Chargers look back on nationals, push on through off-season

Fresh from recently hosting the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) national volleyball championships, the Camosun Chargers are heading into the off-season. Although the Chargers may not have had the result they would have liked at the tournament, men’s volleyball head coach Charles Parkinson says that they’re trying to brush off those results and move forward. […]

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Know Your Profs: Camosun’s David Armstrong just can’t get a break

Know Your Profs is an ongoing series of profiles on the instructors at Camosun College. Every issue we ask a different instructor at Camosun the same 10 questions in an attempt to get to know them a little better. This issue we talked to Camosun Hospitality Management instructor David Armstrong about teaching multiple generations, his […]

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Kinder Morgan pipeline inspires student to fight for change

The controversy surrounding the Kinder Morgan pipeline has inspired a Camosun student to put together a campaign to educate people on the impacts of the project. The Stop Kinder Morgan Teach In, co-organized by first-year University Transfer student Andrew Swain, will be held in the Library Learning Commons multi-purpose room, on the Lansdowne campus, on […]

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Camosun’s Cultural Showcase comes back to educate and dazzle

Camosun College is no stranger to events from different cultures; the college’s annual Cultural Showcase is no exception. The event gives Camosun students from all over the world a chance to educate and present their culture to a large audience. Second-year Mechanical Engineering student Djibril Diallo says that the festival, which has been running for […]

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Students use food as a tool for reconciliation at upcoming event

Students from Camosun Hospitality Management class Integrated Events Management (HMGT 286) will be facilitating Food Sovereignty and Reconciliation with the Songhees Nation at the Songhees Wellness Centre on March 23. The event will feature traditional food and a presentation about food sovereignty and reconciliation. “The event will start with the greetings and opening ceremony, and […]

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Chargers to host national volleyball championships

The Camosun Chargers men’s volleyball team will be hosting the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) national volleyball championships at the Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence (PISE) at Interurban this month. The championships will take place from March 7 to March 10; Chargers men’s volleyball player and fourth-year Sports Management student Doug Waterman says that, for […]

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Symposium shines light on college’s coffee-cup problem

On Tuesday, January 23, The Curse of the Coffee Cup, a symposium about the environmental impacts of disposable coffee cups, was simulcast at Camosun College’s two campuses. The event focused on how we can reduce or eliminate the use of paper and plastic coffee cups at Camosun. “Camosun has for the past five or six […]

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