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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 […]

Rallies will be taking place all over the world this week in honour of the day that the Tibetan uprising against the Chinese People’s Liberation Army began. Tenzin Lhundup is an event organizer for the local Victoria march and the son of two Tibetan refugees who fled the country after the failed uprising in 1959. […]

Anyone who feels that the world is not hitting its full potential, or that it’s actually descending into an even deeper mess of discrimination, pollution, and corruption, will want to check out the Sierra Club BC’s upcoming event at Camosun College, When We Are Bold. Four activist women will speak at the event: Casey Camp-Horinek, […]

Part of the Victoria Beer Week series since it began three years ago, the Drink in the Story event held on Tuesday, March 7 put the spotlight on three men that have not only become stars in their own right but have also helped to shape the industry. The first speaker of the night was […]

Where can you learn the basics of brewing and the history of provincial prohibition in BC while drinking some delicious craft beer, all in one afternoon? If you answered “beer school,” move to the head of the class. Beer School is of interest for students studying microbiology, business, hotel and restaurant management, engineering, and digital […]

Victoria Beer Week kicked off on Friday, March 3 with the Friday Night Casks event; a diverse group of craft beer fans braved chilly temperatures outside the Victoria Public Market on Douglas Street to sample brews. The non-profit Victoria Beer Week Society organizes this event each year, for the betterment of the Victoria craft beer […]

Camosun College students who are nervous about exams, stressed out by an overload of work, or feeling kind of gloomy because of the weather this time of year are in luck: the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) is hosting their annual De-Stress Fest on March 8, at the Interurban campus’ main causeway. CCSS clubs and […]

On February 21, British Columbia’s Budget 2017 was released, with one very noteworthy inclusion for students: in it, the government announced that interest charged on all post-secondary student loans will now be limited to the prime rate. Interest charges in BC previously averaged prime plus two percent to five percent, one of the highest rates […]

One of the albums that always seemed to be close to me throughout my childhood was Tom Cochrane’s 1991 release Mad Mad World. As I walked into the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre on February 28 to check out Cochrane’s stop here in Victoria on the 25th anniversary tour for the album, the lack of people at […]

I Am Not Your Negro 4/5 I Am Not Your Negro (2017), centered around narration by Samuel L. Jackson from James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript Remember This House, is a powerful piece of filmmaking—it’s a documentary with more nuance than most, especially docs that attempt to tackle the same difficult subject matter: race, class, and human […]