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Representatives from six different faiths spoke before a diverse audience at the eleventh annual World Religions Conference at UVic on Sunday night to discuss one thing: how do we work together to perform good works? The panelists included a speaker from each of the following faiths: Islam, Christianity, Baha’i, Metaphysical, Hinduism, and Sikhism. Rizwan Pirzada, […]

Man Proposes, God Disposes, Vancouver-based director Daniel Leo’s first film, is an artful movie about the beauty and chaos that comes with the decisions and consequences associated with adulthood. It’s a story about an unplanned interracial and intercontinental pregnancy and the ensuing struggle to make things work. Set in Poland and Brazil, with powerful, artistic […]

Photon, directed by Norman Leto, is an impressive documentary presenting current scientific theory regarding the formation and the behavior of the cosmos. It starts at the beginnings of the universe, goes through various ages of the Earth and evolution, and gives some predictions of the future. Using an effective combination of models and microscope footage […]

Award-winning Canadian-Jamaican director Charles Officer presents a passionate observation of the Greater Toronto housing crisis in Unarmed Verses. The film takes a heart-wrenching look at a low-income ethnic community’s struggle in the looming threat of becoming displaced due to condo development. In the movie, one 12-year-old girl from the Caribbean island of Antigua is followed […]

“They sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” These Billy Joel lyrics certainly ring true for Montreal-born, Victoria-based musician Vince Vaccaro, especially when he’s playing live. A few songs into Vaccaro’s show at Capital Ballroom on Saturday, January 20, I found myself wondering, after […]

Getting that perfect photo can be hard; for photographer Ami Vitale, getting the right photo means spending time learning the stories of wherever she is. Vitale is a photographer for National Geographic and an ambassador for Nikon; she has spent time in almost 100 countries honing her art and telling the stories of the people […]

It seems the powers that be have succeeded in erasing Canada’s diverse identity and left her citizens apathetic, resentful, and intolerant. We’ve been sold the notion that we mustn’t draw attention to what makes us different from one another because “they” are too delicate to handle our differences. But Canada was founded on cultural differences. […]

This month, local collective Period Posse is running a drive for menstrual products through the Victoria Cool Aid Society. Period Posse organizer and University of Victoria student Lindsay Shaw says that the drive is especially important to those who are struggling. “It impacts any menstruating person who’s maybe living at the margins and has a […]

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark The Punishment of Luxury (B-Sides/Bonus Material) 4/5 Legendary English synth-pop group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) released their thirteenth album, The Punishment of Luxury, in September of this year. They’re now releasing the B-sides and bonus material off the album, and even on these non-album cuts, the sound of […]

The Rolling Stones On Air (Interscope Records) 3.5/5 There are very few bands that I hold to such ridiculously high standards as I do The Rolling Stones. Their music has changed the lives of three generations; I’m hard pressed to think of another band that’s done that in the way the Stones have. Their latest […]