Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival leaves Camosun’s Lansdowne campusThe Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival (GVSF) won’t be held at Camosun College this year. The festival, which was postponed last year due to COVID, has been held annually in the area between Wilna Thomas and the Dunlop House at the college’s Lansdowne campus. However, due to construction at Wilna Thomas as well as COVID-19 restrictions, […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Classes Abroad: Studying online is worth itI was relieved when I officially finished my first semester in April. The length of a full semester is only four months, but it was like a year for me. I finally finished my night patrolling (regular readers of the column know what I’m talking about) and could get some peaceful sleep at night after […] Continue Reading |
COVID-19 exposure reported at Interurban campusAccording to a post on its site, Camosun College was notified on Wednesday, May 19 by Island Health about a COVID-19 exposure that occurred on Monday, May 17 at the college’s Interurban campus. The exposure was at the Alex and Jo Campbell Centre for Health and Wellness. Island Health has begun contact tracing to identify […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Austin Stambaugh captures sadness perfectlyAustin Stambaugh Magnolia Sessions (Anti-Corporate Music) 4.5/5 If Johnny Cash’s most introspective musical moments and Irish pub folk singer Johnny Duhan’s most morose songs got drunk on a lonely winter night and joined hands, Nashville-based folk singer Austin Stambaugh’s Magnolia Sessions would be the introspective, sad, soul-feeding result. This music on this album—the latest in […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Fences blend genres, previous work on new EPFences Wide Eyed Elk Ensemble (Enci Records) 3.5/5 Christopher Mansfield, vocalist and guitarist of Seattle indie pop/rock band Fences, has lived a colourful life, including time spent in rehab. He’s tapped into that on the band’s new EP, Wide Eyed Elk Ensemble: the release is a great grab bag of emotions. “Boot Height” is a […] Continue Reading |
Student Editor’s Letter: Your vaccination status is none of my businessAs 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 […] Continue Reading |
Nic’s Flicks: Nobody an action hit despite flawsNobody (2021) 3/4 Before I sat down with my popcorn to watch Nobody, I had one simple question: can Bob Odenkirk be the next big action hero? From what I saw in this movie, the answer is a definitive yes. It brings me great pleasure to say Odenkirk is superb in his role as Hutch […] Continue Reading |
Urinetown play about pee makes splash in pandemic“No matter what background you come from, no matter what your politics are, no matter what it is about you that might make you different from somebody else in society, not being able to pee when you need to pee is something that everyone in this world can relate to.” So says Canadian College of […] Continue Reading |
News Briefs: May 14, 2021 web exclusiveTrudeau cleared in WE Charity scandal Ethics commissioner Mario Dion recently cleared prime minister Justin Trudeau in the WE Charity scandal, saying that Trudeau didn’t break federal ethics rules, but former finance minister Bill Morneau did. While Trudeau has family members who have financial ties to WE Charity, Dion says that Trudeau and his family […] Continue Reading |
“We are all frustrated. We are all confused”: International students concerned as flights still grounded while fall semester nearsOn April 22, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau banned all flights from India and Pakistan for 30 days. First-year Marketing post-degree diploma student—and Nexus contributing writer—Prajakta Jagtap, who is taking Camosun classes remotely from India, has delayed her plans to return to Canada to study at Camosun three times due to COVID-19 restrictions. “We are […] Continue Reading |
