Outside looking in: The ongoing struggle of accessibility at Camosun CollegeI have disabilities—a bit of a soup of them, in fact. Most relevant to life at Camosun, I have chronic hip pain. I also have a class on the third floor of the Ewing building, which has no elevator. To me, it seems reasonable that the college installs in Ewing one of those little freight elevators […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: The Warhawks fight for cohesion on Starlight DiscoThe Warhawks Starlight Disco (New Rivals Entertainment) 2.5/5 Gloucester City, NJ indie rockers The Warhawks are back with their latest EP, Starlight Disco. The follow-up to their debut LP, 2019’s Never Felt So Good, Starlight Disco offers six new cuts and hints at a change of creative direction. The Warhawks lead with their familiar refined […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Wolf Parade get explosive with new recordWolf Parade Thin Mind (Royal Mountain Records) 4/5 “Explosive” is the only way to describe Montreal/BC-based indie rock band Wolf Parade’s fifth studio album, Thin Mind. The first track, “Under Glass,” screams for attention in its first 10 seconds and establishes the album’s sweeping pace. Rolling waves of instrumental energy crash into lyrical themes of […] Continue Reading |
News Briefs: February 5, 2020 issueNo coronavirus at Camosun Camosun College sent out an email on Thursday, January 30 saying that it is monitoring reports of coronavirus and has a team ready to respond if needed. As of January 30, the college has had no presumed or confirmed cases of the virus. See camosun.ca for updates. Camosun to receive funding […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Annihilator get heavy, emotional on new albumAnnihilator Ballistic, Sadistic (Silver Lining Music) 3/5 Diehard Annihilator fans will love the Vancouver-based thrash metal band’s 17th album, Ballistic, Sadistic. Written, recorded, and produced by band mainman Jeff Waters, the album features heavy, inferno thrash beats combined with shoelace-tying time changes and speed-metal movements. 2020 Annihilator sounds tighter and beefier than they have in […] Continue Reading |
Freedom from Addiction: Accepting truthI drive from here to Kelowna, then to Calgary, and back to Victoria a few times a year. Driving alone, which I usually do, there is time and space enough for me to think deeply about things. Having lived in active addiction for most of my life (save the past two years that I have […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Chargers get new student athlete from down underThe Camosun Chargers women’s basketball team have a new player, and she’s come all the way from Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Codi Tiedeman is here playing for the Chargers for the rest of the winter semester. Tiedeman, a first-year Marketing student, was contacted by Chargers women’s basketball head coach Justin Thiessen last year. “He contacted […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Local government needs to do more to control housing marketAssessments of the Victoria housing market at the beginning of January show the average cost of real estate is either slightly decreasing or levelling off. Meanwhile, the rental market has shown that prices are unchanged but the number of vacancies in Victoria is increasing as more apartments are being built. Vancouver has seen a more […] Continue Reading |
The new plan: The Nexus analysis and critique of the Camosun Campus Master Plan 2019When you walk on Camosun College’s grounds, you walk on stones and earth with a history. You walk in a place where wounded soldiers died and were nursed back to health in World War II in Lansdowne’s Young Building; you walk on the grounds of the BC Vocational School, which merged with Camosun in 1971 […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Business Study Group column: How to create culture, part 1Many of my former teachers have expressed the importance of a business culture, a good “fit” of people in a company, but when I asked one how someone creates culture, the answer did not seem so clear. “Hire the right people,” she said, and when I asked how to do that, she only said it […] Continue Reading |
