Know Your Profs: Camosun’s Imtehaze Heerah on good food and caring for studentsKnow 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 […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Emma Cook’s new album proof of the power of musicEmma Cook Living Proof (Indoor Recess) 3.5/5 Emma Cook wrote her fourth album, Living Proof, as she overcame a head injury and post-concussion syndrome. By drawing on this, Cook creates a melancholic and haunting 10-track experience. The Toronto-based singer’s voice flips from powerful lower notes to a willowy, higher range, reminiscent of the Celtic sounds […] Continue Reading |
BC musician FRASE decides to go small and enjoy lifeSome of Canada’s most well-known bands have come out of Toronto and Montreal; the cities are known for having a much larger music-industry infrastructure than the west coast. Still, that didn’t stop Montreal R&B/soul musician Fraser Hamilton—better known by his stage name FRASE—from moving to the small town of Ymir, BC to focus on his […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Black Wizard’s Livin’ Oblivion diverse and honestBlack Wizard Livin’ Oblivion (Listenable Records) 4.5/5 Vancouver doom metal/stoner rock band Black Wizard’s fourth album Livin’ Oblivion is one hell of a raw and honest journey from start to finish. At times, it’s not as heavy as its predecessor, 2016’s New Waste, but its diversity pays off. Eugene Parkomenko’s hearty drum work on opener […] Continue Reading |
Chargers to host national volleyball championshipsThe Camosun Chargers men’s volleyball team will be hosting the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) national volleyball championships at the Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence (PISE) at Interurban this month. The championships will take place from March 7 to March 10; Chargers men’s volleyball player and fourth-year Sports Management student Doug Waterman says that, for […] Continue Reading |
What is the future of retail? With another retail giant gone, Camosun’s Lansdowne neighbourhood is changingCamosun’s Lansdowne campus neighbourhood will never look the same. On January 14, 2018, Sears, one of the Hillside Centre’s anchor tenants, closed its doors for the last time. It marked the end of an era in Canadian retail. Sears closed about 190 stores nationwide and took with it 15,000 jobs. Demographic changes continue to fuel […] Continue Reading |
Canadian Federation of Students cancels Camosun defederation referendumThe Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) has confirmed to Nexus that the referendum for Camosun students to decide on whether or not to defederate from the CFS has been cancelled. Students will continue to pay CFS membership fees until the referendum is rescheduled, which can now happen no earlier than September 15, according to CFS […] Continue Reading |
Art exhibit measures emotional distances with technologyImagine the awe of the viewers in front of their box-like televisions in 1969 when they watched the first black-and-white images—sent by a slow-scan television (SSTV)—of the moon. This then-cutting-edge technology allowed transmission of images through voice frequencies across two stations—in the above case, between the moon and the Earth. “Slow-scan was built around this […] Continue Reading |
Terra Lightfoot brings her most recent mistakes to townHamilton singer/songwriter Terra Lightfoot says that her latest album, New Mistakes, is a window into where she currently is at in her life. She says the album is about being comfortable with the challenges that can arise in any situation. “Instead of shying away from making a mistake, it’s realizing that each problem we encounter […] Continue Reading |
Symposium shines light on college’s coffee-cup problemOn Tuesday, January 23, The Curse of the Coffee Cup, a symposium about the environmental impacts of disposable coffee cups, was simulcast at Camosun College’s two campuses. The event focused on how we can reduce or eliminate the use of paper and plastic coffee cups at Camosun. “Camosun has for the past five or six […] Continue Reading |
