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Who was Guacho?

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A Colombian guerrilla leader has been found and killed, the country's president says.

Walter Arízala, known better under his alias Guacho, was wanted for the murder of two Ecuadorean journalists and their driver earlier this year.

On Friday, Colombian President Ivan Duque said he was killed in an operation near the Ecuadorean border.

In a statement Mr Duque described him as "one of the most horrendous criminals the country has known".

"The message is clear, we won't take a step back in the defence of legality, life, honour and the property of Colombians," Mr Duque said.

On top of killings, Guacho was also suspected of drug trafficking and extortion.

The 29-year-old was a former member of Colombia's Farc rebel group. He is one of thousands who have refused orders to lay down arms after the guerrilla group signed a peace deal with the Colombian government in 2016.

Guacho broke away from the Farc and founded the Oliver Sinisterra Front - a dissident gang thought to have about 70 to 80 combatants operating around the Colombia-Ecuador border area.
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The group came to international attention earlier this year after kidnapping two Ecuadorean journalists - 32-year-old reporter Javier Ortega and 45-year-old photographer Paúl Rivas - along with their 60-year-old driver Efraín Segarra.

Two weeks after seizing the three, the group announced they had "died" when the army came close to where they were being held.

Shortly after their bodies were recovered, the group were also blamed for the murder of an Ecuadorean couple.

Oscar Villacís, 24, and Katty Velasco, 20, went missing from Puerto Rico, a rural area near the Colombian town of Tumaco, on the border with Ecuador.

A video of them, restrained with ropes around their necks, was released by the Guacho's group days after their disappearance.

The couple were later found dead with stab wound injuries, and their bodies were flown home to distraught relatives.

The murders led Guacho to become a top target of both countries' governments.

Colombia deployed more than 3,000 members of its armed forces to search for the group's leader "dead or alive", Reuters reports.

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A Colombian guerrilla leader has been found and killed, the country's president says. Walter Arízala, known better under his alias Guacho, was wanted for the murder of two Ecuadorean journalists and their driver earlier this year. On Friday, Colombian President Ivan Duque said he was killed in an operation near the Ecuadorean border.

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Guerrilla Continues to Kill Ecuadorians

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Forensic tests on two bodies found in the Colombian jungle show that they are those of Oscar Villains and Katty Velasco, an Ecuadorean couple kidnapped on 17 April.

The tests also suggest they were stabbed to death two months ago.

They had been kidnapped by dissident members of the now dissolved Colombian rebel group Farc.

The dissident gang is led by a man known as Guacho, who refused to follow the Farc's orders to lay down arms.

He broke away from the Farc and founded the Oliver Sinisterra Front, which is thought to have about 70 to 80 combatants.

Watch and read more:

Who are the Farc?

50 years of conflict

Rare look inside a Farc rebel camp

The Farc fighter rapping for peace in Colombia

His gang has been active in the Ecuador-Colombia border area for the past two years.

Mr Villacís, 24, and Ms Velasco, 20, went missing from Puerto Rico, a rural area near the Colombian town of Tumaco, on the border with Ecuador.

Four days after their disappearance, the gang released a video of the two with ropes around their necks and their hands tied. They asked Ecuadorean President Lenín Moreno to give the kidnappers whatever they were asking for so that the two of them would be released.

The video, which was shown at a news conference by the Ecuadorean defence minister, shocked Ecuadoreans already enraged by the kidnapping and killing of two journalists and their driver by the same gang the previous month.

In the aftermath of the two kidnappings, Colombian and Ecuadorean forces launched a joint operation to capture Guacho but have so far failed to locate him in the thick jungle border area which is his stronghold.

The remains of the journalists and their driver were found last month. It took days to retrieve them because they had been booby trapped.

The bodies of Ms Velasco and Mr Villacís were found near Tumaco earlier this week.

Ms Velasco's sister travelled to the town, where the head of the forensic team, Carlos Valdés, confirmed her worst fears.

Mr Valdés said the couple had died "due to blood loss caused by sharp objects".

The Ecuadorean government said it would not rest until those responsible had been brought to justice.

