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Billy-Ray Belcourt—a poet who currently teaches at the University of Alberta and is reading at Camosun College on Thursday, October 3—had his most recent book, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field, published earlier this month. It’s just the latest achievement for Belcourt, who became the youngest person in history to win the Griffin Poetry […]

News reports circulated this weekend about $10,000 in gas-powered landscaping equipment being stolen from Camosun’s Lansdowne campus on Saturday. However, Camosun has confirmed to Nexus that the thefts actually happened on Labour Day Weekend. The equipment was stolen from a storage building in the main parking lot off Foul Bay Road. Camosun executive director of communications […]

Chicago playwright Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone, playing now at Victoria’s Theatre Inconnu, fits completely into the category of “mind-bender,” which, in a nutshell, covers anything that can dramatically and rapidly cause your thought pattern to go “…eh?” The play’s protagonist, Jean, played by Inconnu regular Melissa Blank, is one of those likeable and slightly […]

Sometimes really difficult decisions have to be made. We make them based on feelings, values, and information that we have at that moment in time. They don’t always feel like the right decisions, but, hopefully, they turn out to be the right ones. Langham Court’s first play of the season, Over the River and Through […]

If you don’t want to join the strike this week, you’re living in a bubble. On Friday, your Camosun classmates will walk out, but if you don’t participate you’re living in denial and making climate destruction someone else’s problem. But, to quote 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg at her address to the UN Climate Action […]

It’s rare that I feel surprised these days. It’s true—I’ve reached the proverbial plain of middle age, where experiences, feelings, and adventures all have the distinct sense of having been lived before. Hence, when I left for the Belfry last night to catch the opening performance of The Children, I was all set to have a […]

To celebrate the launch of our new website, today we are giving away two tickets to the Great Canadian Beer Festival. The tickets will get you into the festivities on Friday, September 6 (the fest runs from 4 pm until 9 pm on Friday, and then is open again from 12 pm to 5 pm […]

Victoria melodic death metal band Scimitar is set to release their second album Shadows of Man a day ahead of the 2019 Vancouver Island Metal Festival, where they will be performing. Drummer (and Camosun and Nexus alumnus) Clayton Basi, who graduated from the Applied Communication Program in 2011—calls the album a natural progression, one that was in […]

A consent agreement released by the British Columbia College of Nursing Professionals on June 19 has given more details on student complaints arising from a Camosun field trip to the Philippines in 2016. The report says that former Camosun Nursing instructor and chair Stephen Bishop “took several hundred photographs of his students in their bathing […]

The Victoria Operatic Society (VOS) mounts theatre productions twice a year; with RENT and Shrek the Musical already under their belts, the assumption was VOS was done for 2019. However, that’s not the case: VOS recently announced a surprise third show, Nunsense. “This is kind of unusual for VOS,” admits director Doug Crockett. “We don’t normally—or haven’t in […]