News Briefs: March 4, 2020 issueCamosun hires new Ombudsperson On March 2, Robert Thompson replaced Carter MacDonald—who is retiring—as Camosun College’s ombudsperson. Thompson has a master’s in conflict resolution from the UK’s University of Bradford and has advocated for human rights with Peace Brigades International. He has also worked with the United Nations as the ombudsperson support officer at the […] Continue Reading |
Rande Cook to lecture on campus about Indigenous artOn March 16, Rande Cook, a Kwakwaka’wakw artist born in Alert Bay, will give a lecture at Camosun on contemporary Indigenous art and its origins as part of the college’s Visiting Artist Series. Cook is an accomplished multimedia artist who has apprenticed, researched, and honed his craft while working all over the world. That’s why […] Continue Reading |
Lovebirds: March 4, 2020 issue |
Politics and Other Nonsense: Protect people, not pipelinesMost media sources are reporting the Wet’suwet’en protest as an anti-pipeline protest, when in truth it’s much more about the sovereignty rights of an oppressed people than it is about a pipeline. The Wet’suwet’en never signed any land treaties with the colonizing government; in 1997, the Supreme Court of Canada even recognized their Aboriginal title […] Continue Reading |
Freedom from Addiction: Connection or addiction?Central to the quest of a sex/love addict is connection to another. Whether fleetingly, through pornography or sex, or longer-term, via the promise of a committed, fulfilling romance, connection—or rather the great imitator of connection, addiction—makes us feel alive and powerful and free. That is, until it leads to inevitable disappointment and emptiness. Some sex […] Continue Reading |
Reuben and the Dark keep the conversation alive through musicReuben Bullock wants to give people new ways of opening up their hearts and their minds. The vocalist/guitarist of the Calgary alt-rock band Reuben and the Dark is touring his latest album, un | love, and doing things a little bit differently this time around. The album—Bullock’s third studio release—came to fruition while he was […] Continue Reading |
25 Years Ago in Nexus: February 19, 2020 issueNever-ending raises: The story “College discusses tuition increases” in our February 20, 1995 issue talked about how Camosun was in discussions about increasing tuition for the fall 1995 semester. This was following a 7.75-percent tuition raise in 1994. Then-chair of the Camosun College Student Society Sara Kemp said in the story, “How do they expect […] Continue Reading |
BC government launches 24/7 mental-health support for studentsThe British Columbia government recently announced the creation of a mental-health service for BC students that will feature online and telephone counselling services 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The service will launch this spring, and the government has contracted human resources services and technology company Morneau Shepell, who are headquartered in Toronto, […] Continue Reading |
Hotel Mira find inspiration in unconditional loveAfter releasing two albums under the name JPNSGRLS, the Vancouver indie/alt-rockers changed their name to Hotel Mira and dropped a self-titled EP in 2018. The band released their debut full-length, Perfectionism, on Valentine’s Day. Vocalist Charlie Kerr says that the idea of perfectionism lives in him; when it came time to think about the new […] Continue Reading |
A Grammar of Loss explores the actualities of decolonizationLiquid black rubber drips off the pages of White Man’s Africa, a book written in 1899. This record of white supremacy in Africa is no longer readable, and that’s the point. Along with many other altered and redacted works, this piece in Chantal Gibson’s upcoming exhibit at Open Space explores what it actually means to […] Continue Reading |