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Kidnapped couple 'killed two months ago'

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Forensic tests on two bodies found in the Colombian jungle show that they are those of Oscar Villains and Katty Velasco, an Ecuadorean couple kidnapped on 17 April. The tests also suggest they were stabbed to death two months ago. They had been kidnapped by dissident members of the now dissolved Colombian rebel group Farc.

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Journalists were killed in Ecuador

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Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno on Friday confirmed that three press workers kidnapped along the conflictive border with Colombia had been killed, opening the door to a military strike against their captors.

Moreno spoke after a 12-hour deadline ended with the captors failing to demonstrate the hostages were still alive.

"Despite our best efforts, we've confirmed that these criminals never had the intention of handing them back safe and sound," Moreno said.

He said elite troops would soon be deployed to the northern border area where the employees of El Comercio newspaper were last seen nearly three weeks ago while investigating a rise in drug-fuelled violence.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos dispatched his top military advisers to Quito to assist in the military planning.

Reward offered

Moreno also offered a $100,000 US reward for information leading to the capture of Walter Arizala, better known by his alias Guacho, the leader of a holdout group of guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) that claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.

FARC largely demobilized last year under a peace deal with the government. The dissidents rejected the accord and have continued to raise funds, as FARC was known to do, through direct and indirect involvement in drug trade, kidnappings and other illegal activities.

Fears that the kidnapping had ended in tragedy emerged Thursday when a Colombian TV network said it had received gruesome photos purporting to show the bodies of the three men.

However forensic experts in both countries were unable to confirm the authenticity of the images, exasperating press groups and family members who say the government had been taking the incident too lightly.

Moreno on Thursday night rushed back from a regional summit in Peru to deal with a crisis that has shaken Ecuadoreans' long held self-identity as a tiny, peaceful nation insulated from the drug-fuelled violence raging across its border.

In a late-night press conference, he said there was an "enormous possibility" the deaths were real and on Friday said authorities had obtained new, unspecified information that confirmed the three men had been killed.

Candlelight vigils

As Moreno spoke, dozens of colleagues and friends of reporter Javier Ortega, photographer Paul Rivas and their driver Efrain Segarra gathered in mourning in a plaza outside the presidential palace under the slogan "Three Are Missing," the same one that has featured in candlelight vigils held almost every night since their disappearance.

Both the Ecuadorian and Colombian governments have tried to limit the fallout from the kidnapping, with officials in both countries denying the men were being held inside their territory and even squabbling over Guacho's supposed nationality.

Earlier this week, authorities dismissed as fake a statement signed by the captors claiming the journalists were killed during a military raid co-ordinated by the two governments.

"We condemn the actions of the Colombian and Ecuadorean governments and their lack of seriousness in protecting the reporters' lives," Colombia's Foundation for Press Freedom said in a statement Thursday.

Moreno's promise of a "devastating" military response was seen by many as a tacit acknowledgement that both governments had been too restrained.

"When there is co-operation between the two countries the criminal will always fall," Santos said from the Summit of the Americas in Peru, promising to work closely with Moreno on a military campaign.

In a proof-of-life video released earlier this month, the three men identified their captors as members of the Oliver Sinisterra Front, a group of a few dozen combatants that authorities say is led by Guacho, a former FARC rebel. The group is believed responsible for recent deadly attacks in northern Ecuador against military targets.

Moreno announced last month that he was sending 12,000 soldiers and police to combat drug gangs and boost security along the border. That represents about 10 per cent of the small nation's police officers and troops.

Ecuador is a major transit zone for Colombian-produced cocaine, with small boats carrying the drugs from the South American nation's Pacific shore to Central America and on to the United States.

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Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno on Friday confirmed that three press workers kidnapped along the conflictive border with Colombia had been killed, opening the door to a military strike against their captors. Moreno spoke after a 12-hour deadline ended with the captors failing to demonstrate the hostages were still alive.

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Tanya Tagaq is used to surprising people. When the Nunavut-born throat singer steps onstage, she often smiles and waves demurely-and then produces extraordinary growls, hums and whoops that seem to come from deeper within the human body than anyone else can reach. There was no way, then, that her book-writing debut would yield anything vaguely commonplace.

