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I’ve been working at Nexus in various capacities for a decade. I’ve seen countless students come and go, and I’ve been impressed countless times by the resourcefulness and resiliency of some of those students. As I sit here and absorb the news of the Camosun Chargers’ fall season being cancelled and the majority of classes […]

As an active member of our very strained society, I will say that, going forward, there should be nothing more important than speaking out against the way some of our RCMP officers currently treat and handle serious situations involving Black and Indigenous people. Whether it’s the shooting death of Chantel Moore or an RCMP officer […]

The institution of the police is not a force for good. I don’t care if you know “one of the good ones”—the institution is not good. Communities of colour, specifically Black and Indigenous communities, have been saying this for years, and it is profoundly violent that we’ve had to broadcast the murders of Black people […]

We’ve all heard—and at this point, probably glazed over while hearing—the word “unprecedented” at least once or twice lately. I’m only starting to realize now that, in most contexts, it was a misused and fey platitude used to describe a frightening scenario that we didn’t know what else to call. Labels serve an important function […]

Sometimes it’s really hard to make sense of what exactly the truth is. That’s just a reality that comes with so much information being available. Your everyday Joe Schmo debates in the comments section are one thing, but the world’s top epidemiologists, for example, disagreed on the fate of COVID-19 in a recent New York […]

I can’t be the only member of the Camosun community feeling like things are never going to be back to normal again on campus. After seeing a photo on the Nexus website of the sandwich boards displayed on campus right now, it’s hard to not feel like the dystopia we recently wrote a warning about […]

After weeks of lockdown, BC is now deep into phase two of its COVID-19 recovery strategy, and, assuming transmission rates of COVID-19 stay low, is set to enter phase three sometime in June, meaning that more restrictions will be lifted and citizens can ease into a “new normal.” After the bizarre and distressing experience of […]

The Province of British Columbia has started to ease up the heavy restrictions placed during the kick-off of the COVID-19 pandemic. This means that non-essential services and businesses such as elective surgeries, dental offices, hair salons, and restaurants are all starting to reopen. For me, it feels like it hasn’t been that long since these […]

Having taken a few online courses back when they were a mere option, I can say with confidence that distance learning is set up for, and excelled at, by a really small percentage of the Camosun population (and I’m talking students and staff). We are all doing our best here, but what happens when you’ve […]

There is no doubt about it: we are at war. But not the type of war we have grown accustomed to. No, we are at war with our opinions. Especially when we start to prepare for life post-COVID-19. Many people have strong opinions about how we best prepare for this. Some say that it’s fine […]