News Briefs: Oil, cocaine, sled dogs, etc.Business students win competition Four Camosun College business students were recently awarded the top prize in an accountants’ case competition at Simon Fraser University. The Camosun team of Eric Brabander, Annette Wagers, Natalia Simo, and John Turner won a $2,500 shared scholarship. Students were given one day to work on a case assignment before presenting […] Continue Reading |
CUPE job action disrupts Camosun as workers fight for contractStriking Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) support staff workers at Camosun College took job action on Tuesday November 20 and Wednesday November 21. Signs gripped in cold fists wrapped in soggy gloves were waved through the air. Flags were raised and automobiles issued honks of encouragement. If one didn’t know better, they might mistake […] Continue Reading |
20 years ago in Nexus: November 28th, 2012Idiots rule: Words & Thoughts for the Thinking Idiot was a column by Alan Callbeck two decades back in these very pages. In our November 30, 1992 issue, Callbeck looked at Canada’s catch-22 economy, and took no prisoners. Responding to claims that Canadians are “well off,” he said that “the number crunchers base this perception […] Continue Reading |
Eye on Campus: November 28th, 2012 issueUntil January 4 Dead trees inside Event for sick kids featuring fancy trees, pretty lights, and an excuse to wear that “I don’t need an excuse to wear this” beauty of an ugly sweater? That is an event that puts the “win” into angel wings! The doors at the Empress will be open for you […] Continue Reading |
Local, Live, and Loud: November 28, 2012 – January 8, 2013Thursday, November 29 Eliot Lipp Lucky Bar, $15, 8 PM I haven’t watched E.T. in a really long time. I might have to get a big bag of Reese’s Pieces and sit down with my family for a classic-movie night. I wore a blue long-sleeved E.T. shirt in my grade two school photo. It had […] Continue Reading |
Cell phone tower extension proposal met with oppositionCamosun College’s faculty association is speaking out against a new proposal that will extend the cell phone tower on the roof of the Fisher building at the Lansdowne campus. According to Mark Kunen, vice-president of the Camosun College Faculty Association (CCFA), the association doesn’t support the tower extension and has sent formal documentation to the […] Continue Reading |
A light on the corner: spending time with Reverend Al and Victoria’s homelessIn the pre-dawn of a wet October morning, they come out of the darkness like soggy, chilled moths. They are the homeless of Victoria and they are drawn to the bright light of a man, a most indomitable and irreverent Reverend named Allen Tysick; everyone knows him as Reverend Al. The Reverend, in his Dandelion […] Continue Reading |
The Coup returns with first album in six yearsIt’s been six years since the politically conscious Bay Area rap ensemble The Coup dropped Pick a Bigger Weapon. Now, with the release of Sorry to Bother You, the band is back, although with a slightly different sound. Straying away from a strictly sample-based approach to production, The Coup adds an assortment of sounds you […] Continue Reading |
Local symphony celebrates John Cage’s legacyIs banging pots and pans music? Is street noise music? Is silence music? US composer John Cage, who died in 1992, thought so. And now, a Victoria Symphony concert entitled Cage 100 will celebrate the influential musician. The concert is part of the Cage 100 festival happening between November 8 and November 22 that will […] Continue Reading |
Dead-on writingAn anthology of obituaries sounds like it would be just right for what’s shaping up to be another gloomy Victoria autumn, but it turns out there’s nothing morbid about Tom Hawthorn’s Deadlines: Obits of Memorable British Columbians. The focus of this collection is life, not death, and a colourful cast of real-life heroes and antiheroes […] Continue Reading |