Split Tooth weaves together poetry, prose and illustrations by Love and Rockets comics artist Jaime Hernandez, and incorporates what Tagaq calls "non-fiction, embellished non-fiction and pure fiction." It started as scraps of journal entries dating back 20 years, many written while she was touring her music around the world, as Tagaq-who has won both a Juno Award and a Polaris Prize-reflected on her life and the places she grew up. Her writing packs together lyricism, off-the-wall humour and powerful, startling imagery. There are devastating episodes that draw on her own experience in residential school in Yellowknife, and also scenes depicting galvanizing empowerment, as well as supernatural sections drawing on Inuit stories. The audiobook, too, is an unexpected hybrid: Tagaq reads it herself in mellifluous tones, improvising snippets of throat-singing between the segments-she compares them to "little bits of ginger in between the sushi bites." In the coming months, her record label, Six Shooter, plans a vinyl edition of Tagaq reading the book's poems-its cover set to be a Hernandez image that was considered too risqué for the book itself.

When Split Tooth came out, it was Tagaq's turn to be surprised: she says she was "blown away" by its appearance on both Canadian fiction bestseller lists and the Giller Prize longlist. Tagaq, who is now based in Toronto, spoke with Maclean's about communicating with and without words, and how it's her "job" to make change.

Q: Given that much of this book was written on your travels, does being somewhere new alter the way you think about the place where you grew up?

A: It depends on my state of mind. At moments, I'm glorifying the North because I can't stand breathing in car exhaust or seeing another human being. But sometimes, I'll see things here in the South or in other countries where I feel the system is run in a better way, and then I'll look negatively upon my home.

Q: The book is far from being a straight-up memoir.

A: I wanted to be able to address the daily issues I have with what happens in Nunavut, pertaining to colonial structure and its historical ramifications, in a way that harnessed an artistry, so that it wasn't a straight shout-out to criticize. I find that it's a lot easier to get people on your wavelength if they're interested in learning, and quite often, people that are interested in art are interested in opening their minds.

Q: You have dedicated your book to missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls-whom you have referenced in your performances as well-and survivors of residential schools.

A: I'm always doing work for a reason: this desperate attempt to alleviate some of the suffering that comes from living under such horrific statistics as an Indigenous person in Canada. It's a personal thing because I feel the pain from the daily news from home, and from around the country. It's a way of processing that, but it's [on] a much more enlarged scale when I think about how art affects the consciousness of society. It feels important on a general level as well. If there's any way to make change or make anyone safer, then I'm doing my job.

Q: The book is very much concerned with power, on many levels. At times the narrator feels she's becoming empowered-for instance when she's pregnant-and then she might feel powerless again.

A: Isn't it typically cyclical for everyone? Grappling with this idea that you've got your shit together and then perpetually having your shit fall apart, and then trying to get it back together? Your shoulders broaden with experience, and you can handle more and more. I'm often giggling about it because I'm a mother, and I'll remember one of my kids' ice cream fell out of her cone onto the ground, and she was crying, and I was thinking, "Yeah, that's how I felt when we were 17 when my boyfriend and I broke up. Those are the same tears." Quite often, adults will mock children for having emotional reactions to almost frivolous experiences, but [such reactions] seem to continue as people age. Parents are always trying to control their children in ways that will never work out-they don't have the same experiences that we have. As people get older, they become jaded. I have a beautiful 15-year-old who's coming into her glorious power right now, and I know better than try to tell her how dark and terrible the Earth is and government systems are, because she's just learning to not be a small child. How could I possibly expect her to understand the breadth of how shitty Donald Trump is [laughs]? Why would I do that to her?

Q: There are also many references to inhaling and exhaling-both of which generate sound when you're throat-singing-and to consuming and evacuating.

A: Well, let's just look at life's lowest common denominator, which is breath and consuming and rejecting waste. This is how I tend to think as a person on a lot of levels: I'll look at things in a very small sense and then I'll blow them up to a very big sense. When it comes to art, I've found if you boil things down to greatest common denominators, then everyone will be able to understand. That's why with music, it was easy for me to remove language, because people are responding to sound, which can carry intent. That's why interspecies relationships work. Your dog doesn't understand English; we don't understand the crows... People can understand body language and sound, so by the removal of language, I found it a lot easier to find common ground with people, and then afterwards, when you have people's interest, you can start bringing up things like MMIW or Indigenous rights or whatever it is you're standing by when it comes to art. I'm used to dealing with a sonic or almost subliminal way of communicating. [Writing] a book it was difficult for me, because suddenly, it's the exact opposite. I felt very vulnerable when this book was released, but I'm feeling a little better about it now.

