the one I was assigned at birth. If I attempt to identify myself with my chosen name or gender, not only will the state refuse to recognize me, but it may accuse me of fraud – of lying about who I am. The irony of this is painful. I’m being far more honest when I tell people to call me Quinn and not to treat me as though I were male. It’s when I attempt to pass myself off as a male or use my legal name that I engage in fraud. The state, however, only cares about what the paperwork says, not what I say. Interactions with the police in particular can lead to problems for trans people. If I don’t represent myself the way they want me to, I face hostility. And because the state doesn’t recognize my gender, if it placed me in a segregated prison, I would be in a men’s prison, against not only my own self-identity but also my own safety. Justin K. Wong / The McGill Daily Quinn Albaugh Trans people, because of their precarious legal situation, often have trouble with the fuzz. This is particularly true because I’m a trans person in a physical transition. This means that my body, regardless of how I present myself using social behaviours, is somewhere “in between” sex expectations. Society already devalues the bodies of trans people by practically condoning systemic physical violence against us – I don’t even want to contemplate what that means in jail. When I realized all of this at “Echoes of the Holocaust,” I immediately became quite edgy, since I knew the police would come. I already don’t trust the police. I know the role that law enforcement has played in the institutionalized oppression of a variety of communities, based on race, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, or a variety of other factors. I know how much power the police force has, which they could use to detain, assault, or even kill me. I know how dangerous having the police turn against me could be. However, this was the first time I felt all this actually sink in. And, to be quite honest, I’m still terrified when I think about this. Quinn Albaugh will be writing about trans people, legal documents, prisons, and police in the coming weeks – stay tuned! Write them at binaryforcomputers@ mcgilldaily.com. Obama wins peace prize: get over it It’s not his fault, OK? Little bitter Riva Gold W hen I was five, my friend got a holographic Pog in his loot bag at a birthday party. Bitter and resentful, I glared at him for a week, refusing to share my snacks with him at recess or look for him during our daily games of hideand-seek. He didn’t deserve that Pog, and I was convinced that if he had an ounce of integrity in his four-foot-tall body, he would have given it back. But I’m not five anymore, and I realize now how absurd it was to blame him for his unsolicited good fortune. So now that Barack Obama has found the Nobel Peace Prize in his loot bag, it’s time for us to stop blaming the man and get over it. Does bestowing the award upon Obama somehow delegitimize the Nobel Peace Prize? In short: no. I’m inclined to believe the title already lacks a whole lot of legitimacy. After being awarded to the likes of Henry Kissinger and Yasser Arafat, I tend not to take it too seriously. If we were to believe that despite being awarded to Al Gore for his care of trees, the prize is still important, we would also have to believe that no single recipient could delegitimize it, Obama included. Has Obama achieved world peace? No. But neither have most winners, and we need to reassess whether we actually want to treat the Peace Prize as a piece of post facto self-congratulatory pomp. A prize awarded to someone who has already finished their work vis-à-vis international solidarity does little good to foster actual prospects of peace. The prize is far more valuable as an expressive statement of the hopes and desires of the world, intended to guide those in power as they face tough decisions. Fact: Obama is president while Iraq and Afghanistan are in a state of total disarray. But we can hardly expect him to undo eight years of damage overnight or resolve bitter and bloody battles that reach far beyond his short term in office. If we look instead to the closing of Guantánamo Bay, his speech in Cairo, his dialogue with Iran, and Netanyahu saying the words “Palestinian state,” we can see that Obama has not just promised peace but is taking meaningful steps toward achieving it. It may be only nine months into his presidency, would be. Who would want to go down in history as the president who’s against peace? It’s not reasonable to expect anyone to decline this award. What we can expect is If you still think the Nobel committee was wrong, don’t criticize the recipient but he’s endured a lot of labour pains to birth a new era of diplomacy, and this award may be the breast milk it needs to develop. And if you still think the Nobel committee was wrong, don’t criticize the recipient; blame the committee. Sure, Obama could have declined the prize, citing his own unworthiness in some touching and well-delivered speech. But imagine the international PR disaster that for them to take its mandate seriously, and continue to work toward peaceful humanitarian ends. I have every reason to expect Obama to do this, and I’m not going to criticize his character in my Facebook status. Riva Gold is one of The Daily’s weekly columnists. Send her an aggregate of your Facebook statuses at littlebitter@mcgilldaily.com. