News Briefs: April 23, 2021 web exclusiveStudent groups happy with federal budget The federal government announced their budget on Monday, April 19, and student groups are voicing their happiness with it. The Canadian Alliance of Student Associations sent out a press release saying they were “pleased with the comprehensive student aid package” announced in the budget; the British Columbia Federation of […] Continue Reading |
NDP announces $150,000 for Camosun film studio studyThe NDP government announced on Saturday, April 10 that it is going through with its promise of a $150,000 investment into a feasibility study for a potential film studio at Camosun College’s Interurban campus. While the studio is not confirmed yet, the study will take a look at potential opportunities for both education and employment […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Earth Day needs to be a national holidayAs 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 […] Continue Reading |
Student Editor’s Letter: BC governance absolutely patheticIf 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 […] Continue Reading |
Local photographer Dan Eastabrook featured in Fortune Gallery exhibitionIn 2001, Dan Eastabrook made the winning bid on an old Fuji digital camera on eBay and started taking pictures. Twenty years later, he’s being featured in Real Life, Real Light, a solo show at Fortune Gallery. Eastabrook is a multi-genre photographer with a penchant for landscape and urban images. He attended Victoria’s Western Academy […] Continue Reading |
Camosun students win co-op and work-integrated learning awardsFourth-year Camosun Sport and Fitness Leadership student Tanya Fogarty and fourth-year Business Administration student Dylan Kaplan have won The Association for Co-operative Education and Work-Integrated Learning BC/Yukon award. The award recognizes BC or Yukon students who demonstrate an outstanding level of achievement in co-op education or work-integrated learning. Fogarty won in the Work-Integrated Learning category, […] Continue Reading |
Camosun receives further emergency student funding for COVID-19 reliefCamosun College recently received $195,000 of emergency student funding from the provincial government. The funds, which the college received last month through the Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills and Training, are the latest in a total of $397,000 the government has given the college for pandemic relief for students as part of its larger $9-million […] Continue Reading |
Nic’s Flicks: Marvel movies prove film is essentialThroughout this global pandemic, essential workers have being going around the clock to provide the public with services that will help us get through COVID-19. But one of the most essential aspects of everyday life has been overlooked: movies. Throughout this long and hostile pandemic, filmmakers have been working tirelessly to both preserve the film […] Continue Reading |
Unsettled and Striving: How to beginWith my final Unsettled and Striving column I want to lay out a few ground rules I’ve learned about being a European settler striving toward allyship. 1. Indigenous voices are to be heard first Although you may feel passionately about an Indigenous-led project and be in complete disagreement with the opposing colonial side of […] Continue Reading |
News Briefs: April 16, 2021 web exclusiveNew fund helps students get supports through Camosun Minister of employment, workforce development and disability inclusion Carla Qualtrough recently announced $6.3 million in funding to the Rideau Hall Foundation’s Capital Canada Access Innovation Fund. The money will be delivered over three years to the new fund and is from the federal government’s Goal Getters program, […] Continue Reading |
