Show me the Money: New Year’s money resolutions

As the ball drops and we ring in a brand new year, I’m sure many of us will be making New Year’s resolutions with great optimism. Well, why not make some new year’s money resolutions, too? Doing so could benefit your long-term financial health. In this instalment of Show Me the Money, I’ll suggest a […]

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Criminal Justice students organize clothing drive for Our Place

Students in Camosun College’s Criminal Justice program finished off the fall 2021 semester by collecting a classroom-sized clothing donation for Our Place. The students gathered donations from all over Victoria, which, once delivered, were all re-homed within days.  Second-year student Sean Eversfield says that “basically everyone” in the second year of the Criminal Justice program […]

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Leaving the Cave: Welcoming in the new year with positivity

Last month, during one of the wettest autumn seasons I’ve ever seen, I heard through the grapevine that the winter promised to be colder and snowier than usual. I have an image re-playing itself constantly in my head of two giant fingers reaching through the clouds, picking me up, and plopping down somewhere else, I […]

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What we want to see at Camosun in 2022: Nexus staff and contributing writers on what needs to change

What needs to happen at Lansdowne by Caitlin Kinsgmill, student editor With the start of a new semester, and with a new Camosun president leading the way, it feels like an appropriate time to be brainstorming changes one might like to see on campus. I’m pretty satisfied with my overall student experience here, but after […]

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Company launches first software-testing program for Indigenous students in Canada

PLATO Testing, Canada’s only Indigenous-staffed and Indigenous-led software testing company, recently launched its Indigenous Software Tester Training Course in Victoria for the first time. The company, based in New Brunswick, offers the program to Indigenous people in other cities across Canada and is now offering it at the Camosun Coastal Centre (there is no connection […]

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Camosun student raises over $10,000 for diabetes research

Motria Iwan has raised over $10,000 toward diabetes research, and is now using the skills she gained in her program at Camosun to take the initiative to the next level. At 14, Iwan was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, a life-threatening illness that prevents the body from producing insulin, the hormone responsible for converting blood […]

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This System Is Broken: First dispatch

When the canadian (I refuse to capitalize that word out of protest) government began using the word “reconciliation” I was one of the naive canadians who felt optimistic. I fell under the impression that things around here might actually change.  But then the government hired planeloads of RCMP to congregate in the Bulkley Valley and […]

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