Q: Did it help that Split Tooth was longlisted for the Giller?

A: What that achieved was I stopped thinking it was just a pile of drivel that came out of my diary. I went, "Oh, I guess it's kind of OK [laughs]."

Q: Speaking of consumption, some reviewers have written that when you perform, it's as if you're being possessed by spirits-rather than, say, that you're acting. How do you feel about that? I note that early in Split Tooth, the narrator sees a spirit that she has to push away from entering her body through her eyes.

A: All these years performing and knowing what it feels like and what I'm thinking, and having that outside gaze-most often, the colonial gaze-observing and processing my work, I sometimes would scoff at the way people will very readily believe what general society has spoon-fed them. In almost the same breath, they'd reduce something from the "other culture" to something exotic. It's seen as folklore, and ridiculous. I'm often laughing when people talk to me about shamanism, and sometimes I'll flip it over: "Well, was Jesus a shaman? So you're telling me that there's a dude in the sky who has magic, invisible sperm that knocked up this woman without touching her, and she had a baby, and he died for three days and came back to life?" Everything surrounding Christianity seems completely mythological to me. So when people want to call my art possession or exorcism, or they want to call Inuit belief systems folklore or tokenize them, well, I'm not going to attempt to control that narrative. When it comes to the book, I was giggling. I'm always kind of making fun of myself. When I did the cover [of the Pixies song] " Caribou," I found it so hilarious that there were these people who have probably never killed a caribou singing about it, and the "Run to the Hills" cover [of Iron Maiden's song, released in May with F-ed Up vocalist Damian Abraham]-it's an English band writing about the colonial process, and I'm half-English and half-Inuit, so I'm half-colonizer and half-colonized, covering this English song. It's hilarious [ laughs]! People don't understand that I'm often poking fun at myself, and with the book, I guess kind of the same thing happened, where even though there's a baseline of things that have naturally occurred, it was really a huge enjoyment for me to make things up completely. I was anticipating there being questions about what really happened and what didn't, and I am never going to give a straight answer [ laughs].

Q: At one point in the book-which I won't specify for fear of revealing spoilers-it seems you were having some fun with the idea of "magical sperm"...

A: All I will say is there has never been any Arctic char in my vagina [laughs]."

Q: When Jeremy Dutcher won the Polaris Prize this year for his album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, he said, "Canada, you are in the midst of an Indigenous renaissance." Do you feel that way too?

A: On certain levels. I hate the word "reconciliation" so much. The government has given so much lip service to the idea [of] apologies and feigned respect, and until I see some statistics changing, there is no reconciliation. I feel like we've got our feet in some concrete when it comes to how Indigenous people are treated, and it's been like that for the last couple hundred years. Maybe I'm jaded, and maybe I'm sick of watching people die unnecessarily, and maybe there's time to do more about it than what's been done before. When it comes to the idea of there being a renaissance culturally, in a mainstream sense of having more voice and taking up more space, absolutely, yes. I think that a lot of people are starting to understand that the version of Canadian history that's been provided to them by the group that took over isn't necessarily the truth, and people are opening their eyes to the very basic human rights issues that are being neglected purposefully by the government. A lot of really great people in Canada are opening their minds to helping Indigenous people be treated as equals by the government. What Jeremy might have been talking about-I can't speak for him-is that it's falling out of favour to be a racist asshole. When something falls out of favour, that's when people start making change happen. But the thought of leaving it to the government-that's not going to happen. Everyone needs to take it upon themselves to become re-educated, and then everyone needs to make sure they educate their friends, and then we need to spread it like wildfire.
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The surprising sounds and sides of Tanya Tagaq - Macleans.ca

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Tanya Tagaq is used to surprising people. When the Nunavut-born throat singer steps onstage, she often smiles and waves demurely-and then produces extraordinary growls, hums and whoops that seem to come from deeper within the human body than anyone else can reach. There was no way, then, that her book-writing debut would yield anything vaguely commonplace.

