Know Your Profs: Camosun instructor Esther Lee uses traditional roots for teachingKnow 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 |
Of the Land – local indigenous voices: Why oh why, oh Canada?While parades unfold, barbecues blaze, and fireworks launch in celebration of Canada Day, I find it more important than ever to critically engage with Canadian identity. The reality is that we are a diverse country with a vast array of identities, knit together on contiguous land yet apart because of our different access to power: […] Continue Reading |
Camosun students bring home medals from national competitionSeveral Camosun College students recently returned from Moncton, New Brunswick with medals they won at the 2016 Skills Canada National Competition. Every year, trades and technology students compete in over 40 skilled trade and technology categories in regional, provincial, national, and international levels at Skills Canada competitions. Skills Canada then creates a national team from […] Continue Reading |
What’s Going On: July 13 to August 9, 2016Until Sunday, July 17 The importance of theatre Blue Bridge Theatre is putting on Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest at The Roxy, 2657 Quadra Street, until July 17. See bluebridgetheatre.ca for more information on this and other plays that Blue Bridge has planned. Until Saturday, August 13 Much ado about lame headlines using […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Consilience’s Under Our Bed a soothing listenConsilience Under Our Bed (independent) 4/5 Edmonton’s Consilience is the project of multi-instrumentalist Tasy Hudson, a solo musician with, among other instruments, a guitar, a synthesizer, and a loop pedal. On Under Our Bed I can hear what Hudson is trying to get across with her soft tones and gentle melodies. The addition of instruments […] Continue Reading |
The Bi-weekly Gamer: Something new with OverwatchI’ve been playing a lot of the new game Overwatch. As a first-person shooter with aspects of LoL, Team Fortress 2, and Call of Duty thrown in, it’s honestly a good game. (I didn’t think I would ever be saying that, as I despise Blizzard, the game company that made Overwatch, due to their policies, […] Continue Reading |
Lit Matters: Beating the tin drum with Günter Grass“Even bad books are books and therefore sacred,” said Günter Grass, a German novelist and political activist who won the Nobel Prize in 1999 and is best known for his sweeping novel The Tin Drum. The novel tells the story of World War II from the perspective of Oscar Matzerath, a dwarf who willfully stopped […] Continue Reading |
The other side of the divide: talking tensions with Bilan Arte, national chairperson of the Canadian Federation of StudentsOur June 15, 2016 issue featured the cover story “A provincial divide,” which looked in detail at the state of the national student movement in Canada. The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) did not agree to interview requests by the time we went to print. We have since talked with CFS national chairperson Bilan Arte […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Toastmasters club still going strong after 80 yearsCamosun College’s Toastmasters Club, which is dedicated to improving students’ public speaking, communication, and listening skills, has now been in Victoria for 80 years (it was at other locations before Camosun was founded in 1971). College Liaison for Toastmasters April Atkins says the group’s longevity can be attributed to those involved in the club. “There […] Continue Reading |
Jazz singer Jaclyn Guillou says collaboration countsVancouver’s Jaclyn Guillou doesn’t hide away these days: the jazz vocalist is performing at this year’s Victoria International JazzFest, and she just released a new album, This Bitter Earth, a tribute to legendary jazz musician Dinah Washington. However, her singing began in a much more secretive fashion. “My piano teacher recognized that I had vocal […] Continue Reading |
