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On Canada Day, I joined the crowd at the Parliament Buildings. But this year it wasn’t a day filled with crowds of patriotic Canadians drunkenly singing “O Canada” to celebrate the colonial birth of their country. This year it was, as many rightfully called it, a very “unhappy birthday” celebration for Canada. And I have […]

Post-secondary protocol, if you actually stop and think about it, is extremely archaic. This year—2020—I’ve had instructors ask that all notes be taken by hand and electronics be turned off at the door; these instructors also didn’t use D2L. If you want to pick up or talk about assignments, you come to the instructor’s office […]

It’s a fine sunny summer morning in Victoria. There isn’t a sound save for the fan stirring warm air about in the corner, but I have to practice some deep breathing. I even put some Zen music on YouTube. It’s exactly what it sounds like—something that’s meant to help guests relax and get in touch […]

Following the death of George Floyd, every social media platform has been covered with support for the Black Lives Matter movement, often with updates on global protests or advice on how to be anti-racist. Although as a biracial Black woman I am immensely happy (and a little overwhelmed, if I am honest) to see the […]

BC is now in phase three of its provincial restart plan. It’s great that sectors of the economy that have been collecting dust open up, but the next few months of a slight increase in civilian and commercial spending won’t mean much if we need to shut down due to a second wave of COVID-19 […]

I’ve been working at Nexus in various capacities for a decade. I’ve seen countless students come and go, and I’ve been impressed countless times by the resourcefulness and resiliency of some of those students. As I sit here and absorb the news of the Camosun Chargers’ fall season being cancelled and the majority of classes […]

As an active member of our very strained society, I will say that, going forward, there should be nothing more important than speaking out against the way some of our RCMP officers currently treat and handle serious situations involving Black and Indigenous people. Whether it’s the shooting death of Chantel Moore or an RCMP officer […]

The institution of the police is not a force for good. I don’t care if you know “one of the good ones”—the institution is not good. Communities of colour, specifically Black and Indigenous communities, have been saying this for years, and it is profoundly violent that we’ve had to broadcast the murders of Black people […]

We’ve all heard—and at this point, probably glazed over while hearing—the word “unprecedented” at least once or twice lately. I’m only starting to realize now that, in most contexts, it was a misused and fey platitude used to describe a frightening scenario that we didn’t know what else to call. Labels serve an important function […]

Sometimes it’s really hard to make sense of what exactly the truth is. That’s just a reality that comes with so much information being available. Your everyday Joe Schmo debates in the comments section are one thing, but the world’s top epidemiologists, for example, disagreed on the fate of COVID-19 in a recent New York […]