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Students living at home spend $9,300 per year on average. For those who move away, it's closer to $20,000. We asked 23,384 students how they pay for school and where they spend their money. Here's what they told us.

MORE: Create a university ranking based on what's most important to you
1. The total average cost of a post-secondary education 2. Where does the money come from to pay for school?
First, the good news: only half of students are in debt. Now the bad: parents are picking up the slack-and not in a very efficient way. Nearly two-thirds of students say they don't have an RESP.
3. The cost of books by program
Course materials account for a fraction of the total cost of university, but they still add up. Here's how the least and most expensive programs compare on the cost of books.
4. Debt by year of study
The average level of debt by each year of study, based on responses from more than 11,000 indebted students.
5. Spending on food on campus in a typical week 6. How much do you spend on groceries in a typical week? This is an update of a story originally published on October 19, 2017. MORE ABOUT STUDENT FINANCE:

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#Foodcanfixit: an international team of scientists has made a bold promise of health and sustainability ... in a hashtag. A dramatic global change in diet and food production has the power to prevent roughly 11 million deaths each year and avoid climate change, the Eat-Lancet Commission says in a report published Wednesday in the medical journal .

The commission developed the new "planetary health diet" with the goal of feeding 10 billion people, healthfully and without damaging the planet, by 2050. In order to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris agreement, the authors say, the world must drastically change the way it eats. For North Americans, this means eating 84 per cent less red meat and six times more legumes (e.g. beans and lentils), according to The Guardian. Worldwide, the guidelines require sugar consumption to be slashed by half.

"Transformation to healthy diets by 2050 will require substantial dietary shifts. Global consumption of fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes will have to double, and consumption of foods such as red meat and sugar will have to be reduced by more than 50 per cent," said Walter Willett, professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and co-chair of the commission. "A diet rich in plant-based foods and with fewer animal source foods confers both improved health and environmental benefits."

The proposed flexitarian diet - rich in vegetables and fruits, and light on animal source foods - could have profound affects on both the health of humans and the planet, according to the report, which was organized by Stockholm-based non-profit EAT. Protein sources are primarily pulses and nuts, and refined grains, highly processed foods and added sugars limited.

Dietary guidelines include filling half of each plate with vegetables and fruits, and the other half with mostly whole grains, plant protein, unsaturated plant oils and "(optionally) modest amounts of animal sources of protein (fish, meat and dairy products)." The diet allows for 2,500 calories per day, with variation, and puts limitations on animal based foods such as hamburgers (one per week), fish (two servings per week) and eggs (fewer than four per week).

While the recommended planetary health diet is substantially different from how Canadians eat, it aligns with both the 2007 Canada Food Guide and the proposed revisions, says Jess Haines, associate professor in the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph.

"Our 2007 food guide recommends having beans, lentils and tofu often, as well as eating dark green and orange vegetables. So, although the reference (recommended) diet in the EAT-Lancet report represents a large shift from current dietary intake, it does align with Canada's dietary recommendations in many ways," says Haines.

"To meet the recommendations for a healthy diet by 2050, we will need to ensure our food environment supports Canadians to increase their intake of vegetables, fruits, and plant-based proteins, such as legumes, as well as to reduce their intake of highly processed foods and animal-based proteins."

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Scientists say a plant-forward diet could save millions of lives and avoid climate change

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Foodcanfixit: an international team of scientists has made a bold promise of health and sustainability ... in a hashtag. A dramatic global change in diet and food production has the power to prevent roughly 11 million deaths each year and avoid climate change, the Eat-Lancet Commission says in a report published Wednesday in the medical journal .

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In 2014, an interview in a lifestyle magazine made me rethink my identity.

The interview was with Orange is the New Black actress Uzo Aduba, who was asked whether she ever considered changing her name. Aduba, whose full first name is Uzoamaka, recalled a story from her youth in which she asked her mother to change her name to "Zoe."

Aduba argued no one at school could pronounce her name. Her mother replied, "If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka."

I stopped reading. I whispered the quote under my breath, noticing how easily the names - more complex than my five-lettered own - slipped off my tongue.

I am not a revered Russian composer, an exalted Italian artist or a writer with a world-famous oeuvre. But for the first time, I realized that perhaps my name deserved to be said correctly, too.

