News Briefs: Skills training investment, scientific awards, new hike trail

Support staff contract ratification on horizon Things are looking promising for the ratification of Camosun College support staff’s new contract. The board of the Post-Secondary Employers’ Association (PSEA) recently ratified three other agreements for support staff at Capilano University, North Island College, and Vancouver Island University. Following the recent announcement made by advanced education, innovation […]

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Camosun student society joins critics of Enbridge pipeline

The proposition to build the Northern Gateway Pipeline–which could transport heavy crude bitumen to tankers which would then carry it to the US and China–from Bruderheim, Alberta to Kitimat, BC has had no shortage of critics. Those opposed to it are concerned about its potential economic and environmental impacts, while those in support of it […]

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20 years ago in Nexus

Huh?: Our January 25, 1993 issue featured an article titled “A woman and her wolf,” which was about a local woman and her pet… wolf. The animal, named Karpatheon, was “98% Timber wolf” who lived in James Bay in a “makeshift den in a basement suite.” Karpatheon enjoyed running through Beacon Hill Park and, as […]

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Open Space: Rethinking Protests

The first time I went to a protest on the lawn of the parliament buildings was a waste of time. My first real act of civil disobedience, I fully expected to be pepper sprayed, sucker-punched, and arrested by truncheon-wielding cops. I even had a 50/50 mix of Maalox and water in a spray bottle for […]

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Eye on campus: January 23 – February 4

Wednesday, January 30 Cinema Politica Camosun’s informative film series continues as Cinema Politica presents Call Me Salma, a documentary film about a young woman from Bangladesh who enters into the world of trans-sexuality. The film screens in Fisher 100, Lansdowne at 3 pm and is free and open to the public. Go to cinemapolitica.org/film/call-me-salma for […]

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