Opinion: Gamers should respect artists’ visions

Art has always been open to interpretation, but what happens when that art is also a consumer product? This is what is happening with the recently released Mass Effect 3 video game, the concluding chapter to a space-opera trilogy by Canadian studio BioWare. A furor has sprung up over the ending of the game, with [...]

Opinion: Legal system needs to punish animal abusers

Our legal system is pathetic. In 2009, two island men, David Whiffin and Clayton Cunningham, starved an old horse named Jalupae nearly to death on Whiffin’s farm in Saanichton. Then the horse was strung up by a rope to an excavator and hung. But a judge has recently found that the hanging was humane and [...]

Open Space: Texting and driving needs stiffer punishment

A lot of drivers have this narcissistic notion that they are the best drivers in the world. It’s as if they believe Jeff Gordon taught them to drive, when, realistically, most drivers behave as if they’ve ingested Charlie Sheen’s tiger blood. Worse yet, some of these same people text behind the wheel, when the vehicle’s [...]

Opinion: Technology killing communication

Technology is turning people into ignorant, narcissistic humans devoid of any original thought. Harsh? No. People are just too occupied with their smart phones to realize it. This generation no longer has the ability to function properly while using technology. We call ourselves multi-taskers, but technology is hindering our ability to do anything productive. No [...]

Open Space: New approach needed for drug awareness

Over the past year there has been considerable media coverage given to the increasing incidence of ecstasy-related deaths in Canada. In BC alone, 16 people died from adverse effects to the party drug in 2011; two more have already died in 2012. At least five of these deaths have been blamed on the drug being [...]

Opinion: Everyday fool’s day

Now that we’re all media-savvy consumers, we expect that on April Fool’s Day we’re going to be confronted by lame attempts to blindside us with some sort of joke or prank. You’d have to be a fool or a five-year-old to fall for any plot revealed on April 1. But it hasn’t always been that [...]

Seniors shouldn’t be above driving laws

Picture this: An elderly woman who has had multiple eye surgeries and can barely see over the dashboard of her car has just had her driver’s license renewed for another five years. Meanwhile, a perfectly adept 17-year-old has to pick up his friends one at a time from a party because he can only have [...]

Open Space: Program limbo unfair to students, staff

If the Applied Communication Program (ACP) and Camosun were married, this year would mark their 40th anniversary. And what better way to celebrate than with a possible divorce? Yes, ACP has done its last intake of students who will finish next April, but that’s not where it ends. Actually, that’s not even where it begins. [...]

Time to stand up for teachers

It was a good day for freedom. The sky above Victoria’s Inner Harbour was the blue of a spring robin’s egg as a breeze, only slightly tinged by winter, played through the crowd of marchers in support of BC’s teachers, who were making their way towards the Legislative lawns. Many groups of concerned people were [...]

Open Space: Camosun too smokin’

Camosun students who use Ewing 100 at the Lansdowne campus for classes and labs should get free gas masks upon registration. It’s the only way to survive the smoke that gets sucked in through the doors and windows. The levels of secondhand smoke around the designated smoking areas have impacted the routes I take to [...]

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