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coverage from The McGill Daily Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Quinn Albaugh Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The McGill Daily Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2009/10/19 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Antisemitism Choose Life events police protest reproductive health reproductive justice SSMU transphobia https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/62030/archive/files/533de07bbae9b9921c5396709f22758d.pdf?Expires=1787788800&Signature=fHGE8A4RKu5pGy1TiLo4pGww2AKYoyEQ0N0Qvk1b47iejG9gy0soqYnlGWak9ex2Pe9BFpXlsij0C8L38Hf37wMvjmNoSXeZhKmRGMmvto-0vavkVu1Zd6F%7E8hbmCFnLKLbEeWTNJN8wkyJojn3UQPiQtu-tLIptSWrJFU%7Ev7P%7ECqO6Kk5XpMhNExdENkMAiTXvl4fL3OIn1AEIeBkZiAge6Kb8sInnfp4dwPfWiIE5-tRXe3ECXwS296TGDiYUigVmTIdLb9QFjMjqztWfSodwabBKLGl02aPsfIbopmRjXZ4K2%7E515iSq33mbgfwc2C-u5oRoqIjj2GsuaYmVsAQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 9e18f5c56061f29ab3c5553c2b967d8a PDF Text Text News The McGill Daily, Monday, October 26, 2009 5 McGill student victim of racial profiling Quebec Superior Court to hear the case Stephanie Law News Writer M Miranda Whist / The McGill Daily Protesters waited for Jason Kenney as he entered an Arts classroom. No One is Illegal protests Kenney at McGill Conservative McGill invites immigration minister to speak Eric Andrew-Gee News Writer J ason Kenney, Canada’s Minister of Citizenship, Immigration, and Multiculturalism, visited the student group Conservative McGill on Friday. The event was held in Room 160 of the Arts Building. As Kenney approached the room, he was stopped by a loud group of protesters from No One is Illegal Montreal. Kenney and his coterie were prevented from moving toward the doors. One of the protesters, Jaggi Singh, asked Kenney about a recent report in the Toronto Star that tells of a 24-yearold Mexican woman named Grise who is believed to have been murdered in June by the same group of drug traffickers she sought refuge from in Canada in 2004 and 2008. Grise was denied refugee status twice, and following her return to Mexico in 2008, she was raped and impregnated. After having a caesarian-section to deliver her child, she was kidnapped and shot through the head. The minister did not respond. When the protesters accused Kenney of pandering to racial biases against Mexicans in his policies, he shot back, sarcastically saying, “I plead guilty: I’m a racist,” and pushed toward the door. The protesters began chanting, “Immigrants in, racists out” and tried to prevent Kenney from entering the room, while being pushed back by a number of Conservative McGill members and McGill Security agents. When Kenney and his aides finally entered, the doors were closed, but protesters continued yelling, “No borders, no nations, stop the deportations,” and “Immigrants in, Kenney out”. Inside, Kenney referred to the activists as “some of Canada’s leading anarchists”, and later as “thugs.” The sounds of protests continued to resonate through the room during most of Kenney’s appearance. When the doors were occasionally opened to let someone out, Kenney was completely drowned out as the pitch of the protest shot up. The protest dissipated after 15 or 20 Montreal police officers were called in. No arrests were made, and Robyn Maynard of No One is Illegal said, “We left on our own free will.” After Kenney’s presentation, the officers could be seen walking in double file out the back doors of the Arts Building. In a speech describing his approach to immigration, Kenney lamented the challenge of finding appropriate jobs for well-qualified immigrants, saying, “Canada has the best qualified taxi drivers in the world.” To combat the endemic underemployment of immigrants, Kenney said the Conservatives have tripled federal funding for vital integration programs. Addressing a question about his refugee policy, Kenney cited the 5,000 Nepalese Hindus claiming refugee status recently admitted to Canada from India, and the 12,000 Iraqi asylum-seekers the Conservatives expect to admit over the next three years. Kenney has expressed concern in the past over Canada’s acceptance rate of refugee claimants, which, at 40 per cent, is twice the rate of any other industrialized country, according to the minister. When asked specifically about his concerns, Kenney attributed the high rate, in part, to “massive flows of false refugee claims,” and “people using the asylum system as a back door to get in [to Canada], to avoid the immigration system.” He mentioned Mexican immigrants as being particularly culpable. Kenney’s ministry imposed visa requirements on migrants from the Czech Republic and Mexico this July. The minister told The Daily it was in an effort to curb what he termed as “bogus” refugee claims. Robyn Maynard saw another motive. “He’s using borderline racial stereotypes to make it difficult to apply for refugee status,” she said, referring specifically to Roma and Mexican migrants. Kenney stressed that the Conservatives have played a constructive role, historically and recently, in immigration policy. He referred to John Diefenbaker, Conservative prime minister from 1957 to 1963, who eliminated racial