Dawson College’s Queer Space and Ethical Oil; Part Two
Two stories up today, one on OpenFile Montreal and the other on Forget the Box. Check em out.
Dawson’s Queer Space: Shelter from Homopobia in Montreal.
Crowded doesn’t begin to describe it.
Walking into Etcetera’s “safe space” on the second floor of Dawson’s D building is sensory overload. I stand on one leg to avoid crushing fingers as I try to make it to the mismatched sofas across the room, stepping over backpacks, books, and dozens of legs and arms. This is difficult; my eyes are drawn to all four walls at once, awash with rainbow flags and posters of gay and lesbian couples kissing.
Etcetera is Dawson College’s gay-straight alliance. This room may as well be in a different universe from the one where Jamie Hubley lived.
Ethical Oil, Part Two: The Trade.
In part one, I introduced everyone to Alykhan Velshi and Zoe; two ideological zealots engaged in a war of words over the nature of Canadian oil production.
Velshi is the captain of the good ship Ethical Oil and Zoe is, of course, Ezra Levant’s fictitious and quintessential environmentalist.
So, not happy with having such an important debate boiled down to a never-ending back-and-forth of pontificating and self-righteousness, I wanted to know where our oil actually comes from.
Our underlying issue is one of supply and demand: Canadians are demanding oil, and we’re supplying it to the United States.
