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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 […]

With all the exciting events taking place across the world recently, we Canadians often forget that we have our own issues to deal with right here in the great white north. For example, our federal and provincial politicians must be held accountable for their actions, and British Columbia’s governing party is long overdue for some scrutiny. […]

The Camosun College Foundation’s TRADEmark of Excellence campaign recently received the largest donation in the history of the college. The $1-million donation is from the Gwyn Morgan and Patricia Trottier Foundation and will go toward funding a new program: Camosun Empowering Women in Trades. Camosun president Sherri Bell is pleased about what the donation will […]

Despite the Camosun Chargers losing the gold medal match of the national Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) women’s volleyball championship—held between Wednesday, March 8 and Saturday, March 11 at Interurban’s Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence—to the Lakeland Rustlers, Chargers women’s volleyball coach Chris Dahl is in good spirits, because it was the best national women’s […]

What a way to end a fantastic week. On Saturday, March 11, I headed down to Centennial Square for Victoria Beer Week’s final event, Lift Off. Luckily, the rain stopped for the better part of the festivities, which was a chance for BC brewers to show off new beers to the public for the first […]

Elton John, two weeks shy of 70, kicked off a double header in Victoria last night. I saw him on his last visit to the city in February of 2011, not all that long ago, but there is still next to nothing that can prepare you for an Elton John show. His extended piano solos […]

In Intrepid Theatre, which is so tiny and intimate that the audience feels like part of the action, three women occupy a room, sometimes at once and other times alone. The play is Blind Portrait, featuring three women, and three thirds of a single mind tangled up in an inner conflict with herself. These three […]

If you’d asked me a year ago if I liked sours, I’d have said no. However, I do my best to welcome change, and I’m open to trying new things. Victoria Beer Week’s Pucker Up event on Thursday, March 9 went the extra mile to change my opinion. While sour beers are a relatively new […]