{"id":11617,"date":"2016-02-03T06:08:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T14:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=11617"},"modified":"2016-02-02T09:15:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T17:15:48","slug":"25-years-ago-in-nexus-february-3-2016-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2016\/02\/03\/25-years-ago-in-nexus-february-3-2016-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"25 years ago in<\/em> Nexus: February 3, 2016 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nexus-1-11-FOR-WEB\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Window-man saga continues:<\/b> We\u2019ve been reporting on the strange saga of \u201cthe man in the window\u201d for the past few issues here in this column because, apparently, back in 1991 that was a big deal around Camosun. In a nutshell, a cardboard cutout of a man went missing from Camosun\u2019s Audio\/Visual department. In our February 5, 1991 issue, the story \u201cMan in window for ransom?\u201d detailed a ransom letter that Camosun\u2019s A\/V department received; demands for the safe return of \u201cCam Olsun\u201d (the cardboard man) (I am not making this up) involved the college dealing with their parking at the time, which those who kidnapped Olsun saw as a problem. \u201cMy main concern is the safe return of Cam,\u201d A\/V employee Ken Whitehead said in the story. Guess you had to be here in 1991 for any of this to make any sense.<\/p>\n

Sounds familiar: <\/b>In the story \u201cArab-Canadian students harassed by CSIS,\u201d the Canadian Arab Federation (CAF) said that Arab-Canadian students involved with anti-war movements were being harassed by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). Apparently, these students were photographed by CSIS during protests; CSIS then circulated their photos to \u201cmembers of the Arab community\u201d for identification. The story said that in the previous two weeks, the CAF had received complaints from approximately 30 Arab-Canadians about CSIS agents approaching them for information.<\/p>\n

GST opinions: <\/b>We talked to a handful of students to get their thoughts on the then-new GST for this issue. Unsurprisingly, reactions were not good. Students thought the tax was \u201cpretty bad,\u201d said that \u201cIt does bother me,\u201d and said that they \u201chave negative thoughts about it.\u201d But the best was the stunned tone of writer Chantal Costaz, who wrote, \u201cConsumers walked around on January 1 in awe, paying tax on almost everything they looked at, even a cup of coffee.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Window-man saga continues: We\u2019ve been reporting on the strange saga of \u201cthe man in the window\u201d for the past few issues here in this column because, apparently, back in 1991 that was a big deal around Camosun. In a nutshell, a cardboard cutout of a man went missing from Camosun\u2019s Audio\/Visual department. In our February […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views","category-february-3-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11619,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617\/revisions\/11619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}