considerations in immigration decisions. Of his own time in office, Kenney said of the refugee claims process that, “any changes I make will likely add procedural fairness to the asylum system…including a system with a lot of appeals.” Last Tuesday, according to the Toronto Star, the Parliamentary citizenship and immigration committee voted to establish an appeal division to hear the cases of rejected refugee claimants, though the five Conservative representatives on the committee voted against the motion. cGill student Jackie Jones will be heard at the Quebec Superior Court on November 25, after she filed a racial profiling complaint to the Quebec Human Rights Commission (QHRC) in early July, with the help of the Centre for Research-Action on Race Relations (CRARR). Jones, a black woman, was accosted and arrested by five security guards at the Peel metro station in late March of this year. At the time of arrest, Jones was standing at the top of the stairs of the downtown station with a Hispanic male friend. They were asked by two Société de transport de Montréal (STM) security guards to step aside in French. One of the guards became angry when Jones requested they repeat their request in English. “They said ‘move now!’ and it was a bit aggressive. I listened and was going to move on, but I told them that there is no need for the aggression. At this point they asked for my ID and were going to give me a ticket,” Jones said. “When I started to question them about why I was receiving a ticket, one of the guards grabbed my arm and twisted it to my back. They called for three more male security guards, who slammed me onto the ground and handcuffed me,” she added. After a brief discussion with the police who later arrived, and the discovery that Jones was a McGill student, she was released. But Jones felt that she was a victim of racial profiling and asked for help from the CRARR. According to Adrienne Gibson, a civil rights advocate at CRARR – a Montreal-based non-profit public interest organization – this is not an individual incident, but is among many other cases that are related to racial profiling. “We have a number of cases where the police [or metro security guards] target members of the black community, particularly young men and women, but not exclusively. These kinds of incidences happen and it is a systemic problem. It is a larger problem and has serious consequences for communities,” Gibson said. In August, Jones received court papers citing two criminal charges for obstructing the work of civil servants in relation to the incident and was fined $100. Jones advised students who have faced similar situations to share their experiences so that the systemic problem can be resolved. “If there’s anybody who has ever been assaulted in this type of way without any reasoning, if they can share their stories with CRARR, then we can try to attack this situation from a citizen standpoint…and try to see what the source of the problem is,” Jones said. Gibson felt that a solution would not be possible unless other victims also come forward. “We think that the only way to stop this is to get people to come forward and to talk about what’s happening so that we can start coming up with some solutions,” Gibson said. Just a heads up, The Daily will be taking next Thursday off, so the first special issue of the year, Migrants, will be published on November 2. Still interested in getting involved? Contact coordinating@mcgilldaily.com, or stop by our office, Shatner B-24. See you in November! 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Entretien avec un travailleur de nuit. Volérie Vézina es e Aoy oo et s g s0R e à rous e ms S L es e sA el e rrs é en D s cu e cux de it Robor Bédad e ce ue es oo e e NM Le Délit (LD} Décrivez-nous votre levez-vous? mangez-vous? etc.) Robert Bédard (RB)Je dors habituellement entre 13 h et 19 h. Je me lève environ trois eures avane d'lle travallrJe prends alors horaire quotidien. (À quelle heure vous Sécurité un café. Je prends des fois un morceau de fromage, parfois rien. Ensuite, je remange vers 2 h 15 du matin. Quand je reviens du {ravailje ne dors pas tout de suite, je mange avant. LD:Est-ce que vous avez choisi de travailler de nuit? RB: Oui et non. J'ai travillé pendant un certain temps de jour et puis, j'ai été transféré au quart de muit.J'espère me pas travailler de nuit toute ma vie. Quels sont les avantages inconvénients du travail de nuit? RB: Les avantages, c'est le transport. 1l 'y à personne sur la route. Les inconvénients, Clest que ce n'est pas une vie normale de travailler la nuit et de dormir le jour. J'ai entendu un jour un médecin, un spéciaiste, dire que lêtre humain était fait pour dormir I nuit, dans le nocturne et vivre le jour,à ln clarté. LD: Est-ce que votre travail a beaucoup affecté votre vie de couple, de RB: Je travaille de muit depuis 17 ans, mais j'ai travailé de jour pendant un temps et quand je suis retourné sur le quart de nuit, cela a été pas mal diffcile pour ma femme. (D'ailleurs orsquon en discute avec sa fille elle nous dit que dans son enfance, il y à eu peu d'activités familiales où cous étaient présents. Pour ce faire, tout doit être prévu d'avance en fonction de l'horaire de nuit. N n'en demeure pas moins qu’elle a d'excellents souvenirs de sorties avec son père:baseball, La