Nature Tongue: Finding the pulse

One of the hardest and most beautiful things in my human experience is being an empath. Reality can’t lie when you feel it through paper-thin skin. The wind changes and it speaks through me; the tree shifts and I notice. When you feel the felt sense of the world, those whom hearts beat like drums […]

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25 Years Ago in Nexus: October 18, 2023 issue

Strike, you’re out: In our October 19, 1998, issue, Nexus reported on CUPE local 2081 members picketing outside of both Camosun College campuses due to a lack of wage increases. Students entering school the previous Friday had been met with college services impacted by the strike. This resulted in the library, cafeteria, registration, and childcare […]

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Kiryn’s Wellness Corner: Downward dog mornings

In my last couple of articles, I covered the warming effects of chair pose, the energizing effects of warrior lunges, and the importance of balancing blood sugar with natural high fibre and protein foods like nuts, seeds, and whole fruits. As we move toward the wetter west coast seasons of fall and winter, our bodies […]

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Kiryn’s Wellness Corner: Fighting the Halloween candy urges

Soon we’ll be seeing displays for Halloween, and all the candy that goes along with it. It’s tempting to make excuses for those miniature-sized treats, but it’s just a trick! You’re working away on your next assignment then, magically, a pile of empty little wrappers appears, equalling much more than just one regular-sized treat. There […]

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How to Be Found tale of determination and teen love

This is the first novel I’ve read by Vancouver-based author Emily Pohl-Weary, but it definitely won’t be the last. Her other works, such as Ghost Sick: A Poetry of Witness and Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril, have both won awards and showcased Pohl-Weary’s diverse writing style. How to Be Found is […]

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Not the Last Word: Hope through COVID

I remember it was close to Christmas in 2019 when a colleague of mine at Nexus was reading up on the coronavirus. He was always telling us that he believed “this thing is going to get bad.” I brushed off his fears as one might brush off the rantings of a conspiracy theorist. I thought […]

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