Let’s Talk 2.0: Find your opinion, people

Let’s talk a bit about opinion building and finding a voice. After I conducted the interviews for a recent Speak Up about women’s rights (see our March 23, 2022 issue) I realized that most people actually don’t have any opinion about women’s rights. This really made me think, though: with all the steps forward in […]

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25 Years Ago in Nexus: May 4, 2022 issue

Cutting the cable: April 24 to 30, 1997 was International TV Turn-off Week and Nexus writers had varying opinions on this cause, according to a story in our April 14, 1997 issue. On one hand, there was the argument that we shouldn’t be getting our cultural cues from advertisement-funded corporations, and that the consumption of […]

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New Music Revue: Frog Eyes come back strong with The Bees

Frog Eyes The Bees (Paper Bag Records) 3.5/5  Frog Eyes is back with their first album in four years, after taking a break and releasing an album under the name Soft Plastics in 2020. The Bees celebrates Frog Eyes’ new path in their musical journey with 10 unique songs with an abstract sound and upbeat […]

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Concert pays symphonic tribute to the Fab Four

Jim Owen and Sean O’Loughlin are bringing The Beatles to life again. Their Classical Mystery Tour: A Tribute to the Beatles concert—which has been happening since 1996—will have the Victoria Symphony putting a different spin on classic cuts. “For people like myself, we never got the chance to see the Beatles live,” says Owen. “I […]

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Student group says Budget 2022 a “missed opportunity”

The government of Canada has released its budget plan for 2022, and not everybody is happy about it. The Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA), which all Camosun College students are paying members of, is disappointed with the outcome, saying that this was a missed opportunity for Canada to invest in the future of the […]

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Play explores multi-generational households, gender, bar mitzvahs

Local director Kevin McKendrick is directing Bema Productions’ take on Rich Orloff’s award-winning play Men Overboard in May; McKendrick describes it as a very poignant comedic performance.  “Men Overboard is what I describe as a wry comedy,” says McKendrick. “There’s many funny sections in it but it’s quite poignant. It deals with three generations of […]

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25 Years Ago in Nexus: April 6, 2022 issue

Election fraud: A story in our April 1, 1997 issue detailed how the Camosun College Student Society elections happening at the time were being postponed due to alleged election fraud. An anonymously written pamphlet that was circulated around the college accused the student society of “rigging the nomination period to give preference to their friends.” […]

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