Evie the Alien: June 3, 2026 issue |
Magazine Issue
Shari Ulrich reflects on a changing industryBowen Island-based folk singer Shari Ulrich has had a decades-long career in music, acting, and television. Born in California, the two-time Juno Awards winner moved to Canada with her family in 1969 at 18, following the Kent State shootings and growing unrest surrounding the Vietnam War. Ulrich attributes the experiences of these turbulent times of […] Continue Reading |
Kinky Boots treads the boards at the Royal TheatreThe instances are few and far between that Victoria is favoured over Vancouver for touring Broadway productions, with it usually falling to our local theatre troupes to put on a local reproduction of the material. However, with Kinky Boots, local theatre company Broadway in Victoria have managed to land a big one. This fun-filled musical […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Unpaid internships deeply flawedWhile unpaid internships are often celebrated as a young adult’s first foray into the professional world, they have morphed into a deeply flawed practice that devalues merit, restricts socioeconomic mobility, and dismantles the standard university-to-career pipeline. By establishing a hard barrier that excludes low-to-average-income students while simultaneously inflating job requirements, unpaid internships deepen socioeconomic disparities […] Continue Reading |
Nexus newspaper June 3, 2026 full issueRead the full issue here. Continue Reading |
Brahms’ Requiem decent but underwhelming performanceA requiem is a religious ceremony or song composed to honour the deceased. In 1866, when legendary composer Johannes Brahms was 33, he started seriously writing Ein Deutsches Requiem, which he intended to write not as an expression of mourning, but a requiem for the living, to provide comfort. On Sunday, May 24, the Victoria […] Continue Reading |
Mortal Kombat II combines fatalities and forgettabilityIn 1992, the world was blessed with Mortal Kombat on the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo systems. At the time, this hyper-violent beat-’em-up played into growing fears of the burgeoning video-game industry, which was considered the means by which children would become shiftless degenerates and serial killers. This was on every news station and was […] Continue Reading |
Elion Wong returns to Camosun as men’s volleyball head coachElion Wong has been named head coach of the Camosun Chargers men’s volleyball team, returning to the program where he once competed as a student athlete. Wong played for the Chargers from 2015 to 2018, a successful period for the program, and has remained involved in the sport locally through club coaching, strength and conditioning […] Continue Reading |
News Briefs: June 3, 2026 issueCamosun students win at Skills Canada BC Several Camosun College Pipe Trades students recently took home awards at the Skills Canada BC competition. Sprinkler fitter Ty Lindquist got bronze; refrigeration and AC mechanic Rachel Anderson took home silver; gold-medalists Parm Singh, plumber, and Matt Stewart, steamfitter/pipefitter, are now going on to represent Camosun on Team […] Continue Reading |
Will Ferguson delivers successful new collection of essaysMeanwhile, Back in Nokomis: Tales from Canada and Elsewhere by Will Ferguson is a witty, reflective, and distinctly Canadian collection of essays that blends travel writing, memoir, cultural commentary, and humour. Ferguson began this book as a way to compile essays that went unused in his career as a travel writer and then filled in […] Continue Reading |