Now that’s inflation: In our January 12, 1998 issue, we reported that students were threatening to protest Camosun’s high parking fees. At the time, students were forced to pay $2 a day for parking at the campus. I wish: $2 in 1998 equates to around $3.36 today, and parking all day costs $6.50 now.
Wonder what he thought of 2022: In this issue, Nexus writer Ryan Guenther reviewed all the events that made him angry in 1997 (and there were a lot). He talks about Princess Diana and Mother Teresa dying, as well as feeling annoyance from seeing OJ Simpson on the news constantly and the Hong Kong government killing 1.3 million chickens “because some of them had the flu” (six people died from the H5N1 virus). According to Guenther, the only good thing about 1997 was that it ended. See page 6 for our look back on 2022.
Environmentalist predicts island doom: A piece in this issue talked about environmentalist Guy Dauncey, who was speaking weekly at Kaleidoscope Theatre, calling for change. Dauncey wanted deforestation, overdevelopment, and overuse of fossil fuels to stop. Otherwise, he predicted forest fires in the summer and flooding and erosion in the fall and winter. He wasn’t that far off…