News Briefs: July 13, 2016 issue

Camosun gets money for women in trades Camosun College has received $300,000 from the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation to increase the number of women in trades programs. According to a press release, Camosun currently has 144 women enrolled in trades and is aiming to increase that number to 500 by 2020 with the money. […]

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Seaweed guide revamped and reissued for 2016

Talk about cult classic. Pacific Seaweeds: A Guide to Common Seaweeds of the West Coast was originally published 15 years back, to the delight of… one would imagine very few, as this is about as niche as niche gets. But here we are, a decade and a half later, and the book has sold 10,000 […]

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Open Space: Arresting addicts not helpful for anyone

I’m not saying that students should be snorting coke off desks in the middle of class or shooting up in the bathroom of Fisher, but heroin, cocaine, and other illicit drugs absolutely need to be decriminalized. It’s a no-brainer. Portugal, for example, has seen drug-related deaths drop from around 400 a year to around 290 […]

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To See or Not to See: Over the moon for Moonstruck

Moonstruck 4.5/5 I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: no other genre of film has more potential to be transcendental than the rom-com, which is why it’s also so easy for rom-coms to go wildly and disastrously astray. Moonstruck (1987) lands itself a spot among the transcendental; it’s in the upper echelon of […]

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Of the Land – local indigenous voices: Why oh why, oh Canada?

While parades unfold, barbecues blaze, and fireworks launch in celebration of Canada Day, I find it more important than ever to critically engage with Canadian identity. The reality is that we are a diverse country with a vast array of identities, knit together on contiguous land yet apart because of our different access to power: […]

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Camosun students bring home medals from national competition

Several Camosun College students recently returned from Moncton, New Brunswick with medals they won at the 2016 Skills Canada National Competition. Every year, trades and technology students compete in over 40 skilled trade and technology categories in regional, provincial, national, and international levels at Skills Canada competitions. Skills Canada then creates a national team from […]

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The Bi-weekly Gamer: Something new with Overwatch

I’ve been playing a lot of the new game Overwatch. As a first-person shooter with aspects of LoL, Team Fortress 2, and Call of Duty thrown in, it’s honestly a good game. (I didn’t think I would ever be saying that, as I despise Blizzard, the game company that made Overwatch, due to their policies, […]

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New Music Revue: Consilience’s Under Our Bed a soothing listen

Consilience Under Our Bed (independent) 4/5 Edmonton’s Consilience is the project of multi-instrumentalist Tasy Hudson, a solo musician with, among other instruments, a guitar, a synthesizer, and a loop pedal. On Under Our Bed I can hear what Hudson is trying to get across with her soft tones and gentle melodies. The addition of instruments […]

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What’s Going On: July 13 to August 9, 2016

Until Sunday, July 17 The importance of theatre Blue Bridge Theatre is putting on Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest at The Roxy, 2657 Quadra Street, until July 17. See bluebridgetheatre.ca for more information on this and other plays that Blue Bridge has planned. Until Saturday, August 13 Much ado about lame headlines using […]

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