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 |
25 Years Ago in Nexus: April 16, 2021 web exclusiveKinda 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 […] Continue Reading |
Camosun College Student Society election results inThe Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) held its student elections from April 12 to 14, and the results are in. Afaf Burrow has been elected as women’s director, and Arshnoor Kaur as student wellness and access director. Gavinjit Bassi is the Lansdowne executive, while Angela Chou is a Lansdowne director. Sneha Mary Chacko is the […] Continue Reading |
Let’s Talk 2.0: Feminism is for all of usSome of you might remember Barack Obama’s speech where he walked on the stage and said “For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Michelle’s husband, Barack.” How seriously great was that? I applauded loudly; still do. Feminism isn’t something only females should practice; all of us can be a feminist. And there are […] Continue Reading |
Student Editor’s Letter: A late lockdown won’t help muchRemember 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 […] Continue Reading |
