Camosun MyWellness column: Creative ways to deal with mental healthAs a creative person who’s struggled with anxiety most of my life, I’ve found many ways to write, paint, and sing my way to mental freedom. Author Neil Gaiman once said that when things go wrong (which they most certainly will), you should make good art. Now, you may be thinking that there’s no way […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: No one has better or worse taste in musicIt’s ridiculous to pretend that there is such a thing as objectively good taste in music. Yet, this is often discussed. Music is subjective, and it’s shortsighted to label some as universally superior. Twice, Rolling Stone has compiled a list of the 500 greatest songs of all time, in 2004 and in 2010. Out of […] Continue Reading |
Penguin & Peacock: March 4, 2020 issue |
It is not a celebration if there is no reflection: A historical date for women and the importance of speaking upApart from the challenges of moving to a new country, living abroad offers a delightful chance to be immersed in a new culture, to appreciate the richness of sharing experiences, and, hopefully, to celebrate the beauty of diversity. This gets even more interesting when we can build a sense of belonging that’s applicable in both […] Continue Reading |
Camosun responds to student demands, puts elevator in CTEICamosun College is finishing installing an elevator to the upper-floor mezzanine in the main atrium of the Centre for Trades Education and Innovation (CTEI) building at Interurban. The building, which opened in 2015, originally had no elevator to the mezzanine. However, after hearing student opinion on the matter, the college has added one in, at […] Continue Reading |
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 |