My name is Raisa (rye-EE-sah), but it's mispronounced every day. Sometimes multiple times a day. Sometimes by people I'll only meet once. But more frequently by people I'll have to engage with personally or professionally for an extended period of time.
Listen here for the correct pronunciation of Raisa's name:
Sometimes, people sidestep the problem by avoiding saying my name altogether. I've been referred to as "her" in front of a group of coworkers. I use my Western middle name at coffee shops to expedite the ordering process. And more than once, people have asked if they can just call me by a made-up name of their choosing.

A name, however, can carry great cultural and personal significance. Names should be said and treated with respect.

My name, Raisa, is linguistically rooted in Russian and Arabic, but it is spelled and pronounced differently across the world. This was a conscious decision for my mother, who wanted something global, something people could relate to anywhere. I've met people from a surprising variety of countries who recognize it, including those from my father's native South Africa.

My name also comes from my grandmothers: both of mine drew up a list of names before I was born. Raisa was the only name to appear on both lists. While my grandmothers (thankfully) say it correctly, the rest of my family often lapses into casual mispronunciations.

Names aren't simple, and mispronouncing them can have serious repercussions.

Sometimes this rubs off on my parents, and I find myself in the bizarre position of reminding them how to say the name they so thoughtfully selected.

It may seem trivial to complain about the way your name is pronounced, which is why I don't correct every offender. When you're a woman of colour who has learned to be grateful for her place in the world, the last thing you want to do is to challenge a person of authority about something as simple as a name.

But names aren't simple, and mispronouncing them can have serious repercussions.

Over the years, academic journals have published research on the impact name mispronunciations can have in schools, hospitals and in the workplace. In schools, researchers found this kind of "microaggression" led to students developing anxiety and resentment toward their names, feeling disconnected from their culture and even generating internalized racism. Participants reported keeping quiet in class or feeling forced to go by their middle names - two things I've experienced myself.

As a child, I never dared to correct my teachers and went by names unrecognizable from my own, sometimes for years.

Now an adult, I'm more sympathetic. I've heard information that flits in and out of my head at an alarming speed. I certainly can't pronounce every name I see written on a piece of paper. But I make it a point to pay attention, ask questions and try.

Six weeks after my birth, my mother says she heard a stranger at a doctor's office call my name for the first time. It made goosebumps appear on her skin. She said it marked the moment I was given an identity.

A city like Ottawa is home to those who changed their names to Western ones when they arrived here, to those whose immigrant parents deliberately gave them names plucked from English novels and to those who bear monikers that grew somewhere far and foreign.

These identities, all of them, deserve to be heard.
Raisa Patel is a student in the Master of Journalism program at Carleton University, and orders coffee under the name Sabrina - her middle name.

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In 2014, an interview in a lifestyle magazine made me rethink my identity. The interview was with Orange is the New Black actress Uzo Aduba, who was asked whether she ever considered changing her name. Aduba, whose full first name is Uzoamaka, recalled a story from her youth in which she asked her mother to change her name to "Zoe."

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Canucks are a different breed when it comes to slang, eh.

From our loonies to our double-doubles, we really tend to confuse English speakers globally. And for good reason. It's not everyday someone asks you where you can get a jam buster and a two-four, with a response like "head out for a rip and hang a larry then a roger."

And to help English speakers travelling to Canada, travel website Expedia has created a couple of guides to Canadian slang.

"It's not easy meeting people when you're travelling," says Expedia. "The locals have their own words to describe everyday things. If only there was some way you could crack their code."

Everyone knows a two-four wins any Canuck's heart.

And if you're still struggling to understand, here's how a conversation in Canadian slang goes.

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Canucks are a different breed when it comes to slang, eh. From our loonies to our double-doubles, we really tend to confuse English speakers globally. And for good reason. It's not everyday someone asks you where you can get a jam buster and a two-four, with a response like "head out for a rip and hang a larry then a roger."

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A Saudi teen who arrived in Canada Saturday after fleeing her family says she needed to risk her life in order to live freely and be independent, and is very happy to be in Canada.

"I felt that I was reborn, especially when I felt the love and the welcome."

Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, told the CBC's Susan Ormiston in an interview on Monday that she never thought there was even a one per cent chance that she would be able to come to Canada, or that people would be talking about her story around the world.

