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Living in an apartment built in the ’70s, in a unit facing the dark parking-lot pavement and located directly over both the boiler and the laundry room, isn’t a whole lot of fun by the time mid-August hits. Even with an air conditioner that sounds like a chain-smoking R2-D2, I’m constantly going to the fridge […]

It doesn’t matter who you are or where you are—the last five months, if nothing else, certainly have been novel. But now it’s almost September. It doesn’t feel like we’ve been doing this social dance—quickly moving over on the sidewalk or in the grocery store aisle so someone can get by without feeling vaguely violated—for […]

During her daily briefing on Tuesday, August 4, BC provincial health officer Bonnie Henry acknowledged the importance of children being in classroom settings when they’re learning. This importance can extend to both social and intellectual spheres. We all know how important childhood really is: it forms the rest of your life. A close second to […]

For obvious reasons, we took a break from printing copies of the paper this summer. One of the benefits that we lost there is that we usually make it very clear in the issues that you, Camosun College students, can—and should!—write for Nexus. So allow me to take a minute now to explain what normally […]

With what post-secondary education means evolving by the week, summer at Camosun could mean more now than it ever has. I once wrote an editor’s letter sitting under an oak in Beacon Hill Park looking at the ducks and hoping to see a peacock. Alas, one didn’t spread its wings, but I couldn’t help but […]

On Canada Day, I joined the crowd at the Parliament Buildings. But this year it wasn’t a day filled with crowds of patriotic Canadians drunkenly singing “O Canada” to celebrate the colonial birth of their country. This year it was, as many rightfully called it, a very “unhappy birthday” celebration for Canada. And I have […]

Post-secondary protocol, if you actually stop and think about it, is extremely archaic. This year—2020—I’ve had instructors ask that all notes be taken by hand and electronics be turned off at the door; these instructors also didn’t use D2L. If you want to pick up or talk about assignments, you come to the instructor’s office […]

It’s a fine sunny summer morning in Victoria. There isn’t a sound save for the fan stirring warm air about in the corner, but I have to practice some deep breathing. I even put some Zen music on YouTube. It’s exactly what it sounds like—something that’s meant to help guests relax and get in touch […]

Following the death of George Floyd, every social media platform has been covered with support for the Black Lives Matter movement, often with updates on global protests or advice on how to be anti-racist. Although as a biracial Black woman I am immensely happy (and a little overwhelmed, if I am honest) to see the […]

BC is now in phase three of its provincial restart plan. It’s great that sectors of the economy that have been collecting dust open up, but the next few months of a slight increase in civilian and commercial spending won’t mean much if we need to shut down due to a second wave of COVID-19 […]