The funding desert: How Budget 2025 leaves post-secondary stranded

The provincial government’s Budget 2025 ignores what students are up against. A crisis of funding brought on by international student enrolment caps, increasing numbers of layoffs at post-secondary institutions across BC, and closing campuses have left students floundering in the midst of their education. The future workforce has been decidedly neglected. But this is nothing […]

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Open Space: Students left behind when college goes offline

Apparently, COVID is over. Never mind those still sick or suffering; instead, rejoice! For in the year of our lord 2025, we have decided COVID is gone! With the end of COVID, we reached the end of our so-called “new normal” of online work, online school, and pajamas all day. So it’s just normal now. […]

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25 Years Ago in Nexus: March 19, 2025 issue

Nice-T: Never meet your heroes; they can only disappoint. They’ll sass or glare or offend. Their pompous attitudes, which come often coupled with stardom and a record deal, show no mercy to dedicated fans. But, like in Ice-T’s case, they can even deeply trouble the soul of a fan, forcing them to reassess their role […]

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Reasons to Live… In Victoria: The Breakwater Bistro & Bar

The Lekwungen peoples have long treasured the land and sea along the coastline, including Ogden Point. There were major village sites along the coast up to Clover Point. Local artists Butch Dick of the Songhees Nation and Darlene Gait of the Esquimalt Nation were behind the breakwater mural that honours this history. Painted along the […]

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New Music Revue: Drake and PartyNextDoor collab massive fail

Drake/PartyNextDoor $ome $exy $ongs 4 U (OVO Sound/Santa Anna/Republic Records) 1/5 $$$4U arrived on Valentine’s Day and marks the long-awaited first full-length R&B collaboration between Canadian artists Drake and PartyNextDoor. The album contains 21 songs and lasts a total of 73 minutes. Let’s get this straight out of the way: the album is boring, is […]

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