Mohammed - she has dropped "al-Qunun" from her name because her family has disowned her - claims she was physically and mentally abused by her family since she was 16 years old, and that she thought about escaping for years.

"I was exposed to physical violence, persecution, oppression, threats to be killed. I was locked in for six months," she said, in Arabic, describing what happened after she cut her hair.

"I felt that I could not achieve my dreams that I wanted as long as I was still living in Saudi Arabia."

When she turned 18 she felt able to try to escape, she said, because she would be treated as an adult around the world, and that she would be able to make her own decisions.

She knew a family vacation to Kuwait in early January was her chance. "From a while ago I was trying to convince my parents to go to Kuwait because as long as I'm in Saudi Arabia, I cannot leave. But once I'm in another country I can travel and it's allowed," she said.

My greatest fear was if they [my family] find me, I would disappear. - Rahaf Mohammed

Mohammed said she waited until her family went to sleep early one night, the very last day of their trip, and then bought her ticket to Thailand and left the hotel room at 7 a.m.

But she was stopped at the airport in Bangkok. Mohammed was denied entry and had her passport seized. With the threat of being sent back to her family, she barricaded herself in a hotel room and used Twitter to plea for help.
Watch Rahaf Mohammed tell Susan Ormiston about her plans now that she's in Canada:
"My greatest fear," she said, "was if they [my family] find me, I would disappear and I wouldn't know what would happen to me after that." She even wrote a letter to her friends, because she says she was prepared to end her life in the hotel room before she would let herself be taken.

"I wrote it and I sent it to my female friends, should I disappear they would publish it to the whole world."

Her tweets and her case drew international attention, and Thai officials eventually agreed to let her stay in Bangkok under the protection of United Nations officials.

Mohammed said when the UN officials showed up at her hotel, she didn't believe at first that it was true, that her pleas had been heard. She feared the Thai and Kuwaiti authorities "would lie and pose as the UN, so I wanted some sort of proof that they are actually the UN.

"So they showed me the proof. After that, I opened the door and I welcomed them," she said, smiling at the memory.

Still, as happy as she is to be free, to be in Canada (despite the cold, she said), Mohammed is clearly upset that it has meant losing her family. She said she received a message from them, telling her she was disobedient and now disowned. She started to cry during the interview, saying she didn't expect that. She said she is very sad, so sad that she can't even talk about it.

Saudi Arabia ranks among the worst countries for women's rights and equality. The World Economic Forum ranked it 141 out of 149 in its 2018 report on gender equality. Mohammed said she endured daily oppression and violence from her mother and brother. Her father, she said, did not live with the family, but still exerted control over her in terms of what she could study and where she could work.

She has been accused of not telling the truth - that things aren't as bad in Saudi Arabia as she says. She rejects that.

"These people, maybe their families are more understanding and they don't know the real life. But there are a lot of women imprisoned and there are a lot of stories that they can read to know the situation of women." She calls herself an example of how bad it can be.

"Why would I escape from this life if the conditions were good?"

Now that she is in Canada, Mohammed feels safer. Not 100 per cent, she said, because everyone knows her now and knows where she is. Still, she is looking forward to continuing her education, exploring, learning English and living a normal life.

She also wants to continue to be a voice for the women still in Saudi Arabia, but she also hopes that they will fight for changes themselves. She said she knows many women who have fled Saudi Arabia, but added she wouldn't encourage women to do it, as they would be putting their lives at risk. She wants them to fight.

But if nothing changes, she added, "escape."
In her own words, Saudi teen Rahaf Mohammed talks to Susan Ormiston about fleeing her family and what she plans to do next:

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Photo manipulation can give your magazine a dramatic, creative and provocative visual boost that can generate higher sales. That's why it's tempting to change photographs to maximize their ability to grab eyeballs. Controversy can often result, which can inflict long-term damage if readers feel duped. Decide whether you will allow photo manipulation so you can avoid ethical problems later by following the ethics of magazine photo manipulation:

It would be easy for a magazine editor to forbid photo manipulation. But as soon as the red eye is removed from someone's photo, the image is altered. Readers will accept fixing flaws, such as correcting colors or lighting. After all, that's what most of them do with their personal photographs before they have them printed. Shooting in black and white or changing a color photo to appear black and white is technically manipulating reality. Because no deception is involved, this creative technique will not raise ethical concerns.

