Collection of comics lampooning BC Ferries works in strange and wonderful ways

No Sailing Waits By Adrian Raeside No Sailing Waits (Harbour Publishing) is a collection of 30 years of editorial cartoons critiquing BC Ferries; the book is interesting on a few levels. Mainly, it provides a fascinating and quick overview of 30 years of ferry-related blunders and political shenanigans. It’s also hilarious. Sure, Raeside is hilarious [...]

Camosun to take part in addiction research studies

Camosun College recently announced it will be teaming up with LifeRing Canada and the University of Victoria to research self-help support groups in the areas of addiction and substance misuse. The research study will get the experiences of people that attend LifeRing, who offer self-help groups for people affected by addiction and substance misuse. It’s [...]

Short Circuit celebrates Pacific Northwest film

The Cinevic Society of Independent Filmmakers is having its first annual Short Circuit Short Films Festival. Although one of the shorts does include a robot, Short Circuit was not named after the 1986 feature length John Badham film. Actually, the Short Circuit Short Films Festival is the original name of the Victoria Film Festival… kind [...]

Camosun grad goes all out this year

Camosun’s annual grad ceremonies are coming up in June, and with a historic venue and hopping after-party planned, the event is a no-brainer for students ending their studies at the college. More than 2,500 grads, faculty, and guests are expected at the college’s official convocation ceremonies June 19, taking place at the Royal Theatre downtown. [...]

UVic event gives girls of colour safe space to network

Culturally speaking, being colour blind has long been held as the ultimate goal: a world where skin colour no longer matters. Which is nonsense, according to Janet Rogers. Rogers is a workshop facilitator at Embracing Shades of Action (she’s also Victoria Poet Laureate, 2012-2015), an event for girls of colour (including indigenous girls) between the [...]

Camosun launches new comics and graphic novels certificate program

Camosun College recently announced the suspension of the Applied Communication Program (ACP), but media-savvy students have at least one new option for now: a comics and graphic novels certificate program. The college just announced the program, which will have as its leader Ken Steacy, who has on his resume work with Marvel Comics and collaborations [...]

Big Wreck then and now

From Big Wreck to Thornley and back to Big Wreck: Ian Thornley’s musical career has gone full circle. Back in 1994, Thornley met fellow musician Brian Doherty at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts and Big Wreck was formed. Three years later, In Loving Memory Of… was released. The success of this album [...]

Subculture picks up steam

It’s fitting that a fringe subculture based on Victorian-era science-fiction is gaining such a following here in Victoria. With the third annual Victoria Steampunk Expo coming up, fans of the genre are again planning to dress up and geek out for a phenomenon that’s steadily gaining popularity all over the world. For the uninitiated, steampunk [...]

BC minister of jobs announces record-breaking year while touring Camosun

The carpentry program at Camosun’s Interurban campus was the scene of a major announcement in the provincial trades industry on Thursday, April 19. BC minister of jobs, tourism and innovation Pat Bell stopped by campus to announce that a record-breaking number of tradespersons have qualified as journeypersons this year. “There are great opportunities in our [...]

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 [...]

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