Know Your Profs: Camosun College instructor Carole Gosse on the privilege of teachingKnow Your Profs is an ongoing series of profiles on the instructors at Camosun College. Every issue we ask a different instructor at Camosun the same 10 questions in an attempt to get to know them a little better. Do you have an instructor that you want to see interviewed in the paper? Maybe you want […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Bluebloods trip over own ambition on debut EPBluebloods Make It Rain (Independent) 1.5/5 It’s nearly impossible to pin down what Winnipeg’s Bluebloods are attempting to accomplish on their debut EP. During Make It Rain’s 20-minute runtime, the band delivers some daring genre blending but constantly trips over its own ambition. Led by guitarist Conrad Sweatman, Bluebloods primarily focus on the hardships of […] Continue Reading |
Indigenous Camosun students to receive $40,000 to assist with food and housing costsThe Victoria Foundation has granted $40,000 in funding to support Indigenous students in Camosun College’s interdisciplinary Aboriginal Culinary Arts, Tourism and Hospitality program. The funding will be dispersed to students in order to provide financial support for costs associated with housing and food. Developed in partnership with the Songhees Nation, Camosun’s Aboriginal Culinary Arts, Tourism […] Continue Reading |
Lovebirds: January 22, 2020 issue |
Snowed in Comedy Tour returns to Victoria with big lineup, big laughsTwelve years ago a few comedians booked a handful of shows as an excuse to go snowboarding. With 70 shows scheduled for this year, the Snowed in Comedy Tour is now the largest comedy tour in Canada. Award-winning comedy veteran Pete Zedlacher, who this year will be hitting the road for his fifth Snowed in […] Continue Reading |
Lovebirds: January 6, 2020 issue |
Open Space: Climate change is trying to kill us, and maybe we should let itEarth would be better off without humans; climate change is the fever trying to kill the virus. From a humanistic perspective, climate change is the end of the world as we know it. From an evolutionary perspective, however, it’s just a routine rebalancing of power. In the past 2.5 billion years there have been five […] Continue Reading |
Thinking positive: Exploring how views of sex have changedSex. That’s all I need to say and there’s an immediate reaction. “Hell yeah,” say some of you. “Oh, no,” say others. Like it or not, sex is a part of biology, which means it’s a part of human life. Its connotations are ever-changing, depending on the social circles we’re in at any given time. […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Camosun instructor Tommy Happynook talks diversion tacticsKnow Your Profs is an ongoing series of profiles on the instructors at Camosun College. Every issue we ask a different instructor at Camosun the same 10 questions in an attempt to get to know them better. Do you have an instructor that you want to see interviewed in the paper? Maybe you want to […] Continue Reading |
Langham Court musical focuses on what’s under the surfaceOne of the biggest challenges facing Victoria-based director Heather Jarvie these days is adapting an outdated show: for example, taking a musical and stripping it of the misogyny, sexism, and gender stereotypes of the 1970s. When a modern version of the show in question, Company, hit London’s West End in 2018, she jumped at the […] Continue Reading |
