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This is part 2 of a 2-part story looking at the challenges international students face at Camosun College. Part 1 featured international students talking about their concerns. Camosun International manager of student services Gulcan Barclay says that the college has been talking with international insurance providers GuardMe about the possibility to extend the three-month period […]

Camosun College has 1,900 international students, according to its website. Many of these students are a long way away from home. Travelling to a new country, learning a new language, and integrating into another culture is an exciting process, but it can also be daunting. The very nature of integrating into a completely new culture […]

Friday, December 6 to Sunday, December 8 Let’s get consensual So a cool thing to learn while nursing those winter blues might be how to say and how to accept the word “no.” Local sex educator Corinne Diachuk is teaching the Wheel of Consent workshop on language around the all the nuances of consent; the […]

’Twas the night of beer fest, where all through the stadium, not a drink cup was left empty, not even for a moment. The beer signs were hung from the rafters with care in hopes that drink tokens would soon be spent there. The patrons were nestled all snug in the stands while barley and […]

The Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) has pledged to match donations up to $12,000 for Giving Tuesday this year. Leading up to December 3—Giving Tuesday—individuals and organizations can make donations that will go to the Erasing Barriers to Education emergency student-assistance fund at Camosun. The college has set a goal of $25,000 in donations this […]

A mother (played by Wendy Cornock) mourns the death of her husband (Jon Hunwick)—who died putting the star on top of their Christmas tree one year ago—with their daughter, Janice (Fiona Wright-Jones). Unable to cope, Janice and her mother find themselves falling deeper into their depression while neglecting both themselves and their apartment. There seems […]

I had never actually seen the musical Mamma Mia! before. I knew it was filled with music from legendary Swedish pop band ABBA. I also knew it has continually been a smash hit on Broadway, which made me somewhat trepidatious—could VOS Musical Theatre bring that big, ballsy, bursting-with-disco-fever musical production to life on our sweet, smallish […]

I felt when I left the house tonight that I could easily have stayed home and been content listening to the rain on the roof with a cat on my lap. Still, I had asked my editor a month ago if I could review Alice’s Gift; I was intrigued by the subject matter. It turns […]

Zone 91.3 radio host Jon Williams has raised over $10,000 for local mental-health related charity by creating and selling T-shirts with his radio sign-off slogan printed on them. “The whole point of what I hope to achieve in radio is to impact and be positive within the community and to lead by example,” says Williams. […]

Graduation Speech Maintenance Required (Black Numbers) 4/5 “Getting lost in the music” is the perfect way to explain what happens when spinning Graduation Speech’s new five-song EP, Maintenance Required. The EP is a great way to get the day started, to pass time waiting for the bus, or to get re-energized during a work break. Maintenance […]