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News briefs: Chargers, BoG, BC Transit, ban bottled water

Dylan Wilks, staff writer

April 4, 2012

Camosun students named academic all-Canadians Camosun College Chargers basketball players Jordan Elvedahl and Caitlin Marshall have been named academic all-Canadians. The Sport Information Resource Centre (SIRC) and the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) recently announced the 2011–2012 SIRC-CCAA Academic All-Canadian Award recipients, which included 162 student-athletes from across Canada. The SIRC-CCAA Academic All-Canadian award is […]

Gone but not forgotten: A look at the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry

Ali Hackett, staff writer

April 4, 2012

It felt like a turning point. After years of requests by advocacy groups, the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry was finally about to begin. This was back in September, when Nexus covered the epidemic of missing and murdered women in BC. Many hoped that justice would be served. As the commission was preparing to launch […]

High-school poetry slammers to claim victory

Rose Jang, contributing writer

April 2, 2012

There won’t be any dusting off of tomes or reciting of iambic pentameter at Victorious Voices, the third annual high-school poetry slam championships. Instead, teams of students from six Greater Victoria high schools will perform spoken-word poems for a panel of judges including mayor Dean Fortin and poet laureate Janet Rogers. The performances will be […]

Charger Hilary Graham plays it cool

Jean Oliver, contributing writer

March 28, 2012

The Chargers women’s volleyball team were missing key players that day against the Douglas College Royals. Two powers were injured; a middle had dislocated one of her fingers. Coach Chris Dahl had considered second-year right side Hilary Graham as an outside hitter, but these depletions meant other players had to try different positions. “We had […]

Fernwood-based pirate radio station reflects on raid

Marielle Moodley, contributing writer

March 22, 2012

A local pirate radio station called Fernwood Autonomous Radio (FAR) was recently forced to shut down after Industry Canada caught wind of the station tapping into local FM airwaves and raided the station’s domestic location. Joey Chaos, the individual who started the pirate radio station in Fernwood that was raided on February 23, first came […]

Longwalkshortdock comes full circle

Dylan Wilks, staff writer

March 21, 2012

A childhood deeply immersed in gaming has come full circle for Dave King, the Vancouver-based electronic musician better known as Longwalkshortdock. “Growing up, those video games were what was the most interesting to me,” he says. “Other than sports and school, vids were my main interest because I didn’t really give a damn about girls […]

Music/theatre troupe tackles Waits

Rose Jang, contributing writer

March 21, 2012

L’Orchestre d’Hommes-Orchestres (LODHO) is a band of one-man bands: six of them, to be precise. And the half-band, half-theatre troupe (made up of Québec City natives) are taking a shot at Tom Waits on their current tour. “We’re six people working together around the notion of being a one-man band, which to us means being […]

Comics: March 21, 2012 issue

Libby Hopkinson, Ken MacKenzie

March 21, 2012

Earthy Edibles: Smooth as spiced citrus

Keira Zikmanis

March 21, 2012

One of my favourite memories of living in Brazil as a child is of the beautiful mangoes we would harvest from our backyard. I loved watching them ripen and swell from small, hard green fruits to juicy globes barely holding onto the branches. My brother would climb the tree and cut them down, the sticky […]

Double Teamed: Let’s text about sex, baby

Dylan Wilks and Clorisa Simpson

March 21, 2012

In honour of the relatively recent inclusion of the word “sexting” to the Oxford English Dictionary, we decided to talk about texting about sex. And Glee. Clorisa: So, “sexting” is now an official word in the Oxford English Dictionary. Which is interesting. It’s probably one of the newer words added in there. Dylan: They said […]