If you're an editor reviewing photos from a Hollywood gala, you'll be keen to put an up-and-coming actress on your cover. But in the best photograph that captures her spirit and style, you spot a tiny piece of spinach in her teeth.

Your intention isn't to point out that the rich and famous have the same flaws as the rest of us. So you decide to do your starlet a favor and remove the green speck in her winning smile.

No one will be the wiser unless someone else publishes the true photograph and you're set up as a before-and-after comparison. That's just what happened in 1997 when Newsweek improved the smile of Bobbi McCaughey, who'd made headlines after giving birth to septuplets. Trouble is, rival Time left her teeth as-is. Their dueling covers made it known which magazine was performing digital dentistry as an act of photo manipulation.

That's why you should decide how far you'll go in helping someone look better. Will you erase facial blemishes and blur a man's razor stubble? What about wrinkles? Everyone on your staff should know the limits of cosmetic touch-ups or else you'll have 80-year-old men looking like Ryan Seacrest when someone gets carried away.

Newsweek faced political heat for its cover photo of 2012 Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann that some said made her look too intense, almost crazed. The magazine tried to defend itself by showing other photos of her with similar facial expressions.

The photo went with an article titled, "The Queen of Rage", so showing Bachmann hugging a toddler wouldn't have connected the image to the story. Newsweek did restrain itself from adding smoke or devil horns to make its point.

Magazines are under no obligation to use only pre-approved beauty shots on their covers. Editors should decide if a photo passes a litmus test of fairness by asking if people were captured in a temporary unflattering moment -- like mid-sneeze -- or if this is a true representation of them.

In the 2008 Presidential election, a fresh Barack Obama was up against a time-tested John McCain. Put their photos together on a cover and readers could assume you're making a political statement if one looks better than the other.

That's why side-by-side photos, especially in a political context, must be chosen carefully. In the case of Obama vs. McCain, the wrong combination could make McCain appear elderly. On the other hand, a different combination -- say of McCain in a suit in front of an American flag next to the thinner Obama outdoors in his shirtsleeves -- might make Obama seem too youthful and inexperienced.

Study the photos to determine their ability to be used next to each other. If one candidate is posed in an official campaign photograph, make sure the other one is in the same setting. Put them both in suits or show them both shaking hands unless you have a compelling editorial reason to show a contrast.

Removing food particles or improving smiles may be performed with the best of intentions, but sometimes photos are enhanced for more questionable motives. Time and Newsweek had another cover shot faceoff when O.J. Simpson was arrested in 1994.

Both magazines used his mug shot on their covers. But the Time photo showed Simpson's skin noticeably darker, which had critics saying that the magazine wanted him to appear more sinister. Some even said racial bias was behind the change.

Skin tone is a touchy issue for media critics. Beyonce Knowles was blasted for appearing in a fashion shoot with lighter skin, while ESPN The Magazine was booed when it demonstrated how NFL quarterback Michael Vick might look as a white man.

Turning skin dark also presents problems, especially when the person is white. That's what happened when a British newspaper gave guest editor Giorgio Armani the freedom to show Kate Moss with black skin to highlight the needs of Africa.

In these cases, the intent wasn't to deceive because the alterations were so obvious. But editors of the magazines would've been wise to include a column explaining their artistic choices to avoid accusations of racial insensitivity.

There are countless ways to get into trouble with readers by making reckless decisions on photo manipulation. Because you can't police your art department's every brush stroke, it's better to set a clearly-defined policy, especially when your magazine allows a guest editor to call the shots for an issue.

Create guidelines for when a photo is meant to reflect reality -- like the aftermath of 9/11 -- or if is supposed to be creative artwork. For example, showing President Obama with eight hands, each juggling an important issue like the military or the economy isn't meant to convey that he literally looks like an octopus.

Name a senior photo editor to approve questionable photos. That supervisor would have the authority to okay wrinkle reduction or tooth whitening. Anything beyond that should get the attention of higher-level executives. There's nothing wrong with publishing a controversial photo, but everyone should be ready for possible backlash and have an explanation for their decision-making.

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