Exhibit celebrates 131 years of Ukrainian-Canadian immigrationIn 2016, the Royal BC Museum partnered up with the Ukrainian Canadian Congress and Honorary Consulate of Ukraine in Vancouver to produce Bread & Salt, an installation that celebrated 125 years of Ukrainian immigration to Canada. Now, the exhibit is once more being displayed, updated to honour the most recent wave of displaced Ukrainians driven […] Continue Reading |
25 Years Ago in Nexus: September 6, 2022 issueCFS fights loan repayment plan: A story in our September 2, 1997 issue detailed how the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) was fighting a government repayment plan for student loans that allowed students who could pay loans faster to save on interest. The CFS—which Camosun students were paying members of at this time—said that this […] Continue Reading |
Camosun students revitalize Lansdowne Native Plant GardenTwo Environmental Technology students have used the knowledge gained from their courses to give back to Camosun. Christina Chen and Roxanne Cameron used their sustainability Capstone project to revitalize the Native Plant Garden on Lansdowne campus and turn it into what is now Camas Hill. Camas Hill, located beside the Wilna Thomas Building, is named […] Continue Reading |
Camosun alumnus takes on Veterans Affairs Canada in courtsA former Camosun College student is taking on Veterans Affairs Canada in the federal courts. Kyle Bienvenu, a retired navy reservist who served from 2002 to 2014, and who was at Camosun College from 2005 to 2007 in the University Transfer program, appeared over Zoom in federal court in Vancouver on Thursday, August 4 after […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Camosun fee-deadline change fails studentsCamosun College has imposed new fee and class-drop deadlines that, while holding merit, fail in addressing a fair opportunity for students to make decisions regarding their career path. I agree that it’s a good idea that the full cost of selected courses be paid three weeks prior to start of classes, to allow the school […] Continue Reading |
News Briefs: September 6, 2022 issueCamosun volleyball alumna in apprentice program This fall, Camosun Chargers women’s volleyball alumna Morgan Monkman is participating in her second season in the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association’s Female Apprentice Coach Program. The program, which is funded by Sports Canada, supports female athletes interested in training to be coaches. Camosun College gets new board member Lawyer […] Continue Reading |
The Camosun College Student Society’s Slap and Tickle: Part one: motives and opportunitiesI 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 […] Continue Reading |
Jeremy Dutcher tackles themes of Indigenous identity and connection in musicToronto-based singer/musician Jeremy Dutcher is coming to town this month, and he’s bringing with him his music’s themes of Indigenous identity, our relationship to our surrounding world, and our connection to each other. “Because I sing in Wolastoq language, my Indigenous language, the themes are definitely exploring identity through language and also our relationship to […] Continue Reading |
Camosun College to open new shared campus in WestshoreCamosun College recently announced that it will be partnering with the University of Victoria, the Justice Institute of British Columbia, and Royal Roads University in a new shared post-secondary campus in the Westshore. Camosun contributed $200,000 in funding. Camosun vice president of partnerships Geoff Wilmshurst says that the project has been in discussion for over […] Continue Reading |
First semester worst offender: What you really need to know as a new Camosun studentMy first semester at Camosun was hell. In June 2021, I graduated high school; the following September I started at Camosun with six courses and a part-time job. Little did I know that that was going to be a massive amount of work. Even though it at first seems like there isn’t much information you’d […] Continue Reading |
