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December 9, 2009

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Taking the piss out of the Olympics

January 1, 2010
- Views

I see so many people so pumped up about the Olympics and I just don’t get it. So allow me to provide some...

Copenhagen climate accord avoids legally binding goals

December 31, 2009
- News

KELOWNA, B.C. (CUP) – While the Copenhagen Accord, released to the world in December, recognized the problem of climate change, it contained no...

Desert Bus for Hope raises $140k

December 30, 2009
- News

KELOWNA, BC (CUP)–After more than five straight days of gaming, Internet sketch comedy group LoadingReadyRun were wracked with exhaustion in their Victoria headquarters...

2009’s 10 best albums

December 22, 2009
- Arts

With 2010 on the horizon, it’s time to look back and reflect on just what happened in 2009. It was a good year...

Words are the best gift of all

December 21, 2009
- Views

For most people in this city, the holiday season begins in earnest as a kind of home-stretch gallop by the first week of...

Winter sucks, time to get drunk: Top 3 holiday beers

December 20, 2009
- Life

Howling gales. Wind whipping at your back as you trudge to class. Rain pelting your face at a bus stop. Exams. Christmas shopping....

Communicating well takes more than words

December 19, 2009
- Views

SACKVILLE, N.B. (CUP) – Have you noticed how Starbucks is constantly making up new kinds of specialty coffee? A cursory glance at their...

Cell-phone ban gets mixed student reaction

December 19, 2009
- News

In a move that’s angered some student drivers, the provincial government laid down a law on Oct. 21 prohibiting the use of electronic...

Quick Bites: Vic's Steakhouse and Bar

December 18, 2009
- Columns

Vic’s Steakhouse and Bar 4/5 bites 345 Quebec, 250–480–6585 Dining at Vic’s Steakhouse and Bar is expensive for students. For starters, I ordered...

Metal borne from the Cowichan Valley

December 18, 2009
- Arts

High voltage. Many words can be used to describe bands these days, but those two words perfectly sum up Cowichan Valley-based death/black metal...

Chill on the slopes over the holidays

December 17, 2009
- Sports

Many students are stressing over the end of the semester and the hectic schedule that goes with it, but some can see the...

Minority squared

December 16, 2009
- Columns

Society is so worried about supporting minorities that we forget about those who are a minority within a minority. I am a gay...

Book review: Away from Everywhere

December 16, 2009

Away from Everywhere By Chad Pelley (Breakwater) Trying to get rid of the winter doldrums with a cup of tea and a good...

Local arts school gets results

December 15, 2009
- Arts

Most wouldn’t expect the prestigious Canadian College of Performing Arts (CCPA), which draws students from across Canada and around the world, to be...

A people’s history of the Richmond House

December 14, 2009
- Campus

Vancouver Island resident Linda Gelaude looks at Camosun’s Richmond House differently than most people. The building, tucked away on the quiet northwest corner...

Spielberg in Stilettos: DVD review

December 14, 2009
- Arts

Carriers Starring: Lou Taylor Pucci, Chris Pine, Piper Perabo, Emily VanCamp Directed by Alex and David Pastor Runtime: 84 minutes Those actually thinking...

Inside Out: Tabitha Foulkes

December 13, 2009
- Columns

Tabitha Foulkes Tabitha Foulkes is a 20-year-old student from Cortes Island. She is in her second year of the University Transfer program at...

Camosun students volunteer to unwind

December 12, 2009
- Campus

With exam time looming, most students are concentrating on getting those last assignments finished and handed in. But not every student just has...

Big Screen Reviews

December 12, 2009
- Arts

Fantastic Mr. Fox Love him or hate him, Wes Anderson (the Darjeeling Limited, Rushmore) is a scrupulous stylist who possesses both vision and...

Nursing knows no borders

December 11, 2009
- Campus

Cleverly combining her two passions of nursing and travel, former Camosun nursing student Kathryn Wootton is one of the lucky ones who, over...

Inter-Course: Tipping tips and dildo doubts

December 11, 2009
- Columns

Dear Keltie, I’m 19 and this is my first year at Camosun. I met my current boyfriend here in September, and I really...

New CCSS director tells tale of hope

December 10, 2009
- Campus

Chris Marks is a busy man. Not only is Marks the current Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) students with disabilities director, he’s also...

Salmon Kings struggling so far this year

December 10, 2009
- Sports

The Victoria Salmon Kings have been spawning in the wrong direction. Instead of swimming upstream, they’ve been falling in the standings. The team...

Delta Epsilon Chi a frat that means business

December 9, 2009
- Campus

The name Delta Epsilon Chi (DEC) may conjure up images of beer-slugging, toga-wearing, lady-chasing frat boys, but this Camosun College student club has...

Crisis line faces an uncertain future

December 9, 2009
- News

Victoria’s NEED Crisis and Information Line may be hanging up their phones for good. A volunteer service that relies on Vancouver Island Health...

Local live and loud: Dec. 9-31

December 9, 2009
- Arts

Saturday, Dec. 12 Felix Cartal, Sex With Strangers, Celebrity Traffic, Missing Children Sugar, 9 pm, $15 Vancouver’s prolific MC Felix Cartal will be...

News briefs: Possible referendums and jazz cigarettes

December 9, 2009
- News

CCSS referendum chronicles The Camosun College Student Society had another meeting recently and discussed a possible referendum to ask students for more money....

Choose your own holiday tradition

December 9, 2009
- Feature

I come from a Dutch family, and one of my most vivid memories of Christmas was when I was eight years old, living...

Eggnog, rum, and the lash

December 9, 2009
- Views

Each December, as the wind gets colder and the night grows darker, thoughts invariably turn towards “peace on Earth” platitudes and maudlin Jimmy...

Camosun presents year-round film series

December 9, 2009
- Arts

With the growing need for a sense of community at Camosun’s Lansdowne campus, English instructor Jeanne Iribarne and her colleagues set about forming...

Democracy Now! co-founder speaks in Victoria

December 8, 2009
- News

Democracy Now! co-founder Amy Goodman touched on almost every hot-button issue in the United States in a recent 90-minute talk at UVic. But...

UVic and CCSS at odds over CFS

December 7, 2009
- News

Mind your own business, Camosun. That’s the message of a recent motion put forward by UVic Students’ Society director-at-large Kelsey Hannan in response...

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