Car dependency is ruining our cities

After living in the Northwest Territories for a month, I can confidently say that I’m a happy driver of my Ford F-150. I work about an hour walk away, along a dirt road with not a sidewalk in sight. Quads and side-by-sides rip around on dirt roads left and right, and the neighbours’ off-leash dog […]

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Open Space: EACS program needs work

All post-secondary students have opinions on their assignments, instructors, and what their program has to offer. However, given how many students in the Education Assistant and Community Support (EACS) program I’ve talked to are sharing the same thoughts and opinions, it might be time for a change. I enrolled in the EACS program thinking I […]

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Trill’s Recipes: Vanilla ice cream

Ingredients: 1 cup milk 1 1/2 cup cream 1/2 cup sugar 1 tsp vanilla 1 pinch salt With the days getting long and hot, I often crave a cold sweet treat. Here’s a vanilla ice cream recipe that doesn’t need any fancy equipment, and is a great base for chocolate or fruit to create your […]

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Camosun Innovates helps preserve Indigenous traditions with robotics

The folks at Camosun Innovates—Camosun College’s applied research branch, located at the Interurban campus—have worked in many fields of study in the recent past, including medical technologies, marine innovations, and adaptive sporting equipment. Now, they’re delving into the area of cultural heritage preservation, with a technological twist. Local Indigenous master carver and UVic impact chair […]

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Chargers men’s basketball team welcomes new head coach

Former UVic Vikes men’s basketball head coach Craig Beaucamp has entered his first year as head coach with the Camosun Chargers men’s basketball team. Beaucamp will arrive at Camosun after spending the past two seasons as an assistant coach with the University of the Pacific men’s basketball program in California. Before that, however, he served […]

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Habits of the Sea beautifully written, soulful, erotic read

Readers step out of time and into a romantic tale in Habits of the Sea, written by Shea Ernshaw. It’s the story of Eleanor Mills (called Ellie for short), a woman who’s been haunted by the events of her childhood after she discovered an impossible island when she was 12 years old. A storm roared […]

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Post-secondary report reignites debates over tuition, cuts, system design

A new report from BC Policy Solutions—a non-partisan research institute—is renewing debate over the future of post-secondary education in British Columbia, warning that chronic underfunding and rising reliance on tuition revenue are placing the sector under sustained financial pressure. Released in June and led by policy researcher Véronique Sioufi, the report argues that decades of […]

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