Victoria Beer Week Review: All About the Wood

Anyone who thinks all beer tastes the same has never experienced the transcendental results of aging a dark ale in oaken whiskey barrels while tossing out the Bavarian purity laws by infusing it with ingredients like cocoa, coffee, herbs, and fruits. This was the calibre of luxury bestowed upon me at Victoria Beer Week’s All […]

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Victoria Beer Week review: Lift Off!

The idea of being released into an arena of fine craft beer and fresh food is a recurring fantasy of mine, so I leaped at the opportunity to attend the seventh annual Victoria Beer Week. Opening night on Friday launched with Lift Off! at the Victoria Public Market, featuring 16 beers from local breweries, accompanied […]

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Play shows love in the age of robots, just in time for Valentine’s Day

When I was released from UVic’s Phoenix Theatre after last night’s presentation of Comic Potential, I was elated. British playwright Alan Ayckbourn has woven together three solid staples for Valentine’s Day: humour, love, and just the right amount of insanity. Although written in 1998, Comic Potential involves a timeless issue: can one properly fall in love […]

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Victoria Film Fest movie review: Eddy’s Kingdom

Eddy’s Kingdom, directed by Greg Compton, documents the eccentric and obsessive life of Eddy Haymour. Haymour immigrated to Canada from Lebanon in 1970, managed to make a tidy sum of money as an entrepreneur, bought an island, and attempted to turn it into a Moroccan-themed amusement park. There are still relics, to this day, of […]

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Victoria Film Fest movie review: Denmark

Denmark, directed by Adrian Shergold, tells a story of second chances. The film follows a man named Herb, played by Rafe Spall, who just can’t catch a break. Herb is unemployed, lives in a dingy apartment and has a son he never gets to see. After a particularly bad streak of luck, just as he […]

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Camosun board of governors approves new Student Services fee

The Camosun College board of governors approved a new Student Services fee at its meeting on Monday, February 3. The fee, effective September of this year, will cost each full-time student $52.50 per semester; part-time students will pay $26.25 per semester. Details on the fee are still being finalized. The fee will be used for […]

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The Ministry of Grace an explosive yet graceful experience

I was utterly unprepared for what I saw last night at the explosive drama The Ministry of Grace at Victoria’s Belfry Theatre. Written by Niitsitapi Nation resident Tara Beagan, The Ministry of Grace is a mind-bending, emotion-seizing trip through Beagan’s familial history. The play is set in 1950s California, and revolves around the protagonist Mary, an Indigenous […]

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Camosun board of governors approves new student fee

The Camosun College board of governors approved a new Student Services fee at its meeting on Monday, February 3. The fee, effective September of this year, will cost each full-time student $52.50 per semester; part-time students will pay $26.25 per semester. The fee will be used for services and programs led by the college’s Student […]

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Camosun College open for classes today

Camosun College will be open for day and evening classes at Lansdowne and Interurban today, Thursday, January 16. The college sent out an email just after 6 am saying it will provide updates at camosun.ca as the weather changes.

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Camosun College closed Wednesday, January 15

Camosun College has cancelled all day and evening classes at Lansdowne and Interurban today, Wednesday, January 15. The college sent out an email just before 6 am saying it will provide updates at camosun.ca as the weather changes.

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