“A huge disappointment”: Camosun Chargers cancel fall seasonAs a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Camosun Chargers have decided to cancel their fall season. The Camosun Chargers are made up of the women’s and men’s volleyball teams, the women’s and men’s basketball teams, and the golf team. Camosun vice president of student experience Heather Cummings says that the decision is a “huge […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Chargers fall 2020 season cancelledThe Camosun Chargers announced today that their fall 2020 season has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 crisis. The Chargers are part of the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association and the Pacific Western Athletic Association; both organizations have cancelled their seasons and championships. The Chargers student teams include women’s and men’s volleyball, women’s and men’s basketball, […] Continue Reading |
Time to Buy BC campaign encourages consumers to buy from local alcohol producersAs of April 14, BC’s alcohol industry has united in an initiative to mitigate the economic downturn resulting from the COVID-19 crisis. The Time to Buy BC campaign encourages consumers to prioritize smaller manufacturers from within the province when purchasing beer, wine, and spirits. BC Craft Brewers Guild executive director Ken Beattie says that the […] Continue Reading |
Chargers basketball teams wind down 2019-20 seasonThe Camosun Chargers men’s and women’s basketball teams recently finished their 2019-20 seasons. The men’s team finished the regular season with 8 wins and 10 losses, going on to win the PACWEST provincial bronze medal from Okanagan College with a final score of 84-70. The women’s team ended off the regular season with 7 wins […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Chargers get new student athlete from down underThe Camosun Chargers women’s basketball team have a new player, and she’s come all the way from Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Codi Tiedeman is here playing for the Chargers for the rest of the winter semester. Tiedeman, a first-year Marketing student, was contacted by Chargers women’s basketball head coach Justin Thiessen last year. “He contacted […] Continue Reading |
Ghostly Walks looking at spooky Victoria locales a Halloween hitWith the start of the Halloween season comes a chill in the air. The smell of fallen leaves floats on crisp, chilling winds. Also, warm drinks are back in full swing. But, yes: it’s the time of year when people start to think of ghouls and ghosts. I recently went on one of Victoria’s Ghostly […] Continue Reading |
Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames bring pre-season excitement to VictoriaTickets had sold out within minutes. The people came in droves and the energy in the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre was absolutely electric last night as the Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames had a sold-out pre-season game here in Victoria for 7,006 fans. The Canucks limbered up goaltending prospect Michael DiPietro for his first start of […] Continue Reading |
The Great Canadian Beer Festival 2019: The Nexus reviewThere’s not much we won’t do for you, our faithful readers. We work around the clock when we need to, we file Freedom of Information requests, we sprout early grey hairs doing stressful interviews, and, sometimes, we drink a lot of beer. For you, faithful readers, of course. Usually we spread out our review of […] Continue Reading |
The Great Canadian Beer Festival returns with more breweries than everIt makes sense to assume that The Great Canadian Beer Festival—Canada’s oldest beer fest, now in its 27th year—is a well-oiled machine, stumbling along status quo, quaffing a few sours and stouts along the way. But there’s big changes behind the scenes in 2019: the Victoria Beer Society (VBS) took over operations of the fest […] Continue Reading |
Maritime Museum launches exhibit about the state of oceansThe Great Pacific Garbage Patch is exactly what it sounds like it is: 80,000 tonnes of our shit floating in the ocean. Broken down, that’s the weight of roughly 500 jumbo jets, or about 250 pieces of garbage for every human being walking this planet. The Maritime Museum of BC’s exhibit The Great Pacific Garbage […] Continue Reading |
