Magazine Issue | Nexus newspaper

Indigenous Camosun students to receive $40,000 to assist with food and housing costs

Lane Chevrier, contributing writer

January 22, 2020

The 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 […]

Lovebirds: January 22, 2020 issue

Freyja Zazu, contributing writer

January 22, 2020

Snowed in Comedy Tour returns to Victoria with big lineup, big laughs

Fred Cameron, contributing writer

January 6, 2020

Twelve 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 […]

Lovebirds: January 6, 2020 issue

Freyja Zazu, contributing writer

January 6, 2020

Open Space: Climate change is trying to kill us, and maybe we should let it

Ethan Badr, contributing writer

January 6, 2020

Earth 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 […]

Thinking positive: Exploring how views of sex have changed

Tiegan Suddaby, features writer

January 6, 2020

Sex. 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. […]

Know Your Profs: Camosun instructor Tommy Happynook talks diversion tactics

Emily Welch, staff writer

January 6, 2020

Know 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 […]

Langham Court musical focuses on what’s under the surface

Adam Marsh, staff writer

January 6, 2020

One 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 […]

Camosun MyWellness column: MyWellness’ top-five tips to stay healthy this semester

Jordan Bell, MyWellness Camosun

January 6, 2020

A new semester is here, and it’s the goal of the MyWellness program to keep you as healthy and relaxed as possible. So take a look at our most effective de-stressors, and let us know if you think of any we missed! 1. Balance We know how hard it is to juggle work, school, friends, […]

News Briefs: January 6, 2020 issue

Adam Marsh, staff writer

January 6, 2020

Fresh-food vending machine installed at Interurban Students at Interurban now have access to fresh food, even after the cafeteria is closed, thanks to a new vending machine. The machine is part of a development that took place after the School of Health and Human Services moved to the Interurban campus in September. The food options […]