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

Jason Schreurs and Greg Pratt

January 23, 2013

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 […]

Camosun student society joins critics of Enbridge pipeline

Ryan Brezzi, contributing writer

January 23, 2013

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 […]

News Briefs: Blue bridge debacle, sexual health clinic moves, immigrating online

Lucas Milroy, staff writer

January 9, 2013

Camosun VP gets tip of literary hat John Boraas, vice president, education for Camosun, recently received the 2012 Peter Gzowski Award from Literacy Victoria. Boraas got the nod for his “life-long personal and professional commitment to adult literacy,” according to a press release. Then I go and spell “commitment” wrong when I’m first writing this! […]

UBC campus protest raises aboriginal issues

Arno Rosenfeld, The Ubyssey/special to Nexus

January 9, 2013

A red blanket adorned with traditional symbols draped over her shoulders, Shelly Johnson took the mic in front of the UBC First Nations Longhouse on the afternoon of January 3 and began verbally assailing Bill C-45, a sweeping new law from Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government. “We can all do something about this colonial and […]

Camosun support staff reach tentative agreement for new contract

Jason Schreurs, managing editor

December 3, 2012

A marathon weekend of bargaining has Camosun support staff optimistic about signing a new deal with the college this week, according to union representatives. Correspondence sent out to CUPE Local 2081 members on the afternoon of Monday, December 3 by chief steward Louise Oetting announced that the union had reached a tentative agreement on Sunday […]

CUPE Local 2081 job action that won’t affect classes planned for this week

Greg Pratt, editor-in-chief

November 29, 2012

CUPE Local 2081, the union representing Camosun College support staff, will be taking part in more job action this week, according to a CUPE news release. However, unlike last week’s picket lines, this job action will not affect students. “We value our students and we encourage them to contact their MLAs to join us in […]

News Briefs: Oil, cocaine, sled dogs, etc.

Lucas Milroy, staff writer

November 28, 2012

Business students win competition Four Camosun College business students were recently awarded the top prize in an accountants’ case competition at Simon Fraser University. The Camosun team of Eric Brabander, Annette Wagers, Natalia Simo, and John Turner won a $2,500 shared scholarship. Students were given one day to work on a case assignment before presenting […]

CUPE job action disrupts Camosun as workers fight for contract

Lucas Milroy, staff writer

November 28, 2012

Striking Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) support staff workers at Camosun College took job action on Tuesday November 20 and Wednesday November 21. Signs gripped in cold fists wrapped in soggy gloves were waved through the air. Flags were raised and automobiles issued honks of encouragement. If one didn’t know better, they might mistake […]

Opinion: by-election results in, local voting turnout shameful

Lucas Milroy, staff writer

November 27, 2012

A zealous month of phone calls, door knocking, and campaign meetings has come to an end, and a look at the outcome reveals that it was all for nothing. On November 26, three ridings in Canada held by-elections, all of which wielded candidates in a manner that recreated the pre-by-election landscape in Ottawa: other than […]

Cell phone tower extension proposal met with opposition

Lucas Milroy, staff writer

November 27, 2012

Camosun College’s faculty association is speaking out against a new proposal that will extend the cell phone tower on the roof of the Fisher building at the Lansdowne campus. According to Mark Kunen, vice-president of the Camosun College Faculty Association (CCFA), the association doesn’t support the tower extension and has sent formal documentation to the […]