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Bad times, bad times: The story “Federal cuts to BC mean fewer dollars for post-secondary education” in our September 5, 1995 issue talked about how there was set to be approximately $250 million in cuts to BC post-secondary over a three-year period. It’s easy to get bogged down in bad news in 2020, but, rest […]

Camosun is 100-percent open. Well, 100-percent open, but mainly remotely. Students are being directed to stay off campus unless they have a class or an appointment. It’s the smart thing to do; it’s the healthy thing to do; it’s the right thing to do. Speaking of the right thing to do, the political manoeuvre of […]

It was disheartening, to say the least, to hear the news about the Victoria resident who hosted not one but two parties over this past weekend. Three words went through my head when I first read the headlines about this: what the hell? The host was slapped with a $2,300 fine the first night. On […]

Living in an apartment built in the ’70s, in a unit facing the dark parking-lot pavement and located directly over both the boiler and the laundry room, isn’t a whole lot of fun by the time mid-August hits. Even with an air conditioner that sounds like a chain-smoking R2-D2, I’m constantly going to the fridge […]

It doesn’t matter who you are or where you are—the last five months, if nothing else, certainly have been novel. But now it’s almost September. It doesn’t feel like we’ve been doing this social dance—quickly moving over on the sidewalk or in the grocery store aisle so someone can get by without feeling vaguely violated—for […]

During her daily briefing on Tuesday, August 4, BC provincial health officer Bonnie Henry acknowledged the importance of children being in classroom settings when they’re learning. This importance can extend to both social and intellectual spheres. We all know how important childhood really is: it forms the rest of your life. A close second to […]

For obvious reasons, we took a break from printing copies of the paper this summer. One of the benefits that we lost there is that we usually make it very clear in the issues that you, Camosun College students, can—and should!—write for Nexus. So allow me to take a minute now to explain what normally […]

With what post-secondary education means evolving by the week, summer at Camosun could mean more now than it ever has. I once wrote an editor’s letter sitting under an oak in Beacon Hill Park looking at the ducks and hoping to see a peacock. Alas, one didn’t spread its wings, but I couldn’t help but […]

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 […]