Chargers coach joins female apprentice coach program

First-year Camosun Chargers women’s volleyball assistant coach and former standout player for the Thompson Rivers University (TRU) volleyball team Katie Ludvig is participating in the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association’s Female Apprentice Coach Program (FACP), which fosters the development of female coaches in varsity sports.  Ludvig has a myriad of academic and athletic accomplishments—five highly successful […]

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News Briefs: January 22, 2025 issue

Engineering program expands transfer schools An agreement with BC Common First Year Engineering Curriculum will soon allow Camosun Engineering Transfer students the option of transferring to six different universities. Once an agreement is finalized, students who finish the program will be able to finish their degree at Simon Fraser University, Thompson River University, University of […]

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How my adult ADHD diagnosis unlocked my academic potential

I remember sitting in my psychiatrist’s office and feeling numb and tingly all over as feelings of relief, guilt, and anger washed over me. My psychiatrist and I had finished going over the results of my psychoeducational assessment, and she matter-of-factly said, “you have inattentive attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.” “You mean all the struggling I’ve […]

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Camosun alumnus to represent Canada in World Photographic Cup

From health care to camera lenses, Camosun College alumnus Lee Milliken has been chosen as part of Team Canada in the World Photographic Cup held in Quito, Ecuador. Milliken has gained the attention of judges with his photograph that portrays the frenzy of visitors trying to capture a glimpse of the Mona Lisa at the […]

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Open Space: On the political division of friendship

They come to the battleground outraged. They come blaring rhetoric. They come holding their common sense and their family values and their freedom high. And then they come asking us to strip ours, in the midst of the culture war. It’s a sentiment we hear more often as politics become more loudly sung (or more […]

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Lydia’s Film Critique: Real Life

Somewhere between PBS’ An American Family and E! network’s Keeping Up With the Kardashians there emerged a widespread interest in observing the private mechanics of the nuclear family, and when that became tired, we were left with endless spinoffs and remarketing to redirect our time from our own families. But before anyone had the chance […]

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Reasons to Live… In Victoria: Belfry and Stage Wine Bar a fine pairing

I recently saw and reviewed Mom’s the Word: Talkin’ Turkey at the Belfry Theatre in Fernwood Square. A mom myself, I jumped on the opportunity to abandon my husband and our two-and-a-half-year-old under the pretense of a writing assignment. The Belfry Theatre is a small and welcoming space in the heart of Fernwood—one of Victoria’s […]

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