Ronde, etc) LD: Est-ce que vous avez l’impression que vous manquez Paction ou, au contraire, que votre travail vous permet de connaître une autre facette des choses? RB: La nuit, cu sai les nouvelles avant tout nogturne à M cGill le monde! Tout ce qui se pase dans le monde,tu es l'un des premiers à le savoir! LD: Vos réves sontils différents de quelqu’un qui dort la nuit? RB:Je ne crois past LD: Racontez une anecdote nocturne qui vous est arrivée. RB: Et bien, une fois, alors que j'étais seul dans le magasin, quelqu'un a brisé une fenêtre pour venir voler des cigarettes Je ne sais pas comment il a pu faire pour penser que le magasin était vide. I y avait des autos dans le stationnement et les lumières étaient allumées à la grandeur du magasin… Difficile de savoir si vraiment tous les chats sont gris la nuit, mais la prochaine fois que vous irez à l’épicerie, par contre, ayez donc une petite pensée pour tous ces gens qui travaillent de nuit afin qu'au grand jour, le monde vous semble en ordre. © ITINÉRAIRE DE NUIT La carte ci-dassous indique un itinéraire estC e ‘après la tombée du jour. Thoisis parce quils sont moins isolés, plus ‘ouvertsof mieux éclairés que les œutres. f i fortement consoilé d'uiiser ces trajets \sêure 61 e me sont paslos plus divade Une panoplie de ressources à votre disponibilité. Charles Séguin i que e maie de Monrés D. over e it e cu F pour ue 1 potction de o conctoyen sl qc l n 0t ut e incidentimpliquan un éadon d Tanivenié MeGil, ls jourmaux êtcm ontsonnlaarme c dn que ts criminalité était en hausse dans les environs du campus. Plurôt que de mettre à jour les décidé de vous laisser juger de l'intensité du 1ger qui plane sur le campus et de vous mhèse des alternatives, au niveau sécurité. qui s'ofrent à vous. Tout étudiant peut d'abord profiter des servicesofferts par l'AÉUM. Parmi ceux-ci MeGil Walkafe vient sans doute en tête de liste t par 'entremise de patrouilles qui sillonnent le campus et ses environs de 20 h à mimait du dimanche au mercredi et de 20 h à 2 h du jeudi au samedi. Les patrouills, composées d'étudiant, sont reconnaisables 3 leur manteau rouge arborant le logo Walksafe au dos, Elles sont également munies de radios qui leur servent de lien avec le coordonnateur qui reçoit les appels d'assistance. Lorganisme fait son travail avec sérieux et les patrouilles sont donc bien préparéesà faire face à une panoplie de situation. Par exemple, toutes les patrouilles incluent une flle (pour faire face aux problèmes que seul ce sexe peut comprendre, explique e site web) e tous les patrouilleurs reçoivent également une formation pour faire face aux cas dagresions sexuelles et pour répondre aux sensibiltés homosexuels, i vous croyez plutôt que le danger peut venir de votre propre personne, ou de celle de votre ami qui à trop bu pour conduire, ‘ilisez les services de MeGill Drivesafe. Cet organisme offfe gratuitement un service d'accompagnement jusqu'à votre domicile ou une station de métro. Il vous suffit de vous rendre au départ de navettes devant le centre étudiant Shatner pour en profiter. Si vous étiez venu en voiture, McGill Drivesafe vous offre de stationner votre véhicule gratuitement sur le campus. Si vous avez le malheurde fire face à des dangers plus important, la sécurité de l’université et le Service de police de laVille de Montréal (SPVM) sont sans doute des alternatives à considérer, Pour ce qui es de lasécurité de l’université, elle présente une dichotomie intéressante. Alors que les cols blancs sont des employés de Tuniversi, les gardes comme tels sont des employés d'une entreprise privée,en Toccurrence Garda. Cette situation ne semble pas avoir un impact négatf surla sécurité megilloise qui adopte une approche proactive face à la sécurité. Par exemple, elle propose aux étudiants une carte des routes es plus sûres la it dans les environs du campus. Cette dernière comporte également plusieurs autres renseignements, comme l’emplacement des téléphones d’urgence et des postes o des gardes de sécurité sont présents en tout temps. Un poste de quartier du SPVM, le maméro 19, se sîtue dans le ghetto de MeGill, sur la rue Prince-Arthar. L'asistance policière est donc à porté de main sur le campus, d'autant plus que les téléphones d'urgence de l'université vous permettentde composerle 9-1-1 (en autant que vous çomposiez préalablementle 9 pour faire un appel 3 l'extérieur,ce qui donne ke 9-9-1-1). Si vous n’êtes pas certain que la présence de la police soit requise, appelez la sécurité de McGill, qui se chargera, le cas échéant, de contacter le SPVM. Que le campus soit plus risqué la nuit depuis un certain temps 0u que ce soitsimplement une impression, une panoplie de ressources sont disponibles pour assurer la sécurité des étudiants. N'hésitez pas à les vélier. © � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coverage from Le Délit Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Volume 93 Page Number(s) 5 Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2003-02-12 Title A name given to the resource Sécurité Nocturne à McGill Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Charles Séguin Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Le Délit Description An account of the resource An explanation of all the resources available to ensure safety around McGill's campus. DriveSafe l'AÉUM police Walksafe