Calculated Thought: Fall finance update

As autumn rolls in, everyone is getting back to business as usual. Summer holidays are in the rear-view and students, businesses, and governments get back to work as the warm weather fades away. Parliament went back in session on September 18, and it’s sure to get raucous in the caucus. Business owners have reportedly plastered […]

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Camosun instructor aims for a better world through digital mapping

When Perry Peterson first set foot in Victoria, he felt at home. A world traveller, Peterson is now teaching engineering at Interurban, but that only takes up about eight hours a week of his time. The rest of his life is dedicated to innovative ways of exploring the Earth through a computer screen. Peterson’s company, […]

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Know Your Profs: Camosun sheet metal instructor Brian Coey keeps busy

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 a little better. Do you have an instructor that you want to see interviewed in the paper? Maybe you […]

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Eye on the National Student Movement: September 20, 2017

1. According to Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) treasurer Peyton Veitch, the estimated $202,305.11 of Camosun students’ money that the British Columbia Federation of Students (BCFS) is holding has still not been remitted to the CFS. The Camosun College Student Society gave the money, collected from Camosun students as CFS fees, to the BCFS, a […]

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Student savings: 10 ways to live thrifty in Victoria

Living in Victoria is expensive. With the world discovering the beauty of the culture and the climate, housing prices have increased and the cost of living has risen dramatically. Everything from produce to beauty products has gotten more expensive. Pair that with the enormous expenses of being a student, and there’s a perfect storm of […]

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Camosun alumna perseveres and releases debut album

Since finishing studying cello in the music diploma program at the Victoria Conservatory of Music—a partner of Camosun—in 2011, Naomi Kavka has travelled everywhere from Japan to Prince George to record music. But Kavka—who recently completed studies in musicology at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s—has overcome dark times in her life, and at […]

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Unpacking the Bags: What does it mean to learn?

What does it mean for international students to study in another country? While they are acquiring knowledge, it is their first time on the job market and in the culture of their new country. Students who know how to take advantage of class time to broaden their worldview are likely to be the ones who […]

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Dearest Reader: A proposal: Victoria must re-decorate itself as an indigenized city

Dearest reader, As you are surely aware, this publication, my beloved patron, examined recently in some detail the concern of indigenous reconciliation. Amongst the points to be found most preeminent was the suggestion that the Young Building, the most venerable premise between our two campuses, be redecorated with some form of First Nations’ art. This […]

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The Children’s Republic offers new twist on powerful play

Paul Rainville has played Dr. Korczak in Hannah Moscovitch’s The Children’s Republic not once but twice, which makes it all the more surprising that he says he stumbled into it in the first place. “I got to play him in Ottawa in a very different version of the play,” says Rainville. “The woman who was […]

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News Briefs: September 20, 2017

Camosun renames Disability Resource Centre Camosun’s Disability Resource Centre has been renamed The Centre for Accessible Learning. The college decided to make the change after a 2014 survey showed that the student body expressed a desire to have the Centre rebranded to better capture the inclusive values of the college. Camosun instructor killed in motorcycle crash  Rodger Hargreaves, […]

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