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Within the pages of Victoria author Tom Hawthorn’s new book, The Year Canadians Lost Their Minds and Found Their country: The Centennial of 1967, readers will discover the history of Canada’s 100-year-anniversary and how our nation was forever transformed after 1967. “Canada was marking its 100th birthday of its founding and the government had decided […]

Students at Camosun College have varying opinions over which candidate to cast their ballot for in the upcoming BC provincial elections. About a third of the people Nexus spoke to on a recent May morning said they supported the Green Party, a third said they supported the NDP, and another third said they were undecided. […]

As anyone who is familiar with the plays of Harold Pinter—who won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature—will attest, his works are notoriously unconventional, requiring a deft and figuratively minded hand for everything from set dressing to movement direction to be executed effectively. I’m happy to report that Jacob Richmond’s production of The Caretaker has […]

Having attended a university-prep school with a notable performing arts program, I was no stranger to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde going into this play. As I took my seat in the intimate Langham Court theatre, which is full of timeless character and faint smells of oak, I wondered if I was in for another […]

From the wonderful and imaginative mind of novelist and Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro comes Alice Munro Stories, two hour-long plays based, word for word, on two of her short stories. Alice Munro Stories, which is running at the Belfry Theatre, invoke a sense of instant curiosity, some laughs, and maybe even a tear or […]

Legendary American poet Robert Frost once said that “a poem begins as a lump in the throat… a homesickness, a lovesickness.” Some of the contestants for this year’s slam-poetry competition Victorious Voices could definitely say that rings true for them. This year’s alumnus of honour Sam Ferraby writes any chance he gets, and doing so […]

Tensions continue to rise between the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) and Selkirk College Students’ Union (SCSU), with the CFS allegedly threatening legal action against SCSU, according to a press release sent out by SCSU on March 21. The SCSU has sent a petition to the CFS asking to hold a referendum in which students […]

Students of Camosun’s Comics and Graphic Novels program are getting ready to showcase their work at the fifth annual Camosun Comic Arts Festival. Program co-creator and instructor Ken Steacy (Camosun instructor Joan Steacy, Ken’s wife, is the other co-creator) says the projects on display at the event—running from noon to 5 pm on Saturday, April […]

The Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) had three times the amount of students vote in their recent student election, which took place from April 3 to 5, compared to their average turnout. 1,223 students voted out of 9,369 currently registered at Camosun, a voter turnout much larger than the CCSS average of approximately 400. The […]

The British Columbia Federation of Students (BCFS) are running a non-partisan voter registration campaign called Students are Voting, which aims to get students and members of the community registered to vote in the BC provincial elections on May 9. Representatives from BC Elections will be organizing stations on campus to prepare students for the election […]