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I’ve been waiting 18 months to write this student editor’s letter and to say this: we’re back. The full return to campus is in motion. It’s exciting to be back; in one sense, it feels like it’s only been a few days since I last walked the corridors of Camosun’s campuses. In another sense, it […]

Change is the only constant, but, in some ways, things don’t change too much. It’s a horrible cliche, but it’s true. What I’m getting at is that we’re in for another rocky fall semester. The false starts are taxing. Economically, we need to buy into it—literally—but I’m getting to a point where I want to […]

Googling current wildfire activity for BC is terrifying. The province is a cluster of multi-coloured dots, each one indicating a fire, with an orange flame emoji beside the ones that are considered of note. And it’s starting to become a concern close to home: outside my building, signage has been posted informing smokers to use […]

Are we ready for a return to campus? I know that this is the question floating through students’ and instructors’ minds, through the airwaves, and all over social media. We’ve gone through 18 months of mask wearing, vaccinations, sanitization stations at every corner, people fighting in the aisles of supermarkets over which direction to go, […]

I’m a pretty paranoid person. I’m the guy my doctor snickers at when they see me in the waiting room. That’s not a lump, they must be thinking. It’s your big toe. My guesses about how lockdown would impact me long term were off the mark. It had less to do with the actual fear […]

Being a student means studying late, downing double doubles, and, sometimes, not doing as well as you might have hoped on a test. It means communicating with teachers when you don’t quite get it; it means meeting deadlines; it means being an adult and not just hoping for the best. Luckily, it also means getting […]

We all catch ourselves complaining about bills. Rent transfers, credit cards, interest payment IOUs—sometimes the list is endless. I often think of how I could buy a house in Saskatchewan for a fraction of what I’d pay here. Of course, in a moment of poignant irony, that thought usually comes knocking during moments of reflection […]

I’m a bit older than the average Camosun student. I grew up in the early 2000s, which means that textbooks, schoolyard conversations, and commercials were full of information like “The worst impacts of climate change could be irreversible by 2030.” It scared us, but at the time, I thought, “30 years is still a while; […]

Getting a tattoo is a really personal decision. Some people are covered in them; some have one or two; some cringe at the thought of permanently mutilating their body. I love them; I’ve got many. Each one is loaded with meaning, and I got each one at a particular location for a particular reason. Last […]

One of the things I’m constantly telling our writers is to never use exclamation marks in journalism, yet here I am, in a headline, sneaking one in. Hey, we’re all a mess of contradictions, right? Right. Anyway, you should remember to never use exclamation marks when you write for us (unless you’re using it for […]