Camosun student receives co-op awards
Makayla Silvey, a student in Camosun College’s Mechanical Engineering Technology program, has received awards at the local, provincial, and national levels for her work during her co-op term. She has been named the 2025 Yvonne Thompson Page Co-op Student of the Year at Camosun, received the Association for Co-operative Education Work-Integrated Learning BC/Yukon Student of the Year Award (Co-op—colleges), and earned the Emery-Dufault Student of the Year Award from Co-operative Education and Work-Integrated Learning Canada. In her work term, Silvey worked with the Canadian Navy in Esquimalt and worked in Marine Systems Engineering.
Chargers take home national medal
The Camosun Chargers men’s basketball team recently took home bronze at the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) men’s national basketball championships. The team defeated the Mohawk Mountaineers for the medal. This is the first time the Charger men’s basketball team has won bronze in nationals, which this year took place from March 18 to 21 at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo.
Kwantlen Student Association investigated for possible misuse of funds
The student association at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) is under scrutiny for its use of nearly a million dollars. The Kwantlen Student Association (KSU) spent $947,848 on wages and benefits for its elected representatives in 2025, approximately $230,000 above their projected cost. For context, other universities’ student unions, like those at UVic or UBC, average from $250,000 to $350,000 for their directors’ wages and stipends in a year. BC minister of finance Brenda Bailey launched the investigation after receiving concerns from the Registrar of Companies. Although KSU is independent from KPU, KPU has said that it welcomes this investigation. KPU has five campuses on the mainland.