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The leaves have fallen, the Thanksgiving dinner has been consumed, and tiny chocolate bars litter the aisles of grocery stores all over town. It’s finally spooky season! The best holiday of the year is coming up fast, and I’ve been working tirelessly on my annual “I put way too much effort into this” costume. I […]

Has truth ever felt so close to fiction? In the span of a month, there’s been a flood in my apartment (I woke up to water pouring through a live light fixture), a tree has fallen down outside Nexus HQ, and there’s a dead squirrel on the front steps of our office, all its insides seemingly sucked […]

Keep corporations out of post-secondary: Our October 2, 1995 issue featured a feisty student editorial written by Nick Yaremchuk. In it, Yaremchuk came out strong, saying “Let’s face it, large corporations have a foothold on Camosun College,” and went on to say how upset he was to see a Citibank Visa representative on campus trying […]

In Grade 10, my family heeded the advice of our doctor and we all got the annual flu shot. Now, I was raised a centrist on the matter of flu shots. The pros were obvious; so were the cons. Some years we got the shot, some years we didn’t. The last thing I want to […]

The next little while, until election day comes and goes and all the votes are counted, is as politically charged as it gets, municipally, provincially, nationally, and—considering we’re so close to the US election as well—internationally. And make no mistake about it: the COVID-19 crisis is at the forefront of everything. Some days, reading the […]

Easy solutions to complex problems: Our September 18, 1995 issue featured the Speak Up question “What is your response to the government turning over responsibility for student loans to the banks?” Camosun student Clark Stuart pulled no punches: “I am against the banks,” Stuart told us. “The money the banks make off of interest could […]

For months, I couldn’t stop worrying about what the fall was going to look like at Camosun. Were there even going to be enough students enrolled at the college to keep the lights on? How was productiveness and material absorption going to be affected with all these Zoom calls? While the answer to the latter […]

Either democracy is the most important, ethical, and sophisticated system of governance of all time or it is a wretched and ridiculous farce made pointless by the weight of its own stupidity. Personally, I believe it’s a bit of both. The BC NDP has decided that the election scheduled for October 16, 2021 will instead […]

On Friday, September 18, Saanich Police fined 11 UVic students for not adhering to physical distancing protocols and for openly consuming alcohol in public. It would appear those students aren’t learning too well: this is after police had to go to the university on Friday, September 12 to shut down a gathering on campus. The […]

As post-secondary students, part of what we deal with is future management. This means that, on or off campus, we students should never stop thinking about our futures, especially during a global pandemic. That’s why our post-secondary system works so well, and why it remains even more relevant during the COVID-19 crisis. Right now, we […]