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Saanich launches financial plan draft On Saturday, February 27, Saanich launched the draft for its 2020-2024 Financial Plan. Alongside this, the public can also access a new online budget education tool, enabling citizens to keep up to date and involved with the new plan, which includes the annual budgets for Saanich, Saanich Police, and the […]

In September 2019, Camosun students in the Certified Medical Laboratory Assistant (CMLA) program showed up for class, unaware that the program was no longer provincially accredited. When the program was offered through the college’s Continuing Education department, it was provincially accredited by the British Columbia Society of Laboratory Science (BCSLS). When the college moved the […]

On Tuesday, February 18, the provincial government announced its 2020 budget. Of note to students is a new BC Access Grant of up to $4,000 for low-to-middle-income earners entering post-secondary studies. The grant will help more than 40,000 eligible full- and part-time BC students every year pay for their degree, diploma, or certificate program. It […]

Camosun College is finishing installing an elevator to the upper-floor mezzanine in the main atrium of the Centre for Trades Education and Innovation (CTEI) building at Interurban. The building, which opened in 2015, originally had no elevator to the mezzanine. However, after hearing student opinion on the matter, the college has added one in, at […]

Camosun hires new Ombudsperson On March 2, Robert Thompson replaced Carter MacDonald—who is retiring—as Camosun College’s ombudsperson. Thompson has a master’s in conflict resolution from the UK’s University of Bradford and has advocated for human rights with Peace Brigades International. He has also worked with the United Nations as the ombudsperson support officer at the […]