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In Sweden, a person can go on sick leave for burnout. If you’re feeling chronically burnt out, it’s fine, take some time off. It’s yet another nod to the beginning of the end of the American dream, capitalism, and many other systems bordering on geriatric. Over the weekend, in a community group I’m part of […]

As a sort of pre-requisite, I feel like I need to say that I’m no anti-vaxxer. Before a trip to the Caribbean a couple of years a go, I got over $1,000 of shots, including a rabies vaccine (a rabid bite is almost surely a death sentence without it). When it came time to make […]

I’m 27, and for all those years, I’ve bought into what I was told: that hard work meant happiness. That 15-hour days were impressive, and that working through lunch was how you got ahead. Sure, take a nap if you want, but do so with the knowledge that someone else is contributing to society while […]

Like many of you, this year at Camosun has been my first year of higher education. I haven’t set foot on a college campus; I’ve only logged into one. But even with no real basis for comparison, I know that in-person school must be better than this. I was told that the best part of […]

With spring classes starting this week, students are gearing up for seven really intense weeks of studying. For me, spring classes have always been a double-edged sword. They’re done quicker, but can a person really learn—actually absorb and keep—information in half the amount of time of a normal semester? Of course some people can, but […]

Running a college must be a tough job to do at any point, but especially now, considering the lack of detail around provincial health officer Bonnie Henry’s announcement in March that post-secondary institutions can prepare for a full return in September. In pandemic time, those words were uttered half a century ago. It’s time for […]

As the college’s hopeful return to on-campus classes in September shows, it looks like our pandemic troubles may be coming to an end by the fall. That being said, I would argue that the main thing we must work on when we begin our transition to our new normal is taking better care of our […]

If you’re finding yourself staring into space, wondering what the right thing is to do about the third wave of COVID, you’re not alone. Premier John Horgan’s words—and his general lack of clarity and context—in his April 19 announcement prove that, so far, he has been willing to do everything except what needs to be […]

Kinda has a ring to it: A letter to the editor in our April 15, 1996 edition took issue with our story about the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) council that ran the month before. The anonymous letter-writer had concerns with our lack of “responsible reporting.” The writer said, correctly, that one of the roles […]

Remember last year when we were all on lockdown and faintly chattering to ourselves, wondering when the government would no longer be able cope with COVID? The time has come. As much as the different branches of government like to say they’ll be there for British Columbians and Canadians no matter what, things aren’t as […]