The Camosun College Student Society’s Slap and Tickle: Part one: motives and opportunities

I am not a journalist by any means: despite starting my career in the Camosun College Student Society as assistant editor of the Nexus newspaper 25 years ago, I am an abysmal editor, utterly disastrous, and generally chaos embodied in human form. I once “proudly resented” the Victoria Shakespeare Festival, which I was the head […]

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Let’s Talk 2.0: Living in a post-grad world

I recently realized that some of my final courses, which were more connected to direct sales, were filled with male students; there were way more females in the rest of my marketing classes. This mirrors the workplace, where engineering and sales departments are full of male faces. It’s quite intimidating to enter workplaces where there […]

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Show me the Money: The importance of financial-health checkups

The recent decision by Camosun College to bring forward the fee deadline for the fall term came as a rude shock for many students. It meant coming up with a significant sum of money several weeks earlier or being removed from registered courses. This may prove difficult for some students, as they may need a […]

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Nic’s Flicks: Nope gets a big yep

Nope (2022) 3.5/4 Calling all horror/science fiction fans: Oscar-winning horror filmmaker Jordan Peele has released his newest thrill ride, Nope, and I must say that this is one great movie that all horror fans will give a big yep to. What I really like about this film comes down to one word: tension. As he […]

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Let’s Talk 2.0: Let’s talk about dating

Isn’t it nice when you meet someone new? It’s exciting but also terrifying, because there are all these dating rules, right? And then dating seems a whole lot more difficult if you live in a multicultural country where everyone brings their own rules around what is acceptable and what crosses a line. Society is changing, […]

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Show me the Money: 2022 so far, and what’s ahead

It’s hard to believe that half of 2022 has already gone by. Although the world has largely managed to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, the year has given us all multiple new challenges. In this issue’s column, we’ll have a quick look at what has happened so far, and what I think the rest of the […]

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Nic’s Flicks: Jurassic World Dominion deceptive, boring, disappointing

Jurassic World Dominion (2022) 1.5/4 As I said in a previous article, the top movie I was excited to see this summer was Jurassic World Dominion. Well, I recently got to see it, and while having the entire cast back together does make for some good entertaining moments, overall this was a massively disappointing movie […]

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Show me the Money: My life on a student budget

I hope that this column has so far been helpful to readers and that it’s got you to start thinking about your financial health differently. This time around, I thought I’d share a bit about my life as a student, from a financial perspective, of course. I’m an international student, and I spent about four […]

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Nic’s Flicks: The Batman almost-perfect thrill-ride

The Batman (2022) 3.5/4 Back in January, I said that Matt Reeves’ The Batman was the number-one movie for students to look out for this year. Today, I’m happy to report that Reeves delivers exactly what fans wanted and much more from this riveting film. One of the main things that had me super excited […]

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Let’s Talk 2.0: Female leadership is a choice to make

Actively deciding on what you stand for can change the future. Feminists have to make that decision with every move they make. Maybe you like the idea of creating gender equality change but don’t know how. Change will never come easy, so we need to take baby steps toward it. I choose to pick female […]

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